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0.998973 | Take off and move out of the way.
Put cover (1) in vise.
Take cover (1) out of vise. | 2019-04-23T10:57:03 | http://miscpartsmanuals2.tpub.com/TM-9-2320-269-34-1/TM-9-2320-269-34-10121.htm |
0.997011 | This question is extension to How are directories implemented in Unix filesystems?
I'm aiming to implement basic filesystem: After reading inode number and name we come to know Name of file and hence we can list directory contents but we can't determine type of entry: whether it's another directory or a file. If there are 1000 entries in directory then reading 1000 inodes just to determine whether it is file or directory looks too silly.
Am I missing something here or it is this way only?
This might not be the case for all file systems, it is a design choice. And for your file system it could be your design choice.
For the silliness of this choice, I would disagree. Think how many times would the system have to check for the types of files under a directory? You have to balance the frequency of a ls -l command with the extra space that caching the information in the inode would take.
If your file system is a cluster-like (e.g. glusterfs) or network-like (e.g. nfs) one, then this could be a good idea due to the possible latency of accessing all the inodes. On local storage this could be less of a concern.
In addition what is your file system trying to achieve? If it is designed to be efficient with directories that contains each thousands of files, then it could be worth considering caching the file types, if it is designed to be lean with the smallest footprint then caching could not be avoided.
It seems that ext2-4 can do exactly what you have in mind. It can cache the file types in the directory entry. This is only active with the feature filetype as filesystem creation time. When this feature is used, then ext4 uses a different structure for the directory entry which can have a cache of the file types. This applies to ext2 and ext3 as well.
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Are there widespread filesystems which represent directories with structures optimized for fast lookup? | 2019-04-18T13:16:51 | https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68463/how-are-directories-implemented-in-unix-filesystem |
0.999918 | Last night I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the film Tekkonkinkreet at my local college. Even though I owned a copy of the movie on DVD, I was eager to tromp out in the rain and check out the film once more. Why? Two words: Frederick Schodt.
For most manga and anime fans and scholars, Schodt is best known as the author of such seminal books as Manga Manga!, Dreamland Japan and The Astro Boy Essays. These seminal works (particularly the first two titles) helped pave the way for acceptance or at least recognition of manga here in the U.S. and indeed remain valuable resources for those attempting to explain what manga is and why it's so goshdarn popular.
Schodt was on hand to introduce the film and lead a discussion of it afterward. Apparently the college had managed to procure his services via something called Anime Masterpieces, an educational series designed to promote the art of anime at campuses and museums across the country. Let me just take a moment to say what a fabulous idea I think this is and how I wish there was a similar organization promoting American comics in the same fashion.
Anyway, after a few words by the college's faculty, Schodt took the stage and provided a brief introduction of the film. For those who are not familiar with the movie, Tekkonkinkreet is an adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto's manga of the same name (the title being a pun on the japanese phrase "reinforced concrete"). Oh, and by the way, the manga is available in English from Viz.
Both manga and movie are about two street urchins named Black and White (note: symbolism!), living in a fictional urban environment known as Treasure Town. The boys battle other street thugs and the occasional yakuza for dominance of what they regard as "their town," but things are changing. Gentrification and foreign businesses are muscling in, and these newcomers don't cotton to having street toughs hanging around their fancy new amusement parks, even if they're only 10 years old and can scramble around buildings like Cow Yun-Fat in Crouching Tiger.
Resplendent in a black suit and Astro Boy tie, Schodt touched on a variety of topics about the movie in his introduction, including the fact that it was directed and written by two Americans, with a soundtrack by a British group (he was quick to emphasize that the film retains a decided Japanese sensibility however). He also touched on such subjects as the history of anime, Osamu Tezuka, and how new technologies and increased competition have put the anime industry at a crossroads of sorts, a fact which no doubt made the film's themes especially resonant for some.
After the film was over, Schodt discussed Matsumoto's influences, noting that he was heavily influenced by French artists like Mobieus, (further muddying the international waters).
Although a handful of people had left after the movie was over, a number stayed behind to ask questions and talk about the film. The discussion was lively and ranged from the general (were all anime like this or is this film an aberration?) to the more specific (was the city itself a character?). I noticed a couple of otaku in the audience -- one woman had a "Death Note" t-shirt; another squealed when the word "Evangelon" was uttered.
Most of the questions actually dealt with trying to unpack the various themes of the movie. Schodt was hesitant to rely upon any one viewing of the film, arguing frequently that the story is open to many interpretations.
The event came with a "study guide" pamphlets from Anime Masterpieces containing essays about the film by him and other scholars like Susan Napier and Roland Kelts. It's a nice souvenier that I anticipate pouring over in detail when time permits.
After the talk was over, I hung around for a few minutes to say the town's public librarian who had attended and have Schodt sign my copies of Manga Manga and Astro Boy Essays that I had brought along. Really, I had just come for that express purpose alone, but I managed to get a lot more out of the viewing than I had initially expected. Even though I was familiar with Tekkonkinkreet and its themes, it was exciting and interesting to hear other people's thoughts, especially when encouraged and guided by someone as thoughtful and knowledgeable as Schodt. | 2019-04-22T04:44:38 | https://www.cbr.com/my-evening-with-black-white-and-schodt/ |
0.999998 | This article is about Collins (Victoria) Barracks. For the barracks of the same name in Dublin, see Collins Barracks, Dublin.
Collins Barracks is a military barracks on the Old Youghal Road on the north side of Cork in Ireland. Originally serving as a British military barracks from the early 19th century, it was handed-over to the Irish military following the Irish War of Independence, and remains the headquarters of the 1st Brigade of the Irish Army. A museum in the barracks is open to the public at selected times.
Originally erected between 1801 and 1806, the barracks' works were completed by Abraham Hargrave to designs by John Gibson. Located in a prominent position on the hills overlooking Cork city and the River Lee, the complex was initially known simply as The Barracks. It was extended in 1849 and renamed to Victoria Barracks, to celebrate a visit by Queen Victoria.
In the period following the Easter Rising (1916), the Irish nationalist Thomas Kent was executed by firing squad at the barracks. He was the only person outside Dublin, apart from Roger Casement, to be executed for participation following the Rising.
During the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), Auxiliary forces based at the barracks were implicated in events surrounding the Burning of Cork. British forces from the barracks were also involved in the executions of several Republican prisoners. On 1 February 1921 Cornelius Murphy was executed and then on 28 April 1921, four Volunteers, Maurice Moore, Thomas Mulcahy, Patrick O'Sullivan and Patrick Ronayne, were executed by firing squad at the barracks, followed by the execution of Patrick Casey a few days later, and of Daniel O'Brien on 16 May 1921.
Following the War of Independence, under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and after housing British forces in the city for more than one hundred years, the barracks complex was handed over to Commandant Sean Murray of the army of the Irish Free State in 1922. Key buildings within the barracks were substantially damaged by retreating Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War. After this conflict, the barracks was renamed for Michael Collins, the first commander-in-chief of the Free State, and a native of County Cork.
A garrison for the Southern Command of the Irish Army since the 1920s, the complex was visited by US President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The barracks now houses the headquarters of 1 Southern Brigade, with permanent and reserve elements of several army corps, including artillery, cavalry, communications, engineering and logistics units.
From 2003 the barracks was subject to a modernisation programme, with the building of new messing facilities, a gymnasium and other works.
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^ "Department of Defence - Press Release - Speech by Minister for Defence at Opening of New Gymnasium at Collins Barracks, January 2003". Department of Defence (Ireland). 20 January 2003. Retrieved 31 March 2015. | 2019-04-21T20:06:13 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Barracks_(Cork) |
0.999984 | Synopsis: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit’s team, while his captain’s wife and second in command are falling in love.
Did You Know? James Jones, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, considered the adaptation to be “too sanitized” and was dissatisfied with it.
Quotables: PREWITT: A man should be what he can do.
With barely any war, this is a stirring war drama that leads up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. All of the performances are incredible, especially Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed. They most definitely deserved the Oscars they won. | 2019-04-24T11:20:12 | https://movieguise.com/oscar-madness/1950s/26th-academy-award-ceremony/from-here-to-eternity/ |
0.998768 | Will Your Kid Be A Professional Athlete?
The gist of the story is about the likelihood of kids making it to the professional level in sports. There was also mention of a growing number of parents who are going overboard, to the detriment of their kids and the family as a whole, with pushing their kids in sports.
But the vast majority of kids aren't going to make it. Here's a quote from Tom Farrey which I totally agree with.
"But for the vast majority of [professional] athletes, that's not their path," Farrey says. "They played multiple sports when they were young. It was not about chasing the college scholarship or becoming a pro; they were just enjoying the games and falling in love with sports."
It's that love of sports, Farrey says, that drives kids to keep playing and to become successful — not just their parents' dreams."
Even more telling, the NCAA has a handy chart about the likelihood of children competing beyond high school in several sports.
I've written about early sport specialization before and golly days, and as a strength coach I see so many kids who would really benefit from playing multiple sports AND having at least one season off during the year.
1. Play multiple sports- specialize in mid- to late-high school.
2. Strength train- strong athletes beat the weaker ones every time.
In the end, I'm not trying to point accusatory fingers at parents- I know they just want the very best for their kids. But hopefully, as the detrimental effects of early sport specialization for the majority of kids gains more and more attention, we'll see that trend reverse itself. | 2019-04-26T08:47:38 | http://www.saptstrength.com/blog/2015/9/4/will-your-kid-be-a-professional-athlete |
0.999635 | Here's a recipe I found in Vegetarian Times that was easy to veganize. It has a great texture and is not too sweet. You can bake it in a 9 x 5 loaf pan or as 12 muffins. I don't think I mashed the banana enough but it was still really good.
1. Preheat oven to 350˚F. Coat pan with oil.
2. Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in bowl.
3. Put vinegar in measuring cup and add soy milk to make one cup. Let stand for a minute to curdle. Whisk together soy milk, banana, oil and vanilla. Fold liquid mixture into flour mixture.
4. Put batter into prepared pan and bake 50 minutes for a loaf and 20 minutes for muffins., or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
5. Cool 5 minutes in pan. Remove from pan and cool on a wire rack.
6. If desired, melt 1/4 cup vegan chocolate chips in a small pot. Use a low flame and stir constantly (seriously, pay attention -it only takes a minute) until melted. Spread over the top of the cooled cake. This is a thin coating, more like a glaze.
Lazy cooks read this: My friend Claire put chocolate chips on top of the hot cake where they softened, and she spread them into an icing. Now, THAT'S easy. Yikes.
Thanks! I will make this for Lisa's birthday. She looooooves chocolate!
You'll have to let me know if she likes it. Since it's for a birthday, I think you should add those extra chocolate chips!
I DID add the extra chocolate, and for the glaze I just dumped a bunch more chocolate chips on top, waited for them to soften, and then spread them evenly across the top. Soooooo easy and everyone loved it!!!
And at the staff meeting, one of the other teachers said, "And you know it's vegan...." | 2019-04-26T06:05:53 | https://cookeasyvegan.blogspot.com/2008/02/chocolate-banana-loaf.html |
0.998601 | "Commercials are telling us that an armchair priced at two hundred and ninety nine pounds costs 'two-nine-nine' and that a three-piece suite priced at four hundred and ninety nine pounds can be ours for 'four-nine-nine'. "
"One is that it avoids having to mention high-sounding numbers like 'ninety' or 'a hundred'. The other is that these shorthand digital options save on costly air time: there are only three syllables in 'four-nine-nine' compared with eight syllables in 'four hundred and ninety nine pounds', which takes more than twice as long to say."
Three years later, this peculiar way of talking about prices is not only still on our screens, but the first of these reasons is arguably becoming rather more explicit. For example, in the above ad from Currys and PC World, we're told that we get "four hundred pounds off" for a first product that only costs "four-nine-nine", while the next one is "only five-nine-nine" or "four hundred pounds off".
In other words, the full (normal conversational) form is used to emphasise what a lot you "get off", whereas the digital (odd-sounding form) is used to emphasise how little the actual price is.
I can see how the ad agencies have managed to persuade their clients of the logic behind this bizarre usage, but very much doubt whether they have much in the way of hard evidence that it has the desired impact on TV viewers (for more on which, see HERE).
Did Mr Lickley pause for longer than usual at this particular point in the Tabak trial?
Reports of the prosecution's closing statement to the jury at the trial of Vincent Tabak on the BBC and Sky News websites, have reminded me of what got me interested in studying rhetoric and persuasive language in in the first place.
"Vincent Tabak is very clever, he is intelligent.
"There is another side to Vincent Tabak. He is dishonest, deceitful and he is a liar."
'We had plenty of tapes of court hearings, but the absence of any audible responses from jurors during the proceedings meant there was no way of knowing which parts of what was being said were having a positive impact on the audience that really matters.
'The reason why applause in political speeches seemed a promising place to start was because it provides instant and unambiguous evidence that listeners are (a) awake and paying close attention and (b) approve strongly enough of what’s just been said to show their approval of it (by clapping hands, cheering, etc.)' - for more on which, see HERE.
Earlier this year, in a blog on Televising the Supreme Court: one small step towards a giant leap, I made the point that the original reasons for banning cameras and television from our courts had disappeared long before Paul Drew and I wrote Order in Court: the Organization of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings (Macmillan Press, 1978). Yet the best data we could get from courts in the UK had to come from observations and transcripts - though. ironically, we never had any trouble copying audio-tapes of American trials from colleagues in the USA.
More than 30 years later, the same constraint still applies, so that anyone anyone else foolish enough to take a technical interest in the detailed workings of courtroom language will still have to make do without access to the raw material of live recordings. Meanwhile, Sky News (perhaps from rather dubious financial motives) has been doing its best to break through the barriers (e.g. HERE, not to mention its recent coverage of the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor).
As I was still working at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies after writing Our Masters' Voices in 1984, people used to ask, quite rightly, if the findings had any implications for speeches made to jurors in courts - and I'd very much like to have been in a position to give them an empirically grounded answer.
As far as we could tell from the American tapes to which we had access, exactly the same rhetorical techniques were being used in prosecution and defence statements to juries. But, at the points where applause would have occurred in a political speech, counsel were tending to pause for longer than usual - as if they were allowing the jurors time to engage in 'mental applause' and approval for the point they had just made.
On the basis of trials I've observed in English courts, I'd say that much the same seems to happen here too. But, so long as researchers aren't allowed access to actual recordings, it's impossible to check this against hard evidence.
Professional broadcasters should beware of saying "um" and "er"
The previous post on a famous broadcaster who speaks more effectively on television and radio than when he's lecturing (Melvyn Bragg) reminded me that there are also some professional broadcasters who punctuate their reports and interviews with rather more "ums" and "ers" than they should.
Someone I've noticed doing this is Adam Boulton, political editor of Sky News. On turning to YouTube for possible examples, even I was surprised that I had to look no further than the very first clip I came across (above), in which you'll hear 37 "ums" and "ers" in 150 seconds - at a rate of about one every 4 seconds.
A normal feature of conversational speech is the way we punctuate much of what we say with ums and ers. But, for audiences trying to listen to a speech (or broadcast) this can become a major source of irritation, because presenters who retain their normal conversational umming/erring rate come across as hesitant, lacking in confidence, uncertain of their material and badly prepared.
In conversation, one of the commonest places for ums and ers is right at the start of a new speaker’s turn, where we use them to avoid what might otherwise be heard as a potentially embarrassing silence - by indicating: "I'm not being impolite or disagreeable but am about to respond any second now". But some public speakers (and broadcasters) make a habit of starting almost every new sentence with an um or an er, of which they’re typically completely unaware of until they hear themselves on tape - when most are appalled by the negative impact they must have had on their audience.
Another place where we often um or er in conversation is when we suddenly find ourselves stuck for a word or name we need to be able to carry on. We know that, if we simply stay silent while searching for the word, someone else will use the pause as a chance for them to speak, thereby preventing us from finishing whatever it was we were about to say. So saying um or er is a simple and effective device for letting everyone know that you haven’t finished yet and that it’s still your turn.
If the primary functions of ums and ers in conversation are to avoid silences and reduce the chances of being interrupted, they lose their point in presentations and broadcasts. After all, presenters are not competing to hold the floor in the same was as in everyday conversation and, once in full flow, they certainly don't need to keep reminding us that they've just started a new sentence. As a result, umming/erring rates that would be perfectly normal and hardly noticed in everyday conversation stand out as needless distractions when heard from the mouths of presenters.
In defence of Mr Boulton?
Tomorrow's World style demonstration that's far removed from his natural habitat of political interviewing and reporting.
But the reason I started looking for a video clip of him in the first place was that I'd often noticed (and been surprised by) the frequency of his umming and erring in his regular contributions on Sky News.
Nor, would it appear, am I alone in having done so - as his was one of the names mentioned on Twitter yesterday after I'd invited people to guess the identity of the umming/erring television news presenter about whom I was planning a blog.
P.S. BBC policy on ums & ers?
ers had changed over the years and I'd be curious to hear confirmation that this was indeed so (or not). Does anyone know whether that there was a time when all ums and ers were edited out of recorded BBC interviews with inexperienced interviewees as a matter of course, followed by a period when all of them were left in (to ensure greater 'authenticity') and eventually ending up with a 50:50 compromise in which some, but not all, were deleted? Or am I just dreaming?
In his autobiography, the late Professor A.J. Ayer, noted that he'd been surprised to discover, when appearing long ago on BBC Radio's The Brains Trust, that broadcasting was very different from lecturing - in that it worked perfectly well for him and the other participants to speak at their normal conversational speed.
A: "There was too much to be able to take in."
B: "And he kept rambling off the subject with too many digressions."
I resisted the temptation to intervene with the strangers to express my complete agreement that he had indeed tried to cover far too much ground in a lecture that was also sadly lacking in structure and direction.
To these complaints, I would have added: "He also spoke far too quickly for a lecture, and especially one that went on for far too long" (i.e. 90 minutes).
Bragg is, of course, a very experienced award-winning broadcaster - whose South Bank Show was seen as so crucial to London Weekend Television's franchise bid (after the 1990 Broadcasting Act) that he was one of a small group of staff who were paid multi-million pound 'golden handcuffs' to keep them with the company during and after the bid.
But, unlike Professor Ayer, he doesn't seem to have realised that lecturing calls for a rather different pace than broadcasting - not least because listeners are up against problem of trying to stay awake and pay attention to a far longer stream of talk than is ever the case in any of his television or radio programmes (or in everyday conversation, where the average length of turns at talk is about 8 seconds).
For radio listeners, eavesdropping on conversations, even intellectual ones like those on Bragg's In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, is easy enough. But he needs to learn that pausing much more frequently, and for much longer than you would ever do in a conversation (or on radio), is crucial to effective public speaking - and that includes lecturing.
In conversation, native speakers of English talk at a rate of about 180 words per minute, whereas the speed of effective public speakers is 120 words per minute (for more on which, see Lend Me Your Ears).
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, I've been a regular visitor to the AlJazeera website to keep up with the latest news.
Today, they've posted a collection of quotations from Gaddafi which make fascinating reading - not just in themselves, but because most of them are even more bizarre than any of the entries to the 'doomed dictators speechwriting competition' earlier this year.
As soon as Muammar Gaddafi seized power in Libya in 1969, at the age of 27, he launched into a perplexing and controversial career as a speech-maker that now spans more than 40 decades. In scattershot diatribes that at times stretched to several hours, Gaddafi astounded audience at Libya and abroad.
Famously dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East" by Ronald Reagan, the former president of the US, Gaddafi did little to dispel that nickname in his wild orations and writings. In 1975, he outlined his political philosophy in "The Green Book" which carried the subtitle, ""The Solution to the Problems of Democracy; The Social Basis to the Third Universal Theory."
"I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level."
— Remarks to a crowd including King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and having his microphone cut on March 30, 2009, as quoted by The Scotsman in the article "Gaddafi walks out of summit after attack on Saudi king" by Salah Nasrawi.
"There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet."
— Spoken at a conference at Columbia University in New York City on March 23, 2008.
"I am convinced that the [Israel-Palestine] solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth."
"If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body."
"[Abraham] Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain similarities between him and me."
— Pulbished in The Pittsburgh Press on August 3, 1986, in the article "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin.
"Irrespective of the conflict with America, it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American people and be with them at these horrifying and awesome events which are bound to awaken human conscience. When I was five, my brother was shot by an Israeli soldier, since then I have been dedicated to uniting the Arab countries throughout the Middle East and retain a trade flow with the West."
— Reaction to the September 11, 2001, attacks as quoted by CBSNews.com on September 12, 2001.
"All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps."
— Defending his belief that women's "defects" meant that their place was in the home as quoted by TIME on July 23, 1975.
"Libya is an African country. May Allah help the Arabs and keep them away from us. We don't want anything to do with them. They did not fight with us against the Italians, and they did not fight with us against the Americans. They did not lift the sanctions and siege from us. On the contrary, they gloated at us, and benefited from our hardship…"
"There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control Libyan land, to colonise Libya once again. This is impossible, impossible. We will fight until the last man and last woman to defend Libya from east to west, north to south."
— audio message broadcast on Al-Ouroba TV, a Syria-based satellite station, on August 25, as oppostion forces began as assault on Tripoli.
Another King's speech: "Syrian soldiers and security personnel are innocent"
Arabic speakers boo at names too!
Resignation speeches tend to be at their best when a cabinet minister has taken the initiative to resign, as in the cases of Sir Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and Robin Cook.
So I wasn't expecting much from the statement by the departing Dr Fox in the House of Commons earlier today. Nor did we get very much.
"Too much like an Oscar acceptance speech"
Two engaging women speakers from British politics - and two models for powerful women?
During the Labour Party conference last month, I raised the question of whether some of the party's leading women, such as Yvette Cooper, Caroline Flint and Harriet Harman, are better speakers than the party's current generation of leading men.
On hearing the 81 year old Shirley Williams speaking at the Wells Literary Festival the other night - along the lines of the above from a similar speech she made at the Stratford-upon- Avon Literary Festival - I realised that there's nothing particularly new about effective women speakers holding their own with their male contemporaries and rising to the higher reaches of the Labour Party (and later, in her case, within the SDP and Liberal Democrats too).
Long before Williams and the three male members of the 'gang of four' had broken away from Labour to form the SDP, she had been a cabinet minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments. And, from quite early in her political career, she was sometimes mentioned as a possible first woman Labour leader and even as a possible first ever woman prime minister.
Although these both eluded her, she's still not only a very engaging speaker, but also one who's retained an energy to rival many, if not most, speakers who are very much younger than she is. During her brief stay in Somerset this weekend, she was making speeches and taking questions from 1930-2130 on Friday night and from 0930-1130 and 1230-1400 on Saturday (i.e. for about 50% of the waking hours she was here).
As if that wasn't enough, she was planning to spend her train journey back to London reading a few more hundred pages of the health bill and its amendments in the current House of Lords debate in which she is playing a very active part.
Twenty years older than Shirley Williams was another leading figure in Harold Wilson's Labour government, the late Barbara Castle. I haven't been able to find any clips of her speeches on YouTube - where there seem to be more of Miranda Richardson playing her in the film Made in Dagenham than there are of the real Mrs Castle - but some of us are old enough to remember that she too was a much better than average public speaker.
In Our Masters' Voices and some of the blog posts below (especially HERE), I suggested that Margaret Thatcher had found a solution to the professional woman’s problem of being damned if they behave like a man and damned if they behave like a woman by being tough and decisive in her actions while being uncompromisingly female in her external appearance – and that this was summed up by the nickname the 'Iron Lady’, capturing as it does both 'strength' and 'femininity'.
In this respect, Barbara Castle, regarded in her day as being as tough, glamourous and well-dressed, came much closer to the Thatcher model for women politicians than Shirley Williams ever did.
At the time of writing Our Masters' Voices, I remember suggesting somewhere that Mrs Williams represented a rather different available role-model for women in politics than the one offered by Thatcher and Castle: the 'intellectual', ' blue-stockinged', 'untidy', 'verging on scruffy' stereotype of the female Oxbridge don (or Women's Institute lecturer).
As for whether she consciously developed such an image, there are at least two pieces of evidence that she is certainly aware of it in retrospect.
One is that she actually referred, without any prompting, to her erstwhile reputation for having untidy hair during the talk she gave on Friday night.
Are Labour's leading women better speakers than Labour's leading men?
People sometimes tell me that it's all very well to bang on about the power of using imagery to get messages across (as in 'Painting Pictures with Words', Lend Me Your Ears, Ch. 7 and various other posts on this blog), but that it won't help much if you're speaking about technical subjects, let alone taking an audience to the frontiers of science.
A few days ago BBC Radio 4's Material World (listen again HERE) included a discussion of the contribution made by Professor Ralph Steinman who died just before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology. In this sequence, we're told that T cells act "as the generals of the army" and dendritic cells which "instruct T cells who to attack".
It's supposed to be a sure sign of growing older when you start thinking that police officers and doctors are getting younger. Another is when you realise that more and more significant anniversaries are taking place of events you think of as recent memories.
For me, the latest reminder of this is the news that it's 50 years since the fortnightly satirical magazine Private Eye was first published.
Not only do I remember it well, but I was also an early salesman and have been a subscriber and (very occasional) contributor ever since.
Selling the Eye outside university cafeterias was my first serious business venture. Lord Gnome had rightly seen students as a promising source of potential readers and had invited volunteers to join his sales force.
Once a fortnight, all I had to do was to go down to the station and collect my 6o copies of the latest edition, then priced at 1/6d (one shilling and sixpence, or 7.5 pence in new money) - for which I had to pay 1/- (one shilling, or 5 pence in new money) each, leaving a net profit of 30 shillings (£1.50 in new money) per fortnight.
These days, 75 pence a week may sound like a pittance. But when pubs sold a pint of beer for the equivalent of 7.5 pence, it was riches indeed.
For years, I tried unsuccessfully to get Private Eye to publish my hilariously funny (?) cartoons, only to be bombarded with rejection slips suggesting that I should send them to Punch magazine (now coming up to the 10th anniversary of its demise in 2002).
I also rather regret that nothing I've written has ever made it into Pseuds' Corner, even though I know that such acclaim can have embarrassing consequences. Someone (and we haven't forgotten who you are) had successfully submitted a sentence from article about conversational turn-taking that one of my best friends had published in a learned journal.
When I told him that I was rather envious because nothing of mine had ever got into Pseuds' Corner, he warned of the dire consequences such recognition can have. It had been published a few days before he was due in Cambridge to serve as external examiner in a PhD viva. As he put it "they already think we're mad enough to be doing conversation analysis in the first place, without being able to rub it in by waving Private Eye at me before the meeting started."
It wasn't until the mid-1980s that I finally managed to extract a cheque from Lord Gnome for a photograph that I'd taken of the village sign outside a village in Northamptonshire that bore the legend "Silverstone - please drive slowly."
Even then, it had seemed like another rejection for the many months it failed to appear in the I Spy feature, making me grumpier by the fortnight. Then, to give them their due, it turned out that they hadn't binned it after all, but had merely been waiting, with the journalistic flair we expect from Private Eye, to publish it the week before that year's British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
More recently, the Eye published another photograph I'd taken of a fly-posted planning notice from Mendip District Council - at a time when they were wasting unspecified amounts of council-tax payers' money on a campaign against fly-posting notices of forthcoming village events on 'items of street furniture', i.e. MDC jobsworthy jargon for telephone and electricity posts... (continued on p. 94).
Listen again: Lord Gnome aged 49 and 3 quarters - Michael Crick, BBC Radio 4 (8th October - for another 6 days).
At this time last year, I posted a video clip of audiences clapping out the conference season (HERE).
This year, I've produced a compilation of members of a conference audience listening in rapt attention (?) with musical backing from Flipron's The End of Summer (from their album Biscuits for Cerberus). Much admired for Jesse Budd's lyrics and Joe Atkinson's brilliance on the keyboards, this particular sequence neatly catches a suitable mood for marking the end of the party conference season.
When I bought my first computer in 1985, I came very close to buying an Apple Macintosh but chickened out and bought an Apricot (with two slots for 750K floppy disks).
About twenty years later, while staying with John Heritage in Los Angeles, I found myself being marched into the student shop at UCLA, where he made me buy my first MacBook.
Since then, I quickly upgraded to a MacBook Pro, have acquired a desktop MacPro and have been using an iPhone since the first week of its launch in the UK.
To expand on all the many virtues of being liberated from the familiar nightmares of using a Windows computer would be to risk a very long and boring blogpost. So suffice it to say that the incredible reliability and ease of using the iMovie program that's built into Macs has saved me thousands of hours in preparing demo clips both for lectures and courses and for posting as examples on this blog.
For example, preparing this particular movie - including retrieval of the music, selecting and editing the clips and aligning them with the backing - took less than half an hour.
And, as if that's not enough to be grateful to Steve Jobs for, he also stood out among CEOs as an extremely effective presenter from whom there was much that other business leaders could and should learn.
A couple of years ago, I posted some video clips showing how Margaret Thatcher's speech-making became less effective when she stopped using hard copy scripts and started reading speeches from teleprompter screens (HERE).
A few months later, I realised that I'd been mistaken in thinking that David Cameron was having problems reading from screens - as it turned out that he wasn't using an Autocue or any other form of teleprompter at that time (HERE).
But yesterday Mr Cameron had not only taken to using a teleprompter for his leader's speech, but was also encountering the same kinds of difficulties that diminished Mrs Thatcher's effectiveness all those years ago.
Here you can see see two examples of him falling into the same trap as Mrs Thatcher . In both cases, he sets up what's coming as an applaudable point. But in both cases, nothing happens for so long (2-3 seconds) that he's already carried on again by the time it finally does - at which point he has to break off.
Also in both cases he seems to acknowledge the glitch with a slight nod, indicating, perhaps: "yes, it is your turn and you should jolly well have started a bit sooner than that"?.
Given that Cameron is more effective than most of his contemporaries at speaking from scripts on a lectern, I'd advise him to ditch the teleprompter forthwith.
Or, if his aides have cooked up some reason that's convinced him it's a good idea, they should also convince him that he's going to need a lot more practice if he's to get anywhere near his effectiveness with old-fashioned scripts (or, for that matter, with no script at all, as in the 10 minute speech that clinched the leadership for him at the beauty parade in 2005).
Politicians and broadcasters in the UK: collaboration or capitulation?
Why did some Labour members boo & clap when Miliband mentioned tony Blair?
Did the BBC change its mind on publicising the snake Miliband landed on yesterday?
Preparing for speechwriting course in Brussels this week, I thought it would be nice to include an example of a 'local' using some of the main rhetorical techniques in one of my demo tapes.
PUZZLE: This is Europe's moment of truth.
SOLUTION: Europe must show that its more than 37 different national solutions.
CONTRAST (with swimming metaphor + alliteration): We either swim together or sink separately.
Not surprisingly, this selection of key rhetorical techniques worked well enough for it to be singled out by the media as a sound bite - but it didn't impress everyone.
British readers may be interested to see that, of the five MEPs shown just before Mr Barroso starts speaking, the only one who doesn't join in with the applause is none other than Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP (the UK Independence Party).
Whether or not you're one of his supporters or opponents, it has to be admitted that his behaviour here is admirably consistent with his long-standing antipathy towards the EU.
A recurring observation on this blog during last year's party conference season was that audiences at the Liberal Democrat and Conservative party conferences were rather lukewarm about the coalition government they had just formed (see below). This was indicated by the fact that applause for mentions of it tended to be either delayed or failed to reach the 'normal' 8 seconds burst (or both) - e.g. HERE and HERE.
But in George Osborne's speech earlier today, there was evidence of a greater willingness among Conservative party activists to show their approval of the coalition than they were at this time a year ago.
When the Chancellor commended the Liberal Democrats for "working as a coalition together in the national interest" (about 30 seconds into the above clip) the audience not only started clapping more or less straight away, but they also managed to keep it going for a healthy 10 seconds.
Did David Miliband lose because he was too old and experienced?
What a peculiar Tory backdrop, Part 2: What do the flags mean?
Delayed applause for Cameron's government - from the Conservatives!
Was it, I wonder, pure coincidence that BBC2's schedule last night included some archive footage of the original Frost-Nixon interview (including the above), followed by the film version of the events surrounding and leading up to it?
After all, the party conference season, with its mix of extended interviews with politicians, very short clips from their speeches and much longer clips from media commentators telling us what they're talking about, has yet to grind to a close.
From my point of view, having started the season by asking why our politicians are so willing to play snakes and ladders under media rules that give them little chance of landing on anything but a snake (HERE), the chance to see the Frost-Nixon film could hardly have come at a more appropriate time.
Here was a disgraced American president who thought himself smart enough to run rings around a talk-show host and salvage his reputation - only to be lured into landing on about as damaging a snake as David Frost and his media colleagues could ever have dreamt of.
A quarter of a century earlier, claims that vice-presidential candidate Nixon might have misappropriated campaign funds almost forced his withdrawal as President Eisenhower's running mate.
What saved him was not an interview, but the carefully crafted 'Checkers speech' (still ranked as the 6th greatest political speech on the American Rhetoric website).
Interestingly, both the name it became known by and much of its powerful impact derived from a simple anecdote about his children and a little cocker spaniel dog.
I think our current politicians could do worse than to watch both - and reflect on what a single interview and a single speech did for Nixon's political reputation.
Were they to do so, they might think again about what, if anything, they are gaining from their tacit collusion with broadcasters about the relative merits of interviews and speeches as alternative ways of communicating their messages (and conveying positive/negative images of themselves) to a wider public.
(You may have to put up with a 15 seconds commercial before this starts).
Notes on conversation, communication, public speaking - and life in general.
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0.994386 | I have a MingW32 cross toolchain for Win32 that used to work to cross-compile the GIT Head Through at least 20110621. I am not sure when it broke. The HOST is an OSX 10.6 and the target is MingW32. I am following the instructions to cross-compile for MingW32 under Linux and have been able to use this technique in the past to cross-compile for MingW32 under both Linux and MacOS.
I think this is a Microsoft Windows Application that is part of MSVC++. Is the intent now for cross-compiling for Windows to be dependent on LIB.EXE?
build-log-20110714.txt (90.1 KB) - added by jlsantiago0 8 years ago.
build-log-20110621.txt (92.7 KB) - added by jlsantiago0 8 years ago.
mingw-build-20120611.log (95.4 KB) - added by jlsantiago0 7 years ago.
ffmpeg-implib-install.patch (1.1 KB) - added by stump 7 years ago.
Please add your configure line.
install -m 644 libavcodec/avcodec-53.lib "../bin/avcodec.lib"; install -m 644 libavcodec/avcodec-53.lib "../bin/avcodec-53.lib"; install -d "../lib"; install -m 644 libavcodec/libavcodec.dll.a "../lib/libavcodec.dll.a"
install -m 644 libavcodec/avcodec.lib "../bin"
So the issue description is not accurate. Looks like LIB.EXE has nothing to do with the failure.
I ran into this issue after updating as well.
I worked around it by creating the libs, and then make install (where previously I could make the libs after I make install).
It seems that FFmpeg won't install if it can not find the lib files, I'm not sure if it's only related to the shared aspect though.
Even if the lib.exe can not be found, and the lib files can not be created, I suggest that it does not break the make install. I also suggest that if the .lib files are made, that the .def files are not installed and only the .lib files are. You only need one or the other.
So, is this issue still reproduceable ?
Yes. I have uploaded as an attachment the build log while building the latest FFMPEG GIT HEAD with MINGW.
The issue seems to be that install cannot find 'libavcodec/avcodec.lib' . I think that about a year ago before this ticket was logged, this was not an error, but was a warning instead.
The problem is that configure should be calling the prefixed dlltool, and not "lib.exe". Libav's configure does this, but FFMpeg's does not, for some reason.
I second that we move over to dlltool if it can be used to create the .lib files.
I now recommend a cross compile environment to people wondering how to compile FFmpeg, and installing wine+Microsoft C++ Redistributable packages+lib.exe is a lot more work than simply using a MinGW-w64 dlltool.
If dlltool can create compatible .lib files, I strongly suggest using it.
I'm running into this problem too, on current git master.
As an observation, libav switched to the dlltool line in commit ec10a9ab and ffmpeg later reverted that in commit 85c9365d, saying "this was requested by the windows experts / seems dlltool causes alot of problems".
This makes me think that an import library output by dlltool will still be incompatible with MSVC. Last time I tried linking to a MinGW-generated implib with MSVC, bad things happened (I'm not currently in a position to retry).
To work around this, in the script from which I cross-build ffmpeg, I hackishly patch library.mak (will attach patch for reference) to ignore the error installing the .lib file, just as the failure to invoke lib.exe is already ignored during make. (I don't consider make -k install to be a satisfactory solution, as that could hide real problems.) It looks like the mechanism I'm modifying is intended to be more general, but it looks like it's not used for anything other than installing the MSVC-compatible implibs for a mingw32 build. I think that if this import library incompatibility still exists, the right thing to do is probably to just ignore the error during install (or condition installation on the file's pre-existence).
Ive added support for dlltool, please test if it works for you, if not please reopen this issue and note, patches improving it are very welcome! | 2019-04-20T10:21:03 | https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/349 |
0.993757 | 1) Rate the meeting on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the best.
2) Comment on what you liked about the meeting/what you found most helpful.
3) Comment on what you didn't like about the meeting/what you would change.
4) Provide any additional thoughts, comments, or suggestions. | 2019-04-18T10:44:43 | https://mizzouvms.missouri.edu/vms-forms/reporting-feedback/new |
0.997275 | Is there another option for these children?
Thankfully, someone has heard of Safe Families for Children – a call is placed, a Host Family is found who is willing to care for these four children for the night their momma needs in the hospital. The children are able to remain together and out of the foster care system. They get to hear, see, and experience the love of Jesus through this Host Family. The momma learns there are people out there to support and help her, no strings attached. She knows there is hope and help; she does not need to be alone.
Last year there were over 12,000 reports of child abuse or neglect that were investigated within Allegheny County. Over 6,000 of those cases resulted in children being removed from their homes, and this does not consider the countless calls Allegheny County receives from desperate parents needing help and support, some just needing a friend and someone willing to do life with them – just like the momma who went to the ER.
That’s where the church – and Safe Families for Children – comes in.
Christians are called to extend hospitality (Romans 12:13, Heb. 13:2) – that is, to display love to strangers. Safe Families for Children connects families who are experiencing a crisis to families who are willing to love, care, and be a friend to that family. Whether through taking a child into your home short-term as a Host Family, being willing to provide respite or babysitting services as a Family Friend, or serving as a Resource Friend or Family Coach, Christians can make a radical difference in the life of families in crisis through practicing hospitality.
Yes, Safe Families has a deep impact on the families helped. But it also has a profound impact on the families who serve.
“My wife wanted to do Safe Families; I really wasn’t so sure,” shares a husband of a couple who serves as a Host Family, “but that first time we hosted – a little girl. Her mom told us she didn’t like men very much. No more details than that, just that she wasn’t real comfortable with men. She wasn’t with us long, just a few days. But do you know what happened? After a day or two we were getting out of the car, and she just came over to me and slipped her hand into mine. I’m tearing up just thinking about it,” he pauses and takes a deep breath.
Loving and welcoming children into your home not only helps the family in crisis, it deepens and strengthens your faith. Safe Families allows you to serve together as a family, teaching your children how to love, sacrifice, and care for strangers. And it provides opportunities to share the gospel with children in crisis – in both word and deed.
Could you be a Host Family? | 2019-04-18T18:46:38 | http://www.imagineconferencepgh.com/imagine-conference/loving-strangers-providing-help-to-families-in-crisis/ |
0.999977 | The EPM situation rests on the conflict between the innate tendencies of rodents to explore novel environments and avoid open and brightly lit areas. In this task the animal is placed in the centre of the maze. From here it can walk down any of four runways. Two of the arms are well lit and open, and the other two are enclosed and dimly lit. Mice and rats prefer the closed arms but will venture out into the open arms. The amount of time spent in the open arms is recorded. "Anxious" mice or rats will spend little time in the open arms and make very few entries into the open arms. Anxiolytic drugs such as benzodiazepines increase the time spent in the open arms and increase the number of open arm entries in this test.
Compound testing addresses the effect of acute treatment on the total duration of time spent in the open arms. Investigation of the effect of subchronic treatment is also possible.
MICE: 1 mg/kg diazepam induces a significant increase in the time spent in the open arms.
RATS: 1 mg/kg diazepam induces a significant increase in the time spent in the open arms.
Panic anxiety model is performed in the rat and has been validated using the EPM. In line with the clinical finding, benzodiazepines normalize the panic anxiety status of rats challenged with CCK-4 or with Yohimbine.
Mice bury glass marbles that are present in the cage. This test has some predictive value for anti-depressant and/or anxiolytic drugs.
The light dark test is used to evaluate the relative anxiety status of mice.
Spontaneous paradigm is based on the natural reaction of rodents to stress stimuli.
Anxiety can be defined as a response to threats that causes nervousness and fear. | 2019-04-25T19:54:29 | http://neurofit.com/tech-anim-epm.html |
0.999808 | KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - Malaysia has received interest from some local and foreign firms to buy national carrier Malaysia Airlines (MAS), Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday (March 20).
Malaysia was still studying options for the financially troubled flagship carrier, he told reporters.
'There are certain parties who are interested to buy (the airline), so we don't reject (the possibility of selling),' he said, without disclosing the names of the firms.
The government will consider whether to change the airline's management, downsize or expand it, Tun Mahathir said.
'Although we hired foreign management, MAS still faced losses. Therefore, one of the options is to sell,' he said.
The airline has had two foreign chief executive officers leave before the end of their contracts since it was taken private by sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional in 2014.
'I love MAS. I want MAS to be a national airline, but it looks like we cannot afford it,' Dr Mahathir added.
Last week, Dr Mahathir said the government was considering whether to shut, sell or refinance the airline, and that a decision would be made soon.
The airline has been trying to transform its operations and return to profitability by 2019 as it recovers from two disasters in 2014, when flight MH370 disappeared in what remains a mystery and flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
Khazanah Nasional said earlier this month that the government needed to decide on its investment in, and level of support for, the struggling airline. | 2019-04-24T14:48:08 | https://www.travelnews.my/index.php?ws=showproducts&products_id=2487284&cat=TravelNews |
0.925854 | Read more about what exactly is existential nihilism?
If something (a tool, a work of art, a dish, etc.) was created with a specific goal in mind, fails miserably at achieving that goal, but manages to be pretty good at doing something else, is it still a failure? Suppose a movie sets out to be dramatic and heart-wrenching, but ends up being inadvertently hilarious (in a good way). Should it be considered a failure? I ask because there are lots of people who tend to argue that X fails as an X and thus, regardless of how it might otherwise succeed for some people, it should be considered bad. I'm not so sure that's the case.
Where can I read about objections to the validity of a question such as "the purpose of life" where the question baselessly presupposes that life HAS a purpose. And more broadly, even if it claimed that EVERYTHING has a purpose, how can such a claim be justified? It seems that many metaphysical questions suffer from this lack of validity due to unfounded presuppositions or assertions. Where can I read about this as applied to philosophical questions in general? Thank you.
Read more about Does strict materialism imply there is no such thing as intrinsic value?
Is there any coherent non-religious argument that shows that the appearance of life on the universe is a "good" or "valuable" thing? It seems to me that something is valuable iff there's somebody who values it. So life would not be valuable when it does not exist, but it would become valuable when it does exist? Would it value itself? I'm not sure if this circular reasoning, or there's some solid ground. What would be some standard literature on this kind of issues?
I have a question about food and objectivity. My friend insists that all opinions about the value of certain instances of a type of food being better than others are merely subjective. I disagree with this and when I say that, for example, "my mom's chocolate chip cookies are better than store bought cookies" I believe that there is actually some objective basis to this. I would cite as evidence the fact that my mom uses higher quality ingredients, puts more care and attention into baking, and that generally others agree that her cookies are quite good and preferable to store bought cookies. Is there any truth to this idea about food more generally? Can there actually be some objective basis for judging which food is better?
Why are wisdom and truth important? How does one defend their importance over the superficial like wealth and popularity? What is wrong with the superficial anyway? I like to think that I pursue wisdom and scorn worldly goods, but I can never justify to others why I live this way.
There was something that I wanted so badly for so long. Now, I got it but I am not as excited as I thought. How can we know what we want (our goal) in life? | 2019-04-21T10:13:14 | http://askphilosophers.org/advancedsearch?page=7&topic=234 |
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0.999996 | Here are some examples of "I am good at + " sentences. Sometimes people may ask you "what is your talent?" or maybe you ask yourself that "What am I good at?" At that time, you can use these kind of sentences to answer. Just practice. These are very useful in your daily conversation English.
What is your talent? or What am I good at?
I'm good at computer skills.
I'm good at customer service.
I'm good at English grammar.
I'm good at hiding my feelings.
I'm good at logical thinking.
I'm good at public speaking.
I'm good at solving problems.
I'm good at time management.
I'm good at video games.
I'm good at working in a team. | 2019-04-21T08:50:56 | http://www.englishsentencedatabase.com/2012/09/i-am-good-at-example-sentences.html |
0.898389 | This paper begins with a presentation of some important aspects of the science behind global warming. Following that, I argue that attempts to address global warming and climate change as problems facing humanity ought not to center around economic understandings of the problem or it solutions. Moreover, I argue that (environmental) pragmatism is especially vulnerable to this sort of misappropriation in seeking solutions to climate change, and that environmental pragmatists ought to make a conscious effort to avoid potential mischaracterizations of pragmatism by providing a clearer sense of the boundaries that delimit its approach to climate change, or any other environmental crisis.
Public discourse concerning the rising average surface temperature of our planet is not far to seek at present. There is almost daily mention of the phenomena in print, radio and television news media; and no shortage of special reports by various stations and channels, Discovery and PBS: Frontline1 are two that come to mind), special issues of periodicals, or documentaries (think former VicePresident Gore) all addressing some aspect of the myriad concerns over the continued burning of fossil fuels and its effect on the climate. In what follows, I first provide a lay account of the science of global warming; one that I hope will interest readers not already preoccupied with the subject, as well as further inform those who are. Following that I argue that attempts to address global warming and climate change as problems facing humanity ought not to center around economic understandings of the problem or it solutions, and that pragmatism especially ought to resist such an approach.
Earth receives energy from the Sun in the form of light (much of which is not within the visible range of human beings). Various frequencies of light carry energy across the 150 million kilometer wide vacuum that separates the Sun from the Earth.3 The heat provided by the sun is crucial to making our planet inhabitable. Theoretically, the Earth should overtime radiate or reflect back into space the same amount of energy that it receives from the Sun - barring temporary or regional imbalances.4 I will refer to this throughout this essay as the Earth's energy balance or energy budget.
What this means is that if we consider the total amount of solar energy that reaches the Earth that same amount of energy must be returned to space by the Earth. All solar energy comes at the Earth from one direction, but energy is radiated from the Earth in all directions. Light that is reflected by the Earth's atmosphere back into space never reaches the planet's surface. The total energy release from the earth can be divided into two broad categories: heat radiated and light reflected. The first category - the heat radiated from the Earth - accounts for approximately seventy percent - roughly fifty eight percent by clouds and the atmosphere and twelve percent by near surface emissions - of the solar energy that the Earth receives from the Sun. The other category - light reflected - accounts for the solar energy that is reflected back into space - approximately twenty three percent by clouds and atmosphere and seven percent by the surface of the Earth.5 The total amount of visible light reflected - as opposed to radiated - by a body is called its albedo^ and in climatology is sometimes expressed as a percentage of the total incoming light. Earth's albedo is roughly .30; that is, thirty percent of the visible light from the Sun is reflected back into space before it enters the planet's atmosphere.
Publication information: Article title: Environmental Pragmatism, Global Warming, and Climate Change. Contributors: Carter, JacoAdeshei - Author. Journal title: Contemporary Pragmatism. Volume: 9. Issue: 1 Publication date: June 2012. Page number: 133+. © Brill Academic Publishers, Inc. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved. | 2019-04-19T00:52:37 | https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-2767595511/environmental-pragmatism-global-warming-and-climate |
0.999991 | Has pursuit of 'monsters' helped U.S.?
"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow."
So wrote the poet Byron, who would himself die just days after landing in Greece to join the war for independence from the Turks.
But in that time, Americans followed the dictum of Washington, Adams and Jefferson: Stay out of foreign wars.
America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own," said John Quincy Adams in his oration of July 4, 1821.
When Greek patriots sought America's assistance, Daniel Webster took up their cause but was admonished by John Randolph. Intervention would breach every "bulwark and barrier of the Constitution."
"Let us say to those 7 million of Greeks: We defended ourselves when we were but 3 million, against a power in comparison to which the Turk is but as a lamb. Go and do thou likewise."
When Hungarian hero Louis Kossuth came to request a U.S. fleet in the Mediterranean to keep the czar's warships at bay, when Hungary sought to break free of the Habsburg Empire, Webster backed him.
But Henry Clay and John Calhoun stood against it.
"Far better is it for ourselves," said Clay, "for Hungary and for the cause of liberty that, adhering to our wise, pacific system and avoiding the distant wars of Europe, we should keep our lamp burning brightly on this western shore as a light to all nations than to hazard its utter extinction amid the ruins of fallen or falling republics in Europe."
When Hungarian patriots rose up against the Soviet occupation in 1956, Khrushchev sent in hundreds of tanks to drown the revolution in blood.
Hungary was behind the Iron Curtain, the Yalta-Potsdam line to which FDR and Truman had agreed. There were no U.S. troops on any Hungarian border. So Eisenhower did nothing.
Indeed, that same month, Ike ordered British, French and Israelis to end their intervention in Sinai and Suez and get their troops out or face sanctions, including the U.S. sinking of the British pound.
Until the modern era, the idea of sending armed forces across oceans to kill and die for moral or humanitarian causes would have been seen as an insult to the founding fathers, an abandonment of a vital American tradition and ruinous to the national interest.
Why are we in Libya? Why have U.S. pilots bombed and killed Libyan soldiers who have done nothing to us?
These soldiers are simply doing their sworn duty to protect their country from attack and defend the only government they have known from what they are told is an insurgency backed by al-Qaida and supported by Western powers after their country's oil.
Why did Obama launch this unconstitutional war?
Moral, humanitarian and ideological reasons. Though Robert Gates and the Pentagon had thrown ice water on the idea of intervening in a third war in the Islamic world — in a sandbox on the northern coast of Africa — Obama somersaulted and ordered the attack for three reasons.
The Arab League gave him permission to impose a no-fly zone. He feared that Moammar Gadhafi would do to Benghazi what Scipio Africanus did to Carthage. And Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power conveyed to Obama their terrible guilt feelings about America's failure to stop what happened in Rwanda and Darfur.
This is the three sisters' war.
But why was it America's moral duty to stop the Tutsi slaughter of Hutus in Burundi in 1972 or the Hutu counter-slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994? Why was that not the duty of their closest African neighbors, Zaire (Congo), Uganda and Tanzania?
These African countries have been independent for a half-century. When are they going to man up?
The slaughter in Darfur is the work of an Arab League member, Sudan. Egypt, the largest and most powerful Arab nation, is just down the Nile. Why didn't the Egyptian army march to Khartoum, throw that miserable regime out and stop the genocide?
Why doesn't Egypt, whose 450,000-man army has gotten billions from us, roll into Tobruk and Benghazi and protect those Arabs from being killed by fellow Arabs? Why is this America's responsibility?
When Spain had its civil war in the 1930s, in which hundreds of thousands perished, FDR declared neutrality. A million Ibos died in Nigeria's civil war from 1967-70. No one raised a finger to help them or the million Cambodians who perished in Pol Pot's killing fields.
Since Bush I, we have intervened in Panama, Kuwait, Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya. Had Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman gotten their way, we would have been fighting Russians in Georgia and bombing Iran.
Add up all those we have killed, wounded, widowed, orphaned or uprooted, and the number runs into the millions. All these wars have helped mightily to bankrupt us.
Have they made us more secure?
To find out more about Patrick Buchanan, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com. | 2019-04-20T06:29:10 | https://www.monroenews.com/news/2011/Mar/26/has-pursuit-of-monsters-helped-us |
0.999276 | New Delhi: As India and Pakistan stood on the threshold of a defining moment tonight following a ceasefire agreement effective from midnight, Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani said here today that peace moves 'strengthen India's credentials with the world community that India wants peace.' Advani, who arrived in Jabalpur to address public meetings for BJP candidates, told a group of mediapersons that there is no let-up in cross-border terrorism. In reply to a question, Advani said there is 'no evidence of Pakistan having abandoned terrorism. It continues unabated. There have been several attempts at infiltration (of terrorists into J-K) during the past two months. In September alone, 200 terrorists were killed in the state, which is an all-time high (record).' On the face of it, there seems to be a contradiction in India's stand on dialogue and the continuing peace initiatives by both New Delhi and Islamabad. India's stated position is that an end to cross-border terrorism is a pre-requisite for peace dialogue with Pakistan. However, at the same time, there are unilateral peace initiatives either by Prime Minister Vajpayee or by Pak leaders. While the rest of the world may be cheering over the ceasefire deal, Advani's stress on the issue of cross-border terrorism without any adulatory reference to the ceasefire implies that actual peace would elude the two countries unless they thrash out the real issues. When asked about the proposed dialogue with the All Party Hurriyat Conference, Advani said: 'I am looking forward to the dialogue with the hope that it would be useful.' Defence Minister George Fernandes told reporters at Raipur: 'There are enough reasons to believe the ceasefire could take the two countries to a final solution as it was implemented after a serious thought.' An agency report quoted J-K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed having said: 'There could not be a better Id gift for the people of the state.' Meanwhile, no firing incident was reported from anywhere along the 1,126-km India-Pakistan border in J-K. An Army spokesman said: 'No firing incident has been reported from anywhere along the LoC, the international border and the actual ground position line in Siachen.' He said the Army has been told not to target Pakistani troops even if there are attempts by militants to cross the border. However, there would be no let-up in anti-insurgency operations in J- K, the spokesman added. | 2019-04-19T22:39:21 | http://jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2003/kashmir20031126d.html |
0.999987 | 1 One of the main differences between plants and animals is that animals need to eat food, but plants don't need to eat because they have chlorophyll. With this chlorophyll and energy from the sun, plants can make their own food using the process called photosynthesis.
2 So what about the Venus flytrap? Is it an exception to the rule? Venus flytraps are carnivorous, or meat-eating, plants. A fly that lands on a Venus flytrap had better beware. A fly that lands on a Venus flytrap is history; it's lunch, a protein-packed meal for a plant.
3 The Venus flytrap is not the only exception to the rule. It is one of over 600 types of carnivorous plants! Carnivorous plants are like other plants in many ways. They even use photosynthesis to make most of their own food. They are carnivorous for a reason. Most carnivorous plants live in swampy wetlands. This environment does not provide enough of the nutrients that plants need, especially nitrogen. So these plants have adapted to their environment by developing ways to catch insects for the extra nutrition that they need. It is a survival tool. | 2019-04-18T15:40:05 | https://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_24_87.html |
0.999999 | Is it time for St. Dorothy Day? The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born co-founder of both the Catholic Worker movement and the Catholic Worker newspaper in 1933 has a gathering of both the voiceful and voiceless calling for her to be canonized.
An early tailwind wafted in when Cardinal John O'Connor of New York announced in St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1997 that it might be time to begin the bureaucratic process to get a halo atop Day, who died in Lower Manhattan in 1980. O'Connor followed through by petitioning the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops unanimously endorsed the idea. Adding heft, an advocacy group, the Dorothy Day Guild, has been formed.
On the advisory board is Robert Ellsberg, editor-in-chief of Orbis Books, the publishing house of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone whom I admire more for believing personally in the Word while professionally using full energy to get truthful and needed words into print. In 1975, at 19, Ellsberg dropped out of college to join the Catholic Worker community in New York. His five years of service were fully appreciated by Day, who made him managing editor of her newspaper.
The current issue of the Catholic Worker, selling for a penny a copy and 25 cents a year as it has since the first press run, carries a literate Ellsberg essay that argues the case for saintliness: "Ultimately the question of Dorothy's canonization is not about drawing greater attention to her, but whether, through her witness, more attention will be drawn to Jesus, and more people will be inspired to comprehend and joyfully embrace his message of radical love. I believe the answer is yes. That is why I support her canonization."
Eloquent, yes. Convincing, no. The American hierarchy's endorsement is little more than a self-serving gesture. Now that Dorothy is safely in heaven, gone for good from the picket lines, let the hosannas commence -- as assuredly her calls for pacifism and anarchism were never embraced by the church establishment, much less preached from pulpits.
And why wouldn't Catholic bishops keep their distance from the rebellious agitator? In a published 1970 interview in Kansas City, Mo., by the editors of NCR, Day spoke of "the corruption in the institutional church through money and through their acceptance of this lousy, rotten system."
What's afoot with Dorothy Day is hardly new. She is being defanged by selectively hailing her decades of running soup kitchens for the homeless while ignoring her persistent damnings of American militarism and the hierarchy's complicity. The protocol equals the sanitizing of Martin Luther King Jr., sung as the "I have a dream" man, but unsung as the condemner of the United States for having the world's most violent government.
I met Day several times, the first in 1962, when she spoke to the priests and brothers in the chapter room of the Trappist monastery in Conyers, Ga. I spent part of an afternoon with her a few years later at the Catholic Worker farm in Tivoli, N.Y.
She was a font of stories, much less about herself than about those she served. She was the soul of the American left, credible because everything she wrote in her books and newspaper columns was backed up and buffed by her daily works of mercy and rescue.
I went to her funeral on Dec. 2, 1980. Six of her grandchildren carried the pine coffin from Maryhouse on East Third Street to Nativity Catholic Church on the edge of the Bowery. In the street procession were longtime friends like Caesar Chavez and Michael Harrington, mingled among the tattered, tired and "least of these" -- the victims of the nation's economic violence.
Tellingly, no Catholic bishop was at the requiem Mass. An empurpled Cardinal Terence Cooke did show up, to sprinkle holy water on the coffin as it entered the church door. Then, his driver waiting, he hastened off.
On the canonization issue, I'm with Maggie Hennessy who, in line with Dorothy's well-known wish, "Don't call me a saint," was quoted in Kenneth Woodward's 1990 book, Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't, and Why. In reply to a group supporting sanctification, Hennessy said, "I am one of Dorothy's granddaughters and I wanted to let you know how sick your canonization movement is. You have completely missed her beliefs and what she lived for if you are trying to stick her on a pedestal. ... Take all your monies and energies that are being put into her canonization and give it to the poor. That is how you would show your love and respect to her."
This story appeared in the June 5-18, 2015 print issue under the headline: Putting a halo on Day shows her no love . | 2019-04-21T00:46:34 | https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/putting-halo-dorothy-day-shows-her-no-love |
0.999402 | Average market time of 20 days over the last 30 days.
Months of inventory was 1.0 months.
Inventory is trending downward and days market are trending downwards. | 2019-04-21T19:00:52 | http://www.monthlymarketstatistics.com/monthly-market-statistics-blogger--archives/-september-2015-98006-ron-s-wilson-monthly-market-statistics-update-for-bellevue-newcastle-issaquah-eastgate-and-newport-hills-neighborhoods |
0.993539 | 1. Soak 4-6 wooden skewers in cold water and leave to soften for 20 minutes - this prevents them scorching as the fish cooks.
2. Cut the monkfish into even pieces, about 2cm chunks, and transfer to a mixing bowl. Crush the garlic clove and combine with the monkfish. Season with coarsely ground black pepper.
3. Thread a piece of fish onto each of the skewers. Alternate with a mint leaf, and repeat the process until the skewers are full.
4. Heat a griddle until very hot. Brush the fish skewers with oil then lay them onto the griddle. Cook for 3 minutes on one side, before turning and cooking for another 3 minutes.
5. Remove the skewers from the griddle, squeeze over a little lemon juice and sprinkle with salt. While the skewers are on the griddle, make the salad.
6 For the salad; separate the chicory leaves and add to a salad bowl with the orange segments, a little olive oil and lemon juice to sharpen. Snip the chives and mix into the salad. Season, and arrange the salad on a plate.
7. Place the hot fish skewers on top of the salad and pour over any remaining salad dressing. | 2019-04-19T08:22:41 | https://goodfood.uktv.co.uk/recipe/monkfish-and-mint-skewers-with-orange-chicory-salad/ |
0.998199 | Does the carpet cleaning service provider have a good reputation?
You have to make sure that the carpet cleaning provider is legitimate and that it has a good reputation. One sure way to know is if your friends or colleagues recommended it to you. You can also ask the carpet cleaning service provider if they can refer you to satisfied clients. You can also check their website for added credibility and assurance. Just make sure you get a true carpet cleaning service provider and not a fraud or scammer.
They should have license for their business and the employees and the client should be insured in case something can go wrong. This is also a part of being a legitimate company as mentioned earlier. Moreover, the crew to perform the carpet cleaning should be well trained and know what he is doing.
What kind of cleaning techniques and equipments does this carpet cleaning service provider have?
The cleaning techniques and equipments should be accurate and effective. Carpets are hard to clean and simply vacuuming it will not do the trick. There are a lot of stains and a lot of unknown dirt that is absorbed within the carpet. It is therefore very important to clean it and disinfect the carpet so that it will be good, or even better, as new. In addition, the chemicals that will be used to clean the carpets should also be safe to use.
Can they give you a written estimate of the carpet cleaning service cost?
The cost of carpet cleaning service can vary depending on a lot of factors. It would be best if you ask Carpet Cleaning to visit the installed carpet in order to make an accurate estimate. After that, make sure that you have a written estimate to avoid any additional and unnecessary bill along the way.
Can they provide assistance or any tips for your carpet maintenance?
Ask the carpet cleaning service provider if there are some cleaning tips that you can do to somehow maintain the cleanliness of your carpet aside from their regular cleaning appointments. | 2019-04-21T02:24:37 | https://www.roxaboxenminicastle.com/things-to-consider-before-availing-a-carpet-cleaning-service/ |
0.999999 | I'm not versed in the history of Gen. George D. Wagner, but I will make a bold attempt to understand the man and his war career and how in one day it went up in flames. Less than a year after the war ended his wife died and in 1869 he died at age 39. Gen. Wagner is buried in what seems like an obscure place.
There seems to be no clear conclusion as to what caused Gen. Wagner to hold his position in front of the main Union line at Franklin on Nov. 30, 1864.
I've read that he was drunk and got caught up in the moment and disobeyed orders to fall back once it appeared the Confederates were indeed going to fight--straight up the center of the Union line.
One theory was that he was ordered to hold the position and that Hood would never charge the center.
Another was that he was hung out to dry/sacrificed by Gen. Schofield (to buy time) and/or that he wasn't a West Pointer.
The general consensus of his men in the two brigades on the field was that no matter what (drunk or not) that Wagner wouldn't have left them in a suicidal position unless he was following orders.
I find it interesting that from the account below, it mentions Col. Opdyke's brigade, massed in column, and lying in reserve.
On the field it's said that when Opdyke came upon Wagner and his orders to hold the ground, that Opdyke refused and marched his men back behind the front line.
Wagner had been rush ahead to Spring Hill to guard the safety of the 800 wagons and for Schofield when he came through, and if things would have worked out for Hood, he may have crashed into Wagner at Spring Hill. Wagner brought up the rear after all had passed Spring Hill, and once Wagner got to Franklin he stopped 400 yards in front of the main line with two brigades, why?
Supposedly Wagner had orders in his pocket from Schofield to hold the position. Wagner reached his position at noon and set up as a ruse, his forces made a display, as if to resist the further advance of the enemy. The ruse was successful, and Hood was kept at bay until all the trains could be got across Harpeth River.
If by chance Schofield had passed down orders for Wagner to hold his assigned position and if Wagner had pulled his men early, before contact with the enemy, how would that have looked, being a coward, disobeying orders. Would Wagner have been brought up on charges?
Were there similar situation during the war where two brigades encountered the initial blow of a whole Army?
Note: I don't take every word from the following as gospel, I simply use it as reference. From what little I've read on Wagner and Schofield, I will give Wagner the benefit of doubt, I have an open mind, I desire to understand what happen to this man.
Four hundred yards in front was the 2d Brigade, commanded by Col. Lane, of the 97th Ohio, and the 3d Brigade, commanded by Col. Liebold, of the 15th Missouri. Our command was posted on the west of the pike and the only chance for cover was a succession of short rifle-pits, which had been thrown up for pickets. They were several rods apart, and afforded protection to but a small number of the men. In front of us the ground was open — a grassy common extending some distance, when it was joined by a corn-field. The ground was slightly undulating as far back as the ridge heretofore mentioned, on which our troops made the display earlier in the day, and from which Hood was now viewing our position, and making his disposition for the attack.
It will be remembered that more than one half of the men now composing the 57th were new soldiers — raw recruits, who were never under fire except at Spring Hill, and were never drilled an hour. At Columbia these men were furnished with arms, accouterments, and shelter-tents. The order we received was to hold our position —to "stay right there." The only place of entrance to the main works, except over the thorny abatis, was where the pike went through a space barely wide enough to admit a single platoon. In plain view from our position were the columns of the rebel army, forming to commence the attack. Such was the situation and condition of the two contending armies less than half an hour before the solemn stillness was broken by the noise of as bloody a battle as was fought during the late war.
only this final charge from their leader to fire their passions, and make them willing to march to the fatal strife.
As the last lingering rays of departing light glanced athwart hill and dale, it disclosed the serried columns of Confederate grey, marching to the attack of our strong position. A deep and awful silence reigned, interrupted only by the pattering rifle-shots of our retreating skirmishers. The voice of command from the rebel officers, or the words "steady, boys," on our own lines, preceded the first roar of the engagement.
and we are rushing pell-mell to escape the unfriendly clutches of our pursuers.
Four years have passed away, and I shudder to recall that scene. Rebel artillery was planted to sweep the pike, and here our men were mowed in perfect windrows. Hundreds were captured and taken to the rear, by the enemy. Our troops in the works dare not fire, for fear of hitting our own men outside. A rebel column approached the works, and several regiments stationed nearest the pike turned to run. A panic seemed inevitable. Our gunners commenced drawing off the artillery, and the infantry rushed in confusion toward the river. For a moment it seemed that all would be lost. The rebel columns had penetrated our lines. At that moment Opdyke's brigade, massed in column, and lying in reserve, charged the rebel column in the- flank, compelling them to surrender. This restored the line, audit was never again broken. The rebel force moved on to the river, as prisoners; and the enemy, exasperated at their loss, rushed headlong against our lines, but all in vain.
Darkness had now closed over the scene. Double charges of grape and canister blazed from the muzzles of our guns, while deafening volleys of musketry poured like a sheet of flame from behind the works. Occasionally the noise of battle would almost cease, as the enemy prepared to renew his unsuccessful assault. Then, as we peered through the darkness, to hear the rebels yell, and watch the fire of their guns, the groans of the wounded and dying could be distinctly heard. It was after 10 o'clock p. m. before the enemy ceased to hurl their columns against us. Not until the loss of six thousand men paid the sacrifice — which they could little afford to give — did they give up the struggle, and allow the mortal combat to cease. For the fourth time the plain and simple truth had come home to the minds of Hood and his army, that we were sent down there to fight.
About midnight our army silently withdrew across the river, and started to Nashville. The most of our wounded fell into the hands of the enemy. Many were still on the field, and those we had collected in hospitals were left behind. Our ambulances were loaded with those who could be hauled, and taken to Nashville. Near noon, on the 1st of December, Ave reached the vicinity of Nashville, well nigh exhausted by a march of forty miles and the labor of two engagements in forty-eight hours, with no sleep and but one cup of coffee. But we had saved Nashville. In the engagement at Spring Hill the regiment had one man wounded, a new recruit, belonging to Company "F."
At the battle of Franklin we lost in all one hundred and thirty-four men. Of these a large proportion were taken prisoners, but a large number were killed. Capt. Addison M. Dunn, a good and brave officer, was killed in the works at the time the line was broken, and his resting-place is unknown. There are others whose fate is wrapped in mystery; but never having been heard from, they are supposed to be dead. Of those who were captured or killed, there were thirty belonging to the regiment whose time was out on the 18th of November, and they were, to all intents and purposes, no longer subject to military duty. By an unjust and tyrannical interpretation of the law, they were forced into battle when the Government no longer-had claims upon them, and when they should have been with their friends.
Wagner is a strange character. One of his brigade commanders, Opdyke as you mentioned, was the last brigade in line of the division, and as they marched north up the Columbia Turnpike, Opdyke continued on towards the main defensive line without stopping to form up alongside the rest of the division. Wagner rode out to meet Opdyke to instruct him to halt and fall in-line. Opdyke and Wagner had a "history" between each other, and they DID NOT get along. Opdyke ignored Wagner with a few choice words, and continued on towards the main works. Wagner maintained his line with his remaining two brigades, of which the 57th Indiana was a part, and of course was overrun when Hood advanced. You mentioned that Wagner is buried in remote place. The reason why he is buried in that little remote country cemetery in Warren County, Indiana, is because that is his hometown.
I read these words and I cannot imagine what hell it must have been.
The last time I spoke about this an individual let me know I did not know that much about the battle. I have read several books on this the same I cannot understand what was HOOD thinking after the Army had passed him by what was he trying to gain at that point or was it just pride if someone out there knows right me a small piece on it thank you. PS nothing long just what he was thinking why the charge.
I'll admit that I don't know enough. I don't believe any one person can know it all (that is) history in general. I have a personal connection to WW I, which has taken a good bit of my time. I have a connection to WW II...I like ancient history the best, then add family history, its a tough challenge to cover everything.
My GG Grandfather was in Col. Lane's Brigade. | 2019-04-20T00:22:36 | https://www.civilwartalk.com/threads/general-george-d-wagner-and-the-battle-of-franklin.121368/ |
0.99718 | What is the Better Path to Take?
Which is more important "sur meira," turn away from evil; or "asei tov", perform good deeds.? On which idea should greater focus be placed? Can one perform mitzvos if he has not yet eradicated the evil within him? Should one wait to perform mitzvos until after he has purged himself of all evil? According to Rav Zeev Weinberger (shlita), Menashe and Efraim symbolize these two distinct concepts. Menashe's name emphasizes total elimination of past evil, while Efraim's name alludes to focusing on constructive future activity, particularly mitzvos. Yosef and Yaakov differed regarding the relative significance of these concepts. Yaakov sought to bless Efraim prior to Menashe, an action which Yosef could not understand. He felt that we must first expunge evil before we can proceed to perform good deeds. Yaakov's experience in life taught him to be flexible. One cannot totally rid oneself of all evil without developing the capacity to "do good."
In their classic dispute regarding the neiros, lights of Chanukah, Bais Shammai and Bais Hillel also debate this issue. The light of the candle creates two forces: the power to burn; and the power to give off light. The Chashmonaim triumphed over the Greeks, destroying their evil. They came to the Bais Hamikdash to purify it of its tumah, spiritual contamination. They lit a jar of untainted oil, which they discovered. This oil miraculously lasted for eight days. We can view the light/fire of Chanukah from two perspectives. It is a flame that burns and destroys evil. This is symbolized by Bais Shammai's approach, pocheis v'holeich, decreasing in number each night. According to Bais Shammai, on the first night we should light eight candles. On each subsequent night, we should subtract one light, signifying the destruction of evil. Bais Hillel, on the other hand, holds that one must first be kum v'asai, take a positive approach, purifying oneself through serving the Almighty and performing His mitzvos. This avodah, service, will succeed in eradicating evil, according to Bais Hillel. Thus, they contend that one should be moseif v'holech, increase a candle each night, starting with one candle and adding an additional candle each night as the force of purity becomes stronger and brighter. | 2019-04-19T00:42:46 | https://www.meaningfulmoadim.com/uphold-good-or-destroy-evil.html |
0.998656 | Is there a right answer? Is refactoring really that bad? Let's take a look.
Sometimes, when an important project is going poorly there's a desire to start over. Sometimes this comes from management but often this comes from the developers themselves. They say if they only had a second chance and could start over then they can build the right system.
But that almost never happens. Take it from me. I've seen companies try many times and I can say that without exception, when a team sets out to rebuild the same system with basically the same approach, they end up with roughly the same system the started with, including the same problems only this time they have two systems they have to maintain.
Boy, I could tell you stories. Want to guess how many CRMs Microsoft had under development in the early 2000s? At one point, I counted a dozen. Twelve projects that basically did the same thing!
Legacy code gets a bad rap. People are scared to touch it but it embodies business rules and procedures that are time-tested, and even the most intractable legacy code may still hold value when used to refactor a system.
Refactoring gets a bad rap as well because developers and managers are unfamiliar with it. They don't know that there are safe ways of reorganizing their "big balls of mud" that their software has become into more manageable chunks that are independently verifiable and therefore less costly to maintain and extend.
Refactoring legacy code is often a process of breaking it up. It might have been written procedurally and worked fine for years but then, in order to improve the build and support continuous integration, code needs to be broken up into independently verifiable parts.
Don't worry. The hard part is over. The software does what it needs to do so refactoring it is really just a matter of reorganizing it. That doesn't mean it isn't easy or risk-free but there are ways of dealing with the issues that come up and the benefits of making these changes can oftentimes give companies the competitive edge.
Think of it this way, most software is written procedurally and takes a global perspective. That's fine for simple programs but as systems grow their complexity skyrockets so we needed a way to manage that complexity.
Object-oriented programming gives us a way of managing complexity by taking the behavior we want to create and putting it in a collection of "objects" that interact to create that behavior.
By doing this, we hide different parts of the system from each other. Instead of having one global perspective, object-oriented programs are composed of a collection of objects that interact to create the desired behavior.
By taking the additional step of encapsulating behavior into the right objects, we allow our systems to become more modular and independently testable through automation, which drops the cost of change for the software we produce.
This is by no means an easy task in most situations. Your legacy code got that way from years of neglect and it may take a bit of effort to clean it up but if it already does the right thing then often it's a matter of reorganizing and restructuring the code so it's in different places but the functionality remains the same. Reorganizing code is usually more straightforward than rewriting it from scratch. | 2019-04-21T18:23:51 | https://dzone.com/articles/rebuild-or-refactor |
0.99999 | In short: South Korea could beat the US to 5G, at least according to The Ministry of Science and Technology (MIC), which believes that commercialization of 5G could be done by December of this year. The Ministry noted that "5G commercialization station, terminal testing and Radio Certifications, a base station is required interworking tests between terminals. While we can not build fixed as December 1 if conditions are met, 5G commercial services will be possible." So this is all going to depend on how quickly this hardware can be rolled out. Of course, the standard for 5G still has not been approved, so it's a bit early to roll out 5G networks.
Background: South Korea has been one of the leaders in networking for the past few years, and that is largely because it is home to two of the largest electronics manufacturers around: Samsung and LG. It already boasts one of the fastest 4G LTE networks, and now it is about to be the first to launch a true 5G network. Sure, Verizon launched a 5G network last month, but that is not a true 5G network, and it is also a fixed network. So as soon as you leave your home, you won't be on 5G any longer. It's the early days of 5G, so you're going to see things like you did with the early days of 4G, carriers pushing out technology that's not 5G - like HSPA+ and WiMax for 4G.
Impact: The US is working hard to be first with a 5G network, but there is some stiff competition from South Korea and China. Now it's not that big of a deal which country is first, the deal here is who will do it correctly. Again, the 5G standards have not been finalized yet, so these carriers could spend billions using technology that isn't true 5G and then need to rip it out down the road - again, look at what happened with Sprint and WiMax when it tried to jump the boat on 4G. | 2019-04-25T00:01:15 | https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/10/south-korea-could-commercialize-5g-by-december-2018.html |
0.999997 | Who is Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.?
The Reverand Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is one of America's foremost civil rights and political figures. Over the past forty years he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality and economic and social justice.Long before national health care, a war on drugs, direct peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, ending apartheid in South Africa and advancing democracy in Haiti became accepted public policy positions, Reverend Jesse Jackson advocated them and by doing so helped to bring the American public to a new level of consciousness.Reverend Jackson's two presidential campaigns broke new ground in U.S. politics. His 1984 campaign registered over one million new voters, won 3.5 million votes and helped the Democratic Party regain control of the Senate in 1986. His 1988 campaign registered over two million new voters, won seven million votes and helped boost hundreds of state and local elected officials into office. In 1990 Reverend Jackson was elected to the post of US Senator for Washington, D.C.As a highly respected and trusted world leader, Reverend Jackson has acted many times as an international diplomat in sensitive situations. For example, in 1984 Reverend Jackson secured the release of capturedNavy Lieutenant Robert Goodman from Syria and the release of 48 Cuban and Cuban-American prisoners in Cuba. He was the first American to bring hostages out of Kuwait and Iraq in 1990. In 1999 he negotiated the release of U.S. soldiers held hostage in Kosovo.His international efforts continued into the 2000s. In February 2003 Reverend Jackson spoke in front of an estimated one million people in London's Hyde Park at the culmination of the anti-war demonstration against the imminent invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and the United Kingdom. In November 2004 he visited senior politicians and community activists in Northern Ireland in an effort to rebuild the peace process and restore the governmental institutions of the Belfast Agreement.A hallmark of Reverend Jackson's work has been his commitment to youth. He has visited thousands of high schools, colleges, universities and correctional facilities encouraging excellence, inspiring hope and challenging young people to study diligently and stay drug-free.
Reverend Jackson has also been a consistent and vigorous supporter of the labour movement in the U.S. and around the world. He is known as someone who has walked more picket lines and spoken at more labour rallies than any other national leader. He has worked with unions to organize workers, to protect workers rights and to mediate labour disputes. In 1996 he travelled to Asia to investigate treatment of workers in the Japanese automobile industry and in athletic apparel factories in Indonesia.For his work in human and civil rights and for nonviolent social change Reverend Jackson has received more than 40 honorary doctorate degrees. He frequently lectures at major universities including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia and Stanford. On August 9, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. In October 1997 he was appointed as Special Envoy of the President and Secretary of State for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa.Reverend Jackson has been on the Gallup List of the Ten Most Respected Americans for more than a dozen years. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the International Peace Foundation. Reverand Jackson is also an avid supporter of Barack Obama during the 2008 USA Presidential Campaign.
Author's note: How the heck did IIUM manage to get this guy to give a lecture is beyond me. Somebody up there in admin must have REALLY superb connections. But seriously, this lecture is a must-go! Rugilah kalau miss.
tags: IIUM, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
So didcha manage to go? My timing memang ngam tadi. I went late to avoid boring & unnecessary welcoming speeches (aka rector's) and managed to get in just as he was started. And then I immediately left after he was done. Hehe.
Great speaker that guy is. And there were times when I can hardly hold back from going all black gospel! The situation certainly felt like it. LoL. But tu lah... UIA crowd very demure and boring. Setakat tepuk tangan politely je.
Oh well, at least I heard a good orator speak. Even tough it felt like the guy was on a promotional campaign for Barack Obama. | 2019-04-20T04:41:01 | http://shaznia.blogspot.com/2009/04/rev-jesse-jackson-sr-to-give-lecture-in.html |
0.999978 | How would have history turned out to be if the British had not colonized India?
According to Dadabhai Naoroji's book, "Poverty And Un-British Rule In India", the amount of wealth drained by the British from Indian resources amounted to 4 million pounds every year.
The country's map wouldn't be what it is now.
I can't say how small or how many parts as there are too many possibilities.
India had always been a peaceful nation and would have nothing to with the World War II had it not been under the rule of the British. More than two million sons of our soil were sent to fight the Axis powers in a war we had nothing to do with.
India has one of the strongest defense in the world. However, it would have been difficult for India to form such a strong army today had it not been trained for warfare under the British.
The British introduced the railways in 1871, but given their absence, the emergence of railways would probably come about much later in the 20th century and would not have covered every part of the country.
We wouldn't be having Metro right now in India, most probably.
Technological advancements such as setting up telegraph posts, connecting railways, airways and progress in the fields of medicine and academics would have flourished even without the British.
After all we would have been rich nation.
The most heinous Hindu practice where a widow would be burnt alive on the pyre of her deceased husband was finally abolished in 1829 in certain parts of India, starting from Bengal and rest of the Princely states followed suit. Apparently, Mughal king, Akbar, and Aurungzeb had tried to ban the custom but their implementations were not fruitful.
Although personalities like Sahajanand Swami and Raja Rammohan Roy had struggled hard to abolish the practice, it would have been a tough job had the British not backed the cause, especially with the widespread protest from the Hindu community against the ban.
BITTER TRUTH: If the British had not colonized India, then India would have become a Muslim country.
Every Muslim invaders, who invaded the Indian sub continent, including the Mughals, had only one agenda and that was to convert all the Hindus ( Infidels) into Muslims. And, all the invaders were quite remarkably successful in their agenda. The result was Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which were all once Hindu countries, became completely Muslim countries. The Muslim invaders had already forcefully converted millions of Indians and, had not the British ruled India for those 200 years from the 18th century, the remaining Indians would have also been converted and India would also have become a complete Muslim country.
British introduced modern weaponry to Indians. They taught the Indians how to use those modern weaponry and how to be disciplined and organised while fighting the enemy. This modern weaponry stopped the Muslim invasion of India and further conversions.
Some Indians argue that Moghals had become weak and Hindu kingdoms like Maratha, Vijayanagara were rising and so, Hindus would have dominated. But, the Muslim history teaches us they would have repeatedly attacked India till they achieved their goals. Remember Mahmud of Ghazni , who invaded India 17 times. The treacherous defeat of Vijayanagara Empire by the united Sultanates, followed by destruction and looting brought an end to a dream.
I agree that it is always difficult to accept bitter truth. Some Hindus may not be able to digest the bitter truth that we needed the British entry into India to prevent further Muslim invasion and forceful conversion. But the reality is Hindus are generally soft, mild, adjusting and peace loving people. But Muslim invaders were always ferocious and aggressive. So it was a mismatch. We therefore needed modern Weaponry from British to face further Muslim invasion. Today, we are very strong. Jai Hind.
Just Before the East India company gained it's momentum in the sub-continent , there where few regional superpowers who where gaining momentum .
This was India's map in 1795 , a time before the East India company emerged as a power .
We would have been still or lessertime than current., using horses., since railways are a gift of britishers to India.
Bangladesh Pakistan Afghanistan Burma Myanmar etc those who were a part of Greater India ie AkhandBharat would be one big country thereby surpassing every possible GDP and developed country of the present globe.
We'd have been colonized by some other European power. At that time, European nations were the most technologically, politically & militarily advanced powers. All three are required to colonize a subcontinent. The Indian kingdoms of that era were strong enough to repulse foreign invaders even though they were divided. Besides, Foreign invaders tend to unite rulers as they don't want to compete with unknown kings. It was this fear of war, both within India & at the borders, that allowed the Brits to colonize us.
The British were one of the strongest naval powers in the world. Their primary rival was France. So, I'm guessing France would have colonized us. However, the French didn't play politics as well the British. They were more interested in establishing strong trade & military relations instead of establishing dominance. However, they probably would have stepped in whenever a local ruler was getting too powerful.
The trade with India & subsequently the rest of Europe would have allowed the French to amass huge riches(just like the Brits). This wealth would have allowed them to build a navy that would isolate the British & fund wars that would force the rest of Europe to bow to them. Of course, this process would be bloody but the French would most likely avoid the Revolution since an isolated Britain wouldn't have many colonies to break away & form constitutional republics. The US would still be inhabited & divided among its various native tribes.
So, democracy is unlikely to have taken root. French would be the international language of diplomacy & commerce. Slavery would still probably exist since the Spanish & Portuguese colonies in South America would depend on it. Spain, Portugal & France were all catholic nations & had a strong bond. Besides, the French colonies in the Caribbean would have large labor intensive sugar plantations. We would probably still see Indians moving to these regions for work.
Then Asian continent will have at least 70 countries instead of 48 countries.
America will be the world's largest Democracy.
some parts of India will still be under the control of the French, Portuguese.
Several famines that occurred in the sub continent would have been prevented.
Practices like sati, untouchability, Caste discrimination would still exist.
Multiple border related issues would pose a serious threat for regional Peace.
Indian history would still be Mughals rule.
The Northern European countries have a common ethnic and cultural heritage. They are collectively called Scandinavia.
Had there been no British rule, the south Asian region would have been known collectively as India or Indian Peninsula.
There would have been at least two dozens of countries by now.
Why do people travel as tourists?
It is because travels makes us happy and release their tress , feel relaxation and wants to explore about various new places, destination where they can gather handsome knowledge. As i am having my own travel agency in Kenya so this is my definition about why people loves to travel.
Has any documentary ever changed your life?
8083 | Would you live or retire in a tiny house?
8435 | What would today's world be like if Spain had not lost any of it's colonies?
9034 | Where did the British East India Company set up its first factory in India?
5136 | Where is the most miserable place in America to live?
1630 | Why am I obsessed with love?
5014 | Which characteristics of sound wave is affected when the amplitude of the wave changes?
3231 | What is the cheapest way to set up an offshore company in Hong Kong?
5497 | What would the world be like if Christ had never been crucified (or otherwise killed)?
Can you get your true love back?
Have you ever witnessed a paranormal/demonic activity?
What if the Spanish-American war never happened?
Have you ever lost something only to find it later while looking for something else?
What's the craziest thing you've ever believed? | 2019-04-22T06:01:12 | http://dreamstrikes.com/asking/How-would-have-history-turned-out-to-be-if-the-British-had-not-colonized-India.shtml |
0.995687 | Writing for The Verge, Vlad Savov recently argued that microprocessor giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) "let Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) down once with the original MacBook's underpowered Core M processor, and the absence of an Intel Skylake upgrade for either the MacBook Pro or Air this year also seems to have been caused by Apple's dissatisfaction with Intel's CPUs."
Savov continues, declaring that "there is nothing that Apple would like to do more than rid itself of its reliance on Intel, which would eliminate such unforeseen hiccups in the future."
To that, I respond with the following: Don't be ridiculous.
If the first-gen Core M is under-powered, what was the A8X?
The first point that Savov brings up is the fact that the first-generation of Core M processor inside of Apple's first 12-inch fan-less MacBook was "underpowered."
I can sort of see what the author is talking about here. Intel's marketing claim that these chips delivered "the experience of Intel Core in fanless form factors" was something of a stretch. However, it was a reasonable first step.
According to Geekbench 4, the Core M-5Y71-based 12-inch MacBook (the Core M-5Y71 is the fastest of the Broadwell-based Core M chips) achieves a single-core score of 3251 and a multi-core score of 5691. Apple's fastest shipping processor at the time -- the A8X -- achieved a single-core score of 1833 and a multi-core score of 4001.
It looks to me that despite Savov's claim that the original Core M chip was "underpowered," Apple wasn't really fielding anything better at the time.
Later in 2015, Apple released the A9X chip, and Intel released a second-generation set of Core M processors based on a new architecture. The A9X was quite impressive, achieving a single-core score of 3150 and a multi-core score of 4893 -- almost as good as the first-generation Core M chip that Savov dissed.
The second-generation Core M-6Y75, in the same Geekbench 4 test, achieves a single-core score of 3715 and a multi-core score of 6974 -- solidly ahead of the older Core M chip, as well as Apple's A9X. This score is also better than what the A10 Fusion is able to put up (though if I were Intel, I would probably be sweating the fact that a smartphone processor is able to come this close to a late 2015 fan-less notebook/2-in-1 processor).
Intel has already announced the successor to the Core M-6Y75, known as the Core i7-7Y75, which should pull even further ahead of the A9X. That being said, I do expect Apple's upcoming A10X to be very close in performance to the i7-7Y75 (in Geekbench 4, my guess is that single-core performance between the two will be similar, with Intel pulling ahead in multi-core performance), which should be an excellent achievement for Apple.
Apple is good --really good. But it's important to keep in perspective that we are not comparing tablet-class Apple processors to power-hungry desktop processors -- we're comparing the Apple chips to very low-power Intel processors suitable for very thin and light fan-less devices, such as the 12-inch MacBook.
Savov claims that if a company wants to "develop the next great processor," that company had "better be going mobile first and building from there." Given the amount of effort that Intel has been putting into its low-power notebook processor efforts over the last several years, and given the fact that Intel has successfully developed Core architecture chips that can adequately power thin, light, and fan-less devices, such as the 12-inch MacBook, it's not clear where the author's criticism of Intel's efforts comes from.
How about that second claim?
Savov also argued that the fact that Apple hasn't updated its MacBook Air/Pro lineup to include Intel's sixth-generation Core processors (the Airs and the 13-inch Pro use fifth-generation Core chips; the 15-inch Pro uses a fourth-generation Core chip) is indicative of Apple's "dissatisfaction with Intel CPUs."
There's just no evidence to really substantiate that claim, particularly since the sixth-generation Core chips aremuchbetter than the fourth/fifth-generation Core chips that Apple is currently shipping in its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines.
It has been widely reported that Apple is planning substantial form factor and technology changes to its next-generation MacBook Pro products. These systems will very likely use Intel's sixth-generation Core processors.
If Apple is going to adopt these Intel processors anyway (albeit later than the rest of the industry), does it really make sense that the reason that we can't buy Skylake-based MacBook Pros today is that Apple is "dissatisfied" with Intel's chips?
It seems more likely to me that Apple didn't see the point in updating its systems with newer Intel processors without significant form factor/user experience changes elsewhere.
In other words, it looks more like a matter of Apple's Mac software/hardware development timeline not synchronizing with Intel's processor release cadence (which, frankly, is probably more dictated by the likes of Dell than by Apple)more than anything else. | 2019-04-21T09:05:07 | https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/apple-and-intel-parting-ways-dont-be-ridiculous |
0.999999 | In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II orders the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from exile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a debauched, cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the King and the French ambassador, John falls into disgrace with the court. When he is thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man.
The Libertine was a brilliant period piece. It was a tragically realistic yet witty and humorous look at the Restoration period in England, but more specifically depicted the latter stages of the life of the Second Earl Of Rochester, a poet, who endured a short and debauched life. Here was a man so highly intelligent, yet so bored with life that he thrived by consistently pushing his limits and the boundaries of his relationships.<br/><br/>Johnny Depp eloquently and emotionally portrayed the Earl of Wilmot. This has to be by far his most brilliant achievement in a long line of unique and amazing performances. Mr. Depp's portrayal of the Earl showed a range of emotions, incredible nuances and a depth of empathy never before seen on screen, best illustrated during the scene where The Earl addresses parliament - which has to be the most gut wrenching scene, rife with fervor but with credibility. Suffice it to say by the end of this movie I had been reduced to tears and cheers, both at times coinciding. This is definitely an Oscar worthy performance. The golden statue is a must.<br/><br/>The supporting cast was also excellent; most notably, the actor who played the Earl's servant, and who appeared to have a great rapport with Mr. Depp, on screen. Samantha Morton, also superb as Mrs. Barry, gave a lovely and unobtrusive performance as was required for this character.<br/><br/>Laurence Dunmore captured the atmosphere of the period exquisitely with simplicity yet with a keen eye to detail. The reproduction of the 'family' Portrait of the Earl with the monkey is an excellent example. The lighting, the sets, the costumes all added to the reality of the movie. The musical score by Michael Nyman beautifully augmented the spirit of the times and of this production.<br/><br/>The Libertine was a work in progress when I viewed it twice at the Toronto Film Fest. I cannot imagine a scene being cut; even the more risqué dreams are required to impart the true emotional state of the Earl at that time in his life. Before passing judgment on this film I suggest that one see it at least twice so as to appreciate the full impact of the movie ? to fully identify with the meaning and the thought behind this production.<br/><br/>The Libertine is a wonderful piece of art, representing the true raison d'être of this poet with incredible wit and insight. Congratulations to all who graced the production of the Libertine.
This wasn't a glamorized period costume drama that Hollywood loves to overdo and it wasn't NC-17 for nothing! There was some technical roughness and lack of continuity but they were minor quibbles in what I considered a triumph. The mood, the sets and cinematography, the script and, most of all, the acting were all of the highest and most innovative caliber. Depp was in almost every scene and was fascinating beyond anything I'd ever experienced. His force and range of emotion and naturalness were exceptionally powerful and moving from first to last. You hated him and loved him, were repulsed by him and felt pity for him. You were drawn to him almost against your will, like a vortex pulling you in. All else paled in comparison. This was a Johnny Depp that I'd never seen before but so hope I have a chance to again. This performance is the crowning glory to date of his illustrious career and I see no limits to what he can accomplish in the future. Everyone else was uniformly excellent although Samantha Morton didn't portray the allure the Elizabeth Barry in the play had. <br/><br/>My primary recommendation for improving this work in progress before theatrical release center around clarifying motivations up front for why these people were the way they were. This could be done by a combination of edits and additions. I found I liked it even better and was more moved by it the second time I saw it when I wasn't concentrating as much on following the storyline. <br/><br/>This was a movie I loved and can't get it out of my mind. It was stunning and compelling beyond anything I've seen in a very long while.
What images are conjured up by the title! Especially when we know in advance the lead is to be played by the handsome Johnny Depp. Perhaps a likable rake, a dissolute, even fashionable but very colourful icon of male supremacy - to be forgiven by female fans if they can watch from the safety of a cinema seat!<br/><br/>The reality is a disturbingly different film, dark and sombre, a 17th century candle-lit England, a portrait of the poet and debauchee John Wilmot, and one that ultimately bows out to a feminist heroine in the form of the great actress Elizabeth Barry (played by Samantha Morton).<br/><br/>In an opening prologue, Wilmot tells the audience that they will not like him. With the gusto characteristic of Depp, he throws himself into his melodramatic character in a way that is markedly different from his many half-serious, half-comic roles. As if to win his wager, he is out to repulse us - but not just with licentious excess: the tragedy of Wilmot is that he possesses genius but is unable to use it to furnish his own fulfilment. He is a tragic character, no Don Juan that follows a promiscuous lifestyle as a summum bonum, but a man of inner greatness for whom the outer world is so boring that he loses himself in drink and sexual excess and eventually alienates those around him. "I have to speak my mind," he says, "for it is always more interesting than what is going on around me."<br/><br/>As the 2nd Earl of Rochester, Wilmot is in and out of favour at the court of Charles II (John Malkovitch) and frequently upsets his lovely wife (Rosamund Pike) with his whoring and drinking. But his wife's jealousy is eventually piqued not so much by the loose women or the ale-house, but by Wilmot's love of the theatre - especially in the form of prostitute-destined-for-greatness, Elizabeth Barry. At a time before the emancipation of women, when the stage had recently been the sole province of men, Barry is determined to make it as an actress. She is hobbled by inexperience and a lowly position, but Wilmot takes her under his patronage and tutelage. Wary of the deal, Barry resists, saying she wants to rise by her own efforts - not so Wilmot can take the credit! He asks her what drives her, and her response, her passion for theatre, the desire to thrill and move an audience, is one that Wilmot identifies with, for he is tired of the lukewarm pastiches that trivialise even great writing.<br/><br/>Unfortunately for Wilmot, his own greatness is on the ebb. It was said of him that he was, "A man whom the muses were fond to inspire, but ashamed to avow." His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador help to seal his fate. <br/><br/>Samantha Morton continues to show her acting talents with a substantial (if not substantial enough) part and Malkovitch is an adequate counterbalance to the very considerable stage presence of Depp. The screenplay (based on an earlier play starring Malkovitch) sparkles with wit and, even if the direction is a little uneven or turgid at times, it is an admirable and important debut from Laurence Dunmore. The desaturated colours and muddy, rain-sodden English countryside create an air of foreboding entirely appropriate for a work that is more serious than its title suggests.<br/><br/>Intellectually, we are treated to the drollness and intelligence of Wilmot but realise that he is a 'locked-in' and isolated character, a loner and barely appreciated trailblazer (in some respects like the great Marlon Brando to whose memory, among others, the film is dedicated). We also see the folly and weakness of his philosophy. <br/><br/>Wilmot wrote:<br/><br/>"Consider real Honour then, You'll find hers cannot be the same; 'Tis noble confidence in men, In women, mean, mistrustful shame."<br/><br/>Yet it was the honour of the lowly Elizabeth Barry that ultimately inspired him and, somehow, remained ever out of reach. | 2019-04-20T17:28:33 | https://yts.pm/movies/the-libertine-2004 |
0.999971 | Feiertage und Festtage – der Monat Mai ist prädestiniert, dieses Thema im Unterricht anzusprechen. Dieses Jahr gibt es vier Feiertage im Mai: Tag der Arbeit, Christi Himmelfahrt, Pfingstmontag und Fronleichnam, und dann ist auch noch Muttertag am zweiten Sonntag im Mai.
Wir wohnen hier an der Grenze zwischen zwei Bundesländern, was nochmal zusätzlich eine Herausforderung ist: Schulferien sind in jedem Bundesland anders und nicht alle Feiertage sind bundesweit. Da etwa die Hälfte meines Kurses aus Hessen kommt, unsere Schule aber in Baden-Württemberg ist , kann es passieren, dass einige Kursteilnehmer schulfrei haben, während ihre Kinder in die Schule müssen, oder umgekehrt.
Dann ist es dieses Jahr so, dass der erste Mai auf einen Dienstag fällt, Himmelfahrt und Fronleichnam sind ja immer donnerstags, und somit gibt es drei Brückentage. Nicht alle Schulen sind an diesen Tagen geschlossen, unsere aber schon, die meisten Läden sind geöffnet, aber viele ärztliche Praxen geschlossen.
Das ist alles schon verwirrend genug, weshalb ich versuche die Gespräche auf praktische Überlegungen zu reduzieren. Heute musste ich allerdings die Frage nach dem Warum beantworten. Was wird an den kirchlichen Feiertagen gefeiert? Ich selbst bin Atheist oder vielleicht auch Agnostiker, aber protestantisch erzogen. Menschen anderen Glaubens in möglichst einfacher Sprache zu erklären, was Christen mit diesen Feiertagen verbinden, zeigte mir deutlicher als jemals zuvor die Absurdität dieser Ideen. Ich fühlte mich so unwohl dabei, dass ich froh war, als Amina den Muttertag erwähnte und gleich darauf mit ihrem Wissen glänzte, dass Übermorgen Vatertag sei.
Ja, an Himmelfahrt wird der Vatertag begangen. Und wie erkläre ich jetzt, warum in Deutschland Väter damit geehrt werden, dass jüngere Männer mit Bierkästen beladenen Bollerwagen in den Wald ziehen und sich lärmend besaufen?
Holidays – public, bank, or otherwise -May is a good month to tackle this subject with in class. There are four public holidays in May this year: Labour Day, Ascension Day, Whitmonday, and Corpus Christi. And of course, there is Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May.
We live on the border of two federal states which adds another challenge: school holidays differ from each state and not all public holidays are nationwide observed. Since about half my course participants live in Hesse but our school is in Baden-Württemberg, we might have class while for some of their children school is closed, or vice versa.
In addition, Labour Day falls on a Tuesday this year, Ascension Day and Corpus Christi are always on a Thursday, thus we have three bridging days. Not all schools are closed on these days, yet ours was, most shops were open, but many doctor’s offices closed.
All this is confusing enough so I try to limit the discussions to practical considerations. But today I had to answer the question: why? What is celebrated on these religious holidays? I am an atheist, or possibly an agnostic, but I was brought up in the protestant faith. Explaining in very simple terms what Christians believe about these festivals to people who are followers of a different faith brought home the absurdity of these ideas like never before. I felt so uncomfortable that I was quite happy when Amina brought up Mother’s Day and immediately followed it up with her knowledge that the day after tomorrow will be Father’s Day.
Yes, we celebrate Father’s Day on Ascension Day. And how do I now explain that fathers are honoured in Germany by youngish men pulling crates of beer on children’s carts into the woods and getting uproariously drunk?
Even reading this list makes it clear that it is pretty solidly Christian, which surprised me as far as national holidays go. Hmm. I can see how that would be puzzling to some, and yet it might explain the history of the country too.
Most public holidays in Germany are church festivals, notable exceptions are Labour Day and Unification Day (our National Day), and possibly 1 January. Only 3 October (unification) is a nationwide public holiday, all others are decreed by the different states, even though they agree on 9 of them. Then there are an additional few which differ from state to state. Bavaria has the most (14), Niedersachsen the least (9); this is mainly due to Bavaria being predominantly catholic. | 2019-04-25T11:56:48 | https://eklastic.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/mom-gets-a-card-dad-a-hangover-mama-kriegt-eine-karte-papa-einen-kater/ |
0.998894 | I am trying to get into woodworking, mainly cabinetry. I want to make my own closet/garage shelves and organizers and my own kitchen cabinets. What are the tools I need to start?
I have very limited space and budget is also an issue. I will most likely need to work on a portable saw horse or work bench. I'd like to know the bare minimum tools needed to start making cabinets. From what I've gathered, either a circular saw with guide rail (festool is too expensive, so maybe EZ?). Or is there an affordable table saw that fits my description? I'll probably get a Kreg pocket hole jig. And the other little things I can pick up along the way. But for right now, what are the absolute essentials to getting started?
It's hard to recommend what tools to buy without knowing your tool budget. If the festool circular saw system is too expensive, then a table saw is out of the question. You can use any circular saw. You will just need to make your own straight edges. If you are going to be working with solid wood to make face frames, doors, or drawers you will need several tools. You will need a jointer, planer, router, and miter saw. The quality of tool you buy will affect the quality of the woodworking you perform. Starting off making cabinetry for your garage and closets will be a good place to learn your skills and figure out the shortcomings of your wood shop. For cutting veneered cabinet grade plywood, I highly recommend the Forrest Duraline HI/AT saw blade. When sharp, you will not splinter the face veneer when cutting the plywood.
I forgot to mention a sander and drill press.
woodcraft.com and rockler.com are good places for woodworking supplies. They also sell tools and machines. Amazon.com is another good place to buy tools from.
I'd say my budget is at a maximum of $1000. I do like the festool system, especially with the hose attachment (which is exactly what I might need), but I've read some success stories regarding cheap $100 circular saws with an EZ smart system. I know this is a terrible approach to woodworking, because it can be an expensive hobby, but I'm anxious to start and money is tight these days. With that being said, I would just be your average homeowner who would do a few DIY projects here and there, mainly the ones I mentioned earlier. So that is also something to consider.
Do I need a jointer? Or can I just get a hand planer? I'm not sure what a router is for, besides making shaping trim and stuff. If it's a versatile tool then I will add it to my shopping list. As for the miter saw, I was planning to do some base, chair rail and crown molding remodeling so maybe I will need one but aren't there jigs to help me make mitered cuts with a circular saw? Maybe even a handsaw? A drill press would be nice too, but all of these tools sound like they would take up quite some room. I will be working off a portable work bench. Boy, I really wish they just sold a mini workstation with all the tools attached lol.
When I built my kitchen cabinets I used a table saw, miter saw, biscuit jointer and router. You can buy a small table saw for a little over a $100 - I don't know how well they work. My miter saw isn't a high dollar one, just a 10" saw, not a compound saw - cost a little over $100 about 10 yrs ago.
For the most part I've bought my tools as I needed them. While there is no substitute for a quality tool - if you aren't going to use it a lot, you may be able to get by with a cheaper model.
Awesome advice and insight. I think I will follow your footsteps. The problem that I keep running into about a small table saw is that I don't see how those small ones can cut sheet goods. Afterall, aren't cabinets usually cut out from 4'x8' plywood sheets? Or is the workaround to just buy smaller sheets? lol. Because I have no problem buying a smaller, less expensive table saw, I just don't know which one I need to build my own kitchen/closet cabinets. As for the miter saw, you have me sold on buying a cheaper model. Now I'll have to research on jointers and routers .
"Expensive hobby" is an understatement. A $1000 initial investment may get basic tools for you, but you can't stop. As we have said in other posts, it is an addiction for which there is no cure, so be careful. Before long that $1000 will be your yearly blade budget alone !!
Cabinetry can be tricky. A Kreg fastening system, biscuit joiner, joiner, planer, table saw, assortment of nailers, all eat it up pretty quick.
"The problem that I keep running into about a small table saw is that I don't see how those small ones can cut sheet goods"
You would either get a helper to hold the edge of the plywood or construct something to support it. I have a roller on a stand that helps me with long pieces coming off of the end of my table saw, I'm sure you could do the same for the sides. I think the ultimate table saw would be on of the ones with the 'outriggers' on both sides and the far end.... but that would take up a lot of room and put a big dent in the wallet.
I second the comment about buying a miter saw over using a handsaw and jig setup. To cut sheet goods on a table saw, you will need to build and outfeed table to support the sheet. You would also make a crosscut jig to make crosscutting the plywood safe. Starting off with a circular saw and guides is a good place for you. For the kind of money you would spend on the Festool system, you could probably buy a contractor table saw. With a table saw, you will also be able to rip hardwood down. You won't be able to do that with a circular saw.
With a router, you can put it into a router table to use it as a poor man's shaper. Having it in a table will make certain operations safer. You will also be able to use stile and rail bits to make cabinet doors. Make your own table instead of buying one. The factory made versions are nice, but by the time you are done spending, you could have gotten a low cost shaper.
For you small space, put everything on locking wheels so you can move it out of the way.
As far as woodworking being expensive, I'm over $10,000 into my equipment and I'm probably not even half way yet, but it's also not my hobby.
If not those then something. There are a ton of books out there. The publisher of Fine Woodworking, Taunton Press, has an endless catalog of books on this subject. They will be useful for you to get a basic understanding of how to build and even on tools and shop setup.
Yeah I purchased a lot of books actually lol. I bought Woodworking Basics by Peter Korn. Complete Woodworking by Albert Jackson. Pretty much every Black&Decker book. I also have other books on specific wood projects but haven't touched them because there would be no point. Right now I'm just trying to get set up so I can at least start practicing making cuts and joinery. Sadly none of these books really go into details about how to 'start'. They teach you about some tools, types of wood, wood movement, joinery but they don't really get into specifics about exactly what a tool does and what a beginner would need. Youtube has been great at showing me what some tools do but it's not enough for me to know what I need to buy. I mean really, the amount of woodworking tools out there is intimidating for someone like me.
Please keep in mind, I don't plan on making this a career. I don't plan on it being my main hobby either. I just want to make my own cabinets and shelves and then will probably hardly touch the tools again. That is the main reason I don't want to spend too much and then there's the space issue. I think my question here is a little too broad as I can ask 100 different people and get 100 different answers. Maybe it would be wiser for me to make out a shopping list and then have you correct it and advise me so I don't make a dumb purchase. Heh.
Craigslist can be your friend. Buying used will get you better tools for less money. And in most cases they will be almost as good as new.
I have some questions. Could I get away with using something like the Bosch 4100 Table saw, for my cabinet building needs? I'm thinking something like the Bosch 4100, a router, kreg pocket jig and an impact driver to get started. If I need to break down large sheet goods, can't I just order precut plywood from a CNC shop?
That saw is too small. You are better off with a circular saw and guides.
I disagree While I've not used that table saw, it should be fine. I agree that wide pieces are best done with a skil saw [clamp a piece of wood for a guide] A circular saw is probably the 1st saw you need to buy but should get a lot of use out of a most any table saw with a 10" blade.
He's making a choice between a circular saw and this table saw. He wants to cut up sheet goods for his planned projects. That table saw is too small for sheet goods. That was the reasoning behind my post.
OK, a circular saw definitely should be purchased before a table saw! I went years without a table saw but when I finally got one - I wondered why I had waited so long. | 2019-04-24T06:16:32 | https://www.doityourself.com/forum/carpentry-cabinetry-interior-woodworking/451197-what-tools-do-i-need.html |
0.999136 | We will take adventure work as our sample database and create our project and reports based on it.
We will name our project as AdventureWorksData.
To add a new project to the solution, on the File menu, select Add | New Project.
In the Add New Project window, select Report Server Project.
In the Name box, replace the text with AdventureWorksData, and then click OK.
To save the solution, on the File menu, select Save All.
In this task, you will configure the TargetServerURL property as preparation for the deployment task later in this lab.
1. In Solution Explorer, right-click the AdventureWorksData project, and then select Properties.
2. In the AdventureWorksData Property Pages window, set the TargetServerURL property to http://<servername>/ReportServer, and then click OK. | 2019-04-23T12:59:30 | http://www.sqlserverquest.com/2014/06/ssrs-tuorial-creating-report-server.html |
0.999995 | A woman who was driving drunk when her vehicle slammed into two parked cars and a dumpster in Clairemont, killing her mother, was sentenced Friday to one year in jail and ordered to enroll in a residential alcohol and drug treatment program once she's released from custody.
Paulina Munoz, 27, pleaded guilty last month to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the death of 50-year-old Maria Isabel Villareal.
Deputy District Attorney Steve Schott argued for a four-year prison term.
Prosecutors said Munoz spent most of the night of Sept. 25, 2015, drinking with her wife and her mother.
Ignoring a text message not to drive, Munoz was behind the wheel when her car crashed at about 2:20 the next morning in the 3500 block of Clairemont Drive, not far from her home.
"She was advised by her wife that she was intoxicated and should not be driving," said Schott.
After the crash, Munoz -- who has an 8-year-old son -- told police that her mother had been driving, but officers determined that the defendant had been behind the wheel, prosecutors said.
Ninety minutes after the fatal accident, Munoz's blood-alcohol level was measured at .20 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving, authorities said.
In placing Munoz on five years probation, Superior Court Judge Polly Shamoon told the defendant that she wasn't a "monster" and that she didn't intend the kill her mother. One slip-up on probation and Munoz will be going to prison, the judge told her.
"You could have avoided this," Shamoon told the defendant. "You can never get away from what you did."
In court Friday morning, Munoz's family asked the judge for leniency.
"Our family is torn apart from that day on and there's a piece missing right now -- one is my wife [who] is never coming back no more, " said Mario Villareal Munoz' stepfather. "The other piece that's missing from the family is Paulina; we need her back home."
Munoz's wife told the judge her partner needs to come home for their 8-year-old son.
"She's my life partner, and my stepson is -- every night -- waiting for her to come back home," said Esadora Guiterrez.
Munoz's attorney comforted her as she cried during most of the hearing.
A family friend choked back tears talking about the impact on the 8-year-old boy.
"The son asks for his mom and I pick him up daily from the Boys and Girls Club. He always asks, about twice a month he will cry himself to sleep. He'll cry himself to sleep because he sees someone who resembles his mom, some rock that they painted together; the following day he is not the same," said friend Christian Medina.
Schott respected the judge's decision.
"She's going to be living with a lifetime punishment that no court can impose," said Schott.
Munoz did not speak at the sentencing, but her attorney said she is devastated.
"They don't get any more heartbreaking than this, so I think this was a very fair result," said attorney Cole Casey. "No amount of punishment in terms of incarceration is going to make the pain go away. Setting her free today isn't going to make the pain go away." | 2019-04-25T06:21:13 | https://www.10news.com/news/woman-sentenced-for-dui-crash-that-killed-mom-031816 |
0.999124 | 6.1 Respondents were asked about the type of travelling that they did when using the card, in order to develop an understanding of how and why the card was used.
6.2 Respondents were asked about the type of travelling that they do when using the card. The responses given were very similar to those reported in 2013, with the most common type of travelling respondents reported doing when using their card was shopping (87%) followed by leisure (73%). Over half stated that they use the card for medical appointments (55%), for visiting friends and family (55%) or just to get out (53%). In terms of the main reason for using the card, again shopping was the most popular response (51%), followed by leisure (24%) and just to get out (7%).
6.3 There was, unsurprisingly, a significantly lower proportion of those aged over 65 using their card for work purposes, with just over one in twenty respondents aged under 65 (12%) stating that they used their card for work purposes compared to just 4% of those aged over 65.
6.4 Analysis by card type indicated that those with disabled or visually impaired cards were more likely use their card for medical appointments (16% compared to 5% of 60+ card holder). They were also more likely to use their card most frequently for accessing support services (4%) or education (3%) than 60+ card holders.
6.5 Card holders with the 60+ card were more likely to use the card most often for social and leisure purposes with 86% stating that they use their card most often for shopping, leisure, visiting friends and family or day trips / holidays. This is compared to 60% of disabled or visually impaired card holders.
6.6 Focus group participants used their NEC for a number of different types of journeys. Typical reasons for travel included shopping, visiting friends and family, as well as attending hospital or medical appointments. Others commented that the NEC was often used for convenience. This was particularly true if travelling into town or city centres. Participants noted that the bus was often quicker and less hassle than trying to negotiate traffic, or find a parking space in the city, or at hospitals.
"It depends on the time of day of the appointment, because it can be useless to try and take the car (to hospital)."
6.7 Almost half of respondents (48%) stated that they make journeys now using their card that they would not have made if they did not have their concessionary travel card. In the main, these are social journeys which involve day trips / visiting friends and relatives (44%).
Q19 Can you describe what sort of journeys you make that you would not make if you did not have your concessionary travel card?
6.8 Thinking of all the journeys respondents make using the card, just 23% stated that they would have made all of these journeys anyway. As such, 77% of respondents are making some additional journeys that they would not have done if the concessionary travel scheme had not existed. Indeed, almost one third (32%) would have made either none or very few of these journeys.
6.9 In order to identify whether the concessionary scheme was encouraging a modal shift, respondents who stated that they would have made all, some or most of the journeys anyway were asked how they would have made these journeys. Whilst over half of respondents (58%) stated they would have made most of the journeys by bus, 34% stated that they would have made most of the journeys by car indicating that a significant proportion of respondents are encouraged to use the bus as opposed to car due to the concessionary travel scheme.
6.10 This shift was most likely to be encouraged in rural areas where, for example in accessible rural areas, 43% stated that they would have previously made their journeys by car and in remote rural areas where 45% stated that they would have made these journeys by car.
6.11 This finding was supported in the qualitative research where it was found that people were now using the bus more than before they had a card. There were some examples of modal shift. This included people who had never used the bus before having their card who now used it frequently, and those who chose the bus over alternative forms of transport.
"Before I got the card I was maybe on a bus once a fortnight - now I'm on a bus every day...."
6.12 In comparison to year one, participants in this year's focus groups had used their NEC to travel further distances. Older participants in particular spoke of using their NEC for day trips around Scotland. Journeys which they may not previously have made or would have made using the car.
"We've been to Oban and Fort William - it's beautiful and my husband said he'd never seen so much scenery because he was always driving and paying attention to the road."
6.13 With regards to the frequency of travel, almost half of respondents (44%) travelled by bus at least 4 times per week.
6.14 Analysis by area indicates that those who live in the Highlands and Islands area were significantly less likely to use their card on a weekly basis than other areas (44% used weekly). Respondents in the South East and Strathclyde areas were most likely to travel by bus more frequently than in other areas with 25% and 24% respectively stating that they use their card more than 7 times per week.
6.15 Disabled or visually impaired card holders were more likely to travel by bus more frequently with 57% travelling by bus using their card 4 or more times per week compared to 42% of 60+ card holders.
6.16 Participants in almost all focus groups reported that they used their NEC very frequently. The exceptions to this were when participants were still driving and used their NEC for specific journeys - most notably when parking at their destination was an issue.
6.17 However, for the group of participants based in a rural area, there was an issue with the frequency of the buses, which determined when and how often they could travel. Participants reported that some buses were every two hours, with the last bus of the day at 6pm. This restricted their ability to travel and some participants referred to the last bus as their "curfew".
"You can't go out at night because the last bus is at 6pm."
6.18 When asked about the sorts of distances normally travelled varied when using the card, 32% said they typically travel less than 5 miles, 20% said between 5 and 10 miles, 18% said 10 to 25 miles and 14% said more than 25 miles.
6.19 Analysis by area revealed significant differences in the distance travelled with respondents who lived in Highlands and Islands area were most likely to use their card for longer distances of 50 miles or over (26%). This is compared to the Strathclyde where 53% used their card to travel less than 10 miles and just 3% to travel distances of 50 miles or over.
6.20 Respondents living in urban areas were significantly more likely to use their card to travel shorter distances with 41% of respondents in large urban areas reporting that they usually travel distances of less than 5 miles using their card. This is compared to respondents in remote rural areas where 48% reported usually using their card for distances of over 25 miles.
6.21 Almost half of respondents (47%) stated that there were times of the year that they travelled using their card more regularly than others. Most commonly, respondents stated summer time (59%) or during winter/ Christmas time (40%).
6.22 The main reason for travelling using their card was identified as being for shopping or leisure purposes. This was the case for all cardholders, although the research did reveal that those who held disabled or visual cards were more likely to use their cards to travel for medical appointments, support or education purposes.
6.23 There was significant evidence of additional journeys being made that would not have been made in the absence of the card. In particular, these additional journeys were social and leisure journeys. Even where respondents stated that they would have made the majority of the journeys that they made using the card anyway, there was evidence of a modal shift with respondents more likely to take the bus than drive, than would have previously been the case.
6.24 Analysis of how the card was used showed significant differences in relation to where the respondent lived. For example, those living in more rural areas, in particular in the Highlands and Islands area, were significantly more likely to use their card to travel longer distances and less likely to use their card as frequently as in other areas. This was in comparison to those living in the Strathclyde and South East areas who were most likely to travel shorter distances and use their card more frequently. | 2019-04-24T18:34:46 | https://www.transport.gov.scot/publication/concessionary-travel-customer-feedback-research-year-two-report/j329860-08/ |
0.99996 | After a rousing performance from Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean, the 2019 ACM Awards kicked off from Las Vegas, Nev., on Sunday night (April 7) with a rousing and lighthearted, and sometimes pointed, monologue from Reba McEntire, who's hosting the show for the second year in a row.
Wearing a shimmery, white-silver dress with glittery details, she came onstage by welcoming the crowd to the ACM Awards--“or as I like to call it, ‘Reba Las Vegas!’” and trilled the latter phrase in the style of Elvis Presley himself.
Later in the monologue, she also unleashed another famous impressions. After joking that she would collaborate with Cardi B at the awards ceremony, McEntire then noted, “There’s no ‘you’ in Oklahoma, and that’s okuuuur with me"--and emphasizing the latter expression by doing the rapper's famous trill.
McEntire also managed to sneak in a nod to country music's lack of gender parity, by noting that it snowed in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. “It was so cold it froze us women out of Entertainer of the Year," she quipped, as the crowd murmured and buzzed at the obvious shade. "But, you know what, that didn’t bother Kacey Musgraves, because she’s been so busy carrying all her Grammys around.” The camera panned to Musgraves in the crowd, who looked a little embarrassed to be singled out.
Nevertheless, the host spent most of her speech singling out various other country stars in the audience, noting Maren Morris' youth (and impending birthday) by joking her party was going to be held at Chuck E. Cheese's, and observing that Kelly Clarkson took the lion's share of "200,000 new jobs" created in recent times. Cue the camera panning to Clarkson in the audience, embodying her busy life by knitting a scarf and sketching a picture of her stepmother.
McEntire also welcomed Chris Stapleton back to the show, and quipped that “Chris is so country he refers to George Strait as ‘that city slicker.’"
In another hilarious moment, McEntire pointed out that Jason Aldean's wife, Brittany, became pregnant twice in the last two years--which just so happened to coincide with Aldean winning Entertainer of the Year. “Honey if you win tonight, can we just cuddle?” McEntire said Brittany would suggest instead.
McEntire has hosted the ACM Awards in a number of past years: She first hosted the show in 1986, with Mac Davis and John Schneider, and then returned in 1988, that time with Hank Williams Jr. as her co-host. In 1993, McEntire co-hosted the ACM Awards with Randy Owen and George Strait, and she and Alan Jackson co-hosted the ceremony in 1995.
McEntire finally hosted the ACM Awards solo for the first time in 1999, and then every year from 2001 through 2010. She and Blake Shelton co-hosted the ceremony in 2011 and 2012. Shelton nodded to this time at the 2019 ACM Awards by pulling a mic out of his suit jacket and asking McEntire if she needed help--but, satisfied she was fine, sat down and noted he'd simply be drinking a gigantic cocktail instead. | 2019-04-20T19:20:35 | https://103wjod.com/2019-acm-awards-reba-mcentire-monologue/ |
0.999673 | As an IT consultant, companies come to you when they seek the expertise of someone on everything IT-related. This comes with a number of perks. For one, being a consultant puts you at a level above regular employees since you're seen as an expert. Aside from that, you are not bound by the 9-5 schedule of those with day jobs. Rather, your time is a lot more flexible, enabling you to do more than just sit in an office the whole day.
There are some tradeoffs to being a consultant too, of course. One of these is that you don't have an employer who will be able to provide you with health or other types of insurance when you get sick. Another thing is that when you do get ill or injured and are unable to work, you won't have any income. This naturally would put your finances at risk. The great thing, though is that there's such a thing called income protection insurance. And that's what this article is all about.
Income protection insurance is a type of insurance that is specifically designed to provide you with income when you're unable to work due to an illness or injury. How it works is that your insurer will provide you with monthly benefits (up to 75% of your salary) for a definite period. You could then use the money you receive to pay your medical expenses, the expenses involved with your recovery, as well as your day-to-day expenses.
There are two ways how insurers compute the amount of benefits you will receive. First is indemnity value insurance policy. In this option, the amount of benefits is based on your last few paychecks. This is good if you are a regular employee who expects regular salary increases, but you aren't. Thus, there's also the agreed value insurance policy. The value of your monthly benefits when you take out the policy is based on your agreement with the insurer when you first applied for the policy. Thus, the benefits you receive won't be affected by fluctuations in your income, making it perfect for consultants like you. The cost of the premium may be higher in an agreed value policy, but it gives you better coverage than indemnity value. | 2019-04-22T11:16:23 | https://www.ratedetective.com.au/compare-income-protection-it-consultants/ |
0.998628 | The Obama administration has opened up a new front in its battle against media freedom by seizing phone records from the offices of the Associated Press news agency in what appeared to be an effort to track down the source who disclosed an alleged Yemen terrorist plot story.
The US attorney's office for the District of Columbia confirmed on Monday that subpoenas had been issued for phone records. It said it valued press freedom but it had to balance this against the public interest.
AP revealed on Monday that the justice department, without informing the organisation in advance, had obtained two months' worth of phone records of calls made by reporters and editors.
Lawyers for AP said the records, which the justice department appears to have obtained from the phone companies earlier this year, listed every call made by about 100 reporters from AP's main offices in New York, Washington and Hartford, Connecticut, and from its office in the House of Representatives press gallery between April and May last year. The justice department informed AP last Friday. AP described it as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into newsgathering operations.
The attorney's office refused to say why the seizure had been made but it is almost certainly in relation to an AP exclusive report on 7 May last year in which it reported the CIA had stopped a plot by an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner.
AP at the time agreed to White House and CIA requests to hold back publication because they said an intelligence operation was still under way. After being satisfied that these concerns had been met, AP published on the Monday, ignoring a request from the Obama administration to wait until Tuesday for the official announcement.
The justice department has since launched an investigation into the leak. The phone records of five of the reporters plus an editor involved in the Yemen story were among those taken.
AP's president and chief executive officer, Gary Pruitt, sent a letter of protest to the attorney-general, Eric Holder. "These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.
He described it as "serious interference with AP's constitutional rights to gather and report the news".
Although Obama was elected on a liberal ticket in 2008 and again in 2012, his administration has mounted a sustained campaign through the courts and other means against whistleblowers, particularly in relation to what it claims are sensitive intelligence matters.
Media organisations and civil rights groups complain that many of the cases it appear to have to do with administrative secrecy than matters of national security.
The Obama administration has brought six cases against people suspected of leaking classified information, which AP described as being more than under all previous presidents combined.
A former CIA officer found himself in trouble for revealing details to journalists about waterboarding while a former member of the National Security Agency was prosecuted for disclosing that the agency was about to spend millions of dollars on a software programme that he argued was more expensive than a similar programme developed in-house.
The justice department, in its statement, defended the AP seizure. "Because we value the freedom of the press, we are always careful and deliberative in seeking to strike the right balance between the public interest in the free flow of information and the public interest in the fair and effective administration of our criminal laws," it said.
The justice department said that it had, as required by law, made every reasonable effort to obtain the information through alternative means. Normally too, it would have had to notify the media in advance unless, as in this case, "doing so would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation".
The White House denied it had been involved in the justice department move or had any knowledge of it, insisting there was a separation between the executive and the judicial branches of government.
Jay Carney, the White House press spokesman, who was travelling with Obama on a Democratic fund-raising trip to New York, said: "Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the justice department to seek phone records of the AP. We are not involved in decisions made in connection with criminal investigations, as those matters are handled independently by the justice department. Any questions about an ongoing criminal investigation should be directed to the department of justice."
The CIA director, John Brennan, in February described the Yemen story as "an authorised and dangerous disclosure of classified information" and that disclosure was "irresponsible".
The alleged plot, apparently aimed to coincide with the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, contradicted a claim by the Obama administration earlier that it had no knowledge of any plans for attacks to mark the anniversary.
AP, IRS, Benghazi: how can Americans trust President Obama now?
BBC top team blends experience and youth – but where are the women? | 2019-04-23T00:50:53 | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/14/associated-press-phone-records?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-3%20Main%20trailblock:Network%20front%20-%20main%20trailblock:Position1 |
0.998153 | "I'll see you at our Human Resources. Bring your Union Rep with you."
Those were the words of this particular manager in a hospital where a dear friend of mine has been working for over 10 years. Not because I am her friend that's why I'm defending her, but it's even harder that I'm her friend yet I can't do anything to help her out except to lift her up in my prayers. Being a nurse like her, I knew in my heart that she didn't do anything wrong and that she saved someone's life. That's our job is to be an advocate for our patients, even if our actions will be against doctors' orders, in order for us to protect the patients' health status and provide them a safe, nurturing environment.
Last month, there was a patient with subarachnoid bleeding [bleeding in the brain]. His blood pressure started going higher and he constantly complained of unrelieved headache. The neurosurgeon had an order the day before to discharge this patient that morning, when Anna [my friend] took over from the night shift nurse to care for this patient.
She immediately called the Pain Team and had asked to evaluate the patient's need for pain relief. When the patient's pain subsided, she placed one phone call after another to the neurosurgeon's answering service [3x at least] to make him aware about the patient's change in his health status. But the doctor never called her back. The last time that she called, the answering service told her to hold the patient's discharge until the doctor was able to call her back.
With everything that had occurred, Anna wrote it in her nurse's notes. She had written an order for the doctor [which the doctor can sign later] to hold the patient's discharge.
When the other [medical] doctor came, he was the one who ordered for a CT scan [special x-ray that shows better results than an ordinary x-ray]. The result showed that the patient continued to bleed. That explained why he was having headache still.
The neurosurgeon showed up the following day, upset and wanted to know who the nurse was because within the nurse's scope of care, nurses can't write an order for the doctor without talking to them. The nurse manager added to this building up emotional displeasure [I say this was an "ego at its best!"].
The nurse manager decided to bring Anna to Human Resources because she felt that she violated that scope of care.
I could see if Anna had written an order for a medication that was lethal or some intervention that hurt the patient. She actually saved the patient's life and actually saved that doctor's improper lack of care as he hasn't responded to the calls placed to his answering service at a time when the patient was undergoing a change in his status. The patient ended up being hospitalized for a few more days. The whole time, the nurse manager told her bigger boss about Anna "writing the order without the doctor's knowledge" but didn't really give the whole picture of what precipitated her action.
Despite all the mixed emotions of fear, confusion, being angry about an accusation that has no basis at all, and feeling harassed, I knew that God would protect her when we started praying together and to God's hands, she placed all those emotions.
Nothing happened when her manager brought her to Human Resources. She was telling me that though it was expected that the Management would not say anything against their managers, they had a look like this case should not have been brought up to their desk.
There are so many injustices in this world. Even us, as Christians, sometimes, we wish for a quick judgment and destruction on wicked people. We forget that God is always merciful, slow to anger, always with unfailing love. He is just.
"Jonah got upset when the people of Nineveh came into mourning and repentance when he warned them, as he was sent by the Lord for He wanted this "great city" to be saved. He was so upset that he went to the east side of the city and made a shelter to sit under and waited to see if anything would happen to Nineveh and its people."
God made a leafy plant to grow to protect him from the heat of the sun. The next day, He prepared a worm that ate the stem so the plant died and Jonah grew faint and wished to die when the sun got so hot. "Death is better than this!," exclaimed Jonah. When God asked him if it was right for him to be angry because the plant died, Jonah replied, "Yes, even angry enough to die."
The Lord said, "You feel sorry about the plant, though you did nothing to put it there. And a plant is only, at best, short lived. But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn't I feel sorry for such a great city?" [Jonah 4:1-10; Life Application Bible].
I wrote this song on 8/7/03. As I got transferred from one detention center to another one. I felt heavy because I didn't want to get out of my comfort zone. Until I let go and "let God..."
Lord, how can I go on?
Without backing out on my own?
Are you like me, who started blogging and was not really sure why but just to do something for the Lord? Hoping that many who don't know Who "Jesus Christ" is, will happen to read your blog and know more about His love and gift of salvation?
Little did I know, aside from that purpose, I didn't have a clue that I would get to meet a lot of brothers and sisters in Christ in a very short amount of time. Through that brotherhood, sisterhood unity, I just got more inspired in doing what I wanted to do for the Lord. I just felt that "kind of unity" that comes from the Lord and how blessed I am right now to have that opportunity to know a lot of you.
The other day, sister Alleluiabelle had passed on this "Sisterhood Award.". Thank you sister Alleluiabelle for sharing that with me. It's not so much about receiving recognitions and awards, but it's the love that you feel when you receive those that came with it that truly touches me. If you haven't gone by sister Alleluiabelle's blog site, please do so. You will be encouraged by her writing because you will feel her humble spirit who is after God in all of her ways.
Colossians 3:14 -"And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."
God's blessings work by us, sharing it with others, instead of keeping it to ourselves. I would like to share this award with you ["sorry guys! :)]..., if you're reading this site now. That's what I feel...is that I love you all with the love that comes from the Lord. It's a pleasure to meet you and know that we are One in Spirit! God bless all of you!
["If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain an dmake it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever..." -1Corinthians 13:1-3; Life Application Bible]. | 2019-04-24T00:14:05 | https://offthebeatentrek.blogspot.com/2009_04_18_archive.html |
0.999981 | A cafe waitress was shocked when she saw a giant spider the size of a 'tennis ball' crawling on a customer’s back.
The four inch long Huntsman spider had unwittingly been brought back by the customer in his luggage after a recent trip to Australia.
But despite its size she said she was not worried because she regularly has to deal with spiders in the cafe as all the other staff are afraid of them.
She captured the spider, nicknamed Cyril, put it in a box and took it to a local vet who identified it.
They may seem like something from a horror movie but Huntsman spiders are less dangerous than their fearsome appearance would suggest.
Although their bite is not fatal to healthy humans, it is painful and causes swelling.
The giant arachnids can grow up to ten inches in some parts of the world, making 'Cyril' a comparative baby.
Luckily, the British weather is too cold for Huntsman spiders to live in.
Britain has its own giant spider to contend with.
Thousands of giant raft spiders, which have a leg span of up to three inches, have recently been reintroduced into the Norfolk Broads.
The spider is due to be re-homed at the West Midlands Safari Park at the weekend.
Jamie Wood from the park said the Huntsman spiders are not considered dangerous but they can give a 'nasty bite'.
'It would most definitely hurt, there would be a lot of pain and some swelling and some people might even feel a bit sick, but in general these spiders are passive,' he said.
Mrs Ward said 'My aunts always ask me to deal with spiders in the shop; they said this one was a bit big but I thought they were just exaggerating.
'When I saw it I realised it wasn’t any normal old spider.
The Hay Veterinary Group identified the spider and notified West Midlands Safari Park.
Chris Davies, practice manager at the vet’s surgery, said 'We get a lot of visitors to Hay but not many of the eight legged kind. We’ve never had anything like this brought in before.
Mrs Ward nicknamed the spider Cyril, and the safari park said it would keep the name - even though it believes the spider is female. | 2019-04-20T08:38:29 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216691/Waitresss-terror-sees-Huntsman-spider-big-tennis-ball-customers-brought-Australia-coat.html |
0.99954 | Should the US government break up Google?
As Google expands its market dominance in search and digital advertising, regulators have grown increasingly concerned about its ability to stifle competition. Last year, the European Commission fined Google a record $2.7 billion for giving its own comparison-shopping service an illegal advantage. In the US, a bipartisan assortment of state attorneys general have urged the F.T.C. to reopen an investigation into the tech giant. Critics argue that Google is benefiting consumers, and that the market can regulate itself.
F: As Google expands its market dominance in search and digital advertising, regulators have grown increasingly concerned about its ability to stifle competition. Last year, the European Commission fined Google a record $2.7 billion for giving its own comparison-shopping service an illegal advantage. In the US, a bipartisan assortment of state attorneys general have urged the F.T.C. to reopen an investigation into the tech giant. Critics argue that Google is benefiting consumers, and that the market can regulate itself.
Q: Should the US government break up Google? | 2019-04-20T00:42:33 | https://getthoughtfull.com/lv/break-up-google-antitrust |
0.999919 | Second-year Honours consists of nine credits of course work. Together as a cohort, students take English 210, a six-credit seminar surveying major works of literature in English, and English 211, a three-credit seminar introducing students to the theories used in the study of literature.
This course, together with English 211, is one of two required courses for the Second-year English Honours Program. It is intended to provide an introduction to notable works of Literature in English from the earliest period to the end of the 20th century, in a range of genres, thus preparing students for senior level courses in English. It will provide scholarly and critical tools for the study of literary and other texts, and a substantial knowledge of particular literary works from the Anglo Saxon period to the present. Students will learn to employ strategies of close reading, library research, and textual analysis supported by reasoned argument. They will engage in lively discussion in class, be encouraged to evolve their own ideas, and to defend them effectively. Students will examine several kinds of critical theory and other current methods of reading and writing about literature. The focus of the course will include the political and cultural history relevant to particular works, including matters of religious, philosophical, aesthetic and social importance. Students will also investigate ideas concerning class, nationality, and gender identity relevant to these centuries. The course is designed to assist students in developing writing, research and oral communication skills, as well as to support their individual intellectual and academic development in literary and other disciplines.
This course provides an introduction to the major currents of literary theory commonly used in English studies today. The course offers an overview of the movements in theory that have had the strongest influence on literary criticism in the twentieth century (and beyond): new criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, Marxism, new historicism, post-colonialism, and race theory. Students will consider how these theories and methods are used in literary and cultural analysis by applying them to a selection of short stories. They will also explore broader questions about how different theoretical approaches have been combined in critical practice, about how they have affected the way learn literature, and about the various ways “theory” has changed (or not) the discipline of English and how it continues to do so today. Writing assignments, presentations, and online collaborations invite students to summarize and apply the theories and methods that they have learned, to think through the ways different theoretical approaches intersect, and to reflect on the significance and relevance of ‘theory’ to critical practice.
PREREQUISITES: An overall high second-class standing in the 2nd year and a first or a high second-class standing in English.
120 total credits are required. At least 48 credits must be taken in English courses numbered 304 and above (an additional six credits of elective work may be granted if a student shows that an elective provides a significant addition to his/her work in literature). Students contemplating an Honours program are strongly advised to complete Faculty requirements in science and language before entering the program.
c. At least 3 credits of language or rhetoric from ENGL 307-331 or ENGL 340.
In addition, students will be required to take four sections of senior seminars, 491 and 492 (for a total of 12 credits), in their third and fourth years. These may be taken at any time and in any order, but must include at least three credits of ENGL 491 and at least three credits of ENGL 492. They must also take ENGL 499, the Honours Essay (for 3 or for 6 credits) which is best taken in their fourth year.
English Honours students also need 42 credits of non-English courses and at least 48 credits in 300- and 400-level courses. Please note that upper-division courses in Creative Writing may not be counted towards English Honours requirements. | 2019-04-24T22:17:57 | https://english.ubc.ca/undergraduate/honours-english/completing-the-honours-program/ |
0.96322 | How do I earn an AAUS Science Diving Certification?
Scientific Divers at MLML are students, staff, and faculty members of MLML that are involved in subtidal research, thesis projects, or class projects that require diving. There are approximately 60 divers currently certified and together they conduct about 1500 dives a year. Completion of the following steps is required to dive under the auspices of MLML. To maintain certification please see the requirements at the bottom of this page.
Diving certification cards - copy all cards, include DAN insurance coverage if you have it (strongly suggested).
CPR, First Aid and Emergency Oxygen certification: Provide a copy of current certification cards.
Medical Exam. A current diving medical is required to dive with MLML's research diving program. Anyone interested in diving must obtain a diving medical from a licensed physician before they can dive. The student Health Center on consortium campuses can usually perform the required tests at reduced costs. Current MLML diver's must have a new medical done every three years (every 5 years until age 40, every 3 years until age 60, every 2 years after age 60 and after any diving accident). A complete listing of medical tests required are found in section 6.16 of the CSU Diving Standards. Download this Dive Medical Form. Diver must sign release and verify that medical practitioner signed off on the form.
MLML Dive Waiver: Sign it, have it witnessed.
MLML Dive Log Template: Provide proof of diving activity, and a log of the 12 most recent dives on an MLML dive log form.
Read CSU/MLML Diving Regulations Manual: Read the CSU/MLML manual, then download and complete MLML Manual Agreement Form: signifying that you have read the regulations and list emergency contact information .
Computer Use: To use a computer for diving at MLML you must have a copy of the users manual, show proof of knowledge of use then download and sign the MLML Computer guidelines. Then complete Dive Computer Exam of your understanding.
MLML Equipment Form: Download and submit this form listing the equipment you own, the year purchased and the service history. A check of your diving gear will be made at the time of the open water dives. Proof of annual servicing is requested at time of entry into program.
Written Examination: A thorough written exam must be completed. This is given upon receipt of full application.
Openwater Evaluation: The initial check out dive will include surf or boat entry, a surface swim of 400 yd., descent, neutral buoyancy, mask clearing, mask removal and replacement, regulator retrieval and clearing, air sharing, simulated emergency swimming ascent, a normal ascent, and a rescue or two. Additional dives with members of the diving control board will also be required before certification. | 2019-04-25T20:39:19 | https://www.mlml.calstate.edu/diving/certification/ |
0.999388 | This article is about the James Agee novel. For other uses, see A Death in the Family (disambiguation).
A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955 (with reputedly many portions having been written in the home of his friend Frances Wickes). It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David McDowell. Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work. Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for the novel. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.
University of Tennessee professor Michael Lofaro claimed the version published in 1957 was not the version intended for print by the author. He discussed his work at a conference that was part of the Knoxville James Agee Celebration (April 2005). Lofaro tracked down the author's original manuscripts and notes and has reconstructed a version he says is more authentic. Lofaro's version of the novel, A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text, was published in 2007 as part of a 10-volume set, The Collected Works of James Agee (University of Tennessee Press). Lofaro is also the author of Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee (2007).
Removed the original opening, a nightmare scene, and instead started the novel with "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," a previously published short work of Agee's that was not intended as part of the novel.
Altered the order of the book, which was intended to be chronological.
Some chapters were chopped up.
Some chapters were moved and presented as flashbacks.
The number of chapters was changed from 44 short chapters to 20.
The novel was adapted into All the Way Home, a 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tad Mosel.
The movie All The Way Home (1963) was adapted by Philip H. Reisman, Jr. from the Agee novel and the Mosel play. It was filmed in the same neighborhood where Agee grew up in Knoxville. Produced by David Susskind and directed by Alex Segal, it stars Robert Preston, Jean Simmons and Pat Hingle.
A PBS TV movie version, filmed in Tennessee and starring Annabeth Gish, aired in 2002.
Samuel Barber wrote Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (1947, revised 1950) on commission from the American soprano Eleanor Steber, who had asked for a work for soprano with orchestra.
William Mayer wrote an opera based on the novel; it premiered in 1983.
^ Grossman, Lev; Richard Lacayo (16 October 2005). "All-Time 100 Novels: The Complete List". Time.
^ escaped (26 March 2016). "A Death in the Family (TV Movie 2002)". IMDb. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
^ ArmsServices. "Subito Music Online Store". Retrieved 26 March 2016. | 2019-04-22T16:10:09 | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Death_in_the_Family |
0.998632 | During the American invasion, the Americans briefly held Montreal which was commanded by Colonel Moses Hazen. Because of concerns about British activity to the west, Hazen sent 400 troops commanded by Colonel Timothy Bedel of Bedel's Regiment to occupy the Cedars.
The command of the American garrison at Montreal was temporarily taken up by Hazen while Colonel Benedict Arnold traveled northward to join Brigadier General John Thomas' troops. Reports of British activity to the west caused Hazen to order Bedel and a 400-man force to defend The Cedars. The post was on the St. Lawrence River, 30 miles west of Montreal.
Armies - American Forces was commanded by Maj. Isaac Butterfield, Maj. Henry Sherburne, and Col. Benedict Arnold and consisted of about 400 regulars and militiamen. British Forces was commanded by Capt. George Forster and consisted of about 50 Soldiers and about 204 Iroquois.
Casualties - American casualties were estimated to be 5-6 wounded and the rest captured. British had no casualties.
Outcome - The result of the battle was a tactical British victory. The battle was part of the Invasion of Quebec 1775-76.
On May 15, Bedel learned that a British force of about 150 British troops of the 8th Regiment of Foot and about 500 Iroquois commanded by Captain George Forster was headed toward The Cedars. Bedel left Major Isaac Butterfield in charge of the post and then left for Montreal for reinforcements. Hazen directed Major Henry Sherburne's relief force of 100 men toward The Cedars, but it arrived too late.
On May 16, Sherburne's relief force started towards The Cedars. Arnold started to gather a larger force to send a little while later. Forster's British force confronted the smaller American garrison and Butterfield surrendered the garrison without a fight. He agreed to a cartel with Forster in which that Butterfield received assurances that the Americans would be protected from the Indians accompanying him in exchange for the British to acquire the post.
On May 20, Sherburne's relief force landed at Quinze Chiens, located 9 miles from The Cedars. They did not know that Butterfield had already surrendered. They marched into a British ambush about 4 miles from The Cedars. They fought the British for about 40 minutes before they were forced to surrender. The British executed 2 prisoners that night and 5 were later tortured and killed by the Iroquois.
On May 26, the British force had moved their camp to Quinze Chiens when Forster learned of Col. Arnold's relief column was approaching. Forster sent Sherburne to Arnold to let him know about the earlier agreed-upon cartel with Butterfield. If Arnold disregarded the cartel, Forster would release the prisoners to the Iroquois. Arnold agreed to take the prisoners and return to Montreal.
The blame for the American defeat was initially placed on Bedel by Arnold. As a result, Bedel was removed from command.
Following the surrender at the Cedars, some of the American prisoners were quickly exchanged for British soldiers captured at the Battle of Fort St. Jean. | 2019-04-23T18:57:50 | https://revolutionarywar.us/year-1776/battle-cedars-les-cedres/ |
0.999998 | There are several artists with this name. 1) An American-born Chinese rapper, Jin Au-Yeung. 2) Jin Berekelea (member of the moldavian experimental rock band Headswitch). 3) A solo project by Russian guitarist Eugene "Jin" Mischenko. 1) Jin The Emcee: A native of Miami, Florida, is the son of Chinese immigrants, and his parents own their own restaurant. Jin became interested in Hip Hop when he was in middle school and started battling his classmates in the cafeteria during lunch.
1) An American-born Chinese rapper, Jin Au-Yeung.
2) Jin Berekelea (member of the moldavian experimental rock band Headswitch).
3) A solo project by Russian guitarist Eugene "Jin" Mischenko.
1) Jin The Emcee: A native of Miami, Florida, is the son of Chinese immigrants, and his parents own their own restaurant. Jin became interested in Hip Hop when he was in middle school and started battling his classmates in the cafeteria during lunch.
Jin emerged on the scene after winning consecutive emcee battles on 106 & Park's "Freestyle Friday", and after winning 7 weeks of battles; Ruff Ryders came to him and offered him a contract. He accepted and was then part of the Ruff Ryder family and his first album on the Ruff Ryder label. "The Rest is History" (2004) was Jin's rookie album and he released two singles "Learn Chinese" which was produced by Wyclef and "Senorita".
On May 18, 2005 Jin released a song named "I Quit". The song was widely misunderstood because of its name. People thought that Jin had quit the rap game but he hasn't, as he stated that he went off to explore other things.
Jin dropped his sophmore album "Jin Presents: The Emcee's Propaganda" on October 25, 2005, the album sold over 7,000 copies in its first week. The single off his second album was "Top 5" where he talked about who would be the top 5 greatest hip hop artists of all time. He also shot a video for "Top 5".
Jin now goes by the name "The Emcee" and has dropped a new single called "FYI" featuring a fellow Asian rapper Yung Mac. In 2006 Jin will release 2 albums, one of which will be called "100 Grand Jin" with "FYI" as its single which he also shot a video for. Jin is also working on a project where he is planning on releasing a Cantonese album called "ABC Jin", where ABC stands for American Born Chinese. The album will be released internationally and "ABC Jin" will be rapped in all Cantonese.
Jin's style of rapping consists of strong punchlines, and used this skill in the battles he won. His punchlines hardly ever uses metaphors that require much thought to decipher, and his bars are clean cut and powerful when used in battles. Such battles against Verse, Shells, RK, and his 106 & Park battles are great examples of his style of rapping and battling.
2) Jin Berekelea is a talented artist (member of the moldavian experimental rock band Headswitch), who also has a solo project. The musical genres Jin is active in are: Experimental / Ambient / Industrial.
3) Guitarist: Jin is a Russian magician of the guitar. By means of his music he will acquaint you with the world of melody, romanticism, speed, emotions, fantasy and feeling of flight.
At the beginning of fall, the new debut album of a talented guitar player Eugene "Jin" Mischenko was released. ?Breaking the Sky?, the name of the album that symbolizes loud and fast appearance on the top of the music Olympus the new generation of the guitar masters. Eugene ?Jin? Mischenko, is one of the founders of last year's Miriada Project, that was one of the most talked about, and received a lot of positive reviews as well as in musical ideas and their execution.
This year, Jin decided to give us his first solo album that promises to send its listeners into a 40 minute travel inside the world of melody, romance, anxiety, speed, emotions, and science fiction. During the recording of his debut solo album, practically all work was done by Jin himself? solos, riffs, bass, keyboards and drums. On some tracks, he used the help of the bass guitar player, Aleksandr Podoroga, known by his work in Miriada. Keyboard tracks and pianos were recorded by Aleksandr ?Wish? Andruhin. Riffs for the Phantom track were recorded by Anton Mironkin.
Mixing and mastering were performed in Die Records Studio by one of the best sound engineers, Eugene Vinogradov (Catharsis, Butterfly Temple, Forgive-me-not). With his performance, Eugene Mischenko proves that instrumental music in Russia takes a new beginning, a new spin, a fresh breath. It's promising and essential. The album was released September 3rd, 2007 on Irond LTD. | 2019-04-24T07:17:43 | https://payplay.fm/a1aaf0-jin |
0.999999 | There seems to be more than a few computer science/programming Stack Exchange networks (is that the correct term?). Stack Overflow, being the first, has by far the most users, questions, and answers.
What is the reasoning for creating the others, and are there clear guidelines for which kinds of questions should be posted? I can see a large amount of potential overflow, many cases of people not getting a good answer to their question, because the person who has the answer isn't browsing that particular network at the moment.
I understand that they were probably created for organizational purposes, but wouldn't it almost make more sense to just have them as categories under Stack Overflow, keep them separated but still connected, instead of making people have to create multiple 'account's, one for each network?
I am sure there was a very good reason to break them up, but as someone that is new to SE, it can be somewhat intimidating to decide which one to post in to ensure you get a good answer. For example, if I am a computer science student, my first instinct might to be to post in the computer science network, until I see that it literally has 1% of the users as the Stack Overflow network, which still seems to be for programming/computer science related questions.
So my second instinct would then to be to post it into the Stack Overflow site on the basis that I have a significantly higher chance of my question being seen and getting a good answer. Then I notice that there is also a 'programmers' network, and I don't even begin to know where that fits in. I, and I am assuming most people, will probably just post on Stack Overflow to be safe.
My question is, other than the short little description blurb of each one, is there a clear cut set of guidelines which what each network is intended for, what kinds of questions should go to each one, and is anything being done to encourage people to post in these newer, smaller (more specialized?) networks as opposed to just posting in big daddy Stack Overflow?
Now again, this is for computer science/programming/"why isn't this code doing what I want?" related questions, I am not saying that if I had a question about Linux or WordPress or something I would have the same confusion.
First, make sure you're asking a good question. Some questions are off-topic everywhere, and there's no guarantee that any site exists that will take your question.
Have a specific problem statement, tailored to the site you intend to post to.
Don't ask for lists of things.
Don't require extended discussions or lengthy explanations.
…then you’re in the right place to ask your question!
…then you're probably in the right place to ask your question.
Database administration, querying, modelling, including programming in built in server side languages (think: stored procedures).
Everything that has to do with Information Security excluding the deeper aspects of cryptography and setting up your home antivirus.
security - "Have I covered the bases?"
efficiency - "It does the job, but can it go faster or is there a better way?"
maintainability - "It works now, but will I run in to problems down the road?"
edge cases - "Are there situations in which the code will break?"
If your code is not yet producing the output you require then the code is not ready for review. If you need help getting the code to a completed state and you have specific questions about how to do that, then Stack Overflow is the right place to ask.
Questions about the actual process of code reviews are off-topic and better suited for Software Engineering.
For questions about computer science, as in the academic discipline. As a rule of thumb, if your question depends on real-life languages/code/hardware/..., ask on Stack Overflow; if your question calls for abstract/mathematical models and reasoning, ask on Computer Science. Algorithms expressed in pseudocode straddle the border.
For questions about theoretical computer science at research level. If you aren't at least a graduate student, see Computer Science.
For questions about education within the context of computer science. The typical site user teaches computer science. Self-learning questions about designing a course of study or an approach to a topic are also possible here, but this site is not meant to teach students about CS directly.
SQA focuses on software testing questions, which run the gamut from technical queries about implementation of your automated tests, to organisational questions like planning training for your test team, or even how you go about persuading your manager to actually hire some professional testers instead of just crossing his/her fingers and hoping. It's aimed at professional software testers, and other related roles (programmers, business analysts) who perform software testing as part of their profession.
That's easy, just browse through their challenges and you'll get the idea. Not for general programming questions, but for challenges for people to answer (in code of course). Challenges must have an objective winning criterion, generally code-golf, and clear specifications.
All of the above should be to be applied on a specific web application of your choice.
NOTE: Questions about web application design/deployment/hosting are offtopic.
Unix and Ubuntu: Why Both?
How to make our cs community very different from the cstheory?
What is the history of the Computer Science site?
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged discussion faq stack-exchange site-recommendation .
Is there a Stack Overflow like site for computer science?
Where to ask a question about an IDE?
If I had a question with Excel, which site would I use?
Which site for database design questions?
Which Stack Exchange site is best for Microsoft Excel questions?
Where should I ask software architecture / design questions?
Where can I ask questions on cloud computing? | 2019-04-18T20:40:28 | https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/129598/which-computer-science-programming-stack-exchange-sites-do-i-post-on |
0.998369 | Is sprawl outsmarting "smart growth"?
Southerners are building a new kind of city, the semi-rustic megalopolis, hundreds of miles long. Researchers have found this startling land-use pattern spreading across the Carolinas and other southern states where bits and pieces of sprawl blend together along major freeways.
“We’ve become aware of development that is not really urbanization” in the traditional sense, says Ralph Heimlich, an agricultural economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). “Particularly in the South, you’re seeing growth and development that has no center.” The South, in fact, has become a trendsetter in the “deconcentration” of American life—the scattering of people, homes, and businesses across the landscape.
Until 1950, the typical American city included a dense urban core dominated by factories and tall commercial buildings built around seaports and river landings and railroad depots. The urban core was ringed by tightly knit suburbs, which in turn were surrounded by open countryside.
After World War II, suburban tentacles reached into new territory and then filled in with development. Giant cities grew in spurts that, over decades, could be measured like rings on a tree, with first- and second- and third-ring suburbs. Until the 1960s, most suburban workers commuted to the urban core where business and industry still flourished.
Starting in the 1980s, some outlying suburbs bloomed into “edge cities,” a term coined by author Joel Garreau. Suburban office towers and corporate campuses got mixed with cineplexes and mega-malls and car dealerships. Edge cities became the new business centers after jobs fled urban cores and inner-ring suburbs.
What distinguishes edge cities is that everybody drives everywhere.
Conservationists and social activists have condemned sprawl—low-density, car-dependent development—for harming the environment and for leaving city dwellers behind in decaying urban cores. Sprawling development chews up wildlife habitat, damages air and water quality, and paves over farmland and other open space, conservationists say. Sprawl is expensive, costing taxpayers billions to build extended roads and water and sewer infrastructure.
Arcing through the southern piedmont, growth along interstates has knit together the Atlanta metro area, small towns and mid-sized cities and their suburbs, plus rural areas populated by long-distance commuters, into “a huge countrified city across a vast space,” in the words of Robert E. Lang, director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. This 600-mile-long megalopolis stretches along the I-20, I-85, and I-40 corridors from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Raleigh, North Carolina, including the South Carolina metro areas of Anderson, Greenville, and Spartanburg.
Another sprawling agglomeration is starting to fill in along 150 miles of interstate and U.S. freeways from Augusta, Georgia, to Florence, S.C. Meanwhile, the Myrtle Beach metro area is bleeding southward, linking up with growth from the Georgetown area along Highway 17. And the Charleston metro area will eventually spread west along I-26 to connect with Orangeburg, creating a 60-mile-long city, according to a recent computer model.
Such vast tissues of development have emerged partly because of massive investments in major freeways. The 44,000-mile Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways, initiated in 1956, was the world’s biggest public-works project ever. The system was designed to move goods, farm produce, and military supplies. But it also soon formed the backbone of the nation’s highway commuting system.
In 1960, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a university professor and later U.S. senator from New York, predicted that the interstate network would transform urban America: “Highways determine land use, which is another way of saying they settle the future of the areas in which they are built.” Without proper planning, Moynihan argued, highways would draw people and businesses to the suburbs, and split and disrupt older urban neighborhoods.
Yet no one in 1960 could have anticipated that Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century would build homes so far into the countryside and commute such distances via freeways. Federal and state governments have spent vast sums improving highway systems, largely for commuters’ benefit, over the past forty years.
A generation ago, a 60-mile commute on a two-lane road seemed very long,” says Michael T. Ratcliffe, a geographer with the U.S. Census Bureau. “But now on a limited-access highway it’s easier. We are seeing rings of settlement within an hour’s commute of the metropolitan edge. These settlements spawn small retail centers that push the commuting field out,” because people travel from distant rural areas for jobs in the small service centers.
Americans are moving into houses along two-lane rural roads, setting down trailers on five-acre spreads, building vacation or weekend homes along lakes and salt marshes, and buying into large-lot subdivisions in the woods.
Cities in the Northeast and Midwest are spreading out too, but, with some exceptions, they’re not increasing their populations by very much. The South, however, is a growth powerhouse in both population and jobs.
Being mostly flat, the South has few geographic constraints to spread-out development. And the South lacks extensive public lands or high-value agricultural areas, which limit sprawling growth, according to the Brookings report.
Perhaps most important, the South is historically a “wet” region with relatively high rainfall and plentiful reservoirs, though a five-year drought and rapid development have severely cut into supplies. In the mistaken belief that water supplies are unlimited, many southern metro areas, Becker says, have subsidized sprawl by constructing water and sewer lines willy-nilly across the landscape.
Yet the South’s sprawl maladies are just beginning. A recent Transit Cooperative Research Program study, led by Rutgers University’s Center for Urban Policy Research, created a “sprawl index,” rating each state’s vulnerability to future growth in current “sprawl locations.” According to this index, three of the top five contributors to the nation’s sprawl until the year 2025 will be southern states, with Florida ranking first, and North Carolina and South Carolina ranking fourth and fifth, respectively.
That said, distinctions between metropolitan and rural are breaking down in every corner of the nation. People are migrating from center cities to suburbs; from suburbs to farther-flung rural areas; from larger, denser metros to smaller, less dense metros; and even from rural towns to the outskirts. This migration is so pervasive that “we have begun to change our notion of what is urban, suburban, and rural,” says Ratcliffe.
“Rural” once meant a landscape where people lived by farming, fishing, or forestry. Over the past several decades, though, the southern agricultural economy has virtually collapsed in many regions. Johns Island 30 years ago was a major tomato-producing area with 2,500 acres under cultivation and 41 growers. Today, there are three growers who cultivate 500 acres; many local growers have been driven out by competition from Mexico.
As the agricultural and small-town manufacturing economies have faded, country folks haven’t moved away. Instead, they drive to jobs in metro areas and tourism centers.
The South’s sprawling megalopolises have been shaped, ironically, by the region’s history of small-town and rural settlements.
In the eighteenth century, many inland southern towns were originally built quite close together. Settlers founded communities along the “fall line,” where rivers flow off the rolling, hilly landscape of the piedmont, creating small waterfalls and rapids. Columbia, Raleigh, and Durham used fast-moving water for power generation, which eventually set the stage for manufacturing. In the late nineteenth century, upstate river towns took the lead in manufacturing by exploiting hydropower. Thousands of poor southerners fled exhausted farmland to work in textile mills.
During the mid-twentieth century, small industrial towns and cities diversified in the southern piedmont, producing tobacco, furniture, and other wood products.
Since the 1960s, state and local governments have offered incentives and subsidies to companies, encouraging their relocation from the North to industrial parks on metro edges and rural areas. “That made it possible for (southerners) to stay in low-density areas and commute in and have jobs,” says Kenneth M. Johnson, a demographer and sociologist at Loyola University, Chicago.
Companies migrated to the South partly for its cheap land. And southern government made it even less expensive to develop at the urban edge by subsidizing spread-out growth, pouring enormous amounts of money into upgrading highways, bridges, and water and sewer lines.
Northern industrial cities, originally built around railroads and ports, contain physical and cultural legacies that have made mass transit feasible in some corridors. Public transportation is most popular in New York City, Jersey City, Boston, and Washington, DC.
Modern southern growth, by contrast, emerged in the era of the car and truck. “Because the South developed later, the car and the truck were more significant factors in its spatial development than they were in the North,” says Johnson.
Over the past two decades, the southern industrial base has stretched out and flourished in a spectacular fashion along freeways, particularly in the piedmont. International investment poured into the region, which has become a center for banking, high-tech industry, and automobile manufacturing.
Now dozens of old factory centers, mill towns, railroad towns, and county seats are growing out to meet one another, creating urban agglomerations across a vast scale. “The sprawling mega-regions of the piedmont are the engines of southeastern growth,” says Lang.
That region helps drive coastal prosperity too. Residents of booming Charlotte, and Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill and Atlanta are buying vacation homes along the southeastern coast. The Grand Strand’s largest tourism segment relies on travelers driving from within 300 miles away, including large stretches of the southern piedmont, according to Ashby Ward, president of Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
Nevertheless, Sumter’s place within the midlands commuting pattern is dizzyingly complex. People, after all, don’t just commute from suburbs or outlying small towns into cities anymore. They travel from city to suburb; from city to small town; from suburb to suburb; from mid-sized city to mid-sized city; from far-flung rural area to suburb; and on and on. We commute every which way, and on weekends we travel some more.
On a weekday morning, a typical couple might travel in separate directions for jobs in two different towns. On the weekend, they might shop in a third town and visit friends in a fourth town, traveling everywhere on freeways.
Sumter County, for example, has its own gravitational influence that balances Columbia’s. Its businesses draw workers from west (Richland County, home to the state capital), from east (Florence County), from north (Kershaw County), and most of all from south (Clarendon County).
Many conservationists have called for “smart growth” policies to control spread-out development in the countryside.
Smart-growth advocates call for denser housing patterns in cities and suburbs. They urge smaller lots for single-family homes, plus more apartments and townhouses, in already urbanized areas. People living closer together in towns and cities apply less development pressure on farmlands, forests, and wildlife habitat on the metro outskirts. Meanwhile, transit is more feasible in communities with higher population densities, so residents can reduce their automobile use.
According to smart-growth principles, states and localities should agree on where they want development to occur. They should fund or support construction of freeways and water and sewer lines only in designated growth areas. When communities do not carefully control infrastructure, they end up with chaotic growth.
Developers of office parks, large subdivisions, and strip development usually want to build on cheap land on the outskirts of metro areas and along highways where government has constructed water and sewer lines. As a result, sprawling growth explodes along these infrastructure corridors. “If you can’t control the infrastructure, you can’t control anything,” says Becker. If government managed these growth subsidies, then development into the countryside could be curtailed.
Smart-growth advocates also call for closely connecting downtown business districts politically and administratively to suburban areas through metro or regional governments.
Finally, conservationists have convinced government agencies, individuals, and nonprofit groups to preserve hundreds of thousands of acres from development through land purchases, conservation easements, and regulation. Along the South Carolina coast, the Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) River Basin and other protected lands effectively prevent development from blending together between the Charleston metro area and Georgetown-Myrtle Beach area to the north, and between the Charleston area and Beaufort County’s resort communities to the south.
Smart-growth policies can be effective in controlling low-density, land-gobbling growth in some metro regions, experts say. But governments that apply these tools are pushing against long-term economic, technological, and demographic currents. American society is racing not toward more urban concentration but toward further dispersal.
For many companies, location simply matters less than it used to. Until the 1980s, businesses had to be situated in an urban core, where they could expeditiously ship out products and import supplies and raw materials via a port or railway terminal. But improvements in communications technology and transportation have reduced the “friction of distance,” says Johnson. Satellite technology, fax machines, the Internet, plus massive state and federal investment in roads and airports have changed how Americans work and play.
Suzannah Lessard, a recent fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, has argued that “technology made a spreading, decentralized world inevitable, a world in which the distinction between city and country was dissolved.” Take the catalog retailer Lands’ End, which operates a national distribution headquarters out of the small town of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. The success of Lands’ End is partly due to the fact that state government upgraded a two-lane U.S. highway to a four-lane divided highway in the 1980s. Because Federal Express trucks armed with technological equipment can swiftly deliver packages almost anywhere, a retailer can set up in what used to be backwoods.
More than ever, Americans choose to live in single-family homes in low-density neighborhoods. When a suburb gets too crowded, they simply move farther out. Or when one city becomes too densely populated, they move across the country to another, less dense one.
The typical household commuted almost 40 percent more miles in 1995 than in 1990, according to a 1999 study by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Yet commuters did not spend an equivalent increase of time on the road. Commuting times grew by less than 20 percent through the entire decade of the 1990s. Americans spent nearly 26 minutes commuting to their jobs each way in 2000, up from 22 minutes in 1990, according to recent census figures.
Why have commuting times gone up less than half as quickly as miles traveled? One reason is that employers have moved to the suburbs, where three-quarters of Americans now live. The outward movement of jobs has also made it easier for people living in the countryside to reach workplaces at the metro edges. A worker traveling from a rural county to an office park on an outer beltway often has a shorter travel time than a suburbanite battling rush hour traffic to a downtown office.
“I’m a Yankee who fought New York traffic for years, so this is easy for me,” says Paul Pietrowski, who commutes 50 miles in 50 minutes along I-26 from his home in small-town St. George in Dorchester County to his civilian job at the Air Force Base in North Charleston. In the early 1990s, he settled in Summerville on the Charleston metro’s western edge. Then three years ago, Pietrowski and his wife, Stephanie, thinking that Summerville was becoming too crowded and expensive, decided to move farther out to St. George.
Many Americans have similarly fled giant metros to mid-sized and smaller cities. The share of jobs in the largest 61 metro areas declined slightly from 1988 to 1997. The share of jobs in mid-sized metros (between 250,000 and 1 million), like Charleston and Columbia, grew by 4 percent. The share in small metros (between 50,000 and 250,000), like Myrtle Beach, expanded by 7 percent.
During the 1990s, Americans flocked to rural recreational counties, retirement counties, and counties beyond the metro edges but within driving distance of metro jobs. Non-metro counties (those lacking an urban center of 50,000 or more) gained 10.3 percent in population between April 1990 and April 2000.
Over the past decade, the fastest growing South Carolina counties were found along the coast. Newcomers poured into places such as Beaufort County, South Carolina, home of Hilton Head Island, which had a population increase of 40 percent in the 1990s.
Even so, migrants to South Carolina are spreading throughout the state, says Pat Mason, co-founder of the Center for Carolina Living, a marketing and research enterprise, “We see all ages, all motivations for moving here. It’s surprising how many people are moving to places you wouldn’t think of.” But one thing stands out, he says. “A huge majority of them have college degrees.” It’s people with money and education who are likeliest to relocate, and can afford to.
Workers in the future will be less limited geographically by their jobs, largely due to a confluence of new technologies. “People are going to make more decisions on where they live based on lifestyle choices,” says Becker.
Is sprawl in your future? Probably. “Urban sprawl is more or less inevitable unless it runs up against an immovable barrier” like the ocean or a steep mountain range, says Rutherford Platt, a planning professor at the University of Massachusetts.
The United States has some of the most extreme examples of spread-out growth on the planet. Yet virtually every metropolitan area in Western Europe, North America, and Japan is experiencing some form of long-distance “deconcentration”—or urban development spreading across the landscape—due to the influence of commuting by automobile and the dispersing effects of information technologies, according to Peter Hall, professor at the University of London’s Bartlett School of Planning.
In Pacific Asia—from Indonesia to Japan—outer fringes of giant cities have grown the fastest in population and land-use changes, says Yue-man Yeung, director of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Land-use controls are weakest in the metro edges of cities such as Jakarta, Indonesia, and Manila, Philippines. Now these urban centers are spreading out and blending into adjacent smaller towns and cities.
In China’s Pearl River Delta, the cities of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou are becoming one continuous urban area containing more than 20 million people. Development has been spurred in part by China’s first superhighway, the Shenzen-Guangzhou tollway, which runs for 72 miles through this corridor, one of the fastest-growing regions in the world.
Many developing countries have become more dependent on the private car for transportation. Most Chinese major cities, such as Shanghai, have moved factories out to industrial zones on the metro edge. This relocation has freed up land for gentrification at the urban core. Inner-city workers have been moved to satellite suburbs, where they live in concrete high rises. Now many urban Chinese, who once bicycled to nearby factories, have to commute by buses or private cars. China has spent billions of dollars on expressways to accommodate increasing traffic, while bicycle sales have plummeted.
Can "smart-growth" techniques work in South Carolina?
Three “smart-growth” tools offer the best chance to control sprawl in U.S. metro areas, according to a new report, Costs of Sprawl—2000, by the Transit Cooperative Research Program led by Rutgers University researchers. Each of these smart-growth tools encourages higher housing densities in urban and suburban areas. Each tool guides development toward central cities, towns, and densely populated suburbs, reducing growth pressures on rural areas at the metro edges. Each technique, though, requires strong action by regional agencies or state legislatures.
The first tool is the regional urban-growth boundary. With this tactic, a state legislature requires each metro area to draw an urban-growth boundary around its periphery. Future growth then would be directed within this boundary, creating higher densities there. This technique has been used in Oregon and Florida.
The second tool is a regional urban-service district. A state legislature would give authority to a statewide or regional agency to designate growth areas within each metro area. Growth areas would be the only places to receive state funds to finance roads, sewer and water systems, and other infrastructure. This technique has been used in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota.
The third tool makes state aid contingent on local governments creating growth zones. A state legislature would limit financing assistance for new infrastructure only for those localities that designate growth zones and keep new development within those areas. Communities that have growth boundaries would receive more “points” in a statewide system for infrastructure improvements. Maryland has adopted this technique.
Two more strategies could help control sprawl if used by most counties in a metro region. Large-lot zoning in rural areas—10 acres or more—can discourage traditional suburban-style development. Finally, governments can designate land that would remain undeveloped for some public purpose, such as wetland or watershed protection.
Yet none of these strategies would significantly reduce sprawl within South Carolina’s fastest-growing regions over the next two decades, according to the TCRP report. Smart-growth tools would likely be ineffective in the Charleston metro area, in Beaufort County, Horry County, in some rapidly urbanizing stretches of the South Carolina midlands, and in most of the upstate, according to the comprehensive, five-year study of U.S. sprawl.
When localities act alone to control sprawl, they are usually ineffective, and their efforts can even aggravate sprawl, says the TCRP report. Development simply moves to localities that lack growth controls.
The Smart Growth Initiative, sponsored by the Urban Land Institute and the S.C. Real Estate Center, is identifying smart-growth options for the state. In September 2002, this group organized a symposium in Charleston, where stakeholders offered dozens of recommendations, such as creating a statewide vision for growth, identifying sensitive lands for protection, and improving infrastructure and regional planning.
But symposium speakers were realistic about where new development will take place. One million residents will pour into South Carolina over the next 25 years, and the majority will live in rapidly growing areas at the metro edges. “Most new development in this state will be in outlying green-field areas” at the urban fringes, said Terrance Ferris, director of Clemson University’s city and regional planning program. The Smart Growth Initiative will present its recommendations next year.
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U.S. Department of Transportation. Summary of Travel Trends 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey. Washington, DC, December 1999. | 2019-04-22T08:55:32 | http://www.scseagrant.org/Content/?cid=186 |
0.999997 | This phrase means that someone eats violently and urgently.
Tom is very hungry so he is chowing down on a big hamburger.
Look, they are really chowing down. | 2019-04-20T15:16:34 | http://www.headsethot.com/show-9355-440725-1.html |
0.99995 | I'm a teacher. Can you tell? I started out as a scientist-- a biochemist and took a lab job right out of college. I gave mice cancer, then I gave them drugs, then I measured the cancer to see if the drugs worked. Not my cup of tea.
So I went back to school and got a masters in secondary science education. I also got married. It was hard to get a teaching job in those days because I had an advanced degree, which meant they had to pay me more; I was inexperienced, so they had no idea what kind of teacher I would be and I was married, which meant I would get pregnant and leave. I was also very young, 21, and my husband was off in the army. Finally, I landed a teaching job for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade science. I was told to teach modern atomic theory to the 8th grade. They gave me a terrible, boring book to teach from. I noticed the door was closed. No one was watching, so I went to the library and got a bunch of books with titles like, The Story of the Atom. That's the way I taught, using appropriate children's nonfiction for that unit and all the others. At the end of the school year I gave my students two days of test prep for the "achievement test" in science. They did fine. Those were the days when teachers had autonomy. Today, if you teach as I did, you'd be called subversive.
After 2 1/2 years I got pregnant and they made me quit teaching. I still had three months to go before Theo would arrive. There was an ad in the NY Times for teachers to write educational materials. So I went to Brooklyn for an interview. The publisher was in a storefront with the slogan "Simplicity Is Worth Millions." (Wishful thinking). He asked me if I could write a high school chemistry text. I said I thought I could. He asked me to write a chapter, "but it has to be simple." I went home and wrote a chapter which he handed back to me with the statement, "It's not simple enough." So I rewrote the chapter and brought it back. "It's still not simple enough," he said. After the third try, he gave me the contract! I discovered what cloud #9 feels like! Then Theo was born and I wrote the book with him in his infant seat at my feet. My name was never going to be on that book, I was paid a flat fee, and in the long run, it was never published. But I had found my calling. I could do something interesting at home while I raised my kids.
And so I wrote, and wrote and wrote while life happened. My kids grew up, even my grandchildren grew up and here I am today still writing about science, and interesting nonfiction for kids, and the love of learning. In 2008 I was asked to contribute to a group blog called "Interesting Nonfiction for Kids" (INK!) I discovered my inner blogger. Then I blogged for a newspaper called Education Update. In 2013, I started blogging for the Huffington Post and became a Contributor in 2016. Finally, now, I'm on my own.
I invite you to enjoy your time with me. | 2019-04-26T12:41:55 | https://www.vickicobbsblog.com/about.html |
0.999867 | It's the violence outside of Mexico which seems to be on the rise (not to discount the casualties in President Calder&joacute;n's war against drugs and the cartels, and the gravity of matters in and around certain Mexican cities), yet the Mexico fear-mongering continues at a fervent pitch.
"Two dead in stabbing: police seeking suspects"
"Man arrested after woman and 2 children plunge from balcony"
"Man found guilty in shooting death of 17-year-old"
"Man found shot in [suburban] backyard"
"Man dead after train, vehicle collide"
"Woman survives fall over bluffs"
"His wounds left little chance for survival"
"Accused in city hall stabbing appears in court"
These stories appeared not in a Mexico City newspaper, not in a Mexican city noted for violence where the Sinaloa cartel maintains a presence, and not in Oaxaca, which contrary to the belief of many has been virtually incident-free in terms of harm or violence towards tourists - of course there is the odd incident, as in any other city of comparable size. The foregoing headlines appeared in The Toronto Star.
I wrote about The Toronto Star four years ago, noting five stories with headlines indicating violence - violence in that Canadian city, not in a Mexican metropolis (http://oaxacadream.com/articles/tourist21.html). I subsequently updated the article, looking at online versions of the newspaper for two dates in 2009, with headlines reflecting three violent crimes for each date. And then finally in 2010 in one edition of the same newspaper I noted seven headlines centering upon violent incidents in the Greater Toronto Area.
And here we are, as 2011 closes out, if not with an escalation of violent crimes being perpetrated in Toronto, then little if any reduction in the incidents of violence (at least reported). Yet in Cuidad Juárez, often identified as a hotbed of drug wars and violence given its location right on the U.S. border, homicide rates dropped 68.6% from October 2010, to May 2011 (Mexico's ministry of public security).
Thankfully the travel advisories relating to drug wars and violence in Mexico are now, finally, more location specific than previously. But the naysayers keep coming out of the woodwork, trying to paint all of Mexico with one broad stroke of the brush. The fact is that the majority (70%) of homicides during 2010 were committed in seven of Mexico's 31 states. Oaxaca, for example, has not been overtaken by the Sinaloa cartel, or any Mexican or other drug cartel. Expats and Mexican nationals alike continue to move to Oaxaca.
If I didn't feel as safe or safer living in Oaxaca now, as I did spending most of my live in Toronto, I would have high-tailed it to back to the land of hockey and Northern Lights in the wake of Oaxaca's 2006 civil unrest. Even those few months did not result in a wholesale exodus of Mexicans or expats out of fear.
I won't repeat the names of the cities to which I would dare not venture (though one Mexican city has already been noted), or even the stretches of highway accessing those cities. They do exist. Surely even President Calderón would not recommend that tourists visit certain areas in Mexico at this point in time because of drugs and violence.
The main tourist destinations for U.S. and Canadian citizens are geographically far removed from the very specific areas that have of late been significantly affected by crime in Mexico, primarily along the U.S. - Mexico border. For example, the distance between the border and Puerto Vallarta is over 800 miles. It's almost the same distance between Oaxaca and Nuevo Laredo (the Mexican city bordering Laredo, Texas). And the more southern Mexican tourist destinations are even further away from the U.S. border and Mexican cities noted for violence and drug wars. The distance between Cancun and Ciudad Juárez is about the same as between New York and Miami.
Take a look at your own big - city newspaper, and then ask if Mexican and other international journalists should caution prospective tourists about drug gangs and violence in your hometown. Should the Mexican government begin issuing travel advisories against vacationing in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Daytona Beach, because of murders in South Miami? What about shunning travel to Chicago and other major American and Canadian cities because of drug trafficking and violence in and near public housing developments?
Statistics of homicides per 100,000 per capita in the 20 most densely populated cities in the Americas, recently published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, indicate that you're more likely to be a victim of homicide in Detroit, Washington and Chicago, than in Mexico City. Mexico City ranks about the same as Houston, with Philadelphia, Miami and San Francisco ranking close behind. It's time to rethink unfounded fears and do your own research before outright discounting travel to a Mexico tourist destination.
Alvin Starkman is a paid contributing writer for Mexico Today, a program for Marca País - Imagen de México. Mr. Starkman is under a contractual obligation to write in a factual, truthful and verifiable manner within the context of stating reasoned opinion. Mr. Starkman has written over 230 articles about life and cultural traditions in Oaxaca, including essays about the 2006 Oaxaca civil unrest, and Mexican legal reform. | 2019-04-19T16:34:24 | https://tomzap.com/drugwars.html |
0.97244 | One of the reasons I feel the need to define things here before talking about them is that people love to take terms and twist them to mean whatever is most convenient.
Under its original economic definition, productivity is a synonym of efficiency: getting more done with the same amount of resources. Classic productivity was hard to achieve, so people craftily and unconsciously morphed the word into something that was a more easily attainable goal. Instead of efficiency, which was what being productivity used to mean, people just started using the term to refer to getting things done in general.
Productivity: The amount of rewards generated in a particular span of time, regardless of how efficiently those rewards were generated or how much effort and resources they cost.
A great example of productivity and efficiency together is an automated factory. However, since productivity is an equation, it's possible to be productive without being efficient, as well as to be efficient without being productive. People who follow The 4-hour Workweek and other such methods attempt to get the same amount of rewards for much less effort, through increased efficiency.
On the other end of the spectrum, it's much more common to find productivity without efficiency. I used to work 16 hour days and 7 day weeks. I got a huge amount of work done, but work was all I ever did. I was being very productive, but at a huge cost. Therefore my efficiency was very low. | 2019-04-25T16:04:21 | https://mikedarga.blogspot.com/2009/07/glossary-productivity.html |
0.991574 | How can I read and study the Bible to bridle my tongue better. Sometimes I say things that I wish I didn't and want to minimize those times as much as possible. What does the OPC have to say about bridling the tongue?
The OPC says about bridling the tongue what the Bible says about it. There is no magic, or easy way, to achieve this. And we all fail at one time or another and to some degree or another.
A. The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth, and the good name of our neighbours, as well as our own, especially in public judicature; giving false evidence, suborning false witnesses, wittingly appearing and pleading for an evil cause, outfacing and overbearing the truth; passing unjust sentence, calling evil good, and good evil; rewarding the wicked according to the work of the righteous, and the righteous according to the work of the wicked; forgery, concealing the truth, undue silence in a just cause, and holding our peace when iniquity calleth for either a reproof from ourselves, or complaint to others; speaking the truth unseasonably, or maliciously to a wrong end, or perverting it to a wrong meaning, or in doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice of truth or justice; speaking untruth, lying, slandering, backbiting, detracting, tale bearing, whispering, reviling, rash, harsh, and partial censuring; misconstructing intentions, words, and actions; flattering, vain-glorious boasting; thinking or speaking too highly or too meanly of ourselves or others; denying the gifts and graces of God; aggravating smaller faults; hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession; unnecessary discovering of infirmities; raising false rumors, receiving and countenancing evil reports, and stopping our ears against just defense; evil suspicion; envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any, endeavoring or desiring to impair it, rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy; scornful contempt, fond admiration; breach of lawful promises; neglecting such things as are of good report, and practicing, or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering what we can in others, such things as procure an ill name.
Finally, the Book of Proverbs offers much practical counsel in this area, including the importance of heeding divine wisdom.
An evil man is trapped by his sinful talk, but a righteous man escapes trouble. From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards him. (Prov. 11:13-14).
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. (Prov. 12:22).
A man finds joy in giving an apt replyand how good is a timely word! (Prov. 15:23).
We need to pray specifically for God's grace to help us with our tongue. It helps a lot to be with Christians who can be our role models in this area.
I hope this helps you in a daily endeavor to conquer in a struggle we all are in. | 2019-04-18T20:26:37 | https://opc.org/qa.html?question_id=51 |
0.999997 | question_answer1) Which Bollywood personality has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Switzerland tourism?
question_answer2) The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel Gotthard Base Tunnel is 57 km long. In which country is it located?
question_answer3) Which of the following countries has become the newest member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)?
question_answer4) Which among the following launched "Operation School Chalo" in South Kashmir?
question_answer5) Which among the following is the first solar powered aircraft?
question_answer6) "Suryakiran - X, a joint military exercise was held in October - November 2016 in which country?
question_answer7) This country voted to break away from the European Union by a very narrow margin in June 2016. The breakaway was termed 'Brexit'. Which country are we talking about?
question_answer8) The USA had broken ties with this Carribean country in 1961. The former US President, Barack Obama, made a historic visit to this country to re-establish ties. Which country is it?
question_answer9) MalalaYousafzai, the Pakistani, schoolgirl who defied the Taliban, won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 jointly with an Indian Children's Rights Activist. Who is he?
question_answer10) Who among the following is the Present Governor of Reserve Bank of India?
question_answer11) Which state government observed November 1st as 'No Tobacco Day' in 2016?
question_answer12) The 2016 Copa America Football tournament has been won by which of the following countries?
question_answer13) Who among the following is the author of book "Immortal: Death is certain for all who are born ..... or is it"?
question_answer14) India exchanged 111 land enclaves with a population of 37,000 with this neighbouring country, receiving 51 enclaves with a population of 14,000 people from it. Which neighbour are we talking about?
question_answer15) This organisation was instituted on January 1, 2015, replacing the 65-year old Planning Commission. Its job is to advise the government on social and economic issues. What is this organisation called?
question_answer16) What was the theme of the first-ever "National Yoga Olympiad", which was organized by the NCERT?
question_answer17) In 2016 from which state were the Indian Premier League matches shifted because the state was reeling under drought?
question_answer18) Which of the following players is the only player to represent India in chess and cricket? Hint: This player plays cricket for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premiere League.
question_answer19) India's newest state is all set to rebuild an ancient capital city as its new capital. Can you name the capital city to be?
question_answer20) Which Indian state was the first to launch cyber police stations in each district in November 2016?
question_answer21) This national paper has a circulation of 10 million copies. It is the world's leading newspaper circulation-wise. Name it?
question_answer22) On which date "Navy Day" is celebrated in India?
question_answer23) India's first sunken museum will be set up in which of the following place?
question_answer24) Who has been appointed as the new head coach of the National Indian Cricket Team?
question_answer25) India's first pilot programme to run two wheelers on CNG has been launched in which place? | 2019-04-19T09:09:16 | https://studyadda.com/question-bank/5th-class/general-knowledge/current-affairs/current-affairs/3041 |
0.999979 | What do Woodridge and the jungles of South Africa have in common?
Ruffolo, who racked up stints as a patrol officer, a tactical officer and an instructor with the Naperville Police Department for 17 years before becoming a police commander in neighboring Woodridge last year, has now notched a two-week tour of duty in South Africa.
Working with the Office of International Criminal Justice and the International Police Association, Ruffolo recently spent two weeks in South Africa, where he worked with the current police departments to help them learn "how to organize and be effective under a new democratic society," he said.
"South Africa is going through social changes just as our American culture did in the 1960s, and they have a formidable task ahead of them," he said.
Besides spending time in their major cities, which he said have a modern European flavor, he traveled in the jungles for three days "to talk to the police officers in those areas and help them."
Ruffolo said one of the major problems facing the present police departments is their growing area of responsibilities.
"In one of the city areas, there used to be about 45 police officers responsible for 100,000 people. Today, they are also responsible for a township of 700,000 people, making them responsible for a total of 800,000. It's just beyond belief," he added.
"I understand the history of South Africa and I understand the great changes they are going through, but among the police officers I noticed no significant problems, no problems that seemed different than other officers around the world have to deal with," he added.
The officers in "South Africa are dedicated to bringing about a democratic society even with the struggles they face," he said.
Ruffolo is not a stranger to taking his DuPage police experiences and sharing them. The Office of International Criminal Justice is aware of his teaching experience and has sent him over the past five years to police schools to Germany, Holland and England.
"Even though my job is to teach others about our policing methods and crime prevention and violence in society, I walk away from these trips learning as much as I have given," said Ruffolo, who is currently working on his doctoral degree in education.
Ruffolo, who grew up on Chicago's South Side, taught school before he was a police officer, and his current teaching jobs include courses at the Chicago Police Academy.
"The world is becoming such a place that whether you are in Chicago, Woodridge, Naperville, South Africa or Germany, the police officer today needs that input and cooperation from the community, especially the parents of kids that get involved with the police," he said.
"No one, in South Africa or in DuPage County, has enough money to hire all the police officers necessary to stop crime, and prevention is taking the spotlight," he said. "Tax dollars are tough things to come by no matter where you are."
Hard lessons: After three days of lengthy jury debate over the quality of air in the DuPage County Courthouse and the health problems of several hundred employees, the jurors told the judge that they had reached a verdict.
However, they asked for a half-hour delay.
The reason: Having cleared the air in the jury room, they needed a cigarette break. | 2019-04-22T18:05:22 | https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-01-13-9501130135-story.html |
0.987365 | The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teacher ethnicity and student ethnicity as it might affect teacher decisions to refer the student for suspension, expulsion, or special education. One hundred, thirty-seven elementary and secondary school teachers read a case history vignette in which student ethnicity was varied. Teachers were asked to respond to a series of questions. Responses were grouped into three subscales, measuring the respondent's tendency to refer the student for suspension, expulsion, or special education, respectively. Data were analyzed with three sets of one-way analyses of variance, one for each of the three subscales. In each set of analyses, student ethnicity was held constant, with teacher ethnicity constituting the grouping variable. Tukey post-hoc comparisons were used to detect mean differences when overall F's were significant. The analyses indicated a trend (p =.08) for white teachers to refer for suspension. Post hoc analyses revealed that white teachers were more likely to refer white students for suspension than were African-American teachers. Significant main effects were also found for the expulsion variable in Asian students (p =.02) and the special education variable in Hispanic students (p =.04). White teachers were more likely than Asian teachers to refer Asian students for expulsion, and less likely than African-American teachers to refer Hispanic students to special education. Subsidiary analyses in which teacher ethnicity was held constant with student ethnicity constituting the grouping variable revealed that African-American teachers were more likely to refer Hispanic students to special education than African-American students. Asian teachers were more likely to refer Hispanic students for expulsion than Asian students. A trend (p =.06) emerged in the tendency of white teachers to refer white students more often than Asian students for special education. Hypothesis 1, hypothesis 2, and hypothesis 3 were only partially supported. The study did not reveal bias toward African American male students. However, there appears to be some relationship among teacher ethnicity bias, student ethnicity, suspension, expulsion, and special education. | 2019-04-21T18:43:56 | https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2750/ |
0.999037 | Article: (03-25-2019) (Zones: Comic Books) Marvel Comics got its start way back in 1939, but at the time it was known as Timely Comics. The era saw the launch of some of their most iconic characters including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and several characters that have been dominating the box office over the past several years such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, The Black Panther, Captain Marvel and more. Here is an amazing chart provided by AAAStateofPlay.com detailing the first appearance of many Marvel Comics greats! Read More.
Hawkman - Celebrating the DC Comic Book Character Hawkman!
Article & Podcast: (11-10-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Today is #HawkmanDay on social media and fans and comic book creators are celebrating one of the oldest DC Comics characters - Hawkman! Hawkman has a complicated backstory but a very cool costume design. He has been around since the golden age of comics, has been a staple of DC Comics since the 1940s, has had action figures, a role on the Super Friends, and appearances throughout media. Celebrate Hawkman with us today at When It Was Cool. Read More.
Article: (10-04-2018) (Zones: Comics) We continue to celebrate #MonsterMonth here at When It Was Cool and today we look back at the early appearances of Dr. Frankenstein and his Monster in the pages of Silver Surfer and his own Marvel Comics title - The Monster of Frankenstein. The Monster has been used less frequently in Marvel Comics than in DC Comics but today we look at the first and early appearances of the Frankenstein Monster in the Marvel Universe. Read More.
Article: (10-02-2018) (Zones: Comics) We continue to celebrate #MonsterMonth here at When It Was Cool and today we look back at the first appearance of Dr. Frankenstein and his Monster in the pages of Detective Comics where he ultimately confronts Batman and Robin. The golden age of comics featured lots of scientific elements and fun action. Read More.
Article: (08-09-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Moon Knight is an amazing character from the Marvel Universe, well, he could be an amazing character. Instead, he has fallen into eras of being a low-rent Batman, a punch-em up superhero, and a social commentary for the exploration of mental illness. When It Was Cool argues that the character would best be used by returning to his original eerie macabre roots. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (08-08-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) In this article, Karl from When It Was Cool takes a look at the movie that launched the DC Comics Warner Brothers cinematic universe and, unfortunately, set the tone for it as well. Man of Steel isn't a bad movie but it doesn't know what it is, tries to be too many movies packed into one, and has a needless darkness that has effected every DC movie since. Henry Cavill as the lead character Superman does a fine job with what he has to work with but there is a lot going on in this movie... let's discuss it. Read More.
Article: (07-30-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) In mid-1977 Godzilla stomped out of the Toho movies and into the pages of Marvel Comics and began a rampant campaign of destruction from coast to coast across the United States. Godzilla - King of the Monsters is set fully inside the Marvel Universe with Godzilla meeting the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and even the Avengers. When It Was Cool takes a look back at the 1977 licensed Marvel comic book series - Godzilla King of the Monsters. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (07-18-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Yes... we finally got around to reviewing the latest (awful) offering from the (horrendous) Warner Brothers DC movie universe. We finally get all of our (least) favorite movie universe heroes together to be sad in unison and fight an outrageously forgettable villain. DC's movie universe needs razed to the ground, buried, and forgotten. Tonya and Karl review this sludge of a movie in today's When It Was Cool movie review. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (07-11-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Ghost Rider is a Marvel Comics character who got his first movie in 2007 and a sequel a few years later. Though these movies are not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe there isn't any real reason they couldn't be. The Ghost Rider movie stars Nicholas Cage in the lead role and is largely faithful to the 1970s comic version of Ghost Rider. Sam Elliott also stars as the circa 1800s era Ghost Rider which is a very different take on the comic book version. How did the movie hold up? Join Karl as he looks back at Ghost Rider (2007). Read More.
Article & Podcast: (06-27-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Continuing the continuity of the previous Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh gets the biggest role of his career thus far as Superman in Superman Returns. Ignoring Superman III and Superman IV, this movie re-imagines post Superman II continuity with Superman flying off into space for a few years only to return to a world that has moved on without him. Kevin Spacey replaces Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor and is up to another real estate scheme. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (06-13-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) The final Christopher Reeve Superman movie features Superman trying to save the world from nuclear weapons and the super powered Nuclear Man. This movie failed on just about every level and the Wikipedia entry calls it one of the worst movies ever made. I wouldn't go that far but this movie just did not work. Join When It Was Cool as we take a look at Superman trying to save the world from itself, Nuclear Man, and then just straight up admitting defeat in our review of Superman IV - The Quest for Peace. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (06-06-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) The hits just keep on coming for the Superman movie franchise starring Christopher Reeve. This time the directors just give up and decide to make a Richard Pryor comedy instead during which Superman shows up, turns mean, and fights himself. This movie is something else and people seem to utterly hate Superman III. Here is what When It Was Cool thought about it. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (05-30-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) As established with my review of Superman (1978) I am not a fan of these movies and the Richard Donner cut only furthered my disdain for them. I know some people hold these films up as nostalgic symbols of their childhood but I didn't like these films when I was a kid and I like them less now. In fact, I liked Superman II the best of them all until I watched the Richard Donner cut for the first time and... oh boy. Here we go. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (05-23-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) I'm probably going to lose friends over this one. Superman (1978) is one of the most beloved movies in superhero fandom and Christopher Reeve certainly deserves the accolades. But I hate this movie. I hate everything about this that isn't Christopher Reeve. I recently re-watched it again for the first time in many years and here are my thoughts on Superman (1978). Your mileage may vary. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (05-16-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) In 1977 Marvel Comics brought Spider-Man to live action for the first time. Well... not the first time if you count the Electric Company on PBS but you get the picture. I had no idea that this ended up being a TV series that ran TWO seasons! My childhood memory wanted this to be a couple TV specials and I remember them not being very good. Well, the TV pilot wasn't as bad as I remembered. It wasn't good but it wasn't horrible. More like just boring while soaked in 1970s. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (05-09-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) was a made for TV movie featuring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno as David Banner and the Incredible Hulk. One year after their return to television special, NBC brought the duo together again to team them with Rex Smith as the Daredevil to take on Wilson Fisk and his criminal empire. Karl from When It Was Cool takes a look back at this fun made for TV adventure movie. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (05-07-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) One of the biggest and most epic superhero movies in history is Avengers: Infinity War. There was a literal ten year build up to this movie and it did not disappoint with a huge cast of superhero characters including Captain America, Spider-Man, Thor, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, Dr. Strange, Iron Man, The Hulk, and over a dozen more. Karl and Tonya from When It Was Cool give you this spoiler free article review then, if you want to dive deeper into spoiler territory, there is a downloadable podcast to give you even more! Read more.
Article & Podcast: (05-02-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) was a made for TV movie featuring the return of Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno as David Banner and the Incredible Hulk after being gone from television for several seasons and features the first ever live action appearance of Thor! Karl from When It Was Cool takes a look back at this fun made for TV adventure movie. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (04-25-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) The Green Hornet (1940) was a 13 part film serial edited into a two hour movie. The Green Hornet is part of the George W. Trendle universe and, in that continuity, is the great nephew of the Lone Ranger. He is accompanied by martial arts expert and genius inventor sidekick Kato. In this article and podcast special, Karl from When It Was Cool takes a look at The Green Hornet (1940) Read More.
Article & Podcast: (04-18-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Superman and the Mole Men was a pilot, or trial balloon as they called them back in the day, series which debuted George Reeves as Superman. George Reeves became a beloved Superman to an entire generation of fans through the Adventures of Superman television series. However, Superman and the Mole Men left a lot to be desired with it's too serious attitude and ham-fisted moral message and lack of action. Karl from When It Was Cool tells us all about Superman and the Mole Men (1951). Read More.
Article & Podcast: (04-10-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Captain America II: Death Too Soon was the sequel to Captain America, a made for TV movie special that aired in 1979. It was also the last time we would see the Reb Brown TV version of Captain America. This was actually a pretty good movie and, aside from the kind of goofy costuming, held up as well as other 1970s action adventure properties. Join Karl from When It Was Cool as he looks back at this television special from 1979. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (04-04-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Captain America was the first of two made for TV specials that aired in 1979 featuring the Marvel Comic books character Captain America starring Reb Brown in the lead role. Coming on the heels of the successful The Incredible Hulk television series, Captain America failed to launch into a full fledged television series but the TV pilot holds up better than you might remember. Join Karl from When It Was Cool as he looks back at this television special from 1979. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (03-28-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Legends of the Superheroes was just terrible. Two Legends of the Superheroes specials aired in 1979 just a few days apart. This review looks at the second one "The Roast". It reunited two members of the 1960s Batman cast- Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin) but Frank Gorshin (Riddler) who appeared in part one decided to sit this one out, along with several new heroes and villains- Hawkman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Captain Marvel, Huntress, Black Canary, The Atom, Dr. Sivana, Sinestro, Solomon Grundy, the Weather Wizard, and others. As awesome as that may sound... it wasn't. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (03-21-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) There's no good way of saying this. As bad as I wanted this to be good, or at least entertaining, Legends of the Superheroes was just terrible. Two Legends of the Superheroes specials aired in 1979 just a few days apart. This review looks at the first one "The Challenge". It reunited three members of the 1960s Batman cast- Adam West (Batman), Burt Ward (Robin), and Frank Gorshin (Riddler), along with several new heroes and villains- Hawkman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Captain Marvel, Huntress, Black Canary, Dr. Sivana, Sinestro, Solomon Grundy, the Weather Wizard, and others. As awesome as that may sound... it wasn't. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (03-14-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Join When It Was Cool editor Karl Stern with his look back at the 1950 Columbia serialized film adventure Atom Man vs. Superman! This 15 part serial series was a sequel to the 1948 Superman series and features Lex Luthor as the lead villain masquerading under a mask as the Atom Man while trying to destroy Metropolis. A fun filled adventures series. Read more.
Article: (03-10-2018) Karl from When It Was Cool takes a look at one of the most iconic characters in comics - Captain Marvel (Shazam). Now with his own movie, Shazam is more in the pop culture spotlight than he has been in decades. In this article we take a look at the various incarnations and live action appearances of one of the earliest and greatest superheroes- Captain Marvel - Shazam! Read More.
Article & Podcast: (03-07-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Join When It Was Cool editor Karl Stern with this look back at the 1948 Columbia serialized film adventure Superman! This 15 part serial series featured the first live action appearance of Superman and includes his origins, the origin of Kryptonite, and his battle against the mysterious Spider Lady. A fun, action packed, movie serial. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (02-21-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Join When It Was Cool editor Karl Stern with this look back at the 1944 Republic serialized film adventure Captain America! This 15 part serial series used a man in a Captain America costume playing a character with essentially none of the elements of the Marvel Comics character. The lead actor even died a few weeks after filming from a heart attack after being cast slightly overweight to play Captain America. If it sounds like this serial is horrible, surprisingly, it isn't. It also isn't really Captain America either. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (02-14-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) Join When It Was Cool with this look back at the 1949 follow-up to The Batman titled simply Batman and Robin. Released as a 15 part serial series in 1949 this Batman adventure featured all new actors, better stories, and significantly worse costuming. This Columbia Pictures feature met with great success at the time and we take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly costumes of this great old-timey classic. Read More.
Article & Podcast: (02-07-2018) (Zones: Comic Books) You win some and you lose some. Unfortunately, the 1943 Columbia movie serial The Batman is a real loser. From terrible casting to overt in-your-face propagandized racism, there is little to love about the first appearance of the Batman on film. Join When It Was Cool editor Karl Stern as he takes a look back in this free article (accompanied by a Patreon exclusive audio podcast) at the first time Batman appeared on film and what happened next! Read More.
When It Was Cool Asks the Hard Questions: Superman - Red Shorts or No Shorts?
The comic book and movie community is divided. The world is at war. The hard question must be asked: Do you prefer your Superman with or without red shorts? Yeah, it's not the most pressing question in the world but fans seem genuinely divided over Superman's shorts. In this article, When It Was Cool editor Karl Stern talks about why it both does and does not matter. Read More.
When It Was Cool takes a look back at one of the most critically acclaimed serialized features from the golden era of movies; Republic films Adventures of Captain Marvel (Shazam) starring Tom Tyler and Frank Coghlan, Jr. This serial is perfectly cast and holds up much better than most of the old movie serials do. Find out all about the series and what happened to the two main stars as we take a look back at the Adventures of Captain Marvel. Be sure to download the podcast review special as well! Read More.
When It Was Cool has crunched the numbers using dozens of Best of Comics, Greatest Comic Books, and Must Read Comic Book Stories lists. We have polled the visitors to When It Was Cool and these are the 100 Greatest Comic Book Single Issues, Comic Book Runs, and Graphic Novels of all time! Where did your favorite comic book or comic book story rank on the top 100 comics of all time list? Check it out! Read More.
When It Was Cool takes a look back at the 1970s Marvel Comic book series Werewolf by Night which, not only brought the classic Wolfman / Werewolf into the Marvel Universe but introduced us to other new and interesting characters like Moon Knight. #MonsterMonth continues with a look back at this frightening Marvel Comic book series- Werewolf by Night! Read More.
When It Was Cool takes a look back at the dark 1970s Marvel Comic book series The Tomb of Dracula which, not only brought the classic Vampire into the Marvel Universe but introduced us to other new and interesting characters like Blade the Vampire Slayer. #MonsterMonth continues with a look back at this macabre Marvel Comic book series- The Tomb of Dracula! Read More.
Joseph Perry is back with another great comic book review. This time he takes a look at The Twilight Zone from Gold Key Comics and review two issues of The Twilight Zone television show comic book spin-off. Read More.
He is a character so unlikable that he was portrayed as being hated by G.I. Joe and Cobra alike! Writers and artist went to great lengths to make him completely hateable with no redeeming qualities because drugs are bad... m'kay? Join us on a detailed look at the G.I. Joe enemy- The Headman. Read more.
Karl Stern from When It Was Cool takes a look at some superheroes he really wants to like but hasn't found a great story about them. This article also contains a free When It Was Cool podcast special you can stream or download. From Ant-Man to the X-Men here are some comic book characters we really want to like! Read More.
Joseph Perry is back to take a look at this 1960's comic book adaptation of the popular The Outer Limits television show which showcases the great art of Jack Sparling. Comic books from back when it was cool. Read More.
Two years ago Marvel Comics had momentum and ate up a giant slice of the comic book distribution pie. Now, there is a steady stream of negative Marvel Comics stories from their controversial diversity comments to the handling of Captain America. So, what is the trouble with Marvel and why don't they see the point? Read More.
The When It Was Cool family reads the Marvel 616 Universe in chronological order starting with the November 1961 Fantastic Four issue 1 in which the team comes together to face the Mole Man. This podcast series is a Patreon supporter exclusive but issue 1 is free for everyone.
The When It Was Cool family is reading the Marvel 616 universe in chronological order. Along the way we will make discoveries. The first of those is that Reed Richards is not, in fact, the smartest man in the Marvel Comics universe but he is actually an idiot. Read More.
Karl from When It Was Cool takes a look at one of the most iconic characters in comics - Thor! Read More.
Karl from When It Was Cool takes a look at the visually striking DC Comics character - the Red Tornado! Read More.
Karl from When It Was Cool takes a look at one of Marvel Comics most mis-understood and under appreciated characters - Moon Knight! Read More.
Joseph Perry takes a look at this wonderful comic book adaptation of King Kong. Read More.
When It Was Cool takes a look back at the iconic Batman solo title debut from 1940 featuring two Joker stories and an early peak at Catwoman, plus Robin the boy wonder. Batman issue 1 shows us a very different Batman than the one in the modern age, one who kills. We also get the origin of Bruce Wayne and his transformation into the Batman told for the first time in comics. Read More.
Joseph Perry takes a look at the classic Gold Key comic book series UFO Flying Saucers. Read More.
When It Was Cool reviews the 1963 issue of The Avengers Issue 10 featuring Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Giant Man, and Wasp. Read More.
When It Was Cool went to see the new Marvel Studio's movie Dr. Strange and here are some spoiler free thoughts about it. Read More.
When It Was Cool reviews the latest KISS comic book series by Dynamite Comics. Read More.
When It Was Cool reviews the ensemble IDW special event comic featuring G.I. Joe, Transformers, M.A.S.K., Micronauts, and others. Read More.
When It Was Cool reviews the classic return of Captain America in The Avengers issue 4. Read More.
Karl Stern reviews the 2016 event limited series Death of Hawkman Issue 1 by DC Comics. Read More.
Karl Stern reviews the 2016 event limited series Death of X Issue 1 by Marvel Comics. Read More.
Karl Stern reviews the 1952 Atlas comic Astonishing that probably doesn't go where you would expect it to. The 1950's were a different time folks. Read More.
Phil Nourse reviews his experience at the Marvel Universe Live event at London's O2 arena. Read the article.
Karl Stern takes a look at the mess of a mini-series Marvel has gotten themselves into. It's a fight between two sides over something or other. Read the article.
Karl Stern takes a look at a classic Golden Age comic book All Star Comics featuring the Justice Society verses Brain Wave from World War 2 era. Read the article. | 2019-04-20T21:16:49 | http://www.whenitwascool.com/comics/ |
0.999349 | Does Air New Zealand have online check-in?
Yes, online check-in is open 24 hours before your scheduled departure. It closes 30 minutes before departure for domestic New Zealand flights and 90 minutes before departure for international flights. Click here for more information and to check-in online.
Does Air New Zealand have mobile check-in?
Yes, you can check in via the website on your web-enabled phone or through the Air NZ Mobile app. However, you cannot use an electronic boarding pass at the airport- you must print out your boarding pass. Click here for more information.
If I am traveling within New Zealand, how much time should I allot at the airport?
Air New Zealand requires that you are checked in at least 30 minutes before your flight's departure time. If you have special needs (ie. traveling with a pet) you should allow at least 45 minutes at the airport.
If I am traveling within New Zealand to an international connection, how much time should I allot at the airport?
Air New Zealand recommends that you are checked in 45 minutes before your flight's departure time. For flights departing out of the following airports, you will be required to check in 60 minutes before your flight: Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch.
If I am traveling internationally, how much time should I allot at the airport?
Air New Zealand recommends arriving at the airport at least 2 hours before your flight's departure time. From flights to/from the U.S. departing from the following airports, Air New Zealand recommends arriving 3 hours before scheduled departure: Auckland, Nadi, London, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Apia and Tonga. | 2019-04-18T13:18:31 | https://seatguru.com/airlines/Air_New_Zealand/checkin.php |
0.99754 | A notorious bank robber with a 30-year record of nearly 200 violent crimes that led to the rare imposition of a life sentence may have escaped from a federal prison in British Columbia. West Shore RCMP have issued a release indicating that they’re at William Head Institution, a minimum-security facility on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The Mounties say that Michiel Gordon Hollinger, 61, is unaccounted for. “Police are currently assisting the institution in locating an inmate inside their facility,” the RCMP says, in a release. “It is unknown at this time whether this inmate has left the grounds of the facility.” Hollinger may be relatively unknown in B.C., but he’s notorious in Ontario, where he committed many of his violent robberies. He wrote a book about his exploits, boasting that he’d rather be “wanted than had.” Back then, he was known as Mitchell McArthur, before he changed his name.
(SECOND UPDATE): On October 8 the RCMP charged McArthur (Hollinger) with escaping lawful custody.
(THIRD UPDATE): In January, 2014, prosecutors dropped the escape charge, believing there was little chance of conviction. | 2019-04-24T10:40:48 | https://www.cancrime.com/tag/robbery/ |
0.999056 | sudan-forall.org :: اطلع على الموضوع - من أفضل ما قرأتُ في "الظاهرة التِرَمْبية" sudan-forall.org :: اطلع على الموضوع - من أفضل ما قرأتُ في "الظاهرة التِرَمْبية"
من أفضل ما قرأتُ في "الظاهرة التِرَمْبية"
ارسل: الخميس اكتوبر 13, 2016 7:58 am موضوع الرسالة: من أفضل ما قرأتُ في "الظاهرة التِرَمْبية"
"حَصْرُ التركيز في أهوال الرجل [= دونالد ترمب] يعني تغييب الصورة الأكبر، التي ربما هي الأكثر اقلاقاً".
نشر موقع "المُحادَثة" The Conversation الأسترالي الرصين مقالاً بعنوان: "بعد تِرَمْب عام 2016، هل سيستمع الليبراليون؟ (شَغَفُ توماس فرانك)" يعرض فيه كاتبه، البروفيسر المساعد للفلسفة في جامعة دِيكِنْ الأسترالية، ماثيو شارب، تقصِّي المؤرِّخ، المحلِّل السياسي والصحفي الأميركي توماس فرانك لجذور الظهور الكاسح (المفاجئ؟) للمرشَّح الراهن للحزب الجمهوري الأميركي للرئاسة، دونالد تِرَمْب؛ حيث يرى فرانك - من بين ما يرى - أن للسياسات الاقتصادية للحزب الديموقراطي الأميركي دوراً كبيراً في هذا الظهور.
Donald Trump, we know, has promised to “Make America Great Again”. (#MAGA) It is almost the one message he has consistently held to.
The problem is that Trump is almost completely unlike the selfless heroes portrayed on film by Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant in America’s post-war boom. This tycoon-come-Reality TV-star-come-populist is more like a garish parody of the villains in the golden age’s noir classics: their fortunes bound up with fast money and underhand business, with strong hints of thuggish violence and sexual scandal.
It is little wonder then that the 2016 US election campaign has taken our commercial media’s fixation on the politics of personality to a whole new level.
In any other campaign, Hilary Clinton’s historic run to be the first female American President would have been the story. Yet watching Trump fulminate and free associate has all the unnerving fascination of witnessing a moral car crash.
Mr Trump sometimes seems intent on ‘outing’ completely the darker underside of the culture wars against ‘political correctness’ that neoconservative forces have waged around the world for three decades.
He embodies in technicolor daylight that ugly point wherein fraught appeals to traditional values give way to unregenerate chauvinism; high-strung invocations of ‘Western civilization’ fold into xenophobia, a courting of the far Right, and simplistic misrepresentations of history and other cultures; where warrantless wealth feeds the crassest sensationalism; and where protecting ‘our way of life’ turns into open scorn for constitutionalism and the rule of law.
Trump is, in short, the living embodiment of the worst fears of anyone with the least sympathy for the cultural changes that have transformed societies like Australia and the US since the Second World War.
Yet the near-wall-to-wall media coverage of Trump the man, his viral tweets and virulent soundbites has often crowded out analyses of the substantial economic and political, domestic and foreign policy issues of election 2016.
Thankfully, as I write this, Trumpism looks like a political phenomenon with more like four weeks than four years to run its course. Leading Republicans are again jumping ship. The polls are going under. Yet no amount of outrage at Trump’s odium can address the questions the popular success of such a figure raises about the “State of the Union” in the second decade of the new millennium.
What social and economic realities, after all, could have so polarised the American electorate? Why have millions of ordinary Americans deserted more moderate, mainstream candidates? Why do they seem attracted (precisely) to Mr Trump’s willingness to outrageously flaunt “establishment” conventions and bait the mainstream media?
And to what extent do continuing depictions of Trump supporters in much of this media as uneducated troglodytes, if not immoral bigots, reflect and ratchet up—rather than register and respond to—the profound social divisions that made the man a Presidential possibility in the first place?
There are nearly as many opinions on the crisis of the Republic as there are pundits who have tried their hands at writing on it.
Arguably one of the most consistently insightful, independent commentators on American life over the last few decades, however, is Thomas Frank. Frank has an uncanny sense for the key issues of the day. He has a razor sharp wit which consistently pits outraged common sense against a sometimes uncommonly counter-sensical political universe. He almost always contests and reframes staid opinions in ways that make you think.
1997’s Conquest of Cool already undercuts many of the dug-in trenchlines of our culture warriors. Frank documents here, ad hilarium, how the leading motifs of the postmodern counterculture (individuality, difference, change, cynical reflexivity …), far from challenging the New Economy, have since the 1960s been seamlessly integrated into marketing, the engine room of consumerist capitalism.
In the Bush era, works led by What’s the Matter with Kansas? (2004) saw this postmodern Voltaire turning his attention to the (veritably) theological mysteries explaining why many of the same middle Americans rendered redundant, literally, in the Clinton-era “booms” were turning in droves against the Democrats, America’s traditional “party of the people”, and towards the GOP.
The answer, as Frank phrases things, is “backlash”. This involves “a crusade in which one’s material interests are suspended in favour of vague cultural grievances that are all-important and yet incapable of ever being assuaged”. The crusade is stoked and steered by an outraged conservative commentariat in unending holy war on “liberal” (as against economic) elites.
And, to return to our subject, it is this same “backlash” that Frank sees underlying the unheralded successes of one Donald J. Trump in 2015-2016. Nevertheless, in the bitter irony at the heart of his latest book Listen, Liberal! Or Whatever Happened to the Party of the People, Frank argues that it is the Clintons’-era Democrats, alongside the presently-Trumped Republicans, who are responsible for making something like Trumpism inevitable.
In such a perspective, the present Republican candidate’s brazen brutishness withdraws from the limelight. Mercifully. But the larger stakes of election 2016 are thrown into very different relief.
So, why does Frank, this self-confessed Left liberal, blame the Democrats, of all people, and at such a time?
Frank knows very well that a newer brand of Democrats, ascendant since the 1990s, will reply that this is just the point. The Party of the People has gone “metro” for a new millennium. Sanders was stuck in “retro” dreams of the redistributive amelioration of inequality, the refurnishing of the safety net, a viable manufacturing sector, and reregulating the financial elites.
But it is just this Democrats’ abandonment of social democracy, and its unintended consequences, that Frank wonders about. Listen Liberal! does little else than wonder about it.
How could it have been that Bill Clinton, that celebrated (if very personally flawed) Democrat, was the President who, having come to power promising relief for middle Americans, instead heroically prioritised reducing the deficit to placate the big end of town?
How could it have been a Democratic government, over the protests of their traditional base in organised labour, that locked down the North American Trade Agreement in 1993?
How could it have been this same Democratic President that in 1994 introduced mass incarceration, built masses of new prisons, proposed the three-strikes rule and the 100:1 sentencing disparity between crack-and-powdered cocaine, leading to mass incarceration of black addicts with no other criminal record?
How could it have been a Democrat President who got tough on welfare moms and repealed the New Deal era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Act in 1996? And who deregulated Interstate banking in 1994, telecommunications in 1996, and cut capital gains tax in 1997? And who was negotiating with Newt Gingrich for significant further privatisations of Social Security before the Lewinky scandal bit …?
By what political alchemy could it have been, finally, this same Democratic President who repealed the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that separated commercial from investment banking since the Great Depression?
This action, the world knows, paved the way to the proliferation of funny finance and mass indebtedness that by 2008 had landed America and the world in a new-style Great Recession that it has yet to completely emerge from.
What could a “Party of the People” who by 2000 had thus courted, and begun to successfully win over Wall Street, think that Main Street would make of all this, when life and statistics continue to confirm that the promised “trickle down” has failed to do more than eke away the American middle classes?
And what did the “POP” think that millions of middle Americans would make of the Obama administration’s failure to deliver on its promises to significantly reign in and prosecute those responsible for the GFC, after handing the banks a $16.8 trillion dollar bailout in a period in which income inequality continues to zero-in on 1930s-style numbers?
To ask these questions, Frank proposes, is to have come a long way to understanding how millions of American blue collar workers—the traditional constituency of the Democrats—could have flocked to a Donald Trump in 2015-‘16.
To focus exclusively on the horrors of the man is to miss this bigger, perhaps even more unsettling picture.
Such thought, in any case, explain why Frank was left confessing after the Republican Convention in late July that Trump et al’s speeches were almost more than his simple liberal brain could handle.
For, beyond Trump’s own noir-style depictions of civilizational decay, Frank—unlike most other commentators, predictably—noticed that Trump was making clear overtures to the the young and working class voters Bernie Sanders had assembled against Hillary.
Donald Trump’s many overtures to supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders were just the beginning. He also deliberately echoed the language of Franklin Roosevelt, he denounced “big business” (not once but several times), and certain of his less bloodthirsty foreign policy proposals almost remind one of George McGovern’s campaign theme: “Come home, America.” Ivanka Trump promised something that sounded like universal day care. Peter Thiel denounced the culture wars as a fraud and a distraction. The Republican platform was altered to include a plank calling for the breakup of big banks via the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall. I didn’t hear anyone talk about the need to bring “entitlements” under control. And most crucially, the party’s maximum leader has adopted the left critique of “free trade” almost in its entirety, a critique that I have spent much of my adult life making.
How real Trump’s pseudo-social democratic promises could be, given his tax proposals, and how compelling attacks on the big end of town could be in the mouth of a billionaire is not the issue.
The issue is that such proposals could be pitched at all in 2016 by a Republican candidate, alongside the most belligerent and regressive cultural politics imaginable, as a means to win the one-time base of the Democrats.
Frank himself, only two weeks after the Republican convention, had changed his tune. During that time, Trump had insulted the family of an American-Moslem war veteran, dropped hints that gun enthusiasts might take things into their own hands when it came to defeating Hillary Clinton, and taken a dive in the polls.
Frank’s fear that Trump might actually win in 2016, also, had morphed into something different. With Clinton likely to win in a landslide, and the Republicans looking set to implode, Frank now worried that the new-style Democrats would have no need any time soon to address their Trump-breeding abandonment of American workers, outside of the urban, high-tech-savvy professional classes.
My friends and I like to wonder about who will be the “next Bernie Sanders”, but what I am suggesting here is that whoever emerges to lead the populist left will simply be depicted as the next Trump. The billionaire’s scowling country-club face will become the image of populist reform, whether genuine populists had anything to do with him or not. This is the real potential disaster of 2016: that legitimate economic discontent is going to be dismissed as bigotry and xenophobia for years to come.
And meanwhile, the deep economic and social causes that have fuelled so much alienation, anger and hatred in the “City on the Hill” will not go away, when Donald Trump leaves its centre stage.
الكتابة المباشرة العفوية وفى ذات الوقت محددة وعميقة.
وانا فى حياتى لم ارى سوء وعفن الرأسمالية (اسف) مثلما تجلى فى هذه الانتخابات التى نشهدها حية هنا.. والمشكلة ليست ترامب، ولكن فى زعماء حزبه الجمهورى الذين وضعهم فى جيبه، وهم يعلمون منذ البداية انه غير جدير وغير مؤهل لهذا المنصب.. ولكن اخرصهم المال حين اقلهم مؤهل 100 مرة اكثر من ترامب ولهم خبرة عملية فى السياسة والحكم.. بل ان نائبه اكثر خبرة منه فى الحكم والسياسة.
غايتو لو فاز سنشد الرحال.. لوين ما عارف.
شكراً على المرور، التوقُّف عند هذا المقال والتعقيب.
ربما كان للهيئة التي ظهر بها المقال هنا - أمس - دورٌ في جلب الملل لروحك عند الاطِّلاع؛ إذ أن هيئته اختلفت قليلاً عن هيئته في المصدر الأصلي. وأنا أعتذر عن أنني لم أكن دقيقاً بما يكفي لأجتهد في نقلها لحظة نقلي للمقال، بسبب العجلة الناجمة عن ضيق الوقت، لا الإهمال. ولقد قمت قبل قليل بتغيير الهيئة لتبدو كما كانت قد ظهرت في المصدر الأصلي، بما في ذلك المساحات ونمط الخط في بعض الفقرات.
أما بشأن رأيك في أن المشكلة ليست ترامب، ولكن فى زعماء حزبه الجمهوري الذين وضعهم فى جيبه، وهم يعلمون منذ البداية انه غير جدير وغير مؤهل لهذا المنصب.. ولكن اخرصهم المال حين اقلهم مؤهل 100 مرة اكثر من ترامب ولهم خبرة عملية فى السياسة والحكم، فأنا أرى أن هذا صحيح - ولكن من جهة أن هذا أحد مظاهر - ونتائج - المشكلة. فالمشكلة تلبد، في تقديري، في الجذور المفهومية والعملية للسياسة الأميركية التقليدية السائدة كما تتمظهر في رؤى وممارسة الحزبين المهيمنين في الولايات المتحدة. وهذا ما ذهب إليه - إلى حد ما - توماس فرانك بتوضيحه مساهمة الحزب المنافس - أي الحزب الديموقراطي - في ظهور دونالد ترمب. غير أنني أرى أيضاً أن رؤية فرانك جاءت محكومة بالسقف (الآيديولوجي؟) الفكري-السياسي الأميركي السائد. فما ينقص تحليل فرانك، في نظري، هو الإجابة على أسئلة من شاكلة: "ولكن ما هي جذور السياسات الاقتصادية السلبية التي جعلت الحزب الديموقراطي يقدِّمها ويمارسها"؟ و"هل كانت - وما تزال - الحساسية الطبقية للحزب الديموقراطي تسمح له بغير إتِّخاذ وتبنِّي سياسات اقتصادية لا تضع في اعتبارها المصالح البنيوية للطبقة العاملة - بل وللطبقة المتوسِّطة إلى حد كبير"؟ وهذا ما يعيبه فرانك على الحزب الديموقراطي (أو أن تحقيق هذا هو ما يشغف به أو يتطلع إليه).
في تقديري، الإجابة على مثل هذين السؤالين - وأسئلة أخرى ذات علاقة بهما - ستمكِّننا من الإجابة - على نحوٍ أعمق - على أسئلة من شاكلة: "هل الحزب الديموقراطي مثيلٌ أم نقيضٌ للحزب الجمهوري في الولايات المتحدة (وفي عددٍ من سياقاتِ ثنائياتٍ حزبية في دولٍ غربية أخرى) ولماذا؟"
شكراً جزيلاً يا إبراهيم على إتاحة هذا المقال لنا. إنه عرْضٌ غنيٌّ، حافلُ بالمعلومات المفيدة، بل المعينة على تعميق النظر...وهذا (أيضاً) "من أفضل ما قرأت عن التِرَمْبيَّة".
شكراً يا إبراهيم على هذه المواصلة الغنية.
The media got it wrong. The public pollsters got it wrong, so did the private ones. The Democratic Party got wrong. The Republican Party was wrong too. Five living presidents got it wrong. The betting markets got it wrong. The markets got it wrong. By many accounts even President-elect Donald Trump got it wrong.
One man got it spectacularly right, predicting not only that Clinton would lose, but where she would lose, among which voters she would lose, and why: the left wing documentary maker Michael Moore.
In a post on his blog that is undated, but published well before the election, he wrote, "I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president. And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald J. Trump is going to win in November."
This morning Moore has written a five point plan for the Democratic Party's response.
"This wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president. President Trump. Go ahead and say the words, 'cause you'll be saying them for the next four years: 'PRESIDENT TRUMP.'"
Moore's thesis, which he laid out in detail and which has now proved to be spectacularly correct, was that Donald Trump would win four rustbelt states that Democrats believed they could not lose.
"And this is where the math comes in. In 2012, Mitt Romney lost by 64 electoral votes," wrote Moore. "Add up the electoral votes cast by Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It's 64. All Trump needs to do to win is to carry, as he's expected to do, the swath of traditional red states from Idaho to Georgia (states that'll never vote for Hillary Clinton), and then he just needs these four rust belt states. He doesn't need Florida. He doesn't need Colorado or Virginia. Just Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And that will put him over the top. This is how it will happen in November."
He argued that men, spooked that "a male-dominated, 240-year run of the USA is coming to an end" would be driven to the polls to keep a woman out of office, and that white men, already embittered by eight years of an Obama presidency, would turn out to block her rise. He speculated that Bernie Sanders supporters would not turn out to support Clinton once she won the primary, and he was right about that too.
People simply would not trust her.
He argued that in a nation that had already elected the wrestler Jesse Ventura to high office, there might be a thick streak of closet anarchism who would vent their frustration once behind the curtain of a polling booth.
"It's one of the few places left in society where there are no security cameras, no listening devices, no spouses, no kids, no boss, no cops, there's not even a friggin' time limit," wrote Moore.
"You can take as long as you need in there and no one can make you do anything. You can push the button and vote a straight party line, or you can write in Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. There are no rules. And because of that, and the anger that so many have toward a broken political system, millions are going to vote for Trump not because they agree with him, not because they like his bigotry or ego, but just because they can."
Moore even laid out his theory in detail in an interview with Bill Maher nearly six months ago.
It begins, unsurprisingly, with a call for a populist movement to take over the Democratic Party, then to fire the pollsters, pundits and media figures who got this election so wrong.
Shortly after the Presidential election, a small piece of good news came over the wire: the Thomas Mann villa in Los Angeles has been saved. The house, which was built to Mann’s specifications, in the nineteen-forties, went on the market earlier this year, and it seemed likely to be demolished, because the structure was deemed less valuable than the land beneath it. After prolonged negotiations, the German government bought the property, with the idea of establishing it as a cultural center.
The house deserves to stand not only because a great writer lived there but because it brings to mind a tragic moment in American cultural history. The author of “Death in Venice” and “The Magic Mountain” settled in this country in 1938, a grateful refugee from Nazism. He became a citizen and extolled American ideals. By 1952, though, he had become convinced that McCarthyism was a prelude to fascism, and felt compelled to emigrate again. At the time of the House Un-American Activities Committee’s hearings on Communism in Hollywood, Mann said, “Spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged ‘state of emergency.’ . . . That is how it started in Germany.” The tearing down of Mann’s “magic villa” would have been a cold epilogue to a melancholy tale.
Mann, who had consulted Adorno while writing his musical novel “Doctor Faustus,” was reading “Minima Moralia” as he contemplated his departure from America. He compared the book’s aphoristic style to the “enormously strong gravitational force-field” of a super-compact celestial body. Possibly, it exerted a pull on his decision to go into exile again. A few months later, on the eve of leaving, Mann wrote to Adorno, “The way things are developing is already clear. And we have rather gone beyond Brüning.” Heinrich Brüning was the Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932.
I spoke too soon. His moment of vindication is arriving now. With the election of Donald Trump, the latent threat of American authoritarianism is on the verge of being realized, its characteristics already mapped by latter-day sociologists who have updated Adorno’s “F-scale” for fascist tendencies. To read “Prophets of Deceit” is to see clear anticipations of Trump’s bigoted harangues. (The script in 1949: “We are coming to the crossroads where we must decide whether we are going to preserve law and order and decency or whether we are going to be sold down the river to these Red traitors who are undermining America.”) As early as the forties, Adorno saw American life as a kind of reality show: “Men are reduced to walk-on parts in a monster documentary film which has no spectators, since the least of them has his bit to do on the screen.” Now a businessman turned reality-show star has been elected President. Like it or not, Trump is as much a pop-culture phenomenon as he is a political one.
What Adorno identified as the erasure of the “borderline between culture and empirical reality” is endemic on social media. The failure of Facebook to halt the proliferation of fake news during the campaign season should have surprised no one; the local hirelings of logic are too enamored of their algorithms—and of the revenue they generate—to intervene. From the start, Silicon Valley monopolies have taken a hands-off, ideologically vacant attitude toward the upwelling of ugliness on the Internet. A defining moment was the turn-of-the-century wave of music piracy, which did lasting damage to the idea of intellectual property. Fake news is an extension of the same phenomenon, and, as in the Napster era, no one is taking responsibility. Traffic trumps ethics.
Traditional media outlets exhibited the same value-free mentality, pumping out Trump stories and airing his rallies because they got hits and high ratings. At some point over the summer, it struck me that the greater part of the media wanted Trump to be elected, consciously or unconsciously. He would be more “interesting” than Hillary Clinton; he would “pop.” That suspicion was confirmed the other day, when a CNN executive, boasting of his network’s billion-dollar profit in 2016, spoke of “a general fascination that wouldn’t be the same as under a Clinton Administration.” Of the clouds and shadows that hung over Clinton in the press, the darkest, perhaps, was the prospect of boredom. Among voters, a kind of nihilistic glee may have been as much a factor in Trump’s election as economic dissatisfaction or racial resentment. The mechanism by which people support a political program “largely incompatible with their own rational self-interest,” as Adorno wrote, requires many kinds of deception.
So here we are, living in what feels like an excessively on-the-nose novel by Don DeLillo, in which a President-elect tweets of his cabinet-selection process, “I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!” One all-too-schematic plot twist is the revelation that Richard Spencer—the white supremacist whose phrase “alt-right” was adopted by Trump’s strategist, Steve Bannon—wrote a master’s thesis on the topic of none other than Theodor W. Adorno, arguing that Wagner’s anti-Semitism prevented Adorno from coming to terms with his love for Wagner’s music. The Department of Hitler Studies, from DeLillo’s “White Noise,” is moving to D.C.
When the purchase of the Mann house was announced, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister and likely its next President, declared, “In stormy times like these, we need more than ever cultural anchor points with our most important partner outside of Europe.” Steinmeier was implying that the villa could become an outpost of cosmopolitan thinking as nativism overtakes both America and Europe.
The ironic reversal of roles hardly needs to be noted. However the Trump Presidency turns out—whether it veers toward autocracy, devolves into kleptocracy, or takes some unheard-of new form—America has, for the time being, abdicated the role of the world’s moral leader, to the extent that it ever played that part convincingly. “Make America Great Again” is one of Trump’s many linguistic contortions: in fact, one of his core messages is that America should no longer bother with being great, that it should retreat from international commitments, that it should make itself small and mean.
Germany, on the other hand, increasingly appears to be the strongest remaining bastion of liberal democracy. With the United Kingdom mired in the aftermath of Brexit, France facing a possible hard-right swerve, and Italy in disarray, the country that long stood as a synonym for nationalist insanity has so far resisted political and cultural regression. Tellingly, it has rejected the libertarian code of the big Silicon Valley companies, with their disdain for privacy, copyright, and limitations on hate speech. On the day after the American election, which happened to be the seventy-eighth anniversary of Kristallnacht, a neo-Nazi group posted a map of Jewish businesses in Berlin, titled “Jews Among Us.” Facebook initially refused to take down the post, but an outcry in the media and among lawmakers prompted its deletion. Such episodes suggest that Germans are less likely to acquiesce to the forces that have ravaged the American public sphere.
The defeat of the Freedom Party candidate in the Austrian Presidential election is a hopeful sign: perhaps the German-speaking countries can remind the rest of the world of the darkness of their former path. Still, the far right is creeping forward in Germany, as it is all over Europe. No coming political race will be as tensely watched as Angela Merkel’s run next year for reëlection as Chancellor. The ultimate fear isn’t of the second coming of Hitler: history never repeats itself so obviously, and a sense of shame over the Nazi past remains pervasive in all corners of German life. No, the fear is that the present antidemocratic wave may prove too strong even for Germany—the only country in the history of the world that ever learned from its mistakes. | 2019-04-18T13:08:57 | http://sudan-forall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=77312 |
0.999874 | Toy guns for kids are very popular, especially for young boys. In recent years there have been some calls to ban guns for children, because it is thought that they might encourage violent behavior later on in life. However most people still believe that toy guns are a fun and a natural part of a male child's playing life. These guns are popular with boys and some girls as young as four years old, the fascination with these replica weapons can last well into the teens.
The history of toy guns can be traced back to the civil war after1865, although there were probably some options available before this. When the civil war was over, manufacturers of real weapons suddenly lost all demand for their products. They began to create cap guns instead which was a safe alternative. Instead of firing real bullets, these replica weapons fired tiny amounts of gunpowder which just created a noise.
Since then there have been many different types of toy guns for kids manufactured. There have been different ways of making sounds such as the mechanics of the gun clicking loudly, or electronic sounds. Water guns have also become very popular especially in warmer climates or the summer months. The original toy guns were made out of wood or metal. Nowadays most toy guns for kids are manufactured using plastic materials.
There have been many different replica guns which fire ammunition too. One of the first versions was called the spud gun, which fired tiny pieces of potato when fired. Nowadays there are many toy guns for kids which fire plastic pellets, which are usually harmless. The old style guns which were made from wood or metal were much heavier than the plastic varieties available today. The plastic ones available today are very light and therefore considered much safer.
There is a very wide selection of toy guns for kids available. The fact that they are made out of plastic now has led to many different design shapes and colors. There are still traditional style pistols, but there are all now futuristic designs which have been influenced by science fiction movies. The more advanced models feature a variety of electronic sounds and sometimes lights within the gun too.
Some of the more popular toy guns for kids include AK47 replicas, water cannons, and a huge variety of pistols and other machine guns. These imitation weapons can often be bought with accessories such as holsters, plastic bullets, fake grenades and many other items of army apparel. Some children prefer the more traditional style guns, others prefer futuristic laser beam style weapons influenced by smash hit movies.
The general consensus amongst parents is that toy guns for kids are safe and not likely to encourage real violent behavior. However there are some people which do think it is a bad influence and therefore they restrict their children from playing with such toys. In Providence, RI for example, there is an annual party where kids are made to destroy their toy guns. Of course this is not popular at all with children, but it does prove that some parents have reservations about these kind of toys. | 2019-04-22T04:17:54 | https://toygunsforkids.co.uk/?ez_force_cookie_consent=1 |
0.998449 | The stage is set: Holland plays Spain Sunday in the World Cup final. If you're not Dutch or Spanish (or, possibly, even a soccer fan), what should you be looking for? Here's four surprising and unusual takes on the upcoming match.
The Final (Brand): Adidas vs. Nike Though the World Cup "has been a field day for marketers" in general, writes Elie Ofek at the Harvard Business Review, "the stakes are particularly high for those brands that actually sell football gear. Two contenders, Adidas and Nike, each have a shot at becoming undisputed market leader when the whistle blows on July 11 and the final game concludes." They've been more or less neck-and-neck so far.
England Is in the Final After All! Sort of. The referee will be English, observes The Telegraph's Jim White, who calls the English "world-beaters at straw-clutching." Meanwhile, "did you know that while Paul the Psychic Octopus may make his unfailingly accurate predictions from within a tank in Oberhausen, he was in fact born in Weymouth? Or that scientists from Loughborough helped design the Jabulani football? Or that our Deputy Prime Minister is the son of a Dutchwoman, and married to a Spaniard?"
The Final Game as Beauty and the Beast "Holland are the blunt instrument of soccer villainy," declares Alan Black perplexingly at The Huffington Post, basing the proclamation mostly on the historical Dutch connection to Calvinism and midfielder Wesley Bneijder's "scary sneer." By contrast, "Spain is the oil painting of the Finals."
Historically, Holland's the Beauty Slate's Brian Phillips admits to an attachment to Holland, "soccer's most gorgeous losers .. they became the icons of soccer romantics who would rather see teams play beautifully and lose than win and be boring." It's a case of the famous Dutch "total football" approach—"fluid position-switching, with players moving into open spaces and the whole formation adjusting on the fly"—against Spain's "tiki-taka soccer--inexorable passing, patient build-up play, constant pressing on defense." The problem, though, is that the Dutch don't actually play "total football" anymore, having "gradually phased [it] out ... in favor of a more prgamatic, and rougher, style of play." Now they just want to win. So Phillips is rooting for Spain: "It's not because I don't like Holland; it's because I like the history of Holland so much." | 2019-04-24T15:53:44 | https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/07/4-things-to-watch-for-in-sunday-s-world-cup-final/344922/ |
0.998526 | Defining society (our public life and interdependence) and politics (our public affairs and tasks) are interrelated the same way as questions with answers, and problems with solutions. What is the problem with society? The basic task of politics depends on this question. What is the principle task? How I see society depends on this question.
Many in the modern political life have been disillusioned from politicians and through this from politics, and one consequence of all this is that some politicians deny being politicians and so they talk politics by denying talking politics. In addition to that, more and more people confuse politics with wrong politics, even though politics means nothing other than the ‘managing of public affairs’. Therefore making politics is unavoidable and each and every issue of each and every person includes the political and social importance of that particular issue. It is a sovereign political will (e.g. in the modern world) not to consider the political importance of every affair and to stop at the borderline of personal life when dealing with public issues. It is a separate political problem where to draw the line between private and public affairs. | 2019-04-22T06:30:00 | http://www.euchaos.eu/logos/category/enlightenment |
0.998648 | 1. Grease a 1.2 litre (2 pint) pie dish and stand the dish in a roasting tin.
2. Whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until they are softly peaking.
3. Using the same whisk mix together the butter, sugar and orange rind in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
4. Then add the flour and egg yolks and mix thoroughly.
5. Gradually mix in the milk and orange juice until only just mixed (mixture may appear to separate, this will disappear during baking).
6. Fold in the egg whites and then carefully pour the mix into the greased baking dish.
7. Pour hot water from the tap into the roasting tin to rise halfway up the sides of the dish.
9. Dust the top with icing sugar and serve immediately. | 2019-04-21T14:51:03 | http://www.walkersvegbags.co.uk/?walkers-recipes=orange-sponge-pudding |
0.998455 | how do the activators pads work??
Activator pads (the ones you see in the map editor) are a terrain tile. To have them function, you must place an area over the pads.
Drag one of the area boxes from the left hand side (where all the unit sprites and terrain are) and place it into your map. Put an area over your desired activator pad and name it (we'll call it Locale1 for now). Then, place a replicator on the map as well (for example, switch to Side1 [the blue faction] and on the left hand side drag a replicator into the map).
The action trigger stays the same.
Thanks, trine. You beat me to the post.
In addition to what trine said (which is all very true and informative), an activator pad combined with an area can be used to activate a trigger, such as a Replicator trigger (which ultimately activates a Replicator). Pads and areas can be used to activate other triggers, but using them with a Replicator is the most common use. I'd like to reiterate that an activator pad does nothing without an area; an area is required for an activator pad to be useful. (A pad is basically just a visual representation of where an area is.) I only say this because one of the most common mistakes I see with missions is that people expect the pads to just work with the Replicator, but that's not the case.
Also, you may want to set up a trigger that deactivates the Replicator when there is no unit on it. Without this trigger, the Replicator will remain permanently activated throughout the entire match. This can be useful in certain scenarios, but, once again, having the Replicator deactivate when there is no unit on the pad is most common. To do this, you follow trine's steps, except you use the opposite trigger functions. This trigger, as well as the activation trigger that trine demonstrated, use the "Area Contains Units" condition and the "Replicator" and "Preserve Trigger" actions.
Also note that I used SideNeutral as the side that owns the Replicator. SideNeutral is generally the best side to own the Replicator for Multiplayer maps because, with all human sides allied to SideNeutral, the Replicator cannot be destroyed. For Single Player missions, Side1 may be better suited to avoid having to ally Side1 and SideNeutral to each other.
For additional information on activator pads and Replicators: open up M → go to "Help" in in toolbar → click on "Help..." → go to "Hints and Tips" on the left → "Using the Replicator". | 2019-04-20T22:11:05 | http://warfareincorporated.com/xyzzy/viewtopic.php?t=7759&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= |
0.999999 | Habt Ihr auch aus Versehen jemanden mit seinem Spitznamen angeredet, weil Euch sein richtiger Name nicht eingefallen ist?
Denn mein lieber Mann war in dieser Woche auf einer Messe, als ihn jemand freudig begrüßte. Mein Mann sah überrascht auf und erblickte meinen netten, früheren Chef zusammen mit zwei weiteren Herren.
Mein Mann war auch mit einem der anderen Herren bekannt, allerdings fiel meinem Mann, so sehr er in seinem Gedächtnis auch forschte, nur der Spitznamen dieses Herrn ein. Denn da die Augen dieses Herrn ganz intensiv leuchten, hatte ich, wenn ich von ihm gesprochen hatte, diesen meist nur „Augenleuchten“ genannt.
Zumindest erinnerte sich mein Mann auf Anhieb an den Namen meines früheren Chefs, daher erwiderte er den Gruß freundlich, nannte meinen früheren Chef beim Namen und begann mit allen ein längeres Gespräch.
Allerdings stellte dieses Gespräch für Mann eine ziemliche Herausforderung dar, denn er musste sich ständig kontrollieren, den Herrn, von dem ihm der richtige Name einfach nicht einfallen wollte, nicht versehentlich „Herr Augenleuchten“ zu nennen.
Deswegen war mein Mann eher ziemlich froh, als die Herren den Messestand wieder verließen, auch wenn er sich über die Begegnung wirklich gefreut hatte, aber es war während des Gesprächs eine große Herausforderung für meinen Mann gewesen, die Verwendung des Spitznamens zu vermeiden.
Und als mein Mann mir daheim von diesem Treffen erzählte, gab er mir außerdem die dringende Maßgabe, künftig nur noch richtige Namen und keinesfalls irgendwelche Spitznamen zu verwenden. Ich versprach dies zerknirscht, denn auch ich bin der Meinung, dass es jedem Menschen zusteht, nicht nur mit seinem richtigen Namen angesprochen zu werden, sondern dass jeder darüber hinaus auch Respekt in dieser Hinsicht verdient.
Habt Ihr einen Spitznamen? Gebt Ihr Euren Mitmenschen Spitznamen, ohne dass diese davon wissen? Worauf müsst Ihr aufpassen?
Ich wünsche Euch allen von Herzen einen wunderbaren Sonntag!
Did you also accidentally address someone with his nickname because you forgot his real name?
Namely, my lovely husband was this week at a trade show, as someone was greeting him. My husband looked up in surprise and saw my nice former boss and two other gentlemen.
My husband was also acquainted with one of the other men, but unfortunately although he searched in his memory my husband remembered only the nickname of this gentleman. As the eyes of this gentleman light up quite intensively I had in the past when I had spoken of this gentleman usually called him just "Eye lights".
At least my husband reminded immediately the name of my former boss, so he returned the greeting friendly, called my former boss by name, and began a long conversation with all.
However, this conversation was for my husband a really challenge, as he constantly had to avoid to address the gentleman of whom my husband has forgotten the name with "Mr. Eye lights".
That's why my husband was rather pretty glad when the gentlemen said goodbye, even if he was happy about the encounter, because it had been a great challenge for my husband during the conversation to avoid the use of the nickname of the other gentleman.
And when my husband told me at home from this meeting, he also gave me the urgent advice to use in the future only correct and really names and not any nicknames. I promised this contrite, because I am also of the opinion that every person deserves not only addressed by his real name but also deserves respect in this regard.
Do you have a nickname? Give you your fellow men nicknames without letting them know about it? In which respect do you have to pay attention?
Fabulous outfit! I really like that blazer :) And I don't think I've ever had an experience like that lol. What a funny and yet awkward situation to be in. LOL! I don't know what I would have done.
that funny nickname! I like the jacket you're wearing today Rena, you have good weekend!
Ahaha you are right, sometimes we might risk calling people by their nicknames, maybe not the most flattering!! I mainly use cuddly nicknames for my family members, and I use them in public, causing some embarrassment to them :-) you look lovely today Rena, hope you enjoy a sunny Sunday!
Cuddly nicknames are also a sign of love isn’t it, my dear friend? Thanks for your feedback, my Sunday was great and sunny so far, I hope, your Sunday, too!
gorgeous outfit my dear! I love those pants!
How lovely that you name you both with the same nickname!
OMG, your husband and mr. Eye lights must be in such ockeatd situation..
die ganze Zeit hab ich mich gefragt, was das rote Gerät im Hintergrund für ein Teil ist. Auf ein landwirtschaftliches hab ich getippt. Auf einen Skilift wäre ich nicht gekommen. Aber klar doch, Ihr habt ja Berge.
Nein, für Dein Outfit fällt mir kein Spitzname ein, nur dass es mir wieder von Kopf bis Fuß gefällt. Der Pulli hat eine ganz fantastische Farbe, die Hose den perfekten Schnitt.
Ich freue mich, dass Dir mein Outfit gleich so gut gefällt und bin auch beruhigt, dass es Dich nicht zu einem Spitznamen verleitet!
Also diesen Spitznamen finde ich gar nicht so schlimme, im Gegenteil ich finde ihn positiv.
new look on my blog with dress made by me!
Haha! Such a lovely story, Rena. Well, I honestly forge names very easily. People in my college come up to me to ask me about things and I can't remember their names. I feel embarassed when I am to ask them again!
Thanks for reading, dear Selina! And we have this really in common that we forget names very easily … I know this embarrassed feeling so well!
You look gorgeous! I love the outfit. The background is so beautiful too, I love the countryside. Thank you for stopping by. Of course I will follow you, on GFC and Bloglovin.
What a wonderful landscape Rena!
Was für eine grandiose Hose <3 Und die Farbe des Oberteils dazu ist der Wahnsinn. TOP, wie immer.
Ich vergesse niemals ein Gesicht, doch dafür hapert es bei mir bei den Namen. Deshalb gebe auch ich insgeheim immer Spitznamen und hoffe, dass sie mir niemals rausrutschen. Denn Du hast vollkommen recht, jeder verdient den Respekt, mit seinem richtigen Namen angeredet zu werden.
Hi Rena! Interesting story. Among my friends back at school we always call each other by nicknames; I don't know whether that's good or not. On one side we became close to each other without formality, on the other side the nickname could be rude sometimes! Anyway I think nicknames are fine as long as the person is okay with it.
Hi Fenny! Thanks for reading and I think at school it is normal to call each other by nicknames :) And I agree nicknames are fine as long as the person is okay with it.
Thanks for following! Sure I will follow you back.
Hi Rena!! I love your pants! Great look!
Was? Ihr habt einen Skilift. Cool. Wird wohl heuer aber eher selten in betrieb gewesen sein, oder?
Ja. Spitznamen. Benutze ich schon, aber nur solche, die die Leute auch kennen. Man nennt mich auch schon ewig Sunny, obwohl ich nicht so heiße.
Interessant Dich mal in so einem rostigen Orange zu sehen. Steht Dir aber gut.
Und ich finde mich selber sehr ungewöhnlich in diesem rostigen Orange (gut hingeschaut!) Daher freue ich mich besonders, dass Du findest, es steht mir gut.
Ja ich kenn das auch! Benenne meine Freunde meist auch immer mit Spitznamen.
Hi dear Jess, many thanks <3 I don’t know how I deserve this, you are really kind!
Cool outfit! I absolutely love our trousers, they look fab with your bright top and stilettos.
My husband's best friend is called Elvis! :-) Everybody calls him this, including his wife. His real name is Paul but in twenty years of knowing him we always call him Elv or Elvis.
Nice outfit and it must have been an awkward situation!
Great outfit.=) I do give people nicknames. Me and my husband had a nickname for my former boss and sometime I must have told it to my colleagues cause they now call him that and he wonders where the name comes from.
Thank you =) And the nickname you and your husband found for your former boos is obviously really good!
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Love this look! The orange top looks great with the striped blazer!
That happens to my husband all the time I am usually really good at remembering names. Love your casual outfit.
Oje liebe Rena, daskann fatale Folgen haben. Es gibt in Kollegenkreisen natürlich Spitznamen, aber ich kenne Gott sei Dank auch die richtigen Namen. Trotzdem muss man ganz schönaufpassen, damit man die Person auch mit dem richtigen Namen anredet. Ich hoffe, du hattest einen schönen Sonntag. Dein Outfit strahlt jedenfalls mit der Sonne um die Wette.
Ohhhh, that happens usually to my husband!!!
Amazing look Rena, I love orange and the striped blazer is very cool!!!!
Hi dear Rena!!! I am sorry for not being able recently to catch up with your posts, but I hope I am now :) firstly I would like to say that you always look very well dressed with great taste, I liked your orange color infusion and the black pants especially, very trendy and super chic!!!!
Haha I have totally had moments like your husband - I've forgotten the name of a Congressional staffer that I used to work closely with. I saw them recently at a restaurant and just resorted to avoiding addressing them directly (luckily it was a short conversation).
So you know obviously really how my husband felt :) Wish you that in future such situations will never happen again to you!
Thanks for your feedback regarding my pants, I had the urgent desire to own such pants and now I’m happy to have them!
Deine Hose.... ein muss-ich-auch-haben-Teil;) Wieder ein richtig geniales Outfit, was du da präsentierst. Ich wünsche dir einen wunderbaren Start in die neue Woche.
One of your trendiest looks...stripes and leather are a must these days!
orange and black are such a perfect combination!
Thanks for asking and popping in here every now and then :) Yes it has a reason why I wear mostly the sunglasses: I tend to blink during the photo shootings and due to less of time I have mostly only a few photos per outfit. And as I don’t want to post pictures where I my eyes are closed I prefer to wear sunglasses :) But I love the idea of a trademark - thanks for the input!
Love how you combined everything together!
der Hauch von Orange ist wirklich toll, ich liebe auch die Hosen.
It's funny that nicknames stick in your mind easier than a person's real name!! Love your striped blazer!
Maybe sometimes a nickname fits better to the person than the real name :) Thank you!
Lovely background for your pics. Love the blazer and the necklace!
Omg! I want your stripped blazers and pants, you rock.
Great look! Love the orange top!
I absolutely ADORE your Prada handbag! I have wanted the Saffiano for so long now, I might just bite the bullet and buy it this Summer?! Fabulous post!!
That's a funny story :) Love the pop of color.
Oh dear, that must have been awkward situation for your husband. I try my best to call people with their real names.
Fortunately my husband was able to manage the situation :) And you do it right to call people with their real names - I should do this, too!
"Gebt Ihr Euren Mitmenschen Spitznamen, ohne dass diese davon wissen?" - nein.
"Worauf müsst Ihr aufpassen?" - in welcher Beziehung?
1. Ja, Jennifer ist wirklich zu schön, als dass man es abkürzen sollte.
3. Das stimmt, zum Glück ging bisher immer alles gut dabei.
" - schon gesehen - dankeschön! | 2019-04-23T06:23:20 | https://www.dressedwithsoul.com/2014/04/fatal-nickname.html |
0.998345 | CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 12 -- Using lasers, lenses and magnetic fields, MIT scientists have cooled a sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded -- only half-a-billionth of a degree above absolute zero. The work, to be reported in today's issue of Science, beats the previous record by a factor of six, and is the first time a gas was cooled below 1 nanokelvin (one-billionth of a degree).
"To go below one nanokelvin is a little like running a mile under four minutes for the first time," said Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, co-leader of the team.
Ultralow-temperature gases could lead to vast improvements in precision measurements by allowing better atomic clocks and sensors for gravity and rotation, said David E. Pritchard, a pioneer in atom optics and atom interferometry and co-leader of the MIT group.
The researchers also expect new phenomena to occur at such low temperatures involving, for example, how cold atoms interact with surfaces and how atoms move when they are confined to a narrow channel or layer. These gases form a remarkable state of matter called a quantum fluid, so studying their properties also provides new insights into the basic physics of matter, they said.
For reaching the record-low temperatures, sodium, solid at room temperature, is heated to 300 degrees Celsius to make it a gas. Next, techniques called laser cooling and evaporative cooling get the gas to the starting point for the latest experiment. The researchers force the gas through a meter-long tube, where it slams into light particles from a laser being fired in the opposite direction. In a fraction of a second, the collisions slow the atoms from 1,000 meters per second to 30 meters per second. They are cooled further in a spherical container where lasers pummel them from all sides. They are then placed in a magnetic bowl where the hottest atoms float away like steam evaporating.
The MIT researchers invented a novel way of confining atoms, which they call a "gravito-magnetic trap," in which the magnetic fields act together with gravitational forces to keep the atoms trapped.
In 1995, a group at the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MIT group led by Ketterle cooled atomic gases to below one microkelvin (one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero). In doing so they discovered a new form of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate, where the particles march in lockstep instead of flitting around independently. The discovery of Bose-Einstein condensates was recognized with the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics, which Ketterle shared with his Boulder colleagues Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman.
Since this breakthrough, many groups worldwide now routinely reach nanokelvin temperatures; the lowest temperature reported before now was 3 nanokelvin. The new record set by the MIT group is 500 picokelvin, or six times lower. | 2019-04-19T14:18:07 | https://www.photonics.com/Articles/MIT_Team_Achieves_Coldest_Temperature_Ever/a17055 |
0.999513 | Over the next five years, the analysts that follow this company are expecting it to grow earnings at an average annual rate of 0%. This year, analysts are forecasting earnings decrease of -114.36% over last year. Analysts expect earnings growth next year of 8.87% over this year's forecasted earnings. | 2019-04-21T23:18:46 | https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/once/earnings-growth |
0.998585 | What will happen to my health insurance and retirement plans if my employer files for bankruptcy?
If the company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it could end up restructuring, and your benefits may not be affected. But the employer is likely to cut back on some of your benefits even if it continues to operate.
On the other hand, if the company files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and shuts down, its benefits plans will be terminated. But several laws protect the benefits you've already accrued and can help you find health coverage.
Your 401(k) plan. Assets must be held in a separate trust that the employer -- or its creditors -- can't touch, regardless of the employer's financial situation. If your employer files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it could continue to administer its 401(k) plan, but it may discontinue matching contributions. However, there's nothing to protect you from any loss in value of the investments -- which can be a big problem if you have a lot of company stock. That's why it's important not to invest all of your 401(k) money into company stock.
If the company shuts down, the 401(k) plan will be terminated and the assets will be distributed to the participants. Then you can roll over the money into an IRA.
If you have problems accessing your money, contact the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (866-444-3272; www.dol.gov/ebsa).
Your pension plan. When an employer files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the bankruptcy court decides whether the company can continue to cover its pension obligations.
If the court decides that the company cannot pay the obligations, or if the company shuts down, then the pension plan will be terminated. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation guarantees the benefits up to $51,000 per person in 2008 (for people retiring at age 65; the guarantee is lower or higher for people retiring earlier or later). Contact the Pension Rights Center if you are having trouble receiving your pension.
Your health insurance. You may continue to get coverage if your employer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. If you lose your job but your employer is still offering health insurance to its employees, you can continue coverage in the group plan through COBRA for up to 18 months. Retirees can continue coverage through COBRA, too, if the employer stops offering coverage to them but continues offering it to current employees. You'll pay more under COBRA than what you paid for health insurance through your employer, so you might be able to find a better deal on your own if you're healthy. Check prices at eHealthInsurance.com, or find an agent to help through the National Association of Health Underwriters.
If the employer discontinues its health-insurance coverage, then you won't be able to get COBRA coverage. Instead, you may be able to sign up for your spouse's health-insurance plan even if it's not yet open-enrollment season (as long as you sign up within 30 days of losing your coverage).
If you can't get other coverage, then you may have the right to convert to an individual plan without preexisting-condition exclusions. The policy continuation rules vary by state; contact your state insurance department for details (go to the insurance page of Kiplinger.com for links). | 2019-04-19T10:56:35 | https://www.kiplinger.com/article/business/T020-C001-S001-what-happens-if-your-employer-goes-broke.html |
0.999998 | The Graduate Associate/Assistant position previously announced is now a part-time Program Coordinator position in Tribal Relations. Interested parties can apply through the University of Arizona Human Resources website with reference to the position number S22273.
Start date is October 10, 2016.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to apply for the position of Associate Library Director at Penfield Library, SUNY Oswego.
• Coordinate the implementation of assigned digital projects.
• Contribute to the development of digital collections.
preservation of digital collections according to national standards.
To apply: Forward cover letter, resume and contact information for 2 professional references via email to Anibal Arocho, Library Manager, at [email protected] and cc: José deJesús, Associate Director for Operations, at [email protected] .
Curation of the Centro Digital Art Humanities Exhibitions.
Evaluate and update metadata of digital assets from current and past travelling exhibitions.
Selects and prioritizes the Centro art collections to be transferred to a digital format.
Oversees and assists with the digitization of art works in coordination with Centro staff.
To apply: Forward cover letter, resume and contact information for 2 professional references via email to Anibal Arocho, Library Manager, at [email protected] and cc: José deJesús, Associate Director for Operations, at [email protected] The subject line of the email should read: Art Assistant Digital Curator Telephone queries: 212-396-7879.
The THINK TANK is seeking candidates for the positon of Instructional Specialist, Senior. The Instructional Specialist, Senior is responsible for the delivery of LSAT exam material, and for the verbal sections of the GRE and GMAT graduate school entrance exams. Instruction of the verbal sections of the ACT and SAT college entrance exam preparation course is also required. Curriculum review and refinement will be an ongoing process for all exams. The successful candidate will be highly skilled in logic, rhetoric, composition, English, as well as classroom instruction. Developing rapport and building relationships with students are an essential part of the position, as well as maintaining positive relationships with other instructors and campus stakeholders. Collaboration with these stakeholders both on and off campus will include meetings, formal and informal presentations, and workshops.
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Executive Assistant Position Open at AIGC!
$15 million nonprofit scholarship and fellowship administrator, is seeking an experienced Executive Assistant. This individual is responsible for providing support to the executive team, including drafting correspondence, schedule and manage meetings and travel, manage all aspects of Board of Directors meetings and correspondence, proofread and edit organizational materials, orientation and oversight of support staff. Bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years previous experience required. Human resources experience desired. Full-time position with competitive salary and benefits.
AIGC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to multicultural diversity. American Indian or Alaska Native preference.
To apply for this position, please Email a letter of interest, resume and 2 references to: [email protected].
"A Guide to College Readiness"
Know Before U Go event. Area tribes are encouraged to contact AIGC to partner in helping transport students. Each participant including parents must register online by visiting www.aigcs.org or click the link below to register. For additional information or to host an event, please contact Josh Lucio at 1-800-628-1920.
The exchange is a continuation of an exchange program that Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) had with The Children's Village (TCV) in the mid-1990s. It was suggested by His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- as he felt Native people and Tibetans were very similar -- he even remarked how he felt like he was home during his visit to Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Indian School.
SFIS is recommencing the exchange in light of how similar native issues are with Indigenous people around the world in trying to maintain native unique cultures and languages in the face of globalism.
Students will use the experience as part of their Senior Honors Project - particularly in the application of the United Nation's (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). UNDRIP advocates the rights of Indigenous people to self-determination, maintenance of cultures and languages and self-rule.
Contributions will help for the cost of passports and travel visas.
Indigenous Nations Library Program (INLP) is thrilled to present the first exhibit developed by INLP.
INLP is highlighting the academic contributions of Indigenous Faculty at the University of New Mexico. The opening of the INLP Book exhibit will run from September 9 through May 2017, in Zimmerman Library, at the INLP and Herzstein Latin American Gallery.
This show will be a evolving exhibit and new content and displays will be installed throughout the duration of the exhibit. Thank you and INLP hopes you can attend the exhibit.
If you are on the AIGC mailing list to receive a hard copy of the magazine, watch for it in the mail. If you are not on the AIGC mailing list and would like to receive a hard copy, an electronic copy or, if you have recently moved and need to update your contact information, please click here. You may also call 800-628-1920 or visit the website anytime, at aigcs.org.
Visit the AIGC website to view the current, or any past issues, of The American Indian Graduate magazine on-line, please click here.
If you would like to advertise in the next issue of The American Indian Graduate magazine, please contact [email protected]. The deadline for the Spring 2017 issue is Dec. 1, 2016.
Thank you to all of the advertisers who sponsor the AIGC magazine! They are always listed on the right side of our E-Newsletter.
$52 million in scholarships since its inception more than 46 years ago.
Emerson College in Boston, MA is in search of a Head of Archives and Special Collections.
Job Description: Head of Archives and Special Collections is responsible for all aspects of archival administration of the College Archives, Special Collections, and American Comedy Archives. They provide leadership and vision for the department and oversee all activities including collection development, access and preservation; reference, outreach, and instruction; and records management. The Head is actively involved in donor cultivation, grant writing, and fundraising.
represent the office of the AVP when necessary.
opportunities for Native American communities.
newsletter and prepare for distribution.
5. Maintain the Tribal Relations website and any other social media communication.
7. Maintain databases of tribal leadership and resources.
8. Other duties and projects as assigned.
enrolled in a regular graduate degree-seeking program.
appointments and are not eligible for reappointment until grades are reviewed.
environments that require high level of discretion and confidentiality.
3. Demonstrated ability to plan and achieve short and long-term goals independently.
Submit a cover letter and résumé to Karen Francis-Begay at [email protected].
Review begins September 19, 2016. Anticipated start date of September 26, 2016. | 2019-04-26T05:54:02 | https://ais.arizona.edu/alumni |
0.999555 | It is not a surprise that most people don't really know the difference between the terms "Latino" and "Hispanic." In fact, there are even many Hispanics and Latinos who don't know the difference!
As a first-generation immigrant from Mexico to the United States, I had no idea what the distinction was between the two terms. In Spanish-speaking countries, we do not make any such distinction. It is enough to say, "I'm Colombian, or Puerto Rican, or Mexican, or Spanish, or Brazilian."
However, when an individual moves to a country where it is sometimes important to identify yourself within a specific group based on ethnicity or language, native Spanish speakers have to put themselves in the classification that fits best for them.
And here is how I understand the usage of the two terms, although according to a recent Pew survey, many Americans from Latin America do not prefer one term over the other.
First, what is the origin of the word "Latino"? Latino refers to any person who was born in a country where the native language comes from Latin, such as Portuguese, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Second, what is the derivation of the word "Hispanic"? Hispanic does not refer to race; it is an ethnic distinction. Hispanics come from all racial backgrounds and exhibit a wide variety of physical traits. The term "Hispanic" is merely a translation of the Old World word "Hispania" (Latin) or "Hispano" (Spanish). People from Latin America are all Latino, but not all are Hispanics (note Brazilians, who are Latino but not Hispanic!).
Hispanic: from a country whose primary language is Spanish; it is a term that is telling you about language.
Neither of these terms refers to racial identities. Latin America has a long and complex history that intersects Native American people, European colonists, enslaved Africans, and immigrants from around the world. As a result, there are native Latinos, white Latinos, black Latinos, Asian Latinos, and many more mixtures.
There is so much more than just two "labels" for native Spanish speakers. Being born in a country in Latin America means more than just being a Latino or Latina. Personally, I love to celebrate my whole identity as a Hispanic Latino Americana with European roots, a woman who is a first-generation immigrant to the United States, as well as a third- and fourth-generation immigrant to Mexico.
It was great sharing my personal journey of discovering my own identity in this country. What's your story? | 2019-04-20T18:45:10 | https://www.tpschool.org/blog/2016/9/5/latino-hispanic-or-both |
0.998783 | One of the more interesting philosophical arguments Plato and his School were involved in was whether a newborn child was conscious of certain things at birth, whether it had intelligence or even knowledge. For some the idea that a child could know nothing of the world it had been born into was inconceivable: they believed that the soul was immortal, and each newborn child was the reincarnation of a previous person or being, and brought the complete knowledge of that life, and all previous lives, with it into the new one. They explained the fact that this knowledge cannot be discovered in children by claiming that it was forgotten at the moment of birth: it is still there in the child, but buried so deep as to be useless and irretrievable. There were others who argued that a newborn child brought nothing into the world, it was innocent of all crimes and bad thoughts, but also free from bias, prejudice and, more especially, any form of worldly knowledge. Each birth was a completely new start for a new life form.
If we take this as our starting point, we are faced with two possibilities: a child is born with a form of innate knowledge of life and the world and grows, or evolves, into an adult with this knowledge in them; a child is born as a clean slate with nothing of this world in them, and is formed by its surroundings, those people close to it and the education it receives. Equate this with your recent thoughts on thinking and instinct.
My own personal view is that a child is born with nothing more than an instinct to survive. It knows nothing of its surroundings, other than what is immediately in front of it, as most children are born effectively blind and their eyesight develops over the first few weeks of their lives. This desire to survive is the strongest need within them, and makes some almost insufferable with their demands for food and attention. As they grow and develop, each child learns how far it can go with other people, and builds either a strong or a weak character, either overbearing and demanding, or timid and withdrawing. And, of course, everything in between. Everyone is an individual, and their upbringing, the environment in which they grow, is as individual as they are, so with the influences which go to make their character. It is this upbringing which decides how a person is likely to react in the future, whether they will be overly friendly, or exceptionally introvert: how they have been treated by other people how they have reacted to that treatment will make the difference.
[…] we are more corrupted by instinct or thought.
Is it possible for a person to corrupt themselves? It can be said, and I believe that this is also correct, that we are alone responsible for our actions: we make the decision of the direction we wish to take, whether it be one accepted by society and our fellow man or not. We allow ourselves to be tempted, to be convinced by other people or a perceived course of events, by extremes or necessity but, in the end, we make our own decision for or against a certain action. We don’t make this decision without external influence at any time: our entire lives are made up of examples from other people who we either know or have come across by reading the news, scrolling through social media, or even word of mouth. One of the new methods of defence used in courts of law today is that a young person had a broken childhood or, even worse as far as I am concerned, is missing all empathy or knowledge of what is right and what is wrong because their parents were so rich, they had no need of a social conscience. Both of these are aspects of external influence: the people involved have been educated by their parents, by the educational system, by those in their social circles to behave, to think in such a manner. They have become corrupt, but have not corrupted themselves.
Thinking is, as you say, a double-edged sword. On the one side we have all that we have learned – good and bad – throughout our lives which has been character building. We have all the experiences of our lives, those times when we have won, those when we have lost. We know – at least, most of us do – what is right and what is wrong both on a social and on a moral level. On the other hand, we have this strange belief that, as an individual, we are better than everyone else. Where all those other people have failed, we will succeed. We believe that we can think through every single eventuality, and beat whoever is set against us without even knowing who they are, what abilities or experiences they have. I suppose that, in a manner of speaking, you could call this the corruption of self, in that we rate our abilities far higher than they truly are, and downgrade the abilities of everyone else, regardless of whether those others have more experience, a higher intelligence level or are simply better at what they do than other people.
There is also the possibility that, through thinking, we reach a different conclusion, and I am sure that this is the case for many people. We appreciate that our own abilities have their limits, and, whilst prepared to test those limits, also appreciate that they can only be expanded to a certain extent. The possibility of something – or someone – from outside our immediate environment providing the ultimate obstacle to our success, to the expanding or pushing out of our limits, remains, but is not always taken into consideration.
That there are different groupings of people within the prison system, predominantly along ethnic lines, is something Hollywood has been playing up for many, many years: it is seen not as a means of ensuring safety or of creating some form of acceptable social order, but as a means of intimidation or power mongering. It is presented as unique to the prison system and as a threat; but that, of course, is merely one of the devices Hollywood uses to up the appeal of their products, to ensure that a certain level of excitement is achieved without any real effort. That people should move towards their own kind, or what is considered their own, does make a certain amount of sense, and does not necessarily have anything to do with power-broking or gangs. For many there is a better level of understanding, through similar ethnic roots if nothing else, and also historical precedent. Immigrants to many countries have tended to gravitate to certain areas where they know that others are living, where they know that their own traditional customs and beliefs will be more than just tolerated. This was most certainly the case in the England of my youth, where certain parts of London, Birmingham, Manchester and other major cities were known to be populated by immigrants, or the children and grandchildren of immigrants, from certain areas. We had small enclaves of Pakistani families, of Indians, of families who had fled the regime in Uganda. But we also had, as do many other countries, areas defined by income and social status.
I see it here in Germany to a far lesser extent, but that is thanks to the integration policies of successive governments: those seeking political or economic asylum tend to be sent out to different areas of the country where they are looked after by Germans rather than, initially, people from their own countries. After a while, though, they all pick up contacts and make friends within their own, but not to the extent of forming enclaves, ghettos or setting up areas which are recognised as being Asian, Indian, Arabic or Turkish. Integration is achieved through removing them from what they have previously known, and confronting them with this new society so that they are forced to learn the language, and many of the customs and habits, as quickly as possible. They cannot rely on the good offices of other people in their ethnic community to cover for them, to translate, to do all the official and government work for them.
Whether they would have done this of their own free will and accord is another matter entirely. You have seen a marvellous opportunity to play basketball, to jump over the ethnic lines, which has nothing to do with integration, with joining one specific group or another, but everything to do with social pleasure. Sport, in the style of the original Olympics, should be an area where all can meet on the same level playing field and partake without fear, without prejudice, without a second thought but for the pleasures of the sport itself. And it also shows that there are other ways of getting on with people than by gaining their respect through violence. As you say, there is no end to violence once it has begun: each new generation, each new member will feel the necessity of rescuing the honour of the previous generation, or the obligation of proving themselves by one means or another to gain acceptance. It is similar to the Honour Killings which span generations: one of your ancestors killed one of mine, and now it is my turn to kill one of yours. Once begun, it is almost impossible to end, and the only way out is to remove oneself from the area of danger which, as you appreciate, often places you in a completely different situation, one with its own dangers but without the knowledge that there are those who will stand with you in times of need.
In your situation I suspect it is almost impossible to walk alone, to be a hermit or someone who remains outside of the politics of race, religion, groupings. I have the advantage that I can literally close my front door and leave the rest of the world outside, that I have no need to meet up with and join those of similar ethnic origin to myself. Of course, I must admit that much of this is thanks to the advances made in modern technology, where I can be constantly in touch with those who speak the same language and have the same history as I do, no matter where I am should I so desire. There is, though, no strong group of English-speaking people here; a few who were born and bred in English-speaking countries, but no more than that. I cannot say that I miss the umbrella if having other people of similar origins around me, the difference here being that there is no need. In certain situations, as you appreciate better than most, such a level of protection – or whatever you may wish to call it – is a good thing and helps to keep the status quo as much as anything. But there will always be outbreaks, people who split with the accepted, or those who believe that they can just do whatever they wish because their group is better organised, larger or more ‘respected’ than any other, and they force the generally peaceful social order back into danger.
As writers – and I include poets, novelists and letter writers as we all create through the written word – we should be able to be both a part of a group and stand on its outer rim to look in and outwards. We need to be able to assess and not just accept, otherwise our writing becomes bland and merely a reiteration of everything that has been said before, it becomes group-speak and worthless. As writers we wish to speak to those we have never met, can often only imagine, and inspire them. We want to try and get some form of reaction, even when we do not get to see it. We want to be able to sneak into their lives and be a part of them in one way or another, even if only for a few moments of time. If we cannot write from the outside looking in, what are we going to be able to say? We become Yes Men. We become a part of the mass which follows, which flows along without an individual thought, without inspiration, without any factor which makes us stand apart. And what would our writing be if we were exactly the same as everyone else and only had experience within this one, closed group?
[…] off the court, I’m imprisoned both physically and mentally.
I’m afraid that I tend to disagree with you to a certain extent. I am sure that there are many people around you who are both physically and mentally imprisoned, but I suspect that you are not one of them, and I believe you should not see yourself as one of them. Being imprisoned mentally is the final act before destruction, as far as I am concerned: it s a sign that you have given up and are not prepared to think any more; that you will not allow your imagination freedom t flow wherever it will, to embrace whatever it finds there. You also have the ability, through your basketball games, to remove the shackles of the daily routine and, effectively, escape – at least within your mind – the imprisonment of your body. It may not seem much, but on the basketball court you have the freedom of movement your soul desires as well as the ability to make decisions which have an outcome, which bind you with others in a complete and flowing action. You are physically behind bars, but your mind, your thoughts, can fly wherever they will without any form of hindrance.
Some of the finest writers of past generations wrote under extreme adversity. They were banned, assaulted, expelled. Their works were burned or placed on a censorship list. And yet, despite this adversity, despite being hounded by authority – political or religious – they wrote and reached their audience, some from their homes, having their works smuggled out to freedom, some in exile. This is not a thing of the past, it is not just Galileo Galilei and Thomas Mann, Alexander Solzhenitsyn or any of the other names many of us know and respect, but many minor writers and thinkers of our modern times. Somehow they still manage to get their words out into the public arena, to those who wish to read, to understand and to think. Pilgrim’s Progress was written by John Bunyan while he was imprisoned in Bedfordshire for practising his religion, and has never been out of print since it was first registered in the Stationer’s Register back in 1677, and officially published in 1678. Many regimes have tried, but few will ever be able to imprison a mind which allows itself the freedom of thought.
The task of the modern education is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis had many ideas which I do not necessarily agree with, but this one sentence comes close to covering my thoughts on education. I have always seen education as a formal start to the road which we take in life: it is something which gives us the foundations upon which we should build in order to advance ourselves. The idea that what we learn in the classroom is all we need is a fallacy; the fact that we do not learn what we need is a fact. Too often children, and older students, are being taught what they need to know to pass a specific examination, and no more than that. They are not being taught to think for themselves, to explore and discover and, sadly it is also often the case, when they do move outside the strict guidelines of a curriculum and research further into a specific subject, they are impeded. Then, when it comes to that time when thought, research, discovery are necessary, they do not have the ability simply because it has been trained out of them. Many of the works I see from people who are going for their higher degrees, or have succeeded in attaining one, are of a far lower standard than those published fifty or sixty years ago. Works are filled with quotations – sometimes forgetting that they are references to other people’s work and appearing to claim them for their own thought – but little which can be called original or even thought-provoking. It is all very well to have a good basic knowledge of a subject, but the aim should be to advance both yourself and the subject area itself into new fields though thought and discussion, research and discovery. In my own personal area of interest, philosophy, I see many articles and books coming onto the market which simply rehash what has been said and written before.
Perhaps this is the true form of imprisonment: we are not being encouraged to seek out the new and, therefore, imprison ourselves within a small set of rules rather than seeing the world outside of them. The rules may well have some form of sense, within a minor area, but should never be allowed to rule our lives when it comes to education, to thought and to personal advancement.
My travelling has mostly been of the same nature; living rough and wherever it was possible at low cost but with the highest level of mental gain. I seem to have spent, in my youth at least, more time living under bridges, in fields and car parks than in hotels and motels. I would have my base, in London or Paris, Berlin or Venice, knowing that I could return there, sleep and remain dry and safe at night, and spend the day time walking the streets, going to museums and art galleries, enjoying all those things which tourists pay a fortune for. In Venice I was joined by countless others, sleeping on the main concourse of the railway station, and we were woken punctually at six by the local police, so that the other tourists wouldn’t be disturbed by our presence; no hassle, no fuss, just a wake-up call. In many cities that I visit now, throughout Europe and the United States, local government have set up spikes and cordoned potential sleeping areas off to combat homelessness – clearly something which does not work, as the homes and shelters are not being created to cover the loss of an outside sleeping place – making it harder for people to just drift and experience today. In some towns, I am told, as soon as a traveller approaches the boundaries he is warned off. Even here we are being funnelled into a distinct level of learning, of experiencing, and the loss is not only ours, but that of society as a whole. When everything is regimented, what is there left to discover?
Do the mind and the pen share some instinct inexplicable to man? Or is each and every word a product of careful, untrustworthy, thought?
On the one level there are the words which we write: we sit down and let our thoughts flow across the page through the medium of our pens. We do not stop to consider, but take an idea and work it through from beginning to end, no matter where it may lead us. On the other level, we have those same words and we work through them, one sentence at a time, revising and editing, perfecting so that a more coherent level of thought appears on the page. Thoughts, at level one, have never been trustworthy; they always seem to lead us to places we had no desire to go or which we did not know could be linked to an original thought. Thoughts in other people are decidedly untrustworthy, because we cannot see them and do not know what they are really thinking, unless they are an exceptionally poor poker player and let everything be read through their body language.
The first level is always the best way of writing, for ourselves. It brings those thoughts out, and shows us the directions we can go in should we wish to. The first level is the way all good writers begin their works; simply letting the words flow according to the theme they have set themselves and seeing how it all comes together. The second level is then the revision, the editing, the preparing for an audience which needs to be convinced, which needs to be lead by the hand on a set and understandable journey towards a distinct and understandable destination. The first level is for you and me, for the real person. The second is for the public. Two distinct things, not exactly opposed one to the other, but vastly different. | 2019-04-23T13:56:03 | http://letterwriter.me/2017/07/corrupted-by-instinct-or-thought/ |
0.999998 | What is the best rated text to speech program available for various languages?
I need the best program that will convert my documents from text to speech. It must sound like a real voice, as this is for my business. Voices need to be in male and female languages. I need English (American and British; Spanish; Chinese (especially Mandarin and Cantonese); Japanese; French; German; Italian; Hebrew; Swedish; Polish etc.
You can try Panopreter Plus ( http://www.panopreter.com ) , It reads any text out with natural-sounding voices and convert the text into mp3, a lot of languages are supported, and it's simple to use.
Try SoundGecko (http://soundgecko.com/) or, if you use Google Chrome, the extension Select and Speak (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/select-and-speak/gfjopfpjmkcfgjpogepmdjmcnihfpokn?hl=en).
Mark, I don't know what your application is, but no fully-automated system sounds even remotely natural. Systems such as phone services ("press 1 to speak to an adviser" etc) actually used recorded words and phrases, which are usually customised for each customer. There are many such systems and they cater for all sorts of different markets (directing customer inquiries to the right person, help desk systems, library automation systems...) but the quality of speech in them is largely dependent on the care and attention of the solution provider (the person/company who tailors is to your needs) rather than on the software itself.
Speech to text or text to speech? Your title does not match your agenda.
Text to Speech Software with AT&T Natural Voices™ available at Nextup.com it handles 20 languages.
Oops, that was my mistake. He meant speech to text, that's what he said and how I tagged the post, and then I messed up the title. My bad! | 2019-04-22T12:42:06 | https://www.makeuseof.com/answers/what-is-the-best-rated-speech-to-text-program-available-for-various-languages/ |
0.999998 | How to properly cache sprites/labels/textures and reduce draw calls?
I am currently having the following issue: I created an interface myself with several buttons (each button is derived from CCNode).
Each button consists of different images (CCSprite) and Texts (CCLabel).
Unfortunately, each sprite and each label causes an increase in the draw calls.
Unforutnately, this increases the draw calls for each label and sprite added to that button.
I discovered that when I was inheriting my buttons from CCMenuItemImage and setting NormalImage to the sprite and additionally adding the sprite with this.AddChild(button), the draw calls where not increased and I needed only one draw call for that sprite in all buttons.
Can anybody tell me how I should cache and create my sprites in order to keep the draw calls low? I thought about CCSpriteBatchNode, but that's marked as obsolete/deprecated.
Simplify the moving parts as much as possible. Try using sprite sheets where possible and/or merge multiple sprite sheets into one so that the textures are not moved from memory -> shader -> gpu memory.
// undo the rotation that was applied by the action attached.
What we have done here is create a static image to be drawn for your button. The number of vertices that will be drawn are 4 and only 1 change of texture for the Renderer. With adding the sprite and label as children you would have had 4 vertices for the background image with a swap of Texture as well as 4 vertices for each character of the label with a swap of texture. So with just this one modification with a button background image and label with text of "Push Me" the number of vertices pushed to the graphics card is a very small percentage compared to sprite and label as children. The draw calls are also cut by 50% with the vertices draw cut by ~80%.
This is just one idea as there could be many others in your interface. You can see the full source here with actions attached as well as the draw calls.
You should not need to use CCSpriteBatchNode as can be seen the CCMenuItemImage is supposedly doing things correctly it seems so there must be something that is not being cached correctly. Also, we could be missing something on our side as well. You could look at the CCMenuItemImage code and do something like what it is doing if you would like. If not could you please send a small solution file that demonstrates this inconsistency. Your last example was really precise and thank you for that.
Okay, I found out that the problem was that I have added a CCLayer to my nodes and added the sprite to that layer. That results in 1 draw call for each sprite.
Attached is my short project that shows that behavior.
If you uncomment the line in DummyMenuItem.cs, then the draw calls are reduced to 1. Otherwise, they stick at 10.
By the way, DisplayStats is currently not working for iOS.
I have another question: I want to use many CCLabel for my interface (I currently have around 18 buttons, each button has two labels and several sprites). Is there any way I can reduce the draw calls that are caused by the labels? Each label increases the draw calls by 1, however most of the labels are similar (e.g. Exercise 1 and Exercise 2).
Ok I am finally getting to the heart of the problems you are having.
First, again, want to thank you for the very precise examples. All of them are showing the same thing that you are working a lot with CCLayer. There have been a few changes and CCLayer does not work the way I think you are trying to use it. Even the issues you reported have the same theme. You are using CCLayer for everything. Take a quick look at the following on the Hierarchy.
I noticed this in most of your samples as well but never thought to mention it because it was not the problem you were having.
In your code attached in each new CCNode that will hold your button sprite you are adding a CCLayer to that node and then adding all of your graphics to that CCLayer. In the renderer each CCLayer would bump the draw calls up because it is not on the same layer.
// FIXME: add the sprite to the node directly instead to the layer.
The draw calls go to 1 even with 10 buttons drawn. It would be the same for 100 or more as well.
This would work for either a textured button or a Text button.
For you CCLabel problem. If you are using SystemFont labels there is no way to reduce the draw calls. Each label is it's own entity and do not share a common texture. The only labels that share a common font texture are sprite fonts and bitmap fonts. This is what they were created for.
There is a backing texture atlas for each font definition that all characters use with bitmap fonts and sprite fonts. They even look the same across platforms whereas each platform using the underlying system calls will draw fonts with a noticeable difference. Even the font sizes will not be the same because of the differences between points, pixels DPI and the such.
Thanks for your answers @kjpou1 !
I switched over using CCNode insteaf of CCLayer if I want to group several sprites.
For the CCLabel issue: I am using SpriteFonts, but the draw calls increase by 1 for each label I create.
Is there any way to manually cache the fonts? The CCSpriteFontCache.SharedInstance has no method at all at the current PCL.
Here is a test I just did with WindowsPhone 8.1 using a spritefont.
This will create 100 labels. Notice the number of draws is 2 even for all 100. 1 for the labels and 1 for the stats.
Thanks @kjpou1 for further investigation.
I now have found out, that indeed the draw calls are not increased but ONLY IF no CCSprite and CCLabel is simultaneously added to a CCNode.
//FIXME: either remove the sprite or the label to reduce the draw calls to 1.
bool lag = true; // If true will result in a huge amount of draw calls.
Draw calls are only batched on the Texture. The renderer tries to keep the texture in memory as long as possible.
In the CCLabel example above, using a SpriteFont, the same texture is used so under the hood the Renderer can batch all the rendering calls.
The only way for this to work is that the texture being used is the same for each draw call. Once the texture changes then a new draw call is issued so that the new texture can be moved to memory.
--> Next CCSprite used for grouping is the same? No because the last texture was for the sprite font so go to the beginning above and start again.
So there really is no way for the renderer to keep the same texture in memory because they are different.
Peter's is kind of a corner case because even though the CCSprite does not have a texture the Renderer still thinks it does because normally a CCSprite is associated with one. In fact the Texture Id works out to zero in this case which would be a different Id than the one used for the render target texture. Could this be considered a bug? Maybe, depending on how you look at it. The definition of a CCSprite is that it has a Texture associated with it even though in this case there is no texture. If someone created a CCSprite without a texture to group other nodes then they should probably rethink the CCSprite and change to a CCNode instead. That would be the correct way.
That is all CCSpriteBatchNode was, just a way to keep contiguous associated sprites together to use the same texture. Even though it kept them together each CCSpriteBatchNode still created a draw call. Even though there might have been multiple sprites associated with each batch node it still created a draw call for each CCSpriteBatch. Besides doing this it really was not very easy to use with the code becoming quite complicated at times if you wanted to use it as part of a custom component.
The Renderer tries to work this out dynamically for itself but sometimes needs a little help.
For example the particle system used a sprite batch to group the particle textures. If you had an explosion particle system and ran it three times it would show three draw calls. With the Renderer all those calls would be batched automatically thus show only one draw call even though there may be 1000 different particles associated. Also assuming that the particle system was placed to be drawn one right after the other in the Scene Graph hierarchy. If for instance you added a particle system to the Scene Graph then a CCSprite and then another particle system using the same texture as the first, you may get 2 draw calls or 3 depending on the order to be drawn as well as the z-order in the scene. This also may change as you add and remove children from the Scene Graph and the Renderer dynamically sorting those to work out if they can be grouped or not.
Thank you @kjpou1 for your explanation.
So what am I supposed to do for my interface? My fps is dropping too low, the user experience is quite bad. As I said, I have plenty of interface elements with both, sprites and fonts.
I could now lower the draw calls to get proper FPS as every of my buttons now increase the draw calls by only 1.
Do you / does anyone has any further tips in respect to rendering etc? I am quite unfamiliar with graphic performance enhancement.
I have now the issue that the RenderTexture.Sprite looks pixelated / shows artifacts.
If I set RenderTexture.Sprite.IsAntialiased = true then the sprite looks better but is blurry.
I've read that I have to set the CCCameraProjection to CCCameraProjection.Projection2D, but where do I exactly have to set that?
Changing the default CCLayer.DefaultCameraProjection= CCCameraProjection.Projection2D had no effect.
What do you mean by artifacts? Can you post a screen shot?
As you can see, the font and the star are pixelated (you can compare the star in a blue menu item with the stars on the right).
Are those scaled in any way?
The blue background of the button is scaled, everything else is not.
@kjpou1 Do you have a solution yet?
Sorry to say I do not. Have you tried using different blends for that. Try setting the BlendFunc when drawing. The default is AlphaBlend but maybe what is outline here. This uses a NonPremultiplied blend when drawing.
These explain the different ways that Pre-Multiplied and NonPremultiplied work with image composition using render targets. Especially with the fringe bleeding.
Hey, I already tried the blendfuncs.
The result is still pretty crappy (exact the same as on the screenshots I posted above).
Anyone found a solution how to use sprites + labels with CCRenderTexture and obtain good results?
Can you put together a small project with your assets that is demonstrating that please. | 2019-04-18T23:39:39 | https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/46525/how-to-properly-cache-sprites-labels-textures-and-reduce-draw-calls |
0.999984 | There are lots of reasons to be excited for the upcoming Captain Marvel, but one of the subjects that has gotten a lot of focus -- other than Captain Marvel punching an old lady -- is the Skrulls. The shape-shifting aliens will be making their MCU debut in the movie as the antagonist, with Captain Marvel stuck in the middle of their war with the Kree. Since the news of the Skrulls' involvement first dropped, people began theorizing that other MCU characters would be revealed to be shape-shifters all along. As cool as those theories are, that comes with a massive problem because it makes significant character development potentially pointless.
A little extra context is in order. The Skrull were first introduced in 1962 and have primarily been enemies of the Fantastic Four, though they have troubled other heroes as well. Their main power is the ability to shape-shift, but they later learn how to genetically alter their warriors to have the same abilities as Earth's heroes. Perhaps their most prominent story is Secret Invasion, in which it's revealed that the Skrull have replaced several significant figures on Earth in a long-term plan to take over the planet. The heroes already didn't trust each other because of Civil War, so a complication of this scale wasn't helping matters. It was a vast comics event that crossed over dozens of different series, and it would make for a fascinating movie arc.
But that doesn't mean it can be entirely translated from page to screen. The main problem with these Skrull theories in regards to the movies is that you can't replace a main character like Iron Man for the long term because that means that anything you watched them do during that time has no meaning.
So let's lay out a hypothetical situation. It's revealed in an upcoming Avengers movie that Black Panther was replaced, and it's actually Skrull Panther that we've been following since the end of, let's say, Avengers 4. In this scenario, that means that we've likely gotten Black Panther 2 and seen T'Challa overcome some obstacle and go through some character development. At the time of watching this movie, we don't know he's a Skrull. However, Avengers 5 drops the bomb, and it's a huge twist. Maybe it's executed well in the movie, but it doesn't change the fact that whatever happened in Black Panther 2 doesn't matter now because T'Challa didn't go through that experience. That retroactively damages the sequel.
What I just laid out is a pretty specific situation, but if people want main characters to be Skrulled, then there are limited options. That's not to say that there aren't ways to get it to work. For example, they could tease during Black Panther 2's end credit scene that T'Challa gets switched out with a Skrull, and then hint that something is up with him during the lead into Avengers 5. That keeps what happens in the sequel meaningful while keeping the Skrull twist intact. It's called having your cake and eating it too.
It's also important to remember that during the Secret Invasion storyline, there weren't any big name superheroes who were replaced. The biggest were Hank Pym, Spider-Woman, and Jarvis the Butler, while others like Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Wolverine were left untouched. I would imagine that bigger names weren't revealed to be Skrulls for the same reason I listed above: it would just make everything that happened to that character prior pointless.
There's nothing wrong with only replacing side characters though. It's still an effective way to create a twist, and it dances around the character development issue because these guys don't get much anyway. For example, Selvig, M'Baku, or Maria Hill would make decent choices, or if you want a bigger wallop, then any Avenger without a standalone movie would do. The theory about General Ross being a Skrull is excellent because he's not a pivotal character, but he's recognizable and in a position of power. He'd make an awesome Skrull, so more characters like that being potential Skrulls would be great.
There is an argument to be made that because the Skrulls aren't main characters, that means it isn't "meaningful," but that all depends on the execution. If the story and action are good, then people will be happy to go along for the ride. Of course, one main character could end up being a Skrull to help add some extra punch, but Marvel would have to be careful with how they execute that. Thankfully, Marvel has shown to be nothing but careful when it comes to the planning of their movies. | 2019-04-23T02:54:00 | https://amp.cinemablend.com/news/2458115/the-problem-marvel-needs-to-avoid-with-the-skrulls |
0.999963 | Anarchy Is Hyperbole: Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein wrote this line not once, but many times in her poetry, starting with Geography and Plays. It became symbolic of her approach to poetry and writing, and was merchandised by her partner, Alice B. Toklas. It was intended to shed a fresh light on the hackneyed aspects of the word, yet ironically it has now itself become hackneyed and divorced from its meaning. But let's take a look.
The word "rose" has been heavily used for centuries. Indeed, it's one of the most symbolic words out there. Shakespeare used it many a time ("a rose by any other name") and it had a deep set of meanings in the Language of Flowers. There was a War of the Roses, a mystic order called the Rosicrucians, and endless references and uses in religion and poetry and literature: it stands for peace and love and the Rose of Sharon and the Virgin Mary and so on.
It's a heavily-used word. Any time someone writes about it, then, they're evoking all of those aspects. Often this is intentional. When they named the characters on Golden Girls, the naive character was called "Rose" because it evokes innocence and sweetness. What does a red flower have to do with innocence? Nothing at all, but there was heavy symbolism behind the word. In fact, you couldn't escape it. Even if "Rose" had been cruel, there would have been irony in her name and jokes about it. "Rose" is a burdened word, which makes it rich in meaning.
Gertrude Stein was a modernist - perhaps the most brilliant of them. She saw the rules of writing and literature, and the structures that limited them, and in the modernist tradition tried to leap out of those bonds. When she wrote "Tender Buttons," it was a poem whose meaning was conveyed more by sounds instead of the actual meaning of the words used (although of course those provided an additional level of meaning). When she wrote an autobiography, she only did it because she'd thought of a clever way to escape the limitations of the genre: she wrote it through another person's eyes. And so the burdening of words, like "rose," frustrated her. She asked herself how she could get back to the real meaning of the word.
I think that in that line the rose is red for the first time in English poetry for a hundred years.
A rose is a rose is an onion.
But we shouldn't forget that a rose really is just a rose sometimes. And knowing that it can be, is a gift of Stein's. | 2019-04-25T02:40:24 | http://www.anarchyishyperbole.com/2010/08/rose-is-rose-is-rose-is-rose.html |
0.998588 | Cancel Facebook Friend Request: The "Friends" is the considerable part of Facebook. If not friends after that there is no Facebook on the planet. It is running similar to a chain with the power of friendship. Facebook customers could send a friend request to a recognized person, whereas they could cancel sent friend requests.
Sending a friend request to a known person on Facebook is a basic thing although when you have the tendency to cancel a sent out friend request on Facebook, it is little tough to find because that the feature has actually hidden in the Facebook.
Nonetheless, I have actually clarified a means to see all sent out friend requests on Facebook either Mobile or PC. After reading this guide, you might have the ability to see all the sent friend requests as well as Withdraw them.
Facebook individuals tend to cancel sent friend requests for a number of reasons. However the main factor is that Facebook doesn't permit their individuals to send too many friend request to unknown individuals while most people does not want to accept the friend request from complete strangers. As a result, all unaccepted friend requests will certainly accumulate as pending friend requests by the Facebook. When an individual has too many pending requests, Facebook assume it is a spammy account, as well as it will restrict or block that account.
So, Did you have to send too many friend requests to unidentified persons? If indeed, after that indeed Facebook will certainly restrict some features for your account quickly so that you can prevent this issue by removing pending friend requests on Facebook.
There are two types of Facebook customers someone utilizes Facebook through COMPUTER, and somebody utilizes Mobile. So, I have actually given discuss for both customers COMPUTER and also mobile below.
Step 2: Click "Friends" icon on top right edge of the FB web.
Action 6: Finally, Move the cursor indicate "friend request sent" switch. (A tiny popup home window will certainly appear.) After that click "cancel request" from the popup window.
Tip: Alternatively you can simply browse to "Sent friend request" page using this link.
Action 1: Open Facebook on your Computer and also most likely to your Account Web page.
Step 2: Click "View Activity Log" (you will see all of your Facebook activities on "Activity Log" web page such as Like, Comment, shares, sent out friend request, obtained request, etc.).
Step 3: Now click the individual name from activity log that you have sent out a demand currently.
Step 4: Their account page will certainly open up, click "friend request sent" switch as well as choose cancel request.
This tutorial is everything about "cancel sent friend requests on Facebook" It is the very best means to safeguard your account from getting prohibited by Facebook. Also, you can simply recognize that not accept your friend request yet, as well as you can recall it if you favor. And no matter what your gadget is, you could perform this task on whether COMPUTER and Mobile. Hope this guide will be useful for those that wish to be away from being obstructed by Facebook. or that intend to identify an individual that declines their friend request on Facebook yet. If you have actually any questions associated with this write-up, then leave a remark listed below. | 2019-04-21T16:56:46 | http://www.maxwelltrain.com/2019/02/cancel-facebook-friend-request.html |
0.999743 | Bryce Harper called this shot.
The Washington Nationals slugger known for launching long home runs thrilled a fan at a recent game. He gestured for her cellphone, snapped a playful selfie and then tossed it back into the stands.
Harper took the picture in right field before Washington took on the Toronto Blue Jays in the second game of a doubleheader.
"It was pretty good," Harper told The Associated Press when he saw the photo after the game. "Just messing around a little bit with the fans. Enjoying it with them a little bit. It's always fun."
The 22-year-old outfielder was looking at a group of fans taking pictures of him from their Nationals Park seats when he noticed Jamie Roach. Harper motioned for the retail manager from Laurel, Maryland, to flip him her phone from about 15 feet above. She did, and he caught it.
Harper took a wide-eyed, silly faced picture of himself and threw the phone back to her.
"I was so excited. I've never gotten a ball from him. But now I've got this picture," Roach said. "It was very awesome. Like a kid in a candy store."
Roach said she goes to about 40 games a year. She quickly sent the picture to friends and strangers at the game and the selfie was uploaded to social media sites. The Internet took it from there.
The latest All-Star voting results released by Major League Baseball showed Harper leading all National League players with more than 2.3 million votes.
Forget about a picture being worth 1,000 words. Expect this one to be worth oodles of extra votes and fans.
"They were trying to take a selfie with me," Harper told the AP. "I went over there and said, 'Hey, toss me the phone and I'll do it for you.'"
Harper had two hits in the game. He ranks among the major league leaders in homers, runs batted in and batting average.
Critical thinking challenge: Why does Bryce Harper foster a relationship with fans?
Bryce Harper probably fosters a relationship with his fans so that he is more likeable. When more people like him the more people buy his product and support the team he plays on, making the team more money.
Maybe because he has been in their situation before and that he wants to make the game as entertaining as possible. That is probably why he has a relationship with his fans.
I definitely agree that was such a surprise to hear about! Even though I am not a baseball fan It would still be such an honor!
So would I. I'd totally freak out! I'd just be watching the game, maybe hoping for a high five, and then I'd have a selfie that Bryce Harper took WITH MY OWN PHONE! That would be totally surprising!
that must be cool that baseball players are taking selfies with the fans.the selfie was realy funny .If all baseball players did that it would be cool.
Tylerc-Pav I agree with you, I think that the fan is very happy about it because the article said that the Internet took care of it after the fan sent it to her friends.
I agree with you Cadenc-Der and with you to Tylerc-Pav. That fan is lucky. I wish I was that fan. I would send it to all my friends.
I agree with Tylerc-Pav.That would save the hassle of everybody asking for autographs as well as making the crowd feel happy. Maybe later people will instead of autographs get selfies!
I think its great that famous athletes interact with their fans a lot more than they use to. They are more lenient to people talking to them and stuff like that! | 2019-04-22T00:44:08 | https://www.tweentribune.com/article/tween56/baseball-star-snaps-selfie-fan-s-phone/ |
0.999611 | How is laryngeal cancer diagnosed?
It is important that your doctor establishes the diagnosis of laryngeal cancer, asssesses the size of the cancer and whether it has spread to the lymph nodes in the neck or elsewhere in the body.
Not everyone will need to have to every test for laryngeal cancer. Your doctor will recommend tests that are right for you.
This involves taking a small piece (sample) from the cancer. The sample is then examined under a microscope to check for cancer cells. This is often the only sure way to tell if you have cancer.
Biopsy of the larynx: This is commonly referred to as microlaryngoscopy and will need to be performed under a general anaesthetic (medicine to keep you unconscious), so that you don't feel any pain. During this procedure which is performed through the open mouth, your doctor will be able to accurately map the cancer and take a small sample for assessment. There may be some bleeding after the biopsy. If you take blood thinners (e.g. warfarin), you may need to stop these before the biopsy.
Needle biopsy (Fine Needle Aspiration or FNA): This is used when there is a lump (enlarged lymph node) in the neck that could have cancer cells in it. During the procedure, your doctor will take some cells from the lump using a needle. Usually this is done with guidance from an ultrasound to make sure the needle is in the right spot. You may feel a bit uncomfortable during the biopsy.
This uses X-rays to take pictures of the inside of the body. If the person has cancer, a CT scan can help the doctor to see where it is, measure how big it is, and if it has spread into nearby organs or other parts of the body.
This uses magnetic fields to take pictures of the inside of the body. This helps the doctor see how far a cancer has grown into the tissue around it.
This is a whole body scan that uses a adioactive form of sugar which can show if laryngeal cancer has spread to the lymph nodes or elsewhere in the body. | 2019-04-25T00:54:01 | https://www.beyondfive.org.au/Types/Laryngeal-cancer/Diagnosis |
0.998819 | 1. I can explain why the Gilded Age Presidents are called, "The Forgotten Presidents."
2. I can list the positives and negatives that each Gilded Age president had on the U.S. during his presidency.
3. I can judge whether or not each Gilded Age President was a positive influence on the U.S. or a negative influence on the U.S. during the Gilded Age.
Weak or Not? You Be the Judge.
The people will tell you that the presidents after Abraham Lincoln were weak and that Congress wasn't so strong either. In fact, some people say that after the Civil War it was the new, rich businessmen who ran the country. Now there is something to that - but it's not the whole story. So when you read of the nine men who sat in the White House after the Civil War, keep an open mind. Some of these presidents were stronger than they may seem.
was shot. You may already know that. In case you have forgotten the details, here is a review.
After the war, the United States needed a president who could tell leaders from both the North and the South to behave. But Johnson couldn't get Congress to respect or even listen to him. He wasn't a bad person, he was just stubborn. You do have to admire him for a few things. A tailor-shop foreman taught him to read when he was 14 (He wasn't lucky enough to go to school). First he was a tailor; then he became a mayor, a U.S. representative, governor of Tennessee, and a U.S. senator. He was the only Southern senator to support the Union when Lincoln was elected (that was in 1860).
After the Civil War, Johnson had a rare opportunity. The country needed to solve its racial problems now that slavery was abolished. Most people believe that President Lincoln would have attempted to solve them. President Johnson didn't even try. Partly because of that failed opportunity, racial hatreds continued to haunt the nation in the l9th and 20th centuries.
Andrew Johnson let the same men who had seceded from the Union and started the Civil War take power in the South. He seemed to approve of Jim Crow, the spirit behind segregation and white people's hatred of blacks. He snubbed some of the moderate leaders in the North and South who wanted to compromise. He vetoed a civil rights bill aimed at helping the freed slaves. (It was passed over his veto.) He opposed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that gave African - Americans citizenship after the Civil War. Andrew Johnson was a backward - looking president at a time when the nation needed to go forward. He was so unpopular that some congressmen accused him of crimes and tried to throw him out of office. He was impeached, but saved from conviction by one vote.
The country needed a strong, capable president. Unfortunately, the next president was another failure. He was the great Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant. Being a general isn't at all like being president. In fact, the very things that made him a good general worked against him as president. Like Johnson, he was stubborn. That's not a bad trait for a general who has to keep fighting. It doesn't help a president who needs to be flexible enough to compromise.
There was something else that worked against Grant. He was too nice and trusting. He trusted men who weren't trustworthy; they got rich stealing from the government. There was much corruption and dishonesty when Grant was president, and he didn't realize it until too late.
During the Johnson and Grant presidencies, Congress sent troops south to see that elections were open to everyone. Male former slaves were able to vote. Black men were elected to state office and to Congress. Some white southern leaders didn't like that. So when the next presidential election came along they decided to take charge. They wanted to take the vote away from black men, and they began to do it.
President Rutherford B. Hayes was president from 1877 - 1881. He didn't do anything to stop the southern leaders who tried to take the vote away from black men. Hayes's election was one of the closest in our history. More people voted for his opponent than for him. He won in the electoral college by one vote, and that made him president. His supporters made a deal to pull the government troops out of the South in return for that vote. That was the end of most attempts to be fair to black people in the South.
Actually, if it hadn't been for that, historians would look kindly on Hayes. He worked hard at being president; he ended the corruption of the Grant years; he was an honest man. Hayes's wife was a supporter of the growing temperance movement. Temperance supporters wanted to prohibit (ban) the drinking of alcohol. So did Lucy Hayes. She was known as Lemonade Lucy because she served only lemonade at White House parties. And that wasn't a bad idea. This was a time of extremes, when some people drank too much. President and Mrs. Hayes set a good example.
James A. Garfield was our 20th president for less than a year in 1881. He was born in a log cabin in Ohio. As a boy he had a job driving a horse that pulled boats along the Erie Canal. Garfield got a fine education at Williams College, became a school principal, and then a congressman. He might have been a good president, but a man with mental problems shot and killed President Garfield soon after he was elected.
Chester A. Arthur took over as the 21st president and served from 1881 - 1885. "Gentleman" Arthur, as he was known, was over six feet tall and good-looking. He wore stylish clothes and had whiskers that bushed down the side of his face, though his chin was shaved. He was a reformer: he wanted to make the government as efficient as possible. He did that by making the Civil Service Commission powerful. Civil-service jobs are government jobs. Politicians had been giving government jobs to their friends, usually as payoffs for favors. That was a terrible practice. It meant that the jobs often went to the wrong people. The Civil Service Commission made people take examinations for government jobs. Arthur's reforms angered some congressmen, and he was not nominated for a second term.
Cleveland was 49 and a bachelor when he was elected. He soon married young Frances Folsom. When they started having children - they had five in all - they really livened up the White House. No president before had ever had a baby while in office.
Cleveland was another reformer. The reforms he had in mind had to do with money and organization and honesty. He didn't concern himself with social justice or fairness. He didn't understand the new problems faced by industrial workers or the old problems of racial injustice.
During Cleveland's presidency, in the southwest, the Apache chief Geronimo surrendered to army forces. That was the end of the Indians' freedom to live as they wished. At the time, hardly anyone - except the Native Americans - seemed to care. When Cleveland ran for a second term he lost the election. The man who beat him was Benjamin Harrison.
Benjamin Harrison was president from 1889-1893. Harrison was born in Ohio, but his family had roots in Virginia and Indiana. His father was a member of Congress; his grandfather, "Old Tippecanoe," was the nation's ninth president; his great-grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence.
During Harrison's administration the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed. It outlawed the monopolies that suppressed competition. Six new states were admitted to the Union while he was president.
Harrison had a problem that today's presidents wish they had. There was too much money in the U.S. Treasury! At least some economists thought so. Congress and Harrison's appointees decided to go on a spending spree. Harrison just let it happen. A lot of money went to modernize the navy. But when Harrison left office the country was in trouble financially.
The next president was a man you have met before: Grover Cleveland. He was our 22nd president from 1885 - 1889 and the 24th president from 1893 - 1897. Cleveland came into office at the start of a big, five year long depression, one of the nation's worst ever. The stock market went way down, lots of people lost their jobs, and the times were awful for many Americans. Cleveland and his government didn't do much to reverse the depression, but governments then weren't expected to do that.
Grover Cleveland always seemed to be puffing on a cigar. That probably caused the sore he discovered in the roof of his mouth. The sore was cancerous. It needed to be operated on at once. President Cleveland was afraid that if people knew he was dangerously ill it might make the stock-market panic even worse. He left Washington. Everyone thought he was going to Cape Cod for a vacation. Secretly, he went to New York. A yacht was waiting in the East River. Inside, in a specially equipped operating room, surgeons removed two teeth and the cancer. "My God, Olney, they nearly killed me!" said Cleveland to his attorney general, Richard Olney. Actually, the doctors saved his life. The president was soon back at work. Almost no one knew about that operation. Could that kind of secret be kept today? Should it be?
The next president, William McKinley was president from 1897 - 1901. He was chief executive at the turn of the century. He was the first president since Andrew Johnson without a beard or mustache. McKinley had volunteered to fight during the Civil War; that helped make him popular. (Many wealthy men paid a substitute to fight for them.) He was a lawyer, and smart, with good manners and a kindly way. He liked people and they liked him.
The United States fought a war with Spain while McKinley was president. Spain's time as a world power was ending; the United States' time was beginning. After the war-which lasted for 100 days, - the United States controlled the Philippine Islands, Guam, the Samoan Islands, and Puerto Rico. During the war we annexed Hawaii. There were native leaders in each of those places who wanted independence, not U.S. control.
McKinley was elected to a second term. Six months after the election, he was at a world's fair in Buffalo, New York shaking hands with citizens who wanted to meet their president. A young man stepped up; one of his hands was wrapped in what looked like a bandage. No one realized it, but the man was an anarchist. He believed all governments were bad. Besides that, he may have been insane. The anarchist pressed the "bandage" against the president's stomach. Inside was a revolver. He fired twice. McKinley fell to the floor. The assassin was caught and beaten. "Let no man hurt him," cried McKinley. Eight days later the president was dead.
"l told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man," said McKinley's friend Mark Hanna when he heard the news. The "wild man" he was talking about was Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
When Roosevelt took office, the time of weak presidents was over. Theodore Roosevelt acted as if he had swallowed a tornado. He had incredible energy. He also had a sense of fun. The American people had a good time with Roosevelt as president.
In today's team activity, you will work together to determine the good effects and the bad effects each Gilded Age president had on the United States. Only one form has to be completed per group. One person should type. The other members should skim the text for the answers. When every group has completed the chart, we will discuss the answers as a class.
Andrew Johnson: the 17th president of the United States and president during Reconstruction. He was vice president to Lincoln and succeeded him when Lincoln was shot. Before he was vice president, he was the only senator from the south to side with the union during the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant: the great Union Civil War general who accepted the surrender of the Confederacy that ended the Civil War and became the nation's 18th president. There was much corruption and tension during his presidency.
Rutherford B. Hayes: the 19th president of the United states who ended much of the government corruption from Grant's presidency but allowed Jim Crow laws to develop in the South.
James A. Garfield: school principal, congressman, then 20th president of the U.S. for less than a year in 1881 until a man with mental problems shot and killed him soon after he was elected.
Chester A. Arthur: took over after Garfield as the 21st president from 1881 - 1885; he was a reformer - made the Civil Service Commission powerful. politicians did not like this so he was not nominated for a second term.
Grover Cleveland: the 22nd and 24th president of the U.S.; he was an honest reformer; saw the surrender of the Apache chief Geronimo; and felt that it was not the government's job to get involved in the economy.
Benjamin Harrison: the 23rd president who implemented the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; admitted 6 states to the union, and put the nation into debt.
Theodore Roosevelt: the nation's 26th president who brought back order to the U.S. government and economy thus ending the weak chain of Gilded Age presidents.
Geronimo: the Apache chief that surrendered to army forces ending Indians' freedom to live as they wished.
racial: when one refers to a group of people that share the same color and physical characteristics.
depression: A long period during which the economy is poor and many people are without jobs. During an economic depression, spending by consumers, businesses, and the government goes down significantly.
anarchist: a person who uses violence against the government because they think the government is bad in some way.
James A. Garfield becomes president.
Chester A. Arthur takes over as president.
Jim Crow Laws: laws in the South that legalized segregation or separation between blacks and whites. The term "Jim Crow" came from a black character in a play performed in 1828.
temperance movement: a group of people who wanted to ban alcohol and make it illegal.
Make sure you play the Trivia game before October 18th with a 100% for your pass off grade for Module 9. | 2019-04-25T23:43:31 | https://www.aprilsmith.org/lesson-9-the-forgotten-presidents.html |
0.999679 | Why is it more expensive to build in a city like Boston, or NYC than in a city like Houston, or Tampa.
Does anyone in the know, or who experience, have any insight into the economics behind projects being built in this city and why they cost more than projects elsewhere?
Is the higher cost of Boston overblown, as in it really doesn't cost more, or even that much more?
Do unions play a big role in driving up costs?
workers do cost more here, but I don't think that is a significant cost relative to land and materials. The land is certainly more expensive. Aside from that, I can't really think of what else might drive up the cost.
Glaeser says zoning, regulation, permitting. Pioneer Institute's got a link to the study here.
I'm not familiar with the regulatory system in other cities, but take a look at Article 80 if you want to see how onerous the process in Boston can be.
All these things, but also space constraints and mitigation needs. Think about needing to get all those trucks and materials in and out of tight urban spaces.
Glaeser actually addresses space constraints. The numbers don't support land limitations being a major variable. It's one of those things that seems to make a lot of sense, but doesn't really pan out when you look at the numbers sum total.
If you're looking for the #1 factor, I bet it is the regulations. Perhaps needing to have the right connections can take a toll as well.
I'd say zoning is number 1. In Houston you can buy an acre of land and build an 60 story building as-of-right (or a 100 story building for that matter). In Boston, maybe the equivalent as-of-right zoning allows for 20 stories. So in Houston your spreading the cost of the land over 3x as many square feet. So when people talk about psf development costs, you're behind the 8-ball before you've even broken ground.
Permitting and uncertainty are definitely a huge factor as well.
Aren't space constraints and zoning profoundly interrelated. Brookline is already built up into short residential neighborhood. So of course the zoning is going to call for short, residential developments. If you had large swaths of open space, you'd be less likely to run into NIMBY opposition.
Aren't space constraints and zoning profoundly interrelated.
Yeah, in a lot of ways. In this instance though, the question is "does land in Boston cost a ton because there isn't a lot of empty space?" and the answer is that there's enough empty space that price doesn't correlate strongly with scarcity.
Now, I'm just basing this off my intuition (and I'm certainly not discounting how badly the regulatory environment slows things down), but I have to think that the lack of space isn't as big of a driver of costs as what is there.
In many urban locations built after WWII, the development that exists there, even when completely filled out, is not necessarily the kind of construction that prohibits further development or replacements. Or, simply put: There's less cost in tearing down a strip mall in a sprawling western city than there is in tearing down the childhood summer home of the brother-in-law of the third attorney general of the Commonwealth.
I'm almost inclined to think that mixed-use development, for all its 'pros' does engender greater NIMBYism than other types of development. Again, if you're surrounded by strip malls, who's going to complain about what you're building? If you're surrounded by offices, retail, and residential, suddenly, your development impacts many different types of neighbors differently, and they all want to air their grievances.
Most of Boston isn't at all 'mixed-use' or anything of the sort. The things that engender NIMBYism are the LACK of mixed-use development and overall stale marketplace with little new construction post-WWII. | 2019-04-18T19:04:41 | http://www.archboston.org/community/showthread.php?s=0e6630f1d1ea03ad141d74c4421b0a8b&p=171037 |
0.999303 | Democrats, Republicans and Independents all agree on one thing according to a recent Gallup.com survey - reinvigorating America's stagnant economy and job market should be President Obama's top goal during his second term in the White House.
Gallup.com recently conducted a survey in which they asked the question: how important is it that President Obama accomplish each of the following during his second term as president - extremely important, very important, somewhat important, not too important or not important at all? Respondents were asked to rate the importance of things such as the economy, Iran and illegal immigration.
Democrats, Republicans and Independents all listed the economy as the most important issue for President Obama to "solve" in his second term. 99% of Democrats said that restoring a strong economy and job market was "extremely or very important", compared to 93% for Independents and 92% for Republicans.
For Democrats, the second most important issue was ensuring the future of Social Security and Medicare. 96% of Democrats who took part in the survey said that this issue was "extremely or very important". This issue was also the second most important for Independents as well (86% of Independents said that it was extremely or very important).
Restoring the economy was President Obama's top goal during his first term in office, and it continues to be his top goal (at least in the eyes of Americans) in his second term. | 2019-04-19T06:29:47 | https://www.davemanuel.com/2012/11/18/americans-to-obama-restoring-strong-economy-should-be-top-priority-in-second-term/ |
0.999973 | The purpose of this article is to take a look at some of the best stunt scooters on the market and figure out what makes the best stunt scooter for kids. Doing so requires looking at features like weight, size, ease of maintenance, and even style to figure out which model suits your little one.
Stunt scooters are becoming increasingly popular among extreme sports fans. Before kids can graduate to the larger, more feature-filled scooters, though, they’ve got to start with something that’s a bit closer to their own size.
Durability is the name of the game for this scooter. It’s perfect for any kid who wants to learn how to grind on a scooter, something that can easily cause a lot of wear and tear on scooters with less robust decks.
It’s the best stunt scooter for kids who are really going to put a scooter through its paces, though it still works well enough for almost any young rider. It doesn’t have a lot of the special construction features you might expect from some of the other names on this list. Nonetheless, the fact that it can take a beating really does make it an ideal fit for anyone who is just learning how to ride.
This model from Swagtron is definitely a solid pick if you’re looking for the best stunt scooter for kids, even if the name leaves something to be desired. Name aside, it’s a great scooter that can really grow with a young rider.
It’s billed as perfect for ages seven to fifteen, with an adjustable stem that will grow along with a rider. It’s also very light, which makes it easy to cart around as well as perfect for doing tricks. Combined with a smooth rider and good handling, this makes for a good entry scooter for any young rider who wants to get better on a scooter.
Vokul’s fairly well known in the world of stunt scooters, so it shouldn’t come as a huge shock that it makes at least one entry on the list of best stunt scooter for kids. While it does provide a child with a smooth and easy ride, one of the best features of this particular scooter is how easy it is to put together.
Tighten three nuts and you’ll be good to go – no worries about small parts or dealing with strange pieces. This is a good scooter for those who are just starting to figure out how they want to ride and don’t want to make a huge investment quite yet.
Induxpert markets its FMX scooter as a true trick scooter, and much of that has to do with the design. While it’s impossible to know how much truth is behind the company’s claims of having pros design every component, the fact is that this scooter is incredibly responsive.
On top of that, the Induxpert model is also a good fit for older kids, and even teens. That’s because it’s easy to ride even if you are over six feet tall. The real selling point should be the construction, though. This is a hard scooter to wear out and it really will reward the rider’s perseverance by responding to his or her commands easily.
The Chili Reaper is a step above what you’d generally find among the best stunt scooter for kids, to say nothing of the average scooter. This is something that’s a bit more akin to what the pros use. Thanks to some awesome technology used in the development, kids will enjoy a smoother, more controllable ride.
While this one isn’t a great fit for very young children, it’s one of the few scooters that can grow with a rider very well. It’s not quite going to take your child into his or her adult years, but it’s still a great fit for teens.
Fortunately, stunt scooters don’t take an awful lot of maintenance compared to other rideables. While there are certainly things at which you need to look, be aware that your primary tool is going to be either a screwdriver or a hex wrench when dealing with most problems.
Your primary goal should always be making sure that the handlebars are tightly connected to the stem. If they go loose, you could have a major problem when attempting a trick. Give the handlebar and stem a quick once-over before you start riding and tighten them whenever necessary. It might keep your child from riding for a few extra minutes, but it is more than worth the effort.
Any one of the scooters listed here has a good claim to being the best stunt scooter for kids this year. These scooters are all great for growing riders and can stand up to the punishment that tends to come with learning how to ride. If you’ve had and experience with one of these scooters – or if we have left a great scooter off the list – don’t keep it to yourself – get in contact with us and share your story. | 2019-04-19T10:23:55 | https://bestgokartreviews.com/best-stunt-scooter-kids/ |
0.99999 | We are the youth of digital era or we can say we are the people of 21st Century. We don't have and orthodox thinking; neither do we have a dogmatic approach towards life. We don't believe that stars or a heavenly body determines our future. It's us, who live in the present and create our own beautiful future. We try to see life above all superstitions and wrong customs. But yes, we sometimes peep ina news paper now and then or in magazines just to know what our hosroscope says or sometimes only to see the lucky number and lucky colour of the day. And what's wrong? After all we are human beings, who are always curious to know the future beforehand. Plus this is also science. Astrology is the science of predictions. If you seriously don't believe in the aforementioned statements then here follows the evident that proves it: An app in facebook build by kudos limited called Astrology have 5,800,800 monthly active users worldwide. Another famous app is Daily Horoscope, It has around 7,700,00 monthly active users. And on ecan find thousands of such apps with astronomical numbers of users. And if only india is considered then please remember the fact that india is next after USA and Brazil with more than 45.9 million users of facebook. 76% of them are youth of age group of 18-34 years. hence proves!
Many ancient cultures attached importance to astronomical events and complex systems of astrology were developed by the indians, chinese and Mayans. Among Indo-European peoples, astrology has ben dated to the third millennium BC. With roots in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts, it was used to inerpret celestical cycles as signs of divine communications. Around 2100 years ago astrology spread to the eastern Mediterranean and became popular in Egypt . It was there that the system was modified into what is regarded as the Greek style of asstrology essentially the root of the modern style of astrology. During the Dark and middle ages, astrology was taken up enthusiastically by islamic scholars, who kept alive much of the art and knowledge of ancient Greece. It was subsequently adopted by Renaissance figures including Copernicus, Newton and Galileo, whose study of it helped to develop the modern science of astronomy. It was only at the end of the 17th century that new astronomical concepts began to damage the credibility of astrology. Is this prediction of science or is this science of prediction?
There are many numerology systems which assign numerical value to the letters of an alphabet. Some try to convert letters to numbers and add them up, others try to assign properties and descriptions to each number. So not only your birth date decides your number but your name too.And not just these, the numbers in your address help determine the energy that surrounds you and the people you live with. Some astrologers even believe that each number from 0-9 is ruled by a celestial body inour solar system.
it is a common misconception that the 12 animan zodiacs assigned by year are the only signs, and many western descriptions of chinese astrology draw solely on this system. In fact, there are also aimal signs assigned by month, day and hours of the day. The combination of one's birth year, month day and hour are a part of the 4 pillars of chinese astrology which determine one's fate. The chinese new year is based on the cycle of the moon. It falls between min january to mid february. Year 2012 saw chinese new year on 23 january and the next year it is going to come on february 10.
Do you think you have mixed traits of 2 sign? If you were born on the first or last day of a sun sign, in astrological tems you were born on a cusp. If that's the case , you will probably benefit from reading your own sun sign. For e.g. if your birth date is 22 december , your sun sign is capricorn, so stick to capricorn predictions. the doubt that youare a mcix of signs is amyth as the position of sun can only be in one sighn at a time but the other traits can be due to influence of moon signs and ancestral signs in the birth chart.
Tarot card were initially used as playing cards. They later become associated with mysticism and magic. From the late 18th century until the present time the tarot has also found use by mstics and occultists in efforts at divination or as a map of mental and spiritual pathways. Although each card reflects some core truth, thinking that each tarot card is always read the same way is a misconception. What one sees in the card is always read the same way is a misconception. Wha one sees in the card is also a reflection of his physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state at that time which keeps on changing. It is one of the few ways to develop one's spiritual and intuitive capabilities.
Palmistry is no more a mysterious word. It is among one of the techniques that originated in india and is very commonly practices. now a days a new branch known as geometrical palmistry has been added to it. Geometrical palmistry is the study of figures found in hand. This deals with the inclusive study of all the advantages and disadvantages of the numerous signs foud in hand. There are many other geometrical figures on the hand besides lines like the cross triangle, and circle, which point towards the nature of the person and references to likely future events. | 2019-04-19T10:52:46 | https://www.astroshree.in/2012/05/predictions-science-astrologynumerology.html |
0.997521 | What is it about Dandelions and Lily of the Valley that inspires such venomous hatred?
Mars and I recently attempted to give some of the latter to a family member who is landscaping a newly acquired house. "Thanks for the offer, I like it but the dh hates it, at the other house he hacked it out with an ax."
I have gotten this kind of response before. One time I donated some LotV to my garden club's annual plant sale. It was unanimously and derisively banished from the "for sale" section and relegated to the "please, please take one for free" table where it was totally ignored -- except for some Master Gardeners who visibly recoiled at the plant's proximity. At least no one took a sharp steel wood-chopping tool to them.
Dandelion detestation is even more dramatic. I often feel it myself.
Every day I stalk my lawn looking for the slightest glimpse of lion-toothed leaf to root out with my well-seasoned, fork-tongued weeding tool -- "The Herbinator". I actually find this mano-a-mano style of horticultural combat to be quite relaxing.
But gentlemanly dislike often escalates into rabid detestation. Particularly after I've just duck-walked the lawn, dug up that last broadleaf weed and, as I am stretching the muscle spasms out of my back, spot one more insidious yellow-headed outlier. Suddenly blind anger obliterates my pain and, weeding tool in hand, I rush forth in a Norman Bates-like frenzy, stabbing wildly at the missed miscreant -- and vowing not to look for any others as I return my weapon to its storage bucket.
All because of golf, public parks, and Levittown.
Invented on the natural grasslands of Scotland the first golf course in the United States was built 1888 in New York. The sport rapidly developed in popularity creating a grass-roots industry all its own.
"Between 1910 and 1924, the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) helped fund and carry out research in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture about the best ways to cultivate grass. Reportedly the first experimental turf farm in the U.S. resided where the Pentagon sits today.
"In the mid 19th century, as cities grew and became increasingly industrialized, city beautification campaigns became common, and the 'park' was born. "Eventually lawns migrated from the civic center into North Americans' backyards. A key figure in this movement was Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903), a.k.a. the American father of landscape architecture, who planned New York City's Central Park in the 1850s, as well as parks in Boston, Montreal, and elsewhere. Olmstead not only popularized the use of meadows in public parks, but also designed suburbs in which each residential home sported a lawn."
Then came Levittown -- "The Ideal American Community". Built 1948-52 it was the first affordable-dwelling suburb to include established lawns "which residents were required to keep up but forbidden to fence in. The importance of a neat, weed-free, closely-shorn lawn was promoted intensely in the newsletters that went out to all homeowners in these subdivisions, along with lawn-care advice on how to reach this ideal."
"Science and technology produced a whole train of inventions: the rotary lawn mower, effective (if not safe) pesticides, the first weed-free grass seeds, combined fertilizers and pesticides (early Weed and Feed products), and spreaders to make their application so easy it was child's play. Out of these developments came the possibility of the weed-free lawn."
There was of course some collateral damage. Clover, a beneficial nitrogen-depositing part of lawns, became the enemy because the new "2,4-D" herbicides could not distinguish that herbaceous three-lobed plant from the broad leaf weeds they were intended to eliminate.
But maybe it could have evolved differently.
A recent New Yorker magazine article told of the restoration of the Askernish golf course, in Scotland -- built in the early 1900's and designed by Old Tom Morris, the founding father of modern golf. In 2005 the course was still in use but not in its original configuration. The restorers were determined to recreate golf holes of the type that Morris and his contemporaries did, in the same way that they would have constructed them. They would not use pesticides or artificial fertilizers, or install any irrigation system. Maintenance would consist of no more than cutting the grass and filling in old rabbit burrows.
To me that seems like the way golf and landscaping were really meant to be -- playing through what nature gives you. Unless, of course, the ball happens to land in front of some Lily of the Valley or dandelion that interferes with my swing. Then, without hesitation, I will reach into my golf bag, take out my trusty Fork-Tongued Weeding Wedge, and chip that sucker right into the nearest trash pail.
Matthew 5:21-22 says "whosoever is angry...without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment." | 2019-04-26T16:12:53 | http://www.compostablematter.com/2009/06/justifiable-herbicide.html |
0.999999 | Given the regional dimension of the project, and in order to enhance its coordination, the Ministers in charge of Energy of the North Core countries agreed to put in place an institutional framework which includes the set up of an Implementation Management Unit (IMU) to, among others, assist in the preparation and physical implementation of the North Core project.
This includes leading environmental, social, health and safety compliance activities, reviewing, in collaboration with regulatory institutions, and implementing environmental, social, health and safety policies and guidelines, monitoring the implementation of the Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs), Health and Safety Plans (H&S Plans) and the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) and reporting on all environmental, social, health and safety issues relating to the project.
The job holder will also oversee compensation processing for project affected persons, and collaborate with the Senior Social Safeguards Specialist to undertake crop and property enumeration, as well as facilitate prompt payment of compensations.
Generate environmental and health and safety reports on a regular basis.
The candidate should have a certification in Health and Safety and have at least 5 years experience in Health and Safety in similar projects.
Experience in regional projects will be an added advantage.
The Senior Environmental and Health and Safety Specialist will report to the Director of the IMU and will supervise all field environmental and health and safety officers.
The Senior Environmental and Health and Safety Specialist will establish and maintain good working relationships with all Environmental Regulatory Agencies and Bodies within the Project Area (Agencies, City Councils, Village Development Committees (VDC’s) and all other Project Stakeholders.
The Senior Environmental and Health and Safety Specialist will be resident at the Head Office of the IMU in Abuja (Nigeria) but will be required to undertake frequent visits to the field offices of the IMU and the project sites.
This is a full time position and the jobholder must demonstrate the required dedication and commitment to achieving results.
The Senior Environmental and Health and Safety Specialist will prepare and submit activity reports at the end of each month, to the Director of the IMU for approval as well as prepare various environmental and health and safety reports on a regular basis.
Acquisition of accurate data relating to environmental and health and safety complaints within the project area.
The performance of the Senior Environmental and Health and Safety Specialist will be evaluated annually by the Director of the IMU, based on the above performance criteria, an annual work plan and deliverables agreed upon at the beginning of the appraisal period. Quarterly performance reviews will however, be conducted by the Director to facilitate the identification and prompt management of performance related issues.
The job holder is required to be fluent in French and English. Ability to use relevant computer software (MS Word, Excel, Power Point) as well as the internet is also a key requirement for all positions.
This is a full time position, envisaged for a term of approximately 36 months. Successful candidates will be stationed at the IMU Head Office in Abuja, Nigeria but will be required to make frequent visits to the field offices of the IMU and/or project sites located in any of the following countries: Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso.
Within the framework of the West African Power Pool (WAPP), the Governments of Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Togo and Burkina are collaborating to develop a sub-regional interconnection project referred to as the 330 kV WAPP North Core Project.
The project involves the construction of approximately 875 km of 330 kV transmission lines from Nigeria to Burkina Faso, through Niger, and Benin. The project will also involve the electrification of rural communities located within a 5 km radius on both sides of the line, and the implementation of a number of environmental and social mitigation measures. These include, among others, the implementation of Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) to provide for persons and communities affected by project implementation activities.
The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will assume full responsibility for preparing the overall M&E strategy of the project.
S/he will be responsible for strategy implementation and overseeing monitoring and evaluation of all project related activities and programs. S/he will provide leadership in the design, monitoring and evaluation of the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan as well as ensure compliance with requirements of the funding institutions.
The job holder will be responsible for collecting and analyzing project performance and monitoring work plans of the IMU. S/he will manage evaluations and support the Director of the IMU in using performance information for decision-making and resource allocation. S/he will also be responsible for preparing and compiling periodic monitoring and reporting documents.
The responsibilities and tasks of the Senior M&E Specialist will be executed within an office context but involves extensive field work as well.
The jobholder will therefore, be expected to travel periodically to various locations within the project countries and/or beyond.
Support the IMU Director in the preparation of various project progress reports and summary notes for the attention of stakeholders and donors and advise the Director on the use of performance information in decision making and resource allocation.
Masters degree and above in a relevant field of study such as Social Sciences, Economics, Psychology, and Mathematics as well as qualifications, and proven use of Statistics.
At least eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in monitoring and evaluation, five (5) of which should have been in projects of similar complexity (multiple locations and stakeholders, regional project).
Experience in monitoring Energy projects or in the electricity sector will be an advantage.
Experience in managing surveys with electronic data collection tools.
M&E system design and management.
Excellent ability to use relevant statistical software (such as STATA or SPSS), GIS software, such as ArcGIS and other relevant software such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Good internet skills.
The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will report to the Director of IMU.
The job holder will collaborate with key project stakeholders in the execution of his/her responsibilities. These include IMU staff, contractors, project consultants and funding institutions.
The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be resident at the Head Office of the IMU in Abuja (Nigeria) but may be required to undertake frequent field visits.
The Senior M&E Specialist must be fluent in English or French with a working knowledge of the second language.
The position of Senior M&E Specialist is for a term of approximately thirty six (36) months. This is a full time position and the jobholder must demonstrate the required dedication and commitment to achieving results.
The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will prepare and submit various reports as required to the IMU Director and project financing institutions.
These will include monthly, quarterly and annual project/progress reports, baseline and other evaluation reports.
Development of effective communication mechanisms with IMU staff, work teams and/or departments/units to ensure responsiveness to M&E requirements.
The performance of the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be evaluated annually by the Director of the IMU, based on the above performance criteria, an annual work plan and deliverables agreed upon at the beginning of the appraisal period. Quarterly performance reviews will however, be conducted by the Director to facilitate the identification and prompt management of performance related issues.
Ability to use relevant computer software (MS Word, Excel, Power Point) as well as the internet is also a key requirement for this position.
The Senior Procurement Specialist will lead, manage, execute and coordinate tasks related to the procurement of goods, works and consulting services for the implementation of the Project and for the needs of the IMU.
S/he will ensure that all project related procurement and contract management activities are performed in a fully professional, transparent, and ethical manner, and in line with procurement regulations and guidelines of the international financing agencies involved in the project.
The job holder will be responsible for the coordination, preparation, monitoring and updating of the procurement plan. S/he will also act as Secretary to the Procurement Committee and Evaluation subcommittees.
Prepare procurement documents, communications, guidelines, instructions related to contract award processes.
Participate in donor required supervision missions.
Seasoned knowledge and specialized command of procurement policies and practices of multilateral developments banks, including new concepts under the World Bank and AfDB’s procurement regulations.
Experience in the power sector and/or regional projects will be an advantage.
Strong relationship building with internal and external clients and stakeholders as well as service providers at all levels.
Ability to focus on impact and results delivery; consistently showing a positive attitude to work with energy.
Ability to demonstrate initiative and critical thinking in the application of established policies, rules and procedures.
The Senior Procurement Specialist will report to the Director of IMU and supervise a Junior Procurement Specialist.
The job holder will maintain close collaboration with the IMU project team.
The Senior Procurement Specialist will be resident at the Head Office of the IMU in Abuja (Nigeria) but may be required to undertake frequent field visits to the local offices of the IMU, project sites and field offices of the North Core project.
A key requirement for the position is proficiency in English and French, particularly in reading and writing.
The position of Senior Procurement Specialist is for a duration of approximately thirty six (36) months. This is a full time position and the jobholder must demonstrate the required dedication and commitment to achieving results.
The responsibilities and tasks of the Senior Procurement Specialist will be executed within the office context. The jobholder may however, be expected to travel periodically to various locations within the project countries and/or beyond. The jobholder may also be required to perform duties outside of normal working hours, as necessary.
The Procurement Specialist will prepare and submit activity reports at the end of each month, to the Director of the IMU for approval. The jobholder will also prepare various reports as required including procurement and contract management reports among others.
Timeliness and quality performance delivery with respect to core responsibilities as agreed upon with immediate Superior.
Cost savings achieved on project choices set against best practice benchmarks.
The performance of the Senior Procurement Specialist will be evaluated annually by the Director of the IMU, based on the above performance criteria, an annual work plan and deliverables agreed upon at the beginning of the appraisal period. Quarterly performance reviews will however, be conducted by the Director to facilitate the identification and prompt management of performance related issues.
The jobholder is required to be fluent in French and English. Ability to use relevant computer software (MS Word, Excel, Power Point) as well as the internet is also a key requirement for this position.
The Senior Financial Specialist will have broad responsibility for the financial management; accounting policy, procedures and reporting; and practices of the Implementation Management Unit (IMU). This involves ensuring financial planning, control and reporting as well as the efficient administration of financial resources.
The jobholder will also ensure that the IMU complies with international accounting standards and procedures, and that financial reports are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as well as standards of financing institutions. The Senior Financial Specialist will also ensure the IMU’s adherence to tax regulations and provide the IMU Director with updated financial information on a regular basis.
Ensure that the IMU has in place and in use efficient systems and processes, to enable it commence the management of project resources.
Represent the IMU on all financial and procurement matters as well as on any other tasks assigned by the IMU Director.
Qualification as a professional accountant (e.g. CA, ACCA, CIMA, DSCG, DESCOGEF etc.) or membership of an accounting body will be an added advantage.
Knowledge of procedures and guidelines of International Financing Institutions such as the World Bank, and/or Agence Française de Développement (AFD)” including how to deliver concise and accurate reports to strict deadlines as well as a good understanding of donor specific procedures for submission of withdrawal applications particularly for the Project funding partners.
Good knowledge of financial policy and procedures and financial models for a similar institution and proven experience in developing financial models for complex operations.
Ability to use computer software i.e. MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and financial management software (e.g. enterprise resource planning - ERP applications) as well as the Internet.
The Senior Financial Specialist will report to the IMU Director and supervise the Project Accountant and Accounting Assistant.
The jobholder will collaborate and cooperate with external auditors, particularly in the review of draft financial statements of the IMU. S/he will also relate with the funding partners of the project.
The jobholder will be resident at the IMU head office in Abuja, Nigeria, but may be required to undertake frequent assignments at the IMU’s local offices and project sites in the North Core countries.
The Senior Financial Specialist of the IMU must be fluent in English or French with a working knowledge of the second language.
The responsibilities and tasks of the Senior Financial Specialist will be executed within the office context.
The jobholder may however, be expected to travel periodically to various locations within the project countries and/or beyond.
The Senior Financial Specialist will be expected to provide monthly financial reports to the Director of the IMU and the Board as well as develop and maintain timely reports to meet all financial reporting obligations and deadlines of the various financing agencies. S/he may also be required to provide adhoc reports as and when necessary.
Prompt disbursement of funds to honour project related obligations.
The performance of the Senior Financial Specialist will be evaluated annually by the Director of the IMU, based on the above performance criteria, an annual work plan and deliverables agreed upon at the beginning of the appraisal period.
Quarterly performance reviews will however, be conducted by the Director to facilitate the identification and prompt management of performance related issues.
The Senior Social Safeguards Specialist will lead and coordinate the planning, development and implementation of safeguards policies for the North Core project.
This includes the review of social safeguards instruments such as resettlement policy frameworks and resettlement action plans in collaboration with relevant government agencies and local beneficiary groups, compensation processing, monitoring of ESMP and RAP implementation and monitoring of safeguards policy compliance of the project throughout its duration.
The Senior Specialist will oversee and report on the implementation of the Resettlement Action Plans as well as the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Environmental and Social Management Plans, in collaboration with the Environmental Specialist,.
The jobholder will also pursue and maintain effective relations with affected communities, regulatory institutions and all project stakeholders.
The Senior Specialist will also oversee the functioning of the grievance redress mechanisms and a continuous communication program with the affected communities.
The responsibilities and tasks of the Senior Specialist will include extensive field work although s/he will also work within an office context.
The jobholder will thus be required to make regular field visits to communities affected by the project as well as travel periodically to various locations within the project countries and/or beyond.
Play the role of team leader and supervise the performance of reporting staff, providing clear direction and regular monitoring and feedback on performance.
Bachelor/HND degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Applied Social Science, Environmental Science or other related fields combined with specialized experience of a minimum of fifteen (15) years as Social Safeguards Specialist on a similar project, may be considered in lieu of a post graduate degree.
International or regional experience in coordinating and working with multi-disciplinary teams and project stakeholders is essential for this position.
Creative and innovative techniques for planning and implementing environmental and social management policies.
Practices and cultures of communities affected by the project.
Excellent spoken and written communication skills in French and English.
Ability to proactively apply relevant international best practices to work and solve social issues.
Ability to work in a team, supervise and motivate a project team.
The Senior Social Safeguards Specialist will report to the IMU Director and supervise all field social safeguards officers.
The jobholder will maintain collaborative relationships with all Project stakeholders including affected communities, regulatory institutions and key experts in the power utility companies of the North Core countries.
The jobholder will be resident at the IMU head office in Abuja, Nigeria but will be required to make regular and frequent field visits to communities affected by the project as well as undertake frequent assignments at the IMU’s local offices and project sites in the North Core countries.
The Senior Social Safeguards Specialist must be fluent in English and French.
The position of Senior Social Safeguards Specialist is for a term of approximately thirty six (36) months. This is a full time position and the jobholder will be expected to demonstrate strong commitment to achieving results.
The Senior Social Safeguards Specialist will be expected to provide regular reports to the Director of the IMU on the implementation of the project’s social safeguards instruments.
The performance of the Senior Social Safeguards Specialist will be evaluated annually by the Director of the IMU, based on the above performance criteria, an annual work plan and deliverables agreed upon at the beginning of the appraisal period. Quarterly performance reviews will however, be conducted by the Director to facilitate the identification and prompt management of performance related issues.
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0.999998 | Were the Taliban behind the actions of a rogue Afghan army soldier who allegedly killed three British servicemen overnight while they slept? The militants claimed that the episode, which included a shooting and a grenade assault, was a premeditated attack, part of a new strategy to push back against coalition forces spread out in record numbers across southern Afghanistan's battle zones. Although the inside-job claim remains unconfirmed, the killings cast a shadow on the quality and reliability of Afghan security forces deployed in a hostile region where they are being groomed to take the reins of their country's security and wean themselves from dependence on Western troops.
The assault took place at a British military outpost in Nahr-e-Saraj district, a Taliban stronghold near the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. A senior Afghan National Army (ANA) officer identified the gunman as Talib Hussein, 23, a member of the ethnic Hazara minority from Ghazni province who had served for less than a year, mainly in remote swaths of Helmand province, far from home. After killing a major in his bed, the suspect fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the base's command center, killing a British lieutenant and Nepalese Gurkha and injuring four others, before he managed to flee outside the wire. A manhunt has ensued even as the Taliban assert he is now with them in a "safe place."
It's a strange sequence of events, given how brutally the Hazara were persecuted under a Pashtun-dominated former Taliban regime that massacred thousands. Today, Hazara Taliban are all but unheard of because of the history of bad blood and differences of orthodoxy: Hazaras are Shi'ite Muslims, considered heretics by the rigidly Sunni Taliban hard-liners. To explain the anomaly, General Ghulam Farook Parwani, the deputy corps commander for the ANA's southern forces, alleged that Hussein was a habitual hashish smoker a widespread phenomenon within the ranks. Even if that's true, however, it hardly provides a clear motive for the deadly outburst.
This is not the first time Afghan security forces in Helmand have turned against their foreign partners. In November, five British soldiers were gunned down by an Afghan policeman they were training in Nad-e-Ali district. There were reports the policeman might have lashed out after being repeatedly insulted. But while these cases are isolated, they are sure to amplify existing anxieties felt by NATO military planners over the status of Afghan security forces, which are expected to shoulder greater responsibility when foreign troops eventually start to withdraw. The Afghan army is held in higher regard than the national police force, which is widely deplored as corrupt and erratic when put to the test. Still, billions in American taxpayer dollars appear to have yielded less-than-stellar results.
The Afghan forces' shortcomings were cast in sharp relief in February when U.S. Marines launched an offensive to clear the Taliban out of Marjah, the opium-poppy-trafficking area in central Helmand. Despite a game fighting spirit exhibited by many of the Afghan troops involved, U.S. officers grew more and more frustrated with the ANA's inability to follow complex orders and coordinate attacks against a determined foe. As the campaign wore on, it were largely consigned to a secondary role. Much to the dismay of American officers, these troubles persist in parts of Marjah where the Taliban have since regrouped with help from outside fighters trying to chip away at the Marines' hard-won gains.
The summer fighting season is now in full gear across the south. In a recent 24-hour stretch, eight American troops died in a series of attacks that included a car-bomb assault and a gunfight outside the Kandahar city police compound. In Marjah, where fierce firefights and roadside-bomb strikes occur every day, the ANA often appears to be yet another burden for U.S. forces, with problems ranging from insubordination to the careless handling of weapons. During a morning patrol on the edge of town late last month, for example, a gunshot rang out within seconds of U.S. troops' stepping outside the base, sending Marines ducking for cover. The discharge, however, was accidental an Afghan soldier had fumbled his rifle. It wasn't the first time something like that had happened.
The love-hate relationship was better illustrated during a route-clearance operation later in the week. The three Afghan army soldiers who accompanied Marines were useful when a private compound with women and children needed to be searched for weapons. With respect to the deeply conservative mores of the area, Marines stood back while the Afghans talked reassuringly with the family and checked things out. That same day, however, the men brazenly disobeyed the orders of a Marine officer when they refused to walk any farther toward a dangerous stretch of road. They simply stood their ground as he cursed up a storm and threatened to throw them into a nearby canal, a threat they could not understand.
"These guys are gonna be in pretty bad shape when we finally get out of here," said a low-level Marine officer, shaking his head. "Most of them are a danger to themselves." He wasn't entirely kidding. In the case of one front-line unit based in northern Marjah, three attached Afghan soldiers (at last count) had shot themselves in the foot and one in the hand. Whether the shootings were intentional or not, the upshot is that such incidents usually result in quick transfers out of the battle zone. | 2019-04-22T00:05:49 | http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2003917,00.html |
0.992982 | Chart is looking great to the trained eye..
The below image is the one day chart. Each candle represents one day... makes sense Looking at it... it looks amazing. To the emotional, not knowing what theyre doing, probably shouldnt be investing in the first place individual, it looks horrible....but why? XRP must not go straight up. We were at .20.. had a run. The chart MUST reset. there is no other option. it MUST reset. Several people in here said it accurately even before the drop, that XRP is going to drop... and it did. Remember the symmetrical patterns which occurred? Look closely at the chart. Now, the huge run up is the start of the next one. Hidden in plain sight. We're fine.
CRYPTO TALK EP.1 - IS PANIC SELLING XRP A BAD IDEA?
What does the chart tells you?
If you look on the chart today, what do you see? More green candles to come? I am sceptical. The D1 looks good, the H1 is something like an upward trend, but the M5 seems to topple.
XRP Consolidation. Agree or Disagree?
Someone I know who is an amazing chartist and a millionaire from his own investments drew this today. Notice he drew it even before the escrow information was revealed AND when the price was still dropping. Thoughts?
Ripple Technical Analysis for 06/27/2017 – Triangle Breakdown!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-27/visualizing-expanding-universe-cryptocurrencies The author impartially stated the main use case of XRP: Here's the chart that tells the reason why your investment in XRP is the smart long-term bet: I don't like the concept of anybody losing money - I hope those in bitcoin are transferring it as fast as they can to a crypt-currency with a future... XRP People!
Hello guys! Last week I was looking at Bitcoin Chart and its astonishing Bull Market Range from: $2.5 (2011) - $1160 (2014). So, I remembered something I read some years ago that teaches one to have patience and do not lose his position in a great bull market - it`s about one chapter of the "The Zurich Axioms" and the link bellow sums up the idea behind it: http://www.tischendorf.com/2009/07/02/jesse-livermore-advice-how-to-trade-in-a-bull-market/ One should make an experience: open the bitcoin chart and try to imagine that you don`t know the next bar at right. Don`t you fell, in many moments, that you have to sell when it gives you a 10 X profit in hand? Or 20X profit? Think about, we are talking about a 430X the price... and even if you are positioned at $10 it`s more than 100X...So, if you did, you could stay in the beginning of the bull run and never and ever again make the profit you should do being patient and not moving. Many times we have the hope to sell and buy again in lower prices but thinking better and realistic: in a fast bull market it`s almost impossible you don`t lose the train. Take a look at Bitcoin Chart again (I know you`ve looked many times to it dreaming about how you`ll be happy if XRPs make half off this, even a quarter): https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=BITSTAMP%3ABTCUSD I made this post because I believe that sometime XRP will start a great bull market and if it become true we are the people who are best positioned. I know that the book I`m quoting is in many ways arguable but in other ways make some sense (It think this case is one of them). I apologize for my poor english, specially when writing, but I hope you guys will understand my point off view. God bless you and good sunday!
Does somebody know of a handy chart that will simply identify by "~" name the accounts with the biggest sales of XRP for a given day? I think this would give me - and potentially many others - a handle on who is creating the supply in the current XRP bear market. I think this is important from several perspectives: If the supply is being created by Ripple Laps wallets, then that has implications for the community to understand how much per day they are dumping on the market. If the supply is being created by Ripple Labs employees or large XRP holders (former founding members of Ripple Labs, e.g.), then that also has implications for the community. If the supply is being created by investors within the community or other large volume traders not associated with Ripple Labs, then that is probably less problematic for the long-term outlook. Does anybody know of a chart that targets this information? | 2019-04-26T00:21:43 | https://www.xrpchat.com/tags/chart/ |
0.999982 | Distinguishing between AUVs and other types of marine vehicles is not quite as straightforward. The field of taxonomy in biology faces a similar issue - what defining characteristics should be used to group different species? Biologists use a number of different methods - differences in size, rRNA, cell structure, life history, ecological (functional) role, etc. - and each biologist has his/her preferred classification method(s). Similarly, marine robotic vehicles can be classified by differences in size, propulsion, energy acquisition method and storage, depth capacity, decision-making abilities, etc.
Taxonomical definitions are also evolving; for example, many are familiar with the older "Kingdoms" system (which included the two, five, and six kingdoms) and (are possibly less familiar with) the "Three Domains" classification, which suggests that life can be classified by an organism's cell structure. An even earlier classification divided life into two types: prokaryotes, which are unicellular and do not have membranes to contain their organelles, and eukaryotes, which may be single or multicellular and have membranes. In 1977, an American biologist named Carl Woese suggested that prokaryotes be split into two groups: bacteria (containing all "typical bacteria") and archaebacteria (which, in 1977, only comprised of methanogens, or bacteria that could produce methane, but now includes more members and has been renamed to archaea), resulting in the "Three Domains" . However, to this day, biologists continue to debate the various classification methods, with continued modifications occurring as we learn more about life on Earth. Likewise, marine robotic enthusiasts will each have their own methods of classifying marine vehicles.
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are self-propelled, intelligent robotic devices that carry instruments and sensors for sampling and surveying underwater areas. As their name suggests, they do not require manual operation, and thus are distinct from Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and other manned submersible vehicles (like submarines).
HOW CAN WE DISTINGUISH AUVS FROM OTHER VEHICLES?
Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs), which (to add to the confusion) are also called Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs), are vehicles that travel on the surface of the water and do not have a human operator. They often resemble boats (or, in the case of wave gliders, surfboards) and from far away, you might not be able to distinguish them between a remote-controlled toy boat or even a traditional motorboat. These are generally NOT considered AUVs, as they never go below the surface (unless something has gone terribly wrong). A specific example of an ASV is Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider which sits on top of the water and uses wave energy as its primary mean of propulsion.
The term glider may refer to both wave glider (discussed above in the Autonomy section) and ocean glider. Unlike a wave glider, an ocean glider IS often considered an AUV as it is both autonomous and operates completely underwater. Ocean gliders use changes in buoyancy to move vertically, and (like wave gliders) use ocean currents to move horizontally. They are therefore similar to air gliders, except that ocean gliders have as little difficulty moving up as they do down. Like wave gliders, ocean gliders can travel for long distances as they do not require much power (only to make small adjustments in their buoyancy). A good explanation of an ocean glider and one of the most widely used types (the Slocum glider) can be found at a website produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Gliders are often considered as a separate oceanographic vehicle category, as they usually move passively; that is, they rely on buoyancy and water movement to travel, whereas other AUVs use active propulsion (i.e. using a diesel engine, batteries, solar energy). The idea of separating vehicles based on their ability to move independently is comparable to how we separate biology in the ocean: phytoplankton (from the Greek words for "plant" and "drifter") move in the same way as gliders, whereas their predators, zooplankton (from the Greek words for "animal" and "drifter") are capable of swimming and can thus propel themselves independently, similar to AUVs and ROVs.
Figure 1 summarizes common instruments used to measure ocean properties. The grey boxes indicate the flow from general oceanographic measuring tools to different categories of AUVs.
Broken links? Spelling errors? Please let me know. | 2019-04-25T12:40:14 | http://www.adozenautomobilesandkites.com/marine-vehicles-types.html |
0.99992 | a plate attached to said trailing end of said implant configured for engagement to the first and second vertebrae when said implant is positioned in the spinal disc space, said plate including an elongated body extending along a central longitudinal axis from an upper end to an opposite lower end, said plate body including a top surface and an opposite bottom surface extending between upper and lower ends, said bottom surface of said plate body including a notch extending proximally therein toward said top surface, said notch comprising a first surface extending parallel to said axis configured to engage a face of said implant at said trailing end, said first surface extending between side surfaces each extending transverse to said axis configured to simultaneously engage said superior and inferior bone engaging surfaces.
said trailing end of said implant is positioned in said notch in abutting engagement with said first portion of said bottom surface of said plate body.
3. The implant assembly of claim 1, further comprising a spacer in said notch, said spacer defining a width between a proximal side and an opposite distal side of said spacer, and said bottom surface of said plate body is positioned in abutting engagement with a proximal side of said spacer and said trailing end of said implant is positioned in abutting engagement with a distal side of said spacer.
4. The implant assembly of claim 3, wherein said proximal side and said distal side of said spacer extend from a first side surface to an opposite second side surface, and said first and second side surfaces each define a groove therein that extends through said proximal and distal sides of said spacer.
5. The implant of claim 3, further comprising a fastener extending through said plate and said spacer and in engagement with said implant.
6. The implant assembly of claim 1, wherein said plate body includes a first hole adjacent to said upper end that extends through said top and bottom surfaces and a second hole adjacent to said lower end that extends through said top and bottom surfaces, and further comprising first and second bone engaging fasteners extending through said first and second holes, respectively, configured for engagement with the first and second vertebrae.
7. The implant assembly of claim 6, wherein said plate includes first and second recesses in said top surface of said plate body, said first and second recesses being located adjacent to and in overlapping relation to respective ones of the first and second holes, and further comprising first and second retaining elements in respective ones of said first and second recesses to prevent backout of said first and second bone engaging fasteners from said first and second holes.
8. The implant assembly of claim 7, further comprising a central bore through said top and bottom surfaces of said plate body between said first and second recesses, said retaining elements each being positionable in overlapping relation to said central bore to prevent backout of a fastener that extends through said bore to engage said implant to said plate.
9. The implant assembly of claim 1, wherein said plate includes first and second tines extending distally from opposite sides of said plate and said implant body includes first and second grooves in opposites thereof, and said first and second tines are positioned in respective ones of said first and second grooves.
10. The implant assembly of claim 1, wherein said top surface of said plate body is convexly curved on said central longitudinal axis from said upper end to said lower end of said plate body and said upper and lower ends are each convexly curved between opposite sides of said plate body.
11. The implant assembly of claim 1, wherein said plate body includes a first hole in said upper end that and a second hole in said lower end, said plate including first and second recesses positioned between said first and second holes, said plate including a bore positioned between said first and second recesses and first and second retaining elements in respective ones of said first and second recesses, said retaining elements being rotatable relative to said plate and each including opposite concavely curved sidewall portions between opposite convexly curved sidewall portions, said retaining elements being movable between a first configuration in which one of said concavely curved sidewall portions is aligned with said bore and the other of said concavely curved sidewall portions is aligned with a respective hole and a second configuration in which one of said convexly curved sidewall portions overlaps said bore and the other of said convexly curved sidewall portions overlaps a respective hole so as to at least partially block said bore and said hole. | 2019-04-20T13:03:13 | https://patents.google.com/patent/US8480747B2/en |
0.998178 | These devices don't require a set of powerful CPUs and GPUs to carry out machine-learning tasks. Google researchers are instead trying to lighten the hardware load to carry out basic A.I. tasks, as exhibited by last week's release of the Android Wear 2.0 operating system for wearables.
Google has added basic A.I. features to smartwatches with Android Wear 2.0, and those features can work within the limited memory and CPU constraints of wearables.
Android Wear 2.0 has a "smart reply" feature, which provides basic responses to conversations. It works much the way predictive dictionaries do, but it can auto-reply to messages based on the context of the conversation.
For example, the skimmed down machine-learning model can classify a few words -- based on sentiment and other clues -- and create an answer. The machine-learning model introduces a streaming algorithm to process data, and it provides trained responses that also factor in previous interactions, word relationships and vector analysis.
A.I. is becoming pervasive in smartphones, PCs and electronics like Amazon's Echo Dot, but it largely relies on machine learning taking place in the cloud. Machine-learning models in the cloud are trained, a process called learning, to recognize images or speech. Conventional machine learning relies on algorithms, superfast hardware, and a huge amount of data for more accurate answers.
Google's technology is different than Qualcomm's rough implementation of machine learning in mobile devices, which hooks up algorithms with digital signal processors (DSPs) for image recognition or natural language processing. Qualcomm has tuned DSPs in its upcoming Snapdragon 835 to process speech or images at higher speeds, so A.I. tasks are carried out faster.
Google has an ambitious plan to apply machine learning through its entire business. The Google Assistant -- which is also in Android Wear 2.0 -- is a visible A.I. across smartphones, TVs, and other consumer devices. The search company has TensorFlow, an open-source machine-learning framework, and has its own inferencing chip called Tensor Processing Unit. | 2019-04-24T23:02:54 | https://www.computerworld.com/article/3168738/google-crams-machine-learning-into-smartwatches-in-ai-push.html |
0.998714 | How about some very cool food books from the University of California Press?
Here's the latest in frankenfood (brought to you by CUNY Journalism student and brave new foodie, Linnea Covington).
The Green Bay Packers may be 10-1 in the NFC North, but their fans better make way for the growing number of east coast cheese heads: office workers who have traded in their suits and ties for a life of curds and whey.
The allure of cheese-making, for some, is the chance to satisfy their inner foodie. Some say they wanted to work with animals and live in a rural setting. For others, making a tactile product is a welcome change from an office-bound existence.
Stopped in New Haven for some clam pizza and visited the Yale Center for British Art's amazing exhibition, "Isaac Mendes Belilsario And His Worlds." If you are interested in the politics of sugar, this is the place to go. Admission is free.
Love this blog, which includes the menu for Francois Mitterand's final dinner, including a recipe for L'Ortolan, France's national bird, no bigger than your thumb, to be eaten with a napkin on your head.
Only place to go is Angelo's. Excellent smelts.
As the American Stomach heads to points north for the yearly feast, he leaves you with the following advice: Do not let this happen on at your table!
Jixian, China -- In July, two dozen Albertson's grocery stores in California received a shipment of fresh ginger and put it on shelves. Several days later, state inspectors discovered that the ginger, which had been imported from China, contained a dangerous pesticide. State health officials warned Californians to avoid ginger grown in China.
Although epidemiologists have shown that ebola can be be contracted by butchering chimpanzees, there's nothing like bushmeat in a stew of onions and tomatoes. Not to mention a sprinkling of bush hog, lion, and antelope. Here's the article.
Here's the news, from today's ASFS Listerve . . .
We are launching a new culinary website later this month at http://foodsville.com. (PASSWORD: EAT). We are busy getting the site tested by a few people who are making sure that things are working correctly. We should launch sometime in November. We are looking to build a community of people who care about food history. The site is organized by neighborhoods of food interests. This project is a joint one by Applewood Books (a publisher) and Hewlett Packard (HP). At the heart of the site, we will be offering, at no cost, lots and lots (10-20,000) of older cookbooks for people to read and write electronic notes on the books' pages. Our hope is to build communities around the primary content, by allowing the community to discover and explore it and write about it. We will also be offering other innovative ways for people to use the content. | 2019-04-20T19:18:05 | https://frederickkaufman.typepad.com/frederick_kaufman/2007/11/index.html |
0.999541 | I should get out more.: Are animals capable of making conscious lifestyle choices?
Are animals capable of making conscious lifestyle choices?
Homosexuality in nature. This isn't a new discovery, yet it remains that a lot of people don't realize that animals can be gay, too. Which sort of flies in the face of accusations that homosexuality is a choice or is unnatural. | 2019-04-21T22:52:26 | http://nicademia.blogspot.com/2011/01/are-animals-capable-of-making-conscious.html |
0.998218 | MEGHAN Markle has made a huge step attending the Queen's annual Christmas lunch.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry arrived together at Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Christmas lunch.
They were also joined by Kate Middleton and Prince William and their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
36 year old Meghan was glowing as she was pictured sat beside her future husband in the car, wearing a black and white lace dress and a pair of diamond drop earrings.
Other royals attending the event were Prince Charles, the Duchess Of Cornwall Camilla Parker-Bowles as well as Prince and Princess Michael of Kent among many others.
And while Meghan and Harry are engaged, the 33 year old bringing his bride to be to the event is a huge step in the pair's relationship as the real traditions behind the event are revealed.
So what is The Queen's Christmas lunch?
The Queen's Christmas lunch is a royal tradition which takes place every year.
Her Majesty invites family members to Buckingham palace for a meal, this year including the likes of Princess Beatrice of York.
The event allows the monarch to spend time with more distant relations who she does not see regularly, and who will not be joining her for Christmas day in Norfolk.
This is a big step for Meghan as, while the Suits actress has met Harry's immediate family, she would have met Harry's more distant relations for the first time.
Meghan has shockingly been invited to spend Christmas day with the Queen and the rest of the family, which is unexpected for a someone not married into the family.
However, it appears the relationship the Queen has with Meghan has made her bend the rules. | 2019-04-24T20:53:33 | https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-feature/1258490/meghan-markle-queen-christmas-lunch-tradition-prince-harry-kate-middleton-prince-william |
0.999137 | What is so darned interesting on the screen? That's what I was asking myself at a recent conference as I saw speaker after speaker looking at the screen repeatedly during their presentation. It's not like anything had changed on the screen - it wasn't that they had put up a new point or moved to a new slide. They just regularly looked at the screen. It was almost like they were wondering if the screen was still there or what was displayed had changed without them initiating it. I got to thinking why they would be doing this. I think it is because they needed to remind themselves what point they were discussing. If this is the case, let me suggest some better ways to go about making sure you cover what you need to for each topic in your presentation. First, position your laptop so that you can see it when you are facing the audience. If you need to sneak a peek at what is on the screen, look at your laptop instead of the big screen behind you. Trust that what is on the laptop is the same as what is on the screen - because 99+% of the time, it is. Second, build each slide point by point or make only one point per slide. This way, you only glance at the slide when the point comes up and don't need to look again because you know what you need to talk about. If you have multiple points on the slide all at once, you need to keep looking to see if you've covered all the points. Multiple points on the slide also makes it harder for the audience to connect what you are saying with which point on the slide. Use a presentation remote device to change points and slides so you don't need to keep looking at a multi-point slide to see where you are. Third, rehearse what you are going to present. Too often, presenters look repeatedly at the screen because they need to remind themselves of what they wanted to say. This is a sign of lack of proper preparation. If you have rehearsed your presentation multiple times, you will be familiar with the material and it will flow smoothly without having to look at the screen to remind yourself of what you wanted to say. There is nothing wrong with glancing at your laptop screen to remind yourself of the point you have just shown the audience. But use the tips above to reduce the tendency to repeatedly look at the screen while you are discussing the idea with the audience. If you use visuals instead of text-heavy slides, this becomes so much easier. Learn how to transform text slides into persuasive visuals with my book "The Visual Slide Revolution" at http://www.visualsliderevolution.com . | 2019-04-20T18:53:43 | https://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/issue-170-october-14-2008/ |
0.99983 | The change to the game effectively limits ai node branches from becoming too long, and forces people to build ai a specific way(horizontally). I do not agree with this change at all, as it limits creativity, while punishing good ai building.
This change feels unnecessary, considering node leagues would essentially do the same thing, but would allow players to keep their creativity in designing the ai the way they choose.
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Code optimization should be done to make your AI simpler to make you AI more agile. This is something a player should decide to do by themselves when they think the time is right and they've learnt enough.
It should definitely not be enforced by the developer of the game onto the player by punishing them.
Terrible idea. I can't think of a single reason why this makes sense.
I have more to say than just this question (I'll wait until I set up my laptop), but one of those trello cards implies a cap to the amount of lag you can get. What is that cap?
I don't see any advantage in adding such a feature either. The more restrictions, the more disappointed players get (especially newbies).
mcompany wrote: I have more to say than just this question (I'll wait until I set up my laptop), but one of those trello cards implies a cap to the amount of lag you can get. What is that cap?
As I wrote on telegram (well, I am mostly inactive in this period, snort) I see it as a way to reward small AIs of newcomers/creative people vs large AIs of veterans. This because a large AI by itself is not inherently better, indeed it takes a lot of games to polish it.
Anyway exactly for what I wrote above I don't really see the need of rewarding smaller AI. Having a large AI is already a chore (a partial reason why I am not yet back) and so who has a small AI is rewarded on the long run to be more flexible. To keep a large AI flexible - at least until we have a really powerful editor with multiple nodes copy/paste/clipboard - one needs quite some work, especially to avoid conflicts.
TL;DR: I understand that is an attempt to make things "fair", but it misses the point, as large AI are already maintenance intensive by themselves.
That's a way to incite new players to keep their AI size reasonable and reduce the chance they eventually realize they went overboard and quit the game by lack of motivation to optimize or restart from scratch.
That's also, I think, an interesting constraint for advanced players that could see it as an additional layer of difficulty and a new opportunity to be creative with optimizations.
Also, I'm currently working on AI edition/debugging improvements.
Honestly, this will have the reverse effect.
In programming we learn to be modular. You have one class that does one thing, and one class that does another thing. Separation of concerns.
What this change is promoting is the opposit. Why would I have a Defense module and an Attack module when I can get to way less nodes if I mash them together?
Same way that specialized modules now become bad design. Before this change I would have a 1v1 module, I would have a module for specific situations.
Now I'm forced to remove these and throw everything into one pot. Basically you are telling us "please use spaghetti code, but make it short".
Node count isn't the only way to judge if an AI is good. I've seen some peoples AIs and they look like a pile of garbage. People don't use modules and put everything into one AI, thats why their AIs get messy and they quit. Not because they used 200 node instead of 100.
Also, no, it's not an "interesting constraint for advanced players". It's a handycap, you are forcing us the make our AIs worse.
Only condition and action nodes are counted.
My modules contain other modules which again contain other modules. This adds up to a lot of nodes inside the main module.
Each module itself doesn't contain more than 20 nodes.
GFX47 wrote: That's a way to incite new players to keep their AI size reasonable and reduce the chance they eventually realize they went overboard and quit the game by lack of motivation to optimize or restart from scratch.
mcompany wrote: One of those trello cards implies a cap to the amount of lag you can get. What is that cap?
There's no cap for now.
I'm against this change. It'll kill my main ai. I guess simplebot will return to being everyone's main ai.
I also don't know about this feature. This behavior would prefer writing an AI for each bot, because each bot specific node is validated false for the other bots (and therefore would delay execution). Perhaps bot specific code should not count to the number of nodes, because it could be precompiled.
If implemented the delay has to be visualized well.
Also a good-idea-AI will probably loose against an fast-executed-dumb-AI, because of this. So you would loose players that are depressed by the fact their AI is smarter, but killed easier.
As a separate mode though, why not? I mean hey we could test a prototype, see how terrible it is, and then decide what to do.
I postponed it for now.
Please don't implement this. I think it can only be harmful from a gameplay perspective. I have many thoughts related to this, but the main reason is that it's important to strictly reward players for making a more intelligent AI. If people want to hear my other thoughts, I'd gladly post them.
From a technical perspective, I think the best solution would be to place a node cap on each bot for ranked, unranked, and tournaments. This should be as high as as possible -- any gameplay-related node restrictions should be separate from this. To determine what the node cap should be, take the slowest system you plan on supporting and see how many nodes it can reasonably run. If you do this, make sure you have features which allow players to work around this limitation. For example, a total node count in the AI editor, which can be enabled in the settings, and a warning anytime a user submits a bot with anywhere near the node cap. | 2019-04-20T20:23:19 | https://forum.gladiabots.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1275 |
0.999962 | How does orthodox cancer therapy "save" half the women with breast cancer? Half the women don't have breast cancer in the first place.
The world's first controlled clinical trial of adjuvant therapies for breast cancer was centralised in my department..Dr Leslie Blumenson and I... made a surprising discovery. More than half of the patients..had tumours..that were more like benign lesions.
Breast cancer and prostate cancer are statistical twins. When the functions of these two sexual organs diminish, the cells often become abnormal and look like cancer cells...The Journal of the American Medical Association reported amazingly high survival rates...of untreated early prostate cancer which showed 7 out of 8 of the tumours were not cancers.
There is no reason for women to panic when they hear "cancer"; panic makes them easy victims". Dr Irwin D. Bross PhD, former Director of Biostatistics, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, New York.
"My studies have proved conclusively that untreated cancer victims live up to four times longer then untreated individuals. if one has cancer and opts to do nothing at all he will live longer and feel better...With every patient that...boosts his health to build up his natural resistance, there's a high chance that the body will find its own defence against the cancer..." Prof. Hardin B Jones - then America's leading cancer statistician - Dep't of Physics and physiology, Univ. of California.
The patient who is wrongly diagnosed and has no cancer, and is therefore more likely to survive the "therapy", is recorded as a "cancer cure" and is often paraded in the press and on television.
This encourages others, some of whom have genuine cancer, to go down the same road.
The patient with cancer and in a weak state is usually killed by the treatment and is recorded as having "died of cancer". Those who never had cancer in the first place are made far more likely to develop cancer in the future from the lethal effects of the surgery, drugs and radiation.
ORTHODOX "CANCER CURES" COME FROM THE WRONG DIAGNOSIS: EITHER THE PATIENT NEVER HAD CANCER IN THE FIRST PLACE OR STILL HAS IT AND HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED "CURED" AFTER FIVE YEARS. THOSE WHO DIE AFTER FIVE YEARS REMAIN IN THE "CURE STATISTICS - CURED AND DEAD.
The only way to successfully treat a cancer patient is to restore the patient's health.
The Cancer Business is the second largest money-spinner in the world: only its close relative, petrochemicals, is greater. As of the year 2000, the "Imperial Cancer Research Fund" and the "Cancer Research Campaign" have around 170 years of fund-raising between them. When they started, cancer was a rare disease: now around 40% - and rising - of the population have, or will develop cancer.
Well over £100,000,000 - and rising - per year is now being collected by the main cancer and leukaemia research fund-raisers.
The cancer research racket has three main facets: financing the development of highly lucrative treatments known to kill the patient up to four times faster than the disease does: ignoring, ridiculing or sabotaging safe, effective cancer therapies: protecting the industries, particularly the petro-pharmaceutical syndicate, who are responsible for the cancer epidemic.
In the 60 years since these words were written, (this article was written in 2000 - Amigo) orthodox cancer research is still on the same useless, but highly profitable path. The treatment has remained on precisely the same lines: attacking the tumour or the cancer cell with the scalpel/drugs/radiation and usually killing the patient in the process.
Anyone who has seen a friend or relative die this way - someone who may well have survived with safe, effective treatments - should remember that those responsible knew exactly what they were doing, having seen the same lethal procedures destroy hundreds, if not thousands, of patients before.
To smokescreen the total failure of the cancer and leukaemia research programes, periodic "breakthroughs" are announced by the cancer mafia and their on-the-payroll media lackeys. Any increase in survival times for cancer and leukaemia victims is entirely down to the cancer orthodoxy being finally forced to use less lethal treatments. The pseudo-scientists of the Leukaemia Research Fund were forced to admit "The intensive therapy give to children...can result in intellectual impairment, heart damage, growth disorders, and...second cancers." When a patient dies from the effects of the treatment more than five years after diagnosis they stay in the 5-year "cured" statistics: cured and dead.
People who are diagnosed as having cancer or leukaemia and who are, later, diagnosed cured, fall into one of three categories: those who still have cancer; those who have had their cancer defences restored by natural, holistic means; those who never had cancer or leukaemia in the first place. "I wouldn't be surprised if they are curing a lot of leukaemia that never existed" anonymous U.S. cancer statistician.
THE ONLY WAY TO SUCCESSFULLY TREAT ANY PATIENT WITH CANCER OR LEUKAEMIA IS TO RAISE; TO A HIGH LEVEL; THE HEALTH OF THE VICTIM.
This approach is of no interest whatsoever to the research organisations, fronting for the drugs industry and pretending to look for a drug to "cure cancer": a totally impossible concept.
The "Imperial Cancer Research Fund" and the "Cancer Research Campaign" have over 170 years of fund-raising between them: they are now collecting over £100 million each year. When they started, cancer was a rare disease; now it is an out-of-control epidemic. 40% - and rising - of the population have or will develop cancer: by the year 2010 (art. written 2000 - ed) UK citizens will, probably, be more likely to develop cancer in their lifetime than they will be to avoid it.
The Cancer Business is second only, in size, to its close relative, the petrochemical industry.
The Business has always continued to grow by deliberately facing in the wrong direction.
THE NEW THERAPY MUST BE DISBELIEVED, DENIED, DISCOURAGED AND DISALLOWED AT ALL COSTS, REGARDLESS OF ASCTUAL TESTING RESULTS AND, PREFERABLY, WITHOUT ANY TESTING AT ALL." The Houston/Hull Analysis.
THE INFORMATION TO SUCCESSFULLY TREAT CANCER HAS BEEN IN FOR DECADES: ONE CLINIC, ALONE, HAS TREATED 100,000 PATIENTS OVER THE SPACE OF THIRTY YEARS.
To protect the industries which are responsible for the cancer epidemic and, thereby, ensuring that the disease continues to increase, with ever more millions pouring into the "research" coffers, The Imperial Cancer Research Fund issued a statement - "One of the biggest myths in recent years is that there is a cancer epidemic caused by exposure to radiation, pollution, pesticides and food additives."
Surely there should be some result to show as a partial excuse for the torturing of so many animals...the public still does not realise that nothing is likely to happen, no progress ever likely or even possible whilst the research is done on demonstrably wrong lines."
60 years, countless millions of pounds, animals and human victims later, the deliberate fraud continues at an ever increasing rate.
THE IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND THE CANCER RESEARCH CAMPAIGN THE LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH FUND THE YORKSHIRE CANCER RESEARCH CAMPAIGN TENOVUS CANCER RESEARCH CANCER AND LEUKAEMIA IN CHILDHOOD TRUST THE INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH THE WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND...all support vivisection.
Animal research GUARANTEES failure and the ever-lasting need for "more research".
In 1975 America's leading cancer statistician told The Cancer Business that their treatments were killing the patient up to four times faster than the disease did: nothing changed.
The organisations supporting and funding the development of the lethal treatments and those administering them know exactly what they are doing.
ANY RECENT INCREASE IN SURVIVAL TIMES ("CURES") IS ENTIRELY DOWN TO THE CANCER AND LEUKAEMIA SYNDICATE USING LESS LETHAL TREATMENTS; AND NOTHING ELSE.
THERE IS NO SCIENTIFICALLY VALID EVIDENCE THAT CHEMO AND RADIO "THERAPY" HAVE ANY VALUE, WHATSOEVER, IN INCREASING SURVIVAL RATES.
"Last week a woman in her 70s woke to find her pillow soaked in blood and immediately realised that she had bled from her mouth. Unfortunately, she started to vomit large quantities of blood and died..." Dr. Thomas Stuttaford - The Times.
The woman was yet another victim of "arthritis research": she had been taking a NSAID - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug - developed through fraudulent research.
"The chance of sustaining a major gastro-intestinal complication from NSAID treatment starts almost immediately after swallowing the first pill..." Dr. Stuttaford.
Brand-name NSAIDS include - Brufen, Fenbid, Preservix, Fenopron, Progesic, Froben, Indomethacin, Orudis, Oruvail, Mobic, Relifex, Rheumox, Voltarol, Diclomax, Motifene, Misoprostol...all were passed to the patient after "safety tests" on animals.
In this research animals are subjected to prolonged damp and cold and have their joints crushed and destroyed by the injection of chemicals : all to produce potentially lethal but highly lucrative drugs.
Arthritis is a billion pound-plus- per year, industry in the UK alone : the ARC - Arthritis and Rheumatism Council - a front for the drugs industry, funds and promotes fraudulent research and supplies a constant stream of misinformation on the disease.
Not content with deception, they resort to outright lies in their literature to ensure that the drug regime is the preferred route for arthritis victims, rather than the safe, effective, non-patentable, non-drug way.
"...all forms of treatment that they (doctors and NHS therapists) use must be of proven value and safety." Lie : estimates vary from 50 percent to over 85 percent as to the amount of orthodox treatments which are, at best, useless or unproven.
As to safety - NSAIDS, kill 2000/4000 people, per year, in the UK alone and permanently damage at least another 10,000.
This is apart from all the other victims maimed and killed by "safety-tested" steroids and the rest.
On diet, the ARC state "Special diets rarely make a great deal of difference with arthritis". Lie : nutrition is, overwhelmingly, the most crucial factor in the incidence, severity and control of arthritis.
Other factors relevant to arthritis, such as vaccination, antibiotics, fluoride etc. are, naturally, never mentioned in ARC literature : the phony chemical/drug organisations never attack each other.
In its 60-plus years of fund-raising the ARC has been far worse than totally useless in the field of arthritis prevention or treatment.
Now, in the UK, 20 million - and rising - suffer some form of the disease and innumerable people have suffered the multitude of side-effects, death included, of the drug treatments produced by ARC-funding : treatments which are never necessary.
if you have arthritis, remember that the adoption of a diet which leans heavily on raw, vegan, organic foods and which excludes tea and coffee can make a huge difference; once the regime has begun to clear the backlog of intestinal debris which the ARC's "balanced diet" - animal junk foods included - has accumulated.
Herbal and homeopathic remedies and cider vinegar can also make a considerable difference : as can baths with Epsom salts - buy the commercial salts in bulk as these are cheaper.
Once the herbal/nutritional treatment is commenced you can begin the gradual reduction and possible elimination of the potentially-lethal drugs.
The ARC is also a member of the "Research for Health Charities Group" ; an organisation set up and funded by the petro-pharmaceutical/vivisection industry to spread false information about the relevance of animal research in safety testing.
Without fraudulent safety tests on animals, the drugs, vaccines, pesticides, industrial chemicals etc. would have to be subject to real safety tests : whilst this would mean safety for human beings, this would spell disaster for the profits of the drug/research interests which need fraudulent tests to market their wares.
REMEMBER - every one of the tens of millions of pounds down the phony "arthritis research" drain is an insult to the millions of humans and animals who have suffered and died.
Spreading the message depends on YOU.
With increasing numbers of thinking cancer victims opting for self-help - usually after being told to go home and die - perhaps it is time for a more robust stance, by society, towards the cancer orthodoxy.
Recently, both a mother of a young leukaemia sufferer and a daughter of a middle-aged cancer victim have come to see me to ask what can be done. The child has had his bone marrow destroyed by class-6 super-poisonous "chemotherapy" and is unlikely to survive, whilst the man was "too ill for the treatment" : he has a chance.
There was nothing unusual about the visits except for the fact that they are becoming more common. Far more people are questioning The Medical Wisdom than when I first started, 25 years ago, to tell anyone who would listen that there was another way.
In 1980, Dr. B. A. Richards wrote a book "The Topic of Cancer" when the killing has to stop" : the killing referred to the treatment.
Five years earlier, Prof HB Jones, then America's leading cancer statistician, told the cancer industry that his statistics showed that untreated individuals survived up to four times longer than those treated.
These criticisms and many more had no discernible effect on the cancer gods : now, the cracks are beginning to widen, slowly.
However, I feel that it will take litigation - as in vaccine damage - before the immovable object of consensus medicine is seriously disturbed.
In Dr Richards book he talks of medical malpractice and, possibly, manslaughter as being appropriate terms to describe the "barbarity" of regular cancer treatment. At least two authorities on medical malpractice tell of "...improper or injurious medical or surgical treatment through carelessness, ignorance or intent..." and that "...a more serious criminal lack of care arising from deliberate disregard for the care and safety of other persons constitutes manslaughter."
Dr Richards asks "Could it not be criminal and, thus, manslaughter, if the patient dies of his treatment rather than of the disease." Viewed objectively, the answer must be yes - these people know what they are doing, but objectivity is rare where cancer therapy is concerned : due, I believe, to the sheer numbers of cancer cases - past, present and future. The crime is so large that it is unrecognisable as such ; and it has continued virtually unchanged or unchallenged for decades.
The Autumn 1997 of the Leukaemia Research News reported scientists views "The intensive therapy given to children to ensure their survival (!) ...can result in...intellectual impairment, heart damage, growth disorders...second cancers." When the patient dies more than 5 years after the treatment they remain in the "cure" statistics : cured and dead.
Unfortunately for the orthodox "cancer cure" myth-makers, at regular intervals some high profile personality develops genuine cancer.
The Shah of Persia, King Hussein of Jordan, Jackie Onassis, Senator Hubert Humphries, John Wayne, Bobby Moore, Marti Caine, Dusty Springfield, Roy Castle, Linda McCartney, George Harrison, John Thaw,...all had "the finest modern cancer treatment money can buy" and all ended up dead.
"Cancer Research" is now, world-wide, spending £13.5 billion each year, whilst the industrial world heads for a theoretical cancer incidence within decades. The causes of cancer are tolerated or actively encouraged ; and the safe, effective therapies are ignored, ridiculed, suppressed or sabotaged. One clinic, alone, has treated holistically, 100,000 patients over a 30 year period.
Whilst Dr Bruce Halstead's enraged cal for "A Medical Edition of the Nuremberg Trials" may be somewhat ambitious, civil actions might be possible if the legal profession could be persuaded to adopt a high profile with regard to this neglected área of litigation. There are considerable potential benefits for cancer victims - past, present and future - their relatives and the lawyers.
Not for the first time, the legal profession must step in to fill the vacuum left by the medics, bureaucrats, politicians and the mass media. | 2019-04-25T08:18:30 | http://animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Animal%20Testing/ResearchKills.htm |
0.999999 | Reaching 100 for Men -Stay Trim and Have Lots of Kids..
Most studies say that the chances of reaching 100 are better for women than men. In fact of the centenarians currently living in the US, 85 % are women. However one recent study suggests a great way for men to increase the odds of reaching the triple digits - stay thin and have lots of kids.
These findings came largely from data gleaned from World War I draft cards, which seem to suggest lean young farmers have the greatest chance of becoming centenarians. A common profile of many of the current centenarians in the study; in the past they were all trim, worked on the farm, and fathered many children.
The researchers were actually quite surprised at the results of the study. The idea that multiple children could lead to longer lives seems to go against conventional wisdom. What parent out there hasn't said that having one or two, let alone three four or more children hasn't "aged them". But that is exactly the finding Leonid Gavrilov, and his wife, Natalia Gavrilova, well known researchers into the lives of centenarians and both of the University of Chicago's Center on Aging, presented at a recent meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.
The Gavrilov's are the same pair of researchers that reported that children of young mothers have a greater chance of reaching centenarian status. This new research about male centenarians was driven by their discovery of a treasure trove of data from WW1 draft cards. Between 1917 and 1918 all men under the age of 46 had to fill out these draft cards, which required detailed information about their family and ways of life. Almost 250 of these men had a birth date of 1887. The Gavrilov's wanted to see how many of them were currently living as centenarians, and if they could draw any parallels on their backgrounds from the draft cards. They compared this group against a randomly selected group of men that were also born in 1887, but did not live to 100.
The researchers found that in the case of the centenarians, those who were 30 in 1917 and by that time already fathered 3 children by that age, were 61% more likely to live to 100, than men who were childless at 30. Even more significant the study found that for the men who had 4 or more children before 30, the odds of becoming a centenarian tripled.
Having many children young, meant those children were around to help throughout most of the parent's life.
Another commonality of the group in the study was that twice as many men that listed "farmer" as their occupation on their draft card reached 100 as the rest of those in the group. Gavrilov suggests that this is because in the early 1900's farms were rather isolated and removed from the poor sanitation, overcrowding, and unsanitary conditions that were life-limiting in the more urban areas. Farmers also live robust lives, doing much physical labor, and of course eating good and natural foods they have grown themselves. Farmers tend to be thin, with lean muscle mass. All the men in the study with such physiques in their early years lived longer then their "stout" contemporaries. | 2019-04-21T03:19:19 | http://www.thecentenarian.co.uk/reaching-100-for-men.html |
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