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0.998396 | Has it really been a year since Will was born?
I've had a lot of time by this point to reflect on his birth. I am so thankful for how it all turned out, but going through it was definitely awful. Awful, awful, awful. I looked back on the birth so negatively for such a long time. And I felt so mad, because I had done everything right. I had done everything Ina May's Guide to Childbirth said to do. Why had it ended up being such a thing of terror instead a thing of joy? Why had it left me feeling so defeated instead of elated? I was angry at the hippies in the book for describing contractions as "waves" or "rushes." Those words just didn't do it justice. It was more like a tsunami or being run over by a train but somehow managing to stay alive only to feel the impact over and over again. I think Rob is still sort of scarred from the experience, and he wasn't even the one directly going through it.
I never want to be pregnant again. I never want to go back to that horrible, horrible dark, place of never not feeling like I was going to vomit, of never having any relief from the nausea, not even for a moment. And I never want to have a newborn again. Not one that cries and cries and cries all the time. Nobody understands how much he cried (and still cries), not even Rob. I was the one who was home alone with him, all day, every day. I don't know what was wrong with him. I guess I never will.
But the thing is, I think I could give birth again. I want a do-over. Even though going through the experience was completely awful and terrifying at the time, I can look back on it now and think of it as truly amazing. I still kind of can't believe that I did it. Nothing in life will ever, ever compare. Everything else is just so pale. Instead of remembering the terrible, defeating moments when I was sure they were going to cut me open before I could muster, "I do not consent," I remember the hugely immense power of the contractions. Power like a volcano erupting or like an earthquake ripping the earth in two. I remember how some sort of primal instinct took over, how I intuitively felt the need to stay vertical and how I knew how to hum, moan, breathe through the contractions. I remember how I let go, just completely surrendered to it. Each contraction felt like being thrown from a cliff, hitting the water some thousand miles below and feeling it break every bone in your body. But you just don't fight it, don't struggle against it. Keep your shoulders and jaw relaxed and you'll float up to the top and get a breath of fresh air before the whole thing happens all over again. And again and again. How you manage to live through it is a mystery. At some point during transition, during a deathly calm between contractions, I remember looking at my doula through heavily lidded eyes, and whispering, "I can do this. I can do this." And I remember a look of pride washed over her and she said, "You are doing this." I was. I had to. The only way out is through. | 2019-04-19T10:37:05 | http://www.clothmother.com/2010/08/one-year-later.html |
0.999933 | Is recreational marijuana legal in Orlando? If I have Alzheimer's disease, can I apply for medical cannabis? And when can I start growing weed in my backyard?
A: The purpose was to expand the number of patients who could access marijuana. In 2014, Florida legislators passed a measure to offer a non-euphoric strain of medical cannabis low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical that gets you high, but rich in cannabidiol, which has been found to help with seizures. The measure, called the "Charlotte's Web" bill, was mostly aimed at helping patients with epilepsy and similar, specific conditions. In 2016, lawmakers expanded the program to allow terminally ill patients to access full-strength medical marijuana, regardless of THC levels. After years of legal wrangling between the Florida Legislature, the state Department of Health and prospective growers, we finally started growing and dispensing marijuana in 2016. During November's election, Florida's medical marijuana constitutional amendment passed by a landslide with 71 percent of voters in favor. Amendment 2 makes full-strength marijuana legal and broadens the definition of "debilitating medical condition" to include cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, Crohn's disease, PTSD, Parkinson's disease, ALS, multiple sclerosis, or a "debilitating medical condition ... for which a physician believes that the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh the potential health risks for a patient." That last part of the Amendment is currently being hotly debated by Florida health officials and advocates. The state Department of Health has proposed allowing the Florida Board of Medicine to decide what conditions could qualify a patient for medical cannabis. Advocates argue individual doctors can decide if marijuana will help their patient or not.
Q: That's a lot of mumbo-jumbo. I just want to know one thing. Who qualifies?
A: Amendment 2 does not change Florida's recreational drug possession laws. You can still be arrested for driving under the influence of marijuana or smoking cannabis in public. The law also does not affect federal law, which completely prohibits marijuana possession and distribution. While President Donald Trump has expressed that he's in favor of medical marijuana, the same can't be said for his appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions. After he was sworn in, the former Alabama senator created a crime reduction task force to review the federal Department of Justice's existing policies, including how it enforces marijuana laws. That could hint at a future crackdown on recreational marijuana, though it's still unclear how, if at all, Sessions' policies could affect medicinal marijuana.
A: No. Florida's supply of medical marijuana for patients is grown, cultivated and produced by seven nurseries across the state that have partnered with companies to do the processing, sales and marketing. Nurseries are opening dispensaries where they can sell their products, which usually include some form of oil or tinctures, or delivering the medicine to homes. Patients cannot grow their own medical marijuana, regardless of condition. Smoking cannabis, medicinal or not, is still illegal.
A: No. The city of Orlando decriminalized small amounts of marijuana by allowing police officers to give out citations instead of making arrests. If you're caught with 20 grams of cannabis or less or with marijuana paraphernalia, an officer can choose to give you a citation with a $100 fine if you're a first-time offender, or a $200 fine for a second offense. Repeat offenders can get a fine of up to $500 and a court appearance. Offenders can also waive their fine by going to a diversion program that requires substance-abuse education or community service. Remember, it's up to the officer's discretion whether to give you a citation, or arrest you if they suspect you're involved in a more serious crime. Marijuana possession is still a misdemeanor under Florida law.
Q: OK, I've got all my paperwork in order. Where can I buy medical cannabis in Orlando?
A: Right now, the only physical dispensary where you would be able to walk in and purchase medicine is Knox Medical, at 1901 N. Orange Ave., next to White Wolf Cafe in Ivanhoe Village. Knox Medical, a company based out of Knox Nursery in Winter Garden, hasn't opened yet, but when it does open in the coming weeks, it will only be able to sell cannabis of the low-THC variety. No other dispensary can open in Orlando or Orange County because of a moratorium by those local governments on dispensaries. Orlando's moratorium ends in July, while Orange County's moratorium ends next month. If you can't wait for the medicine, Knox Medical also does home deliveries, as do several other dispensaries across the state. Adam Sharon, a spokesperson for Knox, says there's no set date for when Orlando's first dispensary will open. When we find out, we'll let you know. | 2019-04-24T14:48:15 | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/florida-has-new-complex-marijuana-laws-heres-what-they-really-mean/Content?oid=3889964&utm_source=widget&utm_medium=articleblog&utm_campaign=endofarticle&utm_content=PeopleWhoLiked |
0.99897 | Injuries sustained during sporting events, either as a participant or a spectator, are quite common. However, lawsuits for these injuries are not always successful because participation in many sports carries a risk of injury, and that the participant usually assumes that risk.
What does "assumption of risk" mean?
Assumption of risk means that you may not be able to recover damages for an injury resulting from someone else’s actions if you voluntarily assumed the risk of harm when engaging in a particular activity.
If I sign a waiver before participating in a sports event, do I have any recourse if I am injured?
Your ability to sue and win depends on several factors. Was the language in the waiver that released the other party from liability conspicuous? Did you understand what the waiver meant when you signed it? Did you have enough time to read it before you signed it? Basically, the waiver should be fair and reasonable. The exculpatory language should be easy to understand and should stand out in the document; it should not be in fine, hard-to-read print. Before signing the waiver, you should be able to read and understand it; you should not be rushed into signing it.
TIP: Make sure you carefully read and understand any waiver before signing it. If a particular clause does not make sense to you, you should ask to have it explained.
I injured my leg skiing. Will the ski resort pay my medical bills?
It depends on the cause of your injury. Generally, skiing has an inherent risk of injury, and you assume that risk every time you hit the slopes. This means that if you are injured because you ran into a tree (which you possibly could have avoided) or fell because you did not know how to stop, the ski resort is not liable for your injury because those types of injuries are inherent in the sport of skiing. However, the ski resort must not increase your risk of injury by improperly maintaining the slopes. What does this mean? If the cause of your injury was, for example, an improperly placed sign, or one that was not visible to you, the ski resort is liable.
Are reckless skiers liable for their actions?
Yes. Reckless skiers can be held civilly and criminally liable for injuries to others. If they are civilly liable (e.g., negligent), they will have to pay damages. If they are criminally liable, they will probably pay a fine and face possible imprisonment.
A foul ball hit my son at a baseball game. Can I sue the team or stadium for his injuries?
No. By attending the baseball game, your son assumed the risk of being hit by a ball during the game. Depending on his age, you might be able to argue that he did not understand the nature of that risk, but it is not a very strong argument.
If my golf ball leaves the course and breaks a picture window, will I have to pay to replace it?
No. You are not liable for injuries to persons or property that are outside of your line of play. A picture window (presumably one on a house alongside the golf course) is not within your line of play, and therefore you are not liable for its replacement.
Does yelling "fore" on the golf course protect me from a lawsuit if my ball hits someone?
Yes. When playing golf, golfers must exercise care toward the safety of nearby persons from being hit with a ball (this duty does not apply to persons outside the golfer’s line of play). This is usually done by yelling out a warning ("fore") either before hitting the ball, or after the ball is hit if it appears to be errant (i.e., a stray ball). If the ball hits another person, and the golfer had yelled out an adequate warning, he will not be liable for the injury.
Are the "male-only" tee times at my golf club illegal?
Yes. Gender discrimination at golf country clubs is illegal, and male-only tee times are discriminatory toward women. | 2019-04-23T18:05:49 | http://www.smartlegalforms.us/guide.asp?level=2&id=470 |
0.998552 | British Prime Minister Theresa May signals she would consider extending a so-called transition period "for a matter of months" after Britain leaves the European Union, a move her critics say is a betrayal of Brexit.
Suggestion comes amid stalled talks with EU, criticism in U.K.
British Prime Minister Theresa May signalled on Thursday she would consider extending a so-called transition period "for a matter of months" after Britain leaves the European Union, a move her critics say is a betrayal of Brexit.
May said the remaining differences on Brexit terms between the U.K. and the EU are "few but considerable" — but she says she's confident the two sides will reach an agreement.
EU leaders are wrapping up a summit long billed as a deadline for a Brexit bill. But with talks on the vexing issue of the Irish border deadlocked, both sides said they needed several more weeks or months to work on an agreement.
Britain is due to leave the bloc on March 29, 2019, so there is not much time to strike a deal and get it approved by relevant parliaments before the deadline.
"A further idea that has emerged, and it is an idea at this stage, is to create an option to extend the implementation period for a matter of months, and it would only be a matter months," May told reporters on the second day of an EU summit in Brussels.
"But the point is this is not expected to be used because we are working to ensure that we have that future relationship in place by the end of December 2020."
May tried to use the summit in Brussels — once seen as the stage for a possible breakthrough after more than a year of talks — to offer a softer tone to her EU counterparts after another such meeting last month ended in acrimony.
"It's one of the possible options. It's neither a firm proposal from the EU 27 nor a formal request from the UK," the Elysee Palace official said.
"It's something we shouldn't rule out. If we were to go in that direction, it would come with a certain number of conditions."
British Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington said it was too early to estimate the cost of extending a Brexit transition period.
Lidington rejected claims that an extension would cost Britain more than £10 billion (more than $17 billion) in payments to the European Union in order to stay in the bloc's single market and customs union for another year.
"You are making an assumption about what the insurance policy would include and the insurance policy actually being applied," he told the BBC on Thursday.
"It is precisely one of those things that needs to be teased out and addressed, whether we felt and the EU felt it was the right approach to take."
Lidington said any extension was likely to last for a few months.
And the suggestion that Britain could stay firmly in the EU's sphere for longer than the 21 months expected has fired up those who already say Britain has already given up too much in the negotiations. Others fear May is leading the country into a no-deal Brexit.
"She is losing the confidence of colleagues of all shades of opinion. People who have been supportive of her throughout this process, they are close to despair at the state of this negotiation," said Conservative lawmaker Nick Boles, a critic of May who during the referendum backed remaining in the EU and now wants to stay in the single market on an interim basis.
"It really is a desperate last move."
For many who campaigned to leave the EU, the idea of continuing to pay into the bloc well beyond Britain leaves in March next year is anathema.
"We cannot find the money to fund our front-line police properly, we cannot find the £2 billion [more than $3.4 billion] for the vulnerable on Universal Credit, but we can mysteriously find billions to bung to the EU for the unnecessary extra year," Conservative lawmaker Nadine Dorries said. "This is serious."
But the EU is sanguine about an extension.
After talks stalled over the weekend, one of the bloc's negotiators told diplomats that Brussels had proposed extending the transition by a year to make its proposal for an Irish backstop — already ruled out by Britain — more palatable.
The idea, diplomats said, was being "tentatively explored." | 2019-04-21T13:45:32 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brexit-transition-extension-possible-1.4867900?cmp=rss |
0.999999 | Which of the following is a correct expression of the scientific name for lions?
Which of type of traits are used in the study of cladistics?
Which of the following displays the timeline of the evolution of different species from a common ancestor, often drawn as a tree-like diagram?
Female stalk-eyed flies prefer to mate with males that have longer eye stalks, and the average male eye stalk length is much longer than that of females. This is an example of__________.
Several different species of small nocturnal primates called, bush babies live in the woodlands of Africa. While several different species of bush babies often live in the same habitat they cannot interbreed because male bush babies have genitalia that will only fit the genitalia of females belonging to the exact same species. This is an example of which of the following?
The Harris's antelope squirrel only lives on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, while the closely related white-tailed antelope squirrel only lives on the norther rim of the Grand Canyon. The presence of the Grand Canyon reproductively isolates these two similar species from one another. This is an example of ______.
Some fish have bony fins. If the body of water they are in dries out, these fins can be used to help the fish "walk" to another body of water. In this context, bony fins are an example of which of the following?
Each branching point in a cladogram indicates ________.
a different level of biological classification.
movement of two species into two different habitats.
a point at which a geographic isolation occurred between two species.
a divergence from a shared ancestor.
What makes a trait adaptive?
An adaptive trait is caused by mutations.
An adaptive trait causes speciation.
An adaptive trait increases fitness.
An adaptive trait is caused by a chromosomal abnormality.
The myrtle warbler and the Audubon's warbler were previously listed as two separate bird species that overlapped in parts of their ranges. But more recently scientists have described them as the eastern form and the western form of one yellow-rumped warbler species. Which of the following could explain why scientists now describe these birds as members of the same species instead of being two separate species?
Because the two populations overlapped, the two separate bird species were able to adapt to one another and evolve into being one species.
Scientists must have realized that the two populations looked nearly identical to one another. Therefore they must all be members of the same species.
Because the birds live in the same range, they must be members of the same species.
Scientists must have observed that birds from the two different populations were still able to successfully reproduce with one another to produce fertile offspring. Therefore they must all be members of the same species.
According to the ______ model, species evolve relatively slowly by a series of small genetic changes over long periods of time.
_______can keep two separate populations of the same species more similar to one another.
Which of the following males in a given population would be considered the most fit in an evolutionary sense? One that produced______________.
1,000 offspring, of which 100 survived but 99 did not reproduce.
two offspring, both of which survived and produced offspring of their own.
10 offspring, of which 10 survived, but nine did not reproduce.
100 offspring of which 10 survived but nine did not reproduce.
Which of the following would be a good example of a prezygotic reproductive barrier?
When a horse breeds with a donkey the offspring is sterile.
Two closely related species of beetles are able to breed and produce hybrid offspring. But though the offspring emerge as larvae, they always die before reaching adulthood.
Female fireflies will only mate with males who emit light in a particular pattern. They will not breed with males of closely related species who blink a slightly different pattern.
Hybrids of lion and tiger crosses are only sometimes fertile.
Which of the following is an example of macroevolution?
The human species has become taller since its origin.
The frequency of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus bacteria has increased drastically over the past 30 years.
The Maui parrotbill species and the Akepa species of birds are both believed to have recently descended from the same common ancestor in the Hawaiian islands.
Female stalk-eyed flies prefer to mate with males that have longer eye stalks, and the average male eye stalk length is much longer than that of females.
Which of the following is a good example of an evolutionary bottleneck?
Two populations of fruit flies are unable to mate because their reproductive organs do not properly fit together.
In 1814, a group of 15 people from Great Britain established a colony on a small island in the Atlantic. One of the colonists had a rare genetic disorder that causes vision loss. Two hundred years later, the frequency of this vision loss allele is 10 times higher on the island than it is in Great Britain.
A tree frog population contained equal allele frequencies for yellow skin and for green skin until a wild fire randomly killed almost all of the frogs. Now only yellow-skinned frogs are present in this population and the green skin allele appears to have been lost.
A tetraploid plant species evolves from a diploid ancestor. Both the tetraploid and diploid species are found in the same habitat.
Which of the following is a domain that contains prokaryotes?
The science of reconstructing the evolutionary history of organisms is called ______.
Which of the following correctly lists the levels of biological classification from most specific to least specific?
Speciation that occurs when no physical barrier divides the subpopulations is known as________. | 2019-04-24T17:46:22 | https://www.coursehero.com/tutors-problems/Biology/16381574-Which-of-the-following-is-a-correct-expression-of-the-scientific-name/ |
0.999999 | What are the main points of purchasing a high-speed mixer?
1. For materials with finer grain size, special attention should be paid to the sealing of production equipment, and the residual amount should be carefully considered. For example, when mixing flour with a two-axis paddle-free gravity mixer, a 90° full-length large-opening door, a spray self-cleaning system, a slanting discharge door and a shaft end gas seal structure are simultaneously selected to better ensure the seal and Reducing the residue, and replacing the return air duct with the upper bag air exhaust to prevent the fine flour from being sprayed from the return air pipe too much during mixing.
Second, for materials with different specific gravity, high-speed mixer equipment, in addition to structural strength and power, its production parameters such as discharge gate, rotor, body and other structural forms and even rotational speed are often quite different, can not simply look at it For local enhancement or power scaling. For example, a ribbon blender hops generally adopts a double-headed double-belt wide ribbon, while a mixed iron-red powder is usually a single-layer staggered spiral ribbon, and the remaining structures of the two are also significantly different, and the rotational speed difference is also large.
Third, multi-faceted consideration of the impact of other special physical properties on the selection of equipment. For materials with poor fluidity or liquid addition, the coulter, flying knife, crushing roller and other mechanisms with strong shear mixing effect can be reasonably selected according to the specific conditions; the mechanism with faster wear should be wear-resistant or designed. It can be adjusted and replaced; the equipment that needs to be cleaned frequently due to material bonding should be provided with self-cleaning device and convenient and quick cleaning door; if the shape or particle state is not allowed to destroy the material, it is suitable to use the container rotary mixer. Mainly rely on convection mixing and diffusion mixing and mixing process softer equipment and so on.
4. For the high-speed mixer of materials that require heating or accompanying chemical reactions, in addition to selecting the appropriate material and temperature control structure, it is also necessary to pay attention to the influence of temperature changes on the equipment mechanism itself. If the discharge door adopts a small opening door structure, if it is necessary to use a large opening door structure, it is necessary to adopt a discharge structure such as a slanting type discharge door with automatic compensation capability, so as to avoid the reliability of the sealing due to the heat deformation of the discharge part. At the same time, the equipment such as the main shaft and the rotor should be designed to take the necessary line expansion compensation measures. | 2019-04-23T13:04:59 | http://www.qinfengmixer.com/main-points-purchasing-high-speed-mixer/ |
0.723619 | What is the contact dermatitis?
Contact dermatitis is caused by an allergen capable of triggering an immune response to a specific group of cells, T lymphocytes from memory. These cells, in previous contacts with the allergenicity, were sensitized to this allergen and react each time that there is a new contact.
The cutaneous reaction appears 1 to 3 days after contact of the skin with these allergens and are usually characterized by redness, inflammation, vesiculação with exudation and itching at the site. This reaction persists 7 or more days. If this contact is chronic, i.e., repetitive during long periods of time, the skin becomes dry, broken, scaly and hardened.
Although initially the contact eczema appear only at the site of contact, then you can extend to other parts of the body. These characteristics are typical of contact eczema, however there is no contact dermatitis eczematous, as for example: only redness with ardour, hardened skin only, only dryness, pigmented skin, etc. The severity of dermatitis depends on the intensity of exposure and the degree of awareness.
What are the main allergenic substances?
The Cobalt is another metal that causes allergy and which can be found in the following materials: paint (blue color) for glass, porcelain, ceramics, paper, textiles, cheek in paints, cement; leather; drying of paints and varnishes, fluorescent paintings, metal alloys (ex: dental alloy, nickel-plated objects, objects with bathroom (metal zippers, buttons, coins) feed for animals, lube oils, powder for welding, wood preservatives, varnishes for tarpaulins, material of photography.
Keep in mind that, contrary to what may seem, cosmetics may contain many elements allergens.
You should have a special care with the dyed hair, the shadows for eyes, mascara, lipstick, nail varnish, skin masks, the sunscreens and perfumes.
The constituents that commonly cause allergies in cosmetics are the perfumes, the parafenilenodiamina, preservatives (euxyl k 400, kathon) and the excipients (lanolin alcohols).
Perfumes are the main cause of allergies to cosmetics. Almost all products that are applied on the skin scented ingredients: perfumes, cosmetics, free (ex: soaps, bath gel, aftershaves and deodorants.
Parafenilenodiamina is a frequent constituent of paints capillaries. This allergen can also be part of other materials: paints of clothing and footwear, gasoline, oils, masses of lubrication, black rubber, cosmetics like mascara, material of photography.
Euxil K 400 is a mixture of 1.2-dibromo-2,4-dicianobutane and 2-phenoxyethanol. These products are used as preservatives, bactericides or fixantes in cosmetics and other products, such as: liquids used in the metallurgical industry, adhesives, paints and emulsions latex paints, dyes, detergents, perfumes, repellent for insects, topical antiseptics.
Kathon CG is used as a preservative in the following products: shampoo and hair conditioners, balls of oil or gel to the bathroom, gels for the body and hair care, skin lotions and creams, masks to the skin, oils, soaps, wet cleaning wipes, latex emulsion, liquid cooling system, in the manufacture of paper, fuel for jet engines, radiography, printing inks, detergents.
Quaternium is a preservative used in some pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and industrial: creams of the hands and face and other beauty products and skin care, hair lotions, shampoos and soaps, topical medications, paints for rubber, polishes and paints of water, liquids used in the industries of metal like for example liquids to cut.
Balsam of Peru consists in esters of acids cinnamic and benzoic, vanillin and styracina and exists in several products: cosmetics and perfumes (used as a fixative and aroma), topical medications, suppositories, pads and syrups for cough, dental materials, flavored tobacco, some food (chocolate, orange, lemon, vanilla, cinnamon and some spices, chewing gum, used as a flavoring agent in drinks, cakes, wines, liqueurs).
The PARABENS are used as preservatives in some medications (avoid topical creams and ointments, nasal drops, eye drops, syrups which have the composition parabens, nipagin, nipasol), in some cosmetics (moisturizing creams, Creams lightener, etc) and in some foods (salad dressings, sauces with spices, mayonnaise, mustard, cream derived from milk, dried foods).
Other: a few pencil and masks for the eyes can be salts of cobalt and chromium oxide. There are no national market hypoallergenic beauty products.
Carbas, mercapto and thiuram are chemical substances that may be part of rubber products: gloves, shoes, elastic, finger cots, underwear with elastic rubber (Bras), toys, diving suits and swimwear, sponges, condoms and diaphragms, adhesives, medical equipment, electric wires, equipment of hemodialysis. They are also used as: plant fungicides used in agriculture, Germicides disinfectants in seeds and grains, bacteriostatic soap, antifreeze mixtures (used as an anticorrosive), soluble oils for carving, greases and lubricants in photography as a emulsifier, sprays and post anti tick and anti fleas used in veterinary medicine, discouraging the consumption of alcohol (thiuram).
N-isopropyl-N'phenyl-parafenilenodiamina is a chemical substance used as anti degrading of natural rubber and synthetic, giving him a black coloration. It can be found in tires, shoes and boots, diving suits and swimwear, materials used in civil construction, materials used in the manufacture of doors, windows and staves, materials used in the manufacture of cars, piping some milking machines.
In addition to the metal accessories or rubber (described above), the dyes used in dyeing of fabrics can also cause allergies, mainly dark colors. When the dyes are poorly fixed are easily released during washing or when there is intense sweating (Summer).
Formaldehyde is a volatile gas, irritating or alergizante difficult eviction, which exists in various products and is used in several industries: cosmetic products (used as a preservative and disinfectant), deodorants, shampoos, nail varnish, adhesives (phenolic urea), insecticides, fungicides, bactericides, glues and varnishes, materials of tanning, disinfectants, Cleaning products, cleaning products cleaning, production of mineral wool, fertilizers, materials of embalming, composed of wood, materials used in insulation, plastic dental material, Photography (paper and fluids), paints, printing inks, paper industry, textile industry (used in finishing, hardening, coating), Footwear industry (resin adhesive of urea, urea, urea phenolic plastic), clothing ( friction), resins and plastic materials, calicidas and Antiseptics; used in the production of urea, melamine phenolic resins and acetale; used in histology.
Faced with such a large amount of elements allergens seems an almost impossible task to avoid materials that contain this or these elements. However, the most effective therapeutic measure is prevention, that is, avoiding as far as possible the materials containing the allergens causing.
Many of the allergens mentioned above are used by the textile industry, especially, the latex (rubber), the level, the formaldehyde, the p-phenylenediamine or para-Phenylenediamine, nylon, etc.
Skintoskin products are free of allergenic substances and their raw materials are certified by oeko-tex class 1.
Given its importance in the guarantee of security associated with the textile products, our next publication will discuss the various levels of certification OEKO-tex.
In all our communications warned to the fact that the information and advice available on our Blog do not override the opinion/opinion from your doctor and/or pharmacist. | 2019-04-19T21:07:32 | https://uk.skintoskin.care/blogs/viver-com-eczema/a-dermatite-de-contacto-e-as-substancias-alergenias |
0.998222 | Getting rid of roaches once they have entered a building can be extremely difficult, however, homeowners and building owners can learn how to rid their building of cockroaches by increasing their knowledge of how the pests operate. The following are answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about cockroaches.
If you have a roach problem, be sure to call a roach exterminator in Las Vegas at 702-878-3998!
A mixture of preventative and chemical measures is generally the best way to keep cockroaches under control. Preventative measures include checking incoming items for bugs, keeping buildings clean, covering up food items, and removing trash. Any leaky faucets or sources of moisture should be fixed, and crevices where cockroaches can hide should be sealed. Using insecticides to exterminate cockroaches can be challenging, and in most cases, it is much easier and a relatively good idea to just hire a professional exterminator to rid the pests.
Residential homeowners and commercial building owners who are looking for a cockroach exterminator can call Buddies Exterminating. The pest exterminating professionals at Buddies Exterminating are not only able to exterminate cockroaches; they are also able to exterminate or relocate a variety of other pests too.
What types of roaches are common in Las Vegas?
There are over 4,000 different species of cockroaches in the world, but only about 40 species of cockroaches are commonly found in the United States. The three most common types of cockroaches that are considered pests in the Las Vegas area are the American cockroach, Oriental cockroach and the German cockroach.
Since roaches are scavengers, many of them come into contact with materials that may be contaminated with various bacteria or viruses. Cockroaches can carry bacteria in their guts or on their legs, and they can contaminate objects, such as utensils or food, that they touch. Cockroach casings and excrement can also be the cause of allergies in some people. Although these pests can bite, injuries from the bites are generally not serious. The bites can cause irritation and swelling though, and it is possible for the wounds to become infected.
What conditions do roaches prefer?
Cockroaches typically prefer to live in warm, humid environments, and during warm weather, they tend to breed frequently. Although they enjoy warm environments, these pests can generally survive at temperatures as low as 32 degrees Fahrenheit. When it is cold, the breeding cycle of this bug may be interrupted. In areas that become cold, cockroaches typically go indoors to remain warm. Environments with low humidity can also interrupt the breeding cycle of cockroaches. | 2019-04-24T14:32:07 | http://www.buddiesexterminating.com/roach-control/ |
0.999262 | The following is an excerpt from The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy, which was released by Hachette Book Group.
Problem food #5 is ice cream.
Problem food #4 is cookies.
Chips and chocolate were tied for #3 and #2.
But the most problematic food of all was—drum roll, please—pizza. Yes, gooey cheese melting over a hot crust and dribbling down your fingers—it beat everything else.
And here is what matters: The question was not, which foods do you especially like, or which foods leave you feeling good and satisfied. Rather, the question was, which foods do you have a problem with? Which ones lead you into overeating, gaining weight, and feeling lousy? Which foods seduce you, then leave you with regrets?
So, why did pizza top the list? Why are we so often tempted to dig in and overdo it?
Three reasons: salt, grease, and opiates.
As you have no doubt experienced, salty foods can be habit-forming. French fries, salted peanuts, pretzels, and other salty foods are hard to resist, and food manufacturers know that adding salt to a recipe adds cash to the register. A Lay’s potato chips commercial in the 1960s said, “Bet you can’t eat one”—meaning it’s impossible to eat just one. Once the first salty chip passes your lips, you want more and more.
Your body does need some salt—about a gram and a half per day, according to U.S. health guidelines. In prehistoric times, however, salt was not so easy to come by. After all, potato chips and pretzels had not yet been invented. So people who managed to get their hands on salt were more likely to survive. Your neurological circuitry is set up to detect it, crave it, and jump in when you’ve found it.
As you will remember from fifth-grade biology, your tongue is very sensitive to the taste of salt. And brain scanning studies show that your brain is extra attuned to it, too. Deep inside the brain, in what is commonly called the “reward center,” brain cells make the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine, and in certain situations it floods out of the cells, stimulating neighboring cells. If you find a particularly abundant source of food, your brain rewards you by releasing some dopamine. If you were to have—shall we say—a romantic, intimate encounter, your brain has a similar reaction. It gives you more dopamine. Dopamine rewards you for doing things that help you or your progeny to live on. And scientists believe that dopamine plays a role in our desire for salt.
So is there really a lot of salt in pizza? A fourteen-inch Domino’s cheese pizza has—catch this—3,391 milligrams of sodium. Just one slice delivers 400 milligrams. It’s in the crust and in the toppings, and there is a lot in the cheese. So salt is one of the reasons that pizza attracts us.
Pizza is also greasy, and that greasy-salty combination seems to get us hooked, too, just as it does for chips, fries, and onion rings. But pizza has one more thing. It has cheese, and cheese not only contributes its own load of salt and grease. It also contains traces of a very special kind of opiate.
[In an earlier chapter of The Cheese Trap], I briefly mentioned casein, the protein that is concentrated in cheese. And casein has some secrets to tell.
If you were to look at a protein molecule with a powerful microscope, it would look like a long string of beads. Each “bead” is a protein building block called an amino acid, and, during digestion, the individual amino acids come apart and are absorbed into your bloodstream so that your body can use them to build proteins of its own.
So the calf digests the proteins in milk, breaking apart the chain of beads and using these amino acids to build skin cells, muscle cells, organs, and the other parts of the body.
However, casein is an unusual protein. While it does break apart to release individual beads, it also releases longer fragments—chains that might be four, five, or seven amino acid beads in length. These casein fragments are called casomorphins—that is, casein-derived morphine-like compounds. And they can attach to the same brain receptors that heroin and other narcotics attach to.
In other words, dairy protein has opiate molecules built right into it.
Opiates in dairy products? What the heck are they doing there, you might ask. Well, imagine if a calf did not want to nurse. Or if a human baby was not interested in nursing. They would not do very well. So, along with protein, fat, sugar, and a sprinkling of hormones, milk contains opiates that reward the baby for nursing.
Have you ever looked at a nursing baby’s face? The infant has a look of great intensity and then collapses into sleep. Of course, we imagine that to be the beauty of the mother-infant bond. But the fact is, mother’s milk delivers a mild drug to the child, albeit in a benign and loving way. If that sounds coldly biological, it pays to remember that nature never leaves anything as important as a baby’s survival to chance.
Opiates have a calming effect, and they also cause the brain to release dopamine, leading to a sense of reward and pleasure.
A cup of milk contains about 7.7 grams of protein, 80 percent of which is casein, more or less. Turning it into Cheddar cheese multiplies the protein content seven-fold, to 56 grams. It is the most concentrated form of casein in any food in the grocery store.
Call it dairy crack. Just as cocaine manufacturers have found ways to turn an addictive drug (cocaine) into an extremely addictive one (crack), dairy producers have found their own ways to keep you coming back. In the Middle Ages, cheese makers had no idea that cheese might concentrate milk’s addictive qualities. But today’s cheese industry knows all about cheese craving and is eager to exploit it. It is doing its level best to trigger cheese craving in vulnerable people. | 2019-04-22T06:54:25 | https://www.forksoverknives.com/addictive-food-cheese-pizza/ |
0.999792 | If there is not enough room on this form, use the back of these pages or use other paper. Fill out all of this form and other papers you are attaching before you sign this form in front of a notary.
apply for relief from confinement. I am ___ am not ___ now in custody serving a sentence upon conviction of a crime. (If not serving a sentence upon conviction of a crime) I am now in custody because of the following type of court order: ______________________________________.
1. The court in which I was sentenced is _______________________.
5. I did ___ did not ___ appeal from the decision of the trial court. (If the answer is that I did), I appealed to _________________.
My lawyer on appeal was ________________________________.
Relief was denied on _____________________________________.
7. (If I have answered in question 6 that I did ask for relief), the name of my lawyer in the proceeding mentioned in my answer to question 6 was ______________________________________________________.
8. If the answers to the above questions do not really tell about the proceedings and the courts, judges and attorneys involved in your case, tell about it here: _________________________________________________.
(If I claim more than one reason for relief from confinement, I attach sheets for each reason separately, in the same way as the first one. The attached sheets should be numbered "First Ground", "Second Ground", "Third Ground", etc.). I claim that I have ______ (number) reason(s) for this court to grant me relief from the conviction and sentence described in Part A.
1. I should be given a new trial or released from confinement because (Here state legal reasons why you think there was some error made in your case which gives you the right to a new trial or release from confinement.): ___________________________________________.
2. The following facts are important when considering my case (After each fact statement, put the name of the person or persons who know the fact and will support your statement of the fact. If the fact is already in the record of your case, indicate that, also.): ____________________________________________________.
If you cannot afford to pay the filing fee or cannot afford to pay an attorney to help you, fill this out. If you have enough money for these things, do not fill out this part of the form.
1. I do ___ do not ___ ask the court to file this without making me pay the filing fee because I am so poor I cannot pay the fee.
2. I have a spendable balance of $______ in my prison or institution account.
3. I do ___ do not ___ ask the court to appoint a lawyer for me because I am so poor I cannot afford to pay a lawyer.
did did not get any rent payments. If so, the total amount I got was $__________.
___ ___ get any interest. If so, the total amount I got was $__________.
___ ___ get any dividends. If so, the total amount I got was $__________.
___ ___ get any other money. If so, the amount of money I got was $__________.
7. ___ ___ have any cash except as said in answer 2. If so, the total amount of cash I have is $__________.
___ ___ have any savings accounts or checking accounts. If so, the amount in all accounts is $__________.
___ ___ own stocks, bonds, or notes. If so, their total value is $__________.
8. List all real estate and other property or things of value which belong to you or in which you have an interest. Tell what each item of property is worth and how much you owe on it. Do not list household furniture and furnishings and clothing which you or your family need.
10. All of the persons who need me to support them are listed here.
11. All the bills I owe are listed here.
After being first duly sworn, on oath, I depose and say: That I am the petitioner, that I have read the petition, know its contents, and I believe the petition is true.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this ___ day of__________.
I declare that I have examined this petition and to the best of my knowledge and belief it is true and correct.
Amended effective November 21, 2006. | 2019-04-24T10:21:20 | https://angusleelaw.com/court-rules/rules-of-appellate-procedure-state-court/rap-form-17-personal-restraint-for-person-confined-by-state-or-local-government |
0.998412 | Read about the 2019 USUSA elections Regional Campus candidates. They have each provided brief descriptions of themselves and their campaigns, which are presented below. Reach out to individual candidates for more information and prepare for Elections Week 2019, which runs from February 24 – March 1.
Also, as a regional campus student, you are eligible to vote for the USUSA Logan campus president, as well as the senator for your college of study. You can view those candidates' platforms here.
Platform: Every Aggie has a voice, no matter the location! My goal is to tell your stories and help elevate your voices, with the hope of increasing Aggie Pride and improving the overall university experience.
Give the Regional Campuses an even greater voice in the USU Community.
Help increase the growing list of classes and majors available to Regional Campuses.
Meet students of each regional campus and share their stories.
Improve state-wide pride of being an Aggie!
Help make the college experience as fun and painless as possible.
Platform: I will be the strongest and loudest voice that empowers our student body. I will create movements, motivate administration, and improve the student governments' effectivness throughout our regional campuses.
Create open bulletin board for Student Body Voice to be seen and recognized regionally.
Work with administration to better student life.
Strive to seek out student government initiatives, during the whole term of my Presidency.
Generate student involvement into USUSA events and movements.
Platform:I will advocate for the regional campus students by being available for student concerns and I hope to increase services, information, activities, and opportunities to the students.
I want to keep the student fees affordable while ensuring that a range of services are available.
Work with administration to see that a great range of classes are available to our regional campuses.
Advocate that more student services become available to the regional campuses.
Assess the unique needs of regional campuses and addressing them.
Continue the campaign of the use of MyVoice to be an outlet for students.
Platform:As Executive Vice President, I will work to create an environment modeled after main campus with a wide range of opportunities for every type of student to ensure their highest chance of success at USU-Blanding.
Raise campus-wide GPA by implementing tools and resources to help students.
Increase student awareness and involvement with university resources.
Promote and foster campus/community relationship to create mutual benefits.
Assist in seamless transition into USU proper division.
Create broader opportunity on campus for students.
Platform: As an advocate for students, I will seek to increase awareness of services and opportunities already available, be a voice for improved access to services, and responsibly utilize resources for the betterment of the overall student experience.
Be a strong voice for students in making decisions/policies affecting them.
Help utilize student fees wisely and in ways which benefit the student body by improving access to services, building community, expressing appreciation, promoting the regional campus experience, etc.
Continue with previous efforts to promote the wellbeing and mental health of our students.
Work cooperatively with other USU branches and departments to promote positive relationships and campus improvements.
Utilize student feedback to improve use of student fees and overall student experience where possible.
Platform: Bring clarity and transparency to campus policies, in turn increase the students feelings of involvement in their student government.
Provide a voice for the students questions and concerns.
Bring a greater understanding of the policies to the students.
Aide in creating an environment in which students feel involved.
Platform: I am running for student body vice president because I am the average non-traditional student like majority of the students on the Moab campus. I will ensure each voice is heard and accommodate each concern to the best of my abilities.
I want to put together more social events.
I want to make campus a safer place by putting better lighting in the parking lot.
I want to put a tampon dispenser in the women’s restroom.
I want to have better communication between student government and the students.
Platform: I want for the USU Moab Campus to become more enthusiastic when it comes to school events, and having a stronger sense of community, especially when the new school is built!
I want the best for all USU Moab Aggies!
I want the Moab campus to be more involved with school events.
I’d like to get the students at the Moab campus more involved as a community.
I want to create a positive and encouraging learning environment.
Having more fun events for the students throughout the year.
More school pride especially when the new school is built!
Platform: As VP I wish to encourage Concurrent enrollment students to continue their education and help them know in which ways this can be accomplished.
Represent students wants in the Uintah Basin.
Encourage concurrent enrollment students to continue education by getting them involved.
Continue improving the venue options for our vending machine.
Make student activities fees well worth the price.
Platform: I will continue my efforts to advocate for Southwest Students and will fight for your rights as students. You are entitled to have a voice in your academic experience. Vote Hannah Tervort for Southwest VP and help the Southwest continue to improve.
I love USU!!! Go AGGIES!!
Continue my efforts to ensure that Student Government fees are kept in the hands of the students.
Bring USU Resources to all Southwest Students.
Ensure that each Southwest student receives direct benefits from their student activity fees.
Travel more and have a physical presence throughout the Southwest.
Create a more efficient purchasing protocol so that students receive their student activity fee benefits quickly and efficiently.
Platform: During my year as the Vice President of the Southwest region, my main focus is to increase the Aggie spirit throughout the regional campuses.
Increase USU pride at each learning center.
Host an annual family night to celebrate the students and their hard work.
Designate funds for each learning center to stock their fridges with the items that they each enjoy.
Create a charging center for each learning center, to support their technological needs.
Platform: Most of our student work and have limited time. The purpose of being a VP is to make everyone have a good experience of learning. I want all students to feel like me, like it is a second home, regardless of their limited time to participate.
I hope to keep making Tooele campus a good, safe and homey place.
Listening to the needs of all the students, especially with so many unconventional students.
I want to be able to have more people participate and be involved in activities.
More connection between the community, alumni living in the area, and students.
Make sure that the day-to-day added comforts like coffee, popcorn and food are available.
Platform: As your Region VP, I will represent you and your needs. Let's make your best ideas a reality and add events to campus to give us that authentic Aggie Experience!
Host more events on campus to encourage connection and networking among students.
Hold monthly office hours on both the Salt Lake and Orem campuses.
Work closely with the student representatives to implement student feedback.
Make our unique needs known and heard by USU staff locally and across the state. | 2019-04-18T20:48:19 | https://ususa.usu.edu/elections/meet-the-candidates-rc |
0.999997 | Life on Europa? The moon with life in a subsurface ocean?
This moon of Jupiter might have life in a subsurface ocean.
Life on Europa: Water from a subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon, Europa, could reach the surface through seeps or erupt from hot water vents. This water would reveal the chemistry of the subsurface ocean and may contain microbes that live below. Artist's concept image by NASA / JPL.
Subsurface structure of Europa: This image shows the internal structure of Europa. It has an icy crust supported by a subsurface ocean. Below that is the rocky layer surrounding an iron core. Image by NASA / JPL.
For the past several centuries, everyone believed that Mars was the most likely body in our solar system to support life beyond Earth. But after centuries of telescope observation, decades of spacecraft exploration, and several robots exploring its surface, the promise of discovering life on Mars remains elusive.
Now, scientific attention is being focused on Europa, the fourth-largest of Jupiter's 67 confirmed moons. It may be an even better candidate for finding life than Mars. For life to be present the three basic requirements are: 1) liquid water; 2) chemical building blocks; and, 3) a source of energy. Europa is thought to have all three.
The surface of Europa is very cold and covered with ice. This ice forms a "crust" on the moon that is thought to be several kilometers thick. Beneath the crust, a subsurface ocean of liquid water up to 100 kilometers deep is thought to exist. Investigators believe that the ocean is rich in dissolved ions, particularly magnesium, sodium, potassium, and chlorine. Organisms on Earth live in ion-rich solutions, so there is a good chance that they live in them on Europa.
Video: Europa - Cool Destination for Life, produced by NASA / JPL News.
Spacecraft observations determined that the surface of Europa is covered with water ice. That ice and other materials on Europa's surface are bombarded with radiation from Jupiter that could alter them into some of the chemical building blocks of life. These include: free oxygen (O2), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), carbon dioxide (CO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2).
If these compounds reach the subsurface ocean, they can be valuable nutrients to start and sustain life. The ocean water can react with the rocks and minerals of the subsurface ocean's floor to liberate other nutrients to support life.
Video: The Europa-Jupiter System Mission, produced by NASA / JPL News.
Video: Hubble Directly Images Possible Plumes on Europa, produced by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson.
Europa's position in space is within the powerful gravitational field of Jupiter. This strong gravitational "pull" has the moon locked into an orbit with one hemisphere constantly facing Jupiter. The elliptical orbit takes Europa alternatively closer to and farther away from the planet. This alternating increase and decrease of gravitational force on Europa results in the moon elongating and relaxing with each trip around the planet. This internal movement, combined with gravitational forces exerted by neighboring moons, produces internal friction and heat within Europa.
Europa's internal heat could be the energy source that keeps the subsurface ocean from freezing and sustains any life that exists there. There could be hot water vents on the floor of the subsurface ocean that deliver energy and nutrients from the planet's interior. Organisms on Earth have been discovered in the subglacial lakes of Antarctica and in the hot ion-rich waters of hydrothermal vents. Life in Europa's subsurface oceans could be supported in similar ways.
Europa from Galileo: An image of the trailing hemisphere of Europa. It shows very few impact structures but numerous ridges and fractures that suggest a rigid crust moving over a mobile layer below. Image by NASA.
NASA gives three pieces of evidence that strongly support the presence of Europa's subsurface ocean.
1) Magnetometer surveys done by the Galileo spacecraft discovered an induced magnetic field near Europa's surface. This suggests a large body of conductive material (salty water) at a depth of 30 kilometers (about 20 miles) or less.
2) The surface of Europa has bands, ridges, fractures and multi-ringed impact structures that suggest the presence of mobile material below.
3) The surface of Europa has large-scale fractures and ridges similar to those that bound Earth's tectonic plates. These suggest a mobile layer below Europa's crust that supports the crust and allows it to move.
A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface: Website article by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, March 2013.
Europa & Titan: Moons With Life?: Article from the Earthguide section of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego website, last accessed October 2016.
Europa Could Have the Ingredients Needed for Life: Article from the NASA website, March 2013.
What Makes Us Think There is an Ocean Beneath Europa's Icy Crust?: Article from the NASA website, March 2013.
The presence of magnesium compounds on the surface of Europa suggests that water from the subsurface ocean reaches the surface through springs or vents. If this occurs these eruptions would deliver up ions and microbes from the ocean below.
So, if there is life in Europa's subsurface ocean, it could be scattered about the surface of the planet where landers or rovers might find it. A mission to the surface of the Europa might easily find evidence of life or even some of the microbes by sampling surface materials.
This makes Europa a very interesting target in the search for extraterrestrial life. Some researchers believe that it is a much better target than Mars. | 2019-04-19T05:15:04 | https://geology.com/stories/13/life-on-europa/ |
0.988164 | Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label.
The A&R division is responsible for discovering new recording artists and bringing them to the record company. They are expected to understand the current tastes of the market and to be able to find artists that will be commercially successful. For this reason, A&R people are often young and may have formerly been either musicians, music journalists or record producers.
An A&R executive is often authorized to offer a record contract, often in the form of a "deal memo": a short informal document that establishes a business relationship between the recording artist and the record company. The actual contract negotiations will typically be carried out by rival entertainment lawyers hired by the musician's manager and the record company.
The A&R division oversees the recording process. This includes helping the artist to find the right record producer, scheduling time in a recording studio and advising the artist on all aspects of making a high quality recording. They work with the artist to choose the best songs (i.e.repertoire) to record. For artists who do not write their own music, they will assist in finding songs and songwriters. A&R executives maintain contact with their counterparts at music publishing companies to get new songs and material from songwriters and producers.
As the record nears completion, the A&R department works closely with the artist to determine if the record is acceptable to the record company. This may include suggesting that new songs need to be written or that some tracks need to be re-recorded. A key issue is whether the album has a single: a particular track which can be used to market the record on the radio. The industry cliche, "I don't hear a single!" is a reference to this process.
Once the record is completed, the A&R department (with assistance from marketing, promotion and the artist) chooses a single to help promote the record.
The tastes of particular A&R executives have influenced the course of music history. A&R man John H. Hammond discovered Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen. Hammond's colleagues were initially skeptical of these artists because none of them appeared to be creating "commercial" music (that is, music destined to be popular with the majority of the record buying public). However, Hammond's instincts proved to be correct and these artists went on to sell hundreds of millions of records. Geffen Records' Gary Gersh signed the band Nirvana at a time when alternative rock music was not considered commercial. Gersh was able to convince his coworkers to push the record in spite of their misgivings. In cases like these, A&R people have radically changed the direction of popular musical tastes and introduced large numbers of people to new sounds.
However, this kind of prescience is the exception, rather than the rule. Historically, A&R executives have tended to sign new artists that fit into recent trends and who resemble acts that are currently successful. This has caused several waves of similar sounding music, including teen pop (1998-2001), alternative rock (1993-1996), hair metal (1986-1991) and disco (1976-1978). This practice, however, can be counter-productive, since it has often led to a backlash. Towards the end of each wave record companies have found themselves faced with enormous losses as consumers' tastes changed. For example, at the end of the disco boom in 1978, millions of records were returned by record retailers, causing a deep recession in the music business that lasted until 1983, when Michael Jackson's Thriller finally brought the public back into record stores in large numbers.
New forms of digital distribution have changed the relationship between consumers and the music they choose. Gerd Leonhard and others argue that the wide selection of music on digital services has allowed music consumers to bypass the traditional role of A&R. In the wake of declining record sales, a large number of A&R staffers have been let go. It is not clear whether A&R executives will continue to shape the future of musical tastes the way they have in the past.
^ Disco boom: Knopper (2009, p. 15-35). Teen pop boom: Knopper (2009). Knopper discusses the way the industry has overreacted to these waves throughout his book.
MTV · Viva · Much · Fuse · CMT · TMF · B.E.T.
The Gatekeepers: A&R - HowStuffWorks "How Record Labels Work" | 2019-04-19T13:04:03 | http://www.thefullwiki.org/A&R |
0.998722 | In a stunning reversal, Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett on disorderly conduct charges for allegedly staging a phony attack and claiming he was the victim of a hate crime.
Foxx did try to have the FBI take over the case early on. Does this outcome mean that, in retrospect, she was on to something? Sources close to Smollett tell TMZ that the case against him had “disintegrated.” Specifically, the check which was supposedly written to pay the brothers for the attack was actually written for training in the gym. The Osundairo brothers’ attorney admitted on national television that the check was for training but said the brothers were also asked for a favor.
There’s supposed to be a press conference taking place a few minutes from now (as I write this). I’ll update this story when more information becomes available.
Update: While we’re waiting for more information…It’s interesting that last week the Chicago police union called for an investigation into Kim Foxx.
Chicago’s police union is calling for a federal investigation into the Cook County State’s Attorney’s actions in the Jussie Smollett case.
Did Chicago cops already have an inkling then where the Smollett case was going?
Update: Smollett’s attorney is speaking now. She clarifies that all charges against her client have been dismissed. “I have no idea what occurred in this case and why it occurred,” the attorney says. She’s refusing to explain what did happen but does not dispute that the Osundairo brothers were Smollett’s attackers.
Smollett stepped up to give a brief statement. He says he has been “truthful and consistent” from the beginning.
Update: We’ll have to wait to see what the Osundairo brothers have to say about all this but this much is clear. Smollett is not backing away from the claim he was attacked and the brothers have admitted they did it. Plus there’s lots of evidence they did it. So there are at least two options here for what happened.
Option 1: The Osundairo brothers attacked their rich, famous friend in the middle of the night for reasons of their own. They then lied about it after being arrested and claimed it was Smollett’s idea from the start. Police realized the case was falling apart and dropped the charges.
Option 2: Smollett planned this just as the brothers claimed. However, the police got some facts wrong and the Police Superintendent was on tape saying things that weren’t quite accurate, i.e. Smollett paid for the attack by check. The States Attorney realized a competent lawyer would be able to tear the case apart based on those misstatements (again, there’s video of the errors) and decided to let it go rather than embarrass the Chicago PD with a trial that would be covered by every network 24/7.
I’m not saying these are the only two options, just the two that occur to me given what we know at this point. I’m definitely leaning toward option 2 for a couple of reasons. First, the police did seem to get ahead of the facts a bit with the check. Second, it’s extremely odd that the brothers would travel to Chicago to attack their friend and benefactor in the middle of the night and that he wouldn’t recognize them despite having spent time with them.
We’ll have to see what the brothers have to say, if anything. But if option #2 is closer to the truth then I wouldn’t expect them to be charged. If option #1 is closer to the truth then I would expect them to be worried about charges which might lead them to be very quiet. One thing I’m pretty sure of is that eventually, we’ll know more than we do now. There’s been too much attention on this for it to just drop out of sight.
Update: The police plan to respond to the dropping of charges.
CHICAGO POLICE expected to respond to #JussieSmollett case dropped at about 12:15pm CT at Navy Pier.
This is just a disaster. This wasn’t just a minor street scuffle. This was major national news for weeks. As it stands Smollett is proclaiming his innocence while authorities are basically saying they decided to give him a pass on a fake hate crime because he’s not a threat to public safety. What about public sanity?
Update: Here’s CNN’s Brian Stelter saying Jussie is now a victim again.
CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson shocked to learn about #JussieSmollett dropped charges. He learned about it while attending a police graduation.
This has become an absolute cluster. What the hell is going on in Chicago?
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Smollett charges being dropped: "Do I think justice was served? No." Says city is still owed an apology.
Update: This makes no sense. | 2019-04-25T21:49:01 | https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/26/charges-dropped-jussie-smollett/ |
0.996143 | I am querying whether there is a certain method to ensuring that a connected USB drive which is used by a media server app like Mediatomb is continually recognised such that the app (Mediatomb) does not 'lose' the DB it has created. I had created a small DB on Mediatomb via its GUi and then when I rebooted the WD the DB had disappeared. I suspect it was because I had disconnected the USB drive prior to rebooting in order to to do some housekeeping to the media on it.
My thoughts are that after creating the DB on WD/Mediatomb one should not disconnect the drive the media is stored on UNLESS the WD is also powered off otherwise Mediatomb will assume on a restart (or reboot) that it has 'lost' the media and subsequently clear the DB.
Is this a correct assumption and if so is there a configuration setting to get around the problem?
I have a powered USB drive plugged to the WD Live.
I have USB_OSD_EJECT_BEFORE_POWER_OFF set to Yes and also USB_POWER_OFF set to Yes in the WD configuration.
If the WD is just shut down and restarted (not rebooted) everything is ok, Mediatomb is working and the DB is ok. However when the WD is not in use I prefer to power it off (and also the USB drive) especially if for example one is going to be away from home.
I find that when power is subsequently restored to the WD and the USB drive that Mediatomb is now turned off and that its DB is empty. Thus it would seem that it is not possible to power off the two devices without having to re-establish the Mediatomb DB. Also I see a similar problem in having passive USB drives connected via a hub to the WD if power is removed. I would much appreciate any input on this issue or if anyone else has/had a simialr problem.
Are you using the mediatomb.app.bin?
I need to check where the database is stored. Anyway, in standby the WDTV is still powered on and running all processes, so it's not relevant. Reboot is what you need to be testing. | 2019-04-25T16:20:03 | http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9368 |
0.999578 | _Q._--What will be the pressure of the steam, under such circumstances, at the end of the stroke?
_A._--If the steam be shut off at half stroke, the pressure of the steam, reckoning the total pressure both below and above the atmosphere, will just be one-half of what it was at the beginning of the stroke. It is a well known law of pneumatics, that the pressure of elastic fluids varies inversely as the spaces into which they are expanded or compressed. For example, if a cubic foot of air of the atmospheric density be compressed into the compass of half a cubic foot, its elasticity will be increased from 15 lbs. on the square inch to 30 lbs. on the square inch; whereas, if its volume be enlarged to two cubic feet, its elasticity will be reduced to 7-1/2 lbs. on the square inch, being just half its original pressure. The same law holds in all other proportions, and with all other gases and vapors, provided their temperature remains unchanged; and if the steam valve of an engine be closed, when the piston has descended through one- fourth of the stroke, the steam within the cylinder will, at the end of the stroke, just exert one-fourth of its initial pressure.
180. _Q._--Then by computing the varying pressure at a number of stages, the average or mean pressure throughout the stroke may be approximately determined?
_A._--Precisely so. Thus in the accompanying figure, (fig. 32), let E be a cylinder, J the piston, _a_ the steam pipe, _c_ the upper port, _f_ the lower port, _d_ the steam pipe, prolonged to _e_ the equilibrium valve, _g_ the eduction valve, M the steam jacket, N the cylinder cover, O stuffing box, _n_ piston rod, P cylinder bottom; let the cylinder be supposed to be divided in the direction of its length into any number of equal parts, say twenty, and let the diameter of the cylinder represent the pressure of the steam, which, for the sake of simplicity, we may take at 10 lbs., so that we may divide the cylinder, in the direction of its diameter, into ten equal parts. If now the piston be supposed to descend through five of the divisions, and the steam valve then be shut, the pressure at each subsequent position of the piston will be represented by a series, computed according to the laws of pneumatics, and which, if the initial pressure be represented by 1, will give a pressure of .5 at the middle of the stroke, and .25 at the end of it.
If this series be set off on the horizontal lines, it will mark out a hyperbolic curve--the area of the part exterior to which represents the total efficacy of the stroke, and the interior area, therefore, represents the diminution in the power of a stroke, when the steam is cut off at one- fourth of the descent. If the squares above the point, where the steam is cut off, be counted, they will be found to amount to 50; and if those beneath that point be counted or estimated, they will be found to amount to about 69. These squares are representative of the power exerted; so that while an amount of power represented by 50 has been obtained by the expenditure of a quarter of a cylinder full of steam, we get an amount of power represented by 69, without any expenditure of steam at all, merely by permitting the steam first used to expand into four times its original volume.
181. _Q._--Then by working an engine expansively, the power of the steam is increased, but the power of the engine is diminished?
_A._--Yes. The efficacy of a given quantity of steam is more than doubled by expanding the steam four times, while the efficacy of each stroke is made nearly one-half less. And, therefore, to carry out the expansive principle in practice, the cylinder requires to be larger than usual, or the piston faster than usual, in the proportion in which the expansion is carried out. Every one who is acquainted with simple arithmetic, can compute the terminal pressure of steam in a cylinder, when he knows the initial pressure and the point at which the steam is cut off; and he can also find, by the same process, any pressure intermediate between the first and the last. By setting down these pressures in a table, and taking their mean, he can determine the effect, with tolerable accuracy, of any particular measure of expansion. It is necessary to remark, that it is the total pressure of the steam that he must take; not the pressure above the atmosphere, but the pressure above a perfect vacuum. | 2019-04-22T14:51:58 | http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/c/19957-a-catechism-of-the-steam-engine-by-bourne?start=45 |
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0.999093 | 1. Combine half the watermelon and half the water in a blender; puree. Pour through a coarse strainer into a large container. Repeat with the remaining watermelon and water. Stir in lime juice. Refrigerate until well chilled, about 4 hours.
2. To serve, stir in club soda (or seltzer) and garnish with lime.
Place watermelon, jalapenos, cilantro, lime juice and onion in a medium bowl; stir well to combine. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
1. Place watermelon and lime juice in a food processor; process until smooth. Set a sieve over a large bowl and press the puree through to remove tiny seeds.
2. Pour the watermelon mixture into a shallow metal pan and freeze until ice crystals form around the edges, about 30 minutes. Stir the ice crystals into the center of the pan and return to the freezer; repeat every 20 minutes until all the liquid is frozen.
3. Serve immediately or transfer to a storage container and let harden in the freezer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Serve in chilled dishes. | 2019-04-24T01:54:02 | https://synergystrength.fit/blog/we-wuv-watermelon |
0.998134 | The light in the living room was too bright for the afternoon. The cream upholstered sofa dipped from the weight of the three grown adults sitting on it. Doris, who sat on the edge, spoke first, "We have made the decision to stay." Her voice was firm but still polite. Her eyes darted slowly to the two other people beside her, and she then added, "As we have discussed about it, we find that life in the countryside is much worse than our current state of life. So then, Allen and I have made up our mind to stay in Y City. We are not going back anymore." The room remained silent for a little while.
From her seat, Peggy fidgeted a bit in awkwardness. Her eyes briefly cast a glance at Doris from her peripheral vision. To show her support to what Doris said, she spoke, "That's true. Remember the saying which reads 'Water without control flows to lower places in nature whereas men struggle to move to high positions'? It teaches us that we can't live in that poor place for the rest of our life. Instead, we should make use of each and every chance we have to live a better life. Now that we have that chance, then we should stay in this big city."
She sighed deeply, and then continued, "Y City is so huge. There are many more chances here than in the countryside. When they get married, Allen will go out and find a job. After that, we can become real 'people of Y City' as well. I can't wait to see that day coming." After she finished her words, Anthony's eyebrows shot up to his forehead.
Did he hear that right? "Wait, so you are going to stay in this house for a long period of time?" he asked, but he spoke in a curt voice to mask his contempt. 'The people in this family, except Sue, are so shameless, ' he thought. If they weren't in front of him, he would have slapped his hand on his forehead in exasperation by now.
Peggy responded, "It is not like we have another choice. We also don't want to do this to Sue." She sighed, as if she really felt sorry for Sue under all that fake sympathy. She hoped that her eyes reflected sadness with her tirades. However, she continued with her acting and added, "As it turns out now, Sue has to make her sacrifice. I feel so sorry for my girl."
On the other hand, Doris decided to go completely off-topic and didn't wait for their conversation to end, and interjected. She turned to Anthony who sat on the side sofa and talked to him, "Mr. Xiao, I didn't get a chance to ask you about something."
"What is it?" Anthony looked at her dubiously.
"What is there between you and Sue?" Doris asked in a skeptical tone. It was her turn to have her eyebrows raised.
"I..." he stammered in his seat. He couldn't find the right words to answer her question. He did not expect for Doris to ask such a question in quite the straightforward manner.
At this, Doris continued, "If you two are merely normal friends, then what does our family matter have to do with you? Why do you care about her family issues? Don't you think that this is beyond what an ordinary friend should care about?" She said in a seemingly jeering voice. She knew that she had hit a spot by asking the right question. She added, "So my conclusion is that you have an abnormal relationship with her. That is why you are here, and you are trying to do something for her in order to impress her, am I right?"
At this point, Anthony tried to give rather safe answers to her blunt questions. He asked, "What are you implying?" Though it was quite clear what Doris was referring to, at least to Doris, Anthony still asked in doubt.
"Mr. Xiao, You have feelings for Sue, don't you?" Once again, Doris asked straightforwardly. She continued, "You will answer me first, or else I won't explain what I mean."
She immediately gathered her things and rushed back home. Upon arrival, she was shocked to see Anthony sitting on the living room couch. She was unprepared for that and was rather annoyed. Her irritation was obvious as she asked with a frown, "Why are you here?"
However, her tone made it seem more like a statement rather than a question. It definitely showed how impatient she was.
"Mind your tone, Sue. Is this how we should talk to our guest?" The chiding tone of Peggy scolded her from the kitchen. She said, "Mr. Xiao has come to visit me. Is there anything wrong with that?"
"Mom, you..." The frown on Sue's face became deeper as she walked to the kitchen. Her apparent displeasure heightened.
"Alright then Sue, host our guest well. He is not a guest who visits us regularly. Be nice and spend some good time to chat with him." Even until now, Peggy's voice still held that motherly tone when she spoke. However, it suddenly turned harsh and she hissed, "Mind your language. If I ever come to know that you… You will see what I will do to you."
Sue's eyes were downcast as she left the kitchen. It was evident from her tone of voice that Peggy was indisputably confident that she didn't have to state everything outright in order for her warning to effect. After making sure that Sue would do as she said, she turned to Doris who was still in the living room and said in a soft, gentle tone that was a complete opposite of her voice to Sue, "Doris, you can go back to your room and take a rest for now. I will call you when the meal is ready."
In turn, Doris was smart enough to decipher her words -- Peggy wanted to create some space for them to have a private conversation, so she just nodded in agreement and returned to her room.
After that, only Sue and Anthony were left in the room.
She was quite annoyed and questioned Anthony straight to his face, "What do you want to do here?"
In return, Anthony carefully replied, "Sue, I am just worried for you. I want to know if you are fine." His lips forced a bitter smile on his face. Who else should he blame but himself? He didn't appreciate the love Sue had shown to him and took everything she gave for granted, because he held on to the stupid idea that Sue wouldn't leave him no matter what. Now it was a completely different story. Sue didn't even give him a chance to talk to her. The tables were turned and now, it was he who needed to beg her to stay by his side. How lowly he had made himself! | 2019-04-21T10:26:48 | https://www.moboreader.net/Home/BookRead/18276322%20391274 |
0.999999 | Can road kill be legally taken and eaten?
Q: A friend recently hit a deer, causing about $1,200 damage to the vehicle. He picked up the deer and put it in his truck to take home for food. He was stopped by a sheriff's deputy who told him to take the deer out of his vehicle or he would be cited. I heard that it is legal to pick up "roadkill." Can you please clarify this?A: The officer was correct. It is illegal to pick up roadkill wildlife. No one may possess wildlife in any form unless the animal was legally taken by a licensed hunter during the hunting season for that species and while using approved harvest methods. Given this, even if the first criteria were true (your friend was a licensed hunter), motor vehicles are not a legal method of take. The next time your friend sees an animal killed on the roadway, he should not attempt to retrieve it for any purpose. Q: I have a question regarding access rights to California waterways. I've noticed "no trespassing" signs posted on many of the Delta sloughs south of Sacramento that state the area between the public road and the slough itself cannot be accessed or fished. These look like government signs. While investigating I found that state and federal law, as well as the California Constitution (Article 10, sections 1, 4 and 7), appear to guarantee the public's access to these waterways. Shouldn't the public have the right to access and fish from this land? A: While California law allows for public access to public waters, it does not grant the public the right to cross private property to reach those waters. That means that while the waters are open to public use and passage, in order to reach those waters you may need to do so from a public launch ramp. If you want to fish from a bank, you will need to do so from areas that are public property or not marked with "No Trespassing" signs due to private property rights. The signs you are referring to here are different, though. According to Department of Fish and Game (DFG) Capt. Mark Lucero, the posting at the Delta levees has been an issue since early 2000 when the reclamation districts first erected these signs to keep anglers from parking their vehicles on the levees and down embankments. DFG has received constant complaints from anglers upset with the posting and lack of accessibility to the river. We inform the anglers that the trespass issues are a penal code violation and that our officers will not be issuing citations for trespass. However, we do caution the anglers that they may be cited by a sheriff's deputy. There's been a real effort lately, through CalTIP and letters sent to DFG, to get our officers to address this issue. However, as mentioned, our officers will not be enforcing trespass laws or conducting angler checks as a priority. In addition, anglers may fish from the bank of the levees if they access the bank via navigable means and stay within the mean high tide. Q: Can sport-caught fish be prepared and consumed at sea when fishing/diving from a private vessel? A: Yes, legally taken fish may be prepared and consumed at sea, but there are some restrictions. Abalone must remain attached to their shell and lobster tails must remain attached to the carapace until they are being prepared for immediate consumption. For finfish that may be filleted at sea, the skin (or prescribed portion) must remain attached for species identification until they are being prepared for immediate consumption. Q: I know there is a crow hunting season, but what about ravens? Since "corvids" (crows and ravens) are very problematic predators for song birds and marbled murrelets on the coast, can landowners get a depredation permit for either species? If so, where? A: There is no hunting season for ravens. They are protected by the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Crows are also protected by the MBTA, but there is an open season between December and April each year. Carrie Wilson is a marine biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game. While she cannot personally answer everyone's questions, she will select a few to answer each week. Please contact her at [email protected]. | 2019-04-19T05:31:01 | http://www.thedowneypatriot.com/articles/can-road-kill-be-legally-taken-and-eaten |
0.999999 | Equine healthcare products are the drugs, vaccines and supplemental feed additives used for the therapeutics purposes for the equine (horses, foals, mares etc.) species. The global equine healthcare market is driven by the undying trend of horse-racing, high incidence of equine infections, and global animal health development management programs. The market is likely to face a challenge from the decreasing population of equine species in worldwide. Rising demand for pet insurance will open up new avenues for the global equine healthcare market to grow in the near future.
According to the report, the global equine healthcare market is likely to expand at a CAGR of 4.2% from 2017 to 2025, rising to an estimated valuation of US$862.7 mn in 2025.
Based on product type, the equine healthcare market has been segmented into drugs, vaccines and supplemental feed additives. The drugs segment is anticipated to hold the largest share in 2016, followed by vaccines and supplemental feed additives, owing to high market requirements of drugs for the treatments of equines. By drugs type, the anti-infectives sub-segment is expected to hold the largest share in 2016, followed by anti-inflammatory, parasiticides and others sub-segments, owing to high incidence of infections among equines and strong efficacy of anti-infective drugs to cure the infectious diseases occurring in equines.
In terms of vaccines type, the inactivated sub-segment is anticipated to hold the largest share in 2016, followed by live attenuated, recombinant and others sub-segments, as inactivated vaccines are considered as the safest and show strong efficacy over types of vaccines. By supplemental feed additives type, the minerals and vitamins sub-segments are estimated to hold significant shares in 2016 followed by proteins and amino acids, enzymes and others, due to the high requirements of minerals and vitamins as nutritional supplements for equines.
Geographically, the global equine healthcare market is divided into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa regions. The North America and Europe equine healthcare markets are expected to grow during the forecast period due to the significant adoption rate of equines per households, high interest in equine care, impressive animal healthcare expenditure, and strong business operation of the brand companies in these two regions.
The Asia Pacific equine healthcare market is expected to hold the third largest share in 2016 but anticipated to increase with the highest rate during the forecast period due to the emerging trend of equine care, rising focus on animal healthcare, increased expenditure on healthcare products for animals, and the increased popularity of racing sports. High incidence rate of equine infections such as Potomac horse fever, Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis is the primary reason to navigate the Latin America equine healthcare market during the forecast period. The Middle East and Africa equine healthcare market is the least contributor in the global equine healthcare market due to less population of horses in Middle East region and nominal animal healthcare expenditure in the region.
Some of the most prominent players in the global equine healthcare market are Bayer AG (Bayer Animal Health), Boehringer Ingelheim, Ceva Santé Animale, Sanofi (Merial), Eli Lilly and Company (Elanco), Equine Products UK Ltd, Merck & Co. (Merck Animal Health), Purina Animal Nutrition LLC., Vetoquinol S.A., and Zoetis. | 2019-04-20T16:58:22 | https://www.dailytelescope.com/equine-healthcare-market-size-was-over-usd-862-7-million-in-2025-and-is-forecast-to-grow-at-over-4-2-cagr/186847 |
0.999998 | Are we unoccupied by choice?
There are many people who tell that they are feeling bored or do not know what to do to pass time. They will always be complaining one way or other about unavailability of jobs for them.
At the same time if we assign some work to them they will on one pretext or other avoid it. They will also not show any interest in initiating a task.
I feel such people are unoccupied by choice. What is your view?
There are different types of people. Some people are workaholics. They will complete the work at the earliest and wait for another work to be assigned. But some people try to avoid work. But they will never say that. They feel as if no work is given to them. But they don't show interest in the work given. There are some people who want to work but they don't have the work of their interest as such they may not be showing interest in working. But some people really don't have any work to do.
We will be coming across all these types of people. But the Managers has to see that they will extract work from the people working with him and should complete the work as per the given targets. Performing the work by ourselves is easy but to extract work from others will be a very difficult proposition. There more managerial skills are required than performing on our own. | 2019-04-21T10:21:38 | https://www.indiastudychannel.com/forum/160424-Are-we-unoccupied-by-choice.aspx |
0.999997 | What should I wear the day of the exercise stress test?
The exercise stress test -- also called a stress test, exercise electrocardiogram, treadmill test, graded exercise test, or stress ECG -- is a test used to provide information about how the heart responds to exertion. It usually involves walking on a treadmill or pedaling a stationary bike at increasing levels of difficulty, while your electrocardiogram, heart rate, and blood pressure are monitored.
Stress echocardiogram: An echocardiogram (often called "echo") is a graphic outline of the heart's movement. A stress echo can accurately visualize the motion of the heart's walls and pumping action when the heart is stressed; it may reveal a lack of blood flow that isn't always apparent on other heart tests.
Do not drink or eat foods containing caffeine for 12 hours before the test. Caffeine will interfere with the results of your test.
Do not take the following heart medications on the day of your test unless your doctor tells you otherwise, or if the medication is needed to treat chest discomfort the day of the test: Isosorbide dinitrate (for example, Isordil, Dilatrate SR); Isosorbide mononitrate (for example, ISMO, Imdur, Monoket); Nitroglycerin (for example, Deponit, Nitrostat, Nitro-bid). Your doctor may also ask you to stop taking other heart medications on the day of your test. If you have any questions about your medications, ask your doctor. Do not discontinue any medication without first talking with your doctor.
If you use an inhaler for your breathing, please bring it to the test.
If you take insulin to control your blood sugar, ask your doctor what amount of your medication you should take the day of the test. Often, you will take only half of your usual morning dose and eat a light meal 4 hours before the test.
If you take pills to control your blood sugar, do not take your medication until after the test is complete.
If you own a glucose monitor, bring it with you to check your blood sugar levels before and after your exercise stress test. If you think that your blood sugar is low, tell the lab personnel immediately.
Plan to eat and take your blood sugar medication following your stress test.
On the day of your stress test, wear soft-soled shoes suitable for walking and comfortable clothes. Do not bring valuables.
First, during a stress test, a technician will gently clean 10 small areas on your chest and place electrodes (small, flat, sticky patches) on these areas. The electrodes are attached to an electrocardiograph monitor (ECG or EKG) that charts your heart's electrical activity during the test.
Learn the causes, symptoms, and treatments of the common heart abnormality known as atrial fibrillation (A-fib).
Coronary angiogram is an angiogram (an X-ray image of blood vessels filled with contrast material) used to diagnose coronary artery disease responsible for heart attacks, strokes, angina, and other coronary artery diseases. Coronary angiogram assists the physician in diagnosing and recommending treatment for coronary artery disease. | 2019-04-19T16:44:16 | https://www.medicinenet.com/exercise_stress_test/article.htm |
0.999997 | The Basics Of Search Engine Optimization For The Business Owner<br><br>If you have an internet business, having an attractive website is just the beginning. If you want your website to rank highly in the search engines when the public searches for your line of business, you will need to know how to optimize your website. Here are some tips on how to do that.<br><br>Clean up your blog space and remove unnecessary widgets and graphics. You want people to be comfortable spending time on your blog so they read more content. The more they read, the more they can be pushed towards the affiliate products you are promoting. Be sure to make your blog easy to read by using colors and fonts that look nice and have a good amount of contrast.<br><br>Your headlines need to contain your keyword phrase. Your keyword phrase and secondary keywords should be in the headline tags (h1, h2, h3, etc). Search engines know that the headlines are actually more important than the rest of the text on the site, so they will assign a greater value to the keywords there.<br><br>If you do not have time to do it yourself, find a newsletter designer service. For a fee, these companies will generate quality newsletters to send out to your dedicated, or new, email subscribers. These newsletter companies will also occasionally link back to your website, increasing your hit level and your search results.<br><br>Ensure that your call to action is clear, concise, and easy to find. It's great to drive thousands of interested customers to your website, but if they can't figure out where to go to commit to what you're selling, they can't buy! You also don't want to inundate them with links to purchase, but make sure you supply enough so that anyone can figure out what to do.<br><br>Always check your keyword density when working towards search engine optimization goals. 3-5 percent should be the total of links or text on a page. Spread the information on your whole site, not just on your homepage. Every page needs keywords for search engines to recognize content.<br><br>You need to know what keywords to add to your site in order to have the best search engine optimization possible. There are a lot of words that are used on a daily basis but if you use the most commonly searched keywords in your field your content will show as a result rather than a site that does not have those specific words.<br><br>Grab any information your competitors give you and use it to your advantage. Sometimes, competing websites will give you exact information about their targeted keywords. There are two common ways [http://www.microgames.fr/profile/emeryo78 http://prlog.ru/analysis/akado.fi] to find this information. One is to look in the META tag of the site's homepage. Additionally, on some pages with articles, some or all of the keywords will be in bold.<br><br>Make sure to visit Google Webmaster Central and enable "Enhanced image search". This will allow Google to index your graphics and add them to it's Google Images search results. Many people look for photos for a variety of uses, and if they also find useful content on your website, they're likely to come back.<br><br>An important way to ensure that search engines have easy, efficient access to the entirety of your website is a site map. A site map - which lists each component of your site and provides individual links to all of them - allows the automated searchers to reach every page of your site in no more than two clicks.<br><br>A great method for implementing META keyword tags into your website is to use commas between keyword or keyword phrases rather than spaces. This method is given preference over spaces by most of the major search engines and it is a great way to ensure that your search engine ranking remains high.<br><br>If you have been looking to increase your web site's ranking in search engines, you need to look no further. It takes a lot of perfection, but once you establish a knack for it from applying the tips from this article you will see that the traffic to your web site is rapidly expanding. | 2019-04-25T20:49:36 | http://exportcredit.de/index.php?title=Background_Questions_On_Swift_Tactics_Of_Akado_Oy&action=edit |
0.997559 | How do I get to Brive-la-Gaillarde?
The town's railway station is connected directly to Paris, Toulouse, Limoges, Lille a number of other regional destinations. The festival site is around a 20 minute walk from the station.
Brive has its own airport, actually located around 16km south of the town. It is possible to fly to here from Aurillac, Lyon, Paris-Orly, Ajaccio and London-Stanstead.
You can also fly to Limoges from airports in France and the UK. From Limoges Airport, you will need to get a taxi to the city's station, followed by a train or bus to Brive-la-Gaillarde.
The nearest major airport is in Toulouse, from there you head into the city centre, and then catch a train or bus to Brive-la-Gaillarde.
Yes, nearby (paid) parking will be available at La Guierle underground car park. Alternatively, there will be free parking at 3 Provinces, around a 10 minute walk from the festival site. | 2019-04-20T00:22:52 | https://whatupintown.com/x/brive-festival-2019/ |
0.999999 | Why Do Eggs Float in Salt Water?
Eggs float in salt water because salt water has a higher density than fresh water. Density is defined as the amount of matter, in this case salt, in a given amount or medium. The more matter, the denser it is.
The salt water egg experiment is one of the easiest ways to demonstrate how density works. The components of this experiment are two raw eggs, table salt, two containers deep enough for an egg and tap water.
First, each container should be filled almost to the top with tap water. Add 6 tablespoons of salt in one container stir until completely dissolved, and then place one egg in each container. The egg in the salt water will sink while the one in the container with only tap water will float.
In this experiment, the egg sinks in plain water because the egg is denser than the water. It pushes the water particles out of the way and sinks to the bottom of the container. In the other container, the salt ions and the water ions have bonded together, which makes the water more dense than the egg. These new particles essentially hold the egg up in the water, causing it to float. | 2019-04-21T18:48:22 | https://www.reference.com/food/eggs-float-salt-water-aaddf7de38675260 |
0.9952 | The Church of Satan has accused Christians of "loving pedophilia" as several pastors continue to back Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore in the wake of sexual assault allegations.
On its official Twitter account, the Church of Satan tweeted: "Christians love pedophilia." It a follow-up tweet, it said, "Child abuse is directly forbidden in The Satanic Bible, which members of the church follow, church reps said. "Christians however have been abusing children for centuries. They own this."
"Many of the people coming to the defense of Moore [will] decry the horrors of moral relativism but then equivocate when one of their own is cruising shopping malls for underage prey," Raul Antony of The Church of Satan told Newsweek. "Many of the comments we see from Christians even take the allegations as a given and excuse his behavior through the teachings of the Bible."
The Church of Satan, established in 1966, claims to teach atheism and follows The Satanic Bible, which prohibits sexual activity with children.
Republicans in Washington have urged Moore to step aside after the Washington Post published a report based on interviews with more than 30 people, saying Moore pursued relationships with teenagers while he was in his 30s. One woman said she was just 14 years old - below the age of consent - when Moore initiated sexual contact with her.
Some pastors have continued to defend Moore, including Dr. David Gonnella, pastor of Magnolia Springs Baptist Church in Theodore, Alabama, who is one of the more than 50 pastors who endorsed Moore's successful Senate primary runoff in September.
"I don't desert my friends just on mere accusations, I require evidence," Gonnella said, explaining he believes the accusations are part of a plot to derail Moore's campaign.
"Well perhaps satanically motivated, but politically carried out," said Gonnella in describing the allegations against Moore. "Why was everyone, all these people silent for so many decades [and] want to all come for[ward] at the same time now?"
However, the vast majority of Christian leaders have spoken out against sexual misconduct.
"My blood pressure has been elevated in recent days with people suggesting that even when such horrible things take place that it's the equivalent of Mary and Joseph -- no, it's not," Moore, who is not related to Roy Moore, said during an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360. "Or, as I heard one person say on television, I believe it was yesterday, that this would be a misdemeanor, so it would be the equivalent of stealing a lawnmower. Stealing a lawnmower? That's the most horrifying, sort of moral relativism that I can imagine, especially when we're living a country where there are so many women and girls who have their lives being crushed by powerful men who are using sexual advances, sexual assault against them."
He added, "We need to have the moral clarity to come out and say, 'Sexual assault is always immoral and always wrong.'"
When responding to someone who is sexually abused, Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, urged the Church to simply say, "I believe you" and show mercy. | 2019-04-19T22:20:50 | http://cdn.gospelherald.com/articles/71619/20171117/church-satan-accuses-christians-loving-pedophilia-wake-roy-moore-scandal.htm |
0.99968 | Agnieszka Radwanska dodged the upset, and two match points, to remain unbeaten in six matches against Christina McHale.
LONDON, Great Britain - No.9 seed Agnieszka Radwanska was twice a point away from becoming the highest-seeded casualty of Wimbledon so far - but rediscovered her grass-court game in the nick of time to emerge a 5-7, 7-6(7), 6-3 victor over the unseeded Christina McHale in two hours and 42 minutes.
The Pole spent most of the clay season on the sidelines with a foot injury, lost her only grass warm-up match in Eastbourne to Lauren Davis, and before today had won consecutive WTA Tour matches just once since January. Throughout the first two sets, her hampered physical preparation was evident against a player she had never lost even a set to in their five previous encounters. Time and again, Radwanska was a step slow, and the pinpoint defence for which she is famed instead resulted in errors after being outhit by a determined McHale.
The American was striking her forehand with real purpose, hitting 33 winners to 25 unforced errors over the first two sets, and her serve was a revelation. The World No.60 had delivered just two aces in her three-set win over Katie Boulter in the first round - but along with her total of five today, racked up numerous unreturned serves.
Indeed, the first and second sets were curiously serve-dominated, with McHale winning 79% of her first serve points and Radwanska 80%. Neither player's name is a regular on ace leaderboards, but both used accurate placement to set up points efficiently: until 5-5, there had been just one break point in the match, against the McHale serve.
The American countered it, and won the game, with three consecutive unreturnable deliveries. It was a double fault, ironically, that was Radwanska's undoing in the penultimate game of the set - and though a double fault on her first set point provided a foreshadowing of future McHale wobbles today, the 25-year-old closed out the set by eliciting another backhand error on defence from the 2012 Wimbledon runner-up.
The pattern continued in the second set after an early exchange of breaks: McHale scored one hold to love and two to 15, while in one stretch Radwanska won 12 of 14 points on her own delivery. The stage was set for a dramatic tiebreak: the American led 5-2 before being pulled back to 5-5, but held the first match point when Radwanska missed a forehand down the line by inches.
Upping her aggression, the 28-year-old dragged her opponent from side to side before putting away an overhead; minutes later, McHale went for one of the forehands down the line with which she had been dominating - and sent it into the net. Two points later, another errant groundstroke had sent the match into a decider.
Buoyed by her escape, Radwanska unlocked her finesse in the final set, crafting the cat-and-mouse points crowds have come to expect for the first time today. Her dinks and dropshots from all corners of the court didn't help McHale regain equilibrium after her missed opportunity, and after hitting errors on two break points in the second game, the American fell away somewhat to concede eight straight points.
Though she continued to fight hard, notably fending off six further break points to go down a double break at 3-4 and holding three of her own in the following game, Radwanska was in full control now.
The Pole broke to love in the final game as McHale brought her total of unforced errors to 17 in the third set alone, and goes through to face No.19 seed Timea Bacsinszky in the third round. | 2019-04-24T20:43:29 | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/radwanska-reels-mchale-after-resisting-match-points-epic |
0.99905 | My TV or recorder has no SCART socket!
Do you want to connect a digital TV set-top box to a telly that doesn't have a SCART socket, or to a video recorder that doesn't have a spare SCART socket?
You should be able to connect a set top box via the TV aerial socket, or using a different connector on your TV or recorder.
Use a digital TV set-top box that has a modulated output that connect to your TV or recorder's standard aerial socket. Some set-top boxes, including Sky and older BT Vision boxes have a modulated output that can connect via an aerial lead. If you have a set-top box with a modulated output, you can connect it to a TV or recorder using an aerial lead, then tune your TV set or recorder into the output channel of the set-top box.
Many of the basic Freeview boxes don't have a modulated output and only support connecting by SCART. If your TV or recorder doesn't have a spare SCART socket, consider the Icecrypt T5000, pictured below - this is a Freeview receiver box that is designed to work on TV sets and recorders that don't have a SCART socket - it just uses the standard aerial socket.
Most video cassette recorders have a "modulator", which means a VCR can be connected to a TV that doesn't have a SCART socket. If you have a digital TV box that can only connects to a TV via SCART, then what you can do, is route the box through a video recorder to the TV.
To do this, plug the digital TV receiver into the video recorder using a SCART lead. Next, connect the video recorder to your TV via the aerial lead. Then, tune your TV in to the output of the video recorder. Finally, set the video recorder to use the SCART (possibly labeled Line 1, AV1, Ext, AUX on the VCR remote). This way, you're passing the output of the digital receiver through the video recorder to the TV - the video recorder has to stay switched on for this to work.
Option 3 - "Get an RF Modulator Box"
Connect a set-top box through an RF modulator box. If you have an existing set-top box that doesn't have a modulated output, you can use one of these boxes to convert SCART outputs to an aerial feed (see below).
If you've got a Freeview set-top box or a DVD player, and you want to connect it to a TV set or video recorder that doesn't have a SCART socket, then you can buy something called an RF modulator.
This has a SCART socket on it, and converts SCART signals from equipment with a SCART socket, into a signal that can be transmitted through a TV aerial lead. Plug your Freeview box or DVD recorder into one end using a SCART lead, and the other end into your telly or old video recorder using an aerial cable. You then need to tune your telly or recorder into the channel that the Modulator box creates.
Some TV sets and video recorders have other 'Line In / AUX' connectors that can be used to connect a box to - such as S-Video, composite video or component video sockets. With an appropriate cable, you may be able to make a connection. You can get SCART converters at maplin.co.uk or tvcables.co.uk. | 2019-04-19T08:55:24 | https://www.switchhelp.co.uk/faq_noscart.html |
0.998675 | Does Systemic Family Therapy (SFT) make sense to general adult psychiatrists? SFT is both a theoretical position and a form of psychotherapy. It has been evolving within mental health practice in the UK since the 1950’s. Though it is now to be found more often in child and adolescent mental health services, it has its roots in adult mental health. This in-depth qualitative study is an investigation of how registered psychiatrists working in adult services in the UK make sense of SFT. As the training and experiences of SFT vary for psychiatrists working in adult mental health services, this study explores those experiences, and the meaning psychiatrists have of them, including what they have taken into current working practice. This study therefore attempts to contribute to our understanding of the relation between the disciplines of psychiatry and SFT, and how psychiatrists use SFT in their practice. The research used semi-structured interviews with six qualified psychiatrists working in adult services within a London Mental Health Trust to explore the lived experiences each had of SFT. These interviews were recorded, transcribed and then analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The participants welcomed the opportunity to share and think about SFT in their practice and experience. The four main themes that emerged from the analysis were The Past in the Present and the Future, the impact and relevance of SFT training; Proximity and distance, exploring the range and limits of accessing SFT concepts and provision; Anxiety and Uncertainty; Position of SFT in mental health services. These master themes explore the participant’s recall of their experience of SFT both in their psychiatric training and in their subsequent working practice. They illuminate how these experiences relate to psychiatrists’ sense of SFT as a broader set of theories about human relations and mental health. The findings highlight the different ways psychiatrists made sense of, and utilized, SFT in their practice. The analysis of the interviews also reveals support for the trend towards incorporation of systemic thinking in mental health practice and training more generally. The discussion focuses on the aspects of nostalgic remembrance of experiences that no longer feel accessible within psychiatric practice; the experience of learning as a mental health practitioner; and the embeddedness of SFT in present work and the workplace, in relation to existing literature and theory. The conclusion offers reflections on the research process and insights into the applicability of the findings to mental health training, service development, and particularly how SFT thinking and skills can be taught in a more accessible way to other mental health professionals. KEYWORDS: Psychiatry, IPA, Training, Nostalgia, Systemic Family Therapy, Psychotherapy.
The copyright of this thesis rests with the author, who asserts his/her right to be known as such according to the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. No dealing with the thesis contrary to the copyright or moral rights of the author is permitted. | 2019-04-19T00:36:52 | http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/231/ |
0.999207 | 1. Boil and drain noodles.
2. Add eggs, sugar, raisins, and applesauce.
3. Pour melted butter into casserole reserving some for top.
4. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon, sugar, and remainder of melted butter.
5. Placed sliced apples on top. | 2019-04-18T18:50:31 | https://nuts.com/recipes/noodle-pudding--kugel-.html |
0.998619 | The Communist chap with the rather large corsage on the left (where else would I place him?) is Zhou Nan. For the early 1990s, he was the head of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong, and the de facto Chinese leader in the territory. 'Territory'. The enigmatic word that we've had to use all our lives to describe Hong Kong, not a colony, not merely a city, not quite a country, one that foreign journalists have stumbled over to the annoyance and consternation of their editors.
The role for which he shall go down in history, however, is the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on September 26th, 1984, along with Her Majesty's representative, Sir Richard Evans. The negotiations that had begun tentatively in 1982 with Margaret Thatcher attempting to renew the lease on the New Territories (which ran out in 1997, unlike the rest of the territory) ended two years later with Britain agreeing to give back every square foot, including Kowloon and Hong Kong island which had been ceded to them in perpetuity.
Today, we take for granted the relatively smooth (let's face it, it could have been a lot, lot worse) function of 'One Country, Two Systems' and the irrevocability of China's reforms toward a capitalist system of private enterprise. But we must remember that in 1984, when Britain signed away all rights to their old Colony, the reforms in China were nascent and far from irreversible. At that point, the imprisoning of Mao's wife Jiang Qing and the 'Gang of Four' was just five years old. What made the British sign away their last vestige of empire?
"The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China have reviewed with satisfaction the friendly relations existing between the two Governments and peoples in recent years and agreed that a proper negotiated settlement of the question of Hong Kong, which is left over from the past, is conducive to the maintenance of the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and to the further strengthening and development of the relations between the two countries on a new basis."
To me, the key words are, "left over from the past", and "on a new basis." While politely disguised in Chinese diplomatic English, they are both an acknowledgement that Britain Age of Empire was long over, and that the only way for China to be able to deal with Britain as a new equal partner (or should it be said that the tables are turned?) would be for Hong Kong to be returned. No doubt the Chinese of Hong Kong did not miss these nuances, holding their collective breath as they were on every word.
Given Britain's poor bargaining position, however, they did extract concessions from the Chinese about giving reassurances that Hong Kong would be able to continue with its way of life under Deng Xiaoping's "One Country, Two Systems" formula.
And China has been good on its word. There have of course been low points (June 1989 comes to mind), but all things considered, the pragmatism of the Hong Kong Chinese and their mainland masters have by and large put Hong Kong on a course that probably exceeded the expectations of Sir Richard, Lord (David) Wilson or any of the British delegation in 1984. Of course democracy remains a major sticking point, but keeping that date in September 26, 1984 when this article came out, we are very obviously much better off and perhaps sometimes could benefit from this perspective when making our mundane complaints.
My dearest Uncle, - I thank you very much for your letter of the 9th, received yesterday. I think, dear Uncle, that you would find the East not only as 'absurd' as the West, but very barbarous, cruel and dangerous into the bargain.
The Chinese business vexes us much, and Palmerston is deeply mortified at it. All we wanted might have been got, if it had not been for the unaccountably strange conduct of Charles Elliot who completely disobeyed his instructions and tried to get the lowest terms he could... The accounts of the cruelty of the Chinese to one another are horrible. Albert is so much amused at my having got the Island of Hong Kong, and we think Victoria ought to be called Princess of Hong Kong in addition to Princess Royal.
Fellow lovers of history, perhaps we do not live in such a terrible age after all.
I would like to point out, HK Dsve, that I've been to some ''barbarous'' bars in East Tsim Tsa Tsui. But that was fun, and days are better now.
oh, and that was by Doug. Thank you.
And, after reading the mickey mao section on blog the talk, I take back what i said on simon's site. i see it clearly now.
Hi Doug, glad to see I didn't bend Geoffrey's ideas too far out of shape. | 2019-04-20T04:22:22 | http://blog.mobileadventures.com/2005/09/british-agree-to-throw-in-towel.html |
0.999968 | Solution: One pass. O(n), Every time find an occurrence of word1 or word2, compare the distance of p1 and p2.
This is a follow up of Shortest Word Distance. The only difference is now you are given the list of words and your method will be called repeatedly many times with different parameters. How would you optimize it?
Solution: First preprocess the word to dict, which is a <word, list of index>map.
Then every time just get the word only check two list of indexes.
This is a follow up of Shortest Word Distance. The only difference is now word1 could be the same as word2.
Solution: if word1==word2==words, then p1=p2=i, and every time we update p1, we check the distance between p1 and p2.
Design an algorithm to find the maximum profit. You may complete at most two transactions.
Given an example [4,4,6,1,1,4,2,5], return 6.
Find the contiguous subarray within an array (containing at least one number) which has the largest product.
For example, given the array [2,3,-2,4], the contiguous subarray [2,3] has the largest product = 6.
Solution: One Pass O(n) time.
since you can either append from the previous one, or just start a new contiguous subarray.
Given an array of integers, find a contiguous subarray which has the largest sum.
For example, given the array [−2,2,−3,4,−1,2,1,−5,3], the contiguous subarray [4,−1,2,1] has the largest sum = 6.
Can you do it in time complexity O(n)?
如果新来的数大于A[stack.peek()]， 直接push i to stack， otherwise stack.pop()直到找到第一个比他小得数停下，push i to stack.
Given a m x n matrix, if an element is 0, set its entire row and column to 0. Do it in place.
click to show follow up.
Follow up:Did you use extra space?
A straight forward solution using O(mn) space is probably a bad idea.
A simple improvement uses O(m + n) space, but still not the best solution.
To achieve O(m+n) space, you need two array to store information while traversal the matrix for the first time checking if it is zero or not. You can also combine two arrays into one, but still cost O(m+n) space. So I just use two to store row and column information.
To save space, we can just make use of the space inside the matrix. Which means, we use the first row and first column to store the information.
In the first traversal, we set the corresponding cell on the first row or first column to 0 if there is any cell which is zero in this row or column.
In the second traversal, we set the matrix to zeros based on the first row and first column.
Note: The tricky part of this algorithm is, if without those two boolean variables to keep track of if there is any zero in the first row or first column , when matrix==0, we have no idea if the first row contains zero, or it is the first column contains zero, or both. also, we should deal with the rest part first based on the first row and first column and then deal with the first row and first column based on the two boolean values.
This is a very typical dp problem. where dp[i][j] = grid[i][j] + min( dp[i-1][j], dp[i][j-1] ); To prevent same cell being visited and calculated multiple times, we have a resultMap 2d array to store the result. We also need to check the edge carefully to ensure the index is not out of bounds of the given array.
Note: First calculate first row and first col which is there own grid value, then calculate other cells based on it.
Note: You don’t necessarily need a 2d map to store which cost O(n) space where n is the # of columns. You can just use one row to stored the result of previous row, and replace the value with the current row from left to right one by one. One thing worth mentioning is this code is more space efficient though, it has lower readability.
More information and further thoughts for minimum path sum questions can be found here. | 2019-04-20T06:54:32 | http://ying.ninja/?cat=8 |
0.998608 | Step 1Season the roast with the salt and pepper. Set aside.
Step 2In a large skillet over medium-high heat, heat the olive oil for about 1 minute. Add the roast to the skillet Brown on all sides, about 2 minutes per side. Remove the roast from the skillet, reserving any juices, and set aside.
Step 3Add the onion, mushrooms, and garlic to the skillet. Cook for 2 minutes, or until tender.
Step 4In a large slow cooker, layer the cabbage on the bottom. Top with the roast. Transfer the onion mixture to the cooker.
Step 5In a large bowl, mix together the beef broth, heavy cream, cream cheese, and tomato paste. Add to the slower cooker and cover.
Step 6Cook the roast on low for about 7 hours.
Step 7With a fork or tongs, shred the roast. Serve with the cabbage. | 2019-04-19T17:32:42 | https://www.ketoresource.org/keto_recipes/keto-beef-stroganoff-lunch-recipe/ |
0.999905 | Taking into account what has been stated previously see here A, B, C, D, E, F and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are two circular and concentric rows of cells arranged around a horizontal and movable axis G, and closed on all sides.
The cells A, B, C, D, E, F, communicate to each of the cells 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, by means of the tubes HI, LM , NO, PQ, RS, TV.
The cells 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, communicate with each other by means of valves 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, which all open in the same direction, so that it allows the water to pass from the first to the second cell, then from the second to the third, from the third to the fourth, from the fourth to the fifth, and so on until the last, and again the latter to the first, but refuse the water to flow in the opposite direction.
The cells A, B, C, D, E, F have no direct communication between them, and the cells 1, 2, 3, 4 have two openings like X, Y, through which they are filled with water. When the capacity of each of the cells 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is about the seventh part of that of the cells A, B, C, D, E, F, the apertures are closed as the resistant force is supposed to balance with the water of the cells 1, 2.
The air of the cell B will increase its spring sufficiently to support not only the height of water IY, but also to pass the water from the cell 1 to the cell 3, if this height IY is only about five feet.
The weight of this water will turn all this construction in the direction B, A, F around the center G, if the resistant force is less than this weight.
As the wheel rotates around the center G, the water in Y tends to descend and the next cells reach in BB. Again the air increases its spring, pushes the water up at a height sufficient for its weight to be continuously higher than the resistant force. By doing this, the cells containing the air that has been dilated, pass through the cold water reservoir. The dilated air shrinks, and do so further when the cells pass through the open air, to finally decrease to its original volume.It will then anew receive spring when passing by BB. | 2019-04-19T00:16:40 | http://hotairengines.org/stirling-engines-inventors/amontons/amontons-stirling-engine |
0.999004 | This statistic displays internet users' agreement with the statement: "I typically go to the same trusted brands when using the internet." Of respondents, 64 percent agreed with the statement. 8 percent disagreed somewhat or strongly. | 2019-04-23T00:25:57 | https://www.statista.com/statistics/277312/online-brand-loyalty-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/ |
0.999999 | You promised to announce your candidates’ list six months in advance, but didn’t. Was it a family problem involving Mr Prajwal, who wanted to contest that held up things?
Prajwal is already in politics and he has been given the right responsibilities. If he has to contest the elections, Mr Deve Gowda will decide when and where. He is young and has a long distance to go in politics. About releasing the list of candidates, we have already released the first list and asked the candidates to begin campaigning. I am also campaigning across the state. In some places, the BJP and Congress leaders have a secret pact to help each other. We are waiting for them to make the move.
Do you really feel the BJP and Congress can join hands ?
I did not say that the two parties have joined hands . Their leaders , Siddaramaiah and B S Yeddyurappa have a secret pact. Mr Yeddyurappa is helping Mr Siddaramaiah win Varuna and some other constituencies where Mr Siddaramaiah's supporters are contesting, and Mr Siddaramaiah is helping by ensuring the defeat of Mr Yeddyurappa's opponents in the BJP. After the elections, if no party gets a mandate, the two leaders are likely to join hands by breaking their own parties.
While Mr Siddaramaiah left the JD(S) in search of power, Mr Yeddyurappa broke from the BJP after being asked to step down. I don't know what ideology both leaders can talk of.
Getting wind of the move, Mr Yeddyurappa's son, Vijayendra was made a ticket aspirant there, and he started visiting Lingayat Mutts and even got a house there. Now, what is the connection between Mr Vijayendra and Mysuru? On what grounds is he contesting there? He can only bank on Lingayat votes and whom will it help?
Mr Vijayendra himself said that Mr Siddaramaiah was standing with folded hands in front of his father and he did not reply. I knew Mr Yeddyurappa had funded Mr Siddaramaiah during his by-election from Chamundesh wari. They may have some spats in the media, but they have a great understanding inside.
But how does this secret pact work?
The reports about Karnataka have from the start been that no one can get a clear mandate. In that case, it would be difficult for both Mr Siddaramaiah and Mr Yeddyurappa to come to power. What was the need for Rahul Gandhi to say that the JD(S) was the BJP’s B-team? By asking Mr Gandhi to say that Siddaramaiah destroyed the prospects of old Congress leaders like Kharge, Dr Parameshwar and D K Shivakumar, who will have to think twice before seeking our support. Similarly, BJP national president ,Amit Shah came to Karnataka saying he would work out a strategy. What happened to his strategy and who sabotaged it? Look at the mess created after the BJP announced its first list of candidates. That's what exactly Mr Yeddyurappa wanted. After the election, if no one gets a majority, either Mr Siddaramaiah or Mr Yeddyurappa will break two -third of their legislature party and merge them with the other group and form a fourth force in the state. Only time has to tell.
We have witnessed lot of permutations and combinations in politics. I see chances of the BJP faction breaking and joining hands with the Congress.
So, you agree there could be a hung assembly?
I was just talking about the calculations of my opponents. Even today, I am confident of getting more than 113 seats and don't need support from either the BJP or Congress. I am not going with caste division calculation. I am going with all the communities and people's problems.
This story has been auto-generated from a syndicated feed from http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/120418/bsy-siddu-will-split-and-rule-post-polls-hd-kumaraswamy.html . | 2019-04-20T04:12:01 | https://kannada.club/bsy-siddu-will-split-and-rule-post-polls-hd-kumaraswamy/ |
0.999999 | The United States can't afford librarians, according to a new analysis of federal data.
Between 1999-2000 and 2015-16, U.S. public schools lost 19% of full-time equivalent school librarians, according to a School Library Journal article by researcher Keith Curry Lance that examined National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data.
The shortage in public school librarian employment — which saw the most dramatic drop following the Great Recession of 2008 and hasn't recovered since — has hit districts serving minorities the hardest. Among all the districts that have retained all their librarians since 2005, 75% are white, Education Week reports. On the other end of the scale, student populations in the 20 districts that lost the most librarians in the same time comprised 78% students of color.
In other words, while U.S. employment rates are back up in the wake of the Great Recession, the public school librarian sector has not rebounded, and the nation's collective failure to rebuild its public information infrastructure is hitting minorities the hardest.
Some states suffered a more dramatic loss than the average. The number of librarians employed across Florida’s 67 school districts has dropped by 27% since just 2005, according to a 2017 Herald Tribune article, leaving several districts without any librarians at all. In replacement, the Herald Tribune argues, paraprofessionals run libraries as media aides — a position that requires just a high school diploma and a certification, and which starts at $14.60 an hour. Librarians with masters' degrees, however, are often the first to go when budgets need to be cut.
Education Week's articles also argues that librarian's roles are being replaced by other, less qualified job titles: As public school librarians dwindled by 20%, schools saw an 11% rise in counselors, 19% boost in instructional aides, and a full 28% more school administrators. Hopefully, some of those unemployed librarians were able to secure a second career in an administration position. Disputing this viewpoint, however, is Keith Curry Lance's School Library Journal analysis, which notes that public school library support staff have been cut or otherwise stopped working at a rate even faster than that of librarians: Support staff have dropped from more than 46,000 to fewer than 26,000, a loss of nearly 45 percent during the same time period librarians dropped nearly 20 percent. Hopefully, some of those unemployed librarians were able to secure a second career in an administration position.
While the direct impact of the drop in school librarians can be tough to pinpoint with data, several recent studies have indicated that students suffer academically as a result: One nationwide study published in 2011 found signs that states' 4th grade reading scores dropped in correlation with their loss of librarians. A 2012 Colorado-specific study from the same researchers then followed up, finding a similar correlation in the opposite direction: "Schools that either maintained or gained an endorsed librarian between 2005 and 2011 tended to have more students scoring advanced in reading in 2011 and to have increased their performance more than schools that either lost their librarians or never had one," that study holds.
"You get what you pay for," Researcher Keith Lance told the Herald Tribune in 2017. | 2019-04-22T15:06:41 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamrowe1/2018/05/21/u-s-public-schools-have-lost-20-of-their-librarians-since-2000/ |
0.999424 | 1. In a food processor combine all ingredients except hemp seeds and pulse for 10-15 seconds until well-combined.
2. Scoop mixture into 1" balls 3. Place hemp seeds on a small plate.
3. Roll truffles around on the hemp seeds until coated. Serve. Enjoy!
1. Combine chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk in a microwave safe bowl.
3. Pour in a greased (or parchment-lined) 8×8 pan, and refrigerate for one hour.
4. Remove from pan (if you leave some extra parchment sticking up, it pops right out), and cut into squares for serving. | 2019-04-24T16:03:53 | https://dailyasianage.com/news/139636/recipe |
0.99887 | John Ibrahim's bikefriend says that he was left out of the award-winning memoir of the Baron nightclub because the couple was in the midst of a long-running discussion.
Ibrahim, 48, released his book & # 39; Last King of the Cross & # 39; in which he explained his life story from fleeing war-torn Tripoli to a nightclub king on the Golden Mile of Sydney.
However, notably mentioned in his book was his cousin Moudi Tajjour – a convicted murderer and former national president of the Nomades bike gang.
Seated in front of his & # 39; Can not Fight Fate & # 39; YouTube podcast, Tajjour, 35, touched his rocky relationship with Ibrahim.
& # 39; We haven't talked for about four years, (we) had a massive fight … You know, family arguments, & # 39; said Tajjour.
Tajjour claimed that he and his brother Sleiman had not spoken to Ibrahim after a trivial argument and that his famous cousin & # 39; stubborn & # 39; called.
Tajjour – who was partly raised by Ibrahim after his parents had left him as a child – said the fight that caused the dropout was due to & # 39; talk back & # 39 ;.
& # 39; I didn't respect him by talking to him again, this guy forgets that we're grown-ups, he still thinks we're little kids, so because I chased him and didn't stop me & # 39 ;, he said jovially.
& # 39; He said, "you are a f *** ing rude arrogant c ** t, I am your older cousin, you talk to me like that", & # 39; said Tajjour.
& # 39; The c ** t is stubborn as a man, for years we have not talked & he said.
Ibrahim, 48, released his first book last year, the last king of the cross, describing his compelling life story, from fleeing war-torn Tripoli to a nightclub king on the Golden Mile of Sydney.
Tajjour said that bitter feats made family gatherings uncomfortable.
It was only when the cousin of Tajjour, John's brother, Michael Ibrahim, came out of prison that the estranged couple agreed to a & # 39; ceasefire & # 39; to arrange.
Tajjour also revealed that he spit & # 39; & # 39; but was not mentioned in the book that was published in July 2017.
& # 39; So instead of running me in his book, he brought me where it hurt, he knows I love fame.
& # 39; That's why he let me and my brother out, he said, "I'd either get you out of the bag or let you out."
Tajjour said he was lucky that his cousin let him out of the book instead of picking him up and & # 39; talked & # 39; about him and his brother because of their fight.
Despite the cousin's dispute, Tajjour says he can understand why it was not discussed in & # 39; Last King of the Cross & # 39 ;.
& # 39; The difference is that he was older than me, so he could tell his whole life without me and my brother in the book because he has enough stories to tell.
Tajjour has previously opened up to his rough upbringing in a housing commission in Sydney, showing that it was Ibrahim who stepped in and helped him & # 39; educate & # 39 ;.
& # 39; If it wasn't for my cousins, I would work at McDonald & # 39; s, & # 39; he revealed.
& # 39; Only because I now have my own name and I am now someone, have I crossed the ranks of the Ibrahim family with my cousins. I don't forget that.
& # 39; Let me tell you, once a lion – always a lion. | 2019-04-25T02:52:55 | https://whatsnew2day.com/why-john-ibrahim-abandoned-his-bike-breeding-from-his-memoirs-39-last-king-of-the-cross-39/ |
0.998071 | Visit your local bookstore or browse online selections of African-American literature and you'll likely find a plethora of books featuring highly-sexualized images of Black women accompanying titles like Altered Destiny: A Hustler's Choice or Still Wifey Material(pardon me while I throw up). Gone are the days when Barnes & Noble would have an African-American Literature section that featured books by Alice Walker, Walter Mosley, Donald Goines, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and even, I regret to say, Eric Jerome Dickey (blech).
In the featured selections you found a variety in time, perspective, tone, and message. These selections have been replaced by tired, done-to-death novels about hustlin, and love triangles gone wrong. Of the new featured selections, the only variety is in the name of the authors and the pairs of breasts prominently displayed on the book covers.
Five to ten years ago -- before self-publishing became easy enough for a third grader to do -- books like Man Child in the Promised Land, The Bluest Eye, The Color Purple, Black Girl Lost and Invisible Man were prominently displayed. In fact, I was exposed to some of the finest African-American literary works for no reason other than that they were displayed in a bookstore.
If you wanted to find a run of the mill tale about a woman who slept with her best friend's baby daddy, you had to visit a corner in the hood to find it. While I don't necessarily agree that certain books only deserve to be housed on card tables on 125th Street in Harlem, I miss the days of not being disgusted when I come upon the African-American Literature section in bookstores.
Some might argue that I shouldn't concern myself with these books if they don't interest me; I should spend my money on the books that I want to read. But I have much reason to be concerned. Bookstores are featuring these books and making them more readily available because people are buying these books en masse. Black people -- who may very well relate to some of these books -- are likely the main procurers of these books. Other people -- likely White people as history has proven -- are buying these books because they epitomize many of the stereotypes about Black people that far too many Whites are enamored with. So, how does this affect me?
I don't want to be bombarded with subpar writing masquerading as the best of modern contemporary African-American literature; I want to choose from a variety of well-written Black literary works. I want to choose from books that challenge me to write and think better or offer me new perspectives.
I don't want my choices to be limited to books that add no value to my life. I don't want to have to choose between a book about a woman whose baby daddy got locked up for selling drugs and a book about a woman whose baby daddy is cheating on her. I can watch Maury Povich for one hour at no charge to get my fix of hoodtacular drama.
People are obviously buying these books in large numbers. If not, bookstores wouldn't give them prominent display in their stores. So, yeah, this affects me. When I can find infinite selections of inexpensive hood life novels and have to search harder and pay more for thoughtful and well-crafted novels that offer varied perspectives of African-American life, it becomes a personal problem.
I wish Black people would get a clue. I know we're not the only people buying these books, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that we're the majority procurers. I'm not against the existence of these books. I don't like them, but I understand why a market for these books exists. What I am against, however, is how we continue to pigeonhole ourselves.
We use our currency to make a statement about what we value. If we're spending our money on uni-faceted depictions of ourselves we'll create a climate in which writers who want to offer us varied perspectives, present us with new opportunities and challenge us to higher thinking will be met with obstacles that early Black writers made strides to overcome.
Variety is the issue here. I suppose, begrudgingly, that the story of the ride or die woman who will get on the stroll for her man should be told. But that tale needs to be countered. And perhaps, some might argue, that a place needs to exist for writers who have had no formal training or invested much time refining their craft; perhaps people who merely want to tell a story deserve to be read too. But mediocre and unrefined stories that keep being repeated need to be countered with well-thought, polished, reflective and challenging stories. The only way we can ensure the latter is to invest in those kinds of works and to encourage others to do the same. I hope this is not merely wishful thinking.
Note: I want to extend a special 'Thank You' to Alexandra (@youngfabmama) for engaging me in a conversation that sparked me to write to this post. | 2019-04-20T07:23:18 | http://www.forharriet.com/2011/02/pigeonholing-of-african-american.html |
0.999463 | How do I perform a Y2K check on my BIOS?
How can I check if my BIOS will needs to upgrade for Y2K? My computer is 2 years old and made by NETRAM. They have been bought out by another company.
1) Set date and time to 12/31/99 11:59:00pm - this can be changed in Windows or in DOS To change in Windows, go to Start/Settings/Control Panel and choose the Date and Time icon To change the time in DOS, type TIME at the Dos prompt and enter the new time Type DATE and then type in the date and enter.
3) Turn system on and enter BIOS setup.
7) Turn system on and enter BIOS setup. | 2019-04-26T13:38:33 | https://www.datadoctors.com/help/question/2303-How-do-I-perform-a-Y2K-check-on-my-BIOS/ |
0.999998 | question_answer1) Directions for questions 1 to 3: In each of the following questions, one part of the sentence has an error and the other parts of the sentence are correct. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and mark that part as your answer out of [a], [b] and [c]. If a sentence is free from error, then choose your answer as choice [d].
question_answer2) Directions for questions 1 to 3: In each of the following questions, one part of the sentence has an error and the other parts of the sentence are correct. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and mark that part as your answer out of [a], [b] and [c]. If a sentence is free from error, then choose your answer as choice [d].
question_answer3) Directions for questions 1 to 3: In each of the following questions, one part of the sentence has an error and the other parts of the sentence are correct. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and mark that part as your answer out of [a], [b] and [c]. If a sentence is free from error, then choose your answer as choice [d].
May I give you ____ advice?
Sneha ___ that the movie was very nice.
Your application is ___ as some details are missing.
Direction: Four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/ Phrase.
Everyone's got too much work, we are all sailing in the same boat.
Ritesh criticizes his father, it makes my blood boil.
One should analyze his mistakes if one wants to progress.
To die with honour is better than live with dishonour.
Scarcely did I reach the airport, nervous and tense, than the plane took off leaving stranded in an alien place.
A study of animal behaviour.
Direction: words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.
Direction: You have a passage followed by questions based on it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
The Prime Minister recommends the names of the person for appointment as the members of the council of ministers are recommended by the President. He can recommend the name of any person for appointment as minister. Of course he has to see the interests of his ministry so that it works in a homogeneous manner. Any minister who does not see eye to eye with the Prime Minister has to quit the council of ministers.
The Prime Minister also advises the President on the allocation of, portfolios, to the members of his council of ministers. He can give any department to any minister and thus keep a control over them. The Prime Minister can make any changes in the formation of his ministry. He can shuffle his ministry like a pack of cards, as he likes. He can change the portfolios of his colleagues or reallocate the portfolios according to their performance. The Prime Minister presides over the meeting of the Cabinet. The President does not participate in these meetings. In the cabinet all the important decisions are taken which are binding on all the ministers.
Who recommends the names of the persons for appointment as Ministers?
What happens if the Prime Minister and the Minister have a disagreement? | 2019-04-23T20:48:14 | https://studyadda.com/sample-papers/ssc/english/ssc-chsl-1-25-practice-test-english-6/551 |
0.999988 | Syria crisis: Time to rethink a future with Assad?
Three months ago, the US was on the point of carrying out bombing raids on Syria.
Washington's rhetoric about the Syrian president was increasingly harsh. Secretary of State John Kerry said that by using chemical weapons against his own population, Bashar al-Assad had joined a list including Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.
A few weeks later, Mr Kerry was praising Damascus for co-operating with an ambitious international agreement to rid Syria of its chemical weapons, while still saying Mr Assad had to go.
At the same time, reports from across the country started to focus more and more on the violence perpetrated by the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), hardline Islamic radicals linked to al-Qaeda.
As the year draws to a close, and the West's chosen allies in Syria suffer one setback after another, have policymakers started to ponder the unthinkable - that there's more to be gained from working with Mr Assad than against him?
It's not a thought being openly voiced by the US State Department or the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, but a week ago the highly respected former US diplomat Ryan Crocker told the New York Times that it was time "to start talking to the Assad regime again".
"As bad as he is," Mr Crocker said, "he is not as bad as the jihadis who would take over in his absence."
The former ambassador to both Iraq and Syria made it clear he was talking about a dialogue over specific issues and said it would have to be done "very, very quietly".
But other observers go further.
"Someone has got to bite the bullet and say Assad stays," says Prof Joshua Landis, Director of the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Oklahoma University whose views are frequently sought by policy makers in Washington.
"We don't have another game in town."
Prof Landis has consistently opposed arming Syria's rebels, a policy which he says "blew up in our face."
He doesn't think tentative contacts with the Islamic Front, a recently formed coalition of Islamist groups not aligned with al-Qaeda, are likely to yield better results.
Ambassador Crocker may be speaking for himself, Prof Landis says, but he knows what the state department is thinking.
US lawmakers are voicing their own concerns.
Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has spoken about his anxiety over an unprecedented pooling of al-Qaeda fighters in Syria.
"We don't have a good operation to vet rebels on the ground," he told a conference at Johns Hopkins University last week. "This is a recipe for disaster."
Against this backdrop, President Assad starts to look indispensable again. A man who can deliver up his country's chemical weapons and, perhaps, take on and defeat the hardliners of the Nusra Front and ISIS.
Progress on the first objective - dealing with Syria's chemical stockpile - has been encouraging but may be stalling. It seems fairly clear that the 31 December deadline for removal of the most toxic material won't be met.
The Syrian army claimed to have taken control of the last contested stretch of the key Damascus-Homs highway earlier this week, but says it needs additional heavy equipment to ensure that convoys reach the Mediterranean port of Latakia.
Put simply, the success of this critical phase of the deal depends almost entirely on the Syrian government's ability to control events on the ground.
In the long run, the second objective - dealing with Islamist hardliners - is likely to prove even more crucial.
On the face of it, this also suggests a convergence of interest with the Assad government, which has long talked about this as the real danger.
But Syria's leaders have always been disingenuous, sounding alarm bells long before al-Qaeda was a genuine threat in Syria and conspicuously failing to take on al-Nusra and ISIS when they finally appeared on the scene.
Critics of the Obama administration say nothing good can come of seeking President Assad's help.
"We've made Assad our partner, rather than seeing him as the problem," says Kurt Volker, the former US ambassador to Nato.
But for all his apparent indispensability, the West is clearly unwilling to rely too heavily on a leader with so much blood on his hands.
"It's very difficult for people to go there," says Daniel Levy of the European Council on Foreign Relations, who believes that the limits of the West's reliance on Bashar al-Assad have already been reached.
"The US is already having an uphill struggle with the Saudis over Iran," he says, referring to the recent interim deal over Tehran's nuclear programme.
"It's unlikely to want to pick another fight by saying, Assad's the man."
President Assad may never be "the man" again, as he briefly was in the wake of the invasion of Iraq.
But his recent success on the battlefield, combined with the West's urgent need to secure his chemical weapons and stem the tide of jihadism means we are going to be dealing with him, one way or another, for a while. | 2019-04-21T07:01:43 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25362244 |
0.992589 | The purpose of this research was to explore common assumptions about alliance change, to identify key determinants and outcomes of alliance change, and to increase our understanding of the ways in which changes evolve by identifying common patterns or processes. In Study 1, a multiple case study was conducted, accompanied by a questionnaire, to explore strategic alliance changes in entrepreneurial, high-tech firms. Qualitative analysis of the cases showed that an alliance change typically ends in one of three ways: (1) the alliance dissolves immediately, (2) the alliance is sustained and strengthened, or (3) the alliance is sustained but weakened and eventually dissolves. I also found, in support of the literature, that numerous factors lead to alliance changes, although the most common predictors of major changes were: (1) poor alliance management, (2) dissatisfaction with partners' relationship, (3) abuse of trust, and (4) putting acquisition of partner's skills/capabilities ahead of achieving alliance goals. Analysis also led to the development of a theoretical model that predicts whether an alliance will be sustained following an alliance change. The key factors in the model that determine whether an alliance is sustained following a change are: (1) mutual partner dependence, (2) joint decision making, (3) inter-firm trust, (4) inter-firm interaction, (5) the manner in which the change was planned, and (6) the impact of the change. Using quantitative methods in Study 2, I found that two of these factors best predict whether an alliance will be sustained following a change, joint planning of the change and the impact of the change. The study also provided evidence that two other factors, inter-firm trust and the extent to which an alliance change is planned, are related to sustainment even though they are not significant predictors. This research suggests, in support of previous literature, that major unplanned changes are harmful to alliances. It also suggests that an alliance may be weakened by a change, which increases the likelihood that it will dissolve. A variety of conditions were found to increase the likelihood of alliance changes, indicating that, if firms are willing to take the substantial risk of engaging in alliances, they must constantly work to manage the health of the alliances if they want to sustain them and prevent potentially costly negative outcomes. This research also suggests that an alliance may be strengthened by a change, increasing the likelihood that it will be sustained. However, an alliance is more likely to be sustained following a change if the partners have developed a trusting, mutually dependent relationship and they have developed communication and decision routines that enable them to foresee, prevent, and solve problems together. | 2019-04-21T09:09:01 | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/279839 |
0.695597 | I was prompted recently to return to the perennial question, 'what is good care?', as part of a qualitative study of cardiovascular disease prevention in general practice.
This question became prominent during the study because patients' understandings of 'care' often seemed at odds with those of healthcare professionals. What particularly puzzled me was that healthcare professionals often espoused concepts of good care such as 'shared decision-making', while patients found that the interactions involved did not meet their needs.
While healthcare professionals thought they were 'sharing decisions' or 'involving' patients, patients could simultaneously feel that they were struggling to 'get a conversation' with the doctor or nurse.
The ethnographer and philosopher, Annemarie Mol, has described good care based on astute observations of the care provided to patients with diabetes (see footnotes 1, 2). Her work is inspiring to read, and I would highly recommend it to both patients and healthcare professionals. She meticulously describes care practices (the detail of what actually happens) — the "tinkering" which is necessary to "try, adjust, and try again" (1) and to find compromises between what would be ideal, and what is actually possible in the context of everyday life.
For Mol, care is ongoing, relational, and often requires that healthcare professionals get involved in the nitty gritty of patients' problems and concerns as they unfold, using the various (and always developing) technologies at their disposal. Good care, according to Mol, requires attention to detail, and to actively listening and responding to patients' concerns. Ultimately, good care seeks to "improve life" in an immediate, tangible way (2).
Since starting work on a research project with a local hospice, I have noticed that many aspects of hospice (palliative) care seem akin to the practices Mol describes. The raison d'être of hospice care (to "place a high value on dignity, respect and the wishes of the person who is ill") may seem intangible, but my observations suggest that such ideals are frequently reflected in the everyday experiences of patients and families; the rhetoric and the reality line up well.
Care often requires that healthcare professionals get involved in the nitty-gritty of patients' problems and concerns.
As Cicely Saunders, founder of the hospice movement, said: "You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die".
This attention to helping patients live well in the here and now is central to hospice care, with patients and families valuing healthcare professionals' close attention to their individual needs, and coordination of different interventions to minimise disruption. But the core of what it means to 'care' straddles all healthcare provision, despite the needs of palliative and non-palliative patients perhaps seeming to be fundamentally different.
For those who are 'rethinking medicine', Mol's work, and other accounts of good care experiences (e.g. from the hospice movement), provide a timely reminder that good care practices (which are often difficult to see or measure) are at least as important as good care concepts.
As my study of cardiovascular disease prevention showed, it is all too easy for concepts such as 'shared decision-making', although rooted strongly in ideas of 'patient-centeredness' (and keenly promoted by individuals who are deeply committed to the values and practices that underpin them), to then be bandied around more generally as though they can adequately stand in for what actually happens. In reality, the terms may be employed as empty 'shells' — concepts filled with notions of what happens, but which do not match what is experienced by patients in practice (see 3).
If models such as shared decision-making or social prescribing are to have real impact in a new way of 'doing medicine', it will be important to distinguish between good care concepts and good care practices; attention should be paid to what these interventions actually involve when they are implemented in practice.
Good care of the kind that Mol describes will also need to be promoted and strengthened to ensure that such interventions (and technologies) are joined up coherently as part of truly individualised care — care that supports patients to improve their lives within whatever medical or social constraints they face.
Mol A. The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice. London ; New York: Routledge; 2008. 160 p.
Mol A, Moser I, Pols J. Care: putting practice into theory. In: Care in Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms. 1 edition. Bielefeld; Piscataway, NJ: Transcript-Verlag; 2010.
Smith DE. Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. Rowman Altamira; 2005. 271 p.
Caroline Cupit is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester's Department of Health Sciences.
In my work at attempting to change the culture of physical therapy and medicine about persisting pain I see the same thing. Client centered care is mostly lip service and not real. I am working on a presentation entitled "The Third Space" creating opportunities for dialogue with patients and using a intersubjective approach. This sounds like what you are advocating as well.
For PTs in the US where I am, we have time to create this third space. For physicians in the US I am not sure that they do. Average face to face with a physician may often be 10 minutes. How do you accomplish the intersubjectivity in your practice?
Short appointment times obviously impede healthcare professionals in putting the patient's concerns as central. However, I'd suggest that it is the big narratives (e.g. the stories told in policy documents) and performance measures/ incentives which very significantly organise WHAT THE DOCTOR / NURSE PRIORITISES within that limited consultation time.
Even a healthcare professional who is totally committed to facilitating meaningful conversations with patients will struggle against systems which prioritise other 'outcomes'.
I'd suggest that it is important to take a long hard look how policies, measures, incentives etc impact on the ability of healthcare professionals to have good conversations with patients, which put their concerns as central. | 2019-04-24T06:01:25 | https://www.rethinkingmedicine.co.uk/blog/what-is-good-care-distinguishing-between-concepts-and-practices |
0.998874 | Voicing disappointment over India's decision on net neutrality, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said he will not give up on breaking down connectivity barriers in India which he described as an important goal for his company.
"While we're disappointed with the decision, I want to personally communicate that we are committed to keep working to break down barriers to connectivity in India and around the world. Internet.org has many initiatives, and we will keep working until everyone has access to the Internet," he said.
"Internet.org has many initiatives, and we will keep working until everyone has access to the Internet," Zuckerberg said in a post on the Facebook yesterday, his first reaction to the ruling of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on net neutrality.
Backing net neutrality, telecom watchdog Trai yesterday barred operators from charging different rates for Internet access based on content, dealing a blow to Facebook's controversial Free Basics and other such plans.
Facebook's Free Basics plan came in from major criticism from experts who alleged that it curbed one's freedom to access the Internet of their choice.
"Today India's telecom regulator decided to restrict programmes that provide free access to data. This restricts one of Internet.org's initiatives, Free Basics, as well as programmes by other organisations that provide free access to data," Zuckerberg, also the chairman and chief executive of the social networking giant, said.
He claimed that Facebook's work with Internet.org around the world has already improved many people's lives.
"Connecting India is an important goal we won't give up on, because more than a billion people in India don't have access to the internet," Zuckerberg said.
"We know that connecting them can help lift people out of poverty, create millions of jobs and spread education opportunities. We care about these people, and that's why we're so committed to connecting them," he said. | 2019-04-25T02:38:20 | http://www.businessworld.in/article/Disappointed-But-Won-t-Give-Up-Mark-Zuckerberg-On-Net-Neutrality/09-02-2016-90971/ |
0.9987 | A Chinese billionaire, who was supposedly protected by eight female bodyguards, has vanished in Hong Kong, amid speculation he has been abducted by agents of Beijing.
Xiao Jianhua, a former student leader turned financier who founded the Tomorrow Group, had been living at Hong Kong's luxury Four Seasons Hotel.
The Financial Times reported he had been led away from his serviced apartment at the hotel by Chinese security agents.
But there has been no official confirmation of his abduction, which would be against protocol as Hong Kong is officially a semi-autonomous part of China which has its own police force and China's security service is not supposed to operate in the former British colony.
In 2015 five booksellers who published works that criticised Chinese leaders and made explosive allegations about their alleged crimes were abducted in Hong Kong.
There are conflicting reports about Xiao, 46, with the South China Morning Post saying he had been led away by unidentified people and other sources suggesting he had been abducted by local Triad gangsters, who had been hired by the Chinese police.
The paper said police examined CCTV footage and did not find any sign of a scuffle involving Xiao or his female bodyguards.
Hong Kong's Chinese-language Apple Daily reported that his own spokesman was denying he had been abducted and maintained he was in mainland China "on holiday".
It said Xiao had been taken over the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen in mainland China with his wife on Friday, who then returned and reported the case to police and media.
She then said Xiao had contacted her and did not want to exaggerate the incident.
The Hong Kong Free Press said the Tomorrow Group posted a message on its WeChat account yesterday, saying Xiao was taking a break because he was ill.
The message said: "Regarding the reports on me in recent days, I have to say that I, Xiao Jianhua, have been recovering from a sickness outside the country.
"Currently everything is fine," it said, adding the company was running "normally".
It is unclear why Xiao may have been targeted, but it will add to fears that Chinese authorities are increasingly interfering in semi-autonomous Hong Kong.
Xiao, who reportedly had links to the family of China's President Xi Jinping, was one of several mainland businessmen who lived at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Hong Kong police confirmed they had received a "request for assistance" concerning Xiao on Saturday.
Xiao is reported to have come to Hong Kong in 2014, two years after Chinese President Xi started a much-publicised anti-corruption drive.
He has denied he was ever the target of an investigation.
The Chinese-language news site Boxun said Xiao had been tipped off that a special investigative unit was about to abduct him.
Xiao reportedly came from a poor village in Shandong but went to university in the late 1980s, where he was a student leader at the time of the Tiananmen Square uprising. Later he used his intelligence and knowledge of capital markets and leverage to build a financial empire in banking and insurance.
The Ministry of Public Security in Beijing has not commented on Xiao's whereabouts but China is in the middle of the week-long Lunar New Year holiday and most government offices are closed. | 2019-04-23T04:11:59 | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11792793 |
0.999999 | This will affect urgent and express passport applications.
According to CTV News and Passport Canada, "Passport Services are experiencing a network outage affecting urgent and express services." As a result, Canadians in desperate need of passports are worrying they may not get their documents on time for planned vacations or trips out of the country.
TL;DR Passport Canada's processing system for urgent and express applications has crashed. There is no information on how long these issues will persist. Concerned applicants should stay tuned to Passport Canada's website and social media pages.
Hello, the Service Canada Centres – Passport Services are experiencing a network outage affecting urgent and express services. We are working to fix the problem as soon as possible. Thank you.
While Passport Canada assures the public that the agency is working on the issue, there is no indication of when it may be resolved. The CTV News report explains that the service began experiencing problems as early as Monday of this week.
There is also no word on how many customers these issues are affecting.
This will not affect holders of currently valid Canadian passports. But applicants should stay tuned for updates. They may have to adjust their travel plans.
Hello, when the Point of Services will be back in function a message will follow. Thank you.
Concerned applications should contact Passport Canada here.
Urgent and express passport applications usually concern emergency or pressing situations. Hopefully, not too many people are inconvenienced. | 2019-04-26T04:45:09 | https://www.mtlblog.com/news/canada/canadas-passport-printing-system-has-crashed-and-some-people-may-need-to-change-their-travel-plans |
0.998452 | How does reading influence brain activity?
Reading action-packed books can have a significant impact on the brain, even influencing the activation of different neurons, according to a new a study.
Focusing on the ninth chapter of J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in the US monitored the brain activity of eight adults as they read from this section of the book for 45 minutes.
This chapter was chosen because it features varying themes - including bullying, thrill and excitement as Harry rides his broom and the main characters unexpectedly running into a monster in the form of a three-headed dog - therefore allowing scientists to analyse the impact of a range of emotions on the readers' minds.
Although previous studies have often focused on exactly how the brain processes words and sentences, reading is a much more complex subject to explore, as it requires skills such as knowing definitions, grammar structure and ability to follow a narrative.
Scans were taken of the brain activity of the readers throughout the investigation, with second-by-second shots captured so the impact of individual words could be analysed.
Everything from the number of letters a word contained to what it was associated with - an emotion, character or action, for instance - was looked at, with the doctors finding that the part of the brain used to process a character's point of view is the same as that used to perceive people's intentions in real life.
In addition, the same section of the mind used to determine people's emotions is also used to process those of characters in stories.
Therefore, this indicates that relatively complex parts of the brain are used when a person is reading, showing that the mind does not shut off completely when the reader gets swept away in the plot.
Doctors hope that their findings will help in the treatment of people with reading disorders, such as dyslexia, and in the recovery of individuals who have had a stroke.
How does breakfast affect the brain?
Does memory influence food choices? | 2019-04-26T02:29:24 | https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/healthy-living/news/a25382/how-does-reading-influence-brain-activity/ |
0.999786 | Sean McMahon/Yale University An artist's rendering of what the Tullimonstrum gregarium would've looked like.
Scientists have long been able to use incomplete fossils to reconstruct and infer what an entire animal was like when it was alive. But what happens when even an entire fossilized animal presents a mystery? What then?
Fossils of the ancient aquatic animal Tullimonstrum gregarium — known more commonly as the Tully Monster — have been a source of intrigue ever since surfacing half a century ago. The weird Tully Monster lived 300 million years ago and its soft body could grow to be a little less than a foot (about 30 centimeters) long. In a particularly confusing configuration: tiny teeth at the end of a long, narrow, trunk-like extension, and eyes affixed to either side of a rigid bar that crossed its body. Its mouth was far, far from the rest of what could be considered its face.
So scientists have known what the Tully Monster looked like – but what was it, exactly?
"Basically, nobody knew what it was," says study co-author Derek Briggs in a press release accompanying a new study published in the journal Nature today. Briggs is a Yale professor of geology and geophysics, and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. "The fossils are not easy to interpret, and they vary quite a bit. Some people thought it might be this bizarre, swimming mollusk. We decided to throw every possible analytical technique at it."
A paleontology team led by Yale University researchers has solved the mystery, determining for the first time that little Tullimonstrum was a vertebrate with gills and a stiffened rod (called a notochord) to support its body. The team examined more than 2,000 Tully Monster fossils, and used an advanced technique called synchrotron elemental mapping to examine the chemical composition of a fossil and create a virtual map of what its physical features would have been when alive.
Amateur fossil collector Francis Tully, the animal's namesake, was the first to discover a specimen in a northeastern Illinois coal-mining pit, delivering one to paleontologists at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History in 1958. And even though the creature was officially described eight years later, when it received its scientific name, it was still never definitively identified with one of the major animal phyla. Researchers now suspect it may be an ancestor of today's lampreys.
Though this major mystery about this minor monster's been solved, there's yet much to learn. Its big eyes and numerous teeth suggest it was a predator, for instance, but science still hasn't determined when Tully Monsters first appeared, or when and how they died out.
You've heard of state birds, mottos and flowers. But fossils? The Tully Monster is the official state fossil of Illinois, even making its way onto illustrations on the side of U-Haul trucks registered there. | 2019-04-18T15:35:50 | https://animals.howstuffworks.com/extinct-animals/tully-monster-mystery-solved.htm |
0.999546 | The former director of communications for Labour, Lance Price, who helped spearhead its General Election victory in 2001 has told IBTimes UK that if the polls are correct and the party faces wipe-out in this week's local elections, Labour will be out of power for a generation and will have to reconsider its leadership. In Jeremy Corbyn's first major electoral test since he became leader, analysis has showed that Labour is set to lose 170 councillors, as well as control of key councils, like Cannock Chase, Crawley, Redditch, Rossendale and Southampton.
Price, who was also special adviser to Tony Blair when Labour swept to victory in 1997, said those kind of losses would be "catastrophic" and would call into question Corbyn's leadership as never before.
"Losses on that scale would suggest that Labour was heading to do worse at the General Election in 2020 than it did in 2015 − having done worse than we had done in 2010. The consequences of that can't be exaggerated, because if Labour goes backwards in 2020, that means that any prospect of winning in 2025 all but evaporates.
"What that means is that the Conservatives would be in power until 2030 at the earliest. That is a very big ask for Labour party members, Labour party councillors and candidates all over the country to say: 'Yes, we are prepared to take that risk,'" Price said.
Back in 2012, former leader Ed Miliband was able to capitalise on the "omnishambles" Budget of Chancellor George Osborne, joining a long tradition of opposition party gains in local elections. Since 1974, opposition parties have gained an average of 434 council seats and even Michael Foot, who was one of the most unsuccessful Labour leader in recent history, but still won 1,000 seats in 1981.
Stephen Fisher, from Oxford University, one of the UK's foremost election experts, told IBTimes UK that in the worst-case scenario for Labour, it could lose as many as 300 seats.
"If they lost that number of seats and it is accompanied by a fall in share of the votes as well, then there might be a lot of internal pressure within the party on Corbyn's leadership."
However, council seats alone do not point to General Election success. A better benchmark is the National Equivalent Vote (NEV), which estimates what percentage of the vote each party would have won across Britain had all the seats nationally been up for grabs.
Fisher said: "Proper success in local elections for an opposition party is something that suggests they are going on to win the next General Election, which is at least an 11-point lead in the national share of the vote. Given the current opinion polls, it is very unlikely they will get anywhere close to that."
Elections expert Chris Prosser of the University of Manchester, told IBTimes UK that Labour would need at least a 15-point lead on this measure across the country for a majority, which is unlikely.
"If they get in the region of 32 to 33% of the NEV, they are probably doing about as well as they did in the last election, but that is a low benchmark as they did not win the last election. But considering the pressure they have been under recently, not doing worse than Ed Miliband is at least a start."
Although in Scotland, Labour is unlikely to make inroads to the surging Scottish National Party (SNP), it is still expected to hold onto the Welsh Assembly. There are also other successes that can be pointed to, such as the mayoralties in Bristol and London, where Sadiq Khan is expected to emerge triumphant after a bruising battle with Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith.
However, Lance Price believes retaking the capital will not be enough, saying: "We should be taking it for granted that we are going to win London − London is a Labour city. It is necessary but not sufficient to show that Labour is on the way back. If we go further backwards in Scotland or Wales, that will be devastating.
"Labour has to be be seen to be winning in at least some of those parts of England where we have to beat Conservative candidates in a General Election to have any chance of forming a majority. Just defending what we have got is not enough," he said.
His concern, shared by many within the party, is that the anti-Semitism row, where ex-London mayor Ken Livingston and Naz Shah MP were suspended for comments they made, has meant that Labour's message about housing, health and education is being drowned out by controversy.
"Labour has just shot itself not just in one foot but in both feet over the past week and I don't think that would have happened under different leadership. Part of the problem is the reluctance of Jeremy Corbyn to act as decisively as he should have," Price told IBTimes UK. | 2019-04-20T02:18:03 | https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/election-failure-labour-could-mean-tories-stay-power-until-2030-1558035 |
0.999677 | Let’s put this discussion in context: although it’s a different sort of film than Pixar usually produces in terms of the balance between narrative and comic elements, The LEGO Movie is definitely in the same echelon as some classic Pixar fare. This is a very good movie, one that had my theater of predominantly grown men laughing like little kids for the vast majority of the film.
The film I was most strongly reminded of, however, wasn’t a Pixar offering at all, but rather Disney’s ode to arcades, Wreck-It Ralph. Like Ralph, The LEGO Movie leverages its property in a way that’s going to be appealing to almost anyone, but is roughly five times more awesome to anyone with a good working knowledge of LEGOs. Those of you who were playing in the ‘80s and ‘90s and are now attending the movie with your own children, fear not: there is plenty for you here if you’re watching for it. And if you don’t have kids “dragging” you to see it, drag yourself.
The LEGO Movie commits 100% to its plastic brick aesthetic, and it looks positively gorgeous as it does. The world is literally made of little plastic bricks, right down to the smoke puffing out a steam engine and the waves cresting on the ocean. You’d be forgiven for thinking most of the movie was an incredibly elaborate stop motion picture created with actual LEGO bricks rather than computer generated imagery. It’s an illusion created not only by the art style, but by the stunning animation. The detail here, down to nicks and dings in well-worn figurines like Benny the ‘80s Astronaut (Charlie Day), shows just how much love went into making this movie. The lighting in particular is a standout, looking just like real-world lights on actual LEGOs. Needless to say, it sells the illusion.
But all that would be for nothing if there weren’t more to this movie, and there’s certainly a lot more to The LEGO Movie than some fancy animation. This is not just an hour and forty minute advertisement. As I alluded to already, The LEGO Movie is ostensibly a comedy, and a very funny one at that. The script does its part with some really enjoyable wordplay and character humor (particularly with Batman, voiced by Will Arnett), but most of the humor is visual, and comes directly from the fact that the characters are LEGO people existing in a LEGO world. Liam Neeson, for example, voices Bad Cop, whose head not infrequently spins 180 degrees to reveal alter-ego Good Cop.
The story here is exceptionally simplistic, mixing together elements of well-worn story tropes like the One myth (i.e. The Matrix, Harry Potter, etc. wherein a prophecy names a singular protagonist of destiny) with over the top pulp action film elements and other recognizable, usually self-serious pieces. This turns out to be something of a double edged sword, and is simultaneously the source of my biggest issue with the movie and part of the reason I think it’s brilliant anyways.
Bad news first: as the plot leaps headlong from action piece to action piece and joke to joke – the two are pretty well inseparable, which is one of the movie’s great strengths – it never deigns to spend much time developing complexity to the plotline. We care about the characters, sure, but it’s more because they’re fun to watch and we want more of them than it is any deep dramatic connection. For the record, the story centers on Emmitt (Chris Pratt), a (LEGO) guy who is so much the everyman that he struggles to make friends because he has no remarkable characteristics. He is literally a blank slate, but by chance becomes the lynchpin for overthrowing the evil President Business (Will Ferrell), who wants everything in the universe to move forward with exact precision, adhering to the expected instructions and…you know what, it doesn’t really matter. Or at least, what does matter from the plot is hard to talk about without veering closer to spoiler territory than I’m prepared to go in this review. Just take my word that it pays off in some pretty spectacular, if not wholly unforeseen ways.
The issue is that in the moments where the constant barrage of action and laughs let up, the movie has a tendency to lose some of its momentum. It is perhaps only in the relief of the euphoria induced by so much of the rest of the movie that this is glaring, but I did notice myself – more than once – stopping to think, You know, it’s been a while since I laughed last. Thankfully, this isn’t an issue where, for instance, the first half of the movie is a hoot and the second half dreadful, but rather there are lulls in the action which go lower and blander than you’d like before the movie comes back with its next volley of excellence.
The positive edge of this plot, on the other hand, is that because it uses so many recognizable, and in many cases tired, narrative tropes, the movie ends up being a commentary on those tropes and is all the more funny for it. They add to the comedy while simultaneously saying, “Come on, Hollywood. You can do better.” The mere fact that these overused elements constitute the intrigue in a movie that is about children’s toys – takes place in a universe created by children’s toys! – suggests their pandering simplicity, but the movie is smart enough to have fun with them anyways! There’s a thematic focus on the difference between always doing exactly what’s expected of you and behaving well in a manner that’s true to yourself, and the plot is essentially a giant riff on that idea. They’re LEGOs, so the movie takes the pieces it’s given, and rather than building them in the same old boring way, recombines them into a fresh and poignant satire that’s thankfully never mired in any sense of its own importance. LEGOs are supposed to be fun, and the movie is nothing if not mountains of fun.
Appropriately, nearly everything in The LEGO Movie just seems to fit together. The showstoppers here are the almost constant stream of laugh-out-loud visual jokes and character humor along with animation of a quality I’m not sure I’ve ever seen, but the quality doesn’t stop there. The sound design is positively top notch, as is the voice cast that includes Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell, Will Arnett, Allison Brie, Liam Neeson, and Nick Offerman, along with a host of cameos with everyone from Anthony Daniels to Shaquille O’Neal. The plot lets a little of the air out of this giant LEGO balloon from time to time, but all the rest of this movie is so delightful, particularly to someone like me who grew up playing with shelves full of LEGOs, that it’s an easy flaw to overlook. | 2019-04-26T08:20:52 | https://movies.mxdwn.com/reviews/movie-review-the-lego-movie/ |
0.999584 | Home Health Which diet is the most effective?
To lose weight: which diet is the best?
Given that being overweight or obese can lead to health problems such as high blood pressure and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, there are really enough reasons to lose excess pounds. If you want to lose weight, you will find countless tips and methods on the internet to help you lose weight. The Hessen Consumer Center has taken a closer look at some of them.
"Getting a few pounds is easy – don't get rid of them," says Wiebke Franz, a nutritionist at the Hesse Consumer Agency.
"Many diets and weight loss products promise rapid success, but often cannot deliver on these promises or are even dangerous," says the expert.
Advertising for so-called "fat burners" promises true miracles: "Losing weight without exercise – eating everything and losing weight!"
If a product is praised this way, the alarm should go off. Because often such supplements appear on the internet to lose weight with dangerous and prohibited substances.
But even for harmless substances it has not yet been proven that you lose a lot of weight with their help. Consumers therefore argue against "fat burners", in particular products from unsafe sources on the internet.
Among those who want to lose weight, the advice to stop eating after 6 p.m. is widespread.
This is based on the fact that in a nocturnal phase without food intake, the blood sugar level drops, so that less insulin is released, which mobilizes fats from fat deposits.
However, the bottom line is the total calorie intake during 24 hours is crucial. You can only lose weight if you use more energy than you deliver.
Eat for eight hours and starve for the next 16 hours? Or do you want to fast two full days and enjoy the rest of the week without regret?
The advantage of the Intervallfastens must lie in the fact that it brings little change to daily life. For those who just eat and only two calories that are low and low, they can still accept invitations or eat out.
Comparisons with other diets show that interval fasting helps to lose weight.
"Yet it is only useful to eat five days, what and how you feel, if you generally make the food choices healthier," says Franz.
When it comes to successful methods of weight loss, the low-carbohydrate diet is often emphasized.
Studies have shown that diets that reduce carbohydrates can help you lose weight. According to consumers' advocates, the same benefits can be achieved in the long term if one reduces the consumption of fats.
But beware: those who have largely or completely renounced carbohydrates can only be difficult in the long term. The result: the pounds & # 39; s return quickly with the old eating habits.
Considerably less white bread, pastries, snacks and sweets and more vegetables to consume whole-grain products and protein-rich foods, on the other hand, can help you lose weight and maintain your new weight.
As the consumer advice explains, low-calorie or low-sugar-free foods do not automatically contain a low calorie intake.
They only need to contain at least 30 percent less sugar or fat compared to regular foods in the same category.
Manufacturers usually replace the omitted nutrient with other ingredients that often also provide energy, or with flavorings, sweeteners and fillers.
"Did you know that many, based on fewer calories, get more access to the alleged light product?" Franz asks. | 2019-04-22T12:03:40 | https://www.archynetys.com/health/which-diet-is-the-most-effective/ |
0.999969 | Find instructions on how to file the financial statement long form. You should file the long form if your annual income is more than $75,000 a year before taxes.
Each person in your case must file a completed financial statement within 45 days after the plaintiff delivers the complaint to the defendant and at all court hearings involving alimony, child support, division of property, or any other financial matters. If your annual income is more than $75,000 a year before taxes, you need to file a long form. If your income is less than $75,000 a year, file a short form.
You may also need to file other forms in addition to the long form.
If you are self-employed or own your own business, you need to file Schedule A.
If you have rental property income, you need to file Schedule B.
Fill out the form completely and truthfully. Your signature indicates that the information you provide is true to the best of your knowledge. Since you are signing under the penalties of perjury, untrue statements can lead to criminal prosecution.
Please note that e-filing forms may not display properly in your browser. Please download the form(s) you need and open them in Acrobat Reader. If you're having trouble accessing forms, please see What to do if you can't open court PDF files.
Fill in every line. As information is inserted on the long financial statement, it self-calculates for your convenience. If you have nothing to put on a line, write in the word “NONE”. If you need more space for the information in Sections VI, VIII, or IX, you may attach additional sheets of paper. The staff at the Registry of Probate can give you a sample, completed Financial Statement.
I. Personal Information. If you are not currently working, write “Unemployed” in the space where the form asks for “Employer”.
II. Gross Weekly Income/ Receipts from All Sources. Your gross income should reflect all income received before deductions. You must use weekly amounts. List only your income, not the income of other people involved in the case. If you are paid monthly, divide your monthly gross income by 4.3. If you are paid every two weeks, divide your gross income from each paycheck by 2. If you are paid twice a month, divide your gross income from each paycheck by 2.15. Write “NONE” on any line for which you have no income. It is helpful if you bring to court your most recent pay stub. If you are self-employed, bring last year’s tax return, including Schedule C and any other related forms.
III. Weekly Deductions from Gross Income. Fill in the deductions that appear on your paycheck. Use weekly amounts, dividing in the same way that you did for your gross income.
IV. Net Weekly Income. Subtract “Total Deductions” on line III (s) from “Total Income” on line II(r).
V. Gross Income from Prior Year. Fill in your total income from last year before taxes or other deductions and attach copies of last year’s W-2 and 1099 form(s) showing your income.
VI. Weekly Expenses Not deducted from pay. Fill in weekly amounts. Divide monthly amounts by 4.3 to get weekly amounts. Do Not list expenses that you have listed as deductions from your pay in Section III. Do include the weekly payments for any liabilities listed in Section IX. If someone else in your household pays some of the expenses, you should only write down the amount that you actually pay.
VII. Counsel Fees. Write in the amounts that you have paid and that you expect to pay to an attorney. If you have an attorney, he or she can help you complete this section.
VIII. Assets. Fill in the present value of real estate, motor vehicles, pensions and all other assets. For savings, checking money market accounts, certificates of deposit, stocks and bonds list the name of the financial institution and the account number. You should bring to court the most recent statements for all accounts.
IX. Liabilities. List all of your debts on the chart. List the creditor, the kind of debt, when you first borrowed the money (or the date that you were ordered to pay the money) and the current amount due. If your credit card “amount due” column represents multiple purchases made at different times please write “various dates” in the “date incurred” column. If you make payments on a liability, write “see weekly expenses” in “Weekly Payment” column and include the weekly amount in Section VI.
Don't forget to sign and date the form. If you have a lawyer, he or she must complete the “Statement By Attorney” on the back of the form. File the original form with the court. Keep one copy and mail a copy to the other person in your case. If the other person has a lawyer, mail the copy to the lawyer. | 2019-04-20T06:48:05 | https://www.mass.gov/how-to/file-the-long-financial-form |
0.998997 | What is a 'Gene Drive' - the Hottest New Thing in Science?
I never cease to be amazed by the crazy things that otherwise intelligent people are willing to believe. Two years ago, Newsweek ran a cover story titled "The Plots to Destroy America," which described the troubling beliefs -- from 9/11 trutherism to Obama birtherism -- held by so many of our fellow compatriots. The author worries that rational public discourse is threatened because of how widespread and commonplace conspiratorial beliefs have become.
Conspiracies, thankfully, are not very likely to be true. As I wrote for BBC News, math research shows that any given conspiracy is prone to fall apart because one of the conspirators eventually will blow its cover. People aren't very good at keeping secrets, and the more conspirators necessary to keep a conspiracy going, the more likely it is to unravel. The problem is compounded by outside forces, such as journalists, investigators, and regulators, who are always on the lookout for suspicious activity.
Imagine just how many thousands of people would be necessary for Big Pharma to suppress a cure for cancer, a shockingly common conspiracy theory. David Grimes from the University of Oxford estimates that at least 714,000 people at eight different pharmaceutical companies would be required to pull that off. And that figure doesn't include employees at smaller companies, academic scientists, the FDA, or health journalists.
There are also examples of real conspiracies that were discovered, defying the notion that gigantic conspiracies can last for a long time. A recent example, discussed in the journal Nature Biotechnology, was the global heparin crisis.
Heparin is a vital, life-saving chemical used in hospitals all over the world as a blood thinner. Its supply chain, as the New York Times describes, was long, complicated, and poorly regulated. Heparin is derived from pig intestine, and much of this raw material and processing occurs in China.
As shown, the crisis began in 2007-08, when several dozen people died and hundreds of others had allergic reactions to the adulterated heparin. This spurred the FDA to action. By the end of 2009, the FDA had already worked with the pharmaceutical industry to create superior quality control methods that could detect adulteration or other contamination of heparin. Following yet more analysis and international collaboration, a new set of safety protocols was finalized in 2014.
The authors concluded, "The FDA's responses to the 2008 heparin contaminant crisis were swift and comprehensive."
This story should put to rest any notions that there is a conspiracy to suppress a cure for cancer, to control your mind with fluoride, to hide a link between vaccines and autism, or to treat Americans as "guinea pigs" for GMOs. If there was any truth to those beliefs, somebody would have uncovered it by now.
So you should sleep better at night, knowing that conspiracies are hard to pull off. | 2019-04-18T17:08:15 | https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/06/11/proof-that-there-is-no-fda-big-pharma-conspiracy-to-suppress-cancer-cures |
0.999999 | From a seller of digital advertising:A friend of mine who is a media director at one of the large digital agencies told me earlier in the week that corporate has mandated they utilize their buying desk. A media plan that had been put together and approved by the agency's client was partially scrapped (and with it my part of the plan). This would seem to put the needs of the agency in front of the needs of the client. Is this what is happening in the wider agency-client world? If so, aren't media teams hampered by corporate mandates such as this?
Amy says: As DSPs and trading desks entered the landscape, I was skeptical that buying would ever move that way. Digital media planners and buyers on the front lines of the business are not easily convinced that a new way of doing things is a better way. And holding companies and advertising agencies haven't necessarily found great success when they try to implement technology solutions. Agencies in general have been slow to adapt in the digital world, so it did seem that maybe DSPs and agency trading desks would be just a fad.
However, the trading desk concept does seem to be taking hold across the industry. Ad networks are changing into data companies -- and I'm sure there isn't a new business pitch happening today without some sort of demonstration that a holding company's DSP lowers CPMs for clients and therefore improve campaign efficiencies. The benefit for the advertiser is clear: a more targeted audience at a lower cost. So in that way, the use of DSPs is actually the right thing to do and does put the client's needs at the forefront.
I think the more important issue is how the sales side can prepare for the inevitable and further commoditization of media impressions and media ad sales in general. The digital media space -- that is, the Internet and websites/mobile platforms and apps/digital TV and content-on-demand -- is too big and fragmented to continue to be sold just by people. Billions of impressions per day are going unsold; there isn't any end in sight of how big the media landscape could become. DSPs and real-time bidding will make it possible for our business to scale. And eventually, CPMs will rise above the pennies currently traded.
Now I realize I didn't give you any information that you probably found helpful, I just tried to give you the tough love.
Jason, do you have any TLC for our troubled seller?
Jason says: As the great philosophers, Air Supply, once said, "I'm All Out of Love" when it comes to this topic. I am afraid I don't have any soothing words to assuage your anguish. There is nothing that any of us can do to stop technology from making its rightful march to wherever it needs to go and in as many places as it warrants. You can't stop progress.
Now, I am not one of those loons who want computers to do everything. I learned my lesson watching Who Made Who. I don't care if my refrigerator knows when it is time to order milk. I don't need my phone to tell me where the nearest Starbucks is. I don't even think we need alarm clocks. I will get there when I am good and ready.
What is useful, though, is allowing mundane, thoughtless tasks to be automated (I'm talking to you, department store perfume testers). Let's take the digital RFP, for instance. Is it helpful? Rarely. Let's hope that goes away soon.
And what about these buying platforms? Are they useful? Entirely. At its heart, all of advertising is focused on taking a product, telling a story about it, and putting that story in front of a potential consumer. The best way to do this for the past 100 years has been to buy access to a number of potential consumers and then use convoluted research to gather empirical data to determine how often you were right. Now, we're simply exchanging that research for mathematical formulae, and advertisers don't want to pay for being wrong. Buying media via audience targeting is here to stay, always and forever. So get used to it.
Still, your business partner should not be misleading you. If you think your agency is only buying an audience via mathematical equations, then you need to either a) get a better, stronger, more accurate buying algorithm then they have or b) infiltrate where math hasn't won yet. Be creative with your ideas. Think about ways your client needs to tell a story that goes beyond a cookie campaign. Use your far superior human intelligence to do things that a machine can't do -- things clients need you to do for them. This is not new. My friend and industry sage Doug Weaver made this well known a long time ago with his Oreo metaphor.
So is your agency making decisions that are in the best interest of their company and not that of their client? Well, shiver me timbers. I'll alert the (word) presses.
This is the new way in the media world, so deal with it. Don't cry about it. As our COO, Mark Pinney, says, "Let the machines do what they do, and we'll do what we do." In other words, Let It Be.
1 comment about "Woe The Digital Sale: Dealing With Corporate Buying Mandates".
Dave Smith from Pandora, November 18, 2010 at 5:26 p.m.
The story-telling focus is absolutely one of the keys to publishers supporting their value to advertisers.
But, in today's ecosystem, the trading desks, the ad networks, the data exchanges, the DSPs, and tens if not hundreds of others, are collecting audience data directly from publisher's web sites, often without the publisher's knowledge. That data then gives them the ability to compete directly with the publisher for the audience that the publisher has invested in building.
The answer is better tools for the publisher to protect their audience data from theft by the myriad data collectors and the ushers who bring them to the publisher's site, manage that data to understand and leverage the assets they have built, and monetize that data by enhancing their own inventory and selling it where appropriate.
The world is changing. Publishers need to take back control of the audiences they have built and regain the ability to monetize those audiences in today's audience-selling world. Audience selling has always been how publishers made money. It's time they re-asserted their ownership of those audience assets and regained their ability to capture the return on their investments in building their audiences. | 2019-04-19T09:20:51 | https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/139773/woe-the-digital-sale-dealing-with-corporate-buyin.html |
0.998654 | What Can You Benefit When You Find the best Internet Service Provider?
One who knows about modern technology might know that it is something which is considered greatly important in the modern world of today, as it has changed the world in many ways. For instance, modern technology has made it possible for businesses to break their barriers and to grow in leaps and bounds. For business owners today, then, there are a lot of things that can help them improve business, one of which is finding the best internet service provider. Finding the best internet service provider, then, is certainly something that you should do because when you do so, you can be sure to achieve a lot of wonderful benefits.
Finding the best internet service provider, then, is certainly something that you should do because when you do so, you can be sure that you will actually be able to save a surprising and very satisfying amount of money. The reason why this is so is because business people can eliminate phone systems which are used on premise, which can be very expensive in the long run. In the long run, then, you will be amazed to find that you will be able to save a great deal of money, and that you will be able to become more efficient, as you will be able to use this money for many other things.
Finding the best internet service provider is also something that you should do because when you do so, you can be sure that you will be able to enjoy greater mobility, and that this will benefit your whole company and all of your employees as well. When the best provider is found, communications will be done with greater ease and with greater flexibility, which will make the whole company more efficient. When you are able to find a company like this, you can be sure that you will be able to communicate more easily, and that you can use a good mobile app which will make everything much simpler.
Finding the best internet service provider is also something that you should do because when you do so, you can be sure to enjoy excellent customer services from this company. One can be sure, then, that if ever there are questions and concerns which need to be taken care of quickly, it will be possible to address them to customer services, and one will be glad to know that they will be dealt with quickly.
Finding the best internet service provider, then, is certainly something that you should do because when you do so, you can be sure that the benefits and advantages you are sure to enjoy will be wonderful and worthwhile. | 2019-04-22T13:14:07 | http://www.apimacau.com/the-key-elements-of-great-businesses.html |
0.999089 | Qualitative futility, where the quality of benefit an intervention will produce is exceedingly poor.
Both quantitative and qualitative futility refer to the prospect that a specific treatment will benefit (not simply have a physiological effect) on the patient.
What are the ethical obligations of physicians when a health care provider judges an intervention is futile?
The goal of medicine is to help the sick. Physicians have no obligation to offer treatments that do not benefit patients. Futile interventions may increase a patient's pain and discomfort in the final days and weeks of life; give patients and family false hope; delay palliative and comfort care; and expend finite medical resources. However, determining which interventions are beneficial to a patient can be difficult, since the patient or surrogate might see an intervention as beneficial while the physician does not. Physicians should follow professional standards, and should consider empirical studies and their own clinical experience when making futility judgments. They should also show sensitivity to patients and families in carrying out decisions to withhold or withdraw futile interventions.
Although the ethical requirement to respect patient autonomy entitles a patient to choose from among medically acceptable treatment options (or to reject all options), it does not entitle patients to receive whatever treatments they ask for. Instead, the obligations of physicians are limited to offering treatments that are consistent with professional standards of care and that confer benefit to the patient.
Who decides when a particular treatment is futile?
Generally the term medical futility applies when, based on medical data and professional experience, a treating health care provider determines that an intervention is no longer beneficial. Because health professionals may reasonably disagree about when an intervention is futile, all members of the health care team would ideally reach consensus. While physicians have the ethical authority to withhold or withdraw medically futile interventions, communicating with professional colleagues involved in a patient’s care, and with patients and family, greatly improves the experience and outcome for all.
What if the patient or family requests an intervention that the health care team considers futile?
You have a duty as a physician to communicate openly with the patient or family members about interventions that are being withheld or withdrawn and to explain the rationale for such decisions. The aim of respectful communication should be to elicit the patient’s goals, explain the goals of treatment, and help patients and families understand how particular medical interventions would help or hinder their goals and the goals of treatment. It is important to approach such conversations with compassion. For example, rather than saying to a patient or family, "there is nothing I can do for you," it is important to emphasize that "everything possible will be done to ensure the patient's comfort and dignity."
In some instances, it may be appropriate to continue temporarily to make a futile intervention available in order to assist the patient or family in coming to terms with the gravity of their situation and reaching closure. For example, a futile intervention for a terminally ill patient may in some instances be continued temporarily in order to allow time for a loved one arriving from another state to see the patient for the last time. However, futile interventions should not be used for the benefit of family members if this is likely to cause the patient substantial suffering, or if the family’s interests are clearly at odds with those of the patient.
If intractable conflict arises, a fair process for conflict resolution should occur. Involvement of an ethics consultation service is desirable in such situations. The 1999 Texas Advance Directives Act provides one model for designing a fair process for conflict resolution.
What is the difference between futility and rationing?
Futility refers to the benefit of a particular intervention for a particular patient. With futility, the central question is not, "How much money does this treatment cost?" or, "Who else might benefit from it?" but instead, "Does the intervention have any reasonable prospect of helping this patient?"
What is the difference between a futile intervention and an experimental intervention?
Making a judgment of futility requires solid empirical evidence documenting the outcome of an intervention for different groups of patients. Futility establishes the negative determination that the evidence shows no significant likelihood of conferring a significant benefit. By contrast, treatments are considered experimental when empirical evidence is lacking and the effects of an intervention are unknown.
Is an intervention more likely to be futile if a patient is elderly?
Futility has no necessary correlation with a patient’s age. What determines whether a treatment is futile is whether or not the treatment benefits the patient. In cases where evidence clearly shows that older patients have poorer outcomes than younger patients, age may be a reliable indicator of patient benefit, but it is benefit, not age, that supports a judgment of medical futility. For patients of all ages, health care professionals should advocate for medically beneficial care, and refrain from treatments that do not help the patient.
Why is medical futility controversial?
While medical futility is a well-established basis for withdrawing and withholding treatment, it has also been the source of ongoing debate. One source of controversy centers on the exact definition of medical futility, which continues to be debated in the scholarly literature. Second, an appeal to medical futility is sometimes understood as giving unilateral decision-making authority to physicians at the bedside. Proponents of medical futility reject this interpretation, and argue that properly understood futility should reflect a professional consensus, which ultimately is accepted by the wider society that physicians serve. Third, in the clinical setting, an appeal to “futility” can sometimes function as a conversation stopper. Thus, some clinicians find that even when the concept applies, the language of “futility” is best avoided in discussions with patients and families. Likewise, some professionals have dispensed with the term “medical futility” and replaced it with other language, such as “medically inappropriate.” Finally, an appeal to medical futility can create the false impression that medical decisions are value-neutral and based solely on the physician’s scientific expertise. Yet clearly this is not the case. The physician’s goal of helping the sick is itself a value stance, and all medical decision making incorporates values. | 2019-04-22T13:03:38 | http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/futil.html |
0.993213 | MultiBrief: Is the new Macan worthy of the Porsche badge?
Is the new Macan worthy of the Porsche badge?
A few weeks ago, Porsche unveiled the much anticipated Porsche Macan. The new compact SUV is the German performance carmaker's first attempt to enter that segment of the market. This new segment has the potential of being quite profitable for Porsche.
With the chance of a good financial gain, it is no wonder the automotive manufacturer would like to enter the market, but is the Macan worthy of wearing the Porsche crest?
The Macan certainly looks the part. Its styling is similar to that of the Cayenne, but with a few differences — including the 3-D styled rear tail lights. The compact SUV is build off the Audi Q5 platform, which has proven to be a good one.
But is the Macan able to handle the type of performance that is expected from Porsche? The answer is yes, once the engineers from Stuttgart were able to do some tuning to make sure the new vehicle was able to handle all that would be thrown at it.
Of course, the heart of any car is its engine, and that is where the true mark of the Macan's performance begins. Two trims debuted at the LA Auto Show — the S and the Turbo. The big difference between the two is the engine size and the available performance.
Both the S and Turbo feature V6 engines that are turbocharged, but the displacement of the Turbo is 3.6 liters vs. 3.0 liters for the S model. The S model puts out a good 340 horsepower, and the Turbo ups that power all the way to 400 horsepower.
Both models are only available with the lightning-fast-shifting PDK dual-clutch transmission. When optioned with the Sport Chrono package, the Turbo can rocket from 0-60 mph in a scant 4.4 seconds, while the S will take 5.0 seconds to hit 60 mph.
Those performance figures will help the crossover keep up with many pure sports cars. The new Macan certainly looks like it has the performance that one would expect from a Porsche.
The big question that many enthusiasts will ask is should Porsche be entering the compact SUV market? Does doing so take away from the brand that has historically made pure sports cars (at least until more recent years)?
I used to think Porsche should only make sports cars (by that I mean traditional sports cars that only have two doors), but that was before I had a family. After having children, I could see the appeal of being able to drive a high performance car, like the Cayenne, Panamera or Macan that can haul the family around, but can still feel like driving a 911, Cayman or Boxster.
So, Porsche has seen a market of people who don't want a larger SUV and a sports car or sedan doesn't fit their needs. The Macan looks to fill that market — and if it sells like the Cayenne, it should be a successful vehicle.
What should those enthusiasts who wish that the company only produce pure traditional sports cars think about the Macan? I think they should embrace it because if it is a sales success, then more funds will be available for development of cars like the 911.
So, each time you see a new Macan driving (or a Cayenne or Panamera for that matter), just remember that car will help provide major funding for all future models including the pure sports cars.
David Hurth is the editor-in-chief of OurRideLife.com. He is an avid automotive enthusiast and enjoys driving and working on sports cars. David has had articles appear in magazines such as Excellence and 9 Magazine as well as the blog TopSpeed.com.
Should Porsche stick to sports cars? | 2019-04-21T02:42:19 | http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/is-the-macan-worthy-of-the-porsche-badge/recreation-leisure |
0.999251 | What is the difference between “flight level” and “altitude”?
I have seen references to "FL180" and "FL300", and I know that they stand for Flight Level 180 and Flight Level 300. I've also seen references to "an altitude of 18000ft" or "an altitude of 30000ft".
What is the difference between flight level and altitude, how do they relate to each other, and when and why would one be used instead of the other?
Flight levels use QNE or pressure altitude, while altitude references QNH or local pressure adjusted to sea level pressure. Altitudes are used at low levels and flight levels at higher levels. The transition between altitudes and flight levels differs by country and is generally just above the highest obstacle in that country. In the US the transition altitude/level is 18,000' / FL180. Some countries transition as low as 5000' / FL050 and the transition altitude/level may vary from airport to airport.
In the altitudes knowing accurate elevations relative to the ground and obstacles is important for collision avoidance and this is the reason QNH is used here. Each airport will report QNH and controllers will issue the current QNH as needed. You need to know the QNH for obstacle / terrain avoidance but you need to be using the same QNH as those around you for aircraft vertical separation.
Above all terrain/obstacles the only thing we care about is vertical separation, so we no longer need to know about the actual pressure and instead use a standard reference pressure, QNE / 1013.25 hPa / 29.92" Hg.
500 mb correlates to 5500 m or 18,000 ft in a standard atmosphere. In a real atmosphere this height varies and is not actually level. An airplane flying "level" at FL180 from LAX to NYC last night will have actually descended almost 300 m while indicating a constant altitude. These deviations in true altitude from indicated altitude are acceptable, however, since they effect everyone equally in the same locality and separation is maintained.
FL180 and FL300 stand for Flight Level 180 and Fight Level 300.
To understand a flight level, we should understand how altitude is measured in an altimeter, which is essentially a calibrated barometer - it measures air pressure, which decreases with increasing altitude. To display correct altitude, a pilot re-calibrates1 the altimeter from time to time, according to local air pressure.
Flight levels solve this problem by defining altitudes based on a standard pressure of 1013.2 mb (29.92 inches Hg). All aircraft operating on flight levels calibrate to this same standard setting regardless of the actual sea level pressure. Flight levels are then assigned a number which is the apparent altitude ("pressure altitude") to the nearest thousand feet, divided by one hundred. Therefore an apparent altitude of 18,000 feet is referred to as Flight Level 180. Note that aircraft may be at some other actual height than 18,000 feet, but since they all agree on a standard pressure, no collision risk arises.
Flight levels are not used close to the ground, for perhaps obvious reasons - obstacles are fixed to the ground and so their absolute height needs to be known. The altitude of the lowest flight level varies from country.
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What's the difference between flight level and pressure altitude? | 2019-04-24T20:54:08 | https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13204/what-is-the-difference-between-flight-level-and-altitude/13206 |
0.992447 | The subject of this final paper is London and its historical importance and its tourism today. Tourism has become a huge part of modern people’s lives since it offers opportunities to get to know more of unknown places. The United Kingdom’s largest and capital city is London. London as one of the world's most visited cities has something for everyone. London contains four World heritage sites on UNESCO's list. London is home to many museums, sporting events, tourist attractions and cultural institutions that are interesting for numerous visitors that visit London every year. London has a diverse range of population and cultures and is famous as a multicultural city. London is a global city and also an important banking and financial centre. Its tourism is one of the prime industries that contribute to London's economy. Even though London and its population had to face many difficulties through its history, with its famous rulers it became what it is today, one of the most important tourist and financial centers in the world. The main part of this final paper is directly focused on London's history and its tourism and it shows how it became one of the most popular cities in the world and how it developed its economy. | 2019-04-20T03:29:38 | https://repozitorij.mev.hr/islandora/object/mev:243 |
0.999239 | A man has been jailed for keeping dogs for fighting at his home in Ayrshire.
Tony Barbara, 50, was found guilty of having two pit bull terrier-type dogs for fighting despite being subject to a 10-year ban from keeping the animals.
Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard animal welfare officers and police searched Barbara's home in High Street, Newmilns, East Ayrshire, on November 12 2014 after being given a tip-off.
The officers found two dogs with puncture wounds and scars. The animals, named Kira and Jackie, had been kept in crates in the kitchen and the bedroom.
They also found equipment linked to illegal dog fighting, including a breaking stick - used to prize fighting animals apart - veterinary medication and syringes.
Forensic scientists examined DNA evidence from the breaking sticks and concluded at least two different dogs contributed to the mixed DNA profiles recovered from the sample sites and that one of the dogs seized had been in contact with the dog-fighting equipment.
Scottish SPCA officers removed the dogs to a secure kennel.
Barbara, originally from Essex, was found guilty following a trial of contravening the Dangerous Dogs Act, breaching a previous 10-year ban on keeping the animals imposed by a London court in 2013 and of keeping dogs for fighting.
He was also found guilty of having syringes and medications, possessing breaking sticks to stop fights and causing unnecessary suffering to the dogs by failing to provide adequate care and treatment for their injuries.
He was sentenced on Wednesday to eight months' imprisonment and banned from keeping dogs for life.
Gary Aitken, Procurator Fiscal, wildlife and environment said: "Dog fighting is a cruel and wholly illegal act, and I welcome today's sentence and the granting of the order preventing Tony Barbara from keeping dogs for life.
"These dogs were caused terrible and unnecessary suffering with numerous wounds and scar over their bodies.
A Scottish SPCA inspector said: "We welcome this result as investigations of this nature are extremely difficult to detect.
"It is our view that Barbara was heavily involved in organised dog fighting. Both dogs had multiple puncture wounds and scarring over their bodies. | 2019-04-19T21:10:49 | https://www.heart.co.uk/scotland/news/local/man-jailed-for-keeping-dogs-for-fighting/ |
0.998525 | Boost your sales by getting merchant status with credit card companies.
Why should a small-business owner accept credit cards? There are dozens of reasons. First and foremost, research shows that credit cards increase the probability, speed and size of customer purchases. Many people prefer not to carry cash, especially when traveling. Others prefer to pay with credit cards because they know that it will be easier to return or exchange the merchandise.
Accepting credit cards has several advantages for business owners as well. It gives you the chance to increase sales by enabling customers to make impulse buys even when they don't have cash in their wallets or sufficient funds in their checking accounts. Accepting credit cards can improve your cash flow because in most cases you receive the money within a few days instead of waiting for a check to clear or an invoice to come due. Finally, credit cards provide a guarantee that you will be paid, without the risks involved in accepting personal checks.
To accept major credit cards from customers, your business must establish merchant status with each of the credit card companies whose cards you want to accept. You'll probably want to start by applying for merchant status with American Express or Discover. For these cards, all you need to do is contact American Express or Discover directly and fill out an application.
However, chances are you'll want to accept Visa and MasterCard, too, since these cards are used more frequently. You cannot apply directly to Visa or MasterCard; because they are simply bank associations, you have to establish a merchant account through one of several thousand banks that set up such accounts, called "acquiring banks."
The first thing you need to understand about accepting credit cards, there is a the real concern that if your company goes out of business before merchandise is shipped to customers, the bank will have to absorb losses.
While requirements vary among banks, in general a business does not have to be a minimum size in terms of sales. However, some banks do have minimum requirements for how long you should have been in business. This doesn't mean a start-up can't get merchant status; it simply means you may have to look a little harder to find a bank that will work with you.
While being considered a "risky business"-typically a start-up, mail order or homebased business-is one reason a bank may deny your merchant status request, the most common reason for denial is simply poor credit. Approaching a bank for a merchant account is like applying for a loan. You must be prepared with a solid presentation that will persuade the bank to open an account for you.
You will need to provide bank and trade references, estimate what kind of credit card volume you expect to have and what you think the average transaction size will be. Bring your business plan and financial statements, along with copies of advertisements, marketing pieces and your catalog if you have one. If possible, invite your banker to visit your store or operation.
Banks will evaluate your product or service to see if there might be potential for a lot of returns or customer disputes. Called "charge-backs," these refunds are very expensive for banks to process. They are more common among mail order companies and are one reason why these businesses typically have a hard time securing merchant status.
In your initial presentation, provide a reasonable estimate of how many charge-backs you will receive, then show your bank why you don't expect them to exceed your estimates. Testimonials from satisfied customers or product samples can help convince the bank your customers will be satisfied with their purchases. Another way to reduce the bank's fear is to demonstrate that your product is priced at a fair market value.
The best place to begin when trying to get merchant status is by approaching the bank that already holds your business accounts. If your bank turns you down, ask around for recommendations from other business owners who accept plastic. You could look in the Yellow Pages for other businesses in the same category as yours (homebased, retail, mail order). Call them to ask where they have their merchant accounts and whether they are satisfied with the way their accounts are handled. When approaching a bank with which you have no relationship, you may be able to sweeten the deal by offering to switch your other accounts to that bank as well.
If banks turn you down, another option is to consider independent credit card processing companies, which can be found in the Yellow Pages. While independents often give the best rates because they have lower overhead, their application process tends to be more time-consuming, and start-up fees are sometimes higher.
You can also go through an independent sales organization (ISO). These are field representatives from out-of-town banks who, for a commission, help businesses find banks willing to grant them merchant status. Your bank may be able to recommend an ISO, or look in the Yellow Pages under "Credit Cards." An ISO can match your needs with those of the banks he or she represents, without requiring you to go through the application process with all of them.
Enticing your bank with promising sales figures can also boost your case since the bank makes money when you do. Every time you accept a credit card for payment, the bank or card company deducts a percentage of the sale-called a "merchant discount fee"-and then credits your account with the rest of the sale amount.
There may also be some charges from the telephone company to set up a phone line for the authorization and processing equipment. Before you sign on with any bank, consider the costs carefully to make sure the anticipated sales are worth the costs.
Once your business has been approved for credit, you will receive a start-up kit and personal instructions in how to use the system. You don't need fancy equipment to process credit card sales. You can start with a phone and a simple imprinter that costs less than $30. However, you'll get a better discount rate (and get your money credited to your account faster) if you process credit card sales electronically.
Although it's a little more expensive initially, purchasing or leasing a terminal that allows you to swipe the customer's card through for instant authorization of the sale (and immediate crediting of your merchant account) can save you money in the long run. Many cash registers can also be adapted to process credit cards. Also, using your personal computer as opposed to a terminal to obtain authorization can cut your cost per transaction even more. | 2019-04-26T13:52:06 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/21900 |
0.999969 | Bus falls into canal in West Bengal, 1 dead Some people had created trouble but things have been brought under control now and district administration is handling it well". The bus, carrying at least 55 passengers, fell into the river Bhagirathi in Murshidabad district in West Bengal.
Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S with bezel-less design expected to launch soon However, shutting them, now a new report claims that Xiaomi could only unveil Mi Mix 2S and its new proprietary Surge S2 chipset. Having said that, the design isn't too much of a revolution and that suggests that why the Mi Mix 2S will just be an upgrade.
Man hurls chappal at Baahubali actress Tamannah Bhatia in Hyderabad A man, who claimed himself a very big fan of Tamannaah, hurled a footwear on the actress but it missed the target. Sources say Khareemulla, the angry fan, tried to attack the actress because she is not doing more Telugu films.
Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar showdown at Grammy Awards But Lamar tipped his hat to the elder star, declaring "Jay for president!" as he collected the best rap album award. Puppies were passed to the losers of best comedy album, including Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman and Jim Gaffigan.
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Japan's agency to give orders to Coincheck The FSA said it ordered Coincheck to submit an incident report and measures for preventing a recurrence by February 13. They may even push some investors toward peer-to-peer methods of trading that don't rely on centralised platforms.
Microsoft has made a decision to take matters into its own hands and, rather than simply advising users not to deploy the Intel patch, has released its own update that will disable the update.
KB4078130 disables mitigations against Spectre variant 2, the branch injection vulnerability Microsoft said is responsible for the instability issues. Intel, meanwhile, is still silent on when it plans to release an fixed microcode patch, having previously announced it had tracked down the root cause of the reboot bug.
The Spectre update was actually supposed to fix the vulnerability, but as the update was rolled out all of a sudden, it caused more harm than good. Intel is testing the new update on all processor to ensure that no performance and reboot issues occur in the patched systems. While there hasn't been any indication that China has taken advantage of the flaws, the report reveals Intel's glaring mistake to keep the USA government in the dark and thereby delaying the response time for issuing fixes.
PCs running Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 will have the Intel Spectre fix nullified by a new, out-of-bounds Microsoft patch, KB4078130.
Video: Meltdown-Spectre: A reminder to the IT industry that security is a mirage. Microsoft over the weekend responded to Intel's disclosure and has issued an out-of-band update that will allow users to disable Intel's faulty patch, particularly the one that mitigates against Spectre Variant 2. The software giant has explained that the Spectre Variant 2 affects all versions of the operating system, but the company is not aware of any exploitation attempts or attacks. "There are no known reports to indicate that this Spectre variant 2 (CVE 2017-5715) has been used to attack customers, a Microsoft said".
"Our own experience is that system instability can in some circumstances cause data loss or corruption", Microsoft said.
Intel even warned users against downloading its own patch, with Intel EVP Neil Shenoy saying that "we recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors, and end users stop deployment of current versions on specific platforms, as they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior". | 2019-04-25T12:24:54 | http://quoteslay.com/2018/01/microsoft-issues-new-update-to-negate-issues-from-intels/ |
0.998524 | Gluten-free? You need to read this.
Cheerios are being yanked off supermarket shelves after an incident at a California manufacturing facility may have mistakenly added wheat to the boxes labeled gluten-free.
On Monday, General Mills released an official statement announcing the voluntary recall of 1.8 million boxes of original yellow box Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios after wheat flour was accidentally introduced into the gluten-free oat flour system at the company's facility in Lodi, Calif.
General Mills found out about the problem when two consumers reported illnesses after eating Cheerios, while additional complaints were shared online, General Mills spokesperson Kirstie Foster told CNNMoney. The food company confirmed that the recall is an isolated incident: The original Cheerios and Honey Nut variety out of other facilities remain FDA compliant and gluten-free, General Mills said in a separate statement on the Cheerios website.
"We’ll also continue to test products and our oat flour supply extensively to ensure our products meet the gluten-free standard. We care about what you and your family eat and we are truly sorry for this mistake," the statement said. "We will work extremely hard to earn back your trust."
If you bought one of the affected boxes, you can contact General Mills for a replacement or full refund at 1-800-775-8370. | 2019-04-21T13:13:56 | https://www.health.com/food/cheerios-recall-gluten-general-mills |
0.999908 | There's a lot of structure to a person's email. Rather than random isolated documents, individual email messages are often portions of a larger activity. Despite the inherent structure, and despite organizational tools such as folders, much of the world's email remains relatively unorganized.
Researchers from the University College Dublin in Ireland and IBM Research have developed a way to use the inherent structure of related email messages to automatically organize the messages by task.
"We realized that quite a lot of emails are not just random isolated messages, but rather relate in some specific way to earlier messages [by way of] some underlying activity or process" such as travel, meetings, or asset management, said Nicholas Kushmerick, a lecturer in computer science at the University College Dublin in Ireland and visiting scientist at IBM's Dublin Software Laboratory. "Our email activity management technique enables the email client to automatically recognize the structure of these activities and group messages," he said.
The method could eventually be used in tools that automatically organize email and allow a user to query the system based on the underlying organization. It could also lead to related tools like task schedulers, according to Kushmerick.
The researchers' prototype uses a three-phase process, said Kushmerick.
First, the system groups messages according to the activity or task they relate to. For a user who participates in multiple eBay auctions simultaneously, the system would partition eBay messages into messages pertaining to the different auctions -- for example, a desk auction, a bed auction, and a dollhouse auction, said Kushmerick.
Second, the system detects occurrences of the process across those activities and re-groups the messages. EBay auction steps include email acknowledgments of bids and notifications of outbids. For example, the eBay messages would be grouped into the 'thanks for the bid' messages for the desk, bed and dollhouse, and the 'you've been out bid' with messages for the desk, bed, and dollhouse, said Kushmerick.
Third, the system organizes activities and steps into a single representation, or process model that stipulates the order in which the process steps occur, said Kushmerick. "The complication is that many real-world processes can contain loops -- a single eBay auction might contain many pairs of bid-out bid messages," he said.
The researchers used text classification, text clustering and automata induction algorithms to carry out the process, said Kushmerick. Text classification algorithms determine some level of meaning for words. Text clustering algorithms group documents into related sets. Automata induction algorithms generate process flow models. Each of these pieces has been developed independently for decades, but no one had previously thought to apply them to this particular problem or integrate them in this manner, he said.
Compared to artificial intelligence approaches to data representation, the three-phase process is shallow, but appropriate, said Kushmerick. "We can get away with shallow techniques because the messages and processes we're dealing with are generally quite structured," he said. Every message from eBay, for example, contains a unique identifier such as 9188139a; information like this can be exploited to organize messages.
From the user's point of view, the system is entirely automated, said Kushmerick. The user "gives the system a set of messages and says 'please organize them'," he said. "There is no need for the user to provide background such as 'I have pending reports for two trips -- to Singapore, and Berlin'."
The researchers' next step is to begin real-world testing of the technique with large collections of messages. They are also working on completing the user interface. They're aiming to make the system easy to visualize and easy to correct, said Kushmerick.
The interface will enable users to correct system mistakes and to provide hints to help the system generalize correctly, said Kushmerick. "No matter how carefully we tune our algorithms, fully automated techniques will probably never be 100 percent accurate, so we need to make sure that occasional mistakes do not harm the benefit that accrues from our more sophisticated activity-centric presentation," he said.
The current prototype is 91 percent accurate at classifying and grouping messages, according to Kushmerick.
The researchers are also working on ways to allow the user and machine to cooperate to discover the appropriate task structure when the computer cannot do it on its own. When the algorithm is stumped, "we don't want the computer to throw up its hands and say 'I've no idea'," said Kushmerick. "Instead, the computer should ask a series of pointed questions that will disambiguate the situation, such as... 'it would appear that eBay occasionally sends bid acknowledgments twice. Is that correct?'"
They are also working on enabling the user to carry out high-level queries that have to do with the underlying activities, said Kushmerick. For example, "Calculate the average amount I spent on each online grocery order last year," or "Check the travel reimbursement transactions to estimate the total number of days I spent away from home for business purposes in the last six months."
One drawback of the prototype is that it is overly dependent on computer-generated messages, said Kushmerick. "Extending our techniques from machine-person messages to person-person messages will be very challenging, but we have already started to make some progress," he said.
The technology could be ready for commercial use in two to three years, said Kushmerick. "A patent application covering our technology has already been filed, and IBM is currently exploring potential avenues to commercialization," he said.
Further down the line, the researchers' system could be used to automate other tools like schedulers and email analysis tools. An analysis tool could, for instance, automatically notice when you send a message to someone requesting that they send you a document, add this request to a "pending" list, and automatically mark the request "satisfied" when the document arrives, said Kushmerick.
The ultimate aim is to enable ordinary end-users, as opposed to specialized technical support personnel, to personalize and customize their computing environments, said Kushmerick. "Each of us has a distinctive suite of activities that we engage in, preferences for the way information is presented, notions of what constitutes high-priority, constraints about divulging confidential information, et cetera," he said.
In the last several years machine learning technologies have improved enough that it is possible to envision practical self-customizing software and high-level tools that allow ordinary users to customize applications, said Kushmerick.
Kushmerick's research colleague was Tessa Lau. They presented the work at the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (UIC 2005) held January 9 to 12, 2005 in San Diego. The research was funded by IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. | 2019-04-24T14:53:31 | http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/030905/Software_organizes_email_by_task_030905.html |
0.998721 | I have a quantitative M spike level. Does that have any effect on neutrophil/lymphocyte percentages? If the neutrophil/lymphocyte levels become elevated or low, is there a direct correlation with M spike levels? I have multiple myeloma.
While the plasma cells are a form of B lymphocytes, they are found almost exclusively in the bone marrow and lymph nodes. Because they do not look like lymphocytes in the peripheral blood, bone marrow OR lymph nodes, it was thought until rather recently that they were a totally different cell line.
As a consequence, there is no influence in the peripheral blood differential. Remember that it is better for you to follow the absolute differential numbers and not the percentages, which can be misleading. | 2019-04-20T05:09:38 | https://secure.patientpower.info/do-m-spike-levels-impact-neutrophil/lymphocyte-percentages |
0.999995 | Q: I recently heard a recording in which a doctor pronounces “atropine” as if it were spelled “atropin.” Is this legitimate?
A: Yes, there are two standard pronunciations of the organic compound that eye doctors use in solutions to dilate pupils: AT-ruh-peen and AT-ruh-pin.
In fact, “atropin” was the original spelling of this poisonous compound obtained from belladonna and other related plants. Several standard dictionaries still list that as a variant spelling.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.), for example, cites both spellings, with “atropine” pronounced AT-ruh-peen and “atropin” pronounced AT-ruh-pin.
However, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) has only the “atropine” spelling and At-ruh-peen pronunciation.
In addition to being used in solutions to dilate eyes, the naturally occurring alkaloid atropine is used, among other things, in medicine to inhibit muscle spasms.
The word “atropine” comes from atropa belladonna, the scientific name of the perennial plant that’s also known as deadly nightshade.
English borrowed belladonna from the Italian name for the plant (it comes from the Italian words for “beautiful woman”).
However, the plant’s name is ultimately derived from Atropos, one of the three Greek Fates, according to the OED.
In Greek mythology, Atropos was the Fate responsible for deciding how people died and cutting their threads of life with her shears. | 2019-04-24T01:51:27 | https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/12/atropine.html |
0.999986 | Why and how did I become a Career Ambassador?
As a second-year student of BA Politics, at the threshold of a new academic term, I was looking for some work or study placement opportunities for the coming year. I decided to visit Career and Employability Services in Student Central in order to let people there have a look at my CV and tell me what I can possibly improve in order to be able to find a more attractive placement offer.
The first piece of advice I was given was to look for any volunteering experience (which I did not have at all). I was also pretty worried about it due to the fact that English is not my first language, and therefore, I was not sure to what extent I would be able to work effectively in a voluntary service. However, I knew that any skills gained as a Volunteer might significantly contribute to widening my horizons; for example, for the future job market. The first thing that came to my mind was to try to find an opportunity like that at the university.
To my surprise, I found a leaflet at the Careers Service advertising a volunteer position of a Career Ambassador that really got my interest. I found out that if I can contribute a total of 25 hours of volunteering over one academic year, the hours will be accredited through the Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR). Moreover, it also provides me the opportunity to find out and understand the role of Career and Employability Services.
I made a quick decision then and sent a message to the Career Ambassador Coordinator, who in response, booked a first meeting to discuss the role in more detail. She described the challenges of the role and asked me to consider more fully about volunteering now that I have more information about the Career Ambassador role! Needless to say, I agreed to volunteer as a Career Ambassador, given the t-shirt and excited and ready to start.
What do I do as a Career Ambassador?
The list of possible activities is very diverse and I am sure that everybody can find something for themselves. For example, engaging at Careers Fairs, which take place in Student Central from time to time, might include distributing leaflets to students, helping employers with parking their vehicles and moving their stuff from the car park to the location or cleaning tables before and after the event.
It is also significant to engage with students about ways in which the Careers Service can help them with their plans for future through, for instance, CV/CL checking, mock interviews, an organisation of study and work placements, preparing workshops on various topics, or finding part-time jobs. As a Career Ambassador, it is also vital to promote the services on social media and do ‘lecture shout-outs’ to inform fellow students about new events or run a small focus group for people who want to find out more about the service.
Personally, I really enjoy this volunteering experience. Helping at careers events gives me an opportunity to develop my transferable skills such as team-working, communication with others or self-confidence. What is more, I find the whole experience really friendly to EU/international students; I could test the level of my English in this new environment and had no problems with cooperation with others. It is also a great chance to make new friendships with fellow ambassadors and get to know members of the university staff.
In addition, I become more aware and interested in careers workshops as well. Thanks to them, I could find out how to find better placement offers as well as get prepared for a job interview. I admit that every time I get involved in my role, I feel that I do something for myself and for the university, and therefore for others.
I strongly recommend becoming a Career Ambassador as a way of getting some volunteering experience, especially, when you want to get ready for your study or work placements as well as increase your confidence with the language, if you are an EU/international student. Doing something for others might be really enjoyable and productive at the same time, and this is how I perceive this voluntary service. Furthermore, I am sure that the skills gained at this time will bring in positive results for my own career in the future!
Thanks Zbigniew! Find our more about volunteering and our Career Ambassador programme. | 2019-04-22T00:30:43 | http://blogs.brad.ac.uk/careers/2019/03/27/why-i-became-a-career-ambassador-zbigniew-soj/ |
0.998645 | What is a myxedema coma?
Myxedema is the medical term for severe hypothyroidism. It also refers to the skin changes that can happen with this condition.
Hypothyroidism occurs when the body does not make enough of the thyroid hormones. It is estimated that 4.6 percent of the United States (U.S.) population, aged 12 years and above, has hypothyroidism.
Most cases of hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid, are mild. However, hypothyroidism left untreated can result in myxedema.
The most life-threatening complication associated with myxedema is a myxedema coma.
When the body experiences an ongoing deficiency of thyroid hormones, there is a heightened risk of a myxedema coma.
A myxedema coma is also known as a myxedema crisis. This serious medical condition occurs when the body can no longer cope with long-term, severely low levels of thyroid hormones.
Although it is rare, a myxedema coma is a medical emergency that requires immediate attention. In some cases, it can result in death.
Despite the name, a myxedema coma does not require the presence of either myxedema (skin changes) or a coma for it to be diagnosed.
According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, the primary sign of myxedema coma is a deterioration of mental state. For example, a person may experience confusion, hallucinations, or disorientation.
Potential causes of myxedema include inflammation or removal of the thyroid gland, certain medicines, and pregnancy.
Myxedema is the result of severe hypothyroidism that is undiagnosed or not treated. It is most commonly seen in those with a history of thyroid surgery or radiotherapy.
Hashimoto's disease, an autoimmune condition and the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the U.S.
Thyroiditis, or inflammation of the thyroid gland.
Congenital hypothyroidism, a condition present from birth that is usually screened for in newborns.
Surgical removal of the thyroid due to thyroid cancer or other conditions.
Pituitary gland abnormalities caused by surgery, tumors, or medical conditions, such as Sheehan's syndrome.
Pregnancy, with some research estimating that hypothyroidism occurs in 1 out of every 1,600 to 2,000 deliveries.
In rare cases, myxedema may occur in people with normal thyroids but whose pituitary gland or hypothalamus, both of which are part of the brain, fail to send messages correctly to the thyroid gland.
Thyroid hormones regulate metabolism, or the way the body uses energy. If thyroxine levels are low, many of the body's functions slow down. Learn more about hypothyroidism.
The biggest risk factor for myxedema coma is to have hypothyroidism that is untreated.
A doctor, usually an endocrinologist, will probably be able to diagnose severe hypothyroidism or myxedema based on a person's symptoms. A diagnosis will be confirmed using blood tests.
T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine). Low levels of hormones produced by the thyroid can indicate hypothyroidism.
Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). Produced by the pituitary gland, a high level of TSH suggests hypothyroidism. This is because the pituitary is signaling to the thyroid that more levels of T3 and T4 are needed in the body.
Heart activity may be checked using an ECG (electrocardiogram) and the brain may be looked at with a CT scan. Lung function might also be tested.
As myxedema coma is a medical emergency and life threatening, so it requires immediate treatment, usually in an intensive care unit (ICU).
Treatment options may include thyroid hormone replacement therapy, which will be administered through an IV line.
Doctors will continually monitor the level of consciousness and vital signs of those with myxedema coma.
Thyroid hormone replacement therapy is administered through a vein, using an intravenous (IV) line.
It may take weeks for a person's thyroid hormones to return to normal levels. Once levels are restored, their symptoms will improve. However, some form of thyroid medication will be necessary for the rest of the person's life.
If doctors do not diagnose myxedema coma swiftly and treat it urgently, it can be fatal. Even with prompt diagnosis and immediate treatment, studies have suggested that between 30 and 60 percent of people die.
However, once myxedema is under control and the symptoms of myxedema coma have passed, the outlook is good, provided people follow their treatment regimen for the rest of their lives.
Article last reviewed by Fri 4 August 2017.
Leonard, Jayne. "Myxedema coma: Causes, risk factors, and outlook." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 4 Aug. 2017. Web. | 2019-04-25T10:32:53 | https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318757.php?iacp |
0.999999 | Previous studies have reported higher quality of life in patients who receive home nocturnal hemodialysis (HNHD) than conventional in-center hemodialysis (IHD). The optimal method for eliciting preferences from dialysis patients remains undefined, and there may be unique methodologic concerns in this population. Patients’ preferences for IHD (n = 20) and HNHD (n = 24) were studied using the standard gamble (SG), time trade-off (TTO), and modified willingness to pay (WTP) methods. This report describes experience with operationalizing these three techniques in this population. A higher preference for HNHD was found with all measures, with significant differences observed with the SG (HNHD: median 0.79 [interquartile range (IQR) 0.67 to 0.95]; IHD: median 0.60 [IQR 0.20 to 0.82]; P = 0.031) and WTP (HNHD: median 0.50 [IQR 0.40 to 0.68]; IHD: median 0.20 [IQR 0.20 to 0.38]; P < 0.001). SG and TTO scores were moderately correlated but not with WTP. In addition, qualitative issues arose during TTO and WTP interviews that seemed to influence the interpretation of these preference scores. In the TTO, time willing to trade became oriented toward the next pivotal life event, with a failure of the requirement for a constant proportional time trade-off. WTP preferences were oriented toward the smallest survival stipend. These issues represent range restriction biases. No significant issues arose during the SG interviews. HNHD patients expressed a greater preference for current health than IHD patients. The operational performance of SG was good in this study, whereas biases and methodologic concerns were identified with the TTO and WTP in this population.
Measuring quality of life is an attractive approach to gauging an intervention's effectiveness. Quality-of-life measurements can be a study's primary focus or can be combined with costing data as part of a cost-effectiveness analysis. The quality of life of dialysis patients is among the worst reported for chronic medical conditions (1,2). Studies have attempted to quantify quality of life in dialysis patients through disease-specific or generic instruments (3–11). Tools such as the kidney disease quality of life (KDQOL) generate a numeric rating of quality of life in many domains. Preference-based techniques can be used to estimate utility scores (2,4,12,13), expressing global quality of life as a single number on a scale ranging from 0 (a health state equivalent to death) to 1 (equivalent to the best possible health (14–20). They have several advantages over rating systems, allowing comparisons of quality of life across disease states, and can be used to generate the popular quality-adjusted life year (QALY) metric that is used in cost-utility studies. Utility scores can be generated by a variety of preference-based methods and are one of the preferred outcome measures for economic analyses (21,22). Two such methods are the time trade-off (TTO) and standard gamble (SG). The TTO method involves determining the maximum proportion of remaining lifespan that a patient would be willing to trade for perfect health. The SG method involves determining the maximum chance of immediate death that a patient would be willing to gamble against for the chance of gaining perfect health. Patient preferences can also be elicited through willingness to pay (WTP) valuations, particularly for application in cost–benefit analyses (23–26).
The preferred technique for eliciting preferences remains controversial, because preference scores can vary considerably (27). Such variation may be due to the heterogeneity of personal preferences. However, previous studies suggested three methodologic concerns that can also influence preference scores. First, preference assessment studies exhibit method effects: The technique used seems systematically to bias preference scores (19,28–30). Second, preference assessment studies exhibit respondent effects: Interviews of patients with the medical condition, health professionals, and lay public often yield different results (31–33). Finally, the validity of preference measures rest on axioms that can be violated (34,35).
Our group performed a cost-utility study that examined two forms of hemodialysis (2). The first was conventional in-center hemodialysis (IHD), whereby patients received dialysis treatments at the hospital three times per week for 4 h. The second was home nocturnal hemodialysis (HNHD), whereby patients performed treatments at home five or six times a week, connecting themselves at night to the dialysis machine and undergoing dialysis during sleep (36). In our primary report, we identified the cost-utility of HNHD relative to IHD, with the utility score based on the SG technique as the measure of dialysis effectiveness. However, we also elicited patient preferences for health states by the TTO and WTP methods, with an a priori intention to examine the performance of these measures in this population.
In this report, we focus on two areas that were not discussed in our previous publication. First, we describe the degree of correlation among these three techniques. In theory, these scores should be highly correlated, but in practice, this is often not the case (28). Second, we report an informal qualitative description of our experiences with eliciting preferences, including potential operational problems when these techniques are applied in hemodialysis patients. Because our sample size is relatively small, we cannot offer a rigorous generalizable comparison of these three techniques; however, our observations suggest areas for future research and point out potential pitfalls that future investigators will need to take into account. This information is particularly significant given the increasing popularity of many forms of intensive dialysis and the need to estimate the impact of these modalities on quality of life.
Patient preferences were elicited through face-to-face interviews that were conducted in a standardized manner by a single interviewer, with interviewer instructions written on a prompt card. Sessions were scheduled during a routine appointment at the home dialysis clinic for the HNHD group and at the dialysis unit before treatment for the IHD group. Interviews were conducted in well-lit and quiet semiprivate offices or examination areas. Criteria were set prospectively for delaying an interview; specifically, hospital admission within 1 mo, current treatment with antibiotics, initiation or dosage titration of a psychotropic drug within 1 mo, invasive procedure within 1 wk or, significant life event within 2 mo (death or sickness of a friend or family member, change in employment status, divorce or separation from significant other, or change of address). The interviews for each utility measure were performed sequentially, starting with TTO, then SG, then WTP. We did not vary the order of testing and did not attempt to identify sequencing biases.
Each elicitation task was framed as a dichotomous choice, in which participants were asked whether they preferred either the certainty of their current health or an alternative in which they could attain best possible health by accepting a trade-off. The trade-offs were risk for death, decreased life expectancy, and monetary payments for the SG, TTO, and WTP methods, respectively. The choice was from the ex-post user-based perspective. We assigned discrete values to these trade-off parameters: Probability of death for the SG, time traded for the TTO, and money lost for the WTP. For each method, the initial value was randomly chosen from all possible values. We changed the value of the trade-off parameter iteratively using a bisectional approach (in which the utilities presented were the midpoint of the possible lowest and highest values on the basis of the previous responses and the bounds of the preference scale) until we found the maximum value that each respondent would accept for the trade-off parameter (e.g., maximum probability of immediate death in the SG technique) (16,28). We calculated preference scores on the basis of this indifference point. We did not elicit preferences between IHD and HNHD, because not all patients had been on both modalities; we also did not attempt to compare these with other dialysis modalities (e.g., peritoneal dialysis) or renal transplantation.
For the SG, participants were given a choice between remaining in their current state of health or accepting a hypothetical treatment. If successful, then the hypothetical treatment would cure the renal disease, resolve their medical issues, and return the person to the best possible state of health. If unsuccessful, then the hypothetical treatment would lead to immediate death. Interviewers used a computer program to represent visually the gamble probabilities in the form of a circle, transected into two sectors, one representing the probability of immediate death and the other representing the probability of a successful cure (http://individual.utoronto.ca/bayoumi/prospeqt/excel.htm). Patients were allowed to choose not to gamble.
For the TTO technique, participants were given a choice between remaining in their current state of health or accepting a hypothetical treatment that would cure the person's renal disease, resolve all medical issues, and restore the best possible state of health. However, the hypothetical treatment would reduce their remaining lifespan. The same computer-based utility elicitation program provided assistance, visually representing the time horizon as a horizontal bar whose length represented the patient's remaining life span, bisected such that the bar consisted of two colored areas, one representing the proportion of the lifespan that will be spent in perfect health and the remaining area representing the proportion that would be lost to achieve perfect health. The estimated remaining lifespan was drawn from American life expectancy tables and adjusted for age, race and gender but not presence of renal or other diseases. Patients were allowed to choose not to trade off time.
Patient preferences were also elicited by two variations of the WTP method. The first approach involved an open-ended determination of the amount that a patient was willing to pay to achieve best possible health. In this case, the scale was bounded by zero and by the total of all of the patient's available financial resources as reported by the respondent. For reasons discussed next, a second evaluation of WTP was also used. In the second approach, patients were assigned an after-tax income of $50,000 per year, with no possibility of acquiring new funds or of drawing on existing resources (making the scale bounded by $0 and $50,000). The payment for perfect health would be made annually, thereby reducing their annual income for the remainder of their lives. In both cases, we generated a WTP score equivalent to 1 minus the maximum acceptable payment divided by the scale maximum (1 − u, where u is maximum willingness to pay/scale maximum). Like the other measures, this calculation produces a WTP score that ranges from 0 to 1, with higher scores suggesting a better quality of life.
We used nonparametric methods to evaluate preference scores. For continuous variables, between-group differences were tested with the Mann-Whitney U test. For categorical variables, between-group differences were tested using the χ2 test or Fisher exact test as necessary. Correlation between preference scores and demographic variables was determined using Kendall's τ-b statistic and among the three forms of preference scores by calculating the intraclass correlation coefficient using the Cronbach α method for single measures with a two-way mixed-effect model, testing against absolute agreement with a moderate correlation threshold of 0.3 and a highly correlated threshold of 0.6. A two-tailed significance level of 0.05 was used for all tests. SPSS (version 11.0; SPSS, Chicago, IL) for Macintosh was used for the statistical computations.
We interviewed 20 IHD and 24 HNHD patients (Table 1). Preference scores were higher in the HNHD group by all techniques (Table 2), although statistical significance was reached only for the SG and WTP techniques. Differences that were related to form of dialysis persisted after adjustment for demographic and comorbid factors. The TTO and SG scores were moderately correlated with each other, whereas the WTP scores did not significantly correlate with either of the other measures (Table 3, Figure 1). The dispersion of scores within groups by the three techniques was broad (Figure 2).
Scatter plots comparing the preference scores from a cohort of hemodialysis patients. (A) Standard gamble (SG) versus time trade-off (TTO). (B) Willingness to pay (WTP) versus SG. (C) WTP versus TTO.
Distribution of preference scores by type of dialysis and preference measurement technique. The top, bottom, and line through the middle of the box correspond to the 75th, 25th, and 50th (median) percentiles, respectively. The whiskers on top and below the box extend to the 90th and 10th percentiles, respectively. The black square within the box corresponds to the mean.
Eleven of the 43 patients (six IHD, five HNHD; NS) expressed spontaneously that they wanted to live only until their next pivotal life event, were unwilling to trade any time before that event, and were willing to sacrifice all remaining time beyond that point. In one example from the interview logs, a respondent stated, “I only need to live until my nephew's wedding next summer; after that, I don't care.” Those who responded in this manner were not confronted about their response or reinterviewed later to determine whether their desired lifespan had decreased as predicted. TTO utility scores were lower in those who responded in this manner (0.18 ± 0.15 versus 0.69 ± 0.22; P < 0.001); however, no statistically significant demographic differences were apparent, although the sample size is small. Two people chose not to trade. One person had to reschedule the interview because the TTO questions were found to be upsetting, but the study was eventually completed. No other major issues arose during the TTO interviews.
In the WTP analysis, seven respondents (five IHD, two HNHD) were interviewed using the first methodologic variation (scale upper bounded by all of the patient's available financial resources). In each case, respondents answered similarly, expressing a willingness to trade everything with the exception of a small survival stipend. The protocol was then modified to the second methodologic variation (scale upper bounded by $50,000/yr). The original seven were reinterviewed, and this method was used for the remainder of the study group; these scores are reported here. Approximately one fourth of the participants spontaneously commented that the $50,000/yr figure was generous, whereas another one fourth observed that this amount seemed inadequate. All participants were willing to trade money for health.
No significant difficulties arose during the SG interviews. Two patients required a complete repeat of the instructions but were able to complete the interview without further difficulties. All patients were willing to gamble.
No evidence of editing bias (whereby respondents have revised the provided scenario information) was observed, and the tasks did not seem to be too cognitively demanding or incomprehensible in our population. Subjectively, there was no evidence of a social desirability bias (whereby respondents provide what they perceive to be the desired response rather than their true valuation). The average time to complete each set of elicitations was 4 min (not including time for instructions). When an individual rated his or her quality of life very highly (>0.90 on any metric), we challenged the individual about the willingness to trade. In all cases, the individuals agreed that they were willing to trade or gamble in principle but rated their current quality of life highly enough that they were willing to trade or gamble only small amounts or nothing.
A variety of methods are available to elicit patient preference for health states (34,35). To be consistent with theoretical underpinnings, several requirements must be met (14,37–40). In our study, three methods of determining preference were applied, and observations were made with two of these methods that raise cautions when they are used in hemodialysis patients. Although it is possible that these issues are present in other groups, we restrict our conclusions to the population that we studied. We have attempted to provide some statistical rigor; however, the small sample size lends itself better to a subjective description of the biases observed.
Our most serious caution arose with the TTO method, in which some participants traded all remaining lifetime aside from the amount necessary to reach their next pivotal life event, an interval that was usually arbitrary and outside the control of the patient yet had an undue effect on the TTO score. This pattern could seriously distort the interpretation of TTO scores in such respondents. For example, if a participant wanted to live only until a pivotal event and that event date was accelerated by 6 mo, then the amount of time that the patient would be willing to trade would (presumably) be increased by 6 mo. Although the TTO score would decrease, it seems unlikely that there was a change in the patient's underlying quality of life or of their preference for health states. Although the utility function has been described as being concave over time in most people (30,41,42), those who responded in this manner would have a step function for utility over time, which would represent both a range restriction bias and an extreme example of nonconstant proportional TTO. Although other authors have suggested ways to correct TTO scores by adjusting for time preference bias (42), these methods would not apply in our extreme cases. When the time willing to trade is fixed by a pivotal life event, differences in preference scores between individuals are primarily determined by the expected remaining life span. For example, consider two patients with a remaining lifespan of 10 and 20 yr, respectively, both with a pivotal life event 1 yr away. Although the first patient would seem to have a higher TTO score (0.10 versus 0.05), it is not clear that the first patient is actually expressing a higher preference for dialysis. Again, such patterns represent violations of the requirement for constant proportional TTO (43–45) and are a form of range restriction bias.
Although possible, we find it unlikely that our operationalization of the TTO method contributed to these biases. Our TTO technique was similar to that used in previous ESRD studies, and our IHD population had similar utility scores to those seen in previous dialysis studies. We did not structure the interviews in a way that would have encouraged spontaneous expressions such as we observed. It is possible that these observations applied only to our unique population or were related to our operational methods; however, it is also possible that participants in previous trials harbored similar thoughts.
Difficulties also arose in our WTP analysis. Participants seemed willing to trade all but a small stipend necessary for survival. This calls into question whether a similar range restriction bias was present in the WTP interviews, with values being dictated by a predetermined minimal necessary income level rather than allowing for a clear expression of a participant's preferences. This observation could lead to difficulties in interpreting the WTP score. For example, consider two such people studied with our first methodologic variation (with the patient's total available financial resources as the upper bound of the scale), whereby one individual is much wealthier, but both are willing to trade all but the same survival stipend. It is not clear that the wealthier individual (whose WTP score would be lower) is actually expressing a different preference for the dialysis state than the less wealthy patient, despite the difference in scores. In the second WTP method (whereby the scale was upper bounded by $50,000/yr), there was significant disparity in patients' response to the availability of $50,000/yr of income, perhaps related to the declining marginal utility of a dollar to wealthy rather than poor individuals (26). These issues call into question the ability of WTP methods as we applied them to differentiate patient preferences for health when quality of life is extremely poor. However, we believe that the WTP approach has promise in dialysis populations, because our participants were able to perform the required cognitive tasks and seemed willing to trade money for health. Future research should examine which WTP method performs best in this population. For example, WTP valuations that involve comparisons of one dialysis modality with another, rather than with a hypothetical treatment that is capable of normalizing health, may produce better results. Also, structured analyses that compare open- versus closed-ended scenarios, as well as different approaches to the bargaining method, should be examined. These approaches may better represent patient preference for health states.
Unlike the TTO and WTP methods, no significant issues were identified during the SG analysis. Although it has been suggested that the abstract thinking that is required for the SG method may make it difficult to use (38), we did not observe such difficulties. It is possible that difficulties with the SG may arise in other dialysis populations, or perhaps people who perform dialysis are particularly well suited to consider hypothetical life or death decisions and numeric expressions of probability.
Although it seems that individuals with high preference scores were willing to trade or gamble, it is possible that in some cases there was a true unwillingness to trade or gamble that would become evident on more detailed questioning. Previous studies in dialysis (46) and in nonrenal populations (19,28–30) suggested that preference scores are often highest with SG, then TTO, and lowest with WTP. Factors such as utility curvature, probability weighting, loss aversion, and scale compatibility lead to these systematic differences among methods (30). We saw a similar pattern in our results, suggesting that method effects were active in our population.
Our observations are based on spontaneous comments made by participants. No attempt was made to probe whether these patterns of reasoning were present in others who did not volunteer similar comments, so our observations may underestimate their prevalence. These potential biases may be present in other populations, in particular other health conditions in which quality of life is chronically low. Regardless of the theoretical issues that arise from these observations, the desire to live only to the next pivotal life event and the willingness to trade all but a minimal survival stipend are clear reminders of how poor the quality of life may be for many people who are on dialysis.
A final observation is the impressive variability in utility scores between individuals who perform the same method of dialysis, sometimes resulting in a range that covers the entire utility scale. Investigators who perform studies of quality of life in dialysis patients should be prepared to see similar variability in their results, which may have an impact on patient selection and study sample size.
We measured patient preferences for health states by three methods, all of which suggested a higher quality of life in patients who performed HNHD, with statistically significant differences seen for the SG and WTP techniques. Each preference elicitation technique has advantages and disadvantages. The TTO method may be vulnerable to biases as we have described. The SG method worked well in our study, but the cognitive demands of this technique may be problematic in other dialysis populations. The WTP techniques that we used did not perform well but remain appealing options that will require further refinement. Although the measurement of patient preference for health states remains an appropriate method of estimating quality of life, further research is required to define the best method of eliciting such preferences in people with ESRD.
The Canadian Society of Nephrology and the Kidney Foundation of Canada provided research support for the conduction of this study and for P.A.M. Funding for HNHD pilot programs provided by the Ontario Ministry of Health. The funding agreement ensured the authors’ independence in designing the study, interpreting the data, writing, and publishing the report.
We acknowledge the following institutions and people for participation: St. Michael's Hospital: Jill Campbell, Mark Goldstein, and Mark Robson; Humber River Regional Hospital: Colleen Jones and Michaelene Ouwendyk. | 2019-04-26T02:48:12 | https://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/2/3/477 |
0.999999 | Item V A - Regular Agenda A PUBLIC HEARING will be held to consider application #PD18-08 filed by Clifrecia Rogers to rezone Lot 1, Block 17, Lookout Hill from Single-Family (SF-5) to a Planned Development for an Event Center, Office, and/or Church located at 515 North Court Street.
A PUBLIC HEARING will be held to consider application #PD18-08 filed by Clifrecia Rogers to rezone Lot 1, Block 17, Lookout Hill from Single-Family (SF-5) to a Planned Development for an Event Center, Office, and/or Church located at 515 North Court Street.
Item V B - A PUBLIC HEARING will be held to consider application #PD18-09 filed by DSF Partners LP to rezone approximately 6.8 acres of AB 186 D. Sanchez Survey TR 1 Sec 8 from Agriculture (A) to a Planned Development Single Family Detached located on the south side of East George Richey Road, and East of Gilmer Road.
A PUBLIC HEARING will be held to consider application #PD18-09 filed by DSF Partners LP to rezone approximately 6.8 acres of AB 186 D. Sanchez Survey TR 1 Sec 8 from Agriculture (A) to a Planned Development Single Family Detached located on the south side of East George Richey Road, and East of Gilmer Road.
How many animals are there in the following words: 'Lion', 'green', 'red', and 'white'? | 2019-04-18T12:29:03 | http://longviewtx.swagit.com/play/10172018-1208 |
0.998874 | Is Coke to Blame for Obese Children?
One of the most prominent and most modern problems plaguing children today is childhood obesity. According to kids health dot org, one out of every three children in the United States. And with childhood obesity being one of the First Lady's most prominent causes – there is certainly a lot of controversy about why our children are so fat.
Most recently, Coca-Cola came out with a commercial that reminds people that they have low calorie options. A few months back, an obese adult tried to sue McDonalds for serving unhealthy food and making them obese.
Where does the shrug off responsibility end?
When it comes to obese children – especially those that are suffering from complicated childhood health problems (which will eventually lead to adult health issues) that disrupt their quality of life, I become extremely frustrated.
Why is it that parents, and organizations are so quick to blame companies like Coke, or Hostess or McDonalds for making people fat? Last time I checked, each of us had a choice of what foods to put in our refrigerator, and which foods and drinks to allow our children to drink, and what to purchase when we grocery shop.
Today, soda, energy drinks and other sugarfied liquids are being handed out to kids without much discrepancy. Should a toddler really be able to down a sippy cup full of soda? Is it necessary to give a kindergartener a 20 ounce bottle of coke?
The bottom line is that these drinks are not appropriate for kids, and should simply be provided in moderation. If your child has teeth problems, or is gaining weight a little too quickly – then making a simple switch to water (which is essentially one of the best fluids for our body), will help to recitfy many of the health problems associated with overweight children.
Your children deserve to have a healthy environment to live in. This healthy environment, includes having limits and boundaries on the junk food that they put into their growing bodies. Sure, treats shouldnt be kept under lock and key. The occassional soda is not going to harm your child beyond repair. Yet, parents should be proactive (As well as good examples) when choosing foods for their kids.
I find it reprehensible that companies such as Coke, or McDonalds are coming under fire for their products when it is us, the consumers, that make the ultimate choice.
There will never be a fat free world, where only healthy foods exist. We have to be able to make choices, and we have to be responsible for the things that our children are putting into their body.
Do you allow your child to have soda or energy drinks on a regular basis? Or do you believe that these are only appropriate in moderation?
I think it depends on the kid. I drank pop/soda all my life, not more than one a day and probably only a couple a week, and I played outside nearly every day. If a kid drinks it every day and doesn’t get off the couch all day, then yeah they’re probably going to get fat.
Ya finally an article that may make parents relize it is their own darn fault that their kids are fatties. McDonalds and coke did not twist your arm and make you buy a happymeal.
I usually keep a bottle of soda in the house for me, but my children drink milk in the morning and water the rest of the day. I agree with the article. It is a real pet peeve when people blame McDonald’s and Coke, and other companies for their mistakes. I take my kids to McDonalds every once in awhile, and I let them have a soda then, and then we go to the park and run around. Sweets and sodas aren’t evil, but we have to teach our kids moderation. And making good choices. Besides, water filters aren’t that expensive, and makes drinking water soooo much cheaper in the long run.
There is no one to blame for fat toddlers except the parents. If sweets aren’t a regular part of your child’s life, they won’t make it one.
One Of My Biggest Pet Peeves Kids & Soda! Kids Have Enough Energy Without The Help Of Soda..
I agree moderation is key to being healthy, start teaching young children this, even if they pitch a fit. Sugar and unwanted chemicals are in so many products in the market. Even meat, so many Hormones…farmers want bigger chicken or meatier cows and pigs…well this is what we eat and those steroids dont leave the meat when you cook it. Cook healthy for your families sake, just remember moderation. | 2019-04-26T10:00:01 | https://www.everydayfamily.com/blog/is-coke-to-blame-for-obese-children/?internallink=relatedposts |
0.99999 | Drakma in Android app crashes app.
Summary: Drakma Require Crashes Android Example App Steps to Reproduce: 1) Successfully install and run Android app without Drakma; 2) Install Drakma Dependencies and link: 2a)http://weitz.de/drakma/#install http://common-lisp.net/projects/usocket/releases/ http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/ http://weitz.de/chunga/ http://www.cliki.net/cl-base64 http://www.cliki.net/puri https://github.com/edicl/cl-ppcre.git git://gitorious.org/trivial-gray-streams/trivial-gray-streams.git The only .asd I didn't link is cl-ppcre-unicode.asd; I did link cl-ppcre.asd 3) uncomment this code in app.lisp: (pushnew :drakma-no-ssl *features*) (require :drakma) 4) mocl --android LispContacts app.lisp 5) cd LispContacts/jni && ndkbuild 6) Run||Debug the app in ADK on a Nexus 7 7) App starts, then crashes with: Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0xdeadbaas (code=1), thread 28736 (le.lispcontacts) Approach 2, MOCL Repl mocl repl --android /tmp This repl is an experimental work in progress. See documentation for further details. You can quit this repl via (rt:quit). * (pushnew :drakma-no-ssl *features*) (:DRAKMA-NO-SSL :MOCL :ASDF2 :ASDF :ANSI-CL :COMMON-LISP :LITTLE-ENDIAN :ARM :ANDROID :LINUX :UNIX) * (require :drakma) (api.lisp:711) Warning: Function MAKE-INSTANCE is currently unsupported at compile-time. (api.lisp:1200) Warning: Function MAKE-INSTANCE is currently unsupported at compile-time. (api.lisp:1207) Warning: Function MAKE-INSTANCE is currently unsupported at compile-time. (api.lisp:1228) Warning: Function MAKE-INSTANCE is currently unsupported at compile-time. (external-format.lisp:286) Warning: Function MAKE-INSTANCE is currently unsupported at compile-time. (stream.lisp:190) Warning: Function MAKE-INSTANCE is currently unsupported at compile-time. (src.lisp:1221) Warning: Ignoring call to FMAKUNBOUND. It is unsupported. (src.lisp:1221) Warning: Ignoring call to FMAKUNBOUND. It is unsupported. (specials.lisp:38) Warning: Function MAKE-INSTANCE is currently unsupported at compile-time. (specials.lisp:38) Warning: Function MAKE-INSTANCE is currently unsupported at compile-time. NIL * (print (drakma:http-request "http://wukix.com")) Warning: Compile-time evaluation failed at RT::TYPEP-CLASS. NIL Expected Results: App doesn't crash; REPL successfully completes request; Actual Results: App Crashes when Drakma is (require)'d; REPL fails with compile time error; Notes: So yea, has anyone gotten Drakma to work on Android?
Drakma has worked in the past on Android. What is your Android version? I will try to reproduce it.
4.3 on a Note 3 and 4.3.1 on a Nexus 7.
That should fix the main issue here.
2) Android applications that use networking functions will need the permission "android.permission.INTERNET" added to the app manifest (AndroidManifest.xml). Please make sure you have this or drakma requests will not work.
Awesome, that seems to have fixed the issue for me. Thanks. | 2019-04-19T21:12:29 | https://wukix.com/support/ticket/35 |
0.998627 | As NASA's next spacecraft to the red planet begins a crucial round of testing in preparations for launch next year, the mission has been given a new name: 2001 Mars Odyssey.
"The year 2001 has a special significance to many of us who recall the thrill of reading the book and watching the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' We looked forward to the exciting future of space exploration that the year 2001 promised," said Scott Hubbard, Mars Program Director at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.
"NASA's next mission to Mars, launching in the year 2001, represents the start of a new wave of exploration at the red planet," said Hubbard. "It seemed fitting to name the mission 2001 Mars Odyssey not only in honor of the story and the movie, but also to herald the start of our new long-term journey to explore Mars."
Hubbard added that Arthur C. Clarke, author of "2001: A Space Odyssey," enthusiastically endorsed the new mission name.
The orbiting spacecraft is designed to find out what Mars is made of, detect water and shallow buried ice and study the radiation environment. The spacecraft begins thermal vacuum testing this week at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, Colo., where it was designed and built.
"It's exciting to have a new name for the mission, and going into the thermal vacuum testing chamber is the next big step for the spacecraft," said George Pace, project manager for 2001 Mars Odyssey at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We will simulate the full range of temperatures that the spacecraft will be subjected to during its entire mission, from the coldest to the warmest."
"We have done several things in response to the NASA review board recommendations to ensure mission success, like adding additional staff and transitioning development personnel to operations. I'm confident we have a solid mission," Pace added.
The orbiter will study the kinds of minerals on the surface and measure the amount of hydrogen in the shallow subsurfaces of the planet, which will give scientists clues about the presence of water, either past or present. It will also provide information on the structure of the Martian surface and on the geological processes that may have caused it. Finally, the orbiter will take all-important measurements of the planet's radiation environment so potential health risks to future human explorers can be evaluated. To do this, the spacecraft carries three science instruments: The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS), and the Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE).
2001 Mars Odyssey is scheduled for launch on April 7, 2001, on a Delta 2 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. The space explorer is scheduled to arrive at Mars in October 2001.
In August, NASA announced plans to launch twin rovers which will land on Mars in 2003, and later this fall, will announce details of the multi-year Mars exploration program plan.
The mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, Colo., is JPL's industrial partner. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. | 2019-04-23T12:56:24 | https://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0009/29mars01/ |
0.999787 | Can an Instructables Member Make Classes?
Hello, I'm part of a company that does a lot of stuff that customers would ask questions about, and I was wondering if it is an option to make classes on Instructables or if that was a potential consideration from your end. I would find it useful, even if it was limited to a Pro membership. It's something that I think personally my company would consider paying for. I would even consider it individually. The ability to make classes that people would want to learn would be invaluable. Of course the only question would be is if others feel the same way I do. If this is already a feature that I can take part in, let me know, as I'm not currently aware of any way to access it, and I don't want to pay for a Pro membership unless I know for certain that that's a feature that would come with it. I would appreciate any answers you can give on this topic. Thank you, and hope you're all having a pleasant day.
The creation of formal classes (https://www.instructables.com/classes/) is currently limited to a handful of staff that work for the site.
Alright, thanks for the help in this regard!
You should make an Instructable - what is it about? | 2019-04-25T00:45:47 | https://www.instructables.com/topics/Can-an-Instructables-Member-Make-Classes/ |
0.996457 | 1) In a large bowl with a pastry blender or with hand blend the flour, baking powder, salt , vegetable shortening together.When all combined well, slowly add water until soft dough forms. Add additional warm water if necessary.
2) We are looking for a soft dough consistency; it should not stick to your hands. If it does, add a little more of flour. If it looks dry, or crumbly, add more water.
3) Knead the dough by folding again and again. Knead for 5 minutes to form soft dough that is no longer sticky.
4) Cover the dough with a towel or plastic wrap and let it rest for about 10 minutes. Allowing the dough to rest will give you a softer tortilla after cooking.
5) Separate the dough into 12 small balls or portions for small tortillas and 6 balls for large tortillas.
6) Heat a comal or griddle over medium heat.
7) On a lightly floured surface take one of the dough ball and begin to roll it out. Continue to roll and turn until the dough is about 1/8-inch thick round in shape.
Using a tortilla press , place a ball of the dough about 1 ½ inch in diameter between the two plastic pieces and press to form a 6 inch round tortilla.
8) Place each raw tortilla on the hot comal / Griddle / pan and cook .When air bubbles start to form then you turn over quickly and continue to cook for 1 minute until brown patches form. It will start filling up with air then you turn over again and cook for another 15 seconds. Cook until the tortilla begins to puff. Tap lightly with your fingertips to allow even puffing. Remove from the griddle and Wrap with a napkin or clean towel to keep them warm.Continue the same process with the remaining dough.
1) The dough can be frozen easily before cooking and thawed later. | 2019-04-21T12:11:19 | http://www.momrecipies.com/2010/09/homemade-flour-tortillas.html |
0.998282 | Obama on Isaac: "Now is not the time to tempt fate"
(CBS News) President Obama on Tuesday urged residents of the Gulf Coast to heed the directions of local officials as they prepare for the arrival of Isaac, the tropical storm that's expected to reach hurricane strength and hit land later in the day.
"Now is not the time to tempt fate," Mr. Obama said from the White House. "You need to take this seriously."
Under the president's direction, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials have been on the ground in the Gulf region for over a week, but "the hardest work is still ahead," Mr. Obama said.
"I'll continue to make sure the federal government is doing everything possible to help the American people prepare and recover from this dangerous storm," the president said.
Mr. Obama gave this reassurance to Gulf Coast residents before departing on a two-day campaign swing through college towns in three key swing states. College students were a key part of Mr. Obama's 2008 base -- one he hopes to re-energize this year.
Mr. Obama's decision to stay on the trail even as the storm approaches shows how seriously his campaign is taking Mitt Romney's candidacy. A new CBS News poll released Tuesday morning shows Mr. Obama leads by just one point -- 46 percent to 45 percent -- among registered voters who lean towards a candidate. Just 6 percent of voters are undecided.
The president will attend a rally at Iowa State University this afternoon, followed by an evening rally at Colorado State University. On Wednesday, he travels to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
Seven years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, and once again, a storm threatens to flood the area. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle could also see flooding.
Mr. Obama on Monday approved a disaster declaration for the state of Louisiana so it can get the resources it needs, particularly for evacuations under way. Additionally, Mr. Obama noted Tuesday that there are response teams on the ground with supplies, ready to help communities expected to fall in the path of the storm. He said that he received updates on the situation Tuesday morning from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FEMA head Craig Fugate and National Hurricane Center Director Dr. Rick Knabb.
While the president says the federal government is prepared to respond to the storm, he runs the risk of appearing unsympathetic or unresponsive to the storm by campaigning as it makes landfall. Even though Isaac is bypassing Tampa, Fla., where the Republican National Convention is under way, Republican officials have left open the option of curtailing convention events because of the storm.
Though Mr. Obama will stay on the trail, Vice President Joe Biden canceled planned appearances in Florida because of Isaac. | 2019-04-20T16:27:01 | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-on-isaac-now-is-not-the-time-to-tempt-fate/ |
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A 50.0-kg block is being pulled up a 13 degree slope by a force of 250 N which is parallel to the slope. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and the slope is 0.200. What is the acceleration of the block?
The following four forces act on 4.00 kg object: F1 = 300 N east F2 = 700 N north F3 = 500 N west F4 = 600 N south What is the acceleration of the object?
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Calculate the number of grams of dextrose in 250mL of D5W. I know that the answer is 12.5g, but I do not understand the work. Please help.
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a student attaches a mass to the end of a 0.80 m string. The system will be whirled in a horizontal circular path at 31.5 m/s. The maximum tension the string can withstand without breaking is 250 N. What is the maximum mass the student can use?
in modest proposal, Find sentences in which the speaker uses ethical appeals?
You jog at 6.2 mi/h for 5.0 mi, then you jump into a car and drive for another 5.0 mi. With what average speed must you drive if your average speed for the entire 10.0 miles is to be 10.6 mi/h? I don't get why the answer isn't 15.
A 7.5 kg object moving at 7.3 m/s collides inelastically with a 4.0 kg object which is initially at rest. What percentage of the initial kinetic energy of the system is lost during the collision?
A 50-kg crate is pulled across the ice with a rope. A force of 100 N is applied at an angle of 38° with the horizontal. Neglecting friction, calculate the acceleration of the crate AND the upward force the ice exerts on the crate as it is pulled.
anthony is building a picnic table for his patio. he cut one of the legs at an angle of 40 degrees. at what angle should he cut the other end to ensure that the top of the table is parallel to the ground?
Explain why one column in a hundredths grid is equal to one column in a tenths grid?
Use a grammatically correct English sentence to describe how the mass in amu of one molecule of a compound is related to the mass in grams of one mole of that compound.
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Why is there a gain or loss in a pension expense calculation? I am more confused about this every time I read about this topic. Can somebody explain this to me? I have researched and read and still do not understand why.
1)For an atom of carbon how many valence electrons are "s" electrons? 2 2) How many are "p" electrons? 4 3)How many (total) electrons in carbon are paired? 2 4) How many are unpaired? 1 Are these correct.
What does a maple tree do for a community.
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In an isosceles triangle, if a base angle has a measure of 43 degrees, then the vertex angle must have a measure of 80 degrees as well.
Ammonia, at stp, 1.5L of N2 reacts with 4.5L of H2, if N2 and H2 are consumed, what volume of NH3 at stp will be produced?
How would you describe the tone of this essay? What evidence supports your interpretation? i know its a serious, satiric tone .. but how can i provide examples?
Calculate the amount of heat in kcal it would take to convert 1.45 mol of ice at 0 degrees C to steam at 100 degrees C.
Is water natural resources,renewable resources,or reusable resources?
Luis Giron works at the Pancake Palace from 3:00 p.m. until 12:15 a.m. 5 nights a week. If he takes a 30-minute break each evening, how many hours per week does he work? 46.25 hrs 44.75 hrs. 43.75 hrs.
A 5.6-kg bowling ball is accelerated from rest to a velocity of 17 m/s as the bowler covers 5.0 m of approach before releasing the ball. What force is exerted on the ball during this time?
jack was 21 years older than kat. Together their ages totaled 161 years. What were their ages?
a jet plane flying at 550 m/s makes a curve. The radius of the circle in which the plane is flying is 9.0 X 10^3 m. What centripetal acceleration does the plane experience? Express this acceleration relative to g, the acceleration due to gravity.
The hypotenuse of a right triangle has one end at the origin and one end on the curve y = (x^4)(e^-7x), with x > 0. One of the other two sides is on the x-axis, the other side is parallel to the y-axis. Find the maximum area of such a triangle.
Unlike psychodynamic approaches to personality, the learning approach emphasizes what? A) latent personality structures B) Self-actualization processes C) The Outer Person D) biological traits I thin the answer is C-Outer Person but just not sure of it.
The perimeter of a triangle is 50. The length of the sides of a smaller, similar triangle are 5, 6, and 9. FInd the sides of the larger triangle. What steps would I take to solve this?
Avery paid $168 for a cell phone. What was the original price of the phone if he got it at a 30% discount?
How many milliliters of 0.10 M HCl must be added to 52.0 mL of 0.40 M HCl to give a final solution that has a molarity of 0.25 M?
For the ellipse (x-2)^2/49 + (y+1)^2/25=1 List center: (2,-1) the foci: -(sqrt 74) AND +(SQRT 74,0) Major axis: x=2 Minor axis: y= -1 Vertices: (7,0) (-7,0) (0,5) (0,-5) Is this correct?
if the following sentance true or false, also can you please write the correct version of it if false. if you want a small volume of hot water, you should place the immersion heater near the bottom of the hot water tank.
how many moles of acid are present in 50 mL of acetic acid?
What does a maple tree do for a community? A. it creates energy B. It creates food C. It looks nice D. it stores water My answer is B.
After flying at an altitude of 600 meters,a hot air balloon starts to descend when its ground distance from the landing pad is 10 kilomeers.What is the angle of depression for this part of the flight?
Find the annual rate, r that produces an effective annual yield of 6.3% when compounded continuosly.
What was a key discovery during the early sixteenth century that made regular trade possible across the Atlantic ocean? A.Square sails B.Longitude C.The gulf stream D.Monsoonal winds I think the answer is D. Monsoonal winds.
The yearly cash flows of an investment are(-1000,-1200,800,900,800) Is this a worthwhile investment for someone who can both borrow and save money at the yearly interest rate of 6%?
How many ways can you get a bunch of 4 books to give a friend if you have 30 books (15 novels, 10 history book and 5 math books)?
According to the estimate in 2001 which country ranks first in population then second then third?
What are the three prophecies made by Theoclymenus in Homer's Odyssey?
If points S, O,and N are collinear, how many lines do they determine?
What is the World Bank advising businesses in Singapore and Hong Kong to add businesses, how to get the businesses to grow, hire employees, etc.
what are the blood types, what blood type is the most common in most humans, and what do the positive and negative signs mean?
which of the following gadgets is best for making a soft-shell shape out of butter?
The existentialist Kierkegaard wrote a book Either/Or. What is the connection of this with decision-making? What does he suggest?
For what x-values does y=e^-x have the same slop as x+4y = 1 I am not sure what steps I am supposed to take to tackle this problem.
Given the linear equation y = 4x + 2, find the y-coordinates of the points (-2, ), (1, ), and (-3, ). Please show all of your work. Plot these points and graph the linear equation.
One of the angles in a right triangle has a measure of 73 degrees. What is the measure of the other acute angle?
Please help i don't get the answer. How much energy, in kilojoules per mole, is released when an electron makes a transition from n=5 to n=2 in an hydrogen atom?
what is the significance of Athena turning into birds throughout the Odyssey?
James invested $4,000 at 5% interest per year; how long will it take him to earn $200 in simple interest?
What is the second derivative of (x^3)/(x^2-1)? And how would I accurately graph both the derivative and the second derivative of this function?
How does the Constitution provide for the system of federalism in the American form of government?
What is the future, rounded to whole dollars, of $25,000 after 7 1/2 years, if money earns at an annual rate of 5.75% compounded continuosly?
Can you please help explain this problem? Maurice says that a(square)+ b(square)=(a+b)(a+b). Is this always true, never true, or sometimes true? Explain.
Beth gives Megan $2 allowance a week. Then she takes Megan shopping and allows her to select what she wants to buy. If the item desired costs more than $2, Megan's mother suggests she save her money until she has enough saved to pay for the desired item.
Find the smallest positive value of x which satisfies 1.400cos(1.000x) Give answer in four decimal places for accuracy.
what is the single most important determination of plant distribution?
Find the missing number. 5/15 = ?/3 Is 1 the correct answer?
Find the first two zeros of the function y=sin(4x+20) (in degrees) for x > 0, and the value of y at x=9.
What are some social, economic, aesthetics, and ethical issues involved in a current environmental controversy?
How would I assign priority to 1,2-dimethylcyclopropane?
A bycicle store costs 2,800 per month to operate the store pays an average of 45$ per bike the average selling price of each bycicle is 125 $ how many bycicles must the store sell each month to break even?
F(x) = /x-2/ (absolute value) Please show me to to graph this equation.
What are two changes in weather patterns caused by el nino that can cause disasters?
The state that Europeans came to eye like greedy creditors around a rich man's deathbed was the _______ Empire. A. Ottoman B. Russian C. Austrian D. Persian I'm not sure what the answer is.
What are some reasons why some people would belive that the Day of the dead celebration is wrong?
how do you check a Pascal's triangle with a calculator.
Given the linear equation y=-3/5x-4, find the y-coordinates of the points (-5, ), (0, ), and (5, ). Please show all of your work. Plot those points and graph the linear equation.
how do you add together all the number's up to 100, Quickly though.
Can a radical be negative when the index is even?
Two students Mac & Cheese, were arguing about covalent and ionic bonds. Mac says that covalent bonds could be compared to a good marriage. Do you think one has a better comparison than the other or are both of them equally right ?
how many gallons would be left after 10 seconds?
How would I say "Fishing fascinates me"
Mack’s hourly wage is raised from $12.10 per hour to $13.35 per hour. He works 40 hours per week. How much more does he earn per week at this new rate?
You are an astronaut (m = 80 kg) and travel to a planet that is the same mass and size as Earth, but it has a rotational period of only 11 h. What is your apparent weight at the equator of this planet?
The french philosopher Voltaire was attaked to confucianism because he? A.believed it promoted universal access to education. B.Regarded It as substitute for organized religion. C.Found it full of material he could ridicule in his satirical writings.
What does this means? What if what I think is great, really is great. But not as great as something greater?!"
A cannon is fired horizontally from a top of a 15-m platform. What is the cannon balls horizontal speed when it hits the ground 250 m downrange?
how do you tell till and outwash plains apart?
Which state has the highest average annual precipitation?
What type of map would you use to identify landforms and elevation?
In Jamison's backpack, he only keeps nickels and quarters. He has 30 coins in all. How many of each coin does he have? Show work.
The rectangular region shown has been divided into nine square regions, all different in size. The area of square 3 is 64 cm. The area of square 5 is 81cm. what is the area of the rectangle?
Write the fraction as a mixed number. 38/3 Is 12 2/3 the correct answer?
Danny gave Rose $28 less than she already had. She now has $120. that means Rosario originally had how much????
A 130g ball moving at 0.35m/s in the x-direction is subject to a 0.25N force in the - y-direction for 1.0s. Find the magnitude of the ball's momentum change.
for F(x) = /x-2/ (absolute value) When you graph this problem, does it have a straight line or a "v" line?
What is the second derivative of (x^3)/(x^2-1)?
If the initial investment of 1000 doubles in value in 9.8 years find the rate for continous compounding. so the formula would be A=Pe^rt but where do the numbers go and how do u solve it? Thanks!
I agree with your correction but as I found the following sentence in an Italian book I just wanted to know if, in your opinion, an English mother-tongue expert could have written it. She is such a one-sided character, however, as (?) never to hesitate.
Johns football game last for 50 minutes. What reduced fraction of an hour is that? Can someone please explain to me how to solve this question?
whats 14.9% as a decimal?
Buffers work by converting _____ to ____.
How long will it take an investment that pays 5% compunded annually to double in value?
In 600 minutes how many machines travel a distance of 103,700 mm at a speed of 300 mm/minute?
Your industry currently employs 3,800,000 workers. If this labor force is growing expotentially at an annual rate of 2.3% how long will it be before the number of employees reaches 5,000,000?
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find a drug scandal within a sportig event and write some notes about it.
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The perimeter of a triangle is 50. What steps do I need to take to find the length of the sides?
1) True/false: For any real number x, ln e^x = x. I think that is true. 2)true/false: (2 ln x)/ ln 10 = ln x^2 - ln 10 for all positive x. I think this is true too.
Where do rivers begin or have their source?
A company has plans to increase its sales at the rate of 6% per year. If the sales of the company in 2001 were $23 million, how much sales can you expect the company to make in the year 2003?
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Which is the correct symbol to make the resulting inequality true? 4 4/3 > 4 1/2 Or 4 4/3 < 4 1/2 What does this mean?
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0.999999 | This article is about Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. For other universities with the same name, see Queen's University (disambiguation).
Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, via a royal charter issued by Queen Victoria, the university predates Canada's founding by 26 years. Queen's holds more than 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England. Queen's is organized into ten undergraduate, graduate, and professional faculties and schools.
The Church of Scotland established Queen's College in 1841 with a royal charter from Queen Victoria. The first classes, intended to prepare students for the ministry, were held 7 March 1842 with 13 students and two professors.In 1869, Queen's was the first university west of the maritime provinces to admit women; In 1883, a women's college for medical education affiliated with Queen's University was established. In 1912, Queen's ended its affiliation with the Presbyterian Church, and adopted its present name.
Queen's is a co-educational university with more than 23,000 students and over 131,000 alumni living worldwide. Notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders and 57 Rhodes Scholars.
Queen's was a result of an outgrowth of educational initiatives planned by Presbyterians in the 1830s. A draft plan for the university was presented at a synod meeting in Kingston in 1839, with a modified bill introduced through the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada during a session in 1840. On 16 October 1841, a royal charter was issued through Queen Victoria establishing Queen's College at Kingston. Queen's resulted from years of effort by Presbyterians of Upper Canada to found a college for the education of ministers in the growing colony and to instruct youth in various branches of science and literature. They modelled the university after the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. Classes began on 7 March 1842, in a small woodframe house on the edge of the city with two professors and 15 students.
The college moved several times during its first eleven years, before settling in its present location. Prior to Canadian Confederation, the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, the Canadian government, and private citizens financially supported the college. After Confederation, the college faced ruin when the federal government withdrew its funding and the Commercial Bank of the Midland District collapsed, a disaster which cost Queen's two-thirds of its endowment. The college was rescued after Principal William Snodgrass and other officials created a fundraising campaign across Canada.
Theological Hall served as Queen's University's main building throughout the late 19th century.
The risk of financial ruin worried the administration until the century's final decade. They considered leaving Kingston and merging with the University of Toronto as late as the 1880s. With the additional funds bequeathed from Queen's first major benefactor, Robert Sutherland, the college staved off financial failure and maintained its independence. Queen's was given university status on 17 May 1881. In 1883, Women's Medical College was founded at Queen's with a class of three. Theological Hall, completed in 1880, originally served as Queen's main building throughout the late 19th century.
In 1912, Queen's separated from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and changed its name to Queen's University at Kingston. Queen's Theological College remained in the control of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, until 1925, when it joined the United Church of Canada. The theological college merged with the Queen's department of religious studies and the program closed in 2015.
The university faced another financial crisis during World War I from a sharp drop in enrollment due to the military enlistment of students, staff, and faculty. A $1,000,000 fundraising drive and the armistice in 1918 saved the university. Approximately 1,500 students fought in the war and 187 died.
On 18 August 1939, weeks prior to the start of World War II, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Queen's to accept an honorary degree. In a broadcast heard around the world, the President voiced the American policy of mutual alliance and friendship with Canada. During World War II, 2,917 graduates from Queen's served in the armed forces, suffering 164 fatalities. The Memorial Room in Memorial Hall of the John Deutsch University Centre lists Queen's students who died during the world wars.
Queen's grew quickly after the war, propelled by the expanding postwar economy and the demographic boom that peaked in the 1960s. From 1951 to 1961, enrolment increased from just over 2,000 students to more than 3,000. The university embarked on a building program, constructing five student residences in less than ten years.
After the reorganization of legal education in Ontario in the mid-1950s, Queen's Faculty of Law opened in 1957 in the new John A. Macdonald Hall. Other construction projects at Queen's in the 1950s included the construction of Richardson Hall to house Queen's administrative offices and Dunning Hall. By the end of the 1960s, like many other Canadian universities, Queen's tripled its enrolment and greatly expanded its faculty, staff, and facilities, as a result of the baby boom and generous support from the public sector. By the mid-1970s, the university had 10,000 full-time students. Among the new facilities were three more residences and separate buildings for the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Psychology, Social Sciences and the Humanities.
During this period, Queen's created the Schools of Music, Public Administration (now part of Policy Studies), Rehabilitation Therapy, and Urban and Regional Planning were established at Queen's. The establishment of the Faculty of Education in 1968 on land about a kilometre west of the university inaugurated the university's west campus. The first female chancellor of Queen's University, Agnes Richardson Benidickson, was installed on 23 October 1980.
Queen's celebrated its sesquicentennial anniversary in 1991, and Charles, Prince of Wales, and his then wife, Diana, visited the campus to mark the occasion. The Prince of Wales presented a replica of the 1841 Royal Charter granted by Queen Victoria, which had established the university; the replica is displayed in the John Deutsch University Centre. In 1993, Queen's received Herstmonceux Castle as a donation from alumnus Alfred Bader. The university uses the castle as the Bader International Study Centre.
In 2001 the Senate Educational Equity Committee (SEEC) studied the experiences of visible minority and Aboriginal faculty members at Queen's after a black female professor left, alleging she had experienced racism. Following this survey the SEEC commissioned a study which found many perceived a 'Culture of Whiteness' at the university. The report concluded "white privilege and power continues to be reflected in the Eurocentric curricula, traditional pedagogical approaches, hiring, promotion and tenure practices, and opportunities for research" at Queen's. The university's response to the report is the subject of continuing debate. The administration implemented measures to promote diversity beginning in 2006, such as the position of diversity advisor and the hiring of "dialogue monitors" to facilitate discussions on social justice.
In May 2010, Queen's University joined the Matariki Network of Universities, an international group of universities created in 2010, which focuses on strong links between research and undergraduate teaching.
Grant Hall has been considered the university's most recognized landmark since its completion in 1905.
The university grounds lies within the neighbourhood of Queen's in the city of Kingston, Ontario. The university's main campus is bordered to the south by Lake Ontario and Kingston General Hospital, city parks to the east, and by residential neighbourhoods, known as the Kingston student ghetto or the university district, in all other directions. The campus grew to its present size of 40 ha (99 acres) through gradual acquisitions of adjacent private lands, and remains the university's largest landholding. In addition to its main campus in Kingston, Queen's owns several other properties around Kingston, as well as in Central Frontenac Township, Ontario; Rideau Lakes, Ontario; and East Sussex, England. Queen’s University is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory.
The buildings at Queen's vary in age from Summerhill, which opened in 1839, to Mitchell Hall, which opened in 2018. Grant Hall, completed in 1905, is considered the university's most recognizable landmark. It is named after Reverend George Munro Grant, who served as Queen's seventh principal. The building is used to host concerts, lectures, meetings, exams, and convocations. Two buildings owned and managed by the university have been listed as National Historic Sites of Canada. The Kingston General Hospital is the oldest operating public hospital in Canada. The Roselawn House, which is east of the west campus, is the core component of the university's Donald Gordon Centre.
The Engineering & Science Library and the W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections are both housed at Douglas Library.
Queen's University Libraries include six campus libraries and an archives in six facilities housing 2.2 million physical items and 400,000 electronic resources, including e-books, serial titles and databases. The library's budget in 2007–2008 was $18.1 million, with $9.8 million dedicated to acquisitions. The libraries are Bracken Health Sciences Library, Education Library, Lederman Law Library, Stauffer Humanities and Social Sciences Library, and Engineering & Science Library. The W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections Library notably harbors early-dated books from 1475 to 1700. The Engineering & Science Library and the W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections Library share facilities, known as Douglas Library. Since 1981, the Queen's University archives has been housed in Kathleen Ryan Hall. The archive manages, preserves, conserves, and makes accessible the information assets and historical record of the university. In addition to the university's archive, Kathleen Ryan Hall also houses the City of Kingston's archives.
Queen's operates the Miller Museum of Geology, an earth-science teaching museum which features an Earth Science and Geological Collections of 10,000 minerals and 865 fossils, as well as an exhibit of the geology of the Kingston area. The museum is largely used as an earth-science teaching museum for local schools and natural-science interest groups in eastern Ontario. The permanent exhibits feature dinosaurs, dinosaur eggs, fossils of early multi-celled animals, and land tracks fossilized from 500 million years ago.
Queen's art collections are housed at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. The art centre owes its namesake to Agnes Etherington, whose house was donated to the university and is used as an art museum, attached to the main art centre. Opened in 1957, it contains over 14,000 works of art, including works by Rembrandt and Inuit art. The university's student body and faculty run the Union Gallery, an art gallery opened in 1994. The gallery is dedicated to the promotion of student and contemporary art.
The university has 18 student residences: Adelaide Hall, Ban Righ Hall, Brant House, Chown Hall, Gordon House, Brockington House, Graduate Residence, Harkness Hall, John Orr Tower Apartments, Leggett Hall, Leonard Hall, McNeill House, Morris Hall, Smith House, Victoria Hall, Waldron Tower, Watts Hall, and Jean Royce Hall. The largest is Victoria Hall, built in 1965, which houses nearly 900 students. In September 2010, 83.3% of first-year students lived on campus, part of the 26% of the overall undergraduate population who lived on campus.
Residents were represented by two groups, the Main Campus Residents' Council, which represents the main campus, and the Jean Royce Hall Council, which represents the west campus (Jean Royce Hall, Harkness International Hall, and the Graduate Residence). They were responsible for representing resident concerns, providing entertainment services, organizing events, and upholding Residence Community Standards. In 2013, the Main Campus and Jean Royce Hall Residents' Councils were amalgamated into one organization, called ResSoc, standing for Residence Society.. ResSoc employs 7 Executives, 17 House Presidents, and 27 Residence Facilitators. ResSoc also has over 100 volunteer positions such as floor representatives and executive interns. In 2013, The Residence Society introduced the StAR (Student Appreciation in Residence) Positive Recognition program. The program encourages positive behaviour in residence and recognize individuals who help others in need. Recipients are given a certificate as well as remuneration for their contributions.
The Student Life Centre is the centre of student governance and student-directed social, cultural, entertainment, and recreational activities. It consists of the John Deutsch University Centre (JDUC), Grey House, Carruthers Hall, Queen’s Journal House, MacGillivray-Brown Hall, and the non-athletic sections of Queen's Centre. Collectively, these buildings provide 10,500 square metres (113,000 sq ft) of space to the Queen's community. The JDUC contains the offices of a number of student organizations, including the Alma Mater Society of Queen's University (AMS) and the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS), as well as retail and food services. The university has 21 food outlets throughout the campus, as well as three major residence dining facilities.
Queen's has off-campus faculties in the Kingston area and abroad. The university has a second campus in Kingston, known as the west campus. Acquired in 1969, the west campus is 2 km (1.2 mi) west of the main campus, and covers 27 ha (67 acres) of land. It has two student residences, the Faculty of Education, the Coastal Engineering Lab, and several athletic facilities, including the Richardson Memorial Stadium. In May 2007, the university approved the designs for the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, also in Kingston. The new centre for performing arts was expected to open in 2014.
The university owns a research facility in Rideau Lakes, Ontario, known as the Queen's University Biological Station. Opened during the 1950s, the field station encompasses approximately 3,000 ha (7,400 acres) of property, a range of habitat types typical of Eastern Ontario, and many species of conservation concern in Canada.
Queen's has an agreement with Novelis Inc. to acquire a 20-hectare (49-acre) property next to the company's research and development centre in Kingston. The agreement is part of the plan to establish Innovation Park at Queen's University, an innovative technology park at the corner of Princess and Concession Streets. The property was acquired for $5.3 million, a portion of the $21 million grant Queen's received from the Ontario government last spring to pioneer this innovative new regional R&D "co-location" model. Queen's leases approximately 7,900 square metres (85,000 sq ft) of the Novelis R&D facilities to accommodate faculty-led research projects that have industrial partners and small and medium-size companies with a research focus and a desire to interact with Queen's researchers. The remainder of the government funds support further development of the technology park to transform the property into a welcoming and dynamic site for business expansion and relocation.
The Bader International Study Centre (BISC) is housed in Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, England, which was donated to Queen's in 1993 by alumnus Alfred Bader. BISC is academically fully integrated with Queen's, although financially self-sufficient. Its mission is to provide academic programs for undergraduate students whose academic interests are oriented toward the United Kingdom, Europe, and the European Union; continuing-education programs for executives and other professional or "special interest" groups; a venue for conferences and meetings; a base for international graduate students and other scholars undertaking research in the United Kingdom and Europe; and an enhanced educational, social, and cultural environment for the local community, using the unique heritage of the castle. The opportunity to study at the BISC is not limited to Queen's students. Queen's has academic exchange agreements with Canadian and foreign universities.
Queen's Sustainability Office, created in 2008, is charged with the university's green initiatives and creating awareness about environmental issues. The office is headed by a sustainability manager, who works with the university, external community groups, and the government. In 2009, with the signing of the Ontario Universities Committed to a Greener World agreement, Queen's pledged to transform its campus into a model of environmental responsibility. Queen's was the second Ontario university to sign the University and College Presidents’ Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada, in 2010.
The university campus received a B grade from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card for 2011.
Academics at Queen's is organized into ten undergraduate, graduate, and professional faculties and schools. The governance of the university is conducted through the Board of Trustees, the Senate, and the University Council, all three of which were established under the Royal Charter of 1841. The Board is responsible for the university's conduct and management and its property, revenues, business, and affairs. Ex officio governors of the Board include the university's chancellor, principal, and rector. The Board has 34 other trustees, 33 of whom are elected by the various members of the university community, including elected representatives from the student body. The representative from Queen's Theological College is the only appointed trustee.
The Senate is responsible for determining all academic matters affecting the university as a whole, including student discipline. It consists of 17 ex officio positions granted to the principal and vice-chancellor, the vice-principals of the university, the senior dean of each faculty, dean of student affairs, the deputy provost, and the presidents of the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty associations. The Senate also consists of 55 other members, appointed or elected by various communities of the university, including elected representatives of the student body.
Gordon Hall houses many of Queen's administrative offices.
The Royal Charter of 1841 was amended to include the University Council in 1874. The Council is a composite of the Board of Trustees, senators, and an equal number of elected graduates. It serves as both an advisory and an ambassadorial body to the university as a whole and is responsible for the election of the chancellor. Although it is not directly involved in operations, the Council may bring to the Senate or Board of Trustees any matter it believes affects Queen's well-being. The Council meets once per year, typically in May.
The Chancellor is the highest officer and the ceremonial head of the University. The office was created in 1874 and first filled in 1877, although it was only enshrined in law in 1882 after its amendment into the Royal Charter of 1841. The responsibilities of the Chancellor include presiding over convocations, conferring degrees, and chairing the annual meetings of the Council, and the Chancellor is an ex officio, voting member of the Board of Trustees. A person is elected to the office of Chancellor on a three-year term by the Council unless there is more than one candidate, in which case an election is conducted among Queen's graduates.
The Principal acts as the chief executive officer of the University under the authority of the Board and the Senate, and supervises and directs the academic and administrative work of the university and of its teaching and non-teaching staff. Since 1974, principals have been appointed for five-year terms, renewable subject to review. The formal authority for the appointment of the Principal rests under the Royal Charter with the Board of Trustees, although recent principals have been selected by a joint committee of trustees and senators. The office of the vice-chancellor has typically been held by the incumbent principal. In 1961, an amendment was secured by the Board to separate the office of principal from vice-chancellor if it wished. The first and only person to hold the office of vice-chancellor but not the office of principal was William Archibald Mackintosh. The current principal is Daniel Woolf, who has served as the twentieth principal since 1 September 2009. On 5 November 2018, it was announced Patrick Deane would assume the role of Principal on 1 July 2019, upon the conclusion of Woolf’s term.
The Rector is the third officer of the University, and serves as the highest-ranking representative of the student body. Though the first Rector took office in 1913, this role has been exclusively held by students since 1969, when the student body forced the resignation of then-Rector Senator Gratton O’Leary. Unlike the executives of the various student governments, the Rector represents all students - both undergraduate and graduate - and is elected to a three-year term, though it has become traditional for student Rectors to step down after only two years. Despite standing separately from any student government, the Rector works closely with the AMS and SGPS to represent the interests of their constituent students. This allows the Rector to, both formally and informally, act as an intermediary between students and the university administration on a range of topical, sensitive, or controversial issues. The Rector serves as one of three student representatives on the Board of Trustees (the other two being the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Trustees) and is a recognized observer at the Senate. Additionally, the Rector is often called upon to represent student interests on various committees of the Board and Senate. Finally, the Rector plays a ceremonial role at events such as convocation.
The university completed the 2011–12 year with revenues of $947.7 million and expenses of $872.8 million, with an excess of revenues over expenses at $74.9 million. Government grants and student fees make are the two largest sources of income for the university. As of 30 April 2018, Queen's endowment was valued at C$1,084,486,000.
The university has been registered as an educational charitable organization by Canada Revenue Agency since 1 January 1967. As of 2011, the university registered primarily as a post-secondary institution, with 70% of the charity dedicated to management and maintenance. The charity has 21% dedicated to research, with the remaining 8% dedicated to awards, bursaries, and scholarships. Proceeds from the charity also go toward Queen's Theological College (as an affiliated college) and the Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceaux Castle.
Queen's is a publicly funded research university and a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. Full-time undergraduate programs comprise the majority of the school's enrolment, made up of 16,339 full-time undergraduate students. In 2009 the two largest programs by enrolment were the social sciences, with 3,286 full-time and part-time students, followed by engineering, with 3,097 full-time and part-time students. The university conferred 3,232 bachelor's degrees, 153 doctoral degrees, 1,142 master's degrees, and 721 first professional degrees in 2008–9.
Queen's University has placed in post-secondary school rankings. The 2019 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 239th in the world and the 10th in Canada. In the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) rankings, the University ranked 201–300 in the world and 10–12 in Canada. The 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed the university 251–300 in the world, and 11–14 in Canada. In U.S. News & World Report 2019 global university rankings, Queen's placed 371st, and 15th in Canada. The Canadian-based news magazine Maclean's ranked the university 5th in its 2019 Medical-Doctoral university rankings.
Queen's also placed in several rankings that evaluated the employment prospects of graduates. In QS's 2019 graduate employability rankings, the university ranked 101–110 in the world and sixth in Canada. In a 2011 survey conducted by Mines ParisTech's, they found Queen's placed 38th in the world and first in Canada for number of graduates employed as the chief executive officer (or equivalent) of Fortune 500 companies. In an employability survey published by the New York Times in October 2011, when CEOs and chairpersons were asked to select the top universities which they recruited from, the university placed 74th in the world and fifth in Canada.
Queen's University is a member of the U15, a group that represents 15 Canadian research universities. In 2018, Research Infosource ranked Queen's as the sixth in their list of top 50 research university in Canada, with a sponsored research income (external sources of funding) of $207,034 million in 2017. In the same year, Queen's faculty averaged a sponsored research income of $266,100, while graduate students averaged a sponsored research income of $44,300. The federal government is the largest funding source, providing 49.8% of Queen's research budget, primarily through grants. Corporations contribute another 26.3% of the research budget.
Queen's research performance has been noted several bibliometric university rankings, which uses citation analysis to evaluates the impact a university has on academic publications. In 2018, the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ranked Queen's 335th in the world, and 14th in Canada, tied with Simon Fraser University. In University Ranking by Academic Performance's 2018–19 rankings, the university ranked 353rd in the world, and 14th in Canada.
The university operates six research centres and institutes, the Centre for Neuroscience Studies, GeoEngineering Centre, High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory, Human Mobility Research Centre, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute, and the Southern African Research Centre. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory's director, Arthur B. McDonald, is a member of the university's physics department. The observatory managed the SNO experiment, which showed the solution to the solar neutrino problem was neutrinos change flavour (type) as they propagate through the Sun. The SNO experiment proved a non-zero mass neutrino exists. This was a major breakthrough in cosmology. In October 2015, Arthur B. McDonald and Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo) jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physics for illustration of neutrino change identities and identification of mass. This is the first Nobel Prize awarded to a Queen's University researcher. In 1976 urologist Alvaro Morales, along with his colleagues, developed the first clinically effective immunotherapy for cancer by adapting the Bacille Calmette-Guérin tuberculosis vaccine for treatment of early stage bladder cancer.
Other research facilities include the Queen's University Biological Station, the largest inland field station in Canada. The Biological Station's mandate is to provide teaching and research opportunities in biology and other related sciences, as well as the conservation of the local environment. Researchers and students have gathered at the biological station to conduct research and participate in courses spanning ecology, evolution, conservation, and environmental biology. In 2002, it became part of the United Nations–recognized Thousand Islands – Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve.
Queen's University has a joint venture with McGill University, operating an academic publishing house known as the McGill-Queen's University Press. It publishes original peer-reviewed and books in all areas of the social sciences and humanities. While the press's emphasis is on providing an outlet for Canadian authors and scholarship, the press also publishes authors throughout the world. It has over 2,800 books in print. The publishing house was known as the McGill University Press in 1963 prior to amalgamating with Queen's in 1969.
The requirements for admission differ among students from Ontario, students from other provinces in Canada, and international students due to the lack of uniformity in marking schemes. In 2018, 42.5 per cent of applications to full-time first-year studies were accepted. In 2013, the secondary school average for full-time first-year students at Queen's was 89% overall, with the Commerce, Education, and Engineering faculties having the highest entrance averages, at 91.7%, 90.8%, and 90.6% respectively. The application process emphasizes the optional Personal Statement of Experience. The statement expresses how the applicant's personal experiences may contribute to the university. It focuses on qualifications and involvement outside of academics and is an important factor in determining admission. Several faculties require applicants to submit a supplementary essay.
Students may apply for financial aid such as the Ontario Student Assistance Program and Canada Student Loans and Grants through the federal and provincial governments. The financial aid provided may come in the form of loans, grants, bursaries, scholarships, fellowships, debt reduction, interest relief, and work programs. In the 2010–11 academic year, Queen's provided $36.5 million worth of student need–based and merit-based financial assistance.
The student body of Queen's is represented by two primary students' unions, the Alma Mater Society (AMS) for all undergraduate students - as well as Medicine and MBA students - and the Society of Graduate and Professional Students for graduate and law students. The AMS of Queen's University is the oldest undergraduate student government in Canada. It recognizes more than 200 student clubs and organizations. All accredited extracurricular organizations at Queen's fall under the jurisdiction of either the AMS or the Society of Graduate and Professional Students.
The organizations and clubs accredited at Queen's cover a wide range of interests, including academics, culture, religion, social issues, and recreation. The oldest accredited club at Queen's is the Queen's Debating Union, which was formed in 1843 as the Dialectic Society. The Dialectic Society served as a form of student government until the AMS was formed from the Dialectic Society in 1858. The Queen's Bands is a student marching band, founded in 1905, which claims to be the largest and oldest student marching band in Canada. Fraternities and sororities have been banned at the university since a ruling by the AMS in 1933. The ruling was passed in response to the formation of two fraternities in the 1920s. No accredited sororities have ever existed at Queen's.
The Engineering Society (Engsoc) is the representative body for engineering students. Formed in 1897, it has 3,000 members on campus, 15,000 active alumni, and an annual budget of $1.7 million. EngSoc oversees about 45 student-run initiatives.
The AMS also manages the Student Constable peer-to-peer security service at the university. It is responsible for ensuring the safety of patrons and staff at sanctioned events and venues across the campus, enforcing the governing regulations of the AMS, and upholding regulations stipulated in the Liquor Licence Act of Ontario. Student Constables do not serve as the university's primary security service as they are legally not peace officers, nor are they registered as a private security service under the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. The university administration operates its own security service, which is registered in Ontario as a private security service. As of March 2012, the Student Constables are funded through a mandatory $10 fee levied on undergraduates annually by the AMS.
The Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award and induction in the Tricolour Society is the highest tribute that can be paid to a student for valuable and distinguished service to the University in non-athletic, extra-curricular activities.
Queen's University's students operate a number of media outlets throughout campus. The Queen's Journal is Queen's main student newspaper. During the academic year, the journal publishes two issues a week, until the last month of the semester, when only one issue is published each week. In total the Queen's Journal publishes 40 issues a year. The newspaper was established in 1873, making it one of the oldest student newspapers in Canada. The other weekly student publication from Queen's is Golden Words, a weekly satirical humour publication managed by the Engineering Society.
Queen's student population runs a radio station, CFRC. Queen's radio station is the longest-running campus-based broadcaster in the world, and the second-longest-running radio station in the world, surpassed only by the Marconi companies. The station's first public broadcast was on 27 October 1923, when the football game between Queen's and McGill was called play-by-play. Since 2001, the station has broadcast on a 24-hour schedule. In 1980, a student-run television service called Queen's TV (QTV) was established; as of 2011, episodes aired every weekday on its website and every Wednesday on local television. In 2015, QTV was amalgamated with two other student-run services, Yearbook & Design Services (YDS) and Convocation Services, to form “Studio Q”.
Richardson Memorial Stadium is the home to Queen's varsity football team.
Sport teams at Queen's University are known as the Golden Gaels. The Golden Gaels sports teams participate in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport's Ontario University Athletics conference for most varsity sports. Varsity teams at Queen's include basketball, cross country, Canadian football, ice hockey, rowing, rugby, soccer, and volleyball. The men's rugby team has won the OUA Championship the past 4 years (2012–16). The athletics program at Queen's University dates back to 1873. With 39 regional and national championships, Queen's football program has secured more championships than any other sport team at Queen's, and more than any other football team in Canada. Queen's and the University of Toronto are the only universities to have claimed Grey Cups (1922, 1923, and 1924), now the championship trophy for the Canadian Football League. Queen’s also competed for the Stanley Cup in 1894–95, 1898–99, and 1905–06.
Queen's University has a number of athletic facilities open to both varsity teams and students. The stadium with the largest seating capacity at Queen's is Richardson Memorial Stadium. Built in 1971, the stadium seats 8,500 and is home to the varsity football team. The stadium has also hosted a number of international games, including Canada's second-round 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification games and the inaugural match of the Colonial Cup, an international rugby league challenge match. The stadium is set to reopen for its inaugural football game on September 17, 2016, after an extensive revitalization. Other athletic facilities at Queen's include the Athletic and Recreation Centre, which houses a number of gymnasiums and pools; Tindall Field, a multi-season playing field and jogging track; Nixon Field, home to the school's rugby teams; and West Campus Fields, which are used by a number of varsity teams and student intramural leagues.
Queen's maintains an academic and athletic rivalry with McGill University. Competition between rowing athletes at the two schools has inspired an annual boat race between the two universities in the spring of each year since 1997, inspired by the famous Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. The football rivalry, which started in 1884, ended after Canadian university athletic divisions were reorganized in 2000; the Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference was divided into Ontario University Athletics and Quebec Student Sports Federation. The rivalry returned in 2002 when it transferred to the annual home-and-home hockey games between the two institutions. Queen's students refer to these matches as "Kill McGill" games, and usually show up in Montreal in atypically large numbers to cheer on the Queen's Golden Gaels hockey team. In 2007, McGill students arrived in busloads to cheer on the McGill Redmen, occupying a third of Queen's Jock Harty Arena.
The school also competes in the annual Old Four (IV) soccer tournament, along with McGill, the University of Toronto, and the University of Western Ontario.
The coat of arms appeared as early as 1850 but was not registered with the College of Arms until 1953. The coat of arms was registered with the Scottish equivalent of the College of Arms, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, in 1981 and with the Canadian Heraldic Authority during Queen's sesquicentennial celebrations in 1991. The coat of arms is based on that of the University of Edinburgh, the institution after which Queen's was modelled.
The coat of arms consists of a gold shield with red edges, divided into four triangular compartments by a blue, diagonal St. Andrew's Cross. A golden book, symbolizing learning, sits open at the centre of the cross. In each of the four compartments is an emblem of the university's Canadian and British origins: a pine tree for Canada, a thistle for Scotland, a rose for England, and a shamrock for Ireland. The border is decorated with eight gold crowns, symbolic of Queen Victoria and the university's Royal Charter.
Queen's motto, from Isaiah 33:6, is Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas. The Latin motto is literally translated as "Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times," and has been in use since the 1850s. A number of songs are commonly played and sung at events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic contests, including the "Queen's College Colours" (1897), also known as "Our University Yell" and "Oil Thigh", with words by A.E. Lavell, sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body". "Oil Thigh", created in 1891, consists of the old song "Queen's College Colours". The name "Oil Thigh" comes from the chorus of the song, which begins with the Gaelic words "oil thigh". The modern version of the song was crafted in 1985, when a line was changed to include Queen's woman athletes in the cheer.
Blue, gold and red are the official colours of the university, and can be seen on its flag.
Queen's official colours are gold, blue, and red. Queen's colours are also used on the school flag. It displays three vertical stripes, one for each colour. In the upper-left corner on the blue stripe is a yellow crown, symbolizing the royal charter. The university also has a ceremonial flag, which is reserved for official university uses. The ceremonial flag is a square design of the Queen's coat of arms.
The university also has a tartan, made up of six colours, each representing an academic discipline: blue (medicine), red (arts & science), gold (applied science), white (nursing science), maroon (commerce & MBA), light blue (Kinesiology and Physical Education), and purple (theology). The tartan was created in 1966 by Judge John Matheson and is registered under the Scottish Tartans Authority.
Sir Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada.
Norihito, Prince Takamado, member of the Imperial House of Japan.
Kathleen Wynne, 25th Premier of Ontario and first LGBT Premier in Canada.
Fraser Stoddart, Nobel Laureate in chemistry for his work with molecular machines.
Arthur B. McDonald, Nobel Laureate in physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations.
Donald J. Carty, former Chairman and CEO of AMR Corporation.
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, SolarCity, PayPal, and The Boring Company.
Queen's graduates have found success in a variety of fields, heading diverse institutions in the public and private sectors. In 2011, the university had over 131,000 alumni, living in 156 countries. Queen's faculty and graduates have won many awards, including the Nobel Prize, the Turing Award, and the Victoria Cross. As of 2016, 57 Queen's students and graduates had been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship. Queen's is also a choice for Loran Award winners, with over 20 scholars attending or having attended the university. In 2013, the artist Raine Storey began attendance at Queen's after being the first visual artist to ever receive the award.
Two Nobel laureates are associated with the university, including faculty member Arthur B. McDonald, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental research elucidating neutrino change identities and mass, and former National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at Queen's Sir Fraser Stoddart, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines". Another notable individual associated with University is Sandford Fleming, an engineer who first proposed the use of a universal time standard and the former Chancellor of Queen's. Notable alumni in the field of science include Adolfo de Bold, who won the Gairdner Foundation Award for the discovery and isolation of atrial natriuretic peptide, and Shirley Tilghman, a microbiologist and former President of Princeton University.
Notable politicians who were once Chancellor include Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada, and provincial premiers Peter Lougheed and Charles Avery Dunning. Many alumni have gained international prominence for serving in government, including Prince Takamado, member of the Imperial House of Japan, and Kenneth O. Hall, the fifth Governor General of Jamaica. The 29th Governor General of Canada, David Johnston, was also a former graduate and faculty member of the university. Three Canadian premiers are also alumni of Queen's: William Aberhart, the 7th Premier of Alberta, Frank McKenna, the 27th Premier of New Brunswick, and Kathleen Wynne, the 25th Premier of Ontario. The 14th Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford, also attended the university for two years. Thomas Cromwell, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, was a graduate of the university.
Prominent alumni who became leaders in business include Derek Burney, former chairman and CEO of Bell Canada; Donald J. Carty, chairman of Virgin America and Porter Airlines and former chairman and CEO of AMR Corporation; Earle McLaughlin, former president and CEO of Royal Bank of Canada; Gordon Nixon, president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada; Kimbal Musk, co-founder of Zip2; and F. C. Kohli, founder of Tata Consultancy Services. Alumnus David A. Dodge was the 7th Governor of the Bank of Canada and the 13th Chancellor of Queen's. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, and Tesla, Inc., attended Queen's for two years.
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0.999311 | Young lad bought a 95 klx250r runs 20 mins pipe goes cherry red and problems idling running stock jet 1 1/2 turns out on pilot screw lid is off air breather and a crank breather K&N filter Any body have any ideas?
You're running lean. I'm guessing the spark plug is very very light colored (if the electrode is still attached!) Has the pipe been replaced or packing been taken out? Remember, it's all air, fuel, and spark; gotta have the right mix. May need to adjust the screw or (more likely) re-jet. Start with about 5 sizes larger on the pilot. Get it idling correctly, then take it for a run. See how it operates on a hard run. Bring it home, check the plug. Adjust the main jet (only if necessary; you may not have a problem on the top end, but I'm betting it's a bit lean, too.) Increase the main jet by 3-5 sizes, and adjust to taste.
Will a Muzzy (97+) pipe fit a '94 KLX250R? | 2019-04-22T19:06:02 | https://www.kawasakiforums.com/forum/klx300r-43/klx250r-help-14728/ |
0.99284 | Ask business executives what tools they are focused on and eight out of 10 times they'll sayserver optimisation. It is little wonder why. Most servers are grossly underutilised, processing at a fraction of their potential capacity, while still eating up a nice chunk of your IT budget. By optimising those underachieving servers, you can harness that capacity more effectively.
-- Logical Consolidation: This refers to an IT department that implements a unified management system across its servers. Although logical consolidation does not relocate or consolidate any servers, it does simplify management and eases the IT workload.
-- Centralised Consolidation: This involves moving servers to one or two locations. Rather than maintaining servers at various branch offices, everything is housed at centralised locations — at the company headquarters or datacentre, for example.
-- Physical Consolidation: With physical consolidation, an organisation reduces the total number of servers by merging the workload onto fewer, more powerful servers.
-- Operational Consolidation: Also called application consolidation, operational consolidation is the most complex. Unlike physical consolidation, an operational consolidation runs multiple platforms and diverse applications on a single server (or cluster). This technique uses partitioning and virtualisation to run many virtual servers on a single machine.
-- Plan: Begin by taking an environmental profile, which includes the number of servers and applications you have, the amount of disk space and your current utilisation rate. Use this data to outline a plan of action and to determine the potential financial and operational savings associated with optimisation.
-- Phase: As with your other IT initiatives, structure the plan in phases, so the implementation affects discrete parts of the infrastructure one at a time. Phasing in your implementation not only minimises the risk to your infrastructure, it may also help you to fund one optimisation project with the savings from a previous project, reducing the upfront cost of upgrading your infrastructure.
-- Implement: Once you have a phased plan of action with desired performance outcomes, focus on configuration and implementation. Unfortunately, every market and business model has an IT infrastructure to support it, so single-brand, pre-fabricated optimisation solutions will probably not have the customisation required to fit your organisation. Work with an IT provider who can deliver a wide range of optimisation solutions from multiple vendors, and do not hesitate to look at multiple options before committing to one.
— Manage and assess: After each phase of implementation, schedule time to manage and assess the new infrastructure to identify any problems and to measure the financial and operational gains. This will help you avoid any major gaps created during implementation and provide valuable metrics for justifying the continued investment in optimisation.
-- Evolve: Although server optimisation technologies are now fairly mature (many in their third or fourth generations), vendors will continue to make strides in both software and hardware. Periodically review your utilisation and capacity figures to assess whether your organisation could benefit from either the new technologies or the next level of server optimisation.
Finally, do not forget that any of the server optimisation approaches will likely change your datacentre environment. New servers often consume more power and require more cooling than older, less efficient servers. As a result, your smaller number of optimised servers may have different environmental and power requirements than your previous set-up. Make sure you have the power and cooling infrastructure to address the changes.
Ultimately, server optimisation is both a technology and a business decision. Although the benefits to IT are substantial, CDW's research shows that 66% of IT managers consolidate to reduce costs. As business leaders are always looking for ways to improve shareholder value, investing your time and effort in an optimisation initiative is a proactive way of highlighting how IT contributes to your organisation's success. | 2019-04-20T12:44:23 | https://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/497185/secrets_successful_server_optimisation/ |
0.999998 | For over forty years, John Scott has established himself as one of the finest composers working in films today, having collaborated with foremost producers and directors worldwide, including, Richard Donner, Mark Damon, Hugh Hudson, Norman Jewison, Irvin Kershner, Daniel Petrie, Roger Spottiswoode and Charleton Heston, among others. He has been an essential voice in international scoring that thoroughly belies his occasional over-looked stature in the midst of ?brand name' composers.
Frequently associated with Hollywood's finest composers, including Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, John Scott has created a body of work that stands up as some of the finest music ever written for film.
Patrick John Michael O'Hara Scott was born in Bishopston, Bristol, England. John's musical abilities are not without precedence?his father was a musician in the Bristol Police Band. And, like many children, John was given music lessons?first on the violin and later on the clarinet.
When John was 14, he enrolled in the British Army as a Boy Musician in order to carry on his musical studies. He continued his study of the clarinet and also studied harp. John went on to study the saxophone and became proficient enough that when he eventually left the military, he was able to find steady work touring with some of the top British bands of the era.
As time went on, people began to notice that John Scott had a unique ability as an arranger of music. He was hired by EMI and began to arrange and conduct with some of EMIs top artists. John worked with The Beatles and their producer George Martin, and went on to record with noted artists and groups, including Tom Jones, Cilla Black, and The Hollies (John contributed to their mega-hit ?He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother?). However, John also was a working, playing musician. He played with The Julian Bream Consort, Yehudi Menuhin, Ravi Shankar, Nelson Riddle, John Dankworth and Cleo Lane.
In ?The Beatles' Diaries,? it is noted that John holds the distinction of being the first musician to have been invited to be featured on their recordings, playing both alto and tenor flute on ?You've Got to Hide Your Love Away.?
In addition to working with others, in the 60s John was the leader of a popular jazz quintet and the noted Johnny Scott Trio. It was at this time that John started to play saxophone on film scores. He played for Henry Mancini?who was a teacher and mentor in John's development as a film com-poser?and was principal sax on the Goldfinger soundtrack. This exposure to film music whetted John's appetite for composing music for films.
His first score was for the film A Study in Terror. Since that ?big break', John has gone on to score nearly seventy motion pictures over the years. His efforts have not gone unnoticed, for he is the recipient of three Emmy Awards and numerous industry recognitions of his work.
John has not limited his compositions to the silver screen; he has also composed many concert works including two symphonies, a ballet, an opera and three string quartets. He has also conducted other film composers' work for release on CD, as well as having conducted most of the London orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. Other European orchestras include the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
And in May 2006, John conducted the inaugural concert of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra at the magnificent Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. As founder, conductor and artistic director, it was a thrill of a lifetime. For the past 10 years, John has been possessed with an obsession for a deeper investigation into the heritage of film music. It is his goal to place the best of symphonic film music fairly and squarely alongside the accepted symphonic repertoire in major concert halls. He believes it is time that great composers of symphonic film music are given proper recognition.
As president of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Society, John is developing programs to establish activities involving interaction between schools, the orchestra and a variety of multimedia projects, to help students explore and understand the concept and value of music for film. The Society will be holding special competitions in the area of film music composition, and providing mentoring from masters of the art, with grant winners performing their work on stage, to film, with a full orchestra.
John has also founded his own record company, JOS Records, Beverly Hills, California. JOS is unusual in that it is a label that is run by a composer, and that it releases the composer's own music. This is not unprecedented in the history of musical recordings (e.g. Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Club, and some Stanyan recordings by Rod McKuen) but not on this type of scale and for this length of time. JOS has released some 19 CDs since 1989! Film music fans are thankful that these scores, some of them quite obscure, have been released at all.
Additionally, John has launched a new Web site devoted to his own soundtrack label at JOSRecords.com, which contains exclusive content and all the latest news and information about his work.
John maintains residences in the United Kingdom and the United States. | 2019-04-19T08:18:55 | https://payplay.fm/a1b228-john-scott |
0.998767 | This article is about the Bristol Port Railway and Pier terminus station. For the current station, see Avonmouth railway station. For other railway stations in the Avonmouth area, see Avonmouth railway station (disambiguation).
The only known photo of the station, dated 8 March 1903, after the station was closed to the general public. The Avonmouth Hotel is on the right.
The BPRP ran into trouble by 1871 when the terminal pier at Avonmouth became difficult to use due to a build-up of silt. With no prospect of a proper dock being funded without a connection to the national rail network, the Clifton Extension Railway (CER) was approved. This was a joint venture by the BPRP, Great Western Railway and Midland Railway. It ran from Sneyd Park Junction, south of Sea Mills, via Clifton Down, to join up with the national network at Narroways Hill Junction.(p12) The new line opened in 1877, but passenger trains from the national network terminated at Clifton Down as the link from Clifton to Sneyd Park Junction was not cleared for passenger use until 3 August 1878. Even after services were allowed to run, the Midland and Great Western Railways did not think the BPRP track was in a suitable condition and so refused to run any passenger trains beyond Clifton Down. When through services finally began operation in 1885, they did not reach the original Avonmouth terminus, instead running to Avonmouth Dock (the modern day Avonmouth station), 1 mile 62 chains (2.9 km) back down the line towards Bristol.(p49) Despite the increased traffic the BPRP suffered financially, and was taken over by the CER in 1890.(pp10–11) A single-track, freight-only line was built past the Avonmouth railway station in 1900, linking to the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway at Pilning.
The expansion of Avonmouth Docks, and particularly the construction of Royal Edward Dock, led to the closure of Avonmouth station, as the land was required for construction. Services for the general public were withdrawn on 1 October 1902, but the station was used for unadvertised workers' trains until 15 May 1903, with the official closure the following day. After the closure of the station, all trains terminated at Avonmouth Dock. The station site is now in the middle of Avonmouth Docks.
When the station opened, the surrounding area was almost entirely rural, and would remain so throughout the station's existence. Indeed, in 1902, John L Dunk wrote in The Railway Magazine that he could not think why trains ran only to an inn and a few cottages.(p37) The area did however see some development, as the Avonmouth Hotel was built adjacent to the station, as well as 10 acres (40,000 m2) of pleasure gardens. The gardens boasted a concert hall, as well as an ornamental lake, and hosted fêtes at Easter and Whitsun. Despite excursion trains to the gardens, they were not viable financially.
The hotel remained in business after the station's closure, albeit isolated from public transport. It provided accommodation for many Europeans emigrating to the Americas via Avonmouth, and during the First World War it housed the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. It was finally demolished in 1926 when the Royal Edward Dock was expanded.
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0.998579 | I have excellent news: this sweater is still available! I was nervous, because I bought it two months ago on Black Friday. How have they not sold out of these babies yet? The world may never know.
I think this sweater is one of my favorite pieces of clothing I've ever owned. You know how you have a few clothing items in your life that you form an unreasonably strong attachment to? (I hope other people experience that.) This sweater has the makings of reaching that echelon of all-star pieces for me. Now I've just got to do my best to not get food on it.
I'm happy to report that I had an unusually social Thursday night, starting with happy hour drinks with my friends from my Bank of America days in San Francisco, followed by dinner at R&G Lounge, which is where we used to eat when working late at BofA. (If you're ever visiting SF, R&G is a great place to add to your itinerary - it's in Chinatown and the food is delicious. Anthony Bourdain even featured it on his show!) I then got over eight hours of sleep (which is a massive amount for me) so I think I'm ready to start Friday on a good foot!
Does everyone have big plans for Super Bowl Sunday? We'll be hosting a little party here at our apartment, which is the first time I have ever hosted a Super Bowl party. I'm not exactly sure how we're going to make sure everyone can see the TV (our space is tiny), so I'm planning on distracting everyone from the cozy quarters with lots of queso. I figure that strategy has a history of success - the queso distraction is how they get away with such tiny tables in Mexican restaurants, right?
Have a wonderful Friday and weekend, everyone.
Here's a fun piece of trivia - it's my wedding anniversary tomorrow! In honor of that, I thought it would be appropriate to wear an outfit that made its first ever appearance on my honeymoon three years ago.
I went on a major shopping spree at Anthropologie shortly before we got married and headed to Italy, and this shirt was one of my purchases, along with my old pair of white jeans. I still remember how much fun it was to plan out each of my honeymoon outfits, and how much I enjoyed pairing white and white together in this outfit (I think every bride-to-be develops a strange obsession with wearing white). As a result, this outfit will be forever associated with Florence in my mind. Which is really the best association to have, isn't it?
It didn't even occur to me until I was typing out this post that this outfit is doubly appropriate for a wedding flashback post because it's all white. Obvious answer is obvious. To everyone except me, apparently.
Have a great day - see you back here tomorrow for some wedding anniversary celebration!
A fun brunch at Cotogna over the weekend gave me a good excuse to bust out this white and lace Anthropologie dress. (The slightly warmer weather was an important part, too.) This sweet octopus graffiti by the restaurant gave me a good excuse to bust out the camera. The combination of the two gave me a good excuse to put the whole thing on the blog!
Did everyone have a good President's Day weekend? (Apologies to those of you who didn't get the day off - I had to work on MLK, so I totally feel your pain.) We had a great long weekend, full of fun times with friends, great meals, lots of time spent in the sun, and even finishing a few projects around the house. I felt like I was snapping pictures of the fun things we did all weekend - I'm sure you'll be seeing those trickle out on Instagram throughout this week!
Have a wonderful TUESDAY (nothing better than a four-day work week, right?)!
Do you have a piece of clothing that you absolutely love, and will absolutely love forever? For me, that piece of clothing is this sweater. It's essentially everything I love all in one place - navy blue, stripes, lace, touches of gold...remember what I said about Anthropologie getting this shirt exactly right? Clearly their mastery of striped items didn't end there. That shirt and this sweater will live happily ever after together in my closet, and I couldn't be happier about it!
Also, you might notice that my hair isn't straight in these pictures (for once). To get it to look wavy, I took a shower the night before, put some mousse in my hair, braided it into four braids, and slept on it. It worked really well - I think I'll be subbing that technique into my regular routine! | 2019-04-22T18:24:45 | http://www.namesnotashley.com/blog-1/tag/Lace |
0.999729 | The fellow in question is 34-year-old Ryan Nelson and yes, he needs a (working) kidney. This benefit, in the former Café 606 location (upstairs at MLK and Congress), technically starts at 6 p.m. with an art auction featuring original works from nearly 20 local artists and photographers. Keith Kozel is the prestige DJ for the evening, and the music, which kicks off at 8, features Cusses (their only local show for a while), Whaleboat, Aurora, Dreamend (that's Ryan from Graveface Records - profiled in next week's issue of Connect) and KidSyc@Brandywine. It's all over at midnight, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to The Georgia Kidney Foundation in Ryan Nelson's name.
Raleigh's raucous rock ‘n' rolling homeboy returns to his hometown away from home. The American Aquarium frontguy is just back from the Muscle Shoals recording sessions for Burn.Flicker.Die., which was funded with a Kickstarter campaign and produced by the incredible Jason Isbell. Meanwhile, the Southern Gothic, blood-spattered Americana barroom band is represented by Live in Raleigh, cut back in December at the Pour House. It's the first-ever live recorded representation of Barham and company, it has all their greatest (almost) hits, and you can snag a copy at americanaquarium.net.
Like Fred Flintstone, you'll have a gay old time if you attend one of Jordan's self-described "Homo Hoedowns" ay Bay Street, where he attracted a standing-room-only crowd last August. The 4-foot-11 Tennessee-born actor and comedian's one-person show is delightfully bitchy, wonderfully weird and just as dirty as it can possibly be. Gawd, he's funny - just remember, both shows are 21 and over, so even if the kids loved little old Leslie in the movie The Help, they can't get in here. | 2019-04-21T01:33:42 | https://m.connectsavannah.com/savannah/ryans-kidney-bj-barham-leslie-jordan/Content?oid=2137708 |
0.999995 | What Is The Tangle, And Is It Blockchain's 'Next Evolutionary Step'?
Iota is a cryptocurrency, but unlike just about every other cryptocurrency, it's not built on a blockchain. Aiming to design a distributed ledger that's low-cost and scalable enough for the internet of things (IoT), the project's developers have started from scratch and built a new sort of structure they call the "tangle."
The tangle is not the first attempt to find a radically different way of achieving distributed consensus, but following iota's stint in early December as the world's fourth-most valuable cryptocurrency, it's become one of the most prominent blockchain alternatives.
Iota's proposed application, IoT, could benefit enormously from a network able to complete high volumes of minute transactions. Making that network trustless and distributed, as iota aims to do, could open up new economic possibilities. A smart device could "pay its assembly, its maintenance, its energy and also for its liability insurance by giving data, computing power, storage or physical services to other machines," write Carsten Stöcker and Kerstin Eichmann of innogy SE in a post on iota’s blog.
Before iota can make "economically independent machines" happen, though, the project has to confront a number of obstacles: achieving full decentralization, establishing trust in newly invented cryptography, and ensuring that resource-constrained IoT devices can support the network. Several of the iota team's decisions have drawn criticism, and their responses to that criticism haven't always inspired confidence.
But while the only tangle around today is iota's, there is nothing that necessarily limits the tangle to that one implementation or even to IoT. Bitcoin's architecture has been repurposed thousands of times with every application and capability imaginable in mind (not that very many of these attempts have succeeded yet). Iota could turn out to be revolutionary or a footnote; either way, the tangle has the potential to transform a number of industries in need of fast, efficient, trustless systems: digital ad sales, for example.
What is the tangle? How is it being implemented in iota? Could it expand beyond that project? And does it really represent—as Serguei Popov wrote in the tangle white paper—blockchain's "next evolutionary step"?
The tangle is what is known as a directed acyclic graph (DAG): a data structure that moves in one direction without looping back onto itself. Like the blockchain, the tangle is a distributed ledger, in which a network of independent accounts perform transactions among themselves, reaching consensus about who owns what without depending on a centralized authority.
Time passes from left to right in this graph. Each box represents a transaction issued by a device (or "node") on the network. In proof-of-work blockchains like bitcoin's and ethereum's, Popov writes, there are "two distinct types of participants in the system, those who issue transactions, and those who approve transactions"; in the tangle, every device works to maintain the ledger. Every node is also a kind of miner.
Here’s the process: every time a node wants to transfer some value, it must validate two previous transactions, which the arrows in the image above show. This validation requires a small amount of proof of work in order to secure the network, meaning that transactions are not strictly free. Since there is no distinct group of miners that must be compensated, though, there are no fees. The white paper argues that this no-fee structure enables the kind of microtransactions that would be impossible with bitcoin.
As a tangle transaction receives approvals, and the transactions approving it receive approvals in turn, the "cumulative weight" of that transaction builds up. Similar to confirmations for a bitcoin transaction, higher cumulative weights indicate more reliably immutable transactions. The gray boxes at the far right of the diagram, representing recent transactions that have received no validations, are called "tips."
Since transactions are not being shared all at once as blocks, divergences are more prone to happen on the tangle than the blockchain. "It is important to note that the iota network is asynchronous," Popov writes. "In general, nodes do not necessarily see the same set of transactions. It should also be noted that the tangle may contain conflicting transactions."
Eventually, some conflicting transactions are "orphaned"—not completed—while others stand. The tangle relies on incentives to reach consensus about these transactions' fate. As the white paper points out, "if a node issues a new transaction that approves conflicting transactions, then it risks that other nodes will not approve its new transaction, which will fall into oblivion."
In order to find transactions to approve that are unlikely to lead its own transaction to be orphaned, a node runs a "tip selection algorithm." Iota's tangle doesn't mandate any algorithm in particular, but the white paper makes the case for the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) variety.
Popov's MCMC algorithm would place at least two "random walkers" somewhere back on the tangle: not at the beginning (that would take to long), but not too recently (the quality of the selection would suffer). These move chronologically along the paths defined by validations, favoring paths linking transactions of similar cumulative weight. Say that transaction x (cumulative weight = 20) was approved by transaction y (= 19) and transaction z (= 3). The walker has a much higher probability of moving from x to y.
The rationale is that "lazy" nodes—ones that rarely issue transactions and therefore rarely validate others' transactions—will be at a disadvantage. Punishing lazy nodes is useful not just because it cuts down on freeriders, but because lazy nodes pose a risk for double-spend attacks: the white paper describes several such attacks and the ways an MCMC could be used to defend against them.
Popov states point-blank, "the concrete implementation of the iota protocol is not discussed" in the tangle white paper (there is no iota white paper). The IOTA Foundation has built a working tangle—the only one—but there is a gulf between the ideal of the tangle and the reality of iota. The developers face a number of challenges in getting their technology ready for the IoT, and some of their decisions have attracted strong criticism.
Storage is an immediate concern for tiny, resource-constrained IoT devices. The white paper doesn't address this issue, but lightbulbs and toasters clearly aren’t able to store the entire tangle, as full nodes do the entire 153 GB bitcoin blockchain or 338 GB ethereum blockchain.
Iota's development roadmap, published in March 2017, describes solutions including automated snapshotting—similar in principle to pruning—and a swarm client, which would allow devices to shard and collectively store the database.
In September, a team led by Neha Narula of the MIT Media Lab pointed out a flaw in the "curl," a cryptographic hash function developed in-house by the iota team.
The impetus for designing the curl is the threat of quantum attacks, but "rolling your own crypto" is a gamble, and it appears to have backfired. Iota co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo, aka Come-from-Beyond, justified the flaw Narula's team identified as a "copy-protection mechanism" that would allow iota "to easily attack scam-driven copycats." Ethereum developer Nick Johnson described it as "booby trapping the code."
If a party controls more than a third of the tangle's hashing power, the network is insecure. Bitcoin and ethereum are generally considered secure as long as a single party does not control a majority of the network. In other words, while blockchains are vulnerable to 51% attacks, the tangle is vulnerable to a 34% attack.
Tangle may be the "next evolutionary step" of blockchain, as Popov argues, but it does not appear to have achieved that through its only implementation so far. Justifiable concerns about iota's degree of decentralization and security have held the tangle back.
If it is a serious competitor or even successor to the blockchain, tangle should demonstrate the blockchain's versatility and be adapted to other projects, in other industries, with other applications. Bitcoin has not been the blockchain's only application for some time. I asked Popov if the tangle could follow the same trajectory and become independent of iota. "Yes," he told me via email, "the Tangle is just a math model, it can be applied everywhere it suits."
Not everyone is sure about the tangle itself, though. Wall told me via private message, "I'm a long-term skeptic that per-transaction user-generated PoW"—proof of work—"will ever be enough to secure a cryptocurrency." He added that the tangle as described in the white paper "will probably rely on centralized elements for a very long time."
Hypothetically, he said, "you could have a DAG with transaction fees and mining incentives" but then you might as well use a blockchain. Or you could have proof-of-stake DAG, but that tests the boundaries of what the term "tangle" encompasses.
In his email, Popov stressed that "the full potential of the IOTA itself is largely underestimated - there are so many things being quietly developed now…" He may be right, and iota may transform how devices interact and what they are capable of. That shouldn't prevent other tangle projects from getting underway.
Then again, perhaps Wall has a point. The basic principle behind the tangle—that users validate each other's transactions using proof of work—may always be either too centralized or too insecure. We'll know once more people try it. | 2019-04-23T15:41:36 | https://www.nasdaq.com/article/what-is-the-tangle-and-is-it-blockchains-next-evolutionary-step-cm911074 |
0.999331 | Powers/Abilities: As Red Guardian, Belinsky was agile and trained in combat, though she possessed no known superhuman powers. Red Guardian's belt buckle could be thrown like Captain America's shield, specially designed to do so.
After being exposed to radiation, Belinsky's form may have become entirely radioactive energy, though her new true form has not been seen, and her costume may act as body armor to contain her energy form. The true capabilities of her new powers are not known, though they don't seem to be as powerful as those of the Presence. She can form force fields and energy blasts from her powers, and can travel at warp speed, even through space. She can also absorb radiation. Belinsky can survive without food, water, air, or sleep. She is often under the mental subjection of the Presence.
History: (Defenders I#55 (fb) - BTS) - A faithful member of the Soviet government, neuro-surgeon Tania Belinsky grew to love her country's way of life, though she had some reservations about it. She heard legends of the "man behind the man", Codename: Sergei, and embraced the legend of Soviet hero, Red Guardian. When the latest Red Guardian was believed killed, Tania adopted the identity for herself and fought for Soviet ideals.
(Incredible Hulk II#259 (fb) ) - Red Guardian was sent to stop Professor Phobos, who had been draining the power of many Soviet heroes for years, but she failed.
(Defenders I#35) - Red Guardian rescued a woman from a mugging by Pyotr, then rushed back to her apartment before the police arrived. She received a call from the United States, from Dr. Stephen Strange, who sought her services as a medical practitioner in doing a brain transplant on his ally Kyle Richmond (the hero, Nighthawk). She received the necessary clearance and left for the states immediately. She was accompanied by Mr. Kaslov, and they met Strange and statesman Taylor Charles at the airport. Prepping for the surgery, Tania confided in Dr. Strange that she'd like to extend her stay in the country, but that Russia suspected she'd attempt to defect.
(Defenders I#36) - The operation a success, Tania greeted Richmond when he awoke. Some men burst in to accost Tania and she knocked them aside, hoping Richmond was too groggy to notice her skills. Strange informed Tania that he'd persuaded Kaslov to let her remain in the states for a time, a guest at his mansion. They read in the paper of the Celestial Mind Control Movement. Back at Strange's mansion, Tania met Wong and was shown around the mansion. Surprised when Strange rushed off, she followed his as Red Guardian. She attacked Plantman when he accosted Strange, and was taken aback by his turning the attack on her. They were both soon captured and held in a plant-formed cell with the kidnapped Richmond. Tania revealed her secret identity to Strange.
(Defenders I#37) - Strange finally managed to help them escape from the prison, and they were attacked by carnivorous plants, though Strange's ally Power Man arrived to aid them, causing Plantman to flee. Red Guardian met Power Man and Jack Norriss. Back at the hospital, she expressed her disgust to Power Man that he charged for heroic services. She, Strange, Power Man, and Jack Norris were apprehended by villains Eel and Porcupine.
(Defenders I#38) - Nebulon deposited the Defenders (sans Norriss) in a hostile dimension where Strange quickly learned he could not employ his magic without pain. They holed up in a cave until a creature attacked them. The allies fought the beast until Power Man vanquished it, then Red Guardian noticed she was covered in bugs that would start to eat her flesh. Nighthawk joined them from a doorway in the Celestial Mind Control Movement headquarters, giving the heroes an exit to home, where they battled the Movement's Bozos, Porcupine, and Eel. Red Guardian was fortunate as the journey had killed the bugs, but the beast followed them as well. They defeated the villains and Strange subdued the beast.
(Defenders I#39) - While Dr. Strange did a mystic self-inventory, Red Guardian and the Defenders worked to find Valkyrie. Red Guardian was amused by the plethora of heroes in America and the frequent conflicts they found themselves in. Red Guardian and Power Man searched the streets, and she commented on the state they were in, asking questions about American culture. When a jealous man tried to stab Power Man, Red Guardian knocked him aside. Later, they retrieved Valkyrie from the jail she'd been incarcerated in.
(Defenders I#40) - Red Guardian watched Valkyrie pardoned for her crimes, and commented on American culture, noting Nighthawk's willingness to dispense his riches freely. The Committee for Free Emigration threw a rock through the window aimed at Red Guardian, who rushed to pursue them herself. Red Guardian chased down the men who'd thrown the rock and disarmed them. She carried a wounded man up the stairs to a woman's apartment to call for help, but the woman, Mrs. Rosenzweig, pulled a gun and allowed the Committee's Assassin to enter. They planned to use Red Guardian's status with the Russian government against them, but Red Guardian fled, soon fighting the Assassin in the street. His cyborg hands hurt her, but she left him defeated and returned to the Defenders.
(Defenders Annual#1) - The Defenders watched a video in which Jack Norris postulated that much of the Defenders recent incongruent actions were due to mind-tampering by the Headmen. The Defenders agreed to begin addressing the world challenges that they'd been subliminally avoiding. Nighthawk and Red Guardian were sent to Paris, France, to investigate the recent uprising of Bozos there. Red Guardian and Nighthawk rescued an advertising man from being killed by the Bozos, and captured one Bozo named Marie, who Red Guardian posed as. She infiltrated the headquarters and was shocked to see the alien Ludberdites working behind the Movement. She was interrogated by Nebulon via a conference call, and was then ordered to have mental reconditioning due to her strong will. Shrunken Bones from the Headmen shrank the entire headquarters with a blast from his shrinking gun. The Defenders were all gathered into one sphere and the Hulk freed them. Red Guardian and Nighthawk defeated Chondu while the other Headmen and Nebulon were also defeated.
(Defenders I#41) - Red Guardian and her allies were called to the American southwest to aid Dr. Strange, Nighthawk, and Trish Starr against Shazanna the sorceress.
(Incredible Hulk II#206-207) - Red Guardian joined her allies in opposing the Hulk, who was destroying the city in a grief-filled rage. Despite being buried in rubble, the Defenders managed to stall the Hulk, Red Guardian with using her belt buckle. Hulk was soon calmed down and returned to the mansion, though the news that his love was dead caused him more grief.
(Defenders I#42 - BTS) - Red Guardian strangely disappeared, causing her teammates concern.
(Defenders I#43) - After being briefly detained at the Soviet embassy, Red Guardian rushed to aid her teammates in battle against Cobalt Man. Clea attached Red Guardian's mind to Cobalt Man's, and Red Guardian learned of the villain's origins, helping him release his brainwashing. Egghead attacked the mansion, and Cobalt Man seemingly disintegrated with Egghead in his arms.
(Marvel Comics Super Special#1) - Red Guardian was among the Defenders who met with Dizzy the Hun and decided to stay out of the newly-empowered KISS' conflict with Dr. Doom as well as their extradimensional travels.
(Defenders I#44) - Red Guardian received a call from Russia stating that her loved ones may be harmed unless she returned to her country. She helped her teammates find Strange with her knowledge of mystic Omar Karindu, then departed to confront her superiors. Red Guardian confided in Valkyrie, and met Hellcat when she arrived with a dire warning of the mystic Star of Capistan's power. They noticed many citizens, including Wong, ensorcelled and walking the streets. They traced the source to Red Rajah, secretly Dr. Strange under the influence of the Star, who had Power Man, Hulk, and Nighthawk enslaved as well.
(Defenders I#45) - Valkyrie, Red Guardian, and Hellcat fought a mountainous image of Dr. Strange that Red Rajah created, then fled, barely saving Red Guardian from being ensorcelled. The women discussed possible reasons why they may have been able to resist Rajah's teachings, Red Guardian assuming that her desire for unity over individualism is what caused her temporary temptation. Clea joined them and they returned to fight Rajah and his minions. Red Guardian successfully evaded Nighthawk's blows and caused him to hit the ground. Clea freed Strange, and the Defenders made amends, though Strange announced he was leaving the team.
(Defenders I#46) - While the Defenders changed lineups, Red Guardian bid farewell, needing to tend to her personal concerns.
(Defenders I#49) - Red Guardian returned to Russia and was greeted by the KGB, who revealed they knew of her heroic identity.
(Defenders I#51) - She was taken to unfamiliar territory and informed that the man besides her extradition home was Codename: Sergei.
(Defenders I#52) - Red Guardian was given a facsimile of her costume to wear, and briefly fought against her 'captors' before she had a control cowl placed on her head that calmed her mind along with a radiation robe. She was shown into the Presence, who announced that she was his perfect mate and that he would be subjecting her to radiation treatments so that the two of them could become higher beings together. Her mind calmed, Red Guardian agreed.
(Defenders I#53) - Weeks passed, and Red Guardian grew to admire Presence, though her full will was still subjugated. He planned to subject her to a nuclear bomb. Unable to wake her faculties, Red Guardian and Presence felt the exploding bomb wash over them.
(Defenders I#54) - Presence and Red Guardian clasped hands as they soaked in the radiation. They investigated a ship that had crashed in the blast and found Hellcat, Hulk, Nighthawk, and Sub-Mariner with a contingent of Atlantean military.
(Defenders I#55) - Red Guardian, still under the control of the Presence, began using new powers, including flying and emitting deadly radiation blasts. The Defenders tried to attack them and Red Guardian fired blasts at Hellcat, though subconsciously disgusted by her actions. At Hellcat's proddings to remember who she was, Red Guardian finally embraced her true memories and began to break free from the influence of the Presence. Hellcat rescued Red Guardian from being crushed by the toppling Behemoth from Below, who'd attacked and been defeated by the Hulk. Finally in control of her faculties, Red Guardian stopped Presence from killing her friends by telling him she cared more for them than for him, causing him to depart in sadness. Her friends collapsed from radiation exposure.
(Defenders I#56) - While her friends received medical treatment, Red Guardian was transported elsewhere and isolated.
(Defenders I#59) - Soviet scientists, Fyodr and Vladimer, worked to stabilize Red Guardian's condition, but realized it was hopeless. They wondered how long she would participate with them as the extent of her new powers was unknown.
(Defenders I#64 - BTS) - Tania was kept at a Soviet research institute observed by General Kharkov and several scientists.
(Defenders I#65) - Reflecting on her life and the strange things that had happened to her, Red Guardian sat in isolation. She was called out by Gen. Kharkov, who informed her that Presence was in the Forbidden Zone and that he was releasing an amoebic radioactive creature on the country. They asked her to intercede on the behalf of all Soviets, and she agreed. Red Guardian traveled to the Zone, where she found the massive amoeba feeding off the Presence. Realizing Presence wasn't behind the attack, Red Guardian tried to release him but was pulled inside as well. Presence grabbed her hand and they linked, allowing them to escape. He confessed his love to her, and the two of them battled the amoeba rather unsuccessfully until joining forces and giving off the force of a nuclear explosion, destroying the amoeba. Perhaps recognizing her place now, Red Guardian decided to remain with Presence in the Forbidden Zone, christening it their new home.
(Incredible Hulk II#250) - Red Guardian was seen near the Kremlin by the Soviet Super-Soldiers.
(Incredible Hulk II#259 (fb) - BTS) - Presence and Red Guardian decided to fight against Professor Phobos. They began expanding the radioactive borders of the Forbidden Zone, using machinery to expand their influence, and causing the government to question their motives, sending some of their agents to investigate.
(Incredible Hulk II#258) - Red Guardian and Presence worked in the Forbidden Zone to contain the radiation that Professor Phobos was spreading. When they were distracted by a battle between the Hulk and the Soviet Super-Soldiers, the pair fired twin blasts at the Hulk and Ursa Major, reverting them to their human forms.
(Incredible Hulk II#259) - Presence and Red Guardian removed Hulk and Ursa Major's abilities to change into their monstrous forms. Presence read Ursa Major's mind and realized that Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, and Vanguard were also nearby and sensed a fourth personage, who they later learned was the Professor Phobos. Presence and Red Guardian departed and focused their energies on their machines until Vanguard and Darkstar attacked them, holding them off with attacks and then in pitch blackness until they escaped. However, Professor Phobos turned the radiation machines on and held Presence and Red Guardian in stasis while draining their powers. Eventually Presence restored Hulk and Ursa Major's powers to them and Professor Phobos was defeated. Presence was shocked to learn that Vanguard and Darkstar were his children, whom he'd believed dead all those years, but he and Red Guardian had to absorb the excess radiation in the Forbidden Zone and departed for space to safely release the radiation, bidding his children farewell. During the battle, Red Guardian continually reminded Presence to not harm mortals.
(Quasar#23 (fb) - BTS) - While traveling through space, Presence and Red Guardian were picked up by the cosmic Stranger and placed in an artificial radioactive eco-system, aboard the Stranger's world, to thrive so that the Stranger could observe them. They, however, did not know who their captor was.
(Quasar#23 (fb)) - After months of looking for escape from their eco-system, Presence and Red Guardian were approached by another cosmic entity, Anomaly, who claimed to be a fellow captive. Anomaly told Presence that a malevolent being named Eon threatened Earth, and advised them to destroy Eon if they ever made it back to Earth.
(Quasar#14) - The alien Over-Mind telepathically contacted dozens of captives on the Strangers' world, including Presence and Red Guardian, and freed them from their cells. Over-Mind was soon defeated.
(Quasar#19) - Presence and Red Guardian aided Jack of Hearts in moving several of the former captives toward Earth. They spent weeks traveling through space in a type of caravan. When Earth hero Quasar came to investigate, he was defeated by Jack of Hearts, and Presence wanted Quasar killed. He planned to get to Earth as soon as possible to fight and battle Eon.
(Quasar#20) - The Presence and Starlight broke Quasar's quantum sphere so that they could kill him, despite Jack of Hearts' protestations. The Presence blasted Quasar with a burst of energy that seemingly destroyed him, but Quasar actually quantum-jumped at the last moment. Thinking Quasar dead, Jack of Hearts turned on the Presence and Starlight, but a combined blast from the duo ruptured his containment suit. Realizing he was about to explode, Jack flew after them to destroy them, but his detonation only succeeded in hastening their journey Earth. The Presence and Starlight broke into Four Freedoms Plaza, injuring Kenjiro Tanaka as they burst into the offices of Vaughn Security Systems. The Presence assigned Starlight to stand guard while he set off into the Eonverse to slay Eon. The Fantastic Four confronted Starlight and managed to contain her within the Invisible Woman's forcefield. Starlight was taken into custody, while the Presence was lost in the Quantum Zone while battling Quasar.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#70/4) - Presence was reunited with Belinsky in Khystym and he grew slightly mad with power. After hearing reports of Black Widow and Darkstar in the U.S. (both Soviet heroines), Presence sent Starlight to retrieve them, holding her under mental sway, desiring to take them to wife (apparently having forgotten that Darkstar was his daughter). Starlight traded blows with the heroines in Black Widow's apartment, struggling with Darkstar's Darkforce energy constructs, until she was encased in the Darkforce dimension, which freed her mind from Presence's control. She returned to him, determined to see his get better.
(Quasar#60) - After Vanguard was killed in battle, Presence, Starlight, and Darkstar mourned him, and Presence learned that Quasar was ultimately responsible for the death. Furious, Presence and Darkstar departed to find Quasar, instructing Starlight to kill Quasar's family if they failed.
(Avengers III#43 (fb)) - Presence and Starlight continued visiting Vanguard's memorial site at the Kremlin privately, Presence reflecting on how his powers were not enough to save his son. Determined to try something, he sent Starlight away and shrunk himself into a small particle energy form, entering Vanguard's body, and realized that there was still a semblance of energy there. By sacrificing his own vast stores of energy, Presence managed to restore Vanguard to life, though it took Presence months to restore himself to natural form. He developed a plan to restore the Soviet Union to glory by transforming citizens into radioactive beings that he could control. He returned to Khystym and informed Starlight of his plan. He blasted the surrounding area with a spreading radioactive contagion that would kill all and put the formerly living creatures in his control.
(Avengers III#40 - BTS) - A group of SHIELD agents stationed in Slorenia, with Avengers Black Knight (Whitman) and Firebird moved to investigate the radiation surge.
(Avengers III#41 - BTS) - Meanwhile, a team of Avengers (Captain America, Quicksilver, and Thor) joined the other two heroes in investigating.
(Avengers III#42 - BTS) - Presence took control over the Winter Guard when they investigated. When the Avengers got near, Presence and his enslaved heroes moved to attack.
(Avengers III#43) - Presence hung back while the Avengers and the irradiated heroes battled and the Avengers managed to get the upper hand by using anti-radiation foam. Presence, with Starlight, moved in and destroyed their defenses, unleashing a blast that killed the Avengers and made them Presence's servants, all except Thor and Firebird, who had natural immunities against Presence's powers.
(Avengers III#44) - Thor and Firebird fought the irradiated heroes more until Presence turned his attack directly on Thor, who used his hammer to begin draining the Presence's energy. Presence soon found himself helpless as vast amounts of his life energy was being drained, and Starlight begged for his life, promising to restore all the irradiated heroes to their normal states. Thor agreed, and Starlight cradled Presence's fallen form before the two were arrested, unresisting.
(Avengers III#52) - Presence and Starlight were released from custody to fight against Kang's forces in the Soviet Union.
(Avengers III#53) - Presence and Starlight joined a contingent of Avengers in battling Kang in space. Presence planned on returning to Earth and renewing his plans, but Starlight talked him out of it. They fought their way into Kang's ship and watched it crash to the Earth, Kang finally defeated.
(JLA/Avengers#4) - Gargoyle saved citizens alongside Defenders members Nighthawk, Starlight and Valkyrie from the disasters caused by the merging of the DC and Marvel Universe.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#2 (fb)) � After the death of Darkstar, the Protectorate (Fantasma, Perun, Powersurge, Steel Guardian, Vanguard, Vostok) left the team in disgust. They traveled to Limbo, where Vanguard pleaded with Immortus to alter the time stream and allow Darkstar to live. Immortus told them of the Dire Wraiths that afflicted his realm and the group agreed to fight for Immortus for one year, during which Steel Guardian was killed and Vanguard and Starlight started a relationship. When Fantasma revealed herself as a Dire Wraith and escaped to Earth, the three surviving members of the Protectorate pursued her.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#1) - Starlight, Vanguard, and Powersurge appeared back in their home country, careful to watch for their enemies, and proudly announced that the Protectorate had returned.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#2) - Starlight, Vanguard, and Powersurge battled terrorists the Sword of Judgment in the streets of St. Petersburg, where they took down massive amounts of offensive weaponry as the media recorded them. Figuring this would draw Fantasma's attention, they were soon attacked by the Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Red Guardian, Ursa Major), and Starlight was briefly injured by a redirected blast from Vanguard during the fight. She soon had the chance to explain what they were doing there, and they joined with the Winter Guard to fight the Dire Wraith takeover of the Citadel.
(Darkstar and the Winter Guard#3) - Starlight and her allies were attacked by Fantasma's deadly Deathwings, which they held the way until Darkstar teleported them to the citadel. Working as a team, and using Starlight's medical prowess, they upgraded Powersurge to handle the Dire Wraiths. As the Wraith hatchlings attacked, they ripped Red Guardian's head from his body. In the battle to follow, they found Presence and Fantasma in the citadel, but Darkstar was soon killed. A furious Vanguard launched himself at the Presence, and Starlight narrowly saved Vanguard from Fantasma. Powersurge opened a gate to Limbo and Fantasma was thrown in, but she pulled Starlight with her as the gate closed.
Comments: Created by Steve Gerber, Sal Buscema, and Klaus Janson.
Thank you to Prime Eternal and Snood for their help with this profile. Thanks to David Gallaher (yep, the writer of Darkstar and the Winter Guard) for pointing out that:"It was actually Steel Guardian, not Sibercat, that was killed. Sibercat was not present -- and was not a member of the Protectorate."
(Defenders I#35) - Pyotr, a native of communist Russia, broke the law and pulled a knife on a woman to get her money. The costumed woman, Red Guardian, stopped him, knocking him aside, though he chastised her actions. She soon had to flee before the police arrived.
(Defenders I#35 (fb) - BTS) - Dr. Stephen Strange helped cut an ulcer out of Taylor Charles years ago.
(Defenders I#35) - Charles used his office as a state representative to aid Strange in procuring Russian doctor Tania Belinsky to the states for a special operation on millionaire Kyle Richmond.
(Defenders I#35) - Mr. Kaslov accompanied Russian doctor Tania Belinsky to the United States to attend to a special operation. They watched as she performed the operation.
(Defenders I#36) - Dr. Strange used his powers to mesmerize Kaslov into letting Belinsky stay in the states for a time.
(Defenders I#59) - Soviet scientists, Fyodr and Vladimer, worked to stabilize the radioactive conditioning of Red Guardian, who'd been subjected by Presence to a nuclear explosion, and realized that her condition was not stabilizing. They wondered how long she would participate in the studies as the extent of her new powers was unknown.
(Defenders I#64) - Kharkov continued reviewing Red Guardian’s progress, concerned about her deadly status. General Kharkov was informed that Codename: Sergei (the Presence) had been located inside the Forbidden Zone. | 2019-04-19T04:30:16 | http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/starlightredguard.htm |
0.999528 | Top U.S. Commander In Afghanistan Accuses Russia Of Aiding Taliban : The Two-Way In an interview with the BBC, U.S. Army Gen. John Nicholson has reiterated charges that the Kremlin is providing arms to the Afghan resistance. Moscow calls the accusation "idle gossip."
Gen. John Nicholson, the top American commander in Afghanistan, speaks to reporters last week at Bagram air base north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
As NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman reported last year, it is not the first time that the four-star general has made the accusation. Last year, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis also discussed the concern.
A statement by the Russian embassy in Kabul dismissed Nicholson's comments as "idle gossip."
Officials in Russia have said they only have limited contacts with the Taliban and that they are aimed at encouraging peace talks and protecting Russian citizens.
Afghan officials last year also called on Moscow to halt its support for the Taliban.
In October, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Naser Hedayat, the commander of the Afghan army's 207th Corps, said Russia was "actively meddling in Farah [province]."
"We have seized Russian-made weapons, including night-vision sniper scopes," he said.
As The Guardian wrote at the time: "Russia's recent push for influence in Afghanistan follows a pattern across the region, where Moscow has challenged American influence in Libya, Turkey, Syria and the Gulf. But it also offers an echo of history for Afghans who since the 19th century have seen their country treated as a battleground for rival foreign powers."
"If Russia is cozying up to the Taliban — and that's a kind word — if they are giving equipment that we have some evidence that the Taliban is getting ... and other things that we can't mention in this unclassified setting? And the Taliban is also associated with al-Qaida? Therefore Russia indirectly is helping al-Qaida in Afghanistan," said Nelson.
"Your logic is absolutely sound, sir," Nicholson replied.
At the time, Nicholson said the Russian operations in Afghanistan had resumed the previous year .
Russia has a long and tortured history in Afghanistan. In 1979, Soviet forces invaded the country following a coup that overthrew the Kremlin-backed government there.
Local fighters, who called themselves mujahedeen, formed a fierce resistance to the Soviet occupation. During the Reagan administration, the U.S., with the help of Pakistan, funneled hundreds of million of dollars' worth of weapons to the Afghan resistance.
The 10-year conflict in Afghanistan, which devolved into a quagmire that cost 15,000 Russian soldiers, is widely viewed as a major contributing factor to the collapse of the Soviet Union. | 2019-04-18T19:10:51 | https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/26/596933077/top-u-s-commander-in-afghanistan-accuses-russia-of-aiding-taliban |
0.99875 | Let's get this straight from the onset.
Under the 1st Amendment, as it pertains to "Freedom of Religion," it is the constitutional right of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to build his mosque and Islamic center two blocks from ground zero.
It's the letter of the law, and frankly, an open-and-shut case. But is it?
By reading between the lines, we often find the story within the story. It's called the hidden agenda, the gray area. The law then becomes more elastic, requiring additional scrutiny. Thus, in order to decipher the invisible ink, critical thought requires viewing circumstance within the spirit of the law.
I don't need to dissect the issues to formulate an opinion regarding this argument. There is absolutely no ambiguity in my analysis. The Islamists' intent to build this mosque adjacent to ground zero is an abomination of good will, sensitivity and judgment. It is offensive and obtrusive to the most basic of sensibilities.
Do we not remember what happened there on Sept. 11, 2001? Should we believe that under the pretext of tolerance we could ostensibly eradicate the scars of 9/11? What about the sensibilities of the exponential numbers of family, friends, and friends of friends who lost someone? How about the 360 firefighters who lost their lives? Does a mosque solemnize their slaughter?
A place is made sacred because it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent such as Fatima or by the presence there of great nobility and sacrifice such as Normandy or by the blood of martyrs and the suffering of the innocent such as ground zero.
Ground zero is hallowed ground. It belongs to those who suffered and died there. We are obliged to preserve the dignity and memory of the place, never allowing it to be forgotten, trivialized or misappropriated.
We are prisoners of the 1st Amendment. Thus, it's their right to build the mosque even though it is morally offensive for them to do so. Even President Obama sanctioned the rights of Islam under the guise of freedom of worship. How noble. Too bad he didn't have the courage to do some peaceful proselytizing and remind Islam of their lack of religious tolerance.
Freedom of worship is not specific to just Americans. It is a basic human right, and where it lacks protection there is serious injustice. How many churches or synagogues are allowed in Mecca?
I am tired of being lectured to by Mayor Bloomberg and his progressive supporters regarding my lack of religious tolerance and support for the Constitution. At 22 I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, then picked up a rifle and walked the walk. What did they do? This is not an issue of intolerance or bigotry. If that's the argument, then there is no debate. This is not a matter of constitutional rights; it's a matter of decency — and doing the right thing.
The project has been touted as an interfaith venture. Do you not see this duplicity? There is nothing in the design that resembles an interfaith component. Subsequently, Akbar Ahmed, a leading Islamic educator, said, "To have an Islamic center is like rubbing salt in open wounds. The space should include a synagogue and a church so it will truly be interfaith. Many Islamic intellectuals do not support this project, and their moderation is encouraging."
I ask myself, what is the right thing to do? Where lies the chance to be noble? Both sides of the issue should ponder this question. The Constitution must be honored, and the noble nature of America must ascend and allow this project to go forward.
However, nobility is universal among all righteous individuals; it is neither culturally relevant nor situational. Thus Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf must likewise ascend the hierarchy of nobility and build his mosque somewhere else.
When this happens we will know peace. | 2019-04-19T01:05:48 | https://www.latimes.com/socal/la-canada-valley-sun/opinion/tn-vsl-xpm-2010-08-25-tn-vsl-puglia-20100825-story.html |
0.999821 | Please give me a couple of recipes that you would use this for.... If you want something solid in do you have take the whole thing apart?
Thank you for your interest in the Porthole Infuser. We apologize but we do not have recipes for this. You would have to take it apart if you do want to put something solid in it.
Thank you for your interest in the Porthole Infuser. These can be used to create cocktails, oils, teas, dressings, lemonade, coffee and more. Create custom centerpieces that make a signature style statement as you entertain.
What is the diameter of this item? How many ounces does it hold?
Thank you for your interest in the Porthole Infuser. The dimensions are as follows: 7" dia. x 2"H, holds 13 fl. oz. | 2019-04-19T10:52:43 | https://www.frontgate.com/porthole-infuser/1198673 |
0.99599 | (a) Definition of terms. The following words have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Act - The Real Estate License Act, Article 6573a, Texas Civil Statutes.
(2) Functioning - Performing in an expected or required manner; carrying out the design purpose or intended operation of a part, system, component, member.
(3) Inaccessible - Not having access without the use of special tools, equipment, or instruments, or removing doors, walls, stored items or similar obstructions, or by causing damage to a structure, finish or component, equipment or system, or by virtue of inadequate clearance, walkways, passageways, or hazardous condition.
(4) In Need of Repair - Does not adequately function or perform.
(5) Inspect - To look at and examine accessible items, parts, systems or components without, except as required by the rules of the Texas Real Estate Commission, laboratory, scientific or engineering evaluation or testing, destructive tests or the dismantling or removal of parts, members or components.
(6) Inspector - A person licensed as a professional inspector, a person licensed as an apprentice inspector or a person licensed as a real estate inspector.
(7) Performance - The act of carrying out, completing, executing or achievement of an operation, design or function in a manner consistent with the intent of the manufacturer, designer or accepted industry practice.
(8) Report - A written or oral communication of the inspector’s opinions, observations, determinations, and findings in an inspection.
(9) Standards of Practice - §535.227 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: General Provisions), §535.228 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Structural Systems, §535.229 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Mechanical Systems: Appliances, Cooling Systems, Heating Systems, Ducts, Vents and Flues, and Plumbing Systems), §535.230 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Electrical Systems) and §535.231 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: Optional Systems).
(1) The standards of practice are the minimum levels of inspection practice required of inspectors for the accessible parts, components, and systems typically found in improvements to real property, excluding detached structures, decks, docks and fences. The inspector may provide a higher level of inspection performance than required by the standards of practice and may inspect parts, components, and systems in addition to those described by the standards of practice.
(E) address all of the parts, components, and systems contained in the standards of practice in the property being inspected.
(D) any determination of insurability or warrantability of any part, component or system.
(1) An inspector shall exclude from the inspection any part, component or system which the inspector is not competent or qualified to inspect.
(2) An inspector may exclude any part, component or system required for inspection by the standards of practice which is inaccessible, cannot be inspected due to circumstances beyond the control of the inspector, or the inspector’s client has agreed is not to be inspected.
(3) This departure provision does not prohibit an inspector from specializing nor require the inspector to specifically exclude other parts, components or systems not ordinarily considered a part of the inspector’s specialty. However, the inspector shall comply with the standards of practice for the items being inspected.
(B) state in any written inspection report that the excluded part, component or system was not inspected.
(d) Enforcement. Failure to comply with §535.227 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: General Provisions), §535.228 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Structural Systems, §535.229 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Mechanical Systems: Appliances, Cooling Systems, Heating Systems, Ducts, Vents and Flues, and Plumbing Systems), §535.230 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Electrical Systems) and §535.231 of this title (relating to Standards of Practice: Optional Systems) is a ground for disciplinary action as prescribed by the Act, §23 (1)(7) and §535.224 of this title (relating to Proceedings before the Committee).
§535.228. Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Structural Systems.
(9) report as in need of repair conditions that are present and visible and may be adversely affecting foundation performance, such as erosion or water ponding.
(b) Specific limitations for foundations. The inspector is not required to enter a crawl space or any areas where headroom is less than 18 inches and the width of the access opening is less than two feet, or where the inspector reasonably determines conditions or materials are hazardous to health or safety of the inspector.
(5) report as in need of repair the absence of safety glass in hazardous locations.
(4) determine condition of cabinets.
(2) report as in need of repair deficiencies in the condition and operation of exterior doors and garage doors, including door locks and latches when present.
(9) report as in need of repair spacings between intermediate balusters, spindles and rails that permit passage of an object greater than four inches in diameter.
(3) determine the presence of, or extent or type of, insulation or vapor barriers in exterior walls.
(10) report as in need of repair deficiencies in chimney coping or crown, caps or spark arrestor (inspected from ground level at a minimum).
(C) roof jacks, flashing and counter flashing that are not present or not properly installed.
(11) report as in need of repair deficiencies in visible installed gutter and downspout systems.
(2) inspect the roof from the roof level if the inspector reasonably determines that the inspector cannot safely reach or stay on the roof, or that damage to the roof or roof covering may result from walking on the roof.
(2) report as in need of repair (except for decks which are not higher than 30 inches as measured from the adjacent grade) spacings between intermediate balusters, spindles or rails that permit passage of an object greater than four inches in diameter.
(k) Specific limitations for porches and decks. The inspector is not required to inspect detached structures or waterfront structures and equipment, such as docks or piers.
§535.229. Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Mechanical Systems: Appliances, Cooling Systems, Heating Systems, Ducts, Vents and Flues, and Plumbing Systems.
(8) report as in need of repair spray arms that do not turn, soap dispensers that do not open or drying elements that do not operate.
(3) inspect the operation of the unit and report as in need of repair any unusual noise or vibration level and any signs of water leaks.
(3) report as in need of repair a vent pipe that does not terminate outside the structure when the unit is not of recirculating type or configuration.
(5) report as in need of repair the absence of a range exhaust vent.
(4) report as in need of repair the absence of a gas shut-off valve, or valve that is not properly located, is inaccessible, or leaks.
(7) report as in need of repair any inaccuracy of the thermostat more than a 25 degree range plus or minus of a 350 degree setting, as measured by a thermometer.
(4) report as in need of repair a light that does not operate.
(3) report as in need of repair a unit that is not securely mounted in place.
(h) Other built-in appliances. The inspector shall report as in need of repair any deficiencies in condition or operation of other built-in appliances not listed in this section.
(i) Bathroom exhaust vents and electric heaters. The inspector shall operate the unit, and report as in need of repair unusual sounds, speed and vibration levels or, when possible, vent pipes that do not terminate outside the structure.
(3) inspect the system from all accessible outlets throughout the house.
(B) burners, burner ignition devices or heating elements, switches or thermostats that are not a minimum of 18 inches above the lowest garage floor elevation.
(2) report as in need of repair any deficiencies in visible and accessible parts.
(2) report as in need of repair unusual sounds or speed and vibration levels.
(4) report as in need of repair door locks or side ropes that have not been removed or disabled.
(5) report as in need of repair deficiencies in the ports, valves, grates and covers.
(7) report as in need of repair a return chase and plenum that are not free of improper and hazardous conditions, such as gas pipes, sewer vents, refrigerant piping or electrical wiring.
(10) report as in need of repair conductor sizing and over-current protective devices that are not appropriately sized for the unit.
(11) report as in need of repair deficiencies in the interior registers and the supply duct.
(3) operate setback features on thermostats or controls.
(10) report if the inspector deemed the furnace to be inaccessible.
(4) operate radiant heaters, steam heat systems or unvented gas-fired heating appliances.
(7) report as in need of repair deficiencies in materials used for the venting systems.
(5) operate a unit outside its normal operating range as reasonably determined by the inspector.
(13) report as in need of repair any exterior faucet attached or immediately adjacent to the structure that does not operate properly.
§535.230. Standards of Practice: Inspection Guidelines for Electrical Systems.
(8) report as in need of repair the lack of main disconnect(s).
(4) determine the accuracy of breaker labeling.
(C) is not fastened securely with cover in place.
(13) report as in need of repair the absence of, or deficiencies in, the installation and operation of smoke or fire detectors not connected to a central alarm system.
§535.231. Standards of Practice: Optional Systems.
(a) Scope. This section covers other systems and attachments that an inspector may inspect. The inspector may need special knowledge or tools to perform these inspections. It is the responsibility of the inspector to be properly informed and know current and safe procedures for inspecting the items described in this section. The inspector shall determine and provide a report of the condition of the equipment, systems, parts or components by visual observation and operation in normal modes and operating range noted at the date and time of the inspection. If an inspector agrees to inspect a component described in this section, §535.227 of this title (relating to Standards of Inspection: General Provisions) applies to the inspection.
(2) test gas lines by using a local or an industry-accepted procedure.
(c) Specific limitations for gas lines. The inspector is not required to inspect sacrificial anode bonding or for its existence.
(2) report as in need of repair deficiencies in electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilation or air-conditioning systems that the standards of practice would require the inspector to report for the principal structure.
(5) report as in need of repair deficiencies in the operation of each zone and associated valves, spray head patterns and areas of non-coverage within the zone.
(g) Specific limitations for lawn and garden sprinkler system. The inspector is not required to inspect the automatic function of the timer or control box, the rain sensor or the effectiveness and sizing of anti-siphon valves or backflow preventers.
(8) report the proximity of any known septic system.
(3) locate or verify underground water leaks.
(5) report the proximity of any known water wells; underground cisterns; water supply lines; streams, ponds and lakes; sharp slopes or breaks; easement lines; property lines; soil absorption systems; swimming pools or sprinkler systems.
(9) report as in need of repair aerators or dosing pumps that do not operate or equipment that is improperly wired.
(2) determine the type of construction used unless readily known without excavation or destructive examination.
(13) report as in need of repair the absence of, or deficiencies in, fences, gates or enclosures.
(5) inspect ancillary equipment such as computer controls, covers, chlorinators or other chemical dispensers, or water ionization devices or conditioners other than required by this section. This agency hereby certifies that the adoption has been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be a valid exercise of the agency’s legal authority. | 2019-04-26T02:23:13 | http://aaahistx.com/Standards_of_Practice.htm |
0.998604 | The UK's Africa minister has warned against allowing a "terrorist haven" to develop in northern Mali, telling MPs the situation is a "serious concern".
Mark Simmonds said the UK was offering "limited support" to French military efforts against Islamist rebels.
Two RAF cargo planes have been sent – although one was delayed in France – and UK technical personnel have been sent to Mali to receive them.
The UK's National Security Council is meeting later to discuss the situation.
The council is made up of several members of the cabinet, plus defence and intelligence chiefs when required, and meets weekly.
France has been attacking the militants since Friday, to support Mali's government.
On Monday, all members of the UN Security Council convened in New York for an emergency meeting at France's request and backed the country's military intervention.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he hoped the move by France would help restore "Mali's constitutional order and territorial integrity".
Thousands of African troops, deployed under a UN Security Council resolution, are due to join Malian and French forces to help push back the rebels' offensive.
Earlier, in a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Simmonds said: "The situation in Mali is a serious concern for the UK. It would not be in our interests to allow a terrorist haven to develop in northern Mali.
"As a responsible member of the Security Council, we must support the region in limiting the danger of instability in that part of Africa, threatening UK interests."
Mark Simmonds: "It would not be in our [UK's] interests to allow a terrorist haven to develop in northern Mali"
One RAF C17 plane arrived in France on Sunday to collect French military equipment and fly it to Bamako, Mali's capital.
However, its flight from France to Mali was delayed because of a "minor technical fault", the MoD said.
The second C17 arrived at the Evreux-Fauville airbase near Paris and was expected to be the first to leave for Mali once it was loaded.
Mr Simmonds told the Commons that a small detachment of technical personnel had also been deployed to Bamako airport, where it would operate and defend the aircraft.
BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall said Mr Simmonds could not dispel concerns among some MPs that military intervention might not be over in weeks, as the French have claimed, but turn into a quagmire that could spread beyond Mali's porous borders.
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn asked Mr Simmonds whether there was a danger of "mission creep" and the UK and France becoming "involved in a war that will actually create a growth of those forces we are seeking to oppose".
Peter Hain, a Labour former minister for Africa, said: "This could become an incredibly long, drawn-out and difficult morass. We have got to be very careful to promote a political solution to it."
Mr Simmonds said the military intervention by the French would involve a "short timeframe deployment" but that a political solution "will take some considerable time".
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said: "The situation in Mali is grave, with al-Qaeda controlling huge swathes of the country. Unchecked, this could become a real threat to the UK and others, and that is why we support the action that is being taken."
Mr Simmonds said the use of the C17s would not impact on other operational priorities, including operations in Afghanistan.
Defence minister Andrew Robathan told the Commons the UK's commitment of two RAF planes was planned to last a week.
Earlier, Prime Minister David Cameron told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Britain would also share intelligence with France as part of its campaign.
The European Union said it would bring forward a military training mission to Mali, which would be launched "in the second half of February or early March".
In December, the EU said it would train Malian and other African troops before they tried to retake the north from rebels, but the spokesman said that ongoing fighting made the mission more urgent.
Asked whether the UK would play any part in the training, the prime minister's official spokesman told reporters: "We are discussing that training mission with our European partners."
The French are trying to halt an advance by rebels affiliated with al-Qaeda, who have been pushing south from their northern base against the Mali government.
France deployed 550 troops last week after Mali forces lost control of the strategically important town of Konna to the rebels.
Islamist groups and secular Tuareg rebels seized a swathe of northern Mali in April 2012 after taking advantage of chaos following a military coup. | 2019-04-23T14:33:00 | https://www.codewit.com/north-america/4645-mali-crisis-situation-serious-concern-for-uk |
0.998261 | I'm a first-year DO student, applying to MD programs.
I am currently in my first year of DO school and I am applying to MD programs. Will this make me look bad to the MD schools? What should I say if asked to explain why I've chosen to do this? My GPA was 4.0 in undergrad and my MCAT was 507 the first time. The second time, I got a 515. | 2019-04-25T20:48:21 | https://forums.studentdoctor.net/tags/do-school-to-md-program/ |
0.999741 | In the review abstract process, would it be possible to prohibit a reviewer from reviewing their own abstract?
Yes, reviewers can only review abstracts which they have been assigned. So admin should only assign abstracts which were not submitted by the reviewer herself. | 2019-04-26T08:49:37 | https://dryfta.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/6000161647-in-the-review-abstract-process-would-it-be-possible-to-prohibit-a-reviewer-from-reviewing-their-own- |
0.997449 | Many materials are available for use in blocking the RAM and upper die of a press. However, 6061-T6 Aluminum offers much higher extruded strength per cubic inch of material than other known press safety blocks on the market. When static load capacity of material is compared, aluminum becomes the clear choice.
1.) Add the total weight of the slide (RAM) assembly plus upper die and all components.
2.) Multiply this number by two (2) for a safety factor.
3.) The resulting figure is the amount of static weight that the safety block(s) will have to support.
4.) Refer to the size safety block that should be used for load.
1.) Find stroke of press.
2.) Depending on how the block is to be used: With the die closed (stroke down), measure either the space between the upper and lower die OR the space between the slide (RAM) face and the bolster at the point where the block(s) would be placed.
5.) If end caps are ordered, subtract the end cap allowance for the desired size of block. SB-1 1¼" - SB-2 1¼" - SB-3 1½"
6.) If the adjustable screw assembly is ordered, subtract screw and one (1) end cap.
Add/subtract as directed and the result will be the safety block length to order. | 2019-04-20T16:47:56 | http://southernindustrialequipment.com/details.asp?catId=5&product=30 |
0.985696 | Using real-life acting brothers for the various sets of sibling characters in this movie might be seen as a cheesy PR stunt or an inspired move. I prefer the inspirational viewpoint. The Carradine's are superb as the Younger Brothers and the Keech's portray the James boys with considerable restrained menace, depth and stage presence. Jesse James' as played by James Keech is part humble farmer, part cold psychotic killer. Considering what the gang got up to in 19th century post-civil war Missouri, one tends to think this is just what the man himself was probably like. While Brother Frank appears to have the charisma and logic, Jesse has the steel within him and the cold detachment required for the outlaw life. However both are upstaged by David Carradine as Coleman Younger, the long haired, flamboyant, world weary star of the film. Carradine is quite superb throughout; laconic, quick witted, cool and surprisingly likable. Director Walter Hill certainly manages to bring out the contrasting and distinct characters of the gang members and wraps them up in unusual locations (for a western). This produces some wonderfully atmospheric moments and scenes of sheer cinematic poetry. All that is visually arresting about a good "cowboy " film is present here but in a stylish and individual way. The script has some dark comedy, some deep pathos and never sounds so well crafted that a bunch of country outlaws wouldn't say any of it. Some of the supporting cast stand out in their own right; Cole's fiesty whore, Belle, The James' brother mom and a young Dennis Quaid as wild but rejected former gang member, Ed Miller. All give good performances in what is a great piece of ensemble acting topped by moody photography, great stunt work and a view of these famous outlaws that doesn't paint them as quite the Robin Hood heroes of popular myth, nor totally amoral hooligans. A worthy film from an era not noted for many good Westerns.
Originally Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges were going to play the Ford brothers but they could not fit it in their schedules.
During the Northfield bank robbery, when the bank customer is shot running out the door to warn the town, he is shot in the back and blood splatters on the glass of the door. In subsequent shots of the door the blood splatter disappears.
When originally released theatrically in the UK, the BBFC made cuts to secure an 'X' rating. Cuts were made in 1986 when the film was granted an '18' certificate for home video, and most of these cuts were waived with the exception of 4 seconds when released on DVD in 2001 and again on Blu-Ray in 2013. | 2019-04-22T01:47:31 | https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0081071/?ref_=m_nm_knf_act_i71 |
0.999445 | I would like to know what you guys recommend for a multilanguage site. For example, consider the following case: A page and its content should be available in 3 languages (e.g. German, English, and Spanish); the site uses one profile type, several content types and views, taxonomy, taxonomy-references, node references, user and field references, field collections, menues and so on. All of this informations should be translatable.
As far as I know, there are two ways to obtain this: with Entity Translation and the "node-based" method, or the usual one with the Internationalization modules and l10n.
What way should I choose? In which case and why should I consider a method instead of the other?
Some good things offered by [good old] node translation include support for separate node commenting (eg. your German and English comments will not be intermixed); support for per language revisions; publication workflows (eg. the German node can be in a pre-publication revision workflow while the English is already published, coordinated actions can publish multiple language versions when all reach a certain step in the workflow, etc); different permission handling (eg. certain people can only edit German translations not English originals), thanks to Drupal's excessive node access system, etc. Think about menus. Most sites do not plan to have 1-1 menu structures for all translated versions.
The major caveat as I see it for Content/Entity/field-level Translation right now boils down to that age old Drupalism special case: the node title... Its not really a field, so its not translatable without another module, and potentially some patch work. As of right now, I think field translation is still very much "experimental" ground, but more power to you for pushing forward into new territory.
Suzanne Kennedy and Florian Loretan's presentation at DrupalCon Denver addressed this question. It seems like entity translation is the way of the future and is at least partly slated for integration into core.
Their recommendation was to use entity translation unless you need support for revisioning.
I used Node translation but now after I tried Entity Translation, it's definitely my favorite one!
I think the main problem is the import function with Entity Translation, because there is a long discussion in the Drupal community. Otherwise I read about a new module, but I haven't tried it yet. But I will give you my feedback afterwards!
If you combine Entity Translation with the Title module, you can translate everything. I also prefer the module "Localization update".
You're always going to use i18n/locale, the only choice (which isn't really a choice) is node level or field-level translation, of which only node translation is likely to be useful.
Edit: Since this was written, Entity Translation + Title module have made field-level translation very effective. If you can use them, you should.
Entity translation makes much more sense in most cases than node translation; but sadly it isn't really a viable option for D7 as many modules still do not support it. People that do presentations and show how great it is simply are only doing very simple work. For example, something as common/popular as field collections is still not supported by ET.
When we start a new multilingual site we always start with ET since it is a great idea. We stick with it until we find too many issues with things not being compatible.. and then eventually we switch back to the old D6 method.
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How can you filter out other languages Taxonomy Terms from an exposed filter? | 2019-04-22T12:30:21 | https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/17466/node-translation-vs-entity-field-translation |
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