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0.999999 | Mr. Franklin was charged with shooting Alphonse Manning Jr. and Toni Schwenn in a parking lot here on Aug. 7, 1977. Mr. Manning was black and Miss Schwenn was white. Both were 23 years old.
The jury in Dane County Circuit Court deliberated about two hours before finding Mr. Franklin guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Judge William D. Byrne immediately sentenced Mr. Franklin to two consecutive life terms.
Mr. Franklin, 35, is serving two life sentences in the Federal prison in Marion, Ill., for killing two blacks in Utah while they were jogging in 1980. He was acquitted in the 1982 shooting of Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, in Fort Wayne, Ind.
He was convicted in 1984 in Chattanooga, Tenn., of bombing a synagogue and was indicted that year in Georgia in the 1978 shooting of Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine.
''We know he'll be in prison forever, and never get out to hurt anybody again,'' said Linda Langlois of Madison, a friend of Miss Schwenn.
In closing arguments at the end of the five-day trial earlier today, Mr. Harlowe called the killings ''horrible, senseless and pointless,'' and the ''closest thing to killing for sport'' he had ever seen.
According to testimony in the trial, including Mr. Franklin's tape-recorded confession, Mr. Manning and Miss Schwenn were shot when they backed their car in front of Mr. Franklin's.
In his 1984 confession, Mr. Franklin said he had come to Madison to kill former Judge Archie Simonson of Dane County because of the judge's ruling in a sexual assault case. Mr. Simonson testified that he had been criticized as being too lenient in sentencing two black men for assaulting white woman.
Mr. Franklin, in his closing arguments, denied that he killed the couple or that he was in Wisconsin at the time of the slayings.
He previously said he lied in the confession to get out of a Federal prison in Illinois and into Wisconsin.
''I did not kill Alphonse Manning and Toni Schwenn,'' he said. ''I did not come to Wisconsin to kill Judge Archie Simonson.'' He said he was not in Wisconsin at the time of the incident.
A life sentence is ''the next best thing to being dead,'' Mr. Franklin told the jurors. ''Would you sentence a loved one, a son, a daughter, a wife or a husband, based on the evidence?'' he asked. | 2019-04-18T14:40:51 | https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/15/us/man-is-convicted-of-killing-interracial-couple-in-wisconsin-in-77.html |
0.999776 | In this interview, the Chinese dissident discusses human rights, Internet censorship, and what the international community can do to help individual freedom in China.
OSLO, Norway -- Chinese leader Xi Jinping has coined a new slogan, urging the country's increasingly wealthy population to pursue "the Chinese dream." But many dissidents there see the country's free-speech situation as more of a nightmare.
Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng believes the situation for activists in China has only worsened since Xi has taken charge. Speaking with reporters on Monday at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway, he said international governments should step up pressure on Chinese leaders if they hope to encourage true change in China.
A blind, self-taught lawyer, Chen made international headlines last year when he escaped from years of house arrest and sought asylum in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Since then, his family has been targeted through what appear to be revenge attacks. Meanwhile, Chen has continued his fight for openness and justice in China from his new home in the U.S., where he is a visiting scholar at New York University School of Law and is authoring a memoir scheduled for release this fall.
I understand your family is still being harassed -- how does that affect your work?
The persecution has never stopped. They punctured the tires of [family members'] cars. They've thrown bricks and rocks through their windows. My nephew was put in jail. The phone line was cut at my mothers' house. Perhaps the reason is that this is the one-year anniversary since I escaped from China. Perhaps people went crazy over this. I think they also see that I'm making a lot of talks, I say things they hate to hear.
It does not affect me. It strengthens my will to disclose the very evil and authoritarian nature of the Chinese regime. It makes me more determined to fight for human rights.
How should other countries react toward countries like China to strengthen the fight of activists like yourself?
I think international society should make it clear their attitude and abide by their principles to support human rights in China and not to cave in because of the economic benefits of doing business in China. China is now in the process of transformation, and it is just beginning. Those in power in China understand that, and some of the people in China at the grassroots level know this too. However, it remains very much unknown to the international society. I think they should also approach civil society groups in China and walk side-by-side with them.
Can you be just as effective an activist outside of China as inside?
I'm probably more effective outside of China, but the nature of the work here is different. There is work needed to be done inside of China, but also work that needs to be done outside of China -- such as promoting civil rights, democracy, and justice.
Do you think that the change in leadership has caused any increased openness in China?
Definitely not. I think it's actually going backward. For example, the government recently announced the "7 no" policy -- seven topics that aren't supposed to be mentioned by schools or party committees.
What are some the advantages -- and limitations -- of Weibo and other online platforms for increasing conversation among dissidents in China?
It's a very common platform accessed by all -- it is very fast paced and has a lot of agility. Even though there are a lot of people censoring it, a lot of the information they want to censor has already been forwarded among the netizens. They can never get full control of the information.
Of course, there are some limitations. For example, the censorship committee has the power to shut down your accounts, they can remove your posts, and opinion leaders are more carefully monitored. Twitter is a useful tool, but that is blocked by the great firewall. Not a lot of people have the technology to circumvent the firewall.
Do you agree with Communism?
I think that Communism has always been a scam. When Marx was working on Communist ideology, he mentioned a few extremes, and he was painting too rosy a picture.
To boil it down, I don't think Hu Jintao or Xi Jinping believe in Communism themselves. And I don't believe any of the political leaders believe in Communism themselves, otherwise they wouldn't need to accept bribes and they wouldn't be so corrupt.
What should the international community be doing to put pressure on China?
One simple way to do that is to deny entry of these officials who participate in human rights repression into foreign countries. When they commit crimes, they know what they did was wrong, but they still choose to do it for their personal interest. An effective countermeasure is to let them pay the price, either morally or economically.
Foreign media has played an important role. Among the numerous incidents of human rights abuse in China, only the tip of the iceberg has been exposed. But I think that works to a great effect, and they should continue to strengthen that effort. | 2019-04-21T20:31:04 | https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/05/chen-guangcheng-communism-has-always-been-a-scam/275799/ |
0.999002 | Most of the firms are reluctant to make any changes in their IT environment but with time the old equipment gets older, costs more to operate and repair, and can cause bottlenecks in overall operations. It may require more operating cost and maintenance than a new model. Even if your equipment is in good condition and productive, it may still represent a disadvantage if competitors are using newer technology that produces better output at lower cost.
We are sharing some unique options for IT administrators to get the maximum value associated with the old equipment.
Recyclers for Electronics - If your IT environment is loaded with a number of equipment and you find it difficult to move out your used gears, it's better to contact electronic recyclers. The professionally trained recyclers are capable of removing onsite equipment with zero or minimum losses. With a small fee, you can save your time and money on removing old hardware.
Manufacturer Check - Some manufacturers offer return benefits on old equipment. This can help them in their R&D process and also useful in future developments of the same products. It may be a simple matter to get the manufacturer to remove the new system packaging and take the older displaced hardware with them as part of the new purchase agreement. They have even options for reselling the old equipment or to donate it to charity. During this, you can get benefits on the new purchases and some additional associated services also.
Reselling - Following the idiom, one man's trash is another man's treasure. You can even resell your old gears and contribute to company's IT budget or other aspects of the business. There are many perspective buyers who look for old working equipment at a lesser price.
Sell Online - Presently, Indian online market has gained a major traction. People are becoming more comfortable to shop at their own convenience. Many particular websites allow the option to sell old equipment at a reasonable price. Also, some of the websites provide delivery options for a hassle-free transfer.
Non-Profit Businesses - There are still many small businesses running behind times with the technology and non-profits are certainly no different. If your equipment still works and you want to replace it with new one or if the equipment is just not for your business, you can consider a donation to a non-profit business.
Donating to Charity - Donating your old equipment for a charity is yet another option to consider. This can be beneficial in terms of tax benefits based on the value of the equipment. It will release the space in your IT infrastructure and can help a business in need also.
Companies should also consider environmental responsibility before taking the equipment off the floor. As old technologies not only take space in IT infrastructure but also raise concerns about environmental factors. This can give you one more reason to go for the change. Before releasing your old IT gears, do make sure to transfer and create a backup of all your important data. No matter which option you choose, do remember to keep documentation, accessories, and software with the system. | 2019-04-18T18:35:13 | https://www.thedatadriver.com/2016/12/your-datacenter-can-get-new-makeover-in.html |
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You'll need just a few things to complete this task. A container ( jar, envelope, cardstock), Hot chocolate/Cocoa (can be in a big tub or pre-made packs), peppermint, buttons, stamped sentiment and twine. LET'S GO!
2. Turn so that the envelope is stands vertical, cut down just enough for the pre-made coco packet to show through the top. You can use decorative scissors to add flair.
3. Tie twine around the bottom and add a button to the center to finish.
4. Add peppermint and stamped sentiment. | 2019-04-20T18:41:07 | https://www.instructables.com/id/Hot-ChocolateCocoa-Gift-Sets/ |
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0.998585 | A neutron star is one of the possible endpoints of stellar evolution. A neutron star, with a mass of 1.4 to 3 solar masses, forms from the collapsing core of a massive star immediately following the star's exhaustion of its fusion energy reserves. With the outflow of radiation from the stellar core suddenly switched off, the core can no longer support the overlying layers against the inward force of gravity. The rapidly mounting pressure of the infalling layers squeezes the electrons and protons of the core together to create neutrons and neutrinos. The neutrinos immediately escape into space but the neutrons crowd closer and closer together until they reach the density of an atomic nucleus. At this stage, if the compressed stellar core is less than the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit of about 3 solar masses, the neutrons are able to resist further collapse. Otherwise, a black hole forms.
The star's collapsing middle layers rebound against the newly-formed solid neutron core. This generates a shock wave which heats and blows off the surface layers as a Type II supernova explosion. Left behind is a rapidly spinning neutron star which has a strong magnetic field with poles that are usually aligned with the pole's of the star's rotation. Two oppositely directed beams of radio waves escape from the poles and sweep around like a lighthouse beam, producing a series of regular radio blips that can be detected from Earth. The result is a pulsar.
A neutron star is typically only about 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) across, yet within this small region may be over 2 solar masses of material. The result is a gravitational field at the surface of a neutron star about 70 billion times stronger than that on Earth. Neutron stars have a density of about 1014 grams per cubic centimeter, or roughly a million times that of white dwarfs, so that a sugar-cube-sized sample of neutron star would outweigh the human race. Strangely, the higher the mass of a neutron star, the smaller its radius (gravity pulling the contents in ever more tightly).
In structure, a neutron star more closely resembles a solid, miniature planet than it does an ordinary star. Its core consists mainly of densely-packed neutrons, with a sprinkling of protons and an equal number of electrons, in a liquid-like state known as neutronium. Surrounding this is a mantle topped by a crust, perhaps 1 kilometer thick, consisting of a stiff lattice of nuclei of the same elements as found on Earth through which flows a sea of electrons. The highest possible "mountains" (surface irregularities) rise to a height of about 5 millimeters (0.2 inch), while electrons and heavy nuclei evaporate in the surface temperature of 8,000°C to produce an "atmosphere" maybe a few micrometers thick. As a neutron star cools and shrinks, strains develop in the crust so that it buckles, causing starquakes. Such events are marked by glitches in the otherwise remarkably steady periods of pulsars.
Life either on or in the vicinity of neutron stars may seem extremely unlikely. However, planets have been found around pulsars (see pulsar planets) and the possibility of life on a neutron star has been considered by Frank Drake and explored in fictional form by Robert L. Forward. | 2019-04-23T00:44:02 | http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/neutronstar.html |
0.998929 | Acidity of Beans, Kidney. Is it ok for heartburn and acid reflux?
Food Beans, Kidney is not acid - it is ok to consume it without worries about heartburn. | 2019-04-26T13:59:42 | http://manageyourheartburn.com/food-acidity.php?foodid=52 |
0.986229 | RSD/CRPS is a chronic condition characterized by severe burning pain, pathological changes in bone and skin, excessive sweating, tissue swelling, and extreme sensitivity to touch. The syndrome is a nerve disorder that occurs at the site of an injury (most often to the arms or legs). It occurs especially after injuries from high-velocity impacts such as those from bullets or shrapnel. However, it may occur without apparent injury.
What are the symptoms of RSD/CRPS?
The symptoms of RSD/CRPS usually occur near the site of an injury, either major or minor, and include: burning pain, muscle spasms, local swelling, increased sweating, softening of bones, joint tenderness or stiffness, restricted or painful movement, and changes in the nails and skin. One visible sign of RSD/CRPS near the site of injury is warm, shiny red skin that later becomes cool and bluish.
The pain that patients report is out of proportion to the severity of the injury and gets worse, rather than better, over time. It is frequently characterized as a burning, aching, searing pain, which may initially be localized to the site of injury or the area covered by an injured nerve but spreads over time, often involving an entire limb. It can sometimes even involve the opposite extremity. Pain is continuous and may be heightened by emotional stress. Moving or touching the limb is often intolerable. Eventually the joints become stiff from disuse, and the skin, muscles, and bone atrophy.
The symptoms of RSD/CRPS vary in severity and duration. However, there are usually three stages associated with RSD/CRPS, and each stage is marked by progressive changes in the skin, nails, muscles, joints, ligaments, and bones. Stage one lasts from 1 to 3 months and is characterized by severe, burning pain at the site of the injury. Muscle spasm, joint stiffness, restricted mobility, rapid hair and nail growth, and vasospasm (a constriction of the blood vessels) that affects color and temperature of the skin can also occur.
In stage two, which lasts from 3 to 6 months, the pain intensifies. Swelling spreads, hair growth diminishes, nails become cracked, brittle, grooved, and spotty, osteoporosis becomes severe and diffuse, joints thicken, and muscles atrophy.
As the patient reaches stage three, changes in the skin and bones become irreversible, and pain becomes unyielding and may now involve the entire limb. There is marked muscle atrophy, severely limited mobility of the affected area, and flexor tendon contractions (contractions of the muscles and tendons that flex the joints). Occasionally the limb is displaced from its normal position, and marked bone softening is more dispersed.
RSD/CRPS was originally thought to be the result of malfunctioning nerves of the sympathetic nervous system-the part of the nervous system responsible, for example, for controlling the diameter of blood vessels. This idea has been called into question and the mechanism remains controversial.
Since RSD/CRPS is most often caused by trauma to the extremities, other conditions that can bring about RSD/CRPS include sprains, fractures, surgery, damage to blood vessels or nerves, and cerebral lesions. The disorder is unique in that it simultaneously affects the nerves, skin, muscles, blood vessels, and bones.
RSD/CRPS can strike at any age, but has usually been more common between the ages of 40 and 60. Recent reports show that the number of RSD/CRPS cases among adolescents and young adults is increasing. It affects both men and women, but is most frequently seen in women.
Investigators estimate that two to five percent of those with peripheral nerve injury and 12 to 21 percent of those with hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body) will suffer from RSD/CRPS.
RSD/CRPS is often misdiagnosed because it remains poorly understood. Diagnosis is complicated by the fact that some patients improve without treatment. A delay in diagnosis and/or treatment for this syndrome can result in severe physical and psychological problems. Early recognition and prompt treatment provide the greatest opportunity for recovery.
RSD/CRPS is diagnosed primarily through observation of the symptoms. However, some physicians use thermography — a diagnostic technique for measuring blood flow by determining the variations in heat emitted from the body — to detect changes in body temperature that are common in RSD/CRPS. A color-coded “thermogram” of a person in pain often shows an altered blood supply to the painful area, appearing as a different shade (abnormally pale or violet) than the surrounding areas of the corresponding part on the other side of the body. An abnormal thermogram in a patient who complains of pain may lead to a diagnosis of RSD/CRPS. X-rays may also show changes in the bone.
Good progress can be made in treating RSD/CRPS if treatment is begun early, ideally within 3 months of the first symptoms. Early treatment often results in remission. If treatment is delayed, however, the disorder can quickly spread to the entire limb and changes in bone and muscle may become irreversible. In 50 percent of RSD/CRPS cases, pain persists longer than 6 months and sometimes for years.
Physical therapy is the mainstay of therapy. Physicians use a variety of drugs to treat RSD/CRPS, including corticosteroids, vasodilators, and alpha- or beta-adrenergic-blocking compounds. Elevation of the extremity may be helpful. Injection of a local anesthetic, such as lidocaine, is sometimes used. Injections are repeated as needed. TENS (transcutaneous electrical stimulation), a procedure in which brief pulses of electricity are applied to nerve endings under the skin, has helped some patients in relieving chronic pain.
In some cases, surgical or chemical sympathectomy-interruption of the affected portion of the sympathetic nervous system-has been used to relieve pain. Surgical sympathectomy involves cutting the nerve or nerves, destroying the pain almost instantly. But surgery is controversial and may also destroy other sensations.
Are there any other disorders like RSD/CRPS?
RSD/CRPS has characteristics similar to those of other disorders, such as shoulder-hand syndrome, which sometimes occurs after a heart attack and is marked by pain and stiffness in the arm and shoulder; Sudeck’s syndrome, which is prevalent in older people and in women and is characterized by bone changes and muscular atrophy, but is not always associated with trauma; and Steinbrocker’s syndrome, which affects both sexes but is slightly more prevalent in women, and includes such symptoms as gradual stiffness, discomfort, and weakness in the shoulder and hand.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports and conducts research on the brain and central nervous system. Some studies are conducted at the Institute’s own laboratories and clinics located in Bethesda, Maryland, on the NIH campus, while others are funded through grants to major medical institutions across the country. NINDS-supported scientists are studying new approaches to treat RSD/CRPS and intervene more aggressively after traumatic injury to lower the patient’s chances of developing the disorder. Other studies to overcome chronic pain syndromes are discussed in the pamphlet ” Pain: Hope Through Research,” published by the NINDS.
National Chronic Pain Outreach Association, Inc.
Is this the cure for RSDS?
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However it’s not true that RSD can be cured by a sympathectomy, surgery or otherwise. If it was that easy, I would have had my foot taken off 10 years ago when the RSD started to spread up my leg and then across to my other leg. I did think about having my foot removed and did some research on it at that time.
If you think about it, many people who have lost a limb suffer from “phantom limb” pain, which is quite similar to RSD.
Thank you for your comments. I’m not sure which part you are referring to that should be removed. I looked through it again and I’m not seeing what you are speaking of.
I absolutely agree that RSD cannot be cured by a Sympathectomy, surgery or anything else that I know of.
I apologize I must be missing something. If you would help point it out, I will remove it as soon as I’m able. | 2019-04-23T09:55:17 | https://rsdadvisory.com/2006/10/21/what-is-rsdscrps/ |
0.998336 | New York: A black former tennis umpire said in a lawsuit that he was forced out of the sport because he complained about racial bias, including that another umpire called him a "monkey," allegations that the United States Tennis Association denied.
The suit filed last week in federal court in Brooklyn against the USTA contends Anthony Nimmons, who started umpiring in 1994, was demoted and ultimately fired for speaking up about a racist environment in the world of tennis officiating. It seeks unspecified damages.
The USTA "strictly prohibits discrimination and retaliation in its workplace," organisation spokesman Chris Widmaier said on Wednesday.
"We categorically deny the claims of Mr Nimmons and will vigorously defend the suit," he added.
Among the incidents Nimmons says he reported to the nation's governing body for professional tennis was an encounter with a white umpire at the 2013 US Open in New York City who allegedly taunted him by by saying, "Hey Tony, if you were a hungry monkey and I told you there was a watermelon in the tree — go get it! — how would you feel?" At a lower-level tournament in in Dallas in 2012, he claims another white umpire yelled, "Tony, you should go back to the ghetto!"
As a result of his complaints, "I was stripped of my work — including my diversity duties and travel to the Grand Slams tennis tournaments (eg, the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open), to promote diversity, and where I had otherwise officiated with approval for decades," Nimmons said in a statement included in the suit.
He added: "I love tennis and want my job back at the USTA."
The suit says that an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found there was "credible evidence" that Nimmons was discriminated against and issued a "right to sue" letter on his behalf. | 2019-04-20T18:25:58 | https://www.firstpost.com/sports/former-umpire-sues-united-states-tennis-association-for-racially-motivated-demotion-and-sacking-4456525.html |
0.999999 | This query is used to count conditions (condition_concept_id) across all condition era records stratified by year, age group and gender (gender_concept_id). The age groups are calculated as 10 year age bands from the age of a person at the condition era start date. The input to the query is a value (or a comma-separated list of values) of a condition_concept_id , year, age_group (10 year age band) and gender_concept_id. If the input is ommitted, all existing value combinations are summarized..
year_of_birth The year of birth of the person. For data sources with date of birth, the year is extracted. For data sources where the year of birth is not available, the approximate year of birth is derived based on any age group categorization available.
relationship_id The type of relationship as defined in the relationship table.
concept_id_1 A foreign key to the concept in the concept table associated with the relationship. Relationships are directional, and this field represents the source concept designation.
concept_id_2 A foreign key to the concept in the concept table associated with the relationship. Relationships are directional, and this field represents the destination concept designation.
relationship_name The text that describes the relationship type.
person_id A foreign key identifier to the person who is experiencing the condition. The demographic details of that person are stored in the person table. | 2019-04-18T15:44:34 | http://cdmqueries.omop.org/condition-era/ce04 |
0.999997 | This article is about the building in Evansville, Indiana. For the former Ford Center in Oklahoma City, see Chesapeake Energy Arena.
The Ford Center is a multi-use indoor arena in downtown Evansville, Indiana with a maximum seating capacity of 11,000. It officially opened in November 2011 and is mainly used for basketball, ice hockey, and music concerts. It is home to the Evansville Purple Aces basketball teams and the Evansville Thunderbolts minor league hockey team in the Southern Professional Hockey League.
The first public event held at the Ford Center was an Evansville IceMen hockey game on November 5, 2011, when the IceMen defeated the Fort Wayne Komets 3-1. The first concert was held four days later on November 9, 2011 by Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band. The Evansville Purple Aces played their first basketball game on November 12, 2011, beating the Butler Bulldogs 80-77 in overtime.
In its first year, the new arena also hosted concerts for Elton John, Lady Antebellum, Reba, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Steel Panther with Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe with Alice Cooper, Aerosmith with Living Colour, and Cirque du Soleil's performance of Quidam.
The Ford Center played host to a game in the 2012 College Basketball Invitational, in which the Aces lost to the Princeton Tigers 95-86. The Ford Center also played host to the 2013 GLVC basketball championships and the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship. In September 2014, the Ford Center hosted Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Division 1 International playoffs, hosted by local roller derby league, Demolition City Roller Derby, featuring teams from the United States, England and Canada. In honor of the event, Evansville mayor Lloyd Winnecke declared the week of the event to be "Roller Derby Week" in the city.
The Ford Center was designed by Populous (formerly HOK Sport) as a replacement for Roberts Municipal Stadium. The $127.5 million arena was approved by the Evansville City Council on December 22, 2008. Demolition work on the site began on December 5, 2009.
The Ford Center is bounded by Main Street, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, 6th Street, and Walnut Street. As planned, it will eventually connect to a new convention hotel and the existing convention center.
On August 17, 2011, the facility's name, Ford Center, was announced. The naming rights were the result of a 10-year, $4.2 million agreement with the Tri-State Ford Dealers.
On January 18, 2012, Aces junior Colt Ryan set an arena record with 39 points in a win against the Bradley Braves.
In 2016, the ECHL's Evansville IceMen and the City of Evansville failed to come to an agreement on a new lease and the IceMen's owner, Ron Geary, announced his intentions to relocate the team to Owensboro, Kentucky. In response, the City of Evansville brought in a new minor league hockey team called the Evansville Thunderbolts as part of the Southern Professional Hockey League for the 2016–17 season.
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0.999999 | This lovely vegan masala lentils recipe is coming to you from my friend Richa‘s new all-vegan Indian cookbook, Vegan Richa’s Indian Kitchen. My review and the recipe are to follow, and after that, you can enter for a chance to win your own copy of the cookbook. The tl;dr for this review is that I am pretty obsessed with this cookbook. It has been the source of some of the most delicious food to come out of my kitchen and has really helped me to grow as a cook, so I’m incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to share my experience with you and give away a copy!
I was lucky enough to be a recipe tester for Richa’s book, and it has been just lovely watching it materialize over the past year and a half. By my count, I’ve made at least two dozen recipes from the book and I can sincerely tell you that each one was delicious. Richa has an amazingly deft hand with spices and seasoning and her cooking style is very similar to mine – judicious use of oil, sugar and refined grains; enthusiasm for vegetables; a focus on spices and herbs to bring dishes to life; and a love for putting new spins on classic ideas.
Richa is known for her allergy-friendly recipes and in her book as with her blog, you will find many soy-free, gluten-free, and nut-free options that are carefully labeled, so those with food allergies should not be deterred from reading further!
In Vegan Richa’s Indian Kitchen there is an appealing variety of traditional Indian dishes (in their vegan forms) and more creative Indian-inspired recipes. When I first started cooking these recipes I didn’t have a lot of experience with *authentic* Indian cooking. Nonetheless I found Richa’s recipes very approachable and easy to follow, and felt as though I became an expert in no time! Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll find inside the book and which recipes I enjoyed most from each section.
In this chapter you’ll find recommendations for which dishes to try first; an introduction to the use of spices and other ingredients commonly found in Indian food; a suggested grocery list and list of cooking tools; and an overview of what cooking techniques are used in Indian cuisine.
The highlight of the short-but-sweet (but not-sweet because the breakfast recipes are all savory!) breakfast chapter for me is the chilla (chickpea flour pancakes) recipe. I make chickpea flour pancakes frequently, as they’re a wonderful way to use up mixed vegetables as part of a healthy and filling meal. Richa provides a basic recipe and suggestions for variations too.
Oftentimes if I join friends for a meal at an Indian restaurant I end up eating samosas as a significant component of my meal, and I have no complaints about that! I have made the baked samosa recipe from this chapter several times since I first tested it months ago. The potato filling is perfectly spiced and salted and the (part whole wheat!) pastry shells bake up to a nice crisp. I like them just as much as, if not more than, the fried samosas I get at restaurants.
Other recipes I tried and loved from this chapter include Gobi 65 (spicy baked cauliflower florets); Aloo Bonda (mashed potato fritters); Aloo Tikki (potato quinoa patties); and Gobi Manchurian (Indochinese sweet and spicy baked cauliflower). Next on my list to try is the Dal Kachori (savory lentil pastries). The baked items from the book like the ones I just mentioned always came out just right for me in terms of texture and cooking time.
This chapter covers different vegetable sides which are generally served alongside a lentil or bean dish. A couple of rice-based side dishes are also included. I myself really enjoy eating a biiiig pile of vegetables for a meal, so when I was making recipes from this chapter I often enjoyed them with just a side of brown rice, baked potatoes, or quinoa.
You’ll find recipes in the chapter for bringing to life various vegetables including cauliflower, eggplant, radish, okra, potatoes, greens, pumpkin, carrots, cabbage, and more. Some recipes that I tried and loved include Gobi Mutter Keema (cauliflower and peas in cilantro onion sauce); Masala Aloo (spiced potatoes); and curried green beans.
Dals are up there with my favorite foods in the world so this chapter is pretty dang exciting to me. This chapter is home to a big variety of recipes for legume stews with various spice profiles, creaminess levels, and incorporated vegetables and grains – so there’s really something for everyone. I’ve made a LOT of recipes from this chapter and truly enjoyed them all but to highlight a few of my favorites: Kala Chana Masala is a chickpea curry made with black chickpeas, which have an earthier flavor than garbanzo beans and tend to keep their shape intact when cooked, but yield to a creamy and flavorful center. The curry is pretty simple in ingredients but has a really delightful flavor from the chickpeas and spices. I also made the Sabut Masoor (masala lentils), the recipe for which I’ll share below.
Sindhi Mung Dal (yellow lentils with cumin), which is a simple lentil curry that is easy to whip up and great for pairing with side dishes because it has straightforward flavor and will go well with a lot of other things.
Many of the dal recipes also include instructions for cooking in the pressure cooker, which means you can have your legume dish on the dinner table in no time.
One-pot meals aren’t as common in Indian households, but I’m quite fond of them myself, especially recently as I’ve been very very busy and looking to do fewer dishes. 🙂 I loved the recipes in this chapter because they still have complex and familiar Indian flavors, but it feels like a lovely personal touch from Richa to have simplified traditional cooking concepts into single dishes. The Chickpea Spinach Stew with Lentils and Quinoa is a recipe that I’ve probably made 10 times now. I have learned that this stew is one of my favorite ways to eat leafy greens, and experimented by substituting various other greens for the spinach with great results. This particular recipe is also available on Richa’s blog.
I also made the Mung Dal Khichdi (lightly spiced yellow lentils and rice) for a friend of mine who was under the weather, as Richa recommends it for anyone with a stomach ache or needing an easily digestible meal. Despite being purposefully mild it’s still satisfying.
We’ve covered a lot of ground so far but now we’ve finally reached the main dishes chapter! (Are you starting to see why I cook endlessly from this cookbook?). Recipes in this chapter generally highlight a typical vegan “main dish” food like tofu, tempeh, etc. These recipes are a bit more involved than preceding chapters but I find them to be well worth the effort. I recommend making double batches of everything :).
The kofta balls are made primarily from chickpeas, mashed potato, and hemp seeds. They bake up beautifully and have a satisfying flavor with just a hint of spice. I was also amazed at how well the kofta balls held together in the accompanying sauce. I was worried that I should have stored the leftover components separately, but the next day when I reheated them the kofta balls were still totally intact while also having absorbed delicious flavor from the curry. This dish is highly, highly recommended.
This chapter covers all of the Indian breads you have been yearning to make at home: naan, roti, dosa, paratha, etc. I prepared the avocado naan as part of the Indian feast I hosted and it was so easy to make and a real crowd-pleaser. You’ll also find gluten-free naan and gluten-free roti recipes. I made the amaranth flour-based gluten-free roti twice and was blown away by how soft and delicious it was. Nobody would guess that it’s gluten-free. I also made the traditional fermented dosas several times and ate them with various accompaniments. I never thought that I’d find myself making a fermented lentil and rice batter and making crepes out of it, but now I will probably make them regularly! Same goes for the insanely delicious stuffed parathas. Richa makes all of these breads very approachable to a home cook.
In the desserts chapter you’ll find vegan recreations of traditional Indian desserts, which are usually heavy on butter and cream. I’ll admit I didn’t experiment with many of the dessert recipes because I was just too full from all of the delicious curries and breads. However I did make the Mysore Pak (chickpea flour fudge) which had an unusual and delicious nutty flavor from the roasted chickpea flour. Working with the sugar for this fudge was a bit temperamental, so if you aren’t experienced with candymaking, I would recommend using a candy thermometer and noting the temperature ranges that Richa has included in the recipe notes.
If you’re going to be making a lot of Indian food – which I think you’ll find yourself doing if you get your hands on this cookbook – then I highly suggest keeping some chutneys in your fridge or freezer, and some pre-mixed spice blends on hand as well. In this chapter Richa covers several chutney recipes, spice blends like garam masala, and some basics like homemade chickpea tofu and homemade nondairy yogurt.
In my mind, this cookbook is an essential introduction to vegan Indian cooking. I truly feel like I can make restaurant quality Indian-inspired meals at home thanks to what I’ve learned from the book and the wealth of amazing and varied recipes contained within it. Nods are made to cuisines from a variety of different regions of India so there’s truly something for everyone. It’s easy to find recipes online for things like ‘chana masala’ which taste great but don’t use authentic spices that make you recall the same curry you would try at a restaurant – so if you’re looking to recreate those flavors to a T, I really suggest you buy this book. As with anytime you start to cook a new cuisine, you’ll need to stock your pantry initial with a few things – mostly spices. And I would also recommend purchasing a spice grinder or something of the sort. I use a cheap coffee grinder for pulverizing whole spices and it’s been going strong for a couple of years now. For blending curry pastes, I use my Magic Bullet.
Richa discusses ways to combine various dishes to form complete meals using recipes from different chapters; for lighter meals and thinks like bringing leftovers for lunch, I find that the vegetable dishes, main dishes, and dals can also stand on their own. Many recipes offer the opportunity to use miscellaneous vegetables, which as a CSA subscriber I really appreciate! From my experiences as a recipe tester for the book I want to reiterate that every recipe in the book has been meticulously tested, including using substitutions and variations that are suggested. You can really count on these recipes.
I always make sure to discuss pros and cons when reviewing cookbooks and other vegan goodies on this website but I don’t have much to say in the way of cons for Vegan Richa’s Indian Kitchen. The photography is gorgeous, with large full-color photos for nearly every dish; and the writing is warm and personal. Probably the most I can say in the way of criticism is that the book comes from Vegan Heritage Press, which is more of a budget publisher and as such the design quality of the book is not top shelf – but it’s still plenty nice and in no way would deter me from recommending the cookbook to everyone.
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Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of the cookbook for review. All opinions and writing are my own. All excerpted content is provided with permission from Vegan Heritage Press.
I love how easy and acceptable it is to serve Indian food relatively spicy. I LOVE heat in my dishes!
I love that Indian food is so hearty and full of flavor, and it can be all that and be vegan. I think even non vegans would jump at any vegan indian dish, because it’s always delicious.
I love the depth of flavor and the fact that so much of it is easily made vegan! I’d really like to get this cookbook since all those spices make cooking it myself very intimidating, but I love vegan richa!
crossing my fingers! just gifted this book to a co-worker who I know will love it!
This looks amazing!!! I would love to win this book so I can prepare a complete Indian dinner for the family.
I love Richa’s blog so I am really excited for this book!
My favorite thing about Indian food is the diversity –so many different vegan flavors!
I love all the warming spices and great texture!
I love how the same spices can taste completely different just by adding them at different times in the cooking process or a simple change of preparation.
I love all the rich flavors of Indian food. And that it’s hearty enough that my meat-lover dh will eat it and not feel deprived.
I love the flavors & aroma of Indian food!
I love the unique spices that we don’t consume in any other cuisine. I also love that so many dishes are easy to incorporate many vegetables and legumes, making it versatile to serve to different people.
I love Richa’s recipes! I’ve tried many of them from her website, and they are so good!
My favorite thing about Indian food is that you only need a few base spices to create amazing, complex flavors in wonderful dishes. I also love the wide variety of curry powders and Indian spices that exist!
My favorite thing about Indian food is EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, it is my all time FAVORITE cuisine! Thanks for the chance to win!
I think my favorite thing about Indian food is the depth of flavor that comes from layering the different aromatics, herbs and spices.
I like how such high quality, healthy, inexpensive items take on such complex and intricate flavors unlike any other in the world; aromatic sauces, smooth textures, so much for the palate to enjoy and break down.
Great review. It can feel so overwhelming when you want to try to make all the dishes!
I just added this one to my Amazon wishlist a few days ago when it showed up on one of their “recommended for you” lists. It sounds wonderful! Hope I win! I LOVE Indian food!
I love the complex flavors in Indian food from all the wonderful spices!
I love all of the different ways to prepare beans and lentils to keep it interesting – trying to get more of them in my diet!
I love all the spice combinations in Indian food! Can’t wait to check out Richa’s book!
I love the incorporation of all the wonderful herbs and spices into the food. There are just lots of great flavors in Indian food. | 2019-04-21T08:32:36 | https://yupitsvegan.com/vegan-richas-indian-kitchen/ |
0.999504 | Is there any setting anyone knows of that stops the phone from creating/maintaining this folder on the SD card?
I regularly import my photos from my phone to my computer using the import wizard from an older version of windows. It searches the whole device and then tells me how many new photos it found. The issue I'm having is that my S9+ is maintaining this Android/data folder on the SD card, with a TON of tiny files inside of it. When I use the importer app I have to wait a couple of minutes for the app to sort through all of that junk before it starts actually importing photos. This is why I am hoping to get rid of this folder and have it never come back.
I want to use the SD card for photos and videos only, no app data. The SD card is too slow for app data anyway.
Regardless of where those folders are saved, the Windows Explorer Import Pictures & Videos is still going to import all image and video files from anywhere on the phone (including cached media files used by apps). I never use that feature, because it's completely indiscriminant. I suggest using Windows Explorer to manually select the photos you want to transfer.
Its empty folders. Until you move data. Pointers. Symbolic links. Taking 0 bytes. It's not apps. You can point apps to use SD card for data in some cases.
Your best sdxc can read at 170MB and writes at 90. Most common sdxc though have slow 30MB or less writes. So copying files will matter when sync or copy.
You examined the Android folder and subfolders before getting upset to see? The .Android Secure has data that you told each app to move to SD and vary depending on how much data there was. Mine is small, less than 1GB.
I haven't really looked through the folders much but I tried deleting it and many new folders were created as soon as I left the my files app and re-entered it. So it's definitely using that folder when I'm not trying to have it function that way.
I removed my SD card and realized I was telling Spotify to save to my SD card. I turned that off though and re-inserted the SD card, then formatted it, and immediately after doing so the Android/data folder already had ~6 subfolders. Without Spotify saving there the actual size of the folder was very small. Even if the size of the folder is small though, if it has enough subfolders it may still slow down the windows import process because SD cards are really slow with reading multiple files. The 170MB read 90MB write is for large files. A bunch of smaller ones will yield dreadfully slow transfer rates.
What app did you use to show how much space is in the .android_secure folder? I'm unable view it from any of my Android file managers, since it's a hidden folder.
You really need to stop using that old Windows app.
I haven't found anything that is better at organizing photos. It is really useful for that. I can put all of my photos in folders dated YYYY-MM-DD so that the folders sort by the date the photo was taken. Copying my photos manually and maintaining that organization is more work than just waiting for the program to sort through all the weird crap in the SD card. | 2019-04-21T10:58:21 | https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-s9-plus/933730-stop-s9-plus-saving-app-data-sd-card.html |
0.999992 | When I try to read Sensei's Library using the Opera-Mini browser on a Samsung phone (Sprint), all of the web pages' text displays with only one work on each line.
Can Sensei's be made to not behave this way? Is this a "feature" arising from the neat style-sheet formatting of the library? It seems unique to the pages of Sensei's.
Andy, I need a little bit more information.
Is the yellow left hand bar there? Is it taking too much space and thus leaves no room for the content?
I'm also having this issue on a Nokia X3-02 with Opera Mini 5.0.
OP5 has the option "Mobile view" to "reflow" pages.
If set to "Off", words on pages are broken word-wise as described by Andy; it's as if there is a property in the SL pages/website that makes the browser decide it has to break lines at word level so that lines can be shown correctly. I suspect some HTML property in SL pages needs to be changed in order to resolve this issue.
Pages from a site such as goproblems.com do not suffer this: the page is shown completely (but with an unreadably small font, and one has to zoom in to read the text normally).
If set to "On", pages are reflown and read correctly (without the yellow stuff to the left).
Second issue: in-line moves do not seem to render (eg the comment on page JGroup, diagram "White kills" does not show the (int this ase exclusively) white moves in the text). Anyone else the same problem?
I couldn't install Opera 6 yet due to quirks in the X3-02; I had it installed before turning it in for repair, they did something with it and now I can't install Op6 %$#&@!#*!; I'm not sure but I think Op6 had the same problem.
The effect can be seen on a Mac laptop using either FireFox or Safari if you resize the window to be narrow. My guess is that a minimum window width (in pixels) needs to be specified so the text does not reflow but rather uses a scroll-bar to move the visible window around the page. | 2019-04-23T00:56:11 | https://senseis.xmp.net/?topic=1493 |
0.998712 | "I want my surgery for free" my friend tells me... Just how many times have we (plastic surgeons) heard that before?
Obvious to me, that meant that my surgical fee will be waived. Oddly enough, for my friend, an intelligent person in her own right, this meant something completely different. She thought the entire surgery was actually for free. After a slightly awkward moment, I asked her if she knew anything about surgical fees and healthcare costs. To my astonishment, she had absolutely no idea. Being the consummate educator that I am, I decided to use this conversation as a teachable moment to instruct my friend about the economics of plastic surgery. Delving further into the topic, I found that one of the most popular Google searches regarding plastic surgery is plastic surgery costs. Frankly speaking, plastic surgery cost is so paramount, that if you listen to some of my friends and colleagues at our trade meetings, it seems that cost is so often the only determinant factor indicating performance of the surgery or not. In light of these glaring facts, here's a brief primer on the topic.
3) facility fee and materials costs.
The surgical fee is the simplest to understand, and frankly the easiest to negotiate. Basically, it is what the surgeon takes home. From this fee the surgeon pays for all the costs incurred in becoming and being a surgeon. This may included school loans, malpractice insurance fees, office rent or mortgage, staff salaries, and other costs, to name just a few. The surgical fee is determined by the judgement of one person alone, the surgeon. Depending on his/her practice expenses, he/she determines the fee, and is ultimately the one able to negotiate it. More often than not, when plastic surgery fees are negotiated and consequently lowered, the change in price comes from this portion of the overall cost of the surgery.
The anesthesia fee, one often overlooked by many, is the hardest one to negotiate. Basically, it is what the anesthesiologist takes home. This fee may depend on several factors, including the nature of the surgery, the nature of the anesthesia administered (local, regional, or general), the time of surgery, and other technical issues as well. The anesthesia fee is usually determined ahead of time between the surgeon, anesthesiologist, and/or the surgical facility, and thus, it is usually not subject to much negotiation.
The facility fee, also one that is difficult to understand, generate, and consequently, negotiate, is composed of many elements that may not be readily seen. These include the costs of nursing care, medical materials and drugs used during surgery, and other costs of running an ambulatory surgery facility. Again, this is usually a fixed price that most commonly is not subject to negotiation, especially with the operating surgeon. Additional material costs may be added, for example, when using breast or facial implants or other materials related to specific cosmetic surgery.
During your plastic surgery consultation, when the time comes to talking about the costs of surgery, it is always worthwhile to ask about each one of these fees, as some may be negotiable. The fact that cosmetic surgery is not covered by medical insurance, and is thus a luxury item paid for by discretionary income, has actually contributed to it becoming so affordable and within reach to larger segments of the population. Plastic surgery is one of the last vestiges of the healthcare industry where free market forces act to shape the economic transactions between producer (doctor) and consumer (patient). The more knowledgeable and informed you are, the better the chances you'll get a better product and bigger bang for your buck. A cautionary note, however, is that in plastic surgery, as in most industries, you get what you pay for. Your quality assurance is the doctor's credentials and bedside manner, their specialty-specific board certification, and surgical center accreditation. If all of those factors are satisfactory, then feel free to shop around. And remember, an educated consumer gets the best deal. | 2019-04-22T06:52:24 | https://medicalspamd.com/the-blog/2013/1/7/surgery-for-free.html |
0.998757 | Which types am I most likely to be friends with?
My current room-mates, an INFJ and ISFP, were handpicked by me –and by handpicked, I mean my Te took over, organised a flat and then told them they were living with me. They were both fine with that. Generally, my friend group has one INTJ (me) and a whole bunch of INFxs and couple of ISFPs, occasionally allowing for a few tagalong xxxxs.
Humans are naturally attracted to people whose strengths are their weaknesses. Thus, many xxFPs and xxTJs are inclined to either become best friends or mortal enemies, or both.
I’m an artist. I spend a lot of time in art studios, and there are many more ISFPs and INFPs in art studios than in other places. Sure, the artist/writer stereotype doesn’t apply to all IxFPs, but it does apply to a good plenty.
I’m an Ni dom, so naturally, INFJs are attracted to the fact that I understand the way they think.
It’s not that I’ve never met another INTJ –I’ve met plenty. It’s just that when I meet one, neither of us feel the need for friendship, whereas IxFPs will cling to my stability and INFJs are magnetised by my objectivity. I often see FP/TJ relationships form because the FP looks at the TJ and simultaneously sees a person who will give them stability, and a person who is in denial of a need for companionship. The IxTJ isn’t usually the one to initiate friendship with an IxFP, but they let it happen because they see a sincerity in the IxFP that they can’t throw away because it’s priceless.
I do have several xNTP friends as well –mostly met them in philosophy and astrophysics classes. You can read more about that here. I also go against many INTJ’s comfort areas and make friends with xSTJs, but then, I suppose I’ve had two of them in my immediate family to get used to them by.
When it comes to the initial friend-making, I’m never actually the one to seek anyone out. INFxs and ISFPs have an uncanny ability to find me (I don’t find them). I’ll usually be sitting by myself in a corner somewhere and they will come and sit by me.
Off the bat, I will be a bit annoyed that they’ve interrupted my solitude, but then they’ll start talking and I’ll talk back without making fun of them and using references they won’t understand warm up to them.
The F-people in my life balance out my apathy, and in return, I make sure other people don’t walk all over them for their kindness.
Now, if somebody comes up to me and starts fetishising my INTJ-ness…that’s when I start being a jerk about it.
My best friend is an ENTP and we only got closer just because a mutual acquaintance had been late in an appointment. Since then, I have been enjoying a number of moments with her particularly when she voices out the commentaries running in my head.
That’s me! No one but my family sees me as I am. Also, because of my parent’s schedule, school (although I’m homeschooled), and my extreme awkwardness, it is hard to have a ‘friend group’. It’s depressing sometimes. Anyone ever been in a similar situation?
As an INTJ, your description of how people only see a small piece of you and not the full potential is quite interesting and I can relate (way to much.) Sometimes I am curious how people see me, because I know that how I appear to everyone is quite different from the person I am in my head, not in a fake way, just there is way too much going on for anyone to handle if I would express it all.
I most likely fall under the definition of awkward, despite being confident, but it is more of being unable to react in social situations just because I don’t always know how to, if you know what I mean. Honestly though, you probably are not near as awkward as you think you are.
In my friend group, I have two INFJs, an ISFP, an ENFP, and my ENTP sister. But I suppose that the ultimate friendship criteria is this: I’ll tell a few macabre jokes and gauge the potential friend’s reaction. If they look disturbed, then I don’t really have to do much work. They’ll just run the other way.
I am an INTJ with a very limited number of friends. My closest friend is an ENTJ, we grew up together which may be why we are so much alike. We have always gotten along and been very close, but as we have gotten older our relationship has been more strained and more like a competition. Is it normal for our personalities to have issues between each other?
I don’t know how old you are, but it’s very common for young xNTJs who haven’t yet developed all their functions to feel the need to compete with one another.
Well this explains my choice of friends a bit. I have a few INFP friends, and INTP, and an ENFP. Suprisingly though I have an ISTJ and a ISFJ as friends as well. Granted we argue a lot (I win most of the time and I love the debate).
Why is it an assumed rule of Myers Briggs that XNTJs and XSTJs are mortal enemies and cannot be friends, even though they share half of their functions. It may be because their dominant functions are different, but that goes for plenty of types. Just curious.
You know, I really don’t know. I have two xSTJ family members that I get along just fine with.
I usually get along best with xSTJs and I am often drawn to xNFPs. I sometimes have difficulty understanding other ISFJs.
My two cents they go more about stereotypes then the actual functions. The stereotypes are probably(not sure on this) opposite from each other. Or they just assume that a sensor wouldn’t have anything in common with a Intuitive. I also have two families that are XSTJ and I can get along with both of them. Although, I am the one that adapts to there communication styles, etc.
I can definitely related to your last sentence about being the one to adapt to their communication styles instead of vice versa.
Ironically, until i started learning about the MBTI personalities and the functions behind them, I didn’t realize that I would do that. Since learning about this, I have a better understanding about myself and how I think and of my family. Its pretty awesome, makes them easier to relate to. I know how to consciously adapt to them a bit more. It also explains why some of my families frustrates me to know end, because we think so differently.
Liz, do you have examples of what, or how, you adapted to their communication style? I’m curious.
Fanta: I just noticed your comment to me. I will try and write something up and either post it or send it to the A and see if he will post it for you. I will go into how i have adapted to all of my family members.
It’s interesting reading this. It helps me understand my INTJ husband a bit better. He’s an engineer, I’m an artsy / creative ISTP with an arts-humanities background. We’re very similar in some respects – and insanely different in others. We met when we lived across the hallway from each other at the university student village and I don’t think INTJ would’ve left his room if I hadn’t dragged him out.
It defaults to me being the sociable one in the marriage. My husband’s closest guy friends are all people I introduced to him – at a guess I’d say they’re ENTJ, ISxP, and ESTJ. I don’t think he has ever made the first move, so to speak. Other people find him. He and his friends have a few similar interests, namely technology and fitness, but otherwise they’re pretty different. The guys reckon he’s a good listener, someone with a calm and reasoned response in the face of stressful situations, and a funny guy to be around – after he thaws out.
I know what you mean about INFx types, and without consciously realising it until a year or so ago, it turns out my close friends are all self-identified INFJs. They all befriended me long before I realised a friendship existed.
“Do you enjoy knives?” – got me laughing for a moment there. It’s surprising to me you mention ISFPs. My sister is ISFP yet we are sort of lacking any common ground for (not small talk) discussions and we end up having awkward silences. Can you describe in more details the kind of conversions you have with them? I could be missing something.
Take my ISFP roommate for instance.
Our conversation topics range from human rights, to the lack of funding for the arts department at our university, to logically deconstructing the plot-holes of major film franchises, to screaming at the latest Doctor Who episode, to normative ethics, to the early development of the English language, to … well, I could go on and on.
You probably just don’t have a good relationship with your sibling (although I don’t actually know you, so it would be absurd for my to jump to conclusions about that). It’s also possible that one or both of you hasn’t developed your functions fully. Well matured INTJs and ISFPs tend to make friends more readily than immature ones.
A good real world example of this is one of my favorite musicians Matthew Bellamy (CelebrityTypes lists him as INFP, but I strongly disagree with this given that his Se in conversation is BEYOND OBVIOUS). No one thought anything of him and just thought he was that quiet kid with nothing to say, but it actually turns out that his environment was uninspiring to him. Now he is known as one of the best live performers of our time and is famous for his interest in conspiracy theories, which no one will ever truly know how much he really knows (he’s even admitted it) because as an ISFP he’s not interested in impressing anyone with his knowledge. I think this a point worth emphasizing; even if we are not lacking in self confidence ISFPs still don’t care to show off their skills, abilities, and knowledge. You have to draw it out somehow.
I am almost certain that what you face with your sister is something similar. ISFPs aren’t going to just immediately reveal their depth, knowledge, and wisdom to you even if you’re family (to most ISFPs I’ve met we don’t really care about family in the sense that we don’t feel obligated to love someone or to open up to someone simply because they’re family). In other words, you have to work to figure out what makes her tick because honestly a lot of time ISFPs don’t know what makes us tick ourselves!
Thanks to you both fore the replies. Yes, anon, my sister is a very mysterious person to me, and I’m starting to figure out why from various readings. I admit ISFP is one of the types I find difficult to understand in depth because I know only of my sister, so I did not want to draw conclusions based on her alone. We talk about various things, but not for a long time, and we seldom discuss Big, Serious, Complicated topics or personal/emotional struggles – not that I do not wish to, it just seems we can’t find a way to get it into our conversations. I’m glad to hear INTJ/ISFP deep conversations are possible. As you said anon, my sister rarely (if ever) tells anyone about the things that are deep in her mind, and I’ve learned to accept her secretive side. I’ve always thought we were just in two worlds so different that we simply lacked a common ground (she has kids, I do not, I went to uni, she did not, etc.) but then I read A’s post above and it suddenly made me think about her. I know my sister is smart, very creative, and very loyal. I should try again to reach out (I was planning to help her out with gardening on a regular basis to build that bridge, and to work out my Se a little). Looks like I’ve got “work” to do to find what makes her “tick” ;) Thank you for the insight.
This was precious to read.. it really warms my heart to read about someone making an honest effort to connect with a friend or family member. I wish I could see more of this in my daily life instead of all the lies, deceit, and manipulation over the most petty of things. I wish you the best of luck Fanta! | 2019-04-23T18:09:47 | https://mbtifiction.com/2015/11/04/my-friend-group-as-an-intj/ |
0.999999 | Despite the fact that DGM has released albums frequently for 2 decades, I have never heard one single note from the band before getting my hands on this one and already halfway through the second song I'm starting to wonder how I've been able to avoid listening to this Italian group over all these years (Probably because they're from Italy, I would say in lack of a valid explanation.), because I immediately find this to be an intriguing piece of music.
The Passage contains heavy guitars that are pushing their way forward in the sound-frame of progressive metal and I'm rather amazed by the overall performance. A lot of the songs are simply just appealing and I like the total production of the album, which in my ears brings forth the power and dynamics in the music. Playing-wise and technically seen this is no progressive metal in the vein of Dream Theater's highly proficient style and these guys set focus on coming out with extended parts where they keep the melody alive, both musically and vocally.
The vocal contribution of Marco Basile fits really well with the melodic appearance of the music. He's able to bring emotion and versatility to the songs without overplaying his part. His voice is in the right level of the mix too, which is such an important factor with these kind of metal records, because the vocals don't drown the instruments.
Will I immediately run out and buy the entire DGM catalogue now that I have discovered a band prior to this record unknown to me? Probably not, because a quick background check shows that the band today has no original members left and most of the lineup was changed about 10 years ago. The music is maybe quite different at this point in comparison to the early days, so I will most likely slowly and carefully work my way backwards through their albums one by one instead and see what may come out of it. | 2019-04-24T03:09:09 | http://metalcovenant.com/pages/cdreviews/the_passage.htm |
0.998613 | How about some GOOD news about Tesla's Autopilot feature for a change? Apparently some guy suffering from a pulmonary embolism drove to the hospital using Autopilot and was not involved in an accident on the way.
A man suffering from a pulmonary embolism was driven 20 miles to a hospital by the Autopilot system on his Tesla car, according to reports. Joshua Neally, a 37-year-old from Missouri, was driving home when he experienced the medical emergency. Deciding the best course of action was to get to a hospital in his car, Neally let the Autopilot system of his Model X take control on the highway. He was then able to finish the final section of the journey from the highway to the hospital by himself. | 2019-04-23T17:08:59 | https://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/08/08/tesla_autopilot_takes_driver_safely_to_hospital/ |
0.998813 | Lock-out of all doors of the car can be made simultaneously by lock-out of any of forward doors of the car from within or a key outside. Besides, possibility of unlocking/lock-out of each of back doors from within in an individual order is provided.
1. Check up serviceability of a condition of the cylinder of a door-lock.
2. Make sure that there was no detachment or jamming приводной draughts of the activator.
1. Check up serviceability of a condition of a corresponding safety lock.
2. Check up a condition of electroconducting and reliability of fastening of contact connections.
3. Check up serviceability of functioning of door activators and them drivers draughts.
1. Make sure of reliability of connection приводной draughts of the activator of the lock of a corresponding door.
2. Check up correctness of adjustment of the bottom draught, in case of need make corresponding updating.
2. Remove an internal upholstery of a corresponding door.
3. Disconnect from the activator of a door-lock electroconducting.
4. By means of wires-crosspieces submit pressure of the battery contact plugs of the activator.
5. If the activator does not work, try to change polarity of connection.
6. If the activator does not work at any polarity of connection, make its replacement.
1. Switch off ignition and disconnect a negative wire from the battery. Remove the panel of an internal upholstery of a corresponding door.
2. Disconnect from the switch of a door-lock electroconducting.
3. Remove the switch from the panel of an upholstery of a door.
4. By means of an ohmmeter check up conductivity distribution between switch plugs in each of its regular positions, - conductivity should take place at the drowned button of the switch and to disappear at it release.
5. Replace the faulty switch. | 2019-04-20T06:14:22 | http://yamahasupertenere.ru/html/14_20.html |
0.998272 | "He likes to exercise, especially swimming."
I think hen is an option in this case.
There should not be a 很 as the English does not include "very".
Duolingo stated that, as a general rule, they use and require 很 in front of adjectives. You're right, though.
Well, what they deem to be such, anyway.
This exercise isn't consistent with the "他很喜歡做運動，特別是遊泳。"/"He likes to exercise, especially swimming." exercise; that exercise uses "做" for the same English sentence, but this one forbids use of "做".
It means about the same thing, with or without ”做“.
what is 是 doing there?
sentence seems to be missing "做"
Duolingo stated that they use 很 in front of adjectives and require it for this course as a general rule.
As I mentioned above, 喜欢 is not an adjective. There are lessons in this course where 很 is omitted in front of 喜欢.
The English sentence says 'he likes', not 'he really likes', therefore a translation without 很 should be accepted. | 2019-04-26T14:23:07 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/25297849/He-likes-to-exercise-especially-swimming |
0.998277 | Will "Apocalypse" Be the End of Jennifer Lawrence's "X-Men" Run?
Jennifer Lawrence may headline her own blockbuster franchise with the "Hunger Games" films, but for many genre movie fans it will be her turn as X-Men villain Mystique with which her name will always be associated. However, four years after her debut as the blue-skinned shape shifter in "X-Men: First Class," the star indicates she's preparing to embark on the final chapter in her Marvel mutant career.
"It is my last one, actually, yes," Lawrence told MTV News when asked if "X-Men: Apocalypse" will be her last film in the franchise.
Lawrence's statement makes her the second mutant to announce their departure from the Fox franchise in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Nicholas Hoult told a SXSW audience that the upcoming sequel will be his final appearance as the X-Men's Hank McCoy, aka Beast. Hoult also indicated that his character's final story arc will be closely entwined with Lawrence's Mystique, following up on the pair's "First Class" relationship.
"X-Men: Apocalypse" is slated to arrive in theaters February 18, 2016. | 2019-04-22T20:13:22 | https://www.cbr.com/will-apocalypse-be-the-end-of-jennifer-lawrences-x-men-run/ |
0.999999 | Calvinism and 2 Peter 2:1?
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves (NASB-95).
(Compare the use of the word "Master" rather than " Lord" in the ASB, Darby, ESV, HCSV, ISV, NET, NLT, WEV, YLT, etc.).
False teachers were already in the visible (see below) Church (2 Pet. 2:13 and note the present tense of the verbs in 2 Pet. 2:17; 3:5). The Greek term hairesis originally referred in a neutral sense to groups or sects and was used by Paul of divisive groups ("factions"; Gal 5:20). However, it soon came to denote the specific teachings of such groups that departed from the truth of the Gospel. Here teachings regarding Christian conduct were probably in view - conduct that placed the teachers under eschatological judgment (2 Pet. 2:3). See WCF 23.4.
The phrase "denying the sovereign Lord who bought them" is often misinterpreted (cf. Jude 1:4). Some like Henry Alford maintain, "No assertion of universal redemption can be plainer than this" (Alford's Greek Testament: An Exegetical and Critical Commentary, 5th ed., 4 vols. (1875; Grand Rapids: Guardian, 1976), vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 402). However, seeing these brought upon themselves "swift destruction" (2 Pet. 2:1) reveals that this cannot be the correct meaning, because if Jesus had given these false teachers eternal life, they would never have fallen away; as those people to whom Jesus has given eternal life "shall never perish" (John 10:28; also see Rom. 8:29-30, 32-35; Eph. 1:3-14).
So, Peter did not say that those for whom Christ died could actually lose their salvation (John 10:28-29; Rom 8:28-39).
What does the phrase "the sovereign Lord who bought them" mean?
These false teachers could have been bought in the sense that their association with the Church provided an escape from the corruption of the world. 2 Peter 2:20 makes this point stating, "For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first." (remember Ham, who was a member of the church was also lost [2 Pet 2:5] and Lot's wife in too [2 Peter 2:7-8]).
The elect's name were placed with the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world (Rev 13:8; 17:8 cf. Matt 15:34) - long before they were ever born. It should be noted that Christ was chosen for them at the same time (1 Pet 1:20).
The elect's name may NEVER be removed from the Lamb's Book of Life.
However, the Lamb's Book of Life contains more than just the elect's name. It also contains some of the non-elect. It contains some of God's acts of providence, as opposed to those predestined (Eph 1:4-5, 11), which would include some that are non-elect too. Because providence is mutable (changeable), one's standing before God can change from a providential perspective. This allows that some people may receive God's favor for a time even though they are not saved (e.g. Heb 11:20; 12:16). It also allows that some people may be included for a time among the sanctified ranks of the Church, even though they ultimately perish (e.g. 1 Cor 7:14; Heb 10:26-31).
Unbelievers who are in the Lamb's Book of Life in the process of time WILL BE blotted out (Psa 69:28; Rev 3:5). Please see "Losing Your Salvation" for more detail on this point.
If we view the whole of chapter of Psalm 69, we observe the differences between the character of the two types of people. The elect are those, who are saved (Psa 69:1), who know somewhat the depths of their own depravity (Psa 69:2-3), who are hated by those who do not know God (Psa 69:4), who desire (a desire given only at rebirth 1 Cor 2:14; Rom 8:6-8, etc.) to be known (that is have a relationship) with God (Psa 69:5), who endure persecution for the sake of that relationship (Psa 69:6-12), who continuously pray for mercy, grace, and deliverance (Psa 69:13-21, 29, 32-33), who hate evil and believe in God's sovereignty to deal with unbelievers, evil, and sin (Psa 69:22-28), who are thankful to God (Psa 69:30), who desire to please God (Psa 69:31), who look for his coming again (Psa 69:34-36).
Anything worthy or good in the elect noted above is given by grace alone by means of God's unchangeable predestination, election, and calling of them to eternal life (cf. Eph. 1:4-5, 11; John 6:44, 65; Rom. 8:28-30, etc.).
A related solution is found in two Greek words and their respective contexts: (1) "bought" (agorazo) and (2) "Master" or "Lord" (despotes).
Agorazo (to buy; redeem, acquire, by a ransom or price paid) is used 30 times in the New Testament. It can be used to refer to being bought in the sense of redemption (1 Cor. 6:20; 1 Cor. 7:23; Rev. 5:9; 14:3, 4). However, in the other 25 uses in the NASB it is translated in a secular sense meaning to purchase an item such as a field (Matt. 13:44), a pearl (Matt. 13:46), or food (Luke 9:13), (cf. Matt. 21:12; 25:9; Mark 15:46; Luke 22:36; John 6:5 Rev. 13:17, etc.). The overwhelming number of uses in the New Testament are non-redemptive in scope.
...of its thirty occurrences in the New Testament, agorazo is never used in a salvation context (unless 2 Peter 2:1 is the exception) without the technical term "price" (times - a technical term for the blood of Christ) or its equivalent being stated or made explicit in the context (cf. I Cor. 6:20; 7:23; Rev. 5:9; 14:3, 4).
While this is significant, the use of the term "Master" or "Lord" is as well.
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
(note that Peter also alludes to Deut. 32:5 in 2 Pet. 2:13 making this connection even clearer).
The use of "Lord" (Master) as the one who "created," "made," and "established" is significant. As seen from its context, this word emphasizes God (or Christ) as sovereign ruler over the earth and the one who creates and establishes all things. This connection also seems to be consistent with the fact that Peter refers to the one denied as "Lord" (Greek: despotes meaning Lord, or Master), not "kurios" (Greek: Lord) as we might expect if spiritual redemption by the blood of Christ were in view.
'Is not he your Father who has bought you?'... Peter is drawing an analogy between the past false prophets who arose among the Jews and those who will be false teachers within the churches to which he writes... From the time of the exodus onward, any Jewish person would have considered himself or herself one who was 'bought' by God in the exodus and therefore a person of God's own possession... So the text means not that Christ had redeemed these false prophets, but simply that they were rebellious Jewish people (or church attenders in the same position as rebellious Jews) who were rightly owned by God because they had been bought out of the land of Egypt (or their forefathers had), but they were ungrateful to him.
Jesus, the Shepherd of the sheep, will lose no genuine sheep (John 10), but there are also wolves among the sheep (Matt. 7:15; Acts 20:29). By false teaching and practicing immorality (2 Pet. 2:2, 10, 13-15, 18-19), these false teachers continue to treat with disdain, scorn, and contempt the lordship of Christ and thus belied their own spurious profession of faith (1 John 2:3-6, 19). They are condemned goats, not sheep (Matt 25:31-46). See "What is Reprobation?" below.
Calvinism and Ezekiel 18:32; 33:11?
Calvinism and 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, 19?
Calvinism and 1 Timothy 2:4, 6?
Calvinism and 1 Timothy 4:10?
Calvinism and 2 Peter 3:9?
Calvinism and 1 John 2:2?
Is Strong's Concordance a good Bible dictionary? | 2019-04-18T22:24:54 | http://reformedanswers.org/answer.asp/file/42351 |
0.999999 | For this question, you will write a program to print out a bow tie on the computer screen.
Your program should take as input the height H of the bow tie, where H is an odd positive integer greater than or equal to 5. A bow tie with H rows (and 2H columns) should then be printed using the pattern shown below. You may assume that all input data will be valid.
For this question you should read the input from the keyboard and print the output to the screen.
put "Height of bowtie (must be odd, positive integer greater or equal to 5): " ..
anyways you could even shorten tony's code by doing a normal for loop, from 1 to H. I kept a counter which I set to 2 or -2. I change it to -2 when I'm unable to repeat any spaces (using a simple subtraction to figure out my spaces). When I can't output spaces, that means that my bowtie is shrinking and thus I change my counter. | 2019-04-25T13:27:37 | http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=3833 |
0.999957 | Understanding the nature of dark energy is one of the biggest problems in science. Possibilities include the cosmological constant, equivalent to the energy of empty space, a modification in general relativity on the largest scales, or a more general physical field. To help decide between these options, Chandra was used to study the increase in mass of galaxy clusters with time over the last 7 billion years. The results are remarkably consistent with those from previous results that measure the expansion of the Universe using distance measurements, revealing that general relativity works as expected on large scales. The cluster work, in combination with other studies, also provides the strongest evidence to date that dark energy is the cosmological constant, or that 'nothing weighs something'. | 2019-04-21T02:51:00 | https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photosH08-329.html |
0.999255 | Slander emits a threefold poison, for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person who is being slandered. Whether the report is true or false, we are by this precept of God’s Word forbidden to spread it.
The reputations of the Lord’s people should be very precious in our sight, and we should regard it as shameful to help the devil dishonor the church and the name of the Lord. Some tongues need a bridle rather than a spur.
Many rejoice in putting down their brothers and sisters, as if in doing so they raised themselves. Noah’s wise sons cast a covering over their father, and the one who exposed him earned a fearful curse.
This approach is manly, brotherly, Christlike, and under God’s blessing will be useful.
Hundreds have been saved from gross sins by the timely, wise, affectionate warnings of faithful friends and family. Our Lord Jesus has set us a gracious example of how to deal with erring friends in His warning given to Peter, the prayer with which He preceded it, and the gentle way in which He endured Peter’s boastful denial that he needed such a caution.
“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days” (Heb. 11:30).
Forty years had lapsed since the Israelites refused to enter the Promised Land. That unbelieving generation had perished in the wilderness. Now Joshua was leading a new generation into the land. The first obstacle they faced was Jericho–a well- fortified city that was near the mouth of the Jordan River.
Some city walls of that day were wide enough at the top to allow two chariots to ride side-by-side. That was probably true of Jericho because of its strategic location. That, coupled with the caliber of its army, made the city virtually impregnable– especially to unsophisticated Israelites, who lacked military training.
But what is impossible for man is easy for God. And the stage was set for Him to demonstrate His power and for the Israelites to demonstrate their faith and humility.
One can only imagine how embarrassed the Hebrew people felt as they marched around Jericho once a day for six days. That certainly is not your typical military strategy. But on the seventh day, after marching around the city seven times with the priests blowing their rams’ horns, the priests gave one final blast, the people all shouted out loud, and the walls of the city collapsed (Josh. 6:20). Faith had reduced a formidable obstacle to a crumbled ruin.
Can you identify some spiritual obstacles you’ve faced recently? How did you handle them? You’ll always have them to deal with in your Christian walk, but don’t fret. See them as opportunities to exercise faith and see God’s power on display in your life. Continue to trust the Lord and demonstrate your faith by courageously doing what He has called you to do.
Ask God to help you humbly trust in God’s power when you face spiritual conflicts.
Read about the conquest of Jericho in Joshua 6:1-21. Note each occasion where the people obeyed one of Joshua’s commands without hesitation.
“God, who called you to become His child, will do all this for you, just as He promised” (1 Thessalonians 5:24).
Include your name in the verse, and the effect will be the same for you. It is incredible that before the very foundation of the world God chose and called you and me to become His children. His foreknowledge makes possible many of the mysteries we puzzle over today.
Your sanctification (setting apart) – and mine – depends upon God, and since He has begun a good work in us, He will see it through to completion. God requires holiness (another word for sanctification) and He is the resource upon whom we may call for accomplishment of that requirement.
While it is true we will never be completely and totally holy in this life, it is equally true that provision is made for us to be holy. Every moment that you and I are under the control of God’s Holy Spirit, is a moment that we are holy! Looked at in that light, the task of acquiring holiness does not seem so impossible to attain.
The principle is clear: God never gives a command without the enablement to obey it.
King David stands as the prime example of someone who lost their first love. We remember him rightfully as the man after God’s own heart—but we also remember David as a murderer and an adulterer.
We may ask the question, how could one who was known for his devotion to God fall so horribly? What were the steps that led to his demise?
David’s steps to losing his first love were subtle—but very real. When David sat on his rooftop watching Bathsheba bathe on that fateful night, he was not walking with the Lord as he once had.
We read earlier in the psalms how David possessed this great devotion and passion for God. But at this particular point in his life, we don’t read of him worshipping or singing love songs to God. David was spiritually idle.
The Bible says that “at the time when kings go out to battle” (2 Samuel 11:1), King David was sitting on his housetop. He was resting on his laurels.
When you stop progressing spiritually, you will soon be a train wreck waiting to happen. We must recognize that deep in our nature we all have a natural tendency to wander.
It is no coincidence that God compares us to wandering sheep. That is our natural tendency. And as an old hymn says, “Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love.” We are prone to wander.
So the first love Jesus speaks of in Revelation 2:5 is the very thing that will counteract our wandering. Our first love exists as the antidote to the wandering spirit we have. That passion is what keeps us engaged in our relationship with God.
If you make Jesus your first love, everything else will fall into its proper balance.
The meaning of Thanksgiving has changed over the years. The name was given to our national holiday dedicated to thanking God for His protection and provision. More recently, though, ithas become synonymous with feasting, football, and family. In most homes, God probably isn’t even mentioned. But for believers, Thanksgiving is not simply a day; it’s a lifestyle. In fact, a godly person should be characterized by gratitude.
The apostle Paul teaches how we can become people who overflow with gratefulness in any circumstance. The first step is to appreciate our relationship with Christ. He chose each believer before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4) and wants us to “walk in Him” (Col. 2:6). This means acknowledging Jesus as Lord of our life and relying on Him to empower us to obey.
Next, we are to be firmly rooted in Him. This can happen only when we tap into His Word and draw nourishment from it. Then we’ll be like a tree whose roots reach down so deep that even storms cannot topple it. With this foundation, we can be built up in Christ and increasingly display His character in our attitudes, conduct, and conversation.
Finally, our faith needs to be firmly established. Then we won’t fall prey to worldly philosophies and deceptions.
Do you have a grateful spirit, or do you say “thanks” only when things are going your way? Thankfulness in all situations is possible only when you focus on the truths and promises of God’s Word. As you learn to see life from His perspective and acknowledge His loving lordship, you’ll overflow with appreciation.
In his book Daring To Draw Near, Dr. John White writes that several years earlier God had made it possible for him to acquire a lovely home with many luxuries. His feelings about the house fluctuated dramatically.
The writer of Ecclesiastes saw God at every turn in the enjoyment of material things. The power to eat the fruits of our labors and even the strength to receive and rejoice in them is from Him (5:18-19).
“By faith [Moses] kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the first-born might not touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were drowned” (Heb. 11:28-29).
When the time came for Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, everything on the human level said it couldn’t be done. Pharaoh wasn’t about to let two to three million slaves just pack up and leave. His formidable army was ready to insure that no such exodus occurred.
But when God devises a plan, He always makes the necessary provisions for carrying it out. On this occasion, His provision came in the form of ten terrifying plagues designed to change Pharaoh’s mind.
The tenth and worst plague was the death of all the first- born (Ex. 11:5). To protect themselves from this plague, the Israelites sprinkled the blood of a lamb on the doorposts and lintels of their homes. When the angel of death saw the blood, he passed over that house. Thus the Passover was instituted.
The blood from those first Passover lambs had no intrinsic power to stave off the death angel, but its presence demonstrated faith and obedience, thus symbolizing the future sacrifice of Christ (cf. John 1:29).
Pharaoh got the message and allowed the Israelites to leave. But soon afterward he changed his mind and commanded his army to pursue them. Again God intervened by parting the Red Sea, allowing His people to walk across on dry land. He then drowned the entire Egyptian army when it followed the Israelites into the sea.
That was a graphic demonstration of a lesson every believer must learn: God’s provisions are always best. They may sometimes seem foolish to the human intellect–just as “the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness” (1 Cor. 1:18)– but the man or woman of faith trusts God and receives His provisions gratefully.
Thank God for the wise and gracious provisions He has made for your salvation and ongoing Christian walk.
Read the account of the Passover and the parting of the Red Sea in Exodus 11-14.
In verses 23 and 24, James went on to say that if we only listen to the Word, but don’t obey it, it’s like looking at our reflection in a mirror and then going away and forgetting what we saw. But a doer of the Word, he says, is like one “who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience)” (v. 25).
One woman, referring to Paul’s instruction to “be unceasing in prayer” (1 Thessalonians 5:17), said that verse kept coming to her every time she prayed. “What do you think that means?” I asked her.
Dear holy Father, I thank You for the instructions found in Your Word. I may not always like what I read, and sometimes it may be difficult to follow You without hesitating, but I know it is for my good. Please help me to be always obedient and to bring glory and honor to You. Amen.
“And I am sure the God who began the good work within you will keep right on helping you grow in His grace until His task within you is finally finished on that day when Jesus Christ returns” (Philippians 1:6).
“Since when did you assume the responsibility of the Holy Spirit?” I asked.
Obviously, we are to do everything we can to help a new believer grow to maturity in Christ – by teaching him to trust God, study His word, pray, live a holy life, and share his faith with others. But no matter how much we do, it is the Holy Spirit who helps the new believer come to Christ, and who illumines his heart with the Word. The Holy Spirit teaches us how to pray and empowers us to witness. In fact, there would be no supernatural life apart from the Holy Spirit.
Paradoxically, you and I can be confident, yet humble, when we think of all that we are, and all that we have in Christ, and realize that we are not responsible for any of it, but it is something which God has given us according to His grace. My only boast is in God, His Son Jesus Christ and His indwelling Holy Spirit. How can I boast of my abilities and achievements, when it is the Giver alone who is worthy of all honor and praise? The apostle Paul had the strong conviction that the work God had begun in the believer would be permanent. All events that transpire in our lives, all influences, heartaches, testings and sorrows, as well as all of the blessings, are designed to conform us to the image of Christ.
In the Old Testament, we find an interesting story of how King Jehoshaphat took an uncommon approach when his enemies waged war against him. Instead of sending in his army first, he sent the choir and musicians.
Imagine the scene: “All right, guys, here’s the plan today. An army is out there, armed to the teeth. So we are sending in the choir and the musicians.” If I had been a choir member or musician, I might have wondered whether the king liked our music.
But God had directed Jehoshaphat in this unusual battle tactic. We read that Jehoshaphat appointed people to sing to the Lord, praise the beauty of holiness, and go out in front of the army saying, “Praise the Lord, for His mercy endures forever” (2 Chronicles 20:21).
So that is exactly what they did. The Bible tells us that when they began to sing and praise, God sent an ambush against the enemy, and they were destroyed. God’s people were able to go into this situation giving thanks, because He was in control.
In approaching God to ask for new blessings, we should never forget to thank Him for the blessings He has already given.
Have you recently come to God for help and He came through for you? Did you come back to say “thank you”?
If we would stop and think how many of the prayers we have offered to God have been answered and how seldom we come back to God to thank Him, it just might amaze us. We should be just as deliberate in giving thanks to God as we are in asking for His help.
What matters to you—matters to God! You probably think that’s true when it comes to the big stuff like death, disease, sin, and disaster. But what about the smaller things? What about grouchy bosses or flat tires? What about broken dishes, late flights, toothaches, or a crashed hard drive? Do these matter to God?
Let me tell you who you are! In fact, let me proclaim who you are. The Bible says you are an “heir of God and a co-heir with Christ” (Romans 8:17). You have “a crown that will last forever” (1 Cor. 9:25). You were “chosen before the creation of the world” (Eph. 1:4).
But more than anything else is the simple fact—you are God’s child. 1 John 3:1 says “we are called children of God. And we really are His children.” I love that: we really are His children!
If something is important to you—it’s important to God!
Whether we have recently become believers or have followed Christ for years, the Devil seeks to attack our faith and cause us to relapse into disobedient ways. We are warned to be alert because our Enemy is like a roaring lion seeking to harm us (1 Pet. 5:8).
His intentions are to enslave us to sin. When we succumb to temptation, Satan presses in to trap us so that we will feel estranged from our heavenly Father. Then the Enemy will try to convince us we cannot return to God in our current state. Some of us become so miserable that we buy into the lie and embrace the world’s ways.
Since our Father knows both the Devil’s tactics and our weaknesses, He has planned a way of escape for us. It is called confession. Genuine confession means telling the Lord what we have done and agreeing that it is wrong. Then we express sorrow over it, acknowledge inability to rescue ourselves, and declare the heartfelt desire to turn from our sin and live for Him again. God promises to forgive us and cleanse us so our fellowship with Him is restored (1 John 1:9).
The Enemy is cunning, but Scripture offers a sound strategy for avoiding entrapment: “Present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is” (Rom. 12:1-2). Notice that victory begins with your thinking. The more you apply this principle, the greater your success will be.
Throughout history, the presence of water has been both life-giving and strategic. Whether a person lives in a dry climate or a rainforest, water is a nonnegotiable necessity. In a dry and barren climate, knowing where to find the place of water can mean the difference between life and death.
Our spiritual life also has certain nonnegotiable elements. That is why Jesus, upon encountering a spiritually thirsty woman at a well, declared to her that He alone could provide living water. He told her, “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14).
Jesus is the fountain of living water.
I have never been so tired as I was when I stepped on that plane; neither have I been so happy for so many empty seats. I was dreaming of a two-hour nap before I even found my place. Of course, as is usually the case in situations like these, when one is intent on being anti-social and insistent on having earned the right to be so, I found myself not only with a companion, but with an animated, loquacious, first-time traveler. The young woman beside me had been a child as she watched the events of September 11th unfold and had determined then never to travel by airplane; that is, until today, when events reared a need to break her own rule. She was terrified and excited and inquisitive all at once. She also noticed things I’m fairly certain I have never noticed in all my years of travel, commenting with elation, curiosity, or confusion on every single one of them. By the time we landed, I not only had a new friend, I was wide awake to the disheartening reality of all I fail to see around me.
It would seem that repetition has a way of lulling us to sleep; monotony a way of robbing us of sight, or else leaving us in the stupor of disinterest. Real life examples are readily available. How many news stories do we need to hear about violence or suffering, racial oppression or injustice, before we fail to hear them at all? For that matter, how many stories about something small but positive do we really take in before we respond in boredom? How many times do we need to sit on an airplane or see the bird outside our window before the marvel of flight simply goes without notice? Like most adults, we learn to tolerate the repetitious by learning to operate on auto-pilot.
And yet, I am certain, even among the most skilled of auto-pilots, there was a time when we found ourselves, like every child, delighting in the monotonous, longing for another minute with grandpa, another page of the story, another trip down the slide. The incongruity is unmistakable. How can our failure to see be blamed on monotony, unconscious living attributed to the repetitive, when at one point monotony and repetition were not only tolerated but invigorating? Blindness can easily be blamed on the world around us—and there is certainly reason to consider the daily effects of all that bombards our senses—but perhaps this is too easy an answer. Perhaps the scales on our eyes are multiplied not by the many repetitions in life, but by our failure to see life in the many repetitions around us.
For the child on the slide or the toddler with a story, “Do it again!” is far from a cry of boredom or routine, but a cry for more of life itself. This is likewise the joy of the psalmist, the cry of the prophets, and the call of Christ: “Consider the lilies, how they grow…if God so clothes the grass of the field…how much more will he clothe you?” (Luke 12:27-28). Jesus asks the world to consider the kingdom around us like little children, and thus, something more like God—finding a presence in faithful recurrences, grace in repetition, an appetite for an incredible world in the ordinary one around us. Here, even those within the most taxing of life’s repetitions—the daily care of an aging parent, the constant burden on the shoulders of those who fight against injustice, the labor of hope in a difficult place—can find solace. “But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope,” said Jeremiah in the midst of deep lament. “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning…’ The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘therefore I will hope in him’” (Lamentations 3:22-24, emphasis mine).
Morning by morning, the daily liturgy of new mercies comes with unapologetic repetition to all who will see it, the gift of a God who revels in the creation of yet another daisy, the encore of another sunset, the discovery of even one lost soul.
(1) G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995), 65-66.
A few years ago, my friend’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Since then, Beth has been forced to make tough decisions about her mom’s care, and her heart has often been broken as she watched her vibrant and fun-loving mom slowly slipping away. In the process, my friend has learned that real love is not always easy or convenient.
The Bible reminds us that love is patient and kind. It is not self-seeking or easily angered. It “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Cor. 13:4-7).
Real love is helping others for Jesus’ sake even if they can never return the favor. | 2019-04-24T18:18:11 | https://808bo.com/tag/love/page/860/ |
0.998873 | Weekend Vote Will Bring Controversial Changes To Psychiatrists' Bible : Shots - Health News A vote this weekend by a small group of academics could result in changes to several entries in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Doctors may no longer be advised to avoid diagnoses of depression after the death of a loved one, and Asperger's syndrome may be folded into the spectrum of autism.
The DSM, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is an enormous tome that defines every mental disorder. And in defining every mental disorder, it helps determine many other things, such as how struggling children are treated in school.
If the disruptive behavior of a child is seen as a disorder — like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or autism — schools will help with subsidized services. If not? Well, then the schools often see the child as just trouble, and the child will be penalized.
So it's no surprise that there's lots of controversy every time the DSM is revised, with people arguing that the new definitions are too narrow or too broad. And the DSM-5 is no exception — it's considered the single most controversial DSM of them all.
So what are the likely changes? How have the many controversies been decided?
The APA refuses to say anything about what's in and what's out, and they've also told people associated with the DSM-5 that they shouldn't speak specifically, so it's very hard to know. But some of the changes that were published last year on the APA website (they've since been removed) are likely.
Asperger's Syndrome may be eliminated: Asperger's Syndrome is currently a popular diagnosis, but soon it may not be used by mental health professionals to identify people with mild autism. Instead, there will be a spectrum of autism, and people who would once have been diagnosed with Asperger's will instead be diagnosed as mildly autistic.
Many people with Asperger's syndrome opposed this change. "People with Asperger's preferred that identity, as opposed to being seen as part of autism spectrum. I think that's been part of the complaint," says Roger Peele, secretary of the APA.
There will likely be a new childhood disorder called disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: The people in charge of childhood disorders proposed this diagnosis because they felt very strongly that too many children were being categorized as having bipolar disorder and then prescribed anti-psychotic drugs.
The hope is that psychiatrists will use this new diagnosis for kids, instead of bipolar disorder, and not prescribe as many drugs. Critics say it's not clear that the change will work out, and that the history of mental health is littered with good intentions like this gone terribly wrong. But the hope is that it will shut down the rise of bipolar diagnoses in children.
There will be a new way to think about sadness in the wake of the death of a loved one: In the last DSM (DSM-4), psychiatrists were warned away from diagnosing major depression in people who had recently lost someone they loved, because grief in the face of loss was seen as a normal — not abnormal — response.
"That's reasonable thinking, and certainly no one wants to pathologize grief or sadness or call it an illness when it is an absolutely normal human experience," said Dr. Sidney Zizook of the University of California, San Diego.
But Zizook was one of the people who argued — probably successfully — to change that because, he says, telling psychiatrists that people who are grieving shouldn't be diagnosed as depressive "excludes a bereaved person from being diagnosed with depression, if they have a depression, and no one wants to do that, either."
This is a small change, but to critics, emblematic of a much larger and more sinister problem: the expansion of behaviors considered abnormal. Shyness becomes "social phobia," restlessness becomes ADHD.
Chris Lane, author of Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, is a DSM critic. He worries the new version will label people sick when they are not. "I'm very concerned about the number of false positives from this edition," he says. "That is, the number of people who are overdiagnosed."
Roger Peele of the APA obviously doesn't agree, which doesn't mean that he thinks the DSM-5 is infallible.
"It's important that people not see the DSM as a bible," he says, "that they respect it but don't worship it."
Hundreds of researchers have worked hard to make the DSM as good as they could figure, Peele says, but the entries are simply their best guesses on how to define and think about mental disorders. | 2019-04-23T23:27:08 | https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/11/30/166252201/weekend-vote-will-bring-controversial-changes-to-psychiatrists-bible |
0.999175 | Resum: BACKGROUND: The chemical treatment of Plasmodium falciparum for human infections is losing efficacy each year due to the rise of resistance. One possible strategy to find novel anti-malarial drugs is to access the largest reservoir of genomic biodiversity source on earth present in metagenomes of environmental microbial communities. METHODS: A bioluminescent P. falciparum parasite was used to quickly detect shifts in viability of microcultures grown in 96-well plates. A synthetic gene encoding the Dermaseptin 4 peptide was designed and cloned under tight transcriptional control in a large metagenomic insert context (30 kb) to serve as proof-of-principle for the screening platform. RESULTS: Decrease in parasite viability consistently correlated with bioluminescence emitted from parasite microcultures, after their exposure to bacterial extracts containing a plasmid or fosmid engineered to encode the Dermaseptin 4 anti-malarial peptide. Here, a new technical platform to access the anti-malarial potential in microbial environmental metagenomes has been developed. | 2019-04-20T22:14:29 | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/163154?ln=ca |
0.999237 | Is it possible to book tickets for Festival events on-line? The festival web-site is all in Croatian so I cannot use it effectively.
It should be possible to book tickets online, probably when the final program has been published.
where in slovenia can i buy the tickets for the festival and how much do they cost?
I cant understand the language. Is there a site that are english so that I could be able to have more information of it because I'm interested of the place? Thanks.
At the top right corner there is the option to switch to English language.
Tickets can be bought online but for 2012. the programme has not yet been published as far as I know. There is a link on the web site of Dubrovnik Summer Festival for online booking of tickets (pointing to http://www.ulaznice.com.hr) and that page is also available in English language. | 2019-04-21T05:21:05 | https://www.dubrovnik-online.net/forums/index.php?amp;topic=84.0 |
0.999999 | Three experiments with three replicates in each; how to apply calculate SEM?
I have done the same experiment three times and in each experiment the same thing was done three times; thus I have nine data points for every sample. Should I average the three within-experiment-replicates and use those three values find a super-average and calculate an SEM or should I use all nine values to calculate an average and SEM? Obviously the average will come out the same but the SEM won't.
I think I should use the SEM calculated from the three averages because there were three experiments and the three replicates within each experiment were not really separate because they were being done together. This also reduces the value of the SEM which I think makes the data look more reliable.
I made up some data to produce an example.
Use each experiment as a sample. The within experiment replicates are not considered to be separate replicates unless you actually set them up independently (e.g. made up drug dilutions for each sample independently rather than using the same solution for all). This will give you a larger SEM as the sample size is reduced, but is more valid statistically.
Dropping it into a 2-way ANOVA will (hopefully) confirm that the Exp's are not sig. different. | 2019-04-21T10:43:14 | http://www.protocol-online.org/forums/topic/35725-three-experiments-with-three-replicates-in-each;-how-to-apply-calculate-sem/ |
0.999999 | If a triangle is chosen at random, what is the probability that it is acute?
It turns out that solving this problem involves not only Euclidean geometry and Probability, but also Average value of a function, from calculus.
Kurt is a student of mine, the smartest math student I have ever encountered in 33 years of teaching. He is in 10th grade, having completed Calculus AB in 8th grade, BC in 9th. He is now taking multivariable calculus online given by Stanford. This morning he came into my stat class. I casually said to him, "Hey Kurt, what is the probability that a triangle chosen at random is acute?"
So when he stopped into my room for a study hall 2 hours later, I asked him if he had a solution. He said that he didn't work long on it but he believed the answer was 19.3%.
I was stunned because when I simulated the problem using Fathom (a terrific statistical program put out by Key Curriculum Press), I suspected the answer was 20%. How in the world did this kid do the problem?
C = 180 - A - B.
First, using the definition above, the chance of choosing angle A to be obtuse is 0.5. So the chance of all three angles being acute must be less than 0.5.
If A=30, then the other two angles must add to 150. That means that one of the other two angles must be between 60 and 90 in order for the triangle to be acute (neglecting right triangles whose probability is zero). So the probability of the triangle being acute is (90-60)/150 = 30/150.
If A=70, the other two angles must add to 110. That means that one of the other two angles must be between 20 and 90 in order for the triangle to be acute. So the probability of the triangle being acute is (90-20)/150 = 70/150.
Suppose that A is chosen and is acute. That will leave (180-A)-90 and 90. 90-[(180-A)-90] = A. So the probability of the triangle with acute angle A being acute is A/(180-A).
Obviously there are infinite possibilities of angle A giving infinite probabilities of the angle being acute, each infinitely small.
So Kurt decides to sum these probabilities up and takes the average probability. So he integrates the expression x/(180-x) from 0 to 90 and divides by 90. This, of course, is the average value of a function. He ends up with 0.386.
He then multiplies by 0.5 because he must multiply the result by the probability that A was acute to begin with. He gets 0.193.
I have simulated this in Fathom 10,000 times and my results are just about the same. A terrific use of probability theory and calculus. This from a 10th grader.
Still has me in shock.
And if you randomly chose the lengths of the sides instead, would your answer be the same? 20% seems low, but I'm not certain how to dive in.
If we randomly chose 6 numbers from 0 to 1, and treated them as three ordered pairs, we would have a triangle on a unit square. I think the probabilities are quite different here. Also, unlike my previous proposal, the probability of generating a non-triangle would be very very small.
But let's look back at what the kid did. The first angle is chosen arbitrarily. OK. But all angles (0,180) are treated equally likely, but we know every triangle has 2 or 3 angles on (0,90) and only 0 or 1 on (90,180). It seems that the work has bias towards non-acute triangles.
Hi, nice blog! I saw it mentioned over at Jonathon's blog. It's a cool puzzle but I have to say I'm a bit surprised at the teacher. For one, I agree with Jonathon, the method for generating random triangles is somewhat odd, and definitely skews the distribution, in my opinion (though it makes for more interesting/complicated math!) The method another commenter and I describe seems much more logical and elegant.
Also, I don't understand the teacher's (persistent) shock. Yes, the student's math skills are quite impressive. But the article says he completed BC calculus the previous year. Surely the integration skills involved in this problem should be well within his abilities? What I mean is, Kurt is extremely talented. But one of his teachers, one who knows that he's completed basic calculus courses already, shouldn't be shocked every time the student is able to apply his calculus.
But what really disappoints me is the teacher's use of this "Fathom" program. (I'm assuming the teacher in question is a math teacher and possesses knowledge of calculus.) Aren't math teachers supposed to emphasize and embrace logic and calculation over computers and number-crunching? The solution of course is ln 2 - (1/2). The integration is quite simple and took me only a couple minutes. And I'm a doctor, not a math teacher.
Hi Darmok and thanks for your kind comment.
1. Your green/red triangle is a neat way to explain your solution.
2. Yeh, the integration is no big deal.
3. Math instructors always get excited when a student is motivated to complete non-assessed work, and especially when they have an intelligent go at it.
4. You seem concerned about the math teacher using a tool to help solve the problem. I would hope that we have moved on from mindless calculation. (Logic is not mindless, I hasten to add. And I am certainly not advocating a calculation-free zone in math classes.) The tools are there to help, after all. But rubbish in, rubbish out, of course.
Isn't the desire to stop math teachers from using computers a bit like asking doctors to perform their duties without the benefit of high end tools like MRI and the like? If you've got the tool, and can use it appropriately, surely it should be used.
5. As a doctor, could I invite you to comment on Vlorbik's statement about doctor math on It's Fun to Hate Math. I still hang on to the naive belief that we are teaching mathematics for a purpose beyond algebra for its own sake, and something more than navel gazing.
I suppose it depends on the tool and the intended use. I don't propose that computers not be used at all. But if a patient came to me with a leg injury, I'd first use my clinical skills to determine the nature of the injury, and if appropriate, obtain an x-ray. MRIs can be used for diagnosing "hidden" fractures that x-rays don't reveal, but they'd hardly be the first choice.
Computers and calculators are great. When I was taking calculus, I'd often use my calculator to approximate the answer to see if my result was reasonable. But the teacher in this case seems to have gone straight to "Fathom"—there's no indication he ever worked the problem out for himself.
I suppose you two and I have different views on math—the conceptualization and analytical thinking required for these problems is part of the appeal to me.
But the strangest thing for me is that this seems like such a simple problem. I don't know how adept he is at this "Fathom" or how long it takes to set it up, but it seems to me that solving such a trivial problem can't have taken much longer than it would take to set up the simulation. I suppose I just grew up with a different breed of math teacher.
the probability of getting an acute triangle when 3 points is picked at random is 0 by the way.
The solution of this problem is really easy.
You couldn't see it and you use the hard way, and not even get it right.
I'm pretty sure "random triangle" is not a well defined concept. Going about it in different ways yields different results. | 2019-04-26T00:36:26 | https://www.intmath.com/blog/mathematics/random-triangles-758 |
0.99999 | Who's drinking the tea party?
I'm an expatriate, but I've never subscribed to the whole "I left America because I hate it" notion of being an American living overseas. We moved to New Zealand because of family, and because hey, it'd be neat to live in a foreign country for a while, however long it ends up being for. George Bush being President had nothing to do with it. But I love many many things about the US, miss it a lot, and usually stick up for it when I get the occasional "America-bashing" comment from people here.
But I admit -- I don't understand this "Tea Party" nonsense or the school of Sarah Palinism at all. The incoherent rage and anger of people like the Glenn Becks and Bill O'Reillys and so forth is bizarre to me. There are people on the Republican end of things I've respected, but they seem to be a dwindling voice amongst the crazies. People on both sides of the political divide get angry and idiotic, but I don't know, it just seems like the American right wing has a patent on over-the-top lunacy.
Living overseas, I see everything now through a curious filter of distance. I wonder, are people really getting crazier, or is that just the way it seems from afar? I end up often feeling like I need to apologise for my country, or trying to explain to people that a politician or a talk show host does not equal a country.
When you get people like Sarah Palin saying things like 'Don't retreat, just reload," and you think about the likelihood that a certain amount of disturbed, gun-owning people are likely to take that as more than just rhetoric, you have to wonder. If left-wingers talked about shooting Bush, they rightfully would've been prosecuted. It's hard to imagine endlessly red-faced, violence-invoking rhetoric isn't going to lead to real trouble.
I dunno. Maybe it's just the up and down of politics as always (people have been shouting about politics as long as they've had larynxes, after all). Maybe the Internet, the Twittery and Facebookery and so forth just make everything that much louder and less avoidable. I try to tell my NZ friends that all Americans aren't like the Palinites -- that the Tea Party folk just are a very vocal, very loud fringe element that gets a lot more press than the number of people they actually represent. But maybe I've been out of America too long and the lunatics have actually taken over the asylum. Can anyone tell me?
Alex Chilton is dead, and lordy does it hurt to type those words. For a certain stripe of pop fan, he was kind of like our Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen, and when I heard he'd died today at the too-young age of 59, of an apparent heart attack, I was stopped stone-cold. It's been a crappy kind of week anyway, and Alex Chilton should never die. Michael Jackson dying, yeah, kind of saw that coming, but Alex Chilton was the voice of heartbreak and strained emotion and man, he just shouldn't be dead, y'know?
I discovered Chilton's never-quite-made-it 1970s band Big Star in the 1990s, when I was living near Memphis, Tennessee, their home town. Big Star were a cult fetish for music nerds, with their blend of power pop, rock chops and lyrical truth. It's taken years, decades, for them to get their due -- the awesome box set of pretty much everything they did, "Keep An Eye On The Sky," was one of the best music albums of last year or any year, really. You listen to a Big Star song, and you think, man, why have I never heard of these guys?
And I can't find the lines"
Read it on the page and it sounds like generic teenage angst, maybe, but man, Alex Chilton SELLS that sentiment and if you've ever been 16 years old and digging that person so much your stomach boils, you know the feeling. Big Star and Alex Chilton touched that moment and always sold it, always made it feel real. Over their three-year recording career their songs ran the gamut from teen-bop of "Don't Lie To Me" to the dark, glistening sorrow of songs like "Holocaust." Endlessly contrarian, Chilton's post-Big Star career was a strange twisty journey -- he seemed to spurn the fame he could've had -- but he never stopped playing -- he was going to play with the reformed Big Star this weekend.
There's a tribute song by The Replacements that'll be played thousands of times by Chilton fans in coming days -- as heartfelt as any of Chilton's best, it's an homage to a cult artist who should've been a household name but never quite was, but that doesn't really matter. It's a valentine to a secret idol, a star who's huge in your own personal universe and you don't care if anyone's never heard of him. In my mind, Alex Chilton will always be a Big Star.
Everyone knows about Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and Wolverine. But one of the things that keeps me hooked on comics is the sheer variety of goofy, semi-obscure superheroes out there. Here's one of a series of occasional looks at lesser-known characters I've always dug.
Who: The Man-Thing, a swamp monster who first appeared in 1971.
What: A scientist transformed in a horrible lab accident -- you know how it goes -- into a mindless, shambling muck monster, who feeds off human emotions. Haunts the Florida Everglades, ends up in lots of strange magical-inspired escapades.
Catchphrase: "Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch!"
Why I dig: There's something about Man-Thing I've always liked, even if his name is vaguely giggle-inducing. (And we won't even get into the short-lived series "Giant-Sized Man-Thing," source of more comic geek jokes than you could fill a barn with.) I've always liked his bizarre design, kind of a pile of muck with a carrot for a nose and dreadlocks. He was created around the same time as DC Comics' "Swamp Thing," but has been used in rather different ways over the years. He's less a character than a catalyst -- there's a challenge in writing a story around a mute, basically brain-dead protagonist, who basically just reacts to events and puts plots in motion.
But the best stories, by the late, great Steve Gerber, use Man-Thing as a pivot to tackle themes of all stripes. You'll find Man-Thing used in ghost stories, religious parables, environmental spiels, wacked-out pirate tales. Gerber had a knack for using Man-Thing's empathic nature as a mirror to reflect man's own lunacy, and was probably the best writer by far to tackle the character. Although his heyday was in the 1970s, he's even been used fairly successfully in more straightforward superhero tales -- one of my favorite "Marvel Team-Up" issues pitted Spider-Man in a gooey battle against Man-Thing. Sure, it's a funny name -- Man-Thing, tee-hee! -- but the muck monster has yielded some great stories.
So last night was alt-rock legends The Pixies' very first tour in New Zealand, like, ever, on the road on their never-ending reunion tour, this time playing their 1989 classic album "Doolittle" straight through, beginning to end. They pretty much sold out the massive 12,000-seat Vector Arena, filled to the brim with former hipsters-now parents like myself (fun game -- count the balding 30-something blokes with shaved heads! Pretend they're all clones!). NZ has been waiting a LONG time for Pixie love -- I know several people that were practically buzzing out of their seats all week in anticipation. And it was awesome good fun, with Frank Black, Kim Deal and co. slashing out the riffs, yelps and screams like it was 1990 all over again.
It was a bit of deja vu for Avril and I as we were (probably) one of the few there who'd actually seen the Pixies live since they reformed in 2004 -- we caught them on one of their very first gigs almost exactly six years ago back in Oregon. So we didn't have the shock of novelty going for us, but it was quite interesting to contrast seeing them at a 1,200-seat club vs at a cavernous 12,000 capacity arena. We definitely had better views at Eugene, where the band was a bit looser (Joey Santiago doing an impressively fun series of impromptu guitar solos), but Auckland's show was a prime spectacle -- there was something quite awesome about seeing so many thousands of people so totally into the definitive "cult" band, singing along to grotesque and weird anthems like "Debaser," "Gouge Away" and "Hey." They were smoothly professional with just enough of a gritty edge to not seem like a total cash-in reunion tour, and the two encores were awesome, with fantastic versions of "Into The White" and "U-Mass." I'm just too darned old for the front row, but I actually like sitting a bit back from the stage and seeing the sweep of hundreds of heads bobbing, hands waving. Kim Deal was the definition of rock-chick cool, Frank Black screamed so much I thought his throat would explode, and we all thrashed away.
We also had the fun of people watching -- as usual there were a fair percentage of goofs who seemed to just show up to spend $100 on tickets, get as drunk as humanly possible on $8 beers, then get thrown out (the guy who got tossed out during the second song was tied for 'Winner of the Night' with the other guy who tried to vault a fence into the pit and did an amazingly epic face-plant on the concrete floor instead).
To blog or not to blog? ... The question that's been rattling about these last 10 weeks or so since I 'gave up' regular posting on here. I tend to over-think most things that aren't really important enough to overthink, so the question of whether I should keep blogging or not took up a lot of brain space the last couple months of 2009. In the end I thought I'd pull the plug on "Spatula Forum." But I kept feeling that itch to express myself, and while I've also done other creative type pursuits -- taken up sketching a bit more, done various freelance movie and book reviews for papers down here -- in the end the free-form, whatever-the-hell I want to say allure of a blog is mighty compelling. I placed arbitrary "rules" on myself about how much I should post and I think that contributed to a lot of my feeling burned out by the whole thing at the end of the year.
So anyway. After seeing Pavement last week I felt darned itchy, wanting that outlet to blather about the cool gig -- brief comments on Facebook aren't really enough. The itch only went away when I just rambled out a little blog entry on it (and it was cool to see the several hundred hits I got writing a review of a well-known indie rock band's first gig in 10 years).
So I'll dust off the blog, change the design a bit (I've switched from Haloscan commenting so all the old comments are going away, I'm afraid), and I'll scratch this itch sometimes, putting aside any self-defeating notions of "how much" I should blog (a lesson I shoulda learned in 6 years of doing this, I know) and just doing it when and where and why I feel like it. That's why the Internet was put here in the first place, ain't it?
One of my favorite bands of the 1990s was Pavement, that Stockton, California quirk-rock band who combined surrealism with grunge-rock chops and indie low-fi weirdness. So it was pretty damned awesome to be in the crowd last night to see the reunited band do their first show in 10 years, kicking off a worldwide tour down here in Auckland with an awesome opening set by also-reunited local alt-rock icons The 3Ds. I came to Pavement a bit later in their heyday -- my favorite album has always been their emotional fourth one, "Brighten The Corners," which I played in extremely heavy rotation in my own chaotic personal summer of 1997 -- but I made up for it later by grabbing up all their discs (and also Stephen Malkmus' own excellent later solo work). Since they broke up in 1999, I'd kind of imagined I'd never see them live. But no band stays dead forever these days unless it's The Smiths.
Only 1600 or so of us could fit in to see Pavement at the full Town Hall, and it was a great teaser for what folks at mega-festivals like Coachella will see later this year. Despite a decade off, they're in awesome form, with frontman Stephen Malkmus seemingly ageless, a steam-of-consciousness poet in a preppy's body. Over a two-hour set with an encore they played all their "hits" -- catchy alt-rock anthems that were on high rotation in college radio back in the glorious '90s -- "Cut Your Hair," "Gold Soundz," "Shady Lane," "Range Life."
Long live Pavement -- the rest of the world will soon get to see what New Zealand saw last night. It's nice to be first sometimes!
** Very nice show photo inelegantly borrowed from blogger Piero who was there too. | 2019-04-25T00:57:31 | http://spatulaforum.blogspot.com/2010/03/ |
0.999999 | An African proverb -- "when elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled" -- has particular resonance these days in Southeast Asia, where a deepening struggle between two global giants is a serious threat for the region's relatively small states.
A survey by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore ought therefore to raise alarm bells for regional observers. More than two-thirds of 1,000 respondents from the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations believe the U.S. and China are on a collision course in the region, according to the survey, the State of Southeast Asia: 2019, published in early February.
Perhaps more striking is that a slight majority of respondents (50.6%) have "little" or "no confidence" that the U.S., the region's long-standing security provider, will "do the right thing" in contributing to "global peace, security, prosperity and governance." To make things worse, another slim majority (51.5%) has a similar view of China. This is a problem because in a region of relative minnows desperately seeking stability and fearing foreign dominance, the traditional response has been to look to the U.S. for a greater presence and engagement.
Who should Southeast Asians look to if their perceptions of the U.S. are accurate? The obvious candidate is Japan. Like the recent poll, multiple regional surveys have confirmed that Japan remains by a considerable margin the nation most trusted to do the right thing for the region.
Given the extent of Japanese economic and developmental assistance to much of Southeast Asia after World War II, that view is unsurprising.
It is notable that the survey shows that Japan has maintained high levels of support for its foreign policies even as the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has broken from his country's postwar pacifist mindset and emerged as the most strategically active state among U.S. allies in the region. That suggests that the proactive policies of the Abe government are viewed positively as a stabilizing element in the region rather than a destabilizing force in light of China's rise and other challenges such as a nuclear-armed North Korea.
Indeed, Abe's 2016 reinterpretation of Article 9 of Japan's constitution -- to broaden the definition of "collective self-defense" to include Japanese military forces operating overseas with allies when vital national interests are at stake -- caused little apprehension in Asia outside Beijing, Pyongyang and Seoul. More recently, there were few complaints from Southeast Asia when Japanese naval vessels conducted drills in the South China Sea for the first time last September.
To be sure, Japan cannot replace the U.S. as the ultimate guarantor of stability and security in the region. China spends more than five times on defense as Japan and 5.5 times more than all the Southeast Asian states combined, according to 2017 figures. Southeast Asians are aware there is no balance against China without the U.S.
Even so, Japan is in a unique position to influence U.S. activities in the region. Tokyo is Washington's most important and powerful ally in Asia and the U.S.-Japan-Australia relationship is shaping up to be the backbone of a long-standing but evolving hub-and-spokes security architecture. Abe is widely reported to have one of the closest personal relationships of any world leader with U.S. President Donald Trump, even if this tie has been frayed by trade tensions recently.
Japan is already filling some of the vacuum created by the perception of inconsistent and unclear U.S. policies in the region. Following Trump's withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, its replacement -- the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership -- would not have happened without swift and decisive action by Tokyo.
Additionally, Japan is one of the few countries in Asia with a surplus of capital and technical expertise. Lacking a comprehensive economic strategy for the region following its withdrawal from the TPP, Washington, along with Canberra, has wisely teamed with Japan to offer an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative when it comes to infrastructure building.
This and other activities will increasingly be lumped together as part of the Free and Open Indo-Pacific concept that is being jointly promoted by the U.S., Japan and Australia. Tokyo is perceived in surveys as trustworthy, prudent and consistent. With many Southeast Asians suspicious that the FOIP might be a blunt U.S. instrument to contain Chinese power, it falls upon Japan to take on a greater role in developing the FOIP and promoting it to Southeast Asian countries.
Not all Southeast Asian countries are sitting back and passively observing how the FOIP concept develops or whether it will fade away. In a January speech, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi raised Indonesia's interest in leading other Southeast Asian states to build a free and open regional framework for the Indo-Pacific. The explicit aim is to ensure ASEAN adopts an Indo-Pacific strategy to safeguard the interests of its members.
This is not a simple and unthinking parroting of U.S. and allied priorities, which is anathema to Jakarta's "non-aligned" instincts. It signals a proactive approach to advance Southeast Asian interests in an increasingly unsettled and dangerous environment.
Even so, any such Southeast Asian approach needs to be consistent with the American and allied FOIP concept even when it is not directly aligned with it. In light of the positive views of Japan among ASEAN countries, it would make sense for Southeast Asia to treat Tokyo as its bridge to Washington with respect to a Southeast Asian Indo-Pacific strategy and other sensitive strategic matters.
Clearly there is a strong sense of anxiety among Southeast Asians caused in no small part by increased Chinese assertiveness and perceived U.S. disinterest. Anxiety ought not to lead to a fear of loss of control and paralysis. At least two countries -- Japan and Indonesia -- are responding.
Professor John Lee is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the United States Studies Centre in Sydney. He was previously senior national security adviser to Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. | 2019-04-24T04:20:25 | https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Japan-can-help-fill-a-security-gap-in-Southeast-Asia |
0.999973 | Horses, normally, do not venture out in the open if they are provided with the basic necessities inside the yard. However, on certain occasions, a horse might be tempted to go out on the street, and that may turn out to be dangerous. Hence, it is important to keep them inside. How, you ask? An electric horse fence is the answer.
Horses exhibit personality traits that are very much similar to human beings. They do not like to be trapped in enclosed areas and they love to roam freely, though within the yard. They hate walls and other opaque surfaces which prevent them from seeing the outside world. However, if they are supplied with adequate food and water, they are unlikely to break the barrier and go out. However, certain circumstances may force a horse to break the barrier and set itself free. Hence, it is necessary to install a fence that can successfully 'contain' the horse inside.
Invisible fencing does not work well with horses as they are likely to get tangled in the wires that are barely visible. Wooden or concrete barriers are dangerous, because the horse might try and break them if it is determined to go out. Horses act on instincts when they panic and get themselves seriously injured.
Electric fences have been criticized for being painful to animals. Yet, one can't deny the fact that they are very much effective in keeping animals, like horses and dogs, inside the yard, where they are safe.
Electric Fence Wire: It carries the electric charge across the fence. It is the 'active' or hot part, and is located above the ground.
Energizer: Energizer generates the electric charge and pushes it through the fence. This power is delivered in a series of pulses, which are transmitted per second to comply with the safety standards. Continuous pulses are not generated so as to give the horse some time to free itself from the fence.
Ground System: It comprises metal rods that are dug inside the ground. It is the 'inactive' part in the assembly, which only becomes active when the circuit is completed; or in other words, whenever the animal touches the fence.
The working principle of this fence is fairly simple; the circuit completes only when the horse comes in contact with the fence and ground. The energizer and ground system have a gap between them, which prevents the circuit from completing. The horse touches the fence and the circuit is completed, allowing the charge to pass. This charge flows through the body of the horse, resulting in a mild shock. Though the shock is not very painful, it is enough to startle the animal and prevent it from coming anywhere near the fence in future.
The cost incurred on installing an electric fence will depend on the perimeter of your yard. On an average, it will cost you anywhere between 48 to 75 cents per foot. While critics call for a ban on this system citing the pain it causes to the animal, horse-keepers do vouch for the safety and effectiveness of this fencing. | 2019-04-20T22:37:17 | https://petponder.com/electric-horse-fencing |
0.999775 | The Fourier transform is commonly used for frequency analysis of sounds. However, it has some disadvantages when it comes to analyzing the human perception of sound. For example, its frequency bins are linear, whereas the human ear responds to frequency logarithmically, not linearly.
Wavelet transforms can modify the resolution for different frequency ranges, unlike the Fourier transform. The wavelet transform’s properties allow large temporal supports for lower frequencies while maintaining short temporal widths for higher frequencies.
The Morlet wavelet is closely related to human perception of hearing. It can be applied to music transcription and produces very accurate results that are not possible using Fourier transform techniques. It is capable of capturing short bursts of repeating and alternating music notes with a clear start and end time for each note.
The constant-Q transform (closely related to the Morlet wavelet transform) is also well suited to musical data. As the output of the transform is effectively amplitude/phase against log frequency, fewer spectral bins are required to cover a given range effectively, and this proves useful when frequencies span several octaves.
The transform exhibits a reduction in frequency resolution with higher frequency bins, which is desirable for auditory applications. It mirrors the human auditory system, whereby at lower-frequencies spectral resolution is better, whereas temporal resolution improves at higher frequencies.
My question is this: Are there other transforms which closely mimic the human auditory system? Has anyone attempted to design a transform that anatomically/neurologically matches the human auditory system as closely as possible?
For example, it is known that human ears have a logarithmic response to sound intensity. It is also known that equal-loudness contours vary not only with intensity, but with the spacing in frequency of spectral components. Sounds containing spectral components in many critical bands are perceived as louder even if the total sound pressure remains constant.
Finally, the human ear has a frequency-dependent limited temporal resolution. Perhaps this could be taken into account as well.
The ability of the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) to provide good time and frequency localization has made it a popular tool in time–frequency analysis of signals. Wavelets exhibit constant-Q property, which is also possessed by the basilar membrane filters in the peripheral auditory system. The basilar membrane filters or auditory filters are often modeled by a Gammatone function, which provides a good approximation to experimentally determined responses. The filterbank derived from these filters is referred to as a Gammatone filterbank. In general, wavelet analysis can be likened to a filterbank analysis and hence the interesting link between standard wavelet analysis and Gammatone filterbank. However, the Gammatone function does not exactly qualify as a wavelet because its time average is not zero. We show how bona fide wavelets can be constructed out of Gammatone functions. We analyze properties such as admissibility, time-bandwidth product, vanishing moments, which are particularly relevant in the context of wavelets. We also show how the proposed auditory wavelets are produced as the impulse response of a linear, shift-invariant system governed by a linear differential equation with constant coefficients. We propose analog circuit implementations of the proposed CWT. We also show how the Gammatone-derived wavelets can be used for singularity detection and time–frequency analysis of transient signals.
This paper describes a method for obtaining a perceptually motivated and perfectly invertible time-frequency representation of a sound signal. Based on frame theory and the recent non-stationary Gabor transform, a linear representation with resolution evolving across frequency is formulated and implemented as a non-uniform filterbank. To match the human auditory time-frequency resolution, the transform uses Gaussian windows equidistantly spaced on the psychoacoustic “ERB” frequency scale. Additionally, the transform features adaptable resolution and redundancy. Simulations showed that perfect reconstruction can be achieved using fast iterative methods and preconditioning even using one filter per ERB and a very low redundancy (1.08). Comparison with a linear gammatone filterbank showed that the ERBlet approximates well the auditory time-frequency resolution.
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Mathematical reason for MCPP in audio recognition? | 2019-04-20T19:18:02 | https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/38817/which-transform-most-closely-mimics-the-human-auditory-system |
0.99995 | Which Country Produces the Most Dry Onion in the World?
In 2015, the countries with the highest levels of dry onion production were China (X thousand tonnes), India (X thousand tonnes), the United States (X thousand tonnes), together accounting for X% of total output.
From 2007 to 2015, the most notable growth rates of dry onion production among the main producing countries was attained by India (+X% per year), while the other global leaders experienced mixed trends in the output figures.
Global dry onion production amounted to X thousand tonnes in 2015, rising by +X% against the previous year level. Overall, the global dry onion output pursued a pronounced growth from 2007 to 2015. The trend pattern, however, indicated some noticable fluctuations throughout the analyzed period. The total output figures increased at an average annual rate of +X%. The growth pace was the most rapid in 2011, when the output figure increased by +X% from the previous year level. Over the period under review, the global dry onion production reached its maximum volume in 2015, and is likely to continue its growth in the immediate term.
Over the analyzed period, an increase in global dry onion production was primarily driven by population growth. Furthermore, these key drivers are expected to continue promoting the dry onion output in the immediate term. This general positive trend was largely conditioned by a robust expansion of the harvested area and a noticeable contraction of the yield figures.
The world dry onion harvested area amounted to X thousand ha in 2015, which was X% more than the previous year figure. The dry onion harvested area indicated a noticeable increase over the period under review, representing a compound annual growth rate of +X% from 2007 to 2015. This trend pattern, however, indicated some mild fluctuations over the recent years. Over the period under review, the total dry onion harvested area peaked in 2015, and is likely to continue its expansion in the immediate term, following rising demand over the globe. | 2019-04-26T06:35:01 | https://www.indexbox.io/blog/which-country-produces-the-most-dry-onion-in-the-world/ |
0.997904 | Many countries have made divorce easier over the past few decades, dropping fault requirements in favor of mutual agreement, or even allowing unilateral divorce (i.e. not requiring the consent of both spouses). Separation requirements have also been reduced or dropped. Is this trend a good idea? What are the short- and long-term consequences for couples and for society as a whole?
A number of studies have analyzed the social impact of recent reforms in divorce legislation across countries. The results suggest that the introduction of unilateral divorce raised divorce rates, at least temporarily, and that unilateral divorce reforms probably had some negative effects for couples who were “trapped” in the transition (married under the previous divorce law regime and “surprised” by the reforms). However, no-fault and unilateral divorce reforms cannot explain the large increases in divorce rates in many countries in the second half of the 20th century.
In addition, a number of studies have found that legal, easy, unilateral divorce may have positive economic and social consequences, including increasing saving rates among married individuals, and reducing the level of intrahousehold conflict and domestic violence (even in couples that remain intact). Moreover, in the long term, unilateral divorce seems to have led to better (if fewer) marriages, probably with lower divorce rates, suggesting that the overall long-term effects of the reforms are likely to be welfare-enhancing. Also, recent reforms favoring joint child custody seem to have encouraged marriage and fertility.
However, it is worth noting that unilateral divorce combined with equal division of property, as well as reforms that favor joint custody of children, may depress female employment, at least for some groups of women, which some countries may want to avoid. Some recent findings suggest, though, that unilateral divorce may increase fairness and lead to fewer distortions of labor supply if combined with separate property or prenuptial agreements.
Policymakers should also keep in mind the potential effects of changes in divorce laws on children, both in the short and long term. Introducing unilateral divorce can improve outcomes for children born to couples who were married after the reforms were introduced, while it may harm children born shortly before the reforms. Although the channels are still not well understood, this negative effect may be the consequence, at least in part, of the temporary increase in divorce rates following reforms that make divorce easier, and increases in poverty among divorced mothers. Thus, policies that facilitate income and other forms of support for children of parents who divorce soon after reforms in the divorce law may help alleviate such effects.
Read Libertad Gonzalez's article Should divorce be easier or harder? | 2019-04-24T03:56:32 | https://wol.iza.org/opinions/should-divorce-be-cheap-and-easy |
0.988869 | The most important factor in weight loss is obviously energy balance i.e. using more calories than you are eating. But how much should you be aiming for per day?
Most of the current research suggests athlete weight loss should be 0.5-1kg (1-2lbs) per week. To achieve this rate of weight loss, an energy deficit of 500-1000 kcal per day is required. This can be achieved by a decrease in energy intake and/or an increase in the energy burnt. The research also provided data to support that even between these two limits (0.5-1kg per week), there can be large differences in the effects upon performance.
They showed that weight loss at a rate of 0.7 per cent bodyweight per week (0.5 kg/1lb for a middleweight boxer) was far superior when compared to 1.4 per cent per cent bodyweight per week (1 kg/2lb for a middleweight boxer) when certain performances were measured. In the group who lost weight at a slower rate, countermovement jump power was increased by 7 per cent whilst no increases were seen in the faster-weight-loss group. Bench pull performance also increased by more when weight was slowly reduced, compared to quickly (10.3 per cent v 4.0 per cent) as did one-rep max for upper-body exercises (11.4 per cent vs. 5.2 per cent).
These parameters provide great support for keeping closer to competition weight and slowly reducing weight as opposed to crashing quickly. Keeping within 5-7 per cent of fight weight would be a good rule of thumb e.g. 132-135lbs for a featherweight boxer or 168-171lbs for a middleweight boxer. This would allow you to drop 0.7 pr cent bodyweight each week over the course of an eight-10-week camp.
Protein is very useful in cutting weight, not only because it helps maintain lean muscle, but it also increases the feeling of fullness (satiety) and the thermogenic effect of food (how many calories are burnt digesting the food eaten).
Increasing protein intake to 2.3-3.1g per kg bodyweight has been shown to help maintain lean muscle mass when compared to lower protein intakes. The leanest sources of protein include skinless chicken, egg whites, white fish, cottage cheese and skimmed milk.
Protein in six evenly spaced servings (every three-four hours) per day is generally accepted as the most effective routine. Recent research has suggested a minimum of 0.3g per kg bodyweight per serving as optimal e.g. for a 57kg (126lb) featherweight fighter 17g per servings and for a 72.5kg (160lb) middleweight fighter 22g per serving.
One paper studied the effects of meal frequency on the role of preservation of lean body mass. Research conducted on elite boxers found that although weight loss was not different between six meals per day or two meals per day when consuming the same amount of calories per day (1200 calories), the group who ate six meals per day maintained a greater amount of lean muscle and lost more body fat that the group who ate two meals per day.
When reducing weight and also eating a high-protein diet, athletes can often suffer from reduced bone mineral density. This can lead to bones becoming more fragile and possibly an increased chance of injury. However, research has suggested it appears that due to the load-bearing nature of boxing training (i.e. running, weightlifting, sparring), that bone mineral density is maintained. Although bone mineral density does not appear to be reduced, to be on the safe side it would still be recommended to increase calcium and vitamin D intake to help protect bone health as calcium is required for bone formation and vitamin D is required for calcium absorption.
Calcium can be increased by eating a few servings of dairy a day e.g. yoghurts, milk, cottage cheese, but also through leafy green vegetables e.g. broccoli, kale, cabbage and spinach (aim for at least five servings per day). If using a dairy-free diet, calcium supplementation may be required. Vitamin D is harder to get enough of, the only foods vitamin D is found in are oily fish, and this is only in small amounts. 95 per cent of the Vitamin D in our body is produced from exposure to the sun, so in winter many athletes can be deficient.
In preparation for the fight you will be increasing training volume and intensity, often training up to three times per day over the course of the eight-10 week camp. This increase in training can often negatively impact immune function, often seen as an increase in upper respiratory tract infections e.g. colds and sore throats, among other infections. Boxers can also be more at risk of contracting illness due to the nature of boxing, including factors such as increased body contact, bleeding, high sweat-rates for prolonged periods in the humid conditions of gyms and equipment that cannot be washed e.g. boxing gloves.
Research has shown that training in a glycogen-depleted state (very low carbohydrate stores) can also reduce immunity. Athletes training in a glycogendepleted state were shown to have reduced immune systems two hours after training when compared to athletes with high glycogen stores. Research suggests that training with adequate glycogen stores is optimal for maintaining immunity, especially when eating a reduced amount of calories. However, if training in a fasted state or using a very low-carbohydrate diet, always try to consume roughly 50g carbohydrate after intense training to help maintain immunity, but remember to include this intake in your daily calorie intake. If this is a fairly light session then carbohydrates can be withheld and a protein-only recovery snack can be used.
Cutting weight is not rocket science and is basically a matter of using more energy than you are eating and drinking. However, done incorrectly it can be dangerous and/or a real slog. Making the right decisions and eating a varied diet, without cutting out whole food groups, will cover the aspects mentioned above and help make your weight cut or diet a more enjoyable one.
Eat six servings of protein evenly spaced out three-four hours apart throughout the day and around training.
These should each contain at least 0.3g per kg protein.
Eat 500kcal less than you are expending per day; using a calorie tracker can help this.
Aim to consume 2-3g per kg of carbohydrates, dropping in the final one-two weeks to 1g per kg if required.
Try not to go over 5-7 per cent over your fight weight.
Aim for a weight loss of 0.5kg (1lb) or 0.7 per cent bodyweight per week.
Ensure a good intake of calcium; if lactose intolerant or following a dairy-free diet, increase green leafy vegetables or supplement with calcium. | 2019-04-22T20:24:41 | http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/how-to-cut-weight/ |
0.998528 | 2. In a large mixing bowl mix all ingredients except chicken breast and season well to make stuffing filling.
3. On a baking sheet, place 18 slices of bacon in groups of three and place chicken breast atop three slices. Season with salt and pepper. Repeat for all six chicken breasts.
4. Slice each chicken breast in half and stuff with 3 tablespoons of stuffing mixture and individually wrap each chicken breast with three slices of bacon.
5. When done, use butcher string to tie the bacon around each breast, tight enough so the chicken breast won't open while cooking.
6. Cook in the oven for 16 - 20 minutes. | 2019-04-26T02:14:03 | https://www.farmlandfoods.com/recipes/bacon-wrapped-stuffed-chicken/ |
0.998677 | When would I pick a mammalian expression system for expression of my protein as opposed to expression in other hosts?
Even though mammalian expression is more time consuming and not as easy to use as expression in some other host systems, and also not as cost-effective, it is the system of choice for studying the function of a particular protein in the most physiologically relevant environment, since it allows for the highest level of post-translational processing of the protein.
What are the pros and cons of mammalian expression in comparison with expression in other host systems?
What is a dose-response curve or kill curve? And can you outline the steps involved?
Plate untransfected cells at 25% confluence and grow them in medium containing increasing concentrations of the antibiotic. For some antibiotics, you will need to calculate the amount of active drug to control for lot variation.
Do your mammalian expression vectors contain a transcription termination sequence after the polyadenylation signal sequence?
Eukaryotic transcriptional termination signals are ill-defined. In our mammalian expression vectors, transcriptional termination is provided by the SV40 polyA, BGH polyA, or TK polyA site downstream of the multiple cloning site.
What is the consensus Kozak sequence for mammalian expression and do I need to include a Kozak sequence when I clone my gene of interest into one of your mammalian expression vectors?
The consensus Kozak sequence is A/G NNATGG, where the ATG indicates the initiation codon. Point mutations in the nucleotides surrounding the ATG have been shown to modulate translation efficiency. Although we make a general recommendation to include a Kozak consensus sequence, the necessity depends on the gene of interest and often, the ATG alone may be sufficient for efficient translation initiation. The best advice is to keep the native start site found in the cDNA unless one knows that it is not functionally ideal. If concerned about expression, it is advisable to test two constructs, one with the native start site and the other with a consensus Kozak. In general, all expression vectors that have an N-terminal fusion will already have an initiation site for translation.
Do you offer a mammalian expression vector with a C-terminal tag that can be cleaved?
We do not offer a mammalian expression vector with a cleavable C-terminal tag.
Will the T7 promoter in mammalian expression vectors function in prokaryotes to promote expression of proteins from genes cloned into the multiple cloning site?
No; while transcripts will be made, there is no ribosome-binding site (RBS) or Shine Dalgarno sequence to initiate translation. mRNA will be transcribed in E. coli cells, but this message will not be translated into protein.
Which of your antibiotics (Geneticin®, Zeocin™, Hygromycin B, Blasticidin, and Puromycin) can be used together for stable selection in mammalian cells?
All of our antibiotics (Geneticin®, Zeocin™, Hygromycin B, Blasticidin, and Puromycin) can be used together for making multiple stable cell lines. However, kill curves will need to be performed for each combination of antibiotics since sensitivity to a given antibiotic tends to increase when combined with other antibiotics.
What is the difference between A, B, and C versions of your mammalian expression vectors? Are they provided in one tube or separate tubes?
The differences between the A, B, and C forms of our vectors are a result of either single base-pair addition or deletion in the multiple cloning site (MCS) of the vector. As a result of these single base changes, we have generated three separate reading frames for each type of vector. This feature will enable cloning a gene of interest in frame with the epitope tag using the restriction enzyme of choice. The three reading frames A, B, and C are provided in three separate tubes.
I am working with a mouse cell line and would like to express my gene at high levels using one of your vectors with the CMV promoter. Do you foresee any problems with this approach?
The CMV promoter is known to be downregulated over time in mouse cell lines. Hence, we recommend using one of our non-CMV vectors, such as those with the EF1α or UbC promoter, for long-term expression in mouse cell lines.
Which competent E. coli do you recommend using for propagation of my Gateway®-adapted mammalian Destination vector?
We recommend using One Shot® ccdB Survival™ 2 T1R Competent Cells, Cat. No. A10460. This strain is resistant to the toxic effects of the ccdB gene.
Note: Do not use general E. coli cloning strains, including TOP10 or DH5α™, for propagation and maintenance, as these strains are sensitive to ccdB effects.
Do you offer a GFP-expressing mammalian expression vector that I can use as a control to monitor my transfection and expression?
We offer pJTI™ R4 Exp CMV EmGFP pA Vector, Cat. No. A14146, which you can use to monitor your transfection and expression.
What is the difference between pcDNA™3 and pcDNA™3.1 vectors?
pcDNA™3 is no longer available from Thermo Fisher Scientific but has been directly replaced by pcDNA™3.1, which was derived from pcDNA™3. The center of the multiple cloning site (MCS) within the original pcDNA™3 vector contained homology to a hairpin mRNA structure and involved the Eag I, Not I, and both BstXI sequences. This hairpin would only have affected expression of genes cloned downstream of the Not I site, if at all. To address this issue, some sequences were removed, including the Eag I site, and the BstXI sequences were slightly modified to reduce homology. A 32-base fragment from pcDNA™3 (between bases 995 and 1026), which contains the Sp6 primer site, was also removed and 11 bases were inserted in its place, adding another PmeI restriction site into the MCS of pcDNA™3.1.
What is the significance of the (+) and (-) designations for the pcDNA™3.1, pcDNA™3.1/Zeo, and pcDNA™3.1/Hygro vectors?
The (+) and (-) designations refer to the orientation of the multiple cloning sites in these vectors. The availability of the cloning site in two orientations facilitates flexibility in cloning scheme design, so that if, for example, your insert must clone in as a Not I to Bam HI orientation, you may choose the (-) version of these vectors.
What is the difference between pcDNA™3.1 vectors and the pcDNA™3.3-TOPO® vector?
pcDNA™3.1 vectors contain the core CMV promoter that is truncated before the start of transcription, whereas the pcDNA™ 3.3-TOPO® vector has the 672 bp native CMV promoter. This native CMV promoter allows high-level gene expression with two- to five-fold higher protein yields compared to other expression vectors. pcDNA™3.1 vectors are available in restriction, TOPO®, and Gateway® cloning versions and as untagged and epitope-tagged versions, whereas the pcDNA™3.3-TOPO® vector is a TOPO® TA-adapted, untagged vector that can be used to express native proteins without extraneous amino acids, and is hence ideal for antibody production and structural biology.
What is the special feature about the pcDNA™4/HisMax and pcDNA™4/HisMax-TOPO® vectors?
The pcDNA™4/HisMax and pcDNA™4/HisMax-TOPO® vectors contain the QBI SP163 translational enhancer to increase expression levels two- to five-fold above those seen with the CMV promoter alone.
I am interested in a mammalian expression system where I can have regulated expression of my gene of interest. I see that you offer multiple systems for this purpose. Can you describe the main features of each system?
What are the different kinds of T-REx™ cell lines you offer?
We offer T-REx™-293, -HeLa, -CHO, and -Jurkat cell lines. These cell lines are derived by transfection of parental cells with pcDNA™6/TR followed by stable selection with blasticidin. They constitutively and stably express the TetR gene, allowing significant time and effort saving when using the T-REx™ system. These cell lines are functionally tested for expression by transient transfection with the positive control vector, pcDNA™4/TO/lacZ. They exhibit extremely low basal expression levels of bGal in the repressed state and high expression upon induction with tetracycline.
Can I use the anti-HisG antibody for western detection of the His tag in Gateway® pT-REx™ DEST31?
The Gateway® pT-REx™ DEST31 vector contains an N-terminal 6xHis tag (the 6XHis in this vector is not followed by Glycine (G) or -COOH). Hence, it cannot be detected using anti-HisG or anti-His (C-terminal) antibodies. Instead, we recommend using an anti-6xHis antibody (Cat. No. 372900).
I am planning to generate a T-REx™ cell line using pcDNA6/TR. Can I perform a western blot using antibodies to TetR to assess whether the cell line is expressing enough of TetR? Do you offer an antibody to TetR?
We do not offer an anti-TetR antibody. Even though a western using an anti-TetR antibody can be used to screen out clones that do not express any TetR protein, it would not be the optimal way to screen for functional clones. Functional testing by performing a transient transfection with the lacZ expression control plasmid is recommended for this purpose, followed by picking a clone that shows lowest basal levels of expression of β-galactosidase in the absence of tetracycline, and highest levels of β-galactosidase expression upon addition of tetracycline.
Can I use doxycycline instead of tetracycline as an inducer in the T-REx™ system?
Doxycycline may be used as an alternative inducing agent in the T-REx™ system. It is similar to tetracycline in its mechanism of action, and exhibits similar dose-response and induction characteristics as tetracycline in the T-REx™ system. Doxycycline has been shown to have a longer half-life than tetracycline (48 hours vs. 24 hours, respectively). We do not offer doxycycline, but it may be obtained from Sigma (Cat. No. D9891).
What is the advantage of the Flp-In™ T-REx™ system over the T-REx™ system?
The Flp-In™ T-REx™ system combines the targeted integration offered by the Flp-In™ system with the powerful inducible expression offered by the T-REx™ system. It allows generation of isogenic, inducible, stable cell lines and permits polyclonal selection of these cell lines. Once the Flp-In™ T-REx™ host cell line containing an integrated FRT site has been created, subsequent generation of Flp-In™ T-REx™ cell lines expressing the gene(s) of interest is rapid and efficient.
What kind of Flp-In™ T-REx™ cell lines do you offer?
We offer the Flp-In™ T-REx™ system that contains pFRT/lacZeo and pcDNA6/TR stably integrated into HEK 293 cells. This cell line has been functionally tested for its ability to regulate expression.
What is the main advantage of the GeneSwitch™ system over the T-REx™ system? And what is its main disadvantage?
With the GeneSwitch™ system, it is possible to have the absolute lowest basal levels of expression of the gene of interest, whereas the T-REx™ system may be a little leaky due to the inevitable presence of tetracycline in FBS. The induced level of expression in the GeneSwitch™ system can be even higher than that seen with the CMV promoter. The disadvantage of the GeneSwitch™ system is that the expression does not appear to switch off very easily in culture, although it has been demonstrated to function beautifully in transgenics. The T-REx™ system, on the other hand, can be switched on and off by the addition and removal of the inducer.
Why is sequential transfection recommended over co-transfection in the T-REx™ and GeneSwitch™ systems?
When a co-transfection is performed, there is no way of testing the double stable cell line for functional TetR or GeneSwitch™ protein, respectively. On the other hand, when sequential transfection is performed, one can functionally test the generated T-REx™ or GeneSwitch™ cell line by transiently transfecting the lacZ expression control plasmid and then picking a clone that shows the lowest basal level of expression of lacZ in the absence of the inducer, and the highest level of lacZ in the presence of the inducer. This clone can then be expanded and used to transfect the T-REx™ or GeneSwitch™ expression construct, as the case may be.
What are the characteristic features of the GeneSwitch™ protein?
Since the GAL4 DBD is derived from a yeast protein, the GeneSwitch™ protein has no effect on endogenous genes and can only activate transcription of genes whose expression is controlled by a GAL4 UAS (i.e., the gene of interest and the regulatory fusion gene).
The GAL4 DBD binds to an individual 17-nucleotide GAL4-binding site as a homodimer. The pGene/V5-His and pSwitch plasmids contain 6 and 4 copies of the GAL4 binding site, respectively, although it is not known if all of the GAL4-binding sites are occupied at any given time.
The truncated hPR-LBD contains a 19 amino acid deletion from its C-terminal end that abolishes its ability to bind to progesterone, other endogenous steroid hormones, or other progesterone agonists, but still enables it to bind with high affinity to mifepristone.
The p65 AD is a strong transcriptional activator but is derived from a human protein, to minimize possible toxic or pleiotropic effects associated with viral transactivation domains.
Do you offer any GeneSwitch™ cell lines?
Sorry, all GeneSwitch™ cell lines have been discontinued.
Do you still offer the Ecdysone Expression System?
The Ecdysone vectors and cell lines have been discontinued, but we do still offer the inducers, Muristerone A and Ponasterone A.
Is multiple integration of the Flp-In™ expression construct possible? How do you screen for multiple integrants, and how stable is the Flp-In™ expression cell line?
In theory, one can get multiple integrations of the Flp-In™ expression construct—an FRT-specific integration event and a random, second-site integration. However, random integration is a relatively uncommon event. Limiting the amount of DNA in the transfection will reduce the chance of second-site integration. We have transfected 293 cells (lacking the FRT site) with the pcDNA™5/FRT vector and have identified one potential second-site integrant after screening over 200 clones. DNA integrations can be detected by Southern blot. A single integrant will display a single band; double: two; triple: three, etc. We have maintained a number of Flp-In™ expression cell lines for over four months and have not observed any loss of the Flp-In™ expression construct, whether hygromycin selection was maintained or not.
What is the difference between the Jump-In™ and Flp-In™ systems?
The Jump-In™ system is PhiC31-integrase mediated and is a stable, targeted, and irreversible mammalian expression system. It consists of the Jump-In™ Fast system that involves a single integration step and the Jump-In™TI™ (targeted integration) system that needs two integration steps, both of which are targeted and irreversible. In contrast, the Flp-In™ system is a stable, targeted mammalian expression system that is reversible. The first integration is random (integration of pFRT/lacZeo), and the second integration (integration of the Flp-In™ expression vector) is targeted but reversible.
When should I use the Jump-In™ Fast system versus the Jump-In™TI™ system?
We recommend using the Jump-In™ Fast system if you need stable mammalian expression and want to quickly generate well-expressing clones. You can have well-expressing clones with one or more integrations at the PhiC31 pseudo-att P sites. A Southern blot is necessary to confirm the number of integrated events. Use the Jump-In™TI™ system if you need isogenic expression, where every cloned gene would be expressed from the same locus in the same background, with no chromosomal position effects.
In the Jump-In™ system, how much DNA or what controls do I need to include in order to get one integration event?
The amount of DNA to be used to obtain single copies should be determined by control experiments done in the absence of integrase. The same amount of DNA that yields less than 5 colonies in the absence of integrase should be used in the presence of integrase. Typically, the integrase expression plasmid makes up most of the amount of DNA used for transfection.
In the Jump-In™TI™ system, what controls do I need to check for the presence of the R4 target site after the creation of the platform cell line?
A platform cell line is created when the R4 attP retargeting sequences are site-specifically inserted into the mammalian genome via PhiC31 Int-mediated recombination. In addition to the R4 retargeting sequences, this integration event introduces the hygromycin resistance gene under the control of the HSV TK promoter, and the promoterless Bsd, Neo, or Zeo resistance marker, depending on the platform vector used (i.e., pJTI™/Bsd, pJTI™/Neo, or pJTI™/Zeo). Although you select for transformants carrying the R4 retargeting sequences by their resistance to hygromycin, you may perform PCR analysis to check the integrity of the R4 attP retargeting sequences. For this, we recommend amplifying the region from the R4 attP sequence to the appropriate resistance marker (depending on the platform line used) using the genomic DNA from the platform line. A nested PCR is recommended to reduce the high background you may observe with only primary PCR. Alternatively, you may create a labeled DNA probe by PCR amplifying an approximately 1.5 kb region covering the retargeting sequences, and then perform a Southern blot analysis. The Southern blot will also act as an additional check to verify that only a single copy of the retargeting sequence is integrated into the genome.
In the Jump-In™TI™ system, what controls do I need to check for the successful retargeting of the platform line?
The second step in targeted integration is the retargeting event mediated by the R4 integrase, where the genetic elements of interest are site-specifically transferred from the retargeting expression construct (created using the MultiSite Gateway® Pro module) into the genome of the platform line. This integration event also positions the EF1α promoter upstream of the blasticidin, neomycin, or Zeocin™ resistance gene (i.e., “promoterless” selection marker), thus allowing the selection of transformants that are successfully “retargeted” using the appropriate selection agent. Although you select from successfully retargeted clones using blasticidin, Geneticin®, or Zeocin™ antibiotic, you may also perform a nested PCR to amplify the region from the EF1α promoter to the appropriate resistance gene. You can amplify the hygromycin resistance gene as a positive control. Similar to the platform line creation, you may also perform a Southern blot analysis with a probe designed for your gene of interest.
Does the pJTI™ PhiC31 Int vector contain a nuclear localization signal (NLS), and would adding an NLS increase the efficiency of site-specific integration at pseudo attP sites?
The pJTI™ Phic31 Int vector does not contain an NLS. Adding an NLS could increase the efficiency of site-specific integration at pseudo attP sites, but there are no data to support it. There is one paper describing the use of an NLS on a PhiC31 integrase vector, but the authors didn't measure integration into pseudo attP sites.
I am planning to generate a Jump-In™ platform cell line. Do you recommend mapping the site of integration and checking against the database to pick a clone where integration has occurred in a “good” hot spot?
We would recommend engineering an expression marker/reporter in the plasmid used to create the platform line, and then screening the platform line for expression of this marker to identify a high-expressing locus. Otherwise, the process can get quite labor-intensive, as multiple lines would have to be screened after retargeting. | 2019-04-19T00:31:12 | https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/technical-resources/technical-reference-library/protein-expression-support-center/basic-mammalian-expression-support/basic-mammalian-expression-support-getting-started.html |
0.999955 | Given the statement below, what is pf?
Another batch of Video Game Development Elective students from Philippine Science High School Main Campus will graduate this end of March. As a final requirement, they need to upload their games in Kongregate and here they are. Click on the image to play their games.
Rolling Rumble was the most popular game during the National Science Fair exhibit. Go and push your friends around. I know you want to.
Synchonicity Alpha will annoy you. Enough said.
Need some brain exercise? Spectrum will make your head twist and turn.
I hope you guys have the patience of figuring out the controls of their games 😀 I will emphasize on integrating tutorial levels and making the controls more intuitive in my next game development classes.
Oh and feel free to rate and comment their games in Kongregate. I told them to expect the onslaught of the world once their games are out.
As some of you know, I joined ScreenChamp Awards 2013 last December and emerged People’s Choice Award. My prizes have arrived today in 3 boxes.
It left Amazon last Jan 20 and arrived in the Philippines on the 24th. It’s been stuck in Pasay City due to a clearance delay for a week. But FedEx got it through and it arrived at my doorstep yesterday. My mom, who received it, was excited herself to see what’s inside. She helped me open the boxes and take pictures of the contents.
Box #3 contained the prizes that makes ScreenChamp worth fighting for. I got a red The Forge T-shirt, Canon T5i DSLR + EF 50mm lens, Zoom H4 Audio Recorder, Shure Wireless Lavalier, 4 The Forge Stickers, 2 32GB SDHC Memory Cards, Moleskin Notebook, and Staedtler pens.
I already got my other prize of 250USD Gift Certificate to Premium Beat through an e-mail.
To all those who liked my video, a big THANK YOU! This wouldn’t be a success without you!
Unity3D GUI is hell. Add multiple aspect ratios and you’d pretty much be pulling your hair off.
For those developers who are new to tackling multiple aspect ratios; here’s a project that you could test out.
The main issue with different aspect ratios (and screen resolutions) is that they “see” things differently. You could solve this by either using Pillarbox/Letterboxing or Stretching. Pillarbox/Letterboxing is totally out of the question. Nobody likes losing screen real estate. Googling around and you’ll see suggestions of stretching the GUI by manipulating the GUI.matrix via Matrix4x4.SetTRS() but stretching is not cool.
For 3D games, this is barely an issue. For 2D games, yes it is. It’s also an annoyance to the develop User Interfaces for different aspect ratios. Then I stumbled upon How to support 3 iOS aspect ratios in Unity3D which showed how to use a single camera to be deployed in multiple devices with different aspect ratios. The solution: change the orthographic size of the camera! However, there were some discrepancies with the exact pixel values which led me to create the test project above. Nigel also mentioned to use the orthographic size for the UI.
As for the User Interface, to hell with Unity3D GUI since you can’t even see it while you’re coding. Sprites are way better. It makes the world a better place for game developers. Combined with a dedicated camera to draw the user interface from sprites and Text Mesh for dynamic text, we can actually replace most of the form elements in GUI.
I ran my project on an iPhone 5s, iPhone 3GS and iPad 3 and the results are as follows.
What does this mean? Keep your game elements inside the green box and it will be seen in any of the 3 aspect ratios. Then for your UI, use sprites and see how I aligned those orange boxes to the top/bottom edges of the screen. What about the extra space on wider aspect ratios, up to you actually.
For a demonstration, here’s a Unity3D package (requires 4.3). Build and test it on touch devices. I’ve only tested it for iOS devices. You can test it with Unity Remote but it has limitations like touch responsiveness which is critical for this demonstration.
The OnTouch* event handlers are all declared public virtual void and passes the Touch parameter. Meaning, each event handler could be called multiple times per Update() depending on how many touches there are (Input.touchCount). We can treat each touch separately by taking note of the finger id that comes with the touch.
Unfortunately, upon testing over and over again, it is POSSIBLE to start with Moved or Ended! I haven’t noticed if it could start with Stationary since I don’t use it for my projects at the moment. But my point here is that the Began phase CAN BE SKIPPED! I’m not sure if this is intentional but it’s happening and it got me pulling my hair for the past couple of days.
I’m using an object pool in my project where the objects react to touch. When the user touches, an object is created, let’s call that Object 0. When the user touches again, another object is created called Object 1. If Object 0 gets disabled (as part of the game mechanic) and the user touches again, Object 0 will be re-intialized and treated as something new. Objects don’t get destroyed, rather, they become disabled. This is basically how object pooling works.
Theoretically, every time a Began phase is encountered, a mirror is re-initialized in Crazy Bugz. The user can rotate or stretch this mirror by moving their finger which corresponds to the Moved phase. When the user releases their finger, an Ended phase is encountered and that mirror remains enabled until it gets disabled (shattered) by the laser. However, there are certain occasions where I touch and get a NullExceptionError. It turns out, my game is trying to look for a mirror with a specified finger id that was not created. This means, the Began phase was skipped!
As a work around, if in case the Began phase has been skipped and goes directly to Moved phase, I would treat that as a Began phase. In the case the Began phase has been skipped and goes directly to Ended, I would simply ignore it.
Not exactly the best solution but this will have to do. | 2019-04-24T08:50:28 | http://xeratol.com/whats-up/page/2 |
0.782322 | interracial marriage biblical or not what are your thoughts??
It was not biblical in OT times because God it would cause Israel to marry pagans and take their hearts away from God. Doesn't mean it didn't happen though. Is that a race thing or a nation thing?
I am in an interracial marriage. Filipina and Caucasian.
Scriptures do not forbid interracial marriage. I say again and as one who grew up in the south. Scriptures do not forbid interracial marriage. If you have two people from different races. They are believers in Jesus. And I better add one being a man and the other woman. Then they are free to marry. Oh, and it helps a lot they love each other.
The scriptures imply that homosexual marriages are an abomination to God. The scriptus say that divorced people are not to marry. Unless divorce on Biblical grounds. The scriptures imply that a believer should not marry a non believer.
But nowhere do I see a prohibition against interracial marriage.
What is a greater deterrent to a successful marriage is when one or both have a low view of the permanence of marriage; come from radically different cultural backgrounds - this can be overcome, BUT but both have to be willing to give and take, not just the wife because she is supposed to be the "submissive one"; one far more spiritual the the other; divorced persons with a spouse still living. There could be other issues but these are the ones that came to my mind.
I struggled with this one. I believe that we do cross a line when we go outside our own race. I believe that redbirds and bluebirds do not cross that line because they are following the natural divine order. When in doubt I think we should not. Yes God loves us all as people but there is a divine order that is obvious. The scripture is clear when it says that. I am not convinced we are following that divine order when we cross that line. My best friend is in an interracial marriage. Great folks.
There are only two "races" in the earth-- those in the old man, Adam, and those in the New Man, Christ.
Christians may marry any within their own "race" (that is to say, may marry another Christian) regardless of skin colour. But there should be no intermarriage between the two "races."
Nevertheless when a believer is married to an unbeliever, they are to stay together, as the apostle Paul teaches (1 Cor. Ch. 7). God has grace for such situations.
The physical lineage of Jesus contained a few "interracial marriages" (Rahab, Ruth).
Allan has it right that the prohibition is between a believer and a non believer getting married, not between two people who have different colors of skin.
The scriptures imply that homosexual marriages are an abomination to God.
Actually there is no implication, it's flat out stated. But not on homosexual marriages. Just on homosexual relationships. There is no such thing as a homosexual marriage, for the simple reason that God doesn't recognize such as being a marriage. They can call it whatever they want, as it doesn't change the fact that God has defined marriage, and anything that doesn't match His definition cannot be defined as such. "Legal" or not.
It is possible to have an international marriage, an intercultural marriage, an interdenominational marriage, or an inter-religious belief marriage, but an interracial marriage is utterly impossible. Differences in skin color are no more or no less than differences in hair color. We don't speak of inter-folicular marriages between red-heads and brunettes. We are all humans.
Interestingly enough, in the OT, God condemned marriages between Israel and other pagan nations. However there was one very famous intercultural marriage that God defended. Moses married a woman from Ethiopia. His sister had a problem with this marriage and spoke against it. God made her barren for her opposition to this marriage that we would hear termed "interracial" today.
I agree, the only marriage God is against on a large scale is a believer and an unbeliever. As to who we marry specifically, seek God for His will.
But I was so very pleased to read about your marital situation. It helped me appreciate you more. | 2019-04-26T06:53:32 | http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=45927&forum=35 |
0.999997 | JSON Web Encryption is vulnerable to a classic Invalid Curve Attack. Learn how this may affect you and what to do about it.
TL;DR If you are using go-jose, node-jose, jose2go, Nimbus JOSE+JWT or jose4 with ECDH-ES please update to the latest version. RFC 7516 aka JSON Web Encryption (JWE) and software libraries implementing this specification used to suffer from a classic Invalid Curve Attack. This can allow an attacker to recover the secret key of a party using JWE with Key Agreement with Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Static (ECDH-ES), where the sender could extract receiver’s private key.
In this blog post I assume you are already knowledgeable about elliptic curves and their use in cryptography. If not Nick Sullivan's A (Relatively Easy To Understand) Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography or Andrea Corbellini's series Elliptic Curve Cryptography: finite fields and discrete logarithms are great starting points. Then if you further want to climb the elliptic learning curve including the related attacks you might also want to visit https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/. Also the DJB and Tanja talk at 31c3 comes with an explanation of this very attack (see minute 43) or Juraj Somorovsky et al's research can become handy for learners.
Note that this research was started and inspired by Quan Nguyen from Google and then refined by Antonio Sanso from Adobe.
This is only one of the many possibilities JWE provides. A separate specification called RFC 7518 aka JSON Web Algorithms (JWA) lists all the possible available algorithms that can be used. The one we are discussing today is the Key Agreement with Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Static (ECDH-ES). This algorithm allows deriving an ephemeral shared secret (this blog post from Neil Madden shows a concrete example on how to do ephemeral key agreement).
As a symmetric key used to wrap the CEK with the A128KW, A192KW, or A256KW algorithms, in the Key Agreement with Key Wrapping mode.
This is out of scope for this post but as for the other algorithms the JOSE Cookbook contains example of usage for ECDH-ES in combination with AES-GCM or AES-CBC plus HMAC.
As we will see thorough this post this simple observation will be enough to recover the receiver’s private key. But first we need to dig a bit into elliptic curve bits and pieces.
For JWE the elliptic curves in scope are the one defined in Suite B and (only recently) DJB's curve. Between those, the curve that so far has reached the higher amount of usage is the famous P-256.
y2 = ax3 + ax + b.
As you can see from the image above we just found a nicer curve (from the attacker point of view) that has an order with many small factors. Then we found a point P on the curve that has a really small order (2447 in this example).
Now we can build malicious JWEs (see the Demo Time section below) and extract the value of the secret key modulo 2447 with complexity in constant time.
A crucial part for the attack to succeed is to have the victim to repeat his own contribution to the resulting shared key. In other words this means that the victim should have his private key to be the same for each key agreement. Conveniently enough this is how the Key Agreement with Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Static (ECDH-ES) works. Indeed ES stands for Ephemeral-Static were Static is the contribution of the victim!
At this stage we can repeat these operations (find a new curve, craft malicious JWEs, recover the secret key modulo the small order) many many times and collecting information about the secret key modulo many many small orders.
And finally Chinese Remainder Theorem for the win!
At the end of the day the issue here is that the specification and consequently all the libraries I checked missed validating that the received public key (contained in the JWE Protected Header is on the curve), You can see the Vulnerable Libraries section below to check how the various libraries fixed the issue.
Again you can find details of the attack in the original paper.
An application that wants to POST data to this server needs first to do a key agreement using the server's public key above and then encrypt the payload using the derived shared key using the JWE format. Once the JWE is in place this can be posted to https://obscure-everglades-31759.herokuapp.com/secret. The web app will respond with a response status 200 if all went well (namely if it can decrypt the payload content) and with a response status 400 if for some reason the received token is missing or invalid. This will act as an oracle for any potential attacker in the way shown in the previous The Attack section.
I set up an attacker application in https://afternoon-fortress-81941.herokuapp.com/.
You can visit it and click the 'Recover Key' button and observe how the attacker is able to recover the secret key from the server piece by piece. Note that this is only a demo application so the recovered secret key is really small in order to reduce the waiting time. In practice the secret key will be significantly larger (hence it will take a bit more to recover the key).
https://github.com/asanso/jwe-receiver contains the code of the vulnerable server.
https://github.com/asanso/jwe-sender contains the code of the attacker.
jose2go's fix landed in version 1.3.
* Latest version of Node.js appears to be immune to this attack. It was still possible to be vulnerable when using browsers without web crypto support.
** Affected was the default Java SUN JCA provider that comes with Java prior to version 1.8.0_51. Later Java versions and the BouncyCastle JCA provider do not seem to be affected.
I reported this issue to the JOSE working group via mail to the appropriate mailing list. We all seem to agree that an errata where the problem is listed is at least welcomed. This post is a direct attempt to raise awareness about this specific problem.
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The author would like to thanks the maintainers of go-jose, node-jose,jose2go, Nimbus JOSE+JWT and jose4 for the responsiveness on fixing the issue. Francesco Mari for helping out with the development of the demo application. Tommaso Teofili and Simone Tripodi for troubleshooting. Finally as mentioned above I would like to thank Quan Nguyen from Google, indeed this research could not be possible without his initial incipit.
Antonio works as Senior Software Engineer at Adobe Research Switzerland where he is part of the Adobe Experience Manager security team. Antonio is co-author of "OAuth 2 in Action" book. He found vulnerabilities in popular software such as OpenSSL, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and is included in the Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Paypal and Github security hall of fame. He is an avid open source contributor, being the Vice President (chair) for Apache Oltu and PMC member for Apache Sling. His working interests span from web application security to cryptography. Antonio is also the author of more than a dozen computer security patents and applied cryptography academic papers. He holds an MSc in Computer Science. | 2019-04-19T18:32:19 | https://auth0.com/blog/critical-vulnerability-in-json-web-encryption/ |
0.999562 | Identifying what is causing the problem is the first step toward properly repairing it. Although, in some cases, you will simply have troubleshoot the problem by exploring all of the possible causes and making the necessary repairs.
If the pressure regulator goes bad or stops working, it may cause low water pressure in some or all of the water fixtures in your home. This is one plumbing problem that is better left to the professionals, however, when it comes to making a repair. A plumber can easily replace or fix a regulator at a reasonable cost to you. On the other hand, homeowners who try to tackle this problem on their own can create a bigger problem. In the long run, this will cost even more money for you to fix.
The elevation of the water storage tank can also affect water pressure. If your home is located hire than your tank, you might experience some problems with water pressure. Take advantage of gravity and make sure your water storage tank is located higher than the home. This helps the water flow faster and easier, giving you greater water pressure.
Valves turn, which means these valves sometimes get accidentally moved or turned off without the homeowner realizing it. There is usually a main water valve in a home. If this main water valve is not shut off or if it is not completely turned on, it will affect all of the water flow in the home. Be sure the main water valve is completely turned on if you are having a water pressure problem.
Cracks or damage to water pipes can cause water leaks. Water leaks can cause low water pressure because not all of the water is making its way to your faucet. Some of it is leaking through the cracked or damaged pipe. Check your pipes for damage or leaks. A trick to figuring out if you have a leak is to shut off the water valve in your home and mark down the meter reading showing on your water meter. Come back two hours later and read the water meter reading again. If the water usage has increases, then you have a leak.
Over time, pipes can experience mineral deposit build-ups. These build-ups clog faucets and showerheads, preventing full water pressure. Try cleaning out the faucet heads and showerheads in your home to see if this alleviates the low water pressure problem. If this does not resolve the problem and you believe it is a mineral deposit build-up causing your low water pressure, then you may have to call a professional plumber to assess and correct the problem.
You can try to diagnose your low water pressure problem on your own and test solutions to see if it resolves the problem. The bottom line is, if you cannot correct the problem on your own then you are going to have to hire a professional plumber. There are also problems that you just cannot resolve on your own no matter how much of a do-it-yourselfer you are. Erosion of your pipes, major blockage problems, or major leaks are all problems better left to the pros. | 2019-04-26T01:38:15 | https://benfranklinflorida.com/5-ways-to-solve-your-low-water-pressure-problem/ |
0.999997 | Mention was made of li'an in the presence of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). And Asim b. 'Adi passed a remark about it and then turned away, and a man of his tribe came to him complaining that he had found a man with his wife, whereupon 'Asim said: I have been taken by my words. He took him to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and told him about the man whom he had found with his wife and this man was a lean, yellow-coloured man with lank hair, and the person who was accused of committing adultery with her (his wife) had fleshy shanks, with wheat complexion and heavy bulk. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: O Allah, make (this case) manifest. And as she gave birth to a child, whose face resembled that person about whom her husband had made mention that he had found her with, and Allah's Messenger (may peace be, upon him) had asked them to invoke curses. A person said to Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with him): Is she (that woman) about whom Allah's Messenger (may peace be upen him) (said):" If I were to stone anybody without evidence, I would have stoned her"? Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) said: No, it is not she. That woman was one who openly spread evil in society. | 2019-04-23T17:00:35 | https://sunnah.com/muslim/19/16 |
0.99836 | JEREMY Kyle viewers slammed the NHS for letting an obese woman have a £10K gastric sleeve operation, despite rejecting their offer of psychological counselling for her food addiction.
Food addict Lucy was taken on the show but her boyfriend Idris, who said he was concerned that she was secretly snacking, binge eating and making herself throw up even after the life changing operation.
The mum-of-two was offered the £10,000 gastric operation on the NHS to help her lose weight and managed to shift 10 stone - more than 50% of her body weight - following the successful surgery.
But her fiance sought Jeremy Kyle's help as he worried she was returning to her old ways.
He explained that Lucy could eat a whole roast dinner before ordering a Chinese and then vomiting the food up later.
Idris told Jeremy's researchers: "I care about how she's treating herself but she's letting herself go and I have to be honest.
"She's stopped caring about herself, we're not intimate any more and I believe the way she's eating she's going to get back to where she was.
Lucy, who acknowledged she had a problem, came on the show hoping to change her ways and willing to accept the advice of Jeremy and his team.
She confessed to relying on food when she struggled with her emotions and said everything she arranged to do with her friends revolved around food.
Lucy said: "I just can't stop thinking about food, I don't know why.
"It makes me feel happy while I'm eating it but then afterwards I feel guilty."
The situation was beginning to take a toll of the young couple's relationship as Idris admitted to not telling his fiancee that he loved her for the past 18 months.
Jeremy called on the help of the show's counsellor Graham who spoke to the mum-of-two about about her binge eating.
He said: "At the time of bariatric surgery they offered you psychological help and you said no to that. The biggest mistake ever.
"The biggest mistake ever because there is a reason why people binge eat and if you don't deal with the emotional side of it then we end up where we are today.
"The surgery was successful but you never dealt with the cause and we're not sure of the exact cause of why people binge eat but we do know it is strongly linked with low mood, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and low confidence levels and people binge as a way of coping with those issues."
Jeremy also chipped in commenting on the expense of the operation which was funded by the NHS.
He said: "There will be people watching this saying: 'You've had the operation but you haven't taken the other necessary step and you're in danger of throwing that back in peoples' faces'. Is that fair?
Graham rounded off by saying: "The NHS is a great organisation and they offered you what you absolutely needed in that situation.
"That is the psychological support to find out the reason why you are binge eating and if you had taken that up you would be in a more successful place than you are today."
Lucy listened to the expert advice and agreed to a term of counselling offered by the show.
Some viewers however were unimpressed that a patient was able to accept the expensive surgery without agreeing to the accompanying counselling.
On person took to twitter to say: "They shouldn't even do the surgery if the patient refuses the counselling! So still not her fault! #jeremykyle."
While another added: "The NHS shouldn't pay for these surgeries until the [people] have had counselling for their food issues. #jeremykyle."
Last week Jeremy Kyle accused a guest of ‘flirting’ with him… but she confessed she preferred security guard Steve.
While another recent guest exploded in fury as Jeremy quizzed him about his anger issues… but viewers blamed Jez for pushing him over the edge. | 2019-04-23T00:49:48 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3934628/jeremy-kyle-slam-nhs-obese-10k-gastric-sleeve/ |
0.999999 | According to the Mental Health Foundation UK, cycling boosts your mood. Finding the best hybrid bike made that true also.
Buying one of the best hybrid bicycles doesn’t need to be a chore with a well presented comparison. A hybrid bike that can hit the road and conquer the mountain makes us all feel special.
One myth about this kind of bike is that they’re supposed to “cost a bomb”, but it’s not true.
These bikes can be budget friendly, and we’re going to prove it.
To prove it we’re going to compare some of the best hybrid bikes under 500 dollars that will knock your socks off.
Before searching for a brief overview of the hybrid bikes, check out their advantages. It will help in convincing you why you need a hybrid bike in the first place.
Consider the advantages and benefits associated with the hybrid bikes and make the best choice. There should be one that suits your needs and preferences.
So, Hybrid Bikes doesn’t have any drawbacks? That’s the question pinching you inside, I know.
A Hybrid bike is not as fast as a road bike and isn’t as durable as mountain bikes. Still, people are fascinated with hybrid bikes. Why? Because of its versatility. One can use every day on the road or the mountain during the vacation! Why not, you tell me?
TL;DR – The best hybrid bike for under $500 is the Schwinn Discover Men’s Hybrid Bike.
If you want to read the rest of the reviews, please proceed down the list. We’ve compiled a huge amount of detail on every bike, including the pros and cons of each.
Schwinn Men’s Siro 700cc is a real hybrid bike; it has a combination of affordable mtb under $500 status and the function of a road bike. When taking a close look at it, you will find that it has qualities of a mountain bike, it has the extra speed for climbing. The rider’s position is somehow upright than a regular fitness biking.
Siro has some features which are very comfortable like adjustable stem in the form, front fork shock absorber and spring seat post which will absorb the shock if you are riding on a rough road or bumps.
It has an adjustable handlebar which helps you to choose your best riding position.
Siro has an alloy linear pull brakes and high profile rims which make it the beginner mountainbike to use on the city streets. The Schwinn Siro is a perfect bike for your daily riding, get your Schwinn Siro and enjoy riding.
The Takara Sugiyama is an amazing piece of art. This fixed gear hybrid bike is sleek, smooth and a bike to adore. Takara Sugiyama Flat Bar Fixie Bike, Black/Blue, Large/58cm Frame comes with the black and blue color. Its handlebars are flat and well designed to ensure maximum comfort for the rider.
The wheels of Takara Sugiyama are 700c (comes in large and medium) and 32-inch tires. Amazingly, the bike pedals of this bike are toned with the same color as the rest of the bike and fitted with their reflectors. Its steel frame has a standover height of 78.74 centimeters.
The hand brakes of this bike are excellent. It is a perfect bike for use in different terrains.
This hybrid bike is of Japanese origin. It is robust and solid. It has been designed for your urban riding pleasure.
Just as its name suggests, this hybrid bike is ideal for commuters. Made with a double butted aluminum frame, it provides the ideal and comfortable way of commuting to work or school without giving you backaches or muscle strains.
Complete with Shimano components, the Vilano performance 700C bike provides a fast and reliable way to employ gear changes. The Shimano trigger shifters are well affixed to the frame with the 21 speeds keeping you standby to shift the gears at any moment.
Schwinn Men’s Community 700c bike is ideal for a leisure ride, moving from one place to the other and exploring. Featuring a Schwinn aluminum Hybrid frame as well a suspension fork, it offers a safe and comfortable ride.
For swift gear shifting, the bike is fitted with a Shimano 21 speed rear derailleur.
It has alloy wheels which are lightweight, high profile and strong. This bike is available in a black or white color to suit your taste.
The performance hybrid bike is an epitome of a speedy, comfortable and yet budget-friendly bike. The bike has been well designed to suit both commuting as well as the mountain biking.
Its frame is made of aluminum, making it sturdy and efficient, thus offering an enhanced visibility and relaxed upright ride devoid of body strains. The Shimano drive-train has 21 gears to enable you to get up over the hills as well as allow you to cruise on the bike paths comfortably.
The dual pivot alloy caliper brakes make it easy to have controlled deceleration. It’s steady and speedy wheels have been fitted with 700c. 25c tires which allow comfortable handling and low resistance.
The seat of the performance hybrid bike has an urban saddle for the physical comfort ride. The bike is an awesome choice for both commuters and the fitness riders.
The Giordano RS700- Hybrid Bike prides in real road bike geometry which gives one a very aggressive riding position. It’s designed well to add to the convenience and comfort of the flat handlebar in place of the traditional road handlebar.
The bike has numerous features and punches that have been beautifully made of an aluminum handcrafted frame. Precision 21-speed Derailleurs and Shimano Shifters which offers reliable and great performance.
Though a very budget conscience bike, it has been well equipped with aluminum (700c) rims which greatly reduce the rotational weight. Giordano RS700 Hybrid Bike also makes the difference on how the bike climbs and accelerates. The bike is very good for fitness and can also be used for your daily commute.
The bike is available in two men’s sizes; the medium size has fit riders of 5 feet and 7 inches-6 feet with an inseam of 29 to 31 inches. The large size has fits rider of 5 feet and 9 inches-6 feet and 2 inches and inseam of 30-33 inches.
The bike is the embodiment of the fusion of tradition and the latest advancement of bicycle design and technology.
For the bike enthusiasts, the Kent Avondale hybrid bike is perfect for commuting around campus or town.
KENT Men's Avondale Hybrid Bicycle with Sure Stop Brakes, 19"
The bike has a highly advanced stop braking system. The braking system provides one lever braking which eliminates virtually the over the handlebar accidents which occur due to sudden braking.
The bike has been equipped with the light-weight aluminum frame, Derailleurs, Shimano 21 speed Shifters and aluminum rims which have bolted on the hubs to deter theft.
Schwinn discovers men’s hybrid bike comes with linear pull brakes which stop it easily. It has a chain guard and aluminum frame. The 700c hybrid bike has a suspension fork to absorb shock.
Also, the Schwinn discover men’s hybrid bike has padded saddle with suspension seat post. The bike has more additional features like adjustable stem fenders, 21 speed SRAM bike grip shifters which make it easy to change gears and alloy linear pull brakes.
700c wheel answers all your questions when it comes to pleasure when riding, get one for yourself and experience the pleasure of riding for joy.
Those peoples who are searching for a dependable bicycle for recreational use or commuting, the Northwoods Springdale Men’s Crosstown is your best bet.
The bike features a well hand-crafted, light-weight aluminum frame and the 700c tires designed for a comfortable ride. It is also equipped with the Shimano component such as the Shimano Tourney rear derailleur.
Its Northwoods Springdale offers 21 speeds enhancing easy adjustability up and down the hills. The linear pull brakes, on the other hand, offers confident stopping power. The bike is available in white (Women’s) and black (Men’s) colors.
Each of the above bikes are top choices for buying a budget hybrid bike that isn’t going to cost the world.
As pointed out earlier in the article, the best option for performance, price and quality is the Schwinn.
It is your choice though, and before you make a decision I want to give you some essential buying tips as well. Keep reading if you want to know a little more before you make your choice.
Hybrid bikes are very comfortable to ride. It can be attributed to the long and flat handlebars which allow the cyclist to sit in a relaxed cycling position.
Hybrid bikes have a frame which made from different materials like aluminum, steel, and high-tensile steel.
The tires are designed to have a smooth parallel thread on the inner side and a rough thread on the outer side. Which gives it the ability to easily roll over no matter the nature of the terrain that you are on.
Hybrid bike has great suspension fork which makes it comfortable. The most fork has coil springs or elastomers.
Gearing, this makes it easy to cover challenging terrains easily and make changing gear much easier.
Hybrid bikes are lighter compared to mountain bikes which mean you will use less energy to travel the same distance.
Since a hybrid bike contains several features, buying the best one for you can be a daunting task. It is not as simple as buying a road bike or a mountain bike, instead, you will have to put a lot of factors into consideration.
After deciding on which hybrid bicycle you want to buy, the next important thing to consider is the bicycle tire. The importance of the tire in a bike is compared to life; tire makes a great difference to your bike.
Most hybrids no matter the rim size comes with a 700c wheelbase and tire. 700c is designed to move on the pavement and to make the movement easy even when driving through uphill.
Be sure to get the right size. You will not be motivated to use a bike which is not comfortable just like wearing too big or too small shoes. To choose the right size of a bicycle just stand in the middle of the frame and make sure that your feet are in a comfortable position.
Seats for most hybrid bikes are padded. Not like the ones for a racing bike which is covered with foam. Some bikes have added suspension; this may be comfortable for some riders and uncomfortable with others. It’s worth thinking about.
Gearing really depends on the type of road the rider is using. If you are in a mountainous place, then you are going to need more gears. Modern bikes can easily change gear just by pressing the gear button.
For a commuter, the high number of gears isn’t a huge issue. It is important to know if the gears are of high quality and match the purpose. Gears should be used correctly depending on the nature of the terrain.
A standard gear count hybrid bike is going to be fantastic for most of us. However, if you want the extra flexibility to do as much as possible with your hybrid bike then a larger amount of gears is going to be better.
If you have a tight budget, yet want to ride on the mountain and the road, undoubtedly a hybrid bike is the right solution. Hybrid Bikes are definitely cheap compared to other bike types. Yet those are often considered the better purchase.
Hybrid bikes are the way to go in case you need to cycle safely, but fast in a variety of terrains with the maximum comfort, they are the perfect all round bike.
The best hybrid bikes are adaptable, versatile and hard wearing. A perfect purchase for under 500 dollars. | 2019-04-18T21:11:17 | https://mountainbikereviewer.com/best-hybrid-bikes-under-500/ |
0.999613 | An odd tube worm with very symmetrical, although skimpy, cirri.
An odd tube worm with very skimpy cirri.
An odd tube worm with very skimpy cirri. Small hydroids have colonized the worm tube.
A large white polychaete worm.
A rugged scene in a carbonate rock landscape.
Outcrop with tube worms, purple octocorals, white bryozoan, and white sponges. A large white feather star crinoid is on the upper sponge.
Two sponges, small purple octocorals, white bamboo coral, and what might be a small white coral .
White sponge with a small white feather star crinoid. Numerous small tube worms are to the right in the image.
Outcrop with sponges, small corals, at least one feather star crinoid, tube worms, at least one brittle star and small other small biota.
Two sponges, small purple octocorals, white corals, a yellow feather star crinoid, and other small biota.
Stem of a small coral bush with a white gastropod.
Unknown pink and translucent animal in upper right on a carbonate rock outcrop. A white brittle star is in the left center.
Cream-colored zoanthids cover what is probably a small dead coral.
What must be a relatively arecent orange peel with a scale worm on its upper left relative to the image - marine debris.
Orange peel on a sediment covered bottom seemingly nearly devoid of life. A shrimp can be seen swimming above the bottom a few feet to the left of the orange peel in the image - marine debris.
A yellow rubber glove with a small sargassum weed algae and a shrimp to the right in the image - marine debris.
Marine debris - an old steel rope or cable that has captured sargassum weed in its bight.
Marine debris - probably monofilament fishing line extending across the bottom.
A canvas tarp or sail on the bottom - marine debris.
What looks like corn kernels on the seafloor. How in the world could these few kernels make it from the surface to the bottom and fall in that compact of a grouping? Marine debris.
Marine debris - apparently a tree branch on the seafloor. This deteriorating log provides habitat and nutrients for numerous small creatures.
Small white squat lobsters and small translucent anemones or zoanthids make up the bulk of visible biota using this sunken log as habitat. Perhaps the surrounding sediment is enriched by nutrients from the log as a veritable forest of small tube worms is seen in th foreground.
Teensy white squat lobsters inhabiting a log on the bottom.
What appears to be a porcelain cup that has been on the bottom for a significant amount of time judging from the sediment that has deposited on its top surface. A small bamboo coral is to the left in the image. The long linear strings on each side of the cup appear to be life form as opposed to addition marine debris.
A product of Rocky Mountain spring water at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
What appears to be a very old steel cable that has significantly deteriorated. There is also a cylindrical object next to the left laser dot at the bottom of the image. Marine debris.
Plastic or metal tube on bottom - marine debris. A yellow feather star crinoid is on the lower left of the image.
Old hemp rope marine debris laying in a somewhat strange appearing agglomeration of dead and live lophelia, yellow cup corals, small sponges, and other small biota.
Microscopic image - egg mass on a small octocoral.
Microscopic image - closeup of egg mass.
Microscopic image - small gooseneck barnacle.
Microscopic image - juvenile squat lobster.
Microscopic image - small crustacean with egg mass.
Microscopic image - pycnogonid crab.
Microscopic image - squat lobsters.
Microscopic image - squat lobster.
Microscopic image - closeup of head of squat lobster. Note eyes.
Microscopic image - crustacean with eggs.
Microscopic image - unidentified part of crustacean anatomy.
Microscopic image - eyes of a tiny crustacean. | 2019-04-18T15:00:21 | https://www.photolib.noaa.gov/brs/nuind223.htm |
0.999455 | QHow do you set up the Searcher2/Searcher Content stack ?
Determine where you would like the searchable content to be located. The Searcher2/Searcher Content stack(s) can be placed anywhere in the main body by a simple drag & drop. It can also be placed in a sidebar, Extra Content Areas or any other area that allows html code. If you wish to place it in EC area or other areas, first drag it into the main body and then drag and drop the provided snippet named 'Searcher Content Append - HTML' into the desired location. Note: If placing in the Sidebar and the gear in the lower right corner of the Sidebar is set to 'Styled', then highlight the code you just placed and from the RapidWeaver menu select Format > Ignore Formatting.
Note: the search functionality requires at least two searcher content areas to be set up in the site somewhere and at least one dummy content area, in addition to any other Content stacks, has to be on the Control page, as imported content is appended to the last content area (dummy content in this case).
Change the Searcher Term(s) from 'searcher' to whatever search term(s) you want the content to be searchable by. To enter multiple terms, simply enter them with a comma between each one. Ex. Big,White,Cloud Each search term will show up as a separate selection item in the selection list. Note: For the dummy content stack, you can leave the search term as 'searcher' or set it to 'none' and either term will ensure the dummy stack is always hidden.
The "Outside Main Body" checkbox should only be checked for content that will be placed in outer areas like the sidebar, Extra Content Areas or any other area that allows html code. This checkbox is to be used with the 'Searcher Content Append' snippet, which should be placed where you wish the content to be rendered. The searcher content code will be automatically rendered into the final location, but still remains in the main body for editing.
The "Show Link Button" control allows you to enable the use of a link button for each (Searcher2 only) Content area. These buttons will not appear on the originating pages, as there is no need for them there. When assigning links, remember that the link paths will be relative to the Control Page. If the Control & Content pages are both in the same folder or in the root site folder, then you can select the link using the "Page" selector from the Add Link window. If the Content page is in a different folder, then use the "URL" selector to type in the relative path from the Control page to the Content Page. | 2019-04-18T22:54:29 | https://stack-its.com/faq_files/span_classqiconQspanHow_do_you_.php |
0.999999 | I’m Mad as Hell, and I am Not Going to Take it Anymore!
People often tell me that their biggest concern when hearing about Nonviolent Communication is that they can’t have their emotions. For some reason they think they can’t get mad anymore.
I am here to say that just isn’t true!
All of our emotions are important, including being mad (anger). In fact, our emotions are the most effective tool we have in guiding our actions. Instantly, we can know if we want more of something, or less of something. That something is the NEED or experience we are hoping to have. True emotions last 30 seconds to 5 minutes. So being mad is awesome… for 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
How are we so confused about this idea that being angry or mad is a bad / unacceptable thing?
1. In our culture, we seem to think that emotions on the side of happy are better than the ones on the side of unhappy.
2. We often confuse the cause of our feelings to be ‘the thing that happened’, rather than the need we are longing for more of, or celebrating being met stimulated by ‘the thing that happened’.
3. Most of us tend to have the habit of making the other person responsible for how we feel in our response to ‘the thing that happened’. The communication then becomes confusing and defensive and most often not very productive.
With these three things in combination, the possibility of hearing each other in ways that bring more connection is unlikely. When we are mad, blame the other person, and then demand that they change their ways (often in ways that are less than pleasant for the other person), they respond in kind. Now everyone is mad and is blaming the other person for the fact that they're mad.
That's why people think it's bad to be mad.
What did they say or do that you're ‘mad’ at?
What would you have wanted them to say or do?
If they did the thing that you would have preferred, what would you be experiencing differently or more of?
What response could you have in this moment that might generate more of the answer in #3 above?
My friend and I have plans to meet at noon for lunch. I find out at 11:45am that she's going to arrive at 12:20 and has two other friends with her whom I don’t know. My friend didn’t let me know why the other people were invited, nor did she ask me how I might enjoy having other people join us for lunch. I'm upset.
I would have preferred that she let me know the change in plans a day or two prior and give me some more information about why she wanted to make the change, and then invited me to share what I thought and how I felt about the change.
I am guessing that ‘consideration’ and ‘to be valued’ or ‘to matter’ are at the core of my distress. These are the needs.
4a. I could let my friend know that I was expecting something different. [Share Honestly] I might let my friend know I was hoping that we could catch up because it had been a while since we spent time together. I was thinking it wasn’t the same for her and feeling disappointed about that. I wanted her to want to catch up with me. I could ask her to set up another date where we could have the ‘catch up’ or intimacy and connection that I was hoping for.
In this case I am taking responsibility for my feelings.
4b. I could ask my friend for the information I wanted. “Will you tell me how you decided to invite the others?” [Connection Request] I might find out that she was disappointed as well because these friends had invited themselves at the last minute. She felt uncomfortable saying no, and didn’t have the time to let me know. She regrets as well how it all went down. I might find out that she thinks these women will benefit from knowing me, and me them, that she wants her friends to bond with each other.
In this case, I am generating the need ‘to matter’ by connecting to the idea that my friend matters to me. That I trust her and our friendship enough to ‘go along with what she is doing’.
4c. I could ‘trust my friend’, and assume innocence. [Request of Myself] I could opt to remember that I have accumulated, over many years, lots of evidence that my friend deeply cares about me and about our friendship. I could ask myself to find calm, and to trust that she and I will continue to matter to each other, do the lunch, and share all the things that I was hoping to as a catch up with my friend. In other words, rather than create more distance with my friend, stay connected with her since that is what I was hoping for.
With this response, I am taking the most responsibility for the experience that I want to have, and am sinking into the trust of what I say I want with my friend. To matter. Both of us. All of our needs.
I hope it becomes clear in these examples, that being mad can be used for 'good'. The emotion of anger let me know what is important to me. With this information [knowing the need] I can respond in a way that I think will create more of that. What these example-responses don’t do is blame the other person for my experience and require them to change their behavior in order for me to be happy in the moment.
That is completely up to me.
Older PostHow do you Contribute? | 2019-04-26T00:42:26 | https://www.getbacktolife.org/blog/2017/11/1/im-mad-as-hell-and-i-am-not-going-to-take-it-anymore |
0.99956 | Review: "Stanley, James Lee: The Apocaloptimist" - Sea of Tranquility - The Web Destination for Progressive Music!
James Lee Stanley is a singer/songwriter who has been around for decades and has amassed quite a large discography culminating with his latest album The Apocaloptimist. Before you set your sights on this album know one thing, this is folk inspired pop/soft rock and is far removed from the progressive genre. That is not to say this is a bad album because it clearly isn't. As a matter a fact, for a folk album it is pretty darn good.
Stanley proves to be adept on the acoustic guitar as all these tracks are acoustically driven with nicely flowing rhythms and solid picking. He also has a warm sounding voice with an understated delivery that is ideally suited to project his thought provoking lyrics.
Songs like "Living The Party Life" and "Highway 23" are a nice blend of folk and pop while the mid tempo rock of "Gypsies In The Hallway" features impressive slide work from Little Feat's Paul Barrere. Many of the tunes have a gentle, relaxing feel like the incredibly poignant folk ballad "Here We Have My Father" and the breezily wistful "Last Call". Paul Simon came to mind on a couple of tracks, most notably on the catchy acoustics of "When You Get Right Down To It" and the mellow acoustic ballad "Any Other Way" with its folky '70s flair.
The only cover is a complete reimagining of The Beatles' "Drive My Car" featuring excellent harmonica from Corky Siegel.
While The Apocaloptimist didn't knock my socks off, it is enjoyable for what it is; a melodic batch of singer/songwriter based tunes that are as relaxing as they are poignant, which may be good or bad, depending on your point of view. | 2019-04-23T03:56:13 | https://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=16894 |
0.999377 | Shedding a natural part of owning a wool rug. Although it's impossible for a wool rug not to shed, here are some suggestions for decreasing, and even preventing, shedding.
Firstly, don't panic. Your rug is not falling apart. The type of fiber from which a rug is constructed is one thing to consider when conquering shedding. When exploring the various types of natural and synthetic fibers, remember that wool will shed. It is inevitable. If you purchase a wool rug, you can expect that it will shed. Natural fibers, like wool, naturally shed.
So, if coping with shedding is just a natural process of being a rug owner, understanding how to tame the fibers not only helps to entend the life of the rug but to minimize the amount of fibers floating around the home.
1. High or low traffic - It's important to consider exactly where the rug will be placed. In an area with higher traffic, you can certainly expect more shedding to take place. This means that you may notice rug fibers on clothes, socks, the floor bordering the rug and on other upholstery in the room. In a lower traffic area, rug shedding would be less noticeable.
2. Vacuum. A lot. - When you first purchase your rug, be prepared to vacuum once a day, for at least 10 days. Although it may sound like quite a bit of vacuuming, it will help control the shedding on a daily basis, especially in the beginning, when the shedding is more prevalent. After the initial daily stint, consider vacuuming the rug 1 to 2 times per week until you notice the shedding subsiding.
3. Pile vs. Vacuum Height - Adjusting your vacuum to the proper height relative to the pile of your rug will help to control shedding, but not to create excess shedding. Setting a vacuum height too low, particularly if the pile of the rug is high, can create excess shedding by loosening secured piles.
4. Take Your Time - When you are vacuuming, be prepared to go slowly. Rushing the process means that you'll miss some loose fibers. Slowly go over every inch of the rug, picking up as much as possible. You'll have to go over the rug again much sooner than you anticipated if you don't take your time with it.
5. Dirty Shoes - The dirt and sand that you can bring in on your shoes have a tendency to settle into a rug. The particles travel to the bottom of the pile, as you walk over the rug, and the abrasiveness of the particles can loosen the piles. Loose piles=more shedding. Be sure to shake of shoes or avoid walking on the rug while wearing shoes.
We hope this helps. Let us know if you have any more questions about preventing rug shedding or if you have any other tips you would like to share. | 2019-04-21T02:14:27 | http://blog.rugpal.com/2013/04/prevent-rugs-from-shedding.html |
0.999996 | The purpose of this task group report is to provide recommendations for the assessment of display quality for flat-panel displays used in medicine. This includes both LCDs and OLED displays used in the acquisition and review of medical images. The information provided in this report is intended to help design a QA program for flat-panel displays, as well as aid in purchasing decisions.
Nicholas B. Bevins, Ph.D., Michael J. Flynn, Ph.D., Michael S. Silosky, M.S. and Rebecca M. Marsh, Ph.D., Alisa I. Walz-Flannigan, Ph.D., Aldo Badano, Ph.D. | 2019-04-18T23:05:44 | https://www.aapm.org/pubs/reports/detail.asp?docid=183 |
0.99848 | Teachers, good, bad or indifferent, can never know where their influence ends. Many people teach for 40 or more years: my grandfather, who was 15 and thus a very junior teacher when he started his career, was a record breaker.
After retiring at the age of 65, he became a part-time school librarian, and did not retire again until he was 70. It is obviously quite impossible to estimate how many young lives he influenced for better or for worse.
My father, also a teacher, died at 89, and my brother and I were touched to see the number of former students who came to his funeral.
I now have no idea how many students I've taught in two countries: I don't think I ever really tried to count them. I remember some, usually the high achievers and their troublesome and often troubled opposites, but most are unfortunately a blur: the human memory has its limits.
But I think I can name all the teachers I ever had: this, of course, is much easier to do. And there was more evidence of this ease today. I was in the Kalamata post office, waiting my turn and clutching a fistful of cards and letters bound for Australia, when a bearded young man asked me a question of a practical nature.
There was no point in pretending: I had no idea who he was, so I used the passage of time and his beard as excuses, and went on to ask his name. 'Andrew. Andreas,' he said, and in that moment I saw the boy he had been. A nice teenager he was way back then, and now he is a nice man.
I wanted a brief summary of his life to date, and he obliged. He is now a lawyer, following in parental footsteps, and had spent some time studying in Essex. 'How was England?' I asked. He laughed and replied that life is quiet there (it always strikes Greeks that way), but that he had had only a 40 minute train ride to London, and that had been great.
"He brightened again, and recalled classroom days. 'You were strict, but that did us good. We appreciated it.' Perhaps in the long run, I thought, but said nothing."
But when I asked about work, Andreas' effervescence subsided. 'It's not going too well, to be frank,' he said. 'These are troubled times, and people are reluctant to consult lawyers because of the expense.' As I had once accompanied a friend to the Kalamata Court, and had decided that once was quite enough, I murmured about recourse to law involving a significant ordeal. He sighed then about too much tangled bureaucracy and not enough efficiency and organisation. And sighed again when I asked in true Greek style whether he was married. 'I don't think I can afford it,' he replied. He's probably right; in any case Greeks have never believed in the myth of two living as cheaply as one.
He brightened again, and recalled classroom days. 'You were strict,' he announced, 'but that did us good. We appreciated it.' Perhaps in the long run, I thought, but said nothing. He then ensured that I had a better place in the queue and disappeared on his own business. A few minutes later he returned, and proffered a couple of stamps. 'These should do for Australia,' he said. 'I am very grateful to you, so please take them.' Of course I did, while feeling quite overcome by this spontaneous thoughtfulness.
We said our goodbyes, exchanged wishes for a happy festive season, and parted. At this stage of life my mind resembles nothing so much as a layer-cake composed of fragments of text, and so I recalled the Wordsworth quotation first taught me by my father: it concerns that best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
But I will not soon forget Andreas' act of kindness, one that made me feel, even after all these years, that my efforts had been valued. I had received, all unexpectedly, a charming Christmas present.
Beautiful Gillian. I think also of all those dreams and hopes that young people have and how life may have treated them. I hope this young man finds work. I pray for the Greeks and their hard times. You are still teaching ; I feel I have learnt much with your words sitting here at the kitchen table this afternoon.
It's funny how things work out. My weakest subject at school was mathematics and I married a teacher of other mathematicians. Very fortunate that. But a teacher I'll always remember taught me about creative writing. He taught me to find ways of tapping into my own emotions, appropriately enough as he was a serious sort of person. Thanks for your wonderful writing this year Gillian!
What a lovely vignette, nothing spectacular just full of plain common empathy and sensitivity. You shared your Christmas present many times over.
Dear Gillian, You will never know how far your teaching days have affected your pupils. I am grateful for the nuns who taught me and still remember them with fondness (I am 80). Sometimes we learn from teacher's behaviour, not necessarily just what they are teaching us curriculum wise. I have two teacher children and now a lovely g/daughter has just qualified In HSC to become a Primary School Teacher. Long live teachers! I say, and bless you.
I taught at Hallam High for 14 years. You may have been a student there as your father was the Principal to develop the school from scratch. Your father was succeeded by Ken Adams who transferred to Doveton High as Principal and was succeeded by Ian Chisolm at Hallam. I spent 14 years at both schools and loved them immensely. I lived in Doveton and later Dandenong, so I enjoyed meeting many students out of class as well as in it. I never met your father but his name was often mentioned with considerable respect. Since your father's day the Hallam, Doveton, Endeavour Hills and Fountain Gate communities attempted to build 3 &-10 ncampuses and one 11-12 campus with a total of 3000 students. This experiment was abandoned after a decade or so, with its strengths and its weaknesses and there are now stand alone 7-12 colleges. Personally, I enjoyed working in both systems for 28 years and applaud those who set up and those who continued to improve education in those areas.
Thanks for a touching article Gillian. Indeed you did receive a lovely Christmas present; one that silverfish and rust cannot destroy, and one that requires no storage space.
Many thanks for all those kind comments. I was touched by the reference to my father, Keith. I didn't attend that school, but certainly knew the colleagues you mention.
What an amazing article; what is more amazing is that I know that chatty young man Andreas who would be kind and respectful to a teacher he never forgot. We always remember the teachers who left a foot print in our backside to make us look at life seriously. Also the very bad once whose only interest was their pay packet at the end of the month. Teachers who were strict but worked for the good of their students left an impression and influence our lives for ever. | 2019-04-21T10:27:51 | https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=50477 |
0.999761 | The problem of evil is well known: How can there be an all-powerful, all-knowing, perfectly good god if there is evil? The kind of reply most theists give is also familiar to most: Evil is not incompatible with God provided there is some reason for allowing that evil – for instance, in order to prevent something even worse happening. It is only gratuitous evil – evil for which there is no moral justification – that would pose a problem. And most theists appear to be confident that one cannot show that gratuitous evil exists. No matter what example one brings up – whether it’s that of a disease, a war, some natural disaster, or what have you – they think there is some possible explanation as to why God might allow it.
I think it’s actually pretty easy to show that there is gratuitous evil, however.
All the theist has to grant me is that animals sometimes experience pain from which they derive no benefit. Theists are of course free to deny such a thing. But how many would do so (at least before hearing my argument)? It’s obvious that there are many animals that experience pain – their behavior and the similarity of their physiology to our own attest to this fact. It’s also obvious that in many cases, their pain does not serve them any purpose. Pain in general serves a purpose, of course, but an animal that is suffering in its final moments of life isn’t getting anything out of that suffering. In order to gain from it, the animal would both have to have an afterlife and acquire something valuable from its terrible experience – neither of which is at all plausible.
Instead of arguing that the animal gains some benefit in the afterlife, theists are more likely to argue that the animal’s suffering serves some purpose for others. Perhaps without that one animal’s suffering there would be far greater suffering in the future, and not just for animals, but for people. (The animal's behavior might be part of a causal chain that results in a better future.) Or perhaps the suffering is witnessed by a person who then learns compassion from it, thereby bringing about some good that far surpasses the evil experienced by the animal. And so on.
Now, I agree that replies like these are complete BS. But we could argue about them until Jesus returns (or until the cows come home – same thing) and never convince the theist. So instead, let’s consider a very simple fact: that mental experiences are private. The pain that the animal suffers cannot be experienced by anyone else.
That, however, also means that it cannot serve a purpose for anyone else. For God could make it the case that animals only appear to be in pain without actually being so, and the results as far as anyone else is concerned would be the same. Thus, the animal's suffering is not needed to make someone more compassionate: If the animal only appeared to be in pain without actually feeling anything, the person who learns compassion from seeing the animal would be none the wiser. Nor is it needed in order to set up a causal chain of any kind – an animal that behaved the same way without feeling any pain would set up exactly the same chain.
Given that the pain is private, and that it serves no purpose for the animal, it serves no purpose, period. Thus, it is gratuitous suffering – it is completely unjustified. Any theist who believes there is such pain, then, cannot consistently believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing and perfectly good god. | 2019-04-26T15:53:18 | http://www.franzkiekeben.com/blog/a-new-argument-from-evil |
0.999864 | Trump's National Emergency Declaration Is Likely To Face Constitutionality Challenges When President Trump declared a national emergency for border wall funding Friday, he said he expected legal challenges. The central question will likely revolve around constitutionality.
When President Trump declared a national emergency for border wall funding Friday, he said he expected legal challenges. The central question will likely revolve around constitutionality.
Before President Trump even uttered the words national emergency, there was already a lot of talk about legal challenges. Here's the central question - is it constitutional for the president to ignore the decision of Congress not to give him all the money he wants for his border wall and instead get it through a declaration of national emergency? Today, Trump said he expects a court fight.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we'll get another bad ruling, and then we'll end up in the Supreme Court, and hopefully we'll get a fair shake.
CORNISH: NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg is in the studio now. Hey there, Nina.
CORNISH: So how is the president actually justifying his emergency declaration?
TRUMP: I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster.
TOTENBERG: Well, obviously, if you don't have to do something, it isn't an emergency.
CORNISH: So how do legal experts think this will play out in the courts?
TOTENBERG: They seem to think that in the end, the courts are likely to defer to the president on the question of whether there's an emergency. Courts just don't like to second guess presidents on this kind of question. And the current Supreme Court conservative majority is even more deferential.
Still, the devil is in the details. There are going to be a bunch of lawsuits filed, likely by the House of Representatives, by landowners whose property the wall is going to be built on and by others who might be hurt - for instance, state or local governments who may be able to argue that money meant for one thing is being siphoned off illegally for another.
CORNISH: Now, let's get back to that question we posed earlier then. Does President Trump have constitutional authority to ignore Congress on a funding matter like this?
TOTENBERG: The House of Representatives is likely to argue that the president is doing more than just rejiggering more than $5 billion in already budgeted money. He's cutting away Congress's power of the purse, and in some instances, contradicting specific mandates. The White House will likely counter that the president has the power to reprogram money under existing laws and that it's no big deal, that it's been done before by other presidents.
CORNISH: Before we let you go, the Supreme Court also agreed to hear arguments about the census citizenship question. Remind us what's going on there.
TOTENBERG: This case is all about whether the administration can add a question on the census form that goes to every household in the country. The question asks the citizenship status for every person in the household. It's not been on the form since 1950 because Census Bureau statisticians after lengthy testing and repeated studies have repeatedly concluded in Democratic and Republican administrations that it would lead to lots of folks not filling out the form if any member of the household or a family is not a citizen.
Now, remember, the Constitution mandates a count every 10 years of every person in the U.S., not every citizen. In January, a federal judge in New York barred the addition of the question, concluding it would lead to a serious undercount. The Trump administration went directly to the Supreme Court because it said that the census forms have to be ready for printing by summer. And today, the Supreme Court, as expected, agreed to hear the case in April on an expedited basis.
CORNISH: That's NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg. Nina, thanks. | 2019-04-21T17:02:02 | https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/695270904/trumps-national-emergency-declaration-is-likely-to-face-constitutionality-challe |
1 | Summarize the text writing one or two sentences for each paragraph.
Talking or writing about jobs.
Task 21. Translate the article in writing.
1. At the heart of every situation there is a lesson for you if you care to look for it and to learn it. Do you agree with this statement? Do you remember any kind of the situation? Please analyze it.
2. What do you dream about when the Bird of Dreams on silent wings comes to your windowsill in the evenings? Do you dream about future or things from your everyday life?
3. Life without labour no glory can gain. How do you understand these words? Give some examples from lives of prominent people or from lives of people you know.
4. I love an old city where you see at a glance - glimpses of history, beauty, romance. Are these words about your city/town? Why do you like it? What places do you enjoy visiting in your native city/town?
5. Have you already decided what your future job will be? Do you have any plans for your future?
6. We need a little more music to help us along. What kind of music do you prefer?
7. It is very important to live for people and to make them happy. Do you agree? What are you able to do for people to enrich their life with light and hope?
8. We must master many lessons during our life, only it gives us progress and real knowledge. Do you agree with it? How do you learn and master your lessons?
9. Love shall be our guide, our sunset lamp, our morning star. How do you understand it? What is love for you? Is it possible to live without love? Why not?
10. Time can never change true friendship. We find the greatest thing of all if we can find a friend. Do you have a real friend?
11. Changes often force the door of opportunity. Is it easy to adapt yourself to fresh conditions? What helps you to change something in your life?
12. There is always some new thing waiting round the corner, some new loneliness to be perceived, some new joy to be experienced. Have you ever experienced the traveler´s joy? Where do you like to travel?
13. Show your smiles - the world needs happiness. How can you share your joys with people around you? What interesting ideas can you suggest for free time activities?
14. Free to live my life and read, to dream, to swim or walk - this is my holiday. How do you taste the cheer delight of feeling really free during your holidays?
15. Life without colour. How dull it would be? How to make it vivid, inspiring and gay? What is your attitude towards art, literature and music?
16. Within yourself you have the power to be what you desire. Within your soul you have a certain goal. What kind of person you really wish to be?
17. It is certainly true that we cannot do without it - and yet when we´re got it we´re troubled about it. Men risk their lives for this thing we call money. What is tour attitude towards money? What cannot we buy for money?
18. Is your home a centre of affection for your friends and family? What do you do to keep your home a happy place and guard it carefully?
19. The poet A. Frost wrote: "The books we love grow dearer as the years go rolling on. They are there to comfort us when other joys have gone". Do you like to read? What kind of books do you prefer?
20. Imagine, someone is waiting for a letter from you. It may be your mother, father, the old friend or the new one. What will you write to a person who is hoping for a line from you?
21. What do you prefer living in, an old cottage or a in a modern house? What are their advantages and disadvantages?
22. Do you agree that charity makes us think of other people and of what they need and it offers us a golden chance to do a kindly deed?
23. There is always something to live for if you only look around. An old friend to be visited, a new one to be found. What do you live for?
24. Old friends may be dear but you must never turn away from the chance to make new friends. Do you agree with this idea? Is it easy for you to make new friends?
25. Life is never hopeless when someone needs you. The world is full of people. What can you do to brighten someone´s day?
26. There is no friend like an old friend who has walked life´s road with you - easy to get in with like a worn well fitting shoe. Do you agree with this statement?
27. The unexpected pleasure sometimes gives more happiness than those that we have planned for many a day. How do you understand these words? Have you experienced such feelings?
28. The time has come to make your own way in the world. What are your plans for the future?
29. You´ve never met and yet you´ve come to know each other well. Sometimes it may be that the written word says more than tongue can tell. What do you think about paper friendship?
30. In the world all things are changing - changing with the days. Autumn, winter, spring and summer. The rhythm of the seasons and the cycle of the year. What is your favorite season? Maybe we find something pleasant in all it?
31. News from home - how much it means to those who in some place are thinking and remembering a room, a voice a smile. What do you recollect when you are far away?
32. How do you understand the proverb: "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in picture of silver?
33. Very often when you are far away from home your thoughts go home. They seek the places and the faces dear to the heart. Thoughts go back. They know the way to the place of heart´s desire. Love leads them home. What are your thoughts about?
34. Do you agree that it is more blessed to give than to receive? They say that the joy of giving on the one hand is balanced on the other is by the grace of acceptance.
35. Without the warming grace of love our hearts grow hard and chill. The impulses of charity, kindness and goodwill - spring out of the seed of love. So let it be expressed. Charity is love in action, love made manifest. How do you understand these words?
36. Life cannot go always as you plan. You have to work hard and do the best you can. What helps you to overcome difficulties?
37. Life should be a festival of hope and movement. Every day that passes should be well and truly spent. How do you understand these words?
38. Wishes will not bring to you the prizes of success but work and hope will surely get you where you want to be. How do you work to be a success?
39. Robert Burns wrote, "It´s the light of happiness when shining in the mind - that makes the day look bright to you and life seem good and kind. It´s the inner sunshine gives your world a smiling face - and helps you see the loveliness behind the commonplace". How do you understand these words?
40. Jewels of wisdom are locked in the books. The riches are hidden there. What kind of books helps you to find treasures of real knowledge?
41. Memory casts a golden ray in every secret place of our city. Describe some of your favourite places in your native town.
42. "Better country is farther on". So said the pioneers who beat the trail into the wilds and famed with tears the hostile land. How do you understand these words? What is the best country for you?
43. What lessons may somebody learn just by watching you? What kind of things you say and do which may influence someone?
44. Other people´s problems, what are they to you? Are you always ready to help somebody?
45. On the hills and in the valleys sorrows fade and hopes ascend. All words lead to bright horizons as the company of friends. How do you like to spend your free time with your friends?
46. There is a philosophy in flares and forest, field and bird. Why do you love our planet? What must we do to make it better?
47. Use your gifts. Do not let them rest. Take the opportunities that come with every day. And you will be what you desire. The kingdom is within. What do you do to follow these ideas?
48. No good deed is ever wasted and no kind word said in vain. The good we do to other people life returns to us again. Do you agree with this proverb and it´s explanation?
49. Happy thoughts can change our lives. Happy thoughts are magic forces working secretly to establish in our lives health, peace and harmony. What are your happy thoughts about?
50. Do you look for the bad or for the good in everything? Do you give your thoughts an upward or a downward swing? How do you live your life?
51. If we build high walls around the garden of our lives - no root of love puts forth a bloom. Without the sunshine in our hearts how can the flowers grow? What is friendship for you?
52. What plans and goals do you have in your life? Do you have some dreams in your life?
53. Time is precious, do not waste it, use it carefully. Think before you filter it away. How can you use these pieces of advice?
54. What is the relationship between global warming and food scarcity? What other factors cause severe famine and malnutrition? What is meant by describing the rainforests as the 'lungs of the planet'?
55. What do you think will be the major ecological problems in future and what suggestions do you have for dealing with them?
56. Science solves problems and occasionally creates them. What do you consider is the major scientific problem today and how do you think it can be solved?
57. How far do you agree that despite man´s attempts to control nature, nature has found very successful ways of controlling the man?
58. Do you think that too much effort and money are spent on persuading individuals and governments to conserve wildlife and the natural environment and too little on the needs of deprived people? Justify your opinion.
59. Do you think your education has encouraged you to think creatively and originally? Which aspects of your education have been the most creative and stimulating?
60. Do you think your education has prepared you sufficiently for adult life? What changes would you have liked to see in the curriculum of your secondary education?
61. Teaching machines ranging from hand-help dictionaries to complete classroom systems, to a great extent replace the human teacher. Schools themselves may decline in importance when the home information system supplements or even supersedes traditional method of education. What do you think about it?
62. Do you feel that you have been extended enough in your education? If not, in what aspects do you think you could and should have been extended more?
63. In what fields have woman generally achieve fame and distinction in the 20th century? Why these than others? Do you agree that woman are 'more people-oriented than man'?
64. What areas of employment have recently ceased to be exclusively male preserves? Is there any good reason why any of them should have always been reserved for men before?
65. Should women try to develop the kind of toughness and aggressiveness normally associated with men in order to compete with them in the job market? What is the alternative?
66. Are women inclined to think about their appearance significantly more than men? In what ways? Why is an increasing number of women suffering from the slimness diseases?
67. Do you think it is better if women stay at home while their children are young? How realistic do you think it is for a woman to attempt to pursue a demanding full-time career while bringing up young children?
68. Why do you think people choose the particular newspaper they read? What is your favourite newspaper?
69. Do you think Ukrainian television is sufficiently broad and enterprising in its scope? What kinds of programs would you like to see more/less?
70. To what extent do you think the Internet and television increase passivity and unsociability? What can be done to prevent it?
71. What is the appeal of 'soap operas'? Do you consider any of them to be successful artistically? Why do you think some people become involved in the lives of "soap operas" characters?
72. Why do companies spend so much money on advertising? How do you think people in general are influenced by advertising? Can you think of any ways in which you personally have been influenced by advertising?
73. Do Ukrainian newspapers have anything to do with 'news'? How far do newspapers influence views in society and how far do they merely reflect them? "A good newspaper is a nation talking to it". What are your views in what constitutes a good newspaper?
74. List the most significant scientific discoveries of the century. What makes each of them important?
75. Should scientists be expected to take account of the social and moral implications of their research? On the whole, has the development of science been a good thing for the human race or not?
76. What do you think about "teenage culture"? Can it be properly called a culture? Give some examples.
77. Fashion dictates the way we live. What do you think about modern fashion? Who are your favourite designers?
78. Is there a generation gap? What are your relations with parents? Do you understand each other?
79. Do you think that marriage will survive as a social institution in the 21st century? Do you agree that personal happiness is best found in long-term relationships?
80. In the early years of the 21st century there will be an increasing number of old people in Europe. What problems do you think this will cause and how would you tackle them? | 2019-04-18T17:14:01 | http://um.co.ua/6/6-12/6-127751.html |
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0.999075 | "The Theory of Everything" is a new film about astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and his first wife, Jane.
Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking changed cosmology with his ground-breaking work on black holes and the origin of space and time, but his personal life has stayed mostly out of the limelight. Until now.
The new movie "The Theory of Everything" is based on the memoir "Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen" (Alma Books, 1013), written by Stephen's ex-wife Jane Hawking. The film focuses on Jane Hawking's courage and determination to support Stephen Hawking, who was diagnosed with a type of motor neuron disease when he was 21. His mind remains undamaged, but the disease has destroyed most of his voluntary muscle control.
"I didn't want it to be a science movie," McCarten told Space.com. "We don't want to see endless equations; we want a story."
But that didn't mean they left out all the physics. The director, James Marsh, said the film crew included an on-set physics adviser. Marsh and McCarten knew that, ultimately, Hawking and other physicists would see the film, so they wanted any science and math presented in the movie to be accurate.
"I wanted to honor his great discoveries," McCarten said. "There was never a deal where we get rid of some of his discoveries because we're not interested. They had to be there, but they had to be cinematic and entertaining."
McCarten said he always knew the film would have to be three stories in one: a science story that explores the origin of space and time, the horror story of Hawking's physical decline and the love story between Stephen and Jane. The movie is focused mostly on Hawking's personal life, but a few broad physics and cosmology themes are woven in. The idea was to keep the physics to a level where people could grasp the general nature of the ideas without needing to understand any of the details or complicated mathematics behind them.
"I decided, at some point, the trick would be, don't have a scientist explain the science," McCarten said. "And so you would be forced to use layman's terms and, more than that, forced to use objects lying on the table to try and explain quantum mechanics."
Still, audience members will not come away with much of an understanding of Hawking's discoveries and theories.
"Physics and movies don't really go together so well, and a dramatic film is not really the best place to discuss theoretical physics," Marsh said.
While directing the film, Marsh drew inspiration from anecdotes used to explain science, like Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple (gravity) and Archimedes jumping out of the tub naked and yelling "Eureka!" (Archimedes' Principle).
McCarten wrote the script before he ever approached Hawking about the movie, so the physicist had little input in the film.
However, Hawking did come to the second day of filming. Actor Eddie Redmayne, who plays Hawking in the film, said the pressure that day was incredible. The crew was filming a scene where Stephen and Jane watch a fireworks show at a school dance at the University of Cambridge.
"You saw this silhouette of him in his chair coming down, flanked by nurses, and his face was uplit by his computer screen like a kind of spotlight on his face. And then, as if on cue, the fireworks went off," Redmayne said. "And it was like the greatest entrance I have ever seen."
The movie is sparse on physics and cosmology, but provides a window into parts of Hawking's life that most people are not familiar with, McCarten said.
"He loves life, and that's kept him going," McCarten said. "If there's a secret to the guy, I think it's that."
"The Theory of Everything" is in theaters now. | 2019-04-25T22:34:24 | https://www.space.com/27779-theory-of-everything-stephen-hawking.html |
0.998315 | Question: When Tess reveals to Jane that she has booked the Boat House as the location of the wedding she explains that she was only able to book it because of a cancellation. She then goes on to give details of that cancellation. How would she know those details and why would the people that booked her even give her those details or even know them at all themselves? Those things seem private even if it is based on fictional events.
Chosen answer: I'm sure the person in charge of booking the location has these details. Sure it was unprofessional to give these details out, but it happens all the time.
When Katherine Heigl and her sister are having a fight, her sister throws a portable phone onto the couch. The phone goes from just being visible behind one of the cushions to completely vanishing a few seconds later after the "Bridezilla" rant.
Although the movie title is "27 Dresses", one of Jane's bridesmaid outfits is actually a man's black suit and tie (pant suit), and not a dress at all. This is shown at the end during Jane and Kevin's wedding. So really the movie should be called "26 Dresses and One Suit." | 2019-04-19T05:02:39 | https://www.moviemistakes.com/film7176/questions |
0.999983 | How to install Deep Tech Tronica - Sample Tools by Cr2 2 to my MAC OS X 10.11.6?
Hello, today I bought on your site "Deep Tech Tronica - Sample Tools by Cr2 2" and I can not understand how to install this package of sounds. which folder do I need to install? what is the name of the folder in which I need to move the contents of the package "Deep Tech Tronica - Sample Tools by Cr2 2"? Thank you for understanding!
The Deep Tech Tronica sounds package from Sample Tools by CR2 is mostly an audio samples library, except for the Sylenth 1 presets ( I come to that later ) meaning that the loops and individual sounds are audio files in WAV format to load as Audio into your DAW or within your preferred native sampler / plugin.
Therefore, you do not need to "install" anything for those audio files, just place the full folder on your hard drive where you want. Ideally, you would like to build your sound library on another hard drive than your system drive and preferably using a fast SSD drive, this could even be an external drive ( in case you would like to have a kind of portable sound library or if you can't add an extra internal hard drive in your computer ).
Then it's a matter of pointing the file browser from your DAW to that location in order to access your audio samples more friendly within your DAW of choice. In Logic X you have a file browser, in Ableton Live you can directly add a folder to your preferred location.
Now I can see on the store description that this pack contains also Sylenth 1 Presets, I can't tell if you're on a Mac or a PC but here are the default path that I know off under MacOS .
You have to make the difference with Sylenth SoundBanks ( full bank containing several presets ) which have a .FXB extension, and Sylenth Presets themselves which have a .FXP extension.
Note that by default ( depending of your MacOS Version ) the user Library is not always a "visible" folder , if it's hidden by default you can access it quickly by entering the Finder's "Go" menu and holding down the Option key.
Also take note that you can put your 3thrd party Sylenth SoundBanks or Presets anywhere on your HDD and access them through Sylenth 1 interface in your Daw, using the Load Presets or Load Bank from Sylenth's menu , but having them in the default location might be more comfortable.
Hope that can help, hopefully if you're on a Mac it will. Under Windows I can't tell you the Sylenth Presets folder location, but you can probably load Sylenth from your DAW, hit the menu and choose load Preset or load Bank and you will see where your browser will be pointing by default, it should be ok if standard install of Sylenth. | 2019-04-21T09:03:44 | http://forums.sonicacademy.com/t/how-to-install-deep-tech-tronica-sample-tools-by-cr2-2-to-my-mac-os-x-10-11-6/34145 |
0.998383 | 2 Million Zunes Sold Since November 2006 Launch - Wait, is That Good or Bad?
"As part of its recent Zune update, Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup. Although the company originally promised and slightly exceeded a target for its first million sales between the original launch date and June 2007, the company has largely remained silent on its data for its players in nearly a year. The sales still give Microsoft a slight gain in overall US marketshare from three to four percent, according to figures published by the NPD Group."
I've been wondering about the marketshare numbers for a while now, and it seems ignorance might have been a more comfortable place to be - the number aren't all that encouraging. From November 2006 to July 2007 (Microsoft's fiscal year end), they sold about 1.2 million Zunes - and these are the Zune 30 models. So that means, essentially that from the launch of the second-gen players in November 2007 until now-ish, they've sold 800K units. 800K units in roughly five months. Wait a second, so that means roughly 160K units per month, on average. Extrapolate that out 12 months, assuming flat growth, and you've got roughly 1.9 million Zunes being sold between now and the end of April 2009. Isn't that...good? Have I mentioned I dislike the way statistics can be made to look positive or negative?
Microsoft needs to get the product out into more than just one market - and, hey, there's only so much us 30 million Canadians can help. They need to get the Zune into Europe and Asia ASAP - after they add unicode support of course. | 2019-04-24T11:51:34 | http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/showthread.php?t=89024 |
0.99998 | THE front-runner in the opposition Labour party's leadership race is advocating a strong pro-Europe stance for Britain in contrast to what he calls the ruling Conservative party's ``disunity and divisions'' on membership of the European Union.
Tony Blair's determination to exploit splits in Prime Minister John Major's Cabinet on attitudes toward the EU marks a radical departure from his party's former policies.
Ten years ago Labour favored Britain's withdrawal from the EU, and although its attitude later softened, the party still has a significant Euro-skeptical wing.
Elections for Labour leadership are July 21, and Mr. Blair has said that under his guidance there would be little room for anti-EU sentiment. This puts him at loggerheads with the government.
Peter Riddell, a leading political analyst, says Blair's strong pro-European views ensure that attitudes towards the EU will be the ``great divide'' in British politics after Labour's leadership election.
His comments were quickly seized on by government ministers who accused Blair of hypocrisy.
Michael Howard, the home secretary, noted that in the 1983 general election Blair endorsed the official Labour Party line that Britain should withdraw from the European Community. ``The only conclusion can be that he hadn't got the courage of his convictions or that his memory has failed him,'' Mr. Howard jibed.
In the 1980s Labour was under strong trade-union influence, which helped to ensure that many of the Party's members of Parliament (MPs) and activists hewed to an anti-European line.
But such attitudes, coupled with a commitment to nuclear disarmament, proved deeply unpopular at the hustings, and the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher and Major won four general elections in a row.
Blair supporters say he is determined to lead his party away from its past strategic errors. They note that Conservative divisions on Europe convey the impression of a government that has lost its way. Blair wants to reap the benefit of these perceptions.
There are, however, as many as 50 Conservative MPs who strongly oppose further steps towards European unity, and their presence on the back benches of the House of Commons, where the government has a majority of under 20 is likely to ensure that the government hews to lukewarm EU policies.
Ironically, although he is advocating pro-European policies, Blair also says he admired Mrs. Thatcher's leadership style.
The former prime minister was a declared foe of closer European unity, but Blair says he liked the fact that she had a clear set of aims and pursued them with vigor.
Is Britain's Labour party shedding its labor ties? | 2019-04-19T06:57:35 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0708/08072.html |
0.999999 | How to get photos into surveys that publish to Server-Hosted Feature Services?
I have a bunch of existing surveys built around existing feature services and related tables, and was wondering what the requirements are to add the capability to take an attached photo with a survey? I've done some searching online and haven't found any documentation on how to do this with surveys writing to an enterprise database.
You would need to make sure that attachments have been added to the feature classes/tables that you want to have image support- this would be done in ArcGIS Desktop. You would then need to republish the Feature Services to 'update' the capabilities. Then you can add image questions to the survey.
I have enabled attachments on my feature classes and tables. When trying to publish these feature services in Arcmap, I include the attachment tables in the MXD, but it never seems like the attachment tables make it through to the feature service. They don't show on my service's rest endpoint. Is this normal, and will I still be able to do images?
Also, What about in my actual survey form, will I need to put the image question in a repeat?
You don't need to have the attachment table in the MXD- the attachment capability is automatically managed via the geodatabase. It will be noticeable by a 'hasAttachments' property in the layer information and the operations 'addAttachments' on the layer.
Yes, you will need to add the image questions in the form once attachments have been enabled. | 2019-04-20T20:19:38 | https://community.esri.com/thread/199812-how-to-get-photos-into-surveys-that-publish-to-server-hosted-feature-services |
0.999317 | This is the first monthly update and a new format for each post. I've taken a bunch of photos from around the site during the month and Bernard has taken his usual high rise photos looking down on the site. There's a more detailed update from Bernard below too.
The most notable changes around the site have been the addition of cladding around the bottom of the hotel tower and the start of the hotel crown being put together. I've also noticed that the retail levels are being kitted out with escalators, the balconies have glass railings in place and there appears to be lots of work going on on the inside of the building.
- office: reinforcing mesh laid out on the blue formwork. Some concrete has been pumped today, don't know where to.
- hotel: more scaffolding has been erected on the roof. Cladding work continuing.
- office: looks like the blue formwork is being fastened to the steel beams beneath. Some reinforcing mesh is sitting on top ready to be laid. I guess there will be no need for post-tensioning of the slab with the steel structure supporting it.
- glass is being fitted to the skylight between the hotel and res towers.
- fill is being placed on the ground level slab south of the podium, along Adelaide St. I presume this will be paved over, like the areas near the SE & SW corners.
- more glazing being installed to the podium facade along George St.
- hotel: building scaffolding on top. Cladding work continues.
- office: still lots of blue formwork, some work around the South side of the lift core.
- more glazing being installed to the podium level near the George & Adelaide corner.
- the blue formwork for the northern half of the office tower looks done.
- cladding has been fitted to the steel structure assembled on the podium level between the hotel and res towers.
Street level, they're starting to install the glass facade to the corner of Adelaide & George.
- hotel: cladding is creeping upward. Safety railings surround the top, but can't see what's going on.
- office: blue formwork everywhere! Sitting on top of the structural steel frame, this will have concrete poured on top for a floor slab.
- office: steel framing has covered the entire northern end of the floor. I think this is a mezzanine floor in the plant room level, but not sure.
- still laying reinforcing along Adelaide St frontage. Roof structure visible next to Res tower, another large steel frame being assembled, don't know where that one is going.
The site looks closed today, anyway.
- hotel: lots for cladding up, some steel posts & girts up on the top of the lift core.
- looks like a large steel roof structure has been assembled down on the podium level. The are also what look like the large cooling fans (or at least the shrouds) sitting near the skylight just on the other side of the office tower. Ringing has been placed over the formwork along the Adelaide St side at ground level. | 2019-04-23T08:38:13 | https://www.300george.com/index.php/2018/01/02/december-2017-updates/ |
0.997961 | |a In my essay, Why abortion is immoral, I criticised discussions of the morality of abortion in which the crucial issue is whether fetuses are human beings or whether fetuses are persons. Both argument strategies are inadequate because they rely on indefensible assumptions. Why should being a human being or being a person make a moral difference? I argued that the correct account of the morality of abortion should be based upon a defensible account of why killing children and adults is wrong. I claimed that what makes killing us wrong is that our premature deaths deprive us of our futures of value, that is, the goods of life we would have experienced had we survived. This account of the wrongness of killing explains why killing is one of the worst of crimes and how killing greatly harms the victim. It coheres with the attitudes of those with cancer or HIV facing premature death. It explains why we believe it is wrong to kill infants (as personhood theories do not). It does not entail that it wrongs a human being to end her life if she is in persistent vegetative state or if her future must consist only of unbearable physical suffering and she wants to die (as sanctity of human life theories do not). This account of the wrongness of killing implies (with some defensible additional assumptions) that abortion is immoral because we were fetuses once and we know those fetuses had futures of value. Mark Brown claims that this potential future of value account is unsound because it implies that we have welfare rights to what we need to stay alive that most people would reject. I argue that Brown is incorrect in two ways: a welfare right to what we need to stay alive is not directly implied by my account and, in addition, most of us do believe that dependent human beings have substantial welfare rights to what they need to stay alive. Brown argues that depriving us of a future of value of which we have mental representations both is a better explanation of the wrongness of killing and does not imply that abortion is immoral. I reply that (a) if Brown's arguments against my view were sound, those arguments could be easily adapted to show that his view is unsound as well and (b) Brown's view is both ambiguous and unsound on any interpretation. The most popular class of pro-choice argument strategies appeals to the view that some or all fetuses lack either a mental state or function or a capacity for a mental state or function necessary for possession of the right to life. Desires, interests, sentience, various concepts, moral agency, and rationality have all been suggested as candidates for this crucial mental role. Brown's analysis is one member of this class of strategies. I believe that it is possible to show that none of these strategies is reasonable. However, there are so many of these strategies that the required argument demands something more like a book and less like a short essay. The argument of the following essay is a piece of this larger argument. | 2019-04-19T12:21:24 | http://library.mpifg.de/Record/JST049980327/Details |
0.998925 | Related Story: Superbugs: What are they and how are they treated?
A regional South Australian surgeon who has spent the past eight years examining the overuse of antibiotics wants his findings to instigate further research.
Mount Gambier orthopaedic surgeon Barney McCusker presented the findings of an eight-year in-house audit at last week's Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress in Adelaide.
Dr McCusker's audit looked at infection rates in 414 of his patients in the period following surgery for fractures, which turned up challenges in the traditional use of peri-operative antibiotic treatment — that is, antibiotics given to patients around the time of surgery.
To get an expected average infection rate among patients treated with antibiotics, Dr McCusker sought a figure from a number of Australian microbiologists who told him the average would be two patients out of 100, a rate of 2 per cent.
Of the patients in Dr McCusker's audit, none of whom were treated with antibiotics, only two patients — or 0.48 per cent — of his 414 patients contracted minor infections within the 28-day period following surgery.
Compared to the average, Dr McCusker's rate was four times lower.
Dr McCusker said his findings prompted the question — are we using antibiotics unnecessarily?
Just one packet of antibiotics can have an impact on your body's ability to fight disease the next time you get sick.
Antibiotics were a very good tool but they should not be overused, he said.
"By giving antibiotics to a population of bacteria, what we're doing is eradicating the population of that bacteria that are sensitive to that antibiotic," Dr McCosker said.
"In that population there'll be bacteria which are resistant to that antibiotic, so we're getting rid of the competition for those bacteria which we can't treat."
Dr McCusker said he asked each of the contributing patients whether or not they wanted antibiotics prior to surgery, carefully explaining the risks and side effects of treatment.
"Antibiotics have their own trouble, whether it is skin rashes or gastrointestinal upsets. I said to them, 'I can treat you with antibiotics or I can just very carefully monitor the wound and treat you if needed'," he said.
"I put this to each and every one of the patients in my audit and I can tell you, not one of them said 'no doctor, I want lashings of antibiotics'."
The small audit, conducted with one operator and one hospital in a small regional area "proves nothing", Dr McCusker said, but he hoped it would pave the way for future research and larger studies.
"What I'm hoping to do is ask other orthopaedic surgeons to see if we can replicate this study," he said.
Antibiotics were a game changer when they were introduced with the advent of penicillin in the 1940s, said South Australian President of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), Associate Professor William Tam.
"Antibiotics are a very valuable commodity and they have changed how we treat our patients," he said.
But the era of antibiotic- resistant 'superbugs' has also led to debates on whether the drugs should be used more sparingly in some circumstances.
"If we are careless in the way we prescribe antibiotics, over a period of time the antibiotics are not going to be useful for those bacteria anymore and that becomes a serious problem for everybody," Dr Tam said.
In 2015, the director of the World Health Organisation called the rise of antibiotic resistance a 'global crisis'.
WHO says the world is fast running out of treatment options to combat bacteria.
Dr Tam said a proportion of patients visited doctors expecting to be prescribed antibiotics, believing it was necessary to make them well again.
He said it was very important for doctors to communicate effectively to patients as to why they would be prescribed certain drugs and why they would not.
"What we need to be talking to our patients about is about the use of antibiotics when it is appropriate and not use antibiotics when it is unlikely they will be useful," he said.
Dr Tam said Dr McCusker's audit findings had stimulated a lot of interest in an area where data was lacking.
There are measures we can take to prevent infection.
"It should stimulate more research to be done in this field so that we can produce some guidelines that we can then recommend as best practice for our patients," he said.
Dr Tam said the AMA actively encouraged those in the medical field to challenge and review current practice guidelines.
"We should always challenge if what we are doing is the right thing or not and whether we can improve on what we are currently doing," he said.
"By auditing our patients and our own practices, we come up with ideas and these can lead to further research guidelines and protocols that we can test and as a result of those tests, we can come up with renewed guidelines." | 2019-04-19T23:17:08 | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-19/study-by-mount-gambier-surgeon-challenges-antibiotic-use/8532538 |
0.999798 | Is there any media that you consumed as a kid that still influences you today? Disney is definitely on my list, with the prince, and magic, and adventure. Probably even things like Power Rangers, a group of friends battling evil monsters. But going waaaaaay back, I'm told my Dad read his fantasy novels out loud to me when I was a fussy baby. I have no memory of this, but I'm pretty sure it sunk in subliminally. How about you? Do you remember what your early influences are?
A ton of mythology and folklore books and fairytales. So many.
Quite a lot of older British kids books with cute talking animals. Winnie the Pooh, Paddington, The Animals of Farthing Wood (I think it was called?) And The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and all the rest.
The Hobbit and LOTR was read aloud to me as a kid as soon as I could comprehend it. I loved the whole 'riddles in the dark scene'! However, their obsession with Tolkien didn't transfer because I still have not read LOTR myself cover-to-cover. After having been there for multiple rewatches of the extended editions of the films (plus DVD commentary) and traveling around Wellington looking for the damn costumes, I did my time in Azkaban, okay?
Of my own accord: I enjoyed The Edge Chronicles, which was just the right amount of weird for me (sky pirates!), and Mortal Engines, which is sort of... Mad Max steampunk. I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy earlier than I should have in order to get the jokes. Borrowed The Colour of Magic from my mother after she couldn't be bothered with it.
Movies - I enjoyed stuff like Atlantis, Treasure Planet, The Dark Crystal (we had the book of the movie for some reason?), also comedy like Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Princess Bride. I was massively into Star Wars which I suppose you could describe as "wizards in space" so it makes sense. But I stuck with the movies and videogames; the novelisations never grabbed me.
I never quite jumped onto the Harry Potter train which was popular at the time, so I have a... lack of influence, I guess? I mean, I've since watched the movies and gotten halfway through the books, and you kind of pick up a lot anyway from fan osmosis because at one point it was impossible to escape, but I was never "into it" like many people.
I don't know how heavily a lot of these things really influence me now, but they definitely influenced me when I was a kid.
Books - I found a reading log from when I was in first grade, where either I or someone else would have to read a specific book and they'd write down what the book was. Mostly it was Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan.
98% of the classic and newer (like, 90's era) Disney movies - Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, etc.
Labyrinth, The Princess Bride and The Dark Crystal are probably the other three big fantasy movies besides Oz that I was introduced to from the fantasy genre.
Animorphs was one of my favorite book series in middle school, and I definitely wrote what was essentially fan fiction. I have the journal I wrote it in still.
My biggest influence: Star Wars. I think this largely comes from having been a lonely kid without a ton of (reliable) friends, especially when I was younger, but I don't know where I would have been without Star Wars. I don't know if I would have been writing or not, or if I would have waited until middle school or high school to start writing fantasy and have never gone through that period where I was writing Star Wars fan fiction.
Harry Potter has definitely been an influence, but not as big as Star Wars. I was eleven when the first book came out, but I wasn't obsessed with it like most people were/are.
I've always been an imaginative person. I remember playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was in preschool, but instead of being one of the turtles I was April O'Neil. I also remember standing in my kitchen and telling my parents that they were Uncle Henry and Auntie Em (I wasn't kidding when I said Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie).
Loads of inexpensive paperback books, the greater part of them science-fiction, and especially all the re-releases of Edgar Rice Burroughs's stuff that coincided with my youth. That led to a great deal of wider reading and eventually fantasy (though I didn't get into--or maybe 'get'--Tolkien till I was older). The Ballantine series of classic fantasy novels was definitely big, and introduced me to William Morris, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, etc.
If I go back a little further, books on paleontology and archaeology first evoked a sense of wonder in me. Especially paleo-anthropology (i.e. prehistoric man) eventually. That has stayed with me and I have not hesitated to drop a few 'cave men' into my stories.
I read a lot of Astrid Lindgren when I was a kid. Ronia The Robber's Daughter, Pippi Longstocking and Emil of Lönneberga, which were all about kids struggling to be free from the adult world and turned old conventions on their head. My female main characters have a good deal of Pippi in them. She was quirky, spoke her mind and wasn't scared of authority, I really liked that as a kid. And now too! I remember reading the Little House on the Prairie-books until they fell apart, and that gave me a lot of love for adventure. They met frightening animals, and strange weather and just kept going. I adored Eva Ibbotson's Which Witch? about the nasty witches of Todcaster, who competed in black magic for the marriage of a great wizard. They really stuck with me (more so than the beautiful white witch heroine) and I loved them to bits. One of them wanted to marry the wizard because she wanted his teeth for her necklace. Now that's a goal, lol! When I found Terry Pratchett's witch books, they really reminded me of the Todcaster-witches. I wouldn't be surprised if he was pretty inspired by Ibbotson.
Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Paul Feval, Michel Zevaco, Rafael Sabbatini, Karl May, Walter Scott are still some of my favourite writers and it can be shown they influenced my writing of historical fiction/ swashbuckling adventures. Western movies and swashbuckling ones, too.
@Pinchofmagic Pippi Longstocking! I read a bunch of those when I was young too. Ronia the Robbers Daughter is great too, though I only read it as an adult.
Another one I read, not super young, but in high school, was Mervin Peakes's Gormenghast. I've been meaning to reread them, I love the creepy desolate atmosphere and the helplessness of the residents of the castle, stuck in their ways. I can't tell you exactly HOW it influenced me, maybe the love for run down places and faded luxury.
I'd say that the Little House Books and the works of LM Montgomery, particularly the Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon books, really stayed with me, perhaps not so much as a writer, but as a person. Same with Jem and the Holograms (the original 80's cartoon). They added something to my sensibilities and how I viewed the world.
I think a lot of my writing may have also been influenced somewhat by LM Montgomery, as I often find myself using some older phrases and such that people don't use much anymore. However, I think I was more influenced by a lot of fairy tales I read as a child. My grandmother had this set of books, Child Craft (from the 1960's I think; I'll have to double check when I'm downstairs again), and every time I went to her house in the summer, I HAD to read these books. Usually I just read the fairy tale one, but there were other ones that had folk lore and such as well. (The science ones are so outdated by now that they're hilarious, but that's a different subject.) The authors of these varied, but there was just something about the fairy tale style that appealed to me, and even now I have trouble 'showing not telling' because most of those old fairy tale stories were TOLD.
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, definitely. I continually checked that out from the library and finally got my own copy when I was an adult (and it had to be the copy with all four books in it with the same cover the library one had). I loved how Wrede turned the traditional fairy tales on their heads and had the heroines save themselves (and, y'know, DRAGONS!). I read tons of books. After we started homeschooling we were at the library at least once a week. No limit on how much we could check out so long as we read them, and I devoured everything. Little House on the Prairie. Harry Potter. Hank the Cowdog. Every King Arthur story I could get my hands on. Also books on medieval history. When I found out I was Welsh on my mom's side I researched all things Welsh I could find (difficult), tried to learn Welsh by language cassette (too difficult, switched to French), and studied medieval castles and weapons (the Backyard Ballistic's book was banned in our house for some odd reason, so my brother and I took up sword fighting by, um, "procuring" broken shovel handles and numerous rolls of duct tape).
Music was a big influencer. It was either 90's and older country music or new age like Enya, Kitaro, and Yanni. Every day we would load up the truck, pop in a CD, and listen to something on our way to a patch of land where we kept our goat herd. LOTR's music was highly influential when it came out, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Epic scores really grabbed a hold of me and helped me "see" my stories and characters like movies in my head, so I still cultivate a playlist for each project to return to as inspiration. We listened to certain CDs so much that if I hear a particular song today I can vividly remember earlier projects attached to bits of real landscape we always drove by.
Movies were big, too, because we never had cable, only a handful of local stations (we finally got Dish when I was, like 18). Young Guns 1 & 2, Dances With Wolves, Buffalo Girls, Lonesome Dove, The Shadow Riders, and Rough Riders formed my early love of the western genre. Anything Billy the Kid was fascinating, and so was the Dalton Gang when I learned I was related to them, too (the running joke of our family is that we were either outlaws, lawmen, or kings and none of the family ever liked each other). The Mummy really hit on my love of archaeology and monster mythology, and Tremors was great for snappy, comfortable sounding dialogue (and monsters). When we switched over to DVDs I always watched the behind the scenes portions. LOTR was the most extensive and it gave me a refreshing look at how you could put stories together in depth, so I always have tons of world building material and history bits done up for my stories.
I can't really remember any other specifics, there were a lot. As a kid I would obsess over something for a long time until I got what I wanted from it and then moved on to something else. All of it influenced my writing once I could articulate what I wanted to emulate about it. I still do that to a lesser degree today. Right now it's The Umbrella Academy, Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies, and one of my Spotify playlists with a lot of female vocalists.
LOTR's music was highly influential when it came out, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Epic scores really grabbed a hold of me and helped me "see" my stories and characters like movies in my head, so I still cultivate a playlist for each project to return to as inspiration.
Oh, yeah. Music was amazing inspiration. One of my strongest memories was getting the Soundtrack to the movie "Labyrinth" on vinyl in the 80's. I remember where the record store was and how it smelled and the pattern on the carpet, and the record was expensive, but so worth it. There was just something about that music that I loved. I wore that record out. But you mentioned the two soundtracks I really love and still listen to for writing inspiration. They're awesome.
My dad used to read The Lord of the Rings to me as a bedtime story. I grew up with my parents hosting their D&D group at our place as long as I can remember. Add to that some Disney and anime and you've got me. | 2019-04-25T10:38:37 | https://worldsmyths.com/forums/topic/1890-what-media-did-you-consume-as-a-kid-that-influences-your-work/?tab=comments |
0.99999 | Given how much architecture was destroyed in lower Manhattan on September 11th, you might think that the last thing anybody would want to do now is to get rid of more of it, especially if the building in question is one of Battery Park City's most admired, if tiniest, gems. But that is exactly what the Museum of Jewish Heritage is planning to do with an elegant glass entry pavilion that it erected in 1997. The pavilion, a pair of trapezoids, was an afterthought, designed in enormous haste when museum officials decided, just before their new building opened, that its design, a granite hexagon by the architect Kevin Roche, didn't include enough room for ticket sales and security screening of visitors and packages. The only solution was a small, separate entry structure. The museum turned to Claire Weisz and Mark Yoes, a young husband-and-wife team of architects who had previously designed a prototype security kiosk for Battery Park City.
"The museum people came to us because they said they wanted someone who knew about security booths," Claire Weisz said last week as she walked through her building for what may have been the last time. Weisz and Yoes gave the museum rather more than it expected. They produced a crisp, sharply angled structure with a glass roof and glass-and-metal walls that seemed exhilarating amid the earnest and dutiful brick and stone buildings of Battery Park City. Weisz and Yoes managed to get it designed, approved by the Battery Park City Authority and city officials, and fully constructed, in just eight weeks. "We made it out of any materials we could order and have delivered fast," Weisz said.
The building, which was known as the visitors center, was never meant to overshadow the museum. But Roche's granite structure turned out to have such functional limitations that the visitors center was soon being used for office space. The little glass pavilion wasn't in most guidebooks, but in time it became the part of the museum complex that architects, especially younger ones, talked about. In a city with few strong modern public buildings, it was a kind of minor, underground icon. In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, when the museum was closed, the visitors center was taken over by the Police Department, which used it to store gas masks.
Before the terrorist attacks, the museum had decided to expand, and it had gone back to Roche and asked him to produce a design for the expansion. He proposed a big, swooping form of glass and granite that would sit like a backdrop behind the museum. The little glass visitors center would no longer be needed, and museum officials decided to place Roche's addition right where the visitors center now stands.
Excavation on the new addition began in late December, and by last week the visitors center had been closed. As a young architect, Claire Weiszhas not had many buildings built, let alone demolished, and she finds it strange that her visitors center might disappear after just four years.
But, then again, it might not. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, which owns the visitors center, told the Museum of Jewish Heritage last week that it did not want to see the building demolished, not only because of its architectural merit but also because, technically, it has not yet been fully paid for. "The bonds that financed it are still being paid off, and its useful life has not run out," Susan Chin, an assistant commissioner at the Department of Cultural Affairs, said. According to Chin, the city wants the building to be dismantled and moved elsewhere. "We're hoping that Battery Park City will use it, but we're just trying to find a new home," she said. "It's such a specialized building. Do you know any nonprofits that want a very well-designed little glass building?"
There has been talk of turning it into a field house and office for the Battery Park City ballfields, which are close to Ground Zero and have been occupied by cars and trucks since September 11th, or of using it as a temporary headquarters for a proposed world-hunger research center in Battery Park City. Either option would please Claire Weisz, who says the most important thing for her is that the pavilion be preserved for some sort of public use. "We don't build enough things in the city that can be occupied in a variety of ways," she said.
Throughout the process, Weisz has never met Kevin Roche, or even spoken to him. "I always felt that this was a kind of David-and-Goliath story," she said. "I understand that the museum people presented the design to him just to be sure that he was not appalled by it. And I guess he wasn't, because they built it." | 2019-04-19T12:51:49 | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/21/the-little-pavilion-that-could |
0.999257 | Are certain individuals more likely to lie based on where they are from? To what extent is there variation between countries in the amount of dishonesty?
We predicted that there would be differences in levels of dishonesty between countries. Specifically, we believed that in countries where corruption is high, dishonesty would be viewed as more acceptable.
In our experiment, participants in several different countries (with varying levels of corruption) were given a dice-rolling task. They would roll the dice digitally on an iPad. The participants were provided with an opportunity and a financial incentive to cheat. Participants rolled a die and were paid based on the number of dots they rolled. At the beginning, participants were instructed to choose either the top or bottom of the die before rolling without revealing their choice to anyone else. When participants “rolled” the die, they saw an image displaying both the top/bottom and the side they had chosen. Thus, on any roll where the participant originally decided to select the unfavorable side, they had the opportunity to cheat and claim to have originally chosen the higher value side. While it was not possible to tell if any individual participant was lying, it was possible to determine the statistical likelihood of dishonesty across the whole sample. Since the sample size was large enough, an honest sample would choose the favorable side about 50% of the time. By comparing the observed portion of reported favorable rolls with the “expected” 50%, we obtained an estimate of how honest subjects were in each country.
Our results suggest that country-level cultural variables have limited influence on generalized dishonesty. The mean proportion of favorable reports on the dice task was significantly above chance in all of the samples. For example, the distribution of outcomes in American students is shown below.
However, our results suggest that country-level cultural variables have limited influence on generalized dishonesty, as shown in the graph below by the similar results across countries.
At a policy level, these findings suggest that programs aimed at promoting general morality are unlikely to have lasting efficacy. Instead, programs aimed at establishing honesty norms for specific behaviors may be more effective. | 2019-04-23T20:07:17 | https://advanced-hindsight.com/case-study/re-thinking-stereotypes-around-liars-origin-countries/ |
0.999976 | CEO Peter Kraus is sweeping away the mindset that led to mediocre results at AllianceBernstein.
Barron's suggests alternatives for investors disappointed in the low yields offered by money-market funds.
Ken Gregory and Jeremy DeGroot, key executives at fund research and investment firm Litman/Gregory, name some of their favorite funds.
Australia is particularly well positioned to cash in on Asia's economic boom. Here's how to play it.
Clearing–or Just the Eye of the Storm?
Despite the best monthly U.S. equity gains in decades, bonds remained the asset of choice for fund buyers.
Germany's institutional investors have been playing it safe, allocating only 7.9% to equities. This is bearish in the short term, as big investors are stuck on the sidelines. But it's bullish long term, Barron's explains.
Asian Trader: Is Indonesia the New China?
Indonesia is Asia's next big growth story, but there's still time to catch stocks on their way up. Barron's names exchange-traded funds worth considering.
In the midst of the financial crisis, CIT declared bankruptcy at about the same time John Thain was getting run out of Merrill Lynch. Together, the middle-market lender and its new CEO are finding redemption, Barron's says.
A bull market in uncertainty suggests gold will keep rising in coming years, although at a slower pace than in recent times, Barron's reports.
The recession forced Brinker , owner of the Chili's restaurant chain, to slim down but toughen up. The result is a smaller but better-run company that could reward diners and investors, Barron's says.
Regal Cinemas and Cinemark , the largest publicly traded cinema chains, can stop worrying: Hollywood isn't likely to kill the golden goose by bringing films to television more quickly, Barron's reports.
SuccessFactors ' richly valued shares could be vulnerable to a selloff as competition grows in the market for performance-management software, Barron's says. Another red flag: Insiders have been checking out in droves.
Barron's thinks Cisco's videophone venture is likely to get a poor reception. | 2019-04-22T20:00:48 | https://www.barrons.com/articles/SB128658829246345311 |
0.999977 | Rage Against The Machine's Countdown Clock: What's It Counting Down To?
Web site is sponsored by concert-promotion company.
When it was announced back on January 22 that Rage Against the Machine would reunite for a headlining slot at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in April, it was implied that the show would be the band's only reunion gig.
In fact, guitarist Tom Morello told MTV News that Coachella's closing set would be Rage's sole reunion performance, at least for the foreseeable future (see "Rage Against The Machine's Ferocious Reunion Caps Coachella's Final Night" and "Nightwatchman, Rage Reunion Have Morello Fired Up For Political Fights").
Then, two months ago, Rage — who split in 2000 — announced that they'd be participating in the revived Rock the Bells Festival alongside Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and others this summer. The band has agreed to appear at the July 28 and 29 dates at New York's Randall's Island; the August 11 gig in San Bernardino, California; and the August 18 stop in San Francisco.
Now, a new Web site has surfaced, ratm82407.com, which features two countdown clocks and the opening riff to Rage's "Bulls on Parade" running in a continuous — and, to be honest, annoying — loop.
One clock is set to expire on Monday, with the other ticking away to August 24. But beyond that, there's little information about the actual site itself (which is registered to LiveNation, the concert promotion company spun off by radio giant Clear Channel Communications), or what it might mean.
Because of who owns the site — and the band's reversal of the "one gig" commitment — it wouldn't be a stretch to assume it signifies the announcement of an upcoming, full-on Rage reunion tour and a new studio LP, or possibly even a live release recorded during the band's Coachella set (see "Rage Against The Machine's Ferocious Reunion Caps Coachella's Final Night"). Really, at this point, it's all just mere speculation on the part of fans and music-biz insiders.
Spokespeople for LiveNation and Rage had not responded to MTV News' requests for comment at press time. But one Rage fan site, vietnow.org, may have figured it all out.
The site claims the band has booked a show in East Troy, Wisconsin, on August 24, at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre — basing that assumption on HTML code obtained from the LiveNation-controlled Rage site. Upon viewing the source of the "Spread the Word" pop-up, vietnow.org claims a hidden form value — which it says is intended to help LiveNation keep track of its promotions — includes the words "Rage at Alpine." After viewing the same source code, MTV News did not find the phrase, but the site predicted early last month that the band would play a gig at Alpine on August 24.
Whatever the new Rage site might mean, no official clarification seems likely until Monday — when the final seconds fade from the first countdown clock — at the soonest. | 2019-04-20T11:04:29 | http://www.mtv.com/news/1561813/rage-against-the-machines-countdown-clock-whats-it-counting-down-to/ |
0.996619 | PASADENA, Calif. - As the hurricane-force winds that pummeled the West eased Friday, Diane Johnson stood knee high in leaves and branches, surveying a fallen tree trunk at eye-level and trying to decide just how to begin the big cleanup.
A near century-old eucalyptus tree toppled over in the middle of the night, crushing all three of the family's cars, landing at the doorstep of their Southern California home and blocking any view from their windows.
Trapped inside for hours, they were able to get out when the fire department cut them a small pathway.
"I have no idea what to do," she said. "I don't know. I don't know."
Like hundreds of thousands of people in Southern California on Friday, Johnson was without electricity. And just like Johnson, residents and crews struggled to clean up smashed trees, toppled power lines and debris-strewn roadways.
Several cities in the region, the hardest hit from Wednesday night's windstorms, were still in a state of emergency.
In Temple City, the Los Angeles suburb where Johnson lives, a row of toppled power poles with wires attached blocked a street. The city's main street remained a shuttered ghost town as cars inched past darkened stop lights and shop signs in Chinese.
Seventy-five percent of the city remained without power Friday and residents in some parts were being advised to boil water or use bottled water. As many as 200 trees fell. As the night loomed, police increased patrols and the city handed out free flashlights.
About 200,000 people in Southern California and thousands more in Utah - where Thursday winds topped 100 mph - remained without electricity. Authorities said some areas might not have power restored until Sunday.
In Pasadena, among the hardest hit cities in the region, inspectors checked more than 100 damaged buildings to see if they should be red-tagged as too dangerous to inhabit.
One 42-unit apartment building and other structures were red-tagged Thursday and two dozen more were yellow-tagged, allowing only limited access, said Lisa Derderian, the city's emergency management coordinator.
"Every street in Pasadena was impacted in one way or another," she said, adding that the city's cleanup would be expeditious. "We have the (Tournament of Roses) parade every year here so we are experts in cleanup and debris removal."
In Northern California, crews battled wildfires Friday that were sparked by power lines blown down by the wind. The winds were blamed for the destruction of at least four homes.
Aiding firefighters and those involved in the cleanup was the fact that the high winds, which had been expected to return overnight, never materialized. Around the state, the 60- to 80-mph wind gusts of the previous day had become mere breezes.
The low-pressure system that had spawned the winds was moving eastward so quickly that the National Weather Service canceled red flag warnings that predicted extreme fire danger.
A new system was expected to move into Arizona on Friday night. | 2019-04-22T18:07:02 | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/nation-world/article/Calif-residents-grapple-with-windstorm-cleanup-2341138.php |
0.999072 | For the Western Hemisphere term, see Northern American English.
The vowel sound in sun across England. Northern English dialects have not undergone the FOOT–STRUT split, distinguishing them from both Southern England and Scottish dialects.
The English language in Northern England has been shaped by the region's history of settlement and migration, and today encompasses a group of related dialects known as Northern England English (or, simply, Northern English in the United Kingdom). Historically, the strongest influence on the varieties of the English language spoken in Northern England was the Northumbrian dialect of Old English, but contact with Old Norse during the Viking Age and with Irish English following the Great Famine have produced new and distinctive styles of speech. Some "Northern" traits can be found further south than others: only the northernmost accents of Northumberland and Tyneside retain the pre-Great Vowel Shift pronunciation of words such as town (/tuːn/, "toon"), but all northern accents lack the FOOT–STRUT split, and this trait extends a significant distance into the Midlands.
The varieties of English spoken across Great Britain form a dialect continuum, and there is no universally agreed definition of which varieties are Northern. The most restrictive definition of the linguistic North includes only those dialects spoken north of the River Tees. Other linguists, such as John C. Wells, describe these as the dialects of the "Far North" and treat them as a subset of all Northern English dialects. Conversely, Wells uses a very broad definition of the linguistic North, comprising all dialects that have not undergone the TRAP–BATH and FOOT–STRUT splits. Using this definition, the isogloss between North and South runs from the River Severn to the Wash – this definition covers not just the entire North of England (which Wells divides into "Far North" and "Middle North") but also most of the Midlands, including the distinctive Brummie (Birmingham) and Black Country dialects.
In historical linguistics, the dividing line between North and Midlands runs from the River Ribble or River Lune on the west coast to the River Humber on the east coast. The dialects of this region are descended from the Northumbrian dialect of Old English rather than Mercian or other Anglo-Saxon dialects. In a very early study of English dialects, Alexander J Ellis defined the border between the north and the midlands as that where the word house is pronounced with u: to the north (as also in Scots). Although well-suited to historical analysis, this line does not reflect contemporary language; this line divides Lancashire and Yorkshire in half and few would today consider Manchester or Leeds, both located south of the line, as part of the Midlands.
An alternative approach is to define the linguistic North as equivalent to the cultural area of Northern England – approximately the seven historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, or the three modern statistical regions of North East England, North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber. This approach is taken by the Survey of English Dialects (SED), which uses the historic counties (minus Cheshire) as the basis of study. The SED also groups Manx English with Northern dialects, although this is a distinct variety of English and the Isle of Man is not part of England. Under Wells' scheme, this definition includes Far North and Middle North dialects, but excludes the Midlands dialects.
Scottish English is always considered distinct from Northern England English, although the two have interacted and influenced each other.
Many northern dialects reflect the influence of the Old Norse language strongly, compared with other varieties of English spoken in England.
In addition to previous contact with Vikings, during the 9th and 10th centuries most of northern and eastern England was part of either the Danelaw, or the Danish-controlled Kingdom of Northumbria (with the exception of much of present-day Cumbria, which was part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde). Consequently, East Yorkshire dialects, in particular, are considered to have been influenced heavily by Old East Norse (the ancestor language of modern Danish).
However, Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon and Old West Norse (from which modern Norwegian is descended) have arguably had a greater impact, over a longer period, on most northern dialects than Old East Norse. While authoritative quantification is not available, some estimates have suggested as many as 7% of West Cumbrian dialect words are Norse in origin or derived from it.
During the mid and late 19th century, there was large-scale migration from Ireland, which affected the speech of parts of Northern England. This is most apparent in the dialects along the west coast, such as Liverpool, Birkenhead, Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven. The east-coast town of Middlesbrough also has a significant Irish influence on its dialect, as it grew during the period of mass migration. There was also some influence on speech in Manchester, but relatively little on Yorkshire beyond Middlesbrough.
Mancunian (spoken in Manchester, Salford, various other areas of Greater Manchester, parts of Lancashire and eastern Cheshire).
In some areas, it can be noticed that dialects and phrases can vary greatly within regions too. For example, the Lancashire dialect has many sub-dialects and varies noticeably from West to East and even from town to town. Within as little as 5 miles there can be an identifiable change in accent. The Yorkshire Dialect Society has always separated West Riding dialect from that in the North and East ridings.
Red areas are where English dialects of the late 20th century were rhotic; in the North, only some of Lancashire is included.
Pronunciation of [ŋg] in the word tongue throughout England; the major Northern counties with this trait are located where the North West and West Midlands meet.
The accents of Northern England generally do not have the trap–bath split observed in Southern England English, so there is no /ɑː/ in words like bath, ask, etc. Cast is pronounced [kʰast], rather than the [kʰɑːst] pronunciation of most southern accents, and so shares the same vowel as cat [kʰat]. There are a few words in the BATH set like can't, half, calf, master which are pronounced with /ɑː/ in many Northern English accents as opposed to /æ/ in Northern American accents.
The /æ/ vowel of cat, trap is normally pronounced [a] rather than the [æ] found in traditional Received Pronunciation or General American while /ɑː/, as in the words palm, cart, start, tomato may not be differentiated from /æ/ by quality, but by length, being pronounced as a longer [aː].
The foot–strut split is absent in Northern English, so that, for example, cut and put rhyme and are both pronounced with /ʊ/; words like love, up, tough, judge, etc. also use this vowel sound. This has led to Northern England being described "Oop North" /ʊp nɔːθ/ by some in the south of England. Some words with /ʊ/ in RP even have /uː/ – book is pronounced /buːk/ in some Northern accents (particularly in Lancashire and Greater Manchester), while conservative accents also pronounce look as /luːk/.
The Received Pronunciation phonemes /eɪ/ (as in face) and /əʊ/ (as in goat) are often pronounced as monophthongs (such as [eː] and [oː]), or as older diphthongs (such as /ɪə/ and /ʊə/). However, the quality of these vowels varies considerably across the region, and this is considered a greater indicator of a speaker's social class than the less stigmatised aspects listed above.
Certain West Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Greater Manchester areas north of the city of Manchester may residually be rhotic or pre-consonantally rhotic (pronouncing R before a consonant but not in word-final position), for example, in Accrington and Rochdale.
Coastal Yorkshire and Lincolnshire may weakly retain word-final (but not pre-consonantal) rhoticity.
Uvular rhoticity, in which the same R sound as in French is used, has been described as the traditional "burr" of rural, northern Northumberland—possible as well, though also rare, in County Durham.
The vowel in dress, test, pet, etc. is slightly more open, transcribed by Wells as /ɛ/ rather than /e/.
In most areas, the letter y on the end of words as in happy or city is pronounced [ɪ], like the i in bit, and not [i]. This was considered RP until the 1990s. The tenser [i] is found in the far north, and in the Merseyside and Teesside areas.
The North does not have a clear distinction between the "clear L" and "dark L" of most other accents in England; in other words, most Northern accents pronounce all L sounds with some moderate amount of velarization. Exceptions to this are in Tyneside and Northumberland, which universally use only the clear L, and in Lancashire and Manchester, which universally use only the dark L.
Some northern English speakers have noticeable rises in their intonation, even to the extent that, to other speakers of English, they may sound "perpetually surprised or sarcastic."
/l/ is often somewhat "dark" (meaning velarised) [ɫ] listen throughout northern England, but it is particularly dark in Manchester and Lancashire.
The grammatical patterns of Northern England English are similar to those of British English in general. However, there are several unique characteristics that mark out Northern syntax from neighbouring dialects.
Under the Northern subject rule (NSR), the suffix "-s" (which in Standard English grammar only appears in the third person singular present) is attached to verbs in many present and past-tense forms (leading to, for example, "the birds sings"). More generally, third-person singular forms of irregular verbs such as to be may be used with plurals and other grammatical persons; for instance "the lambs is out". In modern dialects, the most obvious manifestation is a levelling of the past tense verb forms was and were. Either form may dominate depending on the region and individual speech patterns (so some Northern speakers may say "I was" and "You was" while others prefer "I were" and "You were") and in many dialects especially in the far North, weren't is treated as the negation of was.
The "epistemic mustn't", where mustn't is used to mark deductions such as "This mustn't be true", is largely restricted within the British Isles to Northern England, although it is more widely accepted in American English, and is likely inherited from Scottish English. A few other Scottish traits are also found in far Northern dialects, such as double modal verbs (might could instead of might be able to), but these are restricted in their distribution and are mostly dying out.
While standard English now only has a single second-person pronoun, you, many Northern dialects have additional pronouns either retained from earlier forms or introduced from other variants of English. The pronouns thou and thee have survived in many rural Northern accents. In some case, these allow the distinction between formality and familiarity to be maintained, while in others thou is a generic second-person singular, and you (or ye) is restricted to the plural. Even when thou has died out, second-person plural pronouns are common. In the more rural dialects and those of the far North, this is typically ye, while in cities and areas of the North West with historical Irish communities, this is more likely to be yous.
Conversely, the process of "pronoun exchange" means that many first-person pronouns can be replaced by the first-person objective plural us (or more rarely we or wor) in standard constructions. These include me (so "give me" becomes "give us"), we (so "we Geordies" becomes "us Geordies") and our (so "our cars" becomes "us cars"). The latter especially is a distinctively Northern trait.
Almost all British vernaculars have regularised reflexive pronouns, but the resulting form of the pronouns varies from region to region. In Yorkshire and the North East, hisself and theirselves are preferred to himself and themselves. Other areas of the North have regularised the pronouns in the opposite direction, with meself used instead of myself. This appears to be a trait inherited from Irish English, and like Irish speakers, many Northern speakers use reflexive pronouns in non-reflexive situations for emphasis. Depending on the region, reflexive pronouns can be pronounced (and often written) as if they ended -sen, -sel or -self (even in plural pronouns) or ignoring the suffix entirely.
In addition to Standard English terms, the Northern English lexis includes many words derived from Norse languages, as well as words from Middle English that disappeared in other regions. Some of these are now shared with Scottish English and the Scots language, with terms such as bairn ("child"), bonny ("beautiful"), gang or gan ("go/gone/going") and kirk ("church") found on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border. Very few terms from Brythonic languages have survived, with the exception of place name elements (especially in Cumbrian toponymy) and the Yan Tan Tethera counting system, which largely fell out of use in the nineteenth century. The Yan Tan Tethera system was traditionally used in tasks such as shepherding, counting stitches in knitting and reckoning money, as well as in children's nursery rhymes and counting-out games, and may have been borrowed from a relatively modern form of the Welsh language rather than being a remnant of the Celtic of Northern England.
A study of a corpus of Late Modern English texts from or set in Northern England found lad ("boy" or "young man") and lass ("girl" or "young woman") were the most widespread "pan-Northern" dialect terms. Other terms in the top ten included a set of three indefinite pronouns owt ("anything"), nowt ("naught" or "nothing") and summat ("something"), the Scottish bairn, bonny and gang, and the phonetic spellings sel/sen ("self") and mun ("must"). Regional dialects within Northern England also had many unique terms, and canny ("clever") and nobbut ("nothing but") were both common in the corpus, despite being limited to the North East and to the North West and Yorkshire respectively.
^ Hickey (2015), p. 8–14.
^ a b c Wells (1982), pp. 349–351.
^ Hickey (2015), pp. 1–8.
^ Wales (2006), pp. 13–14.
^ Hickey (2015), p. 2.
^ Wells (1982), section 4.4.
^ a b c d Wells (1982), p. 368.
^ Beal (2004:130). Note that the source incorrectly transcribes the dark L with the symbol ⟨ɬ⟩, i.e. as if it were the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative.
^ Cruttenden, Alan (March 1981). "Falls and Rises: Meanings and Universals". Journal of Linguistics Vol. 17, No. 1: Cambridge University Press. p. 83. "[T]he rises of Belfast and some northern English cities may sound perpetually surprised or sarcastic to southern Englishmen (the precise attitude imputed will depend on other factors like pitch height and the exact type of rise)".
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Lodge, Ken (2009). A Critical Introduction to Phonetics. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-8873-2. | 2019-04-21T18:46:55 | http://en.wikipedia.nom.al/wiki/Northern_England_English |
0.999533 | (Q) What are the dangers of pressure washers for ice dam removal?
Here we will answer and discuss the common dangers of pressure washers for ice dam removal. Pressure washers are dangerous for many reasons so we will discuss some of the most important dangers in detail here. The three dangers we will cover are: 1) The chances for extreme roof damage 2) The chances for frost to destroy the building and surrounding concrete and asphalt surfaces 3) The dangers that the operator faces.
We will discuss the dangers of pressure washers for ice dam removal in more detail below.
Pressure washers are designed to clean with impact force, so the high psi spray (usually 1000-4000 psi) is abrasive. Imagine holding your hand in front of a pressure washer! It would quickly cut your skin. Now imagine holding your hand in the steam above a boiling tea kettle, it would not cut you but it would be hot. The same principal applies with pressure washers and steamers. Another good example would be this: A man getting hit with an ocean wave gets knocked over by the impact force, but a man cannot be forced over by fog in the air even if the fog is moving fast. You do not feel impact force from the fog/steam. Would you drive a car into a wave? No! Would you drive a car into fog? Sure! Many roofs have been damaged with the impact cleaning force of pressure washers as pictured!
2) The chances for frost to destroy the building and surrounding concrete and asphalt surfaces.
Pressure washers usually produce 3-5 gallons of water per minute. This water is literally soaking the areas around the building. This water can then freeze and expand. Frost heaving is common knowledge to most people and most are aware of its power to destroy! Adding excess water around a building in the winter is never smart. To remove ice dams with a pressure washer you literally need to melt the whole block of ice which adds even more water to the 3-5 gallons per minute. Compare this to a steamer (at 1.5-2.5 gallons a minute which is mostly evaporated in the machine) which can literally cut the ice into large sections and steam under it, freeing it from the roof. Huge blocks of ice can be removed. Practically the only water produced on your property from a steamer is from the melting of the channels and the undercuts, plus a very minuscule amount from the steam cooling as it goes through the hoses up to the roof. Most of the moisture is seen in the air in the cloud of steam around the user.
Operating a pressure washer on an icy roof is very dangerous to the user. Unlike an IDSAFE approved steamer, a pressure washer has a trigger that traps pressure in the line. Once the user squeezes the trigger there is a sudden explosive jerk from the pressure build up. This sudden motion can cause the user to loose their balance and potentially fall off the roof or ladder. An IDSAFE approved steamer cannot be controlled by the user on the roof because the flow of steam is continuous. The steam gun has an open trigger, meaning that it has no restriction from a trigger. There have been many accidents from people falling off of ladders and roofs because of the burst of pressure from the pressure washer. The other dangers that the user will face are potentially loosing control and cutting themselves or the roof accidentally. The user of a pressure washer will also be considerably wetter due to the splashing of the water. Where as a steamer will not be subject to such moisture. The other big danger the user faces is ice forming quickly under their feet. Proper ice dam removal is all about temperature and a pressure washer cannot produce as high a temperature as a steamer. Therefore the roof will become icy much quicker and be more dangerous. The last thing you ever want to happen during an ice dam removal job is to see someone fall off the roof. Using a steamer provides a safer footing because it is hotter and there is less water to freeze underneath the feet of the user.
In conclusion we recommend avoiding hot pressure washers for ice dam removal on roofs by learning how to identify the correct ice dam removal equipment or by hiring our IDSAFE members. If you have further questions please contact us. We do our best to respond quickly. | 2019-04-23T06:52:44 | https://www.icedamsteamingassociationforeducation.com/dangers-of-pressure-washers-for-ice-dam-removal/ |
0.999998 | Mat Ryan's clean sheet and a Pascal Gross' first goal in seven games were enough for Brighton and Hove Albion to edge past Watford 1-0 and make a welcome return to winning ways.
Chris Hughton's side last tasted victory against Swansea on November 4 and have endured a difficult spell since then.
Gross' fourth goal of the campaign - and his first since the 2-2 draw with Stoke City last month - put an end to that run, however, in what was a game that the Seagulls dominated for long periods.
The German had come closest to breaking the deadlock earlier with a fizzing effort, but he eventually got his name on the scoresheet with a low drive from the edge of the penalty area, which was helped on its way by an insipid attempted save by Heurelho Gomes.
Watford - missing the spark of suspended duo Abdoulaye Doucoure and Troy Deeney - struggled badly and scarcely threatened a Brighton backline, which included Premier League debutant Connor Goldson.
They will need to pick themselves up for the visit of Leicester City on Tuesday as they attempt to halt a run of four straight Premier League defeats. Brighton, meanwhile, will travel to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea on the same day with a spring in their step.
Brighton started in positive fashion and carved open the Hornets' defence inside the opening five minutes.
Tomer Hemed dragged his initial effort wide before Anthony Knockaert latched onto the loose ball and drilled a low cross back across the face of the goal, which was well parried away by Gomes.
Watford weathered the early storm and Hughton's side had to wait until just after the half-hour mark for their first effort on target, Goldson meeting Gross' deep corner at the back post with a downwards header that was well tipped behind by Gomes.
Knockaert then saw a shot from distance well held by Watford's Brazilian goalkeeper as the Seagulls continued to dominate in the closing stages of the half.
The hosts picked up where they left off after the break, but their lack of firepower continued to be painfully evident.
Hemed surged forward with the ball before an exchange of passes ends with him unceremoniously lashing over when well placed on the edge of the area.
Inexplicably, Watford's first attempt on goal did not come until the 56th minute when Richarlison's effort from a tight angle was pawed away by Mat Ryan.
This appeared to spark the game into life, Gross first firing a long-range effort agonisingly wide before breaking the deadlock in the 64th minute with a low drive past Gomes, who will be disappointed that he was unable to repel it.
Lewis Dunk then headed narrowly wide from a corner as Brighton looked to kill the game off.
Richarlison flashed a late header wide for Watford, while the effervescent Knockaert should have scored a second for Brighton - instead hooking wide with the goal at his mercy.
Marco Silva's side then almost secured the most undeserved of points with one of the last touches of the game as Mat Ryan dropped a looping cross, but Stefano Okaka failed to make him pay as he sent an effort wide off his thigh. | 2019-04-22T20:53:00 | https://www.sportingnews.com/au/football/news/brighton-and-hove-albion-1-watford-0-gross-ends-drought-to-help-seagulls-return-to-winning-ways/1i9e90hk05dcq19nechu4buof1 |
0.998705 | WESTMINSTER, Calif. - The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.
"We could let one of our cars go, but then you can't get to work - it's a never-ending cycle," 43-year-old Greg Chastain said while accompanying his wife to an Orange County employment center. He said they eventually may try their luck in a less expensive state like Arizona or Texas if he can land a manufacturing job there.
The end to the five-year program that extended benefits for the long-term jobless affected 1.3 million people immediately and will affect hundreds of thousands more who remain jobless in the months ahead. Under the program, the federal government provided an average monthly stipend of $1,166.
While the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress want to continue the program, the extensions were dropped from a budget deal struck earlier this month and Republican lawmakers have balked at its $26 billion annual cost.
The end of the program may prompt a drop in the nation's unemployment rate, but not necessarily for a good reason. People out of work are required to look for work to receive unemployment benefits. As benefits disappear, some jobless will stop looking for work out of frustration and will no longer be counted as unemployed.
The trend has already emerged in North Carolina, which started cutting off extended benefits in July. The state's unemployment rate went down - from 8.8 percent in June to 7.4 percent in November- even though the number of North Carolinians who said they had jobs rose only slightly in that time.
The North Carolina evidence is consistent with the theory that ending benefits will cause some unemployed to drop out of the workforce, said Michael Feroli, an economist at JP Morgan Chase.
That's what Fed chairman Ben Bernanke meant when he said this month that the end of extended benefits "will bring the unemployment rate down, but for ... the wrong reason."
Some unemployed people said the loss of benefits might drive them to take minimum wage jobs to get by until they can find work at their skill level and in their field.
Richard Mattos, 59, of Salem, Ore., has been out of work since March, when he was laid off as a case manager at a social services organization. Without the unemployment income, Mattos said he and his wife will have enough money for one month's worth of bills. Almost every day, he visits employment centers run by the state of Oregon or Goodwill Industries International.
"I don't know what we're going to do," he said. "We could end up homeless because of this."
Since 2008, the federal program paid out benefits to the unemployed after their 26 weeks of state benefits ran out. At its peak, the program offered up to 73 weeks of federal benefits - which are typically offered during periods of high unemployment - to the long-term jobless.
James Sherk, a labor policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said ending the extensions could induce workers to take jobs they might have overlooked initially. Extended unemployment benefits can give workers "a false sense of how much time they have before they have to start broadening their net to less than ideal positions," he said, adding that the labor market, while not ideal, is stronger and continues to improve.
In November, the country's unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 7 percent, but is still above the 5 percent to 6 percent rate that would signal a normal job market. And long-term unemployment remains a problem for the economy as nearly 4.1 million Americans have been out of work for six months or more.
Deborah Barrett, a 57-year-old resident of Newport, R.I., is one of them. She was laid off from her management job in accounting in February and has sent out hundreds of resumes since. She said doesn't know how she'll get by without the federal assistance.
"It's petrifying," she said. "Unfortunately, I don't believe my story is very unique."
Laura Garay, 57, pawned her jewelry, withdrew retirement funds and relied on support from friends after losing her paralegal job in May, the same month she was diagnosed with lymphoma.
Her monthly $1,700 in unemployment covers her house payment in Westminster and the cost of maintaining her health insurance to cover a barrage of exams and radiation therapy.
Garay said her illness set back her job search, but as long as she's healthy, she'll work at just about anything to get back on her feet and avoid being jobless for too long.
"You don't find a job in two weeks, you don't find a job in three weeks," she said. "You find a job after months of searching."
Rugaber reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Jonathan J. Cooper in Salem, Ore. and Erika Niedowski in Providence, R.I. contributed to this report. | 2019-04-25T09:06:45 | https://www.staugustine.com/news/2013-12-29/high-stakes-us-families-losing-jobless-benefit |
0.999088 | Is there one item that symbolizes our industry? One totem that is recognized by both apprentice and master? Of course, it's the squeegee. Yet I have a question: How come this low-tech, inexpensive tool of the trade is so often mistreated and last in line for problem-solving in our industry? After all, by filling the mesh with ink and keeping the mesh in contact with the substrate, the squeegee plays a leading role in screen printing.
The answer to this question, I suspect, lies in our lack of knowledge about the characteristics and use of the squeegee. Hopefully, by the end of this article, you will have enough Information to choose the right squeegees for your work and enough expertise to troubleshoot squeegee-related production problems.
What's a Squeegee Made Of?
It's been almost a decade since black neoprene and brown buna-N squeegees were supplanted by color-coded, high-density polyurethane squeegees. High-density blades resist the corrosive effects of inks and solvents, while the color coding (indicating the blade hardness) is especially useful in shops that print with a variety of inks and substrates. For example, a blue bullnose for dark-garment printing is easy to distinguish from an orange square edge used for halftone printing.
Some squeegees are composed of more than one material. To prevent roll-over from excessive squeegee pressure, printers used to shim soft blades with strips of aluminum. Today, some squeegees are available with a stiff material (a fiberglass sheet or hard polyurethane) between two layers of softer polyurethane. This provides the more flexible printing edge of a softer blade, while reducing the blade deflection. Some composite squeegees also come with a rigid material in the top two-thirds of the blade, while the softer polyurethane is on the bottom to serve as the printing blade.
The durometer of a squeegee is the measure of its hardness, and a guide to the blade's ability to resist bending during printing. Squeegee durometers are measured on the Shore A scale, an industrial standard of 1-100 used to indicate the hardness of rubbery materials. The higher the durometer, the greater the blade rigidity. The lower the durometer, the more the blade will flex during printing. | 2019-04-24T15:00:30 | http://screenweb.com/content/the-squeegee-story |
0.999978 | When in a new city, first thing is first: must find the best Persian restaurant for that oh so frequent Persian kabob craving. Here in New York most would agree that Ravagh provides just that! Quality skewers of juicy meats with generous servings of rice and salad. But Kabob is not all that is offered at Ravagh there is also a wide range of stews and appetizers including my favorites: kashk badenjoon (smoked eggplant dish served with pita) and Gheimeh- tah deeg (Gheimeh lentil stew served over crispy rice). Best part: unlike other Iranian restaurants, Ravagh has moderate pricing for their dishes- which combined with their good Persian comfort food has led to their many years of success.
Favorites on my list: Kabobs- you can't go wrong with any of them but so far my favorites are the chicken koobideh, chicken strip kabob, the koobideh and the barg. As for appetizers the shallot yogurt (masteh musir) is a Must! And so are all the eggplant dishes. But then again everything else is good too. What can I say? I'm a big fan and a frequent visitor. | 2019-04-20T04:36:00 | http://hungrynomadeats.blogspot.com/2012/11/ravagh-persian-grill-murray-hill-new.html |
0.999294 | 1Combine first 4 ingredients and put in a 3 or 4 quart casserole dish. Add enough water just to barely cover kraut.
2Bake at 325 about 1-1/2 hours.
3Add kabosi and bake 1/2 hour more.
4Mix egg and milk together, then add flour. Drop by 1/2t into boiling salted water.
5Boil 10 minutes and then add to kraut and kabosi.
6Bake an additional 15 minutes and serve. | 2019-04-20T06:48:26 | http://www.sauerkrautrecipes.com/recipe/franks-kraut-dumplings-kabosi/ |
0.998601 | Two Republican senators have made the first known criminal referral from congressional investigations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, asking the Justice Department to determine whether former British spy Christopher Steele lied to the FBI.
Steele authored a dossier of allegations about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, a lengthy document including salacious, unsubstantiated charges that he cavorted with prostitutes in Moscow.
Lawmakers cannot prosecute criminal activity. But they generally refer any criminal violations they find to the Justice Department. The senators said Friday that part of their criminal referral is classified.
'Maybe there is some innocent explanation for the inconsistencies we have seen, but it seems unlikely. In any event, it's up to the Justice Department to figure that out,' he added.
The result, he insisted, was the need for a special counsel to review Steele's conduct.
Democrats were furious that the first criminal referral in what has become known as Russiagate targeted not Trump campaign officials but an investigator who sought to blow the whistle on them.
Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, complained that committee Republicans never consulted her about petitioning the Justice Department for action on Steele.
'It's clearly another effort to deflect attention from what should be the committee's top priority, determining whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the election and whether there was subsequent obstruction of justice,' she said.
So far two Trump aides, George Papadopoulos and Gen. Mike Flynn, have pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI as a result of the special counsel probe led by Robert Mueller.
Graham may have been referring to the two in suggesting on Friday that Steele should face the same legal standard.
'If the same actions have different outcomes, and those differences seem to correspond to partisan political interests, then the public will naturally suspect that law enforcement decisions are not on the up-and-up,' he said.
The murky Democratic political intelligence firm Fusion GPS contracted with Steele to produce the dossier after receiving payments from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, which used a law firm as a middle-man.
'Publicizing a criminal referral based on classified information raises serious questions about whether this letter is nothing more than another attempt to discredit government sources, in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation. We should all be skeptical in the extreme,' he said.
Fusion GPS hit back this week publicly at Republican investigators, asserting that the dossier was not the basis for the FBI's investigation of Donald Trump.
Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch penned an op-ed in The New York Times in which they blasted GOP lawmakers for focusing on them and their research, rather than on a skein of ties between Trump associates and Russia.
'We don't believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.'s investigation into Russian meddling,' they wrote.
Simpson and Fritsch confirmed their relationship with Steele as well.
'Yes, we hired Mr. Steele, a highly respected Russia expert. But we did so without informing him whom we were working for and gave him no specific marching orders beyond this basic question: Why did Mr. Trump repeatedly seek to do deals in a notoriously corrupt police state that most serious investors shun?' they insisted.
They say they have handed information over to Republican investigators.
'We handed over our relevant bank records — while drawing the line at a fishing expedition for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case,' they write.
They say they were shocked by what Steele uncovered, but never themselves went to the FBI.
'We did not discuss that decision with our clients, or anyone else. Instead, we deferred to Mr. Steele, a trusted friend and intelligence professional with a long history of fworking with law enforcement. We did not speak to the F.B.I. and haven't since,' they added.
The firm's cofounders said they 'helped' Steele when he decided to share the dossier with Arizona Sen. John McCain after the election. McCain subsequently brought the dossier to the FBI.
'The goal was to alert the United States national security community to an attack on our country by a hostile foreign power. We did not, however, share the dossier with BuzzFeed, which to our dismay published it last January,' they wrote. | 2019-04-23T03:01:36 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5240157/Senators-ask-Justice-Department-Trump-dossier-author.html |
0.999998 | I'm slowly working on an operating system, from machine code up. This doesn't mean I'll write everything in machine code, it just means I'm starting with machine code and plan to bootstrap from there.
The equivalent AT&T syntax assembly is commented on the right. What this program does in terms of assembly code is described in this article. I'm just going to explain here how I got the machine instructions.
I found out what the hex codes would be for the instructions by looking them up in the Intel Instruction Set Reference, A-M book. And by verifying by looking at the machine code generated by the assembly language equivalent program.
The part of a machine code that determines what the instruction actually does is called the opcode. In this case the opcode is b8, which moves a specified 16-bit value (called an immediate value) into a register. Now notice that b8 doesn't say which register to move the value into. Which register is determined by adding a number to b8. Add 0 for the ax register, 1 for the cx register, 2 for the dx register and so on. In this case b8 + 0 equals b8, so that's the opcode.
The instruction \x8e\xd8 moves the value in the ax register into the data segment register (ds). But how does this instruction specify these two registers? The first byte 8e is the opcode for moving a 16-bit value from a general purpose register or memory location into a segment register. The second byte specifies which register or memory location to move the value to which register. The first 5 bits specify the general purpose register or memory location, the last 3 bits specify which segment register. In the Intel Instruction Set Reference book A-M there are tables that map the registers and addressing modes to hex numbers, and vice-versa.
The instruction \xc6\x06\x00\x00\x43 puts the ASCII value for A in memory address 0 (indexed off the data segment register). c6 is part of an opcode that indicates that an 8-bit immediate value will be place in a register or memory location. 06 indicates that the immediate value will be placed in a memory location specified by the next two bytes. 43 is the hex value for A.
The \xeb\xfe instruction jumps execution to two bytes ago. And two bytes ago is \xeb\xfe. So this is a jump that immediately jumps to itself. eb is a relative jump. It indicates that the next byte says how many bytes to jump forward or backward. In decimal the hex number fe is 254. This would seem to indicate that the code should jump 254 bytes forward in memory. However, since the CPU uses the two's complement system, numbers over 127 are negative numbers. 254 is -2. | 2019-04-23T20:40:51 | http://nickmudge.info/index.php?month=200810 |
0.999998 | How can I use the QuickStats page?
After you have sent a broadcast, you can check back in later to analyze its performance. Here, you will be able to see who is interacting with your message, what those people are doing with it, and even how much revenue the message generated directly.
First, make sure you're working under the Broadcast page. To access this section, hover over the "Messages" tab and click "Broadcasts".
Once here, locate the "Sent" area located towards the bottom portion of the page. Then, click "View Stats" for the broadcast message in question. This will direct you to the QuickStats summary page of your message.
At the top of the page is an overview of your broadcast, showing the time it was sent, the lists it was sent to, how many bounces (undeliverable subscribers) there were, and the percentage of the list that complained your message was spam (try to keep this below 0.10%).
The next area of the page consists of a large graph which can display different information about your broadcast. To change what is shown on the graph, simply click the appropriate button on the left.
At the top of the list is the "Opens" button, which will display a graph of how many times your message was opened over time.
"Clicks" will show how many times the links in your message was clicked each day.
"Sales" will bring up how much revenue was generated each day by the message (i.e. people who read the message, then clicked a link in the broadcast and purchased a product), as long as you have sales tracking set up for your account.
"Web Hits" shows how many pages on your website were visited by people who clicked through links in your messages, as long as you have set up AWeber's web analytics on your site. After clicking "Web Hits", you can simply scroll down beneath the graph to see which pages were visited most frequently.
"Unsubscribes" will display a graph of how many people unsubscribed from your list using the unsubscribe link in that broadcast - scroll down to see the specifics.
"Domains" create a pie chart illustrating what ISPs (i.e. yahoo.com, gmail.com) your subscribers are using.
One way to this information to work for you is to create segments, allowing you to send broadcasts to specific groups of subscribers. The "Broadcast QuickStats Summary" page allows you to quickly see how well your broadcast performed.
At the "Manage Subscribers" section of your list, you can create segments of subscribers who opened your message/did not open your message, clicked your link/did not click your link, or purchased from you (using AWeber's "Sales Tracking").
If you set up any automations, they will show here. Automations based on opens and link clicks along with the corresponding tags for each.
You are also provided the option in the "Broadcast QuickStats Summary" to export your broadcast's data. Click the "Download to Excel" button to process this.
If you want to change whether or not your message is stored in your broadcast archive, you can do so by simply clicking the "ON/OFF" button next to the "Broadcast Archive Links" section of the page.
Under this section, you will see displayed the Social Media pages you've shared the broadcast on. This information would be the Facebook page and/or Twitter page you've shared the broadcast to. If neither social media page was selected at the time of the broadcast sending, no pages would be displayed.
At the bottom of the page are the last last two buttons. To see the message you sent, simply click "Review Sent Message." To copy the message and resend it, click "Copy Message."
How do I set up Sales Tracking?
What reports are available for my lists?
How can I set the value of my sales dynamically with Sales Tracking? | 2019-04-20T00:40:59 | https://help.aweber.com/hc/en-us/articles/204029806-How-can-I-use-the-QuickStats-page- |
0.999897 | After respondent was indicted for armed robbery of a bank, and while he was in jail pending trial, Government agents contacted an informant who was then an inmate confined in the same cellblock as respondent. An agent instructed the informant to be alert to any statements made by federal prisoners but not to initiate conversations with or question respondent regarding the charges against him. After the informant had been released from jail, he reported to the agent that he and respondent had engaged in conversation and that respondent made incriminating statements about the robbery. The informant was paid for furnishing the information. At respondent's trial, which resulted in a conviction, the informant testified about the incriminating statements that respondent had made to him. Respondent moved to vacate his sentence on the ground that the introduction of the informant's testimony interfered with and violated his Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel. The District Court denied the motion, but the Court of Appeals reversed, holding that the Government's actions impaired respondent's Sixth Amendment rights under Massiah v. United States, 377 U. S. 201.
Held: Respondent's statements to the informant should not have been admitted at trial. By intentionally creating a situation likely to induce respondent to make incriminating statements without the assistance of counsel, the Government violated respondent's Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Under the facts -- particularly the facts that the informant was acting under instructions as a paid informant for the Government while ostensibly no more than a fellow inmate, and that respondent was in custody and under indictment at the time -- incriminating statements were "deliberately elicited" from respondent within the meaning of Massiah. Since respondent was unaware that the informant was acting for the Government, he cannot be held to have waived his right to the assistance of counsel. Pp. 447 U. S. 269-275.
opinion, in which WHITE, J., joined, post, p. 447 U. S. 277. REHNQUIST, J., filed dissenting opinion, post, p. 447 U. S. 289.
We granted certiorari to consider whether respondent's Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel was violated by the admission at trial of incriminating statements made by respondent to his cellmate, an undisclosed Government informant, after indictment and while in custody. 444 U.S. 824 (1979).
The Janaf Branch of the United Virginia Bank/Seaboard National in Norfolk, Va., was robbed in August, 1972. Witnesses saw two men wearing masks and carrying guns enter the bank while a third man waited in the car. No witnesses were able to identify respondent Henry as one of the participants. About an hour after the robbery, the getaway car was discovered. Inside was found a rent receipt signed by one "Allen R. Norris" and a lease, also signed by Norris, for a house in Norfolk. Two men, who were subsequently convicted of participating in the robbery, were arrested at the rented house. Discovered with them were the proceeds of the robbery and the guns and masks used by the gunmen.
armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a) and (d). He was held pending trial in the Norfolk city jail. Counsel was appointed on November 27.
Nichols informed the agent that he was housed in the same cellblock with several federal prisoners awaiting trial, including Henry. The agent told him to be alert to any statements made by the federal prisoners, but not to initiate any conversation with or question Henry regarding the bank robbery. In early December, after Nichols had been released from jail, the agent again contacted Nichols, who reported that he and Henry had engaged in conversation, and that Henry had told him about the robbery of the Janaf bank. [Footnote 2] Nichols was paid for furnishing the information.
Federal Bureau of Investigation testified concerning the events surrounding the discovery of the rental slip and the evidence uncovered at the rented house. Other witnesses also connected Henry to the rented house, including the rental agent, who positively identified Henry as the "Allen R. Norris" who had rented the house and had taken the rental receipt described earlier. A neighbor testified that, prior to the robbery, she saw Henry at the rented house with John Luck, one of the two men who had by the time of Henry's trial been convicted for the robbery. In addition, palm prints found on the lease agreement matched those of Henry.
Nichols testified at trial that he had "an opportunity to have some conversations with Mr. Henry while he was in the jail," and that Henry told him that, on several occasions, he had gone to the Janaf Branch to see which employees opened the vault. Nichols also testified that Henry described to him the details of the robbery and stated that the only evidence connecting him to the robbery was the rental receipt. The jury was not informed that Nichols was a paid Government informant.
On the basis of this testimony, [Footnote 3] Henry was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 25 years. On appeal, he raised no Sixth Amendment claims. His conviction was affirmed, judgt. order reported at 483 F.2d 1401 (CA4 1973), and his petition to this Court for a writ of certiorari was denied. 421 U.S. 915 (1975).
he had just learned that Nichols was a paid Government informant and alleged that he had been intentionally placed in the same cell with Nichols so that Nichols could secure information about the robbery. Thus, Henry contended that the introduction of Nichols' testimony violated his Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel. The District Court denied the motion without a hearing. The Court of Appeals, however, reversed and remanded for an evidentiary inquiry into "whether the witness [Nichols] was acting as a government agent during his interviews with Henry."
"I recall telling Nichols at this time to be alert to any statements made by these individuals [the federal prisoners] regarding the charges against them. I specifically recall telling Nichols that he was not to question Henry or these individuals about the charges against them, however, if they engaged him in conversation or talked in front of him, he was requested to pay attention to their statements. I recall telling Nichols not to initiate any conversations with Henry regarding the bank robbery charges against Henry, but that, if Henry initiated the conversations with Nichols, I requested Nichols to pay attention to the information furnished by Henry."
The agent's affidavit also stated that he never requested anyone affiliated with the Norfolk city jail to place Nichols in the same cell with Henry.
Sixth Amendment right to counsel. The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded, holding that the actions of the Government impaired the Sixth Amendment rights of the defendant under Massiah v. United States, 377 U. S. 201 (1964). The court noted that Nichols had engaged in conversation with Henry and concluded that, if by association, by general conversation, or both, Nichols had developed a relationship of trust and confidence with Henry such that Henry revealed incriminating information, this constituted interference with the right to the assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment. [Footnote 5] 590 F.2d 544 (1978).
"the basic protections of [the Sixth Amendment] when there was used against him at his trial evidence of his own incriminating words, which federal agents had deliberately elicited from him."
Id. at 377 U. S. 206. The Massiah holding rests squarely on interference with his right to counsel.
The question here is whether, under the facts of this case, a Government agent "deliberately elicited" incriminating statements from Henry within the meaning of Massiah. Three factors are important. First, Nichols was acting under instructions as a paid informant for the Government; second, Nichols was ostensibly no more than a fellow inmate of Henry; and third, Henry was in custody and under indictment at the time he was engaged in conversation by Nichols.
This combination of circumstances is sufficient to support the Court of Appeals' determination. Even if the agent's statement that he did not intend that Nichols would take affirmative steps to secure incriminating information is accepted, he must have known that such propinquity likely would lead to that result.
It is quite a different matter when the Government uses undercover agents to obtain incriminating statements from persons not in custody but suspected of criminal activity prior to the time charges are filed. In Hoffa v. United States, 385 U. S. 293, 385 U. S. 302 (1966), for example, this Court held that "no interest legitimately protected by the Fourth Amendment is involved" because "the Fourth Amendment [does not protect] a wrongdoer's misplaced belief that a person to whom he voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it." See also United States v. White, 401 U. S. 745 (1971). Similarly, the Fifth Amendment has been held not to be implicated by the use of undercover Government agents before charges are filed, because of the absence of the potential for compulsion. See Hoffa v. United States, supra at 385 U. S. 303-304. But the Fourth and Fifth Amendment claims made in those cases are not relevant to the inquiry under the Sixth Amendment here -- whether the Government has interfered with the right to counsel of the accused by "deliberately eliciting" incriminating statements. Our holding today does not modify White or Hoffa.
Sixth Amendment where the accused is prompted by an undisclosed undercover informant than where the accused is speaking in the hearing of persons he knows to be Government officers. That line of argument, however, seeks to infuse Fifth Amendment concerns against compelled self-incrimination into the Sixth Amendment protection of the right to the assistance of counsel. An accused speaking to a known Government agent is typically aware that his statements may be used against him. The adversary positions at that stage are well established; the parties are then "arm's length" adversaries.
When the accused is in the company of a fellow inmate who is acting by prearrangement as a Government agent, the same cannot be said. Conversation stimulated in such circumstances may elicit information that an accused would not intentionally reveal to persons known to be Government agents. Indeed, the Massiah Court noted that, if the Sixth Amendment "is to have any efficacy, it must apply to indirect and surreptitious interrogations, as well as those conducted in the jailhouse." The Court pointedly observed that Massiah was more seriously imposed upon because he did not know that his codefendant was a Government agent. 377 U.S. at 377 U. S. 206.
Moreover, the concept of a knowing and voluntary waiver of Sixth Amendment rights does not apply in the context of communications with an undisclosed undercover informant acting for the Government. See Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U. S. 458 (1938). In that setting, Henry, being unaware that Nichols was a Government agent expressly commissioned to secure evidence, cannot be held to have waived his right to the assistance of counsel.
The record does disclose that, on November 21, 1972, the same day the agent contacted Nichols, the agent's supervisor interrogated Henry at the jail. After denying participation in the robbery, Henry exercised his right to terminate the interview.
Henry also asked Nichols if he would help him once Nichols was released. Henry requested Nichols to go to Virginia Beach and contact a woman there. He prepared instructions on how to find the woman and wanted Nichols to tell her to visit Henry in the Norfolk jail. He explained that he wanted to ask the woman to carry a message to his partner, who was incarcerated in the Portsmouth city jail. Henry also gave Nichols a telephone number and asked him to contact an individual named "Junior" or "Nail." In addition, Henry asked Nichols to provide him with a floor plan of the United States Marshals' office and a handcuff key because Henry intended to attempt an escape.
Joseph Sadler, another of Henry's cellmates, also testified at trial. He stated that Henry had told him that Henry had robbed a bank with a man named "Lucky" or "Luck." Sadler testified that, on advice of counsel, he informed Government agents of the conversation with Henry. Sadler was not a paid informant, and had no arrangement to monitor or report on conversations with Henry.
In his § 2255 petition, Henry also alleged that Sadler's testimony was perjurious; that the Government failed to disclose Brady material, see Brady v. Maryland, 373 U. S. 83 (1963); that the United States Attorney's argument to the jury was impermissibly prejudicial; and that his trial counsel was incompetent. The District Court rejected each of these grounds, and none of these issues is before this Court.
The Court of Appeals acknowledged that the testimony of Sadler, another cellmate of Henry, supported the conviction, but was not willing to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Nichols' testimony did not influence the jury. Chapman v. California, 386 U. S. 18, 386 U. S. 24 (1967).
Although both the Government, and MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST in dissent, question the continuing vitality of the Massiah branch of the Sixth Amendment, we reject their invitation to reconsider it.
The affidavit of the agent discloses that "Nichols had been paid by the FBI for expenses and services in connection with information he had provided" as an informant for at least a year. The only reasonable inference from this statement is that Nichols was paid when he produced information, not that Nichols was continuously on the payroll of the FBI. Here, the service requested of Nichols was that he obtain incriminating information from Henry; there is no indication that Nichols would have been paid if he had not performed the requested service.
Two aspects of the agent's affidavit are particularly significant. First, it is clear that the agent, in his discussions with Nichols, singled out Henry as the inmate in whom the agent had a special interest. Thus, the affidavit relates that "I specifically recall telling Nichols that he was not to question Henry or these individuals," and "I recall telling Nichols not to initiate any conversations with Henry regarding the bank robbery charges," but to "pay attention to the information furnished by Henry." (Emphasis added.) Second, the agent only instructed Nichols not to question Henry or to initiate conversations regarding the bank robbery charges. Under these instructions, Nichols remained free to discharge his task of eliciting the statements in myriad less direct ways.
The situation where the "listening post" is an inanimate electronic device differs; such a device has no capability of leading the conversation into any particular subject or prompting any particular replies. See, e.g., United States v. Hearst, 563 F.2d 1331, 1347-1348 (CA9 1977), cert. denied, 435 U. S. 1000 (1978). However, that situation is not presented in this case, and there is no occasion to treat it; nor are we called upon to pass on the situation where an informant is placed in close proximity but makes no effort to stimulate conversations about the crime charged.
No doubt the role of the agent at the time of the conversations between Massiah and his codefendant was more active than that of the federal agents here. Yet the additional fact in Massiah that the agent was monitoring the conversations is hardly determinative. In both Massiah and this case, the informant was charged with the task of obtaining information from an accused. Whether Massiah's codefendant questioned Massiah about the crime or merely engaged in general conversation about it was a matter of no concern to the Massiah Court. Moreover, we deem it irrelevant that, in Massiah, the agent had to arrange the meeting between Massiah and his codefendant, while here the agents were fortunate enough to have an undercover informant already in close proximity to the accused.
This is not to read a "custody" requirement, which is a prerequisite to the attachment of Miranda rights, into this branch of the Sixth Amendment. Massiah was in no sense in custody at the time of his conversation with his codefendant. Rather, we believe the fact of custody bears on whether the Government "deliberately elicited" the incriminating statements from Henry.
This is admittedly not a case, such as Massiah, where the informant and the accused had a prior longstanding relationship. Nevertheless, there is ample evidence in the record which discloses that Nichols had managed to become more than a casual jailhouse acquaintance. That Henry could be induced to discuss his past crime is hardly surprising in view of the fact that Nichols had so ingratiated himself that Henry actively solicited his aid in executing his next crime -- his planned attempt to escape from the jail.
The holding of the Court of Appeals that this was not harmless error is on less firm grounds in view of the strong evidence against Henry, including the testimony of a neutral fellow inmate, Henry's rental of the hideaway house, and his presence there with the other participants in the robbery before the crime. The Government, however, has not argued that the error was harmless, and, on balance, we are not inclined to disturb the determination of the Court of Appeals.
"(A) During the course of his representation of a client a lawyer shall not:"
"(1) Communicate or cause another to communicate on the subject of the representation with a party he knows to be represented by a lawyer in that matter unless he has the prior consent of the lawyer representing such other party or is authorized by law to do so."
See also Ethical Consideration 7-18.
The question in this case is whether the Government deliberately elicited information from respondent in violation of the rule of Massiah v. United States, 377 U. S. 201 (1964), and Brewer v. Williams, 430 U. S. 387 (1977). I join the opinion of the Court, but write separately to state my understanding of the Court's holding.
377 U. S. 206. Government agents outfitted an informant's automobile with radio transmitting equipment and instructed the informant to engage the defendant in conversation relating to the crimes. United States v. Massiah, 307 F.2d 62, 72 (CA2 1962) (Hays, J., dissenting). In suppressing statements overheard during the resulting conversation, the Court emphasized that the Sixth Amendment must "apply to indirect and surreptitious interrogations as well as those conducted in the jailhouse. . . .'" 377 U.S. at 377 U. S. 206, quoting 307 F.2d at 72 (Hays, J., dissenting). Similarly, in Brewer v. Williams, supra, we applied Massiah to a situation in which a police detective purposefully isolated a suspect from his lawyers and, during a long ride in a police car, elicited incriminating remarks from the defendant through skillful interrogation. We suppressed the statement because the government "deliberately and designedly set out to elicit" information from a suspect. 430 U.S. at 430 U. S. 399; see id. at 430 U. S. 407 (MARSHALL, J., concurring); id. at 430 U. S. 412 (POWELL, J., concurring).
The rule of Massiah serves the salutary purpose of preventing police interference with the relationship between a suspect and his counsel once formal proceedings have been initiated. But Massiah does not prohibit the introduction of spontaneous statements that are not elicited by governmental action. Thus, the Sixth Amendment is not violated when a passive listening device collects, but does not induce, incriminating comments. See United States v. Hearst, 563 F.2d 1331, 1347-1348 (CA9 1977), cert. denied, 435 U. S. 1000 (1978). Similarly, the mere presence of a jailhouse informant who had been instructed to overhear conversations and to engage a criminal defendant in some conversations would not necessarily be unconstitutional. In such a case, the question would be whether the informant's actions constituted deliberate and "surreptitious interrogatio[n]" of the defendant. If they did not, then there would be no interference with the relationship between client and counsel.
I view this as a close and difficult case on its facts because no evidentiary hearing has been held on theMassiah claim. Normally, such a hearing is helpful to a reviewing court and should be conducted. On balance, however, I accept the view of the Court of Appeals and of the Court that the record adequately demonstrates the existence of a Massiah violation. I could not join the Court's opinion if it held that the mere presence or incidental conversation of an informant in a jail cell would violate Massiah. * To demonstrate an infringement of the Sixth Amendment, a defendant must show that the government engaged in conduct that, considering all of the circumstances, is the functional equivalent of interrogation. See Brewer v. Williams, 430 U.S. at 430 U. S. 399; id. at 430 U. S. 411, 430 U. S. 412 (POWELL, J., concurring). See also Rhode Island v. Innis, 446 U. S. 291 (1980).
Because I understand that the decision today rests on a conclusion that this informant deliberately elicited incriminating information by such conduct, I join the opinion of the Court.
* By reserving the question whether the mere presence of an informant in a jail cell violates Massiah, the Court demonstrates that its holding is not premised upon such a theory. Ante at 447 U. S. 269, n. 6.
MR JUSTICE BLACKMUN, with whom MR. JUSTICE WHITE joins, dissenting.
In this case, the Court, I fear, cuts loose from the moorings of Massiah v. United States, 377 U. S. 201 (1964), [Footnote 2/1] and overlooks or misapplies significant facts to reach a result that is not required by the Sixth Amendment, by established precedent, or by sound policy.
judges then on that court dissented from the denial of rehearing en banc. And MR. JUSTICE POWELL, in his separate concurring opinion, obviously is less than comfortable, finds the case "close and difficult," ante at 447 U. S. 277, and writes to assure that his concurring vote preserves his contrary posture when the Court will be confronted with only "the mere presence or incidental conversation of an informant in a jail cell." Ibid. This division of opinion about this case attests to the importance of correct factual analysis here.
Because I view the principles of Massiah and the facts of this case differently than the Court does, I dissent.
Massiah mandates exclusion only if a federal agent "deliberately elicited" statements from the accused in the absence of counsel. 377 U.S. at 377 U. S. 206. The word "deliberately" denotes intent. Massiah ties this intent to the act of elicitation, that is, to conduct that draws forth a response. Thus Massiah, by its own terms, covers only action undertaken with the specific intent to evoke an inculpatory disclosure.
case of "intentionally creating a situation likely to induce Henry to make incriminating statements." Ante at 447 U. S. 274. (Emphasis added.) This determination, coupled with the statement that Nichols "prompted" respondent Henry's remarks, ante at 447 U. S. 273, and see ante at 447 U. S. 271 n. 9, leads the Court to find a Massiah violation.
Thus, while claiming to retain the "deliberately elicited" test, the Court really forges a new test that saps the word "deliberately" of all significance. The Court's extension of Massiah would cover even a "negligent" triggering of events resulting in reception of disclosures. This approach, in my view, is unsupported and unwise.
A. Authority. The Court's precedents appear to me to be contrary to this new objective approach. Spano v. New York, 360 U. S. 315 (1959), whose concurring opinions presaged Massiah, see 377 U.S. at 377 U. S. 204, concerned an "all-night inquisition" during which the defendant "repeatedly asked to be allowed to send for his lawyer." 360 U.S. at 360 U. S. 327 (concurring opinion). Obviously, that case involved deliberate efforts to extract information in the absence of counsel. In Massiah itself, the agent engineered a pretrial meeting between the accused and a turncoat codefendant. The agent instructed the latter to talk to the defendant about the crime, see United States v. Massiah, 307 F.2d 62, 66 (CA2 1962); id. at 72 (dissenting opinion), and he bugged the meeting place so he could listen in. [Footnote 2/2] United States v. Ash, 413 U. S. 300 (1973), by emphasizing that Massiah involved a "ruse" and that Massiah's purpose was to neutralize "the overreaching of the prosecution," id. at 413 U. S. 312, reinforced the view that deliberate elicitation entails purposeful police action.
"[t]here can be no serious doubt . . . that Detective Leaming deliberately and designedly set out to elicit information from Williams,' and because, in giving his 'Christian burial speech,' Leaming 'purposely sought . . . to obtain as much incriminating information as possible."
The unifying theme of Massiah cases, then, is the presence of deliberate, designed, and purposeful tactics, that is, the agent's use of an investigatory tool with the specific intent of extracting information in the absence of counsel. Thus, the Court's "likely to induce" test fundamentally restructures Massiah. Even if the agent engages in no "overreaching," and believes his actions to be wholly innocent and passive, evidence he comes by must be excluded if a court, with the convenient benefit of 20/20 hindsight, finds it likely that the agent's actions would induce the statements.
a situation "likely to induce" the production of incriminatory remarks, and that the informant in fact "prompted" the defendant. Even accepting the most capacious reading of both this language and the facts, I believe that neither prong of the Court's test is satisfied.
if he breached his promise; yet the Court asks us to infer that Coughlin's conversation with Nichols "likely would lead" Nichols to engage in the very conduct which Coughlin told him to avoid. Ante at 447 U. S. 271.
The Court also emphasizes that Henry was "unaware that Nichols was a Government agent." Ante at 447 U. S. 273. One might properly assign this factor some importance, were it not for Brewer v. Williams. In that case, the Court explicitly held that the fact "[t]hat the incriminating statements were elicited surreptitiously in the Massiah case, and otherwise here, is constitutionally irrelevant." 430 U.S. at 430 U. S. 400. (Emphasis added.) The Court's teeter-tottering with this factor in Massiah analysis can only induce confusion.
It merits emphasis that the Court's resurrection of the unawareness factor is indispensable to its holding. For, in Brewer, substantial contact and conversation with a confined defendant preceded delivery of the "Christian burial speech." Yet the Court clearly deemed the speech critical in finding a Massiah violation; it thus made clear that mere "association" and "general conversation" did not suffice to bring Massiah into play. Since nothing more transpired here, principled application of Brewer mandates reversal of the judgment in this case.
Finally, the Court notes that Henry was incarcerated when he made his statements to Nichols. The Court's emphasis of the "subtle influences" exerted by custody, however, is itself too subtle for me. This is not a case of a custodial encounter with police, in which the Government's display of power might overcome the free will of the accused. The relationship here was "social" and relaxed. Henry did not suspect that Nichols was connected with the FBI. Moreover, even assuming that "subtle influences" might encourage a detainee to talk about his crime, there are certainly counterbalances of at least equal weight. Since, in jail, "official surveillance has traditionally been the order of the day,"
Lanza v. New York, 370 U. S. 139, 370 U. S. 143 (1962), and a jailmate has obvious incentives to assist authorities, one may expect a detainee to act with corresponding circumspection. Cf. Rhode Island v. Innis, 446 U.S. at 446 U. S. 300, n. 4 ("Custody in . . . a [Massiah] case is not controlling; indeed, the petitioner in Massiah was not in custody").
which officers singled out a specific target. On these facts, I cannot agree that Coughlin "must have known that [it was] likely" that Nichols would seek to elicit information from Henry.
"[t]here is nothing in the record to suggest that . . . the [defendant] was peculiarly susceptible to approaches by cellmates or that [he] . . . was unusually disoriented or upset."
Rhode Island v. Innis, 446 U.S. at 446 U. S. 302-303. On these facts, it seems to me extremely unlikely that Coughlin's actions would lead to Henry's statements.
Even though the test forged by the Court has no precedent, we are not without some assistance in judging its application. Just a few weeks ago, in Rhode Island v. Innis, the Court held that Miranda was implicated only by "words or actions on the part of police officers that they should have known were reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response."
446 U.S. at 446 U. S. 302 (emphasis deleted and added). Here, the Court asks whether agents "creat[ed] a situation likely to induce Henry to make incriminating statements." Ante at 447 U. S. 274. Although the Court in Innis emphasized that the Massiah and Miranda rules are distinct, 446 U.S. at 446 U. S. 300, n. 4, I have some difficulty in identifying a material difference between these formulations. Since the Court found its test not satisfied in Innis, it should follow that Henry's statements may be excluded only if there was greater reason in this case than in Innis to expect incriminatory disclosures. The case for finding that disclosures were "likely," however, was clearly stronger in Innis. There, the defendant had just been arrested at 4:30 a.m.; he was handcuffed and confined in a "caged wagon"; and the three police officers accompanying him triggered his confession by conversing about the danger that a "little girl" attending a nearby school for the handicapped would "maybe kill herself" upon finding a gun he supposedly had hidden. Id. at 446 U. S. 293-295. Against the backdrop of Innis, I cannot fathom how the Court can conclude that Coughlin's actions rendered Henry's disclosures "likely."
conversations with Mr. Henry while he was in the jail.'" Ante at 447 U. S. 267. "Henry had engaged [Nichols] in conversation," "had requested Nichols' assistance," and "had talked to Nichols about the bank robbery charges against him." App. to Pet. for Cert. 58a. Thus, we know only that Nichols and Henry had conversations, hardly a startling development, given their location in the same cellblock in a city jail. We know nothing about the nature of these conversations, particularly whether Nichols subtly or otherwise focused attention on the bank robberies. Indeed, to the extent the record says anything at all, it supports the inference that it was Henry, not Nichols, who "engaged" the other "in some conversations," and who was the moving force behind any mention of the crime. I cannot believe that Massiah requires exclusion when a cellmate previously unknown to the defendant and asked only to keep his ears open says: "It's a nice day," and the defendant responds: "It would be nicer if I hadn't robbed that bank." The Court of Appeals, however, found it necessary to swallow that bitter pill in order to decide this case the way it did, and this Court does not show that anything more transpired.
to be released was a logical choice to serve as a go-between. The Court, however, seems unconcerned that some of Henry's statements were "spontaneously given." 590 F.2d 544 549 (CA4 1978) (dissenting opinion). It emphasizes that "[i]n Massiah, no inquiry was made as to whether Massiah or his codefendant first raised the subject of the crime under investigation." Ante at 447 U. S. 271-272. This observation trivializes the central facts of Massiah, in which an agent arranged a bugged meeting between codefendants who shared a natural interest in their pending prosecution, and in which the informant was instructed to, and did, converse about the pair's misdeeds.
In sum, I think this is an unfortunate decision, which disregards precedent and stretches to the breaking point a virtually silent record. Whatever the bounds of Massiah, that case does not justify exclusion of the proof challenged here.
For purposes of this case, I see no need to abandon Massiah v. United States, as MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST does.
The planted bug, of course, not only underscored the agent's deliberate design to obtain incriminating information. By permitting the agent to monitor whether the codefendant informant abided by his agreement, it all but ensured that affirmative elicitation in fact would occur.
It is noteworthy that the phrase "deliberately elicited" appears at least three times in the Massiah opinion. See 377 U.S. at 377 U. S. 204, 377 U. S. 206.
"Few, if any, police officers are competent to make the kind of evaluation seemingly contemplated; even a psychiatrist asked to express an expert opinion on these aspects of a suspect in custody would very likely employ extensive questioning and observation to make the judgment now charged to police officers."
Rhode Island v. Innis, 446 U. S. 291, 446 U. S. 304 (1980) (opinion concurring in judgment).
"Massiah serves the salutary purpose of preventing police interference with the relationship between a suspect and his counsel once formal proceedings have been initiated."
I fail to see any greater "interference" on the facts of this case than in a case where an inmate is permitted to have a conversation with a trusted visitor, but with an electronic listening device in place, a practice MR. .JUSTICE POWELL finds unobjectionable. Ibid. Indeed, bugging might be said to present an even stronger case for finding "deliberate elicitation." There is, after all, a likelihood that the inmate will place added confidence in a relative or longtime friend who visits him. Nichols, in contrast, had not known Henry previously. Moreover, with bugging, a defendant cannot know what he is dealing with. He lacks the ability intelligently to gauge the probability that his confidences will be "reported" back to government agents. See Wilson v. Henderson, 584 F.2d 1185, 1191 (CA2 1978), cert. denied, 442 U.S. 945 (1979).
Rejection of an objective test in this context is not inconsistent with Rhode Island v. Innis, supra, since "the policies underlying the two constitutional protections [Fifth and Sixth Amendments] are quite distinct." 446 U.S. at 446 U. S. 300, n. 4. Miranda's "prophylactic rule," see Michigan v. Payne, 412 U. S. 47, 412 U. S. 53 (1973), seeks to protect a suspect's privilege against self-incrimination from "the compulsion inherent in custodial surroundings" when "interrogation" occurs. Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, 384 U. S. 458 (1966). Thus, in Miranda cases, the degree of compulsion is critical. Beyond an objectively defined "pressure point," statements will be deemed presumedly compelled, and therefore properly excluded, absent the countercoercive effect of Miranda warnings. See id. at 384 U. S. 467. Massiah, in contrast to Miranda, is not rooted in the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Rather, it is expressly designed to counter "deliberat[e]" interference with an indicted suspect's right to counsel. By focusing on deliberateness, Massiah imposes the exclusionary sanction on that conduct that is most culpable, most likely to frustrate the purpose of having counsel, and most susceptible to being checked by a deterrent. Cf. Brown v. Illinois, 422 U. S. 590, 422 U. S. 604 (1975).
The Court also notes that Henry, being located in the same cellblock as Nichols, was accessible to the informant. It nonetheless totally ignores the fact that the investigating agent had nothing to do with placing Henry and Nichols in the same cellblock. Indeed, the record shows that Coughlin did not confer with Nichols initially with the purpose of obtaining evidence about Henry; rather, the agent's affidavit indicates t.hat he was unaware that Nichols and Henry were in the same cellblock until Nichols informed him. App. to Pet. for Cert. 57a-58a.
The record shows that Nichols "had been paid by the FBI for expenses and services in connection with information he had provided on . . . previous occasions," id. at 57a, and that "Nichols was paid by the FBI for expenses and services in connection with the [investigation] of Henry." Id. at 59a. These facts establish, at most, an amorphous course of dealing, emanating from an unspecified number of previous investigations. They do not show that Nichols previously was paid only when he produced information. There can be no assurance that Nichols would not have been paid had he failed to come up with evidence implicating Henry or other federal defendants. Nor is there anything to indicate that Nichols acted on this assumption.
"Nichols advised that he was in the same cellblock, as Billy Gale Henry as well as with other prisoners who had Federal charges against them. I recall telling Nichols at this time to be alert to any statements made by these individuals regarding the charges against them. I specifically recall telling Nichols that he was not to question Henry or these individuals about the charges against them, however, if they engaged him in conversation or talked in front of him, he was requested to pay attention to their statements. I recall telling Nichols not to initiate any conversations with Henry regarding the bank robbery charges against Henry, but that, if Henry initiated the conversations with Nichols, I requested Nichols to pay attention to the information furnished by Henry."
App. to Pet. for Cert. 58a (emphases added). Since the affidavit containing this statement was submitted in Henry's case, it is neither surprising nor significant that it occasionally refers to Henry by name, while not referring specifically to remarks Coughlin might have made about other detainees. The Court's reading of this passage as establishing that "the agent . . . singled out Henry as the inmate in whom the agent had a special interest" seems to me extraordinary.
Indeed, here, unlike the scenario sketched by MR. JUSTICE POWELL, there was no instruction "to engage . . . in some conversations." It would seem that, a fortiori, Henry's statements should not be excluded.
has been a Massiah violation, ante at 447 U. S. 270, I think that Massiah constitutes such a substantial departure from the traditional concerns that underlie the Sixth Amendment guarantee that its language, if not its actual holding, should be reexamined.
"It is only a sterile syllogism -- an unsound one, besides -- to say that, because [the accused] had a right to counsel's aid before and during the trial, his out-of-court conversations and admissions must be excluded if obtained without counsel's consent or presence. The right to counsel has never meant as much before, Cicenia v. Lagay, 357 U. S. 504; Crooker v. California, 357 U. S. 433, and its extension in this case requires some further explanation, so far unarticulated by the Court."
"is not discharged by an assignment at such time or under such circumstances as to preclude the giving of effective aid in the preparation and trial of the case,"
heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law. If charged with crime, he is incapable, generally, of determining for himself whether the indictment is good or bad. He is unfamiliar with the rules of evidence. Left without the aid of counsel, he may be put on trial without a proper charge, and convicted upon incompetent evidence, or evidence irrelevant to the issue or otherwise inadmissible. He lacks both the skill and knowledge adequately to prepare his defense, even though he have a perfect one. He requires the guiding hand of counsel every step in the proceedings against him. Without it, though he be not guilty, he faces the danger of conviction because he does not know how to establish his innocence. If that be true of men of intelligence, how much more true is it of the ignorant and illiterate, or those of feeble intellect."
information voluntarily obtained from an accused despite the fact that his counsel may not be present. In such circumstances, the accused, at the least, has been informed of his rights as required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436 (1966), and often will have received advice from his counsel not to disclose any information relating to his case, see, e.g., Brewer v. Williams, 430 U. S. 387 (1977).
Once the accused has been made aware of his rights, it is his responsibility to decide whether or not to exercise them. If he voluntarily relinquishes his rights by talking to authorities, or if he decides to disclose incriminating information to someone whom he mistakenly believes will not report it to the authorities, cf. Hoffa v. United States, 385 U. S. 293 (1966), he is normally accountable for his actions and must bear any adverse consequences that result. Such information has not in any sense been obtained because the accused's will has been overborne, nor does it result from any "unfair advantage" that the State has over the accused: the accused is free to keep quiet and to consult with his attorney if he so chooses. In this sense, the decision today and the result in Massiah are fundamentally inconsistent with traditional notions of the role of the attorney that underlie the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
on the basis of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment long before the Court selected the Sixth Amendment as one that the Fourteenth Amendment "incorporated" and made applicable against the States as well as the United States. See Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335 (1963).
Ordinary citizens are expected to report any criminal activity they might observe, and they are often required, under pain of compulsory process, to reveal information that may incriminate others, even their friends and relatives. It generally does not matter that the information was obtained as a result of trust or confidence that develops from friendship or family ties. The incriminating information may still be obtained through use of the subpoena power, and in many instances, of course, it will be voluntarily revealed by the citizen interested in the enforcement of the laws.
"First, Nichols was acting under instructions as a paid informant for the Government; second, Nichols was ostensibly no more than a fellow inmate of Henry; and third, Henry was in custody and under indictment at the time he was engaged in conversation by Nichols."
Ante at 447 U. S. 270. I disagree with the Court's evaluation of these factors, and would conclude that no deliberate elicitation has taken place.
The Court acknowledges that the use of undercover police work is an important and constitutionally permissible method of law enforcement. Ante at 447 U. S. 272. As the Court observes, Hoffa v. United States, 385 U.S. at 302, for example, recognizes that the Constitution affords no protection to "a wrongdoer's misplaced belief that a person to whom he voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it," even if that person is an undisclosed informer. And in Weatherford v. Bursey, 429 U. S. 545, 429 U. S. 557 (1977), we acknowledged the "necessity of undercover work" and "the value it often is to effective law enforcement." See also e.g., United States v. Russell, 411 U. S. 423, 411 U. S. 432 (1973); United States v. White, 401 U. S. 745, 401 U. S. 752 (1971).
The Court nonetheless holds that, once formal criminal proceedings have commenced, such undercover activity in some circumstances may not be constitutionally permissible even though it leads to incriminating statements by an accused that are entirely voluntary and inherently reliable. The reason for this conclusion is not readily apparent from the Court's opinion.
The fact that police carry on undercover activities should not automatically be transmuted because formal criminal proceedings have begun. It is true that, once such proceedings have commenced, there is an "adversary" relationship between the government and the accused. But an adversary relationship may very well exist prior to the commencement of formal proceedings. And, as this Court has previously recognized, many events, while perhaps "adversarial," are not of such a nature that an attorney can provide any special knowledge or assistance to the accused as a result of his legal expertise. See, e.g., United States v. Ash, 413 U. S. 300 (1973) (no right to an attorney at pretrial photographic identifications at which the accused is not present); Gilbert v. California, 388 U.S. at 388 U. S. 267 (no right to an attorney at taking of handwriting exemplars). When an attorney has no such special knowledge or skill, the Sixth Amendment does not give the accused a right to have an attorney present.
"We do not question that, in this case, as in many cases, it was entirely proper to continue an investigation of the suspected criminal activities of the defendant and his alleged confederates, even though the defendant had already been indicted."
type of encounter is one that is properly viewed as a critical stage at which counsel is necessary to provide guidance or protection to the accused to enable him to cope with unfamiliar legal proceedings, or to counterbalance the expertise of a professional prosecutor. Rather, as previously discussed, when the accused voluntarily reveals incriminating information to a third party in this context, I do not think there is any justification for excluding his admissions from trial, whether or not the third party was acting at the behest of the prosecution.
Finally, the Court considers relevant the fact that, because the accused is confined and in custody, "subtle influences" are present "that will make him particularly susceptible to the ploys of undercover agents." Ante at 447 U. S. 274. An appeal to an accused's conscience or willingness to talk, however, does not, in my view, have a sufficiently overbearing impact on the accused's will to warrant special constitutional protection.
designed to extract incriminating statements from the accused. The same would be true if the accused made a statement that a prison guard happened to overhear. See, e.g., United States v Barfield, 461 F.2d 661 (CA5 1972). I think there likewise is no Sixth Amendment violation when the accused's cellmate initiates conversation with him, and the accused makes incriminatory admissions. The fact that the cellmate is an informant has no impact on the accused, because the informant appears to him to be an ordinary cellmate. Whether the accused makes any statements is therefore dependent on his own disposition to do so, despite the fact that he is confined in a cell.
Finally, I disagree with the Court's reading of the facts, though that reading obviously narrows the scope of its holding. Here the District Court found that the Government did not employ Nichols to question respondent or to seek information from him, but merely to report what he heard. The Government had no part in having Nichols placed in the jail cell with respondent. App. to Pet. for Cert. 39a. And the record, in my view, fails to support the conclusion that Nichols engaged in any affirmative conduct to elicit information from respondent. The Court of Appeals did not either explicitly or implicitly find to the contrary. Thus, this Court's factual conclusions are not supported by the findings of the District Court. I consequently would conclude, as did the District Court, that here respondent has not been denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
For the foregoing reasons, I would reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals.
"It is not enough to assume that counsel . . . precipitated into the case [on the morning of the trial] thought there was no defense, and exercised their best judgment in proceeding to trial without preparation. Neither they nor the court could say what a prompt and thoroughgoing investigation might disclose as to the facts. No attempt was made to investigate. No opportunity to do so was given. Defendants were immediately hurried to trial. Chief Justice Anderson, after disclaiming any intention to criticize harshly counsel who attempted to represent defendants at the trials, said: '. . . The record indicates that the appearance was rather pro forma than zealous and active. . . .' Under the circumstances disclosed, we hold that defendants were not accorded the right of counsel in any substantial sense. To decide otherwise would simply be to ignore actualities."
287 U.S. at 287 U. S. 58.
This rationale has also been applied to the arraignment, .where "[a]vailable defenses may be as irretrievably lost, if not then and there asserted, as they are when an accused represented by counsel waives a right for strategic purposes," Hamilton v. Alabama, 368 U. S. 52, 368 U. S. 54 (1961), and to a preliminary hearing, where such defenses may similarly be lost when the accused enters his plea. White v. Maryland, 373 U. S. 59 (1963). See also United States v. Wade, 388 U. S. 218 (1967) (lineup); Mempa v. Rhay, 389 U. S. 128 (1967) (combination probation-revocation and sentencing hearing); Coleman v. Alabama, 399 U. S. 1 (1970) (preliminary examination); Moore v. Illinois, 434 U. S. 220 (1977) (one-person showup at a hearing, which combined the functions of a preliminary arraignment and preliminary examination, that was adversary in nature and at which the accused was entitled to move for suppression of evidence and dismissal of charges).
"historical background suggests that the core purpose of the counsel guarantee was to assure 'Assistance' at trial, when the accused was confronted with both the intricacies of the law and the advocacy of the public prosecutor."
413 U.S. at 413 U. S. 309. The English common law rule, which severely limited the right of a person accused of a felony to consult with counsel, was apparently rejected by the Framers as inherently irrational. Id. at 413 U. S. 306-307.
"call[s] for examination of the event in order to determine whether the accused required aid in coping with legal problems or assistance in meeting his adversary."
Id. at 413 U. S. 313.
Whatever may be the appropriate role of counsel in protecting the accused's privilege against compulsory self-incrimination, see, e.g., Fare v. Michael C., 442 U. S. 707, 442 U. S. 719 (1979), when, as in this case, the accused merely engages in conversation with someone whom he does not know to be a governmental agent, the hazards of coercion and governmental overreaching are entirely absent.
"[U]nlawfully obtained evidence is not automatically excluded from the factfinding process in all circumstances. In a variety of contexts, we inquire whether application of the rule will promote its objectives sufficiently to justify the enormous cost it imposes on society."
"As with any remedial device, the application of the rule has been restricted to those areas where its remedial objectives are thought most efficaciously served."
"United States v. Calandra, [414 U.S. 338, 414 U. S. 348 (1974)]; Accord, Stone v. Powell, supra at 428 U. S. 486-491; United States v. Janis, [428 U.S. 433 (1976)]; Brown v. Illinois, 422 U. S. 590, 422 U. S. 606, 422 U. S. 608, 422 U. S. 609 (1975) (POWELL, J., concurring in part); United States v. Peltier, [422 U.S. 531, 422 U. S. 538-539 (1975)]."
"Inescapably, one contemplating illegal activities must realize and risk that his companions may be reporting to the police. If he sufficiently doubts their trustworthiness, the association will very probably end, or never materialize. But if he has no doubts, or allays them, or risks what doubt he has, the risk is his."
I also disagree with the Court that the fact that Nichols was a paid informant and on a contingency fee is relevant in making this determination. See ante at 447 U. S. 270.
"Massiah does not prohibit the introduction of spontaneous statements that are not elicited by governmental action. Thus, the Sixth Amendment is not violated when a passive listening device collects, but does not induce, incriminating comments. See United States v. Hearst, 563 F.2d 1331, 1347-1348 (CA9 1977), cert. denied, 435 U. S. 1000 (1978). Similarly, the mere presence of a jailhouse informant who had been instructed to overhear conversations and to engage a criminal defendant in some conversations would not necessarily be unconstitutional. In such a case, the question would be whether the informant's actions constituted deliberate and 'surreptitious interrogatio[n]' of the defendant. If they did not, there would be no interference with the relationship between client and counsel."
Ante at 447 U. S. 276. Deliberate elicitation does not and cannot depend on the subjective intention of the government or its informant to obtain incriminatory evidence from the accused within the limits of the law. Such an intention of course is the essence of conscientious police work. | 2019-04-25T13:57:29 | https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/447/264/ |
0.998906 | A father has attacked a controversial transgender children’s charity for ‘meddling’ in a dispute over whether his five-year-old son should wear a dress to school.
The man is in a bitter battle with his ex-wife, who believes the boy identifies as a girl.
The mother believes the boy should wear a girl’s uniform to school, and is being supported by transgender children’s charity Mermaids.
But the father claims his son has simply been confused by his mother – who has been dressing him as a girl since he was two-and-a-half.
He says his son shows no desire to dress as a girl when with him, and is too young to understand the meaning of gender.
He claims the boy’s school has been ‘bullied’ by Mermaids into supporting the mother’s wish that he should wear a dress.
Mermaids allegedly told school staff they would be guilty of discrimination if they did not let the boy wear a girl’s uniform – something the father claims left the school feeling intimidated.
The incident raises new questions about the charity – which has advised schools, the NHS and the Crown Prosecution Service on transgender issues – even though it has no official status and was started by a group of parents in 1995.
Last week it emerged that Mermaids had been supporting a mother who was found to have caused her son ‘significant emotional harm’ by forcing him to live as a girl.
She had the boy removed from her care by a judge after he found there was ‘no independent or supportive evidence’ that the seven-year-old wanted to be a girl.
He said the boy, who now lives with his father, had been ‘pressed into a gender identification that had far more to do with his mother’s needs’ than his own.
And the judge condemned social workers for failing to challenge the mother because they were in thrall to ‘transgender equality’.
Mermaids described the ruling as ‘a huge injustice’.
In the case of the five-year-old, the charity is thought to have been involved with the mother for some time before intervening over his uniform.
The father said: ‘The school, at the beginning, were quite firm [with his ex-wife]. But then she started getting Mermaids involved.
He said the school had been ‘scared’ by the suggestions of discrimination. He accused the charity of ‘meddling in something which has nothing to do with them’ and said it had ‘bullied the school’.
The father, 39, who works in logistics, says his son – who cannot be named – does not express any desire to dress as a girl or play with girls’ toys when he spends the weekends with him and his new wife.
But his ex-wife – who has been dressing the boy as a girl since he was a toddler – took him to see psychoanalyst Michelle Bridgman when he was four.
Miss Bridgman, who is linked to Mermaids and has no clinical qualifications, said the boy was suffering from gender dysphoria.
He believes that the authorities, including social workers, are too scared to intervene for fear of being accused of discrimination by the vocal transgender lobby.
‘The headmaster now won’t even talk to me. They are all terrified,’ he said.
The mother confirmed Mermaids called the school on her behalf to ‘gently remind them of the law’.
She said social services had investigated her ex-husband’s complaints and found nothing wrong.
Her son ‘wears a mix of boys’ and girls’ clothes – it’s his choice’, she said.
The council, in the Midlands, declined to comment.
Caroline Roberts, chairman of Mermaids, said the charity ‘provides information and resources for families and professionals in an area that is largely misunderstood’.
Miss Bridgman said she was upset by the father’s criticisms. She said the boy’s gender dysphoria ‘is not a clinical diagnosis but an observation’.
She said she did not recommend treatment or a permanent change of gender, and would never do so in a child so young.
It is promoted by the NHS and councils, runs workshops for teachers and claims to have provided training for police and social services.
But it is far from clear what, if any, professional credentials Mermaids has.
The organisation – which has received lottery funding – began in 1995 as a support group for parents of children affected by gender identity issues.
Mermaids became a registered charity only last year – with its documents stating that as well as supporting families, it aimed to ‘engage and lobby media and medical institutions’. But it does not appear to have any professional or clinical expertise in the area of child and adolescent mental health.
One of its most vocal figures is its CEO Susie Green, who contacted Mermaids after her child told her that he believed he should have been born a girl.
She says her daughter is now ‘a happy and confident young woman’ having taken hormone blocking medication from the age of 13.
It is not thought that Miss Green has any professional qualifications in the field but that hasn’t stopped her from instructing schools on how they should support ‘trans’ children.
She has spoken in the past of trying to encourage schools to help children to ‘transition’ – including children as young as four.
She said some schools ‘are very reluctant’ but that ‘about half’ are ‘accommodating and want to learn’.
The NHS provides a link to Mermaids on its NHS Choices website – saying the charity can ‘provide support’ and put people in touch with other parents with ‘similar experiences’.
The Crown Prosecution Service took direction from Mermaids when developing its transgender policies and the charity’s helpline has been included on cards it produced for pupils as part of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender hate crime project in schools.
A number of councils have allowed Mermaids to help shape policies.
The charity is also linked to Harley Street psychotherapist Michelle Bridgman, who specialises in gender dysphoria in children. Miss Bridgman, 68, who is herself transgender, claims to see between four and seven children a week with ‘gender identity challenges’.
Caroline Roberts, chairman of Mermaids, said the charity had won a number of awards for its work.
‘Transgender issues are complex and diverse. Mermaids provides information and resources for families and professionals in an area that is largely misunderstood,’ she added. | 2019-04-21T15:17:39 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3883880/Parents-bitter-battle-child-s-gender-Father-brands-controversial-transgender-charity-meddlers-case-mother-dressing-son-five-girl.html |
0.999814 | Which is best, using one IDE cable for Hard Drive and CD ROM Drive or using seperate IDE cables for each?
How should I connect a ZIP Drive?
There was recently an article, I think here in TechRepublic, that did a great job of describing issues regarding the combination of devices on the various IDE connections you have in your computer. I'll see if I can find it and follow up.
Also, I know Iomega includes in their documentation specific instructions about what should be paired up with their drives, assuming you have an IDE zip drive.
The only real given "rule ofthumb" on IDE devices, is that the boot hard drive "C", should always be IDE 1, Master.
Remember, you have 4 possible positions for an IDE device. IDE1 Master, IDE1 Slave, IDE2 Master, and IDE2 Slave.
No 2 devices can be set to the same, forexample, you can't have 2 IDE1 Masters.
It used to be a problem with drive lettering, where IDE1-Master was always C, IDE2 - Slave was always D, IDE2 - Master was always E, unless there was no slave on 1, then it was D, but with dynamic drive assignments in windows, this is no longer a problem. You can tell windows to make anything but the boot drive any letter except A, B, or C.
OH... one last thought. If you have 2 hard drives of different speeds... ie, one is UDMA 66, and the other is a faster breed, ie 100 or 133, then by all means separate them.
The controller doesn't care about other IDE devices like CD roms or Zips, but will default to the lowest speed on the chain with regards to hard drives. ie, if you put a 66 and a 133 on IDE1, IDE1 will only deliver 66mhz in throughput. Yet if you put the 66 on IDE2, and the 133 on IDE1, each will deliver at advertised speed. | 2019-04-21T07:05:46 | https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/ide-cables-1/ |
0.997586 | Food52 Review: WHO: Alexandra Higgins is a brand new member of the Food52 community.
WHAT: Disarmingly delicious balls of molten goat cheese, sweetened with honey.
HOW: Roll balls of goat cheese through seasoned flour and batter, deep fry each, then top with honey and black pepper for an appetizer that's much more impressive than it is labor-intensive.
To make the batter, sift 2 cups all-purpose flour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Stir in 1 teaspoon kosher salt and 2 tablespoons honey. Whisk in the soda water until the batter is smooth. Keep refrigerated until ready to use -- the batter needs to stay as cold as possible until ready to fry.
The prepare the seasoned flour, combine the remaining 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, and finely ground black pepper in a shallow bowl or plate. Set aside.
Roll the goat cheese into sixteen 1/2-ounce balls. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
In a heavy-bottomed pot or deep fryer, heat the canola oil to 375º F. Roll the chilled goat cheese balls in the seasoned flour. Shake off any excess flour, then roll the balls into the batter a few at a time, making sure to fully cover the cheese ball. Remove them one or two at a time and carefully drop them into the oil, using a slotted spoon to move them around so they don’t stick to each other or the pot. Cook until golden brown, about 45 seconds to 1 minute. Using a slotted spoon or strainer, carefully remove the goat cheese from the fryer and drain on a cooling rack or paper towel-lined plate.
Place the fried goat cheese into a warm bowl. Drizzle with the remaining 2 tablespoons of honey and coarsely ground black pepper. Serve immediately.
Your Best Recipe with Honey Contest Winner!
The recipe calls for "soda water" which can refer to seltzer or club soda. I'm assuming seltzer, since the recipe also calls for baking powder, but it never hurts to check, so which is it? Am I right in thinking that I could use club soda if I leave out the baking powder?
I have had these at Ecco, and made this recipe this weekend. My batter came out a little thicker than the restaurant ones BUT the taste was so close to what I wanted that I was very happy. Everyone that tried them loved them.
I will make WAY less seasoned flour and batter next time, but there will be a next time.
You have PARED this recipe down. Not PAIRED.
Above comment intended for the goat cheese with honey and pepper recipe.
This reminds me of Greek loukoumades (OMG lush!) - they serve them with chopped walnuts and lashings of honey. Will definitely give this a go soon!
Alexandra, Please thank the team at Ecco for sharing this recipe and being willing to pair it down for us at home. Otherwise I would be trying to figure out what I was going to do with the other 49 1/2 pounds of goat cheese. The next time I go to the Atlanta area I know exactly where I will be dining!
Is I possible to use a different oil other than Canola? Any suggestions?
@ Cheryl definitely worth the oil! I think they would just melt in the oven. They need to cook fast. They were just delicious. I hope that helps.
Would these work in the oven instead or would it compromise the texture too much? I hate to waste all that oil, as I don't fry very often.
Just made a small batch of these, thought I'd share my comments.
- divided the batter and floor mixture proportions by 2.
I still have at least 3/4 of both the batter and the flour so I'd scale them down even more.
However my batter was quite thick, which coated the balls well but when they hit the oil, they became flat and looked like scallops.
It was fine in my opinion, I was just testing, but if you want to achieve perfect balls, I'd add more sparkling for a thinner batter.
Because I was testing a small batch I did not deep fry but only pan fried. I'm assuming this is also why the shape changed, as they could not move freely.
Still a great recipe overall, don't be afraid to go heavy on the honey.
I'd love to know if anyone has tried freezing these, to pop them in the oven or a pan when having guests? My entire flat reeks of oil now so I'd rather avoid the smell when I have people over.
These sound super delicious and I would definitely order these at the restaurant that invented them. The cook who submitted this recipe made it clear that it wasn't her recipe and the staff at the restaurant tweaked it for home cooking. It is a great recipe but where is the winner's own creativity. (esp being the one and only entry from her)!
I live in Atlanta, and this is one of my favorites. It's so rare for a restaurant to divulge their recipes (especially one this popular). I think it was creative to bring a recipe like this onto Food52. Thanks, Ecco & Alexandra!
Both of these recipes in this honey contest sound delicious. I think I may have to make both and see which one turns out better to decide.
You def got MY vote! I love that you highlighted cracked black pepper with the honey-- that alone says WORLDS about the talent of the author. Congrats!
i love that Greek idea. I was also thinking of combining the chevre with a bit of cooked grain- like wheatberries- for some chew along with the crunch and smoothness of the croquettes!
I tested these for the contest and wow! My husband and I just looked at each other but did not speak. After many years of cooking I often weigh the work/ product ratio. These cheese balls such a great payoff; dramatic in taste not so dramatic in work.
Thank you, Annie! It's one of my favorite dishes that our restaurants serve. I was thrilled when they agreed to help pair the recipe down for the home cook to enjoy— everyone deserves one of those "so delicious I can't speak" moments!
This sounds so good, I have to make these for my next party...and I hate frying!
I've had these at Ecco in Atlanta--sublime! | 2019-04-22T14:35:00 | https://food52.com/recipes/34179-fried-goat-cheese-with-honey-and-black-pepper |
0.999083 | 1. Which word doesn't belong on the list? Write the word that doesn't belong in your agenda.
2. Give a reason why it doesn't belong.
3. Write 2 more words that do belong on the list. | 2019-04-23T13:56:43 | http://checktheblog.weebly.com/blog/oct-23 |
0.998877 | As the title suggests, Iimura is concerned with the science of signs, and the fluid nature of signifiers and what they signify. Iimura utilises the ideas surrounding language and the process of signification, then applies them to video. Of course, this has been done before by film theorists and filmmakers, such as Eisenstein's development of montage as a filmic language. The 23-year span of Iimura's works suggests that this has been rich territory for him. Unfortunately, this lengthy preoccupation with the issue of representation also dates the work considerably. After all, Iimura is talking about representation through analogue means.
Camera, Monitor, Frame challenges the premise of semiotics that the meanings associated with objects result more from what they aren't than what they are. That is, no object has an inherent meaning, but rather acquires it from its relationships to other objects. Iimura's point is that these relationships also change according to different language systems. In this work, the signifier and the signified in the vocabulary of video production are tested against seemingly simple English language sentences, such as 'this is a camera,' 'this is not a camera,' 'this is a monitor,' etc. When we see a shot of a camera, we know that this is an image which refers to the physical object that is a camera, as well as the product of looking through the lens of a camera. We are confronted with being both in front and behind the camera at the same time. So these apparently straightforward statements become increasingly inadequate for what should be the easiest of meanings.
Observer/Observed is more a play on words, an exercise in semantics. We see close-ups of a woman closing and opening her eyes: she is seeing and not seeing but we see her. We see a shot of a monitor turning on and off: we are both seeing and not seeing but the camera still observes. The title is deceptive in its suggestion of an active participant and passive recipient, as there is more than one observer and more than one subject/object of observation in the equation.
Observer/Observed/Observer triangulates the subject/object interaction through the addition of a question following each video statement, such as 'I see myself. Who is shooting you?' The dialogic ball is served from the addresser to the addressee, leaving it open for the addressee to throw a response back. The answer, however, lies in a multifarious configurations between Camera 1, Camera 2, Monitor 1, Monitor 2, and Iimura himself.
There is so much potential for further exploration in this area, particularly in the digital domain. If, as we've heard, the previously segregated activities of production and consumption are blurred with digitalisation, then the acts of observing and being observed are pertinent given that observation can be considered both a mode of production and consumption. Indeed, the question of representation in cyberspace -- who is speaking for whom, and who is listening -- could easily fit into Iimura's examination of who is the subject and object in any audio-visual transaction.
The advent of digital media has added further complexity to these equations. When one is looking at a Web page, we are also being addressed by its author. However, the identity of the author may not be overt. The exchange is taking place in real time and yet is asynchronous as well. This is not only taken for granted by cybercultural commentators, but probably regarded as extremely tiresome by now.
Despite his utilisation of cd-rom, Iimura has not tackled any of the new possibilities offered by the digital arena. Even the issues of time and temporality, which feature largely in film semiotics discussions, are absent from Iimura's conceptual experimentations: is observation really taking place when it is being time-shifted through a video recording or a cd-rom?
As an artwork, the cd-rom is a convenient means for transporting and exhibiting the work. As it is durational, it would have the credibility of being a video installation, in contrast to the lack of kudos which digital art, particularly interactive work, suffers. Perhaps this is why there is no effort on Iimura's part to experiment more with the language of multimedia. Why change from a tried and true formula of work that is theoretically sound (having been resolved over decades), loved by academics and artists alike, and shown as high art; for a more edgy, unknown, contemporary, accessible but less celebrated alternative? | 2019-04-22T21:13:12 | http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp%3FReviewID=170&BookID=139.html |
0.999767 | LMPO Town Hall Meeting on February 16, 2015. - LMPO Town Hall Meeting on February 16, 2015.
LMPO Town Hall Meeting on February 16, 2015.
How many animals are there in the following list: "black", 'Tiger', "Horse", and "panda"? | 2019-04-25T11:08:54 | http://lubbocktx.swagit.com/play/02192015-1104 |
0.999772 | How to organize radio buttons in separate lines?
I’m currently working on radio buttons.
Right now, I have the following code.
This gives me the following results.
However, I want the radio buttons to appear in separate lines.
I’ve tried working on using gender.position() and CSS but haven’t been successful.
Looking at the generated HTML, it would be so much easier if I could insert ul /ul li /li elements to the individual options of the radio button, but I haven’t figured out how to do this.
Would somebody be kind enough to tell me if there is a way to do this?
Hi @togo, You can also use select option , it is a good option and you doesn’t have care about the positions.
In short, all <input type="radio"> + <label for="radio's id"> pairs are wrapped up in 1 <div>.
The problem w/ that is that each <input type="radio"> + <label for="radio's id"> pair tries to accommodate themselves horizontally within their sole <div>'s available width.
In order to force each pair to occupy its own row we’d need to create a <div> container for each pair.
It seems like all’s solved. But encloseEachInputLabelPairIntoASubDiv() introduces a serious bug!
Both methods selected() & value() stop working after encloseEachInputLabelPairIntoASubDiv()!
The problem is that _getInputChildrenArray() searches for <input> elements at radio’s <div> 1st inner level only.
However, after encloseEachInputLabelPairIntoASubDiv(), the 1st inner level got inner <div> containers only.
All <input> & <label> elements are now inside those inner <div> containers.
The Element.getElementsByTagName() method returns a live HTMLCollection of elements with the given tag name.
That’s really a good hack! I never thought of it this way! Thank you for this piece of wisdom.
I think this is also a good workaround! Thank you for offering your wisdom!
Thank you so so much for this deep knowledge.
In short, all <input type="radio"> + <label for="radio's id"> pairs are wrapped up in 1 <div> .
Yes, you’re absolutely right. I observed this after looking at the generated HTML and I was wondering a way to overcome this situation. By drawing examples from the original source code of p5.js, you have brilliantly explained what is going behind p5.js. Also, thank you for providing the function. This has enabled me to deepen my understanding of p5.js. | 2019-04-22T20:10:53 | https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-organize-radio-buttons-in-separate-lines/10041 |
0.999921 | The conductor's baton came down, the drums rolled, the cymbals crashed -- and the silence was deafening. The first overall United Nations conference to help alleviate the African famine, designed to catch and refocus the world's attention, found that it had opened on the wrong day.
``The conference is over at 10 a.m. [its opening time],'' one delegate remarked. Translation: Scores of reporters from around the world found their editors suddenly preoccupied not with North-South issues but with East-West.
The UN conference had to continue bereft of the world headlines for which its ``conductor'' -- UN Secretary-General Javier P'erez de Cu'ellar -- had hoped.
US Vice-President George Bush, who delivered a speech calling for quick solutions, coordinated commitments of aid, priority treatment for food ships, freer agricultural markets, and new research into seeds and rolling back the desert, was pursued by the press -- with questions about whether he would represent President Reagan at the Chernenko funeral.
Why? Neither Ethiopian nor US officials would comment, but speculation was that the US had obtained some kind of concession from Addis to let more food aid through.
Speaker after speaker, including the chairman of the Organization of African Unity, Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, stressed that Africa needed long-term as well as short-term emergency aid.
Underground water supplies must be tapped in the drought-struck mid-north African Sahel region, where rivers carried 4.6 trillion cubic feet of water, but 123.6 trillion cubic feet remained to be exploited, according to Seyni Kountche, leader of Niger and head of the inter-state committee on drought control in the Sahel. | 2019-04-24T12:50:10 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0312/omore.html |
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0.999998 | If I pay my tuition and fees with a credit card (including the 2% fee), and I drop classes within the 100% refund date or receive an approval for a 100% refund, is the entire amount including the 2% refunded?
No. The 2% fee is non-refundable. | 2019-04-25T16:37:03 | https://faq.mdc.edu/knowledgebase/if-i-pay-my-tuition-and-fees-with-a-credit-card-including-the-2-fee-and-i-drop-classes-within-the-100-refund-date-or-receive-an-approval-for-a-100-refund-is-the-entire-amount-including-the-2-refun/ |
0.999412 | Would someone be kind enough to suggest a Thai dish that can be made with this sauce? Searching "sweet thai noodle sauce" is getting me nowhere. Thank you.
What's the ingredients list on the back? I assume it's a thick-ish gravy, with standard Thai flavors (galangal, lemongrass, chilies, coconut milk, palm sugar, fish sauce). Soak some rice vermicelli or broad "chips" (i.e. the ones used in pad kee mao), and stir fry with thanh son tofu (available at any asian market - try to the lemongrass/chili infused version, it's better than many meats) and those small dried shrimp (chopped), fresh veggies (bell pepper, onion, mushroom, garlic, maybe some gai lan or broccoli or some other green), top with this (heated) sauce, some boiled chicken egg or quail egg, chiffonade of fresh herb like thai basil, cilantro, chopped green onions. Better yet, if you can get fresh noodles from JC Rice Noodle (also available at many Asian markets and just as cheap as dried noodles) it will be a solid dish.
Pretty close on the ingredients. In order listed: coconut milk, water, sugar, shallot, soybean oil, garlic, mung bean, dried shrimp, tamarind juice, lime juice, salt, & dried chili.
Your recipe sounds great as well as the flavored tofu. T.Y.
It's used for things like one of my favorites, kanom jeen nam ya. If you search for "nam ya" curry or variations on that, like "nam yaa" curry you will find various recipes using similar pastes.
I searched to make sure I was remembering correctly and it looks like I may have been a little off. They have a separate nam ya curry paste that has fish in it. The one you have is also for kanom jeen, but I think it's a little different.
I shop at H-Mart for most of my Asian food needs as it's just down the street. I saw the orange colored Nam Yah as well as about 15 others.
Curiosity got the best of me so here's what it looks like. First flavor is sweet followed by the salty shrimp with very little heat to it. Could this be a Pad Thai sauce?
I don't think so. They have a different pad thai sauce and I don't believe it has coconut in it. It's a lot darker, too.
Okay, found a place where they give the Thai name for it, which is nam prik. That's a pretty broad category. I don't have any of my Thai cookbooks here at work, but some of my favorites are things like nam prik ong, which is like Thai bolognese. Here's a recipe using prik king paste instead, but I imagine you can just substitute.
Here's a kanom jeen nam prik recipe where you can just skip over the paste-making process.
The ingredients look very similar to what is in Mee Kati. I'll ask tomorrow. | 2019-04-20T08:16:21 | http://portlandfood.org/topic/14222-thai-recipe-help/ |
0.999998 | I've heard somewhere that Elves were once humans, who happened to settle around a magical well, and this well twisted and mutated them into magical beings with immense power capable of controlling nature herself.
Is this story valid in Warcraft? Did the Elves in Warcraft originate from humans and if so, how did they became superior than human beings in almost every aspect?
No, they did not originate from humans.
Warcraft: Chronicle, Vol. 1 tells the tale of most of the species origins on Azeroth.
While there were a great many diverse races in the very early days of what we would call Azeroth (after the Titans were done chilling out the place), trolls were the most dominant. One particular clan was known as dark trolls, known for being nocturnal and more peaceful than others (trolls are known throughout history for their violence). This clan settled in the area around the Well of Eternity. The immense power in the well got slowly absorbed by the dark trolls and altered them. Their minds grew quicker, their form less hunched. Eventually, other than pointy ears and skin tone, they barely resembled trolls at all. They became the first night elves. Their immense power also stems from the Well, giving them both an innate talent for channeling magic due to how it altered them, and a giant source of it to wield against their enemies.
While night elves later had a few disasters (understatement) that led to the offshoot elven races, and led night elves to seek natural power rather than magic power, humans aren't in any way related to them. Humans are descended from Vrykul, the giants of the north, who in turn were descended from the original stone and metal Titan creations and servants. A degenerative Curse of Flesh first transformed the titan servants from elementals to flesh and blood creatures, creating the Vrykul, then that curse evolved and hit them again, making them give birth to "weakling runts". Said runts were the first humans, and enough of them were exiled to safety to start their own civilization in what would later be called Tirisfal. Dwarves and Gnomes have a similar origin story, also being descended from Titan creations, so those would be the closest kin to humans under the current history.
The tribe of trolls that settled near the Well of Eternity were slowly turned into Night Elves. They nobility - Highborne - started learning to harness the power of the Well, while the rest stayed more attuned with the Nature.
The power of the Well allowed elves to conquer wast areas of the land and cripple the troll empires. Unfortunately it also attracted the attention of the Burning Legion and started corrupting the Queen Azshara. When she decided to summon Sargeras, the leader of the Burning Legion to the Azeroth, the group of elves (Malfurion, Illidan and Tyrande) seeing the folly of her ways struck and managed to destroy the Well of Eternity - Azshara and her followers sunk into ocean and were turned into Naga.
Unwilling to completely banish the magic, before destroying the Well, Illidan has filled few vials with the water - for that he has been imprisoned by his brother and the surviving Highborne have been exiled to the new continent, where they've used the Illidan's gift to create the Sunwell - a smaller version of the Well of Eternity. Those exiles called themselves the High Elves.
For thousands of years the High Elves were living constantly exposed to the magic of the Sunwell, until Arthas destoyed the city and used it to raise the necromancer Kel'Thusad, thus destroying the Sunwell. The surviving remnants living in Silvermoon (calling themselves now the Blood Elves) quickly noticed that they are suffering the magic-withdrawal effects. To negate those effects, they started to feed on other magical energies, including demons.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged elves warcraft or ask your own question. | 2019-04-22T12:45:55 | https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181663/are-warcraft-elves-descended-from-humans |
0.9951 | Though the works of Homer are very old, they have been remarkably well-preserved — especially if you consider the fragmented state of Sappho, or the lost plays of Sophocles. The two great poems were perhaps written down three thousand years ago, this after generations (many generations) of oral performance; Sophocles would have considered Homer ancient. So there is the integrity of the text, which we have received in far better condition than many plays by Shakespeare or even the Ulysses of James Joyce. But there is also the integrity of the poem, the wholeness or thoroughness with which it was conceived. Religion, too, is integral to the story, the sacrifices and supplications, the many occasions when a god appears (at any time and in any form) to shape the ways of mankind. The sacred is never far to find in Homer, but just as regularly we find details of attire and weaponry and strategy: all of this serves the fundamental humanity of the whole: the integrity of character.
Iliad, Book X, (Night Action).
The story so far? The Greeks have suffered a severe defeat and have been beaten back to the shore. Night falls, and the Trojans retire. Some hours later, we are brought to Agamemnon's tent, where we are presented with a familiar scene: the troubled sleep of the monarch. There's nothing new in saying that Homer, throughout the Iliad, cannot be accused of flattering the Greek invaders. Within the Iliad, we will see Agamemnon reveal his more boarish characteristics, and we know his past, and his (limited) future. His stubborn greed created the primary situation around which the Iliad revolves: the sullen anger of Akhilleus; still, though the wee hours of the morning, Agamemnon is shown in a good light. Our knowledge of the span of Agamemnon's career is not the advantage of a XXI century perspective: it was known to the first respondents, so that the slightest phrase might evoke "the rest of the story." The underlying tragedy of the Iliad is not simply the protracted and pointless war, nor the sulking Akhilleus, but also an end of an era. This is the end of the age of Heroes, and the Odyssey is the last stand of the hero.
We are frequently reminded that Menalaos has red hair, the full significance of which may be difficult to recapture yet it seems much more than a descriptive note. A number of unflattering characteristics are attributed to redheads: unlicensed sexuality, treachery (Judas), hot temper. Pound suggested that it was seen as an invitation to be cuckolded (Letters, #294). On his behalf, the Akhaian army travelled across the sea and fought the Trojans (the war lasted something like 4000 days; the Iliad covers about 40); he is among the few to return safely home.
That with the fix'd ends of the tusks his head might not be ras'd.
When he laid waste Amyntor's house, that was Ormenus' son.
Molus to his son Merion did make it his bequest.
With this Ulysses arm'd his head . . .
Odysseus dons his grandfather's headpiece. Here, in an aside that might escape notice, we see the etiquette of hospitality ("as present of a guest") the violation of which by Paris led to ten years war.
This scene takes place in the chilly hours before dawn. We are informed how each of our heroes dresses: Agamemnon throws a lionskin ("dangling to his heels") around his shoulders, Menalaos wears a leopardskin. Nestor's red mantle is lined with fleece. Diomedes also chooses a lionskin for a cloak; Odysseus, however, only picks "a painted shield to hang from his broad shoulders." I do not think this is Homer's carelessness but a character detail. Odysseus is nothing if not cool. | 2019-04-22T02:15:30 | http://www.simonloekle.com/homerphilia.html |
0.999989 | After this Contract is executed and becomes effective, Party B shall have the right to use the trading information provided by Party A and shall observe the relevant laws and regulations of the competent authority; the Regulations Governing the Use of Trading Information and other relevant rules, circular letters and public announcements of Party A; and the obligation to pay fees.
The copyrights and other related rights over any trading information provided by Party A to Party B in accordance with this Contract shall belong to Party A. Unless otherwise agreed by Party A, Party B shall not lease, sell or assign such trading information, or otherwise forward such trading information to places outside its business office, or modify, make additions to, expand, delete or destroy, damage or otherwise alter such trading information and its devices and equipment.
Party A agrees that Party B may develop its own software and hardware equipment relating to the trading information; provided, however, that such software and hardware equipment shall not be used until prior approval from Party A is obtained. Party B shall bear sole legal liability for the equipment and information developed by itself.
In order to enable Party A to provide Party B, with the trading information in accordance with this Contract, Party B shall connect its system to the trading information system of Party A to be in sync with the existing software and hardware equipment of Party A.
Party B agrees to apply to the Directorate General of Telecommunications for data link between Party A and the test field before conducting any interconnection tests; however, Party A will not provide places for the tests.
When Party B conducts interconnection or interconnection related tests, Party B shall transmit in the manner designated by Party A.
The transmission format mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be notified by Party A separately.
Party B shall bear liability for damages for any damage to the equipment provided by Party A occurring when Party B tests the trading information transmission system or uses trading information.
Party B agrees the computer connection between the parties pursuant to this Contract shall be used exclusively for transmission of the trading information described in this Contract and may not be used by Party B for any other purposes..
The parties agree that, in the event of an interruption in the transmission of trading information or a malfunction in the connection transmission equipment after information transmission has commenced for the interconnection tests pursuant to this Contract, no matter the cause, neither party shall be entitled to claim damages against the other party.
Party A may at any time send personnel to inspect and check Party B's place(s) where the trading information is used, and Party B shall not refuse or evade such inspection and checks. In case of any violation, Party A may deal with the situation in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Use of Trading Information.
Party B agrees in regard to information, data or other materials related to the business activities of Party A or the subject matters of this Contract that may come to the knowledge of Party B as a result of the performance of this Contract, Party B shall have the obligation to keep them in confidence and shall not disclose them to other persons or conduct other acts detrimental to Party A.
In case normal transmission of trading information is hindered due to a natural disaster, incident, strike, slowdown, force majeure or any other accident, neither party is liable for breach of contract.
In order to meet the need for development of a trading information system or to comply with relevant rules and regulations, Party A may, at a prescribed time or any time, terminate this Contract by giving Party B written notice.
In case Party B ceases operation during the term of this Contract, Party A may notify Party B that the provision of trading information will be suspended. Once the provision of trading information is suspended, Party A will restore the provision of trading information three days after Party B notifies Party A of the reestablishment of its business.
Neither party hereto may assign or transfer this Contract without the written consent of the other party.
The parties shall resolve any dispute between them arising from or in connection with this Contract by arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Law of the R.O.C. If a suit is filed or litigation is initiated to set aside the arbitral award for the arbitral award is not sustained, the parties agree that the Taipei District Court, Taiwan shall be the court of the first instance.
Matters not included in this Contract shall be governed by the Regulations Governing the Use of Trading Information of Party A and the provisions of other relevant rules.
This Contract shall take effect from the date of execution.
This Contract is made in two（2）originals and two (2) copies, with each party to hold one (1) original and one (1) copy as evidence. | 2019-04-20T18:33:49 | http://twse-regulation.twse.com.tw/ENG/EN/law/DAT0201.aspx?FLCODE=FL007130 |
0.997924 | To write a simple script to automate git clone and browsing the source code.
are repeated for every project that I want to read the source code to learn about how to use and to learn some new tricks. So, why not automate this task and learn Ruby at the same time?
I have hardcoded the directory, since I usually use the temp directory for downloading projects. You can modify the script to read the project directory to use from the command line.
In this article, we wrote a simple pure ruby script to automate a frequent task of cloning a git repo and browsing the code. | 2019-04-22T22:07:48 | https://rubyplus.com/articles/2481-Ruby-Productivity-Scripts-Clone-a-Git-Project |
0.999887 | "Maybe we ARE small, but if we small ones work together, who knows what will happen?" —Ellie Mae, "The Rescuers" This book will suffer in comparison to the movie, which I see as one of the most sensitive, wonderful creations in Disney history. Nonetheless, this very short adaptation of the movie is good for what it is. I enjoyed it much more than most similar synopsis picture books.
This is a fair adaptation of the Disney movie, so if you enjoyed the film, then you will certainly like this. The illustrations are faithfully rendered and the color beautifully matches my memory of The Rescuers. Bernard and Bianca bravely set forth to rescue the orphan Penny, and children will cheer as they overcome obstacles and save the day. Recommended.
My parents are divorced, and as a child we’d spend a lot of time at my grandparents. They were and are big readers, who encouraged us to do the same. This was one of the many books they had for us as kids, and I won’t tell you it’s a favorite, but its memorable after nearly 20 years. Worth reading to your kids!
This is a great book that my grandma used to read to me when I was younger. I was very young when I was introduced to Bernard and Beonca(main characters), but I will never forget them. This book allows the reader to use different voices to make for a great read for a young child. The book is adventurous and attention grasping and has a great movie to go along with it.
Disney is not my favorite anymore just seems to be a recap of a movie, when it comes to the books. They tend to leave out the character building parts of the movie and focus on storyline only, which is becoming annoying to me. What is the point of a story without some kind of a message? The message in this one is mice can help people.
This was one of my favorites when I was little. The book also goes along with the Walt Disney movie of the same name. This could help children visualize more about the characters while reading the book.
I used to own this one as a kid, but don't really have much of a memory of it.
Napínavý příběh dvou myších detektivů Bernarda a Bianky, kteří zachraňují holčičku z rukou chamtivé ženy.
Eh, I love mice! This was an awesome book when I was little. Kinda less satisfying as an adult, but the mice are cute!
I don't particularly like these books, I don't see why they need to make a book if there's a film.
The Rescuers was pretty exciting for a Disney movie. This book, however, is not at all exciting, not even for a Disney book.
A very classic Disney story.
This is book version of the Disney film.
One my favourite stories growing up, which I enjoyed just as much the 2nd time round with my own loved ones. | 2019-04-25T04:05:31 | http://thegrapescafebar.co.uk/6590162-the-rescuers/ |
0.998547 | You would think that a movie featuring two of Hollywood's most popular leading ladies, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, would be a box office hit, but that was apparently not the case in the 90s.
When Practical Magic, a rom-com based on a 90s novel of the same, was released in 1998, the film was a total flop. The movie centers around two witch sisters living in a small town, trying to break a curse that threatens to prevent them from ever finding true love. It had everything it needed to become an instant cult classic, but the critics were not a fan.
An Entertainment Weekly review called the film " so slapdash, plodding, and muddled it seems to have had a hex put on it." However, something changed over the years, and Practical Magic was elevated to cult status.
"It’s an unexpected pleasure," said Griffin Dunne, the movie's director, who hasn't directed a major theatrical release since Practical Magic.
When he was asked to share his thoughts on why the movie wasn't a success, and how come his career stalled, Dunne had a very unexpected and superstitious answer that may even be more interesting than the movie itself.
During a recent interview with Vulture, Dunne revealed something about the movie that he has never talked about before.
He explained that when he began to adapt the script from the Alice Hoffman book, he sought the assistance of a witch consultant.
"While I was developing it, I was never quite sure I had a real handle on the movie because, quite honestly, witches had no great interest to me,” Dunne said. "But I loved the book and I liked the setting and when I was working with this witch consultant, it occurred to me that I was making a movie about something I do know a lot about — strong women. I grew up in a house with a strong mother and my grandmother."
He continued, "So I had three generations of formidable women and when I got that into my head, I realized it’s not really about spells and spell books and all that — it’s about a legacy being passed from one generation to another. That helped me understand it, and that understanding came out of these conversations I had with this witch consultant."
When the rehearsals for the film began, Dunne invited the witch consultant, whom he calls an "intelligent person," to Los Angeles. He even paid for a nice hotel, so she could have a comfortable stay. However, the witch was not satisfied.
"'You’re not going to buy me off with a hotel room. I want a percentage of the movie. I’m going to have my own Practical Magic cookbook,'" Dunne recalled. He added that the witch told a producer that she wanted "an additional $250,000."
When her request was turned down, Dunne was the witch got angry and said "'I'm going to put a curse on you. I'm putting a curse on this movie, and I'm putting a curse on Griffin.'"
But that wasn't even the end of it.
Dunne later received multiple "terrifying" messages from the woman, warning him that "there is a land of curses." She eventually sued Warner Brothers.
"So I give the legal department the tape and they can’t listen to it all the way through, either," recalled Dunne.
He added that the company was so freaked out by her threats that they paid her off. "I don’t know how much, but enough to make her go away."
We don't blame them! That sounds scarier than the film's plot.
Do you believe that Practical Magic was cursed? | 2019-04-18T15:20:13 | https://www.throwbacks.com/practical-magic-was-cursed-by-a-witch/ |
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