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0.999465 | How did I do this? CRISPR is some complicated new technology that is really hard! Well, at least that is what the press and media and maybe even some Scientists say. Unfortunately, it's not true. It just took one piece of DNA that contains the Cas9 protein and a guideRNA(gRNA) targeted to the exon 1 of the Myostatin gene and I injected my muscle with it. This DNA then enters some of my cells and both the Cas9 protein and the gRNA would be made by my cells and this molecular complex would target my myostatin gene and cut it. This would lead to Non-Homologous End Joining(NHEJ) and effectively some of the myostatin copies would not work. When myostatin is not working to stop muscle growth, muscles grow.
Do you believe a word of that?
In future, something like this might be possible for something like myostatin regulation. But now, gene therapy and similar propositions are very much in their infancy.
The only REAL myostatin limiter in current times are those people born with the mutated gene, single copy or double copy. Those people will show greater muscle growth.
Although some research claims it inhibits myostatin to some extend, I'm convinced it's yet another way to sell a supplement.
None of this stuff has or likely will work any more than an previous attempts to to do so.
Probably not. If it would work, people would have noticed years ago (since dark chocolate and/or cacoa extract is widely consumed). Nevertheless, still an interesting read. | 2019-04-24T14:38:29 | http://forums.lylemcdonald.com/showthread.php?s=b348d4805251364880303d13f6ac202f&t=34357 |
0.9999 | Feel so real: Damon Albarn with a vast Gorillaz crew at the Roundhouse, London.
In the middle of Blur's triumphant performance at Glastonbury last year, Damon Albarn fell to his knees in tears after singing the band's hit To the End, overcome by the emotional force of the moment. As he walked off stage after a euphoric set, he had no plans to return.
Today, in an unexpected move from festival organisers, it can be revealed that Albarn is to make an unscheduled return to the Pyramid stage this month, when his band Gorillaz headline on Friday night.
The band were drafted in at the 11th hour after rock legends U2 cancelled their appearance after a severe back injury left singer Bono unable to perform.
Michael Eavis, who founded the festival which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, said he was delighted Gorillaz were willing to step into the breach.
Eavis said: "This is going to be Gorilllaz's only UK festival appearance, and it'll be a massive audio visual spectacle which will really ignite the Pyramid on the Friday night, with Muse, then Stevie Wonder to follow.
"I'm very excited about Gorillaz' show coming here because they're so open to guests and collaborations. The alchemy of Friday's show is going to be astonishing, a perfect, contemporary way to kick off the 40th anniversary celebrations.
Having started life as a semi-anonymous "virtual" band, the members have cartoon alter-egos created by one of their number, the graphic artist Jamie Hewlett.
In a statement to the Guardian, Murdoc, the band's animated bassist, styled the band as the festival's heroic saviours. "We're like some great big horrible warship pulling in to the bay of Glastonbury to save the day. It was us or the Beatles and they split up years ago," he said.
"The previous soldiers got pulled from duty last minute so it's up to my Plastic Beach naval cavalry to sail in and sort the battlefield out. I can assure you though, I'm bringing extra troops. Loads of them. Glastonbury will be ours … cutlasses drawn, trumpets ready. We're coming in …"
The news will surprise thousands of Glastonbury fans who have been in a state of heightened anticipation since the U2 cancellation was announced.
Names such as Led Zeppelin, Coldplay and the Rolling Stones had been mooted as possible replacements, with others backing pop star Kylie Minogue who cancelled her headline slot in 2005 after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Others suggested that grime artist Dizzee Rascal, due to play the set before U2, would step up to the mark.
But Albarn's project, although suggested by a few of those in the know, had received little attention. Albarn, the creator of grand Chinese operas and purveyor of African adventures, was too fresh in the memory, too close to be considered.
The band are a difficult act to define. Started as a musical and animation project in 1998 when Albarn joined forces with Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl, for many years they recorded and "appeared" as a virtual band. Performers were hidden behind screens and represented only by their animated characters, lead vocalist 2D, bassist Murdoc, guitarist Noodles and drummer Russel Hobbs. Their music, too, defies classification – touching on hip hop, indie, dub, electronica and pop.
But recent performances, promoting new album Plastic Beach, saw a range of widely-respected musicians join Albarn on stage unshackled from their personas. Videos and filmic animations played out on a wide screen at the rear of the stage, while performances from an array of stars inspired alloyed joy from critics and fans.
At the Roundhouse in London last month, Albarn paraded his musical muscle, calling on the Clash's Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, as well as Mos Def, Bobby Womack, De la Soul and Shaun Ryder, to join him on stage.
The festival would not speculate on which special guests Albarn, Gorillaz's only constant musician, was likely to bring to Glastonbury's biggest ever party, but the indications were that this year's Glastonbury go-ers will not be disappointed.
The Guardian is the official media sponsor of Glastonbury festival, which takes place on 25-27 June. All tickets have sold out.
Why weren't Gorillaz already playing Glastonbury? | 2019-04-22T22:36:30 | https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/26/glastonbury-announces-gorillaz-friday-headliners?CMP%3DNECNETTXT766 |
0.998695 | One thing that is driving the pitcher injury and Tommy John surgery epidemic is what Stuart Smalley would call stinkin' thinkin'.
...and a general lack of critical thinking.
In my study of pitching mechanics, I have come across a number of examples of absolutely terrible logic and huge logical flaws.
The event that got me started on my quest to understand and solve the pitcher injury and Tommy John surgery epidemic was reading literally the first study I came across.
Lyman's et al's 2002 paper Effect of Pitch Type, Pitch Count, and Pitching Mechanics on Risk of Elbow and Shoulder Pain in Youth Baseball Pitchers, which was co-authored by Dr. Glenn Fleisig and Dr. James Andrews of ASMI and David Osinski of the affiliated ABF, remains one of the most astounding, mystifying, and frankly terrifying (given the stakes) things I have ever read.
If a movement reduces the risk of elbow and shoulder pain, then how can it be a flaw?
I understand that pitching injuries weren't the concern in 2002 that they are now. However, I literally can't understand how someone can write the paragraph above.
There's no mention of those "flaws" impact on velocity, which would seem the only way to continue to maintain that they are flaws even after they were shown to reduce the risk of elbow and shoulder pain.
I don't have a problem with labeling those four movements "flaws" going into the study, but to maintain that view after finding that they reduce the risk of elbow and shoulder pain?
In early 2016, I attended a baseball and softball hitting and pitching clinic here in St. Louis. Among the presenters was the pitching coordinator for a major league team. While I enjoyed many aspects of his presentation, I couldn't help but be disturbed by something.
On one slide he displayed a picture of Mariano Rivera who he said, and I agree, had excellent pitching mechanics. Then, on literally the next slide, he displayed ASMI's guidelines that call for 32 to 76 degrees of External Rotation at Stride Foot Contact.
The problem is that, as the picture above and the clip below show, Mariano Rivera's External Rotation at Stride Foot Contact is significantly greater than 76 degrees.
It's more like 90 degrees.
What he was saying was desirable was clearly and directly contradicted by what Mariano Rivera did.
I would submit that, if your pitching biomechanics model is telling you that the pitching mechanics of Mariano Rivera -- and Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, Greg Maddux, Justin Verlander, David Price, and other Hall Of Fame caliber pitchers who were both dominant and durable -- are flawed, then I would suggest that the true flaw is more likely with your model than a dominant and durable Hall Of Famer like Mariano Rivera.
I believe part of the problem is that ASMI just seems to be tracking averages -- perhaps, because for privacy reasons, they have to dissociate names and numbers? -- and just reporting what they see come into their lab. Well if, as I contend, pitching mechanics get more problematic over time, and ASMI simply reports the averages of what they are seeing, you will see a larger and larger divergence between what dominant and durable pitchers like Mariano Rivera did and what contemporary pitchers are doing.
In truth, that divergence is important.
It shouldn't be ignored and the current averages simply reported as if they were the whole story.
...what they are selling is, in truth, ahistorical and, in my opinion, incredibly dangerous.
The Mayo Clinic is part of the problem, not the solution, I assume because they aren't thinking critically about the conventional wisdom about pitching mechanics. | 2019-04-22T07:28:22 | http://clients.chrisoleary.com/Pitching/The-Epidemic/Stinkin-Thinkin |
0.981792 | Or is it? There are in fact times when I step away from the bistro and the bottle to enjoy Paris' many other offerings. Seeing as Paris has quite the gastronomical culture, I've jumped in with both feet into that arena, but don't fret, I have also been taking the time to explore the many other city sights.
I recently had an art adventure in my own neighborhood. Just down the street from me is the Opera Bastille, and behind that is an area I've been wanting to explore with interesting workshops and home stores, called Le Viaduc des Arts. While in search of them, I found an outdoor staircase leading up behind the Opera. It seemed like an odd location for stairs so I thought I should go investigate. What was going on turned out to be the Promenade Plante, a beautiful, narrow garden that runs almost for 3 miles with gorgeous views of the city. It used to be an old railway line, similar to High Line Park in NYC, and there were families, runners and sitters enjoying the day and the beautiful landscape.
I soon learned that the Viaduc des Arts was literally right under my nose, running all underneath the Promenade. The Viaduc shops are all huge window fronted stores that sell everything from art, to furniture to clothes and jewelry. They're more upscale spots and sometimes the design of the store was just as pretty as the contents within.
Continuing on my art and exploration week-end, I found a large modern art fair set-up in front of the Opera and continuing all along the Canal, so I went to have a look. Normally modern art isn't really my thing, but there was a unique selection of sculptures, paintings, glass work and designs that you couldn't help but admire. One part of the show was covered and indoors, and there was another section of art displayed to the open canal, making a feast for the eyes in every direction.
I also finally went into the beautiful 17th Century church, St. Sulpice in St. Germain that houses two Delacroix frescoes. It is said to be one of the largest and best kept Jesuit churches. I heard faint sounds of singing while I was there, and found a small service going on in the back of the church. The organ is one of the only "100 stops" organs in the world, meaning it's really big, and you can even climb it and take a tour inside.
I'm continuing to do some writing for websites and blogs, and with the writing comes a lot of research to investigate the topic du jour. I just finished a piece on destockage stores, where name shops will send their excess or last season's line to sell at a discount. I think I lost some money on writing that piece, but I gained some deals and cute new Parisian finds.
Last week I was sent on assignment to try out a new cooking class, which was right up my alley. The class was given by a tres petite Frenchwoman who lives in a tres grande maison with a newly restored, fabulous, open kitchen. I tried not to gasp when I saw the multiple ovens, including a special, steam oven that pushed my oven envy off the charts. It was fun to be back in a "real" kitchen and me and 4 other French ladies made squash soup, "flan" with eggs and salmon and a lovely apple tarte tatin. I picked up some good French cooking tips and had a fun trip back down oven lane.
I came home and stood in my kitchen, since there's no room to walk, and stared at my microwave, wishing it would turn into something else. Then the "Crisp" function on the outside panel that I had always ignored caught my attention. I found a manual, a French dictionary, and I came to learn that there may be some other techniques my microwave could handle beyond reheat. I got a sweet potato and eggplant, sliced it up, put it on a special round tray just for my device, and got as far away from the kitchen as I could in case something blew up. But it didn't, and I ended up getting a version of some baked food, and a huge smile on my face. My microwave and I are now best friends, and my culinary world has just increased exponentially.
I started to think about baking fish in the "Crisper," and I was debating where to go to purchase some poisson. I had been hearing quite a bit of talk about a place called Piccard. I kept trying to ignore it since Piccard is a pristine, white store that sells nothing but frozen food. Surely that should be illegal in farm, fresh, foodie France? After having dined with a wonderful, older Parisian woman, who told me she only buys her fish there, I decided it was time to check it out. Piccard has everything from frozen vegetables to steak tartare to shrimp, soup, desserts and even croissants. I stayed focused on fish and some hard to get greens, and also because my freezer is tiny so I had to limit myself to 2 purchases. I tried out my Piccard Frozen Cabillaud tonight and it wasn't half bad, and it's half the price of most fish at the markets, and equally as tasty.
I went to my first movie in Paris this month. Those that know me, know I pretty much just go to the movies for the popcorn and there's an art to making the corn with butter at the halfway point of the bag and on top for perfect bites all the way through. After a long queuing process outside the theatre, everyone files in and no one gets any concessions, which is just as well since the stand looked like it could only accommodate about 4 people per night. When you order popcorn here, they ask you if you want "salty," or "sweet." I stood waiting to hear the 3rd option of butter and you can imagine my shock when I learned that this was not an option. Seriously Paris, you put butter on your butter, and you can't put it on my popcorn? The salty was fine, but not fresh popped. Next time, I'll try the mix of half salty and half sweet.
I'm not the only popcorn crazed person in Paris. I went to a party recently and there was fresh popped microwave popcorn in a bowl that was inhaled by me and other ex-Pats, while the brie, pates and desserts sat untouched. The focus of the party was actually beer, however. 3 people had gone to an eccentric Frenchman's garage where he teaches and allows people to make their own beer, so I had the good fortune of being at the tasting party. There was a nicely flavored Belgium beer, a little too hoppy blonde/IPA, and a heavy Guiness like beer with notes of chocolate. Good beer and fun time.
I realized I've slipped in some food and beer talk, so I might as well talk about my last Cordon Bleu Wine Class. It was the finale and we were to drink 5 different champagnes, but luckily or not, we took our test first, which included a blind tasting. A covered bottle was poured for us and we had to name the grape, appellation, year, when to drink it and a good pairing. Yes, it was a little more difficult than I anticipated, but I did get the appellation right and was only a year off on the vintage, so fingers crossed I got enough right on the rest of the test to pass.
I'm barely still enrolled in any sort of French learning, outside of my daily excursions with the natives all around. Schedules got a little out of whack and my last pub conversation class had me attempting to explain the US tax system in French, which wasn't something I even wanted to do in English, so I left a bit deflated, though glad I wasn't living in Germany with their taxes! I will be making a renewed effort next year, and am coasting through the holidays this year.
I just finished a fun 5 days with my sister in law in Paris, so more updates to come! | 2019-04-18T17:18:13 | http://www.pageinparis.com/2011/11/its-not-all-food-and-wine.html |
0.999992 | Is there a correlation between the fact that the two Russell Brand film performances I've enjoyed most have been the two in which we don't have to look at him? I enjoyed Brand's vocal turn in last year's Despicable Me and – against all odds – I enjoyed his new family comedy Hop. Believe me, I'm as surprised as you are. The film might look like a lazy rehash of old Santa Clause movies hastily cobbled together for the Easter holidays, but it just about manages to get away with it thanks to a couple of individually strong elements that make up for the various flaws and general lack of imagination. Brand voices EB, the teenage son of the Easter Bunny (Hugh Laurie) who has no desire to inherit the family business, instead dreaming of stardom as a drummer. He flees to Hollywood, where he causes havoc in the life of slacker Fred (James Marsden) while a malevolent chick (a reliably terrific Hank Azaria) back on Easter Island plans a coup d'état against EB's father.
Hop's screenplay is perilously thin, with both EB and Fred having to resolve standard-issue daddy issues (Christ, Hollywood, let's give that motivation a rest, eh?), and EB's sidetrack into an America's Got Talent-style contest is a waste of everyone's time (including David Hasselhoff, who is excruciatingly awful as himself). But Hop is lively and intermittently amusing, and alongside the fine voice work there's a disarmingly goofy performance from James Marsden to enjoy. I've got a lot of time for Marsden, who throws himself into comic roles with unflagging energy and a complete lack of vanity, and his charming central display buoys Hop along almost single-handedly in its weaker moments. All in all, this is passably entertaining family fare for Easter, even if you'll barely remember it by the time you've polished off your chocolate eggs. | 2019-04-26T07:54:41 | http://www.philonfilm.net/2011/03/review-hop.html |
0.998836 | The phrases "center" and "periphery" are rather correct to anthropologists, for the reason that ordinarily they appear outward from institutional "centers"-universities, museums, executive bureaus-to know about humans at the "peripheries." but anthropology itself, in comparison with economics, politics, or historical past, occupies an area a bit at the margins of academe. nonetheless, anthropologists, who keep watch over esoteric wisdom concerning the gigantic variety of human edition, frequently locate themselves in a theoretically relevant place, capable of critique the "universal" truths promoted by way of different disciplines.
Central websites, Peripheral Visions provides 5 case stories that discover the dilemmas, ethical in addition to political, that emerge out of this targeted place. From David Koester's research of the way ethnographic descriptions of Iceland marginalized that country's inhabitants, to Kath Weston's account of an offshore penal colony the place officers combined felony paintings with ethnographic ambitions; from Brad Evans's reflections at the "bohemianism" of either the Harlem fashion and American anthropology, to Arthur J. Ray's research of anthropologists who function specialist witnesses in criminal situations, the essays within the 11th quantity of the historical past of Anthropology sequence give some thought to anthropology's consistently problematical prestige as centrally peripheral, or peripherally central.
Finally, George W. Stocking, Jr., in a contribution that's nearly a e-book in its personal correct, strains the pro trajectory of yankee anthropologist Robert Gelston Armstrong, who used to be unceremoniously expelled from his position of privilege due to his communist sympathies within the Nineteen Fifties. by way of taking on Armstrong's unfinished company a long time later, Stocking engages in a longer meditation at the dating among middle and outer edge and provides "a form of posthumous reparation," a web page within the heritage of the self-discipline for colleague who may well differently have remained within the footnotes.
What's a meme? First coined by way of Richard Dawkins within the egocentric Gene, a meme is any concept, habit, or ability that may be transferred from one individual to a different by way of imitation: tales, models, innovations, recipes, songs, methods of plowing a box or throwing a baseball or creating a sculpture. The meme is usually some of the most important--and controversial--concepts to emerge because the foundation of the Species seemed approximately one hundred fifty years in the past.
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Towards the instant, within the political autobiography he wrote for Tax and Eggan he recommended that there have been no “serious increase in Marxist inspiration because the ebook of Lenin’s Imperialism,” and “the entire highbrow constitution” was once now “obsolescent” (Armstrong 1953). It took no account of “the improvement of worldwide economic system in the course of and after international wars” and “almost no account of twentieth century technology, which has deeply replaced our thought of matter—a easy element for materialist philosophy. ” notwithstanding Marxists may have Marx’s books on their cabinets, they now not learn him. The “great majority of energetic communists” had a “religious instead of a systematic angle in the direction of the Communist circulate mostly and in the direction of Russia in particular,” and an identical non secular perspective “had deeply permeated Russian considering. ” for that reason, Armstrong had determined that “neither the Soviet nation nor the Communist occasion represented a sufficiently excellent excellent to warrant taking the punishment that persisted club entailed” and that his “best contribution to the hopes of mankind” lay in his “continued medical paintings, the result of which i will be able to, after all, no longer warrantly to anyone. ” during this context Armstrong later recalled having embarked “on a theoretical learn that also pursuits me”—presumably, the incomplete draft that survives in his scholar dossier entitled “Society and subject” (1950a). modern correspondence shows that Armstrong all started writing “Society and topic” within the fall of 1949, whilst he used to be “about prepared” to begin writing his dissertation yet discovered that, after years away, his Africa venture “looked very chilly certainly. ” meanwhile he had turn into “real ” in a “lot of theoretical sidelines,” which he needed to “get off my chest,” it sounds as if simply because he felt that his “basic correct to a materialist standpoint have been known as into 122 George W. Stocking, Jr. query” (JMP:10/4/49, 1/6/52; DAP:RA/RR 2/15/2l, RA/FE 4/30/51). yet after a “five-months expedition into theoretical eco-friendly pastures” he positioned “Society and subject” apart unfinished at a time whilst his curiosity within the Africa venture were revived (JMP:10/4/49, 1/6/52). even supposing the draft that survives in his pupil dossier is unmarked, one could simply think that it can no longer were good bought. Politically, the timing used to be, to assert the least, unpropitious, and, fairly apart from its Marxist orientation, its boundary-stretching content material could most likely were considered as “not anthropology. ” yet as an strange if no longer particular attempt to maneuver past Steward’s “matter-of-fact materialism” and the Marxish orientations of the “Columbia gang” towards an explicitly (if idiosyncratically conceived) Marxist theoretical framework for anthropological study in a political second of burgeoning McCarthyism, “Society and subject” turns out priceless of significant ancient attention (cf. Stocking 2002d). Armstrong’s typescript opens with a twenty-four-page prologue within which he stated how, during gathering “data” from the monographic literature for “a thesis approximately African state or country structures,” he had run into unspecified difficulties that took him “far into the actual and organic sciences. | 2019-04-22T06:05:03 | http://thewhiteelephanthome.com/index.php/books/central-sites-peripheral-visions-cultural-and-institutional-crossings-in-the-history-of |
0.999253 | The Canon PowerShot G1 X was announced recently, and took a lot of people by surprise. While Nikon have launched their mirrorless, large sensor cameras in the Nikon 1 series, not many rumors existed about Canons mirrorless competitor. It turns out that their answer was a large sensor compact camera, without interchangeable lenses.
The sensor size was also a bit surprising: Larger than Four Thirds, but smaller than APS-C. This sounds like an odd sensor format. But is the sensor format really that odd? Let's try to have a closer look at it.
We know that the Canon G1X sensor is reported to be 18.7mm x 14mm. The Four Thirds sensor size, on the other hand, is somewhat smaller at 17.3mm x 13mm.
But the Panasonic GH1 and GH2 have employed oversized Four Thirds sensors. This design choice was implemented to get the same diagonal field of view in the 16:9 and 4:3 modes, utilizing the full image circle also for video. The Panasonic GH1 has 4000x3000 pixels in 4:3 mode, and is 4352 pixels wide in 16:9 mode. This means that the width of the sensor must be 17.3mm x 4352 / 4000 = 18.8mm. Which is rather close to the reported width of the Canon G1X sensor. The differences in reported size might be due to rounding off differently.
What about the vertical size? The GH1 sensor is reported to have 14 megapixels in total, which corresponds to a vertical resolution of 3217 pixels. Hence, the vertical size must be 13mm x 3217 / 3000 = 13.9mm. Again this is very close to the reported height of the Canon G1X sensor.
Both sensors are of the CMOS type, and both have a base ISO of 100.
My conclusion is that the specifications of the Canon PowerShot G1 X sensor are remarkably similar to the Panasonic GH1 sensor. This doesn't mean that they are identical, though. But given that there are not that many sensor manufacturers out there, and certainly not for the Four Thirds sensor size, I would say this is a good indication that Panasonic do in fact produce the sensors for the Canons G1X. As you understand, this is of course purely speculation.
A fundamental difference between the two cameras is that the Panasonic GH1 only gives you a maximum resolution of 12 megapixels for one single exposure, with the option of changing the aspect ratio with the same image circle.
The Canon G1X, on the other hand, gives the full sensor resolution output for a single exposure. However, when using video (16:9 aspect ratio), only a smaller image circle is used, meaning that the effective focal length changes.
- Who made the sensor for Canon EOS-1D?
I personally don't think it is the same sensor or is made by Panasonic, but rather it is a convenient size and resolution. Mostly because Panasonic still lags behind Canon in terms of noise performance.
Anyways, G1 X is pretty interesting, I hope it would get wider auto-ISO range and some bits of feature that is already on older cameras like 5D MK2 (Like highlight priority...).
Oh, just one early complaint, the AF-assist beam is crap, all it does is blind whoever you are shooting, and not really helping anything. I think it is because when you shoot in dark area, the sensor is already cranked way up so that you can see something in the LCD. When the AF assist beam shows up, the scene became way over-exposed from the bright beam. Of course the camera would need time to stop down and do this and that. It just makes it even slower.
What can we expect from the GH3? | 2019-04-19T21:10:04 | http://m43photo.blogspot.com/2012/02/canon-g1x-sensor-size-same-as-gh1.html |
0.999999 | I'm struggling with the notion of an inertial frame of reference. I suspect my difficulty lies with the difference between Newtonian and relativistic inertial frames, but I can't see it.
I've read that Newton's laws apply in any non accelerating frame of reference, which are called inertial frames. So, if I play pool on a train moving with uniform velocity, the balls behave in the same way as if I were playing pool in a pool hall. So the train is (to a good approximation, ignoring forces caused by the Earth's rotation and movement around the Sun etc) an inertial frame.
I've also read that in an inertial frame, Newton's first law is satisfied. So, if I slide a rock on a sheet of ice and I could somehow eliminate the frictional forces between the rock and the ice, the rock would carry on sliding for ever, as predicted by Newton's first law.
Question 1 - is the sheet of ice also therefore a good approximation to an inertial frame?
Question 2 - are these two definitions of inertial frames saying the same thing in different ways?
Both these examples occur in gravitation fields, which doesn't seem to matter as both the train and the ice sheet are presumably good approximations to inertial frames.
Question 3 - is gravity irrelevant when defining these two inertial frames?
In special relativity, I've read (Foster and Nightingale) that an inertial frame is also one where Newton's first law holds. But as it's special relativity there cannot be an inertial frame if there's a gravitational field, so I'm assuming the above two examples are not inertial frames in special relativity.
Question 4 - how come you can use the same definition of an inertial frame (satisfied Newton's first law) but in the case of special relativity, the train and the ice sheet aren't inertial frames. Is this to do with not being able to synchronize clocks in a gravitational field?
In general relativity, I've read (Schutz) that a freely falling frame is (on Earth) the only possible (and local) inertial frame. So again the first two examples would not be inertial frames in general relativity.
Question 5 - am I right to think that my two examples aren't even approximate approximations to an inertial frame in relativity?
Question 6 - have I missed anything else that might be useful?
Edit. On reflection, am I right in thinking that because Newtonian mechanics assumes universal, absolute time we don't need to worry about synchronizing clocks in a Newtonian inertial frame. Therefore we don't need to worry about gravity in a Newtonian inertial frame, because in such a frame gravity does not affect time.
This is not the case in spacetime, as here gravity does affect time and the only way to have synchronized clocks in an inertial frame in spacetime is: 1. have no gravitational field, or 2. use a local, freely falling frame.
The definition of an inertial frame in SR is essentially the same as in Newtonian mechanics.
"am I right to think that my two examples aren't even approximate approximations to an inertial frame in relativity?" Yes in GR. No in SR.
In Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, general relativity everywhere the definition of inertial frame is the same.
If Newton's laws of motion are valid in a reference frame then you call the frame an inertial frame. Any frame which is moving with constant velocity with respect to this frame is also an inertial frame since Newton's laws will be equally valid in those frames as well.
The earth is only an approximate inertial frame, so is a friction less ice sheet as you yourself have said. Newton's laws are only approximately valid in those frames.
In Special relativity also, a frame is an inertial frame if Newton's laws of motion hold good. These are frames which you get only if gravity is absent.
In the presence of an uniform gravitational field, any freely falling reference frame is an inertial reference frame since again Newton's laws hold good only in those freely falling frames, for example a freely falling elevator in an uniform gravitational field. If an observer in that elevator carry out some experiment she can prove that Newton's laws are valid within the elevator.
This is due to the equivalence principle of general relativity. In a realist case, one would have to go to infinitesimally small region for the validity of the equivalence principle and in those infinitesimal elevators Newton's laws will hold.
I've also read that in an inertial frame, Newton's first law is satisfied.
Which is true. The ideal frictionless ice surface would therefore be a good place to test and see if Newton's first law holds, which it does for the rock you described. But if you were to slide a rock on a surface with friction, that doesn't mean that Newton's first law is violated, because now there is a force. The ground could still be considered in an inertial reference frame (minus the gravity, which we will talk about later) but the rock, if it considers itself as a frame of reference, will not be in an inertial reference frame because objects at motion relative to it are not staying in motion despite no force existing on those objects (except the force it has with the ground. This force would not apply to a passing tree, however). However, if it uses an outside point as a reference frame then it can measure its speed and acceleration relative to that inertial reference frame, using Newton's second law and the force it has with the ground. I hope that made sense and answered your question well.
Answer 2 - The rock example, I hope, shows that these two definitions of an inertial frame are indeed related. If I am accelerating relative to something else(in violation of the first definition you had of inertial frames), then that object will seem to be accelerating without an outside force acting on it (in violation of the the second definition you had). So, these two definitions are very much related.
Answer 3 - Speaking classically, gravity doesn't matter when talking about these reference frames, because in both of them there is a normal force balancing the gravitational force, so the net force (and therefore net acceleration) are kept at zero, so the frame of reference is not accelerating and therefore is inertial. Gravity does matter when speaking about relativity though (next few questions).
Answer 4 - As others have talked about in their answers, SPECIAL relativity doesn't deal with accelerating reference frames at all. Special relativity is the non-accelerating SPECIAL case of general relativity (hence SPECIAL and GENERAL relativity). I am not sure if the case where an object is held without acceleration by both gravity and a normal force constitutes an inertial frame in relativity the same as in classical physics, hopefully someone else can say more.
Answer 5 - Not sure (and it would be GR we want to talk about, not SR). Anyone can answer this question better?
Observation from any inertal frame of reference would be eqivalent to a nonrelative location as far as the speed of light is concerned. The photon presents itself to the observer independent of the source of motion from which it comes from; i.e. any frame of inertial reference.
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Should the rest frame of a lab positioned on a gravitating body be considered an inertial frame in special relativity or not? | 2019-04-23T06:53:27 | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/16885/inertial-frames-of-reference |
0.998573 | While it is not exactly correct to say now that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, it is the predominate danger in the near term. Making decisions about security precautions in such an atmosphere must take into account the emotional climate, and we must avoid doing things that are not helpful or have long term negative consequence.
We do know several things from the behavioral sciences that are relevant to our current thinking. Perhaps the most important is that people, even in normal times, overestimate the probability of high visibility, concentrated events and underestimate the probability and risks of distributed and chronic, low visibility events. They also tend to put a higher negative value on the massed loss of lives than on the same number of lives lost when they are widely distributed. These tendencies lead to concentration of preventive measures on the large, concentrated, low probability events to the detriment of preventive measures for events of greater probability but of a more continuous or distributed nature.
Another thing we know is that in panic situations people tend to react in ways that produce more casualties than when there is some order maintained--the familiar problem in reaction to fires. The behavioral problem in these situations is quite complex because what is good for the individual may not be good for the group as a whole, that is, by pushing my way rapidly through the crowd I might improve my chances of survival, but if everyone does it, more people will get crushed or not survive. Accurate information about what is happening and knowledge of what to do in such situations minimizes many of these problems.
A third relevant well-established finding is that it is extremely difficult to maintain vigilance for rare events over long periods of time. This was first noticed in WW II when it was found that those monitoring radar for planes often missed them after periods of continuous monitoring. This led to all sorts of interesting research on sensory deprivation and the importance of variation and activity for accurate perception. Even highly paid security people will miss objects or events that are rare when they have to monitor a scanner for long periods of time. Thus depending on individual human inspection or checking of routine events is unlikely to be reliable over the long haul.
What does this all say to us at this time? First, there is a need to be sure that risks are assessed properly. What is more likely to occur and what is less likely to occur? The probability of most buildings actually being bombed has gone up only very slightly, while the probability of a false alarm (bomb threat) has probably gone up more, although both are still low probability events (more likely to be higher in the near term than the longer term, however). Thus attention ought to focus on the more likely events. (A significant fire is probably even more likely than either of the other two, although it is difficult to assess such low probability events so as to make such comparative judgements).
Second, there is a need to concentrate on actions that reduce panic if something does happen. The planned use of a building PA system, a buddy -system, marking stairwells and mapping evacuation routes well, and having a clear, and clearly communicated emergency plan are all responsive to preventing panic and reducing fear. Beyond evacuating the building, there needs to be a similar action plan for what to do then. This involves the larger community, transportation authorities, etc. Emergency planning needs to be coordinated with them.
Third, there is a need to concentrate on everyday security measures that are not overly dependent on human vigilance. It is not clear what technology has to offer here, but there may be ways to enhance control over who is in a building better than the typical, human-dependent systems.
Fourth, it may not be appropriate to invest resources on trying to decrease the already low probability of someone trying to blow up a "science" building. If a terrorist is going to blow up a building, it is more or less random which building gets picked beyond a few obvious choices of high symbolic value. If the emotional climate changes so that science is seen as the enemy or of someones way of life such that an attack on our building would have symbolic value worth taking the risk of blowing yourself up, then it might have to be rethought. But it would probably be easier and more cost effective to move to another building that were more defensible that it would be to try to bomb-proof most "science" buildings.
We should not get swept away with trying to create a fool-proof system to prevent a low probability event and ignore steps that are more effective. We have to accept the fact that we live in a riskier world that we did, and that there are no fool-proof systems. But in any objective sense the risks are not much greater than they have been . It is our perception of those risks that has changed greatly. We should strive not to overestimate them. | 2019-04-19T20:58:27 | http://virology.net/Articles/aboutsecurity.html |
0.999964 | He will be back soon hopefully", Guardiola said. Guardiola said he would take another look at the tackle from Yacob. "I suffer for him". 'At that moment, you think of the worst, the wrong situations. Their tempo dropped after the break and Yacob scored his first goal for four years with 18 minutes left but Sane won it five minutes later when he curled in after a quick break to book a fourth round home tie with Wolves.
In an interview with San Francisco Magazine , the sensitive Warriors star recalled how he anguished with Rich Kleiman, his business partner and agent, while they were in China last summer for a Nike-sponsored tour. "That hotel was rock bottom", Durant told Steinberg. Durant apologized Tuesday, calling his comments about the Thunder "idiotic" and "childish," but Kanter said it was a case of too little, too late.
The occasional off-spinner was reported to the ICC for a suspect action during the Windies' thrashing at the hands of England in the first Test at Edgbaston. A rare bright spot in the Test arena for the Windies in recent years, the right-hander struck his sixth ton in the first innings - a terrific 134 - before leading the Caribbean outfit to a drought-breaking five wicket victory with 95 on the final day of the match.
his Ryder Cup team-mate, Westwood.
He should be available for next week's visit to Atlético Madrid in the Champions League. "Now he has the possibility to play and now he has to prepare very well to play". "For sure it is odd but in all situations we have to try to improve; in the tactical situation, the physical situation and also we must try to improve in this situation, and also we hope to be more lucky in the future", he explains .
Asked if it felt under additional pressure ahead of facing Leicester City in the EFL Cup on Tuesday, he told a news conference: "For me, no". "That's obviously not so nice". The 20-year-old striker could make his first start for Liverpool since his move from Chelsea in the summer. The England youth global has made four substitute appearances for his new club so far, and almost scored the victor against Burnley on the weekend, only to be denied by the crossbar.
They are all alone in last place in the NFC East behind the Cowboys, Eagles and Washington, who are all 1-1. The Falcons had to come away impressed from the homework assignment, which was to watch the Lions and Giants on Monday football.
That's a lot easier than the rigours and travel of playing for Australia. Nathan Coulter-Nile has celebrated a stunning return to global cricket. "I thought long and hard about (giving up first-class cricket) and I ended up trying to give it another crack", Coulter-Nile said.
Louis Scott Gallagher Development Academy club program as Sargent. In a statement on the Bundesliga side's official website , it's confirmed the 17-year-old will officially join up with Werder when he turns 18 on February 20. U-17 and U-20 teams. Sargent burst onto the US scene earlier this year, scoring five goals in the CONCACAF U-17 Championship before earning a roster slot for U-20 World Cup in South Korea.
Kahne is no stranger to switching teams, having driven at the Cup Series level for Evernham Motorsports , its successor, Gillett Evenrham Motorsports, Richard Petty Motorsports and Red Bull Racing Team before arriving at Hendrick for the 2012 season.
Atletico Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano Stadium was on Wednesday named as the venue for the 2019 Champions League final by UEFA, the governing body of European football. UEFA also announced that the EPFL umbrella organisation representing Europe's domestic leagues would have a place on their decision-making executive committee.
Khanna told IANS on Wednesday. There was no doubt among the members that Dhoni has impeccable credentials. The nomination of Dhoni was the only name sent by the Board and if the nomination if accepted, the wicketkeeper-batsman will become only the 11th cricketer from the country to receive the civilian honour.
Each athlete to be selected under the scheme will receive an annual scholarship worth Rs 5 lakh for eight consecutive years under the revamped "Khelo India Programme" . Special facilities would be provided for sports in schools and colleges. " 'Khelo india' a much-awaited initiative by our Hon'ble PM & SportsMinister.Surely this will catalyse sports in India, (sic)" Kohli said.
India arrive in South Africa on December 28 and have insisted on a warm-up fixture before embarking on the Freedom Trophy. After the Zimbabwe match, India will arrive and their home summer will end with Australia touring South Africa for four Tests.
Despite no progress seemingly being made on the trade front, however, Anthony and his camp remain hopeful that he'll be dealt before Monday according to Frank Isola of the New York Daily News - which marks the first day of the Knicks' training camp and media day.
Eventually, the crowd applauded as the child was carried away, escorted by medical personnel. The game was stopped for several minutes as the child was taken out of the seating area. Major League Baseball does not mandate safety netting down the foul lines, though advocates say it is a necessary move to prevent avoidable injuries.
Everton had delayed an internal punishment until Rooney had appeared at Stockport Magistrates' court on Monday to answer a drink-driving charge. "It was completely wrong", Rooney said in a statement . He also allegedly wants to snap up a £350,000 Lamborghini Aventador, which would cost £75,000 to cover. Rooney is the all-time leading scorer for England's national soccer team and for Manchester United .
Lilly Eli & Co now has $90.49B valuation. The average 1-year price target for (UAA) reveals an average price target of $18.7 per share. DCP's SI was 3.71M shares in September as released by FINRA. State Of Tennessee Treasury Department has invested 0.04% in HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE:HCA). (NYSE:TTI) for 13,047 shares. Comparatively, TXMD's free cash flow per share was -0.09.
Sunday was supposed to be Timmons' regular-season debut with the Dolphins after signing a two-year, $12 million contract in March. One report said Timmons had been travelling to see his baby daughter. It was to be his first game as a member of the Dolphins after spending his first 10 National Football League seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers . The Dolphins played Sunday's game with Chase Allen , an undrafted rookie, as a starter.
Meanwhile, Adolphus Washington and Cedric Thornton took some snaps in relief of Dareus in Carolina. In addition to Dareus and Glenn, defensive end Shaq Lawson will not practice on Wednesday due to a nerve contusion. Additionally, McDermott said running back LeSean McCoy and linebacker Lorenzo Alexander were going to each receive the day off from practice, while defensive tackle Jerel Worthy continues to be out with a concussion.
The England worldwide joined the Reds for an initial £35million from Arsenal on transfer deadline day. The Merseysiders lost 2-0 to the Foxes as Oxlade-Chamberlain played the full 90 minutes but made little impact. 'Sometimes you forgot he was even playing in the game, ' Heskey said after the 2-0 defeat. "His creation from the right-hand side wasn't particularly good". | 2019-04-21T22:28:47 | http://dietpillo.com/sports/page/17/ |
0.999997 | Summary: An under-the-weather Elle gets some new orders.
Bob Bishop is frowning. Contrary to his appearance, which is well-suited to frowning as a default moue, he isn't always frowning. The office that he's forced in, a far cry from his former office full of rich antiques and things that belonged to him alone, and instead filled with shades as drab as Primatech Paper and a small, cramped desk, makes Bob Bishop frown. The headlines on the issue of the New York Times sitting on said desk, detailing a virus outbreak in the city, make Bob Bishop frown. The lukewarm coffee he sips at from a complimentary Yamagato Industries cup makes Bob Bishop frown, but he drinks it anyway, seemingly out of habit as he glowers down at the newspaper, the black receiver of a phone pressed to his ear, listening to voice messages.
If she had known before coming this far that he was in this kind of mood, Elle might have stayed away. She might not have bothered him with what she has to say right this second, and instead kept it for a better time. But she doesn't know what kind of a mood he's in, and, well, she's frustrated. So it is that she rounds the corner and knocks on the doorframe, waiting there to be asked in.
She looks like death - or very nearly, anyway. Her fair skin is paler still, dark circles have formed beneath her eyes, and she looks like she might have lost weight. She's dressed too warm for the temperature of the building, but she doesn't seem to notice. Still, she's here, standing in the doorway, waiting. Her voice is ragged when she asks, "Got a minute?"
Bob takes a sip of his slowly chilling coffee before giving an answer. He first makes a foul face, not looking away from the newspaper, or moving the phone away from his ear, then says, "Come in, Elle." He doesn't look up until he hears the door open. And lo, another cause to frown. "You look horrible. Close the door behind you."
The door is closed with a quiet click, and Elle crosses the room to sit in one of the chairs facing his desk. The minute she's seated, she sinks down some and wraps her arms around herself, hunching her shoulders. "I don't look that bad," she protests, though even she knows it's a lie. She doesn't insult him with the suggestion that it's just the flu that's been travelling through the office. Fixing a level stare on her father, she pauses for a second, watching his face. "I haven't been given an assignment for a week that wasn't just desk work. Thought maybe you might know why."
Bob, who calmly presses a button on the rather high-tech phone sitting on his desk, finally hanging up on the voicemail system, regards Elle steadily. His glower has not left. He folds his hands one on top of the other. "You ought to know why, Elle. Just look at you." There is, if one listens closely, a rivulet of concern in those words rather than flat-out insulting the young woman for looking like hell cooled over. "Realistically, I should have relieved you of desk duty also, days ago. Where you should be is a hospital bed."
"And I'm glad, the information you gained from Ms. Hanner may prove to be invaluable, but you weren't at your best then and you're only getting worse. You have a serious virus, Elle." Let's not beat around the bush. Behind his glasses, Bob's eyes never stray from his stubborn offspring. "I can't have you out on the field while you're off your game. Especially not with Sylar still at large. You're a walking target. Furthermore, you could be putting others at risk if you're not careful."
Clenching her jaw tight, Elle regards her father with a strangely patient sort of irritation. She tenses when he mentions Sylar's name, but it slowly eases out of her muscles as she leans back in the chair again. "I could still take him," she says, her voice lowered, knowing she shouldn't even say it. Tempting fate, and all of that. After taking a moment to pout childishly, she composes herself, changing her tone now to a more familial one. Less employee-to-boss, more girl-to-father. "I know I'm sick, Daddy, but I'm not going to sit around in a hospital bed waiting to get worse. Let me do something."
Bob's mouth straightens into a thin, tense line as he listens to Elle. He's clear that he's considering something, which at least indicates he's taking her plea seriously, but he's silent for some time before revealing his inner workings. Finally, he sits back further against his office chair. "The people Suresh are working with," that is, that aren't of this company, "Are trying to devise a cure. Now, I don't entirely trust his judgment when it comes to sharing results in full. These people have tendencies to go against our Company. However, they could be endeared a little by a face of desperation." Elle may not be at her physical best, but Bob has faith in her acting skills. "There's just one problem."
As Bob speaks, there are several thoughts running through Elle's mind, including the knowledge that the group he speaks of has cured at least one person. She'd already considered going to them and asking them to cure her; being relegated to desk work, however, she opted against doing anything that might have gotten her reprimanded even further. Now, she sits forward in her seat, listening more attentively than she had before. "Problem?"
"Let me rephrase. Two problems." Bob steeples his fingers, tapping them together and pointing the closest pair, his pointer fingers, at Elle. "One, while you were away on assignment, your… replacement… had some less-than-flattering encounters with a key member of this little medical team, not to mention one of those in their homemade quarantine. Two…" The man sighs, his gaze darkening on Elle, weighed down. He leans over the desk — this second problem must be important — and underneath the unflattering light from the ceiling lamp. He looks tired all of a sudden, the furrows in his brow and wrinkles on his face seeming deeper, or maybe it's just the light shining down on his bald head and creating shadows. Whatever the case, Bob actually appears reluctant to continue along this line of thought. He lays it down all the same. "There is no cure for this virus. I know that. The Company knows that. If Suresh, the Aldrics and the others think they've found one, they either do know something we don't, or they're deluding themselves."
"Encounters?" If Elle is aware of the stories her father heard, she's certainly putting on a convincing act otherwise. Her own frown returning, she tilts her head to one side, both suspicious and concerned. Her opinion of the woman who took her place is clear as day as she snorts derisively, just barely resisting the urge to roll her eyes. "Is there anything my 'replacement' did that wasn't a mistake? What did she do?"
"She certainly took your less becoming attributes to extremes, and got into a good bit of trouble, I might add," Bob answers sourly. "You should be familiar with Cassandra Aldric, you met her recently? Did she harbour any ill will? Your replacement did a number on her bookstore. She also attacked Elena Gomez, who has contracted the virus. I'm honestly not sure the extent of the trauma that occurred, but suffice to say they won't trust you at first. However, I have faith in your ability to show them a…" He pauses to choose the perfect phrasing. "Softer side of Elle."
"Fantastic." This is Elle's sarcastic voice. (It sounds a lot like her normal voice.) Shifting in her seat, she pulls her sweater tighter around herself, a chill overtaking her for a few seconds. "It'll work," she says, sounding quite sure of herself. "Peter is worried about me. If I show up begging for help, he'll do it." But it triggers another thought: if he really did have a cure, and it worked for others, would his girlfriend still be sick? A frown flashes across her face, but half a second later it's gone. She plants both hands against the arms of the chair and shoves up from the seat. "I'll see what I can find out."
If not, she's probably going to die. Elle can do the math, and she doesn't need any help reading the expression on her father's face. "I won't," she says, nodding her head slowly. It's all the reassurance he's going to get from her, of course; to offer any more would be admitting that she's as sick as he suggests. At first, she turns away, prepared to leave. Before even taking a step, however, she looks back to Bob with a quick, wavering smile. "Thank you, Daddy." And then she's gone, the door closed behind her. | 2019-04-19T20:16:43 | http://heroesmush.wikidot.com/desk-nor-field |
0.998426 | One character forgives another - for what? The forgiven character is devestated - the hatred that existed between them was what sustained them. How do they continue to live without it - or at least with only half of it.
Two characters (cop & robber?) clash a number of times over the course of their lives. They learn a bit about each other's lives in the process. One dies (the cop?) and their daughter asks for a meeting with the other. The other is surprised when they are offered forgiveness by the daughter of their enemy and doesn't know how to deal with it. | 2019-04-25T00:33:58 | https://scribblesofarose.webnode.com/products/forgiveness/ |
0.999998 | Context. Magnetic fields are invoked to launch, drive, and shape jets in both low- and high-mass protostars, but observational data on the spatial scales required to assess their role in the protostellar mass-loss process is still scarce.
Aims. The Turner-Welch (TW) object in the W3(OH) high-mass star-forming complex drives a synchrotron jet, which is quite exceptional for a high-mass protostar, and is associated with a strongly polarized H2O maser source, W3(H2O), making it an optimal target to investigate the role of magnetic fields on the innermost scales of protostellar disk-jet systems.
Methods. We report full polarimetric VLBA observations of H2O masers towards W3(H2O). Their linearly polarized emission provides clues on the orientation of the local magnetic field (on the plane of the sky), while the measurement of the Zeeman splitting provides its strength (along the line-of-sight). The linear scales probed by H2O masers are tens to hundreds of AU (at the W3(H2O) distance, ~2 kpc), inaccessible to other star-formation tracers.
Results. We identified a total of 148 individual maser features and we measured their physical properties. Out of 148, we measured linear polarization in 34 features, with a fractional percentage varying in the range 0.9−42%, making W3(H2O) the highest-polarized H2O maser source observed with VLBI known in the Galaxy. The H2O masers trace a bipolar, biconical outflow at the center of the synchrotron jet. Although on scales of a few thousand AU the magnetic field inferred from the masers is on average orientated along the flow axis, on smaller scales (10s to 100s of AU), we have revealed a misalignment between the magnetic field and the velocity vectors, which arises from the compression of the field component along the shock front. We also detected circularly polarized emission toward ten maser features, with a fractional percentage varying in the range 0.2–1.6%. In the gas shocked by the synchrotron jet, we estimate a total field strength in the range ~100−300 mG (at densities of 109 cm-3). We conclude that fields of this order of magnitude are expected if the observed polarized water masers emerge behind magnetically supported shocks which, propagating in the W3(H2O) hot core (with an initial density of order of 107 cm-3), compress and enhance the field component perpendicular to the shock velocity (with an initial field strength of a few mG). We constrain the magnetic field strength in the pre-shock circumstellar gas (which is dominated by the component parallel to the flow motion) to at least 10–20 mG (at densities of 107 cm-3), consistent with previous estimates from a synchrotron jet model and dust polarization measurements.
Conclusions. In W3(H2O), the magnetic field would evolve from having a dominant component parallel to the outflow velocity in the pre-shock gas, with field strengths of the order of a few tens of mG, to being mainly dominated by the perpendicular component of order of a few hundred of mG in the post-shock gas where the H2O masers are excited. The general implication is that in the undisturbed (i.e., not-shocked) circumstellar gas, the flow velocities would follow closely the magnetic field lines, while in the shocked gas the magnetic field would be reconfigured to be parallel to the shock front. | 2019-04-22T00:26:20 | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2017/01/aa29321-16/aa29321-16.html |
0.999437 | As you are planning your Walt Disney World Vacation, one of the things that you must decide is whether you want to include the Disney Dining Plan as a part of your package. But, is the Disney Dining Plan worth it?
The short answer to this question is, it depends on how you plan to eat on your vacation. If you know that you want to do several character meals or sit-down meals, then I highly recommend the Disney Dining Plan and possibly even the Deluxe Dining Plan. If you prefer to eat on the go, without any sit-down meals, then the Quick Service Dining Plan may be the way to go for you!
So, what is included with the dining plan? There are three options when looking at dining plans for your Walt Disney World vacation package.
The Disney Quick Service Dining Plan consists of two Quick Service (QS) meals and two snacks, per person, per night of stay. Each person on the dining plan will also receive a refillable resort mug. A quick service meal consists of a meal ordered at a counter, or via the mobile app and includes one entrée and one beverage including specialty beverages such as a milkshake, hot chocolate, and coffee. For those over 21 years of age, alcoholic beverages are also included. The cost of this dining plan per night is approximately $52/adult and $24/child.
The Disney Dining Plan consists of one Table Service (sit-down) meal, one Quick Service meal and two snacks per person, per night of stay. There are over 50 table service restaurants and many only require one meal credit, including many character meals. There are also options that require two meal credits, known as Signature Dining. The table service meals also include your choice of dessert and beverage, alcoholic for those over 21 years of age or non-alcoholic. The cost of this dining plan per night of stay is approximately $75/adult and $28/child.
The Deluxe Dining Plan consists of three meals and two snacks per person, per night of stay. It is important to note that there is no distinction between quick service and table service meals with this meal plan. Therefore, guests can choose to use these credits as they want. With the Deluxe plan, guests are also eligible to receive appetizer, entrée, and dessert with each table service meal. The cost of this dining plan per night of stay is approximately $116/adult and $44/child.
Another important thing to remember about any of the dining plans is that you are not restricted to using a certain number of meals each day. You will notice when you use the dining plans that there will be a total number of credits available on any receipts that you get. This is also available to view on the My Disney Experience app. If, for example, you want to go to breakfast at a character meal that is 1 table service credit, use a snack credit for lunch and have another table service meal for dinner, you are able to do so!
So, given this information, is the Disney Dining Plan worth it?
I mentioned above that it depends on how you plan to eat during your vacation. The dining plans are not the best option for everyone. If you are traveling alone or know that you prefer to get snacks throughout the day, then this may not be the option for you.
The biggest factor in my opinion is – do you want to eat any sit-down meals? When visiting Walt Disney World, one of the best dining options, in my opinion, is character dining, which is considered a table service meal. These meals allow you to dine and meet some of your favorite Disney characters without waiting in line. The average cost for one of these meals is approximately $50/adult, depending on the meal. The average quick-service meal with a drink is approximately $12-15/adult and the average snack is $4-5 each. This adds up quickly throughout the day, especially if you want to do more than one, or two, character meals throughout your vacation. If you want to grab some cold bottles of water, ice cream, iced coffee at Starbucks or Joffrey’s or some of the fabulous new treats that are available as part of Mickey’s Birthday Celebration, many of these count as snack credits! Just look for the purple and white symbol indicating that an item is a snack credit on the dining plan (see the picture below). Personally, I also like the convenience of having all of my food paid for ahead of time. It’s nice to just scan my MagicBand and not have to worry about anything except gratuity at the table service restaurants.
Check out just a few examples of snack credits below!
Any of the dining plans can also be used when taking advantage of the mobile ordering feature throughout Walt Disney World. Mobile ordering is one of the newer features on the My Disney Experience app and is very convenient when you are looking to grab a quick service meal. To use the meal plan, you simply order your food and the appropriate dining credits will be applied. A balance of credits will also be given.
Whether you are going alone, on an adults-only trip or the whole family, there is a meal plan that will work for you. For my family, the Disney Dining Plan is the perfect option. We like going to the character meals and will often use snack credits to get a quick breakfast on the go. If you are a foodie and enjoy exploring all the different dining options available, you may want to consider the Deluxe Dining Plan. This is also a good option if you would like to experience several signature dining restaurants since these meals require two dining credits each. This was a perfect option while on my honeymoon! The Quick Service Dining Plan is a good option if you still want to pre-pay for all of your food but prefer to eat on the go. There are so many great restaurants throughout Walt Disney World that are considered quick service and you will not be disappointed! | 2019-04-20T20:34:50 | https://disneyaddicts.com/is-the-disney-dining-plan-worth-it-2-274667/ |
0.999903 | In places like Thornton, Colo., oil and gas facilities sit within a few hundred feet of suburban homes.
Scientists took air samples from multiple sites in Northern Colorado at various distances from oil and gas wells. They looked at what chemicals were inside those samples and in what concentrations. Then, they estimated what breathing those levels of pollutants might do to a person’s health over an hour or over a few decades.
“Some of their health effects might occur almost right away, things like headaches,” says Lisa McKenzie, an environmental epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health. "Other effects might be more long-term like the lifetime excess cancer risk."
She led the study, which came out in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
The researchers found that the closer people get to oil and gas wells, the higher their chances are of getting exposed to nasty pollutants that can cause everything from headaches to cancer – even 500 feet away.
“And these exposures are at levels that could impact health and pose lifetime excess cancer risks above what the Environmental Protection Agency considers acceptable,” she says.
Under ordinary conditions, everyone has about a 30 to 40 percent chance of getting cancer at some point in their lives. Exposure to the air pollutants in this study might add just a sliver of a percent to that chance – something like 0.08 percent.
Many states now have laws preventing new oil and gas wells from being built within a certain distance of existing homes, but they vary dramatically. Montana has no law about distance – it all happens on a case-by-case basis. Wyoming and Colorado require a minimum of 500 feet from existing homes. Idaho’s requirement is shorter – 300 feet, but with some exceptions. In Utah, it varies by county.
A 2017 study by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment analyzed air samples around oil and gas operations and concluded that "the risk of harmful health effects is low for residents living at distances of 500 feet or more from oil and gas operations."
"So far, we have not found any elevated short- or long-term risks from the same substances evaluated in the McKenzie study," said Dr. Larry Wolk, the department's chief medical officer, in a statement.
Dan Haley, president and CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, called the study "inflammatory." Tracee Bentley, executive director of the Colorado Petroleum Council, part of the American Petroleum Institute, called McKenzie’s work "activist research that seeks to generate soundbite headlines from unvalidated conclusions."
But McKenzie argues that there are, in fact, people living within 500 feet of oil and gas facilities built before Colorado started its setback rule. And while oil and gas operations might not be allowed to build within a certain distance of existing homes, states tend not to have laws for the reverse situation: building new housing close to existing oil and gas wells.
“We have this intersection of our growth in housing due to our very quickly growing population at the same time that we’re having this rapid increase in the development of oil and gas resources along the Front Range,” says McKenzie, and that could mean more people across the region are exposed to polluted air that could sicken them.
The researchers now hope to monitor air pollutants inside of homes at various distances from oil and gas facilities.
Editor's Note: We corrected the additional risk of cancer from living near oil and gas facilities to 0.08 percent. In the original story, it was reported as 0.008. | 2019-04-21T18:59:59 | https://www.krcc.org/post/researchers-warn-health-dangers-may-lurk-near-oil-and-gas-wells |
0.999995 | There has been some controversy lately over the rights of corporations (freedom of speech, etc.). From an Objectivist perspective, what--if any--are the rights of corporations? Do they simply share the individual rights of their shareholders, or since they are technically legal creations, should they have fewer rights than human beings?
If the law were written properly limited liability would be legally recognised for what it actually is: a derivative property right and which gives the superficial appearance of the corporation being a separate entity for the purposes of issuing stock, borrowing money, and similar financial activities. Everything valid about limited liability can be traced back to individuals' rights to property and freedom of contract, including other derivatives such as the right to freedom of principal-and-agent agreements. Proper law relating to limited liability would just recognise that people would use these same types of contractual arrangements again and again, so would integrate the practice into a few concepts (the corporation and a few variants) and develop an integrated body of law to match. That law would also then not let bad people perpetrate the fraudulent behaviour that law imparting legal-personhood to corporations shields them to do.
Several issues here, one to consider: limited liability cannot be viewed as a state-created right of a corporation, as appears to be implied above. If it were, then shareholders would be able to discriminate against creditors to their benefit. But clearly, this is not so; creditors cannot, and regularly are not, compelled to accept limited liability arrangements when doing business with a corporation. Often, "limited liability" is an illusion as creditors will, in fact, require personal guarantees for debt.
Since it is people who have rights, and since nothing but the initiation of force can legitimately limit or remove them, corporations have rights, including the right, contractually, to limit liability, and the right to free speech. This is true because corporations are property, and there can be no legitimate prohibition on the use of one's property to exercise one's rights.
There is nothing to a corporation but contracts.
Corporations are people acting together (or, sometimes, a corporation is an individual in corporate form--like a physician in a solo professional corporation)--acting to form a contract (the sale of goods or services) with customers in wholly specific, defined ways. Corporate property and corporate employees are the property (the contracted-for efforts of the employees are also property) of the corporation's owners.
The registration of the corporate documents legalize the details of relationship between the corporation and the customer. This is true, and just, whether the customers have read the terms of incorporation or not. The corporation must make it known that it is and acts as a corporation, and in doing that, it fulfills its legal obligations to inform the customer that such legal definitions and limitations exist and apply.
Limited liability is built into the corporation for its face value (to limit liability.) The justification of upholding and enforcing that limited liability lies in its being the sole, explicit, and public agreement between the customer and the people behind the corporation. It has the same standing that a contract drafted between the corporation and the customer in a face-to-face interview would have.
As being a mutually-agreed-on provision, the limitations on liability that are built into corporations are not logically open to being evaluated as fair or unfair, just or unjust. Mutual agreement, consenting adults, caveat emptor.
Few of us read the fine print. That leaves us trusting our assumptions about what we are agreeing to when we deal with legal entities. Then, when things go wrong, "we" learn from the authors of that fine print what we are actually due, as distinct from what we had assumed were the corporation's obligations and responsibilities, including how deep its pockets are.
The emotional attacks which so publicly follow that denouement, in dramatic cases, shift the focus from the individual who made a legal contract with this particular corporation--an issue not open to debate--to the "legitimacy" of making such contracts at all, in the interest of protecting the unthinking, pragmatic, or careless individual from the results of his own behavior. What is actually no more than buyer's remorse, then becomes an attack on corporations per se.
But, since corporations are just property under contract, an attack on corporate "rights" is an attack on individual rights; the furor over limited liability is anger at there being any limit to others' claims on your wealth; and the opposition to corporate free speech is outright opposition to living by one's mind. | 2019-04-24T21:46:15 | https://objectivistanswers.com/questions/172/do-corporations-have-rights.html |
0.999993 | How to get the Dataset Field into a Table?
You can create and manage table datasets if you use Splunk Enterprise and have installed the Splunk Datasets Add-on, or if you use Splunk Cloud.
Table datasets, or tables, are a type of dataset that you can create, shape, and curate for a specific purpose. You begin by defining the initial data for the table, such as an index, source type, search string, or existing dataset. Then you edit and refine that table in the Table Editor until it fits the precise shape that you and your users require for later analysis and reporting work.
After you create your table, you can continue to iterate on it over time, or you can share it with others so they can refine it further. You can also use techniques like dataset cloning and dataset extension to create new datasets that are based on datasets you have already created.
You can manage table datasets alongside other dataset types that are available to all users of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud, like data model datasets and lookups. All of these dataset types appear in the Datasets listing page.
The Splunk Datasets Add-on is preinstalled for all users of Splunk Cloud.
This table explains what all Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud users can do with datasets by default.
View dataset contents Check a dataset to determine whether it contains fields and values that you want to work with. For example, you can view lookup table files directly instead of searching their contents in the Search view.
Open datasets in Pivot With Pivot you can design a visualization-rich analytical report or dashboard panel that is based on your dataset. Pivot can also help you discover data trends and field correlations within a dataset.
Extend datasets in Search Extend your dataset as a search, modify its search string as necessary, and save the search as a report, alert, or dashboard panel.
Read an overview of the of the dataset types that you can explore, manage, and create. See Dataset types and usage.
Learn about the Datasets listing page. See View and manage datasets.
Learn about dataset extension. See Dataset extension.
Splunk Enterprise users who install the Splunk Datasets Add-on gain the following datasets functionality. Cloud users get this functionality by default.
Use the Table Editor to create tables You can design sophisticated and tightly-focused collections of event data that fit specific business needs, even if you have minimal SPL skills.
Share and refine tables over time After you create a table you can give other users read or write access to it so they can curate and refine it. For example, you can create a simple dataset, and then pass it to another user with deep knowledge of the source data to shape it for a specific use. You can also extend your dataset and let other people refine the extension without affecting the original dataset.
View field analytics The Table Editor offers a Summarize Fields view that provides analytical information about the fields in your dataset. You can use this knowledge to determine what changes you need to make to the dataset to focus it to your needs.
Extend any dataset as a table Dataset extension enables you to create tables that use the definition of any dataset type as their foundation. This enables you to create tables that are based on lookups and data model datasets and then modify those tables to fit your specific use cases.
Clone tables You can make exact copies of table datasets and save the copy with a new name. Only table datasets can be cloned.
Accelerate tables You can accelerate table datasets in a manner similar to report and data model acceleration. This can be helpful if you are using a very large dataset as the basis for a pivot report or dashboard panel. Once accelerated, the table returns results faster than it would otherwise.
Install the Splunk Datasets Add-on. See Install the Splunk Datasets Add-on in Install the Splunk Datasets Add-on.
Define initial data for a new table dataset (requires add-on). See Define initial data for a new table dataset.
Edit a table dataset (requires add-on). See Define initial data for a new table dataset.
Accelerate a table dataset (requires add-on). See Accelerate tables. | 2019-04-24T04:18:01 | https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.5/Knowledge/Tabledatasetsintro |
0.998894 | So I have some wood a customer gave me to use for a project for them, white cedar. I don"t think I have ever worked with this wood before. So skipping some details, I have what I think is a very nice piece of wood about 3/4" x 9" x 12". I wanted to do a project with this piece of wood to see how it works and finishes.
So in haste I found a fret work pattern of a buck standing alone with a crescent moon in the corner. I have done very little fret work projects.
Since I like the natural look of wood, I try and do very little staining.
My question is since the wood is very light in color, almost white, and the backer is going to be plywood with the grain running perpendicular, how to finishes this project.?
So a deer should be brown and there are trees in the picture that look like white birch trees, (could be other birch other than white) and a moon which should be yellow. I thought about using a light blue stain for the background to make it look like blue sky.
Also any information about the white cedar would be nice.
The wood is very soft but works very nice. Another good thing the wood makes the shop smell good.
A picture would help a lot. I have used multiple colors on a backer before but I normally stay with black.
With that pattern and wood I would go with a black backer. One color is all you need but make it dark.
Agreed, I would also go with black. I have recently used some Minwax ebony stain that still shows the grain of the wood.
Black stain or a wash coat of a very dark blue paint would be my choices. A clear, solvent based finish on top will help bring out the character and accentuate grain in the white cedar.
Actually, I like it the way you are showing it. Put an oil finish on it and it will pop. It looks like the entire frame is a tree trunk. Beautiful matching pattern to wood. That's what I call "painting with wood."
thanks for the replies, I agree it looks great natural, but I am going to try a dark backer. I did some test with water colors on a scrap piece of wood, I think painting would work better with thinner wood like 1/4". So tonight I stained the back dark. I will post pictures after finish is on.
I absolutely love where the knot is and the accent it provides to your great work. That's an eye for artistic flare! | 2019-04-26T10:49:02 | https://forum.scrollsawer.com/forum/scroll-saw/fretwork-and-portraits/862130-deer-fretwork-asking-for-suggestions-how-to-finish |
0.999997 | The black box from Lion Air flight JT 610 has been found, a discovery which should help to explain why the plane crashed off the coast of Indonesia on Monday.
The Boeing 737 MAX plummeted into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board - the worst aviation disaster in Indonesia since 1997.
There is currently no indication as to what caused the crash, although the aircraft is thought to have experienced technical problems on its penultimate flight on Sunday. Several passengers from that flight from Bali to Jakarta have recalled problems including a delayed take off and rapid descents in the first 10 minutes in the air.
Divers on Thursday recovered the black box flight recorder on the seafloor. This, it is hoped, could help investigators identify what exactly happened in the moments before the crash.
Every commercial aircraft must contain two flight recorders, known as black boxes. The first is a Flight Data Recorder (FDR), which contains all of the instructions sent to any electronic systems on an aircraft. So all of the plane's crucial information - airspeed, altitude, fuel flow - is recorded in the FDR.
The other black box is the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), which keeps a log of what the pilots are talking about between themselves and conversations with air traffic control. It also picks up ambient sounds from the flight deck, which can provide vital clues when it comes to piecing together what happened in the final moments before a plane crash.
How is the black box found?
Black boxes contain underwater locator beacons. As soon as the unit is immersed in any kind of liquid, it will start sending out an ultrasonic ping. The black box is designed to work in depths up to 6,000 metres of saltwater and is designed to ping every second for 30 days before the battery runs out.
If a black box sinks to the bottom of the ocean, the search vessels looking for it must be almost directly above the beacon to detect the ping. In deep waters, using hydrophones can help search teams get closer to the signal.
Is the black box actually black?
No. The black box is actually painted in 'international orange', a colour used in aerospace and engineering to help an object stand out from its surroundings. It is not known where the term "black box" came from (perhaps because early designs were black inside) but aviation professionals generally refer to the device as an electronic flight data recorder.
Early 1950s prototypes of the black box, masterminded by Australian research scientist David Warren, were known as the "Red Egg" for its oval shape and bright red colour.
Where in the aircraft is the black box?
The black box is kept in the rear of the aircraft, where there is a greater chance for it to survive the impact of an accident.
Is the black box indestructible?
They are very robust indeed. Double-wrapped in a shell of titanium or stainless steel, the black box is designed to withstand extreme impact and temperatures. The memory unit can take an impact velocity of over 300mph and heat of over 1,000 degrees celsius for an hour. It is rare for a black box to be totally destroyed to the point of containing no useable data.
Can't the black box stream its data?
In a world where digital data can easily be transmitted and streamed, there is the question of why planes still store their flight information and voice recordings on a physical black box, rather than in the Cloud.
It turns out this technology does exist, but it just hasn't been widely adopted yet. FLYHT Aerospace has designed a tracking system, about the size of a hotel room safe. It transmits data including coordinates, speed and altitude, to the ground via satellite as soon as the plane suddenly loses altitude, banks sharply or experiences engine vibrations.
However, this black box streaming service doesn't come cheaply - over $120,000 per plane. The airline industry is unlikely to invest money in such technologies that will only be used in very rare circumstances.
Why aren't planes tracked by satellites?
When Malaysia Airline's flight MH370 went missing on March 8 2014, many people were surprised to learn that something as large as a Boeing 777 could effectively disappear from radar screens. It was sobering to discover that, when you're on board a plane watching the in-flight tracker, you have more information about the plane's exact whereabouts than air traffic control.
Commercial aircraft are fitted with transponders that relay their location via radar, but these cannot be detected once the plane is more than 150 miles from land. The technology is getting better. A new innovation called Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) means planes can be tracked by receivers on the ground for up to around 290 miles from the shore.
So in this moment, there's still no way for air traffic control to accurately track planes above the ocean. There is one company, however, called Aireon, which is planning to launch a fleet of 66 satellites with ADS-B receivers to monitor air traffic. If all goes to plan these will be launched by the end of 2018. This, they say, will allow air traffic controllers to track planes flying in previously un-trackable areas with pin-point accuracy. Watch this space (literally). | 2019-04-23T18:38:06 | http://www.traveller.com.au/what-is-a-planes-black-box-and-why-we-use-them-h17n81 |
0.995956 | Mike Morris and Katherine Driessen Aug. 5, 2014 Updated: Aug. 6, 2014 10:42 a.m.
Opponents of Houston's new nondiscrimination ordinance sued the city late Tuesday, one day after city officials rejected a petition the group had submitted in hopes of forcing a repeal referendum in November.
The lawsuit asks a state district judge to declare that City Secretary Anna Russell met her legal duty by verifying a sufficient number of signatures to force a vote, only to have City Attorney David Feldman illegally insert himself into verifying the petition, invalidating more than half of the petition's 5,200 pages for failing to satisfy legal requirements in the city charter. That left opponents roughly 2,000 names short of the 17,269-signature threshold needed to force a referendum.
In a memo to Mayor Annise Parker and the City Council, Russell said she had found 17,846 valid signatures before Feldman reviewed the pages, and attributed the lower count to her review of his office's work. At an injunction hearing Tuesday night, plaintiffs argued Russell's initial count was the important one by law and should have triggered a referendum. City attorneys disagreed, saying Russell ultimately found there were not enough signatures.
"If he (Feldman) felt there were underlying problems with the petition then he, like us, has the right to file a lawsuit if he doesn't agree with what the city secretary did," said conservative activist Jared Woodfill, one of the four plaintiffs. "Going in before she's ever made the decision and influencing her is inappropriate, it's illegal and we believe the court will agree with us and that folks will have their voices heard in November on this issue."
Visiting Judge John Coselli did not rule on the plaintiffs' injunction request. The judge indicated he could rule as early as Wednesday morning.
Feldman strongly disputed the idea that his involvement crossed ethical or legal lines, saying he has a specific duty under city ordinance to interpret the law and give legal advice.
"There's nothing that would preclude me from giving legal advice to the city secretary," Feldman said. "In fact, that's what our ordinances would expect me to do: Give advice to her on an issue which is really a legal issue. The question of whether or not those pages are valid because of the issue of meeting or not meeting the requirements of the charter is a legal issue."
City Council approved the so-called Houston Equal Rights Ordinance on an 11-6 vote in May, banning discrimination among businesses that serve the public, private employers, in housing and in city employment and city contracting. Religious institutions are exempt. Violators can be fined up to $5,000.
Opponents promised to send the issue to the voters, and on July 3, they claimed to have delivered more than 50,000 signatures - 31,000 of them verified, they said - to the city secretary's office.
In Tuesday's filing, opponents sought a declaration that their petition is valid and contains the needed number of signatures. They also claim none of the "so-called problems" Feldman identified should have rendered Russell's initial count moot.
The mayor, the City of Houston and Russell are listed as defendants. Conservative activists Woodfill and Steve Hotze are joined as plaintiffs by pastors Max Miller and F.N. Williams.
A spokeswoman for Parker pointed to a Monday press release issued after the petition was rejected.
"I fully expect the petitioners will want to fight this decision at the courthouse," the statement said. "I am confident the courts will agree that the rules set out in our Charter and state law to protect the integrity of the process should be followed and that the results of our review will be upheld. The judicial review will provide additional assurance to the voters that the process has been fair."
Opponents faced an unusually high and technical bar to gather enough signatures. For petitions seeking to repeal a city ordinance, all the signatures on a page are thrown out if the circulators who collected those signatures or the notaries who signed off on the page made a mistake.
Feldman and his staff threw out more than half the 5,199 pages, containing about 16,000 signatures – many of them likely valid. Most pages were thrown out because those who collected names for the petition were not registered Houston voters or did not sign the petition themselves. Those errors invalidated more than 2,000 pages with about 11,300 signatures.
The city charter provision regarding attempts to repeal an ordinance hasn't come up since a 1996 repeal effort over affirmative action, officials said. The city has mostly dealt with petitions to amend the city charter, which require only the verification of whether the signatures belong to registered Houston voters.
Russell, who has worked for the city more than six decades, said earlier Tuesday that she could not recall another instance in which city attorneys reviewed the pages of a petition. However, she said, the petition process to overturn an ordinance is unusual in itself because other petition processes do not require that each page be notarized.
Bob Stein, a political science professor at Rice University, said the city's process for repeal referendums is likely to come up in court. "The real question is whether or not you can invalidate a signature because it happens to be on a page that is invalidated," he said. "This is going to be an issue of voter's rights."
Opponents are asking the judge to suspend enforcement of the ordinance, triggering the referendum process. Parker has already said she will wait to enforce the ordinance until there's legal clarity. | 2019-04-25T15:51:37 | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Equal-rights-ordinance-opponents-sue-city-5670743.php?cmpid=email-premium&t=9825fc5816b062a016 |
0.999991 | As user experience evolves, new practices and techniques come into vogue. At the forefront of UX today are "Lean" and Agile UX methods and approaches.
"Lean UX" has become a buzz term that has grown out of the Lean Startup movement, which is based on the Lean philosophy of Steve Blank and Eric Ries (see Eric Ries' book, Lean Startup).
There's just one problem with Lean UX- what is it exactly, and how can it be implemented well? How does one approach "Lean" as an agency, a startup, a Fortune 100? It turns out there are a lot of interpretations of Lean UX in practice, and that a one-size-fits-all methodology may not be the answer.
This diverse of Lean UX forerunners and practitioners will attempt to address these thorny questions. Panelists will spend a few minutes defining Lean UX on their own terms, including how Lean UX is similar and/or diffferent from Agile UX. Thereafter, panelists will spend 10-15 minutes digging into the nitty-gritty implementation details of how they are practicing Lean UX on a day-day level for company and client projects.
2. 2 LEAN UX ROUNDTABLE, APRIL2012NYC CONTEXT As user experience evolves, new practices and techniques come into vogue. At the forefront of UX today are "Lean" and Agile UX methods and approaches. "Lean UX" has become a buzz term that has grown out of the Lean Startup movement, which is based on the Lean philosophy of Steve Blank and Eric Ries (see Eric Ries' book, Lean Startup). There's just one problem with Lean UX- what is it exactly, and how can it be implemented well? How does one approach "Lean" as an agency, a startup, a Fortune 100? It turns out there are a lot of interpretations of Lean UX in practice, and that a one-size-fits-all methodology may not be the answer. This diverse panel of Lean UX forerunners and practitioners will attempt to address these thorny questions. Panelists will spend a few minutes defining Lean UX on their own terms, including how Lean UX is similar and/or different from Agile UX.Thereafter, panelists will spend 10-15 minutes digging into the nitty-gritty implementation details of how they are practicing Lean UX on a day-day level for company and client projects.
3. 3 LEAN UX ROUNDTABLE, APRIL2012NYC PANELISTS-1 -(Myself) Beverly May, NYC-CHI President (Moderator): Beverly is the 2012 NYC-CHI President and the Founder & President of Oxford TechnologyVentures, a boutique product strategy and User Experience consulting firm in NYC. Oxford TechnologyVentures is the organizer of the User Experience Awards - which is accepting submissions now through May 1! - OTV will also be hosting a "Test My App" informal user research, testing and feedback workshop on April 28! @OxfordTech - Jonathan Berger, Pivotal Labs; Jon is Engineering Manager and Designer at Pivotal Labs in NYC. He has held multiple roles as a UI Designer, Developer and Producer over the last several years, and also helped organize StartupCamp, BarCamp and FashionCamp. Jon has a Masters' in Media Studies from the New School. @jonathanpberger - John Jarosz,Thoughtworks: John earned a B.A. in Digital Media Studies from the University of Denver and an M.S. in Human Computer Interaction from DePaul University. He has extensive experience with user research, product management, and consulting. John is currently an experience design consultant at ThoughtWorks. He leads agile product design projects across multiple industries such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, finance and media. @john_jarosz and feedback workshop on April 28! @OxfordTech - Geoff Brown, IDEO: Geoffrey is an Interaction Design Lead at IDEO in NYC. IDEO is a prolific worldwide design & innovation firm that practices human centered design. Geoff has worked as a graphic and interactive designer for over seven years @geoffbrown NOTE: John can not attend.
5. 5 LEAN UX ROUNDTABLE, APRIL2012NYC SUPER-FAST BACKGROUND FIRST, WHAT IS “LEAN (STARTUP)”, “AGILE” ? THEN, WHAT IS “LEAN UX”, “AGILE UX” ? | 2019-04-25T18:07:30 | https://www.slideshare.net/OxTechVentures/nycchi-intro-toleanuxapril2012 |
0.998665 | How do I remove the shadow in this photo?
I tried fuzzy select on my actual image, the object has grey elements that make it difficult to distinguish properly. I can do by parts, but the real background also is grained due to the photo quality, and I don't know what operation to use to impose similar grain on the removed region.
You could use the path tool to go around the shadow area, convert the path to a selection and fill it with white.
Really, all you can do is zoom in and use a brush on a mask. There's not any automated method I've found, in any application, which will do an adequate job. You need to do it manually.
The jpeg compression makes this image tricky to deal with using channel selections or color range. Although the blue channel is quite promising, the shadows close to the fruit are too close in tonal range to make that a useful option.
When you're making a selection to isolate part of an image, the image itself gives you the clue to what will be the best method. In this case, the edges are very smooth, clean and well defined. The best method would be to use the Path tool to outline the fruit and leaves, then turn that into a selection.
Photoshop has a selection tool that works very well in this instance because of the clearly-defined edges of the image, the Magnetic Lasso Tool, which lives under the regular Lasso Tool. In theory, the Gimp's "intelligent" Scissors Selection tool should do the same thing, but it doesn't quite have the smarts to make an accurate edge selection.
The Fuzzy selection tool works reasonably well if you turn on Add mode, set the threshold to around 25 and work carefully. Clean up using the Lasso tool in Subtract mode.
How to make a white background in Gimp? | 2019-04-24T14:34:41 | https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/28143/removing-shadows-in-a-white-background-photo |
0.999495 | The Harvard Society of Fellows is a group of scholars recognized for their extraordinary academic potential, upon whom are bestowed distinctive opportunities for individual growth and intellectual collaboration. Appointed by senior fellows, junior fellows receive a stipend for three years, during which they conduct independent research at Harvard University in any discipline, without being required to meet formal degree requirements. The only stipulation is that they remain in residence at Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the duration of their fellowship. Membership in the society is for life.
As early as 1925, Harvard scholars Henry Osborn Taylor, Alfred North Whitehead and Lawrence Joseph Henderson met several times to discuss their dissatisfaction with the conditions of graduate study. They believed that the most able men required ample scholarships, as to not be distracted by financial worries, fewer formal requirements, and the ability to freely choose whatever object of study attracted them in order to produce great research.
They soon found an ally in then Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who in 1926 appointed a committee, with Henderson as chairman, to examine the nature of an institution that might improve the quality of graduate education. The committee recommended establishment at Harvard of a Society of Fellows, modeled partly after the Fondation Thiers in Paris and partly on the Prize Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, with the hope that such a society would encourage not only "isolated geniuses, but men who will do the work of the world".
After years of trying to attract outside donations, Lowell funded the Society himself – his last major institutional act before his resignation in November 1932. "There being no visible source of necessary funds," he later wrote, "I gave it myself, in a kind of desperation, although it took nearly all I had."[citation needed] Though it was an open secret that Lowell was the source of the anonymous donation, this was never acknowledged in his presence. After Lowell's death in 1943, the donation was officially made public; it is known as the Anna Parker Lowell Fund in memory of Lowell's wife.
The society had its first meeting at the beginning of the 1933–34 academic year, as an alternative to the Ph.D system, granting fellows freedom to pursue lines of inquiry that transcended traditional academic disciplinary boundaries. Because the core belief in the importance of informal discussions between scholars in different academic fields, both senior and junior fellows have met for dinner every Monday night during term-time. They are frequently joined by visiting scholars and fellows are encouraged to bring guests.
Originally headquartered in a two-room suite at Eliot House, one of the university's twelve residential colleges, the society was closed to women until 1972, when Martha Nussbaum was selected as the first female junior fellow.
The society has contributed numerous scholars to the Harvard faculty. Among the original senior fellows of the society were biochemist Lawrence Joseph Henderson, philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, literary critic John Livingston Lowes and legal scholar Abbot Lawrence Lowell, who remained in the society after he resigned as president.
Some of its best-known members over the years have been philosopher W. V. Quine; behaviorist B. F. Skinner; double Nobel laureate John Bardeen; sociologist George C. Homans, economist Paul Samuelson; historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy; historian and philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn; linguist Noam Chomsky; biologist E. O. Wilson; cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky; former dean of the Harvard faculty, economist Henry Rosovsky; philosopher Saul Kripke; Fields Medal-winning theoretical physicist Ed Witten; and writer, critic, and editor Leon Wieseltier.
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^ Bloom, Samuel William; Bloom, Samuel W. (2002). The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 299. ISBN 9780195149296.
^ Henderson, Lawrence Joseph (1970). Barber, Bernard, ed. L. J. Henderson on the Social System: Selected Writings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0226326894.
^ a b Brinton, Crane, ed. (1959). The Society of Fellows. Harvard University Press. p. 21.
^ a b "Harvard University Society of Fellows". Harvard University. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
^ Homans, George C.; Bailey, Orville T. (1949). "The Society of Fellows at Harvard University". American Scientist. 37 (1): 91–106. JSTOR 29773658. | 2019-04-23T06:37:30 | https://wiki2.org/en/Harvard_Society_of_Fellows |
0.999991 | The sum of n,2n,3n terms of an A.P. are S1 S2 S3 respectively. Prove that S3=3(S2-S1). | 2019-04-26T15:43:43 | https://www.topperlearning.com/answer/the-sum-of-n-2n-3n-terms-of-an-ap-are-s1-s2-s3-respectively-prove-that-s3-3-s2-s1/05l72voo |
0.998327 | A complaint alleging that a bank holding company omitted material information from its public disclosures has been dismissed. The investor bringing this action asserted that the company, while disclosing generally that it was subject to investigations, did not reveal that it was being investigated during the relevant period. The court found that the investor failed to meet his burden of pleading an actionable omission or that there was any duty to disclose (Lubbers v. Flagstar Bancorp, Inc., February 10, 2016, Friedman, B.).
Protection Bureau. According to the complaint, after the mortgage industry collapsed in 2008, Flagstar began to "cut corners" and violate various consumer protection laws. In 2011, as mortgage originations continued to decline, Flagstar was forced to cut costs in order to meet the Federal Reserve's stress tests. One way that Flagstar cut costs was by reducing personnel in its technology systems, and this led to a backlog in processing loan modification and loss mitigation applications, resulting in Fannie Mae threatening to terminate Flagstar’s servicing rights on loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae.
Eventually, the CFPB initiated an investigation into Flagstar's mortgage practices. In 2014, Flagstar disclosed that it was discussing a settlement with the CFPB for its alleged violations of federal consumer financial laws, and a consent order was filed in September 2014 finding violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act. The complaint asserted that Flagstar's public disclosures prior to 2014 were misleading because they failed to disclose both the CFPB investigation and the threat of termination by Freddie Mae as well as the violations that led to those events.
No actionable omissions. The investor asserted that a statement in Flagstar's SEC filings that investigations into its practices occurred "from time to time" gave the false impression that such investigations were routine. According to the investor, it was Flagstar's violations of the consumer protection laws that spurred the CFPB's investigation. For its part, Flagstar said that it adequately disclosed its involvement with "ongoing investigations . . . relating to mortgage origination or mortgage servicing practices."
The court agreed with Flagstar, remarking that the investor was engaging in "semantic quibbling" in his argument regarding the phrase "from time to time." This disclosure, the court said, was broad enough to put investors on notice of the possibility that Flagstar was under investigation by an agency like the CFPB. The language at issue adequately disclosed that: Flagstar was subject to agency investigations; there were ongoing investigations; and that Flagstar was cooperating with the agencies. The same analysis applied to similar statements about the possibility of future investigations or changes in the applicable laws: exposure to future investigations did not mean that Flagstar was not currently subject to investigations.
Next, the investor contended that Flagstar misleadingly gave the impression that its workforce reductions were done for the sake of business efficiency, when, in reality, that were due to the company's failure to comply with consumer protection regulations. Flagstar countered that it accurately reported the reductions and that it was not required to "editorialize" on why the reductions occurred. The court said that requiring Flagstar to disclose all underlying circumstances for its cost reductions would impose a general duty of unlimited disclosure.
Finally, the investor claimed that an SEC filing disclosing Flagstar's sale of a portion of its mortgage servicing rights portfolio failed to disclose that the sale was prompted by Fannie Mae's threats. The court stated that omissions only need to be disclosed when needed to make a previous statement not misleading, and no reasonable investor would have interpreted Flagstar's statement as suggesting that the sale absolved it of any liability for its violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act. Again, to hold otherwise would be to impose a duty of unlimited disclosure, the court concluded. Flagstar's motion to dismiss was accordingly granted.
The case is No. 14-cv-13459.
Attorneys: Patrick E. Cafferty (Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP) for Justin G. Lubbers. Jeffrey Alan Crapko (Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.) for Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. | 2019-04-24T20:08:28 | http://www.dailyreportingsuite.com/securities/news/company_had_no_duty_to_disclose_agency_investigations |
0.999793 | Glamorous Lip summary: 1) Love is Here Hina, a 20-year-old assistant to a photographer, has always admired Kouzuki, a beautiful model. He wants nothing more than to be his stylist, but Kouzuki has other ideas. 2) Music Hour Taka, bass player for an up-and-coming band, has always liked the boy who works the concession stand at the live house, Shibuya Juice. But then Hina, Taka's friend, comes to visit and is mistaken for Taka's love interest... 3) Shiawase no Kamisama Starry-eyed high school boy, Kageyama, has been dumped nine times in three years and while cursing the sunset falls in love at first sight with the misunderstood Ryuuji Izumi... Kouzuki from the first story makes an appearance here as Kageyama's friend. 4) Ashita Tenki ni Naare Ryuuya, brother of Ryuuji Izumi from the previous story, is playing soccer with his teammates when he accidentally nails a flower delivery guy right in the face. Fortunately for Ryuuya, the flower guy is accustomed to taking balls to the face, and he shows the soccer kid some of his sweet moves. 5) Killing Me The number one host from Club Butterfly finds a boy getting the crap kicked out of him in an alley and indirectly rescues him. After taking him home, the boy's existence begins to push the boundaries of the jaded host's beliefs. 5.5) A Day In Hana's Life A short extra from the perspective of Izumi's little sister, Hana, bringing together all the couples from the previous chapters. 6) Ma Chérie A mysterious mansion master who believes himself incapable of love because of his profession, has found a mythical bat boy that shocks him. | 2019-04-26T10:44:43 | https://mangastream.stream/glamorous-lip |
0.999996 | Please tell me about Mario Lanza, my favorite tenor. Where was he born? How did he die?
Lanza was born Alfred Arnold Cocozza in Philadelphia in 1921 to Italian immigrant parents. He started singing along to Enrico Caruso's opera records when he was still a child. At 16, he declared his intention to become a professional singer. His mother, born Maria Lanza, had once dreamed of a singing career and encouraged her talented son to pursue his dream. After years of singing lessons and a scholarship to Berkshire Music School, he made his operatic debut in a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 1942, changing his name to Mario Lanza in honor of his mother. His career was put on hold when he entered the service during World War II. During his time in the Army, he sang in shows to entertain the troops and got married soon after leaving the service. He picked up his opera career and was discovered by Hollywood. Appearances in films throughout the 1950s, and the popularity of the song Be My Love from one of those films, gave him worldwide fame. He suffered a massive, fatal heart attack in 1959. He and his wife had four children. | 2019-04-24T13:59:27 | https://americanprofile.com/articles/mario-lanza-opera/ |
0.999992 | Is a malaria-free Bangladesh possible?
After their recent trip to Bangladesh, and in honor of World Malaria Day, Kasturi Haldar, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Pathogens, along with Bernard Nahlen, Director of the Eck Institute for Global Health at University of Notre Dame, comment on the challenges to sustaining advances in malaria control and elimination with particular focus on Bangladesh to secure key national and global milestones.
From 2000-2015, there was unprecedented worldwide progress against malaria. Over 6 million deaths were averted and estimated malaria mortality rates fell by 60 percent for all ages. For children under the age of 5, the corresponding indicators respectively were 5.9 million and 65 percent. Yet despite remarkable advances malaria continues to have a devastating impact. WHO estimates that in 2016 there were 445,000 deaths and 216 million new cases.
From 2010-2016, Bangladesh similarly showed a greater than 50 percent reduction in malaria cases and deaths. But ~ 14 million people continue to remain at risk. Over 90 percent of cases are in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) where malaria transmission remains high in many areas and there is a real threat of emergence of multidrug-resistant malaria. This region borders Myanmar and the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from malarious Rakhine State in Myanmar to malarious Chittagong Division in Bangladesh heightens concern and need for intensified efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat malaria there and throughout Bangladesh.
Since 2010, seven countries have eliminated malaria (by achieving three consecutive years of zero locally-acquired malaria), and another 14 are projected to achieve elimination by 2021. In April 2015 the World Health Assembly approved the Malaria Global Technical Strategy, which lays out ambitious targets to further reduce malaria cases and deaths by 90 percent and to eliminate malaria from an additional 35 countries by 2030. This will require mobilizing over $6.4 billion a year. While the monetary investment is high, meeting these targets will avert close to 3 billion malaria cases and save 10 million lives. In addition, this will generate over $4 trillion in additional economic output projecting a return on investment of 40:1 and contribute to poverty reduction. For these reasons, investment in malaria is considered a "best buy" in global health.
Bangladesh's National Strategic Plan for 2017-2021 envisions an eventual goal of malaria-free Bangladesh by 2030. Is this too optimistic? Through partnership of the National Malaria Elimination Program and BRAC (Building Resources Across Communities, Bangadesh's largest non-governmental organization), Bangladesh has set on a commendable path for 2021 that includes: (i) reducing annual parasite incidence of 13 'endemic' Chittagong Hill Tracts districts to 0.46 and interrupting transmission in 8 of these districts, (ii) ensuring that remaining districts are free of malaria without re-introduction, and (iii) preventing the emergence of resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies, front-line antimalarials that have been key to malaria control but to which resistance has emerged in neighboring Myanmar and other countries of the Mekong region. To be successful, Bangladesh will need to mobilize adequate financial and human resources to strengthen health systems, particularly in the refugee camps and in geographically remote areas where the malaria risk is greatest, improve malaria surveillance and response capability, and continue to invest in research to address the growing threat of drug and insecticide resistance. Despite these challenges, Bangladesh's long experience in research and effective implementation of programs to address other major health issues positions the country well to be one of the first to eliminate malaria in the Asia region. | 2019-04-26T04:29:29 | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-04-malaria-free-bangladesh.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter |
0.999996 | How do I control the temperature of burnt sugar?
I made a burnt sugar caramel sauce tonight that turned out beautiful. It is just what it sounds like; you make a normal caramel sauce but cook the sugar until it is past amber and getting almost black. Making this is such a high-wire act though, especially in a small batch. The difference between not dark enough, just right, and actually completely burned is just seconds. Much too fast to manage with a thermometer, especially because the temperature isn't even throughout the pan. So my question is, is there a way to slow this process down towards the end so that picking the right moment isn't so difficult?
To get the sugar caramelized to that perfect dark brown, I start the sugar on the stove top and finish in the oven.
I start by adding a bit of water and some corn syrup (the fructose makes the brown more intense, but one can skip it) to the sugar and keep it on a medium burner until it reaches the first caramel stage, at 155°C/311°F. As Michael notes, the sugar can go very fast from this stage to burnt. To avoid this, I place the pan in an oven that has been pre-heated to 180°C/356°F, just above the dark caramel stage. Checking every two minutes with an infrared thermometer (more often as it gets closer to 177°C/350°F), it's easy to get the sugar to the right temperature.
This post describes the method in more detail.
There's a bit of misinformation in the answers and comments here I'd like to clear up.
Tobiasopdenbrouw's suggestion in his comment that a thinner pan may work better is a good one. A thin aluminum pan is an excellent conductor of heat which is precisely why it would help in a situation like this. It is far more responsive to taking the pan on and off the heat. A heavy pan has a higher thermal mass and is thus slower to respond to changes in temperature, and it will have more carryover heat.
A thinner pan will require more attention from you as it gets near your target temperature, but it's a lot easier to put the brakes on. As you approach your desired temperature take the pan off the heat frequently to check it's temp As soon as you take it off it will quickly stop heating -- there is only minimal carryover heat from the pan, and no magic carryover heat from an other source.
Additionally, adding more sugar will lower the temperature. There is no "solution" that can crystallize. A solution requires a solute and a solvent. There is only one substance present in molten sugar -- sugar.
Spraying water on it is a terrible idea and I advise against it. At best it simply vaporizes instantly to steam. At worst it spatters molten sugar on you, not fun.
In short, treat it like you would a pot of water that you were trying to maintain at a specific temperature. If the water gets too hot, you'd add more water or take it off the heat. The same applies concept to molten sugar.
Ok, as my first answer started without really reading the question , I will give it another go.
As you want to minimize the temperature fluctuations, you will want to use a heavy saucepan.
As the entire thing is experimental, you will want to minimize the variables. Do all your testing and development with a fixed quantity of sugar that you do not want to vitiate at least until you figure out how to get consistent results.
Start making your caramel as normal.
As soon as the sugar starts to melt, move the sauce pan on low / very low heat. Pick a heat setting and do not vary it during the experiment. The Aim is to be able to reproduce the result at first, not to get the it right the first time.
Start a timer as soon as you lowered the heat.
It is best to sit besides it and check at regular intervals .. or even better continually, and take notes (time-stamp is very important here ). Continue the process until it actually burns and becomes unusable.
Now, with the help of the notes and the timer, repeat until the point where it still was as you wanted it.
If the time window in that your desired result is to short, try using less heat. If that is not possible, try using more sugar.
I'm guessing here and I don't know if this will work, but could you try adding some more sugar to the nearly cooked sugar to 'thin' it out a bit and so make it less likely to burn so quickly?
The best way will require some effort and repetition.
First you need to figure out what your target temperature is.
Then you need to figure out how long the heat keeps climbing in the syrup after you remove from the heat.
Subtract one from the other, and you should be able to remove from the heat before it's done and allow carry over cooking to do the rest. Along the same lines as roasts climbing another ten degrees after removing from the oven.
1) Provide a cooling effect by introducing a lower temperature component directly and uniformly into the pan.
2) Slightly increase the hydration of sugar solution, thereby lowering its boiling point and temporarily retarding the rising temperature and caramelization.
I presume that with a spritz or two, you would buy yourself a bit of time to evaluate the result and remove the heat if necessary.
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0.999994 | How does this relate to Elon Musk? When he came to me in 2001, he knew nothing of rockets or space exploration but he was deeply passionate about them. In fact, he was so passionate about the need to ‘make humanity a multi-planetary species’ that he was willing to spend a very large portion of his fortune on it. But because he was intelligent, he knew that he needed rockets to launch probes into space. To prolong his money supply, he needed to buy the cheapest rockets available. Hence his interest in Russian launch vehicles. Once he understood the space market a bit better, he saw that there was also an enormous opportunity to disrupt the launch vehicle market. He was thus led to the conclusion that his time and money might be better spent ‘solving the launch problem’ as he put it back then, than ‘throwing away my fortune in some Russian warehouse’.
SpaceX was born after Elon spent some time with John Garvey (a co-founder of my new company Vector) who was building amateur liquid launch vehicles in his garage at the time. While this seemed like an insane endeavor and John’s neighbors worried about him, Elon saw the brilliance in it and decided that John’s small rockets were an existence proof of something much bigger. Elon knew that if a small band of Space Cowboys like John could build a 30 foot tall liquid rocket with left over beer money and regular machine tools, great things were possible with big money, a great team and lots of hard work. This is where SpaceX was born.
SpaceX was not an obvious success in the early days. Clearly Elon and the team he recruited were passionate about building a low cost launcher. Clearly we were good at it. And clearly there was a market. However, most of the world was betting against Elon from the outside. This skepticism was born of a bit of conceit on the part of the big aerospace concerns who thought that ‘nobody can do better than us and especially not a band of Space Cowboys like SpaceX’. There were also questions of Elon’s motivations and basic honesty brought up by the skeptics. Others in the industry confided in me at the time that they thought Elon was fundamentally dishonest and making promises that he couldn't keep.
I left SpaceX after about a year because I too doubted SpaceX’s ability to succeed with the amount of money they had raised (and I could not conceive of raising more). I also did not share Elon’s passion for colonizing Mars as I regarded it to be a fool’s errand as it would never happen in my lifetime. I was wrong on both counts. Elon did succeed in the end and it was because he never counted himself out. He never gave up. He kept going. He knew that he had the three ingredients and he kept upping the ante every time he faced an obstacle or failure.
This leads me to what I personally think is the most important personal attribute for success. Its not intelligence. It’s not being educated. It’s not even experience. It’s simply a determination to never ever give up. That is the most important element of success: dogged determination. One of my favorite quotes along these lines is from Garth Stein, author of the book Racing in the Rain.
Elon Musk: How did Elon Musk learn enough about rockets to run SpaceX?
SpaceX: How much does SpaceX save by reusing a Falcon rocket?
Mechanical Engineering: What are the books that Elon Musk used to self-study rocket science? | 2019-04-25T20:15:46 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/09/09/i-worked-with-elon-musk-and-learned-that-intelligence-is-not-the-key-to-success/ |
0.999999 | <p class="MsoNormal"> Liang Danan was learning the violin from childhood with his mother. He Graduated from Tianjin Conservatory of Music in 1984, at the same year he participate in the China national Violin Competition and won a prize. Then,he joined The Central Philharmonic Orchestra of China,and became the youngest Concertmaster there.In 1995, He founded New Century Chamber Ensemble. He joined the Central Opera of China in 1996, as the Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster. After four years, He was hired as the Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster. In 2003, He left Shanghai and return to Beijing,become the concertmaster of Beijing Symphony Orchestra. He joined the Central Conservatory of Music as a professor, the tutor of Doctoral candidate in the same year. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> As the professor and Dr. tutor of Central Conservatory of Music, Liang Danan invested a lot of energy to the music education. He has published "the violin elementary course" and "Central Conservatory of Music the music teachers national level certification violin training materials". </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Liang Danan served as the judge of Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in 1998, the judge of International Fritz Kreisler Competition in 2014, the judge of International Music Competition Harbin in 2018, the judge of the 1st world Chinese youth art festival in 2005, the judge of CCTV Piano & Violin Competition in 2008, the judge of Golden Bell Awards of China, the judge of Wenhua art colleges Award,and the first Li Delun National Conductor Comptition. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> The Violinist Liang Danan is very active, footprints all over the world's leading three continents, dozens of countries and regions, his superb artistry prove the rise of China's music. In the United States Carnegie Hall,he held solo, doubling successfully, by then US President George w bush's reputation, and awarded honorary certificates. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;"> Because of the contribution of the music, and to the society, Liang Danan oncemany times bythe Ministry of culture awarded, and give the life to enjoy the state council of state government special allowance. </p> At present, He is the ministry of culture appraisal committee, ministry of culture music senior professional title evaluation committee member, China association of musicians performing arts committee, vice-chairman of the violin society of Chinese musicians association, the ministry of education undergraduate teaching level assessment team expert, member of “the one-thousand-talents scheme of culture” appraisal committee. | 2019-04-21T16:44:58 | http://www.imchrb.com/web/2018EN/Nr.jsp?pram=yybs&nrid=20190122171510 |
0.999643 | Does your website use Wordpress?
If the answer to that question is yes, read on. There is something very important that you need to do now, right now.
TLDR? Click here to jump to what you need to do. and then come back and read the rest of the post.
Recently I have been developing a membership app for a local networking group that I am a part of. Currently there is a profile/info page for each member on the website, but it was recognised that an app would be a great way to promote both the group and the members within it.
Currently, the admins, update the website very infrequently, so member profiles can be quite out of date. Also most members do not have a direct contact link on the website. A separate email reminder is sent to members for new events and meetings.
The app was intended to overcome these things.
As one of the objectives of this work was to reduce the amount of administration involved in maintaining, a requirement was to share the information that appeared on the web pages. As you might guess from the theme of this article, the site is built on WordPress.
I started to look into ways of getting the info out, the easiest way is with some sort of API.
Fortunately, WordPress does have an API which allows you to have access to pretty much every part of the system, Users, Pages, Posts etc.
The Problem: It is enabled by default!
What will be displayed in your browser is a list of all of the pages in your site with the data for each page neatly structured for easy copying.
Change pages to users and a neat list of users information will be displayed, fortunately no passwords, but full name and user name does appear.
It seems that since December 2015 with Version 4.4, WordPress introduced a plugin which provided this access to your website. However, you needed to install and activate it for it to work, which most people didn't do.
In December 2016, Version 4.7 was release which incorporated the plugin into core WordPress, so now it was automatically available when you upgraded your site (you do keep your website up to date... ). Unfortunately, the developers decided to that the API should be enabled by default.
Fortunately there is a very easy solution. A developer called Dave McHale has developer a plugin called Disable REST API which is ver simple to use. It takes only a couple of minutes to install and it will disable all unauthorised access to the API.
If you don't know how to do this talk to your webmaster or hosting company.
At the time of writing, there are currently 437 millon active websites of which approx. 30% use WordPress, thats approx. 131 million websites. The installation stats for the plugin show 40,000+ active installations, which means that only 0.03% of websites have taken any active steps to protect themselves.
It's clear that more people need to be made aware of this potential problem, so please go ahead and share with your friends. | 2019-04-24T09:04:29 | https://digitwell.co.uk/index.php/blog/stop-what-you-are-doing-and-install-this-wordpress-update |
0.999191 | Toby Young is not impressed by Wellington College's classes in 'Happiness', which he says are a wishy-washy mixture of anger management and relativism passing through the wrought-iron gates of Wellington College, you wouldn't think it had become a centre of educational experimentation. Founded in 1853 and named after the victor of Waterloo, it looks like a monument to Britain's imperial past It's little wonder that Jeffrey Archer pretended to be an Old Wellingtonian in an attempt to shore up his credentials as a future Conservative leader.
That all changed when the school governors decided to appoint Dr Anthony Seldon as Master at the beginning of last year. As has been widely reported in the press, pupils in years 10 and 11 now attend fortnightly 'Happiness Classes', part of an experiment devised by the school's staff in consultation with Dr Nick Baylis, co-director of the Cambridge Well-being Institute.
Last Monday I was fortunate enough to witness a happiness lesson with my own eyes — though the 'pupils' consisted of 191 educationalists rather than 20 wide-eyed teenagers. This exercise was part of a oneday 'Happiness' conference at Wellington organised by Seldon in the hope of persuading other teachers to introduce similar classes at their schools.
The lesson was taught by Ian Morris, a religious studies master at Wellington who has become a passionate advocate of 'Happiness Classes' since Seldon's arrival. Through a combination of meditation, visualisation, dramatic role-play and a five-minute clip from Fawhy Towers, Morris tried to show how anger can be turned into 'positive energy'. Managing anger in this way is one of the 'life skills' that Seldon hopes to inculcate in his pupils as part of what he calls 'trying to educate the whole child'.
I have to say that if I were a parent shelling out £24,000 a year to send my child to Wellington, I would not have been impressed. The lesson seemed more suited to a group of unruly teenagers at a young offenders' institute than GCSE students at one of Britain's top independent schools. For instance, Morris had two actresses stage an argument in which one of them lost her temper after being called a 'silly cow'. The idea, apparently, was to illustrate how the use of certain phrases can trigger 'negative emotion'. He then asked members of the audience if they could guess what the phrase was in this instance. A teacher from Marlborough raised his hand. Was it 'silly cow'? Right first time!
Was this really an example of the sort of lesson that some of the best brains in contemporary education think ought to be taught in Britain's schools? The other co-director of the Well-being Institute is Felicia Huppert, the current Cambridge Professor of Psychology, and one of the most prominent advocates of this new approach is Richard Layard, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the LSE. (He is the author of Happiness: Lessons From a New Science.) Both of these luminaries were present at Seldon's one-day conference and, given their involvement, I was expecting the 40-minute 'Happiness Class' to have a little more depth. Morris's lesson on anger-management didn't amount to much more than telling children to take a deep breath and count to ten the next time they felt angry.
In fairness to Morris, his lessons are probably a lot more lively when he's teaching a group of teenagers — and Seldon is quick to point out that he isn't suggesting 'Happiness Classes' should replace more traditional subjects at Wellington. On the contrary, they're taught in the place of PHSE (Personal, Health and Social Education), a wishy-washy, unexamined subject that is part of the national curriculum. (It's sometimes referred to as 'Citizenship') The hope of people like Huppert, Layard and Baylis is that a more informed, scientific approach to producing well-rounded young adults — an approach informed by the work being carried out by 'Positive Psychologists' like Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania —will replace PHSE.
Listening to the various speakers at the one-day conference, it soon became clear that their purpose is both more high-minded — and less objective — than the word 'Happiness' implies. They are not simply advocating that children should be given the skills 'to pursue their own good in their own way', to use John Stuart Mill's famous phrase. Rather, they have a very clear idea of what the good life consists of — and it doesn't include drugs, alcohol, television, video games or high-tech consumer goods like iPods and Sony PlayStations. Rather, their notion of 'Happiness' is closer to what Socrates called eudaimonia — a state of profound emotional and intellectual fulfilment that stems from living a meaningful life.
Needless to say, there's a strong whiff of Puritanism about all this — and it's not surprising that the movement has attracted a good many old-fashioned liberals. (Richard Layard, who was made a life peer in 2000, has been called `Blair's Happiness guru') This has led some critics, such as the sociologist Frank Furedi, to claim that making people happier — in the rarified sense that these intellectuals are talking about — is exactly the sort of good intention that the road to hell is paved with. In an article in the Daily Telegraph, he referred to the 'Well-being Institute' as 'Orwellian-sounding' and pointed out that Stalin called himself `the constructor of happiness'. As if in confirmation of these fears, Wellington College has already announced its intention to appoint 'well-being prefects', conjuring up images of a group of apparatchiks handing out detention to boys who've failed to exhibit the necessary degree of 'Happiness'.
On the other hand, it was difficult to take such alarmism seriously after witnessing Ian Morris's lesson. My own feeling is that, far from having some sinister, totalitarian agenda, the advocates of 'Happiness Classes' aren't nearly ambitious enough. Clearly, part of the appeal of this approach to liberal intellectuals is that it manages to go a little further than PSHE in terms of teaching children fundamental values without breaching the sacred taboos of multiculturalism. Martin Seligman, the intellectual founder of the 'well-being' movement, is on record as saying that both the terrorists who blew up the Twin Towers and the firefighters who died trying to save people from the collapsing buildings led 'meaningful lives'. In other words, 'Positive Psychology' is, at its core, a relativist doctrine — and the same goes for the 'Happiness' cult.
Surely a more fruitful approach would be to replace PSHE classes with something much more substantial, in which British schoolchildren are taught that the pursuit of happiness, along with the freedom that makes it possible, is crucially dependent on a legal and institutional framework that rests on a bedrock of Judaeo-Christian values. To try to defend this framework in a way that is neutral when it comes to choosing between different cultures and religions is doomed to failure.
Seldon has spoken repeatedly about his desire to give children a 'liberal education', but no truly liberal education can be based on a doctrine that refuses to take sides between Islamist suicide bombers and the men and women who gave their lives trying to save innocent people on 9/11. If Anthony Seldon is serious about wanting to create well-rounded citizens capable of dealing with whatever life throws at them in the 21st century, he and his cohorts are going to have to come up with more than a few well-meaning platitudes about how to control your temper. | 2019-04-26T16:05:17 | http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th-february-2007/13/a-lesson-in-how-to-be-happy-not-quite |
0.998376 | Roulette Probability: Can You Really Increase Your Chances of Winning?
Roulette players have their own strategies in placing their bets, and having a strong knowledge on roulette probability is considered a necessary tool. The statistical data will tell players of their chances of winning on each spin.
Before even playing, a player needs to make a decision whether to play American Roulette or European Roulette. This decision can either increase or decrease the roulette probability of winning. The European Roulette Wheel has 37 slots while the American Roulette Wheel has 38 slots. The house advantage for American Roulette is higher at 5.26%, as compared to the house advantage of the European Roulette at 2.7%.
There are several ways to bet on roulette and it is also affected by probability. A player do a single number bet or bet on a color, odd/even and high and low. Single number bets only have a 2.63% chance of winning, while color bets and the rest have a 43.67% of chance of winning. This is for an American Roulette game, so it is a little higher with a European Roulette game.
Players need to know however, especially the new ones, that while the probability of winning may be higher on some bets, the payout is lesser. A good timing is then very essential for players who enjoy putting a wager on single number bets.
We all know that roulette is a very easy game to play and anybody can play it. Given the fact that all you need to do is just make the right guess as to where the ball will stop after the wheel is spun. Nevertheless, if you really dig deeper, the chances of losing or winning is quite complicated. The highest payout available for roulette is 35:1, and while you may have the chance of winning this, your chance of winning is really very slim and you may end up regretting you played the game.
Just like any casino game, it is a game of luck. So if you really look into it, some gamblers would agree that it would not matter whatever roulette strategy you use. The key is understanding that you always have the same chance of winning as with losing, and when you know all the factors that affect the game, you get a higher chance of placing the right bets. If you want to earn while you gamble, you need to know and understand the probabilities every time you make a bet on each play.
While most experts of the roulette game would probably tell you to go for smaller but consistent wins, you still need to take some things into consideration. After learning about a variety of roulette probability that you can use in the game, you would most likely come up with better choices and use that to your advantage.
This entry was posted in Roulette Probability and tagged American roulette, European roulette, house advantage, roulette, Roulette Probability on June 9, 2018 by adminrm. | 2019-04-21T12:05:31 | http://roulettemethod.com/roulette-probability/ |
0.999136 | As you can see, this is my second post of the night...I have a huge backlog of reviews to catch up on, and while it's the holidays, I'll probably be doing two posts a day until I've caught up. I'm sure you're all looking forward to double Stevee every day! (That was a joke, by the way).
CHRISTOPHER: Well, this is new. I've never interviewed an animated feature.
RANGO: I guess those PIXAR movies are just too high-shelf for ya, huh?
C: Yes, and The Room. But I'd say other than that I only interview the best.
R: Get your dirty, webbed phalanges off of my boots!
C: I'm sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going...anyway. Tell me a bit about yourself.
C: Oh really? I wasn't aware of that.
R: Don't you sass me, sir.
C: Well? You're funny looking too.
R: That's a funny looking shirt.
C: That's a funny looking animation style.
R: You got funny looking eyes.
C: You got a funny looking face!
C: Oi! Would you just stay here?! I wanna finish this interview!
R: I'm going to slice your face off and use it to wipe my unmentionables!
C: Would you just remember for once that you're a kids movie?!
R: I know I am a kids movie. I'm a fun kids movie. I'm the kids movie that every kids movie wants to be. Because, you know, most of them don't have Johnny Depp, do they?
C: No, they don't. Let's try rephrasing this question: what's so special about you that would make Johnny Depp lend his voice?
R: He was begging for forgiveness after The Tourist, obviously.
C: That's true. He succeeded there.
R: Okay okay. I have an awesome story and I am an awesome throwback to some great movies, with all of my pop culture references. Anyway, I follow the story of an ordinary chameleon, Rango, who is thrown out of his car and left on the side of the road, in the middle of nowhere. What can this poor little chameleon do? He walks a while and manages to find a little village called Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West. It's actually great that he turned up, because now he is the new sheriff of this town. Even though he ain't ever had any experience as a sheriff in his life.
C: Sounds interesting. So being set in the Wild West, does this mean you're a bit of a western?
R: Yeah, I have a few western in-jokes. I have a really good western feel, which is inevitable considering I'm stuck in the Wild West. Let's just say, there's plenty of horse riding and other stuff of the sort. Oh yeah, and I should mention that the 'Spirit of the West' looks a lot like Clint Eastwood. I guess he's begging for forgiveness after Hereafter, too.
C: Considering you're an animated film, I can't really talk to you about your acting. But I did notice that everything sounded very authentic.
R: You know, when the actors were doing all the voice work, they were actually given space to act everything out. I thought that gave me a more authentic sound. Plus, the actors are all good at what they do. Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Alfred Molina, Ray Winstone...all good citizens, aren't they?
C: Yes, you have a very impressive vocal cast. In fact, you're a pretty impressive movie, probably one of the best of 2011 so far.
R: Yeah well, Gore Verbinski did the right thing, didn't he? He left the latest Pirates of the Caribbean to someone else to make me. Ain't no shame in that.
C: I certainly hope that Verbinski tries some more animation in the future...his style here and choice not to go with 3D was brilliant. Anyway, got any last words for our readers?
R: Stay in school, eat your veggies and burn all the books that ain't Shakespeare.
Nice post Stevee, I REALLY want to see this film!
Ha. My mainstream weakness pulls through again. I have not seen Rango. But you better believe your dirty, webbed phalanges that it's high up on my watchlist.
I'm sure you will both enjoy Rango, it's pretty awesome!
Is it weird that when I first heard the synopsis for this, I thought it'd be about a cat?
And that I want to see the movie. I huess they have it on DVDs here as well. | 2019-04-19T09:36:21 | http://www.cinematicparadox.com/2011/07/conversation-with-rango.html |
0.994914 | Is .NET less secure than other languages since these techniques are possible?
How do I stop attackers from manipulating my applications?
This post answers those questions and discusses best practices around securing client-server architectures.
Considering these methods, how does .NET compare to other platforms? Is .NET less secure than another choice?
.NET is not unique. In other assessments, Security PS has used the same techniques to assess Android, Java, and Native (C/C++ executables) applications. Based on my quick research some or all of the techniques work for iOS applications as well. The only differences between these platforms are the level of complexity and the toolset required. .NET is not any more or less secure than any other platform in this way.
How do you stop attackers from reusing DLLs, interactively debugging applications, or modifying applications?
You shouldn't need to in most cases. For a client-server architecture, the thick-client resides on a user's (or attacker's) computer. That environment cannot and should not be trusted to enforce security controls or protect sensitive data. Client-side security controls can be defeated or bypassed completely, and any data sent to the client can be obtained by an attacker (even if it is encrypted).
Instead, organizations should spend their time architecting and designing applications that enforce security controls on the server-side. If all the security controls are implemented on the server-side, then it does not matter whether the attacker manipulates the thick-client (or writes his or her own client application). This security best practice applies to web applications, web services, and client-server applications.
Each option can be used to slow down an attacker and will make analysis or modification more difficult. But, none of them prevent a skilled and determined attacker from eventually reaching their goal. Let's briefly dig in to each one.
Strong name verification enables an assembly to identify and reference the correct version of a DLL. Some Internet sources recommend using strong name verification to prevent attackers from modifying DLLs. But, according to Microsoft, it should not be used as a security control. Security PS's experience agrees with that assertion. It is trivial to bypass Strong name verification, especially with local administration privileges on a computer.
A non-technical explanation of Obfuscation is that a tool jumbles up the variable names, program structure, and or program flow before it is distributed to users. Then, when an attacker uses an interactive debugger or reflection to view the code, he or she has difficulty following and understanding the program's logic. There are many free and commercial tools to provide this protection, and it does demotivate casual attackers from performing analysis. However, there are also tools to help deobfuscate applications or track program flow.
Obfuscation tools can also make it difficult to use reverse engineering tools like ILSpy, dnSpy, and ILDasm/ILAsm. The tools can corrupt or mangle portions of the application to crash an attacker's toolsets. Additionally, encryption can be applied to strings, resources, or the code within a method. This makes it difficult to use reflection to see the original code and more complex to modify the IL code. However, eventually the code must be decrypted so it can be run, making it available to attackers.
Security PS's research into two obfuscation tools (ConfuserEx and Dotfuscator Community Edition), showed that most controls can be bypassed by a skilled attacker or worked around using WinDbg and managed code extensions. Additionally, there's a significant performance impact to using some of the Obfuscation controls.
Native compilation (i.e. Ngen) compiles a .NET DLL into processor-specific machine-code. Security PS found that native compiled .NET applications still allow an attacker to use interactive debuggers to introspect and control program. Additionally, there's no mention of using it as a security feature in Microsoft's documentation. Therefore, this technique does not provide a significant amount of protection.
Security PS performs assessments on a wide variety of software architectures and platforms, some of which cannot be tested effectively using the more standard testing tools and methods. Recently, our team performed an assessment on a more complex application architecture. In this case, a .NET thick-client communicated with a variety of server-side components using either signed SOAP messages or with custom TCP messages. These factors meant our consultants couldn't use a proxy tool to directly manipulate traffic for security testing purposes. This post discusses some of the techniques our application security team used to overcome those challenges and successfully complete the assessment.
Code is often written in a modular way that makes it easy to reuse existing libraries. In this assessment, Security PS wrote GUI applications that reused the thick-client's libraries to decrypt data or send data to the server. This technique involved creating a new Visual Studio Project, adding the DLLs as a reference, and then writing code that calls functions within those thick-client libraries.
Next, Security PS needed to modify a field within a signed SOAP request to test authorization controls. Our team used a debugger and breakpoints to perform this modification. For .NET thick-clients, this attack is possible after disassembling and reassembling the application with debugging enabled.
Finally, we needed a way to quickly and easily manipulate custom TCP messages to identify vulnerabilities. Use of the debugger and breakpoints was too slow. Use of a custom written testing tool meant having to understand and duplicate some complex interactions that the thick-client managed. So, Security PS chose to directly modify the thick-client to allow interactive modification of TCP messages by consultants. For that to be possible, we needed to disassemble the thick-client, modify the intermediate language code, and then reassemble it.
The next post will consider these questions more, but the primary message we communicated to our client focused on a critical best practice for secure software design: all security controls must be implemented on a trusted component in the application architecture. In this case, security controls must be implemented on the server-side rather than on the client-side. The client operates on the attacker's computer where everything can be analyzed and modified regardless of the security controls used. The architecture of the application must assume the client environment cannot be trusted. While additional controls can be applied to increase the difficultly an attacker would have in attempting to manipulate client-side security controls, it is important to recognize that the root of this security weakness is fundamentally a design flaw that would need to be addressed to fully mitigate the risks.
Stay tuned for a follow-up on the questions brought up above. | 2019-04-18T10:47:34 | http://blog.securityps.com/2018/ |
0.999993 | My project is about Stuart McLean, a great storyteller who wrote stories for his CBC radio show, The Vinyl Cafe. He traveled all across Canada sharing his hilarious stories about Dave, a record store owner and his wife, Morley and all their crazy adventures. My project shares Stuart's life story, how he made a point to get to know Canadians in all the towns and cities he visited, his love for Canadian musicians and his battle with Cancer.
The most interesting thing that I learned about my topic is that Stuart McLean performed live shows across all of Canada, including the East Coast, Yukon and the Northwest Territories because he wanted to reach out to all Canadians. Many other performers do not travel so far north or further east than Quebec. By travelling everywhere in Canada, Stuart showed that he really cared about all Canadians and that no community was too small to visit.
Stuart really cared about Canada. It didn't matter if you lived in a big city or a small town, he would still visit and do live shows in all corners of Canada. Stuart loved to shared Canadians' stories in his tours and their experiences influenced his work. Stuart loved music and highlighted and showcased the work or many new Canadian musicians on his show and on his tours. Stuart loved sharing with people and that's why he wrote his stories, so that he could make people happy.
Stuart was born in a time when radio was much more popular than other forms of media; whereas today, the internet has become the major tool in communicating information quickly and easily to everyone. This is one difference that Stuart and I have have. Despite this, Stuart used many media forms to share his stories and for this reason, I was able to enjoy them. Because Stuart only recently passed away we lived in similar times, but Stuart's early love of radio influenced how he delivered his stories. It was Stuart's show "They Vinyl Cafe" that got me listening to CBC and now I listen to so many different shows on this radio channel. In a way, it was Stuart who turned me in to radio listener and a huge CBC fan.
Good job Charles! Good luck!
Great job Charles. I was a big fan of Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Cafe' as well. Good Luck!
What a fantastic project! It's very clear that you enjoyed Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Café while it was on the air. You've done a great job highlighting Stuart's accomplishments with CBC and I couldn't be more proud of you for all the hard work you put into the creation of this video Charles.
Well done - both informative and personally engaging!
Great job! Your research is amazing and you have the tone and the style to make this film interesting. Congrats. | 2019-04-22T02:43:13 | http://kids.canadashistory.ca/Kids/YoungCitizens/Profiles/2018/Charles-T |
0.998998 | Do the math. Michael Haynes won't.
The Bears had nine defensive linemen on the roster for last January's divisional playoff loss to Carolina.
With final cuts coming by 3 p.m. Saturday, Adewale Ogunleye, Tommie Harris, Ian Scott, Alex Brown, Alfonso Boone, Tank Johnson and Israel Idonije are locks. That means if the Bears follow last season's roster template, which is a strong possibility, there are five remaining linemen for two spots.
Haynes, Delbert Cowsette, Jamaal Green, Antonio Garay and Mark Anderson have one goal in common. Haynes is on an island, however, when it comes to pedigree.
He's the only former first-round pick.
"You really don't want to play the numbers game," Haynes said. "I was telling Mark and Jamaal, `You know what? All we can do is go out there and play.' And for me and Mark, we only get one shot."
That's because a back injury has sidelined Haynes and a hamstring injury has done the same to Anderson for the entire preseason. Thursday night in Cleveland is their best and last chance.
They need to do so because Green and Garay have been impressive at times during training camp and in previous exhibition games.
With Alex Brown sidelined by an injury and starters expected only to play a few series, reserves will be winded. The good news, at least, is Haynes finally is healthy.
"I have to go out there and show everybody--not only this coaching staff but the league--that I'm healthy," Haynes said. "Obviously, with a back injury, everybody is worried about it. I was worried about it until [Monday].
"When I got an opportunity to practice and get banged around a bit, I feel fine. It's back to normal."
Haynes' career may not be, although it has been said general manager Jerry Angelo treats his draft picks like children, especially first-rounders.
That said, if a player isn't producing, isn't physically ready or has fallen out of favor with the coaching staff, he's gone. Exhibit A: Marc Colombo, waived last year.
"Anything could happen after this game," Haynes said. "That, right there, is reality. I have no idea what management is thinking. I just know this game is important, especially after the backups didn't do too well last game.
"We gave up yardage. We had mental errors. That's one thing coaches are going to look at--how guys do with the plays and how they handle it mentally."
Haynes has tried to keep a smile despite being inactive five times last season, along with the playoff game. He openly talked about getting released or traded the day after last season ended.
Instead, the Bears asked him to bulk up to 290 pounds to play inside at tackle. That was his weight when drafted, but he dropped to the 270s to play in Coach Lovie Smith and Ron Rivera's speed-based scheme.
Back at end Thursday, Haynes said he would have to drop 10 pounds by game time.
"I don't believe in saunas; all they do is dehydrate you," Haynes said. "All I do is just not eat as much. A lot more filler-type foods, celery, salad and then some chicken, so it fills your stomach up without adding a lot of calories. Normally I eat, say, 3,000 calories. So I cut back to 1,500."
Anderson suffered his injury cutting back on wet grass in Bourbonnais, where the fifth-round pick did unwanted splits. He knows how important Thursday is.
"I have my opportunity to show what I can do, and I just want to take advantage of it," Anderson said. "Right now I feel good, like I haven't lost a step."
If rookie Dusty Dvoracek hadn't landed on injured reserve Monday, the five remaining linemen probably would have been fighting for one spot. Asked if the Bears might keep more linemen because of injuries, Smith shrugged.
"Most of the injuries we've had, they're not season-ending," he said. "We know the players will come back. We have tough decisions on the defensive line just based on their play as much as anything."
Haynes and Anderson hope to make the decisions tougher.
A look at Bears general manager Jerry Angelo's first-round selections.
2005 (4) RB Cedric Benson Has shown glimpses of what might be.
THE SKINNY: Will it be him or Thomas Jones? Or both?
2004 (14) DT Tommie Harris Made Pro Bowl in second season.
THE SKINNY: Says he wants to be a sack machine.
2003 (14) DE Michael Haynes Never lived up to promise.
THE SKINNY: Could he be getting a last look Thursday?
2003 (22) QB Rex Grossman All along, he's been their guy.
THE SKINNY: Will all questions be answered in Green Bay?
2002 (29) OT Marc Colombo Injury problems, released in 2005.
THE SKINNY: Started last three preseason games for Dallas. | 2019-04-20T20:00:17 | https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-08-30-0608300304-story.html |
0.996978 | Prince Charles and wife Camilla joined in a party in Gloucestershire to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday.
</head> The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall attended a street party to celebrate the 90th Birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in Gloucestershire on Sunday (June 12).
The celebration was part of 'The Big Lunch' - an organisation of which Camilla is patron.
'The Big Lunch' aims to bring together people and their neighbours in an attempt to improve community spirit.
The royal couple were invited to Brimpsfield, a village in the county of Gloucestershire, to celebrate the Queen's birthday with locals.
Charles and Camilla shared sandwiches and drinks with the villagers and met with people of all ages.
Many of the younger members of the crowds were dressed up - with Camilla admiring a child in a corgi costume and another in a beefeater outfit.
The Prince of Wales even watched a sponge throwing game - but declined to join in.
Charles and Camilla sat at numerous tables of guests during their visit and looked to be enjoying themselves.
Prince Charles was even seen to be drinking beer and joining in with a very lively rendition of the Welsh national anthem (Gloucestershire borders Wales).
The royal couple were honoured at the event - and Camilla left clutching a bouquet of flowers. | 2019-04-24T00:41:57 | https://www.onenewspage.com.au/video/20160612/4704932/Queen-90th-birthday-Charles-and-Camilla-celebrate.htm |
0.999975 | The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is generating a lot of buzz these days and it's often difficult separating fact from fiction. For example, what are the most interesting AI applications today and where is the technology heading tomorrow?
Grammarly achieved these corrections both by examining a corpus of documents that skilled editors had corrected and by learning from the feedback of users who accepted or rejected the suggestions. In both cases, Grammarly predicted what a human editor would do. It goes beyond the mechanical application of grammar rules to also assess whether deviations from perfect grammar are preferred by human readers.
Years ago there were a few grammar-checker software products that tried to solve the problem the old-fashioned way, with brute force. They certainly helped fix a lot of grammatical errors but they often didn't produce the results you'd get from a good human editor.
I'm using the free Grammarly service, both as a standalone app and as a Chrome plug-in, so this article was made better thanks to Grammarly. I'm also going to let Grammarly have a look at some of the documents I write at work.
I hope you'll try out the Grammarly service as well. If you're interested in where AI is heading, be sure to read Prediction Machines and think about how this rapidly changing technology is likely to impact your business and your job.
Is it me or is Amazon's Alexa loaded with nothing but gimmicky skills? I like audio news streams as much as the next guy but where are all the amazing skills this platform should be offering by now? I wrote earlier about a use-case publishers and content consumers could get excited about but the capabilities I outlined then are still nowhere to be found.
My various Alexa devices are great at streaming music. The Echo Show I got for Christmas sits on my nightstand and randomly shows photos from my collection. It's a rather pricey, over-engineered picture viewer and alarm clock though. A few months ago I bought an in-car Alexa device but soon realized it doesn't add much value beyond what I already get from my phone's podcast app paired via Bluetooth.
Speaking of phones, the Alexa platform seems to be where the app stores were in the early days of both the iPhone and Android devices. Come to think of it, it's still pretty hard to find new, useful apps amidst all the clutter. If you're like most people, you have dozens of apps on your phone but you probably only use a few of them on any given day. At this point in the life of Alexa I thought we'd see at least one or two can't-live-without-it skills but I can't think of a single one.
I'm still extremely bullish on voice UIs and I believe the future is bright for publishers who are willing to transform their content for delivery on them. That process becomes a lot easier as the text-to-speech services continue improving, btw, and I recommend we continue experimenting with skills and capabilities.
I'm guilty of adding to the clutter as I'm working on a skill for an audio version of my website. Amazon makes it sounds simple enough but I ran into a snag about 10 minutes into the process. I've run out of time today but I'm going to see if I can troubleshoot and take my skill live soon. I encourage you to do the same; even if your new Alexa skill isn't a game-changer, it's important to immerse yourself in the process and stay on top of this important platform. | 2019-04-22T08:07:32 | https://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2019/02/index.html |
0.999542 | How "different" are you? Do you go out of your way to make a statement about who you are and how that differs from most other people? Is it important to you to stand out from the crowd?
I feel pretty "different" a lot of the time. When I get evidence that I'm not different, for example, when it turns out I'm following some cultural trend without realizing it (Hello Kitty, anyone? :-) sometimes I'm a bit surprised.
I don't go out of my way to make a statement about being different most of the time. I make some efforts to hide the extent of my differences unless I feel very safe. (I'm shy in crowds.) Sometimes I deliberately try to fit in to a group by wearing group-approved types of clothing.
It's not that it's important to me to stand out from the crowd, but I've noticed that I tend to do things sideways. I think that was a word that a writing instructor used once to describe what I had done with an exercise she'd given us. I hadn't followed it but I hadn't ignored it either. I more or less treated it as a propulsion mechanism. I do that a lot when I'm doing art type stuff. I don't like strictly following instructions, so I will add or change something to make it more interesting to me.
I've noticed that I tend to do things sideways. I think that was a word that a writing instructor used once to describe what I had done with an exercise she'd given us. I hadn't followed it but I hadn't ignored it either. I more or less treated it as a propulsion mechanism. I do that a lot when I'm doing art type stuff. I don't like strictly following instructions, so I will add or change something to make it more interesting to me.
This is something I do also. I tend to view rules (not all) as somewhat malleable. | 2019-04-22T04:10:43 | https://firecat.livejournal.com/201064.html |
0.999858 | A method of editing data generated by handwriting. The method comprises the steps of detecting initiation of editing; identifying a marking stroke which marks data that is to be edited; determining an extent of the marking stroke; identifying data which is contained within the marking stroke; and performing an editing operation on said data contained within the marking stroke.
1. A computer-implemented method of editing data generated by handwriting, comprising:detecting initiation of editing;identifying a marking stroke which marks data that is to be edited;determining an extent of the marking stroke;identifying data which is contained within the marking stroke; andperforming an editing operation on said data contained within the marking stroke.
2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of detecting initiation of editing is carried out before the step of identifying a marking stroke.
3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the marking stroke is a lasso.
4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said editing is pasting or deleting.
5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said editing associates a desired attribute with the data contained within the marking stroke.
6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of detecting an initiation of editing comprises the step of detecting the location of a handwriting device within an initiation area on a surface.
7. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data generated by handwriting represents a graphic image handwritten on a surface which is provided with a position code coding a plurality of positions on the surface, the position code being detectable by means of a device for such detection.
8. A method as claimed in claim 7, wherein said device comprises an optically imaging pen, the surface comprising an initiating portion and the step of detecting initiation comprising the step of detecting an application of the pen within the initiating portion.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein the surface has a position code printed thereon, which comprises a plurality of tags, each tag comprising a group of dots and coding a unique position on the surface.
10. A computer-implemented method of editing data representing a graphic image which has been recorded when writing using an optically imaging pen on a surface which is provided with a position code coding a plurality of positions on the surface, the method comprising:detecting initiation of editing;identifying a marking stroke which comprises at least one coded position and which marks data that is to be edited;determining an extent of the marking stroke;identifying data which is contained within the marking stroke; andperforming an editing operation on said data contained within the marking stroke.
11. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the marking stroke is a lasso.
12. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein said editing is pasting or deleting.
13. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein said editing associates a desired attribute with the data contained within the marking stroke.
14. A handheld device comprising:a writing implement for generating a visible mark on a writing surface;a sensor for reading a position code on the writing surface and providing position data; anda transmitter for transmitting the position data, wherein the position data is provided for detecting initiation of editing; identifying a marking stroke which marks data that is to be edited; determining an extent of the marking stroke; identifying data which is contained within the marking stroke; andperforming an editing operation on said data contained within the marking stroke.
The present application is a Continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 12/139,494 filed on Jun. 15, 2008, which is a Continuation application of U.S. Ser. No. 10/793,933 filed Mar. 8, 2004, which is a Continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 09/663,640 filed Sep. 15, 2000, now granted U.S. Pat. No. 6,720,985 all of which are herein incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates generally to computing systems and, more particularly, to a method and system for enabling selection and association of objects in a computer system. It has specific application to the operation of a computer system involving a form-based user interface.
The advent of graphical user interfaces for computer systems generated an alternative method for instructing a computer system to perform desired tasks. In particular, the development of the mouse and the graphical representation of objects on computer screens enabled users to select an object by placing the mouse cursor over the object, or in the vicinity thereof, and activating a button or other selection means on the mouse.
The selection of an object represented in a graphical format enabled a user to instruct a computer to perform tasks with respect to that object. An example of this approach is the deletion of a document from the computer, which in some systems could be effected by selecting the graphical representation of the object to be deleted and then selecting a graphical representation of a "delete" command. This approach could also be used for the association of attributes with objects.
An alternative approach for instructing a computer to perform the task of deleting an object was to select the graphical representation of the object and to move the object, generally referred to as "dragging" the object, into the vicinity of a graphical representation of a command that would execute the desired task. A particular example of this was the use of a graphical representation of a garbage can or trash can to represent the "delete" command. Thus, users could remove objects from the computer system by selecting and "dragging" the object into the vicinity of the garbage can. Once in the vicinity of the graphical representation of the command, users could activate that command by placing the object onto the represented command, generally referred to as "dropping" the object.
The graphical user interface assisted users wishing to associate attributes with objects. This could be effected by selecting the graphical representation of an attribute and then selecting the graphical representation of the object to which the attribute should apply. Alternatively, the user could select the graphical representation of the object, or attribute, and drag it into the vicinity of the graphical representation of the attribute or object and drop it, thus forming the desired association between the object and the attribute.
Additionally, the use of such a graphical user interface enabled users to relatively easily associate objects with one another. For example, when sending an electronic mail message, users often wish to attach an object to that message generally in the form of a document or picture that is relevant to the content of the mail message. In such a circumstance, the user is effectively associating two objects with one another, namely, the document or picture and the electronic mail message.
It is an objective of the present invention to provide a method and system for enabling association of objects in a computer system.
providing the user with an amended version of said at least one second form including a representation of said selected one or more objects.
means for providing the user with an amended version of said at least one second form including a representation of said selected one or more objects.
In applying the invention, at least one of the forms may include coded data indicative of at least one reference point of the form, by means of which the indicating data can be generated. Additionally, the coded data may be indicative of the form's identity. In an alternative form, the sensing device may generate the indicating data independently of any form, by use of, for example, accelerometers incorporated into the sensing device, or by an optical mouse technique. A suitable manner of a stroke of part of the sensing device on or relative to the first surface may be prescribed for designating an object or objects on that form, such as circumscription of a viewable information zone, or image border intersection of a viewable information zone.
In a preferred form, the step of associating said selected one or more objects with said selected one or more commands involves application of said one or more available commands to said one or more objects, such that the representation of said selected one or more objects on the amended version of said at least one second form is dependent on said selected one or more commands.
Clearly an object may signify any data set storable by the computer system, representing, for example, an image or part of an image, a text item, a computer file, a message, etc. An object may itself signify a command to be effected in the computer system, or an attribute of a command.
A command may be any command available to be effected by the computer system. For example, it may relate to pasting an object, such as a piece of text or an image, to said second form. It may relate to searching the second from for specified content. It may relate to applying an attribute to part the second form, such as a colour, texture, shading, border, etc to an image object, or a size, font, style, effect, etc to a text object.
Preferably, the means for providing the user with the amended version of said at least one second form comprising a printer, at least one of the surfaces being provided by a laminar substrate, the system adapted to print at least one of said forms on the substrate on demand, wherein the printer is adapted to print the coded data on the page at the same time as the form is printed. The coded data is preferably substantially invisible to the user. In one form of the invention, then, the respective forms are printed on paper pages, each page including both the viewable information associated with objects/commands, and the coded data, invisible to the user, readable by the sensing means.
Accordingly, therefore, the present invention provides a method and a system which utilizes one or more forms capable of interacting with a computer system. Whilst the novel method and system of the present invention may be used in conjunction with a single computer system, in a particularly preferred form it is designed to operate over a computer network, such as the Internet.
Physically, the form is disposed on a surface medium which may be of any suitable structure. However, in a preferred embodiment, the form is disposed on sheet material such as paper or the like which has the coded data printed on it and which allows interaction with the computer system. The coded data is detectable preferably, but not exclusively, outside the visible spectrum, thereby enabling it to be machine-readable but substantially invisible to the human eye. The form may also include visible material which provides information to a user, such as the application or purpose of the form, and which visible information may be registered or correlate in position with the relevant hidden coded data.
FIG. 53 is a schematic view of a photo album page composition form.
Each tag contains 120 bits of information, typically allocated as shown in Table 1. Assuming a maximum tag density of 64 per square inch, a 16-bit tag ID supports a region size of up to 1024 square inches. Larger regions can be mapped continuously without increasing the tag ID precision simply by using abutting regions and maps. The 100-bit region ID allows 2100 (˜1030 or a million trillion) different regions to be uniquely identified.
Any suitable error-correcting code can be used in place of a (15, 5) Reed-Solomon code, for example a Reed-Solomon code with more or less redundancy, with the same or different symbol and codeword sizes; another block code; or a different kind of code, such as a convolutional code (see, for example, Stephen B. Wicker, Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage, Prentice-Hall 1995, the contents of which a herein incorporated by cross-reference).
Assuming a circular tag shape, the minimum diameter of the sensor field of view is obtained when the tags are tiled on a equilateral triangular grid, as shown in FIG. 5B.
FIG. 6A shows a square tag 4 with four perspective targets 17. It is similar in structure to tags described by Bennett et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 5,051,746. The tag represents sixty 4-bit Reed-Solomon symbols 47, for a total of 240 bits. The tag represents each one bit as a dot 48, and each zero bit by the absence of the corresponding dot. The perspective targets are designed to be shared between adjacent tags, as shown in FIGS. 6B and 6C. FIG. 6B shows a square tiling of 16 tags and the corresponding minimum field of view 193, which must span the diagonals of two tags. FIG. 6C shows a square tiling of nine tags, containing all one bits for illustration purposes.
FIGS. 19A, 19B and 19C show the operating cycle of a Memjet® printing element 300.
FIG. 19A shows the quiescent position of the ink meniscus 316 prior to printing an ink droplet. Ink is retained in the nozzle chamber by surface tension at the ink meniscus 316 and at the fluidic seal 305 formed between the nozzle chamber 304 and the ink channel rim 306.
While printing, the printhead CMOS circuitry distributes data from the print engine controller to the correct printing element, latches the data, and buffers the data to drive the electrodes 318 of the active actuator beam pair 308. This causes an electrical current to pass through the beam pair 308 for about one microsecond, resulting in Joule heating. The temperature increase resulting from Joule heating causes the beam pair 308 to expand. As the passive actuator beam pair 309 is not heated, it does not expand, resulting in a stress difference between the two beam pairs. This stress difference is partially resolved by the cantilevered end of the electrothermal bend actuator 320 bending towards the substrate 301. The lever arm 307 transmits this movement to the nozzle chamber 304. The nozzle chamber 304 moves about two microns to the position shown in FIG. 19B. This increases the ink pressure, forcing ink 321 out of the nozzle 302, and causing the ink meniscus 316 to bulge. The nozzle rim 303 prevents the ink meniscus 316 from spreading across the surface of the nozzle chamber 304.
As the temperature of the beam pairs 308 and 309 equalizes, the actuator 320 returns to its original position. This aids in the break-off of the ink droplet 317 from the ink 321 in the nozzle chamber, as shown in FIG. 19C. The nozzle chamber is refilled by the action of the surface tension at the meniscus 316.
"Editing" commands, such as strike-throughs indicating deletion, can also be recognized in form fields.
The netpage system allows commands and objects to be "dragged and dropped". This enables a user to instruct the netpage system to execute commands at specific locations or with respect to specific objects on a page, or to place objects at specific locations on a page.
The ability to `drag and drop` commands and objects thus advantageously avoids the introduction of modality into the user interface, since a dragging action is a single user action.
The dragging action may be performed using the non-marking nib or the marking nib of the pen. If the marking nib is used, the user gets immediate feedback in the form of the drawn stroke on the page with respect to the user's command, and printing of the result of the dragging action may be deferred. If the non-marking nib is used the user does not get immediate feedback with respect to the command, and the result of the dragging action typically requires printing upon completion of the dragging action.
Dragging may be used to apply an attribute to an object, for example to apply a color from a color palette to the object. Dragging may also be used to drop an object at a location, for example to drop an object from a palette at the location.
Dragging may also be used to apply a command at a location, for example to paste a selected object at the location. It may be used to apply a command to an object, for example to delete the object.
The starting point of the drag stroke is typically the command zone, such as a palette object, and the end point of the drag stroke is the desired location. The location may be indicative of a desired object, or it may have a meaning in its own right. The graphical representation of the draggable command or object is preferably such that it can be recognized by the user as being draggable, as well as being distinguishable from something which is normally selected by `clicking`, such as a normal hyperlink.
FIG. 46 illustrates the dragging of attributes from a color palette 501 and some of the preferred methods by which the drag stroke may identify an object or object feature. For example, when a user wishes to instruct the computer to execute a command with respect to an object, a drag stroke from a particular color zone of the palette ending inside the object may be used to designate that object, as is detailed by stroke 502 in FIG. 46.
However, when the users wishes to execute a command with respect to the outline of an object, a drag stroke doubling back so that it crosses the outline twice may be used to designate the outline feature of the object, as is detailed by stroke 503 in FIG. 46.
Additionally, when a user wishes to execute a command with respect to one or more objects, a closed loop or lasso at the end of the drag stroke may be used to simulataneously designate multiple objects, as is detailed by stroke 504 in FIG. 46.
The impementation of the drag-and-drop facility can be effected entirely by an application. Typically, the application creates a drawing field large enough to contain any draggable commands (and/or objects) as well as the target area (i.e. 500 in FIG. 46) into which the commands (and/or objects) will be dragged. The application embeds the drawing field inside a hyperlinked group 866, and sets the `submit delta` attribute of the hyperlink associated with the hyperlinked group.
Whenever the user draws a stroke within the drawing field, the application is immediately notified so that it can interpret the stroke relative to the draggable commands and the contents of the target area. Generally, the stroke can be interpreted as normal hand-drawn input if it does not start in the zone of a draggable command.
The implementation of the drag-and-drop facility may also be effected by the page server. In this instance, the application may define each draggable command (or object) as a draggable hyperlink 506 (as illustrated in FIG. 47). When the page server detects a stroke originating within the zone of a draggable hyperlink, it will preferably activate the hyperlink and include the name of the target field and the drag stroke itself in the activation. To assist the application in interpreting a drag stroke, the page server preferably converts the coordinates of the drag stroke into coordinates relative to the zone of the target field.
An application example of the `drag and drop` mechanism described above is in composition of a user's photograph album page. The netpage photo manager application (described in co-pending applications by the present applicant filed on 23 May 2000 and identified by docket numbers NPA020 and NPA035) is able to serve on demand a photograph album page composition form 520 (FIGS. 52 and 53) to be printed at the user's netpage printer, which contains a representation of the layout of the corresponding photograph album page. Each photo on that page may be shown, along with hand-drawn/written annotations, preferably all with corner handles for enabling the user to change the size of the corresponding photo or annotation. By draw/dragging on a non-handle area of a photo or annotation, the user can change the position of the photo or annotation. This is analagous to dragging (and resizing) photo images by mouse-controlled cursor on a standard computer display. When the user draw/drags with the marking nib of the netpage pen, the page is not immediately updated. Instead, once the user has made all the desired position and size changes, he or she can `click` on an <update> button to obtain an updated version of the page. When the user draw/drags with the non-marking nib, the page is immediately updated when the pen tip is lifted from the page surface.
The user places a photo in the composition by first selecting a photograph and then pasting it at the desired position (524 in FIG. 52). For example, a photo may be selected from a user's photograph folder, and access may be granted to other system users by way of an authorization protocol, such as by signature recognition. Alternatively a user may select a photo by circumscription or lasso on any page showing a photo from their photo collection (e.g. on a thumbnails page 522 or album page 523, shown in FIG. 52), and then draw/drag from a <paste> draw/drag control box (526 in FIG. 53) in the margin of the composition form to the desired target position in the composition. The page composition form may be immediately updated. The user adds an annotation to the composition by simply drawing or writing with the netpage pen marking nib in a chosen place in the composition. The page is not immediately updated, but the next time the page is updated, the annotation is shown with handles as mentioned above, allowing the annotation to be re-positioned and re-sized. So long as every drawn stroke begins in an interstitial area of the composition, it is not interpreted by the system as a draw/drag command.
If the user wishes to, say, delete a drawing from the page, he/she may simply `lasso` it with a stroke of the pen and continue the stroke to a <delete> control box in the margin of the composition form. Alternatively, the application may simply recognise a single continuous stroke from/to the <delete> box to/from any part of the photo image on the composition form. In either case, the system can be configured to act directly on such a stroke and print an updated composition form (e.g. if a non-marking nib is used), or, alternatively, not to act immediately (e.g. if a marking nib is used), but to wait until the <update> box is clicked to act to apply the command(s) to the selected photo object(s). Once the user is satisfied with a page composition, he/she clicks on a <print page> command box to instruct the printer to produce a final rendition of the album page.
The netpage system provides a mechanism to allow users to select an object on a printed netpage and submit it to an application, e.g. to associate the selected object with another object in the netpage system.
In one preferred embodiment, the selection mechanism is effected by circumscribing the graphical representation of an object using the netpage pen. The user may then submit the selected object to an application by activating a selection hyperlink via the same or another printed netpage.
The registration server maintains a current selection for each pen, describing a region of a page instance from which the selection has been made. This description includes the most recent digital ink stroke captured by way of transmitted signals from the pen relative to the background area of the page. Pen strokes are interpreted in an application-specific manner once they are submitted to an application via a selection hyperlink activation. When the user `clicks` on a selection hyperlink, the page server obtains the pen's current selection from the registration server and transmits it to the corresponding application as part of the selection hyperlink activation, thus associating the two objects.
When the application receives a selection hyperlink activation, it retrieves the content of the selection from the page server which manages the page from which the selection was made. The application may then retrieve the selection as formatted data, allowing it to interpret the object in the form of the selected region in an application-specific manner in relation to the formatted data, or as unformatted data, allowing it to rely on the page server to interpret the selection region in a meaningful way.
When requesting unformatted data, the application may specify a desired scope to assist the interpretation of the selected region by the page server. Possible scopes include letter, word, phrase, line, paragraph and article. If the page server is unable to interpret the selection region according to the desired scope, it may reject the application's request for the content of the selection.
The selection content returned by the page server to the application may include field values. Typically however, only field values which have been submitted as part of a form submission are included.
An author of a document can assist selection of articles by grouping all the elements of an article into an article group 507, as shown in FIG. 48. If the application specifies an article as the scope in its selection request, the page server attempts to find an article group related to the selection region.
The protocol for selection hyperlink activation and subsequent selection content retrieval, illustrated diagrammatically in FIG. 51, operates as follows.
When page server A receives a selection hyperlink `click`, it retrieves 510 the current selection associated with the pen from the registration server. The selection is described by a page ID 511 and a region 512. The page server then constructs a selection hyperlink request 508 (i.e. a specialization of the hyperlink request 934, shown in FIG. 41). The selection hyperlink request contains the pen's current selection as shown in FIG. 49. The page server then transmits its own server ID, the hyperlink request ID, and the link ID to the application in the usual way. It also sends the pen's current selection to the application. The application uses the page ID in the current selection to identify the page server managing the page on which the selection was made (ie. page server A). It then requests the content of the selection from this page server in the desired format 514 and according to the desired scope 513. Page server B uses the server ID and hyperlink request ID supplied by the application to obtain the selection from original page server A. Page server B obtains the selection from page server A rather than from the application in order to ensure that the application does not modify the selection to obtain information not intended by the user.
As an alternative, page server A could sign the selection sent to the application, allowing page server B to easily verify that the selection supplied by the application has not been modified. Once page server B has the selection, it retrieves the selected page from its database and determines the content of the selection according to the application's desired format and scope. Finally the page server returns the selection content 515 to the application for application-specific processing.
If the page on which the selection was made was generated by the same application as that handling the selection hyperlink activation, then the application has direct access to the page (i.e. the application can retrieve the entire page from the relevant page server by way of the page ID of the page) and may already have done so before the selection hyperlink is activated. In this case, the application preferably interprets the selection region without reference to the selection content retrieval mechanism.
Selection of an object may of course alternatively be performed using a draggable command. This has an advantage in that a selection stroke can be distinguished from a normal input stroke wherever the stroke is made. The user may therefore select an object without inadvertently entering an input stroke into a field. As such, a user is also able to select an object that resides entirely within a field relatively easily.
The application may define the selection command in the form of a selection page server command 509, as shown in FIG. 50. This may be placed in a standard location on all netpages, to provide consistent support for selection in much the same way that there is consistent support for page duplication.
When a selection page server command is activated by a user, the page server forwards the corresponding stroke to the registration server to be recorded as the current selection for the pen. Apart from this difference, the selection mechanism operates in the same way as previously described.
The photograph collection application referred to above provides an example of the selection/attachment mechanism described. A user may, for example, click on a <list frames> button to produce one or more pages containing a list of frames available for framing the photo composition (522 in FIG. 52). Frames can, for example, be synthetic or can be based on photos of actual picture frames. The user adds a frame to a photo in the composition by first selecting a desired frame on the frame list page, e.g. by circumscription using the netpage pen, and then pasting it into the composition (525 in FIG. 52), e.g. by effecting a stroke from/to the <paste> box to/from the pertinent photo. The system interprets this action as a command to associate the selected frame with the designated photo. The frame list contains a blank frame which the user can select and paste to remove any frame from the composition. The page composition form is updated to show the pasted frame.
As another example, in a netpage e-mail application, clicking on an <attach> button at the bottom of every e-mail composition page effects attachment of the current selection at the current end of the body of the e-mail. The attachment can consist of any object or objects, which are capable of selection, on any netpage page. The user may have made this selection from, say, selecting text (eg. word/sentence/paragraph/article) from another netpage page, or selecting a photograph (eg. by circumscription) from a photo collection page. The entire e-mail may then be reprinted with the attachment included, additional pages being automatically added to the e-mail to accommodate the attachment. | 2019-04-26T10:30:07 | http://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/app/20090024918 |
0.999999 | What are the steps of science investigation?
Students will build an understanding of circuits: symbols for parts, series, parallel.
Students will build series and parallel circuits with batteries, light bulbs, and switches.
Students will demonstrate positive participation in activity.
Students will complete a review quiz and building activity.
Students should continue to review class notes in science spiral or folder for about 15 minutes per class day to build a solid understanding.
Our UMS Prentice Hall text book is available free on the Internet.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of circuits: symbols for parts, series, parallel.
Students will complete memory and open note quiz on circuit symbols, and series and parallel circuits.
Students will use text to answer questions on how electricity works.
Students will build an understanding of electric charge, lightning, lightning safety, and current research on lightning.
Students will build understanding on how magnetism is used for medicine, transportation, and recreation.
Students will take notes on how magnetism is used today.
Students will receive study guide for review quiz on magnetism.
Students will use magnets and iron filings to view and record how field lines form around bar magnets.
Students will demonstrate understanding for the process of science investigation.
Students will work in small groups to gather data by observing magnetic force and field relative to the number of magnets used and make temporary magnetic effects using paper clips and magnets.
Students will demonstrate understanding of class expectations.
Students will read through the list of class expectations and share opinions.
Students will review graded quiz on Earth Forces unit.
Students will write answers to share what they currently know and understand about magnets and magnetism.
Students should review the day's class activity for about 15 minutes per class day to build a solid understanding.
Our UMS Prentice Hall text book is available free on the Internet. The current text book will be: Electricity and Magnetism.
Students will complete notes to describe the process of science investigation for one of the episode stories [duct tape & lifting a car; duct tape & cannon; duct tape & floating a boat].
Students will develop understanding for the properties of magnetism.
Students will complete work in small groups to develop sense of attraction, repulsion, magnetic force and field.
Students will take notes from text on key concepts for understanding magnetism and for understanding the atomic basis of magnetism.
Students should review class notes in science spiral or folder for about 15 minutes per class day to build a solid understanding.
Review quiz on Earth Forces Unit will be given on Wednesday/Thursday.
What forces shaped our planet?
How do scientists investigate the history of our planet?
Students will complete a review quiz.
Unit quiz will occur on Tuesday Dec 18th or Wednesday Dec 19th pending class progress.
How does the microscope work?
How are the features on the surface of the earth formed?
How does the cell perform the eight processes of life?
Missing/late Life Process Posters may be turned in for partial credit by Friday 10/26. I update the student Skyward grades each evening to show if the poster has been submitted.
UMS Parent - Student - Teacher Conference appointment forms were sent home with students on Monday 10/22. Please return your request by Thursday 10/25.
What are the common characteristics of all living things?
Students will demonstrate understanding of the eight life processes: food getting, growth, movement, excretion, secretion, reproduction, response, respiration.
What were key discoveries about the cell?
Students will build and demonstrate understanding of the history of discovery for the cell.
Students will build and demonstrate understanding of cell parts and processes.
Students will take notes from video : National Geographic's "Discovering the cell"
Students will color, cut, fold, and paste the study guide polygon.
Science Life Process posters due on Friday 10/19 with student planning page attached.
What are the essential characteristics of living things?
Students will build and demonstrate understanding of the eight life processes shared by living organisms.
Visioneers field trip to Mahomet Early American Museum.
Students not attending field trip will be working on team class work in room 1734 during team periods.
Notice: Life Process posters due with student planning page attached.
How does the cell meet the eight processes of life?
Students will record current understanding of cells, cell parts, and cell discovery.
Introduction to new unit on "Organization of Life"
Students will build and demonstrate understanding of the characteristics of living things.
Students will list three kinds of living things and state three or more characteristics they have in common.
Students will work in small groups to answer four questions on what they know or think about living things.
Students will plan to work on a life process poster illustrating how an selected organism meets 4 to 8 of the life processes.
I encourage UMS students to excel with our school Spirit Week. An all school assembly will be held on the end of Friday.
Students not attending the Visioneers trip to Krannert on Friday will be meeting in room 1734 with Mr. Apfelstadt, or room 1642 with Ms. Mathis during team periods.
What are the key ideas, steps, and skills of science investigation?
One day will be used as a break from regular work to view a Mythbusters episode on "Diet Coke and Mentos."
Students will reinforce understanding of main lab design concepts: background knowledge, problem statement, experiment design, and determining results of investigation.
Students will work with displays of the results from all students who measured six objects in the classroom.
Special team and school schedule and activities.
b) For students not attending, teachers will provide materials and guidance for students to complete current class work.
c) Students will attend an author's assembly hosted by the school.
d) Students will attend and participate in an all school assembly celebrating UMS Spirit Week. | 2019-04-26T10:46:45 | http://umshw.usd116.org/users/gapfelstadt1/ |
0.999982 | I'm an independent contractor, and as such most of my financial reserves are in my (one-man) company. Taking them out would incur a 30% dividend tax when withdrawn immediately, a rate that drops down to 10% over a period of five years.
However, I recognise the opportunity cost of letting this reserve sit idle for five years straight. I've talked about this with my accountant who suggested the possibility of me personally taking out a loan from my company as lender. This loan would allow the financial reserve to be invested immediately, but incurs ~2.4% interest.
So, a potential ROI of ~5% reduced by ~2.4% interest rate leaves a remainder of ~2.6% return on those first five years.
I understand leveraged investing is risky. In this particular case I'm both the lender and the beneficiary of the loan, so I'm assuming the debt were to vanish in thin air if I'd liquidate my company (On liquidation the principal returns to company, accrued interest is taxed and then the sum is immediately taxed and returned to my private person). There of course is the risk of my company exploding due to some calamity.
Am I missing something here? Does the ~2.6% return alongside with the additional risk make sense?
I wouldn't call this leveraged investing. You are potentially borrowing from yourself to invest, so I don't believe the interest rate is all that relevant. Perhaps it is only to the extent that your business will owe tax on the interest, but you are unlikely to be able to write-off the interest paid on your personal taxes. Potentially, this is a good way to enable you to invest how you like and avoid the 30% dividend tax. I guess my only suggestion would be to keep your bond holdings in the business account, and only borrow from yourself what you would use to buy equities. That way you aren't paying taxes on interest income twice. | 2019-04-22T01:06:17 | https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=259566&p=4131122 |
0.999108 | A. How to choose a suitable transport method?
1. Transport by sea: service ends at the destination seaport: it's cheap but very slow. Our trading terms are EXW, FOB and CIF. Shipping by sea is a very good choice if your goods’ weight is more than 500KG.
2. Transport by air: service ends at the destination airport: it's expensive but very fast. Customers have to clear the goods in the customs by themselves. You can choose to ship by air if your goods are more than 100KG or when they are urgently needed even though it's heavier than that.
3. DHL/FedEx/EMS Express is a door to door service. It's very fast and convenient. And of course, it is the most expensive way to ship.
B. Where do you deliver our products?
Your products will be delivered to the seaport, airport or your home address as requested.
Goods will be delivered to the seaport if shipped by sea.
Goods will be delivered to the airport if shipped by air.
Goods will be delivered to your home if shipped by Express.
Our goods can be delivered to more than 200 countries and regions in the world.
If you want a door to door service by sea or by air, we can also do it.
Shipping time means the period that the shipping company takes to send the goods to the appointed destination.
Our order handling time is within 2 working days for doubling check of product quality and packaging and product dispatching.
Shipping time depends on the shipping method. If your goods are dispatched, our system will send you a confirmation email.
If you need a faster delivery service, standard shipping options are for your choosing. Once you select a standard shipping method, your goods will be sent by Express service, it will take 7 to 9 working days to deliver your goods.
For urgent orders, shipping by air transport or Express is the best choice. We will handle such orders preferentially. We use DHL which usually it takes 3 to 6 working days to deliver the goods. Besides, real-time status of the order can be checked by the tracking number on http://www.dhl.com/en/express/tracking.html . In a normal situation, the tracking number will be traceable within 2 working days.
Note: The information of transportation time does not include weekends and holidays. The actual delivery time may vary due to the holiday, peak season, customs clearance, flight delays, bad weather, weekends, etc. Sometimes the delivery date may take an additional delay of 7 to 10 days to reach the final destination.
D. How to track the goods?
After delivering the goods, we will provide you with a tracking number, you can track the shipping information on the Internet.
You must make sure that we are informed about the changing before delivery. We will change the shipping method and recipient information according to your requirements. For PayPal payment, shipping address can not be changed. It must be matched with the same address confirmed on PayPal. | 2019-04-22T22:47:45 | https://www.chinaledpro.com/shipping-guide-ezp-12.html |
0.999499 | Adam Smith describes the patho-anatomy of a side strain and outlines clinical tests to assess, treat and determine readiness for return to play for a cricket fast bowler.
Side strains have been reported in a variety of sports, including javelin throwers, baseball pitchers, tennis players, golfers, and cricketers. This article, however, focuses on side strains in cricketers. Australian cricket data (based on both state and national players) reports that in the 18 cricket seasons up to 2013-2014, side strains had the second highest incidence and the third highest prevalence of all injuries that resulted in players missing games(1). Over 90% of the reported side strains (described as acute onset lateral trunk pain and occur during the bowling delivery) in cricketers over the last 20 years have occurred in fast bowlers(1).
What is a side strain?
A side strain in cricket occurs most commonly when bowling. Fast bowlers will describe that during a single delivery, they felt sudden onset, sharp lateral trunk pain on the side contralateral to their bowling arm(2). On most occasions, the bowler is unable to continue bowling (although this is not always the case) and often the player will leave the field. The mechanism of injury is thought to be related to the bowler; their quest to increase ball velocity, vigorously pulling the front arm (contralateral side to their bowling arm) down causing a strain (see figure 1).
Age and intensity are also potential risk factors for a side strain(1). Younger bowlers (under 24years of age) have been shown to be twice as likely to suffer injury as those aged between 25-29 and 3 times more likely than bowlers over 30 years(1). Side strains also occur more commonly in the early part of the season and most occur during early season matches. This suggests that changes in intensity from training to competitive games may contribute to the likelihood of injury in the early parts of a season. With most recurrences of side strain occurring within a season, increases in intensity may also be a risk factor in recurrences(1). Interestingly, there seems to be no additional increase in risk if a side strain is reported in a previous season.
The fast bowler will commonly report an acute localized sharp lateral trunk pain (often in the mid-axillary line) that occurred during their delivery. They may also describe pain with breathing, coughing and sneezing, and they can be very uncomfortable moving around especially rolling over in bed. The pain may radiate slightly into the abdominal area. From this description alone a side strain is highly likely.
A player with a side strain will be extremely tender over one or more of the lower four ribs (most commonly in the mid-axillary line).
The player stands side on to a wall with feet pelvis width apart, and the pelvis and the lateral border of one foot up against a wall. The hand closest to the wall is placed on their head. With the pelvis remaining in contact with the wall, the player is then asked to purely laterally flex away (avoiding truck flexion or extension) from the wall as far as they can and the therapist measures how far from the floor their middle finger can reach down their leg. This test in the early phase is often both restricted and painful. The therapist measures both the distance and where the restriction is felt – for example, ‘jamming’ on the ipsilateral side or ‘stretch’ on the contralateral side. These results can then be compared with the non-injured side and/or previous measures. This test is also useful as a monitoring tool throughout a season to determine ‘normal range and feeling’ and may pick early signs of tightness. Post-injury, players should be able to return to full lateral flexion range of motion and their normal restriction feeling.
Stage 1: Isometric shoulder adducted in 90-degree abduction– Player places hand of side that is injured on head, with elbow remaining in line with body in coronal plane. The therapist places hands just proximal to elbow and the player attempts to adduct shoulder. The therapist pushes up as the player pushes down to ensure an isometric test.
Stage 2: Isometric shoulder adduction from elevation– Player fully elevates the hand of side that is injured. The therapist places hands just proximal to elbow or wrist, and the player attempts to adduct shoulder. The therapist pushes up as the player pushes down to ensure an isometric test.
Stage 3: Isometric shoulder adduction and ipsilateral side flexion from full shoulder elevation and contralateral side flexion– Player fully elevates hand of the side that is injured and then laterally flexes truck to the contralateral side. The therapist places hands just proximal to wrist (or elbow) and the player attempts to adduct shoulder and lateral flex trunk towards the injured side. The therapist pushes up as the player pushes down to ensure an isometric test.
Sit up/crunch with resistance– Player lies in a crook lie with hands across chest. They then do a straight crunch. To further load the oblique muscles, a rotation can be added to the crunch. If these are not painful then the therapist may add resistance to increase the demand of the test.
Side plank– This test can be very painful initially. The side plank is not only a good assessment test, but it can also be used to monitor and progress treatment. Initially, a side plank may only be able be possible on knees or with elbows on a bench (height of bench and time should be recorded). As a player progresses the difficulty of the test can be increased by increasing time of hold or decreasing the height of the bench until they are on the floor. Alternatively, increase the difficulty by asking the player to do it on their hands rather than their elbow.
Once a player has no pain on breathing, coughing, or full range of motion, combine these movements. Player fully lateral flexes to side of pain and takes as deep a breath as possible. Note any pain. If this is pain-free then add a cough in full side flexion. If this test is pain-free, progress the player to some bowling at moderate intensity.
Diagnosis of a side strain is generally a clinical diagnosis based on the description of injury and positive findings from the clinical tests outlined previously. Imaging is however useful in determining the extent of damage and exact structures involved(2). Ultrasound can be used but MRI is the modality of choice. On MRI, an acute side strain is characterized by a high signal on the T2 image at the muscle, rib/costal cartilage interface, and often shows a complete or partial tear of the abdominal musculature(2). The internal oblique at its attachment onto the 11thrib is the most common muscle injured. However, pathology has also been reported in external oblique, transversus abdominus, and abdominal muscle attachments of the 9-12thribs(1,2). MRI imaging may also show rib or costal cartilage damage, including bone stress, bone avulsion or periosteal stripping(1). With these injuries, hematoma may be seen tracking between the internal and external oblique musculature(1). Figure 2 shows an MRI image of an elite level fast bowler with a tear of the internal oblique muscle as it attaches onto the 11thrib.
Costoiliac impingement – This occurs as a result of a decrease in space between the lower ribs and pelvis, and may be due to either a hypertrophied internal/external oblique muscle, rib hypertrophy or a hypersensitive scar from a previous side strain.
Referred pain – from thoracic spine and/or either costotransverse or costovertebral joints.
In the early stages, the main aim is to decrease pain especially if breathing, coughing, and sneezing are painful. This can be done through the use of pain-relieving medication in the acute phase. When the player can deep breathe and cough then cardiovascular training can commence – initially with biking or walking and then progressing to running as pain allows.
Soft tissue work throughout abdominal musculature especially obliques, and rectus abdominus.
Thoracic spine and rib mobilisation.
Gentle stretching to the contralateral side, combined with deep-breathing drills to help expand ribs.
Slow isotonic: move through side range with band or pulley machine (see figure 3).
The length of time to return to play from this injury varies considerably with reports ranging from one to seventy days(1). Rehabilitation should be guided by a player’s symptoms rather than based on scan results or a specified time. Within-season recurrence rates are high for this injury, and as such, the return to bowling plan requires a graded return to both volume and intensity.
Table 2 shows an example of a graduated return to bowling plan for a player who returned to play at week six. Anecdotally, injuries that involve the rib/costal cartilage tend to take longer than those that just involve muscle. However, further research is required comparing scan results and time to return to play before this is confirmed.
Side strains are a common and significant injury to cricket fast bowlers as they often require considerable periods of rehabilitation and inability to play. The clinician should be aware that this injury has a high ‘within-season’ recurrence rate and a graded return to high-intensity bowling is an integral part of the rehabilitation process. Further studies are required to determine risk factors and the relationship between imaging findings and time frames for return to play. | 2019-04-21T14:17:06 | https://www.sportsinjurybulletin.com/a-clinicians-guide-to-side-strains-in-cricket-fast-bowlers/ |
0.999643 | Arthritis can keep joints from working properly.
But isn't arthritis something that only old people get?
Actually, kids can get a kind of arthritis called juvenile idiopathic arthritis or JIA (it's also called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, or JRA). Juvenile means young, so this means that JIA is different from the arthritis that adults get. Kids can have many different types of arthritis, but JIA is the most common.
Many problems can cause pain and swelling of the joints, so a doctor will want to know how long these problems have been going on. To be considered JIA, the joints must have swelling and pain for at least 6 weeks.
Arthritis is an autoimmune (say: aw-toe-i-myoon) disease. An autoimmune disease means a person's immune system makes a mistake and attacks the body's own tissues or organs. Normally, a kid's immune system sends out white blood cells to protect the body and fight outside invaders like bacteria and viruses that can make a kid sick. But with an autoimmune disease like JIA, the immune system makes a mistake and attacks healthy cells.
Instead of recognizing the healthy cells and saying, "Hi, nice to see you," the immune system thinks the healthy cells need to be destroyed and releases chemicals to fight the healthy cells. The chemicals released by the immune system cause the pain and swelling that can happen with arthritis.
Just because a joint hurts doesn't mean a kid has JIA. A joint might hurt for a lot of different reasons, which is why it's important to see a doctor to figure out what the problem is.
The doctor will ask a lot of questions: How long has the kid had joint problems? Does he or she feel stiff when getting up or after resting? Are the joints swollen? Was there an injury? Could another problem be causing arthritis, such as Lyme disease? Is there a family history of arthritis or other autoimmune diseases?
Getting these answers and doing a physical exam, blood tests, and X-rays will help the doctor figure out if it is JIA. If your doctor thinks you may have it, he or she may send you to see a doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis. This kind of doctor is called a rheumatologist (say: roo-muh-tol-oh-jist).
In addition to joint problems, JIA may cause uveitis (say: yoo-vee-eye-tus), an inflammation of the eye that can lead to problems with vision if it's not treated. All kids diagnosed with JIA should get their eyes checked by an ophthalmologist, a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating eye problems. If the eyes are affected, they may be treated with eye drops.
Keep joints warm and stay active.
Take warm baths, which can make a kid's joints hurt less.
Use an electric blanket on a timer that turns on 1 hour before a kid wakes up, which can help warm the joints and help a kid move better.
Some kids dip their hands in a special warm wax called paraffin that helps their joints ache less.
It's important to find a good balance between activity (which helps kids stay flexible) and rest (which everyone needs). Swimming is a great exercise for someone with JIA. It stretches a lot of different muscles and tendons and helps keep a kid moving and flexible. It's important to stay active even when a kid isn't having symptoms.
Sometimes kids with JIA can go a long time, even months or years, without the disease bothering them. Then it comes back. This is called a flare-up or flare. Flare-ups just happen and can't be prevented. It can be frustrating if a flare-up happens on a day when the kid would like to be doing something fun, like attending a birthday party.
If you know someone with JIA, you may offer to carry books or give other help, if needed. It's also OK if the person doesn't want help.
The good news is that many kids with JIA will outgrow it. About half of kids with JIA may not need treatment as adults.
And even when the arthritis flares up, almost all kids with JIA can control it with medicine and other treatments, which means they can do most things that other kids can do. | 2019-04-23T04:21:02 | https://kidshealth.org/PrimaryChildrens/en/kids/juv-rheum-arthritis.html?WT.ac=ctg |
0.996711 | After detonating the bomb, the assailant tried to kill himself.
A man threw an explosive device at a check-in counter at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Sunday, wounding four travelers, before attempting to kill himself. According to a Shanghai Police press statement, "a man took out a homemade explosive device in a beer bottle from a bag he was carrying and threw it in front of the check-in counters." After the bottle exploded, the man attempted to slash his own neck with a knife he had brought into the check-in area at Terminal 2. The assailant was taken to a hospital and is in critical condition. Four passengers are being treated for minor injuries caused by the broken glass.
Police have identified the assailant as Zhou Xingbai, a 29-year-old originally from the southwestern province of Guizhou, according to CNN. The homemade explosive device he used appears to have been a beer bottle filled with gunpowder taken out of fireworks. According to a police press statement, Zhou is thought to have accrued a large amount of gambling debt. "Before the incident, Zhou said in a group chat on Wechat [a Chinese social media platform] that he had owed many people money and was ready to do something so crazy that he would lose his life for it," police said.
Pudong International Airport is the sixth busiest airport in Asia, with over 60 million passengers passing through it in 2015. The attack places even more attention on questions around airport security, brought to the forefront after suicide bombings killed 30 people in the departure hall at Brussels' Zaventem International Airport in March: Namely, whether passengers should have to go through security checks not only to enter the gate area, but to get into the airport at all. | 2019-04-23T23:55:55 | https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-06-13/explosion-at-shanghai-pudong-airport-wounds-4 |
0.999582 | 一种低灌注下测量血氧的方法，用于血氧测量装置，包括步骤：系统上电后，先进行硬件初始化，CPU系统自检，和程序初始化；系统核心控制模块在数据采集、处理的具体过程中，对硬件进行不同的控制；系统通讯功能模块输出系统数据处理模块计算得到的血氧饱和度或脉率的结果或数据；还包括步骤：所述系统数据处理包括面积积分递归处理，依据存储在数据缓冲区中的实时采集得到的测量数据，在一段时间内对所述实时数据积分来计算所述血氧饱和度。 The method of measuring a low-oxygen perfusion for oxygen measuring means, comprising the steps of: system power, the first hardware initialization, the CPU system self-test and initialization procedures; core control system of the data acquisition module, processed particular process, the different control hardware; results or data communication system, the system function module outputs obtained data processing module calculates oxygen saturation or pulse rate; further comprising the step of: said data processing system comprising a recursive processing area integration, based on real-time data collection stored in the data buffer is obtained within a period of time to calculate the oxygen saturation of the real-time data integration. 所述系统还包括一个决策步骤，根据测量信号的强度，对系统以波形法和积分法获得的两种结果进行判定来产生最终结果。 The system further comprises a decision step, according to the signal strength measurements, the system determination results obtained in two waveform method and integral method to generate a final result. 采用所述方法，可以去除噪音对有效信号的干扰，提高低灌注下测量血氧的精确度，同时不增加测量系统的生产成本。 The method employed, may be removed effective signal noise, improve the accuracy of measurement of low perfusion of oxygen, without increasing the production cost of the measurement system.
背景技术在医疗手术及病体恢复过程中，对病人血氣状态进行监护是非常必要的， 一般邇过监測血氣饱和度参数来进行.測i该参数通常用分光光度法，包括透射光法和反射光法， 均以朗伯-比尔定律和光散射理论为基硇，利用还原血红蛋白和氣合血红蛋白的光吸收系数的差别来进行.朗伯-比尔定律是-. / == V-" In the medical and surgical recovery process ill, the patient blood is necessary to monitor status, typically through the monitoring of blood gas near to saturation parameter. The parameter i is generally measured spectrophotometrically, including transmission and reflection light method light method, are Lambert - Beer's law and the theory of light scattering NAO group, is performed utilizing the difference in light absorption coefficient of the reduced hemoglobin-hemoglobin gas Lambert - Beer's law is -. / == V- "
说明物质的光吸收情况与其浓度具有相关性，从而预示由组织的光吸收情况来推算缀织内都成分的可能性. Light-absorbing substance described the case where correlated to its concentration, thereby indicating the possibility of absorption of light by the tissue within the organization are conjugated to project component.
研究人员又进一步研究了与血氣饱和度密切相关的两大组分Hb(还原血红蛋白）和HbO2 (氣合血红蛋白），发现如图2所示，实线为HbO2光吸收系数曲线，虛线为Hb光吸收系数曲线，两者光吸收特性具有显著差别：HbO2的光吸收系数在波长为660nm的可见红光处仅为Hb的l/10，而在940nm的红外光区则大于Hb的；二者在805nm的红外光区有一处等吸收点. The researchers further study is closely related to the two components of blood saturation Hb (reduced hemoglobin) and HbO2 (gas-hemoglobin), was found as shown, the solid line curve HbO2 light absorption coefficient, the dashed line Hb 2 the light absorption coefficient curve, both light absorption characteristics having significantly different: HbO2 light absorption coefficient of Hb is only l / 10 in the visible red light at a wavelength of 660nm, and 940nm in the infrared region is greater than the Hb; both in the infrared region of 805nm has an absorption point and the like.
其中，y4-f/(f,—^); B-^/(f,—f2). Wherein, y4-f / (f, - ^); B - ^ / (f, -f2).
其中/。 among them/. 为仅有组织本底吸收时的透射光强，Ad为由无血到血液充盈带来的透射距离的改变. 很容易地，定义本底光密度D" When the transmitted light intensity for the background absorption only tissue, a change in the Ad blood by blood filling without bringing the transmission distance. Easily define the background optical density D "
该公式（9)是检测血氣饱和度的基本公式。 The formula (9) is a basic formula for blood gas saturation.
<formula>formula see original document page 6</formula>从上述^^式可以看出，当发光管的工作状态调整固定后， 一段时间内红光与红外光的直流分量将是比较穗定的，故影响变量R的主要因素是所示的两路光强交流分i.现一般通过寻找所述两路光的聚大值和最小值来计算所述交流分i.因此，如果知道两种透射光在一个完整脉搏波中的波形就可以计算出R值. <Formula> formula see original document page 6 </ formula> ^^ can be seen from the above formula, when the operating state of adjustment of the arc tube is fixed, the period of time the red and infrared DC component will be relatively light given ear, Therefore, the main factors influencing variable R is shown two light intensity AC components i. Looking now typically by polymerization and minimum values of the two light paths to calculate the AC components i. Thus, knowing the two kinds of transmission in a complete optical waveform of the pulse wave value R can be calculated.
目前国内外脉搏式血氣计是利用脉搏波造成的人体组织末端内动脉血搏动，及氣合血红蛋白和还原血红蛋白影响人体组织末端（如手指）对红光和红外光透光性的不同，将一定光强的红光和红外光加到手指上，从而邇过检测该两种光的透射光强，根据二者光密度经过手指后变化量的比值和上述相关推导公式，来计算得出血氣饱和度。 At home and abroad by using a pulse-type blood pulse wave meter is caused by arterial pulsation human tissue within the tip, and gas combined effect of light and reduced hemoglobin on different red and infrared light transmissive body tissue ends (e.g., a finger), a certain light intensity of red and infrared light to the finger, so that through the detection of the two kinds of light near the transmitted light intensity, optical density obtained both after blood volume change ratio after the finger and the correlation equation is derived to calculate the saturation degree.
根据上述原理，血氣饱和度拥量装置的基本结构包括血氣探头和信号处理装置.血氣探头的关键部件是一个包括发光二极管和光敏元件的传感器.所述发光二极管提供两种或两种以上波长的光；光敏元件把通过手指带有血氣饱和度信息的光信号转换成电信号；该电信号经数字i化后被提供给信号处理模块用以计算血氣饱和度. According to this principle, the basic structure of owned amount of blood gas saturation means comprises a probe and a signal processing means blood key member is a blood gas sensor probe light emitting diode and a photosensitive element comprising the light emitting diode to provide two or more wavelengths light; photosensitive element into an electric signal to an optical signal by a finger with blood saturation level information; i of the electrical signal and then supplied to the digital signal processing module to calculate blood saturation.
向外发送，并用光耦加以隔离.其中，单片机对各个部分的控制是通过逻辑控制部分来实现的，如探头发光时序控制、驱动电流控制、偏置电流控制、背景光剪除控制、信号A/D转换控制等。 Sending out, and be isolated optocoupler. Wherein each MCU control section is implemented by a logic control portion, such as the probe light emission timing control, drive current control, the bias current control, cut off the backlight control signal A / D conversion control.
上述现有技术的缺点是：灌注对于病人来说较多时候是很低的，在此条件下测營血氣时， 因需要测量脉搏波形的交流成分，也就是要寻找脉搏波形中最大值和最小值，而被测信号在低灌注下非常徹弱，信噪比很低，对波形的寻找非常困难，从而对脉搏波波峰的测算会出现误差，由此得到的交直流比值也可能是错误的，导致最终測得的血氧值精确度很差. The above-described disadvantages of the prior art are: when large perfusion for patients is very low when measured under the conditions of this camp blood, because of the need to measure the pulse waveform of the AC component, that is, to find the maximum and minimum pulse waveform value, and the measured signal is very weak at low perfusion Toru, low SNR, the waveform is very difficult to find, so as to measure the pulse wave peak error may occur, a ratio of AC and DC thus obtained may be wrong , leading to the final value of the measured oxygen poor accuracy.
为解决上述技术问题，本发明的基本构思为：因为可以证明脉搏波采样数据的积分结果等同于脉搏波交流成分，故采用信号面积积分代替现有方法中的寻找波形峰值，用所述积分结果来计算血氧饱和度，这样，就只须对一段时间的脉搏波形进行积分；利用该段时间内噪音的积分趋于零，还可以去除噪音对有效信号的干扰，从而提高低灌注下测量血氧的精确度. To solve the above technical problem, the basic idea of the invention is: the integration result as the pulse wave can prove sampled data equivalent to the AC component of the pulse wave, so the use of the signal waveform peak area integration instead of looking for the conventional method, the integration result with calculating oxygen saturation, this way, only the pulse waveform is integrated over time; using the noise integral of the period of time tends to zero, it may also remove noise signals effective to improve low blood perfusion measurements accuracy of oxygen.
c. 所述系统数据处理包括采用面积积分递归处理，依据存储在数据缓冲区中所述两路光的所述采样测董得到的实时数据，在一段时间内分别对各路光相应的所述实时数据进行积分，用红光对应的所述实时数据积分结果和红外光对应的所述实时数据积分结果的比值来代替该段时间内接收的红光强度交流峰峰值Re"和红外光强度交流峰峰值IQ的比值，来计算所述血氧饱和度；所述积分是该时间段内对应于该路光的所述各实时数据绝对值与该数据采样时间间隔乘积的累加. c. The system includes a data processing area integration using a recursive process, the two-way real-time data stored in the data buffer of the light in the sample based on the measured Dong obtained in each period of time corresponding to the brightest light integrating real-time data, real-time data corresponding to the integration result of the red light and the infrared light corresponding to the ratio of real-time data integration result instead received within the period of time the red light intensity peak AC Re "and the AC intensity of infrared light IQ peak ratio to calculate the blood oxygen saturation level; that the said integration period corresponding to each of the light path of the real-time data with the absolute value of the product of the sampling time interval of the data accumulated.
上述方案所述步骤c中，所述数据处理还包括采用波形法处理，依据所述釆样测*得到的实时数据，拟合脉搏波包络波形，并寻找脉搏波中的最值来计算血氣饱和度。 Said step c above embodiment, the data processing method further comprises a waveform-processing, according to the measured sample * preclude real-time data obtained fit pulse wave envelope waveform and looking for the value of the pulse wave calculated blood saturation.
所述系统还包括一个决策单元，在所述步骤c之后，包括决策步骤：根据被所述釆样测量的光信号强度，对所述数据处理模块分别以波形法和积分法获得的两种结果进行判定，并产生最终测董计算结果. The system further comprises a decision unit, after said step C, decision step comprising: the optical signal according to the measured intensity preclude the like, respectively to the waveform data processing module and the method of integration of two results determination, to produce the final measurement results Dong.
采用上述技术方案，可以去除噪音对有效信号的千扰，提高低灌注下测量血氣的精确度， 同时不增加测量系统的生产成本. With the above technical solution, the noise can be removed on one thousand valid signal interference, improve the accuracy of measurement of low perfusion and blood, without increasing the production cost of the measurement system.
具体实施方式下面，结合附图所示之最佳实施例进一步阐述本发明. DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, the present invention is further described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of the preferred embodiments illustrated.
实际由各釆样点棋拟的红光、红外光强波形如图5所示，所述积分处理如图6所示，分别对红光或红外光各脉搏波采样点连成的曲线与时间轴所围阴影部分面积求和，当各采样点的采样时间间隔合适时（比如釆用120 Hz采样时），所述部分面积近似等于一段时间内各采样幅度与对应釆样时间间隔乘积之和.该两路光的面积之比近似为所述该时间段内的两路光强各自的交流幅值(峰峰值)之比.由此，分别测出两路光的所述光强交流数据，即可根据现有R与血氣饱和度的关系计算血氣饱和度。 Bian actual samples each prepared by chess red, infrared light intensity waveform shown in Figure 5, the integration processing shown in FIG. 6, respectively, of red or infrared light at each sampling point even as the pulse wave curve and the time shaded area bounded summation shaft, when the sampling time interval of the sampling points appropriate (such as when using 120 Hz sampling Bian), said part of the area is approximately equal to the period of time corresponding to the amplitude of each sample interval preclude the sum of the products comp the ratio of the area of the two-way light path of the two is approximately the time period of the respective alternating light intensity amplitude (peak to peak) ratio. Accordingly, each of the measured two-way exchange of data of the light intensity , blood gas saturation can be calculated according to the relationship R and the conventional blood gas saturation. 该所述时间段可以依经验，在2至3秒的区间上取适当值. The said time period can be empirically, take the appropriate value in the interval 2-3 seconds.
根据上述证明，可以在基于如困1所示的測傲装置基础上，改进系统软件并使用本发明方法，使所述装置提高低灌注下的测ft精确度.图7是所述实施例的系统软件模块框图：系统上电后，先进行硬件初始化，CPU系统自检，和程序初始化；完成以上过程后进入核心控制模块，根据系统的工作状态，分别启动安全功能模块（测量系统各个状态标志或进行系统自检，以确保系统工作正常)，或数据处理模块（处理实时采集的数据和计算结果)，或通讯功能楔块（系统接收指令或输出数据和结果)；此外，所述核心控制棋块在数据采集、处理的具体过程中，如图1所示，还根据测i值，在各个状态中对硬件进行不同的控制，包括对发光管驱动电流的控制，对偏置电路及增益的控制，对A/D釆样的控制；在本实施例中，所述数据处理包括采用面积积分递归处理，依据存储 According to the above-described proof, can be proud of the measuring apparatus on the basis of trapped as shown in FIG. 1, the improved system software and using methods of the present invention, the means to improve the accuracy of measurement at low perfusion ft. FIG. 7 is an embodiment of the system block diagram of software modules: the system power, the first hardware initialization, the CPU system self-test and initialization procedures; after completion of the above process into the core control module, according to the operating state of the system, the security status flags respectively activate each function module (measuring system or system self-test to ensure that the system is working properly), or data processing modules (the processing of real-time data acquisition and calculation results), or a communication wedge (or output system receives the instruction data and results); in addition, the core control chess blocks in the data collection, processing of the specific process, shown in Figure 1, also in accordance with the measured value of i, in each state of the different hardware control, including the control of the driving current of the arc tube, and the gain of the bias circuit control, the a / D preclude the kind of control; in the present embodiment, the data processing process comprises using a recursive integration of the area, based on the storage 在数据缓冲区中的实时采集得到的测營数据, 对所述实时数据在一段时间内积分来计算血氣饱和度。 The measured operational data in the data buffer in real-time acquisition obtained, the real-time data over a period of time integral to calculate blood saturation. 通常数据处理模块还要计算脉率，可以用过零计数器来完成，在此不另叙.所述数据处理还可以包括采用传统波形法处理，依据所述实时数据通过拟合脉搏波包络，并寻找最值来计算血氧饱和度.系统还可以包括一个决策单元，在上述步骤之后，包括决策步骤：根据测量信号的强度，对所述数据处理糢块分别以波形法和积分法获得的两种结果进行判定，并产生最终测量计算结果. Typically the data processing module further calculates the pulse rate, can be used to complete the zero-crossing counter, which is not further classification. The further data processing method may include conventional waveform processing, according to the real-time data by fitting the pulse wave envelope, and find the best value to calculate blood oxygen saturation system may further include a decision unit, after the above step, decision step comprises: a measurement signal according to the intensity of the waveform data processing modules respectively obtained by integration process and determination two results to produce the final measurement results.
所述决策步骤的判定、计算依据为：设由波形法获得的血氣饱和度参数结果为A,，由积分法获得的血氧饱和度参敫结果为A,，聚终测量计算的血氣饱和度参数结果为A，则Aa",+ (la)*A,，其中，a的取值范围为l ~ 0，依据渊i信号的强弱不同而选定. Determining said decision step, it is calculated based on: provided by the results of blood gas saturation parameter waveform obtained law parameters A ,, oximetry Jiao result obtained by the integration as a blood gas saturation measurements final poly A ,, calculated parameter result is a, Aa ", + (la) * a ,, where, a is in the range of l ~ 0, depending on the signal strength of the selected deep i.
其中Red^, iTAc。 Where the Red ^, iTAc. 为本次面积积分结果；RedAC|， 11^为上一次面积积分结果；RedAC,， frM:,为前n次面积积分结果.当0<义<1时，经过若干次迭代后，较前测得的数据对本次实时计算结果的影响是可以忽略的，所以与当次越靠近的计算对当前结果贡献越大.根据经验义取0.8比较合理。 Oriented sub-area integration result;. RedAC |, 11 ^ to the last area of the integration result; RedAC ,, frM :, is n times the area before the integration result when 0 <Yi <1, after several iterations, the previous measurement the impact of the data obtained in this real-time calculation result is negligible, so the greater the results when the calculations closer to the current contribution based on experience righteousness of 0.8 is reasonable.
1.—种低灌注下测量血氧的方法，用于血氧测量装置，包括步骤-.a. 系统上电后，先进行硬件初始化，CPU系统自检，和程序初始化；b. 系统对透过组织末蠊的两路光进行采样测量，其中一路为红光，另一路为红外光； 该系统的核心控制模块在数据采集、处理的具体过程中，对硬件进行不同的控制， 包括对发光管驱动电流的控制，对偏置电路及增益的控制，对A/D采样的控制；d.系统通讯功能模块输出系统数据处理模块计算得到的血氧饱和度或脉率的结果或数据；其特征在于，还包括步骤c. 所述系统数据处理包括采用面积积分递归处理,依据存储在数据缓冲区中所述两路光的所迷，测菱得到的实时数据，在一段时间内分别对各路光相应的所述实时数据进行积分，用红光对应的所述实时数据积分结果和红外光对应的所述实时数据积分结果的比值来代替该段 1.- method for measuring blood oxygen at low perfusion, for oximetry apparatus, comprising the steps of -.a system power, the first hardware initialization, the CPU system self-test and initialization procedures;.. B lens system through the tissue at the end of the two-way light cockroach sampling measurement, the way in which red light, another way of infrared light; core control module of the system of data collection, the specific process, different hardware control, comprising a light emitting tube drive control current, the bias control circuit and gain control of the a / D sampling;. d of results or data communication system, the system function module outputs obtained data processing module calculates oxygen saturation or pulse rate; it characterized by further comprising to step c. the system includes a data processing area integration using a recursive process, based on the data stored in the buffer of the two fans of light, the measured real-time data obtained chabazite, respectively, for each period of time path of light corresponding to said integrating real-time data, real-time data corresponding to the integration result of the red light and the infrared light corresponding to the ratio of real-time data integration result instead of the segment 间内接收的红光强度交流峰蜂值Redw和红外光强度交流峰峰值Irw的比值， 来计算所述血氧饱和度；所迷积分是该时间段内对应于该路光的所迷实时数据绝对值与该数据采样时间间隔乘积的累加。 Bee red light intensity peak value of the AC Redw and the ratio between the intensity of infrared light received AC peak Irw to calculate the oxygen saturation; the fans is that the integration period corresponding to the passage time data of the light fans the absolute value of the sum and product of the data sampling time interval.
2. 根据权利要求1所述的低灌注下滩董血氧的方法> 其特征在于：所述步骤c中，系统数据处理还包括采用波形法处理，依据所述采样测量得到的实时数据，拟合脉搏波包络波形，并寻找脉搏波中的最值来计算血氧饱和度。 2. The method of low-oxygen perfusion Beach Board according to claim 1> wherein: said step (c), the data processing system further comprises a waveform-processing method, according to the data measured in real-time sampling, to be combined pulse wave envelope waveform and looking for the value of the pulse wave calculating oxygen saturation.
3. 根据权利要求2所述的低灌注下测蚩血氧的方法，其特征在于，所述系统还包括一个决策单元，在所述步骤c之后，包括决策步骤：根揚被所述釆样测量的光信号强度，对所述数据处理模块分别以波形法和积分法获得的两种结果进行判定，并产生最终测囊计算结果. 3. The method of measuring blood oxygen at low perfusion Chi according to claim 2, characterized in that the system further comprises a decision unit, after said step C, decision step comprises: a root preclude the like by Yang optical signal strength measurements, the data processing modules are the results obtained in two waveform determination method and integration, to produce the final capsule measurement results.
5. 根据杈利要求4所述的低灌注下测董血氧的方法，其特征在于：所述决策步骤中，是以采集到的不经放大即达到A/D转换满量程时的模拟信号为基准，当实际被所述采样测董的光信号大于该基准的1/32时，取a-0.5;当实际信号小于该基准的1/32而大于该基准的1/64时，取a-0.4;当实际信号小于该基准的1/64而大于该基准的1/128时，取a-0.3;……依此类推，当实际信号衰减至一定程度时，取a"O， 以积分法获得的结果为最终结果. 5. The method of measurement of low perfusion Dong said oxygen prongs of claims 4, characterized in that: said decision step is collected without i.e. amplified analog signal reaches the A / D converter full scale as a reference, if 1/32 is actually greater than the reference sample of the optical signal detected Dong, take a-0.5; when the actual reference signal is less than the 1/32 but greater than 1/64 of the reference, to take a -0.4; when the actual reference signal is less than the 1/64 but greater than 1/128 of the time reference, to take a-0.3; ...... and so on, when the actual signal attenuation to some extent, taking a "O, the integral the results obtained method for the final result.
6. 根据权利要求l所述的低灌注下测量血氧的方法，其特征在于：步骤c之中所述积分的时间段为2至3秒。 6. The method of claim l low blood oxygen measurement of perfusion claim, characterized in that: in step c integration time period is 2-3 seconds.
7. 根据权利要求l所述的低灌注下测量血氧的方法，其特征在于：步骤c之中，所述系统数据处理的计算还依据遗忘因子;i,取值范围为o〈;ui,则本次所述两路光的交流峰峰值Red,c和I&之比为RedAC 一RedACo+/lRedAC|+〜+"RedAC, IrAC(>+;iIrACi+〜+AnIrAC。~~其中Red^。， Ir^为本次积分结果；RedACi, 1r^为上一次积分结果；Red",, IrAC。为前n次积分结果。 The method for measuring blood oxygen at low perfusion according to claim l, wherein: in step C, calculating said data processing system is also based on a forgetting factor; I, in the range of o <; ui, the two-way light of this the AC peak Red, c and I & ratio of REDAC a RedACo + / lRedAC | + ~ + "RedAC, IrAC (> +; iIrACi + ~ + AnIrAC ~~ wherein Red ^, Ir.. ^ oriented sub-integration results; RedACi, 1r ^ is the last result of integration;. Red ",, IrAC the first n times integration results.
8. 根据权利要求7所述的低灌注下测量血氧的方法，其特征在于：所述遗忘因子义=0.8。 According to claim 7, wherein the low blood oxygen perfusion measured, wherein: said sense forgetting factor = 0.8. | 2019-04-23T18:17:15 | https://patents.google.com/patent/CN100450437C/en |
0.999938 | Q. Why are you running for county board?
I am running for DuPage County Board to bring balance and unity to the board, and represent the voices in my district.
Currently, only one Democrat woman serves on the board. As an independent-minded Democrat, I will work with all parties regardless of their political affiliation. My work in co-authoring hate crime legislation, which passed unanimously in the House and Senate of Illinois and was signed into law, proves that I reach across the aisle to work with everyone to find bipartisan solutions.
As a lawyer, a co-author of legislation, a founder of a nonprofit organization, and a state-certified police instructor, I have been working on improving our county for years. Becoming a county board member allows me to broaden the work that I do to serve the people in the best way possible.
Q. Describe two ways you would contribute to the board.
DuPage County Board is involved in ordinances, regulations and contracts. As a lawyer, I am able to assist with analyzing ordinances and contracts to ensure efficiency and compliance. Out of all the candidates running for DuPage County Board in District 5, I am the only candidate that is an attorney.
The experience I have gained from co-authoring legislation in Illinois allows me to bring a unique skill set for the legislative agenda for the DuPage County Board. The legislative agenda is a platform to bring about policy changes for the board and the constituents of District 5.
Q. Is there a specific service or amenity that is lacking in the county? If so, how do you propose to provide and fund it?
While I was speaking with constituents in District 5, there were many that expressed concerns that there were not enough services for children and adults with special needs.
I would like to help with this issue by tapping into nonprofits and other resources that we already have to provide more services without raising costs. As a nonprofit founder, I am able to connect with other nonprofits that may be able to assist with this issue at the county level.
Q. With DuPage County's budget being squeezed by state funding cuts and other factors, what initiatives would you support to increase revenue and/or save money?
I would look for ways to streamline county services and functions without sacrificing quality. We should investigate ways to cut costs wherever possible and make sure each and every tax dollar is being spent as efficiently as possible.
Ultimately, to increase revenue in DuPage County, we should avoid raising taxes, and instead look to expand our tax base through economic development. I would be a strong advocate for bringing new development projects to the county.
Q. The county has been focused on consolidation of services and government agencies. How effective has that effort been and how could it be improved?
I support the consolidation portion of the new ACT Initiative. The sharing of the Juvenile Detention facility with Kane County's facilities was impressive. It not only saved costs for DuPage County, but it also allowed us to build better relations with another county. Another good example of effective consolidation is the merger of the election commission with the county clerk's office. This cooperation and sharing of responsibilities makes us stronger.
Q. What is the single most important issue facing your district and how should the county address it?
Property taxes are the most important issue facing my district and are causing many people to think about not only leaving DuPage County, but Illinois as well. As a lawyer who has been fighting to save families from losing their homes to foreclosure, I have seen too many of my own clients continue to struggle with their property tax payments, even after having a loan modification reduce their mortgage payments.
Although only a small fraction of property taxes go to the county board, we should do what we can at any level of government to provide some sort of relief for our constituents. This may include exploring how we can work with the state, municipalities, and other local government agencies to help our residents. I would also like to use the legislative agenda as a resource to fight for property tax relief. | 2019-04-24T13:57:43 | https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181023/sadia-covert-candidate-profile |
0.999996 | Two distinct versions of TR's debut LP were released. Here are the differences and how to tell if you have a "rare" one.
Side A has 7 bands, side B has 5.
I've digitized the "bonus" tracks in both AIFF-Compressed format (smaller) and Windows Wave (more portable). And have added Real Audio (smaller yet, and better quality). There's still a lot of "pop" sounds, but after all, they're from a 25 year old LP! Just click on the sample size desired to hear 'em.
Most of the tracks marked "no difference" actually are different mixes. This is sort of referred to, I believe, in the notes on the inner sleeve of the "official" version, which say: "Remixed at Record Plants in N.Y. and L.A. and RE-REMIXED at Jack Clement Studio in Nashville".
There are several versions of the "official" pressing, some of which might possibly be bootlegs -- those are on really horrid vinyl, were not cut at "Sterling", and have the grooves spaced differently, ending farther away from the label. And there are versions on the Ampex and Bearsville/Ampex labels.
As a long time fan of Todd and his body of music, I have amassed a large collection of his material, and in many varying forms. I have had a nagging question about one piece in mind, and were wondering if you could help me clear it up. It concerns the album Runt, and the material therein. Many reference books and supposed authorities conclude that the 12 track master with the song "Hope I'm Around" erroneously on side "a" and "Say No More" etc. on side "b" is the original first pressing. I take issue with that assumption, since 11-20-70 is etched in each trail off on my copy. The copies I have, that are 10 track masters, claimed to be second pressings by many authorities, have a 6-6-70 or 6-8-70 mastering date in the dead wax. That would be a clear indication to me that the 10 track master would be the original release, as they are also very abundant. However what would be the real reason for the mix-up in the later pressings, that contain 11 or 12 tracks? I also have an 11 track copy with a June side "a" and a November side "b" (on the hybrid copy the November date is 11-23-70, and is very clearly that, with the standard June stamper on side a.) Hence "Say No More " is on it, but not "Hope I'm Around". Can you shed any light on this matter for me?
Broke Down & Busted (121K AIFC) (363K Wave) Short vocal intro extracted from "There Are No Words".
The rest of the song is the same.
Once Burned Switched with "Who's That Man?"
Who's That Man? Switched with "Once Burned"
Hope I'm Around (979K AIFC) (2.8MB Wave) Alternate version of tune that eventually appeared on "Ballad"
"The Last Thing You Said/Don't Tie My Hands" | 2019-04-25T12:28:15 | http://trconnection.com/trconn.php/article=rarerunt.art |
0.998892 | ""Ukraine is preparing for war," Alexander Zakharchenko told reporters. "We are ready to respond adequately. We are not weak."
Pretty big talk that. Like Ukraine would do much should Russia choose to invade. Anyway, it looks like this time Russia does intend to end the Ukrainian war or . . . as Ukrainians claim, they want the war to impoverish Ukraine. I wonder if that's what Putin is after. The EU may not want to take on a country they'd have to financially support for a long time, can they?
Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine on Thursday renewed accusations of a Russian military build up on its border and approved fresh troop mobilisations as a wave of violence threatened all-out conflict in the country's war-torn east.
A national day of mourning was held for 13 people killed on Tuesday when a rocket exploded near a commuter bus travelling towards the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, the worst loss of civilian life since a September truce that only partially halted the violence.
An upsurge in fighting has rocked eastern Ukraine in recent days, with a planned peace summit between President Petro Poroshenko and the leaders of Russia, Germany and France having been postponed.
Heavy artillery and shelling shook the area around the airport in the rebel bastion of Donetsk, while pro-Kremlin insurgents had earlier been accused of unleashing a massive rocket assault.
Oleksandr Turchynov, secretary of Ukraine's national security council, evoked a dire scenario before parliament, saying a resumption of major attacks by rebels could lead to a "large-scale continental war" if Russian troops were to also become more directly involved.
But he also spoke of another possibility -- one described by a number of analysts as well -- in which Russia would continue to prevent eastern Ukraine from being stabilised, causing the ex-Soviet republic to exhaust its economic and defence resources.
Such a strategy would aim, according to analysts, at keeping Ukraine from integrating more closely with the West, with the country already suffering economically and requiring billions of dollars from world lenders.
Russia strongly denies sending troops and weapons into the war zone despite witness claims to the contrary. On Thursday, Turchynov claimed some 8,500 Russian army soldiers were backing around 30,000 rebels in eastern Ukraine.
He also alleged that some 52,000 Russian troops were stationed near the Ukraine border along with tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery systems and combat helicopters.
In the face of the alleged threat, Ukraine on Thursday adopted a law allowing for three waves of reservist troop mobilisation this year, with the first, involving some 50,000 people, set for January 20.
The moves drew a sharp response from the separatist leader in Donetsk.
"Ukraine is preparing for war," Alexander Zakharchenko told reporters. "We are ready to respond adequately. We are not weak."
The fresh violence comes after weeks of relative calm and served as a reminder of the war's worst clashes last summer. In the most recent violence, two Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians were killed, Ukrainian authorities said.
Intense fighting shook the airport in the rebel bastion of Donetsk, an area repeatedly wracked by clashes. Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe were due to visit the area later Thursday.
Witnesses reported hearing heavy artillery and bombings near the airport, while about 15 rebels and a few Ukrainian soldiers could be seen in the street trying to negotiate a pause in the violence themselves.
The bus tragedy on Tuesday at a checkpoint at the entrance to the city of Volnovakha shook the nation, with an online "Je Suis Volnovakha" campaign spreading, an imitation of the rallying cry used in the wake of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris. Poroshenko himself used it in a Facebook post.
On Thursday, a minute of silence was observed at noon and flags were flown at half-mast.
Poroshenko had earlier discussed the tragedy in telephone conversations with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Both sides have traded blame over the bus tragedy, while Poroshenko argued that ultimate responsibility rested with Russia due to its alleged support of the rebels.
The rocket strike and renewed violence damaged Poroshenko's efforts to set up a peace summit where Putin could personally sign a truce under which the Kremlin assumes responsibility for disarming the militias and dispelling their independence claims.
A lack of progress in talks between ministers in Berlin this week led to the summit being postponed. On Thursday, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Poroshenko agreed that the delayed talks set for the Kazakhstan capital Astana will take place at the end of the month. | 2019-04-22T22:06:27 | https://world-defense.com/threads/russian-military-build-up-in-east-ukraine.665/ |
0.999999 | Sentence fragment definition: A sentence fragment is a type of incomplete sentence that lacks the necessary grammatical elements to make an independent clause.
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This fragment does not have a subject or a verb. Rather, it is a prepositional phrase. It is not a complete sentence.
Once we leave for the movie.
This fragment has a noun, “we,” and a verb, “leave,” but it isn’t a complete sentence. It is subordinating clause.
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If a writer has a fragment in his writing, it was most likely written as a fragment without that intention. Therefore, it needs to be corrected.
Writers can aim to avoid sentence fragments with clear and purposeful editing. Even if a writer accidentally includes a fragment, he can check for these during the revision process.
In order to spot a sentence fragment, a writer needs to make sure each sentence is an independent clause with a subject and a verb.
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What are subordinating clauses? Subordinating clauses are actually dependent clauses. Even though a subordinate clause contains a subject and a verb, a subordinating clause is dependent upon an independent clause. Therefore, it cannot stand alone.
Subordinating clauses need independent clauses attached to them in order to be complete sentences.
Before you go to the store.
Correction: Before you go to the store, please stop to get gas.
Although I thought I knew the answer.
Although I thought I knew the answer, I hesitated to answer the question.
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Participle phrases need to modify a noun, and they need to be a part of an independent clause.
Correction: Lost in the woods, the dog could not find its owner.
Eating the entire bowl of ice cream.
Correction: I was so annoyed with my brother, eating the entire bowl of ice cream.
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Infinitive phrases act as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. However, infinitive phrases alone are not complete sentences because they lack the elements to make an independent clause.
Correction: I was preparing to cook dinner.
To respond to your mother in a rude tone.
Correction: To respond to your mother in a rude tone is disrespectful.
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Correction: He makes a good impression.
Built a sandcastle for her.
Correction: Grandfather built a sandcastle for her.
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Appositives do not contain verbs, either, and therefore cannot stand alone as complete thoughts.
The one with the wagging tail.
Correction: I like that dog—the one with the wagging tail.
Correction: Mary, my favorite person, is visiting this weekend.
Summary: What are Sentence Fragments?
Define sentence fragment: the definition of sentence fragment is a sentence that lack some essential component.
1 What is a Sentence Fragment?
3 Why are Fragments Incorrect?
10 Summary: What are Sentence Fragments? | 2019-04-25T04:49:18 | https://writingexplained.org/grammar-dictionary/sentence-fragment |
0.999378 | Tian Johnson is a South African HIV prevention activist and member of the Vaccine Advocacy Resource Group.
In this article, South African HIV prevention activist and member of the Vaccine Advocacy Resource Group -- a small, global group of advocates specifically focused on the HIV vaccine research field -- Tian Johnson reflects on his participation in the recent HVTN Conference in Cape Town, his hope for a vaccine and the necessity of advocates' involvement in the search. This first appeared in NGO Pulse.
My family, as is often still the case with in many other families, spoke in hushed tones about the cause of her death: pneumonia, tuberculosis (TB)... anything but AIDS. It was almost as if the mention of her name and the disease in the same sentence would erase everything she was and everything good that she had done. She was a sister to me (which alone required the patience of a saint) and a mother who did everything she could to provide her boys with the best childhood she could - far from the turmoil that was our shared upbringing.
As I landed in Cape Town for the bi annual meetings of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network -- a global network whose goal is to develop a safe, effective vaccine as rapidly as possible for prevention of HIV infections globally - I wondered what a world with a vaccine for HIV could look like. What would it mean for millions of women like Miranda, living with or at risk of contracting HIV?
I have worked in HIV prevention for nearly two decades now. So, as I imagine a world with an HIV vaccine, part of me cannot help but be sceptical. I wonder if it would have made a difference to Miranda at all. Would she have been able to access the vaccine? Would the nurse or doctor giving her the vaccine have judged her? In all likelihood, the same nurse probably would have judged her when she asked for a contraceptive just a few weeks before coming in for the vaccine. I wonder if Miranda would be able to live with the stigma of being "that woman" who got the "AIDS Vaccine" at the clinic. Would her husband have gone with her? Would he take the vaccine too?
The other, more idealistic part of me imagines that she could access the vaccine with ease, that she would have been received like a hero at her local clinic by health workers proud of her: this beautiful Afrikan goddess who had chosen to make the journey that day to get herself vaccinated, to keep herself safe, to keep herself alive. Alive for me, her brother. Alive for her three boys.
From a distance, the vaccine world is a scary place. It is a deeply scientific and privileged world (a world that I think needs many, many more black faces in it!). Talk of "non-human primate" (monkey) trials, and acronyms like RV144 can be pretty intimidating for an activist who is programmed to just get on with it and start advocating for universal access to a vaccine!
Part of my journey as a member of the Vaccine Advocacy Research Group (the VARG, if you want to sound cool) is to bring advocates from related areas of HIV prevention advocacy into the vaccine fold in order to build our capacity and to support activists to access the researchers. As we get one step closer to creating a vaccine that prevents HIV, the existence of groups like the VARG is increasingly important. The VARG is supported by AVAC (a global NGO) that supports advocates and community members to play a leading role in defining the HIV research agenda.
Although the world still does not have an HIV vaccine, research has been underway for many years, much of it built on work that is happening in South Africa. And just this month, the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore launched the first phase of clinical trials for an exciting new product. In this trial the vaccine is intended tackle virus at the moment of infection, when there is a greater chance of neutralising it. Some pretty impressive people are leading this work including Dr. Gallo, who was part of the team that identified HIV as the cause of AIDS, and developed the HIV blood test.
As ground-breaking science happens around the world, we have a moral obligation to ensure that advocates are brought along for the journey in a meaningful way. Spaces must be created for learning and sharing and opportunities made for mentoring and engagement - as we have found out in the past, creating these spaces takes time and resources - resources that are usually the first to be cut when budgets are tight. The reality is that no matter how impressive the science is, it will have been in vain if it does not fit into people's daily lives and realities. Sadly, this is what we have seen too often over the years with male and female condoms, treatment and other HIV prevention methods. A product can only work if it gets used. A key barrier to a product getting used is stigma, perhaps the most difficult aspect of uptake and use. As long as sexuality is scandalised and individuals do not see their health, success, and prosperity as being linked to that of their neighbours, we truly have a momentous task ahead of us. The work of changing minds and hearts is never easy, but it is essential. And its work that advocates and activists must lead, hand-in-hand with scientists.
As the first vaccine is likely many years away, we must keep the discussion alive. We need to force ourselves to imagine what the future of HIV prevention could look like: so much of it emanating from world-class South African science and supported by the South African Government. Imagine having a basket of options that we could pick and choose from depending on where we are in our lives: a daily pill to prevent HIV, an annual vaccine to do the same, a female condom when I want and a male condom when I want, a vaginal or a rectal gel to stop me from getting HIV. Whatever world we imagine, we need to keep on doing just that. They say when you become a parent you do everything you can to ensure that your own children have a better life then you had. So we need to keep on working, keep on moving forward, not just for us now but for those who are growing up in this challenging world. Boys like my nephews, who can access options that my sister, their mother, never had.
I am glad I spent a week at the HVTN meetings. They were insightful and at times filled with equal parts of hope and anxiety at the momentous task ahead of us as we collaborate, learn, engage and take time to listen to the multitude of lessons this virus has and continues to teach us about our resilience and tenacity to push ahead in spite of it. As we look forward to many more years of research and advocacy in the quest for an HIV vaccine, we will also keep the faces and memories of those that did not make it along the way first and foremost in our minds. And we must imagine and ACT to realise a better future. | 2019-04-24T06:20:28 | http://www.thebodypro.com/content/76654/an-hiv-vaccine-imagining-the-future-of-hiv-prevent.html?ic=4003 |
0.999999 | THE FIFTH BATTALION, WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The basic plot line of the book: Norman, a gunnery sergeant of an ancient failed invasion of Earth, currently eking a living as a lab technician in San Francisco, discovers that his peoples' arch-enemy is using Earth as a prison for their most incorrigible criminals, serving the "forever dead" sentence—brutally stripped of any understanding of their true spiritual nature and unaware of their incarceration. Norman and his love, Linda, and the remnants of the 5th Battalion, his comrades at arms reincarnating on Earth for millennia, must find a way to escape from this planet to help people of Earth amid the unfolding catastrophe. The Fifth Battalion, an intense sci-fi action thriller, is a dynamic, sometimes gory, often humorous action-filled account of their escape attempt, a study in love, loyalty and spirituality. | 2019-04-23T21:05:51 | https://www.bingenetworks.tv/media/332572 |
0.999973 | What is Foreclosure in York, Pennsylvania?
Foreclosure is a judicial process in which a mortgage lender recoups some of its losses in the event of default by taking possession and/or ownership of the home that secured the loan in the first place in York, Pennsylvania Foreclosure typically requires the house to be sold at an auction. Typically, banks want to rid themselves of the property as soon as they can, in order to collect as much money as possible.
In every state, including Pennsylvania, borrowers have the option to go through foreclosure by judicial sale. This means that the auction will be overseen by a court, to make sure that the bank makes an effort to get as high a price as possible (to increase the chances that the entire balance will be covered, as well as the odds that there will be some money leftover for the borrower). In many states, original mortgages (as opposed to refinanced loans) are "non-recourse" loans, meaning that the most the lender can collect is whatever the foreclosed property sells for. The bank cannot go after the borrower for the balance, if the sale nets less than the amount due. You should consult a lawyer in York, Pennsylvania to learn the details of the law here. You should also know that this rarely applies to loans which have been refinanced.
First, and most importantly, you should not ignore the issue. Failing to respond to foreclosure calls from your lender will not make a problem go away. You should stay in touch, and be forthright with, your creditor as much as possible. It is important to remember that banks don't really want to own homes in York. In issuing a mortgage, they expect to make a profit through interest on the loan, and they'd prefer to continue collecting from you. Therefore, they're likely to make reasonable accommodations to your financial situation if it will enable you to keep paying them in the long run.
If you believe that foreclosure is imminent, there are some other options. For example, you might be able to engage in a "short sale," which sometimes allows you to sell your house for whatever amount you can get, give the proceeds to the lender, and walk away free of your mortgage debt, even if the sale netted less than the balance of the mortgage. You might also try a "short refinance" which allows a piece of the debt to be forgiven, and the rest refinanced. This allows the bank to wash its hands of the matter, while taking a relatively small loss, and allows the homeowner to keep their home.
How Can A York, Pennsylvania Attorney Help?
If you are facing the possibility of foreclosure, a good York, Pennsylvania real estate attorney can help. At the very least, they will be able to inform you of your legal options. | 2019-04-18T17:18:25 | https://bankruptcyattorneys.legalmatch.com/PA/York/foreclosure-lawyers.html |
0.998771 | Why I cannot get a tutor?
Some parents do wonder why they are not able to get a tutor soon. There are many possibilities that may have caused the problem.
Budget is definitely one of the most important factors in a tuition assignment. If the tuition fee that you are willing to pay to the tutor is under market rate, most tutors will not want to take up.
Even if you are lucky enough to find a tutor who can take up tuition assignment of low budget, the tutor is likely to give up on your child once he or she has found other better paying tuition assignments.
Note: if you are looking for a tutor towards the examination period, tutors are likely to demand for a higher tuition fee.
Many parents have made very unrealistic planning of the tuition session by trying to squeeze many subjects into the tuition.
For example, a parent wants the tutor to coach the student on three subjects, but only expecting 1.5 hours and once per week. On average, each subject can only take up half an hour, which is definitely insufficient. One hour per week per subject is hardly enough.
Most serious tutors will want to maintain a "clean sheet". If there is insufficient time allocated for each subject, they are not able to help the students and many will choose not to take up the assignment.
If budget is a big issue, the parent should, perhaps, think over and focus on just one or two subjects. If necessary, discuss with the child's school teacher for extra remedial lesson instead.
Certain subject has fewer tutors who are capable and willing enough to take up. They are mostly foreign languages and higher level of learning, such as degree and diploma. Not many tutors are familiar with modules in ITE as well. For such tuition assignment, it may require more time to source for tutors.
If you are looking for a home tutor who can handle various subjects, the search will be more difficult. Although, it is easier to arrange tuition session with just one tutor instead of two, not many tutors can be very diversified.
Speaking from experience, it is definitely easier to teach the same subject over and over again. By the time the tutor has gone through the same level, subject and topic with different batches of students, he or she will be a master of it. He or she will also be able to point out the common mistakes made by the previous students and also provide more tips. Memory will eventually fade and thus, the tutor has to be consistent in taking the subject.
There are a number of tutors who are willing to take up a variety of subjects but we are not very sure if they can deliver all of them well.
Therefore, our coordinator may advise you to take up different tutors for different subjects, especially when it comes to higher level subjects, such as GCE 'A' level. For PSLE subjects, which are less challenging, it is reasonable for a tutor to be a master of all the subjects.
We are referring to the period of time you want the tutor to continue teaching your child. Long term tuition assignments usually starts in the beginning of the year and will last at least until the final examinations of the students. There is no clear definition of it but Smart Tuition terms it as a period of over four months. Most tutors are looking for long term tuition assignments for various reasons.
Firstly, they need to pay our agency commission (that's how we survive) for each successfully matched assignment and it is definitely not worthwhile to go for short term assignment. Imagine you are taking up a part time job for two months and you have to pay half month of salary as commission, you will be left with just 1.5 months of salary, which is 75% of the total. Comparing to a full year of tuition for 11 months (not including last month of the year), you can keep 10.5 months of salary, which is around 95% of total salary.
Secondly, it takes time and effort to build up the rapport with a tutee (student). Thirdly, most people do not like changes - they rather stick to the same people and place. For short term assignment, it is most likely towards the examination period, which the tutor has to try very hard to drill the student. It will definitely be more exhausting for the tutor, compared to him or her constantly covering all the topics from beginning of the year.
Short term tuition assignments are very tricky to handle and thus some tuition agencies choose not take them up at all. Some agencies even shut down their operation towards the third quarter of the year when PSLE, GCE 'O' level and 'A' level are approaching. The rest are just praying hard to find tutors who are more available and willing to take up these assignments.
Smart Tuition continues to try our best to help all the parents and students even during "bad times". We have always tried to be fair to all our tutors and this is why many tutors have referred their friends to sign up with us as well. We have set the policy of making the client (parent) split the commission with the tutor if the tuition assignment is a short term one. For more challenging tuition assignments, we may even request the parent to pay the full commission for the tutor. We are trying to make the tuition assignment more attractive for the tutor to take up. Of course, not every parent is understanding enough to cooperate with us. In any case, Smart Tuition takes only the same amount of commission - no less or more.
Note: for Nitec, Higher Nitec, Diploma and degree courses, the module (subject) you wish to engage a tutor for is very likely to be only for short term (less than four months).
These include the gender, race, qualification, experience and occupation (such as school teacher or full-time tutor) of the tutors, your available timing and location, and any other special requirement you are looking at.
One of the toughest requirements is the demand for school teacher and full-time tutor due to the lower supply compared to part-time tutors. By right, every school teacher also has limited hours to do outside-school tutoring.
Although we would love to find a tutor who can match all your requirements for the sense of satisfication, we have to be more realistic most of the time that it is impossible. To help us and yourself, do eliminate those requirements that are less important.
Your attitude and track record play a big part too.
Our jobs are not high-paying; it is mostly for the sake of satisfaction that most of us are continuing to help the kind parents. Therefore, we are not going to deal with anyone who has attitude problem.
There are many tuition agencies in Singapore but only a handful are considered reputable. We do share records of black sheep. Therefore, if you have created a problem with another established tuition agency, you may find yourself being ignored by the rest, including us. You may of course try to approach those so-called agencies whose business is not even registered with the government.
For parents who stick to their unrealistic requirements, they are likely to be less prioritized by the more established tuition agencies.
In Smart Tuition, we try our best to help all nice parents regardless of financial status. If you have problems with your financial, we expect you to be frank with us. There is no shame to be in a less fortunate family; in fact, most of us come from low income families. However, please be realistic for your requirements of tutor. | 2019-04-19T09:16:46 | http://smarttuition.sg/why-i-cannot-get-a-tutor.php |
0.999832 | "Labour MP John Woodcock has said that he "will not countenance ever voting to make Jeremy Corbyn Britain's Prime Minister"
Labour MP John Woodcock has said that he "will not countenance ever voting to make Jeremy Corbyn Britain's prime minister" in a video message to constituents.
Woodcock, the centrist MP for Barrow and Furness in Cumbria, is defending a tiny 795 vote majority over the Conservatives from the 2015 election.
A former chair of the Blairite group Progress, he is one of Corbyn's fiercest critics and represents a seat housing BAE's Trident nuclear submarine operations, which Corbyn is opposed to renewing.
There had been speculation that Woodcock would stand down from parliament, like Jamie Reed, who quit as Labour MP for the nearby seat of Copeland earlier this year, triggering a by-election that the Tories won.
But Woodcock said in his video, shared via his Facebook page this evening: "I am intending to seek re-nomination from my local Labour and Co-operative Parties to be their official candidate [at the general election].
"But I will not countenance ever voting to make Jeremy Corbyn Britain's prime minister."
Woodcock's comments are the first manifestation of the difficulties Corbyn will have on the campaign trail with so many centrist Labour MPs implacably opposed to his leadership.
"I realise that Jeremy has been elected and then re-elected as the leader of my party," Woodcock said. "But my first duty is to you, my constituents.
"Jeremy's opposition to the Trident renewal programme is lifelong and is well known but more than that, I cannot countenance endorsing him for a role which I think even he, although he may say different in front of the cameras, does not think he is fit to carry out.
"My party, locally and nationally, will need to decide how to treat my desire for reselection in these circumstances."
Woodcock, who was shadow transport minister under previous Labour leader Ed Miliband, urged Corbyn to quit as leader before the June 8th snap election.
"There is still of course time for Jeremy to stand down rather than lead Labour to defeat. But I promised when I first asked you to vote for me that I would put Furness first and that means in these circumstances doing what is right rather than what is easy."
He did not say whether that meant he would vote against a Corbyn-led government after the general election.
Woodcock was first elected as MP for Barrow and Furness in 2010, succeeding Labour's Blairite former cabinet minister John Hutton, who himself had won the seat from the Tories in 1992.
His 11.8% majority from 2010 was cut to just 1.8% two years ago, making his seat number nine on the Tories' target list.
After Labour lost the Copeland by-election in February, despite defending a much larger majority over the Conservatives than in Barrow, Woodcock warned Labour was headed for a "historic and catastrophic" election defeat under Corbyn's leadership.
In his Facebook message, Woodcock pointed to his work defending NHS services and campaigning for shipbuilding work to be secured for his constituency.
Since becoming an MP he has generally voted against benefit cuts, but did not vote against the 2015 welfare reform bill, when Labour's mass abstention was seen as helping propel Corbyn to the Labour leadership.
He nominated David Miliband for the Labour leadership in 2010, Liz Kendall in 2015 and Owen Smith in 2016.
Barrow and Furness covers the entire district of Barrow-in-Furness, which voted 60% to leave the EU in last year's referendum, and parts of South Lakeland, which voted narrowly to remain. | 2019-04-22T08:02:03 | https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2017/04/18/labour-mp-i-will-not-countenance-ever-voting-to-make-corbyn |
0.996928 | Validated of 70-432 exam prep materials and free demo for Microsoft certification for IT professionals, Real Success Guaranteed with Updated 70-432 pdf dumps vce Materials. 100% PASS TS:MS SQL Server@ 2008,Implementation and Maintenance exam Today!
Q61. You administer a SQL Server 2008 instance.
Cannot resolve the collation conflict between ,SQL_Latinl_General_CPl_CS_AS' and 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS' in the equal to operation."
You need to modify the ON clause of the query to successfully perform a case-sensitive join.
Q62. You administer a remote SQL Server 2008 instance. Users report that the performance of the application is poor.
Q63. You administer a SQL Server 2008 instance. You need to allow users on instance to query remote data sources by using the OPENROWSET() sp_configure configuration option should you configure?
Q65. You administer a SQL Server 2008 instance that has TCP/IP enabled.
. Expand the SQL Server Network Configuration service. Select the Protocols for (InstanceName) service.
. In the right panel, right-click TCP/IP, select the Properties option, and then select the IP Addresses tab.
. Select the SQL Server Services service.
. In the right panel, right-click SQL Server Browser, right-click Properties, and then select the Advanced tab.
. In the right panel, right-click SQL Server (InstanceName), right-click Properties, and then select the Advanced tab.
. Expand the SQL Native Client 10.0 Configuration service.
. Select the Client Protocols service. Select the Properties option.
Q66. You administer a SQL Server 2008 instance. The instance contains a database named DB1.
Q67. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 instance. The instance has a database named CustomerOrders.
Q68. You are mastering the company database, On a SQL Server 2008, you find out that one of the data files computer is broken. You should reserve the database which is from the most recent configurations of backups. In order to cut the lost, you should find the method as quickly as possible. Which is the correct answer?
Q69. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 database that contains a schema named Reporting. The Reporting schema contains store procedures, tables, and views.
-Users are able to access objects in the Reporting schema through existing stored procedures. -Users are unable to modify tables and views in the database.
Q70. You administer a SQL Server 2008 instance that contains a database named AdventureWorks. The AdventureWorks database contains a table named Orders. The Orders table has several indexes and a very large number of rows. The database supports an enterprise Web environment that is constantly used.
Returns a row per performance counter maintained by the server.
Returns information about the queries that have acquired a memory grant or that still require a memory grant to execute. Queries that do not have to wait on a memory grant will not appear in this view.
Q72. You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 instance.
Q73. You have a server that contains a default SQL Server 2005 instance. You need to install a SQL Server 2008 instance for a new application on the same server. The new application requires SQL Server 2008 functionality.
Q74. You administer three SQL Server 2008 instances on separate servers named Server1, Server2, and Server3.
Q75. You maintain multiple SQL Server 2008 instances. | 2019-04-19T22:42:00 | https://www.exam4collection.com/vce/70-432-t-528.html |
0.999399 | Burglar at a window. A burglar at a window of a house.
A burglar at a window of a house. | 2019-04-19T01:07:20 | https://www.canstockphoto.com/burglar-at-a-window-4505492.html |
0.999998 | Nikki Bella sat down with John Cena to discuss their troubled relationship on Sunday's episode of Total Bellas. 'I will make that sacrifice for you. I will give you a child,' John promised.
Wrestlers Nikki Bella and John Cena are said to be back together following their shock split [Getty] WWE star John Cena and his professional wrestler fiancee Nikki Bella are said to be back together..
Nikki Bella spoke about her cancelled wedding to John Cena. The star told Access that she put the wedding 'on pause' when the knowledge she was making a mistake 'literally was just eating me alive'.
NIKKI BELLA has revealed she is living with sister Brie following her split with John Cena.
Fans have been grappling with the shock news after the break-up was announced ahead of next month's planned ceremony in Mexico.
Professional wrestlers John Cena and Nikki Bella are over [Getty] WWE legend John Cena has announced his shock split with fiancee of one year Nikki Bella. The hot couple were together for six years and..
JOHN CENA will NOT appear on RAW tonight following his shock split from Nikki Bella.
John Cena and Nikki Bella have ended their year-long engagement.
The pair, who got engaged at last year's WrestleMania, announced the 'difficult decision' to call off their engagement in a social media post.
The couple are breaking up just weeks before they planned to get married.
The actorcut a dapper appearance as he smartened up to whisk his fiancée Nikki Bella off for a romantic dinner following the action-packed award ceremony in Los Angeles. | 2019-04-22T09:12:47 | https://www.onenewspage.co.uk/topic/nikki_bella.htm?start=50 |
0.998929 | Twitter diversifying into ecommerce since it turned profitable due to revenue from ads. It could be loosely based on FB Marketplaces or Instagram enabling SMB.
Twitter eCommerce means a twitter store like facebook store there people would sell their products through a twitter account. The owner could make and edit their listing with high definition pictures and product description.
The goal of a twitter eCommerce: To expand its customer base by allowing the businesses to list their catalog and users to buy and use their data to give more personalized services and experience. In long run, they could also ask a cut from businesses on per transaction basis.
Is this design for web or app?
Since 80 percent twitter users are from Mobile. I would go for an app.
I would like to discuss about users and their personas then I would go through their interaction with the product i.e use cases. After that, I would prioritize use cases by offering alternative solutions and finally, I would evaluate these solutions tradeoff in terms of impact vs effort.
Twitter user between the age of 18-29 according to Twitter statistics 40 percent of users fall in this age group.
Based on the business goal to increase its user base I would prefer designing platform for twitter users. Businesses are also important but it won't impact much in an expansion of its customer base.
As a user, I should be able to put my address and confirm my order.
As a user, I should get an order confirmation.
Number 2,3,4 are important because I would be more interested in looking product details and order confirmation.
What is the problem with the current design? Let's say users are not buying the products.
Do we need the redesign for the web app or mobile app? I would assume mobile app as the majority of the users are on mobile.
- As a user, I want my PII information to be hidden from the business owner.
- As a user, I should be able to return the product if it is defective.
We will focus on use-case 2, re-design the way the campaigns are set up and provide better targeting capability. The better the targeting, the more probability for a user to buy the product.
2, 3 & 4 as MVP.
Product vision: Connect the buyers and suppliers throughout the world with similar interest.
Advertisements: Advertisements in between the content as regular news feed.
Promote users to share their purchase stories with hashtags (just after they made a purchase).
It will enable other users to trust twitter as a shopping platform.
And, show it as a small icon on the bottom-left of the page.
Similar to whatsapp status messages/videos.
It will enable users to see what their friends (people they followed) are selling.
It will also enable the suppliers to showcase their best items.
Pre-booking festive sale page territory: The items would show on the top to each user on www.twitter.com/marketplace) as sliding banner images. | 2019-04-22T16:19:35 | https://productmanagementexercises.com/756/redesign-twitter-for-ecommerce |
0.992347 | Pull the dogs tongue and place it on one side of his mouth. Make sure to take out any foreign object that is obstructing the airway. If the dog has fallen into water, place him "face down" to get the water out of his lungs.
Lay the dog on his right side and place his head and neck on the floor as if the dog were looking forward in order to allow the maximum amount of air to go in. Place your hands around the dog's nose as if making an air bag with them. Put your lips on the "air bag" and blow without stopping for three seconds, this way your breath will go into the nose of the dog and fill his lungs with air. Rest for about two seconds and repeat again. Continue until the dog is able to breath on his own again.
Place the inferior part of your palm over the left side of the dog's chest, right behind the dog's elbow. Place your other hand on top of this one and push with a downward and upward force, towards the dogs head.
Push on the dog three times very quickly and firmly. Then do CPR on the dog. You should alternate this in the following way: pump, pump, pump, breath etc. Each pump should be about one second of separation.
Repeat this whole sequence fifteen to twenty times per minute until you are able to hear the dog's heart beat. When you are able to feel the dogs heart beat, stop pumping and continue giving CPR to the dog while you are rushing to the veterinary clinic. | 2019-04-25T09:56:09 | http://peripheralfiasco.blogspot.com/2006/02/saving-life-or-freaky-saturday-night.html |
0.997297 | For years, the Marine Corps has worked to shift its fighting focus back to the sea and how it might deploy larger units for its traditional amphibious assault mission if the United States faces a near-peer threat.
But right now, the Marine Corps does not even have enough ships to train for that contingency.
There are mounting worries among top Marine officials and defense experts who say that today’s Navy and Marine Corps are not sufficiently trained nor equipped to mount a large-scale invasion from the sea without catastrophic casualties and uncertain success.
The U.S. Navy’s fleet of amphibious assault ships would be vulnerable to coastal attack from a well-equipped enemy like China because the U.S. Navy ships lack the effective fires, sensors and combat formations to counter enemy defense systems, according to top military and government officials.
Moreover, today’s Navy fleet is too small to afford the Marines the opportunity to train for large-scale amphibious assaults.
While it’s common for the Corps to train with Marine Expeditionary Units, a force of about 2,000 Marines aboard multiple ships, the Navy is rarely able to provide enough ships for Marines to train in the larger formations that a real amphibious assault would require.
If the Marines were summoned for a large-scale maneuver from the sea, a well-equipped enemy would likely sink some of their ships and cause massive casualties, said one top Marine official.
“Guess what? Some of our ships are going to go to the bottom with these great sailors and Marines,” Marine Maj. Gen. David Coffman, director of expeditionary warfare for the chief of naval operations, said at a recent talk to the Navy League.
Top Marine and Navy leaders have laid out plans for modernizing the Corps, especially how it integrates with the Navy while fighting in the contested “littoral zones” or areas a few hundred miles out to sea, into the beachhead and at shorter ranges inland.
They agree that the Corps’ Marine Expeditionary Units are well-trained, but near peer threats such as Russia, China, North Korea or Iran would require the use of a Marine Expeditionary Brigade or even a Marine Expeditionary Force.
The services’ forcible entry capability, a core competency of the Marine Corps and Navy team, is “at risk” above the MEU level, said Marine Lt. Gen. Brian D. Beaudreault, deputy commandant for plans, policies and operations.
“The ability to generate the number of ships required to train at a Marine Expeditionary Brigade level just simply isn’t there,” Beaudreault told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness during recent testimony.
The Navy and Marine Corps do not have enough amphibious ships to both fulfill their naval operations requirements and train at a level much higher than the MEU, he said.
Beyond the MEU, the Corps’ larger formations include a Marine Expeditionary Brigade with about 15,000 sailors and Marines. The Corps’ largest formation is the Marine Expeditionary Force, which can have more than 62,000 Marines and sailors at its disposal.
But Marines rarely assemble MEBs and MEFs for training or combat.
The concerns about the Navy’s ability to support the Corps’ amphibious assault capability raise fundamental issues about how Washington manages the military. Multibillion-dollar shipbuilding budgets are notoriously micromanaged by Congress and have long timelines that span both Republican and Democratic administrations.
Such long-term planning decisions for the current fleet were made in times of uncontested seas and when what are now near-peer adversaries lacked the capabilities to effectively deter and deny U.S. forced entry.
The size of the Navy fleet overall has been steadily shrinking for decades — and the amphib fleet is no exception.
In the 1990s, the Navy had 62 amphibious warfare ships; today it has 32.
Ideally, Marines would like as many as 50 amphibious warfare ships. Officially, current plans aim to reach 34 by fiscal year 2021 and an end goal of 38 by 2033.
The number of 38 was reached back in 2009 when the then commandant and CNO determined that they could fund 34 ships but would need 38 to support two MEBs, factoring in 10 percent of ships down for maintenance.
The ship shortage and its impact on Marine training was highlighted by a recent Government Accountability Office report.
The Navy could not fulfill 93 percent, or 293 out of 314, of the Marine Corps’ requests for amphibious training for the San Diego-based I MEF. And nearly half of the 40 requests from North Carolina-based II MEF went unfilled.
“If called on, these units could be left scrambling to obtain last minute training, risking their ability to be fully ready once deployed and underway,” Russell said.
But getting more ships may be a pipe dream when the Marines are competing in a tight budget environment with major Navy priorities such as next generation submarines, said retired Marine Col. David C. Fuquea, professor at the U.S. Naval War College.
“I get it, there’s not enough amphib ships, but there never has been and there won’t be in the future,” he said.
Enemy shore defenses have improved significantly during the past 20 years. And while building more U.S. Navy ships would help, that alone will not solve the problem without better fires capabilities and sensors, he said.
Recently Marines have put the typically land-based High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, aboard ships and struck targets on shore.
At the same time, they have asked industry for a mobile, shore-based anti-ship missile system to defend Marines ashore from attacks at sea.
But the stand-off ranges of up to 400 miles that some adversaries’ coastal defense systems provide may keep U.S. ships out of the fight if they can’t also be lethal, Coffman said.
“The amphibious fleet is a challenge with the price of entry in this age of fires,” Coffman said.
Though some experts have called for an increase in naval gunfire, adding 16-18-20 inch guns back onto ships, Coffman said the future is likely in rockets and missiles.
Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller has acknowledged some of those concerns about ships being ill-equipped for a large-scale fight.
“If the enemy has a capability to shoot my large ship or my destroyer or my carrier from a couple hundred nautical miles away — or maybe longer — I’ve got to do something about that,” Neller said in September at the annual Modern Day Marine conference in Quantico, Virginia.
“That’s why it’s important that all of these ships have the capability to do some sort of strike or denial, or some way to suppress that capability.
The solution may be tactical, Neller said. The Marine Corps does not plan to “land directly into the teeth of an enemy defense,” Neller said. Instead, the Corps will find gaps in an enemy’s defenses to put Marines ashore.
The Marine Corps also has options to disrupt or destroy enemy sensors and defenses, he said.
Fuquea, the retired colonel, has long argued that the force must look at alternatives to amphibious assault ships for getting Marines to shore with the right equipment, and fast.
He said alternatives could include adopting tactical vehicles that will fit inside the V-22 Osprey.
Also, the retired colonel said that new civilian cruise ships can travel faster and carry more Marines than many amphibious ships. The Corps could use cruise ships, rigged with fast-moving boats on the side of the ships and refitted to hold gear and Marines for quick launches from farther distances.
Using commercially available boats such as the CB90, a fast attack assault craft that can carry a tactical vehicle and 18 Marines, units could move more fighters and the necessary equipment to the shore much faster, and cheaper, than in amphibious tracked vehicles, he said.
The boat travels nearly three times as fast as the current Amphibious Assault Vehicle in use to connect Marines from ship to shore.
Without enough gators, the Marine Corps has been experimenting with transporting Marines on other types of military and commercial ships.
During last year’s Koa Moana theater security exercise, Marines spent six months embarked on maritime prepositioning ships Pililaau and Sacagawea, both Military Sealift Command cargo ships, for training missions in Australia, New Guinea and Peru.
But alternative ships like these are not meant for combat operations, Lt. Gen. David Berger — now commander of MARFORPAC — said in March 2015.
“If you’re in a high-intensity conflict where you have to have a really tough time penetrating a high-end defense, you’re not going to plow in there with an aluminum hull anything, not for very long,” said Berger, who led I MEF at the time.
William Lloyd Stearman, a National Security Council staff member under four presidents, has argued for creating a “floating fortress” by converting a civilian supertanker used for shipping cargo into a heavily-armed platform that could launch helicopters, jets and boatloads of Marines and gear.
The concept would add firepower to enable the ship to both show force and produce enough offensive force to enter contested amphibious positions.
“The expeditionary ship’s very large deck could accommodate a variety of helicopters, as well as jet fighters and a fleet of drones,” Stearman wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal commentary.
He added that a supertanker ship’s complement would include a MEU-sized force or larger.
Peter Singer, a strategist for the New America Foundation and co-author of the book “Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War,” said to overcome the fires problem, Marines are looking at new methods to attack from the sea.
He said future amphib assaults will mean more landings deeper inland combined with shore assaults.
The Marines are already working with unmanned ships and other ways to take humans out of harm’s way in battle.
“Make it robotic…how do we use robotics to be in those first waves so that they’re the ones taking risks, forcing the enemy to reveal where their weapons are so that we can take them out?” Singer said.
Fuquea said that the distance provided by alternative connectors and platforms to deliver Marines to the fight could clear up funding to better arm the existing amphibious ships. He also argued that while the range of adversaries’ fires is longer, it isn’t necessarily as accurate.
Current methods require ships to be 12 miles offshore to deliver Marines to the beachhead, he said. But with different connectors, such as the CB90s and others, Marines could assault from over the horizon, as far as 100 miles from the beach.
That distance would increase the length of coast that the adversaries must protect, stretching their defensive capabilities.
But despite the concerns about ship shortages and adversaries’ ability to keep ships at a distance, Singer said, the Corps still has a unique capability.
“You could flip it the other way: For all of the complaints, it’s a capability that no other nation has,” he said.
Senior reporter Jeff Schogol contributed to this report. | 2019-04-26T11:38:58 | https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/01/09/set-up-to-fail-marines-dont-have-enough-ships-to-train-for-a-real-amphibious-assault/ |
0.999999 | Subtitle: Could a 'skeleton in Marvin's family cupboard' be used against him?
Credits: First hour: news review: with Green councillor for Clifton Down Carla Denyer, Christine Townsend from Counter Colston group and Dr. Roger Ball from Bristol Radical History Group - Bristol mayor Marvin Rees's father Valentine was one of the biggest gangsters in Bristol, running the unlicensed 'Crystal Dove' club and machete attacked St. Pauls' Republican sympathiser and 1980s civil rights leader Kuomba Balogun. Valentine somehow escaped from custody after being charged, believed to have moved to London. Could this 'skeleton in Marvin's cupboard' be used against him? Marvin as Mayor – talks and campaigned about openness but his door is not always open, library closures, how to deal with cuts – borrow money and illegal budget? Increase in Executive pay; Marvin Rees has defended the decision to keep details of a “huge pay-off” to a former city director private – saying “we have been transparent”. Has £92,000 bung to Anna Klonowski been reported to the police? – leaving Chief Exec.; selling off Bristol Council public space to fill holes in budget; Private firms may be given powers to arrest people: Companies would be able to hold individuals who fail to pay fines imposed by courts - Private security firms such as G4S could be empowered to arrest fine dodgers ; privatising our schools – Academisation – Bristol schools now worsening under system and many 'inadequate'; moving Bristol City Library to The Galleries or Colston Hall; Bristol businesses asked to pay for Christmas lights; Christine Townsend, form Counter Colston Group, went to Colston Society service on anti-slavery day in St. Mary Redcliffe church; Merchant Venturers' Charter Day next Friday on November 10th; Colston Girls School won't change it's name but all of Bristol's Academies have changed school's names; has Colston been canonised? Part of Edward Colston's body, his 'sacred' hair and nails have been kept in cabinets up at Merchants Hall; pagan ancestor worship? PMQs Corbyn – rich paying less tax, HMRC 'dismal' fallen from £4.4bn to £3.5bn since 2009 but being given help by HMRC to avoid tax – cuts – debt interest payments £50bn every year – Tories supported bank bailout in 2008; Years of austerity 'have left UK with same level of public spending as it had 10 years ago' says IFS – what's point of paying Council Tax? | 2019-04-18T21:18:26 | http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/94625 |
0.999996 | Why does my sound cut in and out?
My sound is cutting in and out when playing audio. It only works after I position my hands on the laptop in a funky external position or when I smack it in a correct way. Furthermore, the headphone jack only plays audio out of one channel. I've updated my drivers and done multiple audio tests. The problem seems to be internal. Hope you can help! Thanks!
I'm curious...did the sound work for a long time prior to this? What happened just before the sound quit working?
Bad speakers can (and do) blow audio output circuits. More likely, headphone jacks become intermittent due to the connector getting banged around with headphones or external speakers attached. They break.
Replacing the jack can be (relatively) easy if the jack is on a small daughter-board...you can buy those and swap them out. But.....if the jack is mounted directly to the motherboard then you have to pull the entire thing apart, pull the motherboard out (paying attention to static) then unsolder the old one and solder in a new one. I do this kind of stuff for a living, and frankly I don't like doing it because of the risk something else goes wrong. If you're not experienced with de-soldering (that's the hard part) I wouldn't recommend attempting it on an otherwise-working laptop.
An alternative I normally offer is an external USB audio device. They're cheap and dead-simple to install, assuming you have an available and good USB port. The audio quality is variable.
1. Click "Start", input "Device Manager" (without quotation marks) in the Search box, and then press "Enter".
2. Double-click "Sound, video and game controllers" to expand it.
3. Right-click the installed Sound Card and then click Uninstall.
5. Run Windows Update to install the sound card driver.
1. Click the Start Button, type "MMSYS.CPL" in the Start Search box and press Enter.
2. On Playback tab, click the Speaker which is used and click Properties button.
3. Switch to Advanced tab, uncheck the "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" option.
4. If the Enhancements tab is available, click it. Check 'Disable all sound effects".
5. In Setting section, Select None.
Besides, please check if there is audio related software installed. You can temporary remove it to see if the issue occurs.
1. Press Start, type in msinfo32 in the Start Search bar and then press Enter.
2. Choose Save from the File menu and save it as an NFO file.
3. Find the file, right-click on this file, click "Send To", and click "Compressed (zipped) Folder".
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0.9996 | Location: Kemsley, Kent, England, UK.
Stephanie had dementia and was living in a care home. When her husband came to get her from the care home, staff became alarmed and called police. But they were too late; Stephanie’s husband had already cut her throat. He attempted suicide himself, but survived.
Stephanie’s husband claims that it had been a suicide pact, but no evidence for this has emerged.
Perpetrator: Michael Packman (Husband), pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility, given a 2-year suspended sentence.
Location: Gatley, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK.
Patricia’s husband beat her to death with a metal bar so that he wouldn’t have to put her in a care home. He had previously turned down offers of support from social services.
Perpetrator: Lawrence Franks (Husband), pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, given a two-year suspended sentence.
Disability: Blind in one eye.
Denise was beaten to death by her boyfriend.
Location: Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.
Disability: Mobility impaired due to fall; frail elder.
Bernadette’s son severely neglected her before killing her by smothering her.
Perpetrator: Stephen Green (Son), convicted of murder, sentenced to 14 years to life.
Betty was strangled by her husband, who then hanged himself.
Location: Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England, UK.
Ruby’s grandson went to the care home where she and her husband lived; he stabbed her in the neck, killing her.
She was a great-great-grandmother who had just celebrated her 70th wedding anniversary with her husband. Her family remembers her “creativity and love for crocheting, dressmaking and bingo” and says she “always had a song to sing for every occasion”. She had lived in a nursing home for seven months and enjoyed visits from family.
Perpetrator: Antony Jennings (Grandson), convicted of murder, sentenced to 22 years to life.
Jane’s husband took her out of the nursing home where she lived and poisoned her with prescription medication; then he killed himself.
Margaret was strangled by her daughter.
Perpetrator: Keeley Barnard (Daughter), convicted of murder, sentenced to 18 years to life.
Cause of death: Multiple murder.
Disability: Unspecified physical and mental disability; walked with a cane.
Leah Cohen and her daughter Hannah were stabbed to death by her son. Apparently, he was upset that he had been left out of his father’s will.
Leah and her family own Beigel Bake, their family business, a London bakery famous for its salt-beef bagels. Hannah and her sister ran a cake shop, which closed when Hannah was killed; Leah’s other two sons now run the bagel shop.
Perpetrator: Joshua Cohen (Son), charged with murder.
Location: Herne Bay, England, UK.
Disability: Anxiety disorder, mental illness.
Olivia’s father strangled her to death; then he went after Olivia’s mother, who escaped and ran to a neighbor’s to call the police. The killer claimed that he was so stressed by Olivia’s mental illness that he had “snapped” and “couldn’t let her suffer any more”.
Perpetrator: Richard Kray (Father; employed as caregiver to autistic children in a special school), pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility and attempted murder, sentenced to 10 years, to be partially served in a psychiatric unit. | 2019-04-24T11:57:13 | https://disability-memorial.org/category/location/uk |
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0.999997 | David Tan: Reading log - "Falling leaves"
Reading log - "Falling leaves"
How does the text relate to the theme of a journey?
The storyline of the novel “Falling Leaves” is about Adeline Yen Mah’s life. Her true life journey in China during the civil war was a time of fear, isolation and humiliation and how she beat the odds. Her mother died two weeks after her birth and Adeline was considered to be a source of bad luck by her family. Her father remarried a beautiful Eurasian woman one year later who was incredibly abusive, and her siblings treated her horribly except James. This is the story of how she survived to become a doctor and most successful in the family.
What is the main issue in the text?
The important point is that all Adeline wanted was the love and acceptance from her family, even though her step-mother who treated her like dirt, she became a successful person in spite of that. Adeline always had this dream of a united family where no one was treated badly. Her step-mother was neither kind nor good, yet she yearned for her approval for her entire life. Despite her family members mistreated her again and again, she never gives up on her dream.
What quality do you admire or dislike in a character?
My least favourite character would have to be Niang, the step-mother as I cannot believe how selfish, mean and cruel any person could be especially to a child who is not their own. Although Adeline excelled in her studies, she didn’t say a word of praise or encouragement; on the contrary, she ill-treated her. As for her own daughter, Susan, I couldn’t believe she chose to disinherit her with a ridiculous excuse. Her irrational act causes her to be forlorn and childless. She died without a friend.
How does the text develop your understanding of the world?
It was horrible during the civil war in China. From the novel we understand the concept of inflation by the illustration of Adeline’s second brother, Edgar stole two American dollars and change it to two bags of China currency and buried them in the backyard. Besides that, in Shanghai, there were cars and trams, beautifully dressed people listening to jazz. Meanwhile, there was a lot of poverty, too. Apart from that, a money-driven society in Hong Kong somehow had neglected the importance of love in family. In order to be respected by society, one has to be rich and well off. Money makes the world go round. | 2019-04-21T04:13:58 | http://studylog0318kbueald.blogspot.com/2010/02/reading-log-falling-leaves.html |
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0.999992 | Thinking in terms of overlapping atomic orbitals is one way for us to explain how chemical bonds form in diatomic molecules. However, to understand how molecules with more than two atoms form stable bonds, we require a more detailed model. As an example, let us consider the water molecule, in which we have one oxygen atom bonding to two hydrogen atoms. Oxygen has the electron configuration 1s22s22p4, with two unpaired electrons (one in each of the two 2p orbitals). Valence bond theory would predict that the two O–H bonds form from the overlap of these two 2p orbitals with the 1s orbitals of the hydrogen atoms. If this were the case, the bond angle would be 90°, as shown in [link], because p orbitals are perpendicular to each other. Experimental evidence shows that the bond angle is 104.5°, not 90°. The prediction of the valence bond theory model does not match the real-world observations of a water molecule; a different model is needed.
Quantum-mechanical calculations suggest why the observed bond angles in H2O differ from those predicted by the overlap of the 1s orbital of the hydrogen atoms with the 2p orbitals of the oxygen atom. The mathematical expression known as the wave function, ψ, contains information about each orbital and the wavelike properties of electrons in an isolated atom. When atoms are bound together in a molecule, the wave functions combine to produce new mathematical descriptions that have different shapes. This process of combining the wave functions for atomic orbitals is called hybridization and is mathematically accomplished by the linear combination of atomic orbitals, LCAO, (a technique that we will encounter again later). The new orbitals that result are called hybrid orbitals. The valence orbitals in an isolated oxygen atom are a 2s orbital and three 2p orbitals. The valence orbitals in an oxygen atom in a water molecule differ; they consist of four equivalent hybrid orbitals that point approximately toward the corners of a tetrahedron ([link]). Consequently, the overlap of the O and H orbitals should result in a tetrahedral bond angle (109.5°). The observed angle of 104.5° is experimental evidence for which quantum-mechanical calculations give a useful explanation: Valence bond theory must include a hybridization component to give accurate predictions.
(a) A water molecule has four regions of electron density, so VSEPR theory predicts a tetrahedral arrangement of hybrid orbitals. (b) Two of the hybrid orbitals on oxygen contain lone pairs, and the other two overlap with the 1s orbitals of hydrogen atoms to form the O–H bonds in H2O. This description is more consistent with the experimental structure.
Hybrid orbitals do not exist in isolated atoms. They are formed only in covalently bonded atoms.
Hybrid orbitals have shapes and orientations that are very different from those of the atomic orbitals in isolated atoms.
A set of hybrid orbitals is generated by combining atomic orbitals. The number of hybrid orbitals in a set is equal to the number of atomic orbitals that were combined to produce the set.
All orbitals in a set of hybrid orbitals are equivalent in shape and energy.
The type of hybrid orbitals formed in a bonded atom depends on its electron-pair geometry as predicted by the VSEPR theory.
Hybrid orbitals overlap to form σ bonds. Unhybridized orbitals overlap to form π bonds.
In the following sections, we shall discuss the common types of hybrid orbitals.
The beryllium atom in a gaseous BeCl2 molecule is an example of a central atom with no lone pairs of electrons in a linear arrangement of three atoms. There are two regions of valence electron density in the BeCl2 molecule that correspond to the two covalent Be–Cl bonds. To accommodate these two electron domains, two of the Be atom’s four valence orbitals will mix to yield two hybrid orbitals. This hybridization process involves mixing of the valence s orbital with one of the valence p orbitals to yield two equivalent sp hybrid orbitals that are oriented in a linear geometry ([link]). In this figure, the set of sp orbitals appears similar in shape to the original p orbital, but there is an important difference. The number of atomic orbitals combined always equals the number of hybrid orbitals formed. The p orbital is one orbital that can hold up to two electrons. The sp set is two equivalent orbitals that point 180° from each other. The two electrons that were originally in the s orbital are now distributed to the two sp orbitals, which are half filled. In gaseous BeCl2, these half-filled hybrid orbitals will overlap with orbitals from the chlorine atoms to form two identical σ bonds.
Hybridization of an s orbital (blue) and a p orbital (red) of the same atom produces two sp hybrid orbitals (yellow). Each hybrid orbital is oriented primarily in just one direction. Note that each sp orbital contains one lobe that is significantly larger than the other. The set of two sp orbitals are oriented at 180°, which is consistent with the geometry for two domains.
We illustrate the electronic differences in an isolated Be atom and in the bonded Be atom in the orbital energy-level diagram in [link]. These diagrams represent each orbital by a horizontal line (indicating its energy) and each electron by an arrow. Energy increases toward the top of the diagram. We use one upward arrow to indicate one electron in an orbital and two arrows (up and down) to indicate two electrons of opposite spin.
This orbital energy-level diagram shows the sp hybridized orbitals on Be in the linear BeCl2 molecule. Each of the two sp hybrid orbitals holds one electron and is thus half filled and available for bonding via overlap with a Cl 3p orbital.
When atomic orbitals hybridize, the valence electrons occupy the newly created orbitals. The Be atom had two valence electrons, so each of the sp orbitals gets one of these electrons. Each of these electrons pairs up with the unpaired electron on a chlorine atom when a hybrid orbital and a chlorine orbital overlap during the formation of the Be–Cl bonds.
Any central atom surrounded by just two regions of valence electron density in a molecule will exhibit sp hybridization. Other examples include the mercury atom in the linear HgCl2 molecule, the zinc atom in Zn(CH3)2, which contains a linear C–Zn–C arrangement, and the carbon atoms in HCCH and CO2.
Check out the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh website to learn about visualizing hybrid orbitals in three dimensions.
The valence orbitals of a central atom surrounded by three regions of electron density consist of a set of three sp2 hybrid orbitals and one unhybridized p orbital. This arrangement results from sp2 hybridization, the mixing of one s orbital and two p orbitals to produce three identical hybrid orbitals oriented in a trigonal planar geometry ([link]).
The hybridization of an s orbital (blue) and two p orbitals (red) produces three equivalent sp2 hybridized orbitals (yellow) oriented at 120° with respect to each other. The remaining unhybridized p orbital is not shown here, but is located along the z axis.
Although quantum mechanics yields the “plump” orbital lobes as depicted in [link], sometimes for clarity these orbitals are drawn thinner and without the minor lobes, as in [link], to avoid obscuring other features of a given illustration. We will use these “thinner” representations whenever the true view is too crowded to easily visualize.
This alternate way of drawing the trigonal planar sp2 hybrid orbitals is sometimes used in more crowded figures.
The observed structure of the borane molecule, BH3, suggests sp2 hybridization for boron in this compound. The molecule is trigonal planar, and the boron atom is involved in three bonds to hydrogen atoms ([link]). We can illustrate the comparison of orbitals and electron distribution in an isolated boron atom and in the bonded atom in BH3 as shown in the orbital energy level diagram in [link]. We redistribute the three valence electrons of the boron atom in the three sp2 hybrid orbitals, and each boron electron pairs with a hydrogen electron when B–H bonds form.
BH3 is an electron-deficient molecule with a trigonal planar structure.
In an isolated B atom, there are one 2s and three 2p valence orbitals. When boron is in a molecule with three regions of electron density, three of the orbitals hybridize and create a set of three sp2 orbitals and one unhybridized 2p orbital. The three half-filled hybrid orbitals each overlap with an orbital from a hydrogen atom to form three σ bonds in BH3.
Any central atom surrounded by three regions of electron density will exhibit sp2 hybridization. This includes molecules with a lone pair on the central atom, such as ClNO ([link]), or molecules with two single bonds and a double bond connected to the central atom, as in formaldehyde, CH2O, and ethene, H2CCH2.
The central atom(s) in each of the structures shown contain three regions of electron density and are sp2 hybridized. As we know from the discussion of VSEPR theory, a region of electron density contains all of the electrons that point in one direction. A lone pair, an unpaired electron, a single bond, or a multiple bond would each count as one region of electron density.
The valence orbitals of an atom surrounded by a tetrahedral arrangement of bonding pairs and lone pairs consist of a set of four sp3 hybrid orbitals. The hybrids result from the mixing of one s orbital and all three p orbitals that produces four identical sp3 hybrid orbitals ([link]). Each of these hybrid orbitals points toward a different corner of a tetrahedron.
The hybridization of an s orbital (blue) and three p orbitals (red) produces four equivalent sp3 hybridized orbitals (yellow) oriented at 109.5° with respect to each other.
A molecule of methane, CH4, consists of a carbon atom surrounded by four hydrogen atoms at the corners of a tetrahedron. The carbon atom in methane exhibits sp3 hybridization. We illustrate the orbitals and electron distribution in an isolated carbon atom and in the bonded atom in CH4 in [link]. The four valence electrons of the carbon atom are distributed equally in the hybrid orbitals, and each carbon electron pairs with a hydrogen electron when the C–H bonds form.
The four valence atomic orbitals from an isolated carbon atom all hybridize when the carbon bonds in a molecule like CH4 with four regions of electron density. This creates four equivalent sp3 hybridized orbitals. Overlap of each of the hybrid orbitals with a hydrogen orbital creates a C–H σ bond.
In a methane molecule, the 1s orbital of each of the four hydrogen atoms overlaps with one of the four sp3 orbitals of the carbon atom to form a sigma (σ) bond. This results in the formation of four strong, equivalent covalent bonds between the carbon atom and each of the hydrogen atoms to produce the methane molecule, CH4.
The structure of ethane, C2H6, is similar to that of methane in that each carbon in ethane has four neighboring atoms arranged at the corners of a tetrahedron—three hydrogen atoms and one carbon atom ([link]). However, in ethane an sp3 orbital of one carbon atom overlaps end to end with an sp3 orbital of a second carbon atom to form a σ bond between the two carbon atoms. Each of the remaining sp3 hybrid orbitals overlaps with an s orbital of a hydrogen atom to form carbon–hydrogen σ bonds. The structure and overall outline of the bonding orbitals of ethane are shown in [link]. The orientation of the two CH3 groups is not fixed relative to each other. Experimental evidence shows that rotation around σ bonds occurs easily.
(a) In the ethane molecule, C2H6, each carbon has four sp3 orbitals. (b) These four orbitals overlap to form seven σ bonds.
An sp3 hybrid orbital can also hold a lone pair of electrons. For example, the nitrogen atom in ammonia is surrounded by three bonding pairs and a lone pair of electrons directed to the four corners of a tetrahedron. The nitrogen atom is sp3 hybridized with one hybrid orbital occupied by the lone pair.
The molecular structure of water is consistent with a tetrahedral arrangement of two lone pairs and two bonding pairs of electrons. Thus we say that the oxygen atom is sp3 hybridized, with two of the hybrid orbitals occupied by lone pairs and two by bonding pairs. Since lone pairs occupy more space than bonding pairs, structures that contain lone pairs have bond angles slightly distorted from the ideal. Perfect tetrahedra have angles of 109.5°, but the observed angles in ammonia (107.3°) and water (104.5°) are slightly smaller. Other examples of sp3 hybridization include CCl4, PCl3, and NCl3.
To describe the five bonding orbitals in a trigonal bipyramidal arrangement, we must use five of the valence shell atomic orbitals (the s orbital, the three p orbitals, and one of the d orbitals), which gives five sp3d hybrid orbitals. With an octahedral arrangement of six hybrid orbitals, we must use six valence shell atomic orbitals (the s orbital, the three p orbitals, and two of the d orbitals in its valence shell), which gives six sp3d2 hybrid orbitals. These hybridizations are only possible for atoms that have d orbitals in their valence subshells (that is, not those in the first or second period).
The three compounds pictured exhibit sp3d hybridization in the central atom and a trigonal bipyramid form. SF4 and have one lone pair of electrons on the central atom, and ClF3 has two lone pairs giving it the T-shape shown.
(a) The five regions of electron density around phosphorus in PCl5 require five hybrid sp3d orbitals. (b) These orbitals combine to form a trigonal bipyramidal structure with each large lobe of the hybrid orbital pointing at a vertex. As before, there are also small lobes pointing in the opposite direction for each orbital (not shown for clarity).
The sulfur atom in sulfur hexafluoride, SF6, exhibits sp3d2 hybridization. A molecule of sulfur hexafluoride has six bonding pairs of electrons connecting six fluorine atoms to a single sulfur atom. There are no lone pairs of electrons on the central atom. To bond six fluorine atoms, the 3s orbital, the three 3p orbitals, and two of the 3d orbitals form six equivalent sp3d2 hybrid orbitals, each directed toward a different corner of an octahedron. Other atoms that exhibit sp3d2 hybridization include the phosphorus atom in the iodine atom in the interhalogens IF5, and the xenon atom in XeF4.
(a) Sulfur hexafluoride, SF6, has an octahedral structure that requires sp3d2 hybridization. (b) The six sp3d2 orbitals form an octahedral structure around sulfur. Again, the minor lobe of each orbital is not shown for clarity.
Determine the Lewis structure of the molecule.
Determine the number of regions of electron density around an atom using VSEPR theory, in which single bonds, multiple bonds, radicals, and lone pairs each count as one region.
Assign the set of hybridized orbitals from [link] that corresponds to this geometry.
The shapes of hybridized orbital sets are consistent with the electron-pair geometries. For example, an atom surrounded by three regions of electron density is sp2 hybridized, and the three sp2 orbitals are arranged in a trigonal planar fashion.
It is important to remember that hybridization was devised to rationalize experimentally observed molecular geometries. The model works well for molecules containing small central atoms, in which the valence electron pairs are close together in space. However, for larger central atoms, the valence-shell electron pairs are farther from the nucleus, and there are fewer repulsions. Their compounds exhibit structures that are often not consistent with VSEPR theory, and hybridized orbitals are not necessary to explain the observed data. For example, we have discussed the H–O–H bond angle in H2O, 104.5°, which is more consistent with sp3 hybrid orbitals (109.5°) on the central atom than with 2p orbitals (90°). Sulfur is in the same group as oxygen, and H2S has a similar Lewis structure. However, it has a much smaller bond angle (92.1°), which indicates much less hybridization on sulfur than oxygen. Continuing down the group, tellurium is even larger than sulfur, and for H2Te, the observed bond angle (90°) is consistent with overlap of the 5p orbitals, without invoking hybridization. We invoke hybridization where it is necessary to explain the observed structures.
The Lewis structure of sulfate shows there are four regions of electron density. The hybridization is sp3.
What is the hybridization of the selenium atom in SeF4?
The selenium atom is sp3d hybridized.
Urea, NH2C(O)NH2, is sometimes used as a source of nitrogen in fertilizers. What is the hybridization of each nitrogen and carbon atom in urea?
The nitrogen atoms are surrounded by four regions of electron density, which arrange themselves in a tetrahedral electron-pair geometry. The hybridization in a tetrahedral arrangement is sp3 ([link]). This is the hybridization of the nitrogen atoms in urea.
The carbon atom is surrounded by three regions of electron density, positioned in a trigonal planar arrangement. The hybridization in a trigonal planar electron pair geometry is sp2 ([link]), which is the hybridization of the carbon atom in urea.
Acetic acid, H3CC(O)OH, is the molecule that gives vinegar its odor and sour taste. What is the hybridization of the two carbon atoms in acetic acid?
We can use hybrid orbitals, which are mathematical combinations of some or all of the valence atomic orbitals, to describe the electron density around covalently bonded atoms. These hybrid orbitals either form sigma (σ) bonds directed toward other atoms of the molecule or contain lone pairs of electrons. We can determine the type of hybridization around a central atom from the geometry of the regions of electron density about it. Two such regions imply sp hybridization; three, sp2 hybridization; four, sp3 hybridization; five, sp3d hybridization; and six, sp3d2 hybridization. Pi (π) bonds are formed from unhybridized atomic orbitals (p or d orbitals).
Why is the concept of hybridization required in valence bond theory?
Hybridization is introduced to explain the geometry of bonding orbitals in valance bond theory.
Explain why a carbon atom cannot form five bonds using sp3d hybrid orbitals.
There are no d orbitals in the valence shell of carbon.
What is the hybridization of the central atom in each of the following?
A molecule with the formula AB3 could have one of four different shapes. Give the shape and the hybridization of the central A atom for each.
Methionine, CH3SCH2CH2CH(NH2)CO2H, is an amino acid found in proteins. Draw a Lewis structure of this compound. What is the hybridization type of each carbon, oxygen, the nitrogen, and the sulfur?
(a) Draw a Lewis structure.
(b) Predict the geometry about the carbon atom.
(c) Determine the hybridization of each type of carbon atom.
For many years after they were discovered, it was believed that the noble gases could not form compounds. Now we know that belief to be incorrect. A mixture of xenon and fluorine gases, confined in a quartz bulb and placed on a windowsill, is found to slowly produce a white solid. Analysis of the compound indicates that it contains 77.55% Xe and 22.45% F by mass.
(a) What is the formula of the compound?
(b) Write a Lewis structure for the compound.
(c) Predict the shape of the molecules of the compound.
(d) What hybridization is consistent with the shape you predicted?
Consider nitrous acid, HNO2 (HONO).
(a) Write a Lewis structure.
(b) What are the electron pair and molecular geometries of the internal oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the HNO2 molecule?
(c) What is the hybridization on the internal oxygen and nitrogen atoms in HNO2?
Strike-anywhere matches contain a layer of KClO3 and a layer of P4S3. The heat produced by the friction of striking the match causes these two compounds to react vigorously, which sets fire to the wooden stem of the match. KClO3 contains the ion. P4S3 is an unusual molecule with the skeletal structure.
(a) Write Lewis structures for P4S3 and the ion.
(b) Describe the geometry about the P atoms, the S atom, and the Cl atom in these species.
(c) Assign a hybridization to the P atoms, the S atom, and the Cl atom in these species.
(d) Determine the oxidation states and formal charge of the atoms in P4S3 and the ion.
Write Lewis structures for NF3 and PF5. On the basis of hybrid orbitals, explain the fact that NF3, PF3, and PF5 are stable molecules, but NF5 does not exist.
Phosphorus and nitrogen can form sp3 hybrids to form three bonds and hold one lone pair in PF3 and NF3, respectively. However, nitrogen has no valence d orbitals, so it cannot form a set of sp3d hybrid orbitals to bind five fluorine atoms in NF5. Phosphorus has d orbitals and can bind five fluorine atoms with sp3d hybrid orbitals in PF5.
In addition to NF3, two other fluoro derivatives of nitrogen are known: N2F4 and N2F2. What shapes do you predict for these two molecules? What is the hybridization for the nitrogen in each molecule?
1 Note that orbitals may sometimes be drawn in an elongated “balloon” shape rather than in a more realistic “plump” shape in order to make the geometry easier to visualize.
Hybrid Atomic Orbitals by OpenStaxCollege is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. | 2019-04-22T12:59:48 | http://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/chemistry/chapter/hybrid-atomic-orbitals/ |
0.999999 | Is Luka Jovic a good candidate to replace Karim Benzema at Real Madrid?
It has been reported from various sections of media in Spain that Real Madrid is interested in bringing Eintracht Frankfurt striker Luka Jovic to the club in the summer. He will come into the club as a potential replacement for long-term striker Karim Benzema.
However, with the club desperate to get back to its winning ways, will Luka Jovic be an ideal candidate to replace the veteran striker?
In 40 appearances across all competitions this season, Serbia's Luka Jovic has scored 21 goals which have made him the best player to play for Eintracht Frankfurt this season. Hence, he has come into the radar of top clubs across Europe with the struggling Real Madrid also interested in the 21-year-old's services.
Although Karim Benzema has done better for the club this season than the previous few campaigns, the Frenchman is nowhere close to what performance would be expected out of the No.9 of a big club like Real Madrid. Hence, to solve the issues for the club in front of the goal, Karim Benzema could be the first casualty in the attack.
Hence, with a number of options to consider for Real Madrid's next No.9, Zinedine Zidane has reportedly expressed his interest to bring Serbia's Luka Jovic to the club. The player is in good form and is someone who can make an instant impact at the club.
Although he may not be in the minds of Real Madrid's bosses as the club's long-term main striker, Luka Jovic does give the flexibility to experiment in the upcoming season. He may not have proved his worth at the highest level but the talent he has shown until now is enough for the club to invest in him.
He is a relatively cheaper option in the market considering other fellow strikers who could be on the move. Not many are aware of the playing style of the Serbian and that would bring the unpredictability factor which can help the club.
Hence, Luka Jovic could indeed be a good option for Real Madrid to replace Karim Benzema. | 2019-04-23T05:52:32 | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/is-luka-jovic-a-good-candidate-to-replace-karim-benzema-at-real-madrid |
0.999987 | How to keep two JIRA issues' status in sync automatically?
I have two JIRA issues from two different projects and I need one issue‘s status automatically changed if the status of the other issue gets changed. I tried to ‘Link issue 1 to issue 2’ and it did not work. Do you know if there is a way to achieve this?
This is Riddhi from team Exalate.
I would like to let you know that Exalate is made for this. It allows to sync information bi- and uni-directionally between multiple Jira instances. Or separate projects in your local Jira.
Thanks :-) I will look into Exalate to see if it will cover my scenarios better.
@André Trommestad, just to let you know there are multiple apps like Exalate in the marketplace which work in similar ways. If you want to get the whole list, go to the marketplace to search for issue sync apps.
I'm not aware of any plugin that can do this. for sure this could be done by an event listener. event listeners can even be implemented in groovy, just look here https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/GRV/Listeners The event listener would need to check if any of the two issues changed the status. If yes one would have to execute the same transition on the other issue. To detect the status change easily one could define a dedicated event for that and create this one in the workflow. That way you just need to check if this specific event was thrown.
We are looking for the same functionality. Has anyone already implemented a groovy script that does this?
You'll need to do some scripting to achieve that, either by using listeners or post-functions. You could use Groovy or JJUPIN or anything that allows you to customize the workflow.
The reason why you won't find that ready-made is because you can have different workflows for the two issues and transitions are the only "legal" way to change the status of an issue. What happens when for issue A you have Status1 -> Status2 -> Status3 and for issue B Status4->Status5. There are a lot of variables in this use case, so it's unlikely that you'll find a solution that will work out of the box.
Please use the add-on "Status-Sync for distributed workflows" for JIRA available on the Atlassian Marketplace to set status of all subtasks, related user stories of Epics or linked issues on one hand or the related parent on the other. You can configure the link direction to determine the target issue(s) as well as the workflow transition to be executed by the first (e.g. start working) or last of the sub tasks (e.g. finished work) or the parent issue (e.g. in case of canceled or postponed).
For detecting the change, you could either use Dieter's answer or use external automation to query the JIRA change tables. For updating the second JIRA, you can JIRA Command Line Interface progressIssue or similar techniques. I prefer the external automation route as it is more flexible in handling many similar situations including 2-way changes. Using Bamboo (for instance) to run the automation makes it easy to control (to handle outage cases), keep logs for problem determination, and provide notifications.
Thank you both for your responses. If we have to do extra work to achieve this, I wonder what kind of 'link functionality' that JIRA 'link issue' can provide us besides information only? One more question regarding the type of link issue, it seems that the 'Associate' and 'Depend' are about the same, 'Duplicate' and 'Clone' are the same? Does anyone find the usage of linked issue is helpful to them and how?
Linking issues is really a different questiion. The concept is very helpful for many installations. You can add your own link types like linking requirements to development issues for instance. Duplicate means that the underlying issue reported is essentially the same and usually a fix for one with fix the other. Normally, you fix one issue and then close the other issue as a duplicate (reason code) and link them with duplicate. Cloners is different. It says that one issue was copied from another issue for some reason like creating additional tasks for someone else or copy work to a new iteration that was not totally complete in an earlier iteration.
Linking of issues is very useful to establish the relations between issues. This gives traceability of related issues. And the type of links are just for the readablity to clearly indicate what type of relation exists between the issues.
I've use Project automation for this and it works fine for my projects.
You have to add automation for each status change.
ex: WHEN "a linked issue is transitioned" -> IF "Linked issue matches status = "In Progress" AND "Link type matches clones" -> THEN "Transition issue Start Progress"
This works fine when the workflow in the two projects the issues belongs to are the same. If not it will be a bit more work setting up the project automation. | 2019-04-19T06:49:53 | https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-keep-two-JIRA-issues-status-in-sync-automatically/qaq-p/13926 |
0.999648 | After breaking my LCD screen by leaving my keys in my pocket with my two month old camera I have decided to build a protective cover for the LCD. The following instructions will show you how to build an LCD cover for just about any digital camera.
An old CD or cassette case with very few scratches.
Adhesive Velcro. I got this at a local hardware store.
I started by placing the CD case on top of my camera and traced the shape of the LCD screen with a little extra space on both the left and right sides.
I than scored these lines all the way to the edges of the CD case with a razor blade. Once scored the lines can be cracked by gently bending the plastic.
To finish the plastic I beveled the edges with fine sandpaper.
Next i cut two thin strips of adhesive velcro the height of the LCD screen. I afixed the soft sides of the velcro to the camera and the course side to the plastic.
I than velcroed the new screen cover to the camera. I have been using this in lew of a case since I made it.
This side view shows the slight clearence between the protector and the LCD which allows pressure to bend the protector without affecting the LCD. | 2019-04-18T13:01:01 | http://mike-is-bored.blogspot.com/2007/06/ |
0.999994 | In this talk I will state (and explain parts of the proof) of a criterion for the existence of an extremal Kaehler metric in certain Kaehler classes on projective line bundles over a polarized manifold of constant scalar curvature. In particular, this allows one to solve the problem of existence of extremal Kaehler metrics on geometrically ruled complex surfaces.
where 2* = [(2n)/(n-2)], U : M® Rp and A is a symmetric p×p matrix under small perturbations of this interaction matrix A. The aim is to recover the effects of the conformal almost-invariance of the lines of the system (which already appear in the study of the stability of one single equation) and to discover the effects of the interaction matrix A.
It is well known that a complex submanifold of a Kähler manifold must minimize volume in its homology class. Conversely, when is an even dimensional volume minimizing submanifold of a Kähler manifold holomorphic? In this talk I will survey some of what is known about when stable minimal surfaces are holomorphic.
Tom Branson and Rod Gover constructed new conformally invariant differential operators acting on k-forms on a conformal compact manifold (M,[h]), and a generalization Qk of Branson Q-curvature for k-forms. The kernel of some of these operators is what they call conformal harmonics.
We show how they are related to harmonic forms on Poincaré-Einstein manifolds with (M,[h]) as conformal infinity. In particular, conformal harmonics can be identified with harmonic forms on the bulk with a strong regularity at the boundary, spanning a finite dimensional set.
Joint work with E. Aubry.
In 1969, Roger Penrose proposed a geometric mechanism for extracting energy and angular momentum from a rotating black hole by exploiting the presence of an ergosphere, that is a region outside the event horizon in which the conserved energy along time-like geodesics can be negative. Soon after the publication of Penrose's paper, Christodoulou established an upper bound for the amount of energy which can be extracted by this process. The wave analogue of the Penrose process, which is called super-radiance, was then investigated by Zel'dovich and Starobinsky for separable solutions of the wave equation corresponding to individual modes.
We will review the Penrose process and super-radiance from the perspective of the Cauchy problem for the scalar wave equation in Kerr geometry, and show that super-radiance can be put into a rigorous mathematical framework. We will quantify the maximal energy gain and show that Christodoulou's bound also holds for scalar waves.
This is joint work with Felix Finster, Joel Smoller and Shing-Tung Yau.
I will survey some recent work on compact G2 manifolds with isolated conical singularities. Specifically I will discuss glueing methods for their desingularization, which involves topological obstructions, as well as the deformation theory (moduli spaces) of such manifolds.
I will also briefly discuss a new construction with Dominic Joyce which could provide the first examples of such manifolds, as well as a possible new construction of smooth compact G2 manifolds.
(iv) when assuming some polynomial growth conditions.
Joint works with G. Barles, S. Biton, M. Bourgoing, P. Cardaliaguet and E. Chasseigne.
We give a simple proof of the isoperimetric inequality for quermassintegrals of non-convex starshaped domains, using a result of Gerhardt and Urbas on an expanding geometric curvature flow.
In general, higher order elliptic equations and boundary value problems like the biharmonic equation or the linear clamped plate boundary value problem do not enjoy neither a maximum principle nor a comparison principle or-equivalently-a positivity preserving property. It is shown that, on the other hand, for bounded smooth domains W Ì Rn, the negative part of the corresponding Green's function is "small" when compared with its singular positive part, provided that n ³ 3.
The renormalized volume of quasifuchsian hyperbolic 3-manifolds was originally introduced for physical reasons. Takhtajan and Zograf (and others) discovered that it provides a Kähler potential for the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmüller space. We will give an elementary, differential-geometric account of this result. It can be extended to quasifuchsian manifolds having cone singularities along infinite lines, yielding results on the Teichmüller space of hyperbolic metrics with cone singularities (of prescribed angles) on a closed surface.
Joint works with K. Krasnov, C. Lecuire, S. Moroianu.
Given a convex body in Rn+1 containing the origin, the volume product functional associates to it the value Vol(K) ·Vol(K*), where K* denotes the dual polar body of K with respect to the origin. This number is the object of Santaló's inequality as well as that of Mahler's conjecture. We will present some results related to bounds of this functional.
Ricci solitons are special solutions of the Ricci flow given by a 1-parameter family of diffeomorphisms and homotheties. They may be viewed as generalizations of Einstein metrics. They also occur when analysing singularities of the Ricci flow or when one tries to derive matrix Harnack inequalities.
I will describe some new examples of non-Kahler Ricci solitons which generalise those constructed by T. Ivey.
In this talk we will discuss certain generic and optimal geometric criteria for the mutually interacted Sobolev, Nash, logarithmic Sobolev inequalities of L2 type on 3 £ n-dimensional, complete, non-compact, Riemannian manifolds. More attention is paid on those aspects connecting the volumes and the Green's functions of regular bounded open subsets of the manifolds. | 2019-04-26T07:39:58 | https://cms.math.ca/Events/summer08/abs/gna.html |
0.999016 | What is the recovery like after a rhinoplasty?
The patient is allowed to go home about 2 to 3 hours after surgery once the recovery is complete. During the first 24 hours, ice compresses are applied to the eyes 10 minutes for every hour while the patient is awake. This helps to reduce swelling and bruising. Typically, there is no pain associated with this procedure. The nose may be stuffy for several days and this gradually resolves.
The patient is seen the day after surgery to make sure he or she is doing well. The patient is then seen again 5 days after surgery. At this time the splint is removed. While the nose may be swollen, it will look better than it did before the surgery. About 70 % of the swelling resolves in the first 3 weeks. The remaining 30% takes about 6 months. This 30% is rarely perceptible to the patient or public. | 2019-04-19T05:10:50 | https://www.drbustillo.com/blog/recovery-like-rhinoplasty |
0.999776 | Not much changes with Kimi, does it?
He makes his F1 debut with Sauber when no one expects it. Then 17 years, a world championship and 20 wins later, he signs off his F1 career but making a surprise return to Hinwil. 'Symmetry' and 'Raikkonen' are not two words you would expect in the same sentence.
What's keeping Kimi in Formula One?
In fact, you could say his first association with the Swiss-based team was a surprise, even to the man in charge. Peter Sauber knew very little about Raikkonen mainly because the 21-year-old Finn had done no more than 23 races -- in total.
The first mention came from the late David Robertson, a driver manager with a keen eye and a persuasive line of chat. Not only did the Englishman coax Sauber to consider this young guy who had done amazing things with a slick-shod kart in the wet, he also cajoled Peter to run a three-day test at Mugello.
"I'd never met David Robertson before," Sauber told me a few years ago. "Let's just say David was an excellent salesman!
"We had no money and, normally, when you do a test for young drivers then you make a three-day test with six drivers and make it pay. But Robertson told me this guy is very, very special and he needs a car for three days. And, of course, they paid nothing. I still don't understand why I made this decision!"
Sauber, almost reluctantly, turned up at the Italian track on the second day. Initial impressions were mixed, mainly because they had no common language and Kimi never spoke -- not that he would say much in any case.
"But one or two things were very, very special," noted Sauber. "His body language was so impassive and he gave the impression he's so totally focused that if he walks to you, he could walk through you. I thought -- 'this guy is so strange'."
As ever, Kimi would do his talking on the track. But even that was limited through choice. Raikkonen was told to do three or four laps. When these had been completed, he was instructed to do a run of 10 laps. He returned to the pits after four, his neck unable to withstand the strain on this fast, undulating track.
"Can you imagine?" says Sauber. "You get a test with a F1 team and they tell you: 'Stay out for 10 laps' And you come back after four. It was not possible for him to keep his head up -- but he never spoke about it.
"Late in the day, he knows he's under scrutiny from me. We give him a set of new tyres and reduce the fuel amount. It was clear the new tyres are worth one second and the fuel is another second. But we didn't say anything. On the first lap, he was one second faster. On the second lap he was another second faster. Very impressive. I flew home together with Willy [Rampf, Sauber's technical director] and we decide 'Let's sign him'."
That would turn out to be half the battle. Sauber was being sponsored by Red Bull and their favoured driver, Enrique Bernoldi, had been testing on the same day. Dr Helmut Marko, Red Bull's racing advisor, was keen to have the Brazilian in the race seat.
"Bernoldi was not good enough," recalled Sauber. "But Helmut Marko was so convinced about his own judgement and he told [Red Bull boss] Dietrich Mateschitz that Willy Rampf was cheating and gave Bernoldi more fuel and the wrong tyres to slow him down. Marko played a bad role; really bad. Mateschitz believed everything he was told -- but, fortunately, I had a good relationship with Dietrich."
Good enough to have Raikkonen make his debut in the 2001 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, where he qualified 13th, had to be woken from a 30-minute slumber before the start of the race, went on to finish sixth - and then wonder what all the fuss was about. | 2019-04-23T22:36:10 | http://insider.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/24643115/this-guy-strange-perfect-symmetry-kimi-raikkonen-sauber |
0.999999 | What are the differences between a business appraiser, CPA auditor, and a due diligence expert?
It has been said that you cannot judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.
Over the years I have trod the business path--for much more than a mile--in the role (if not in the footwear) of business appraiser, CPA and due diligence expert.
And since setting up Due Diligence Assistance for buyers, I have gained a new respect for what knowledgeable CPAs have to go through when assisting their buyer clients in investigating a business. With very limited information they must determine if the books are "cooked" (containing false and incomplete information) and if so, by how much.
The CPA may find him or herself in the most awkward position of being informed--usually by the seller--that the business books are not completely accurate because they understate the company's earnings--a fabrication intended to reduce the seller's tax liability. Most accounting professionals who listen to that explanation have to wonder if the seller--who now has admitted to being dishonest--is also attempting to deceive the buyer by claiming the company does more business than is shown in its records.
Meanwhile, the appraiser often is asked to take the information provided by the accounting professional and use it to establish a "fair market value" on which the buyer can rely. The competent appraisal professional will, of course, analyze the macroeconomic factors--including industry trends, status of the economy and competitive environment--plus the capacity of the company (given the condition of its assets, the ability and loyalty of employees, and effectiveness of its marketing programs), to continue functioning in the future as it has in the past.
And what does the appraiser make of the figures furnished by the CPA who is analyzing the company's books and hearing about some manipulation by the seller?
The appraisal professional will have to issue a report with a disclaimer, stating either that: 1) the value is based on the figures supplied by the accountant--figures that should be verified, if possible, by the buyer; or 2) the value assumes the validity of income information which has been claimed, but has not been documented, by the seller.
This is the puzzle, not yet solved, that often is delivered to the due diligence advisor, along with the request that he, or she provide a solution.
If the CPA is a "numbers scientist" and the appraiser is a "theorist" who understands how to apply principals and formulae to specific situations, the role of the due diligence expert is to be the "professional investigator." This is the person whose skill is focused on taking all this information, mixing it with his or her detective work, and providing a sensible interpretation of what was learned, so the buyer can make an intelligent decision about whether or not to buy the business, and if so, for how much.
Among the questions to be pondered by the due diligence pro is the validity of the seller's stated reason for wanting to turn the business over to someone else. In my experience, there often is another reason--one that is not stated. And part of the job of the person conducting due diligence is to try to learn what's really going on.
Accurate answers to this question can shed a new light on the situation and help a buyer to determine--along with the other information provided by the due diligence advisor--if this really is a business worth buying, and if so, at what price.
About The Author: Willard Michlin, CPA offers business buyers Due Diligence Services (Second Opinion, Offer Assistance, Final Due Diligence) when they are thinking of making an offer on a business or in the process of investigating a business purchase. Serving all of Southern California. He has written numerous articles on the due diligence process and can be reached direct at 805-428-2063 for more information and an appointment.
Thank you for a good Blog Willard, I agree, it is correct that each industry has its own particular issues. Our specialty is the vended laundry; an all cash business. There are many areas in any business that one needs to understand. An Accountant alone is not usually going to be sufficient. Investors should seek experts in or that somewhat specialize in the industry they are investing into for additional information. Making contacts within an industry is important going forward anyway. It is a fact that determining the value of a business it is important to also understand that one is not relying on the businesses history but rather its ability to sustain and improve on its current position, going forward. | 2019-04-21T06:48:18 | https://www.bizben.com/blog/posts/748-differences-business-appraiser-cpa-due-diligence.php |
0.999691 | Sa theicteonaic phlátaíI is éard is teorainn choinbhéirseach ann, ar a dtugtar freisin teorainn plátaí scriosacha (mar gheall ar fhodhuchtú) ná réigiún ar a bhfuil athrú gníomhach ag teacht i bhfeidhm ar a chruth, toisc gur bhog dhá phláta teicteonach (nó níos mó) nó blúirí an litisféir, i dtreo a chéile agus gur bhuail siad a chéile. Mar thoradh ar bhrú, chuimilte, agus ábhar pláta ag leá sa mhaintlín, tarlíonn creathanna talún agus bolcáin coitianta in aice leis na teorainneacha coinbhéirseachta. Nuair a bhogann dhá pláta i dtreo a chéile. cruthaítear crios fodhuchtaithe nó imbhualadh ilchríochach. Braitheann sé seo ar nádúr na bplátaí atá i gceist. I gcrios fodhuchtaithe, bogann an pláta a bhíonn ar barr, de gnáth pláta le screamh aigéanach air, faoi bhun an pláta eile, gur féidir a bheith déanta as screamh aigéanach nó ilchríochach. Cruthaítear sliabhraonta móra, ar nós na Himiléithe, le linn imbhuailtí idir dhá pláta ilchríochach.
Braitheann saghas na teorann coinbhéirsí ar na gcineál plátaí atá ag imbhualadh le chéile. Ag teorainn cóineasaithe aigéanach-ilchríochach, beidh an litisféar aigéanach fodhuchtaithe i gcónaí faoi bhun an litisféir ilchríochaigh. Difríocht an dlúis choibhneasta idir an litisféar aigéanach (3.0 g / cm3) agus litisféar ilchríochach (2.7 g / cm3) is cúis le seo. Tugtar, freisin, an crios fodhuchtaithe ar an chineál teorann seo. Ar dhromchla an Domhain, is é an toradh topagrafach coitianta ná trinse aigéanach a cruthaítear ar an taobh aigéanach, comhthreomhar leis an gcrios fodhuchtaithe. Ar an taobh ilchríochach, cruthaítear slabhra bolcáin os cionn suíomh an phláta fhodhuchtaithe, a chruthú sliabhraoin dá ngairmtear stua bolcánach. Sampla de chrios fodhuchtaithe ilchríochach-aigéanach is ea an limistéar feadh chósta thiar Mheiriceá Theas ina bhfuil an pláta aigéanach, an Pláta Nazca á fhodhuchtú faoi bhun na hilchríche, sé sin Pláta Mheiriceá Theas.
Tugadh an leathanach seo cothrom le dáta an 27 Eanáir 2017 ag 21:18. | 2019-04-24T08:39:17 | https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teorainn_choinbh%C3%A9irseach |
0.999435 | Title proper: Business ethics and leadership.
Abbreviated key-title: Bus. ethics leadersh. | 2019-04-24T22:02:14 | https://portal.issn.org/resource/issn/2520-6311 |
0.999974 | The University of Hong Kong M.B.A.
Helen received her Ph.D. in Marketing at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, an M.B.A. from The University of Hong Kong, and a B.A. from Southeast University, China.
Helen's research can be classified into two main categories: (1) customer creativity and co-created innovation and (2) dynamic social interaction and its impact on business outcomes. In the domain of customer creativity and innovation, Helen's research is focused on exploring the key common factors that influence both individual creativity and organization innovation. In the domain of dynamic social interaction and its business impact, Helen is particularly interested in conversational interactions and the emerging trend of social interaction in the computer-mediated environment.
Helen has won numerous research awards and scholarships from ASU. In 2012, Helen was nominated as AMA/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellow. Prior to joining the academic world, Helen has worked for more than seven years in Marketing and Management positions with several major multinational companies, including Auchan, FedEx, Oxford Instruments, APL Logistics. | 2019-04-20T16:12:57 | http://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01798 |
0.999999 | The main article for this category is Bristol.
For the city in Connecticut, see Category:Bristol, Connecticut. For the city in Tennessee, see Category:Bristol, Tennessee. For the city in Virginia, see Category:Bristol, Virginia. For the town in Vermont, see Category:Bristol, Vermont. | 2019-04-19T19:33:41 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bristol |
0.999999 | What Can Possibly Be More Interesting Than This Article?
Australia's Channel 2, the government funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), used to host a show called "Backchat". Viewers were invited to submit their opinions about ABC broadcasts beamed into their televisions and radios. If what the viewer or listener had to say was current enough, witty, or clever, part of their submissions would be quoted on-air.
Backchat, aired twice a week, was a ten-minute segment that filled the gap between 9.20pm and 9.30pm; the concept was brilliant. Viewers got a thrill when the best parts of their letters were read out for all the nation to hear. The interesting thing about it was that there were often multiple comments on the same topic, giving a theme to that day's Backchat. The ABC had found a way to seem accountable to the public and, at the same time, attract viewers to their television station. | 2019-04-26T10:52:19 | https://ykarp.blogspot.com/2011/08/ |
0.998398 | What if a nuclear bomb were attached to a door?
I came up with an interesting hypothetical at a bar last night. It addresses two general ethical questions: (1) is it morally wrong to cause the deaths of other people, and (2) is it morally wrong to deprive a good person of their liberty or chance at a full and happy life for your own well-being?
Here is the scenario: A man (a normal, not particular evil person) is in his house. Someone attaches the trigger to a nuclear bomb to his door such that he cannot leave the house without setting off the bomb. The bomb is hidden in a town somewhere. If it goes off, the man will be OK, but all the people in the town will die.
The first question is: is it wrong for the man to leave the house? Does he have to live the life of a shut-in for the sake of a bunch of people he doesn’t know? Would it matter if he knew them? Would it matter if the house was very comfortable or very uncomfortable?
The second question is: would it be wrong for someone from the town to bar his door from the outside?
I like the second question a lot. Most people would probably say that the guy shouldn’t leave his house. That destroying a town full of people so that you can go to the corner store is immoral. But can somebody else make that decision for him? It’s kind of like that anti-utilitarian story of the town where everybody is happy but this happiness is only possible if one person is tortured. If the torture were stopped, everybody would be unhappy. And most people would say that it isn’t right to torture one person so that everyone else can be happy. On that subject, I wonder if anyone has every asked whether it would be right for the one person to refuse to be tortured.
The hypothetical above could also be modified in many ways. You could add some uncertainty. The bomb may go off, but it may not. There is a bomb but it could be anywhere; including a remote mountain range or the middle of the ocean. The guy could have some special skill that is needed by society. Maybe he has the cure for cancer. Maybe he thinks he has the cure for cancer, but has to leave to test his theory. Maybe the man doesn’t know about the bomb and the town has to lock him up and can’t tell him why. | 2019-04-25T12:08:19 | http://www.webarnes.ca/category/philosophy/ |
0.999981 | What is Cleganebowl and why are 'Game of Thrones' fans hyped for it?
The Hound vs. The Mountain — Cleganebowl.
It would be the clash of a generation: the Mountain and the Hound, two brothers who've been enemies since they were children, meeting in battle one last time.
Cleganebowl is the name of the fight that Game of Thrones fans have dreamed up, pitting Sandor "The Hound" Clegane vs. Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in a duel that would likely end in death. The two Cleganes, although similarly fierce warriors, are diametrically opposed and have made it abundantly clear that they would kill each other given the chance.
Let's dig into what exactly makes Cleganbowl such a juicy fight.
You know how Sandor has a pretty nasty scar on his face and scalp and he's afraid of fire? Well, that's because of his brother Gregor.
When Sandor was young, he found a toy that his brother wasn't using and decided to play with it. In what can only be described as a morbid overreaction, Gregor silently grabbed his younger brother and shoved his face into a burning brazier.
Since their childhoods, the two brothers have never had a good relationship. This comes up in the first season of Game of Thrones when Gregor loses in a joust and his brother steps in to stop him from killing his opponent, Ser Loras Tyrell. The two parry swords for a moment before King Robert Baratheon calls on them to stop, when Sandor immediately kneels and Gregor's sword comes within inches of delivering a fatal blow.
It was years before they saw each other again in Season 7, and although the Mountain is now basically a monstrous zombie, the Hound doesn't hold back from reminding him who will end his life — the biggest sign that Cleganebowl will go down in Season 8.
Time and time again, Gregor has shown just how relentlessly sadistic he is, stopping at almost nothing to terrorize, torture, and kill people.
He's done some truly heinous things, having possibly killed his own sister and father, numerous servants at Clegane Keep, which was before he was knighted at Tywin Lannister's request. During Robert's Rebellion against the Targaryens, Gregor committed more horrible acts, killing the two children of Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell, and then raped Elia before murdering her — an act he boasted about when he dueled her brother Oberyn Martell.
In the middle seasons of Game of Thrones after the Lannisters take control of King's Landing, Gregor pillages the Riverlands ferociously, striking fear into people everywhere stemming from his vicious acts of torture and terror, seen by Arya Stark at Harrenhal.
Sandor, seeing all the horrible things one can commit as a knight, decides that he will not take a knighthood, not wanting to be associated with his brother.
Sandor has clearly harbored an intense hatred for his horrible brother since a young age, so the two coming to blows doesn't seem like a stretch at all.
Aside from the fact that there's all this history and the Clegane brothers truly hate each other, there are numerous clues that these two will clash.
Although one of them is called the Hound, both come from house Clegane, whose banner depicts three dogs on a field of yellow. There are numerous references in the show and books to fights between hounds, including visions from Bran Stark.
Some of them are historical, but as we know, history often repeats itself, and YouTuber bridge4 goes deep into how old tales could become new again.
Things may not necessarily go as fans hope, but signs seem to point to the coming Cleganebowl, especially considering the actor behind the Mountain teased that one of his favorite scenes is yet to come. | 2019-04-25T02:49:46 | https://mashable.com/article/game-of-thrones-cleganebowl/ |
0.999123 | I am using FileZilla Client 3.39.0 on Windows x64.
I run a website that uses IIS 10's FTP server and I have it setup to use Explicit FTP over TLS and it's worked great for the last year+. I bought the server certificate through Digicert.
The server certificate expired on 2019-01-04. I renewed the certificate at Digicert, one that is good through 2021. I then installed it on the Windows server, and updated the FTP site to use the new certificate.
But then up pops a warning saying that the certificate expired on 2019-01-04.
If I click Ok, it continues, but then it says: Primary connection and data connection certificates don't match.
Here's the log following the "Initializing TLS..."
Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (38,101,199,155,19,46).
Error: Primary connection and data connection certificates don't match.
It's like the Initializing TLS logic is somehow grabbing the OLD certificate, but once it connects, it's grabbing the NEW certificate and seeing they don't match.
If I update the IIS FTP server to use the OLD certificate and retry connecting, I get the same expired certificate warning on Initializing TLS, but then when I click Ok it connects and I can transfer files without issue (albeit, I have to confirm that the certificate is expired every transfer).
What's going on here? Is FileZilla Client caching the Initializing TLS certificate? I've tried deleting the trustedcerts.xml file, but that didn't make any difference.
There is just one setting for the FTP SSL Certificate in IIS, so I don't think it's a server-side issue.
FWIW, I RDPed into a computer on the other side of the US and tried connecting via FileZilla Client and got the same behavior - during Initialize TLS it gave me the warning of the expired certificate, even though the FTP site on IIS is setup to use the new one. And then when I clicked OK, it came back with the same error, "Primary connection and data connection certificates don't match."
This leads me to believe it's not related to FileZilla Client or certificate caching, since the server I RDPed into has never attempted to access this FTP site before.
Does anyone have any ideas, or has anyone experienced this issue before?
IIS is a Microsoft product. Have you tried rebooting yet?
Yes, I have rebooted - still exhibits the same behavior.
Tim, can you provide any background on how FileZilla Client determines what certificate to use when making the primary connection (Initializing TLS) vs. what certificate to use when making the data connection?
My hunch is that the problem lies somewhere in that realm.
Which certificate is being used is determined entirely server-side. To prevent connection stealing attacks, FileZilla requires that the server selects the same certificate for both the control connection and the data connection. | 2019-04-23T13:08:58 | https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=50397&p=167066 |
0.997971 | DURING a visit to the US that ends today, Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto charmed politicians, dazzled audiences, and signed contracts that could bring $6 billion in US investment to Pakistan. Then she ran into a brick wall.
The wall, a United States law to restrain nuclear proliferation, kept Ms. Bhutto from her main goal: resolving a dispute with Washington over delivery of 28 F-16 jet fighters paid for by Pakistan six years ago. Despite sympathy from President Clinton, both the law and the planes -- now parked in the Arizona desert -- appear likely to stay put.
''President Clinton must realize that there could be a high global price to pay for not upholding the only effective piece of nuclear nonproliferation law on the books,'' warns Sen. Larry Pressler (R) of South Dakota, author of the law.
The 1985 Pressler amendment bars US aid and arms sales to Pakistan unless the US president can determine that Pakistan does not posses nuclear weapons. In 1990, after President Bush said he could not make such a determination, the US cut its annual $564 million aid package to Pakistan.
Invocation of the Pressler amendment also interrupted the sale of $1.4 billion in military goods to Pakistan, including the 28 F-16 jets, which the US cannot deliver under the terms of the amendment. After paying $800 million toward the total sale, Pakistan wants its planes or its money back.
Supporters of the Pressler amendment say it may have deterred other nations from acquiring nuclear weapons, and making an exception for Pakistan would send the wrong message to states like North Korea and Iran that also harbor nuclear ambitions. It would also compromise the US at a major conference next week in New York, where the future of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will be decided.
Clinton administration officials have been trying to modify the Pressler amendment for more than a year, arguing that it is now proving counterproductive.
For Pakistanis, the Pressler amendment has been freighted with symbolic significance. The South Asian nation was once seen by Washington as one of its most important allies against communism: It was the back door through which US aid and arms flowed to anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan.
Since the war in Afghanistan, Pakistanis say, the US has left its old ally to cope with the war's legacy, which includes bands of unemployed armed militants, at least two of whom were responsible for an attack last month in Karachi that left two American diplomats dead.
In this context, the Pressler amendment has spurred rather than retarded nuclear research, Pakistanis say.
''When the amendment was invoked, Pakistan's conventional capabilities were degraded, therefore making the nuclear option more attractive to the [Pakistani] public,'' says Pakistan's ambassador in Washington, Maleeha Lodhi.
Clinton has tried to circumvent the amendment without actually repealing it: either through a one-time exemption or by selling planes to a third party and turning over the profits to Pakistan. But like the desert-bound F-16s, neither option is likely to fly, in part because of opposition in Congress. Pakistan says it will not relinquish its option to build nuclear weapons until its regional rival, India, does the same. | 2019-04-19T13:11:08 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0414/14071.html |
0.999963 | What is Famous Food about?
In this restaurant, "seven stars" might not be a good thing... From Ashton Kutcher's Geisha House to Robert DeNiro's Ago, attaching a celebrity's name to a restaurant is definitely a growing trend in Hollywood.... but is it always a recipe for success? Famous Food will put this concept to the test by partnering with renowned restaurateurs, The Dolce Group, to give seven celebrities the chance to turn an empty Sunset Strip eatery into a flourishing and fully operating restaurant. If they succeed -- one of them will be rewarded with a partnership position in the new venture. The cast includes Heidi Montag ("The Hills"), who sees this as her chance to save her family after the demise of her parent's restaurant. Singer (and the former NY Governor's Scandal-Girl) Ashley Dupre will try her hand at a new kind of business. She might not know food but she knows customer service. Academy Award-Winning artists, DJ Paul and Juicy "J" (from rap group Three 6 Mafia), will find out if its "Hard Out Here For a Chef." Danielle Staub ("Real Housewives of New Jersey") and Vincent Pastore ("The Sopranos") will bring a certain New Jersey savvy to the venture. Finally, Jake Pavelka who has been an airline pilot, a TV Bachelor, and a Dancing Star will now try his hand at the food business. For five weeks, this colorful crew of celebrities will roll up their sleeves and try to work together to launch their own restaurant. To give them a fighting chance, Mike Malin and Lonnie Moore, founding members of The Dolce Group, will let them know what it takes to open a successful celebrity restaurant. From Hollywood and beyond, some of their well-known establishments include Dolce, Angels & Kings, Geisha House, Ten Pin Alley, rare 120, Wonderland and Johnny Smalls. Over the course of the series, Mike and Lonnie will provide the guidance and discipline necessary to get the restaurant off the ground -- but the real work and creativity is entirely up to the Famous Food cast. They will have to agree on a restaurant concept; from Vincent's Meatballaria to Juicy J's Creole Kitchen to Jake Pavelka's Broken Rose Cafe, anything is possible. After they decide type of restaurant they want, they'll have to renovate the space; create marketing plans, craft a menu, hire the staff and eventually, ensure a flawless grand opening. They've got five weeks and a limited budget to get the restaurant up and running. If at the end of the time period, the restaurant is turning a profit, the Dolce Group will announce which of the Celebrities they've decided to keep as a partner in the restaurant. If not, the restaurant, and these celeb's dreams, will disappear for good. Can seven, famous, over-the-top personalities work together and make it in the culinary world? Or do too many cooks really spoil the broth? Find out on "Famous Food"! | 2019-04-23T11:56:35 | http://tv.thecheers.org/tv-series/250017/Famous-Food |
0.999148 | HOSPITALITY BY AN INDIVIDUAL LAWYER TO A JUDGE - It is an open question whether or not an individual lawyer may with propriety give, in honor of a judge, a party to which many members of the bar in the area are invited.
Does the giving of a "fish fry," by an individual lawyer honoring a district judge, constitute a violation of the Canons of Ethics of the State of Texas?
It is an open question, based entirely upon the intent of the individual lawyer and the circumstances surrounding the relationship between the judge and the lawyer whether or not such action violates any of the Canons of Ethics of the State of Texas. Relevant to this question are Canon No. 1 in a general way, and Canon No. 3, the essence of which is the prohibition of any attempt to assert personal influence on a court. Canon No. 3, however, does not forbid all hospitality to a judge. If it had been intended by this canon to condemn all hospitality to judges -- other than hospitality by Bar Associations or organized groups of lawyers -- the canon would have expressly so stated.
What constitutes "marked attention and unusual hospitality on the part of a member to a judge," as provided in Canon 3, is a matter of judgment to be viewed in the light of the customary practices in the community as well as the personal relationship which existed between the attorney and the judge before the judge was appointed or elected to office, as well as other like factors. | 2019-04-26T03:49:41 | http://www.law.uh.edu/libraries/ethics/Opinions/201-300/o206.html |
0.999802 | How to automatically lock certain cells based on specific entry in some other cell?
I have the following attached Excel purchased report database.
(b) that the workbook containing the data extracted from the db (a single sheet) serves no other purpose .
The code in the attached workbook is contained in two modules as follows.
A UserForm Selector. Note that you need to right-click on this module and select either View Code or View Object, to either see the code or the form.
Next, test the code in the attached workbook with a view to ensure that it is indeed possible to specify the subreport you would like to create. Just click the green button on the lone Dashboard tab. The program will ask you to specify a file which must be similar in structure to the one you published with your question. It will then read the contents of that file into the drop-downs of the user form that opens. Once you click OK the program ends because it has reached the end of the scope of this thread. If the specified data source was open before it will remain open. Otherwise it will be closed.
The form changes when you select PO Date from the first drop-down. Instead of a second drop-down to select a filter criterium you get two text boxes asking for dates.. This is where failure might loom. The program will reject entries which aren't recognised as dates. Your PC can recognise dates as specified in your Regional Settings. It doesn't matter which recognisable format you enter, the form will always convert it to "dd mmm yyyy". That doesn't mean it's the preferred input format. VBA couldn't care less how hard it is on you or how easy. You should use the most convenient one.
Normally, the Short Date format is the easiest to enter, consisting of numbers only. The Short Date in your settings is actually what used to be the Medium Date format requiring numbers and characters and therefore more elaborate. I think the form will accept "d-m-[yy]" despite your settings, inserting the current year if omitted, the important criterium being the date separator. Try it and let me know if it gives you a headache.
Once this portion of your project is approved please ask your next question based on both the attached workbook and a copy of your sample data. Make sure that the sample data are structured and are of the exact type as the data you finally will need to work with. Attach both files to the question and specify what you want done. I honestly don't know because your initial post wasn't clear enough on that point. Now it will be easier to focus.
Take a moment to consider methodology. As you realise I planned to keep the code separate from the data (at variance from what I had first thought). The data file will be opened, read and closed - never modified in any way. On second thought I intended to create the report in the workbook that contain the code but now I plan on creating a third workbook for the output. Do you think that will be good?
Note that the code makes changes to the workbook it is in and then tells Excel to forget all changes. This has the effect that you will not be reminded to save changes if you close ThisWorkbook after running the program. You may like to write some instructions to the user on the Dashboard or make changes to the code that you wish to keep. After you do, don't rely on Excel to remind you to save the changes. The advantage in writing output to a third workbook will be that you can always close ThisWorkbook without saving, thereby avoiding accidental modifications of the code.
- the code separate from the data . The data file will be opened, read and closed - never modified in any way.
- to create the report in third workbook for the output.
For PO Date, is it possible to select the date by Date picker ?
each with a single row of data.
Please decide whether the question has been answered or not. Adding a date picker is an improvement for which you might ask another question. The same seems to apply to the creation of other sheets. The question in this thread was how to create a user form. | 2019-04-18T13:18:05 | https://www.teachexcel.com/talk/3075/how-to-create-userform-to-specify-data-column-for-filtering-and-extraction?nav=sim_side_col_forum |
0.999436 | The run-up to Remembrance Day, which, as a grandchild of a First World War veteran, I always mark by revisiting Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, began six months ahead of schedule for me this year, in West Norwood's liveliest gastropub. My wife Janet and I - collectively known as PoetrySlabs and thereby committed to putting poetry on the neighbourhood's walls and pavements - were recovering from a meeting of the politburo of the community film club to which we belong. Having gone to bat for Céline and Julie Go Boating as opposed to Thelma and Louise - and fared none too well in the process - we were sinking slender pints of boutique Cornish pilsner and somewhat peevishly poking at our iPads when we were pounced on by our good friend Colin Fenn, a management consultant and walking encyclopaedia who also happens to be vice-chairman of the Friends of West Norwood Cemetery, one of London's most historic boneyards.
Colin, whose casual conversation can meander from classical liberalism to laser-guided target-acquisition systems, breathlessly informed us that he'd 'been on the blower' with some people from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's 'Living Memory' programme, which was, he continued, working in consultation with the Big Ideas Company to organise and promote 141 events across the country marking the 141 days of the Battle of the Somme (1 July to 18 November 1916). Commendable, I thought - but why are you telling us this?
The emphasis, he said, would be on commemorating British and Commonwealth Great War casualties buried in the UK - of which there are more than a few interred in West Norwood. He was hoping to put together a tour of Great War-related gravesites in the cemetery, with historical commentary supplied by himself and relevant poetry (and maybe some prose) curated by PoetrySlabs. He was also - and this was the point at which I began to feel a bit dismayed - tinkering with the idea of inscribing the progression of the Somme campaign (units, locations, losses and gains) the length of Robson Road (which borders the cemetery), making use of the super-hydrophobic Rainworks spray with which Janet and I had just begun to pepper a number of paving stones with nonsense words from Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' - a process we dubbed 'Slabberwocky'.
The way Rainworks works is as follows: track the weather forecasts in search of a 24-hour dry spell, spot one, drop everything, dash out, clean the pavement, lay a stencil, spray the stencil twice, remove the stencil. The words disappear when the spray has dried and only reappear (for up to six months, in good conditions) when it rains. The downside: it takes a lot of planning and, because its manufacturers don't have distribution here, it doesn't come cheap. The upside: children of all ages love it. The brainchild of Seattle-based Peregrine Church (artist and entrepreneur) and Xack Fischer (actual magician and entrepreneur), Rainworks spray is now being splashed across the canvas of the USA and is also making waves in parts of Europe.
Despite our misgivings concerning the scale of the projected Robson Road undertaking (and the fact that the funding on offer might only be in the low three figures), we filed the idea for reference and continued to litter the local landscape with words like 'frumious', 'uffish' and 'vorpal'. At the same time, I dredged up the little I'd retained from a Lambeth Council-funded project-management course I'd taken earlier in the year and eventually decided to focus on a couple of keywords: 'SCOPE' and 'CONSTRAINTS'.
It soon became apparent that anything on the grand scale contemplated by Colin would cost thousands of pounds that we simply didn't have. We might, however, without too much discomfort, be able to inscribe the names of maybe a dozen dead soldiers who would be mentioned during the tour on the pavement outside the cemetery gates. Colin, now very much preoccupied with his MA dissertation, duly concurred, and a few weeks later we learned that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Big Ideas Company quite liked the idea: the names of the dead would be revealed intermittently, passing from sight and returning via the vagaries of the weather. A metaphor of sorts for memory itself - and a very different way of doing remembrance.
A few weeks later, potential disaster struck. Peregrine and Xack had a contretemps with their investors and found themselves forced to suspend operations. Their website stayed grimly blacked out for a month, and all Janet and I could do was hold our nerve and stay in touch with Colin, who was still not entirely sure whether or not our plans would actually get final approval. The ongoing proliferation of 'frabjous', 'slithy', 'manxome' and 'beamish' was draining our bottles and the clock was now ticking with a vengeance. Once we got the green light, our friend Robin Thomson, an artist with access to a laser cutter, began making the stencils. I then began not only leafing through anthologies of First World War poetry but also speed-reading a selection of novels and memoirs.
This was difficult stuff, not least because it brought me closer than ever to what my grandfather must have gone through. A slum kid who volunteered in 1915, Harry Augustus Bush trained as a cavalryman but had to give up his warhorse when it became apparent that cavalry attacks would not be on the cards in Picardy and Flanders. His affinity with horses did, however, mean that he was sometimes deployed in his regiment's transport section, where horses were used to move the machinery of war and other supplies up to the front. For most of his overseas service, though, he was deep in the trenches as a member of the poor bloody infantry.
Harry never discussed the kill-or-be-killed stuff with me, but I did learn, via my mother and her sister, that he'd had to use the bayonet - and, I supposed in later years, any suitably razor-edged or very blunt instruments (clubs, knives, hammers, mattocks, sharpened spades) he could find when there was simply no room to swing a rifle. He was blown off a horse called Dolly within sight of the slag heaps of Passchendaele in 1917. (Dolly took the full force of the explosion, thus saving my grandfather's life, and died on the spot.) A few days later, Harry was shipped back to Blighty with neuralgia (the polite name for shellshock), an honourable discharge and an armful of shrapnel. He was generally more willing to discuss the lunacy of the war, the hideousness of slipping off a duckboard into six feet of liquefied mud, the terror of tumbling to the toxic bottom of a crater of corpse-laden sludge, the maddening inconvenience of lice and the awfulness of being bracketed by a well-aimed shower of gas shells.
By the beginning of July, Peregrine and Xack were back in business, the tour had been arranged for 2.30pm on Sunday 4 September (which would coincide with that month's West Norwood FEAST fair), the stencils had been cut, Janet and I had made a final selection of 15 poems and I had also finished reading Goodbye to All That, Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War, veteran-turned-pacifist Henri Barbusse's Under Fire, Frederic Manning's The Middle Parts of Fortune, John Dos Passos's Three Soldiers, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel, the memoirs of battlefront nurses Ellen N La Motte and Mary Borden, and Imagist poet Richard Aldington's revelatory Death of a Hero (the best and most depressing of them all).
We unholstered a new consignment of Rainworks spray in mid-July and got down to work at propitious times (five in the morning when necessary), finishing up in mid-August despite the distractions of our proper jobs, an indisposed cat and illness in the family. The names of the soldiers, to whom we had both begun to feel a sense of obligation - Major Loudoun-Shand VC, Private Rosher, Lieutenant Greenwood, Private Hoskins, Lieutenant Dean, Lieutenant Jacobi, Private Townley, Private Cole, Private Leakey, Captain Gee and Lieutenant Miles - were now lying in wait for the first drops of water. In the third week of August, Colin and I composed our 'playbooks', putting all the poetry and historical commentary in sequence in binders and taking on board some practical suggestions offered by Colin's wife, Rose, a sustainability-reporting manager at a major multinational and a veteran of many cemetery tours. Janet and I took the precaution of buying some portable loudspeakers should the weather on the day prove windy, and squeezed in a couple of on-site rehearsals. The four of us were, quite simply, on a mission - to do the absolute best we could to honour the dead.
The event itself got off to a slightly misshapen start when an over-eager FEAST staffer watered the words ahead of time, our original idea having been to unveil them at 2.30 on the dot in the presence of the bigwigs from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Living Memory, Big Ideas and a photographer from the Evening Standard. I duly gave them a second dousing in my official capacity, such as it was, and then, thinking 'SCOPE' and 'CONSTRAINTS' and inwardly cursing the fact that the breeze was on the brink of becoming a minor gale, went to talk to Colin about the possibility (my preference) of taking the 60 people who had by now turned up around the cemetery in a single group rather than two, as originally envisaged.
Colin having graciously agreed with my suggestion, we marshalled the crowd back out to the Rainworks installation and explained the tour format. There, in memory of Major Loudoun-Shand VC - shot several times within minutes of the start of the Battle of the Somme, died of wounds later the same day - I managed to read John McCrae's immortal 'In Flanders Fields' ('We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow') without stuttering. At the Cross of Sacrifice, back inside the gates, the lyrics to 'Hush! Here Comes a Whizz-Bang' (in memory of Gunner Herbert Rosher) were a special nod to my grandfather, who had witnessed his best friend's decapitation by precisely that type of high-velocity shell in 1916. At the grave of Sir Hiram Maxim - inventor of the mousetrap, medical inhalers and the machine-gun that bears his name - Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' ('What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?') worked its sad magic. For Sir Frederick Hall, founder of the Camberwell Gun Brigade, who survived the war, composer Ivor Gurney's 'Strafe' ('The "crumps" are falling twenty to the minute') more than explained the author's eventual breakdown. For Lieutenant Charles Greenwood, Sassoon's 'The Kiss' ('To these I turn, in these I trust - Brother Lead and Sister Steel'), with its unusually vicious last verse, left the audience (and, yet again, me) slightly appalled. And I think a shiver went down a few spines when, at the end of the opening line of Walter Lyon's 'I Tracked a Dead Man Down a Trench', two crows in a nearby tree began to caw like claps of doom.
Before we reached Lieutenant Dean's grave, Janet (a great believer in community and sharing) began to ask if audience members would care to read as well. As a result, a woman with a wonderful voice (she turned out to have a background in acting and teaching) read a difficult extract ('Mind the hole/mind the hole/mind the hole to left … mind the wire/mind the wire') from 'In Parenthesis', by David Jones, artist, writer, useless soldier (he called himself a 'parade's despair') and poet of genius who fought in Robert Graves's regiment and whose work was much admired by TS Eliot. (Even more astonishingly, she had, she said, heard a radio broadcast of 'In Parenthesis' back in the Forties.) At the grave of Frederick Wilkinson, an 'absolutist' conscientious objector from Streatham who died in Maidstone jail during the flu epidemic of 1919, another volunteer - a 15-year-old schoolgirl who happened to be a member of the Army Cadet Force - read Jessie Pope's aggressively jingoistic 'The Call' ('Who's going out to win?/And who wants to save his skin -/Do you, my laddie?') with just the bitterly judgemental edge it needed. We ended the proceedings with a glass of wine and a series of additional readings at the cemetery's famed Greek necropolis, finishing up with Philip Larkin's startlingly cinematic 'MCMXIV' ('Never such innocence again'), which people seemed especially to like.
So all had gone well. We'd done what we set out to do, albeit by the skin of our teeth. The four of us felt both elated and drained. It was, after all, rather difficult stuff. But not, of course, remotely as difficult or deadly or monumentally desperate as the dire situation our 'chosen soldiers' and hundreds of thousands of their comrades (and opponents) had faced in a bloodied, muddied, grossly mass-murderous corner of France a century earlier. All that was left for us now was to wait for rain, to wait for the dead soldiers' names to sneak up on the unsuspecting, to whisper, not roar, of the 'war to end all wars' (which it wasn't), and, in a way, to remind us of the war that came next, the one that had to be fought in hopes of putting Europe back together.
That evening at dinner with Colin and Rose, Harry Augustus Bush, with his scarred left arm and his fireside silences and memories of standing guard up to his waist in three feet of midwinter water at Ypres, kept coming back to haunt me. As too did Richard Aldington's battering-ram account of a combined high-explosive and gas bombardment in Belgium - and the eventual, suicidal death ('The line of bullets smashed across his chest like a savage steel whip') of his hapless hero. The Great War seemed to be the one that never goes away.
Next stop, perhaps, November 2018, for poetry and prose at the cemetery, I thought. When, again, I'll be reminded of the Remembrance Days of my youth, of parading with my ATC squadron at the local war memorial and not quite believing that the assembled old soldiers in their 60s, 70s and 80s, the scruffy and the smart and the rich and the poor, riders of pushbikes and drivers of Jags, had lived to tell the tale, to listen to the 'Last Post' played by a CCF bugler once more, and had - somehow - retained most, if not all, of their humanity.
John Haney is deputy copy chief at Tatler, co-curator of PoetrySlabs and the author of the memoir Fair Shares for All (Random House USA, 2009).
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0.999935 | Converting Japanese kanejaku to nanometers value in the length units scale.
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0.999856 | The following questions are taken from "Reference Review Guide" and are provided as a resource for selecting appropriate, job-related reference questions. Approximately 6-8 questions should be carefully selected for a 20-30 minute telephone interview with the reference source.
Prior to asking any questions, describe the position to the reference source. Be candid - explain any circumstances or characteristics that are a component of the position or the working environment.
1. What is your relationship to ----- ?
2. Could you describe ----'s duties/responsibilities with your organization?
3. Would you comment on the ability of ---- to do the job I have described.
4. What do you feel are ----'s strongest point(s)? OR Why do you feel ---- was successful in his/her work?
5. What do you feel is ----'s weakest point? OR limitation?
6. How well did ---- perform in the following areas...?
7. Would you describe ---- as a "big picture" person, or a "detailed" person, and why?
8. Provide an example of a creative or innovative idea that he/she was able to implement, and how he/she went about it.
9. How readily does he/she accept new ideas?
10. How well does he/she respond to direction?
11. How well does he/she coordinate the efforts of others? OR How would you describe ---- as a leader?
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15. Can he/she function as a troubleshooter? A mediator?
16. Could you give us an example of when he/she did something that others thought was really outstanding? For example, solving a difficult technical problem, completing a complex project, or saving money for the organization.
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2. How would you rate his/her written communication skills?
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4. How would you characterize his/her managerial style? How would you rate the effectiveness of this style in your organization?
5. How well does he/she prioritize the workload and use effective time management?
6. How would you describe him/her as a leader? Why?
7. What points do you think ---- needs to work on to reach his/her full potential?
1. What do you think motivates ---- in his/her work?
2. Compared with others you have worked with (supervised), how would you rate him/her in terms of self-motivation?
3. How hard would you say ---- works in relation to others around him/her?
4. Did you ever have to use extraordinary means or take special effort to motivate him/her?
5. Is he/she easily distracted or discouraged?
6. Does he/she work better alone or in a group?
It is imperative that you ask the entire question in this section. If the question is asked out of a job-related context, it is illegal.
1. How often does he/she need feedback or praise about his/her work?
2. Does he/she have any issues or problems which would interfere with performing the job we have described?
Purpose: Gather information regarding handling conflict, respect for authority, other work-related characteristics that candidate has not mentioned.
3. This University is (briefly describe the environment as it relates to the position, i.e.,., in budget reduction, going through major changes...) and the department, work unit, office is (describe the work environment). In your opinion, would ----- have any difficulty performing the job in this environment?
4. If you had the opportunity, would you rehire ----- for a similar position? OR, If you had the opportunity, would you promote ---- to a position such as ours?
Purpose: Look for unconditional response. If not, ask for an explanation. | 2019-04-18T23:21:46 | https://www.cwu.edu/hr/sample-reference-check-questions |
0.998565 | John Hutton John Hutton Frank is a very familiar actor to Colorado audiences, having spent 23 years with the Denver Center Theatre Company. Executive status has no appeal for Alfie. The reason is that ''Educating Rita,'' opening today at Cinema 2 and directed by Lewis Gilbert, based on the long-running London stage hit by Willy Russell, is an awkward blend of intellectual pretension and cute obvious humor. He asks about her schools of her youth and she explains that people just argued and fought and never paid attention and anyone who wanted to learn did not fit in. Her tutor is Frank, a frustrated poet and academic, who works as a lecturer at a university. This shows how his passion is not there.
There is a lot of talk about Blake this and Wordsworth that. His film credits include Lincoln , The Dwarves of Demrel , Bit Player and Distance. Franks therefor is depicting that he is teaching Rita for the money, although Rita knows this she does not pay mind to it as she is getting an education she is happy. He says maybe he would not be so prone to disappearing from Julia if she was more like Rita. The production will now be booking for performances until Saturday 2 February 2019. Julie Walters injects her with just the right mix of comedy and pathos. Frank is on the phone with , his younger, live-in girlfriend, saying he will be going by the pub after work but promises to be home later.
Frank is teaching because he has to not because he wants to. Advertisement Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they both fall into love with the remake job they'd like to do on each other. They make a beautifully odd couple, in a love story at one remove. Frank is cynical and depressed. She becomes more arrogant and false in her behavior, even altering her accent to try and fit in with the middle class students. Is it the wit and good humor and Rational-enquiry-and-argument-as-drama of the screenplay? When Caine's professor, at the end of this movie, flies off to Australia to maybe sober up and maybe make a fresh start, it's a total cop-out -- not by him, but by the screenplay. It is this choice he makes into him being sent to Australia at the end of the play.
Rita struggles to fit into a new educated middle-class existence in academia, while seeking a 'better song to sing'. Lewis Gilbert is doing a realist spin on Pygmalion, replacing the songs with a maudlin edge. Watch Educating Rita Online Free: A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. Rita laughs these comments off. Although Frank understands Rita wants an education he does not understand why she wants one now. Their fight fizzles when he says he read Rubyfruit Jungle and liked it, which makes her laugh. However, he is fascinated by her take on life and realizes that she has academic potential.
At Cinema 2, Broadway and 47th Street. She says he told her to be objective and to do her research and that she has done that; she claims he does not want her to have thoughts apart from his. Is it Michael Caine's professor being chivvied from his sodden rut by the pixilated yet determined Rita? Frank tries to get her to talk more about this but she insists they need to return to studying. Caine sees Walters as a fresh, honest, unspoiled intelligence. In London, twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. Bryant and Rita, he asks her whether she understands assonance.
Rita also tells him how she wants to improve herself but that her husband does not understand what she is trying to do. Frank Bryant, an alcoholic and debauched professor from the upper-class who's life has left him emotionally drained, without self-esteem. This is instead an example of , the repetition of consonant sounds. Frank does not accept change from choices that have been made. Written by Whatever its faults and flaws might be, I've never been able - or wanted to - get 'Educating Rita' out of my head. The next time they meet, Frank is annoyed that Rita does not have her essay but eases up on her when she reveals Denny burnt all of her stuff because he was mad at her for not taking her birth control pill anymore and going back to school. Because even the movie doesn't really believe that, it departs from the stage play to bring in a lot of phony distractions.
She laughs that he needs a haircut but he insists he does not. He is an alcoholic and, to begin with, is less than enthusiastic about taking Rita on as a student. She tells him she is still learning about life and that he was a good teacher. She starts asking him questions, such as what 'assonance' means. She is emerging from the fog of routine, becoming aware the limits and destinies of her life might be overcome.
This is significant as it shows an indication that she wants to transform herself, leaving her past behind her. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Frank lives with Julia, who's also a professor, and have a loveless marriage; Julia has a love affair with the dean Brian. Frank feels as though he has forced Rita into losing her touch with parts of herself which were unique and precious. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light. Julie Walters, who also played Rita on the stage, seems older than her 26-year-old character, and works overly hard at a lower-class accent and a relentless pixieishness.
If only I'd been able to believe they were actually reading the books, then everything else would have fallen into place. They were on the stage together for a long time, and by the end of the play we had shared in their developing relationship. Truth is I don't know what makes 'Educating Rita' so memorable for me - in my head scenes and snippets of this film just pop up and play whenever they've a mind to! Rita is a twenty-six-year-old working-class hairdresser, married to Denny and living round the corner from her family. Rita pauses and then says she has something to give him. Caine never fails to be a commanding actor, but he is not helped here by the paunchy, pink-eyed look of the character, or the endless and embarrassing drunk scenes in which he is trapped. However, in a scene just before Rita meets Dr. | 2019-04-21T05:20:51 | http://tukioka-clinic.com/educating-rita-film.html |
0.994543 | Lead the Microservices Transformation Initiative.
Lead the ongoing architecture,design and development for an in-house ERP system.
Drive new initiative to build an interactive highly customizable Integration platform.
Lead the Architecture and Implementation of Dynamics CRM 2016- ADX studio.
Wellington-New Zealand MICROSOFT CONSULTANT(MS CRM DYNAMICS 2011) Install and Customize Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 solutions. Build custom workflows and plugins for CRM 2011. Design and Develop front end web applications using MVC3. Design and Develop Service oriented solutions. Estimate and write Technical proposals. Contribute in presales activities. PROJECTS: FUJITSU GRANT MANAGEMENT CRM SOLUTION Fujitsu Grant Management solution is a Microsoft CRM 2011 base solution to manage grants business Lifecycle in addition to the web portal to handle the grant requests and client notifications. Configure and customize MS CRM 2011 Develop custom workflows and plugins for MS CRM 2011 using.net 4.0, C#. Develop Front End Portal using MVC3,. net C#. Requirement Analysis and suggest SDLC improvements. NZCT GRANT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION Track and Manage change requests. Support and guide developers to fix bugs and implement new changes.
PROJECT MANAGER- LEVEL 2 Managing and Leading UK PMO Team. Main point of contact for offshore teams. Review project plan components VF UK projects. Monitor Risk Registration and follow up on them. Analyze MSPS Schedules and suggest improvement to PMs Generate financial reports and analyze financial Gaps Vodafone UK PMs Review, update, distribute and monitor Projects timesheets before PMs Approval. Manage and monitor requests for project-codes. Create WBS Assignments on SAP. Monitor Risk Registration and follow up on them. MSPS: Deployment, Schedule Quality-SQA+ tool, Standards, upload schedules to MSPS and Progress. Facilitate Program meetings. Presage: Reporting to extract a PSSL Report and a PDR Report and do analysis. Project Report Vodafone Senior Management each week. CMPA for EPO Project handling configuration management issues.
UK NHIS) Swift Plus is a Hospital Management web solution Monitoring Hospital daily operations and Bed Management, implementing SOA architecture. Work on-site with the client in UK for 6 months to gather requirement and develop the business use cases for the existing system. Contribute in Designing Back End solution and architecture model. Develop Back End services for Bed management and booking procedures. Create test cases for the project Create guide for using MS Enterprise Library 4. Tools used: C#, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, VS2008 Unit Testing facilities and TFS 2008 as configuration management tool.
INFORMATION ASSOCIATE Contribute in analyzing, designing, and implementing Service Oriented applications Continental airlines. Contribute in designing and implementing security and business layer development. Contribute in the Personal Software Process(PSP) HP Global Pilot Project. Participate in HP Distinguish engineering program for reusable components. Contribute in CV Screening. | 2019-04-20T09:00:04 | https://www.visualcv.com/hazem-salem/ |
0.999997 | There are many possible causes of diarrhea in children but the most common are viruses. This is why most children with diarrhea get better on their own, without any specific medications or antibiotics. Sometimes the diarrhea may be the only symptom, but a child may have associated symptoms such as vomiting, as well as a low-grade fever (known as gastroenteritis). In most cases the illness lasts for three to six days.
The main concern when dealing with diarrhea (and/or vomiting) is dehydration. Children, can easily become dehydrated if they lose more fluid than they take in. So taking care of them is like playing "catch-up"; with the goal being for them to drink enough to make up for the fluid lost in the diarrhea.
What is the treatment of diarrhea?
In most cases, the treatment is to give the child adequate amounts of fluid, depending on the severity of the symptoms. Recently, doctors have modified their approach to mild cases of diarrhea and usually do not change the child's diet at all. In moderate illness, specific liquids are used called "oral rehydration solutions". Never give only water to a child who is vomiting or has diarrhea. This can be dangerous. The body needs a certain (right) amount of salt and sugar, which are not in adequate amounts in water nor in watered-down juice or soft drinks. Only "oral rehydration solutions" such as Pedialyte or Infalyte contain the right amount of sugar and salt. Generally milk can be continued as long as it does not make the diarrhea worse. Breastfeeding can usually continue as well. Also, if a child is hungry, let him/her eat. Anti-diarrhea medicines should not be used in children. They are not helpful and indeed may be harmful.
If a child has just vomited, parents should wait for half an hour and then begin giving fluids starting with one tablespoon. If the child keeps it down, five minutes later, one and a half tablespoons is given and so on, progressively increasing the amount each time. Should the child vomit again take a break for about 30 minutes and start the cycle over again. If the child cannot keep any fluids down, medical attention should be sought. Happily, most children will be able to keep down enough fluids and the vomiting as well as any other associated "gastroenteritis" symptoms go away on their own. If a vomiting child also has a fever and cannot keep the fever medication down, suppository acetaminophen is a very practical solution.
Can it get more serious?
In severe cases of diarrhea (and/or vomiting) and dehydration, and they are relatively rare, the only treatment is the administration of intravenous fluids in a hospital setting. Because each child is different, the specific treatment is based on the individual situation. | 2019-04-19T18:55:17 | https://www.drpaul.com/factsheets/dandv.php |
0.999993 | The present research examines the impact of temporal distance on moral concerns in situations where selfish motives clash with altruistic considerations. Drawing upon Construal Level Theory (Trope & Liberman, 2003) which posits that abstract, high-level features of events and social values take on more weight with greater temporal distance, we hypothesized that moral concerns should be higher for temporally distant situations. The results from five experiments supported this conjecture. People indicated they would be more likely to choose altruistic over selfish behaviors, reported they would feel more guilty about engaging in selfish behavior, thought acting selfishly would be more immoral, and were more likely to commit to altruistic behavior when thinking about distant versus near future events. Moreover, as predicted, temporal distance primarily enhanced moral concerns among individuals with high moral value strength. Support was also obtained in favor of the assumption that value salience was responsible for the temporal distance effect on moral concerns. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.
Employing new measures (Implicit Association Test) to study the classic issue of moralorientations, we predicted and found gender differences in implicit associations to the conceptsof justice and care. Specifically, we found that men more strongly associate justice vs. care withimportance and with themselves than women. However, participants’ explicit ratings did notreveal any clear patterns of gender differences, which is consistent with previous studies.Implications for social psychological theory and research on morality are discussed.
Previous research (Libby, Shaeffer, & Eibach, 2009) has established that a third-person (external) visual perspective elicitsmore abstract processing than a first-person (inner) perspective. Because many moral principles constitute abstract psychological constructs,we predicted that they should weigh more heavily when people adopt a third-person visual perspective. In two experiments weshow that a third- (vs. first-) person visual perspective leads to harsher judgments of one’s own morally questionable actions. Moreover,we demonstrate that this effect can be partially explained by level of mental construal. The present research suggests that simple visualperspective techniques may be used to promote moral behavior.
I studien, vilken omfattade 177 svenskfödda studenter, utvecklades och kontrollerades enegenkonstruerad enkät: SAPS. Även könsskillnader i fördomar mot okända personers etnicitetoch kön samt könsskillnader i Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) undersöktes. Fördomarmättes med SAPS och SDO mättes med en svensk översättning av SDO scale (Pratto et al.,1994). SDO scale användes också som validitetskontroll av SAPS. Statistisk prövning medSpearmans Rho visade på en negativ korrelation mellan SAPS och SDO scale. ANCOVAvisade en stark tendens till interaktionseffekt mellan bedömarens kön och objektets etnicitet,och en huvudeffekt av kön återfanns. Ingen interaktionseffekt återfanns mellan bedömarensoch objektets kön vid testning med ANOVA. Mann-Whitney U-test visade på signifikanthögre värden på SDO hos de manliga deltagarna än hos de kvinnliga. Resultaten diskuterasmed stöd i tidigare forskning om fördomar. | 2019-04-25T12:10:41 | http://lnu.diva-portal.org/smash/resultList.jsf?af=%5B%5D&aq=%5B%5B%7B%22categoryId%22%3A%2211735%22%7D%5D%5D&aqe=%5B%5D&aq2=%5B%5B%5D%5D&language=en&query= |
0.998892 | I drive for Uber, can I deduct miles?
One of my Uber colleagues said I can deduct all of the miles I incur while driving for Uber.
Is this true? I don't want to get in trouble with the IRS.
Self-employed individuals are allowed to deduct the costs of doing business. For Uber drivers, this means deducting some of the costs of operating a vehicle.
There are a few different ways the IRS allows you to deduct miles, but the standard mileage rate (SMR) is the simplest method used to claim an automobile expense deduction. This method gives you a deduction for mileage related to business use. For Uber drivers, this means mileage used for picking up passengers and driving to and from destinations.
When using the SMR, your deduction is fixed, and you cannot deduct other automobile expenses for maintenance, oil, gas, tires or insurance. For 2014, the standard mileage rate for the business use of a car is 56 cents per mile.
In order to claim the mileage deduction, you must keep accurate records of the date of travel, the business purpose and round-trip mileage. QuickBooks Self-Employed offers a useful mileage log you can use to ensure compliance with IRS record-keeping requirements. Once you enter the relevant information, QuickBooks Self-Employed automatically claims the deduction for you, giving you peace of mind to focus on running and growing your business. | 2019-04-24T01:02:26 | https://community.intuit.com/questions/1119685-i-drive-for-uber-can-i-deduct-miles |
0.999066 | This column was written by Henry Aaron.
Behind closed doors all over Washington, serious people are working hard to design a major overhaul of the U.S. health care system. We should wish them well, but their chances of success are slim. Since yet another complete failure would be catastrophic, some attention should be given now to policies that are politically palatable, and would begin the evolution to a new and better health system.
Three measures will start this process. Two--improved health information technology, and investment in research that would study the comparative effectiveness of various forms of health care--have already been put in motion. The third--a national health insurance exchange--has a bipartisan heritage and can appeal to both liberals and conservatives.
The reasons why systemic reform of the U.S. health care system is needed are widely recognized. Rising health care spending threatens private and public budgets alike. Avoidable medical error kills or injures hundreds of thousands annually. The number of uninsured continues to grow.
As clear as the need for reform are the reasons why wholesale change is unlikely. Covering the uninsured will cost money now, even if other reforms promise savings later. Taxes for some will go up. Since changing the way hospitals and doctors deliver health care means changing the way millions of people do their jobs, incomes of some providers will go down. And as health care is a $2.5 trillion behemoth, those who oppose change will be well funded and fight hard.
Any doubts on this point should have been extinguished by the reception accorded President Obama's budget proposal to fund half of his $634 billion health reform reserve fund with increased taxes on high-bracket filers. Those whose taxes are now reduced by 33 cents or 35 cents for each dollar of itemized deductions would be limited to tax savings of only 28 cents. Not a bad idea, one might think--tax upper income households who have prospered mightily for two decades to pay for a reform that will benefit all. Think again! The Democratic chairs of the House and Senate tax writing committees ultimately condemned the proposal. Bad for charities, they declared. Other members of Congress from both parties agreed.
So, why do I believe that health IT, comparative effectiveness studies, and insurance exchanges will get larger-scale health reform underway?
Let's start with the $19 billion included in the economic recovery bill to help physicians and hospitals introduce health information technology. If well-designed, health information technology can improve care coordination, reduce administrative spending, and, perhaps most importantly, generate information that will tell researchers, inexpensively, which treatments work, which don't, and at what cost. The economic recovery bill also includes $1.1 billion to pay for such research. Though initial savings will be modest, both are essential to any rational program of pruning waste and inefficiency, and will likely become only more essential over time.
Still to be enacted is the seemingly drab, but strategically important, proposal to create a national health insurance exchange (or several regional ones). In the late 1980s, Alain Enthoven pointed out that no mortal human being can rationally choose among the myriad available health insurance plans. For markets to work, the number and diversity of plan features must be limited, and since insurers use a bewildering range of plan gimmicks to attract low-risk patients, the sale of insurance has to be tightly regulated. The Clinton administration was persuaded by the argument and proposed a variant of this idea in its proposal.
Barack Obama included a similar call for a health insurance exchange in his campaign platform. This ideologically mixed history indicates that a health insurance exchange can be negotiated because it can--and should!--appeal to both conservatives and liberals.
Conservatives believe a well-functioning health insurance exchange will encourage genuine consumer choice in the individual health insurance market and competition among insurers, and that that, in turn, will slow spending growth. What's more, replacing Medicare, and perhaps Medicaid, with vouchers to help the elderly, poor, and disabled select among competing private plans would also become plausible--bringing us closer to the conservative Nirvana: a market-driven health insurance system.
To liberals, a health insurance exchange offers an efficient way to funnel subsidies to low- and moderate-income households and to expand coverage at companies that now do not offer health insurance plans. It could discourage socially wasteful marketing practices by insurers, such as competing to cherry-pick low-cost enrollees ("have we got a sports medicine program for you!!"). If linked to a mandate that everyone or nearly everyone must be insured, an exchange could end the practice of charging exorbitant premiums to the old or the sick. Also, the exchange could wield the regulatory clout that may be necessary to force modernization of health care delivery.
And for both, a well-functioning exchange could end "job-lock," one of the chief drawbacks of employment-based health insurance. Employers could simply pay the exchange premiums on behalf of current employees, who could keep coverage when they change jobs.
I don't know whether the vision of liberals or that of conservatives would be realized if a health exchange proposal were implemented --probably some of each. It would not be a first. The 1965 law that created Medicare and Medicaid was a legislative marriage of distinct initiatives--some embraced by Democrats, some by Republicans--enacted by a heavily Democratic Congress, and signed by a Democratic president. Sound familiar? A plan with bipartisan appeal would not please ideological true-believers in either party. But it can pass. And, if it does, it would set in motion a process of change that cannot be stopped. | 2019-04-23T14:32:27 | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-art-of-the-possible/ |
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