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0.533469 | What is a xwp file and how do I open a xwp file?
The XMLwriter application can be used to create files with the .xwp extension, and an XWP file is the output document of an XMLwriter Project. These projects are for the verification of specific XML files and the associated data stored in the document. These XWP projects also have integrated features for efficiently facilitating the conversion of XSL content. Wattle Software developed the XMLwriter application and the associated .xwp data storage format technology. Since the content of these XWP files are encoded by the XMLwriter program and XML-based specifications, users of Microsoft Windows-based systems may try to open and view the content of these XWP files using text editing software like Microsoft Notepad, though it may not be displayed properly. This also applies to Mac-based platforms when users of the Apple TextEdit application try to open and access the content of these XWP documents. | 2019-04-22T14:58:45 | https://www.openthefile.net/extension/xwp |
0.999999 | I am a Bricklayer. What business structure should I choose?
If you are considering starting a bricklaying business, it is critical that you choose a business structure that works best for your business. It can be a challenge choosing the right structure, as the future success of your business could well depend on the choice you make now. However, by having a thorough understanding of the financial and legal implications of each business structure, you can make an informed decision about which one is best for your business. After coming to some sort of decision about which structure will be best for your business, the advice of a legal professional will be invaluable. It will also provide you with a thorough understanding of how Australian business laws will affect the business structures you wish to choose.
If you are looking to start your own bricklaying business, you might consider adopting a sole trader business structure. It is the most traditional of business structures and involves the owner becoming the sole trader. It gives you total control over your business, but also means that your personal finances and your business finances will be indistinguishable in the eyes of the law.
There are many benefits of becoming a sole trader that range from financial to personal. Primarily, becoming a sole trader is by far and away the cheapest business structure to create, and if you choose to trade under your own name, you do not even need to register your business name. This means that you can enter the market as soon as possible, and gain valuable time in establishing your business and brand. Another advantage of choosing a sole trader structure for your bricklaying business is that your business will remain completely attached to you for its entire existence. So no matter how much your business grows and prospers, you will always be in complete control.
It should be noted that there are also some disadvantages related to choosing a sole trader business structure for your bricklaying business. The main problem is the fact that your finances will all be rolled up into one. You may be personally liable for all financial decisions made in the course of running your business. As a result, you will be forced to wear two hats each time you make a decision, your business hat, and your personal hat. For some business owners this is not a problem in the slightest, for others, it is crippling. If this disadvantage is too much for you, perhaps you should consider a company business structure.
A company business structure will provide a sound basis for your bricklaying business to prosper and expand, without the fear of incurring personal financial liability. The primary benefit of a company business structure is that the finances of the business are separate from your personal finances. However, to allow for this financial protection, the costs of creating and running a company are higher than those of other business structures. You will also be subject to a vast array of statutory rules relating to how your company is run.
Today, the company business structure is the most attractive structure of all, primarily because of the financial protection it provides to business owners. However, in choosing whether you want your business to become a company, you must consider your aspirations. For a small business, the cost of running a company can be ruinous. However, for a large business looking to expand, the financial protection it provides can allow you to take calculated risks you might otherwise avoid.
Therefore, it can be said that all the advantages and disadvantages associated with each business structure are relative, as they depend entirely upon the situation of the business owner. If you would like to see a complete list of all the business structures available to your bricklaying business, please click here. Finally, it must be noted that you should seek the advice of a legal professional at some point during the process, as it will assist you in making the most informed decision possible. If you have any further questions relating to choosing the right business structure for your bricklaying business, please call LegalVision for a fixed-fee quote. | 2019-04-26T09:49:33 | https://legalvision.com.au/i-am-a-bricklayer-what-business-structure-should-i-choose/ |
0.999092 | So my question is, how do I use headings to be able to export the bookmarks whilst having the headings in frames stay in their proper order and not take priority over the text body? Or, should I use a different method of getting having the bookmarks export to PDF?
Frames provide a means to insert material outside text flow. What is inside the frame (graphics, text) is not related at all with main text, except for the anchor which constraints the frame to follow its movement. You may even experience formatting difficulties with text wrapping around depending on the option.
What you need is a procedure to synchronise your 1-column headings with your 4-column text. And I'm afraid this involves a lot of manual editing with section insertions.
First, from your description, I understand that your document is in fact a 2-column one. It looks like you use the outer columns as margin extensions. You can get the effect without this artifact. Set your page style properties (mostly margins) for the widest area you need (probably for your headings if they are hanging as suggested by your question) in 1-column, so that your headings can span the whole page width.
Type your headings (or paste them from the frames to main test body) and style them Heading n. In principle, this is already done.
After each heading, Insert>Section. Each section has 2 columns with a gutter set by Width and Spacing in the Columns tab. To get the equivalent of your empty outer columns, go to Indents tab and set Before section and After section to create left and right margin extensions.
Type your text or paste it into the section.
With this scheme, ordering of headings is preserved. You can even include "embedded" headings in the multi-column section (not hanging headings) and have them in their proper location in the navigator.
Since there is now a single text flow chain, you should have no problem exporting your document and all its properties like bookmarks to any format. | 2019-04-22T04:01:34 | https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/157583/document-headings-and-frames/ |
0.999148 | What Do Three White Soldiers Mean?
Three white soldiers is a bullish candlestick pattern that is used to predict the reversal of the current downtrend in a pricing chart. The pattern consists of three consecutive long-bodied candlesticks that open within the previous candle's real body and a close that exceeds the previous candle's high. These candlesticks should not have very long shadows and ideally open within the real body of the preceding candle in the pattern.
Three white soldiers are considered a reliable reversal pattern when confirmed by other technical indicators like the relative strength index (RSI).
The size of the candles and the length of the shadow is used to judge whether there is a risk of retracement.
The opposite pattern of three white soldiers is three black crows, which indicates a reversal of an uptrend.
What Do Three White Soldiers Tell You?
The three white soldiers candlestick pattern suggests a strong change in market sentiment in terms of the stock, commodity or pair making up the price action on the chart. When a candle is closing with small or no shadows, it suggests that the bulls have managed to keep the price at the top of the range for the session. Basically, the bulls take over the rally all session and close near the high of the day for three consecutive sessions. In addition, the pattern may be preceded by other candlestick patterns suggestive of a reversal, such as a doji.
Here is an example of three white soldiers appearing in a pricing chart for the VanEck Vectors Fallen Angel High Yield Bond exchange traded fund (ETF).
An example of three white soldiers appearing on this ETF price chart.
The ETF had been in a strong bearish downtrend over the course of several weeks before the three white soldiers pattern marked a sharp bullish reversal. The pattern may suggest that the rally will continue, but traders may also look at other relevant factors before making a decision. For example, the stock may have reached an area of resistance or the move may have been on low volume.
As three white soldiers is a bullish visual pattern, it is used as an entry or exit point. Traders who are short on the security look to exit and traders who are waiting to take up a bullish position see the three white soldiers as an entry opportunity.
When trading the three white soldiers pattern, it's important to note that the strong moves higher could create temporary overbought conditions. The relative strength index (RSI), for example, may have moved above 70.0 levels. In some cases, there is a short period of consolidation following the three soldiers pattern, but the short- and intermediate-term bias remains bullish. The significant move higher could also reach key resistance levels where the stock could experience consolidation before continuing to move higher.
The opposite of the three white soldiers is the three black crows candlestick pattern. Three black crows consist of three consecutive long-bodied candlesticks that have opened within the real body of the previous candle and closed lower than the previous candle. Whereas three white soldiers catch the momentum shift from the bears to the bulls, three black crows show the bears taking control from the bulls. The same caveats about volume and additional confirmation apply to both patterns.
Three white soldiers can also appear during periods of consolidation, which is an easy way to get trapped in a continuation of the existing trend rather than a reversal. One of the key things to watch is the volume supporting the formation of three white soldiers. Any pattern on low volume is suspect because it is the market action of the few rather than the many.
To combat the limitation of visual patterns, traders use the three white soldiers and other such candlestick patterns in conjunction with other technical indicators like trendlines, moving averages and bands. For example, traders may look for areas of upcoming resistance before initiating a long position or look at the level of volume on the breakout to confirm that there was a high amount of dollar volume transacting. If the pattern occurred on low volume with near-term resistance, traders may wait until there is further confirmation of a breakout to initiate a long position.
The Rising Three Methods is a bullish candlestick pattern that is used to predict the continuation of the current uptrend. | 2019-04-21T09:05:18 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/three_white_soldiers.asp |
0.999986 | Donald Trump has not done anything wrong and therefore there would be no need for a pardon, the White House has said, sidestepping questions about the U.S. president's remarks that he has the "absolute right" to pardon himself.
In a tweet, Trump raised a question of whether he could pardon himself should the special counsel find he interfered in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
The latest eye-catching tweet from President Donald Trump included a statement that he had the right to pardon himself in the eyes of "numerous legal scholars".
On The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, the host compared Trump pardoning himself to a particular, personal sexual act.
Rudy Giuliani defended President Donald Trump's lawyers and press secretary on Monday, saying no one had lied about an infamous 2016 meeting between Trump's son and a Russian lawyer, but rather, they'd made mistakes when talking about it past year.
The leaked letter was part of a broader campaign fought by the White House legal team arguing that Trump should not have to sit down and give evidence to special counsel Mueller.
That power includes "the power to pardon any person before, during or after an investigation and/or conviction", they said in the letter.
Mr Trump's tweet comes a day after one of his lawyers addressed the self-pardon issue on Sunday talk shows.
Giuliani, who caused a media eruption this week by claiming that President Trump "probably" has the legal power to pardon himself but that such a move would be practically "unthinkable", suggested that Mueller's team may not even recognize its bias. "And, once again, the President hasn't done anything wrong, and we feel very comfortable in that front", she said.
President Donald Trump is calling the special counsel Russian Federation probe "totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!"
"Yes, I think it's outrageous", Flannery said.
And as Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., pointed out Monday, President Nixon resigned three days after that opinion was issued.
It says he can pardon federal crimes.
In a warning, it also claimed he had the power, "if he wished, to terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon if he so desired.".
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani recently said the probe may need to be curtailed because, in his estimation, it was based on inappropriately obtained information from an informant and former FBI Director James Comey's memos.
"We said, 'Well, we're not going to have a summit under those circumstances, '" Giuliani said.
About 17 per cent of the women had scores that showed they were at high risk of recurrence so they were advised to take chemo. A 21-gene test called Oncotype DX , available since 2004, has helped guide some decisions on proper care after surgery . | 2019-04-21T08:24:41 | http://mmaringreport.com/2018/06/07/giuliani-mueller-s-team-is-trying-very-hard-to-frame-trump.html |
0.998081 | Why didn't I check the reports on how manning played in the pre-season?
Broncos defensive line could be very good. Derek Wolfe looks to have been a good draft pick. Getting pressure on Matt Ryan will be key in the next game and I really like the odds of the Broncos' defence keeping the Falcons in check.
Manning looked very good despite having lost a few mph on his fastball. Atlanta has lost cornerback Brent Grimes for the season. There was talk that the Falcons needed three corners for their defensive scheme to succeed - hence the Samuel signing. They now face Manning in a dome, down a top-class corner, and with Manning's no-huddle looking as effective as ever.
The Steelers were obviously without Clark for this game but they will not be getting all their defensive players back against the Jets - Harrison at least is out. The Jets offence will surely be over rated so I am very high on the Steelers defence this week.
I would also be high on the Steelers' offence - especially with Revis out - if I knew they would play to their strength, an explosive passing game. One thing that has me worried is the Steelers bragging about how they finally acquired a full-back. Forget about being old-school Steelers, ground-and-pound, go long! | 2019-04-25T17:03:02 | http://mybraincrack.blogspot.com/2012/09/nfl-week-1-review-steelers-broncos.html |
0.998037 | This article is part of a series of U.S. Foreign Policy Opinion Briefings aimed at helping to inform U.S. leaders on pressing foreign policy issues.
Quick Summary: Iranians' already low approval of U.S. leadership did not get worse after the U.S. toughened sanctions in late 2011. Eight percent of Iranians approved of U.S. leadership in late 2011 and early 2012 -- one of the lowest ratings the U.S. receives worldwide. While nearly half of Iranians (46%) support cutting ties with countries that impose economic sanctions on Iran, nearly one in three (31%) do not, showing a sizable minority of Iranians still value relations.
Issue at Hand: The U.S., the U.K., and the EU in recent months have imposed some of the toughest economic sanctions on Iran yet to thwart its nuclear program. Iran has responded with threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for one-fifth of the world's oil. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on state TV last week that, "no obstacles can stop Iran's nuclear work."
Tensions over Iran's disputed nuclear program escalated further last week after Iran refused to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials to investigate nuclear activities at a military base. The IAEA reported after its recent trip that Iran had stepped up its uranium enrichment, sending oil prices soaring to a nine-month high Friday amid concerns about a confrontation with the West.
The U.S. and Israel are not ruling out strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, but the U.S. is urging Israel to give the sanctions additional time to work. Iran is anticipated to be the focus when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barack Obama next week.
Obama Administration's Stance: Calling Tehran's refusal to give IAEA officials access to the military site "disappointing," U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said last week that the U.S. still wants to see negotiations move forward. "There is that diplomatic track," Toner said. "But we're not going to ease up on the sanctions."
Although the administration has not taken any options off the table to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Obama said in his State of the Union address that he believed that a peaceful resolution is still possible, and, if Iran abides by its international obligations, it can "rejoin the community of nations."
Iranians' Approval of U.S. and Other Key Players: The 8% of Iranians who approved of U.S. leadership in late 2011 and early 2012 is similar to the 9% measured in early 2011, and remains one of the lowest ratings the U.S. receives worldwide. Other countries that are tightening sanctions, such as the U.K., Germany, and the EU, also have few admirers in Iran. Seven percent of Iranians approve of the U.K.'s leadership, while slightly more approve of the leadership of Germany (13%) and the EU in general (13%).
Russia and China, which have criticized the West's sanctions, fare better. Roughly one in five Iranians approve of each country's leadership. However, Iranians are still more likely to disapprove than approve of the leadership of these key major powers.
While nearly half of Iranians (46%) support cutting ties to countries that impose economic sanctions, nearly one in three (31%) do not. This suggests that a sizable minority of the Iranian public still sees value in pursuing a diplomatic track. Approval is still low among Iranians who do not support cutting ties with these nations, but these Iranians are significantly more likely to approve of the U.S. than those who believe ties should be severed.
In addition, 65% of Iranians believe that the sanctions the U.S., the U.K., and the EU recently imposed will personally hurt them a "great deal" or "somewhat." This is despite U.S. assurances that Iran, not its people, are the sanctions' main targets. The value of the Iranian rial has dropped sharply in recent weeks, and prices of food, consumer goods, and utilities have spiraled. Almost half of Iranians (48%) now say there were times in the past year when they did not have enough money to buy food their families needed.
Policy Implications: Even if diplomatic efforts succeed, the U.S. and other Western nations will still face the challenge of finding a way to engage an Iranian public that has suffered under the economic sanctions. Iranians' approval of the U.S. and other key powers is almost incapable of sinking any lower. Despite the expected personal costs, nearly one-third do not endorse cutting ties. This suggests some Iranians still hold out hope for some type of relationship -- even if it falls short of the formal diplomatic ties with the U.S. that Obama pursued early in his presidency.
Results are based on landline telephone interviews conducted from a telephone center outside Iran with approximately 1,000 adults, aged 15 and older, conducted Dec. 16, 2011-Jan. 10, 2012, in Iran. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ยฑ3.8 percentage points.
While a solid majority of Iranians approve of Iran developing its nuclear power capabilities for non-military use (57%), they are more divided about developing it for military use, with 40% approving and 35% disapproving.
Iranians are increasingly struggling to afford food and shelter, and 65% say sanctions imposed by the United Nations, the U.S., and Western Europe will hurt the livelihoods of the country's residents "a great deal" or "somewhat."
Residents of the troubled economies of southern and eastern Europe are generally less likely to approve of the job performance of their country's leaders than are northern and western Europeans. | 2019-04-19T10:52:19 | https://news.gallup.com/poll/153002/Opinion-Briefing-Iranians-Outlook-Relations.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=TOPIC&g_campaign=item_&g_content=Opinion%2520Briefing%3A%2520Iranians%27%2520Outlook%2520for%2520U.S.%2520Relations |
0.999522 | I've eaten a lot of barbecued chicken in my life. I should define terms here - I'm talking about chicken that is grilled over direct heat (be it a propane gas grill or charcoal) and slathered with a tomato-based, sweet and tangy red sauce. I know that barbecue is defined differently by region of the country, but that's what I consider barbecued chicken. Growing up it was a summer staple, eaten at least once a week, with the only change being whatever sauce happened to be en vogue at the moment with my mother and the rest of us. I won't say I don't like barbecued chicken, but I've never been thrilled by barbecued chicken (which didn't stop me from eating 4 or 5 pieces every time I sat down at the dinner table all through my youth).
The problem for me turns out to be one of technique really. As I've found out, there are many ways that barbecued chicken can go wrong, but two main mistakes. First, most people put all their chicken on the grill at the same time and take it off at the same time. If you're cooking both dark and white meat, this almost always results in over-cooked breast meat, and if the white meat was boneless to begin with, as it so often is nowadays, forget about anything resembling juice in the meat. People are so afraid of under cooking chicken that they leave it on the grill way too long. For the chicken's sake people, get an instant read meat thermometer and take the guess work out of it (according to Mark Bittman and the USDA, you can safely remove the chicken from the grill when the internal temp is 165 degrees). Second, most people put the sauce on way too soon resulting in blackened chicken as the sugar in the sauce turns to carbon way before the chicken is done cooking. Unfortunately, continuously bathing the chicken in more sauce does little to combat this error. Dry inside and burned outside, doesn't sound too appealing does it?
Fortunately there is a better way, and I was shown the light once again a few years ago by my friend John. This recipe takes a little more effort than just throwing the chicken on the grill and opening a bottle of sauce, but the effort is well worth it. A spice rub imparts flavor to the chicken without the risk of premature burning, the cooking time is specific by chicken piece, and the sauce goes on right at the end where it caramelizes just every so slightly over low heat. You'll never have to worry about dry, burned chicken again. Cool, creamy, tangy cole slaw provides a perfect counterpoint to the warm, slightly spicy chicken, and if you're so inclined, it makes one heck of a barbecue sandwich condiment. You can make any cole slaw recipe you like, but I like this one from Emeril - Kicked Up Cole Slaw.
If you're going to make the cole slaw (and I strongly suggest that you do), start with that so it has time to sit in the fridge for a while which allows the flavors to meld. You can even make this a day ahead, just give it a good stir before serving. To make the dressing, whisk together the mayonnaise, mustard, brown sugar, cider vinegar, buttermilk, celery seeds, salt, pepper, and cayenne in a bowl.
Shred the cabbage and carrot, dice the green pepper, and grate the onion. Toss the cabbage mixture with the dressing until everything is evenly coated, then cover and place in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Before you make the chicken, you need to make the barbecue sauce, and before you make the barbecue sauce, you need to make the rub, but that's easy. Just combine the following in a mixing bowl and work well to break up any lumps: brown sugar, paprika, black pepper, kosher salt, garlic powder, onion powder, celery seeds, and cayenne pepper. To make the barbecue sauce, combine the following ingredients in a small saucepan: ketchup, cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, molasses, mustard, hot sauce, barbecue rub, liquid smoke, and black pepper (I'm not sure if this is Kansas City or Georgia style sauce).
Bring the sauce to a boil slowly over medium heat then reduce the heat and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, until the sauce is slightly thickened. Pour the sauce into an empty jar (You do have an empty jar sitting around right?) and store it in the fridge until you need it (since this recipe uses only about a cup of sauce, you'll have leftover sauce that keeps for a few months).
Okay, now you're ready to start the chicken (and of course with chicken make sure you follow all safe handling rules). Rub some spice mixture into each side of each chicken piece (about 1/2 tsp of rub per piece, give or take depending on size). Here I chose to do thighs with the skin removed and boneless, skinless breasts which I had brined. The recipe calls for 1 chicken cut into 8 pieces (legs, thighs, breasts, and wings). Let the chicken sit for 30 minutes. Preheat the grill about 15 minutes before you're ready to cook on medium heat (or start your charcoal long enough ahead to provide a medium-hot fire).
Because I was cooking so many pieces, I decided to do the chicken in batches, first the dark meat, then the white meat. The recipe is written for cooking everything at once, but is easily adapted, just follow the cooking times. Place the dark meat skin side down, cover the grill and allow it to cook for 8 minutes. Do not move the chicken. After 8 minutes, flip the pieces over and cook them for 8 more minutes.
Flip the pieces so they are skin side down again and brush them generously with sauce. Flip them back over and brush the other side with sauce. Move the chicken to a cool part of the grill (I turn off the back burner), cover and let the chicken rest for 2 more minutes.
Take the chicken off the grill (total dark meat cooking time is 18 minutes). The white meat follows the same procedure, but the cooking time is reduced. For bone-in breasts, you would do 6 minutes, flip, 8 minutes, flip, sauce, flip, sauce, 2 minutes, done (total cooking time is 16 minutes). Boneless breasts will cook much quicker (especially if you brine them, which I strongly recommend), something along the lines of about 12 minutes total.
Once the chicken is done, you can eat is as is with whatever sides you like, or you can make barbecue sandwiches! Just slice up some chicken (in this case I just sliced all the white meat) and put some on a nice soft roll (I made some of these).
Top the chicken with a bit of extra sauce and a healthy dollop of cole slaw. I first had cole slaw on a barbecued pulled pork sandwich at Corky's in Memphis and I must say it was nothing short of a revelatory experience for this New England boy.
Mmm...a nice barbecued chicken sandwich with a side of cold whole wheat orzo salad and cold green beans with goat cheese - a perfect summer barbecue menu.
Wonderful! Those came out perfect! Nice job.
BBQ chicken and coleslaw sandwich is one of my favorites! The messier the better. | 2019-04-24T14:46:32 | http://theteacherlearnstocook.blogspot.com/2008/05/barbecued-chicken-and-cole-slaw.html |
0.999997 | Will the FEC examine the president-elect's campaign finances?
Sometime early next year, the six commissioners who run the Federal Election Commission will face an interesting dilemma--whether to approve a "for cause" audit of the presidential campaign of a sitting president, Barack Obama.
From a legal standpoint, this should be an easy vote. Serious issues were raised in numerous media reports chronicling the Obama campaign's probable violations of federal law. If the career staff at the FEC follow the ordinary, regulatory model of investigations, they will recommend such an audit to the commissioners. However, the odds are that the three Democratic commissioners will be under enormous pressure to vote "no." Some members of their party may make it clear that their professional and political careers in Washington will be finished if they vote to approve such an audit. Since it takes four votes for the FEC to take any action, at least one of those Democratic commissioners will have to join with the three Republicans to approve an audit.
more money than any candidate has ever collected in history--almost $750 million.
Obama's alleged receipt of illegal contributions through the Internet, in fact, may dwarf all of the money the Nixon campaign infamously collected in the 1972 election. The public funding program automatically requires an audit of any candidate that receives public funds, so John McCain's campaign will be audited without question. Since Obama is the first candidate to refuse public funding in the general election since the program started, it would be very odd if Obama avoided an audit because of his ability to raise extraordinary funds from untraceable sources.
Some of the acts and omissions are so cavalier, it's hard to believe they weren't intentional. For example, the Post reported that the Obama campaign accepted prepaid credit cards that are untraceable, and National Journal reported that the campaign didn't implement a verification procedure to even match the names of contributors using regular credit cards with the names and addresses of the credit card holders.
When asked about it, the Obama campaign said such matching wasn't "available in the credit card processing industry." That is completely untrue--such verification procedures are offered by companies that service credit-card transactions, as well as by banks and telecommunications companies (and was standard procedure for the McCain campaign).
In contrast to the McCain campaign, the Obama campaign also refused to divulge the names of the millions of small-time donors who contributed (many repeatedly) under $200 to the campaign (totaling $218 million), saying it was "too difficult." However, as Neil Munro of National Journal reported, there are "few technical obstacles to sorting and identifying small-scale donors."
Of course, disclosing that information would have revealed the many instances of fictitious donor names uncovered by the press (like "Doodad Pro"), which the campaign blithely accepted. Media reports show that Obama's campaign apparently lacked even basic software protocols to catch obviously fictitious addresses (like a donor's state being listed as "NA" or "ZZ") or employer names (like DFDFGDFG), or to accumulate small donations made repeatedly by the same individual. If the campaign had done that, it would have had to refuse the contributions, return them when they went above the maximum of $2,300 per election, or identify donors once their contributions top $200.
16,639 potential foreign donations to Obama's campaign. When confronted with this, the campaign started collecting passport numbers from foreign donors, a completely useless procedure since no effort was made to verify those numbers with the State Department to see if they were even valid.
Obama's campaign has claimed that FEC regulations didn't prohibit taking prepaid credit cards or require it to verify credit cards. That may be true, but that doesn't remove the campaign's obligation to accurately report donor information and to verify that a contributor is really eligible to donate money. Given Obama's unprecedented use of the Internet to raise funds, this is impossible unless you take such precautions at the front end. Any reasonable campaign would know that such steps were necessary to actually comply with FEC requirements on donor information and eligibility.
It is ironic that a candidate who in 2007 billed himself a "campaign reformer," who wanted to clean up the corruption caused by money in politics, would run a campaign that reportedly failed to implement any controls whatsoever to prevent these problems. If media accounts of Obama's campaign practices prove true, then it would seem that the decision was made to collect all of the money that came in, no matter what. Once the campaign was won, who would care if years from now the FEC eventually found a violation and imposed a civil penalty, especially when your campaign employs the best campaign lawyers in Washington that money can buy to fight the FEC and obfuscate the issues? Besides, Obama can assume the mantle of "campaign reformer" again in 2009 and sweep any findings by the FEC under the rug as he proposes "new and improved" campaign finance laws.
Campaign reform has been a bipartisan sport in Washington for years, with its advocates promising new laws and regulations would address perceived systemic ills. Those charged with applying the law at the FEC now face a decisive moment. Will they conduct their investigation to the benefit of both parties, or turn a blind eye to credible allegations of wrongdoing, to the long-term benefit of neither?
Hans A. von Spakovsky is a Visiting Legal Scholar at The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org). He is a former Commissioner on the Federal Election Commission. | 2019-04-18T18:46:01 | http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009/01/auditing-obama-by-former-commissioner.html |
0.999551 | Powers/Abilities: None, Kerfoot was a normal human, skilled in espionage and stealing of military secrets.
(Captain America I#155 (fb) - BTS) - Major Kerfoot was part of the German Schutzstaffel (the S.S., secret police). He also was a German spy.
(Marvels Project#2 (fb) - BTS) - Kerfoot was sent to the US to infiltrate the military's scientific community as Professor Hamilton.
(Marvels Project#3 (fb) - BTS) - Hamilton's background was checked by the US federal agencies and they deemed him a valuable addition for their robotics projects.
(Marvels Project#2 - BTS) - Kerfoot had Phantom Bullet killed because he was snooping around at the docks, which the Fifth Columnists used to smuggle Nazi spies into the country.
(Marvels Project#2) - Contacted by his superiors by long-range radio Kerfoot was informed of Erskine's defection to the US and ordered to monitor the situation and to report back when he heard more about the situation. His maid overheard Kerfoot giving a Hitler salute and Kerfoot strangled her to death when she tried to run away.
(Marvels Project#3) - Hamilton was visited by General Kilroy, who told Hamilton he was needed on the staff for a new project. Hamilton happily agreed to serve his country. Kilroy replied that patriots like Hamilton would soon be needed more when the US joined the war.
(Marvels Project#3 - BTS) - Investigating Phantom Bullet's death Angel (Thomas Halloway) learned that the Phantom Reported had busted up a smuggling ring, which presumably brought people illegally to the US.
(Marvel Project#4 - BTS) - Kerfoot got his hands on the complete dossier on Operation: Rebirth's test subject Steve Rogers and stole it. He then gave it to Kruger.
(Marvels Project#4) - At the beginning of fall 1940 Kerfoot met with Kruger in a dark alley in New York City. Kerfoot reminded Kruger to speak English, before handing over the credentials Kruger needed to attend Project: Rebirth's Super-Soldier experiment. Kerfoot told Kruger that he was only days away from getting his hands on Erskine's formula. Kruger would be free to murder Erskine as soon as Kerfoot had the formula. Their meeting was observed by the detective known as the Ferret, who was murdered by their handler. Kerfoot went through Ferret's pockets and found his investigation firm's business card. His handler sent Kerfoot back to the safe house because they couldn't risk any mistakes at this point.
(Marvels Project#4 (fb) - BTS) - Kerfoot successfully copied Erskine's formula though he suspected parts were missing.
(Marvels Project#5 (fb) - BTS) - Kerfoot fled his apartment only hours before government agents raided it after Kruger successfully assassinated Erskine and then died fighting newly transformed super-soldier Steve Rogers.
(Captain America I#155 (fb)/Marvels Project#5 (fb) ) - Kerfoot wrote a report and included the Super-Soldier formula. The day after the experiment and Erskine's assassination Kerfoot faked his own death when he was seemingly killed by a car bomb.
(Marvels Project#5 (fb) - BTS) - Kerfoot's report and the formula were sent to Berlin.
(Marvels Project#5) - Even after faking his death Kerfoot couldn't find any sleep in his new safehouse. When his handler and two agents arrived at his door one day he let them in. His handler asked Kerfoot is he had copied the formula, but Kerfoot couldn't remember. He asked when he was going to return to Germany shortly before his handler broke his neck. His handler then ordered the other agents to get rid of his body and pack up his books, which should also be sent back to Germany including Kerfoot's Geheim-Akte.
(Captain America I#155 (fb) - BTS) - Hundred of thousands of Nazi agents' reports were gathered in a huge storehouse in Germany by the allied. Kerfoot was believed to be an agent of lesser importance and his record remained there.
(Captain America I#155 (fb)) - Between 1952 and the end of the Korean "War," the formula was found by the man who would become the Captain America of the 1950s (William Burnside).
Comments: Created by Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema and Frank McLaughlin.
It's rather strange that Kruger, a Gestapo agent, took orders by Kerfoot, a SS agent.
Kerfoot's first name was revealed in Marvel Atlas#1.
Profile by Spidermay. Update by Markus Raymond (Marvels Project).
any other "Major" or character with a similar name. | 2019-04-25T04:36:28 | http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/majorkerfoot.htm |
0.999996 | My girlfriend (over 18) is estranged from her parents, but recently discovered money in her name in the form of stocks. She sold the stocks, but the company that handled the transaction sent a check with her father's name as well (with an "and" between the names). When she went to deposit the check, they demanded to see his ID and signature as well (which she obviously doesn't have).
She endorsed it already (not knowing this would happen), so she can't mail it off to him (otherwise he will cash it in his account). She's reasonably certain he won't do anything to help her get this money.
The issuer of the check said they can't/won't change it to "or" so now the money is basically in limbo. What course of action should she take? Is it possible for her to, say, un-endorse the check until she gets the other signature? Can she somehow be guaranteed that she can access the money and he won't dispose or himself cash it out?
She can't do anything about having the details on the check (or cheque as we say in Australia) changed, as the shares were in joint names so the check has to be in the same names. The shares were obviously bought for her by her father probably as a gift or as a notion of helping her start her adult life or so she would have a little nest egg for the future. Now you are saying that she doesn't trust her father to sign over the check for her to collect the money, but unless she talks to him about it the money will be lost anyway.
So either she will appreciate what he had done for her in the first place (buying the shares in her name) and thanks him for them and asks if he could sign the check over to her so she can collect the money, and even if he disagrees at least she would have heard his side of the story. On the other hand, if it is too much for her to talk to him about, then just forget about the check and the money. I wouldn't be accepting gifts from someone I disliked!
If the brokerage account was in both of their names they any proceeds would belong to both of them. If the brokerage firm were to issue your girlfriend a check with just her name then they could be liable for that same amount again to her father. So while technically they could, the firm is never going to issue a new check with out her father having his name removed from the account(something he would have to be a part of and may be against the firm's policies).
If your girlfriend really wants/needs the money in the account she is going to have to deal with her father. If the money is not worth the hassle of trying to deal with her father she could just send the check to him. However if it is just that she does not believe her father will help her then she should reach out. Estrangement is hard on both sides and she may be underestimating her father. I know I often underestimated what lengths my parents were willing to go to help me.
I know you have already accepted an answer, but I think I might have something to add.
I recently closed out a couple of accounts that my parents setup for me as college fund accounts. One of them was specifically listed as a "custodial gift to minor" account. If she is of legal age and the stocks were in this sort of form, the bank is required by law to remove the fathers name from the checks. When I went through the process of trying to do this the bank was very reluctant to do so and finally told me that they had no proof of my age and so I would need to provide this proof before they would remove my fathers name. I am still close to my parents so it ended up just being easier to get him to sign the check for me.
If the account isn't structured in this sort of way, then you will pretty much be out of luck and have to follow what the others have said.
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Someone gave my sister a bad cheque, what should she do? | 2019-04-26T08:09:14 | https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/13094/cashing-a-joint-check |
0.999193 | We consider the k most vital edges (nodes) and min edge (node) blocker versions of the 1-median and 1-center location problems. Given a weighted connected graph with distances on edges and weights on nodes, the k most vital edges (nodes) 1-median (respectively 1-center) problem consists of ๏ฌnding a subset of k edges (nodes) whose removal from the graph leads to an optimal solution for the 1-median (respectively 1-center) problem with the largest total weighted distance (respectively maximum weighted distance). The complementary problem, min edge (node) blocker 1-median (respectively 1-center), consists of removing a subset of edges (nodes) of minimum cardinality such that an optimal solution for the 1-median (respectively 1-center) problem has a total weighted distance spectively a maximum weighted distance) at least as large as a speci๏ฌed threshold. We show that k most vital edges 1-median and k most vital edges 1-center are NP-hard to approximate within a factor 7 โ and 4 โ respectively, for any > 0, while k most 5 3 vital nodes 1-median and k most vital nodes 1-center are NP-hard to approximate within a factor 3 โ , for any > 0. We also show that the 2 complementary versions of these four problems are NP-hard to approx imate within a factor 1.36. | 2019-04-19T20:43:27 | https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/5766 |
0.998647 | Can students change course settings?
To be clear, course "Settings" are only something that instructors/teachers/admins have access to. These are settings about the course that a student cannot control or set.
But, what I think you're actually asking about are notification settings for a student. So, to answer that question, yes...it's entirely possible that any given student could go to his/her notification settings (via "Account" >> "Notifications") and choose to not receive e-mail notifications of course announcements. Or, they may choose to get e-mail notifications about new announcements immediately, via a daily summary, or via a weekly summary. It's entirely their choice. In addition, students could also choose to receive a notification about a new announcement if they connected a Twitter account or if they set it up to receive text messages. Again, they have the option (and actually, you do as well for your own profile) to set up how you want to receive notifications and the frequency of those notifications. So yes...it's entirely possible that a student could turn off all notifications about course events via e-mail and only receive notifications via text message or Twitter, for example. Again, the choice is their.
I hope this helps, Daria.
Are there any options to prohibit to "switch off" notification to the e-mail?
I'm not aware of any way to push specific notification settings to individual users. However, a while ago I wrote a script that admins can run to view users' notification settings. At least at our institution, almost no-one (<2% of students) fully disables their announcement notifications. | 2019-04-18T21:26:21 | https://community.canvaslms.com/thread/11814-can-students-change-course-settings |
0.998938 | Some key policy issue areas include: Liability, Device Choice, Economics, User Experience & Privacy and a trust Model. Today we look at Economics.
Many organizations look at BYOD as an opportunity to reduce some costs. Clearly, not having an equipment cost - $200-$600 per-device - can add up depending on the company's size. It might also make financial sense for a smaller company with few employees. Since the phone is owned by the employee, then they are probably responsible for the bill every month. Depending on their personal contract/plan, excessive charges could arise due to the extra minutes used for work related calls. Often, monthly charges are fairly consistent with established plans, and while there are times when the bill is higher due to an incidental charge to some other overage, many people fail to review their phone bill when it arrives. BYOD could force employees into a higher monthly service plan but it also gives users visibility into their usage, if for instance, the corporate BYOD policy allows for reimbursement. This can drive personal responsibility for how they use their minutes.
While BYOD could reduce the overall expenditure for IT issued devices and many organizations report employees are happier and more productive when they are using the device of their desire (an enablement tool), there might be other areas that costs could increase. While the employee does spend their own money on the device, there are certainly enterprise costs to managing and securing that device. There could also be a snag however when it comes to licensing. Does BYOD also require Bring Your Own License? In many instances, this is an area that IT needs to keep an eye on and often the answer is yes.
Some of the most common enterprise software licensing agreements require licensing any device used "for the benefit of the company" under the terms of the enterprise agreement. That often means that all those BYO devices might require a license to access common corporate applications. This also means that even if the user already has a particular license, which they purchased on their own or it came with the device, the organization might still need to license that device under their enterprise software agreement. This could diminish any cost savings from the BYOD initiative. There are solutions to such as using alternative products that are not restricted by licensing but, those may not have the key features required by the workforce. IT needs to understand if their license agreements are per-user or per-device and what impact that may have on a BYOD policy.
A few questions that the Finance department should determine is: Should the company offer users a monthly stipend? How is productivity measured? Will the management and security cost more than IT (volume) procurement? What are the help desk expenses and policy about support calls. There certainly needs to be discussion around mobile app purchase and deployment for work use. Are there any compliance, additional audit costs or tax implications with a BYOD initiative? | 2019-04-23T20:36:06 | https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/byod-policies-ndash-more-than-an-it-issue-part-3-economics |
0.999977 | Database Design: what's the purpose of determining foreign secrets?
I am using MySQL Work bench to model my database. Inside it, I have the choice to produce associations by determining foreign secrets, etc. What's the purpose of this? I can run my queries all right without these associations.
My tables will have a real column for foreign secrets, I simply did not define them in MySQL Work bench. Meaning, I do not have individuals lines hooking up the tables.
Foreign secrets are helpful for making certain data integrity. Should you define them, the database itself will make certain that the invalid foreign key value won't be permitted to become placed in to the table.
Foreign secrets perform a couple of things. Most clearly, you'll get built-in data integrity, as Macy Abbey pointed out.
Oddly enough, the query optimizer of the favorite RDBMS may also use constraints like foreign secrets to complete additional optimizations. Essentially, the database can determine whether it may perform a better job of writing a question than you. The existence of foreign secrets allows the database make these presumptions. You'll find an excellent example at Do Foreign Key Constraints Help Performance?. That can be a link is SQL Server specific, the key is identical no matter database engine.
If you don't have Foreign Secrets, you don't have Relations. Therefore you don't have a Relational database it's a bucket of seafood, without any integrity, and also you will not possess the energy of the Relational database (Jeremiah's answer is simply one item of numerous).
you are able to work without Foreign Secrets to model your database.. however, it is usually better to Foreign Secrets to keep data consistency.. If you're not using Foreign Secrets inside your database, you'll have to change your queries by hand and keep an eye on the foreign id's. however, should you choose specify the foreign keys' it's become simpler not just for you personally however for sql and to map your computer data..
Discover conscious of data integrity constraints and also the natural part they play in database design then I suggest you have a course or study some books prior to going about creating databases. It may be smart to hire some expertise to assist together with your current project.
I personally use all sorts of constraint available, in the beginning. Then if it's proven to harm performance, I start getting rid of stuff. It's a good strategy which makes you are sleeping well during the night.
Wordpress Query_posts coming back only 6 posts. Why?
Wordpress - meta_query - Easy to use multiple or nested meta_query arguments?
why two snacks utilized in wordpress login process: "auth" and "drenched_in"? | 2019-04-26T10:30:38 | http://codeblow.com/questions/database-design-what-s-the-purpose-of-determining-foreign-secrets/ |
0.999991 | Should Republicans stop running for office in Monroe County?
Spoiler: The answer is an emphatic "no."
I heard some grumbling after the election that "Republicans should not run for offices they know they will lose," because it damages the other candidates who are in winnable races - specifically state legislative races in Monroe County. But despite the heavy turnout among Democrats in Monroe County, Republicans dominated the two most contested races. The Republican candidate won in District 62 by a margin of 11,483 to 6,613. The Republican candidate won in District 60 by a margin of 13,734 to 6,611 votes.
But by that logic no Republican should run for anything at all in Monroe County, outside of Republican townships like Van Buren and Richland. I simply cannot agree with that. I do not and will not accept automatic one party rule with no opposition from the Republican Party. I do not accept that Democrats should not even be challenged at the county level, or at the city level for that matter.
Did the local GOP stir up and antagonize Democrats? The reality is that Democrats were always going to be stirred up in the 2018 mid-term election because of Donald Trump and Trey Hollingsworth. Nationwide and especially in Monroe County, President Trump is driving Democratic turnout, and in Monroe County Hollingsworth is close behind. The Democrats hate Hollingsworth. They were going to hate whoever won the Republican primary in 2016, because that person would go on to defeat Shelli Yoder, but they hate Holingsworth more. That's not a slam on Hollingsworth, who has been a great representative. But the fact of the matter is their hatred of him drove turnout.
We should not attribute a national trend to local candidates. Local Republicans are losing on national and statewide races, not local races. That has been the case since 2003 and the Iraq war. Now it is due to hatred of Trump. This is what happens when we get (let's be brutally honest) the most aggressive and obnoxious candidate possible. Trump has done well on policy, but he is needlessly antagonistic and his constant trolling has hurt Republicans in swing states and swing districts.
We also lost because Democrats have spent 16 years registering thousands and thousands of voters and Republicans' new registrations have not kept pace. It is almost unbelievable now, but George W. Bush won Monroe County with approximately 19,000 votes in 2000. We have basically the same number of voters we had then, adding maybe 2000-3000. Democrats have added 15,000 to 20,000 new voters and Republican candidates - no matter how much more obviously well qualified - cannot compete with that voter registration gap.
Running solid candidates does not hurt the ticket. It helps the ticket. Remember, all but one of the Republicans running for county government in Monroe County in 2016 ran way ahead of the statewide races (President, Governor, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate and Superintendent of Public Instruction) and got thousands more votes lower on the ticket than the top of the ticket. If anything, local Republicans may have reduced the margin of loss in Monroe County for the Republicans at the top of the ticket.
Finally and most importantly, Republicans have a moral obligation to be an opposition party in Monroe County. Voters deserve a choice, and Republicans should run for office to give them that choice. An election with no opposition party is not an election at all. We have 22,000 Republican voters in Monroe County that should not be denied the opportunity to vote for a Republican candidates for local offices. We should not deny those voters a voice in local government.
I firmly believe Republicans can win countywide races and more county council district races, but we need to register more voters and the state party needs to help. The 2016 and 2018 elections were the first step in our rebuilding effort, and that effort must continue. | 2019-04-25T17:01:13 | http://www.sstibbs.com/scott/2018_archives/blog_2018_178.html |
0.998816 | In this article, I will demonstrate how to configure and verify a policy based site 2 site IPSec VPN between a Cisco IOS-based router and an ASA firewall. To best describe, I am using this simple topology as shown in the above-mentioned diagram.
I have R3 on the right side of the diagram, simulating as host. At the end the task we will send the ping from R3 to verify reachability over the VPN tunnel. R3 is connected to the ASA as part of its inside interface.ASA is connected to R2 as part of its outside interface. R2 sends traffic over the internet to R1. In this lab, I will create a policy based site 2 site IPSec VPN between R1 and ASA. For simplicity, I am using static routes everywhere. Here are the initial configurations of all 4 devices. You can replicate this lab in GNS3. I am using 9.4.2 code on an ASA and 15.4(1)T code on all routers.
First, define global ISAKMP (Phase 1) policy using the command crypto isakmp policy <priority> command. This policy contains authentication method, encryption ciphers to protect ISAKMP, hash functions for integrity check, Diffie-hellman-group and Lifetime. ISAKMP phase 1 policy-list is scanned from lowest numbers to highest when matching the incoming proposals from the remote peer. If lifetime is not configured manually then lowest default lifetime is negotiated on both sides.
In this example, I am using aes encryption method, pre-shared-key based authentication, md5 hash algorithm, Diffie-hellman group 5 and lifetime of 86400 seconds.
To complete phase 1 configuration on a router, define isakmp key using crypto isakmp key <value> address <value> command and on ASA, create a tunnel-group (connection profile using the command tunnel-group <IP> type ipsec-l2l and configure parameters using the command tunnel-group <IP> ipsec-attributes. When the ASA firewall establishes an IKEv1 VPN tunnel, it looks through the list of local tunnel-groups based on the remote endpoint IKE ID (which by default is an IP address).
For phase 2, first define a crypto transform-set using the command crypto ipsec transform-set. Transform-set defines the security parameters for the IPsec tunnel, specifically the cipher, hash function (optionally, the mode of the IPsec protection, tunnel or transport on IOS). Lifetime and PFS are optional in configuration.
In this example, I am using ESP protocol, aes encryption and md5 hashing algorithm.
Define a subset of traffic (often called an Encryption domain or interesting traffic ) for IPsec protection using an extended access-list. The syntax format is permit <local-ip> <local-mask> <remote-ip> <remote-mask> and should mirror the entries configured on the remote endpoint. Multiple entries can be configured in the access-list. Since you have to define the traffic manually, this type of VPN is called policy based VPN.
NOTE: standard access-list can also be configured here but it can only match on the source address and hence it is not recommended.
In this example, I am securing VPN traffic between two hosts IP only but multiple segments can be secured as well.
Create a crypto map using the command crypto-map <NAME> <SEQ-NR> [set|match] that matches the above-created access-list and sets the remote peer and the transform-set. This completes the settings for IPSec Phase 2. Setting the remote peer is important, because this is how the device binds the proxy IDs in the access-list to the phase 1 parameters.
Apply the crypto-map to the interface where you expect the VPN tunnel to be terminated as follows.
Thatโs all is needed to configure the site 2 site IPsec based VPN between IOS based router and an ASA firewall. Letโs verify if R3 is able to reach R1โs loopback 0 interface or not.
Sure enough, first ping packet failed because the tunnel was not up but subsequent packet worked after the tunnel came up. Letโs verify that also.
C-idย Local ย ย ย ย ย Remoteย ย ย ย ย I-VRFย Status Encr Hash ย Auth DH Lifetime Cap.
Make sure that sysopt connection permit-vpn command is configured on ASA firewall. By default it is configured. When this option is enabled, the inbound decrypted VPN traffic is not subject to the inbound access-list checks on the interface (outside/Gig0 interface in our case) where the tunnel has been terminated, or to the global access-list. In other words, it bypasses the access-list check applied on the VPN termination interface. For example, if you have this command disabled and the tunnel terminates on the outside interface, the inbound decrypted traffic will be checked against the outside interface inbound access-list (outside_in access-list in our case) or the global access-list if it exists. | 2019-04-20T19:20:14 | https://netfixpro.com/ikev1-l2l-vpn-with-ios-and-asa-using-psk/ |
0.995093 | In this piece, I transcribed a series of conversations I had with Cleverbot (an artificial intelligence bot). Unlike other chatterbots, Cleverbot's responses are not programmed. Rather, it "learns" from human input over time โ a collective human intelligence through language. When I began my initial conversation with Cleverbot, I spoke to it casually, and stopped abruptly when it threatened me physically โ โIโll punch you in the throatโ. After this initial conversation, I began each subsequent one by repeating Cleverbotโs own phrases back to it. I stopped each conversation when the bot said something that seemed either uncanny, or very unhuman. | 2019-04-21T16:09:41 | http://www.johnjoconnor.net/small-works/cleverbot/ |
0.998858 | As I mentioned/ref. not my words.
Communication-transmission is a model, one of several means of explanation. Considered within the conceptual framework - Hodges' model - Shannon and Weaver's entropy, noise, measures of information is mechanistic. Hodges' model is of course idealised.
There are times when such a model 'fits' (correspondence as truth?) as in hearing - the inner ear - communication-conduction as transmission.
Other occasions such as I encountered yesterday (now). In a care home, a man agitated was pulling and banging on a locked inner corridor door seeking to leave (it is in his best interests to stay). The door was shaking to the extent that walking outside to speak to staff, an open loose window outside in the inner (secure) garden was moving to-and-fro. The inner door noise was just audible outside. Ironically(?) the window was not banging it was silent and yet it signified - transmitted - distress elsewhere?
Is there a sense that what we seek is a Goethean view of humanities-sciences(reality)?The debate (centuries and more long) is an ambiguous image or reversible figure and yet if we were delivered of this Goethean view then we could see both simultaneously - the whole?
I tried to relate information, the mechanistic (Shannon & Weaver, and Dretske) to more humanistic concerns of mental health and meaning.
I will look up the sources you have mentioned and thank you for the related points.
With the advent of information science, a new figure for representing science becomes possible: this is the 'model' of communication. Accordingly, we have three elements: a message, a channel for transmitting it, and the noise, or interference, that accompanies the transmission. Noise calls for decipherment; it makes a reading of the message more difficult. And yet without it, there would be no message.
This form of information science is, overtly, a sender-receiver TRANSMISSION model of communication. It assumes a linear temporal process. Such a reduction is tolerable only under very carefully prescribed constraints. The "third" part is noise, but the unidirectionality remains.
A different way of thinking about this is offered by John Shotter in the piece that Rod sent around. He does not use the term, noise, but he does focus our attention on the necessity of uncertainty and co-participation as conditions of thought and action.
I am all on board with the need for cross-talk between disciplines as well as theoretical traditions working within the same disciplines or with common concern. I also think that the invocation of parasitism is quite relevant to the way i have been thinking about human development, but communication-as-transmission seems like a mistake.
>Key Contemporary Thinkers by John Lechte, Routledge, 1994.
>message more difficult. And yet without it, there would be no message.
>of noise, an escape from the domain of the empirical.
>a corruption, a rupture of information. Was this noise really a message?
>Wasn't it, rather, static, a parasite?
>Blogging at "Welcome to the QUAD"
>> I'm convinced you are right. Like I say, Bakhtin just keeps popping up.
>> The trickster? Rebelais? What is that about?
>> > One reason I mention him is because of resonances with ideas.
>> > of the trickster in writing (his dissertation was on Rabelais).
>> > the Act, and Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity).
>> > deep treasures of Bakhtin's work has yet been mined out.
>> >> last week. Seriously.
>> >>> people on this list!
>> >>> But seriously Henry, have you come across Bakhtin's work at all?
>> >>>> and this is what the projects approach allows us to do. " If "adult"
>> >>>> along the way.
>> >>>>> Spinoza goes up there right next to Dead Souls.
to be as unserious as i can seriously be!
>> >>>>>> very popular self help book, Loving What Is, by Byron Katie (2002).
>> >>>>>> it also introduced me to Spinoza. And that has been a deeper "help".
>> >>>>>> math and semiotics that seem to me are complementary with Vygotsky.
>> >>>>>> gaming on line and don't take the game too seriously.
>> >>>>>>> concern and Spinoza is clearly relevant.
>> >>> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
>> > Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
Next by Date: [Xmca-l] Re: Some facts about cultural "triple packages" | 2019-04-23T20:21:28 | http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/Mail/xmcamail.2014-09.dir/msg00228.html |
1 | What was the topic of the book 'The Other America'?
A) Poverty was widespread in America. B) Education was lacking in America.
C) Racism was widespread in America. D) Americans needed more highways.
Answer: A) Poverty was widespread in America.
The book "The Other America" was written by Michael Harrington. The topic of the book 'The Other America' was Poverty was widespread in America. | 2019-04-23T12:28:11 | https://www.sawaal.com/books-authors-questions-and-answers/what-was-the-topic-of-the-book-the-other-america_14389 |
0.999999 | Can infants' orientation to social stimuli predict later joint attention skills?
clip of a talking person was predictive of initiating joint attention skills.
Several alternative interpretations of the results are discussed.
A conversation is made up of visual and auditory signals in a complex flow of events. What is the relative importance of these components for young children's ability to maintain attention on a conversation? In the present set of experiments the visual and auditory signals were disentangled in four filmed events. The visual events were either accompanied by the speech sounds of the conversation or by matched motor sounds and the auditory events by either the natural visual turn taking of the conversation or a matched turn taking of toy trucks. A cornea-reflection technique was used to record the gaze-pattern of subjects while they were looking at the films. Three age groups of typically developing children were studied; 6-month-olds, 1-year-olds and 3-year-olds. The results show that the children are more attracted by the social component of the conversation independent of the kind of sound used. Older children find spoken language more interesting than motor sound. Children look longer at the speaking agent when humans maintain the conversation. The study revealed that children are more attracted to the mouth than to the eyes area. The ability to make more predictive gaze shifts develops gradually over age.
Previous research on lexical development has aimed to identify the factors that enable accurate initial word-referent mappings based on the assumption that the accuracy of initial word-referent associations is critical for word learning. The present study challenges this assumption. Adult English speakers learned an artificial language within a cross-situational learning paradigm. Visual fixation data were used to assess the direction of visual attention. Participants whose longest fixations in the initial trials fell more often on distracter images performed significantly better at test than participants whose longest fixations fell more often on referent images. Thus, inaccurate initial word-referent mappings may actually benefit learning.
This study relies on eye tracking technology to investigate how humans perceive others' feeding actions. Results demonstrate that 6-month-olds (n = 54) anticipate that food is brought to the mouth when observing an adult feeding herself with a spoon. Still, they fail to anticipate self-propelled (SP) spoons that move toward the mouth and manual combing actions directed toward the head. Ten-month-olds (n = 54) and adults (n = 32) anticipate SP spoons; however, only adults anticipate combing actions. These results suggest that goal anticipation during observation of feeding actions develops earlier and is less dependent on directly perceived actions than goal anticipation during observation of other manual actions. These results are discussed in relation to experience and a possible phylogenetic influence on perception and understanding of feeding.
Previous research indicates that adult learners are able to use co-occurrence information to learn word-to-object mappings and form object categories simultaneously. The current eye-tracking study investigated the dynamics of attention allocation during concurrent statistical learning of words and categories. The results showed that the participantsโ learning performance was associated with the numbers of short and mid-length fixations generated during training. Moreover, the learnersโ patterns of attention allocation indicated online interaction and bi-directional bootstrapping between word and category learning processes.
revealed highly significant group differences in the gaze time and the total fixation times, word frequency and word length effects as well as interaction for both frequency and length with the group factor. These results, especially the frequency effect found in the dyslexic children, are discussed in the context of previous studies.
An eye tracking paradigm was used to investigate how infantsโ attention is modulated by observed goal-directed manual grasping actions. In Experiment 1, we presented 3-, 5-, and 7-month-old infants with a static picture of a grasping hand, followed by a target appearing at a location either congruent or incongruent with the grasping direction of the hand. The latency of infants gaze shift from the hand to the target was recorded and compared between congruent and incongruent trials. Results demonstrate a congruency effect from 5 months of age. A second experiment illustrated that the congruency effect of Experiment 1 does not extend to a visually similar mechanical claw (instead of the grasping hand). Together these two experiments describe the onset of covert attention shifts in response to manual actions and relate these findings to the onset of manual grasping.
How infants learn new words is a fundamental puzzle in language acquisition. To guide their word learning, infants exploit systematic word-learning heuristics that allow them to link new words to likely referents. By 17 months, infants show a tendency to associate a novel noun with a novel object rather than a familiar one, a heuristic known as disambiguation. Yet, the developmental origins of this heuristic remain unknown. We compared disambiguation in 17- to 18-month-old infants from different language backgrounds to determine whether language experience influences its development, or whether disambiguation instead emerges as a result of maturation or social experience. Monolinguals showed strong use of disambiguation, bilinguals showed marginal use, and trilinguals showed no disambiguation. The number of languages being learned, but not vocabulary size, predicted performance. The results point to a key role for language experience in the development of disambiguation, and help to distinguish among theoretical accounts of its emergence.
Four-, 6-, and 11-month old infants were presented with movies in which two adult actors conversed about everyday events, either by facing each other or looking in opposite directions. Infants from 6 months of age made more gaze shifts between the actors, in accordance with the flow of conversation, when the actors were facing each other. A second experiment demonstrated that gaze following alone did not cause this difference. Instead the results are consistent with a social cognitive interpretation, suggesting that infants perceive the difference between face-to-face and back-to-back conversations and that they prefer to attend to a typical pattern of social interaction from 6 months of age.
Research demonstrates that individuals with autism process facial information in a different manner than typically developing individuals. Several accounts of the face recognition deficit in individuals with autism have been posited with possible underlying mechanisms as the source of the deficit in face recognition skills. The current study proposed a new account that individuals with autism are less sensitive at perceiving configural manipulations between faces than typically developing individuals leading to their difficulty recognizing faces. A change detection task was used to measure perceptual sensitivity to varying levels of configural manipulations involving the eye and mouth regions. Participants with and without autism, matched on chronological age, verbal IQ, performance IQ, full scale IQ, visual acuity, and gender, studied upright and inverted faces in a delayed same/different face recognition test. An eye tracker recorded eye gaze throughout the experiment. Results revealed a significant group difference with respect to detection accuracy. The control group was more accurate at detecting subtle changes between upright faces than the autism group, particularly with manipulations to the spatial relation of eyes. Furthermore, an analysis of detection accuracy within groups revealed that a greater proportion of participants in the control group were better at detecting differences at subtler levels of spatial manipulations. Eye tracking results revealed a significant group difference in number of fixations to relevant vs. irrelevant areas of interest; however, both groups utilized eye information more than mouth information to detect changes in both upright and inverted faces.
Four- to ten-month-old infants (n=58) were examined on their ability to match magnitude across modalities. Their looking behaviour was recorded as they were presented with an intensity modulated auditory stimulus and three possible visual matches. The mean looking times towards a visual target (size envelope matching intensity envelope of the auditory stimulus) and a non-target were calculated. Fivemonth-olds and seven- to ten-month-olds show a significant preference looking towards the target, as do an adult control group. Four- and six-month-olds do not.
Reaching is an important and early emerging motor skill that allows infants to interact with the physical and social world. However, few studies have considered how reaching experiences shape infantsโ own motor development and their perception of actions performed by others. In the current study, two groups of infants received daily parent guided play sessions over a two-week training period. Using โSticky Mittensโ, one group was enabled to independently pick up objects whereas the other group only passively observed their parentโs actions on objects. Following training, infantsโ manual and visual exploration of objects, agents, and actions in a live and a televised context were assessed. Our results showed that only infants who experienced independent object apprehension advanced in their reaching behavior, and showed changes in their visual exploration of agents and objects in a live setting. Passive observation was not sufficient to change infantsโ behavior. To our surprise, the effects of the training did not seem to generalize to a televised observation context. Together, our results suggest that early motor training can jump-start infantsโ transition into reaching and inform their perception of othersโ actions.
Early identification efforts are essential for the early treatment of the symptoms of autism but can only occur if robust risk factors are found. Children with autism often engage in repetitive behaviors and anecdotally prefer to visually examine geometric repetition, such as the moving blade of a fan or the spinning of a car wheel. The extent to which a preference for looking at geometric repetition is an early risk factor for autism has yet to be examined.
To determine if toddlers with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) aged 14 to 42 months prefer to visually examine dynamic geometric images more than social images and to determine if visual fixation patterns can correctly classify a toddler as having an ASD.
Toddlers were presented with a 1-minute movie depicting moving geometric patterns on 1 side of a video monitor and children in high action, such as dancing or doing yoga, on the other. Using this preferential looking paradigm, total fixation duration and the number of saccades within each movie type were examined using eye tracking technology.
University of California, San Diego Autism Center of Excellence.
One hundred ten toddlers participated in final analyses (37 with an ASD, 22 with developmental delay, and 51 typical developing toddlers).
Total fixation time within the geometric patterns or social images and the number of saccades were compared between diagnostic groups.
Overall, toddlers with an ASD as young as 14 months spent significantly more time fixating on dynamic geometric images than other diagnostic groups. If a toddler spent more than 69% of his or her time fixating on geometric patterns, then the positive predictive value for accurately classifying that toddler as having an ASD was 100%.
A preference for geometric patterns early in life may be a novel and easily detectable early signature of infants and toddlers at risk for autism.
Recent studies show both adults and young children possess powerful statistical learning capabilities to solve the word-to-world mapping problem. However, it is still unclear what are the underlying mechanisms supporting seemingly powerful statistical cross-situational learning. To answer this question, the paper uses an eye tracker to record moment-by-moment eye movement data of 14-month-old babies in statistical learning tasks. A simple associative statistical learning is applied to the fine-grained eye movement data. The results are compared with empirical results from those young learners. A strong correlation between these two shows that a simple associative learning mechanism can account for both behavioural data as a group and individual differences, suggesting that the associative learning mechanism with selective attention can provide a cognitively plausible model of statistical learning. The work represents the first steps to use eye movement data to infer underlying learning processes in statistical learning.
Here we report evidence from a new eye-tracking measure of relational memory that suggests that 9-month-old infants can encode memories in terms of the relations among items, a function putatively subserved by the hippocampus. Infants learned about the association between faces that were superimposed on unique scenic backgrounds. During test trials, infants were shown three faces presented on a familiar scene. All three faces were equally familiar; however, one had been presented with the test background earlier. Visual behavior was recorded continuously using a TOBII eye tracker. Infants looked preferentially at the face that matched the test background very early in the trial; however, the time course of this preferential looking effect varied as a function of delay. These results suggest that by 9 months of age infants can form memories that represent the relations among items and maintain them over short delays.
This dissertation explored the questions of when and how infants develop an understanding of intentionโthat is, an understanding of human behavior as guided by subjective internal states that underlie and are separate from actions and objects in the world. Failed action understanding was used as a marker of intention understanding because, unlike in the case of successful actions, understanding failed actions requires recognizing that the observed pattern of movement is distinct from the intention that motivates it.
To explore the development of intention understanding in the first year of life, two key studies examined an understanding of successful- versus failed-reaching actions. Study 1 used a habituation design to assess both when infants (8-, 10-, and 12-month-olds) understand that a failed action is intentional and whether an understanding of successful actions precedes an understanding of failed actions. Study 2 extended this work to explore the process by which 8- and 10-month-olds develop an understanding of intention. Eye-tracking methodology was used to examine how infants process and predict the goals of ongoing successful and failed reaching actions. Moreover, performance was explored in relation to parent-report measures of infantsโ social and motor behaviors.
Three central findings emerged. First, already within the first year of life (by 10 months), infants understand and can predict the goal of a failed-reaching action. Second, during the course of development, understanding successful actions precedes understanding failed actions. Third, failed (but not successful) action understanding is strongly associated with infantsโ tendency to initiate joint attention and their ability to locomote independently.
Fixation duration for same-race (i.e., Asian) and other-race (i.e., Caucasian) female faces by Asian infant participants between 4 and 9 months of age was investigated with an eye-tracking procedure. The age range tested corresponded with prior reports of processing differences between same- and other-race faces observed in behavioral looking time studies, with preference for same-race faces apparent at 3 months of age and recognition memory differences in favor of same-race faces emerging between 3 and 9 months of age. The eye-tracking results revealed both similarity and difference in infantsโ processing of own- and other-race faces. There was no overall fixation time difference between same race and other race for the whole face stimuli. In addition, although fixation time was greater for the upper half of the face than for the lower half of the face and trended higher on the right side of the face than on the left side of the face, face race did not impact these effects. However, over the age range tested, there was a gradual decrement in fixation time on the internal features of other-race faces and a maintenance of fixation time on the internal features of same-race faces. Moreover, the decrement in fixation time for the internal features of other-race faces was most prominent on the nose. The findings suggest that (a) same-race preferences may be more readily evidenced in paired comparison testing formats, (b) the behavioral decline in recognition memory for other-race faces corresponds in timing with a decline in fixation on the internal features of other-race faces, and (c) the center of the face (i.e., the nose) is a differential region for processing same- versus other-race faces by Asian infants.
Background. Research on infant cognition has long been concerned with how infants process static vs. moving objects (e.g. Van de Walle & Spelke, 1996; Rakison & Poulin-Dubois, 2002). We are interested in comparing infants' visual working memory (VWM) for speed and luminance. Here we focus on our revised โsalience-mappingโ technique (Kaldy & Blaser, 2009) that allows us to generate comparison objects with iso-salient differences from a common baseline object, thereby ensuring fair VWM tests.
Methods. Subjects' age was 5;0-6;30. A Tobii T120 eye-tracker measured infant' gaze direction. Experiment 1 (ISM): Salience was calibrated in a preferential looking paradigm by pitting a baseline object (a slowly rotating green star) against a range of objects that increased either in luminance or in speed of rotation. Salience functions were obtained for each of the dimensions. We chose speed and luminance values that were at the 75% iso-salience level. In this way we defined three objects that had the following relationship: the salience difference between the baseline and the luminance comparison and the baseline and the speed comparison was equal. Experiment 2 (VWM): In this in-progress experiment, two of the three such defined objects are presented for 3.5 seconds. The two objects disappear for 2 seconds, then reappear, but with one changed in luminance or speed (by the previously calibrated amount) while the other reappears unchanged. Preference, determined from looking time, for the changed (vs. unchanged) object is evidence for memory.
Results. Iso-salient differences for luminance and motion were successfully measured in Experiment 1 using our revised salience-mapping technique. While data collection for Experiment 2 is ongoing, we expect better VWM for motion as opposed to luminance.
Discussion. In service to VWM experiments, we demonstrated an innovative method for producing psychophysically comparable stimulus differences for infants along the dimensions of speed and luminance. | 2019-04-20T14:59:48 | https://www.diigo.com/list/tobiieyetracking/scientific |
0.999999 | Given all of that, I had two options: (1) to allow the appeal process to continue, which could extend into the coming year(s) the possibility of incarceration, or (2) to drop my appeal before yearโs end, thereby becoming draft-eligible in 1970, and wait out the yearโs final days. Given the unlikelihood of my having to refuse an order for induction during that brief time, the latter option should put it all behind me as of January 1, but it raised a new question of conscience: how did I feel about abandoning the C.O. case?
It seemed to me that the Selective Service Systemโs objective was to force me to choose between killing and imprisonment. When those had been my only options, the choice had been obvious: the state could incarcerate me, but it could not coerce my conscience. Now, the lottery was offering a way to avoid both. Should I take that way out, or should I continue to press for official recognition as a C.O., now solely as witness against war and conscription?
Although I had participated in protests against the war in Vietnam, promoting pacifism as national policy had not been my intention. My rejection of any and all war was a matter of personal conscience, not a political position: even when the counterculture seemed strongest, I understood that nonviolence was counter, a deviation from widely-accepted moral standards. My stance, I would later find, was similar to that of early Quakers, who in 1660 avowed that โAll bloody principles and practices, we, as to our own particulars, do utterly deny, with all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end or under any pretence whatsoeverโ [emphasis mine].21 Those Friends, however, had thought that the peoples of the world might soon be led to a radical change of heart that would bring lasting peace. I had no such hope.
Nor had conscription itself been a target of my refusal. I had cooperated fully, asking only for โalternative civilian service,โ non-military work for the common good. From the outset, I had conceived the situation starkly: I was being ordered to maim and kill, and that I could not do.
I saw, too, that as a free man I could work for human welfare in ways that were more productive than submitting to imprisonment. And without the ever-present worry about prison, I should be less depressed and anxious and therefore more able to engage in such work. I decided that I would accept the lotteryโs offer of immediate liberation, but without recanting my declaration of pacifism. On December 22, 1970, still classified as 1-A, I sent a registered letter to the local board, informing them simply that I was withdrawing my appeal and was therefore subject to the 1970 lottery. Someone at the board โ not Elizabeth Simmons โ signed for my letter on the following day.
Saddened, I cut short my stay in Boston and returned to Baltimore. When I arrived home and saw the signed return receipt from the draft board, my relief was akin to that I had felt when Father X rescued me from hell. Although I was broke, alienated from my family, and soon to be homeless, I was free. And my conscience was largely intact, even if, as earlier with the โhabitual sinโ escape clause, deliverance had been attained in a way that felt too easy.
When my final draft card arrived, it bore the classification 1-H, โnot currently subject to processing for induction.โ โโNot currently,'โ I said as I signed the card; โthey never give up hope.โ But I knew that, like the Catholic Church before it, the Selective Service System had lost its power to imprison me.
. Although I had been classified as 1-A, โavailable for military service,โ during the year, I could not be drafted until all properly requested hearings and appeals had been completed.
. From โA Declaration from the Harmless and Innocent People of God, Called Quakers โฆ .โ Available at http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qwhp/dec1660.htm. | 2019-04-21T20:24:45 | https://postmodernquaker.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/the-church-the-draft-board-and-me-11-the-draft-part-4-decision/ |
0.998535 | Tired of the usual bar scene? Dreamland Syracuse hosts dance parties rooted in self-expression and inclusivity!
Check out our coverage of this year's Bandersnatch show, in photos.
Check out our favorite moments from Louis The Child's concert at The Westcott Theater.
Artist Todd Gray has photographed many of music's biggest names including The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.
Check out the festival through the lens of our pit photographer, Tiffany Gomez.
The many faces of ESF's version of Mayfest.
Storify: What happened at Mayfest/Block Party 2015?
It was the coldest Mayfest on record in, um, a while probably. This is what happened. | 2019-04-25T20:06:57 | http://20wattsmag.com/tag/photos/ |
0.994382 | Punishment involves deliberating harming individuals. How, then, if at all, is it to be justified? This, the first of three papers on the philosophy of punishment (see also 'Punishment: Nonconsequentialism' and 'Punishment: The Future'), examines attempts to justify the practice or institution according to its consequences. One claim is that punishment reduces crime, and hence the resulting harms. Another is that punishment functions to rehabilitate offenders. A third claim is that punishment (or some forms of punishment) can serve to make restitution to victims, and a fourth is that it can strengthen social values. The paper examines these claims, and finally considers pluralist theories which combine retributive and harm-reductive or utilitarian considerations. (Retributive theories are examined in their own right in 'Punishment: Nonconsequentialism'.).
A Theory of Justice.John Rawls - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Philosophy and Rhetoric. Oxford University Press. pp. 133-135.
Practical Philosophy.Immanuel Kant - 1996 - Cambridge University Press.
The Right and the Good.W. D. Ross - 1930 - Clarendon Press.
A Retributive Argument Against Punishment.Greg Roebuck & David Wood - 2011 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 5 (1):73-86.
Good Night and Good Luck - In Search of a Neuroscience Challenge to Criminal Justice.Frej Klem Thomsen - 2018 - Utilitas 30 (1):1-31.
A Normative Theory of the Clean Hands Defense.Ori J. Herstein - 2011 - Legal Theory 17 (3):171-208.
Punishing the Innocent โ Unintentionally.Alan Wertheimer - 1977 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 20 (1-4):45 โ 65.
Unintentional Punishment.Adam Kolber - 2012 - Legal Theory 18 (1):1-29.
Compulsory Victim Restitution is Punishment: A Reply to Boonin.Michael Cholbi - 2010 - Public Reason 2 (1):85-93.
The Rise and Fall of the Mixed Theory of Punishment.Whitley Kaufman - 2008 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (1):37-57.
Punishment and Upbringing: Considerations for an Educative Justification of Punishment.Ido Weijers - 2000 - Journal of Moral Education 29 (1):61-73.
Making Sense of Retributivism.J. Angelo Corlett - 2001 - Philosophy 76 (1):77-110.
Punishment: The Future.David Wood - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (6):483-491. | 2019-04-25T00:00:03 | https://philpapers.org/rec/WOOPC-2 |
0.999999 | The Who's Pete Townshend had a birthday over the weekend, so one of their brilliant tunes will get us going today . . .
A former top energy adviser to President Trump, George David Banks, will lead a new multi-million dollar campaign aimed at limiting the way large investment firms, like BlackRock, influence shareholder resolutions on hot-button issues like climate change.
The focus first will be writing studies and op-eds backing up their positions. In the longer term, they plan to push legislation and reforms at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Banks said.
Quick take: The campaignโs message is that large asset managers like BlackRock and Vanguard Group, which have traditionally been passive investors, yield too much power in the shareholder resolution process at the expense of individual investors.
Big numbers: Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has repeatedly said in recent days that the emerging trade compromise with China could pave the way for $40 billionโ$60 billion in annual U.S. energy exports.
Context: Nobody disagrees there's lots of room for growth in U.S. shipments to the world's largest oil crude oil importer. China also recently became the second-largest LNG importer. Overall U.S. crude and LNG exports to destinations worldwide are rising.
Yet energy exports to China, which indeed have been rising, would have to grow a lot more to match Mnuchin's claims.
ClearView Energy Partners estimates that total U.S. energy exports to China in 2017 were $6.5 billion, with crude oil accounting for by far the biggest share, followed by smaller amounts of LNG, coal and other materials.
Reuters estimates that U.S. oil-and-gas exports to China were $4.3 billion.
Tesla's Model 3 plan: The New York Times looks at the various high-end versions of the sedan โ and the ongoing wait for the mass-market $35,000 version that remains unavailable.
From their piece: "Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, said it was not unusual for companies to produce higher-priced, more profitable models when they start making a new vehicle. But Tesla risks frustrating its customers if the most affordable version isnโt available soon, he said."
The big question: "Is Tesla Abandoning the Mass Market?" asks The Wall Street Journal.
Auto policy: Per Bloomberg, "Automakers urged the White House to cooperate with California officials in a coming rewrite of vehicle efficiency standards, saying 'climate change is real.'"
Two California solar things: Greentech Media has a very comprehensive explainer on the new mandate that requires solar panels for many new single-family and small multi-family buildings, starting in 2020.
And over in our Expert Voices section, Ron Dizy, the managing director of the Advanced Energy Centre at MaRS, argues that the mandate is a bad idea.
"Forcing people to install solar panels may actually exacerbate grid problems, creating negative secondary impacts without meaningfully greening the electricity system," he writes.
Just published: A new peer-reviewed analysis of hundreds of millions of dollars in climate-related funding from a number of major philanthropies from 2011โ2015 shows they devoted few resources to pushing carbon capture and none to nuclear power.
Quote"The role that philanthropy plays in guiding our choices related to climate change is understudied and often overlooked."
By the numbers: Nisbet analyzed $567 million in climate and energy funding from 19 major foundations in the half-decade after cap-and-trade legislation collapsed in Congress in 2010. The top-line findings are summarized in the chart above.
"During the post cap-and-trade years, out of 2,502 grants reviewed, not a single grant was awarded for work focused on developing and promoting nuclear energy, and only $1.3 million was granted to support work on carbon capture and storage," states the paper published in the journal WIREs Climate Change.
The big picture: The paper expresses concern about the resource distribution.
"Several expert projections on decarbonizing the world and U.S. economies define an important role for nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage," it states, citing analyses by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others.
Go deeper: Click here for the whole story in the Axios stream.
Falling costs for renewable energy and distributed resources โ like efficiency and battery storage โ are making investments in natural-gas-fired power plants increasingly risky, a new analysis concludes.
Why it matters: The Rocky Mountain Institute finds that $112 billion of U.S. gas plants proposed or under construction, and $32 billion worth of proposed pipelines to serve them, are at risk of becoming "stranded assets."
Ratepayers could unnecessarily face billions in "locked in" costs, warns RMI, a low-carbon energy think tank and advocacy group. And, the profitability of existing gas-fired power plants will be increasingly threatened, the report says.
The intrigue: It's a new wrinkle in the idea that falling renewables costs and climate policies will render certain fossil fuel assets uneconomical, leaving owners and investors holding the bag.
The "stranded assets" argument has typically been applied to high-cost or carbon-intensive oil assets, such as oil sands and Arctic reserves, and coal-fired power infrastructure that's already facing economic headwinds.
Yes, but: Natural gas, in contrast, has been a big winner in the evolution of U.S. power markets over the last decade amid the shale boom has brought bountiful and cheap supplies. But things could change in the not-so-distant future, RMI argues.
"[A]cross a wide range of case studies, regionally specific clean energy portfolios already outcompete proposed gas-fired generators, and/or threaten to erode their revenue within the next 10 years."
Go deeper: Forbes takes a closer look here. | 2019-04-25T03:08:15 | https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-generate-cad9711b-6746-40e4-a81c-cdc342ac7538.html |
0.996438 | What exactly in there is the Holy Book, Class A, besides the Hebrew letters? I know the notes at the bottom aren't (right?). But are the "commentaries" of the letters class A? Even that part between brackets? And the lotus sticks?
Starry Soul wrote: What exactly in there is the Holy Book, Class A, besides the Hebrew letters? I know the notes at the bottom aren't (right?). But are the "commentaries" of the letters class A? Even that part between brackets? And the lotus sticks?
I believe the remarks are not Class A. It's just the arrangement.
I might be wrong, though. At least the intention, when creating The Holy Books of Thelema (Eqx. III:9) was to include only the Class A content and no commentary. If that was accomplished correctly (by "best interpretation available"), then the brief statements typeset as columns under the triliterals, are also part of Class A.
Since it is not required to be memorized in any A.'.A.'. grade, too fine a line has not been drawn usually. | 2019-04-24T00:10:46 | http://heruraha.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13192 |
0.999999 | Getting my gaming commentary game back on, with an appearance as a talking head-and-torso for a special Global Gaming Expo episode of APCW Perspectives, featuring venerable online gambling gadfly J. Todd at the mic.
The TL;DR โ Kahnawake Gaming Commission is pulling its casinos out of US markets to do business with New Jersey, further putting the squeeze on gray-market online gambling operators โฆ and itโs probably not good that the Senate introduced SB 3376, a placeholder bill for a revised version of Sheldon Adelsonโs Restoration of Americaโs Wire Act, um, Act, aka RAWA. Even if the new bill is going nowhere, simply having it in the legislative mix poses a threat. Oh, and happy soon-to-be 10th birthday UIGEA!
On February 11th, David George-Cosh broke the story of the release of an undated internal document produced by FinTRAC addressing the challenges of cryptocurrencies, primarily bitcoin. FinTRAC is Canadaโs anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing watchdog. The document is a slide deck that was produced further to an Access to Information Act request. The WSJ blog post on the release is here.
A copy of the deck that was released to the public under Access to Information is here.
Itโs important to remember that most of what is in this deck does not represent a normative policy position being taken by FinTRAC on cryptocurrencies. (Though note that pages 24-25 of the .pdf document fairly characterizes how FinTRAC views bitcoin vis-a-vis money services businesses under the current Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and Regulations.) I think the bulk of it represents an earnest and honest attempt to canvass available resources and learn about bitcoin. Many bitcoin aficionados might take issue with how some points are set out and the substance of others. However, I think itโs a decent overview and a good start at fairly covering a lot of ground. Over the coming months, we may see how FinTRAC uses this knowledge as they work with the Department of Finance to introduce anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regulations for cryptocurrencies, as promised in the recent federal budget.
Meanwhile, to catch up those of us who may have checked out for a semester, gaming law expert I. Nelson Rose explains rather succinctly the other day, in an appearance on Fox Business, where things currently stand with Obamapoker the slow rollout of American online gambling. And, he explains, why California online poker doesnโt really stand a chance this year (even though politicians are still happy to take your donations for giving it the good-ole college try) โ go 2014!
If you had cash on Full Tilt shortly before Black Friday, youโve got until this weekend to inform government contractors that youโd like your money back, please. Check out what I got in the mail recently from the poker worldโs new-good friends at Garden City Group, who are handling Full Tilt remissions on behalf of the DOJ, whom you may or may not recall earmarked nearly $200 million of PokerStars money for paying back Full Tilt player/ponzi victims.
Presuming I didnโt unknowingly luckbox into some sorta secret errant money transfer, I think this postcard campaign reveals a GCG serious about covering various asses should someone and their lawyer(s) can come back later and claim ignorance when trying to get a piece of any FTP payout pie. Otherwise you gotta wonder โฆ they didnโt have my email address โ the one that just about everybody remotely connected to poker has? (You know, the one that has been the same ever since signing up with Full Tilt in โ04?) And yet they were able to track me down through a postal address that didnโt even exist for me or Pokerati until after Black Friday? It wasnโt anything I ever provided to Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, Garden City Group, nor the DOJ, as far as I know. In fact, I could be wrong here, but I think the only federal agency that would have this address for me is the IRS.
Hmm โฆ makes you wonder what kinda sit-n-gos the NSA really might be playing!
If you havenโt yet submitted your online poker DNA to Uncle Sam and you still want a chance at seeing your Full Tilt bankroll ever again, visit http://fulltiltpokerclaims.com/.
Last week, I shared with you a plan to get individual lawmakers involved in helping to expedite remission processing for those of us with accounts on Full Tilt Poker. I have very good news on that front. On August 1st, Full Tilt Poker Claims Administrator Garden City Group posted a status update on their website promising that the claims process will begin โshortlyโ and clarifying that remission will be based on final balances and not on deposits. I encourage you to read the entire statement on their website, atwww.fulltiltpokerclaims.com.
This announcement shows that progress is being made. Over the past several weeks, PPA and the poker community intensified its pressure on the DOJ and Garden City Group to expedite full remission of player funds. Even members of Congress began weighing in on behalf of their constituents. While many factors contributed to the timing of the announcement, there is little doubt player activism played an important role.
While this announcement is much-needed good news, we cannot rest now. We are seeking specifics, including dates for application, expected dates for processing, etc. We are also seeking as streamlined a process as possible.
Op-Ed: Punishment should fit the crime of trying to kill me!
On June 26th, 2010 I was cowardly attacked from the rear with a tire iron by Edmond Price. I was initially hit at least twice on the head with full force with this lethal item. Have you ever been hit by a tire iron with full force? It could easily crack your skull open and spill your brains out. As dazed as I was I still had the presence of mind to grapple with Price to keep him from hitting me with this tire iron again. While defending myself against Priceโs attack Victoria Edelman, his fellow conspirator, starts bludgeoning my cracked skull with anything she can get her hands on. She breaks a lamp over my head into thousands of chards of glass. She breaks a toilet tank lid over my head. She impales the crown of my head with an iron. She takes my two wheel dolly and converts it into a hoe that she rakes across my bleeding skull. These are only the items I recall being pummeled with. There were probably many more. During this assault I sustain a severe concussion, fractured cheek bones, ruptured ear drums, several severe lacerations on my head and hands and multiple broken bones in my hands and fingers. My right thumb is almost detached, my left middle finger is almost severed. My ring finger nail is almost ripped off. My ribs are all damaged, perhaps fractured, making it excruciating to breath. Somewhere in this fray I am even scalped! In this century Iโm probably one of the only people in the entire World who has had the misfortune of being scalped let alone surviving this brutal torture!
With WSOP.com in play and in more poker playersโ pockets, Zynga finds it tougher to bring players to their tables.
The Empire put a hit on the Mafia and buried the farm.
Two years after Caesars Entertainment Corp. perplexed Wall Street by acquiring social gaming operation Playtika, the casino giant has moved past rival Zynga Inc. to the top of the business model.
Social casino games are free to play on the Internet, through Facebook and other platforms. Customers have the option of paying a nominal fee โ often less than $1 โ to acquire thousands of gaming tokens to increase their virtual bankroll.
Apparently, those pennies add up.
One Wall Street analyst estimated social gaming is now worth $1.2 billion worldwide in annual revenues.
Caesars Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of the casino company that controls Playtika and the World Series of Poker, now owns a large chunk of that market.
Playtikaโs Slotomania brand โ slot machine and bingo-like games โ is fueling the effort, which sent Zynga, owners of Farmville, Mafia Wars, Words with Friends, and a platform of casino games, including Zynga Poker, into second place.
โSocial casino gaming has essentially gone from being a nonexistent sector a few years ago to one of the most popular gaming genres on desktop and mobile (devices),โ Adam Krejcik, managing director of Eilers Research, recently wrote.
Youโll be able to watch a livestream of the hearing, which hopefully will finally remove โclick a mouse, lose your houseโ from the conversation and instead address real issues of money laundering, privacy concerns, redress of grievances, bot use, and identity protection โ not to mention what kinda data you can keep about other players, and what kinda hand histories the government can keep on you!
Gambling regulation may historically be a matter left to the states, but regulation of the internet is kinda new, and something Uncle Sam has wanted a role in for establishing minimum standards at least since the White House unveiled its strategy for consumer protection on the internet โฆ [Bump-bump-buhhh] โฆ on April 15, 2011.
Meanwhile, we also have a new Barton Bill โ HR 2666, which has a surprisingly ungodly bill number and stated goals of protecting poker players from consumer fraud by establishing a federal program for the licensing of Onternet poker by States and federally recognized Indian tribes. This bill may or may not also have the benefit of helping โpoker onlyโ ride along with other online gambling bills yet separate itself if necessary to distinguish its unique sector of the online โgamblingโ landscape.
WHAT: On Tuesday, July 16, John Pappas, PPAโs executive director will be joined by Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) on a media teleconference to discuss Mr. Bartonโs newly introduced bill, The Poker Freedom Act, to license and regulate Internet poker.
The bill mandates technologies to protect consumers from fraud and limits underage access, preserves stateโs rights, and ensures Indian Tribes have the same rights to apply for a license as other entities.
The poker community may or may not have lost its verve for writing checks to politicians only to sweat subcommittee hearings that in the end prove about as significant as WSOP Day 1s. But this combo of activity is indeed the start of something โ a new baseline at least, as poker interests presumably have until the end of the year to make something happen before all special interests get told the same thing about whatโs impossible during an election year.
WASHINGTON โ The wall of framed photos with political heavyweights from Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to Barack Obama โ reputedly one of the more impressive collections in town accumulated over 30 years โ has been taken down.
Two dozen boxes of papers and memorabilia are stacked on tables, on the floor, and atop filing cabinets, awaiting delivery to a warehouse in McLean, Va., where they will join another 35 boxes being transferred from storage in Maryland.
Among the few items not wrapped and packed in Frank Fahrenkopfโs corner office, which is located a block off Pennsylvania Avenue, are the custom desk from London he had crafted 24 years ago, an American flag standing in the corner and a knickknack of herding elephants signifying the job he once held as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Fahrenkopf, who turns 74 next month, is downshifting after nearly two decades as the face of casino gambling in Washington and one of the most prominent Nevadans in the nationโs capital. The president and CEO of the American Gaming Association until he stepped aside on July 1 is plotting what comes next.
Over the years, he has alternately put out fires and served as a missionary for the commercial casino industry that once was concentrated in Nevada but now is an economic driver in almost half the states.
โIt was a perfect storm in a way that when the industry needed to have someone, I happened to be here,โ Fahrenkopf said in a recent interview.
But after staying on the job for an extra year in the for-now-dashed hope of helping to guide the industry into federally recognized online poker, he was completing his tenure.
โIt just reached a point where 18 years is a long time. Itโs always good to have fresh people come in,โ Fahrenkopf said of the job he took when it was created in 1995 with the intention of staying just a year.
Cleaning up or Cleaning out?
#1. Bet Raise Fold โ Sunday was the worldwide release of the much-anticipated online poker documentary that has โ so far โ garnered an overwhelmingly positive response from advance viewers. Buy your copy here. If you supported the KickStarter campaign, you should have already received your link to view the movie via email.
#2. Kentucky โ After successfully extracting a cool $15mm from bwin.party, Kentucky looks set to continue their litigious ways against other operators that took online bets from the state (and have some resources to target). Iโve been told to expect a significant legal filing related to Kentuckyโs actions this week.
#3. PokerStars vs ACC โ The ACC filed their response last week to Starsโ application for interlocutory appeal. While we donโt have a firm deadline for a ruling, I canโt imagine the courts are interested in letting this battle drag on much longer, especially given that it clouds the ability of the ACC to pursue an alternative sale. The holiday may result in a delay, but a decision could still be forthcoming in the next few days.
PokerStars clarified their policy for cheating and reimbursements.
Griffin Finan explained why the DiCristina case is so important to poker players.
The SLT revealed that Zions Bank took part in โ and may be facing investigation for โ online poker processing.
CalvinAyre.com asked if Playtech has given up on the U.S. regulated market.
The UK Gambling Commission released overview stats for 2009-2012.
Joe Barton sounded an optimistic note regarding his yet-to-be-introduced online poker bill.
Lock pros tried to sell Lock funds โ cheap.
CardPlayer stopped promoting unregulated sites to Nevada visitors.
On this weekโs Rabbit Hunt, Mark and I cover the One Drop action at the WSOP, debate the best way of responding to Adelson and try our best to read the tea leaves of PokerStarsโs battle with the ACC.
QuadJacks ran an article of mine imploring people to Stop Writing Responses to Sheldon Adelson. Finally, I offered up some thoughts on the Online Poker Compact Conundrum in the regulated U.S. market.
#GoodRead โ Brad Polizzano penned an informative and concise rundown of the 2013 NCLGS at QuadJacks.
Gov. Steve Beshear (D-KY) is almost single-handedly making sure horse racing interests gets their cut of online poker spoils.
Iโm paraphrasing, of course, but I dunno man โฆ itโs starting to seem inevitable that Antonin Scalia may eventually have to reveal his screen name and/or recuse himself to avoid violating any PokerStars T&Cโs. But until then, the state of Kentucky is doing its part to make sure the Black Friday cases donโt go away.
The governorโs office put out a kinda strange press release last week, just to let people know, hey, donโt be confused by recent reports of certain online gambling cases achieving final settlement. The great Commonwealth of KY, you may recall, made the bold assertion in โ08 that it had a right to take over foreign web domains that failed to block access by Kentuckians. And now they would like you to know with extra certainty that Kentucky only let go of their claims against Absolute and UB (after a $6 million score) but have not otherwise released claims against poker sites that still have any money left, which they plan go after in full force.
Click here to read the whole press release.
As New Jersey prepares for its next court hearing on Wednesday over its efforts to legalize sports betting, gaming officials in Canada are urging lawmakers to vote on a bill legalizing Las Vegas-style sports books.
A bill introduced almost two years ago would allow Canadians to wager on a single sporting event at a time. Itโs also seen as way to draw U.S. gamblers to casinos just across the border from cities such as Detroit or Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Canada offers a sports lottery in which bettors can parlay three or more games, but single-game betting is illegal under the Canadian criminal code.
Burns said legalizing sports betting would discourage Canadian bettors from wagering on National Hockey League or National Football League games offshore or with illegal bookmakers.
With Black Friday cases winding up, Mark Scheinberg could make out as the biggest winner in the poker universe.
The chief executive of online gaming giant PokerStars agreed to forfeit $50 million to federal prosecutors to rid his himself of a two-year-old complaint filed by the U.S. government.
In a settlement agreement this week with the Department of Justice, the money being paid by PokerStars CEO Mark Scheinberg is based on allegations contained in the April 15, 2011, complaint filed by federal prosecutors against PokerStars as part of the governmentโs โBlack Fridayโ crackdown on illegal Internet gaming operations.
โThe agreement is not in response to any action that had been brought against Mark and contains no admission of wrongdoing, culpability or guilt on his behalf,โ PokerStars spokesman Eric Hollreiser said in an emailed statement.
Last July, PokerStars accepted a $731 million forfeiture to the federal government to end the companyโs legal battle with prosecutors.
Three senior officers of PokerStars were charged in April 2011 with bank fraud, money laundering and running an illegal Internet gambling enterprise.
The Justice Department absolved the company of any wrongdoing in accepting Internet wagers from American customers. PokerStars also wasnโt prohibited from entering legal U.S. gaming markets. | 2019-04-22T14:13:16 | https://pokerati.com/category/poker-news-and-speculation/poker-laws-legal-news-law-politics-and-crime/ |
0.999936 | Is it possible to have more than one custom inserter menu like User that wouldn't be overwritten during an upgrade? That would be useful for organization purposes.
Also is there any effort you know of to maintain a custom inserters repository where users can download inserters for specialized frameworks? I think a menu supporting WordPress coding would be very useful to plugin and theme developers.
You can 'hack the registry' and change the value of "UserInserterConfigFileV170" in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AI Internet Solutions\CSE HTML Validator v4\Editor\Options" to point to another inserter config file, or even the values for the other inserters if you wanted to. This would allow you to specify the inserter config file that you wanted to use and allow you to 'reassign' the other inserters (like the HTML, CSS, PHP inserter, etc.) to something else. If you 'reassign' one of the non-user/non-custom inserters to another file then you should not have to worry about them getting overwritten because only the default inserter config files would be overwritten when updating.
Unfortunately CSE HTML Validator does not currently support more than one user/custom text inserter available at one time (unless you do the above 'hack' and 'reassign' one of the other inserters).
How important is this feature to you?
It may be easily possible to add an inserter command that would switch to another inserter config file, making it easy to switch user/custom config files from within the user inserter itself. Would this be helpful?
I am not aware of any custom inserter repository, but you are free to share your creation here (in the forum) and I may also be able to add these to the download page if you'd like to submit one.
My need for additional inserter menus isn't that great. I just thought of it when I was thinking about a menu for WordPress snippets.
If I come up with something for WordPress, I'll definitely send it your way. | 2019-04-25T16:13:07 | https://www.htmlvalidator.com/CSEForum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2670&p=11119 |
0.999099 | - Joey assured a distraught Libby that she would be looked after, but he resisted her request to call the police to report her missing cash and jewelry.
- Fiona had the fighting Irish spirit and agreed to do a bit of friendly gambling with Frankie, who was later taken to task by Joey for allowing non-monetary game play.
- When Peggy Sue told Audrey she had come into some money, Audrey assumed it was an inheritance. Both women were aghast when a heart-broken Jonesy announced he was intent on quitting his job and leaving town.
- Rudy proposed marriage to Libby; she accepted on the condition of a long and secret engagement.
- Joey and Bobbie moved the cash from Libbyโs suitcase into the desk drawer - with plans pay most of the debt owed to Uncle Tony. They then decided someone would have to sneak her suitcase โ now filled with decks of cards - back into her penthouse.
- Vincent and Frankie taught Audrey the showgirl a spectacular solo dance routine called the Great Norwegian Ostrich, which she debuted to much acclaim on the Camelโs Toe Show Lounge.
When Vincent found piles of cash in the office drawer, he pocketed several stacks in hopes of booking big name entertainers.
- Peggy Sue told Joey and Bobbie she wanted to rent the penthouse, and also to quit two of her three jobs. Intrigued by her newfound wealth, they agreed to her demands, but only if she found a replacement.
- After commiserating with Libby in her penthouse, a despondent Jonesy the Bellhop picked up the gun Uncle Tony had left on Libbyโs bed; she called the front desk to claim she was being robbed... Rudy barged in to save her.
Where we left off. April 26.. and where we begin Oct. 25!
After a misunderstanding with Libby in the double-booked penthouse, Uncle Tony hid her suitcase with the remaining insurance money under the drinks cart.
Frankie, under suspicion for collaborating with Fiona, was relieved to be out of the hot seat. Joey and Bobbie were pleased when Rudy re-appeared, as they had feared him โwhackedโ.
Vincent felt confident that he had gotten away with altering the books to increase his entertainment budget.
With advice from the maid on where best to hide valuables, Libby tucked a few stacks of her ill-gotten insurance cash โ and her not-lost earrings โ upon her person, then attended Johnny Taupeโs exciting performance in the Camelโs Toe Lounge.
The accountant followed his nose โ and found Libbyโs suitcase with the rest of the stolen insurance money hidden in the penthouse suite. He took it and showed it to Joey; they were both happy to think this cash payment might be enough to placate Uncle Tony.
While tidying the showroom, Peggy Sue found a jewelry box under the seat Libby had occupied. Uncle Tony made her hand it over and gave Peggy Sue โ as a tip โ $50,000 in cash. Not realizing the earrings were the famed Pink Diamonds of Tanzania, he gave them as a gift to Audrey in exchange for a quick fling.
Insurance man Lloyd Bentley re-appeared on the scene with a head injury, but he was not buying Libbyโs story that he had been robbed by a stranger. He angrily accused her of fraud, and while she was being accosted, Rudy โ who believed his crush on Libby was mutual - intervened and beat the poor man to death.
Peggy Sue took a moment in the spotlight to happily warble about her unexpected good fortune.
Fiona told Joey and Bobbie she was checking out (with her massive winnings) and firmly refused their insistent offers to stay.
After the kissing incidents, Jonesy figured that his marriage proposal had been rejected, so pondered going home to Cleveland. | 2019-04-25T00:17:39 | https://www.sincityimprovserial.com/story-so-far/archives/10-2016 |
0.999997 | Was Dwayne Bravo of the Stars a success or a disappointment in BBL|08?
The Melbourne Stars appeared to be cruising to their first Big Bash League championship against the Melbourne Renegades at 0/93, chasing 146 for victory, needing about a run a ball in the remaining five overs to claim victory.
Then disaster struck, panic set in, and before they knew it the dream was over; they had gifted glory to their cross-town rivals, as a bumper crowd in excess of 40,000 cheered the 'Gades home at their Marvel Stadium home ground.
Despite this cruellest of finishes to a season, to go from last in BBL|07 to second in BBL|08 was quite an achievement, particularly so given that at the middle stage of the season the Stars were missing all of Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Adam Zampa, and Peter Handscomb to the Australian short-form set-up as well as Nepalese spin sensation Sandeep Lamichhane to the Bangladesh Premier League T20 domestic competition.
Clearly the stand-out performer this season, Marcus Stoinis was massive for the Stars, particularly with bat and occasionally with the ball. He regularly hit or cleared the boundary, smashing 47 4s and ten 6s on his way to averaging 54.89 with the bat at a Strike Rate of 133.51. In addition, he claimed 14 wickets with 59 dot balls from just 150 balls bowled, averaging a miserly 14.80 runs per wicket, albeit at a high Strike Rate of 8.28. He was Player of the Match in a third of his 12 appearances, and it was no wonder his SuperCoach average was over 35 points per game higher than his nearest teammate.
Sandeep Lamichhane was an incredible find for the Stars, and what they wouldn't have given to have had him available for the full campaign. At season conclusion he had played seven games, claiming 11 wickets at a miserly 6.97 Strike Rate and an average of 16.30, with 68 dots from 154 balls bowled. He regularly bamboozled facing batsmen with his thrilling leg-spin and looms as one of the most in-demand signatures for the BBL|09 season. Replaced by English speedster Liam Plunkett whilst he was playing in the BPL, the Stars would have loved to have had both these imports available at the same time.
Glenn Maxwell's leadership as the BBL|08 season came to a conclusion was a key part of the Stars' ride to the Final, with his batting, bowling, and field placements against first the Sydney Sixers then the Hobart Hurricanes absolutely superb. He lead the way and had exactly the sort of season that he needed to have ahead of the ODI World Cup in England later in 2019, showcasing that his experience and nous will prove invaluable to Australia no matter where he comes in in the order.
Dwayne Bravo might have finished fifth overall in the SuperCoach scoring averages for the Stars, but it's arguable that he could just as easily slide into the top 5 disappointments list. Brought in from his cross-town rivals, he really only had a couple of standout moments and too regularly failed with the bat, with his run-out against the Sixers in the final regular season game absolutely comical.
While their averages were low for their number of appearances, it's hard to place fault in Evan Gulbis' and Seb Gotch's appearances for the Stars - quite simply, they didn't get to the crease all that often with bat or ball, with Gulbis facing just 71 balls from seven innings, two of which he was not out in. Gotch appeared in one more innings, finishing with three not-outs, and 126 runs from 108 balls. Gulbis also bowled a mere three overs in his 12 games, failing to claim a wicket.
Nic Maddinson was unfortunate in that just as he made his maiden century for Victoria he suffered a broken arm, curtailing his inaugural campaign for his new home State and delaying the start to his Big Bash campaign for his new side. In the end, he suited up ten times, getting to the crease in all but one, but with a high score of 19 and a total of 109 runs made from 110 balls at an average sub-20, it was a disastrous debut for the Stars for Maddinson.
Making the Final, there's little doubt Ben Dunk enjoyed the second year of his long-term deal with the Stars more than his debut in green in BBL|07. Statistically, it wasn't much improved. He nearly doubled his average runs per innings, but going from 11.50 to 20.36 is hardly thrilling. His outstanding innings in Moe aside, it was another disappointing season for Dunk.
Switching between multiple formats - Test, ODI, and T20 - must be a tough ask for any player, and it was no surprise to see that Pete Handscomb's form was up and down. When he teed off, he struck it sweet - his Strike Rate of 130.41 from his eight appearances was great, and he was calm behind the stumps, taking three catches and executing two stumpings. Expect him to have Dual Position Player status in SuperCoach in BBL|09.
The priority signing for the Melbourne Stars must be Sandeep Lamichhane. Spinners really came to the fore in BBL|08 - there was the continued excellence of Steve O'Keefe at the Sydney Sixers and Adelaide Strikers' Rashid Khan, his fellow Afghanis 17-year old Mujeeb Ur Rahman debuting strongly in Brisbane and 18-year old Qais Ahmad coming out of nowhere at the end of the season for the Hurricanes. The latter vies with Nepalese 18-year old Lamichhane may loom as the hottest prospect - particularly if they play an entire season - in BB|09.
The conflict between the domestic T20 league and international commitments will once again put the Stars in a bind in future seasons. They definitely want the likes of Stoinis, Maxwell, Zampa, and Handscomb as part of their squad, but the depth needs a lot of work - whereas exciting local youngsters debuted at seemingly every other outfit, the Stars were very reliant upon their experienced foursome. With the likes of Maddinson, Dunk and Bravo not exactly firing on all cylinders, they need some more emerging players - particularly with the willow - to place pressure upon underperforming experienced players. The Stars could also do with a bit of luck with injury, with Maddinson and quick Dan Worrall having delayed starts to their campaigns.
Speaking of which, the question has to be asked - was Ben Dunk's long-term contract a mistake? The Stars must've thought they had secured a reliable performer at the top of the order when they poached him from the Strikers, where in his final season of BBL|06 he struck three 50s on his way to an average of 52 with a Strike Rate of 163.96. Suffice to say, no such heroics for the Stars in his two seasons in green, and the rising 32-year old will need a big BBL|09 season to justify his opening batting position. | 2019-04-26T09:56:03 | https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/supercoach-bbl08-review-melbourne-stars/3652622/ |
0.999971 | London: In a terrorist attack outside the Parliament in the UK, a speeding car hit security barriers during busy hours, in which three people were injured. The Scotland Yard said that he has arrested a person in suspicion of terrorist acts. The Metropolitan Police's counter-insurgency command is believed to be a terrorist attack. A person of approximately 28-29 years has been arrested in this case.
Neil Basu, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Indian-origin officer of anti-terrorist operations said that the police is trying to identify the person, but he is not cooperating with the police. Basu said, "If we can, our priority is to formally identify the suspect and identify the cause of the incident. She is not currently cooperating. Concerned about this incident, Londoners or the rest of Britain are not aware of any other risks.
A spokesman of the Metropolitan Police said that there was no one else in the vehicle, who was standing at the spot and was being searched. No weapon has been recovered yet. The police have done the same siege on this incident as it was done during terrorist attacks.
The Metropolitan Police said, "At the time of the local time, the car hit the security barriers outside the Parliament House at 7:00 p.m." The road to the Car House of Lords collided with the inhibitors, from which it seems that The driver is trying to reach the parliament building. | 2019-04-25T14:04:07 | http://asia24-7.com/news_details.php?id=VWtWWGIyNUNTMFZMTlVZeFpsVnFUelZGZFhFMVVUMDk= |
0.998763 | Bill, Eric, thanks for joining us.
There has been much attention focused on the role of the state-sponsored militias in Ukraine.
What is the status of democracy and the rule of law in Ukraine on this, the twenty fifth anniversary of Ukraine declaring independence?
A word of explanation is required as to the first part of this question. At the beginning of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine (the Donbas) and the annexation by Russia of Crimea, in early 2014, the Ukrainian army was in a catastrophic state, and volunteer formations emerged such as the Azov Battalion. These received much attention at the time. Extreme right-wing elements became prominent on both sides of the confict.
Ukraine has now reorganised and re-equipped its armed forces, has introduced five waves of conscription, and Azov and other militias have been incorporated into the regular armed forces of Ukraine.
That said, Ukraine is bedevilled by serious corruption and competition between big business interests, which undermines democracy and the rule of law. Nevertheless, Ukraine is in many respects much more democratic than Russia, there is greater freedom of expression, and serious efforts are being made to reform the legal and judicial systems, and law enforcement.
ะะดัะฐะฒััะฒัะนัะต Bill! And thank you for helping us understand the hottest conflict in Europe on the hottest summer day in Britain. I'd like to pick up where you leave off -- in fact, precisely with your final sentence.
Certainly the more serious media along with leading NGOs confirm much of what you say. Russia and Ukraine are both wracked with corruption. Both are plagued with some nationalist and far-right movements. Both of them lack any real democratic commitments or serious traditions of human rights. And yet, despite it all, I agree with you that at least some significant portion of Ukrainian society seems dedicated to reform and to improving the rule of law.
A central question then seems to be: How should Europe or the West respond? Perhaps at no time in recent memory has trust in joint Western or NATO leadership been so low. From your concluding sentence are we to deduce that the West should march ahead with strong support for Ukrainian democracy and for its greater integration or affiliation with Europea? Or do we need Realpolitik, sacrificing any high priority for Ukraine in order to appease Russia? Or is there some position in the middle which is not just a vague and flimsy compromise?
There are several words in your last paragraph, Eric, that need unpacking. Surely Russia and Ukraine are both part of "Europe", and, indeed, where does the "West" end or the "East" begin?
Not so long ago the Russian Empire included Poland and Finland, and for a part of the last century Russia occupied a large part of Germany. The greatest Tsar of Russia (Catherine II) was a German princess, and the last Tsars were cousins of the British royal family, who were (are) Germans.
The predecessor of Muscovy, which began its expansion, like England, in the 16th century, was Rus, in what is now Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia were ruled by the Golden Horde, the Tatars, for more than two centuries.
But to return to my first point: Ukraine is, in Andrew Wilson's words, the "unexpected nation", which did not exist before World War II. Now it has just as much a right to exist and flourish as Finland, Poland, or Georgia; or, indeed, former British possessions. Every European state has a vital interest in ensuring that both Ukraine and Russia are stable and prosperous states in which civil liberties and human rights are protected.
If by the "West" we mean the EU, then the EU's future is in some doubt as a result of the Brexit vote. Russia has always been adept in dealing not with the EU but with its member states, especially Germany. Eu sanctions for Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea remain in place, as do Russian sanctions against the EU. But the volume of trade and the pace of economic integration have not diminished substantially.
If by the "West" we mean NATO, then we should remember that NATO was the counterpart of the Warsaw Pact, and a mechanism for mutual defence against the perceived aggressive intentions of the USSR and its allies. In my view NATO lost much credibility when it undertook offensive action against Serbia, and its eastward expansion after the end of the Cold War is understandably viewed with apprehension by Russia.
Europe as a whole has had far too much experience of war in the last centuries, and there can be no military solution. The annexation of Crimea was made possible by the presence, in agreement with Ukraine, of 25,000 Russian troops in Sevastopol, and by the abject failure of Ukraine to resist. The focus now must be on the plight of the indigenous people of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, whose representative body, the Mejlis, has been closed by Russia, and whose leaders are in exile in Ukraine. The EU Parliament recently adopted a strongly worded resolution on this question, and every way must be found to give the Crimean Tatars support.
Russia does not intend to annex eastern Ukraine, and the worst case scenario is that Donetsk and Luhansk will become "frozen conflicts", like Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
But there are powerful voices in Russia proclaiming that Ukraine has no right to exist as an independent state. In my view the proper answer is to build links with the sections of Russian society which insist that Russia's future is in stronger engagement with European institutions such as the Council of Europe and OSCE.
Russia will soon celebrate 20 years since its ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights, under its 1993 Constitution which enshrines human rights, civil liberties and the primacy of international law. Britain and Russia have rather too much in common in their attitude to the ECHR. So we in civil society have a common platform!
You raise many crucial points Bill. I'll need to focus on just a few, but do let me know if I'm overlooking important elements.
I agree entirely with the history you recount. "West" and "East" are indeed largely Cold War constructs. Those words have represented at best fluid borders (and not just in Europe). You're right to recall that whether or how we draw such lines depends much on whether we're talking land, culture, rule, and so forth. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov seem to have struggled in drawing those boundaries as much as we do today.
On the other hand would you not agree that, however arbitrary may be their origins, current nationalisms are rendering these divisions very real? Indeed ร propos contemporary nationalisms: as a staunch "Remainer" (cf. my previous discussion thread on this website), I have strongly advocated Britain's leading role in a European Union of open borders. Although I suspect you mean the observation ironically, should we be equating Britain's Euro-scpeticism, which admittedly includes confusions with and hostilities towards the ECHR, with Russia's attitudes towards human rights? Sexual minorities, to mention but one set of targets, might well decline to do so.
But back to your proposal. Of course I agree we need to build links. I've been involved in a few myself, always with enormous personal and professional satisfaction. But "let's engage more" seems like a weary old game, particularly when dissidents find themselves ever more restricted in their activities and at ever greater personal and professional risk.
These problems force us to look more closely at Russia's dominant politics. Many voices would join you in claiming that "eastward expansion after the end of the Cold War is understandably viewed with apprehension by Russia." Well, yes, "understandably" in the sense that we can easily find Russian nationalists who dislike it, and who are less bothered by critical examinations of their histories than we in -- yes, "the West"! -- are very rightly expected to be. But I guess I'm less interested in what can be "understood" (we can pretty much explain, or indeed explain away, whatever we like) and more in what can be justified.
All of the historical context is definitely important, but it is also interesting that we continue to assess Ukraine in relation to Russian standards.
And it doesn't seem to address the issue of the militias, both in terms of the implications of a state hiring militias to squash opposing factions and the danger of militias then turning on a supposedly western government. Already we see them influencing public discourse, creating terror and conflict at peaceful gatherings.
Can there be rule of law or democracy in a state that empowers radicals?
You hit the nail on the head! Both Ukraine and Russia suffer from radical nationalists, in both cases homophobic and anti-semitic. Fanatics on both sides, especially people who like weapons, are attracted to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
I have been working in Ukraine since 1992 (in Russia since 1983), and from the start it was noticeable that in Kyiv and much of Ukraine people speak Russian and Ukrainian without even thinking about which language they are speaking. My first visit was to Donetsk, and I returned there several times, most recently in 2011. Ethnicity and language were not issues. Religion is the more divisive issue in much of Ukraine. But the beautiful city of Odessa is still a great Jewish city, and on the last two occasions, in the last year, that I have travelled to Ukraine, the plane has been full of Hasidic Jews, travelling to their place of pilgrimage in the city of Uman in Ukraine.
There have been occasional anti-semitic disturbances. On 25 September 2011, a protest rally of about 100 people was held by the nationalist All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda" to demand 'stricter legal and sanitary controls on pilgrims' and better regulation of Hasidim pilgrims in the interest of risks to local security and health! These are the notorious far-right and anti-semitic groupings which became rather prominent at the time of the "Maidan revolution" in early 2014. But I repeat that they have few supporters in Ukraine and make no headway in elections.
The "hot" nationalists mainly come from western Ukraine, from Galicia, which was never part of Ukraine until after WW II. The city of Lviv, Galicia's capital, was before the War the city of Lvov, in Poland, and its population was predominantly Jewish and Polish. Before that it was called Lemburg, in Austria-Hungary. Before that it was in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. There are now very few Jews or Poles. But some very "hot" anti-Russian nationalists. When I was there in 2000 there were serious proposals by the municipality to organise vigilantes to prevent the sale of Russian language literature or the playing of Russian popular music. This is the fertile soil from which the militias sprouted. Anti-Russian and anti-semitic populism go hand and hand with veneration for Nazi collaborators.
There is no evidence that the neo-fascists who organised the provocation referred to in your link in February this year had been hired by the state, they have not brought down the government, and Roman Stoika their leader has been on the wanted list since 2015 - see http://www.unian.info/society/1112886-zakarpattias-right-sector-leader-put-on-wanted-list.html.
The far right is active in every country in Europe including the UK. What is noticeable is that, as Anton Shekhovtsov has reported, far-right representatives from a number of Western European countries have been recruited by Russia to give credibility, as "observers", to the annexation of Crimea and separatism in Donbas. See for example http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/pro-russian-extremists-observe.html.
It's true, Bill, that nationalisms can be found all over the West, right down to Noway and Denmark, which can be called more-or-less impotent at their most extreme ends. Of course, states like those two also have the longstanding and powerful counterweights of citizen-democracy, well-managed economies, high standards of living and social welfare, along with fierce commitments to human rights and the rule of law.
Russia and Ukraine have counterweights of their own, though of a rather different vintage. The more benign moments of Russian Tsarism, then Soviet dictatorship, supplied counterweights to extreme nationalist or separatist types of movements, albeit simply aimed at maintaining order at all costs, in order to shore up absolute power. Abracadabra: Putin's "sovereign democracy" turns out to look strikingly similar.
In a nutshell, I'm not sure all observers would feel complacent about Russian or Ukrainian nationalisms. But even if we accept this idea that they bark more than they bite, I'm not sure I'd equate their nationalisms (let alone some of their horrific racism, sexism, homophobia, and perhaps more antisemitism than we're admitting here) with Western European analogues.
So I'm still wondering: What should the West do? Getting back to your proposal, there's a long history of the West using soft civil-society and cultural initiatives to counter regimes egregiously flaunting human rights -- almost always failures. I'm not saying the choice is only between war on the one hand and wishy-washiness on the other. I'm just asking: Is wishy-washy the best the West can offer? | 2019-04-22T04:33:05 | http://replyall.debates.eu/debates-eu/ukraine-nationalism-and-rule-of-law/ |
0.893821 | Backstage after the first show of a whistle-stop winter tour of Norway, Necro Butcher, bassist with Norwegian Black Metal band Mayhem, is already a bit tipsy. He is gleefully reading back his own words from an article about the band in the local newspaper. 'I promise not to throw animal heads at the audience in Bergen,' he preens.
To put that in context, the band have been around for more than 20 years. Their peers acknowledge them as the originators of Norwegian Black Metal (often referred to as its country's biggest cultural export), defining both its antagonistic sound and attitude. Black Metal relishes its position as the most extreme form of music imaginable.
In the early Nineties, a spate of church burnings and three grisly deaths stoked blazing headlines that described the nihilistic rampage of the satanically-minded youth. The limits of tolerance in this largely secular society were sorely tested by sensational stories centred not on the music's fans but the bands themselves. And, as far as the Norwegian media are concerned, when it comes to Black Metal all roads lead to Mayhem, whose terrible and bloody history eclipses the debauchery of even the most hardened rock bands.
Before Mayhem had even released their first studio album in 1993, a creepy masterpiece called De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, singer Dead had committed suicide and founding guitarist Euronymous had been brutally murdered by session bassist Count Grishnackh (with second guitarist, Snorre Ruch, acting as his accomplice). Grishnackh was already suspected of initiating the church burnings that began in 1992.
Gnomic and gnome-like (the band's road crew affectionately refer to him as 'Micro Butcher'), Mayhem's 36-year old bassist is in some ways Norway's answer to Lemmy; a stoic veteran who has helped steer the band he co-founded in 1984 through personal tragedy and public vilification.
Euronymous's replacement is a tightly wired guitarist by the name of Blasphemer. With his long, dyed black hair and a tuft of beard that curls underneath his chin which he is for ever absent-mindedly stroking, he looks like a Black Metal dandy. He also has a rapier wit and a refined taste for red wine, amphetamines and sweet revenge.
One hapless journalist who had the knives out for Mayhem every time they played Bergen found this out the hard way. 'One time he made some personal comments about myself and Hellhammer,' says the guitarist, 'so after the show, we drove to a slaughterhouse, picked up a pig's head and dropped it off at his house with a dagger stuck between its eyes. 'We never heard from him again,' he says, pursing his lips with pleasure.
Despite the tour schedule - four dates in four days, requiring them to cover more than 1,200 miles of treacherous mountain road up and down the country in a cramped 16-seater mini-van - spirits in the band are high. It's the first time they have toured with Hungarian singer Attila Csihar (his real name), a surprisingly mellow guy who comes across like a stoned Bela Lugosi. Recruited after Dead's suicide to record vocals for the Dom Mysteriis album, Attila lent his own touch of madness to the project with a possessed vocal style that swings from the operatic to a bestial growl. At its grotesque best, his singing sounds like vomit. Attila's initial tenure with the band was cut short by Euronymous's death.
Another frontman, called Maniac, left the band in 2004 through mutual consent. But not before Blasphemer had made his displeasure known, at what he felt was Maniac's lack of commitment, by kicking him down a flight of stairs as they came off stage - and twice slamming his head facefirst into a wall. 'Blasphemer actually came and asked my permission beforehand,' an amused Necro Butcher confides. 'Maniac had terrible stage fright. He'd get so drunk beforehand that he couldn't remember the words.' Perhaps not surprisingly, that was his last show.
In the insular world of Norwegian metal, Attila's return to Mayhem is a major event. The Bergen show has brought some local heavyweights out to see the band. They include a bellowing man mountain called Abbath, guitarist with Black Metal stalwarts Immortal, and Gaahl, 28-year old vocalist with Gorgoroth, a tall, thin fellow with piercing eyes and a wizard-like beard tightly plaited at its tail.
Although exceedingly polite and softspoken, Gaahl has a history of arrests for violence that would make any gangsta rapper blush with shame. He's currently awaiting sentencing on charges of torture and committing ritual acts. It is alleged he beat his victim - a man who had turned up uninvited and inebriated to an after-hours party at his house - threatened to sacrifice him and gave him a cup into which to bleed. Acting as his own defence, Gaahl claimed in court that he had been attacked first and his assailant was only provided with a cup 'so that he wouldn't make such a mess in my house'. The singer refuses to discuss his version of events in detail now for fear of prejudicing the outcome of the trial, but insists he was attacked as part of a hit organised by a man with whom he had a prior dispute.
As Mayhem's tour bus winds through plateaus and fjords for hundreds of miles on its way from Bergen (a western port town) to Kristiansand in the south, it's easy to see what he means. Norway is a country in which nature has the upper hand. At times blizzards make it impossible to see more than a couple of metres in front of the van. When the skies clear, the awesome landscape communicates its majesty through an eerie silence. Trees laden with snow are contorted into obsequious poses, as if compelled to bow down by forces beyond their control. And with the onset of dusk, the craggy profiles of the black mountains take on a malefic aspect, casting a dark shadow across the land.
This epic geography bleeds unabated into the harsh, cold and unforgiving mood of Black Metal. It's hard to think of a music that sounds more appropriate to the environment from which it emerged. Its chief characteristic is a chilling vibrato guitar style developed by Mayhem's Euronymous and Snorre Ruch that provides an oddly harmonious counterpoint to the stark brutality of the rhythm section.
Fenriz, the anaemic-looking drummer and lyricist for Darkthrone, has a wealth of opinions about what constitutes the true Norwegian Black Metal sound. A self-deprecating music geek whose arms are covered with intentionally bad heavy metal tattoos, Fenriz can sometimes be found, beer and fag in hand, lodged behind a table at Oslo's Elm Street Cafe, a drinking den popular with metal musicians.
He is obsessed with maintaining the rawness and purity of early Black Metal. To that end, he is endlessly compiling mixtapes that seek to define its influences. The first was released on CD through British label Peaceville as Fenriz Presents ... The Best Of Old School Black Metal.
'There wasn't a generic sound back then,' he explains. 'We had to decide ourselves what we deemed worthy of the Black Metal stamp. There were many "Thrash" releases with a lot of "Black" in them, whereas others had no "Black" at all. This is not maths, so I can't say one plus one equals 30. It had something to do with production, lyrics, the way they dressed and a commitment to making ugly, raw, grim stuff.
'Before the whole Black Metal thing blew up in 93/94, it was all very DIY,' says Fenriz, who decries the watered-down approach ofcommercial Black Metal. 'After that you could just call up [German metal label] Nuclear Blast and get a deal. It was very underground before then. We could walk the streets looking like insane motherfuckers and no-one knew what the hell was going on. We just looked like freaks. But then the media got hold of it and suddenly everyone knew what we'd been up to ... unfortunately.' He laughs.
The event that brought black to the world occurred on Saturday, 6 June 1992. On that day, the Fantoft Stave Church near Bergen, a magnificent 12th-century gothic structure made of wood and acknowledged as a historical landmark, was razed. Lightning strikes and electrical failures rather than foul play were thought to be the chief suspects. But in January 1993 Varg Vikernes, aka Count Grishnackh, summoned a journalist from a local paper, Bergens Tidendes, to a loft apartment decorated with 'Nazi paraphernalia, weapons and Satanic symbols'. The windows were blacked out with carpet. Vikernes gave a gloating interview in which he claimed that the Black Metal scene, having effectively declared war on Christianity and Norwegian society, was responsible for some eight church burnings so far and intended to continue its campaign of terror.
No physical evidence ever emerged to connect Vikernes to the crime, but he brazenly used a photo of the church's charred remains to promote Askes (Norwegian for 'ashes'), an album by his solo recording project, Burzum. Despite repeatedly denying his involvement, he is widely believed to have taken the photo himself.
In one fell swoop, he also brought the full force of the Norwegian authorities down on the Black Metal scene. Mayhem, their associates, and members of other bands were rounded up and arrested for questioning. A special police intelligence unit was set up to investigate criminal happenings within the scene.
A further search of the farm revealed a hoard of hand grenades and tear gas canisters. 'My grandfather and uncle stole them from the army,' he claims. 'But the police tried to pin that on me also. They wanted to throw the book at me.' He ended up serving a year in prison.
'The secret police actually called me up three months ago,' he continues. 'They said, we want to have a talk with you. But they didn't really have anything to say. I think they just wanted to check up on me.' The stakes were never so high back in the early days, when Necro Butcher says that the impetus to form Mayhem was 'just a stupid boy fantasy'. He and Euronymous met in 1983, They lived in the same Oslo suburb and bonded over their shared love of Motรถrhead and Venom (a Satanic-themed group from Newcastle with a punk-metal sound who coined the term 'Black Metal' in 1982).
As well as being an ardent music fan, Euronymous was an enthusiastic adherent of communism and was once a member of a local Marxist-Leninist youth organisation; adirection that created an uneasy tension with his band-mates.
The letter-writing also brought Mayhem into contact with Dead, a Swede who joined Mayhem when his band Morbid folded in 1988. Serious illness as a child and a near death experience convinced him that he had died and was now a being from another world. His beliefs are preserved in the vampiric lyrics he wrote for De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Dead reputedly carried around the carcass of a crow in a jar and would inhale fumes from it before taking the stage so he could perform with the stench of death in his nostrils. He also took to donning a white greasepaint visage, designed to mimic the pallor of 13th-century plague victims.
'It wasn't anything to do with the way Kiss and Alice Cooper used make-up,' says Necro Butcher. 'Dead actually wanted to look like a corpse. He didn't do it to look cool. He would draw snot dripping out of his nose. That doesn't look cool. He called it corpse-paint.
And then, one day in the spring of 1991, Dead did just that. Euronymous came back to their house to discover his body slumped against a wall. He had slashed his wrists with a butcher's knife and blown his brains out with a shotgun. His suicide note had a morbid humour . It read, 'Excuse all the blood. Let the party begin.' For reasons best known to himself, Euronymous took pictures of Dead's remains before notifying the police.
Several years later a lurid photo of Dead, lying in a shabby room in which the only splash of colour was provided by his blood, somehow found its way onto the cover of a Mayhem bootleg produced in South America. By resigning as bassist of Mayhem, Necro Butcher fatefully left his position open for Varg Vikernes, Euronymous's eventual killer, to enter the picture.
Euronymous moved to Oslo. He opened a shop called Helvete ('Hell'), from which he also ran his own label, Deathlike Silence Productions. The walls of the shop were painted black and hung with medieval weapons, pictures discs and band posters. In the window was a tombstone crafted from polystyrene. Euronymous began to create a persona as the embodiment of an ancient evil. Promo photos from the time show him dressed in a black cloak holding a rapier. The corpse-paint has become more stylised; his gaze, distant and remote. He looks like a character from a German expressionist movie.
But it was Eithin who raised the stakes for transgressive behaviour. In August 1992, while visiting his parents in Lillehammer, he killed a man who had propositioned him in the Winter Olympic Park, stabbing him 37 times with a pocket knife. The body was discovered the next day. Eithin was not caught for a year, despite his guilt being an open secret within the crowd at Helvete; no doubt, this contributed to the feeling that they were now able to do anything with impunity.
Although this last statement is purely speculation by Butcher, it tallies with Vikernes's claims that he killed Euronymous in self-defence. Euronymous was in his underwear when he answered the door to Vikernes at his Oslo apartment at 4am on 10 August 1993. In the melee, Vikernes chased Euronymous through the stairwell stabbing him 24 times in the chest, back and head.
Again the police arrested Vikernes and he was charged in September following a confession by his accomplice, Snorre Ruch. The darkly charismatic and articulate Vikernes commanded the front pages during his spring 1994 trial for murder, arson and possession of illegal weapons (police found 150 kilos of explosives at his home). 'The Count', as he was known, quickly became Norway's answer to Charles Manson.
Sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum term under Norwegian law, Vikernes soon renounced Black Metal and embraced his own heathen neo-Nazi philosophy. Recent photos show him sporting a blond Hitler haircut. In November 2003, just six months before he was due to be released, he absconded during weekend leave. Police arrested him two days later in Oslo.
Mayhem, though, refused to bow to destiny. 'Me and Hellhammer got together at รystein's funeral and decided to carry on with the band,' says Necro Butcher. Their first order of business was to release the almost-completed De Mysteriis album.
'Because Vikernes played bass on it, รystein's parents didn't want it to come out.' says Hellhammer. 'I thought it was appropriate that the murderer and victim were on the same record. I put word out that I was re-recording the bass parts. But I never did .
Two crew members emerge from behind a long red curtain and theatrically hold up the pigs' heads before impaling them on microphone stands lined up at the front of the stage. As they do so, 1,000 wild-eyed metal fans, fuelled by 96 per cent proof home-made moonshine (the preferred drink of Norwegians up north) and drunk on blood lust, let out a delighted roar. When the curtain rises, the stage looks like a slaughterhouse. Another 16 slack-jawed pigs heads leer out from atop the amps. Attila stands front and centre, wearing his own take on the corpse-paint; an abstraction of the satanic goat of Mendes design transposed onto his features, distorting his face in a serpentine fashion. Black horns jut out from heavily shadowed eyes and up into his temples. He holds aloft a fearsome double-bladed dagger that looks like it could disembowel a horse; his lyrics emerge in an incomprehensible stream as a moaning death rattle. Behind him Mayhem sound like a band at war with the world. And possibly even themselves.
At the close of the show, Blasphemer puts down his guitar and furiously hurls a pig's head into the audience. Backstage he spits bile at his bandmates: the performance hasn't lived up to his exacting standards. Out front though, the crowd seem calm, satiated. One lucky teenage fan has secured a trophy. Girls surround the tall, handsome youth, cooing at the pig's head that hangs his side, as he grips it by the ear like a cherished toy animal. | 2019-04-21T15:11:50 | http://archive.is/oGAKO |
0.999882 | Of the two U.S. cities with the same name, can you identify which one is the most populous?
Name America's least well-educated cities. Name the American cities where the lowest percentage of adults have bachelor's degrees. Includes cities with a population above 250,000.
Name the American cities where the highest percentage of adults have bachelor's degrees. Includes cities with a population above 250,000.
Based on the clues, name these Texas cities starting with each letter. | 2019-04-26T11:58:09 | https://mapasinteractivos.didactalia.net/comunidad/mapasflashinteractivos/todos/tag/texas |
0.999523 | Thanks so much for that feedback. We do need to 'cull' a couple of pages as we are condensing the site. There are some irrelevant pages on our current site which we no longer want and therefore there is nowhere to redirect these pages to. In this case, what would be the most effective way of dealing with this?
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Social media is one area that people have not been really paying close attention to. It doesnt end with just Facebook, twitter or Google+. There are several other platforms that people are not taking advantage and they could easily get a link from.
How about e-marketing specialist. I think that sort of sums it up.
i echo your sentiments as well, facebook is still way ahead of the curve and it might take some time before the average internet user actually switches over to Google+.
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Brilian. Thanks so much for the effort. !!
Great feature. Would love to be able to throw my goal conversion rate column in there but seem to loose the weighted sort when i try to.
It all sounds good and great but would that mean that Wikipedia would start to rank even more because everyone, and i mean everyone has been on there atleast a couple of time and how many times have you seen their results being totally irrelevent to the search.
How would google decide that if someone searched for our company through a branded search would show my site again if that same person searched for a targeted search term.
Under "Start Here" i would include Adwords if you are using it. Go to Campaigns > Keyword Tab > “See Search Terms” dropdown > Select All. A gold mine for long tail searches.
Bit off topic but a real frustration, perhaps you guys can help. The Dimensions "Page Title" "Page" "Landing Page" and "Exit Page" are always grayed out no matter what other metrics or dimensions I select , even when nothing is selected, these options are grayed out by default, making it impossible to add them to a custom report.
How confident can i be that Google is actually finding the links i build if Webmaster Tools itself is inacurate?
This is often a concern, we seem to find the links on Yahoo's Linkdomain but not on Google's Webmaster Tools, and these are all quality links. | 2019-04-22T09:22:45 | https://moz.com/community/users/163833 |
0.998978 | The eight locations of the 1965 New Wave sketch film Paris vu par are plotted on the map above. We can see from this that the view of Paris offered by the film is, topographically speaking, partial. Nothing east of the north-south axis formed by the boulevards de Strasbourg, de Sebastopol, du Palais and Saint Michel is of interest, apparently, to the six filmmakers assembled by Barbet Schroeder. On the other hand, there is an even spread each side of the west-east axis formed by the avenue des Champs Elysรฉes and the rue de Rivoli: four north, four south.
Applying the more common rive droite-rive gauche distinction, the film appears imbalanced, with six districts to the north and two to the south. The opposition here is a traditional one, setting the intellectual and artistic milieux to be found south of the river against a variety of less bohemian locales to the north. The one sketch to comprise two locations, Godard's 'Montparnasse et Levallois', acknowledges the pertinence of this distinction by taking its protagonist from an artist's studio on one side of the river (south of course) to a car-repair shop on the other (north). At the same time Godard's film complicates this conventional opposition by signalling that his protagonist has crossed another line, going from Paris itself into its immediate banlieue, at Levallois-Perret. We will see that this last move is even more complicated, in the section of this post devoted to that particular sketch.
Also missing from Paris vu par is the city's geographical centre, the islands in the middle of the Seine. The Seine too, come to think of it, is missing. The closest we get is a view of the Institut de France from the pont des Arts; we know the river is beneath, but we don't see it. This must be the only cinematic portrait of Paris so disdainful of the city's principal water feature.
The 9e arrondissement occupies the middle ground, the Seine may just be discernible further back, and in the distance are two otherwise absent landmarks, the Panthรฉon to the left, in the 5e, and the Eiffel Tower to the right, in the 7e.
The one-shot credit sequence finishes with the film title and a list of the participating filmmakers, each responsible for one of the six sketches to follow. Given in alphabetical order, this list doesn't correspond to the running of the episodes in the film as it stands: 'Saint Germain des Prรฉs' (Jean Douchet); 'Gare du Nord' (Jean Rouch); 'Rue Saint Denis' (Jean Daniel Pollet); 'Place de l'Etoile' (Eric Rohmer); 'Montparnasse et Levallois' (Jean-Luc Godard); 'La Muette' (Claude Chabrol).
Curiously, the rolling end credits do not list the sketches in either of these two orders, reversing the positions of the sketches by Pollet and Douchet. I suspect that this difference points to a change in thinking about the running order, after the composition of the end credits. A Japanese dvd of the film actually has the sketches in the order of the end credits, suggesting either that the Kinokuniya company used an early print with that running order or re-arranged the film to match it.
The camera is retracing the woman's movements rather than representing them, since the events described by the narrator happen at night and the film shows us these streets in daytime.
Odile is right, when the seven-storey building goes up on the rue La Fayette it will block the view of the Sacrรฉ Coeur from their apartment.
This last shot seems to be from atop a building on the rue du Faubourg Saint Martin.
The implication is that the room in which the rest of the sketch plays out is in this hotel.
These first twenty-two shots show the place de l'Etoile when visited on special occasions or by tourists. A second section documents its topography, 'meeting place of twelve large avenues', and how it is negotiated by pedestrians.
This is the first of four sequences around which the sketch is organised, each showing views of and from the streets and pavements that circle the monument in the centre. The first sequence, merely documenting the place, follows no topographic order. The next three, following a fictional character's itinerary, are topographically exact.
The second time the protagonist has to reach the avenue Victor Hugo from the mรฉtro exit at avenue de Wagram he goes left from the mรฉtro exit straightway, crosses the avenue Wagram and is assaulted by a man before reaching the avenue Hoche. He runs from the scene, still clockwise, reaching the avenue Victor Hugo in fourteen shots. Three of these shots are cutaways to traffic signals, but between the shots of him running there are seven finely judged match cuts that give the illusion of a single action being filmed with multiple cameras, rather than a compilation of several takes. The topographical exactness of the matches are as important as the matches on the action - in an interview included on the New Yorker edition of Paris vu par, the film's editor Jackie Raynal points out that this sketch is 'all about the demarcation of the space'. 'In real time too', she adds, though, unlike the reality of space, the reality of time here is a confection in the editing suite.
This is where the protagonist prepares to post her two letters.
'Grimpier', on the poster in the left-hand image, was a kitchenware manufacturer in Levallois-Perret.
The name of the bar suggests that this is either at the junction of the rue Octave Mirbeau and the rue du Caporal Peugeot or very near it. I cannot confirm the suggestion because this whole section of the 17e was demolished to make way for the boulevard pรฉriphรฉrique (built between 1958 and 1973). For the same reason I can't confirm that the car repair workshop is opposite the Bar Peugeot.
I think that, given the exact position of the building in the background, which is at 23 boulevard de la Somme, 17e, we are just by the passage Mortrier in the sketch's last shot, but I still have some work to do on the rest of this location.
Among the places present via postcards on sale near the Arc de Triomphe are the Moulin Rouge, Notre Dame de Paris, the Louvre (I think) and the Eiffel Tower, as well as the Arc de Triomphe itself. The others I can't make out.
Places in or around Paris are mentioned by characters. The woman in 'Gare du Nord' evokes the announcements at Orly airport (as does later the man she meets in the street). Her husband suggests she go join all the other women like her on the rue Saint Denis, announcing the sketch that follows. As they argue she compares their district to Auteuil or Neuilly, and then it turns out that the man she meets has a house in Auteuil. The prostitute in 'Rue Saint Denis' says that she is sick of Paris, 'a rotten city'. The client tells a joke about Bรฉcon-les-Bruyรจres, a Paris suburb, and she mentions the Gare Saint Lazare.
For this post I used the Artificial Eye dvd, though I now discover that this edition is significantly flawed. In the opening credit sequence the camera tilts up towards the panorama over Paris and at that point the title PARIS VU PAR appears, followed straightway by the names CHABROL and DOUCHET together. As these two names appear the film freezes and the remaining four names appear in succession, one by one.
This must be the correct version, and it is regrettable that the UK and US versions are defective. They both also freeze the image at the end of Godard's 'Montparnasse et Levallois' sketch, whereas the Japanese edition doesn't. I haven't checked any French edition of the film (if someone could do that I'd appreciate knowing the results, here).
The Japanese edition, as I have mentioned, reverses the positions of the Douchet and Pollet films, but I doubt that in this respect it is a more correct version. My guess is that a technician saw the running order in the final credits and assumed that was the intended order. | 2019-04-22T08:52:25 | https://www.thecinetourist.net/paris-vu-par.html |
0.999367 | Why are quantum computers fast? Magic states are a special ingredient, or resource, that allows quantum computers to run faster than traditional computers.
Everyday resources are things like food, water and energy. They are resources for life and without them we could not exist. They are valuable and often scarce.
Magic is a resource for quantum computing. Without magic, a device is no better than any other piece of traditional computing equipment. More precisely, a computing device without magic could be emulated by a traditional computer at essentially the same speed (at most a polynomial overhead). To run a quantum computer, magic must be consumed like fuel, and so must be continually replenished. Harnessing magic within the laboratory is difficult and yet essential, and so many practical problems in building quantum computers can be cast in the language of quantifying and creating magic. Specifically, magic appears naturally in the design of protocols for protecting quantum computers against noise.
Magic is contained within the qubits of a quantum computer, which are said to be in a magic state. This may sound abstract but is the same language we use for energy. For instance, an electron can be in a highly excited and energetic state or in its ground state. But the concept of energy is not tied to electrons. Any material thing can hold energy. In principle, anything can be in a magic state. But magic states are a quantum state of matter, and so mainly relevant on the quantum scale of individual electrons, photons and atoms.
Other wacky quantum resources include entanglement and coherence. Other scientists have argued that the secret behind quantum computers is actually entanglement, coherence or some other resource. But thinking about magic provides a unique perspective. There are entangled states and coherent superposition states that are not magical, and using only these states will give no quantum speed-up over traditional computing. To me, this signals that thinking about magic states teaches us something that is missed when we learn about entanglement or coherence.
The bloch sphere representation of a single qubit. The six red points are called stabiliser states: the north and south poles are the and states; the four states on the equator are (upto normalisation) , , and . These stabiliser states have no magic. Mixed, or noisy, states reside on the interior of the sphere, with zero-magic states forming an eight sided shape called an octahderon. For states outside the octahderon, the amount of magic increases with the distance from the octahderon.
The advantage of this particular way of measuring magic is that it has several nice practical applications. For instance, we can write software for a traditional computer that will emulate a quantum computer with a runtime that scales with the amount of magic (as measured in this particular way). Fortunately, this quantity grows exponentially with the number of magic states. But this does tell us that a little bit of magic isnโt enough, it is needed in large quantities for there to be a quantum speed-up.
Given a qubit protected from noise in an error correcting code, we can usually only prepare stabiliser states (with zero magic) while retaining this protection. So preparing a magic state is subject to noise, but we want pure noise-free magic states to fuel a reliable quantum computation. In the first paper to use the phrase โmagic stateโ, Bravyi and Kitaev showed how to distill two different types of single qubit magic state. The suggestive language is used because the process is analogous to the distillation of alcoholic beverages. One starts with a lot of qubits, each with a small amount of magic, and distillation produces a smaller quantity of more potent magic states. The distillation process does not create any magic but rather concentrates it.
Magic state distillation is an area where I have made a number of contributions over many years. I will list some highlights in the following subsections.
In a series of papers, I worked on the first protocols for distillation in the qudit setting of quantum computing.
The NJP paper dealt only with qutrits (three level systems). The latter two papers took advantage of quantum Reed-Muller codes and provided protocols for larger qudits (with a prime number of levels). | 2019-04-26T08:26:16 | https://earltcampbell.com/research/magic-states/ |
0.999995 | Therapeutic boarding schools for girls from or in Paris, Texas. Help for adoption troubles, self-harm, eating disorders call: 406-847-5850 โ therapeutic boarding schools and boarding schools.
Therapeutic boarding schools for girls from or in Paris, Texas. Help for adoption troubles, self-harm, eating disorders call: 406-847-5850 โ rehabs for teens and boarding schools.
Are You Researching Therapeutic Boarding Schools in Paris, TX for a Girl Misbehaving or Causing Self-Harm Due to Emotional Distress from Feelings of Abandonment (Adoption Issues) or a Major Loss or Trauma in Her Life?
If you have a teenage girl in your home displaying unacceptable behavior or is making inappropriate choices, Clearview Horizon may be a good option to consider as you research therapeutic boarding schools in Paris, TX.
While not in Paris, Texas, Clearview Horizon works with girls from your town in a beautiful facility in the mountains nearby the year-round resort town of Sandpoint, Idaho. We are intentionally located in a remote area because an important part of therapy is for the girl to be far away from influences, issues and similar surroundings so that she can put those out of her mind. It also discourages our residents from thinking about connecting with friends and departing our facility.
To summarize, Clearview Horizon is a therapeutic boarding school for teenage girls with life-controlling issues or misbehavior that may be threatening to their future. Our psychotherapists work best with young women who are acting out or making inappropriate decisions due to emotional problems originating from: major trauma or loss in their life, physical or mental abuse, death of a loved one, or attachment disorders related to adoption. We also specialize in eating disorders and self-harm.
Here at Clearview, girls receive an individual treatment plan aligned with their medical, emotional, and psychological needs. Our expert and seasoned counselors care for over 20 girls in our gorgeous mountainside facility that was once a prestigious corporate hunting lodge. Our multi-disciplinary personnel is dedicated to helping each girl start on a new and more productive path in life. The clinical staff includes a psychiatric specialist, a primary care physician, a dentist, and licensed psychotherapists as well as teachers, mentors and residential care staff.
Clearview emphasizes a good nutritional diet along with physical activities, restful sleep and fun times; all designed to teach a healthy lifestyle. Girls participate in many outdoor and recreational events during the year, as well as organized team sports. Our residents are also taken on regular overnight treks in the beautiful and rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest. For spiritual support, girls are given encouragement and instruction by our Christian staff and can attend chapel services, but we also honor other faiths and will not force Christianity on any girl or require them to participate in Christian services or studies.
Teenage girls in our care attend individual, group, and family therapy sessions with our staff of therapists. Among our professional staff, we also have a Chemical Dependency Counselor for problems related to illicit drug, alcohol or prescription drug abuse, which often accompanies emotional upheaval or when teenagers self-medicate in an attempt to dull their emotional pain. Also, art therapy gives girls another way to release their emotions. And animal and equine therapy is a part of our therapy, featuring dogs and miniature horses. Finally, through round the clock interactions with our trained staff, the girls receive constant feedback and assistance in their thinking and actions.
Young women come to our therapeutic boarding school from across the nation, including from Paris, Texas. We are proud of what our team of experts accomplishes with these girls, and our hope is that we have the privilege to also help your girl.
Take a minute to browse through our website to learn more about our therapeutic boarding school for girls, even though we are not located in Paris, TX. Also, read some of our many success stories and feel free to ask us for references you can call.
Please Inquire for More Information and the Fees for the Clearview Horizon Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, though we are located in the Pacific Northwest, not in Paris, TX.
Paris, Texas is a city located Convert northeast of the DallasFort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods. Physiographically, these regions are part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. In 1900, 9,358 people lived in Paris; in 1910, 11,269; in 1920, 15,040; and in 1940, 18,678. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 25,171. It is the county seat of Lamar County and serves as a business and employment center for the county.
The film Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders was named after the city, but was not set there.
Local residents like the humorous slogan โSecond Largest Paris in the World.โ Following a tradition of American cities named โParisโ, a Convert replica of the Eiffel Tower was constructed in 1993. In 1998, presumably as a response to the 1993 construction of a Convert tower in Paris, Tennessee, the city placed a giant red cowboy hat atop the tower. The current tower is at least the second Eiffel Tower replica built in Paris; the first was constructed of wood and later destroyed by a tornado.
It is governed by a city council as specified in the cityโs charter adopted in 1948. It has fewer than 100 police officers, and fewer than 100 fire fighters. It is rated Risk Zone 1 for earthquake potential, the lowest rating.
Excerpt about therapeutic boarding schools in Paris, Texas, used with permission from Wikipedia.
Should you need help finding military schools, behavioral counseling centers, residential schools for boys or military schools, please let us know. Clearview Horizon is a Christian therapeutic boarding school for troubled teenage girls offering teen counseling for girls with adoption issues (reactive attachment disorders), self-harm (self-mutilation) or cutting, or eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, anorexia nervosa). Other behavioral issues and disorders we deal with include: defiance, depression, post traumatic stress, abuse, and general anxiety. If you have an out of control girl, please think about Clearview Horizon, a school for troubled girls that offers teen counseling and teen counselors for troubled girls. We offer counseling for troubled teens and out of control teens and especially work with RAD girls and adopted girls with emotional disorders. If you are searching for residential treatment centers for girls, troubled youth homes, troubled teen schools or troubled teen boarding schools, you have found one. Homes for troubled teens and boarding schools for teens donโt typically offer teen counseling and therapy, but we do. | 2019-04-23T21:58:49 | https://www.clearviewhorizon.com/therapeutic-boarding-schools-for-girls-in-paris-texas/ |
0.999997 | The following quotes illustrate this: One particular participant stated "You in no way know with these points [psychological interventions] from time to time they perform and in some cases they don't nevertheless it is effectively worth trying isn't it seriously." An additional participant commented, "I feel it [MBSR] is anything that I would prefer to try... I would give it a go". Quite a few participants appeared incredibly enthusiastic expressing "I would like some additional details about this" and "If there was a possibility for me to go on a course I'd go" and "I would be incredibly pleased in experiencing that sort of technique." It was also suggested that MBSR must be readily available to significant other people or carers in the individual with AS, with a single participant saying "I think my wife would benefit from it and her pressure levels..." The group discussion evolved towards the different delivery modes of MBSR that is traditionally delivered inside a weekly group session of 2.five hours more than eight consecutive weeks. Other prospective modes of deliver explored incorporated on-line courses and distance delivery more than the phone having a equivalent time delivery (more than eight weeks). Most participants within this study expressed a preference for the traditional group structure in lieu of on-line or distance delivery.St made me feel like a zombie...I felt worse". Yet another participant skilled a dry mouth and feeling drowsy within the morning. 1 participant who had taken amitriptyline for more than 2 years reported no side-effects but implied the drug Anle138b cancer created no distinction to her symptoms "I honestly don't see any difference seriously, I mean I was wandering around at three o'clock this morning...I could not sleep...". The fourth participant with encounter of amitriptyline stated she was wary of taking an antidepressant "It frightened me a bit after they [rheumatologist] described antidepressant....I believed that it could be addictive but I did not know so I took it to get a week then I stopped just in case I got addicted to it." Some participants had tried option or complementary interventions for managing fatigue. One participant attempted meditation guided by an occupational health advisor which was "lovely" but not really helpful when experiencing a flare "I did not find that seriously really fantastic for when you find yourself possessing a terrible time which is genuinely when I believed it will be." Acupuncture, TENS machines and heat wraps have been described as "pleasant", but supplied only "temporary" pain relief. One particular participant recommended that breathing workouts "worked in case you had real acute pain and also you attempted to focus on your breathing". Yoga and Pilates activity seemed to be avoided as a result of worry of "over performing it" particularly in the course of a "flare-up". (three)A new direction (for future interventions)Participants had been also shown a 3 minutes video clip on MBSR , a psychological intervention which has been shown to possess physical and psychological advantages in various well being situations and was initially created for managing chronic pain . None with the participants had heard of MBSR and only a single had tried a psychological intervention (cognitive behaviour therapy ?CBT) for depression and anxiousness, in lieu of management of fatigue in AS.
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0.997729 | Sriracha, the finely tuned Wรผrzkick not only gives the unmistakable taste to Asian dishes, but also ensures the right focus on hamburgers and vegetables. The Sriracha sauce was invented in the Thai port city of Si Racha.
Currently trending - Sriracha hot sauce ... with THIS Taste we can understand why. Great flavor and not too spicy, so also really family-friendly.
The perfect Sriracha for all Asia fans. For sauces, soups and to meat it is absolutely delicious.
Made from sun-ripened chili peppers and garlic, the Sriracha tastes wonderful on a kebab, on meats and on pizza.
Super delicious Thai Sauce in Sriracha style. Attention - addictive!
Made from sun raped chilli pods & garlic. This sauce taste delicious to almost every Asian dish.
A extra hot Sriracha that is made from sun raped chilli pods. Perfect for wraps, meat and pizza.
Sriracha Sauce: The hot sauce from Thailand!
Learn in the following text everything worth knowing about the Thai Sriracha sauce. Where did she come from? Which ingredients are in it? Are there different variations? What is the Sriracha sauce eaten for? These interesting questions are answered in detail in this article.
Where does the Sriracha sauce come from?
Originally, this hot sauce, as already mentioned, comes from Thailand, more precisely from the city of Si Racha. Sriracha is just a slightly different spelling. In this Thai coastal town, not far from Bangkok, the sauce was served for the first time in small fish restaurants, so that's where the name of the famous sauce comes from. Thailand itself has different culinary regions. In the south of the country, where the city of Sriracha is located, food is traditionally eaten spicy.
What exactly is the Thai sauce made of?
There are not many ingredients in an original Sriracha sauce. How could it be any different? The main ingredient of the spicy sauce is a hot chilli. This is not really a big surprise as the sauce comes from Thailand. Another ingredient is vinegar. The acidic liquid not only provides flavor but also natural preservation of the chilli sauce. The spices are garlic, sugar and salt. The flavor of the chilli, of course, dominates, but a Sriracha always tastes a bit sweetish. The individual ingredients may also vary, depending on the variety of Sriracha sauce. Which varieties are exactly, you will learn in the next paragraph.
The Sriracha sauce is excellent!
You can take this sentence literally. The Sriracha Sauce was named ingredient of the year in 2010 by the prestigious US magazine "Bon Appรฉtit". This award shows how popular the hot Asian sauce is all over the world.
Which varieties of Sriracha sauce are there?
Which dishes suits this sauce?
The Sriracha Sauce reaches the cult status!
Around this Thai sauce, a veritable cult is wrapping. This has two main reasons. The unique taste is as crucial as the versatility of the sauce. This cult manifests itself primarily in numerous cookbooks that deal exclusively with dishes in which you can work with Sriracha Sauce. But that's not all! Entire websites and forums deal with the spicy Sriracha sauce from Thailand. If you want to learn how to work in the kitchen with this specialty, you can even attend special cooking classes dedicated to this.
The name of the sauce for the Sriracha is the city of Si Racha near Bangkok. The Thai specialty sauce consists mainly of chilli. The other ingredients are only vinegar, sugar and salt. The sauce has many testy varieties and different levels of heat. The different variations are often recognizable by the color of the lid. Specialties include Sriracha mayonnaise and Sriracha barbecue rub.
A Sriracha sauce is a classic match to all dishes that are supposed to taste like Asia. It is popular, for example, to season soups with the sauce. The chilli sauce is also great on fresh grilled meat. Traditionally, however, the sauce is mainly used for fish and seafood. The sauce is also great with fast food, like pizza and kebab. You can even refine hearty food, such as bratwurst and fried potatoes, with the spicy sauce. Another option for the sauce are dressings for a salad. The sauce also provides you with a tasty substitute for ketchup and mustard. Even a distinction as "Best Ingredient of the Year 2010", in a trade magazine, was offered to the Sriracha Sauce. There is, for many years already, a veritable cult around the delicious chilli sauce. | 2019-04-18T18:57:29 | https://www.pepperworldhotshop.com/sauces/sriracha-sauce/ |
0.999999 | Is it possible to change where IPP looks for the generator files?
I have several devices that I use for my games. I make generators on my PC but I use my laptop and my tablet during the game to access them. I'd like to put the generators in either my one drive or google drive folders so I can access them on any device without having to transfer the files over to every device.
Is this possible with IPP?
Yes, you can do that. Use the portable installation option and install directly into your OneDrive/GDrive/DropBox directory. That will put the generators into the same directory as the program. Alternatively, if you already installed IPP, you can move the Common and Generator directories from you "Documents/Inspiration Pad" folder to under the program folder. (so that it'd look like "c:\program files(x86)\nbos\InspirationPadPro3\Common" and "c:\program files(x86)\nbos\InspirationPadPro3\Generators"
Basically, IPP checks for generator files first under its executable directory. If it finds them there, it uses those, otherwise it looks in the Documents directory. | 2019-04-25T08:14:30 | http://forum.nbos.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1714/is-it-possible-to-change-where-ipp-looks-for-the-generator-files |
0.99984 | What are some of the best, growing careers in sustainability, or "green jobs" as they are often called? This job sector certainly is growing rapidly, and for those looking for some great opportunities, there are many to be had. The following are just five examples of this particular rapidly growing sector right now.
Our planet's atmosphere is one area of great interest today, as it is the Earth's shield against the unlivable and extreme conditions of space. Space, in the meantime, is also an incredibly important area of growing study, as it can help to answer questions of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial nature alike. For anyone interested in both of these areas of great horizons and importance, the career of an atmospheric and space scientist may be just the right fit. This professional essentially studies all things related to these areas and ultimately tries to find answers to planetary longevity and other concerns of the like.
Today's environmental attorney is another example of a potentially high-reward career in sustainability. Environmental attorneys represent the interests of a clean and responsibly cared for Earth. In doing this, they also represent any number of clients lobbying for these particular goals in some shape or form.
Those wanting to work in this role can find opportunities in government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, non-profit organizations, and even businesses and private citizens themselves. In addition, there are many other related careers that work alongside this particular attorney and toward the exact same goals. These include paralegals, office managers, consultants, legal researchers, and others.
Environmental engineers use engineering practices to address environmental issues faced by any number of clients and in any number of situations and locations. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Environmental engineers use the principles of engineering, soil science, biology, and chemistry to develop solutions to environmental problems. They are involved in efforts to improve recycling, waste disposal, public health, and water and air pollution control." To gain entry, a bachelor's degree is the only core requirement one must have.
Lobbyists are people who professionally lobby, or try to convince lawmakers and others of important position in society to commit to certain ideas, laws, and other actions the lobbyist is pushing for. Environmental lobbyists specifically work to convince lawmakers and others of policies and the like that would benefit the environment or even parties who may actively benefit the environment themselves. This environmental career may be found under a variety of names and job descriptions across the various industries.
Finally, no list covering sustainability-based careers would be complete without mention of the sustainability officer. These special managers oversee certain aspects or even the entirety of the sustainability goal of many companies. Items of oversight might include proper disposal of company waste, recycling programs, water runoff management, eco-friendly processes and material sourcing, and more. These officers range in power held over other employees directly, but are all, nonetheless, quite important.
Sustainability is something everyone is gradually getting onboard with. As this happens, the job choices involving sustainability and eco-consciousness will continue to grow in demand. The above-mentioned growing careers in sustainability are just a handful of examples of this vast job sector at present time. | 2019-04-24T12:14:58 | https://www.bestmastersdegrees.com/lists/5-growing-careers-in-sustainability |
0.999998 | Inventorship is a legal term and is investigated during the process of disclosure and discovery of the invention and the preparation of a patent application. Inventorship is determined by an IP lawyer and not by anyone at Rensselaer. An inventor must be capable of defending that the inventor's contribution to the invention is captured in at least one of the claims of the patent application.
What is "prior art" and how do I find it?
Prior art refers to anything regarding the potential invention that has come before. Remember, for instance, that a patent has to be novel and non-obvious and useful. Journal publications, foreign patents, issued U.S. patents and patent applications are all areas that can contain prior art. Since the inventor knows better than most what the invention entails, he or she should be familiar with much of the prior art regarding the invention space. Searches of the Internet, journal articles and patents (through the USPTO website) are helpful examples of places to perform a prior art search.
A patent search is a search conducted in the Patent and Trademark Office, to determine the existence of the prior art.
What kind of patent searches are available?
There are assignee searches, novelty searches, infringement searches, traditional searches (Public Search Room in the USPTO office), and on-line searches.
Is an online computer search enough for the search process?
On-line computer search is not enough for the search process because keywords used to do the on-line search may not produce all patents that are related to your invention.
A patent confers the right to exclude others from utilizing the inventor's discovery without the inventor's consent. A patent is granted by the Government to an inventor "to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States."
An invention is patentable if it is novel, non-obvious, and useful. Novel, of course, means new. Non-obviousness is achieved if someone who is skilled in the art would not have thought of the idea easily. A new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement may be eligible for patent protection. Methods making use of concepts and ideas may be eligible for patent protection. On the other hand concepts and ideas per se are not patentable. The invention does not have to be totally new; even a small functional or decorative improvement may be patentable.
In the United States, you can file a provisional patent application to cover your invention. A provisional patent establishes a priority date with the USPTO but does not begin the examination process. It gives the inventor a one-year window in which to file a non-provisional application in the U.S. and/or foreign countries. During this time the inventor can further develop the invention, determine marketability, acquire funding or capital, or seek licensing agreements. If a non-provisional patent is not filed within one year of the provisional application, then this application and priority are abandoned by law.
Are provisional applications available for search?
The public searching resources contain no information about pending provisional applications.
A utility patent protects the functional aspects of an invention. It is granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process or method, machine, manufacture, or composition or matter, or any new and useful improvement.
Does the inventor have the same rights over his or her invention under a "patent pending" status?
When an invention is given a "patent pending" status it means that the invention is on file in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Protection given by a patent and ability to defend a patent do not however start until the actual grant of the patent.
Generally patents are issued approximately 18 to 42 months after application. During this period a patent is pending.
How many years will my patent last?
Utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins on the date of the grant and ends 20 years from the date the patent application was first filed. Design patents are granted for a term of 14 years from the date of the grant. Inventors can lose their rights when periodic maintenance fees are not paid or when the term expires.
Can an invention be corrected once a patent is granted?
Typographical errors may be corrected by filing a certificate of correction. When a patent is defective in certain aspects, the patentee may apply for a reissue patent. New matter cannot be added to the invention. A reissue patent is granted following the examination of the changes made to the invention. It replaces the original patent and is granted only for the remainder years left from the unexpired term.
Does it cost anything to file a patent?
Unfortunately, it is not free to file a patent. Between USPTO filing fees and associated attorneys' costs, filing a patent just in the United States can cost over $30,000. International patent filings are even more expensive, as they cover a larger number of countries and often involve foreign attorneys and translators. A Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) filing plus filings in major industrial nations have been known to cost over $100,000. Additionally, there are annual maintenance fees for all patents, pushing the cost over the lifetime of a patent even further.
If a patent is found to be allowed after the examination of the application, then a notice of allowance is sent to the applicant or the applicant's attorney or agent of record. A fee of issuing the patent is due within three months from the date of the notice; if payment is not made in a timely manner, the application will considered to be abandoned.
All utility patents issued are subject to the payment of maintenance fees which must be paid to maintain the patent in force. These fees are due at 3 1/2 , 7 1/2, and 11 1/2 years from the date the patent is granted.
After a patent has expired anyone may make, use, offer for sale, or sell or import the invention without permission of the patentee, provided that matter covered by other unexpired patents is not used.
What is an infringement of patent?
Infringement of a patent consists of the unauthorized making, using, offering for sale, or selling any patented invention within the United States or U.S. Territories, or importing into the United States of any patented invention during the term of the patent. A patentee can sue the infringer and can ask for an injunction to prevent the continuation of infringement and for an award of damages.
What should I do if I believe that my patent has been infringed upon?
The university is the designated assignee and owner of the patent, so any potential infringement on those patent rights should be brought to the attention of the university through the Office of Technology Commercialization.
A trademark is a logo or word or brand name used in commerce.
A copyright covers expression of ideas and such things as books, music, art and softwareโanything considered to have authorship.
An international patent is any patent granted by a country outside the U.S. The rules, procedures and protections differ slightly from the U.S. Most of the industrialized world countries are part of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, or PCT.
Do the rights granted by a United States patent extend to foreign countries?
The rights granted by a U.S. patent extend only throughout the territory of the United States and have no effect in a foreign country. An inventor who wants patent protection in other countries must apply for a patent in each of the other countries or in regional patent offices.
What are some benefits of filing a PCT application?
What is EPC (European Patent Convention)? | 2019-04-26T16:11:35 | http://www.rpitechnology.com/patent-faqs.html |
0.973485 | It passes the time, and I've made around $60 so far while deskwarming. I usually average $4-$6 a day and spend maybe 60-90 minutes doing it.
I agree. If you try getting it through the door, you can easily scratch the paint or knock off the side view mirrors.
Informed that I would have a week of desk warming ahead of me, and only 2-3 other teachers in the school with me this week (not co-teachers, or English speaking), or any students I took some proactive measures.
Namely I advertised a 'third week' of 'camp-ish-ness'. This may only be appropriate or fitting for high school teachers (less likely to turn into a free baby sitting service that way). Basically I told my students (all girls) that in this week they could come alone, or with friends, for an hour or 3 or 5 to 'hang out'.
They come at 10 (any later and we might not be there) and literally hang out. Plug in my computer to the projector and speakers. So far we've made brownies, watched a movie, played games - traditional Korean and 'Western' games, completed a massive puzzle, watched some of the best youtube videos of all time, learnt some basic steps from line dancing/jazz/k-pop/swing, asked each other ridiculous questions, played truth or dare, had a singing marathon (stole a teachers microphone) and played music videos with lyrics.
I didn't expect any students to come. In fact on the first day I was armed with a list of suggestions from fellow desk warmers of how to pass the 9-5 drag, and didn't even venture to the class room at the assigned time. After a student came to me, I walked into the room and alas there were 20 of them. To be fair today there was only 4, but tomorrow there should be 10.
For me personally this beats desk warming, provides an opportunity to get to know some of my students better (and vice-versa), is viewed by parents as free English time (viewed by me as please teach me awesome Korean words), and has altogether been a positive wonderful experience.
On your Marks, Get the Coffee set up, Desk Warm!
Desk Warming is looming again. The glorious spring break and Korean new year Tuesday!.
A (tenth?) option for the survey would be "I'm officially on vacation part II and thanking my stars."
Sorry there are already 10 options above. Good point though.
I'm into my second week back and doing an odd mix of desk warming for a day then teaching for a few days, then desk warming again until Friday. I'm sure this mid-vacation interruption was shorter last year. A morning desk-warming is usually okay, but after lunch it's about endurance.
My only valid complaint is that I wish the school had a tolerable level of heating in my office - right now even my nose and ears are cold.
I don't normally mind desk warming. I do today.
Backing my motorbike out the small yard this morning and some water runoff from the roof made the small, yet very steep hill just outside the gate into a solid patch of ice. Got the back tire on it and did a slow motion fall scrabbling for purchase the whole way. Bashed my knee good, but that pain went away. Worse is my back from picking the thing up in a hurried rage. Now here I sit with nothing to do at my desk, reeking of gasoline with an aching back, wearing my dirty coat because it's too cold to not wear it. I almost wish someone would just take offense at my appearance/smell and send me home already. If I could find my co-teacher, he'd let me go home, but I'm not just gonna take off, and for some reason he's making himself scarce these days.
I broke my mouse playing fly the copter. I'm now a keyboard specialist. Winning.
It's the constantly thinking about cigarettes that does me in, though it's only relatable to smokers, I guess.
Other than that, I love it. I read, browse, watch a movie or even take a nap. What's not to love?
What's not to love: your co-teacher sitting right next to you not allowing you to do any of those things (read, watch a movie, sleep).
I have to pretend to work, which might be harder than actually working, so maybe I should just work, but the thing is I'm only here for another month and therefore have no work to really do, so yeah.
Well, not sure if you call this desk warming, but after lunch today all the teachers in my office decided to 'visit' the new school that one of the teachers is going to next semester. By 'visit' I mean they will accompany her there and then go home.
Makes me feel so good.
Desk warming?! The person in charge of me at my school is going to help me space out my sick days so that I only have to go in one day for the next two weeks, all without needing a pesky doctor's note. Have I mentioned how awesome my school is?
Besides going nuts on these boards, I've been looking for jobs and studying Japanese.
Trying to come up with even wackier threads.
"What's worse--Korean food, eyelid surgery, or circumcision?"
From tomorrow, I've only got two more weeks in Korea, so I'm mostly just spending my time writing up Letters of Recommendation for my co-teacher to sign and filling out all the pension forms. It still leaves enough time to surf Tumblr, stalk Facebook and watch Youtube videos, thank God.
Knitting a scarf and bored out of my mind! Wish I had something to do.
Studying for the GRE, but in a frozen room........just isn't working for me right now. Can barely move my fingers to type. LOL. | 2019-04-18T20:31:18 | https://www.waygook.org/index.php?topic=3683.520 |
0.998948 | 1. Peel the skin and thinly cut the onion and potato.
2. Spread olive oil around the pan and stir-fry the onion on low heat until it becomes transparent.
3. When the onion is cooked, add in the prepared potato and stir-fry carefully for 5 minutes consistently.
4. When the potato has cooked, add in 450mL of water, 150mL of whipping cream, and the taste enhancing soup and boil for 3 minutes.
5. Boil the noodles in boiling water for 5 minutes and then plate.
6. Grind 4 in a mixer finely and place it in a sieve. Pour it into 5. | 2019-04-25T09:48:46 | http://www.nongshimusa.com/homev2/potato-soup-champong-noodle/ |
0.999296 | This article is about the species. For a specific instance of this species, see Riolu (disambiguation).
Riolu (Japanese: ใชใชใซ Riolu) is a Fighting-type baby Pokรฉmon introduced in Generation IV.
It evolves into Lucario when leveled up with high friendship during the day.
Riolu is a small, blue, canine Pokรฉmon. It has black legs and torso, a blue tail, and a yellow collar. It has rounded bumps on the backs of its forepaws. It has a black "mask" and red eyes. It stands on its toes instead of its entire foot. It is sensitive to a special type of energy called Aura; however, It does not have the ability to fully use these powers, although it can still emanate these waves to communicate and sense them, albeit only in ripples. It has developed two black appendages that hang down from its head, which rise when Riolu reads or manipulates aura, a special energy that it senses. Like almost all Fighting-type Pokรฉmon, Riolu naturally has superhuman strength, stamina, and endurance and is capable of making long journeys on foot in a short amount of time. It is a playful, energetic, and loyal Pokรฉmon.
Riolu debuted in Pokรฉmon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! Part 1 and Part 2. This Riolu had been trained to use Aura Sphere and was unnaturally strong. It was taken away from the lab by J's henchmen that wanted to exploit it but Ash and his friends returned it to its kingdom, with Kellyn's help. This Riolu developed a strong bond with Ash.
A Riolu appeared in Goodbye, Junior Cup - Hello Adventure!, under the ownership of Cameron. It evolved into a Lucario in Cameron's Secret Weapon!. It tends to walk outside of its Pokรฉ Ball.
Korrina's Riolu, currently a Lucario, appeared in Mega Revelations! in a flashback.
A Riolu appeared in the boss fantasy of A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine!.
A Riolu appeared in Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade as one of the Pokรฉmon watching Meloetta's concert.
Two Trainers' Riolu appeared in Alola to New Adventure!, with one appearing in a flashback.
Two Trainers' Riolu appeared in A Shocking Grocery Run!.
A Trainer's Riolu appeared in That's Why the Litten is a Scamp!.
A Trainer's Riolu appeared in Racing to a Big Event!, where it participated in the Pokรฉmon Pancake Race.
A Trainer's Riolu appeared in Crystal-Clear Sleuthing!.
A Trainer's Riolu appeared in Getting the Band Back Together!.
A Trainer's Riolu appeared in A Glaring Rivalry!.
A Trainer's Riolu appeared in Sours for the Sweet!.
Two Trainers' Riolu appeared in I Choose Paradise!, where they were among the Pokรฉmon seen at the Pokรฉmon Paradise Resort.
Two Trainers' Riolu appeared in Securing the Future!, where they joined the rest of Alola in showering Necrozma with light so it could return to its true form.
A Trainer's Riolu appeared in Turning the Other Mask!.
DP071 Riolu Ash's Pokรฉdex Riolu, the Emanation Pokรฉmon. When sad or scared, Riolu's aura becomes stronger as a way of signaling its allies.
BW093 Riolu Dawn's Pokรฉdex Riolu, the Emanation Pokรฉmon. Riolu has the power to see and understand emotions like happiness and anger in aura waves.
In the Phantom Thief Pokรฉmon 7 manga, Hiori's Lucario used to be a Riolu during Hiori and Lily's childhoods.
In Magnificent Meditite & Really Riolu I, Maylene owns a Riolu. He is seen using Drain Punch against Pearl's Monferno, who Platinum borrowed in order to fight her. However, in the end, he lost to a well-placed Mach Punch that the girl had perfected by watching slot machines.
In Vexing Vespiquen & Unmanageable Mothim II, Diamond helps protect an Egg containing Riolu from two Galactic-hired thugs, and after they are defeated, it hatches and is shown to interact with its evolved form. It decided to stay with Riley.
A Trainer's Riolu appeared in Tackling Togekiss.
A student's Riolu appeared in Movie Panic.
Hareta gained a Riolu Egg in Serious Training on Iron Island!!, which hatched into a Riolu later on. It has since evolved into a Lucario.
Riolu appears as a trophy.
"An Emanation Pokรฉmon. It constantly emits Aura energy. When it's frightened or sad, this energy grows stronger and informs its companions of its situation. It's known for its very flexible yet surpassingly powerful body. Thanks to its strength, it can crest three mountains and cross two canyons in a single night. When it levels up, it evolves into Lucario."
A Riolu will appear in Detective Pikachu.
Its body is little yet powerful. It can crest three mountains and cross two canyons in one night.
It's tough enough to run right through the night, and it's also a hard worker, but it's still just a youngster.
It knows how people and Pokรฉmon feel by looking at their auras. It doesn't approach dangerous opponents.
It uses waves called auras to communicate with others of its kind. It doesn't make any noise during this time, so its enemies can't detect it.
Objective: Rescue Riolu on floor 6 of Crystal Cave.
Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Riolu in that game.
It leaps around quickly while throwing punches to attack.
Riolu came to the Haunted Zone to explore. He can't resist the fun of playing Tangrowth's Swing-Along. Absol's Hurdle Bounce is another favorite.
For other sprites and images, please see Riolu images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
Due to Riolu's combination of Abilities, Steadfast can only activate in Pokรฉmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Pokรฉmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky if Riolu becomes cross-eyed, barring being confronted with a foe that has Mold Breaker.
When Riolu became a starter in Pokรฉmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky it became the first starter Pokรฉmon to be unable to be recruited or captured in another game of its trio as it cannot be found in Explorers of Darkness without using Wonder Mail.
Riolu is the only baby Pokรฉmon that evolves into a Pokรฉmon capable of Mega Evolution.
Riolu is also the only baby Pokรฉmon introduced after Generation II that can be bred without requiring one of its parents to be holding an incense.
Riolu appears to be based on the Egyptian god Anubis, who has the head of a jackal. It may also be based on a raccoon due to the mask-like markings on its face and its small pointed ears.
Riolu is Lucario with the first and last syllables reversed and the ca omitted.
Japanese ใชใชใซ Riolu From Lucario with the first and last syllables reversed and the ca omitted. | 2019-04-21T10:26:14 | https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Riolu |
0.999924 | BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - It's a November night in 1967, the fourth anniversary of JFK's assassination.
Two boys from Bartlesville take a joyride to Texas and come back with a piece of history -- Lee Harvey Oswald's tombstone.
"They had done some research on where the cemetery was located and went there. And decided to take the stone," said Charlie Spencer, who was a detective at the Bartlesville Police Department at the time.
When the boys stole the stone, Spencer and his partner, Joe Glenn, both worked at BPD solving all kinds of cases together, but they did not expect this one.
"Got a call regarding a report that people had allegedly seen the tombstone and had heard stories about the tombstone being in Bartlesville," said Spencer.
The story seemed too outlandish to believe, so the detectives called Fort Worth police.
"They confirmed the stone was in fact missing," said Spencer.
The duo went to work and within hours had a break in the case.
The son of a police department employee knew who stole the stone and put police in touch with one of the boys' fathers.
The boy's dad got the stone from his son and agreed to meet Spencer and Glenn in Bartlesville's Johnstone Park.
It's there where the boy's father presented Spencer and Glenn with Lee Harvey Oswald's tombstone.
"It was just a matter of transferring it from his vehicle to Captain Glenn's car," said Spencer.
Spencer and Glenn believed they retrieved the tombstone just in time. The boys apparently planned on breaking it into pieces and dumping it in the Little Caney River.
"Knowing that the Oswald family wanted that tombstone back, I didn't want to lose it either," said Glenn.
The boys were never charged and their names were never publicly revealed.
They told Spencer and Glenn it was just a prank.
"They weren't bragging or acting like they wanted to be heroes," said Glenn.
Eventually the stone made it back to Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, who was so afraid someone would steal it again she kept it at her house. Instead, she put a new more simple stone at the grave site.
Oswald's mother's plan worked well until she died.
"The people who bought the house after she died were looking through sort of a crevice, a walkway hidden behind a wall, and there they came across the original tombstone and they couldn't believe it," said Gerald Posner, author of "Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK."
The stone stayed with the homeowners for years before ending up in the hands of one of their relatives, who then sold it to an Illinois museum where it's still on display.
But now the homeowners' relatives are suing to get the stone back, saying their other relative didn't have permission to sell it.
"It went from Fort Worth on the (grave site) of Oswald to Oklahoma back to Texas, now on display in a museum and maybe one day will find its way back to Texas," said Posner.
Wherever the stone ends up, Spencer and Glenn will always have a piece of it. They made a tracing of the stone that they still have to this day.
It's a way to remember their brush with history in '67. | 2019-04-21T18:38:50 | http://www.justiceforkennedy.com/2013/12/the-story-about-oswalds-original.html |
0.999999 | Quoted: ...half a billion dollars is a mere rounding error in the great sucking maw of the federal budget, so why bother?
Because it's demoralizing for hard working Americans to have their pockets picked when the government isn't even trying to be frugal and efficient.
I believe Romney when he says, "I will ask a simple question about every federal program: is it so important, so critical, that it is worth borrowing money from China to pay for it?"
GLORIA BORGER: As the Romneys were struggling to get Ann's MS [multiple sclerosis] under control, they were about to face a challenge of an entirely different sort.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Could the scandal over Salt Lake's Olympic bid shatter on the city's quest to host the winter games?
BORGER: The 2002 Winter Olympics were in trouble. Salt Lake City was embroiled in a bribery scandal that threatened to bring down the games. So the search was on for someone to repair the damage.
SCOTT HELMAN: The list of people who could have come in and saved the 2002 Olympics began and ended with Mitt Romney.
BORGER: Romney knew finance, politics and was a Mormon. And that made him the top choice. A. ROMNEY: They called me instead of Mitt because they knew that Mitt would turn them down flat.
MITT ROMNEY: She called me at work said, you know, I want you to -- don't say no, Mitt. I think you ought to go run the Olympics. I said don't be ridiculous. That's absolutely crazy. I'd never do that. But over time, she convinced me.
BORGER: So despite Ann's health issues, the Romneys left Bain and moved to Utah in 1999. But when Romney really left Bain capital is now controversial. On paper, he remained chief executive officer, raising the question of his responsibility for companies that laid off workers when he was in Utah. He says that he was gone from the company completely, that the Olympics were all consuming.
TAGG ROMNEY: When he got there, it was a disaster. And -- he was panicked. He really seriously considered saying, you know, we -- it's not going to work here, there [are] just too many problems.
BORGER: Romney need help, so he rallied an old friend from Bain Capital, Fraser Bullock, to be the games' chief operating officer.
FRASER BULLOCK, former COO, SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: Mitt did describe it as stepping into an empty elevator shaft because you're not sure -- you're falling and you're not sure when you're going to hit ground.
BORGER: Bullet joined the team that tried to do damage control. They created an operating plan, tried to convince sponsors to stay on board, and took a critical look at the nearly $400 million budget deficit staring them in the face. And even got rid of the usual catering at Olympic board meetings.
F. BULLOCK: We had Domino's Pizza. And it was a dollar a slice. Because he knew he could buy a pizza for five bucks, cut it into eight slices, sell them for a dollar a slice, get $8 of revenue for every pizza at a cost of $5. He turned the lunches from a cost center into a profit center.
M. ROMNEY: The Olympics is like putting on seven Super Bowls a day for 17 days straight. | 2019-04-23T09:16:57 | https://boards.fool.com/quoted-half-a-billion-dollars-is-a-mere-30303000.aspx |
0.999993 | Step 1: Do You Live in a Major Metropolitan Area?
Step 1 will provide quick instructions to determine if you can receive the terrestrial repeater signal. Otherwise, begin with Step 2. SiriusXM has terrestrial repeaters in major metropolitan areas. These ground-based repeaters transmit the SiriusXM signal into your home or office, eliminating the need to aim the antenna at a satellite. Follow these instructions for a quick test to see if you can receive the terrestrial signal.
1. Place the antenna in a convenient location inside of your home.
2. Open the antenna clamshell so that it is halfway between the horizontal and vertical positions as shown.
3. Connect the antenna cable to the ANT connection on the Radio or Home Dock.
The Signal Indicator screen shows the strength of both the satellite (SAT) signal and the terrestrial (ground) (TER) signal. The strength of the terrestrial (ground) signal may vary, or there may be none if you are not in a major metropolitan area.
If you're receiving a terrestrial (ground) (TER) signal, try experimenting with the antenna to get a feel for the reception in your location. Move the antenna around the room, from room to room, and aim it toward different windows. In major metropolitan areas, you might find that you get great reception in several locations without worrying too much about aim and placement. If you find a location where there's good terrestrial signal strength, place the antenna there. The installation is complete.
Note: If placing the antenna on the windowsill results in the antenna directly facing the window's frame, place a book or other flat object under the antenna to prop the antenna up so that it is facing the glass window pane.
The surface of the antenna shown in gray should be facing the window pane and should be pointed south.
Orient the antenna so that the shaded surface shown is facing the window. | 2019-04-19T15:03:39 | https://shop.siriusxm.com/installation/siriusxm-indoor-clam-shell-antenna-south.html |
0.999994 | Given that it's spring time I figured that it was a good time to talk about growth. We all know that we're supposed to work hard and that hard work is supposed to produce results (at least in most cases). Recently I heard someone put that idea into one simple sentence. The person said "growth only occurs in a state of discomfort". Everyone knows that we should and need to work hard, but what does that look like? That's why this stuck out to me. Working hard should challenge and push you out of your comfort zone. It should cause a little discomfort. It's like exercise, if you don't push yourself out of your comfort zone then you'll never improve. So as spring takes off, think about your comfort level, what it would take to get out of it, and then get moving. | 2019-04-22T06:21:00 | http://www.dataweldsoftware.com/data-thoughts/tag/always+be+learning |
0.999999 | The annual freedom-swimming season will soon open in the southern Kwangtung province of mainland China.?
Propaganda balloons which airdrop leaflets inside red China and psy-war exhibit in Taipei where former red army soldier exhibits items he carried during defection.
First: 25 silent, then voice of Chen Nan-hsing speaking in Chinese which should be held in background behind local narrator with following script.
Background: The annual freedom-swimming season will soon open in the southern Kwangtung province of mainland China. That's the period when the waters of Deep Bay -- separating Communist China from Hongkong -- will warm up enough to make it possible for hundreds of disgruntled young Chinese to take the plunge for a new life outside the controlled regimen of chairman Mao's China.
While few mainland Chinese are aware that America has put men on the moon, information about life in free China -- Taiwan -- gets through to them with airdrops from high altitude balloons sent aloft from Taiwan and the nationalist-held island of Quemoy.
Monitored by radio beams, the huge plastic balloons have dropped their packets of information, safe conduct passes, food and medicines 15-hundred miles inside red China.
Its one of many devices in the psychological war the nationalists have waged for years...and a recent exhibit in Taipei showed how it paid off. The soldier in the photo is Chen Nan-hsing, an award-winning enlisted man in the Maoist People's Liberation Army, who defected to Taiwan.
This is his own, personal exhibit. It shows the handful of items he carried when he made his swim to freedom from the seaport of Amoy, in Fukien province, to the nationalists' fortress island of Quemoy, about six miles away.
Twenty-seven-year old Chen was a model soldier who developed an appetite for freedom while listening to radio broadcasts beamed from Taiwan.
Chairman Mao's quotations are not the only little red books in Communist China. Chen carried several others. One certified he was a 'good warrior' of the People's Liberation Army...another little red book certified he was a sharpshooter...a third attested to his skill as an artilleryman...and a fourth contained his army discharge paper.
A friend gave him an airdropped packet with President Chiang Kaishek's photo and the safe conduct pass he carried when he defected from communism.
A one-time model soldier in red China's People's Liberation army who switched sides and joined the Nationalists ??? Taiwan. | 2019-04-19T08:44:18 | https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVAE964RG5ZDHJU67HBKXMLAKP0K-CHINA-AWARD-WINNING-CHINA-PEOPLES-LIBERATION-ARMY-SOLDIER/query/awards |
0.999806 | Who has sufficient privileges to set permissions?
I'd like to avoid running web script as admin user or something along those lines, because of another reasons, not really important ATM. So, the script will be executed by the currently logged in user.
Still, if that user has write permissions on a node (through Coordinator role), it still does not have sufficient privileges to actually set permissions. I don't think there's a more powerful role, apart from the admin one, which is again not an option because of security.
Can someone shed some light on this one for me?
first of all you can find here http://www.alfresco.com/help/webclient/concepts/cuh-user-roles-permissions.html the matrix that defines Alfresco permission model.
Besides about setting permissions, Administrator role has all privileges everywhere and users have all rights in their own spaces.
So this means that to change permissions you have to be Admin or have/take ownership of that particular node.
I realize that, but I can't give Administrator role to users. Taking/having ownership could do the trick, but I'd like to avoid that extra step.
I suppose custom role is always an option.
I lied, Coordinator role is just as powerful as Administrator role, minus the full access. Meaning, if you have a Coordinator role on a node, you can set it's permissions. | 2019-04-20T18:17:11 | https://community.alfresco.com/thread/200853-who-has-sufficient-privileges-to-set-permissions |
0.767561 | There's no bigger date in Argentina's football calendar than the Superclasico between Buenos Aires rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate.
Add to the equation that the two are meeting for the first time in the Copa Libertadores final on Saturday, and well... it's kind of a big deal.
The last-ever two-legged final in South America's most prestigious club tournament being one of world football's biggest grudge matches has captured the imagination and attention across the globe.
Manchester United's Ander Herrera describes it as "one of the biggest football-related events in the world," while his teammate Juan Mata believes "it's great news for the world football and for Argentine football that [Boca and River will] play this great final."
And, if further proof were needed, Boca have confirmed to ESPN FC that they have received 2,500 media accreditation requests for Saturday's first leg at La Bombonera.
In total, media outlets from 25 countries and from four different continents have requested passes, including every single country in South America. Accreditation has been sought from nations as far and wide as Russia, Slovenia, Japan and even the Sultanate of Oman.
"In 36 years that I've worked in the club, this is the game where we've had the most unusual accreditations," Boca press officer Angel Nunez said earlier this week. "There's not enough for everyone. There are 159 desks and 22 booths... We will try for all the countries to be represented."
A total of 429 media corporations, including 91 TV networks and 216 radio stations, have asked for accreditation. Boca has given out 858 credentials for Sunday's meeting.
In the last league Superclasico which Boca hosted on Sept. 23, 717 journalists covered the game. River won the game 2-0.
As for places for fans, the clubs have agreed to ban away supporters from both legs to avoid the bitter feud between the two clubs descending into violence.
Non-VIP tickets for the match at La Bombonera are available on resale sites for as much as 153,083 Argentine pesos ($4,300) each.
Boca have reached the Libertadores final 11 times, more than any other club, and they have won the title six times.
River host the return leg on Nov. 24 at their Estadio Monumental. | 2019-04-19T13:12:35 | http://www.espn.in/soccer/blog/the-toe-poke/65/post/3693733/copa-libertadores-final-the-hottest-ticket-in-town-as-boca-juniors-inundated-with-media-requests |
0.999977 | Is the Ready Queue FIFO?
The Truth and the Proof.
This is a short article that answers the question: is the ready queue FIFO?
The rest of this article will explore the real answer with a small program as proof.
There is little definitive information about the details of multi-threading on the web, and what little exists is spread across many sites and blogs. Indeed, there seems to be a lot of misleading, or just plain wrong information that propagates from one blog to another. My aim with this article is to provide a definitive answer to a specific question, and to also provide proof in the form of a small application that you can download and investigate yourself.
When a thread blocks, for example when trying to acquire a lock that is already held by another thread, it waits in the kernel. The kernel keeps a queue of threads that are waiting for a particular lock, which is called the ready queue. The ready queue is implemented as a First-In-First-Out queue ( but don't rely on that! ).
So, you would expect that if two threads tried to acquire a contended lock, then the first one to ask for the lock would be the first one to acquire it. This, unfortunately, happens most of the time. I say 'unfortunately', because it is not consistent behaviour. This means that if you rely on the common behaviour, you will have introduced a bug that seems to occur randomly and infrequently. These are, of course, the hardest bugs to find and fix.
The native function that is used by the CLR to wait is CoWaitForMultipleHandles. On a Single Threaded Apartment (STA) thread, this function calls MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx, and on other threads, it calls WaitForMultipleObjectsEx. Both of these functions can return early due to an Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC). MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx can also return when a message is in the thread's message queue.
The kernel often needs to run little sections of code, for example, when a file read or write completes. Rather than use a dedicated thread to run these, the kernel 'borrows' any thread that is waiting (in an alertable wait state), and just runs the APC on top of the existing stack of that thread. If this happens, the wait function returns WAIT_IO_COMPLETION and it is up to the thread to decide what to do - probably restart the wait with a suitably reduced timeout value.
If MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx is called, it will return whenever a selected message is added to the thread's message queue. Messages are selected using the dwWakeMask parameter. When a selected message arrives, the wait returns and the thread has the opportunity to process the message. As above, it can then decide whether to restart the wait.
CoWaitForMultipleHandles wraps some of this boilerplate code and handles COM RPC calls. These must be handled to prevent deadlocks, for example, in the case when a thread calls into a COM server, which then calls back into the original thread. If the wait was not alertable, the second RPC would deadlock.
The CLR has one single method that is called whenever a thread waits for any reason. This method always issues alertable waits using CoWaitForMultipleHandles, so it can pump COM messages and some other Windows messages. It also handles the common issues mentioned above, like calculating a new timeout if a wait returns early.
So, the CLR always runs alertable waits. This means that during a call to say, Monitor.Enter, your thread can wake up, execute some unknown code, and then go back to waiting. All unbeknownst to your wait code.
This is the behaviour that breaks the FIFO nature of the ready queue. When a thread wakes up, it is removed from the queue. When it goes back to waiting, it is added at the end of the queue. So, another thread that blocked after our thread will be ahead when the resource becomes free.
The worker thread acquires the lock first, then the main thread tries to acquire it (and blocks), then the lucky thread does the same. You can see that although the main thread enters the ready queue first, it is the lucky thread that acquires the lock when it becomes available.
The reason for this is that the worker thread sends a Windows message (in the WM_USER range) to the main thread while the main thread is blocked. The main thread is woken by the CLR wait routine to handle this message. This is shown by the "pumped message" entry while the main thread is blocked. The CLR then puts the main thread back in the ready queue, but at the end - behind the lucky thread. So the lucky thread is now the first entry in the ready queue, and so acquires the lock first when it becomes available.
As I am blocking the UI thread ( not an example of best practice ), I needed a UI element that can be updated from any thread. So, I wrote ConcurrentList, which allows any thread to add an entry and the control updates the display immediately on that thread. This is possible because CreateGraphics is one of the five members of Control that are thread safe. This is not a production-quality solution, because ( most! ) Windows messages are not pumped, which means the UI doesn't respond to user input. However, it works for the purposes of this demonstration.
Well, I hope that's cleared up this question. The ready queue may be FIFO, but you can't rely on that because threads can be reordered while waiting in the queue.
I hope you enjoyed this article. Thanks. | 2019-04-20T06:26:44 | http://simplygenius.net/Article/ReadyQueue |
0.999999 | Context. The first long-term in-situ observation of the plasma environment in the vicinity of a comet, as provided by the European Rosetta spacecraft.
Aims. Here we offer characterisation of the solar wind flow near 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) and its long term evolution during low nucleus activity. We also aim to quantify and interpret the deflection and deceleration of the flow expected from ionization of neutral cometary particles within the undisturbed solar wind.
Methods. We have analysed in situ ion and magnetic field data and combined this with hybrid modeling of the interaction between the solar wind and the comet atmosphere.
Results. The solar wind deflection is increasing with decreasing heliocentric distances, and exhibits very little deceleration. This is seen both in observations and in modeled solar wind protons. According to our model, energy and momentum are transferred from the solar wind to the coma in a single region, centered on the nucleus, with a size in the order of 1000 km. This interaction affects, over larger scales, the downstream modeled solar wind flow. The energy gained by the cometary ions is a small fraction of the energy available in the solar wind.
Conclusions. The deflection of the solar wind is the strongest and clearest signature of the mass-loading for a small, low-activity comet, whereas there is little deceleration of the solar wind.
Comets show large changes in their appearance as their distance from the Sun varies. Closer to the Sun, volatile materials on the comet nucleus start to sublimate, forming a neutral cloud that becomes partially ionized by solar UV radiation and charge exchange processes. When the comet activity evolves, the complexity of its interaction with the solar wind also changes. At large distances from the Sun the solar wind directly impacts the surface of an atmosphereless nucleus in an asteroid-like interaction, while at smaller heliospheric distances the solar wind permeates a thin, partially ionized, unstructured coma. When the comet activity is even higher (or the comet is closer to the Sun), the coma is much denser and plasma boundaries form, creating a cometary magnetosphere (Szegรถ et al. 2000, Sect. 4.1; Koenders et al. 2015).
In situ investigations of the interaction between active comets and the solar wind started in the mid-80s with the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) visiting P/Giacobini-Zinner in 1985, and Giotto, Vega-1 and -2, Suisei and Sakigake examining P/Halley in 1986. Giotto went on to probe P/Grigg-Skjellerup in 1992. Although these missions provided valuable information about the structure of a cometary magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind at a given time, the fly-by nature of these missions did not enable the study of the evolution of this interaction as the heliocentric distance changes. The Rosetta spacecraft spends most of its time close to the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P), scanning the cometary environment out to a maximum of 1500 km only. However, Rosetta has stayed in the vicinity of 67P for two years giving us the unique opportunity to monitor and study in situ how the interaction evolves as the comet transforms from an almost atmosphereless object into an active nucleus (Glassmeier et al. 2007a).
The Rosetta spacecraft completed its long voyage to comet 67P in early August 2014 and recorded the first traces of cometary ions upon rendezvous. The first results from the plasma measurements made at 67P describe the early phase of the cometโs transformation. The first observations of cometary water ions and solar wind deflection were reported by Nilsson et al. (2015b), with the subsequent enhancement of comet water ion fluxes around comet 67P down to a heliocentric distance of 2 au described in Nilsson et al. (2015a). The local cold ion environment and its relation to the outgassing from the nucleus is described in Goldstein et al. (2015) and Edberg et al. (2015). First reports on the magnetic field environment showed strong wave activity in the vicinity of the comet (Richter et al. 2015).
At low activity, the solar wind is lightly mass-loaded with freshly ionized cometary particles. As these new-born ions are accelerated by the solar wind electric field, energy and momentum are transferred from the solar wind to the coma. Considering the complete system (i.e. the entire coma), the solar wind loses the energy gained by the cometary ions (often referred to as โpick upโ ions, as they are picked up by the solar wind).
A simplistic view of light mass-loading: energy and momentum are transferred from the solar wind (red streamlines) to the cometary ions (blue dots) in a pick up process. Conservation of energy and momentum leads to a deceleration and deflection of the local solar wind.
The most basic expectations are illustrated in Fig. 1: the solar wind flow is deflected from the comet-sun line and slowed down, as new born cometary ions are accelerated. The gyroradius of the new born ions is much larger than the ion source, so these ions move essentially along the solar wind electric field within the ion source region. The newly created electrons on the other hand have a gyro-radius smaller than the source region, and can be expected to E ร B drift. This might lead to charge separation and, in turn, to new dynamical effects (Nilsson et al. 2015a; Behar et al. 2016). Coates et al. (2015) have discussed how such a situation near a low activity comet with a small coma may be more similar to barium release experiments than to higher activity comets.
The first observations at comet 67P indeed showed solar wind deflection and water ion acceleration approximately orthogonal to the solar wind flow direction (Nilsson et al. 2015b). The plasma dynamics of solar wind deflection at 67P at low activity were further studied in Broiles et al. (2015) and Behar et al. (2016). In these two studies, it was shown how the solar wind deflection direction and the direction of the acceleration of newborn cometary ions are both correlated with the local magnetic field direction, consistent with the transfer of momentum described here-above.
Once the comet activity has increased above the very low level of the initial observations, the cometary ion flow direction has a main anti-sunward component (Nilsson et al. 2015a; Behar et al. 2016). Behar et al. (2016) discuss this in terms of a polarisation electric field developing in the coma as electrons and ions respond differently to the solar wind electric field on scales below the ion gyroradius.
We limit our study of the evolution of the interaction to the solar wind protons. This population reflects the interaction with the cometary ions experienced all along its trajectory through the coma. We expect the solar wind protons to exhibit both deflection and deceleration and we compare our expectations to the measured deflection and speed. In addition to the ion measurements, we consider the local magnetic field, which is highlighted as one of the major drivers in the solar wind-comet interaction by Broiles et al. (2015) and Behar et al. (2016).
The in situ data recorded onboard Rosetta represent a single-point probe of the whole system, with little spatial coverage over time. Energy and momentum are transferred, via the electromagnetic field, over a larger volume. In order to get a large-scale view, we use a hybrid model of the coma-solar wind interaction. This model provides a global picture of the interaction, allowing us to get an estimate of the size of the region involved in energy and momentum transfer.
Considering the simplicity of our theoretical approach, we choose to define and use a fairly simple model as well, involving only the major components in the system. Cometary water ions are added to the solar wind flow through ionization of an isotropic neutral outflow. The model thus does not have a solid obstacle for the solar wind, nor does it have gravity or momentum transfer by collisions. By proceeding in this manner, we hope to isolate and identify the main drivers of the plasma dynamics at a comet, at low activity.
We focus the study on the early period of the Rosetta mission, from the arrival at the nucleus (3.6 au) to a chosen distance of 2.2 au from the Sun. Closer to the Sun, a larger mass-loading of the solar wind results in a different dynamical regime in which, based on preliminary observations, either more radical or new effects occur. To mark this separation, we refer in this study to the phenomenon of light mass-loading, in opposition with a heavier mass-loading regime occurring later on.
Particle data used in this work were produced by the Ion Composition Analyzer, part of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC-ICA). This instrument is an ion mass-energy spectrometer aimed at studying the interaction between the solar wind and positive cometary ions at comet 67P (Nilsson et al. 2007). RPC-ICA data consist of count rates given in five dimensions, namely time, energy per charge, mass per charge, and incoming direction (two angles). Full energy scans are produced every 12 s and full angular scans are produced every 192 s. The energy spans from 10 eV up to 40 keV in 96 steps with a resolution . The instrument field of view is 360ยฐ ร 90ยฐ (azimuth ร elevation), with a resolution of 22.5ยฐ ร 5.0ยฐ. Mass is determined through a position detection system with 32 anodes, which we will refer to as mass channels. The radial position of ions on the detector plate is a function of both mass and energy.
The magnetometer (RPC-MAG, Glassmeier et al. 2007b) measures the three components of the magnetic field vector, with a frequency of 20 vectors per second. The measurement range is ยฑ16โ384 nT with an accuracy of 31 pT. RPC-MAG is mounted on a 1.5 m long boom in order to minimise the impact of spacecraft-generated disturbance fields.
In this work, the magnetic field amplitude was averaged over 10 h of data.
In order to characterise the protons detected by the instrument, the very first step was to identify and separate them from the rest of the observed ions. On the left panel of Fig. 2, counts integrated over one day are given as function of mass channel and energy, and different species are identified on this energy-mass matrix. The strongest signal was acquired for protons, and over 90% of proton counts were detected in mass channels 26 and 27 (surrounded by dead mass channels). During the period covered by the study, protons were always separated from other species in the energy dimension, at the daily time scale. In the left panel of Fig. 2, protons (the lightest particles) form the rightmost population, at highest mass channels. At about twice the energy and shifted to the left He2 + particles are found, followed by He+ particles at about four times the proton energy and further to the left (lower mass channels). Cometary ions are found in the lower left corner, corresponding to lower energy and higher mass.
We have manually selected the proton energy, one selection per day. This selection was then used for all full angular scans (of 192 s) during each day. The selection window which identifies proton counts and rules out the rest of the counts is defined for one day in energy-mass space, as follows: only mass channels 26 and 27 were considered, and we use an energy interval manually selected. This resulted in the red rectangle window over-plotted on the left panel (Fig. 2).
One example of an energy-mass matrix (left panel) and the corresponding proton fit (right panel).
To determine the average direction of the proton flow, we computed full angular distributions (azimuth-elevation) with all counts in the selection window included. We calculated the direction of the bulk velocity in the body-Centered Solar EQuatorial (CSEQ) reference frame. The xCSEQ axis is along the sun-comet line, pointing to the Sun. We computed the solar wind deflection as the angle between โ xCSEQ and the flow direction. The same method is presented with more details in Behar et al. (2016).
This resulted in one series of deflection angles per day. The time resolution is 192 s. Later on, we calculated the median of each series. In Sect. 3 we work with the time series of median deflection values, one median value per day.
On the right panel of Fig. 2, a normal distribution (solid red line) is fitted to the selected protons (solid blue line), along the energy dimension. In this example, the distribution is integrated over one day. To capture fast variations of the proton energy distribution, the fit parameters were calculated at the full angular scan time resolution (192 s). We collected the central energy value, the height and the Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM). This resulted in a time series of fit parameters, one series per day. The time resolution was 192 s. Later on, we also calculate the median of each daily series, and work in Sect. 3 with a series of median fit parameters.
To model the interaction between the comet 67P and the solar wind plasma, we used a self-consistent hybrid plasma model where we included a production of cometary ions. In the hybrid approximation, ions are treated as particles, and electrons as a massless fluid. Below we present the governing equations for the solver and the comet model. See Holmstrรถm (2010, 2013) for more information about the solver.
The trajectory of a particle, and , with charge q and mass m, is given by the solution of the equation of motion with the Lorentz force, F: (1)with Eโฒ = EโฮทJ to conserve momentum since electrons are massless (Bagdonat & Motschmann 2002), where E = E(r,t) is the electric field, B = B(r,t) is the magnetic field, and is the current density.
The electric field is not unknown, and is calculated by (2)where ฯi is the ion charge density, Ji is the ion current density, pe is the electron pressure, and ฮท is the resistivity.
The gradient of the electron pressure is calculated by imposing quasi-neutrality and a polytropic index, ฮณe. In this study we chose an adiabatic index, corresponding to ฮณe = 5/3.
Faradayโs law is used to advance the magnetic field in time, (3)In vacuum regions, that are defined by the number density of ions being less than a given value, n<nmin, we set 1 /ฯi = 0 in Eq. (2), and Faradayโs law is reduced to solving the magnetic diffusion equation, (4)A constraint on the time step has been inferred since the field cannot diffuse more than one cell per timestep, (5)where ฮt is the time step and ฮx is the cell size. The time step is for moving the particles (ions). The electromagnetic fields can be updated more frequently (subcycled) since it is usually computationally cheaper to update the fields compared to moving all the particles.
The number density of water vapor, n, as a function of the distance, r, from the comet nucleus is (6)where Q is the production rate of water vapor, and u is the mean velocity of water vapor in the radial direction. However, if one accounts for losses (mainly due to photodissociation), the flux will decrease exponentially with time, t = r/u, as the molecules move outwards from the nucleus, and one gets (7)where ฮฝd is the photodestruction rate of water vapor.
The water vapor ionizes with a certain ionization rate, ฮฝi, and creates water ions, H2O+. The water ion production rate as a function of distance becomes (8)where, in the implementation, the number density of water, nH2O, is taken at the center of each grid cell for each time step, generating the prescribed amount of ions at random positions in that cell.
Note that neglecting the neutral bi-products of water once they are created will barely change the density of neutral water if the mean-free-path due to photodissociation, u/ฮฝd, is much larger than the size of the simulation domain, which is true for all cases studied in this paper. Other models used by, for example, Hansen et al. (2007), Koenders et al. (2015), have similar first order approximations that instead neglect the creation of neutral bi-products.
The coordinate system we use in the hybrid model is a body-centered coordinate system. It is centered in the middle of 67P.
The x-axis is pointing towards the Sun, with solar wind flowing in the โ x direction, making it the same x coordinate as in the CSEQ reference frame, which is the only coordinate addressed in the observations. The z-axis is pointing in the direction of the ambient convective electric field, and the y-axis completes the right-handed system. We assume that the IMF has a Parker spiral configuration, that is the IMF lies in the xy-plane.
The convective electric field is given by E0 = โv0 ร B0, where v0 is the undisturbed solar wind bulk velocity, and B0 is the IMF which is initially homogeneous everywhere.
The simulation domain is given by | x | < 6 ร 103 km, | y | < 12 ร 103 km, | z | < 18 ร 103 km, with a cellsize ฮx = 125 km.
We set the plasma resistivity to ฮทp = 1.6 ร 104 Ohm m, to dampen numerical oscillations. We assume a vacuum resistivity of ฮทv = 2.5 ร 105 Ohm m, which is used when solving the diffusion equation of Faradayโs law (Eq. (4)) for regions of a number density less than the arbitrarily chosen nmin = n0/ 16, where n0 is the ambient solar wind proton number density. To summarize: (9)The electromagnetic fields were updated 20 times for each time step, ฮt = 3.5 ร 10-2. The simulations were run for a total of 120 s to reach steady-state.
The water production rate of a comet changes with distance from the sun. We used Q = 1.14 ร 1029ยทR-7.06 [s-1], where R is the distance to the sun in au (Simon Wedlund et al. 2016). The neutral expansion velocity is observed to be relatively constant around u = 0.7 kmโs-1 (Simon Wedlund et al. 2016), so we used that value.
Water ions are produced in the simulation according to Eq. (8). We used scaled values, 1 /R2 with heliocentric distances, for photoionization and photodestruction from Crovisier (1989), where a mean value was taken between active and quiet Sun conditions. At 1 au this gives a photoionization rate of ฮฝi = 6.5 ร 10-7 s-1 and a photodestruction rate of ฮฝd = 1.78 ร 10-5 s-1 (Crovisier 1989).
In the model we used typical solar wind conditions at 1 au from Cravens (2004) scaled to the heliocentric distances of 67P. The undisturbed solar wind plasma parameters at 1 au are a bulk velocity of v0 = 400 kmโs-1 in (neglecting aberration), a number density of protons being n0 = 5 cm-3, and a temperature of ions and electrons being constant at Ti = 0.5 ร 105 K and Te = 1 ร 105 K, respectively. The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) has a magnitude of 7 nT with a Parker spiral angle of ฯ = 45ยฐ.
To model the evolution of the solar wind interaction with the comet as the comet approaches the Sun, we chose six different heliocentric distances ranging from when Rosetta arrived at the comet at around R = 3.6 au, to R = 2.0 au. Six cases are summarized in Tables 1 and 2, that can be compared with similar cases modeled by Hansen et al. (2007).
Solar wind conditions used in the model.
Cometary parameters used in the model.
Time series for: deflection angle (first panel), speed (second panel), energy distribution width (third panel), peak centre variability (fourth panel) and magnetic field amplitude (last panel). RPC-ICA data are given by red dots โ every dot is a daily median. Peak width and peak central value are given by the fit parameters. RPC-MAG magnetic field amplitude is averaged over 10 h. Blue lines are either results from the hybrid model (first and last panels) or results from the MEX solar wind speed propagation (second panel from top).
The evolution of the angle between the proton flow direction and the comet-sun line is given in Fig. 3 (top panel) for both the model and the observations. We assume the upstream solar wind is flowing radially from the Sun, and the presented proton deflection angle is then the deflection relative to this assumed initial radial flow.
Broiles et al. (2015) and Behar et al. (2016) previously reported a significant deflection of the solar wind for precise cases, and we now consider a much larger time scale. The observed deflection increases smoothly with decreasing heliocentric distances, reaching a median daily value in the range of 30 to 90ยฐ. The model displays the same trend, with a non-linear increase reaching a value of 40ยฐ.
One would expect the first observed deflection values in the time series to be very close to 0ยฐ, since the mass-loading at the time is extremely light. This is seen in the model results, but the deflection is larger in the observations. A closer look at the observed data reveals that the Sun, as seen in the instrument field of view, was just a few degrees away from the spacecraft body. This partial obstruction of the solar wind flow and the way the instrument software handles it (onboard computation) should have a significant influence on the computed deflection, until around mid-September 2014.
By comparing panels 1 and 2 of Fig. 3, one can see that the variability in deflection is anti-correlated with the measured proton velocity.
To estimate the upstream solar wind speed at 67P, we used solar wind speed measured by the Ion Mass Analyzer (IMA), which is one of the sensors in the ASPERA-3 instrument package (Barabash et al. 2006) onboard Mars Express. IMA is an ion spectrometer almost identical to RPC-ICA. We propagated the speed from Mars to 67P, with the assumption that solar wind conditions are identical along a Parker spiral, and remain unchanged over time. We calculate the delay for the Parker spiral to get from one body to the other. Thus delays can be positive as well as negative.
Over the period of the study, the propagation delay started at a high value of 12 days, meaning that what is measured at Mars at one time will be a good estimation at 67P 12 days later. This delay becomes shorter than 4 days after December, to end up at values around 0: the Parker spiral intersects both bodies simultaneously, as shown in Fig. 4. In other words, this propagated speed should be more reliable when getting closer to the end of the period.
Position of Earth (blue), Mars (red), and 67P (black) in J2000 coordinate system during 2015-02-26, with part of their orbits. The Parker spiral intersecting Mars for that day is also intersecting 67P (dotted).
The propagated solar wind speed is shown as a blue line in the second panel from the top in Fig. 3. Propagating large variations in the speed results in large time periods not being covered (gaps in the blue line): the propagation delay is a function of the solar wind speed, and two different events measured at Mars at two different times can arrive at the same time at the comet, or even in the opposite order of occurrence.
We get a very good agreement between the estimated upstream speed and the speed measured inside the coma. RPC-ICA data time coverage gets better with time during this period. Thus after January, we have better statistics, and more reliable solar wind upstream speed (as pointed out above). The average deceleration after January is about โ 40 kmโs-1 from estimated upstream speed to the point of measurement, but no clear trend can be discerned. The uncertainty on this deceleration estimation is rather large, extremely difficult to quantify, and does not allow us to judge whether or not deceleration is systematically observed during the later period. Some features measured at Mars and propagated to the comet are in fact not observed at the comet. Even though the expected delay taken into account when propagating the observations from Mars to the comet is small during the second half of the time period, the absolute distance between the two bodies is never less than 1.7 au. We make the assumption that solar wind conditions are identical along a Parker spiral, but it is obvious that the larger the distance between the two bodies, the worse this assumption gets.
The hybrid model shows a constant deceleration over the period, with a maximum deceleration of 60 kmโs-1 at 2.2 au (cf. Fig. 5). This is consistent with the range estimated from the data for the deceleration.
Deceleration seen in the model between a point upstream and the nucleus. The maximum deceleration is 60 kmโs-1 at 2.2 au.
Number density of solar wind protons together with their bulk velocity as a vector field a), and the magnetic field magnitude b). Cuts through y = 0 for the comet at 2.35 au, case five. The ambient solar wind number density is 0.9 cm-3, and the ambient magnetic field is 2.3 nT with a Parker spiral angle of 67ยฐ. The location of the comet is marked by black cross-hairs.
It appears that with decreasing heliocentric distances, the variability of the proton speed (or energy) at the 192 s resolution increases, as seen in the 4th panel of Fig. 3. The variability is given as the difference between the 5th and 95th centiles of the proton peak central values (in energy) observed during one day. At the beginning of our period of study, this variability is about 50 to 100 eV (100 to 140 kmโs-1). It reaches values of several hundreds to a thousand electron-volts at the end of this period. By comparing panels 2 and 4 of Fig. 3 one can see that the variability of the proton speed in the coma correlates with the upstream proton speed.
The FWHM of the fitted proton spectra, (Fig. 3, 3rd panel) doesnโt appear to correlate with heliocentric distance, but correlates with the upstream proton velocity.
In the last panel of Fig. 3, the magnetic field amplitude increases with time and decreasing heliocentric distance, from 5 nT ยฑ 2nT to around 20 nT. The peaks in the magnetic field amplitude correlate well with peaks in the proton speed. The model (solid blue line in the same panel) also results in a similar relative increase, from 1.5 to 6.6 nT, though the magnetic field magnitude is lower. The model shows a less dramatic increase compared to the observations.
Finally, the morphology of the interaction when the comet was at 2.35 au can be seen in the hybrid model results in Fig. 6.
The solar wind observed inside the coma, close to the nucleus, is a good tracer of the interaction between the solar wind and the coma. The spacecraft altitude did not change significantly during the investigated time period; the spacecraft spent 90% of the time below 100 km in altitude. Thus the variations we observe are to a large extent temporal, and not spatial, and the evolution of the proton flow parameters directly reflects the time evolution of the plasma environment. We expect the solar wind to be deflected and slowed down. Both the deflection and the deceleration should increase with increasing comet activity, or a decreasing heliocentric distance. Significant and increasing deflection is observed during the whole period of study, and data from the later part is consistent with deceleration, but we cannot observe a clear trend in this deceleration.
All of the aspects of the protons we have been studying over this period present detectable changes that can be correlated with either the heliocentric distance or the upstream solar wind velocity. The decreasing heliocentric distance gives the main trend in the evolution of the deflection, the magnetic field amplitude, the energy variability and, in the model, the deceleration. The variability around this main trend seems to be associated with the upstream proton velocity: the proton peak width together with the proton energy variability present the best correlation with the upstream speed, but an anti-correlation with deflection is also seen for intermediate heliocentric distances. The main peaks in the measured magnetic field amplitude are also aligned with peaks in upstream velocity.
With the resolution we get after data analysis, no physical aspect other than the heliocentric distance and the upstream solar wind speed is needed to describe the evolution of the deflection and the energy distribution of the solar wind protons.
Even though we noted that the degree of deceleration of the protons was difficult to assess from our data, we can clearly state that the protons are largely deflected, but not significantly slowed down. Thus the force applied on the observed protons must be near-orthogonal to their velocity, all along their trajectory to the instrument. The observed protons have not lost a significant amount of energy.
During the investigated time period from August 2014 to March 2015, the magnetic field amplitude | B | measured at the spacecraft increased to average values of approximately 20 nT. We therefore have an augmentation of | B | following the comet activity escalation, but also an augmentation of | B | along a proton trajectory, from upstream of the coma to the measurement point. In the undisturbed solar wind, the magnetic force qvH+ ร B and the electric force qE are cancelling each other, the Lorentz force F = q(E + vH+ ร B) is balanced and null.
It is of great interest to put this increase of | B | in opposition with the rather small deceleration of the solar wind. Without an opportune new configuration of the local electric field in both amplitude and direction, the Lorentz force applied on the protons is not equal to zero anymore. The solar wind protons are perturbed by this increase in | B | along their trajectory. A significant part of their motion can now be seen as gyrating rather than a true bulk drift. The fact that the magnetic field is enhanced without a corresponding deceleration of the protons indicates that the protons are no longer coupled to the magnetic field, or a significant part of their energy is now in a gyromotion, with a reduced bulk drift.
Lorentz force per charge acting on the bulk of the solar wind protons of a cut through y = 0 for the comet at 2.35 au, case 5. The solar wind proton bulk velocity is given as a vector field a). The force acting perpendicular to the solar wind bulk velocity, vH+, deflects the solar wind protons a), where a positive value is taken as counter-clockwise gyration by convention. The force parallel to the solar wind bulk velocity changes the solar wind speed b), where a positive value results in a deceleration. The ambient convective electric field is 0.85 V/km. The location of the comet nucleus is marked by black cross-hairs.
We observe a force applied on the solar wind protons in the coma, a force mainly orthogonal to their bulk velocity. This force is therefore efficient in changing their momentum, but acts less efficiently on their energy, that is, their speed. Both momentum and energy are transferred to the water ions through electromagnetic fields. Haerendel (1982) and Brenning et al. (1991) for example, in the context of barium releases, depict a momentum transfer along Alfvรฉn waves propagating from the cloud (artificial coma).
So the previous observation raises the question about the actual shape of the regions where energy and momentum exchange takes place. In particular, these regions are not necessarily identical.
Since we only have a one-point measurement to assess the situation, we must turn to the modeled interaction to see the larger picture.
In the hybrid model, we can separate the Lorentz force, F = q(Eโฒ + vH+ ร B) into two components: the force acting parallel to the solar wind proton bulk flow, , and the force acting perpendicular to the flow, Fโฅ = FโFโฅ. The perpendicular component acts to make the bulk of the solar wind deflect, while the parallel component acts to change the solar wind speed.
Hybrid model results for the comet located at 2.35 au, case 5, show that the Lorentz force, F, is primarily making the bulk of the solar wind protons gyrate and thus deflect towards the direction opposite of the convective electric field (โ แบ). The perpendicular force, Fโฅ, deflects the protons in a counter-clockwise manner in the xz plane, seen in Fig. 7a, where the bulk velocity of the solar wind protons are given as a vector field.
The parallel force, Fโฅ, which is slowing the solar wind down, is much weaker (see Fig. 7b, where a positive value corresponds to deceleration). This is in agreement with the in-situ observations.
The regions of deflection (perpendicular force) and deceleration (parallel force) are of comparable sizes and shape, but with different strengths. It is interesting to note that the gyroradius of a pick up ion in the undisturbed solar wind is 3 ร 105 km, which is much larger than the interaction region of about 103 km. The interaction region leading to deflection and deceleration of the solar wind protons corresponds to the region where the newly ionized water is accelerating along the convective electric field, E0.
As the heliocentric distance decreases from 3.6 to 2.2 au, the observed solar wind is increasingly deflected, up to 90ยฐ. The modeled interaction results in the same evolution of the deflection angle, with a lower maximum value than observed.
In contrast with this strong deflection, the observed solar wind is not significantly slowed down, with an estimated deceleration of 40 kmโs-1 at heliocentric distances between 2.65 and 2.2 au. The modeled deceleration is consistent with the observations.
The strong proton deflection is the most obvious signature of mass-loading at a small comet, while little deceleration is observed. This may also have important implications for other objects where the interaction region is small compared to the gyro radii of pick up ions. The interplanetary magnetic field at the orbit of Pluto is very small and the pick up ion gyro radius correspondingly large, in the order of 1 millionโkm. If there is significant mass-loading of the solar wind due to an extended atmosphere upstream of the bow shock at Pluto, this interaction is likely similar to that of a small scale comet. The New Horizons spacecraft observed very little deceleration of the solar wind at its flyby of Pluto (Bagenal et al. 2016; McComas et al. 2016), while no clear data on solar wind deflection has been published. McComas et al. (2016) reported a clear pressure-related plasma boundary forming between the ionosphere and the solar wind at Pluto, so in this respect Pluto behaves similarly to other unmagnetised planets such as Mars and Venus.
As contrast to the single-point limitation of the measurements, the model enables us to describe the complete picture of the interaction. In the model, the region where energy is transferred and the region where momentum is transferred are close to identical. The force acting on the solar wind protons has a main component orthogonal to their bulk velocity. This confirms and completes the picture we get from the observations, in which solar wind protons are seen as almost gyrating.
The region where momentum and energy are transferred from the solar wind to the coma is centered on the nucleus, with a dimension in the order of 103 km. But this localized interaction has significant effects on the downstream solar wind flow over much larger spatial scales. The solar wind is in fact seen piling up in the (โ z, โ x) quadrant, a region where neither momentum nor energy are significantly transferred. This happens where the deflected solar wind intersects the nearly undisturbed solar wind.
This research was conducted using resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N), Umeรฅ University, Sweden.
The software used in this work was in part developed by the DOE NNSA-ASC OASCR Flash Center at the University of Chicago.
The hybrid solver is part of the openly available FLASH code and can be downloaded from http://flash.uchicago.edu/.
The simulation results are available from the corresponding author on request.
This work was supported by the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) through grants 108/12, 112/13, 96/15 and 94/11.
We acknowledge the staff of CDDP and IC for the use of AMDA and the RPC Quicklook database (provided by a collaboration between the Centre de Donnรฉes de la Physique des Plasmas (CDPP) supported by CNRS, CNES, Observatoire de Paris and Universitรฉ Paul Sabatier, Toulouse and Imperial College London, supported by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council). We are indebted to the whole Rosetta mission team, Science Ground Segment and Rosetta Mission Operation Control for their hard work making this mission possible. | 2019-04-23T20:09:38 | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2016/12/aa28797-16/aa28797-16.html |
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Google TV is also available on Sony Blu-ray Disc players and Logitech Revue. These devices are designed for HDTV owners that don't want to upgrade, but do want to experience the Internet on their television. Both feature Google's Android OS, Chrome browser, and built-in Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet. The Blu-ray player is for those that want to play Blu-ray movies, while the Revue is just for web and channel browsing. The Blu-ray player is controlled with the same qwerty keyboard as the HDTVs. The Revue features a set top box and a wireless keyboard.
Still have questions? Looking to purchase, but just not sure what? Is Google TV worth the hype now that you are using it? Maybe you have more to add to our Google TV review. If you have something to add, we'd love to hear from you. Be sure to visit the comments section below! | 2019-04-21T10:29:32 | https://www.brighthub.com/electronics/home-theater/articles/120562.aspx |
0.999977 | Categorized as the full user license, the App License is the right way to give full rights to the user. As per the job roles, the users can have create, access, read, write and edit rights to any part of the workflow.
With App license one can have access to multiple Apps as compared to a Team member license. If you need to give full write access to an app to a particular user, you need to give him the App license and not the Team Member license that limits the functionality.
The App license is right for the role of someone who manages a team, opportunity, accounts or contacts. If someone has to perform a task like invoicing, market listing, order lists, price lists, campaign management, contract maintenance and more, App License is the right choice.
If you are looking only for CRM functionality that would include managing details of sales, Customer relationship, field Service or project workflow service, you must go for Plan 1 type licenses.
It is a packaged license that gives you the Read and Write access to both CRM and Operations functionality that includes sales, Customer relationship, field Service or project workflow service.
This is very important from the Enterprise ownerโs perspective. The Device Licensing ensures the Dynamics 365 is accessed by a license holder on a licensed device only. With the availability of the license support to multiple devices, this way the organizations can ensure no one except that the licensed user gets access to the private data. The device licensing makes sure the users log on to authorized devices that have been checked against malware and virus attacks to access the internal data. | 2019-04-19T22:57:10 | https://dynamicspal.com/read-full-user/ |
0.999998 | Who says beaujolais has to be drunk young?
What does it take to revive a moribund style of wine? For years, it seems, beaujolais has been struggling against its bright bubblegum-and-banana "nouveau" image. Few seemingly touch it for the rest of the year.
There was some bizarre advertising campaign a while back with animals that presumably represented the different crus (the French really can be quite silly) but maybe the answer is the nickname that the Discover Beaujolais promotional campaign has chosen to use on Twitter: bojo.
It's an accessible, memorable name for an appealing, versatile wine that many would enjoy just as much as rosรฉ if they gave it a chance. It's made, as you may know, from gamay, which has less of a reputation than the more glamorous pinot noir that features in the rest of the Burgundy region, but is capable of producing highly drinkable wines at a fraction of the cost.
In general I'd suggest going for beaujolais villages rather than basic beaujolais, though there's nothing wrong with Waitrose's attractively fruity Beaujolais from the excellent 2011 vintage (12.5%, ยฃ6.69). Alcohol is a better guide to quality: I'd generally go for 12.5% rather than 12%. Other good own-brand bojos are Tesco's 2013 Beaujolais Villages (12.5%, ยฃ6.79) and Asda's 2012 Extra Special Beaujolais-Villages (12.5%, ยฃ6.50). All would benefit from being served lightly chilled.
The "crus" that are named after individual villages offer more complexity and ageing potential. (Yes, beaujolais does age.) It's hard to generalise because invididual wines also reflect the winemaker and vintage but Fleurie and Chiroubles, for instance, are lighter and more floral, Morgon and Moulin-ร -vent fuller and more structured. It would be worth tucking away a few bottles of 2013 Chรขteau de Pizay Morgon (13%, on offer at Majestic at ยฃ8.99 if you buy two) to enjoy with roast pork in a couple of years time.
If you want to see what beaujolais is capable of, try the sublime Julien Sunier Fleurie 2011 (12.5%, ยฃ19.50 at Berry Bros), a wine in which you can almost smell warm earth and wild flowers. Expensive, yes, but a burgundy of that quality would cost at least ยฃ10 more.
The quality of beaujolais has also been greatly improved by a new generation of vignerons, more organic and biodynamic viticulture and, at the cheaper end, a greater use of screwcaps. Of the dozen I tried for this feature, some were less to my taste but there wasn't a single dud among them. And that's rare. | 2019-04-22T16:26:49 | https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/26/fiona-beckett-wine-beaujolais |
0.999998 | For this review I will be looking at a piece of hardware from one of the biggest possibly most respected names in the industry. The company is Cooler Master and the item under review is one of their new cases, the HAF 932. Coming from Cooler Master I have fairly high expectations.
Before I take a look at the HAF 932 here is some info about Cooler Master, taken from their website.
Cooler Master was founded with the mission of providing the industry๏ฟฝs best thermal solutions. Since its establishment a decade ago, the company has remained faithful to this mission, emerging as a world leader in products and services for companies dealing with devices where heat issues must be resolved.
Cooler Master๏ฟฝs current business encompasses a comprehensive line-up of thermal solutions for a full range of applications. Its products range from heat sinks and fans to component housing, chassis, and ducting for computers, industrial machinery, telecommunications equipment, and many other devices.
The three cornerstones of Cooler Master๏ฟฝs business philosophy are innovation, speed, and customer satisfaction. It has been Cooler Master๏ฟฝs steadfast commitment to these values and ability to fulfil its promise to honour them that accounts for its sustained record of growth and the many long-term customers it has accumulated. Together, innovation, speed, and customer satisfaction ensure that Cooler Master is the supplier that the companies around the world rely on to deliver the best thermal solutions, creating a win-win situation both for Cooler Master and the companies that become its customers.
While staying true to its original mission, Cooler Master is responding to transformations in the global industry and adapting to its own rapid growth. It will continue to devote resources to developing more advanced technologies, retaining a spirit of innovation. It will also continue to refine its operations, enhancing efficiency and making the company even more responsive to customer needs and market changes as they arise, efficient, and providing even better service to customers. | 2019-04-26T00:22:46 | http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/articles_pages/cooler_master_haf_932_rc_932_full_tower,1.html |
0.999981 | The Rolling Stones issue an open invitation on social media to an historic free concert in Havana, which was originially scheduled for March 20, but delayed by the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama. Subtitled Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
SUBTITLED ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Story: The Rolling Stones are welcoming Cubans to their free concert on Friday (March 25) with Mick Jagger speaking Spanish in a video on YouTube, though few are likely to see it, given Cuba's scant Internet penetration. "We have played in many incredible places but this concert in Havana is going to be a historic event for us," Jagger said in a voice over while the Stones' song, "Jumping' Jack Flash" plays to snippets of concert video. "We hope it will be for you, too." Less than one-third of Cubans have access to the Internet, with only 3.4 percent of homes connected to either the Internet or a local Cuban Intranet, according to U.N. data. The Stones added Cuba to the end of a Latin American tour, becoming the first major international rock stars to play in the island nation. The outdoor concert at a sports complex was postponed five days because of the 48-hour visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, who departed Cuba on Tuesday. | 2019-04-26T05:01:20 | https://uk.reuters.com/video/2016/03/23/rolling-stones-invite-cubans-to-free-con?videoId=367854080&videoChannel=75 |
0.998962 | How do I add in PTO requests from the smartphone apps?
You will use the Timecards or PTO menu item to add in a PTO request from the apps.
There are 2 ways to request PTO in the smartphone apps. Either way will require you to login and then open the menu on the upper left. The first method is to visit your time card. The second is to visit the PTO area.
Then in the upper right hand corner click on the plus (+) icon to add and request PTO. | 2019-04-25T12:03:00 | https://docs.buddypunch.com/new-employee-help/how-do-i-add-in-pto-requests-from-the-smartphone-apps |
0.9987 | Having wrapped up in 2007, 'The Sopranos', which won 21 Primetime Emmys and five Golden Globes, is more or less the show that put HBO on the map.
Fans of โThe Sopranosโ received some amazing news recently when it was announced that Michael Gandolfini, who is the son of late star James Gandolfini, will be playing a younger version of his father's role Tony Soprano in a prequel film titled 'The Many Saints Of Newark.โ Having wrapped up in 2007, 'The Sopranos', which won 21 Primetime Emmys and five Golden Globes, is more or less the show that put HBO on the map.
Who will be returning from โThe Sopranosโ?
Alessandro Nivola will play the central character in the film, Dickie Moltisanti. Nivola is best known for his roles in โThe Neon Demonโ and โAmerican Hustle.โ Dickie has never appeared on โThe Sopranos,โ but he had a pivotal role in Tonyโs life. He was shot dead when his son Chrissy (Michael Imperioli) was still an infant, which made Tony very protective of Chrissy.
We know a lot about him, thanks to Tonyโs many anecdotes, including the fact that he was a Vietnam vet, struggled with alcohol and drug addiction (like his son), and he gouged out the eye of a man who murdered his cellmate.
Michael Gandolfini, who will take on his fatherโs role, said in a statement, "Itโs a profound honor to continue my dadโs legacy while stepping into the shoes of a young Tony Soprano. Iโm thrilled that I am going to have the opportunity to work with David Chase and the incredible company of talent he has assembled for The Many Saints of Newark."
Jon Bernthal, Billy Magnussen, Corey Stoll, and Vera Farmiga have both been cast in undisclosed roles, but fans are speculating that Vera would make an excellent Livia Soprano -Tonyโs mother - in her prime.
It is understood that the roles to be filled in the prequel also include Tonyโs father, Johnny Boy Soprano, Tonyโs uncle, Junior Soprano Uncle Junior, Jackie April Sr, Carmine Lupertazzi Sr, Walnuts Gualtieri, and Tony Blundetto.
Seeing as Dickie is the primary character on the show, it is quite possible that the events that led to his death is what 'The Many Saints of Newark' would focus on. Set amid the 1967 Newark riots, the movie would focus on how Dickie was affected by the โThe Long Hot Summer of 1967," wherein the African-Americans and the Italians of Newark were bitterly set against each other.
Since the project is still in the casting stage, 'The Many Saints of Newark' may be set for a 2020 release. | 2019-04-23T03:57:09 | https://meaww.com/the-many-saints-of-newark-everything-you-need-know-about-the-sopranos-prequel-michael-gandolfini |
0.998757 | How important is it to have leadership or management experience?
What sort of essay questions will I be asked?
How do I prepare to write my essays?
How should I describe my work experience?
What kind of additional information should I offer?
Do all schools require personal interviews?
What are some common mistakes that people make during interviews?
What questions should I expect to be asked?
Business schools expect to produce good managers. As such, admissions committees search for students who have already demonstrated an ability to lead.
Business schools typically ask about your achievements, your future goals, the reasons why you are pursuing an MBA, and the challenges you have faced in the workplace.
First, think very carefully about your future goals. Like all schools, business schools think of their students, in a way, as investments โ and if they are using their time and resources to prepare you for the business world they want to know that you envision yourself working in the field indefinitely. Secondly, think about how an MBA will lead you to realize your future plans. Thirdly, think about why now is the right time for you to pursue an MBA. Finally, review your past experiences and accomplishments โ both personal and professional โ and think about how they have defined who you are and what you value, whether inside or outside the business arena.
Write about the things you have done and the contributions you have made over the course of your career, and discuss what you have learned and how you have grown from your professional experience. Do not fall into the trap of laundry-listing your past jobs. Think about a theme that runs throughout your employment history and use specific experiences to illustrate it.
Offering additional information is purely optional. If the application provides a space for additional information, you may take the opportunity to add important information which does not fit into other sections of the application, or to explain weaknesses in your application. Do not waste this opportunity by reiterating a point about yourself that you have already conveyed. Only provide information that will help you better position yourself for admission. You might want to discuss a major obstacle you have overcome, or a non-work activity or experience that offers a more complete picture of who you are, what you have to contribute to the school of your choice.
The key to differentiating confidence from arrogance is your tone. Do not be overtly boastful about your accomplishments. Rather than telling admissions committees what you have achieved just for the sake of telling them, use your specific achievements as a springboard for more personal insights.
Colleges will sometimes suggest a word limit for the main essay, usually five hundred words. While there is no definitive length that makes for a good essay, you can use five hundred as a rule of thumb. If you are given a word limit or allotted a specific amount of space on an application, adhere to it. You would be unwise to expect an admissions officer โ who may review thousands of essays a year โ to read extra pages, or to strain his or her eyes trying to make out your miniscule font. You should generally avoid anything smaller than a 12-point typeface.
No, but many schools find them valuable in determining an applicants communication skills, and strongly recommend scheduling one.
Wearing the appropriate attire is very important. Dress professionally and conservatively (dark suits, tasteful ties, clean, shined shoes), keep fragrances and cosmetics to a minimum, and do not smoke or chew gum.
Common mistakes include: excessive nervousness, lack of confidence, lack of enthusiasm about the school, not asking questions, complaining about your employer, and complaining about your grades and scores.
A school is likely to ask questions about your personal and professional experiences, your career goals, reasons you wish to pursue an MBA, your achievements, your potential contributions to the school, and your reasons for wanting to attend that particular school's MBA program.
Ask anything you want about the school, but be sure you really want to know the answer. Be prepared with three to five questions about the school that are thoughtful, sincere, and specific enough to the school that it is clear you have done your research. Do not ask any questions that are answered in the application materials you should have read prior to the interview.
Ask people who know you well and who can write about your qualities sincerely and enthusiastically to write your recommendations. An employer or a professor are obvious choices. Whomever you choose, make sure he or she can speak to at least one the following traits: your intelligence, your character, or your business skills. And make sure that each one of these areas is covered among all your recommenders. | 2019-04-26T08:17:54 | http://myessay.com/mba/faq.php |
0.995195 | PM in hot water for behaviour at Sherbrooke town hall.
OTTAWA โ The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages has received 14 complaints related to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's choice of English or French when answering questions at recent town hall meetings.
Spokesman Nelson Kalil said Thursday that 11 complaints stem from an event on Tuesday in Sherbrooke, Que., where Trudeau angered some anglophones by insisting on answering English questions in French.
The others are related to a previous town hall gathering in Peterborough, Ont., where Trudeau responded in English to a French question.
On Wednesday he said that on reflection he maybe should have answered partly in English and partly in French at the Sherbrooke event.
Kalil said it could take three to six months for the office to investigate the complaints.
Because the office cannot investigate individuals, the probe will focus on whether the Privy Council Office violated the Official Languages Act in its role of supporting the prime minister.
"Thank you for using our country's two official languages, but since we're in Quebec I'll respond in French," Trudeau replied.
"Thank you for using our country's two official languages, but since we're in Quebec I'll respond in French."
At first, Trudeau defended his stance when grilled about it at a news conference Wednesday as he mentioned the Peterborough example.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard was asked about the brouhaha Thursday as he attended the Davos economic summit in Switzerland.
"It's true we speak French in Quebec, it's our common language," Couillard said. "When English-speaking Quebecers address me, I answer them in their language and I will continue to do that."
When asked whether Trudeau should adopt such an approach, Couillard said he was talking only about his own conduct.
In Montreal, Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee was also asked โ in English โ about Trudeau's language imbroglio.
"If you allow me, I'll answer in English," Lisee jokingly replied.
He said Trudeau is "simply out of his depth" in matters of language and identity.
"Clearly, the whole event was largely, predominantly French and that's fine," Lisee told a news conference. "You've known me for a while. I was a Parti Quebecois minister and I answered questions in English. I even went to events that were entirely in English.
"In Quebec, we have French as the official and common language but we also know something called courtesy. And there's nothing wrong with speaking English to our important Anglo community. What we saw there is Mr. Trudeau having no grasp of reality and of policy on matters of language and identity." | 2019-04-22T19:59:34 | https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/01/19/language-complaints-filed-over-trudeau-s-french-answers-to-english-questions_n_14268222.html?utm_hp_ref=ca-justin-trudeau-french |
0.998644 | How can i download glee episodes for free. Jane Lynch was born on July 14 1960 in Dolton, Illinois USA as Jane Marie Lynch.
Jane Lynch, Actress: Glee. I am an Amazon Prime member so I can stream Season 2 of Glee to my heart' s content on my brilliant new Kindle Fire my TV what have you.
It premiered on September 13 Brad Falchuk , is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Ryan Murphy Television , series co- creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk Teley- Vision with executive producers Dante Di Loreto Ian Brennan. It focuses on the fictitious William McKinley High School glee club which competes on the show choir competition circuit while its disparate members deal with social issues, especially regarding sexuality, the New Directions, race relationships. TV show Glee season 1 watch in HD ( 720p) quality free without registration.
She was previously married to Lara Embry. The series features the New Directions glee. She is an actress known for Glee ( ), Wreck- It Ralph ( ) Role Models ( ).
Check out Glee: The Music - Celebrating 100 Episodes by Glee Cast on Amazon Music. Glee is an American musical comedy- drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19 to March 20 .
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Stream ad- free or purchase CD' s and MP3s now on fourth season of the Fox musical comedy- drama television series Glee was commissioned on April 9,. It premiered on September 13, and is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Ryan Murphy Television and Brad Falchuk Teley- Vision with executive producers Dante Di Loreto and series co- creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan.
The series features the New Directions glee. I am an Amazon Prime member so I can stream Season 2 of Glee to my heart' s content on my brilliant new Kindle Fire or my TV and what have you. | 2019-04-26T14:03:59 | http://agenciatm.info/?newsid=46058 |
0.999387 | The scene has several errors: Chief Stagg was sick at home and was not directing the fire. Horses were never kept so close to fire scenes - they were disconned and brought to safer locations. The steamers shown in the fire were of the type PFD bought after the fire, in 1902 they had much smaller, outdated steam fire engines. Unlikely they raised a ladder to such am engulfed building.
The most complete treatise related to the 1902 conflagration, the largest in Paterson's (and the state of New Jersey) history please see Glen Corbett's book pictured at right. It is available at the Passaic County Historical Society.
The fire started just before midnight on February 8 in the trolley car sheds of the Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson Railway Company, located on Broadway, at the head of Mulberry street. The immense building took up an entire city block.
The first alarm was sounded by an employee who ran to the fire box at Main Street and Broadway (Station 451) at 12:10 AM on Sunday the 9th.
From the starting point, the fire burned in a southeasterly direction, destroying the blocks on the westerly side of Main street, from a point near Broadway, to within three doors of Market street. On the easterly side of Main street the flames wiped out the two blocks from Van Houten street to the Paterson Savings Institution, at the corner of Main and Market streets.
The flames also destroyed buildings on the southerly side of Market street from Hamilton street to Clark street, and the westerly half of the block bounded by Market, Church and Ellison street.
โFrom this point the flying embers fired the buildings east of the Erie Railroad and destroyed property on the northerly side of Park avenue and between Park avenue to the southerly side of Market street as far as Carroll street. It was the biggest conflagration in the history of the city, and takes rank with the largest in the United States. The fire burned from midnight Saturday until 1 o'clock the following day, at which time the danger of a further spread of the flames was considered over.
โNot counting sheds or outbuildings, 459 buildings were destroyed, among them large business houses, banks, City Hall, five churches and the Free Public Library, with its 37,000 volumes. The insurance loss was approximated at $8,800,000, and the property loss at $6,000,000. Five hundred families lost their homes and everything they owned.
Fireman John McMullen (at right) of Engine Company 5 was injured during the collapse of Continental Hall.
The following text comes from an article by Todd Hollritt of the 1st Responder News. It reports on what was written in the Company Logbook by Captain B. Wilson. Although this report was presumed to be from an Engine Company it is very likely that it is from Truck Company 1 on Jackson Street: note Engine companies with hose wagons had more than 5 men in 1902, the only apparatus in 1902 carrying a 55 foot ladder was Truck 1 and one of the photos above show Truck 1 at the Hamilton Club, which is also mentioned in the log.
12:13 am Received a Third Alarm from Station 451. Apparatus left quarters with officer and 5 men. Fireman Norris being on sick list. Reported to Chief Mills at the car sheds (Origin of the fire) on Broadway and by him ordered to assist the department to get to work. Stretched in our chemical line to the rear of Cleveland, Stinsons and OโNeilโs stores finding that packing boxes and barrels had caught fire from sparks, while working at this fireground was ordered by Chief Gillmore to proceed at once to the First Baptist Church it having caught fire in the steeple.
Assisted Engine 7 (responded on the General Alarm) to get to work at this location, and then the Passaic Engine (Mutual Aide) came on the ground. Helped them to line in between School house and (Affiolic?) hall to rear of Guardian building. Raised a 35โ and a 30 ft ladder on the hall. We then manned a pipe from the Passaic Co. and worked on the Patrol Stable and changed the position of Engine 3 in the old City Hall. Then back to the Van Houten Street stables and changed the Passaic steamers line to the rear of the houses on Church St.
Was then ordered to the Hamilton Club raised a 55 Ft ladder. Assisted Engine 7 to the roof. But was forced back by fire. Was ordered by Chief Gillmore to go to Market Street and bring the Jersey City Engine (Mutual Aide) down to the corner of Church and Ellison Street where we assisted them to get to work on the Club house. While we were working our 55 ft ladder was broken. We worked at this fire until 9:30pm when we were ordered up by Chief Mills.
About 6:00 pm FF Kraus had to give up, his leg and foot paining him so he could not stand. And at 9 PM FF Farrel gave out having been taken with a severe chill.
Engine Companyโs time 22 hours 30 mins. Truck time 22 hours 15 mins.
9:45pm To Quarters where we find we have lost one 30 Ft ladder two axes and two hooks. And find the 20 Ft extension ladder broke. Also one 3 gallon extinguisher lost.
10:00pm Fireman Farrell left quarters on sick report.
11:55pm Received an alarm by telephone from Headquarters to go to 290 Straight Street. Apparatus left quarters with officer and 3 men. On our arrival there we found our services were not required.
Firemen: Breen, Devive, Absent Norris, Kraus, Farrell all on sick report.
12:20am To Quarters Co. time 25 mins.
9:00am Captain left Quarters to report to Chief Mills the condition of the Company.
In the first report following the big fire, Chief Stagg reported that the discipline had not been up to the usual standard and that charges against members had been more frequently made. Attention was again called to the urgent need of new apparatus to replace the old stock and to the need of at least two new engines, two hose wagons, one truck and one officers wagon in reserve at all times. The engines in service would not be capable of giving a good fire stream on the new and larger buildings to be erected over the fire ruins. He noted 26 blocks were destroyed or damaged.
Engine 7 on the day of the fire or did Paterson send box keys as a memento to every town that provided mutual aide? In Corbett's book he mentions that Chief Stagg did send out letters of thanks to various mutual aide cities. I suspect when this plaque was eventually put together the three men cited were the remaining "still alive" members of the JCFD Engine 7. Just another confusing undocumented firematic collectible we likely will never have the true story of..
Note: regarding the above photo: It is labeled as "a group of city fireman circa 1900" but is actually a picture of the men and steamer (with the hose wagon in background) of Engine One at the newly rebuilt 112 Van Houten Street Firehouse. - the view is looking west on Van Houten Street towards Washington Street. Interestingly 112 van Houten Street was the only FH that was significantly damaged in the 1902 fire (again not mentioned in story). Engine company 1 had to relocate to the Prospect Street FH until the FH was rebuilt afterwards. Another error is the photo shows a big First Size Metropolitan Steamer which was obtained in 1903 a year after the great fire: prior to and during the big fire Engine 1 had a very out of date smaller (second size) 1886 Button steamer. The above photo could be anytime between 1903 and 1912 but certainly not 1900.
1940: For its Golden Jubilee the Paterson Evening News printed an exact replica issue by day after the fire (February 10, 1902). | 2019-04-24T23:53:55 | https://www.patersonfirehistory.com/great-1902-confligration.html |
0.999991 | What's the difference between bipolar I and bipolar II?
Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes abnormally high and in some cases, low moods. It affects a person's energy levels and their ability to function in everyday life.
A person with bipolar disorder may experience extreme changes in mood.
People with bipolar disorder experience abnormal highs or lows in mood. During a "high," also known as a manic episode, people feel intense energy or excitement.
During a "low," or depressive episode, they experience symptoms of depression, such as sadness and hopelessness.
A doctor can diagnose a person with one of the above types based on the duration and intensity of their symptoms.
Bipolar I and bipolar II are the most widespread forms of bipolar disorder. They are also the more severe of the bipolar disorders.
Bipolar I and II have similar symptoms and patterns in which symptoms occur. However, people who have bipolar II will experience less severe manic episodes than people with bipolar I. This type of mania is known as hypomania.
To receive a diagnosis of bipolar II, a person must also experience a major depressive episode , which does not apply in a diagnosis of bipolar I.
A doctor can diagnose bipolar I based on the presence of a manic episode alone. People with bipolar I disorder have at least one manic episode that persists for a week or longer or severe mania that requires hospitalization.
Those with bipolar II disorder do not generally require hospitalization during hypomanic periods. Doctors sometimes misdiagnose bipolar II as depression because the hypomanic symptoms can be very subtle.
In between these episodes of mania and depression, people who have either of these types of bipolar may experience periods of stable mood. It is also possible to have symptoms of depression and mania at the same time. This is known as bipolar with "mixed features."
The main symptoms of bipolar I and bipolar II are mania, hypomania, and depression.
During a manic episode, a person may have an increased desire to drink alcohol.
Periods of mania can interfere with a person's daily activities and their relationships with others.
Some people may be unable to achieve a calm state or to have rational thoughts during a manic episode.
In a state of hypomania, people experience symptoms similar to those in mania, except less severe.
Hypomania can still interfere with a person's quality of life, and family and friends may notice that the person is experiencing mood changes.
Doctors consider these symptoms to be a depressive episode if they persist for 2 weeks or more.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), approximately 2.8 percent of adults in the United States experience bipolar disorder in a given year. An estimated 4.4 percent of people experience bipolar at some point in their lives.
The condition affects men and women almost equally. Onset occurs at an average age of 25, but it can happen to people of any age.
A psychiatrist can assess an individual to give a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
To receive a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, individuals will need to see a psychiatrist or psychologist. They will review the person's medical history and symptoms.
This psychiatric assessment will focus on a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Some people might find it helpful to have a loved one present to provide the doctor with information about other symptoms, especially during manic periods.
The psychiatrist or psychologist may also ask a person to keep a mood diary to track their moods, sleep patterns, and other symptoms. This diary can help with a diagnosis.
The psychiatrist or psychologist will compare the person's symptoms to the criteria for bipolar disorders outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
The psychiatrist or psychologist may carry out blood tests, a physical examination, or brain imaging tests to rule out other causes of the symptoms.
What's to know about bipolar II disorder?
Learn more about bipolar II, including how the manic period differs from bipolar I.
Treatment for bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder typically consists of medications, psychotherapy, and lifestyle changes.
As bipolar disorder is a long-term condition, treatment will be long-lasting. Some people may have a treatment team that includes a psychologist, therapist, and psychiatric nurse practitioner.
Doctors usually prescribe mood stabilizers, such as lithium, for bipolar disorder. They may also prescribe antipsychotic drugs for manic episodes and antidepressants for depression.
As antidepressant medications may "trigger" manic episodes in some people, doctors might recommend a combination of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs to reduce depression while stabilizing mood.
For people who have anxiety or sleep problems, anti-anxiety medications, such as benzodiazepines, may help. However, this strategy may come with a risk of dependence to benzodiazepines.
People can begin taking medications right away, even if they are not currently experiencing a manic or depressive episode.
It is vital to continue taking medications even during periods of stable mood to avoid relapse.
Psychotherapy is an essential part of treatment for bipolar I and II disorders. Therapy may take place on a one-to-one basis, as part of a group, or in a family setting.
Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy (IPSRT), which focuses on establishing a structured routine to help people cope with symptoms.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), to challenge negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones.
Family-focused therapy, to enhance communication with family members and to foster family support.
Some people also find it helpful to keep a daily mood diary. Keeping a journal can allow people to see patterns in their thoughts, moods, and behaviors.
A mood diary also helps identify triggers for manic or depressive episodes. This may help a person take appropriate action before a slight mood change worsens.
Although bipolar I and II are long-term conditions, most people can manage their symptoms with medications, therapy, and lifestyle changes.
Maintaining regular contact with mental health professionals and seeking support from friends and family can make it easier to cope with challenging symptoms.
Anyone who thinks they may be experiencing symptoms of bipolar I or II should speak to a doctor for a proper diagnosis.
Leonard, Jayne. "What's the difference between bipolar I and bipolar II?." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 17 Aug. 2018. Web. | 2019-04-18T20:42:25 | http://lp.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322801.php?sr |
0.999972 | The Zadroga Act that passed in 2011 re-opened the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, a special fund set up by Congress to compensate people who were injured or got sick as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Center. The Zadroga act also created the World Trade Center Health Program which, among other things, "provides medical monitoring and treatment for emergency responders, recovery, and cleanup workers, and volunteers who helped after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash site near Shanksville, Pennsylvania."
So where do things stand in Congress?
In the Senate, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is pushing a full re-authorization of the compensation fund and the health program, it is similar to the existing legislation that began to expire this past October. Right now the bill is bi-partisan and has 65 co-sponsors which makes it nearly veto proof.
In the House, New York representatives Republican Rep. Peter King and Democrats Rep. Jerry Nadler and Rep. Carolyn Maloney are all pushing a House equivalent of the full re-authorization Gillibrand bill. Since this program will allocate new spending, the rules are that the bill must start in the House. This bill has a clear majority with 244 co-sponsors.
Aides to Gillibrand and Nadler say their bill is fully paid for, however, the specifics have still not been made public.
House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., pushing changes to the victims' compensation component of the legislation. He wants a five year re-authorization that allocate money for the 9/11 fund as well as provide money for victims of state sponsored terrorist attacks that aren't related to 9/11.
For example, his bill would offer funds to Americans affected by the terrorist bombings in Lebanon in 1983 and Kenya in 1998.
In conjunction with Goodlatte, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., is moving legislation that would reauthorize the World Trade Center Health Program for five years.
Critics of these bills, like Gillibrand, King and Nadler say the measures underfund critical areas of the current programs and fails to make the programs permanent.
Where's Congressional Leadership on all of this?
House GOP Leadership aides tell NBC News, House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy are monitoring the ongoing discussions between members. Something will definitely be done, but it is unclear what form it will take.
Considering the super-majority in the Senate and the strong bi-partisan support for the bill in the House something similar to the legislation offered by Gillibrand is a possibility. However, if Speaker Ryan commits to "regular order" then the committees of jurisdiction must have their say. In that case, it's hard to see the Leadership allowing a permanent reauthorization bill onto the House floor.
In the Senate, Leadership sources tell NBC News that Majority Leader McConnell and New York Senator Chuck Schumer,D-N.Y. have had ongoing discussions about a way forward. Sources say that while the legislation is important, the sense of urgency is overblown because the program till next fall allowing time to work out a compromise.
Probably more posturing and behind the scene negotiations between the committee chairmen and the New York delegation fostered by leadership. | 2019-04-20T08:46:44 | https://maloney.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/why-is-a-health-bill-for-911-first-responders-stuck-in-congress |
0.997 | Answer Man: Mandatory recycling in Asheville? Reems Creek road work?
Answer Man: Is recycling mandatory in Asheville? Reems Creek road work coming up?
Readers ask if recycling is mandatory in Asheville, and what's up with signs covered in plastic on Reems Creek Road.
Question: Is it legally required to recycle in Asheville? A business in my downtown apartment building disposes of gigantic bags of mostly recyclables in our common trash dumpster. In trying to retrieve and recycle those items I could reach, I found evidence that these bags and a box of empty alcohol bottles came from this business. What are the city regulations in regard to business recycling? Should I report this business to the city?
My answer: I would certainly try extorting them for some free alcohol first.
Real answer: This one gets a bit complicated.
City spokeswoman Polly McDaniel noted that a city ordinance (Chapter 15, Article III) governs recycling. In part, it states, "It shall be the policy of the city to require recycling to the fullest extent possible of recyclable materials designated by the city." Another section states, "All recyclable materials generated by a household customer shall be separated from municipal solid waste and placed in recycling receptacles for curbside collection or taken to collection facilities."
The rub comes with businesses.
"The Sanitation Division provides recycling carts free of charge to all household customers who have our trash collection service," said Jes Foster, the city's sanitation division manager. "The city currently does not provide recycling services to businesses โ businesses can subscribe to recycling services through a private hauler."
McDaniel noted that North Carolina regulates some recycling requirements for businesses, especially when a business holds a certain Alcohol Beverage Control Commission on-premise permit. In that case, North Carolina law (General Statute 18B-1006.1) requires them to recycle beverage containers generated on site.
"A statewide disposal ban also applies to these materials," McDaniel said. "ABC on-premise permit holders must submit a recycling plan as part of their annual permit renewals with the ABC Commission."
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Asheville City Council has set its sights on greatly reducing the amount of waste generated โ 50 percent by 2035, McDaniel said.
"Since 2008, the city has reached more than one-third of its carbon reduction goal and 6.9 percent of its waste reduction goal," she said.
Question: It seems the Reems Creek gas line project is complete. Yet something new is being staged. There are now a number of newly installed temporary road signs along Reems Creek Road for about a mile on either side of the bridge. Creepily, each one is shrouded in ominous black plastic. What's being planned now?
My answer: Generally, black plastic is mostly ominous to weeds, but I'll give you some poetic license here.
Real answer: "The covered signs referenced by your reader will identify upcoming resurfacing and maintenance improvement projects scheduled for Reems Creek Road," said Troy Wilson, district engineer with the North Carolina Department of Transportation's Asheville office. "We would expect the work on these projects to be completed by the end of the year. Therefore, the contractor will keep the signs covered until the work zone becomes active and their crews move in to complete the work." | 2019-04-19T20:28:26 | https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/04/11/answer-man-recycling-mandatory-asheville-reems-creek-road-work-coming-up/506516002/ |
0.998859 | I am a parent and need to reset my password.
I am a parent and need to reset my child's password.
If you are a student, please ask your parent to reset your password following the above instructions. | 2019-04-21T10:17:06 | https://sandiego-cv.aopsacademy.org/user/reset-password.php |
0.998224 | "Do you know what date it is today?" Sarah finished her glass of wine and looked over at Harry.
He glanced at his watch before answering. "The fourteenth."
"Hmm." She watched him pour a glass of water and twirled her wine glass round by the stem, trying to decide whether or not to refill it.
He frowned. "Is it important?"
Sighing, she said, "It's the 14th of February. Valentine's Day?"
She could see it dawning on his face. "Oh! That explains why it's so busy in here tonight."
Sarah hid her smile behind her hand. Only Harry could forget something like that.
"Sorry, old girl. There wasn't somewhere else you wanted to be, was there?" He did not ask if she wanted to be with someone else, she noticed.
The waiter arrived with the bill, which she intercepted as he tried to give it to Harry. "And just for that, I'm paying."
"But Valentine's Day means I should pay." He took it out of her hand before she had even looked at it, and kept it on his side of the table. Her shorter arms meant that she could not reach it without getting up, and then she would probably have to rugby tackle him to get at it. Also, Harry already had his wallet out, so she really had no choice but to surrender.
"The only thing I had on tonight," she continued, "was the office single women trip to the pub, which I won't really miss. I certainly don't need a man, no more so on this day." She smiled at him. "Besides, I would have said no if I already had a date."
Harry had already stood up and reached for the coat from the back of her chair. "I'll walk you home."
She stood and let him help her on with her coat. Tonight, she decided, she would let him be the gentleman. He was probably feeling guilty about suggesting dinner on was what supposedly a romantic day. As they walked, she could not help wondering about that, though, and whether he was a better actor than she knew. He had suggested her favourite restaurant for dinner, after all.
She stopped outside her door and turned to him. "Harry, did you really forget the date?"
He smiled. "No." Reaching inside his jacket he pulled out a single red rose and held it out to her.
She took it carefully but discovered it was fake. Which explained how it still looked so good after spending the evening in his pocket.
"Plastic ones last longer," he said, at her look.
She could not help but smile, and considered whether he had set the evening up because he knew she had no-one to be with this year, or whether he had really wanted to spend Valentine's Day with her.
As she thought, and said nothing, she noticed he was fidgeting and looking nervous, as if hoping she had the right reaction. So she told her brain to shut up, and kissed him. | 2019-04-23T22:52:27 | http://www.paranoidangel.me.uk/fanfic/2007/02/02/doctor-who-unromantic/ |
0.999869 | My nomination for the Oscars? Brett Kavanaugh. What an actor, incredible I am amazed stunned at the man's ability. Who ever taught this wannabe actor how to turn on the tears should feel well proud of themselves this morning.
Kavanaugh's act might have fool a fawning, Trump pleasing bunch of sycophants but it did not fool me for a moment. His script sounded like it had been put together by Trump's speech writers. One small but to my mind not insignificant remark was made during Kavanaugh's evidence, the remark in relation to his 'calendar/diaries' he admitted that what the senate was reading might not be quite what he had written in his original entries. The man's fear and determination not to allow the FBI to reopen their files on these accusations speaks volumes.
Some of the republican senators who spoke during really brought home to me just how utterly unhinged that country is. I can well understand why Trump supports Putin, and the North Korean leader it is because American is no different to these countries. America is a pathetic, morally bankrupt country.
My own personal reaction/conclusion to what I watched yesterday is that I want nothing to do with the USA, this means I will no longer buy online through the likes of Amazon, I will avoid bothering myself to watch US movies in other words I will instigate my own boycott of the USA.
Kavanaugh's testimony showed me the sort of person he is because it was about his pain and how he was a compassionate human being eg where he talked about helping a friend after she was assaulted- I did not believe him one bit. I do feel sorry for his wife and children.
The thing is he would have know part of the process being appointed as a Supreme Court Judge would be looking into his past. If it had been more about teenage stupidity and how people lived their lives back then and not serious sexual assaults, he could have got in front of the story years ago and said this is what happened and why. It would have helped progress the #MeToo campaign.
The article mentions the possibility of Roe V Wade being repealed if Kavanaugh gets appointed. It is so annoying that Right Wing Americans talk so much about freedom when it comes to guns and business but when it comes to a woman having a right to do what she wants with her own body the right wing try to make it as difficult as possible.
Kavanaugh's testimony had look of a totally coached performance from start to finish. I would not be surprised if the republicans had called in Hollywood to teach Kavanaugh the art of turning on the tears and how to control them through the use of forcing the tongue into the cheek. Kavanaugh also appeared to be using his speech making experience when he resorted to repeating many of his earlier answers, word for word, to democratic senators even going over irrelevant matters. Kavanaugh knew the chairman would apply the 5 minute rule hard and knowing this spun his answers out to avoid answering the question asked, where have we seen this before? It reminds me of Trump snr writing the response to a committee's question asked of his son or son in law to do with a meeting at Trump tower with Russians.
During his testimony Kavanaugh repeatedly shouted out about how 'he' had wanted the hearing held the next day after Ford's claims had been made public, well sure he would wouldn't he. Having the hearing sooner might have lessened there being the chance other similar claims he knew were lurking in his past coming to the light of day.
One only has to think of how people like Bill Cosby, R Harris and our own J Saville were eventually exposed for the real predators they are and were. For all the reported support from friends of Kavanaugh I felt it would have taken but one comment from a democrat senator on that panel to bring to an abrupt end Kavanaugh's reliance on the idea that all these people casting doubt on how this hard working decent man could possibly ever commit the acts he had been accused of, the question being, 'Was not Bill Cosby looked on as the same sort of respectable hard working man that you have claimed to be through these words of support from your former school friends and the like?'.
Yet where are the hysterical political correcters and "mee too" types (as sponsored by the likes of Soros NGOs) who condemn Kavanaugh -- about whom their basic conclusions could well be right, but about whom they in an "I think, therefore it must be" way offer no solid evidence beyond their own highly intolerant prejudices, semantics and fantasies -- when it comes to concern for almost entire populations of for instance Syria (including females) subjected to vicious attack, murder and enslavement by US/UK associated jihadists, and Yemen (including females) being starved or blitzed to bits by the western political establishment's armed and munitioned Saudi / UAR chums?
A somewhat hypocritically selective sense of (allegedly) "moral" indignation, is it not?
Is this question directed to me Offworld?
Regarding Kavanaugh's appointment to the supreme court, I am glad to have read that just as our governments can appoint more of their mates to the HOL in their attempts to restore their advantage in voting control of that house the senate in the US can, if the democrats gain control, appoint more judges to the supreme court and in doing so neuter Trump's placement of yes men to it.
What the whole Kavanaugh saga has brought home to me is just how unhinged the USA is. Having the likes of Kavanaugh and Leslie Graham sitting as judges in any court is beyond parody. From what I saw of Graham in particular, he is a complete and utter nutcase.
Whilst I didn't have any plans or thoughts about visiting the USA before this series of events I would not now accept a free all expenses paid trip to the country, the place is simply too dangerous.
A couple of things could have seen me change my mind, first if the FBI had been allowed to carry out a serious investigation into the claims of those accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault (including, if thought based on evidence found, a criminal investigation) and second the removal of Graham from the supreme court and his being held in an appropriate hospital till such times as he regained some semblance of sanity.
JLR2 : Is this question directed to me Offworld?
Your doubts about the character of appointees to US governance are entirely justified, and consistent.
It is the Clinton/Soros aligned US political establishment faction's faked concern that is sickening, likewise the selective indignation from its hypocritical puppets in mass-media and politics in the UK and countries of mainland Europe.
The present US regime is also part of that same Establishment. Though they, their rivals and the foreign followers of both sets are engaged in an ongoing wrangle for power and status against each other, all are nonetheless servants and promoters of the Neoliberal/Neocon empire and its globalist agenda.
Beyond superficial spin to ever less convincingly maintain a charade of "democracy", there's really only one economic (and therefore social) model permitted anywhere that's under their control ... basically that of austerity, asset-stripping and so-called "privatisation" ... as for instance the Greeks found, and so will supporters of Corbyn or the SNP however reformist their ambitions.
That draining away of even hope itself is what makes the whole rotten soap-opera so depressing.
Given that ... just what are F-35s, re-labelled US missiles and NATO allegedly supposed to 'defend' us against?
''Leslie Graham'' my mistake, the guy's name is Lindsay Graham.
I am a supporter and member of the SNP. For me, with regards to the SNP, it is about Scotland regaining its Independence beyond that Scotland can vote for whichever colour of political party it chooses. I do not doubt for a moment the likes of Ruth (I'm a Tankie) Davidson finds Scotland has regained its Independence she will put her name forward as a candidate to sit as a Scottish MP in a Scottish parliament.
In the case of Davidson I think she will very quickly adjust her rhetoric when she discovers the Westminster governed remainder of the UK is simply not interested in her moving to a safe Tory seat in England. | 2019-04-19T06:48:44 | https://ouchtoo.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=10300.0 |
0.998992 | James Angelos' The Full Catastrophe: Travels among the New Greek Ruins lays bare the corruption which filtered through all levels of society - from the islanders who pretended to be blind, to the families who forgot to register their parents' death and the doctors who 'earn' just โฌ12,000 a year - yet live in Athens' most exclusive neighbourhood.
It was the rumours of an 'island of the blind' which first bought Angelos, a journalist, to Greece in 2011.
All was not quite how it seemed, however, and it transpired that 61 of the 680 'blind' residents were quite happily driving around the island.
In fact, an astonishing 498 of those 680 were not blind at all - or even partially sighted.
But being 'blind' had its advantages - in particular, the โฌ724 paid in benefits once every two months, and a reduction in utility bills.
'Very big,' came the accurate, but short, reply.
An even closer look revealed, 40,000 pension claims were fraudulent. It seems people were forgetting to register their loved ones' deaths.
It's not that these scams were not known about before, of course.
A Daily Mail investigation in 2011 revealed the subway system was essentially free for the five million residents of Athens - because, with no barriers, it relied on an honesty system which few were honest enough to use.
They were all allowed to declare their own income for tax purposes - and officially, they were only earning โฌ12,000 - or a paltry ยฃ8,500 - a year, below the tax threshold.
Apparently, only 5,000 people admitted to earning more than ยฃ90,000 a year - prompting one economist to describe Greece as a โpoor country full of rich peopleโ.
According to official records, just over 300 homes in Athens' most exclusive neighbourhood had swimming pools, and had paid the resulting tax for such a luxury.
But when the government decided to have a look on Google Earth, it became clear these residents hadn't been totally honest.
In particular, there is the tale of treasury employee Savvas Saltouridis, who used an Uzi submachine gun to murder the mayor of his Greek mountain town in 2009, who remained on the municipal payroll for years afterwards - even though he was languishing in jail.
Angelos, then working for the Wall Street Journal, was told by retired clerk Apostolos Tsiakiris, who took over as mayor after the killing: 'You can't be a murderer and keep getting paid.
But when Angelos suggested punishing those who tried to play the system, he was given a straight forward - if depressing - answer.
'If you start putting people in jail, maybe you'll have to put half of Greece in jail,' an official said.
James Angelos' The Full Catastrophe: Travels among the New Greek Ruins is available to buy on Amazon. | 2019-04-25T18:47:50 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3148451/A-island-pretending-blind-benefits-8-500-pensioners-faked-aged-100-lawyers-claim-earn-just-12-000-New-book-reveals-Greeks-cheated-ruin.html |
0.999949 | What is a Title I Math Teacher?
Parents and education professionals have been hearing a lot about Title I lately. It is taking the school systems by storm, and the government promises that is a good thing for students and American education. Many are still in the dark about what Title I is and how it shapes the world of different academic areas, especially the dynamic and complex subject of mathematics. Here is an overview of what Title I means for math teachers.
It is first important to understand what it means to work for a Title I school overall. Title I is a federal grant that was created in response to the needs of underprivileged children and schools. The amount of funding a school receives is determined by the number of children whose parents sign them up for free or reduced-cost lunch. This gives parents some power over their school resources, and also ensures that the grant remains need-based. Since the grant is aimed at improving the academic performance of every child who struggles, schools that qualify for Title I must follow academic guidelines in order to maintain participation. Generally speaking, the guidelines allow teachers to be more creative in instruction so that they can provide each individual student with his and her unique needs. Below are the guidelines that Title I math teachers must follow.
First and foremost, the creators of Title I understand that while mathematics is pretty cut and dried, each student process the material differently and at a different pace. Some children are visual or auditory learners, while others must learn by doing. Some need bright colors and physical tools, while others need to write it out. Title I, therefore, requires that math teachers create individualized instruction plans. While this sounds like a lot of work at first, Title I makes it easier by providing the classroom resources. It is also important to remember that meeting children where they are helps them to learn faster, saving the time it takes to pull them aside later to review and remediate. The U.S. Department of Education provides detailed background information on the creation of this approach.
The way the world works becomes more digital every day, and the education system is not exempt from that shift. The creators of Title I knew that part of the reason children fell behind academically was due to lack of access to and knowledge about how to use technology. Title I math teachers are therefore required to integrate technology into their pedagogy. As with other Title I guidelines, there is a certain amount of freedom in how they accomplish this task. There are technological resources available for instructing, as well as the administrative tasks of teaching and improving communication with the school, the district, and the parents. A study out of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas investigates the integration of technology in elementary schools.
The creators of Title I understood that students spend only a small portion of their lives inside the classroom. It was important to implement stronger systems outside the classroom to maintain learning and increase progress. Title I teachers must hold regular student conferences to check in on individual learning outcomes and make necessary changes to individualized learning plans. They must also hold regular collaboration meetings with parents. This is especially important in a dynamic subject such as mathematics. Title I also provides funding for after-school programs, which address parentsโ need for after-school care and also provide students with structured homework assistance and extracurricular activities.
These Title I guidelines are structured so as to be evolutionary. Title I provides the funding for teachers to keep up with the ever-changing needs of their students. Title I Math teaches, in particular, are undergoing a vast array of changes, all with the intention of an individual student and districtwide achievement. | 2019-04-23T16:28:57 | https://www.topeducationdegrees.org/faq/what-is-a-title-i-math-teacher/ |
0.998686 | I have read the wiki page, http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebIntents/Home_Discovery_and_Web_Intents, and I think that this is a good tool to get further on the analysis of Web Intents for the Home Network use cases.
A general conclusion from the discussions on this mailing list seems to be that Web Intents is a pure discovery and service selection mechanism only. So, when discovery and user service selection is done any further needed communication between the Client web application and the Service web application is done by some other "persistent" channel than the Web Intents "payload channel".
Option 1: An option with a high level of abstraction which makes it easy for the Web Developer as he/she does not have to know anything about low level communication details but requires the UA to implement the low level protocol, e.g. UPnP needed. This option also seems limited to the pure "view video" use case but I am not sure that I understand what "//communicate with the HN device" means in this context.
Option 2: An option with a lower level of abstraction forcing the web developer to search for a service supporting a specific protocol but does not force the UA to implement specific protocols as this protocol is implemented by the Client web application.
However, looking at option 2 I see no reason why the application developer should have to know about and implement UPnP or similar. We also don't want to restrict the search so that the client application should have to specify the type of discovery and protocol the service uses. The only interest from the Client application is to play a video on a screen selected by the user. So for this use case I see a third option. This relates to earlier discussions at this mailing list on persistent relations between Client web applications and Service web applications. A goal is to make it easy for application developers but still we don't want the UA to have to implement a set of lower level protocols. So, we could instead let the lower level protocol, e.g. UPnP, implementation be done in the Service web application and use a simple high level protocol over the message channel.
This means that the web application code implements the simple "mytvprotocol " and is independent of the details of the TV service. The TV service web application implements the UPnP or similar protocol.
As concluded before this approach means that a set of protocols need to be specified in addition to the core Web Intents specification . Something similar to the Bookmark Introducer protocol example that was specified for the Web Introducer (http://web-send.org/bookmark/).
> topic a bit more in details.
> discussion, I'm sharing it now.
> maybe I can reply to this mail with few questions.
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0.999998 | Could next week see the announcement of the first Samsung Chrome OS netbook? Possibly, according to an invitation sent out this week.
On Wednesday night, Samsung is hosting an event in San Francisco, which the company is touting as a "night of firsts". Somewhat oddly, the event will be held after the conclusion of Google I/O, Google's annual developer conference to be held next week.
"Why: We wish we could tell you the details now, but that wouldn't be any fun," Samsung's invitation said. The company said it would not comment further.
What makes this likely that Samsung could release a Chrome OS netbook? Several reasons. For one thing, Acer and Samsung have already been confirmed by Google as the launch partners for the Chrome OS netbooks, with a mid-2011 release date. Early May falls within that category.
Second, specifications for the first Chrome OS netbook, dubbed the "Alex," have already leaked.
Samsung's netbook is predicted to come with a 1,200-by-800 pixel display that will likely feature a webcam built right above the screen.
The 10-inch netbook will run on a 1.5-GHz dual-core Intel Atom CPU, the N550, which comes as part of Intel's Pineview series of 45-nanometer processors. For the uninitiated, Pineview is both the codename and successor to Intel's first foray into low-power, mobile-themed processors, Diamondville. The former comes under the Pine Trail platform; the latter never really had a platform name, per se, unless you're counting "Atom" itself, which is really the overall brand name for Intel's low-power processor line.
The unknown source claims that the netbook will come equipped with 2 gigabytes of RAM and a Samsung SSD, but no capacity sizes for the drive were revealed in the allegedly leaked information. Verizon has been tipped to be the WLAN supplier for the netbook, although some have said that the Alex will contain a Gobi card for on-the-go network access.
Google also said then that it would have "partner devices" by mid-year.
The Cr-48 netbooks will have to show some improvement before they actually launch, however. While Google implemented "cloud printing" services that allowed them to print remotely, the devices lacked any support for a VPN, which made them nearly unusable in a business environment. The netbook's USB port was also nonfunctional.
Assuming that Google points the way toward additional upgrades in its Android line, it wouldn't be unusual to see additional Galaxy-class tablets or smartphones at the event. At this point, however, we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed. Editor's Note: This story has been updated to clarify the WLAN 3G access status of the Cr-48. | 2019-04-18T22:47:43 | https://www.pcmag.com/news/264157/samsung-chrome-os-netbook-could-appear-next-week |
0.998814 | Why use an Autoresponder? At first glance it's easy to recommend using it to have your email answered when you advertise a product or service. It saves you from having to answer every email personally when all you want at this point is to get the visitor's name and email. The autoresponder takes care of this, sends back a confirmation email and continues with whatever is needed. But of course there are many more opportunities to fully take advantage of the unique features of an autoresponder. Here are some but I am sure that you can find many more by using your creativity. Publish a newsletter.
Your names and emails will be captured, the confirming email sent back and the newsletter mailing will start. Not only will the emails go out at whatever schedule you set up and you should be able also to send a one time broadcast whenever you want. Publish a newsletter just for your affiliates. You would be able to keep them up to date with tips, advice and promotional materials.
This will help you make more money. Create a mailing list so you can let subscribers know when you have something new to offer them in a particular area. It might be a list where you send information on new products, or recommendations you have for new sites, or reviews on various sites or programs: whatever interest those subscribers may have. You wouldn't be sending out follow-ups regularly but just when you want to keep them up to date. Offer an internet marketing course in an area with which you are especially familiar.
Write good content and don't emphasize advertising as you want the subscriber to come to value you as an expert, where he can come to you for advice. Writing articles is an option too. To gauge opinion on your mailings, send out a survey or a contest. Get the subscriber involved. He will become a more valued partner. Add a link page where you should include one or two of your ads.
I'm sure you can come up with many more ideas. This is just to get you started. The more you use them the easier it will be to find new uses. Let me briefly mention that choosing an autoresponder should not be too difficult at first. Possibly your hosting website may have one. I say that because it's not really until later that you will want to compare all the features of various ones so you can fully take advantage of the different features.
Free ones could be a good start until you become more experienced, but there are disadvantages to those because many put other people's ads on your emails or they may not allow you very many leads. But if money is short it's an option and you can research paid ones as you go along. You will then be better prepared to choose. But that is a subject for another time. | 2019-04-24T10:56:27 | http://www.cosmoparty.biz/make_maximum_use_of_your_autoresponder_398646a.html |
0.998989 | 1.In a medium saucepan, cook shredded chicken, barbecue sauce, and diced green chiles over medium heat until heated through.
2.Coat one side of each tortilla with cooking spray. Place tortillas, sprayed sides down, on cutting board or waxed paper. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the cheese over half of each tortilla. Top evenly with shredded chicken mixture. Fold tortillas in half, pressing gently.
3.Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Cook quesadillas, two at a time, in hot skillet over medium heat for 4 to 6 minutes or until light brown, turning once. Remove quesadillas from skillet; place on a baking sheet. Keep warm in a 300 degree F oven. Repeat with remaining quesadillas. To serve, cut each quesadilla into three wedges. Serve with salsa, sour cream, and green onion. Makes 4 servings.
Directions1.Place chicken thighs in a 4- to 5-quart slow cooker. For bouquet garni, cut an 8-inch square from a double thickness of 100 percent cotton cheesecloth. Place thyme, parsley, bay leaves, garlic, and peppercorns in the center of the cheesecloth. Bring up corners of the cheesecloth and tie with 100 percent cotton kitchen string. Add bouquet garni to slow cooker. Pour chicken broth over all. Cover and cook on low-heat setting for 7 to 8 hours or on high-heat setting for 3-1/2 to 4 hours. Remove bouquet garni and discard. Using a slotted spoon, transfer chicken to a large bowl. When chicken is cool enough to handle, remove meat from bones. Using two forks, shred meat. Add enough of the cooking juices to moisten meat. Strain and reserve cooking juices to use for chicken stock. Place 2-cup portions of chicken and chicken stock in separate airtight containers and refrigerate for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months. Makes 6 cups. | 2019-04-19T06:15:18 | http://www.quickneasyrecipes.net/barbecue-chicken-and-cheddar-quesadillas/ |
0.999712 | The comic can't be contained to 22 minutes, but viewers should give him a chance in late night.
Itโs impossible to accurately review an on-the-fly late-night show like FXโs BrandX With Russell Brand after watching the 22-minute first episode (which airs at 11 p.m. Thursdays starting tonight). But one thing is pretty obvious: If you like Brand, youโll love BrandX, but you might be left wanting.
The weekly foray into late night is a welcome idea for FX, but it might have miscalculated on the half-hour length, which seems too truncated for a show of this kind and might be grumblesome to Brand fans.
The question for FX, of course, is what about the people who might have never heard of him or maybe have heard of him only via his ex-wife Katy Perry? What about people who donโt really like him but don't actively loathe him? Selling a personality, especially one as electrified as Brand, is a lot harder than selling a show about something. In this case, Brand is the show.
In some way, then, this review -- endorsement? -- is for people who havenโt made up their minds about Brand and thus are wondering about tuning in to BrandX tonight.
Strip away the movies you might not have liked, strip away the tabloid coverage, etc., and judge Brand on his talent, smarts and humor, which combine into nothing less than a tour de force of brilliance when heโs on -- and he always seems to be on. Comedy is subjective, of course, but BrandX is ostensibly an exercise in Brand riffing on the news (which is why FX couldnโt send out more episodes; it tapes Brand on the road wherever he goes and makes the turnaround almost instant so that weekโs topics are relevant and timely). To watch him riff is what makes him so magnetic. Heโs intelligent without hitting you over the head with it and clearly unafraid to take a subject โ like spirituality, the essence of tonightโs premiere โ and run with it even if his audience might have chosen something more in the pop culture milieu.
He takes the manic energy of Robin Williams and turns it into something more modern, less shtick-heavy, with characters making funny voices (his own voice is funny enough in its high-pitchiness), then straps it to a rocket and hits hyperspace. Sometimes the point or the joke is not what Brand ultimately concludes with; itโs the journey to get there. And in BrandX heโs able to use his being British as a kind of Brother From Another Planet conceit where he tries to understand what Americans are about and into, while also delivering gibes at both cultures. (Brand will use the stoic and serious Matt Stoller, a former Congressional policy adviser and Harvard grad, as โa political, economic and historical consultant.โ) Stoller is less co-host or foil than a guy who takes computer polls, flashes news photos and clips on the screen and is the calm to Brandโs British storm.
BrandX could look completely different in a few weeks -- who knows? -- but the core of the show is Brandโs personality and style, which is unlikely to change, and you can sample it pretty accurately tonight. The premiere is a good start because Brand โ almost against type, or at least what some might think is counterintuitive to his nature โ discusses his visit with the Dalai Lama (and how the tabloids twisted the news of it) and delves very deeply into spirituality and religion.
Itโs not every day that a comedian who is often mistakenly thought of as silly or juvenile by the people who donโt know him can use humor and intelligence to probe that kind of subject (nor is it every day that a comic references Friedrich Nietzsche with an accurate understanding of the philosopherโs beliefs). When the subject looks like it might be getting a little too nebulously conceptual for the audience, Brand wades into the crowd and talks with them. (Part of the setup to BrandX is that there will be insta-polls from the wired audience, written responses to questions, etc., with the room small enough for him to wander around and seek out the people who said interesting -- or bizarre -- things). For example, 92 percent of the audience in the premiere said theyโd want to spend a day with the Dalai Lama, but clearly Brand wanted to understand what the other 8 percent were thinking.
If thereโs a potential flaw in BrandX itโs that the half-hour format could be constraining. Itโs almost impossible to quote Brand because he talks in nearly nonstop, tangential riffs at great speed. The audience interaction part could thus be hindered when a longer discussion might lead to even more focused Brand riffs. But the time just zooms (and his brain works in such a way that when a thought enters his head it seems to zing or pinball around, igniting a multitude of responses that he has to blurt out immediately to keep pace with). Itโs not a trait thatโs easy to wedge into 22 minutes.
Whether you like him or not, thereโs certainly some genius to the man, and with any luck, BrandX will be able to make that clear while making you laugh as well. | 2019-04-22T20:06:51 | https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/review-russell-brand-fx-brandx-343176 |
0.999996 | Who will stop Stephen Harper?
As I watch with alarm Stephen Harper's lead over the Liberals solidify, even as he displays contempt for climate change efforts, and disdain for parliament, I am reminded of Ronald Reagan. What I remember is this: on almost every major issue on which he took a strong public stand, he was opposed by a majority of Americans. But that did not stop them from supporting him, giving him high ratings as President -- and re-electing him.
What explains the contradiction? Americans saw in Reagan a man who, specific policies aside, believed strongly in what he was doing. And conversely, they saw in the Democrats a party of shameless opportunists who would claim to believe in anything if it got them a few extra votes. They were tired of trying to decipher the complexities of the issues, tired of the spin, distrustful of government and the media. Their default position was to go with the guy who seemed to say what he meant and mean what he said. They were looking for someone with principles -- and apparently any principles would do.
If Stephen Harper is Ronald Reagan then Michael Ignatieff seems destined to play the role of Hubert Humphrey or Bill Clinton or Al Gore -- Democrats with infinitely flexible principles and an ethical relativism that has degraded democratic politics in the U.S. The Liberal Party of Canada is the classic party of opportunism whose century of success as the natural governing party was predicated on running from the left with progressive policies, and then governing from the right, with policies designed to favour Bay Street. It worked so long as it was well-executed, and the party maintained internal unity and self discipline.
But now the Liberals are neither united nor disciplined. Paul Martin's ruthless ten year assault on his own party in aid of becoming its leader is still itself playing out in new incarnations of backstabbing and public disputes. So divided by the trench warfare between the two camps that no one within the ranks of party could lead it without being immediately assassinated, they went to the U.S. recruit an outsider with no battle-baggage.
But what they got was a postmodern academic with no convictions that couldn't be trumped by particular circumstance. A human rights advocate who okays torture; a leader whose philosophy dictates that he can't feel strongly about anything -- for whom right and wrong are so intertwined he just can't be sure which is which.
Such a leader may well be incapable of fighting the pitbull ruthlessness of Stephen Harper whose passion for dismantling Canada knows no bounds. Ignatieff's persona is that of the effete snob personally offended by a man who refuses to play by the rules. But he can't adjust and recognize that it is Harper who is now making the rules and thus defining the landscape on which the battle takes place.
To his credit, Ignatieff has had some promising moments in the past few months -- as when he mused aloud about the necessity of (ultimately) raising taxes to deal with the structural deficit. But he didn't have the courage to stick to it and the media and his own party smacked him so hard he almost forgot he'd ever said it. And his messaging on Harper was dead on. He attacked him on the tax issue: "We pay taxes, Mr. Harper, because we're all in this together. It costs us something, but it makes Canada the place it is: a place where we look out for each other." And he revealed the theme on which he should fight the next election: "Stephen Harper ...believes that the only good government is no government at all." He topped it off, at about the time he was going to force an election, with "We can do better" which sounds a bit like "A better world is possible," the theme of the World Social Forums.
Combine these themes -- and all the sub-themes they harbour -- with a campaign using Liberal veterans to tag Harper with all the frightening, anti-Canada statements he has made in the past, and Ignatieff would begin to claw back the ground he has lost in the past two months. And most importantly, he could claw it back from the radical libertarians how running the show, and not the NDP. But these gems come in fits and starts and there is no momentum.
As for the NDP, it, too, is operating well below its potential. The longer Jack Layton is in Ottawa the more trapped he seems to become in the daily obsession with tactics. The NDP will never form the government (Quebec ensures this) and its strength therefore is squandered in this endless search for the perfect tactical maneuver. That game makes sense for the two contending parties but the NDP's strength is its vision (it's got to be there, probably locked up in a back room so it won't provoke anyone).
The NDP has no coherent vision that it is willing to boast about, just a series of disconnected policies, some of them admittedly very good but all of them harnessed to the singular strategy of replacing the Liberals. This is the critical weakness of the NDP -- it has decided that it will present itself as the real government in waiting with Jack Layton as prime minister. This strategy all but destroys any possibility of appealing to Canadians on the basis of a hopeful vision of what the country could be. Inadvertently, the NDP hobbles itself in the contest for hearts and minds.
Instead of boldly contrasting itself with Harper's dystopic vision of the country and the ruination of Canada's international reputation, the NDP attacks the Liberals, acquiesces to policies such as Harper's draconian crime bills, and allows free votes on the long gun registry. Then there is Layton's personal musing about eliminating income taxes for small business (lost revenue: $5 billion a year).
The NDP seems so caught in the minutiae of tactical maneuvering that it cannot see the forest for the trees. The constant opportunist calculations are reducing the NDP to the ethical equivalent of the U.S. Democratic Party (one party fundraiser even referred to the party as the Democratic Party even though the suggested name change was never debated at the party's convention). Their strategy of slowly replacing the Liberals is like slow suicide -- at the end of the process they will of necessity become the Liberals.
Does being bold entail risks? Of course. Could the NDP lose seats in the next election? Yes, but they might anyway -- as they certainly would have done had there been a fall election. Wouldn't it be better to risks seats by being bold and visionary, inspiring Canadians to think big, rather than risk them racing to the bottom with the Liberals assuming Canadians are too dull and unimaginative to reclaim their country?
If neither the Liberals nor the NDP find the courage to present a vision to the country and redefine the political discourse, it is virtually certain that Stephen Harper will be prime minister after the next election. But if even one of them manages, they could save the country.
Toronto trio went off to Harvard to talk Michael Ignatieff into returning to Canada to enter politics, they were looking for a Pierre Trudeau. Instead they found a Robert Stanfield.
The coalition was our coming out to the politics of change. An experience that, of course, has now been stuffed back in the closet behind the old hat. | 2019-04-18T12:18:32 | http://rabble.ca/columnists/2009/12/who-will-stop-stephen-harper |
0.99929 | "What Did Archimedes Do Besides Cry Eureka?" and "Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning." Also I've published research on the logic of identities, an area in which some of the proofs were provided by computer programs.
I finally answered this elementary question: If multiplication distributes over addition (c(a + b) = ca + cb) and exponentiation distributes over multiplication ((ab)^c = a^c b^c) what functions distribute over exponentiation (f(a^b) = f(a)^f(b))? I had hoped to uncover some new exotic functions but showed that only the two functions f(x) = 1 and f(x) = x have that property. Because the proofs use only elementary calculus I published this in the College Mathematics Journal.
I should mention the years I've spent on the 6th edition of my calculus book. All that remains is another proofreading of text and figures. | 2019-04-18T16:29:50 | https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/class-notes?category=1946 |
0.999999 | The following summary of ancient Andean history is taken from: William Sullivan, The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy, and the War Against Time.
Sullivan compares mythical language the world over with the Andean myths and has found an astounding degree of correspondence. Myths, on one level, represent the people's scientific understandings about the movements of the heavenly bodies and their influences on humans, in an age when there was no method of writing. The myths are metaphors that preserve this knowledge so it can be passed down to one's descendants! Using a special shareware software for the computer, called Skyglobe, Sullivan could roll the Andean skies back to any date in the time periods covered by these myths. (Skyglobe is shareware for pcs or Macs running simulated pc.
The ancient Andeans ordered their lives according to what they saw transpiring in the cosmos - as above, so below. Just as other ancient cultures, they seemed to be well aware that events in the heavens are reflected here upon the earth. For over 800 years, from about 200 B.C. to around 650 A.D., the Andean peoples lived in peace, each group or ayllu occupying a particular region, called by archaeologists a vertical archipelago--ranging from the higher slopes straight down into the valley and in some cases to the borders of the Amazon jungle.
The Andeans saw the topography of their beloved mountains as a reflection of the Milky Way's heavenly topography. The shaman/priests became excellent astrologer-astronomers. All over Peru in temples you can see boulders that were selected because one of their surfaces seemed to echo or mirror (in silhouette) the local mountain formations, or they were carved to resemble the topography. Also there are flat-topped boulders (usually black) with carved shallow basins in them--probably for star-gazing, seeing the reflections of the stars in the shallow water poured into these basins.
Before the year 200 B.C., the Andean tribes lived a nomadic or in some cases semi-nomadic lifestyle. Around 200 B.C. the June and December solstice suns started rising and setting in the Milky Way. This 'firing up' of the heavens caused a corresponding ('enlightenment') change in the Andeans' perspective and way of life. Their myths say that the great God Wiraqocha appeared to them and showed them a better way to live. Wiraqocha's cosmic representative was the planet Saturn.
The myths say that before the advent of the primary Andean god, Wiraqocha, the world was dark--there was no light--a metaphor explaining why the nomadic peoples hadn't ever noticed anything special about the lights in the night skies before. A people whose camps changed location nightly due to their wanderings can't really notice certain aspects about the stars in the night sky such as the Milky Way's position at different times of the year and the apparent movement in relation to the horizon of the sun's risings and settings throughout the year. But once people settled in one place, then they could and did notice such things.
The god Wiraqocha is said to have persuaded the people from the Lake Titicaca region in southern Peru/Bolivia (from which he is said to have emerged) all the way north into Ecuador to change their semi-nomadic, matrilineal way of life into an agricultural life with descent reckoned from both male and female lines. (Matrilineal means that although a woman owned the property, her oldest brother controlled her and her children. Not an equitable situation!) For the first time, men and women were considered as equals, although they had traditional differences in their life roles.
Each ayllu (related group living in a vertical archipelago arrangement) traced its lineage to a particular star and region in the Milky Way! Wiraqocha was said to have created these star ancestors and then sent them under the earth to emerge at particular places in the Andes region. So where each star emerged was where its descendents lived in their ayllus. And the people learned the Law of Reciprocity, or ayni, which meant to them that you helped your neighbors, shared and traded, rather than warred upon them. These fixed stars that were their ancestors did not move about and war with each other, therefore, the people should stay put and share!
This pleasant way of life was doomed, however. The people multiplied too fruitfully, putting great strain on the land's resources. Around 600-650 A.D. the shaman/priests became alarmed--they predicted a 'great flood' would upset their way of life! They foresaw it in the behavior of the Milky Way and the solstice suns! And according to the myths from this time period, the god Wiraqocha had to leave the earth and return to the heavens while the gate was still open--while the solstice suns still rose and set in the Milky Way!
For the first time a differentiation of classes of people arose. At first it was warriors and peasants. The Johnny-come-lately warrior class invented their ancestry also in the cosmos, to legitimize their rights to exist as a separate class by claiming their descent from the god Mars! Since Mars wandered in the heavens, the warriors claimed they had the right to wander and to settle wherever they wanted to. They also claimed that in return for their services of defending the peasants, the peasants owed them land and food. A new twist in the Law of Reciprocity!
After a period of shiftings of power as groups warred with each other, an elite class arose who controlled the warriors and peasants by exacting a labor tax or tribute. For another period of a little more than 800 years, this unsettling state of warfare kept the people from experiencing any modicum of peace and settled lives.
Again a change in the stars--and this is when the Inkas rose to power and established a peaceful empire over this whole Andean area of Wiraqocha's influence, claiming Wiraqocha as their ancestor, thus giving them the 'divine right' to take over. But this empire of peace and unprecedented prosperity lasted only about 100 years - one century - until the Spaniards showed up!
How could a mere handful of 250 Spaniards have so easily conquered such a powerful empire of millions of people? Well, it seems that again the shaman/priests foresaw this next pachakuti in the stars! It was inevitable, they felt! The prophecy had been made and there was nothing anyone could do about it!
Even though the Inkas felt there was nothing they could do, they did try to stop time! They used all sorts of rituals and sacrifices to try to stop the linear flow of time. But nothing worked. And then along came the horrible disease of smallpox.
Historians have credited Pizarro's men with having brought smallpox to Peru. But there seems to be some evidence that the smallpox filtered down from the northern parts of South America where it had already made itself felt. It appeared in the Andes before Pizarro arrived in Cuzco.
Huayna Capac, the last Inka, had just sealed his northern borders and was enjoying some R&R in Quito, when he received the news that strangers were approaching. So he went into seclusion and fasting, hoping for a vision that would give him some information about how to deal with these strangers. He had a vision of three dwarfs who told him they came to call him. To him this meant he would die soon. His son and chosen heir then died of the smallpox and Huayna Capac contracted the disease and died. Thus with no proclaimed heir, two other of his sons each declared himself the Inka and civil war broke out over their rival claims.
The shaman-priests of Huarochir๏ฟฝ invented one last myth. It doesn't seem to make much sense when we read it today. It tells of the god Wiroqocha visiting with Huayna Capac and of sending several priest-shamans to fetch one of Wiraqocha's sisters from the world's lower foundation. Various shamans volunteered, a condor shaman, a falcon shaman and a swift shaman. These shamans traveled in the forms of these birds. The swift shaman brought back the sister. Then Wiraqocha drew a line across the world and told Huayna Capac to stand in one part with Wiraqocha's sister, while Wiraqocha would remain in the other part and they would never see each other again. Huayna Capac opened a box that the god had given him and the world lit up with lightning. The Inka said he would never return from the place where Wiraqocha had told him to stand. So the Inka told one of his men to go forth in his stead to Cuzco and proclaim to the strangers that he was Huayna Capac. Then after the Inka died, men adopted the habits of scrambling for political power, claiming, "Me first!" And this is the way that the Spaniards found them.
Sullivan says of this myth, "Part of the charm of this tale lies in its adherence to the irrepressibly buoyant style of all the Huarochir๏ฟฝ myths. Free from the claustrophobic intimation of doom that permeated Inca thought, its power comes from the fact that, more clearly than any other story that has come down to the present, it permits an unobstructed view of the thought processes of the 'classical' school of native Andean mythography."
Using the Skyglobe software, Sullivan played out this myth in astrological terminology. The myth described a conjunction of Saturn (Wiraqocha) and Jupiter (Huayna Capac). Venus (the sister) entered soon after and then Mars (the planetary ruler of war). This series of celestial events must have occurred near the date of the last Inka's demise. Another condition was that the Western Scorpio's tail would have to lie in a particular position (invisible to the shamans, who called this the world's lower foundation).
Sullivan's question was, "Is there any way to 'read' the astronomy of the myth...., other than ....if its characters are understood as planets..." The meaning must be very precise: "first Saturn and Jupiter, then a flash of Venus, then the meeting of the three, then their disappearance, then the reign of Mars." He also had to account for movements of three stars that would represent the three shamans, the condor, the falcon and the swift.
Indeed, on Febuary 1, 1524, such events were observed in the Andean skies. Huayna Capac died the next year, 1525. But a few authorities feel he died in 1527. Sullivan feels that this final myth was created after the Inka's death, but is based upon the shamans' observances of the celestial events of Februray 1 of the previous year.
Of course, there is much more to Sullivan's explanations and of his comparisons of mythologies the world over with astronomical events. This makes for fascinating reading, if one is interested in the connections between astronomy, astrology and mythology.
๏ฟฝ Education: B.A. from Harvard College; doctorate from the Center of American Indian Studies, University of St. Andrews.
๏ฟฝ His work is the subject of the documentary 'The War against Time' produced for European television.
๏ฟฝ One of the world's experts on Inka astronomy and sacred geography.
Potatoes need proper amounts of rainfall at the proper times in their growing cycles. And in the Andean regions, rainfall is seasonal, usually starting in October, but every few years the onset of the rains is delayed by up to several weeks. So how have the Andean potato farmers been able to produce successful crops year after year in spite of the varying rains?
For hundreds of years, the farmers have observed the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, which become visible in the southern hemisphere skies in June. The farmers say that if the Pleiades shine brightly in June, this means that they can start planting their potatoes in October, as there will be adequate rainfall during the critical months of December through February. However, if the Pleiades look dim, then this means that the rains will be several weeks late, so planting is delayed until November.
Three university researchers, Benjamin Orlove, John Chiang and Mark Cane, from UC/Davis and Columbia University, have just discovered the scientific basis for the farmers' predictions! They examined rainfall records and June sightings of the Pleiades from 1962 to 1988. During normal years, the Pleiades looked bright in June, the spuds got planted in October and the rains fell as they should during December through February.
But every two to seven years along comes the phenomenon known as "El Ni๏ฟฝo." This is when the waters of certain areas of the Pacific Ocean warm up more so than usual. This weather-creating 'machine' then changes the normal weather patterns in many parts of the globe. In the Andes during an "El Ni๏ฟฝo" year, the rains are delayed by several weeks. And accompanying an "El Ni๏ฟฝo" pattern are thin cirrus clouds appearing very high in the skies over the Andes--in June! These cirrus clouds cause the Pleiades to appear dim to the naked eye.
So for hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of years, the Andean farmers have used this very reliable sighting of the Pleiades in June to accurately predict when to plant their potatoes!
To read about the three other indigenous Andean tuber crops and their possible value to people the world over, click here. | 2019-04-23T04:47:01 | http://tonebytone.com/hatunkarpay/17.php |
0.999659 | Easter dinners can be heavy and calorie filled, so I decided to make a light and simple yet delicious dessert that everyone would love.
Preheat oven to 359 degrees. Grease cookie sheet.
In a large bowl, with a wire whisk, beat egg whites, sugar and flour until well blended. Beat in melted butter, vanilla and salt until well incorporated.
Make 1-2 cookies at a time: Drop 1 heaping spoonful of batter onto cookie sheet. (do not make more then 1-2 cookies at a time because, after baking, they need to be molded before hardening. I did 1 cookie since the 2 would harden too fast.) With a metal spatula or spoon, spread batter to form and 4-in round. Bake cookies for 5-7 minutes or until golden brown.
Place a glass each with a 2-in diameter bottom (I used the bottom of a champagne flute glass), upside down on work surface. With spatula, quickly lift cookie onto glass and mold into the shape of a tulip or flower. I had to use constant pressure on the cookie until it was completely hardened or the cookie would lose it's shape. Once hardened place cookie in a single layer on bottom on a wire rack.
Repeat this step with the rest of the batter. Store tulips in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
To serve, place tulips on a plate fill with berries and garnish with whipped cream and spearmint sprig.
In a standing mixer whip the cream until stiff. Whip in the sugar until peaks form.
Let sit in the fridge until ready to serve. | 2019-04-26T16:14:11 | http://www.epicureanmom.com/2011/04/tulipes.html |
0.999997 | This X12 drone is a professional drone for rc fans. Just have a look, you will love it. It looks like Mavic but not that expensive. The altitude hold function, letting you have a better flying experience. What's more, Wifi FPV real-time image transmission system and 480P camera can bring you with really beautiful and high definition photos and videos.
480P camera: can capture and record every beautiful and unforgettable moment.
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Q Can you post a sample image taken by the drones camera?
A There is 720P wide angle camera which can take clear pictures.
Q brushless motor or brushed motor?
Q How Can I make order for an additional battery?
Q What resolution does Dron record videos for?
Q I don't have an updated phone, I only get WiFi in my house & certain stores that have free WiFi . Can I Fly the drone without using the phone ? Do I need a cell phone & WiFi to program & calibrate the drone ?
A You can control the drone with the remote controller.
Q Is the video recording only on the phone?
A Feature: Function: Forward/backward, up/down, left/right side-fly, left/right turning, hovering, one key takeoff/landing, headless mode, altitude hold, one key return, Wifi control, photo/video Wifi control: to realize real-time transmission for live video by pairing the mobile app to the drone wifi. One-key taking off/landing: makes the operation more convenient. With one key automatic return function: the plane can find the way home easily. 0.3MP camera: can capture and record every beautiful and unforgettable moment. Altitude hold: provide convenient operation and stable flight, specially for beginners. Headless mode: completely solving pilot loss-of-orientation problems.
Q Are there spare parts, blades and motor mounts available?
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0.999963 | Hace unas semanas tuvimos el placer de realizar una estupenda sesiรณn de fotografรญa boudoir y femenina en un entorno con encanto: el Hotel Arabeluj de Granada. La protagonista fue Raquel, llegada desde Mรกlaga el mismo dรญa de la sesiรณn para realizar su reportaje. Por la maรฑana realizamos nuestro ritual: el cafรฉ para conocernos (que habitualmente nos tomamos unos dรญas antes, pero como Raquel no vive en Granada, nos pusimos al dรญa sobre a marcha) y a continuaciรณn la visita a dos de nuestros establecimientos colaboradores, Anay Lencerรญa y Corsets Granada para la prueba de la lencerรญa y corsets que lucirรญa mรกs tarde nuestra guapa protagonista.
Nos encanta esta parte de la sesiรณn de fotografรญa aunque no pertenezca realmente a ella, pero es una forma de que ya entrรฉis en situaciรณn, de que os visualicรฉis con esas prendas y elijรกis las mรกs cรณmodas y con las que os sentรญs mรกs favorecidas, de ahรญ su importancia.
La sesiรณn de fotografรญa boudoir y femenina de Raquel se llevรณ a cabo por la tarde, como mencionรกbamos antes, en la suite del Hotel Arabeluj, un hotel pequeรฑo, con encanto, situado en el Barranco del Abogado y con unas vistas espectaculares y en el que ademรกs es una delicia cenar o tomar un aperitivo en sus terrazas. Desde aquรญ agradecemos todas las facilidades que nos proporcionรณ el personal del hotel, especialmente Araceli, a la que enviamos un fuerte abrazo.
ยฟPor quรฉ un hotel? Siempre que nos es posible, intentamos buscar localizaciones diferentes y especiales. Ya hemos realizado reportajes en el Hotel Laurel de La Reina, el Cafรฉ Bar Baraka, en la tienda La Montaรฑa Invertida, en el Restaurante Al Andalus Expreso โฆ es un plus que intentamos conseguir en cada sesiรณn porque os veis en un decorado diferente, lo cual os ayuda a veros en otro papel muy diferente al habitual.
Os dejamos con una selecciรณn de la sesiรณn de fotografรญa de Raquel, elegidas por ella. Nosotros nos quedamos con las palabras que nos dedicรณ al despedirse: muchas gracias, me he sentido muy, muy cรณmoda, una experiencia totalmente recomendable. :).
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.Is there store that may look at my Epson printer Near Newport Ky,? | 2019-04-25T07:29:48 | http://bkefotografia.com/2016/02/10/fotografia-boudoir-y-femenina-raquel/ |
0.999145 | A new charter launched by the the learning and skills arm of the TUC will provide assistance for young people and training providers to ensure that the government's new traineeship programme offers young people the best possible introduction to the world of work.
The traineeships programme - which will be launched nationwide this month by unionlearn - is targeted at 16 - to 24 year-olds who are unemployed and who need to gain additional skills to find an apprenticeship or employment.
The TUC agrees with ministers that high-quality work experience is an important factor in helping young people into work. However, The TUC is concerned that poor quality schemes could lead to exploitation, with trainees being used as free labour and possibly even displacing existing workers.
Young people can also become disillusioned with schemes if they are not given relevant high-quality training and work experience or any chance of a job at the end of a placement, warns the TUC.
The TUC has therefore launched its traineeships charter - designed for union reps, but also useful for employers, training providers and young people looking to start a traineeship - that sets out several key points to ensure that a traineeship is high quality.
- Where work of value is done by a trainee, employers should pay them. This will also help prevent trainees displacing existing workers.
- Placements should give young people the skills relevant to their aims and the needs of the local labour market to raise their chances of future employment.
- Trainees should be offered careers guidance and advice on other work-related issues such as health and safety and employment rights.
-Qualifications received on a traineeship should count towards an apprenticeship framework.
Director of unionlearn, Tom Wilson, said: "With nearly a million young people currently out of work, unions believe that more needs to be done to help them get their careers back on track.
"'Traineeships can provide a vital bridge between education and work or an apprenticeship - but only if they are of sufficiently high quality.
"'Bad schemes can exploit trainees and displace existing workers from paid employment without doing anything to help young people into work.
"For a work placement to be genuinely useful it should offer fair pay when work of value is done, proper careers guidance and a guaranteed job interview at the end."
He added: "While the TUC traineeships charter is primarily designed for union reps to negotiate better schemes with employers, it should also be useful for training providers and young people wanting to know what to expect from a good quality work placement." | 2019-04-20T12:51:11 | http://blog.dragonelearning.com/2013/08/tuc-charter-to-help-provide-high.html |
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Specific problem solving approaches depend on the task the child has to solve. However, there are general thinking strategies to help students learn efficiently in the classroom. | 2019-04-24T22:30:40 | http://do2learn.com/disabilities/FASDtoolbox/learning_strategies/problem_solving/teaching_problem_solving/overview.htm |
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I know that the best solution to make this work would be to validate/sanitize the CSS against a whitelist - but this requires implementing a CSS parser and producing/maintaining a whitelist of properties. Would a blacklist of properties / patterns be feasible? (I'm aware of the relative merits of whitelisting/blacklisting - but it's somewhat skewed here in that there should only be a finite number of attack vectors).
Just to clarify, since the content editors should to some extent be trusted, mitigation of attacks might be a more pragmatic solution than prevention.
Also, just found a specific example in CVE-2011-0232, although I'm more interested in cases where there is not an intrinsic vulnerability in an implementation, but rather a design flaw.
Basically, every downloadable resource (image, font, ...) can take the visitors network capacity and can be used to run CSRF attacks, spy on visitors or run DDOS attacks on smaller websites.
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How dangerous is it to use CSS styles from an untrusted source? | 2019-04-25T22:05:31 | https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/37832/css-based-attacks |
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Upon the perceived struggle the industry was undergoing, some firms like WAICA Reinsurance Corporation Plc., as according to media reports of July this year, said through its Chairman, Kofi Duffuor, that it recorded a gross premium of $62.5milion in its 2017 financial year, from the $49.2 million in 2016. The Continental Reinsurance Plc. was not left out.
Through its chairman, Ajibola Ogunshola, the group reiterated (while presenting the companyโs 2017 financial report during its 31st annual general meeting in Lagos) commitment to rewarding mouthwatering returns to its shareholders through incessant dividend payment. It was observed that the groupโs gross premium income grew by 32 per cent from N22.4billion in 2016 to N29.6billion in 2017. As according to news report, the company which covers business from Lagos, Douala, Abidjan, Tunis, and in short around 50 countries, contributed N20.3billion of the groupโs premium, representing 68 per cent, while the subsidiaries contributed N9.2billion, representing 32 per cent.
Meanwhile, the group did not rule out that there were stiff competitions in the re/insurance sector but this has only made them to grow stronger. This view was contained in a statement by the Group Managing Director of Continental Re, Dr. Olufemi Oyetunji.
Notwithstanding, A.M. Best later expressed optimism that insurers in Nigeria were maintaining between 25 per cent and 40 per cent of the countryโs oil and gas related business, as against less than five percent that was the case before 2010 legislation. In a nutshell, the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) said it was collaborating with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to guarantee compliance with relevant provisions of the Nigeria Oil & Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010, and other laws relating to insurance.
Investigation revealed that the guideline on oil and gas insurance was issued by the Commission pursuant to the provisions of Section 50 of the Nigeria Oil & Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010, the Insurance Act 2003 and the National Insurance Commission Act 1997, for the purpose of establishing uniform set of rules, regulations and standards for contracts of insurance within the Oil & Gas industry in Nigeria. According to reports, NAICOM explained that the guideline was intended to facilitate compliance with the Nigeria Oil & Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010 as well as ensure value-added service(s) within the context of the Insurance Act 2003 and the National Insurance Commission Act 1997. Kari gave hope that NAICOM was underway to fashion how local insurance firms do their business in order to foster them control insurance business in the country.
There were factors that had culminated to the losses that the reinsurance market had experienced in Nigeria.
Analysts clamoured that the world watched with baked breath when six banks ended red as against three in the green category this year. They said that Continental Reinsurance Plc in April led other stocks to drag Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and All Share Index (ASI) (commonly coined as NSEASI) 0.12% lower.
Experts added that the banking sector was most hit by the move which took place precisely on April 23 and NSEASI shed 50.96 points that day, rounding up at 40,763.93 points, which is 0.12% below the previous 40,814.89 points.
But early September, the media reported that Consolidated Hallmark Insurance led 17 other gainers despite market decline of 0.03%. Being one on the gainers chart, Consolidated Hallmark Insurance led other percentage gainers closing 10.00% above the previous close of N0.30 to settle at N0.33.
AIICO Insurance grew 9.76%; Continental Reinsurance and NPF Microfinance Bank gained 9.49% and 8.97% of their share prices ahead of other stocks on the gainersโ chart.
In the same vein, checks revealed that Q2 2018, Continental Reinsurance Plc. had confirmed its growth momentum reporting a gross earning N19.3billion which was 27% higher than N15.2billion reported in same period 2017.
It had been ups and downs experience in the insurance sector and stakeholders believed that the industry needed swift attention due to negative reserves that were recorded in a report, quarter of the year.
Indicating crisis, there were twenty nine insurance companies that had negative reserves. This was disclosed in a report by the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA).
It was observed in 2016 Nigeria Insurance Digest, as according to NIA, that N93.15 billion were posted in 2016 as negative reserves. This was even as the report went further to state that 15 Non Life operators posted N51.79 billion, while 14 Life operators posted N41.36 billion.
Not pleased with the development, the Managing Director Lancelot Ventures Limited, Adebayo Adeleke, who is also regarded as a well-known member of Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria (ISAN), frowned that 29 firms represented half of numbers of firms in the industry and if they had such negative reserves challenge, it meant the industry was heading to the rocks.
Adelekeโs definition of negative reserves was that it showed shareholdersโ funds had gone down, indicating that firms were not smiling to banks. He thoroughly advised that NAICOM should beam its light on how firms operate and where any is found wanton; it should be encouraged to merge with strong firms before a fall.
Geared towards reinvigorating the industry, checks revealed that NAICOM wrote what was called administrative letter to insurance companies that were undergoing financial challenges.
A commentator noted on that, โLate last year, it was reported that 12 insurance companies urgently need to shore up their shareholdersโ funds in 2018 to enable them play comfortably well in the highly competitive underwriting business.
This might be one of the reasons Continental Reinsurance Plc. organised its fifth Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) on reinsurance April this year dubbed โInsurance and adaptation in the face of technological change in Africaโ in Swakopmund, Namibia, where no fewer than 100 insurance chief executives and regulators were in attendance.
Speaking at the event, Dr. Oyetunji noted that for the industry to fully optimize, players need to adopt technology in all processes to help drive penetration. Historically, the insurance industry has been slow to adopt technology compared with other sectors and this is stifling its growth.
Itโs hoped that stakeholders would hearken to the statement to make the industry hitch-free in Nigeria and by extension, across Africa. | 2019-04-19T08:17:14 | https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/272899/nigerias-reinsurance-market-moving-on-despite-losses.html |
0.999759 | Although no one has yet asked the question, could Tesla CEO Elon Musk have been pushed by competition to announce a firm deacadline for self-driving capability in its electric car lineup?
Until now, Musk has managed to keep Tesla's self-driving vehicle plans vague. He did announce earlier this year that the electric carmaker would have self-driving or semi-autonomous-driving capability in its vehicles. However, Musk managed to keep the public in the dark regarding a firm date on the delivery of semi-autonomous-driving capability to its models.
That was before Nissan announced that it would have semi-autonomous-driving capability in three model years and GM's announcement that it was planning to have semi-autonomous-driving capability in the Cadillac CTS for the 2017 model year.
Though no one is saying so, it seems rather coincidental that Musk's announcement comes on the heels of GM's announcement of semi-autonomous-capability and after Nissan's firm deadline, as well.
Musk told the Nikkei Asian Review that Tesla would have semi-autopilot-technology in its products within three years. He predicted the full "autopilot" โ Musk's term for self-drive โ would be in five to six years.
Also, as noted by MSN Autos, where reports of Review interview appeared, Tesla's planning has called for the launch of its lowest-priced model, the Model 3 sedan at the same time as its "autopilot" technology is launched. MSN Autos speculated that the Model 3 will probably be offered with self-driving capability at its launch.
The Model 3 is set to be Tesla's lowest-price vehicle. With a $35,000 pricetag, the Model 3 is aimed at the mainstream sedan market. It will also travel 200 mpc (miles per charge).
Until this report, it has been speculated that Tesla will build its self-drive system itself. Musk, however, dispelled that notion when he told the Asian Review that Tesla will handle the programming piece while it sources the sensors and sub-components from many sources.
Musk also told the Nikkei Asian Review that he expects all Tesla models will ultimately have self-drive capability. | 2019-04-24T12:38:10 | https://www.auto-types.com/autonews/tesla-to-havae-self-drive-in-three-years-12072.html |
0.999999 | The passage below has been adapted from an article by Clive Cookson and was originally published in the Financial Times, July 2012.
Craig Venter, king of the genome, has been uncharacteristically quiet for a couple of years since his laboratory created the worldโs first synthetic life form, a microbe whose genes were made entirely from inanimate chemicals. Some critics downplayed Venterโs achievement in 2010 because he did not make a novel form of life. The project was a technical tour de force, a demonstration that scientists could move on from reading to writing genes, but it reproduced an existing microbe called Mycoplasma mycoides, with just a few โwatermarkingโ additions to distinguish its DNA from the natural bacterium.
The passage below has been adapted from an article published on http://www.euractiv.com on 4th July 2012.
Jean Quatremer, a renowned French political journalist from the daily Libรฉration, complained about the official press statements accompanying the Commissionโs economic recommendations to member states, published on 30 May.
The statements, eagerly awaited by the press because of the euro debt crisis, were initially made available to journalists in English only, with translations in other languages following hours later in the day.
This, Quatremer said, gave the Anglo-Saxon press an โincredible competitive advantageโ over others.โCan you govern a eurozone, which numbers 330 million citizens, in a language which is only spoken by less than five million Irish? โฆ Well, that is what the European Commission claims to do,โ Quatremer wrote in a strongly-worded blog post.
Commission spokesman Olivier Bailly said he understood the frustration but urged Quatremer to โaccept itโ since English had become the most widely spoken language in the EU Executive.
The documents, Bailly argued, were translated within a few hours into the other EU working languages (French and German) and within two days for the remaining 20 official languages.
Quatremer is not isolated in his quest for more linguisitc balance within the EU institutions. Jean-Pierre de Launoit, President of the โAlliance Franรงaiseโ, a public association promoting the French language and culture worldwide, said he has long sought to promote linguistic diversity within the European institutions. โOur struggle lies in the defence of multilingualism and the use of French whenever possibleโ in the EU institutions, he said.
Dennis Abbott, Commission spokesman for education, culture and multilingualism, argued that the translation delays on May 30th were due to some last-minute changes to the documents, made during the meeting of the College of Commissioners that took place the same day. In total, 66 documents required translation, representing 10,500 pages or 450 pages per language for the Commissionโs translation services. All were translated within the set deadline, Abbott told EurActiv in emailed comments.
Anticipating the Commissionโs response, Quatremer wrote that he did not wish for all documents to be translated immediately into French, but at least the report concerning France.
The Commission estimates that translating its more than two million documents yearly costs the European taxpayer 60 cents per person, which is often referred to as โthe cost of democracyโ.
The passage below is an adaptation of an article by journalist, Julian Norman, published in The Guardian in June 2012.
Seaweed. Marmite. No, egg whites. Or maybe grilled chicken. Actually, hang on, try a handful of unsalted nuts. No bread though. Bread is poison.
The craving ravings of pregnancy? The menu requirements of a capricious Islington four-year-old? No, itโs the food recommendations of the last month from Closer magazine, which urge us to step away from the carbs and into a happy bubble of seaweed-eating. A New You in which itโs possible to leave behind your sad, lonely bread habit and step into a revitalised Beach Body, achieved through the medium of wakame salads and yoga. I discovered this while on a bus one rainy Thursday afternoon. My inclination to get off and walk was minimal and some kind fellow-traveller had left a copy of the magazine behind. I opened it, and began flicking through. I had no idea who the featured celebrities were, so it was rather like reading someoneโs banal telephone conversation. Almost all of the stories could be boiled down to 140 characters, so I began to tweet it with the hashtag #Closer. Kerry is a size 10โ12 and so she had weight loss surgery. Now sheโs โecstatic with her new bodyโ was a typical tweet. Taken together, they are a fabulous collection of absurdism.
There is a serious point in among the whimsy, though: stories are not actually about the celebrities. They can be categorised into roughly three groups: bodies, food and relationships. In bodies, we learn that the ideal size to be is an 8. Women who fall below that size are said to be โgauntโ, and are usually mourning the end of a relationship. A 10 is acceptable but usually prefaced with the word โcurvyโ. Women who are over that size will be dieting, and we will get a run-down of their meal plans, or indeed whether theyโre eating at all. If they are over a size 12, then their โpalsโ are quoted, gleefully telling of how the woman in question cries every night over her size, or is disgusted with herself.
Bodies intersect neatly with food. Carbohydrates are generally considered a bad thing, and menu recommendations inevitably focus on grilled fish or chicken with vegetables or salad. Then there will be one food item which creeps in several times per issue, being hyped either by celebrities or by the magazine itself, the magic weight loss food which will attain you that desirable size 8 figure. It was seaweed in the first issue, Marmite in the next.
Is musical talent down to nature or nurture? Prof Steven Frucht is determined to find out what makes a true musician. What is the ineffable thing that marries the notes in a musicianโs head with the ability to translate that into great music flawlessly and in a way that others can only admire?
The relationship between the brain and music has fascinated Steven Frucht, professor of neurology at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York and an accomplished violinist himself. Most music lovers are aware that musical talent seems to run in families, but many attribute that to the environment in which a musician is raised and the incentive to practise.
He came to the subject through his work helping musicians with the potentially career-threatening disorder called focal dystonia, also known as musiciansโ dystonia. It afflicts musicians who use their hands repetitively in very complicated arrangements and is a neurological condition which can be crippling. He helps them with treatments which include, unusually, botox.
Frucht says great musicians operate at the โouter limits of what human motor control can do with speed and dexterityโ. Such musicians have motor controllability which is well beyond the 99 per cent percentile of what most people are capable of doing.
The passage below is an extract from โShort-term outcome of painful bone marrow oedema of the knee following oral treatment with iloprost or tramadol: results of an exploratory phase II study of 41 patientsโ, by M.E. Mayerhoefer et al. originally published in Rheumatology (2007) 46 (9).
It was the goal of this study to compare the effect of oral treatment with the vasoactive iloprost to the effect of symptomatic treatment with tramadol, with regard to the outcome of painful isolated BME of the knee. While we were able to exclude all causes for reactive BME, and also a history of trauma suggesting mechanical BME, we were not able to reliably exclude minor to moderate axis deviations compatible with mechanical BME, because only standard antero-posterior and lateral radiographs of the knee joint, but no long radiographs of the entire lower limb, were available. Therefore, the BME observed in our patient population was regarded as either ischaemic or mechanical.
In recent studies, iloprost, which is currently registered for the intravenous therapy of peripheral arterial occlusive disease, thrombangiitis obliterans and Raynaudโs phenomenon, has been presented as an effective novel approach for the management of BME. Iloprost inhibits platelet and leucocyte activation, induces vasodilatation, counteracts vasospasm, protects the endothelium and reduces vessel wall permeability. Because it is believed that the main factors responsible for the development of BME are thrombo-, fat- and air-embolization, obstruction of venous and pre-capillary drainage or elevated venous pressure and decreased arterial perfusion, vessel wall injuries and decreased fibrinolysis, iloprost may represent a truly causative treatment option. | 2019-04-25T10:50:15 | http://www.gamsatsamplequestions.co.uk/category/journal-newspaper-articles/ |
0.994235 | Finding the perfect photo whether for print or online requires thoughtful deliberation over each image's attributes. But there is one fundamental distinction that needs to be addressed before thinking about which photo has the better lighting or most attractive model. Perhaps the most important way to categorize content is to determine whether it's editorial or a piece of advertising.
But just because the categories appear straightforward, doesn't mean it's always easy to understand which you fall under, and how that impacts your image usage. Missteps in image licensing have launched plenty of legal actions when an unsuspecting person suddenly finds their face in an ad for a company or a cause they don't agree with.
To start breaking down this complex topic, let's start with the basics: What is the difference between editorial and advertising content?
Editorial content typically falls into what most people would consider "news." Images that appear in editorial content are almost always there to help illustrate the topic of the story. For example, articles about celebrities often use stock photos of those famous faces to help connect the reader with the person or people they're writing about. But editorial use isn't limited to newspapers and magazines. Non-fiction books, documentaries, and other newsworthy publications all fall under editorial use guidelines. Likewise, editorial images can also be used for educational purposes, like in textbooks or presentations. The key differentiator here is that editorial images are used to lend credibility to the story, and they are not being used to sell anything.
Even with these narrow editorial standards, there's still leeway for creativity in photo selection. Let's say a publication is writing a review of the new Nicole Kidman movie Queen of the Desert. To accompany the review, the publication could use a still photo from the movie. But they also have the option to use a standalone photo of Kidman from a recent film festival or press event, like the one below.
Even though this image doesn't show the actual movie being reviewed, it serves to illustrate the lead actress, and connects readers with the names in the article. Because of this, it still meets editorial-use criteria.
Understanding what counts as advertising or commercial content is typically easiest when phrased as "anything that's not editorial." The commercial realm covers everything that is trying to promote, sell, or otherwise market something. So it's obvious that print ads, infomercials, and sales brochures count as commercial use. But commercial use goes far beyond just advertisements. Does your company have a blog that helps promote your products and services? That's commercial. Creating a cover photo for your company's Facebook page? That's commercial, too. And these rules apply equally whether your business operates as a for-profit or nonprofit.
The core difference in commercial photos is that the people shown in the image have signed a release form that legally allows their likeness to be shown in a commercial context, unlike celebrities or passersby being photographed (sometimes without their knowledge) at public events.
Once you've identified whether your content is editorial or commercial, Shutterstock makes it easy to find the photos that meet your needs. Search by topic or subject to find the image you need. Then, use the "Refine Your Search" link to select whether you want to see Editorial or Non-Editorial (Commercial) images. This ensures you'll find a photo with the proper licensing available for your usage.
Need help finding editorial or commercial images? Shutterstock Premier offers personalized research assistance to save your team time and effort. | 2019-04-18T11:17:01 | https://premier.shutterstock.com/resources/editorial-vs-advertising |
0.999982 | Leviticus requires covering the blood of undomesticated animals; Deuteronomy requires pouring out the blood of slaughtered domesticated animals onto the ground. How do these laws jibe with each other? The Essenes have one answer, the rabbis another, the academics a third.
According to halacha, an animal is slaughtered by cutting through its trachea and esophagus, severing the carotid arteries and the jugular veins. This causes a massive amount of blood-loss, and the heart continues to pump the blood for a short time before the animal dies from exsanguination.
ืืฉืืื ืืื ืื ืขืืฃ ืฆืจืื ืืืกืืช ืืื, ืืื ืฆืื ืขืชื ืืื ืฉืืื ืืืืื ืื ืืืื.
One who slaughters an undomesticated animal (ืืื) or a fowl must cover its blood, whether they were obtained through hunting or whether he already had them in captivity.
17:13 And if any Israelite or any stranger who resides among them hunts down an undomesticated animal or a bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. 17:14 For the life of all fleshโits blood is its life. Therefore, I say to the Israelite people: You shall not partake of the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Anyone who partakes of it shall be cut off.
According to this formulation, the blood of undomesticated animals and (all?) birds must be poured out and covered with dirt.
12:15 But whenever you desire, you may slaughter and eat meat in any of your settlements, according to the blessing that Yhwh your God has granted you. The unclean and the clean alike may partake of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. 12:16 But you must not partake of the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
12:22 Eat it, however, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten: the unclean may eat it together with the clean. 12:23 But make sure that you do not partake of the blood; for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the life with the flesh. 12:24 You must not partake of it; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
15:22 Eat it in your settlements, the unclean among you no less than the clean, just like (you do) the gazelle and the deer. 15:23 Only you must not partake of its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
In all three cases, Deuteronomy simply says, โpour the blood out like water,โ with no mention of a requirement to cover it. Thus, Deuteronomy seems to say that for domesticated animals, it is sufficient to pour out the blood on the ground, with no further requirements.
The Problem: Not Quite โLike the Gazelle and the Deerโ!
The simple division of Leviticus as the rule for undomesticated animals and Deuteronomy as the rule for domesticated animals is belied by the thrice repeated phrase โlike the gazelle and the deer.โ Deuteronomy unequivocally draws a parallel between domesticated and undomesticated animals in all three instances of the consumption-of-meat rule, stating that domesticated animals may be consumed freely, even by the ritually unclean (ืืื), just as gazelle and deer are. This implies that the rules involving both types of meatโdomesticated and undomesticatedโare identical, including the rule about how to dispose of the blood.
Thus, the simple reading of Deuteronomy yields the rule that all blood needs to be poured out, but none need be covered with dirt. This would put Deuteronomy in conflict with Leviticus.
A traditional response would be that of course, Deuteronomy envisions covering of blood for undomesticated animals, just as Leviticus states, but that it simply doesnโt mention it, taking the readerโs knowledge of Leviticus for granted. (It is worth noting, however, that this is an assumption with no basis in the text of Deuteronomy.) Even so, the problem of the parallel remains. This problem led to two different solutions during the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods.
ืืฉืขืจืืื ืชืืืื ื ืืืื ืืืืืจ ืืื ืืืืื ื[ืฆ]ืื ืืืืื ืจืง ืืื ืื ืชืืืื ืขื ืืืจืฅ ืชืฉืืคืื ื ืืืื ืืืกืืชื ืืขืคืจ.
ืืืืืชื ืืฉืขืจืืื ืืืืืืจ ืืืืื ืืื ืืืืื ืืฆืื ืืืืื, ืจืง ืืืง ืืืืชื ืืืื ืืื ืขื ืืืจืฅ ืชืฉืืคืื ื ืืืื ืืืกืืชื ืืขืคืจ ืื ืืื ืืื ืื ืคืฉ ืืื ืชืืืื ืืช ืื ืคืฉ ืขื ืืืฉืจ.
Thus, according to the Temple Scroll, the blood of all slaughtered animalsโdomesticated and undomesticated alikeโmust be covered.
Unlike the Qumran solution, the rabbis assume that Leviticus and Deuteronomy are speaking of two different cases. The parallel suggested by Deuteronomy, in the rabbisโ view, does not extend to the rules of what to do with the blood. Instead, the parallel is meant to teach other things. Moreover, it should be noted that Deuteronomy never actually says that domesticated animals are parallel to undomesticated animals with regard to blood laws, so the rabbis have room to deny this implication.
ืืืจ ืืื ืืขืงื ืืื ืื ืืจืื: ืงืืืื ืื ืืื ืืืื ืืืื ืืกืืื ืื, ืืืื ื ืื ืืืื ืืืื ืืื ืืืกืื!
ืืืจ ืืื: ืขืืื ืืืจ ืงืจื ืขื ืืืจืฅ ืชืฉืคืื ื ืืืื โ ืื ืืื ืื ืืขื ืืกืื, ืืฃ ืืื ื ืื ืื ืืขื ืืกืื.
[Rava] responded to him: โIt is in response to you that scripture states: โpour it on the ground like water.โ Just as water does not need to be covered, neither does this (=the blood of domesticated animals) need to be covered.
As traditional readers of the Torah, both men take for granted that the blood of undomesticated animals must be covered, since Leviticus says so explicitly. The question is whether Deuteronomyโs law about pouring out the blood of domesticated animals includes an implied provision to cover its blood as well.
Like the position taken in the Temple Scroll, the sectarian Jacob suggests that Deuteronomy believes that the blood of domesticated animals must be covered; that is why it suggests the parallel with undomesticated animals. Ravah, however, denies that this is the intention of the parallel and counters this argument with a derasha on the words โlike water.โ He claims that Deuteronomy is telling us not to apply the parallel between undomesticated and domesticated animals to the blood rules, but rather the blood of domesticated animals should be treated like water spilled on the ground, which need not be covered.
Thus, according to rabbinic tradition, with which we opened, reading Deuteronomy in light of Leviticus yields the halacha in which the blood of undomesticated animals needs to be covered, whereas the blood of domesticated animals need not be.
Why does the blood of non-domesticated animals (and fowl) need to be covered? Both traditional and modern commentators have suggested a number of explanations.
โAnd cover it with earthโ โ for then it wonโt be fit for consumption.
โYou must not partake of the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like waterโ โ treat it in such a way that it will not be eatable, which means to poor it on the ground like water, and not to store it the way people store wine, oil, or other liquids intended for consumption.
ืื ืืฆืื ืฆืื. ืืืืืช ืืงืื ืืฆืื ืขื ืืจืื ืฉืืื ืืืืื ืืืืฆื ืฉื ืฉืืืโฆ ืืกืจ ืืื ืื ืฉื ืื ืืืืื ืืฆืื ืืืกืืชื ืืขืคืจ ืืืกืืจ ืืื ืช ืืืฆื ืืฉืืื ืฉื.
โWho hunts down an animalโ โ since hunting grounds are generally empty and thus available for the habitation of demonsโฆ [the Torah] forbids leaving blood exposed there and commands us to cover it in dirt to remove the easy access to demons would have to it there.
Seforno does not explain what the demons would be able to do with the blood here, although in his gloss on 17:7 he notes that the life force (ื ืคืฉ) found in the blood provides demons with their required nourishment.
The great academic Leviticus scholar, Jacob Milgrom, offers a variation on this interpretation in his commentary. Although he does not explicitly mention demons, Milgrom suggests that the Torah wants to make sure that blood will not be used in โchthonicโ divination rites.
Rashbam does not explain why the Torah should waive the requirement to cover the blood of domesticated animals; their blood is no less prohibited than that of undomesticated animals.
Sefornoโs explanation is more satisfactory in this regard, and is based on the mention of demons in 17:7. Nevertheless, the Torah does not explicitly connect the blood rite with the demons; it merely states that by offering all slaughtered domesticated animals as sacrifices to God the Israelites will no longer have the opportunity to sacrifice to demons. In fact, the covering of blood in Leviticus relates only to undomesticated animals, and these are not sacrificed to God. Similarly, Sefornoโs attempt to connect the habitat of wild animals with demons seems strained, since, if anything, Leviticus connects the slaughter of domesticated sacrificial animals with them, not hunted animals.
One of the most important and helpful features of academic biblical scholarship has been to demonstrate that the various law collections in the Torah were originally separate collections. They were not originally meant to be read together as a unit, and even though one may responding to the other in certain cases, each law must be understood independently, without recourse to laws from any of the other collections. Once we apply this insightโreading each law independently of the othersโthe meaning of each text becomes clear.
Since all domesticated animals must be sacrificed, their blood will inevitably be poured on the altar by the priests. The only case Leviticus can envision in which a non-priest will slaughter an animal is when the person goes hunting for undomesticated animals. In such a case, Leviticus explicitly requires that the blood be poured out and then covered in dirt.
Unlike Leviticus, Deuteronomy assumes that most domesticated animals will be slaughtered by regular people (non-priests) outside of the Temple precinct. For that reason, Deuteronomy must legislate what to do with blood for both domesticated and undomesticated animals. Both types of non-sacrificial animals share the same law: their blood must be poured out upon the ground like water. Deuteronomy is not familiar with the institution of covering blood with dirt or may even be polemicizing against it.
Leviticus has a law about blood that Deuteronomy does not have: although both works forbid the consumption of blood, only Leviticus requires that blood not otherwise used in sacrificial rituals must be covered. For Deuteronomy, pouring out the blood solves the authorโs main concern, i.e., that people might consume it. Pouring it upon the ground resolves that concern. For Leviticus, however, something more is required.
I do not believe Leviticus simply wishes to make it harder for people to eat the blood. Rather, it appears to me that burial is meant as a sign of respect for life. More than once in this chapter, Leviticus states that the blood is the life force (ื ืคืฉ) and that this is why Israelites and non-Israelites are forbidden to consume it (v. 12), why it can atone for Israelโs sins when offered as a sacrifice (v. 11), and why it must be covered (vv. 13-14). Just as people are buried, blood is buried; leaving the blood out, exposed to the elements and to wild animals, shows disrespect.
Translation of biblical verses in this piece follow the NJPS with some modifications. All other translations are mine.
It is uncertain if the Temple Scroll originated with this sect, or was more broadly known, and originated outside of the sect.
ืืืจ ืจื ืืจื ืืจืื ืืจื ืืื ื: ืื ืืืืจ ืืื ืืืชืื ืืื ืืฆืื ืืืืื, ืื ืฆืื ืืืื ืืื ืคืืืื, ืืฃ ืคืกืืื ืืืืงืืฉืื ืืื ืคืืืื.
ืืฆืื ืืืืื โ ืื ืฆืื ืืืื ืืืชืจ ืืขืืืื ืืืืืื, ืืฃ ืคืกืืืื โ ืืืชืจ ืืขืืืื ืืืืืื. ืืืืื โ ืชืืชื ืฆืื ืืืื ืืชืืื, ืื โ ืืืืจืื ืืฆืืง, (ืืื โ ืืืืจโ) [ืืจโ] ืืืฉืขืื, ืืื โ ืืืืจืื ืืืขืืจ ืืงืคืจ. ืืืืื โ ืื ืฆืื ืืืื ืคืืืจืื ืื ืืืืืจื, ืืฃ ืคืกืืื ืืืืงืืฉืื โ ืคืืืจืื ืื ืืืืืจื.
I will only touch on a few in this piece. For a survey of seven different reasons and a discussion of their merits and weaknesses, see Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus 17-22 (Anchor Bible; New Haven: Yale University Press, 200), 1481-1483.
See his commentary ad loc. (p. 1483); see also his excursus on chthonic rites in the Bible, pp. 1490-1493. Unlike Seforno, however, whom Milgrom does not quote, Milgromโs version of the divination theory does not offer a way to distinguish between the laws for domesticated and undomesticated animals.
This is due to Deuteronomyโs revolutionary conception of one centralized Temple. If only one Temple exists, then it will be far too difficult for most people to come and have an animal sacrificed every time they wish to eat meat.
In his Olam HaTanach commentary on Deuteronomy 12:16, Prof. Gershon Galil suggests that the differences between pouring the blood on the ground and covering it with earth are minimal, since the blood will mix into the dirt anyway. He points out that both texts are contrasting their own suggestions with the illegitimate practice of pouring the blood on stones, pictured in Ezekiel 24:7, where the blood would remain exposed. This may be true on a practical level, but I would argue that if covering was important enough for Leviticus to legislate, covering verses non-covering is at the very least a subjectively significant distinction.
Baruch Levine and Baruch Schwartz call the covering law in Leviticus an โadded stricture (ืืืืจื ื ืืกืคืช),โ since it would already be uneatable once it hit the ground (Olam Hatanach, Leviticus 17:13).
Deuteronomy 12:23 makes the same claim, even though it does not require covering the blood. Some scholars believe that 12:23aฮฒ-b may actually be a Priestly redaction in D. This possibility is buttressed by the repetition of the phrase ืื ืชืืืื ื, which may be an example of a resumptive repetition (Wiederaufnahme) following a redactional insertion. | 2019-04-23T14:04:45 | http://thetorah.com/covering-the-blood-of-wild-animals/ |
0.997414 | There is a growing chorus surrounding the topic of stock buybacks and whether they should be banned. Most recently, Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders wrote a piece for the New York Times arguing that buybacks are nothing more than corporate self-indulgence that leads to long-term harm to both companies and the economy. This may be true and, with equity valuations at or near all-time highs, buybacks certainly appear uneconomic at current prices but this is no reason to ban them. Companies should be allowed to throw money down the drain if they so choose. Itโs a free country, as they say.
That said, there is a very good reason for banning buybacks and itโs the very same reason they were banned for decades before the Reagan administration allowed them to recommence in 1982: They are nothing more than stock manipulation on a massive scale.
As John Authers recently pointed out, โFor much of the last decade, companies buying their own shares have accounted for all net purchases. The total amount of stock bought back by companies since the 2008 crisis even exceeds the Federal Reserveโs spending on buying bonds over the same period as part of quantitative easing. Both pushed up asset prices.โ Let me rephrase that: there have been essentially no other buyers of equities over the past decade besides the companies themselves and theyโve spent over $4 trillion at it, even as liquidity has fallen to record lows.
So itโs not hard to understand how valuations have gone to the moon. Without that $4 trillion in stock buybacks and in a market where trading volume has been falling for decades they never would have been able to soar as high as they have. The chart below plots โThe Buffett Yardstickโ (total equity market capitalization relative to gross national product) against total net equity issuance (inverted). Since the late-1990โs both valuations and buybacks have been near record highs. Is this just a coincidence? Considering all of the above I think itโs safe to say itโs not.
In addition, the Roosevelt Institute found another curious statistic: โIn the first 8 days after a buyback announcement, insiders sell an average of $500,000 worth of stock per dayโa five-fold increase as compared to the normal daily average of $100,000.โ So the history of buybacks over the past several decades show that they are implemented when executives would most benefit from juicing the stock price and they take full advantage by selling heavily back to their own company.
If this isnโt stock manipulation, I donโt know what is.
Now Iโm sure there are shareholders who would be unhappy with my criticism in this regard as they feel they have benefited alongside management during this time. That may be true in the short run. Manipulating the stock price certainly feels good to existing shareholders while itโs happening. However, repurchases made at prices that are uneconomic are damaging to the long-term health of the company.
The bill will not come due for all of this leveraged equity manipulation until the next recession and concomitant credit crisis. And considering the size the of the leveraged buyback party executives have thrown over the past decade I think itโs safe to say the hangover is going to be just as riotous, though not in a celebratory way. At that point shareholders will be made painfully aware of the true cost of inebriating their upper managements with massive equity compensation and then giving them the keys to the financial car.
The good news is there is a very simple fix here. Stock buybacks in the open market should be banned because they are clearly the single greatest form of market manipulation that exists today. However, this would not preclude companies from putting together tender offers for their own shares. The difference between open market repurchases and a tender offer is night and day. Restricting companies to making tender offers would eliminate the ability to manipulate prices at the discretion of executives. Yet it would still provide a way for companies to deploy capital as they see fit and in a way that is much more forthright and fair to everyone involved.
Clearly, the rationale behind the original ban on stock buybacks was valid. The history of buybacks since their reinstatement over 35 years ago clearly demonstrates this. Hopefully, legislators will see the value in maintaining corporate determination of their own capital allocation while banning practices like open market activities that, in many cases, are clearly against the interest of every stakeholder outside of the executive suite. | 2019-04-26T12:43:37 | https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/if-this-isnt-stock-market-manipulation-then-i-dont-know-what-is/ |
0.998748 | Ed Miliband said his "new generation" would take Labour back to power, in his first big speech as party leader.
In an hour-long speech he pledged to be a "responsible" opposition leader and not oppose every proposed spending cut.
But he said David Cameron offered a "miserable" view of what could be achieved and said Labour were the "optimists" who would change Britain.
Ed Miliband was greeted by enthusiastic applause from delegates in the packed hall at the Manchester Central venue as he arrived with his pregnant partner Justine.
He struck a very personal tone at the start of his speech, talking about his upbringing and how his parents' experience as refugees fleeing the Nazis had shaped his values and paying tribute to his "extraordinary" brother David.
Activists cheered as he said Labour had appeared "casual" about civil liberties and said he would not let the Tories or Lib Dems "take ownership of the British tradition of liberty". And they applauded his comment that Labour's foreign policy should be "based on values, not just alliances".
However his comments about Iraq appeared to annoy his brother David, whom he narrowly beat for the party leadership.
Mr Miliband has only been an MP since 2005 and was not part of the government during the invasion of Iraq - a decision which proved divisive for the Labour Party.
"I do believe we were wrong. Wrong to take Britain into war and we need to be honest about that," he said.
But David Miliband was filmed asking Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman: "You voted for it, why are you clapping?"
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said it suggested the older Miliband brother, who has returned to London, would almost certainly announce on Wednesday that he was stepping down from front-line politics.
On Tuesday night, David Miliband's aide confirmed the former foreign secretary would make a statement on Wednesday afternoon.
He, Alistair Darling and Andy Burnham all voted for the war in 2003.
Jack Straw, who was foreign secretary at the time of the invasion, told the BBC the new leader was not an MP at the time so had "greater freedom to say we didn't get it right, but I don't agree with his view".
In the wide-ranging speech, Ed Miliband pledged to vote "yes" in a referendum on changing the voting system to AV, said Labour should have recognised concerns about jobs and wages resulting from immigration. He said he supported reducing the deficit but growth should be the priority.
The former energy secretary, 40, was named Labour leader on Saturday having won the ballot of MPs, party members and trade unionists by just 1%.
Since then he has been fending off criticism that he owes his leadership to the unions because his brother David got a higher percentage of votes from MPs and party members.
He got a standing ovation when, referring to the label some newspapers have given him, he said "Red Ed? Come off it," and urged a "grown-up debate" on politics.
And he warned that while he said trade unions were important, he had "no truck with overblown rhetoric about waves of irresponsible strikes" and Labour had to be careful not to alienate the public.
He said the party had to face facts about its general election defeat and go on "our own journey", show humility and learn some "painful truths" about where they had gone wrong.
"This country faces some tough choices and so do we. And we need to change," he said.
"This week we embark on the journey back to power."
Ed Miliband praised Labour's achievements in office, saying Britain was "fairer and stronger than it was 13 years ago" but said that the party had to ask how it lost five million votes between 1997 and 2010 and "shed old thinking".
He said he understood voters' anger that Labour had not stood up to City demands for deregulation and, in what will be seen as distancing himself from his old boss Gordon Brown, "at a Labour government that claimed it could end boom and bust".
Although he is only three years younger than Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, he said in ideals and values he was from a new generation.
That generation would now be running Labour with "different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics".
He attacked the prime minister for offering a "miserable, pessimistic view of what we can achieve" telling Labour members: "We are the optimists and we together we will change Britain."
The speech was welcomed by union leader Derek Simpson as one "worthy of the next prime minister". He said: "Ed demonstrated he can break free from the worst of Labour's past and present a realistic alternative to the coalition's cuts."
But Graeme Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, questioned Mr Miliband's stance on new employment regulations for agency workers and minimum wage increases.
"Both measures would hurt small and large businesses, not support them. It is early days, but we detect a drift away from New Labour's efforts to talk up a pro-enterprise agenda," he said.
Just after the speech David Miliband said he thought it was "really strong": "It was the speech of a conviction politician and also a nerveless speech. His personal qualities came through."
Labour's shadow cabinet is elected by its MPs - and as nominations close at 1700 BST on Wednesday, so David Miliband must enter his name into the ballot by then if he is to stay on Labour's front bench. | 2019-04-21T07:25:38 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-11417906 |
0.999802 | When presenting such an iconic and classic musical such as this which is famous throughout the world as one of the most watched and enduring film musicals ever - even the Austrians now know and love the show - it is terribly difficult for any casting director / producer to find the right balance between audience expectation and creativity / expression. Did Bill Kenwright therefore manage this? I believe he did, yes.
Sadly the set did not live up to expectations, and was decidedly ill-fitting in both senses of the word unfortunately. Maria's garret bedroom at the Von Trapp mansion had both gaping holes in it whilst being wrong for the style of mansion, and the decor not quite right. However, the Hapsburg yellow used for both the abbey and mansion ballroom was correct. It was also really rather unfortunate to have Maria singing in the mountains whilst majority of the Von Trapp mansion was all around her, including the marble floor!
Anyway, set niggles notwithstanding, I really enjoyed this show. The build up of Nazi take-over and the Anschluss was excellently played, and in general the characterisations were an utter joy with their journeys and arcs very real and sympathetic.
The story of The Sound of Music, concerns a young novice at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg who is sent to work temporarily as a governess at a large mansion nearby. The mansion is owned by ex-naval captain Georg Von Trapp and his 7 children. He runs the household with military precision and Maria's arrival signals the softening of his heart and the bringing back of music to the home, and also the development of a love that sees them marry and of course, escape the Germans as they travel to Switzerland. The story is a highly romanticised version of a true one. There really was a captain and Maria Von Trapp and they did have a famous singing family, and they did escape the Germans. Although unlike the musical (both stage and film version) they did not climb the mountain - this would only have led them straight into the Eagle's Nest and Hitler's southern Bavarian stronghold, but went instead by train first into Italy before the borders were closed and then eventually into Switzerland and then America.
Lucy O'Byrne was an excellent choice for Maria. Her pure and excellently articulated vocals giving a hint of Julie Andrews, and yet being a totally fresh and inspiring character in her own right, whilst Neil McDermott was a very odd choice for Captain Von Trapp. Somehow he didn't seem erect and Austrian enough. In fact he did look a little weary and distracted at times during the evening. I think he invested a great deal into the role, but sadly I think he wasn't quite right, and certainly his singing was just as good as Christopher Plummer's!
Megan Llewellyn's very human and likeable Mother Abbess had a little more fun and joie-de-vivre than I have previously seen, and I really liked this. And her rendition of Climb Ev'ry Mountain deservedly received the loudest applause of the evening. Elsa Schraeder (Kara Lane) and Max Detweiler (Howard Samuels) made a great duo and worked against each other and Georg and Maria superbly. I also really enjoyed Frau Schmidt (Pippa Winslow) too. This is a role that can so easily get overlooked and yet tonight I was drawn to her on her every entrance.
This musical though stands or falls on the quality of the children. Katie Shearman plays Liesl in every performance, whilst the younger roles are shared between three teams. I am uncertain which of the three teams performed this evening, but they were, in a single word, wonderful. Their individual characters as well as a communal emotion were a joy, and their singing and acting was truly inspirational.
All in all, a little sugar-coated but a well realised feel-good show for all the family, and is highly recommended. | 2019-04-19T10:21:36 | http://www.manchestersalon.org.uk/the-sound-of-music.html |
0.999955 | Here's Everything Chipotle Has Done to Handle Its E. Coli Crisis; Is it Enough?
The company has been aggressive in responding to the foodborne illness outbreaks, which sent sales -- and its stock price -- plunging.
Chipotle (NYSE:CMG) has paid the price for its two E. coli outbreaks, which forced it to close stores, change safety procedures, and generally work to try to win back public confidence.
Even though the Centers for Disease Control has said that two outbreaks "appear to be over" -- the last new case of someone falling ill from food eaten at the fast-casual Mexican chain happened on Dec. 1 -- that doesn't mean consumers will return quickly. The public was clearly spooked by the outbreaks, the larger of which led to 55 infected people in 11 states, 21 of whom were hospitalized.
With fearful customers staying away, the company reported that comparable restaurant sales fell nearly 15% in the fourth quarter, which caused a revenue drop of 6.8% for the period. The company was upfront about the cause of its sales woes in its earnings release.
"We are pleased to have this behind us and can place our full energies to implementing our enhanced food safety plan that will establish Chipotle as an industry leader in food safety," said co-CEO Steve Ells. "We are extremely focused on executing this program, which designs layers of redundancy and enhanced safety measures to reduce the food safety risk to a level as near to zero as is possible."
But Chipotle is clearly taking the issue seriously and has gone to unprecedented lengths to not only stop it from happening again, but also to reassure the public.
Since the beginning of the first outbreak, Chipotle has been aggressive and forthcoming in addressing it. The company closed stores in affected markets for deep cleaning, and it moved quickly to implement new food safety procedures. Chipotle even did something that few restaurants ever voluntarily do -- it closed every store across the United States on Feb. 8, during the lunch rush, to hold a companywide meeting to discuss the changes.
The company described its new food safety program as "the product of a comprehensive reassessment of its food safety practices." Chipotle, according to a press release, worked with industry-leading experts to assess the safety risks of every ingredient on its menu "with an eye toward establishing the highest standards for safety."
High-resolution DNA-based testing of many ingredients before they are shipped to Chipotle locations, which "far exceeds requirements of state and federal regulatory agencies, as well as industry standards," according to the company.
Changes to food preparation and handling practices, including changing how some items are washed, as well as shredding cheese before it reaches the stores. In addition, some produce items will now be blanched (dipped quickly into boiling water), and there are new rules for marinating chicken and steak.
New internal training on safety standards for all workers.
Paid sick leave designed to ensure that ill employees stay home when they are sick.
In addition to all of these changes and the enhanced procedures and training, the company also plans to spend up to $10 million to help local farms meet its food safety standards, and to make more local ingredients available across the country.
At some point, nearly every restaurant chain suffers some sort of food-poisoning incident, but most do not suffer as much as Chipotle. Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), for example, had to recall sandwiches tainted with E. coli from its stores in December. Even though the coffee chain's action involved over 1,000 stores, it benefited from the fact that nobody got sick directly from its sandwiches (though the infected celery was linked to 19 illnesses in seven states, which occurred at other eateries served by Starbucks' supplier, according to The Los Angeles Times).
Starbucks also avoided the sort of backlash Chipotle received, for the same reason that most fast food and casual eateries have emerged largely unscathed in similar situations: It does not tie its brand identity to the sanctity of its ingredients. Even though the coffee company has a reputation for quality, it does not use that as a pillar of of its brand in the same way Chipotle does.
But while Chipotle will suffer longer than most restaurant chains because it's being penalized for hubris, I agree with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner; he pointed out on a recent Industry Focus podcast that brands have come back after much worse than what has befallen Chipotle.
"I think this is going to be kind of like the Tylenol scare, which really depressed Johnson & Johnson for a little while -- then, of course, we all look back and forget," he said. "Or BP. People said, 'I'll never go to BP again,' but I think a lot of us are going back to BP to fill our cars."
Chipotle got some people sick, which garnered it some terrible publicity, and scared consumers to a certain extent. But since then, the company has done everything right. It took the crisis seriously, made profound changes, and ultimately ate a whole lot of humble pie. Ultimately, while it may take a while for consumers to forgive and/or forget, those move should be enough to allow it to put its E. coli problems in the past. | 2019-04-19T14:20:54 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/10/heres-everything-chipotle-has-done-to-handle-its-e.aspx |
0.99537 | Los estudiantes están cansados de comer espaguetis con albóndigas los lunes en la cafetería. La administración de la escuela dice que pueden ayudar a crear un nuevo menú. Así que todos preparan puestos con las especialidades de su familia para ver cuáles recetas lograrán formar parte del menú escolar.<br /><br />The students are sick and tired of Spaghetti-and-Meatball Mondays in the cafeteria. The administration says they can help create a new menu, so students throughout the school make booths with their family's specialties for Around-the-World Day. It's a head-to-head battle between Sarai's Peruvian chicken and Valeria's tamales. Who will win the big cook-off and get their grandparents' recipes on the cafeteria menu? | 2019-04-19T11:11:50 | https://www.gallimardmontreal.com/catalogue/livre/sara-y-la-feria-alrededor-del-mundo-sarai-and-the-around-the-world-fair-sp-ebk-brown-monica-9781338337891 |
0.99914 | Bill Text - ACA-4 Local government transportation projects: special taxes: voter approval.
A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 4 of Article XIIIโA thereof, and by amending Section 2 of Article XIIIโC thereof, relating to taxation.
ACA 4, as amended, Frazier. Local government transportation projects: special taxes: voter approval.
The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from imposing taxes for local purposes, but allows the Legislature to authorize local governments to impose them. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing law authorizes local governments to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law.
This measure would provide that the imposition, extension, or increase of a sales and use tax imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or a transactions and use tax imposed in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law by a local government county, city, city and county, or special district for the purpose of providing funding for local transportation projects, as defined, requires the approval of 55% of its voters voting on the proposition. The measure would also make conforming and technical, nonsubstantive changes. This measure would also provide that it would become effective immediately upon approval by the voters and would apply to any local measure imposing, extending, or increasing a sales and use tax or transactions and use tax for local transportation projects submitted at the same election.
(2) (A) The imposition, extension, or increase of a sales and use tax imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law, or its successor, or a transactions and use tax imposed in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, or its successor, by a local government county, city, city and county, or special district for the purpose of providing funding for local transportation projects under its jurisdiction, as may otherwise be authorized by law, requires the approval of 55 percent of the voters voting on the proposition. A sales and use tax or transactions and use tax for the purpose of providing funding for local transportation projects is not deemed to have been increased if it is imposed at a rate not higher than the maximum rate previously approved in the manner required by law.
(B) For purposes of this paragraph, โlocal transportation projectโ means the planning, design, development, financing, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, acquisition, lease, operation, or maintenance of local streets, roads, and highways, state highways and freeways, and public transit systems.
(3) This subdivision, and the amendments made to Section 4 of Article XIIIโA by the act adding this subdivision, shall become effective immediately upon approval by the voters and shall apply to any local measure imposing, extending, or increasing a sales and use tax imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or a transactions and use tax imposed in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law for the funding of local transportation projects that is submitted at the same election. | 2019-04-19T21:54:52 | http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160ACA4 |
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