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0.999792 | What can I do with the HTML section?
There's only one answer to that: the possibility is endless!
The HTML section allows several integration with different apps or even execute several custom applications that you write yourself (using HTML codes).
1. Go to your site editor.
2. Add a new section.
3. Select "App Store & HTML" from the section list.
4. Once a new section is created, hover your mouse over the App box and click "Edit."
5. From the app list, select "HTML."
6. Copy and paste the HTML embed code on the box.
Don't forget to hit "Save" when you're done!
Add HTML embed codes for several applications not included in our App Store.
Create custom buttons, text sections, images, video galleries, etc. (You can ask someone to write th code for you if you don't know how to).
When copying embed codes from sources, make sure to copy EVERYTHING! Codes are pretty sensitive and a missing or misplaced period or other punctuation/letter/character can cause cause your code to not work.
If you've set your eye on a specific app and want to integrate it on your Strikingly site, look for its HTML/embed code. Contact your app's support people and ask them to help you find it. If they're not useful, contact us! We love to find ways to help! | 2019-04-22T08:19:17 | https://support.strikingly.com/hc/en-us/articles/215046527-HTML-Embed |
0.999999 | Q: I'm interested in starting a homebased telephone-answering service. I want to research my competitors' prices and services, but I don't want to call them. What's the best way to do this research without letting them know that I'm a competitor?
A: We understand your reluctance to phone competitors yourself. Many people pretend to be prospective customers to get pricing information, but, according to the businesspeople we've interviewed, they're usually detected as would-be competitors. Some business owners tell us they don't give good information to those they suspect of being potential competitors.
There can still be value in making these calls, though, if you're upfront about being new in the business and seeking information. Here's why: If a business is in demand, people already in business are usually willing to help newcomers. Many times, business owners turn to other entrepreneurs when they're overloaded or when they want to refer customers who need work that's out of their area of specialization or interest. Some are just happy to give newcomers an opportunity to participate in a business they've benefited from.
But when business is not so good, and business owners are hungry, they're more apt to fear competitors and be closemouthed when a newbie phones for information. So the response you get by phoning "competitors" can be a bellwether for just how difficult it will be for you to make it in the business.
Hit the net. Many business owners now post their prices on their websites. They know that prospective customers want to know this information, and posting the price serves as a screen to save the time of talking with people who are simply price shopping or who aren't truly prospects for their goods or services. Of course, this isn't true for all businesses, particularly those that provide highly customized services or sell very upscale products.
Hire someone to call competitors for you. This may involve no more than having them request your competitors' brochures and other sales materials. But this person must be able to answer some screening questions they may be asked. Someone with experience as a customer of the type of business he or she will be calling, or perhaps someone with experience doing market research interviewing, is best suited for this task.
Contact similar businesses that you won't be competing with. For instance, identify answering services in cities similar to your own (in terms of cost of living, type of industries and so on), and then contact them by phone, or search for them on the Web. You can be upfront with them about your plans, pointing out that you'll be working in a different community.
Check out pricing websites. Depending on your industry, there may be a trade association or a Web site that collects and publishes pricing data. For example, Brenner Books has a nationwide database of prices for "business support services," including telephone-answering services. It also sells pricing surveys for editing and writing services, graphic design, desktop publishing, pre-press, scoping, multimedia and Web site design. Computer consultants and authors can check out Realrates.com for prices. Keep in mind, however, that industry reports are based on national or state averages and may not be applicable to your community or clientele. But at minimum, they can give you a ballpark idea.
Talk with customers of other answering services. Find out if they're satisfied with the service they're getting and what they expect to pay. As you establish rapport with these people, chances are, you'll be able to find out what they're paying now. In the interest of finding out if they can get a better price for equal or better service, most people will provide you with such information. Such conversations are also a chance to discover additional services your future customers might like to have and what they would be willing to pay for those services.
One way or another, you'll be able to find out what others in your business are charging. The next question is: What are you going to do with this information? What pricing strategy do you want to pursue? Are you going to quote prices on the lower end of the range of what others are charging? Are you going to find the high and low, then split the difference? Do you want to offer top-of-the-line service and prices higher than the competition?
Keep in mind that for most businesses, pricing is like walking a tightrope between being neither too high nor too low. Pricing too low can hurt your credibility as being a business that provides high-quality service, but pricing too high may result in more business for your competition. Some companies, though, do quite well by positioning themselves as premium services and pricing at the upper end of the spectrum by adding value that enables them to charge more. They find that the more value they add, the more they sell-and price becomes less of a factor in making the final sale.
Regardless of the pricing strategy you choose, the best way to figure out what people will actually pay is to experiment with pricing and start getting reactions from prospective clients. If they're interested until you mention price, you're probably on the high side. If this is the case, you can ask what they were expecting to pay and decide what additional value you might need to offer to get your desired price. If they snap up your offer a bit too eagerly, chances are, you're underpricing. To find the balance, some people start low and keep raising their prices until they get resistance.
To get your business off to a sound start, it's also a good idea to go beyond simply finding out what your competitors charge. You should know your competition well enough that you're prepared to answer questions and demonstrate how your product or service compares favorably to others.
What is each competitor doing that sets it apart from others?
What's special about what it's doing?
Who are its customers? Who is the competitor best suited to serve?
How well are they doing at providing the product or service they claim to offer?
How, as a customer yourself, do you feel about the product or service?
How could it be improved? How could you do a better job?
With these questions in mind, you can identify ways to tailor your business to your personality and the type of customer you seek to serve. At the same time, determine if there's any new technology that can give you a competitive edge. You may also find that if you give people a reason to call you by offering special benefits like "calls answered 24 hours a day," "same-day service," "no overtime charges," "free estimates," "free consultation," or other features relative to your business, then they may gladly pay your price.
One final tip: If you find over and over that most of your competitors are doing things in the same way, this is generally a sign that these methods work. So consider how you might provide the same thing, but in your own specialized way. | 2019-04-26T10:20:06 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/72324 |
0.999748 | WHAT ARE DC'S FILM/TV CROSSOVER RULES?
For several years, DC Entertainment has been trying to build shared universes in movies and on television. The current efforts now include four TV series and three films (with at least two more on the way). Since DC and Warner Bros. are both Time Warner entities, you'd think it would be easy for their various superhero characters to travel freely among series, and even back and forth between the big and small screens -- but that hasn't been the case. Instead, last season's "The Flash"/"Supergirl" team-up was significant, because their two universes were separated not just by a cosmic vibrational frequency, but by the wall between television networks.
As a result, "Supergirl's" subsequent move from CBS to The CW sparked immediate discussions about a four-way crossover involving "Flash," "Arrow," and "Legends of Tomorrow." Moreover, "Supergirl's" producers just announced that Superman would be appearing in the first two episodes of the show's upcoming season -- played by Tyler Hoechlin, and not "Batman v Superman's" Henry Cavill. Both stories raise questions about the strengths of these various barriers, and whether they might allow more audacious team-ups. Today we'll see what rules might govern these crossovers, and what they might permit.
In the past, DC and Warners didn't have much trouble putting out two different adaptations of the same characters at the same time. The Lynda Carter "Wonder Woman" TV series and the Christopher Reeve "Superman" movies ran alongside the animated "Super Friends." Similarly, Brandon Routh starred in 2006's "Superman Returns" while Tom Welling was still going strong on "Smallville"; and the "Batman: Brave and the Bold" animated series contrasted deeply with Christopher Nolan's last couple of Batman movies.
If 2011's "Green Lantern" movie had done better, it might have jump-started its own cinematic universe. Writers Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green turned in a script for "The Flash" which had Ryan Reynolds' Hal Jordan meet Barry Allen in a post-credits sequence.
"GL's" loss turned out to be good for DC's TV fortunes, as Berlanti and Guggenheim joined Andrew Kreisberg on "Arrow"; and the rest is history.
Besides "Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow," the Arrowverse also includes NBC's "Constantine" and "Supergirl's" parallel Earth. Nevertheless, the Arrowverse stands apart from the other two corners of DC's live-action presence, FOX's "Gotham" and the line of films which started with 2013's "Man of Steel." Looking at the various characters and how they've been adapted for each project, we can start placing them in a few distinct categories. | 2019-04-25T02:57:03 | http://comiccollectorsguide.proboards.com/thread/26943/dcs-film-tv-crossover-rules |
0.999451 | In order to test this hypothesis, an imaging technique is needed that fulfills two requirements. First, a technique needs to be sensitive to neuronal function—not just structure. As already mentioned, the early stages of AD are characterized by cell sickness, not cell death. Animal studies have established that insofar as aging causes memory decline, it does so by interrupting neuronal physiology—again, a form of cell sickness—with a notable absence of cell loss (Rapp and Gallagher, 1996). Second, the technique needs to have sufficient spatial resolution to interrogate the hippocampus as a circuit. Because of its circuit organization, a lesion in one hippocampal subregion will secondarily affect the function of other subregions, and will affect the circuit as a whole. Thus, in order to pinpoint the primary subregion targeted by a particular mechanism of dysfunction, a technique needs to assess each hippocampal subregion individually but also simultaneously to account for circuitwide effects.
With these goals in mind, a number of imaging approaches have been developed that have fulfilled both requirements—sensitivity to neuronal function and resolution sufficient to visualize individual hippocampal subregions (Small, 2003). As in any field, a shorthanded terminology is typically used to describe different imaging approaches, and terms are often confusing or even misleading. In this regard, a brief review of the field of functional imaging is worthwhile, pinning down which aspects of the brain are actually being imaged (Figure 12.2).
Figure 12.2. Classification of brain imaging. Brain imaging is dichotomized into structural versus functional imaging. Brain structure is imaged using either magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computerized tomography (CT). Functional imaging indirectly assesses regional energy metabolism by relying on the neuronal consumption of two ingredients of ATP production—glucose and oxygen. Glucose consumption is imaged with positron emission tomography (PET). Oxygen consumption is measured by imaging its three correlates—cerebral blood volume (CBV), deoxyhemoglobin content, or cerebral blood flow (CBF). CBV and deoxyhemoglobin content can be imaged with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and CBF can imaged with fMRI, PET, or single photon emission tomography (SPECT). Among these, CBV and deoxyhemoglobin content imaged with fMRI are best suited for pinpointing functional defects in individual hippocampal subregions.
Historically, in vivo imaging has been subdivided into structural imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computerized axial tomography (CT) imaging, versus functional imaging—single photon emission tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Of course, in principle, functional imaging techniques are more likely to be sensitive to cell sickness. What exactly is meant by the "function" in functional imaging? Since the early studies performed by Kety and Schmidt (Small, 2004), functional brain imaging has come to imply a method that detects changes in regional energy metabolism. Energy metabolism is best defined as the rate with which cells produce ATP, which in neurons requires the consumption of oxygen and glucose from the blood stream. Visualizing ATP directly is challenging, but imaging techniques have been developed that can visualize correlates of oxygen and glucose consumption. With the use of radiolabeled glucose, PET can quantify the regional rates of glucose uptake. In contrast, MRI-based techniques have typically relied on the second ingredient of ATP production, oxygen consumption, to visualize correlates of energy metabolism. Because of hemodynamic coupling, oxygen consumption is correlated with cerebral blood flow, cerebral blood volume, and deoxyhemoglobin content, and all these correlates can be estimated with MRI.
The cell-sickness stage of any disease typically affects the basal metabolic rate of oxygen consumption, and relying on the basal state to map anatomical sites of dysfunction enhances parametric quantification and spatial resolution. Indeed, the basal changes of energy metabolism associated with disease have been detected relying on all metabolic correlates—glucose uptake, CBF, CBV, and deoxyhemoglobin content. Among these variables, however, only MRI measures of CBV and deoxyhemoglobin content can achieve the spatial resolution required to visualize individual hippocampal subre-gions. Indeed, studies have used MRI measures of basal CBV or deoxyhemoglobin content to investigate the hippocampal circuit in aging and AD, and these will be reviewed in the next sections. | 2019-04-24T02:11:31 | https://www.guwsmedical.info/life-span/a-classification-of-brain-imaging.html |
0.99992 | How Do I Get a Boarding Pass for My United E-Ticket?
If you need to cancel a trip and you booked with United Airlines, you might be entitled to a refund, or you might just be out of luck. It all depends on why and when you are canceling your trip, what sort of ticket you bought and what sort of coverage you have. Before making demands on a hapless ticket agent, read through United's policy carefully to determine exactly what you are -- and are not -- entitled to receive.
Per federal regulations, all tickets bought directly through United are eligible for full refunds, without penalty, within 24 hours of purchase. After canceling, you can get your refund through United's refund webpage. If you bought your ticket through an agency or other third party, you should contact that party for its refund policy. After that 24-hour window, you are no longer eligible for a refund unless you bought a refundable "Y" class ticket. If you cancel a nonrefundable ticket, United usually will apply the cost of the ticket to a future flight, minus a fee. If you get a credit, ask about what restrictions apply, such as a time limit.
United will refund your ticket regardless of fare class in certain extenuating circumstances. These include serious illness or death of an immediate family member or your travel companion, or your own illness that prevents you from traveling. United requires documentation: a death certificate in cases of death and a formal letter from the attending physician in cases of illness. If you have to miss your trip because of jury duty, you also might be entitled to a refund, but you will have to provide a copy of your jury summons. In all of these cases, United charges a $50 processing fee, but you otherwise should receive a full refund.
If a delayed or canceled flight forces you to cancel your trip, United will refund your ticket regardless of its fare class. If you already have started on your trip and get stranded in a connecting city, United will return you to your home city and provide a refund. Any compensation beyond that will depend on the circumstances around the cancellation since no federal requirements exists. If United was at fault -- aircraft maintenance or missing crew members, for example -- the company might provide food, meal vouchers and hotel accommodations while you are stranded. If weather, air traffic control or other circumstances outside of United's control canceled your flight, United still might provide meals or food vouchers, but it will not provide a hotel. It might, however, give you access to discounted rates at nearby hotels.
United offers trip insurance through Allianz Global Assistance. Buying it entitles you to full reimbursement of any deposits or nonrefundable tickets should you have to cancel your trip for a variety of reasons. This could include getting into a traffic accident on the way to the airport, getting laid off from your job, or an illness or death in the family. If you are concerned about a potential cancellation when booking your flight, read the policy carefully to see whether it will apply to your circumstances. You also could buy a policy from third-party insurers, which are more expensive but have fewer restrictions.
Airfare Watchdog: Should You Buy Travel Insurance From Your Airline or Online Travel Agent? | 2019-04-20T22:59:25 | https://getawaytips.azcentral.com/trip-cancellation-united-airlines-policy-5122.html |
0.999999 | I've got a chapter of The Work nearly presentable for Magic City Writers, which is good considering that they'll need it tomorrow if they're going to have a week to critique it before our January 8th meeting.
This single 2,100ish-word chapter is the hardest-researched and most-thought-about prose I've ever written, especially given the short amount of time it's been since coming up with the story idea: December 5, so it's been less than a month. Behind the scenes, I've constructed a massive mind map to support the conceptual framework of the novel, written over 8,700 words of characters' backstory, and put together two full chapter-by-chapter outlines in Scrivener (I threw away the first).
I've also been filling my head with great (well, awful, but a great kind of awful) material, for nearly four weeks straight now. In novels: Whispers by Dean Koontz, Misery by Stephen King, Odd Thomas by Koontz, and I'm in the middle of The Shining by King. And in audio: I've listened to eighteen or so half-hour episodes of the Pseudopod horror podcast in the car going to and from work. The podcast in particular has been helpful: Pseudopod is an excellent resource for what sounds good and is paced well for the ear, instead of just the page.
It's been lot of work in a short time for 2,100 words, true, but so far the result has been unlike anything I've ever produced. Rough around the edges, but almost entirely character-driven, and using better-realized characters: plot movement can just fall into place when the characters are people you feel like you know. Their motivations pull the story along, instead of the reverse.
It's all been surprisingly easy, and surprisingly simple, and yet frighteningly exposed: I'm used to a LOT more worldbuilding being required. The Work is taking place entirely in modern-day America, with only a few brand names changed to protect the innocent. There's no sheen from duralloy bulkheads or glow from magical thought-eating algae to hide behind here: it's just me, the characters and the reader.
TL;DR: this feels great. I'm enjoying the act of writing more than I have in years, and I've hardly been hating it. This is definitely a new phase of the craft for me, and I'm loving the ride.
The lettering’s density was greatest around her forearms, the skin rougher there, scarred in dozens and dozens of tiny parallel lines. The blocky, brutish parallel strokes of blackletter Fraktur--verses from Luther’s Gospel of John--fit between the ridges like pavement between guardrails. They hid almost perfectly from the eye.
Adriana ran her fingertips over the ridges, remembering.
And the ride is pretty dang good so far, judging from my first sample!!! | 2019-04-22T22:36:58 | http://www.richardcarsonmillerjr.com/2011/12/enjoying-living-hell-out-of-horror.html |
0.999977 | Joel Santo Domingo Google Pixelbook The Google Pixelbook is a powerful, upscale 2-in-1 convertible laptop that will serve well-heeled Android and chromebook fans well.
Chromebooks have made inroads in business and education as cheap, streamlined, yet capable laptops. But can Google muscle into the ultra-premium convertible market? The Google Pixelbook (starts at $999; $1,119 as tested) is a chromebook with a stylish metal design, and seems tailor-made for the status-conscious Chrome OS user who wants the flexibility of a 2-in-1 convertible laptop. The big issue is that high-end Windows convertibles like the Lenovo Yoga 920 and the HP Spectre x360 13 are around the same price, have similar components, and offer greater utility, thanks to a vast install base and Windows program support. To switch to the Pixelbook, you have to give all that up.
The 12.5-inch 2,400-by-1,600 display is covered by scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass. Viewing is excellent in all modes, with virtually no dimming or color shifts, even at extreme angles. It's bright, rated at 400 nits, the same as the screen on the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1. Screen quality is satisfyingly crisp, text has no jaggy edges, and photos and videos have excellent detail and color fidelity.
Using the touch screen is smooth and a digitizer is built into the display to support the optional $99 Google Pixelbook Pen. The pen allows for subtle or broad strokes in drawings and hand-written notes, and works seamlessly in all four convertible modes, though there is a bit of screen bounce if you draw or tap in laptop mode. The blunt end of the stylus works as an eraser. There's no storage for the pen on the laptop, unlike the Surface Pen that handily clips to the Surface Laptop magnetically.
The pen also has a cool trick: Instead of invoking a right-click, as on most Windows-based pens, the Pixelbook Pen's button activates Google Assistant, a tool that searches anything you circle on the screen. For example, if you encircle a picture of a painting, Google Assistant will bring up its Wikipedia entry, identify the artist, and even give you directions to the museum displaying the art. It's an addictive tool, and works quickly in most apps. Saying the words "OK Google" or tapping its dedicated keyboard button will also wake up Google Assistant for queries. In my tests, it couldn't identify everything, though. For example, it had trouble finding some app logos, but I anticipate that performance will improve over time as Google's databases adapt.
The Pixelbook's chiclet-style backlit keyboard has a shallow keystroke, similar to the Apple MacBook Air, but the springs feel a lot snappier, so it's more satisfying to type on. Like other chromebooks, the function keys have been replaced with a row of Chrome OS-specific keys. In addition, a search button replaces the Caps Lock key, and a Google Assistant key is where the Start key would be on a Windows laptop. It took about 30 minutes to get used to the new layout and key feel. It's more comfortable using the Pixelbook on my lap than a 2-in-1 with a flappy keyboard cover, like the Apple iPad Pro or the Microsoft Surface Pro. One caveat if you spend a lot of time in word-processing software: The keyboard lacks PgUp/PgDn/Del/Home/End keys. After a little searching I found that Alt+arrow keys can handle most of these functions, which is less convenient than having dedicated keys. The one-piece touchpad has a glass surface and reacts quickly to multitouch inputs.
The speakers mounted under the keyboard favor treble and vocal reproduction over bass or electronic percussion, but they can fill a medium-size room with music or audio from videos. A 720p webcam is centered above the screen, capturing somewhat grainy photos and video, but it's sufficient for video chats.
Ports are limited, which shouldn't be a surprise considering how thin the chassis is. There's a headset jack on the left side, along with a USB-C port, and a second USB-C port is on the right. That's it: There's no SD, no USB Type-A, no HDMI. Granted, you can wirelessly connect to a Google Chromecast or use a dongle (available separately) for other accessories, but that's inconvenient. This seems to be trending on ultra-thin laptops: Systems like the Apple MacBook Pros and HP Spectre 13 only have USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports. On the plus side, you can charge the laptop from either USB-C port, and both ports support 4K displays. 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth handle wireless connections.
One of the most interesting concepts Google announced at the Pixelbook launch was Instant Tethering. The idea is that if you're logged into your Google account on both a Pixelbook and a Google Pixel 2 phone, the wireless networking in the laptop switches to sharing the phone's broadband connection. When you lose contact with valid Wi-Fi networks, a notification pops up asking if you want to use your Pixel 2's data connection. Click connect, approve the connection on your phone the first time, and you're online. After that, your Pixel 2 will continue to be an option along with other known networks. It's easier than having to carry a mobile hotspot.
The connection is as fast as the local conditions allow. I was able to get speeds of 6Mbps down/2Mbps up from a tethered Pixel 2 phone during my testing period, sufficient for streaming to the phone, or to the larger screen on your 2-in-1. The Pixelbook keeps track of signal and battery strength, so you can decide when to disconnect. It automatically shuts off after 10 minutes idle. It's a neat feature, and provides a useful part-time connection, akin to wirelessly tethering an iPhone to your MacBook through your iCloud account.
The Pixelbook runs programs from two different operating systems out of the box. Of course, you can run the thousands of Chrome web apps and extensions like any other chromebook, but thanks to recent updates in Chrome OS, you can access the millions of Android apps in the Google Play Store. Finding and installing apps vastly increases the offline functionality of the Pixelbook and the new crop of chromebooks. True, they run the Android mobile version of apps like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, but even these versions are vastly more useful than the web-only iterations of the same programs you would typically be resigned to using with a chromebook. Apps programmed to take advantage of larger screens run full screen, but some apps and games run in a window shaped and sized like a phone screen. One big plus of Chrome OS is that it checks and updates itself automatically. The system cleans itself, removing any malware and detritus that slow traditional operating systems.
Our mid-tier test unit has 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD backing up its Intel Core i5-7Y57 processor. The base model saves you $120 by dropping the SSD to 128GB while keeping the other specs, while the top-of-the-line $1,649 configuration has an Intel Core i7-7Y75 processor (same as the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1), 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. My configuration represents a sweet spot among midrange ultraportables, as the Apple MacBook Air, the XPS 13 2-in-1, and the Microsoft Surface Laptop have that same configuration in the $1,199-1,299 price range. 8GB gives you plenty of RAM for multitasking, supporting dozens of active browser tabs along with several Android apps. You can also download hours of entertainment, and install hundreds of apps on the spacious SSD. That's an improvement over less expensive chromebooks that make do with 4GB of RAM and 16GB SSDs. It also comes with 100GB of Google Drive storage for two years. The Pixelbook features a one-year warranty.
The Pixelbook (like all chromebooks) can't run our Windows-and-Mac-based benchmark tests, so I used it as a primary laptop during my test period. Booting the Pixelbook feels quicker than the Lenovo Yoga 920, Apple MacBook Air, and HP Spectre x360 13. I barely had time to open the lid and set the laptop down before it gave me the prompt to enter my password. HD videos in Netflix and 4K videos in Youtube start up almost instantly, and scrubbing forward and back only takes a second or two.
Perusing and sharing images from photo libraries in Google Photos and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom seems effortless with very little lag displaying images, thanks to the speedy processor and memory. Using Microsoft Excel and Word is also seemless. Overall, it feels a lot quicker when performing the same tasks than on a similarly configured Windows convertible, and I certainly spent less time waiting for the system to respond than on cheaper chromebooks. Android games like Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow and Shooty Skies play well.
Battery life was very good, at 10 hours, 26 minutes. That's about the same as the Asus Chromebook Flip (10:23), and many hours longer than the Dell Inspiron 7378 (7:45), and the HP Spectre x360 13 (8:18). However, the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (11:46) and particularly the Lenovo Yoga 920 (22:38) survived longer away from a power outlet. Regardless, you should be able to get a full 8-hour work (or vacation) day out of the Pixelbook, and then some.
The Google Pixelbook is an alternative to premium laptops for folks who know they can function using just the web and Android-based apps. There's also the attraction of never having to wait for Windows Updates to finish, or worrying about processor-robbing malware. If you already have a Google Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL phone, you're probably well invested in Google, and will benefit from the synergy between the devices and your Google accounts. Bottom line: If you've already determined you can get everything done on a chromebook, the Pixelbook certainly delivers the prestige factor and is faster than more budget-minded chromebooks.
For most users, though, I still recommend premium convertibles like the Lenovo Yoga 920, the HP Spectre x360 13, or the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1, just because of the wealth of Windows programs availble. Or if your budget isn't quite that rich, the Dell Inspiron 13 7378 will get the job done for several hundred dollars less. | 2019-04-19T02:38:58 | https://www.pcmag.com/review/356639/google-pixelbook?source=autosuggest |
0.986573 | Indexed journal: What does it mean?
Indexation of a journal is considered a reflection of its quality. Indexed journals are considered to be of higher scientific quality as compared to non-indexed journals. Indexation of medical journals has become a debatable issue. For a long-time Index Medicus has been the most comprehensive index of medical scientific journal articles. It is being publication since 1879. Over the years, many other popular indexation services have developed. These include MedLine, PubMed, EMBASE, SCOPUS, EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, SCIRUS among others. There are various regional and national versions of Index Medicus such as African Index Medicus.
A related and equally controversial issue is that of impact factor (IF). IF is used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. IF is awarded to the journals indexed in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports. IF has been criticised for manipulation and incorrect application. There are multiple factors that could bias the calculation of the IF. These include coverage and language preference of the database, procedures used to collect citations, algorithm used to calculate the IF, citation distribution of journals, online availability of publications, negative citations, preference of journal publishers for articles of a certain type, publication lag, citing behaviour across subjects, and possibility of exertion of influence from journal editors. Interestingly, IF is not available for all indexed journals. In fact, not all journals indexed even in Index Medicus/MedLine/PubMed are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports. Similarly, not all journals indexed in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports and consequently have an IF are listed in Index Medicus/PubMed/MedLine.
This brings us to the question which indexation is best and most valid? How to compare the quality of articles published in journals indexed with different indexation services? These questions are of particular relevance for two main reasons. First, importance of publications is being increasingly recognised by the academic institutions. MCI guidelines also recommend indexed publications for teaching faculty in medical colleges. Consequently many more authors would be publishing than ever before. Selection of high quality journal becomes a difficult decision for the authors as there is no clarity on the issue. Should one aim at only the journals indexed in Index Medicus/MedLine/PubMed? Is it appropriate to make submissions to journals having a high impact factor although they are not indexed with Index Medicus/MedLine/PubMed?
Second, recently many more indexation services have come up. These include Caspur, DOAJ, Expanded Academic ASAP, Genamics Journal Seek, Hinari, Index Copernicus, Open J Gate, Primo Central, Pro Quest, SCOLOAR, SIIC databases, Summon by Serial Solutions, Ulrich's International Periodical Directory. Are these indexations services equally relevant? Would a journal indexed with any of these databases be considered "indexed"?
These are some questions that warrant discussion. Associations of editors of medical journals such as International Committee of Medical Journal Editors could play a pivotal role in such discussion.
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1 Should publication be the only means of assessment?
Patra, B.N. and Sarkar, S. | 2019-04-20T10:19:31 | http://www.lungindia.com/article.asp?issn=0970-2113;year=2012;volume=29;issue=2;spage=193;epage=193;aulast=Balhara;type=3 |
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0.997399 | TYPE O NEGATIVE was one of a kind. The Brooklyn-based goth doom juggernaut was one of the most iconic of all metal bands from the nineties through the following decade, when the group disbanded upon the untimely passing of towering frontman Peter Steele. Discussions of the drab four are inevitable when discussing A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH since that band’s stylistic thread runs directly through this act’s music, unsurprisingly since the unit features TYPE O NEGATIVE alumni Sal Abruscato and Johnny Kelly. It’s been six long years since the release of its sophomore effort, “Lay My Soul to Waste”, and judging by the final product that is “When The World Becomes Undone”, the wait was worth it.
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0.998885 | Why does Marie McCormick – former chair of the panel that produced the botched IOM report claiming vaccines do not cause autism – currently serve as co-chair of the “Vaccine Safety Working Group” of the National Vaccine Advisory Council? Her past remarks should disqualify her from serving on any committees concerned with vaccine regulation as illustrated by the following examples retrieved from the leaked transcripts of the January 12, 2001 closed session of the Immunization Safety Review Committee of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine at the National Academies Building in Washington DC.
Those are unedited quotes of Dr. Marie McCormick from meetings of the Immunization Safety Review Committee on vaccines and autism - the committee that would eventually come to a formal “rejection of causation” in 2004, which effectively quashed federal funding of vaccine-related autism research. McCormick chaired that committee.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a conspiracy as “combin[ing] secretly for a… reprehensible purpose.” The drug industry loves to accuse others of invoking the C-word but this behavior of Dr. Marie McCormick and others – behind closed doors of the private, chartered IOM no less – is a conspiracy in the plainest sense of the word.
Needless to say, she should not sit on the National Vaccine Advisory Council. Even though her comments were made a decade ago, she continues to operate under the same principles as evidenced by her inaction on NVAC.
One NVAC member said there should not be an independent vaccine safety committee because it would detract from what NVAC does! Another NVAC member said people who should be responsible for vaccine safety are “people like us – people who conduct clinical trials of vaccines” - for drug companies in other words. A third member said NVAC is like the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) – overall considered successful at preventing plane crashes because someone on NTSB probably worked for Boeing within the last five years. He provided no example of this because he couldn't; none of the NTSB board members worked for Boeing within the last five years.
The most telling comment, however, came from a member who denied the public’s skepticism about the vaccine program – saying that the 5% of people who do not get vaccinated are “misinformed.” And these committee members – Marie McCormick among them – are left to decide if an independent government body focused solely on vaccine safety should exist.
Eventually, the floor was opened up to public comment – starkly different from the NVAC discussion. Pro bono lawyer Jim Moody, present at the meeting, was the first to give comments. He corrected the previous claim noting that while 95% of the population gets some vaccines, over 90% have at least some serious concerns about vaccine safety. He also cited the PACE law study that found a large group of children who developed autism resulting from adverse vaccine reactions were compensated by government and the utter lack of a vaccinated versus unvaccinated study of autism.
Next came Emily Tarsell with a phone comment; her daughter was killed by Gardasil. She said she could not understand why an independent vaccine safety committee wasn’t needed in light of all the issues with vaccine safety oversight.
None of the NVAC members commented on points made by Moody or Tarsell.
I inquired how Marie McCormick could possibly be expected to serve on the committee in good faith given her past statements. As it turned out, members of the public cannot even ask questions – only make comments.
Then they all broke into laughter – making a joke out of my comment and not addressing it. At that point, the committee took a break 15 minutes earlier than scheduled and did not open the session back up to public comment an hour later as was planned.
Jake Crosby commented that NVAC members lack independence or objectivity and said an NVAC member had stated that NVAC will never determine that autism is caused by a vaccine, and he questioned how such a member could be considered objective.
In reality, the only member I expressed concern about in my call was Marie McCormick, who was not even mentioned in the minutes. I did not claim she said NVAC will never determine autism is caused by vaccines either. I said, as corroborated by leaked IOM meeting minutes, that she made the statement, “We will never come down that it [autism] is a true side effect [of vaccines],” as IOM committee chairwoman in 2001 before any evidence was submitted to her panel for review.
Furthermore, by claiming I said McCormick said this about NVAC, but not about the IOM, the minutes covered up the fact that she came to a preconceived conclusion about causality. There was also no mention in the minutes of CDC involvement.
After the break, the NVAC members discussed recommendations to increase flu vaccine production for flu season. The flu shots are still laced with the mercury preservative, thimerosal. And these are the same folks charged with the task of deciding whether or not to create a new committee solely focused on vaccine safety?
Even if the 2000 Simpsonwood meeting transcripts, the email correspondences among some of its participants and the earlier Verstraeten data showing associations between mercury in vaccines and neurological disorders including autism were never retrieved in FOIA requests, those two quotes by Dr. McCormick are quite frankly enough to implicate CDC and IOM in coming to preconceived conclusions. No evidence was submitted to the IOM Committee in January 2001 when those quotes were made. Similarly, the CDC’s pressuring of the IOM to come to a set of desired conclusions completely contradicted the IOM’s stated purpose, which is to independently review scientific data wholly separate from any government agencies or pharmaceutical companies.
The IOM committee which McCormick chaired was rife with pharmaceutical interests, as revealed in the meeting notes. Next to the name Richard Johnston - Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Liaison who months earlier announced at Simpsonwood that he did not want his grandson exposed to thimerosal – are the words “SmithKline Beecham.” Next to panelist Vernice Anthony are the words “$5000 Merck” and next to fellow panelist Gerald Medoff are the words “pharma company.” Another panelist, Christopher Wilson, is listed next to “American Home Products,” which would later change its name to Wyeth and be purchased by Pfizer. And panelist Ronald Bayer coauthored a book published prior to the 2004 IOM Report, funded in part by a Merck Foundation Fellowship.
NVAC is no freer of conflict. In addition to Marie McCormick, there is Walter Orenstein, former director of the CDC’s National Immunization Program, which commissioned the IOM to come to its “independent” conclusions. Other unsuitable members include former CDC director James Mason – a trustee of “Evergreen International” – a group dedicated to curing homosexuality. Amy Pisani, another member on NVAC, is executive director of the Wyeth front group, Every Child By Two. Finally, Bruce Gellin – Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and also Director of the National Vaccine Program Office – coauthored an article with millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit claiming an infant can take up to 10,000 vaccines at once.
What is truly terrifying is Marie McCormick coming to conclusions before any data was submitted to her IOM committee for review. Her presence on NVAC as co-chair of the Vaccine Safety Working Group is a recipe for disaster.
We are the McCormick babies.
Great work Jake, you are exposing them to the core, you are exposing for what they are.
Haha, "McCormick Babies" - BRILLIANT Cherry!
Friends, If you would just come to India, we could go out on the town, and before long you would see what I think I shall now call a "Marie McCormick Baby" Here is a typical example: I was standing in a bakery in a part of Delhi where the government employees live. Im always watchful when I go there, for a government employee has the great good fortune to get free vaccines for his child at a CGHS clinic and the manufacturer of those vaccines has a great name: Serum Institute of India !! and a DPT or Hep B vaccine from them has the full dose of 25 mcg ethylmercury.
The doting father standing next to me clearly has a McCormick baby. The child is about one and a half, but very small. His hair is unusually thin and his nose is running. The days of little toddling boys who want to run about is gone: todays little boy is lifeless and wants to be held most of the time.. So , I race off to my car and head back to find the father and son. Fortunately they are still there. I hand the father an envelope of papers about mercury in vaccines. He does not mind and is interested to talk to me. I explain about mercury in vaccines, tell him to ask for imported vaccines and I say, "Your son is sick all the time, isnt he" He nods yes. That's the McCormick Thimerosal, destroying his immune system with each vaccine. I say to the father, "You must have got his vaccines from the CGHS" He replies, "Yes, I work at the CGHS" I say, "Then you REALLY need to read these papers"
On another note: Please run for office (Congress?) one day! We need someone young, and ethical, and intelligent in office making sound legal policy for our nation. Someone like you. Actually, we need a whole lot of "yous."
This is what passes for science these days. Pathetic, and dangerous. Where do they get these trolls? "Is that going to be sufficient for you?"---wow. I am really disgusted.
We need to print current photos of all the Vaccine Taliban members.
Well, Jake, to be honest, if I had not read that article from Gardiner, I likely would never had known about Ketek. My doctor certainly didn't clue me in to its risks. In fact, I actually filled the prescription, and went home to my computer to research Ketek's side effects as the name of the drug seemed to ring a bell, and I couldn't remember exactly why. Then, I brought up the NYT article, read it for the second time, called my doctor to ask him to prescribe another older antibiotic with a better safety profile, and he was not happy at all to do it. I then returned the unopened bottle to the pharmacy, got the new Rx, and killed my sinus infection quite effectively.
I am just glad, even if he is ethically bankrupt, that he wrote that article. Even after the fact. I probably wouldn't have questioned that drug otherwise. And by the way, why wasn't my doctor aware of the serious risks of taking Ketek? That's just nuts. Sometimes, even old news is important news to some who were previously unaware (like me)-- especially when the news was not adequately printed or spoken in many media outlets in a timely fashion to warn the public. Or, perhaps it was, and I just missed the other coverage outright.
I do appreciate your comment that Gardiner could have reported the truth sooner. I am sure it would have helped/saved more people, and that is both sad and sickening. I am grateful, however, that I was spared. With two affected children, I sure didn't need to be placed on a liver transplant list.
"It is with mixed emotions that we congratulate ECBT Ex-Officio Board Member Dr. Walter Orenstein on his pending retirement from the CDC’s National Immunization Program. Dr. Orenstein will “retire” from CDC on March 1, 2004, at which time he will be taking a position with the Emory Vaccine Center at Emory University working on vaccine policy issues and clinical vaccine development efforts."
someone draw up a letter we can send to out her!!!!!!
Jake, I'm glad that you and Jim Moody are holding the NVAC's feet to the fire. You are chipping away at the pharmaceutical edifice and setting a good example.
Everybody, the Public Comment segment is the Achilles’ heel our not-so-super DC committees. Jake and Jim are sometimes lonely voices there. As Jim has said, we need more bright, articulate, persistent and I would add fearless chippers in Washington. Thanks for standing up for us, Jake and Jim.
Gardiner Harris has pharma ties, and he did in fact violate the "Ethics in Journalism" policy of The New York Times for his failure to disclose them. He is ethically bankrupt.
My question is: where was Gardiner Harris when this advisory first came out?
to bury McCormick in her pot of lies and let her stew. I cannot believe she is still around. Thanks, Jake. This is so good and so frightening. On ward-Canary Party. We have got to move.
Bullying, lying, laughing and insulting is all they know. Reading this brought back memories of my last IEP where the principal actually tried to convince me that less hours of speech therapy was actuallty MORE hours. They all laughed at me when I tried to protest that less hours meant less hours. Mercury is safe, less is more it's all 1984 to me.
Re:"how Marie McCormick could possibly be expected to serve on the committee in good faith given her past statements[?]"
Ask the question in a formal letter.
"The NAS, NAE, IOM, and Research Council do not receive direct appropriations from the federal government, although many of our activities are mandated and funded by Congress and federal agencies. Our work extends well beyond fulfilling federal government requests, however. Foundations, state governments, THE PRIVATE SECTOR, and philanthropy from individuals enable us to address critical issues on behalf of the nation."
The letter could go to your congressional representatives with a cc to Ralph Cicerone and Charles Vest.
Oh and I am so glad that they have not lost their sense of humor on all this.
My entire family and my sister-in-law with three boys affected don't much these days that are funny.
As a matter of fact the older these kids get, the less funny anything is.
Poor Marie, she reminds me of the Church Lady.
If the vaccines effects everybody with autism it would be unsafe enough for her committee to address it?
Or perhaps just 90 percent of the population?
- well what percentage of the population is she willing to sacrifice -- before perhaps they even address the question?
There is no reasoning with such cold minds. She was the cause of no research into vaccines, the immune system, and autism?
Well, Jake, thanks for another amazing article.
While I am not a fan of Gardiner Harris (to put it mildly) regarding his myopic and rigid views on vaccines, I have to say that he quite possibly saved my life. Because of an article that Gardiner Harris wrote on the dangers of Ketek, and because that article stayed in my head when my doctor prescribed Ketek for my raging sinus infection, I refused to take that drug and opted for an older generation antibiotic. For all I know, I might have needed a liver transplant after taking only one Ketek pill.
I cannot consider Gardiner ethically bankrupt, just misinformed and brainwashed (like many of us here used to be). Gardiner cannot grasp that the corruption and ethical bankruptcy of the pharmaceutical industry extends to all product lines, not just drugs, or medical devices. Vaccines are not made with any greater level of care than any other drug. I just read that Merck's vaccines are tainted with shrink wrap, and neither the FDA, nor Merck cares enough to do anything about the contamination. No product's liability, no safety for the consumer-- even if the product is mandated for use. What more proof does Gardiner need?
Brilliant work as ever Jake - what a bunch! | 2019-04-22T06:39:07 | https://www.ageofautism.com/2011/08/marie-mccormicks-iom-remarks-leave-a-bitter-taste.html |
0.999043 | The coming year promises to be as exciting as an extra inning playoff game for 500 Home Run Club® LLC members, enthusiasts, and baseball pundits around the globe.
On the positive side, Gary Sheffield – who finished the 2008 season with the tantalizing total of 499 career home runs – looks to become the 25th member of The 500 Home Run Club…and he couldn’t be more excited about the prospects represented by the coming of the 2009 baseball season.
"I would've loved to have done it [last season]," Sheffield said after going homerless in the last series of 2008, including an 0-for-3 appearance in the season finale against the White Sox. Sheffield, who had hit two home runs in a single game just days earlier, said “But I’m looking forward to doing it [hitting his 500th career home run] at home…in front of our Detroit fans."
Bonds pleaded not guilty of the charges back in June, just as he had pleaded not guilty to similar accusations in December of 2007, but a judge ordered prosecutors to rewrite the slugger's indictment to fix legal infirmities in the document. The new indictment includes new allegations, specifically: 15 felony counts of lying under oath when he told a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) that he never knowingly took steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
Foreshadowing Bonds’ 2009 trial was the recent conviction of former U.S. Olympic cyclist Tammy Thomas who, like Bonds, was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury investigating a steroid ring that spanned the world of professional sports. While Thomas' case may hinder Bonds' chance of proving himself innocent, the two cases differ in several important ways.
Thomas was proven to have worked directly with Patrick Arnold, inventor of Tetrahydrogestinone (better known as THG or "The Clear") -- a steroid designed to avoid detection. Bonds, on the other hand, interacted with BALCO through his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, who in turn interacted with BALCO's founder and president, Victor Conte. And Bonds has repeatedly insisted that he simply took whatever Anderson gave him, assuming it to be benign supplements.
The "knowing" is a key point in a perjury trial. To prove that a defendant committed perjury, the prosecution must establish he or she knowingly and unequivocally lied under oath about a material matter, and in response to a clearly worded question. In other words, a lie based on a misunderstanding or faculty recollection would not comprise perjury.
So it is with no small amount of anticipation that MLB players, officials and fans around the globe await 2009. One thing’s for sure – it should be an interesting year! | 2019-04-23T16:52:52 | http://www.500hrc.com/500-hrc-articles/on-deck-for-2009.html |
0.999999 | What makes these questions so difficult is that every one is guaranteed to explode into a major argument if the man answers incorrectly (i.e tells the truth). Therefore, as a public service, each question is analyzed below, along with possible responses.
How much prettier she is than you.
How I would spend the insurance money if you died.
Would it make you feel better if I said yes?
That depends on what you mean by love.
I wouldn't call you fat, but you're not exactly thin.
Could you repeat the question? I was just thinking about how I would spend the insurance money if you died.
Question # 4: Do you think she's prettier than me?
Question #5: What would you do if I died?
She....Would you get married again?
She....Why not - don't you like being married?
She....Then why wouldn't you remarry?
He.....Okay, I'd get married again.
She....Would you sleep with her in our bed?
He.....Where else would we sleep?
She....Would you put away my pictures, and replace them with pictures of her?
He.....That would seem like the proper thing to do.
She....And would you let her use my golf clubs?
He.....She can't use them; she's left-handed. | 2019-04-20T03:25:55 | http://nonamedufus.blogspot.com/2007/05/5-toughest-questions-woman-can-ask-man.html |
0.989458 | All this has implications for the teaching process. If our children are likewise conditioned by images, and if pictures have a paramount place in their life, how are we effectively to pass on The Word and the full implications of the gospel in all subject areas to them? How can we teach our children to listen patiently to God's Word when much of society today impatiently and selectively grasps what matters to them from pictures they see? More specifically, what exactly is the role of the Word and listening at school, as opposed to that -of images and pictures?
A related area of concern is that unless our children are able to listen to and understand God's Word, there will more and more be a dichotomy between what is said and heard in church (and to some extent in school) and what is said and heard in their "everyday life."
What does Scripture and now specifically the Old Testament tell us about the place and function of the Word and pictures in the teaching process? How can these questions (and answers) help us in providing direction in our own educational endeavours? What is the message of the second commandment for Reformed teachers?
Reflecting on all these concerns. I am only too conscious of the fact that what follows will only be a small beginning to answering them.
Before we get into these questions as such, it is necessary to highlight one aspect of our teaching office so that we can approach the problems raised in a fruitful manner. The aspect I am thinking of is that Scripture speaks of a teacher as a father and their students as children (sons). Thus when David in Ps. 34:11 speaks as a teacher, he says: "Come, O sons, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord." Think also how the Lord Jesus calls the students of the Pharisees who perform exorcisms, "sons" of the Pharisees (Matt. 12:27; cf. Acts 23:6). One finds this manner of speaking especially in the book of Proverbs. It is generally agreed that when "father" is mentioned, the teacher-father, the wise man, is usually in view rather than the natural parent and that when "son" is mentioned, the student is in view. However, there are enough passages in Proverbs that do refer to the natural parent-child relationship (e.g., Prov. 1:8), or passages that are ambiguous as to their first reference, to underline that there really is no essential difference in the duty of parent or teacher when it comes to instructing and promoting the growth of true knowledge.
Now the name "father" for teacher raises all kinds of positive connotations and allusions with respect to the teaching task, but within our present context I would like to underline one in particular. Their task concerns the very life of their children. Parents who gave physical life to their children are also to be God's instruments for giving their offspring life in communion with God, eternal life, as well as the ability to make a living. (The religious and the practical, as man today often puts it, went together.) A teacher's task is likewise. It too is life-giving, with a view to equipping for life service in this world and with a view to eternal life. (Cf. e.g., Ps. 78:5-7; Prov. 5:13ff). Also a teacher's mandate, though in the first instance given by parents, is ultimately from God.
Now as those who are in the service of God, the Father of us all, we do well to consider how He, our heavenly Father, has taught and teaches His people. The manner in which He teaches His own can be instructive for our present topic. The first thing we notice is the priority of the Word, although what is seen is not to be neglected.
When God relates to His people, He speaks to them. Thus He blessed Adam and Eve after their creation (Gen. 1:28-30); He commanded the man about eating from every tree except the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:16ff.) and after the fall into sin, He called man and spoke to him (Gen. 3:9). By speaking, He informed Adam and Eve of the way of life and of the promise of the coming salvation. It is by speaking that God communicated to many more since He addressed earth's first couple. When prophets spoke on God's behalf, as His mouthpiece (cf. Ex. 4:15ff.; Jer. 1:9), then their message was prefaced either by "the word of the LORD" came to . . ." (e.g,, Jer. 1:4; Hos. 1:1; Joel 1:1) or by "thus says the LORD" (e.g., Ex. 4:22; 5:1; 1 Sam. 2:27; Jer. 33:2, 10,12). In the fullness of time, when God came in the flesh, then with divine authority the Son said. "truly I say to you" (e.g.. Matt. 5:18,26; cf. Luke 5:1; Jn. 3:34, 14:24). Clearly the spoken word is of paramount importance. This is a consistent theme throughout Scripture. The first emphasis is on what is heard and not on what is seen.
This emphasis on the word does not mean that the visual is lacking in God's relationship with His people and in His revelation of Himself to them and His teaching them. We will come back to this point. For now we can note that we often read that "God appeared . . . ," for example, to Abraham in the form of a man (Gen. 18:1), to Moses in a burning bush (Ex. 3:2), and to Solomon in a dream (1 Kings 3:5). The phrase "God appeared" has the literal meaning "God was seen" or "was visible." It is striking how God's glory appeared to Israel in the pillar of cloud and fire during the Exodus and wilderness wandering (Ex. 16:10; cf. 13:21ff.). So Israel could see God's presence and know He was with them. In this way God met the human need to see and not only to hear. However, there is no doubt about the fact that the high point in God's selfrevelation came when the LORD spoke directly to His people from Mount Sinai. So awestruck were the people that they asked Moses to speak on God's behalf to them: "but let not God speak to us, lest we die" (Ex. 20:19).
Another example that comes to mind of the priority of the Word is God's response to Moses' request, "I pray Thee, show me Thy glory" (Ex. 33:18). Moses wanted a visible guarantee that God would be going with them to Canaan. God obliged by showing Moses as much of His glory as possible (Ex. 33:19, 21ff.). However, the stress in God's selfrevelation was clearly placed on God's speaking and explaining His name Yahweh. When the actual revelation took place, we do not even read of the visible revelation of God's glory, but we are informed of what God said in explaining the significance of His name Yahweh. "Yahweh, Yahweh, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation" (Ex. 34:6ff.). What Moses heard was of more significance than what Moses saw in seeing the true glory of God.
The primary stress on the Word, rather than on something visual must be placed within the wider context of how Scripture informs us of the place of the Word of God. God's Word is effective. It accomplishes that for which God spoke it. We read in Is. 55:10ff.: "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it." (Cf. Heb. 4:12). That is because this word is God's Word. It is this Word that works faith. As Rom. 10:17 puts it: "So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes from the preaching of Christ." What the eye sees does not as such work faith. In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the plea of the rich man in torment that Lazarus be sent to warn his brothers lest they also end up in such anguish is answered in a telling way. "If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead" (Luke 16:31).
Over against the tendency of fallen man to trust his eyes more than his ears, the Scriptures tell us that the Word of God is inspired by God (2 Tim. 3:16) and is truth (Jn. 17:17). It sets the standard. The Word can therefore even specifically refer to commandments. Indeed, what we call the Ten Commandments are referred to in the Old Testament as the Ten Words (Ex. 34:28; Deut. 4:13; 10:4). God's commandments can be obeyed, for "the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it" (Deut. 30:14; cf. Roman 10:8).
Coming now to our task as teachers, we have a special responsibility to pass on the Word of God and its implications for all of life to our students. The Word has to be passed on. That indicates already something of the priority of language in our instruction. It is God's Word. That indicates something of the authority with which we must speak when we pass the treasures of the Word on. God's Word demands to be heard! Listening is a must.
We need wisdom here. We saw that as teachers we are "fathers" to our student "children." Our concern includes the fostering of the true knowledge of God and working for that life relationship with God. That cannot be done overnight. It takes time and the confidence of the students needs to be won. We need to look at the long range perspective with each teacher doing his part in awakening in our students the positive desire to know more about the LORD so that they are eager to listen. So we seek to be God's instruments for imparting life to those in our charge.
We can be highly motivated, for these are children of Father in heaven and they are already in a covenant relationship with Him. So you as teachers too have your place within the context of the home and the church in seeking as it were to impart faith. For that reason, listening is indeed imperative! Faith comes from hearing the Word (cf. Rom. 10:17; Heb. 4:12). Without faith the Word cannot be truly discerned (I Cor. 2:14).
But how has God helped His children to really listen and be confronted by the wide scope and great depth of the Word of God and so begin to understand the Word, also as it affects all of life? It is at this point that I am convinced that we can speak of the need for images and visual aids in the language of the relationship between God and us, - mind you, not on their own, but in a serving relationship to the Word.
If I understand E.W. Schaeffer-de Wal correctly, then she may be going too far when she writes: "The language of the relationship between God and us is definitely not the language of imagery (or the language of images) but it is a verbal language." Much as I affirm that God speaks to us through His Word and that He cannot be understood without the Word, yet, it is not purely an "either-or" dilemma as presented above.
When we speak of the Word of God, we speak of God's revelation of Himself. Without doubt there is the priority of language; however, images and visual aids were not neglected. God recognized them as necessary so that the Word might be as effective as possible. Signs served the Word, and indeed could not be understood without it.
I would like to illustrate this point first with reference to God Himself and His selfrevelation with respect to His very person, how God showed the eyes of Israel something of His glory so that it became tangible as it were to them. We have already touched on the first two examples. The LORD went before Israel "by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night; the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people" (Exodus 13:21ff.; cf. 14:19, 24; Numbers 14:14). In this way the LORD very concretely showed His presence. Through this cloud the LORD also effected a type of nonverbal communication. When God caused the cloud to go up from the tabernacle, Israel knew they had to travel. If the cloud was not taken up, Israel did not need to travel that day (Exodus 40:35-38; Numbers 8:15-23).
At the Sinai, the LORD also used Israel's perception, not just by the ear, but also by the eye to impress on them His presence and greatness. We read in Exodus 20:18 that "Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly" (cf. Deuteronomy 5:4). At a later date, a select number from Israel went up the Sinai to have a meal of covenant fellowship with God. Exodus 24:1013 informs us that they went up "and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under His feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness . . . . they beheld God and ate and drank" (cf. Exekiel 1, especially v. 28b). Also, as covenant mediator, Moses spoke to God face to face as a man speaks to his friend (Exodus 33:11; cf. Deuteronomy 34:10; also cf. Jeremiah 32:4). This included that he beheld "the form of the LORD" (Numbers 12:8). This is more than seeing God in a vision or dream (cf. Psalm 17:15; 1 John 3:2; Revelation 22:4).
Also when it comes to the message of the LORD, we find a wide array of images that appeal to perception through the eye rather than the ear. Think of the tabernacle and later the temple, as well as the elaborate rituals and feasts connected with the service of God. These were not incidental, but pictured the gospel! These "pictures" were crucial for Father's teaching the covenant children in the old dispensation. The LORD did not want His children to be brought up only by hearing the gospel. He also wanted them to see it and to perceive it by means of their physical eyes. As a teaching principle we can learn from this. We certainly cannot dismiss this as something belonging to the Old Testament and having no further relevance for us today. In this context one can also think of the two sacraments that the LORD has given us. Also in the last age, our heavenly Father wants to make use of our eyes in reinforcing the message of His Word and strengthening our faith.
If we reflect for a moment on what has been said up to this point and also try to place ourselves in the situation of Israelite parents and children according to data found in Scripture, several principles that are very important for us today become evident.
First we must reaffirm the priority and dominant position of the Word in our teaching. It was the Word of God that had to be passed on to the children. The gospel with all its ramifications had to be taught to them. The well-known words of Deuteronomy 6 come to mind. "These words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates" (Deuteronomy 6:69). Whenever and wherever possible, the sustained teaching had to continue.
However, it was not to be a long, uninterrupted, and difficult monologue. Children could and were expected to ask questions. After all the Word was to be understandable and so practical and usable to them. If the Word did not speak to them, then questions were to be asked. As the LORD said further on in Deuteronomy 6, "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and the ordinances which the LORD our God has commanded you?' then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand . . ." (Deuteronomy 6:20ff.), and the great deeds of the LORD are recounted. An answer was to be given! God demanded it and therefore children could expect it! A clear answer, one they could understand and that would encourage further listening. A practical answer which showed the relevance of salvation for their situation, namely, living a life of gratitude to God and enjoying true life with Him.
The Word was to be clear. When God spoke from the Sinai, Israel understood. Although God came from heaven, He spoke their language. This is also evident from the languages that Scripture is written in. God used the languages current at the time the revelation was given. So we have to speak in such a manner that the children can understand. We must never in any way encourage or promote a special religious or church language over against the so-called ordinary language of everyday. Life is a unit and we must speak to our students in such a manner that they understand irrespective of the subject. The problem of "children" (students) not listening can be a problem of the teacher not being able to communicate and make the subject meaningful for them. We need to speak to them and not at them. If questions are forthcoming, rejoice. You're getting through. Already in the Old Testament God told parents, the first teachers, that they could expect questions. Questions indicate that what has been said relates to their situation and to their life. It means they can talk about it and therefore also speak to God Himself concerning the things that have been learned. It means that the student is part of it and belongs and that the world of God and His Word is not foreign to him. It is obviously very important that also today the Bible continues to be related to this life. Thus teaching the Word by verbal means must be and remain the first priority.
This brings us to the second principle, namely, the necessary use of visual aids. In the Old Testament the LORD demanded the use of what could be seen in helping to bring the Word also to children. The whole way of life was immersed with sacrifices, festivals, and memorials. All these visual stimuli not only helped integrate faith into the fullness of life but also prompted questions from the children. For example, with respect to the Passover sacrifice, the LORD said through Moses: "When your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'you shall say, 'it is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, for He passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when He slew the Egyptians but spared our houses'." (Exodus 12:28ff.) Again a clear answer had to be given and a historical consciousness of the great deeds of God was imprinted in the children. Even if there was no question, the opportunity had to be seized to tell the children the meaning of what they saw. For example, regarding the eating of unleavened bread, the LORD demanded that they tell the significance of it to the children (Exodus 13:8). Sometimes the LORD commanded that memorials be erected so that children would see and ask about their meaning. Think of the twelve stones erected in the Jordan as a memorial of the miraculous crossing in the time of Joshua. Then were to be erected "that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, 'What do those stones mean to you?'Then you shall tell them . . ." (Joshua 4:8). Note how all these visual helps serve the passing on of the Word and the great deeds of God as well as the remembering of the contents of the Word.
Similarly prophets made use of visual aids. When the prophet Ahijah is about to tell Jeroboam that the LORD will tear the kingdom from Solomon and give ten tribes to Jacob, then he took off his new garment and tore it into twelve pieces (1 Kings 11:29-31). In Isaiah 20 we read that Isaiah had to go naked and barefoot through Jerusalem to reinforce this message from the LORD. "As My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot . . . ." Judah would therefore hope for help from these nations in vain (Isaiah 20:3-8). More examples could be mentioned. However, it should be pointed out the use of "visual aids" went to quite some length. For example, Hosea's married life was to be a picture of what happened between God and His adulterous people. Think of the initial command of the LORD to Hosea: "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the LORD" (Hosea 1:2). And Ezekiel was told that his wife would die and he was not to mourn, for Ezekiel was to be a sign to the people. They too were not to mourn when their precious temple was desecrated. It was God's just judgment (Ezekiel 24:15-27). It is important to notice that the signs and pictures which were given could not be understood without the Word. They are there for the Word and are not independent of it. They serve the better understanding and remembering.
On the basis of all this, I am convinced that teachers can and should use visual aids where responsible and possible to support them in their task of getting the Word and the implications of the Word across. Although we no longer live in the old dispensation, yet the principle of "illustrating" the great salvation deeds of God is still relevant. To this very day our heavenly Father speaks to His children also through images and pictures. One can think in this context of the rainbow (Genesis 8:8-17) and also the sacraments. Notwithstanding the special place of the sacraments, these signs and seals are in agreement with this principle of using visual aids. In a more general context we confess that God makes Himself known to us "by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe; which is before our eyes as a most beautiful book" (Art. 2, Belgic Confession). I therefore reject the dilemma as that is rigidly put forward that the language of the relationship between God and us is definitely not the language of imagery (or the language of images) but is a verbal language. Insofar as we can use pictures to reinforce the transmission of the Word to those in our care, it is justified. One can think in this context of the effective use that can be made of pictures in so-called children's Bible story books (although we must be very careful here!). The imaginative use by teachers of visual aids can only be applauded and encouraged. Positive use can be made of the technological advances that are ours. The key thing is that it must all serve the transmission of the Word, for that is the crucial thing! An important precaution is therefore that our pictures and images be very carefully chosen so that they are not burdened by secular connotations.
So far I have said nothing about the second commandment and its relevance for our subject. We must be brief and I will try to touch on the main point.
To understand this commandment we must realize that image-making had a very specific function in the ancient Near Eastern world in which Israel lived. An image was not just considered to be a picture of the god in question. No. It was the dwelling place of the divine reality. Decisive was that the image was animated by the deity taking up his residence there. If man did his duties to that image, then man had that god in his power, so to speak. For at bottom the essence of imagemaking is to have the god under your control, in your power. In this way heathens thought to have some security because the god or gods were now at their beck and call.
When we keep this background in mind, we can understand Israel's decision to make a golden calf as an image of the LORD who led them out of Egypt. Israel grew restless because Moses delayed to come down from the Mount. God seemed to have left them. In such a situation there rose a demand for an image! Israel wanted, so to speak, to have God close by, under their control according to the pagan way of thinking of their day. When the calf of gold was made, then Aaron said, "Here is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt! . . . Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD!" (Exodus 32:4ff.). They had their image. God was now with them. No more worries! The Catechism therefore rightly places the second commandment in the context of the correct worship of God, as well as stressing the point that no image of God can be made (Q.A. 96-97).
When it comes to our teaching task, the relevance of this commandment lies in my opinion first of all in the absolute necessity that we in our teaching make known to our students the true God as He has revealed Himself in His Word so that He can be rightly worshipped by them. There are many images of God today by which man tries to conceptualize God into someone that will be useful to man and serve man's purposes. In this way man seeks to control God and make Him to be what man wants Him to be. Some examples of modern images of God are: God is love. This translates "there is no hell." Or, God is a grand old man. This translates "God and His Word, are out of touch with reality. He is out of date. Pay lip service to Him but we can basically ignore Him." So there are more false images of God that could be mentioned. With many misconceptions about God currently circulating, we must be careful to show only the God of Scripture; - the God who cannot be manipulated or controlled and who cannot be reduced by humans to some image; the God who is sovereign and transcendent, who cannot be grasped, be it literally or mentally. God is God! We must convey a sense of awe about Him to our students. He is Creator and we are but creatures. As Isaiah 40 asks: "To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with Him? . . . To whom then will you compare Me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One . . . . Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth" (Isaiah 40:18, 25, 28a). God is more than we can ever imagine!
Therefore the revelation of God through His Word is such a miracle. There we see God as we are to perceive Him. There He has revealed Himself as He wants to be known to His people. There His glory, His love, His righteousness and His wrath are pictured for us. So we pass on the Word and God's selfrevelation to our students. That is the crucial thing. But we also do more.
We do not only use verbal language. Students must also see the message. They need a visual aid and that, within this context, is the teacher himself. Also in our speaking, in our attitudes and actions, we are to show them something of the greatness of our God and His holiness and sovereignty. After all, as teachers we ourselves are children of Father above, recreated in His image (Ephesians 4:22ff.; Colossians 3:9ff.; cf. Romans 8:29). Our students must be able to see that and so see something of the greatness of Father in us. One of the vital motivations for listening can be the desire to be like the teacher. "I too want so to know the Father in heaven and do my office as Christian and experience the peace and joy and surety of the new life! I want that!" If we are a picture of the new life with all the positive features, then some of the difficulty of listening is diminished for our students. Then what we stand for and speak about becomes attractive (cf. 1 Peter 3:15). As teacher ("father") so doing our calling over against our students ("children"), we may beget children after our godly image. Or better expressed, we may be God's instruments that they too be renewed after God's image, in whose image we by grace may be.
God does not want us to make an image of Him; but, He does want to make us new after His image. Our students need to be moulded by the Word and Spirit after the image of God. We may be instruments of God in that divine moulding process. The old creation must give way to the new. Again the priority of the Word is unmistakable, although the "children," students, cannot do without seeing their "father," teacher, after God's image. But the Word is indeed first. Our students (as well as we ourselves, of course) must more and more be moulded by the Word. Their thoughts must follow the patterns set by God. Their goals and desires must be in conformity with His will. We must therefore "soak" our students with the Word so to speak.
In our day, memory work is generally not regarded too favourably. It should, however, be realized that this resistance to memory work is a relatively recent phenomenon. The notion that truth can exist meaningfully in a book (for reference purposes, to be consulted when needed) rather than in a person's mind is a comparatively new idea and certainly has no support in Scripture. Of course the material to be memorized must be meaningful and speak to the student's world. He must be able to understand and appreciate it. Then the material functions and has value in the life of faith. Then the Word of God is integrated in real life. Here again, not only what our students hear but also what they see is very important. Are we ourselves good visual aids for showing our students how helpful memorized knowledge of Scripture is or can our students come to the devastating conclusion that the teacher ("father") himself does not know the passage he assigned to the class? So, why should we, "the children," bother? He seems to have made out all right? Can't we do without this work?
The importance of memorizing Scripture as a tool for integrating God's Word into life cannot be overestimated. Our students are constantly bombarded by worldly language and worldly images in so much of life, including the pervasive influence of the media, especially unfortunately the almost everywhere present television. How can we expect them to stand if they have not stored in their hearts and cannot remember very concretely the demands and promises of the LORD? The world seeks our heart, our very life. But God says, "Give Me your heart!" (Proverbs 23:26). The Word is used by the Spirit to bring about the new life and to nurture it. Think again of Psalm 119, "I have laid up Thy Word in my heart that I might not sin against Thee" (verse 11).
Now often it is the worldly images that cause the greatest concern. And they should be a serious worry. However, I would like to contend that the corruption and secularization of language should alarm us at least as much. There appears to be a growing gap between the language we hear in church and on the streets. There seem to be two interrelated reasons for this. The first reason is that Christianity is waning in influence and Christians have withdrawn from certain areas so that many fields have only a secular language which stymies meaningful Christian participation in discussing issues there. Coupled with that is a second reason, the degeneration of language. The present age is becoming so depraved that the words of Genesis 6:5 come to mind. "The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." One could also translate: " . . . everything shaped by the thoughts of his heart was exclusively evil all the time." Whatever man contemplated it was always wicked. Today the forces of darkness have more and more claimed much language for their purposes so that much language now either carries sinful innuendo or relativizes morals. A consequence is that many in the world can truly no longer really understand what Christians are talking about when they express themselves on issues dear to them and hence have little appreciation for what Christians stand for (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:11ff.). In this sense the antithesis between light and darkness comes out more clearly now than it has in recent Western history, and our students should be aware of this.
Why mention these things? To underline the great significance of truly impressing the Word on the lives and hearts of those in our care. It is a matter of life and death. Our students are not immune to the words and images of this world and for that matter neither are we as long as that struggle against the old nature is there. Hence the Word is needed to protect and nurture the life of our student and so to guard their heart, the centre of their consciousness. Proverbs 4:23 says: "Above all else guard your heart for from it flow the springs of life." Above all else! Therefore we need to continue to expose the words and pictures the world presents for what they are and we need to impress upon our "children" the great significance of the Word of God for all of life. It is of utmost importance that our students learn to distinguish and discriminate between the holy and the unholy, between good and evil. Armed with the Word of God and a correct understanding of it, this is possible. We are in the world, but not of it! Great discernment is needed. Again if we as "fathers," teaching parents in school, can illustrate, make it real and picture it, especially through our example, that is of tremendous help. We must never speak in a theoretical vacuum but speak practically (as instruction in the Old Testament was). We have the Word. It is practical and it is the Word of life! And also to our encouragement, it is an effective Word that will accomplish the purpose for which God sent it (Isaiah 55:11), also in the lives of our students.
This brings me to one final point. Since we train students for life service in God's kingdom, the exposure of darkness for what it is should at the same time serve as a challenge to advance the claims of the light of the gospel as the LORD gives opportunity and provides time before His glorious return. There is a task, both for us and our students, also in the fundamental issue of language and image, of communicating. Our students should go forth as able communicators of the Word in all of life, by speaking and applying it and reinforcing the spoken Word by themselves being pictures of Christ's redemptive work (cf. 2 Corinthians 3:3 and also Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 11:19; 38:26).
What follows (in three instalments) is a slightly revised version of an introduction presented to a conference of Canadian Reformed teachers in Langley, BC, on 30 August 1988 and in Chatham, ON, on 28 October 1988.
See, e.g., 1:2ff; 3:1,11,21: 4:10,20; 5:1; 6:1; 7:1 etc. See, e.g., W.H. Gispen, Spreuken (Korte Verklaring; 1952) I, 25 and H. Haag in G.J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren, eds., The Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, II (1975), 152.
See further on this C. Van Dam, "Wisdom, Knowledge and Teaching," CRTA Magazine, 15:2 (1985).
E.W. Schaeffer-de Wal, "Christelijke opvoeding als vertaling III," De Reformatie, 82 (1986-87), 32, as translated in Orange Courier, Jan. 18, 1987.
Cf. on this R.S. Wallace, Calvin's Doctrine of the Word and Sacrament, (1957), 78-81.
See W.H. Gispen, Numeri, I (1959), 147.
Cf. K. Schilder, "Kerktaal en leven," in idem, Om Woord en Kerk, III (1951), esp. pp. 169-188.
See M. Snapper, "The Dethronement of Memory in Church Education," Calvin Theological Journal, 13 (1978), 38-57.
See on these criteria, M. Snapper, "Memorization in Church Education," Calvin Theological Journal, 16 (1981) 42-45.
Cf. H. Blamires, The Christian Mind (1983).
See C. Van Dam, "Language and Corruption," Clarion, 37 (1988), 100ff. | 2019-04-24T10:05:12 | http://spindleworks.com/library/vandam/ps33.htm |
0.999927 | Dozens of advertisers have left Bill O'Reilly. Can Fox News stand by him?
Bill O'Reilly's future at Fox News is the number one topic among Manhattan media executives, entertainment agents and journalists. But the network is keeping mum. Seemingly the only place where it isn't being discussed is on Fox News.
Neither O'Reilly nor Fox has said much about last weekend's report in the New York Times about settlements with five different women who accused the host of sexual harassment or verbal abuse. The matter has only been addressed briefly on Fox's air, and O'Reilly hasn't discussed it in the two editions of his show, "The O'Reilly Factor," that have aired since the story broke.
Fox's strategy of silence might make sense for now, given that O'Reilly is more than just a profit center for the company: he is an institution there, almost inseparable from the network, and long seemingly invincible.
Then again, that's exactly what media observers said last summer when Roger Ailes was sued by former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson for sexual harassment. Ailes resigned two weeks later.
As Ailes faced an onslaught of sexual harassment allegations, several of the network's on-air personalities strenuously defended him in the press. And when O'Reilly faced a sexual harassment lawsuit in 2004, he delivered a ferocious response on-air the night it was filed.
Now, though, even as more than 40 advertisers have dropped his show, O'Reilly and his network aren't fighting back publicly.
Fox News' relatively subdued response has driven speculation throughout New York media about whether the longtime king of cable news could be on the way out -- and whether such a scenario is even plausible. Most would have dismissed the idea offhand at any other time, but the marked contrast between Fox's strategy in the past compared to now is fueling the discussion.
It could be a sign that network mogul Ruper Murdoch and his sons are following through on their pledge to remedy the network's culture.
On the other hand, the Murdochs might be quietly circling the wagons, demonstrating the same type of loyalty that Ailes inspired in many of his employees and perhaps bowing to financial reality.
Fox renewed O'Reilly's contract knowing that the Times story would be coming out. The Washington Post reported that the new deal extends at least through 2020.
Contracts have clauses and escape hatches. But if it really goes to 2020, those could be very expensive for the network.
Then there's the matter of a replacement. Fox has no obvious person in line to succeed O'Reilly right now.
"They are running plays from the Roger Ailes playbook and it is out of date," said one media executive at another company. "The Murdoch sons were supposedly 'disgusted' by Ailes' style and tactics, and couldn't wait to run him out of the company -- but if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they seem to be heaping praise on Ailes this week."
Of course, there could be millions of reasons why Fox News is standing by O'Reilly. As in millions of viewers, and hundreds of millions of dollars.
"The O'Reilly Factor" has been the no. 1 program on cable news for 16 years running, and it's coming off the best quarter of ratings it's ever had.
On Monday, the show demonstrated its ratings prowess once again, drawing 3.65 million viewers -- far more than any of its competitors. It's also a cash cow. "The O'Reilly Factor" generated more than $178 million in advertising revenue in 2015 and over $118 million in the first nine months of 2016, according to Kantar Media.
An on-air personality at a rival network said O'Reilly is a "holy grail" for advertisers.
"You can't go alt-right if you're a major corporation," the source said. "He's as far as you can go to reach older, conservative Americans."
The exact fallout of the advertising exodus isn't clear yet. Paul Rittenberg, Fox News' executive vice president of advertising sales, said in a statement Tuesday that the network was working with advertisers to "address their current concerns about the O'Reilly Factor," and that "the ad buys of those clients have been re-expressed into other FNC programs."
That would suggest that the advertising revolt, such as it is, hasn't affected Fox's bottom line -- at least not yet. Mercedes-Benz and Sanofi, two companies to withdraw from the "Factor," both confirmed to CNNMoney that their ads would be re-allocated to other Fox programs. Only one organization, the Society for Human Resource Management, said it had ended its advertising on the entire network.
Richard Levick, a public relations specialist who has worked in crisis management, said that "it's going to have to get very costly" before Fox shoves O'Reilly out.
"This is all about the math," said Levick. "This is not about doing the right thing. If Fox was interested in doing the right thing, it would have done it long ago."
"The question that Fox has to ask is, are viewers going to start getting asked by their children: 'Why are you watching this man?'" he added. "And once Fox feels that that moment's come, that will have as much, if not more, resonance than the advertising dollars."
Levick said that we're living in the "age of mercantile activism," which could change the equation for the advertisers -- and for Fox.
"If the ads are just being reassigned to other Fox shows, it temporarily gives companies the opportunity to do the right thing and look good," said Levick. "But as mercantile activism continues to evolve, consumers are going to begin asking why they're spending money on the network at all."
The racial justice organization Color of Change intends to ask that question forcefully. The group called on advertisers to drop O'Reilly this week, and Rashad Robinson, its executive director, said he will be "monitoring what these companies are doing."
In 2009, the group spearheaded a similar campaign aimed at advertisers on Glenn Beck's Fox News program.
O'Reilly has weathered controversies before, often emerging from them with even more power, but Robinson thinks this time around could be different.
"At the end of the day," Robinson said, "money speaks to the Murdochs." | 2019-04-21T14:13:01 | https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/05/media/can-fox-news-stand-by-bill-oreilly/ |
0.999999 | Doulnee Keltchow is a small town in the middle of nowhere; what makes it so famous is the number of gossipers who live there. Every morning, each gossiper finds out a new gossip, a gossip so unique that nobody else in the town knows it. The gossipers talk, gossip and exchange rumors all day long. What happens when two gossipers meet? Of course, they exchange all the gossips they have heard so far. Your task is to determine whether every gossiper will know all the gossips by the end of the day.
The input file consists of multiple test cases separated by blank lines. On the first line of every test case there are two positive integers N and M, where N is the number of gossipers and M is the number of meetings. On the next N lines there are the names of the gossipers. The name of each gossiper is a single word consisting of lower- and uppercase letters. The following M lines describe the meetings in the order they happened. Each meeting is described by two distinct names of the gossipers separated by a single space. The values M=N=0 indicate the end of the input file.
The output file should contain for each test case one line containing a single word "YES" if every gossiper knows all the gossips, or "NO", otherwise. | 2019-04-22T13:10:50 | https://ipsc.ksp.sk/2001/real/problems/g.html |
0.993256 | New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D.) said Sunday that Amazon's decision to rescind its plan to open a second headquarters in the city is proof there is plenty of money in this country but it's in the wrong hands.
"I say there is plenty of money in this world and plenty of money in this country, but it's in the wrong hands, and Amazon is making my point for me," de Blasio said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Amazon announced that it would cancel its plans to open a second headquarters in New York City after local politicians criticized the deal that allowed Amazon to receive $3 billion in tax breaks.
"A number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City," Amazon said in a statement.
Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.) led the charge against Amazon and said the company was taking advantage of working class people. She accused the company of not showing "good faith" to the people of New York City. When Amazon announced that it was pulling out from the deal, Ocasio-Cortez celebrated the decision.
De Blasio doesn't put the blame on Ocasio-Cortez or local politicians who opposed the deal; instead he blamed it on Amazon.
"Let's be clear. No one chased away. This was Amazon's arbitrary decision. We had an agreement. If I made an agreement with you, and there were issues that came up but we had an agreement, you wouldn't call me in the dead of night and say, ‘We're taking our marbles and going home,'" de Blasio said.
According to de Blasio, this is proof that the money in the country is in the wrong hands. De Blasio is one of the most far-left politicians in the country and no stranger to advocating a redistributionist worldview. Earlier this year, he said the same thing when he was selling universal health care.
However, his comments on "Meet the Press" run counter to what he reportedly said about Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives making "mistakes" by pushing businesses away.
When host Chuck Todd asked de Blasio if this message will be part of his potential presidential campaign, the mayor said he's not sure.
"I have not ruled it out, but I'm going to take this message nationally anyway you slice it," de Blasio said, "because this is an urgent moment. There is an inequality in this country right now that is threatening to tear us apart." | 2019-04-21T16:34:14 | https://freebeacon.com/politics/de-blasio-is-still-a-communist/print/ |
0.999999 | German election - where do political parties stand on foreign policy and security?
NATO: The CDU/CSU supports the military alliance as a fundamental part of regional and global security. The CDU takes credit for Germany's accession to NATO in 1955 under former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who led the party at that time.
Transatlantic relations: The CDU/CSU views transatlantic relations positively, describing the US as a "central partner." However, since US President Donald Trump assumed office, the transatlantic relationship has experienced challenges, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying Europe could no longer rely on Washington like it did before.
Turkey: The CDU/CSU has never supported full accession to the EU. Given the heightened tensions between Berlin and Ankara in the wake of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's purge against civil servants and detainment of German citizens, Merkel called for all EU accession talks to be scrapped.
North Korea: The CDU/CSU states that sanctions and international pressure will ultimately undermine the North Korean regime, halt its weapons program and ultimately foster long-lasting stability on the Korean peninsula. Sanctions should therefore be stepped up also to target North's oil industry. The party also wants to see a ban on all North Korean guest workers, especially in Europe.
NATO: The SPD backs military deployment for peacekeeping missions, crisis prevention and conflict management, most notably under the framework of international order and its institutions, such as NATO and the UN.
Transatlantic relations: The SPD supports the US as an important ally and transatlantic relations favorably. However, the center-left party is wary of developments in the transatlantic relationship that may undermine established norms in Germany, including worker's rights and environmental protection. In the wake of 9/11, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder did not join the US for the Iraq War.
Turkey: The Social Democrats have, in principle, always favored Turkey's accession to the EU. Its manifesto initially stated that accession talks should continue, although the party has ruled out membership "in the foreseeable future." However, SPD candidate Martin Schulz has called for membership talks to be scrapped altogether.
North Korea: The SPD's chancellor candidate, Martin Schulz, has refused to make the North Korea crisis a focal point in this year's federal election. The party, however, has ruled out any German military participation in case of war.
Eastern Europe: The SPD's former head, Willy Brandt, famously started the rapprochement with Eastern Europe when he acknowledged German guilt toward the Polish people with a gesture of humility and penance toward the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1970. In the 2017 election campaign former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder caused his party some headache, as he took on another job with Russia's energy giant Rosneft. In a TV interview 2004 Schröder famously called Vladimir Putin a "democrat through and through" - a statement his opponents will not tire of using.
NATO: The Left Party is the only German party that calls for the dissolution of NATO. It opposes all Bundeswehr missions abroad. The Left Party often organizes protests against NATO, which it describes as an obsolete remnant of the Cold War.
Transatlantic relations: The Left Party criticizes Germany's relations with the US, instead urging better relations with Russia. It views the US as one of the premier security threats across the globe, slamming its foreign military interventions and pursuit of what it views as unbridled capitalism.
Turkey: On migration, the Left Party opposes any sort of deal with an authoritarian regime, including the Erdogan government. It wants to scrap the EU's current migrant deal under which Turkey receives aid in exchange for reducing the flow of migrants into Europe.
North Korea: The Left Party has condemned Kim Jong Un's actions, but lays blame on the US for the regional crisis. American military bases and missiles have only heightened the risk of warfare in the Pacific region, it says. The Left Party wants Germany and the EU to work toward ensuring that all sides agree to nuclear disarmament.
Party leaders came under attack from the political mainstream when they sent a letter with flattering birthday wishes to Cuba's dictator Fidel Castro on the occasion of his 85th birthday, praising him for safeguarding the freedom of his people in the face of pressure from the United States.
NATO: The Green Party was a pacifist political movement until Green foreign minister Joschka Fischer famously forced his party to a U turn in 1999 when Germany joined NATO forces in former Yugoslavia. The party now supports NATO as a collective defense mechanism. However, since US President Donald Trump assumed office, the Greens have called for an "honest" revision of the alliance's core purpose, saying it is "dangerous" to use the alliance for other objectives, such as counter-terrorism operations.
Transatlantic relations: The Greens question whether the Trump administration shares the same values for international order. The party criticizes the US president's decision to pullout of the Paris climate agreement, its apparent willingness to start trade wars and the administration's rejection of human rights norms on refugees and torture.
Turkey: The Greens favor Turkish EU accession in principal, but have expressed concern about Ankara's failure to meet its membership criteria. As a traditionally pacifist party, they have also called on the German government to halt all arms exports to Turkey.
North Korea: The Green Party has no official stance on North Korea in relation to its most recent nuclear tests and heightened tensions in the region. It has, however, promoted nuclear disarmament.
NATO: The FDP fielded German foreign ministers for decades as a junior coalition partner to CDU and SPD. It supports NATO, saying it is "fully committed" to the military alliance. The Free Democrats back the alliance's defensive posturing in the Baltic region as deterrence against Russia. The party believes in increasing Germany's defense spending to reach NATO's 2 percent of the GDP target.
Transatlantic relations: The FDP supports expanding the relationship with the US, most notably in terms of free trade. The Free Democrats believe the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade deal could serve as the "rules for globalization."
Turkey: As long as Erdogan continues to preside over Turkey, the EU should end all accession talks, according to the Liberal Party. In principal, EU membership should still be an option for Turkey, depending on the development of its rule of law and its human rights record.
North Korea: While the Free Democrats have taken no official position on North Korea and its nuclear weapons program, the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, a liberal think-tank with close ties to the FDP, has voiced its support of economic sanctions, and also called on China to cut off oil exports to North.
NATO: The AfD views NATO negatively in its current form. The party believes NATO purposefully circumvents Russia on an array of security matters in Europe and the Middle East, calling for better relations with Moscow. Some AfD members have questioned Germany's membership in the military alliance.
Brexit and Transatlantic relations: The AfD is the only German party that supports the UK's decision to leave the EU known as "Brexit." The AfD does not support Germany's relations with the US outright. The party rejected free trade agreements negotiated by the EU, such as the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. However, it views US President Donald Trump as a like-minded populist.
Turkey: The euroskeptic party is against Turkish membership. The AfD also wants to scrap the EU's migrant deal with Turkey and has called on Europe to monitor its own borders.
North Korea: The AfD believes that UN sanctions imposed on the North have so far shown to be effective. However, the Security Council should do all it can to continue stepping up economic pressure on the rogue state, according to the party. It also wants to see the US coordinate its North Korea policy with China and Russia. | 2019-04-23T18:10:15 | https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-where-do-political-parties-stand-on-foreign-policy-and-security/a-40501361 |
0.999888 | It fought on a pro-Brexit manifesto.
The most high-profile institution with jurisdiction would seem to be the International Court of Justice which regulates treaties.
But there are big and significant differences in tone too.
"We spoke about the very important need for both governments to be impartial actors when it comes to Northern Ireland and that we are co-guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement and that any agreement that may exist between the Conservatives and the DUP should not in any way impact on the Good Friday Agreement", he said.
"The deal she is brokering with the DUP party could include that the United Kingdom would not be required to stay in the European Union single market, which means that she is trying to establish a stronger position in a relative perspective before she ignites the negotiation process next week".
Both the government and the DUP have refused to implement key agreements on language and equality rights and dealing with the legacy of the past.
"It takes two to tango and we're ready to dance", she said. But the party hasn't set out a clear position on continued membership of the customs union, which is probably needed to avoid tariffs, and she didn't elaborate in Dublin on Friday after meeting Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. She criticised the dissent from the opposition parties claiming that "division in Westminster will risk our ability to make a success of Brexit".
Two groups of people who overwhelmingly supported Remain - Londoners and students - also voted heavily for Jeremy Corbyn in this election.
Would this have been part of their negotiations with Theresa May in Downing Street? Labour also picked up big chunks of the collapsing UKIP vote across the country, which broke nearly evenly for Labour and Conservative in many seats.
There will be pressure for a softer Brexit.
During his day in Belfast, he will meet Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire and will also hold meetings with the five main Stormont parties.
In fact, the current DUP leader Arlene Foster even contacted the Scottish Government to oppose the promotion of equal marriage rights in Scotland.
The pair shared a phone call on Thursday.
On Monday, Mr Coveney said: "As the representative of the Irish Government at the talks, I will do my utmost to support the parties in reaching an agreement which ensures that the integrity of the Good Friday Agreement is fully protected, that all of its institutions function effectively and fairly and that previous agreements are honourably implemented".
Can the Brexit talks go ahead? The government has neither the time nor is it properly prepared to start negotiations on Brexit. But obstacles have now appeared.
With her predecessor David Cameron having resigned after his Brexit referendum defeat past year, Theresa May's days as British Prime Minister are probably numbered too as it is unlikely the Tories will want her leading them into the next general election. Despite her firm, immediate declaration that she was not resigning, her position remains in question.
It is expected that an informal coalition agreement will be signed today between the Conservatives and the DUP bringing this loose arrangement government into being.
Theresa May still has to demonstrate that her government has the confidence of Parliament and can pass bills. Just one of the many unforeseen consequences of the 2017 general election. | 2019-04-20T05:27:36 | http://expressnewsline.com/2017/06/20/northern-irelands-dup-says-talks-with-conservatives-to.html |
0.959292 | Is it possible to send superluminal messages using quantum entanglement? There’s a good body of work that says: “no”. But like most rules, these were made to be side-stepped.
Although such communication is prohibited in the [no communication theorem], some argue that superluminal communication could be achieved via quantum entanglement using other methods that don’t rely on cloning a quantum system. One suggested method would use an ensemble of entangled particles to transmit information, similar to a type of quantum eraser experiments.
Birgit Dopfer, a student of Anton Zeilinger’s, has performed an experiment which seems to make possible superluminal communication through an unexpected collective behavior of two beams of entangled photons, one of which passes through a double-slit, utilising the creation of a distance interference pattern as bit 0 and the lack of a distance interference pattern as bit 1 (or vice versa), without any other classical channel. Since it is a collective and probabilistic phenomenon, no quantum information about the single particles is cloned and, accordingly, the no cloning theorem remains inviolate.
Physicist John G. Cramer at the University of Washington is attempting to replicate Dopfer’s experiment and demonstrate whether or not it can produce superluminal communication.
I’m always glad that people are working on mind-bending science. In this case, there’s an important point being left out: what does “instantaneous” mean?
The thing that makes people get all brain-melty about quantum entanglement is that it says, basically, two particles are described by a single wavefunction. Supposedly in QM, “making an observation” results in “collapsing the wavefunction”. So when you make an observation on what we shallowly think of as “one of the pair”, that’s actually an observation on the combined wavefunction, which causes the whole thing to collapse all at once: instantaneously, regardless of the spatial extent of the wavefunction. But right now, there’s no theory that integrates QM with relativity. So, on the mega-scale, we have relativity telling us all kinds of weird things about the nature of timelines with respect to different reference frames (i.e. how different observers observe time differently), but in QM the conception of TIME is actually classical. So in QM, now is just now; there’s no other math describing how it could be anything else. Thus, when you observe one particle and “collapse the wave function”, that happens “now”, which (in the absence of any further elaboration, in QM) means it happens simultaneously regardless of distance.
But the thing is, the lack of integration of QM with what we know from relativity about mega-scale behavior of time and simultaneity is a gap in our understanding. It means that we actually don’t have the theoretical tools to make real scientific predictions about what would happen with entanglement over very long distances. In the absence of real scientific tools, we’re left with “simultaneous” which leads to “instantaneous”. But everyone is so obsessed with quantum weirdness these days that they’ve forgotten that relativity tells us that there is no such thing as an absolute chronological reference frame. Once you look at it like that, it becomes clear that instantaneous communication is impossible not because of some limitation on communication, but simply because relativity has already established that there is no way of defining what it would mean for two things to happen at the same time. In other words, we might want to think that we built a machine for instantaneous communication over long distances, but different observers in different reference frames would see different chronological relationships between the two sides of the communication device.
I just double-checked my understanding here by looking at the “time dilation” article on wikipedia, which refers to the “twin paradox” article. Also try “relativity of simultaneity”. Consider the simplest case, with no acceleration (so, inertial reference frames only; keeping us in the domain of Special Relativity). Two spaceships are zooming past each other in opposite directions, at constant speed. They both have accurate clocks which they will use to try to figure out whether their quantum entanglement communication is instantaneous or not. Also, I’m sitting still (i.e. each ship sees me moving at half the velocity of the other one; there is no such thing as “absolutely at rest”, there are only different relative inertial reference frames) right at the point where they will pass each other.
When they pass, we all look at each other and see that our clocks all read zero (we planned it like that). At that moment, I take the collection of entangled particles and give half of them to one ship and half of them to the other ship. So now the ships are ready to start their communications.
In each ship, when they look at the other ship, they see the clock running slowly. So, say that when the ship 1 clock reads 1 year, they send the “instantaneous” signal to ship 2. But what does that mean? Does that mean that Ship 2 receives the signal when their clock reads 1 year? From the reference frame of Ship 1, the clock on Ship 2 reads 1 year much later, because of time dilation. So Ship 1 has a clock that reads 1 year, and they send the “instantaneous” quantum message, and Ship 2 receives it when *their* clock reads 1 year. But ship 1 already took a look at Ship 2’s clock and saw that it was running at (say) half speed. That means that Ship 1 knows that the time when Ship 2’s clock reads 1 year, is actually 2 years out. So Ship 1 sends their signal, and then they would expect Ship 2 to receive it when Ship 2’s clock reads 1 year, which is actually when Ship 1’s clock reads 2 years. So that certainly doesn’t feel instantaneous to the people on Ship 1 who sent the message; it’s pretty useless, in fact.
Even worse, let’s say hypothetically that what we expect to happen is that Ship 1 sends a signal when Ship 1’s clock reads 1 year, and then they expect Ship 2 to receive it “instantaneously”, which means as far as Ship 1 is concerned, they expect Ship 2 to receive it when Ship 2’s clock reads whatever Ship 1 thinks it should be reading “right now”. Namely, 1/2 year. So now say Ship 2 receives the signal when their clock reads 1/2 year, and sends a return signal. Then, by the same logic, they expect Ship 1 to receive the return signal when Ship 1’s clock reads 1/4 year! And if you set each clock to “ping” mode, basically you get a convergent infinite series all the way back to zero.
We may or may not have a problem with the idea of information moving back in time, but that’s not what’s at issue here. The issue is that it’s clear that this also fails to be a useful “instantaneous” communication device.
Again, the problem is that the very nature of space-time itself is that there is NO SUCH THING as objective simultaneity over long distances. And in the absence of an integrated theory of relativistic quantum mechanics, we simply don’t know what we ought to expect to happen with the entangled wavefunction over space-travel-relevant distances.
Of course, it’s still an interesting question, even though we don’t know what’s “supposed” to happen, because we can postulate various possible options and consider what each one leads to. Having just gone through this just now, I’d say that I think the most likely option is the first one I described, at least for situations of special relativity. That means that it effectively works as if each entangled particle has its own internal clock, and that’s how they know when “the same time” is. That means that Ship 1 sends a message when their clock (and their particle’s imaginary internal clocks) reads 1 year, and Ship 2 receives it when their clock reads 1 year. What this means is that although the external observer (“me”, the way I set this up) sees the communication as instantaneous, each ship actually sees the communication taking a long time from their reference frames. So basically, this leads to a result where it never leads to anything other than an amusing curiosity where (just as with the experiments already being done) we can externally observe simultaneity, but it doesn’t do us any good when we try to get involved in it for communication purposes.
If we take this one step further, and try to figure out what happens in a more practical situation involving General Relativity, things get even weirder and less satisfying. Also I think the “particles internal clocks” heuristic breaks down.
Imagine we have home, which is an inertial reference frame (more or less), and then we build a very fast ship to colonize a distant planet. We synchronize our clocks and then the ship takes off on a round trip. When the ship gets back, their clocks only measure the passage of 1 year, but our clocks measure the passage of (say) 100 years. So say we know it takes them 1/2 year of their subjective time to reach the destination, but it takes 50 years of our subjective time. If we wait 50 years for them to reach the destination, and we send a signal, then if you use the “particles internal clocks” heuristic, then the ship doesn’t receive the signal until 99 years after the mission is over! That’s not very useful. On the other hand, using the same heuristic, if the ship sends a signal when they land at the destination, it will be received when the home clocks read 6 months, which is pretty exciting. It would be a really great “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” moment, but it would also be an absolutely one-way communication channel. If we tried to reply, they wouldn’t receive it for a very long time.
I actually suspect that the “internal clock” heuristic would break down under general relativity (i.e. the non-intertial-reference frame scenario described here) and something else would happen, but I have no idea what it would be. In any case, the point holds that space-time itself does not contain any way of defining what “instantaneous” means over long distances.
My point here is not that I think I can solve the problem of whether or not quantum entanglement allows “instantaneous” communication. My point here is merely that the word “instantaneous” doesn’t mean what ordinary usage thinks it means, on relativistic scales, and in fact there is no single correct way of interpreting that word, in the situations that we actually care about. Therefore, if we want to get anywhere in the discussion of “instantaneous communication”, we have to start by being scientifically precise about what we are considering. Relativity gives us the tools to be precise about space-time relationships over long distances; but the way it ends up working out is kind of unsatisfactory for the simple sci-fi “ainsible” idea we were hoping for, because there isn’t any possible definition of “instantaneous” that works out that way.
Postscript: some of you might be wondering why I’m blogging about this, when I’m supposed to be a psychologist researching the neuroscience of meditation. The short answer is that one of the main things that has caught my attention in the course of my graduate education up to now, is the problem of the psychology of scientists themselves. In particular, when scientists are and are not aware of the assumptions they are making. In this case since I am a recovering Caltech physicist I knew enough to recognize some important assumptions that seemed to mainly go unacknowledged, and wanted to write them out.
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This whole “collapsing the wave function” thingy is so remarkably silly I’m surprised anyone takes QM seriously. My gut tells me any (even a marginal one) GUT will have a ‘speed limit’ on the speed of the wave function collapse if that whole construct even survives the unification movement.
In my opinion, the “collapsing the wave function” bit seems weird because it is over-interpreted in popular science. Quantum mechanics gives equations that allow us to calculate probability distributions for observations; it doesn’t really say anything about the ontological process of going from the math to the observation. It does say that once you know where something is, your new set of propagating probability distributions is different than what it would have been if you didn’t know where it was. But what else would you expect?
It seems communication is only relevant on one’s own timeline, if I ask you a question and within moments I get you answer, then that is relevant to me. I want to feel you are standing next to me even if I am on earth and you are on mars. This is what we need to discover how to do, all the other is just mechanics.
Of course that’s what we want to do, my point is that it’s impossible, and not just because of some technological limitation that we might overcome with sufficient cleverness. It’s not just a matter of discovering how to control tachyons or whatever. The problem is that the statement of goal is itself meaningless because of the very nature of space and time itself. You’d have to throw ALL of relativity out the window for that to make sense at all, and that’s just not going to happen. | 2019-04-24T01:54:33 | https://davidmperlman.com/2014/07/23/quantum-entanglement-and-instantaneous-communication-exploring-our-own-assumptions/ |
0.999999 | TL;DR – Wolf Warriors 2 brings Chinese propaganda films into the 21st century, however, it fails in presenting a solid story and in the production of many of its effects.
Well wasn’t this an interesting film, Wolf Warriors 2 is a film creating buzz across the world, and has broken box office records in its home China, so today we’re going to have a look to see if Wolf Warriors II holds up. Now before we start, I do have to make it clear that I have not seen the first film in the series, so I may have missed some of the nuances, however, the film does a good job of giving you all of the basic reminders of what happened, elite soldiers, one sacrificed themselves for the team, and there was a love interest. Which brings us to the start of the film, so let’s dive into the world of Wolf Warriors II. Now to do this we will be breaking down the production elements of the film, and then we will be looking at the story, and finally examining themes at play. | 2019-04-19T10:46:07 | https://tldrmoviereviews.com/tag/frank-grillo/ |
0.999323 | How Big of a Risk Is Share-Based Compensation at Workday?
With a large portion of its compensation tied to equity awards, will Workday follow in the footsteps of LinkedIn?
Along with reporting GAAP profits, companies frequently report adjusted EBITDA or non-GAAP profits which adjust for share-based compensation. The difference between the two numbers can be extensive. For example, below is a look at GAAP and non-GAAP net income reported by some popular tech names in their most recent quarters.
If options aren't a form of compensation, what are they? If compensation isn't an expense, what is it? And, if expenses shouldn't go into the calculation of earnings, where in the world should they go?
Not only is share-based compensation often misrepresented by managers, it also triggers a risk that is overlooked by investors. If the price of the stock goes down, whether it is related to the company itself or the overall market, there is a higher chance of decreasing morale and higher attrition. Although any company with a large portion of its compensation tied to equity is susceptible to this risk, one that sticks out to me is Workday.
In its most recent fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2016, Workday's share-based compensation of nearly $250 million accounted for 22% of total revenue. To put that into perspective, share-based compensation at Salesforce and Oracle are 9% and 3%, respectively. Now, imagine how much of the workforce is not going to be happy if the stock price is cut in half.
In case the motivational speech wasn't enough, Weiner forfeited his $14 million annual bonus and gave it as a bonus to employees.
The importance of keeping employees happy is important at Workday and LinkedIn. Both companies stress the role of culture to the success of their respective businesses. In its 10-K, LinkedIn singles out its values and unique company culture as the foundation of its success. In Workday's annual report, the company mentions the failure of maintaining its company culture as a risk to its business.
Regardless of recent negativity surrounding LinkedIn and Workday, both companies still score well on Glassdoor. Of the LinkedIn employees who rated it on Glassdoor, 89% would recommend it to a friend and 98% rank its CEO favorably. In fact, Weiner was the 5th highest rated CEO of 2016. For Workday, 73% of employees would recommend the company to a friend while 94% approve of Bhusri.
What happens if the price drops?
Although it is pure speculation on my part, I believe one of the reasons LinkedIn sold itself to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) was because it was in danger of losing its highly valued employees. A price drop over 40% likely left many employee options worthless, especially the newer ones.
The company granted over 280,000 stock options during fiscal year 2015. The average price of those options was $259 per share. According to company filings, LinkedIn had 683,788 or 47% of all options outstanding that had a weighted exercise price over $170 per share. On the day of the announcement of the sale, LinkedIn shares popped 47% from $131 per share to over $192, bringing many of those options in the money.
Over the last 4 years, the amount of share-based compensation as a percentage of revenue at LinkedIn climbed from 9% to 17%. Workday is seeing a similar trajectory.
According to its most recent annual filing, the company did not grant any new stock options in its latest fiscal year. However, it did grant over 5 million restricted stock units which are priced at over $85 per share, which is near where it trades today. A 40% haircut in its share price may not necessarily mean Workday will need to find a buyer, but it will put a dent in the pocketbooks of its employees.
It's common practice in the Silicon Valley for tech companies to compensate employees with a combination of stock and stock options. While the practice often dilutes the equity ownership of the company, it also aligns the interests of employees and management with shareholders'. Additionally, cash is often needed to help grow the company. Profits are not expected over the short term so compensation in equity is a good way for these companies to recruit talent without paying high salaries. While not all shareholders are fans of share-based compensation, it is commonplace in many young companies and it does serve a purpose.
However, investors should not only keep a close eye on management's accounting treatment of options, but they should also be keen to how a drop in stock price can affect employee morale and turnover. | 2019-04-19T10:22:17 | https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/23/how-big-of-a-risk-is-share-based-compensation-at-w.aspx |
0.999984 | What are the top 5 lawn questions in Early Spring?
Q: When should I seed or over seed a lawn?
A: Grass seed will not germinate until soil temperatures warmup. In fact the best soil temperature for grass seed to germinate is just over +15c. Do not apply seed to early, grass seed will blow away and sometimes be eaten by birds. You can take the temperature of your soil by using a cooking thermometer - I use one we purchased at the Dollar Store.
Q: How do you control Crabgrass?
A: Crabgrass is an annual weed germinating from seed. Stop the seeds from germinating and you stop crabgrass. The best way to suppress weed seeds from germinating is to apply Scotts Weed Preventer with Corn Gluten in early spring. Corn Gluten coats weed seeds and prevents their germination. After application of Corn Gluten you cannot seed your lawn for 6 weeks. The key is the timing of application. Corn Gluten should be applied in early spring, when weed seeds are dormant and before plants are actively growing. If dandelions are flowering you are too late to apply corn gluten.
Q: How do you prevent lawn damage from Skunks, Raccoons and Moles.
A. Skunks, Racoons, Moles are tearing up your lawn in the search for grubs. Grubs are the larvae stage of June / Japanese Beetles and rodents love to eat them. Get rid of grubs, and you prevent rodents from damaging your lawn. The best way to control grubs naturally is using nematodes. Nematodes should be applied to your lawn in late Spring / Early Summer and can be purchased from your local garden centre.
Q: Should I put seed down or sod down?
A: Grass seed is best when: Topdressing and Over seeding a lawn to improve health. Grass is the most affordable way to start a lawn from scratch however you will get more weeds when starting from seed. Sod is best when you are fixing patches, have a small space or want immediate coverage. Often sod is your best option when putting a lawn on a slope. For small areas I always say sod is the best.
Q: I have brown spots on my lawn from my dog, what should I do?
A: Brown circular patches on your lawn are caused by generally female dogs acidic urine. Their pee, burns the grass. Some dietary changes can reduce the damage a dogs pee will have and supplements are available. To fix a dog spot, first rake the area to remove dead grass and loosen soil, secondly apply Scotts EZ Seed Dog Spot Repair Seeding Mix (http://bit.ly/2piLCap), finally keep moist to stimulate seed germination. Finally enjoy. The Dog Spot Seeding Mix contains Scotts best grass seed, plus gypsum to help repair areas in your lawn burned by dog urine. | 2019-04-24T12:23:59 | http://www.frankieflowers.com/lawns-early-spring-faqs |
0.999042 | 1）Put the flour, spices and lemon zest into a large bowl and mix together. Move the mixture to mixer. Then add the salt and yeast, placing them on opposite sides of the bowl.
Add the butter, carob syrup and milk to the dry ingredients. And mix well until the dough become soft and smooth.
2）Tip the dough out on to a lightly floured work surface. Knead by hand incorporating the sultanas and mixed peel into the dough. Knead with mixer for 10 minutes until silky and elastic and forming a smooth ball.
3）Oil a bowl and place the dough in a bowl, cover with cling film and leave to rest in a warm place for about 1½ hours or until doubled in size.
Optional*Knead the dough and proof it again for the second time for about 1 hour or doubled in size. (you can skip the second proofing if you do not have enough time). Double proofing give it a finer gluten structure, resulting in even softer bun.
4）Turn the dough out on to a floured surface and divide into 6 balls. Strecth the balls and fold inward.Line 1-2 baking trays with paper and place the balls on the tray.
Cover the tray with wet cloth. Leave for 40-60 minutes until the buns have doubled in size.
6）For the topping, add the flour to a bowl with water. Mix together to make a paste and spoon into the icing bag.
8）Dilute the honey,while the buns are still warm, brush the buns with honey water to give a nice shine, before setting aside to cool on a wire rack.
1）Put the flour, spices and lemon zest into a large bowl and mix together. Move the mixture to mixer,Then add the salt and yeast, placing them on opposite sides of the bowl.
Add the butter,carob syrup and milk to the dry ingredients. And mix well until the dough become soft and smooth. | 2019-04-24T16:26:22 | https://www.foreveryoung.com.sg/2019/04/12/carob-hot-cross-bun/ |
0.9987 | The move took many of Mr Trump's economic advisers by surprise: In the lead-up to the Argentina trip, a lot of them were said to believe that scrapping Nafta was off the table.
Trump had to submit the text of the agreement to Congress by Friday to set up a slim chance of passing implementation legislation for the deal before January, when Democrats will assume the House majority. Kester says the agreement brings the trading relationship with USA neighbors into the 21st-century. Crawford said the agreement should be for at least 10 years. Trump had been adamant that the tariffs were necessary to encourage investment in American companies.
The business world seems to be reacting favorably to the U.S. I understand the president said it's final. -China truce on tariffs, which the countries announced over the weekend at the G20 summit in Argentina, the Supply Chain Dive reports. Kudlow said China's vice premier, Liu He, had given him assurances that Beijing would begin making changes immediately to allow more US companies to sell products into China. "I think at the end of the day we'll get it passed".
On the plane ride back from the G20 summit, President Donald Trump said he would withdraw from NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which still governs business among Mexico, the USA and Canada despite the countries signing the USMCA deal at the summit, the New York Times reports. He cited concerns about a provision that might lead to the deal expiring, and new rules he said would limit Mexico's ability to sell cars and auto parts.
The agreement, if approved, would be for five years, but Crawford thinks that is a mistake.
Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of OH says the US needs to reopen discussions with Mexico and Canada on trade.
"As a result, I owe it to New Mexicans to apply the highest level of scrutiny to this agreement to make sure that our border communities won't suffer the consequences of the administration's flawed negotiations". Kevin Kester, President of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, says "U.S. beef producers are one step closer to "unrestricted, science-based trade continuing in North America".
The move comes as leaders in congress mull over the agreement, with neither Republicans nor Democrats happy with the new agreement. "Good, here's some things we can improve upon, '" said Hardcastle.
If the president follows through on his threat, congressional leaders will have six months to pass the measure. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Monday on the radio show "Adams on Agriculture". Much, much better than NAFTA.
"As it's now written, Trump's deal won't stop the serious and ongoing harm NAFTA causes for American workers".
Trump had vowed to revamp NAFTA during his 2016 presidential election campaign.
"No, I don't. The work's not done yet".
Like other Democrats, Pelosi praised Lighthizer for working with Democrats and updating them on the status of talks, a relationship that could prove crucial as votes near.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Friday called for a major rewrite of the deal signed in Argentina at the Group of 20 summit. The commission has up to 105 days, or by mid-March to complete a report.
The free-trade leanings of many Republican lawmakers will clearly bump up against their home-state demands. | 2019-04-23T18:03:09 | http://moviematics.com/2018/12/05/donald-trump-says-hell-terminate-nafta.html |
0.999999 | Did 'RHONY' star understand what de Lesseps was going through after filing with Thomas?
Ramona Singer may have said something about her "Real Housewives of New York" co-star Luann De Lesseps while filming the show, as she chose to marry Thomas D'Agostino after de Lesseps had caught him cheating. Ramona joked that the marriage was doomed from the beginning and that people were taking bets as to how long the marriage would last.
Of course, this wasn't a nice thing to say, but the reality is that the marriage may have been doomed from the beginning, as Thomas had been caught cheating on her before they went through with the wedding.
She had hoped for an everlasting love, and she was convinced she had found it, but it sounds like Thomas was looking to keep his bachelor lifestyle alive while dating Luann. He wanted it both ways, but she eventually pulled the plug on the marriage.
When Luann announced that she was filing for divorce from Thomas after just seven months of marriage, her co-stars may not have been all that surprised after all of the reports that had surfaced in the media about the relationship.
While Andy Cohen said he was completely shocked because of the way Luann was always gushing about her husband, it sounds like Ramona Singer was genuinely upset.
Ramona was sad and hurt to hear that Luann was pulling the plug. As Ramona explained to Bravo, she had never seen her friend so happy as when she was with Thomas. After learning about the news, she texted Luann to see if she was alright.
"We've texted each other. We've talked about how my heart is broken for her because I know when something ends, it's, it's horrible," Ramona recently revealed in an interview, adding, "And I know she had her heart and soul in this relationship."
Was it doomed from the beginning?
It is sad to see the marriage end, but many people expected it to happen sooner rather than later.
However, some fans expected it to happen after Thomas was caught cheating, not on a random Thursday out of the blue. One can imagine that there's more to the story and fans will probably learn all about it when "The Real Housewives of New York" returns next season.
Luann had chosen to file for divorce after she had filmed "The Real Housewives of New York" reunion special, which means that Andy Cohen cannot ask her any questions about the divorce. Instead, fans should expect her to defend her marriage and talk about how happy she is.
What do you think about Ramona Singer speaking out about her friend's divorce decision? Are you surprised that she's supportive of Luann? | 2019-04-18T22:36:56 | https://us.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2017/08/ramona-singer-tried-to-offer-advice-to-luann-after-divorce-news-001932461.html |
0.999105 | T010-1201-X111/01 T010-1201-X111/04 T010-1201-X871/01 touch screen size: inch. and other general size is 3.0'' to 22'' . T010-1201-X111/01 T010-1201-X111/04 T010-1201-X871/01 touchscreen adopt to panel display device. T010-1201-X111/01 T010-1201-X111/04 T010-1201-X871/01 touch panel touch times are more than 1 million touches. T010-1201-X111/01 T010-1201-X111/04 T010-1201-X871/01 touch screen monitor Current: 5mA~25mA, T010-1201-X111/01 T010-1201-X111/04 T010-1201-X871/01 HMI touch screen temperature operating range: -10° C ~ 60° C, T010-1201-X111/01 T010-1201-X111/04 T010-1201-X871/01 MMI touch screen Operation Voltage : Typical +DC 5V. T010-1201-X111/01 T010-1201-X111/04 T010-1201-X871/01 touch membrane operation system including: Linux / DOS / Windows ME/95/98 / NT4.0/XP/2000/Mac OS etc. | 2019-04-26T14:53:55 | https://m.vicpas.com/pid18175979/T010-1201-X111-01-T010-1201-X111-04-T010-1201-X871-01-Touch-Screen-Panel-Glass-Repair.htm |
0.999786 | Funds will go towards the construction of a root washer so the farm can increase production of carrots, beets, celeriac and potatoes and grow their small business. Christine on 29 September I know the ruler doesn't lie, but my brain just doesn't want to believe it.
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0.998497 | Rice & Noodle dish is a fun combination of ingredients all in one happy little side dish or main dish. This is quick and easy to throw together, pop in the oven, and wait. It is pretty "brown" and could use some perking up in the color department. I told my husband some green onions may have been nice on the top. We also talked about this as a main dish and what would take it to the next level. The consensus was maybe some shrimp and onions, then it would be similar to a fried rice.
There is onion soup in it which adds some nice taste but the actual onions would add more texture. The water chestnuts give it a good crunch though. I would chop them up next time at least in half although I do like the presentation of the slices. Another option could be to up the amount of rice in the recipe and take out the noodles then add some peas, green beans, or carrots, then it would be more reminiscent of an easy to throw together ahead of time "fried rice". If I tried this every way I thought of I would never get to post the recipe. I will be making this again though and I'll post about it if it's that much different.
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 2-quart dish or a 9"x13" baking dish.
2. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Brown the egg noodles in the butter.
3. In a large bowl combine the egg noodles, brown rice, onion soup mix, vegetable broth, water chestnuts, and soy sauce.
4. Mix well, pour into prepared dish.
5. Bake for about 45 minutes or until brown and crispy on the top and the liquid has been absorbed. | 2019-04-19T21:25:14 | http://www.searchingfordessert.com/2011/11/meatless-mondays-rice-noodle-dish.html |
0.999984 | New Delhi: Union minister Farooq Abdullah today denied describing the people of his Jammu and Kashmir state as 'mahachors (biggest thieves)' of electricity. A newspaper report on the alleged comment has angered political parties in the state but the minister claims he was misquoted. 'I had never said that Kashmiris are mahachors,' Mr Abdullah told reporters. 'There is a lot of pilferage of power. Many of our people are stealing electricity. But I never said anything about Kashmiris being thieves.' The opposition today shouted slogans in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly and demanded an apology from Mr Abdullah, leader of the ruling National Conference and father of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The protesting lawmakers waved copies of a newspaper report that had quoted the senior Mr Abdullah as saying, 'Kashmiri chor nahi, mahachor hai' (Kashmiris are not just thieves but the biggest thieves). He reportedly said this while releasing a report related to his New and Renewable Energy department that described Jammu and Kashmir as a 'non-performer'. Accusing the newspaper of trying to plant confusion in the minds of people, Mr Abdullah said, 'I had said that it is unfortunate that we buy power for nearly 2-3 thousand crores, but we are not able to get that money back because there is a lot of pilferage of power. Many of our people are stealing power.' In the assembly, minister Ali Mohammad Sagar defended Mr Abdullah saying he never meant to deride all Kashmiris. 'He only meant the junior staff is instrumental in power theft,' Mr Sagar said, but failed to silence the PDP-led opposition. 'He has insulted all the people of Kashmir. He must apologise,' said PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti. | 2019-04-21T00:28:54 | http://jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2014/kashmir20140303b.html |
0.998391 | Whatever happened to those signal-blocking, drone-disabling thingame whatits which were supposed to be able to be aimed at a drone and take-over radio control command of them? If it wasn't fake news, then why don't airports have such things, ready to go?
1. they're illegal in most countries -- even for the government to use. Radio Spectrum regulations are quite strict and apply to *everyone*. It is an offense to deliberately interfere with another system using an ISM band (as drones generally do).
2. they don't tend to work very well (the inverse square law and the fact that drones use spread-spectrum technologies that were designed to be difficult to jam really work against these things.
3. many modern drones can be programmed to fly autonomously through a set of pre-determined waypoints and thus require no radio link to the ground-station in order to fly.
4. most of these systems are simply a fantastic way for tech companies to separate gullible customers from the huge amounts of money they charge for these things.
Hell, if they weren't so "not invented/thought-of here" in their attitudes, they could have had dozens of such "killer drones" stationed around the perimeter at Gatwick within hours of the problem starting. Mind you, that always assumes that there *was* a drone at Gatwick and that this wasn't just a cover for something more sinister (perhaps a terror threat) or just a case of public hysteria driven by the media). | 2019-04-20T18:40:29 | http://forums.aardvark.co.nz/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1738&start=10 |
0.999283 | What Is It About A-List Astrologist Susan Miller?
The fashion industry is obsessed with astrologist-to-the-fashionistas Susan Miller, according to New York Magazine, which calls her an "elite astrologer," and many of my friends, who have been gushing about her star charts for ages. What's it all about?
Miller is like any niche celebrity, in that if you've heard about her before now, you're probably a fan. She's an astrologer whose website, AstrologyZone, attracts 6 million visitors per month with free horoscopes. She's published nine books, presented at the Apple Store in Soho, and has columns in ten international fashion magazines, including Elle. The fashion world is Miller's specialty. She collaborates with brands (suggesting colors for Calypso St. Barth sweaters, doing in-store classes at Furla) and counts designers, stylists, and editors among her most ardent devotees. An anecdote I heard from Emily Barnes, a stylist, characterizes it well: "I discovered her when I was shooting a campaign for Bloomingdale's in New York. It was the first of the month, when Susan puts her horoscopes up, and the studio literally didn't start shooting until everyone had read their Susan Miller." At parties hosted by publicist Kelly Cutrone, an attendee told me, "the best seat in the house is always the seat closest to Susan." When Cynthia Rowley learned that her friend the fashion designer Chrissie Miller is Susan's daughter, she flipped. "I could have died. It was like hearing ‘Meryl Streep is my mom.' "
People really take her seriously, from Rihanna's stylist to the LA-based culture writer at a fashion website who told us an unbelievable anecdote that highlights how fervent Miller's acolytes are. "When I was offered my current job, Mercury was in retrograde, and I told my potential future bosses that I probably should wait to commit," she recounted. "And they didn't even ask why. One of them said: Susan Miller? And I said: Yep. And she said: Of course."
The writer added that her popularity is no mystery; women have always passed along the names of the best waxer, the best facialist, the best dentist, and so on. "If you're into astrology and someone with taste says, Here is the person I trust, you trust them."
A Manhattan-based fashion editor who says her colleagues are obsessed with Miller had some other ideas. "Most astrologers are terrible writers," she said. "Susan is the most literate, and writes the most, and writes about the things that matter most to working women in New York City: money, love, signing contracts, etc." She also thinks Susan's technical rhetoric appeals to Type-A women. "Reading her stuff and learning how to understand those star charts is a hobby," she explained.
Of course, I couldn't help but check my horoscope after reading this. Virgos: "Turning to your work life, you have quite an exciting month. It appears a very new assignment is coming in, and because it will be brought to you by planets in Aquarius, it seems that this assignment will be a jewel in your crown." OMG, Susan Miller totally knew I was going to write about her. | 2019-04-19T07:17:59 | https://jezebel.com/what-is-it-about-a-list-astrologist-susan-miller-5984046 |
0.996525 | An exponential function of the form f(x) = bx has base b, where b is a real number, b > 0, and b ≠ 1.
An exponential growth function is an exponential function where b > 1. The graph of an exponential growth function increases when moving from left to right.
Examples of exponential growth functions are population growth and compound interest earned on money invested.
• Each graph increases when moving from left to right (because b > 1).
• Both graphs intersect the y-axis at (0, 1).
• When x < 0, the graph of the function with the smaller base, y = 2x, lies above the graph of the function with the larger base, y = 3x.
• When x > 0, the graph of the function with the smaller base, y = 2x, lies below the graph of the function with the larger base, y = 3x.
• Each graph passes the vertical and horizontal line tests. Therefore, each graph represents a one-to-one function.
• The domain of each function is all real numbers.
• The range of each function is all positive real numbers. | 2019-04-19T17:25:09 | https://mathisradical.com/exponential-growth.html |
0.999026 | "Part Of The Plain," Dan Fogelberg originally "Part Of The Plan"
"Party Of The Plan," Dan Fogelberg originally "Part Of The Plan"
"Part Of The Plant," Dan Fogelberg originally "Part Of The Plan"
"Party Of Your World," Jodi Benson originally "Part Of Your World"
"Part Off Your World," Jodi Benson originally "Part Of Your World"
"Part Time Clover," Stevie Wonder originally "Part Time Lover"
"Party Time Lover," Stevie Wonder originally "Part Time Lover"
"The Partying Glass," The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem originally "The Parting Glass"
"Parting Sways," Pearl Jam originally "Parting Ways"
"Partying Ways," Pearl Jam originally "Parting Ways"
"Partly," Van McCoy originally "Party"
"Parity," Van McCoy originally "Party"
"Parity All The Time," Eddie Murphy originally "Party All The Time"
"Party Ate Ground Zero," Fishbone originally "Party At Ground Zero"
"Partly At Ground Zero," Fishbone originally "Party At Ground Zero"
"Parity At Ground Zero," Fishbone originally "Party At Ground Zero"
"Party Crowed," David Lee Murphy originally "Party Crowd"
"Party Dolly," Buddy Knox originally "Party Doll"
"Partly Doll," Buddy Knox originally "Party Doll"
"Party Droll," Buddy Knox originally "Party Doll"
"Party Drown," Reel Big Fish originally "Party Down"
"Partly Down," Reel Big Fish originally "Party Down"
"Partly Hard," Andrew W.K. originally "Party Hard"
"Party Heard," Andrew W.K. originally "Party Hard"
What did the party hear?
"Parity Hard," Andrew W.K. originally "Party Hard"
Achieving parity is often hard.
"Partly In My Head," Sophie Ellis-Bextor originally "Party In My Head"
"Partly In My Pants," Romanowski originally "Party In My Pants"
"Party In My Paints," Romanowski originally "Party In My Pants"
"Party In My Plants," Romanowski originally "Party In My Pants"
"Parity In The USA," Miley Cyrus originally "Party In The USA"
"Partly In The USA," Miley Cyrus originally "Party In The USA"
"Party Flights," Claudine Clark originally "Party Lights"
"Party Plights," Claudine Clark originally "Party Lights"
"Partly Lights," Claudine Clark originally "Party Lights"
"Party Blights," Claudine Clark originally "Party Lights"
"Partly Like A Rockstar," Shop Boyz originally "Party Like A Rockstar"
"The Party Liner," Belle And Sebastian originally "The Party Line"
"The Parity Line," Belle And Sebastian originally "The Party Line"
"Party Marker," Perfume originally "Party Maker"
"Party Masker," Perfume originally "Party Maker"
"Parity Maker," Perfume originally "Party Maker"
"Partly Music," Pat Lundi originally "Party Music"
"Parity Music," Pat Lundi originally "Party Music"
"Parity On The Moon," Vanessa Hudgens originally "Party On The Moon"
"Partly On The Moon," Vanessa Hudgens originally "Party On The Moon"
"Parity Out Of Bounds," The B-52's originally "Party Out Of Bounds"
"Partly Out Of Bounds," The B-52's originally "Party Out Of Bounds"
"Party Right Where," Dazz Band originally "Party Right Here"
"Party Fright Here," Dazz Band originally "Party Right Here"
Was it a Halloween party?
"Party Right There," Dazz Band originally "Party Right Here"
"Party Bright Here," Dazz Band originally "Party Right Here"
"Parity Right Here," Dazz Band originally "Party Right Here"
"Partly Rock Anthem," LMFAO originally "Party Rock Anthem"
And partly what else besides rock?
"Parity Rock Anthem," LMFAO originally "Party Rock Anthem"
"Party Frock Anthem," LMFAO originally "Party Rock Anthem"
"Party Crock Anthem," LMFAO originally "Party Rock Anthem"
"Party Timer," Damian Marley originally "Party Time"
"Partly Time," Damian Marley originally "Party Time"
And partly not time (for something)? How is that?
"Parity Time," Damian Marley originally "Party Time"
"Parity Train," The Gap Band originally "Party Train"
"Partly Your Body," Stevie B originally "Party Your Body"
"Pass Men By," Peggy Lee originally "Pass Me By"
"Pass Moe By," Peggy Lee originally "Pass Me By"
"Pass Mel By," Peggy Lee originally "Pass Me By"
"Pass Mae By," Peggy Lee originally "Pass Me By"
"Pass Meg By," Peggy Lee originally "Pass Me By"
"Patchers," Dickey Lee originally "Patches"
"Patti Anne," Johnny Crawford originally "Patti Ann"
"Paul Stanley Was Ax Lady," Toilet Boys originally "Paul Stanley Was A Lady"
"Paul Stanley Wash A Lady," Toilet Boys originally "Paul Stanley Was A Lady"
"Paula Stanley Was A Lady," Toilet Boys originally "Paul Stanley Was A Lady"
"Prawn Shop," Sublime originally "Pawn Shop"
A prawn is a shrimp-like crustacean.
"Play Back," Etta James originally "Pay Back"
"Pray It," Jeannie Ortega originally "Pay It"
"Play It," Jeannie Ortega originally "Pay It"
"Pay Mel," Usher originally "Pay Me"
"Pay Men," Usher originally "Pay Me"
"Pay Moe," Usher originally "Pay Me"
"Pay Mae," Usher originally "Pay Me"
"Play Me," Usher originally "Pay Me"
"Pay Meg," Usher originally "Pay Me"
"Peace At Least," Roger Daltrey originally "Peace At Last"
"Peace At Blast," Roger Daltrey originally "Peace At Last"
"Peace In Our Timer," Eddie Money originally "Peace In Our Time"
"Peace In Your Time," Eddie Money originally "Peace In Our Time"
"Peace Of Mindy," Boston originally "Peace Of Mind"
"Peace Spells," Ill Bill originally "Peace Sells"
Say a spell and bring peace? ...'Twould be nice!
"Peace Shells," Ill Bill originally "Peace Sells"
"Peace Smells," Ill Bill originally "Peace Sells"
Hopefully in sense of a good smell!
"Peace Swells," Ill Bill originally "Peace Sells"
"Preach," The Front Bottoms originally "Peach"
"Peachy," The Front Bottoms originally "Peach"
"Peach, Plume, Pear," Joanna Newsom originally "Peach, Plum, Pear"
Last name does not have an 'E' on the end!
"Preaches," Presidents Of The United States Of America originally "Peaches"
"Peaches And Scream," 112 originally "Peaches And Cream"
"Peanut Manx," Tim Buckley originally "Peanut Man"
"Peanut Mane," Tim Buckley originally "Peanut Man"
"Pearle Necklace," ZZ Top originally "Pearl Necklace"
"Peaks 'N' Rice," Freddie McCoy originally "Peas 'N' Rice" | 2019-04-23T01:56:44 | http://www.amiright.com/names/addletter/p_1.shtml |
0.98394 | What processes can you safely stop in Activity Monitor on a Mac?
Home / Tips and Tricks / What processes can you safely stop in Activity Monitor on a Mac?
Who are all these users?
First, you should check who owns the process. Processes in macOS (and any other Unix-like operating system, including Linux) own owners, which associate each process with the user account that started the process. While you recognize your user account, there are many other users on your computer, most of which are managed by the system.
Macs have due to the How many permissions exist in macOS so many user accounts, and each user has specific permissions. For example, _dock would have permission to access files related to the dock, not much else. This will keep your system safer by keeping the low-level system processes in their own containers.
It is probably safe to have all the processes under your system User account names because most of them are automatically restarted when needed. However, you should not be too insane and close everything to save system performance because most processes on your computer are idle. It's much better to leave them where they are needed rather than spending extra resources to reopen.
Some of these programs, such as: Google Chrome, for example, uses help processes to improve performance. You should quit apps like Chrome by using the Force Quit menu rather than the Activity Monitor.
The icons you should look out for are one white sheet with a pencil, a brush and a ruler in the form of an "A". or a sign.
The first is the default icon for an app without an app. This may mean that it is a background process that does not require an icon for the user. The latter is a symbol specific to Apple user-level processes such as Siri, Finder, and the Dock.
Here's an example: ckb-next is a third-party driver for my Corsair USB mouse, so I know that the root-run ckb-next-daemon is a helper process for this app. If I closed it, my mouse would stop working. If you see something running as root, closing may be safe, but most of the processes in this category are system features that you should not touch.
The View menu in the top menu bar lets you change which processes are displayed. You can choose to show only processes with windows displaying the same list as in the Force Quit menu. You can also see processes that have been started by you, by the system, and by those that are active or inactive.
The useful part of these filter views is that you can also sort by% CPU. For example, you can view the longest-running system processes by selecting "System Processes" as the filter and "CPU Time" as the sort.
Whatever you want to stop, you can not really hurt your Mac. Any damage can be resolved by a simple reboot. In fact, the best way to clean up the process list is to reboot your computer, which eliminates a few unnecessary things. Find apps that start right away and uninstall those you no longer need. | 2019-04-26T02:27:31 | https://howtotechglitz.com/what-processes-can-you-safely-stop-in-activity-monitor-on-a-mac/ |
0.998564 | I have written a script to rotate the camera with respect the gyro. As well as when panned using touch.
When I pan using touch the camera rotates perfectly but it doesn't stay there. I've been staring at this code from the past two days wasn't able to crack it. Is there anyone out there who can?
The easiest way is to place camera controlled by gyro under the empty gameobject and rotate that empty gameobject with touch input.
It can be done using one script to turn the camera using touch, and another script to turn the camera using the gyroscope. | 2019-04-21T04:20:51 | https://answers.unity.com/questions/1402316/how-do-i-use-both-touch-and-gyro-to-transform-rota.html |
0.999982 | Microsoft has been notably absent from the big tech migration to the streaming space, leading one analyst to make a bold prediction. Is he right?
When Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) introduced streaming just over a decade ago, it would have been difficult to predict the resulting changes in the media landscape. The company still dominates the industry it pioneered, but a number of well-heeled competitors have made moves to stake a claim in this new paradigm.
Amazon is the company's largest competitor in the streaming video space, though it still falls a distant second. Alphabet's YouTube has taken a different path, offering a mix of music and video selections. Apple has also thrown its hat in the ring, adding programs to its Apple Music service, with plans to ramp that up in the coming year, reportedly planning to spend $1 billion on content. Even Facebook is getting into the game with the Watch feature, introduced last year.
One company notably absent from this Who's Who of tech giants is Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), leading one analyst to predict that the company will make a bid to acquire Netflix in a bold move to enter the burgeoning streaming segment.
Analysts love to wonder about the next megadeal, and Netflix has frequently been the target of such speculation. In the most recent round of conjecture about massive tie-ups, Porter Bibb, managing partner at Mediatech Capital Partners said of the streaming video space, "Things are moving faster than anyone would have ever imagined."
Bibb has 40 years' experience working in media and entertainment, so he knows a thing or two about the industry. He posited that Microsoft would like to be a contender in streaming video but currently lacks the necessary media content. He believes those shortcomings will result in a merger between the two companies -- a marriage that will be announced at some point in the next two years.
"They don't have any direct to the consumer content delivery," Bibb told CNBC's "Squawk Box." "I think Netflix is going to be acquired by Microsoft, which doesn't have any content right now."
Bibb thinks Microsoft is currently laser-focused on its Azure cloud-computing segment, and those efforts have resulted in the company being one of the largest players in the industry, second only to Amazon -- which pioneered the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service business. It has, however, distracted Microsoft from the massive adoption of online viewing.
It's important to note that there's ample precedent for Microsoft using its massive war chest to acquire technology it desires -- like artificial intelligence -- or spend to fill a hole in its corporate strategy. The company has made hundreds of such deals over the years, but the two most high-profile acquisitions are likely internet phone service Skype and business social network LinkedIn.
While there's certainly potential for this type of deal to come to fruition, the biggest obstacle would likely be the price tag. Netflix recently became the world's most valuable media company, with a market cap of over $152 billion. Add to that the significant premium that shareholders would almost certainly require to approve any buyout, and the price tag quickly exceeds $200 billion -- and that's if Netflix was inclined to be acquired at all.
I suspect that the cost alone will be enough to dissuade Microsoft from such a purchase. Anything's possible, but I think it's highly unlikely. | 2019-04-24T12:18:57 | https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/03/will-microsoft-buy-netflix.aspx |
0.999943 | Sulphur? I hardly know her!
This got me thinking: I wonder how bad sulphur inhalation is for a person? Sulphur in and of itself is not toxic, and in fact is required for life, but products such as sulphur dioxide can cause problems, especially neurological and metabolic issues. Presumably, sulphur is also incorporated into the remodelling human body the way that C, N, and Sr are. So if a person worked in a fullonica, would he have had more exposure to sulphur and thus higher levels of it in his bones?
I can't seem to find a lot of information online about either isotopic or trace element analysis of sulphur in an archaeological (bone) context. It's all about petroleum and fish and stuff. I think I'm looking into trace elements rather than isotopes, as I think the isotopes would help me identify if someone was an immigrant (sulphur being concentrated more in volcanic areas like Rome). But since it's trace element analysis that can help prove Pb poisoning, perhaps it can also prove S poisoning? There's a lot about anthropogenic Pb and how to test for it (which would be pointless in Rome, as they used lead to line their aqueduct pipes, in ceramic production, and even flavored wine with it!), but I can't find much on anthropogenic sulphur. I wish I had a chemist friend... or even an archaeological trace element analysis friend... someone to tell me if this is an avenue worth pursuing or not.
Sulfur Dioxide reacts with water to form Sulfurous acid (H2SO3), so when a person breathes it in, it would become acidic in their membranes and lungs. I'm not sure how the body gets rid of it, but it might react with your blood's buffering compounds and excreted, or some sort of sulfur salt could be formed, much like anthracosis in smokers.
I've never read anything in the paleopath lit, but I wonder if looking towards Greece and the oracles, who were thought to have breathed in sulfur fumes to make predictions, would help? | 2019-04-25T22:46:38 | https://www.poweredbyosteons.org/2008/11/sulphur-i-hardly-know-her.html |
0.99959 | The biggest issue in Kong: Skull Island is its set of painfully generic characters. Randa and Packard seem to have the only depth in the film. By that, I mean, they have background and purpose. They are fueled by something. The rest of the cast is made up of an obviously 'charismatic,' extremely skilled tracker; a self-righteous, "funny" female photographer; a Chinese character, San Lin, who seems to have only been shoved into the plot because the film was co-produced by a Chinese studio; and many other cardboard cutouts. I mean, San Lin probably only has five or so lines of dialogue throughout the entire movie. She probably speaks more during the after-credits scene than the rest of the film. Some of these characters also make some stupid choices, but that's not as big of an issue.
Kong: Skull Island works as a blockbuster, though. It is a great monster movie. I haven't seen Peter Jackson's King Kong in years, but I think this might be on par with that film, although this one is far more focused on action. In terms of action, you get plenty of shootouts, explosions, chase scenes, and big monster-vs-monster brawls. It's exciting stuff, really. There is also a fantastic sense of discovery in the film. It has a sense of wonder—for want of a better term. The monster-vs-monster fights also have an intimidating sense of scale, too. It's tight, it's fast, and it's strong.
The acting was good, too, despite the generic characters. Tom Hiddleston performed well as the leading man. John Goodman and Samuel L. Jackson were also a lot of fun. Yes, even Jing Tian, who plays San Lin, performed well. Brie Larson was a little over-emotive at times, but she was good. John C. Reilly injected a lot of fun into the movie. The music was good. The film was shot beautifully. I loved the use of color. The special effects were spectacular. The screenplay was written by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, and Derek Connolly while John Vogt-Roberts directed. The writing could have used some fine-tuning, especially in terms of character, but it was otherwise fine. I suppose some more originality could have helped, too. Vogt-Roberts was great as director. He clearly had a strong, stylish vision and he delivered.
Overall, Kong: Skull Island was a great experience. I had some issues with the characters, I just wish they had more personality, but it was otherwise a lot of fun. If you're looking for an exciting blockbuster, something that's not about superheroes, this is for you. | 2019-04-24T18:24:26 | http://www.cinematicaddiction.com/2017/07/film-reviewkong-skull-island-2017.html |
0.998392 | 10-29-2009, 07:12 AM #4 DCrake Administrator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Burnley, Lancashire Posts: 8,634 Import all the objects from the old db to the new one.
Do all of you columns have a header? Password Register FAQ Community Top Posters Today's Posts Search Community Links Social Groups Pictures & Albums Members List Calendar Search Forums Show Threads Show Posts Tag Search Advanced Search Find up vote 1 down vote favorite Consider this Access query: SELECT prod_Parts.ID, prod_Parts.Number, prod_Parts.Revision, prod_Parts.Description FROM prod_JT_Shipping INNER JOIN (prod_JobTraveller INNER JOIN prod_Parts ON prod_JobTraveller.PartID = prod_Parts.ID) ON prod_JT_Shipping.JT_ID=prod_JobTraveller.ID; Also this: I even played about with getting the schema of the workbook and working through that, but didn't succeed.
Problem fixed. So although I can still open Access 2000 DBs with the new Access 2007, the import of Excel files requires that I convert the Access 2000 DB to Access 2007. If a file is in a previous version format, there is no guarantee it will be able to import files from a newer version and in this case it would be Member Login Remember Me Forgot your password?
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Make sure it does not contain invalid characters or punctuation and that it is not too long.Ocouldn't open the query and look at it, so I thought I'd just recreate it. I get the same error message. HiTechCoachView Member Profile Nov 10 2011, 04:10 PM Post#9UtterAccess VIPPosts: 18,903Joined: 29-September 03From: Oklahoma City, OklahomaOoooh ... Yes, my password is: Forgot your password?
A Knight or a Knave stood at a fork in the road Why doesn't the compiler report a missing semicolon? The value is the same as the error message.I haven't done a decompile yet, because the problem comes from the linked table.BTW, The Linked Tables wizard runs without any hitch at Queries would run fine, everything appears linked correct, but get the " is not a valid name when trying to go into design view. What is a share?
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If it goes out further, delete all the blanks columns between that column and the end of your data, save, and try again. wiley, Jul 8, 2008 #10 Elaine Guest I ran across this same exact error. Thread Tools Rating: Display Modes 10-29-2009, 06:30 AM #1 jagarcia Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Carrollton, TX Posts: 10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Make sure that it does not include invalid characters or..." error hi, i keep on getting this message: "is not a valid name.
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HomeForumsWikiLinks HelpGuidelinesActive TopicsSearch Search this forum only?More Search Options [X]My Assistant Loading. Posted by Support on Jun 1, 2011 0 WordPress: Disable all plugi... It is not the file spelling as it happens with any file name I try to import. Every week I run this import with a new weekly Excel file and have never seen this error before. | 2019-04-21T20:22:47 | http://www.sceneadvisor.com/California/ms-access-error-is-not-a-valid-name.html |
0.999869 | After pressure from House Democratic leadership, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is apologizing for using what critics call "anti-Semitic tropes" in a tweet she sent out over the weekend criticizing an American organization that supports Israel.
Ungar-Sargon's tweet was a direct response to California Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's calls to reprimand Omar for her continued displays of antisemitism.
"But Congresswoman Omar's use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel's supporters is deeply offensive", it added.
Starnes noted the "bipartisan outrage" following Omar's criticism of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), including from former first daughter Chelsea Clinton.
Most alarmingly, Omar's comments on Sunday were neither a surprise nor an unexpected gaffe by the Minnesota congresswoman, but part of Omar's long and calculated opposition to Israel and Jewish people worldwide.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads a group of top Democrats calling on Omar to apologize.
King asked Northam whether he owned the distinctive plaid trousers worn by the person in blackface in the photo in his yearbook. Northam may try to appoint a Democrat, while Republicans could mount a legal challenge with the goal of having Sen.
Lebanese-American Congresswoman Donna Shalala also condemned Ms Omar's rhetoric.
Breitbart News reported ZOA President Morton Klein said in a statement Monday: "These tweets below from Rep. Ilhan Omar, along with several comments that she has made over the years are pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism". In Nov. 2012, Omar tweeted about the alleged "evil doings of Israel" saying "Israel has hypnotized the world".
Generally speaking, Americans tend to be pro-Israel thanks to acute and widespread awareness of the Holocaust and of Jewish statelessness as one of the principal reasons the Holocaust occurred (you could contrast this, by the way, with the average Americans very limited awareness of Palestinian history). She suggested her comments were being weaponized by the GOP: "We must call out smears from the GOP and their allies". That's the goal of the BDS - boycott, divest and sanction - movement that Omar and her fellow Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of MI support.
"No, criticism of Israel isn't anti-semitism, just like criticism of a Muslim majority state isn't Islamophobia, by default".
Fox 9 has reached out to Omar's office for comment.
Omar's tweets drew a rebuke from Democratic House leaders, who called on her to apologize on Monday.
Omar, 36, acknowledged the criticism in her Twitter message on Monday. "In the Democratic Party-and in the United States of America-we celebrate the diversity of our people, and the Gods we pray to, as a strength". | 2019-04-18T14:42:32 | http://skinnyshae.com/2019/02/12/ilhan-omar-issues-apology-after-condemnations-over-aipac.html |
0.99976 | In order to understand the principles of the Carsch system, let's take a look at the roulette and imagine a typical sequence of numbers the ball lands on: 31 2 33 27 00 28 26 36 9 24 20 23 32 14 27 21 19 11 1 36. And now, please, try to find the interrelation between these, at first sight, completely not related to each other. It might be difficult if you don't have a betting area in front of your eyes. So, here is a hint for you: each following number, the same as each preceding one, is either High (19-36) or Low (1-18). And, if you pay attention to colors, you'll notice that the number 2 is black, same as the number 31. And the number 33 is black same as the preceding one. Number 27 is red, but it is also High, same as the number 33. Do you understand the logic? The distinctive feature of the Carsch system is that it is necessary to look for common characteristics between the current and preceding numbers, on the basis of their color, and High (19-36) or Low (1-18).
Now let's understand how to make bets according to The Carsch roulette system. There is nothing extraordinary in it. Place your bet on High or Low and also place nine bets on numbers and one bet on zero. Let's assume that you place your bet on Low (1-18). Consequently, other nine bets you should place on the numbers of High (19-36), but necessarily of the same color as the preceding winning number. And, correspondingly, vice versa - if the bet is placed on High, then nine bets should be placed on Low. The bet sizes are very important, since the bet on High or Low should be twice bigger than the sum of other ten bets. So if you placed ten chips of the equal value on zero and nine numbers correspondingly, you should place the bet of twenty chips of the equal value on High or Low.
Taking into consideration that a loss upon application of the system is quite rare, you can use Martingale system for betting progression. You might experience 3-4 losses in a row, but it is maximum.
Let's study one small virtual example by playing a game with the application of the Carsch system: let's suppose that the last time the ball landed on the number 33 (Black and High). Consequently, for the next round you should place bets on all black numbers of Low (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17), and don't forget about zero.
Make an outside bet same as previous one (High or Low), and place nine bets on the numbers of an opposite color than dropped out one and don't forget about zero.
Or performing a complete change in regards of the previous betting scheme. Nine bets on black and High should be changed to nine bets on red and Low. Don't forget zero. | 2019-04-26T10:33:22 | http://www.moneyblowers.com/roulette-systems/roulette-system-carsch |
0.999999 | Methods, systems, computer readable media and other means for generating a profile for a particular type of media are provided. The profile represents a set of preferred printing parameters to be used to achieve a target print quality for a reference printing device. The profile may be used by other non-reference printing devices in order to optimize printing for that type of media. For each non-reference printing device, an offset may be established that represents the differences between the non-reference and the reference printing devices. A processor of the non-reference printing device may identify the type of media and the profile for that media and then adjust the printing parameters for the non-reference printing device based on the profile and the offset in order to optimize the print quality. The profile may also include a parameter that is based on a temperature coefficient associated with the type of printer.
1. A method comprising:selecting a reference printing device;receiving a targeted media;printing a test pattern at a first applied energy value;printing at least one other test pattern, wherein the at least one other test pattern is printed at another applied energy value different than the first applied energy value;determining a first print quality for the test pattern at the first applied energy value;determining a second print quality for the other test pattern at the other applied energy value;printing a first test pattern at a first print speed;printing at least one additional print pattern at a second print speed;determining a print quality for the test pattern at the first print speed;determining an additional print quality for the at least one additional print pattern at the second print speed; andgenerating a profile for the targeted media.
2. A method comprising:receiving one or more profiles, wherein each of the profiles is associated with a type of media;receiving a media of a first type of media;identifying the first type of media;identifying a profile associated with the first type of media;adjusting at least one printing parameter of a printing device based on the profile associated with the first type of media.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein identifying the first type of media includes reading a barcode associated with the media.
4. The method of claim 2 further comprising:determining an ambient temperature of the environment prior to adjusting the at least one printing parameter; andadjusting a temperature printing parameter at least partially based on the ambient temperature.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein adjusting the temperature printing parameter comprises:processing an equation that is a function of a temperature coefficient associated with the printing device.
6. A printing device comprising:a memory element configured to store a profile for each of a plurality of types of media;a printhead configured to print indicia on the plurality of types of media based on at least one printing parameter; anda controller configured to:identify a first type of media received by the printing device;identify a profile stored in the memory element associated with the first type of media; andadjust the at least one printing parameter based on the profile.
7. The printing device according to claim 6, wherein the controller applies an offset to the profile based on the printing device.
8. The printing device according to claim 6 further comprising an input element for receiving one or more profiles.
9. The printing device according to claim 6 further comprising a conveyance apparatus configured to convey media through the printing device, wherein the conveyance apparatus defines a print speed and, wherein the controller is further configured to adjust the print speed based on the profile.
10. The printing device according to claim 6, wherein the profile includes a strobe pattern.
11. The printing device according to claim 10, wherein the strobe pattern includes a series of first and second pulses separated by a brief interruption.
12. The printing device according to claim 6 further comprising a sensor configured to read indicia from the first type of media, wherein the controller is further configured to identify the first type of media in response to the sensor reading the indicia.
13. The printing device according to claim 6 further comprising a RFID reader configured to read information from a supply of the first type of media, wherein the controller is further configured to identify the first type of media in response to the RFID reader reading the information from the supply.
14. The printing device of claim 6 further comprising:a temperature sensor that determines an ambient temperature of the environment local to the printing device.
15. The printing device of claim 6 further comprising:a network component that is configured to communicate with a remote data server to download the profile to the memory element.
16. A supply of a first type of media comprising:an identification means configured to be accessible to a printing device such that the printing device can identify the first type of media.
17. The supply according to claim 16, wherein the identification means is a barcode.
18. The supply according to claim 16, wherein the identification means is an RFID tag.
19. The supply according to claim 16, wherein the identification means contains a profile for the first type of media.
20. The supply according to claim 19, wherein the profile provides information to the printing device for adjusting one or more printing parameters of the printing device for obtaining a desired print quality.
This patent application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/105,667, filed Oct. 15, 2008, entitled "Paper Profile and Reading Systems."
The present invention relates to printing devices and, more particularly, to the creation and use of profiles for different types of media and different types of printing devices as well as to the identification of the profiles and the different types of media.
Most conventional printing devices can not be quickly and easily switched over to new applications. For example, typical conventional printing devices may require multiple adjustments and on-site calibration to optimize the quality of the printed output. Often a conventional printing device is optimized for one particular printing application, such as printing photographs, barcodes, or text. By optimizing for one particular printing application, often the printing device is or becomes less than optimal or "suboptimal" in terms of print quality for the other type of printing applications.
Moreover, other conventional printing devices may be configured to handle a wide variety of supplies or applications. Unfortunately in such printing devices the print quality is often less than optimal for all applications due to trade-offs made in the printing device to accommodate a variety of supplies. These other conventional printing devices may also be optimized for printing in a particular environment, such as moderate temperature or humidity, and thus be suboptimally configured when used in different locations or during different seasons of the year when used outside.
Managing a stock of printing supplies for known printing devices can be troublesome as well. For example, maintaining a large stock of paper, tags, cards, labels, wristbands, ribbons, or other supplies, sometimes in multiple stocking locations, is often desirable because it reduces the operational impact of running out. But many of these supplies change over time. For example, some supplies may expire while in storage, especially if exposed to suboptimal environmental conditions, such as humidity or temperature. It is also sometimes desirable to change suppliers of printing supplies for business reasons, e.g., to benefit from different pricing arrangements, delivery or stocking terms, or other supplier-specific capabilities. These changes can also create operational problems for end users with conventional printing devices, because the optimal print settings for the first suppliers' material may not be the same as those for the supplies from an alternate supplier or stock location.
Conventional thermal printers may provide unique or more challenging issues. Many types of thermal printers have attempted to compensate for the variation in print quality by providing many adjustable printer settings. For example, the operator of many thermal printers can adjust the pressure, the distribution of pressure across the printhead, darkness settings, print mode, and print speed. Indeed many thermal printers may prompt the operator for input, via lights and buttons, a front panel, or other computer-human interface terminal, and/or require the operator to adjust one or more mechanical settings. There are also attempts in the prior art to provide closed-loop feedback at the time of printing, by detecting poor print quality and intervening in the printing process by stopping printing, alerting the operator, or making minor adjustments.
Supplies manufacturers have also attempted to compensate for the variation in print quality by controlling the variation in the paper, tags, cards, labels, wristbands, ink or ribbons themselves, or by specifying a narrow set of possible products for use with a narrow range of printers. However, these efforts are sometimes at odds with the requirement for a wide variety of substrates, in many different sizes, for many different applications experienced by some end users.
For example, embodiments of the present invention include a method, system, computer readable media and other means for selecting a reference printing device; receiving a targeted media; printing a test pattern at a first applied energy value; printing at least one other test pattern, wherein the at least one other test pattern is printed at another applied energy value different than the first applied energy value; determining a first print quality for the test pattern at the first applied energy value; determining a second print quality for the other test pattern at the other applied energy value; printing a first test pattern at a first print speed; printing at least one additional print pattern at a second print speed; determining a print quality for the test pattern at the first print speed; determining an additional print quality for the at least one additional print pattern at the second print speed; and generating a profile for the targeted media.
As another example, embodiments of the present invention include a method, system, computer readable media and other means for receiving one or more profiles, wherein each of the profiles is associated with a type of media; receiving a media of a first type of media; identifying the first type of media; identifying a profile associated with the first type of media; adjusting at least one printing parameter of a printing device based on the profile associated with the first type of media. This may also include identifying the first type of media by reading a barcode or RFID tag associated with the media, a media provider apparatus (such as a paper feeder tray of a printer), etc. In addition, the ambient temperature of the environment can be determined prior to adjusting the at least one printing parameter; and then, if necessary, used to adjust a temperature printing parameter based on the ambient temperature. Adjusting the temperature printing parameter can comprise processing an equation that is a function of a temperature coefficient associated with the printing device.
The embodiments of the present invention can use, among other things, a printing device comprising a memory element configured to store a profile for each of a plurality of types of media; a printhead configured to print indicia on the plurality of types of media based on at least one printing parameter; and a controller. The controller can be, for example, a processor and/or other electronic device configured to, among other things, identify a first type of media received by the printing device; identify a profile stored in the memory element associated with the first type of media; and adjust the at least one printing parameter based on the profile. The controller can also be configured to apply an offset to the profile based on the printing device and/or to adjust the print speed based on the profile.
The printing device can also include an input element for receiving one or more profiles and/or a conveyance apparatus configured to convey media through the printing device. The conveyance apparatus defines a print speed.
The profile can include a strobe pattern in some embodiments. The strobe pattern can include a series of first and second pulses separated by a brief interruption.
A sensor may also be included in the printing device. The sensor can be configured to read indicia from the first type of media, generate data based on the indicia, communicate the data (wirelessly or otherwise) to the controller, which can then be configured to identify the first type of media. Similarly, the printing device can comprise a RFID reader configured to read information from a supply of the first type of media, wherein the controller is further configured to identify the first type of media in response to the RFID reader reading the information from the supply.
A temperature sensor can also be used by the printing device to determine the ambient temperature of the environment local to the printing device's printhead. For example, when the printer is placed inside a kiosk (such as those sometimes found in parking decks and train stations), the local environment can be the environment inside the housing of the kiosk. In such embodiments, a thermometer may be located in the kiosk's housing near the printhead, and used to determine the local ambient temperature inside the housing. Similarly, a thermometer can be located in proximity to the printhead, even if the printhead is not inside a kiosk. In addition to temperature, other aspects of the environment could also be measured and used to enhance anything outputted by the printing device.
Embodiments of the present invention also include a supply of a first type of media comprising: an identification means configured to be accessible to a printing device such that the printing device can identify the first type of media. The identification means can be, for example, a barcode and/or an RFID tag, which can contain a profile for the first type of media. The profile can also provide information to the printing device for adjusting one or more printing parameters of the printing device for obtaining a desired print quality.
FIG. 11 shows a graphical representation of a strobe pattern consistent with some embodiments.
Printing devices, e.g., printers, copiers, and facsimile machines, are configured to print images or other indicia (typically through a printhead of the printing device) onto various types of media. The different types of media include, but are not limited to, paper based media which can vary by, thickness, width, weight, texture, and density. Examples of paper based media include, but are not limited to, glossy paper, matte paper, bond paper, which are used in books, credit card receipts, parking deck tickets, home printers, pictures, labels, stickers, etc. The media may also vary between manufacturers even if the media is intended for the same application or use. As a more specific example, the printing device may be a direct thermal printer and the media may be different types of direct thermal paper.
Print quality may be a function of several print parameters of the printing device, such as print speed and energy (e.g., heat) applied from the printhead of the printing device to the media, the particular characteristics or properties of the media and the characteristics of the environment (e.g., ambient temperature, humidity, etc.). Because the properties of media vary among types, the optimal print parameters, i.e., the parameters that will achieve a desired print quality, may vary among types of media. Moreover, due to differences among different types of printing devices (e.g., different models of printers), the printing parameters may also vary among different printing devices and/or printer models, even for the same type of media. In addition, the printing parameters may still vary depending on the ambient environmental conditions, such as the ambient temperature, even when same type of media and model printer is used.
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to, among other things, generating a profile for a particular type of media and particular model printer based on the environmental conditions. The profile represents a set of preferred printing parameters to be used to achieve a certain level of desired print quality, referred to herein as a target print quality, for a reference printing device. As discussed further below, the profile may be used by other non-reference printing devices in order to optimize printing for that type of media. For each non-reference printing device, an offset may be established that represents the differences between the non-reference and the reference printing devices. A processor of the non-reference printing device may identify the type of media and the profile for that media and then adjust the printing parameters for the non-reference printing device based on the profile and the offset in order to optimize the print quality for that media.
The profile may include an expected print quality for a particular energy applied value and/or print speed in given environmental conditions. "Print quality" may be defined by several factors or measures. In the embodiments shown herein, the print quality is simply defined by the density of the pattern.
However, it is understood that in other embodiments print quality may be defined by additional and/or different factors than density alone. For example, for machine readable indicia such as a barcode, print quality may include the blackness or density of the printed pattern, the consistency of the pattern, and/or the sharpness of the edges of the pattern. Other or additional factors for print quality, e.g., in regards to readability by a human, may include legibility, contrast compared to the indicia and background, and type of font/typeface and spacing and size thereof. As another example, print quality, e.g., for pictures, may be defined by factors such as color, color saturation, grain/sharpness, image stability, and/or the moire effect.
Regarding reference and non-reference printers, a manufacturer of printers may have several models or types of printers in its fleet of models. The manufacturer may select a particular type or model of printer as a reference printer. The reference printer may be used to test and generate profiles for several types or kinds of media expected to be used on one or more of the different types or kinds of printers of the manufacturers. The other printers not used in the testing and/or generation of profiles are referred to herein as non-reference printers. The decision on which printer will be the reference printer may be at the discretion of the manufacturer. For example, the manufacturer may use its best selling printer as the reference printer.
FIG. 1 shows a method for generating a profile for a particular type of media, referred to as the target media. The method of FIG. 1 includes selecting a reference printing device at block 110, providing a target media at block 120, printing a test pattern at a first energy applied value and at least at a second energy applied value within a range of energy applied values at block 130, determining a print quality for the test pattern at the first energy applied value and the second energy applied value at block 140, printing a test pattern at a first ambient temperature and at least a second ambient temperature at block 150, determining at least one temperature coefficient for the type of the printer at block 160, printing a test pattern at a first speed and at least at a second speed within a range of speeds at block 170, determining a print quality for the test pattern at the first speed and at least the second speed at block 180, and generating a profile for the target media using the model printer at a detected ambient temperature within a predetermined range at block 190.
The operations of determining the print quality of the test pattern at a particular energy applied value (block 140), ambient temperature (block 160) and/or print speed (block 180) may include determining the density of the test pattern. The density of the test pattern may be determined through the use of a measuring device, such as, e.g., a densitometer or other reflective-type sensor. In some embodiments, a higher density generally indicates a higher print quality. However, in other embodiments, the best print quality may be associated with a targeted density level rather than just the highest possible density level. For example, in applications wherein the printed indicia is intended to be read by a human, the higher the density generally indicates a higher printer quality because, in general, humans like to see very black text and graphics. In applications wherein the printed indicia is intended to be machine read, e.g., a laser barcode scanner, then the best print quality may be a particular grey visible level because the laser barcode scanner can more readily read grey indicia then black indicia (i.e., the scanner has a higher read rate at more grey visible levels than black visible levels).
As illustrated in the embodiment of FIG. 1, the method includes using the reference printing device and the target media to print a test pattern multiple times (blocks 130, 150 and 170). The first series of tests may be used to determine the relationship between energy applied value and print quality (blocks 130 and 140). The second series of tests (blocks 150 and 160) may be used to determine the printer model's temperature coefficient ("k"). And the third series of tests may be used to determine the relationship between print speed and print quality (blocks 170 and 180). Other factors or characteristics that may be tested to determine relationship with print quality include, without limitation, the age of the media, the storage environment of the media (e.g., humidity and temperature), current humidity of the printing environment and/or the media, the cleanliness of the printhead, the age of the printhead, the manufacturer of the printhead, the thermo properties of the printhead (the rate at which the printhead absorbs, reflects, or radiates heat), and/or mechanical drift of the printing device (the change of properties of one or more of the mechanical parameters of the printing device over time or use). Depending on the application, e.g., barcodes, text, or pictures, the definition or the factors that define print quality may vary and may be tested accordingly.
More specifically for the first series of tests, the test pattern may be printed at a plurality of energy applied values, which may or may not be within a predetermined range of energy applied values. While the predetermined range of energy applied values may vary, the range may be based on physical limitations of the printing device and/or government regulations. The printing of the test pattern at different energy applied values may be at a constant print speed. For example, the constant print speed for the first series may be 100 mm/s.
The results of the first series of tests shown in FIG. 1, i.e., energy applied values versus print quality (blocks 130 and 140), may be tabulated and stored as part of a profile for the selected target media. Moreover, the relationship between energy applied value and print quality may be represented as a graph or graphs. For example, FIG. 2 shows print quality, as defined by opacity/density ("OD"), as a function of energy applied values for an exemplary target media. As illustrated, for at least a portion of the range of energy applied values, the print quality and the energy applied values generally have a direct relationship, i.e., the higher the energy applied value, the higher the printer quality. The portion having a direct relationship can be represented by a linear equation, as discussed further below. However, near the top and bottom of the range of energy applied values this relationship evolves such that an increase of energy applied values has a minimal or no effect on the print quality. The top of the range where the print quality substantially stays the same or changes relatively slowing compared to the energy applied value may be treated as a maximum print quality for the reference printer and the target media. For example, in the illustrate example, the maximum print quality may be treated as 1.37 OD. Many media types have a similar relationship between print quality and energy applied values as illustrated in FIG. 2.
Energy applied value may be expressed by a theoretical energy transferred from the printhead to the paper. It may be considered theoretical because the energy applied value may be calculated as a function of, e.g., resistance of the printhead, voltage, and time. The energy applied value does not necessarily include potential losses within the device. Resistance and voltage may be fixed so the parameter that is changed to control the energy applied is time. Time may be considered the pulse width for the heat elements radiating the energy to the paper. The energy applied value may be expressed in Joule per square millimeters. Rather than focus on absolute values, it may be more beneficial to discuss relative values, e.g., whether the energy value is higher or lower than another value, for the purposes of this description. The energy applied values are also proportionate to and, therefore, can be represented by the amount of time electrical current is provided to the printhead. Therefore, the energy applied values are sometimes referred to herein in units of time, such as in microseconds. For example, a range of energy applied values could be 50 μs to 600 μs.
Next, referring back to the second series of tests of FIG. 1, i.e., ambient temperature's affect on print quality, blocks 150 and 160 are discussed in more detail. Similar to how print quality can be impacted by the energy applied value, the ambient temperature can also effect print quality. The ambient temperature represents the heat energy (or absence thereof) in the area surrounding the printer and the target print media. The area surrounding the printer can be, for example, the temperature of a room or the temperature outside (such as when the printer is located outside, e.g., in a public parking garage). The area surrounding the printer may be referred to as the local environment.
A decrease in the ambient temperature can cause some printers to output a lower print quality when all other variables (print speed, energy applied value, etc.) remain constant. Likewise, increasing the ambient temperature can cause some printers to output a higher print quality when all other variables remain constant. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention can account for ambient temperature.
One method of compensating for ambient temperature is by determining the ambient temperature local to the printhead (using, e.g., an integrated thermometer), determining whether the local ambient temperature will impact the print quality (e.g., 1 degree Celsius may not, while 40 degrees Celsius likely will), and then, if necessary, adjusting the energy applied value based on the ambient temperature when printing. For example, as the ambient temperature increases, the applied energy value may be decreased without sacrificing printer quality. As another example, as the temperature of the environment decreases (which can affect the temperature of the print media and/or printhead), the applied energy value can be increased to compensate for the potential reduction in the printer's performance. (As referred to herein, the increase and decrease in temperature can be an absolute value or a relative value as compared to the temperature used when the printer's profile was created and/or calibrated.) Similarly, print speed can also be used to compensate for ambient temperature, as the printhead becomes heated when it moves faster and cools quicker when it moves slower.
When the energy applied value is being used to compensate for the ambient temperature, the profile and printer's circuitry can be configured (which as used herein includes, specially programmed, specially hardwired, any combination thereof, etc.) to execute mathematical calculations. A mathematical equation, which serve as the basis of the calculations, correlates the ambient temperature with the energy applied value that affects the quality of print media outputted by the printer. Said another way, the quality of the transformation from electrical data to printed media can be controlled by the mathematical equation. For example, similar to what is shown in FIG. 2, many printers have a relatively linear relationship with regards to how temperature affects print quality and, therefore, controlling the energy applied value can directly compensate for a change in temperature. The linear equation can be represented by: OD=(k)(E)+n, wherein k and n are the temperature coefficients for a particular type of printer (which is sometimes referred to herein as the "model" of printer). OD and E are discussed in greater detail below in connection with, e.g., FIG. 2.
The k and n coefficients can be determined by printing test samples at various temperatures (e.g., each degree or every so many degrees, such as 2 or 5 degrees Celsius, between, for example, -10 degrees Celsius and 60 degrees Celsius), while controlling other factors (such as print speed and energy applied value). The print samples can then be analyzed and assigned a numeric value representing the print quality of each test sample. The numeric values can then be plotted, based on their corresponding ambient temperature, as points on a graph. A linear standard deviation equation of the points can often be used to provide the k and n coefficients.
Now, referring back to the third series of tests of FIG. 1, i.e., print speed v. print quality, the process of blocks 170 and 180 are discussed in more detail. The test pattern may be printed at a plurality of print speeds, which may or may not be within a predetermined range of print speeds. While the predetermined range of the print speed may vary, the range may be based on the mechanical limitations of the printing device. For example, the printing device may include a motor for driving the media through the printing device. The motor may be configured to operate within a range of speeds. As another example, the printing device may include a printhead for printing the pattern or other indicia. The printhead may also have limitations regarding minimum and maximum speeds that can define the range of print speeds. Also, in some particular printing devices, certain print speeds may be near a resonance frequency which may cause the printing device not to perform well or cause other problems such as noise. In such cases, these certain print speeds may be avoided even if the print speeds are within the range of print speeds for the test. An exemplary range of printhead test speeds could be 50 mm/s to 150 mm/s.
While the print speed may vary between the tests during the third series (blocks 170 and 180), the energy applied value and environmental conditions maybe controlled and remain constant. For example, the energy applied value during the third series test was the lowest value that obtained the maximum print quality during the first series of test at 20 degrees Celsius. In other words, the lowest amount of energy that obtained the best print quality in the first series of the test became the constant energy value for the third series of the test. However, the selection of the constant energy applied value for the third series test may vary between embodiments. Rather than using the lowest energy applied value that obtained the maximum print quality in the first series test, another value may be selected. For example, the manufacturer of the printer may have one or more other criteria, such as a preferred energy applied value according to the design of the printer, for selecting the constant energy applied value for the second series of test.
The results of the second series of tests may be tabulated and stored as part of a profile for the selected target media. Moreover, the relationship between print speed and print quality may be represented as a graph or graphs. For example, FIG. 3 illustrates print quality, as defined by OD, as a function of print speed for an exemplary target media. As illustrated, as the print speed increases, the density level generally increases. This generally direct, linear relationship is true because as the print speed increases, the printhead of the printing device has less time to cool off or lower its temperature and, thus, the printhead temperature remains relatively high which promotes high print quality. Many media types have a similar relationship between print quality and print speed as illustrated in FIG. 3. As discussed above, in other embodiment other factors may be tested to determine relationship between the factors and/or the print quality including, but not limited to, characteristics of the printhead, the ambient temperature, and/or the temperature of the media supply. Also, the order of the first, second and third series of tests can be rearranged and/or one of the series of tests can be omitted entirely.
The test patterns, also referred to sometimes herein as test samples, may vary. However, for examples, the test pattern may be a 10×10 mm square as illustrated in FIG. 6a or the test pattern may be a 8×8 pixels repeated over as 10×10 mm area (i.e., 80×80 pixels) as illustrated in FIG. 6b. A purpose of the second example may be to establish an energy value for a history pulse. Also, although some embodiments generally describe printing a test pattern multiple times, in other embodiments more than one type of test pattern may be utilized.
Referring back to the method shown in FIG. 1, the profile for the targeted media is generated based on the information obtained through the printing of the test pattern at different energy applied values and print speeds on the reference printing device. Although, the examples above discuss three sets of tests, the first set having a variable applied energy value, the second having a variable temperature, and the third having a variable print speed, in other embodiments, a single set of tests may be performed in which the print speed, temperature and applied energy values are varied among tests. In such embodiments, multivariate testing (e.g., designs of experiments) may be employed to determine the relationships or functions of print speed, ambient temperature (and/or other environmental conditions), and applied energy values versus each other. Moreover, a plurality of tests may be performed and the information or data obtained during the tests may be used to extrapolate values for particular values of print speed, temperature and/or energy applied that were not tested.
The operations of determining the print qualities for the plurality of tests and generating a profile may be performed through the hardware of the printing device or hardware connected to or in communication with the printing device, software, or a combination thereof. Therefore embodiments may take the form of hardware systems, such as the printing device or another computer apparatus, software, or combinations thereof. As an example, embodiments may include a computer program (e.g., software) product stored on a computer-readable storage media comprising of one or more executable portions for performing the operations described herein. As another example, the printing device or other computer apparatus in communication with the printing device may include a processor, circuitry, other electrical components (such as a thermometer), and/or one or more memory elements. The processor, for example, may be embodied as a coprocessor, a controller or various other processing means or devices including integrated circuits. The processor may be configured to perform one or more of the operations discussed in FIG. 1 or elsewhere herein, including storing information, such as the test results and the profile in a memory element or other component of the printing device or other computer apparatus (such as, e.g., a remote, network server and/or printer).
Once the profile for the targeted media has been generated, it may be stored for later retrieval by one or more other printing devices or other computer apparatuses. According to some embodiments, the media profile may be stored on a storage device located in the reference printing device. According to another embodiment, the media profile may be stored on a storage media of another computing device connected to the reference printing device. According to yet another embodiment, the media profile may be stored in a data structure such as, for example, a database. The data structure may reside in the reference printing device or in another computer apparatus (e.g., a server) or on the media or the supply of media (e.g., an RFID tag attached to a supply roll).
Once the profile for the targeted media has been generated, the profile may be sent and/or received by other printing devices. For example, a printer device may receive the profile over a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet (either through a wired or wireless connection (e.g., Bluetooth, WLAN)), or through a computer readable media, such as a DVD, CD, disk, zip drive, RFID, flash memory device, etc. The printer device may have a USB, a serial port, parallel port, other input port, or combination thereof for receiving the profile. The profile may be received or downloaded by the manufacturer of the printer, e.g., as a pre-installed driver or other type of software, be hardwired into the printer, or may be received by the user of the printer, e.g., as a driver, software update, or hardware add-on. The profile or information regarding the profile may be received through, for example, the input of information by a user, such as through an input device (e.g., a keyboard). As a more specific example, the printing device may be an outdoor kiosk printer, such as a direct thermal printer. In such an example, the printing device may be configured to support several different types of media from several users in various environmental conditions. The kiosk printer may have been installed with one or more profiles at the manufacturer and/or download and receive one or more profiles once it is in the field (e.g., at a drug store or train station). With the plurality of profiles, the kiosk printer may be able to support the several different types of media in varying environmental conditions and also be updated to support additional media types.
In view of the foregoing, one would understand that for a given printer in the field, such as in commercial use (e.g., a kiosk printer in a drug store), the printer may store several profiles corresponding to several different types of the media. For example, the printer may include at least one memory element dedicated to storing profiles.
Embodiments may further include identifying a desired print quality. The desired print quality may be the maximum print quality as described above. Therefore, in the example of the illustrated embodiment, the desired print quality may be identified as 1.37 OD. But again, this is only an example. In other embodiments, the target print quality may be selected by, e.g., a manufacturer of the printing device, a manufacture of the targeted media, or the intended user of the printing device and/or of the targeted media.
Referring back to FIG. 3, in this example, the profile provided that for this particular type of media, the targeted print quality level is 1.37 OD. The default print speed for this particular type of media may be 100 mm/s. However, according to the profile illustrated in FIG. 3, at a print speed of 100 mm/s, the expected print quality level is only 1.30 OD. Therefore, in this circumstance, the printing device is expected to have a print quality level less than the targeted print quality unless adjustments are made to at least one of the print speed or the energy applied.
Referring back to FIG. 2, the energy applied can be adjusted to achieve the targeted print quality. Specifically, in this example, the following relationship exists: E=Et+Ed+Ec. E equals the actual energy applied value. Et equals the energy applied value that is expected to achieve the targeted print quality, such as 1.37 OD, according to this example. Ed equals an offset for this non-reference printing device compared to the reference printing device. The profile can correspond to a reference printer that may differ from the non-reference printer. For example, the printers may be different models or have different manufacturers.
Ed can be an offset value that represents the inherent differences of different printers. The factors that create the offset may differ including different efficiencies (e.g., one may have a high power loss between the power source and the printhead). The offset between the reference printing device and the non-reference printing device may be treated the same for each profile and, thus, each type of media. In other words, the offset may be a constant for this particular non-reference printer.
Ec refers to a cooling effect. As mentioned above, a relatively high temperature at the printhead often encourages a high print quality. Therefore, a cooling of the printhead, such as between prints, often decreases print quality (when, e.g., temperature and other variables remain constant). To compensate for the cooling in such embodiments, more energy may be needed to overcome the cooling of the printhead. This relationship is shown in FIG. 4. More specifically, FIG. 4 shows the energy compensation for a cold printhead at the beginning of the print job or other situation when the printhead is considered cold, i.e., has not burned any pixels for a while. Based on the foregoing relationships, the energy applied may be adjusted in order to achieve the targeted print quality. Alternatively, rather than or in addition to adjusting the energy applied, the print speed may be adjusted using the profile.
Referring back to the offset for the differences between the non-referenced printer and the referenced printer, the Ed offset may be determined through a series of testing between the referenced and non-reference printer. In the printer manufacturer example, when a new or different printer model is available, the manufacturer may run a series of tests with the new model and compare the profiles of the new model to the reference printer to determine the "offset relationship" between the two. The offset relationship may be linear or non-linear, and may or may not be temperature dependent. Once the offset relationship is determined, the new non-reference printer may store the offset relationship such that the non-reference printer (e.g., the processor of the non-reference printer) can apply the offset relationship when adjusting the non-reference printer for a particular type of media in view of the profile for that particular type of media and the reference printer.
FIG. 5 shows another method according to exemplary embodiments that relates to using the profile of the target media to calibrate a printing device. According to these embodiments, one or more parameters of the profile may be used to adjust one or more parameters of the printing device in order to achieve a desired or targeted print quality. In this regard, the printing device performs adjustments or calibrations for the media based on the profile. The method may include receiving one or more profiles for media at block 510; receiving a particular type of media at block 520; identifying the particular type of media received at block 530; identifying the profile for the media that was received at block 540; determining the environmental conditions that may impact the print quality (such as ambient temperature), and adjusting at least one printing parameter of a printing device based on the profile for the media that was received at block 560. As an example, at least one of the print speed and energy applied value may be adjusted.
The identifying of the media at block 510, like the other blocks of methods discussed herein, may be performed using various means and elements. For example, the printing device may include a user input element such as a keypad or keyboard. The user may enter the information regarding the received or loaded media allowing the printing device or, more specifically, a processor of the printing device, to identify the media. As another example, the printing device may include one or more sensor devices or elements (such as reflex sensors and gap sensors) that can sense or detect a characteristic or marking on the loaded media that allows the processing element to identify the loaded media. In particular, each media may have a barcode or other indicia that is readable via sensor or sensors of the printing device that contains information such as, but not limited to, the identity of the media, identity of the type of media, and/or the identity of the profile for the media.
Instead of or in addition to containing information about the profile, the media may have a barcode readable by the printing device that represents other information about the media that can be used to adjust the parameters of the printing device accordingly. For example, according to some embodiments, a media may have a first black mark, e.g., a first black mark having a predetermined density, followed by one or more fields (e.g., 3). Each field can represent a bit having a value of 0 if the field is empty or 1 if the field is filled with black. The fields, collectively and/or individually, may be read to determine a total value which could be used as an index to indicate one or more parameters. For example, the parameters may be one or more of the following: paper size, black configuration, system bits, presenter on/off, max print speed, cut offset, an index in a burn table, and a profile as discussed above.
In some embodiments, the barcode may only be read or scanned when the media are loaded and/or when the printing device is turned ON. The printing device may contain software and/or firmware that instructs the printing device or the processor of the printing device to, e.g., search for a barcode or other indicia on the media through one or more sensors. For example, the instructions may include searching two consecutive media for a barcode. The barcode may include at least one parity bit, checksum bit and/or error correction bit. In response to a parity error, the printing device may be instructed to extend the search for the barcode to additional media, e.g., from two sheets of paper to three sheets of paper. In response to an error or failure to read the barcode, the printing device may be instructed to enter into an error state until the media is reloaded or the printing device runs through a power cycle.
According to some embodiments, the printing device may include more than one tray or other infeeder component(s), wherein each tray may have the same or different types of media loaded than the other trays. The printing device may be configured to link the profiles of the different media with the trays. In some embodiments, for example, a first tray may contain a first type of media and a second tray may contain a second type of media. In this regard, when the first tray is selected to process a print job, the printing device may be configured to switch to the corresponding profile for the first type of media and adjust one or more of the printing parameters accordingly. Likewise, when the second tray is selected to process a print job, the printing device may be configured to switch to the corresponding profile for the second type of media and adjust accordingly.
In other embodiments, a particular tray may contain one or more different types of media. In such embodiments, the printing device may be configured to identify the type of media for each sheet or unit of media, the thickness of the media, and/or the width of the media and switch to the corresponding profiles.
According to yet other embodiments, the printing device may be configured to continuously, e.g., for each sheet of paper, identify the type of media. As such, for each sheet, the printing device may be configured to determine the proper profile and adjust one or more of the printing parameters accordingly. Alternatively, in some embodiments rather than relying on the generated profiles as discussed above, the printing device may store and use burn and look-up tables.
The continuous identification of the type of media may provide a virtual infeeder tray system. For example, in some printing devices, the printing devices may have a plurality of trays wherein each tray contains and stores a particular type of media. Moreover, the printing device may store instructions for processing and printing on the media from the different tray. For example, the instructions may provide that the media in tray one is "A4" paper and the media in tray two is 81/2 by 11 paper. Rather than rely on a system that requires a plurality of trays and for the printing device to be adjusted by tray, the continuous identification allows the printer device to be adjusted by the individual sheets of media.
As mentioned, a barcode may be used to provide means for identifying the media, regardless if the operation of identifying the media is continuous or more selective. The information from the barcode may be indirect. For example, the barcode may provide a number that can be used as an index by the printing device (or, more specifically, a processor of the printing device) for matching a generated profile as discussed above or a burn table or some other type of look-up table.
FIG. 7 shows an example of a barcode according to some embodiments. The barcode may include a black mark for calibration purposes. Following the black mark, the barcode may include a first quiet zone (e.g., a blank space having a length of five millimeters) so any calibration routine associated with the black mark may more easily detect a trailing end of the black mark. The individual fields of the barcode may include one or more characters. For example, a character may be represented by twelve millimeters length divided into six by two millimeters slots as shown in FIG. 7. A filled slot (i.e., a black slot) may be read as a one and a blank slot may be read as a zero. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 7, each character includes six slots; four data bits (most significance bit ("MSB") to least significance bit ("LSB")), one parity bit and one synch bit. Multiple character's data bits may be shifted together to form a four bit, eight bit, twelve bit (and so on) values. It is understood that the illustrated barcode is an example and that one skilled in the art may use any type of barcode including, including those not limited to, two-dimensional, visual light-spectrum barcodes.
The parity bit may be zero, so paper without a barcode may be detected as zero without error. The synch bit may be the inverse of the parity bit if another character is to be expected. If no more characters are to be expected, the synch bit may be the same as the parity bit to indicate the end of the barcode. Synchronization may be done on an edge between the parity and synch bar and may reset a barcode step counter of the printing device to ensure that the barcode engine does not get out of synch if the barcode grows in length. After the parity and synch bits, the barcode may further include a second quiet zone of one or more character slots for resynchronization in response to determining there is a parity error. For example, in the embodiments shown by FIG. 7, the quiet zone may have six slots representing four data bits.
The printing device may include one or more sensors for detecting or reading barcodes, which can include detecting black marks. For example, upon detecting the first black mark, a barcode engine of the printing device may first count the quiet zone and then sample every two millimeters incremently for each slot (e.g., of the six slots). A slot may be read as a one if a minimum of a one millimeter length is black allowing the bar code engine (or sensor) to be a maximum of one millimeter off position and still be able to read the barcode. In the illustrated embodiment, after the fifth parity slot has been read (e.g., detected and analyzed), the printing device (e.g., more specifically a processor of the printing device) may check the four previous data bits. If a parity error is present, an index error may be determined. For example, FIG. 8 shows an example of a barcode translation consistent with some embodiments.
If a parity error is not present or the barcode is otherwise considered valid, the synch slot may be sampled and, if no edge is detected or found between the parity and synch slot, then the printing device may determine that the barcode is done or the reading of the barcode completed. If an edge is detected (e.g., the synch slot is the inverse of the parity slot), the barcode counter of the printing device may reset on the edge and synch slot is passed and the next character may be read.
In instances in which a parity error is encountered, the printing device may not know if the barcode is completed, i.e., whether there are more characters to be read. One method to allow the printing device to get back into synch again with the barcode is to reset the barcode step counter each time the printing device encounters a 1 to 0 transition. One method of ensuring the barcode is completed is configuring all six slots (e.g., all four data slots, the parity slot, and the synch slot) as zero. When all six slots have been sampled and all read as (e.g., detected and determined to be) a zero, the printing device may determine that it has passed the barcode area of the media and enter an idle state until, for example, another black mark is detected.
FIG. 9 shows an example of a placement of a barcode on a medium. In this example, the barcode extends from a perforated edge of the medium. The edge also includes a black mark. The bar code has a width of "a" and a length of "c." Also shown is distance "b" from a side edge of the media to the bottom of the barcode area.
In general, as explained above, placing a barcode on the individual medium allows the printing device to identify the type of media unit. The identification may be used in a calibration process of the printing device, including, but not limited, in conjunction with a generated profile as described herein or in conjunction with a burn or look-up table. The generated profiles refer to the method of generating a profile for, e.g., a particular type of media with a reference printer and then applying it to non-reference printing device which may include using an offset that represents differences between the reference and non-reference printing devices. For the generated profiles, each media is calibrated to the printing devices. A burn table is a table that provides preferred printing parameters of a number of media provided by the media providers or in some cases by a printing device manufacturer and is not tied to or corresponds to reference and non-reference printing devices.
FIG. 10 shows an example of a printing device that may benefit from the use of the profiles disclosed herein. The printer device 1120 may include several components, such as a printhead 1128, a platen roller 1129, a feed path 1130, a peeler bar 1132, a media exit path 1134, rollers 1136, a carrier exit path 1138, a ribbon take-up spool 1140, a ribbon supply roll 1141, a reader 1142, a controller 1145, and, among other things, a conveyance system 1146. In general, the printing device 1120 is configured to process a series of media units such as labels, cards, etc, that may be carried by a substrate liner or web 1122. The conveyance system 1146 is configured to direct the web 1122 along the feed path 1130 and between the printhead 1128 and the platen roller 1129 for printing indicia onto the media units 1124. The ribbon supply roll 1141 provides a thermal ribbon (not shown to avoid overcomplicating the drawing) that extends along a path such that a portion of the ribbon is positioned between the printhead 1128 and the media units 1124. The temperature of printhead 1128 is elevated and then printhead 1128 presses a portion of the ribbon onto the media units 1124 to print indicia. The take-up spool 1140 is configured to receive and spool the used ribbon. This printing technique is commonly referred to as a thermal transfer printing. However, other printing techniques may be used such as direct thermal printing. In direct thermal printing, the printhead presses directly against and heats coated media without the use of an intermediate ribbon. Other examples of printing techniques that may be used include, without limitation, inkjet printing, dot matrix printing, laser printing and electro-photographic printing.
After printing, the media unit web 1124 proceeds to the media exit path 1134 where the media units are typically individually removed from the web 1122. For example, in one embodiment, pre-cut media units 1124 may be simply peeled from the web 1122 using the peeler bar 1132 as shown. In other embodiments, a group of multiple media units may be peeled together and transmitted downstream to an in-line cutter for subsequent separation (not shown). Various other media unit removal techniques may be used as will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art. In applications, such as the depicted embodiment, in which the media units 1124 are supported by a web 1122, the web 1122 may be guided along a path toward the carrier exit path 1138 by rollers 1136 or other devices once being separated from the media units.
As the media units 1124 travel between the printhead 1128 and the platen roller 1129, the tension between the platen roller 1129 and the media units 1124 may vary. For example, the media units 1124 may travel in a general linear path from the nip defined by the printhead 1128 and the platen roller 1129. In such an environment, the media units may exert minimal tension unto the platen roller. As another example, soon after exiting the nip, the web or liner 1122 may be peeled away from the media units 1124 and the liner 1122 may be routed along a sharp curved path relative the platen roller 1129 (as shown in FIG. 10). In this environment, the liner 1122 may exert more tension of the platen roller 1129 compared to the first example. In yet another example, in some embodiments, the media units may be rewound through the printing device which may also exert tension on the platen roller 1129. In general, an increase in tension on the platen roller 1129 may require that more pressure or heat be applied by the printhead to achieve the same print quality as if there was no tension. Therefore, a factor that might be considered during the printing operations is the existence of the tension on the platen roller 1129 exerted by the media units.
As mentioned above, the printing device may also include a user input element 1150 (e.g., a keypad, touch sensitive interface, etc.), an input port 1152 (e.g., a USB port), a memory element 1154, and at least one sensor 1158. Among other things, the input element 1150 and/or the input port 1152 may be configured to receive information regarding the type of media and/or the profile for that type of media. The sensor 1158 may be able to identify the particular type of media or other information from the media, e.g., the sensor 1158 may be a barcode sensor 1158 that can read a barcode on the media. In another embodiment, the printing device may include an RFID reader 1150 that can read information from an RFID tag attached to the media or attached to the supply of media. The RFID tag may contain information such as profiles and/or type of media. Once received, the profile or profiles may be stored in the memory element 1154 and be accessible to the controller 1145.
The controller 1145 may be configured to access the information such as profiles and type of media in order to synchronize or adjust the printing operations. As in the above examples, the controller 1145 may change one or more printing parameters based on a profile and type of media. The controller 1145 may control the conveyance mechanism to start, change speed, or stop movement depending on, e.g., the desired print speed, increase or decrease of the energy applied to the printhead, and/or generate messages to an operator using a user display screen. In instances, in which the controller 1145 lacks certain information, e.g., a profile for a particular media, the controller 1145 may send a request for the profile. The request may be a message to an operator or to another computing device such as a server of the printing device manufacturer. In the last example, the controller 1145 may send the request over a network, e.g., the Internet, to the server.
Referring back to changing printing parameters, one method may be to provide a particular strobe pattern to the printhead. A printhead may have one or more heating elements arranged in rows. Each heating element is configured to print a pixel of an image. Rather than activate, e.g., increase the temperature of, each heating element of a row, the heating elements may be selectively activated. The heating elements can be heated through a series of driving circuits. Each driving circuit can be configured to communicate with a certain number of heating elements per row. For example, a printing device may have a first driving circuit in communication with 25 percent of the heating elements of a row (referred to as a first set of heating elements), a second driving circuit in communication with another 25 percent of the heating elements of the row (referred to as a second set of heating elements), a third driving circuit in communication with yet another 25 percent of the heating elements of the row (referred to as a third set of heating elements), and a fourth driving circuit in communication with the last 25 percent of the heating elements of the row (referred to as a fourth set of heating elements). In order to active a set of heating elements, a strobe signal is sent along one of the driving circuits which activates the heating elements in communication with the driving circuit. The strobe signal is essentially electrical energy sent through a driving circuit that activates the heating elements. The controller 1145 may be configured to control the timing of the strobe signals including the duration for any given strobe signals. The power source of the printing device such as a battery, a power source circuit, an external power source, or another type power source unit (PSU) may provide the energy.
At any given time, all the heating elements of a row may be activated by sending a strobe signal along each of the driving circuits. However, this would consume power and could quickly drain the power source. It may also create a large voltage drop which could have a detrimental effect on the printing operations. Alternatively, only one section of the heating elements can be activated at one time, although this may conserve energy, it may require more time for the printhead to heat up sufficiently such that it transfers enough heat or energy to the media.
Rather than activate all or one of the sets (or sections) of the heating elements, embodiments of the present invention can selectively activate sets according to a particular pattern, referred to herein as a strobe pattern. FIG. 11 illustrates a graphical representation of an example of such a strobe pattern. As in FIG. 11, each row has four sets of heating elements and each set is in communication with a driving circuit. The leftmost column of the graph shows, among other things, Strobe1, Strobe2, Strobe3, and Strobe4. Strobe1 represents a first driving circuit in communication with a first set of heating elements. Strobe2 represents a second driving circuit in communication with a second set of heating elements. Strobe3 represents a third driving circuit in communication with a third set of heating elements. Strobe4 represents a fourth driving circuit in communication with a fourth set of heating elements. To the right of the column is a horizontal line that represents the time when a particular set of heating elements is activated. The line only has two vertical positions wherein the top position represents the set of heating elements being OFF and the bottom position represents the set of the heating elements being ON (or activated). The horizontal distance represents time. For example, Strobe 1 shows that the first set of heating elements starts the process OFF and then is turned ON for 122 microseconds (μs), turned OFF for 237.4 microseconds, turned ON for 118 microseconds, turned OFF very briefly, turned ON for 42.2 microseconds, turned OFF for 104.4 microseconds, turned ON for 46.8 microseconds, and turned OFF for the rest of the graph's time period. As another example, Strobe2 shows the second set of heating elements starts the process OFF and then is turned ON (at the same time that the first set of heating elements is first turned ON) for 121.6 microseconds, turned OFF very briefly, turned ON for 111.8 microseconds, turned OFF for 251 microseconds, turned ON for 41.8 microseconds, turned OFF very briefly, turned ON for 48 microseconds, and turned OFF for the rest of the graph's time period.
In strobe pattern of FIG. 11, each set of heating elements is activated twice with a short delay (i.e., there is relatively brief period in which the set of heating elements is turned off between the two activation periods). This allows the controller (e.g. controller 1145) to better control the printhead from absorbing too much power while maintaining a certain heat level in the set of heating elements (e.g., the brief period of deactivation can be configured so it is too short to allow the heating elements to cool off completely which would then require more power to reactivate the heating elements, while still allowing for power conservation as compared to just one long activation period without any period of deactivation). The optimal time period for the interruption between activation periods may vary among printing devices, printheads and other factors. For example, the time period for the interruption may be based on the thermo properties of the printhead (i.e., the rate at which the printhead absorbs, reflects, or radiate heat). The longer it takes for the printhead to cool then the longer the interruption may be configured to be, without having a significant effect on the temperature of the printhead. Typically if a printhead takes a long time to cool, it often takes a long time to heat and, thus, the activation period of (or the time needed to sufficiently heat) the heating elements may be longertoo.
As evident in the illustrated strobe pattern, the sets of heating elements are fired in pairs in the following order: 1-2 (i.e., the first and second sets of heating elements); 2-3, 3-4, and 4-1. In the beginning with the 1-2, the power supply may be fully charged such that it provides a full power value. After awhile, the power supply may be configured to begin draining, which may lead to a slight faint in the print. It is believed that by activating the same set of heating elements in a row with a brief interruption, the set of heating elements may reuse heat from the first period of activation (also referred to as a "pulse") during the second period of activation, because the pulse frequency can be configured such that not enough time has passed to allow the set of heating elements to cool between pulses. The brief interruption may also help the power source to recharge. During the 4-1 activation, although the first set of heating elements has had the most time to cool, it was configured to receive the most power as the first set of heating elements to be activated during a full charge. Therefore, it is beneficial to have the last and more drained pulse include the first set of heating elements.
As shown in FIG. 11, the first set of pulses for each set of heating elements is configured to be (approximately) 110 to 122 microseconds, which may be considered long for primary pulses. As the power is drained the pulses are configured to be shorter, shown from around 41 microseconds to 48 microseconds, and are referred to as short or secondary pulses. According to the pattern shown in FIG. 11, the pattern of the primary pulses and the pattern of the second pulses are configured to be substantially the same.
The shown strobe pattern is intended as an example and not as a limitation. One in the art would appreciate that other embodiments may have different strobe patterns in which the heating elements are selectively activated and, for example, the pattern may include two pulses with a brief interruption. The optimal length of the pulses and the interruption may vary among printing devices, printheads, media, and based on other factors. The preferred strobe pattern may become part of a profile for a particular type of media as disclosed herein. In other words, the strobe pattern may be used as a means to achieve a particular print quality. Similarly, rather than or in addition to having profiles directed to print quality, the strobe patterns may establish a profile for conserving energy. A manufacturer of the power supply or the printing device may determine an optimal strobe pattern that, for example, maintains a print quality level while optimizing energy use and conservation.
One skilled in the art would appreciate the benefits and advantages that the embodiments disclosed herein provide. For example, the profiles provide improved flexibility for a printing device to accommodate a wide variety of supplies or applications while providing a desired print quality. Moreover, compared to other systems, the profiles may allow the printing device to be configured to adjust one or more parameters automatically and/or dynamically (e.g., without requiring input from an operator). Embodiments may also provide end users with more flexibility in terms of choosing suppliers or in stocking different supplies at different locations.
Patent applications by ZIH Corp. | 2019-04-24T10:38:54 | http://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/app/20100092201 |
0.999998 | I want to be able to adjust how my cabinets display in both the Materials List and in the Cabinet Schedule. How can I do that?
Many architectural objects in the program, from walls to cabinets to images, have components and accessories associated with them that are calculated in the Materials List.In addition to editing and adding information for objects and their accessories in the Materials and Master Lists, you can edit and add information directly to these objects in the Components dialog.
First, launch Chief Architect and Open the plan in which you want to change how the Materials List, or Schedule, displays in regards to cabinets.
Select a cabinet, then click the Components edit button to open its Components dialog.
You can also define the components for a variety of items saved in unlocked libraries of the Library Browser. When a library item is placed into a plan, its component information goes along with it. In the Library Browser tree view, right click to highlight and select an unlocked symbol in the Library Browser and choose the Components option to open the Components dialog.
The information in the Components dialog is the same as the Materials List line item(s) for the selected object and can be edited in much the same way. Price, Supplier, Manufacturer, Comments and Type information can be added and saved with the object itself. When that object is copied, even into a different plan, this information is transferred, as well, and will be calculated in the Materials List.
In addition to their components, cabinets also have sub-components such as their doors, drawers and hardware. Sub-component information in the ID, Size and Description columns is indented to help distinguish it from regular component information.
In the Components dialog, you can add additional Materials List entries to a selected object. These user-created entries are called Accessories.
Accessory quantities can only be edited when one object is selected. If multiple objects are group selected, accessory quantities are locked.
Select an object and click the Components edit button to open the Components dialog.
Click the Add button and a new line is added to the spreadsheet.
The new entry is given an item name of Accessory. You can give it any name you wish.
All other columns for accessory items except ID can also be edited.
To remove an accessory, click any part of its row and click the Delete edit button.
Click in any cell in the row of the component with the Description that matches the cabinet type: base, wall or utility cabinet.
Click the Add button. A new line is added to the spreadsheet and its ID, Size and Description information is indented to denote that it is a sub-accessory.
Schedules and the object labels associated with them can be edited in the Schedule Specification dialog.
To set the initial settings for the Cabinet Schedule in its Schedule Defaults dialog.
Default Settings are accessed by selecting Edit> Default Settings .
Click the arrow next to Schedules to display the schedule sub-headings.
Select the Cabinet Schedule subheading and click the Edit button to open the Cabinet Schedule Defaults dialog.
Note: Once created, individual schedules can be modified without altering the default settings.
Once you have completed making changes to the Cabinet Schedule Default settings, click OK to apply the changes.
Now you are ready to place a cabinet schedule in your plan. Select Tools> Schedules> Cabinet to select this tool, and click in your plan to place the Cabinet Schedule.
Once placed in your plan, to open the Cabinet Schedule Specification dialog for a schedule, either select the schedule and click the Open Object edit button or double-click the schedule itself using the Select Objects tool.
On the General panel, under Available Columns you can select each column you want to display in the schedule and click Add =>, or under Columns to Include select and remove a desired column so that this items will not be displayed in the schedule. At least one column must be included to create a schedule.
If you want to exclude an object, such as Wall Cabinets, from this particular schedule, uncheck this option in the Objects to Include section.
The Label panel of the Cabinet Schedule Specification dialog controls the type, size and appearance of the labels that display in floor plan view.
If a shape is selected, and Show Labels is checked, cabinets show the shaped label with schedule number and nothing else. All other label options, except for Character Height and Initial Offset, will have no effect. If no shape is selected and Show Labels is also selected, window or door are labelled according to the format defined on this panel and the Label panel for the specific object.
Click the Schedule to Text edit button to convert the selected schedule to a tabbed text object. You can then edit the schedule as text. When a schedule is converted to text, it no longer updates automatically. In addition, shaped labels displaying as specified in the schedule’s specification dialog will no longer be present.
You can copy the text from the Text Specification dialog and paste it into other applications.
Schedule numbering is dependent on the order in which objects are placed in the plan, as well as the floor they are on.
Any objects present in your plan before a schedule is created will be listed first in ascending alphanumeric order, according to their Label information.
A new, unique object placed in the plan after the schedule is created will be added to the bottom of the schedule in the order that they are placed, regardless of its Label information.
If an object with a Quantity of 1 in the schedule is edited, its position in the schedule will not change.
If a group of objects listed on the same row in a schedule are edited simultaneously, their position will not change.If an object listed on the same row in a schedule with other similar objects is edited so that it is no longer similar enough to share the same row, it will move to the bottom of the schedule.
To reorganize the items in a schedule so that their order is based solely on their Label information, select the schedule and click the Renumber Schedule edit button.
To reorder the items in the schedule manually, you can select the schedule using the Select Objects tool. | 2019-04-21T12:31:39 | https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00991/editing-cabinet-components-and-creating-a-cabinet-schedule.html |
0.999757 | If you ask people what object or material possession that they use most in their lives today, the answer you would get would either be mobile phone or television. However, before the takeoff of the mobile phone to society, the television would have pretty much been the reigning answer to this question.
Did you know that people today watch television for an average of 8 hours a day? That's equal to the amount of time the average person spends working! Of course, people want their viewing experiences to be the best it can be. This is the reason they buy television antenna boosters.
Television antenna boosters are devices that improve the reception of television. This means that people who make use of television antenna boosters are able to view better pictures and hear better sounds on their television set.
1 ) Location – one of the main factors that affect television reception is location. This is due to of the fact that television antennas need to epitomize located properly in order to get a good reception. People who live in remote areas may go the serenity and quiet of living in such a place, but they also have to live with the fact that they may not get good TV reception. Other people may sophistication in need TV reception because a large structure near their place is blocking the signals.
2 ) Weather – the weather can also affect the reception of television signals. Too much static in the air, for example, can prevent your antenna from receipt television signals properly.
3 ) Antenna size – people with small television antennas naturally have poor reception. This is because of the fact that small antennas may not embody able to gather enough television signals to produce a proper picture.
So how do television antenna boosters work to overcome these obstacles?
1 ) Adding antennas – " the more the merrier " some television antenna boosters work by acting as multiple antennas to gather more signal. Since one antenna is not enough to gather the just amount of signal for your television, multiple antennas should work, right?
2 ) Powering up – some television antenna boosters actually power up your TV's ability to gather signals. This is done by passing a small electrical current through your antenna. However, be careful when choosing this specialty of television antenna booster as some types may attract lightning.
Another type of " power up " that some television antenna boosters do is to increase your television's endowment to interpret the signals that it receives. Because of this type of Television antenna booster, you can get clear reception even if you are located in an area where you can't get bully signal.
3 ) Increasing the size – most television antenna boosters today work by actually turning your whole house into a giant antenna. How is this done? Well, this disposition of television antenna booster works by plugging your TV into your home's electrical system. This converts your home's wiring into one huge antenna. Sensational, isn't it?
Television antenna boosters, of course, only work if you actually have television reception. They work by increasing the signal that your television receives. Of course, if there's no signal to increase, then they really won't work. In choosing a television antenna booster, make sure that you buy the type that can actually overcome your obstacles and not increase them. | 2019-04-26T04:18:46 | http://antenna-booster.articles24x7.com/antenna_booster_television.html |
0.999719 | Is the person you are taking care of a man or a woman?
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0.999358 | Which is healthier, life in the city or life on the farm? Which is better, life in the city or life on the farm? Which is more rewarding, life in the city or life on the farm? Which offers the most meaningful opportunities, life in the city or life on the farm?
I grew up on a farm. For several summers one of my first cousins who lived in Nashville, Tennessee visited for a week. One summer he visited when we were clearing a creek bottom. In years past, the area had been a sloping field that bordered a creek. It had not been used for years, so it was filled with blackberry briars and small trees about four or five inches in circumference. Dad hired a small bulldozer with a huge, heavy disk to knock all the small trees and briars down and cut them up. We had to use axes to cut the roots out and stack everything in the brush piles to be burned.
This was a weeks long project that included a hot, dusty, dry July. We were right in the middle of this project when my cousin came for his visit. The daily routine was to go to the creek bottom very early in the morning and work until mid-afternoon.
The first day my cousin worked about two hours and went to the shade. He was totally unaccustomed to that kind of work. The truth is that it was probably dangerous for him to even try it. About the third day he asked me, "Don't you people ever do anything but work?"
Occasionally my family made visits to Nashville. And, occasionally, I would spend an afternoon with him in Nashville. The city terrified me as much as the country bored him. I felt totally insecure. I was overwhelmed by the realization of how easy it would be for me to get lost. I could not imagine how he found his way around. His world was as strange to me as mine was to him. I was just as out of place in his world as he was in mine.
Which is healthier, better, more rewarding, and offers the best opportunities? That depends on the city, the farm, and the family in question.
There has been one major advantage to life in the country: the rural setting more readily encouraged dependence on God.
A few generations ago, most of our population lived on farms.
In those days people were in control of so little when it came to farming.
Far more was unpredictable than was predictable--the weather; the seasons; how wet or dry it would be; how late spring would come; how early fall would come; how long would harvest weather continue.
Farm life very effectively humbled people--the farm constantly reminded you that you were not in control.
Perhaps farm life still does today, but maybe not to that degree.
Farm tools and machinery today are incredible--and very expensive, but incredible.
But the seasons still remain unpredictable.
In the city we are surrounded by constant reminders of the power and the creativity of people.
Our streets, homes, utilities, conveniences, systems, hospitals, fire stations, businesses, factories, trucking terminals, airports, and sophisticated machinery suggest every moment of the day that we are smart and in control.
Appearances suggest that we can control anything, that we can solve any problem, and that we can fix any situation that needs to be fixed.
Our whole environment constantly impresses us with human intelligence, human ability, and human creativity.
In the city--outside of the "neglected area" steeped in poverty--our environment challenges us to believe that "we can solve any problem."
Even in the poverty stricken, neglected areas of the city, we are still convinced "we" could solve the problems if only "they" and "we" worked together.
In any prosperous city environment, it is too easy to become our own god as we admire, praise, and worship our achievements in science and technology.
In basic ways, people have not changed much.
People have always been drawn to the gods that they made.
Something in all of us seems to yearn to be more powerful than the god we worship.
If we make the god, when we worship it, we are actually trusting our own power and creativity.
In Isaiah 44:13-17, Isaiah writes about Israel's addiction to idolatry.
Were Isaiah writing right now, I think he would have begun his statement in this way.
"Think about this: a man takes a piece of wood, measures it, takes some red chalk, and draws an outline on it."
"Then he shapes the piece of wood with a plane and a compass until the statue looks like a beautiful person."
"Then he takes the statue he made, and sits it in his house to worship."
"Think this situation through from beginning to end."
"The man begins by planting a tree and watching the rains make it grow."
"When it grows big enough, he cuts it down."
"He uses some of the tree for firewood to warm himself and to bake bread."
"He uses some of the wood to make a god, and then falls down before it and worships it."
"He takes half of the wood to build a fire to warm himself and cook his food, and is satisfied; he really enjoyed watching the fire burn as he warmed himself and ate."
"But with the rest of the wood he carves an image."
"Then he bows before that image, worships it, and prays to it."
"As he prays, he says, 'Deliver me, for you are my god."
That entire picture is so foreign to us, so unbelievable to us, so ridiculous to us, that it is difficult for us to believe that anyone would do that."
Worship something that you made with your hands?
Pray to something that you carved from the wood that you cut?
Call a statue that you carved from the same tree that you used to make your fire and cook your food your god?
Ask something you carved to deliver you?
Would you ever consider doing that?
Perhaps we do it everyday and never realize it.
We know about enormous problems that concern us--let me use just two examples.
Likely the single most frightening medical problem in the last decade is the AIDS epidemic.
Basically, a virus destroys a person's immune system so that his or her body cannot fight any form of infection.
Enormous numbers of people world wide are infected with the HIV virus.
Not everyone who has the virus develops AIDS, but thus far, those who develop AIDS have not been cured.
In some cases the disease is arrested, but there is no certain way to know whose case will be arrested and whose will not be.
Continuing treatment is extremely expensive.
The basic reality is this: if you have the virus in a developed country, you have access to the expensive treatment; if you have the virus in a poor third world country, you die.
Our primary cry, our basic concern from the moment the disease was identified was simple: use our incredible technology, invest all necessary money and effort to produce a vaccine or develop a cure.
I fully realize that this is a very complex problem that has many different dimensions to it, and each aspect of the problem is deserving of serious thought and discussion.
The only thing I want you to consider is our basic concern and response: find a vaccine, develop a cure.
On an ABC evening news report this past week, the massive computer problem that could occur in the year 2000 was discussed.
When computers significantly began to enter our work place in the 1960's, the early programmers used a system to identifying dates with a two number code--70 for 1970, 81 for 1981, 95 for 1995.
The computers were not programmed to recognize the numbers 00.
So, unless reprogrammed, computers will think that 00 means the year 1900, not 2000.
The reprogramming project is so massive that it could take years.
Just as an example, the world wide banking industry, our social security system, and our medical system, and all our tax and government service systems are computer dependent.
So there is the possibility when January 1, 2000 arrives that all main computers will think it is 1900.
If true, they cannot function.
Basically, we tend to react to that possibility in this way.
Why? "It just cannot--nothing that bad, that massive, with that many serious consequences can happen."
Why? "Technology and science cannot fail us."
For decades we have developed and advanced technology and science.
Things that people could not imagine in 1950 are so common place that we do not even think about them.
Prepare a cooked meal in five minutes in a microwave.
Pick up a telephone, dial a series of numbers, and in seconds talk to someone 10,000 miles away--and they sound like they are next door.
Send a letter by e-mail anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds, and possibly have a reply within ten minutes.
When you walk back into your home this afternoon, just look at all the science and technology that surrounds you.
We brought science and technology into its current status and state of existence.
We have not created anything.
We have just discovered and developed what we discovered.
It feeds us, it warms us or cools us day and night, it treats our sickness, it brings us pleasure and satisfaction.
And it has become our god.
So when we are confronted with the ugly, harsh realities of the health problems created by AIDS, we cry out, "Science and technology, deliver us. You are our god. We made you, we depend on you, and we trust you."
When we think about the potential computer crisis in the year 2000, we cry out, "Science and technology, deliver us. You are our god. We made you, we depend on you, and we trust you."
Except for being better educated and more sophisticated than the man who cooked over the open fire and carved his god out of wood, are we really that much different?
What we have made will save us.
What we have made cannot fail us.
We trust what we made--it is our god that surrounds us, rules us, and protects us.
It must be our god, for we are certain that it cannot fail us.
Bible study classes, religious practices like baptism and communion, and religious traditions like schedules for assembling are to be held in church buildings. For it is in church buildings that we worship our traditional God.
But the real, everyday world god is science and technology. This is the god that makes our world work. This is the god we trust.
Considering the thousands of years that man has walked this earth, one more time, have we as humans become our own god?
In the reality of your life every day, who or what do you reverence?
What do you honor? What do you praise? Are you aware that worship involves what you elevate above self?
Do you worship the God who made us? Do you worship the God who loves us even when we abuse Him? Or do you worship yourself, what you have, or what you made?
In God alone is the power of life eternal. Within Him is the power of forgiveness, which He grants when we are baptized into His Son. I invite you to worship this God.
I invite you to belong to this God.
Begin by giving Him your life. | 2019-04-22T14:08:00 | http://www.westarkchurchofchrist.org/chadwell/1998/010498am.htm |
0.998684 | Why am I running a marathon? The easy answer is I want to challenge myself. However, I did not wake up and all of a sudden decide to run a marathon. The journey leading up to deciding to run took about one year. In early February of 2015, Four Seasons sent me to the Transformational Leadership training. It was an eye opener for me. I was most amazed at the Bible references and how the Bible can help guide you, as well as help you through problems and troubles in life. My knowledge of the Bible was minimal. I thought the Old Testament was how God is going to punish all sinners and the New Testament consisted of stories of Jesus that taught to give and be generous. I didn't think it related to everyday life.
Transformational Leadership training left me feeling a little naïve about the Bible. I felt I needed to grow spiritually and physically. I felt I could do more and be better at being a husband, father, friend, and employee. I also felt I was in great gratitude to FSE for sending me to a seminar that, for me, was primarily about self-growth and bettering your life.
The first question I had was, "How do I better myself spiritually and physically?" I knew if nothing changes, then nothing will change, so I searched for ways to change. The most glaring and obvious was my physical state. I was 35 years old, 5'11" and 282 pounds, and was just placed on high blood pressure medication. I wasn't sleeping well due to snoring. Most nights I slept on the couch so my wife and kids could sleep without me waking them up. This left me very tired during the day.
I drastically changed my diet. I stopped eating meat, cheese, breads, and anything processed. I also started working out at the gym. I was very lucky to go to the Transformational Leadership training with another FSE employee, Mr. Mike Magyary, which has turned out to be a blessing. Whenever I struggled with getting to the gym, he had a short, impactful phrase to motivate me: "Just get to the gym! Don't worry about how long or what you're going to do; just show up."
Whenever I felt sluggish, I remembered Mike's words. Over a five-month period, I lost 30 pounds and was getting in much better shape. My snoring was minimal and I was able to sleep in my bed again. My blood pressure medication was reduced. However, my diet became a little more flexible and I plateaued with weight loss. I noticed the better I felt physically, the more I had an urge to grow spiritually. I was sleeping better, had more energy during the day, and was overall happier. I was also getting great encouragement from my wife.
FSE was another tool I had in the box. I was getting positive praise and motivation from everyone at FSE. Having such a great culture made work enjoyable and I was proud to work with such a great group of people.
Because of my new enjoyment of general life, I wanted to keep improving. I started going to a different church. Through this new church, I was started to go to community and Bible study groups. I found myself becoming closer and closer to Christ in everyday life. I learned by other people's experiences how to give yourself to Christ.
The Transformational Leadership concept of bubble jumping was making a lot more sense to me. I realized to truly be a follower of Jesus, I must relinquish all control and allow the Lord to work through me. I stopped trying to control each event in life and tried to allow the Lord to guide me through each day. I pray every day for my heart and mind to be open to what God has planned for me.
When I started running longer distances, I felt overwhelmed with the Lord's presence. It was a time of thought and prayer for me. I used the TFA from Transformational Leadership training: If you change the thought, you change the feeling, and then you change the action. Like most people, I viewed running as not fun, but when I thought of Christ, and would also think of the people who can't run, my view of running changed. My oldest brother, John, has been in a wheelchair since he was 21 years old. I began to think of running as a privilege.
My wife has run eight marathons and uses running for a base for her continual improvement. I watched her on the sidelines long enough. I wanted to challenge myself and spend more time running (i.e., time of contemplation with the Lord and giving thanks for all the gifts He has given me).
I have currently lost an additional 12 pounds since I started training for the marathon, bringing my total weight loss to 42 pounds. I would love to say I changed because of my strength and commitment to being better. The reality is, I owe everything I am able to do to the Lord's power and grace. He is my focus every day and I pray He continues give me the strength and good health as I train for the 26.2-mile Flying Pig marathon on May 1, 2016. | 2019-04-26T12:33:52 | http://fseinc.net/About/news/2016/2016-04-spotlight.htm |
0.997495 | The secret of the salad is how small you can chop the tomatoes, cucumber, and onion. When they are chopped into small pieces, then you get all of them in a bit and it makes a huge difference!
1- Chop the tomatoes (with the skin), the cucumber, and onion into very small pieces.
2- Place them in a large bowl.
3- Chop the cilantro and add it to the bowl.
4- Add the lemon juice, vegetable oil, salt and pepper to taste.
Serve this salad cold! You can make it look fancy by plating it using a large cookie cutter that you put on a plate, fill it with the salad, pack, then slowly remove the cookie cutter. | 2019-04-25T04:16:05 | https://www.cookingwithalia.com/543-tomato-cucumber-salad/ |
0.999882 | Osaka - Hiroshima day trip?
Hi, we are visiting in September on a to week itinerary.
- Is it viable to plan a day trip to Hiroshima from a base in either Osaka or Kyoto?
How much of Hiroshima do you want to see?
It is possible, but I don't recommend it especially from Kyoto. From Osaka to Miyajima, for example, is about 2.5 hr trip one way. So 5 hours is spent for RT transportation alone - that's too much.
I did that once. I don't recommend it.
I've done Kyoto/Osaka to Miyajima at least 2x. It's doable depending on how much you want to see and your touring pace.
I tend to do the 8:00 am Hikari from Kyoto which goes direct to Hiroshima. I sometimes nap on the train since Hiroshima is the last stop. I have had it take longer than I would like to get back, but since I am frequently taking a Sakura to Shin-Osaka before transferring, I once again tend to nap.
It is very easy. The Hikari at 7:20 am (at Kyoto) is the one running direct to Hiroshima (105 minutes). Split 1/2 day at Miyajima and 1/2 day in Hiroshima city - that is pretty typical.
As for the comment about travel time - many day trips promoted out of Tokyo are similar (like Nikko), so Hiroshima is not really any different from that. Some of the ones around Kyoto/Osaka are shorter, but Kyoto-Mt Koya also takes a while. Also for context, some trips across a city like Tokyo take as long there and back. | 2019-04-19T03:04:16 | https://www.japan-guide.com/forum/quereadisplay.html?0+164308 |
0.999035 | May 9 - AN ultra orthodox Jewish principal fled to Israel under the cover of night with the help of school officials after she was publicly accused of molesting students, a court has heard.
May 9 - FROM the outside, the red-brick St Alipius Presbytery, with its clean white metalwork and gothic features, looks pretty in that whimsical way many enjoy in historical properties.
May 8 - Australia's leading Islamic schools are in the midst of a leadership crisis, with school principal sackings, accusations of mismanagement of taxpayer funds, slipping standards and concerns they are becoming more hardline.
May 8 - A YEAR 12 student at a Victorian high school has written a powerful letter slamming a religious education program for presenting “biased”, “homophobic” and “sexist” views to students.
May 9 - STUDENTS in NSW schools are allegedly being directed to controversial ex-gay therapies and told transgender people only exist “due to the sins of our world”.
May 9 - ANGLICAN church leaders have slammed an “unprecedented” interference by the Department of Education after it banned three books used by the church’s scripture teachers on the basis they promoted only monogamous heterosexual relationships.
May 5 - Copenhagen (AFP) - The Danish editor who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago said Monday the failed attack on a Texas cartoon exhibition won't change how "politically correct" Americans feel about the drawings.
May 6 - Dhaka (AFP) - For years authorities in Bangladesh have battled to stop men urinating in public, with signs in the local Bengali language failing to halt the seemingly endless number of offenders.
May 9 - Ankara (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has controversially turned religion into a campaign issue in the officially secular country's upcoming polls, which promise to be the biggest election challenge yet for the ruling party.
May 7 - Jerusalem (AFP) - After reaching a late-night deal on a new coalition, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu signed an agreement Thursday giving a senior role to the far-right Jewish Home that firmly opposes a Palestinian state.
May 7 - Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel has approved construction of 900 settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, a watchdog said Thursday shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a new rightwing religious coalition.
May 4 - Beijing (AFP) - Beijing Monday lodged a protest against the United States after a government advisory body highlighted "severe violations of religious freedom" in China.
May 9 - A WOMAN in Nebraska has filed court documents to sue every homosexual person on the planet.
May 8 - Every Friday in the regional Victorian town of Ararat, 50 members of the Islamic Welfare Association join each other for prayer at a tiny brick building next to the town's train station.
May 7 - A Northern Territory resort using a visit by the Dalai Lama to advertise accommodation packages has sparked an investigation by the religious leader's Australian office.
May 9 - A group of religious protesters who were strip-searched by Perth police have made a complaint to the WA Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC). | 2019-04-19T11:24:39 | http://sof-in-australia.org/blog.php?blog_id=1363 |
0.998713 | A School to Call Home: What do I teach?
Candidates should hold a B.A. or B.S. (field flexible), be self-directed, and have the flexibility to work with many different kinds of people. Interest in and experience with methods of multi-modal or differentiated instruction are important, as are familiarity with and interest in a cross-platform environment (Macintosh and PC). Finally, candidates should be realistic and excited about the challenges and rewards of teaching and living in a boarding school.
Interestingly, while in the past I'd seen myself capable of many roles, usually within teaching I only seriously considered English and history positions. I could see myself in nearly any administrative position at the dean or associate dean level, but teaching only held two disciplines.
I think I was wrong: that's a position I could definitively see not only doing, but excelling.
I saw recently that you may have experienced a late departure and are now looking for a "field-flexible" technology teacher. I am most interested in this position at Saint Swithins.
As you know from reading my blog and perusing of my wiki, I may not have previously considered myself a technology teacher, but rather a teacher who uses and understands technology. I'd like a swing at the role to teach technology so that my use of technology could be seen (and copied) by colleagues.
As you know, technology is merely a tool to help with some bit of learning. I picture students using technology to further other disciplines. I see students creating a wiki about the biology of the campus; I see students keeping semi-official blogs about life as a student; I see outreach offices, such as alumni and development, using Web 2.0 tools to get the message about Saint Swithins to the widest constituency as possible.
In terms of formal educational preparation for this position, I have none. In terms of informal study and hands-on use of the technology tools, I have plenty. I'm not "bleeding edge," but I'm definitely "cutting edge" when it comes to trying and using new technology, particularly Web 2.0 tools. I have a more than passing familiarity with a variety of computer operating systems, including Windows, MacOS, Linux, and VMS.
Please do consider me for the role, Ken. I think you'll more than agree I'm a good fit for the job, and you know my desire to be on a resident faculty is tremendously strong. As you know, you can find my candidacy package online.
Reading over it, I come off too forcefully. Sorry, Kenneth.
And that, right there, is part of what is so interesting about blogging in the open. It's all out there.
So, dear readers, I have a question for you to consider, if you'd be so kind. Well, actually, I have two questions.
1. Do you think, after looking over this blog and my credentials package, I'd be able to compete well for the appointment, do the job, and also excel in the role?
2. Do you think my letter was too strong & over-the-top?
Please do let me know what you think; post in the Comments section below.
I think it's OK to be forceful in presenting yourself as a candidate--as long as you're cogent too. But there's something about your last paragraph that bothers me: It almost sounds as if you are begging for a chance. I think most administrators would be turned off by that "tone of voice." I'm sure if you tinker with it, you can come up with something that sounds less "beggarly"--and more cogent!
Why is it that you only want to teach at an independent boarding school? | 2019-04-18T23:11:45 | https://schoolblog.peterstinson.com/2007/07/what-do-i-teach.html |
0.999091 | Dutch auctions have 2 or more of the same item for sale. Higher bidders are given precendence over lower bidders. In case of a tie precedence is given to the earliest bidder. The price is determined by the lowest winning bid.
Example 1: An auction has 10 items available, starts at $1, and has an increment of $1. If 5 people bid $2 and 10 people bid $1, the 5 $2 bidders plus the earliest 5 of the other $1 bidders win the auction each for $1. The next minimum bid amount goes to $2 since the supply has been exceeded.
Example 2: An auction has 10 items available, starts at $5, and has an increment of $1. Katie bids $15 for 5 items and Doug bids $5 for 10 items. Katie gets 5 items and Doug gets the remaining 5 items, each for $5 (the lowest winning bid). If Susan joins the bidding at $10 for 5 items then Katie gets 5 and Susan gets the remaining 5 items each for $10, and Doug loses out. The next minimum bid amount then goes to $10. | 2019-04-22T00:48:05 | https://www.shopgoodwill.org/Help/FaqDetail/Dutch-Auction |
0.999716 | This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to use product knowledge to complete work operations in accordance with workplace requirements and relevant regulations, as part of work activities within the transport and logistics industries.
It includes identifying products in a subsection of a warehouse or other storage area, examining quality, reporting on products, as well as using inventory and labelling systems to identify and locate products.
1. Identify products in a subsection of a warehouse or other storage area 1.1 Products are identified against specified criteria in accordance with workplace procedures.
1.2 Storage and handling characteristics are identified and applied consistently.
2. Examine quality and report on products 2.1 Products are inspected in accordance with workplace quality assurance procedures.
2.2 Workplace procedures are followed to replace, return or dispose of stock/products which are not useable.
3. Use inventory and labeling systems to identify and locate products 3.1 Inventory and labeling systems are used to locate products within the workplace. | 2019-04-22T20:30:26 | https://pdtraining.co.nz/elearningunit/use-product-knowledge-to-complete-work-operations-TLIA2014/537 |
0.997045 | Home Home Is Owl Field’s interactive 3D audio drama 'the Bandersnatch of podcasts'?
Molly Flatt talks to Michel Lafrance about the demand for interactive audio and the launch of new storytelling podcast "3D Escape Room: Frequency".
This week sees the launch of a new type of storytelling podcast. Created by Scottish 3D audio company The Owl Field (whose founder, Michel Lafrance features on the FutureBook 40 list of top publishing innovators in the UK), 3D Escape Room: Frequency draws listeners into "an innovative audio-based escape room" in which they must navigate a series of puzzles within 60 minutes.
Touted as a development set to impact podcasting in the same way as Netflix’s "Bandersnatch" has impacted streaming video on demand (although some may argue that "Bandersnatch" has had negligible impact, beyond the court case), the podcast is presented as an audio drama produced in 3D audio, where the listener is made to feel present in the room, trapped alongside the story’s central characters. It features more than twenty voice actors, sound effects and music.
We quizzed Lafrance about the demand for interactive audio, the tech behind the production, the challenges the writers faced and more.
An interactive storytelling podcast? How does that work?
The podcast is part fictional audio drama and part escape room game, where the listener must navigate a series of audio-based puzzles as quickly as they can to successfully reach the end within 60 minutes. We’ve focused on making this as accessible as possible, so the experience is contained within a single podcast feed; no specialised software is needed, only a pair of headphones is recommended for the 3D audio.
The interactive element involves deducing the correct audio tracks to play from amongst the forty tracks contained within the podcast, all of which have coded track titles, and many of which are decoys. Each time the listener solves a puzzle, the code they receive leads them to the track with the next puzzle. Once they’ve reached the end of the puzzle sequence, the listener stops their clock to determine whether they’ve succeeded in escaping.
Were you influenced/ inspired by any other interactive storytelling projects?
I’ve always admired augmented theatre-going experiences like Punch Drunk Theatre and Secret Cinema for how the audience is made to feel present in the production, and I really appreciate the added interactive element found in escape rooms. I felt a similar impact could be made by adding interactivity to the immersive experience of our 3D audio dramas. My goal with The Owl Field has always been to make the listener feel at the centre of the action, so the concept of trapping the listener inside an escape room seemed like an ideal application.
Who’s your target audience and how did you scope out demand?
Escape rooms are a booming industry, with approximately three thousand live venues worldwide and counting, so a primary audience can easily be identified as the growing masses of escape room enthusiasts. Even with this growth, though, many people have yet to have an opportunity to try a live escape room, whether it be due to location, cost, or difficulty organising a group outing. This podcast provides a free and accessible opportunity for them, and, being entirely audio-based, for people living with sight loss as well.
The podcast appeals beyond the escape room theme, though. With Netflix’s announcement that they are "doubling down" on interactive content following the success of "Bandersnatch", it is clear interactive content is in high demand, as listeners seek a level of control over the outcome, where the results are personal and can be compared socially. Here, by framing interactivity within an escape room, the listener’s experience results in a personal time that can then be compared with that of their friends.
How and where are you marketing it?
Podcasting, interactivity, escape rooms, and 3D audio are all on an upward trajectory, so these are all available marketing angles for us. However, from what we’ve seen already amongst our alpha and beta testers, our most powerful marketing tool is the personal result achieved upon completion. There is an inherent desire to discover where you rank, particularly amongst your friends, that suggests the challenge element—combined with the podcast’s accessibility—gives the podcast strong viral potential.
Who wrote it and how did the interactive element impact on the writing process?
This was a concept I’ve personally been exploring for a while—devising various audio-based puzzles in my free time—so once a workable format finally clicked, I proceeded to write the full production. Being interactive meant the writing process required—and was often dependent on—the alpha testing, with several rough mixes sent to various testers like chapters going back and forth between author and editor. Often, I would listen along with the tester, studying their interaction with the puzzles, unnerving for the tester of course, but invaluable.
What was the greatest technical challenge in producing it?
We benefited from having produced The Fairy Tree, an interactive multi-ending audio drama, which certainly helped in anticipating the potential pitfalls. Despite this, it was indeed a daunting project with numerous challenges ranging from initially developing the game’s format, to devising multiple accessible yet challenging audio-based puzzles. The greatest challenge, though, was unquestionably working out the timing to ensure the average finishing time would average sixty minutes. Several rounds of testing were required, with puzzles being reassessed at each stage from feedback that needed to consider each individual tester’s puzzle-solving proficiency! In the end, I think a good balance has been achieved and I look forward to challenge newcomers and pros alike.
What future applications can you imagine for the technology?
With smart speakers continuing to gain in popularity, I expect interactive content to dominate innovative storytelling over the next couple years, particularly now that clever interactive ideas could possibly find themselves acquired. | 2019-04-19T06:33:10 | https://www.thebookseller.com/futurebook/owl-field-s-interactive-3d-audio-drama-bandersnatch-podcasts-983546 |
0.998648 | Can I connect an electrically small antenna (ESA) directly to the network analyzer test port cable to make S-parameter measurements such as S11 and S21? Will the cabling affect the measurements?
What is the best way to do such measurements?
sure, this is done all the time. For S11, you would like to do a 1 port calibration to remove cable effects. For S21, it is important to understand the effects of your other antenna used as the receive antenna. For S21, the internal response of the analyzer is usually pretty close (less than 1 dB error) so the uncertainty in the response of the receive antenna usually swamps this.
In some cases, one uses a reference antenna in place of a DUT antenna to establish a normalized reference point, such as a 1/4 wave isotropic radiator, (whip antenna) and then replaces it with the antenna-under-test to measure the relative gain peformance.
Thanks Dr Joel! I was wondering if having such an electrically small antenna, would the test cables have great electrical influence on the measurement instead? I've seen some mention about this kind of problem where some resort to using huge ground plane or conductive cap, but I'm not sure which is the right method or if there are other better ways.
Yes, in fact the test cable will have a large effect, but this is true no matter what way you use to measure it. Using a large ground plane is one way to help isolate the effects of the cable. Another way is the run the cable through a lossy absorbtive material. This is a real problem and is difficult to quantify; Another choice is to move the directional coupler right to the antenna feed point, if you are looking for S11 match. Of course, everthing connected to the antenna can act as a radiator, so care is certainly needed. I don't have a lot of personal experience with the transmisson measurements, but I have a little with the S11 measurements.
So can I say that the major effects of the cable in this measurement are signal bouncing off it and it acting as a radiator?
Could you please elaborate further on how moving a directional coupler nearer to the antenna feed would help? I assume that in this case, the coupler would be placed between the antenna and the cable.
Do you think that time-gating can be used to circumvent this problem?
Not so much that, I think, as the cable shield will "lift" from ground, and act as a dipole element, for example. The outter surface and inner surface of the shield act separately, so the outer surface can have some non-zero impedance effect. | 2019-04-23T04:51:53 | https://community.keysight.com/thread/2855 |
0.999783 | Why does the instantaneous axis of rotation pass through the metacentre?
If you spin a spherically contained bose-einstein condensate about the z-axis, it forms vertical vortices that oscillate left and right due to centripetal acceleration. Where a small section of a single central vortex is crossed by its neighboring vortices, they form a torus, so tori forms. They can also cross on a bias and cause curves of tori to deviate away from vertical along curves. My idea is that upon firing a vortexed laser, many that cover the surface of the sphere, a phosphorescing dye that is magnetically contained, would form light/dark automata through random travelling through the center of tori, lighting a torus when it flows through the hole of a torus. Random automata, or the punch card of a binary computer. It could randomly form quantum circuits when several strings enter a planar region and form light/dark wavy bounded regions, and then the strings exit. Small 3d sections, if strings flow parallel to each other around the bound of the 3d spherical section would form a wave propagation when viewing the strings motion along the length not the tip as the string appears to flow around in wavelike propagation in a small spherical 3d section. As well, those 3d clouds can congregate to one ethereal cloud, that could possibly have circuits in the form of neurons randomly formed.
This seems not to be a real answerable question, voting to close. 500 rep users please upvote the closevote, if you agree.
I would like to clarify the holes in the most recent answer. Take a cyclinder. Drill a hole in it (rather large but not going past the midpoint). Drill a hole on the other side of the cylinder that directly faces the first hole. Groove the hole in, so light can flow around smoothly, just like you do in a real flute. Then initially, light flowing down a cyclinder (laser light), will begin to spiral around those drilled holes, and flow from one side of a cylinder to another, and cross at a single point, so a two conical triangular structures are joined at a single point in the center of the tube as you would imagine light spiraling down and forming a vortex across the hole.
Any cyclinder is surrounded by several, say 6 for example, parallel, so there would be holes drilled so light from the central tube can flow through a hole and form a vortex (plus torus around vortex) to a tube or cylinder (call it wavegide) parallel. Also, the regular train of vortices flowing down the center of the tubes is similar to how water flows down a string in a cross section of the horn torus, so that the laser is vortexed.
I would like to say one more thing. The laser light could enter any tube and flow through the tubes in the large torus. It would be domed on top and bottom. Along the inner surface of the main torus, are regular holes. I believe a central ball of light would form in the center, with tiny strings connecting to those holes irreregardless of the laser setup, as long as that setup is done, and it would be the same thing how a black hole operates inside.
I haven't solved it yet, but if a vortex is created by spinning a sphere in the z direction, as well as a vortex by spinning the sphere in the y, the vortices in the z direction could fold over back to the center and form crossing circles in the z-x plane, that look like a torus. If a sphere is spun in the z, x, and y direction combined at constant velocity of a contained condensate, tori will form, but I don't think strings are flowing through the tori. If you particle accelerated a condensate into a contained sphere from all direction to the direct center, due to pressurization, vortexed strings of condensate would spiral out of the center.
In my description of the computer, the black hole forms spirals of tori, in planar spirals, that fill a sphere, at this point I believe, and strings of either light or lit condensate is flowing through the tori. By spinning in the x, y, and z direction, you're not getting strings of condensate that -randomly- enter the hole region of a torus, and then randomly flow into another torus.
This is it. There will be a collision at the center of a sphere of a magnetically charge phosphorescing dye. The tubes entering it, each tube will be composed of two tubes that join along the length, forming a cross section of the horn torus, like a dirt hornet's nest. They surround the surface of the sphere. The tubes that lead to that sphere will be wrapped to contain magnetic charge, as well as the inside surface of the sphere where the tube's boundary directed inward.
The hornet's nest (2 tubes joined from one flow of dye into the sphere) of that tube will be vortexed, so a vortex string of dye enters. When it collides the heat generated activates the phosphorescing lighting process. The youtube video, Shroedinger's Smoke, shows what happens when a trefoil knot is cavitated, or a pressure implosion, at 1:24, it shows a vaporous knot transforming into a torus. The same thing will happen here. The vortexed strings will knot, and form tori with vortexed and now lit vortexed strings of dye flowing through tori randomly in an array.
To accelerated the dye, the computer will be a large single torus, with opening into the tubes along the tube hole of the torus. Capped above and below the large torus will be a dome above and below. Two half hemispheres, connected to reciprocating pistons outside the 2 domes, connected to the hemispheres, will be driven down, creating a pressure peak inside the tubes of the main torus, that are linked to millions of small spheres (which connect to other spheres through the tubes that accelerate the dye). The reverse stroke induces cavitation by causing a rush of dye in the form of strings flowing through tori into the vacated space from the half hemispheres. The half hemispheres are flattened near their connection point.
That's an opposing force cylinder where the cylinders move left and right and produce that flame, but those two half hemispheres would be connected to that, so it's just compressing/decompressing the dye, and that cylinder (engine) would be above and below the dome of the computer driving the compression which accelerates the dye forming tori. The tori should be stable throughout the compression decompression, because after iniitial acceleration, it would just maintain the tori and keep the flow of lit strings of condensate flowing.
I figured out how to make it switch at the speed of light, as the engine driven one is only 100 cycles/sec. It will still be a large metal torus. Along the length of any tube will be drilled holes just like a flute, one facing another, so light from an adjacent tube would enter through a join in the tube, and form two triangles. The tip is at the center, and forms two conical triangles in the shape of a torus's "hole". As well the light would fold over around the "tube of light" to make a torus. Now there will be a train of such holes along all tubes. Any given central tube would be parallel and connected through holes to 5, 6, or 7 surrounding tubes depending on how a given central tube fits with its surrounding tubes.
This would be just tube and no spheres spiraling along outside surface of the main torus, then a spiral closer in. I haven't figured out exactly the spirals and how they would connect exactly but this would work if a regular dye condensate were pumped in, and condensed the light at room temperature (this was done recently between two mirrors and a dye to condense light itself). The "tubes" or connecting triangles or conical sections, call them torus, but they look like two triangles along a 2d cut of the tube joined at a single point at the center of any tube between two holes, well they would randomly form between two holes, and form a light/dark pattern over any planar arrangement of light/dark "conical tubes" that flow from one parallel tube to another parallel tube from a drilled hole in one tube to a drilled hole in another. This may not need to be programmed to gain intelligence, as 3 strings that spiral around a single column of "conical triangle tubes", can form a weave when they flow and enter through a single tube and the weave stops the light completely. This could be the boundary of an automata, binary circuit, or quantum circuit.
The condensed light in the torus's vortices are a stronger violater of bell's inequalities than qubits. The clouds that form as described above would randomly form circuits.
However, I suppose it's possible to have detectors and switches over the holes to cause a predetermined path for a binary, quantum circuit, or neuronal cloud, but I have no idea if that is possible because I've always assumed it would reach intelligence randomly, but I don't know how long it would take to do that. | 2019-04-18T14:36:10 | https://physicsoverflow.org/38851/rotation-of-spherical-condensate-about-z-axis |
0.999323 | My email is blocked by Comcast, what can I do?
This means that Comcast has blocked an AIT owned IP address.
To get this IP unblocked, AIT recommends that Comcast subscribers, who also may be AIT customers, should alert the Comcast technical support that they have a web hosting account with AIT, a Comcast internet access account and Comcast is blocking email between the two. Typically, this will expedite the removal of the block because there is a financial commitment between the Comcast customer and Comcast.
While AIT has an Abuse Department to attempt to address these problems, communication with Comcast's abuse side is email only and AIT has had difficulty removing the blocks in a timely manner. The URL below is the page that is used to communicate with Comcast regarding a block such as this. | 2019-04-22T02:03:29 | https://www.ait.com/support/1290-my-email-is-blocked-by-comcast-what-can-i-do |
0.998643 | Doc's DeLorean Time Machine has been featured in the award-winning film "Back To The Future?" The short film stars, Jeffrey Weissman (George McFly in BTTF II & III) as Doc and Logan Wildey as Marty.
Filming for this event took place in the San Jose, San Francisco Bay Area at a few different locations during the month of September, 2015. Doc Brown brought out the 2015 Mr. Fusion Series time machine and WOW, what a blast we had doing this film. Jeffrey Weissman, Logan and his crew were excellent to work with! The filming was done in 2 days and clearly it has become a huge internet hit.
You too can rent the DeLorean Time Machine for your next corporate film, short film or other awesome 80's event. Book your future event today!
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Direct Short Online Film Festival's library will has some very remarkable award winning films from across the globe.
Doc Brown brought his DeLorean Time Machine back to Universal Studios Hollywood for City National Bank's Private Client Services 2016 Annual Meeting. Doc hid the Time Machine as the guests arrived and when they came out for lunch they were surprised by the appearance of Doc Brown and the DeLorean Time Machine. As you can see the guests enjoyed taking pictures with the car. As Doc was getting ready to leave, he couldn't resist taking a picture in front of Universal's Globe Theatre (theme park meeting/event venue for corporate and special events). Special thanks Raymie Grimm at Universal Studios Hollywood Special Events for inviting Doc to be part of this special event.
Doc & His DeLorean Time Machine Generate Wedding Bliss!!
Oakley Sunglasses rented the DeLorean Time Machine for their annual sales meeting in Huntington Beach. Not only did Doc show up with the Time Machine, Doc brought down 11 vintage and classic Arcade Games. Some of the games we brought were Ms. Pac Man, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Stargate, Turbo Outrun, Robotron, Championship Sprint and Gorf. It was a fun night of all things 80's. I mean you cant have an 80's party without having a DeLorean Time Machine and classic Arcade Games. | 2019-04-18T22:41:19 | http://www.docbrownstimemachinerental.com/docs-blog/category/rent-the-delorean |
0.999999 | Do you think of yourself as a writer? Graduate students write a great deal but rarely think of themselves as writers. Maybe this is analogous to how we think of other activities; I love to bake, for instance, but would never describe myself as a baker. A baker is someone who has training as such or who, at the very least, is paid to do so. Since neither of those is true for me, I am just someone who spends way too much time baking. Similarly, since we aren’t generally trained as writers or paid to write, we don’t call ourselves writers. But there are implications of being a writer–that is, someone who has to write frequently in order to meet key professional goals–who nonetheless shies away from that label. What would you say if asked to finish the following sentences?
[W]e have identified strategies that can help novices understand more about academic writing and their relationship with writing. One strategy is to confront and talk about rather than ignore the difficult emotions that writing stirs up. This can result in two potentially enabling insights for beginning academic writers. They learn that their feelings are not extraordinary but commonplace, and therefore not something to be anxious about. And by finding that their feelings are shared by more experienced writers, novices learn that difficult emotions need not get in the way of writing, can be managed rather than erased and might even be productive in the writing process. The second strategy is to explicitly address procedural know-how and expose what goes on in the writing process. This provides novices with information about strategies for productive writing, and assures them that what they currently perceive as failings (such as having to write and rewrite multiple times) are the very means for producing good writing. Novices learn that they are not deficient or lacking in skills but doing exactly what experienced writers do. Related to this, the third strategy is to…hail novices as academic writers—to use social settings, such as writing workshops, where novices, in the presence of others, take on tasks as if they were already experienced writers (for example, to read the work of an admired author not as a student seeking wisdom, but as a one writer inquiring into how another writer writes) (Cameron, Nairn, and Higgins, 2009; emphasis mine).
These strategies are expressed as ways that instructors can help students, and they are indeed all strategies that I find useful in my teaching. But they are also approaches that you can use yourself: you can talk honestly with your peers about your writing difficulties; you can accept that writing doesn’t come automatically and seek out the support that you need; and you can consciously adopt the role of academic writer as you approach the texts that you read. Even if writing support is hard to find, I urge you to continue to look for resources to help you implement these strategies in your own writing life. The blogroll is full of excellent resources, and I will return to these issues in future blog posts. For today, I will close with a post from the Hook & Eye blog that offers one writer’s reflections on the role of identification and acceptance in the writing process.
Source: Cameron, J., Nairn, K., & Higgins, J. (2009). Demystifying academic writing: Reflections on emotions, know-how and academic identity. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 33 (2), 269-284. | 2019-04-26T12:16:17 | https://explorationsofstyle.com/category/identity/ |
0.999807 | Was the valuation of the new Yankee Stadium "gamed" so that the foregone taxes exceeded the expected bond payments, thus allowing a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) financing deal?
That's the subtext of the inquiry launched yesterday by the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which in March 2007 and October 2007 held hearings regarding tax-exempt financing for sports facilities.
And should the subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), find the procedures sketchy, that could cast doubt on similar financing plans for Atlantic Yards arena and the new Mets stadium.
The subcommittee is investigating the accuracy of representations made to federal agencies and bond investors about the property value of the land and buildings in the stadium construction project.
Kucinich yesterday sent letters to the New York Yankees, the New York City Department of Finance, New York City Economic Development Corporation, Internal Revenue Service, and National Park Service, asking for "all documents relating to any assessment, appraisal, or any other valuation, estimated or final, of the new Yankee Stadium and the land on which the stadium is being built, including the methodologies by which these valuations were calculated."
As I wrote June 27, the city's Independent Budget Office (IBO) certainly thought the annual Yankees PILOT might exceed the foregone taxes and thus render the deal questionable. However, according to a 5/8/08 letter to the IRS and Treasury Department from city and state agencies, the estimated tax for the Yankees would be $62.5 million, while the PILOTs would be only $56.7 million.
But where did those numbers come from? The source for that estimate is not a city agency but a report from Moody's Investors Service, a company that offers credit rating and risk analysis.
No estimate for the Atlantic Yards arena PILOTs was given. However the IBO estimate of $11 million in foregone property taxes for Madison Square Garden would be far less than the estimated $48 million annual payment for $800 million in tax-exempt bonds for the arena. Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn has raised this point with the IRS and Treasury Department.
At stake for developer Forest City Ratner is a savings of perhaps $165 million compared with taxable bonds. Federal taxpayers bear most of the burden; hence, the backing of the plan by the city and state.
Kucinich may personally oppose tax-exempt financing, but eliminating it is politically unlikely. Still, both Congress and federal agencies can on several levels make things difficult for backers of tax-exempt bonds for sports facilities.
First, Kucinich has questioned whether the PILOT deals for the Yankees and Mets should have gone through. In June, he published a letter questioning whether the IRS’s approval of the teams’ financing arrangements was permissible, let alone compelled, as the IRS Chief Counsel had testified.
He asked for clarification of testimony on the issue before the Treasury Department finalizes new rules that would permit a version of such financing.
Second, even though Kucinich has questioned the proposed rules, they would remove what the IRS Chief Counsel called a "loophole" and make it impossible to issued fixed PILOTs, but rather make sure they fluctuate, as do regular property taxes.
The city and state are lobbying to make sure that additional bonds for the Yankees and Mets stadiums, as well as bonds for the Atlantic Yards arena, are grandfathered in under the more lenient standard, which allowed fixed PILOTs. As Neil deMause explained on Field of Schemes, bond buyers look askance at PILOT payments pegged to floating annual property assessments, since they "really really don't like uncertainty in their bond payments."
Third, as noted above, Kucinich in the letters issued yesterday did not question the concept of fixed PILOTs, just whether the numbers behind them are fishy.
There are several reasons to question the numbers, including the IBO report and discussion at a State Assembly hearing July 2. At the hearing, Assemblyman Richard Brodsky grilled Seth Pinsky, head of the New York City Industrial Development Authority, about the assessment for the new Yankee Stadium.
Pinsky said he didn’t know the methodology, but said the IRS had given its blessing.
It looks like Congress will be part of that "much harder look."
“I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.
Do the Ratner people, like Humpty Dumpty believe that because they might “always pay extra” that they are entitled to have the IRS, other public officials, bond buyers, rating agencies and law firms accept and vouch for numbers without examination? | 2019-04-20T20:21:52 | https://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2008/07/was-yankee-stadium-value-gamed-to-issue.html |
0.999998 | In the fall of 2007, I had been working for several months on a proposal for the authorized biography of Cheeta, Johnny Weissmuller's sidekick in MGM's Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s. Against all odds, Cheeta was still alive at the age of 75, 20 years older than a captive chimp's normal life span. When the agent for Cheeta and his owner, Dan Westfall, had first approached me about writing the biography, I was astonished that a fixture of not just my own childhood, but my parents', as well, one of the most celebrated animals in movie history, was retired in Palm Springs, Calif., selling his paintings for $135 donations to thousands of far-flung admirers. His birthday parties were now covered by national, and even international, media. At Cheeta's 75th birthday party, his owner, who runs a non-profit primate sanctuary, had played a video of Jane Goodall attempting to sing "Happy Birthday" to him in the pant-hooting language of the wild chimps she had first observed in Tanzania in the early 1960s. Could there be higher tribute to a chimp than that?
I was too absorbed in the many fascinating aspects of my research -- the history of men and their captive chimps, the early days of Hollywood animal training, the evolution of the Tarzan franchise, newspaper clips about Cheeta, not to mention a meeting with the fading star himself -- to indulge any incipient doubts about Cheeta's true identity. To be honest, I was also too enchanted with what I had been told was the project's potential lucrativeness to question its premise; the agent's casual claim that she "never gets out of bed for less than a quarter of a million dollars" had worked its magic on me.
But one oft-repeated fact about the chimp's life nagged at me. It was one of the standard stories in Cheeta's biography -- repeated in Newsweek and other magazines, recited by Cheeta's current owner and many Cheeta admirers -- that the first of his two owners, animal trainer Tony Gentry, had gotten him in Liberia as a baby and smuggled him under his overcoat aboard a Pan Am flight home in 1932. During the long flight, the diapered Cheeta escaped from under Gentry's coat, mischievously scampered up and down the aisle, and had to be subdued by hysterical stewardesses with a bottle of warm milk.
After four months of research and writing, I decided to ask a question that, in retrospect, was so obvious that it was curious that no journalist before me had bothered to ask it: In 1932, were there any transatlantic flights for Gentry to smuggle Cheeta onto? The answer, I wasn't surprised to learn, was no. Transatlantic commercial airline service wasn't inaugurated until 1939.
Early on, I had raised the issue of documenting Cheeta's age. Obviously, I had to be protected against the possibility that, if I published a biography of the world's oldest chimpanzee, someone would make a fool out of me, my reputation, my publisher, Cheeta, his owner, and the agent by proving he was not 75. But at that early stage, it seemed a mere formality, and I had no idea even what such documentation would consist of. It was unclear if Tony Gentry, who had given Cheeta to his distant cousin Dan Westfall two years before his death in 1993, had left any papers. I'd questioned both Westfall, and his agent about the file of documents that persuaded Guinness World Records in 2001 to award Cheeta a certificate for being "the world's oldest living primate, aged 69 years and one month." But it didn't seem urgent, and it certainly wasn't desirable, to question the entire premise of the book I had just agreed to write.
The falsehood about 1932 gave me pause, but I reasoned that anyone can get a memory wrong. In the first of what were to be several acts of denial, I simply ignored my discovery and proceeded with my research. But my subconscious, already on notice, soon prompted me to verify another routine biographical "fact" about Cheeta's life. Westfall had mentioned that Cheeta had come out of retirement in 1966 at the age of 34 to play the role of Chee-Chee the chimp in 1967's "Doctor Dolittle" with Rex Harrison. Even People magazine (Cheeta's "last film hurrah was 1967's 'Doctor Dolittle' ") and Newsweek ("You laughed at him in 'Doctor Doolittle' ") said so. Numerous Web sites concurred. So I watched a DVD of "Dr. Doolittle," a movie in which Chee-Chee is played by a juvenile chimp no older than 7 or possibly 8; after that age, a chimp's physical appearance changes dramatically. That was it. Cheeta was not in that film. Whatever Cheeta was doing in 1966, he wasn't making a movie with Rex Harrison.
The same Newsweek also reported, "Only once did Cheeta walk off the set -- reportedly when Ronald Reagan kept forgetting his lines in 'Bedtime for Bonzo.' " "Bedtime for Bonzo!" If Cheeta had actually been Reagan's as well as Tarzan's sidekick, that would make him the Zelig of primates, turning up wherever entertainment history was being made. I sent 1951s "Bedtime for Bonzo" to the head of my Netflix queue and wasn't shocked to discover that Cheeta, by then a full-grown 19-year-old, is not in that movie, either. Bonzo was played by another, infant or juvenile chimp.
Things appeared to be falling apart. I was now in the awkward, if not ridiculous, position of having to verify a claim -- that Cheeta was 75 -- whose accuracy was of limited interest to anyone outside the community of Cheeta and Tarzan fanatics. How fanatical? On one end of the spectrum were the tour buses and the casual fans who occasionally stopped in front of Westfall's house, which had by the front door a cast-metal sculpture of a young chimp and a discreet sign that said "Casa de Cheeta." If Westfall happened to be outside, the middle-age driver might stick his head out the window and ask, "Is this where Cheeta lives?" and, "Is it really true he's still alive?" On the other end of the spectrum, though, were true believers, for whom getting Cheeta the elusive star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame had been, and still was, a high priority. In 1985, two brothers named David and Dan Linck, intrigued by a Los Angeles Times feature article, befriended Cheeta and his frail first owner, Gentry. On their first of several visits to Gentry's modest home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Cheeta sat at the picnic table with them, wearing a leash and consuming eggs, toast and a Budweiser before smoking a cigar also provided by his owner. Gentry told the brothers how badly he wanted a star for Cheeta on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After all, Lassie and Rin Tin Tin had theirs. Sympathetic, the Lincks that summer organized a "Cheetathon" at the Park Plaza Hotel to raise money for the cause. Unfortunately, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which decides these matters, rejected Cheeta's application.
Was it out of sensitivity to the feelings of people such as the Lincks and Devlen, to say nothing of the feelings of Westfall and his agent, that I still withheld the extent of my doubts about Cheeta's age? Not really. In fact, I called Westfall to ask if he had seen "Doctor Dolittle." When he said he hadn't, I told him that Cheeta wasn't in it, to which he replied amiably, "Well, that's what Tony told me." He had nothing further to say on the matter. With the agent, I had a couple of conversations in which I reported the Pan Am Clipper and "Doctor Dolittle" discoveries and Tony Gentry's obvious muddling of chimps. She didn't respond with any alarm, and, allowing myself to be momentarily consoled, I stopped well short of arguing that the emerging pattern of inconsistencies demanded that we sit down and revisit the premise of the book. It was as if I had fulfilled my obligation to the truth merely by reporting my doubts to them.
In the mid-1950s, the social psychologist Leon Festinger devised the term "cognitive dissonance" for a psychological phenomenon that is so universal and commonplace that it's remarkable no suitably scientific-sounding term had been invented before then. Cognitive dissonance applies to the conflict between what a person believes and what he knows or learns is true. Strangely, Festinger discovered, the believer usually resolves the conflict by intensifying his discredited belief. Festinger cited five conditions that need to be met for someone to become even more committed to a belief after it is discredited. One of them definitely applied to me: "The person holding the belief must have committed himself to it; that is, for the sake of his belief, he must have taken some important action that is difficult to undo." Indeed, I had committed myself to a project that, considering the elusiveness of good book ideas and my substantial investment of time and effort, I was not in the least eager to give up. Besides which, I had already flown 3,000 miles to meet Cheeta in Palm Springs, and it was not the kind of experience that I wanted to waste. | 2019-04-19T03:13:59 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112500939.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national |
0.999991 | I want to add a JS confirm box to a User Action created on the Nuxeo Studio, it's possible ?
I found how to do that : 1. Install on your platform the "Exporer plugin" 2. Browse your distribution => org.nuxeo.misc => studio.extensions.name-of-your-project => Contribution => actions 3. Find your User Action name you put on the Studio and copy the XML into a new XML Extensions. 4. Add a confirm action on your definition like : confirm="return confirm('Do you want to confirm ?');" That's all, you can now redeploy your project on your platform.
Find your User Action name you put on the Studio and copy the XML into a new XML Extensions.
That's all, you can now redeploy your project on your platform. | 2019-04-25T06:53:33 | https://answers.nuxeo.com/general/q/73c2437320da4b7694c641346c8a221e/Add-a-JS-confirm-on-a-User-Interface-Action-on-Nuxeo-Studio |
0.998759 | The Experts: How do I take torsion into consideration when tightening?
Q: How do I take torsion into consideration when tightening a bolted joint?
A: Torsion is the twisting of the bolt when applying the tightening torque. When a bolt is tightened it is subjected to tensile stress as preload is introduced but also to torsion stress as a result of thread friction. Torsion generates a shearing stress that is perpendicular to the radius in the circular cross section of the bolt.
Bolts are designed to support a certain stress [N/mm2] before yielding, known as the yield strength of the material. Torsion increases the total stress in the bolt, which may break at a lower preload than expected; the greater torsion stress, the lower the tensile stress that can be introduced. Therefore, when designing a bolted joint, it is important to consider both tension and torsion in order to utilise maximal axial load in the bolt without yielding it.
By calculation, according to international standards and recommendations.
By considering that torsion stress will represent 15% of the total stress. Nevertheless, in respect of thread friction, this usual value can be adjusted: from 10% if the fasteners are lubricated, to 20% in dry conditions and even more when using friction-based locking fasteners.
Since torsion originates from thread friction, it can be simply reduced by applying a lubricant to the threads of the fastener. There are also tightening methods utilising tensioning of the bolt either by hydraulic equipment or special nuts. Since no turning movement occurs between the threads, torsion can be completely eliminated and a higher axial tension obtained without any risk of the bolt yielding. | 2019-04-22T04:00:23 | https://www.nord-lock.com/sv-se/inblick/skruvsakrings-tips/2011/the-experts-how-do-i-take-torsion-into-consideration-when-tightening/ |
0.999263 | The comedic interrupters Yes Men showed up at TransCanada’s “trade show” dressed in nearly identical blue shirts and khakis to answer questions about the Keystone XL pipeline and its cousin, the Energy East pipeline. Watch the video to see how you too can interrupt immoral corporate shenanigans.
Context: TransCanada is a mining company that wants to make money off one of the last massive tar sand deposits in the world. Climate scientists agree that expanding tar sands mining will force a massive amount of carbon pollution into the earth’s atmosphere and tip our planet over it’s energy budget. It is our moral duty to stop this from happening.
God established a liveable zone for human thriving. As strange as it seems, immoral leadership – both in politics and business – is wreaking havoc on the basic stuff of life – air, water, soil, and the most vulnerable in our communities — the unborn, the elderly, and those who are sick or weak.
Stopping TransCanada from expanding tar sands mining by stopping the pipelines through which tar sands sludge will be shipped is just one front on which we are called to wage peace, environmental stewardship, and the right to life. | 2019-04-26T08:51:25 | http://rosemarieberger.com/tag/energy-east/ |
0.999953 | The British people are preparing to pass sentence on an exhausted, fractious government.
After years of utopian socialist planning, internal party feuding and the worst weather in living memory, the Labour government is staggering towards its end.
With the headlines dominated by economic despair, conflict in the Middle East and angry exchanges about the special relationship with the U.S., the high hopes that surrounded Labour's previous landslide victory seem a distant memory.
The future, as most people recognise, now lies with a modernised Conservative Party.
Britain today? No, this was the country in February 1950.
And although Prime Minister Clement Attlee managed to cling on to power after the general election, only being defeated in a second election a year later, the parallels with Gordon Brown's Britain are astonishing.
To borrow the title of Michael Sissons and Philip French's classic history - which has, with exemplary timing, just been reissued - the Attlee years were the Age Of Austerity.
It was an era when British soldiers were killed by Middle Eastern insurgents, the government oscillated between social engineering and stringent cuts, the nation seemed threatened by an international ideological conspiracy, and even the snow kept on falling.
And, yet, the parallels are most unflattering for Gordon Brown and the modern Labour party.
A slew of bad news this week revealed that Britain's finances are in the worst shape for decades and could now force Gordon Brown into an early April election.
The Treasury reported it borrowed a staggering £4.3billion in January (usually a frugal month), and this as mortgage lending tumbled, Britain recorded the second-lowest productivity figures in the G7 after Japan and the number of new homes built last year fell to the lowest level since the Forties. We even have a worse budget deficit than European basket case, Greece. The New Labour project, it seems, has failed utterly.
Of course, Attlee's government also had its flaws. But it put economic discipline ahead of spin and spending. And while it had more than its fair share of cranks and militants, Attlee would have been appalled by the spectacle of Labour MPs facing prosecution for fiddling their expenses.
Like the current government, Attlee's team took power against a background of optimism that quickly evaporated. The Labour landslide in 1945 was the party's biggest victory until Tony Blair entered Downing Street in 1997.
After 14 years of Tory rule and six long years of war, millions of ordinary people were desperate for change, which is why Attlee's slogan, 'Let us Face the Future', struck such a chord.
And, as Tory seats continued to fall, Labour supporters roared themselves hoarse at their victory party in Central Hall - an uncanny preview of Blair's Things Can Only Get Better celebrations five decades later.
It was a remark that would come back to haunt him. Yet how many of Blair's Babes were saying the same thing half a century later?
Like our current masters, Attlee's government was stuffed with planners, teachers and boffins, but very few people with experience of business.
Its key figures included men like Hugh Dalton, a wealthy, Etoneducated socialist intellectual, and Sir Stafford Cripps, an aristocratic Marxist vegetarian - men convinced they knew what was best for everybody else.
And yet from the very beginning, the government was disfigured by persistent feuding. Just as Gordon Brown never forgave Tony Blair for winning the Labour leadership, so Peter Mandelson's grandfather Herbert Morrison was convinced that he should be Prime Minister instead of Attlee.
Even after Attlee had won a landslide, Morrison tried to force him out.
And just two years later, both Dalton and Cripps mounted brief coups against their leader, which petered out even more feebly than last month's Hewitt/Hoon putsch against Gordon Brown.
But although Attlee clung on to power with his usual equanimity, the clouds of gunsmoke never evaporated.
But while Attlee's ministers squabbled, Britain's international position was coming under intense threat.
In Europe, Communism was on the march; in the Middle East, British troops found themselves trapped between Jews and Arabs.
And when Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, 28 British citizens were among the 91 innocent people killed - victims, said Attlee, of a 'brutal and murderous crime'.
Meanwhile, the economy, too, was turning from bad to worse.
Virtually bankrupt at the end of World War II, Britain was forced to beg for a humiliating loan from the U.S. at the end of 1945.
And more embarrassment was to come.
In 1947, confidence in sterling collapsed - and two years later, after a vain and expensive battle to stave off market pressure, the Treasury humiliatingly devalued the pound.
As usual, it was ordinary consumers who paid the price for Britain's economic woes. Rationing not merely continued after the war, it actually got worse.
Families were limited to just four ounces of bacon a week, two ounces of butter, and a shilling's worth of meat (the equivalent of £1.60 in today's money).
'Not a bad meal, not a bad meal,' the Tory leader Winston Churchill remarked when shown the latest peacetime rations.
With bakers running out of bread and Labour desperately trying to persuade people to eat a tasteless sardine substitute called snoek (an oily fish imported from South Africa), it was no wonder that patience was running out.
Exasperated middle-class women formed the Housewives' League to demand an end to rationing.
Not even the Festival of Britain in 1951 - organised by Herbert Morrison, whose grandson, Peter Mandelson, tried to emulate its success with the disastrous Dome - could make up for the shortages, the petty regulations and the ubiquitous nanny state.
'Dreariness is everywhere,' recorded a schoolteacher one gloomy Sunday afternoon, quoted in Austerity Britain, David Kynaston's brilliant history of the period.
It was no wonder, then, that so many people were tempted by Tory promises to encourage 'hard work and thrift', to 'cut out all unnecessary government expenditure, simplify the administrative machine, and prune waste and extravagance in every department,' and to 'restore to local government the confidence and responsibility it has lost under Socialism' - words that sound like they were written by David Cameron.
And, yet, for all the parallels, it is the contrasts between the Age of Austerity and Brown's Britain that catch the eye.
Attlee himself never lost public respect in the way his successor has done.
Indeed, in 1950, he actually won more votes than five years earlier - and, even in 1951, Labour won more votes than the Tories, even though it lost the election in terms of seats.
In some ways, Attlee was not unlike Tony Blair, another middleclass public schoolboy. But while Blair wiggled and waffled when it came to his faith, Attlee was typically blunt. 'Believe in the ethics,' he said of Christianity.
And not even Attlee's greatest critics could doubt his ethical integrity.
He would never have accepted free holidays from pop singers or foreign millionaires, and he would never have surrounded himself with bullies like Brown's former henchman Damian McBride (who resigned after sending email smears about senior Tories and their spouses).
He was a man of few words who once told an audience of middleclass Lefties that their 'best act would be to get off the backs of the poor'.
He would have shuddered at the thought of shedding tears on national television.
And he campaigned from the back seat of a car driven by his wife Violet - a lifelong Tory who would have hated the thought of introducing her husband at the Labour conference.
Crucially, Attlee ran a clean government - so clean, that when Hugh Dalton accidentally revealed his tax plans to a journalist on his way to deliver the 1947 Budget, he felt honourbound to resign immediately.
That is one reason why even Attlee's opponents admired him.
'He was a serious man and a patriot - all substance and no show,' wrote Mrs Thatcher in her memoirs.
Who would say the same of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown?
Yet, the differences between Attlee's government and his successors go deeper than mere personality.
His government had some familiar flaws, from its addiction to public ownership to its conviction that the men in Whitehall always knew best.
And yet I suspect he would be shocked by the state of the nation after 13 years of Blair and Brown.
After all, whatever you think of Attlee's reforms, they lasted an extraordinarily long time.
The modern welfare state is built on foundations he laid down, from the NHS to the system of National Insurance contributions.
And even today almost a million families live in homes originally built as council houses by his housing supremo Nye Bevan - most of them in much better nick than the Stalinist tower blocks that came years afterwards.
Even in foreign affairs, the contrast is almost painful.
A former labourer from the West Country, Attlee's Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin was the soul of working-class patriotism.
And as the chief architect of the Nato alliance that defeated Communism, he could hardly be called anti-American.
But to imagine him fawning over George Bush and Barack Obama is simply impossible. Indeed, Bevin's unaffected patriotism was crucial in the decision to build our independent nuclear deterrent.
'I don't want any other Foreign Secretary of this country to be talked to or at by a Secretary of State in the United States, as I have just had in my discussions,' he told his colleagues after a meeting with U.S Secretary of State, James F Byrnes.
The biggest contrast, though, is the economy. For all their fondness for nationalisation, Labour's Chancellors in the Age of Austerity were never afraid to bite the bullet and slash spending if it made economic sense.
And even when the public howled with pain, Dalton and Cripps put long-term recovery ahead of short-term popularity.
In 1947, with a threadbare, bomb-damaged Britain gripped by a wave of strikes, the worst winter in living memory and a savage currency crisis, Cripps found himself staring into the economic abyss.
It would have been easy - and popular - to duck the challenge of the nation's desperate finances.
But, unlike Alistair Darling, Cripps took the tough decisions to raise taxes, force down consumption and devalue the pound, all designed to boost British industry and exports.
The result was that by the time the voters kicked Attlee & Co into retirement, Britain was standing on the brink of the biggest boom in history.
Within just a few years, austerity was forgotten and affluence was all the rage - not something, sadly, we will be saying about the 2010s.
So, while it is easy to congratulate ourselves that some things are better now than they were 60 years ago, we would do better to look back with rather more humility.
Life was certainly much harder then than it is now. But it was getting better.
By the time the Age of Austerity came to an end, most people were better fed and housed than before. They enjoyed rising wages and full employment, crime was low, the Armed Forces were well funded, and nobody talked about a broken Britain.
And, amid the rationing and the shortages, the freezing weather and the miserable headlines, our predecessors could at least console themselves that they were paying the price for defeating the foulest tyranny that ever stalked the earth.
By comparison, we find ourselves in a new Age of Austerity - not because we sacrificed everything to fight the Nazis, but because of sheer self-indulgence, encouraged by a government that never knew when to say no.
Gordon Brown and his ministers may like to invoke the spirit of the Attlee years.
But after 13 years in power, the ultimate indictment of Labour's record is that their greatest prime minister would surely be ashamed of them. | 2019-04-22T16:08:30 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1252457/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-Austerity-Attlee-wept-TV-economic-integrity-votes.html |
0.998579 | Pope Benedict XVI told priests who have abused children to submit to the "demands of justice," according to a letter released Saturday.
The pontiff said a misplaced concern for the church's reputation and inadequate methods of choosing priests had contributed to decades of sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy.
In a letter written to Catholics in the Irish Republic, the pope said he was "deeply disturbed" by the flood of allegations in Ireland and told victims he was "truly sorry." He acknowledged they had suffered "grievously."
The letter did not mention similar claims in Germany.
The church has been accused of protecting priests in the past and the pope's comment about the "demands of justice" appeared to be a reference to civil court proceedings, NBC News reported.
and a tendency to favor clergy.
However, the pope also blamed an increasing secularization of society for abuse by priests. | 2019-04-20T07:35:05 | https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/breaking/Pope_to_sex_abuse_priests__Submit_to_justice-88719827.html |
0.996857 | This kind of information that makes my heart beat faster! What am I talking about? An online archive of American sheet music that has been made available by the Library of Congress. Finally, your tax dollars are going to something worthwhile!
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
What's up with the warning of offensive material? I think that has something to do with music written a century before civil rights.
How to use the site? You can browse around for starters. If you are looking - say- for songs by Stephen Foster, entering his name as a 'search' which will lead you to interesting material. It was very common for a composer's work to be arranged for other instruments or arranged for voices. And Foster's very popular music was no exception. Here is his evocative Beautiful Dreamer arranged for piano.
When you find something you'd like to copy, all you have to do is drag the image off the page and then print it out. Simple as that.
Stephen Foster? That is a sad tale. Beautiful Dreamer was published after his death at the age of 37. (As America's first songwriter, Foster hardly saw a dime from music published in his own life-time, a fact which undoubtedly contributed to his poverty and death.) Marilyn Horne has had a particular association with this song. And I have not forgotten hearing her sing it on a program at the McCarter Theater in Princeton in the 1980's. Here she is singing it in recital with the excellent Marvin Katz at the piano at Covent Garden. Beautiful indeed!
I hope you have fun searching Music for the Nation. The material there is part of our history. And should not be forgotten. | 2019-04-26T12:23:42 | https://www.voice-talk.net/2010/07/music-for-nation-american-sheet-music.html |
0.99869 | Any idea if is possible to mirror in an small business two Synology NAS units?
I have one Main Rackstation with 500GB of data, on raid1 with hot spare, and have a backup NAS (disk station) with the same data (we manually copy the data every 48 hours).
Can this be done automatically?
Can we mirror not only data but users, permissions and other settings as well?
The idea is if Main NAS fails, we can disconnect from network, update the IP on the 2nd NAS and back on production in a minute.
Synology has what they call a "high availability" feature that allows you to use an active/passive setup. Now, this isn't the same as having servers in cluster or using Starwind but it should do what you are asking it to do. The failover is slow so if you aren't running any VMs off the NAS, this should work for you.
You said all your user data and backup data would be on the NAS. Unless I don't understand, that's a huge red flag. If you had a catastrophic failure of your NAS, you'd lose your user data and your backups. I'd say you need a bit different plan. Your backup data should be on a separate device from your user or application data.
I've used QSAN NAS devices in the past. We had one holding all of our Virtualised Infrastructure and it run 24/7 without any failures.
I don't think you can do syncronous on Synology because what they call HA has to have identical models, but you can replicate volumes using their backup app.
Very few devices can do true synchronous HA and in many cases it's better to do such stuff at the application level.
You can do rsync on the synology but you'll have to take into account not being able to sync files that are open and you can probably only run it a max of once every 15 minutes.
Bad news: You can't do that with Syno as they (like other guys pointed out) can't use different hardware.
1) It's true active-active HA with an instant 0ms failover and not anorexic active-passive stuff with a very slow failover BSODing your VMs.
Good luck and ping me if you'd like to move on within this scenario as like I've told some of your efforts will be needed.
Client don't need iSCSI, Vmware, etc. They just need to mirror the NAS. Do you say with StarWind VSAn Free I can install the app into a Windows Workstation and the app will keep both Synology on sync?
You need some protocol to "talk" to this new virtual entity. If it won't be iSCSI, SMB3 or NFS what's it going to be?
Our service needs Server OS to run so Workstation is out of game (some old versions could do that but I don't even know how many years ago we've dropped desktop OSes).
Also it depends what you mean under "in sync". If you need files on both NAS boxes then no we won't do that, we'll grab the space from NAS boxes for our own needs and provide you with a new namespace which is going to be allocated from your both NAS (something what all of the Software-Defined Storage solutions will do). If you want files staying AS IS then you need some sort of a file-level replication, DFS-R, rsync or whatever.
What I can't get is why their sync can't be routable. Do you have any ideas why exactly?
Sadly I don't. But I do know that for some clients with 2 Synology NAS, this is an effective method for improving availability. The simplicity of this approach is what has been favourable among small clients.
One this to keep in mind if that this does not constitute a backup so I would highly recommend you also have a backup through either rsync, to cloud storage, or to another Synology NAS that is located offsite.
Second copy of your data isn't a backup either.
That's correct, which is why I said it improved availability. Synology has built-in functionality to actually backup via rsync or to cloud storage or another Synology NAS. An actual backup where changed blocks are sent over and previous versions of data is maintained so that a corrupted, infected, or deleted file can be retrieved properly, all within stated data retention guidelines.
You can replicate easily. It's not what we call mirroring, but it meets your objectives.
This is exactly what we need. We will upgrade the 2 NAS with brand new RS815 so we can setup High Availability as explained in your link.
There is no vmware connected to the NAS, just Office data (Pdfs, Docs, Jpgs, etc). and lot of folders.
This request is only for high availability.
Data on NAS (office files) + veeam backup recovery files are saved on HDD every month and stored offsite. This are historic backups.
There is another layer of backups using Carbonite.
Of course. The replication between the 2 NAS unit is to allow the client to access the office files in NAS2 if primary NAS1 fails. They already have RAID1 so a failed HDD is not an issue. The problem is more focused in address a solution in case NAS 1 power supply fails or we have another malfunction in NAS1.
If NAS1 fails, NAS2 will be able to provide users to access to the files.
Regarding Backup the files are backed up using Backup exec (one full on Monday, diffs on remaining weekdays). and an HDD offsite every month with all data from NAS, including veeam backup files.
Another layer of backup is available via Carbonite. This is a continuous backup and already save us during a ransomware issue about a month ago.
If you have Veeam Backup & Replication, you can put the Endpoint backups in a repository, which is still the NAS.
Then the Backup Copy,Job can kick in and make copues5, with additional rules like retention.
Client don't have Veeam Backup and Replication. They have Veeam Endpoint backup for PC/Laptops protection. | 2019-04-22T18:29:53 | https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1598807-mirror-2-synology-nas |
0.999999 | The following instructions require that you have already created a doll page and/or a sponsor page.
1. In the search box in the top right corner of any page, type in the name of your doll and click the Search button.
2. In the list of search results, find your doll's page and click on it.
3. Once you are on your doll's page, copy the url to your clipboard.
4. Go to the Contents menu, then Doll Directory.
5. On the Doll Directory page, click the Edit button at the bottom.
6. Look at the entries already in the directory. They are in alphabetical order by First Name. Determine where your doll will fit, then insert a blank line in that position.
7. Type an open bracket — [ — then paste the url of your doll's page from your clipboard.
8. Space over 1 space and type the name of your doll: First, Middle, and Last (remember her last name is the date you created her in the form mmddyy).
1. In the search box in the top right corner of any page, type in your Username and click the Search button.
2. In the list of search results, find your sponsor page and click on it.
3. Once you are on your sponsor page, copy the url to your clipboard.
4. Go to the Contents menu, then Sponsor Directory.
5. On the Sponsor Directory page, click the Edit button at the bottom.
6. Look at the entries already in the directory. They are in alphabetical order by Username. Determine where your listing will fit, then insert a blank line in that position.
7. Type an open bracket — [ — then paste the url of your sponsor page from your clipboard.
8. Space over 1 space and type your Username. | 2019-04-24T20:01:05 | http://nameyourbarbie.wikidot.com/add-to-directories |
0.998619 | Only way for me to describe this comic is: very human. It has a very natural flow and character.
Maravilloso. El dibujo de Pedrosa, espectacular, unido a una narración vaporosa que cuenta mucho en pocas palabras. Una historia muy familiar para casi todos los lectores.No obstante, tengo que comentar lo absurdo que resulta que un cómic tan bien editado, tenga una rotulación de la voz en off tan desastrosa y fea. Menos mal que hay poca!Pero bueno, la obra deja muy buen sabor de boca y es sin duda un cómic que no puede faltar en tu estantería.
10/10Una historia intimista con un dibujo genial. AL principio me costó bastante cogerle el gusto, pero en cuanto comienzas a sumergirte en la historia, te parece encantadora.
Une belle histoire sur la recherche de son identité à travers son histoire familiale, drôle et touchante.
Myślałam, że to będzie o czymś innym, ale nadal mi się podobało.
I'd be hard pressed to determine which I appreciate more, this work by Pedrosa or his most recent one, Equinoxes. While the latter might be more ambitious, this one is more successful at what Pedrosa set out to do (from what I can determine). The three-part narrative structure works well at making this a seemingly ensemble story, while in reality focusing primarily on just one figure, Simon. This is a hefty tome, one definitely deserving the tag "novelistic."
In quello che per ora è considerata l'opera migliore di Pedrosa un trentenne senza qualità cerca le sue radici: tre flash di storie di famiglia portoghese trapiantata in Francia. Il Portogallo compare solo di sfuggita, in compenso molti squarci psicologici sono godibili per quanto sono buffi o commoventi. Mi sono incantato più volte a guardare i disegni, davvero strepitosi: quanto glie li invidio.La prima delle tre parti però l'ho trovata fastidiosamente vuota, per cui mi limito a 4 stelle.
My first encounter with Pedrosa. An epic and poetic search for origins and how they shape families and what we are today.With Shaun Tan and The arrival, this is another of these books that kept me smilîng and daydreaming when I finally put my eyes on the last page.
I loved the artwork for this graphic novel! The story itself was enjoyable, but there were also parts where I was a little bored since there wasn't a clear plot.
I have been waiting for an English translation for this book for so long, and I was not disappointed! Cyril Pedrosa's distinct visual style is enchanting as always, and I was completely captivated by his telling of his family's history, and his very warm touch when depicting family members, even during their worst moments.
Beautifully narrated, drawn and colored story. Although fado is not mentioned or heard in the book, for me the spirit of fado is present: in melancholy of Simon and his father. It is the fate (fado in Portuguese) that led Simon to his roots and made him more complete.The book squeezed my heart.
Prijetna zgodba o iskanju korenin Simon, stripovski avtor (se mi zdi) se odpravi na Portugalsko kjer spoznava svojo družinsko zgodovino.Narisano je vse nadkrasno :) Prvo sm samo prelistal svojo nemško verzijo, zdj sm dobil pa še Angleški prevod in sm jo konno tud zares prebral.
Una búsqueda en el pasado y en la historia familiar de la emigración. Es una historia que ha pasado por mí, sin más.
Mi è piaciuta molto la seconda parte, un ritratto familiare che non ricordavo, ero troppo piccolo, o forse semplicemente devo ancora viverlo.Per chi non sa di essere,per chi ha paura di volere. | 2019-04-21T19:31:42 | http://vouchercodes2017.co.uk/12873781-portugal/ |
0.99537 | Around 6pm on Wednesday evening all hell broke loose at Parliament House.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash had spent the best part of the day repeatedly telling a Senate committee neither she nor her office had tipped off media about Australian Federal Police raids on Bill Shorten's old union on Tuesday. But as Cash's denials mounted, some alternative facts were brewing.
Just before the dinner break, BuzzFeed News published a story saying it had spoken to journalists who claimed they had received a call from Cash's office an hour before the raids. After checking back with her office, Cash was forced to concede one of her advisers had in fact contacted the media "without my knowledge".
The staffer in question quit immediately and as of Thursday evening, Labor was doing its very best to pressure Cash to resign.
Apart from the political fallout, BuzzFeed's story has also sparked questions about the relationships between journalists and politicians. Are they too cosy? Or is "off-the-record" a sacred beast that should never be sacrificed?
While many have praised the Cash staffer scoop - including Canberra press gallery doyenne, Michelle Grattan - BuzzFeed reporter Alice Workman says she's been approached by several colleagues from other outlets, unhappy at her decision to out Cash's office. They say there are certain conventions between the warring sides of journalists and MPs. Revealing a minister's office was behind the news tip could ruin relationships for everyone.
There is also concern that off-the-record should always stay that way (even though Canberra has an intermittent history of breaking that rule: think Barrie Cassidy revealing Kevin Rudd was campaigning to return, when he insisted he wasn't). On Wednesday, Daily Telegraph national political editor Sharri Markson tweeted it had been a "shocking night for the media. Some journos clearly do not know how to protect sources".
Workman of course didn't directly "out" any sources herself. She says she was approached by (unnamed) journalists on Wednesday – who had been contacted by Cash's office – as it became clear the minister was misleading the Senate (whether inadvertently or not).
"We have a responsibility to call [those in power] out," Workman says.
The BuzzFeed reporter explains the specific outlets were not identified in her story because those in question feared losing their jobs.
Arguably, the trickier question is whether those who spoke to Workman should have kept their interactions with Cash's office a secret in the first place.
Marcus Strom, a former Fairfax journalist and president of the media arm of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, says as a general principle, once journalists accept a confidence it should be respected. But he cautions that the default position of journalists should be to explain to audiences where information is coming from. And he wonders whether we are drifting into a culture where too much information is taken "off-the-record".
This is a daily balancing act in the press gallery. Journalists need to speak to sources (mostly politicians, their staffers, public servants and lobbyists) off-the-record or "on background" so they can gather as much information as possible. If they only used on-the-record comments, they would only get the boring, sanitised version of events.
Sean Kelly, a former adviser to Rudd and Julia Gillard, says for politicians and their staff, off-the-record briefings can be incredibly important to make sure journalists properly understand the facts and context of an issue.
In the case of news tips – about say, a photo opportunity or a police raid – this means journalists get a story and the MP concerned gets publicity. But while some of this is just practical, some of it errs on the side of mutual back-scratching. And when you look at the response of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday, you have to wonder how often it goes too far.
"There are a few people who are happy to take leaks because that helps them in their job as a journalist and then they turn around and bite the hand that feeds them," he told radio 2GB's Ray Hadley.
Readers, listeners and viewers may also be uncomfortable at the thought that journalists are privy to things – important, game-changing things – that they are not sharing publicly for the sake of their ongoing relationships with those in power.
It's easy to take the high road and say, "everything on the record, always". But the reality is, journalism – and the art of getting the good information – is also a long game. And can be just as political as the politics itself. | 2019-04-22T21:31:31 | https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-dash-for-cash-when-offtherecord-is-turned-on-20171026-gz8eaz.html |
0.975866 | Helping Verbs, also called Auxiliary Verbs, are not always clearly understood.
It is not uncommon among students of English, especially those who began seriously learning the language late in life, to mistakenly believe that some words are always auxiliary verbs and others always main verbs.
For instance, in the minds of such students, the verb 'is' in the sentence, 'John is a good student.' is incorrectly branded as an auxiliary verb. They consider all occurrences of 'is' as auxiliary verbs.
(is - is a main verb in this sentence).
(is - is a helping verb and reading is the main verb, both these verbs together forming a single finite verb phrase).
Helping Verbs are part of finite verb phrases.
Finite verb phrases usually have a main part and a helping part.
Finite verbs are usually phrases (groups of words), except for two instances, when they are single words.
I write an article every week.
Now the article is written.
My daughter has been writing it since last Monday.
In my wife's opinion, I should have been writing it.
All the other verbs in the table are helping verbs.
Both is and been are forms of the verb to be.
has and have are forms of the verb to have.
The verb should is called a modal auxiliary (or simply a modal).
you find one, two, and three of them in the second, third and fourth sentences respectively.
There is a main verb in all the sentences. So, a helping verb requires a main verb to receive its help.
Without a main verb, there can be no helping verb.
How Do Helping Verbs Help?
in providing a dummy verb where a negative or interrogative sentence is to be made in particular tenses.
These are called Primary Auxiliaries.
These are called Modal Auxiliaries or simply, Modals. | 2019-04-23T23:50:13 | http://english-language-grammar-guide.com/helping-verbs.html |
0.999186 | При опухолевой прогрессии сигнальный путь Notch и его компоненты могут проявлять как опухольсупрессирующие, так и онкогенные свойства в зависимости от типа ткани и микроокружения. До недавнего времени крайне мало было известно о роли Notch в развитии рака мочевого пузыря (РМП). По данным последних исследований было выявлено, что потеря копии и снижение экспрессии гена NOTCH1 характерны для клеточных линий РМП, а активация сигнального пути Notch1 снижает клеточную пролиферацию in vitro, что свидетельствует о его опухольсупрессирующей роли в прогрессировании РМП. Более того, РМП может быть индуцирован тканеспецифичной инактивацией одного из компонентов комплекса у-секретазы, принимающего непосредственное участие в запуске сигнального каскада Notch, in vivo. Однако результаты дальнейших исследований показали, что NOTCH2 является онкогеном, стимулирующим пролиферацию и метастазирование через индукцию эпителиально-мезенхимального перехода и поддержание фенотипа опухолевых стволовых клеток. Полученные данные, указывающие на противоположность свойств NOTCH1 и NOTCH2 в опухолевой прогрессии РМП, могут лечь в основу новых терапевтических подходов, связанных с воздействием на активность сигнального пути Notch.
Мария Вадимовна Новикова - лаборатория цитогенетики, лаборант-исследователь.
Борис Павлович Копнин - лаборатория цитогенетики, доктор биологических наук, профессор, главнфый научный сотрудник.
Павел Борисович Копнин - лаборатория цитогенетики, кандидат биологических наук, заведующий.
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0.998637 | Confidence level is a statistical measure of the percentage of test results that can be expected to be within a specified range. For example, a confidence level of 95 percent means that the result of an action will probably meet expectations 95 percent of the time. When physicists search for a signal of the Higgs boson, they select particle collisions with observed characteristics similar to those a Higgs production would feature. The result of this data selection will always include background events, i.e. ones which did not involve a Higgs boson decay, but are anyway individually undistinguishable from the signal. The existence of the Higgs boson would however increase the number of selected events, so one may compare the number of selected events with the predicted yield from known backgrounds alone, to make a statistical statement about the Higgs production rate. If the number of observed events is close to the background prediction, then one can rule out a sizable contribution from the Higgs boson decay signal, which would have created an excess of events. Given a signal rate and a background prediction, one can compute the probability that a total number of events smaller or equal to the ones observed is seen. Signal rates for which the probability would be smaller than 5% are then said to be "excluded at 95% confidence level". Note that the choice of 95% as a division line between what is allowed or excluded by the data is arbitrary, and has merely historical justification. | 2019-04-19T03:20:51 | http://cms.cern/physics/higgs-boson-terms-and-definitions |
0.999027 | The colors scheme caught my attention.
Does the bill have green on the bottom or is it completely navy?
BEST ANSWER: The underside of the bill is green.
The bottom of the bill is green. | 2019-04-22T07:14:11 | https://www.tillys.com/product/brixton-oath-iii-white-navy-mens-snapback-hat/322872171.html |
0.997891 | Already the holders of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the Prada Challenge added the Louis Vuitton Trophy to its collection after beating the GBR Challenge by just six seconds in the final of the America’s Cup Class.
The racing by the modern representatives at the America's Cup Jubilee turned out to be closer and more exciting than anyone dared to expect, but in the end, the experience of the Italians won out over the exuberance of the young British team.
The GBR Challenge will be heartened by their performance this week, and the race on Saturday will do nothing to discourage them. Starting helmsman Andy Green did a good job on the start, as he threw a penalty onto Luna Rossa skipper Francesco de Angelis who gybed too close to the British boat. Green went on to win the right side of the starting line, and put Luna Rossa skipper Francesco de Angelis in a position where he had to tack at the gun, slowing the boat as the race began.
Sailing manager Ian Walker took over the helm from there, and led both boats on a long beat out to the right side of the course. GBR-52 held a handy lead at the weather mark, and although Luna Rossa showed better pace and closed up over most of the downwind leg, two poor gybes on the Italian boat, followed by a torn spinnaker, allowed Walker to round the leeward mark with nearly a four boatlength lead.
The British team maintained that lead on the beat, and looked fairly secure rounding the mark but on the spinnaker hoist, the sail burst as it filled in the breeze, and suddenly, the race was in jeopardy. As the GBR-52 crew struggled to haul in the torn sail and replace it with a new one, Luna Rossa rounded, executed a clean hoist and gybed off to the favoured side of the course.
The boats split, with Luna Rossa on the right side of GBR-52, as the boats steamed down to the finishing line. Both skippers called for a gybe simultaneously, and as the boats converged, it was clear that Luna Rossa was in the lead. As they neared the finishing line, the Italians hoised a jib, readying to complete their penalty turn. With GBR-52 hurtling toward them, the Luna Rossa crew executed a flawless spinnaker drop, turned towards the wind and tacked through, crossing the line just half a boat length ahead of the charging Britons.
"I was really disappointed," Walker admitted after the race. "I'm probably as disappointed as I've ever been in a sailboat. But I'll sleep on it, and I've got a feeling this is part of the learning curve. We're still new at this and I have a feeling this won't be the last time we have a tough ending."
"It's always difficult to sail and race here," said Luna Rossa skipper Francesco de Angelis. "But we learn something every time we go out and race, and we're really happy we won."
In the petit-final, Team New Zealand beat the second British entry GBR-41 fairly convincingly. British helmsman Andy Beadsworth was again strong in the pre-start, but simply couldn't match the speed of NZL-32.
"We've had a great deal of fun and enjoyed some really good racing," Tom Schnackenberg, the head of the Team New Zealand programme. "On the other hand, the conditions here are very different to those in Auckland so any lessons learned will only be very general. But it's been a fantastic week."
That sentiment is probably shared among the three America's Cup hopefuls represented in the finals. While both Team New Zealand and Prada can look back at a long history of Cup sailing, for the British Challenge this week was an opportunity to dip a toe in the water, and measure up against the 'big boys'. In that respect, the British Challenge probably gained the most from the America's Cup Jubilee, and can now feel at home on the race course with the best of the best. But Walker cautioned against reading too much into the results on the Solent this week.
"Doing well in the Jubilee regatta here is very different from doing well in the America's Cup," Walker said. "But this has been a very good week for the British Challenge, and a very good week for the America's Cup. We're happy." | 2019-04-25T00:14:59 | https://members.sailing.org/news/17241.php |
0.998942 | Three years passed before the Theban exiles, encouraged by Pelopidas, formed a plot to deliver their city from the Spartans.
They were helped in their plans by Phyllidas, a Theban who had stayed in the city and become secretary to the Spartan governors Archias and Philippus. He had taken this position under the enemy that he might be able the better to help his own countrymen. He agreed with Pelopidas that the time to act had now come.
Epaminondas was also in Thebes, but he would have nothing to do with the plot. He would fight when the time for fighting came, but to slay even tyrants unawares was not to his liking.
Pelopidas and six other exiles did not share the scruples of Epaminondas. They disguised themselves as farmers or country folk, and one evening reaching Thebes as it began to grow dark, they slipped one by one at different times into the city. They then found their way to the house of a citizen named Charon, who had promised to shelter them.
Snow was falling and the streets were nearly deserted, so that the return of the exiles was unnoticed.
On the following day, Archias and Philippus were to be present at a great banquet. Phyllidas, the secretary, had promised to bring to the feast seven beautiful Theban women. He told no one that the promised guests were the seven exiles, who had resolved to don a second disguise to enable them to be present at the banquet.
The day of the feast passed slowly for the conspirators, but at length evening came, and the exiles were putting on the garments that were to make them appear like beautiful women, when a loud knock came to the door.
Already the long day had tried them sorely, and the knock filled them with foreboding.
When the door was opened their hearts beat quicker, for there stood a soldier who bade Charon come to the banqueting hall without delay.
Had Charon betrayed them? The exiles looked uncertainly one at the other. Then they grew ashamed of their distrust and bade their host hasten to Archias to allay his suspicions, if indeed they had been aroused.
But the exiles protested, and truly, that they trusted him well and needed no such hostage, while Pelopidas bade him take the child back to his nurse.
Then Charon, staying only to ask the help of the gods, hastened to the banqueting hall.
'Who are they? Where are they hidden?' asked Charon. For he wished to find out how much Archias knew.
But Archias knew nothing. It was but a rumour that had reached him.
Archias was glad to leave the matter to Charon, for he was impatient to go back to the feast. So Charon hastened back to his house to tell Pelopidas and his comrades that their fears were needless, for Archias suspected nothing.
But although Charon did not know it, a letter was at that moment being placed in the hands of Archias that might easily have ruined both him and the conspirators. For it told Archias the whole plot, as well as the names of those who were to take part in it.
But Archias could think of nothing that night save the banquet and the beautiful Theban women, who should now soon arrive.
Thrusting the letter unopened under the cushion on which his head rested, Archias cried, a smile upon his face, 'Urgent business to-morrow.' And these words were ever after used as a proverb by the Greeks.
The conspirators had now reached the hall. Their beautiful dresses were wide and loose, for beneath their splendour they wore armour. On their heads were garlands of pine and fir, so that their faces might not be seen.
Archias and his guests clapped their hands gleefully. Here at last were the beautiful Theban women whose presence Phyllidas had promised should grace the banquet.
But in a moment the conspirators had torn off their disguise. Archias and Philippus were slain almost before they had time to realise their danger, while the guests who had rushed to their aid were also put to death.
Pelopidas and his comrades then hastened to the house of Leontiades. But he heard them knocking at the door, and when they rushed into his room a few seconds later, he met them with his sword drawn, and slew the first man who entered.
A terrible struggle then took place between Leontiades and Pelopidas, but at length the traitor was wounded to death.
The conspirators then ran to the prison, ordered the gates to be opened, and the prisoners to be set free and armed, for their only crime had been loyalty to their city.
As day began to dawn, troops from Athens poured into the city to help the Thebans. The Spartans fought fiercely, but after a few days the garrison was forced to surrender, and once again Thebes was free.
The grateful citizens then assembled in the market-place, where the priests crowned Pelopidas and Charon, while the people appointed them governors of the city. | 2019-04-22T22:58:11 | https://heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=macgregor&book=greece&story=seven |
0.999972 | There you have it - the UK has voted in favour of Brexit, after a four-month campaign.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced his intention to resign by early October, to allow a new leader to steer the party and the country through the Conservative Party conference and beyond, to the many months of negotiations to come.
The markets had expected the whole thing to be in the bag for Remain, but by midnight, as results began to come in, that certainty began to diminish. By early morning, panic had set in, and the Pound was down 7% against the Dollar.
Share prices opened sharply lower, as financial institutions took fright. It has been estimated that $2trn has evaporated as a result of the market turbulence of the past day or so. Rating agencies have swooped in, and downgraded their assessments of the UK's creditworthiness, following the vote for Brexit.
As Mr Cameron wrapped up his address outside No10, his voice notably cracked. It was a speech brimming with emotion. Just over 6 years after he walked gleefully into No10, at the helm of a coalition government, Mr Cameron is now facing up to the final days of his stint in office.
Turnout was a respectable 72% up and down the country; turnout of this magnitude hasn't been seen at a general election since the 1990s.
72% turnout equates to about 33m people voting. The Leave option received 17.4m votes, a 51.9% vote share, against Remain, which garnered 16.1m votes or 48.1% of votes.
To put this into perspective, the figures are record-breaking; before June 23rd, the highest number of votes for any one party in UK history had been the shock 14m who voted to keep John Major in No10, during the tumultuous election of 1992.
The country voted for Brexit, but it's important to remember, the UK is still a member of the EU right at this moment, and will remain so, until the next Prime Minister invokes Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, and the UK completes negotiations. The actual Brexit itself could take a minimum of 2 years.
The referendum brought millions out to vote, but it's still not actually legally binding. The AV referendum in 2011 was legally binding, but this was because it concerned a massive overhaul of the UK's voting system. The people have had their say, but ultimate sovereignty remains with the UK Parliament that the people elect to represent them. What happens if Parliament votes to reject leaving the EU?
Vote Leave repeatedly faced criticism for running with a punchline: £50m per day or £350m per week is sent to the EU, and if we leave, the government can keep the cash, and spend it on the NHS. Adjusting for rebates and EU spending on subsidies and so on, the figure is likely half that at best.
Nigel Farage himself has admitted the pledge is a "mistake", despite having claimed on Question Time that the money would be better spent "helping the communities of Britain".
Scotland and Northern Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favour of staying, and Nicola Sturgeon has stated that a second independence referendum is "on the table". In the event of one, Scotland is highly likely to be granted its independence, overturning the outcome almost 2 years ago. Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister has called for a border poll, reflecting the fact that NI is the only part of the UK that shares a border with another EU member state.
The story is simple: Brexit isn't quite the sunlit upland people were told it was going to be, and significant numbers of voters are now starting to question whether the Leave campaign's pledges can be upheld. Then there's the question about whether the UK will come out of this whole ordeal intact.
Our next PM might just proceed to invoke Article 50, and the Brexit goes ahead, resulting in the break-up of the UK. 300 years of union will go up in a puff of smoke, just like that. England and Wales plod on, and that's that.
The other theory is not immediately apparent, but worth bearing in mind. Our next PM might just reject the idea of Brexit altogether for the sake of keeping the UK intact. In doing so, they would be sacrificing themselves and the Conservatives, going against the wishes of the 52%.
Whether it's Boris Johnson, Theresa May or Francis Urqhart, Mr Cameron's successor will have a massive in-tray on day one. | 2019-04-26T00:38:28 | http://lefthandeddudepolitics.blogspot.com/2016/06/uk-votes-for-brexit.html |
0.99995 | Music MUS1.1: Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
Music LS.4: Experiments in making musical sounds.
Music LS.10: Engages in performing, composing and listening experiences for enjoyment.
Music MLS3 Experiments with the concepts of music in making musical sounds.
Plays music using technology, body percussion, percussion instruments and self-made sound sources to explore the concepts of duration, dynamics and musical patterns.
Develops a sense of beat by copying a given pattern.
Experiment with ways of producing musical sounds using the iPad.
Both Bloom and Trope are cause and effect musical apps which present opportunities to manipulate and create a range of sounds from a touch or a swipe of the fingers. Bloom will allow students to create sounds through simple touch. Trope however will allow you to make more complex sounds through swiping, pinching and simple touches.
Students will need to sit in a group in front of the IWB (Interactive Whiteboard) where the teacher will be directing the lesson.
Each student will have access to an iPad that has been set up to contain the Bloom and Trope applications.
Locate and open the application ‘Bloom’.
Demonstrate to students what happens when the iPad screen is touched.
Generate discussion about the sound and colour responses from the application.
Using simple language and/or number cards ask students to repeat/copy a pattern as demonstrated by the teacher. For example you could touch the screen twice.
Continue to do this by increasing or decreasing the amount of touches and patterns. Vary the amount of touches and the difficulty of a sequence to suit your learners.
Ask a student to create a musical pattern using the iPad connected to the whiteboard and allow time for their peers to respond and copy the pattern. Give each student the opportunity to create a musical pattern.
Locate and open the application ‘Trope’.
Use ‘Trope’ to extend on the above activities. This time allowing students to use multiple touch actions to create their musical patterns. This can include: swiping, swirling, pinching or multiple finger touch and movements.
Send students off into small groups to copy each other’s musical pattern and / or give students time to freely explore the application.
Use simple language to encourage students to follow prompts such as: ‘Swipe your finger across’. Continue to use the IWB to increase visual instruction.
You would move to ‘Trope’ once students have grasped a basic understanding of ‘Bloom’.
Creating music through repeating patterns using body percussion e.g. clapping. Clap once then ask the student to respond with one clap. | 2019-04-23T18:49:45 | http://everystudent-sws.nsw.edu.au/trope-ipad2.html |
0.999943 | What is the equilibrium constant of #PCl_5 (g) -> PCl_3(g) + Cl_2(g)#?
Because you're dealing with a reaction that features gases, you can actually write two expressions for the equilibrium constant.
One expression will feature molar concentrations and it will give you the value of #K_c#, while the other will feature partial pressures and give you the value of #K_p#.
Now, the expression for #K_c# is given by the ratio that exists between the equilibrium concentrations of the products raised to the power of their respective stoichiometric coefficients and the equilibrium concentrations of the reactants raised to the power of their respective stoichiometric coefficients.
The expression for #K_p# is given by the ratio that exists between the equilibrium partial pressures of the products raised to the power of their respective stoichiometric coefficients and the equilibrium partial pressures of the reactants raised to the power of their respective stoichiometric coefficients. | 2019-04-20T06:52:43 | https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-the-equilibrium-constant-of-pcl-5-g-pcl-3-g-cl-2-g |
0.999691 | For each of the selected issues from the case study, which aspect of the VALUE and PRINICPLE of beneficence and which GUIDELINE(S) would help you to answer the question?
In addition to chapter 1 (Values and Principles), it is likely that chapters 3.1 (Qualitative methods), 3.3 (clinical research), 4.2 ( Children and young people), 4.3 (People in dependent or unequal relationships) and 4.4 (People with a cognitive impairment, an intellectual disability or a mental illness) and 4.7 (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) will be relevant.
What are said to be the benefits of this study?
A. Which is the relevant aspect of the Value and Principle of Beneficence?
(f) identifying to whom benefits are likely to accrue.
(b) should be removed if participants request it, provided they have been informed that the material or information would remain from potentially identifiable.
Will the Aboriginal community benefit?
4.7.7 The benefits from research should include the enhancement or establishment of capabilities, opportunities or research outcomes that advance the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
4.7.8 The described benefits from research should have been discussed with and agreed to by the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander research stakeholders.
What are the risks to the participants who are children?
(c) the welfare of the participants in the research context.
2.1.4 In determining the existence, likelihood and severity of risks, researchers and those reviewing the research should base their assessments on the available evidence, whether qualitative or quantitative. They should consider whether to seek advice from others who have experience with the same methodology, population and research domain.
3.3.9 The prospect of benefit from research participation should not be exaggerated, either to justify to an HREC a higher risk than that involved in the participant’s current treatment or to persuade a participant to accept that higher risk.
4.2.5 The circumstances in which the research is conducted should provide for the child or young person’s safety, emotional and psychological security, and wellbeing.
In relation to all of the identified risks, have they been minimized?
study should therefore be gradual and monitored with special care.
3.5.6 Genetic information can sometimes be misused to stigmatise people or to discriminate against them unfairly. Researchers should therefore take special care to protect the privacy and confidentiality of this information. Statutory or contractual duties may require participants to disclose the results of genetic tests or analysis to third parties (for example, insurance companies, employers, financial and educational institutions), particularly where results provide information about health prospects. Genetic research should be designed to minimise any resultant risk that participants will be deprived of benefits available to others in the community. Potential research participants should be advised of any such risks.
4.3.7 A person declining to participate in, or deciding to withdraw from, research should not suffer any negative consequences, such as unfair discrimination, reduction in the level of care, dismissal from employment, or any other disadvantage (see paragraphs 2.2.19 and 2.2.20, page 21).
Are all of the risks justified by the intended benefits?
2.1.2 Risks to research participants are ethically acceptable only if they are justified by the potential benefits of the research.
2.1.5 In considering whether the potential benefits of the research justify the risks involved, those reviewing research should take into account any willingness by participant populations to assume greater risks because of the potential benefits to them, their families, or groups to which they belong.
3.3.8 In clinical research, where patient care is combined with intent to contribute to knowledge, any risks of participation should be justified by potential benefits to which the participants attach significance. | 2019-04-25T08:45:36 | https://www.uow.edu.au/research/rso/ethics/human/training/m4_c_001.html |
0.999996 | I'm just trying to get an undertstanding about what the process is for cloning a VM from a NetApp Snapshot and what is happening on the NetApp side. We are using the SnapCenter Plug-In for VMware vSphere 4.0.0.809 and vSphere 6.5.
From what I understand, there is no one-step process to clone a VM from specific NetApp snapshot. Am I wrong in this thinking? I've figured out that I can mount virtual disks from the snapshots to a cloned VM and then simply delete the existing disks (from this post https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Restoring-VMs-from-snapshots/m-p/24271#M2335). This essentially gets me where I need to be, but I have some observations about this process that I don't quite understand.
After mounting the virtual disks from the snapshot to the new VM, a new clone volume is created on the NetApp (e.g. vmware_vm_datastore_4_vol01031910475547036 from datastore_4_vol) and a new datastore in VMware (NetApp_vmware_datas(sc-20190103084848) from NetApp_vmware_datastore_4). I'm guessing this is like a "zero cost" clone of the original virtual disks?
Since the new datastore is not part of my existing backup policy groups, I have decided to do a storage vMotion to one of my existing production VM datastores, since I want to bring this new cloned VM into production. What happens to this new NetApp_vmware_datas(sc-20190103084848) datastore after the virtual disks have been moved? My observation is nothing happens. It's still there on both the NetApp side and VMware side. Does it get automatically cleaned up at some point or do I need to delete it manually? Is it safe to do so?
The end goal is to have a copy of a VM from a snapshot while keeping my volumes and datstores lists clean (by not having tons of clones).
I hope I explained myself clearly enough and would appreciate any advice you might have.
If you will configure VVols, then you'll be able to clone a VM in a simple and elegant way.
Thanks. I actually figured out what I needed and couldn't find a way to delete my post. I didn't read enough into the original post's message.
We are using SnapCenter for snapshots of the datastore, and from the documentation, it appears that SnapCenter cannot back up VVols. | 2019-04-20T11:01:40 | https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/SnapCenter-Cloning-VM-from-Snapshot/m-p/145682 |
0.998951 | Pic shows: The husky pup. CHINA: Desperate police in China are searching for the owners of a lost husky pup after they took it in and the pooch thanked them by ripping up documents inside their office.
Pic shows: Torn documents and the contents of an overturned bin inside the police station officer. CHINA: Desperate police in China are searching for the owners of a lost husky pup after they took it in and the pooch thanked them by ripping up documents inside their office.
Pic shows: The destructive husky pup eating documents in the police station office. CHINA: Desperate police in China are searching for the owners of a lost husky pup after they took it in and the pooch thanked them by ripping up documents inside their office. | 2019-04-21T00:30:10 | https://www.eastnews.pl/en/pictures/subject/id/01289856/section/news/ |
0.999997 | TL; DR: Formed in 1995 by companies that developed USB cables, connectors, and communications protocols, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) sets the standards that govern the ubiquitous connections. With USB Type-C technology proving to be a promising and inclusive solution for transmitting data, power, audio, and video, the USB-IF seeks to improve product design and functionality while also protecting consumers and devices from non-compliant accessories.
We all have them — that drawer or storage tub full of miscellaneous USB, HDMI, FireWire, and auxiliary cables. The emergence of USB Type-C cables and connections, however, could soon see that obnoxious drawer disappear.
USB-C connections combine — and outperform — the data transmission and power capabilities of the other cables, making it an impressive option for transferring audio, video, data, and power to all sorts of electronics.
Perhaps the most impressive feature of Type-C: The connectors are reversible, meaning no more flipping the cable around and trying to figure out which way is right-side up or making sure you’re holding onto the right end of the cable.
As the adoption of USB Type-C creeps into consumer electronics, such as laptops, phones, and external hard drives, the non-profit USB Implementers Forum sets the guidelines that drive product innovations, performance, and longevity.
USB history can generally be broken into versions and types. Versions are described with numbers and refer to speed and functionality, while types are the letters that signify the physical shape and wiring of ports and connectors.
Type-A, or USB-A, is the rectangular plug that most consumers associate with USB and attach to their computers. USB-B, or Type-B, is usually the fitting connected to devices such as a printer, camera, external hard drive, or phone. Although USB-A is standard and recognizable across all devices, USB-B connections can vary from standard to micro.
Version 1.1, released in 1998, had a top speed of 12Mbps. USB 2.0 boosted that to 480Mbps in 2000, and 2008’s USB 3.0 maxed out at 5Gbps and up to 5 volts and 1.8 amps of power.
Released in 2013, USB 3.1 doubles the speed to 10Gbps and includes three levels of power distribution profiles that top out at 5 amps at either 12 or 20 volts.
USB Type-C cables (left) look to be a more comprehensive solution than USB-B (middle) and USB-A (right).
Developed at roughly the same time as the USB 3.1 specification, USB Type-C was announced in August 2014 and featured a small, reversible plug that connects bidirectionally to peripheral devices. Laptops from both Apple and Google have adopted USB-C ports for charging and connecting accessories, and Intel announced that the Thunderbolt 3 — once thought worthy of replacing the USB altogether — will use the same port and connection types.
The move to Type-C connections also means eventually abandoning proprietary power adapters in favor of one solution that works for all devices. The European Union is exploring a universal charging standard that would significantly cut down on waste.
In mid-2016, the USB-IF announced cryptographic-based authentication standards for USB-C chargers and devices. Host systems will identify and verify the authenticity of cables or chargers using 128-bit encryption before power or data can be transferred.
The specification protects host devices against non-compliant or non-certified accessories that can harm the device’s performance or introduce malware.
Manufacturers are encouraged to use a new USB-IF logo to show their chargers are compliant and certified.
Supporting global efforts to reduce waste and increase the usability of power cords with a variety of devices, USB-IF collaborated with the International Electrotechnical Commission to promote these standards.
With the USB Audio Device Class 3.0 specification (click to download), USB-IF standardized audio delivery through Type-C connections. The decision, which covers headsets, mobile devices, docking stations, gaming setups, and virtual reality devices, encourages hardware manufacturers to continue removing the 3.5mm audio jacks in favor of the smaller, 2.6mm-tall USB-C.
That means devices can be up to a millimeter thinner and have fewer connectors, which will “open the door for innovation in countless ways,” according to the USB-IF press release — chief among the improvements would likely be more waterproof or water-resistant devices. The specification also introduces the ability to reduce power consumption and supports new features like hotword detection — the listening mode that activates technology like Apple’s Siri and Amazon Echo.
“USB is the simplest and most pervasive connector available today, making USB Type-C the logical choice for the future of digital audio,” Jeff said in the release, adding USB-IF’s specification would help companies reduce time-to-market.
As a whole, USB-IF specifications determine the targets for the interfaces and mechanisms behind product design.
The non-profit USB-IF, a collaboration of the companies responsible for creating USB connections, still counts among their 920-plus member companies Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel.
Individual developers can use USB-IF’s forums and access their documentation for free, but only those employed by a member company or registered individually can join one of the working groups focused on devices, compliance, and marketing.
As members, developers can participate in conferences, marketing programs, and quarterly compliance workshops where they can test equipment and become certified. Compliant devices can then be included in USB-IF’s product directory and use USB-IF’s certified logos.
Products can be tested for compliance either by going through an independent testing lab or by participating in a compliance workshop. The members-only events promote USB development, validate compliance, and foster communication among USB manufacturers. | 2019-04-20T18:41:07 | https://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/how-usbif-protects-consumers/ |
0.99922 | Swiss pharma giant Roche Holdings AG Basel ADR (OTC: RHHBY) announced early Monday a deal to buy U.S.-based gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ONCE) for $114.50 per share in cash, or a total equity value of $4.8 billion, including about $500 million of net cash expected at close. The per share value represents a 122.07-percent premium over Spark's Friday closing price of $51.56. Roche will commence a tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Spark, and upon completion will acquire the remaining untendered shares at the same price through a second step merger.
French healthcare company Ipsen has agreed to buy U.S. peer Clementia Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth up to $1.31 billion (£1 billion), the companies said on Monday, helping to boost Ipsen's portfolio of products treating rare diseases. Ipsen's shares dipped 0.6 percent after the company said the takeover would initially weigh on margins due to the costs of forthcoming trials for Clementia products, but it hoped they would recover later on. Ipsen said it would buy all of Clementia's shares for $25 each in cash upfront and offer a contingent value right (CVR) purchase of $6.00 per share, giving a total transaction value of up to $1.31 billion.
French healthcare company Ipsen has agreed to buy U.S. peer Clementia Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth up to $1.31 billion, the companies said on Monday, helping to boost Ipsen's portfolio of products treating rare diseases. Ipsen's shares dipped 0.6 percent after the company said the takeover would initially weigh on margins due to the costs of forthcoming trials for Clementia products, but it hoped they would recover later on. Ipsen said it would buy all of Clementia's shares for $25 each in cash upfront and offer a contingent value right (CVR) purchase of $6.00 per share, giving a total transaction value of up to $1.31 billion.
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Clementia Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s ( CMTA) shares were up 35.40% in pre-market trading after the Canada-based biotech firm announced plans to file a new drug application (NDA) supported by encouraging testing results. In a press release, Clementia said it is seeking approval of palovarotene to prevent heterotopic ossification (HO), the abnormal growth of bone in non-skeletal tissues, in patients that suffer from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP), a rare and dangerous genetic bone disease. The biotech firm added that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to let Clementia use Phase 2 data to support its application. | 2019-04-19T13:00:05 | https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CMTA/news?p=CMTA |
0.999404 | A selection of questions we have been asked.
Question 1: "Is the new BTH magneto 6 volt or 12 volt?"
Answer: Neither. The new BTH magneto generates its own power so it doesn't rely on a battery.
Question 2: "Will the new BTH magneto fit my nineteen hundred and frozen to death, XYZ Sport?"
Answer: If your bike originally had a Lucas or BTH magneto we will almost certainly have a model to fit.
Question 3: What is the magneto point’s gap?
Answer: The new BTH magnetos don't have any mechanical contact breaker points. The spark is triggered electronically so there is nothing to adjust.
Question 4: I like spending hours trying to adjust contact breaker points and ignition timing poking bits of cigarette paper in inaccessible places. What am I going to do with my time now that I have fitted my new BTH magneto?
Answer: You really do need to get out more. Try going out for a ride on your bike now that you have got the ignition sorted.
Question 5: Can I fit a manual advance lever to my new BTH magneto?
Answer: The simple answer is no. Your new magneto has an automatic, analogue, non-programmable electronic advance built in. You can specify fixed ignition if that is what you prefer.
Question 6: How long will I have to wait for my new magneto?
Answer: If we receive your order early enough in the day our standard range of magnetos is usually available for next day, UK delivery.
Question 7: Can I fit my new BTH magneto myself?
Answer: If you are comfortable removing, replacing and timing your old magneto you will find fitting your new BTH magneto very easy.
Question 8: Will I have to alter my carburettor settings?
Answer: Carburettors on old bikes are often set rich to keep the bike running because of old, worn parts or failing magnetos. Your new BTH magneto will fire a weaker mixture that may help your petrol consumption. If you have fitted a "new" carburettor don't assume that it will be OK because it is "new".
Question 9: Will fitting a new BTH magneto be the end to all my bike troubles?
Answer: We would like to say yes but realistically there are too many other factors involved. A correctly fitted new BTH magneto will solve ignition problems but here are a few things that our customers told us that our magnetos did not solve: Tight tappets, exhaust push-rod out, carburettor jets wrong, different length needles in twin carburettors, not enough petrol in the tank, plug leads on the wrong cylinders, timed on the wrong stroke and bike just simply worn out.
Question 10: Can I use suppressed plug caps on my new BTH magneto?
Answer: You can use 5 ohm suppressed caps but we strongly advise to use both the leads and plug caps supplied especially with twin spark set up.
Question 11: Does the body of the coil need to be earthed?
Answer: The coil body does not need to be earthed as the two leads fitted to the spade terminals on the coil supply continuity.
Question 12: What is the advantage of the timing peg?
Answer: The timing peg allows more accurate static timing as it locks the magneto in the correct fully advanced timing position during installation. Checking your timing with a strobe light, although not essential, is recommended for maximum accuracy.
Question 13: Is there something wrong with my new BTH magneto as the spark seems very thin?
Answer: This is normal as the spark from our magnetos is very high tension that produces good performance. It is sometimes difficult to see the spark at the plug gap, especially in bright light. Also see FAQ 14.
Question 14: How can I easily check that the spark is strong enough?
Question 15: Everything seems to be OK on the ignition side but it will not start.
Answer: If the ignition side seems OK look at other reasons. Have you got fuel? Is the fuel old? Modern petrol loses the volatile portions if left standing for more than a few weeks. (See Note 1.) Try some fresh fuel. Have you done a rebuild? What else have you changed, valve timing, valve clearance, carburettor, etc?
Question 16: Can I use an electronic rev counter with my new BTH magneto?
Answer: Several people are successfully using the self- powered the Scitsu electronic rev counter. Nick Brown, of A.J.S. Motorcycles, has sent us this advice. (See Note 2.) Another rev counter we have successfully tried is sold by Mick Hemmings. This simply needs a diode (IN4001 or similar) in the sensing lead and a12 volt supply.
Question 17: Can I use suppressed plugs?
Answer: NO, Suppressed plugs or anything with an 'R' have high resistance and can damage the CDI unit.
Thanks for your speedy reply. My face is quite red with embarrassment. Right after I sent you the email, I checked your website hoping there might be some clues. Sure enough, an item in your FAQ list described the proper way to check for spark. By this time the BSA was indoors for the night, and out of the earlier bright sunlight. And sure enough I saw and heard the spark at the plug and jumping to the chaincase, just as the FAQ described. Anyhow, recalling that the BSA had sat idle all summer, I removed the Amal Concentric carb, dismantled it, and found the bowl and fine screen around the main jet coated with varnish; I'd failed to drain the bowl after the last run. Carb parts are now soaking in carb cleaner; I've been through this before and knew better. Thanks for your interest; I'll keep you posted as to results.
A word to let you know the BSA is starting and running fine again. Its problem had nothing to do with your magneto but was entirely due to me letting it sit idle all summer long, letting the gas in the carb bowl turn to varnish (think there is a lesson here!). Again, my apologies for my magneto misdiagnosis. It's good to know you still retain an interest in your products long after the sale was completed.
Re: Scitsu Tachometers: The single Magnetos use a yellow unit. The black model is recommended for you 360o twin with BT-H high output mag. You should connect the Tacho sensor wire to both HT leads. V twins are tricky because of the uneven firing pulse. the 1-2 space, 1-2 space, firing order can confuse the Tacho, so it is best to treat V twins like a single and try to keep the sensor wire away. | 2019-04-19T14:15:21 | https://www.bt-h.biz/faqs-22-w.asp |
0.999967 | Colours, light, flowers - what more could you want on a dull, grey and stormy day? I had really looked forward to the Royal Academy's exhibition "Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse". How often do you get to see so many paintings on a favourite subject - gardens - together in one place? But boy, it was crowded! To put on a show like that, at this time of year, is genius on the part of the Royal Academy and proves a real magnet to the public. There is little chance to contemplate the pictures whilst being shoved around and queuing up to see the smaller ones. Never mind, I did get to see them all and I'm glad I went.
Given the title, I was surprised there were so few "Matisse's": only two, if I remember correctly. If you love Monet, on the other hand, this exhibition delivers! So many wonderful works, so many of his famous water lily paintings hung side by side! Usually, when you go to a museum you'll see one or two and might like them - but they are sort of isolated. Here, however, you really get to see the differences in the mood, the time of day and changing light as reflected on that pond surface!
Aside from Monet, what I liked best was seeing paintings of artists I had heard of little if anything before. While this, of course, is entirely due to my own ignorance in art history, I loved discovering "new" painters and none more so than Spaniard Joaquin Sorolla (1863 - 1923) and Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894). Caillebotte's paintings in particular struck me as incredibly modern - more so, in fact, than even Monet at this time.
The official "highlight of the exhibition", if you can term it thus, is a triptych of Water-lily paintings, one of them misleadingly called Agapanthus (there are none in it). If I understood correctly (I might not), they are shown together publicly in Europe for the first time since their creation. The three panels seen as an entity are wonderful, but my favourites were in the previous room: There are, for instance, two amazing pictures of the Japanese Bridge in Monet's water garden at Giverny - in a fabulous palette of brilliant and vibrant autumn hues.
If pressed though, I think my favourite Monet picture from the exhibition is Daylilies in that same room. The flowers, though clearly identifiable as daylilies, seem to flutter like bright orange butterflies over the blue-green waters of the pond which has a depth of colour you are more likely to associate with myth or a jungle lagoon than a garden pond. The whole picture has this incredible glow.
Having purchased the catalogue to the exhibition afterwards, I was disappointed to see how dull by comparison the reproduction was - nothing of that glow and sparkle, that vivid yet mysterious freshness! That, of course, goes for many reproductions in print. "On paper" just is no match for the real thing! As far as this exhibition goes - we Londoners and those within travelling distance really are a lucky bunch.
That said, the catalogue promises to be an interesting and insightful read and - with the above mentioned shortcomings - is a gorgeous feast for any gardener's and art lover's eyes. So if you can't make it to London in person before the 20th of April, the Royal Academy offers it in its online-shop.
If you are interested in learning more about the exhibition and my thoughts on it, please read on below.
Whilst "Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse" helped me experience how Monet's style as a painter developed over the years, I found it more difficult to follow the overall narrative arc of the exhibition. It is subdivided into "Impressionist Gardens", "International Gardens" (to show painting flowers and gardens was part of a broader movement in art), "Monet's Early Years at Giverny", "Gardens of Silence", "Avant-Gardens", "Gardens of Reverie" and finally "Monet's later Years at Giverny".
Despite text panels describing what each section stood for, I was not convinced. Monet, referred to as the ultimate artist-gardener, was elsewhere described as being avant-garde in the laying out of his garden at Giverny, compared to the dominant fashion of the time. But he did not feature in the "Avant-Garden" section. Nor in the "Gardens of Silence" - described as "gardens devoid of human presence". But what, if not silence, convey the water-lily pictures? Quite apart from other "unpeopled" garden paintings found in e.g. the "international" section. It seems to me, there is a general mix-up of art history and garden history: Avant-Garden here is understood in terms of avant-garde (i.e. experimental/ expressionist) art, but not in terms of gardening.
While the presentation in this room is lovely and the "artefacts" interesting in themselves, I felt that the curators couldn't make up their mind whether they wanted the show to be about horticulture or art. For someone not familiar with garden history, there is, for instance, little to link books by William Robinson and a painting of Gertrude Jekyll's gardening boots with the rest. The explanations given are no more than a hint of a link. Can you really take it for granted that every visitor knows about Gertrude Jekyll? That she, having been trained as an artist herself, went on to became the most influential garden designer of her time, combining colours in the flower border with a subtlety and harmony like no one else before - influencing, presumably, Monet and his painter friends (or being part of the broader artistic movement herself)?
Somehow I can't help thinking that, being incredibly ambitious in their scope, the curators tried to bite off more than they could chew. There is, to my mind, at once too little information (to link and explain) and too much (in terms of painters covered by the show).
I believe it would have been better to either focus on some very few artist-gardeners and go into more detail about how they created their gardens and what and whom they were influence by (i.e. the social and horticultural developments of the time). And then show how these gardens were reflected in their paintings.
Or else take a "classic art history approach" and show a very broad movement of painters turning to gardens and plants as their subject matter and how these found expression in all sorts of styles - from very traditional, "old-school" depictions to impressionism to expressionism, Art Noveau etc..
... which in the catalogue looked something like this.
Perhaps I should stress again that my argument above refers to the exhibition as a “stand-alone” thing, with no information above what is provided in the rooms. There are, however, numerous articles and blog posts on the Royal Academy’s website and the catalogue to read (if you are willing to shell out for it).
What one should do, of course, is to attend the free events and talks accompanying the Royal Academy's exhibition. They not only drafted in the great and the good of garden design (Dan Pearson, Tom Stuart-Smith, Sarah Price in a discussion with artist Stephen Farthing, led by Tim Richardson), but those that seem best suited to address the "missing links" mentioned above: Garden Designer and writer James Alexander-Sinclair discusses with James Priest, current head gardener at Giverny, the relationship between Monet's horticulture and his art. Clare A.P. Willsdon of the University of Glasgow explores the link between art and horticulture with special emphasis on the 19th century. And Dr Eric Haskell highlights the relationship between Monet's gardening aesthetic and his painterly technique.
The garden as a refuge and retreat: are there any parallels to today?
Aside from the above though, and the sheer, life-affirming joy of seeing this exuberance of flowers and gardens, there was something in the exhibition that struck a chord. Almost every introductory panel talked about the garden being seen as a refuge, as "offering a vital means of reconnecting with nature in an age of rapid industrialisation": "By the turn of the century, the desire for a verdant retreat from the ills of urban life had become an international phenomenon." Did curator Ann Dumas see a parallel to our own day and age, I wonder?
Whilst the digital age may not be so much about the physical expansion of cities, about the disfigurement and pollution of sites, there certainly is a merciless onslaught today in terms of speed and information (as well as entertainment available) - and the accompanying pressures on life in all spheres. Are we at the dawn of a general yearning for a stop button, a simpler, slower life already? A desire to go back to nature, back into the garden? Are there any signs for this to be found in the arts today? Now that would make for an interesting discussion!
Oh, and on a lighter note and in a quirky twist I thought how strangely similar the artists of Monet's day looked to today’s “hipsters” with their profuse facial hair and their interest in all things "crafty" :-) .
What a lovely blog! The spring flowers are a real tonic in February as are your children's illustrations. You have certainly made me want to go and see the exhibition.
Thank you, Sue! Do go, it's definitely worth it - despite the crowds!
Thanks, Simon! Hope to see you back - and sorry for late reply, I was offline for a week :-). | 2019-04-22T16:00:52 | http://www.lifeinplants.com/life-in-plants/dope-for-the-flower-starved-from-monet-to-matisse |
0.99891 | The concept of holobiont has extended the notion of organism to all the microbial communities associated with it, forming a community of species that is proposed to be the real unit of evolution. In this context, the project LIKE INHOSPITALITY proposes to decipher a paradox in biology: How have bacterial populations been able to establish lasting interactions with epithelia, which are microbicidal surfaces long considered as chemical barriers to the interface with the microbial environment? We propose to pose this question in vibrios, a bacterial genus that has developed a remarkable ability to colonize tissues rich in antimicrobial peptides in animal species. We hypothesize that the ability to resist antimicrobial peptides produced by epihelia is a major determinant of establishing lasting interactions between ecological populations of vibrios and host immune tissues, which may explain the paradox of colonization. of these tissues by these populations. We will develop a multidisciplinary approach that will test the hypothesis of a correlation between resistance to AMPs, electrostatic charge of bacterial membranes and association of vibrios with oysters on a material of choice corresponding to 10 ecological populations of vibrios subservient or negatively associated oysters. This exploratory project should make it possible to determine whether resistance to antimicrobial peptides is a decisive factor for the colonization of a particularly hostile ecological niche that is nevertheless permanently colonized by certain vibrio populations. | 2019-04-18T23:06:14 | http://ihpe.univ-perp.fr/en/mimmemergencelike_inhospitality-english/ |
0.999868 | How long Should a Paint Job Last?
I get asked this question quite often. When it comes to interior painting, there are a few things to consider. First, the quality of the paint you select. Most home owners have an instinct to save money, and go for the cheaper paint. However, this means that you will probably have to redo the paint job much sooner than if you have used the quality paint.
On average, quality paint is around the $30 price point. If quality paint is used, and the walls are kept clean and maintained, an interior paint job can last for up to ten years.
However, if there are children, pets and plenty of parties, the paint may need to be redone sooner than that! As a rule, home owners decide to paint to change the look of a room long before the paint is really ready to be changed. | 2019-04-23T03:05:53 | http://paintcorpnj.com/how-long-should-a-paint-job-last/ |
0.999793 | Although scientists as far back in history as Aristotle recognized that the features of one generation are passed on to the next (...like begets like...) it was not until the 1860's that the fundamental principles of genetic inheritance were described by Gregor Mendel. Mendel's work with common garden peas, pisum sativum, led him to hypothesize that phenotypic traits (physical characteristics) are the result of the interaction of discrete particles, which we now call genes, and that both parents provide particles which make up the characteristics of the offspring.
His theories were, however, widely disregarded by scientists of the time. In the last quarter of the 19th century, however, microscopists and cytologists, interested in the process of cell division, developed both the equipment and the methods needed to visualize chromosomes and their division in the processes of mitosis (A. Schneider, 1873) and of meiosis (E. Beneden, 1883).
As the 20th century began many scientists noticed similarities in the theoretical behavior of Mendel's particles, and the visible behavior of the newly discovered chromosomes. It wasn't long before most scientists were convinced that the hereditary material responsible for giving living things their characteristic traits, and chromosomes must be one in the same. Yet, questions still remained. Chemical analysis of chromosomes showed them to be composed of both protein and DNA. Which substance carried the hereditary information? For many years most scientists favored the hypothesis that protein was the responsible molecule because of its comparative complexity when compared with DNA. After all, DNA is composed of a mere 4 subunits while protein is composed of 20, and DNA molecules are linear while proteins range from linear to multiply branched to globular. It appeared clear that the relatively simple structure of a DNA molecule could not carry all of the genetic information needed to account for the richly varied life in the world around us!
It was not until the late 1940's and early 1950's that most biologists accepted the evidence showing that DNA must be the chromosomal component that carries hereditary information. One of the most convincing experiments was that of Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase who, in 1952, used radioactive labeling to reach this conclusion(See Graphics). This team of biologists grew a particular type of phage, known as T2, in the presence of two different radioactive labels so that the phage DNA incorporated radioactive phosphorus (32P), while the protein incorporated radioactive sulfur (35S). They then allowed the labeled phage particles to infect non-radioactive bacteria and asked a very simple question: which label would they find associated with the infected cell? Their analysis showed that most of the 32P-label was found inside of the cell, while most of the 35S was found outside. This suggested to them that the proteins of the T2 phage remained outside of the newly infected bacterium while the phage-derived DNA was injected into the cell. They then showed that the phage derived DNA caused the infected cells to produce new phage particles. This elegant work showed, conclusively, that DNA is the molecule which holds genetic information. Meanwhile, much of the scientific world was asking questions about the physical structure of the DNA molecule, and the relationship of that structure to its complex functioning. | 2019-04-19T19:12:06 | http://biotechnology-industries.blogspot.com/2008/12/although-scientists-as-far-back-in.html |
0.992977 | "Hello World" redirects here. For other uses, see Hello World (disambiguation).
A "Hello, World!" program generally is a computer program that outputs or displays the message "Hello, World!". Because such a program is very simple in most programming languages, it is often used to illustrate the basic syntax of a programming language and is often the first program that those learning to code write.
A "Hello, World!" program is traditionally used to introduce novice programmers to a programming language.
"Hello, world!" is also traditionally used in a sanity test to make sure that a computer language is correctly installed, and that the operator understands how to use it.
The program prints hello, world! on the terminal, including a newline character. The phrase is divided into multiple variables because in B, a character constant is limited to four ASCII characters. The previous example in the tutorial printed hi! on the terminal, and the phrase hello, world! was introduced as a slightly longer greeting that required several character constants for its expression.
The Jargon File claims that hello, world originated instead with BCPL (1967).[unreliable source?]This claim is supported by the archived notes of the inventors of BCPL, Prof. Brian Kernighan at Princeton and Martin Richards at Cambridge.
For modern languages, hello, world programs vary in sophistication. For example, the Go programming language introduced a multilingual program, Sun demonstrated a Java hello, world based on scalable vector graphics, and the XL programming language features a spinning Earth hello, world using 3D graphics. While some languages such as Perl, Python or Ruby may need only a single statement to print "hello, world", a low-level assembly language may require dozens of commands. Mark Guzdial and Elliot Soloway have suggested that the "hello, world" test message may be outdated now that graphics and sound can be manipulated as easily as text.
A "Hello, world!" program running on Sony's PlayStation Portable as a proof of concept.
There are many variations on the punctuation and casing of the phrase. Variations include the presence or absence of the comma and exclamation mark, and the capitalization of the 'H', both the 'H' and the 'W', or neither. Some languages are forced to implement different forms, such as "HELLO WORLD", on systems that support only capital letters, while many "hello, world" programs in esoteric languages print out a slightly modified string. For example, the first non-trivial Malbolge program printed "HEllO WORld", this having been determined to be good enough.
There are variations in spirit, as well. Functional programming languages, like Lisp, ML and Haskell, tend to substitute a factorial program for Hello, World, as functional programming emphasizes recursive techniques, whereas the original examples emphasize I/O, which violates the spirit of pure functional programming by producing side effects. Languages otherwise capable of Hello, World (Assembly, C, VHDL) may also be used in embedded systems, where text output is either difficult (requiring additional components or communication with another computer) or nonexistent. For devices such as microcontrollers, field-programmable gate arrays, and CPLD's, "Hello, World" may thus be substituted with a blinking LED, which demonstrates timing and interaction between components.
The Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions provide the "hello, world" program through the apt packaging system; this allows users to simply type "apt-get install hello" for the program to be installed, along with any software dependencies. While of itself useless, it serves as a sanity check and a simple example to newcomers of how to install a package. It is significantly more useful for developers, however, as it provides an example of how to create a .deb package, either traditionally or using debhelper, and the version of hello used, GNU Hello, serves as an example of how to write a GNU program.
Time to "Hello World" (TTHW) is a metric for how long it takes to get a "Hello World" program running from scratch in a given programming language.
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0.999915 | There is a monitor with a DisplayPort input port. There is a desktop computer with an HDMI output port. Is it possible to connect the two?
There might be cables that have one end HDMI male and the other DisplayPort, in that case you don't need this adapter.
I think the adapter in your photo converts DisplayPort signal to HDMI, but not vice versa.
I don't think so. Anyway you can find the right one for you online.
Get an active one if possible.
The suitable adapter would be too expensive for an adapter. I'll buy a new monitor that has many different digital ports. | 2019-04-19T04:43:02 | https://windowsforum.com/threads/display-with-displayport-cpu-with-hdmi.241698/ |
0.997922 | Qurate Retail (QRTEA) fell -0.23% with the finishing price of $17.05 in Thursday Trading Session. The stock price showed -33.76% down in value from one year high price and revealed 7.91% higher in value from its one year low price. In the recent week Qurate Retail stock price volatility was noted 1.78% while for the last month volatility was seen at 2.50%. Its Average True Range (ATR) shows a number of 0.42. Return on assets (ROA) results to 5.10%. While Return on investment (ROI) reached to 9.70%.
In terms of profitability, The Company has a profit margin of 6.50%, gross margin of 34.50% and an operating of 9.40%. The stock price changed 0.83% in the past week. Shares of the company have performed -18.30% over the last three months and moved -31.75% over the last 12- months.
The 1.66% positive picture painted by the trends generated around 20 SMAs. The established market sentiment toward the stock has created a trading environment which can suitably be described as optimistic.
There has been negative move seen around 50 SMAs. The stock price is showing -10.11% distance below 50 SMA. On the surface, it seems as the higher the 50-day moving average goes, the more bullish the market is (and the lower it goes, the more bearish). In practice, however, the reverse is true. The 50-day moving average is perceived to be the dividing line between a stock that is technically healthy and one that is not. Furthermore, the percentage of stocks above their 50-day moving average helps determine the overall health of the market. Many market traders also use moving averages to determine profitable entry and exit points into specific securities. Qurate Retail (QRTEA) has demonstrated negative trend based on recent movement of 200 SMA with -18.39% during the course of recent market activity. This trend reveals recent direction. The current direction of 200 SMA is downward. When the price over the last 200 days is moving with increasing trend, look for buy opportunities and when it shows decreasing trend the price is below the last 200 days, look for sell opportunities.
The current value of the RSI is 43.64. The relative strength index (RSI) readings highlights overbought above 70 and oversold below 30. The stock also has a beta of 0.99. When beta is less/more than 1, it can be interpreted that the stock is theoretically less/more volatile than the market – something traders will surely be keeping an eye on. | 2019-04-25T14:44:20 | http://www.stockmarketstop.com/2019/04/active-stock-under-review-qurate-retail-qrtea/ |
0.999999 | As soon as I announced that Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World was getting published, friends started talking about a book launch, and so did I. In fact, I dreamed about it as if it were my wedding.
But as I got closer to publication, I realised that this really was just daydreaming.
It's like the times when I remember my actual wedding - I'm usually running a "greatest hits" montage in my head – just cut to the dancing and conveniently skip over the hours when my smile cramped and my back ached as I posed for picture after picture with the sun beating down. In the same way, my launch fantasies were somewhat removed from reality. I wanted hundreds of guests, singers harmonising on a perfect medley of 80s tunes, a dynamic reading with the audience in tears, every literary figure in Ireland raising pom-poms to cheer me and then forming a human pyramid on the lawn beside the bouncy castle. Was it so unreasonable?
Then I remembered the real launches I've attended over the years. The speeches. The readings. The hard squeaky chairs. The guilt over taking too many canapés because I'd delayed dinner to be there on time. And perhaps it's my imagination, but there always seems to be a tinge of anxiety hanging over these gatherings. The audience is trying to be appreciative and like the book. The author is trying to be liked. Even if the whole thing's going spectacularly, there's usually a bit of tallying – is it better than the launch down the street? Than the one here last week? How many are buying and who's just here for the wine?
"Screw it," I thought, "I'm eloping."
So, I started planning my "anti-launch" for Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World. No speeches. No readings. Just pints. I chose Kennedy's Pub on Pearse Street because it was my home away from classes when I took the creative writing programme at Trinity College Dublin. Then I sent out my email invitations. I was a bit nervous. The last party I'd hosted was in 1995 and I don't remember much except that no one got arrested.
On the day itself I got up at six in the morning and made cinnamon cookies. The weather was dismal – cold, endless rain. After work I went back to my apartment to change. What's appropriate author attire for an anti-launch? I decided on gold knee-high boots and a skirt and sparkly top. I'd already arranged for my mother-in-law to bring me the tiara I'd worn at my wedding. Writer-of-serious-literary-merit look: sorted.
I arrived at the pub around six, wiping rain from the cover of my Tupperware container full of cookies. Nobody was at my reserved tables. I took a seat. I ordered some fish and potatoes. I wasn't sure what to do with myself. One guest arrived. Then one more. It was awfully quiet. At least the waitress seemed to like my cinnamon cookies.
A few minutes later, more people arrived, and I was soon busy making introductions and trying to get the fish and potatoes into my face as quickly as possible. Then there was no more time to introduce anyone. By seven the three tables I'd booked were packed and there was a gathering at the bar as well. I was hugging people in dripping wet wool coats, offering cookies, thanking everyone through mouthfuls of fish. There were people I'd known since I arrived in Dublin and people I'd met a few weeks before. Friends from my old writing group, classmates from Trinity, Novel Fair winners, co-workers, people from the Irish Writer's centre, my husband's family all the way from Athlone...I couldn't count them all.
Then, for the first time in my life, I was asked to sign my own book. Momentous! I signed my name, and added a happy face. Of course, all the guests signed my own copy of Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World as well. This was the anti-launch.
I felt like Jimmy Stewart at the end of It's a Wonderful Life. "Who knew," I joked in an email, "that a poor immigrant girl would find so many friends in Ireland?"
And then there was my husband, running out to the bookstore in the rain to buy copies of Cinnamon Toast for a woman who was heading to a book club meeting. "Good thing I invited that guy," I thought.
Most book launches are over in two hours. I arrived at Kennedy's at six and didn't leave until almost midnight, and I wasn't the last. I said goodbye and bundled myself into a taxi, with my flowers, champagne, tiara, launch-hero husband, and my empty Tupperware container. Mission accomplished.
In May I'll be touring Canada to promote my novel. There's a real launch planned for Vancouver, and one for Halifax*. They'll have a lot to live up to.
*Please note that the launches in question were fantastic. | 2019-04-22T22:02:15 | http://asimplejan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=278:it-s-the-anti-launch&catid=63&Itemid=373 |
0.99944 | 1.1 The horse must be the produce of a natural service or covering.
1.2 The sire and dam of the horse must have been the produce of a natural service or covering.
1.3.2 have been delivered from that body.
1.4 Natural service or covering means the physical mounting of a mare by a stallion and which can include the immediate re-inforcement of the stallion's service or cover by a portion of the ejaculate produced by that stallion during that service or cover of that same mare.
2.1 A horse foaled in Great Britain, Ireland or the Channel Islands may be entered for a race only if its name is entered on the register of horse names in accordance with Chapters 2 or 3 of Part (E) (registration of names of horses trained in Great Britain).
2.2 Where the name of the horse has been changed, the change must have been made in accordance with the requirements of Chapters 2 or 3 of Part (E).
2.3 A horse which was foaled outside Great Britain, Ireland or the Channel Islands, and which is also trained or domiciled outside those countries, may be entered for a race only if it is registered with one of the Stud Book Authorities listed in Schedule (E)2 and its name is duly registered by the Recognised Racing Authority in the country of foaling.
3.1 This Paragraph applies to any horse which is trained in Great Britain.
3.2 The horse must have an identifying microchip.
3.3 Where the horse has an identifying microchip, the microchip must have been implanted by a Veterinary Surgeon.
3.4 At any time when a horse which has been declared to run is on Racecourse Property, a Veterinary Officer may examine it for confirmation of the presence of an identifying microchip.
4. The horse must satisfy any other requirement of these Rules that have effect as to the qualification of a horse to enter a race.
4A. The horse must not be the subject of a Non-Racing Agreement registered under Rule (E)26.
4B.2 the Horse must have been registered with the Stud Book Authority of Great Britain and Ireland.
5. In relation to a horse trained in Great Britain, the name of the owner must be entered in the register of Owners maintained by the Authority.
6. In relation to a horse trained outside Great Britain, the name of the owner must have been recorded in a corresponding manner by the Racing Authority of the country in which the horse is trained.
7. Where the horse is in the ownership of a Recognised Company, the company must have a Registered Agent.
8. The horse must not be in the ownership or part-ownership of a Disqualified Person.
9.1 The horse must not be in the stable of, or under the care and management of a Disqualified Person.
9.2.3 not more than fourteen days have elapsed since the date of publication of the disqualification in the Forfeit List.
10. The horse must meet the conditions applying to the race.
11.1 The horse must not be subject to a suspension imposed by the Authority or by a Recognised Racing Authority which prevents it from running in the race.
11.2.2 in the case of suspension by a Recognised Racing Authority, the suspension shall be regarded as immediately effective unless the Authority declares otherwise on the application of the owner or Trainer of the horse.
11.3 The owner or Trainer may not make an application under Paragraph 11.2.2 unless all appeal procedures available under the Rules of the Recognised Racing Authority have been exhausted.
11.4.2 if there is no procedure for appeal, the order for suspension was made.
11.5 When that period ends on a day on which the Authority's Office is closed, the application will be made in time if done by 5.00pm on the next day on which the Authority's Office is open.
11.6 The Authority may also consider an application made after that time if the owner or Trainer satisfies the Authority that it was not possible to comply with Paragraphs 11.4 or 11.5 and that the application was made at the earliest opportunity.
12. Where the horse has been suspended by the Stewards under Rule (B)15 or by the Authority under Rule (A)75 from running, the horse may not be entered or start for any class 1 or 2 flat race handicap in Great Britain until it has first run in Great Britain in a flat race other than a class 1 or 2 handicap.
13. The horse must not have run at an unrecognised meeting (other than one which has been granted an exemption under Rule (A)38 (participation at unrecognised meetings)). | 2019-04-22T12:52:35 | http://newrules.britishhorseracing.com/Orders-and-rules&staticID=126399&depth=3 |
0.999947 | Question A: Why is it necessary to study various sorts of voluntariness?
3. If the modes of responsibility are followed, they shape life as a whole by their bearing on choices and other sorts of voluntariness. Acts of the will do not exist in isolation, somewhere deep inside us. They energize both one’s inner activities and one’s outward behavior, and so determine the existential quality—the moral goodness or badness—of one’s whole life.
4. Classical moral theology spoke simply of the bearing of moral norms on “human acts,” which were distinguished from nonvoluntary behavior—“acts of man” (cf. S.t., 1–2, q. 1, a. 1). Although human acts were analyzed by reference to choice, the analysis began with those things accepted by common sense as human acts of various sorts—for example, killing a person. While this focus—on conventionally defined human acts—seems appealingly simple at first, the present analysis proceeds differently. Beginning with the sorts of voluntariness, the analysis of this chapter and the next considers the bearing of the modes of responsibility upon choices and other sorts of voluntariness.
5. This approach has the advantage of beginning with what is morally relevant about human acts: their voluntariness. By contrast, the older approach tended to obscure what is morally relevant by focusing on features which are significant for common sense or legal or metaphysical reasons. Such considerations call attention to many distinctions which have nothing to do with morality, while failing to point out others which make a difference to one’s responsibility. For example, right and wrong tend to be obscured if one begins by considering killing in a common sense way, homicide in a legal way, or the various metaphysically distinct causes of death. The work of moral analysis proceeds more easily if one first distinguishes between choosing to kill and freely accepting death, and then examines the morality of each.
As will become clear in the analysis, “morally significant human acts” is not a general class-name (a genus) univocally predicated of specifically different instances of kinds of human acts. Rather, “morally significant human acts” refers to an ordered set (a grouping of analogy) of diverse sorts of things, which are human acts and morally significant in diverse but related ways.
Chapter two explained that free choice, because it is self-determining, is central for morality. The primary sort of things (the prime analogate) called “moral acts” consists of executions of free choices. In other words, the basic and most obvious morally significant action is a choice to do something and its execution. The whole—choice and performance together—is the human act. Since doing by choice is central, the analysis in this chapter focuses on this kind of human acts.
One might suppose that the only morally significant acts are those which carry out choices. In fact, while the execution of a choice always is morally significant, there are other morally significant aspects of human action. Moral selfhood and the responsibility which goes with it belong to persons just insofar as they have the power to make choices. Thus, moral responsibility extends beyond acts done by choice—for instance, to omissions and foreseen side effects. It follows that even in its full moral sense, “responsibility” does not refer to a single existential reality. For example, responsibility for what one does by choice is not the same as responsibility for side effects one accepts. Yet both are real and the latter can be as serious as the former. | 2019-04-19T16:28:04 | http://www.twotlj.org/G-1-9-A.html |
0.998918 | When is a spade supposed to be called a shovel?
Amongst my work colleagues, I work with a girl who is quite short. She just breaks 5 foot in the old scale. Which begged the question (of course): what is the difference between a midget and a dwarf? And what height must you be to qualify as a midget? Or for that matter, a dwarf?
Dictionary.com defines a midget as 'an extremely small person who is otherwise normally proportioned'. It also says that this term is now deemed offensive, so I promise not to use it in regular conversation again.
Dictionary.com defines a dwarf as 'an abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed'. It does not say that the word dwarf is offensive, so I will use it until I am told, as I invariably will, that it is not PC.
So, as I read it, a dwarf is an out of proportion little person while a midg ... little person is a little person who is in proportion.
That leaves the second question. Alas, after much scouring of the web I cannot find a definitive answer as to what height qualifies one as a little person of either the M or D type. Drop me a line if you can shed any light on this issue. | 2019-04-24T09:51:53 | https://www.greatsouthernlad.com/blog/2006/01/when-is-spade-supposed-to-be-called.html |
0.998978 | In Problem 1, students use matrices to encode and decode secret messages. They do so by using the concept of an inverse matrix.
Students are asked to find the inverse of the encoding matrix and then confirm that multiplying the encoding matrix by the decoding matrix results in the identity matrix.
The receiver of the message can retrieve the original message by decoding it using the inverse of the coding matrix.
Students will then decode the matrix on the encoded message to check that they are able to retrieve the original message.
In Problem 2, students use inverse matrices to solve a system of equations. They multiply the inverse of the coefficient matrix by the constant matrix to obtain the solution. | 2019-04-20T19:03:20 | https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail?id=1EFB29ACD854438593E6F25206393643 |
0.999761 | Barbara Marcus is a leading business and marketing strategist in the areas of children’s content and distribution. She's currently Strategic Innovations Advisor to Penguin Books USA focusing in the area of new ventures and new publishing opportunities and Advisor to Open Road Integrated Media in the area of children's digital publishing. Barbara is on the Board of Knowledge Adventure, a children’s software and technology company and Media Source, a children’s books direct marketing company and publisher of Library Journal and School Library Journal. Prior to that, she was President, Scholastic Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution where she was responsible for children’s consumer book publishing and distribution in the United States. After acquiring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for publication in the United States in 1998, Barbara led the publishing effort for six out of the seven Harry Potter titles.
She will be speaking Saturday morning as part of a super-star panel exploring "Children's Books, Today and Tomorrow: Four Expert Impressions."
Lee: Hi Barbara, thanks so much for making the time to chat! The first question I have to ask is: There are so many people inspired by the success of Harry Potter - and you were right in there, part of making that success happen. While there's obviously no clear magic-potion formula to write and market a book series that successful - or we'd all have run-away best-sellers - can you share what were the elements, from your perspective, that made it all come together into such a perfect storm?
Barbara: I always say that the real reason that Harry Potter became the phenomenon of Harry Potter was because of the genius of Jo Rowling's story and writing. She created a world that was so fantastic and characters that every child thought could be their friends. It was an incredible combination of fantasy and reality. We all wanted to be best friends with Harry, Hermione and Harry and go to school at Hogwarts.
So much has changed since that time but we were lucky enough to create some firsts such as no review copies before publication, distributing the books at midnight with parties, creating a hardcover with embossing and foil.....now things that often can be part of regular publishing plans.
Lee: Do you see children's books following the path of adult books with the ever-growing consumption (and market share) of e-books, or is there a different future for kid lit?
Barbara: Children's books will have the best of both worlds. I think there are many paths for children's books as digital books. Some YAs will sell the same percentage in ebook form as adult books. There will also be original YA titles with enhanced features like music and video. Picture e-books and apps will be read alouds and have interactive features and also will exist in print. I think the push to use e-books in school and libraries will be slow and steady which translates into a longer time before e-books are as dominant as they are in adult publishing. The future of children's books as e-books also depends on the pricing of tablets. As the prices decrease, the possibility of more children's books being read as e-books increases.
Lee: Do you think being innovative with how stories are told is something that only established authors and illustrators can get away with, or does the Wild West of all this new technology create opportunities for new talents to break into the industry?
Barbara: I think authors and illustrators should always focus telling the best story they can. If technology or innovation is something that the artist feels is integral to the story, then they should include it.
Lee: Do you think every author and illustrator should be aware of building themselves as a "brand?" Or, to paraphrase Mo Willems, is branding just for cattle?
Lee: For attendees, the SCBWI winter conference is full of amazing networking, crucial information from experts, craft, business, inspiration, community, and opportunities to move our careers forward. What's exciting to you about coming to the conference?
Lee: Words of wisdom for attendees?
Barbara: Try and make sure you think about what you really are trying to accomplish before getting to the conference. There will be lots of interesting people and sessions. Make sure that you come away with something that really resonates with you post conference. These are fascinating and sometimes confusing times in publishing so focusing can really help.
Thanks Barbara! That's great advice.
I'm really looking forward to hearing Barbara's presentation, and you can be there, too. Registration for the Lucky 13th Annual SCBWI Winter Conference in New York City, January 27-29, 2012 is still open.
I'm going to SCBWI New York for the first time this year, and her suggestion that attendees focus on what they'd like to get out of the conference before they arrive hit home for me. Thank you for the interview!
I'm going to SCBWI New York for the first time this January, so her advice to attendees--to think about what they'd like to focus on during the conference before they arrive--hit home for me. Thank you for the interview!
The 2012 Comment Challenge Finale!!!
Today is the start of No Name-Calling Week!
The 2012 Comment Challenge Week One Check-In! | 2019-04-24T21:57:10 | https://www.leewind.org/2012/01/barbara-marcus-ny12scbwi-team-blog-pre.html |
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