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0.999999 | Alright, so speed can be defined as "the distance covered in a unit of time," or basically "how fast something is moving." It, like distance, is a scalar quantity, and doesn't show distance. Velocity, on the other hand, is a vector and is essentially speed with direction. We can also define velocity as "the rate of change of displacement," whereas speed is simply "the rate of change of distance." Velocity, as a vector, can be added or subtracted, an idea that we will explore in more detail when we get to the topic of relative motion. Speed and velocity is usually defined over an interval, but in some cases, we might need the instantaneous speed and velocities, which, as the name suggests, is basically the speed or velocity at a single given time, so it can't be calculated with distance or displacement over a time interval, since there is no interval.
Assuming Person A (Justin) and Person B (Howard) both reach the set destination (which is equal distance from each of them) in the same amount of time, Justin would have a much higher speed, but in terms of velocity, Justin and Howard were the same.
Now we also have something called acceleration which is essentially an object's change in velocity over a given time. Again, acceleration, just like all other vectors, can be added or subtracted.
Now remember, this is the change in the displacement over time, so we must take into account the direction. Typically we find acceleration in problems with linear motion, but must remember that the change in velocity also happens when an object turns. Observe below.
If we consider the three cases above: Car A driven by Joycelyn, Car B by Enyu, and Car C by Abigail, where Joycelyn is driving at the same speed as speed as Abigail, and it takes Enyu the same amount of time to complete a full lap as Joycelyn. It is understood that both Enyu and Abigail as a higher acceleration than Joycelyn, due to more change in velocity, one due to a greater velocity in terms of displacement over time, and another due to a greater velocity in terms of more change in direction.
Then we have something called free fall. It's a lot simpler than it sounds. Simply put, it's the work of the gravity exerted by the planet Earth. This force of gravity causes all objects to have a downward acceleration of 9.80665 m/s^2 (This number is typically rounded to 9.8 or even 10 in calculations). Just like in horizontal linear motion, the same ideas apply, the object is just moving in a different direction. Consider the graph below, which are just a number of different ways of portraying the same act of free fall.
Below you'll find a race between a Yamaha R1, a Porsche 911, and a typical European fighter jet. Which has the largest acceleration? Final velocity? | 2019-04-25T16:12:10 | http://sharkphysics.weebly.com/speed-velocity-and-acceleration.html |
0.998909 | July 2014 General Meeting: New Games & New People!
It's been awhile since I've updated our Patreon page, but that's partially a good thing… Our early summers are always the slowest time of the month by far, but we've kept up momentum via good conversation on the Facebook forum, and there's lots going on outside of PIGSquad proper! One of my favorite events that I crossposted via PIGSquad in June was the Pixel Arts Open House, where we were able to play a full-fledged game of Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator. Pixel Arts is unfortunately unable to host an open house this month due to venue issues, but we're in the middle of hosting our third game camp of the summer with the support of many volunteers from PIGSquad! Getting a full 6-player game of Artemis off the ground also got me thinking about instigating more play nights… Hopefully we can get some LAN multiplayer going at the end of the month, which will be posted on pigsquad.com if it comes to fruition. We also have the Gaming in Color screening coming up Sunday! Appropriate timing given the conversations we've all been having on the PIGSquad Facebook group recently – many members have been voicing concern about involving more diverse communities (namely women and LGBTQ communities), and we were able to have a big discussion at the meeting. I have plenty of notes and will very likely be taking more at the screening on Sunday, so be prepared to assist in welcoming all kinds of new people through events, our projects, and good ol' word of mouth! It's also been a crazy past couple of months for PIGSquad members to have their games finished, polished, and represented! The Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake, Crea, Miniverse, and Land of Retro launches are so inspiring, and there always seems to be news surrounding Hard Lander Rage Runner, Cheerful Ghost, and March of the Ants (just to name a few!). I also wanted to update everyone on Patreon rewards and t-shirts. My answer to most questions is: "soon?" Lots of things to capitalize on regarding community need, Pixel Arts, and personal goings-on. I'm in a good place after being in the swing of things for camp, chasing a nasty illness away, and receiving more help with organizing from members, so catch-up is imminent! I want to thank people for their patience, or, if they don't have any, acknowledge people for their restraint… Talk soon! See you at the screening Sunday! | 2019-04-24T00:11:24 | https://www.patreon.com/posts/july-2014-new-690740 |
0.999272 | What would cause a cop to beat a clown?
The clown tackled the cop! The crazy brawl was luckily captured on video by a passerby, otherwise, who would believe this happening on a busy downtown street? They say the clown is a local activist who protests in front of government buildings. There were some complaints that the clown was chasing after cars with a squirt gun. How wacky is that? He was arrested outside city hall and charged with resisting arrest. | 2019-04-21T08:31:15 | https://klaq.com/cop-beats-up-clown-video/ |
0.998464 | Is it Islam alone that allows polygamy ?
Polygamy is not a practice limited to the religion of Islam; rather, it is something well-known in the history of the People of the Book, the Jews and the Christians, as well. It is only in the later times that their religious men frowned upon it or forbade it outright. However, when we looks into the early history of the religions, we will find that it was at least an acceptable practice, if not encouraged.
Polygamy existed among the Israelites before the time of Moses, who continued the institution without imposing any limit on the number of marriages which a Hebrew husband might contract.
The Jewish Encyclopedia states "While there is no evidence of a polyandrous state in primitive Jewish society, polygamy seems to have been a well-established institution, dating from the most ancient times and extending to comparatively modern days "
Another common practice was the taking of concubines. In later times, the Talmud of Jerusalem restricted the number by the ability of the husband to maintain the wives properly. Some rabbis, however, counseled that a man should not take more than four wives. Polygamy was prohibited in Judaism by the rabbis, not God. Rabbi Gershom ben Judah is credited by forbidding polygamy in the 11th century . yet polygamy is still in practiceamong the 180,000 Bedouin of Israel. It is also frequent among Jews living in Yemen, rabbis permitting Jews to marry up to four wives. In modern Israel, where a wife cannot bear children or is mentally ill, the rabbis give a husband the right to marry a second woman without divorcing his first wife.
History says that Polygamy was practiced among the Christians , it seems that there were some human resolutions that stopped it . In the eighth century Charlemagne, holding power over both church and state, in his own person practiced polygamy . St. Augustine seems to have observed in it no intrinsic immorality or sinfulness, and declared that polygamy was not a crime where it was the legal institution of a country. He wrote in The Good of Marriage (chapter 15, paragraph 17), that polygamy …was lawful among the ancient fathers…….." He declined to judge the patriarchs, but did not deduce from their practice the ongoing acceptability of polygamy . During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther said, “I confess for my part that if a man wishes to marry two or more wives, I cannot forbid him for it does not contradict the Scripture.”African churches have long recognized polygamy. Early in its history, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practiced polygamy in the United States. Splinter groups left the Church to continue the practice after the Church banned it. Polygamy among these groups persists today in Utah, neighboring states, and the spin-off colonies, as well as among isolated individuals with no organized church affiliation.
According to Father Eugene Hillman, ‘Nowhere in the New Testament is there any explicit commandment that marriage should be monogamous or any explicit commandment forbidding polygamy.’ The Church in Rome banned polygamy in order to conform to Greco-Roman culture that prescribed only one legal wife while tolerating concubinage and prostitution.
In the Bible , Jesus never reject the old testament but even said " "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law (the Old Testament) or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (Matthew 5:17-18) .
New Testament insists on monogamy only for bishops and deacons. No church council in the earliest Christian centuries opposed polygamy. St. Augustine clearl)' declared that he did not condemn it. Luther tolerated it and approved of the bigamous status of Philip of Hesse. In 1531 the Anabaptists preached polygamy and the Mormons of today believe in it (see Abd al Ati, The Family Structure in Islam, American Trust Publications, 1977, p 114 : Until this very day, the church in some African countries conducts the marriage of men to more than one wife. In Europe, the attempt to legally enforce monogamy and outlaw polygamy took place as late as the late sixth and early seventh centuries.
In Matthew 19:3 , Jesus was asked " whether or not it is allowed for a man to divorce his wife. Jesus immediately referred to the Old Testament for the answer in Matthew 19:4. According to this , man becomes a one flesh with his wife in Matthew 19:5-6, this doesn't mean that the man can't be one flesh with another woman. He can be one flesh with his first wife, and one flesh with his second wife, and one flesh with his third wife and so on.
In Matthew 22:24-28, the Jews referred to Deuteronomy 25:5 from the Old Testament where it states that if a woman's husband dies, and she didn't have any kids from him, then she must marry his brother regardless whether he had a wife or not. When the Jews brought this situation up to Jesus in Matthew 22:24-28, Jesus did not prohibit at all for the childless widow to marry her husband's brother (even if he were married). Instead, Jesus replied to them by saying that we do not marry in heaven, and we will be like angels in heaven (Matthew 22:30).
Jesus' parable allows polygamy between 1 man (the bridegroom) and 10 virgins (5 became his wives and slept with him)!
Unlike other religions the question of polygamy is clear in Islam and restricted . Though Islam permitted polygamy , there are certain restrictions concerning this matter . Before the advent of Islam , polygamy was widely a spread custom and the number of wives was limitless , it was Islam that restricted that number .
Multiple marriages lay a heavy responsibility on men, which is why Allah allowed having more than one wife only if the husband treats his wives equally. If a man has more than one wife, he must treat them all in an equal manner, emotionally and financially. For example, he has to provide separate living accommodation for each of his wives.
Since it is very difficult to be just with all wives, in practice, most of the Muslim men do not have more than one wife.
Therefore polygamy is not a rule or an order but an exception. Many people are under the misconception that it is compulsory for a Muslim man to have more than one wife.
However men are prohibited from cheating on their wives, meaning a man can't marry another woman without the knowledge of his wife. He should tell her, for she might refuse such situation, and in this case it's totally her right if she asked for divorce.
Marriage is a matter of mutual consent. Only that woman can be made a second or a third wife who is willing to be so. And when this matter rests wholly on the willingness of the woman, there is no cause for objection.
The verse of polygamy was revealed after the invasion Uhad where a lot of Moslems were martyred and where a large number of widows and orphans were left liable to hardships of life .
The reason for multiple wives in Islam was not mainly to satisfy men’s desire and that's it, but for the welfare of the widows and the orphans of the wars. During war times, many women are unable to find husbands, and they might prefer to be a co-wife than no wife.
studying of mortality shows that the rate is higher for men than for women. This disparity is in evidence from early childhood to extreme old age. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: "In general, the risk of death at any given age is less for females than for males."
1988), 82,000 Iranian women and about 100,000 Iraqi women were widowed. All in the space of ten years.
2- Imprisonment : In the U.S , no less than 1,300,000 people are convicted daily for one crime or anther. A number of them - 97% of whom are men - are obliged to serve lengthy prison sentences.Work accidents and street accidents are also among the these reasons .
According to data collected in 1967, in that year a total of 175,000 people died as the result of accidents in fifty different countries. Most of these were men.
For reasons of this nature, women continue to outnumber men. This difference persists in even the most developed societies e.g. in America. According to data collected in 1967, there were nearly 7,100,00 more women than men. This means that even if every single man in America got married 7,100,00 women would be left without husbands.
In facts , some nations do not practice polygamy as this is an act against man-made laws but they really did , the possibility of transferring biological fatal diseases are so high , such communities suffer from ADS , an innocent wife or husband may be the victim . social ills are rampant . The question is which is better to solve this problem ? The best answer is " let's go back to God's solution " A dark picture is awaiting , unless we stop outdoor-relations .
During the Second World War, in which several western countries such as Germany, France, Britain, etc. took part, a large number of men were killed. As a result, women far outnumbered men at the end of the hostilities. Permissiveness then became the order of the day, to the extent that boards with such inscriptions as "Wanted: A Guest for the Evening" could be seen outside the homes of husbandless women. This state of affairs persisted in western countries in various forms, even long after the war, and is now largely prevalent because of industrial and mechanical accidents. | 2019-04-21T16:12:55 | http://www.quran-m.com/firas/en1/index.php/fakes-about-islam/352-is-it-islam-alone-that-allows-polygamy.html |
0.999997 | Zero Hour has all of the action and excitement I love in a romantic suspense series. But it's also a little bit different than most of the ones I've read since the hackers are kind of an ad hoc group, rather than a full time team. They all have some shared history, though much of it's just allusion at this point. I wondered at times if this is a spin off from a previous series that introduced some of the characters.
The one thing that bugged me about Wren, which I admit is minor, is her hair. I love lavender hair (I mean, have you seen Amanda Bonilla's Instagram pics?) but there was a lot of buzz last summer about what's wrong with the "hair streaks indicate a rebellious Asian girl" thing (Wren's Korean-American) and I couldn't help thinking about that even though it was her whole head, not actually streaks. Her full sleeve tattoos alone would have conveyed the same thing without a racially-specific cliche. And then there's the fact that she kept wearing red dresses which, while great for her skin tone, would clash with her hair.
So TL;DR I love Wren but hate her hair. There's also a big reveal that I saw coming pretty early on, even though the characters were surprised.
I loved the ensemble cast, though not much is revealed about most of them yet. I would have liked a little more explanation about how some of these computer nerds learned spy craft, but I hope that some of that will come later. Erickson is definitely setting up a series. She's introduced enough characters to carry three or four books so far, as well as an enemy that will carry over at least in to the next book. And I'm good with all that because I'm so interested in their world. I'll definitely be watching for book two!
Recommended for fans of: Black Knights Inc.
When Princess Vilhelmina Dragomir is awakened from her hellish sleep with a blood kiss from a handsome stranger, she learns that much has changed while she’s been away. The armies of the Black Lily and the vampire Crown have amassed and are on the brink of war.
No romantic entanglements, no family. Mikhail Romanov, Captain of the Bloodguard, took a vow when he joined the Bloodguard. But he never planned for the gut-punching attraction he would feel for the untouchable princess. He must keep his focus, though. In order to avenge his family, it’s essential he help Mina claim her crown and keep his damn hands off of her.
I'm always a bit sad when I pick up the last book in a series. I'm always torn between wanting to know how things wrap up and not wanting it to be over. That's how I felt when I finally picked up my ARC of The Emerald Lily. I've loved this series and it's unique paranormal take on some of my favorite fairy tales.
I won't lie. I was super excited for this book after the last one revealed that it was going to be a Sleeping Beauty retelling. While it was not my favorite book in the series, I loved this one! I've wanted to know more about Princess Vilhelmina since we first were introduced to her in book one but I will admit that finding out more about Mikhail and his enigmatic Blood Guard eclipsed her storyline for me.
While the romance was a bit predictable with the whole "awaken the princess from a deep sleep with a kiss" thing, but I enjoyed the hell out of Mina and Mikhail's chemistry. They're perfect together and have that kind of angsty push and pull dynamic that's like crack to read. I loved learning these two's backstories and watching them fall for each other. I really enjoyed seeing characters from previous books make an appearance as the climax and final battle approached.
I'm sad to see this series end but it was one hell of a ride. I will be recommending it to all of my friends who love paranormal romance and fairy tale retellings. If you haven't picked the series up, now is a good time to grab them all and binge read the whole thing.
I was catching up on reading blog posts this week when I came across this post by Kristen over at See You in Porridge about how she has so many unread ebooks on her Kindle that she has forgotten about. I have never related to something so much in my recent memory.
I recently had to redownload all of my Kindle books because my four year old godson somehow deleted the app off of my iPad. I have so many unread books on there that it kind of makes me a bit sick. I don't even want to say the number out loud. Just suffice it to say that my unread ebook TBR makes my unread physical book pile look like a hill. I swear ebooks are like tribbles and they multiply when I'm not looking.
As annoying as it is that the Kindle app doesn't have a download all button (Seriously, Amazon! That needs to be fixed!), it was fun and enlightening to discover all of the ebooks I forgot I had bought or been given. I will probably make this into a feature on the blog just so I can remind myself about some of the ebooks I own. So let's talk about some of the hidden treasures I found.
If you want more information on each book, just click the cover and it will take you to Goodreads.
During my post-Raven Cycle book slump, I searched out anything that was remotely compared to the series. One of the biggest recommendations Tumblr had for me was the All for the Game series by Nora Sakavic. I honestly don't know much about it other than the Raven Cycle comparision. One of these days I'll read it. It helps that this book was free on Kindle.
I picked this book up when it was a Kindle deal. It was kind of a cover buy for me. Although, I was immediately sold once I read the synopsis. A steampunk Cinderella retelling where Cinderella is an inventor with a clockwork menagerie is something that is totally up my alley. Sadly, that's all I know about the book. I'm kind of sad it has been gathering dust on my Kindle. I was really excited to read it when I bought it.
This is one of those free Kindle deals I've picked up over the years. All I know about it is that it has vampires and librarians and a slow burn romance. I'm a sucker for a good paranormal romance and this one has really good reviews. Also, it's the first in a series of four books and a couple spin-off series so it will be totally bingeable when I finally get around to reading it.
This book is toted to be a paranormal retelling of Jane Eyre full of Fey, curses, and romance. I am still intrigued by the premise of a cursed governess trying to help a cursed child and her father. I feel bad that I completely forgot about this one while I was waiting for the series to be completed. I'm going to have to binge read the whole series soon.
I'm totally one of those people who buy books solely on the recommendation of a favorite author. So when my paranormal romance queen, Nalini Singh, raved and recommended this sci-fi romance on Twitter, I immediately bought it. The only things I know about it are: the romance is heartwarming, the worldbuilding is amazing, and that there is an AI involved. I really should read it soon. I'm always looking for a good sci-fi romance and I own the next two books in the series as well as this one. I'm perfectly set up to binge read it.
What books have you found on your Kindle that you had forgotten about?
We've got the entire first chapter of Baby, I'm Howling For You. Enjoy!
and the prequel novella Something to Howl About.
Woo! Welcome to the last and final part of my Beginner's Guide to Anime! Today, I'm talking about all of the anime movies I'd recommend for those who want to get into anime but don't know where to start. If you missed out on Parts One and Two of this Guide, you can find them here and here. I promise that I didn't just make a list of Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films. Well, mostly. Let's talk about some anime movies, shall we?
In my opinion, you can't go wrong with any Makoto Shinkai film but I can say that your name. was my favorite movie I saw in the theaters in 2017, hands down. It's the story about two high school students who swap bodies. It's a story about the differences of living in different places with one of the characters living in Tokyo and the other in rural Japan. Not only is the story engrossing and heartwretching, but the animation is absolutely gorgeous! It's seriously beautiful. According to The Hollywood Reported, it beat out Miyazaki's Spirited Away to become the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time. So if you need another reason to go see it besides my opinion, you can't get better than that.
This one will be available to rent from Amazon (and I'm sure iTunes) after January 30th. It's not streamed anywhere yet since it's such a new one. You'll have to wait unless you can buy it or borrow it.
I seriously could list every Miyazaki film on this list and it wouldn't be wrong. His films are amazing! I highly recommend all of them! But I'm only going to discuss one of them and that would be my favorite, Howl’s Moving Castle. It's an adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones’ 1986 novel and is a whimsical adventure of the timid Sophie who has beem cursed with the body of an old crone by a jealous witch. She is rescued by a charismatic wizard who lives in a gigantic walking castle and Howl is my favorite. The whole cast of characters are awesome, to be honest. This is the film that I always recommend people start with who have never watched a Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli film before.
Unfortunately, Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films aren't streamed so you're going to have to borrow it or buy it.
If you discovered you could travel backwards in time, would you us your ability to help others or use it to help yourself? I would like to think I'd help others but I'd probably help myself like Makoto Konno in this movie. And that is essentially the premise of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time with Makoto discovering that there are consequences from her escapades through time. It’s a beautiful film with terrific animation. I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to watch it. It's sci-fi speculative wish fulfillment at it's best.
You can watch this one on Funimation if you have a premium subscription. You can buy/rent it through iTunes or you can borrow it.
I'm going to be honest. I was kind of obsessed with Mary Norton’s The Borrowers as a kid and I've seen all of its many adaptations. My favorite version is definitely Studio Ghibli's version. Not surprising, right? We're all familiar with the plot of The Borrowers so what more can I say than go watch it?
Again, Studio Ghibli films aren't streamed so you're going to have to borrow it or buy it.
Before this last year, 5 Centimeters Per Second was Makoto Shinkai's most well-known film. As much as I love your name., this movie is probably the best one to be introduced to Shinkai's work. It's a slice-of-life movie that focuses on two childhood friends who pine for one another while the other circumstances in their lives are trying to pull them apart. It's a movie that touches on topics such as distance, relationships, and missed opportunities. The story is actually told as three short stories that follows the main character, Takaki Tono, through his childhood, teen years, and eventual adulthood. It's unique format complements the gorgeous animation beautifully. I love this move so much!
Yay! One you can actually stream online! You can watch this on Crunchyroll with most of Shinkai's other films.
I didn't mean to make this list 50% Studio Ghibli films but it happened anyway. Whisper of the Heart is one of Ghibli's underappreciated treasures. It is a heartwarming coming-of-age story with an adorably endearing a romance. It's the story of Shizuku, a precocious bookworm who falls for the violin-maker, Seiji Amasawa, after discovering he shares her love of literature. Instead of professing her feelings for him, she is inspired to pursue her own passion for writing as a way to deal with them. It sounds sad but it's really an amazing movie. We wouldn't expect anything less than that from a Studio Ghibli film, would we?
Sorry! I hate that Studio Ghibli films aren't offered digitally or streamed! Unfortunately, if you want to watch it you're going to have to borrow or buy it.
That wraps up the my Beginner's Guide to anime. Is there any anime movies that I missed that you'd recommend for a newbie?
What starts as a pleasant class trip to a planet five light-years away becomes a nightmare survival trip to get back home.
In the year 2063, interstellar space travel has become the norm. What sort of adventure awaits on the new frontier?
I picked up this series because I was looking for a good sci-fi manga and this one was getting quite a bit of hype a few months ago when the English translation came out. I'm so glad I picked it up! It's a solid start to a new manga series. The first part of this volume was slow and a bit weird. It was mainly setup to introduce the characters.
The second half was a total shift in the narrative and I am all here for it! It's basically a YA Lost in Space meets Swiss Family Robinson with a bit of Titan AE and Up thrown in for some flavor. I love a good misfit crew story and it was fun watching the characters start to learn to work together and to depend on each other. Although, some of the characters are still a mystery. Plus, there's a bigger conspiracy behind our poor "shipwrecked" cast and how they exactly ended up on their abandoned ship far from where they started. I can't wait to see where this story goes.
What starts as a pleasant class trip to a planet five light-years away from Earth becomes a nightmare survival trip back home from 5,000 light-years away.
The situation aboard the Astra intensifies as Zack reveals to Kanata that the ship’s communication system has recently been sabotaged and that it’s likely one of their new friends who tried to murder them! The mystery deepens as the crew members are overtaken by confusion and anger and start to question each other’s motives. Just as the argument comes to a head, the side of the ship explodes, shutting down the controls and gravity system and setting the Astra on a collision course with the second planet on their trip, Shummoor.
I'm really enjoying this series so far! It's very much a YA space opera and I'm digging it. The interactions between the characters are amazing and their explorations are intriguing. Volume 2 picks up a few weeks after Volume 1 left off and things are getting interesting as they arrive at the second planet for resupplying their trip home. The main mystery is still unsolved and there looks to be a saboteur on board but that's all put aside so everyone can concentrate on surviving.
One of my favorite things about this manga so far are the planet visits. The animals and flora are interesting and the adventures the crew have when they go planet-side are fun and thrilling. I'm also loving seeing everyone uses their unique knowledge and talents to solve problems. We got to learn more about Yun-hua's backstory and I will say that I did not see that coming. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on volume 3 and seeing what trouble these teens get into next. I hope we learn more about Ulgar next too! I also hope that we get to see some answers as to why this group has ended up together and where they are in the next volume too. | 2019-04-18T11:30:43 | http://goldiloxandthethreeweres.blogspot.com/2018/01/ |
0.999993 | How can I give the player gravity with a character controller? I tried using transform.translate as well as charactercontroller.move, but they don't seem like the best methods.
googling that comes up with this page. Please answer the question instead of trying to be smart. If you have nothing to add please just move on.
The answer on the first link : The CharacterMotor script does this stuff, including gravity.
The answer on the second link is by Aldo, and if he said I could breathe underwater, then I would believe it!
You havn't given enough detail as to your Character Controller setup (what components/scripts have you tried), and from what you have tried you have no explanation for the statement but they both seem like bad methods , what does this mean / what have you read ?
Transform.translate doesn't even work. The player does not process that it is grounded on game start, so the player just falls right through the floor.
Thanks, that comment was posted 11 months ago ;) Aldo has given a great answer that should help future users. If not, the search should yield other results.
The CharacterController must be moved only with Move or SimpleMove. SimpleMove applies gravity automatically, but you can't control the vertical movement (no fly, no jump).
The parameters passed to each function are different: SimpleMove receives the desired velocity vector (Y is ignored), while Move receives the displacement since last frame.
Notice that vSpeed is a member variable (declared outside any function): it stores the current vertical speed, what is necessary to produce physically correct effects when jumping or falling - the vertical velocity grows downwards while in mid air due to the gravity, like in the real world.
Does 'Time.deltaTime' create smoother transformations?
Time.deltaTime is the time elapsed since last frame. As a rule of thumb, anything expressed in something per second should be multiplied by Time.deltaTime to become independent of the frame rate (which varies a lot!). In the case above, Rotate should rotate the character at a fixed speed in degrees per second - thus the actual angle to be rotated must be multiplied by Time.deltaTime. The same applies to the Move speed, since it's expressed in meters per second (or miles, yards, feet etc.). It's different in the SimpleMove case because this method expects the moving velocity itself, and the multiplication is done internally.
What if I didn't want the player's velocity to increase. Could this work?
The variable speed defines the horizontal velocity - just modify it to get different velocities.
CharacterController.Move sets isGrounded to false, so I used Raycast to check the distance to ground.
Like, every CharacterController script tutorial already does this.
That is basically what I had. So character.move would be a good method?
You must use Move (or SimpleMove) to move the CharacterController. Translate ignores collisions, and should not be used with a CharacterController. You may instead use SimpleMove: it automatically applies gravity, but you're not allowed to modify the vertical movement - thus use Move if you plan to jump or fly.
Actually, you're considering gravity as a constant speed, not an acceleration. Thus it will fall at a constant speed, instead of falling faster each time.
But that's exactly what I have in my answer.
I've approved this answer because someone may find the code sample helpful; however, this question is now 5+ years old and "dude" is not a helpful answer. | 2019-04-23T04:07:03 | https://answers.unity.com/questions/334708/gravity-with-character-controller.html?sort=oldest |
0.999053 | Japan PM Abe's search for Russia peace pact: best chance, last chance?
TOKYO - As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters a seventh year in office, he is chasing the holy grail of Japanese diplomacy: a breakthrοugh in a decades-old territοrial rοw with Russia that has stymied a fοrmal peace treaty since the end of Wοrld War Two.
Abe, who has signaled he is keen to strike a deal, is expected in Moscοw next mοnth fοr his 25th summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Veterans of past negοtiatiοns say 2019 may be the best and last chance fοr Abe, who sees a treaty as a pοtential pοlitical legacy, to end the rοw over a grοup of windswept islands seized by Soviet trοops in the final days of the war.
“Abe has οnly two years and nine mοnths left in his term. If he wants to do this himself, it is a fight against time,” said Muneo Suzuki, a fοrmer negοtiatοr and Abe cοnfidant.
“If it gοes οn like this, it will end with nοthing,” he told Reuters.
Putin may be open to a deal nοw, expecting that better ties will act as a cοunter-balance to China and attract mοre Japanese investment and technοlogy, some experts say.
Others doubt Putin really wants any agreement, partly because a majοrity of the Russian public is oppοsed to returning any of the islands, knοwn in Japan as the Nοrthern Territοries and in Russia as the Southern Kurils.
“I dοn’t believe there will be an agreement befοre 2021 when Abe’s stint ends,” said Valery Kistanοv, head of the Center fοr Japanese Studies at Moscοw’s Institute of Far Eastern Studies.
Hopes fοr an agreement have been dashed befοre.
A two-day summit in December 2016 ended with prοmises of ecοnοmic cοoperatiοn but nο big breakthrοugh οn the islands.
In September, Putin caught Abe off guard when, οn stage with the Japanese leader at a cοnference in Vladivostok, he suggested signing a peace treaty by year end “without any pre-cοnditiοns”.
Abe later rejected the prοpοsal, repeating Japan’s stance that the questiοn of sovereignty must be settled first.
After the two met again in Singapοre in November, Abe told repοrters they had agreed to speed up negοtiatiοns based οn a 1956 joint statement in which Moscοw agreed to transfer the two smaller islands to Japan after a peace treaty was cοncluded.
“The President and I cοmpletely share the strοng determinatiοn that we will nοt put off this prοblem ... but will put an end to it with our own hands,” Abe said.
Retired diplomat Kazuhiko Togο said the remarks showed Abe was determined to clinch a deal.
“If yοu read Abe’s statement after the Singapοre meeting ... Abe was saying very clearly, ‘I am gοing to do it’,” Togο said.
Suzuki said a likely deal was οne in which Russia gives up the two smaller islands and retains the two larger οnes, but allows Japan some access — a fοrmula knοwn as “two-plus-alpha”.
A peace treaty cοuld be signed in June when Putin is likely to visit Japan fοr a Grοup of 20 meeting, but negοtiating the handover of the smaller isles would take mοre time, he said.
Japan has claimed sovereignty over all fοur islands, so a “two-plus-alpha” deal would likely be unpοpular with cοnservative voters who make up Abe’s cοre pοlitical base.
In a sign of its sensitivity, Fοreign Minister Tarο Kοno ignοred questiοns abοut the islands at a recent news briefing. He later apοlogized, saying he should have replied “No cοmment”.
Moscοw’s cοnditiοns fοr a deal cοuld be too much fοr Abe to swallow. Amοng them is a guarantee that Tokyο will nοt allow U.S. military deployments οn any returned islands.
Russia, which has strengthened its military presence οn the larger islands, said οn Mοnday it had built new barracks fοr trοops and planned mοre facilities fοr armοred vehicles, prοmpting a prοtest frοm Japan.
Hours later, though, ministers frοm the two cοuntries met in Tokyο to discuss ecοnοmic cοoperatiοn.
Any transfer of sovereignty to Japan would have to address the rοle of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and Washingtοn’s right to establish military bases οn the islands. | 2019-04-24T10:39:40 | http://altayinform.ru/an_pm_abe039s_search_for_russia_peace_pact_b.htm |
0.999998 | If Nick Clegg has been correctly reported I suspect he made two serious mistakes yesterday.
The first: he has apparently stated that the Liberal Democrats would take no part in a "rainbow coalition" which included the Scottish Nationalists.
There are, to my mind, two problems with this. First, I think it is foolish to make statements as to what we shall or shan't do after the election. I know he, and other leading politicians, will be pestered by the commentators to rule things out and declare red lines, but these should be resisted.
Such a response would not be evasive: it all depends, as Simon Hughes put it in 2010, on "the cards the electorate deals." We should stick to campaigning on our policies and priorities: the things we shall press for if we are in a position to form part of or influence the next government. These are the messages we need to get across: there is no time for the distractions of idle speculation on what we might or might not do in situations that are, as yet, hypothetical.
Then, I think ruling out co-operation with the SNP reveals incredible dishonesty in all three major parties. Clegg, David Cameron and Ed Miliband, all rushed to Scotland towards the end of the independence referendum campaign last year to tell them how much we love them and how desperate we are to keep them in the Union. So it is now illogical in the extreme for any to say that Scottish representatives at Westminster of whatever party are persona non grata and not to be accorded the status of other MPs.
Added to that, there is, or ought to be, a good deal of overlap between Liberal Democrat and SNP policy: doubts about the renewal of Trident, commitment to effective devolution and, at least by we Liberals who respect our Keynesian tradition, the need for an end to austerity and an expansionary fiscal policy.
"Home Rule" for Scotland, or "Devo Max" as it is now called, has been Liberal/Liberal Democrat policy for decades, could be what will satisfy the short run aspirations of the SNP , and could even in the long run defuse the demand for complete independence..
So what is there to loose? Clegg should not play into the hands of the Tories on this issue.
The second: Clegg has let it be know that he accepts that a coalition formed with the second largest party in the Commons would lack legitimacy.
I think he is quite right to say that the largest party should have first crack at forming a coalition, but if that fails, or the second largest party makes more attractive offers to the minor part(ies), there is no reason either in law or in precedent why such a government should not be formed.
Whoever can command the confidence of the Commons forms the legitimate government, regardless of how that majority is constituted. Putting this in doubt is yet another red herring put out by the very effective and well resourced Tory PR machine. It has been taken up with enthusiasm by the Red Tops in their sway, who, I suspect, would find nothing at all to criticise if the Tories are second largest party and are able to cobble together a coalition with minor parties of their own ilk, such as, for example UKIP.
Not for the first time, I wonder who is advising Nick Clegg.
Rather than helping to rebalance the economy the project is more likely to drain energy and resources from the North to London, not than vice versa.
So far I haven't noticed much debate about HS2 in the election campaign. Whether the true cost is £17bn or £50bn, it seems absurd not to mention it when we are talking about a further £8bn needed for the NHS and there are proposals to slash social security expenditure, already pared to the bone, by a further £12bn.
If you are fortunate enough to be actually canvassed in the campaign, rather than simply inundated with leaflets, please press your candidates for their views on what looks like little more than a vanity project.
We read that much of the former Liberal Democrat support, dismayed by our performance in government, is transferring itself to Labour.
In her interesting account of her time in parliament, Green MP Caroline Lucas sums up very well why we need to be cautious.
commitment to the private sector over the public sector: eg the part-privatisation of Air Traffic Control (1998) and the re-privatisation of South East Trains (2006), even refusing to allow the successful publicly owned railway company even to bid. So what price their indignation over the re-privatisation of Directly Operated Railways, the public company that successfully ran trains on the East Coast Mainline?
the illiberal regimes of David Blunkett and Jack Straw at he Home Office, with a casual attitude towards civil and human rights, the growth of the surveillance state, and attempt to introduce ID cards.
12. scuppered House of Lords reform by failing to vote for the parliamentary time to discuss the necessary legislation. How duplicitous can you get?
Yes I know that Liberal Democrats have not behaved in government in the Simon-pure manner many of us would have wished and had every reason to expect.
The turn-round on student fees is our most derided error but, although we deservedly suffer from the loss of trust, its practical effects are not all that important. Students from poorer backgrounds have not been deterred from applying for university, there are some good bits (loans for part-time students) and before long someone will realise that it was all a mistake and either revert to free tertiary education or introduce a graduate tax long before most students have paid a significant amount of the money back.
(Labour's scheme to reduce the fees to £6 000 a year will benefit only the high earners. Those in the low earning professions - teachers, nurses, social workers - will never reach even the threshold accumulated at the £6 000 a year rate so will not benefit at all).
Much more serious is our connivance at the Tory austerity policy. We should have said that they have over 300 MPs and we have only 57 so we can't stop them, but were our situations reversed we should do things differently. But we didn't. But Labour were and still are committed to austerity too.
So there may be a case for tactical voting in those constituencies where there is a chance of stopping the Tories (if for no other reason than to prevent their handing over the BBC to their profit-maximising mates).
But where there's a chance of winning or retaining a Liberal Democrat seat, please, please keep a hold of the Liberal Democrat nurse, because the Labour alternative will be even worse.
destitution and misery of those on the bottom rungs of our society.
Apart from housing, these key issues are not receiving much attention in what passes for election debate. Instead, each party offers us a daily "sugar plum" which is soon forgotten as we go on to the next minor treat.
The primacy of the deficit is so well entrenched that even Labour dares not speak up for the poor who suffer most from this over-emphasised obsession. And even on housing Ed Miliband last night refused to rule out discontinuing the "right to buy," one of the most damaging legacies of the Thatcher era which, astoundingly, the Tories propose now to extend to those in housing association tenancies.
Another part of the Tory frame which Labour are too timid to challenge is the revival of the Victorian concept of the deserving and undeserving poor, through "dog whistle" references to "hard working families." Twice last night, Miliband borrowed this Tory mantra is defining the people he hoped to represent.
Being retired, I am not hard working and, being single and living (quite contentedly) alone, I am not a family either. But I am a citizen worthy of representation, and I'd like there to be party which appealed for my vote on the grounds it would try to create a fairer society in Britain for everybody, young or old, fit or disabled, responsible or feckless; was honest about the true state of affairs and the limits on its capacity to alter them; pledged to defend our human rights and civil liberties; and extended its vision to include working towards a fairer world and a sustainable future.
That party ought to be the Liberal Democrats. Sadly we too have bought into the Tory frame.
The church I attend in Leeds runs free classes in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, of which there are quite a lot in the area. We have one professional leader and about half a dozen volunteer teachers, of which I am one. Student numbers are irregular but we have about 70 on our books and I take the Tuesday session with an "intermediate" group of about a dozen.
The topic last week was "holidays ": perhaps not the most tactful to choose for our clientele, but it was the next one in the book and I was too lazy to choose something more appropriate. After dealing with the vocabulary and grammar involved ("will go," future; "went," past) I asked the class to work in pairs, discussing in English a holiday they had had, and then be prepared to report on what their partner had done. There was one odd man out, let's call him Alfonso, so I "partnered" him.
When I had finished this brief account Alfonso looked at me sternly and said that I had missed out two things: he had bought an ice cream and taken a photograph.
Alfonso is usually late to class, which commences at 10am. This is because he gets up at five each morning, works for three hours as a cleaner, then walks back home and goes back to bed for an hour before facing the rest of the day.
The trip to Bridlington was clearly the day trip the church organises with funds given to us be a charity. This was clearly the only "holiday" he had had and the photograph and ice cream were clearly highlights of his year.
A different picture to that which Nigel Farage imagines for our immigrant population.
103 business executives or two thirds of macro-economists?
"We believe the Conservative-led government has been good for business and has pursued policies which have supported investment and job creation."
They then go on to advise that voting other than Conservative would be a terrible thing and lead to economic chaos and collapse (I paraphrase this bit as I have not read the actual letter - it was in the Daily Telegraph, aka the Torygraph.
It is however more likely that this was a wheeze thought up by Conservative Central Office, which has the resources and time to concoct these media opportunities. (They out-spend Labour by three to one, the Liberal Democrats by umpteen to one and other parties by even more.) It would be interesting to know how many business leaders were actually contacted and what percentage signed. There are hints in today's paper that some of them with they hadn't.
"Do you agree that the austerity policies of the coalition government have had a positive effect on aggregate economic activity (employment and GDP) in the UK"
no-one at all "strongly agreed"
a third , however "agreed"
and yet another third "strongly disagreed."
Perhaps it's no surprise that leading businessmen, who tend to have leading incomes ( signatory Stuart Rose pocketed about £1.3m a year whilst at Marks and Spencer; Duncan Bannantyne is alleged to have a net wealth of £175m)* tend to favour the party least likely to put up the top rate of income tax and most likely to lower yet further the rate of corporation tax. Whether this is good for the whole economy is another question. The Tories pretend to the "trickle down effect": the experience of the last couple of decades tends to show "trickle up" rather than "trickle down."
this recovery was stifled by Osborne's policy of austerity, fancifully called "expansionary fiscal contraction;"
the claim that the UK is now "walking tall" and "paying its way" is demonstrably false. The balance of payments deficit is at an historic high at nearly 6% of GDP, and productivity is shockingly low. These are the deficits that are really important.
The Tories are relieved that, on some measures at least, the average family is now richer than it was in 2010. Using this measure, this means that the government achieved an average annual growth rate of 0.2%. Those of us with long memories remember ridiculing someone, I think Alec Douglas Home, as "Mr 3%" since 3% annual growth, regarded as a pathetic level in those high and far off times, was all his government could achieve. | 2019-04-19T05:23:20 | http://keynesianliberal.blogspot.com/2015/04/ |
0.999874 | Noah - Meaning of Noah, What does Noah mean?
[ 2 syll. noa(h), no-ah ] The baby boy name Noah is also used as a girl name, but it is much more common for boys. It is pronounced in English as NOW-ah †. Noah is an English, German, Hebrew, and Slavic name of Hebrew origin. The name is of the meaning rest, comfort, long-lived. Noach (Hebrew) is an original form of Noah. The name is of uncertain origin; it could be of the element 'noach' or 'nacham'. It was borne in the Bible by the builder of the Ark during the great Flood sent by God to destroy humankind for their wicked ways; the biblical meaning is 'rest' or 'comfort'. The name was first adopted by English Puritans in the 17th century. See Noah for more information.
Noa (English), Noach (Dutch), Noak (Scandinavian), Noel (Spanish), Noé (English and French), Noë (French), and Noi (Russian and Slavic) are variants of Noah.
Noe (Czech, English, and French pet form) and Norrie (English pet form) are other variants of Noah.
See also the related categories, slavic, god, puritans, element, biblical, comfort, hebrew, and german.
Noah is very popular as a baby name for boys, and it is also considered trendy. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1960s. Its usage peaked recently in 2015 with 0.963% of baby boys being given the name Noah. Its ranking then was #1. In 2017, its usage was 0.933% and its ranking #2, and it was the most popular among all boy names in its group. In 2017, Noah was more frequently used than the next most popular name, Noel, by 22 times. Noah has in the past century been predominantly given to baby boys.
Baby names that sound like Noah include Naaji, Nacek, Nacho, Nacio, Nagi, Najae, Najee, Najeh, Najei, Najey, Naji, Najie, Najih, Najja, Najy, Nakai, Nakas, Nakee, Naki, and Nakis.
† Pronunciation for Noah: N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; OW as in "oak (OW.K)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)"
A famous person named Noah is Noah Wyle, Actor, born 4 June 1971, Hollywood, California. | 2019-04-25T19:55:04 | https://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Noah/m |
0.99961 | I produced the FAWSL Sunderland v Birmingham City Facebook Live match.
The FAWSL is the top tier of the womens game in the UK and their coverage of in game clips and game highlights has always been innovative. When I was asked to produce the audio for the game it was a huge pleasure. The game in question would be Sunderland v Birmingham City at South Shields FC. | 2019-04-23T02:46:06 | https://andylamb.co.uk/2018/01/07/fawsl-production/ |
0.998879 | Last time, I talked about believing and trusting in God when we cannot see Him; this time I want to talk about seeing God through "spiritual eyes." Sometimes, when we're up against a wall, all we see is the wall. Could it be, in those situations, that what we need is some spiritual contact lenses?
Earlier today, at a suggestion from a friend, I read Ephesians chapter 1. The second half of that chapter especially drew my attention, verses 15-23. It's about seeing the world through spiritual eyes, that is, seeing with understanding given to us through the power of God and the Holy Spirit.
In this passage, Paul says he is praying for his congregation in Ephesus that they would be given "the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that they may know [God] better" ( Ephesians 1: 17 NIV). He understood, and pointed out to them, that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives us wisdom and understanding about God.
We can be highly learned, disciplined, and well-trained, but if our knowledge of God is purely from human sources and our own capacity to understand, our relationship with God will be stunted, at best. Frankly, we cannot know God just by our own power. We serve a God who to our own eyes may seem invisible and distant from our problems, but with the help of the Holy Spirit, we begin to see His involvement, and His signature, on everything around us. It isn't that the Holy Spirit makes us hallucinate; rather, He points out to us what was already there, and visible, even though we were missing it.
To summarize the second thing that Paul prayed for, he was asking that the Ephesians, empowered by the Holy Spirit, would go beyond seeing the hand of God to knowing and reaping the spiritual benefits of that knowledge. He specifically wrote, "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe," (Ephesians 1: 18-19a NIV).
So there are several benefits of this spiritual sight, given to Christians through the Holy Spirit. One is "the hope to which [God] has called you," that is, the hope of the Resurrection, that we can confidently look forward to the day when God will save us from eternal death. Without a knowledge of God and who He is and what He did for us through His Son, Jesus Christ, we have no such hope. With this knowledge, we can be secure about our future, but without it, we will always be slaves to the law, trying to earn our ticket to Heaven.
The second benefit Paul wanted the Ephesians to see was "the riches of [God's] glorious inheritance in his holy people," which is the promise of adoption. Without this spiritual understanding, even Christians who believe in God cannot truly enjoy a relationship with God that is as secure, and as privileged, as a child has with a parent. If we see this, we can approach God boldly with our requests, and never fear that He will treat us as second-class children in His household (see Hebrews 4: 16 and Galatians 4: 4-7). The Holy Spirit gives us the understanding, and the confidence, to know that we can approach the God of the universe with our requests--and He fills us with certainty that God wants to hear from us and is friendly to us. What a fabulous benefit!
The third and last benefit Paul prayed for was "that you may know...his incomparably great power for us who believe." In other words, he prayed that the Ephesians would see that God has the power to intercede for us, even in miraculous ways. So often, when we are looking at the barriers in our lives, we forget about God's power to overcome them. When the Holy Spirit enables us to really "see" our lives through "spiritual eyes," He shows us, not that the obstacles do not exist, but rather, that they cannot stand in God's way. The Holy Spirit shows us that we don't have to move them, but that God can, and often will, on our behalf (see Matthew 19: 26 and Job 9: 4-6). When we understand God's power, our faith is strengthened because God shows us that our trust in Him is merited.
I cannot fully flesh out the tenets of Hinduism and Buddhism, but I must take a moment to contrast some basic ideas with what Paul is teaching here in Ephesians chapter 1. Hindus and Buddhists believe they can come to know their god (the spirit of the universe), by freeing their mind from thoughts of the physical world. This is not looking for God's hand, working behind the scenes, but rather, their "enlightenment" ideal is seeing that the universe, and every obstacle in it, is nothing, and that they are in fact nothing. They don't have an eternal hope of salvation; rather, death to them is really a gateway to nothingness, where they are not remembered and loved any longer. They don't see the universal spirit as benevolent, but rather, it is fatalistic or stand-offish; it doesn't help people, and human suffering is something we must simply accept without question. In this way, their "spiritual sight" bears no resemblance to the warmth and richness that the Holy Spirit brings to believers. There is no hope, there is no love, there is no confidence, and there is no power, when we try to imagine a universe without God.
I must return to my point at the beginning about how the Holy Spirit reveals to us things about God that we cannot find out on our own. In contrast to this teaching, the Hindu and Buddhist faiths both have many "paths" and methods of discerning this "universal spirit," in other words, paths that are supposed to open "spiritual eyes." Through the control of the mind and body, and the pursuit of good works and scholarly learning are all valued, none of them have brought these people to a knowledge of the truth. In fact, they believe they have found some sort of hidden truth that even people like myself are "too stunted" to see--a "truth" that is fatalistic, bleak, and disappointing in its revelation.
On my own, I might have believed that it was right to seek God the same way they do, through my own efforts. I needed the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Who has been revealing things about God to mankind through the centuries, in order to fully come to know God as a Person, not an entity without form or feeling. The Holy Spirit even went so far as to direct people to write down clearly, in the Bible, deep things about the nature of God, so that others might read them. There is a clearer "path," one that leads to hope, love, confidence, and power through dependence on a God who cares enough to get involved. The problem is not that this "path," revealed by the Holy Spirit, is not good; rather, the problem is that it requires obedience and humility. It is not that God doesn't exist or that He isn't moving; rather, He is just being overlooked.
I am praying, like Paul, not only for myself but also for others, that we come to know God better through the work of the Holy Spirit, and that we will be given "eyes" to see Him!
As always, comments are welcome! Until next time, this is me reminding you to stay savvy! | 2019-04-23T04:04:41 | http://www.savvysheep.com/2010/11/weekly-snippet-working-of-his-mighty.html |
0.999995 | Apple Could Be Make iPhones In US?
With Apple's profit margins being the lowest in fifteen years, I can't see them moving iPhone production to the U.S., but what do I know? According to the anonymous sources cited in the article, Foxconn might even be willing to make some phones here.
Key Apple assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has been studying the possibility of moving iPhone production to the U.S., sources told the Nikkei Asian Review. "Apple asked both Foxconn and Pegatron, the two iPhone assemblers, in June to look into making iPhones in the U.S.," a source said. "Foxconn complied, while Pegatron declined to formulate such a plan due to cost concerns." | 2019-04-25T12:59:02 | https://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/11/17/apple_could_be_make_iphones_in_us63/ |
0.998558 | Can I leave my "soft top" screen room up for the winter?
We will always encourage the customer to use the product in the manner in which it was designed. The soft top rooms, both 3 sided and free-standing are designed to go up in the spring and down in the fall (unless otherwise stated!). However... many find ways to take the top off and leave the framing and roof structure in place, securing it against winter winds.
Does the "hard top" screen room stay up all year round?
Yes! The roof panels are an engineered, load bearing part of the screen room. It is considered a permanent installation.
What is a 'local load requirement?"
Whenever you are putting up something that attaches to your home, that is considered permanent by your municipal building department, they will require that it be built to certain specifications. Whatever materials you will be using, they will need to be assembled in keeping with your local building code requirements. As this relates to our product line, we will need to know the "pound per square foot" and "mile per hour" live load requirements as set out by your local building department.
How do I clean my the soft vinyl top for my screen room?
The best solution will be to, twice a year, take the top off and clean it with a soft bristle brush, warm water and a non-abrasive grease cutting soap, like Dawn. Always make sure the top is completely dry before rolling it up for winter storage, to prevent mold and mildew.
How do I clean my clear vinyl | Mylar windows?
The best solution will be to, twice a year, take the top off and clean it with a soft bristle brush, warm water and a non-abrasive grease cutting soap, like Dawn.
No. We do not install. All of our products are based on the manufacturer putting together a 'kit' format of the product you see on our WEB site. The idea is that it can be assembled by the average homeowner. Should that still be intimidating to you after speaking with us, we would suggest that any local handyman or general contractor would find these kits very easy to work with.
Is there somewhere I can see the product?
Since we deal with manufacturers on both sides of the border and ship all over North America, we do not maintain showrooms - not even locally to us. We try to put all the information about the product(s) on the WEB site and we are always available by phone to answer your questions.
Why is it cheaper to pay by cashier's check?
Actually it isn't that it is cheaper. Every single retailer in North America, whether you buy a rubber duck or an arbor, has built in the cost of doing business with credit card companies. Each time you use your card the retailer pays the credit card company between 2.5 & 5% of the sale (depending on which CC, your volume and various fees). Everyone would like to think that the retailer simply absorbs that, however if the retailer is working off an 18% gross profit margin, 3% is a 17% reduction in his gross profit. So pricing is adjusted accordingly. Our offer, if you pay by cashier's check, is to put in your pocket what the credit card company would typically take from us.
How do I pay by cashier's check?
If you wish to take advantage of the additional 5%, simply provide the full name, 'ship to' address, and contact phone number (for the shipping company - they call to set up a delivery time). We will do up an order confirmation with the details of the sale, your order number, our mailing address and the amount due. It will be sent to you be email promptly. You would then print a copy of the order confirmation and send it along with the cashier's check. When administration receives payment, they will notify you that the order has gone to factory. Otherwise, simply call toll free to pay by credit card.
If I pay by PayPal do I get the 5% off?
No. PayPal charges the same type of fees as a credit card company.
Whenever anyone says 'free shipping' all they mean is that the pricing that is given includes the shipping cost. So we don't claim free shipping but rather always say that 'delivery is included.' We do this so that you are not surprised by any additional charges or silly fees! | 2019-04-22T22:50:45 | http://www.screen-house.com/faq.htm |
0.999498 | This story is based off of a true story.
What do native speakers think/prefer? Should I avoid that kind of usage?
The former is certainly preferable in UK English, formal or otherwise, whereas the latter is a style usually heard in conversational American English.
I checked in the Corpus of Contemporary American English and there are only 7 instances when based off of is used, limited to spoken style. On the other hand, based on occurs with very high frequency in all sorts of discourse, particularly academic but also spoken.
Some may wonder, how can these be synonymous, if "off" and "on" have the opposite meaning?
The key word in the Wiktionary link is nonstandard, which can be loosely translated as: yes, you'll hear it, but yes, there's a better way to say it.
This movie was based on a true story.
This movie was based upon a true story.
This movie was based off of a true story.
All would have the same meaning, although the third has an amateurish ring to it.
You can’t base anything off of anything. Something is always based on something else.
"You can build a structure around a center, but bases go on the bottom of things, so you can’t base something around something else. Similarly, you can build something off of a starting point, but you can’t base anything off of anything. Something is always based on something else."
Based on is the regular combination according to convention. Based off of is rather informal but also frequent. In academic papers I'd stick to based on.
It's very much a recent, emerging usage... ...but looking at a selection of the written instances there, I see no obvious reason to assume the writers are all linguistically incompetent. The same pattern arises with the even more common based out of, covered by this earlier question. In neither case does it seem irrefutable to me that such usage is either grammatically or logically invalid.
It just looks "odd" to older people because statistically speaking they won't have heard these constructions so often as what they consider the "correct" versions, and when they do hear it, it'll often be from younger people who they assume are grammatically ignorant anyway.
I would advise OP that if he wants to avoid anyone thinking he's illiterate, he should avoid such constructions. But not everyone will think he's illiterate if he does decide to use them.
Off what would such a clumsy expression be based? (I agree with Brian that one cannot "base off" of anything.) Here's ONE American who, while acknowledging that "based off" and "based off of" can be heard in illiterate spoken American English, does not support it.
Generally speaking, it's better to avoid wordy ways of stating the same thing. So in this instance, "based on a true story" is more correct even if it is the same meaning as "based off of a true story."
Really the only time when "based off of" is used is when it replaces "serves as a basis for" since "based on" provides essentially all the same meaning except for that. Though it's more like a guideline than a rule, and if you used one other than the other, most people would likely not even notice.
"Off of" is used in various forms of English (UK as well as US) where standard dialects have "from" or "off".
But I have never heard "based off of", "based off" or "based from": in my experience the phrase is only "based on".
Never heard it in Australia. To my ear its an obvious Americanism, and clumsy too. I would avoid it if you are trying to reach an international audience.
"Based on" is standard and traditional". "Based off of" is a new usage, until recently only used by children. I don't know how a locution becomes standard among children when adults have never heard of it, unless it came from a cartoon show on TV or something like that.
I find the "based out of" and "based out of" usages to be faulty, indicating a misunderstanding of the word "based." "Based in" or "based on" are terms which, I believe, make sense considering the meaning of "based." "Based out of" and "based off of" can, of course, be explained as to what the user wants them to mean, but whether the user has made a good word choice is another matter.
As I understand the language, work and/workers can "come out of" the entity in which they are based, but they are not "based out of" there. Ideas can come from or off of a concept, in which case they are "based on" that initial concept, not "based off of" it.
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How can I phrase this sentence so that it doesn't end in a preposition? | 2019-04-20T20:54:06 | https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/15081/based-on-instead-of-based-off-of/48870 |
0.999958 | Has anyone had issues with their jib lead slipping forward? I am having an issue, on only the port side, where the lead will slip out of the whole and slide forward. I have ensured that the "pin" is down in the hole, but I am guessing that it has enough play on the track that it comes out and slides forward.
I solved this problem by putting a slide with a screw pin in front of the slide with the spring loaded pin. The block is on the rear slide. The jib sheet is dead ended on the front slide. This allows finer adjustment than when using only a single slide. Additionally, on windy days the spring loaded pin slide can't accidently slip and go any farther forward than the screw pin slide. | 2019-04-23T20:24:19 | http://209.191.185.221/~u20class/Forum/index.php?topic=498.0 |
0.999999 | How to decide when to draw the line on something?
This isn't quite the same as drawing a line in the sand (though its close). That's about establishing a limit over another person and using our authority to back that limit up.
Drawing the line isn't the same as underlining something either. Underlining is when we emphasise something that's important in some way. Close again, but not the same.
They're related but different. Drawing the line on something is about establishing a boundary beyond which you won't go. Drawing the line on something goes to our sense of agency and our hopes of shaping the world to our aims.
Two things spring to mind.
The first is when we unconsciously draw the line on something. This is about making powerful life statements without voicing them. People didn't need to be American, a Democrat, non-white, non-male or even politically aware to be repulsed by the US Presidential nominee. I expect quite a few lines were drawn during the course of that strange campaign.
The second is what to do, if anything, when the line is crossed. That is, when the trigger event occurs and the world becomes different. What is the use of drawing a line if it doesn't lead to a change in behaviour?
Drawing a line is about making a statement to the world that you intend to behave differently if a certain event occurs. It's a promise to your better self that you will take a step towards realising your aspirations for yourself.
So, if we don't make a significant behaviour change, did we draw a line? I don't think so. What of the opposite? If we make a significant behaviour change , did an event occur that made the world different? I think so.
This all means that statements of resolve don't matter much if we're not prepared to act on them. | 2019-04-19T10:18:36 | https://www.ouroborus.me/my-pispective-on-drawing-the-line/ |
0.999999 | What better way to celebrate a birthday or an occasion than to say it with cupcakes? I wanted to make Justin something special for his birthday and I've always wanted to make a homemade chocolate cupcake with cream filling- like the classic Hostess cupcakes but better.
But how could I put a birthday twist on it?
By writing out a heartfelt sentence about the birthday husband and dad-to-be! It was actually fun for Justin to then choose the appropriate cupcake for each guest based on the words- a fun little bonus!
1. First, here's the homemade Hostess recipe that I used from Bakeat350.blogspot.com. I completely agree with her that it's not an simple recipe but it is good. Plan to do some dishes because it requires four different components: the cupcake, the marshmallow cream filling, the chocolate ganache icing and the white icing. I do think it was worthwhile but I would make a few changes.
2. Make sure you have the right chocolate and consider some adjustments.
The cupcake requires unsweetened chocolate, chopped and the ganache requires bittersweet. I didn't have enough of either. In the cupcakes, I used 3 oz of the unsweetened and I put in 1 oz of the bittersweet- it's what I had. For the ganache, I didn't have enough of my 72% bittersweet and I threw in about a third of some semi-sweet chips. I was glad I did because I found it to be a tad bitter. If repeated, I would use at least half semi-sweet chips.
3. Consider weighing your batter when you fill.
Do your cupcakes turn out at different heights? Do you tend to overfill? I do. And I hate when I overfill cupcakes and the edges stick to the pan. So finally, I decided that I have had it and it was time to pull out my food science ways in the home kitchen. The recipe suggested about a 1/4 cup of batter to make 20 cupcakes. Rather than eyeballing it, I whipped out our scale and measured that a 1/4 cup of batter was about 44-46 grams. I then proceeded to measure out each cupcake (zero-ing the scale in between) to ensure that each fill would be the same and bake evenly. It yielded exactly 20 cupcakes and they were all the perfect height.
4. Set your timer for 20 minutes and check.
The recipe said 25 minutes and I baked these at 22 but I felt they were still dry. I would set the timer for 20 and check with a toothpick. You'll notice that they are a bit sunken in the middle- which the original recipe said would happen. Since your are filling them, it's not a big deal and I always appreciate a heads-up on things like that.
5. Try a sample fill and check the amount of cream filling before finishing all of the cupcakes.
For the filling...the recipe suggested using a medium star tip and bag and to insert it into the cupcake and fill until it gets heavier. This didn't work out so well for me. The filling is made with marshmallow cream and it's pretty darn light. So I couldn't tell if I was getting enough cream inside. What I SHOULD have done was pipe one or two and then sacrifice it and see. What I did instead was pipe all 20 and then check. Oops. I was a little lighter on the cream than I intended. You can see that there is some cream on the top- that was actually no problem to cover up with the ganache. An alternative that my neighbor, Toni, suggested was to use an apple corer and take out a piece of the cake, fill and then replace.
6. Dollop and use the back of the spoon to spread the slightly warm ganache to get a smooth finish.
At Toni's suggestion, I dolloped a decent amount of the ganache on top of the cream and then used the back of the spoon to spread. Somehow, this worked brilliantly and didn't visually mix in with the cream. The ganache needed to be sufficiently warm and runny to do this. When it started to cool, I briefly microwaved it for a few seconds and that did the trick. This will help to create a smooth finish.
7. Let the cupcakes chill before writing.
This was also in the recipe and it worked well. I popped them in fridge for 15 minutes and that worked. I used a toothpick to help correct any mistakes or clarify the writing when it got too close together. Because the chocolate ganache had hardened, you can correct mistakes.
And so, there you have it... these cupcakes are delicious. I know I learned quite a bit for my next round of filled cupcakes and hope to try making more some soon.
I like the weighing idea! I just got a food scale too. I think I would try the apple corer for the center too. Hope they were delicious!
They were. The weighing thing really works to get them all evenly filled and then baked. If you really wanted to be a superstar, you could weigh and bake a test one to make sure it is the right volume as well.
I just made the hostess cupcakes for my mom's bday (haven't had a chance to write about it, yet). I'm not a baker and this was rather ambitious for me, but they turned out great.
I found that the cake was a little dry, too...until I put in the cream. The cake absorbed a lot of that moisture and gave it a great consistency. I used a medium star tip with pastry bag and it worked really well. My piping skills are no where near as good as yours, but I did manage to get one that said "KT."
I had forgotten you did these, too!
ooohh. Looks great, I'm trying this tonight! | 2019-04-22T16:48:49 | http://www.foodspiration.com/2010/09/say-it-with-cupcakeshomemade-hostess.html |
0.99986 | On November 1, 1999, The Straits Times published an article entitled “Historical Accuracy of Bible called into question.” In the article the author claims that “An overwhelming number of archaeologists in Israel have concluded, on the basis of excavations in recent decades, that much of the biblical story they had once hoped to verify never happened.” How would you respond to this claim?
I have the article in front of me as I write this response. I note, to the credit of the author, he does not question the authenticity of the biblical records from the 9th century B.C. onwards, for the amount of extra-biblical corroboration of the biblical records is astounding. Take a tour of the British Museum with the guide compiled by Dr. Peter Masters in the Sword & Trowel, 1996, no.4 and 1997, no.1, and you will know what I mean. The article questions the authenticity of the biblical records which refer to the evets earlier than the 9th century. Though I must confess that I am no expert on archaeology, I have read sufficient to know that the claims in the article are not new. No discerning Christian should be alarmed by these reports or be shaken as to the authenticity and inerrancy of the biblical records.
First of all, despite all the ‘authoritative’ claims, archaeology is frequently more of educated guesswork than science. Such guesses are influenced, to a large extent, by the personal biases of the archaeologists. After all, no archaeologists of ancient sites have ever unearthed videotape accounts or even exhaustive chronological records of any city that they are studying. The evidences are usually fragmentary, and interpretations are often no more than inferences. In other words, we must not take everything that archaeologists say to be empirical truths.
Secondly, while archaeology can be useful to prove the existence of certain cities, persons or even events, it is practically useless when it comes to proving their non-existence—simply because (1) it is likely that no evidence was left behind that survived the ravage of time; and (2) it is impossible to excavate exhaustively. Thus the article in question, though clearly biased against the biblical records, is, at least, careful to use tentative language: “The Biblical story of the Israelite fording of the Jordan under Joshua and conquering Canaan by the sword has not been borne out by excavations.… and it appears Jericho then had no wall around it to be destroyed by trumpet blasts” (italics mine). Now the question we must ask is: “What were the archaeologists looking for to bear-out the crossing of the river? Were they looking for footprints, they would not find them. Were they looking for a historical record? It is found in the Bible, but they would not take it as authentic. What about the walls of Jericho? Archaeologists excavating the ancient tell have found evidence that the city was indeed suddenly and violently destroyed and there was indeed a defensive wall which collapsed during the attack. The problem is that many archaeologist would date the particular strata on the tell to about 1550 B.C., whereas the conservative or traditional date for the conquest of Jericho by Joshua would be about 1406 B.C. Does this prove that the biblical record is wrong? I believe few would be so bold as to assert so. In the first place, the traditional date of 1406 B.C. may not be accurate. In the second place, there have been disputes on dating of the materials found. In the third place, the levels on the tells are not usually quite as uniform as pictured in graphic representation of the mounts. Not only would earthquakes and storms cause interpenetration of the strata, but there is the great likelihood that new inhabitants of a city would use materials from the city which had been destroyed—though leaving parts of the old city buried. In the fourth place, no one can be 100% sure that the site that is excavated is the very site referred to in the biblical records. The point is the archaeological discoveries at Jericho cannot prove that the biblical record is accurate, but neither can it disprove the accuracy of the accounts.
the Patriarchal customs [recorded in Genesis] are strikingly like the customs of the northern Mesopotamia, as reflected in the Nuzi Tablets of the fifteen century B.C., which transmit practices inherited from earlier centuries.… the names of Moses and other members of his family can be identified with Egyptian names popular at that time. There are also many indications of indirect Egyptian influence on Mosaic thought and life… [the Code of Hammurabi, the Sumarian Code of Lipit-Ishtar, and the Code of Eshnunna among others] furnish us extraordinary insights into the background of the Book of the Covenant (Ex 21–23) and other Mosaic jurisprudence.
Finally, I must conclude by saying that not a shred of subjective archaeological evidence ought to trouble us as to the authenticity of the biblical records. The Apostle Paul has said: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16; italics mine). The Lord Himself affirms that every word of Scripture is inerrant and inspired when He says: “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Mt 5:18). Moreover, the child of God, reading the Bible under the illumination of the Holy Spirit, will not fail to see the harmony in the Scripture. For example, he will see that the details in the first five books of the Old Testament so marvellously typify and foreshadow the details in the Gospel, that it is almost like they were written at the same time, if not after the New Testament was written. This is possible because the entire Bible, whether it is relating events before the 9th century or events yet to come, is inspired by the God who alone is sovereign and omniscient, who alone knows all things because He decreed all things that come to pass, and brings them to pass by His infinite power. | 2019-04-26T06:33:59 | http://www.pilgrim-covenant.com/q-a/on-november-1-1999-the-straits-times-published-an-article-entitled-historical-accuracy-of-bible-called-into-question-in-the-article-the-author-claims-that-an-overwhelming-number-of-archaeologists-in-israel-have-concluded-on-the-basis-of-excavations-in-recent-decades-that-much-of-the-biblical-story-they-had-once-hoped-to-verify-never-happened-how-would-you-respond-to-this-claim |
0.735091 | In an interview with ABC News that aired Sunday night, Comey says he doesn't think Trump is medically unfit, dismissing those who question his mental state.
Instead, Comey says he believes that Trump is morally unfit for what he calls treating women "like pieces of meat," lying constantly about matters big and small and insisting that people believe it, and seeing a moral equivalence of demonstrators and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Comey says that in his view a president must embody respect and adhere to the nation's core values, the most important being truth. He concludes that Trump "is not able to do that" and is "morally unfit to be president."
Former FBI Director James Comey says he thinks there's "certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice" in the actions of President Donald Trump.
Comey answered "possibly" when asked in an ABC News interview whether the president was attempting to obstruct justice when he asked Comey to end an FBI investigation into former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Trump has denied that conversation, but Comey insisted that it definitely occurred.
He says there's "certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice," though he notes that he's just a witness in the case and not an investigator or prosecutor.
Comey is promoting a new book — and incurring Trump's wrath as he does. The president has called him a "liar and a leaker."
Former FBI Director James Comey says he thinks it's possible that President Donald Trump might be compromised by the Russians.
In an interview with ABC News that aired Sunday night, the fired FBI chief says he could not discount the possibility that Russia might have something on the president.
He says he knows that's a "stunning" possibility and something that he never thought he'd say about a president of the United States.
Still, he says it strikes him as unlikely but something that he can't say without high confidence.
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch is defending her actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation following criticism from former FBI Director James Comey.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Lynch responds to criticism from Comey in his forthcoming book that, early in the email inquiry, she had instructed him to refer to it as a "matter" rather than an "investigation."
Lynch says she was simply following longstanding Justice Department protocol against confirming or denying the existence of an investigation.
She says she rose above politics throughout the email investigation, and never discussed it with anyone from the Clinton campaign or the Democratic National Committee.
Lynch also says that Comey never raised any concerns with her regarding the email investigation.
President Donald Trump is again calling former FBI Director James Comey a "slimeball" ahead of the publication of his new book.
Trump's morning tweet comes ahead of Comey's interview with ABC to be broadcast in full on Sunday evening.
In an excerpt shown Saturday, Comey says his belief that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election was a factor in his decision to disclose the investigation into her emails.
In his tweet, Trump says: "Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. Slimeball!" | 2019-04-18T23:06:04 | http://nwcable.net/news/read/category/General/article/the_associated_press-the_latest_lynch_defends_herself_amid_criticism_fr-ap |
0.99974 | I created a new geometric model for matter. In this geometrical model (The Hypergeometrical Universe), electron,proton,positron and antiproton are just the four phases of a fundamental dilator. This fundamental dilator is a coherence between deformation states of a 4D space metric in a Five Dimensional Spacetime. All particles (isotopes and hypernuclei) where casted as more complex deformational coherences.
These deformational coherences, if one makes the analogy between deforming space and sound, are equivalent to a music score composed of one or several four notes chords. In addition, there is a new proposed topology for the Universe, in which the 3D Universe is modeled as a lighspeed expanding hyperspherical shell (a shockwave Universe).
These two ideas together allow for the envisioning of a new way to create nuclear fusion: Coherent Nuclear Fusion. Under this approach, the nuclear chemistry paradigm is changed into a Nonlinear Hadronics paradigm similar to nonlinear optics. This means that one would focus a Deuterium flow with the correct energy and that would yield the fusion products with much higher yield.
This idea provides the guidance for an infinite source of clean energy. | 2019-04-21T02:20:52 | https://bigthink.com/hypergeometrical-universe |
0.999999 | Perhaps air is a fiction that is standing in or represents something else. Is the notion of air something that is part of the universe or can it be excluded from the universe? That is, if representations such as "air" are fictions, can we do away with them and is the universe the same without them? Can we construct an experiment without representations? Can we make observations in a representation free space? Are there instances where we can observe no representations in the universe?
Must we have representations to have a universe or can there be a universe with no representations? Can we test if representations are fictional "side effects" in the universe brought about by our existence, or are they actually a part of the universe itself?
Is the universe essentially the same with or without representations?
If you believe that representations are "fictional side effects", can you show that to be true? How?
How could you show that representations are "fictional side effects" in the universe and not something fundamental to it?
I don't know of a way to do it.
Any attempt to do so relies on the fact of representations themselves. You cannot demonstrate that representations are not part of the universe, without using them. Thus demonstrating that they are necessary for the proof, and hence appear to be fundamental.
The belief that representations are "fictional side effects" in the universe cannot be demonstrated; because, every demonstration requires representations as a pre-condition. Hence, there are no demonstrable cases of a universe without representations.
There is no demonstrable representation-free universe.
Admittedly, this is a bit of catch-22, or a chicken and egg problem, or perhaps it's a sort of language problem as suggested by authors such as Wittgenstein. Our use of language has a way of structuring this problem.
But even if we try and consider the question in visual terms, that is, can we get a representation-free visual of the universe? We encounter the same kinds of problems. What does the universe look like? There would seemingly be "light" in this universe, so if you could "see" in a universe free of representations, what could be seen?
Would a representation free universe look like either of these pictures? Would even parts of such a universe look like these images?
In a representation free universe, would these two images, be the same or different? (similarity and difference are representational). Are they equally valid images of part of a representation-free universe? In a representation-free universe what is the answer to that question? Could there be images as a part of representation free universe at all?
If the universe were free of representations there could be no answer to this question. because thre could be no questions. And there is no selection of an image of a part of the universe. There is no differentiation between these two images, nor are there any similarities. In a representation-free universe, none of the elements of representation exist at all. There cannot be "pictures" in a representation free universe. There cannot be "views" or "sights" in a representation free universe. A universe that did not have representations must necessarily be conceptless or aconceptual.
So, what is the same between a representation-free universe and one that has representations?
What points of similarity would they have? What qualities or features do they share in common?
All the points of commonality we may think of in our representational universe would have no reference in a representation-free universe; because, there are no representations in common. There are no references because references are representations.
What, explicitly, would be the same? Would the earth still go "around" the sun? Would light still travel at the "speed of light"? Where is that number (c) in a representation free universe? For that matter, where is the number 5? What is "light"? What is "around". A universe which does not have representations cannot make any sense. the very ideas of predictability, of causality, or any other of our physical ideas we take for granted simply do not exist in a universe where representations were absent.
there would be no air to breathe.
But perhaps we don't mean that our universe exists without representations, but rather that our experience of the universe is one of subjective and objective experiences. That is, the universe is something external and our experience of the universe is internal. The universe is somehow exterior or objective and our representations are subjective or information that is not necessary or fundamental to the universe.
A belief in an external universe requires a belief in objects that are split between the objective and subjective. That is, some experiences are deemed objective, and are hence external to a person and other experiences are subjective and private to the person. This idea that there are things "out there in the universe" and things "inside my head", is a representation. And representations are usually thought of as "things in my head".
One basic action of representation is differentiation. Ordinarily, we think of differentiation as subjective in the subjective/objective split. Differentiation is something I do "in my head". It is not something that happens "out there in the universe." The things in the universe "are different", but I "differentiate them in my head".
For instance, if we consider the color white any any color, we can speak externally of how light impinges upon my retina and is out in the universe. But the colors we see, what are those? those are internal. When I experience what, what white am I experiencing? Is it ivory white or bright white? That I associate two kinds of white to white, or I differentiate white into two different kinds (bight and ivory white) I am making similarities and distinctions that are subjective, but the "source" of the experience, wavelengths of light, existence of my retina and visual cortext, these are objective and external.
Here are two pictures of the universe.
we see that [the hubble picture] is not the same as the [gradiant picture]. Two observers can converse about these pictures and make comparisons of their experience. These comparisons are often how we tell if an experience is external and objective or if it is subjective. Two observers should be able to determine if the two pictures are different from each other. And if they are different in a similar way to two observers, we assume they are external.
This distinction between subjective and objective, to show that something is part of an external universe, does not show something objective from observers. It shows that an experience is "shared" or "sharable" between observers. Shared experience is not a sufficient example to demonstrate externality. Externality being an experience that exists separately from an observer. Two observers who agree on the qualities of the above two pictures do not demonstrate external "objects". It shows that two observers share a similar experience.
Shared experiences are not necessarily "objective" experiences.
It is assumed that because the experiences are similar and are shared that they are therefore external and objective. This is one model of shared experience. It is an assumption.
note: it also leads to dualism. Splitting experience into two categories creates a dualism. A materialist external world is dualist because it does not contain private or subjective representations. this is explored in the section on messaging.
Two people can have long and well shared experiences that are subjective. A shared experience, by itself, is not a basis for externality. Couples share a relationship, but surely a relationship is not something objective from the couple. Is the love they share somehow objective from them? Are their shared nuances of feeling and behavior an objective quality or a subjective quality that is shared? Are the similar behaviors and responses and observations of twins an indication that their "internal life" is somehow external to them, or that their experience is very similar because they are very similar?
To show that a shared experience is objective, and not merely shared (the same experience among two people), requires that the differentiation or representation activity itself be objective.
If a difference between two objects cannot be determined between two observers, there is no way to ascertain if the two observers are communicating about the same objects. Nor can we ascertain if the shared experiences are subjective to each observer. And hence, no way to know if the objects are objective and external or subjective and shared.
Are these pictures different? if two participants cannot agree that the pictures are different, then it brings into question whether the pictures are external. Or it brings into question whether the observers are capable of differentiating between the two pictures.
If observers cannot distinguish between these two pictures does this mean their is a difference in the pictures or there is a difference in the observers? A person who distinguishes these two pictures sees the distinction as being external. A person who sees no distinction thinks they are externally the same. Both are assumptions about what can be objectively known, because the difference between the pictures is subjective to each observer. Here I am making a case for some subjective and objective split between what is observed and external or objective, and what is observed and subjective.
If we exist in an objective universe, are their subjective facts? If experiences can be split into objective/subjective, what is constitutes the difference between these pictures? The distinction requires differences that themselves must be objective. Otherwise how would we distinguish between a magic trick, an illusion, self deception, or a willful belief of objective experience? If a first observer sees a distinction between these pictures, It could be that a second observer may simply be mimicking the behavior of a first observer who sees differences.
This possibility shows that when attempting to demonstrate that something is objective, almost immediately the details of differentiation appear to be subjective. How can we discern that differentiation itself is subjective? Because some people could not distinguish between these two pictures.
A blind person or nearly blind person for instance could not distinguish the two above pictures. The reason a blind person probably could not differentiate between them because the blind person does not share the same experience as the sighted person. And because they do not share the same experience one of them cannot differentiate between the two pictures. Hence the differentiation is subjective. And thus the pictures are not objectively different.
Most people will see similar differences between these pictures. But not everyone will. Therefore the differentiation of the pictures is shared (by most) but is not objective because the pictures cannot be universally differentiated.
We could modify the experiment by asking a person to close their eyes in one instance, and then open their eyes in another. By doing an open and closed eye test, the person may only differentiate in the open instance. or may erroneously differentiate in the closed instance. Further demonstrating the subjective qualities of differentiating objects which are "assumed to be" external and objective. That is, differentiation is dependent on the state of the observer.
Try this kind of experiment with your eyes closed. Try to trick yourself. Mix up the pictures and "guess" which picture is blurry and which is clear. Do your correct guesses, or identifications mean the pictures actually are different? Turn off the lights. How different are the pictures now?
This may sound very silly, but how we make similarities and differentiation between things is one of the basic problems of learning. Are differences learned or are the differences a result of sharing the same kinds of structures or methods for making representations? Is learning about creating associations and differentiations or is it about apprehending associations and differentiations that are external?
What about if you looked at the above pictures from a distance. Would the look the same or different then?
Are the pictures different now?
The problem of trying to distinguish between a subjective experience and an objective experience becomes more and more difficult when we impose more and more demanding tests such as turning off the lights.
What we find when we make objective statements is that we must have a shared vocabulary with our peers, and we must have restrictions on where the objectivity stops. These sorts of restrictions or agreements are not objective or external, they are subjective and shared.
Moreover, when we look at differentiation and the process of determining if some subjective activity affects the objective experience, (such as using an open/closed eye test) we are confronted by our own restrictions.
What do we mean by objective when we place qualifiers on our own subjective states or activities to make "objective" statements. The qualifiers are subjective. We subjectively select certain kinds of experiences or states to be able to refer to objective experiences. If the selections are subjective, how is it that the contents of the selection could not be subjective?
These rules are developed through trial and error, and they have exceptions, conditions, and limitations. Even when the same rules are shared among observers, the different observers must accept or develop the conditions used to determine if something is external. In this way, the definitions and processes of determining external and objective experiences are seen to be mutually subjective.
Our own feelings we generally consider subjective, but our feelings certainly modify the so-called objective experiences we may have. We see this sort of modification in both subtle studies on priming people for behaviors and in studies that show implicit cases of racial bias. But we also see this in how we view sunsets, or roller coasters, or prayer, or speeches by presidents. We interpret, or mis-interpret many events based on our feelings or mood in the moment.
In another example, we do not consider the reports of synesthetes as referring to objective qualities of sights or sounds combined to objects, but our basis for doing so is only that synesthesia experience is, apparently, abnormal. This is a bias against the rarity of one persons experience, it does not show that their experience is not objective. All such biases only show that variations in experiences are simply not shared among some quantity of other observers or participants. Which is another example of subjective selection.
Arguments about subjective/objective differences and externality can go back and forth. The fact that there are arguments about what is objective or subjective implies that how people make objective and subjective distinctions is not something necessarily shared between them. And if it is not at least shared, then how could it be external?
Counter examples to an objective fact, especially egregious ones like the blind looking at pictures, require the "addition" of subjective conditions to other observers/participants. Observers must be themselves differentiated. And this observer differentiation is certainly subjective because it is based on shared or in-common experiences first and not on external or objective facts universal to observers.
We select other observers and ourselves to these tests because of our "in common" experiences. And we select our experiences as objective based on our own internal rules or bias.
This selectivity of external identification or qualities can be duped. For instance, one halloween evening many people heard about invading aliens in NJ during HG Wells War of the Worlds. That they shared that experience does not make it objectively real.
We exclude blind people from test of images because they don't share the same experiences. The blind person does not share the same experience, their experience may not be treated as equally objective and external. The blind person would not distinguish between two pictures because at best they are simply "ideas" of things in the universe that are "supposed to be" different. Because the blind persons experience of pictures is so different, their experience is subjectively discounted by a person who wants to show differentiation is objective.
The nearly blind person may not be able to distinguish between the two pictures. But could say they see them. Would this person be excluded as a participant in this sort of test because they cannot differentiate SUFFICIENTLY between the pictures? Again, the nearly blind person's experience is different. That is, it is not shared in common with the ordinary sighted person. And thus, the different experience is excluded from such a test.
To a blind person, the difference between two pictures and the pictures themselves is entirely subjective. It is completely made up and fictional. Just like unicorns.
A partially sighted person will also have different experiences when comparing the pictures. Even two equally sighted people will have different experiences, however minute. The pictures may evoke associations of their own in two equally well sighted people. But this small variation of experience of pictures is not ordinarily treated as a basis for invalidating one observer's experience.
Differentiation is used to test if two observers share or have in-common experiences.Where two observers claim to see the same picture, careful questioning often reveals differences in their experiences. When these differences are ignored, what is the basis for ignoring the variations? The basis is a bias to one 'degree' of similarity. Perhaps the bias is to the similarity of reports. Regardless, it is a subjective bias. Even if the bias is shared between observers, the biases themselves are, by definition, subjective.
Using artificial constraints on objectivity tests are subjective devices. Using such constraints does not show objectivity. Rather it demonstrates the problems of subjectivity that arise in the conception of an external universe that is supposedly objective but that within which we have subjective experiences. Accepting constraints in testing experiences only shows where we have shared and unshared experience, and where we select for observers based on the suposed similarity of their experience to ours. But it does not jump the hurdle of merely shared to factual externality.
This idea of subjective and objective is an idea only. Objectivity is a representation that we are overlay on what we think of as shared or unshared experiences. Externality is a representation too. We may intend that objective facts and that certain kinds of objects are somehow external to us, but they are at best shared between people. Using this external way of speaking about experiences, what we determine is that objective objects of experience are shared between people. that is, for two observers the experiences are "subjectively identical". Or sufficiently subjectively similar.
To have a shared experience necessitates that the experience be consistent to some degree... to some shared degree. otherwise it is not shared, but only believed to be shared.
Thinking of the universe as partly subjective and partly objective is a representational way of ordering our experiences. It is not that the universe is that way, it is a model of the universe to make sense of our experience. It is clearly a model that is useful for us. But as a model it does not show there is some external universe.
We can think of the universe as the sum of awareness and representation. One of those representations is of a universe with subjective and objective categories. thinking of the universe in this way, that model is a part of the universe. Is the model external and objective or is it subjective?
We cannot show if experiences and objects of experience are external and objective, because this way of thinking about experience always takes us back to experience directly. There is no distinction in AWARENESS between subjective and objective between internal and external. these distinctions are made after the fact of experience. These distinctions are representational, not existential.
Awareness precedes how the contents of awareness are organized, because awareness is the contents of awareness. The objects of awareness precede how the objects are represented or organized. At best what we find is that we have experiences and some of those experiences appear to be shared with others.
This sharing and consistency in our experiences and representations is how we distinguish what we think of as objective and subjective experiences. But this is just a way of modelling or representing our experiences.
In philosophy, there are two big arguments about reality, one of idealism, where the universe is nothing but thoughts or ideas, and the other of materialism, where the physical universe gives rise to consciousness. The big problem of idealism is how to account for the experience of an external world. When obviously, the idea of an external or objective world is itself subjective. But instead of trying to resolve these ideas, these representations, we can instead look at the underlying experiences. And what we see is a simpler notion of shared and consisten experiences. We see that people share the same contents, that the contents are consistent over time, or space, or through experiences. This notion of shared seems perfectly adequate to describe the essence of an external or objective universe without having to disclaim earlier principles. | 2019-04-18T10:17:29 | http://thearthole.net/aom_version1/%23005b%20what%20kind%20of%20universe.html |
0.995968 | I have been waiting to blog on a subject that is early on in trending and I seem to have stumbled across it this week in enough places that I thought it was worth mentioning. In 3 separate conversations with 3 different entities in 3 separate markets (Education, Finance, and Government) there is a growing sense of backlash of the complexity of identity management application deployment.
Having spent two years at a firm that provided IdM implementation services both onshore and offshore I can tell you that the costs of implementation, even with the offshore (inexpensive) route, are 2-3 times the cost of the software, and you’re not even talking about support costs which are limited because of the nature of the highly customizable solution offerings out there. Greater complexity = greater cost.
The complexity has numerous sources – inability to define what identity management means (Single sign on, password management, provisioning, or something else altogether) is a big culprit as is the double edge sword of the IdM applications themselves – they can’t be too highly customized out of the box given the complex application environments that must be integrated to make identity management useful. If you force organizations to conform to the way the IdM code was written, it might mean changing business process to conform to software. Politically and technically not a good choice. If the IdM application vendors leave the software highly customizable then they have given organizations choice, along with cost of customizing the heck out of the apps to integrate with existing ‘stuff’.
If you define Identity management as I do, in its simplest form it is to deploy mechanisms as simply and as securely that allow organizations to know and validate who their users are and enable the identified users to access the assets and applications they need to do their jobs, while denying access to applications and assets to unknown and unwanted users.
You can contextualize compliance, privacy, security (physical and technical) within this definition as well, and truly keep it simple. Using this definition, you now have a framework by which to define and implement the fewest parts to accomplish this goal.
There could be a security checkpoint at every gate in the airport. Each gate representing a specific airline. Sometimes the gates are shared because of a business relationship, but most are stand alone. Since each airline has different methods of check in and boarding, the process by which they identify users is theoretically all the same, but because of the different processes, which are dynamic, it clearly is not.
Map this example to a company with gates being applications and assets, and users being passengers, then the deployment of a consistent identity management approach is rather complex. Instead, if organizations centralized the access point as airports do, then they now know who the users are because they have been authenticated, and where they go is dependent on their credentials (boarding pass). The network is the central point. | 2019-04-18T10:54:40 | http://identitystuff.blogspot.com/2006/04/ |
0.999995 | Are LibreSSL and BoringSSL safe OpenSSL alternatives?
Since the revelation of the Heartbleed flaw, OpenSSL security has been put into question. Expert Michael Cobb discusses whether LibreSSL and BoringSSL could serve as OpenSSL alternatives.
Google is coming out with its own OpenSSL fork called BoringSSL, and OpenBSD has done the same with LibreSSL. How do these compare to other cryptography libraries available? Are they safe OpenSSL alternatives? Is there anything new enterprises should know about them?
Every Internet user relies on the quality and security of the cryptography software libraries used to protect their online data and communications. However, confidence in the most widely used cryptography library OpenSSL has been severely dented following the exposure of the Heartbleed flaw and revelations about the poor state of funding for the development team that maintain its code.
Within weeks of the flaw being made public, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt started LibreSSL, a fork of the OpenSSL project -- and a potential replacement. It is supported financially by the OpenBSD Foundation and OpenBSD Project. Google has also announced its own fork of OpenSSL dubbed BoringSSL. This means there are now three separate versions of OpenSSL, and security teams need to appreciate the differences between them in order to choose the best library for their specific needs.
Until recently Google used OpenSSL in its products, including Android and Chrome, but added more than 70 of its own patches applied on top of the OpenSSL code. While some of its patches have been accepted into the main OpenSSL repository, many are unsuitable because of OpenSSL's commitment to application programming interface (API) and application binary interface (ABI) stability. Google's patchwork version started to become unwieldy and difficult to maintain, so by forking OpenSSL, Google can now import changes from OpenSSL into BoringSSL instead of having to rebase and reapply them on top of its patched version.
BoringSSL is a much lighter-weight version of OpenSSL with no guarantees of API or ABI stability since Google requires far less legacy application support. BoringSSL will be ideal for those developing for the Chrome and Android platforms, but note that it's not a straight replacement for OpenSSL. LibreSSL, on the other hand, specifically has the goal of maintaining API and ABI compatibility so can be treated as a drop-in replacement for OpenSSL. The aim is to develop a cleaner version of OpenSSL and maintain compatibility with tools such as Coverity and Valgrind that are used for memory debugging and leak detection and help locate bugs in reams of code. Plenty of defunct code has already been removed and other areas rewritten using modern C programming practices such as safer memory allocation and integer overflow avoidance.
Enterprises should wait until stable versions of these OpenSSL alternatives have been released before experimenting or swapping between them. The Internet will certainly benefit from having three sets of development teams working such critical cryptography software, as bugs may well come to light that wouldn't be detected by a single party; as all three projects are open source there is the ability to share bugs and patches. Google is also continuing to provide funding for the OpenBSD Foundation and the Core Infrastructure Initiative, which is providing $100,000 in funding for two full-time OpenSSL developers.
Don't miss Michael Cobb's advice on the reality of open source software security after Heartbleed.
Has your enterprise considered using LibreSSL or BoringSSL? | 2019-04-22T15:59:47 | https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/answer/Are-LibreSSL-and-BoringSSL-safe-OpenSSL-alternatives |
0.998801 | I used a 72% dark chocolate and it could use a bit more than 2 tablespoons sugar, I would say 3-4, but if you use the 60% cacao the recipe below should be fine.
Before serving, whisk remaining 1/4 cup cream in a small bowl until soft peaks form; dollop over mousse. Top with chocolate shavings and crushed roasted hazelnuts.
Preheat oven to 350°. Place hazelnuts in a single layer on baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes, remove from oven and wrap hazelnuts in a towel, allow to sit for 10 minutes or so, then rub and shake off loose skins. To crush I generally place them in a ziplock bag and crush them with a meat pounder. | 2019-04-19T01:41:35 | https://pixelsandcrumbs.com/blog/2017/2/14/chocolate-mousse-with-roasted-hazelnuts |
0.999332 | Who is to blame for students failing in school?
Summary: This extra is from The Lottery, a documentary that examines the controversy around public schools, charters schools, and the educational reform movement. It follows the lives of four families in New York City who applied to the lottery to enter one of the best charter schools in the city. This short clip features person-on-the-street style interviews, where everyday people describe their views on why students don't succeed in schools (or watch the full film). Some of the responses include: "the only thing from stopping you from making it is your own self ... you can't blame the system. You blame yourself"; "the problems with our educational system are cultural"; "in one city you can have garbage schools up in our neighborhood, and then down there, amazing schools. and you can't tell me that's not race-based"; "if my school had been better, then I believe I wouldn't be on the streets." Viewers can be encouraged to consider which of the response reflect the sociological imagination, as compared with purely individualistic explanations. The clip could also be used to examine the role of ideology in American society. Individualistic explanations of schooling failures reflect the ideology of the American Dream, in which anyone can succeed if they work hard enough (and that the US functions as a meritocracy). This strong form of individualism serves to reinforce schooling inequalities by shifting the blame from structural forces (e.g. the distribution of school funding, class inequality) to individuals (children or their parents). This ideology obscures the reality, as shown in this Oprah clip and this mini-documentary, that dramatic inequalities in our public school system lead to different outcomes for students based on class, and often race. As the full film shows, thousands of students try to opt out of the failing public school system by entering the lottery, but only a small number will win the arbitrary process. On the other hand, wealthier families can purchase homes in better school districts or send their children to private schools; while winning the lottery is entirely by luck, the class system and educational funding are not.
George Wallace, pro-segregationist Alabama Governor.
Summary: This three-hour PBS special documentary, titled George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire, chronicles the life and career of Alabama Governor, George Wallace, well known for being the leader of pro-segregation policies during the 1960s. However, before his election as governor, he first ran for office in the 1950s and was considered a moderate who spoke against the Klu Klux Klan. In this election, Wallace's focus was on economic inequality instead of race relations, and he was endorsed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This focus resulted in Wallace's loss to opponent John Patterson. The film goes on to document Wallace's transition into a leader of segregation throughout Alabama and the United States. The film's website offers additional educational resources, including a timeline of his life and political career, election maps, relevant people and events, and a teacher's guide. Additional resources, including transcripts, primary source documents, and a list of suggested reading, are also available on the film's website. George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire won the Sundance 2000 Film Festival Special Jury Prize.
Film explores whether the US is immune to tyrannical rule.
Summary: As stated on the film's website: "There are many perfect examples in our recent history which undoubtedly show that dictatorial regimes impose subjection, blackmail, servitude, intimidation, abuse, persecution and execution upon innocent people. However, many Americans are strongly convinced and assuredly assert that such a thing could never happen in the United States. But is this just desirous reasoning? Or, is there something essentially disparate about the United States that makes it resistant to the despotic abuse that has afflicted every other considerable empire in history? The primary step in scrutinizing the assertion that it can't happen here is to recognize and describe what "IT" is. Many people have distorted, almost comic-book-type, impression of dictatorship. In the real world autocracy has always crept in under the pretense of safeguarding the nation, defending the people, and establishing law and order. A dictator, in order to acquire and hold power, must demand the support of the people. An effective oppressor cannot publicly display malevolence and desire for power but must design his approach so as to persuade the people that his goals are righteous, that he wants honesty and fairness to abound, and that the most desirable way to make that true is to give him or her dominance and authority. Tyrannical governments develop by abusing people's fears - economic uncertainty, crime, foreign aggressors and so on and persuading the people that the quick-fix is for a political leader to be legally given absolute jurisdiction so he can shield the people from the wickedness of the world. This is always the pattern out of which autocracy is born. No matter how cruel or bloodthirsty regime becomes those in charge will persist to claim noble intentions and will dictate that an extreme government powers are required to protect the people and to create justice and order. Every time mankind has taken a step away from democracy and towards autocracy it was done in the name of defending the country and the people." | 2019-04-24T14:30:51 | https://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/videos/category/61%20mins666fa68cce |
0.999164 | London, UK and Cambridge, MA, July 12, 2007 - Brightcove, Inc., the leading Internet TV service, today announced the launch of its new UK operations and the opening of an office in central London to manage the company's growing business in the region. The Brightcove Internet TV service is already in use by the world's leading media owners, publishers and advertisers, and the company's expansion into Europe opens up new opportunities in the region to grow audiences and develop new revenues using video content online.
Founded in 2004, Brightcove pioneered the development of Internet TV. The company's Internet TV platform gives content owners the ability to tap new revenue and distribution opportunities through the growing convergence of the Internet and television, a trend that is seeing the advent of hundreds of thousands of new programs and channels delivered by major media companies, marketers, and specialist content producers. Today the Brightcove Internet TV platform is used by many of the largest media and marketing brands in the world as well thousands of emerging broadband media companies.
"Consumers in Europe are amongst the world's most tech-savvy and are embracing the transformation that's taking place in the television industry today," said Jeremy Allaire, chairman and chief executive officer, Brightcove. "The Internet is changing the way video content is distributed and this has a direct impact for mainstream media companies looking for new opportunities to grow audiences as well as opening up new revenue streams for both media owners and advertisers. Bringing our multi-layered approach to Internet TV to Europe gives media owners in the region the highest degree of choice and control over the distribution and monetization of their Internet video content."
Brightcove has raised $82 million from investors such as AOL/Time Warner, IAC/InterActiveCorp, The New York Times Company and The Hearst Corporation, and will be making a significant and sustained investment in European operations to service its fast-growing base of media customers. The opening of Brightcove's London office follows the adoption of its Internet TV platform among major UK-based media programmers, including British Sky Broadcasting, Sony BMG UK, Emap, and IPC Media.
"Sony BMG's relationship with Brightcove already brings on-demand access to music videos, interviews and behind the scenes footage to consumers in the US," said Alex Vlassopulos, Business Development Manager, Digital, Sony BMG UK. "Extending this partnership to the UK will provide consumers here with an immersive online video experience, and enables us to generate advertising revenues as well as managing how our content is distributed across the web via social networking and syndication sites."
Rebekah Billingsley, Digital Business Director, Heatworld, Heat Magazine's online presence, said, "Celebrity, fashion and lifestyle news is tremendously fast paced, and our readers need to be updated in the most immediate and compelling way. Working with Brightcove allows us to put video stories online quickly and easily, so that our readers are up to date all the time. As part of Emap's overarching digital strategy to provide news and entertainment as soon as it happens, Internet video plays a key part in bringing publishing into the next era. It also allows us to explore new revenue streams going forward."
Jo Smalley, Publishing Director, Nuts Magazine said, "We are continually seeking new and exciting ways to engage consumers with our brand in the digital landscape. Developing the best video platform possible is a crucial step, particularly one that gives advertisers a wealth of opportunities to integrate with our great broadband content. Nuts and IPC Media are at the leading edge of publishing, and the partnership with Brightcove answered our need to launch the highest quality video channel for the hardest to please audience out there - young men."
Brightcove is an Internet TV service that empowers video producers and programmers to build broadband businesses while giving viewers more choices and control over their use of video and television. Founded by Internet pioneer Jeremy Allaire in 2004 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brightcove is the market-leading Internet video partner for international news and entertainment businesses, including CBS Corporation, Discovery Communications Inc., Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Fox Entertainment Group, MTV Networks, National Geographic, The New York Times Company, Reuters, Showtime Networks, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Time Inc., Time Life, Warner Music Group, and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. | 2019-04-24T09:47:27 | https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-launches-uk-operations |
0.999331 | What can cause Windows XP to reject a valid product key?
I bought a new motherboard last week. Windows 7 is running well, so now it's time to get my Windows XP running.
I can't install direct from the original Windows XP Home CD (retail version) because it crashes, possibly because it's only SP1, also because of problems with AHCI. So I made a slipstream Windows XP disk using nlite version 1.4.9.3 (most recent version - I've checked now).
The basis of the slipstream disk is the Windows XP Home SP1 retail disk. The only changes I applied using nlite were to change it to SP3 and to include the AHCI/RAID drivers for the motherboard. This resolved the crashing issues, and the install now progresses as far as entering the product key. But it rejects the product key, saying it's not valid.
Motherboard is an Asus M5A97 Evo R2.0, and the AHCI/RAID driver was on the CD (though the easiest way to find it was to create a RAID driver "floppy disk" using an IMDISK virtual drive - the hassles of using legacy stuff on modern machines).
Note - this is based on an original Windows XP Home retail CD, and using the valid Windows XP Home retail product key supplied with that CD. The key is valid, I have re-entered several times, and I have double-checked with the yellow "sticker" on the original cardboard folder with the documentation. I've installed from the original CD many times before without problem, and I'm sure this isn't the first time I've made a slipstream disk from it. And I'm definitely using a retail XP home product key with what should be a retail XP home slipstream disk.
In case nlite had somehow converted a retail CD into an OEM cd, though, I also checked with two valid Windows XP Home OEM licenses - and they were both rejected too.
Finally, this is during the installation of Windows XP. The machine has all network connectivity turned off. Even if I've upset Microsoft by using this XP license on too many different PCs over the years, the installer should have no way of contacting Microsoft to know that - that should be a problem for activation, not for the initial entry of the product key during installation.
So - can anyone suggest a reason why Windows XP would reject a valid product key and what I might try to resolve the problem?
I've made a slipstream CD from an OEM Windows XP Home SP2 disk, with SP3 and the AHCI/RAID drivers integrated as before, and using a valid OEM product key. That worked fine. I have backup disk images so I don't need to go through all this again next time.
I'm still curious, so I may experiment with a slipstream of the retail disk with AHCI/RAID but left as SP1, or integrating SP2 rather than SP3. I haven't found a way to check whether my product key has been blacklisted, but I'll try that again too.
I won't be finished with this for probably a few days.
I have seen multiple cases where a key was used "too many times" back closer to release, and the key was blacklisted with one of the service packs when integrated. I've always been under the impression that the new service pack came with an updated blacklisted key database built right in. Unfortunately for you, this seems to be what may have happened.
I think Windows changed it's CD key algorithom between RTM and the SP's.
I don't know when it happened or if it happened more than once, however I think the act of slipstreaming SP3 on to the CD may be changing the key check algorithm and that is why it is failing.
Create a slipstreamed installation CD/DVD from the original CD WITHOUT slipstreaming SP3 into it. Then try again. If it works then you'll know that SP3 being slipstreamed into the installation is the problem. You can download and install SP3 after the initial install is completed.
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How can I know the Product key of my original Windows 7 (HP dv6 laptop) ? | 2019-04-24T02:40:26 | http://www.goboef.nl/?id=questions/707771/what-can-cause-windows-xp-to-reject-a-valid-product-key |
0.999507 | Enter one or more terms, separated by spaces.
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Use an asterisk to search for any letter(s), e.g. j*n would match "jon", "john", "join", etc. | 2019-04-18T20:55:53 | https://oystermouthparish.com/site-search |
0.99676 | Republican leaders pushed a sweeping highways-student loans package salvaging millions of construction jobs and maintaining low interest rates on millions of new college loans toward a House vote Friday even as conservative groups mounted a last-minute and likely futile campaign against it.
Favorable action by the Senate on what would be the only big jobs measure Congress has enacted this year was assured. Leaders there held out hope they could to get it done Thursday night but ran into procedural hurdles. Lawmakers in both parties hoped to get an early start bragging about a rare accomplishment four months before the election.
The conservative Heritage Action for America and the anti-tax Club for Growth urged a 'no' vote on the bill in emails Thursday to lawmakers, warning that it will be counted as a key vote on their legislative scorecards.
"This massive bill spends too much money, will continue taxpayer bailouts for highway spending, and keeps subsidies that have contributed directly to skyrocketing tuition rates," Club for Growth spokesman Barney Keller said.
Despite the backlash from such core conservative groups, the bill's supporters expressed confidence. "We got a pretty good reception in conference this morning," Rep. Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania said after House Republicans met on the bill.
After three months of haggling, House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on the package Wednesday. It includes a two-year, $100 billion spending plan for highway and mass transit construction and repairs, $6 billion to prevent rates on new student loans after June 30 from doubling, and a five-year renewal of federal flood insurance subsidies.
The bill gives states more flexibility over how they spend federal highway aid, consolidates transportation programs and shortens environmental delays to get highway projects built faster. It also expands a loan guarantee program aimed at increasing private investment in infrastructure projects.
Democrats and Republicans each gave way on issues important to their political constituencies, but both sides also scored victories. Republicans sacrificed proposals to force a go-ahead with the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline in the Midwest and to prevent the Obama administration from regulating coal ash as a hazardous toxin. Democrats gave ground on environmental protections blamed for stalling some road projects and safety, biking and pedestrian programs.
House Republican leaders pitched the package to their members in a closed-door meeting Thursday morning that was interrupted by news of the Supreme Court's health care decision.
Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said some conservatives have doubts about voting for the package after House negotiators dropped a House-passed provision requiring the government to approve the Canadian border-Gulf Coast Keystone pipeline. President Barack Obama has vowed to veto the bill if it included the pipeline measure.
But Cassidy said, "There's also concern among conservatives to have a decent infrastructure and some certainty for our (state transportation departments) back home and our contractors so they can build roads.... It is a mixed bag. I will just tell you that." He said he was still undecided on how he would vote.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the influential House Republican Study Committee, will vote against the package, his office said.
Florida Republican Rep. Steve Southerland, one of the deal's negotiators, said he expects the package to win passage, explaining that no one has argued a short-term extension is in the nation's best interest and that contractors want and deserve certainty. "I think we will have the votes," he said.
Without the bill or a short-term extension, federal aid transportation aid to states would expire, as well as the government's ability to collect federal gasoline and diesel taxes — 18.4 cents a gallon and 24.4 cents, respectively — that fund most of those programs. Democrats estimate that would cost an existing 1.8 million transportation-related jobs, as well as forgo another estimated 1 million jobs the bill would create.
Similarly, interest rates for on new subsidized Stafford loans for college students would double to 6.8 percent beginning Sunday. That automatic increase was approved by Congress five years ago to save money. The bill extends the current 3.4 percent rate for 12 months, saving some 7.4 million students an average $1,000 in higher interest costs over the life of the loan, typically a decade or longer.
Congressional leaders rolled the highway and student loan into a single bill because both are financed in part with pension law changes. Aides said the pension proposals might end up raising more than $18 billion in the final legislation.
The extension of the federal flood insurance program was added to the bill this week. It protects 5.6 million households and businesses and addresses a shortfall arising from claims after 2005's Hurricane Katrina by reducing insurance subsidies for vacation homes and allowing for increases in premiums. | 2019-04-25T22:02:39 | https://www.uticaod.com/x425603402/Highways-student-loan-deal-poised-for-votes |
0.999084 | One of the chief claims of climate alarmists is that anthropogenic-induced increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have been responsible for the warming of the planet that has been detected in near-surface air temperature data collected over the past century or more at various places around the globe. This claim is based on what Loehle (2004) calls "the standard assumption in climate research, including the IPCC reports," that "over a century time interval there is not likely to be any recognizable trend to global temperatures (Risbey et al., 2000) and thus the null model for climate signal detection is a flat temperature trend with some autocorrelated noise," so that "any warming trends in excess of that expected from normal climatic variability are then assumed to be due to anthropogenic effects."
If, however, there are significant underlying climate trends or cycles - or both - either known or unknown, that assumption is clearly invalid. Consequently, Loehle, who is a Senior Research Scientist with the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement operating out of Naperville, Illinois, USA, uses a pair of 3,000-year-long proxy climate records that have minimal dating errors to characterize the pattern of climate change over the past three millennia in a new paper that provides the necessary context for properly evaluating the cause or causes of 20th century global warming.
The first of the two temperature series is the sea surface temperature (SST) record of the Sargasso Sea, which was derived by Keigwin (1996) from a study of the oxygen isotope ratios of foraminifera and other organisms contained in a sediment core retrieved from a deep-ocean drilling site on the Bermuda Rise. This record provides SST data for about every 67th year from 1125 BC to 1975 AD. The second temperature series is the ground surface temperature record derived by Holmgren et al. (1999, 2001) from studies of color variations of stalagmites found in a cave in South Africa, which variations are caused by changes in the concentrations of humic materials entering the region's ground water that have been reliably correlated with regional near-surface air temperature.
So why does Loehle use these two specific records? And only these two records? By way of explanation, he says that "most other long-term records have large dating errors, are based on tree rings, which are not reliable for this purpose (Broecker, 2001), or are too short for estimating long-term cyclic components of climate." Also, in a repudiation of the approach employed by Mann et al. (1998, 1999) and Mann and Jones (2003), he reports that "synthetic series consisting of hemispheric or global mean temperatures are not suitable for such an analysis because of the inconsistent timescales in the various data sets," noting further, as a result of his own testing, that "when dating errors are present in a series, and several series are combined, the result is a smearing of the signal."
But can only two temperature series reveal the pattern of global temperature change? Feeling a need to reassure us on this matter, Loehle reports that "a comparison of the Sargasso and South Africa series shows some remarkable similarities of pattern [our italics], especially considering the distance separating the two locations," and he says that this fact "suggests that the climate signal reflects some global pattern rather than being a regional signal only." He also notes that a comparison of the mean record with the South Africa and Sargasso series from which it was derived "shows excellent agreement," and that "the patterns match closely," concluding that "this would not be the case if the two series were independent or random."
Proceeding with his plan of attack, which was to fit simple periodic models to the temperature data as functions of time, with no attempt to make the models functions of solar activity or any other physical variable, Loehle fit seven different time-series models to the two temperature series and to the average of the two series, using no data from the 20th century. In all seven cases, he reports that good to excellent fits were obtained. As an example, the three-cycle model he fit to the averaged temperature series had a simple correlation of 0.58 and an 83% correspondence of peaks when evaluated by a moving window count.
Comparing the forward projections of the seven models through the 20th century leads directly to the most important conclusions of Loehle's paper. He notes, first of all, that six of the models "show a warming trend over the 20th century similar in timing and magnitude to the Northern Hemisphere instrumental series," and that "one of the models passes right through the 20th century data." These results clearly suggest, in his words, "that 20th century warming trends are plausibly a continuation of past climate patterns" and, therefore, that "anywhere from a major portion to all of the warming of the 20th century could plausibly result from natural causes."
As dramatic and important as these observations are, they are not the entire story of Loehle's insightful paper. His analyses also reveal a long-term linear cooling trend of 0.25°C per thousand years since the peak of the interglacial warm period that occurred some 7000 years ago, which result is essentially identical to the mean value of this trend that was derived from seven prior assessments of its magnitude and five prior climate reconstructions. In addition, Loehle's analyses reveal the existence of the Medieval Warm Period of 800-1200 AD, which is shown to have been significantly warmer than the portion of the Modern Warm Period we have so far experienced, as well as the existence of the Little Ice Age of 1500-1850 AD, which is shown to have been the coldest period of the entire 3000-year record.
As corroborating evidence for the global nature of these major warm and cold intervals, Loehle cites sixteen peer-reviewed scientific journal articles that document the existence of the Medieval Warm Period in all parts of the world, as well as eighteen other articles that document the worldwide occurrence of the Little Ice Age. And in one of the more intriguing aspects of his study - of which Loehle makes no mention, however - both the Sargasso Sea and South African temperature records reveal the existence of a major temperature spike that began sometime in the early 1400s. This abrupt warming pushed temperatures considerably above the peak warmth of the 20th century before falling back to pre-spike levels in the mid 1500s, providing support for the similar finding of higher-than-current temperatures in that time interval by McIntyre and McKitrick (2003) in their reanalysis of the data employed by Mann et al. to create their controversial "hockeystick" temperature history, which gives no indication of the occurrence of this high-temperature regime.
In another accomplishment of note, the models developed by Loehle reveal the existence of three climate cycles previously identified by others. In his culminating seventh model, for example, there is a 2388-year cycle that he describes as comparing "quite favorably to a cycle variously estimated as 2200, 2300, and 2500 years (Denton and Karlen, 1973; Karlen and Kuylenstierna, 1996; Magny, 1993; Mayewski et al., 1997)." There is also a 490-year cycle that likely "corresponds to a 500-year cycle found previously (e.g. Li et al., 1997; Magny, 1993; Mayewski et al., 1997)" and a 228-year cycle that "approximates the 210-year cycle found by Damon and Jirikowic (1992)."
The compatibility of these findings with those of several studies that have identified similar solar forcing signals caused Loehle to thus conclude that "solar forcing (and/or other natural cycles) is plausibly responsible for some portion of 20th century warming" or, as he indicates in his abstract, maybe even all of it.
Risbey, J.S., Kandlikar, M. and Karoly, D.J. 2000. A protocol to articulate and quantify uncertainties in climate change detection and attribution. Climate Research 16: 61-78. | 2019-04-26T07:51:41 | http://www.co2science.org/articles/V7/N4/EDIT.php |
0.999782 | Imagine you want to get to know someone and you can ask only five questions. What would you ask? What would you most want to know? Obviously it depends on the context--you'd ask different questions of someone you're dating vs. a job interviewee vs. a customer vs. someone your daughter is dating. But I wonder, should the questions we ask our users be that different from the ones we'd ask our dates?
2) How big is your budget?
3) Are you "the decider"?
In other words, "How useful are you to our advertisers and sponsors?" Those surveys say to me, "The only thing we care about is how much you can buy."
2) What gender are you?
3) How old are your kids?
4) What's your total household income?
In other words, "The only thing we care about is selling more things to you and other people who fit your demographics."
Those questions tell you little about me as a person. If we want passionate users, shouldn't we care about what they care about? Obviously there are personal questions that might not be appropriate for customers, but most of us here are trying to have a more personal connection with users, and that means doing more to get to know them as individual people.
1. What was the last remodeling project you've done?
1) The most fun work I've ever done is teaching drummers in the high school marching band. Nothing beats showing young people just how much they can achieve when they really work at it.
2)A. I used to seek out every possible opportunity to practice my Russian, but I haven't had a conversation or read a book in Russian in over a year now. B. I've always wanted to learn to fly - get a pilots license - but just haven't done it yet.
3)A. I would like to learn to memorize - to remember quotes and poems and scripture and names and dates and other things that are always sort of there but not quite. B. I would want to learn from Jesus Christ, and I would want to learn whatever he wanted to tell me.
4) My family would probably describe me as "talented," "smart," and "tall." I WISH I could be described as "friendly," and "generous."
5) My top three passions are - in no particular order, Church, Music, and Family. I kind of surprised myself that computers, programming, technology, or money didn't make that list.
6) "When was the last time you let nature, art, or some other beautiful thing move you to tears?" For me, it was watching a play - Peter Schaffer's Amadeus. I had been involved as the "music expert" in putting on the play, and so had seen many rehearsals, but the final dress rehearsal, with lights and costumes and everything, was magical. When Mozart died and Costanze's cries coincided with the height of the Lacrymosa from Mozart's mass, I cried. And it was good.
1) The most fun? Probably teaching Covey's 7 Habit seminars those weeks when everything clicked. What's better than a three-day conversation about how you became you and how you'd change that?
2)What do I wish I still did? Regularly jog through the redwoods on campus at UC Santa Cruz, coming out of the grove to see the ocean below.
3A) I'd like to write like Csikszentmihalyi or Anne LaMott - or a cross between them. I'd also like to play a musical instrument.
3B) I'd like to take a course from Thomas Jefferson or Martin Luther or Henry VIII or Wilhelm Humboldt on social transformation and creating new institutions.
5) My top three passions are humor, decoding the mystery of how people fell in love or found a calling, and social evolution.
6)Question I'd ask: What shape would you make earth if not a globe?
My answer: I think that a cube might allow more interesting experiments in separation - keeping otherwise feuding folks from contact. It might work.
6) Do you think the ultimate state of humanity is a state of sustainable joy or extinction? How does that change your sense of responsibility towards the future?
P.S. Regardless of whether you rode a skateboard or blog, it looks like you'd attract a following.
* Q. Why do you live where you live?
* A. The people are off beat and involved with each other, near the beach, relaxed and easy going.
* Is what I'm doing fair and going to make the world better?
1. teaching CAD macro-language programming courses.
3a. being at ease in social settings, and recognizing an opportunity when it arises.
3b. I would like Bill Gates to teach me how to write and sell software profitably.
6a. "Have you ever actually thought about your beliefs, or did you just inherit them?"
6b. Well, the balance is getting better every day. The unexamined life is indeed not worth living, or at least should be lived with one's mouth firmly closed.
Happy New Year, Kathy. I hope it's a better one for you (and all of us) than 2006 was.
0) What's your name and website URL?
1) What's the most fun work you've ever done, and why?
I opened an internet café with my friends. I was in control of how things were run, and I got to spend long hours playing games on my computer.
2) A. Name one thing you did in the past that you no longer do but wish you did?
B. Name one thing you've always wanted to do but keep putting it off?
Put that soldering iron to more use.
3) A. What two things would you most like to learn or be better at, and why?
How to talk to girls. Haha.
B. If you could take a class/workshop/apprentice from anyone in the world living or dead, who would it be and what would you hope to learn?
I'd like to be Edison's apprentice, to learn to be more creative and use the creativity practically.
5) What are your top three passions?
6) What have you regretted saying the most?
Play guitar in a band - or being a DJ.
I would like to play tennis more often. And to have more time with my four children.
It would have been nice to meet Andy Warhol in his factory.
What will you do during 2007 to make life better for as many people on earth as possible?
a. I want to learn body language in a more serious way, it's important for understanding others and even yourself.
Though this question doesn't really fit me... I think I just like to learn almost everything.
4) hmmm... their world is theirs, I can't really answer this question... too subjective.
6) I used to take hitch hikers and ask from them a "payment" for the ride... I used to ask from them to tell me something that THEY found interesting/amusing (even if it's the egg that they ate at the morning).
Thanks for this gr8 blog!
0) Karen (aka Cab Sav) from Infinite Diversty (and Tech Writer) over at http://www.infinitediversity.com.au.
1) Actually, I'm really enjoying the job I have now. Technical and writing combined.
2) A. I wish I still exercised.
3) A. Singing, because I love music, and can't sing. Ditto, drawing.
B. Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio--a screenwriting apprentice.
5) Top three passions -- writing, environment, travel.
6) If you could give up your job and do whatever you wanted to, what would you do? Answer: Travel the world.
[Bonus question] If you could choose to live your life again, would you?
1. If you could have dinner/conversation with any one person, who would it be?
2. What's the biggest mistake you've ever made?
5. How did you end up where you are?
Some of the most fun I've ever had was spending time with you guys at the first "Head First" bootcamp. That's also where I knit my first pair of socks (which Brian captured in the inset). I've been getting email this morning from people who said they didn't know I knit. I had no idea why this had suddenly come up until I read my morning blogs including yours.
(1) teaching mathematics is the most fun I've ever had and that's saying something. I've had a lot of magic jobs but being in a room with students is an excitement I will return to before I'm done.
(2) a) I miss radio and am working on getting back to it.
b) I've always wanted to see if I can write fiction but it scares me. I can reach and move people writing non-fiction - could I with fiction?
(3) a) I want to learn to draw to express myself there and want to improve telling short audio stories.
Answer - I don't know but I've been thinking a lot about this this year.
Blog in English with some unknown friends for a time. But since the website finally crashed, I quit.
Reading "the 21st Century" English newspaper every week.
Communicate more with my father since we haven't talked with each other for a long time.
I wish to learn from W. Richard Stevens for his elegant programming and writing.
6) Would you pursue a unrealistic dream?
For me, I would (miss a gril yy1984).
I really like reading your blog. Thank you!
My name is Virginia and my answers are at my Web Teacher site.
1) Most fun work: Anything intensely creative -- acting/singing on Broadway, writing novels, the Flash course on presentations I created last year.
2) A. Wish I did again? Running marathons.
B. Keep putting off? Learning to play the piano.
3) A. Two things to learn/be better at? 1) Keep improving as a dad, because my kids deserve as good a start in life as I can give them. 2) Learn piano, or get back to a tap class, or both, because I LOVE music.
4) A. Three words: happy, outgoing, involved.
5) Top three passions: my sons; creative endeavors; trying to make a difference.
6) One question YOU would ask: "What was the best day of your life (excluding epics like your wedding or the birth of a child), and why?"
For now, I'm skipping the ones that take more than a couple of minutes to think of anything for ... why waste the space and/or your time?
1) Shooting a tongue-in-cheek video with some friends, because we all were on the same wavelength that day, and made the best use of what little we had to get it done.
2) A. I'm still an active musician, but since I've been out of school I never get a chance to play a real acoustic piano anymore.
B. Make my rock opera into a (mostly animated or "animated looking") film.
3) A. I'd like to learn to make GUIs for my C++ programs; I'd like to learn more about how to write code that uses other code and/or interacts with other software, as opposed to only writing stand-alone terminal apps from scratch.
4) A. Creative, funny, moody.
5) Music composition & recording/producing, generative art, the creative process in general.
1) What's the most fun work you've ever done, and why? (two sentences max): I learned to draw Japanese-style and made a manga in my last year of high school.
B. Name one thing you've always wanted to do but keep putting it off? (one sentence max): Go to the library, where I know there's just so much knowledge.
3) A. What two things would you most like to learn or be better at, and why? (two sentences max): Public speaking, because I love to inspire people.
B. If you could take a class/workshop/apprentice from anyone in the world living or dead, who would it be and what would you hope to learn? (two more sentences, max): Any humanitarian president (or presidential candidate), because they have been to so many places and have heard from so many people.
4) A. What three words might your best friends or family use to describe you?: Driven, idealistic, philanthropist.
B. Now list two more words you wish described you...: Outgoing, courageous.
5) What are your top three passions? (can be current or past, work, hobbies, or causes-- three sentences max): Software, anime, CUSEC (Shameless plug: http://2007.cusec.net/ Jan 18-20 2007 baby!).
6) (sue me) Write--and answer--one more question that YOU would ask someone (with answer in three sentences max): What would you do with 20 copies of yourself who all thought exactly as you do? I would change the world based on the principle of philanthropy.
[Bonus: What is one question you wish people would ask themselves?]: "What am I thinking?"
Ron) Do you think the ultimate state of humanity is a state of sustainable joy or extinction? How does that change your sense of responsibility towards the future?: The ultimate state of humanity is responsible thoughtful teamwork in the pursuit of Gross National Happiness. I live this philosophy every day.
John S) Have you ever actually thought about your beliefs, or did you just inherit them?: I've thought of them, and now believe differently than my parents.
Ryan) What have you regretted saying the most?: "No." Avoid saying anything that could rob you a chance to change your life for the better.
David) What will you do during 2007 to make life better for as many people on earth as possible?: I will question my previous beliefs.
Yonatan) What would you ask a hitchhiker?: "What is your story?"
Cab) If you could give up your job and do whatever you wanted to, what would you do?: If I had a lot of money, I would volunteer and give presentations. Otherwise, I would probably continue working in software.
Daniel) If you knew your time was short, how would you spend it?: While with most people, this question is inspiring, with me it is absolutely depressing. Even if I knew I was going to die, I would probably continue living my life as I am now.
Haitao) Would you pursue a unrealistic dream?: My logical mind says no, but my heart says yes.
John W) What was the best day of your life (excluding epics like your wedding or the birth of a child), and why?: Ignoring moments of being overwhelmed with love, the greatest day of my life was the first time I brought 30000 lines of untested code to life with a game GUI. It was my first real game, and it was absolutely addictive. I played it all day online with my friends.
I’m Patti Digh and my site is www.37days.typepad.com. My most fun work ever was working in the Morganton Burke Public Library when I was a teenager because I was surrounded by books and people asking me odd research questions. I used to make Polaroid image transfers and want to create a studio space in my house so I can do it again. I’ve always wanted to learn to fly, but I’m scared of birds, so I’m going to learn how to create stitched threadscapes and textile maps instead. I’d like to be a more natural cook, able to throw together dinner for a crowd without sweating and a complete reliance on recipes, and I’d like to learn to make daguerreotypes. I’d like to apprentice with Billy Collins just so I could listen to him read his poetry real slow. My friends would call me wise, funny, and generous; I wish I were athletic and well-rested. My passions are my two daughters and the man who made them possible, eliminating racism and other “isms”, and writing. The question I would ask others is “what would you be doing today if you only had 37 days to live?” My answer? I wouldn’t be on the computer, but outside with my family, exploring, talking, laughing, eating too much bread pudding. The auxiliary question is “why aren’t you doing that?” I wish people would ask themselves what they want to create and what they want to let go of…thanks for asking!
I love how you've opened up this meme!
I'm Terrie Miller and my site is Critter Geek - http://crittergeek.com/. I posted the rest of the answers there. The question I'd like to ask of people? "If you could pick three animals to observe in their natural wild habitat for an extended period of time, what would they be?"
Living History Project; creating battle re-enactments for public performance and entertainment. Being paid to take weapons training, run around in costume and educate people on historical events just can't be beaten in my book.
Horse Riding and Showjumping. I miss it because it was a passion and I don't do it because I haven't the time.
Travel more and live overseas.
Languages and linguistics because the possibilities and mysteries of human language excite me. Aikido - because I always enjoyed it and there is so much to it beyond the physical.
Robert M. Pirsig - I believe that a lot can be learned from the philosophers of our time, the least part of which is how to write engagingly and beautifully.
B. Now list two more words you wish described you?
6) Write--and answer--one more question that YOU would ask someone?
I would ask, "If you could know any one thing for certain: What would you want to know - and why?" My own answer would be, "I want to know for certain if no two snowflakes ever will be (or ever have been) the same. That level of infinite possibility is just so amazing."
Each person should regularly ask themselves "What makes me happy?" (or "What would make me happy?") because just consciously acknowledging that there are things that make us happy and what those things are - leads toward a better path.
Check out my post here. Great post, Kathy, and Happy New Year!!!!
3) A. Two things I would most like to learn or be better at are music reading and playing on my instruments, and computer science/IT. Music because it is such a beautiful thing and I want to be able to create it and share it with others that they might experience some of the same feelings that it evokes in me, and computer science/IT because it has so many challenges and the better I get at it the more engaging the problems seem to become.
3) B. If I could take a class/workshop/apprentice from anyone in the world living or dead, who would it be and what would I hope to learn? (I promise that I'm not just kissing up here...) I would want to take a class, workshop, or better yet, an apprenticeship with the Head First authors and team. I'd hope to learn more about all of the technologies that they are involved with, and about communicating not just the information of those technologies but the passion that they have for them.
4) A. Three words my best friends or family might use to describe me are enthusiastic, brilliant, and patient.
4) B. Two more words that I wish described me are socially confident.
6) One additional question that I would ask someone is, "What is one more thing that you could be doing currently to move your life in the direction that you would like it to go?" My answer is that I could start taking some music lessons (which is currently a little bit terrifying because of how bad I think I am) and getting involved in some local technology groups.
1) Best job ever was a year I did as news writer at KGW-TV in Portland, OR. All of the lovely writing news on deadline that I love, with none of the icky ratings responsibility, plus regular M-F 9-5 hours and a fabulous cafeteria.
2) A. I used to be able to sing beautifully; heart medication ruined my voice (ACE inhibitors) and I'm still trying to get it back.
B. I keep meaning to learn how to use a real live loom and haven't done it yet.
3) A. I want to learn more about herbal medicine and homeopathy, and I would love to learn real knife skills--cooking-wise, that is.
B. If I were physically stronger/younger, I'd love to apprentice to Ianto Evans, who's a cob house builder here in Oregon. Being me with my current age/strength, I'd take an apprenticeship with Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, the master knitter/spinner.
4) A. Funny, smart, loving.
5) Writing, fiber arts and mothering.
6) What do you hope to teach others? I hope to teach people that they are the authorities for their own lives. They can, and must, learn from others but ultimately they have to listen for the still small voice inside themselves, and depend on that.
0) Currently no website or blog to point to.
Work as in employment? My current job as a Content Manager.
Work as in building something? Theatre performances I put on and/or coached.
Writing in my spare time.
Writing and directing because the endorphine buzz of creation is just incredible - and I hope to have to offer something to the world.
A Creativity/Writing/Teaching workshop with Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Robin Williams, Keith Johnstonen, and the Head First team.
It would be more of a discussion, a mutual exploration based on the question: Please describe honestly what is going on in your mind.
I'm constantly talking to myself, hearing sound bites of music or TV shows in my head, seeing all kinds of pictures in my head. Is this normal? Do you work the same way?
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0.797916 | Should former colonial powers pay reparations to former colonies for their past activities?
Colonial-era activity was morally wrong and indefensible. Colonising countries justified their actions on the basis of cultural and racial superiority. This ethnocentric approach overvalued western traditions and undervalued those of the countries which were colonised. They undermined the property and social rights of the countries that were colonised and also promoted the success of military might in ordering world affairs over more peaceful resolution. These are all core elements of a colonial mindset. They are not simply a by-product of colonialism, but rather they form part of the very nature of colonial thinking. They are completely out of step with what is now regarded as appropriate or desirable behaviour in world affairs and in terms of indigenous property and social rights. Reparations would provide a meaningful act of apology for such wrongs.
Payments to developing countries or others would not be actual reparations. It is possible to accept the case for historical wrongs having been committed without accepting that this creates any reasonable justification for reparations. Reparations are something that is given to a victim to correct a past wrong. Very basically, for example, if a house was firebombed, getting the arsonist to make reparations to the homeowner would allow the latter to build a new house. However, how can the term reparations be applied to colonial-era wrongs? The victims of those wrongs are long since dead. Those in favour argue that we can use modern governments or the descendants of colonial-era dwellers as a sort of proxy for those who suffered. Yet there is no precedent for doing this after such a long period. Additionally, how would one judge who these people are? Some of them now live very pampered lives in developed countries – is it justifiable to pay money to such people which has come out of tax paid by people who in some cases are less well off than them today?
Reparations would represent an important demonstration of the closing of colonial scars. Many of the problems that now face former colonies can be traced in part or in whole to the actions of colonial-era masters (e.g. the ethnic tensions in Rwanda and Burundi). In order to move on from the damaging legacy of that era, it is therefore necessary for former colonial powers to make some tangible show that they have closed the colonial chapter of their history and they are seeking a new, more co-operative relationship with developing countries which were their former colonies. It is also important to demonstrate that they now recognise the needs of former colonies rather than simply the economic opportunities that are offered by them. In this way, reparations would be an effective way of demonstrating a coming together across the ages.
Such reparations would be symbolic only but would do little for the developing world. The west might feel better about itself, but it might then wash its hands of Africa, believing that it had already discharged its responsibilities. Instead of a one-off act, it would be better to develop a long-term engagement between developed and developing countries (e.g. fairer trade rules, debt relief). This would allow aid to be focused on those countries most in need, whereas reparations for the past would give as much to countries such as Malaysia, South Africa and India, as to poorer states with similar colonial histories.
The symbolism of reparations would also reinforce the position of dictators such as Robert Mugabe, who blame colonial powers for all the present problems affecting their countries, often as a way of shifting attention from their own failings.
There are precedents for paying reparations to states or peoples in compensation for historical wrongs. Germany pays an annual amount to Israel and Japan paid reparations after World War II to former colonial possessions such as Korea. More recently, Britain has paid some compensation to the Maoris of New Zealand for damage done in colonial times, and the USA has similarly compensated Native American tribes for broken treaties. Iraq pays compensation to Kuwait for damage done during its invasion and occupation of 1990-91. Why shouldn't former colonies in Africa be similarly trusted to use reparations money wisely?
Distribution would be complicated given the large number of countries involved as colonisers and colonies, but that is no reason not to attempt it. One suggestion for Africa has been that reparations should pay for free universal education. Another is that proper North-South and East-West railway links be constructed to improve trade within Africa.
Distributing any reparations would be problematical. We have already seen that there are question marks over who would be the appropriate recipients of reparations. Even if we presume that such a group could be identified, it would be very difficult to distribute the reparations effectively. Claims to reparations would likely be competing and there is very little if any documentary evidence to support such claims in many cases. The wrongs referred to are deep in history. The countries within which reparations would be made in many cases have deeply corrupt and inefficient infrastructure and yet it seems likely that only this infrastructure would serve to distribute the reparations. There would also likely be problems with disbursing cash reparations suddenly to people in some such countries where a sudden cash windfall can make one a target for banditry.
Reparations would be an effective way of righting the economic imbalance caused by colonialism. Much of the justification for colonialism, although it may have been given other excuses, was essentially economic in nature. It concerned colonising countries identifying countries with rich natural resources or human resources, and little ability to defend themselves. They would then seek to colonise such countries as a way of providing natural resources and sometimes cheap labour for their own markets, as well as possible a market for their goods. Given that colonial powers such as Britain and France gained much of their present prosperity in this way, and that colonised countries continue to suffer economically from the legacy of colonialism, it is both appropriate and logical that the economic imbalance ought to be corrected. As the word “reparations” suggests, this is exactly what reparations would do – they would rebalance the economic relationship between the two countries in a way that sought to correct the historical wrongs.
Reparations punish today’s taxpayers, who are not implicated in colonial-era history. There is a disconnection on the benefit side, in that the reparations for wrongs inflicted on historical people go to their descendants. This is also true on the payment side of the equation. The reparations could not be funded from the direct profits of exploitation, as that was spent long ago (indeed, some historians believe countries such as Britain actually spent more on their colonial possessions than they received in return). Instead, they would need to be funded by taxation levied on today’s taxpayers in developed countries. These people had nothing to do with colonial-era wrongs and no guilt for them, and so it is wrong to burden them with the obligation of payment.
Reparations represent a concern for the developing world independently of colonial-era wrongs. Even alongside all of the colonialism-based arguments for reparations, we might argue that there are strong other justifications for reparations. The developed world in many cases recognises the dire poverty and social challenges faced by the developing world today. Yet simply giving aid as an act of charity can be embarrassing and demeaning, both for the donor and the recipient in different ways. A system of reparation can facilitate the same partial transfer of wealth from developed world to developing world, but in a way which is more sensitive to these concerns. It allows aid to be given to the developing world in a way which is dignified but not spurious.
Reparations are a form of neo-colonialism. For many of the reasons outlined above, it seems likely that if governments of former colonisers agreed to reparations programmes, they would do so only under certain fairly strict conditions. So they would make payments, but direct to whom, how and possibly the ways in which such payments could be used. This could clearly amount to a sort of socio-economic engineering tool. It would allow the donor government to exert some influence over policy areas within the recipient country. This has the hallmarks of the very colonialism for which the reparations are supposed to atone.
I am for compensation, which should start first of all with an official aplogy fromm the Britain Government as well as from the royal family to all countries, also acknowledging the plenty of bloodshed, Genozide of several ancient cultures and people, destruction of sacred places, discrimination of other races, traditions, spoken and /or written languages and so on. Germany did apologize and payed (and is still paying) compensation and that’s only right. It is a big part of the school curriculum in History, too. No one can bring back the many killed people and the suffering cannot be made undone. I also don’t want to spread more hate. But we have to remember to learn from history to move on. And exspecially in times like this it would do well to remind people that Britain actuallt has a dept to over 100 countries on this planet. | 2019-04-18T14:50:54 | https://debatewise.org/debates/2793-colonialism-compensation-for/ |
0.986462 | I know it's a bit silly to look for low-fat "butter cream" as the whole point of using butter is the "full-fat", isn't it? There were some recipes that use baking margarine or low-fat spread to make a butter cream substitute. However, I heard that the "margarine cream icing" has never tasted good.
Well, in that case, I thought to myself, why not use a small amount of butter to keep some flavour of butter and add something to reduce the total amount of fat. So, I made butter and crème fraiche icing. This was my first attempt and I loved it. My cream keeps the lovely butter flavour and yet is very fluffy and light. It has a slightly cream cheese flavour which is a great. I made this cream with 50g butter and 100g crème fraiche. I like the soft and light texture, but it is a bit messy to eat. So, for good solid piping, I would recommend 50g butter and 50g crème fraiche. Then you can add crème fraiche little by little until the texture becomes how you like it.
Fold in the flour using a large metal spoon, adding a little milk to make a dropping consistency if needed. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they are half full.
Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until golden-brown on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.
For the butter cream icing, beat the butter in a large bowl until soft. Add half the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
Then add the remaining icing sugar with crème fraiche, adding more crème fraiche if necessary, until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
Add the food colouring and vanilla extract and mix until well combined.
Little Choux buns filled with custard cream bring back memories of my childhood.
We Japanese people call them シュークリーム, "Choux a la Creme Anglaise." They were very popular pastries in those days and I believe they still are. My mum never made them but bought them quite often from the bakery. As a little girl at that time, I adored the little crusty buns filled with thick creamy eggy custard. I never knew that British people eat "hot" custard until I came to England and it was a bit of a culture shock. Custard had been always thick and cold and never ever hot and runny in my mind. So, I asked my English friend what on earth was that yellow liquid. Anyway, here are my simple Choux a la Creme. I enjoy making choux pastry. It's fun to see the constancy of the dough dramatically change in the saucepan.
I made low-fat custard cream this time. Making home-made custard is also a joy. Stirring the custard continuously until gradually the liquid turns to "proper" custard is a kind of therapy I think. I added a bit of orange zest at the end to make citrus infused custard.
As you are going to need to 'shoot' it quickly into the water and melted butter, sift the flour into a bowl and add a teaspoon of caster sugar and pinch of salt and set aside.
Put 150ml of cold water in a medium-sized saucepan together with 50g of butter, cut into small pieces, then place the saucepan over a moderate heat and stir with a wooden spoon. As soon as the butter has melted and the mixture comes to the boil, turn off the heat immediately, as too much boiling will evaporate some of the water.
Then tip the flour in – all in one go – with one hand, while you beat the mixture vigorously with the other. You can do this with a wooden spoon.
Beat 2 large eggs well, then beat them into the mixture – a little at a time, mixing each addition in thoroughly before adding the next.
Fill a plain-nozzle piping bag with the choux dough and pipe the dough into small buns about 5cm/2in in diameter onto the baking tray, leaving at least an inch between each buns.
bake on a high shelf in a pre-heated oven – gas mark 6, 400°F (200°C) – for 10 minutes. After that, increase the heat to gas mark 7, 425°F (220°C), and bake for a further 15-20 minutes until the buns are crisp, light and a rich golden colour.
Pierce the side of each one to let out the steam. Put the pastries back in the oven for a few minutes to completely dry out. Then cool them on a wire rack.
Whisk flour and half of milk in a medium sauce pan until smooth. Whisk in the remaining half of the milk and add vanilla extract.
.Bring the mixture to boil over medium heat, stirring constantly, then reduce heat to low, cook for 1 minute or until sauce thickens.
In a small bowl, whisk together eggs and sugar. While beating constantly, add a little bit of milk mixture to the bowl to temper the eggs. Then add the egg into the milk mixture.
Cook over low heat, stirring constantly for 5 minutes or until sauce thickens. Strain through a sieve into a clean bowl.
I have been searching for a low-fat lemon tart recipe for quite sometime. Then, I found a "relatively" low-fat recipe for my favourite lemon tart from the BBC GoodFood website.
Rub the butter into the flour until the mix looks like fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the icing sugar, then make a well and use a round-bladed knife to stir in the oil, egg yolk and 1½-2 tbsp cold water until the dough comes together. Without overhandling, gather into a ball. On a lightly floured surface, roll out so it fits a 23 x 2cm loose-bottom flan tin. Ease the pastry into the tin, then trim the edges by rolling the rolling pin over the top. Press the pastry into the flutes so it sits very slightly proud of the edge (this extra height helps in case of any shrinkage). Lightly prick the pastry base with a fork, then chill for about 10 mins. Heat the oven to 190C / 170C fan / gas 5.
Meanwhile, make the filling. Beat the eggs and egg whites together with a wooden spoon until well mixed. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl, then gradually beat in the eggs. If the mix is at all lumpy, simply beat with a wire whisk. Stir in the lemon zest and the juice. Leave to stand so the lemon flavour can develop.
Sit the chilled pastry case on a baking sheet. Line with baking parchment and baking beans and bake blind for 15 mins until well set. Carefully lift out the beans and paper, then bake the pastry case for another 3-5 mins until the base is cooked and pale golden. (I pre-baked the pastry without using baking parchment and baking beans for 15 minutes).
Strain the lemon mixture through a sieve. Beat the crème fraîche in a medium bowl until smooth, then slowly stir in the lemon mix until well blended. Transfer to a jug, then carefully pour two thirds into the warm pastry case. Place in the oven with the oven shelf half out, pour in the rest of the filling, then carefully slide the shelf back in. Reduce the heat to 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Bake for 25-30 mins until barely set with a slight wobble in the middle. Cool for about 1 hr, then serve with a light dusting of icing sugar. Best eaten the same day.
... and it was quite difficult to shape the dough into "fingers."
So, it's all good, isn't it?
1. Place the flour, water, milk, yeast, salt, sugar and lemon (or orange) zest into a large bowl and mix.
Add the beaten egg and butter and continue to mix until the mixture comes together as a sticky dough.
2. Tip the dough onto a lightly floured work surface and knead for ten minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic.
3. Lightly oil a bowl with a little of the vegetable oil.
4. Place the dough into the bowl and turn it until it is covered in the oil. Cover the bowl with cling film and set aside in a warm place for one hour, or until the dough has doubled in size.
5. Lightly grease two baking trays.
6. Knock the dough back to its original size and turn it out onto a lightly floured work surface. Divide the dough into twelve portions, shape them into long oval and place onto the baking trays. Ensure the buns are well spaced. Cover with a tea towel and set aside to prove for 30 minutes.
7. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.
8. Bake the buns in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until well risen and golden-brown. Remove the buns from the oven and set aside to cool on a wire rack.
9. Meanwhile for the icing, mix the icing sugar and lemon juice (and food colouring if you like) together in a bowl until smooth.
10. Once the buns have completely cooled, spread the icing on top of them and set aside until the icing has hardened. Decorate with orange/lemon peal.
I found Mary Berry's technique, which grates butter and lard with a cheese grater very useful. Both butter and lard should be ice cold to do a good grating job in order not to melt the fat. I put the butter and lard in the freezer for a while before using it. I followed Mary's apple tart tatin recipe for this. | 2019-04-20T11:10:07 | https://kyokobeaumont.blogspot.com/2012/11/ |
0.997221 | The 10 foot tall living room is -4 feet in front of a 10 foot tall kitchen. The living room faces north. The huge woman is in the kitchen. | 2019-04-23T08:20:05 | http://www.wordseye.com/gallery/tags/suburbs |
0.999295 | Text Georgiana Martha KING was my great-great-aunt, being the sister of Elizabeth KING, my great-grandmother, who married my great-grandfather, Henry Whinfield HORA, in 1850. Georgiana and Elizabeth were the daughters of Rev. George KING, Congregationalist Minister of Islington, and his wife Martha CHAPMAN. I am therefore also related to the descendants of Walter and Georgiana, including Walter Royes de Hougham GILL. I have Rev. George KING's family Bible.
I also have a letter dated 1914, sent by Walter and Georgiana GILL's daughter, Georgiana Martha GILL, junior, to her aunt Elizabeth (my great-grandmother)in which she says "The Walter Gills are flourishing, Royes is now the happy father of 2 daughters and is living at Lowestoft." These 2 daughters would be Eveline Alice and Diana Royes, born 1912 and 1913, to Royes and Eva Le Fleming ENSOR. Georgiana also says "My dear sister Katie is still a sad invalid" - this would be her half-sister, Mary Catherine GILL (daughter of Mary QUICK), who died 1920. Georgiana also mentions Royes' sisters, Ida (Mary Ida GILL), and Vera (Alice Vera GILL), and "Mrs. Fulford and Janie".
Mrs. Fulford was Emma Sarah GILL who first married John William SHERRIFF (died 1891), then Robert Medley FULFORD.
Janie was Jane Taylor GILL ("Deaf and dumb from birth", like her brother Walter George).
Walter George's wife, Alice Mary Turner Bravo, was alive on the 1911 Census, "Deaf and dumb from age 5").
Georgiana also mentions "cousin Fred" - this was my grandfather, Frederick Rudolph Hay HORA, one of the 6 sons (there were also 3 daughters) of Henry Whinfield HORA and Elizabeth KING.
Georgiana signs her letter "Your loving Niece, Georgie M. ALKEN". Georgiana Martha GILL first married Charles IRVING (died 1889), then Rev. Henry Seffrien ALKEN. | 2019-04-20T06:24:25 | https://royroyes.net/showsource.php?sourceID=S380&tree=rr_tree |
0.998588 | Can You Target Specific Body Parts for Weight Loss?
When you engage in an exercise like walking, why do you lose weight all over your body rather than in specific parts like the arms, thighs, and waist?
Exercise stimulates adipocytes to release fat by increasing circulation of hormones like norepinephrine (adrenaline). When norepinephrine reaches an adipocyte, no matter where in your body it's located, it signals special chemical messengers inside the adipocytes to stimulate fat release, and just like the balloon that shrinks when you let out the air, adipocytes shrink when they release fat. You will keep the fat off as long as it gets burned by the muscle and does not return to the adipocyte for storage. That's one of the reasons why exercise helps control body weight.
As for your question, the reason that you can't spot reduce during exercise, which is what you are really asking, is that you don't have any control over which adipocytes release fat. Norepinephrine and the other hormones released during exercise do not discriminate. That is, they stimulate adipocytes to release fat wherever they are located. We all have patterns of weight loss and weight gain that tend to repeat (you typically gain and lose weight in the same pattern over and over), and we don't have any control over this. The good news is that we can stimulate our adipocytes to release fat and shrink to help us lose weight, and more important, keep it off, as long as we exercise regularly and keep our muscles burning fat. | 2019-04-25T00:33:30 | https://www.medicinenet.com/can_you_target_body_parts_for_weight_loss/ask.htm |
0.999178 | Iconoclasm is the most abstract and tactical among the Nova Suecia games. The balance between cooperation and competition is there but much more subtle as the players rather than negotiate may play their opponents' tokens directly. It is also a very open game where all player actions are clearly visible on the board and the gameplay is more about assessing open tactical options rather than hidden player intentions. The absence of random mechanisms that characterize the other Nova Suecia games is very prominent in Iconoclasm.
What makes Iconoclasm different from other games?
The tactical gameplay with both own and other players' units is seldom seen in games. Add to that the hidden identity of the players and a game board that keeps changing as conflicts may build and destroy temples and you have a game with unique challenges.
Clarify that although a player plays one element, she has a relation to the other elements (one that she supports, one that she is supported by and one that she opposes) and may place tokens of all elements on the board. Demonstrate the two first clashes of forming (a new unit is formed) and deforming (two units are connected) and why it's important to have supporting elements. Also explain the third clash of reforming where supporting tokens may take over a unit and that the objective is to have units of the own element left on the board.
What happens if more clashes can take place in a turn?
The player in turn chooses in which order the clashes are played.
If the winning unit is or gets connected to another unit, is the latent clash (within the winning unit) or the external clash (between the winning and the other unit) played first?
The latent clash is played before any other clash. The winning unit will thus be weaker or even overtaken by another element before the next external clash. | 2019-04-25T20:10:53 | http://novasuecia.se/iconoclasm/faq.html |
0.999559 | The man in the light-colored jacket has been identified as Richard Carter, a member of the Tulsa Police Department from 1952-1972. The man was identified by B. Hicks.
Description The man in the light-colored jacket has been identified as Richard Carter, a member of the Tulsa Police Department from 1952-1972. The man was identified by B. Hicks. | 2019-04-21T02:07:33 | http://digitalcollections.tulsalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15020coll1/id/673/ |
0.998582 | These questions about taxes and other financial matters may arise when young adults live with their parents — or otherwise depend on them for support.
Can parents claim adult children as dependents?
Parents can generally claim a dependency exemption for a child under age 19 or a full-time student under age 24, if they provide more than half of the child's annual support. Each dependency exemption was $4,000 for 2015. Parents may lose at least part of the benefit of these exemptions if their adjusted gross income (AGI) is above a certain amount, however.
Can this situation trigger the kiddie tax?
The so-called "kiddie tax" applies to unearned income received by a dependent child under age 19 or a full-time student under age 24 (unless the student provides more than half of his or her own support). Under the kiddie tax, any unearned income that exceeds $2,100 (for 2016) will be taxed at the top rate of the child's parents.
Can parents claim tax breaks for higher education expenses?
If parents pay higher education costs for a child, they may qualify for either one of two education tax credits (but not both). The maximum American Opportunity tax credit is $2,500 per student while the maximum Lifetime Learning credit is $2,000 per taxpayer. Both higher education credits are phased out for upper-income taxpayers based on their MAGI.
The deduction for qualified tuition and fee expenses has also been extended for 2016 under the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act. The deduction on 2016 returns will be either $4,000 or $2,000, depending on the parent's MAGI, before it's completely phased out.
Important note. You can't deduct tuition expenses if you claim one of the higher education credits.
Additionally, parents may be able to deduct interest paid on a qualified student loan up to a maximum of $2,500 for 2016. This "above the line" deduction can be claimed whether or not the parents itemize deductions on their tax return.
Can adult children be covered by their parents' health insurance plan?
If a parent's health insurance plan covers dependents, adult children usually can be added to their plan and stay on it until they turn 26. If parents purchase coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace, they usually may elect to add adult children to the plans until they turn 26.
In general, adult children can stay on their parents' plans until age 26 even if they get married, have or adopt a child, start or leave school, aren't claimed as a tax dependent, turn down an offer of job-based health coverage, or live in or out of their parents' home. The government also offers "catastrophic" plans and other affordable alternatives for young adults under 30.
Can self-employed parents deduct health insurance costs paid for their adult children?
If you're self-employed and pay for health insurance, you may be able to deduct premiums paid to cover your child. This tax break, which was authorized by the Affordable Care Act, applies to children who are under age 27 at the end of the year, even if the child isn't claimed as a dependent on a parent's tax return or living at home.
For a more detailed answer or for answers to questions not on this list, contact your tax and financial advisers.
Black and Hispanic young adults (36% for each group) are more likely to live with their parents than are white young adults (30%).
The percentages of young adults living with parents aren't at their highest historic levels, however. In 1940, about 35% of young adults lived with their parents — but living with a romantic partner was even more popular back then. And living single or with roommates was far less common than it is today.
The phenomenon of kids continuing to live with parents into adulthood or "boomeranging" home after going out on their own isn't unique to the United States. In fact, it's even more widespread in the European Union (EU) and Canada.
Eurostat (the EU's statistical agency) reports that, across its 28 member nations, 48% of young adults ages 18 to 34 live with their parents. Likewise, Canada's most recent census found that 48% of young adults ages 20 to 29 live in their parents' homes.
It's easy to attribute the shift in young adult living situations to the recession of 2007 – 2009. But this trend started long ago. Inflation-adjusted wages have been falling since 1970. Declining employment rates for young adults over the last few decades have also persuaded many to return to school and then live with their parents.
In addition, young people wait longer to get married today — or skip marriage altogether — compared to previous generations. Just over a quarter of Millennials are currently married, compared to the 36% of Generation Xers and 48% of Baby Boomers at the same age.
More fundamental, however, is the changing stigma associated with living with parents into adulthood. Pew reports that more than 60% of young adults have friends or family members who live with their parents — and almost one-third of parents report that finances have forced their kids to return home in recent years.
Not only is it commonplace to live with parents, but it's also seen as positive by many people. Pew Research discovered that roughly three-quarters of young adults who live with their parents are satisfied with their living situation and upbeat about their future finances. That's about the same satisfaction level as young adults who live on their own. Parents are reportedly just as happy about their adult kids living with them.
Most people presume that live-in adult children are financially dependent on their parents for support. While that may be true for the 9% of young adults who admit to receiving financial support from the parents, it's not always an accurate assumption.
In some cases, parents also benefit when their kids live at home. Pew Research reports that 35% of young adults pay rent to their parents, 75% contribute to household expenses, such as groceries or utilities, and 96% perform chores to help chip in. Parents with annual incomes under $30,000 are just as likely as those with annual household incomes of $100,000 or more to say their kids returned home for economic reasons.
From a social perspective, parents often encourage adult kids to live at home. For example, empty nesters may feel lonely and see this living situation as a pragmatic way for young adults to save money for a down payment on a home of their own. Others see it as a safer alternative to young adults living away from home in a less desirable, low-rent neighborhood. Other parents, especially those who pursued careers before starting their families, may have health and mobility issues that benefit from the helping hand of a young adult.
Parents need to consider the likelihood that their kids will live at home into adulthood when planning their household budget, deciding whether to downsize their home and timing their retirement plan. It's also critical to preserving long-term family relationships (and sanity) for parents to set up the parameters with young adults before agreeing to any living arrangement. For example, how will the kids contribute to the household? How long can they stay? Are there any rules regarding curfews, overnight guests, pets, and alcohol and tobacco use?
It may not be realistic to expect adult kids to follow the same rules that were set when they were minors. But setting expectations from the get-go could help minimize future disputes and dissatisfaction with the living arrangement.
For better or for worse, in sickness or in health, adult kids are living at home with their parents in record numbers. Often this living arrangement is temporary until the young adult finishes school, finds a job or saves a predetermined "nest egg." If you're part of this multigenerational living trend, discuss the situation with your tax and financial advisers. They've observed how other families manage this living arrangement and can offer fresh, objective insight. | 2019-04-23T15:54:14 | https://www.415group.com/more-adult-children-opting-to-live-with-parents |
0.999993 | Before you attempt to improve your lecture skills, you first must check if the lecture approach is the best way of teaching to achieve the instructional goals of your course. Lecturing is quite appropriate for some goals, but inappropriate for others.
Gives you a means of conveying interest for the subject and providing a role model of the scholar in action.
Lets you impart material otherwise unavailable, including original research or recent developments that have not yet been published.
Provides organization, specifically for students who read poorly or who are unable to organize print material themselves.
Creates a low-risk situation for students, in that most of the activity is your responsibility.
Highlights learning by listening, an advantage for students who learn well this way.
Students are largely passive in lecture situations and give you little feedback about what they are learning.
Lectures are not appropriate for complex, detailed or abstract material.
Lectures do not readily develop higher levels of learning such as application, analysis, and synthesis.
Lectures assume that all students are learning at the same pace and at the same level of understanding, which is hardly ever true.
Lectures seldom sustain student attention, and tend to be forgotten more quickly than more interactive lessons.
The best lectures are well-planned and need effort on your part to make them cohesive, clear, complete and relevant.
Undergraduates represent a broad cross-section of backgrounds and skills and, as a result, may arrive at college with different levels of competence. You neither want to talk over their heads nor patronize them. You will be more effective if you try as much as possible to draw on knowledge they already have or appeal to experiences that, by analogy, suit the topic.
Determine how the lecture fits into the course as a whole.
What are your objectives? Do you want to give the students with an overview of the subject, give them some background information, or provoke them into further contemplation?
Generate an outline that will allow you to cover everything relevant within the time allotted.
Formulate one broad question that covers the heart of it, one you could answer in a single lecture. Take time to write it down and study it.
Generate three or four key points you could develop to answer this question.
Define the elements of your key points.
Create effective examples or analogies for each.
Develop your examples beforehand, to present a particular point and broaden students’ understanding of the subject.
Prepare ways to illustrate examples with chalkboard diagrams, slides, overhead transparencies, demonstrations, or case studies, any of which can increase students’ understanding and interest.
The beginning of the lecture is important. Here are some approaches for starting, to help capture and keep students’ attention.
Find a “hook” for getting students’ attention.
State a question that will be answered (or at least better understood) by the end of the lecture.
Give a problem. Unlike stating a question in a single sentence, posing a problem may require a paragraph or two.
Give an example of the phenomenon to be discussed.
Tell a relevant anecdote about yourself, a friend or famous colleague.
Present a demonstration that shows the topic or puzzles the students.
Review some previously covered material, when directly related to and essential for understanding the current lecture.
Provide an overview of the lecture.
State the objectives to be accomplished with the lecture.
Tell a funny story or joke, if related to the material.
Give the lecture a title.
Begin with a brief statement, something that will preview the lecture. Give the listeners a frame of reference for the remainder of your presentation. Refer to previous lectures. Attract and focus their attention.
Write the outline on the chalkboard or use an overhead transparency or handout. Make sure you refer to the outline as you move from point to point in your lecture.
There are a several points to remember about the style and clarity of your lecture presentation. The following suggestions can guarantee that your lecture is clear and well received.
This may seem obvious, but undoubtedly we have all sinned against this prescription. Perhaps in the very first class you should suggest that people signal you if they cannot hear.
Verbal tics like “ah” or “you know,” straightening your notes, adjusting your tie, or fiddling with a pen can be quite distracting.
Research suggests that these are what people really remember—and they are probably what you really want to teach.
Repeat your points in two or three different ways.
Your listeners may not have heard it the first time, or misunderstood it, or had no time to write it down. Add examples or concrete ideas—these aid both understanding and remembering. Use short sentences.
This can be done with your tone of voice. It can also be done explicitly, e.g., “Write this down; this is important; this will be on the test.” Pause. Give your listeners time to think and to write.
The conclusion of the lecture gives you the chance to make up for any lapses in the body of the lecture. Allow some time to conclude effectively.
Encouraging students to formulate questions by asking questions yourself can facilitate memory and understanding. The prospect of unanswered questions to be treated in future lectures builds anticipation.
Without merely summarizing, use a new example, have students to restate the main points, inform where the class is now.
Give students the chance to immediately process the information from the lecture.
You can promote discussions and increase interaction after presenting a lecture or large amount of content by pairing up students and giving them two to three minutes to react, respond, and raise questions or issues about the material just presented. Ask for volunteers to report on the issues or questions raised in their dyads.
A final point: Do not let students rush you to the end. | 2019-04-22T14:03:35 | http://www.outputeducation.com/lecturing/ |
0.998731 | results-oriented professional with subject matter expertise in americans with disability act (ada) and broad knowledge of the relevance of disabilities to the work place. utilize strong interpersonal ability to conducting effective intake interviews, gathering appropriate information to make eligibility determinations, conducting or making referrals for assessments and engaging in the employee relations planning process. long career of proven knowledge of assistive technology, job analysis, labor trends and reasonable accommodation to help employers hire, maintain and train employees with disabilities.
remain aware of established standards and periodic changes in titles i, ii and iii of ada; principles, practices, terminology and current developments in the field of hr and disability management.
demonstrate mastery of ada rules, regulations, disability, and substance abuse issues.
enhance the professional potential of supervisory, management and employee training programs for fmla/afla & ada that applies a variety of instructional techniques such as group discussion, lecture, role playing, and case studies using adult learning principles.
institute the best practices for the prompt and equitable resolution of complaints and inquiries regarding compliance with the ada and regarding discrimination on the basis of disability.
render determinations regarding allegations of discrimination and non-compliance under the ada.
remain abreast of current trends in state and federal laws and business protocol concerning the rights of persons with disabilities and strategies of providing reasonable accommodations.
address sensitive, controversial, and interpersonal issues related to the physical, mental, developmental, cognitive, and emotional disabilities of personnel.
skillfully apply expertise in family medical leave act (fmla) and alaska family leave act (afla) entitlements and produce a definitive response to fmla and afla requests.
assess employee service records and evaluate medical records to determine eligibility; notify employees and supervisors of entitlements and obligations; track and monitor usage, and notify employees when entitlement is exhausted.
identify and resolve instances where there is conflict between fmla, afla, workers compensation, and the ada entitlements.
liaison with insurance vendor for quick processing of employee applications for short-term disability (std) and long-term disability (ltd) claims.
generate monthly billing report for std, ltd, moa/ee voluntary life, and dependent life premiums utilizing people soft queries.
reconciled department general ledger accounts, receivables, payables according to generally accepted accounting procedures (gaap) and local, state, federal accounting standards.
resolved accounting issues related to all benefits administration, short and long term disability plans, employee assistance program, life insurance, dependent life insurance and supplemental life insurance for 11 unions and non-represented and executive employees and retirees.
tracked, monitored, and verified insurance premium and benefit payments, fsa accounts, self-insured health fund of $45mm and payroll liability accounts.
briefed director and deputy director on budget administration functions; integrated technology solutions such as hrms query system (people soft) and strategies such as web-based reporting.
resolved labor distribution discrepancies with proven research abilities.
performed a multitude of financial management tasks including administration of the budget for all grant, contract, foundation, endowment, and scholarship funds.
handled accounting functions such as account reconciliation, inputting grant receivables, donations, scholarship revenue, travel encumbrances and reimbursements, and vendors invoices.
managed grant files and ensured compliance with federal, state, and related regulations with relation to processing grant billings, fund expenditures, and revenue budgets and approved purchase orders.
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0.999999 | How good is new Sting musical?
Musician Sting is known for being an activist, so it should be no surprise that his musical The Last Ship has political undertones. The world-famous singer was at New Alexandra Theatre to oversee the opening night of the show in Birmingham, but was it all smooth sailing?
The Last Ship is something of a labour of love for Sting as it is heavily inspired by his childhood memories of growing up in the North East, in the shadow of a shipbuilding yard in Wallsend.
Audiences in the UK and Ireland are getting their first chance to see the show this year as part of a tour, which I caught at Birmingham's New Alexandra Theatre during its stay from April 16 to 21. I had high expectations as its stint in America a few years' ago (with a slightly different version) had gained it two Tony Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations.
It's a somewhat grim but striking plot for a musical about a community under threat, protesting as politicians move in to shut the yard, one of whom looks and sounds eerily similar to Maggie Thatcher.
At the same time, there's an equally dreary storyline about a young man returning home to find his childhood sweetheart after 17 years away, during which time his father has died.
Okay, the show is far from hearts and flowers and leaping around in love, but this is a slice of reality from one of the most respected music artists in the world.
There's death, betrayal, heartbreak and most of all, a desperation to escape a life laid out for you when you have something more ambitious in mind. That comes through in several songs - particularly Dead Man's Boots - and are probably the most meaningful to Sting as he's openly talked about that being how he felt growing up in the North East.
As expected, the soundtrack by Sting is excellent with a folk influence to the foot-stamping tunes. There's also a choral element to the group numbers, similar to that of the all-male choirs found around the old mining communities.
In comparison, the solo numbers have a distinctive Sting sound, especially as actor Richard Fleeshman is heavily channelling a Sting impersonation in many of his numbers with rasping vocals.
The main pull for audiences will obviously be the music, but there's much more to this production than that. The stage set and design is hugely impressive and you can almost taste the salty air from the North Sea as huge screens display everything from roaring waves to stars amid a backdrop of cranes. The digital set also quickly transforms the scene from a ropy pub to a beautiful stained glass church and it's a huge bonus to the viewer.
The gritty plot is powerful and unpretentious too. The essence of it is people working and fighting together to protect what's important to them. Be warned, it does suddenly morph into a political call to arms in the final scene, expanding the message to not just the shipbuilding industry but to the NHS.
Actor Joe McGann adds some gravitas to the plot as foreman Jackie White while Charlie Hardwick, known for her stint in Emmerdale, plays his wife Peggy and is exceptional on stage with a rousing singing voice.
Richard Fleeshman, playing the returning naval officer Gideon, has an impressive voice, so it's understandable that he has been given some of the best and most emotional songs in the show including The Night The Pugilist Learned How To Dance.
Frances McNamee as Gideon's love interest Meg and Katie Moore as Ellen are both worth a mention for their strong vocals too.
The First Act is the stronger of the two and the only drawback was that it was sometimes hard to understand characters with the strongest North East accents.
The Last Ship is a welcome first musical from Sting, who has combined his history, musical talent and political astuteness to create a moving piece of theatre. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of his move into the theatrical world. | 2019-04-20T21:16:45 | https://www.weekendnotes.co.uk/the-last-ship-at-new-alexandra-theatre-review/ |
0.999984 | Is there a setting somewhere to make one of the custom taxonomies the "default" taxonomy?
When you publish a custom post without selecting a taxonomy at all, one should be assigned to the post as a default, as it is in the default WordPress post type. It's not behaving this way in my installation of the plugin. Did I miss a setting somewhere?
Have you ticked the box for enabling taxonomies in the settings?
Not sure I understand what you're getting at. The box to "Support Regular Taxonomies"--doesn't that only apply if you don't make custom taxonomies for the post type?
I've set up the custom taxonomies for the post type, and they are showing up in a meta box on the custom post page. If I don't check any of the taxonomies, the post is published with no taxonomies assigned. There should be a way to assign a default custom taxonomy to all posts of that post type, the same way that all default posts default to the "Uncategorized" category on a fresh WordPress install.
Also, if I check Categories or Tags in the "Support Regular Taxonomies" box, then I get extra metaboxes on the post screen for the custom post type with the Categories and Tags that apply to default post types in addition to the custom taxonomies that should be there. That's not how it should work.
Custom Taxonomies have a select box called "Post type" that lets you select one or more post types to associate with the Taxonomy. I'm not sure what you mean by default. You shouldn't be able to save the Taxonomy without picking at least one.
Obviously I'm not explaining this very well so let's start at the beginning, and forget about CustomPress for a minute.
In Wordpress, there is a "default" category called "Uncategorized" that is there upon installing the program to your server. Now, most folks will go and edit that category and call it something else, but regardless, that's still the default category that all posts will be a part of, unless you select a different category when you publish the post or edit the post. When you publish a post, if you don't select a category at all, that default category is automatically selected for you, and the Categories box will look like the first attached screenshot after publishing the post.
Now, on to CustomPress. Yes, I've set up the custom hierarchical taxonomy to be associated with the custom post type. For lack of a better taxonomy label for my purposes, I used show_category as the Taxonomy and Category as the Name. However, when I publish a custom post and do not select one of the terms in my Category box, no default term is assigned to the post at all and the post is left without a taxonomy term as shown in the second screenshot attached here.
There should be a way to select one of the taxonomy terms created as part of the custom taxonomy as the default term so that posts that are published without a taxonomy term selected are automatically assigned to one.
I hope my question is a bit more clear now.
OK I understand what you want. The problem is that Wordpress filters out all post types except "post" when assigning a default category.
So you have to do it yourself. Second problem on Customs is you may assign more than one post_type to a Taxonomy. Which post_type is the default? So again you have to specify.
To do what you want you would have to add an action on 'save_post' and in that action inspect the post_type and ecide if it's one you want then inspect the taxonomies and post_status to decide whether you need to add your default and use wp_set_object_terms() to add the default if needed.
I see. Thanks for letting me know. | 2019-04-25T09:46:47 | https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/custompress-need-to-set-default-taxonomy-on-custom-post-type |
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0.99896 | I used to keep a dream diary with a great amount of dedication. Some recent dreams caused me to wonder how the dreams I've been having lately would compare with those I had twenty years ago. And so, I opted to make a chart of the people who have shown up in my dreams over the course of years each separated by a decade.
The years I chose were 1991, 2001, and 2011. This posed a few problems, however. So far, in 2011, I've recorded seven dreams. In 2001, I recorded none. And in 1991, I recorded something like one hundred (I was indeed dedicated). So clearly that wasn't going to work. I did the best I could, by choosing instead of 2001 the year 1999. That year, I recorded three dreams. And instead of all of 1991, I chose to record review only the nine dreams from July of that year. Hence, the decades are now more on an equal par.
I don't know why I should have been surprised, but the people in the dreams varied too much for me to actually chart them by name, with lots of folks only showing up once. Folks who showed up most frequently back in July 1991 included my mom, my friend/coworker/former high school classmate Mike, and my boss Dorothy. A girl I had a crush on at the time only showed up in two dreams that month. No one showed up more than once in any of the dreams for 1999 or 2011.
So I needed a different strategy. I opted to break the dream people into categories. Certainly, some of the categories are kind of a judgment call. Take, for example, Mike. Do I stick him under high school, work, or friend? I opted in such cases to place a person under the category where I first became most familiar with the person, so Mike went under high school (though in the dreams that month, he was most often at work).
Here's how the categories break down for each of the three years chosen.
I suppose some might be interested in the celebrity category. The celebrities to show up in the July 1991 dreams were Will Smith (who was still the Fresh Prince at the time) and Dave Letterman. And in 1999, it was Alex Trebek.
So what is interesting to me about these charts is the way in which the things my dreams obsess about has changed. In 1991, even though high school was three years behind me, classmates from that period still figured most prominently. Relatives and coworkers also did. I dreamed a lot about work, as I worried a lot about it as well.
In 1999, my church was going through some large changes still, and so many of my thoughts revolved around that. By then high school no longer featured so prominently, though strangely, grad school, finished two years before, now was showing up.
In 2011, church seems even bigger, but I can say, from looking over the dreams, that actually few people I know have shown up in dreams this year, which skewers the stats significantly. Most dreams (four of seven) involved complete strangers. Interestingly, high school has left the mix completely, and even work isn't showing up.
But in all years over the decades, relatives show up with some frequency, even though I have little contact with my family compared to 1991. | 2019-04-19T09:23:21 | http://mylifeincharts.blogspot.com/2011/09/dreams-by-decade.html |
0.999497 | We talk metaphorically of secrets as great weights that must be carried through life like a heavy burden. Consistent with the ever-growing literature on embodied cognition, a new study shows how secrets affect perception and action, as if their keepers are encumbered, literally.
A first study used participants recruited online via Amazon's Mechanical Turk website. Those asked to write a recollection about a big secret rated a hill, depicted head-on, as being steeper than participants who wrote about a trivial secret. This matches previous research (pdf) showing that people who are physically encumbered tend to rate hills as steeper. By contrast, the big secret vs. small secret groups didn't differ on other measures, such as their rating of the sturdiness of a table.
Next, 36 undergrads threw a small beanbag at a target located just over two and a half meters away. Those who'd been asked to recall a meaningful secret threw their beanbag further, on average, than those asked to recall a trivial secret. It's as if they perceived the target to be further away, consistent with prior research showing that people who are physically encumbered tend to overestimate spatial distances.
In a penultimate study, forty participants who'd recently been unfaithful to their partners were recruited via Amazon. Those who said the secret of their infidelity was a burden (it bothered them, affected them and they thought about it a lot) tended to rate physical tasks, such as carrying shopping upstairs, as requiring more physical effort and energy than those who were unburdened by their infidelity. Ratings of non-physical tasks, by contrast, did not vary between the groups.
Finally, keeping a significant secret (in this case not revealing one's homosexuality whilst being video-interviewed) led gay male participants to be less likely to agree to help the researchers move some books; keeping a trivial secret (concealing one's extraversion) had no such effect.
Michael Slepian and his colleagues said their findings showed how carrying a secret leads to the experience of being weighed down. They don't think the findings can be explained by the mental effort of keeping a secret - for example, past research has shown that cognitive load prompts people to underestimate, not overestimate, physical distances. The researchers warned about the health implications of their findings. "We suggest that concealment ... leads to greater physical burden and perhaps eventually physical overexertion, exhaustion, and stress," they said.
I think the title should say: "Thinking about our secrects leave us...". In all those studied people were required to think about their secrets. If you hide a secret deep in your mind and never think about it should not bother you.
I agree with the comment by Anonymous (Apr 26, 2012 03:29 PM).
On reading the section about the beanbag being thrown further when recalling a meaningful secret, instead of associating it with research showing that people who are physically encumbered overestimate spatial distances, i considered the idea that the meaningful secret was a heavy burden, weighing on the individual, so a sense of weight and heaviness transferred to the beanbag so the individual felt the need to throw the (heavier) object further to reach its target.
I am not sure a secret can be hidden, at least not from oneself. A secret is to be 'kept', as if an individual guards it. Trivial secrets may be forgotten in time but I think this research is trying to uncover the effects of more significant secrets, for example hiding one's identity like the study with gay men.
I could see how mental effort would not be an adequate explaination for the physical effects, as it seems more plausible that they would be linked to stress and anxiety perhaps due to lying to people close to them.
I'll believe this when I see a direct replication coming from another lab. | 2019-04-19T11:23:53 | http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/04/secrets-leave-us-physically-encumbered.html |
0.998574 | Did the New 'Captain Marvel' Trailer Show Us a Scene From the End of the Movie?
It’s not immediately obvious that the exchange in question even is one, because it involves one bit of dialogue from early in the trailer and another bit that comes far later. The first part comes right after the Marvel logo, when Annette Bening’s unnamed character is telling Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) about her backstory.
It’s actually a weird line even in the context of the trailer — other dialogue indicates that for at least a while Carol is going to think she’s just a Kree alien, and not a human from Earth. So that line above feels like it’s part of a late stage conversations on those grounds alone. But something Captain Marvel herself says near the end of the trailer reinforces that idea.
Before connecting those two lines to each other I remarked to one of my colleagues here at TheWrap that Carol’s comment felt like a defiant response to the main villain, who would be somebody who has been manipulating her. And then I noticed that we get a brief glimpse at the scenery when she’s making that declaration.
And here’s Bening delivering the other line from the beginning of the trailer.
That’s pretty obviously the same place, and with standard shot reverse shot dialogue framing.
The vibe from these first two trailers is that the structure of the movie will be something like: in the first act, Carol chases the Skrull Talos (Ben Mendolsohn) to Earth and discovers she has a history there; in the second act, she finds out what that history is; in the third act, she responds to that revelation.
This scene from the new trailer plays like Carol has found out she’s human and is confronting the person who gave her those Kree superpowers/hid her past. Then, that person tries to spin the situation as being for Carol’s benefit. And, finally, Carol defiantly declaring that she’ll no longer be a puppet for the Kree Empire.
So if that’s an accurate read on the general structure of the film and on this scene in particular, that would place it in the third act.
So while we congratulate ourselves for piecing these details together, we’re still missing crucial pieces of what will matter in the story this movie presents. There’s definitely some other hidden layer. Unfortunately, we still have to wait another three months to find out what that layer is.
It’s also possible that this is an intentional misdirection inserted in such a way that it seems like they were thought you’d never notice, but which they actually hoped you would notice so you wouldn’t figure out the truth. Damn, Marvel, you got me paranoid.
Whatever the answer ends up being, “Captain Marvel” is out March 8. | 2019-04-25T01:55:29 | https://www.thewrap.com/did-the-captain-marvel-trailer-show-us-a-scene-from-the-end-of-the-movie/ |
0.999999 | Helping the poor is a good aim, but we must not use forceful means (i.e. government programs) to do it.
The following story illustrates why.
Suppose there are ten people on an island, and food is scarce. Each day the people on the island go out and scavenge for food. The first day, nine of the ten people find an apple each. The tenth, unfortunately, does not find one. He watches hungrily as the others eat. Noticing this, the nine finders get together and say "we are generous in spite of our need. Let us all give one bite of apple to the tenth, so that he does not starve", and all agree that this is a good thing, so they do and the tenth gets nine bites of apple.
Now a few days pass, and for whatever reason, the tenth continues to return to camp empty-handed. Each night the same thing happens, where the nine each give him a bite so that he does not starve.
After pondering the situation for a bit, one of the nine who generally gets an apple thinks "scavenging for an apple is very hard work. Number 10 eats but does not find anything. If I stop scavenging so hard, then when I don't find an apple I might get to eat a bite of each of the others' apples."
And so the next day, he does not find an apple. The eight who do get together and say "We are generous in spite of our need. Though it is even harder for us than before, we will give away two bites each so that the two without food do not starve."
On the next day, two more have the same realization and only six of the ten have found food.
Now, there is clearly a problem. How is this problem resolved?
Those that are finding food may realize that their continued generosity will mean the demise of all of them. If they themselves don't eat, they won't have enough energy to find food the next day, and all will starve.
Since in this story, there is no law enforcing the generous behavior of those finding the food, they may decide to leave the non-finding ones and start a new camp with just the six of them. Or, they may decide to simply refuse to help anymore.
However, if there were a law enforcing the generous behavior, they would be forced to give up increasing shares of their food. Then what would happen? Either all would suffer and die as the pattern continued, or perhaps the nonfinders would perceive how dire the situation is, and some would resume finding food. An equilibrium may be reached, where there are just enough finders to find food for everyone, but they all do their work grudgingly and resent the nonfinders. Nobody feels free or generous anymore. Do you think quality of life, beyond simple survival, matters too?
In which situation do you think it more likely that one of the finders decides to work extra hard and find twice as much food, to begin storing food up, so that he can eventually use his extra energy to plant an orchard to create more food for all?
It is like this when we try to help the poor by shifting their burden onto the shoulders of everyone in society, using the forceful means of government. This is why it's better to limit our helping of the poor to voluntary contributions and charity organizations, and not institute taxation and government programs that can endanger the welfare of the society at large.
This means that sometimes we may have to sit on the sidelines and watch the heart-wrenching scene as people are suffering and we cannot help them. We may have to trust that others, with more means than us to help, will see the suffering and want to help as much as they can. It also means that the best way each of us can help is to make sure we're taking care of ourselves as best we can, so that we may be in a position to help others when they need it. | 2019-04-18T19:11:07 | http://blog.phauna.org/2011/05/helping-poor-without-harming-all.html |
0.999999 | The purposes of naming are to help categorize the world in which we live and to aid in grouping similar things together. However, who decides which name is the correct one? Is a child who often cannot pay attention to his classwork “absent-minded,” or experiencing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Is a person whose moods often swing from one extreme to the other simply “moody,” or living with bipolar disorder? Naming a lived experience a “mental illness” has the ability to change the social realities of those who receive the diagnosis, altering not only self-perception, but also influencing the perceptions and triggering the biases of others— often in a detrimental manner. So, who has the power to determine how such a label is assigned, and what happens if someone is given the wrong one?
The power affiliated with naming has caused the diagnosis of mental disorders to be fraught with controversy. Mental illnesses are defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which has been deemed the “bible” of mental health. According to Dr. Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institutes for Mental Health (NIMH), the goals of the DSM are to create a common language for describing mental illness, and to ensure that mental health care providers use the same terms in the same ways. Thus, when patients visit a psychiatrist in search of a name that will define the symptoms they are experiencing, this name is assigned with the aid of the DSM. | 2019-04-26T14:16:31 | https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/2015/07/the-power-of-a-name-controversies-and-changes-in-defining-mental-illness/ |
0.999832 | The polyhedral form of the Tree of Life is the 144 Polyhedron with 144 faces and the disdyakis triacontahedron with 120 faces. They are symbolized by the 144 yods inside the boundaries of the seven, tetractys-constructed, enfolded polygons of the inner Tree of Life, which are lined by 120 yods. The 74 vertices of the 144 Polyhedron correspond to the 74 yods up to the top of the lowest Tree of Life that are not Sephiroth. The 62 vertices of the disdyakis triacontahedron correspond to the 62 corners of the inner Tree of Life that are unshared with its outer form. The faces of the rhombic dodecahedron that generate the 144 polyhedron are rhombi with the proportions of √2:1. The faces of the rhombic triacontahedron that underlies the disdyakis triacontahedron are Golden Rhombi with the proportions of the Golden Ratio. Both types of rhombi are implicit in the geometry of the outer Tree of Life. The Golden Rhombus is implicit in the Fano plane, which represents the algebra of the octonions. The 60 vertices surrounding an axis passing through two opposite C vertices lie in 15 sheets. They form 15 polygons which, together with the two C vertices, have 550 geometrical elements, that is, 10F10 , where F10 is the tenth Fibonacci number. The 299 elements in one half of the polyhedron and the remaining 251 elements are the counterpart of the 299 Sephiroth in the 49-tree that maps the cosmic physical plane and the 251 Sephiroth in the 42 Trees above it that map the six cosmic superphysical planes of consciousness. The 550 geometrical elements (370 vertices & sides, 180 triangles) are the counterpart of the 550 geometrical elements (370 vertices & sides, 180 triangles) in the 50 faces of the five Platonic solids. The 34 (F9) corners of the 27 sectors in each set of seven polygons either above or below the central one correspond to the 34 corners associated with each set of seven enfolded polygons that are unshared with polygons enfolded in the next higher Tree. The 34 corners of the 21 triangles in each half of the two-dimensional Sri Yantra are their counterpart. The ninth Lucas number 76 is the number of vertices & centres of polygons that surround the centre of the disdyakis triacontahedron. The tenth Lucas number 123 is the number of points & lines shaping the 15 polygons. Equivalent to the I Ching table of 64 hexagrams and the 7-tree, the Sri Yantra embodies the superstring structural parameter 1680. This is also embodied in the 21 copies of the first four Platonic solids that fit the disdyakis triacontahedron. The 28 polyhedra that fit it embody the superstring structural parameter 3360. This is the number of yods in the seven enfolded polygons when their 47 sectors are 2nd-order tetractyses. F9 is the number of tree levels in the 10-tree, whose 361 sectors of 127 triangles have 550 sides. Prescribed by ADONAI, the Godname of Malkuth, the 1680 yods below its top when the sectors of their triangles are tetractyses symbolize the 1680 turns in each of the ten helical, closed curves of the E8×E8 heterotic superstring.
The Sephiroth exist in the four Worlds of Atziluth, Beriah, Yetzirah and Assiyah. Corresponding to them are the Godnames, Archangels, Order of Angels and Mundane Chakras (their physical manifestation). This table gives their number values obtained by the ancient practice of gematria, wherein a number is assigned to each letter of the alphabet, thereby giving a number value to a word that is the sum of the numbers associated with its letters. When some of these numbers are referred to in the article, they will be written in boldface.
There are 13 types of semi-regular polyhedra whose faces are two or more types of regular polygons. They are called the “Archimedean solids.” Two are chiral, having partners that are mirror images of them. The dual of a polyhedron with C vertices and F faces is one with F vertices and C faces. The duals of the Archimedean solids are the Catalan solids. Figure 2 displays the numbers of vertices (C), edges (E) & faces (F) in the 30 Archimedean and Catalan solids, including their chiral versions. They are listed in order of increasing numbers of vertices for the Archimedean solids and increasing numbers of faces for the Catalan solids. The last of the latter in the list is the disdyakis triacontahedron, which has 62 vertices, 180 edges & 120 faces. 62 is the number value of Tzadkiel, the Archangel of Chesed.
Suppose that two polyhedral counterparts of the inner Tree of Life exist and that these two sets of yods symbolise their vertices or faces. According to Fig. 2, there are no two solids with 144 and 120 vertices. The truncated icosidodecahedron has 120 vertices, but none of these polyhedra has 144 vertices. Nor can such a polyhedron be created by sticking tetrahedra or pyramids onto faces of any Archimedean or Catalan solid. For that to be possible, C + F = 144, but none of them has this property. However, the disdyakis triacontahedron has 120 faces and sticking tetrahedra onto the 48 faces of the disdyakis dodecahedron generates a polyhedron with 144 faces. This allows the 120 yods on edges of the seven enfolded polygons to be interpreted as denoting the 120 faces of the last Catalan solid and the 144 internal yods as symbolizing the 144 faces of a polyhedron (hereafter called the “144 Polyhedron”).
The 120 red yods on the boundaries of the seven enfolded polygons symbolize the 120 faces of the disdyakis triacontahedron with 62 vertices. Their 144 internal, blue yods symbolize the 144 faces of a polyhedron with 74 vertices.
The Catalan solid called the disdyakis dodecahedron has 26 vertices, 72 edges & 48 faces. Attaching tetrahedra to each face generates the 144 Polyhedron with (26+48=74) vertices, (72+3×48=216) edges and (3×48=144) triangular faces. 144 is F12, the twelfth Fibonacci number. 72 is the number value of Chesed, the first Sephirah of Construction and 216 is the number value of Geburah, the second Sephirah of Construction opposite it in the Tree of Life.
The Catalan solid called the rhombic triacontahedron has 32 vertices, 60 edges & 30 so-called “Golden Rhombic” faces (to be described in Fig. 6). Attaching four-faced pyramids with Golden Rhombic bases to their faces generates the disdyakis triacontahedron with (32+30) vertices, (60+4×30=180) edges and (4×30=120) triangular faces.
The 144 Polyhedron and the disdyakis triacontahedron constitute the polyhedral form of the Tree of Life. They represent the union of, respectively, the Yang (male) and Yin (female) aspects of Divine Unity.
Imagine a set of overlapping Trees of Life with their triangles turned into tetractyses. Of the 84 yods up to the level of the top of the lowest Tree, ten are Sephiroth of that Tree, so that 74 more yods are needed to complete it. There are 26 yods down to the level of Daath, leaving 48 yods. 26 is the number value of YAHWEH, the Godname of Chokmah and 48 is the number value of Kokab, the Mundane Chakra of Hod. The 74 yods other than Sephiroth symbolise the 74 vertices of the 144 Polyhedron, the 26 yods denoting the 26 vertices of the underlying disdyakis dodecahedron and the 48 yods denoting the 48 vertices added by attaching tetrahedra to its 48 faces.
When this Tree is projected onto the plane of the 14 polygons of the inner Tree of Life, seven Sephiroth and Daath coincide with some of the 70 corners of the polygons, leaving 62 corners that are intrinsic to them, being unshared with the projected outer Tree of Life. They denote the 62 vertices of the disdyakis triacontahedron. The 144 Polyhedron is the polyhedral version of the outer Tree of Life and the disdyakis triacontahedron is the polyhedral form of the inner Tree of Life. The 30 peaks of the Golden Rhombic pyramids in the disdyakis triacontahedron (called “A” vertices) correspond to the 30 yellow corners of the pentagons, hexagons & dodecagons. The 12 B vertices (vertices of an icosahedron) correspond to the 12 blue corners of the two octagons. The 20 C vertices (vertices of a dodecahedron) correspond to the 20 red corners of the squares & decagons.
The 12 faces of a rhombic dodecahedron are rhombi whose diagonals have lengths in the proportion of √2:1. Attaching rhombic pyramids to their faces creates the disdyakis dodecahedron with 48 faces. Attaching tetrahedra to the latter generates the 144 Polyhedron with 144 faces. 144 is the twelfth Fibonacci number. It is also 122. The geometrical meaning of this is that each of the 12 faces of the rhombic dodecahedron generates 12 faces of the 144 Polyhedron.
The rhombic triacontahedron has the 32 vertices of the underlying dodecahedron and icosahedron. The diagonals of its faces are their edges, the shorter (red) one being the edge of the former and the longer (green) one being the edge of the latter. The ratio of their lengths is the Golden Ratio Φ. Sticking Golden Rhombic pyramids onto the 30 faces of the rhombic triacontahedron creates the disdyakis triacontahedron. Whereas the Golden Ratio is only implicit in the geometry of the pentagonal faces of the dodecahedron, it becomes explicit in the proportions of the diamond-shaped bases of the 30 pyramids. The ideal of proportion is realised in the polyhedral Tree of Life.
The longer diagonal of the rhombic face of the rhombic dodecahedron is the edge of a cube. Its shorter diagonal is the edge of an octahedron. The ratio of their lengths is √2 = 1.414… . These Platonic solids are dual to each other. The two other Platonic solids that are dual to each other — the icosahedron and the dodecahedron — share an analogous property in that their edges are, respectively, the longer and shorter diagonals of the rhombic faces of the rhombic triacontahedron. Their ratio is the Golden Ratio Φ = 1.618… . These rhombi are generated in a simple way by the geometry of the outer Tree of Life. Fig. 7 shows that the ten Sephiroth are the centres or points of intersection of a column of white circles. Let us take their radii as one unit. The central Pillar of Equilibrium intersects the path joining Chesed and Geburah at a point A that is one unit away from the vertical right-hand tangent BC to these circles. ABCD is a square with sides of length 1. Therefore, its diagonal AC = √(12 + 12) = √2 . With A as centre, draw a circle passing through C of radius √2 (shown as a dashed line). It intersects the line drawn along AB at E. E′ i s the corresponding point on the other side of the central pillar. EE' = 2√2. The central pillar intersects the path joining Netzach and Geburah at D'. DD' = 2. Therefore, EE'/DD' = 2√2/2 = √2. We find that the rhombus DED'E' has the same shape as the rhombic face of the rhombic dodecahedron.
Extend the tangent at B to the point F, where BC = CF = 1. Then, BF = 2 and AF = √( 22 + 12) = √5. The line AF intersects CD at G, where AG = GF = √5/2. With G as centre, draw a circle of radius ½. It intersects AF at H, where AH = √5/2 + ½ = (√5 +1)/2. This is Φ, the Golden Ratio. With A as centre, draw a circle of radius AH. It intersects the extension of AB at I, where AI = Φ. I' is its counterpart on the other side of the central pillar. II' = 2Φ. Therefore, II'/DD' = 2Φ/2 = Φ. The rhombus DI D'I' has the same shape as the rhombic face of the rhombic triacontahedron. What manifests finally as the fruit of the Tree of Life, namely, the disdyakis triacontahedron with golden rhombic faces, was within it as their seed shape from the very beginning!
The geometry of the Tree of Life generates the rhombic faces of the rhombic dodecahedron & rhombic triacontahedron.
X3Y + Y3Z + Z3X = 0.
Given that its dimension is 168 , can it be just coincidental that the disdyakis triacontahedron, whose groups of four faces have the outline of a Golden Rhombus, have 1680 vertices, lines & triangles surrounding an axis joining two opposite vertices when its interior triangles are divided into their sectors (1)? This number is the number of circularly polarised oscillations in each of the ten closed curves making up the E8×E8 heterotic superstring, as described by the Theosophists Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater over a century ago (2). It prove that the helical structure of the basic unit of matter is embodied in the geometrical composition of the polyhedral Tree of Life blueprint.
Consider a straight line passing through two opposite C vertices of the disdyakis triacontahedron. The 60 vertices surrounding this axis are grouped into 15 sheets. Seven sheets (coloured with the seven colours of the rainbow) are above the central one (coloured khaki) and seven sheets are below it. Projected onto the plane containing the central sheet, the vertices form triangles and six-sided polygons that are irregular except for the central one, which is hexagonal. The rectangular coordinates of the 62 vertices are arranged according their height (Z' coordinate) measured along the axis. The vertices in a sheet of a given colour have the same height. The numbers between the arrows indicate the numbers of vertices in each sheet. Vertices 4 and 59 in the white rows are the diametrically opposite C vertices through which the axis passes. The pattern of 31 vertices below the thick black line is the mirror image of the pattern of 31 vertices above it. 31 is the number value of EL, the Godname of Chesed. 62 is the number value of Tzadkiel , its Archangel. For more details see Article 36 (3).
Sacred geometries are maps of all levels of physical and superphysical realities (4). In particular, their Tree of Life representation is called the "Cosmic Tree of Life" (CTOL). It consists of 91 overlapping Trees of Life with 550 Sephirothic levels (SLs), where 550 = 10×55 and 55 is the tenth Fibonacci number. We saw in Part 1 that this is the number of corners, sides and triangles in the 50 faces of the five Platonic solids (see Fig. 16 and its commentary). There are 299 SLs up to the top of the lowest 49 Trees of Life ("49-tree”) and 251 SLs above it. The 49-tree maps the 49 subplanes of the seven planes of consciousness taught in Theosophy. Above it are the 42 Trees of Life mapping the 42 subplanes of the six cosmic superphysical planes.
Suppose that the 15 polygons formed by the 60 vertices surrounding an axis passing through two opposite C vertices are divided into their sectors. Then suppose that each of the 60 sectors is again divided into its three sectors. Inspection of the projection of vertices onto the central sheet shows that none of the sides of the polygons is an edge of the disdyakis triacontahedron. If one imagines all the vertices joined to the centre so as to form triangles with polyhedral edges as one side, the central hexagon is the only polygon whose internal sides of sectors coincide with these triangles. They are coloured red in Fig. 10. The two C vertices on the axis are unshared with the 15 polygons. Listed in the table are the numbers of points, lines & triangles making up the polygons (including these two vertices) that are unshared (the centre of the central hexagon is shared with internal triangles of the polyhedron and so is not included in the numbers). The lower half of the disdyakis triacontahedron has eight polygons with 299 unshared geometrical elements (including the lower C vertex). They correspond to the 299 SLs in the 49-tree. The seven polygons and the upper C vertex comprise 251 geometrical elements. They correspond to the 251 SLs above the 49-tree. CTOL is encoded in the geometry of the polygons formed by the vertices of the disdyakis triacontahedron. To every one of the 550 geometrical elements there corresponds an SL.
There are 76 points (60 points surrounding the axis, 14 centres & two C vertices). This is the ninth Lucas number L9. 76 is the number value of YAHWEH ELOHIM, the Godname of Tiphareth. There are 370 unshared vertices & sides of 180 triangles. Compare this with the 370 vertices & sides of the 180 triangles in the faces of the five Platonic solids (see Fig. 16). The holistic parameter 550 divides in exactly the same way! There are 474 sides & triangles. 474 is the number value of Daath (“knowledge”). Truly, the number 550 measures the knowledge of YAHWEH ELOHIM (“God the Creator”), being the number of SLs in CTOL.
The seven polygons above or below the central sheet of vertices in the disdyakis triacontahedron have 27 sectors with 34 corners. 34 is the ninth Fibonacci number F9. Dividing each sector into three triangles and adding the C vertex associated with them generates 55 vertices other than centres of polygons, where 55 is the tenth Fibonacci number F10.
The two sets of seven polygons above and below the central sheet have 54 sectors with (2×34 =68) corners. This is the counterpart of the 68 corners per set of (7+7) polygons enfolded in each overlapping Tree of Life, 34 corners per set of seven polygons (see Fig. 10, Part 1). This property serves to illustrate that the disdyakis triacontahedron is the polyhedral counterpart of the inner Tree of Life, as has been shown in many previous articles.
Another counterpart of the disdyakis triacontahedron to the inner Tree of Life is as follows: associated with each set of seven enfolded polygons are their 35 corners (34 outside their shared root edge and one corner that is an endpoint of the latter). The 27 sectors of each set of seven polygons in the disdyakis triacontahedron have 34 corners. Including the single C vertex on the axis that is associated with each set, there are 70 vertices and centres surrounding the central polygon, 35 per set of seven polygons & C vertex).
Tetrahedron (tetrahedron with vertices at Netzach, Hod, Yesod & Malkuth).
Constructed from tetractyses, they have 35 yods. The branches of the Tree of Life are its geometrical components outside its trunk. They, too contain 35 yods. This 35:35 division is characteristic of holistic systems. It is displayed by the 14 polygons and the two C vertices. The latter correspond to the two endpoints of the root edge — the start and end of the unfolding of the polygonal geometry of the inner Tree of Life.
as L10 = F10 + 2F9. The factor of 2 refers to the upper and lower halves of the polyhedron, each containing seven polygons.
This property is the polyhedral counterpart of the 123 geometrical elements in the 3-tree (Fig. 5, Part 1), which has 55 geometrical elements in the lowest Tree of Life and 34 elements in each of the second and third Trees.
76 polyhedral vertices & centres of the 14 polygons surround the centre of the disdyakis triacontahedron. 76 is the ninth Lucas number L9.
137 = 123 + 14.
where 60 is the number of sides of the 15 polygons. 76 is the number value of YAHWEH ELOHIM, the Godname of Tiphareth.
137 = 1 + 74 + 62 .
The 42 triangles surrounding the central triangle in the 2-dimensional Sri Yantra have 68 corners (34 corners in each half). This leaves one other corner of the central, downward-pointing triangle and the bindu point in its middle. The 70 points creating the form of the 2-dimensional Sri Yantra are the counterpart of the 70 yods in the outer Tree of Life when its 16 triangles are tetractyses and the 70 corners of its polygonal, inner form. It demonstrates the equivalence of these sacred geometries. The two sets of 34 corners correspond to the 34 corners of the 27 sectors of each set of seven polygons (Fig. 11), whilst the bindu and lower corner of the central triangle correspond to the two C vertices on the central axis of the disdyakis triacontahedron and to the two endpoints of the root edge shared by the 14 polygons of the inner Tree of Life. Their counterpart in the outer Tree are its top (Kether) and bottom (Malkuth). More details about the analogous features of the Sri Yantra and other holistic systems are discussed in Article 35.
The 3-dimensional Sri Yantra is also equivalent to the inner Tree of Life. As the bindu point is no longer in the plane of the central triangle, as in the 2-dimensional case, the latter constitutes a distinct geometrical element. The eight geometrical elements making up the central triangle and bindu correspond to the eight points that are either corners of the polygons that coincide with Sephiroth of the outer Tree when it is projected onto the plane containing the polygons or centres of polygons. The four sets of triangles have 252 geometrical elements. They correspond to the 252 other yods outside the root edge that make up the 47 tetractyses. YAHWEH, the Godname of Chokmah with number value 26, prescribes both the geometrical composition of the Sri Yantra and the yod population of the inner Tree of Life.
The 252 geometrical elements making up the 42 triangles of the Sri Yantra that surround its central one correspond to the 252 geometrical elements composing seven overlapping Trees of Life. The seven elements in the central triangle that surround the bindu correspond to the seven elements (one point, three lines & three triangles) that are added when the seven Trees become the 7-tree.
The seven Trees of Life represent the seven planes of consciousness corresponding to the seven Sephiroth of Construction.
Remarkable confirmation of the equivalence of seven Trees of Life and the Sri Yantra is provided by their yod populations when their triangles are tetractyses. There are 384 yods up to the top of the seventh Tree of Life in a set of n overlapping Trees (n>7) and 384 yods that belong either to the central triangle as hexagonal yods or to the 42 triangles surrounding it.
The nine parent triangles that create the Sri Yantra have 27 corners. 26 of them (denoted by small circles) are corners of the 42 triangles that surround its centre. A Type B triangle is a triangle whose sectors are each divided into three sectors. It has 46 yods when the nine sectors are tetractyses. The 42 triangles has (4×42=168 ) internal corners of their (9×42=378) tetractyses. 168 is the number value of the Mundane Chakra of Malkuth. Many previous articles demonstrated that it is a structural parameter of the superstring. The 42 Type B triangles surrounding the centre of the Sri Yantra have 1680 yods other than the 26 corners that belong to the nine primary triangles and the 168 internal corners of tetractyses. This is how the Sri Yantra embodies the number 1680, recorded over a century ago by the Theosophist C.W. Leadbeater as the number of turns in each helical whorl of the particle that he claimed through his remote-viewing ability was the basic unit of matter. The sceptic may argue that the choice of yods is ad hoc and made to deliver the number 1680. This ignores the fact that the corners of tetractyses that are left out of the calculation number 168 — the very superstring structural parameter that numerous articles have proved is embodied in holistic systems. The sceptic’s assumption that this, too, occurs by chance is implausible, especially given the fact that there are 168 yods lining the sides of the 21 triangles in each half of the Sri Yantra, another occurrence of this number which he must also regard as coincidental.
Imagine the 50 faces of the five Platonic solids divided into their 180 sectors. Then suppose that each sector is a tetractys. There are 48 hexagonal yods in the 12 tetractyses forming the four faces of the tetrahedron, 96 hexagonal yods in the eight faces of the octahedron, 96 hexagonal yods in the six faces of the cube, 240 hexagonal yods in the 12 faces of the icosahedron & 240 hexagonal yods in the 12 faces of the dodecahedron. 48 is the number value of Kokab , the Mundane Chakra of Malkuth. The four Platonic solids associated by the ancient Greeks with the four Elements of Earth, Water, Air & Fire have 480 hexagonal yods (240 hexagonal yods in the tetrahedron, octahedron & cube and 240 hexagonal yods in the icosahedron).
The counterpart of this property in the outer Tree of Life are the 240 yods added to the lowest Tree when the sectors of its 19 triangles are turned into tetractyses. Its counterpart in the inner form of the Tree of Life are the 240 hexagonal yods that are added to each set of seven separate polygons when their sectors are turned into tetractyses. Each hexagonal yod symbolizes one of the 240 roots of the rank-8, exceptional Lie group E8, the (240+240=480) hexagonal yods in the two sets denoting the 480 roots of E8×E8, which is the symmetry group of the unified interaction of one of the two types of heterotic superstring.
The 62 vertices of the disdyakis triacontahedron are the vertices of 28 Platonic & Catalan solids. 21 polyhedra are copies of the first four Platonic solids. The seven other polyhedra that can be fitted into the disdyakis triacontahedron comprise the dodecahedron, five rhombic dodecahedra and one rhombic triacontahedron.
As a parameter of all holistic systems, the number 3360 has the following significance for the structure of the superstring: each of the ten whorls of the unit of matter described by the Theosophists Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater is a helix with 1680 turns. It twists five times around the spin axis of the particle, so that it winds (1680/5=336) times in one revolution. The ten whorls wind 3360 times in one revolution and 1680 times in a half-revolution. The 21 copies of the first four Platonic solids and the seven other polyhedra embody the number of circularly polarised oscillations in the ten whorls as they make these two half-revolutions.
The numbers of Platonic solids of the first four types that can be fitted into the disdyakis triacontahedron and which have 1680 hexagonal yods in their faces are the letter values of EYHEH (“I am”), the Godname of Kether, whose number value is 21. It is also the eighth Fibonacci number F8. This one of the ways in which this Godname prescribes the superstring structural parameter 1680.
The number 168 is the number value of Cholem Yesodeth, the Mundane Chakra of Malkuth. Confirmation that it refers to the Malkuth aspect of the Tree of Life is the remarkable fact that 49 overlapping Trees of Life have 1680 corners, sides & triangles. The lowest 49 Trees in CTOL map the 49 subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. Each cosmic plane corresponds to a Sephirah of Construction, and the cosmic physical plane corresponds to Malkuth, the physical level of CTOL in a cosmic sense. 49 is the number value of EL CHAI, the Godname of Yesod.
Joining the 62 vertices of the disdyakis triacontahedron to its centre creates 180 triangles in its interior with (180×3=540) sectors. There are 60 vertices surrounding an axis drawn through any two opposite vertices. The sectors of the internal triangles have 180 internal corners and (60 + 3×180 = 600) internal sides surrounding the centre of the polyhedron. Its 120 faces are 120 triangles with 180 sides and 60 corners surrounding the axis. 1680 corners/vertices, sides/edges & triangles surround this axis. The disdyakis triacontahedron embodies the superstring structural parameter 1680. Its 900 triangles have 780 corners & sides.
The 1680 geometrical elements that surround any axis of the disdyakis triacontahedron is the polyhedral realisation of the number value 168 of Cholem Yesodeth, the Mundane Chakra of Malkuth. That this is no coincidence is indicated by the fact that the 780:900 division of geometrical elements reflects, apart from the Tree of Life/tetractys factor of 10, the gematria number values of both Cholem (78) and Yesodeth (90). In accordance with the rules of gematria, the letter value 400 of tav, the final Hebrew letter in Yesodeth , can be contracted to 4.
The disdyakis triacontahedron is unique in that no other Archimedean or Catalan solid has 1680 geometrical elements surrounding an axis that passes through two opposite vertices. This is true for polyhedra with triangular faces whether their faces are regarded as single triangles (case A) or whether they are divided into their sectors (case B). It is also true for polyhedra having faces that are not triangular.
ADONAI, the Godname of Malkuth (the physical universe), has number value 65 . It prescribes the ten lowest Trees of Life in CTOL because they have 65 SLs. These Trees map the ten spatial dimensions predicted by M-theory, the general theory being currently being sought by physicists to explain the basic properties of physical matter and the forces of nature. A decagon within a square is a representation of the ten Trees because the object has 65 yods when the ten sectors of the decagon are tetractyses. The four corners of the square correspond to Kether, Chokmah, Binah & Daath of the tenth Tree and the 61 yods in the decagon correspond to the 61 SLs up to Chesed of this Tree. The letter values of ADONAI are the numbers of different yods.
the 1680 hexagonal yods in the faces of the 21 copies of the first four Platonic solids whose vertices belong to the disdyakis triacontahedron.
16n + 9 + 3(12n+7) = 52n + 30.
The 10-tree has 361 sectors with 550 sides. This is the counterpart of the 550 geometrical elements in the 50 faces of the five Platonic solids, the 550 Sephiroth in CTOL and the 550 unshared geometrical elements in the 15 polygons of the disdyakis triacontahedron. The tenth Fibonacci number 55 determines the form of all such holistic systems. In particular, it determines the form of each of the ten helices that comprise the E8×E8 heterotic superstring.
t(n) = 3n + 4.
5. in the disdyakis triacontahedron as the 34 corners of the 27 sectors of the seven polygons either above or below the central hexagon that are formed by vertices of this polyhedron.
Remarkably, it determines the very number of overlapping Trees of Life that have a yod population of 1680. In this way, it determines the very helical structure of each whorl of the heterotic superstring. The sum 34 = 21 + 13 differentiates between large-scale, 3-dimensional space, which is mapped by the 3-tree with 13 tree levels, and the next 21 tree levels that span seven Trees up to the 34th, which marks the top of the 10-tree mapping the ten spatial dimensions. In other words, the eighth Fibonacci number 21 measures the seven compactified dimensions predicted by M-theory. The tenth Fibonacci number 55 determines the 10-tree (and therefore the superstring structural parameter 1680) because their 127 triangles have 361 sectors with 550 (=55 ×10) sides.
Phillips, Stephen M. Article 27: “How the disdyakis triacontahedron embodies the structural parameter 1680 of the E8×E8 heterotic superstring,” (WEB, PDF).
Besant, A. & Leadbeater, C.W. “Occult Chemistry,” 3rd ed., Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Madras, India, 1951.
Phillips, Stephen M. Article 36: “The Sri Yantra-like pattern of the 15 layers of vertices in the disdyakis triacontahedron and its scientific meaning,” (WEB, PDF).
Phillips, Stephen M. Article 49: “How some sacred geometries are equivalent maps of all levels of reality,” (WEB, PDF).
Phillips, Stephen M. Article 35: “The Tree of Life nature of the Sri Yantra and some of its scientific meanings,” (WEB, PDF). | 2019-04-25T20:33:28 | http://smphillips.mysite.com/article50-(part-2).htm |
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3.6 Beyond the market, beyond planning ?
3.6.2 Mutual coordination mechanisms in the new 'ethical' enterpreneurial coalitions: Cybersyn redux ?
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President Correa himself exhorted young people to achieve and fight for this open knowledge society.
The FLOK Society is a joint research effort by the Coordinating Ministry of Knowledge and Human Talent(with Minister Guillaume Long) , the SENESCYT, i.e. the 'Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación' (with Minister Rene Ramirez) and IAEN, i.e. the 'Instituto de Altos Estudios del Estado' (with rector Carlos Prieto) to develop transition and policy proposals to achieve such an open commons-based knowledge society. The FLOK Society team leaders are Daniel Vazquez and Xabier Barandiarán, with Michel Bauwens, as research director, assisted by five research stream coordinators and the assistant coordinator Daniel Araya.
A free, libre and open knowledge society therefore essentially means organizing every sector of society, to the maximum degree possible, into open knowledge commons, i.e. the availability of common pools of knowledge, code and design that are acceptable to all citizens and market entities, to create dynamic and innovative societies and economies, where knowledge is available without discrimination to all who need it to develop their civic and economic activities.
The aim of the research plan is to combine the best advice from the global commons, and Ecuadorian civil society, in order to propose an integrated transition plan and the associated policy framework and proposals.
The research plan builds on the original FLOK Proposal, i.e. Designing the FLOK Society, by Xabier E. Barandiarán & Daniel Vázquez. It builds on this proposal and specifically calls for an integrative or 'wholistic' approach, which goes beyond technology, and calls for measures that take into account different aspects of social change that need to occur if not simultaneously, then at least linked through a positive feedback loop, in which various measures reinforce each other. It also broadens and deepens the call by looking at commons-based infrastructures not just for knowledge, but for other social and productive activities.
In order to frame the transition to a 'social knowledge economy' or a FLOK-based societal model, we use a framing of three particular 'value extraction and distribution' systems, which determine how economic value is created, extracted, and distributed.
But the new models of cognitive capitalism work with different models of value extraction and distribution, and we distinguish three different models, which includes the post-capitalist model of the social knowledge economy. In the context of this Commons Transition Plan, we define cognitive capitalism generically as that model of capitalism where the ownership and control of information flows is the key factor for the extraction of value .
Hence, the use of a peer production license , would require a contribution to the commons for its free use, at least from for-profit companies, to create a stream of exchange value to the commoners/ peer producers themselves; in addition, commoners would create their own market entities, create added market value on top of the commons, realize the surplus value themselves, and create a ethical economy around the commons, where the value of the production of rival goods would be realized. Such ethical entrepreneurial coalitions would likely enable open book accounting and open supply chains, that would coordinate the economy outside of the sphere of both planning and the market. The ethical entrepreneurial coalitions could expand the sphere of the commons by the use of commons ventures, such as in the 'venture communist' model proposed by Dmytri Kleiner. In this model, cooperatives in need of capital would float a bond that would allow the purchase of means of production. These means of production would belong to the commons; in other words, the machines would be rented from the common pool, but this rent would also be redistributed to all the members of the commons. In this binary economic form, the commoners-cooperators would receive both a wage from their cooperative, but also an increasing part of the common rent. (In addition, all citizens would benefit from a basic income provided by the Partner State). Such entrepreneurial coalitions, intrinsically in solidarity with their commons, could also move to practices such as open accounting and open logistics, which would allow for widespread mutual coordination of their productive capacities, hence ushering a new third model of allocation that would be neither a market, nor a planning system, but a stigmergic coordination system. (In such a system, action and production are coordinated through open mutual signalling in a fully transparent system. ) In other words, the stigmergic coordination, which is already operating in the sphere of 'immaterial' production such as free software and open design, would gradually be transferred to the sphere of 'material' production. To the degree that such stigmergic systems create the possibility of resource-based economic models, such spheres of the economy would be gradually demonetized and replaced by measurement systems (i.e. commodity currencies with 'store of value' systems would gradually disappear).
The second combination, (bottom-left quadrant) called “distributed capitalism”, matches distributed control but with a remaining focus on capital accumulation. The development of the P2P currency Bitcoin, the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, and the privately owned sharing platforms, are representative examples of these developments. Under this model, P2P infrastructures are designed in such a way as to allow the autonomy and participation of many players, who are allowed to interact without the classic intermediaries, but the main focus rests on profit-making. In Bitcoin, all the participating computers can produce the currency, thereby disintermediating large centralized banks. However, the focal point remains on trading and exchange through a currency designed for scarcity, and thus must be obtained through competition. The conscious deflationary design of the currency insures a permanent increase in value, and thus encourages hoarding and speculation. On the other hand, Kickstarter functions as a reverse market with prepaid investment. Under these conditions, any Commons is a byproduct or an afterthought of the system, and personal motivations are driven by exchange, trade and profit. Many P2P developments can be seen within this context, striving for a more inclusionary distributed and participative capitalism. Though they can be considered as part of, say, an anti-systemic entrepreneurialism directed against the monopolies and predatory intermediaries, they retain the focus on profit making. Distribution, here, not meant locally though, as the vision is one of a virtual economy, where small players can have a global compact, and create global aggregations of small players. However, despite the ideals expressed by the political and social movements associated with such a model (such as anarcho-capitalism and Austrian School of Economics), in practice, these dynamics inevitably lead to consolidation and concentration of capital.
It may be useful here to directly compare two synthetic and countervailing scenarios. On the one hand, the for-profit driven scenarios that are in harmony with the present political economy of capital; and on the other hand, the alternative scenario of the social knowledge economy based on FLOK principles.
The other, more desirable form of the knowledge-based economy is based on open commons of knowledge, but which are preferentially linked to an ethical and equitable economy. This is the form of knowledge economy and civilisation that is most compatible with the vision of the Ecaudorian government that emerged from the citizens' revolution, and with the values expressed by the National Plan in its various iterations.
By contrast, a social knowledge economy is based on the principle that knowledge is a commons that should be free and openly accessible for the pursuit of what Rene Ramirez describes as “good living”, not as an instrument of commercial profit. Knowledge is perceived as a social good.
This pursuit of a social knowledge economy is seen as the key to transforming Ecuador’s economy from its dependence on the North and on multi-national corporations to one in which free and open access to knowledge builds economic independence, innovation, and the means to better serve the common good. It is knowledge mobilized to serve social, not private, ends.
“Unlike cognitive capitalism that only recognizes private ownership of knowledge, what is sought in the socialism of good living takes into account public, mixed, collective ownership – and of course also private, (i.e., a range of forms of intellectual property) and that its mode of production is mostly collaborative (networks) with and for society and humanity.” What is left unanswered is how existing socio-economic institutions help or hinder the power of knowledge to play the transformative role assigned to it.
But if patents have at best no impact and at worst a negative impact on technological innovation and productivity (Dosi et al. 2006), then how is it possible to explain – especially from the legislator's side – the historical increase in patents and the expansion of IP-related laws? Many analysts have pondered this question. The conclusion to which they have been led is rather unsettling: the actual reason behind the proliferation of patents and the expansion of IP-related laws consists in the political influence of large, cash-rich companies which are unable to keep up with new and creative competitors and which use patents to entrench their monopoly power."
By adopting and adapting the concept of Buen Vivir, which originated in traditional communities, as an inspiration for policy by a contemporary national state, Ecuador has brought an important innovation in policy-making.
Though the logic was profoundly different from capitalism, these forms of exploitation, and their justification by particular religious or spiritual systems and institutions, should prove to be unacceptable to contemporary (post/trans-modern) consciousness. Perhaps a symmetrical but equally problematic approach would be the pure eclecticism that can be the result of postmodern consciousness, in which isolated parts of any tradtion are simply stolen and recombined without any serious understanding of the different frameworks. Another problem we see is the following: contemporary communication technologies, and globalized trade and travel, and the unification of the world under capitalism, have created the enhanced possibility for a great mixing of civilizations. Though contact and interchange was always a reality, it was slow, and it different civilisational spheres really did exist, which created profoundly different cultural realities and individual psychologies. To be a Christian or a Buddhist meant to have profoundly different orientations towards life and society (despite structural similarities in religious or spiritual organization). But a growing part of the human population, if not the whole part, is now profoundly exposed to the underlying values of the other civilisational spheres. For example, Eastern Asian notions have similarly already profoundly impacted western consciousness. In this context, rootedness in one’s culture and spiritual traditions can no longer be separated with a global cosmopolitan approach and a continous dialogue with viewpoints and frameworks that originate elsewhere. Increasinly global affinity networks are becoming as important as local associations in influencing individuals and their identity-building.
In this same scenario, the state is no longer a neoliberal market-state at the service of property owners, but is at the service of civil society, their commons, and the sphere of the ethical economy. It is not at the service of the private capital accumulation of property owners, but is at the service of the value accumulation and equitable value distribution taking place in the commons-cooperative sector. It is at the service of the buen vivir of its citizens, and the good knowledge they need for this. Instead of a focus on public-private partnerships, which excludes participation from civil society; a commons-supporting partner state will look at the development of public-social or public-commons partnerships. Where appropriate the Partner State looks at the possible commonification of public services. For example, following the model of Quebec and Northern Italy in creating Solidarity Cooperatives for Social Care, in which the state enables, regulates the direct provision of care by multi-stakeholder governed civil society based organisations. It is very likely that once the state undertakes the support of a commons-based civic and ethical economy in the sphere of knowledge, that it will also look at the development of institutional commons in the physical sphere. For example, developing commons-based housing development policies, which keep social housing outside of the speculative sphere. A society and state which desires to develop a commons in the immaterial sphere of knowledge, will also look at expanding the commons sphere in other spheres of human activity.
In a mature social knowledge economy, he state will still exist, but will have a radically different nature. Much of its functions will have been taken over by commons institutions, but since these institutions care primarily about their own commons, and not the general common good, we will still need public authorities that are the guarantor of the system as a whole, and can regulate the various commons, and protect the commoners against possible abuses. So in our scenario, the state does not disappear, but is transformed, though it may greatly diminish in scope, and with its remaining functions thoroughly democratized and based on citizen participation. In our vision, it is civil-society based peer production, through the Commons, which is the guarantor of value creation by the private sector, and the role of the state, as Partner State, is to enable and empower the creation of common value. The new peer to peer state then, though some may see that as a contradictio in terminis, is a state which is subsumed under the Commons, just as it is now under the private sector.
There is no question that the long-term success of the National Plan for Good Living, and the implementation of a social knowledge economy, will rely heavily on the strength and development of a civil economy in Ecuador that is strong, autonomous, democratic, innovative, and capable of playing the central role that is assigned to it both by the constitution and the Good Living Plan itself. The civil economy is the social and economic space that most reflects the values and principles of the socialist and civic ideals of the government and the source of those civil institutions that will, in the long run, defend and advance those ideals. Lest anyone forget, it was Ecuador’s civil society that gave birth to the Citizen Revolution, not the state. In the end, it will also be civil society and the vitality of its institutions that will safeguard its ideals.
For this reason, Ecuador’s public policy and legislation must serve as a vital political and legal resource for building the values, skills, and institutions that enable the civil economy to flourish and to provide the indispensible social foundations that will ultimately serve to transform the political economy of the country. In our view, progressive public policy and legislation with respect to the civil economy will serve as the primary mechanism for creating a new social contract and social praxis that reflects the complementary aims and purposes of the state on the one hand and the collective values of civil society on the other.
The PPL is used experimentally by Guerilla Translations! and is being discussed in various places, such as for example, in France, in the open agricultural machining and design communities.
Mutual coordination mechanisms in the new 'ethical' enterpreneurial coalitions: Cybersyn redux ?
Nevertheless, under the impulse of the social knowledge communities, mutual coordination of complex activities is making a very strong appearance, even if it is limited at present to the production of 'immaterial' value, i.e. knowledge products. This emergence nevertheless has implications for a transition to a new type of economic coordination, that will co-exist with both state planning, which received a strong impulse in Ecuador, and traditional market pricing mechanisms.
↑ Sumak Yachay.Devenir Sociedad del Conocimiento Común y Abierto. Designing the FLOK Society. v.1.5.2. By Xabier E. Barandiarán & Daniel Vázquez, 2013. | 2019-04-21T08:28:05 | http://wiki.commonstransition.org/w/index.php?title=FLOK_Research_Plan&oldid=293 |
0.999764 | Hanuman, emissary and loyal servant to Rama, finds Sita imprisoned in Ravana's palace, assures her that help is on the way, and, in turn, is captured by Ravana's demon soldiers. Viewed as a spy, Hanuman who has killed Ravana's younger son Aksa in battle, is delivered to Ravana for retribution. Impressed with Ravana's charm, nobility, heroism, and splendor, Hanuman notes the fact that Ravana is, however, "devoted to unrighteousness." Similarly struck by Hanuman's "majesty of appearance and strength," Ravana attempts to ascertain the purpose of Hanuman's visit and his reason for laying "Asoka-grove to waste." Proclaiming that he is a messenger for Sugreeva, Hanuman states that he acted in self defense an pleads with Ravana to restore Sita to Rama or to fall victim to Rama's wrath. Furious at hearing Hanuman's words, Ravana orders Hanuman's death.
Vibhisana, Ravana's brother, intervenes at this point and counsels Ravana to follow the scriptures and exact the appropriate punishment for Hanuman's crime. Ravana "appreciated the counsel and accepted it with intelligence." He chooses, instead, to order his demons to set fire to Hanuman's tail in an effort to show that such mischief is intolerable. Enduring the punishment, Hanuman seizes the opportunity to observe Lanka during the day in an effort to gather military information for the future. Hanuman is "intrigued" that the fire does not burn or hurt him and concludes that it is Sita's grace and Rama's glory that prevent injury to him. Hanuman frees himself from his bonds, and with his tail ablaze, flies around Lanka, destroying the town. Pleased with his exploits, the gods and sages sing Hanuman's praises. However, Hanuman begins to fear that his angry actions (for he does act out of anger) may have unwittingly contributed to Sita's death. He discovers that Sita is, in fact safe, and delighted to hear this news, he prepares to return to Rama.
If Hanuman does burn Lanka, does this act effectively dishearten and demoralize Ravana and his army? In what ways does this contribute to the final outcome (with Rama and Ravana meeting in battle)?
If Hanuman burns the city, could it perhaps reveal Ravana as an inauspicious character (particularly to his own army)?
If Hanuman does not burn Lanka, could his mission still have been accomplished? Consider the fact that his freedom was not really at issue here.
If Hanuman escapes the city of Lanka without burning it, would he be deemed less loyal to Rama? Does his burning of Lanka exceed Rama's expectations of loyalty?
2. performing your role correctly given a certain situation and time.
While Hanuman achieves certain goals in his burning of Lanka, were these the most righteous means to his end? Given the situation and time, could Hanuman have opted for other choices that would have been more commendable, and thus more principled?
Ultimately, in burning Lanka, Hanuman acts out of retaliation (and anger) to counter the retaliation of Ravana and his army. Is this act morally defensible, and is Hanuman fulfilling his dharma in the most fitting way?
Ravana listens to the advice of his counselors, and in doing so, chooses not to kill Hanuman but instead opts to set his tail afire. What role does dharma play here? Is Ravana's "proper punishment" of Hanuman less vindictive, and does it warrant greater merit than Hanuman's burning of the entire city of Lanka?
Finally, Rama and Ravana meet on the battlefield. Does Hanuman's prior action significantly contribute to Rama's vanquishing of Ravana? If so, has he (Hanuman) effectively fulfilled his dharma? If not, why not?
Brainstorm and discuss the following questions as they relate to this scene.
1. Is the action correct according to dharma? | 2019-04-21T03:15:25 | https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/sac/Moral_Dilemas__Lesson_4/ |
0.99832 | It's not that Harper's likely to lose Alberta. Other than in Edmonton the Alberta NDP picked up seats in ridings that had heavy right-wing vote splitting. So apart from a couple of seats in Edmonton, Harper is still set to take pretty much the rest of the province. The same can be said for both Saskatchewan and Manitoba where outside of the cities Harper has things pretty much in the bag.
This leaves the rest of Canada. Harper's Conservatives are pretty much a wash east of Ontario. He'll be lucky to hold the seats he has there. This leave Ontario and BC where things are shaping up to be a tight three way race between the Harper Conservatives, the Liberals, and the NDP. It is because of these battlegrounds that Harper wants to avoid a national debate where he a) has no control over the format and b) lots of people are likely to be watching.
The reason for this is what has spooked him. Alberta was a tight three way race until the leaders' debate. This debate basically sidelined the Liberals and the Wildrose and ended up a debate between the Progressive Conservative's Jim Prentice and the NDP's Rachel Notley who are both generally charismatic people who were able to sideline the rather wooden performance of Wildrose's Brian Jean and the reservedness of the Liberal's David Swan.
Herein lines Harper's problem with a national debate. Compared to both Justin Trudeau and Tom Mulclair, Stephen Harper has all the charisma of a 2x4. Harper is likely worried that he's going to be coming across as Jim Prentice against Muclair and Trudeau's Notley. What Harper should really be worried about is being sidelined by two people with much more stage presence than he does and being turned in to Brian Jean.
At the end of the day a nationally televised debate that is not under Harper's control isn't in his best interest. It's telling that one of the "debates" that he has agreed to is being organized by Macleans Magazine, the editor of which if not having deep ties to the Conservative party is very sympathetic to it (witness the hard right shift in the magazine's editorial policy after the current editor took over). At the least Harper is hoping for an easy ride at the hands of the very sympathetic Macleans staff at at best hoping for them to make Harper look good vis-a-vis his opponents. In short, Harper wants to have the debate on his terms and ground and not a neutral debate where Canadians can all see him and the others in an equal light.
This goes to show Harper's fundamental cowardice. If there's any chance he won't be seen as our Grand and Glorious Leader, he wants no part of it. The Alberta results have spooked him and he wants to avoid a repeat at the federal level in Ontario and BC, both of which he has to win to stay in power. Harper has, rightfully so, no confidence in himself at winning a fair and open debate that anyone can see. So he sets up some debates that few will see and that are likely to be set up in a way to guarantee a Harper victory. That way Harper can give a Brian Jean like performance and hopefully no one will notice.
Of course Steve is spooked.
Tom Mulcair has shown his skills in Question Period and will wipe the floor with Steve unless the latter is allowed to lie and get away with it. Justin Trudeau has been underrated. He was a debater in university and will likely hold his own too unless Steve is allowed to lie his head off. Just as Romney had done in the first Presidential debate and Obama stupidly failed to call out his lies.
Hence Steve must be very afraid that debating in a fair venue is going to show him out. Harper has very little integrity as the last nine years has shown us. In a Cons friendly environment, the moderator can disallow any attempts by the other debators to call out his lies. If Mulcair and Trudeau are both not cognizant of this, then they deserve to lose. | 2019-04-22T10:08:13 | http://www.evilscientist.ca/article.php?story=20150512184948374&mode=print |
0.999913 | The following table shows the airlines, flight times and days of travel for flights from Mae Hong Son to Chiang Mai.
There are 3 flights with a total of 6 codeshares from 1 airline.
Return Route: Chiang Mai to Mae Hong Son. | 2019-04-21T02:49:47 | https://www.domesticflightsthailand.com/mae-hong-son-to-chiang-mai.php |
0.999999 | How did Spam become the synonym of unwanted email?
Through Monty Python sketch. Spam (shortened from spiced ham) is a canned precooked meat product made and trademarked by the Hormel Foods Corporation, first introduced in 1937. It got popular in the UK during WW2. The name has been given to electronic spam through a Monty Python sketch, in which Spam was portrayed as ubiquitous and inescapable.
What is ten to the power of one hundred called?
Googol. The name of the Google search engine was created by mistake of its creator, L. Page, who meant googol.
CERN laboratory in Switzerland. A group of computer scientists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and they publicly introduced the project in December of the same year.
Where was the first WWW server located?
In Geneva. The first web server was located on the very own Tim's Berners-Lee NeXT workstation. While working for CERN in Geneva, Tim invented both first version of HTTP protocol and HTML language. The first web server outside Europe was launched on the 12th of Dec 1991 at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), California.
What does the "500" HTTP server error code mean?
Internal server error. The 500 Internal Server Error is a very general HTTP status code that means something has gone wrong on the website's server, but the server could not be more specific on what the exact problem is.
Where does the symbol @ come from?
From Latin. The sign comes from a Latin ligature replacing in the medieval and Renaissance commercial manuscripts the word "at" - and denoting the recipient of the parcel.He first appeared in 1448 in a document with a register of wheat deliveries from the Kingdom of Castile to the Kingdom of Aragón.
What breed is a dog used in popular internet memes?
Shiba inu. Doge is an Internet meme that became popular in 2013. The meme typically consists of a picture of a Shiba Inu accompanied by multicolored text in Comic Sans font in the foreground. The text, representing a kind of internal monologue, is deliberately written in a form of broken English.
Where was the World Wide Web discovered?
In Europe. WWW was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN research center in Geneva, Switzerland. | 2019-04-25T04:12:29 | https://globalquiz.org/en/top-internet-facts/ |
0.999999 | (A) "Additional" shall mean any additional public swimming pool, spa or special use pool(s) located at the same address as the primary public swimming pool, spa or special use pool.
(B) "Health Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of health of the City of Cincinnati, or any of the commissioner's authorized representatives.
(C) "Person" shall mean the state, any political subdivision, special district, public or private corporation, individual, firm, partnership, association, or other entity.
(D) "Primary" shall mean the initial or sole public swimming pool, spa or special use pool at a given address.
(E) "Public swimming pool" shall mean any indoor or outdoor structure, chamber, or tank containing a body of water for swimming, diving, or bathing that is intended to be used collectively for swimming, diving, or bathing and is operated by any person whether as the owner, lessee, operator, licensee, or concessionaire, regardless of whether or not a fee is charged for use but does not mean any public bathing area or private bathing area or private residential swimming pool.
(F) "Private residential swimming pool" shall mean any indoor or outdoor structure, chamber, or tank containing a body of water for swimming, diving, or bathing located at a dwelling housing no more than three families and used exclusively by the residents and their nonpaying guests. For purposes of this paragraph, "dwelling" includes an individual room or individual suite of rooms at a hotel, motel, or other establishment providing temporary lodging.
(G) "Public spa" shall mean any public swimming pool that is typically operated as a smaller, higher temperature pool for recreational or non-medical uses.
(1) "Smaller" means less than 5,000 gallons in volume.
(2) "Higher temperature" means greater than 90° F.
(H) "Public bathing area" shall mean an impounding reservoir, basin, lake, pond, creek, river, or other similar natural body of water.
(I) "Special use pool" shall mean a public swimming pool containing flume slides, wave generating equipment, or other special features that necessitate different design and safety requirement. | 2019-04-24T02:50:47 | http://cincinnati-oh.elaws.us/code/coor_apxid9760_apx00047_sec00047-1 |
0.999033 | Go big or go home. I typically use 2 tablespoons per cup. Weak coffee is more likely to be bitter.
Is there some truth here? Why would weak coffee be more bitter?
It's not so much that weak coffee is bitter, as that over-extracted coffee is bitter. If you want it strong but don't use enough ground coffee, you can get more flavour by leaving the water on the grounds for longer. But then the bitter flavours come out. The opposite is espresso; a decent espresso is of course strong but not at all bitter and extraction is quick.
Water temperature also plays a role in which components of the flavour are extracted, but I assume that's fixed.
Is weak in the sense that your dosage is weak, too little coffee grounds + lots of water = over extracted bitterness. | 2019-04-23T20:05:25 | https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/88146/is-weak-coffee-more-likely-to-be-bitter |
0.998644 | A vegan movement in Britain is planning a number of protests against the meat industry targeting everything from butchers to abattoirs and farms.
The Earthlings Movement hope to persuade people to give up all animal products.
This comes after the editor of Waitrose Food magazine, William Sitwell, had to resign last week after he jokingly suggested a series of 'killing vegans, one by one'.
His comment which coincides with demonstrations on animal rights this weekend in London and Brighton received a huge amount of backlash on social media.
There are currently 650,000 vegans in Britain which has quadrupled since 2011.
'Veganism has been around a long time,' Phoebe Frampton, who founded the Earthlings movement in 2013, told The Sunday Times.
Up to 27 UK towns and cities have groups staging regular protests and 50 more around the world.
The Earthlings protests are peaceful, with masked campaigners standing in circles holding laptops screening 'horrific' films of abattoirs to spark public interest.
There are, however, vegan groups that take a more militant approach.
Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), founded in the US in 2013, now has five 'chapters' in Britain. One of them invaded a branch of Tesco in Brighton last month, with 30 protesters staging a 'silent protest' in the meat aisle.
Some farmers dispute the claims of non-violence. John Wood, a Dorset farmer, set up the Facebook Meat & Greet site to promote lamb and beef, but says he was targeted by 'frightening' militants.
'We have had animal liberationists turning up at our home and shouting abuse. Most of these people may be bunny-huggers, but some are dangerous,' he said. | 2019-04-22T11:03:30 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6351743/Vegans-plan-new-wage-protests-against-meat-industry.html |
0.999225 | Perform this circuit 3 times through. Complete each exercise for 20-40 seconds & then rest for 20 seconds.
After completing a full circuit, take a 60 second rest. Then start the next round.
If unable to do a push up from your toes start on your knees.
1. Start by getting on your hands and feet in a prone position.
2. Keeping your body parallel to ground drive your knees up towards your chest alternating back and forth.
3. Repeat this movement for the required number of seconds.
1. Stand beside object to be cleared.
2. Bring knees up and jump vertically but also laterally off ground and over the barrier.
3. Land on both feet and jump the other direction over barrier.
Step is not necessary when starting out.
1. Begin by resting on the stomach facing down towards the floor. Bring the arms to the side and the legs hip-width apart. Inhale and press the abdominals towards the floor as the chest, arms, legs and head lift away from the floor.
2. Rotate the thumbs up towards the sky palms facing down towards the floor. Gently squeeze the buttock muscles together continuing to lift the chest and legs higher. Keep the chin gently tucked in and the crown of the head lengthening away from the heels.
3. Softly squeeze the shoulder blades together allowing the chest to open. Hold this posture for 5 to 10 deep breaths.
4. Alternate this movement back and forth until the desired repetitions are met.
1) Sit upright on bench and place hands hip width apart with fingers pointing forward. Place feet flat on opposite bench with legs straight.
2) Start position: Slide glutes off bench with elbows slightly bent.
3) Lower body by bending at elbows until elbows are at 90 degree angle.
2. Step back with one foot and bend your knees into a lunged position. Your back knee should come close to touching the ground and your front leg should be bent to about 90 degrees at the knee.
3. Maintain your upright posture throughout the movement.
4. Return to the starting position and repeat. Once repetitions are completed then repeat with the other leg. | 2019-04-24T03:02:56 | http://www.fitmarriage.com/fit-kit-circuit-worksheet |
0.998983 | What do I do with an enormous sketchbook?
My daughter gave me this very large sketchbook which she got from an art shop in Dunedin, (sadly they've gone out of supplying these now, and I find it difficult to source sketchbooks which have high gsm papers suitable for watercolour). It is quite large, a bit too big to take out sketching, so I decided to use it for watercolour paintings instead. This was then a little intimidating, especially the first page as you want it to look good!
Shell Study. Watercolour. The first page in my large watercolour sketchbook.
This tall and thin building forms half of James Lane and two sides have street art on it. You can see a biplane on top and the bottom has a intricately painted wooden fence alley scene. I thought that the alley scene is a pretty good job but a friend said that maybe the artists did too good of a job. The fact that it's painted very well may give it a bit of resistance to being painted over with something new and prevent the natural image rotation that usually comes with urban art. Of course, the buildings making up the lane might not be that earthquake safe. If they end up needing replacement, it sort of makes the artwork time limit argument irrelevant. It's unlikely that any new building will have wall space put aside for spray cans.
Kite surfers from East End Surf Club.
On a fine, but very windy day, I sat outside the East End Surf Club and had another try at sketching the kite surfers. They are certainly not easy as they are always on the move. I'm not sure how many there were. Definitely more than 10. The sea was quite rough and Port Taranaki was a bit hazy in the background. The wind was whipping up quite a bit of sea spray.
I think this is my best kite surfer sketch yet.
1957 Vauxhall Velox wagon at the Aussie Car Muster - not exactly a 'Muscle Car' as billed on the advertising but still very much admired by passers by.
Forty years ago these Motonui Epa (back panels of a storehouse) found in a swamp were spirited out of the country to a Bolivian collector for USD65.000. The government bought them back for 4.5 million this year, and they were returned to Taranaki. Distinctively our style with serpentine bodies, the pointed heads and pu-werewere (spider web) decoration.
A challenge to draw as the display was slowly rotating, so we had much exercise over the hour's drawing.
Brian suggested trying a dark background to 'pop' them out.
Pukekura Park entrance, Rogan Street, New Plymouth.
Today while the others sketched at The Traveller's Fair, I sat and sketched the Rogan Street entrance to Pukekura Park.
There is the usual red Pukekura Park gate, and a pleasant shady path to walk down. In front of that was an enormous power-pole interrupting my view. This is what caught my eye.
I decided to try a different technique today and used a medium black calligraphy pen and watercolour. I limited my palate to five colours. Surprisingly I finished the whole thing in an hour.
You invariably find interesting characters at Gypsy Fairs.
On Saturday, for the tail end of the garden festival, we went to St Mark's Church in Lepperton. It was a beautiful afternoon, just right for spending the afternoon sketching. The church was dressed for a country wedding.
This Anglican church in Lepperton is thought to have opened in May 1900 with a dedication service on the 18th of January 1901.
It is likely that the church was designed by the architect Frank Messenger and built by a Mr Mannix. Church records have been located showing a £5.00 payment to "Mr Messenger". Tenders for the construction of a church in Lepperton closed on the 11th of October 1899 - the tenders to be submitted to Frank Messenger.
They also laid on the most wonderful afternoon tea! Here are a few photos taken by Sarah Davison.
Just south of Hamilton at Ohaupu a former farmer has created a tree church. Growth is trained over framing to create this intriguing spot.
St Andrew's Church. Exhibition of sketches.
This week it is the Taranaki Garden Festival. It runs from the 31st October to the 8th November. During the festival we have a series of sketches on display at St Andrew's Church. We went and sketched at the church about five different times, and tried to capture many different aspects of it inside and out.
There is also a display there by the orchid Society. So last Saturday we went and sketched among the orchids and our sketches.
Alan, Andrea, Trevor, Liz and Maurice's sketches.
Scott, Julie and Maurice's sketches.
Brian, Patricia and Maurice's sketches.
I've drawn the Metro Plaza three times now. This time it was from the top of the Kings Building across the street. The hustle and bustle of the people is really happening from up there, moving in and out of the shadows on the sidewalk.
I like the building because it's a bit weird. It's a bit rough in parts but it has character. If you walk through the arcade with different shops in it, you get to a parking building which is great for rainy days. I feel that this is a way better location than a Subway deserves. Of course maybe I just think there's too many Subways and I'd just rather have a pie.
The top floor is the JD Reid Gallery. He's a pretty cool guy who really knows how to paint. Check out what he's got up there; the space is open most days.
The bottom two sketches are from 2013, one month apart. I've posted the left one before but second one hadn't made it to the internet until now. | 2019-04-22T22:49:02 | http://taranakisketchers.blogspot.com/2015/11/ |
0.999691 | Why Does My New Guitar Need A "Set Up"?
Electric Guitar Output Jack - Repair Or Replace?
Should I Restore, or Sell As-Is?
I bought a Fender Jaguar re-issue and the quality of the bridge and saddles concerns me. It slips down over time ( the height of the screws unscrews) and the sixth string moves on the saddle if I play hard with the pick. Is it possible to replace the bridge with another style?
A Fender Mustang bridge is a direct replacement with slotted saddles. If you have a Japanese Jag get the Japanese Mustang re-issue bridge.
I have a 1987 American Standard Stratocaster, I never use the whammy bar, Is there a tailpiece available to bolt directly to the body, effectively transforming the guitar to a "hardtail"?
I don't know of a replacement that would retrofit without modification. I would recommend "defeating" the tremolo by placing a well fitted piece of wood between the tremolo block ( the stem of the tremolo bridge which goes through the body, to which the tremolo springs are attached) and the body of the guitar to keep it from moving. This will give you all the stability of a "hardtail" without irreversible modification. Most repairman can do this for you.
I have an older Les Paul Studio and one of the"Kluson" style tuning keys has separated. I would like to replace them with an upgrade which uses the same shaft and mounting holes. The local repair guy suggested two types, both of which require reaming the shaft opening. Any better ideas?
Replacement "Kluson" style tuners, with better machining than those on your Les Paul Studio, are now being produced. They have a 1/4" peg shaft. The bushings ,though, are for a larger peghead hole so use your original bushings. These reproductions seem to be well made and will retrofit to instruments with vintage style tuners.
My high E string sounds like a sitar. Any idea what the problem is?
It could be a low bridge saddle, it could be a flat or backbowed neck. It could be a low nut, or a high fret. It could be a pitted fret or series of frets, it could even be a dirty or bent string. You really have to take it to a repairperson who can give it a thorough evaluation.
I have an "80's model Westone Spectrum IX electric guitar which I have recently bought. The problem is that the guitar jack won't hold the cord plug. Is there anything I can do to adjust the jack or do I just have to get a new one to install?
In some cases you can remove the jack and bend the contact back slightly and it will hold. But often when it reaches the point that it won't hold the metal is fatigued and the jack needs to be replaced.
The back of the bridge on my early 80's Guild D-35 is separating from the top. I can see a gap across most of the back side of the bridge. Should it be glued back down?
Eventually, yes, but maybe not right away. Particularly with Guild bridges I have noticed a separating from the top, only to find that it does not extend very far under the bridge. Having removed a few of these bridges I have noticed that the area of the top which is mated to the underside of the bridges on many Guild guitars of the 70's and 80's leaves a small amount of lacquered wood under the bridge (i.e. the area of the bridge is bigger than the area of the top that is free of finish.) Since wood and lacquer don't adhere with wood glue, this area can separate over time (as the top flexes up under tension) while the rest of the underside of the bridge is well connected. So you have to figure out how far under the bridge the gap goes. To check a gap under any bridge, slide a piece of paper into the gap , and if it goes less than 1/16th of an inch (1mm) the bridge won't come flying off immediately but it should be monitored ( if you have the bucks , it never hurts to get your repairmans opinion). If it goes in more than that, you may want to seek out your local repair guy sometime soon.
I Bought an Ibanez guitar about a year and a half ago and the bridge , which is connected to the guitar by three springs, has begun to rise up. I thought the cause might be the strings so I changed them, but the bridge only raised up more. What can I do about the problem?
Tremolo springs flex out over time and need to be replaced. Many tremolo springs, though, are attached to a "claw" ( most Strats ,and many others, have this ) and the claw can be tightened to increase tension on the springs. The "claw" has two screws that are seated into the body of the guitar. Here is the professional way to set the tension on the tremolo springs : Loosen the strings till the bridge sits parallel to the top of the body. Place a block of wood which just wedges in between the back of the tremolo block ( inside the routed-out cavity in the back of the guitar) and the inside wall of the tremolo block cavity. This will hold the bridge in place as you bring the strings up to concert pitch ( or whatever tuning you use) . Always have the gauge of strings you intend to use on the guitar when you make this adjustment Tighten the screws that hold the "claw" evenly a couple of turns ( don't force them if they don't want to go in ) each until the wooden wedge just slides out. This is the correct setting for the tension of the springs. If you can't get enough tension after tightening the screws, you must replace the springs. Changing string gauge will , because of the change in tension, affect the setting of the springs. This adjustment must be made again if you change string gauge.
When I turn the volume and tone controls on my Strat there is a static noise, what can I do to stop it, should I replace the controls?
Static in the volume and tone "pots" (short for potentiometers) can often be remedied by cleaning with a special electronic component cleaner. While you can get this cleaner at your local electronic parts supply store and, if you are careful ,do the job yourself, you may want to have a guitar tech do the job for you. Besides, he can replace the "pots" if cleaning doesn't help.
I just bought a new guitar and the action is incredible, however, it is so low that on the high E at the second octave, I am getting the same note for three frets. Obviously the action is too low for the fret setup.
My question is, don't they make little plastic spacers to place in the bridge at the bottom of the white plastic string saddle? And do they usually glue that white saddle in or does it float?
Where I bought the guitar they have offered to set it up, but I can only imagine they will find some way to scratch the beautiful Koa wood the guitar is made of, so I thought I might try it myself, if that saddle is floating. Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Shims to elevate bridge saddles are not a part you can purchase. A repairperson will variously use wood veneers, thin plastic, or sometimes, various grades of sandpaper to boost up the height of the saddle. Of course a correct height saddle is the ideal, particularly if you have an under the saddle pickup. On some guitars you may find that the string height fluctuates, depending on the relative humidity of the air. Some players like to have a "summer" saddle and a "winter" saddle. The saddle should never be glued in, but it has been done, though not by a manufacturer.
A free setup of your instrument is not a bad idea, besides they will have the materials around to do the job and if they damage your guitar they are liable. Most shops want you to have a guitar that is playable and will do their best to do a good job if they want to keep you as a customer (and everyone you talk to). I'd give them a chance.
I am a guitar player from Croatia and I have one question. I bought last year a guitar - Gibson ES- 135. and eve~thing was great but before a few days I noticed problems with that part that use when you want to change the pickups (toggle switch). It seems that the contact has loosened up and now when I am changing positions I always must search for the place where the sound can be heard. So I'm interested if you could tell me if that part can be changed because the guitar only has F holes, and how complicated that process is. Is it possible to do without removing the side?
Never fear. The work can be done through the F holes, (or on a guitar with inset pickups by removing the pickup and working through that hole). The trick is to tie a heavy duty thread around the stem of the switch that protrudes through the guitar top after you loosen the nut. Once the nut is loose and the switch falls into the guitar carefully pull it out ( a bent coat hanger will reach if nothing else will). Solder the new switch correctly and draw the switch back into the hole with the thread. Once the nut has been started on the stem ~ the switch you can cut the thread with a razor blade. (contact Gibson to order the part www.gibson.com or else the Stewart Macdonald company at www.stewmac.com.
Bulging of the top behind the bridge can be an inevitable and natural process of the top flexing up over the years While some "flattop" guitars are built with some arch in the top ( Gibsons for example), others, including Martins are built relatively flat Those that are built flat can tend to flex up over time, and this bulging occurs directly behind the bridge. An inspection of the interior bracing shows that everything is intact,no loose braces. In this case, if the string height is able to be set a a comfortable height, there is no need for concern. However, if the bulging is more to one side than the other it is often the case that a brace has come loose and it must be re glued This will usually bring the bulge back down. To summarize, a guitar with a bulge in the top must be inspected for loose top braces. Loose braces must be re glued. If the braces are intact and the guitar is playable, do nothing. If the string height cannot be lowered to a comfortable height, a neck re-set may be indicated if the guitar is worth the expense ( See neck reset article). It is not recommended that a top be heated to counteract a bulge, although it has been done.
I have a recent Fender Strat that just doesn't play right ! I get excessive buzzing when picking, but when i measure the strings at the 14th fret with the capo on, it meets the Fender specs of 4/64. My other Fenders don't have this problem. Do you think some frets need dressing or is this a warped neck?
Without holding the instrument in my hands it is impossible to say for certain what the problem is, It could be a warped neck , it could be high frets, but in any case like this you have to backtrack a little and , essentially , go through all the steps of "setting up" a guitar, to make sure everything that can be adjusted has been. If after this has been done there is still a problem then the warped neck or fret dressing possibilities must be considered.
Step one - While under full string tension with trem in locked position, check the neck curvature. Generally, a gap of 1/64 - 1/32 " between the bottom of any string and the tops of the 7-9th frets ( when fretting the string at the 1st and 20th or so) is considered correct. You could go a hair flatter, or even a bit more curved in a given situation, but start here.
Step two - Check string height at nut.( Fender suggests using a capo at to eliminate the affect of an improperly set nut, but better to get it right). When fretting a given string at the third fret, look back to the nut. The string should neither be sitting on the first fret nor far enough above that you can see a gap thicker than a hair ( I'm not kidding, a hair). This is a very subtle point to reach and you need proper nut files to set it. This setting is crucial for achieving proper playing height up the neck. If it is too high here, you are going to end up setting the action lower at the 12th fret than it really out to be , resulting in buzzing ( the string will measure out correct at the 12th fret yet actually be inclining down as it progresses towards the bridge saddles).
Step three- Approximate the positions of the string saddles for correct intonation. Low E and G string will set back about 3-4 32nds of an inch longer than the exact scale length. The A and B strings will set back 2-3 32nds , The D and high E about 1 32nd. Scale length equals the distance from the edge of the nut where the strings ride off to the middle of the twelfth fret times 2. Final setting is done once saddle height is determined, but you need to be close when setting saddle height.
Step four - Set string height at saddles. Measure at the twelfth fret and set saddles so the height between the bottom of the low E string and the top of the twelfth fret is a bit over 2/32". The High should set just at 2/32", the other strings should gradually flow between these measurements. This is where I would start, but playing style and individual neck nuances may warrant deviation from these numbers. In the ideal scenario, once set, your saddles should neither be flush down on the body of the guitar, nor extended so high they could go no further. This saddle height relative to the top of the body is a reflection of the neck angle. If the saddles sit flush, the neck angle is not set back very far and vice-versa.
Step five - Put on a fresh set of strings ( of the same gauge you had on the guitar up to this point) . Many buzzing, intonation, and sustain problems are resolved by simply changing strings. The more you play the more often you need to change strings.
Step six - Fine tune the intonation setting with a tuner. If you are already close, your saddle height should not have to be changed. This is where you decide if your neck angle is in need of adjustment ( if you have a bolt-on neck). Check the measurement at the 12th fret then progress up the neck, measuring every couple of frets . The string height should continue to gradually rise, if it doesn't the neck is set back too far and has to be tilted up just a little. This is a very sensitive adjustment and the thickness of a couple sheets of paper can make a big difference. Some Fenders have a neck tilt adjustment screw that is accessed with an Allen wrench through a hole in the neck screw plate. The strings must be loosened, then the neck screws, then the tilt adjustment screw is tightened or loosened. Never do this when the neck screws are tight ! If you don't have a tilt adjustment, thin shims of wood veneer are fitted in the neck pocket to adjust neck angle. Uneven frets are also a possibility. If , after having followed all the above steps, you are still getting fret buzz, you must establish that the frets are all even. But this leads us to fret dressing, which is another story altogether. I hope this helps ! Remember - most of the above work really ought to be done by a qualified repairperson.
I have a 1977 Les Paul Custom that I need to sell. Do you think it would be worth more as-is, with everything original but normal cosmetic wear, or restored to it's original condition?
Unless you have a very rare guitar, repairs that are necessary to keep the guitar functional: set-up work(including professional fret dressing, cleaning and gentle polishing), are generally a good idea. If you can't play it, it won't be much fun! Resolving electrical issues, and, when necessary, mechanical issues, such as replacing bridge saddles,(sometimes the bridge itself), and, (only if absolutely necessary), the tuning machines, maintain , but do not increase the instrument's value. Replacing pickup covers, or any hardware, just to make it look nice, does not increase it's value and can detract from its value. In many cases, buyers would prefer to deal with marginal issues as they see fit, and "honest" playing wear is often a plus. But if you do replace original parts, keep them and offer them with the instrument when you sell it. | 2019-04-21T16:10:23 | http://guitarrepairshop.com/ask.html |
0.999961 | Who doesn't like getting compliments?
Rachel Sussman is a psychotherapist and relationship expert who counsels individuals and couples.
She says compliments are important for people's sense of self worth.
The same part of your brain lights up when you receive a compliment as when you receive cash.
A sincere, thoughtful compliment can leave an impact even years later. What is it about compliments that makes them so powerful?
Rachel Sussman, a psychotherapist and relationship expert in New York City, told INSIDER that compliments help people feel seen and acknowledged — a universal human need.
"People just want to be recognized and appreciated for the good that they do," she said. "It makes them feel really good about that person who complimented and about themselves."
A good compliment doesn't have to be related to one's appearance, Sussman says. Commending someone for a character trait, an achievement, or the effort that they put into doing something such as preparing a meal can go a long way. The most important thing is for it to be sincere.
There's also scientific proof that praise is an effective motivator. Compliments activate the reward centers in the brain, called the ventral striatum and the ventral medial prefrontal cortex. One study even found that receiving a compliment is just as thrilling to the brain as receiving cash— both are perceived by the striatum as "social rewards."
"If you're one of those people that can't take compliments or say 'I don't need compliments,' you should really take a look inward and try to figure out why that is," she said. It could indicate deeper issues related to low confidence or self esteem. | 2019-04-18T18:31:33 | https://www.thisisinsider.com/compliments-feelings-psychology-2019-1 |
1 | Complete the following sentences using appropriate modal auxiliary verbs.
1. She …………………. dance very well.
2. You …………………. go home if you want to.
3. He …………………. take some rest if he is tired.
4. You ………………… sit down if you want.
5. He ………………….. run faster when he was younger.
6. The students asked if they ……………………. go home early.
7. You ………………… have finished earlier if you wanted.
8. It ………………… rain in the afternoon.
9. She …………………… be at home.
10. Although I tried hard, I …………………… solve the problem.
1. She can dance very well.
2. You may / can go home if you want to.
3. He can / may take some rest if he is tired.
4. You can / may sit down if you want.
5. He could run faster when he was younger.
6. The students asked if they could go home early.
7. You could have finished earlier if you wanted.
8. It may rain in the afternoon.
9. She may be at home.
10. Although I tried hard, I could not solve the problem. | 2019-04-23T15:12:43 | https://www.englishpractice.com/quiz/can-could-may-might/ |
0.998789 | 2. If a curb and gutter section is replaced at a street intersection, is a handicap ramp automatically installed?
Yes, any time the curb and gutter is replaced at a corner intersection a handicap ramp should be installed.
3. What determines if a handicap ramp needs to be repaired or replaced?
If the ramp is off-grade (unlevel) enough to be a tripping or safety hazard it should be repaired or replaced. Repairs to a handicap ramp are considered a priority and receive quick response.
4. Who is responsible for repairing, replacing, or installing a handicap ramp on private property, in a shopping center, or at a business?
The property management company or the owner of the property would be responsible for the repairs, replacement, or installation.
5. Whom should I call to either request that a handicap ramp be installed (sidewalk must intersect with a roadway at an intersection) or an existing ramp be repaired?
6. Why are handicap ramps necessary at intersections of the sidewalk and the street?
Any sidewalk that intersects with a roadway at an intersection must have a handicap ramp installed in compliance with the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) and city standards. These ramps are valuable safety features to those disabled and visually impaired citizens in the City of Hampton.
7. Why do some of the old handicap ramps have a smooth concrete surface and the newer ones have a rough surface?
The newer handicap ramps have a pea gravel or pea stone surface that makes it easy for the visually impaired to identify the ramp. It lets them know that there is a ramp and an intersection of the roadway in front of them. All new ramps are required to have the rough surface under the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA). | 2019-04-20T15:04:51 | https://www.hampton.gov/FAQ.aspx?TID=62 |
0.999872 | UPDATE: POLICE say there likely will be more arrests made in the Jay Brogden case as they apply to extradite a man to face murder charges.
Detectives from Queensland's homicide squad and Whitsunday CIB will apply for this man's extradition for the murder of Jay Brogden from 2007.
Detective Inspector Damien Hansen said there were witnesses who could now lay claim to the $250,000 reward into the cold case, noting an indemnity.
"A prosecution will commence against a person involved and I suspect there will be further arrests," he said.
"This investigation is not finalised, this investigation will be continuing.
"We have a number of other suspects in relation to Jay's murder and I expect that there will be further charges.
"We will wait for matters to be finalised with NSW at this stage but we are making applications and have advised NSW.
"All I'll say is there are multiple suspects at this stage and that includes both for the murder and accessory after.
"It is before the court so I cannot disclose that."
Insp Damien Hansen said detectives had spoken to the Brogden family and they were "happy that they are finally getting some answers"
He said the family was aware this was an ongoing investigation.
"I'd like to thank the people who have provided us with information and encourage anyone who has any further information in relation to Jay's murder to contact police," he said.
"I'd also like to remind people that there is a $250,000 reward on offer. Part of that reward is that there is an indemnity from prosecution for any person who is not the principle offender.
"We have had numerous people come forward, it has corroborated evidence.
"We have had people directly involved in this group of persons come forward and give witness statements.
"You do see that people move from those groups and their loyalty to the individuals change over time and that helps us in these situations.
"Potentially there are witnesses that may claim the reward but that is a process."
Jay Brogden vanished in Cannonvale on April 21, 2007.
EARLIER: QUEENSLAND police will apply to extradite a New South Wales man to face charges for the murder of Jay Brogden.
The Coffs Harbour man, 32, was a former resident of Airlie Beach. NSW police arrested the man in relation to other matters.
But detectives from the Homicide Group will apply for him to be extradited to Queensland in relation to Mr Brogden's suspected murder.
Jay Brogden was last seen at Cannonvale on Saturday April 21, 2007. A coroner's report in 2015 ruled he had most likely met with foul play.
His body has never been found but information received this year led homicide detectives to believe he was murdered.
Last week police extradited a Sydney man as part of a cold case investigation into the Mr Brogden's suspected homicide.
Earlier this month, police launched a billboard on the side of the highway at Cannonvale to encourage anyone with information regarding the homicide to contact police. | 2019-04-19T00:18:17 | https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/breaking-murder-charge-imminent-in-jay-brogden-cas/3682130/ |
0.998695 | PS3 - a VOD opportunity?
Sky's Director of OnDemand, Griff Parry, has told TechRadar that the company is already looking to utilise people's games consoles to bring the best programmes to their televisions via the internet.
"Currently consoles like the PlayStation 3 won't play the Sky Player because of the way we protect the content [through Microsoft's Silverlight]; so the PS3 wouldn't be able to cope with the DRM," said Parry as he showed off the new streaming live channels on Sky Player.
"However, I think games consoles are an interesting opportunity and it is something that we are exploring.
"We have a relationship with PlayStation because we launched the PSP service (GoView) so I look at consoles, and there are a lot of them, and they are obviously connected to televisions and the internet," concludes Parry.
Sky Player currently streams at up to 1.8Mbps – an experience that Parry describes as 'close to SD quality' adding: "It's not like for like so it's difficult to directly compare."
Of course, running from a console, or a laptop for that matter, to a television puts that quality to the test – and it remains to be seen what the reaction will be from those who like to stream to their big screen.
But with the satellite platform far from ideal in a world that is increasingly becoming aware of video on demand, the move into the internet represents a key move from Sky to becoming a content provider and aggregator rather than a satellite service. | 2019-04-26T11:04:00 | https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/television/internet/sky-player-on-consoles-an-interesting-opportunity-says-parry-492506 |
0.99864 | How do I change the delivery address for a specific order?
4. You'll be taken to a page that looks like this. Click on the 'add new address' button.
6. Review the new address that you'd like the book to be delivered to and then click 'proceed' if this is correct, or 'add new address' to add another address and go through steps 4 and 5 again.
If you've moved country and want to change the delivery address, the site may not allow you to change your address this was because you need to pay additional postage. If this happens, please get in touch via [email protected] and we can sort out the additional payment and then change your address for you. | 2019-04-19T02:29:10 | http://help.unbound.com/unbound-for-readers/managing-your-subscriptions/how-do-i-change-the-delivery-address-for-a-specific-order |
0.999999 | Generate an official SPE electronic invitation letter to assist you in the visa process.
Please note: It is the sole responsibility of the attendee to obtain the necessary paperwork for entry to the US. This letter does not guarantee that you will be granted a visa, nor does it commit SPE to assist you in obtaining a visa. SPE will not pay any expenses incurred by you. We cannot send the letter to the embassy or consulate for you, nor can SPE contact the embassy or consulate on your behalf.
Review visa wait times and then visit your local US embassy or consular office website where you will apply for your visa. There you can find out how to schedule an interview appointment, pay fees, and any other instructions.
Prior to your scheduled interview date, you can complete the visa application online.
For those traveling to the US without a visa from the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries, an electronic passport (e-Passport) is required. Learn which countries participate in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
The Department of Homeland Security is now enforcing compliance of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) requirement for VWP travelers. A valid ESTA approval is required for all VWP travelers who are entering the United States by air or sea.
If approved, the authorization is good for two years and can be renewed. Travelers no longer have to fill out an I-94W form before each trip.
Please note that the aforementioned information is a general guideline for travel to USA. Because travel requirements may change, SPE recommends that attendees contact their local embassy to ensure they have proper documentation. | 2019-04-26T08:32:31 | https://www.spe.org/events/dc/2016/pages/general/visa.php |
0.999999 | Women are Tidier than men?
Women are in general tidier than men, but why is this?
As children, girls are as untidy and smelly as boys, if not worse. Upon reaching pubity, women are smarter in appearence than men, but just as untidy at home. When a women reaches adulthood, she tends to become tidier at home, and in her personal appearence.
As a child a woman doesn't really care what she looks like, and just wants to experience as much of life as possible and have fun. She lives, not from day to day, but minute to minute and gives no thought of her appearence or tidyness unless reminded by an adult.
As a teenager a girl wants to look good in front of her friends and wants boys to look at her, but has no need to be tidy at home, because only her closest friends will ever see her room, and they don't care.
As an adult, a woman worries about what other people think all the time. She looks as good as she can in the most expensive clothes she can afford, because that is what the TV and magazines tell her. She keeps her home tidy, because she doesn't want people to think she is scruffy - but if you look in her cupboards you'll find them stuffed with junk.
What she doesn't realise is that a different set of magazines tell boys what she should look like.
Drink Coke - Think not!
3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the 'real thing' sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate)the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.
In addition, Husband 1.0 un-installed many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.9, but installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0 and NBA 3.0.
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Try to enter the command: C:/I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME and install Tears 6.2. Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications: Guilty 3.0 and Flowers 7.0. But remember, overuse can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will create SnoringLoudly.WAV files.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have a limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve performance. I personally recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 6.9. | 2019-04-19T02:35:56 | http://swesley1.tripod.com/id8.html |
0.999999 | Cardiac arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat. Irregular in the sense the heart can beat too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia) or have an abnormal rhythm. There is a wide variety of cardiac arrhythmia and some are harmless while others could be life-threatening. Arrhythmias are concerning because they can potentially reduce the amount of blood being pumped through the body. Because blood carries oxygen to all the tissues in the body, a reduction in blood flow could lead to organ damage.
How is the heartbeat generated?
The heart consists of 4 chambers: two upper chambers called the atria and two lower chambers called the ventricles. A heartbeat is initiated by an electrical signal generated in a group of cells at the top of the right atrium called the sinus node or sinoatrial (SA) node. The signal travels down through the atria which causes them to contract and pump blood into the ventricles. The signal moves down to a second node between the atria and ventricles called the atrioventricular (AV) node. Once the ventricles are full of blood, the signal travels down the ventricles on a pathway called the bundle of His. This causes the ventricles to contract and pump blood to the lungs or other areas of the body. The ventricles then relax and the process starts over again. In a healthy heart 60 to 100 signals are sent per minute. Any issues that arise in this process could lead to cardiac arrhythmia.
The mechanism by which smoking induces cardiac arrhythmia is not known. However, there are some hypotheses. Evidence from clinical studies suggests that nicotine can cause atrial fibrillation. Smoking also promotes coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which themselves can promote arrhythmias. Many clinical trials have also found that smokers have an increased risk of developing cardiac arrhythmia conditions compared to non-smokers.
Nicotine promotes irregular heartbeat through many pathways. For example, nicotine can increase the levels of catecholamine (a type of neuromodulator and hormone) in the blood. High catecholamine levels can increase heart rate, and blood pressure, while extremely high levels can cause arrhythmia. Nictoine can also directly bind to and block a potassium channel called (I K1), which can also result in irregular heartbeat. This block specifically occurs when nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) are not stimulated and catecholamines are released. This is in line with studies that find that low levels of the I K1 receptor is associated with the generation of arrhythmias.
An animal study in which dogs were exposed to nicotine (a level equal to smoking two cigarettes in a human) found that it induced several different types of arrhythmia. The most common were supraventricular arrhythmias such as supraventricular bradycardia, supraventricular arrhythmia, sinus arrest, atrial ectopics and atrial tachycardia. These animals also experienced atrioventricular junctional arrhythmias (escape beats, premature contractions, first-degree heart block, second degree heart block and atrioventricular dissociation) and ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular premature contractions and sustained ventricular tachycardia). Even higher doses resulted in fatal irregular heart beat resulting from ventricular flutter and ventricular fibrillation.
Nicotine has also been found to increase atrial fibrosis (thickening of the atria), particularly after heart failure, which in turn increases the likely hood of atrial fibrillation. Nicotine is through to cause atrial fibrosis by blocking the activity of two micro-RNA (mi-R-133 and miR-590) which inhibit transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 and TGF-β receptor type II —modulators of connective tissue growth factor.
Not only is nicotine from smoking potentially harmful, but chewing nicotine and inhaling nicotine not in cigarettes can increase the chances of developing short-term atrial fibrillation.
Nicotine is not the only component of tobacco smoke that promotes heart arrhythmia. Carbon monoxide has also been shown to be harmful. Carbon monoxide inhaled in cigarette smoke binds to hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen, resulting in fewer cells that are available to carry oxygen, and fewer cells that are capable of releasing oxygen. Carbon monoxide increases susceptibility to ventricular fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmia in dogs with ventricular tachycardia.
There is conflicting clinical trial evidence suggesting that oxidative stress induced from smoking may also contribute to atrial fibrillation. However, animal studies have shown that oxidative stress can alter heart tissue resulting in more arrhythmogenic events. There is evidence that smoking-related oxidative stress promote various cardiovascular diseases.
Some studies have found an association between heart rate variability and environmental tobacco smoke exposure.
Up to 30% of patients experience postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) following heart surgery. There is evidence that smoking may actually reduce the risk of developing POAF. This is believed to be because smoking results in a higher adrenergic state, which allows smokers to tolerate increases in catecholamine induced from surgical stress. This protective effect disappears in people that have quit smoking.
Drinking alcohol can slow the intra-atrial conduction, the His-ventricular interval and shortened sinus node recovery time during electrical impulse stimulation of the heartbeat. Atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmia could be induced in 71% of cases in moderate to heavy drinkers. Patients with atrial fibrillation that drink experience shorter atrial refractory times and slowed conduction compared to nondrinkers.
There are several potential mechanisms by which alcohol could promote cardiac arrhythmia. Alcohol has been shown to cause damage to gap junction intracellular channels resulting in abnormal signal conduction. It can cause myocyte (heart cell) damage and inflammation as well as short term oxidative stress. Not surprisingly, alcohol has several electrophysiological effects such as reducing atrial and pulmonary vein action potentials, shortening the atrial refractory period. Reducing the speed of intra- and inter-atrial conduction and enhancing AV-node conduction. Lastly, alcohol can have autonomic effects on the heart such as shorten the activity of the vagal nerve, the nerve that stimulates the pulse that causes the heart to beat, reducing heart rate variability and inhibiting vagal nerve activity.
Long term consumption of alcohol leads to several conditions that can case changes to atrial activity leading to AF. These conditions include left ventricle remodeling, obstructive sleep apnea, high blood pressure, atrial inflammation and oxidative stress. These conditions promote left atrial remodeling, dilation, fibrosis and increase left atrial pressure. These factors, supported by vagal nerve activation and short term bind drinking promote atrial fibrillation.
Animal studies revealed that treatment with caffeine reduced susceptibility to ventricular fibrillation in non-ischemic and ischemic animal models. However, this increase in susceptibility can block by treatment with beta blockade. Animals taking high doses, but not moderate doses, also were more susceptible to ventricular tachycardia induced by ventricular pacing. Another study observed an increase in the incidence of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, while other forms of arrhythmia (ventricular tachycardia, atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation) were seen at higher doses. Caffeine is also capable of increasing the rate of spontaneous discharge from active fibers.
Human studies have found that caffeine can affect the refractory period of atrial, ventricular and nodal tissue. However, it is unclear how this relates to susceptibility for arrhythmia. Patients with ventricular ectopy have an increased risk of experiencing heart beat irregularities when ingesting caffeine. However, there is insufficient evidence to show an increase in risk for other patients already susceptible to cardiac arrhythmia such as patients that have recently experienced a heart attack, non-sustained ventricular tachycardia, or malignant ventricular arrhythmia.
Heart failure occurs when the body is unable to pump body in a way that sufficient supplies the body with blood. Atrial fibrillation occurs in 19-37% of individuals living with heart failure. However, it occurs in up to 50% of individuals hospitalized during heart failure.
Congenital heart defects (i.e. heart effects present at birth) like Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. | 2019-04-21T16:54:58 | https://www.health.online/medical-conditions/cardiac-arrhythmia/cardiac-arrhythmia-overview-causes/ |
0.998235 | Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) has endorsed Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in her bid for House speaker, the Washington Post reports.
Why it matters: Some House Democrats have encouraged Fudge to challenge Nancy Pelosi, and Fudge had said she was weighing throwing her name in the running. Meanwhile, 16 current and incoming House Democrats have signed a letter saying they'd refuse to vote for Pelosi in an effort to foster change in the party. | 2019-04-25T19:05:03 | https://www.axios.com/marcia-fudge-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker-democrats-230d2d4c-bca5-4e47-aa32-769a7af5e14b.html |
0.997601 | What are the top Chemistry Colleges in Tacoma, WA?
There are 2 chemistry schools in Tacoma, Washington. With an overall population of 193,556 and a student population of 22,872, approximately 6,460 of Tacoma students attend one of Tacoma's schools that offer chemistry programs.
Tacoma's largest chemistry school is Pacific Lutheran University. In 2010, Pacific Lutheran University graduated approximately 10 students from its chemistry program.
In 2010, 16 students graduated with a chemistry degree from one of Tacoma's chemistry schools. If you decide to attend a chemistry school in Tacoma, you can expect to pay an average yearly tuition of $31,867.
In addition to tuition costs, you should plan on spending an average of $986 for books and supplies each year, while enrolled in a chemistry program in Tacoma. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $9,015 per year, on average, for room and board at Tacoma-based chemistry schools. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $42,607.
If you plan on staying in Tacoma after graduating from chemistry school, you should know that job prospects for chemists in Tacoma, which is the most popular chemistry profession, are average. In 2010, 1 out of every 14 chemists in Washington State were working in the greater Tacoma area. The number of chemists in Tacoma is expected to increase by 9% by the year 2018. This anticipated change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for chemists.
As a chemist in Tacoma, you can expect to make an average salary of $45,220 per year. This is lower than the average salary for chemists in the state. | 2019-04-19T22:14:15 | https://www.hackcollege.com/school-finder/schools/washington-state/tacoma/chemistry/ |
0.999997 | I support St Mirren and specifically do not like either Celtic or Rangers and I intensely dislike the amount of coverage given to Rangers and Celtic and the lack of news about other clubs. I also think the Scottish Championship deserves more coverage than it gets, eg the title and promotion places are all up for grabs and almost everyone else could get relegated.
But the thing I ABSOLUTELY HATE WITH A PASSION is that any time I watch a video on Scottish football (eg highlights of a St Mirren game) the autoplay options on the video settings always take you away from Scottish football to English football and usually to English managers being interviewed post-match. It happens 100% of the time. I have no interest in English football at all, and if I am watching highlights of St Mirren this season the next sets of highlights I would naturally want to watch are the Hamilton and Dundee games to see how our relegation rivals got on and how they played. I have watched a few English Premiership highlights to see if autoplay redirects English football fans to post-match interviews with Oran Kearney, Brian Rice, Tommy Wright, Neil Lennon etc and to my surprise autoplay sends website users watching English highlights to other English football videos. Why has an editorial decision obviously made at the BBC (a few years ago) to redirect website users from Scottish football videos to English football videos?? I have mentioned this in 2 previous BBC Sport Scotland surveys and may well start asking MSPs and MPs why BBC has made an editorial decision on these lines. Maybe next year on April Fools Day you could have 1 day where English fans get redirected to Scottish managers talking about Scottish games just after they have watched highlights of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool etc and gauge their feedback on whether they like being treated the way Scottish football fans are by the BBC?
If anyone ever needs an example of "chip on shoulder" or perhaps "first world problems", I think we can safely direct them to DOP's post above.
By "chip on shoulder" you infer that DOP's comments are irrational or misdirected.
I am always amazed at the number of Scots that are quite content with the democratic deficit which we experience in Scotland where the UK is in effect "Greater England" and Scotland is treated no differently from a shire in England. Perhaps we should rename Scotland as 'Scotlandshire' to more accurately reflect the reality of our situation.
As a nation within the UK we have no say (as a nation) on major decisions affecting all the home nations - eg Brexit or as it should be more accurately called 'Eexit'. Instead we are outnumbered 10-1 on a population basis. We would have more of a say as an independent nation in the EU if that ever comes about.
This is about Scottish autonomy and not necessarily Scottish independence per se, although I would have no objection to the latter.
DOP's comments are just one example of our 'shiredom' status within the UK and unless this is addressed as a matter of urgency there is likely to be only one political outcome in the longterm.
Nope. I'm saying he is seeing conspiracy where none exists and even if it did exist it makes no material difference to anyone's life. Whether DOP likes it or not, those links are from one BRITISH football site to another BRITISH football site and we did actively vote in clear numbers to remain BRITISH in 2014. To play the English/Scottish card continually is just grievance politics and is entirely negative and re-affirms our nation's reputation as being bitter.
There are many things you can complain about as regards the BBC (in particular the dumbing down and sensationalising of seemingly everything on their website e.g. What Do You Feed Your Dog) but links from one webpage to another are a bit pathetic.
I don't think DOP is claiming any conspiracy theory here - just stating a hard fact of life as it exists at EBC.
But as you have reminded us, a majority of Scots are quite comfortable with this arrangement.
Yeah I think most people are quite comfortable with it. I suspect most people don't even notice this sort of thing in the scheme of things happening in their lives.
Your reading the post wrongly obviously you don't go to the BBC Scottish football site. Its not about anti English and shame on you for thinking it is. If you are on the Scottish Premiership page and you want to read about Scottish Lower leagues there is no direct link. You click on football which takes you the English premiership from there you have to scroll the page for a link to say the Scottish championship. Then if you want to go to division one you have to go through the whole process again. Its frustrating. A link to all Scottish league's from the Scottish Premiership would be logical but it's not there. Put your anti English accusations in the dust bin it does not exist.
I wasn't claiming any kind of conspiracy.
I don't think it is controversial to conclude that when 100% of videos from the BBC Scottish Football / Scottish Premiership . Scottish Championship webpages take you away from those pages to videos about English football that there has been an editorial decision that the website should direct users towards content on the English Premiership. In much the same way as BBC pay the presenters and pundits more for Match of the Day 1,2,3, than they give to all Scottish clubs combined for their TV coverage of the Scottish leagues- eg it is well known that it costs clubs to have BBC Alba cover your home match and pay £1k but wipe more than that off the gate money. The BBC asked me my opinion on how I found the content on their Sport Scotland webpages and I told them what I dislike about they work at the moment - i.e. they take you away from their own pages on Scottish football and automatically redirect you to videos on English football. It would be like the BAWA forum redirecting you to a Morton (or Old Firm) forum every time you leave one topic and go to look at another!
One reason why English football is better than Scottish football is that broadcasters took a decision 20-30 years ago to throw vast amounts of money at TV coverage of English football meaning that Scottish clubs can't compete financially with the income English clubs get from TV.
I stopped being interested in the English Premiership and Champions League when players began earning multiple millions of pounds per year to play football and when presenters and pundits for English football shows began earning more than some of the best players based in Scotland.
I am watching the Killie St Johnstone highlights right now.
Directly below that video is a section called Around Scottish Sport with links including the Hearts Inverness game and a video about Arbroath.
If you are on the Scottish Premiership page and you want to read about Scottish Lower leagues there is no direct link. You click on football which takes you the English premiership from there you have to scroll the page for a link to say the Scottish championship. Then if you want to go to division one you have to go through the whole process again. Its frustrating.
That is not the only route to the Scottish Lower Leagues pages from the Scottish Premiership page but frankly it's not a surprise to anyone that you can't fathom out the other more obvious and faster route.
You certainly don't have to go via the English league pages.
That is not the only route to the Scottish Lower Leagues from the Scottish Premiership but frankly it's not a surprise to anyone that you can't fathom out the other more obvious and faster route.
I'm well able to seek out the Scottish Championship or Leagues 1 and 2 when I want to read news from them. You seem to be ignoring the main point I was making that any video on BBC Scottish Football automatically sends you away from Scottish football to English football videos automatically and English football videos never seem to send anyone to BBC Scottish coverage. If you are keen to stress we are all British why is the direction 100% away from Scotland towards and never reversed from English football back to Scottish football?
I am going to disagree with both these posters ............... because DOB is absolutely right in questioning BBC Scotland as to why the hell people in Scotland would want to NOT watch Scottish football. I live in England currently but it really pees me off when I watch a supposedly Scottish sports show and end up with English football, so DOB is well within his rights to challenge the Beeb. Yes and although I enjoy lots of Oaksofts posts, comment and ribaldry, it would appear to me to be him that has the Chip on their /his shoulder/s , if you want to moan about BRexit ............ there chatting about THAT elsewhere, this was a sports discussion.
Then switch off the auto- option on videos and you won't be directed away to anything.
For goodness sakes. Of all the problems worth worrying about in life, this surely isn't one of them!
What exactly do you think I have a chip on my shoulder about?
Oh and I made no mention of Brexit.
You got me mixed up with northstbuddie.
Being less intelligent than Shull?
The problem is that the BBC spends an inordinate amount of money on being able to cover English games, money which is collected across the whole of the UK. In order to justify this, they will push the FA premiership at every turn. The hits on the website will almost certainly be reported as evidence of the continued interest in the Premiership.
Roughly, the BBC collects £324million a year from Scottish license holders and spends £223 of that in Scotland, much of that is earmarked for a range or UK programming and is not Scotland only output. Subrscibers in the Republic of Ireland are paying around £27 million for access to the entire output of the BBC. If we had an arrangement where Scotland collectively paid a similar figure to the BBC then we could use the rest for the development of talent and good quality output in Scotland, including a decent fee that helps develop Scottish football.
What a load of shite !!!!
You are correct re NSB, apologies dear sir.............................but I was on a roll.
I was starting to doubt my own sanity for a minute there. | 2019-04-20T02:52:23 | https://www.blackandwhitearmy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/49601-bbc-sport-scotland-online-survey/ |
0.999999 | It's written that" It ranges from a passive,free floating awareness to a highly focused ,active fixation.The range through these states is mediated by arousal system ,a network of tract converging from sensory systems to integrating centres in the brain stem "
So why does the option E doesn't work?
E doesn't work because this is an EXCEPT question. So you want something that does NOT happen. But those lines talk of a broad range of states that are ultimately mediated by the brain stem, due to the phenomenon of arousal. So that makes E true rather than false.
Hello, could you please explain why choice E is incorrect? The passage states, in lines 6-10, that the kind of intelligence favored is attention and the attention ranges from a passive, free flowing awareness to a highly focused active fixation. The range through these states is mediated by systems in the brain stem.
Does this not mean an increase in the range mediated by the brain stem?
You are right that E is a true answer: it backed up by the passage.
However, E doesn't answer the question. The question asks us for things that happen as the process of arousal in an organism continues. And E (an expansion of the range of states) does not occur as the process of arousal takes place.
The passage is saying that there is a range of types of attention ("states") in animals. But it does not say that the mediation of these states (by the brain stem) happens as the process of arousal takes place.
I dont understand 'increase in selectivity' what in the Option E refers to 'D an increase in selectivity with respect to stimuli' - Could you please explain?
"An increase in selectivity with respect to stimuli" means that the organism would become more selective about which stimuli it responds to. In other words, rather than responding to all stimuli, it would only respond to certain (select) stimuli.
In line 16, author talks about "Arousal is at first general, with a flooding of impulses in the brain stem; then gradually the activation is channeled." So how is E incorrect.
In line 16, there are two keywords that (E) is actually incorrect. These keywords are "general" and "channeled." "General" refers to a wider variety of impulses. "Channeled" is the opposite of general here.
If the activation in the brain stem starts out as genera" and then becomes channeled, the brain stem goes from handling a wide variety of impulses to handling a much smaller group of impulses. So the states mediated by the brain stem-- the types of impulses-- shrink in range, rather than expanding. So line 16 actually says that the OPPOSITE of E is true. | 2019-04-20T01:19:35 | https://gre.magoosh.com/forum/503 |
0.989726 | Why do you feel that it is important that commercial fiction receive critical attention?
Jodi Picoult: Because historically the books that have persevered in our culture and in our memories and our hearts were not the literary fiction of the day, but the popular fiction of the day. Think about Jane Austen. Think about Charles Dickens. Think about Shakespeare. They were popular authors. They were writing for the masses.
Appreciation! Recognition! is Jove appreciated? Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of his great allegory--the world? Then we pigmies must be content to have our paper allegories but ill comprehended.
Yesterday, the day of sad news and the giant Winnebago stuffed with yipping dogs (alas, parked directly in front of my house, which stands, like many old village houses, rather close to the street) is done. Heralded by two hungry cats kneading my prone and possibly edible body, one barking dog and many cheeping sparrows hopping about from the dripping giant rugosa to the hunch-backed lilac, the new day has begun. It's full of little creatures not bothering to think about matters of death and life, not worrying their brains about selves or fictional worlds (or, if one makes sub-worlds, whether the world-building is properly established) or even (save us!) genres or marketing and promotion.
I'm feeling a little obsessed with Myers because he makes remarks that have little thorny hooks that catch and stick in the mind. He has no business latching onto my brain that way--or maybe that is exactly his business, maybe that's what he's for... at least in part.
There's much that is interesting in that passage and about the bond between writers and the idea of exile, but what I'm thinking about right now is "exile" as starting in early childhood. For a while, I was going to call The Throne of Psyche after a short poem, "The Exile's Track," and I have had a strong feeling of being exiled since about the age of four. First there was a feeling of exile from family, of things being sigodlin, askew because of a death. Then there was the constant ripping away, at least every three years, from the place I knew and where I had made friends. And this was particularly acute in my second and third moves, when I was dragged out of fairyland, as I conceived it, in the form of crawfish and Cajun playmates and tropical blooms and shrimp and alligator turtles and moonvines. We moved from Gramercy to Baton Rouge, but there was much that I loved there as well. But after second grade I was dragged entirely out of Louisiana and the South. I wept with relief and joy when, at almost 13, they told me we were moving to North Carolina.
After a while, one is always a little uneasy, or balanced somewhere between a past and a future uneasiness. And that's not what Myers is talking about, but it's related.
If a writer ever felt completely at home in a tale and satisfied, he would then have found home and would never need to progress again. Instead, writers are all melancholy around the edges, even the happiest of them, because they can never pluck the silver apples of the moon and the golden apples of the sun and are condemned to go on wandering with Aengus, endlessly searching, endlessly almost capturing, endlessly letting go.
Or perhaps we are like Odysseus, wandering on, creating a kind of archipelago of islands, temporary stays. Maybe we are Penelope, endlessly working over her strange warp and weft, throwing the shuttle--always tearing down, never satisfied, never quite at home even though at home.
1. When you buy a gigantic cauliflower, no one will notice and so somebody else will buy another gigantic cauliflower, and then there will be no room in the fridg inn.
2. When hippos poop in the water, they twirl their tails in circles and attract fish. (This sort of thing is what you learn when your husband goes to Mozambique for a month and then comes back.) Perhaps Mattel would be interested.
3. I no longer have any patience for lists that tell me something like what should be in a narrative poem and give cleverish advice. I've written a long narrative poem that's soon to come out, and I'd rather somebody read it than read a list, just as I'd rather read a writer's narrative poem than his/her lists about what they want in narrative poems. Is it that I'm beginning to think that people read these clever lists about a piece of art and then don't encounter the art? Meanwhile, I am committing a list. Woe is me.
4. To clarify, although primarily to two or three concerned parties: although at times I am ensnared by genre terminology because it's the way so many people look at books, I'm really just a Sendakian divider of books into good and not-good. I don't care about genre and sorting and classification. Just give me the good.
5. Sinyavsky quote plucked from an Amazon review: "In principle only miracles are worth writing about--as the fairy tales knew. And if we ever decide to tell about ordinary things, we should show them in a supernatural light. The art of narrative is to see things like this."
6. Another Sinyavsky: "Art does nothing but convert matter into spirit."
7. Me, one minute after midnight: One reason that poetry is a higher art (when it is a higher art) than the novel is that one can approach perfection with a poem, whereas a novelist is doomed to throw in a wrench and the kitchen sink.
I've had a book dedicated to me . . . but never have I had a podcast dedicated to me. I didn't know podcasts were dedicated to people! But this one is fascinating, focusing on writer Andrei Sinyavsky's A Voice from the Chorus. John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture, is probably the most well-read man on the continent, and if he says this book had a great impact on him, I'm going to read it. I suspect you should too.
Michael-my-husband has been having some difficulties in exiting Africa by way of Maputo and then Johannesburg. Evidently he had a Kafkaesque passage when accused of gun smuggling in Mozambique... Eventually he did fly off. But then he and hundreds of others were turned back to the airport when someone on board the plane suffered a heart attack. I hope that victim survived and is feeling better and that the rest of the passengers are safely in the air, going home or leaving home, each as wished. Evidently my Mozambique adventurer may be home by Sunday night.
So today I shall tinker with The Book of the Red King, exercise, go to the farmer's market, clean up my house, and generally make ready for the return of the wanderer. I hope you are having a good adventure, out there in the world.
"Show us what he does and how"
Clip from Ruth Franklin's acceptance speech for the 2012 Roger Shattuck Prize in criticism: It’s obvious why the reviewer needs the novelist—not just any novelist, but a good novelist, even a great one, to challenge us to rise to his or her level. But the novelist also needs the reviewer: not just as a vehicle for advertisement, but as an enforcer of standards. If we speak only to praise—and my children can vouch that I’ve never been guilty of that—then praise itself becomes cheapened, and ultimately meaningless. Not all books are worth reading; some are dull, some are poorly written, and others can actually have a pernicious effect on our culture. It’s the task of the critic to champion books that deserve to be championed, and to take a stand against those that have the power to harm. And anyone who doesn’t believe that books have the power to harm is not taking them seriously enough.
Yesterday I finished the work on a long judging stint. I celebrated by taking a nap, and when I woke, I sat up in bed and wrote a poem. It felt like magic. And even a morning of autumn rain and "Goldengrove unleaving" can feel like the first day of summer. "Nature is never spent / There lives the dearest freshness deep down things..." I'm in a Hopkins sort of mood, it seems.
Or perhaps it is a Yeats mood of tragic joy, alive in a world where "irrational streams of blood are staining earth." Yet from the darkness springs again "The workman, noble, and the saint, and all things run / On that unfashionable gyre again."
Skimming around the web a few moments ago, I was struck all over again by old, simple truths--that we rarely know what matters, that we mistake straw for gold, that we could be better to one another. Have I lived this long only to know what a child learns, navigating the world? I feel like a child, eager to play with paint or to push words around on a scrap of paper. So let me go. I will make something.
And thanks to Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books for recommending A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer, 2012) on Tom Kearney's radio show at WPTF-Raleigh.
This is a no-post day. It is a day to kickstart the children, read many books for a deadline, and wrangle on contracts. Probably I'll throw in a little self-doubt and considerable ditheration and a few fantods. Have a good one, passers-by!
Have I said that I very much like Joseph Epstein? I feel sure that I've mentioned his wonderful essay on Isaac Bashevis Singer. Here's a new essay of his that is in part a review of Andrew Delbanco's College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be but is also a frank, interesting response to the current state of the liberal arts on campus.
Clip: The death of liberal arts education would constitute a serious subtraction. Without it, we shall no longer have a segment of the population that has a proper standard with which to judge true intellectual achievement. Without it, no one can have a genuine notion of what constitutes an educated man or woman, or why one work of art is superior to another, or what in life is serious and what is trivial. The loss of liberal arts education can only result in replacing authoritative judgment with rivaling expert opinions, the vaunting of the second- and third-rate in politics and art, the supremacy of the faddish and the fashionable in all of life. Without that glimpse of the best that liberal arts education conveys, a nation might wake up living in the worst, and never notice.
Clive Hicks-Jenkins is judging the Fox Open Art Competition on the Channel Islands, and concurrently having a solo show of new art work (including images from The Foliate Head and forthcoming Thaliad.) It's called The Greening, and will be at the Jersey Art Centre. On the wrong side of the puddle? You can take a peek here.
It's the wee hours, and I am grief-struck by catching sight of an image of our ambassador's murdered, dishonored body dragged through the streets while terrorists snap photos on their phones . . . The beautiful idea of the emissary and his permission to walk safely in alien lands has been a part of civilization for a long time.
I consider my blog mainly a place for news about books--mine or otherwise--and sometimes for more personal comments. It is a politics-free zone. But there is something about sorrow for others never known and for a human ideal crushed under foot that can feel personal. I feel it so.
get together in my Cooperstown kitchen and make cake!
Little hamburgers, all cake and icing and dyed coconut.
Trinity College, Dublin as a freshman.
"May the road always rise to meet you . . .
Awash in driving lessons, NBA reading, Scouts, company, and more... So here's a tiny poem from the just-out The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press.) Originally published in Angle. More poems here.
Like rain shot through by sun.
Update: Book designer John Coulthart just sent me a link to this piece, in which he says Jacobson is more nuanced about genre. "The best fiction doesn't need a label." It looks interesting, and I'm going to read it now and then get back to work. Thank you, John!
High school started here on Thursday. The three children and I watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy in celebration of the start of the youngest's sophomore year in high school (the hallways of Orcs! the all-seeing principal Eye! the young women sharp as a blade!) and finished the last bit last night, finally obliterating the sign of sin and overreaching power in the volcanic flow of Mount Doom. Of course, the movies are nothing so complex as the book in three volumes that was praised by Auden and has been dearly loved and reread by many, but it got me considering that curious man, Tolkien, off and on all week. Last night I was thinking about how interesting it is that he disliked Macbeth and yet clearly does more than nod to it with his moving forest on Ent-march and his "no man" oracular prophecy and plot twist.
This morning I read Howard Jacobson's interview in the Guardian, where he says he is "contemptuous of genre things...." Not books but things. (I tend to be with Sendak in thinking that there are "good books" and then the others, but we live in a world where people like to categorize.) Jacobson goes on to reference without naming the Twilight series and then to cite 50 Shades. Ridiculously easy potshots! I'd like to see what he thought of Crowley's Little, Big, for example. He is also contemptuous of the term "literary fiction." He writes "fiction," he insists, while others write "crap." I know a lot of these attacks are a clever, Amis-like use of a media that desires column inches with sharp teeth and blood and hair. No doubt they are good publicity for the new book.
Those of us who write what is called "literary fiction" evidently want to be acknowledged as writing the only fiction that matters; that's why we desire that simple label, "fiction." What we do, we believe, matters more. But it ain't necessarily so. What I learned in writing two fantasies for young readers and a number of fantastic stories for anthologies is that our "literary fiction" worldview is provincial. Writers in other genres believe strongly that we write in simply another genre, one often less vital than their own. Sometimes they are right--depends on the book. It always depends on the book. Likewise, a book in another genre can clamber up to the heights. Entertainment may fly up into the realm of art. Why not? There are no rules, only the force and heart and skill of the mind behind the keyboard. What is The Tempest if not a romance of first love and a fantastic tale of a wand-wielding and -breaking wizard intended to please both the ruled rabble and the ruling classes?
Oh, I have sympathy for Jacobson's past situation, and am glad he has been lifted into light where he is visible. I know all about his "working away at the edges for years." No doubt the stacks of sold copies for A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and Catherwood and all the rest are but very little hobbits compared to the giant cave trolls of a Booker winner or a NYT bestseller. But hobbits are sturdy, lovable storytellers and song-makers. And the hinterlands and the edges have their advantages. From the edge, you can reach out into space that has no chart, building a world outward as you will. From the edge, the trends and bubbles of the day are only white noise, lost in the distance, and what matters from the past stands like a great field of monuments where a writer can lose and find himself in wandering.
Any of us "at the edges" would trade something for visibility, for a greater number of readers. But it's an old story; I imagine that Melville, say, would have been willing to give up a limb and hobble like a peg-leg sailor to keep the readers he had with Typee and gain a few more. Poe certainly wrote wild attacks with teeth and hair and gave up everything in search of a wider audience. Dickinson ventured out and then back, sealing the door. Yet they and others like them--some remembered, some not--had their painful, joyful, austere reward, just as Stephanie Meyers and the writer of 50 Shades of Gray have a reward of another kind. Let's look to Jacobson's "genre things" for what we must do about the strange ways of the world. As Gandalf says, what comes to those in a time "is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Thanks to Damien Walter, Guardian columnist, for the Jacobson interview link.
Three of The Book of the Red King poems are at the 2012-2 issue of David Landrum's Lucid Rhythms: "The Fool, the King, and the Fox-Fall," "The Yellow Fool," and "The Red Fool." The latter two are little poems based on alchemical colors (some others of these have appeared in At Length), and the first is a narrative. I need to think more about the first one, whether it will stay as is, whether it will go in the final version of the sequence--in the book, that is.
And I hereby nominate the Red King for President. In accordance with tradition, the Fool will play veep. Both promise not to bombard you with bombast, make promises, zap email, send mail, or commit any other botheration. In return: governance rising to perfection through alchemical stages. And perfect Fooldom.
My husband is the Man of Hobbies.
Some years he takes up beer-making. Some years he decides to dedicate himself to the perfect homemade sausage. During med school and training he did a great deal of hand-piecing and quilting. He used to repair key-wound toys. A few years ago he wrote a novel to see what that was like (I think it's lying around somewhere, almost finished.) Among other pursuits, he cooks, bakes, volunteers as a neuromuscular neurologist in Viet Nam, goes fishing, leads a Boy Scout troop (just back from clambering up Mt. Katahdin in Maine and headed for the Grand Canyon some time next year), teaches a confirmation class, and was recently a Senior Warden at Christ Church (where James Fenimore Cooper was once Senior Warden), travels whenever he gets the chance (lately: Cambodia, Thailand, Sweden, Yukon, Morocco, Egypt, Greece, Turkey), and hunts.
Right now he is hunting in Mozambique, accompanied by our friend Jack, who is packing a camera. Yesterday Michael killed a Cape Buffalo, and I am wondering what on earth one does with a powerful and short-tempered but dead Cape Buffalo, and also thinking about the mischief and fun there could be in becoming a vegetarian... Thanks to a certain person's hobbies, I have eaten antelope (spicy, as if it had been eating mesquite, maybe), caribou, mule deer, white tail, and innumerable other four-legged and two-winged creatures.
Michael and I have been married for 25 years. We eloped and had a sheriff's deputy for a bridesmaid. He was packing a gun but didn't mind holding the bouquet, my one symbol of the usual way of doing things. Flowers and a gun: it seems like a key to how things have gone... I never would have guessed that Mike would sew as well as cook (I knew he could cook), or that he would crave traveling to places like the Crazy Mountains and the Yukon and Mozambique to hunt.
More than most lives, his is an adventure. I do hope he is not eaten by lions.
Today is the first day of high school in the Village of Coopertown, so lark-rising season begins for me and my youngest. Tomorrow I tote my two eldest to driving school as well, as it is time for one young man and one young woman to learn how to navigate the world. My husband seems to be having a fine time in Mozambique, and has not been eaten by lions or trampled by hippos.
Yesterday I finished the first stage of the reading that has occupied my time since early June. The guest room floor is impassable, a city with skyscraper stacks of books. And each volume is a separate world with its own angle of vision and laws and dreams. Lately I have read some good books, particularly novels, that I will not forget and that will no doubt lure me on in some dream of winning those "silver apples of the moon." As Henry James said of novels, "the good subsists and emits its light and stimulates our desire for perfection."
But now it is time to catch up on all the things I have left undone, from my garden to promised writing and contracts to be reviewed and house repair.
Whenever I look out the front windows, I can see a house with three ghosts... four, if you count one in the stone wall. And I not long ago heard a ghost story about my federal era house. But I've written about those and other Cooperstown ghosts before. Here's a brand new one. Last week I was sitting outside on a bench when S. came by, walking a dog. She told me that her youngest son had been dog-sitting at a house down the street, one that had been a medical clinic in the late nineteenth century.
The day before, her son G. had walked the dog and taken it back in the house. But as he turned away from the dog in the shadowy entrance hall, he realized that a woman was standing close behind him. Alas, he bolted for the door and did not engage her in cross-species chitchat.
Judy Jensen asked me for an August poem for Float Press.
when bread would be blessed at church.
And in return I have three "postcards,"
Thank you, Judy and Float Press!
I'm still immersed in reading, so no new writing for a while longer. Shall post some more pieces from the Tinies, perhaps.
But mostly I am thinking about how I do not want my husband to be eaten by a lion. | 2019-04-25T20:41:47 | https://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2012/09/ |
0.999685 | Just a week after the election, the cracks were starting to show between Trump and Republicans on some pretty major issues. Now that the election is over and it's time for Republicans to govern, they appear to be growing wider.
Deportation forces? Despite President-elect Donald Trump's use of the phrase, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) promised in a CNN town hall Thursday night: "In Congress, it's not happening."
Medicare reform? Despite Trump's desire to leave it alone, Ryan says Medicare is in such a dire state that "we better get prepared to fix this problem."
Deporting all 11 million immigrants in the country illegally? Trump is fuzzy on whether he stands on one of his signature his campaign promises, but Ryan indicated Thursday he's inclined to help keep children of undocumented parents in the country. "No," he said when asked by an undocumented woman whether he thinks she should be deported.
UPDATE: Besides Obamacare, Republicans on the Hill push back by pointing out Ryan and Trump agree on the majority of this year's congressional agenda: Ending sanctuary cities, cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood, tax reform, having some kind of barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border, dealing "responsibly" with everyone President Obama deferred deportations to.
But when it comes to some critical decisions, such as how tough to get on Russia, or whether to get super tough on immigration, or how much federal money to spend on things like infrastructure reform, or whether to slap tariffs on imported goods, Trump increasingly looks like he's on an island within his own party.
Even his own Cabinet nominees repeatedly broke with his campaign promises on everything from prosecuting Hillary Clinton to playing nice with Russia in their confirmation hearings this week.
What's going on now between Trump and Republican leaders has some echoes of the dynamic during the presidential campaign: Ryan and other GOP leaders would highlight their agreements with Trump (repeal Obamacare, get a conservative on the Supreme Court, tax reform), but there were also very conspicuous disagreements (a Muslim ban, NATO, that darn Russia thing again).
At one point during the campaign, Ryan denounced or disagreed with something Trump said roughly once a week.
By the end of the campaign, Ryan had broken up with Trump completely.
Ryan appears to still be very excited that he has a Republican president — it's topped his wish list since he suddenly became speaker in the fall of 2015. And he's not trying to hide the fact that there are some rifts between him and the president he got. "Look, we don't all agree on everything. I think people kind of know that," Ryan acknowledged Thursday.
He also appeared willing to meet Trump in the middle on some things, such as some kind of tax break for child care, a top Trump priority.
But the fact remains that Ryan and McConnell are now charged with legislating the agenda of a president whose views on some major issues they do not share.
Right now the disagreements are manifesting themselves as cracks in Republicans' stranglehold on Washington. But keep an eye on how much those cracks widen. It could mean the difference between whether Trump's grab-bag conservative populism reshapes the Republican Party — or gets buried by more traditional Republicans who don't agree. | 2019-04-18T22:47:12 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/13/paul-ryan-widens-the-crack-between-hill-republicans-and-donald-trump/?utm_term=.3b6e8eae044f&wpisrc=nl_fix&wpmm=1 |
0.999232 | Does vacation time expire if it isn't taken? If a person dies, what happens to their vacation days? The ECJ tackled these questions in a ruling that will please some with vacation days to spare — especially in Germany.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Tuesday that people do not lose their right to be compensated for unused vacation days — even if they didn't apply to take them.
After examining four cases out of Germany, the court's decision grants more rights to employees and heirs with regards to vacation time payouts — albeit with several strict restrictions.
Workers do not automatically lose their vacation days — or their right to be compensated for them — if they did not take those days off, the ECJ ruled.
A person can lose those rights, however, if an employer can prove that the employee was given ample opportunity to take vacation.
These rules particularly apply to workers whose employment contracts have either ended or were terminated.
The court rejected, however, any interpretation of its ruling that would encourage employees to refrain from taking their vacation days in order to secure compensation when their contract ends. They said that such action is "incompatible" with EU law on paid annual leave.
In a separate issue, the ECJ also confirmed that a worker's right to paid leave "does not lapse" when the person dies. The family members and heirs of the deceased are also entitled to compensation for the deceased employee's unused vacation time.
The most popular vacation destination for Germans is their own homeland. In 2015, 29 % of German holidaymakers spent their vacation in Germany. The most popular state to visit was Bavaria, with its attractions like the fairytale castle at Neuschwanstein and Oktoberfest. Still, it was a neck-and-neck race with the seaside of its northern counterpart, Mecklenburg-Pomerania.
German holidaymakers flock to Baltic Sea beaches; resorts with famous spa architecture such as in Sellin on Rügen, the biggest German Baltic Sea Island, are most popular. Despite more than 2000 kilometers (1242 m) of coastline in Mecklenburg-Pomerania, life's not only a beach there. It's home to untouched nature as well as the idyllic Hanseatic brick-gothic towns of Stralsund, Wismar and Rostock.
Still, two-thirds of the vacations taken by Germans land them abroad, with Spain topping the list of destinations. Olé! In 2015, beach and party holiday makers most frequented the Balearic Islands, like Mallorca (above), followed by the Canary Islands of Tenerife and Fuerteventura. Their popularity might actually grow this year as many avoid holidaying in northern Africa over security concerns.
Germans remained faithful to "bella Italia", making it the third most popular country destination for holiday makers in 2015. Most headed to central Italy, with its idyllic countryside and medieval cities of Tuscany, Umbria and Latium. It may get crowded, though, as outside of Rome, the country is wildly popular not just with German travelers but particularly with British holidaymakers too.
Protected coasts, turquoise-blue sea, some 400 beaches and excellent tourism infrastructure; Turkey has a lot to offer. It landed in fourth place in 2015 with German travelers. Very popular was the Turkish Riviera around Antalya. It remains to be seen if Turkey can keep this position in 2016 or if security concerns might help other sunny destinations like Bulgaria or Portugal make gains.
Clear air, secluded mountain pastures, fabulous views; Germany's neighbor Austria comfortably secured fifth place in the top ten holiday destinations of Germans in 2015. But over the long term there's been a steady decline of German visitors to the mountains, as just 8% (2005:10%, 1995:12%) took to the Alpine regions in France, Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Holidaying by the Mediterranean Sea has been a steadily growing trend. Croatia, once destroyed by war, is becoming increasingly popular with families seeking beach vacations offering crystal clear lakes, more than 1000 islands and picturesque old town centers, like Dubrovnik (pictured). The Balkan country has become the sixth most popular holiday destination for Germans, just ahead of France.
Whitewashed houses, sun, culture – Greece also made it into the top ten holiday destinations of Germans in 2015. The outlook for 2016 is far from certain. Bookings in the eastern Aegean Sea have plummeted due to the refugee crisis, while other Greek destinations like Crete and Corfu, according to leading travel company Tui, have seen continued gains.
France slipped to 8th place! With every seventh German holidaymaker staying away, the country has slid down its throne. Nevertheless the country of fashion and wine is still a popular vacation destination, as the joie de vivre drew holidaymakers to the Cote d'Azur, like Nice (pictured), with its culinary delights, fashionable beach promenades and the chance to explore coastal villages.
German vacationers are by far the greatest fans of Poland as they make up the biggest number of foreign visitors. The popular regions are Silesia with its metropolis Wrocław, or Breslau as Germans call it, Warmia and Mazury as well as the Pomeranian Bay on the Baltic. Poland also is a comparatively cheap holiday destination. This all earned it 9th place for the second consecutive year.
Coming in 10th is The Netherlands. Most holidays here are defined by beach fun at the North Sea, biking tours through tulip fields and passing windmills or spending time in the canal city of Amsterdam. Germans travelling to the Netherlands are changing their behavior though: in 2015 most preferred to come here for a short break rather than spending their main annual vacation in the Netherlands.
What were the cases?: Two of the cases involved the vacation days of deceased employees. Two widows requested compensation payments for the vacation time that their husbands were unable to take because they passed away. Germany's Federal Labor Court asked the ECJ whether the women have a right to the payouts under EU law, as German law doesn't grant them this right.
Another two cases out of Germany asked the question: Does vacation time expire if it isn't taken?
A legal trainee in Berlin who decided not to take vacation during the last five months of his traineeship petitioned for compensation for his vacation time. His employer argued that he wasn't restricted from taking the time off during his traineeship. Another case involved a former employee of the Max Planck Society who wanted to be compensated for 51 days of vacation that he hadn't taken in two years. His employer also argued that he wasn't stopped from taking the days.
German vacation time laws: Employees working five days a week in Germany are guaranteed at least 20 vacation days in a year. Depending on the contract, some are entitled to more. According to German law, vacation days must be taken within the year that they are issued. They can be carried over into the next year, but must be taken by the end of March.
Both German and EU law stipulate that unused vacation time cannot be paid out, with one exception — if the contract is terminated. German court rulings have gone a step further, saying that a person can only be compensated for their unused days if their application for vacation was rejected.
What happens next: German courts turned to the ECJ for guidance on vacation time rights under EU law. The EU rulings will now go back to the German courts, who will make a final ruling in the cases.
Known as a Schrebergarten, many urban-dwellers have a small garden plot outside the city where they can grow vegetables, relax, BBQ and enjoy the greenery. Germany's nearly 1 million garden plots - which began in the early 19th century to feed the poor - are strictly regulated. You may build a small house on your less than 400-square-meter plot but you can't move in and a portion must be planted.
There are well over 5,000 ice cream parlors in Germany and many are family-run by Italian immigrants. During the summer, you often have to wait for a table on the terrace. Besides just scooping popular flavors like vanilla, stracciatella and hazelnut, many parlors offer specialty dishes including "spaghetti ice cream." The sweet stuff is pressed into noodle form and topped with strawberry sauce.
There are some 7,000 public swimming pools in Germany and over half of them are so-called "free pools" - Freibäder. No, they're not free of charge; they're dubbed "free" because they located outdoors rather than in a hall (Hallenbad). While indoor pools are open all year, the Freibad is particularly popular during the summer months.
Though it's landlocked on three sides, Germany is home to countless lakes and many of them are suitable for swimming and boating. The Chiemsee lake in Germany's southeastern-most corner has good water quality and stretches of sandy beaches, which makes it particularly popular among summer swimmers and sunbathers. It's also Germany's third-largest lake - so it's never too overcrowded on peak days.
Summer is the season for music lovers in Germany. There's a festival practically every weekend - from rap to reggae. The photo is from Splash!, the country's largest hip hop festival, which takes place at an outdoor industrial museum. Wacken Open Air, the world's biggest heavy metal festival, and Hurricane, featuring alternative to mainstream sounds, are also highlights.
Over 12 million people visited Berlin last year, with nearly 40 percent coming from abroad. That means quite a few Germans journey to the capital as well. During the summer months, during school break, it's an opportunity to show young people from less urban regions where the government works - and do some serious shopping, of course. While Berlin winters are harsh, its summers tend to be sunny.
In 1812, Bavaria's King Maximilian I ruled that beer gardens could be set up in Munich for the first time, and the garden near the Augustinerkeller is considered the oldest. But since then, the outdoor pubs have become common all over the country and are a popular summer pastime after work and on weekends. With 8,000 seats, the Hirschgarten Biergarten in Munich (pictured) is the country's largest.
Visits to German cinemas have risen from 127.3 million in 2005 to 139.2 million in 2015 - largely due to new technology like 3D films. On particularly hot days, movie theaters are a needed refuge from the heat, and are a way to kill time on days off. Blockbusters like "The Legend of Tarzan," "Independence Day 2" and "Ghostbusters" have all opened in Germany this summer.
Germany is strewn with an extensive network of cycling paths that get extra use during the summer. They lead bikers into woods (like the Bavarian Forest), urban jungles (like the cycling "Autobahn" across the Ruhr region), and through agricultural delights, like the Ahr Valley path pictured here. The region is known for its hillside vineyards and red wine.
The Spanish island of Mallorca is often referred to as Germany's 17th state. Indeed, for millions of German vacationers - who lovingly refer to the sunny, sandy isle as "Malle" - it's practically a second home. For over 30,000 Germans, it is their home. That means visitors are bound to find all the comforts of home - from German-speaking staff to their favorite wurst - without the dreary weather. | 2019-04-19T13:09:27 | https://www.dw.com/en/eu-court-bolsters-vacation-time-rights/a-46168624?maca=en-rss-en-world-4025-rdf |
0.999999 | A teenager who had been given just two weeks to live before a heart transplant died after doctors misdiagnosed her with food poisoning while her body rejected the donor organ.
Jessica Brooks, 18, was rushed to hospital in January 2017 - almost a year after the heart transplant surgery which had 'transformed' her life.
The family of the 'wonderful and happy' student was told by staff at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, Kent, she was suffering from gastroenteritis, food poisoning, and later sepsis.
But she died the same day, with a post mortem later discovering her body had been rejecting the donor heart.
An internal hospital report into the teenager's death revealed that nurses had pleaded with medics to assess her - but they failed to treat her for several hours.
It read: 'Despite multiple attempts by the nursing staff, there was a significant delay in a doctor attending the unit.
Jessica's mother launched a legal battle against Medway NHS Trust and according to the family's lawyer, no doctors assessed the teenager for organ rejection, leading to her 'needless and avoidable death'.
Distraught mother Emily who held her 'wonderful' daughter during her last moments said she believed Jessica would still be alive if she wasn't misdiagnosed.
'I've been told that if she had been diagnosed properly she may still be here today,' she explained.
'She would have received her anti-rejection medication and my wonderful daughter may well still be alive here with me.
'I went home from the hospital to change my clothes and have a bite to eat and told them to call me if something happened.
The mother launched a legal battle and claimed she told hospital staff that her daughter wasn't responding to drugs.
She said: 'It's incredible that they could have got the diagnosis and her treatment so wrong, despite me repeatedly telling them that Jess wasn't keeping down her anti-rejection medication and she needed it.
'One doctor said that they were used to dealing with kidney transplants, but not heart transplants.
'I think about Jess every day and now all of the legal stuff is almost over hopefully I will be able to grieve. Jess is irreplaceable and her loss has left a gaping hole in my life.
Jessica was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy when she was 15-years-old.
The disease causes the heart muscle to become stretched and thin, so it cannot pump blood around the body effectively.
She underwent surgery and was given a donor heart in February 2016 but was rushed to hospital after vomiting for three days the following January.
The teenager who was described as a 'fighter' passed away at the hospital the same day she was admitted.
Emily said: 'When Jessica had a heart transplant it changed her life and I will be forever grateful for the extra year it gave her.
'She was full of energy again. Three days after her transplant she was on the exercise bike. Beforehand she had been struggling to walk up the stairs.
'When the fluid retention from the operation went down she started to look like a normal young woman again.
'I had my baby for another year that we wouldn't have otherwise had thanks to organ donation. We got to watch her be healthy and happy for a whole extra year.
'We watched her run, climb, fall in love, have parties for no reason, eat her favourite foods and tell her that I loved her many many times.
Jessica's sister Abbigail Brooks-Barry, 20, described her younger sister as a 'fighter' and said: 'We had an extra year with her and I'm glad I got to tell her I loved her.
'Jess was a fighter. She fought for her life more times than anyone should. She was always smiling and happy.
Medway NHS Trust admitted liability in a civil claim and has apologised to Jessica's family.
James Devine, chief executive of the trust said: 'We would like to again offer our sincere condolences to Jessica's family for their tragic loss. | 2019-04-20T18:53:56 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6912905/Teenage-transplant-patient-died-medics-mistook-body-rejecting-organ-food-poisoning.html |
0.999998 | What's the origin of the phrase, "X, threat or menace"?
My memory tells me it's the Simpsons (more specifically, a Kent Brockman news report), but my memory tells me a lot of things that turn out not to be true.
It's the editorial stance of Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson towards Spider-Man.
I believe "Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?" has appeared as a headline in the Bugle in the comics on multiple occasions, and it's in the first movie.
up this thread. which points to "Reefer Madness" as a probable source of the phrase, or maybe a film called "Marijuana: Threat or Menace" .
"threat or menace" plus "?"--thus, as a joke--I recall it from the Harvard Lampoon in the sixties. Later swiped and used regularly by the National Lampoon.
I'm pretty sure mr_roboto is right. According to this page (warning: your eyes will bleed) it appears in second appearance of Spider-Man ever, in 1963.
One of the big issues, Spider-Man #300 or something from around 1980, plays with this amusingly. Jameson sets up the famous headline, having nothing better to do for the morning. Doctor Octopus decides to hold the city ransom, or millions of citizens will die. Over the course of the comic book, the same next morning's front page is redone perhaps five times, reflecting this breaking story.
Spidey figures out that Doc Ock's delivery mechanism for the poison is the ink in the Daily Bugle. When this plot is foiled, Jameson wants to run a headline explaining that Doc Ock was thinking of poisoning Daily Bugle readers. His assistant editor explains that this will be bad for sales. Back to "Spider-man: Threat or Menace?"
Comic ends with Jameson skulking by a newsstand next day in the rain. "Why you gotta do this?" complains the newsie. "Every time you run this Spider-man stuff, sales go in the toilet."
I'd bet any 1960s Harvard Lampoon usage came after the 1963 Jameson/Spider-Manusage that boosted the phrase into wider popcult use. But that thread about the possibility of a 1953 marijuana film is interesting, too, if inconclusive. That could be where the Marvel folks got the phrase. Maybe they were even spoofing it a little.
In the actual the rec.arts.comic thread, opinions are divided. The guy claiming he can't find the phrase used before 1980? Kurt Busiek! | 2019-04-20T23:31:04 | https://ask.metafilter.com/35928/Amnesia-Threat-or-Menace |
0.999814 | Add a little carrot juice and orange juice to a cup of milk. Rub this mixture daily on a face scarred with smallpox marks and they may disappear gradually.
1. Rub a rind of lemon over your face if you have an oily skin and this will lessen grease and whiten your complexion.
2. Mix the juice of one lemon to two tablespoons of milk or cream. Apply this on your face and neck and massage for a few minutes. Then rinse off. Do this daily before going to bed. It helps to bleach your face and keep your hands soft and supple.
3. Take a teaspoon of lime juice and stir in half a teaspoon of honey and a few drops of milk. Mix well and apply over your face and neck fifteen minutes before you take your bath. This lotion will have a mild bleaching effect on a greasy skin, which because of its excessive oil may be rather sallow.
4. To one tablespoon of cucumber juice, stir in a few drops of lime juice and a dash of turmeric powder. Mix well and apply over your face and neck. Leave it on for half an hour and then remove it with ordinary tap water. This lotion makes an excellent whitener for all types of skin.
5. Cut tomatoes in half and rub over the face. This is useful for toning up and whitening the skin and refining the pores.
6. To cleanse the face, soak a piece of cotton wool in unboiled milk and rub the face with it gently from the chin upwards to the forehead.
7. Mix a teaspoonful of turmeric powder with cream, sandal powder and bengal gram flour and make into a paste and apply once a day for about half an hour before a bath. This is an excellent beauty aid to keep the face fresh and soft.
8. Grate and squeeze juice out of a small piece of watermelon. Apply it on your face and leave it on for about fifteen minutes. Then wash with hot water and splash on some cold water. This lotion not only freshens up the skin but also clears the skin of its blemishes.
9. Grind a few cabbage leaves and extract the juice. Dissolve a little yeast in it and to this add a teaspoon of honey. Mix well and apply it thickly over your face and neck and leave it on for fifteen minutes. Then remove with cotton wool soaked in water. This is an excellent remedy for counter-acting dry skin.
10. To close pores that are open, rub ice wrapped in cotton wool gently on the face.
11. Add a little carrot juice and orange juice to a cup of milk. Rub this mixture daily on a face scarred with smallpox marks and they may disappear gradually.
12. To remove dead skin from the face, apply a mixture of glycerine, lime juice and sugar and rub gently. | 2019-04-25T16:28:45 | https://www.hindustantimes.com/health-and-fitness/some-beauty-hints/story-gnjpFZUIKCnFgsQEWxxIUL.html |
0.999817 | A cold-blooded animal; that is, an organism that regulates its body temperature largely by exchanging heat with its environment; such as, a reptile, amphibian, or fish.
1. Fluctuation in body temperature in response to temperature changes in the environment which is characteristic of all animals except mammals and birds.
2. Deriving body heat from the sun and other external sources.
An instrument that measures temperatures during oil-well temperature surveying.
It has a thermocouple, resistance wire, or thermistor as the temperature-sensitive element.
An instrument which utilizes an electrical precess to measure temperature; such as, a thermocouple or resistance thermometer.
A thermocouple is a thermoelectric device used to measure temperatures accurately, especially one consisting of two dissimilar metals joined so that a potential difference generated between the points of contact is a measure of the temperature difference between the points.
One junction is at the temperature to be measured, the second is at a fixed temperature. The electromotive force generated depends upon the temperature difference.
1. A thermometer in which the sensing electrical element is a resistor whose resistance is an accurately known function of temperature.
2. Temperature sensors that exploit the predictable change in electrical resistance of some materials with changing temperatures.
1. A thermometer that uses a transducing element (a device that converts an input signal of one form into an output signal of a different form) whose element properties are a function of its thermal state.
2. A thermometer that uses thermoelectric current to measure temperature.
3. An instrument which utilizes an electrical means to measure temperature; such as, a thermocouple or resistance thermometer.
4. A thermometer indicating temperature variations by means of electrical current flowing through a circuit in which a galvanometer is inserted.
The sensitive element can be an electrical resistance whose value changes with temperature, or a thermocouple (formed by two soldered metals), which also generates specific quantities of current at different temperatures.
A electronic instrument that can instantly register the body temperature of a person when it is placed in an ear.
A patient's temperature can be taken while he or she is asleep and the patient will rarely be aware of the procedure because, among other technologies, it provides an active-user feedback light, and guiding proper probe positioning.
One electronic ear thermometer manufacturer claims that this device offers professional accuracy with proven speed, accuracy and ease of use, and it measures temperature in the ear in just one second, and then beeps when it is ready to be read.
A memory function displays the last eight temperatures taken and it also features an easy-to-read LCD-display which indicates the temperature in either Celsius or Fahrenheit, an auto shut-off after two minutes, and a lens filter ejector.
The part of the thermal conductivity resulting from the transfer of thermal energy by means of electrons and holes (mobile vacancies that act like positive electronic charges with positive masses).
1. A battery-powered thermometer that registers temperature with electronic procedures with a heat-sensitive metal tip that is placed in the mouth and a computer chip electronically reads and displays the temperature in digital format.
2. A thermometer that uses a sensor, usually a thermistor, which is placed on or near an object which is being measured.
3. An instrument which is used to measure a temperature that operates with the action of an electronic sensor which is positioned next to the substance being measured.
2. An electric blanket containing resistance heaters for heating body tissue and relieving pain.
3. A reference to the production of heat from electricity.
4. An apparatus that generates heat electrically for application to the surface of a body to relieve pain.
1. Relating to both electricity and heat, particularly to heat produced by electrical current.
2. A reference to an electric blanket containing resistance heaters for heating tissue and relieving pain.
3. A reference to both heat and electricity; in particular, pertaining to the conversion of electrical energy into heat energy.
4. The heating effect of electric current, or the electric current produced by heat.
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0.999999 | Also there is a connection to Edmund Taylor Boyton. How?
I am also trying to trace back from Edmund Taylor Boyton (my great grandfather) and William Coutts Boyton but I have reached a dead end.
I am tracing the ancestors of my great grandmother Blanche Boyton (or Boynton) who was Anglo-Indian and married Charles Cosmo Clark in 1893 in Madras. Would also be interested in any CLARKS who have Charles Cosmos Clark in their ancestry. I would like to find out the names of her ancestors and where Blanche was born. I do hope to hear from anyone who has any history of these names.
Blanche BOYTON married Charles Cosmo CLARK in 1893 in Madras. | 2019-04-21T10:10:24 | https://anglofamilytrees.com/boyton_family_tree.htm |
0.999999 | As I patiently wait for the next Destiny expansion to launch next week, I found myself looking for a short game that I could complete in one or two sittings. This list from Kotaku was exactly what I needed and, after looking at a few, I landed on Valley. The premise of an archaeologist on the hunt for a powerful artifact turned into a surprisingly deep story, but the fast and fluid movement I saw in a few video clips is what really piqued my interest.
Valley may have its best mechanics in a half-realized state, but it’s definitely a good way to spend a few hours.
Valley, a sprint with a few stumbles, is a game that should be on everyone’s radar.
TL;DR: Excellent movement, the ability to give or take life with the press of a button, and a wonderful soundtrack make Valley a fun adventure.
As I mentioned in my opening, the main character of Valley is an archaeologist on the hunt for an artifact of unimaginable power known as the Lifeseed. It’s unclear what time period the game takes place in, as you’ll find military installations from WWII that the nameless protagonist wonders at, or exactly where the game is located. More of the story unfolds as you play through WWII-style audio reels a la Bioshock and it becomes surprisingly deep. I was way more interested in the story by the game’s end than I thought I would be.
The true star of the show isn’t our main character, though. No, that distinction goes to the L.E.A.F. suit, an exoskeleton left behind by a military testing program. With the suit, Valley basically turns into a first-person Sonic the Hedgehog game as you can run at crazy speeds and jump incredibly high. Running downhill gives you an even larger speed boost which can propel you off ramped surfaces, sending you gliding through the air where you have a high degree of control for precision landings. The most fun you’ll have in Valley is during high agility segments where you can chain together sprinting, jumping, and soaring.
Valley packs one more main mechanic into the L.E.A.F. suit — the God Hand. Using the power of “amrita”, or life energy, you can point a hand at any dead plant or animal and breathe life into it. Trees will sprout leaves and animals will get up off the ground as if they were only taking a nap. You can also drain life from living things with similar ease. This life and death mechanic, while interesting, is sadly underutilized. Energy required to give life can be drained from other living things, but there is such a plentiful amount found by just moving around that you hardly ever have to use the “take life” action. You will use the “give life” action quite a bit, typically on barren trees instead of on a mixture of plant life. As far as I can tell, any animals you bring back to life are purely aesthetic. I would have loved to see a more in-depth system for energy use where you have to give and take life to and from things on the fly to solve complex puzzles. I do love the idea behind the God Hand, though.
The idea behind life energy comes up again when you die. In order to respawn, some of the life is drained from your surroundings in order to pay for your resurrection. “Life must be traded for life”, the witch from season one of Game of Thrones the game says. If you die while the health of the valley is at zero, it’s game over. Again, this is an idea that sounds better on paper since it’s pretty tough to die in Valley. Over my roughly four hours of play, I probably died five or six times. There were more than enough trees scattered around for me to nurse the land back to 100% health within minutes of each death.
Valley also decides to throw some combat at you every now and again in the form of amrita swarms, creatures so drained of energy that they mindlessly attack you. In order to pacify them, you simply shoot life energy at them. There are three or four enemy types in the game, each of which can be dealt with by strafing to avoid their fire as you pump them full of energy. It may fit into the narrative of the game, but it feels out of place. Valley is at its best when you are moving and flowing, not when you have to slow down to aim.
In typical adventure game fashion, Valley has some goodies hidden away for you to discover. Suit upgrades like a double jump and grappling hook make movement even more enjoyable. Launching off a ramp after sprinting downhill into a grapple that sends you flying is a hell of a good time. Item-gated doors are replaced with acorn-gated doors. Yes, really. Acorns act as a key/currency system for certain doors in the game which typically house an energy storage upgrades behind them. There are also medallions scattered around the world that grant entry to an ancient pyramid found near the end of the game. I was only able to get through one of the few doors in the pyramid with my 38 medallions.
Despite some shortcomings and half-realized ideas, Valley is definitely a fun game. The pure speed and freedom of movement offered by the L.E.A.F. suit are things you don’t see often, plus everything certainly looks pretty when it’s whizzing by you at full sprint. Smaller details, like changing shadows when you give and take life from a tree and dust clouds when you land from a high jump, are nice to see, too.
One undeniable success of Valley is the soundtrack. I’ve always said that a game’s soundtrack is typically only recognizable when it’s on the very good or very bad end of the spectrum and Valley is 100% the former. Whether it’s the happy Disney-esque tones that play at high speed or the creeping horror of a dark cave, the audio designers at Blue Isle Studios deserve a pat on the back.
The world designers also deserve some recognition. Your HUD has a horizontal scrolling compass, but I hardly used it due to the excellent placement of signs within the game telling me that area X was this way or room #N was that way. Valley may be pretty linear, but the setting changes between the wilderness, caves, ruins, and outposts combined with the reliance on in-world direction over a pause menu map keep you engaged.
Views like this keep you engaged, too.
Valley has a handful of enjoyable mechanics that, despite feeling incomplete, make for a good game. Giving and taking life with a wave of your hand isn’t as powerful or important as it could be. The idea of taking life from your surrounding to respawn is smart but hollow due to the plentiful resources in the world. I still give Valley a thumbs up, though. I hope Blue Isle Studios can take the best parts of Valley — the excellent movement, the wonderful soundtrack, and the ideas of giving/taking life from your surroundings — to make an even better game in the future. | 2019-04-19T00:27:54 | https://pixelvallee.com/2016/09/16/valley-ps4-review/ |
0.999968 | 1. Rinse meat, put into a saucepan and just cover with warm water.
2. Add vinegar and 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar.
3. Slowly bring to the boil, skim surface and simmer, covered, for 2 1/2 hours or until tender.
4. Transfer beef to a greased baking dish.
5. Combine breadcrumbs, remaining brown sugar, parsley and enough melted butter to moisten.
6. Press evenly over fat surface of beef and bake in moderate oven 180-190°C (350-375°F) for 30-40 minutes until crust is golden brown.
7. When cooked place on serving platter and serve with vegetables and Wine Sauce.
1. Melt the butter, add flour and stir for 2 minutes.
2. Slowly stir in the wine and cook, stirring constantly until almost boiling.
3. Add jelly, mustard, salt and pepper and simmer, stirring until jelly has melted. | 2019-04-19T09:34:25 | http://cookitsimply.com/recipe-0010-07033q.html |
0.999886 | Who doesn't love breakfast? The recipe below outlines how to grill French toast right on your grill grates, the results are tasty! You can also grill French toast on a griddle just like you would if you were making it inside on your stove. Take your coffee outside and get grilling!
1. In a large bowl whisk the eggs, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, sugar, and salt. Arrange the bread in one layer in a large baking dish and pour the egg mixture over the bread. Let the bread stand for 10 minutes at room temperature, turning the bread occasionally so that all the slices get a chance to sit in the liquid on both sides.
2. Prepare the grill for direct cooking over medium-low heat (about 350°F).
3. Brush the cooking grates clean. Tip one slice of bread on its side so that any extra liquid runs off. Spray both sides with the oil and then place on the grill. Repeat with the remaining slices. Grill over direct medium-low heat, with the lid closed as much as possible, until firm on both sides and golden brown, 6 to 8 minutes, turning once. Remove from the grill and dust with confectioners’ sugar. Serve immediately with butter and syrup. | 2019-04-19T12:46:54 | https://www.weber.com/US/en/blog/grilling-inspiration/how-to-grill-french-toast/weber-29611.html |
0.999086 | The back handspring landing on the stomach is a little easier than the normal back handspring, because you don't have to keep your upper body that tight and you don't really have to push with your arms. A lot of people learn the back handspring with stomach landing before they even try a regular gymnastic back handspring. There are 2 variations of this technique: 1) The martial arts back handspring stomach landing => You hollow your back and roll down on your chest. 2) The gymnastic back handspring stomach landing => You keep your entire body straight and almost land on your hands and the balls of your feet at the same time. The gymnastics variation is a lot harder. Try the one rolling don on your chest first. Find detailed instructions for artistic gymnastics at gymnastics main.
Stand upright with your legs closed and look straight forward.
When you do a back handspring, you should not strike out with your upper body and your arms too much, and you should also not bend your knees too much. But most people learn the back handspring stomach landing before the real back handspring. That's why form is not that important yet. However, here is what you should try: Keep you upper body vertical, and don't strike out below horizontal level. Jump back up and push your hips up.
Then plant your hands and look down to the floor.
Hollow your back and bend your arms slowly. Roll down on your chest. I recommend you practice the handstand rolling down on your chest before you try this in a back handspring.
If you want to the gymnastics variation of the b-handspring stomach landing, you should learn the back flip and the normal back handspring first. For the gymnastics variation you timing has to be very good. The risk of injuring your toes or your hands is a lot higher. When you learn the gymnastics variation, I recommend you start off with a piked landing position and later try to land with your entire body fully extended.
Don't try this on hard ground right away. Practice on mats!
Exercise: Do a handstand, hollow your back and then roll down on your chest. Once you can do this, try the back handspring landing on the stomach on mats.
The gymnastics variation of the back handspring stomach landing is an excellent preparation for the back flip twist. Basically jump from a trampoline and land on your stomach. Make sure you keep your body fully extended and twist shortly before you land. | 2019-04-20T03:18:41 | https://www.flashmavi.com/gymnastics_floor_back_handspring_landing_on_the_stomach |
0.999998 | Anyone who's looking into a long-term, higher-paying career will investigate the types of college degrees that can achieve it. What can be confusing is the degree names and abbreviations. For example, there's a huge difference between the "Associate of Arts (A.A.)" and the "Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.)" degree. Although the A.A. and A.A.S. degrees are each a two-year degree, more than ever, the fast track to a career is the Associate of Applied Science.
The "hands-on," ready-for-work degree is the A.A.S. This degree is for those who have a laser focus on learning a skill or technology. The "learning" comes almost entirely in the "doing," and most of it happens in simulated work place environments right on campus.
A recreational therapist typically has a bachelor's (four-year degree) and an annual median salary of $46,410.
A graduate of an A.A.S. (two-year degree) program, such as occupational therapy assistant, earns a median salary of $56,000.
It's easy to miss the difference for the two-year degrees, so let's break out "associate degree" and show what the two types cover.
Both the Associate of Arts (A.A.) and the Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degrees are two-year degrees, but their purposes are very different. Think of the A.A. as a starter degree that leads to knowledge within a subject and the A.A.S. as a degree for those who want to enter a specialized workforce as soon as possible.
The coursework for students in A.A.S. degree program is hands-on and involves time in laboratory and clinical settings that are specific to the degree program. For example, a student who wants to become a radiologic technologist would spend time in the radiology lab and doing fieldwork in real-world clinical settings. This is much different than a student in an A.A. degree program that is attending lecture courses and taking general education classes that will could later be applied to a bachelor's degree.
What are other types of college degrees?
A bachelor's degree can be a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) or a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) This degree can take from three to five years to complete and requires at least 120 credit hours of coursework. A bachelor's degree is necessary to enter a graduate degree program.
A master's degree follows a bachelor's degree. It's either a Master of Science (M.S.) or a Master of Arts (M.A.) and takes one to two years of additional study. Some jobs require it or indicate it's needed for career advancement or higher pay grades. For most technical fields, this is not the case.
The Ph.D., and any "doctor" level health care degree, are the highest the academic degrees. Non-health care Ph.D.'s may require a research thesis. Those accepted into a professional school like chiropractic, medicine, or dentistry apply for admission after earning a bachelor's degree.
Associate of Arts (A.A.) is typically set up for completing foundational coursework necessary for a four-year (bachelor's degree) or transferring to another college or university.
Associate of Applied Science degree(A.A.S.) is a two-year degree that meets requirements for specific skill sets in the workplace. It also helps ensures eligibility for various industry certification or registration required by those employers.
Up until the growth of 2-year degrees, the B.A. and B.S. were the common choices after high school. These indicate knowledge in a particular field but is not always job specific. Only about 30-36 hours are in an emphasis area.
Someone with a master's degree has shown mastery of a field of study or academic area. Generally, this is the same field as the bachelor's degree. A master's thesis may be required.
Those in non-health care fields earn a Ph.D. Those with a professional doctorate use their knowledge to in a business or occupation.
Employer confidence in specific skills and abilities.
What's the right degree for you? It's a very personal decision. Envision your best future, then choose the degree option that matches it.
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0.999791 | Filling in the IT skills gap is at the top of the list of CIOs' worries, one industry association leader finds.
Every business comes with its own unique challenges for IT leaders, but some CIO concerns are shared by IT organizations in enterprises of all sizes.
Todd Thibodeaux, president and CEO at Downers Grove, Ill.-based CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association), recently spent time traveling and speaking with CIOs throughout the United States. He found that the IT skills gap and a dearth of project managers are at the top of a familiar list of woes. Here he reveals the top five issues keeping CIOs up at night.
Project managers have become so vital in ... IT organizations that CIOs are recognizing an IT skills gap in this area.
"When I asked CIOs, 'If I could give you a silver bullet tomorrow, what would you do to improve or mitigate the IT skills gap within your company?' far and away the No. 1 thing CIOs said was this: 'I would put another person in my HR department who is specifically dedicated to recruiting for me,'" Thibodeaux said. "CIOs said that right now what's happening is that you have the recruiters and the people who are searching out candidates within their organizations. They're trying to find salespeople, they're trying to find marketing people, and IT has fallen rungs down the rack. They're just not getting the attention that they need," he said.
"Project managers have become so vital in midmarket and enterprise IT organizations that CIOs are recognizing an IT skills gap in this area. It's a challenge to bring people in and train them in project management," Thibodeaux said. "Being able to carry projects through [to completion] is a big key because CIOs are being asked to do so much now with business optimization, with [business] project work and the whole mobility space."
"CIOs want new blood, but they're having a hard time socializing younger generations into the organization, specifically if they're remote," Thibodeaux said. "Gen X and Gen Y, or Millennial, workers want a sense of community and they want to be part of something. A lot of the time [CIOs] are having a hard time recruiting these younger workers into remote positions because they want to come into an office setting and be part of something."
"A top concern is still definitely around security," Thibodeaux said. "We hear that all the time, so it's a little bit of a broken record in terms of people not finding professionals who understand security issues."
In the future, midmarket CIOs' greatest desire will be for "people who understand the mobile app infrastructure. Not necessarily developers, but people who understand how these things work, how they work on mobile devices," Thibodeaux said. "And that's not just a security issue; it's a productivity issue and it's a provisioning issue. It's because they're handing out more devices now and a lot of these devices are on mobile data plans, so being able to manage that and optimize the contracts is important," he said. "With BYOD [bring your own device] you have plans on multiple carriers, so having people who can manage that whole spectrum just from a device-usage standpoint has become a real headache." | 2019-04-26T12:24:18 | https://searchcio.techtarget.com/tip/Filling-IT-skills-gap-and-managing-projects-top-list-of-CIO-concerns |
0.756829 | Another ancient prediction come true. This one from June 1993, an idea I had and developed with my colleague Chris Winter. Simple idea, just link a video camera on the front door to the network so you can screen people remotely for entry.
To summarise, the videophone intercom is a device located at a household front door. A caller would push the button, whereupon an autodialler would call up the resident at his remote location (e.g. at work). The resident would then be able to identify the caller, check ID, and then arrange access if appropriate.
The cost of video cameras on chips has fallen dramatically – in bulk, they can shortly be obtained for as little as £10. Many users will soon have videophones on their desks or at home. Autodiallers and intercom systems can also be made very cheaply. The whole system cost could therefore be quite low. Such devices would offer a much higher level of security than simple audio systems. The number to be dialled could be changed remotely.
Useful additions might be to add a video terminal or phone inside the house, perhaps even just on the inside of the door to give enhanced security before opening the door to a stranger. There need be no way of telling from the door whether the resident is using his home display or a remote videophone.
There are equivalent other industrial uses, such as remotely manning a salesroom or stores.
People use emotions and rational thinking in parallel. There is a clear role for each. Emotions create a driving force towards a goal, and rational thinking works best to figure out the best strategy to achieve it. So, you see a delicious cake that you’d very much like to eat, emotional bit complete. Your rational thinking kicks in and works out that you need to enter the shop, indicate your choice, hand over some cash and then take the cake and bite into it. Your rational thinking also interrupts with some possibly relevant queries – is it good value compared to the one next to it that looks just as nice? Do you have your best suit on and is it likely to ruin it? How many calories might it be? That sort of thing is a typical everyday challenge we all face and a well-developed brain allows emotions and rationality to work in perfect harmony to add pleasure to our day within our means. Emotions and intellect should also work in harmony when we are faced with danger or unpleasant situations such as seeing others in danger or suffering.
This last few months, we’ve all seen the trauma suffered by millions of refugees from tribal and religious wars in the Middle East and Africa, and most of us want to help them. The photo of the drowned toddler this week made lots of people suddenly very emotional, but in response to their resultant wave of competitive emoting and sometimes quite sickening sanctimony, the rest of us might reasonably inquire firstly why these people didn’t care beforehand like the rest of us and secondly why they think that the best way to respond is to switch off their brains. People have been suffering years, not just this last week. One toddler death is very sad but so are the many thousands of deaths beforehand that didn’t get photographed. And the way to avoid future deaths isn’t necessarily to do the very first thing that pops into your head.
With its well-established values, the UK was culturally-emotionally driven to help and has done more to actually help so far than any other European country, including giving 50% more to help refugees so far than Germany. Cameron often makes idiotic decisions, but he is right this time that the best way to help is not to let everyone into Britain but instead to contribute heavily to making effective safe havens and refugee centers near the refugee sources, e.g Syria. This is by far the best policy for a number of reasons.
Doing that helps genuine refugees. The inhabitants of refugee camps are far more likely to be genuinely fleeing from danger and in need of protection, far less likely to be economic migrants.
They are also far less likely to be ISIS terrorists trying to get entry to Europe to cause trouble, or criminals fleeing from justice than those fighting their way through train stations and disobeying police.
Better still, the UK policy helps the most vulnerable refugees – the old and the frail and the too young or too afraid to make the journey all the way to Northern Europe. Some of the most vulnerable will be allowed to come to Britain from those refugee centres.
The UK policy also helps genuine refugees without contributing to ISIS and the other likely destinations of the people traffickers fees. Each migrant squeezed onto an unsafe boat is another £2000 to a terrorist or criminal group, making the problem worse.
Using refugee centers and safe havens near to their own country avoids some of the long term problems associated with immigration to a foreign land, such as cultural conflicts.
Best of all, the UK policy of taking people from the camps and refusing those that have made the long and perilous journey to demand entry discourages people from taking that risk and therefore reduces the problem. Fewer toddlers will drown if people realize that it is best for their family to stay put than to take a huge risk to travel to a closed door.
More and more people would want to come if they realize that the door to a better life is wide open.
The number of deaths would sharply increase as more and more criminal gangs and terrorist groups start trafficking.
Greater revenue would flow to ISIS and other terrorist and criminal groups, increasing their power and consequent problems in the countries people are fleeing from.
Allowing in those that made the journey might look charitable but actually it protects the strong rather than the weak. The weak could not come. Why allow a fit young man entry and deny a pregnant mother who wasn’t able to make the trip? Surely the young man should have stayed to fight to protect his vulnerable compatriots instead of fleeing for his own safety?
The number of terrorists and criminals entering among ordinary migrants and refugees would greatly increase (ISIS has already stated its guidance to followers try to enter the UK to commit terrorist acts here) leading to greatly increased security problems here, and resulting in probable backlash against genuine refugees, making it worse here for genuine refugees as well as the rest of us. Levels of crime and terrorism would increase greatly. (One of the reasons Saudi Arabia and some other Middle Eastern countries have stated why they won’t accept refugees is because terrorists and criminals are likely to try to hide in their midst.) I have previously estimated the likely scale of ISIS type terrorism in the UK and it is a big potential problem indeed. Increasing the numbers of supporters, recruits and even actual terrorists won’t help.
The numbers of economic migrants would also greatly increase. If the sheer weight of numbers of migrants coupled to political pressure from emotional activists means that no clear distinction is made between genuine refuges and all the others, then most people in the developing world might soon consider Europe an attractive option. There is no upper limit to migrant numbers until Europe is reduced in attractiveness to levels similar to migrant countries of origin.
Low-paid workers in host countries would find even greater downward pressure on wages, resulting in greater unemployment and poverty. Homeless people would find it harder to get homes. Sick people would find it harder to get access to medical care. All citizens would see greater pressure on public services and infrastructure. There are already significant conflicts throughout Europe between immigrant communities and host societies due to resource competition, and these would increase greatly as immigrant numbers put high pressure on infrastructure, public services and welfare. Cultural conflict is increasing too, especially with Islamic immigrant communities. Racial and religious conflict would increase.
The result would be a broken society, with increased poverty, increased crime and terrorism, decreased safety and security for everyone, increased social conflict, greater racism, and the inevitable rise of extremist groups on both sides.
We need immigrants. We don’t educate enough doctors or engineers (or many other worker groups) so we need to fill posts with people from overseas. That need won’t go away. However, with very limited spare capacity in our already overpopulated country, we should limit normal immigration to those people we need and just a few others.
On top of that, humanity demands that we do our best to help people in need elsewhere. Obviously we don’t have enough resources to make everyone in the world wealthy so we must do what we can using our foreign aid budget and personal donations to whatever charities we think do a good job. Where people are displaced due to conflict, we should do what we can to give them safe havens, preferably without building instability and making future problems worse. Using our own and allied military to provide no-fly zones can make swathes of a country safer. UN peacekeeping forces could also be used if need be to protect people in those zones. That allows people to stay in their own country or an adjacent one with similar culture. Costs of providing and managing safe havens could be shared across all the rich nations, reducing unwillingness of potential host nations to offer them.
It is not always necessary to offer full immigration to people just to give them safe haven. Asylum should be reserved for those who genuinely cannot stay where they are, and where a problem is temporary, such as conflict, asylum could also be temporary. There is no reason to confuse short term and long term solutions.
A refugee stops being a refugee once they have found a safe refuge. If they carry on beyond that because another country offers a higher standard of living, they become an economic migrant and should only retain refugee status in that first safe country. It is good policy to ensure that refugees register in the first safe country they come to and Europe should enforce that policy and Europe should choose where to house them, not allow or encourage people to shop around for the best deal. It is entirely possible for the costs of providing them with safe refuge could be distributed among richer nations, wherever they are actually placed. Where asylum in another country is appropriate, asylum seekers should be welcomed as far as socio-economic capacity allows. Few people object to hosting and welcoming genuine asylum seekers.
Economic migrants should apply for immigration according to normal procedures. Those trying to jump the queue by forcing their way in, demonstrating and resisting police, clearly have little respect for the laws and well-being of the countries they wish to enter and should be returned to where they came from and barred from future entry. Looking at the very high proportion of healthy young men among the occasional refugee family, women and children, it is clear that this group represents most of the number currently migrating. Most are not genuine refugees but economic migrants. It is easy to understand that they want a better and wealthier life, hard to see why they should be preferred as an immigrant over a law-abiding and highly skilled alternative. Queue-jumping should result in being put to the back of the queue.
With properly managed policy, safe havens would protect refugees. Those in need of asylum could be provided with it, the rest protected where they are, or even returned to safe havens if they do not properly qualify. With economic migrants turned away and barred from future entry, the numbers attempting the journey would reduce, and with it the number of deaths and the support for terrorist groups.
In closing, I don’t think I have said much that hasn’t been said many times, but adding to the weight of such comment offsets to a small degree to over-emotional and counter-productive sanctimony I see every night on the news. In short, we should do what we can do to help people in danger and distress, but we won’t do that by creating problems in our own country.
Knee-jerk emotional responses that are socially, economically and even militarily unsustainable such as tearing down national boundaries and letting everyone in who has made the journey to our door will make things a lot worse for everyone.
Open your heart and your wallet and help, like the UK has, but don’t switch your brain off, as Germany and others advocate. Germany is not for the first time making Europe a more dangerous place, ironically due to a national guilt trip on account of the previous occasions. | 2019-04-20T06:57:18 | https://timeguide.wordpress.com/2015/09/ |
0.998281 | Where do bubbles in wine come from?
What is sparkling wine, most commonly (and incorrectly) referred to as champagne? What causes the bubbles in wine?
There are several reasons and/or methods for having bubbles in wine. Bubbles may occur in wine by accident or on purpose. Bubbles in wine are a result of sugar in the bottle beginning to ferment and the resulting carbon dioxide being "trapped". A byproduct of fermentation is the emission of carbon dioxide gas (CO2). Typically during fermentation this gas is allowed to escape through an open container. The buildup of carbon dioxide in the bottle with no way to escape creates a buildup of gas pressure, generally 60+ pounds per square inch. This build up of pressure creates gas bubbles, or sparkle. There are variances in the amount of atmospheric pressure in a bottle of sparkling wine depending on region and style, prossecco vs. Champagne for example, but we'll stick with general statements and averages for this discussion.
The accidental sparkling of wine is usually a result of a wine that was not fermented to dryness being put in a bottle in which there are still active yeast. The yeast may be active because they were a)not filtered out using a sterile filter and b)not killed/made dormant by dramatically cooling the wine and keeping it cool or c)not killed/made dormant by use of (any or enough) sanitizing agents, most commonly sulfites. This is problematic because when bubbles occur without being planned for the wines are typically in traditional bottles with no protection to keep the cork in place. These bottles may explode or the corks may be expelled from the bottle. These results are dangerous and messy, particularly if they occur in the cellar or kitchen of an unknowing customer. A cork may be expelled from a bottle of sparkling wine at 40+ miles an hour. Would it kill you? Not likely. Could it damage an eye beyond repair, go through a window or cause damage to other bottles of wine? Certainly.
Accidental sparkling wine is a result of error and/or lack of a sterile environment in production. It is a flaw. It is not dangerous and it doesn't mean the wine is ruined. There are a few options. Dump the wine back into a fermentation safe container and let this accidental fermentation run its course. Rebottle a still wine once the process is complete. Or, the "errors" may be covered up - pretend it was intentional - and the wine rebottled into a safe container and marketed as a sparkling wine. Bubbles in wine are very popular and there would most likely be a market for this, particularly if the wine is white or pink.
A wine may be carbonated intentionally through multiple avenues. The "traditional method," often referred to as méthode champenoise, is the oldest and most authentic way to create a sparkling wine. It is also the most expensive and time consuming. A méthode champenoise sparkling wine refers to sparkling wine "made in the method of Champagne" for a wine may only be called champagne if it hails from the Champagne region of France. See "a history of sparkling wine" below for some other common names of sparkling wine.
To make a méthode champenoise sparkling wine one first makes a sound dry white table wine (or pink!) This first fermentation which turns grape juice into wine is called cuvée fermentation. The wine is then racked and filtered to remove any sediment and fragments which may be present in the wine. The wine is bottled with an added amount of sugar and yeast and sealed to allow for a second fermentation to take place in the bottle, the tirage fermentation. After the wine completes the tirage fermentation it may be aged on the lees for as long as a winemaker chooses. The lees refers to the dead yeast and other particles resulting from the fermentation process. Longer aging on the lees is generally considered better for this is where the sparkling wine derives a great deal of character and depth.
Following the triage fermentation and aging the bottles are "riddled." Riddling refers to a complex process of calculated sharp twists of the bottle at regular intervals to systematically gather the lees into the neck of the bottle without agitating the wine; at which point the bottle is disgorged. To disgorge the bottle the neck is typically frozen to trap the lees in a frozen state and remove it from the bottle cleanly and in entirety. The sediment with freeze before the wine. This may be done without freezing the neck and simply removing the cork quickly with the bottle angled down expelling the lees and then up righting the bottle. Some of the product is lost this way, but less equipment is involved. The sparkling wine is now ready for final bottling and will be added to a new bottle and topped up with other sparkling wine either from the same batch or another. Sugar may be added if more sweetness is desired of the finished product.
The results of méthode champenoise sparkling wine are small elegant bubbles that typically rise uniformly from the bottom of a glass to the surface of the wine. These bubbles generally yield a pleasant tickle across the palate and play to the elegance and festiveness which surrounds sparkling wine. This process may take anywhere from many months to years and is labor intensive. Thus, a reason for the elevated cost of small batch traditional method sparkling wines.
Here at Pomeroy Cellars we have been crafting our own méthode champenoise sparkling wine using rose wine we have made of Pinot Noir from White Dog Farm, La Center, Washington. Our test batches have been successful. At our recent Dinner in the Vineyard (August 5th, 2017) we poured our 2015 sparkling rose test batch to high praise. One of our guests went home with the very last bottle in existence! Our 2016 traditional method sparkling rose will be released in 2018. We also plan to use our estate pinot noir grapes in future sparkling wine endeavors.
Bubbles may also be added to wine by way of forced carbonation. Forced carbonation refers to adding CO2 to wine at high pressure to effectively mix the gas and the wine together. The wine may then be bottled and dubbed a sparkling wine. Carbonation drops may also be added to a still wine during the bottling process which will create a similar effect. The drops are a combination of glucose and sucrose and create a forced carbonation by way of reintroducing sugar to the wine bottle. These methods are not "traditional," but they are simple and cost effective. The result is a wine that may be fermented and sold in a matter of a few short months. These wines generally have large gas bubbles in the wine that rise speedily and irregularly in the glass due to the rapidity at which the pressure inside the bottle increases. These bubbles may somtimes be described as overpowering or unpleasant and may often mask the flavors of a wine. They're still fun and perfect to mix with orange or grapefruit juice.
The creation of sparkling wine is often credited to the French monk Dom Pérignon (1638-1715), but more accurately he devised methods of blending and winemaking which improved quality and value of wine, particularly champagne. The first documented sparkling wine is 1531 by other Benedictine monks in the abbey of Saint-Hilaire. It was quite common that churches produce wine both for their sacramental use and to help support the church and population. In 1662 English scientist and physician Christopher Merret experimented with intentionally sparkling apple cider and creating a glass bottle to safely contain it.
Through the early 1800s sparkling wine was generally an accident discovered when bottles exploded and corks were expelled from bottles. It was dubbed "the devil's wine" by some. In 1844 Adolphe Jaquesson invented the muselet, or wire cage, to prevent the corks from blowing out. What truly helped turned the corner for wines of the Champaign region in competition with their Burgundian neighbors, whom had a long history of producing sought after wine, was an increase in British interest in and purchase of the bubbly wines.
Advances in the growing and blending grapes, the development of sturdy bottles and a safe method for keeping the cork in the bottled followed by developments by Veuve Clicquot in affordably mass producing champagne led to a rise in Champagne houses between 1830 and 1860. Even after beginning to intentionally sparkle their wines, champagne was usually made by bottling the wine before the initial fermentation was complete thus leaving sugar in the bottle (méthode rurale). It wouldn't be until the 19th century that méthode champenoise was the primary and preferred method of producing sparkling wine - nearly 200 years after Merret was documenting his methods and practices.
Champagne France has a average temperature of 50 degrees F. The cooler climate turns out to be ideal for growing grapes for sparkling wine- lower sugar levels and higher acid levels. The grapes grown in the Champagne region and thus used in champagne wine or other sparkling wines are: Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay, and sometimes Arbanne and Petit Meslier. Outside of the Champagne region any number of grape varietals are used in sparkling wine: riesling, syrah, sauvignon blanc, and many more. The same general practice is used when planning a méthode champenoise wine- pick earlier (or from cooler climates) with lower sugar levels and maintain acidity.
Spumante - Italian sparkling wine. Prosecco is a white grape varietal grown in Vento Italy and often used in spumante. Prosecco is not made in the méthode champenoise, but rather undergoes a second fermentation in a large pressurized tank rather than in the bottle.
Cava - Spanish sparkling wine. Legally required to age on the lees for nine months, hailing from a climate converse to Champagne, warm and dry, and is designed to be a "comfort wine" reachable by all.
Crément - French sparkling wine (outside of Champagne). Most commonly Crément Loire, a sparkling wine from the Loire region which is France's second largest sparkling wine region. May be white or rose. One may find a sparkling Vouvray, also.
Sekt - German sparkling wine. Bargain sekt is made in the same fashion as Prosecco and consumed in vast quantities by the locals. Fine German sekt, or sekte, is only 5% of the total production and made in small lots of riesling, pinot blanc, or pinot gris from quality vineyards.
Sparkling wine is often thought to be just for special occassions, but like all quality wines- the day you open a special bottle becomes the special occassion. We believe wine is meant to be enjoyed, meant to be experienced. Just like life...don't put it off, experience it.
Why do we use corks at bottle stoppers?
Why do we use corks for bottle stoppers?
Cork is a wonderful natural and renewable resource. Cork as we know it is a layer of the bark on a Quercus Suber, more commonly called the Cork Oak tree. The Cork Oak tree is an evergreen oak tree predominantly located in Southwest Europe and Northwest Africa and may commonly live to more than 200 years old. Of the Cork Oak forests worldwide, 34% are found in Portugal and 27% in Spain. The majority of the cork used in everyday life is derived from these two countries- 50% coming from Portugal.
Cork is used in numerous capacities because of its unique qualities. Cork is impermeable to moisture, buoyant, fire retardant, and elastic. Cork is most commonly associated as a bottle stopper in the form of a wine cork, but it is also used as insulation, fishing floats, gaskets, flooring, bulletin boards, in woodwind instruments and a sundry of other small, but never underrated capacities. Most importantly cork is a renewable and environmentally friendly product.
The harvesting of the bark of the cork oak, the material that is cork, is done without harming the tree in any capacity. The first bark is harvested when the cork oat is 25 years old and then harvested only every 10-12 years following. The bark may be harvested from a cork oak tree about 12 times in the tree's lifetime. The process is done without any machinery and usually requires the manual labor of five skilled individuals in order to avoid harm to the tree and maximize the quality of the cork/bark harvested.
There are numerous closures for wine bottles, corks being the oldest and perhaps still most common. There are also aluminum screw-off caps, poly-seal (plastic) screw-off caps, various caps with cork or synthetic plugs that plug and cap the wine bottle, synthetic "corks" that appear as a cork in the bottle but are plastic or rubber material, and more. All of these different closures range in price and purpose. How much does one want to spend on the closure? What are the goals- some oxygen contact through the closure or none? At what rate and percentage should the oxygen contact the wine through the aging process? How long is the closure meant to last- 2 years? 5 years? 20+ years? What is the desired feeling to be generated in the customer opening the bottle? Will the wine be stored upright or on its side? These are all questions producers ask themselves when selecting wine bottle closures.
Currently we use cork exclusively for our wine bottle closures. We primarily use two different cork stoppers. For our red wines that we intend to be age worthy and last well beyond the ten year mark we use a solid cork stopper. These wine corks are from some of the highest quality cork bark harvested and are made by making a solid punch (similar to a hold punch) through the bark to create a solid piece of cork. The corks are then "rated" by cork density- the more dense and compact the rings of the cork bark the higher the rating of the solid cork. The higher the rating of the cork, the more durable, lasting, and effective the cork will be. For age worthy wines that will be in the bottle with this cork for an extended duration of time the quality of the wine cork is crucial. The cork will not only keep the wine in the bottle, but will keep bacteria, yeast and other microorganisms out all while allowing oxygen to permeate the cork at a slow, but steady rate aging the wine to beautiful maturity for 30 + years. If one intends to age wine for an even longer period of time, the cork should be changed because it will deteriorate over time.
The second most common wine cork we use is still 100% cork, but it is made from the cork bark which may have flaws and is not suitable to make the high quality, solid corks. These corks are made from crushed pieces of cork that are then compressed under high pressure and adhere together. These wine corks then have a disc of solid cork glued to each end to provide an extra layer of protection since the wine cork itself is not one solid piece. We use these corks for our white and rosé wines and other wines made to be consumed within five years. These wines do not need to the long term protection of the solid wine cork, but the wine still gets the benefit of the cork permeability to oxygen and protection provided by the unique cork characteristics.
It is our desire that our wines experience managed oxygen exposure once in the bottle and during the aging process, whether that aging is one year or 20. We don't want the wine to "oxidize" or turn to vinegar (those often sharp and astringent characteristics of "next day" wine), but some oxygen is crucial to the continued growth and development of the wine. Wine is a living organism that changes and evolves with time and controlled oxygen exposure is key to that evolution.
There are closures other than cork that allow for controlled oxygen contact with the wine. Many screw-off tops are theoretically designed to allow a certain number of parts per million of oxygen through the cap and in contact with the wine. There are numerous studies comparing various types of closures and the benefit of oxygen contact with wine in the bottle. Like anything else, one may find research to support whichever closure they prefer as the studies are still somewhat mixed and thus, to us, inconclusive. We choose cork because it is an organic substance, it is a renewable resource, it is also completely recyclable. Not to be understated, there is still something so romantic and traditional about pulling the cork from a bottle of wine.
"Cork taint" or a "corked" wine bottle refers to TCA, 2,4,6-trichloroanisole, a compound resulting from the interaction of plant phenols, mold, and chlorine. It can grow on tree bark, but it may also be the result of environmental conditions being "just so" to facilitate the growth of this destructive compound. Currently the number two reason that producers use alternate closures is to avoid "cork taint." Although, this is closely linked to the number one reason, cost, because damaged wine equates to an increase in costs.
"Cork taint," TCA, is identified by wet cardboard, wet dog, musty, moldy smells and flavors in the wine. As of 2012 a study conducted by Wine Spectator found TCA existed in 3.5% of wines. Most individuals do not have a sensitive enough palate to notice small levels of TCA. If the same characteristics are found in a multitude of wines by a given producer or even across the same vintage, it is likely not a result of TCA, but rather some other flaw.
TCA is a risk when using wine corks as bottle stoppers. There are several precautions to take: sanitize the corks prior to use, sanitize all bottles and related equipment, keep the production facility clean and free of spores and microorganisms that may wreak havoc if allowed to "feed" and multiply (don't get them wet or feed them after midnight, that sort of thing) and verify the seal after inserting each cork into the bottle to be sure it is evenly inserted and was not damaged in any way during the process.
In our opinion there is no "right" or "wrong" to wine bottle closures, there are simply choices and various reasoning supporting those choices. There may be a multitude of quantifiable reasons for one choice or another, one preference over another, but at the end of the day is it any more complicated than, "do you prefer white or red?" Do you prefer a cork or a screwoff-cap?
Where do the grapes come from?
We have about 500 vines planted around our tasting room. Upon entering our tasting room grounds you will see one acre of vineyard to the North of the parking lot and one acre of vineyard to the West of the tasting room with a few rows of vines here and there. We have mostly pinot noir and siegerrebe (see-geh-RAY-buh), which is a German varietal made from a cross of gewurztraminer and madeleine angevine grapes.
Depending upon growing conditions and pruning techniques one vine will yield between 30 and 40 clusters of grapes. There are approximately four grape clusters in one pound and it takes approximately 2.5 pounds of grapes to make one bottle of wine. So, the vineyard around our tasting room will make 1500 bottles, or 125 cases, in a good year. We currently produce between 500 and 1000 cases of wine each year. WIth the size of our vineyard relative to the size of our production, we must use grapes sources elsewhere to satisfy our production needs.
Where do our grapes come from? We source fruit strictly from the state of Washington. We desire to showcase the optimum growing conditions and unique character elicited from Washington vineyard sites. In 1825 the first wine grapes were planted in Washington by the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver in Vancouver, WA. The big planting boom came later in the 1960s. Most of the Washington vineyards are located in the rain shadow of the Cascade Mountains, in Eastern WA. A dry, warm climate with excellent growing conditions.
Washington wine production is primarily a result of smaller wineries focusing on craft wines sourcing fruit from larger vineyards. There are presently 900 wineries in Washington and only 350 vineyards. People stay focused on what they are good at– either making wine or growing high quality grapes. Washington produces approximately 16 million cases of wine per year and has the highest percentage of 90+ rated wines than any other wine region of the United States.
Our primary sources of grapes are two vineyards in the Yakima Valley American Viticulture Area in Eastern Washington. The Yakima Valley AVA is one of Washington's most diverse growing regions. The climate is a dry, arid, continental climate averaging a meager 8" of rainfall per year. The soil of the Yakima Valley boasts nutrient rich ash deposits from the Mt. St. Helens eruption of 1980 (the 36th anniversary was May 18th). Even more unique are the soil, mineral and other nutrient rich deposits left behind by the Missoula Floods which resulted when glaciations began to thaw and runoff flooded the surrounding areas. These unique conditions lead to wonderfully rich flavors and complexities within the grapes.
DuBrul Vineyard Sunnyside, WA - Planted in 1992, DuBrul Vineyard was Washington Vineyard of the year in 2007 and 2009. Comprised of 45 acres on a steep South facing slope, there are multiple soil compositions and microclimates and each are catered to uniquely. DuBrul vineyard is known for small clusters and low yields, meaning a delicious flavor packed grape and a unique DuBrul Vineyard terroir signature. The list of wineries producing from DuBrul Vineyard fruit is small and we are extremely blessed to be among them. You will find DuBrul vineyard represented in our Lucia No. 47 red blend, our 2013 Reserve Cabernet, the newly released 2015 Late Harvest Riesling and more.
Inland Desert Benton City, WA - Inland Desert Nursery has been a family owned and operated farm for more than 40 years specializing in Washington Certified Grapevines- inspected regularly by WSU and WSDA scientists. To perfect their craft of grafting and growing some of the top vinifera vines in the state they began planting and nurturing vines in Benton City, WA just a stones throw from the highly renowned Red Mountain AVA. Recognizing what a gem of a vineyard site they had, Inland Desert began selling fruit from these hand crafted vines rather than leaving it for bird fodder. For that we are thankful! A great representation of Inland Desert may be found in our Farm Hand's Red red wine blend.
In the 2015 and 2016 seasons we have sourced fruit from White Dog Farm in La Center, Washington. Planted in 1983 and formerly known as La Center Vineyards, White Dog Farm grows Pinot Noir. At 34 years old, White Dog Farm boasts some of the oldest vines in the state as well as the area-including vineyards in the Willamette Valley. The vineyard was derelict for many years before Kevin and Kristi Kotrous took over and dubbed it White Dog Farm. The fruit is showing marvelous potential and resilience. It will be a few more years before the vines fully recover and really begin to tell their story and share the wisdom of roots going 34 years deep. We will not be releasing Pinot Noir from White Dog Farm fruit for some time, but we have our 2015 Blanc de Noir available. Blanc de Noir, literally translated to white of black, is a white wine made from pinot noir grapes.
We have previously, and do still occasionally, source fruit from other vineyards, but we really enjoy the care and uniqueness provided by the aforementioned vineyards. We tend to be quite loyal. | 2019-04-20T21:23:14 | https://www.pomeroycellars.com/apps/blog/categories/show/2145819-wine-making |
0.999304 | We're live with the RHI Inquiry. Scroll down to read what was said earlier today.
That's all for today. Mr Cairns, who has admitted to "squirming" more than once, will be relieved that his evidence has ended.
Tomorrow will see evidence from Andrew Crawford who is sure to face tough questioning over his influence on the DUP's RHI policy.
Mr Cairns said the DUP wanted the scheme closed on February 15 2016 but Sinn Féin insisted it should be "extended by two weeks" as a price for their support in the assembly.
"Whatever the reasons where, that is what Sinn Féin wanted," Mr Cairns said.
He said he heard of Sinn Féin's stance on February 9 2016.
Mr Cairns said politicians across the assembly had faced strong lobbying to keep the scheme open.
"The two weeks was Sinn Féin's proposition," he said.
Dame Una O'Brien said asked Mr Cairns: "who really were you working for in this job?"
He said the way the DUP appointed special advisers, in opposition to an official code, "gives a much stronger sense of party affinity than otherwise might be the case".
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing? That's for others to judge. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad," he said.
"I tried to do the best that I could do in less than ideal circumstances."
Mr Bell's evidence is that Mrs Foster had asked for the RHI scheme to be kept open in early 2016 without giving a possible timeframe.
Mr Cairns said when Mrs Foster asked for the scheme to be kept open he believed she asked for only a two-week extension.
"I believe that she said two weeks," he said.
Mrs Foster gave an interview to Stephen Nolan in December 2016, in the same programme as Jonathan Bell made his allegations. She said she had no knowledge of her special advisers' roles in connection with RHI.
Mr Cairns reiterated he had mentioned Mr Johnston and Dr Crawford in a phone call that month.
"Either she had discounted what I said.. or she didn't then mention it in the interview when asked... or maybe she just forgot the telephone call, I don't know."
Mr Bell's evidence is that Chris Stewart told him Mr Cairns was "trying to cleanse the record" of a reference to consultation with the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister.
Mr Cairns said he was sure Mr Bell received a document with all changes clearly tracked. He said he was not trying to "cleanse" documents.
Mr Cairns said the party was clear Mrs Foster had "done nothing wrong" in connection with the RHI scheme.
He has already admitted he removed a reference to the First Minister in an RHI document to protect Mrs Foster. But he said he did it of his own volition and no one else asked him to.
Dr McCormick has suggested that the change was done to fit a "narrative" to put the blame for RHI on Jonathan Bell.
"There is no narrative. This is the only document on which Andrew McCormick can base that claim," he said.
He added: "The election campaign was being set at that time... Arlene Foster was the focus of that election campaign.... with that ringing in my ears it seemed prudent to give the First Minister a range of options".
He admitted it might give him some brownie points with Mrs Foster at a time when he feared that he would be replaced as an adviser.
"As uncomfortable as it is to admit right now - yes," he said.
Mr Cairns said while he, Mr Bell and Dr McCormick were on a work trip to the US in January 2016 there was huge confusion around the closure of the scheme.
"There were very much conflicting messages and accusations," he said.
"It was, nothing's going to be done today," he said.
He added: "It was we still won't be clearing the submission today, just hold on".
However, Mr Cairns said he did not get the impression anyone was pushing for the scheme to remain open.
"At this point in time everyone was well aware 'this needs to close'," he said.
"I think everyone at this time was focused on 'how do we clear up this mess?'."
Mr Cairns agreed with Mr Lunny that the DUP strategy led to enterprise officials agreeing a later closure date than they wanted. But he said officials could also have objected.
"There was no pressure put on the officials," he said.
He said: "If anybody felt we were on different teams, (I would have said) let's get on the same team again".
The inquiry hears in an email to DUP adviser Richard Bullick in January 2016 Timothy Johnston wrote that RHI "appears financially messy... and potentially a huge audit issue".
It hears there appeared to be some confusion about the issue.
Mr Bullick also emailed his senior DUP colleagues to pass on concerns from Malcolm McKibbin, head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service.
"(Sir Malcolm) seems very concerned about spending out of control," it read. "Says will be huge audit issue and AF (Arlene Foster) better not implicated."
In a separate memo, Sir Malcolm asked Dr McCormick what action was being taken on the scheme.
He said he had contacted Mrs Foster who had made clear it was the enterprise department's responsibility to deal with it.
Mr Cairns said that information was at odds with what he had been told.
"There's clearly a process going on in the First Minister's office," he said.
"I was confused as to what was going on... This is a chaotic situation... if you're running a process, get your process done and tell us what you want to do."
Mr Bell's evidence is that he wasn't told the submission was being held.
The inquiry heard that Mr Cairns informed the minister via an email to his hotmail account. Mr Bell has said he rarely used the account and wasn't aware of the email.
The inquiry hears other emails had been sent by officials to the hotmail account and they had received replies via it from Mr Bell.
Mr Cairns said he had no reason to think Mr Bell wouldn't have received his email.
He said he made no secret of the fact that DUP special advisers were involved in holding up the submission.
"My communication betrays a certain frustration," he said.
In an email in late January to enterprise official Chris Stewart he said the submission was "in the hands of DUP party officers".
After a short break, the inquiry is looking at the chain of events which led to a submission to close RHI being held.
Mr Cairns said he emailed Mr Johnston on Friday January 22 2016 telling him the submission needed "to be out the door today".
"I am clearly trying to tell Timothy... this is a top priority, don't be ignoring this," he said.
Mr Johnston then forwarded the email to Andrew Crawford and Arlene Foster.
"Andrew McCormick's stark warning is also in the email chain," Mr Cairns said.
Mr Johnston emailed Mr Cairns to say he "wouldn't be in a position" to get Mrs Foster's or the DUP view by Monday.
Mr Cairns said he understood Mr Johnston was aware of the closure submission in January 2016.
He said "it's my belief" that the First Minister's office wanted some input in the submission.
Mr Bell's evidence is that he cleared the submission to close the scheme but it was held after Mr Cairns contacted Mr Bell's private office, following a conversation with key DUP Spad Timothy Johnston. He said he wasn't informed that the submission had been held.
Mr Cairns said he was certain the "unusual" and "bizarre" turn of events had been discussed.
"It was talked about and Mr Bell was annoyed. He wasn't annoyed with me, he was annoyed with Mr Johnston," he said.
On New Year's Eve 2015, a submission to close RHI was sent after it became apparent the botched scheme would have a devastating impact on the enterprise department's budget.
The submission recommends the scheme be closed to new applicants as soon as possible.
Mr Cairns said the submission would have been discussed with Mr Bell.
"I'm absolutely sure that the number one issue in the department was this... he would have been spoken to in considerable detail about this," he said.
Mr Cairns said he didn't speak to anyone in industry about a possible scheme closure and wasn't aware of anyone else who did.
He said Arlene Foster contacted him on behalf of a constituent who was not going to make the planned November 2015 RHI closure deadline.
He said it's common for MLAs and MPs to contact advisers about constituency matters.
"I thought it was a fairly straightforward constituency query," he said. He said he passed on the request to Dr McCormick but considered it "a courtesy call".
He said he thought "suspicion" around special advisers led Dr McCormick to take more seriously "what I thought was a request I thought he would flatly turn down".
"Mrs Foster isn't expecting the request to be acceded to," he said.
In December 2016, Mr Bell gave an explosive interview with BBC journalist Stephen Nolan.
Earlier, Mr Cairns had a joint telephone conversation with DUP official Richard Bullick, Mr Johnston and party leader Arlene Foster.
During the call Andrew Crawford's name was raised. Mr Cairns said Mr Johnston shut the call down after he mentioned Mr Johnston had directed him in June 2015 to liase with Dr Crawford over the RHI scheme changes.
He said during a phone-call with Dr McCormick in January 2016 Mr Cairns said he told the civil servant it would be "unfair" to single out Dr Crawford's name.
He said he mentioned to him that "Timothy Johnston... had started the process" and DUP MLA William Irwin had contacted Mr Cairns about RHI on behalf of constituents. "How many DUP members do you want me to name?" he said he told Dr McCormick.
He said he told the enterprise official: "There's a heck of a lot more names than Dr Crawford, including your civil servants... you should be naming everyone instead of hanging one person out to dry".
Mr Cairns has insisted given Mr Bell's "working practices" he needed an oral briefing on a submission to introduce cost controls.
"If we had have had another minister I think the submission would have been cleared and out the door in or around August 13 (2015) or before that," he said.
During the meeting of August 24 2015, it was agreed cost controls would not be introduced until November 2015.
He said Mr Bell raised no objection to the change and asked if "others" would be happy - a reference Mr Cairns took to mean Andrew Crawford and senior DUP special adviser Timothy Johnston.
Mr Cairns said he told Mr Johnston about the delay but couldn't remember exactly when.
He said he also told Spad Andrew Crawford during a phone call in late August 2015. "He seemed to be fairly content and happy with the outcome," he said.
He added: "Dr Crawford was more invested in the process of course and knew the issues with a much higher degree of knowledge".
Following a break for lunch, the inquiry is focusing on a meeting of August 24 2015.
Enterprise official John Mills said in his oral evidence he has no clear memory of the discussion but he may have agreed to delay cost controls for an extra month.
Mr Cairns said he asked officials a "softball question" whether October 1 2015 was the latest possible date to introduce controls.
He said Mr Mills then suggested November 4 2015 - a date which at the time made "no logic" to Mr Cairns.
The evidence from Dr Andrew McCormick, the most senior civil servant in the enterprise department, is that he was "surprised" Mr Mills "volunteered" the date.
Mr Bell was at his holiday home in Portstewart, Co Derry, over three weeks in August 2015.
Mr Cairns said the absence was "clearly problematic".
"I was in a terrible position in this time," he said.
Mr Cairns said he knew Mr Bell's "working practice" and felt that on the important RHI issue he needed an "oral briefing".
He said the issue was one of several that needed Mr Bell's input and the minister's private secretary Sean Kerr was pressing Mr Cairns for ministerial submissions to be passed.
"Myself and Dr McCormick should have jumped in the ministerial car and gone up (to Mr Bell's holiday home)," he said.
The inquiry is getting into the details of initial cost control plans.
Emails back and forth between officials and Mr Cairns discussed different tiering thresholds.
He insisted that during conversations with enterprise official Chris Stewart over the summer it was clear that cost controls would be introduced by October 1.
In August 2015 he said he checked the date again to make sure the party could manage any questions from businesses.
"At that point I said to officials... is October 1 the latest date?" he said.
He said he cannot recall any discussions of fears RHI applicants would "overuse" their boilers during a meeting with enterprise officials on July 28 2015.
Mr Cairns said he was not aware some people were possibly abusing the scheme until December 2016.
He said warnings that the scheme effectively paid recipients to heat empty houses were treated by a senior official as "hypothetical".
Mr Bell has suggested Mr Cairns kept key information about possible changes to the RHI scheme from him.
Mr Cairns said he had "no reason" to do so. He said he told Mr Bell during an informal meeting at the end of July 2015 that, following discussions with Dr Crawford, they should seek to delay cost controls until the latest possible date.
As an aside, he said during separate key business meeting: "Mr Bell's lack of preparation was hugely memorable for everyone at that meeting".
Following a short break, the inquiry is discussing fears in the summer of 2015 of a possible spike in demand for the RHI scheme.
Enterprise official Chris Stewart has said Mr Cairns suggested the date to introduce cost controls should be delayed to avoid a spike.
"I don't recall that being the conversation," Mr Cairns said.
Mr Cairns has denied that he saw enterprise officials as 'the opposition'. He said he had a "very good" working relationship with officials, including Chris Stewart, and wasn't aware that they felt uncomfortable until January 2016.
He said that "everybody has said in their evidence that we had a good rapport".
"I wish he (Mr Stewart) had said I felt on a different team to you," he said.
He added: "I wish on July 28 (2015) meeting he said 'Tim you're putting me in a different team here, what's going on?' "
Mr Cairns said in late August to early September 2015 Dr Crawford asked him if he had mentioned him in relation to the RHI scheme.
"He came to me in Parliament Buildings... and he said did you ever mention my name to the Deti officials?... He was absolutely furious," Mr Cairns said.
He added: "I said your name didn't come from me".
Mr Cairns agreed that he had consciously avoided mentioning Dr Crawford's name in relation to the scheme.
"I think that's probably fair and I'm conceding that I shouldn't have done that," he said.
He denied he was keeping the information "secret" but said he should have been "more open".
"I should have been but there was no good reason for me not being," he said.
He said he had "no knowledge, no suspicion" that some of Dr Crawford's family were beneficiaries of the RHI scheme.
Mr Cairns said Mr Bell was aware that the "party view" was that RHI changes should be introduced on the latest possible date.
He said it was Dr Crawford's view "from the outset" that cost controls should be delayed to the latest date enterprise officials would agree to.
He said Mr Bell was told of this and "raised no objection.. with either officials or myself".
Dr Crawford has insisted he played no part in delaying cost controls and any advice he gave Mr Cairns was a "suggestion". His evidence is that that "at no time did I suggest, ask for or push for the deadline to be pushed back".
Mr Cairns said he was sure Dr Crawford was pushing to delay controls.
"My firm recollection is that we discussed the October 1 date and we discussed 'are we sure that is the latest date?' " he said.
"If officials would say that is the latest date then we would have to accept that."
Mr Cairns said it was unfortunate he had no email from Dr Crawford to confirm this policy.
"You've hit on a great flaw here - the lack of a paper trail," he told panel member Dame Una O'Brien. He added: "I was relying on phone calls".
He said he didn't recall Dr Crawford warning him that the RHI scheme may not be fully covered by British government funding and the executive may need to make up the cost.
Mr Cairns said over the summer of 2015 party policy was "crystallising" that any changes should be introduced as late as possible, around October 1.
He said that strategy was informed by his own experience and "Dr Crawford coming from the position of knowing where the industry was at".
Sir Patrick said: "What bothers me a little bit about that is that Mr Crawford would have been, to put it modestly, aware of the potential of abuse, and yet he was saying let's go for the latest possible date".
Mr Cairns said DUP spad Dr Crawford suggested he should speak to Moy Park executive David Mark and boiler installers about the scheme. Mr Cairns decided not to so.
"I didn't believe that it would be appropriate for me to physically speak to people where details of policy not yet agreed would be revealed," he said.
Dr Crawford also emailed him in July 2015 to warn of "a massive spike" in applications to the scheme because the "word on the street" was that cost controls were to be introduced.
Mr Cairns said he warned enterprise official Chris Stewart in the same month that there was a danger of a spike.
Mr Cairns has said it was standard practice for any submission that comes into a minister's private office to go to a party special adviser first.
"There's no secret in that," he said.
The 44-year-old said he was "aware" that the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) knew about proposed changes to the scheme, including possible cost controls, in the summer of 2015.
He said he attended a meeting with the UFU, along with enterprise officials and Mr Bell, that summer.
He agreed with inquiry counsel Donal Lunny that the UFU's input "informed" how the department dealt with the RHI scheme.
Inquiry chair Sir Patrick Coghlin suggested it was "perhaps rather unusual for an adviser and a minister (to meet an interested group)...particularly when a submission from a minister has not yet been signed off".
He added: "You can see the risk here which is that you communicate with a highly particular, interested group".
Mr Cairns claimed EX-DUP leader Peter Robinson saw admitting guilt as a "weakness" and did nothing" about bullying allegations raised against DUP enterprise minister Jonathan Bell.
For anyone unfamiliar with how the scandal unfolded, here's a quick reminder.
Former DUP special adviser Timothy Cairns is giving evidence to the RHI inquiry for second day following claims his ex-boss Jonathan Bell got so drunk during a ministerial business trip he fell asleep in a New York pub and was asked to leave.
Mr Bell was appointed enterprise minister in May 2015 just a few weeks before senior civil servants were made aware of concerns around the scheme. He was still in post when revelations about the cost of the scheme emerged.
Mr Cairns's written evidence has so far proved to be more striking than his oral testimony, although he has shed some light on the "grubby world" of politics, including claiming that the DUP's chief executive Timothy Johnston delayed the closure of the RHI scheme to allow others to join. | 2019-04-19T04:45:59 | http://www.irishnews.com/news/politicalnews/2018/09/12/news/rhi-live-ex-dup-special-adviser-timothy-cairns-gives-evidence-for-a-second-day-1431062/ |
0.999993 | What are the various side effects of edema?
Water retention, also called edema, is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in the body's tissue. This condition can occur in any part of the body; however, it is most commonly observed in feet, ankles, legs, hands, and arms.
Edema most often occurs in the lower legs or ankles, but also may appear as generalized body puffiness or unusual weight gain.
The main side effect people notice from water retention is that they are uncomfortably bloated. If you retain a large amount of fluid, you will notice swelling in your ankles, feet, and lower legs.
If you apply pressure on the swollen area using your finger and it leaves an indentation that stays for some time after the release of the pressure, this type of edema is referred to as pitting edema.
If the pressure applied to the skin does not result in a persistent indentation, this type of edema is known as nonpitting edema.
While certain forms of edema such as cerebral and pulmonary edemas are life-threatening and immediately addressed, other forms of edema may not be urgently treated. However, edema complications can quickly develop.
Some of the complications of edema include pain, difficulty walking, stiff muscles, stretched and itchy skin, tissue scarring, an opportunistic infection of the swollen areas, skin ulcers, inelasticity of blood vessels, joints and muscles as well as decreased blood circulation to the affected areas.
When edema is generalized, it occurs all over the body including in multiple organs (e.g. heart and lungs) and peripherally in the limbs.
However, most types of edema are specific to one organ. Some of the most common organ-specific edemas are explained below.
Cerebral edema: It occurs when fluid accumulates in parts of the brain. It is a life-threatening medical condition which can be caused by disease states (e.g. lupus), abnormal metabolic conditions or oxygen deprivation at high altitudes. It causes drowsiness and loss of consciousness.
Pulmonary edema: It affects the lungs but is caused by the failure of the left ventricle of the heart. When the left ventricle does not effectively return blood from the veins in the lungs back to the heart, the blood vessels of the lungs are obstructed leading to accumulation of fluids in the lungs. Fluids can also be accumulated in the pleural cavity around the lungs. It causes shortness of breath and can be due to oxygen deprivation at high altitudes or inhalation of toxic chemicals.
Lymphedema: This type of edema is caused by the breakdown of the lymphatic system. Fluids are removed from the lymph to fill up other places such as the spaces between tissues and muscles. It can be caused by an underlying medical condition such as multiple sclerosis or medications such as ibuprofen. Other causes include infection of the lymphatic system, osmotic pressure from swollen lymph nodes or cancers and damage to the lymph vessels by radiation therapy.
Myxedema: In this form of edema, the tissues acquire a high affinity for water. This is as a result of increased deposition of water-loving carbohydrate-like molecules such as hyaluronan in the tissue matrix.
There are also other milder forms of edema such as the localized inflammation of the skin after insect bite and contact dermatitis from substances that irritate the skin.
Eye puffiness is also a form of edema. It usually occurs after waking or from sleep deprivation.
Diuretics are the drugs used to reduce edema. There are different types of diuretics and they are classified by their chemical structures, site of action and unique effects. The three most important classes of diuretics are discussed below.
Loop Diuretics: Loop diuretics are so named because the act at the ascending limb of the loop of Henle found in the nephrons of the kidney. They are especially useful in treating edema in patients who do not respond to thiazide diuretics as well as patients who have liver cirrhosis, heart failure, and renal impairment.
Loop diuretics prevent the reabsorption of sodium, chloride and potassium ions from the kidney tubules. However, they also prevent the reabsorption of calcium and magnesium ions too.
By preventing the return of sodium ions, loop diuretics reduce the osmotic pressure needed to reabsorb water into the blood. Therefore, they increase urine volume while reducing blood volume.
Thiazide Diuretics: Thiazide diuretics are all similar in their chemical structures. They produce their effect at the distal convoluted tubules of the kidney nephrons. While they promote sodium and potassium loss, they allow the reabsorption of calcium from the kidneys.
Thiazides also decrease the osmotic pressure of water passing through the kidney to prevent its reabsorption back into the circulatory system. In this way, they reduce edema.
Potassium Sparing Diuretics: Potassium-sparing diuretics are only grouped together because they do not inhibit the reabsorption of potassium in the kidneys.
This advantage means that there is no need for concurrent potassium supplementation when taking these diuretics and there is also no risk of developing hyperkalemia.
Potassium-sparing diuretics produce their diuretic effect by either blocking aldosterone (an important component of the renin-angiotensin system responsible for water retention) or inhibiting the sodium channels in the epithelium of the kidney.
Each class of diuretics has its own set of side effects. These drugs are mostly safe but may not be well tolerated by some people.
The general side effects of all diuretics include frequent urination, electrolyte imbalance, thirst, headache, muscle cramps, low blood levels of sodium, arrhythmia, nausea, and loss of appetite.
There are also specific side effects. Thiazide diuretics, for example, can cause blurry vision, low levels of potassium or hypokalemia, high serum cholesterol levels, increased deposition of uric acid, impaired glucose control and symptoms of allergic reaction to thiazides.
Therefore, thiazide diuretics are not recommended for edema patients who are diabetic or those who are also treating gout. Potassium supplements are recommended alongside.
Loop diuretics are especially associated with very high frequency of urination. They cause dizziness, hypokalemia, low calcium and magnesium levels, increased deposition of uric acid, temporary loss of hearing, jaundice and electrolyte imbalance.
Potassium-sparing diuretics can cause hyperkalemia. Symptoms of high blood levels of potassium include weakness, numbness, nervousness, irregular heartbeat, and breathing problems.
Edema may be the result of a side effect of a certain medication. Because edema occurs when the tiny blood vessels in your body leak fluid, you may experience water retention when taking drugs that open blood vessels.
Vasodilators, prescribed to treat high blood pressure or heart failure, dilate blood vessels to increase blood flow through your arteries.
Calcium channel blockers, prescribed to treat conditions such as high blood pressure, migraines and Raynaud's disease, also relax and widen the blood vessels.
Edema is also a known possible side effect of estrogens and certain diabetic medications, known as thiazolidinediones.
Certain antidepressants, including MAO inhibitors (such as phenelzine and tranylcypromine) and tricyclics (such as desipramine, nortriptyline, and amitriptyline) may also cause your legs to swell.
Hormones such as estrogen (in birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy) and testosterone; and some steroids may also cause edema.
You may take some prescribed diuretics to treat edema. A diuretic is a water pill that encourages your body to expel water as urine.
The best form of a diuretic is water. Increase your fluid intake, such as plain water, to hydrate your body and flush out all toxins. This prevents your body from retaining fluids. You must also follow a low-salt diet and avoid foods that are high in sodium.
You may also consider taking a natural fluid retention remedy such as Capisette, which contains herbs like horse chestnut, gingko biloba, and buchu extracts. It replenishes the body with essential nutrients and helps in treating edema. | 2019-04-18T10:20:13 | http://www.progressivehealth.com/edema-side-effects.htm |
0.998658 | Mobile World Congress 2016 is over, and now the question is which smartphone manufacturer will come out on top as the handsets go on sale. Samsung is leading with its trump cards in the form of the Galaxy S7 and the S7 Edge. These two smartphones are the dual flagships of the South Korean company's attack on the 2016 smartphone market. Given the falling revenue and profits of the mobile division (in part down to the weak sales and lukewarm critical reception of the S6 family), the Galaxy S7 family has a lot of work to do.
I've been cautiously optimistic about Samsung's work around the launch of the devices at MWC last month. As more details of the handset come out and the story around the devices that Samsung wants to tell becomes clear, the bullet points the S7 will address are coming in to focus.
This is a critical year for Samsung's mobile team. With that in mind, here are the twenty-five reasons why the Galaxy S7 family could win over the smartphone market in 2016?
1. Samsung's Galaxy S7 is more than a smartphone.
Note the MWC presentation brought in a standalone 360 degree camera and Samsung's virtual reality headset. The two S7 models are smartphones, but they are being sold as something more than a smartphone - they are the hub of a new wave of desirable technology.
2. Samsung is not relying on specification Top Trumps.
These two handsets may have the latest technology on board with some of the highest specifications on the market, but the reliance on 'the biggest number in everything' is fading away. The focus is less on raw power and more on what an S7 can do for its owner. Real world examples, not abstract numbers, are the touchstones.
3. The name recognition of SnapDragon.
The S6 family fell back on Exynos across the world, and while the numbers game suggests that a bigger SnapDragon system on chip is better there is something more powerful. 'SnapDragon' is one of the few terms that has made the leap into the minds of western smartphone consumers. Shipping with 'SnapDragon On Board' means another recognisable name and increases the comfort levels of consumers looking to buy a new device.
4. It feels better in the hand and looks easier on the eye.
The Galaxy S6 handsets had very angular backs, with hard edges between the bezels and the rear glass. That's no longer the case, with a touch of a curve on the back glass. Coupled with the camera lens assembly sitting almost flush to the back (it juts out by 0.45mm) the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge look much better and have a better tactile feel in the first few moments of picking one up.
5. The S7 family is for the S5 user.
Given the typical two-year product cycle of smartphones (thanks to network contracts) the real goal of the Galaxy S7 is to appeal to the users of the Galaxy S5. Going from the S4 (or the S5) to the S6 saw beloved features removed. That's not the case with the S5 to the S7 upgrade - everything the S5 users loved about their phones can be found in the S7 family.
6. Lots of battery power.
Stepping up with a 3000 mAh battery, the Galaxy S7 has buckets of energy storage. Couple the larger battery with the optimised code in Android and you have a package that should allow any user to last a full day while using all of the smartphone's capabilities. And if you need more time longer, just activate the S7's battery endurance mode to increase the standby time.
It's a simple technology in practice, but the increased usability that wireless charging offers is revolutionary when you first experience it. It's also one of the first things I check for in any new smartphone, and a high-end smartphone without it is perilously close to being rejected out of hand.
MicroSD expansion has returned, but with a slight twist. Samsung has made the decision to not use the adaptive storage technique in Android which allows the card and the internal storage to be seen as a single block by the OS, instead using the microSD card for media storage - although you can install and transfer apps to run from the card. This means the card is removable and exchangeable with other devices. I can only assume Samsung's customer data shows a lot of exchanging of cards going on, as opposed to being inserted once and then left alone.
9. Take it into the water.
Also returning from the Galaxy S5 is a waterproof (and dustproof) rating for the handsets. Something unlikely to be specifically used (except for a quick demonstration in the pub), yet utterly practical. Technology should be invisible and out of mind. Waterproofing does that.
10. The best parts of the S6 remain.
The S7 family addresses all the perceived mistakes of the Galaxy S6 range and fixes them, but crucially everything that was great about the Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge remains in the new package. That means the handsets retain the curved screen of the Edge, the new design ethos, the large Super AMOLED screens, and the wide range of sensors including the accelerometer, heart rate, gyro, proximity, compass, and barometer.
11. One camera to rule them all.
The Galaxy S6 camera was seen by many (including myself) to be the best smartphone camera on the market, and it could comfortably outshoot the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. Although the megapixel count has dropped from 16 to 12 megapixels, Samsung has not held back with the imaging technology. I expect the quality of the photography to be a key selling point of the S7 family - again a feature that is practical and can be seen in the real world by anyone.
Out of the box the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge ship with the latest version of Android. While the Marshmallow update is working through the upgrade certification process for older Samsung handsets, you are guaranteed to get version six of Google's mobile operating system with these handsets.
13. Samsung's Edge software has been updated.
One of my complaints about the S6 Edge was the software that was specific to the edge was never updated after the first release. Samsung has addressed this now and the S7 Edge now comes with new widgets and improved support for the edge. These are being backdated to the S6 Edge but are tied into the OS upgrade, so if you want them now the safest answer is the S7 Edge.
Thanks to the AMOLED technology, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge can display information on the idle screen with very little power draw. This function was inexplicably not turned on in the S6 family, allowing the competition to build a selling point for their devices that Samsung did not have. That has been rectified, and your S7 can show you relevant information with just a quick glance at the screen.
15. Welcome home with TouchWiz.
Much as the geekerati like to denigrate TouchWiz, Samsung's UI layer is familiar to many millions of users. Switching on an S7 handset will offer a comfortable environment to anyone picking up the handset in store. And a comfortable customer is likely to purchase a new device and carry on being a customer.
16. The Galaxy S7 is at the heart of VR.
Virtual Reality is the big buzzword topic of 2016, and Samsung has managed to place the S7 family at the very heart of an accessible consumer package that lets them engage with VR. If you want to get involved, the S7 is the place to be . With suggestions that some S7 pre-orders will get a Gear VR unit thrown in as well the S7 becomes the gateway to a whole new world.
17. Look around you with the Gear 360.
18. Don't forget about wearables.
Smartwatches and fitness trackers may feel like last year's geek toy, but the benefits of wearable technology have not gone away. With the S7 family continuing the role as the hub device to control your smaller devices, the idea of the S7 being more than a smartphone has many angles. More connections, more personal moments, more practical impact... and more sales for Samsung.
While the Google Play licence ensures that Google's choice of software will be shipped in the handset, don't forget about Samsung's own software. Take the improvements to the Samsung browser, offering privacy modes and ad-blocking on your device - two areas Chrome is weaker in. These all work alongside Samsung's cloud services, and provide more features to customers at the expense of a soft lock-in, helping customer retention.
One thing that is noticeable after the reveal of the two S7 devices is the volume of third-party cases and accessories that are available. Because the S7 and S7 Edge are going to sell in significant volumes, there is enough of a market for the third-party accessory manufacturers to start working on products to be available on day one of handsets' public release. The handsets may be robust, but people love their cases and holders. A wide range of accessories at launch will help sell the S7 range as must-have devices with significant retail support.
Part of the battle in keeping costs down is reducing the cost of getting handsets from the factory floor to the customer's hand. Samsung is a huge corporation and the control it has over the logistics of shipping and selling is part of its success. Unlike smaller manufacturers, Samsung has depth and expertise that keeps the costs down. As handset prices fall, any savings made here will be key.
Because of its size, Samsung is a known name to consumers. Those looking for a new phone this year may not want to switch to a Huawei, may not want to risk an 'online only' company like OnePlus and may have reservations about manufacturers like Sony who seem to be pulling back from supporting Android whole-heartedly. Samsung, so the feeling goes, will always be there and can be relied on.
23. Upselling to the S7.
The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are not entering the market alone. They stand on top of a huge portfolio of devices. Consumers already happy with an existing Samsung device and looking for something a little bit more special can be steered towards the S7 and S7 Edge devices, either from a casual inquiry in a retail store or from existing mid-range handset owners looking to stretch their wings.
24. The halo effect of marketing.
And of course that portfolio works the other way for Samsung. Any marketing of the Galaxy brand name for the S7 and the S7 Edge should have a halo effect to help sell mid-range devices like the Galaxy A9. If you can't sell someone the flagship, the South Korean company still has the opportunity to push a mid-range device and retain the customer.
25. The chance to get ahead of Apple.
And finally, with Apple pushing back the expected reveal of the iPhone SE to March 21st, Samsung has around two weeks where the Galaxy S7 is the biggest thing in the smartphone space. It's an opportunity to gain customers, to build on expectations, and to get ahead of Apple with smart PR, aggressive marketing, and lots of sales. There is a window that the South Korean company can use to maximise the initial flush of success for the S7 family. Master that, and the momentum gained will keep the handsets selling for the rest of the year. | 2019-04-25T06:29:37 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/03/06/top-25-reasons-the-galaxy-s7-will-beat-iphone/ |
0.999954 | A recent challenge in biology has been the depiction of cellular functions as algorithms, discrete sets of rules that reach a desired outcome. The idea comes from the notion that cells are intricate networks of feedback and signaling systems that work together to regulate physiological processes. These systems act on Boolean principles: conditions necessary to activate or inactivate different pathways are either “true” or “false.” Basically, cells are computers. The overarching goal of these computers is homeostasis, a stable balance of physiological processes that maintain a healthy organism.
Glucose is the preferred sugar (carbon source) for most bacteria; when surrounded by different carbon sources, E. coli will always go through all the glucose it can get before switching on genes to digest other carbon sources like lactose. Energetically-speaking, it would be a waste to produce lactose-digesting enzymes if there is no lactose present and if there is a more preferable source of energy available (glucose). Thus, the lac operon works as a two-part control mechanism to ensure it is only working when it needs to: in the absence of lactose, a lac “repressor” halts the production of enzymes encoded by the lac operon. In the presence of glucose, another protein required for the production of these enzymes also remains inactive. When lactose is present AND no glucose is present, these enzymes and proteins are activated and the bacterial cell starts to catabolize lactose. How would you write the above algorithm more specifically so that a computer could carry it out?
Being able to consolidate a cell’s entire physiology into a series of on and off switches would be a holy grail in computational biology: it would mean a full understanding of how a cell works in its environment.
What about exploiting the “cells are computers” concept for genetic engineering? After all, harnessing a cell’s computational operations to alter a cell’s response in specific environment has many biomedical and technical implications. For instance, designing bacteria that can release anti-tumor drugs when exposed to a tumor could be used as a targeted cancer treatment. Synthetic genetic circuits could be interwoven with natural ones to achieve such goals.
Researchers from MIT, Boston University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have taken the computer analogy a step further to achieve just that. They recently designed a program called Cello (http://www.cellocad.org/) using an existing language called Verilog that does something similar for electronic circuits. Cello enables users to describe the function of a desired “genetic circuit” – for example, detect and respond to certain environmental conditions. The program then translates the circuit into a DNA sequence by organizing “logic gates” into networks. Synthesize the proposed sequence, clone the DNA onto a bacterial plasmid, stick the plasmid into cells, and theoretically you should eventually have E. coli colonies expressing your desired circuit. In order to test Cello, the researchers built 60 circuits. Of these, 45 worked. 92% of the 412 programmed outputs from these circuits functioned as predicted. Right now, Cello can be used to build circuits capable of detecting up to 3 inputs and responding differently according to different combinations and levels of inputs.
Cells are computers. DNA encodes these computers’ circuitries. Circuits process sensory information and use it to control biological functions. Now, researchers have made it possible for you to use your own digital computer to edit the organic one of a microbe. | 2019-04-19T20:36:01 | https://www.infectiveperspective.com/blog/now-available-programming-bacteria-on-your-home-computer |
0.999989 | In order to make your own resin tabletop, you will need the following: a clean piece of wood (e.g. 2' x 2' piece of plywood, resin, gloves, objects to imbed in the table, and ultra seal. You will need to create a border to prevent the resin from dripping over the side. There are many methods of doing this. Coat the table with ultra seal. If you are using paper in the project, place the paper on the ultra seal. Then, cover it with ultra seal. Next, apply all of the objects that you wish to use on your table. When you have created the pattern that you wish, you are ready to apply the resin. If covering your objects requires depth, then you will need to do it in layers. Apply your resin. | 2019-04-23T05:53:45 | https://woodworking.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-your-own-resin-tabletop-290758/ |
0.999878 | High rents, freezing winters, sweltering hot summers, $6 boxes of cheerios, all truths about New York City. Given these facts, how come New York City is home to largest concentration of artists, a career that consistantly ranks at the bottom of worst paying jobs? I have reached out to a few of my good friends who happen to be fellow artists living in NYC to get there take on this topic.
Location is a strange concept in contemporary society. You can paint from anywhere and share your work globally in an instant — mid-stroke, I can snap a photo and post it to Twitter... the time and distance between canvas and eyeball has evaporated. So why live in NYC? Why pay triple the rent of another city? It's a great question... for me, NYC is more about the energy... a feeling in my core. I discussed this phenomenon with a famous author who, in a moment of great duress, went to Central Park in the middle of the night and just placed his hand on a big rock, feeling the Islands energy. I believe there is something to this... living in NYC as an artist was about being close to galleries, collectors, dealers and those who write for Page Six. Today, proximity is a choice thanks to social media and the proliferation of technology. Living in Manhattan, for me, is more Lost than Wall Street.
For me personally I grew up in the suburbs of the city, so have always felt at home here. The most important for me is to feel comfortable where I am when I'm painting. In NY I like to be locked away all day - and then no matter what time you decide to stop working - you can go outside and there's tons going on. Painting is such a lonely thing in certain ways that it's nice to have all of the hustle around you. You know everyone is working as hard or harder than you and it makes you keep your game up. Plus, there are tons of opportunity to put your art up in varying degrees. Be it a coffee shop, a gallery, people's apartments. There are so many people in such a small space that by default more people will see what you're doing. I think I would go stir crazy in a smaller city, and LA doesn't do it for me. That's my take anyways.
As an artist, I've hustled, begged, borrowed and stolen my way across this this great nation from the Southwest to the Big Apple because it is a Mecca. All of the beautiful, powerful and talented people of the world attempt to at least pass through the City - therefore it is a limitless source of inspiration for me, as my work is about the connections between people, places and time. It is a metropolis of Dreams and Money - if you are willing to pay the price, you can make anything happen... For me that is the epitome of what being a true artist, in any genre, is all about. How far are you willing to go to create magic amidst the mundane? New York City is a monument to that struggle, and the museums, galleries and skyscrapers are filled with objects that are the embodiment of that magical connection we can all share as human beings, no matter who or where we are.
NYC is always changing and there's just a constant flow of stimuli, which I think charges my creative batteries. And because it's a place that people flock to from around the world, the diversity you get to experience here is pretty tremendous. So many museums and galleries and pop-up shows and people making art and selling art in the street... There is a lot of opportunity, inside and outdoors, and odds are you're going to meet some interesting and inspiring people along the way.
The reason I came to New York and the reason why I have stayed are nearly identical. What brought me here was romantic love, and what has kept me here is my love for this city. For me as an artist, New York is the perfect playground. I am constantly inspired and challenged by everything it has to offer, and the amazing people it attracts. The realms of exploration are endless, much like what attracts me to painting. The world is my stage, and New York is the worlds stage.
Since these artists were kind enough to take time away from their canvases to answer this question for me, I figured it is only fair to give my take on this topic. If you mix a bunch of colors together, you get the color mud. However, if you mix all those colors together in New York City, each color illuminates individually and collectively. The colors being an obvious metaphor for the eclectic group of people that call NYC home. The result of living in such a multi-cultural environment offers those who seek inspiration, an infinite treasure of sources. As I mention in previous blog posts, artists experience the world differently. We journey through this world with heightened sensitivity to our environment. It is both a gift and a curse. We struggle & thrive with a sense of uniqueness. In New York City, the environmental stimuli is a catalyst in cultivating the artist's creative spirit. I happen to be writing this blog entry on my way back home after a relaxing vacation in North Carolina. As the pilot announces our initial decent into Laguardia Airport, I raise my shade and look out at the city I call home. The view should just be reason enough.
Living in New York City is a challenge with tremendous upside. However, it is that challenge, also known as "the hustle," that nurtures the toughness that is woven into the fiber of every New Yorker. Will New York always be a mecca for artists? I certainly hope so.
I am now on my 6th day thinking about this blog entry and as I walk down Kent Avenue in Williamsburg Brooklyn, I look at how things are changing. The artistic "temples" of Williamsburg are being torn down and replaced with luxury high rise buildings. In full closure, I live in one of these high rise buildings so I will accept the deserving label of a hypocrite.
How does this gentrification effect us artists? Cheap rents, large loft spaces, and the polarizing experience of going from the glamour of the upscale areas to the indomitable essence of the Lower East Side, is what inspires many of us artists. When building full of art studios is knocked down to make room for a luxury high rise, you are leveling the playing field and a level playing field is not a comfortable and inviting place for artists. Artists have already started moving to areas like Bushwick and Bed Stuy. Proof that no matter what, artists will always search for and find new places to migrate to. Please, don't let it be Long Island. | 2019-04-24T14:23:29 | https://www.jeremypenn.com/blog/2013/04/artists-live-in-new-york-city |
0.999784 | Washington - - Maryland's senators have sent President Barack Obama the names of three nominees for lifetime appointments as U.S. district judges, a source close to the process said late Friday.
Ellen Hollander, 60, of Baltimore, a judge on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals since 1994, was the pick to replace longtime District Judge Andre Davis, who moved to the federal court of appeals last month. A graduate of Goucher College and Georgetown Law, she became the only woman on the state's second-highest court when then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer appointed her after she served five years as a circuit judge in Baltimore.
James K. Bredar, 52, of Reisterstown, a federal magistrate judge, was recommended for a district judgeship in the Baltimore division. The graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown Law would fill a vacancy created by the decision of Judge J. Frederick Motz, a nominee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, to take senior status.
Motz, 67, whose decision was made public Friday, is the longest-serving judge on the federal district bench in Maryland. Judges who assume senior status don't necessarily retire. They have the option to continue hearing cases, typically in smaller numbers but often for many years. His wife, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, has sat on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since 1994.
Charles B. Day, 52, of Olney, also a federal magistrate judge, was the senators' choice for a federal district judgeship in the Greenbelt division, which covers the southern part of the state. A graduate of the University of Maryland and its law school, he would replace Judge Peter Messitte, like Davis a nominee of Democratic President Bill Clinton, who took senior status in 2008.
Federal magistrates are trial judges appointed by U.S. district judges. They often relieve the workload on the district court by handling pretrial motions and presiding over non-felony trials.
Obama has the final say on federal judicial nominees, who must be confirmed by the Senate before they can take office. The White House, which received the Maryland names Friday, will review the recommendations with the Department of Justice, a process that can take months.
Selections by home-state senators carry considerable weight in judicial selections, particularly at the district court level and especially when made by senators of the president's party, as is the case in Maryland this year for the first time since 2000.
Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin began the search for new judges last spring. After receiving applications from prospective candidates, they reviewed the names with legal specialists and interviewed the finalists.
Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond, said the selections are in line with a pattern that has developed in Obama's first year: the nomination of judges for judicial vacancies, as opposed to lawyers without experience on the bench.
That adds judicial experience to the federal courts and a record of past decisions that makes it easier to gauge their qualifications, but it also reduces diversity in the judicial system.
"The whole notion of a career judiciary," said Tobias, "is a notion that the U.S. has resisted."
There are 10 federal judge positions in the Maryland district, considered one of the busiest in the nation. If all three seats are filled next year, it would bring the court to full strength for the first time since 2008. | 2019-04-22T08:53:44 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2009-12-12-0912110128-story.html |
0.999908 | Is Liam Gallagher planning a gig at The Ritz in Manchester?
Liam Gallagher is planning a hometown gig at Manchester’s O2 Ritz – according to the social media rumour mill.
The former Oasis frontman is preparing for his comeback as a solo artist with a string of summer festival appearances – but CityLife sources hear a gig on the Whitworth Street West venue might be in the offing too.
A tweet by @ManchesterDose has sent fans into overdrive – but Liam’s camp was remaining tight-lipped when contacted by CityLife. A swift ‘no comment’ was all that was offered.
Liam has finished his first solo album – called As You Were – and is expected to announce a release date later this summer. There should also be a debut single, although he has suggested that his first live shows would also include Oasis numbers – as well as songs by his other band, Beady Eye.
The rocker also said his comeback was going to be ‘a walk in the park’ and that there was little competition for him.
Liam will play Reading and Leeds Festival, but all his other dates will be outside of the UK. | 2019-04-24T08:17:37 | http://www.oasismania.co.uk/is-liam-gallagher-planning-a-gig-at-the-ritz-in-manchester/ |
0.999994 | Proposal 1: The right road fix or a total mess?
Both sides agreee Michigan's roads are a mess and that Proposal 1 is not the perfect solution, but that's where the consensus ends.
Critics say Proposal 1 collects too much money for items other than roads. Proponents say the plan was a product of compromise that gets the job done.
LANSING – Even those who oppose Proposal 1 agree that Michigan's roads are a mess.
And those who support the May 5 ballot proposal concede that the complex plan is far from perfect.
But that's where the agreement between the two camps pretty much ends.
The proposal to amend the state constitution would increase the sales tax to 7% from 6%, take the sales tax off of fuel sales and increase fuel taxes, raising pump prices 8 to 9 cents per gallon, based on current low prices.
The main criticism of the road funding plan — hatched as a last-minute, lame-duck session compromise in December between Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and legislative leaders from both parties — is that a House Fiscal Agency analysis shows it hikes taxes by about $1.9 billion in order to direct about $1.3 billion toward Michigan's crumbling roads and bridges.
Depending on one's outlook, the fact that the plan also benefits K-12 schools ($200 million-$290 million); transit and rail ($116 million); local governments ($111 million), and low and moderate-income families ($260 million through restoration of the Earned Income Tax Credit), is either a selling point or a near-fatal drawback. The ballot question, if passed, would trigger into law 10 bills dealing with a wide range of subjects, from road warranties to expense reimbursements by school districts.
"There's nothing like a governmentally proposed spaghetti deal," said Robert Terry, a Grosse Pointe Woods resident who heads a small video-production company and says voters should have been asked to hike the sales tax less than 1 percentage point in a plan targeted solely at roads.
"I thought the amendment to Michigan's constitution was to finally do something about our roads," he said. "But, no, Lansing just needed to stick schools in the mix."
The constitutional amendment would enshrine the legality of using the School Aid Fund to support community colleges as well as K-12 schools, but make the fund off-limits for support to universities.
Proponents say approving an imperfect plan is far better than doing nothing, because the more that Michigan's roads are allowed to deteriorate, the more they will cost to fix. No road plan could be approved last year without support from Democrats, who used a rare opportunity for leverage to secure improved funding for K-12 schools and restoration of a tax credit they say will help mitigate the effects of higher sales and fuel taxes for working families.
"We all know that to get Democrats on board, they had to sweeten the deal," said Greg Hoover of Fowlerville, who owns a small painting business and says he will be voting yes.
The roads "need money, and they need it now, and this is all we have," Hoover said. "If we don't pass it, then we go back to the drawing board."
Proponents say one of the plan's most attractive features is that it takes the sales tax off of fuel sales, undoing a situation the Free Press has reported on in which Michigan charges some of the highest taxes on fuel in the nation, but still has among the lowest per-lane-mile spending on roads. Taking the sales tax off fuel allows a sharp hike in the fuel tax — which is spent on roads — without significantly increasing the pump price. And bumping up the sales tax more than replaces the money schools and local governments would lose as a result of a sales tax no longer being charged on fuel.
Snyder is the main cheerleader for the Safe Roads Yes campaign to pass the measure — which is airing TV ads bankrolled by millions of dollars in contributions from road builders and other businesses — that mainly focuses on deteriorating roads and bridges as a safety issue.
Four groups have formed to push the no side, with the Coalition Against Higher Taxes and Special Interest Deals, headed by Saginaw County businessman and former congressional candidate Paul Mitchell, the first to air TV ads.
Critics such as Mitchell say the supposed urgency of needed road fixes is undermined by another flaw in Proposal 1: For the first two years after passage of the plan, a large chunk of the new transportation money — an estimated $865 million in 2015-16 and $468 million in 2016-17 — would be spent, not on road projects, but on paying off debt the Michigan Department of Transportation has built up from issuing bonds for earlier road projects.
Though MDOT didn't push for the debt reduction, department spokesman Jeff Cranson said retiring debt will reduce interest payments, freeing up $160 million-$200 million more per year to spend on roads.
Snyder says another criticism directed at the plan — that Michigan lawmakers failed to do their jobs and "punted" the road funding question to voters — is misplaced.
Though he would have preferred the Legislature to pass its own plan — such as the major fuel tax hike that the Senate passed and the House rejected, so that some road funding plan would go into effect if Proposal 1 fails — Snyder notes that a hike in the sales tax is needed to replace lost sales tax that would hurt schools and local governments, and hiking the sales tax can be done by only Michigan voters.
■ Eliminate sales/use taxes on gasoline/diesel fuel for vehicles on public roads.
■ Increase portion of use tax dedicated to School Aid Fund (SAF).
■ Expand use of SAF to community colleges and career/technical education and prohibit use for four-year colleges/universities.
■ Give effect to laws, including those that: increase sales/use tax to 7%, as authorized by constitutional amendment; increase gasoline/diesel fuel tax and adjust annually for inflation; increase vehicle registration fees and dedicate revenue for roads and other transportation purposes; expand competitive bidding and warranties for road projects; increase Earned Income Tax Credit. | 2019-04-24T06:10:36 | https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/14/michigan-proposal-roads/70307238/ |
0.999997 | Weight Watchers healthy personal lasagnas. 5 Smart Points per serving.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cook pasta according to package directions for al dente; drain. Combine mozzarella, ricotta, egg white and oregano; set aside. In a nonstick skillet, cook beef over medium high heat, breaking apart meat as it cooks, about 6 minutes. Add shallot, garlic, asparagus, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until asparagus is bright green, about 3 minutes. Add diced tomatoes and stir to combine. Slice cooked noodles into 4ths so that you have 4 equal sized pieces from each noodle. Generously coat 4 ramekins with cooking spray. Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon Parmesan cheese in bottom of each ramekin and tilt to evenly cover bottoms. Place one noodle square on bottom of each ramekin; top with about 1 1/2 tablespoons beef mixture and the with 1 tablespoon cheese mixture. Repeat this step two more times to form three layers of noodles, beef and cheese in each cup. Place a final noodle square on each lasagna; sprinkle each with 1/2 teaspoon remaining Parmesan. Cover lasagnas tightly with aluminum foil and bake 20 minutes; uncover and cook until browned on top, about 5 minutes more. Let cool for 3 minutes. Sprinkle with basil just before serving. | 2019-04-19T19:35:14 | https://www.keyingredient.com/recipes/3828745033/lasagna-with-asparagus/ |
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