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0.998984 | Q1: Describe the mentality of Ananias and Sapphira. Why did they do what they did? What were they hoping to gain? What is their practical theology?
Summarize Acts 1-4. Today, we are picking up at a very critical juncture in the history of the early church in Acts 5. Amidst the persecution that the early Christians endured from the Roman Empire and the religious leaders, as miraculous healings were occuring and thousands of people were being saved, at the height of the Holy Spirit being poured out in power upon these first century Christians, there is this chilling account of two church members, who happened to be a couple, Ananias and Sapphira, caught telling a lie and God strikes them dead on the spot.
To answer that, we need to first set the scene. The early church was a happening place. After the crucifixion, all the disciples had scattered. Their leader, their rabbi, their friend Jesus had been nailed to a cross. It seemed like a tragic end to a promising movement.
It was a faith community that had made quite a reputation for itself in their society.
No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Sounds like the Christian special forces. And yet the Lord added to their number continously.
This may be an obvious statement, but I want to clarify that the amount of the sacrifice is not the problem. God wants a cheerful giver and we all give according to our faith and our financial means. For some, giving a tenth of their income is tough. If you are rich, maybe you are able to give 50% of your income and still live comfortably.
This world is all about looks. That’s how the world works, but the tragedy begins when that same world mentality enters the sanctity of the church.
to encourage you, or other xian bros and sis in the dorm to keep you in check. myers/briggs – extrovert vs. introvert – where people derive energy. Christians need to have a certain streak of introvertedness. | 2019-04-22T15:08:13 | https://raychoi.org/2010/01/14/acts-5-its-not-about-looks-cultivating-god-consciousness/ |
0.999997 | Site Map/Table of Contents - link just added to the top of this website! See above.
I've been wondering how to put hyperlinks in blog comments for quite some time now, so I finally did a little research to find out how!
Normally blog comments are plain text, but here's a sample screenshot of an HTML-formatted comment, just under this post, which I'm about to teach you how to do yourself.
If you'd like to make your next comments at the bottom of an article a little more fancy, with hyperlinks, bold, or italics, for example, here's how! Feel free to practice your new skills in the comments below this article too, as scratch space to test your syntax.
I think you <b>REALLY</b> need to learn how to do this! I think you REALLY need to learn how to do this!
This is <i>really</i> neat! This is really neat!
Do NOT forget the semicolon at the end of the codes or else they won't work.
Links to each of the categories are provided at the top of their page. The math symbols, for instance, could prove very useful if you'd like to write a professional-looking math-intensive comment with proper formatting and symbols.
Instead of writing: "<b>this is how to make bold</b>", which looks like: "this is how to make bold", you could write "<b>this is how to make bold</b>", which looks like "<b>this is how to make bold</b>".
If you'd like to have a more thorough HTML cheat sheet in general, not just for the few HTML tags you can use in Google Blogger comments, I recommend you check out this cheat here: https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/html-cheat-sheet. There are a LOT of HTML learning resources online so also check out TutorialsPoint.com and others too. Hostinger just so happens to be one who reached out to me directly is all so I linked to them as one example.
Also, if you use git or GitHub for version control of any source code you may write, here is a nice list of "Basic Git Commands" from Hostinger as well: https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/basic-git-commands.
HTML Entity List - here is how to enter special characters using HTML entities; do NOT forget the semicolon (;) at the end or else it won't work!
I think you REALLY need to learn how to do this!
Steve, if you can respond within 24 hrs and give me a convincing reason why you posted this statement, I'll let it stand. Otherwise I'm marking it as spam and deleting it. | 2019-04-21T01:17:35 | https://www.electricrcaircraftguy.com/2015/02/using-html-text-formatting-for-google-blogger-comments.html |
0.999481 | Playing under his given name for his first two seasons in the NBA, he took on the name Kareem Adbul-Jabbar (Arabic for noble, powerful servant) in 1971, making an announcement on May 1st, the day after the Bucks swept the finals against the Baltimore Bullets. After playing a few seasons with the Bucks, Jabbar felt he did not fit in with Milwaukee society and requested a trade to either Los Angeles or New York. In 1975, the trade was made with the Lakers for reserve center Walt Wesley and Jabbar in exchange for center Elmore Smith, guard Brian Winters, and rookies Dave Myers and Junior Bridgeman.Jabbar remained uninjured through most of his professional career, only breaking his hand twice. Besides basketball, Jabbar was involved in a rigorous yoga routine and studied both kung fu and Jeet Kune Do style under Bruce Lee.
He's had several television and movie roles, also making guest appearances on television as himself, and has done a fair amount of coaching.Kareem is retired now and remains a Lakers legend to this day. A great deal of greats passed through the Lakers over the years but Jabbar will always be known as one of the best. He is known for the "hook" shot.
.Easy baseball betting makes it easy to bet baseball. | 2019-04-18T16:49:58 | http://www.lailaali.net/kareem_abdul_jabbar_bio__part_268011a.html |
0.999087 | After 3rd Cops' Acquittal in Freddie Gray Trials, Should Prosecutors Change Strategy?
Despite three acquittals and a hung jury through the first four trials of officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, prosecutors have the prerogative to push forward with the remaining trials.
Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams on Monday soundly rejected the case of the Baltimore State's Attorneys Office in the latest trial, of Lt. Brian Rice. He cited some of the same holes in the case he had pointed to in two previous trials in which he found officers not guilty.
Legal experts said prosecutors must reassess their cases _ but are unlikely to be blocked by Williams if they decide to push forward with the next three trials.
University of Maryland law professor Douglas Colbert said the trials are sending a message to police, and prosecutors should keep going after adapting their strategy based on Williams' latest ruling.
"It would be irresponsible not to continue prosecution as long as our elected official believes that there's evidence to satisfy the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt," Colbert said, referring to Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby. "An elected official cannot fall to the public pressure being placed by the police union and others."
But many others say Williams has sent a clear message at this point that prosecutors lack the evidence needed to prove the officers' conduct was criminal.
"The state is not simply 0-for-4," said defense attorney Warren Brown, who is not involved in the cases but has observed the proceedings. "They're 0-for-24 when you add up all the charges that the judge or jury considered through the court of four trials."
"The judge has said over and over and over again (that the evidence) falls short of convincing him beyond a reasonable doubt" that the officers are criminally culpable, Brown said.
Officer Garrett Miller, who observed Monday's ruling, is the next officer scheduled to be tried. Miller's case is fraught with new challenges for prosecutors: Because they compelled him to testify under immunity at the trial of Officer Edward Nero, a new team of prosecutors was appointed to handle his case.
Before his case, the court will hold a hearing where prosecutors will have to prove that they were not exposed to any of Miller's testimony. During the process in which prosecutors lobbied to be able to compel Miller to testify, Williams, the attorney general's office and the Court of Appeals judges all said prosecutors face a high bar at such a hearing.
Officer William Porter was also compelled to testify, and his retrial will also require such a hearing, known as a "Kastigar hearing." The third officer who still has pending charges is Sgt. Alicia White.
_Williams has agreed with defense arguments that a crowd that formed around the arrest scene gave officers reasonable cause to use their discretion not to adhere to the department's police general orders on using seat belts.
_Williams has said medical evidence was unclear about when exactly during Gray's ride in the van his injuries occurred.
_He has said that the state can't prove that police were aware of new department rules, issued just days before Gray's arrest and which took away officers' discretion regarding putting seat belts on detainees.
_And he has said that failure to follow general orders is not in and of itself a crime, particularly without being able to show that those rules were recklessly disregarded instead of a mere error in judgment.
Miller's case focuses on Gray's initial detention and arrest. Nero was already acquitted for his role in arresting Gray, and prosecutors dropped a charge against Rice related to that aspect of the case.
Williams left some room for prosecutors in Miller's trial, however, finding that Nero did not participate directly in the arrest as opposed to rejecting prosecutors' argument that the detention was illegal. Still, he skeptically questioned prosecutors during closing arguments of Nero's trial.
David Jaros, a University of Baltimore law professor who has been observing the trials, said prosecutors' best hope may be if Miller made an incriminating comment in his statement to investigators.
"Absent more evidence than we've seen, it wouldn't seem like that's a hurdle they can get over," Jaros said.
"This is a hard case," Jaros said. "There are reasons to have doubts about what happened."
But Jaros said people watching the cases shouldn't interpret Williams' verdicts as absolving the officers of wrongdoing.
"The judge made it clear that just because you made a mistake _ someone may have done something that was very wrong, that vas very inappropriate, but that doesn't necessarily make it a crime," Jaros said. "If you do something that is grossly unreasonable, but you're not aware of the risk you're taking, you're not being grossly criminally negligent, even though you're being negligent."
Williams repeatedly stressed Monday that there was a difference between civil negligence _ finding that the officers' conduct caused Gray's death _ and criminal liability _ determining that their conduct had been so reckless with results that were anticipatable that they should be convicted of a crime.
"To say there's a tragedy, therefore somebody has to be criminally responsible, is really an inappropriate manner to approach this case," said Brown, the defense attorney and observer.
David Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor who studies racial profiling and police misconduct, said while he is "strongly sympathetic that police ought to be held accountable for wrongdoing," prosecutors have proceeded with a legally dicey case.
"The American legal system is very reluctant to hold anybody, not just these police officers but anybody, criminally responsible for not doing something," Harris said. "Criminal law is not always the best tool available. Many times it feels like it should be, when there has been a parade of injustices over so many years. But any given case depends on its facts and evidence."
Colbert thinks prosecutors can dig into their evidence and find something to satisfy what Williams is looking for. "I have to believe that evidence is available, and I hope we get to hear it at the next trial," he said.
Defense attorneys have asked, prior to trials beginning, for Williams to dismiss charges. Warren Alperstein, a defense attorney and former prosecutor who has been observing the cases, said Williams will not be able to step in and dismiss the cases because of his views on the previous trials.
"No judge can control whether or not the state goes forward with any case," Alperstein said. "I don't see a scenario where any of these cases are going to be dismissed by the court. The only way the cases are not going to go forward is if the state elects to dismiss them." | 2019-04-26T14:29:51 | https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/tns-baltimore-freddie-gray-trials.html |
0.999998 | Parliamentary speaker: There is need for action. The US needs to change the way it behaves towards Iran.
When it comes to dealing with Iran, the country's parliamentary speaker said the United States would be better served taking up chess than continuing to box, the country's official news agency reported. "The United States needs to play on a chess set (with Iran) instead of playing in a boxing ring," IRNA quoted Ali Larijani as telling a group of visiting reporters in Teheran Saturday. His comments come at a time when the new administration of President Barack Obama has signaled a new willingness to engage Iran, whose relations with the previous administration were long strained. Obama last week pledged to rethink Washington's relationship with Teheran. And at his inauguration last month, Obama said his administration would reach out to rival states, saying "we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has responded by saying Iran would welcome talks with the United States - but only if there was mutual respect. Iranian officials have said that would mean that the United States needs to stop making "baseless" accusations against the Islamic Republic in order to pave the way for talks between the two longtime adversaries. The US accuses Iran of supporting terrorism and secretly seeking to build nuclear weapons - charges Iran denies. Larijani, a conservative close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said actions by the United States were creating obstacles in the way of any rapprochment. Specifically, he said the US has supported Iranian terrorist groups, disrespected Iran's rights and has repeatedly charged that Iran is seeking an atomic bomb. Iran has accused the United States of secretly supporting the People's Mujahedeen, an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the Iranian government. The US denies this and also considers the organization a terrorist group. According to IRNA, he said the problems between the two countries couldn't just be resolved "through words. There is a need for action. The US needs to change the way it behaves toward the Iranian nation." Iranian officials have long argued that no talks will succeed unless Washington deals with Iran as an equal party and not seeking to impose its will on the Persian nation. Last week, Ahmadinejad declared that Iran is now a "superpower" - pointing to the recent launch of the first locally made satellite into space - and made clear it expects to be treated as an equal. The United States and Iran severed relations after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the takeover of the US Embassy in Teheran by hard-line Iranian students. Relations deteriorated even further after the Sept. 11 attacks when former President George W. Bush declared Iran belonged to an "axis of evil," along with Iraq and North Korea. Ahmadinejad widened that gap after he was elected in 2005 and defied the US and its allies by pursuing Iran's controversial nuclear program. | 2019-04-24T23:58:46 | https://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Iran-to-US-Chess-is-better-than-boxing |
0.996423 | It’s not often the case that you get to combine both a cutting-edge technology conference with a market that, in many ways, is only just waking up to the possibilities of open source analytics. But that’s exactly what the Great Wide Open Conference (GWOC) is and I’m glad I got to attend this year!
I usually go to conferences more to learn from others than to teach, but at GWOC: I was able to do both. I think that’s because in this market – Atlanta, GA – analytics is still getting started as a hot topic/industry and it’s refreshing to be able to talk to audiences who are still “open” and haven’t decided on their preferred technology/methods yet. Speaking with a number of the presenters, I got the impression they felt the same way.
Mozilla’s Steve Klabnik talks about Rust Programming Language. Photo courtesy of Azat Mardan.
The talks kicked off with keynotes from Kelsey Hightower (Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform) who kept the energy level up by running back and forth between technical demo and talking points; Danese Cooper (Distinguished Member at Paypal, Past CTO at Wikimedia Foundation); Brandon Phillips (CTO at CoreOS); and Christian Heilmann (Senior Program Manager at Microsoft). Each of the speakers filled us in on the contexts in which open source software sits on the very edge of the mainstream. Christian Heilmann, my former Mozilla colleague, even pointed out that he’s produced more open source code at Microsoft than previously at Mozilla!
The need for an infrastructure to be able to handle un-structured and semi-structured data.
Afterwards, I fielded a number of questions about Fluentd, Embulk and MessagePack. People also expressed interest in Treasure Data itself and expressed how how amazed they were that an entire data analytics pipeline could be built end to end with only open source components! Many of them were starting to get their feet wet in analytics working with data warehouses and ETLs using proprietary tools, and so I am happy that my presentation seemed to serve as a wakeup call and validation to their thoughts.
In addition to nearly all of the speakers and organizers of the event, I also had fascinating conversations with many of the attendees, including: Data Engineers, Data Scientists, CTOs and even Human Resources people who are starting to learn about and build out their analytics functions. All were eager to save time, cost and headaches.
Was there a common theme? Yes: Open Source is still on the fringe of the mainstream and open source analytics is still largely an untapped market (one that needs demystification). In other words, there are huge opportunities waiting to be tapped.
In addition to Todd and Karen Lewis, who were extremely generous during preparation and throughout the event, a shoutout goes to all of those who organized the event.
John Hammink is Chief Evangelist for Treasure Data. An 18-year veteran of the technology and startup scene, he enjoys travel to unusual places, as well as creating digital art and world music. | 2019-04-22T17:12:59 | https://blog.treasuredata.com/blog/2016/03/22/opening-up-the-great-wide-open-atlanta-march-16-17-2016/ |
0.999996 | Start the conversation confirming the event time and place. If the bagpiper isn't available on the day or if the location is outside of their service area, you'll immediately know it's time to move on to the next piper. Alternatively, you might also consider asking them for recommendations of other bagpipers in the area.
This topic could cover the timing of the performance (i.e. before, during, or after a service), certain tunes you want played, if you're looking for multiple players/mini-band, or whether it's meant to be a surprise. The more detail you can provide upfront, the greater the likelihood the bagpiper will understand exactly what you're looking for in the performance. Of course, if you're still planning the event and are looking for advice - a truly great piper will have recommendations based on their past experiences.
Most bagpipers will ask for a deposit if the event date is a month or more out. Especially during busy holidays and 'seasons' (such as St. Patrick's Day, weddings, graduations, etc.) bagpipers might get multiple inquiries and use deposits to hold a date.
After the call or email exchange you can always thank them and ask for some time to make a final decision. Alternatively if you're satisfied with their expertise and feel comfortable working with the bagpiper, you can ask to move forward with booking them for the date. | 2019-04-24T06:16:59 | https://houseofpiping.com/tips-on-hiring |
0.999488 | Shell-model calculations are now playing key roles to investigate a wide variety of properties of nuclei owing to the developments in realistic nuclear potentials from chiral EFT and ab initio methods like IMSRG to derive effective interactions for a valence space. Under these circumstances, it is an urgent task to assess the validity of shell model itself, i.e. which states should be described within a given model space. In this seminar, I will talk about how to quantify the uncertainties in shell-model calculations, what could be concluded from that, and possible applications.
What is so puzzling about the electric charge of the proton?
which determine the response to electromagnetic interaction.
much attention even in public media.
Stellar spectra carry a wealth of information, and depending on their resolution we can extract e.g. the stellar ages, chemical composition, radial velocities, as well as the stellar parameters. By observing a large sample of different stars with high-resolution spectrographs, we can investigate the chemical evolution, of all elements detectable, from lithium to uranium. Furthermore, knowing the complete abundance pattern of the star enables a comparison with model predictions, which in turn will provide information on the formation site and process of the detected elements.
In this way stellar abundances are chemical tracers. Hence, they can guide our understanding of nuclear processes, and thereby link nuclear physics (e.g. reaction rates), through astrophysics theory (such as yield predictions) to astronomy (chemical evolution and stellar abundances).
In this talk I will outline how stellar abundances are derived and used in a chemical evolution scheme. The main focus is on the heavy elements (Sr, Y, Zr, Mo, Pd, Ag, Ba, Nd, and Eu), and how these can be used as tracers of their formation processes.
There are about 35 proton-rich nuclei whose production cannot be explained by neutron capture processes. The synthesis of these so-called p nuclei is thought to be realized in different astrophysical scenarios which are usually referred to as sites of p-process nucleosynthesis. These scenarios will be briefly introduced including the different approaches to determine the nuclear physics needed for their modelling. As a highlight, the production of the lightest p nuclei via proton capture reactions in thermonuclear supernovae will be presented. Two recent publications [1,2] found a significant contribution to the production of the most abundant p nucleus 92-Mo by this mechanism. Experimental approaches for the determination of the required reaction rates will be explained and first results will be shown.
Among all nuclear ground-state properties, atomic masses are highly specific for each particular combination of N and Z and the data obtained apply to a variety of physics topics. One of the most crucial questions to be addressed in mass spectrometry of unstable radionuclides is the one of understanding the processes of element formation in the Universe. To this end, accurate atomic mass values of a large number of exotic nuclei participating in nucleosynthesis are among the key input data in large-scale reaction network calculations.
However, the nuclides involved, e.g., in the r-process, the process responsible for the synthesis of about one half of the matter heavier than iron, are as a rule very short-lived and, moreover, have very tiny production cross-sections. Therefore, the modern mass-spectrometry techniques have to be fast and extremely efficient, such that in special cases even a single nucleus can be sufficient to determine its mass with high accuracy.
An overview on the latest achievements and future perspectives in mass spectrometry for nuclear astrophysics will be given with a focus on some recent highlights from precision Penning trap and storage ring mass measurements.
A two-component Fermi gas with attractive s-wave interactions forms a superfluid at low temperatures. When this gas is confined in a rotating trap, fermions can unpair at the edges of the gas and vortices can arise beyond certain critical rotation frequencies, as has been observed experimentally. I will discuss the computation of the critical rotation frequencies and present the phase diagram in the plane of scattering length and rotation frequency for different total number of particles. | 2019-04-19T06:39:07 | https://theorie.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/theory/otherSeminars.html |
0.999997 | Ingredients: 1 head cauliflower 1/8 cup skim milk 2 cloves garlic Pepper to taste Sprinkle of parm cheese Directions: Steam cauliflower until tender. Place cauliflower, skim milk, garlic, and pepper into a blender. Blend until smooth. Place mixture into small baking dish and sprinkle Parm cheese and paprika on top. Makes 3 servings. | 2019-04-19T16:19:59 | https://lifttrainingstudios.com/blog/page/3/ |
0.999984 | Hollywood Film Awards: What are the odds of an 'I like you' back?
Every movie star handles award season differently. Some are openly disdainful of the dog-and-pony shows — Joaquin Phoenix, anyone? — while others are able to at least feign excitement at the prospect of traipsing down yet another red carpet.
For the most part, the celebrities making their way to the Beverly Hilton ballroom for the Hollywood Film Awards on Monday evening seemed to be in good spirits. After all, the event was only the first stop on the long road to the Academy Awards in February, so fete-fatigue had yet to set in.
Marion Cotillard, who took home an acting prize for her role in the foreign-language film "Rust and Bone," said she was reveling in an experience that doesn't exist in her native France.
"It's totally different there. We don't have big events like this. We don't have award season in France," she explained.
Another person who's new to the kudos-fest experience? Ezra Miller, one of the evening's young stars, who was spotlighted as an up-and-coming talent. Dressed in distressed boots and sporting his trademark disheveled mane of hair, Miller said he worried about his capacity to make it through the next couple of months in Hollywood.
"I think I'll probably connipt and have some sort of epileptic fit," the 20-year-old joked. "I might grow some sort of mutation on my body. Some sort of skin irritation reaction."
Judd Apatow, who was on hand to accept the Hollywood Comedy Award, said his experience at award shows has changed significantly since he first got into the business.
"No one knew who I was then, so I would walk up to people and they would treat me like I was a weirdo creep," the filmmaker said. "At least now I can walk up to them and say 'I like you' and there's a 5% chance they'll say 'I like you' back."
According to Dustin Hoffman, however, offering compliments to industry peers is a faux pas.
"I don't say, 'Did you see it? Did you like it?' I never make the first move," said the veteran actor, who won an H-shaped statue for his directorial debut, "Quartet."
"Actors never do that, by the way. It's a no-no. You never say, 'I liked you in this or that.'"
And what about Amy Adams, whose "The Master" costar Joaquin Phoenix recently dissed Oscar season in not so many words as a "total, utter" waste of time?
"Joaquin doesn't get to wear all the great dresses I get to wear," the evening's supporting actress winner said with a smile. "So I have a perk that he doesn't."
Oscar Race: Who's in the lead? | 2019-04-23T20:28:49 | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-oct-23-la-et-mg-hollywood-film-awards-bradley-cooper-ben-affleck-20121023-story.html |
0.964746 | Should psychedelic mushrooms be legal? Iowa Republican thinks so.
Iowa Republican wants to decriminalize psychedelic drugs like mushrooms to make it more accessible for medicinal purposes.
Jeff Shipley is new to the Iowa Capitol, but the lawmaker is ambitious: He wants to decriminalize psychedelic drugs, like mushrooms, to make them more accessible for medicinal purposes.
Shipley, of Fairfield, is a Republican with a libertarian bent. He doesn’t think Iowans, or members of his party, should be surprised by a set of drug-related bills he's filed this month. The legalization measures appear to be among the first of their kind to be introduced in the Iowa Legislature.
While it is not clear how many other statehouses are entertaining similar measures, there are active campaigns to make psychedelic mushrooms more accessible. There's a ballot measure underway in Oregon and election officials in the city of Denver received enough public signatures recently to put the issue of decriminalizing mushrooms on the ballot later this year. An effort in California did not get enough signatures to qualify for the ballot last year.
Shipley has an emoji of a mushroom on his Twitter page, where he describes himself as a sauerkraut salesman — his account name is @SauerkrautSales; he works for a company in Fairfield and he has 12 jars of sauerkraut at his chamber desk — and Wiener Dog Racing chairman, a reference to Shipley's work overseeing an annual local competition of dachshunds. In his spare time, he does stand-up comedy.
But Shipley is serious about the drug bills. He believes Iowans recovering from drug addictions and other health ailments could benefit from more accessibility to illegal drugs that could have medicinal purposes.
One measure he proposed would allow a state pharmacy board to reclassify ibogaine, psilocybin and MDMA for medicinal purposes, and remove related penalties when the drug use is for medicinal purposes.
Ibogaine has been studied as alternative treatment for drug addiction, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Psilocybin is a psychedelic compound produced in mushrooms, and MDMA, also known as ecstasy, is a synthetic drug that alters mood and perception. Shipley believes MDMA could help veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. Some studies have supported that belief.
Another bill he's pushing would remove psilocybin and psilocyn, which are hallucinogenic, from the list of substances classified as having no currently accepted medical treatment use.
Will the bills find support?
Shipley is also a realist.
Rep. Jared Klein, R-Keota and chair of the House Public Safety Committee, said he doesn't expect the legislation to advance this year — or any time soon.
Sen. Joe Bolkcom, an Iowa City Democrat, has long been vocal about making medical marijuana more accessible. He recently proposed that the state legalize and regulate marijuana the same way it does beer or liquor. But, he said, Democratic support isn't there yet for Shipley's drug bills.
"I'm not sure we're ready to simply make all these drugs legal," Bolkcom said.
Shipley emailed a copy of the bills to every member of both chambers a few weeks ago. Shipley said he received two responses, one from Bolkcom and one from a conservative member in the House, whom he did not identify.
Shipley said he will not give up the fight. He intends to try again next year. Or maybe the year after that. Shipley hopes to serve in office for a decade, if voters re-elect him.
Shipley represents District 82 in southeast Iowa, where he defeated Democrat Phil Miller by 37 votes in one of the closest races in the November election. The district had been held by a Democrat for decades.
Shipley thinks he won because of his relentless door-knocking and because he made a promise to his constituents that he would address issues like smart meters. The devices, which transmit data about electric usage through radio frequency, have been a contentious issue for some Fairfield residents. Some believe the smart meters are unsafe.
Shipley has filed a bill that would prohibit a public utility from installing a digital meter or smart meter without a customer’s consent. The Iowa Utilities Board recently rejected Alliant Energy's request to charge a $15 monthly fee to customers who want to opt out of the utility's smart meters. Shipley considers the decision a victory for his constituents.
Other items on Shipley's to-do list: He's filed more than 30 bills since stepping foot into the Capitol building last month. Among them: a plan to require 100 percent of school lunches to be certified organic; a proposal to require students to read the Russian novel “The Gulag Archipelago” about prisons and labor camps; and, legislation that would prohibit adding hydrofluorosilicic acid or any other fluoride-based additive into public and private drinking water supply systems.
Shipley said he knows some of his ideas may not get heard in a subcommittee meeting, which is the first step toward a bill becoming a law. But he wants those meetings, because he believes they would bring more of the public into the legislative process.
"You have to start somewhere. These issues are important," he said. "When you introduce legislation, people start taking it more seriously." | 2019-04-25T02:52:05 | https://ux.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/12/iowa-republican-jeff-shipley-decriminalize-use-psychedelic-drugs-mushrooms-legislature-statehouse/2801439002/ |
0.999608 | Scientists have discovered that those who remain faithful produce 25 per cent more offspring.
important having just one mate can be.
The wide-eyed nocturnal monkeys are considered a socially monogamous species, but scientists found when a new mate usurps one of the pair, there are fewer newborns than with pairs that stay together.
It's thought the birth rate difference could be down to the time it takes for new pairs to get to know one another.
Associate Professor Eduardo Fernandez-Duque of the University of Pennsylvania said monogamous relationships have played an important role in human evolution and helped increase the species.
He said: 'Call it love, call it friendship, call it marriage, there is something in our biology that leads to this enduring, emotional bond between two individuals that is widespread among human societies.
One theory is that a woman's fertility might be increased because having a steady partner 'reduces the burden of pregnancy and lactation'.
Professor Fernandez-Duque and his team have monitored an owl monkey population in the Argentinian Chaco region observing behaviour, changes in pairings and rates of birth over 16 years.
The team observed 18 owl monkey groups totalling 154 animals.
The primates live in monogamous groups consisting of an adult male, an adult female and their offspring, with juveniles leaving the group around the age of three or four.
However in 2008 they noted a so-called 'floater' individual, which attacked the male in a pair and essentially replaced him as a mate and infant-care provider.
The study found this usurping of mates by both male and female 'floaters' is a common occurrence.
The replacements often involved dramatic fights, some of which ended fatally for the evicted individual.
But having a partner evicted harms the reproductive success of the remaining mate.
Owl monkeys with one partner produced a quarter more offspring per decade than those with two or more partners.
Although the drop in fertility is unclear it could be due to a delay in reproduction as female owl monkeys typically only conceive between March and May.
He suggested the delay could be down to the new pair taking time to assess one another before reproducing. | 2019-04-24T23:08:43 | http://www.big-wife.com/couples-who-are-faithful-are-more-fertile-than-those-who-stray/ |
0.998423 | While the last decade or two has brought it more recognition, cremation services in Hillsboro(MD) are still somewhat of an uncommon entity. However, it is fast becoming a more economical means of final disposition for deceased loved ones. Do you know how to go about planning for Hillsboro(MD) cremation services when someone close to you dies? There is a certain sequence of events that must occur in order for this option to come into play.
Cremation Services in Hillsboro(MD)- What to Do When Death Occurs?
When your loved one dies, medical authorities such as the attending physician or a medical examiner must verify the death as well as the cause. In the event death occurs after a long illness, the nursing home, hospital or personal physician in attendance calls the death. An unexpected or accidental death may require calling 911 which leads to a medical examiner handling the deceased. Before Hillsboro(MD) cremation services commence, once one of the above scenarios is carried out, the funeral establishment of your choice handles the transportation of the body to the crematory. You must make a formal identification of your deceased loved one's body in the presence of the funeral director.
Once your loved one is transported to the funeral establishment of your choice and identified formally in the presence of the director, there are certain pieces of information you will need to bring with you in order to set the plans for cremation services in Hillsboro(MD) in motion. You will need to provide your deceased loved one's full legal name, last address, marital status, date and place of birth, social security number, parent names, occupation and a list of next of kin. If the deceased was in the military at one time, their service dates and serial number are needed too. All of this information is required in order to complete the death certificate which the funeral establishment handles. Before Hillsboro(MD) cremation services are started, this paperwork must be filled out with medical data and signed by the deceased's physician and then filed with the Division of Vital Records.
There are no state laws that implicitly require embalming. There are a few circumstances when it might be suggested though. For instance, if the deceased's body has to be shipped to or from another state, embalming may be required. If you choose to have a public viewing or wake before Hillsboro(MD) cremation services, embalming might be mandated by the funeral establishment.
Embalming helps keep a deceased loved one's body from decomposing too quickly. While there is only a twelve hour waiting period after death before cremation services in Hillsboro(MD) can happen, more time is often required in order to complete the planning and paperwork involved. Embalming essentially buys you the time needed to set things into motion. If you are choosing a direct cremation route with no public viewing before a memorial or funeral service, embalming is not needed, even if you wish to visit with the deceased before Hillsboro(MD) cremation services commence.
When your deceased loved one is received by the crematory, they have an identification tag placed with them. This ensures that the cremated remains you receive afterward are indeed your deceased loved one. The tag is removed only when the deceased is placed into the cremation chamber. Because only one body at a time can undergo cremation services in Hillsboro(MD) within the chamber, there is little to no chance of a mix-up. Once the cremated remains are removed from the chamber and cooled, the identification tag is placed with them for the remainder of the process.
Choosing an Urn - Is It Necessary for Hillsboro(MD) Cremation Services?
If you are planning to scatter your loved one's ashes after cremation, you don't necessarily need an urn to house the remains. The crematory, as a default, places the ashes in a temporary container that is leak-proof. If a scattering ceremony does not happen right away after cremation services in Hillsboro(MD), you can hold onto the filled temporary container.
However, if the cremated remains are to be buried in a memorial garden or cemetery plot, a decorative urn of some sort is required. There are many styles to choose from including simple wooden boxes to elaborate cloisonn� containers. An urn would also be necessary if you plan to hold onto the ashes after Hillsboro(MD) cremation services and display them in an honored spot in your home or even store them in a columbarium.
There is no right or wrong choices in regards to funeral or memorial services. You could have a public viewing before cremation services in Hillsboro(MD) along with a funeral service. Or, you could choose direct cremation and hold a memorial ceremony, displaying the urn of cremated remains, at a later date. You choose what is best for family and friends as well as your finances. Contact a funeral specialist to help you with Hillsboro(MD) cremation services so that there is a smoother transition from death to memorialization. | 2019-04-20T04:32:11 | https://www.heritagecremationprovider.com/cremation-services-costs/maryland/hillsboro |
0.625762 | The bald eagle is a type of sea eagle with the scientific name Haliaeetus leucocephalus. It is most famous for being the national bird and symbol of the United States.
Bald eagles have brown feathers with a white head, a white tail, and a yellow beak. They also have large strong talons on their feet. They use these to capture and carry prey. Young bald eagles are covered by a mixture of brown and white feathers.
The bald eagle has no real predator and is at the top of its food chain.
How big are Bald Eagles?
Bald eagles are large birds with a wing span of 5 to 8 feet long and a body that ranges from 2 feet to just over 3 feet long. The females are larger than the males and weigh around 13 pounds, while the males weigh around 9 pounds.
They like to live near large bodies of open water like lakes and oceans and in areas that have a good supply of food to eat and trees to make nests. They are found in much of North America including Canada, northern Mexico, Alaska, and the 48 United States.
The bald eagle is a bird of prey or raptor. This means that it hunts and eats other small animals. They mostly eat fish such as salmon or trout, but they also eat small mammals like rabbits and raccoons. Sometimes they will eat small birds like ducks or gulls.
They have excellent eyesight allowing them to see small prey from very high in the sky. Then they make a diving attack at very fast speeds in order to capture their prey with their sharp talons.
Is the Bald Eagle endangered?
Today the bald eagle is no longer endangered. At one time it was endangered in the continental United States, but recovered at the end of the 1900s. It was moved to the "threatened" list in 1995. In 2007 it was completely removed from the list.
They aren't really bald. They get the name from an old meaning of the word "bald" due to their white hair.
The largest bald eagles tend to live in Alaska where they sometimes weigh as much as 17 pounds.
They live around 20 to 30 years old in the wild.
They build the largest nest of any North American bird. Nests have been found that are as deep as 13 feet and up to 8 feet wide.
Some bald eagle's nests can weigh as much as 2000 pounds!
The bald eagle is on the seal of the President of the United States.
Bald eagles can fly as high as 10,000 feet.
Cardinals - Beautiful red birds you can find in your backyard.
Mallard Ducks - Learn about this awesome Duck!
Ostriches - The biggest birds don't fly, but man are they fast. | 2019-04-23T06:40:39 | https://www.ducksters.com/animals/bald_eagle.php |
0.998931 | A hinged knee prosthesis (10) comprises a tibial component (16) and a femoral component (14). The tibial component (16) is configured to attach to a tibia. The tibial component has a bearing surface (128). The femoral component (14) is configured to hingedly attach to the tibial component (16) and rotate relative to the tibial component (16). The femoral component (14) comprises a medial condyle (30) and a lateral condyle (32). The medial and lateral condyles (30 and 32) have an eccentric sagittal curvature surface (50) configured to rotate and translate on the bearing surface (128) of the tibial component (16). A method of rotating a hinged knee (10) through a range of flexion is provided. The method fixedly attaches a femoral component (14) to a tibial component (16). Axial rotation of the femoral component (14) is induced relative to the tibial component (16) when the hinged knee (10) is flexed.
1. A hinged knee prosthesis, comprising: a. a tibial component configured to attach to a tibia, the tibial component having a bearing surface with a posterior portion, the posterior portion including medial and lateral posterior portions each having a contour that slopes medially in a posterior direction, the tibial component having a superior-inferior axis; and b. a femoral component configured to hingedly attach to the tibial component and rotate relative to the tibial component about the superior-inferior axis, the femoral component comprising: i. a medial condyle; and ii. a lateral condyle, the medial and lateral condyles having a sagittal curvature surface configured to contact the bearing surface and induce axial rotation of the femoral component relative to the bearing surface of the tibial component when the medial and lateral condyles are in contact with the posterior portion of the tibial component and the femoral component is moving in a posterior direction relative to the tibial component.
2. The hinged knee prosthesis of claim 1, wherein the medial and lateral condyles have a plurality of eccentric sagittal curvature surfaces configured to rotate on the bearing surface of the tibial component.
3. The hinged knee prosthesis of any of claims 1-2, further comprising an axle hinge pin, the axle hinge pin located transversely between the medial and lateral condyles, the eccentric sagittal curvature surface having a center of rotation not aligned with the axle hinge pin.
4. The hinged knee prosthesis of any of claims 1-3, further comprising a post configured to extend from the tibial component to the femoral component, a proximal portion of the post configured to attach to the axle hinge pin.
5. The hinged knee prosthesis of any of claims 1-4, wherein the center of rotation of a portion of the eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the medial condyle is not aligned with the center of rotation of a portion of the eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the lateral -19- condyle, wherein the medial and lateral condyles direct axial rotation of the femoral component relative to the tibial component.
6. The hinged knee prosthesis of any of claims 1-5, wherein the center of rotation of a portion of the eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the medial condyle is aligned with the center of rotation of a portion of the eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the lateral condyle, wherein the medial and lateral condyles direct anterior/posterior translation of the femoral component relative to the tibial component.
7. The hinged knee prosthesis of any of claims 1-6, wherein the medial condyle of the femoral component further comprises a concentric sagittal curvature surface wherein the center of rotation of the concentric sagittal curvature surface of the medial condyle is not aligned with the center of rotation of a portion of the eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the lateral condyle, wherein the medial and lateral condyles direct axial rotation of the femoral component relative to the tibial component.
8. The hinged knee prosthesis of claim 2, wherein the center of rotation of a first eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the medial condyle is not aligned with the center of rotation of a first eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the lateral condyle, wherein the medial and lateral condyles direct axial rotation and anterior/posterior translation of the femoral component relative to the tibial component when the first eccentric sagittal curvature surfaces contact the tibial component, and wherein the center of rotation of a second eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the medial condyle is aligned with the center of rotation of a second eccentric sagittal curvature surface of the lateral condyle, wherein the medial and lateral condyles direct anterior/posterior translation of the femoral component relative to the tibial component when the second eccentric sagittal curvature surfaces contact the tibial component.
9. The hinged knee prosthesis of claim 4, further comprising a sleeve configured to receive the post, the sleeve configured to allow axial rotation of the femoral component relative to the tibial component.
10. A method of rotating a hinged knee through a range of flexion, comprising the -20- steps of: a. providing a hinged knee prosthesis according to any one of claims 1 to 9; b. fixedly attaching the femoral component to the tibial component; and c. inducing anterior/posterior translation and axial rotation of the femoral component relative to the tibial component when the hinged knee is flexed.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the inducing translation step and the inducing axial rotation steps occur simultaneously.
12. The method of any of claims 10-11, wherein the inducing axial rotation step occurs through a portion of the range of flexion of the hinged knee.
13. The method of any of claims 10-11, wherein the inducing axial rotation step occurs through a first portion of the range of flexion of the hinged knee and a second portion of the range of flexion of the hinged knee.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first portion of the range of flexion is not adjacent to the second portion of the range of flexion.
15. The method of any of claims 10-14, wherein the inducing axial rotation step occurs at varying angular velocities as the hinged knee passes through the range of flexion of the knee.
16. The method of any of claims 10-15, wherein the fixedly attaching step comprises the steps of: a. connecting a sleeved post to the tibial component such that a sleeved portion of the sleeved post and a post portion of the sleeved post axially rotate relative to each other; and b. fixing an axial hinge pin to the sleeved post such that the axial hinge pin transversely connects a medial condyle of the femoral component to the lateral condyle of the femoral component.
17. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of fixing the sleeved portion of -21- the sleeved post to a stem in the tibial component.
18. The method of either claim 16 or 17, further comprising the step of axially displacing the sleeved portion of the sleeved post relative to the post portion of the sleeved post when the hinged knee is flexed.
19. A hinged knee prosthesis substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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0.998459 | How to Update the software version on your realme Smartphone?
Learn how to update your realme phone to the latest software version.
Should you update the software version?
Almost every smartphone receives notifications of system updates. You may wonder whether you should update your device.
1. Optimizing the system performance.
2. Prolonging your battery life.
3. Developing compatibility with more third-party apps.
4. Enhancing the system stability.
1. Plug your realme phone into power, or keep the battery level over 40%.
2. The update process takes some time. Do not operate or power off your device during the process.
3. DO NOT root the phone yourself, for that might cause damage to your system, and the warranty service will be terminated immediately.
Update your realme phone wirelessly.
1. Connect to a working Wi-Fi or Mobile network. The system will automatically show new update, if any. You can see a notification on the "System updates" icon, otherwise it will show "It is already the latest version".
2. Download the firmware. Download under a Wi-Fi network to avoid the consumption of your mobile data.
3. Click [System Updates]. Your device will reboot and start updating, which will take a few minutes.
Update with SD Card (Recovery Update).
Update with SD card is mainly used if the phone freezes at a certain interface or realme logo, or can't boot but can get into Recovery Mode.
1. Go to realme Official website > click Support > Software Updates , download the firmware to the root directory of your SD Card (A root directory is the top-most directory in SD Card file systems) .
2. Insert your SD card, then power off the phone.
3. Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons, until your phone enters Recovery Mode.
4. Under the Recovery Mode, click [Install from storage device] > [Install from SD] , find the update package.
5. Click the firmware. A confirmation message will appear on your screen. Click Yes. Your device will reboot and start updating, which will take some time.
For ColorOS 5.2 and above, Online update (keep data) in Recovery Mode is to download the firmware of latest system, which is the same as go to website to download a firmware. Before that please be sure that Wifi is connected and sufficient battery power.
1. Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons, until your phone enters Recovery Mode.
2. Under the Recovery Mode, click [Online update (keep data)], connect Wifi and please do not perform other operations in the process until successful update.
Update with the assistance of local realme Service Center.
If you can’t update by yourself, please backup the important data, bring your mobile phone, invoice and warranty card and go to the local realme customer service center to ask professional maintenance engineer for help. To find the nearest service center, you can go to Realme official website > Support > Service Center.
How to make new ColorOS updates in your realme Smart device? | 2019-04-21T06:20:39 | https://www.realme.com/in/support/kw/doc/FAQ1038 |
0.997905 | Back in the 90s, in what now sometimes feels like a former life, I spent a couple of years living in India. It was a happy time and when I discovered these images of Mumbai street art and market scenes on recently launched travel, lifestyle and design site Bly it instantly transported me back there.
Founded by San Francisco based Rena Thiagarajan, who describes herself as a recovering corporate attorney and "adventurer in chief", Bly shops markets all over the world, curating collections of textiles, home accessories, art and jewellery and offering up objects from a new destination every couple of months.
What's really great about this site is that you get to discover the story behind each object - where it was found and who it was bought from. It features people like Shahid Mansoori, whose lifelong obsession with Bollywood posters began at an early age when he started collecting the pictures of Bollywood stars that came with toffees and ice creams, and then began saving his pocket money to buy posters.
Bly sounds very much like a labour of love. How did it come about?
Bly is a labor of love. I spent seven years as a corporate attorney for start-up companies in Silicon Valley to fund my passion for travel and design. I spent years dreaming of a different life and Bly in various forms before working up the courage to take an enormous leap and pursue my passion.
I came up with the idea of Bly as it is today during downward dog in a Sunday afternoon yoga class almost exactly a year ago. The seed for Bly, however, had been planted back in 2005, when I moved to San Francisco and landed my first apartment - a little one-bedroom rental in Russian Hill. My excitement to furnish it and turn it into a space that I could come home to after a long day of work included a three-month obsessive search for the perfect rug. After exhausting my San Francisco options, including all the usual big brand furniture stores as well as high end rug galleries where rugs cost more than what I could afford, I turned to the internet and my nights were spent bleary eyed trying to find the perfect rug. I wanted something special with a story, and I finally found one in Almaty, Kazakhistan - an East Khotan rug with an unusual pomegranate design in muted grays, yellows and reds. I exchanged several e mails with the seller in Almaty, read all I could about Khotan and Khotan rugs (which, along with Kashgar, is on my list of cities for Bly), and finally wired the money. My rug arrived intact, and is one of my favorite pieces. Not only did it inspire me to make a trip to Central Asia and immerse myself in the history of the silk route, but it’s also been the subject of many compliments.
You describe yourself as a "top-notch bazaar-bargainer", what are some of your favourite finds?
I love the vintage brass tiffin carrier that I purchased from Mr. Ishaque's stall in Chor Bazaar. Vintage brass is harder to find these days than it used to be, much like vintage Bollywood posters. Ishaque polished up the tiffin carrier for us, and to me it's so representative of Indian culture - from family and food to a way of life. Another vendor from Chor Bazaar asked for my hotel information after a successful afternoon of bargaining so he could send me a "gift". To my surprise later that evening reception rang my room to tell me I had a delivery, and I received a tiffin carrier (although a modern stainless steel one not vintage brass!) with steaming biryani as a thank you.
I think bargaining is not just about getting a fair price but it's also about establishing a relationship. I spend a lot of time getting to know vendors in the bazaar and their stories. For example, Ishaque is a brave entrepreneur who took all his savings to start his own little stall. He's very focused on educating his daughter, and a successful session of bazaar bargaining is when both I and the seller walk away satisfied and happy with the experience.
What can we look forward to from the destinations coming up on Bly later this year?
We have such a great diverse line of up cities and products coming and I get so excited about each collection! In La Paz, Bolivia which will debut end of May on the site, we have the most beautiful vintage textiles. "Mantas" woven on back strap looms were made to be used as wraps, but add so much to a room draped over a couch or even on the wall. Every region of Bolivia weaves distinct patterns and colours, and I learnt about the different regions of Bolivia from Potosi to Tarabuco, Sucre and Ororu through the mantas I purchased.
From Kumasi, Ghana we have some wonderful new and old kente cloth as well as carved wooden masks. The Bukhara collections has embroidered suzanis, both vintage and new as well hand painted ceramics. | 2019-04-20T21:11:53 | http://www.designhunter.co.uk/home/2013/4/12/the-mumbai-collection.html |
0.99929 | WHAT makes a number one Elvis Presley fan?
If you have a room dedicated to a few hundred pieces of Elvis memorabilia, own the original recipe of Elvis' favourite cake and have rubbed shoulders with Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, then you're on your way to owning the top position.
Susan Kynaston has been a fan of the King since she saw him in on the big screen.
"I was about eight years old when my Dad took me to see Kissin' Cousins. He played two characters and so it was double Elvis," Mrs Kynaston said.
"I saw him on the screen and just to watch and hear him sing, I was totally mesmerised.
She next saw the King perform in concert on April 30, 1977, which she described as an "electrifying" performance that she would never forget.
"I paid $12.50 for a ticket, would you believe. I still have the ticket, it's very faded but I've still got it," she said.
The ticket joins the few hundred items in her room dedicated to Elvis' life.
"I have cups, statues, photos, jackets, pins, dolls," she said.
"I'm probably right up there (as his number one fan), very much so," she said.
Most of us know him for his music, movies and the man who will be forever known as the King, but Susan knows him for his behind the scenes humanitarian work.
She told the story of how he regularly donated funds to support cancer research and to a widow who lost her husband while he was performing in the line of duty.
"That's the kind of man he was and that's what endeared him to me. He was a great singer, very handsome, but it because of his humanitarian work," she said.
Canadian born and bred, Mrs Kynaston moved to Mackay 10 years ago and was sure to bring her passion with her.
She is the group leader of the official Southern Cross Silver Stars Elvis Fan Club, which has been running in Mackay for nine years.
The group of about 14 members puts their passion for Elvis and helping people together and held their annual Girls Night In fundraising event on Saturday night.
The girls-only Elvis-filled event raised $140, which will be donated to the Cancer Council. | 2019-04-23T05:04:43 | https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/elvis-rules-in-this-fans-affections-cancer-council/1124680/ |
0.999974 | Who said that the price of football is prohibitive for the average working man?
By chance,eighteen minutes before kick off to be precise, I found out that Pools' second string had a match against Rotherham at Bedford Terrace, Billingham, which is but a ten minute ride away.
Initially I thought that there was a big crowd in attendance as I was unable to gain access to the Billingham car park due to the amount of automobiles crammed in there. It turns out that the cars in question belonged to the players and officials.
I presented my season ticket at the turnstile, which gains the holder free admission, not to mention a gratis team sheet, and I took my place in the main stand, which was in fact the only stand, just as both teams came out. Pools fielded a strong side, eight of whom had first team experience, and collectively they had a fair few league miles on their clocks. Also in the side were three trialists.
I cannot say that I was familiar with any of the Rotherham players but none the less they had some class names in their line up: Fabian Bailey, Bradley Peace- McDonald, Darnelle Bailey- King and a Laurence Bilboe who to my mind with names like these they should have been playing polo and not football don't you know. Also in their ranks they had such Christian/First names as J'Cee, Brandon, Alaster and Trae. Interestingly, there was not one James, John, Tom, Peter, Paul Ian or Joe represented in squad on the day. Where have all the proper boys names gone? The closest we got was that of Billy (Paynter) and Dan (Jones/Smalley). I guess as a certain Mr Dylan once famously said 'The times they are a-changing'.
When you look back at the names of the footballers who played in the fifties they all had names that my football generation of the seventies were not familiar with either, such as Albert, Arthur, Cliff, Dougie Stan, Len, Jackie Ted, Hertbert and the like. I also seem to recollect that most of the players with names such as these always seemed to play for the middling Lancashire clubs ...or should that now read as Greater Manchester!
From the offset Pools dominated the game. Bingham, who had come on as a sub the previous night and scored at Accrington, was very lively as was Paynter, both of whom got first half goals. Paynter despite his long lay off looked fit and it is only a matter of time as to when he will be back on first team duty. Half time, two nil to Pools. Thankfully there was only a ten minute interval as it was bloody cold sat in that stand, plus the ski socks that I had purchased from Aldi the day before had failed miserably, as frost bite had set in after a mere twenty five minutes. (I think these socks were designed for skiing in Dubai).
Second half: a good save from the Millers keeper denied Connor Smith a hat trick. Why he is not involved with the first team is beyond me. Looks lively and has got pace. Adam Bartlett had only one real save to make during the half ...well, the whole game really, and was very vocal throughout. Two things stood out for me during the match: one was the way Pools played which was totally different from their League Two style. They say that in a club whether it be the first/second or youth team that they should all play to the same system so if someone from the reserves progresses to the first team they should slip into the system seamlessly. This did not appear to be the case against Rotherham.
The manner of play was light years away from what we normally witness from the first team. Surprisingly for most of the match the ball was kept on the grass and played to feet instead of being lumped up into the air. There was none of this head tennis from defenders that we see week in week out home and away. It was almost like 'watching football' I was also very surprised at how much space each team had. In some instances it was like, and don't laugh, watching Premiership football. Players carrying the ball and very tappy tappy with nothing like the amount of tackles going in that we see in Division Two.
Secondly, and again please don't laugh, it was well worth the entrance money alone, that I did not have to pay, just to watch Brad Walker's performance. Imperious is not too strong a word to describe his midfield display. Never lost the ball. Totally dominated the midfield, had plenty of time on the ball, superb range of passes, silky skills, made two goals and had one disallowed himself, not to mention making a few decent tackles. To be brutally honest he was a joy to watch. If a visiting manager was casting his eyes over him they would have put in an offer for him before he reached the shower. I think the reason why Walker does not perform as well in the first team is that whilst he can get away with it at reserve level, mainly because of the space that he was allowed, he hardly breaks into a trot let alone a canter at best. Think Ya Ya Toure and Alex Song of Man City and West Ham respectively, both players who are similar in style and are great passers but not the paciest, however they do have other players in their ranks who do their running on their behalf.
Unfortunately at Pools we have no pacy midfielders (ironically Brad Walker might be the quickest of them all) to do Walker's running for him, only passers. I was surprised when Wolves had him on trial recently, perhaps they see something in him that the average Pools fans/management don't. It was noticeable to all when Walker started to warm up in front of the Cyril Knowles against Exeter on Saturday that he was wearing orange boots. Pools want £50k for him. If the deal goes through it will be good business for all parties involved. Would keep the Wolves from the door if nothing else.
A goodly number of Football / Rugby clubs, excluding Pools, provide the armed forces with complimentary tickets for games throughout the season. My son, who is with the RAF, managed to secure tickets for the Sunderland - Bournemouth clash ...on the proviso that the RAF do not drop smart bombs on the Stadium of Light in the near future. No danger of that happening there as they look like imploding in on themselves in any event.
My son was apologetic that it was not a more attractive fixture that we were going to see. "On the contrary" I said "It will be a dog eat dog match with both sides going for a win". Besides, the best three teams that I have seen at the Vic in recent years, in no particular order, have been Bournemouth, Bournemouth and Bournemouth. They always try to play football the right way and what they have achieved both on and off the pitch is nothing short of a remarkable, for which they deserve every credit.
"he was a joy to watch. If a visiting manager was casting his eyes over him they would have put in an offer for him before he reached the shower"
Sunderland's next home game is against Man City which, if it is anything like last season's corresponding fixture, will be like a turkey shoot. I can envisage the Mackems having eleven men behind the ball as is Sam Allardyce's modus operandi. Once City's first goal goes in it will be all one way traffic and and it is not something I want to sit through as a neutral to watch a one sided match. Give me the Bournemouth fixture any day.
Rather than pay the inflated prices within the stadium we picked up a couple of hot drinks from a burger van outside the ground which we supped on the exact spot (near the Bob Stokoe statue) that the miners' picket line was on during the infamous strike in 1984/5. Funny - all the years in the seventies/eighties that I have crossed the Wearmouth Bridge on my way to Roker Park, or a concert or bowling, I did not know of the existence of a colliery below. Perhaps it was due to the fact I used to walk on the east side of the bridge and look over at the shipyards. Sadly ships and coal are no more.
Despite the fact that we did not have crampons karabiners ice picks and ropes and other various climbing equipment we took our seats at the very top of the stand. Our seats were at the top of the very last row and I swear if I stood on my seat I could have touched the stand roof. We were just behind the goal near the corner flag but despite our lofty position we still had a good view. Prior to the kick-off we clubbed together and had a £1 bet on Defoe grabbing a hat trick. For all he contributed he might as well have gone home.and played tricks with his hat.
First five minutes were cagey with Bournemouth lobbing in a few long balls. Son reminds me that I told him Bournemouth were a footballing side. He had not got the words out of his mouth when Bournemouth turned on the style. One nil up in twelve minutes and kept Sunderland pinned in their own half for pretty much the full 45 minutes and playing some delightful football. How Sunderland got an equaliser on the stroke of half time still remains a mystery to me. It has to be said that even before Bournemouth scored the best part of 41,000 fans were on the home team's backs (and forwards as well as midfielders!). At least at 'Pools we have a bit more patience than the Mackems. It is little wonder their players confidence is shot.
Second half Sunderland upped their game a bit and did stray into the Bournemouth half on the odd occasion. In the last ten minutes John O'Shea pushed up, obviously on his own bat, to assist the forwards. Big Sam went apoplectic, we could hear him eighty yards away screaming at his centre half whilst whirling his arms around like an out of control windmill for him to get back into defence. Big Sam was happy with a point and saw the draw as a point gained rather than two lost.
Seven or eight minutes before the whistle went, we made our exit and made a dash for the park and ride, and were back home at 17.25 GMT. I can't afford Sky TV, either monetary-wise or principle-wise. However Son, who is a whizz with technology, rigged up my laptop and next thing you know we are watching live via the TV,courtesy of some American station,The Happy Hammers playing Man City. Another freebie. All in all total spent, excluding fuel, for these two games tallied up to £3.50 which covered our hot drinks and £1 bet. Who said Football is an expensive game for the fans to watch?
In summary,the Sunderland game was a funny one for me as I have a long-standing bet that big Sam will keep them up. On the other hand I would not like to see Bournemouth get relegated either, as, in a sense they are one of ours. A fourth division side made good. Based on their performance against Bourmemouth, unless Sunderland bring in some decent signings they are certainties for the drop. They are woeful. My hope is that if Borer get to the Premiership, Sunderland and Newcastle drop down to the Championship. On the flip side if Borer fail to achieve promotion I would like to see our North East neighbours avoid the drop. Call me mean spirited or what?
I had to laugh out loud about the worldwide coverage and shame that woman from Darlington has heaped on her town by defending her right to bring her children to school whilst wearing her PJ'S. (just record the Jeremy Kyle show or watch it on catch up luv). This got me thinking. It is well documented about how at the end of each season 'Poolies don fancy dress outfits for their last away game of the season. Not only is it an eagerly awaited event not only by those who partake but by the rest of the country/world to see what this year's fancy dress theme will be. The publicity it brings to the town is second to none ...well perhaps second only to John Darwin.
Now that Darlington FC no longer exist the only joy these days when the fixture list first comes out is to see: 1) Are we at home on Boxing day 2) Are we at home at Easter 3) Where will our last away match be for the fancy dress outing.
This year number three was a major disappointment - it could not be any further away. Plymouth. As such I am guessing that there will only be a few dozen Poolies making the journey to the south west. As an alternative I think that Pools fans should take in Darlington 1066's last away game at Rushall Olympic and go in dressed up in our Jim Jams The only problem I can see with this is that the Darlow fans will probably be wearing pyjamas as a matter of course as their normal attire so some of the impact might get lost and we might get mixed up and be classed as Darloids.
Afterthought. I have just found out that Rushall Olympic are based in Walsall which is half way to Plymouth, so we might as well crack on to the south coast in our own nightwear.
On a more serious note, today I was shocked to see a woman in her sixties in Tesco Hartlepool wearing pyjamas at two o clock in the afternoon, not in the store itself but filling up with fuel on the forecourt. Normally I would have something sarcastic to say but I was actually left speechless.
I hope and pray she was on her way back home to Darlington. | 2019-04-20T16:17:16 | http://www.monkeybizz.net/2016/02/freebies-and-jim-jams.html |
0.999999 | Mr FINCH - I want to move away from the phone situation. I'm not scooting ahead to Education but I want to look at the new polytechnics. I am informed that since secondary colleges will become part of polytechnic campuses their computer services have entered a disaster zone - that's how it has been described to me. There are long waits and lack of access. Is there a response to that?
Mr BARTLETT - Well, a better time to raise that would be when we get to Education but I am happy to give you an overview. I think 'disaster zone' is a bit harsh, to be honest. In fact I know from my own background that bringing together nine campuses in a short period of time to operate on disparate systems, two different enrolment systems, a whole range of things, is an extremely complex task and I think the shared services unit in the Polytechnic and the IT area did a very good job in doing that. But they would say themselves that not all the services available to teachers in some areas were available on day one as they switched on. I can only go on what the committee was told yesterday by the CEOs of the two organisations who said that significant improvement had been made. I would also add this: I think we need a significant investment in information technology systems across the new institutions to get them to the level that I want to see in student administration and, more to the point, in teaching and learning.
The truth of the matter is that there is nothing really different in the systems that were out there operating in colleges and in TAFE campuses from last year to this year; partly it is about finding something that is wrong and partly it is about trying to bring old systems together with new systems and the normal migration issues. I am happy to explore that further when we get to that output.
Mr FINCH - Yes, quite a few of my questions were about what is happening in the Polytechnic.
Mr BARTLETT - TMD would have very little to do with that, other than they might sell some telecommunications services through the Network in Tasmania contract which is essentially Telstra services in telecommunications. | 2019-04-25T06:15:08 | http://kerryfinch.com/budget-qa-speeches/20090623j.html |
0.999995 | NO disaster of modern times has quite excited the same horror and at the same time, fascination, doubt, bravery and cowardice as the sinking of the Titanic.
Fred Barrett lived in Hanley with his wife and worked in a local pit as a collier. He was tall and strong and a good worker much respected by his mates and employers. Members of a brass band, his father and two brothers and himself would augment their income as buskers.
On his way to the pit one morning, he was informed by a friend that his wife had taken a lover and this man had been seen entering his house when he had left for work. Enraged, Fred returned home to find the insidious pair in his bed. The man sprang from the bed and cowered in the corner of the room.
A fearsome cry and Fred lunged towards him and lifted him bodily from the floor. His eyes blazed with anger and disgust, he paused, trembling, then let him fall to the floor. The man was whimpering like a child and Fred stepped back and glared at his unfaithful wife. She was crying hysterically, holding the bedcovers to her chin as though to ward off the violence she expected to come. Gripping the rail of the brass bedstead he said quietly: ''You're not worth the trouble.'' He left the house and never saw her again.
Fred then went to see his sister in Hanley, Mrs. Ada Leigh, and he told her of his trouble. He said he was going to try and get a job as a seaman and would, later, settle down in America. It was, he said, something he had wanted to do for some time.
Fred soon found work as a stoker. He worked hard and was made a leading fireman.
In 1912 he was offered a job as leading fireman on the Titanic. While waiting for the ship to sail he lodged at a public house, the King and Queen, 24 King Street, Houndwell, Southampton.
Wednesday, April 10, 1912, just before 7.30am, Captain Edward Smith (a fellow townsman), arrived wearing a bowler hat and a long overcoat. He began to receive reports from his officers.
A few moments before noon, Captain Smith gave the order to sail.
A near collision was averted by the alert action of Captain Smith and the Pilot Bowyer as the water under and around the SS New York increased in volume by the movement of the Titanic. The mooring ropes broke and the New York began to move towards the Titanic. An omen? On to Cherbourg, more passengers and cargo. Queenstown, Ireland then into the North Atlantic.
Warnings of ice were telegraphed and were received by the Marconi Wireless Operators Phillips and Bride from other vessels in the area and were passed to the Captain. One was passed to Bruce Ismay, the owner, who put it in his pocket.
When the liner struck, Captain Smith rushed to the bridge and asked officer Murdoch what had happened. ''An iceberg,'' he replied. ''I hard a starboard and reversed the engines and I was going to hard a port but she was too close - I couldn't do any more, sir.'' Captain Smith gave the order to close the emergency doors, ''The doors are already closed sir.'' replied Murdoch.
Down in boiler room number 6, Fred Barrett had been talking to second engineer Hesketh. The warning bell sounded and the red light flashed above the watertight door. There was a crash and the starboard side of the ship appeared to give way. The sea poured in and the two men leapt through the door as it slammed down behind them.
Fred Barrett saw that the situation was as bad in boiler room number 5. The gash ran about 2ft. beyond the door and a great jet of water was gushing through the hole. The stokers were scrambling up the ladder to topside. The lights went out and Engineer Harvey told Fred, who had stayed behind, to go aft for lanterns. Fred Barrett had to climb to the top of the escape ladder, cross over, and down the other side.
By the time he had retraced his steps the lights had come on again. The Engineer then ordered Fred to get the boilers shut down. The pressure had built up while the ship was at full steam. Fred scrambled back up the escape ladder and gave orders to about 20 stokers he found wandering around ''E'' deck. It was back-breaking work boxing up the boilers and putting on dampers to stop the steam rising. Clouds of steam gushed through the boiler room as they sweated and toiled.
Boiler room number 5 seemed the only place under control. After the fires were drawn, Barrett sent most of the stokers topside. By this time the ship was down at the head and listing five degrees to starboard. Fireman Barrett had noticed this but decided to say nothing to the engineers who were working on the pumps. Engineer Harvey ordered Fred to lift the iron manhole cover off the floor-plates on the starboard side so that he could get at the valves to adjust the pumps.
Orders came from the bridge for all hands to report to the boat stations. Fred told the remaining stokers to go but he remained behind to assist Harvey and after about a quarter of an hour they were pleased with their endeavours and the room was still dry. Suddenly the sea came roaring through the space between the boilers at the forward end of the room. The whole bulkhead between numbers 5 and 6 collapsed. Harvey shouted to Fred to get out. Foam surging around his knees then upwards to his waist, he struggled to the escape ladder. He looked round for Harvey who was making his way to the pump room where Engineer Shepherd lay (who had broken his leg through falling down an open manhole cover) and then Shepherd disappeared under the torrent of water. There was nothing more he could do but make his way up the ladder as the water followed him.
Fred Barrett reached the deck and walked aft to deck ''A'' on the starboard side, where there were only two boats left - number 13 and 15. Number 13 was partly lowered and full.
A call was made for any more women. None appeared and none were visible on the deck, which was brightly illuminated, Fred Barrett was told to get in and take charge.
The experience of being lowered in a large lifeboat with 64 people aboard was like descending a tall building 75ft above the ground in a continuous series of jerks. When almost to the bottom, a great discharge of water 3ft to 4ft in diameter which was coming from the condenser pumps almost swamped them.
They shouted to stop lowering, Fred and another man pushed the boat away from the side of the ship with oars then shouted to be lowered again. The lifeboat reached the sea which fortunately was as calm as a lake. Fred Barrett shouted ''Let go the after falls.'' None of the crew on the boat deck heard, or were too busy lowering boat number 15. Boat 13 was now drifting below boat 15 and the occupants were in danger of being crushed. Fred, with seconds to spare scrambled across the boat, treading on women and children. He cut the ropes just in time as boat 15 crashed down beside them. ''Pull away'', he ordered. ''As hard as you can.'' More confusion because the few crew in the boat had never handled an oar before. One of the stokers collapsed because of the freezing cold. A lady passenger draped a coat over him.
They rowed with difficulty for about a mile from the ship when Fred called a halt. The night dark and cold, yet calm, the sky clear and full of stars. They all stared in awe at the demise of the great liner. The lights were still burning, row after row disappearing as she slowly sank. Then, a rumbling noise, as the forward funnel-stays snapped and the giant funnel toppled over in a shower of sparks. The sound of engines, boilers and machinery crashing through the bulkheads.
The after part of the ship went up in the air, stern upwards, almost vertical. The lights went out. She slid slowly but gracefully to her final resting place on the bed of the North Atlantic.
Dawn came and the responsibility of ''Captain'' Frederick Barrett came to an end. They were taken aboard the rescue ship Carpathia.
After giving evidence in the American and British inquiries, Fred Barrett came to the Potteries once more to visit his sister. No hero's welcome here, his native town were unaware of the role he played in one of the world's greatest disasters. Then went I know not where. So ends a legend.
Fred Leigh. Reprinted with permission. | 2019-04-23T18:15:10 | https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/citys-unsung-titanic-hero.html |
0.999116 | There are several people from all over the world and from all times that have been concerning about artificial intelligence. Machines and artificial entities are represented in the myths and philosophy of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks in which they have qualities which have a bug resemblance to humans, most especially their way of reasoning, thinking and the one that is most concerned is the intelligence.
Know that artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science in which it is concerned about the study and the design of the machines that are intelligent. In 1956, there was a conference at Dartmouth and the term artificial intelligence was coined in that time in which it is defined as the science of making an intelligent machine.
Among the great things today, you will find that owning websites is an important thing to do. You will find that this is an important thing especially to business owners for the small and large enterprises. Most people today are relying on technology to help them shop online and be able to get the right goods in question. You will find that people who are left behind will tend to think that designing websites is an expensive deal which has people believing the fallacy.
When people have moved forward, the last thing you can do to yourself is be lagging behind. It will be important to know that the size of the business in this case will not matter and you will require a website in either way. Here are some of the given tips on how to create a small business website.
The first step in any website creation is knowing the website domain name. This is the first thing that will show that your website can be seen in a search engine. Keep in mind that the name should be easy to pronounce and also easy to be written. Adding a city or an area code to it will be an added advantage to you as well. You need to keep in mind that you will need to register the domain once you have registered it.
As with all competitive game tournaments, you will never be able to progress to the next level if you do not posses a few crucial things. These players are judged and ranked according to their win-loss ratios and how they performed individually. It is a must that these players go through each stage and succeed so that they can be ranked accordingly.
If you happen to be in the lowest ranks at the beginning of the tournament, you do not need to get discouraged just yet. But if you find that no matter how hard you try to climb the competitive ranks, you still end up in the same spot because all your efforts have been falling short.
These competitive boosting services enable you to boost your rank in competitive play tournaments. When you opt to get competitive boosting services, you are basically paying someone to log into your account and play the games for you. Using competitive boosting services, game members are beating the competitive system so that they will be able to reap the game’s rewards in the end without having to put in a lot of work. | 2019-04-22T04:33:17 | http://remotehop.com/2017/01/20 |
0.99999 | In this step, consider the following key points in your web prototype.
Avoid blinking or moving text: Avoid using the information which starts automatically and only lasts for 5 secs or have other parallel content. People with cognitive and learning impairments need more time to understand the information.
Suppress blinking: Provide options to suppress blinking, flickering and flashing.
Provide options to pause, stop the information: Carousel should have stop and play option so that people with cognitive and learning impairments can stop the screen and read the information.
Give commands for special characters and short keys: Try to provide special characters and short keys options for your application. It would be helpful for people who cannot use mouse.
More time for a task to complete: People with cognitive and learning impairments need more time to understand the information.
Visible indicator: Provide visible indicator of current focus either using different color or a rectangle box or any other indicator.
Use Alt Text: Make sure the code is having alt text for all images on the page.
Support keyboard interaction: A user should navigate the application using keyboard only.
Support customization through the browser: There should be customization like resize text possible through the browser.
Provide Low or no background Audio. | 2019-04-24T06:58:18 | http://www.accessibleuxd.com/project/development/ |
0.998973 | The main task of this thesis is to study anisotropy of spatial point patterns, especially in 3D. The motivation of this study comes from glaciology. Several deep ice cores were drilled through the Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets within the last decades. Ice extracted from a certain depth within the ice sheet contains a system of isolated air bubbles. The analysis of the point process of bubble centres extracted from tomographic images of ice core samples can give information about the the individual thinning of ice layers which were buried over time/depth. This information is fundamental for an accurate dating of the ice.
Recently, it was discovered that ice core samples may contain noise bubbles which form due to relaxation of the ice after the core is taken out of the drilling hole. So far, the effect of the presence of these noise bubbles on the estimation of the deformation parameters is unclear. Another task of this thesis is to detect the noise bubbles. This problem can be described as a classification problem. Given a superposition of two point patterns, one for the data and one for the noise, the aim is to classify the points of the superposition according to which of the two patterns they belong to. | 2019-04-21T20:05:11 | https://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/en/departments/bv/latest-news/bubble-distributions-as-markers-for-deformation-in-polar-ice.html |
0.996167 | President Donald Trump has been teasing the victory for days.
On Friday, the White House said the Department of Defense had declared that the militant group no longer held any territory in Syria. At around the same time, Trump tweeted that there was "nothing to admire" about ISIS.
The militants, meanwhile, had been putting up a desperate fight, and the American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces supported by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes had held off declaring victory.
At a victory ceremony near Baghouz on Saturday, a brass band in red and gold uniforms played the American national anthem in front of a stars and stripes flag and yellow militia banners. SDF leaders including both men and women sat watching.
The SDF had repeatedly paused its final push to capture the village in order to allow more than 30,000 civilians, many of them the wives and families of foreign fighters, to be evacuated.
Bali said they had caught several militants trying to flee among the civilians. Others had handed themselves over.
Their fate has befuddled foreign governments, with few ready to repatriate citizens who pledged allegiance to a group sworn to their destruction, but who might be hard to legally prosecute.
ISIS fighters had thousands of children. So what happens to them now?
Trump has called on European countries to take back captured Islamic State fighters currently in U.S. custody as the military prepares for a withdrawal.
But a full withdrawal is looking less certain despite the fall of ISIS.
Trump recently told members of Congress in a letter obtained by NBC News that he now agrees "100%" with keeping a military presence in Syria.
It's a major shift from Trump's announcement of a full withdrawal in December, which blindsided U.S. allies as well as many in Washington and prompted the resignation of then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
"We have won against ISIS. We have beaten them and we have beaten them badly," Trump said in a December video posted on Twitter. "We have taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home."
The White House has since said that a peacekeeping group of about 200 troops will remain in Syria "for some period of time."
In the recent letter reiterating that presence, Trump said, "[We] seek to ensure that all of the gains made in Syria are not lost, that ISIS never returns."
The move appears to heed warnings that the symbolic end of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's deathly project may not mean the threats posed by ISIS will cease.
However William Roebuck, the State Department's official in charge of Syria, added that the campaign against ISIS is not over, saying the group remains a significant threat in the region.
"We still have much work to do to achieve an enduring defeat," Roebuck said at a ceremony in eastern Syria's al-Omar oil field base.
Trump is moving on from ISIS. But its supporters walk Iraq's streets.
A recent Pentagon report found the group could reclaim territory in months and is currently regrouping in Iraq faster than in Syria, underscoring the fluid nature of the security situation in the Middle East.
"Currently, ISIS is regenerating key functions and capabilities more quickly in Iraq than in Syria, but absent sustained [counterterrorism] pressure, ISIS could likely resurge in Syria within six to 12 months," according to the Department of Defense Inspector General Quarterly Report about Operation Inherent Resolve.
The U.S. believes Baghdadi, the group's leader, is in Iraq. He stood at the pulpit of the great medieval mosque in Mosul in 2014 to declare himself caliph, sovereign over all Muslims.
The group no longer controls any territory in Syria or Iraq, but continues to carry out insurgent attacks in both countries. It also maintains affiliates in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Ammar Cheikh Omar, Matt Bradley, Reuters and Associated Press contributed. | 2019-04-23T04:03:07 | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-backed-forces-declare-victory-over-isis-syria-n972401 |
0.636986 | Viewing a thread - Suitable fabric?
3/4 length sleeves, v neck and back zipper. I am thick around the middle, and I've found it better to have a waistline seam. I would like the skirt front to have a sort of overwrap look. I am wondering if this front waist area would be too thick for ponte. What do you think?
a flat over wrapwould be ok but of you try to use pleats and folds it could lead into being thick and bulky.
another option is to use a lighter fabric for the overwrap. | 2019-04-20T06:33:59 | http://www.wildginger.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=12774&posts=2&start=1 |
0.998966 | My wife always prefers the stairs, whereas I always like to take the elevator. I guess we are raised differently.
My wife always prefers the stairs, whereas I always like to take the lift.
I guess we were raised differently. | 2019-04-23T05:08:11 | https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/my_wife_prefers_the_stairs |
0.999999 | This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Bosnia and Herzegovina women's national football team.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in association football and is governed by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until 1992, Bosnian footballers played for Yugoslavia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina achieved their best result when they reached the 2014 FIFA World Cup as winners of their qualifying group. They were eliminated after group stage narrow losses to Argentina and Nigeria and a win over Iran.
The team has appeared in numerous other qualification play-offs, in 2010 FIFA World Cup play-offs loss to Portugal, as well as qualifying play-offs for UEFA Euro 2012 and UEFA Euro 2016, losing to Portugal and Republic of Ireland respectively, preventing the team from reaching their first UEFA European Championship.
Its' two home stadiums are Grbavica (Sarajevo) and Bilino Polje (Zenica). The team's highest FIFA World Ranking was 13th, achieved in August 2013.
Bosnia and Herzegovina have seen a steady rise in their fortunes on the international football stage in recent times. Historically, Bosnia, a war torn and divided nation, has managed multiple playoff appearances and has qualified to one FIFA World Cup. More often than not, the team produces solid results in qualifiers and challenges for a top spot.
From 1920 to 1992, the players lined out for Yugoslavia, but following the outbreak of the Bosnian war and subsequent independence, a new football nation arose from the ashes.
The early period saw Bosnia and Herzegovina have to wait until the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers to compete for a place in a major competition. Bosnia finished fourth in a group that included Greece, Denmark, Croatia and Slovenia. This was then subsequently followed by further disappointment with lackluster campaigns in the UEFA Euro 2000 qualifiers, as well as the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
This early period was followed by Bosnia coming very close to qualifying directly for their first ever major competition, UEFA Euro 2004, narrowly missing out by a single goal against Denmark.
Bosnia failed to make the grade in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, despite being unbeaten at home, and the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers, which saw their poor home form cost them. Bosnia and Herzegovina then experienced double heartbreak, bowing out twice in the playoffs to Portugal, first 2–0 on aggregate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup decider and then 6–2 on aggregate in the UEFA Euro 2012 decider.
Bosnia and Herzegovina qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, hosted by Brazil, in October 2013 by beating Lithuania, finally breaking their curse and participating in a major tournament.
Bosnian squad at their first ever FIFA World Cup game. (coach: Safet Sušić).
They managed to finish third in a group which included Argentina, and tasted their first victory thanks to a 3–1 win over Iran. Nigeria pipped Bosnia for second place in the group with a 1–0 win marred with controversy following an incorrectly disallowed goal scored by Edin Džeko in the first half.
Bosnia finished third in the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers behind Belgium and Wales. After making an unfortunate start to the qualifiers with a surprise 2–1 home defeat against Cyprus and managing just two points through four games, manager Safet Sušić was dismissed and replaced by Mehmed Baždarević.
After the slow start, the Bosnian performance improved dramatically, with five wins in their remaining six matches, including victories over Wales and Israel along with three clean sheets. However, they ultimately failed to qualify after a two legged playoff encounter with Ireland. Bosnia failed to make back-to-back FIFA World Cups after failing to qualify to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The following players were called up for Euro 2020 qualifying games against Armenia on 23 March and against Greece on 26 March 2019.
Caps and goals correct as of 26 March 2019 after the game against Greece.
INJ Withdrawn due to injury.
U21 Called-up to U21 squad.
Euro 1996 – Could not enter as the national team was not yet a member of UEFA.
Table does not include results of minor tournaments (reserve players) managed by Husnija Arapović.
Due to one match suspension of Mehmed Baždarević for unsportsmanlike behaviour, assistant manager Dragan Perić took charge of the team on 25 March 2017.
Tables correct as of match played on 26 March 2019.
Emir Spahić captained Bosnia at their first ever FIFA World Cup tournament. This is a list of Bosnia and Herzegovina captains for ten or more official and friendly matches.
Note: Some of the other players to have captained the team include: Mehmed Baždarević (2 caps) 1996, Meho Kodro (5) 1997 to 1998, Vlatko Glavaš (1) 1997, Suvad Katana (2) 1998, Elvir Bolić (6) 1999 to 2000, Bruno Akrapović (4) 1999 to 2003, Hasan Salihamidžić (1) 2004, Zlatan Bajramović (1) 2006, Džemal Berberović (1) 2007, Asmir Begović (5) 2014 to 2017, Haris Medunjanin (4) 2016 to 2018, Vedad Ibišević (1) 2017.
Table correct as of match played on 26 March 2019.
FIFA-ranking yearly averages for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Their average position since FIFA World Ranking creation is 58.
The Bosnian national team has more recently begun to use Stadion Grbavica, located in Sarajevo, for its' home games, following a renovation in 2018.
The second of the two main stadiums of the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina is Bilino Polje, located in the city of Zenica. The stadium was built and opened in 1972, and is used to host matches of a more intimate atmosphere.
On 10 August 2012, the Bosnian Association and the local government of City of Zenica financed the replacement of the old grass surface at the Bilino Polje Stadium.
Another stadium Bosnia has used is City Stadium Koševo, also known as Olympic Stadium Koševo, for some of its' games.
Its' training ground for domestic matches is the N/FSBIH Training Center in Zenica, which was opened in 2013 in conjunction with UEFA.
A popular nickname of all Bosnian sport teams and/or sportsman is "Zmajevi" (Bosnian: zmajevi, lit. 'dragons'), popularized by football TV commentator Marijan Mijailović during Belgium vs. Bosnia (2-4) 2010 WC qualification game on 28 March 2009.
General agreement among Bosnia and Herzegovina sports fans is that nick has historical context, it is considered as an allusion to the famous Bosnian general Husein Gradaščević, who fought for Bosnian independence, and who was known as the "Dragon of Bosnia".
In both local and foreign media, they are sometimes referred to as the Golden Lilies, which was original nickname given to all country's teams and sportsman by fans after independence in reference to official state insignia at the time (flag and coat of arms), which itself referred to the Fleur-de-lis historical state insignia, featured on the coat of arms of the ruling Bosnian medieval Kotromanić dynasty.
The team kit is currently produced by German sports apparel company Adidas. Also sponsoring the team are BH Telecom and Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine, companies from Sarajevo.
Bosnian fans supporting the national team.
A large number of national team's supporters come from Northern and Western Europe, North America, and some from as far away as Australia. Most of these fans are members of BHFanaticos, Belaj Boys, BHLegion, Armija Zmajeva (Dragons Army) and Ljuti Krajišnici groups.
In the game against Norway, at the Ullevål Stadium in Oslo on 24 March 2007, Bosnian fans caused an hour-long delay due to an unprecedented amount of flares that had been thrown onto the pitch in protest against corruption in the (now former) Football Federation of Bosnia. On 1 June 2008, former Bosnia and Herzegovina players Meho Kodro and Elvir Bolić organised a friendly humanitarian game in Sarajevo called "Kodro, Bola and Friends" between former Bosnian football legends, in order to gain support, to say its time for changes in the Bosnian Football Association. The game was organised to commence at the same time as Bosnia and Herzegovina national side faced Azerbaijan in a friendly in Zenica. The attendance in Sarajevo was 15,000 while in Zenica only about 50. The game in Sarajevo was organised by the Federal TV who broadcast the humanitarian game live. A significant number of Bosnian International players were involved in the game, which ended 11–9 in favour of Team Kodro.
Before every game, during the playing of the Bosnian national anthem, BH Fanaticos sing lyrics from the old national anthem Jedna si jedina, as the current national anthem does not have lyrics in all international sports Bosnia is part of (mainly football, basketball and handball).
The table lists opponents played, sorted by members of FIFA affiliated confederations.
Turkey 3 – 2 Edin Džeko's debut senior cap and first international goal.
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0.999757 | Will multi output VST plugins be supported?
Some 3rd party plugins such as FXpansion's Geist feature multiple outputs, which may be routed freely to other audio tracks. Will this be supported in a future version of Bitwig?
This is one of the features that Bitwig must have before I even consider buying it. I wouldn't even buy it for a quarter of the price without this feature. For now I'll continue playing with the demo.
I've asked the same question a while ago (and quiet recently again). Multiple outputs will be supported in a future version. Even before 2.0 if I am not mistaking.
Agreed. I will not be prurchasing until this is added. I was really excited about the demo. I then tried to route Kontakt. ... no longer excited by demo. Product is worthless to my workflow.
Multi output from plugins is very high on the priority list of the developers, but not sure which version will add this feature.
It would appear that this would be a "required" feature for most owners of "multiple output" software, Kontakt and etc. However, if you have a multi-core processor on your box, careful consideration should be taken regarding this feature. Depending upon your platform, your software and your DAW, multiple outputs from a single track may NOT be able to spread the processing load across the multiple cores on your box. It may be best to create your "scratch" midi track; i.e. a drum/percussion groove or a string or brass section on a single track and then export each sound to its own midi track, create another software instance for those midi tracks and then process in Bitwig when preparing your mix. For the final mix, a rendering of midi to audio would be optimal and an expected deliverable format. Would like to know from Bitwig how this functionality is going to be implemented in their future update and what they recommend regarding best practices for now and when the multiple-out feature becomes available. Thanks a bunch!
Yes, Bitwig has said it will be in an update before version 2.
Seeing this is a priority is reassuring. But, its exclusion in today's environment is pretty laughable. I have no idea how to program a DAW, but I do know what is needed to be taken seriously. This is one of those features. This was a major oversight for a first release. All the sparkle of my shiny new demo was ruined in a matter of minutes with the realization I couldn't use it with my core plugins. wah wah..
Same reason I stopped playing with the demo. Will not even start considering BW again til this is on the table.
Linux: How do i keep two (or more) Bitwig versions side by side?
Arm multiple tracks at once? | 2019-04-20T22:48:21 | https://answers.bitwig.com/questions/131/will-multi-output-vst-plugins-be-supported |
0.998896 | LeBron James raised some eyebrows when he said the Knicks botched their 2017 draft by not selecting Dennis Smith Jr. in the first round.
After the Cavaliers defeated the Mavericks on Saturday, James praised Dallas' Smith, saying he "should be a Knick."
During the NBA Draft in June, the Mavericks got Smith after the Knicks selected Frank Ntilikina, which prompted many to think Saturday that James' comment was a dig at Ntilikina.
James clarified Monday that his statement had nothing to do with Ntilikina and was a dig at former Knicks president Phil Jackson.
"It's definitely a shot at (Jackson)," James said, via cleveland.com.
He continued to praise Smith and defended his comment that the Knicks passed on an excellent player.
"(Smith's) athleticism, his playmaking ability, I've been knowing the kid since he was 14 years old," James said. "I know what he's capable of. I wasn't throwing shade at Frank at all. People really got their pants in a bunch, and things of that nature. In New York, you look for any controversy here. I was just stating what I saw in Dennis Smith and what I saw coming out and watching the draft. I thought he would be a great fit here with Porzingis, and that's not to Frank won't be a great fit."
So far, James' assessment rings true. Smith is averaging 14.8 points per game with 4.9 assists and 3.8 rebounds. Ntilikina is averaging 4.4 points per game with 5.0 assists and 1.9 rebounds. | 2019-04-24T07:59:22 | https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nba/news/nba-lebron-james-dennis-smith-jr-phil-jackson-frank-ntilikina-new-york-knicks-video/1m4e2ss18410611ij1fisssoia |
0.999999 | True, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't or can't talk/complain about this thing that we love so dearly.
Those TK's are falling apart! Someone from the UKG needs to be allowed up there to piece those splitting seams back together. I'm loving the Death Troopers and Shore Troopers. Nice to see the E-11 back again along with lots of cool new boasters.
These new TK costumes remind me of how, with each new superhero movie, they have to change the costume just because they can. Spiderman has a different suit in each movie, Batman and Superman are the same. Heck, even the new Star Trek movies have subtly different costumes in each one. Why? They have huge budgets and a costume designer that wants to show off a little.<br><br> Having said that, I have no problem with making the new TK armor look more 'real' or 'functional.' Make the ab buttons look like they do something, rather than just having the vac formed bumps with a bit of Testors slapped on 'em. Make the tube stripes look like they actually provide a breathing filter or something. Etc.<br><br> My only complaint is changing the design or adding a detail for no apparent, as of yet, reason. The angled join between the ab and the kidney armor...why? The big ugly black plastic girdle joining the chest and the back armor. Why? Rogue One takes place so close to ANH that it seems a design change like these shouldn't be there.<br><br> Does the helmet look like an eFX helmet? In my opinion, yes, and I don't like it. However, 99% of the viewing public, as I've encountered with the general public when I troop, don't notice these differences. They can't tell an RS from an FX! But that doesn't mean that we can't discuss it here. Heck, were stormtrooper professionals boys and girls! It's our job to discuss this minutiae!
I found a tiny red spot just like yours in my front ab piece. Tiny, but it seems to be embedded in the plastic. Most likely dust from some other plastic project when the ABS was made.
When I reglued my thigh pieces, I worked a dull, flat edged putty knife under the pieces and slowly pried them apart. They came apart pretty easily with no damage, then I cleaned off the E6000 by pulling it up like dried rubber cement.
Dad converts a Jumbo EpVII TK into a kids costume.
I just picked one of these up at Walmart today for $49! Starting to disassemble it tonight. Yours looks fantastic. What kind of paint and primer did you use?
Named for the TK that was supposed to be at his post and the year of my birth, 1970.
The armor is going to be on display starting tomorrow, along with a few more Ep 7 props and costumes. Can't wait for people to start sending back close ups of the new armor. I like it!
They shipped tons of Trek stuff. So there's that.
Nah, looks like too much is going on. Too many add-ons and greeblies, too busy. Plus, the shoulder and bicep armor is too reminiscent of Robocop for me. I love the leaked helmet photos though. We'll see.
If this is real: I LOVE it! That looks so dang cool. I'm not much for change, but this looks so cool. I hope this is right, but at the same time, why would stormtroopers evolve after the fall of the Empire? | 2019-04-20T12:55:48 | https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/profile/13977-btjepson/ |
0.996853 | Richard Edward Arnold, known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He created the Nashville sound in the late 1950s, and had 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. Arnold sold more than 85 million records from 1943 until his death in 2008.
Arnold transcended different musical tastes in country music. He served as a role model for future musicians with both his music and his scrupulously moral personal life. A member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."
Arnold was born on May 15, 1918 on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee. His father, a sharecropper, played the fiddle, while his mother played guitar. As a boy Arnold helped on the farm, which later gained him his nickname—the Tennessee Plowboy. Arnold attended Pinson High School in Pinson, Tennessee, where he played guitar at school functions and events. He dropped out before graduation to help with the farm work, but continued performing, often arriving on a mule with his guitar hung on his back. Arnold also worked part time as an assistant at a mortuary.
In 1934, at age 16, Arnold made his debut on WTJS-AM in Jackson, Tennessee, landing a job there in 1937. He performed at local night clubs and had a permanent spot on the station. In 1938, he was hired at WMPS-AM in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was one of its most popular performers. He soon left for KWK-AM in St. Louis, Missouri, followed by a brief stint at WHAS-AM in Louisville, Kentucky. | 2019-04-20T03:16:50 | http://www.walkoffame.com/eddy-arnold |
0.999775 | 1. First, prep your sriracha aioli. Mix the mayonnaise, and sriracha together using a fork to avoid any lumps, once they've been properly combined add in the freshly squeezed lemon juice. Mix all the ingredients together and set the mixture to the side.
2. Heat a large pan with 1 tsp - 1 tbsp of avocado or olive oil. Once your pan is hot place your veggie burger patties face down on the pan and allow them to cook for approximately 4-5 minutes/side on medium high heat. Season each side lightly with salt and pepper.
3. While the burger patties cook, rinse the butter lettuce. Place three lettuce leaves on top of one another on each plate. Use three leaves for each burger. Then slice your cheese, 1 thin slice per burger patty will suffice.
4. Once the burger has cooked for 4-5 minutes/side, flip the patty over once more and place the cheese on top. Cover the pan and allow the cheese to melt. This should take about 2-3 minutes.
5. While the cheese melts, slice your tomato and onion if you're using onion.
6. Once the cheese has melted place the burger on top of the butter lettuce, then the tomato, then the onion (if you're using one) then sprinkle the sriracha aioli on top. | 2019-04-19T05:17:29 | http://www.laucole.com/new-blog-1/2018/3/4/nakedvedggieburger |
0.996848 | TOYOTA INDOOR SPORTS CENTRE - OK LANDING RD. VERNON BC.
EVERYONE INTERESTED IN TENNIS IS WELCOME. YOUR INPUT IS MUCH APPRECIATED.
Contact by email ([email protected]) if you have any questions.
League play begins on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 7:00 pm. See Program information below the calendar on the weekly schedule for how to register and when to purchase your 2019 VTA Membership. Thank you.
Tennis for all skill levels. Some "Skills and Drills" sessions may be held prior to, or during, this session. Information will be on the website when this occurs.
Registration for this league requires a 2019 VTA Membership.
Contact: Mike Kozlowski at 250-938-4778 to register for this league. Please check the weekly tennis schedule below the calendar for how to sign up and when to purchase your 2019 VTA Membership. Thank you.
2019 VTA Memberships will be available on-line beginning Friday, April 17.
Adult Tennis Programs for 2019 will commence Monday, April 22, 2019 and run for approximately 21 weeks. The schedule is below and on the Calendar.
♦ Adult Dates and Times for all 4 courts at Marshall Field from April 22 to June 29, 2019.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday = 5:30 – 7:00 pm.
Tuesday and Thursday = 7:00 – 8:30 pm.
Saturday = 9:00 – 11:00 am.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday = 7:00 – 8:30 pm.
⇒ See complete program description below.
Registration required. This league is open to both men and women players. The first 16 players to sign up will play. Additional players will be put on a spare list. Spares are always in demand. Contact: Mike Kozlowski at 250-938-4778 to register for this league. 2019 VTA Membership should be purchased on-line between April 17th and prior to beginning of play Tuesday, April 30, 2019.
Wednesday – 5:30 – 7:00 pm. – Drop-in – All levels of play – some coaching may be available. Some “Skills and Drills” sessions may take place if requested.
All 4.0+ players (men and women) who are interested in playing on Thursday evenings, should contact Jeremy Bell at [email protected] or Blake MacLeod, [email protected], by April 23, 2019. Organized play will commence on Thursday, May 2nd, 2019. The intention of Thursday night doubles league is to have the strongest level of play possible. In determining the sixteen “regulars”, the level of play, tournament experience and last year’s Thursday results will all be considered. A pool of strong spares is also needed for this league to be successful. Please consider being a spare if you are not able to commit or if the roster becomes filled. 2019 VTA Membership should be purchased on-line between April 17th and prior to beginning of play Thursday, May 2, 2019.
Some “Skills and Drills” sessions may take place if enough players are interested. Information will be sent by email and posted on the website.
Saturday – 9:00 – 11:00 am. – Drop-in – All levels of play.
We will try to have Coordinators during all VTA Drop-in sessions. Depending on the number and level of players, Coordinators will match up the level of players as best they can during Drop-in times. The Schedule is subject to change if levels and numbers warrant.
2.0 Can get the ball in play but lacks control, resulting in inconsistent rallies. Often chooses to hit forehands instead of backhands. Tends to position in a manner to protect weaknesses. Inconsistent return. In singles, reluctant to come to the net. In doubles, understands the basic positioning; comfortable only with the forehand volley; avoids backhand volley and overhead. In-complete service motion. Toss is inconsistent. Double faults are common.
2.5 Can rally consistently 10 balls in a row, especially on the forehand, with an arched trajectory over the net when the objective is to hit to a partner at moderate speed. In singles, consistent when returning towards the middle of the court. In doubles, difficulty returning cross-court to start the point. Becoming at ease at the net in practice but uncomfortable in a game situation. Attempting a full service motion on the first serve. First serve in inconsistent (less than 50%). Uses an incomplete motion to ensure a steady second serve.
3.5 Able to move the opponent around the court or hit harder when receiving easier balls. Can execute approach shots with some consistency (more than 50%). Can return fast serves or well-placed serves with defensive actions. On easy second serve, can return with pace or directional control; can approach the net in doubles. Becoming confident at net play; can direct FH volleys; controls BH volley but with little offense; general difficulty in putting volleys away. Can handle volleys and overheads that require moderate movement. Can vary the speed or direction of first serve. Can direct the second serve to the opponent’s weakness without double-faulting on a regular basis.
4.5 Can use a variety of spins. Beginning to develop a dominant shot or good steadiness. Erratic when attempting a quality shot in two of the following situations: receiving fast balls, wide balls, and in passing shot situations. Off first serves, can defend consistently but very inconsistent (less than 30%) when attempting an aggressive return. In doubles, has difficulty (less than 50%) returning a first serve at the feet of the incoming serve and volleyer. When coming to the net after serving, consistently able to put the first volley in play but without pace or depth; however, inconsistent when trying to volley powerful or angled returns. Close to the net, can finish a point using various options including drop volley, angle volley, punch volley. Aggressive first serve with power and spin. On second serve frequently hits with good depth and placement without double faults. Can serve and volley off first serves in doubles, but experiences some inconsistency. | 2019-04-23T08:15:18 | https://vernontennis.com/programs/ |
0.998088 | Towards an Integrated Information Platform for the formulation, fault diagnosis and reconfiguration of processes.
In order to have an autonomous system (or at least semi-autonomous) some ingredients are necessary. The first one is information or knowledge. And the second one is how to use that information to allow the self-diagnosis, and self-reconfiguration of a system. In this seminar an overview of different information sources (data modelling, ontologies, libraries, ... regarding to process systems) is initially presented. After some methodologies that use information to pursue a target are commented.
Finally a devised draft proposal of an architecture to integrate "information & use" is commented. The purpose of the seminar is to open a discussion on how to approach a methodology that (using what's already available) can be generic enough to be applied to the generation of autonomous systems.
The long title of the seminar should be Integrated Information platform for the formulation, fault diagnosis and reconfiguration of process systems.
In order to have an autonomous system (or at least semi-autonomous) some ingredients are necessary. The first one is information or knowledge. And the second one is how to use that information to allow the self-diagnosis, and self-reconfiguration of a system. In this seminar an overview of different information sources (data modelling, ontologies, libraries, ... regarding to process systems) is initially presented.
After some methodologies that use information to pursue a target are commented. Finally a devised draft proposal of an architecture to integrate "information & use" is commented. The purpose of the seminar is to open a discussion on how to approach a methodology that (using what's already available) can be generic enough to be applied to the generation of autonomous systems.
This is a seminar on the nature of knowledge.
The Wikipedia says that knowledge is information of which someone is aware and that knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.
In the context of autonomous systems, this old-age question has to go to the very ground: what is this that enables a system to act properly?
Desde el inicio de la Inteligencia Artificial -o incluso antes- se persigue la construción de máquinas que sean semejantes a los humanos, en cierta medida, personas artificiales.
Una justiificacion de esta investigacion se puede encontrar aqui.
The Chinese Room is a mental experiment proposed by the american philosopher John Searle to highlight weaknesses of the classic artificial intelligence research program.
This mental experiment focus on the issues related to the process of language understanding, questioning the possibility of real understanding by the machines postulated by AI.
Searle first formulated this problem in his now classic paper "Minds, brains and programs" that was published in 1980 (link) in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Ever since, it has been a mainstay of debate over the possibility of what Searle called strong artificial intelligence, i.e.the possibility of building machines that not only seem to think like us but indeed do.
iiii.Therefore, programs are not minds.
Searle's conclusion is that the intelligent machines postulated by AI are just mindless manipulators of symbols, just as the man in the room is - and they don't understand what they're 'saying', just as he doesn't. | 2019-04-22T22:14:42 | http://tierra.aslab.upm.es/public/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=6&Itemid=57&limit=9&limitstart=18 |
0.998934 | Marketing and Communication are of high importance to reach out your potential coworking community and partners, as well as to launch and strengthen your company branding.
A good content plan, well researched and planned, won’t only help you to reach new objectives. It will help you to get to know your community better and understand where to position yourself in order to stand out. This, in turn, will add value to your coworkers and to your coworking space. Communicating without having anything valuable to say is just as counterproductive as not communicating at all.
Diversify your content. Don’t always talk about the same issues, or on the same day or at the same time. Try different types of content (images, infographics, videos, articles, news…) and combine them in different ways on your social networking sites. Remember that each channel should have its own style, remember the corporate identity of your coworking.
Monitor and analyse all of your actions, website visits and social networking sites to get to know your community better, correct errors and strengthen those things which have already given you good results.
Construct a list of powerful, quality subscribers segment it according to profiles/types of audience and generate different newsletters with specific messages and content to achieve the best results.
Although it might seem that having a large community of followers on Facebook will give you a lot of exposure, it won’t generate conversions to your website or blog. Increasing your Facebook following will, however, improve your positioning within the site.
In the same way, Twitter Ads don’t provide results and are actually more expensive than Facebook.
If you want to build a solid and loyal community, create a feeling of belonging in your messages (they are your family!). There is nothing which gives you more credibility and is more powerful than others talking about you and on behalf of you. Ask your members to recommend you, share your content, and even generate content for you.
Explain and share what makes your coworking special. Act like a leader.
What sustains and enriches a coworking is its content. The small details make a difference.
Your community is the centre of everything. Talk about the coworkers, what they do, what they are like, anecdotes about working in the space. It’s the best way of promoting yourself and attracting new members.
Remember that this is your online image. It may not be your communication hub, but it is your cover letter. The first thing we look at when we want to get to know a company, project or professional is their website. Keep it up-to-date and looked after (avoid publishing parts that are incomplete, broken links and bad quality images).
A coworking is synonymous with life, dynamism, creativity and social relationships, and this should be reflected in your channels and your online image. A community in which lots of things happen and lots of events are being organised regularly cannot be served if afterwards this information isn’t being communicated and shared with the rest of the community.
If one thing distinguishes a coworking space from shared offices or business centres, it’s the people and the relationships between them. The main character of the story isn’t the space, but its community. Before looking for the ‘perfect’ photo, share natural looking images depicting emotions, spontaneity and social moments.
Traditional marketing doesn’t work here, forget about it. If you insist on basing your communication on the selling of your services and products, the only thing you’ll achieve is that your content will cease to be interesting, you’ll lose followers, distance yourself from your community and become ‘just another business which rents out space’. Your true potential lies in your coworkers. Speak to them, about the things which interest them and that they care about. Even if you have an offer or a special promotion, try to communicate putting yourself in the shoes of those who are going to receive the information. Change your message and you’ll have more chances of success.
Choosing a personal profile instead of a company profile for your coworking space is doubly dangerous. On one hand, there’s a chance that the social networking site will penalise you and close your account for inappropriate use. On the other hand, personal profiles don’t offer the same benefits as a company website. In fact, you could lose something as fundamental as your page analytics.
Mk and Communication presentation of Edu Forte from Betahaus at Coworking Spain Conference 2015.
Featured picture provided by Betahaus Barcelona. | 2019-04-26T11:37:00 | https://www.happyworkinglab.com/dos-donts-marketing-communication-coworking-spaces/ |
0.998444 | X3HAudio.sys error message constantly displays on your PC? Have no idea to avoid this annoying notification and fix the error well? It might be a common issue for many computer users who unluckily encountered the associated problem on system. So now, let's see what happen and how can figure it out.
X3HAudio.sys is a normal program file that required by the related program to running properly, normally this file is located in one of the following locations: "C:\Windows"\, C:\Program Files\, C:\Program Files\Common Files\, C:\WINDOWS\system32". Though this file is quite an ordinary file, when it become corrupted or damaged, it is responsible for the common error that could happen in most of the Windows-base computer.
After getting the general knowledge about X3HAudio.sys from the above information, one can easily find that having the error problem on the computer system will not only can't do any good for the computer system, but also create a lot of troubles for the operation and use of the computer. Therefore, you should take actions to fix the related error when this error problem occurring on your computer.
In most case, registry problem is the reason to blame for this error. Registry is the most critical component of Windows that stores every data and configuration of your computer, every hardware/software needs to connect to registry to function properly. However, the everyday regular use of computer will keep creating wasted/invalid/obsolete that could dilate the registry and cause registry malfunction eventually, this could lead to system slowness and various system error including the X3HAudio.sys error.
You will be presented a list of restore points that you created before, select one of them which you believe is previous to the happen of X3HAudio.sys error.
If you found X3HAudio.sys is not missing, but located in a strange place other than the above mentioned location, or you found multiple of this file in your computer, that may indicates your system is suffering from spyware infection, and that is one of the possible causes of this dll error.
What is spyware? Spyware is a kind of malicious software which can be installed on user's computer in many ways. It is able to hide themselves in the Windows system and run automatically on the background to collect user information without their knowledge. Spyware can also disguise themselves as system file which makes your computer vulnerable to be attacked by other threats and bring you dll/exe errors such as the X3HAudio.sys error. If you suspect this error is caused by spyware issue, you need to use antispyware to help you scan and remove the spyware in your computer.
Now you may have successfully fixed the X3HAudio.sys error, however, it is important to know how to prevent such error from happening again. Actually, many computer problems including the error can be caused computer user carelessness or mistaken operation, which is totally preventable, below is a few tips to help you prevent computer problem even enhance your computer stability.
Outdated system files or drive can caused compatibility problems which would lead to X3HAudio.sys errors including many other computer problems, this also create system loophole to allow threats like virus and malware sneaking into easily. So, the most important thing is to keep your computer components like operating system, applications, device driver up-to-date by installing the latest Windows update, patches and drivers, etc.
If you don't want to looking for a solution to fix X3HAudio.sys error and other issues so hard, these are all good suggestions you can take. | 2019-04-19T04:31:21 | https://advancedfix.com/windows-exe-files/how-to-fix-x3haudio-sys.html |
0.999979 | Which if the ryu include formal teaching of the Hanbo? I know the majority of material I have used comes from Kukishin ryu.
You mean of the nine schools forming Bujinkan Dôjô Budô Taijutsu? Or of any schools?
I was told by one of my ryuha experts that the hanbo techniques on Soke's Kukishin Hanbojutsu (sanjakubojutsu) DVD are not all Kukishin ryu kata.
So, even what's publicly presented isn't going to be exactly per densho.
In addition, if you look at the publicly presented techniques of some of our other ryuha, you don't find weapon techniques listed in the levels of training - but you find defenses against those weapons. So, either the training is in other parts of that ryuha densho, or those training in that school would already have been trained in those skills.
In the case of the Kukishin hanbojutsu, that set of techniques came from an encounter where a yari was broken in battle and the wielder defeated their opponent with the haft. It was born out of a real combat situation, not created out of theory and put into practice to "test" it.
The same may not be said for some of the other ryuha, especially where certain weapons may not be specifically codified in written techniques. In those situations, I think that the training itself is such that any weapon can be picked up and applied without having to learn a new set of skills. In other words, it may already be hardwired into the techniques, without actually being labeled as such.
I was thinking specifically from the 9 ryu in the Bujinkan.
In my notes, my techniques for the Hanbo have been noted as being specific to Kukishin ryu (never saw the video).
Most of the infromation I have seen other people do, waza and kata wise seem to be Kukishin ryu as well.
Is Kukishin ryu the only one with Hanbo and all the others use Jo or Rokushakubo?
there is a video of Kukishinden Ryu Hanbojutsu and Shikomezue. Most (if not all) wooden weaponary comes from Kukishinden Ryu. Even the Bo has some schools that are sort of related to each other. But then, some of the wooden weaponary are not the standard 3 foot staff.
maybe the correct answer is all the ryu ?
consider the hanbo an extension of your body and use your taijutsu !!!!!
try to do them with a bo in your hand ..or a walking stick???
but then again what the hell do i know ?
Naturally, you can naturally use any weapon as an extension of your Taijutsu, but that might not have been the Q... but the syllabus for Hanbô, set forms for that weapon specifically.
that might not have been the Q... but the syllabus for Hanbô, set forms for that weapon specifically. | 2019-04-24T02:03:38 | http://www.kutaki.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=ASC&topic_id=3472&forum=1&move=prev |
0.995667 | The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is an NP-hard problem, which has been an interesting problem for a long time in the field of discrete or combinatorial optimization techniques, which are based on linear and non-linear programming. The TSP presents the task of finding an optimum path or route through a set of given locations (cities), such that each location is passed through only once, and the route looped in such a way that it ends at the starting location 1, 2. In Operational Research, TSP problems still remain one of the most challenging problems, which cannot be solved easily by using traditional optimization techniques such as enumeration methods and mathematical programming 3. Solving TSP optimally takes huge computational time and therefore the need for the development of an approximate algorithms or heuristics that gives near optimal solution in a reasonable computational effort 4.
In the last decades, many heuristics based algorithmic strategies were proposed in the quest for finding near-optimum solutions to the TSP problems, among which include tabu search (TS) 5, simulated annealing (SA) 6, genetic algorithm (GA) 7, ant colony optimization (ACO) 8, particle swarm optimization (PSO) 9, artificial immune system (AIS) 10, artificial neural network (ANN) 11, elastic net (EN) 12. All the algorithms listed here draw their inspiration from nature, through the observation of physical processes that occur in nature. They are implemented by mimicking different natural systems and processes using mathematical models and algorithms.
In this paper, the possibility of applying a hybrid symbiotic organisms search (SOS) algorithm with local search simulated annealing (SA) to solve the traveling salesman problem is investigated. The symbiotic organisms search algorithm was first introduced in 12, inspired by the symbiotic relationships strategies, which exist among organisms in the ecosystem. The SOS algorithm was initially proposed to solve continuous engineering optimization problems. Several experimental results from literatures 13-16, which have used SOS algorithm as an optimization tool to find global optimum solutions, indicate that the algorithm shows a considerable robustness in its performance when tested on complex mathematical benchmark problems. Therefore, the potential of SOS in finding global solution to the aforementioned optimization problems makes it attractive for further investigation. In addition, since, SOS has not gained wide recognition in solving discrete problems, such as, routing and assignment problems, we believe that, this could be our motivation to introduce SOS to solve complex discrete problem such as the TSP.
The remainder of this paper is organised as follows: Section 2 presents related works; Section 3 provides a short description of the TSP problem; Section 4 presents the proposed SOS-SA method of solving TSP problem; while Section 5 describes and discusses the simulation results carried out on some benchmarked TSP instances; finally, conclusions and directions for future research are given in Section 6. | 2019-04-23T14:45:02 | https://alpinegravity.net/the-traveling-salesman-problem/ |
0.999033 | John Kerry perfectly reflects the contradictions in how most Americans want to remember the Vietnam War. It was a heroic effort demanding great courage from hundreds of thousands of young Americans. It was also a tragic mistake that ended because of the courageous stand against it taken by hundreds of thousands of young Americans. Kerry represents both sides of this awkward equation. He won five decorations for injury and heroism, but then became its antithesis as spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
In Bush's case, there's also the touchy little matter of what happened after April 1972, when he seemed to have disappeared, with two years of his Guard duty still to go. Apparently he got permission to move to Alabama in order to work on the Senate campaign of one of his father's friends. There is no record of him reporting for duty there. By this time young Bush was a fully trained Air Force pilot, having completed the mandatory two-year training program, yet at this point he let his pilot status lapse. More than a year later -- some eight months before his Guard commitment was up -- Bush received an honorable discharge, just in time to start Harvard Business School.
Should we care? Unequivocally, yes. Presidential elections are mostly about character, not ideology. No one who reaches late middle age is exactly the same person he was in his early 20s, but the tendencies that mark the passage from youth to adulthood can provide important information about later behavior. That Bush used family connections to get into the National Guard and then apparently left when it suited him suggests a pattern of evasion or indifference that would repeat itself in later years.
Which brings us to the second aspect of Vietnam that most Americans would prefer to forget, but which Bush perfectly exemplifies. Beginning about 40 years ago, the U.S. government lied repeatedly to Americans about the danger North Vietnam and the Vietcong posed to American security, trumping up a casus belli in the Gulf of Tonkin. Vietnam thus marked the beginning of a four-decade-long plunge in Americans' trust of our government.
As president, Bush has replicated this sordid history. He lied about the danger Saddam Hussein posed to American security and came up with his own trumped up "weapons of mass destruction." Invading Iraq to stop global terrorism has been as disconnected from the goal as sending Americans to Vietnam to stop global communism. As it did in Vietnam, the war in Iraq drags on without a clear vision of what we ultimately want to achieve there. We don't have the slightest idea how to establish a democracy that will ally itself with the United States in years ahead; we don't even know how to extricate ourselves from the morass without unleashing a vicious tribal war. And as was the case 40 years ago, much of the rest of the world is appalled by America's shoot-first, ask-questions-later belligerence.
The radical conservatives in the Bush administration who pushed the United States into Iraq were intent on erasing the legacy of America's impotence and humiliation in Vietnam. Yet they are in the process of re-creating it. And in so doing they are resurrecting the memories of Vietnam.
The two men who are likely to square off against each other in November represent the best and the worst of that national nightmare. Republicans are fond of equating themselves with patriotism, but there's little doubt which of these two men defines the term. | 2019-04-22T04:12:04 | https://prospect.org/article/last-word-1 |
0.999802 | Being in an offside position is not an offence in itself, but a player so positioned when the ball is played by a teammate can be judged guilty of an offside offence if they become "involved in active play", "interfere with an opponent", or "gain an advantage" by being in that position.
Being in an offside position is not an offence in itself; a player who was in an offside position at the moment the ball last touched, or was played, by a teammate, must then become involved in active play in the opinion of the referee, in order for an offence to occur. When the offside offence occurs, the referee stops play and awards an indirect free kick to the defending team from the place where the offending player became involved in active play.
The offside offence is neither a foul nor misconduct as it does not belong to Law 12. Like fouls, however, any play (such as the scoring of a goal) that occurs after an offence has taken place, but before the referee is able to stop the play, is nullified. The only time an offence related to offside is cautionable is if a defender deliberately leaves the field in order to deceive their opponents regarding a player's offside position, or if a forward, having left the field, returns and gains an advantage. In neither of these cases is the player being penalised for being offside, they are being cautioned for acts of unsporting behaviour.
An attacker who is able to receive the ball behind the opposition defenders is often in a good position to score. The offside rule limits attackers' ability to do this, requiring that they be onside when the ball is played forward. Though restricted, well-timed passes and fast running allow an attacker to move into such a situation after the ball is kicked forward without committing the offence. Officiating decisions regarding offside, which can often be a matter of only centimeters or inches, can be critical in games, as they may determine whether a promising attack can continue, or even if a goal is allowed to stand.
One of the main duties of the Assistant Referees is to assist the referee in adjudicating offside — their position on the sidelines giving a more useful view sideways across the pitch. Assistant referees communicate that an offside offence has occurred by raising a signal flag. :191 However, as with all officiating decisions in the game, adjudicating offside is ultimately up to the referee, who can overrule the advice of their assistants if they see fit.
The application of the offside rule may be considered in three steps: offside position, offside offence, and offside sanction.
The blue forward on the left of the diagram is in an offside position as s/he is ahead of both the ball and the second-last opponent (marked by the dotted line) in the opponents' half of the pitch. This does not necessarily mean s/he is committing an offside offence. It becomes an offence only if the ball is played or touched by a teammate while s/he is in an offside position and the player subsequently becomes involved in active play according to the definitions given in the Laws of the Game no matter if any of these events occur after they move to an onside position.
The blue forward in the penalty area of the diagram is not in an offside position, as s/he is behind the ball, despite the fact that s/he is closer to the opponents' goal line than the second-last opponent.
Any part of the player's head, body or feet is in the opponents' half of the field (excluding the half-way line).
Any part of the player's head, body or feet is closer to the opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent.
The goalkeeper counts as an opponent in the second condition, but it is not necessary that the last opponent be the goalkeeper.
"playing or touching the ball passed or touched by a team-mate"
making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball"
- been deliberately saved by any opponent"
In addition to the above criteria, in the 2017–18 edition of the Laws of the Game, the IFAB made a further clarification that, "In situations where a player moving from, or standing in, an offside position is in the way of an opponent and interferes with the movement of the opponent towards the ball this is an offside offence if it impacts on the ability of the opponent to play or challenge for the ball."
There is no offside offence if a player receives the ball directly from a goal kick, a corner kick, a throw-in, or a dropped-ball. It is also not an offence if the ball was last deliberately played by an opponent (except for a deliberate save). In this context, according to the IFAB, "A ‘save’ is when a player stops, or attempts to stop, a ball which is going into or very close to the goal with any part of the body except the hands/arms (unless the goalkeeper within the penalty area)."
An offside offence may occur if a player receives the ball directly from either a direct free kick or an indirect free kick.
Since offside is judged at the time the ball is touched or played by a teammate, not when the player receives the ball, it is possible for a player to receive the ball significantly past the second-to-last opponent, or even the last opponent, without committing an offence.
Determining whether a player is "involved in active play" can be complex. The quote, "If he's not interfering with play, what's he doing on the pitch?" has been attributed to Bill Nicholson and Danny Blanchflower. In an effort to avoid such criticisms, which were based on the fact that phrases such as "interfering with play", "interfering with an opponent", and "gaining an advantage" were not clearly defined, FIFA issued new guidelines for interpreting the offside law in 2003; and these were incorporated into Law 11 in July 2005. The new wording sought to define the three cases more precisely, but a number of football associations and confederations continued to request more information about what movements a player in an offside position could make without interfering with an opponent. In response to these requests IFAB circular 3 was issued in 2015 to provide additional guidance on the criteria for interfering with an opponent. This additional guidance is now included in the main body of the law and forms the last 3 conditions under the heading "Interfering with an opponent" as shown above. The circular also contained additional guidance on the meaning of a save, in the context of a ball that has "been deliberately saved by any opponent."
The sanction for an offside offence is an indirect free kick for the opponent at the place where the offence occurred, even if it is in the player’s own half of the field of play.
A Linesman signals that the offside offence was in the middle of the pitch; on the far side the flag would be pointed up at 45 degrees, for near the linesman it would be pointed down.
The assistant referees' task with regard to offside can be difficult, as they need to keep up with attacks and counter-attacks, consider which players are in an offside position when the ball is played, and then determine whether and when the offside-positioned players become involved in active play. The risk of false judgement is further increased by the foreshortening effect, which occurs when the distance between the attacking player and the assistant referee is significantly different from the distance to the defending player, and the assistant referee is not directly in line with the defender. The difficulty of offside officiating is often underestimated by spectators. Trying to judge if a player is level with an opponent at the moment the ball is kicked is not easy: if an attacker and a defender are running in opposite directions, they can be two metres apart in less than a second.
Some researchers believe that offside officiating errors are "optically inevitable". It has been argued that human beings and technological media are incapable of accurately detecting an offside position quickly enough to make a timely decision. Sometimes it simply is not possible to keep all the relevant players in the visual field at once. There have been some proposals for automated enforcement of the offside rule.
Offside rules date back to codes of football developed at English public schools in the early nineteenth century. These offside rules, which varied widely between schools, were often much stricter than the modern game. In some of them, a player was "off his side" if they were standing in front of the ball. This was similar to the current offside law in rugby, under which any player between the ball and the opponent's goal who takes part in play, is liable to be penalised. By contrast, the original Sheffield Rules had no offside rule, and players known as "kick-throughs" were positioned permanently near the opponents' goal.
If the ball has passed a player and has come from the direction of his own goal, he may not touch it till the other side have kicked it, unless there are more than three of the other side before him. No player is allowed to loiter between the ball and the adversaries' goal.
As football developed in the 1860s and 1870s, the offside law proved the biggest argument between the clubs. Sheffield got rid of the "kick-throughs" by amending their laws so that one member of the defending side was required between a forward player and the opponents' goal.
The compromise rule that was written into the Laws of the Game in 1866, and eventually adopted universally, was to adopt a form of the Cambridge rule, but with "at least three" rather than "more than three" opponents.
In 1924, the concept of passive offside was introduced.
The rule changed to "two opponents" in 1925 and led to an immediate increase in goal-scoring. 4,700 goals were scored in 1,848 Football League games in 1924–25. This number rose to 6,373 goals (from the same number of games) in 1925–26.
In 1990 the law was amended to adjudge an attacker as onside if level with the second-to-last opponent. This change was part of a general movement by the game's authorities to make the rules more conducive to attacking football and help the game to flow more freely.
During the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons, an experimental version of the offside rule was operated in the Scottish League Cup and Drybrough Cup competitions. The concept was that offside should only apply in the last 18 yards of play (inside or beside the penalty area). To signify this, the horizontal line of the penalty area was extended to the touchlines. FIFA President Sir Stanley Rous attended the 1973 Scottish League Cup Final, which was played using these rules. The manager of one of the teams involved, Celtic manager Jock Stein, complained that it was unfair to expect teams to play under one set of rules in one game and then a different set a few days before or later. The experiment was quietly dropped after the 1974–75 season, as no proposal for a further experiment or rule change was submitted for the Scottish Football Association board to consider.
In the 1987–88 season, the Football Association was authorised by the International Football Association Board to test an experimental rule change, whereby no attacker could be offside directly from a free-kick.:32 The competition chosen for this experiment was the Football Conference. The change was not deemed a success, as the attacking team could pack the penalty area for any free-kick (or even have several players stand in front of the opposition goalkeeper) and the rule change was not introduced at a higher level.
Pioneered in the early 20th century by Arsenal and later adopted by influential Argentine coach Osvaldo Zubeldía, the offside trap is a defensive tactic designed to force the attacking team into an offside position. Just before an attacking player is played a through ball, the last defender(s) move up field, isolating the attacker into an offside position. The execution requires careful timing by the defence and is considered a risk, since running up field against the direction of attack may leave the goal exposed. Now that changes to the interpretations of "interfering with play, interfering with an opponent and gaining an advantage" mean a player is not guilty of an offside offence unless s/he becomes directly and clearly involved in active play, players not involved in active play cannot be "caught offside", making the tactic riskier. An attacker, upon realizing s/he is in an offside position, may simply choose to avoid interfering with play until the ball is played by someone else first.
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Laws of the Game 2017-18 — Law 11 - Offside is on pages 93–95. Pages 195 - 201 give visual diagrams of situations in which offside offences occur or do not occur under Law 11. | 2019-04-20T14:20:54 | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offside_(association_football) |
0.999999 | Is Noel Gallagher Buying Liam A Christmas Present This Year?
Noel Gallagher is letting his brother Liam Gallagher "benefit" from his "genius" for Christmas.
The siblings have barely spoken since Noel, quit Oasis over eight years ago and he has barely spoken to Liam since the acrimonious parting of ways. However, the two have thrown verbal barbs at one another for most of 2017.
The Holy Mountain singer made an appearance on The One Show to promote his new album Who Built The Moon? and when asked by hosts Matt Baker and Angela Scanlon if he was buying his younger relation a gift to mark the festive season he aimed another dig his way.
Answering, the guitarist said: "Liam's been benefiting from my genius for a long time. I think he's going to have to make do with that this year."
Noel's comment could be interpreted as a reference to Liam's acclaimed concerts over the past year which have seen him perform a number of songs which Oasis recorded but his brother wrote, such as Some Might Say, Wonderwall and Slide Away.
Speaking previously about the frontman's mixed setlists of his own solo songs from his LP As You Were and Oasis classics, Noel said: "I look at it philosophically. I'm here doing my thing, he's out there also doing my thing. You know, he's promoting my records, and as long as he keeps filling out the little form at the end of every gig, ticking off the songs that I wrote, it's all good."
Noel is no fan of Liam's album - which contains hit singles Wall Of Glass and For What It's Worth - and has mocked his reliance on Adele's producer and co-writer Greg Kurstin and other songwriters to create his debut solo effort.
Comparing Liam to Niall Horan, the rocker previously said: "I'm not sure I can be arsed formulating an opinion on a record that's written by an army of songwriters.
“Isn't the one from One Direction doing that? The little Irish fella with the acoustic? At least he has the decency to play a guitar. I'm not a fan. I have nothing to say about it." | 2019-04-24T09:55:25 | https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/noel-gallaghers-high-flying-birds/noel-gallagher-buying-liam-christmas-present/ |
0.999999 | I've read that an SR-71 is faster than an M-16 rifle bullet. Is it easier for an object with more mass to go faster than an object with less mass?
Could a projectile reach hypersonic velocities with chemical propellant?
Are man portable electromagnetic projectile weapons possible?
Well, in the sense that adding propulsion systems to an object means it is easier to get it to high speeds - yes, I guess. Or you could just build a system that accelerates something over time then lets it go. The energy needed increases with mass, but so can the complexity. There is no real way to answer this one. For example if you let the launching mechanism be arbitrarily large then it is easiest to gets something small up to speed. It you impose size/time/acceleration limits then the question becomes highly dependent on the limits you have set. A bullet is all about getting mass to a point with enough energy to do damage. Giving it propellant means you get less mass hitting the target - so you have to trade off speed versus mass against damage caused - which is not a simple relationship because larger, slower bullets tend to fragment when they (which is far more lethal), reduce collateral and so on.
Yes, although you might need a large calibre round to pack in the fuel and stuff if you are still thinking weapons. Otherwise here is a testbed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51)that did just that.
Yes, but they require large power supplies. The limit right now is on the number of shots you get and projectile speed. Better power densities and they might even become practical! The US Navy is actively researching and procuring ship-based systems, but that is because they have a ship sized generator to back it up.
One thing you need to remember is that it takes an SR-71 much, much, much longer to reach its top speed than a bullet. And the bullet has no engine. If you could put an engine on a bullet I'm sure you could get much faster. As a rule, it takes less energy to get a lighter object to go fast than a heavy one. However, one additional issue is that as you go higher in the sky, the air gets thinner so it gets easier to go fast. When an SR-71 hits those top speeds, it is very high in the sky. Whereas an M-16 bullet is at ground level, where the air is very thick.
solid base, you'd approximately double the bullet's speed.
You couldn't do anything like that with the SR-71.
There isn't a simple relationship. Jet engines don't easily scale down to the size of chemical propellant guns, and such guns don't easily scale up to the size of jet aircraft, or down to the size of particle accelerators which can easily beat both in terms of speed.
They're not impossible, but practicality is another issue. You've got a lot of equipment needed to accelerate the projectile, compared to a tube closed at one end and bit of propellant. An electromagnetic weapon is going to be pretty fundamentally bulkier and heavier than a directly equivalent chemical weapon. It may have capabilities that chemical weapons can't easily achieve, though. An electromagnetic mortar running from batteries charged in the field by a vehicle's power system might add as much weight in batteries as it saves in propellant, but still increase the amount of ammunition that can be delivered to the front by removing the need for propellant.
There is a maximum muzzle velocity of about 2 000 m/s for projectiles fired from guns with conventional propellants: tank guns firing armor piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding sabot (APFSDS) get pretty close that value. In other words, taking that M-16 bullet and using the propellant charge from one of the New Jersey's 16 in guns and a very long barrel won't result in 50,000 m/s muzzle velocity -- it will result in about 2,000 m/s muzzle velocity and a lot of wasted energy.
I have seen medical lasers that use power supplies the size of a very small refrigerator. They are not exactly quiet and the noise they make sounds nothing like a Sci-fi laser. It sounds like two metal bars being slammed together.
I suspect you might want one for an electromagnetic projectile weapon.
I haven't done much reloading in a long while, but my (possibly faulty) memory says your standard 5.56 NATO round has about 3,000 fps muzzle velocity.
I know there are a lot of newer designed rounds, but a couple decades back, the .220 Swift was considered speed king, and hot loaded, you could get a bit over 4,000 fps muzzle velocity. I'd have to research what is considered the top speed round now. That said, in the rifle I had, best accuracy was better if I loaded down a bit, in the 3,800 range. (Measured by chronometer).
I seem to remember the legendary P.O. Ackley having made up some wildcat rounds that were impractical at best, but very very fast.
What it takes to make a plane that fast, I can't comment on. For a bullet, its a lot about powder capacity and barrel length.
Wasn't there just some sort of test of a plane/drone/missile that was doing Mach 20? Considerably faster than an M-16, or any other bullet I am familiar with.
I read recently that there is a fundamental limit to gas velocity. When a compressed gas is released to a vacuum, the exit velocity has a maximum achievable value of four times the speed of sound in the compressed gas.
I don't know where I read it or if it is true.
As far as conventional bullets go, somewhere between 4500 and 5000 FPS is about the hard limit. If a standard barrel has a 1 in 12 rifling twist, the bullet makes 1 revolution per foot traveled. At 4000 feet per second, that's (60*4000) 240,000 RPM. Not too far above that, the bullets no longer hold together and you get a gray smoke trail that ends in a puff about 60 yards away. This was either with a .223 (same round as an M-16) or a 6mm. I don't recall which one my uncle was firing.
M-16's also have a much faster rifling twists. 1:9 or 1:7.
The limit has nothing to do with rifling...you can always just use less twist or a smoothbore. It's a matter of the dynamics of the expanding gases.
I have to interject a chuckle in this thread.
I used to have black powder pistols and muzzle loaders. The numbers listed in this thread are so far beyond what black powder can do, they seem scary-fast to me. You can increase the amount of black powder to increase speed, but there is a magic "do not exceed" number that you do not want to hit.
The changes in the technology are incredible.
A projectile, not considering rockets/missiles, would go faster depending on the type of gun and propellant. A ram-air gun might be able to get to those speeds, but it's a different type of gun system.
you can make an electromagnetic gun manportable, but you'll be limited in power an projectile mass and velocity, but it be done within those constraints. Whether it would be deadly, would depend on velocity and distance from target, like any other gun.
The maximum upper limit, maybe. But the physical limit on the bullet is far lower. The smoothbore option would stop it from shedding the jacket (but accuracy would suffer greatly), and a solid brass bullet may not have the issue at all, but those aren't really standard.
Too little powder, which sticks the bullet in the barrel.
A little too much powder, which does anything from flattening the primers, to blowing the case in half, to causing the bullets to vaporize (not literally, but it's the common term).
Way too much powder, or the wrong type, which causes the gas to expand faster than the bullet can get out of the way (barrel obstructions fit this as well), which causes the action to release the pressure with variable degrees of explosive force.
It's not really the technology as much as the chemistry. Smokeless powder burns more slowly, and different types burn at different rates. If you put the powder used in a .44 Magnum into a .50 BMG, the .50 would have a very good chance of blowing up.
Pistol powder needs to release its energy as fast as possible. It burns quickly to provide a very short term "kick".
Large rifle powders burn slower which lets the expanding gas maintain a more even pressure over a longer time, even though there is far more of it. A .50 BMG is more of a really hard push than a kick. The maximum pressure is all about the same.
Black powder is the fastest of the lot so it's very easy to get too much and create an "overpressure situation." Those are bad.
I've read that an SR-71 is faster than an M-16 rifle bullet.
Forty years ago, there were some .22 caliber bullets that were manufactured with a kind-of caseless propellant. Let's see if I can find a wiki page on it.
It was the Daisy V/L rifle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_V/L), I think.
Heckler and Koch also made an assault rifle called the G-11 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11) that used caseless ammunition, but it never went into production.
At one point, the US Navy (I think) was looking at a 25mm caseless (http://wstiac.alionscience.com/wstiac/iacdocs.do?PA40443) gun to replace the 20mm cannon on fighter aircraft.
Basically the upper theoretical limit for a gun, i.e. something which accelerates a projectile through gas pressure, is limited to the speed of sound in the pushing gas.
Hypervelocity guns achieve very high velocities by using a two stages system were stage one is a classical gunpowder gun which fires a large massive projectile in a large bore barrel which is filled with hydrogen or helium, then using the energy of that projectile to compress that second-stage gas and pushing it through a smaller bore barrel for the real projectile.
As the speed of sound in those gases are >3 times that of regular air, it's possible to get velocities far faster that the speed of sound in air.
No. The limitation is due to gas dynamics, not the bullet. We're not talking about how fast you can push a specific weapon designed for lower velocity projectiles. Bullet velocity is not limited by the bullet's structural integrity, even with conventional materials, and brass is hardly an exotic material...high velocity rounds are often materials like tungsten or depleted uranium. And once again, it is entirely possible to use less twist to the rifling or a smoothbore, and a smoothbore is actually preferable in many cases due to the high aspect ratio of typical high velocity rounds...rifling is less effective if not actively counterproductive for such rounds. These rounds are often fin stabilized instead, and together with the high velocity get quite reasonable accuracy...not that accuracy is actually relevant to the physical limits on bullet velocity. The Steyr IWS 2000 sniper "rifle" is actually a smoothbore gun firing tungsten carbide or depleted uranium APFSDS rounds.
As HenrikOlsen stated, it's related to the speed of sound in the propellant gases. The two-stage light gas guns he mentioned can achieve far higher muzzle velocities, and are used in research into protecting spacecraft from micrometeorite impacts. Guns using hydrogen-rich propellants or hydrogen itself are also being researched (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion_light_gas_gun), due to the higher velocities that can be achieved with these propellants.
I'm interested in the speed of sound in helium, hydrogen. Why is it quicker when the gas molecules are further apart ? I can see why a projectile might move faster (less friction) but a sound wave requires a medium to travel through and exist in.
The speed of sound, c, in any medium is (∂p/∂ρ)0.5 or the square root of the partial derivative of pressure with respect to density. For a perfect gas -- a very good approximation for hydrogen or helium at pressures under a few megapascals -- this reduces to c=sqrt(γ R T/M) where γ is the ratio of specific heats (1.67 for helium, 1.4 for diatomic molecules, 1.3 for triatomic molecules), R is the gas constant (about 8.3), T is temperature (in kelvins -- celcius and fahrenheit are useless for thermodynamics) and M is molecular weight.
For helium, at 288 K, c is about 1000 m/s vs about 340 m/s for air.
Pop over to the Hyperphysics (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/souspe3.html)site. It's a great place for this sort of stuff.
Basically the upper theoretical limit for a gun, i.e. something which accelerates a projectile through gas pressure, is limited to the speed of sound in the pushing gas.Except ram accelerator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_accelerator) uses similar principles to work around it.
We're not talking about how fast you can push a specific weapon designed for lower velocity projectiles.
Ahh, that's the problem. I was.
Specifically, the types similar to the M-16 mentioned in the first post. Everything I was saying was based on that, mainly in response to JeffRoot's post and partially to TJMac, though I guess I forgot to quote them. With a conventional copper jacketed, lead bullet, you'd never hit the gas speed limit if it was over about 4500 to 5000 FPS, and with some thin jacketed bullets, 4000 isn't possible.
I'll go back to lurking now.
They aren't, it's lighter because each individual molecule is lighter, not because they're farther apart.
Don't forget that the speed of sound in a gas is mostly dependent on temperature, and the propellants used in firearms turn into very hot gases when combusted.
Don't forget that the speed of sound in a gas is mostly dependent on temperature, and the propellants used in firearms turn into very hot gases when combusted.They're also fairly dense.
The helium/hydrogen secondary gas undergoes adiabatic heating as they're compressed, it's definitely not cold by the time the pressure disk ruptures to let it into the thin barrel.
Somewhat counter-intuitive, but the speed of sound in gases is "nearly independent of pressure or density for a given gas." | 2019-04-24T10:48:22 | https://forum.cosmoquest.org/archive/index.php/t-134074.html?s=716cec9134c6c982ca15befaf82a5ab1 |
0.999999 | The Addiction Context: The addiction context consists of the environmental stimuli that were present when the drugs were taken (Uslaner, Crombag, & Robinson, 2007). It is well-known that drug-taking is more rapidly reinstated when the recovering addict is in the drug-taking context (Tsiang, and Janak, 2006). Rapid relapse to drug-taking may be provoked by the experience of abstinence, which may be particularly unpleasant in the presence of stimuli associated with the use of the drug. Heroin addicts, for example, when abstinent in the addiction context, report suffering intense dysphoria. Their bodies are wracked with intolerable pain. For heroin addicts treated in the United States and returned to their homes, relapse rates hover around 90%. Because of the presence of drug-paired contextual stimuli, heroin addicts in the United States typically suffer horrible withdrawal symptoms and this contributes greatly to their tendency to relapse over and over again. The prognosis for most heroin addicts is dismal. Most are doomed to suffer decades of recurring relapses.
A remarkable exception has been documented with United States Military personnel serving in Vietnam (Spiegel, 2015). Based on drug-testing results, approximately 20% of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam were actively addicted to heroin. Upon returning to the United States, these servicemen were expected to require drug rehabilitation services, but the number of soldiers who continued their heroin addiction after they returned to the United States was shockingly low. Over 95% of the soldiers who were addicted in Vietnam did not become re-addicted when they returned to the United States. They reported virtually none of the typical symptoms of heroin withdrawal that have been extensively documented in those who became addicted to heroin in the United States. The obvious suggestion is that heroin addiction and symptoms of withdrawal are specific to the context in which the effects of heroin were experienced. | 2019-04-24T20:49:12 | http://tailoftheraccoon.com/part-iii-departures-educational-and-scientific-commentary/7/ |
1 | 'My husband wanted to be on a farm, but we couldn't afford a farm, so we bought a croft, and we decided to make cheese because that's the way you add value to your product, and so we set up an organic cheesemaking business in Perthshire, about, oh, thirty years ago, maybe, twenty years ago. And we started making cheese there but it was a very - it wasn't a particular community that it was easy to bring up a family in because it was in Balquidder, and it was a very holiday oriented place, so we moved to the Highlands, because my husband's family come from the Highlands, and has connections in Kinlochbervie and so on, so we ended up in Easter Ross.
And, I was really intrigued because I was, I was living on a croft, but I also was aware of, Indian people, well, Pakistani people, or Chinese people, having these little restaurants and takeaways in the most remotest parts of the Highlands, and, in fact, I - the Western Isles as well, places like Tarbert and so on - I was really intrigued that you saw these people in their shops but you didn't actually see them very much in the communities, or actually in any of the community facilities, or even walking on a beach; I still don't see them walking on a beach. And I was very intrigued by what their lives were like, you know, because I thought, 'Well, there are these people here but what are their experiences?' You know, 'Why don't I see them, in places? Or their children, in fact?' and so on.
As part of Homecoming Scotland 2009, a three-day international conference - Scotland's Global Impact - was held at Eden Court theatre, Inverness from 22-24 October. Prominent academics, historians and other experts came together to provoke healthy discussion on the history of migration and the influence of Scots abroad. <br /> <br /> Am Baile interviewed several of the speakers during the conference. In this audio extract, Dr Philomena de Lima answers the question:<br /> <br /> 'What fired your interest in your particular area of expertise?' <br /> <br /> 'My husband wanted to be on a farm, but we couldn't afford a farm, so we bought a croft, and we decided to make cheese because that's the way you add value to your product, and so we set up an organic cheesemaking business in Perthshire, about, oh, thirty years ago, maybe, twenty years ago. And we started making cheese there but it was a very - it wasn't a particular community that it was easy to bring up a family in because it was in Balquidder, and it was a very holiday oriented place, so we moved to the Highlands, because my husband's family come from the Highlands, and has connections in Kinlochbervie and so on, so we ended up in Easter Ross. <br /> <br /> And, I was really intrigued because I was, I was living on a croft, but I also was aware of, Indian people, well, Pakistani people, or Chinese people, having these little restaurants and takeaways in the most remotest parts of the Highlands, and, in fact, I - the Western Isles as well, places like Tarbert and so on - I was really intrigued that you saw these people in their shops but you didn't actually see them very much in the communities, or actually in any of the community facilities, or even walking on a beach; I still don't see them walking on a beach. And I was very intrigued by what their lives were like, you know, because I thought, 'Well, there are these people here but what are their experiences?' You know, 'Why don't I see them, in places? Or their children, in fact?' and so on. <br /> <br /> And so that's what kind of sparked it, but I've always had a very strong political interest in issues around social justice, and I suppose equality in people being treated fairly, and I was very taken by the fact that, you know, the Scottish, and particularly in the Highlands, made a big thing of their, sort of contribution to the world and so on, and yet, when people were here in their own communities, were actually not even acknowledging they existed. So, that's kind of, you know, that sort of, Scottish welcome. And in a way, you know, it was easy for me to be integrated in our community because I'm very western in the way I dress, and I have, I'm a Christian, and I have much more closer connections, if you like, but if you're not, then- So I was kind of interested, intrigued, and I sought out these lone individuals in many isolated communities who come from amazingly different parts of the world. So that's kind of, you know, and I'm a sociologist and I'm always interested in, kind of looking beneath things, I think.'<br /> <br /> <br /> BIOGRAPHY<br /> <br /> Dr Philomena de Lima is the Director of the UHI Centre for Remote and Rural Studies based in Inverness. She has lived in the Highlands for around 25 years. She has been actively involved in researching rural policy issues, particularly with regard to migration, social exclusion, minorities and equalities and has published widely on these topics. Recent publications include, with Wright (2009) 'Welcoming Migrants? Migrant labour in rural Scotland in Social Policy and Society', issue 8:3; 'Ticking the Ethnic Box: the experiences of minority ethnic young people in rural communities' in Education in the North, New Series , Number 15 Session 2007-2008, University of Aberdeen; with Jentsch and MacDonald, 'Migrant Workers in Rural Scotland: Going to the Middle of Nowhere' in International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS), Vol. 9, No. 1, 2007; and with Williams, 'Devolution, Multicultural Citizenship and Race Equality: from Laissez Faire to Nationally Responsible Policies' in Critical Social Policy, Vol. 26 (3) 2006. | 2019-04-23T03:05:57 | https://www.ambaile.org.uk/detail/en/41061/1/EN41061-what-fired-your-interest-in-your.htm |
0.99941 | Interviewer: Why did you want to do a series? As I remember it, you were flying high in movies, coming off Blue Velvet and all that. A lot of people in the business were surprised that an actor of you stature would take any part in series television.
Dean Stockwell: I wasn't flying that high. I was on an ascendant, there's no question, but I had spent virtually countless years of anxiety wondering whether I was going to get another job all the time, so I wanted a long run at something. I never thought there was anything wrong with doing a television series. I thought it was a wonderful thing to do, especially since this particular one had what I felt was so much to offer in the way of quality, uniqueness and a wonderful part.
Interviewer: What did you bring to the Part?
Dean Stockwell: Well, I brought my talent, whatever that is. I'm not going to describe that. That's what I brought to it.
bring in little bits of business, little insights of your own?
Dean Stockwell: Both. It's a combination of both. There was a very interesting character to start with. He was, um, very colorful, and he was, um-how shall I put it? If anything he had an expanded appreciation of the opposite gender. And there was humor in it. I have expanded the humor and expanded the appreciation of the feminine gender, and the writing has gone along with me. I've added a lot of little things and schticks, mostly on the comedic side, the light side. The shows that have dealt with more emotional things, I feel fortunate that they've been few and far between, because I prefer doing the comedy. But those more serious shows have been good ones and well-written, so I have been able to achieve a balance in the performances.
Dean Stockwell: Oh, I wouldn't say that. I don't know that my life has been as hard as his, or maybe it's been more hard. I don't know. When the situation calls for serious drama...I draw all these things from my imagination: I never research, I never search my soul for experiences that I've had that fit the thing that I'm going to act out. I don't work that way. I work mostly with my mind and then I'm able to tap into emotions when I actually do it.
Interviewer: You were in the business since you were a kid. You were in one of my favorite movies.
Dean Stockwell: Really? Which one is that?
Interviewer: The Boy With Green Hair. Tell me, how has the business changed since then?
Dean Stockwell: It's truly the same business. It's the business of entertainment; and hopefully at its best, a provocative and stimulating business, above and beyond the basic entertainment value. I think entertainment is essential to the human condition, so it is an important endeavour. The studio system that existed when I was a child fell apart; it doesn't exist anymore. That was a growth in the business. I think independent filmmakers brought a great deal to the art form and were freed of the fetters of studio control. More stimulating ideas were brought to the screen. Fewer B-movies as a staple of the studios (were made). And (there was) just as high a quality of stars. So you can't say that the studio system fostered all these stars, and everything was better because of that. It just simply isn't true. Television came into the picture. HA! That's funny! I like that. Get it? Television came into the picture! That's become its own growth industry; a wonderful thing for actors. Unfortunately, the quality across the board isn't consistently very high; it's very commercial.
Interviewer: Do you have a favorite movie from you career?
Dean Stockwell: Yeah, I have several. Green hair is one of them; it still holds up as a very unique little classic. It says something very important; it's an antiwar film. There was picture called Down to the Sea in ships that I did with Richard Widmark and Lionel Barrymore that, for performance, I felt very good about. A couple of comedies that I did as a kid. Then, later on, Long Day's Journey Into Night, with Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, and Jason Robards. And the film of Compulsion. Then, later on, I would say Married To The Mob, I'd put that up as the favorite part I've ever had.
Interviewer: You seem to like word play. Do you write?
Dean Stockwell: No. Well, I have. I directed some little theater stuff.
Interviewer: No ambitions in those directions?
Interviewer: If you had your choice, is there a Quantum you'd like to do that you haven't done?
Dean Stockwell: I've been attempting, over the three and a half years we've been doing this show, to get the production office to do an environmental show. It hasn't happened. It seems a natural, but...it's a very difficult show to write scripts for...it's tough to do. No one yet has been able to come up with an environmental script that works. I feel there is a definite perspective advantage that we have-because we deal with times in the past-to show the origins of the environmental mistakes that have been made and now to see the consequences.
Interviewer: You're a Married man with kids. Is this kind of work pace brutal on a family life?
Dean Stockwell: It's a little tough. I see them mostly on the weekends because they're not near and it's a long working day minimum twelve-hour days, but when I'm there it's high quality time. They come and visit the set from time to time. It's as good a situation as you could have, given what I'm doing, and I'm doing what I'm doing to provide for their future.
Interviewer: Do your children (aged six and eight) watch the show?
Dean Stockwell: They don't watch it live; it's too late (at night). There are some episodes that I'd rather they don't see, so we pick and choose the episodes.
Interviewer: What's it like for a six-year old to see daddy on screen?
Dean Stockwell: They seem to accept it very readily. They see films from when I was a kid, too. They get right into the stories...That's the way pure minds work. They both adore Scott, both personally and on the show.
Interviewer: What do you do between calls on the set?
Dean Stockwell: Quite frequently I have mundane matters to handle here in this dressing room, my motor home here. Paperwork and stuff. I enjoy reading. I have a television (with a VCR) here; I watch dailies-dailies, of course, are the rushes that were shot the day before. I have some weights. something that I enjoy greatly is a chess computer. I play chess against it. I like that a lot.
Interviewer: Someone said to me I shouldn't leave without asking you about Golf.
Dean Stockwell: What about it?
Interviewer: Personally, I don't know anything about it.
Dean Stockwell: Well, I am a Golfer. I'm addicted to golf. I think it's the most difficult sport I've ever tried to do. It’s the hardest to do but it's also the most addictive. It's incredibly enjoyable and incredibly frustrating. I do want to say something (on another topic).
Dean Stockwell: I do want to say that I want to do at least another season on the show, because-and I'm being very honest here-I've been very deeply affected by what I've felt coming back to me from the fans of this show. I've been very deeply affected by their demeanor, their sincerity, the warmth and affection that they show to the show and to Scott and me. It's real and I think it's very unique, and I've never experienced that before in my life. I want them to have twenty-two or forty-four more episodes.
Crew member: If you want to get on Dean's good side, ask him about Golf. He's a golf maniac. | 2019-04-18T22:21:14 | http://stockwellsassies.tripod.com/articles/The_Quantum_Leap_Book.html |
0.998596 | The choice is between big documents or big bureaucracies.
Free trade is, in 2016, a cause without a champion. The two great populist currents of the moment — really a single current with two faces, Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’s — are resolutely opposed to free trade. Mrs. Clinton, a sometime supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated by the Obama administration during her service as secretary of state, is walking sideways away from it.
But there is a problem with the Goldberg Treaty, which is that most of the relevant barriers to trade are not, contra Trump et al., tariffs. Nor are they quotas or other explicitly trade-inhibiting policies, though these do exist and so require liberalization. In truth, countries such as China do not for the most part apply extraordinary tariffs to U.S. goods, and such tariffs as they do apply have been reduced in recent years, not as the result of any get-tough trade policy pursued by the United States but because of the complaints of Chinese consumers, who may spend their lives immersed in nationalist propaganda but who still do not enjoy paying artificially high prices for household goods. Beijing recently cut the tariff on imported cosmetics, proof again that the two most dangerous places to stand are between a politician and a microphone or between a woman and her favorite lipstick.
More typical are the difficulties that U.S. automakers have had in cracking the Japanese market. Japan has no import duties on automobiles, but U.S. makers complain of other problems, particularly the difficulty of establishing dealer networks to help them connect with potential Japanese buyers. The relevant laws are complex, they are in Japanese, some aspects of them (such as commercial zoning rules) vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, etc. Dealing with that is a great deal of work, and it is very expensive, though the Japanese domestic auto lobby does point out that while the number of dealers selling U.S.-made cars has declined by 74 percent in the past couple of decades, the number of dealerships selling European-made cars has increased by almost the same proportion. European marques make cars that are more like domestic Japanese cars (the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association reports that 93 percent of Japanese passenger cars have engines smaller than two liters, while U.S.-made cars are mostly larger than that), and European manufacturers have found it easier to comply with Japan’s safety and emissions rules.
These are not issues that can be resolved by a one-sentence free-trade pact.
Consider the question of military procurement: The United States, like many other countries, prefers to buy its military hardware from domestic sources when possible. There are some defensible and obvious reasons for this, though they sometimes are overstated. That disadvantages European armament-makers and aerospace firms. Many countries do not have those kinds of rules, not because they have a stronger commitment to free trade but because they do not have domestic industries capable of supplying their demands. (The uniforms of the mighty Kuwaiti air force were made, for a time, by Georgio Armani.) Other countries maintain preferential procurement policies to benefit domestic farmers, who in many parts of the world, such as India, are desperately poor. Some countries subsidize pharmaceuticals or put controls on their prices, others have unusually stringent environmental or safety standards.
There are exactly two ways to sort out these issues, and neither of them is a simple, one-page trade treaty, as attractive as that might be in principle. The first option is that these differences, and the processes for resolving them, are codified in big, complex trade accords such as NAFTA and the TPP, which produces those 1,000-page documents that we all have come to abhor and distrust.
It is better to limit the politicians’ role to yes-or-no votes and to exercising effective veto power via the right of exit and leave the rest to arbitration and quasi-judicial processes.
The second possibility, the alternative to the 1,000-page treaty, is the delegation of power to international trade arbitrators such as the WTO. This has some appeal, inasmuch as the reality of fast-moving markets and technological innovation means that many policy factors that might inhibit trade are not foreseeable and cannot be effectively incorporated into treaties. The tradeoff is that such delegation takes power out of the hands of national authorities and puts it into the hands of international authorities, generally transferring decision-making from the elected and the accountable to the unelected and the unaccountable. This is often understood as a loss of sovereignty, though that isn’t exactly right, since we have the power to withdraw from such associations. But it is something like a ceding of sovereignty.
That’s our choice: big documents or big arbitrators.
The reality of the WTO regime and the like is that we generally get a bit of both, and that it works reasonably well. My own feeling on the matter is that it is better to limit the politicians’ role to yes-or-no votes and to exercising effective veto power via the right of exit and leave the rest to arbitration and quasi-judicial processes. In the case of trade relations between large economies with high volumes of trade (such as our own), those processes have the virtue of requiring lots of steady, iterative, repeat interaction over long periods of time, when generally encourages cooperative behavior.
Brad DeLong of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth estimates that even with very conservative assumptions, TPP would add something like $3 trillion to the stock of world wealth. Peter Petri and Michael Plummer of the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimate that TPP would raise the real incomes of the participating nations (which mainly are rich nations such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan) by about 0.5 percent, which may sound trivial but is in fact significant when you consider the size of the economic bloc in question and the effect of such additional income over time.
Those are gains worth realizing. But the means of realizing them will never be politically popular. | 2019-04-22T16:53:44 | https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/06/trade-treaties-big-ugly-necessary/ |
0.997043 | The aging population in the U.S. is dramatically increasing; it is predicted that not only will individuals live longer but also that they will live with multiple chronic diseases that could require high levels of medical and social resources. While the aging population increases, the number of health care providers choosing to specialize in caring for the elderly is decreasing just as dramatically. Teams are believed to be a possible response to more efficiently use the providers available, take advantage of alternative provider types, and integrate a range of health and social services to meet patient needs more effectively. Interdisciplinary teams are the best practice in the care of older adults, who require both medical and social services. However, maintaining functional collaborative teams has been an ever-present challenge to health and social care organizations. Research has found that institutional support is critical for teams to benefit patients and organizations alike.
This study examined the role of institutional context in supporting interdisciplinary teams (IDT) in the care of older adults through interviews of the management and staff of the Program for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) in six states. PACE organizations must commit to an interdisciplinary model of care consisting of 11 different disciplines from across the professional spectrum. The research question posed for this study was: What elements of institutional context support the use of interdisciplinary teams in the care of older adults? Due to the standardized team structure used, PACE was selected as the model to see how institutions at macro and micro levels support the work done by PACE teams and possibly highlight where support is still lacking. A case study approach drawing upon qualitative methods was used to examine policy-regulative, cultural-cognitive, normative, relational, and procedural elements of institutional context and the extent to which they support collaborative teamwork. Thirty-two interviews were conducted with administrators and team members from seven PACE programs across the country. For these PACE programs, five elements and 14 categories of support were identified by the interviewees. Policy and regulatory elements constrain and systematize behavior. PACE IDT experience these constraints and systems through regulatory body practices, resource allocation, and quality measurement. Cultural-cognitive elements mediate between an IDT's external environmrder to make sense of what is happening. PACE IDTs create meaning through their interactions with their external environments through interdependence, demographic characteristics, and organizational structure. Normative findings constrain behavior and confer the rights and duties of IDT members, which arise from organizational mission and values, leadership, and professient and the response of the IDT in oonal boundaries. Relational elements emphasize relationships among IDT members and team interaction with the organization's environment. Social constructs within the team affect role definition and communication, which support IDT practice. Procedural support standardizes practices to maintain highly functional teams. In order to support IDT practice, PACE organizations highlighted recruitment and retention, time and space, and training and education as the primary ways to support IDTs. These categories illustrate the complexity of supporting teams and actualizing teamwork in practice. These findings suggest that PACE is succeeding in supporting the IDT model and provides lessons for other organizations that wish to do the same.
Tresidder, Anna Foucek, "The Institutional Context that Supports Team-Based Care for Older Adults" (2013). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1517. | 2019-04-23T22:24:09 | https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1517/ |
0.999914 | Like other cells, each neuron has a cell body (or soma) that contains a nucleus, smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, and other cellular components. Neurons also contain unique structures for receiving and sending the electrical signals that make communication between neurons possible ([link]). Dendrites are tree-like structures that extend away from the cell body to receive messages from other neurons at specialized junctions called synapses. Although some neurons do not have any dendrites, most have one or many dendrites.
Neurons contain organelles common to other cells, such as a nucleus and mitochondria. They also have more specialized structures, including dendrites and axons.
Neurogenesis At one time, scientists believed that people were born with all the neurons they would ever have. Research performed during the last few decades indicates that neurogenesis, the birth of new neurons, continues into adulthood. Neurogenesis was first discovered in songbirds that produce new neurons while learning songs. For mammals, new neurons also play an important role in learning: about 1,000 new neurons develop in the hippocampus (a brain structure involved in learning and memory) each day. While most of the new neurons will die, researchers found that an increase in the number of surviving new neurons in the hippocampus correlated with how well rats learned a new task. Interestingly, both exercise and some antidepressant medications also promote neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Stress has the opposite effect. While neurogenesis is quite limited compared to regeneration in other tissues, research in this area may lead to new treatments for disorders such as Alzheimer’s, stroke, and epilepsy.
How do scientists identify new neurons? A researcher can inject a compound called bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) into the brain of an animal. While all cells will be exposed to BrdU, BrdU will only be incorporated into the DNA of newly generated cells that are in S phase. A technique called immunohistochemistry can be used to attach a fluorescent label to the incorporated BrdU, and a researcher can use fluorescent microscopy to visualize the presence of BrdU, and thus new neurons, in brain tissue ([link]).
The central nervous system (CNS) is made up of the brain and spinal cord and is covered with three layers of protective coverings called meninges (“meninges” is derived from the Greek and means “membranes”) ([link]). The outermost layer is the dura mater, the middle layer is the web-like arachnoid mater, and the inner layer is the pia mater, which directly contacts and covers the brain and spinal cord. The space between the arachnoid and pia maters is filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The brain floats in CSF, which acts as a cushion and shock absorber.
Each hemisphere contains regions called lobes that are involved in different functions. Each hemisphere of the mammalian cerebral cortex can be broken down into four functionally and spatially defined lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital ([link]).
The human cerebral cortex includes the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes.
Connecting to the brainstem and extending down the body through the spinal column is the spinal cord. The spinal cord is a thick bundle of nerve tissue that carries information about the body to the brain and from the brain to the body. The spinal cord is contained within the meninges and the bones of the vertebral column but is able to communicate signals to and from the body through its connections with spinal nerves (part of the peripheral nervous system). A cross-section of the spinal cord looks like a white oval containing a gray butterfly-shape ([link]). Axons make up the “white matter” and neuron and glia cell bodies (and interneurons) make up the “gray matter.” Axons and cell bodies in the dorsa spinal cord convey mostly sensory information from the body to the brain. Axons and cell bodies in the spinal cord primarily transmit signals controlling movement from the brain to the body.
In the autonomic nervous system, a preganglionic neuron (originating in the CNS) synapses to a neuron in a ganglion that, in turn, synapses on a target organ. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system causes release of norepinephrine on the target organ. Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system causes release of acetylcholine on the target organ.
The autonomic nervous system serves as the relay between the CNS and the internal organs. It controls the lungs, the heart, smooth muscle, and exocrine and endocrine glands. The autonomic nervous system controls these organs largely without conscious control; it can continuously monitor the conditions of these different systems and implement changes as needed. Signaling to the target tissue usually involves two synapses: a preganglionic neuron (originating in the CNS) synapses to a neuron in a ganglion that, in turn, synapses on the target organ ([link]). There are two divisions of the autonomic nervous system that often have opposing effects: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems often have opposing effects on target organs.
While the sympathetic nervous system is activated in stressful situations, the parasympathetic nervous system allows an animal to “rest and digest.” One way to remember this is to think that during a restful situation like a picnic, the parasympathetic nervous system is in control (“picnic” and “parasympathetic” both start with “p”). Parasympathetic preganglionic neurons have cell bodies located in the brainstem and in the sacral (toward the bottom) spinal cord ([link]). The parasympathetic nervous system resets organ function after the sympathetic nervous system is activated including slowing of heart rate, lowered blood pressure, and stimulation of digestion. | 2019-04-19T04:49:53 | https://voer.edu.vn/c/nervous-system/a64457a4/e9fddd25 |
0.999999 | The researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden and the California Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Reed P. Scherer, analyzed sediments recovered from the area beneath the West Antarctic ice and determined that they contained the remains of tiny marine algae called diatoms, along with a chemical tracer called beryllium-10.
Together, they report in the current issue of the journal Science, these clues ''provide evidence that marine conditions prevailed deep within the West Antarctic interior'' at some time within the last two million years. This, they wrote, suggests that the West Antarctic ice sheet had collapsed to some degree at least once within the same period. The researchers nominate an unusually long interglacial interval about 400,000 years ago as the most likely time for the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
But others said the new evidence, while not conclusive, was strong. Collapse of the ice sheet is the best explanation for the placement of the diatoms and the beryllium-10, said Dr. Richard Alley, a paleoclimatologist at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Scherer's ''original result was correct and he has strengthened it,'' Dr. Alley said.
The significance of the finding, he said, is that it ''strengthens the possibility'' that the West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse in the future; having done so once, it could do so again.
The reason the ice sheet is so vulnerable is that alone among the world's big ice sheets (including a much larger one in East Antarctica), it lies largely below sea level. That means it is more open to melting as warming ocean waters lap at its margins; by comparison, warmer air melts the ice much more slowly. The ice sheet's margins consist of vast, floating ice shelves as big as Spain. If these were to melt, they would not cause the sea level to rise, since they are already floating on the ocean.
But they are fed by large, moving rivers of ice that flow from the interior of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and scientists believe that the removal of the shelves could allow the rivers to flow faster, as if a cork were removed from a bottle. This could deplete the interior reservoir of the West Antarctic ice sheet itself, which does not float but is instead grounded on an archipelago below sea level. If the flow of the moving ice streams did speed up, it might deplete the ice faster than freezing precipitation could replace it, leading to a net outflow of fresh water into the ocean.
How long this might take is a critical question. The Scherer study does not shed any light on it. ''He can't demonstrate that it went in a hurry, just that it went,'' Dr. Alley said.
But the die could be cast much earlier, Dr. Oppenheimer calculated. The climate could warm enough by the end of the next century to make an eventual collapse of the ice sheet inevitable, he said. He called the latest Scherer study ''critically important'' because it suggests that the ice sheet disintegrated in global temperatures that could not have been much higher than current levels.
Two other new pieces of research, published in the current issue of Nature, suggest that the speed of the ice streams' flow would be dictated by the underlying geology of Antarctica. The ice streams flow along relatively narrow basins made slippery by a combination of fine sedimentary particles and melted ice water. Several things can slow the flow, including rough protuberances sticking up through the slippery path and friction along the sides of the flow paths.
Moreover, said Dr. Alley, who is a co-author of one of the Nature papers, if the underlying topography contains many sedimentary basins along which more rapidly flowing ice can escape, the ice sheet would deplete faster. But ''if the ice streams can't get somewhere because the geology is wrong,'' he said, ''that essentially buys us time because the ice can't change and move as rapidly.'' The primary authors of the Nature papers are Robin E. Bell of the Lamont-Doherty observatory and Sridhar Anandakrishnan of Pennsylvania State. | 2019-04-26T05:07:18 | https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/07/science/catastrophic-melting-of-ice-sheet-is-possible-studies-hint.html |
0.999999 | Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given.
d. She had to finish her homework before she went out. (until) She had to stay in ________________ her homework.
I'm having a hard time to grasp the two events rule on this one! "She had to stay in until she finished her homework." Sounds perfectly fine to me! Why do I end up with "She had to stay in until she HAD finished her homework."
The goal of such exercises is to foster precision in the choice of tenses. There are times, especially in writing, when there is a need for perfect clarity in respect to the sequence of events. Unfortunately, the examples chosen in the exercises often do not establish a context where precision is required in order to avoid ambiguity.
I can't party until I do my homework.
intending that sentence to mean "until I have done my homework", and that's exactly how another native speaker would understand it.
The speaker is explaining why he is unable to party now. He has something important to do first.
I can't party until I have done my homework.
I can't party until I've done my homework.
There, have done expresses completion.
I couldn't party until I had done my homework.
I couldn't party until I'd done my homework.
There, the would-be reveler is explaining why she was unable to party yesterday, perhaps, or last week, or at some other time in the past.
Again, the perfect (here, the past perfect) expresses completion.
Both "until she finished" and "until she had finished" are valid sentences. In context, they mean the same thing.
In general, "had [verb]ed" means that the action was completed at some specified time in the past. "I had seen Bob yesterday." This is usually used with respect to some other action. "I had seen Bob before he saw me."
A plain "[verb]ed" means simply, action completed in the past. "I saw Bob."
The difference is often very subtle. Usually we use "had" when we want to indicate that the action is completed, as opposed to an action that might be ongoing.
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She did it ALL by herself or She did it by herself ALL? | 2019-04-19T14:45:45 | https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/123412/can-someone-help-with-this-past-perfect-sentence-please |
0.999986 | The village of Valdarca belongs to the municipality of Pergola, in the province of Pesaro Urbino, region Marche.
The village of Valdarca is 6,70 kilometers far from the same town of Pergola to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Pergola also belong the localities of Barbanti (2,38 km), Bellaluce (2,14 km), Bellisio Alto (4,15 km), Bellisio Solfare (4,10 km), Ca' Fulvi (5,27 km), Ca' Ghilardi (4,47 km), Ca' Montegherardello (8,20 km), Caiolite (5,83 km), Campiferro (4,76 km), Canneto (7,70 km), Capuccini (7,76 km), Cartoceto (6,93 km), Case sparse (-- km), Casello (4,75 km), Castelrotto (7,31 km), Cerqueto (5,62 km), Certino (3,27 km), Cicula (4,95 km), Fenigli (6,96 km), Fontebona (8,30 km), Ganga (5,45 km), Grifoleto (1,07 km), La Rota (2,87 km), Lanaro (4,85 km), Luchino (3,53 km), Madonna del Piano (7,98 km), Madonna del Sasso (5,33 km), Mezzanotte (3,14 km), Montaiate (6,60 km), Monterolo (5,18 km), Montesecco (7,05 km), Montevecchio (7,61 km), Osteria del Piano (2,71 km), Pagino (3,33 km), Pantana (2,07 km), Pantana Serralta (2,13 km), Passo Monterolo (4,33 km), Percozzone (4,37 km), Pian dell'Abate (7,10 km), Ponte della Simonetta (1,57 km), San Pietrello (1,80 km), Serraspinosa (3,47 km), Traforato (7,34 km), Vallerea (2,36 km).
The number in parentheses following each village name indicate the distance between the same village and the municipality of Pergola.
The banks in Valdarca, when available.
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Most recent free ads in Valdarca, municipality of Pergola, province of Pesaro Urbino, Marche region, updated at 15:03:22, 18 April 2019. Place your free ad on Valdarca: no registration needed. Place your free ad.
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Several videos about Valdarca, Pergola, Pesaro Urbino, Marche. | 2019-04-18T13:03:24 | http://italia.indettaglio.it/eng/marche/pesarourbino_pergola_valdarca.html |
0.999864 | After deliberating for several days, however, the jury of six men and six women told the judge that they had failed to reach a decision on 10 of the 18 criminal counts Manafort faces in the first trial stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the role of Russian Federation in the 2016 US election.
Judge Ellis expressed his skepticism throughout the first trial and was often antagonistic to prosecutors; it was obvious that Ellis didn't think the trial should have occurred in the first place.
In the jury room, "One of us had a problem with accepting his testimony because he took the plea and so we agreed to throw out his testimony and look at the paperwork, which his name was all over", Duncan said.
The maximum time in prison for the counts Manafort was found guilty of totals 80 years, though he would be expected to receive much less when sentenced.
"A large number of counts, ten, could not even be decided in the Paul Manafort case", Trump said, adding: "Witch Hunt".
"He mentioned pardoning Manafort", Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt told political pundit Sean Hannity Wednesday, previewing the broadcast of her interview with Trump. Trump's first national security adviser pleaded guilty in December to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "But in the end she held out and that's why we have 10 counts that did not get a verdict", Duncan said.
Duncan said she was speaking out to inform the public and that she was not concerned about her safety.
Manafort was convicted on eight counts of financial crimes on Tuesday.
In a Fox News interview on Wednesday, Paula Duncan, a self-described Trump supporter, said the unidentified juror was not convinced that Manafort was guilty of all 18 criminal charges he faced.
"Had the verdict gone any other way, I might have been", Duncan said.
The jury found Manafort guilty on eight counts, including bank fraud, tax fraud, and failure to disclose a foreign account.
Prosecutors say Manafort avoided paying more than $16m in taxes over several years.
Trump's lawyers counseled the president against the idea of pardoning anyone linked to the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, according to Giuliani, saying Trump should at least wait until special counsel Robert Mueller III has concluded his probe.
"To date, all of the charges against Cohen and Manafort are federal offenses but that does not preclude state authorities from bringing subsequent charges to the extent the wrongdoing constitutes a crime under state law", Griffin said.
Harry Litman, a former U.S. Attorney and deputy assistant attorney general, told the magazine that Trump's conduct could be considered illegal if his intent was corrupt.
Giuliani said Trump was seeking advice in the wake of a spate of pardons he granted earlier this summer, including for a woman whom Kim Kardashian had lobbied the White House to release. "And I said, 'We're not doing this, ' " the juror said.
Other Trump associates who have pleaded guilty as part of Mueller's investigation include former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and Gates.
"Finding Mr. Manafort guilty was hard for me". That would influence my decision or the prosecutor's decision as to whether to retry him.
In the Instagram video posted late last night, the 27-year-old can be seen getting muscular therapy on his back and legs. | 2019-04-24T22:04:27 | http://theweeklyalmanac.com/2018/08/25/juror-one-holdout-stymied-manafort-conviction/ |
0.999879 | I made turkey meatballs last night and today they seemed a little under-cooked. What's the best way to re-cook them before feeding them to the baby?
Last night I baked them and they seemed cooked through-- just want to make sure they're really thorough since baby will be eating them. They've been in the fridge about 24 hours now. They don't need to be the best things I've ever made, but is there a safe way to cook further once they've cooled, etc?
You can also reheat and cook them through by simmering them in some chicken broth. As a bonus, toss some soup ingredients in and make two dishes in one.
If you think they are safe to eat, I'd reheat them under the broiler so they won't get rubbery in the microwave. I reheat this way often.
If undercooked and left for hours, the turkey meatballs may have already developed bacteria unfriendly to delicate, developing or endangered immune systems (babies, infants, pregnant or nursing women, those ill with system-wide disease).
Probably avoid serving this meat to those populations.
For fixing and serving to other populations, someone with more food safety experience can advise. | 2019-04-18T13:07:46 | https://food52.com/hotline/35659-i-made-turkey-meatballs-last-night-and-today-they-seemed-a-little-under-cooked-what-s-the-best-way |
0.999984 | How to Move Up a Level.
What does this have to do with table tennis, besides the fact that I'm a table tennis player at a science fiction and fantasy writing workshop? Actually quite a bit. During the workshop I had the first seven chapters of my SF novel "Campaign 2100" critiqued, and soon I will start the final rewrite on it. The novel has lots of table tennis! I blogged about this on June 13, where I even listed the table tennis scenes and changes in the sport, including "Spinsey pinhole sponge." (One of the main characters is a professional table tennis player who, up match point in the semifinals of the national championships, walks off the court to join - and eventually run - a worldwide third-party challenge for president of Earth in the year 2100. He also coaches the son of the presidential contender, and coaches and then does an exhibition for the Chinese leadership with an alien ambassador.) The table tennis scenes have mostly gone over well with readers and critiquers, even though they are not table tennis people.
Since I was out of town for nine days, here's the question that comes up: What does one do to stay in table tennis shape when on vacation or out of town for an extended period for some reason? Assuming you can't arrange TT times at the new location, the answer is to shadow practice. (Here's my article Shadow Practice for Strokes and Footwork.) I brought my weighted racket to the writing workshop. (I bought it at the 2001 World Championships in Osaka, Japan.) At least once a day I shadow practiced forehand loops and smashes, backhands, and side-to-side footwork.
The writing workshop pretty much kept us on the go all day the entire time, so I was pretty tired when I returned - and with no break, I went right back to full-time coaching. We have a one-time camp in Virginia this week, 9AM-4PM, Mon-Fri, and so I'm leaving each day around 7:30 AM (because of rush hour) to make the journey. There are 15 kids in the camp, ages 6 to 14. Even though the camp was open to boys and girls, for reasons we still don't understand there are no girls in the camp. Only two are Asian (though two others are I believe part Asian). All 15 are right-handed. I'm head coach, assisted by John and Wen Hsu (the latter is the camp administrator as well). Since I have to leave so early, to do this blog I have to either do it the night before or get up very, very early.
I'm running a camp at MDTTC for disabled veterans, on Aug. 26-29. It's part of a USATT program, which has a grant for such camps. They have seven such camps scheduled - here's a listing. Special thanks goes to Jasna Rather for helping put these together!
Here's a new volunteer position with USATT - and an important one!
Here's the help wanted article.
Here's the video (3:14) from PingSkills.
Which Ball Should I Buy?
Here's the new blog entry from USATT Board Member Kagin Lee.
Former USATT President Sheri Pittman Cioroslan is doing an article every day during the last 100 days of Adham Sharara's ITTF presidency, counting downwards from 100. I was posting them all here, but while I was gone they went from #38 to #28. You can find them all on the USATT News page. I'll likely start posting them again tomorrow.
Here's the highlights video (1:36), by Jim Butler.
Here's a video (2:33) on this table tennis game you can play on your smart phone.
Here's the article on this revolutionary video game.
Here's the picture - what should the caption be?
Why to Systematically Practice Receive.
During the Potomac Open this past weekend there was an interesting match that illustrated this. One was a lefty rated over 2400, the other about 2300. The lefty kept serving breaking serves to the righty's wide forehand. The righty would move to his wide forehand and loop these crosscourt to the lefty's backhand. Over and over the lefty would quick-block these to the righty's backhand, and the righty was caught out of position over and over. At first glance it would seem the righty just wasn't fast enough, that the lefty was just too quick. And so the lefty won the first two games.
But then a strange thing happened. I was commenting to some players sitting next to me how the righty was looping off his back foot when he looped these serves, and so finishing off balance. This kept him from getting a quick start to cover his backhand. But sometime in the third game, completely on his own, the player figured this out. The key was to get his right foot wider on the receive so he could push off it, and then he could use the momentum of his own forehand follow-through to help move himself back into position. Two things happened because of this. First, by getting his right foot farther out he was able to push into the shot harder, thereby getting more speed and spin on his loop, which gave the lefty problems. Second, and more importantly, he was now following through into position, and was set for those quick blocks to his wide backhand.
How often have you attacked with your forehand from the backhand side, only to get caught when your opponent quick-blocked to your wide forehand? (Or the reverse, attacked from the wide forehand, and got caught on the wide backhand, as discussed above?) Most often the problem isn't being too slow; it's finishing the forehand shot off balance, which dramatically slows down how fast you can recover back into position. The most common situation is a player steps around the backhand corner to use the forehand, but is rushed, and so ends up following through too much to his left (for a righty), leaving him wide open for the next shot. Instead, when attacking from a wide corner, whenever possible try to follow-through right back into position, and you'll be surprised at how much easier it is to recover for the next shot, even if it's quick-blocked to the far corner.
They were held May 14-17 in Auckland, New Zealand, for players over age 40. Here's the home page for the event, with lots of news items, pictures, video, and results. Here's the ITTF Page with lots of articles. There were 1665 players entered, including 29 from the U.S. (see player listing, which lists them by country).
Here are the results. Do a search for if you want to see how players from a specific country did (for example, "USA"). Charlene Xiaoying Liu, who is from my club, finished third in Over 60 women, losing deuce in the fifth to the eventual winner (who would win the final easily 3-0). Charlene was actually up 10-8 match point in the fifth, alas, but struggled her opponent's serve at the end.
Here's the article - wow!
Here's the article (on their home page). Here are some pictures of the new Triangle Table Tennis Center.
Here's the article. They now have 220 members, which equals the International Volleyball Federation.
Here's the new video from PingSkills (14:45).
Here's the picture! I think I once ran a similar picture, but this one really shows how the "sport" is played!
Most players understand this, but don't really absorb how important this simple lesson is. Here are two examples.
On Monday I was teaching the backhand loop to a beginning/intermediate class. I don't have a particularly good backhand loop, so I had assistant coach John Hsu demonstrate it. It seemed a good time to also teach the blocking, so I went over that as well as I blocked John's loop. Then I pointed how at the higher levels many players topspin their blocks, essentially mini-loops, and explained how while I blocked the normal way (relatively flat), John almost always topspins his blocks.
Another example was two kids I watched play yesterday, both ten years old. One was the #1 10-year-old from Japan, about 2000 level, visiting for a week along with his older brother (about 12 and 2250 level). He was playing a 10-year-old from my club who was about 1900. The Japanese kid had been taught to attack relentlessly, and that's exactly what he did, attacking not only off his serve, but attacking nearly every serve as well, often with over-the-table backhand banana flips. For much of the match the kid from our club was constantly on the defensive as he could only push the Japanese kid's serve back, and his own serves were often slightly high and were getting pulverized. He tried attacking the serve, but unlike the Japanese kid, he hadn't really trained that shot, and so was pretty erratic, and went back to pushing. Then he simplified his own serve to a simple backspin serve so that he could serve lower, and the Japanese kid started missing - and it became apparent that if he couldn't attack the serve as he'd been trained to do, his game went down quite a bit as he didn't push or block well. And so what started out as a rout got close. The Japanese kid won, but it was a battle. And now our kid is going to learn to serve lower with his normal serves, and to backhand banana flip.
A few key lessons from all this - train to develop a complete game. Develop both forehand and backhand. Develop effective serves that are low to the net. Develop receives that handle all situations. And develop the ability to both attack and to handle the opponent's attack.
Here's the video. I've done this drill numerous times in training camps. Those "ladders" are great for physical training.
Here's the picture. Hey, let's go play table tennis out in the bay!
Here's the video (1:37) - and don't get me started on analyzing the players' technique….
At the MDTTC tournament this weekend player I was coaching was having trouble against a much higher-rated player who had nice last-second change of directions on his receives. Over and over he'd start to push the ball one way - usually to the backhand - and at the last second, would change and go the other way. (Here's a Tip on this, "Pushing Change of Direction.") Although my player kept the first game close when the other player kept going for (and missing) some difficult counterloops, this last-second change of directions completely stopped my player's serve and attack. He'd see where the ball was going and start to move to attack, and then, suddenly, the ball would be somewhere else, and he'd be lunging to make a return.
Between games I told him to focus on three things. First, go completely two-winged to follow up his serve - if the receive was to his backhand, backhand loop, while if the ball was to the forehand, forehand loop. Players who can't do this when necessary have a major weakness in their games.
Second, since he wasn't trying to follow with the forehand, I told him to take his time and just wait and see where the ball was going. He was so used to reacting quickly that his own instincts were going against him as he reacted too quickly. This showed that most players are too obvious in their returns, telegraphing their receive way too early. It also showed how effective it is when a player learns the seemingly basic idea of not telegraphing the receive, i.e. changing directions at the last second.
The tactics worked as my player won game two. Alas, remember those difficult counterloops the opponent missed in the first game? He stopped missing them, and managed to barely pull out two close games to win the match and avoid a major upset.
We had a tournament this past weekend at the Maryland Table Tennis Center. You can see the complete results - including every preliminary match - at Omnipong!
One thing you can't see is the shot of the year, by Raghu Nadmichettu, who's about 2400. He was playing against Nam Nguyen in the Open, a 2100+ player. (Both are righties.) Nam ripped a ball to Raghu's wide backhand, which Raghu fished back. Then Nam ripped another to Raghu's extreme wide forehand. Raghu raced over and made a lunging return from his wide, wide forehand, which left him stumbling into the adjacent court. Nam creamed the ball with a powerful sidespin kill-loop that broke wide into Raghu's forehand again. From the adjacent court, Raghu counter-ripped a backhand sidespin counter-kill-loop from his wide forehand (!). The ball came from outside the table, curving to the right as it went toward the table, and hitting right on Nam's backhand corner for a clean winner. Okay, maybe you had to be there, but page down below to the segment on Timo Boll's backhand passing shots and watch those examples. Now imagine them right-handed, at twice the speed, and done with a backhand from the wide forehand side from the adjacent court, with the ball smacking into the far right-corner.
In my blog on Feb. 28, I wrote, "Right now there's really only one USA player who is basically a full-time professional player, Timothy Wang. I've been told that Chance Friend of Texas also makes a living as a full-time professional player, playing in the German Leagues. (I've amended the blog.) So perhaps it can be said that Timothy Wang is the only professional player in the U.S., since Chance is making a living at it overseas.
Here's his blog from last week where he talks about different types of ping-pong balls (celluloid vs. the new plastic ones, different sizes, and seamed vs. non-seamed). He covers the topics well, including how the various spinning balls move through the air and jump off the paddle.
One picky little thing not covered - how the ball would bounce off the table differently. One of the key hidden reasons looping is so effective is how it jumps when it hits the table, unlike a regular drive which goes at a more constant speed, making it easier to time against. It's also why off-the-bounce looping is so deadly, because you are already rushed to react to the shot and then it suddenly jumps even more quickly.
On Feb. 21, I blogged about USATT Board Chair Mike Babuin's blog. Here's a discussion on about.com about it, where one player posts a lengthy criticism, and Mike responds, also in lengthy fashion.
Here's video (64 sec) of the German star snapping off backhand counterloop winners.
Here's a video (35 sec) that features three great drop shots against topspin in one rally. Why don't players do this more often?
Here's video (2:44) of a 193-shot rally (mostly pushing) between two top choppers. One of them finally and bravely finally ends the point! You don't see too many points like this anymore.
Here's an article featuring table tennis in general and in Boca Raton, Florida.
Now another team is playing table tennis! Includes a picture of Wil Myers playing David DeJesus.
Here are photos of the Phoenix Suns basketball star hitting with Coach Matt Winkler.
On the March 1 episode of Mythbusters asked themselves if supersonic ping pong can go lethally wrong. And so they created a supersonic ping-pong ball canon. I've linked to other such ping-pong ball canons, but Mythbusters took it to another level, with the ball reaching speeds in excess of 1100 mph! The ball went cleanly through a ping-pong paddle, leaving a ball-sized hold. However, after testing it against a giant pork shoulder, they concluded it did not do lethal damage.
Here it is, where he discusses ping-pong. "The thing with ping pong is, it’s a sport pretty much everyone has played. And everyone thinks they’re great at it. And I just like to show people the truth."
Now I wasn't using my best fast-breaking sidespin serves or the sometimes almost unreturnable dead ones, but few players have those serves except at the higher levels. But I'm going to press Doug on this, and soon he'll be facing these nightmares - and if history repeats, he'll get used to them.
I do a similar thing with other students. Sameer had trouble with a player's deep sidespin serve to his backhand in a tournament, so we played games where all I did was serve that serve. When he got used to it, I started throwing two variations at him and later more. Now he's comfortable with the serve when he sees it coming, and reacts to it pretty well even when I vary the serve.
One of our top juniors had fits with certain short serves to his forehand. So we played matches where I gave him that serve over and Over and OVER. Soon he was flipping it all over the table and I had to practically retire that serve against him in matches. Yes, my goal is to teach all my students to return all my serves so that soon they'll all be beating me.
It always amazes me that players win or lose more on serve and receive than anything else, and yet few actually practice these things systematically.
I won't miss Halloween completely. Besides bringing some of the candy to give out to the class (for those who like sugar!), I've got a Scream mask that I might put on during the class near the end. Or maybe I'll feed multiball in it. I've always had this dream of showing up at a club anonymously in some sort of costume (such as a gorilla suit, though a scream mask will do), and silently play matches all night and beat everyone.
Scary ping-pong ball eyes on creepy people! Note the illusion that the head is constantly getting bigger?
Kid dressed up as a ping-pong table.
Kid dressed up as a ping-pong paddle. But what's the kid on the left, and what's a "Ping Pong Domo"?
Guy dressed up as a beer pong ball. Note his buddy dressed up as the beer pong cup.
Three guys dressed up as a ping-pong ball, table, and beer pong cup.
Skull table tennis. "Live the good life. Play Table Tennis."
Skull table tennis on a shirt. "Losing is not an option."
Happy Halloween ping-pong ball wreath.
See how many ghouls you can kill in Creepy Halloween Pong!
Another multi-millionaire Baltimore Oriole baseball player has arranged table tennis lessons with me. Ho hum. I've already given lessons to JJ Hardy and Brady Anderson, and hit with a bunch of their players at their clubhouse. For now, the new one wants to stay anonymous. However, after taking a few lessons, he plans to play in our leagues during the off season.
Yesterday I posted a link to USATT Board Chair Mike Babuin's blog with his thoughts on the new polyethylene balls, which are supposed to replace the current celluloid ones in ITTF events on July 1, 2014. (USATT would presumably match them, as they usually do on rule changes.) Here's USATT Board Member Kagin Lee's blog about this last week. However, if you want to test these balls for yourself, JimT posted in the comments in my blog yesterday that you can order them from eacheng.net, which I just did. Cost for three balls was $7.99 plus $5 shipping, so $12.99 total. (Choose "BY AIR-small packet" for the $5 shipping, unless you are in a rush.) Once I have them I'll try them out, and let others from my club as well, and report back here.
Just a quick update - the knee seems fine now, though I'm still leery of making sudden moves, especially to my wide forehand. I'm wearing an Ace knee brace, and will probably keep using it for a while.
Here's the story from Table Tennis World!
So which of these three serves is the funniest?
There is an unofficial policy at ITTF Pro Tour events that when two players from the same country play, there is no coach for either player. This makes sense in Europe and Asia, where the top players train together, often under the same coaches. But in the U.S., where players mostly train on their own with private coaches in private clubs, it doesn't really make sense. I was hired to coach MDTTC players at the U.S. Open, but didn't do so in many of the ITTF pro tour matches because of this. The following isn't really a complaint, but more of an observation of the problems that arose because of this that I hope can be resolved in the future.
Complications arose because it wasn't a rule, just a guideline. All ITTF Pro Tour participants received an email from USATT requesting that they not have coaches when playing other USA players. However, since it wasn't a rule, we would never know in advance if the other player would follow the guideline. And so I had to be available to coach these matches, just in case. The problem was that to do that, it meant someone else had to coach other players from MDTTC, and often that meant I wouldn't be coaching a player I normally would coach because someone else was assigned that match since we didn't know if I'd be available.
Later an MDTTC player played a player from China I'd never seen before, a non-USA citizen, from a club 3000 miles from us, and again I was asked not to coach. The player did live in the U.S. and had entered through USATT (as all USA players were required to), but somehow there seemed something strange about my not being able to coach this match. But I decided not to create an "international incident" and so didn't coach.
Then things go tricky in another match. The ITTF Pro Tour referee, Bill Walk, sat down near me. He noticed I wasn't coaching an MDTTC player who was playing a U.S. player from another club, and asked why. I explained. He got very angry, said it was not a rule, and encouraged me to coach the match. He said he had explained this to the umpires in the official's meeting, and didn't believe coaches should be asked not to coach their players against USA players. I was tempted to coach the match, but not wanting to cause problems, decided not to. Obviously we're not all on the same page on this guideline that isn't a rule.
I hope that the powers that be can get together and either make this a rule or drop it as a guideline completely. I don't see how it's different coaching a Maryland player against a California player in a junior singles event as opposed to an ITTF event. However, I also know it's easy to make an argument for or against this guideline - but if we're going to do it, please make it a rule, and not a guideline that we never know will be enforced. And if we are going to not allow coaching against USA players in these big matches because we're all on the same "team," then we need to actually train together as a team and play as a team, rather than just pretend we are when we really are not at this time.
This reminded me of problems in the past in international events. In Europe and Asia, most top juniors train under the national coaches for at least several months a year, often year round. When they play at international events, the national coaches know the players. In the U.S., this doesn't happen; at most, the USA national coaches have a few days per year working with the National Junior and Cadet Teams. And yet, when USA plays international matches, our top juniors and cadets are normally coached by the national coaches, who don't always know their games, rather than their private coaches, who do, even when the private coaches are available. Our top juniors and cadets reached the levels they did with the work of their own coaches, and it doesn't make sense to then send them on the international stage and handicap them by using coaches who don't really know their games. This isn't a rap on the national coaches, but on the situation where our top juniors and cadets don't train together with the national coaches. I'm all for the national coaches coaching our top juniors and cadets in international events once USATT is able to have them work together for at least a month per year. Until that happens, why handicap our top juniors and cadets when they reach the international stage?
We just started week four of our ten Mon-Fri camps this summer. I missed week three because of the U.S. Open. Yesterday's focus was the forehand; today it'll be the backhand. I'm missing four of the weeks because of travel (see below).
Here's USATT Board Member Kagin Lee's blog on the U.S. Open.
Here's an essay on the topic from Table Tennis Master.
Here's a video (5:56) of the best penholder plays.
I saw it last night. The movie features a very short TT scene. Here's the description from IMDB: "There's a brief shot in the film in which Edith is playing ping pong with a minion, but uses a pair of nunchaku as opposed to a ping pong paddle. This is a reference to a famous Chinese Nokia commercial in which a Bruce Lee impersonator in a mock "lost home video" also plays a game of ping pong using only a pair of nunchaku." There's also a party scene where the minions are sitting about on the ping-pong table.
Here's an online video (11 sec) of the minions playing table tennis (tennis-style) that's not in the movie. | 2019-04-21T05:10:39 | http://tabletenniscoaching.com/taxonomy/term/2183 |
0.948575 | 'Full stack development' has become a popular phrase in the past couple of years. But, what does it mean?
By it's nature, you have to be a 'Full Stack Developer' to get the most out of Umbraco. It takes a certain mindset and a lot of skill, to get the two ends (the ends being the core code, and the web design) to meet seamlessly in the middle. Umbraco aids this process, but it's still necessary to have a wide skillset to get the most out of the CMS.
Umbraco consists of web 'templates' (front-end) which connect to 'docTypes' (think data-fields) and has functionality added via 'views' and 'surface controllers' (core code). So, as you can see, being a 'Full-Stack' developer goes with the territory.
It's normal to work with a front-end designer on Umbraco projects. Especially, when working with digital agencies, who want to see their client-approved designs, turned into workable Umbraco solutions. But, even in these circumstances, it's necesary to be a 'Full stack developer' as once again, you have to make the front-end design work with the data and core code, which will make Umbraco function.
Increasingly, clients want a 'complete' solution, including 'front-end' design. I've found that a good solution in this scenario, is to purchase a set of html templates, which have been predesigned. 'Webflow' are a good source for these front-end designs.
So, if the question is....'Do you offer full-stack development?', then the answer is a definite 'Yes'!
Umbraco Cloud is it any good? | 2019-04-24T18:39:08 | http://www.wjpmedia.com/news/full-stack-development/ |
0.998612 | Wysideri delaleki dashasili zyrishene le lidekesha fe Neshizale ani le kadikeki, wekakili, shekekasha ani welysesha tisheshemi fe kwe melizame ma Tanzania tekadili. Wekalani dashasili zyrishene talakeme lishishemi (tysikala) wasashela fikikani medemi la wekishemi kysysame ke le telikeke zikasene fe wishysami ani gikadami bekele, wekakili ani welysesha gedikami.
The fortunes of both English and Kiswahili have changed in the short history in which these two languages have co-existed in unequal power relation. English has gained the upper hand over Kiswahili over time because its promises meet the social and economic ingredients of the prevailing socio-economic conditions in Tanzania. It fits past and current imaginations of progress and prosperity.
The good thing about learning English in Tanzania is that we can ask for help in English, receive no help, and fully understand the meaning of the word 'No'. That's the good thing. Do you want to hear the bad things?
The contentious nature of language lies in the fact that any language that can command attention is an "authorised" language invested with the authority of a group; hence the things it designates are not simply expressed but also authorised and legitimated.
ani kishasami ani rilalasha tyrakili shekasaka siladele mashishala ani welysesha walasha. Neshizale kekizale takelashi bakeme la le zysasame fe lashalene kadikeki falyraka shakideme wideshemi raledeki ma nedelame fe wysideri tysyreri midelashi gweshasemi le myrelaka, welysesha ani shekekasha lishyrene fe le 'Ujamaa' fililesha.
made even more strong by its ever expanding globalized hegemony and apparently inexorable corollary marginalization of local, national and regional languages. One should also note that national languages such as Kiswahili have the capacity to marginalize other languages in a state because they quite often become the MOI in basic education. As such they are also responsible for the demise of local language because the latter suffer from having few domains in which they can be used. However, what I am suggesting in this study is that English does greater dislocation to both national and local languages because it is privileged to be the MOI in postprimary education that produces the elite who make decisions.
Unless you have a gun, it does not matter whether you speak English, Kiswahili, or Chinese here. Having a gun allows you to bear an hegemonic point of view. Everywhere. | 2019-04-22T10:46:44 | https://forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org/2011/08/anatomy-of-hegemony.html |
0.998266 | GREGG Wallace is a businessman and food expert, but is most well-known for being one of the main judges on MasterChef.
Who is Gregg Wallace, how old is he and what's his background?
Gregg Wallace is a 54-year-old former costermonger, baker and TV personality, born in Elephant and Castle, London.
He currently lives in Whitstable, Kent, with his two children and fourth wife, Anne-Marie.
He's best-known as one-half of MasterChef's judging team, alongside Aussie chef John Torode.
Gregg has been doing the MasterChef gig since 2005, and he's also on the panel of MasterChef: The Professionals and Celebrity MasterChef.
Gregg is so popular with viewers that a YouTube joker created an incredible dance remix of his comments titled Buttery Biscuit Base.
Aside from his TV projects, Gregg is also a writer and a farmer, and he used to own two restaurants in Bermondsey and Putney - until they folded in 2014, owing suppliers £150,000.
Despite his celebrity, Gregg has kept his feet on the ground, and he jokingly refers to himself as "just the fat, bald bloke on MasterChef who likes pudding".
What experience does Gregg Wallace have in the food industry?
While everyone knows that John Torode has professional cooking experience, some viewers don’t know why Gregg has been picked to be a MasterChef judge.
The host hasn’t just been chosen for his likeable personality, he’s also got decades of experience in the food industry.
After running a successful vegetable stand at Covent Garden, Gregg founded George Allan’s Greengrocers in 1989.
Staggeringly, his company built up an eventual turnover of £7.5 million.
However, in 2013, Gregg's company West Veg Limited folded, and was revealed to be £500,000 in debt - just a year before his restaurants folded.
What other TV shows has Gregg Wallace been on?
Popular telly personality Gregg was the presenter of Saturday Kitchen until he was replaced by Antony Worrall Thompson in 2003.
He has also presented BBC shows including Supermarket Secrets and Eat Well for Less?, as well as going behind the scenes of food production on Inside The Factory.
One of Gregg’s most famous TV appearances was on Strictly Come Dancing in 2014, when the left-footed food lover was eliminated first.
He has also landed himself guest spots on Room 101, Who Do You Think You Are? and An Extra Slice.
Is the Night King in Game of Thrones actually a Stark or Targaryen?
In 2016, Gregg married Anne-Marie Sterpini, 21 years his junior, in an intimate ceremony at Hever Castle in Kent.
Anne-Marie is Gregg's fourth wife, and he has two teenage children from his second marriage to Denise, a former pastry chef.
Gregg and Anne-Marie had met on Twitter in 2013.
Similarly, he had also met his third wife Heidi, 17 years his junior, online.
John Torode served as best man at Gregg's wedding to fellow "foodie" Anne-Marie.
Do Gregg Wallace and John Torode get on?
Gregg's MasterChef partner-in-crime John Torode shocked fans of the show by suggesting that they don't actually get on off-screen.
He said that his partnership with Gregg Wallace "doesn't extend to an off-screen friendship", and that an explosive drunken spat once saw filming suspended.
However, he later backtracked and insisted on Good Morning Britain that the pair are "always friends", putting a stop to rumours that the duo feud off-screen.
What else has Gregg Wallace been up to?
When he’s not been filming for the BBC cooking competition, Gregg has been using his voice to speak out about some important issues.
He joined the Loose Women panel to plead with fellow abuse victims to speak out after discussing his tragic experiences as a child.
Wallace also urged the Government to bring back home economics lessons – which he believes are as important as English and Maths.
While many have backed Gregg’s recent campaigns, not everyone was happy when he backed Paul Hollywood’s move to Channel 4.
And his heated response to Mary Berry’s ban on deep fat fryers also sparked debate.
What time is Masterchef 2019 on BBC One?
Series 15 is now upon us - it started on Monday, February 11.
The show's in its usual place on BBC One and lasts for an hour.
The series continues TONIGHT (March 1) at 9pm with its ninth episode. | 2019-04-25T08:56:16 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3204771/gregg-wallace-masterchef-wife-age/ |
0.999994 | I chose the song "Do you hear the people sing?", here is an excerpt of that song.
This song is telling the people of France to rise up against those who are treating them unfairly, in this case the government. They are asking people to come and fight with them. For a cause that is relevent to their freedom and can change their lives. It is also about people rising up and taking action, no longer will they be slaves. Will they take the risk to die for their cause to change France? This song is relevent to the story because it describes the feelings of the people and what they are fighting for. Also, it describes how much effort they put forth to fight for justice. To me this song portrays the struggles the people face and the injustice in society and is felt through out the musical. Enjolras, Combeferre, Courfeyac, Feuilly and the cast are singing in this song. Throughout the song their emotions show pride, anger, passion, courage and strength. I felt the actors really conveyed their emotions through the music because they sang with their heart. The lyrics I like the most are sung by Feuilly.
Will water the meadows of France"
You can feel the passion when he sings and the pride in his voice. It makes me feel like I want to join the cause and fight with them if I could. You feel the sacrifice they are willing to give for their cause and it is just so passionate and strong.
Here is the song sung with lyrics by the origional London musical cast. | 2019-04-19T07:04:44 | http://firstbaptistfrench.blogspot.com/2013/01/lemotion-and-equite.html |
0.998031 | The primary objective is to compare the efficacy of irbesartan/hydrochlorothiazide 300/25mg against valsartan/hydrochlorothiazide 160/25mg in reducing mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) as measured by home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) after 24 weeks compared with baseline.
period 2: One 150/12.5mg tablet every morning for 8 weeks.
period 3: One 300/12.5mg tablet every morning for 8 weeks.
period 4: Two 150/12.5mg tablets every morning for 8 weeks.
period 2: One 80/12.5mg tablet every morning for 8 weeks.
period 3: One 160/12.5mg tablet every morning for 8 weeks.
period 4: Two 80/12.5mg tablets every morning for 8 weeks.
Office SBP ≥ 140 mmHg for patients already treated with an antihypertensive drug. | 2019-04-23T16:02:15 | https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT00500604 |
0.999182 | The chart below is a list of every occurrence of the Greek word "proskuneo" that I could find in The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (1969). This work was produced by the New World Translation Bible (NWT) committee in accordance with the Watchtower organization. An interlinear is a word-for-word translation of the Greek text. Included in this Watchtower interlinear is the text of the New World Translation Bible placed in a column on each page so the reader can see exactly how the NWT renders each occurrence of the verb "proskuneo."
The word "proskuneo" means "to kiss the hand, bow down before, show obeisance, to worship." Since the Jehovah's Witnesses deny that Jesus is God, they maintain that He is not to be worshipped. So, how does the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society translate the word "proskuneo" in their Greek New Testament in reference to Jesus and other objects of adoration? The NWT never translates the word into "worship" when it references Jesus. It does, however, render the word as "worship" regarding the devil, the dragon, the beast, the image, demons, idols, and an angel. Of course, they correctly translate it as "worship" when it deals with God.
Is the New World Translation biased against worshipping Jesus? It would surely seem so and especially since the NASB, NIV, KJV, NKJV, etc., all translate the word as "worship" in reference to Jesus.
It seems that as the Watchtower theology changed, they needed a Bible consistent with those changes, hence, the New World Translation. Following is a chart listing every appearance of the word "proskuneo" in the New World Translation. Let's see if the bias of the Watchtower organization is obvious.
The word "proskuneo" occurs 55 times in the Watchtower Kingdom Interlinear. Of those 55, 15 are in reference to Jesus with 40 used of others, 27% of the usage is of Jesus, and not a single reference is translated as "worship" even though in reference to the devil, demons, idols, etc., they do translate it as worship. If this doesn't demonstrate their bias, then what does?
As you can see, the NWT is very bias in how it translates the word "proskuneo." Whenever it is in reference to Jesus, they absolutely will not let it be translated as worship. Why? Because they erringly deny that Jesus is God in flesh and their Bible reflects their bias. This is not how proper theology is done.
The Watchtower Organization has changed the Bible to suit its needs. | 2019-04-20T18:48:22 | https://carm.org/new-world-translation-and-proskuneo-worship |
0.999928 | I am facing the below problem in Webdynpro java programming, please assist me for the same.
1) I have created a model in Webdynpro java (NWDS) calling a BAPI from a specific R/3 system.
2) Created a model-node in context of "component controller" and had done Model binding.
3) Done context mapping from "component controller" to "Viewcontroller".
4) Created an UI element (Input field) in the view layout and binded with a mapped value.
In the view context, the custom model-node cardinality is 1..n, where as the child model-node's(came through model binding) cardinality is 0..1 and I donot have the option to change it to 1..n. (probably that might obstruct the input field to take the value).
Please suggest me in the above scenario.
In addition to create nodes in component controller and view controller (and create mapping between them), you have to initialize bapi model node in component controller (Method wdDoInit).
Although cardinality in view context node is 1..n, if the node that is mapped to in the component controller has cardinality (0..1 in your case), in runtime, your view node will have 0 elements.
The real data that views manage should be in the component/custom controller. | 2019-04-20T07:06:03 | https://answers.sap.com/questions/5807737/index.html |
0.992238 | While it may cost a bit to have your septic tank pumped out, it will cost you much more to clean up any sewage backup or to repair or replace your septic tank. Put the strainer on top of drains to catch any food that would go down and cause a clog. You should clean your kitchen sink's strainer every time there is a large particle that's trapped in it. Bathtub strainers need regular cleaning as well. Keep your bathtub drain running well by pouring a cup of baking soda followed by a cup of vinegar down the drain each month. Plug the drain afterwards or cover it with a washcloth, as the two chemicals are going to react with each other. Wait for a bit, then flush with boiling water. Your pipes will soon be clear of accumulated hair and soap scum. Installing efficient shower heads could save you a lot of money when it comes to your energy bill. Most of the hot water used in the home is used while showering. Water-conserving shower heads are relatively affordable, but using them can save you a great deal of money within a single year. Faucet And Plumbing Repair Bend OR Keep your eye on the toilet bowl; if you notice colored water, you can safely assume that you are dealing with a leak.
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Certain foods, such as chicken skin, carrots, pumpkin and banana skins can clog the drain. , These passages allow your sink to fill up without overflowing onto your floor, and if they're blocked that can cause you a major headache. Clean overflow holes as part of your annual maintenance, and any other time you are handling general plumbing repairs. You should always put plenty of cold water through your garbage disposal while it is running. The cold water will help keep the blades nice and sharp and will allow for a much smoother disposal. If you use hot water, any grease in the disposal will liquefy, causing it to accumulate further down the drain, which could cause clogs. Clean out your dryer's lint filter. This can prevent a lot of problems, including a fire. Inspect your lint trap often to see if there are any tears or holes. If there are, you can have lint getting into your pipes, and this will clog them and give you more problems that will have to be dealt with. In order to keep your plumbing bills as low as possible, keep in mind prevention is key. Drain clogs are probably the most frequent issue you will run into with your plumbing.
A plumber needs a wide array of different job skills to be able to do his job well. Bathroom Sink Plumbing Repair Services Yachats OR, Blades will stay sharper with cold water, making disposal quicker. Using hot water will cause grease to liquefy and accumulate in the drain, which will cause clogs in your pipes. One easy way to save on energy and water is to install efficiency-oriented shower heads. A lot of the hot water that we use is used when we shower. When you invest in energy-efficient shower heads, you will save around $100 a year for every shower head. When changing your shower head, replace it with one of good quality. Some people think that one shower head is like any other, so decide on price alone. Cheap shower heads can break much more easily. Enzyme based pipe cleaners work really well at unclogging your pipes. A enzyme-based cleaner will remove the clog by turning it into a liquid, freeing it from the drain. Enzyme cleaners are considered one of the best the market has. | 2019-04-23T00:22:34 | http://savetheguthrie.org/Bathtub-Plumbing-Repair-Services-Coos-Bay-OR.html |
0.999549 | Josh Gilder put himself on the map recently. He wrote the speech that Ronald Reagan, poised dramatically under a bust of Lenin, delivered to students at Moscow State University. The event was a highpoint of the Moscow summit.
Now Josh Gilder is working for George Bush - crafting the first of many speeches which he hopes will help put the vice-president over the top in the fall elections.
``I'm struggling with the transition, because I'm writing for a candidate versus the President,'' says the youthful Mr. Gilder, even though he is not a newcomer to the Bush operation. He worked as a Bush speechriter for two years before being tapped for the presidential job in late 1985.
The struggle is understandable. The President's delivery is so impeccable that even a bad speech can be made to sound good. Vice-President Bush, on the other hand, does not have the reputation of a good speaker, especially when he is viewed on television.
Bush, he adds, although he is younger than Reagan, is a more old-fashioned politician who got his experience on the stump in Texas, delivering extemporaneous remarks on the back of a pick-up truck five times a day. Reagan, by contrast, is a politician of the television age.
If Bush does not come through well on TV, says Gilder, his strengths lie in his knowledge of the issues and the fact that he is an honest man. ``He couldn't dissemble if he tried,'' says the speechwriter.
It is clear that Gilder already is thinking in terms of Bush as a doer, perhaps in response to the Democrats' effort to build up Dukakis as a pragmatic manager. ``Reagan is the great visionary and Bush is the man that can implement that vision,'' he says.
He cites the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Arms) Treaty. The ``vision'' was the two-track policy of negotiation and deployment that led to the treaty. But it was George Bush who convinced the allies to move ahead with deployment of the nuclear missiles in the face of domestic opposition.
A political speechwriter does not make up his own ideas, of course. He seeks to capture and embody his client's views and values. In the case of Reagan, says Gilder, he went back to the President's 1964 ``A Time for Choice'' speech in support of Barry Goldwater to understand his most fundamental views.
It helps, of course, to share those views. Although he attended Sarah Lawrence College, a liberal arts institution where he studied literature and music, Gilder is an unabashed conservative. After graduation he wrote for such conservative periodicals as American Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, and New Criterion.
After joining the White House in 1983, Gilder's first speech for Bush was for a Rose Garden ceremony celebrating entrepreneurs. Later he wrote more substantial pieces, including the speech Bush delivered at a foreign policy conference in Vienna in 1983 on Yalta, in which he declared that the West would never accept the division of Europe.
During his two years with Bush, he says, the vice-president penned a great deal himself. Sometimes he wrote out his ideas on a legal pad aboard a plane and handed it to a writer for crafting just before a public appearance.
There is an art to writing for presidents and politicians. Gilder takes issue on which - when writing for someone for who is not a brilliant speaker - short, choppy sentences are called for.
Speechwriting for the President is not a solo operation. A draft speech is vetted by many people, from White House and National Security Council aides to State and Defense officials. All can and often do suggest changes. Finally, the draft is shown to the President himself, who frequently makes substantive as well as editorial changes.
While the White House has a stable of writers, many of whom earn a reputation in their own right, they do not tout their authorship of presidential speeches. The whole idea is to fashion a speech which, infused with the President's ideas and delivered with the rhythm uniquely his own, becomes ``his'' speech.
In working on the speech, Gilder sought advice from James Billington, head of the Library of Congress and author of ``Icon and the Ax.'' He also talked with Yakov Smirnov, the Soviet 'emigr'e and standup comic who is becoming known to US audiences for his witty comments about Soviet society.
The President, Gilder says, wanted to talk about the importance of freedom and what it means. Yakov, he says, helped make the theme concrete in terms of Soviets' own experience. Reagan ended up talking about freedom in churches, freedom in the schoolroom, freedom in the courtroom. He mentioned his own experience leading a union strike as president of the Screen Actors Guild.
``We are breaking through the material conditions of existence to a world where man creates his own destiny,'' the President declared.
Drawing on ideas uttered by Reagan over the decades, Gilder sought to make the speech not a ``challenge'' to the Soviet students, he says, but an ``embrace of the possibilities'' if the USSR opened up its system. Reagan praised Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reform effort and voiced hope for its success.
Reagan's speech was laced with the names of literary and other figures, among them Gogol, Pasternak, Lomonosov, George Washington. Even an Uzbek poet - Alisher Navoi. Though Reagan could not have known about all of them, the name-dropping had a purpose.
The Gilder draft went into circulation twice and, unlike many other speeches, ``sailed through,'' with a few presidential changes Gilder declined to describe.
For Gilder, the challenge now is to find Bush's words. | 2019-04-24T16:14:17 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0623/acamp.html |
0.999984 | What is mode, mean, median and range?
Until September 2015, under the old primary curriculum, children in Year 6 studied the mode, mean, median and range. The new curriculum states that they only have to learn about the mean, but they may well learn all the terms anyway.
The mode is the value that appears most often in a set of data. In this case, the mode is 9 seconds.
The median is the middle number in a list of numbers ordered from smallest to largest.
so 10 is the median of this set of results.
The range is the difference between the lowest value and the highest value, so the range here is 15 - 9 = 6.
What is the mean average amount they had? Round your answer to the nearest whole pence.
A child would most likely be allowed a calculator to work out this question.
They would need to add up the six amounts which would total 345p and then divide this by six, getting the answer 57.5p.
Since the question asks you to round the answer to the nearest whole pence, the final answer would be 58p.
On Tuesday I asked another group of six shoppers and found they had between 12p and £1.30 each, with a mean value of 56p. What similarities and differences are there between the two groups?
The child would need to say that the range of results is larger, but the mean average is very similar. | 2019-04-21T20:05:20 | https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-are-mode-mean-median-and-range |
0.999941 | This review is from: On Modern Jewish Politics (Studies in Jewish History (Oxford Paperback)) (Paperback) The Litvaks (Litwaks, LITVAKES in Yiddish) were long the objects of not only Endek but also Jewish preoccupation: "...in the Jewish world of Eastern Europe these Litvaks were celebrated--or damned--for their well-known tendencies toward modernization, secularization, radicalism, and the logical extension of all this, namely, modern nationalism." (p. 42).
Although Mendelsohn devotes much of his work to condemning Polish anti-Semitism, he comes to a point where he cuts the Poles some slack: "How could a Polish state successfully cope with a huge non-Polish population comprising something in the nature of 40 percent of all its citizens?" (p. 131). Before touching on the state of Israel, Mendelsohn senses a bit of hypocrisy in Jews attacking Poland when they never were in a position of having to deal with recalcitrant minorities: "It is easy to accuse certain Poles--and even the interwar Polish state--of chauvinism...But Jews of the national persuasion--Bundists...or Zionists...can hardly be accused of such crimes and misdemeanors as they ruled over no one." (p. 112).
Interestingly, the author sees the use of Yiddish, by religious as well as secular Jews, not so much an end in itself as a means by which Jews enforced their aggressive separatism (or what I call self-imposed apartheid): "The famous Chinese wall separating Jew from gentile...at least in Eastern Europe, a devotion to Yiddish, not because this language was regarded as a basis of modern secular Jewish nationalism but because its preservation reduced the likelihood of close contacts with the non-Jewish world." (pp. 23-24).
The author prefers the term integrationism to assimilation. Mendelsohn believes that Jews failed to integrate more into Polish society not only because of Polish hostility and Jewish separatism, but also because of Poland's situation: "A backward social structure dominated by remnants of the old aristocracy, the established church, and the peasantry is not one that will facilitate Jewish integration." (p. 39). However, Mendelsohn tacitly agrees with the Endek premise that integration into Polish society does not necessarily make a Pole out of a Jew: "But this was usually a case of acculturation without integration--the worst of all worlds, and no victory for the Poles and Romanians of the Mosaic faith." (p. 117). Interestingly, Mendelsohn contends that Jewish nationalists generally agreed with Dmowski and the Endeks that Jews were not, and could never, become Poles. (p. 19).
As in many of his other works, Mendelsohn shows that Jewish support for Communism went far beyond membership in the tiny, outlawed Communist party. Isaac Bashevis Singer is quoted as calling Poale Zion Communist. (p. 53). In 1920, the Poale Zion split into pro-Communist and anti-Communist factions (p. 69), and the Bund, which Mendelsohn identifies as a Marxist organization (p. 72), lost some of its members to Communism. (p. 69).
Antisemitism by itself cannot be the main reason that Jews found Communism appealing. After all, the political left had been anti-Semitic in its hostility to Jews as a capitalist class. (p. 96). Karl Marx was one of the left-wing heroes and martyrs of Jewish origin, "...whose blatant and inconvenient anti-Semitism was ignored or explained away." (p. 32).
As for combatting bigotry, Jewish Communists found bigotry by Jews as objectionable as bigotry against Jews. The author quotes Sydney Hook, who saw Jewish Communists as, "`...a vanguard, liberated from the exclusionist and chauvinistic principles of their forefathers...'" (p. 97). Mendelsohn (pp. 98-99) elaborates on this theme, and adds, "Hatred in this context means, among other things, hatred of the gentile, the drunken and violent GOY of the Jewish imagination. Judaism, at least the Judaism as shaped by the rabbis, meant despising the non-Jew..." (p. 99).
Was it, in the end, all about the Jewish acquisition of power and influence? Mendelsohn thinks so, albeit in a positive sense: "The alliance with the gentiles signified not only comradeship but also power...For Jews on the left the longed-for alliance with the international working class signified their transformation from a despised and powerless minority into an integral part of a mighty force, potentially the majority of mankind." (p. 100). | 2019-04-19T16:53:46 | http://www.internationalresearchcenter.org/en/identities/on-modern-jewish-politics-studies-in-jewish-history-oxford-paperback |
0.999982 | After poisoning the stomach hurts - what to do?
Stomach pain that occurs after suffering food poisoning is a rather frequent phenomenon. Many people know this feeling, but not everyone knows what the causes of this phenomenon are. The pain can be associated with both the poisoning itself and the complications that developed after it.
Why does the stomach ache after food poisoning, as well as alcohol? What to do and how to treat? When do you need medical help? Let's sort out these questions.
The nature of the pain can be very different, from dull and aching, to sharp and sharp. Most often, after poisoning, there are pressing pains and heaviness. Also, the pain syndrome can be continuous, and can manifest itself in the form of seizures.
Abdominal cramps after poisoning are characteristic of toxicoinfections and especially aggressive toxins. Such cutting pains can be observed after alcohol poisoning.
How many days does the stomach hurt after poisoning? On average, 1-3 days, but for each person the duration can be individual. It also depends on the nature of the complications.
The mechanism of abdominal pain is associated with the work of bacteria of the stomach and intestines to neutralize toxins. Pain in this case occurs in the middle of the abdomen above the navel or slightly to the left. If the intestine is involved in the process, the symptoms will spread even in the upper and lower abdomen.
Also, pain and discomfort in the stomach can occur due to the fact that the poisoning provoked the development of chronic diseases that were previously in remission. Or if a person did not have diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, but they, as they say, were “on the way,” then the poisoning could have contributed to their accelerated development. For example, a person could be sick with gastritis before poisoning and not know it, and after suffering toxic infection, the illness became aggravated.
Gastritis is also one of the complications of food poisoning. Irritant factors affecting the stomach during intoxication, damage its walls, which can cause the development of gastritis.
A gastric ulcer, like gastritis, can also be a consequence of poisoning, if the damaging factor was very aggressive. For peptic ulcer disease is characterized by hereditary predisposition, and, as a rule, it is preceded by gastritis.
Poisoning by stale food in which the bacteria are divorced can cause gastroenteritis. Its development is accompanied by diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal pain.
Alcohol is not only a poison, but also a strong damaging agent for the walls of the gastrointestinal tract. When alcohol enters the stomach, its walls begin to actively absorb ethanol and other harmful substances. In addition, when alcohol comes into contact with the mucous membrane, it kills not only harmful, but also beneficial microbes, and they are responsible for the partial neutralization of toxins.
After a short contact of alcohol with the stomach, the degree of damage is negligible. But with uncontrolled consumption, when the stomach is full of alcohol-containing drink, its walls for a long time are exposed to the damaging effects of ethanol.
There is a relationship between the strength of an alcoholic drink and the degree of damage to the stomach. The greater the concentration of ethanol, the deeper the destruction of the walls. Alcohol with a strength of more than 20% damages all layers up to the blood vessels. That is why after alcohol poisoning the stomach hurts. The pains are cutting.
Regular use also affects pain. This is due to the gradual atrophy of mucous cells, as a result of which the stomach is deprived of protection. Therefore, a frequent companion of chronic alcoholism is a gastric or duodenal ulcer.
Pain in the stomach after alcohol poisoning will last as long as the tissue of the walls of the gastrointestinal tract will be restored.
If after the poisoning there were sudden sharp pains, then you need to quickly seek help from a specialist, and if necessary call an ambulance.
If a person consumed alcohol, and then stopped taking alcohol, and stomach pain remained - this is also a reason for going to a doctor.
It is advisable to visit the doctor in any case because he will not only determine the causes of the illness, but also advise ways to restore the health of the gastrointestinal tract after food poisoning.
What should I do if my stomach hurts after poisoning? You can try traditional methods of treatment, such as raw eggs, liquid porridge from rolled oats, aspic. These products will act as enveloping substances, relieve irritation and soothe the pain. Flaxseed or sea buckthorn oil, aloe juice, chamomile decoction will also help soothe the pain syndrome.
Stomach pain after alcohol intoxication can be prevented by abandoning the use of strong alcoholic beverages in large quantities. Otherwise, the treatment of pain syndrome is similar to that in food poisoning.
Diet plays a big role in relieving stomach pain. Food should be light, sparingly processed, not abundant. You need to eat in small portions, but often. Once the symptoms subside, you can expand the diet. You can not eat spicy, fatty, sour foods, milk, butter, sauces, fast food, snacks.
If a stomach ache after poisoning, how to treat it? If folk remedies do not help, then drugs are used.
Pain in the stomach may indicate that not all toxins have been removed from the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, it is better to take drugs from the group of sorbents (activated and white coal, Polysorb MP, Sorbex, Enterosgel, etc.).
You need to drink more alkaline water without gas. It not only flushes the stomach, but also restores the water-alkaline balance in the body. Soda water will increase the heaviness and bloating in the stomach.
Since almost any poisoning alters the flora of the stomach, which can also cause pain, it is recommended to conduct a course on taking drugs containing beneficial microorganisms, for example, Bifidumbacterin, Linex, Bifiform, Hilak Forte.
What medicine will definitely help if a stomach ache after poisoning can be determined only by a doctor - a gastroenterologist or therapist. Self-medication does not always end successfully, and in some cases brings harm.
Let's sum up. After food poisoning, pain can be of the most diverse nature and duration, from dull to cutting, from long to short-term. The pain may occur in bouts or be constant. The resulting pain in the stomach after food poisoning is not always associated with himself, they can be caused by other diseases or complications from intoxication. Pain in alcohol poisoning is usually associated with exposure to alcohol and other toxins. Stomach pains require a visit to a doctor to establish their true causes and assign the correct treatment. | 2019-04-23T18:23:10 | http://en.intoxication-stop.com/posle-otravleniya-bolit-zheludok-chto-delat_html_default.htm |
0.997488 | Does the Polycom VVX line support STUN for use with Open SIP platforms? We would like to use the 3CX phone system, but 3CX claims they can not remotely provision a Polycom VVX phone because Polycom does not support STUN.
Searching on Google, I did find a mention of 66597 Added support for Microsoft STUN/TURN/ICE. in Polycom UC software 4.1.0 Revision S is for use with Microsoft® Lync® Server and using a single registered line only. This mentions for Microsoft enviorments, but what about for open SIP platforms?
Does Polycom supports STUN, and if not then why not? It seems Yealink and other large SIP Phone manafactures do.
All of your old posts => here <= are still open / pending as you have not marked these as "Accept as a solution".
If they are in this state nobody finding them via a community search will know if an answer or advice was useful and has helped you.
If they are marked as "Accept as a solution" other users can find these easier and it helps them to utilize the community more efficiently.
Forgive me if I somehow missed it, but I'm not seeing an answer to the question. I understand KL should accept answers to past questions, but this question needs an answer.
General STUN support should be a given for any SIP device, but I'm not seeing mention of it outside of Lync.
The original poster has asked many questions prior without ever showing any reaction to the answers.
As this does not help the community to grow I decided to remind him of this prior to answering his new question.
To answer this finally at present we only support STUN for Skype for Business and not openSIP. | 2019-04-20T02:59:47 | https://community.polycom.com/t5/VoIP-SIP-Phones/STUN-Support/m-p/95881 |
0.999338 | "Hun kom til fornuft i dag."
Translation:She came to her senses today.
Whats the difference between fornuft and grunn ?
"En grunn" is "a reason" as in a reason for doing something.
"Fornuft" is the ability to form logically coherent thoughts, but is also used a little more broadly. "Sunn fornuft" translates to "common sense", and anything that is "fornuftig" is "sensible" or "reasonable".
My guess was completely wrong.. But how would you translate 'she regained consciousness today'?
"Hun kom til bevissthet i dag"
While I'm here can you also use "i dag" in the sense of "these days" or even "nowadays"?
If the context supports it, yes. Not in a sentence like the above.
How nice to know the precise day on which she came to her senses. For most of us, it's a process, isn't it?
Vi eide ikke sverd! Vi trodde mer på freden, fornuften, arbeidsgleden, på selve livets verd!
in the value of life itself!
From a poem by Arnulf Øverland, written during World War II.
i lengden gavnet noget land.
Da ble vi tatt med vold!
vi våknet og vårt land var tatt.
nu stod vi helt forlatt!
til de ble valset ned!
Da er det hele slutt!
Til frihet er vi vant!
Vårt folk gir aldri tapt!
og navnløs dåd blir øvet.
På ny blir samhold skapt.
og liv vil alltid gro!
Does this mean that she arrived at a reasonable position in an argument today - or that she came in order to reason (discuss rationally)?
I'm pretty sure it's the former - the latter would need fornuft to be a verb, and it's not. Also 'come to reason' is a pretty standard phrase, at least where I'm from.
Or how about "She became reasonable today?" Would that have been accepted?
Ei fornuft - fornufta - fornufter - fornuftene? | 2019-04-25T10:54:55 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/9108404/Hun-kom-til-fornuft-i-dag |
0.998632 | You have the wrong value for 1000.
Could you give us the correct value for 1000? I'm getting the same problem.
I am a terrible mathematician, it's taken a lot of effort to get to problem 129... and the wording of the problem for 129 made my brain hurt a bit.
I am coding in Ruby.
This does not make me feel like my math is working right with these BIGNUMs.
I don't know much about Ruby, but in almost any language, and with any library for big numbers, there has to be a limit beyond which the numerical accuracy of the number representation breaks down, and the value is no longer correct. It sounds like that's what your hitting here.
So the trick is to find an approach that doesn't require arbitrary accuracy in your number representation. It is possible to solve this one using 32-bit integers alone.
PS Indeed all PE problems are possible with 32-bit integers, but for many later ones, it really does help to use 64-bit integers. Going beyond that sometimes helps too, but is by no means necessary, and I, for one, prefer not to resort to big integers or the like.
I have huge problems understanding the request of problem 129 such that I can't even get started.
I already solved problem 132 and I can't believe that I can't even start with this one.
"Given that n is a positive integer and GCD(n, 10) = 1, it can be shown that there always exists a value, k, for which R(k) is divisible by n, and let A(n) be the least such value of k; for example, A(7) = 6 and A(41) = 5."
1. If I take the repunit corresponding to A(7)=6 this is : R(6)=111111 which is factorized as [3, 7, 11, 13, 37] and which means that the lowest rank repunit where I first find the number 7 is R(6). I can't get a factor of 7 for R(2), R(3), R(4), R(5) which are lower ranked repunits.
2. If I take the repunit corresponding to A(41)=5 this is : R(5)=11111 which is factorized as [41, 271] and which means that the lowest rank repunit where I first find the number 41 is R(5). The number 41 is first found to R(5).
Now, this statement I don't know how to take it. If I proceeds with the same logic it means that A(17)>10 . But 17 as a factor can be found only at R(16) which is factorized as [11, 17, 73, 101, 137, 5882353] = (10**16-1)/9 . So it is not R(10) or R(11).
So, I know something is wrong in my understanding but I'm really stuck.
Can somebody clarify these to me ?
The problem requires that GCD(n,1) = 1, but GCD(16,10) != 1, so we shouldn't be considering n = 16 at all. That's why the first relevant value is 17 - GCD(17,10) = 1.
It sounds like you've determined that A(17)=16, which is greater than 10. I'm not sure where you're confused exactly.
And if we factor R(13) = [53, 79, 265371653], the number 265371653 is > 10^6 .
And that's not the answer. But 265371653 is not the least value. The least value is 53.
Therefore I must find an R(n) for which the least value (the first factor) is > 10^6 ?
However, if we factor R(17) we get [2071723, 5363222357] and in this case the first factor is > 10^6.
And that's not the answer.
A(n) is the number of 1's in the repuint. You want to find the smallest n that divides a repuint with more than 1 million digits.
Thanks all for your advises.
I think I have a logic bug in my understanding which I simply cannot get rid.
I'm somehow blocked on this problem and cannot properly think it.
I solved easily the other 3 sister problems, not this one.
I will take this problem on a later time.
"a value, k, for which R(k) is divisible by n, and let A(n) be the least such value of k; for example, A(7) = 6 and A(41) = 5."
The divisors of R(6) are [3, 7, 11, 13, 21, 33, 37, 39, 77, 91, 111, 143, 231, 259, 273, 407, 429, 481, 777, 1001, 1221, 1443, 2849, 3003, 3367, 5291, 8547, 10101, 15873, 37037].
I understand "A(7) = 6" because the divisors of R(6) is the smallest repunit where 7 is a divisor.
Is it also true that A(13) = 6 because 13 does not appear as a divisor in any smaller repunit?
Can only one value of n in A(n) = 6?
Yes. Similarly, A(3) = A(37) = A(111) = 3.
Technically, everyone is full of himself. | 2019-04-22T18:16:09 | https://projecteuler.chat/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1688&p=50845 |
0.999357 | Question: What is the hull corset?
Answer: It is written directly in the article, it is the center of the body, especially the abdominal muscles, the muscles around the spine, pelvis, shoulder blades and chest.
Question: Why is it important to start just with strengthening the hull corset?
Answer: If a person with insufficiently firm hull corset jumps straight into the heavy training (ideally by some hurray style), then he can easily cause an injury or he can build a basics of the chronic health problems in the future. Not everyone must necessarily begin this way: manually working man or active athlete can (or can not) have a hull corset okay, then it is not necessary for him to be so concentrated on that. However, if there's starting working out someone, who's sitting whole day at the office, or a teenager who spent his childhood at the computer, then it's very appropriate. The house is also built from the foundations and the body should be built from the foundations too, step by step.
Answer: There are muscles which have a tendency to be flabby and there are muscles which have a tendency to shortening. The problem is, that on the body they are usually against each other: for example the flabby triceps against the shortening biceps. It causes an disbalance, which can cause many problems (probably not in the case of arms, but on the hull, it can significantly distort the spine). Significant health problems can be caused for example by some disbalances on the legs.
So beginner should especially strengthen the rotators of the spine, abdominal and gluteal muscles, latissimus dorsi, lower and middle part of the trapezius along with the rhomboideus muscles, external rotators of the humerus bone, serratus and upper part of the pectoral muscles.
And he should stretch mainly lumbar erectors, hip flexors, neck erectors, upper trapezius, middle and lower part of the pectoral muscles and the rear side of the thighs.
Q: There was mentioned professional literature, which one?
Answer: There have been written many books on a very different level, I would recommend mainly "Tvarování těla" by Petr Tlapák, this is a book standing above others, in my opinion, but unfortunately this is Czech book and I don't know if it was translated to English. | 2019-04-19T18:54:53 | http://www.petrchalupny.estranky.cz/clanky/articles/answers-on-the-questions-to-the-first-article.html |
0.999665 | Should I get the Fusion Drive with a new iMac?
Herb has an old iMac and is thinking about getting a new iMac with the Fusion hybrid drive. Leo says that the Fusion drive will buy him a 128GB SSD with a 2-3 TB hard drive, working in concert. They work just fine. In fact, Apple's hybrid drive is better than most.
However, the speed boost from an SSD drive is lost on the fusion drive for the most part, so Leo doesn't recommend them. If speed is the issue, he should get an iMac with an SSD and then get a separate external data drive. Fusion is an overly complicated solution in his opinion. | 2019-04-25T22:53:41 | http://techguylabs.com/episodes/982/should-i-get-fusion-drive-new-imac |
0.999998 | Irish security policy : neutrality, non-aligned or 'sui generis'?
In this century the Irish have claimed, at critical moments, that they were neutral and that they have established a policy of traditional neutrality. In the last generation they have also claimed, on occasion, to be nonaligned. These claims are tested by identifying the true nature of neutrality and variables by which a state's claim to be neutral can be assessed, and by identifying the essence of nonalignment. That essence is inapplicable to developed European states. Given that neutrality per se can only apply in time of war, the variables are adjusted to reflect a peacetime policy 'for neutrality' in the event of war. For this purpose the model presented by three European neutral countries is examined and used to generate variables against which to test the Irish claims. The identified variables are: (i) due diligence with respect to neutral rights and duties; (ii) the extent to which Irish claims have been recognised by others; (iii) the disavowal of help by them and; (iv) the extent of their freedom of decision and action. In addition, and partly reflecting the claim to non-alignment, two other variables are used: (v) lack of isolationism, willingness to ameliorate world problems, and impartiality and; (vi) the attitude to identity, nation- building, unity, stability and self-determination. Ireland has consistently failed to meet the criteria associated with either 'of' or 'for' neutrality, whilst its record on variable (v) is mixed. Its concern with variable (vi) has been pervasive, but ineffectual. Nonetheless, Ireland has not been committed to co-belligerency, although neither non-aligned, neutral nor an alliance member. It is in a ‘sui generis’ position, particularly, but not only, within the European Community. | 2019-04-24T10:36:40 | https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/3719 |
0.999999 | What do dreams about this subject mean? Before determing what your rat dream means, you must first ask yourself what you associate with rats, says O'Connor. Are you afraid of them or do you think they're cute? "Rats are seen by many people as pests that carry disease or cause other problems so they have many negative connotations," she notes. "Yet rats are also survivors, able to withstand harsh environments and highly intelligent. The meaning will evolve from both your association with the qualities of rats as well as what is going on in your current life." What can I learn about myself from dreaming about rats? "The first thing to think about is whether you or someone you know is behaving unethically in a situation in your life," suggests O'Connor. "You often hear the expression that someone is a 'rat,' meaning he is untrustworthy or has betrayed someone." Alternatively, a rat in your dream could represent feeling like you're caught in a maze somewhere in your daily life. Are there any tricks to avoiding or inducing dreams about this subject? If you fear rats, set the intention of waking up in a dream if a rat appears. "This is a technique known as lucid dreaming," she says. "In a lucid dream, you can notice you are dreaming and take control of the dream events and overcome your fears." If you want to dream about rats, then visualize rats before falling asleep. Beyond analysis, what cultural symbolism can be found in dreams about rats? "In Chinese culture, the first symbol of the zodiac is a rat and people born in a rat year are said to possess the positive qualities, including creativity and intelligence, of a rat," explains O'Connor. "In Hindu tradition, rats are associated with the god Ganesh, who is worshiped as the remover of obstacles. In some Native American traditions, rats are symbols of survival and lack of fear." Dreamers from these various cultural traditions may find a different meaning from those in a traditional western culture. Who tends to have dreams about this subject most frequently? According to O'Connor, rat dreams do not affect one swath of the population more than another. Does it mean anything if the rat is dead in my dream? Dreaming about a dead rat may mean you're overwhelmed or frightful about a situation in your real life. It could also represent letting go of a relationship, especially if that relationship involves betrayal. "In that case, the dream is letting you know that the situation has come to an end," notes O'Connor.
To dream of being clothed in rubber garments, is a sign that you will have honors conferred upon you because of your steady and unchanging stand of purity and morality. If the garments are ragged or torn, you should be cautious in your conduct, as scandal is ready to attack your reputation. To dream of using ``rubber'' as a slang term, foretells that you will be easy to please in your choice of pleasure and companions. If you find that your limbs will stretch like rubber, it is a sign that illness is threatening you, and you are likely to use deceit in your wooing and business. To dream of rubber goods, denotes that your affairs will be conducted on a secret basis, and your friends will fail to understand your conduct in many instances.
To dream of rubbish, denotes that you will badly manage your affairs.
To dream of a rudder, you will soon make a pleasant journey to foreign lands, and new friendships will be formed. A broken rudder, augurs disappointment and sickness.
To dream of ruins, signifies broken engagements to lovers, distressing conditions in business, destruction to crops, and failing health. To dream of ancient ruins, foretells that you will travel extensively, but there will be a note of sadness mixed with the pleasure in the realization of a long-cherished hope. You will feel the absence of some friend. Rum (this entry sponsored by 151 Classic Cocktails. Makes a great gift!) To dream of drinking rum, foretells that you will have wealth, but will lack moral refinement, as you will lean to gross pleasures.
To dream that you are ruptured, denotes you will have physical disorders or disagreeable contentions. If it be others you see in this condition, you will be in danger of irreconcilable quarrels. | 2019-04-21T14:27:32 | http://www.understandmydreams.com/dreamsdictionary.php?start_with=r |
0.998235 | One of the government's contingency plans in the event of an outbreak of avian influenza is to require poultry keepers to keep their birds inside a building to prevent contact with other birds and their droppings.
Keeping geese inside is difficult. Geese are creatures for the open air. Kept inside, they will not thrive so well. Under normal circumstances, a lot of their nourishment comes from grass, so they will be much more expensive to keep. Being waterfowl, they need plenty of water to drink and normally love to bathe and play in water - all of which will create messy, damp bedding when it happens inside. The government have recognised that geese are more difficult to keep inside than other poultry, so you would therefore be allowed to extend their house by adding a secure area under, for instance, a tarpaulin with bird-proof netting all around.
Welfare - obviously there is going to be more poop and spilt water. A very thick layer of absorbent bedding - such as wood chips (not shavings) or peat is useful. Once or twice a day, pick off the poop, and replace any soaked litter as needed. Put a pile of straw in a corner for them to nose around in and nest in. Depending on the building, it may be necessary to provide artificial light.
Feeding - You can give them free access to pellets and/ or wheat or mixed corn. You may be able to get pellets specifically for waterfowl; they are better than layers pellets. You can give them chopped fruit and vegetables. If they are not used to this, they may not be very enthusiastic to start with, so begin with small quantities till they get a liking for it. You may also be able to obtain grass meal for them to feed on, but I have no experience of this. You'll also have to give them some ordinary grit and sand so they can digest their feed properly. If you want to keep them in lay, then they'll need a supply of oyster shell grit.
Watering - You will need to put a water container in for them (a shallow one so they don't up-end in it and drown). If it is possible, place the container on a grid, or on a part of the floor with no litter, so they can't make a mud pie. Place a rock or two in the container so they can't knock it over. If the birds have access to a secure outdoor area as described above, then place the water in this area.
Disease Security - If your building is not secure against small birds, then put close mesh netting over the openings. Keep visitors, including delivery vehicles, and animals and vermin away and disinfect your hands etc. Keep special boots and other clothing for the secure area. Avoid contact with other poultry or birds, poultry keepers and poultry equipment from elsewhere. Ensure your feed and litter come from safe sources and keep your feed store and straw and litter store bird-proof and rodent proof. Ensure the water has not been contaminated by wild birds. | 2019-04-24T13:03:26 | http://www.users.waitrose.com/~ashwyn/goosecare/inside.htm |
0.998557 | My mother is ____ than my father.
What is ____ movie you have ever seen?
That movie was bad, but it wasn't ____ I have ever seen.
Rachel's hair is not as ____ as Sarah's.
Yesterday's exam was ____ than the one last month.
I think Mary is ____ woman I have ever seen.
Her room is only a little bit ____ than mine.
He is ____ when he is playing football.
Michael's house is ____ from the train than Betty's. | 2019-04-22T12:35:32 | https://www.curso-ingles.com/practicar/ejercicios/comparatives-and-superlatives |
0.999556 | The song is very straight forward, it tells of almost all the events that took place.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood"- the opening Lyrics are describing the murders that took place.
'Less you want to draw the heat"- This is a reference towards the civil rights movement and how blacks were treated by authorities.
3.) "An Innocent man living in hell" -refers to Rubin Being in prison for crime he didn't commit.
This song is about a Boxer named Rubin " Hurricane" Carter. Bob Dylan wrote the song after he and a friend were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murdering 3 white people, which he did not do. Rubin was basically arrested for being black and matching the description of the killers. Dylan wrote to express his feelings towards this event and how he was Innocent.
This supports the civil rights movement.
This song supports Rubin "Hurricane" carter and how he was wrongly convicted, the song supports him by claiming he is innocent.
The song also supports the civil rights movement because this takes place during the civil rights movement, Rubin and his friend were pulled over because they were black and the police were searching for two black men who committed the murders.
I Agree with the message this song is sending because I fell it is wrong to sentence a person to life in prison with little to no evidence to back up the sentence.
This song did make a significant impact because it brought a lot of attention to the subject and also to the civil rights movement. | 2019-04-25T08:53:28 | https://www.smore.com/fzht2 |
0.999754 | The fringes are the most important part of the prayer shawl.
The prayer shawl (Hebrew: "talit," also pronounced "talis") symbolizes the commandments of the Torah. The fringes that hang from the four corners are made up of twists and knots that have the numerical value 613, which the ancient rabbis understood as the total number of positive and negative commandments in the Hebrew scriptures. By donning the talit, the wearer is surrounded by the fringes on all four sides, reminding one of the requirements for ethical and ritual behavior.
The source for the prayer shawl is Numbers 15:38.
The fringes of the prayer shawl are described in Numbers 15:38-39: "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue. And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring." This King James translation, while it may seem a bit stilted to modern ears, is actually pretty close to the original. The fringes are meant as a reminder and a restraint against illicit behavior.
Was the 'hilazon' a snail?
The fringes are actually made up of four long threads that are looped though a hole in the corner of the garment. One of those four threads was originally dyed a shade of blue, but the source for that specific color ("tekhelet") was lost in the medieval period, so most prayer shawls today are made with white fringes only. Some groups, notably several Hasidic sects, believe that they have identified the "hilazon" species described in the Talmud which was used to make the dye (possibly a type of squid or even a snail) and have been manufacturing prayer shawls with the blue thread on each corner. The color of the thread is intended as a reminder of the color of the sea, which in turn is a reminder of the color of the sky, which is a reference to the Kingdom of Heaven.
The talit comes in two varieties: the prayer shawl proper ("talit gadol" or "big talit") and the small version which is more like a poncho, often worn as an undershirt ("talit katan" or "small talit"). Observant Orthodox Jewish men wear the talit katan at all times, and the larger version during morning prayers. The size of the larger version should ideally fall to the small of the back when worn with two corners over the shoulders, although some Jews wear much smaller versions that are folded and worn around the back of the neck with four corners hanging approximately to the belt line. Women in non-Orthodox congregations sometimes wear a prayer shawl; they are typically designed with more feminine motifs and colors than the traditional white with black or blue stripes favored by men.
Traditionally, only grown men wore the large prayer shawls. In German Jewish and some Sephardic traditions, the talit gadol was worn by boys after the age of Bar Mitsvah (13); in other Ashkenazic traditions, it was worn only by men who were engaged or married. Although the small prayer shawl may be worn into the restroom, large prayer shawls are not.
Since the essential meaning of the prayer shawl resides in the fringes ("tsitsit," also spelled "tzitzit"), care must be taken while wearing the tallit gadol. The fringes often get snagged in folding seats, and snapping them off can make the prayer shawl invalid. In fact, the wearer may be required to remove the entire shawl, since rabbis have ruled that a four-cornered garment that does not have the appropriate tsitsit may not be worn.
Almoni, Ploni. "What Is the Meaning of the Jewish Prayer Shawl?" Synonym, https://classroom.synonym.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-jewish-prayer-shawl-12080931.html. 29 September 2017. | 2019-04-25T00:36:14 | https://classroom.synonym.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-jewish-prayer-shawl-12080931.html |
0.999962 | Q: Didn’t Hamas start this fighting by provoking Israel?
A: According to this interpretation of events: 1. Palestinians killed Israeli teens -> 2. Israel responded -> 3. Hamas began rocket fire -> 4. Israel attacked Gaza.
A longer cycle. The first problem with this sequence is that if you go a little further back, you find further provocations and attacks by Israel, further responses by Palestinians, and so on, going back decades. For example, on May 15, 2014, Israeli soldiers murdered two Palestinian teens in Beitunia, for no apparent reason (see: http://electronicintifada.net/tags/beitunia-killings). Even if you see the conflict as a ‘cycle of violence’, the primary responsibility lies with the more powerful party, since it is the more powerful party that will determine the course of both war and peace in any ‘cycle’. Israel is by far the more powerful party. The question of ‘who started it’ is really a question about who is responsible. Israel can stop this massacre at any moment.
Revenge does not apply to innocents. But the second problem is more important. It is immoral to see the killings of the Israeli teens as a ‘response’ to, or ‘revenge’ for, the killings of the Palestinian teens in May. It is also immoral to see the torture and burning alive of a Palestinian teenager by Israeli settlers as a ‘response’ to the killings of the teens. The only acceptable moral response to crimes like murder is to bring the individuals responsible to justice. Justice, according to the law, does not allow revenge against other people.
Substitute the word “Palestinians” for “the radical Islamic movement”, and you have a more honest statement of what these attacks may be about: “drilling without consent”.
“The present genocidal wave has, like all the previous ones, also a more immediate background. It has been born out of an attempt to foil the Palestinian decision to form a unity government that even the United States could not object to.
Q: Wait, what is the unity government?
A: Beginning last July (2013), there was another “peace process” that was initiated by US Secretary of State John Kerry, involving Netanyahu on the Israeli side and Mahmoud Abbas, from Fatah, whose electoral mandate expired in 2009 (a point I’ll return to). The deadline set for an agreement was April 2014. Over the course of this “peace process”, Israel continued to build settlements in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory Israel is militarily occupying.
When the April 2014 deadline arrived, Abbas had no agreement from Israel to show, only new settlements and new preconditions for talks. At that point, Abbas agreed to join Hamas in a unity government and prepare for new elections, which would be the first since 2005/6, when Abbas won the presidential election (2005) and Hamas won the legislative elections (2006).
Even though Israel had offered Abbas nothing, when the unity government proposal arose, Netanyahu said that Abbas could have peace with Israel or with Hamas, but not both – but he had already shown that Israel had no interest in peace, regardless of what Abbas did.
It is worth noting just how favorable the unity government agreement was, to both Abbas and, potentially, to Israel, as Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group (ICG) wrote in the July 17/14 NYT: Hamas transferred formal authority to Ramallah, giving up official control of Gaza. But “Israel immediately sought to undermine the reconciliation agreement by preventing Hamas leaders and residents from obtaining the two most essential benefits of the deal: the payment of salaries to 43,000 civil servants who worked for the Hamas government and continue to administer Gaza under the new one, and the easing of the suffocating border closures imposed by Israel and Egypt that bar most Gazans’ passage to the outside world.” Qatar offered to pay the salaries. The UN offered to deliver the salaries. But the US allowed Israel to block both efforts.
Q: But why did Hamas reject the ceasefire offers?
Q: Civilian deaths have been kept to a minimum by Israeli doctrine, haven’t they?
“The Dahiya doctrine (which refers to the Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut that Israel purposely decimated in its 2006 assault on Lebanon) is Israel’s preferred method of warfare. Under this doctrine, the Israeli army deploys overwhelmingly disproportionate force against civilian infrastructure to restore Israel’s deterrence and turn the local population against its enemy, i.e. Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Q: Even if 80% of deaths have been civilians, 20% have been militants, right?
“Using precision guided missiles, the Israeli army claims it is only bombing people and infrastructure “affiliated with Hamas terrorism” — and the international community is buying it.
“What is not being discussed, however, is who and what constitutes a Hamas affiliate.
“Hamas is more than just a militant organization, it is the political party that was democratically elected in 2006 to govern the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Hamas’s control means that almost everyone and everything in Gaza can be considered a Hamas affiliate. This unchallenged loose definition has enabled Israel’s war architects to widen the definition of legitimate targets to include civilians and civilian infrastructure, including mosques, schools, hospitals, banks, electricity lines and residential homes, all of which have been targeted.
Q: Such civilian deaths as have occurred have occurred because militants hide among civilians, right?
A: There is nowhere for anyone to hide in Gaza. Gaza is one of the most densely populated 360 sq km strips of land on earth. Israel defines everyone in Gaza as a militant. Israel and Egypt have ensured that no one can leave Gaza. Israel is now shelling and bombing Gaza. Civilians have no place to hide from Israeli bombs and shells. There is nowhere civilians can go to prevent Israel from defining them as militants, and there is nowhere anyone can go in Gaza to be safe from bombs – Israel bombs houses, apartments, UNRWA compounds, hospitals – the story of ‘militants hiding among civilians’ is simply an Israeli excuse for bombing and killing civilians freely.
Q: Surely you cannot expect Israel to stand by while the rockets continue to terrorize them?
“Opening Gaza borders to (inspected) trade so the commercial viability of the Gaza tunnel system is undermined and factions must make their own tunnels just for smuggling weapons. This reduction would likely be dramatic, and it would also bring Israel into compliance with international law that bans the collective punishment of civilians. It would also mean an end to Israel’s murdering of commercial smugglers.
“Israel could actually pursue peace and a solution to the overall crisis that actually respects Palestinian demands. That is, stop giving their enemies reasons to actively fight them, and watch support for the remaining fighters all but evaporate. I can’t guarantee this would work, but it has never been tried.
“Stop targeting Hamas’s civilian, non-operational leadership for assassination, which draws profound resentment from the Palestinian people and consistently, as Juan Cole notes, strengthens Hamas’s hand in both Gaza and the West Bank.
Q: The civil wars in Iraq and Syria, the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the conflicts in Sudan and Congo and Nigeria have claimed many more lives than this conflict. Isn’t it hypocrisy for people in the world be so upset over a few hundred dead Palestinians in the face of these much larger death tolls?
“Those who commit atrocities in the Arab world against oppressed minorities and helpless communities, as well as the Israelis who commit these crimes against the Palestinian people, should all be judged by the same moral and ethical standards. They are all war criminals, though in the case of Palestine they have been at work longer than anyone else.
“It does not really matter what the religious identity is of the people who commit the atrocities or in the name of which religion they purport to speak. Whether they call themselves jihadists, Judaists or Zionists, they should be treated in the same way.
A: The problem with this question is that it misunderstands the parties to the conflict. The questioner has slipped from “Israel and the Palestinians” to “Israel and the Arabs”. “The Arabs” are not a party to this conflict – Arab-speaking countries of the Gulf, North Africa, and the rest of the Middle East are not under Israel’s occupation, nor are they refugees from Israel’s founding in 1948. The Palestinians are. The Palestinians are the victims of the current Israeli operations, not “the Arabs”.
A: Writing in the NYT on July 18/14, Jodi Rudoren, like many others, makes much of the difference between this Israeli attack on besieged Gaza and previous attacks, like 2009 and 2012. In 2009, Rudoren writes, “Israel quickly bisected the tiny coastal enclave and blockaded Gaza City, where they engaged in gun battles with Hamas fighters. On Friday, the troops operated mainly in farmland within about a mile of Gaza’s northern, southern and eastern edges, and quickly announced they had uncovered more than 20 tunnel exit points. Setting the bar relatively low helps hold back public expectations, provide the military with achievable goals, and build international legitimacy.” In this analysis, Hamas is isolated and weaker because in previous rounds, Hamas could count on more support from Syria’s government (right now in the middle of a civil war) and a friendly government in Egypt (which was never that friendly, but which has now, under Sisi, returned to the traditional pattern of working for Israel and isolating the Palestinians since the 2013 coup). Israel, and consequently, the Western media, are focused on “the tunnels” – into which much of Palestinian life has been driven because of the siege – as the enemy. Israel claims that Hamas’s fighters are a threat because of these tunnels.
Israel’s ability to keep this up depends on several factors. One is the regional factor, which is now providing few restraints (civil war in Iraq and Syria, a pro-Israel regime in Egypt). Another factor is how difficult it is for Western leaders to sell the war to Western civil society. In this attack, a gap may have opened up between the Israeli public and the Western public at large, as the picnics, outrageous comments, trophy photos and the like that are being shared in social media and collected in Western media show – see for example (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/middleeast/israelis-watch-bombs-drop-on-gaza-from-front-row-seats.html). At some point, the atrocities will reach a level that will trigger Western leaders to get Israel to stop.
Q: Is there anything to do?
A: Israel is a part of the West. Its economy and politics are fully integrated with the West. It simply cannot do this without support from the US, Canada, and Europe. If you go to demonstrations against Israel’s attacks, whether this one or the next ones, join the BDS Movement (bdsmovement.net), write letters to politicians or to media outlets, you will be up against an organized an organized, extensive, pro-Israel effort. You will have to do your homework and realize there are people preparing professional talking points about every historical fact and argument you come across. It may be years before anything improves, and things may get still worse. But Israel depends on international support, including from the public, more than most – that is why they devote so much energy and effort to politicians and the media in the West. This is a conflict where activists can make a difference.
Justin Podur is a writer and activist based in Toronto. | 2019-04-21T04:58:21 | https://podur.org/2014/07/24/q-a-on-palestine/ |
0.999998 | Will $ or $$ variables called by a calculation ever interfere with each other? I thinking about a custom function that uses a $ variable as a counter, but I'm wondering if that can backfire.
If a $ variable is defined by more than one calc at a time (in a Let() statement), how does that resolve?
I know the answer, but try yourself.
If I could come up with a simple test, I wouldn't have bothered to post.
I suppose my question isn't clear enough. There are no iterations to be reset.
If I use $counter in a CF instead of passing the counter as a parameter, what happens when multiple instances of that CF run at the same time? Say during a Replace() on a field in a parent table that acts as a trigger for a calc that calls that CF.
This would be used in solution that summarizes dozens to hundreds of children records and such a Replace() on a set of, say, 10 records, may take up to 30 secs.
It's still not too clear... I don't think there can be more than one evaluation taking place at the same time. And AFAIK, there can be only one register named $counter in the memory (per script), so in a Replace Field Contents step every record should pick up the value from the previously evaluated record.
What if no scripts are involved? Say you have multiple calc fields that are updated by the same trigger field. Those calc fields use a the same custom function (with different parameters) and that CF uses a $ variable.
The testing I'm doing seems to indicate that the you can NOT use a variable as a counter in a CF.
Which I think is my real question.
"Using the Set Variable script step or the Let function, you can create local and global variables. The scope of local and global variables is limited to the current file.
A global variable can be used in a calculation or script anywhere in a file, for example, other scripts or file path. The value of a global variable is not cleared until the file is closed. Prefix global variables with $$.
Local and global variables (or even two local variables in different scripts) can have the same name but they are treated as different variables and can store different values."
"Once defined, local and global variables can be referenced in any calculation within their scope. The scope of global variables is limited to the current file. The scope of local variables is the current script. Local variables defined in a calculation are scoped to the file but are only available when scripts are not running. A local and global variable (or even two local variables in different scripts) can have the same name but they are treated as different variables and store different values."
While no script is running, a "no-script" memory is being used - and within it too, only one register named $counter can exist.
You still haven't told us what the CF does, and I am quite puzzled regarding what you mean by using a variable as a counter.
The calc-fields are triggering in a particular order (which is based on their inter-dependencies), when I was at FileMaker, they were never run in parallel, and I doubt they would go to the effort, due to the potentially complex dependencies between them.
So, if I understand you correctly, I would think it safe.
You need to reset the counter somewhere, otherwise it will just keep climbing, see the "Start" function I had in mine, and I added a similar function to yours.
Dj, try as I said.
First, thanks everyone for taking time to help me through this (esp Daniele who tried to put me on the right path from the start). I understand how to make a $ var work now as a counter by resetting it either with another function or within the function itself, which was my immediate goal.
But I still don't understand how $ vars behave within calculation fields. (They are local to a script, obviously, their most common use).
Generally, it seems that if a $var is defined within a calc, that $var is local to that calc, except for other expressions of the $var (which don't define it).
-When the $var trigger is null, most (but not all) of the $vars don't evaluate. That's definitely not expected.
-An expression that doesn't define a $var, but expresses it (counter / triggered counter) apparently takes on a value from one of the other definitions (the last one defined that is on the layout??).
-For those non-defining calcs, unstored and stored expressions behave differently.
I don't know if this is making sense to anyone else...it doesn't really to me at the moment.
Here's another file, with a variety of calc fields each setting the same $var, with different results.
No, not at all. Once you declare a $variable, it is there and can be accessed by other calculations. The limit of the scope is the script that "owns" the $variable - that would be the the script that was running when the $variable was declared. If a $variable is declared when no script is running, it will be available as long as no script is running.
When a $variable is set to empty, it ceases to exist.
$vars are local to the current script, but variables in calcs named without a "$" are local to the calc, such as, Let ( theDate=Get (CurrentDate) ).
But we are speaking about variables in calcs that are named WITH a "$".
BTW, variables WITHOUT a "$" are valid ONLY within the Let() function that created them, not beyond that.
I am aware that you were specifically discussing $var and $$var, but it seemed odd that no one mentioned named variables using Let( ). I thought, perhaps, they should be mentioned for others reading the thread. They're not as glamorous, but they're very useful!
You are presenting conflicting ideas. If you're talking about calculated fields, they are calcuated fields; they are by definition NOT dependent on a script. So far it isn't clear why you have any $ variables at all, they are not necessary to any of your calculations, the standard Let variable will do the job. Further confusing the issue, you talk about using $ variables within a custom function but there are no custom functions in your example file. So it isn't at all clear what you're trying to do here.
I've been reading this thread with great interest. I am tickled that DJ asks the questions he asks. Bruce, what you say is true but, just because DJ asks these questions and we (and maybe even he) doesn't see where the answers will lead, doesn't mean the questions should not be asked.
I'm not so sure about that. I've seen work where $variables are used within calculations which rely on script and I've seen quite interesting results. Just because something hasn't been done (and I'm not sure it hasn't) doesn't mean it shouldn't.
LaRetta: I'm glad you appreciate the question...I always enjoy your forays in the the underbelly of FMP.
Bruce: I've posted two sample files. The first has CFs, the second does not. Please see my second file for my current crop of questions. No, the fields in the second file do not have any functionality for the file itself. I'm not trying to solve a real world problem, I'm trying to figure out how Filemaker works.
of course, you're right, $vars are global to the file if set by calculation. I think I'm getting confused by how (as Shadow says) multiple calcs will trigger "based on their inter-dependencies".
in the second demo file, I am not setting the $var to null. I'm setting a field to null, which triggers auto-entered calcs that have a result of a $var.
-When the number field upon which the auto-enter calcs are set to trigger (with a $var result) is set null, most (but not all) of the $vars don't evaluate correctly. What the heck is going on there?
-What are the "interdependencies" at work when expressing a $var in a calc field that isn't defined in that calc (field dependencies? stored/unstored/auto-enter calcs? creation order? $var placement order?). Is that why I'm getting different results for different fields in the demo file?
Had I said that, I wouldn't be right. They are NOT global to the file - they are available only within their "parent script boundary" (for lack of a better definition).
I am having a difficulty following your file. I think it's important to separate the issues. The order in which calculation fields evaluate is difficult to control since version 8 (IIRC). This has nothing to do with $variables, although it may have a critical impact when the same $variable is being set by multiple fields.
As both of us have said in this thread, this thread is $vars when no script is involved. I didn't think I would have to provide context in every post, that the thread was context enough, but do the parens below help?
How is the statement "$vars are global to the file (when no script is running) if set by calculation (when no script is running)"
If a $variable is declared when no script is running, it will be available as long as no script is running.
It seems like my second question (in what order do calc fields evaluate) may be unanswerable.
But I am very curious to the answer to my first.
In my demo file, why does setting the trigger field result to a Null value (a simple Number field) result in $vars of the the auto-enter calc and stored calc fields also being null?
I've put together ANOTHER sample file. I don't think I can make it any simpler without losing the point.
I am sorry, I didn't mean to quibble - it's just that as Barbara pointed out, this is a public thread, so it's important to be precise. And you sort of attributed that statement to me. Everyone needs to find the model that helps them best to organize the stuff in their own mind. As it happens, your (new) formulation doesn't fit the way I think about this, but that's no reason why it couldn't work for you.
Oh, it's definitely answerable - after all, Filemaker doesn't pick the fields in random order. But I believe it deserves a thread of its own (probably quite a long one). This is something I began investigating at one time, but I have put it aside when I saw it what it would take to get the answer. Perhaps Shawn can offer some simple formulation of the rules.
I've put together ANOTHER sample file.
why does setting the trigger field result to a Null value (a simple Number field) result in $vars of the the auto-enter calc and stored calc fields also being null?
Because the fields are set not to evaluate when all referenced fields are empty.
B = C & "!"
So, now the dependencies are inverted into a 'trigger table', such that when C changes FM knows to recompute B first, then X.
Any oddness in the order of execution observed probably comes from the fact that internally, field-creation order is the easiest thing to use - so in any case where it doesn't matter who goes first, fields likely recompute in the order they were defined. So, you might make two files which appear to have the same calculations in them, but there order of execution differs slightly, since the fields weren't defined in the same order.
I agree that's pretty weird.
It looks to me like its computing using the committed value of the other field (rather than the new value entered) to compute the other calculation.
It can get even weirder than that: I can't find my old files at the moment, but I have a distinct memory of setting up a situation where modifying a field would cause some fields to be evaluated TWICE during the same cascade run.
By definition, none of the calcs evaluate incorrectly.
You didn't write the calculation engine and you are exploring issues and dependencies that you don't understand.
What exactly are the "incorrect" values?
Sorry for the delay, I just got back from vacation where I did not have internet access for a whole 8 days.
*%$#! Something that simple! Thanks so much.
Now, I've got to look into how that setting interacts with the auto-enter field. Intuitively (to me) if it's not supposed to evaluate, it shouldn't replace.
Of course I'm exploring issues I don't understand. Why else would I be posting questions about them?
I'm sorry you don't understand my questions, I don't think I can make the issues clearer for you.
Thankfully, others understand and have helped by answering two problems and posting a very interesting file. | 2019-04-21T17:03:26 | https://fmforums.com/topic/64063-and-variables-in-custom-functions/ |
0.999997 | Penang is arguably one of Asia's best street food destinations. Penang food is the cuisine of the multicultural society of Penang, Malaysia. Most of these cuisine are sold at road-side stalls or pushcarts, known as “street food” or & quot;hawker food”. It offers a mix of traditional Malay, Chinese and Indian dishes, as well as fusion cuisines such as Baba Nyonya, or Peranakan, which incorporates regional ingredients and Chinese, Malay and Thai cooking methods. It is popular among locals and tourists alike. All of Penang street foods can be found in hawker centres and shop houses throughout George Town.
- Do leave an empty stomach before start of tour.
- Please inform tour guide if you have medical condition, foods allergy, religious concern or any other things that needed to be let known to the tour guide.
- You know yourself better than anyone else. You can ask for less sugar, or less spicy or omit certain ingredients to the food operator.
- Foods taste are subjective and depends on individual liking and/or its acquired taste. Be open to taste new foods. Ask your guide or the food proprietor if you are not sure. Order food to share first instead of a big plate/bowl for yourself.
- Be open minded to the ambiance of certain location of hawker stalls or hawker centers.
- Duration of tour may varies depending on weather, traffic, attraction open hours, hawker or hawker center open hours, order congestion or late arrival of customer, customer's cruise ship or plane.
- In some case where the said hawker for certain hawker foods may not be opened at the time of visit, it will be substituted with same hawker foods from other hawker or hawker center.
- Take a lot of pictures but do not waste foods.
top culinary destination in 2014. To top it off, Penang has recently been named 2nd out of 17 best places to visit in 2017 by CNN, thanks to its world famous hawker foods.
Select one of the food routes from the selection below and in between foods tasting session, will visit to 1 or 2 attraction places close by the hawker center.
Route 1 – Mamak Mee Goreng Sotong (Indian Muslim style fried noodle with cuttlefish), Char Koay Teow (fried flat noodle with cockle), White Curry Mee (White Curry noodle with coconut milk), Chendol (a dessert make of glutinous rice in coconut milk), Assam Laksa (spicy and sour fish broth noodle), Nasi Kandar (Indian Muslim curry pole rice), Kueh Chiap (special handmade rice noodle in duck broth), and others.
Route 2 – Nasi Lemak bungkus (banana leaf wrapped coconut milk rice), Koay Teow Th’ng (flat noodle soup), Prawn Fritter, Hokkien mee (prawn noodle), Curry Mee (curry noodle), Chendol (a dessert make of glutinous rice in coconut milk), Assam Laksa (spicy and sour fish broth noodle), and others.
Route 3 – Hokkien Mee (prawn noodle), Curry Mee (curry noodle), Chee Cheong Fun (Sausage shape noodle), Char Koay Teow (fried flat noodle), Cuttlefish with Kangkong (Cuttlefish with water convolvulus), Rojak (mixed fruits salad with special sauce), Popiah (spring rolls), Assam Laksa (spicy and sour fish broth noodle), prawn fritters, Chendol (a dessert make of glutinous rice in coconut milk), and others.
After finish mentioned visit we will drop off you at your hotel/ accommodation with best experience of Penang food.
From your hotel Centrally located George town city area. | 2019-04-23T12:14:40 | http://www.toursandtravel.app/en/tour/kuala-lumpur/private-half-day-hawker-trails-food-tour-in-george-town/29580P34 |
0.999935 | “This is a book which is autobiographical in nature, with the main emphasis being the author’s time as a naval aviator during the Second World War. Had this book been published in 1945 instead of 2015, the movie rights would not have been snapped up to make it into a serial titled, “Don Winslow commands Blimpron 42.” The reader anticipating bombing the Japanese I-boats, depth-charging the German U-boats, or frustrating Italian underwater chariots, will be sorely disappointed.
That said, Donald P. Venton joined the Navy as an aviation cadet late in 1942. One year later he completed training at Lakehurst and ended up a USN Ensign in Brazil, early in 1944. Most of 1944 was spent flying K-ships in Brazilian waters. Late in 1944 he was transferred to Blimp Squadron 11 stationed at South Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was onboard K-34 when it was lost at sea off Boston. Post war he remained in the Navy until retiring with the rank of Commander in 1970.
As you may have intuited from the opening paragraph, this is not a tale of intense combat experiences. Don Venton came of age in the 1930s in California an enthusiastic observer of the development of aviation. He flew solo at his own expense before America entered the War began and volunteered for Naval Aviation in 1942.
The standard historical cliché is that Japan began the war with superbly trained and combat experienced naval aviators while ours were competent, peacetime fliers. We were initially shocked, and then learned to cope. The Japanese were unable to train equally capable replacements for losses, while we not only replaced losses but manned multiple new CVs and CVLs as well. One may read Donald Venton’s remembrances of Navy pre-flight school and wonder how that was accomplished? One interesting aside: “The 18th Battalion was made up not only of civilians but also 80% of Navy and Marine personnel who had been at Pearl Harbor and Guadalcanal. With the arrival of the ex-sailors and marines, the coaches / officers learned that they could not manhandle the Cadets. The pay line became, ˜let go of me or I’ll have you court-martialed!” Also there is little evidence of speed in this training process.
That said, 1944 finds Ensign Venton in Brazil flying anti-submarine patrols in K-ships. While there may not have been any actual hostile encounters, the fascinating details of blimp piloting are revealed in striking detail. If you are an author of Naval Aviation history, would be an author of WW II vintage Naval Aviation fiction, or just are curious about the nitty-gritty of LTA flying; this may well be the book for you. | 2019-04-23T22:57:49 | http://airshiphistory.com/wp/lta-a-navy-airship-pilot-in-wwii-and-the-crash-of-the-k-34/ |
0.999999 | I have seen this discussed on Bitcointalk, but how does one prove they sent XMR to the receiver of the transaction if the recipient claims they never got it?
Is this where a viewkey comes in? What tools exist to help me use the viewkey in this situation and what information will I need to provide?
It's an interesting question, and yes there is a way to prove a specific transaction.
TL;DR with the transaction private key you can prove it was made by you. Since it's a random number generated by the sender at the time of transaction creation, it must be saved locally as it can't be recreated. There's another option without this requirement but it is not currently in use.
First, let's understand how transactions are created. Every transaction will have a transaction key-pair R = rG created by the sender. The r is just some random number rolled by the sender and is used as the transaction private key. The R is the transaction public key. This key-pair is specific to a transaction and the public part is published with the transaction.
So, if everyone can see R of any transaction, and only the sender knows r, then someone knowing r must be the sender of some transaction R. The sender can prove he knows r by simply disclosing r, which is the current mechanism to prove payments - you give your r to the recipient and he checks if it's a match with some transaction R in which he received some funds. A 3rd party arbiter will also need to know the receiving address to assert it all ties together. The recipient's view key is never required.
However, if anyone else also would know the r, then he could then claim he was the one sending the funds and it would be a plausible claim. It would be better for the sender to instead sign a message using r which would let him prove he knows r without disclosing it.
where A and B are recipient public view and spend keys. Since r is random, the one-time keys are non-deterministic and you can't tell 2 apart. This means that they can never be linked to a specific address and the sender can't prove a given output was created by him unless he knows the r.
But what if the sender lost his r? Can he still prove that some payment came from him? Yes, by using the other end of transaction (the input).
He can't prove that he created the output in question because he lost the r but he can prove that the input used in that transaction came from him. He can do this by signing some message using the key image(s) of input(s) in that transaction. To be able to generate this signature, the sender must use his private spend key. This method is not currently in use.
the view key of the receiving wallet, apparently you can also use the TX private key here, however, I don't know what this means... Someone can fill in here?
How does inner key generation work? | 2019-04-24T16:20:28 | https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/2063/how-does-one-provide-proof-of-payment-beyond-txid/2064 |
1 | Question: Pinto says, "The horse is not Black."
Sandy says, "The horse is either Brown or Grey."
Andy says, "The horse is Brown."
At least one is telling truth and at least one is lying.
Can you tell the color of the horse?
The color of the horse can be any color other than Black and Brown.
If the color of the horse is Black - all are lying.
If the color of the horse is Brown - all are telling truth.
Thus, the horse is neither Black nor Brown.
If the color of the horse is Grey - Pinto and Sandy are telling truth whereas Andy is lying.
If the color of the horse is other than Black, Brown and Grey - Pinto is telling truth whereas Sandy and Andy are lying.
You must have noticed that for the given conditions, Pinto is always telling truth whereas Andy is always lying. | 2019-04-18T16:21:13 | http://www.tutioncentral.com/2012/02/color-of-horse.html |
0.997142 | At some point in their career almost every civil engineer will be called upon to provide some level of construction inspection; others will dedicate their entire career to this specialty. This course will prepare the student for employment as an inspector by reviewing the responsibilities and duties typically associated with the position; how to document quantities and to work with various materials as well as assuring a safe jobsite.
1. Prepare students for entry level inspection positions.
2. Instill the importance of maintaining safe jobsites.
3. Prepare the student for keeping clear concise documentation of all construction activities.
1. Clearly state the role of a construction inspector.
2. Outline the basic responsibilities of an inspector for maintaining a safe jobsite.
3. Express distances in stations.
5. Keep an inspector's diary.
6. Prepare inspection reports and documentation.
7. Perform basic inspection tasks for bituminous paving.
8. Perform basis inspection tasks for Portland Cement paving.
9. Perform basic inspection tasks for highway earthwork.
10. Perform basic inspection tasks for pipelines.
11. Perform basic inspection tasks for building foundations and reinforced concrete construction. | 2019-04-26T07:11:20 | http://catalog.sunybroome.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=14&coid=16750 |
0.999999 | I'm not really sure if this review is a fair review, I think the gummy mangos I've purchased are kind of stale. This is one of the biggest peeves I have with bulk candy stores, stale candy. The strange thing about stale candy however is that it doesn't always ruin a treat. Sometimes a candy is greatly improved when it's been on the shelves too long. I would argue that this gummy is the perfect example of this.
The one thing about stale gummies is it rarely changes the taste. It might dull down the taste a little bit, but often the flavour is still there. In this case the mango flavour is still there, although it's fairly subtle. It's a fine mango flavour and it's not just a slight variation of another gummy flavour. This mango is unique and tastes pretty close to a real mango. I'm actually surprised that more companies don't make mango gummies since the flavour works so well in this medium. It's also a rare enough fruit that people might enjoy something a little exotic as a treat.
The main thing that's changed with the stale state of this candy is the texture. These gummies had a pretty hard crusty exterior giving way to a fairly chewy interior. Again, I'm not 100% sure that these are stale, but this is a common texture for stale gummies. The thing that I liked about these gummies in this state was that it had a crunchy outside that gave way to a flavourful and chewy middle. Mangos have a tough skin that gives way to a juicy centre, so I really liked how this possibly stale gummy reflected it's original fruit.
The only way I'll ever know if these were stale is to find these gummies fresh. Unfortunately I feel that this is highly unlikely. Maybe the fresh ones are far superior, but that's a pretty tall order, because they were pretty fine in this current state. | 2019-04-21T18:46:02 | http://candycritic.org/gummy%20mango.htm |
0.999968 | The Rail of Tomorrow: If Time Moves Slower in a Dream, Why Did This Go By So Fast?
If Time Moves Slower in a Dream, Why Did This Go By So Fast?
I got around to seeing Inception again with a friend who was seeing it for the first time. She really loved it, emerging from the film as excited as I've seen anyone about it. I, on the other hand, was reminded only how intermittently I actually enjoyed the film. A second viewing was helpful to be reminded just how strong the narrative drive was at points (and, it's worth pointing out, those two-and-a-half hours fly right by), but the emotional shortcomings were as dire as I feared, and worse, the film had little to support itself thematically. All that was left were moments of intense, pure excitement.
In the weeks following The Dark Knight, after the initial enthusiasm died down and we (that is, my fellow nerds and I) were all able to gain a little bit of perspective on the whole affair, I still defended the film even in the face of the massive wave of very convincing criticism it received. One element made it essential cinema - the narrative drive. The pace of the film is relentless, a charge often lobbied against it, but one I felt was very fitting to the story it was telling, which was all about the concept of "elevation;" that the world was becoming dangerous too fast for the forces of good to keep up with. While also exciting, the pacing fit thematically with the picture.
Inception has a whole lot of none of that. The pacing is absolutely punishing, to the extent that I told my girlfriend after seeing it the first time that it too often felt like a trailer for itself, an admittedly snarky complaint that felt all the truer in the second viewing. Gone, gone from this place is any of the elegance Nolan brought to his earlier work, most notably Memento, Insomnia, and The Prestige, all of which dealt with memory, regret, and guilt more deftly and effectively than the sledgehammer approach of Cobb simply telling the audience how guilty he feels. Not that those three films didn't have similar moments, but the confessions were dramatically motivated; you got the sense, by the time they came out, that these characters needed to tell someone. Cobb's come because he's asked more than once.
There are interesting concepts, but as in The Dark Knight, they are mentioned rather than explored - that, for example, Cobb has actually been alive for eighty or so years (maybe more, I forget), and has reverted back to youth since emerging from limbo. As this was revealed, I thought instantly of Francis Ford Coppola's criminally underrated Youth Without Youth, which needless to say explored this concept far more elaborately - that is, at all - than Nolan does here. For Coppola, it was a starting point from which he explored more fundamental, human questions than I have the inclination (or the memory for that matter) to list here, but for Nolan, it's nothing, and that this comparison was drawn so instantly in my mind brought to full bear how intellectually empty Nolan's film is, even in the face of contemporary cinema, itself so often charged with shallowness.
-If Arthur (Joseph Gordon Levitt) and Eames (Tom Hardy) can summon weaponry out of nowhere (in the "you can't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling" moment), why can't they just sit it out in that warehouse for a week? They could rig up a couple motion-sensor guns with never-ending clips, plant a few mines, dream up an HDTV, and just chill.
-Limbo is set up to be a fate worse than death (or at least something very undesireable), but apparently you can come out unharmed simply by killing yourself. We see this not only with Cobb and Saito - which could be explained away with the ending being a dream or death or whatever - but more damningly with Cobb and Mal. Cobb's mission to rescue Saito, teased at the beginning in the most delicious way possible, proves a mere footnote, and appears to have been designed more for a compelling opening than a gutting finish.
I wouldn't go so far as to say Inception is intellectually empty, it had many interesting ideas. The problem for me was the overall pace of the movie didn't allow me to breathe and ponder these tacit ideas.
I agree Inception works best as an entertaining thrill ride.
The pace could be received as a big problem, it just didn't take anything away from the fact that this was a sci-fi thriller at heart.
@moviesandsongs - Perhaps "empty" would be a bit strong, but I guess the only really strong idea for me was that Cobb had spent decades in limbo and had aged, in his mind anyway, something like fifty years while his body remained young. That's a good idea. THAT would have been worth exploring. But stuff like multi-level dreams are, to me anyway, simply clever concepts. Your mileage may vary, but that's where I stand.
@CMrok93 - And I wish they HAD focused on the sci-fi thriller aspect, because it was by far the most interesting part of the film. But they were aiming for an emotional punch that never landed and conversely stopped the thrills dead.
Great blog you got here. I think most people are confusing complex narrative with emotional depth and I agree that this movie seriously lacks the latter. Now, I thought it was a good summer blockbuster, just nothing more. | 2019-04-21T22:18:45 | http://www.railoftomorrow.com/2010/08/if-time-moves-slower-in-dream-why-did.html |
0.999652 | A common women's room for 4 people. The room has 2 2 bunk beds, lockers with lock, safes, air conditioning, wardrobe, desk.
A common men's room for 4 people. The room has 2 2 bunk beds, lockers with lock, safes, air conditioning, wardrobe, desk. | 2019-04-20T00:45:25 | https://www.apartamenty.kz/en/almaty/hostel/friendsbook-hostel3279/a-bed-in-a-twelvebed-male-room-8253.html |
0.994675 | Weight-watcher Robbie Blake believes there is more to his revival as one of the top forwards in the Championship than the pounds he has lost since Dennis Wise took over as manager of Leeds.
Just as important for the 30-year-old is the faith Wise showed in him at a time when he feared he was heading for the Elland Road exit, as Kevin Blackwell and John Carver did not give him a start while they were in charge for the first 13 League games this seasonof the campaign.
Blake might have felt embarrassed when he was one of those picked out by Wise soon after his arrival for being unfit and overweight and the forward far from it. He knew that he had to do something to get himself in better shape.
He did it, shedding 'five or six pounds' in little more than a fortnight, leading Wise to describe him as 'our little gem' following the double that destroyed Colchester and took his return in four starts under the new boss to four goals.
He is so confident that he could even afford to shrug off a dreadful dreadful miss after 21 minutes by heading wide when it looked far easier to score and go on to hit a stylish opener 15 minutes later.
Earlyight minutes in the second half, he rounded off the scoring with a cheeky penalty, 'dinking it down the middle' he said because he knew friend Aidan Davison would dive to his right.
Richard Cresswell headed a fine second after 48 minutes from an Eddie Lewis cross for his first of the season and, as visiting manager Geraint Williams said, Colchester were 'blown out of the water'.
Blake is delighted to find himself in Wise's plans where other experienced men like Steve Stone, who has retired, Sean Gregan, who's on loan at Oldham, and Paul Butler, who is looking for a new club, quickly came to accept that they did not have a future at Elland Road.
Blake agreed with on that direction from Wise about his need to slim. 'I think he was right and, after losing a bit of weight, it's reflected in my performances. I still have a little bit more to lose, but playing games is going to help meas well.
'I didn't play many under Kevin Blackwell and John Carver so it was difficult. It's not an excuse, but I just got a little bit disinterested at the start of the season. I thought I might have to move on. I was not starting and even when I was on the bench, there were a number of times when I didn't get on.
Colchester manager Geraint Williams said it was his side's worst performance since winning promotion last season. 'The effort was there as it always has been but, for the first time, we weren't quite at the races and didn't perform,' he said.
'We have to learn from it. I didn't think we were under any extreme pressure early on but we put ourselves under pressure. We had three misplaced passes near the halfway line when we were attacking and set Leeds away. | 2019-04-25T15:09:27 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-415906/Two-goal-Blake-takes-weight-Wises-mind.html |
0.998904 | Many companies ask themselves this question when starting an App project: Should we develop a hybrid or a native App? You can guess the answer: there is no option. It depends. There is no closed-response; we need to choose the most suitable option for each project.
If we plan to construct a building, we do not surely begin with the question “Should we build it in glass or in concrete?” First, we would hire an architect to carry out a project based on its future utility, who is going to use it, the environment in which it would be constructed, define the number of flats, etc.
A technological project must also start by analyzing the needs to be covered, the goals to achieve and the public to which it is aimed.
Conceptualize the project thinking about the needs and goals, not about the technical architecture.
The best exercise to begin an App project is to draft the analysis of requirements, by highlighting the features and services that you want to offer through a mobile application. With the described features, you can display the screen outline, which should have the perfect technical application and architecture for its development.
With the global view of the project to be developed and by examining the differences between hybrid and native Apps, we can choose the most suitable option.
2. Execution and answer speed.
3. It make the most of the device capabilities.
4. Offline functioning and information search.
5. Asynchronous synchronization with the server.
1. Lower investment in development.
2. Reduces the ‘time to market’.
3. Maintenance of only one source code.
4. Update of interface and features without using App Store or Google Play.
1. Greater investment in development.
2. Maintenance of 2 source code.
1. It does not offer the best user experience.
2. Greater dependence on internet connection.
3. Lower execution and answer speed.
4. It accesses the device capabilities trough plug-ins.
5. Possible problems with used in Apple.
1. Apps focused on utilities.
2. Optimization of industrial/business processes.
3. Improves the client’s experience based on hiring and loyalty processes.
2. Access to business information.
3. Launching of product test to the market by reducing investment.
4. User with guaranteed internet connection.
This hybrid development allows, on one hand, the use of some hardware features of the mobile device, such as the accelerometer, camera or contacts, which are functions that often have restricted access from mobile browsers. And, on the other hand, they can simulate, in some way, the user’s experience, since a hybrid app will appear as any other application that you can find on your smartphone: they are installed on your device and you can find them in the app stores.
It should be noted that Apple must revise and approve the application in order for it to be distributed in the App Store. Providing that Apple’s usability and functionality guidelines are fulfilled, the review process should be positive, but Apple always promotes the development of native applications in iOS. This means that they are much more demanding in terms of the user’s experience when referring to hybrid applications. However, we will not find any problems on Google Play when publishing the application.
A hybrid application is independent from the operational systems of iOS and Android. It is created with a HTML5 core and a sole interface. It is subsequently compiled into a native container to be launched through all platforms. This reduces the project’s initial investment and, on a mid to long-term basis, it does not require the maintaining of two different code bases.
The disadvantage of these hybrid applications is the user’s experience, a key factor in the success of a project. The loading speed of a hybrid App is much slower than a native App. Since it is web content, the answer time is also affected during navigation through the App, as well as the usability that can be offered by a sole interface design.
According to Google, 50 % of users will close the application if it does not open within 3 seconds.
Another disadvantage is the integration with device features which, even if they are feasible, will never operate with the same fluency as in a native App.
When should a hybrid App be developed?
It is recommended to choose this option when the app is focused on projects related to news, media and distribution of content, those that the user is more used to waiting for a few seconds until it loads to access the content. And in general, for projects in which the user is likely to be used to waiting a few seconds to access the information, such as in applications for corporate use or for a segment of users who are very loyal to the brand.
This option is usually selected when you want to launch a concept test to the market, trying to reduce the initial investment and time to market. Even though the hybrid option fulfills these two premises, the risk exists of offering the users an app which does not offer a user’s ideal experience.
These applications are developed in the native language of each operating system. It is the safest option to ensure the best possible user experience, with full access and integration with the hardware functions of the device and native APIs, much shorter response times and full utility without connection to the internet.
In other words, the original investment can be greater, but a company will save time and money on a long-term basis, offering a great user experience and an ideal performance of the application.
When should a native App be developed?
This option must be chosen a priori providing that the company prioritizes quality and user experience over investment and time of development.
Native development will imply a greater budget than hybrid applications, since it takes into account a budget for iOS development, a budget for Android development and also a common interface design budget (with nuances and adjustments for every operating system) and backend. | 2019-04-23T04:24:20 | https://cuatroochenta.com/en/articles/hybrid-or-native-app-it-depends/ |
0.999998 | Question: By what means can I test my feelings and impressions? What are the steps necessary to prove the will of God?
Answer: The best answer I've read for those questions was written in 1892 by Martin Wells Knapp. In his timeless little booklet entitled, Impressions, he described those impulses and leadings that come from above (from God) versus those that originate from below (from Satan). Just as the Holy Spirit may tell us by impressions what His will is concerning us, so also can our spiritual enemies tell us by impressions what their will is. And unfortunately, there is often a striking resemblance between the two kinds of messages. According to Knapp, one of the objectives of Satan is to get the Christian to lean totally on his impressions, accepting them uncritically as the absolute voice of God. When this occurs, "the devil has got all he wants."
Scriptural. Is the impression in harmony with the Bible? Guidance from the Lord is always in accordance with the Holy Scripture, and this gives us an infallible point of reference and comparison. If this test had been applied by the young couple that was contemplating sexual permissiveness, mentioned earlier, they would have known that the "approval" they obtained was not from the Lord. Furthermore, the numerous religious movements which obviously add to Scripture or contradict its primary concepts would not have been born if the Bible had been accepted as the ultimate and complete Word of God.
The most important aspect of this first test is that the entire Bible be used instead of the selection of "proof texts" or "chance texts." A reader can find support for almost any viewpoint if he lifts individual verses or partial phrases out of context. We are commanded to study the Scriptures, not toy with them or manipulate them for our own purposes.
I am acquainted with a family that was destroyed by an impression that could not have passed the test: Is it right? Although there were four little children in the home, the mother felt she was "called" to leave them and enter full-time evangelistic work. On very short notice she abandoned the children who needed her so badly and left them in the care of their father who worked six and seven days a week.
The consequence was devastating. The youngest in the family lay awake at night, crying for his mommy. The older children had to assume adult responsibilities which they were ill-prepared to carry. There was no one at home to train and love and guide the development of the lonely little family. I simply cannot believe the mother's impression was from God because it was neither scriptural nor "right" to leave the children. I suspect that she had other motives for fleeing her home, and Satan provided her with a seemingly noble explanation to cover her tracks.
As Knapp said, "Millions of impressions, if compelled to answer the simple question, `Are you right?' will blush and hesitate and squirm, and finally in confusion, retire.
Providential. In explaining the importance of providential circumstances, Knapp quoted Hannah Whitall Smith, writing in THE CHRISTIAN'S SECRET OF A HAPPY LIFE: "If a leading is from the Holy Spirit, the way will always open for it.' The Lord assures us of this when he says: `When he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice' (John 10:4). Notice here the expression `goeth before' and `follow.' He goes before to open the way, and we are to follow in the way thus opened. It is never a sign of divine leading when a Christian insists on opening his own way, and riding roughshod over all opposing things. If the Lord goes before us he will open all doors before us, and we shall not need ourselves to hammer them down."
Reasonable. The apostle Paul referred to the Christian life as a "reasonable service." Accordingly, the will of God can be expected to be in harmony with spiritually enlightened judgment. We will not be asked to do absurd and ridiculous things which are devoid of judgment and common sense. Knapp said, "God has given us reasoning powers for a purpose, and he respects them, appeals to them, and all of his leadings are in unison with them."
Perhaps, the most common violation of this principle is seen in the pressure some people feel to force every chance conversation into a heaven-or-hell confrontation. Such individuals believe they must witness in every elevator, preach to any available group of four or more, and turn every routine encounter into an altar service. Of course, each Christian should "be prepared to give an answer" when the opportunity is provided, but the gospel should be shared in a natural and tactful manner.
Another frequent disregard for the test of reason is seen with impulsive behavior. It was Knapp's view, and I heartily agree, that God deals with us as rational beings and He rarely requires us to act on sudden suggestions or impressions. G.D. Watson stated it similarly, "The devil wants you to be in a hurry and rush and go pell mell and not wait for anything; whereas Jesus is always quiet and He is always calm and always takes His time." Likewise, the psalmist David instructed us to "wait on the Lord."
From Emotions: Can You Trust Them? by Dr. James Dobson. | 2019-04-19T16:22:00 | https://www.drjamesdobson.org/blogs/dr-dobson-blog/dr-dobson-blog/2017/08/02/4-ways-to-test-your-feelings?sc=FTW |
0.999997 | Why are boys still having to make the same protest?
Summer has, as usual, brought with it an inevitable stream of news stories on the dress codes that stand in the way of people's attempts to stay cool. Whether jackets at Royal Ascot or trousers in school, the peculiar British dogma around dress codes leads to a string of battles that pitch formality and uniformity against practicality and comfort.
This week, dozens of boys at a school in Exeter wore skirts in protest against 'no shorts' rule. When I embarked on one such battle in 2011, at the age of 11, little did I imagine that this would capture the imagination of the world.
I had been a member of Impington Village College's student executive for a few months, and uniform had featured more than once in our meetings. This was a surprise as IVC is hardly a traditional red-brick learning environment. It is an international school that offers an open, liberal educational environment. Sweatshirts and polo shirts, not blazers and ties, were the order of the day, though not shorts. But the rules were loose – skirts could be worn, and there was no stipulation that only girls could wear them.
This was the opening I needed – joking that boys who were too hot wearing trousers could wear skirts, Principal Rob Campbell neither anticipated that anyone would take this suggestion seriously, nor that my simple campaign would provoke an international media storm.
As well as coverage in every mainstream news media, and local press across the UK, the story was picked up by Adrian Chiles on Daybreak, prompting a bare-legged presenter to host the breakfast show in a skirt. My campaign trended on Twitter, was picked up by Have I Got New for You and Radio 4's New Quiz, gained coverage in the international magazines and newspapers in more than 50 countries from Sweden to Somalia, and I was ultimately shortlisted for a human rights award by Liberty, the Campaign for Civil Liberties.
The letters and personal messages were overwhelming, ranging from a postcard from "your admirers in Reading" to offers of work experience from barristers. Around 90% were positive, applauding my willingness to stand up for what I believe in – while 10% thought otherwise. There were questions regarding my sexuality, and comments that I should be excluded from school for breaking the rules. Several cast aspersions on my upbringing: I received a frankly hysterical letter from a woman who told me she was glad I wasn't her child (would it be cheeky to say the feeling is mutual?).
The campaign was, of course, only the first stage in a long process of negotiations about wearing shorts – which then morphed into a wider discussion about uniform more generally, and ended up with governors revising school policy about nine months later. Boys could wear shorts – provided they were plain black with no logos and reached the knee – but also, everyone could wear plain black jeans if they wanted. In fact, this development that was even more welcome to students than the shorts.
Suggesting that dealing with bullying requires students to look and act alike is an admission of defeat.
So, the battle was won, but what about the war? The UK remains one of only two EU countries (alongside Ireland) where uniforms are the norm. And this, to me, is a pity. The standard justification for schools insisting on uniform is that it ensures equality; no one can be picked on for not wearing the 'cool' logos. But this argument simply doesn't stack up in an age where a child can far more easily be bullied for the phone they use than the clothes they wear. Take it from me, who was using a ten-year-old 'brick phone' until the age of fourteen.
Another common defence of uniform is that it prepares students for the workplace – a ludicrous notion, dispelled as soon as you ask someone to list the professions where uniforms are mandatory.
What's more, most sixth forms do not require uniform, despite their students being even closer to the world of work. And if non-uniform really did undermine student discipline, as proposed by some, then maybe we should cancel the charity 'Jeans for Genes' campaign – except that their promotion of non-uniform days earns vast sums to support those with genetic disorders, and to my knowledge, doesn't lead to the catastrophic breakdown of school discipline that the uniform police might fear.
In reality, uniform is a solution to few problems, but a cause of quite a few. Childhood should be about exploring oneself. How one looks can be a very strong influence on how young people think and feel. We should be encouraging children to be comfortable in their own skin; not to conform to standards set by a previous, very different, generation.
Suggesting that dealing with bullying requires students to look and act alike is an admission of defeat. That is precisely the aim of bullies – to force others to conform to their set of 'normal' standards.
Rather than make them wear uniforms, let's prepare students for work by giving them classes about our democracy, how to pay taxes, how to write a CV. And, in terms of discipline, stop worrying. While the first few days into a non-uniform regime might be slightly noisier, and maybe students would 'dress-to-impress' for a while, let's not forget that children are both adaptable and frankly, often quite lazy. These attitudes would fade quickly, and jeans and a T-shirt would, in most cases, become the true alternative to an enforced school uniform.
That schoolboys across the country are still fighting for something as simple as shorts in the summer is a reflection of what I see as a misguided attempt to maintain order. An innocent mistake, driven by the right intentions – but a mistake nonetheless. A drive for both formality and uniformity in schools will not resolve the issue of bullying, provides no preparation for the adult world, and in a school where high standards of behaviour are expected, will have little or no effect on school discipline.
We should start trusting students. Treating them more like adults with their own choices could lead to a more mature, emotionally-intelligent generation. | 2019-04-20T08:27:28 | https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/i-wore-skirt-school-it-changed-our-uniform-policy-1627590 |
0.999175 | We are building a surveillance robotic fish that we want to control underwater. We are open for suggestions on what kind of remote control for underwater we need to use? And for the camera that is attached, we are planning to have a wireless livestream. Is it possible?
we are planning to have a wireless livestream. Is it possible?
If the fish is VERY close to the surface, and the Arduino has nothing to do with the video data, yes.
If the fish is more than a few centimeters below the surface, no. If the Arduino is expected to do anything with the video data, no.
Seems like most (if not all) of the remotely operated underwater vehicles use a cable for video link because propagation of radio waves under water has severe limitations.
And what is the best to use for remote controlling our robotic fish?
Is there any way to save data from the camera using arduino?
Of course there are ways. The first thing you need to define is WHERE you want to store the data. The Arduino only has 2000 bytes of SRAM, so "in memory" is NOT where you are going to store the data.
Have you considered using, for underwater communications, modulated ultra sound?
Entering the words 'modulating ultrasound circuit' produces a large result set.
is there another arduino that we can use to make video wireless and can also control the fish??
Does IR work underwater? I did not think so but I could be wrong.
Do not plan on using the arduino to handle the video signal.
The arduino can turn the camera on. It can point the camera in certain directions by using servos.
But it is not going to handle video signals.
Raspberry Pi is well suited to stream HD video. But by what medium will the images be transmitted?
We are planning to connect sd card to store captured images. Is it possible?
I have worked on a similar project once but it wasn't moving under water, it was floating on the surface of water. I have used HC-06 for wireless control and it has worked really great. During testing, it happened that fish was like half feet below water and still bluetooth worked. But as you are designign it for spy purposes so may be you have range issues.
I have posted the video on you tube, it may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWJ8bz6KrYk Check the last minute where I am testing it. | 2019-04-23T12:21:11 | http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?amp;topic=598453.msg4069076 |
0.998467 | Just went there yesterday. The lady who cut my hair was extremely patient when I kept getting calls. She also would tell me what she was about to do and always asked if that was okay. Would definitely recommend this place to anyone.
Wait times are always relatively short. I always pick the first available stylist and have always been happy with my haircut.
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0.998099 | "Halt and Catch Fire" actress Lisa Sheridan, who also worked on several other series such as "Invasion" and "CSI", died in her apartment in New Orleans Feb 25. She was 44 years old.
Sheridan's "Only God Can" co-star Donna D & # 39; Errico shared the news on Facebook.
"It's so rare to find cozy, gentle souls like her in this industry, this city … even this world," she wrote. "Really one of the most genuine sweet and gentle people I've ever encountered in my life."
Sheridan's leader told People that they are still waiting for a forester's report of cause of death and that the family insisted that she did not take her own life.
Sheridan, who attended the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburg, Penn., Has more than 30 television credits for her name, including performances in "CSI: NY" "The Mentalist", "The 4400", "Without a Trace "and" Diagnosis: Murder. " She recently starred in the independent eco-thriller "Strange Nature", written and directed by Jim Ojala.
The actor was previously engaged to Ron Livingston, with whom she appeared in 2000's "Beat", as well as star Courtney Love, Kiefer Sutherland and Norman Reedus.
"She was beautiful, of course, and an imm lone talented actor and a wonderful friend," he wrote, "but more than anything she really radiated this impossible bright energy and life. Even in her dark moments. And she had many of them, especially over the last few years. ""
"I am trying to comfort myself by knowing your struggles and pain and grief is" at last and behind you, "he continued." I love you with the whole my heart yesterday, today and forever. Sorry I can't write any more; It is just still too painful. "
She called me Big Brother, and for all purposes I was. I met Lisa when she was fourteen years old, over thirty years ago. We were immediately attached in hip, true For the rest of her life in her life, she was a central part of me, she was beautiful and of course an incredibly talented actor and a wonderful friend, but more than anything she really radiated this impossible bright energy and life "Even in her dark moments. And she had many of them, especially the last couple of years. Over the last few years, she helped tell me," You're the biggest big brother a girl could ever have. " how we ended every conversation, i loved it, and i treasure it even more now that i will never hear it again, this side of the river so good night, my sweet little sister, no one will ever be for me what you I am trying to comfort myself by knowing your combs pe, and pain and grief are "at last and behind you." I love you with all my heart, yesterday, today and forever. Sorry I can't write any more; It's just still too painful. | 2019-04-25T22:00:29 | https://infodol.com/halt-and-catch-fire-39-actress-was-44-variety/ |
0.999962 | A 43 year old male sustained a full thickness burn on both of his upper extremities and dorsum of the hands. To begin occupational therapy treatment, what would be the safest exercise to complete with this patient?
It is important to keep safety in mind first when working with a patient who has a full thickness burn. The therapeutic position for the wrist is slight extension with burns. It will be safest to start distal to proximal with a small joint and initially placing the patients wrist in slight extension will give the new graft some slack and then the OT can provide ROM one joint at a time. | 2019-04-26T00:28:38 | https://passtheot.com/answers/full-thickness-burn/ |
0.99997 | Is HTC going to turn its recent run of strong releases into meaningful, long-term pressure on Android market leader Samsung? It's certainly starting to look that way, thanks to a new burst of rumors about the Taiwanese company's possible M7 flagship being set for a March release - which could mean that it beats the heavily hyped Samsung Galaxy S IV to market.
Chinese-language website Inpai.com reported that the M7 will be one of two new flagship phones from HTC coming out next year. The M7, according to Inpai, will sport a 5-inch HD screen, one-piece metal unibody construction, and a quad-core Snapdragon processor, while the second device - due sometime in the first or second quarter - will be the first phone to use Nvidia's Tegra 4 system-on-a-chip.
If this all turns out to be more or less correct, the M7 could easily prove to be the latest in HTC's recent line of impressive new flagship-class Android phones. Both the AT&T-exclusive One X Plus and Verizon-exclusive Droid DNA provoked plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" at launch. But the sharp reversal of fortune the company's hoping for hasn't yet materialized (though it's still early,) so what gives?
If you'll excuse the pun, my sense is that HTC has been lacking in branding and marketing savvy for some time. The recent hire of a new chief marketing officer in Benjamin Ho, however, signals that the company may be starting to pay more attention to such concerns.
Personally, I hope HTC's sales start gaining steam - if for no other reason than to make the Android smartphone market just that little bit more competitive.
The M7, however, might have its work cut out for it competing against the Samsung Galaxy S IV, which, appropriately enough, seems to have the busiest rumor mill this side of the iPhone. It'll have an eight-core processor, says IBTimes. It'll have a 1080p screen, or maybe a 720p one, according to whichever Asian rumor site you believe! Nothing new is actually known, of course, but the Galaxy S IV continues to stir a lot of gossip.
Also, Samsung's just opened its first showroom/retail store in Paris, which means that you've got options for getting your fix for swoopy, quasi-futuristic design beyond Le Defense and the Apple Store next time you're in the City of Lights.
Nokia swears it's not planning to expand its Android operations, according to a spokesperson's tweet. "Our recently posted job is linked to our HERE maps support for other platforms," said Doug Dawson. The company remains focused on Windows Phone projects.
Speaking of Windows, Microsoft targeted Android on social media this week with a campaign aimed at getting the hashtag "#DroidRage" trending. It was about as successful as you might expect, given Redmond's well-known skill at managing its public image.
Still, it could've been worse.
Google Now is getting even more creepily involved in your every move, this time with an update that automatically calls up a host of travel information, including your boarding pass, as soon as it detects that you're heading to the airport. No word on whether it nags you about forgetting your cell phone charger.
Finally, Google set a date for next year's Google I/O developers conference - it'll take place May 15 at its usual place in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. While there's been no confirmation of this, many are saying that Google will use the opportunity to launch Android 5.0, also known (almost certainly) as Key Lime Pie. | 2019-04-23T22:25:34 | https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/feature/mobile-phone/hottest-android-news-rumors-for-week-ending-dec-7-3415303/ |
0.999638 | There are few current movie projects that have served a more troubled term in development hell than Relativity Media's planned reboot of The Crow. James O'Barr, the creator of the comic book upon which the 1994 original was based, has said that approximately $20 million has already been spent trying to get the new adaptation off the ground, but despite plans to begin filming this fall The Crow still doesn't have a lead actor attached.
Relativity has bigger problems right now, however. The company is currently filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to owing hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, and this week confirmed that 75 people - a fifth of Relativity's total staff - have been laid off. The studio's financial woes have obviously had an impact on its current projects, and the latest reports indicate that The Crow has been hit hard.
According to THR, inside sources are claiming that pre-production on The Crow in the UK has stalled and an entire production team has left the project, along with several department heads. Sources also said that Relativity is currently preparing an official statement on the status of The Crow, though one insider said that Relativity "continue[s] to be excited" by the property.
Director Corin Hardy (The Hallow) is currently attached to The Crow, which was supposed to begin filming at Pinewood Studios' new site in Cardiff this year. Actors who have been sought or attached to play the lead role include Mark Wahlberg, Bradley Cooper, Tom Hiddleston, Alexander Skarsgård, Luke Evans and Jack Huston. Huston dropped out of the project in mid-June, at which point Hardy said, "We look forward to unveiling our new lead and starting to film over the next several weeks."
Jack Huston (The Longest Ride) dropped out of 'The Crow' earlier this summer.
Huston has since said that a scheduling conflict was the reason behind his decision to drop out of The Crow, but the scheduling conflict likely came into play due to the film's seemingly endless production delays. If The Crow had begun filming this spring, as was planned, then the scheduling clash might have been avoided. Evans, who officially exited The Crow at the start of 2015, explicitly said that he just couldn't keep waiting around for Relativity to get the cameras rolling.
The Crow's production delays make more sense in light of Relativity's current financial troubles, which probably aren't going to make it any easier to attract cast and production team members. In theory The Crow is still set to start filming this fall, but don't be surprised if the new year rolls around and Relativity still hasn't nothing to show for it.
We'll keep you updated on The Crow as development continues. | 2019-04-19T18:31:40 | https://screenrant.com/crow-reboot-delayed-relativity-bankruptcy/ |
0.998491 | THIS is the terrifying moment a Somali man kidnapped an 11-year-old girl after posing as an undercover policeman.
Abdi Waise, 28, was found guilty of trying to kidnap five young girls and kidnapping another as part of his sick ruse in North London.
One of his attempts was captured on CCTV and was used to convict the Somali national.
Waise, of Tottenham, was heard to have pretended to be an undercover cop and approached children - all aged between 11 and 14 - before trying to lead them away with him on 18 January this year.
Wood Green crown court had previously heard how Waise accused some of his alleged victims of buying drugs, asking to search their bags and trying to take them to be stripped searched.
Edward Franklin, prosecuting, said: "Mr Waise approached a group of five boys outside a chicken shop and said he would give them £20 each.
"He then produced a substance in a bottle and informed them if you give it to girls you can do what you want to them.
"He then waved it under their noses and they ran away from him. Later on the boys saw him outside the school with a short white girl.
“The defendant approached the 11-year-old girl and started addressing her.
"At first she thought he was a friendly stranger. He said he saw her mother drop her off and that her mother had texted him asking him to give her breakfast.
"He put his arm around her and said he was a police officer and she should come to his house for breakfast and to look at some photos about an incident in connection with a young girl and that her mother would be present.
"She managed to run away and lose herself in the crowd."
Waise was later captured on CCTV outside a chicken shop, a newsagents and inside a mini cab office and then outside around the clock tower in Crouch End.
Mr Franklin added "He approached a girl and asked her how old she was and where she was going. She replied she was 14 and going to school.
"He said he was an undercover police officer and he asked what she had in her bag and whether she had any drugs.
"The defendant asked her name, but she refused to give it. As a bus appeared at the bus stop the defendant told her if she boarded the bus he would try and stop her.
"She said she would go home and tell her mum and went towards home, he shouted after her saying 'come back here I'm talking to you', but she ran towards home.
"Once inside she told her stepdad who went out and watched the defendant approach a group of five schoolgirls."
At 8.15am Waise is said to have asked a schoolgirl if she was Somalian, then got out a phone and tried to give it to her, claiming his daughter went to the same school and wanted her to take him there.
Mr Franklin added: "He grabbed her wrist and jacket and she ran away and he chased her shouting 'oi oi I'm the police come here'. However he couldn't keep up and she went inside her home."
Mr Waise was then heard to have approached two girls walking to school together.
Fearing for their safety the girls ran to a passerby who walked them to their school gates and away from Waise.
The last alleged victim was accosted as she got off a bus in Crouch End.
Mr Franklin added: "At 9.10am he blocked the path of a girl as she got off the bus, she had to dodge into the road to get away from him, then she felt someone touching and tugging her arm.
"He said he was the police, she quickly realised he was not and started to run. As she looked behind she could see he was following, until she made it into the school."
DCI Paul Trevers, in overall charge of the investigation from Haringey CID, said: "Waise went out with the plan of abducting a girl. He made concerted and increasingly desperate attempts over the course of about two and half hours.
"When deception didn't work, he became increasingly forceful. Fortunately all the girls saw through his ruse, and whilst frightened all made it away safely.
"I want to praise the incredibly brave children involved in this matter - both victims and witnesses. They have gone through a very frightening ordeal and shown immense courage."
Waise will be sentenced next Thursday. | 2019-04-20T05:10:54 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1439245/chilling-moment-somali-migrant-kidnapped-london-schoolgirl-by-pretending-to-be-an-undercover-police-officer/ |
0.999988 | Will FFP in the Football League end?
Clubs have reacted to penalties resulting from rules of financial fair play in various ways since it's introduction. QPR, Leicester and Bournemouth bet the ranch on promotion - Bournemouth alone have settled the subsequent penalty (suspicions are that it was at a lower level than originally anticipated, QPR still have to settle amid an ongoing legal battle and today's results have confirmed that Leicester still have not settled and have no intention of doing so, believing FFP to be illegal (probably a similar approach to QPR's) Other club's have suffered transfer embargoes and others have struggled as they have operated within the rules. Given the ongoing legal battles and the incredible level of spending that is still going on in the championship especially - is it all but dead in name?
You are reading "Will FFP in the Football League end?". | 2019-04-20T01:04:09 | https://www.fmscout.com/q-17992-Will-FFP-in-the-Football-League-end.html?n=last |
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