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0.999772 | Beyond Reasonable Doubt! Why I could find Casey guilty of murdering her daughter, and be able to sleep at night.
The above statement is an example of what the judge in a trail might use to instruct the jurors before they begin their deliberations in an attempt to come to a verdict at the end of the Casey Anthony trial.
1. Casey didn't report Caylee missing for 31 days and was seen out partying, etc during the time she was missing.
3. After Casey's auto was found abandoned, the smell of death coming from the car was reported by several people including Cindy, George, Lee, Detectives and the tow truck operator.
4.Grandmother Cindy reported her missing.
5. Lying to Law Enforcement about everything. Making false statements, making up false names of who she told about missing Caylee. Telling the Police that she was working at Universal Studio when she was fired from there two years prior.
5.Casey's original story changed from dropping Caylee off at Sawgrass Apartments, at an apartment had been proven to be vacant for some time, to the nanny knocking her to the ground and her sister taking Caylee at Blanchard park.
6.Stealing gas cans and "friends,parents, and grandparent" checks or monies.
7. Not one friend, not even family members have met the "nanny" or spoke to her. Never heard Casey on the phone with her. And no phone numbers.
8.Searches done on the computer at the Anthony home for homemade weapons, neck breaking, missing children, chloroform, mom Cindy was ruled out due to her work schedule. I rule out dad George and brother Lee because Casey was the last person to see Caylee alive and or dead.
9.Police Cavader dogs hitting in the trunk of Casey's car, and two places in the back yard, by the playhouse and the sandbox.
In conclusion, given these facts, I think that there is a high probability that a jury will find her guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of murdering her daughter. | 2019-04-19T08:50:04 | http://justiceforcaylee.synthasite.com/beyond-a-reasonable-doubt.php |
0.999839 | A movie about romance and ... abortion?
"Obvious Child" is a 2014 romantic comedy in which stand-up comedian Donna Stern (played by Jenny Slate) decides to have an abortion after a one-night stand with Max (Jake Lacy). Producer Elisabeth Holm says it's more about a 20-something woman figuring out her professional and personal life than about an abortion. Here are some examples of TV shows and films over the years in which a character has an abortion.
"Maude" (starring Bea Arthur) devoted two episodes to the grandmother's unexpected pregnancy -- and her decision to have a legal abortion in New York. The episodes aired on November 1972 to enormous protest, just a year before the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
The 1987 summer romance "Dirty Dancing" was set in 1963, and while Frances "Baby" Houseman (played Jennifer Grey) was one of the leading roles alongside Johnny Castle (the late Patrick Swayze), there was another baby involved. While at a resort with her family, Baby helps pay for an illegal abortion for dancer Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), which ultimately leaves Penny debilitated. It forces Baby to step in as Johnny's new dance partner for an upcoming competition.
When high schooler Becky Sproles (played by Madison Burge) becomes pregnant after a chance encounter with football player Luke Cafferty, Becky seeks guidance from Dillon High School guidance counselor-turned-principal Tami Taylor (played by Connie Britton). After careful consideration, Becky decides to have an abortion, with her mom by her side.
In the 2008 drama "Revolutionary Road," Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet play Frank and April Wheeler, a couple in the 1940s who become sick of their suburban lifestyle and set their eyes on Paris. After April gets pregnant and Frank is offered a promotion, the two put those plans on hold. April, still unhappy, ultimately decides to perform her own abortion, and dies after the botched procedure.
After an earlier miscarriage, Cristina Yang (played by Sandra Oh) in the hit series "Grey's Anatomy" decides to have an abortion in order to keep up her workaholic tendencies. The show's creator and show runner Shonda Rhimes later told New York Magazine that she had wanted to include the plot line in the first season, but had "some very strong conversations with Broadcast Standard and Practices back then about the topic."
In "The Cider House Rules," a 1999 screen adaptation of John Irving's 1985 book of the same name, Homer Wells (played by Tobey Maguire) stars as a young orphan who becomes an apprentice abortionist, despite disapproving of the procedure. Charlize Theron stars as Candy Kendall, a young woman who comes with her boyfriend to the orphanage to seek an abortion, while Erykah Badu plays Rose Rose, a woman seeking an abortion after she's raped by her father.
On the NBC drama "Parenthood," shy teen Drew (played by Miles Heizer) finds out girlfriend Amy (Skyler Day) is pregnant and supports her through her decision to have an abortion, even though he had told his sister that part of him wanted to stick out the pregnancy. At the end of the episode, Drew is seen crying in his mother's arms.
Things got very real for viewers of the second season of MTV's "The Real World: Los Angeles" in 1993, when cast member Tami Roman had an abortion in one episode.
On the HBO series "Six Feet Under," teen Claire Fisher (played by Lauren Ambrose) faced an unwanted pregnancy and decided to have an abortion in order to continue art school. She later had a dream about her fetus in heaven.
In the Canadian high school series "Degrassi: The Next Generation," Manny Santos (played by Cassie Steele) has an abortion in the episode called "Accidents Will Happen." Craig, the student who impregnated her, wanted to keep the baby and start a family. The pair ultimately calls it quits because of the abortion. In the episode, Manny's mother supports her decision and drives her to the abortion clinic. The episode was the subject of controversy in the United States after the network it was on, The N, censored it.
Editor's note: The following article contains minor spoilers about the plot of "Obvious Child."
(CNN) -- "Obvious Child" has all the story arcs for romantic-comedy gold, including a newly brokenhearted protagonist trying to find her way in life and love, an unlikely meet-cute of opposite personalities and an advisory panel of cheeky best friends. But one of the film's major through lines is a topic not often broached in theaters: abortion.
The film, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and will open nationwide on Friday, has been called "the most winning abortion-themed rom-com ever" by The Dissolve, and in a piece called "No more Shmashmortion" on Slate.com, writer Amanda Hess deemed it "the most honest abortion movie I've ever seen."
Though the movie successfully mines the traditional rom-com tropes for laughs, groans and "awwwws," abortion is emerging as its unlikely claim to fame.
"We don't feel like that description does it justice," producer Elisabeth Holm told CNN.
Elisabeth Holm is the producer of "Obvious Child."
"It's as much about a stand-up comedian and her life in New York. (An abortion) happens, but it doesn't have to define her."
When Holm spoke with CNN, she acknowledged the filmmakers were "trying to humanize the experience," even including a scene during the main character's abortion procedure. But they "never set out to make an agenda-driven film," Holm said.
Gillian Robespierre wrote and directed "Obvious Child"; actress Jenny Slate stars as Donna Stern, the bathroom-humor-prone comedian who chooses to undergo an in-clinic procedure after a booze-fueled, one-night stand with Vermont-bred prepster Max, played by Jake Lacy.
Jenny Slate and Jake Lacy in "Obvious Child"
Abortion has long been a hot topic in pop culture, from "Maude" in 1972 to HBO's "Girls" in recent years. The release of "Obvious Child" comes shortly after a woman faced criticism for filming and releasing footage of her own abortion in order to show that it wasn't the traumatic experience for her that many assume it to be. In 2010, the CDC reported 765,651 legal induced abortions, with women in their 20s -- like Slate's character -- contributing to the majority of that number.
The debate in movies, TV and viral clips is a reflection of real life: According to a recent CNN/ORC International survey of Americans, 27% of respondents said abortion should be legal in all circumstances, 13% said it should be legal in most circumstances, 38% said it should be legal in a few circumstances, and 20% said it should always be illegal.
Holm says as a born-and-raised New Yorker, both she and director Robespierre came from a world where conversations about abortion happened "in a shame-free, regret-free, clear way" with mothers, friends and sisters -- and that was the experience that they wanted to show on-screen. In "Obvious Child," several characters along the way reveal they had abortions (some legal, some not) in their teens and 20s.
As with any romantic comedy, the two leads, Max and Donna, maintain a "will they/won't they" vibe throughout most of the film -- and that's intentional, Holm says. But Donna's decision to terminate her pregnancy isn't wishy-washy, or even driving the plot. It's the result of a drunken one-night stand that ends without exchanging phone numbers. She's lost her job, and is trying to get a comedy career on track -- from Donna's perspective, the choice is clear.
Does Sundance buzz translate to dollars?
"It's very decisive," Holm says.
In a scene filmed in an actual Planned Parenthood, Donna says, "I'd like an abortion, please," then apologizes about sounding like a fast-food customer before repeating her request.
Holm says it was crucial to illustrate the actual abortion process: A camera focuses on Donna's face as the sedative kicks in and vacuuming sounds hum in the background.
"I think we've seen a lot of movies where they fade off into the sunset before that action happens," she says. "It was critical to show this moment where it's safe and healthy and also vulnerable."
"This is an experience that many women go through without shame and regret, but not without emotion. Hopefully it's something that people can connect to and have a conversation about. Whatever side you're on."
Framing the ever-contentious issue in a romantic comedy has captivated audiences.
"It shouldn't be a particularly earth-shaking turn, but in a world of rom-coms like 'Knocked Up' and 'Juno,' in which the heroines make the heartwarming decision to go ahead with their pregnancies, this modest little indie movie feels momentous," NPR film critic David Edelstein said of the film.
Meanwhile, a piece at the Daily Caller asked, "Has Hollywood hit a new low?" Its gist: "The film seems to be another Hollywood attempt to reinforce their idea of female empowerment. In this case, it includes one night stands and abortions."
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Robespierre told nonprofit news organization Mother Jones: "Whatever other conversation occurs, we're really excited. ... (Conservatives bashing "Obvious Child") haven't seen the movie; they're basing it on articles and trailers."
Still, just as with any summer romantic comedy, the filmmakers hope the takeaway for viewers is sweet, sincere and relatable.
"Hopefully, the movie is one that makes people feel confident in who they are and the choices that they make," Holm says. "And sometimes with confidence comes vulnerability -- and that's a very human experience."
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0.997701 | Allow me to rain on the president's parade.
President Trump has instructed the Pentagon to organize this parade for Nov. 11, Veterans Day, according to an unclassified memo released to Politico last Friday. Trump intends for the parade route to begin at the White House and end at the Capitol. And while he seemed to back off the idea a bit in a Fox News interview on Saturday night ("We'll see if we can do it at a reasonable cost," he said. "If we can't, we won't do it."), it's obvious that the president very much wants to see America's military might march before him.
He was inspired by a parade he witnessed in France on Bastille Day last summer, which he called "one of the greatest parades" he had ever seen. That event involved military vehicles, a military aircraft flyover, and cavalry procession. "It was a tremendous day, and to a large extent because of what I witnessed, we may do something like that on July Fourth in Washington," Trump said two months afterwards, during a visit from French President Emmanuel Macron. "We're going to have to try to top it."
This exercise in parade one-upmanship would be exorbitantly expensive, at a time of massive national debt (now more than $20 trillion). Shipping tanks and military hardware to Washington could cost millions of dollars. Our last military parade took place in June 1991, when President George H.W. Bush held a military parade to mark U.S. victory in the Persian Gulf War. That parade cost $12 million — once adjusted for inflation, $21 million.
Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, defended Trump's plan during an interview earlier this month, stating, "I'm not sure that honoring our military is a waste of money," he said. "This is not about a dictatorship. This is about the president wanting to honor the military."
It is indeed very important that we honor American servicemembers and appreciate the sacrifices they make for this country. As a military wife, I am always proud to see military men and women well represented at local and national events — such as the presidential inauguration, which my husband has marched in, or local Fourth of July, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day parades.
But honoring the military means more than dignified parades and pomp and circumstance. It also means making sure that military personnel are paid well, that they receive good benefits, and that their families are well cared for. It means caring for retired military personnel, and fighting the alarming rate of suicides, unemployment, and homelessness among veterans in our nation. It means honoring our commitments.
Is there some value in holding these parades for the larger inspiration or edification of the American public, to remind them of the debt they owe to our military? Such displays can definitely inspire such feelings. But we already have many such events, albeit on a smaller scale. The massive amount of money required for a national event like Trump's parade seems neither advisable nor necessary. One cannot help but wonder if this parade is all about Trump, rather than all about the military and American public.
For the most part, major world powers do not stage regular parades of martial power and strength. The U.S. has only held large military parades following wartime victories. Few other countries parade their military regularly — such displays were more common during the Cold War among Communist countries, and were meant to inspire fear rather than healthy admiration or honor. Russia, China, and North Korea are the primary countries to still conduct regular military parades. France hosts an annual Bastille Day military parade — but the tradition is 138 years old, and a highly symbolic event.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in his farewell address that "in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. … Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Having a powerful and well-trained military is necessary for national security. But in cautioning against a large military establishment or military-industrial complex, Eisenhower was warning America against the propensity to place one's faith and security in arms, rather than in the political process and branches of government empowered by us via the Constitution — as well as against the growth of a martial power that could disrespect or flout the larger will of the people.
The original news of Trump's plan for a military parade came just as North Korea — an authoritarian state that Trump has threatened with "fire and fury like the world has never seen before" — held a military parade of its own, complete with a display of its recently tested intercontinental-range Hwasong-15 missiles. One wonders whether Trump's demand for a military parade is motivated solely by his respect for the troops — or whether he wants to send a message to foreign leaders overseas as well. After Kim Jong Un alleged that "he had a nuclear button on his desk and that the entire United States was within range of his weapons," Trump responded in kind on Twitter, boasting that "I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"
One must question this man's motives in wanting a grand military parade.
We should honor our troops for their many sacrifices, but we should try to do so in ways that do not involve hubristic displays of pomp and power. Ominous processions of tanks and missiles — such as those put together by North Korea — hardly inspire thoughts of peace, stability, and unity.
Is this parade really about honoring America's troops? Or is it about displaying American might to our foes overseas? The former goal is lofty and admirable, even if a national military parade is not the best means to implement it. But the latter motivation could be dangerous indeed — to our national security, to our diplomatic relations with key allies like South Korea, and to the safety of our military personnel.
It is also, of course, quite possible that this parade is neither about America's troops nor our overseas foes, but instead about the glorification of our commander in chief's ego. Obviously, this would be a very poor reason for a parade.
Let's not march tanks and weaponry down Pennsylvania Avenue. Instead, let's honor soldiers' lives by keeping them safe at home and only sending them abroad when U.S. security, our prosperity, or our way of life are at risk. They deserve far more than a parade. | 2019-04-23T09:50:52 | https://theweek.com/articles/757234/why-many-military-families-think-trumps-military-parade-bad-idea |
0.999999 | What was the name of following Horror Short Film from 70's (I believe)?
This short film involves a mother, whom everyone believes is crazy. She insists that her newborn is trying to kill her, because it didn't want to leave the womb. It tries driving her crazy, and toasting her with a faulty electric blanket. Her doctor comes over to sedate her, and realizes (too late) that she... show more This short film involves a mother, whom everyone believes is crazy. She insists that her newborn is trying to kill her, because it didn't want to leave the womb. It tries driving her crazy, and toasting her with a faulty electric blanket. Her doctor comes over to sedate her, and realizes (too late) that she isn't crazy.
Alice delivers an unwanted child, and Doctor Jeffers is apprehensive with the situation. He has a private conversation with her husband, David, but he says that Alice will get used to the baby. When the family moves to their manor, Alice is frightened, telling them that the baby wants to kill her. She swears that she is not being paranoid and asks David to protect her. Furthermore, she says that the baby never cries in his presence, and David says that babies do not do things like that. When Doctor Jeffers pays a visit to the family, he is met with a dreadful surprise.
This story seems to have had a strong influence on the TV movie "Hush Little Baby" (2007), which you might find interesting.
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Name of a horror short film?
Can anyone help me name an old horror film??
What's a good name for my short horror film?
Name some scary horror films. (:?
Ever noticed how horror films of the 60's and 70's seem to try to scare us away from motherhood? | 2019-04-26T12:10:12 | https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110126154236AA8n2Fo |
0.998193 | Adopting a new kitten soon... Help?
Hi all, So I've done a bunch of reading up on this already, but I really just have one thing that I could use some advice on. But a bit of background first... My fiance and I adopted our first cat together (my first cat EVER) back in October, from a local shelter. His name is Monti and I'm pretty sure he's the most perfect cat in the world, but anywho. He's about two years old now. Super chill most of the time, very friendly, not scared of strangers or anything. The only thing that makes him run and hide is the vacuum. A couple weeks ago, my fiance and I went to the local farm to pick strawberries and found out that they have NINE barn cats there of varying ages (but they're all the same colors, so I'm guessing it's one main set of parents). I'm not sure how old the kittens there are, but we asked one of the owners and she said that they are up for adoption if we wanted one. Needless to say my fiance kind of fell in love. So, I just got the OK from our landlord for us to get the second cat. My big concern in this: I KNOW the best way to introduce a new cat/kitten is to separate it from the resident cat at first, but the only rooms that we can cut off are the bathroom and the bedroom. I'd really rather not have a litterbox set up in either, and I'm afraid the new kitten would climb up the shower curtain/hide underneath the bed and poop there or something. The apartment is plenty spacious for both of them, it's just the introduction I'm worried about. I'm afraid I'll have to just let the new kitty explore right off the bat and who knows how it will get along with Monti. Any advice?
Sorry I didn't see this sooner. I know that everyone is right about keeping them separated and introducing them slowly. But I foster in a one bedroom apartment and just can't separate fosters when they come in. (I do however make sure they're healthy and tested before they get here.) So if your kitten is medically cleared I think you can try having them together, just make sure they're well supervised for the first few days. Every cat is different - some take to new cats right away and some don't take to new cats ever. You'll have to see how it goes. The one good thing is that most cats are more tolerant of kittens - they're probably less threatening. I would leave the separation as a backup plan if it goes really poorly when the kitten arrives.
Thanks, BK! A couple that I catsit for has lent me a few screens that I can use to separate them if need be. But you're probably right--Monti is a very relaxed cat, so I don't think he'll have too much trouble adjusting to a younger kitten. I also bought some of that calming spray stuff, and I made a vet appointment for the new kitty on the day I'm planning on picking him/her up. Hopefully all will be well! | 2019-04-20T22:35:02 | https://community.catster.com/discussion/777781/adopting-a-new-kitten-soon-help |
0.999082 | I have been using Alpecin Caffeine Liquid for 3 weeks and still haven't noticed any improvement in my hair loss.
The course of the hair cycle is different for every single one of us. Some of your hairs are active in the growth phase (anagen) whilst others are in the resting phase (telogen) at any one time. As a rule, the roots are in a growth phase for around 8 years before switching to a resting phase which lasts from 5 to 8 months. The hair then falls out. A new growth cycle then commences which can be repeated between 8 and 20 times.
After using the Caffeine Liquid it can take a certain amount of time for the hair roots to recover and switch from the resting phase to a new growth phase. Normally you should notice a reduction in hair loss after around 3 to 4 months.
I have been using Alpecin Caffeine Liquid for more than a year. No hair has grown back. Is Alpecin Caffeine Liquid ineffective?
The effect of Alpecin Caffeine Liquid is aimed at the viable hair roots. The caffeine complex only strengthens existing yet weakened hairs or hair roots. It is not a hair growth tonic.
Is it possible to overdose in a single day from multiple applications of Alpecin Caffeine Liquid?
No. The amount of caffeine in Alpecin Caffeine Liquid that is absorbed via the scalp and hair sheath equates to precisely the right dose and is absolutely safe even for people who react sensitively to caffeine. In addition, the active ingredient is applied locally to the scalp; the quantities that disseminate throughout the organism from there are negligible.
Can I use other products such as gel or hair spray as well as Alpecin Caffeine Liquid?
Yes. After massaging your scalp with Alpecin Caffeine Liquid, wait about 3 minutes until the product is absorbed; then use a male styling product of your choice, e.g. hair gel, wax or spray.
The recommended usage instructions on the product say "in the morning and after every hair wash, use the dosage tip to directly aplly the product to the towel-dried scalp and massage in."
Can Alpecin Caffeine Liquid hair tonic also be used on dry hair or is it absolutely necessary to wash the hair before application?
Alpecin Caffeine Liquid can also be used on dry hair. It is important to apply caffeine liquid directly to the scalp with the dosage tip and massage it in. Since the liquid penetrates the scalp quickly, you can then style your hair as usual. Be sure to avoid contact with the eyes. Based on the alcohol and menthol content, the liquid may cause a brief tingle, which subsides quickly.
How long is Alpecin Caffeine Liquid effective, does it have to be used daily?
The caffeine complex quickly penetrates the hair roots where it forms a depot sufficient for up to 24 hours. To consistently provide the hair roots with sufficient growth energy and to protect them against the negative impacts of testosterone, daily application is vital. This has been confirmed in studies.
I have been using Alpecin Caffeine Liquid every day for a few weeks now and I am noticing increased hair loss.
In rare cases, stronger hair loss can occur temporarily. This process is called “shedding”.
Hair loss due to head massage?
Following an intensive head massage, hairs that are in their resting phase anyway can be massaged out of the follicles at an increased rate. However, after a brief period of time, this increased hair loss is reduced and the hair growth cycles can regenerate. | 2019-04-24T22:59:46 | https://www.alpecin.com/en-de/faqs/caffeine-liquid/ |
0.999997 | Question B: What is the contrition required for the sacrament of penance?
1. The Church has given a clear definition of contrition, precisely as an act of the recipient of the sacrament of penance. Trent teaches: “Contrition, which ranks first among these acts of the penitent, is sorrow and detestation for sin committed, with a resolution of sinning no more. Moreover, this spirit of contrition has always been necessary to obtain the forgiveness of sin, and thus, in the case of a man who has fallen after baptism, it is certainly a preparation for the remission of sins, if it be accompanied by trust in the divine mercy and a firm desire of fulfilling the other conditions necessary to receive the sacrament properly. Therefore, this holy council declares that this contrition implies not only abandoning sin and determining to lead a new life and beginning to do so, but also hating one’s past life . . .” (DS 1676/897; translation amended). True contrition is the basic act of the penitent.
2. Contrition includes within itself a firm purpose of amendment and the utter rejection of past sin. It requires a sincere intention to fulfill all the other conditions for the sacrament’s worthy reception. Lacking this intention, contrition is not sincere, and any feeling of sorrow is useless. Still, contrition does not by itself remit sins; of itself it is a preparation for the forgiveness of sins (see S.t., 3, q. 85, aa. 1–3; q. 90, a. 2; sup., q. 1, aa. 1–2; q. 5, aa. 1–3; S.c.g., 4, 72).
3. Trent teaches that a sorrow for sin based on awareness of its evil and fear of punishment, which includes the intention to amend, is a divine gift which leads sinners to grace by disposing them to seek forgiveness in the sacrament of penance. Of itself, this type of contrition is not perfected by charity, and so it is called “imperfect contrition” or “attrition” (DS 1678/898, 1705/915).8 Catholic theologians have long debated whether imperfect contrition which does not include as a motive love of God for his own sake is sufficient within the sacrament of penance. This controversy was explicitly left open by a decree of the Holy See (see DS 2070/1146).
4. St. Thomas Aquinas takes the very reasonable position that genuine contrition and the conferral of charity are mutually dependent; a mortal sinner cannot love God as his child should without becoming contrite and cannot become contrite without again loving God as his child. The two things come together by the conjoining of God’s grace and the sinner’s free response which this grace creates. This can happen before the sacrament is received or when it is received, provided one approaches the sacrament with the right intentions (see S.c.g., 4, 72; S.t., sup., q. 1, a. 1; q. 5, a. 1, ad 2; q. 6, a. 1; q. 10, a. 3).
5. Reflecting on the issue, it seems obvious that a penitent must believe and hope in God. It is impossible to approach this sacrament with serious intentions without being confident that God acts in it and is ready to do everything necessary to restore one to grace. One must also have rejected sin and must desire to do what is right. In this desire, there is an at least implicit human love of God as the source of all good.
6. However, such love is not identical with charity. The latter is not a human act and experience but a divine gift (25‑G). Although it does not seem possible to determine the precise moment at which this gift is conferred again on those who have committed mortal sin, the teaching on the sacrament of penance does make it clear that it is restored to those who receive the sacrament worthily at least as soon as absolution is administered.
7. If the preceding is correct, perfect contrition, by which one again begins to live as a child of God out of love of him, is not psychologically recognizable. Before receiving the sacrament one cannot be certain of having made an “act of perfect contrition”; one can only know with moral certitude that one is truly contrite for motives which are not purely selfish. One can know that one desires to submit wholly to God.
8. For a very helpful account of the history of the concepts and controversies over contrition and attrition: P. de Letter, “Contrition,” New Catholic Encyclopedia, 4:278–83. | 2019-04-21T04:22:29 | http://www.twotlj.org/G-1-32-B.html |
0.999997 | I haven't seen it on any other airplanes, does it serve an aerodynamic purpose or help engine efficiency or is it just to look pretty?
Well, it does look pretty, doesn't it?
Boeing wanted to reduce the noise generated because of jet blast of the engines. Many airports around the world are implementing new noise regulations.
To combat the sound of jet-blast from the rear of the engine, Boeing, General Electric, and NASA developed serrated edges called chevrons for the back of the nacelle and the engine exhaust nozzle. The chevrons reduce jet blast noise by controlling the way the air mixes after passing through and around the engine.
The acoustic liners and chevrons are such effective noise suppressors that several hundred pounds of sound insulation may be eliminated from the fuselage.
Chevrons are the sawtooth pattern seen on the trailing edges of some jet engine nozzles. As hot air from the engine core mixes with cooler air blowing through the engine fan, the shaped edges serve to smooth the mixing, which reduces turbulence that creates noise.
... The new Boeing 787 is among the most modern jets relying on chevrons to reduce engine noise levels. It sports chevrons on the nacelles, or fan housings.
I think both answers are correct, but I would like to spend some time describing the phenomena that chevrons try to reduce so that I can complement the answers already provided.
So, what is happening in an engine? We have a hot gas at high speed leaving the engine core, and another gas at higher speed than the external air but much slower than the core, on top, and we have got the external airflow. Actually I am missing one that I will explain later on.
OK, so between airflows with different properties (especially different speed) there is a layer where both airflows mix to create a different one with average properties (saying average is a simplification), the mix in a region called "mixing layer". Unfourtunately, in typical engines, the way both layers mix is turbulent. Here is a typical image of a simulation of a mixing layer.
This turbulent mixing creates sound. Actually is easy to see a similar phenomena in a flute. If you open it, you can see that when you blow you are introducing air that reaches a cavity where sound is produced (actually, there is another phenomenon, resonance, but I would like to illustrate that turbulence creates sound). Another example is when you wave a sharped object in air (like a blade); if you do it quickly enough, you will hear a sound.
That exact phenomenon happens around engines, but the sound is louder. Why? Because the difference between speeds is really high. A glider seems silent although the wings act as blades... but the difference in speed is not so high.
So, what we know now is that the smaller the difference, the smaller the turbulence, the quieter the sound. Those chevrons you see in Boeing 787 actually have that objective. They are actually creating another layer of fluid at a intermediate speed between the air passing the external part of the engine (fan secondary flow) and the external flow, so that the jump of properties is smaller, turbulence gets reduced and sound is quieter.
Basically, the blue air coming for the external part of the nacelle mixes with the air coming from the fan (red arrow). Having the chevrons means that some parts are mixed earlier than others, creating positive distortion in the mixing layer like "creating a third flow". The green arrow shows the air from the engine core, but there is another air flow between engine core and the fan, the violet arrow.
What is shown in the previous answers for Conway and JTD-8 engines are devices using the same principle, but they are actually not the same. In previous jet engines there was not a big secondary flow from the fan as nowadays and the mixture was directly between engine core and external flow, so it is the same principle, but the huge difference between speeds created the need of a more aggressive mixture. This device is called hush kit.
Finally to answer your question, there is no aerodynamic benefit; there is a penalty. The benefit is aeroacoustic.
There is an indirect benefit, though: The amount of acoustic damping material needed to get the cabin quiet enough is reduced. That saves weight, and therefore fuel.
Actually, there were similar tricks used on Boeing aircraft before to reduce jet noise.
The Rolls-Royce Conway (as used on the Boeing 707) had a scalloped exhaust which improved jet mixing and reduced exhaust noise. Since the Conway was also the first operational bypass engine, the lower exhaust speed of this design helped to reduce noise already. At the time of development the engineers expected the engine to be installed in wing roots, and the bypass ratio was only 0.25, however.
In all cases, the idea is to increase the surface between the hot, fast exhaust gas and the ambient air and to stretch out the noise-intensive mixing process.
See also this question for more information.
The main purpose of the chevrons in the engines is to reduce the engine noise.
Most of the civil airliners use high bypass turbofan engines, which produce significant amount of noise especially at high thrust conditions. Aircraft (engine) noise is especially critical during the takeoff and approach phases as it affects the people in the area around the airport and also the ground crew. Reduction of jet noise has been one of the focus areas of civil aircraft manufacturers since the (failed) SST program.
As can be seen, the engine noise is perhaps the most important contributer for the total aircraft noise.Thus reduction of engine noise becomes paramount. Most of the high bypass turbofan engines have two flow regions- the central core and the surrounding fan. These regions normally don't mix with each other in the short nozzle.
"Airbus Lagardère - GP7200 engine MSN108 (1)" by Dr Brains - Own work. Licensed under CC0 via Commons.
The schematic below shows the operation a typical high bypass turbofan engines used in civil airliners.
"Turbofan operation" by K. Aainsqatsi - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Commons.
Usually, high bypass ratios reduce noise. The main source of the jet noise is the turbulent mixing of the shear layers in the engine exhaust. These shear layers contain instabilities that lead to highly turbulent vortices that generate the pressure fluctuations responsible for sound.
One of the was to reduce noise is to mix the core and bypass gases effectively. NASA carried out research in this area and evaluated a number of different configurations.
These studies revealed that though the lobed mixers reduced noise better, the associated thrust loss was more and the chevrons offered the optimal solution. Two solutions, tabbed and chevrons were then (simulated flight) tested in various configurations.
These test showed that the configuration with chevrons in fan nozzles only caused the least reduction in thrust coefficient. This probably was the reason this was selected.
In addition to this, research was carried out in developing systems which would optimize the chevron 'immersion' into the jet flow based on the flight condition. Shape memory alloys activated by heat were developed which would allow for full chevron immersion in jet flow during high thrust requirements (for e.g. during takeoff) and not immersing it during cruise where the thrust efficiency is of greater importance.
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Why does the B-52 outboard engine nacelle have a sharp change in shape? | 2019-04-26T12:46:00 | https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12832/why-does-the-boeing-787-engine-nacelle-exhaust-have-such-an-unusual-shape/12833 |
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SEE also: Back to Top In Jharkhand's Kunti, Mandatory Aadhaar for Pension Has Excluded the Most Vulnerable - By Rishabh Malhotra and Anmol Somanchi (Oct 6, 2018, The Wire) A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently pronounced its verdict on the long-drawn case challenging. The Bazaar Belgrade street The Bazaar Street stairs A street A street The entrance to the Bezisten The Bezisten The Bazaar by night Malaysia edit Bukit Beruang Bazaar, Malacca Bazar Bukakbonet Gelang Patah, Johor Bahru Nepal edit Asan, Kathmandu ceremonial bazaar and square Bishal Bazaar. To this is attached a coffee-house, and near to it a half-ruined mosque. The CBI officials, along with Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team, reached the cremation site on Wednesday afternoon and monitored the excavation, news agency ANI said. Bazaars were typically situated in close proximity to ruling palaces, citadels or mosques, not only because the city afforded traders some protection, but also because palaces and cities generated subtantial demand for goods and services. In this case, the brokers walk around, followed by the slaves, and announce the price offered. Europeans often saw Orientals as the opposite of Western civilisation; the peoples could be threatening- they were "despotic, static and irrational whereas Europe was viewed as democratic, dynamic and rational." 25 At the same time, the Orient was seen as exotic, mysterious, a place. The skeleton exhumed from the cremation ground has been taken by the investigating team for further examination. | 2019-04-20T02:55:36 | http://eronplus-se.eu/34346-charminar-essay-writing/ |
0.999999 | Step 1: Preheat oven to 400°F. Line muffin pan with 12 muffin liners.
Step 2: Process almonds, 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a food processor until finely ground. Transfer to a small bowl, drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil and stir to combine.
Step 3: Whisk the remaining 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour, baking powder, baking soda and the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt in a large bowl.
Step 4: Whisk the remaining 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup oil in a medium bowl with buttermilk, egg and vanilla extract until well combined.
Step 5: Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients; stir until just combined. Add strawberries and chopped basil; stir just to combine.
Step 6: Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle with the almond topping, gently pressing into the batter.
Step 7: Bake the muffins until golden brown and a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes.
Step 8: Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool for at least 5 minutes more before serving. | 2019-04-26T04:15:39 | http://cucina.grandinetti.org/recipes/breads/strawberry-basil-muffins |
0.997905 | According to one scientific study, music raises the learning capacity in so-called "hard" subjects as mathematics and physics in addition to language acquisition, and this should help restore a more balanced curriculum. Researchers, in the paper on music and spatial task performance, reported that listening to as little as ten minutes of Mozart'z music produced an elevation in brain power lasting ten to fifteen minutes, a finding that triggered much of the current interest in the positive effect of music on learning.
a finding that triggered much of the current interest in the positive effect of music on learning. | 2019-04-23T06:26:38 | http://www.vairaagya.com/sent1/2007/02/post_15.html |
0.999715 | This is my basic kibble recipe. I keep the first 8 cups in a sealed container in the refrigeratorand freeze the rest in vacuum-sealed food storage bags.
With the vacuum-sealed food storage system, you can take out only what you need and then reseal the bag. The kibble will keep in an airtight container for 2 weeks in the refrigerator or 3 months in the freezer.
1.Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Spray two large cookie sheets with nonstick cooking spray.
2.In a large mixing bowl, combine the flours, milk powder, bone meal, wheat germ,parsley, and salt.
3.Beat the eggs and blend them with the oil in a smaller mixing bowl. Add the Worcestershire sauce.
4.Add the water to the flour mixture and mix well.
5.Fold in the egg mixture and combine it all evenly.
6.Add the meat, sweet potatoes, dried apples, and spinach and press them into the dough.
7.Spread the dough on the cookie sheets, making it very flat and thin. Use a knife to cut it into small squares.
8.Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until the kibble is golden brown and not doughy when you break a piece open. During the baking process, take a wooden spoon or spatula and move the kibble around on the cookie sheet so that it bakes evenly. Then turn off your oven, keeping the door closed, and let it dry out in the off oven for at least 4 to 6 hours or overnight.
9.When you remove your kibble from the oven, it will still be slightly warm and moist. Let it sit on cooling racks for another hour or two until it is completely dry and cool.
Variations: Here are some other ingredients I like to add for flavor and nutrients: alfalfa leaf, barley, basil leaf, beets, broccoli, brown rice, carrots, flaxseed meal, green beans, kamut, nutritional yeast flakes, peas, potatoes, rolled oats, rosemary leaf, and zucchini. | 2019-04-26T08:49:23 | https://www.blog.thecozypet.com/2011/05/tasty-tuesday-dog-recipe-krunchy-kibble.html |
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Many of my clients do, as I mentioned above, I have clients with various levels of experience.
Quite often a client may be able to undertake a good deal of the development themselves, at that point they call on me to implement some of the more difficult features they require.
However, whether you have a requirement for a simple database or a complex database, it still makes sense to use a professional so that the foundations of your database are solid and allow for future database development.
However if you do not have experience of developing Access Database systems, and terms like normalisation, referential integrity, naming convention, sub routine, function, parameter (sorry, I only used those terms to make a point!) mean nothing to you, then I would suggest you would be better off to contact me. | 2019-04-24T06:50:00 | https://www.freelanceaccessdeveloper.co.uk/ |
0.991127 | I thought it would be easy to find information on this, but it's actually ended up being surprisingly difficult to get concrete information on this.
I worked as a contractor for a number of years, so I've worked with a fair number of managers; it seems like most of the middle managers I've worked with only spend a relatively small amount of time interacting with their subordinates (e.g. during the the morning standup, perhaps a couple of meetings a week). What do middle managers typically do during the time that they're not interacting with their subordinates? Is someone aware of a breakdown of a typical daily or weekly schedule of a middle manager, and exactly what kind of administrative tasks they'd be required to perform?
I know that a lot of them seem to have a lot of meetings, but what kind of meetings do they tend to have and why?
What do middle managers typically do during the time that they're not interacting with their subordinates? Is someone aware of a breakdown of a typical daily or weekly schedule of a middle manager, and exactly what kind of administrative tasks they'd be required to perform?
I don't think I can speak for "typical", but I can speak for myself.
Specifically, dealing with all of the crap that comes from higher up in the business and stopping most of it before it hits you.
They're also sugar-coating your results and feeding them upwards.
And they take calls from endless recruiters offering them losers with inappropriate skillsets to work for them.
They also sort their emails into folders and ensure that most of them have a high number of "unread" messages, so that it looks as though they're far too busy to read their emails in lots of different ways.
What steps should someone take when reporting their bullying issue to management isn't taken seriously?
How do I conduct an effective 1-2-1 meeting?
Are managers expected to work longer hours than their subordinates? | 2019-04-21T06:56:11 | https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/100594/what-do-middle-managers-typically-do-when-theyre-not-interacting-with-their-sub |
0.999992 | Why Is Iran Building Ties With The Taliban?
Iran has increased its support for the Taliban insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan by opening an office for the militant group in the eastern part of Iran. Moreover, the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is reportedly considering sending surface-to-air missiles to Afghanistan.
Iran may be seeking closer ties to the Taliban as a strategic move to frustrate the alliance of the United States, Western Europe and the Kabul government of Hamid Karzai, which the Taliban is fighting to overthrow.
Ben Farmer wrote in the Daily Telegraph newspaper that Iran may also threaten to spark violence in Afghanistan in the event the U.S. and Israel carry out a military strike on its nuclear power facilities. (After all, dozens of U.S. military bases in Afghanistan are within easy reach of Iranian missiles).
Interestingly, Iran and the Taliban have watched each other warily for the past 15 years. As a fiercely Sunni Muslim movement, the Taliban regards Shia Muslims with extreme disdain and contempt (Iran is the world’s pre-eminent Shia state).
Indeed, when the Taliban seized the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif in August 1998, Iran blamed the group for the killing of nine Iranian diplomats. That massacre heightened fears that Iran would launch an attack on the Taliban in retaliation.
Now, more than a decade later, Iran appears to see the Taliban as a strategic ally in a changed global landscape.
"Iran is willing to put aside ideology and put aside deeply held religious values for their ultimate goal: accelerating the departure of U.S. forces from Afghanistan," a Western diplomat told the Wall Street Journal.
Over the past few years, reports have filtered out that the Taliban were receiving Iran-made military equipment. However, it is unclear if Iran will continue to provide them with more weapons, since such a provocation might lead to a direct confrontation with the U.S.
In addition, whatever support the Taliban currently enjoys in the Sunni-dominated Middle East would be seriously jeopardized if they developed closer relations with Shia Iran.
On the other side of the map, Pakistan, another Sunni Muslim state, has provided enormous aid to the Taliban over the years (openly and secretly). They, too, would be alarmed by any Iranian strategic designs on Afghanistan.
However, Iran has at least one advantage – hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees have fled to Iran since the war erupted in 2001. The Iranian envoy to Kabul, Abu Fazel Zohrawand, has already warned the Afghan government that these refugees would be deported if Karzai signed strategic partnership agreements with the U.S.
While that threat has passed, the status of Afghan migrants in Iran remains extremely insecure, suggesting they could be used as pawns by Tehran.
Nonetheless, Afghanistan (Taliban and otherwise), which desperately needs foreign investment to rebuild its economy and infrastructure after decades of war, may need Iranian help, regardless of the fallout.
Janan Mosazai, the spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told NPR that the Iranians have considered making large-scale investment in the construction, mining and agriculture sectors.
Clearly, Tehran wants to see a pro-Iran regime take hold in Afghanistan after the last of the NATO troops depart. What price they want to pay for such a result remains unknown. | 2019-04-19T10:17:37 | https://www.ibtimes.com/why-iran-building-ties-taliban-737116 |
0.998937 | Award-winning director of "Gladiator" brings the Crusades and an Arab hero to the screen in "Kingdom of Heaven," but does he get it right?
LONDON: "It is better to live in peace together than to perpetuate war. It sounds simple but we don't seem to be able to manage it today," Ridley Scott, who was knighted for his services to the British film industry in 2003, explains during an interview after a partial screening of his latest film in the VUE multiplex cinema in London's Leicester Square.
"That's what "Kingdom Of Heaven" is about, the journey of a boy becoming a man without ever losing his integrity."
On the screen behind Scott, a vast column of Christian soldiers is on the march, the Knights Templar, about to do battle with the great Muslim army of Saladin in the Holy Land of the late 12th century.
It is a magnificent sight but inevitably one which is likely to draw much comment in the days and weeks running up to the movie's release in May - and much comment after - not least because of the parallels with events in the Middle East today.
Then Frankish King of Jerusalem, Baldwin IV, did battle with Saracen leader Saladin, who led Muslim armies from Damascus. Today the Syrian capital is once again finding itself under fire from the West as well as from people in the region itself - not least from many Christian descendants of the Crusaders themselves in Lebanon and the born-again Christian, U.S. President George W. Bush.
"History always resonates with where we are today," says Scott, "but none of this film was predetermined [to coincide with contemporary events]."
Still, movies do not exist in isolation and any film whose backdrop is the Crusades - a brutal period of time in the Middle East region where European Christians fought the "heathen infidel occupying the land of Christ's birth" - is bound to be problematic.
Scott, though, is confident. "We were very careful to think it through,"he says, while the film's producers say they hope the film's central message of peace before war, love before hate, will resonate today.
It would be unfair to bill "Kingdom of Heaven" as a battle between Islam and Christianity or East and West. It is more an attempt to depict a fictional heroic tale at a time when, prior to the battle of Hattin in 1187 won by Saladin before he took Jerusalem, (and shown in the movie), the Muslims and Christians coexisted in peace under the rule of two remarkable leaders, both of whom held an abiding respect for each other.
"Look, this film is about living by an unshakeable code of ethics and honor. And it also demonstrates that true goodness is about listening to your head and heart and deciding to do the right thing every day," Scott argues.
The film's story follows the trials and tribulations of Balian of Ibelin (played by in-vogue heartthrob Orlando Bloom), a common man of extraordinary conscience who rises to knighthood and embarks on a life-changing journey to find peace and a better world. That better world is the Holy Land.
"It follows Balian's spiritual search and he achieves greatness through courage, fairness and selfless action," Scott says.
Which sounds not unlike his last epic "Gladiator," in which Russell Crowe played a Roman general who loses everything, only to regain his honor and save Rome for the people.
"'Kingdom of Heaven's' message is pure: that it is better to discard the world - money, position, power - than to endanger one's own integrity. Balian lives by these ideals and is willing to die for them," Scott continues.
"My screenwriter Bill Monahan spent a lot of time consulting with Muslim historians and scholars of the time, not least because accuracy is so important in a historical film.
"Obviously, then, we were concerned with the character of Saladin and getting it right because he is such an important figure in Muslim culture."
Whereas in the past the part of Saladin might have been played by a heavily made up Laurence Olivier for example, Scott made the wise choice of casting Arab actors in the primary Muslim roles, all of whom are key figures in the film.
Syrian actor and a well-known star in the Middle East Ghassan Massoud takes on Saladin, while his closest adviser is played by Egyptian actor Khaled al-Nabaoui. Nabaoui has worked in numerous films directed by his famous compatriot Youssef Chahine.
"Casting Saladin was one of the hardest things to do," Scott says. "Ghassan was cast out of Damascus, and Khaled out of Egypt. I had to watch hundreds of shows from Syria and Egypt - many of which incidentally were very good and sophisticated."
Scott portrays Saladin as a character of great integrity - he is not a bad guy. In fact the "bad guys" of the film are (we don't see much of them in the clips Scott shows), "the extremists of both sides, Christian and Muslim," those who hate each other and want war at any cost.
These are the two Crusader knights Reynald de Chatillon and Guy de Lusignan who provoke Saladin into battle by raiding Muslim caravans, and Saladin's adviser who counsels destruction of the Christians and the recapture of Jerusalem - which comes toward the end of the film when Saladin lays siege to the city.
Despite Scott's protestations that Muslims and Islam are portrayed in a positive manner, there are some who disagree.
Khaled Abu al-Fadl, a Kuwaiti-born professor of Islamic law and history at the University of California in Los Angeles, who saw a shooting script of "Kingdom Of Heaven" in 2004, told the April edition of Empire movie magazine: "The Western characters are fully formed human beings, reflecting the whole gamut of human feeling. On the Muslim side, everyone apart from Saladin is portrayed as a mindless machine, maniacally screaming 'Allahu akbar' (God is greater)."
Fadl continues that the key Islamic figure in the film, Saladin's religious adviser, preaches hate, extremism and massacres, not true Islamic law: "Saladin is torn between being a 'good Muslim' and being human. 'Muslim' meaning being evil."
The professor says that this is a typical portrayal of an enlightened Muslim who wants to do what's right but is forced to do evil by his religion - Islam.
But Scott argues that his Saladin, historically based, did find himself in a position where he had to placate extremists.
"He was a great man, a pragmatist and a strong and logical leader. Saladin practically invented chivalry," an admiring Scott says.
Fadl also argues that the film's story portrays the Crusaders as more tolerant than the Muslims - which historically was not the case.
"In reality, as far as the Crusaders were concerned, they were fighting infidels, pagans and people who were not human, and an Arab Christian was viewed to be as much a pagan as a Muslim."
Scott, however, is dismissive, arguing that the bad Crusaders portrayed in the film are worse than the Saracen enemy.
"You know I showed the final film to an important Muslim in New York and he loved it. He called it the best portrayal of Saladin he had seen," he says.
That man was Dr. Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Hagop Kevorkian Iranian Studies at New York's Columbia University.
Scott recounts that Dabashi said: "The world is bleeding and you've chosen a moment where the wound was cast [the Crusades], and you try to show the story of staunching the blood with peace and respect and love."
Of the "Kingdom Of Heaven" footage seen by The Daily Star in London, most was of the hero, Bloom, and the other stars - including Liam Neeson, Edward Norton, Eva Green and Jeremy Irons. But there was one scene where Saladin is portrayed briefly on the battlefield, looking magnificent and regal as played by Massoud. Nothing indicated a particular bias. Yet until the film is released in full in May it will be impossible to determine the level of controversy.
At least it will bring the acting talents of Massoud and Naboui to a global audience and perhaps draw more attention to the beauty and chivalrous nature of Islam at a time when America's and Hollywood's view is far from positive.
For Scott, ultimately it's all about the stupidity of people and the evil bred by hatred.
"People don't change that much, do they? The clothes change and the weapons change. The weapons even shift into weapons of mass destruction - a machine gun is a weapon of mass destruction as opposed to a sword. But people stay the same. And that's the really disappointing thing." | 2019-04-18T10:29:39 | http://www.scholarofthehouse.org/necisandsirr.html |
0.999983 | 1. In a mixing bowl, add 1 tablespoon dry yeast, 2 teaspoons powdered sugar, 110 milliliters warm water and mix it well.
2. Rest the mixture for 10 minutes.
4. Add 1 tablespoon oil and tuck the dough well.
5. Rest the dough for 2 hours.
6. In a another mixing bowl, add 350 grams chickpeas, 500 milliliters water and soak for overnight.
7. Take a pot, add the soaked chickpeas, 800 milliliters water and cover it with lid.
8. Cook till you hear 3 whistles.
9. Open the lid and drain the chickpeas.
10. Transfer this into a bowl, add 350 grams sweet corns, 15 grams coriander, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon coriander powder, 1 teaspoon cumin powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon lemon zest, 30 grams all purpose flour and grind the mixture well.
11. Transfer the mixture into a bowl, take some mixture in your hand and shape it into a patty.
12. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
13. Heat some oil in a pan and shallow the patties until it turns golden brown and crispy from all sides.
14. Remove it from heat and drain it on an absorbent paper.
15. Take out the dough from bowl and divide it into equal portions.
16. Take a portion of dough and roll it into a ball.
17. Place it on a baking tray.
18. Cover it with a cloth and rest the dough balls for 30 minutes.
19. Brush the buns with oil and garnish with sesame seeds.
20. Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes.
21. Remove it from oven and cut the bun into half.
22. Place it on a tawa and cook on moderate for 2 - 3 minutes.
23. Remove it from heat and place it on a board.
24. Spread some ketchup on it.
25. Add onion slices and tomato slices on top of it.
26. Place the prepared patty on it.
28. Cover it with another piece of bun. | 2019-04-22T10:10:31 | https://www.alltrendnew.com/2019/01/vegan-burger-Recipe.html |
0.999195 | The description for this product says it is a Pre-Rinse assembly with Add-on Faucet, but the picture does not reflect the Add-on faucet, I just wanted to double check which is accurate, the picture or description?
This T&S Pre-Rinse Assembly does have the add-on faucet with 8-inch centers, as described in the description and title. Also, the image directly reflects what is included and is correctly aligned with the other product info. The add-on faucet is the piece on the bottom that has the handles, but does not include a spout, and instead has an 18-inch extension for the pre-rinse assembly. | 2019-04-23T05:08:00 | https://www.etundra.com/commercial-plumbing-supplies/pre-rinse-faucets/wall-mount/t-and-s-brass-b-0133-wall-mount-easyinstall-spring-action-pre-rinse/ |
0.997602 | Warren Gatland says he "won't subject himself" to taking charge of the British and Irish Lions in 2021.
The New Zealander said: "I'm done. Let someone else reinvent the wheel."
Gatland revealed he had been "hurt" by criticism from within the camp, notably from Ireland flanker Sean O'Brien.
While the Lions' six-week, 10-match tour of New Zealand ended with a creditable drawn series - the Lions have only won once there in 100 years - a feature of the series was the level of abuse directed towards Gatland.
Speaking on Monday, Gatland said: "I hated the tour. I did. I just hated the press and the negativity in New Zealand.
Gatland had suggested he would be prepared to take charge for a third time in 2021, but when asked on Monday, he said: "I wouldn't subject myself to that.
However, Gatland said there was "something magical about the Lions" and hopes the game's senior figures will help to preserve that magic - primarily by giving coaches more time to prepare a squad.
"A minimum is having a week in the UK before you go, and then trying to arrive there a minimum of five days before the first game," he said. "That wouldn't be ideal, but it would be adequate.
"That is all we are asking for - adequate preparation - to give yourself the best chance of doing well."
Gatland also spoke of his disappointment after hearing O'Brien say the team could have won the series 3-0 with better coaching.
"It took a bit of the gloss off the tour," Gatland said. "It really, really did hurt."
Gatland said he subsequently rang O'Brien and they had exchanged texts but added: "I've not heard back from him.
"You take 41 players on tour and you are not going to keep everyone happy. There are going to be players disappointed, feeling they haven't had a chance or an opportunity. I understand that. That's the nature of professional sport.
"There is no doubt Sean O'Brien had a fantastic tour. He played exceptionally well. There is no doubt about his contribution on the playing field. He was excellent.
"In the changing room, as a voice, from a leadership point of view, he contributed extremely well. It's only fair to acknowledge that."
As he freely admits, Gatland cut an often glum figure on the tour of New Zealand, and with his reputation very much intact after two unbeaten tours, it's perhaps inevitable he has ruled himself out of coaching the Lions again in 2021 - especially following Sean O'Brien's "hurtful" criticism.
Further to this, Gatland will be leaving Wales - and almost certainly northern hemisphere rugby - after the 2019 World Cup, and while he wants to take some time off to consider his options, at the age of 56 he should still have plenty left in the coaching tank. | 2019-04-26T12:29:25 | https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/41645590 |
0.874456 | How to Export active (currently running) jobs from UC4 to a google sheet or a CSV file?
Help me out if it is possible to Export active (currently running) jobs from from UC4 to an google sheet or an CSV file by scripting.
This would be possible by means of a SQLI Variable (VARA.SQLI --> Object) and a corresponding SQL Statement which needs to be created.
The database table which shows this information is the EH Table.
Further information regarding DB Tables are found here.
Thanks for Sharing your idea on this.Can you explain still more on this about how to pull that extract.
What exactly would you like to know ?
Once you have added this, you need to create the corresponding SQL statement to fetch the 'running jobs'. After that you can export them.
I am trying to do the same thing. Daniel_Hausdorf_6982 what is the "corresponding SQL statement to fetch the running jobs?"
Hi Alexander, I tried running that SQL Statement, but the job name (eh_name) show up multiple times for most of the JOBS/JOBPs.
The same object name can show up multiple times with different states or even the same status.
If you only want to see each entry one use select distinct.
Something doesn't look right. It only gives me 63 lines and we have a few hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs running in prod.
As you mention that there is only 63 lines, is that when you are running the SQL with the distinct? Or with just the SQL example shown by Alexander?
Hi Luu, the 63 lines is when I am running the SQL with the distinct.
Then it, would filter on the eh_name, making sure that it only return a unique (one entry of the eh_name).
So... this may return jobs that are ended_ok already (and waiting the parent to finished) or you might have jobp that complete but have not been deactivated..
On my own system, if I run the sql provided by Alexander it return over 400 jobs/jobp etc... with various status... which in my case a lot of these are running, or waiting for its parent to finish or just have finished and not been deactivated... And when I change it to distinct, it would only return 60 lines, which is correct since what the distinct function does in sql.
Ohhh. Looks like I misunderstood the whole thing. I wanted a report that shows all the jobs that are active in Prod (scheduled or via event), not jobs that are CURRENTLY running/active.
I don't believe there is an easy way (besides using the Autoforecast tool within the UserInterface) to pull up jobs which are scheduled to run in the future via schedule or event. The EH table will contain everything you see within the Activity window which is all active jobs (and past active jobs which have not been de-activated). If you get stuck let your account manager know and we can get our professional services team to help if needed. | 2019-04-25T14:41:28 | https://communities.ca.com/thread/241804219-how-to-export-active-currently-running-jobs-from-uc4-to-a-google-sheet-or-a-csv-file |
0.999999 | The lawyer representing the woman who was arrested at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago club with multiple cell phones and a thumb drive containing malicious malware says she paid $20,000 to be there.
Yujing Zhang's attorney, Robert Adler, said his client wired $20,000 to a party organizer for access to the president's private club to attend what she thought was a party later that night – an event that earlier in the week was cancelled.
'This receipt is evidence of a payment from Ms. Zhang to attend an event at Mar-a-Lago that night,' Adler told U.S. Magistrate William Matthewman in court.
Before Lee's identity was confirmed by Zhang's lawyer, the Miami Herald reported that he had sold travel packages in China including to Mar-a-Lago parties.
Zhang's lawyer, a public defender, made the case that his client was entitled to be present at the president's exclusive club, and spoke during a hearing in Palm Beach. Prosecutors described Zhang as an intruder who lied, changed her story, and had no reason to be at a restricted location.
He also said his client was not outfitted with spy gear. 'She did not have the type of devices that can be associated with espionage activities,' he said, according to the Herald.
He said there is 'no allegation that she is involved in any espionage,' the Washington Post reported. Her cash stash totaled about $7,500 in hundred dollar bills.
There, Garcia said, investigators found numerous electronic devices and $7,620 as well as about $600 in Chinese Yuan.
The FBI has been investigating the incident for possible espionage connections. The timing of her arrival in the U.S. also reveals she came her just two days before her bust inside the president's club on a Saturday.
She flew from Shanghai to Newark, arriving March 28. The was arrested March 30.
Trump was golfing at the time of the arrest and wasn't there.
Zhang is charged with entering a restricted area and lying to a federal agent. The magistrate judge overseeing the case revoked her visa, according to the Palm Beach Daily News.
Unfortunately, it appears that the Secret Service learned of the malware on Zhang's thumb drive the hard way.
Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich testified that after another agent inserted Zhang's thumb drive in his computer, it began installing files. This was a 'very out-of-the-ordinary' event, he hadn't seen before. The agent immediately shut down the analysis to avoid further corruption of computer files, the Miami Herald reported.
Zhang's arrest followed months of media reports raising flags about the ability of private individuals and their guests to get close to the president through club membership purchases, which go for $200,000 at the Trump-owned club.
With chains wrapped around her waist and hands cuffed, the diminutive Zhang sat at the defendant's table Monday listening to a live translator explaining the proceedings to her in Mandarin.
Adler told the judge Li was advertising the party in China and made it look through photos of himself with the like of Arnold Schwarzenegger that he had the ability to get people into Mar-a-Lago.
Tickets for most charity events at Mar-a-Lago vary between $300 and $1,000.
The Secret Service made clear in a statement issued Tuesday night after the incident that it is the club, not the agency, who determines who gains admission to the president's private club – a for-profit venture.
While being questioned before her arrest, Zhang said a person she knew as 'Charles' told her to attend the UN Friendship event.
The day she was there, an event had been scheduled at Trump's club by a non-profit called Young Adventures.
Terry Bomar, who runs it, said he cancelled the event 'after he discovered it had been hijacked by Cindy Yang,' according to the Palm Beach Daily News, in reference to the former day spa owner.
Her web site had posted a flier listing the event, and displaying a picture of Trump's sister Elizabeth Trump-Grau, one of several Trump family members she had met in posed grip-and-grin photos. He said the president's sister was to be the guest of honor at the event. | 2019-04-24T04:03:14 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6900251/Chinese-woman-arrested-Mar-Lago-signal-detector-hidden-cameras.html |
0.999909 | George Clooney has defended Meghan Markle.
George Clooney has spoken out about the treatment of Meghan Markle by her family and the media.
Speaking to Australia's Who magazine, Clooney said that Meghan was being vilified in the same way that Princess Diana was.
He added ominously, "We've seen how that ends."
Clooney also referenced the letter allegedly written by the Duchess of Sussex to her father, part of which he decided to release to the Mail on Sunday.
Meghan's half-sister Samantha Markle told The Sun that the letter is "nasty" and they will release more of it.
Meghan has also been dubbed "Duchess Difficult" by British tabloids and receives more than her fair share of negative press.
An unlikely confidant has leapt to the defence of embattled royal Meghan Markle.
Speaking at a press panel, George Clooney said that Meghan is being vilified by the media in the same way that her husband's mother, Princess Diana, was, according to Australia's Who magazine.
He added that history is repeating itself.
Clooney attended Meghan and Prince Harry's royal wedding with his wife Amal in May last year. The foursome have since reportedly holidayed with each other at the Clooneys' luxurious Lake Como villa in Italy.
"I do want to say, they're just chasing Meghan Markle everywhere, she's been pursued and vilified," Clooney said in the interview.
"She's a woman who is seven months pregnant and she has been pursued and vilified and chased in the same way that Diana was and its history repeating itself.
"We've seen how that ends. I can't tell you how frustrating that is, just seeing them broadcast a letter from a daughter to a father, she's getting a raw deal there and I think it's irresponsible and I'm surprised by that."
Clooney was, of course, referring to a letter allegedly written by the Duchess of Sussex to her father, part of which he decided to release to the Mail on Sunday.
In it, Meghan wrote how her father had broken her heart "into a million pieces," and accused him of manufacturing "such unnecessary and unwarranted pain."
She also said Thomas never called her to say he wasn't coming to the wedding, and that he "chose to only speak to tabloids" about his decision.
The release of the letter came just days after Meghan's closest friends gave an anonymous interview to People magazine.
In the article, five of her closest confidants said the Duchess of Sussex has had to put up with "lies and untruths" and "global bullying."
Her friends added that they worried what the stress of such negative attention is doing to her and the baby: "It's wrong to put anyone under this level of emotional trauma, let alone when they're pregnant."
British tabloids dubbed her "Duchess Difficult" after a number of royal staff left their positions. She's also been at the centre of an alleged rift between her and Prince Harry and his brother and his wife, Prince William and Kate Middleton.
It's been suggested she has also banned Harry from alcohol and caffeine, and wanted him to skip the royals' annual Christmas shoot because she hates blood sport (even though they ended up attending). The list is simply endless.
From the public, too, Meghan has received swathes of angry, racist comments on social media, prompting Kensington Palace to ask for more support from platforms like Instagram.
Markle has also been targeted offline. On February 12, 2018, a packet of white powder was sent to her with a racist note. | 2019-04-23T16:26:47 | https://nordic.businessinsider.com/george-clooney-compared-meghan-markle-to-princess-diana-2019-2/ |
0.999985 | After setting the boys up with a special email account through which they could correspond with Calvo Padre, they were sent this message.
I know you have been anxious to receive a new mission. This is a difficult one.
You will need to collect the following books from your bookshelf.
Once you have all these books together email me for further instructions.
So, once they frantically collected the books, and sent me an email they got this response a few minutes later.
Very good, that was fast!
Now, you will need to crack the following code to find your first reward.
1 - Junie's middle initial goes in this spot.
2 - The first letter of the third word in the title of the Dr. Suess book.
5 - On page 8 of Nate the Great look for this sentence "Sledge looked _______." Fill in the blank and use the first letter of the missing word.
6 - Middle letter in the last name of the author of Nate the Great.
7 - What color is Sam's hat in Green Eggs and Ham? The first letter of the answer to that question.
8 - The page that shows ALL of the chapter titles in the Horrible Harry book is called what? Use the first letter of that word.
9 - The title of the first chapter in Flat Stanley is a prince's name. The first letter of the prince's name (skip the word "prince").
Go to this place for your reward!
The code spelled out "Back Porch". When they had deciphered the last letter they looked at each other with wide eyes and bolted for the back door screaming "Maybe he's here!" When they opened the back door, there was a red box sitting on the porch. They quickly opened it and found two candy prizes inside.
Well, that did it. They started going crazy. They started searching the house for clues and prizes. And they started giving each other secret agent assignments.
They check their email every five minutes. | 2019-04-19T00:42:12 | http://danbuck.blogspot.com/2009/05/mission-codebreakers.html |
0.999999 | Why this matters: The study, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin and University of Oregon, concludes that sea level rise is not a far-off problem for the end of the century, but rather a "devastating" risk facing the U.S. telecommunications industry in as little as the next 15 years.
About 4,000 miles of fiber conduit (both long and short-haul) will be underwater and about 1,000 nodes, or connection points, "will be surrounded by water" in the next 15 years.
The sea will gradually flood colocation facilities, which are buildings that contain physical servers that belong to different companies.
Ocean waters will also turn metro fiber optic cables into undersea cables, which they weren't designed for.
Methodology: The study based its projections on a prediction of anywhere from 1 to 6 feet of sea level rise, with water levels rising with each passing decade out to 2100.
"The threat of climate change-related sea level rise to Internet infrastructure is imminent."
— Ramakrishnan Durairajan, lead author of the study and a computer science professor at the University of Oregon, in an email.
Threat level: The study found that New York, Miami and Seattle have the most infrastructure at risk. It also found that CenturyLink, Inteliquent and AT&T are at highest risk from sea level rise, due to where their infrastructure is located.
"The main surprise was that the majority of effects of sea water inundation on internet infrastructure will be felt in the next 15 years," said study co-author Paul Barford, a computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, via email. "The reason is that much of the infrastructure in coastal areas is actually quite close to the current shoreline."
How they did it: The researchers combined two databases into one: Maps that show internet infrastructure, taken from the Internet Atlas, as well as NOAA "sea level incursion" maps based on sea level rise scenarios.
They used this combination to create a new metric called coastal infrastructure risk, which combines the geographical scope of affected infrastructure with internet infrastructure density. Using this, they were able to rank cities and companies that are most at risk.
Yes, but: The new study has not yet been published by a scientific journal. It was, however, peer reviewed in order for the findings to be presented at the Applied Networking Research Workshop on Monday in Montreal and published in the proceedings of the forum.
The study applies mainly to internet infrastructure on America's coasts, though outages could spread inland. It does not indicate what climate change could do to the physical internet in, say, inland cities such as Omaha or Dallas, where sea level rise is not a threat.
Reality check: The new research also doesn't include knock-on effects from losing inland facilities as well, such as during high wind events that also flood the coastline.
"While the risks due hurricanes and thunderstorms are known," Durairajan said, "very little attention is paid to climate change-induced sea level rise. The impacts will only magnify if we consider sea level rise PLUS its effects (e.g., hurricanes) in tandem," he added, referring to how climate change is altering extreme weather events.
Also, the study may not have captured all the internet components that are at risk, says Greta Byrum, the co-director of the Digital Equity Lab at The New School in New York, who was not involved in the new study. Such data is voluntarily disclosed by companies and is "notoriously hard to get," Byrum said.
Cities like New York, which suffered telecommunications outages from Sandy, are trying to add more resilience into its networks.
"The City is engaged in an ongoing dialogue with telecom providers regarding the resiliency of their networks and facilities in light of the risks of climate change such as hurricanes and sea level rise," said Priya Shrinivasan, Director of Policy, Standards and Legal Affairs in the mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, in a statement.
The bottom line: The new study shows yet another way that climate change may affect our daily lives in the near-term. It also provides a warning to city leaders and telecommunications companies that they need to prepare for disruptions.
"This means expanding our assessments, mitigation planning and risk-aware deployments should begin today," Durairajan said.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include comments from a study co-author and an outside researcher. | 2019-04-21T21:08:28 | https://www.axios.com/global-warming-might-knock-out-internet-rising-seas-884eef30-8230-4076-bc76-245fbe2b9fab.html |
0.99999 | New Cigarette Health Labels: Gross or Effective?
You may think an image of rotting teeth and a mouth lesion are gross. But the U.S. government says it's just what you need to kick the habit.
Cigarette packs in the U.S. will soon feature new warning labels with graphic images of the negative health effects of smoking, including diseased lungs and the sewn-up corpse of a smoker. The U.S. government hopes the new warnings will discourage smoking, but smokers and nonsmokers alike question whether the ads are too gory.
"Somebody said when they first saw the warnings, 'These are really gross.' And they are," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said at a White House briefing. "We want kids to understand smoking is gross __ not cool __ and there's really nothing pretty about having mouth cancer."
The labels, which were released on Tuesday, are a part of a campaign by the Food and Drug Administration that aims to convey the dangers of tobacco, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths in the U.S. a year.
The warnings, which must appear on cigarette packs by the fall of 2012, include several images that could be seen as shocking to some __ and disturbing to others. Among the images: A man with a tracheotomy smoking, a mother holding her baby with smoke swirling around them and a man with an oxygen mask. The labels also feature phrases like "Smoking can kill you" and "Cigarettes cause cancer." They will take up the top half — both front and back — of a pack of cigarettes and be featured in advertisements.
Some consumers on Tuesday said that they were concerned that the images on the new labels were too explicit for children and others who might come across them in store aisles.
Zenobia Marder, a nonsmoker and high school student from New York City, was startled when she looked at some of the labels. "Oh my God!" screamed the 15-year-old.
Ashley Johnson, 21, of Cincinnati, had a similar reaction. "They look so bad," says Johnson, who has been smoking for about a year. "I think that when people see these pictures, they might put the cigarettes back and get something else instead."
Tobacco companies and others have argued graphic warnings like the nine new labels may cross the line of social acceptability.
In comments to the FDA, some tobacco companies argued the "shock and awe" of the labels have been used in numerous ideological debates like when anti-abortion protesters display photographs of aborted fetuses or animal-rights activists display photographs of mutilated animals.
"Although such images illustrate actual effects of abortions and actual animal treatment, no one would contend that they are 'purely factual and uncontroversial,'" Reynolds American Inc., parent company of America's second-largest cigarette maker, R.J. Reynolds; No. 3 cigarette maker Lorillard Inc.; and No. 4 cigarette company Commonwealth Brands Inc., told the FDA. The companies also are part of a federal lawsuit that in part deals with the legality of the new labels.
Cigarette labels with more graphic images could also concern some retailers; customers who may be offended or disgusted by the packs behind the counter may take their business elsewhere.
"You're going to run into people that will not necessarily like this," said Jeff Lenard, spokesman for the National Association of Convenience Stores, a group representing an industry that gets about 160 million transactions each day. "When somebody's hungry, they get something to eat. When somebody's thirsty, they get something to drink, and we just want to make sure that when they go in, they still want to get that."
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius acknowledged that the labels are "frank, honest and powerful depictions" aimed at making tobacco-related death and disease part of the nation's past. Marketing and tobacco control experts say that's what's needed.
"It's clear to us that the stronger, the more graphic, the better," said Jeremy Kees, a marketing professor at the Villanova School of Business who has done studies on graphic cigarette warning labels. "Fear really drives the effectiveness of these warning labels ... mild, weak images are, in some cases, no better than a plain text warning."
Marketing experts also say the new labels aren't unique to the U.S. In fact, the new U.S. labels are typical of what's being used in the more than 40 other countries, said Stanton Glantz, a tobacco researcher at the University of California at San Francisco. Canada, for instance, in 2000 rolled out warning labels to include a pregnant woman smoking. Uruguay also shows rotting teeth and gums on its labels, similar to the images on the new warning labels in the U.S.
"These are the images that work," Glantz said. "What the research shows is that images that evoke a strong emotional response are the best ones." | 2019-04-21T04:17:00 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/go-healthy-ny/New-Cigarette-Health-Labels-Gross-or-Effective-124347749.html |
0.999992 | A level is being designed for a new platform game. The locations of the platforms have been chosen. Contrary to popular opinion, platforms can’t float in the air, but need pillars for support. More precisely, each of the two ends of the platform needs to be supported by a pillar standing on the floor or on a different platform.
You will be given the locations of the platforms in a coordinate system as in the left image below. Each platform’s location is determined by its altitude (vertical distance from the ground) and the start and end coordinates in the horizontal direction. Each support pillar is placed half a unit from the end of a platform, as in the right image.
Determine the total length of pillars needed to support all the platforms.
Figure 1: Example level with three platforms. The lowest platform is at altitude $1$, the second lowest at altitude $3$ and the third at altitude $5$.
Figure 2: The total length of pillars needed to support all platforms is $14$.
The first line contains the integer $N$, $1 \le N \le 100$, the number of platforms.
Each of the following $N$ lines contains the position of one platform, three coordinates $Y$, $X_1$ and $X_2$. The first number is the altitude, the other two the horizontal coordinates. All coordinates will be positive integers less than $10\, 000$ satisfying $X_2 > X_1 + 1$ (i.e., the length of each platform will be at least $2$).
The input will be such that no two platforms overlap.
Output the total length of pillars needed to support all the platforms. | 2019-04-22T08:45:05 | https://open.kattis.com/problems/platforme |
0.999999 | What is the Character Respond Answer Ask?
Example scenario: I ask What is your character's least favorite board game?
Don't feel obligated to answer all the past questions, whether you're new or you're a regular but you haven't been able to participate lately. If there are a couple that really speak out to you, then feel free to answer them, but you don't have to. Also, because sometimes threads can get long and unruly, you don't have to read all the previous posts unless you really want to. Just have a response to the person above you, a question for the person below you, and you're good to go!
Respond to the post above yours. As with the questions, you don't need to respond to everyone's previous posts, but you need to at least respond to the post above yours! That kind of interaction between the author/character is part of what makes the thread fun!
It's okay if your characters get a little distracted and suddenly your post is longer than normal. Happens to everyone. Some people more than others, but I promise, it's okay. Feel free to relax. Seriously.
Here's the last question from the previous month: What's your favorite hobby?
Q: What's your favorite hobby?
What do you kids like to do in your downtime?
Gabrielle: "Does smithing count as a hobby if it's also a source of income?"
Gerald: "That's a good question. If that counts as your job would Hunting then be a hobby?"
Gerald: "I like to fix or build things. And I like to draw."
Sebastian: "I like to read."
Kyle: "I like to explore the premises if I can, but... If I can't I settle for reading."
Dani: "Hey, pranking teaches useful skills. Like 'how to get away with crimes' and 'lying through your teeth about committing said crimes'."
Lena: Ponders this "Actually, you have a point."
Dani: "Damn right I do."
Lena: "I like to read. It teaches useful skills too. You should try it."
Dani: "I read. Just not insane amounts like you."
Lena: "No one reads insane amounts like me. But I'll concede that you sometimes do read."
Lena: "That's because you always win. Literally always."
Q: Would you play a game with someone if you know they're much better at it than you?
I agree those are very valuable skills to possess.
Q: Would you take the chance to achieve your dreams if someone close to you loses the chance to do so forever?
@Blackbird It's good that they're finally being polite to you.
...I think smiting would be considered a hobby? No one says you can't make money on your hobbies. And if you also do it for fun/to relax/whatever then that probably adds points towards it being a hobby.
Michael: That... still takes four hours, dude.
Arial: What if you don't?
Ceamath: You're good at all of them. I don't think they're the type of game in reference.
Adaellae: I don't see why this would make me not want to play?
Arial: I don't think I have anyone that close to me, so... I dunno if this question applies to me.
Ceamath: I thought you had a... sibling of some form.
Ceamath: considers ...I suppose. Personally... Well, I'd say I did that already. I'm a fairly happy woman who accomplished her meager dreams. Not exactly because he lost the chance, though. I just figured out at some point that the way I was living wasn't really honoring his memory.
Adaellae: You murder people in your spare time.
Ceamath: That bit wasn't part of my dreams. I don't think it really factors into this conversation.
Adaellae: I'm only saying, something tells me murdering people isn't honoring him, either.
Adaellae: Dreams will do that.
Q: What makes you feel better when you're sad? | 2019-04-19T20:30:29 | https://forums.plotist.com/topic/523/character-respond-answer-ask-april-edition |
0.998985 | Math Math ---->: Could General Relativity Fail Completely?
Could General Relativity Fail Completely?
General Relativity sets gravity apart from all other fundamental interactions by claiming it's simply curvature of spacetime. It's not even a force!
This is why GR can't be reconciled with Quantum Mechanics.
So here's a strange thought. What if spacetime simply ceased to exist (as we currently know it) in certain circumstances?
Then General Relativity would fail completely.
What might these "certain circumstances" be?
I don't know. But a great place to start is the interior of a spinning black hole. | 2019-04-19T06:57:11 | http://www.math-math.com/2018/06/could-general-relativity-vanish.html |
0.999676 | Is Website Text Content That Important?
Writing enough good quality, relevant web page content often creates problems for the smaller business or self-employed website owner. First, you need someone to do it!
If not you - then who?
You also want to be sure that what is written is of benefit for both attracting visitors and for informing those who do come about your product or service!
As part of the on-page website optimisation service I provide, a large part of my time is spent writing, amending and editing web page text.
I like to work closely with the website owner or manager to ensure that what we agree looks and sounds right, plus it fits with the business or trade they are in. I am regularly given some base text, and then asked to 'sharpen it up', or I get asked to 'put something together' and we then bounce it backwards and forwards until we are happy that it is correct.
Quite often we identify that the page content that is presently in place can be improved, and again, editing and amending it tends to be a collaborative effort.
It is said that enough relevant good quality text is important. . . .
If you are keen to improve the performance of your web pages, one of the common statements you will find in books, articles and on the web is that "Content Is King". To a large extent this is true, however, before you spend hours researching what this means, and looking for the best approaches for producing it, I would ask you to step back and ask yourself a few questions about the status and intended audience of your site.
To put this approach into perspective you need to understand that there are tens of thousands of websites which are very successful and serving their masters well where content is quite definitely not king. These range from the sites of multi-national and global organisations right down to your local tradesman, shop or designer. And quite often, on these well-viewed sites, there is little or no text content, in fact in some cases the content consists purely of images.
The qualifying words that need to go with the "Content Is King" statement are 'if you want to get your site seen by the search engines'.
As I have mentioned elsewhere in these pages, there are numerous good things that can be done within your pages to help the search engines promote your site. In the vast majority of cases, even though some things are considered more important than others, no one approach, feature or element will guarantee "Page-One" utopia. However, including enough good quality, relevant, text content in your key pages is of major importance to improve your search engine listing status.
So what is 'good quality'?
It is straightforward html text - not "fancy-pants" java or flash which the search engines cannot read. The important point to bear in mind is that although the content should include words and phrases that will attract a favourable response from the search engines, they should be written for the benefit of the visitor.
How much is enough text?
There is some dispute as to exactly what 'enough' is but my experience is that 100-plus words is good, 200-plus is better.
'Relevant'; this comes back to tying-in the word content with what you say the page is about so that the various text elements within the page all say broadly the same thing - they are all "singing off the same hymn sheet". I must warn you that 'relevance' is not easy. It takes time and, from my experience, you need to really nail down the key subject or purpose of the page first, otherwise you can waste a great deal of time.
Staying with experience for a moment, I have tended to find that where there is existing text content in a page I am being asked to improve the search engine performance for, amongst other things, it is almost always a 'relevance' misfit that I have to work on.
So, if you are looking to improve the search engine listing status of a page or pages on your site, or you are seeking to get more search engine visitor response, take another look at the amount, quality and relevance of the text content within your pages. If they are wanting, treat it as urgent to improve them. If you are struggling with it, or just don't know where to start please feel free to contact me and we can work on putting things right. | 2019-04-25T20:00:39 | http://www.elymt.co.uk/importance-web-page-content.html |
0.99827 | Approximately 75% of the energy your horse your horse releases during work is heat energy. This means that your horses needs to be able to properly dissipate this excess heat in the hot weather, or he will experience dangerous effects. Heat stress can cause seizures and damage to the heart, lungs, and kidneys. Some of the factors that cause heat stress include: obesity, long coats, poor conditioning, high humidity, poor ventilation, and prior episodes of heat stress.
What can I do to prevent heat stress?
Water is one of the most important ways to prevent heat stress. Your horse should always have access to clean and fresh water. Water helps your horse lower his body temperature and enables him to sweat away excess heat.
Your horse also needs shade. Your pastures should have at least one shade option suitable to the number of horses you have. If you do not have any shade options, make sure you alter your turnout schedule so that your horses are out at night or early morning.
Unfit horses who are subjected to intense work in the summer heat and humidity are far more likely to experience heat stress. You should properly condition your horse to manage more intense workloads so that his body is fit enough to efficiently process heat. A horse that is poorly conditioned cannot process heat well and can damage his lungs, heart, and kidneys.
My horse is displaying signs of heat stress. What should I do?
The first thing you need to do is move your horse to a shady, well-ventilated area and in front of a fan if possible. Make sure to remove any tack from his body. Use cool water from a hose to rinse his neck and body. Focus on major vessels in his neck and groin to cool him faster. Have someone continually scrape off excess water in order to remove the heat from his body. As he cools, offer him small amounts of cool water to drink. If your horse is extremely dehydrated, experiencing muscle stiffness, or neurological complications, you need to call your vet. Your horse may require intravenous fluids immediately to replace to water and electrolytes he has lost. You should allow your horse to rest for at least two days after he has experienced heat stress, as he is more likely to experience it again when it has already happened before. | 2019-04-22T11:05:40 | https://www.horseproperties.net/blog/managing-summer-heat-stress/ |
0.997773 | (Poll) Who is the best goalie in the NHL today?
I thought you might be interested in looking at (Poll) Who is the best goalie in the NHL today?.
I cannot believe Ryan Miller is not only missing from the list but isn't winning in a walk. Y'all be nuts.
Because they got good goaltending last year. They had the sixth best GAA in the league last year and the third best in the west. They finished 8 points out of the 2nd wildcard. Goaltending wasn't the problem. They had the 25th best offense. Quick wasn't going to help that. It's not a matter of 8th getting hot and winning. They weren't getting into the playoffs with or without Quick. | 2019-04-23T03:32:35 | https://www.hockeyforums.net/topic/70034-poll-who-is-the-best-goalie-in-the-nhl-today/?do=email&comment=347775 |
0.998414 | We are celebrating something like Midsummer in Latvia as well (just across the Baltic sea from Sweden). It is the day, in which the time of daytime is the longest.
Actually, from what I understand, in antiquity, people considered the start of the seasons not to be the solstices/equinoxes, but somewhere in between them, so that the solstices and equinoxes were actually in the middle of the seasons.
I also think that 'summer solstice' should be accepted as correct. The midsommar festival is celebrated in Sweden on the day of the solstice, but is unknown here in the U.S. So if I am asked to translate into English, I need to translate to something actually used in English, and that is not - in this context -midsummer (which does, at least here in the midwest, mean 'the middle of summer, i.e. the middle of the hot season, usually July or early August - used as such for example for fruit that ripen 'in midsummer').
Well, if that proper noun is truly unknown in English, you don't translate it at all. It would be capitalized and spelled in English as "Midsommar". This is the same as you might refer to other things that don't have local anglicized names like perhaps "Ramadan" you don't translate into English before writing.
That being said, the holiday was co-opted long ago by (some) Christian sects to be labeled Saint John's Day (and Saint John's Eve) for the nativity of their martyr in the same way the nativity of a later martyr relabeled the traditional winter solstice holiday as Christmas, so it is actually not completly unknown to many English speakers and I think it is celebrated nationally in some Anglo countries. I think it's sometimes known as capitalized proper noun "Midsummer" (and Midsummer's Eve) Even your suggestion might less commonly be correct, the holiday being sometimes known as capitalized proper noun "Summer Solstice" (and Summer Solstice Eve), not to be confused with the certainly incorrect translation "the summer solstice" being the actual astronomical solstice of summer.
Shakespeare would presumably disagree with your contention that Midsummer isn't used in English, given the word is literally in the title of one of his most famous comedies. Without a hyphen space, midsummer's day is definitely the 21st June.
The confusion comes because temperatures are higher in july and august, because of inertia.
"I've actually run into people here who think Midsummer is somewhere in August" - that's because "midsummer" sounds like "middle of Summer season", an Summer in the US starts on the day of summer solstice and ends on the day of autumnal equinox -- the middle of this period is in early August.
Is the d not pronounced?
Indeed, it's silent in Midsommar.
I never noticed that before reading this discussion.
Should 'Midsommar is in June' be accepted? I think because it's a Swedish holiday, it should be treated more as a loan word than a direct translation.
No, we're sticking to the translation "midsummer".
To be fair, this is rather vague as a comment. I live in Sweden and when people here talk about midsommar its usually to do with the holiday period and not referring to the solstice day.
To translate this it could be that you are translating when the swedish holiday is as equally as when you are saying the solstice is. Sorry, just think this is too vague to not allow both translations.
what about "midsommar är på juni"?
No, "på" isn't used with months.
TTS sounds really odd here.
It really doesn't seem like it should mark 'mid summer' with a space wrong.
But that doesn't mean the same thing, does it? That would mean something like "around the middle of summer", whereas Midsummer is a fixed holiday.
I don't think the difference is as strong in English since it's not really a holiday in the English speaking world. The spelling wouldn't have made me think one thing or the other in English. I think you'd get your answer from the context more than anything. If someone says I'll be back in mid summer, that's clearly an adverbial phase due to the rest of the context. I think it's also just not said that often. I think 'in the middle of the summer' would be a more typical way of talking about it in English, which is why I was surprised to get it wrong rather than the spaces being extremely meaninful. Duo is also just so lenient about typos and extra spaces that I didn't think it would care (which I generally appreciate - my keyboard is getting old and spacing related typos abound, especially on timed practices).
Midsummer in English means the middle of summer. There is no "Midsummer" holiday in the English speaking world. I didn't realize this was referring to a specific holiday until I checked the comment section. I think this will likely confuse other English speakers as well since it is a generic term for us.
Surely you've heard of Shakespeare and Stonehenge?
It's actually wrong for another reason too (Zmezlina is perfectly correct); "mid" is a prefix, and it's incorrect to use it as a word. "Mid-summer" is around the start of August; Midsummer is the 21st June, Mid summer is a grammatical error.
Yes, and one would use lower case for a generic mid-summer but uppercase to indicate a holiday named Midsummer. The reader need not be familiar with the holiday to notice the difference.
Is it correct to translate to "Midsummer is this June"
No, because Midsummer is every year, not just this year. Make sense?
Wrote "Solstice" instead of Midsummer, was wrong. Was I?
Solstice is solstånd, though we rarely use that word on its own, we usually specify: sommarsolståndet is Summer solstice.
How would one say midsummer was in June?
Thinking more about this, I think the required answer here of 'midsummer' is wrong. The Swedish 'midsommar' and the English 'midsummer' are actually what's known as 'false friends' - words that seem to be the equivalents because they sound or look the same, but are not. See my earlier comment as to why. | 2019-04-22T02:48:36 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/5852752/Midsommar-%C3%A4r-i-juni |
0.999539 | Does The New Math Add Up?
Math education experts nationwide have hailed California's efforts to reshape the way its schools teach mathematics as a breakthrough in the push for higher standards. But the changes aren't going over too well with some of the people who might be expected to welcome them the most: parents.
In the past year, well-educated parents in at least nine communities around the state have formed grass-roots organizations to fight the program. They charge that with its emphasis on higher-level thinking, California has abandoned the basics. Their immediate objective is to halt the use of textbooks based on the latest version of the state mathematics frameworks, adopted in 1992.
The parents' concerns echo some of the recommendations made last fall by a task force appointed by state schools superintendent Delaine Eastin. The panel called for more basic-skills instruction but stopped short of recommending that the state abandon the frameworks' emphasis on higher-level thinking.
The state legislature passed a bill last year that required future state frameworks and instructional materials to stress, among other things, basic computational skills and testing of those skills. The process of adopting new state frameworks is scheduled to begin this fall.
Leaders of the grass-roots groups support the state-level efforts to emphasize the basics but believe that process is too slow. "Even if they make changes, we are looking to sometime in the next century before the consequences take shape,'' says Paul Clopton, a leader of a San Diego parents' group.
In the past year, publishing companies have begun issuing the first round of textbooks based on the California frameworks, which in turn rely heavily on the standards adopted in 1989 by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The state frameworks, like the national standards, place greater emphasis on conceptual understanding, problem solving, and communicating about mathematical ideas.
Last spring, parents in Palo Alto formed a group called Honest Open Logical Debate to oppose a middle school math curriculum based on the frameworks. Since then, groups have sprung up in San Diego, Santa Barbara, and at least seven other communities. Most of the parents making the noise are middle-class or affluent professionals, and they use e-mail and the Internet as tools in their highly organized campaign.
Though the complaints have been loudest in California, the debate over math standards isn't limited to the West coast. "It may have started there a little earlier, and the volume may be a little higher, but it is popping up everywhere,'' says Glenn Kleiman, a senior scientist at the Education Development Center, an educational research organization based in Newton, Mass. Similar battles, he says, are being fought in other states, such as Iowa and Texas. Like their counterparts elsewhere, parents in California believe their state's frameworks do not set clear goals and do not emphasize the need to learn and practice essential mathematical skills.
For Clopton, a statistician with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in San Diego, it all began one evening last fall as he watched his 7th grade daughter struggle with her homework. Her Algebra I class was using a new text grounded in the principles of the state frameworks. Although the girl was getting an A in the class, she made many simple errors, Clopton says. Not long after that, he, Mike McKeown, an engineer at the Salk Institute, and several other parents founded a group called Mathematically Correct and began lobbying the San Diego schools to abandon the program.
When they learned that the district was preparing to adopt frameworks-based textbooks for the rest of the K-8 math curriculum, they launched a petition drive that netted about 200 signatures. The school board went on to approve the frameworks-based textbooks anyway. | 2019-04-26T12:38:15 | https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/1996/08/01/09calif.h07.html |
0.998557 | Specific conceptualization and intentional dimensions.
Genre is a horizon of expectations brought to bear on a certain class of text types. It includes features of language (linguistic and rhetorical conventions) that knit together with specific points of view, approaches, forms of thinking, nuances and accents characteristic of the given genre, e.g.,oratorical, publicistic, jounalistic genres.
The language of the lawyer, the doctor, the public education teacher, etc.
These sometimes coincide with and sometimes depart from the stratification into genres.
They involve different terms, specific forms for manifesting intentions, forms for making conceptualization and evaluation concrete.
It is a verbal process between two different people or between an earlier and a later self.
The word is half someone else’s.
The Contruction of knowledge is cognitive, contructive and communicative processes.
Readers read on the premise of writers and writers write on the premise of readers.
The theory of reciprocity governs how people share and exchange knowledge when they communicate, and how they choose to present it in discourse.
The fundamental motive for discourse production is assuring reciprocity between writer and reader/ speaker and listener.
Elaboration (abbreviation and deletion) is(are) a communicative option(s) and strategy(ies) to maintain the terms of reciprocity.
When elaboration, abbreviation or deletion at the levels of genre, topic, and comment is sufficient, writers leave readers with no uncertainty about the meaning of the communication.
Teachers need to first analyze, identify, and explicitly teach students the academic conventions and ways of thinking process required in different discourse communities.
Tasks-require student’s construction of meaning and knowledge.
Practices of certain pedagogical strategies in a classroom setting.
Teaching and learning academic discourse is a process of active cognitive reorganization and a process of enculturation into an academic community.
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Learning Outcomes and their Relationship to Teaching and Learning Activities and to Assessment -. 27 november 2009 council of europe conference belgrade, serbia dr declan kennedy, department of education, university college cork ireland.
Modeling Discourse -. outline. identifying discourse structure overview of pdtb slides from upenn pdtb parsing emnlp paper classifying relation types discourse graphbank. discourse coherence. reference relations. discourse relations. | 2019-04-19T15:26:05 | https://www.slideserve.com/ariane/teaching-and-learning-academic-discourse |
0.999291 | I've an interest-based (astronomy and UFO related) store that carries a broad range of products from gender, age group, and purpose (learning tools, apparel, decoration, and etc.) points of view.
For FB and online advertising, I have been told to focus on a particular product and stay away from general store promotion. The problem I have is that since the store is not bound by a particular product type (i.e. watches, scarves and etc.), it seems too restrictive to put all bets on a particular product type and not knowing how the reception is going to be or taking on a trial and error approach with most promising products. How can I broaden the messaging and advertising approach so that the audience with an interest in the field would be attracted to the store and shop to find what they like?
That's a great question! The reason people say you should focus in when advertising is because this allows you to segment a very small and specific audience. If your audience is too big, then the Facebook algorithm will have a very difficult time finding you good, potentially converting traffic. The same principles apply to the ads themselves.
Unfortunately, I can not suggest an effective way to make a "general" ad for these same reasons. Your best bet is to break down your categories into different ads and audiences. If they are detailed and specific, you can read the data clearly to see what's effective or not.
For example, run one ad for astronomy to an astronomy-specific audience. Run a second ad for the those interested in UFO-related topics and so on.
This is a realistic expense of Facebook advertising unfortunately. You'll need to be specific and do everything separately to get the proper data. Broadening the message will work against you because you might end up not being able to get through to anybody. | 2019-04-21T20:04:37 | https://ask.oberlo.com/d/10683-ad-strategy-for-broad-product-range-interest-based-store |
0.999299 | Repeat after me: "I take the Fifth Amendment. I will remain silent" | Jon Katz, P.C.
Monday’s Supreme Court Salinas v. Texas case — when considering the plurality and dissenting views together —says that pre-arrest, one cannot invoke one’s Fifth Amendment right to remain silent through merely being silent. Salinas is silent about whether pre-arrest silence is too ambiguous to be admissible at trial.
Salinas is beneficial in jurisdictions that previously gave a green light to admitting pre-arrest silence — even where the Fifth Amendment was invoked — but potentially harmful in jurisdictions that previously prohibited all pre-arrest silence against a non-testifying suspect. My overview of the pre-arrest silence caselaw that applied pre-Salinas is here.
Consequently, to protect one’s right to remain silent pre-arrest, it is critical to respond to police questioning along the lines of: "I take the Fifth Amendment. I will remain silent" after every question that the police ask. Hopefully, police will be honest about a suspect’s invocation of his or her right to remain silent. | 2019-04-23T16:47:05 | https://katzjustice.com/repeat-after-me-i-take-the-fifth-amendment-i-will-remain-silent/ |
0.999378 | If I don't have a PayPal account. How can I pay?
1. Select your cart and click "check out". Fill in your shipping information and click "complete order".
2. In the pop-up window, click on the location on the image below.
3. Choose your bank country.
4. Now you can use credit cards to pay.
Do you want to use this credit card to create a Paypal account?
According to your needs, choose yes or no. | 2019-04-21T22:03:43 | https://h-buy.shop/pages/the-use-of-paypal |
0.997723 | As the Class of 2014 throws their caps into the air during this graduation season, many families are facing the stark reality of a mound of education debt. Given the still-tough job market, is college worth it? The answer is yes, with a caveat.
Let's start with some of the numbers: 37 percent of households are carrying some student debt - the highest share on record; and total outstanding student debt (federal and private) stands at over $1.1 trillion. A recent Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco study found that most students recover from those loans within 20 years of graduation.
Still, the mere existence of that debt may impair graduates the ability to build their financial lives. Some are unable to consider a wider range of career opportunities that may be more lucrative in the long run; others can't afford to contribute to retirement accounts due to large debt payments; and many can't purchase homes as early in their lives as they used to in the past. Recently, the National Association of Realtors noted that student loan debt is hurting home sales: "20 percent of buyers under the age of 33, the prime group of first-time buyers, delayed their purchase because of outstanding debt. In our recent consumer survey, 56 percent of younger buyers who took longer to save for a down payment identified student debt as the biggest obstacle."
But that college degree provides a distinct advantage over those who don't have the coveted diploma. While the job market is still weak (9.8 million people remain unemployed as of April), according to Economic Policy Research, the unemployment rate for young college graduates stands at 8.5 percent, much lower than the 22.9 percent for high school graduates. And research from Pew Research shows that the household income of young adults with college loans is nearly twice that of people who didn't attend college ($57,941 vs. $32,528).
And even though 66 percent of students now borrow to finance college versus only 43 percent of their parents' Baby Boomer generation did, Pew notes the value of a college degree has increased from one generation to the next. Between 1965 and 2013, median annual earnings, among college-educated full-time workers aged 25-32, rose to $45,500. Meanwhile, their high-school-educated peers lost more than $3,000, with earnings falling to $28,000 over that time period. In other words, a college degree is worth more and a high school degree alone is worth a lot less.
That differential adds up over time: that Fed study showed that the average U.S. college grad can expect to earn at least $800,000 more than the average high school graduate over a lifetime.
Here's another reality: college education is in high-demand and is projected to rise. Researchers at Georgetown predict that in the next six years, the share of jobs requiring post-secondary education will likely increase to 64 percent by 2020, which would be a big increase from 50 percent in the 1970s. This trend leaves adults with only a high school diploma with far fewer job options.
Still, piling on education debt willy-nilly can be a recipe for disaster, for both students and their families. One way to keep debt levels in check is to only assume a total student debt load that matches what you think you will earn in your first year of work. If you're going to be an engineer, you can borrow more than say, an art history major.
According to the April 2014 Salary Survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the overall average starting salary for Class of 2014 bachelor's degree graduates increased by 1.2 percent to $45,473 from the results of the Class of 2013, but engineers saw an average of $62,719 as a starting average salary (not to mention the eye-popping starting salary for petroleum engineers, who start as $95,300), versus those graduates earning degrees in the humanities and social sciences, whose overall average starting salary was $38,365. | 2019-04-25T09:52:41 | http://www.tncp.net/Articles/tabid/1800/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/4233/Jill-on-Money---College-is-still-worth-it.aspx |
0.999936 | I am looking for a consensus on my GM ruling here, please.
BACKGROUND: I have let my players do whatever they desire in planning their talents, with a hands-off approach. My players are free to introduce their new skills to me (and their fellow players) at any time. But I fear this hands-off approach shall blow up in my face now, for after my player has spent time and effort to acquire this skill tree, I feel my player has totally misinterpreted the 'General' talent, and expects to commence the next game with a couple of "side-kicks" to join him on the adventure road.
MY RULING: I plan to rule that no, my player cannot simply "adopt" some soldiers to use in our general campaign, as though they were pets/creatures.
I will tell my player he can simply re-assign his talent tree experience spends (if he chooses) to other talents.
There is nothing in the Talent that says that the warband only works in mass battles. Sure, the Warfare tree is intended for sieges, mass battles, etc., but this should not preclude the use outside of this area. The Strategist Talent clearly works even when you are shot at by a single archer. And as a GM, if player characters want to purchase Talents in a certain tree, I try to make the Talents somewhat useful.
Read the Talent description carefully, especially this line: "In addition, you can create a retinue [...]". The key word for me is "can". So when a character purchases the Talent, they do not magically get 4 NPCs as pets. Also "The warriors in your retinue must [...] be dedicated followers who have trained with you". Do those warriors even exist? Does the character have an appropriate military background? Maybe you could incorporate this into your campaign so that the character finds/rescues future members of the warband.
I agree that having like 4 elite NPCs at the character's side seems strong, but it is basically the same Talent as "Faithful Companions" from the Animal Handling tree. The warband are still NPCs, to the character must issue commands if they want to control them. | 2019-04-25T13:42:52 | http://14062642.weebly.talkiforum.com/20180522/warfare-talents-tree-general-5563754/ |
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0.998466 | Could it be, CX does have a policy in place to not let airplanes overnight at HYD, for security reasons ?
I am not sure I am right, but I think that statement is incorrect.
I believe lots of CX plane are in HKG now. I believe CX wishes to resume normal schedule on Monday after 4am.
All typhoons are not equal. If MANGKHUT is a direct hit (unlikely at this point) anything can happen.
But even with HATO, there were only little damages to HKIA or aircraft, with no disruptions to operations (except during the typhoon itself)..
Depends on the winds. With 105G145kts (original estimate on Windy.tv), it would not be wise. With "only" 55G70kts (see the above TAF), that'll be less of a problem.
Despite the more direct hit, it seems, the actual winds are less then originally expected.
Though potential flooding of the airport should be taken into account to.
You are right I did know I was taking my chances. But CX travel waiver was always from 16-18. I originally was connecting on 16th but changed to 15th to beat the storm. When I arrived at HKG, weather is fine. I understand crew positioning, etc, but still this could have been forseen by the airline before I boarded in SFO. If there is some special rules about overnight in HYD, they could have forseen that too. I also figured they would want their aircraft positioned there to bring back the HYD-HKG pax from the two cancelled flights.
kix is at open sea and also it was timed with king tide.
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Why not fly to Dhaka (KA110) tonight, take a morning flight to Kolkata and then onto HYD. You could probably be there for lunch on the 16th, no?
I was told by CX on arrival that there is no possibility to get to India tonight. I know I could have asked elsewhere but I am now far away from the airport.
Both CX and KA are sending aircraft out of HKG to outports for two reasons - 1) to protect the aircraft from potential typhoon damage 2) for crew and aircraft to be in position to return to HKG as soon as conditions permit (at this stage looks like late Monday afternoon). Hence if you check the arrivals board, you'll see all the afternoon/evening flights departed but the return sector was cancelled. CX will have around 25 aircraft, KA less than 10 in HK to ride out the storm.
Christep thanks I have been monitoring the cx site.
If that's the case kudo to CX for managing this so well, regardless of how bad the typhoon will be.
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Both Hong Kong Airlines and HK Express have already sent empty planes away from HKG.
CX is also already sending planes away such as B-KQH. I guess we will see more of such movements in the coming hours.
I think this might be the first time CX/KA (and both HX/UO) does this. Probably they all have learnt from the recent typhoon at KIX.
I believe B-KQH (along with many other CX planes) are operating their regular scheduled flights, and not flying out of HKG empty because of the storm. | 2019-04-24T20:38:39 | https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cathay-pacific-marco-polo-club/1929978-typhoon-mangkhut-16-sept-2018-a-9.html |
0.998527 | We consider ourselves to be fairly big sushi people. While we love all kinds of food, sushi is a staple in our diet. That's not really surprising seeing as how we live on the west coast; in Vancouver, you're going to find as many sushi restaurants as you would McDonald's. So when we heard from my friend that Shiro's was the place to go just south of the border, I put it on my radar right away.
For those of you that have watched the sushi documentary, Jiro's Dreams of Sushi, this place is a great alternative to flying to Japan so you can eat under the Ginza train station. For those of you that haven't watched the movie - just do. It is very artistically done and extremely interesting if you're a foodie. The chef that made the tamago, Daisuke, works here! He joined Shiro, a former apprentice of Jiro, about two years ago here, although the restaurant has been here for several decades.
Shiro is located in Seattle, a little bit away from the Pike Place Market. To get in this restaurant though, you need to get there early. Though the restaurant opens at 5:30, you're likely to be waiting a while if you get there during opening.
We both got there early (see picture of Janice below) and we had the omikaze. This restaurant is very comparable to Sushi Yasuda which we visited when we were in New York. Both are equally traditional (Shiro's even more so though given it's size and the clientele that they serve), serve amazingly fresh fish, and the chefs are all from Japan. They know their sushi and you can tell by the quality of the sushi served. Don't come here if you like modern style rolls (ie. dragon rolls, spider rolls, etc, etc), but come here if you appreciate sushi the traditional way. Some of the fish we had included, varieties of tuna and salmon, monk fish, herring, shrimp, geo duck, flounder, squid, and on and on it goes. Honestly, I would say Shiro's and Sushi Yasuda were pretty close. But I would highly recommend Shiro's and intend on coming back soon. Definitely worth the 3 hour drive! Right now, the only thing more authentic might be going to Japan's fish markets themselves.
categories "Him", "Japanese", "Restaurant Review", "Seattle", "Shiro's", "Sushi" | 2019-04-20T01:09:41 | http://www.lespetiteschoses.ca/blog/shiros |
0.999979 | When is a supergroup not a supergroup?
Damn you, Beyonce, for leaping out from behind a curtain and putting a new album on iTunes while I was on the bus to work. I can't download 17 videos on a 3G connection, you know. What sort of price plan do you think I'm on over here?
So now I'm stuck in the office watching 30-second YouTube clips of your presumed masterpiece, while everyone else is saying "I like the one where she flips her hair". I want to see the hair flipping, too. What a disaster.
Anyway, here is a playlist of those clips for the similarly iTunes-deprived, and some other songs you may have missed over the last seven days.
See above. She's so pretty.
No Better appeared on iTunes this morning and, to be honest, is better than some of the stuff on Lorde's debut album. As woozy and drowsy as it was unexpected.
The best song by far on Tinie's second album, Demonstration, the cracking Lover Not A Fighter sounds exactly like Discovery-era Daft Punk (in particular, the breakdown from Digital Love).
Lyrically, it finds Mr Okogwu on top comedy form, rapping about how he went from sitting "on the settee eating a tin of spaghetti" to sleeping with his old teacher, the perv.
This is the Daft Punk one where Julian Casablancas from The Strokes does his best Metal Mickey impression.
One of my favourite songs on Random Access Memories, the video is a rather underwhelming riff on Night At The Museum, with Julian not really sure how to reconcile his rock star moves with the fragile melancholy robot larynx.
Basically, the only track worth downloading from the new Britney Spears smash album (in with a bullet at number 34).
Fun fact: Perfume is written by Sia.
Damien Rice floated like a cannonball. Now Lea Michelle (out of Glee) flies like a cannonball. I don't think they're that familiar with cannonballs.
Fun fact: Cannonball is written by Sia.
Another track from Ella's forthcoming Deeper EP, this one is produced by smoking-hot London producers Two Inch Punch. Like the title track, Love Me Like You is a subdued smoky take on the sound she perfected with Rudimental. Or, as The Fader put it, like Cee-Lo got Lauryn Hill to sing on a garage track.
Right, that's your lot. I'm off to see if I can find a forgiving wifi connection. | 2019-04-20T20:49:56 | http://blog.discopop.co.uk/2013/12/songs-you-may-have-missed-beyonce-goes.html |
0.999995 | Why does removing attachments from .msg e-mails saved on the network increase the file size?
Some staff here like to save all their e-mails with attachments to the file server as individual .msg files, which has been causing a significant increase in used space. In testing the idea to save an e-mail but remove all attachments, I noticed that this caused the .msg file to INCREASE in size on the server instead of decreasing. I tried it multiple times with different e-mails and got the same result. Is this normal behavior? Is there a way to get the expected result of a decrease in file size when removing attachments?
Do you see the increase in the Exchange DB as well?
Do you see the increase in the mailbox of the user?
Have you tried compressing the mailbox of the user, using "Compact Now"?
have you noticed the change in the server side usage vs. local items?
The staff are dragging the e-mails from Outlook to the file server and it is creating an .msg file that has the e-mail and it's attachments. Unless I'm mistaken, once copied to the file server, this should not have any impact on Exchange, so I don't believe those questions apply?
Confused with your question quoted above.
Staff are dragging and dropping e-mails from Outlook to a file server. This creates a copy of the e-mail as an .msg file (no longer tied to Exchange) on the file server along with attachments.
How are the attachments being deleted in the msg file?
Is the msg file being saved after deleting of the attachment?
E-mail is drag and dropped to save a copy on the hard drive. I open the .msg file, right-click on the attachment(s), select remove attachment, confirm, then when closing the file click yes to save. The file is saved without the attachments but does not decrease in size.
I tested by saving to my local hard drive and same issue.
can you try saving as a different msg name?
The msg file is like a file system. The msg only deletes the directory entry within the msg file, but if you do a SaveAs, then it will rebuild the directory entries in the msg file.
Saving with a different name appears to work. Thanks. It makes the process a bit longer than I had hoped (when dealing with a hundred e-mails daily), but it does seem like the only option at this time. | 2019-04-19T06:17:44 | https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29013577/Why-does-removing-attachments-from-msg-e-mails-saved-on-the-network-increase-the-file-size.html |
0.999876 | He could be any number of names in any given day -- or hour for that matter: Audion, Jabberjaw, False and Matthew Dear.
He could be any number of names in any given day -- or hour for that matter: Audion, Jabberjaw, False and Matthew Dear. It's the latter moniker, his given name, that has finally propelled the 28-year-old songwriter/producer/DJ onto the Billboard charts, as his Ghostly International effort "Asa Breed" climbed on to the Top Electronic Albums chart at No. 20.
"I tend to keep all those personalities separate while I'm on the road. But in the studio, it's not like I spend a few months being Audion then switch over to being Matthew Dear," he tells Billboard.com. "Audion has become my dancefloor techno, peak-time DJ-friendly version of me. Nothing too weird, all memorable dance tunes. As False, it's all a little more subversive. As Matthew Dear, I guess it's best explained as experimental pop music."
It's Dear's charming, dramatic baritone voice that bridges pop with dance on "Asa Breed," as electronic rhythms dance around his ethereal lyrics. Otherworldly synth textures are intertwined with organic drum riffs and, while the album is largely electronic and experimental in nature, the tracks arc and release like your average pop song.
The album has leant itself nicely to another one of Dear's experiments: a live band. For the first time since he began making music in the late '90s, Dear has recruited a live band -– a percussionist and a bassist -– to fill out his sound on stage. So far, so good as Dear prepares to tour in Europe for much of the summer. "I would like to have a really big band with more percussion and backup vocals, but I'd need some more cash..."
After some shows in Japan in August, Dear heads back to Europe, then tours the U.S. for all of October. Europe in December. January, February, Australia, Japan. "But, hey, I get November all to myself," he quips.
Aside from having his whole touring life planned out for the next nine months, the Texas native also hopes to finish a follow-up to "Asa Breed" for release early next year and plans to release a new effort, "2007," this summer under the False moniker via M_NUS Records. It will be recorded and sequenced like one long DJ mix, intended to be heard as one long song.
"It's indicative of the way we consume electronic music right now. You can do conceptual long mixes, go from 0 to 130 BPMs," he says. "If I had my choice, I would love to make money just composing tracks like that, making new chapters to each piece of music I make." | 2019-04-24T01:36:40 | https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1051295/matthew-dear |
0.999999 | The word "reshoots" has been tossed around the internet quite a bit lately, and some heavy baggage has come along with it. It seems like when people hear that a film (usually a hotly anticipated one) enters reshoots fans seem to resign themselves to the expectation that the film will be dead on arrival. Just this week it was announced that ROGUE ONE A STAR WARS STORY will be headed into reshoots and the internet had a fit. Rumors began swirling that Disney is unhappy with the tone of the movie and are ordering reshoots to keep the film more tonally similar to THE FORCE AWAKENS. Now, before we all get into arguments about why that's a bad idea or not (and believe me, it's a bad idea), we need to evaluate how accurate the line of thinking that a movie is done for when it heads into reshoots is.
The above scene was in the script at large, and big chunks of it had already been shot on location, but JJ felt the scene was missing something to really ground the audience in the character. It was in reshoots that he decided to try inserting a close-up of young Kirk's face so we could get a feel for how he was reading and reacting to the situation. Abrams got so caught up in getting all the action ready for print that he didn't give us a reason to care. Keep in mind, that isn't to say he's got poor filmmaking sensibilities, he just didn't have time in that location to hammer out all the little emotional beats. And that doesn't mean he's got poor time management skills. Keep in mind that filmmaking is often done on very tight calendars and its likely a production will not get to come back to a location after wrapping there. So with all that in his mind, JJ knew that it was most important to get all the bombastic, effects-heavy stuff done with a full crew on location and then shoot a close-up of young Kirk on a Paramount lot later.
Of course I know there are people reading this and screaming at their screens about the doomed productions that were Josh Trank's FANTASTIC FOUR and Zack Snyder's BATMAN V SUPERMAN (and pre-screaming about the subsequent "more jokes!" reshoots assigned to SUICIDE SQUAD) and to that I say this: Is it really a failing of reshoots or was the product just bad to begin with? No amount of reshoots can save an under/overcooked product. Trank is a rookie director with one decent film under his belt and he was likely under a lot of studio pressure to deliver a product tailored to them. Snyder is an egotist who thinks everything is Watchmen and must be treated as such. Both are examples of a creator biting off more than can chew and paying the price.
As it stands, ROGUE ONE A STAR WARS STORY and SUICIDE SQUAD are fine until they're not. And nobody will truly know when "or not" happens until after the lights go up and the credits start rolling. Jaws underwent massive reshoots because the shark looked super cheeseball and they made the decision to shoot from the shark's perspective and show you as little of the monster as possible. Apocalypse Now started as a five month shoot and ballooned into well over a year and a half just for principal photography. It's been proven that reshoots can help a movie and the knee-jerk reaction to the announcement that a film has gone into reshoots means its bad is a self-fulfilling prophecy. | 2019-04-24T06:02:32 | http://thatreelperspective.blogspot.com/2016/06/on-reshoots_1.html |
0.998742 | There's a popular saying that history repeats itself, and perhaps it should make life all too predictable, but sometimes things don't always go according to plan. From the status of the first acting female president of the USA, to the series of unfortunate events leading to Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination, history is full of unexpected twists and turns. Even Julius Caesar, back in 75BC, had some tricks up his sleeve that left a bunch of pirates shocked, most likely betrayed, and very much dead.
So, scroll down below to see the shocking plot twists that occurred when people least expected them. And, oh, don't forget to comment and vote for your favorites!
During World War II, Spanish citizen Juan Pujol García, seeing the horrors of fascism and communism in Europe, wanted to make a change. He and his wife contacted American and British intelligence services to become a spy, but were rejected by both. So, he created a fake identity as a fanatically pro-Nazi Spanish government official and successfully became a German agent. He was highly respected and trusted for his wide network of spies and the information he provided. The plot twist? Juan was actually a double agent working against Nazi Germany. He'd create fake reports using magazines, tourist guides and other public sources. Any misinformation spotted by the Nazis he'd blame on the spies in his network that were all made up. Pujol had a key role in the success of Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing and location of the invasion of Normandy in 1944. As the Germans never realized they were fooled, García received the Iron Cross as well as Member of Order from the British Empire.
You thought Hillary Clinton was aiming for this position? Too late, it's already taken. Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, a highly public, renowned person. However, he suffered a stroke in October 1919 which left him partly paralyzed. Edith Wilson took over many routine duties and details of the Executive branch of the government from then until Wilson left office almost a year and a half later, on March 4, 1921. She decided which matters were important enough to be brought to the bedridden president as no one close to him could admit that he was unable to perform the duties of the presidency. While Woodrow Wilson withdrew from the public's eye, the privacy allowed Edith to take over most of her husband's duties and for a short while she essentially became the President.
From the headline I thought they were going to talk about Elenore Roosevelt. I'm sure Nancy Reagan had also done the same in those later years.
In 75BC, Julius Caesar was traveling from Rome to the Greek city of Rhodes to study oratory, when his vessel was seized by Cilician pirates. They kidnapped Caesar and demanded a ransom of twenty talents, which Caesar was insulted by and demanded they ask for more. With a goal of 50 talents, Julius Caesar sent his followers to cities to collect the ransom, meanwhile spending time with the pirates. He treated them, the most bloodthirsty people in the world, so highhandedly that, whenever he wanted to sleep, he would send to them and tell them to stop talking. At times he jokingly threatened to have them executed, which pirates took for playfulness. After the ransom was paid and Caesar was set free, he manned some ships and captured the pirates which he then crucified as he had promised.
On June 28th, 1914, the Black Hand secret society sent 6 assassins to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The first assassin, armed with a bomb, failed to act, as did the second one with a gun. The archduke's motorcade passed by the third assassin who threw a grenade at Ferdinand's carriage, but it detonated too late, exploding under another car and injuring around 20 people. The assassin swallowed his cyanide pill and jumped into the Miljacka river. Čabrinović's suicide attempt failed, as the old cyanide only induced vomiting, and the Miljacka was only 13 cm deep due to the hot, dry summer. The Archduke and his party reached their destination, but decided to visit the injured people in the hospital. They quickly realized they were taking the wrong route and the driver stopped the car to reverse. They happened to stop right at the place where Gavrilo Princip, one of the 6 assassins was standing. He took out his gun and shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the neck, wounding the Duchess Sophie with a second shot. They both died within an hour. This was the event that kickstarted the chain of events that lead to the World War I.
This is how WW1 started.
Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, Freemason, and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. He had androgynous features which helped him as a spy. He presented himself as a male and took up masculine occupations for 49 years, however as a spy he successfully infiltrated he court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. From 1777, d'Éon dressed as a woman, identifying as female. He explained that he has been assigned female at birth and only raised as a boy so his father could collect inheritance from his in-laws. Chevalier d'Éon passed away in 1810. Doctors who examined d'Éon's body after death discovered "male organs in every respect perfectly formed", but also feminine characteristics, such as "breast remarkably full."
I see both woman and man fixture in this person face.
Chester Arthur was part of Morgan's Republican machine in New York, which was where he shifted his career path from law to politics. In 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Arthur to the lucrative and politically powerful post of Collector of the Port of New York. However, in 1878 he was fired from his job as part of a plan to reform the federal patronage system in New York. A few years later Arthur became the vice president of the United States and following the assassination of President James A. Garfield 6 months later, Chester became the 21st president of the USA. To the surprise of reformers, Arthur took up the cause of reform, though it had once led to his expulsion from office and signed the Pendleton Act into law. He came into office with little trust from the public but retired with the utmost respect. "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe." journalist Alexander McClure reported.
My personal opinion is that Arthur supported civil service reform because he knew he was terminally ill when he succeeded to the Presidency and had nothing to lose by backing reform.
All the kids say history is boring, right? Like, everyone hates learning it. Why don't they give kids this and then see what they think?
Oh, it can be. "In year x something happened. In year y something else happened. In year z....". Teach it like this to students and most will doze off after quarter of an hour. Better do it like this: "In year x something happened. But because society was like this and that back then, this led to something else in year y. ..." Only learning numbers is not what helps. To most this really is boring. They will not remember it for a long time. Making people understand how it was possible that something happened... Oh well, long story short: I'm from Germany. We should know.
I didn't like history at school either. But I did enjoy cartoons about the Greek mythology, French revolution, knight stories, fairy tales, political songs etc. These were mostly fiction, true, but based on real history. The problem is the way history was presented in class. Teachers are given a limited time to inflict massive amounts of information, of course it's gonna be too difficult and boring, if you have to just copy an entire blackboard, or memorise your textbook. History can be fun and understandable if told properly, and school systems back when I was a student didn't really allow for such friendly methods. | 2019-04-21T22:25:01 | https://www.boredpanda.com/unbelievable-history-plot-twists/ |
0.998949 | A bank manager may work for a retail (High Street), commercial or corporate bank. They are responsible for managing all the operational aspects of the branch or branches under their control.
Sales performance, generate new business leads and maintain relationships with existing bank customers.
Team and individual employee performance.
Security within the branch - safeguarding employees and customers, and ensuring the appropriate risk controls are in place.
Some bank managers, particularly those managing larger branches, may be responsible for specific product groups or customers, for example, business accounts, premium accounts, financial products, loans or mortgages. The job is focused on meeting targets and promoting specific financial or banking services, as well as improving efficiency and profitability.
Communicating and implementing business, marketing and sales initiatives.
Administering, preparing and submitting sales and budget reports.
Authorising customer lending arrangements, including loans and overdrafts, before submitting applications to the bank's credit department.
Making sure a consistent brand image and identity is being delivered through branch presentation and customer service.
Recruiting branch personnel and arranging staff cover.
Appraising employees to identify training needs and support.
Passing on regional and head office communications to inform and motivate branch staff.
Establishing partnerships within the wider business community.
Attending regional, management and head office meetings.
Bank managers usually work 37 hours a week, typically Monday to Friday. If branches open on Saturday mornings, cover for this and security callouts are usually on a rota. Part-time work and job sharing is possible.
Retail and business bank managers may work within one branch or cover a regional network of branches, travelling between them. Some also work in call centres, managing online and telephone banking services. These are often based out of town. Travel, apart from attending management conferences or meetings, is usually limited to a set geographic area. A driving licence may be useful.
Smart personal appearance and business dress is expected. Uniforms may be provided.
Starting salaries for bank managers joining management training programmes range from between £19,500 and £25,000 a year. Salary packages usually include performance and profit-related bonus schemes. Extra benefits may include location allowances, company cars, preferential financial product schemes (such as subsidised mortgages, loans, private healthcare and life assurance), and contributory pensions and share saving schemes.
There are roughly 90,000 bank managers currently working throughout the UK. Despite the merger of banks in recent years and the closure and amalgamation of smaller, often more rural retail bank branches, the number of management positions has remained relatively stable.
Some bank jobs have been regionally centralised, and it is becoming more common for managers to oversee a number of branches instead of being based at one. There has also been a growth in national banking call centres, creating more people management jobs. Regional and head office management positions are usually found in the financial districts of large cities.
International banks with a UK branch network.
Finance houses providing secured and unsecured loans.
Corporate or commercial banking divisions, often within a bank's regional or head office.
Vacancies are normally advertised on employers' websites, as well as by specialist financial sector publications, finance and banking recruitment agencies and national newspapers.
There are many routes into bank management. The most direct is to join a graduate trainee programme. Applicants normally need a 2.1 degree in a related business or financial topic, as competition for these placements is high. For a degree course they usually need at least two A levels/three H grades and five GCSE's/S grades (A-C/1-3), or equivalent qualifications. Applicants to an international bank may find a second language an advantage. ICT skills are also useful.
Many banks also offer fast track management training programmes to internal candidates who have some work experience and demonstrate the right drive and commitment. Some employers may require two or more A levels/H grades, or equivalent vocational qualifications, such as the ifs School of Finance Professional Diploma in Financial Services Management.
All candidates should expect to undergo security clearance, including a criminal records and credit rating check.
Induction programmes for trainee bank managers typically last between 18 and 24 months, and usually include a working overview of different banking functions.
Trainees are normally assigned a mentor, and the programmes are usually supported by training courses in areas such as leadership and people management, as well as technical and operational skills.
Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice (CeMAP) - ifs School of Finance.
Certificate in Lifetime Mortgages (CeLTM) - ifs.
Certificate for Financial Advisers (CeFA) - ifs.
Certificate of Regulated General Insurance (CeRGI) - ifs.
Certificate of Investment Planning (CIP) - Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland (CIOBS).
Mortgage Advice and Practice Certificate (MAPC) - CIOBS.
Lifetime Mortgage Advice and Practice Certificate (LMAPC) - CIOBS.
General Insurance Certificate - CIOBS.
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) also offers a range of appropriate professional certificates covering mortgage advice, financial planning, lifetime mortgage activities, long-term care insurance and insurance.
CPD is encouraged by employers. CIOBS and ifs School of Finance offer professional qualifications, including certificates, diplomas and applied diplomas. Some are general, covering retail or business and corporate banking. There are also relevant courses in customer relationship management, customer care, operational risk management and call centre management.
Be focused on customer service.
Have an approachable manner, with the ability to motivate and encourage others.
Respect and observe security and statutory guidelines.
Command employees' and customers' trust.
Be decisive and able to prioritise workloads.
Be comfortable working with and analysing numbers and sales data.
Be confident and calm when handling potential conflict situations.
Be aware of how the economy and financial service products relate to each other.
Understand how marketing, sales, training and people management fit into the wider business context.
Branch managers may be able to progress to area and regional management.
The diverse skills gained in finance, business and people management can be applied to many head office positions. Some bank managers go on to specialise in marketing, human resources, training or strategy planning. Any career progression may involve relocating, usually within the UK. | 2019-04-22T14:34:12 | https://www.inputyouth.co.uk/jobguides/job-bankmanager.html |
0.999997 | 1. Workout & Wine - A few weeks ago, I signed up to get email updates from a new NYC based company I found called Kiwisweat who hosts pop-up fitness classes at fun locations around the city. When an email came across my Inbox for an event called "Workout & Wine," I knew I was in before I even knew the details. So I called up my trusty cross-training buddy and we signed up. Tuesday night, we made our way to Top of the Garden for a killer workout followed by wine and hors d'oeuvres with some amazing ladies. Kiwisweat had partnered up with Rogue Female Fitness for the event and it was awesome! Leanne, our instructor had fantastic energy and a killer playlist. She's running Boston this year and was super friendly. She invited Emily and I back to a class with her at Rogue and I can't wait to take her up on her offer! I will definitely be back for Kiwisweat and Rogue!
2. New Kicks - Yesterday, while I was in New Jersey for The Pilot's birthday, he decided to take me out for a little birthday surprise of my own. The Pilot brought me to our local running store for an expert shoe fitting before buying me the shoes that are going to get me across the finish line in under 4 hours in Madrid this April. I have a whole post planned on just how fantastic this whole experience was and you can check that out tomorrow, but what's important right now is that me and my new Sauconys are at the start of a beautiful relationship.
3. Madrid Training - I know, I"m terrible...I skipped another Madrid Training post this week. I hate that because I really do love writing those posts as I think they're a great way for me to reflect on my training but this week has just been insane. Work has been absolutely insane with my boss leaving and with The Pilot's birthday and heading out to Jersey, I just didn't get around to it. What I would have said in my post in a nutshell is this: Training is still going really well. I've gotten back into the habit of strength and cross-training after missing a week of both and I'm still feeling really good. I have 15 miles on deck this weekend and I'm 2 weeks away from the Cowtown Half. I still haven't decided on a race strategy for that just yet but as I'm increasing my speed work in the next week, I know I'll decide that sooner, rather than later. I had a killer hill workout this week what I busted out in what may have been one of my fastest 6 mile training runs ever and I'm still feeling pretty high from it. My Marathon Goal Pace runs are feeling easy and I'm still feeling really strong. So all in all, training is going great.
That's what's going on this Thursday!
Do you ever drink post-workout? How excited do you get over new running shoes?
Are you training for anything right now? How's it going?
I'm training for my first 5K in May, it's not too bad!! I slacked this week, though, and need to pick up again. I got new running shoes last week and loooove them :) Happy Weekend!! | 2019-04-23T07:58:36 | http://www.planestrainsandrunningshoes.com/2012/02/three-things-thursday.html |
0.999998 | Have you heard about the amazing health benefits of cayenne?
Cayenne is a simple cooking spice to most people, but it's a powerful healing herb. Cayenne is a stimulant that increases the pulse and carries blood to the extremities. It's a "powerful perk-er-upper".
Last year I grew my own cayenne peppers. Only one of my four plants survived, but it bore a good crop which I harvested, dehydrated and powdered. I didn't get cayenne plants into the ground this year, but it is something that I will grow in years to come. How could I be without such a useful and important herb?
In preparation for kidding season this year, I'd made a cayenne tincture in apple cider vinegar. My plan was to use this as a navel dip instead of iodine. I read that instead of burning the tissue to dry it like iodine does, the cayenne dries and shrinks the navel tissue in a gentle way, at the same time nourishing and stimulating the newborn kid.
I put some of the tincture in prescription bottles to use on the newborns. I've found this to be the simplest and easiest way to dip navels, whatever liquid you choose to use. Fill the bottle about half full with your tincture or iodine. Stand behind the kid and put one arm under the kid's front legs, holding his or her front legs just off the ground. Using your other hand, hold the bottle and dip the kid's umbilical cord into it. Press the top of the bottle against the baby's belly and gently shake it to distribute the liquid, including onto the belly area around the navel. I use one prescription bottle per kid to prevent the spread of germs from one kid to another, discarding the contents after one use.
In the past I've often had a lethargic kid, perhaps more than one. This year I had only one that I worried about, a little doe kid. She wasn't as alert as a newborn kid should be. I'd read about using cayenne in this situation, so I gave it a try: I put a couple of drops of cayenne tincture on her tongue. (If you don't have a tincture, you can put a tiny pinch of powdered cayenne in the kid's mouth instead.) You can repeat the dose if needed after about 15 minutes.
Within minutes she was up and alert, standing and attempting to walk just as well as the other kids. Seriously, it only took a few minutes. How amazing! It had warmed her little body all the way to her tiny hooves, increased her circulation, and gave her the zip she needed. For this reason alone, cayenne is worth a place in my kidding supplies.
My Native American friends say that it's best to start a tincture of any kind during a new moon, and let it work for two weeks until the full moon - but it's even better to leave it for four weeks until the next new moon.
If you don't want to make this much, you can use the "parts formula" to make a smaller (or larger) amount: use one part of cayenne pepper powder and 4 parts vinegar. You can read more about measuring in parts in this previous post.
Combine the two ingredients in a glass jar with a tight-fitting plastic lid and mix well. (The vinegar will react with a metal lid.) Shake the jar several times a day for at least two weeks.
When it's finished, filter through a thin cotton cloth or an unbleached coffee filter. Normally we would squeeze the filter to get all liquid out of the herbs, but in this case I don't. The cayenne powder I used is so fine it isn't all caught by the filter, so I just let it drip-drain.
Keep the liquid tincture and discard the powder that's left.
Be sure to label the jar with the name of the herb and the liquid you've used. A tincture made with apple cider vinegar is much different than one made with alcohol. Don't trust your memory.
Have you ever used cayenne as a healing herb? Have you grown your own?
Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor nor a veterinarian.
You are responsible for your own health and for that of your animals.
Please do your own research before using any products, plants, herbs, and essential oils.
I have made pear-apple vinegar and apple vinegar last fall. I'm going to try this one.Now to find the peppers!
Fantastic and so good to know! We have never experienced a kidding season, but we really hope to next spring. Do you know the shelf life of this tincture? I've read that 6 months is about it for tinctures made with ACV or glycerine, but what is your experience?
Thank you so much for your goat posts, I'm learning a lot by reading them!
I have made cayenne tincture... I think I used apple cider vinegar once, but have used grain alcohol more.... We used this to massage on my husband's knee... he had a bad meniscus tear that the doctor said needed surgery. We used the cayenne tincture and many other things... gelatin, shark cartilage, tumeric, etc... He recently ran a 5K race... with NO surgery. I love the natural remedies.
I have heard good things about it also for heart issues... and other things. This is a tincture I plan to keep on hand.
Robin, I've made apple, plum and pineapple vinegars. I could make blackberry too but they are too precious to use in vinegar!
Kristi, yes, about six months, maybe a year, is what I'm told the shelf life is for vinegar and glycerin tinctures. I usually use alcohol instead for the same reason, but the vinegar tincture was recommended to me for goat kids. I started a "batch" a month before their kidding dates so that it was ready when I needed it. It worked well.
Joy, that is wonderful to hear about your husband's knee! Amazing, and what a testament to natural healing!
This is interesting....I have not heard about this for goat kids. I will try to remember to make some before the next kidding season. Thank you for sharing.
Fascinating and educational, Kathi. Thank you for the info.
Thank you, Mary. I hope you found it helpful.
Wow. The cayenne tincture looks SO red and potent. I'm sure it is.
I am interested in making my own tinctures. I never realized they were so easy to make! Thanks for sharing.
I've never made a tincture before, thanks for the great tutorial!! Thanks for sharing at the Homestead Blog Hop, hope you'll stop by again this week.
You're welcome, Nicole. I'm glad it was helpful.
Fascinating! I will have to pay attention to how I feel the next time I add cayenne to my tex-mex!
Daisy, I can feel it spreading through my body from the belly outwards! And, whew, it sure opens the sinuses! | 2019-04-22T04:37:19 | https://www.oakhillhomestead.com/2015/06/making-cayenne-tincture.html |
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0.999765 | For other people named Arthur Read, see Arthur Read (disambiguation).
Arthur Timothy Read is the titular protagonist of both the book series and the PBS children's television show Arthur, created by Marc Brown. On the show, he is an eight year old anthropomorphic aardvark in Mr. Ratburn's third grade class, and lives in Elwood City.
Arthur is an anthropomorphic aardvark. In Brown's first Arthur book, Arthur's Nose (1976), Arthur is shown with a long nose and resembles an actual aardvark, though as the books progressed and eventually became a TV series, a noticeable, simplified version of Arthur took shape. The character's most recognizable form is a light brown, slanted face with small ears, drawn as a bipedal, pre-pubescent youth with signature round glasses. On more than one occasion, Arthur's classmates tease him for his glasses and somewhat "dorky" attire.
Boston Children's Museum displays an inflatable Arthur on the roof, weather permitting, to advertise the "Arthur and Friends" exhibit within.
The tensions between Arthur and his 4-year-old sister Dora Winifred "D.W." Read are a common theme in the Arthur series. Arthur is constantly pestered by his four-year-old younger sister D.W. She usually tries to get Arthur into trouble, although Arthur sometimes retaliates. Despite that, Arthur tries his best to ignore D.W.'s annoying antics most of the time and often does her favors—sometimes at his parents' request and against his will. D.W. also make frequent attempts to hang out with Arthur's friends, who relent in later episodes.
Arthur's parents are his mother, Jane Read, who is a work-at-home accountant, and his father, David L. Read, who runs a catering business. His mother is from the Pittsburgh area and knew Fred Rogers as a child, while most of his father's relatives are from Ohio. He also has a baby sister named Kate and a pet dog named Pal.
Appearances from Arthur's extended family include Grandma Thora (David's mother), Grandpa Dave (Jane's father), Uncle Fred (Jane's brother), Uncle Richard, Uncle Bud, Uncle Sean, Aunt Jessica, Aunt Loretta, Aunt Lucy, and his cousins Cora, Monique, Ricky, George, and other unnamed relatives. However, the only two members of Arthur's extended family who have appeared more than once as of today are Grandma Thora and Grandpa Dave.
Grandma Thora lives in a house not too far from Arthur's in Elwood City and is known to be a bad cook, but a loving grandmother and a world-class marbles player. She loves to play bingo every Friday night, and in some episodes has to watch over Arthur and D.W. She is good friends with Mrs. McGrady, the school cafeteria monitor. Grandpa Dave lives on a farm he claims has been in the family for 150 years.
Buster Baxter is regarded as Arthur's best friend who has the habit of eating yummy junk foods.
Muffy is popular and rich due to her dad's successful used automobile business, Crosswire Motors.
Not to be confused with The Brain from Pinky and the Brain.
The Brain's true name is Alan, but his friends call him Brain due to his high intelligence and habit of correcting others' mistakes in many subjects.
George is a ventriloquist and has a wooden giraffe ventriloquist dummy named Wally. George also has dyslexia, but he doesn't let that get in his way.
Binky acts as the main school bully, but he can't intimidate some of the students, especially Sue Ellen.
Francine Frensky and Sue Ellen Armstrong are some more of Arthur's friends who appear most frequently.
Arthur was originally voiced by Michael Yarmush for the first five seasons from 1996 until 2000 when he reached puberty. In 2001, Yarmush was replaced with Justin Bradley for the 6th Season. Bradley was replaced with Mark Rendall who started voicing Arthur in Season 7. After Season 8 in 2003 Rendall redubbed all of Bradley's dialogue in Season 6.
^ "FAQS ABOUT ARTHUR AND FRIENDS". PBS Parents.
^ "Arthur's Big Hit". Arthur. Season 4. Episode 1. October 5, 1999.
^ "PBS Kids web site".
^ "Arthur's Eyes/Francine's Bad Hair Day". 2 September 1996 – via www.imdb.com. | 2019-04-24T10:52:23 | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Read |
0.99992 | It is said that a fish stinks from the head down. As such, the failure to police Wall Street is rarely the fault of examiners, investigators, or staff lawyers; and the blame should more aptly be placed on the political appointees and the brown-nosers who wind up setting and implementing policy. As far as I'm concerned, things would immediately improve if we fired about 80% of those in senior management positions in regulation; and, thereafter, more regularly promoted from within based upon merit.
Also, it's time to get Wall Street's cops back on a neighborhood beat. We must end the ever-expanding staffing of Washington, DC-based bureaucracies where there is no stock market, no commodities market, and, frankly, nothing beyond political waste and corruption. More seems to get done by District-based U.S. Attorneys' offices than by those in the home office at the Department of Justice; more gets done by those manning the SEC's regional offices and FINRA's districts than by the bulk of those sitting in the organizations' DC headquarters. Which is not to discount the valuable contribution of the lower-level staff working in our nation's capital -- it is, as I admonished, a direct shot at those in senior management and their failed agendas. In the end, we are saddled by federal bureaucracies that sow dragon's teeth and reap a harvest of often useless executive titles. Take a gander at the chain of command at most DC-based bureaucracies: A Director, Assistant Director, Deputy Director, Assistant Deputy Director, Deputy Assistant Director, Acting Director, Special Assistant to the Acting Deputy Director, Special Deputy Acting Assistant Director, and so on.
You are free to disagree with me; however, I ask that you reserve judgment and first join me for a brief stroll down memory lane. I want you to consider the past successes that have been trumpeted by Wall Street's federal, state, and self-regulators and ask yourself -- honestly -- is this approach to regulation working? Is it effective -- or, is it time to throw the baby out with the bathwater and bring in new management? By way of example, let's look at the recent record of regulating Bank of America.
WASHINGTON - Bank of America entities have agreed to pay a total of $137.3 million in restitution to federal and state agencies for its participation in a conspiracy to rig bids in the municipal bond derivatives market and as a condition of its admission into the Department of Justice's Antitrust Corporate Leniency Program, the Department of Justice announced today.
Bank of America entered into agreements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC), and 20 State Attorneys General. The global resolution with these federal and state entities provides for payment of restitution to the IRS and to municipalities harmed by Bank of America's anticompetitive conduct in the municipal bond derivatives market. In a related matter, Bank of America entered into a written agreement with the Federal Reserve Board to address certain remedial measures.
According to agreements announced today, Bank of America employees engaged in illegal conduct, including bid rigging and other deceptive practices, in connection with the marketing and sale of tax-exempt municipal bond derivatives contracts. . .
Bank of America N.A. has agreed to maintain revised policies, conduct employee training and pay compensation to victims to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of disability and receipt of public assistance in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA).
The settlement, which is subject to court approval, was filed today in federal court in Charlotte, N.C., where Bank of America is headquartered. The terms of the settlement require Bank of America to pay $1,000, $2,500 or $5,000 to eligible mortgage loan applicants who were asked to provide a letter from their doctor to document the income they received from Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Applicants who were asked to provide more detailed medical information to document their income may be paid more than those who were asked to have a doctor verify their source of income. Bank of America will hire a third party administrator to search approximately 25,000 loan applications involving SSDI income to identify any other victims. Under the settlement, Bank of America will conduct training of its underwriters and loan officers and will monitor loan applications to ensure that applications from disabled individuals are treated in a manner consistent with applicable law.
This lawsuit arose as a result of three complaints filed by loan applicants with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). After investigating the complaints, HUD undertook a broader investigation into Bank of America's practices. Bank of America revised its policies for documenting disability income during HUD's investigation. The Assistant Secretary of HUD elected to have the case heard in federal court and referred the case to the Department of Justice. The HUD complainants will receive a total of $125,000 to their harm and compensate them for costs associated with their loan applications.
"Loan applicants with disabilities should not be subjected to invasive requests for medical information from a doctor when they are applying for credit," said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "Today's settlement shines a light on a practice that violates the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act." . . .
Attorney General Eric Holder and Associate Attorney General Tony West announced today that the Department of Justice has reached a $16.65 billion settlement with Bank of America Corporation - the largest civil settlement with a single entity in American history �- to resolve federal and state claims against Bank of America and its former and current subsidiaries, including Countrywide Financial Corporation and Merrill Lynch. As part of this global resolution, the bank has agreed to pay a $5 billion penalty under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) - the largest FIRREA penalty ever - and provide billions of dollars of relief to struggling homeowners, including funds that will help defray tax liability as a result of mortgage modification, forbearance or forgiveness. The settlement does not release individuals from civil charges, nor does it absolve Bank of America, its current or former subsidiaries and affiliates or any individuals from potential criminal prosecution.
"This historic resolution - the largest such settlement on record - goes far beyond 'the cost of doing business,'" said Attorney General Holder. "Under the terms of this settlement, the bank has agreed to pay $7 billion in relief to struggling homeowners, borrowers and communities affected by the bank's conduct. This is appropriate given the size and scope of the wrongdoing at issue." . . .
Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay $180 million to settle a lawsuit by private investors who accused the bank and others of manipulating foreign-exchange rates.
The bank's decision comes after rivals J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and UBS AG had agreed to settle with the same investors. Other banks, including Citigroup Inc. and BarclaysPLC, are expected to settle soon, according to people familiar with the situation.
Regulators around the world have been examining whether banks improperly manipulated the forex rates, and half a dozen banks settled with U.S. and U.K. regulators in November. At the time, Bank of America paid $250 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, though its U.S. rivals Citigroup and J.P. Morgan paid more than $1 billion each in fines to various regulators. . .
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Bank of America Corp. broke rules designed to safeguard client accounts, potentially putting retail-brokerage funds at risk in order to generate more profits, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
For at least three years, the bank used large, complex trades and loans to save tens of millions of dollars a year in funding costs and to free up billions of dollars in cash and securities for trading that Bank of America otherwise would have needed to keep off-limits, these people said.
Now, the SEC is investigating whether the bank's unusual strategy violated customer-protection rules and whether the bank misled regulators about what it was doing, these people said.
Known in industry circles as Rule 15c3-3, a reference to the section where it is tucked within the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the policy requires banks and other financial firms that handle customer trades to calculate at least once a week their net liabilities to clients-in other words, how much more banks owe to clients, in the form of deposits and other funds, than they are owed from clients, in the form of assets such as loans.
The greater the overall-or net-amount that the banks owe their clients, the more money the banks need to set aside in reserve funds, known as "lockup" accounts, to pay their customers in an emergency. Funds in those lockup accounts must be segregated from other accounts, including the banks' own.
Having billions of dollars idling in lockup is expensive for banks, partly because the money generally can't be put to other profitable but potentially risky uses such as trading.
New York-based executives in Bank of America's Merrill Lynch brokerage arm devised an array of complex trades and loans to reduce the amount of money trapped in lockup, according to people familiar with the trades.
One variety of the strategy, launched around 2009, was called "leveraged conversion." A small team from Bank of America's equities desk recruited a handful of clients, including wealthy individuals, to put up token amounts of their own money-a few million dollars in some cases-and in exchange receive loans of nearly 100 times those amounts, the people said.
Then Bank of America would arrange large trades, with those customers taking the opposite side, in ways that satisfied other financing needs at the bank. For example, if the bank needed to hedge its exposure to a multibillion-dollar position in, say, Apple Inc.'s shares, perhaps because of a trade with another client, the bank might arrange for one of the leveraged-conversion customers to do a big Apple-centric trade using the loan the bank had provided.
One result of the trades was to drastically increase the amounts of money that customers owed to the bank, thereby reducing the net amount that the bank owed its clients. That, in turn, reduced how much Bank of America had to stash in the 15c3-3 lockup.
Another benefit: Bank of America was able to curtail its use of more expensive funding from alternate sources such as the debt markets or other parts of the bank. . .
One Man's Kiting Is Another Too-Big-To-Fail's "Alternate Funding"
According to Strasburg's Wall Street Journal article, it seems that Bank of America is being investigated for what comes off as something akin to a kiting of funds. By that reference, I mean that, to some extent, the bank seems to be working the float and trying to create a situation where it gets the benefits of the funds at issue without having to take the hit to its reserves as mandated under 15c3-3. Keep in mind that when we talk about the need to segregate funds in a "lockup," we're not talking about a discretionary process that's supposed to be amenable to a lot of creative accounting and bookkeeping ploys.
Those running DOJ, the SEC, and FINRA don't seem to have a coherent, cohesive plan for redressing misconduct by Wall Street's big fish. When you're a major too-big-to-fail financial conglomerate charged with egregious misconduct, the regulators and prosecutors seem to have but one arrow in their quiver: They impose grandiose fines, which make headlines but seem to have virtually no meaningful impact on curbing future misconduct.
In contradistinction to how the too-big-to-fail get treated for violating the industry's rules, consider the BrokeAndBroker.com Blog commentary below, which I published about four years ago. Note what happened to a Bank of America stockbroker -- a solitary human being -- who played loosey-goosey with his own financial obligations. Is any regulator ever going to suspend the operations of a financial institution for even one day? Will a trading desk or line of business be forced to halt for any period of time? Will a current member of the C-Suite, a man or woman who was on the job when the misconduct occurred and still on the job by the time of the settlement, ever be fined and suspended in a comparable manner to the almost daily sanctions handed down to the more lowly players in the biz?
For the purpose of settling rule violations alleged by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") and without admitting or denying the regulator's findings and without an adjudication of any issue of law or fact, Brandon Garrett Searcy submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent ("AWC"), which FINRA accepted. In the Matter of Brandon Garrett Searcy (AWC, 2011026299401, December 1, 2011).
In August 2001, Searcy first became registered in the securities industry and arrived at Bank of America Investment Services ("BOA") in June 2005. On January 7, 2011, BOA terminated him.
During the first two weeks of November 2010, Searcy allegedly wrote three checks totaling $400 from his BOA checking account that he deposited into his BOA savings account - on the same day that Searcy made the savings account deposits, he also withdrew the deposited amount using his debit card at an ATM.
FINRA alleged that Searcy deposited into his savings account each check knowing that there were insufficient funds to cover the amount of the drawn check; and, similarly, there were insufficient funds in his savings account to cover the withdrawal. As such, FINRA had Searcy coming and going: He issued checks against insufficient checking account balances and he withdrew from his savings account sums attributable to those kited checks.
Not only was Searcy's alleged conduct contrary to BOA's policy regarding personal accounts, but FINRA alleged it to be a violation of its Rule 2010 for failing to "observe high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade." In accordance with the AWC, FINRA imposed upon Searcy a three-month suspension with any FINRA member firm in any capacity and a $2,500 fine.
Wall Street employees may be surprised - perhaps stunned - by this case. After all, it's not as if Searcy's alleged misconduct involved either a public customer or securities fraud. To the contrary, Searcy ran afoul of the purported "high standards of commercial honor" and "just and equitable principles of trade" that are supposedly hallmarks of Wall Street.
Wall Street's "high standards" and "just and equitable principles." Ummm, is FINRA really serious? Just exactly when did the securities industry impose such vaunted standards and principles upon itself - maybe I missed that day?
Then of course, there's the whole BOA as victim scenario. BOA - as in the firm that's trying to cut a settlement for hundreds of millions of dollars related to allegations of its role in mortgage market fraud and questionable overdraft fees on debit cards. Of course, the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission don't always pound away at the highly standarded and principled BOA but, hey, what else is new. BOA, Wells Fargo, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros., JP Morgan, and, now Brandon Searcy. All in the same FINRA enforcement boat. All treated the same. Blind justice. Blind regulation.
So, the small fish Searcy gets a three-month vacation and a couple thou in fines as his punishment. Frankly, ho hum. If there is anything remarkable about this case, it's that the zealous cops at FINRA managed to investigate and resolve this tempest in about one year - a very aggressive timeframe for a regulator that has come under fire in recent years for not being overly aggressive or successful.
If the outcome in this case is any harbinger, I'm sure Jon Corzine is quaking in his boots. Wall Street's cops are hot on his MF Global heels. Ready to pounce and close out the case within a year. After all, if FINRA comes after him and actually manages to establish credible allegations of misconduct, why, geez, Corzine could easily find himself with a three month suspension and a $2,500 fine. I mean, you know, given all the high standards and principles stuff.
I'm sorry if my dripping sarcasm splashed you. Can I lend you a towel? | 2019-04-24T20:41:52 | http://www.brokeandbroker.com/2764/stinking-regulatory-fish/ |
0.999995 | What is a Common Garter Snake?
Common garter snakes will eat earthworms.
Common garter snakes have various markings.
The common garter snake, or Thamnophis sirtalis, is a species native to North America. These snakes can be found throughout much of the continent, though they are typically not suited to the desert environments of the Southwest. The common garter snake and its many subspecies may have a variety of markings, but all of these snakes are considered nonvenomous. These snakes appear to have adapted well to human encroachment, and are considered to be thriving as a species.
An adaptable species that can flourish in a number of environments, the common garter snake is often equally at home in rural, urban, and suburban areas. These snakes generally prefer a temperate, humid habitat, and can be found in swamps, marshes, forests, and meadows. They often make their homes near lakes, ditches, streams, and ponds. They can also occupy parks, gardens, lawns, vacant lots, and farms.
The markings of these snakes might vary greatly from one individual to the next. Most common garter snakes bear a pattern of three narrow stripes running the length of the body. The color of the stripes can vary from blue to white, green, yellow, or brown. The body itself may be gray, olive green, brown, or black. Rows of spots may appear between the stripes. The common garter snake's head is usually darkly colored, without markings, and wider than the rest of its body.
This type of snake can reach lengths of 14 to 48 inches (46 to 137 cm). These diurnal snakes are usually active during daylight hours, and they can withstand a wider range of temperature changes than some other species of snake. They do, however, need to bask in the sun to maintain an appropriate body temperature, and will often congregate for warmth when resting or hibernating.
These snakes typically feed on small animals, including toads, frogs, and crayfish, as well as insects, earthworms, slugs, and snails. Other snakes, fish, crayfish, and leeches may form part of the common garter snake's standard fare. Breeding generally occurs during the spring season, and the young are normally born alive in late summer or autumn. These snakes may reach maturity at two to three years of age, though they continue to grow throughout their lives. The average lifespan of the common garter snake in the wild is about two years, but they can live as long as ten years when kept in captivity.
What Is a Common Toad?
What is a Checkered Garter Snake?
What is a Brown Snake?
What is the Most Common Snake Prey?
What are the Basics of Snake Identification?
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0.999983 | I don’t think it follows that anyone who is a Republican, or even who votes for Trump, endorses racism. I think the majority consider this election a choice between two evils. Personally I live in California, so my vote won’t count (i.e. it’s a foregone conclusion that Clinton will win California). Consequently I can vote for neither Trump nor Clinton with a clear conscience, that is, without feeling like I failed to do my part to defeat either evil. But those who vote for Trump, or endorse him, may be doing so not as an endorsement of racism but as a vote against what they perceive to be the greater evils likely to result from a Clinton presidency.
I appreciate your comment. Even if you’re not making it for yourself, you outline a common argument, and it merits an in-depth response.
Not every single registered or self-identified Republican is necessarily a racist. We agree on this. A number of pundits and office-holders have made it very clear that they do not support Trump. The party, though, as embodied by its leadership, its media proxies, and a majority of its base, has either voted for or endorsed voting for someone who, by all appearances, will govern according to racist sentiment. That is, de facto, an endorsement of racism.
Given his aversion to specificity on most policy issues throughout the primary process, Trump persistently redirected attention to his own attitude and rhetorical style. To put it more bluntly: Trump’s core appeal is his bigoted bullying. Classify a vote for Clinton however you like. A vote for Trump, whatever else it may be, is quintessentially a vote for a bigoted bully.
And as you say, many will justify to themselves voting for a racist because they perceive the racist to be the “lesser of two evils.” There are only two morally tenable options available to Republicans who cannot bring themselves to vote for Clinton, though. Those options are: voting third party (either by write-in or throwing in with an alternative national party like the Greens, Libertarians, Socialists, etc.) or abstaining from the presidential vote and focusing on downticket races.
To vote Trump in November is to consign anything resembling a moral conscience to the dustbin of partisanship. To vote any other way is to withhold support from a candidate who has based his appeal primarily on xenophobia (“They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”), religious bigotry (calling for a ban on non-native Muslims entering the country), misogyny (“blood coming out of her wherever”), criminality (promising to kill the families of terrorists), and racism (as previously stated). These are not bugs, but features, of his campaign.
Put another way, it lies within every Republican’s power not to be a racist. To make that choice, though, would entail great political risk. The common Republican voter would have to make peace with the fact that voting against Trump would likely mean a victory for Clinton. And party officials could work with delegates to rewrite the convention rules to deny Trump the nomination. This would be undemocratic. It would also demonstrate that they have the moral backbone to tell a plurality of their base that it was wrong to vote for a racist bully. While the party would certainly be roundly criticized for being undemocratic, Republicans would also be able to claim, in the future, a semblance of moral credibility.
A lot of my friends and family are self-identified Republicans. I don’t classify them all as racist by virtue of them being Republican, even now. They have my love no matter what, and they currently have the benefit of the doubt that they are not, by their party affiliation, bigots. If they tell me they’re voting for Trump, they will correct my misperception of their moral priorities, and I will simply reclassify them as bigots—or as people who are okay with bigotry being enacted at the highest levels of government, which feels like a mere semantic distinction to me.
I loathe and reject the premise that an election is a binary choice between the lesser of two evils. It’s little different from the premise that states, “I’m not voting for this guy, I’m voting against the other guy.” The latter is precisely the argument put forth by Ryan: that the presidential election is not about Trump, but about defeating Clinton. Ryan’s wrong. Everyone who has ever argued that “we live in a two-party system” (and you know who they are) is wrong. We don’t live in a two-party system. We live in a constitutional republic. Elections are not about choosing between two evils. Elections have never actually been about that. They’re about the freedom to use the franchise to enact one’s political will as an expression of one’s conscience.
Frame the premise positively (“two party system”) or negatively (“lesser of two evils”). It doesn’t matter. The net result is that if enough people buy into this premise, then one party, driven by the zero-sum game of snapping up every available vote lest the other party get it, will find it expedient to make itself hospitable to certain prejudices. Part of cultivating a “base” is catering to a variety of worldviews, some of which may be extreme. To ensure the base’s support, then, means appealing to those worldviews in some way, whether by affirming certain beliefs or by warning that those beliefs are threatened with cultural erosion. (Short version: fearmongering.) Sure, there’s a positive message out there (“Our guy is better than theirs!”), but anybody could make that argument, especially those pesky “third parties” that show up every once in a while to “spoil” elections.
The “lesser of two evils” premise is not only false and pernicious, but it often blinds us to what else is going on. The fact of the matter, as is abundantly clear now, is that the political machine stoking the Republican base — that is, a majority of the conservative punditry — has somehow cultivated racism, xenophobia, and other kinds of bigoted prejudice as part of its political coalition of interests. Whether it did so intentionally is up for debate.
If the Republicans do not excise the naked bigotry in their ranks now — now that such bigotry has been so thoroughly exposed, and even after one of its racist aspect has been explicitly identified by their own Speaker of the House — then they are effectively owning that bigotry as one of the pillars that upholds their entire edifice. That’s their prerogative, of course. Just as it is the prerogative of every other citizen to identify it for what it is, denounce it, and make them pay a political price for it. That’s how communities committed to democratic principles work, for better or worse. Voters who exercise the franchise have a responsibility to their political institutions and to each other. While it is legal to exercise the franchise in an irresponsible way, it is also immoral.
Just because many Republicans may be too ignorant to consider what a vote for Trump does to the nature of their party and the future of our constitutional republic does not absolve them of that responsibility. And especially for voters who are perfectly aware that they have other choices, and that they are, in fact, morally duty-bound to make those choices — I don’t know what more to say. If they vote for Trump with eyes wide open, bigotry and all, they are actively rending the fabric of the republic and propelling a known bully to the head of the most powerful institution on earth. To justify doing so by saying that they’re voting for the lesser of two evils is beyond cynical. It’s the greatest of three evils.
Actually, Ryan’s argument is more specifically about the legislative agenda that he believes Republicans can enact if a Republican president is elected. In terms of realpolitik, eh, sure. The way he reframes the argument is more like this: “Don’t vote for Donald Trump — vote for a Republican Congress against Hillary Clinton’s presidency.” There are a number of logical flaws in this framework, but I’ll focus on a principle rather than a logical flaw. The executive and legislative branches (along with the judicial) are part of a system of checks and balances against one person or party running the table on the exercise of political power. That’s a theory, anyway.
Ryan’s argument is premised on the notion that Republicans should continue to support Trump in order that Republicans can do whatever the hell they want for at least 2017-19, with no practical Democrat opposition. (That argument is entirely in keeping with the authoritarianism that some say Trump is playing upon.) Ryan’s argument is not unique to Republicans. Both parties tell their bases that the government requires uniformity of party in both legislative and executive branches in order to function properly. And that logic only fuels the feedback loop of polarization.
Voting for a presidential candidate on that candidate’s merits—and not on the felicity the candidate’s party would enjoy as a result of his election—ensures that the person judged by the electorate to be most qualified for a job should be the person to hold that office. Partisans have, of course, worked persistently to hijack this process. Which is all the more reason to reject such arguments when they’re put forth. One may believe that Paul Ryan’s legislative agenda would greatly benefit the United States. A president, however, is not a legislator. He or she is an executive. The presidency is not meant to be a mere rubber stamp for an undivided Congress.
Let me also add this. Donald Trump has repeatedly defied and bullied the Republicans every time anyone tried to stand up to him on the basis of common decency or ideological principle. Ryan denounced the man’s “textbook” racism, and then he proceeded to insist on supporting this bigot for president of the United States. What exactly does anyone think would happen if Trump were to abuse the executive authority of the presidency? Would a Republican Senate impeach him? Does anyone think that Trump would not use every resource at his disposal to circumvent Congressional oversight? George W. Bush and Barack Obama got away with torture and assassination of American citizens, respectively, and neither of their parties reined them in. What do you think Donald J. Trump will try to get away with? Paul Ryan’s entire premise is that checks and balances are a hindrance to the accomplishment of the Republican agenda. If that’s the argument he’s making now, in the context of Trump’s “textbook” racism, imagine how Congressional Republicans will respond to Trump’s executive actions.
Even the term, “spoil,” implies that the inviolable integrity of the election cycle is somehow damaged by the intrusion of a foreign, harmful object that has no business being there. The fact that both Republicans and Democrats, if they agree on nothing else, tend to agree that third parties “spoil” elections ought to tell you everything you need to know about the two major parties’ Faustian arrangement. One can imagine a pair of seven-year-olds screaming at the somewhat gawky, bespectacled girl who lives next door, “GOD! WHY DO YOU RUIN EVERYTHING?” and storming out of the playhouse when she has merely committed the cardinal sin of asking if she could play, too.
I do think these kinds of comments undercut these things. And I’m not going to even pretend to defend them. I’m going to defend our ideas; I’m going to defend our agenda.
What matters to us most are our principles and the policies that come from those principles and our ability to give the people of this country a better way forward. A better way is what we’re up to here, and we believe we have a better likelihood of passing that than we would have with a President Clinton.
This is an amazing moment in contemporary U. S. politics. Ryan is not only a former vice-presidential nominee, but he rose to prominence in the Republican party as a sort of idealist whiz kid who balanced a commitment to radical, post-Reagan ideology with a keen understanding of the mechanics of government. In a little more than a decade, he managed to move from the margins to the center of party leadership without really sacrificing his core commitment to his vision of conservatism.
My question is this: To whom does Ryan refer when he says “our”? Who is “we”? Does Ryan refer only to his fellow Republican legislators? He explicitly sets “us” against Secretary Hillary Clinton, against the Democrats. As if Donald Trump is not the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Are they—“we,” “our,” “us”—not all members of the same party? Do they not share the same agenda?
It seems to me as though Ryan is perhaps trying to draw a distinction between “our” ideas—the ideas of the Republican party as he conceives of it—and whatever passes for an idea when it is expelled from Donald Trump’s mouth. There’s an unstated sense in which Ryan does not recognize Trump as a Republican.
Then again, in every way that matters, he does recognize Trump as a fellow Republican. That’s why he’s said he’s voting for him. That’s why, literally seconds after calling Trump’s comments the “textbook definition of racism,” he makes the case that voters should choose a textbook racist over Clinton.
It’s tempting to view this as cognitive dissonance or crass hypocrisy or just plain politics. I don’t think that’s as helpful or as troubling as what’s actually going on. Because the truth is that when Ryan refers to “our ideas” and “our agenda” and “our principles and the policies that come from those principles,” he does not speak for Republican legislators alone. He refers also to Donald Trump’s ideas, agenda, principles, and policies. They are now in this together, and Ryan knows that full well.
Ryan’s attempt at rhetorical jiujitsu illuminates (however inadvertently) who the Republicans are right now. Trump’s ideas and principles are racist, by the admission of the highest-ranking elected Republican in America. Just because Ryan disavows particular racist comments in no way insulates him or his party from the plain fact of the matter: they (as identified by “we,” “our,” “us”) are endorsing for president a man whose ideas are soaked in racism. If Ryan is as intelligent as I suspect him to be, he knows damn well that racist policies flow from racist ideas.
He’s apparently okay with that.
Maybe not in the deeply personal, away-from-public-eyes, torment-of-the-soul kind of way. We’ll never know that unless Ryan or his heirs release his private papers at some point, or unless Ryan aquiesces to his conscience and publicly rescinds his endorsement of Donald Trump. But on the most pragmatic level, the level where actual legislation gets turned into actual law; the level where the actual power of the executive office can be leveraged to wreak awesome consequences that affect billions of real people—at this level, Ryan is okay with a “textbook” (his word) racist being president of the United States of America, so long as that president is one of them (“we,” “our,” “us”): a Republican.
Because Ryan’s here to defend the ideas and principles of the Republican Party. Well, Trump’s ideas are yours now, too, Speaker Ryan. So we (that is, the people of the United States and, I guess, the world) now know that, unified under Donald Trump, the Republican Party is, in principle, racist. It doesn’t have to be that way. Ryan and the rest of the Republican Party leadership could very easily make a crucial distinction between them and him by withdrawing their support and endorsements. They could very explicitly encourage only voters who wish to be counted as racists to throw in with Trump on their ballots. Unless and until that happens, however, I don’t think it’s unfair that we include include textbook racism as one of the ideas and principles that the Republican Party has, as of 2016, officially endorsed. | 2019-04-22T12:31:14 | https://kenoticledger.wordpress.com/tag/paul-ryan/ |
0.991369 | Unfortunately, thin margins have long been a reality for most rural hospitals, but a worsening array of issues—from decreasing reimbursements to declining populations—have forced growing numbers of them into financial distress. By monitoring indicators, creating transparency and responding swiftly to warning signals, financially stressed or distressed hospitals can get turned around before bankruptcy or closure become imminent threats. In this interview, Jim Kendrick, president and CEO of Community Hospital Corporation, discusses best practices for diagnosis and prevention of financial woes. His insights come from years of experience as a community hospital CEO in addition to his time with CHC helping community hospitals across the country bolster their financial health.
What are the signs and symptoms of declining financial health?
JK: Certain indicators are clear signs that "business as usual" isn't working and course correction may be required. Regular review of key metrics should be a shared responsibility and should not just fall to the CFO. There are several data points that are important to monitor. First, track aggregate volume and provider utilization trends. It's also important to watch operating ratios like expenses as a percentage of net operating revenue to make sure costs such as labor, supplies, and purchased services remain in check. Another ratio to monitor is labor cost relative to patient volume. Additionally, track patient revenue indicators including bad debt percentage and net to gross percentage by payer class. Finally, measure liquidity ratios, such as net days in patient accounts receivable and cash collections as a percentage of net revenue minus bad debts.
How can hospitals ensure early detection of warning signals?
JK: Action goes hand in hand with awareness. Conduct monthly reviews of the key metrics, with each department responsible for producing monthly statistics and financial performance metrics. The finance department, with input from other department managers, should develop reporting procedures.
Can financial distress be prevented before a hospital becomes symptomatic?
JK: To be clear, monitoring and adjusting financial performance indicators aren't merely reactive measures. Monthly reviews culminate in an annual deep dive into financial data, which forms the basis of strategic planning. Building on monthly reviews, planning can indeed be strategic as opposed to driven by short-term, crisis-mode thinking. Hospitals in crisis tend to focus on cutting costs, which is critical. But the fact is, distressed hospitals are lean to begin with, having made bone-deep cuts already. While growing revenue and market share may not seem pressing, these opportunities still need to be looked at as long-term strategic moves and possible means of survival.
What other actionable insights do key financial indicators bring to light?
JK: Regular reviews of financial indicators identify not only what's breaking down and needs improvement but also what's working. CHC owned and managed hospitals review data over time to develop operational best practices, support strategic planning efforts, create accountability, and redirect financial sustainability efforts when called for. Clear communication of expectations and goals turns all involved parties into light-bearers and active team members. Everyone participates in the most illuminating part of the review process, which is answering the question, "Why?" Only by establishing this interdepartmental culture of curiosity, and only through persistent questioning and probing, can a hospital find and address the root causes of financial problems. It's a bit like medical diagnosis when symptoms point to a simple ailment but the reality turns out to be much more complex. For example, if inpatient admission volumes are down significantly in a current month compared to the same month in the previous year, the initial observation might be that there were fewer flu cases. However, further investigation may reveal there's more to the story. What were the primary diagnoses of the admitted patients for each time period? Were there any abnormal physician trends? How do observation days this month compare? Understanding trends and their causes is the key to developing solutions that improve operating margins and reverse a distressed financial situation.
To learn more about Community Hospital Corporation, visit . | 2019-04-26T16:37:22 | http://projectjapan.info/finance/hospital-financial-stress-indicators |
0.998777 | Flickering Screen I have a 4 month old samsung HC-R4755W CRT projection tv, not under warranty anymore since I purchased it used. After about a half of an hour when the TV warms up, images on the screen, especially dark ones start flickering. Any idea on what is causing it? Or how to fix it? How much it will cost?
Soon the picture going to go to black screen, you got somes capacitors bothering, you better to call a tech now that he can see the problem, later will cost you more..good luck ps the picture many times tell to the tech whats going on.
there are two screens back to back and I think if you look from back with rear cover removed you will find the debris is between them.
Not going to be easy or simple to deal with.
You can resize the screen.
You can also change the screen resolution size or the box sizes on the screen.
My Akai pt5499HD has no picture to it and i just replaced the flyback transformer to see if that was the problem. any suggestions?
You need to have copy of service manual for this tv and Samsung PT5499HD service manual will work on your Akai tv as both has same circuit.
This is a common problem. Its called a convergence failure.
Samsung HC-R4755W turns on and off by itself.
Have Capacitors checked in the power relay circuit, also if you have young children who like to push the buttons on the front of the set make sure none of the buttons are sticking inward or stuck in a pushed in posistion. More then likely it might be caused by a faulty System control board which we call the signal board, or bad connections on the power supply, Have a tech check the connections on the Flyback transformer and the High Voltage Deflection Area on the HV Power supply. I believe you have Cold Solder Joints in the HV Power Supply.
How old is that TV?
Wow! I think that's a rear projection TV, so it may be time for a new one!, as the part is about $175 + shipping, + installation + your time, + they break pretty easily.
Picture problems and need service manual.
TV won't turn on or stay on?
no solution, Did Samsung get me for 999.00 plus tax?
Yes, there is a tilt adjust,but you should have service manual to guide you....it requires some diassembly / access in back of set.....................T.
Have a manual for Samsung HC-R4755W 47" HDTV? | 2019-04-25T23:52:27 | http://www.fixya.com/support/t116394-flickering_screen |
0.998444 | Following close behind is Donald Trump, whose net favorables is only 24% (59%-35%). Marco Rubio has a net favorable rating of 35% (55%-20%). And the candidate with the very best net favorability rating is Ted Cruz at 45%. 61% of GOP voters have a favorable view of him, and only 19% have an unfavorable view. Only 77% of GOP voters are "familiar" with Cruz while 94% say they are familiar with Trump.
What are the implications for this in regards to the upcoming primaries and caucuses. First of all, everyone seems familiar with Trump, which isn't surprising. With total familiarity and high unfavorables he doesn't seem to have room to grow. Marco Rubio, with only a 75% familiarity and only a 20% unfavorable rating, on the other hand, may have upward potential.
But Ted Cruz may have even more. With only a 77% familiarity rating, many voters have yet to form an opinion about him. With only 19% dislikes, he has tremendous room to grow. That's why the poll showing him leading in California, a state he hasn't even campaigned in, may not be a fluke. Another advantage of a low dislike number is that as other candidates drop out, their supporters are more likely to move to Cruz (or Rubio). But with high dislikes, Trump is less likely to benefit.
The other implication is that a candidate like Cruz or Rubio with low dislikes are more likely to unify the party if they get the nomination; the opposite is probably true about Donald Trump, which which would make it more difficult for him to win a general election.
I was watching the generally excellent Trump ad where he talks about stopping Muslim immigration until we can "figure out what is going on" and I hit the pause button. What does that mean, "until we can figure out what is going on"?
Is there a single person reading this article who does not understand what is going on? | 2019-04-18T18:32:52 | http://newsmachete.com/?news=1364 |
0.997887 | Angelo Spandrio is challenging incumbent Mary Bergen in what's become an expensive race for a water board seat.
A race for a seat on an Ojai Valley water board got more expensive in 2018.
Challenger Angelo Spandrio, running for the Casitas Municipal Water District board, had raised close to $25,000 through Sept. 22, campaign finance records show.
That has far outpaced incumbent Mary Bergen, who is self-funding her campaign and had contributed $4,200 during the same period. It also outpaced past campaigns in the district, according to county records.
In the race for Division 4, the drought and shrinking water supply have been the focus and those issues have generated more than usual attention to campaigns.
"I think we're pretty much on target for what our original plan was," Spandrio said of his campaign.
"I think money is important especially if you're going up against somebody that's an incumbent."
There was no high pressure move to raise money, he said.
People could donate through his campaign website. Events also were held at private homes, he said, where contribution envelopes were handed out.
"I and a lot of people who are supporting me believe the Casitas board has let us down," he said. "It's time we change out the board and change the way they perform."
How much did the candidates raise?
Spandrio received $24,869 in contributions, according to a statement covering July 1 through Sept. 22.
He received about 50 donations ranging from $1 to $4,000, the largest of which came from the California Association of Realtors.
Bergen, meanwhile, has contributed about $4,200 to her campaign. She reported spending abut $1,755 through Sept. 22, paying for a website, postcards and signs, as well as print newspaper advertising.
She has accepted contributions in the past. But this time, she said, she was "in a fortunate situation" where she could afford to fund her campaign herself.
Doing so would be simpler, she said.
"I think I have the experience," Bergen said of her reason for running.
Casitas officials have worked to identify alternative sources of water supply and have supported diversifying, she said. But options take time and a lot of money.
"I know there aren't any great magical solutions out there," said Bergen, who was first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014.
Critics, however, say they haven't moved quickly enough.
Bergen said she has bought signs and mailers. But, she said, she wants to focus on person-to-person contact.
That means she has gone to door to door. What she saw, she said, reinforced what she said she has seen in the district's water-use data.
"People are really conserving water," she said.
The Casitas district supplies drinking water to much of the Ojai Valley and parts of Ventura.
Over the past several years of drought conditions, Lake Casitas has dropped to just 31 percent of capacity.
After decades of depending on local rainfall and river runoff for its water supply, shorelines shifted, uncovering old roads, islands, a school foundation and even a state highway.
"Generally, those races are beneath the political horizon," political scientist Herb Gooch said of the relatively-small special district.
For a number of reasons, there can be a small turnout, and that usually means an incumbent gets an advantage, said Gooch, a professor emeritus at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.
A challenger has to raise more money to offset that name recognition.
Still, it's unusual for someone to raise that kind of money in such a race, even as a challenger, Gooch said.
Bergen expected to report more contributions to her campaign by the next filing deadline. She estimated $10,000 likely will be the maximum.
She said she doesn't have a prediction of what will happen or how campaign spending will impact the race.
"I can't tell you what's going to happen," she said. She did say, however, that this race was different from anything she had experienced.
As of Sept. 22, Spandrio reported spending $11,292, paying for yard signs, campaign literature, newspaper print ads and fundraising events.
He has not knocked on doors himself, he said. But people have canvassed door to door on his behalf. He also has put up a billboard sign off Highway 33.
"I'm going against an incumbent," he said. "I have to try to get my name out there." | 2019-04-20T12:42:54 | https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2018/10/21/casitas-municipal-water-district-board-candidate-campaign-contributions/1539535002/ |
0.999849 | Voice Calling Coming to Gmail?
You may be able to dial phone numbers and carry on voice conversations directly through Gmail Chat as early as Wednesday, when Google has scheduled an announcement.
The new service reportedly has a very Google Voice-like interface that uses similar icons for placed calls, missed calls and voicemail messages. But it's unclear whether the unnamed feature would be integrated with your Google Voice account, because you will not need a Google Voice phone number to use the new service. But just like Google Voice the new service will let you place free phone calls to the U.S. and Canada, according to a report from CNET.
It's unclear when any new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service would launch, but Fortune's Seth Weintraub expects Google's press briefing today to unveil the service then.
tions of VoIP provider Gizmo5 and VoIP codec developer Global IP solutions.
But questions still remain about whether this anticipated VoIP offering is related to Google Voice. While the interface for the new service is similar to that of Google Voice, direct dialing through Gmail would be a VoIP solution -- something that Google Voice is not. It's unclear, then, whether the two services would be integrated.
It's also not unusual for Google to duplicate functionality especially when it comes to communications. You can, for example, send SMS messages through Google Voice, but Gmail also has a separate SMS service.
Nevertheless, the whole point of Google Voice is to bring your voice mail, SMS messages, and calling history into one place. So Gmail Chat and Google Voice integration would make a lot of sense.
If the speculation is true, Gmail is about to become an even more indispensable Web-based productivity app than it already is. | 2019-04-22T13:03:45 | https://www.pcworld.com/article/204088/voice_calling_coming_to_gmail.html |
0.998254 | Poached salmon tastes delicious, especially when you make it with a savory liquid of your choice. Read the following article to learn the ropes and treat your family to a mouth-watering dish tonight.
If you are bored with the regular salmon cooking method, try the new and healthy method of poaching. Yes, it is a simple and different way of cooking salmon in a savory liquid, with your preferred flavoring spices. You just need 15 minutes for completing the steps. Hence, it is an excellent dish for fixing a quick meal, especially when you are in a hurry. And the best part is it simply tastes great with or without additional sauce.
This recipe is for those who love the true, moist and tender taste of salmon, which you will not get with baking or grilling methods. To get the best tasting dish, make sure you buy fresh, center-cut, thick salmon fillets. And choose cuts having intact skin. Based on your convenience, poaching salmon can be done with plain water or bouillon, or in the oven or a stove.
Select a large pan that is big enough to hold salmon steaks. Pour water in the pan and add the ingredients - lemon slices, onion, parsley, bay leaves, sea salt and peppercorns. Bring water to a rolling boil and reduce heat. Cover the lid and allow the flavoring herbs to infuse for 4-6 minutes. Add salmon steaks in it, making sure that they are submerged completely in the cooking water. If required, you can add some hot water. Cook the fish, uncovered, until they become soft. Drain water and serve poached salmon after drizzling a savory dressing over it.
This is a tasty fish recipe for serving in dinner. In a saute pan, add the ingredients for making court bouillon - water, white wine, onion, carrot, shallot and salt. Place it over the stove in a high heat setting. As it reaches the boiling temperature, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add salmon filets with the skin side down, and parsley. Cover lid and cook salmon for 8-10 minutes, or until you get the desired doneness. Sprinkle black pepper to taste and serve hot. Or allow it to chill in the refrigerator for serving it cold.
In a large microwave safe casserole dish, combine together white wine, lemon juice, sugar, dried dill weed (or fresh chopped dill weed), sea salt and pepper. Cover lid and heat in the oven until the butter melts completely, say 2-3 minutes. Gently place the salmon fillets in the dish and put the lid on. Cook the fish in high heat setting, for about 6-7 minutes. Remove it from oven and add more seasoning spices, if required. With this, your poached salmon recipe is done. Serve with your favorite veggies on the side.
So, this was all about how you can poach a salmon easily. With poached salmon, you have the option of serving it alone or with a complementary sauce. Also, it tastes great, whether you serve it cold or warm. In case, you are expecting some guests, you can make it ahead of time and serve it cold. What's more, poached salmon is a fresher and healthier substitute for canned salmon. | 2019-04-21T16:15:31 | https://tastessence.com/how-to-poach-salmon |
0.99888 | Jason Momoa's Aquaman 2 release date revealed — Will it also cross $1 billion?
Warner Bros. has finally set the release date for Aquaman 2.
Warner Bros. and DCEU had a blast after Jason Momoa's Aquaman movie made over a billion dollars at the global box-office collection. After the success of the first movie, the release details of the next part in the series has finally been unveiled.
As per an earlier report, Aquaman earned over $330 million in the domestic market (the United States and Canada) and went on to earn over $805 million worldwide. As of now, the total box-office of Jason Momoa's superhero movie is $1.138 billion, making it the highest earning DCEU movie of all time. Given the fact that the movie earned so well at the box-office, fans knew that Warner Bros. will surely be going to make Aquaman 2.
After much anticipation, Warner Bros. has finally set the release date for Aquaman 2. The Jason Momoa-starrer DCEU movie is all set to release worldwide on December 16, 2022. As of now, there are no other details revealed about Aquaman 2 but fans are speculating the possible story. As per ComicBook, Aquaman fan community, The Aquaverse are predicting that the sequel movie is going to feature The Others.
As per DC comics, The Others are a team of heroes comprised of six members, each of which has an Atlantic relic. These members are, Aquaman, Prisoner-of-War, The Operative, Sky Alchesay, Ya'Wara, and others. These members reunite on and off, generally when Arthur Curry needs their help.
Considering the massive success of Aquaman, it seems obvious that hopes will be rocket-high with Aquaman 2. James Wan's Aquaman was praised for a lighter tone, Wan's direction, visuals but several critics panned that the film failed to impress them because of the lousy plot. Even Avatar 2 director James Cameron spoke about Aquaman and stated why he could never make a film like this. So, if in Aquaman 2, the creators will get to address these issues then there are chances that just like the first one, even this Jason Momoa-starrer will earn over a billion dollar.
Aquaman also featured Amber Heard as Mera, a fierce warrior and Aquaman's closest ally, Willem Dafoe as Vulko, Patrick Wilson as Ocean Master, Dolph Lundgren as the King of the Atlantean tribe Xebel, Nicole Kidman as Arthur Curry's mother, and others. | 2019-04-19T00:40:49 | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/jason-momoas-aquaman-2-release-date-revealed-will-it-also-cross-1-billion-792914 |
0.999999 | Marketing your business on the Internet: When is Internet Marketing Worthwhile?
In general the answer to this question is always but the answer is much more involved. Sure Internet marketing is worthwhile but as with any type of marketing it is only worthwhile if it is done well. For example you can spend thousands of dollars on a television marketing campaign but if no one sees your commercials or your commercials do not reach your target audience and generate sales, the advertising was not worthwhile. So perhaps a more appropriate answer to this question would be that Internet marketing is worthwhile when it works. This is a rather vague statement but this article will investigate the issue further and explain how you can make Internet marketing work for your business.
One of the most basic principles of marketing is to make sure you reach your target audience. This is so important because your target audience is the people who are most likely going to be interested in purchasing your products or services. It is much easier to sell your products or services to those who already have an interest in the products and services you have to offer than it is to convince those who are not interested in your products or services at all. As an example consider a business who sells fishing rods. You will want to market your products to those who enjoy fishing either competitively or as a leisure activity because among this audience you are likely to find people who may be interested in purchasing a new fishing rod. It would make sense to place an advertisement for your business on a website selling bait and tackle or a website which organizes fishing trips in exotic locations. Conversely it would not make sense to place your advertisement on a website selling telescopes because you are not likely to reach a large target audience here. There may be some stargazers with an interest in fishing but your advertising dollars and efforts would be better spent placing advertisements with websites more closely related to your business.
Another factor to consider when purchasing advertising space on another Internet website is traffic the amount of traffic the other website receives. This is significant because you want to place your advertisement on a website which is closely related to your own and likely to attract a similar audience but you also want your advertisement to receive a large amount of attention. For this reason it is important for your advertisement to appear on a website which receives a great amount of traffic each month. This will help to ensure your business is getting a great deal of exposure through this advertising.
When it comes to Internet advertising, there is a fine line between great advertising and spam. Some business owners get carried away trying to get as much exposure as possible and can sometimes go overboard and wind up being considered spam. Internet users who see your advertisement in a couple of key locations will likely notice the advertisement and may be compelled to visit your website immediately or may keep your website in mind for future use. However, Internet users who see your advertisement everywhere they look are likely to view your advertisement as spam. This can be harmful because they are not likely to visit your website because they expect it to not be worthwhile.
In any Internet marketing campaign it is important to carefully monitor the results of your marketing efforts and make changes to your campaign as necessary. This is important because you want to make sure your marketing efforts are paying off and the best way to do this is to evaluate the results of your advertising carefully. One way to do this is to place specially coding in each one of your advertisements so you will know which advertisements are generating business for you and which ones are not. You can use this information to decide whether you should modify the ineffective website or stop running these advertisements. If you decide to modify them you will want to continue to monitor the results to determine whether or not the changes made the advertisements more effective.
Business Marketing Internet Marketing, Worthwhile? | 2019-04-20T21:34:33 | http://marketing-business-internet.blogspot.com/2013/09/when-is-internet-marketing-worthwhile.html |
0.998784 | Object Type: Part of grave-cover.
Stone: Coarse-grained, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) sandstone; see no. 1.
Coarse-grained, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) sandstone; see no. 1.
Only the upper face of the slab carries decoration. Along the long side a narrow cable moulding lies on the face of the stone, not on the corner. Within it is a double cable moulding which returns along the base, where its two strands are locked by three oval elements with median-incised strands, which form a buckle-knot. There are traces of another buckle knot on the corner.
Running up the centre of the slab, and once tapering, is a wide strip with contoured edging. Between this and the cable mouldings the panel is tightly filled with a run of interlaced ribbon beasts, their bodies contoured into three equal strips. The body splits at one point and at another there is a flattened crest to the strand, touching the edge of the panel. The beasts have small heads with nose-folds and elliptical eyes; there are no feet or legs, but there is a wedge-shaped tail. The interlaced bodies terminate in a pointed loop.
B and C (long side and end): Plain.
D and E (end and long side): Broken away.
Zoomorphically decorated grave-covers were fashionable in the earliest phase of the Anglo-Scandinavian cemetery under York Minster (Pattison 1973, 211 ff.), where they also carried a superimposed cross dividing the face into panels. None of the York animals, however, is a ribbon beast, and the broad stem of the cross at Sherburn (Collingwood?s reconstruction is convincing) is much wider than in the York sculpture. This appears to be a copy of the York Metropolitan School slabs, even to picking up the detail of the animal?s nose-fold. The buckle knot is found on pieces at Kirkdale (nos. 4–5; Ills. 542, 548), and at Pickering (no. 3; Ill. 759), and is often thought to be an eleventh-century feature, though its juxtaposition here with the Jellinge-style ribbon beasts throws this in doubt. The stumpy crest on one of the ribbon bodies is typical of colonial Viking and mainstream Scandinavian styles, being found on two crosses at Braddan in the Isle of Man (Cubbon 1971, 38–9) as well as on some of the Oseberg wood carvings; hence, it is a feature which recurs throughout the Viking period and does not serve as a dating criterion. | 2019-04-25T06:23:30 | http://www.ascorpus.ac.uk/catvol_search_results.php?id=833 |
0.997342 | On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation, but some did not vote, so that Congress might "speak with one voice." The Declaration was necessary for concrete as well as symbolic reasons: the colonies needed foreign aid to keep fighting, but to obtain foreign aid it had to seek more than reconciliation with Britain, it had to proclaim itself a nation.
Thomas Jefferson became the author of the Declaration when John Adams declined, thinking it soon would be forgotten. "After all," writes biographer David McCullough, "who remembered the Declaration of Rights and Grievances that he had authored for the initial Congress of 1774"?
Jefferson did harness the revolutionary spirit on paper, but also included statements with which Congress was uncomfortable. Nearly a quarter of the document was cut during editing. Although the paragraphs that remain espouse the ideals that spawned the Revolutionary War, much of the document comprised a litany of grievances against King George III. Among George's crimes: the "horrors of the human slave trade." The irony wasn't lost on Adams that the Declaration of Independence, which trumpeted freedom for all men, was written by a slave owner. (Jefferson was far from the only slave owner in the Continental Congress; a full third of the delegates, from both North and South, either currently or had owned slaves, while Washington, who commanded America's army, owned over 100.) Nor did the British let this contradiction go unnoticed. Queried Samuel Johnson: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the drivers of Negroes?"
On July 4, only John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, and Charles Thomson, the secretary, signed the Declaration. Then it went to the printer. The other delegates would sign on August 2, a date that faded not only from public memory, but from that of Adams and Jefferson also. As old men, they both insisted the signing — an act of treason against Great Britain — had occurred on the fourth of July.
Following the Declaration's publication in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, celebrations swept the nation. In New York, writes historian Benson Bobrick: "... Washington had the army brigades drawn up at six p.m. to hear 'the United Colonies of America' declared Free and Independent States." Later that day, a jubilant crowd toppled the gargantuan statue of King George III that towered over Broadway. It would eventually be melted down for its metal and turned into 42,000 cartridges fired by the American army. Congress refrained from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later when America won its first great victory in the war.
Wrote New Jersey delegate Richard Stockton, "The man to whom the country is most indebted for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." But Jefferson would be history's hero. Adams' prediction to Abigail of the importance of the Declaration would prove true, if two days off. "The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. ..." The echoes of independence would continue to be heard throughout the lives of both Adams and Jefferson, until their deaths on the same day, July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration. | 2019-04-26T11:07:49 | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/adams-declaration-independence/ |
0.999981 | I was extremely busy for the past two weeks and I simply did not have any time to write the weekly post. But without any more delays, as promised, here is the argument against Bohmian interpretation. The argument comes from a famous paper by Englert, Scully, Süssmann, and Walther: Surrealistic Bohm Trajectories.
For clarity, here are the original paper, the rebuttal, and the response.
The argument is simple: in a double slit experiment with a which way detector present before the slit (which incidentally kills the interference pattern), the Bohmian trajectories do not cross the axis of symmetry.
and \(\psi_>\) does not vanish in the bottom part and \(\psi_<\) does not vanish in the top part. As such, the particle can be found in the down section while the particle was detected earlier by the upper which way detector. But this is at odds with Bohmian trajectories which by symmetry considerations do not connect the up with the down.
The conclusion is that Bohmian trajectories do not always have a correspondence in reality. The issue is not whether Bohmian quantum mechanics does or does not make the same prediction as standard quantum mechanics as the rebuttal seems to imply, but the issue is the ontology of Bohmian trajectories. The claimed advantage of Bohmian mechanics is its clarity rooted in realism, but if Bohmian trajectories are at odds with experiments, what is the value of Bohmian interpretation? Remember that in Bohmian interpretation the only thing "real" is the particle trajectory. I could not find a valid answer from the Bohmian community to the surrealistic paper challenge and in my opinion this paper it is a decisive clear cut argument against Bohmian interpretation.
Book Review: "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics"
After much delay I had found the time to finish reading Jean Bricmont's "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics" book.
The book is the best presentation of Bohmian interpretation I have ever read. It masterly combines the philosophical ideas with a bit of math, famous quotes, and some historical perspective.
After preliminary topics in chapter one, chapter two discusses the first quantum "mystery": superposition, while chapter four discuses the second "mystery": nonlocality. It was chapter three, a philosophical "intermetzzo" which took me a very loooong time to read and prevented me to write this review much sooner: one one end I could not write this post without reading it, and on the other end I was loosing interest very quickly in it after a couple of pages of historical review. Then Bricmont proceeds into presenting Bohniam mechanics - the heart of the book.
"the conclusion of his [Bell's] argument, combined with the EPR argument is rather that there are nonlocal physical effects (and not just correlations between events) in Nature."
To support this chapter 4.2 discusses "Einstein's boxes" [I had a series of posts discussing why in my opinion they do not represent an argument for nonlocality. What EPR+Bell shows is that the composition of two physical systems into a larger physical system does not respect the rules of classical physics - parabolic composability but new rules - elliptic composability. Nature is not "nonlocal" but "non-parabolic composable"].
Onto the main topic, the presentation of Bohmian mechanics is standard and what it is surprising is the degree on which the underdetermination issue is addressed: there are an infinite number of alternative theories (like Nelson's stochastic theory) which are in the same realistic vein and which make the same predictions as Bohmian mechanics. Chapter three discussion is invoked here but I feel the argument is very weak (not even a handwaving).
Then the book talks about alternative approaches to Bohmian mechanics courageously taking (some well deserved some not) shots at alternative interpretations (like GRW, MWI, CH, Qbism), and wraps up with historical topics and sociological arguments.
Now onto what the book covers poorly: surreal trajectories, and quantum field theory in Bohmian mechanics. Surreal trajectories are mentioned in passing in a quote while they are the major objection to the interpretation. As I said before, the very name "surreal trajectory" was a masterful catchy clever title for a paper but it backfired in the long term because it was attaching a stigma to Bohmian mechanics which in turned allowed Bohmian supporters to summarily and unfairly dismiss the argument. I will revisit the argument in next post. The key point of surreal trajectories paper is that the particle is detected where Bohmian mechanics predicts it must not go, and since the only thing "real" in Bohmian mechanics is the position of the particle, it represents a fatal blow to the Bohmian ontology. Currently, to my knowledge, there is no consensus inside the Bohmian community on the proper answer the surreal trajectory paper: some deny it is a problem at all while others acknowledge the problem and propose (faulty) ideas on how to deal with it. This is similar with the situation inside the MWI camp where the big pink elephant in the room there is the notion of probabilities: some in MWI disagree it is an issue while others attempt to solve it (but fail).
Quantum field theory in Bohmian mechanics is another sore point which is not properly discussed. My take on the topic is that a Bohmian quantum field theory is impossible to be constructed, and I want to be proven wrong by a consistent proposal: show me the money, show me the archive paper where the problem is comprehensibly solved.
Bad points aside, overall I liked the book, I find it stimulating, and I enjoyed very much reading it (except chapter 3 which invariably succeeded putting me to sleep). The book is a must read for any person seriously interested in the foundations of quantum mechanics.
"I would like to understand whether the equations (67) - (75) in Joy Christian’s paper “Local Causality in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Spacetime” make any sense at all. I don't understand how the mathematical limes operation are carried out."
The main hand-waving trick in the "derivation" is a conversion inside of a sum of \(\lambda^k\) from a variable into an index which amounts to adding apples to oranges and obtaining the incorrect result (see the bottom of page 8 on my preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.0535v3.pdf).
The preparation for this trick is on Eq. 49 which encodes the two distinct algebras (of apples and oranges) into a common formula. In my preprint you can double check this by trying out the matrix representations of the two algebras (eqs 53-56).
Hopefully my explanation is clear enough. I know all Joy's mathematical tricks in all of his papers or in his blog debates, but I ran out of energy debunking his nonsense. Kudos to Richard Gill for pursuing this further. I was aware of the "Causality in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Spacetime" paper and it was on my to do list to write a rebuttal to it, but the journal withdrew it before I could get to it. | 2019-04-23T22:28:59 | http://fmoldove.blogspot.com/2017/01/ |
0.783433 | The history of film is a relatively new subject area, approximately two centuries old. Therefore, trying to determine a film to take the title "greatest movie ever made" proves to be a difficult task. After all, innovations in films are still being made today. However, we can find the greatest innovations in film's early years, like in the movies Casablanca and Citizen Kane. These two films are often thought to be the best ever, and for solid reasons. I feel the first thing we should address is: what makes a film the best ever? It takes more than just public opinion to answer this question. First, there is innovational excellence. We must identify what new techniques and technologies the movie in question introduces. Next, I think it is highly important to note the influences a movie has had on the film industry, more specifically, to acknowledge the influences made on following films created. Lastly, we should take into account public opinion, when the movie was released and in current time.
In 1941, Citizen Kane, an American made film was introduced to the public. The movie revolves around Charles Foster Kane, and the pursuit of uncovering his life story after Kane passed away. This was accomplished for the most part through the use of flashbacks from the memories of those who knew Charles Foster Kane. This film was nominated for an Academy Award in nine separate categories yet surprisingly tanked at the box office.
So how does, Citizen Kane, possibly find itself in the running for the greatest movie ever made? When we look at the innovation in narration, music, and cinematography we are given a better idea as to why. Director Orson Wells and cinematographer Gregg Toland made use of the technique of deep focus. That is the use of a larger depth of field, which creates very sharp images in both the foreground and background. This technique became popular in the 1940’s and is no longer popular today. The narrative style is prevalent throughout the film. As stated before, Citizen Kane has a story line that is conducted through narration using flashbacks. The Narrative Style is what made this movie. | 2019-04-24T03:00:07 | https://www.majortests.com/essay/Citizen-Kane-And-Charles-Foster-Kane-592333.html |
0.999916 | Who doesn't give order Chicken wings from starter menu in restaurants?? I am one crazy wings lover. There are so many yummy recipes of Chicken wings in the internet. They all look really good. Here is my take on Bhuna (slow cooked, using water as less as possible) Chicken wings which is basically Indian style spicy wings. You can make this recipe with drumsticks also. With some green chutney and onion slices they taste yummmmm!
1 large onion, thinly sliced.
2-3 Tablespoons of ginger garlic paste.
1 medium tomato, finely chopped.
Spice powder 1 Teaspoon each of (turmeric powder, chili powder, kashmiri chili powder, roasted coriander powder).
1-2 Tablespoons of meat masala or garam masala powder.
3 Tablespoons of any cooking oil.
Marinate the chicken wings with ginger garlic paste, some salt, all of the spice powder, meat masala or garam masala powder and mustard oil.
Mix everything very well and keep them aside for 3 hours or overnight in fridge.
In a pan or wok, heat any cooking oil.
Fry onion slices until they become golden in color.
Then add the marinated chicken, mix well and cook on medium - low flame for 10-15 minutes.
Next add chopped tomatoes, mix well and cook for 10 minutes on medium flame.
Chicken and tomato will release lot of juices, you have to cook them in their own juices.
Add salt and little sugar as per your taste, mix well and cook on low flame until the chicken becomes soft.
If your gravy becomes very dry, then add a splash of water.
Lastly add chopped green chilies and coriander leaves. Mix well and turn off the heat.
Your Bhuna Chicken Wings are ready to serve.
Serve this hot with green chutney. | 2019-04-23T19:53:36 | http://spicyworld.in/bhuna-chicken-wings.html |
0.998761 | What was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s understanding of the State? In this provocative and challenging work, Michael G. Long addresses this very basic but overlooked aspect of King's thought. In King's vision there are three important elements of his view of the State. First, King understood the State to be reflective of and involved in the creating, preserving, and reconciling work of God. Long contends, the foundation of this view is King's christologically grounded vision of the beloved community. While King understood the State to be deeply sinful, he affirmed the role of the State in creating, preserving, and reconciling work of God. Like the individuals that make up the State, the State is not only a force of good, but also of evil. Second, King's theological understanding of the State remained relatively constant in most of its fundamental elements but developed in substantive content and expression throughout his life. With this argument, Long counters King scholarship that posits a radical transformation between the first decade and the last three years of King's ministry. Third, King's understanding of the state has its roots in the African-American tradition he experienced through his family and his Morehouse professors—many of whom were Black Baptist preachers as well as in European-American religious and republican traditions. Identifying King's thought as that of a bricoleur—a moralist who uses moral languages for his own use—Long warns against a tendency to dismiss the interconnections between the African-American and European-American dimensions of King's education. King was a black bricoleur. Finally, the root of King's understanding of the State is not in civic republicanism, theological liberalism, Marxism, Niebuhrian realism, or in any other such school, but in the religious tradition he experienced at home and at college. | 2019-04-23T06:19:32 | https://www.mupress.org/Against-Us-but-for-Us-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-and-the-State-P449.aspx |
0.99978 | Consider this a public service announcement: It's not too late to take a summer road trip. Whether you have your sights set on the sunny California coast, the picturesque New England shoreline, or the cactus-dotted deserts of the Southwest, there are a number of tried-and-true routes to traverse before travel season officially comes to a close. Now all that's missing is a binge-worthy podcast to stream while you take in the scenic landscape. The thing is, there's a staggering number of podcasts (over 525,000) to scroll through on iTunes alone.
To help narrow down the selection a bit, we're recommending the absolute best podcasts for road trips; in fact, they are so addictive you just might miss your exit. Spanning a New York Times–produced true-crime thriller that's garnered something of a cult following to a pop culture–fueled podcast hosted by two brilliant comics, there's something for everyone on this list. Trust us: You won't want to get behind the wheel without downloading these riveting, tearjerking, side-splittingly hilarious podcasts.
The Podcast: Caliphate, the first serialized podcast produced by The New York Times, follows reporter Rukmini Callimachi as she reports on ISIS, including a riveting interview with a former ISIS fighter who's grappling with the aftermath of coming home after joining the extremist group.
The Promising Review: "I found this podcast riveting, heartbreaking, and very revealing of how violence begets violence. The courage of the journalist undertaking this podcast astounds me. She dives into the soul of the caliphate."
The Promising Review: "This podcast is warm, funny, emotional, and very, very real. I'd recommend it to anyone who's looking to hear real stories of imperfect people who are doing their best to get through this messy, sad, beautiful world."
The Podcast: In the words of the iTunes description, 99% Invisible "is about all the thought that goes into the things we don't think about—the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world."
The Promising Review: "Simply put, if I had my way, I would listen to 99% Invisible nonstop all day, every day. The quality of the stories, the quality of the production, there's nothing I don't love about this podcast."
The Podcast: The Read, hosted by bloggers Kid Fury and Crissle, is a hilarious podcast that will keep you up to date on all the latest pop culture news (and have you laughing out loud in the process).
The Promising Review: "Funny, wisecracking, and addictive, getting my Read on is [one of] the best things about each week. Love this!"
The Podcast: Embedded deep-dives into today's most pressing news stories. From the opioid epidemic in America to the Trump administration's past to the police shootings caught on video, host Kelly McEvers tackles it all.
The Promising Review: "This show is a mix of real news and of This American Life–type introspection—highly recommend."
The Podcast: My Favorite Murder is hands down the most popular true-crime podcast on iTunes, with over 50,000 ratings and a solid five stars. As you might have already guessed, hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark discuss their favorite murders in each darkly comedic episode.
The Promising Review: "If you're into dark humor, then this is for you. A great podcast for people who love crime stories but feel they can't bring up murder cases to friends without looking insane. Hosts are great at keeping the mood up even with such horrific subject matter."
The Podcast: Listening to 2 Dope Queens, hosted by Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams, will make you feel like you're in the car with your closest (most hilarious) friends. Complete with comics and celebrity guests, this is a must-download before a long trek.
The Promising Review: "Jessica and Phoebe are straight-up goddesses of comedy and know how to put together a great show with hilarious guests, and I'm hooked!"
The Podcast: In Revisionist History, New York Times best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell shines a light on overlooked or misunderstood elements of U.S. history. You'll file everything you learn from this podcast under stuff you missed in history class.
The Promising Review: "Gladwell is one of the great storytellers of our time, and he takes to this new medium immediately. Every bit as compelling as anything he has written in print."
The Podcast: This Is Love, brought to you by the people behind the award-winning podcast Criminal, is dedicated to telling love stories of every variety, including all the sacrifice, risk, and heartbreak that come with it.
The Promising Review: "At first, I did not know what to expect. But after listening to the first episode, I'm hooked! It was lighthearted. It was funny. It made you smile and also made you want to cry a little. You could feel the love in this episode."
Ed. note: Reviews have been edited and condensed for clarity.
Looking for more addictive podcasts? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our latest recommendations delivered straight to your inbox. | 2019-04-24T08:02:56 | https://www.mydomaine.com/best-podcasts-for-road-trips |
0.994881 | Why is the president putting ISIS in the same category in which he places Rosie O’Donnell?
Donald Trump has coined a term to describe terrorists like those who murdered 22 people on Monday in Manchester: “Losers.” White House officials claim he came up with it on his own.
That’s not surprising. As USA Today has noted, “losers” is Trump’s go-to epithet. He’s applied the term to the Standard & Poor’s credit-ratings agency, Rosie O’Donnell, George Will, Cher, Salon, Huffington Post, Karl Rove, Graydon Carter, Marc Cuban, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, the Club for Growth, Ana Navarro, The New York Daily News, a Scottish farmer who tried to keep him from building a golf course, and the Republican Party, among others. Maybe the term will prove effective in undermining the aura of rebellious cool that attracts some young Muslims to ISIS, as my Atlantic colleague Uri Friedman suggests, although I have my doubts about Trump’s ability to arbitrate what young Muslims find hip.
But regardless of the label’s efficacy, calling ISIS “losers” says a lot about Trump. America’s leaders speak about jihadist terrorists a bit like they speak about Adolf Hitler. Since both are synonymous with evil, politicians identify them with whichever attributes they find particularly odious. (Thus, for the NRA, one of Hitler’s most salient characteristics was his support for gun control.) Since 9/11, every American president has emphasized a different aspect of jihadist depravity. In his speech to a joint session of Congress nine days after September 11, George W. Bush called the 9/11 hijackers “enemies of freedom.” That’s not a particularly accurate description of their motivations. Al-Qaeda’s primary beef has always been with American foreign policy, not America’s democracy. (Otherwise why not attack Costa Rica?) But for Bush, who wanted to use the attacks to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the association was useful. Defining the hijackers as freedom’s enemies accentuated the values he held dear, and the agenda he wished to pursue.
President Obama tended to define al-Qaeda and ISIS less as purveyors of tyranny than of bigotry and unreason, a scourge he believed extended beyond the Muslim world. In a 2014 speech at the United Nations, Obama called jihadist terrorists people who “peddle only fanaticism and hate” and argued “that humanity’s future depends on us uniting against those who would divide us along the fault lines of tribe or sect, race or religion.” If Bush was trying to link al-Qaeda with Saddam Hussein, Obama was linking it to militant Jewish settlers in the West Bank, Marine Le Pen, and Dylann Roof.
In selecting the term “losers,” Trump considered and rejected an alternative: “monsters.” He explained that, “I won’t call them monsters because they would like that term. They would think that’s a great name.” I suspect that’s wrong. While monster is a reasonable description of people who purposely kill children, it’s not the way ISIS terrorists view themselves. Unfathomable as it may be to people who don’t share their murderous worldview, it’s likelier that they generally see themselves as combatants in a just war.
So why does Trump think ISIS murderers would prefer the term “monster” to “loser?” Perhaps because that’s the term he would prefer. Think about the language he used to describe his sexual assault: “When you’re a star they let you do it.” For Trump, the ultimate test of a person’s worth isn’t right. It’s might. He figures jihadist terrorists think the same way. | 2019-04-23T16:02:47 | https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/trump-isis-losers/527925/ |
0.99999 | Authors: Lee, Phong Ching; Hare, Matthew J. L.; Bach, Leon A.
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What makes a good doctor?
Authors: DeLoughery, Emma P.; Newman, James S. | 2019-04-21T10:46:35 | https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/imj/2018/00000048/00000007 |
0.999879 | Where to settle down in British Columbia?
This is for a friend of mine. They vacation often on the West Coast, but they want to settle down in British Columbia once the husband retires.
Vancouver Island? Inland somewhere around the Okanagan Valley? Some suburb of Vancouver?
They want to keep their current home in the US, so they can't spend too much - $150,000US probably would be tops. A little cabin somewhere? They like nature, but are not "avid" hikers like me. They also like cultural things, so being close to Vancouver probably would be required.
I suggested that maybe they could look into getting a duplex or a fourplex, so that they can have some part of the place rented to help with the expenses. Or a shop downstairs while they keep the upstairs. They want to be able to move between their current US home and their property in BC. Is this a good suggestion? How would a partial rental property fare in BC?
I realize this is not completely travel related, but in a way it is! TIA for any help you can give them!
Is climate an issue for your friend? For example, I find the Okanagan far too hot and dry and would not like to live there (though my brother is very happy in Kelowna). We visited Kamloops in August and it was 40 degrees Celsius - way too hot for me.
On the other hand, many people find coastal BC too rainy. I've lived in Vancouver for many years and confess that I do miss the prairie winters that I grew up with.
I have no experience of buying property so can't advise on that, unfortunately.
Climate is definitely an issue - what time of the year do they plan on living in B.C. and what are they looking for? What other interests/amenities are they interested in? City or rural?
Price is a big consideration as well. I'm no expert on real estate values but I do know that the Lower Mainland (Vancouver and suburbs) is expensive and I would think they'd be hard pressed to find a duplex for USD 150,000 / CAD 200,000. Other areas they might consider: Okanagan Valley, Comox/Courtenay region, Victoria (but that might be too expensive as well), Kootenays (Nelson, etc.).
Are they prepared to take on the responsibilities of a landlord? Ten to one the toilet floods in their renter's suite while they are away. Would they hire a management company while they are down south?
Once they've finetuned their wish list, I'd google "real estate" and different regions of B.C. for a picture of availability and pricing.
I would recommend checking out Salt Spring Island as a place to retire.
It's a laid back type of place with good ocean views and a marine pub serving good food beer as I recall.
There is a ferry service to Tawwassan/Richmond/Vancouver on the mainland and is a short ferry hop to Vancouver Island. Victoria is not far away.
I wonder if they would consider a condo. However, they won't be able to buy much for that price. If they want any land at all and they want to be close to Vancouver, it might be difficult. Perhaps they could find a townhouse in Surrey, Coquitlam, or Port Moody (none of which I would really want to live in, but their budget constrains them). Of course then they have to worry about maintenance fees.
I would be surprised if they could find half a duplex in a reasonable area for the price they are willing to pay, let alone a full duplex.
They currently live in Arizona, so I would imagine they would want to stay in BC in the summertime and then return to Arizona during the winter time. This is an "educated" guess on my part.
As between culture and nature, nature probably will take precedence, since they would be looking out on great natural scenery every day but would be going into Vancourver only once in a while for cultural events. Another "educated" guess on my part.
They are definitely looking for a single family dwelling or duplex. They don't like the associations linked with condos. I would assume that good sense would have them hiring a management company to take care of the property and the rents in their absence.
Hope this fills out the details a bit more. Thanks again for your wonderfully balanced and thoughtful responses!
We had been thinking about Salt Spring Island as a place to retire to, several years ago. Prices were far more reasonable than they are now, and we'd been spending summer vacations there. However, my sweetie points out that if you want to do something in Victoria or Vancouver in the evening, you have to make sure you're on the last boat out or have somewhere to stay overnight, and usually the last boat is at about 10 PM.
Salt Spring is having a real estate boom currently, with some mainland-style housing developments going up that the longtime residents have been trying to fight. They seem to have lost the fight. Very disappointing, and it will surely affect the laid-back atmosphere that has made Salt Spring so enjoyable ever since I started going there about 10 years ago.
Victoria and Vancouver do get rainy in the winter. Vancouver gets a lot of rain year-round, but Victoria gets more hours of sunshine annually than Toronto (where we live now). We will be moving to Victoria next year, but I would think anywhere on Vancouver Island would be worthwile exploring for your friends.
The "no condo" choice rules out Vancouver and its suburbs.
The price constraint rules out Bowen Island (close to Vancouver) and I'm guessing Saltspring (close to Victoria and Vancouver).
Being convenient to big city cultural events rules out the Okanagan and the Comox/Courtenay area (too far, for me anyway).
So perhaps the outer areas of Victoria would fit the bill.
Have they fixed the leaky condo problem in the lower mainland and are condos which were repaired a problem free investment?
Another thing to consider is access to good shopping and health care. I would not consider one of the small islands for that reason alone. As we age being closer to good medical facilities is a very prime consideration.
Sorry - posted too soon.
In terms of medical care: there is actually a good, if small, hospital on Salt Spring, with some excellent outreach programs in place for geriatric care. However, anything more complicated would likely get dealt with on the mainland or Vancouver Island - another good reason to think about retiring somewhere other than on one of the Gulf Islands, lovely as they are.
Interesting - the post that I had "posted too soon" has now disappeared. Maybe it wasn't my fault after all!
What it said was essentially that there are still a few unresolved condo problems in both Vancouver and Victoria, but things are much better than they were.
They should check out other parts of Vancouver Island than Victoria, for example Nanaimo and Qualicum Beach. I have relatives who retired to Nanaimo (from Ontario) and they just love it. it's big enough that there are plenty of services but is not a big busy city like Vancouver. I should think that prices would be a bit more reasonable than Victoria's and certainly better than Vancouver's.
Salt Spring is lovely but they'd be pretty dependent on the ferries; it can be quite inconvenient to get on and off at times. On Vancouver Island there would be less of a need to come to the mainland as there are so many services there.
FYI-As has been mentioned here in the past Nanaimo is known as 'The Armpit of Vancouver Island' for a number of very good reasons.
A short list would include endemic hard drug use and it's attendant problems, a crumbling economic base, and a shocking lack of anything approaching logical urban planning.
One of my choices would be Courtenay. One can easily fly to Vancouver or drive down to Nanaimo for shopping. I think it's a nice little community, handy to a number of locations for day trips. My mother lived there and wintered in Arizona. Our one experience with the hospital in Comox was good.
If the island seemed too soggy for them, maybe the Okanagan would be better. It's a little far from Vancouver and temperatures are more extreme, but I like the more open and dry terrain. Naramata is perhaps my favourite spot in the Okanagan, but I don't know what it would be like to live there.
Personally, I wouldn't choose to live in Victoria or Vancouver any more.
Thanks so very much for your wonderful posts! I've taken the liberty of downloading this thread and passing it on to my friends. They said to thank you all very much!
They will take your posts into consideration and continue their research.
They said they will definitely look into Salt Spring Island as well as all around Vancouver Island. They said to thank you all for narrowing things down for them.
Keep tuned! When they have narrowed their choices down, I'll probably be coming back for more advice on which would be the best choice!
A very useful research site for your friends would be mls.ca, where they can input their requirements and see what properties come up.
curiousgeo: That is a wonderful website which I have passed on to my friends! Thanks very much!
Meesthare: you live in such a dynamic city!
Canadians: You live in paradise compared to us, in many terms - healthcare, the wonderful state of the roads - it's marvellous to see what can be done when a government works on governments are supposed to work on - reminds me of the Scandanavian countries! Great country, Canada!
Have you been to Vancouver Island lately? Our provincial gov't has completely let the highways go to pot - plantings let go, weeds and garbage all over. Blech. The US highways I've seen look so much better cared for. Our healthcare is in a mess too.
Easytraveler - yes, Toronto is a dynamic city, and a very pleasant one. It will be hard to leave, in some ways, especially because 2 of my 4 kids live here, along with lots of grandkids. But I've wanted to live in BC ever since the first time I visited there, nearly 20 years ago.
April - your comments are valid, but Vancouver Island is still about as close to paradise as I'm likely to get in this world! (Hey, maybe the next one too. Who knows?) There is so much beauty there that I don't find it obscured by a few messy highways. As for health care - it ain't great, but it could be a whole lot worse. | 2019-04-26T00:14:13 | https://www.fodors.com/community/canada/where-to-settle-down-in-british-columbia-474890/ |
0.999995 | Llamas may hold the key to a long-lasting flu vaccine، research suggests، daily mail reported.
Laboratory tests showed a protein produced by the fluffy animals، as well as camels، fought off the virus in mice.
Rodents were even protected against 60 strains of flu، which cause fever، headache and fatigue in humans، for more than nine months.
Currently، flu jabs protect against a maximum of four strains - meaning people can still be struck down by strains that were not predicted to be active.
The Belgian study has even raised hopes of a flu nasal spray، after the mice were equally protected when the vaccine was injected or inhaled.
Researchers collected antibodies - proteins used by body's immune system to neutralise pathogens - from llamas.
The team، from the pharmaceutical giant Janssen، Beerse، injected the animals with a vaccine that contained three different flu viruses.
The viruses included the H1N1 pathogen that caused the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and killed up to five per cent of the world's population.
The scientists then collected four antibodies circulating in the llamas' blood and combined them to create a 'super protein'.
When this protein was given to mice - either via a nasal spray or an injection - they were more likely to survive influenza A and B than untreated rodents.
Influenza A، which includes bird flu، affects both animals and humans. This virus is constantly changing and is responsible for widespread epidemics.
Influenza B meanwhile is only found in humans and tends to be less severe than A. However، it was blamed for severe outbreaks in the UK and US last winter.
'It's been quite hard to find an antibody that neutralises both A and B،' biologist Professor Ian Wilson، from the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego، said.
Professor Wilson، who has published more than 50 studies on flu antibodies، helped work out how the super protein binds to flu viruses.
The study، published in the journal Science، also showed the jab protected rhesus macques monkeys for four months.
The challenge with creating flu vaccines is that the virus is ever evolving to avoid detection.
Therefore، scientists must predict which receptors they should make the jab target ahead of a winter outbreak.
But the protein developed from llamas is made up of many different antibodies that latch on to markers found across numerous flu strains.
It is also smaller than the average antibody due to it not containing as many protein chains.
This means it is able to penetrate deeper into a flu virus، reaching crevices that larger antibodies cannot touch.
Research suggests these crevices do not evolve as fast as receptors on the surface of flu viruses and may therefore be easier to target.
It is thought many people put off flu jabs due to a fear of needles، with a nasal spray potentially being more appealing.
This may help persuade the 29 per cent of over 65s who do not get vaccinated in the average year despite being eligible for a free jab on the NHS.
'This is a great story and shows the power of antibody engineering،' flu vaccine researcher Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia told Science.
Professor Lanzavecchia works at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona، Switzerland، and was not involved in the study.
The researchers، who were led by Joost Kolkman، stress it may be many years before a nasal flu vaccine is available for adults.
Flu antibody specialist Dr James Crowe، from Vanderbilt University، Nashville، also warned a human's immune system may see a llama protein as a foreign substance.
It could، therefore، launch an immune response against it، he added. Dr Crowe was not involved in the research.
A nasal flu spray is already available for children aged between two and eight years old in the UK.
Elderly people and pregnant women are among the most at risk because the virus can lead to pneumonia، sepsis، meningitis and brain inflammation.
Flu is also a very common infection in babies and children، who may require hospital treatment، with some even dying from the infection.
Earlier this week، a report revealed millions of at-risk patients in the UK have yet to get their flu jab this winter because of delivery problems to GP practices.
Just 33.8 per cent of over-65s have been vaccinated، compared to 53.7 per cent this time last year، according to a Public Heath England national flu report. | 2019-04-24T02:24:22 | http://en.elbalad.news/print.aspx?id=2398942 |
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0.999815 | What is the equation that connects pH and its effect on electric potential of an electrochemical cell?
#E_(cell)# is the overall cell potential. #""^@# indicates #"1 atm"# and #25^@ "C"#.
#n# is the mols of electrons reportedly transferred in the redox reaction.
#F = "96485 C/mol e"^(-)# is Faraday's constant.
Note that #"pH"# only affects reactions that are done in acidic or basic media, i.e. those that contain significant #["H"^(+)]# or #["OH"^(-)]# in solution already.
The #"pH"# dependence is of both #E_(cell)^@# and #E_(cell)#, but again, only if the half-reactions or overall reactions contain #"H"^(+)# or #"OH"^(-)# directly in them.
These are #E_(cell)^@# vs. #"pH"# diagrams.
Diagonal lines indicate an #E_(cell)^@# that is #"pH"#-dependent.
Vertical lines indicate #100%# #"pH"# dependence.
Horizontal lines indicate #0%# #"pH"# dependence.
It shifts towards #"Mn"_3"O"_4# as #"pH"# increases (as we cross the diagonal line horizontally). Or, we could notice that when #"pH"# increases, #["OH"^(-)]# increases, promoting an equilibrium shift leftwards in accordance with Le Chatelier's principle. The reaction quotient #Q# changes accordingly away from #K#, which changes #E_(cell)# accordingly.
#prod_k^N# indicates a multiplication of terms #1, 2, . . . , k, . . . , N#.
#i# is the index of individual product concentrations #[P_i]# being multiplied together.
#j# is the index of individual reactant concentrations #[R_j]# being multiplied together.
#nu_k# is the stoichiometric coefficient of the #k#th reactant or product. Note that in general, #i ne j#, meaning the number of products and reactants may differ.
As the #"pH"# decreases, the solution is more acidic, so #10^(-"pH") = ["H"^(+)]# increases and #10^("pH" - 14) = ["OH"^(-)]# decreases.
If #"H"^(+)# is a product, #Q# therefore increases, and the nonstandard cell potential decreases.
If #"H"^(+)# is a reactant, #Q# therefore decreases, and the nonstandard cell potential increases.
If #"OH"^(-)# is a product, #Q# therefore decreases, and the nonstandard cell potential increases.
If #"OH"^(-)# is a reactant, #Q# therefore increases, and the nonstandard cell potential decreases.
This is very situational, so it's not exactly possible to write one single equation for this, unless we make some assumptions.
#Q^"*"# is the #"pH"#-independent reaction quotient with #["H"^(+)]# separated out.
#nu_("H"^(+))# is the stoichiometric coefficient of #"H"^(+)# in the reaction.
In the #pm# for #nu_("H"^(+))#, the #(+)# indicates #"H"^(+)# product, while the #(-)# indicates #"H"^(+)# reactant.
keeping in mind that #Q^"*"# neglects the #["H"^(+)]# that would have been in the mass action expression, and that whether it was a product or reactant changes the sign of #nu_("H"^(+))#. | 2019-04-25T06:45:15 | https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-the-equation-that-connects-ph-and-its-effect-on-electric-potential-of-an |
0.99881 | (e.g., chance, probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, etc.)?
(e.g., reading and interpreting tables and graphs that use rates and percentages)?
5. What best describes your highest level of schooling completed?
6. What best describes your fluency in English?
7. How many undergraduate statistics courses have you completed?
For the following questions select the one answer you think best.
Select “DON’T KNOW” if any other answer would be just a guess.
Assume that all these statements apply just to the subjects in these charts.
Do you think the following statements accurately describe the data shown in this pie chart?
9. 20% of smokers are Catholics.
10. Protestants (40%) are twice as likely to be smokers as are Catholics (20%).
Do you think the following statement accurately describes the data shown in this bar chart?
11. 20% of Protestant males are runners.
Select the one answer you think best.
Assume that all these statements apply just to the subjects in this scatter plot.
Do you think the following statements are accurate interpretations of the scatter graph shown above?
12. Adults who weigh more tend to be taller (than those who weigh less).
13. The more an adult weighs, the taller they tend to be.
14. (Typically) as weight increases, height increases.
15. As adults' weights increase, their heights tend to increase.
16. As an adult's weight increases, their height tends to increase.
17. An adult who weighs more will tend to be taller.
18. As an adult weighs more the taller they will tend to be.
19. If an adult increases their weight, they can expect to increase their height.
20. If weight increases, height will tend to increase.
Assume that all these statements apply just to the subjects in this chart.
21. As the percentage of Protestants increases, the rate of suicides tends to increase.
22. Protestants are more likely to commit suicide than non-Protestants (are).
Circle the one answer you think best.
Circle “DON’T KNOW” if any other answer would be just a guess.
Assume that all these statements apply just to the subjects in this table.
Do you think the following statements accurately describe the 25% circled above?
23. 25% of females are blacks.
24. 25% of blacks are females.
25. 25% is the percentage of blacks among females.
26. 25% is the percentage who are females among blacks.
Do you think these statements below accurately compare the 25% circled with the 50% immediately below it?
27. Whites are two times as likely to be female than are blacks.
28. Females are two times as likely to be white as to be black.
29. Whites are two times more likely to be female than are blacks.
Do you think the following statements accurately describe the 20% circled above?
30. 20% of runners are female smokers.
31. 20% of females are runners who smoke.
32. 20% of female smokers are runners.
33. 20% of smokers are females who run.
34. Among female smokers, 20% is the percentage of runners.
35. Among females, 20% is the percentage of smokers who are runners.
Do you think these statements accurately compare the circled 20% with the 10% immediately below it?
36. The percentage of runners is twice as much among female smokers as among male smokers.
37. The percentage of smokers who run is twice as much among females as among males.
38. Among these smokers, males are twice as likely to be runners as are females.
Select only one of the answers to each question.
Two statements “MEAN THE SAME THING” if one can always be substituted for the other.
39. In your opinion, do these two statements mean the same thing?
Twenty percent (20%) of high-school dropouts are black.
Blacks have a 20% chance of dropping out.
40. In your opinion, do these two statements mean the same thing?
Studies show that television violence is strongly linked with juvenile delinquency.
Studies show that television violence is a cause of juvenile delinquency.
41. Which study gives better evidence that taking zinc will decrease a nurse's risk of a heart attack?
In study A, some nurses chose to take supplements containing zinc while others did not. Those nurses who took zinc had 30% fewer heart attacks than those who did not.
In study B, half of the nurses were randomly assigned to take zinc; the others got a placebo. Those nurses who received zinc had 10% fewer heart attacks than those who did not.
42. Which study gives better evidence that taking zinc will decrease a nurse's risk of a heart attack?
In study A, some nurses chose to take supplements containing zinc while others did not. Those nurses who took zinc had 20% fewer heart attacks than those who did not.
In study B, half of the nurses were randomly assigned to take zinc; the others got a placebo. Those nurses who received zinc had 20% fewer heart attacks than those who did not.
43. In 2000, a research hospital had a higher death rate than a rural hospital.
Each patient's condition was classified as either "poor" or "fair."
Is it possible that in 2000, this research hospital had a lower death rate than this rural hospital for those patients in "poor" condition AND for those patients in "fair" condition?
Do you think the following statements accurately describe the 26.2% circled above?
44. In 1990, 26.2% was the percentage of smokers who were black.
45. In 1990, 26.2% of blacks were smokers.
46. In 1990, 26.2% was the percentage of black smokers.
47. In 1990, 26.2% of smokers were black.
48. In 1990, 26.2% was the percentage of blacks who were smokers.
Do you think the following statements accurately describe the 6.0 circled above?
49. In the US in 1996, 6% of low-weight births were in California (CA).
50. In the US in 1996, the percentage of California births among low-weight births was 6%.
51. In the US in 1996, 6% of California births were low-weight.
Do you think this statement accurately compares the 6.0% in California(CA) with 9.3% in Alabama(AL)?
52. In the US in 1996, there were more low weight births in Alabama (AL) than in California (CA).
Do you think the following statements accurately describe the 10.0% circled above?
53. 10% of these women who received an HIV test were 40-44.
54. 10% of these women 40 to 44 received an HIV test.
55. Among those women who received an HIV test, the percentage of those 40-44 was 10%.
56. Among these women 40-44, the percentage who received an HIV test was 10%.
Do you think the following statements accurately compare the 10% and the 20% circled above?
57. Women 40-44 were twice as likely to have an HIV test as were women 20-24.
58. HIV tests were twice as likely to be administered to women 20-24 as to women 40-44.
59. Women 20-24 were two times more likely to have an HIV test than were women 40-44.
Do you think the following statements accurately describe the 16.1 circled above?
60. In 1995, the death rate due to motor vehicle accidents was 16.1 per 100,000 Alaskans.
61. In 1995, for those in motor vehicle accidents, the death rate was 16.1 per 100,000 Alaskans.
62. In 1995, the rate of motor vehicle accidents was 16.1 per 100,000 Alaskans.
63. In 1995 for Alaskans who were in motor vehicle accidents, the death rate was 16.1 per 100,000.
64. This survey was much more difficult than I thought it would be.
65. This survey was much more subtle than I thought it would be.
66. This survey was unnecessarily tricky.
67. I felt considerable discomfort in taking part or all of this survey.
68. These tables and graphs are the kind I need and/or want to be able to read or understand.
69. College students should be able to read these kinds of tables and graphs.
70. What is your primary professional association?
No affiliation with any quantitative professional association.
IASE: International Association of Statistical Educators.
NCTM: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
MAA: Mathematics Association of America.
AMATYC: American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges.
71. Please identify your primary major in college.
72. What country are you based in?
73. Please comment on anything related to your taking of this survey.
End of Survey. Thank you!
© W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project. 2002. All rights reserved. | 2019-04-18T12:16:20 | http://www.statlit.org/Survey/StatLit_Survey_1.htm |
0.999906 | Who owns the America's Cup?
The Defender, or persons unknown?
In our earlier article, "Deed of Gift", we told how the Deed of 1887 was met with outrage by the yachting public and press on both sides of the Atlantic. Later, W.M. Lawson was to describe it as "a mixture of bad sportsmansip, bad law and bad English, made in a hurry by a little clique and never ratified by the New York Yacht Club." At the time it was first published lawyers said that neither it, nor its predecessor had any legal standing, because they had not been signed by any of the other owners' heirs, and there were public calls for the NYYC to tear up the second and third Deeds and go back to the first Deed, "the only one signed by all owners of the yacht America".
What if that were untrue? What if they did not all sign that first Deed?
America's Cup historians have written a great deal about the origins of the America's Cup Deed of Gift and, in the process, George L. Schuyler has been elevated to something close to the yachting equivalent of sainthood and his Deed of Gift has become a near sacred document. Only last month, John "Chink" Longley - a crew member on five Alan Bond campaigns - was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame and ended his speech with a quote from Laurent Esquier, in reference to the author of the Deed of Gift: "The spirit of George Schuyler will prevail, and the Cup will be alright."
Will the Cup be alright?
There are plenty of question marks hanging over the George L. Schuyler Trust. We can start with the fact that, according to official records, it is listed as being set up inter vivos, but in 1857 charitable trusts were not legal in New York. It was only after the Tilden Act was passed, in 1893, that it became legally possible to set up such a trust and Schuyler had been dead for three years by then.
Where is the first Deed of Gift, signed by John Cox Stevens, Edwin Augustus Stevens, John Beekman Finlay, Hamilton Wilkes and George Schuyler?
The October 1st 1851 dinner, organised at Astor House by the New York Yacht Club, in honour of John Cox Stevens was a time for celebration. The Queen's Cup (as it was then called) was proudly displayed on the table and, when the speeches of congratulations were over, the talk turned to what was to become of the trophy. It was idle, good humoured chat; should it become a NYYC trophy, or would it be better to melt it down and cast commemorative medals.
George Schuyler took the idea of the Cup becoming a trophy very seriously. He drafted some proposed terms for a competition and met with the other owners, some time after that dinner. Some changes were suggested and the other owners said they would meet Schuyler again after he had amended his original draft.
It wasn't until the following spring that the meeting took place and, this time, only two owners were present, John Beekman Finlay and George Schulyer. Hamilton Wilkes was dying in Pau, France, but his attorney William Laight attended and all three signed a letter to the NYYC, gifting the Cup on terms agreed among themselves. The letter was then sent to John Cox Stevens for him and his brother, Edwin, to sign, but did they? If they did, where is it?
In fact, any talk of a future America's Cup competition seems to have faded from the New York yachting scene until a few weeks after John Cox Stevens had died, on June 13, 1857. Then George Schuyler got out an unsigned copy of his 1852 letter, made a few alterations and sent it to the New York Yacht Club. It seems the lack of signatures was viewed with a blind eye, on the grounds that this what everyone had intended.
The Cup was duly accepted, despite the fact that the evidence - or absence of evidence - suggests that two of the Cup's owners had never, formally, agreed to gift it and, of the other two, Hamilton Wilkes was dead and there is no indication that Jack Finlay was ever asked to approve Schuyler's final version, nor that Wilkes' heirs were consulted.
The above story is, we believe, as close as one can get to the reality of what happened, over 150 years ago. It is hard to understand what Schuyler hoped to achieve by making a gift that he had no legal right to make. One can only imagine that notions of legally binding deeds and trusts were far from anyone's minds and Schuyler saw his act as simply a gentlemanly gift between sportsman. What seems certain is that, in 1857, the public and even the vast majority of New York Yacht Club members had no idea that the letter giving the Cup to the club might not have any legal standing.
If our scenario is correct, and unless someone can produce a signed copy of the first Deed of Gift we believe it is, the America's Cup was never owned by the New York Yacht Club, so cannot be owned by the current trustee. The rightful owners must be among the numerous living descendants of the five owners of the yacht America. | 2019-04-20T12:31:08 | http://bymnews.com/americas-cup-33/ownership.php |
0.998546 | The education of George W. Bush on global warming is simply summarized: Honesty may not be the best policy. Greenhouse politics have long blended exaggeration and deception. Although global warming may or may not be an inevitable calamity (we don't know), politicians everywhere treat it as one. Doing otherwise would offend environmental lobbies and the public, which has been conditioned to see it as a certain disaster. But the same politicians won't do anything that would dramatically reduce global warming, because the obvious remedy -- steep increases in energy prices -- would be immensely unpopular.
By rejecting the Kyoto protocol, which would commit 38 industrial countries to control greenhouse emissions, Bush has discarded all the convenient deceits. He has brought more honesty to the global warming debate in four months than Bill Clinton did in eight years -- and this, paradoxically, is why he is so harshly condemned. He must be discredited because if he's correct, then almost everyone else has been playing fast and loose with the facts.
Bush says that the Kyoto commitments were "arbitrary and not based on science." True. Under Kyoto, the United States would cut its greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below their 1990 levels by the years 2008 to 2012. Japan's target is 6 percent, the European Union's 8 percent. Russia gets to maintain its 1990 level, and Australia is allowed an 8 percent increase. Developing countries (Brazil, China, India) aren't covered. These targets reflect pragmatic diplomacy and little else.
Because so many countries are excluded, it's also true -- as Bush indicates -- that even if Kyoto worked as planned, the effect on greenhouse gases would be almost trivial. In 1990, says the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, totaled 5.8 billion tons of "carbon equivalent." The EIA predicts that if nothing is done, emissions will rise 34 percent to 7.8 billion tons by 2010. With Kyoto, the increase would be only 26 percent to 7.3 billion tons. The reductions of industrialized countries would be more than offset by increases from developing countries.
Finally, Bush is correct when he says that reaching the Kyoto target would involve substantial economic costs for Americans. Strong U.S. economic growth has raised emissions well above their 1990 level. To hit the Kyoto target would require a cut of 30 percent or more of projected emissions. Under the Clinton administration, the EIA estimated that complying could raise electricity prices 86 percent and gasoline prices 53 percent. Higher prices are needed to induce consumers and businesses to use less energy (the source of most greenhouse gases) and switch to fuels (from coal to natural gas) that have lower emissions.
Europeans boast they've done better, implying that America's poor showing reflects a lack of will. By 1998, the 15 countries of the European Union had reduced greenhouse emissions 2.5 percent below the 1990 level. But the comparison is bogus, because Europe's performance reflects different circumstances -- and luck. Through 1998, only three countries (Germany, Britain and Luxembourg) had reduced their emissions, and these improvements were mostly fortunate accidents. The shutdown of inefficient and heavy-polluting factories in eastern Germany cut emissions. And in Britain, plentiful North Sea gas propelled a shift from coal. Generally speaking, slow population and economic growth -- meaning fewer cars, homes and offices -- helps Europe comply with Kyoto. From 1990 to 2010, the European Union's population is projected to rise 6 percent compared with a 20 percent U.S. increase.
The Clinton administration expressed alarm about global warming even while delaying effective action. Under Kyoto, countries can buy "rights" to emit greenhouse gases from other countries where -- in theory -- reductions could be more cheaply achieved. Called "emissions trading," this approach was championed by Clinton. But as David Victor of the Council on Foreign Relations argues in his book "The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol," the scheme is an unworkable sham. Some countries -- notably Russia and Ukraine -- got emissions targets well above their needs. So they could sell excess emission "rights" to Americans. The result: The United States wouldn't cut its emissions and neither would Russia or Ukraine. Because Europeans distrusted this and other U.S. proposals, the final negotiations over Kyoto deadlocked last year.
As Bush says, we know that global temperatures are rising -- but we don't know the speed or the ultimate consequences. On all counts, his candor seems more commendable than the simplifications and evasions of his critics. And yet, his policy has stigmatized him as an environmental outlaw and earned him ill will in Europe and Japan. These are high costs. What went wrong? Just this: People say they like honesty in politicians, but on global warming, the evidence is the opposite. People prefer delusion. Kyoto responded to this urge. People want to hear that "something" is being done when little is being done and, in all likelihood, little can be done.
Barring technological breakthroughs -- ways of producing cheap energy with few emissions or capturing today's emissions -- it's hard to see how the world can deal with global warming. Developing countries sensibly insist on the right to reduce poverty through economic growth, which means more energy use and emissions. (Much is made of China's recent drop in emissions; this is probably a one-time decline, reflecting the shutdown of inefficient factories. In 1999 China had eight cars per 1,000 people compared with 767 per 1,000 for the United States. Does anyone really believe that more cars, computers and consumer goods will cut China's emissions?) Meanwhile, industrialized countries won't reduce emissions if it means reducing living standards. There is a natural stalemate.
Because this message is unwanted, politicians don't deliver it. Someone who defies conventional wisdom needs to explain his views well enough to bring public opinion to his side. Bush has, so far, failed at this critical task. Ironically, he might have fared better if he had stuck with Clinton's clever deceptions. | 2019-04-24T18:31:55 | https://eagleforum.org/psr/2001/july01/samuelson.shtml |
0.999842 | Drew has difficulty making transitions from one location to another, or even from one activity to another. He handles these transitions far more effectively if he is provided with a warning or a heads-up a few minutes before the transition is to occur. ("Drew, you have about five minutes to work on your project and then we are all going outside for a demonstration.") Because of past negative relationships with teachers, Drew is particularly sensitive to scolding or reprimanding and often shuts down when scolded in public. We find it helpful to emphasize that we are upset with his behavior-not upset with him. The behavior is bad-not Drew. | 2019-04-23T00:35:57 | http://www.ldonline.org/article/Designing_a_Dossier%3A_An_Instruction_Book_for_Your_Child |
0.999855 | 4-Word Review: Kid brother moves in.
Buddy Baker (Tony Bill) has just turned 21 and is looking to get out into the world by moving in with his older brother Alan. Alan (Frank Sinatra) is living the bachelor’s dream by residing in a luxurious apartment in the heart of Manhattan while entertaining wild parties and a wide array of lovely ladies. Their parents (Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon) do not feel that Alan and his lifestyle will be a good influence on Buddy and forbid him from doing it, but he does it anyways, which drives the father to disown his sons and cut out all communications with them.
This was the first Neil Simon play to be turned into a movie and it was loosely based on Neil’s relationship with his older brother Danny. For the most part it is talky and stagy while lacking Simon’s patented one-liners and humorous exchanges. It also has for some bizarre reason a musical number that comes out of nowhere at the 40-minute mark where Sinatra sings the film’s title tune and then just as quickly it goes back to being a straight comedy, which came off as jarring, out-of-place and misguided.
I did enjoy the film’s set design, which got nominated for an Academy Award, especially the interiors of Alan’s swanky apartment. However, I was confused why Buddy had to sleep in the same room as Alan as I would think such a large and fancy place would have more than just one bedroom. The movie also strongly implies that Alan is having sexual trysts with his lady friends, which would then imply that he must have a king sized bed somewhere, so why are only twin beds shown? He also has five telephones in the living room, which seemed beyond absurd and made me feel that if he had purchased a few less phones then he might’ve been able to afford a double bed.
Sinatra’s presence is the film’s weakest link as this type of comedy doesn’t mesh well with his otherwise caustic personality. He was too old for the part as he was not only pushing 50, but also only 4 years younger than Cobb who plays his father. I didn’t like Jill St. John’s ditzy character either as she was too dumb to be believable, which was not only painfully unfunny, but stereotypical and insulting to women.
I did like Tony Bill in his film debut and his nicely understated performance helps keep the film balanced. Dan Blocker is also great as a jealous husband and Molly Picon is a scene stealer as the mother. You can even spot Dean Martin as a wino in an uncredited cameo.
The fact that Alan doesn’t want to give up his swinging lifestyle despite the pressures from his girlfriend Connie (Barbara Rush) is the story’s one and only redeeming quality. I could never understand why a single man, who’s enjoying the bachelorhood at its most ideal, such as it is portrayed here, would want to suddenly throw it all for the married life. Most of the of films from that era with a similar theme would portray it as simply being the ‘magic of love’, but here the character is much, much more resistant to the idea and doesn’t change his ways until having a life altering event where he sees things from a different perspective, which made more sense.
Sinatra fans may want to check this out, but it is far from his best stuff and although the material is agreeable it is only slightly engaging and barely worth the time. | 2019-04-21T22:58:10 | https://scopophiliamovieblog.com/tag/tony-bill/ |
0.998395 | Summary: New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): A Tamil Nadu-based cow trade organization going by the name of Maattu Vyapaarigal Matrum Tholilalargal Sangam moved the Supreme Court on Monday against the Centre's new cattle trade rules.
WHO is this myserious lovely who has been looking for her one true love on dating websites going by the name of Adriana?
Goldberg has a real feminine touch..
But here he is going by the name of Mark Garnett - head of a Bible-bashing Alabama family trying to knock some manners into two British teenagers before you can say hi-diddly-ho.
Going by the name of a member of G'n'R is almost as ballsy as trying to lock a backside Smith on a beveled edge.
I believe that at the time Mati was going by the name Abdul Mati Klarwein.
The boat is piloted by a man ``currently going by the name of Bally'' who is a smuggler of endangered species, and, as we meet him, he is remembering a discovery he made some time ago: ``that life consisted of a series of repetitions, each less savory than its predecessor - an overall distastefulness in which man himself was but one more repetition.
AIG has obtained evidence indicating that Australian shareholders of Cita Biochemical have been contacted by certain individuals going by the name of James Gallagher, David Goodman, Jason Duffy, Walter Busby, Vince Demambro, Patrick Calger-Smith or John Dalop, all allegedly from AIG's Paris office.
While working for a trader, Shefford comes to care for a mysterious young woman, going by the name of Mary, who lives in the village but doesn't really seem part of the Mormon community.
Going by the name Latte or Macaron (the two models in the LM Series), this affordable ($850) dog's yapping is literally pure music: Visionary glitch-kitsch composer Nobukazu Takemura was hired to create the digitally equipped watchdog's electronic vocabulary Takemura--whose recently released CD Sign (Thrill Jockey) continues his singular recombinations of smooth jazz, Steve Reich, and industrialism in equal measures--has devised for Moshino's aggressively cute creatures a palate of sounds onto which listeners can project desired meanings.
GOING by the name of Paparazzi Rock Chick, this new wallpaper from Graham & Brown couldn't fail in the glamour stakes.
Three other pages used the bishop, going by the names 'Abp Paciano Aniceto,' 'Paciano Aniceto' and 'Archbishop Paciano Aniceto.
It would seem to be the height of fantasy: four young adventurous Frenchmen going by the names of Dumas's fictional musketeers hatch a plot to kidnap Jefferson Davis early in the Civil War and almost get a chance to carry it off. | 2019-04-26T05:49:49 | http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/going+by+the+name |
0.999915 | Which plug adaptor do I need when travelling from Aruba to Germany?
The table below summarises the plug types, voltage and frequency of electrical current in both Aruba and Germany.
Germany also uses Socket Type F, which is used in Aruba. If using an appliance that has a Type F Plug in the Type F Sockets of Germany, you will not need an adaptor.
The voltages found in Aruba and Germany are significantly different.
Is your appliance compatible with the voltage used in Germany (230V)?
If your appliance is not compatible with multiple voltages, you will need a transformer to adjust the voltage input when using your appliance in Germany.
The frequency of electrical current found in Aruba (60Hz) differs to that found in Germany (50Hz). | 2019-04-25T16:17:39 | https://www.whichplug.com/aruba-to-germany/ |
0.999999 | General aviation pilot voiced concern regarding ATC handling by N90; noting the controller's reluctance in issuing a pop-up IFR clearance unlike in previous years.
I've been flying and talking to the ny TRACON for 35 years now out of isp (long island; ny). Over the past couple of years or so I've noticed that the controllers are getting more reluctant to accept pop-up IFR clearances. Two years ago I requested a pop-up IFR clearance because of unexpected IMC and the controller said that I would need to file with flight service. I called the TRACON after landing and the controller said that sometimes pilots request pop-ups when they only want a practice approach and that if I want to get the controllers attention; I should tell the controller that I am about to go IMC. This past weekend another pilot on frequency requested a pop-up because of a broken layer at 1;200 ft and the controller said that they were no longer able to accept pop-ups because 'flight service is now a private company'. I'm not sure what the connection is but I believe safety is being compromised.
Title: General Aviation pilot voiced concern regarding ATC handling by N90; noting the Controller's reluctance in issuing a pop-up IFR clearance unlike in previous years.
Narrative: I've been flying and talking to the NY TRACON for 35 years now out of ISP (Long Island; NY). Over the past couple of years or so I've noticed that the controllers are getting more reluctant to accept pop-up IFR clearances. Two years ago I requested a pop-up IFR clearance because of unexpected IMC and the Controller said that I would need to file with Flight Service. I called the TRACON after landing and the Controller said that sometimes pilots request pop-ups when they only want a practice approach and that if I want to get the controllers attention; I should tell the controller that I am about to go IMC. This past weekend another pilot on frequency requested a pop-up because of a broken layer at 1;200 FT and the Controller said that they were no longer able to accept pop-ups because 'Flight Service is now a private company'. I'm not sure what the connection is but I believe safety is being compromised. | 2019-04-19T06:42:42 | http://www.37000feet.com/report/1028222/General-aviation-pilot-voiced-concern-regarding-ATC-handling-by-N90-noting-the |
0.999995 | In which countries in the world does everyone know their blood types? The answer has to be Japan and South Korea. The considerable interest in blood types in the two countries has become something of a running joke [ko], especially when compared to Western countries in which many people don't know – and don't really care about – their blood group.
Whilst evident across Asia, nowhere is the ‘blood type personality theory’ more strongly adhered to than in Japan and South Korea, with books, comics, songs, and products on sale, all based on the idea. On South Korean Facebook, people can even add their blood type to their profile along with other important personal information.
Although this fad has somehow faded over the recent years, its popularity is still strong, somewhat equivalent to that of horoscopes in Western countries.
According to the theory, people's ABO blood type is predictive of their personality, temperament, and compatibility with others. The adjectives which best describe the traits of each blood type are as follow: Type A is considerate but shy, B is creative but whimsical, O is sociable but unorganized and AB is rational but calculating.
The images below, created by cartoonist Park Dong Sun, exhibit how each blood type behaves in a certain situation. Park's cartoon scripts on blood type personalities are published on South Korea's largest portal site, Naver.com on a regular basis.
ABO blood types on a summer vacation: The B Type is seen as fully enjoying the moment, the Type A is putting quite a lot of effort into building a sand castle, and Type AB is located very far from the group. Image from Cartoonist Park's blog (CC BY NC ND).
The most organised, Type A, softly complains about who packed the vacation baggage, Type AB points at Type O and B for lousy packing. Type O and B are busy playing in the sea. Image from Cartoonist Park's blog (CC BY NC ND).
Short-tempered Type O is cooling off by sitting right in front of an electric fan, very noisily and repetitively complaining about the weather. Type B, so irritated, is on the verge of hitting Type O. Type AB is paying no attention to any of them. Image from Cartoonist Park's blog (CC BY NC ND).
Type AB, the rarest blood type, is always pictured as a sort of outsider, even an alien sometimes. In the image, AB is riding on a UFO while others are sitting on the ground. Image from Cartoonist Park's blog (CC BY NC ND).
To find out more details about the each type's trait, read this Global Voices post written by Hyejin in 2007.
USBs based on the characters from the blood type cartoons. Image from Cartoonist Park's blog (CC BY NC ND).
Although harmless, cute images are adopted to explain the blood type personality theory in cartoons, the theory itself is a relic of the dark past. It is often traced back to the scientific racism used first by Nazis and later by Japanese imperialists to promote ideas of supremacy over different races or countries during the 1920s-30s.
When Austrian scientists first found the four different blood types, it was a truly ground-breaking research which later saved countless human lives by preventing them from receiving mismatched blood transfusions. However, later studies revealed that the different blood groups are distributed disproportionately across the world and this prompted some racist, imperialist researchers to publish non-statical reports on the theory of blood type personalities.
One famous piece of research was done by Japanese scholar Furukawa, who focused on the racial traits of the Taiwanese who revolted against Japanese imperialism. The researcher concluded that since more than 40 percent of Taiwanese had type O blood, which is believed to be the least submissive type, they needed to dilute the country's ‘rebellious blood’ by increasing intermarriages with Japanese.
Even after many Japanese academics discredited the theory for its lack of scientific basis, it somehow managed to survive through several sensational publications, with the help of media's unyielding interest. Starting from late 1990s, this fad spread to South Korea, gaining huge popularity in early 2000, and has been famous ever since.
[Despite all the criticism] it is proven to be right in most cases. Of course there are exceptions. I have seen a Type A person who is really a direct shooter and a Type O person who was a big bigot and not cool at all. […] But when treating other people, there is no other standard more convenient than the blood type personality. […] There are a lot of things in the world which cannot be measured or fully explained by science.
You are someone who act bold, but on the inside, you are so thoughtful and considerate that even on decisions you have already made you would often look back and ask yourself “have I made a right choice?” You are sweet to other people and maintain good relationships with them, but it takes quite a time to get to know the real you.[…] You must have nodded along while reading this paragraph. It is because humans have different facets. Even the boldest guy can be indecisive and an easy-going person who would sometimes appear as absentminded can be really considerate on some level.
In South Korea and Japan, two countries with strong sense of collectivism, people are educated and trained to value a group over individuals. Getting along with others and others’ opinions about you matter a great deal. [Once the belief on the blood type personality is settled in the society] the effect of the blood type personality can be maximized, as individuals are often forced to accept how others, seniors and their group perceive them and act accordingly.
Personally, I prefer the traditional explanation of personality types. Its basis goes back 2000 years to Hippocrates – the father of medicine. | 2019-04-19T18:32:35 | https://globalvoices.org/2011/08/16/south-korea-blood-type-personality-theory-how-it-works/ |
0.999992 | Ask any Worcesterite and they will agree � stART on the Street, a beloved festival of arts (both visual and performing), truly shines a light on what those in the Worcester community have to offer. Since stART on the Street�s inception in 2002, the signature event has entertained the community for nearly a decade with fall, spring and holiday festivals. The fall stART has and will continue to take place on Park Avenue; however, the more mobile spring festival will be experiencing its third location change as this year�s celebration will take place in Worcester�s historical Canal District.
Ask any Worcesterite and they will agree – stART on the Street, a beloved festival of arts (both visual and performing), truly shines a light on what those in the Worcester community have to offer. Since stART on the Street’s inception in 2002, the signature event has entertained the community for nearly a decade with fall, spring and holiday festivals. The fall stART has and will continue to take place on Park Avenue; however, the more mobile spring festival will be experiencing its third location change as this year’s celebration will take place in Worcester’s historical Canal District.
Once the home to lucrative businesses that would help develop the city, the Canal District will allow the spring edition of stART on the Street to utilize multiple parking lots and side streets providing a more urban feel to the typical singular street version. “We were looking at up-and-coming areas in the city with demographics we hadn’t hit yet; North Main Street is really a stone’s throw away from Park Ave. Also, the Canal District has some new street scaping and is really funky… There are also some great, diverse businesses on the street,” says founder Tina Zlody.
Included in those unique businesses is The Lucky Dog Music Hall, a local performing venue that will be opening its doors to all attending stART on the Street. Erick Godin, manager of the establishment, will be performing with his ’80s cover band, Flock of Assholes, both inside but also acoustically on an outdoor stage. Godin will not only be welcoming visitors of the event but will also allure them to attend future performances as well. “I’m handing out thousands of June/July calendars and tons of free passes to an upcoming Flock show. I want people to not just be here Sunday, June 3, but also to make them a fan of Lucky Dog,” explains Godin. In addition to this ear entertainment, those stopping by Lucky Dog will be able to feast their eyes on visual art as several artists will be featuring pieces inside.
Locals with a knack and a passion for reviving old cars will be bringing their creations to the streets where others can marvel and maybe reminisce. “For me, I think the question I ask myself when I look at a creation is whether it makes me smile, think, or otherwise feel something. For a lot of folks, myself included, certain cars do that. Maybe it's nostalgia, or Americana, or sparkly paint, a carefully executed welding job and a top that folds down that makes you think, 'Yeah, I'd drive this,'" playfully states Erskine.
In addition to the heavy art of automobiles, there will be numerous other artist forms as well. Troy B. Thompson of the No Evil Project will be returning after attending last year’s fall stART on the Street with the organization’s fi rst public photo shoot. The social art project, which has people pose as the three wise monkeys – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Speak No Evil – and then choose three labels to represent themselves, originated as Thompson struggled with what he saw around him. “It bothered me that there seemed to be an increasing emphasis on ‘Us vs. Them’ from race to religion to politics to sexuality to socioeconomics to sports teams and what kind of cell phone you use,” he says. Thompson hopes to open people to discussing these topics as they view the project’s pieces.
Joining Thompson and sharing an interest in photography is Doug Hockman. Also an artist that only became involved with stART on the Street last year, Hockman was pleased with his experience. “There is a great art community in Worcester and stART gives you the opportunity to connect and sell with them,” he says.
Molly McGrath of the thrift store Grime Clothing located at 100 Grove St. will be sharing handmade crafts. Grime, home of new or used clothing and handmade items, features local artists as McGrath enjoys being able to speak about the pieces face-to-face with the artists. She will be featuring her handmade items this year at the event for the first time after admiring stART on the Street for the past two years.
In a different craft, Seed to Stem specializes in unusual container gardens and plant arrangements. The company, founded by Virginia Orlando and co-creator Candace Atchue in January 2011, specializes in unusual container gardens and plant arrangements. The stART on the Street participants are in the midst of preparing for Seed to Stem’s grand opening of its retail store, taking place June 16. Those attending stART on the Street will get a sneak peak at all the store will have to offer.
From photography to music to clothing to nature, stART on the Street is for the artist in everyone and the idea is simple for all – to enjoy themselves. “Our message has always been to come celebrate your city, buy some art, discover a new band, eat, dance, meet new people, hang with old friends and have a great time,” Zlody communicates. To celebrate art, music and the city of Worcester, be sure to attend the spring edition of stART on the Street on June 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., taking place for the first time in Worcester’s Canal District (on Green Street between Temple and Madison). For more information visit startonthestreet.org.
stART on the Street organizers, along with members of the festival’s house band Flock of Assholes, parade across Green Street. | 2019-04-19T05:20:22 | https://www.worcestermag.com/2012/05/31/start-on-the-canal-155750915 |
0.999984 | After using the "hey Siri" function, how can I get back to what I was previously doing hands-free?
If I'm listening to something in the car, or at home while I'm making dinner, and I use the hands-free "hey Siri" function, it stays on the Siri screen even after I'm done with her and does not go back to what the phone was previously doing unless I click the home button or the off button. But the whole point of it is to be hands-free. Is there a fix for this?
I'm actually streaming music from my iPhone to my TV and Visio sound bar while replying to your message. I initiate the "hey Siri" feature no asked for the score to the Clemson vs Boston College football game. Afterwards, I instructed Siri to return to the Music app and it did and resumed playing the song that was initially playing when I initiated hey Sir. | 2019-04-19T00:25:18 | https://forums.imore.com/ask-question/375088-after-using-hey-siri-function-how-can-i-get-back-what-i-previously-doing-hands-free-print.html |
0.999387 | Echoed my sentiments - I drive a work vehicle and it's a Corsa car van and yes we get in drilled into us about how low the tread needs to be for tyres to get changed.
I agree that most RTA's are avoidable (the amount idiots on the roads til late last night trying to drive about in dire conditions) but that said I attempted to go out somewhere at tea time yesterday and rapidly changed my mind as the main roads in Scunthorpe were ice rinks. Not everyone can have 4 x 4 stored somewhere for a few days of snow a year. My partner had to work from home for a few days earlier in the month because he works at Lincoln Hospital and the A15 was shut due to drifting snow, he wouldn't feel that comfortable with having to work from home time and again. As for my vehicle, it's a work vehicle owned by my employer and is a Corsa van so only so I have to consider journeys I make in this weather wisely as it's all I have. Easter Friday we have a flight out of the country to Belgium so again it's the hassle that snow causes to airports, I also travel to an office in York twice a week on the trains and they become affected as well. I do find snow exciting but it's a major hassle as well and I am ready for warm days in the garden.
Just had a little walk out and it's mad to see the drifts that are halfway up my shins next to the odd bone dry patch of concrete, a good blanket has been dumped, more than BFTE 1. Lots of icicle on the house when I went out the back to put some bird feed out.
Winter wonderland in Scunthorpe good and proper! The road behind the fence in the photo is acdusk carriageway buried under the snow and the footpath on the far side of it appears to be under a huge snowdrift!
Some crazy blizzards hitting Scunthorpe tonight, wind really blowing out there.
Roads are horrific out, Scunthorpe is like an ice rink including major roads, accidents everywhere from here to Humber Bridge because of it. Police are getting the gritters to come out to the A15 because no gritting has been attempted today. Car was sliding around at times and scares me to death - glad to be safely back home,stay indoors tonight if you can peeps.
Accumulating in North Lincs now as the intensity of the sun has gone. Just put some stuff in the bin outside and the cold really made me skin throb. I think drifting could be a nuisance but in Lincolnshire again, I drove across the wolds a week after the last snow and was amazed at the volume of drifts and ploughed snow on the sides of all the roads from Humberside airport to Thorpe St Peter.
It makes me laugh that the dramatic headlines have started with airports cancelling flights as the snow sweeps the country - do they mean this melty stuff that is melting 5 seconds after it lands!
Been for a walk to the shop, snow accumulating in areas not exposed to the sun but very melty elsewhere. It felt wet as it hit my face. Impressive to look at when it comes down in full swing though.
Yes we had loads of mank everywhere after the last fall, our vehicles and glazing was left covered in soot type stuff - wasn't sure whether to blame the local steelworks or not!
Snow showers getting heavier in nature over Scunthorpe, it's turning white out there.
Snowing a heavy but fine snow in Scunthorpe and its settling as everything dried up nicely overnight.
It's turned to snow in Scunthorpe. | 2019-04-24T02:51:51 | https://www.netweather.tv/forum/profile/27019-jules79/ |
0.998451 | America's New Mommy Wars An Elitist Assault on Working Women?
Two high-profile working mothers in America claim they aren't setting off the 2013 version of the "mommy wars." But, in light of their recent actions, it's hard to view the perspectives of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer any other way.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently issued a workplace edict that employees at the Internet company could no longer do their jobs from home.
Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has for years publicly voiced her opinion that American women should stop shying away from their place at the leadership table and insist on gender equality, even after becoming mothers. She is saying that women should stop "leaning back" from their careers once kids come along. The fact that Sandberg has tons of domestic help and a husband whose job allows him to manage a lot of their family responsibilities goes mostly unmentioned in her line of argument.
In her new book, "Lean In," Sandberg has set her sights on European women, and, in fact, all women around the world, with her plan "to create a global community dedicated to encouraging women to lean in to their ambitions."
At the same time, Yahoo!'s CEO Marissa Mayer's "no more working from home" edict set off a storm among American working moms, so much so, that some are saying the actions of Sandberg and Mayer have created an elitist two-front assault on working moms.
There's nothing wrong with encouraging women to live up to their professional potentials or saying that there are times when employees -- men and women alike -- need to make an appearance in an office setting. But the tools of choice in these latest developments to impact working parents aren't good ones, and they all create a twinge of guilt it's hard to get past.
While Sandberg suggests that there are public policy barriers to the professional advancement of women, the theme of her book isn't subtle -- she wants to hold women accountable for their professional shortcomings by pushing them to spend less time with their kids, get their spouses to shoulder more of the family burden and acknowledge that women are their own worst enemies in the workplace. That's some serious guilt to pass on to working women who are trying to keep work and family in some sort of balance.
Mayer's recent workplace edict -- though it only applies to a few hundred Yahoo! workers -- sets the stage for other companies to roll back flex-time options for beleaguered working families. I suspect Mayer's custom-built nursery next to her Yahoo! office is something most working women with newborns would be excited to have as a workplace perk.
Mom guilt is almost always in the air for America's working women. Sandberg and Mayer -- who recently said that having a baby and continuing to work "has been way easier than everyone made it out to be" -- make it sound like they understand the work/life problems of the average American mom. But it's hard to ignore that they live in a penthouse atop the San Francisco Four Seasons (Mayer) and a 9,000-square-foot mansion (Sandberg) and hold positions of power that allow them to leave their offices at 5:30 p.m.
Young working women without children in America might view the two managers as modern leaders of the feminist movement, charging head-long into a new wave of professional empowerment. I very much doubt, though, that women around the world will see the Facebook COO or the Yahoo! boss as the 21st-century version of Simone de Beauvoir.
Sandberg's book and Mayer's edict probably won't be well received by Dutch women, who seem to believe that happiness in life isn't all about a 60+ hour work week or breaking through a glass ceiling. What about French women, whose attitudes toward work and family were described by American writer Judith Warner as follows?
"In France," she writes, "mothers are expected to take time for themselves. Their lives are made easier by social supports such as high-quality childcare and generous parental-leave policies." French mothers, in Warner's view, enjoy a lifestyle that Americans might find almost incredible. "Guilt just wasn't in the air," she says.
Sounds like both Sandberg and Mayer will strike out there. British news reports express skepticism about Sandberg's approach. As for German women, I'm not sure if they are going to take kindly to advice from American corporate mothers with millions of dollars in stock options.
Can European women "lean in" if they so desire? Do they want the flexible working arrangements that Mayer has for herself, but that she is hesitant to bestow on her employees? I have no doubt that both are true. But just as with many American women, it has to be their decision about what's best for their lives and their families, and not about falling victim to executive women who think they know what's best for everyone around the world.
Joanne Bamberger, a journalist and mother, is the author of "Mothers of Intention: How Women in Social Media are Revolutionizing Politics in America". | 2019-04-21T22:43:32 | https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/sheryl-sandberg-and-marissa-mayer-create-new-guilt-for-working-moms-a-887421.html |
0.998637 | Article: Who's still spending their advertising budget on print?
Who’s still spending their advertising budget on print?
A recent article on Search Engine Land tried to identify the six types of PPC skeptics. Who are the people still holding out against online, pay-per-click advertising? If they ignored it because they thought it was a passing fad, history has shown that didn’t happen. Even companies in conservative sectors like engineering and science are now spending much more on search engine advertising than they are on magazine advertising, for example.
So what’s holding back the rest? Well, there are always companies which are quite happy building their business without any advertising. It can be done just through networking, PR or direct mail. However, it’s hard to comprehend those which are still spending all their advertising budget on print (and believe me, we’ve tried to understand). Some of their budget, if the PPC opportunities are being worked hard, sure; that seems fair enough. But all of the budget on print? In 2016? Why would that be?
However, there comes a time when the return on investment from search engine advertising just can’t be overlooked. A monthly budget of £1000 will easily get 200 engaged visitors to a company’s website. Guaranteed. And a page advert in a magazine? Don’t make me laugh. | 2019-04-24T16:58:16 | https://www.bmon.co.uk/2016/06/whos-still-spending-advertising-budget-print/ |
0.999997 | BAGHDAD — While the Kurds think of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk as the “Jerusalem of Kurdistan,” since the adoption of the 2005 Iraqi Constitution, the Turkmens have been calling for a special status that preserves the city’s ethnic pluralism.
Summary⎙ Print The Turkmen, the third national component of Iraq, are demanding arms to fight against the Islamic State, just like the Arabs and Kurds, but territorial squabbles are keeping the various groups at arm's length.
However, the demands of the Turkmens — the third biggest group in Iraq after the Arabs and Kurds — are weakened by divisions within the group. Turkmens include Sunnis, Shiites and a minority of Catholics. This ideological division is crippling their performance as a distinct national group, and it was the main reason that led to the Islamic State (IS) controlling Turkmen-majority areas such as Tal Afar.
Kassem Kara, a leader of the Iraqi Turkmen Front in Tal Afar, said on June 17, 2014, that the Turkmens could not overcome their divisions and unite against IS. The Shiite Turkmens took refuge in areas controlled by Kurdish peshmerga forces while the Sunni Turkmens resorted to IS-controlled Mosul. Tal Afar turned into an example of how the Turkmens prioritize their sect over their nationality. This also applies to the Turkmens split between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurds. Such a situation will ultimately lead to their weakening and disintegration, according to Kara.
For their part, the Turkmens argue that their lack of access to arms was the main reason behind their loss of Tal Afar and other Turkmen cities. They believe that it is their right to get arms from the parties that provide them to the central government or the Kurdistan Regional Government — such as the United States, Germany and France — to liberate the areas seized by IS and ensure their protection in the future.
The Turkmen armament demands had begun as a result of concerns over attacks by IS that took control of Tal Afar, a Turkmen-majority city, and amid the threat faced by other Turkmen-majority cities such as Tuz Khormato and the threat to Kirkuk, especially after they found themselves unprotected by the Iraqi army or the peshmerga.
However, exacerbating these concerns, Turkmens were not allowed by the Kurds and the central government to form special forces to maintain their security.
The Turkmen demands in Kirkuk consist of maintaining the special status of ethnic pluralism under a federal system in the disputed city, so as to ensure their rights and interests facing the Kurdish demands to annex their rich city to the Kurdistan Region.
While the Turkmens are trying to overcome their divisions to unite their demands facing the Kurds and Arabs, there is also a general feeling among them that their influence in Kirkuk is decaying. | 2019-04-18T13:43:57 | http://www.barcelonaradical.net/info/8055/controversy-continues-over-how-to-cut-up-kirkuk |
0.999664 | What is the most important information I should know about fluticasone and salmeterol?
You should not use this medicine if you are allergic to fluticasone, salmeterol, or milk proteins.
Fluticasone and salmeterol is not a rescue medicine. It will not work fast enough to treat an asthma or bronchospasm attack.
What is fluticasone and salmeterol inhalation?
Fluticasone and salmeterol inhalation is a combination medicine used to prevent asthma attacks. It is also used to prevent flare-ups or worsening of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) associated with chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema.
In people with COPD, fluticasone and salmeterol is for long-term treatment. In people with asthma, this medicine is for short-term treatment until symptoms are well controlled with with other medicines.
Advair Diskus is for use in adults and children who are at least 4 years old. Advair HFA and AirDuo Respiclick are for use in adults and children who are at least 12 years old.
Salmeterol when used alone may increase the risk of death in people with asthma. However, this risk is not increased when fluticasone and salmeterol are used together as a combination product.
Fluticasone and salmeterol may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before using fluticasone and salmeterol?
if you are having an asthma attack or severe COPD symptoms.
Fluticasone can weaken your immune system, making it easier for you to get an infection or worsening an infection you already have or have recently had. Tell your doctor about any illness or infection you have had within the past several weeks.
It is not known whether fluticasone and salmeterol is harmful to an unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.
It is not known whether fluticasone and salmeterol passes into breast milk or if it could affect the nursing baby. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding.
This medicine is not approved for use by anyone younger than 4 years old.
How should I use fluticasone and salmeterol?
Fluticasone and salmeterol is not a rescue medicine. It will not work fast enough to treat an asthma attack. Use only a fast-acting inhalation medicine for an asthma attack.
Advair Diskus is a powder form of fluticasone and salmeterol that comes with a special inhaler device pre-loaded with blister packs containing measured doses of the medicine. The device opens and loads a blister each time you use the inhaler.
Advair HFA and AirDuo Respiclick each come in a canister that is used with an actuator inhaler device.
Use only the inhaler device provided with your medication.
Rinse your mouth with water after each use of your inhaler.
While using fluticasone and salmeterol, your vision and your bone mineral density may need to be checked often.
Store your medicine at room temperature away from moisture, light, and heat (especially high heat, such as open flame or in a car on a hot day).
Throw the inhaler device away 1 month after you took it out of the foil pouch, or if the dose indicator shows a zero (even if it feels like there is still medicine inside).
Once your asthma is under control, your doctor may want you to stop using this medicine. Keep all follow-up appointments and do not stop using the medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Overdose symptoms may include chest pain, fast heart rate, and feeling shaky or short of breath.
What should I avoid while using fluticasone and salmeterol?
Avoid being near people who are sick or have infections. Call your doctor for preventive treatment if you are exposed to chicken pox or measles. These conditions can be serious or even fatal in people who are using a steroid such as fluticasone.
Do not use a second inhaled bronchodilator unless your doctor tells you to. This includes formoterol (Perforomist, Symbicort, Bevespi, Dulera), arformoterol (Brovana), indacaterol (Arcapta), olodaterol (Striverdi, Stiolto Respimat), salmeterol (Serevent), or vilanterol (Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta).
What are the possible side effects of fluticasone and salmeterol?
signs of a hormonal disorder --worsening tiredness or muscle weakness, feeling light-headed, nausea, vomiting.
What other drugs will affect fluticasone and salmeterol?
HIV/AIDS medication such as ritonavir (Norvir, Kaletra).
This list is not complete and many other drugs can interact with fluticasone and salmeterol. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products. Give a list of all your medicines to any healthcare provider who treats you.
Your pharmacist can provide more information about fluticasone and salmeterol inhalation.
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0.999966 | I have boxes of different nails in my workshop because all nails are not alike. For instance, there are general-purpose nails used primarily in woodworking and specialty nails for jobs involving concrete and masonry.
I would never use a roofing nail to install trim on a piece of furniture I was building. Even if I pre-drilled, I would split the wood, and how would I hide the head of the nail below the surface of the wood? Conversely, if I used a finishing nail to attach roof shingles, I couldn't guarantee that they would not break free in a strong wind.
And just as not all nails fit every job, not all hammers fit every nail. You should have more than one hammer.
A glossary: Common nails are thick and heavy-duty, with large flat heads, and are used in framing carpentry and other rough work. Finish nails are used to fasten trim and cabinets when you don't want the heads to show; carpenters put a steel tool called a nailset into the nail's cupped head to hammer the head below the surface of the wood. Wood filler masks the hole.
Casing nails are like finishing nails but used for heavier-duty work; the nails themselves are thicker and heavier. Brads are very small finishing nails, usually no more than an inch long, and they are thinner, too.
Cut flooring nails are rectangular with blunt tips that won't split the wood as they go through the edges. Roofing nails -- used to hold roofing felt, shingles, shakes, and materials of that sort -- have large heads and ringed shanks so the material won't come away from the sheathing easily. Masonry or concrete nails are made of thick, hardened steel with a grooved or fluted shank that can be round, flat, or square.
Gutter spikes are 6- to 8-inch nails used to secure gutters. Drywall nails have large heads and ringed shanks for attaching drywall to studs. Most professionals use them; most do-it-yourselfers use drywall screws. Duplex or scaffold nails have two heads -- one that is driven against the material to hold it in place, the second for easy removal. These are usually used to fasten work temporarily.
Tacks have short shanks and are used to fasten upholstery or carpet.
Need to know: Most nails are made from steel or stainless steel. Nail length is measured in inches or designated by the word penny, which once referred to their price per hundred. A tenpenny nail (known as a 10d) is 3 inches long, a twopenny is 1 inch long, a 60d is 6 inches long. Nail diameter typically increases with length.
Be sure to ask: Are the nails galvanized to prevent rusting? That is extremely important if you are doing an outdoor project, such as building a roof or deck. Galvanized nails are coated with zinc either through electroplating, which makes them shiny, or hot dipping, which leaves a dull finish.
Don't do this: Don't try to use a nail in a way it wasn't intended. For example, don't use barbed or ringed nails if you plan to remove them; their sharp-edged ridges are designed to lock into the wood, and if you try pulling them out, you'll do damage.
Bad advice: "Drive nails through thicker pieces of wood into thinner ones." Actually, it's the other way around. The nail should be three times as long as the thickness of the thin piece, so that two-thirds of the nail will be in the thicker piece to hold it better.
What it will cost: From a few cents to several dollars, depending on the kind of nail and the quantity. | 2019-04-24T11:56:35 | https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2009-06-12-0906100859-story.html |
0.999299 | The G-Word: Insult or Honor?
"Archery is a geek sport." Photo from MSNBC.
The NBC Nightly News did a feature about the rising popularity of archery in the wake of The Hunger Games (the shots of students taking archery lessons were filmed at my home range, but I'm not in the clips; I was busy running the children's class on the other side of the hill), and USA Archery CEO Denise Parker remarked that archery "if we're brutally honest, is a bit geeky; it's a geek sport."
Is anyone else in the archery world as offended by this as me? I for one take this sport very seriously. I try to represent my family and support it and myself through archery. I try to represent my sponsors and exceed their expectations in every facet of the sport.
I would prefer to see this sport grow in a non joking manner. I do not like how we are always made a mockery of. Are track and field athletes called 'geeks'? Didn't think so.
On Friday, May 11, NBC Nightly News aired a feature story on the growth of interest in the sport of archery. The story focused on the recent film "The Hunger Games" and emphasized that the sport, once considered an old-fashioned pursuit, is gaining newfound popularity.
During the interview, I was asked questions about people's unique fervor for archery, and responded that it is "a bit of a geek sport," referring to the word's more modern definition: "A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who passionately pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance." To me, it was meant to describe the sport as being not-mainstream and unique, which I find very cool about our sport.
I understand and appreciate why some have been offended by the phrase "geek sport," which can have other connotations, and just want to apologize to any people I have offended with the statement. It was a poor choice of words, and I am sorry. I absolutely love this sport and I have the highest regard for all that participate in it.
My intent was to celebrate the uniqueness of archery and the passion of archers, but never to belittle or lessen the tremendous accomplishments of all of the USA Archery members and Team USA athletes who devote themselves to the discipline of great shooting every day.
Thank you to all who took the time to provide feedback about your feelings on this subject.
I'm a geek. I write for a geek blog. "Geek" is right there in the name: GeekDad. If I didn't consider myself a geek, I wouldn't be here. I was the guy who inspired Brandon Hanvey's Geek Pride t-shirt, seen to the left. I certainly understood what Parker meant, and took no offense at her remarks; my reaction was "dang right!"
Geeks are hot now. We're the people that get called when our jock brothers can't figure out how to configure their email or set up their wireless router. They need us, and they are starting to appreciate us. At the end of Avengers, the non-geeky portion of the audience turned as one to their geek friends and relatives and asked "who is that?" and we told them, explaining the back-story of those obscure (to the non-geeks) characters in tediously pedantic detail. We win on Jeopardy.
This is our time, and we have in large part reappropriated the word that defines us, redefining it the way that Ms. Parker describes in her later comments. Clearly we still have work to do.
The question remains: we may have reclaimed and rehabilitated "the G-word," but are we the only ones allowed to use it? Is it still considered inflammatory and offensive when used by non-geeks, or only when applied to non-geeks? Discuss.
Join the conversation at the GeekDad Community page and tell me how wrong I am. | 2019-04-26T14:09:42 | https://www.wired.com/2012/05/the-g-word-insult-or-honor/ |
0.999832 | To cover an opening with bricks. The contractor is going to brick up the windows in this room before he starts working on the addition.
to fill up an opening with bricks. He bricked the doorway up. Why did he brick up the opening?
To fill or block an opening with a wall of bricks: The owners of the old factory bricked up the windows to keep animals and curious children out. The builders bricked the old doorway up and covered it with drywall. | 2019-04-26T15:52:20 | http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/bricks+up |
0.999605 | Inquiring tribal leaders wanted to know. What's on Neal McCaleb's mind?
During a candid discussion yesterday afternoon in Washington, D.C., they found out. Most questions asked of the outgoing assistant secretary were answered as McCaleb touched on several issues he tried to tackle, some unsuccessfully, during his 17-month tenure as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Chief among those, of course, was the trust fund lawsuit. He likened the bitter fight to "being drug over a cactus patch with your britches off."
But he referred back to earlier statements he made about a case that has raised awareness to a century of mistreatment. "As brutal as the Cobell lawsuit has been to me personally, and I don't mean to whine," he said, "it has realized the level of public attention to the inequities and the failures of the system."
McCaleb also took on a hot topic that attendees of the meeting discussed during the breaks: a controversial TIME magazine report on Indian gaming. He said the articles were "very damaging" and warned that it could lead to a backlash unless tribal leaders take the initiative to tell their side of the story.
"We are not people that go around with a trumpet and blow our own horn," he said. "But we need to change in this respect or we may not have a horn to blow."
He tied tribal casinos to his support for creating economic opportunity but said he didn't always feel that way. "I was not originally a great advocate of Indian gaming," he told the tribal leaders. "But I've seen the good -- that translates to the money that has been reinvested in Indian Country -- that has come from it."
McCaleb's economic development initiatives never got off the ground during his stay at the BIA. Still, he urged tribes to carry the mantle to the White House, where he said the economy will remain a big focus.
"Indian Country should be a key part of that," he said.
Economic success is directly linked to education, McCaleb said. He pointed to the BIA's Family and Child Education (FACE) program, which seeks to increase the involvement of parents in early childhood learning.
"Of the things that I see at the BIA that is changing lives, I think the FACE program is one of those things," he observed.
McCaleb tried not to criticize the administration for decisions tribes didn't agree with, or even those he may have opposed. "I've got to be careful," he said. "I'm still a member of the team."
He repeated an earlier promise, though, about what he calls his life-long commitment to "Indian service." "I'm not gonna go away and find me a rocking chair on the front porch," he said. "I may not lay with the big dogs but I'm not going to lay on the porch either."
"You'll see me again," he concluded. "I don't know just how yet. . . I will remain at your orders." | 2019-04-25T06:01:08 | http://indianz.com/News/show.asp?ID=2002/12/17/mccaleb |
0.998327 | I would like to add support for MySQL/MariaDB and I have some questions about it.
I suppose the nicest way to do it would be to use some haskell binding and to connect directly to the server from propellor. However, this would add a dependency to build it. Is it acceptable?
Another solution is to use a command line client and parse its output, but the SQL syntax is so strange that I fear this will be painful.
Another question is about password generation as I will need many passwords, I would like to generate them using a crypto hash of a secret combined with a public part in the propellor config. Do you have a suggestion to compute this hash? I think a dependency on a hash library is easier to accept.
We want to avoid adding heavy dependencies to propellor since that makes propellor more expensive to bootstrap and adds a point of failure.
But, it should be easy enough to add dependencies to your own ~/.propellor/config.cabal and write your properties using them. It would also be fine to have additional libraries of propellor properties extending propellor.
As for crypto hashes, it's certianly general enough to consider adding to propellor, but it's also striking that propellor has mostly avoided needing any hashes (except for some small uses of hashable and one place that shells out to sha1). If there's a general purpose property that uses a crypto hash, we could talk about adding it.
I am looking for a solution which could be integrated to propellor. Is it possible to include those additional libraries in propellor sources and have them included in the build on demand? I am not very familiar with the haskell build systems.
About generated passwords, a nice solution would be to do it in PrivData. The user would provide a salt as the private data and it would be combined to context to generate a password. I can try find how this could be done.
Well, cabal files can have flags that enable additional dependencies, but using them complicates testing the program since you have to try building it with different combinations of flags. And deploying propellor with the desired flags turned on would be an additional complication.
I feel that additional libraries that depend on propellor and the sql library and provide properties is a better approach. The user can easily add the dependency to their ~/.propellor/config.cabal, and the necessary dependencies will be automatically installed when propellor is deploying itself to a new host.
I have made a first version to support MySQL databases and users for classic web applications.
Can you have a look? I find userGrantedOnDatabase.setup' a little hard to read. Is it OK, or do you see a clearer way to write it?
Also added a function to grant global privileges, useful for a backup user.
Some review, sorry it took me so long to take a look at it..
Looks like Show Privilege is being used to generate configuration. I dislike using Show for that, because it precludes it being used with Read, and is generally unclear that the strings in show need to be formatted exactly as they are.
You could simplify allPrivileges using Enum, with [minBound..maxBound].
Reverting databaseExists and also reverting installed leads to the package being installed and then removed repeatedly. Perhaps databaseExists could avoid doing anything when the server has already been removed.
Some of the SQL construction doesn't seem entirely safe with quoting. While there's no security problem with it, it may have a correctness problem..
... In userGrantedOnDatabase when it creates the privLevel it looks like it doesn't escape the dbname at all, and I guess this means it doesn't need to be escaped, or can't contain back quotes.
... In userGranted' the quser is delimited by single quotes, but it's actually valid to have a User with a single quote in their name, and many of the Klingons out there probably depend on that.
... In hashPassword it looks like the password is also assumed to not contain single quotes.
Database is a database name.
I will make the change as soon as I have some time, thanks for the review!
I have made a second version.
About reverting installed, I noticed that it only removes the meta package, which is quite useless. May be I should just drop revertability on this one.
The problem of installing a software just to revert a property can also be seen in Apache.modEnabled for exemple.
I have added a function to restore a database from a backup. It works like the Borg.restored property, it will restore only if the database is empty.
Also included is a fix to wait that the server is available. This is needed when a container is just started for example. | 2019-04-25T06:52:52 | https://propellor.branchable.com/forum/Adding_support_for_a_SQL_server/ |
0.999997 | When is the passive voice used?
The passive voice is not used very often in spoken German. It is most often encountered in news stories and literature.
How do you form the passive voice?
The nouns are rearranged (subject becomes object, and object becomes agent), 'werden' follows the new object, and the sentence ends with the past participle of the old active verb.
Where do the nouns go in the passive voice?
The subject of the 'active' sentence (the tree) becomes the 'object' of the new passive sentence, and the object of the active sentence, if any (in this case, the car) becomes the agent in the passive sentence.
Where do the verbs go in the passive voice?
Do you always need an 'agent' (accusative or dative case) noun in the passive voice?
No. There need not always be an 'agent' in the new passive sentence; you can just say 'the tree was struck.' If there is an 'agent' (car) it goes just before the past participle of the active verb.
How is the new 'agent' handled in the passive voice?
How do you invoke the past tense in the passive voice?
Use the conjugated form of 'wurden' with the past participle of the active verb. | 2019-04-26T05:38:45 | https://www.brainscape.com/flashcards/lesson-69-passive-voice-3164624/packs/4069093 |
0.999999 | t distribution for Proportion impossible?
What are the reasons that we only use Z distribution for proportion confidence intervals, but we can use both Z and t distributions for mean confidence intervals?
My thinking is that t distribution is more spread out so it can account for added estimation error when using sample standard deviation, s, when calculating a confidence interval for mean. However, proportion is not calculated with standard deviation.
Under the null hypothesis, the variance of the proportion can be calculated exactly (it depends only on the hypothesized proportion and the sample size). Thus, the z-distribution is appropriate. The t-distribution is used when you have to estimate the variance of the mean.
I'm not sure that the original question has really been answered. The question was about confidence intervals, but the answer just given relates to significance tests. Confidence intervals make no reference to any null hypothesis.
Why is the t-distribution not used when computing confidence intervals for a population proportion - especially since the *sample* proportion (i.e. p-hat) is used in that formula's margin of error, just like the *sample* standard deviation is used when computing an interval for a mean. Also, the sample proportion IS a type of sample mean (a mean of 1's and 0's).
So why again, can't the t-distribution be used when computing a confidence interval for a population proportion?
Because it's silly to model proportion data with a normal in the first place. It's clearly not normal. But we do have asymptotic results that tell us as the sample size gets larger the sampling distribution of the proportion will go to a normal distribution.
There is absolutely nothing about the T-distribution in there. It's an asymptotic result so we need n to be large. But there is no theoretical justification for using a t-distribution instead of a normal distribution.
...There is absolutely nothing about the T-distribution in there... there is no theoretical justification for using a t-distribution instead of a normal distribution.
I'm still unclear why you said the above; it seems that of course the t-distribution is involved here? Since p-hat is in fact a sample mean (an x-bar), you can substitute p-hat for x-bar in the single-sample t-confidence interval formula for a population mean. If the sample size is "large" enough to overcome the population's non-normality (say n is at least 40), the distribution of the sample proportion of successes (p-hat) should technically be a bit more accurately described by the corresponding t-distribution versus a normal distribution, although these differences are small and get smaller with larger sample sizes. It seems the reason the t-distribution approach should be (slightly) more accurace, is because variance is indeed unknown here and being estimated. Is this not correct?
If the sample size is "large" enough to overcome the population's non-normality (say n is at least 40), the distribution of the sample proportion of successes (p-hat) should technically be a bit more accurately described by the corresponding t-distribution versus a normal distribution, although these differences are small and get smaller with larger sample sizes. It seems the reason the t-distribution approach should be (slightly) more accurace, is because variance is indeed unknown here and being estimated. Is this not correct?
But we're only making a single estimate. In the case with the normal distribution you're separately estimating the variance. You say 'the distribution of the sample proportion of successes (p-hat) should technically be a bit more accurately described by the corresponding t-distribution versus a normal distribution' but I don't think you have any theoretical justification for this. Can you back up your feelings with anything other than 'it just feels like we should have to use the t-distribution'?
Edit: Maybe I'll throw together a simulation sometime and we can see how some of this stuff plays out.
...Can you back up your feelings with anything other than 'it just feels like we should have to use the t-distribution'?
Just for the record, your last line is not what I actually said; note that I did say "Since p-hat is in fact a sample mean (an x-bar), you can substitute p-hat for x-bar in the single-sample t-confidence interval formula for a population mean."
By this, I mean substituting p-hats for ALL the x-bars in the above-mentioned formula - including within the formula for s, in the standard-error side of that formula.
With large sample sizes, approximately normal behavior of p-hat is guaranteed by the CLT; so it certainly seems all theoretical justifications for using Gosset's t-distribution are indeed satisfied. So why shouldn't we use it?
I agree with G-U-E-S-T. I don't see why the t-distribution couldn't be used.
unknown in most of the case.
to obtain the asymptotic normality as well. It is not related to t-distribution.
do not know whether it is close to t-distribution or not. | 2019-04-22T22:33:05 | http://talkstats.com/threads/t-distribution-for-proportion-impossible.14163/ |
0.998824 | Abstract: Herein this paper is presented an alternative method for teleportation that can send a body to virtually any point in the universe in no time. Teleportation would consist of sending a body outside the universe into zero-space in order to reappear at another point in the universe. It would be necessary to create the geometry similar to that of a black hole where the start point will coincide with endpoint.
The basic description of teleportation is making body "A" disappear into point 1 and reappear in another point (point 2) by curving space-time so that point 1 will coincide with point 2. For teleportation to be possible we must create a geometry similar to that of black hole for an instant, where points 1 and 2 can be made to coincide thereby forming a channel between them. There would be basically no passage of time getting from point 1 to point 2 as there would be no space to traverse.
We can see some of the properties of teleportation via simple mechanical motion. Let’s assume that body A has uniform and linear motion. Body A will then pass distance "d" in time "t" without any energy expense and consequently the energy expenditure for teleportation at any distances will always be equal to zero. The energy expenses come in altering the fields of force so that points 1 and 2 will have the same force characteristics as teleportation would not possible if the fields of force are different at the two points.
The connection of the points 1 and 2 must be done through zero-point space (ZPS).1 By doing this we have not only decreased d to zero but also t to zero. This option will be the only viable form of space travel as the speed of light can not be superceded within the universe itself.
What would happen if we sent body A outside the Universe? Since zero-space is a point and where time as a property does not exist, therefore it can not contain body A and consequently body A will appear in the real universe at that same moment in time. With the distances between zero-space and any other point of universe being equal to zero, these holes can potentially exist in every point of universe. Theoretically, body A could appear at random in at point of in the Universe.
Let us do the following thought experiment. In order to send body A outside of the universe we must first create a closed surface which consist vacuum holes around body A, for but an instant in time. Then we ask, where was the body A during that time that it was surrounded by vacuum holes? Since a spherical body can not exist within a hole and a body can not exist outside of the universe, therefore body A had to be existing at another point in the Universe already (i.e. point 2). If we then destroy the hole’s surface and thereby the channel that connected points 1 and 2, body A will then remain at point 2. Inside such a hole, the surface geometry must be similar to that of a black hole which is completely isolated from the external universe.
Such a hole would have the distances between every two neighboring points decreasing from the hole’s center to its surface until all of the distances will be equal to zero on the hole’s surface. To an internal observer, the distance between the center and the surface of the hole becomes infinite and likewise time would slow down as the observer moved from the center to the surface of the hole according to special relativity. Therefore it would necessarily follow that we would have a case of infinite time and zero distance on the closed surface of such a hole.
The receiver of matter could be built in following manner. After the disappearance of body A, it would reappear in a place that did not violate the energy conservation law. The potential of the force field must be the same at the both points otherwise we would have a "perpetuum mobile" that would be have energy arising from nothing. For example, body A disappears from the surface of Earth and reappears at altitude of 100m above the Earth. Then when body A falls and work has occurred then all of the processes are repeated. Therefore body A could only appear in a place where such a processes was not possible.
The transmission of matter could be via internal or external hole production. First let us present a station that has a spherical room where a material body is introduced for teleportation (the sphere having a minimal volume). On the external surface of sphere is the equipment to produce vacuum holes around body A. The other option would be for body A to produce a hole’s surface around itself which could then allow it to teleport itself repeatedly to random points in universe. In this case a receiver for the teleported matter would not be necessary. Energy expenditure would be necessary for the curvature of space-time but not for the movement of the body from point 1 to point 2 as previously described.
When and if such a teleportation station is produced, it must be friction free and quite durable. Crafts that were teleported would not know their endpoint until a receiver system could be built. Such teleportation systems would need to be able to alter space-time in order to produce the necessary holes. Teleportation should become one of humanity’s highest goals as other forms of space travel are inherently impractical.
2. Conference proceeding, ICPS`94, S.Peterburg, 1994. | 2019-04-22T08:34:19 | http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Articles/1-5/leshan%20teleport%20final.htm |
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