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0.999877 | Below are some of the questions commonly asked at interviews. Use the answer guidelines to prepare your own answers.
When answering the question, remember you want to depict the role you will play in the organisation. You should thus answer in relation with the specific job and how you want to contribute to the company's goals.
Explain why you want to form part of the organisation. What value will your specific ability, knowledge and personal attributes add to the company?
When answering this question, think of the role you want to portray in the organisation and expand on examples of how you have contributed to organizations in the past. Think of the unique combination of skills and knowledge that you have and how you can solve problems at the new organization by adding your knowledge to the team.
Give an example of how you dealt with ambiguous situations and explain how you handled the problem and the final resolution.
Remember when answering this type of question to address the situation, the task, the actions taken and the resolution of the problem. Never admit to panicking or getting mad. Show how you restored peace and helped to reach a compromise and how you managed to create a solution.
Describe a scenario where you formed part of a task group. Give a clear description of the problem you faced, your role in the task group and the final results.
You need to describe the situation, the task, the actions taken and the resolution of the problem. Explain your contribution to the team in a positive way.
Describe your long-term goals and your contingency plan if the goals are not reached in this specific time frame.
You want to show the interviewer you are prepared and have definite goals that you want to achieve in the position you are applying for, but you also want to portray your flexibility and open-mindedness. Make sure you describe the long term goals in line with the company mission statement. In terms of contingency, you should think of two alternatives that can still be applied at the organization.
Which one of your accomplishments predominantly stands out? Describe it and give the reason for this being a noteworthy achievement.
Think of one accomplishment that will show your suitability for the organization.
Look at the following scenario, you form part of a task team with the responsibility to create a company brochure or magazine for internal distribution. You work in conjunction with another task team responsible for providing the necessary information that forms the base of the specific publication. There can be no extension to the deadline of the publication.
a. List the aspects that can prevent the task team from meeting the deadline.
b. List the preventative measures that the team can put in place to ensure the success of the project.
Theoretical questions have no correct or incorrect answers these questions are put forward to conclude if the candidate has the skills and expertise required to perform the tasks set out for that position. You thus don't have to worry about right and wrong, but prepare answers for this type of question to show you know how to solve problems.
List the fundamentals required to make and estimation for the successful outcome of a task.Answers should be based on previous employment or educational experience. Think about the main markers for a successful company.
Listed on your resume is your experience in the field of photography. Elaborate on your expertise and highlight your personal strengths in this area.
Keep in mind that a key element in this position will be the ability to take original pictures and manipulate them into workable ads. Highlight your expertise in this area and what you would consider to be the most important consideration in graphical manipulation of pictures. This is a twin question.
You are required to work as part of a controlled team with the ability to communicate and make decisions. Explain how you are suitable for the role.
Provide an example of where you have worked in such a team and how you managed to make decisions and communicate the decisions in such a way that the others did not feel threatened by them.
Describe your level of computer literacy. Give an example of the different applications you will use to compile a report, keep records data, and design an ad and present it to the public.
When you get such a question, you should be very specific to show that you do in fact have the knowledge and expertise required for the job.
How will you go about to fire a colleague with whom you have a good relationship, but due to company policy, you have to make retrenchments and he is the oldest and thus best candidate to let go?
Answer the question in such a way that your empathy is indicated, but your ability to make hard decisions is not compromised. This type of question is formulated for people in management positions and those who have to deal with loyalty to the company vs. loyalty to fellow workers. Your loyalty to the company must never be disputed, but at the same time, you need to show that you are able to use tact in your dealings with colleagues. | 2019-04-21T16:06:45 | http://www.cvtips.com/interview/typical-job-interview-questions.html |
0.579654 | Thomas Geoghegan is a practising lawyer (specialising in labour law) and in The Law in Shambles he writes both from personal experience (citing many relevant cases he's been involved in as examples) as well as offering a very broad polemic against what has become of the law in the United States. His book isn't merely concerned with the legal system: he sees it very much as part of the larger socio-political system, and so he specifically considers the implications of the law being in shambles on all the other parts of civil life.
One of the first issues he tackles is, in fact, democracy -- participatory democracy, where the individual feels s/he is involved in the decision-making process and can feel secure in the knowledge that government is responsive to the needs of citizens. Geoghegan argues that there is, in fact, too little democracy in the United States -- and he finds that this lack of democracy clearly "undermines the rule of law".
He approaches the issue primarily from a labour point of view, pointing out that many of the rights citizens once could rely on were contractual (not, for example, constitutional), specifically in their union contracts, rights that were bargained for and offered some certainty (on everything from wages and job security to health insurance and pensions) -- unlike, for example, the now prevalent 'employment at will'-standard. With a move away from unions there has also been a shift in the settlement of disputes from "contract" to "tort" -- with the latter being far more unpredictable (and costly, for all involved). And that unpredictability undermines both the system and faith in the system.
Geoghegan points out other absurdities and outrages in the system. Among his targets: so-called charitable trusts and the like (hospitals and universities, in particular), which he points out bear much greater responsibility for the explosion of litigation than patients who sue doctors and hospitals (and can and often do destroy lives by these actions -- despite supposedly being 'charitable' institutions (i.e. whose primary duty is ostensibly towards the welfare of the public)).
The law (or rather the government that should be implementing the law) also fails, notably in regulation: even where laws -- on safety, for example, (food, workplace, etc.) -- are on the books, the government provides little or no enforcement, unwilling to pay inspectors, etc., again undermining the whole (legal and political) system. Arbitrariness -- outcomes decided by the luck of what jury and now even what judge decide a case -- is also a problem.
The difficulty of making any meaningful fundamental changes to the American constitution is one of his main targets, and allows him to take aim at the Senate and, especially, the House of Representatives (including the outrageousness of gerrymandered districts) The current political system is, he argues, far from democratic, with Congress especially now wielding too much unrepresentative power.
The Law in Shambles is a free-wheeling look at much that is wrong in the United States, fairly deftly connected. Geoghegan offers a number of outrageous examples, and though 'left' (and labour) leaning in his politics, he focusses on a number of issues that the 'right' has (or should have) just as many problems with. His explanation (and remedy) for, for example, the explosion of tort litigation may not be exactly how the 'right' sees it but his points are worth considering.
Lively, thought-provoking, far-ranging, The Law in Shambles is a fun little polemic.
Robert Dahl's How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?
Thomas Geoghegan is a labour lawyer. | 2019-04-21T03:06:23 | http://complete-review.com/reviews/pppress/geoghegt.htm |
0.999964 | You might have come across to this question many times before, but you must have confused with the changing number of teeth with age. The biggest reason that determines the number of teeth you will have depends on your age. The number of teeth children and adults will have differs.
1 How Many Teeth Do Humans Have?
3 How many Teeth do Kids Have?
4 How many Teeth do Adults Have?
So the main question that arises is how many teeth do humans have throughout their life cycle?
Also how many teeth you need for proper functioning is another important question? If you are confused about the right answer to this question than the below heading will best explain you the concept.
Human beings, throughout their life-cycle, have two sets of teeth. The two sets of teeth are; the deciduous teeth and the permanent teeth. So the next question is how many of deciduous and how many of permanent teeth do humans have? The deciduous are total 20 in number where the permanent is 32. Humans are born with no teeth at all that by the age of 6 months and above it begins to grow teeth until the age of 7 the child continues to work with the deciduous set of teeth. After seven years, the deciduous teeth begin to fall and gets change with permanent teeth.
The teeth are the placeholders that help the person in proper consumption of food; it also helps them in developing healthy jawbones and conducting speech. So, therefore it is very important to take proper care of your teeth.
The mouth plays an important role in human anatomy; it helps in speaking, drinking and eating. The main actors it forms are the teeth, which further have their types and parts like; incisors, the canines, molars, premolar, and these teeth have a gum line on which they enter, the root, enamel, the dentin, and the pulp.
Incisors; these are sharp, chiseled front teeth; they include the upper and lower four teeth. They primarily help in the cutting of food. There are total eight incisors in the human body.
Canines; they are also called cuspids because they are like cups; their main function is the tearing of food. There are four canines, and these are the pointed teeth that lie next to incisors.
Premolars; the two cusps are together, also called as bicuspid. They help in crushing of food into small particles. There are total eight premolars. These are present between the canines and the molars.
Molars: they are present at the back of the mouth. They help in grinding of food. There are total 8 of molars.
Child teething begins at the age around six months. The term used to describe the child’s early teeth is ‘deciduous teeth’ that’s because these teeth begin to fall after seven years. Most people call these teeth as baby teeth and sometimes they are also known as milk teeth.
As these teeth have to fall out eventually, therefore it is very important to know how many deciduous teeth kids have. So we can differentiate between the deciduous teeth and the permanent teeth. Some deciduous teeth take time to fall out, and then they become a hurdle for the growth of permanent teeth. Once we can count how many teeth child have, then we shall be able to know how many of them have fallen out and how many of them are left. It enables us to consult the dentist to keep up the healthy growth of permanent teeth.
Children have total 20 deciduous teeth. Ten are present on the upper jaw and ten on the lower jaw. These deciduous teeth are like a placeholder until the child begins to have permanent teeth.
It is very important to keep up the habit of eating and cleaning your teeth. Since the very childhood, the child should be taught regular brushing and cleaning of its teeth, as this habit should prolong throughout its life to keep up healthy teeth and gums.
Once you enter your early teens, you begin to have permanent teeth. These permanent teeth are more than deciduous teeth. There are total 32 permanent teeth. There are different types of teeth that adults have; the types are above. It is very important to know how many teeth adults have so that you can take proper care of them and it also prevents your teeth from getting poorly shaped.
Most people get this set of teeth as soon as they hit 18, but in some case, it might take some more years to get the complete set. Wisdom teeth grow at the later years of teeth bearing. The wisdom tooth sometimes can cause misalignment that can be avoided by getting them removed early. Wisdom tooth has no particular role in chewing, grinding or grasping of food neither it plays any role in speech conduction.
So, we can say that humans have 20 deciduous and 32 permanent teeth, where based on functionality there are 28 teeth once the wisdom teeth get removed. | 2019-04-26T06:06:50 | https://stylebuzzer.com/many-teeth-humans/ |
0.999999 | House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Monday that Ivanka Trump Ivana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpAfrica's women can change a continent: Will Ivanka give them her full support? A Trump visit to Africa is important — and carries some urgency On The Money: Cain 'very committed' to Fed bid despite opposition | Pelosi warns no US-UK trade deal if Brexit harms Irish peace | Ivanka Trump says she turned down World Bank job MORE and other associates of the president could "quite conceivably" hear from his committee, despite being left off an initial round of document requests.
"I’m not going to answer why any particular person is or isn’t on it. We think that anybody on it has information of use to the committee in establishing things," Nadler said on CNN's "OutFront."
Nadler said the 81 people and entities identified in a list released earlier in the day had previously provided information to the special counsel's office, the Southern District of New York or other officials.
While the list included Donald Trump Jr. Donald (Don) John TrumpTrump Jr. slams 2020 Dems as 'more concerned' about rights of murderers than legal gun owners It is wrong to say 'no collusion' Nadler: I don't understand why Mueller didn't charge Donald Trump Jr., others in Trump Tower meeting MORE, Eric Trump Eric Frederick TrumpHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Lara Trump to 'Fox & Friends': Trump 'one of the greatest presidents we've ever had' Eric and Lara Trump expecting their second child MORE and Jared Kushner Jared Corey KushnerHasan Minhaj calls out Kushner at event over ties to Saudi crown prince Kushner saying immigration plan will be 'neutral' on legal admissions: report Dems charge ahead on immigration MORE, it did not include the president's daughter and senior adviser.
"She’s not on the initial list. That’s all we can say," Nadler said.
He added that there are going to be more document requests and that "there may or may not be more people."
Asked if Ivanka Trump could be added to the list in the future, Nadler said, "quite conceivably."
Is the Judiciary Committee's investigation into Trump's campaign a pre-impeachment hearing?
Why hasn't Ivanka been contacted?
Nadler on Monday issued the first round of document requests as part of a sweeping investigation into President Trump Donald John TrumpDemocrats' CNN town halls exposed an extreme agenda Buttigieg says he doubts Sanders can win general election Post-Mueller, Trump has a good story to tell for 2020 MORE's campaign, business and administration. The investigation will focus on three key areas, Nadler said: obstruction of justice, public corruption and abuses of power.
He reiterated that he believes Congress is still "far from" impeachment proceedings. Nadler would oversee such proceedings as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. | 2019-04-24T18:32:37 | https://thehill.com/homenews/house/432575-nadler-says-ivanka-trump-others-could-quite-conceivably-be-contacted-in-house |
0.998199 | This short dictionary defines some of the terms used by the GO Competition.
The Challenge 1 Final Dataset (C1FD) will be used for the officially scored round of the GO Competition Challenge 1. Conditions will be similar to each of the trial events with the new C1FD used for evaluation and scoring. A deadline for the submission of solution software will be established at least one month prior to the final event. Immediately following the deadline, the software from all competitors will be run and scored against the C1FD. The Challenge 1 Final Dataset score for each competitor submission will be displayed on the competition leader board.
Challenge 1 winners will be determined based on the C1FD dataset score subject to the winning criteria specified in the official Competition Rules document.
The Challenge 1 Original Dataset (C1OD) released at the start of Challenge 1 in order to allow competitors to develop solution methods. The dataset will consist of multiple power system network models each containing multiple scenarios. Competitors will be able to download the dataset in order to test algorithms within their own development environment. Competitors can also submit software to be scored against the C1OD dataset using the official competition platform.
The Challenge 1 Trial Dataset 1 (C1TD1) will be accessible, via submissions to the evaluation platform, approximately 6 months after the initiation of Challenge 1 as the first of two dry-run "trial" rounds for the GO Competition. This previously unreleased dataset is expected to be of similar complexity and scope as the P1OD, but will not be publicly released until after the conclusion of the trial events.
The Challenge 1 Trial Dataset 2 (C1TD2) will be accessible, via submissions to the evaluation platform, approximately 9 months after the initiation of Challenge 1 as the second of two dry-run "trial" rounds for the GO Competition. This previously unreleased dataset is expected to be of similar complexity and scope as the P1OD, but will not be publicly released until after the conclusion of the trial events.
A collection of power system network models and scenario data on those models. Challenge 1 will have four distinct datasets: C1OD, C1TD1, C1TD2, and C1FD.
A dataset score is computed by taking the geometric mean of all power system network models in a given dataset.
An optimal power flow (OPF) expresses the conditions which give the lowest cost per unit of energy delivered. This is achieved by minimizing an objective (cost) function by changing system controls while taking into account various constraints that are used to satisfy power balance requirements and limits. An alternating current (AC) OPF is a nonlinear model; nonlinear because the power flow into load impedances is a function of the square of the applied voltages. A direct current (DC) OPF is a linear, but less accurate, power-flow model.
Unless otherwise specified, OPF is assumed to be (AC) OPF in the context of the GO Competition.
A power system network model consists of each hypothetical grid with defined topological structure and characteristics including, but not limited to, locations of generators, loads, transmission lines, transformers, equipment detail, control equipment, and limits.
A (relevant to Divisions 1 and 2 of Challenge 1) power system network model score is calculated by taking the geometric mean across all scenario scores associated with a power system network model.
The preventative security-constrained optimal power flow problem is the form of the SCOPF problem in which none of the contingencies will result in a constraint violation in the absence of corrective action.
The term "scenario" in the context of power systems often means a load snapshot from a coupled sequence of time data. That is not how it is used here. Here a scenario is used to represent an operating instance in time on a power system network model. The scenarios define an instantaneous demand at each bus, renewable resource availability, and other temporary system conditions. This snapshot instance has no correlated relationship to any other instance in the list of scenarios in the dataset. Not only can the instantaneous power demand (load) change between one of the scenarios and another, but so can any of the other parameters, such as line and generator limits and availability. The basic network model, the number of buses, generators, lines, capacitor banks, LTC taps, etc., remains fixed for all the scenarios within a power system network model dataset.
A scenario score (relevant to Divisions 1 and 2 of Challenge 1) is calculated for each scenario of a power system network model. The score consists of the objective function value plus any constraint violation or time penalties. As with the objective function value, a lower score is a better score.
A security-constrained optimal power flow problem not only minimizes the objective (cost) function for the base (no contingency) case, but provides a solution where all constraints are also satisfied for a set of post-contingency states. It can be formulated in either preventative (PSCOPF) or corrective (CSCOPF) mode. In the preventative mode, none of the contingencies will result in a constraint violation in the absence of corrective action. In the corrective mode, however, remedial actions may be necessary to remove constraint violations. | 2019-04-21T07:00:58 | https://gocompetition.energy.gov/definitions |
0.999917 | Given: $N$ segments (arrays) of ordered integers, integers could be from $-K$ to $K$.
How can I find an integer that belongs to the maximum amount of segments? For the given example, it is 1.
I look for the most efficient algorithm.
Now process the endpoints in order. Maintain a count of the number of active segments, which is initially 0. Every time you process a $+$, increase the count by 1. Every time you process a $-$, decrease the count by 1. After processing each endpoint, check if the new count is higher than the largest count so far; if it is, update your solution.
This second phase of the algorithm takes time proportional $N$. The whole algorithm takes time $O(N \log N)$ with a generic sort, or $O(N + K)$ with key-indexed counting.
Let's build an array of size 2*k+1 all initialized with 0. For each segment of the form [L, R], we will add 1 at Lth index and subtract 1 from R+1th index.
Note : We add K to every values to shift the range from -K to +K to 0 to 2*K.
Now to obtain the result, we will perform a prefix sum.
Let i be the index with maximum value. Then answer will be i-K.
[3, 8], [6, 10] and [2, 6].
[0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, -1, 0, -1, 0, -1].
[0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0].
Hence the index with max value is 6 and hence answer will be 6 - 5 = 1.
Time complexity of above approach will be O(max(N, K)).
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged algorithms time-complexity arrays or ask your own question. | 2019-04-21T00:41:12 | https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/105773/find-a-point-shared-by-maximum-segments |
0.998999 | When you need information about locks, the and keys locksmith, you probably need it fast. The following article contains helpful information on the subject that can help you out in a pinch. Don't get locked out of anywhere and never be without the services of a reliable professional locksmith. Read on!
Do not hesitate to call a locksmith in the event you need duplicate keys for your vehicle. Most auto dealers will give you the idea that they are the only ones authorized to do this. In order to guarantee you will hire them in your time of need, they say this.
Call them and ask for a tow to a locksmith if you are locked out of your car and you have AAA. Many times locksmiths charge you a bundle because they have to get to where you are. This is a great way to gain access to your vehicle for a lot less money.
When you talk to any locksmith for the very first time, inquire as to how long they personally have been in the trade. If they've always used the same location, also, check to see. Companies with many years in business in a location are usually reputable.
Most locksmiths are aware of how to pick a help and lock you gain access to your home. If you are told that the entire lock needs to be replaced, you should see this as a warning sign. This costs significantly more than picking the lock, which is the reason some locksmiths will say it is necessary.
Ask how long a locksmith has been in business. Check to see if they have always done business from the same location. The companies that have served a specific area for years are usually going to be good choices.
While you may want to get a great deal, you want to avoid a locksmith who charges very little. This sometimes means that the contractor lacks the qualifications for the job. Request quotes from multiple locksmiths and hire one in the middle.
If the company you are considering working with has ever had another name, find out. In some instances, companies switch their names because customers were unhappy with their work. This helps them escape negative reviews. While a company may not be honest with you about this, it does not hurt to ask.
Do not try to be a DIY locksmith. By working on them yourself, you can easily damage your doors or locks. Locksmiths are trained professionals who know how to safely work on your doors and locks. It's well worth the cost of hiring a locksmith to avoid potential damage to your property. So, when you find yourself locked out or needing a spare key or any sort of help with your locks, contact an established and professional locksmith.
It is a good idea to drive over to a locksmith's place of business before hiring him to do any work on your home. This will give you a good idea of what type of person you are dealing with. Many scammers will give you an address that does not exist, so this can help you weed them out.
Before moving forward with a locksmith, make sure you check the person's I.D. You want to make sure the person who arrived is the correct person you spoke with on the phone. This is for your own security. Plus, there are quite a few states that require licensing for locksmiths. You can be doubly safe and request to see that as well.
A locksmith may charge more if you run into issues after hours. Some locksmiths will know this and charge unreasonably high rates during these times. Get several locksmith quotes to avoid price gouging such as this.
You should locksmith brookline always ask about the highest amount of money it could possibly cost you. A locksmith with lots of experience has probably encountered everything that can go wrong and will be able to quote you a "worst-case scenario' price.
Check out the vehicle a new locksmith is driving. No, it's not to see their sweet ride, it's to see if the car is marked with their business on the side. Most reputable locksmiths brand their vehicles, both for marketing purposes and as a way to lower the risk you feel when a strange person shows up. An unmarked car could be a sign of something fishy. Use your best judgement.
Not every locksmith is on the up and up. Some will perform their job the "easy way", leaving you with a big mess to clean up. Others won't have insurance, a license or any experience. Use the advice here to ensure that the professional you hire is truly an expert. | 2019-04-19T18:42:42 | http://www.freewebsite-service.com/24hourlocksmith29/blog.php?id=335841&snavn=Blog+post |
0.999777 | In the vernacular of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi in the violent 1960's, a ''No. 1'' was a cross burning and a ''No. 2'' was a whipping. A ''No. 3'' was a firebombing and a ''No. 4,'' the most severe punishment of all, was a killing. Only the highest-ranking Klansmen could order a No. 3 and No. 4, said Billy Roy Pitts, a foot soldier in the White Knights in the winter of 1965-1966.
''Sam Bowers was the only man who could order a No. 3 and No. 4 in the White Knights in the state of Mississippi,'' Mr. Pitts testified here today in the trial of Mr. Bowers, the former Klan leader who is accused, for the fifth time, of ordering the death of Vernon Dahmer, a civil rights leader killed in the firebombing of his home on Jan. 10, 1966. Mr. Bowers is charged with murder and arson.
Mr. Pitts, now 54 and serving time for his part in the killing, told the jury that he and other Klansmen gathered in the winter of 1965 in a farmhouse near Laurel, Miss., for a special meeting -- special because Mr. Bowers, the Imperial Wizard who led the Mississippi White Knights, had come to order Mr. Dahmer's death.
Mr. Pitts testified that Mr. Bowers, now 73, ordered the killing because Mr. Dahmer had worked to register blacks to vote.
Mr. Pitts said Mr. Bowers was angry at the meeting because the Forrest County Klan had done nothing to silence Mr. Dahmer, a merchant, farmer and local N.A.A.C.P. official who offered his small store in the Kelly Settlement community outside Hattiesburg as a place where blacks could pay the poll tax.
Mr. Pitts said Mr. Bowers, a businessman in Laurel, later told him: ''Don't worry. No jury in the state of Mississippi is going to convict a white man for killing'' a black.
He said that Mr. Bowers presided over other meetings where Klansmen planned the firebombing of Mr. Dahmer's house and store, and that Travis Buckley, Mr. Bowers's lawyer in this trial, also attended meetings to plan the firebombing.
That prompted an outburst from Mr. Buckley, who demanded a mistrial.
''It's so inflammatory,'' said Mr. Buckley, who was indicted in the Dahmer case three decades ago but was cleared of all charges.
The prosecutor, Robert Helfrich, said that his office had filed a motion before the trial pointing out a possible conflict of interest if Mr. Buckley tried the case, but that Mr. Bowers had insisted that Mr. Buckley represent him.
''It's going to come up again that Mr. Buckley was there, by this witness and other witnesses,'' Mr. Helfrich said.
Judge Richard McKenzie denied the mistrial motion but told jurors to disregard what they had heard about Mr. Buckley. When asked if they could do that, the jurors -- six blacks, five whites and one Asian-American -- nodded.
It was not the liveliest exchange in a day of courtroom activity that recounted the Klan's strategy in the 1960's. When another former Klansman, T. Webber Rogers, refused to tell the court where he lived, the judge asked him if he had done so because he was afraid.
''Hell, yeah,'' Mr. Rogers said. He said he had been shot at since testifying against the Klan in previous cases. The judge admonished him for cursing.
People in the courtroom laughed at that, but were silent as the former Klansmen explained how the killing was planned and executed.
Though the information coming out of this trial seems new in 1998, it is hardly so. Mr. Bowers has been on trial in the Dahmer killing four times, always walking free after juries of white men deadlocked. He served six years in connection with one of the killings of the three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, in Neshoba County in 1964, but no prosecutor has ever succeeded in linking him to Mr. Dahmer's murder. Two other men were charged in the Dahmer case in May: Charles R. Noble, with murder and arson, and Deavours Nix with arson. Their trial dates have not been set.
As Mr. Bowers sat in the courtroom today in his off-white suit, seeming uninterested, Mr. Rogers described how angry a younger Mr. Bowers had been on a winter night years before.
He said he and other Klansmen took part in what Mr. Bowers called a ''dry run,'' piling into cars and driving past the Dahmers' house.
Mr. Bowers is not accused of being at the scene. Mr. Rogers said that he also did not take part in the actual killing.
But Mr. Pitts admitted to being there. He testified, as he had in trials that led to the convictions of four other men in Mr. Dahmer's killing, that eight men in two cars, the trunks loaded with shotguns and 12 gallons of gasoline, rumbled toward the Dahmers' home.
They stopped at a black cemetery near there, and one of the Klansmen urinated on a grave, Mr. Pitts testified. Then, the others did, too.
He said Mr. Bowers had sent him along as a guard, with a pistol, to watch over the others. But as Mr. Dahmer, his body aflame, fired a shotgun over and over from a window to give his wife and children time to escape, Mr. Pitts said he dropped the pistol without firing.
He said he could hear Mr. Dahmer calling from inside the house.
Mr. Dahmer, his lungs seared, died in a hospital 12 hours later.
''A man's life was taken, and I was part of it,'' Mr. Pitts said. ''It's something I can't get out of my mind. I wish to God I had never been a part of it.
After serving a short Federal sentence for his part in the killing, Mr. Pitts was supposed to serve a life sentence in Mississippi. But he never did time in state prison. Mr. Pitts, who had cooperated in the investigation, said he was told by the authorities that he did not have to serve the sentence, but he was never officially pardoned.
In January, The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson reported that fact, and Mr. Pitts is now serving that sentence.
Mr. Buckley, who has argued that Mr. Bowers is the victim of a Federal conspiracy, asked Mr. Pitts if the Federal Government gave him money for his girlfriend in the 1960's.
Mr. Pitts said that the Federal investigators gave him about $8,000 over time, but that money went to his wife and children, not his mistress.
He said he used the money to relocate his family, because he feared the Klan would harm them. | 2019-04-26T05:53:39 | https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/20/us/ex-klansman-implicates-chief-in-killing.html |
0.999991 | People are no more fearful of crossing a street with a young male skinhead in it than they are a street with a smartly dressed woman present, unless, that is, a CCTV camera is overhead. The new finding appears to undermine one of the key justifications for Britain's network of 4.2 million surveillance cameras: that they provide reassurance to the public. It seems that the sight of a CCTV camera can have the opposite effect, cueing the perception of a threat.
Dave Williams and Jobuda Ahmed presented 120 participants - shoppers in Hatfield - with pictures of a fictional town centre street scene. When the scene contained both a skinhead and a CCTV camera, the participants, aged between 18 to 70 years, reported raised concern about walking in the scene, compared with when the same scene was either empty, contained a woman with or without a CCTV camera, or a skinhead without a camera. In other words, it was specifically the combination of a skinhead and CCTV that provoked fear - neither had any effect on their own.
The presence of a CCTV camera seemed to cue participants' prejudices about skinheads, thus inducing fear. This supposition was supported when participants were asked to write a paragraph on a "day in the life of" either the male skinhead or the smartly dressed woman. When a CCTV camera was present in the scene, but not otherwise, participants wrote an account of the skinhead's day that betrayed their prejudices, for example one account stated that he had "outstayed his welcome in the cafe".
"Defending the modern urban landscape from a sense of undulating moral crisis and corresponding crime with visible technological crime deterrence measures may not always reduce fear of crime," the researchers said. "[CCTV] is partly designed to reduce fear of crime ... this study demonstrates that in certain contexts it can have the opposite effect."
CCTV cameras may not be the only form of crime-fighting paraphernalia that can backfire by cueing a sense of threat. In a North American study conducted in the late 90's John Schweitzer and colleagues found that a plethora of "Neighbourhood Watch" signs increased people's fear of crime.
I believe there's a misconception in this: a smartly dressed business woman and a male skinhead do evoke different reactions in people, even crossing the street in public places. The presence of the security camera may allow people the feeling that it's okay to listen to those feelings of discomfort/dread without feeling as if they're the only one being "politically insensitive". Fear of people, especially in warranted situations, is often pushed aside in favor of being "respectful."
The Dave Williams and Jobuda Ahmed study says more about our association of CCTV cameras with crime than it does about CCTV cameras not reassuring the public. Initially looking at an urban street scene the subjects will think– this is a place I have never been to before but it looks nice. When a CCTV camera is added the perception changes of then neighborhood changes and subjects will think - hold on the CCTV cameras must be there for a reason. Then when their fears are confirmed by the addition of a perceived negative image (the skinhead) that creates a potentially threatening situation so I am not surprised with the result.
Along with the increased number of cameras in the public places, CCTV cameras are being used at work places to monitor staff. This is hugely controversial and is damaging to a practice that is already seen as invasive and voyeuristic.The use and prevalence of CCTV is an ongoing debate which will continue to raise.
I agree with Sean Slavic. I don't really mind having USA Security Camera watching me, it's for my safety anyway. If people are worried about their privacy, there's a cctv technology that can block out any private moments through camera sensors. I don't really get why people are more worried about their private life rather than their own safety. If your life will be put in danger then your privacy wouldn't mean a thing. If you have nothing to hide, why hide right?
Oh yes! CCTV’s have both the boon and bane. In offices it should not be used for spying at employees but otherwise. But in public places I think it is good. People feel safe.
These are the devices which are made for Security purposes.CCTV cameras may not be the only form of crime-fighting paraphernalia that can backfire by cueing a sense of threat. | 2019-04-24T06:15:29 | http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/11/cctv-cameras-dont-reassure-they.html?showComment=1396346699267 |
0.999982 | I found this recipe in a cookbook published in our area. It's so good that I haven't done a single thing to change the original instructions!
In small bowl, stir together flour, poppy seeds, salt and baking soda. In large bowl, cream sugar and butter. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add yogurt and vanilla extract; mix well. Stir in flour mixture until dry ingredients are moistened. Spoon batter into greased muffin tins.
Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean. Cool on wire rack for 5 minutes before removing from pan.
1 each: 237 calories, 10g fat (5g saturated fat), 59mg cholesterol, 222mg sodium, 34g carbohydrate (18g sugars, 1g fiber), 4g protein.
I have made these several times and they are delicious. I have never used anything other than Greek yogurt so not sure what they would taste like with other yogurt but they are kind of dense but moist. I have always made them with vanilla extract as the recipe calls but this time was out so substituted almond extract and I think they tasted even better. This is a winner recipe if you like poppy seed muffins!
I thought these muffins were very good and very moist. However, I added a tsp of lemon juice and next time I think I would add a little more. | 2019-04-21T04:46:52 | https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/poppy-seed-pound-cake-muffins/ |
0.999953 | Computor PSU How to switch ON [Archive] - CNCzone.com- Largest Forums for CNC Professional and Hobbyist alike!
I got a few diffent PSU from a friend, I was wondering if anybody new what wires to connect up to get it to switch ON.
If I had the mother boards I could trace it but all I have is a load of wires.
I have identified all the power wires easily enough, and I have a green one labelled on the board On/Off.
This supply is a 230w made by DAN.
If this is an ATX power supply, the simple method is that you need an ATX motherboard. Then the power on function is provided by hooking your power on button to the terminal block on the m/b marked "Power on switch".
I suspect from your description, that your old PS was an AT style, which had its own mechanical switch?
I usually put a small car bulb across +5V - Ground to get the supply to switch on (just for testing purposes). It won't produce power if there is not sufficient load.
I assume you would like to use it to power a cnc driver board. It sounds like a ATX powersupply.
You need to tie the green to a black to get it to turn on. A resistor on the +5 volts helps a lot too. 10 ohms 5 watts works good.
They are ATX power supply's, tried grounding the green ON/Off wire and adding a 12v bulb across the 5v but nothing on all four of the PSU I have.
From what you are saying above, Does all Computor PSU need a load before they switch ON.
You should be able to turn it on without the load across 5v. If you have the atx connector handy, just double check that the green wire is pin 14. On some of the older psu's there is also a "power good" wire that may or may not need to be connected. If the fan twitches a little bit when you try to turn the thing on, chances are there is a short circuit somewhere.
Yes the green is pin 14.
Actually, it does seem as the power good lead may not be required, according to this page (http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/ATX_PS_in_8600_9600/ATX_supply_in_8600_9600.html).
Right I connected a 4r7 17w resister across the 5v and grounded the green wire. Still nothing happens.
Tried the resistor on the 12v no good, tried the same on the othr ATX supply nothing either.
The 230w version has a grey power good wire but the 200w dosn't so I'm still stuck.
Lesson 11 - You think the software is the hard part, until you try to get your power supply going !!
Dell PSU's are Proprietory and do not follow ATX Standards, the pins are not in the same spot, they are also not the same color as standard ATX PSU's. A /few/ DELL PSU's are standard, but few and far between.
To turn on a /standard/ ATX PSU' Just connect the Green wire to any Ground (Black Wire), all the grounds are the same, so it doesnt matter which one. If your PSU Requires a load to run, simply connect an old Hard Drive to the Power Supply. However, in most most cases a load is not required.
Hopefully this helps some people out.
Depending on the PS you might have to have load on both the 5+v and the 12+v. I am using 3 dell 'Server' power supplys and I had to have load on both plus a jumper from the green lead to ground.
I've successfully modified an atx power supply as per instructions from that site. | 2019-04-24T04:22:18 | https://www.cnczone.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2182.html?s=c0306bca4a13f40f3508e93c235f2d93 |
0.999918 | My research interest centers on social and policy implications of new technologies.
My current projects examine various dimensions of digital privacy. Another line of research includes innovative methodologies of big data and real-time observations, with practical implications. Underlying emphasis in my works is to generate empirical research with concrete policy and social values.
I am a winner of the Top Paper Award, NCA 2015, Future Comm, Top Paper Award International Social Network Conference (DISC), TRIPLE HELIX, in 2014, the Top Three Faculty Paper Award Human Comm. Technology NCA, 2014; the Top Three Faculty Paper Award, Communication Technology Division 2012, AEJMC; Kappa Tau Award; and the Jung-Sook Lee Top Paper Award, AEJMC.
My proposals were funded by Scripps Foundation, 2016; Advertising Education Foundation, NYC to participate in VPP / Oligvy, Chicago 2013. I was also honored to receive James Carey-ICA Urban Communication Grant 2012. My work regarding digital information explosion has been covered in well-known media outlets such as the Huffington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Another work on the effect of media ownership consolidation has been cited in a number of policy reports, mostly recently concerning FCC policy on NBC Universal/Comcast merger proposal. My latest research on teens' mobile use was also covered in a number of online media outlets in 2014. Most recently, my co-authored work on Facebook friends and political dialogues got attention from Huffington Post Live. I served as a FCC panelist on public discussion regarding the information needs among the American public, with three of my co-authored policy briefs extensively reported in Communications Daily. In 2015, I was invited to the Facebook headquarters (Menlo Park, CA) for privacy, sexting, and teen-related works.
My works (will) appear in Journalism, Policy and Internet, New Media and Society, Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, Social Science Computer Review, Telematics and Informatics, International Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Telecommunications Policy, Javnost-the public, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, Info: Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Telecommunications, Mobile Media and Communication, The Information Society, Government Information Quarterly, Communication Teacher, Journal of Information Policy, First Monday, Sociology Compass, and more. In addition, I was EPIC research fellow and contributed to East Asian section of Privacy & Human Rights Report by the EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) in Washington DC. More than 25 of my works have been presented at numerous referred conferences such as TPRC, AEJMC, ICA, MPSA, NCA, and IAMCR.
At Howard, I teach Research Method, Communication Policy, Emerging New Communication Technologies, and Race, Gender, Media. I am also a member of Howard Media Group, a social science research group with the goal of expanding access to the (new) media among under-served communities. I obtained my Ph.D. in Communications, from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a MA in Communication Management, from Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, and a BA in Media Studies, from University of San Francisco. | 2019-04-24T12:32:41 | http://yongjinpark.com/index.html |
0.987332 | I am an ecologist, with research interests in both applied and theoretical ecology. My research in applied ecology is focused on management of semi-natural grasslands, and the preservation of the species within them; while my research in theoretical ecology is focused on modelling of vector-borne disease spread to livestock.
The amount of species-rich, semi-natural grasslands have decreased during the last 60 years, and many of the species dependent on this habitat type have become rare and threatened. Semi-natural grassland species are dependent on management for survival, usually mowing or grazing, and the aim of my research is to find the most beneficial management methods for conservation of grasslands and grassland species. Using studies from Sweden and Europe, as well as other continents, I compare the effect of mowing and grazing, different mowing techniques and mowing frequencies, using meta-analysis to determine the management practice with the most positive effect. The results have so far revealed that grazing have a slightly more positive effect compared to mowing, but that the effects differ depending on for example the type of grassland and other factors.
Vector-borne disease spread, i.e. diseases spread by for example mosquitoes or ticks (e.g. Malaria, Lyme disease), is a very current subject. My research is focused on diseases affecting livestock like cattle or sheep, for example Bluetongue. The spread of these diseases can have large consequences, as the control and prevention of these diseases can be very costly. The aim of my project is to create simulation models to analyse disease spread in different types of landscapes. How far can a disease spread if all farms in a landscape are close to each other, what happens if there are animal transports between farms and what effect does infected wildlife (e.g. deer) have on the spread of a disease? Furthermore I examine the effect of vector habitat availability and effects of control measures like transport bans on disease spread. The aim is to make these models for both simulated and real landscapes (e.g. southern Sweden).
My goal for the future is to try and connect both my research subjects, by examining how management of habitats where vectors reproduce affect the vector population, as management of this type of habitats may decrease the amount of surviving larvae. Therefore, management might be an effective control measure against disease spread, while also contributing to for example increased plant species richness in these habitats. | 2019-04-25T20:09:56 | https://liu.se/en/employee/malta14 |
0.999999 | Can tape provide a performance boost?
Athletes like Mirai Nagasu and Ted Ligety have been spotted at the Winter Olympics wearing streaks of tape.
Nagasu had it on her leg, which confused viewers who thought it might be some kind of tattoo.
But these athletes are actually wearing kinesio tape provided to Team USA by KT Tape.
It's not clear based on scientific research whether the tape actually helps. But there might be good reasons for athletes to wear it anyway.
US figure skater Mirai Nagasu stunned Winter Olympics figure skating watchers over the weekend with her impressive performance — she was the first American woman to ever land a triple axel at the Olympics.
But the other part of her performance that stuck with viewers was the dark streak on her thigh with the letters "USA" on it. There was at first some speculation that it might be a tattoo of some kind, but it was soon revealed that it was actually Team USA-branded athletic kinesiology tape made by KT Tape.
In this year's Winter Games, some alpine skiers have also been wearing the tape on their faces to protect themselves from the freezing air. KT Tape is capitalizing on the moment by offering discounts on the "mystery tattoo" tape.
The KT Tape company web site says the tape is "designed to relieve pain while supporting muscles, tendons, and ligaments."
But the science on whether Kinesio tape actually works isn't clear. Wearing it may be beneficial for Olympic athletes — but not necessarily for the reason the competitors choose to put it on.
Hopefully Ted Ligety doesn't have too hard a time removing tape from his face.
Kinesiology tape, which is often brightly colored, has made a splash at the Olympics and in other sporting events before. It started to draw viewers' attention at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Games, where it was often quite visible on the exposed skin of beach volleyball players.
Recently, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady showed up for the AFC Championship Game wearing KT Tape. He was using it protect stitches he'd received to treat a gash in his right hand.
The KT Tape website claims the product "helps reduce pressure to the tissue and may reduce discomfort or pain. Correct taping also provides support to muscles by improving the muscle's ability to contract, even when it is weak, and helps the muscle to not over-extend or over-contract."
Kinesio Tex Tape, which is what athletes were first spotted wearing in 2008, was designed by a Japanese chiropractor in 1979. Kinesio's website says their tape "alleviates discomfort and facilitates lymphatic drainage by microscopically lifting the skin." They say that it can be "applied over muscles to reduce pain and inflammation, relax overused or tired muscles, and support muscles in movement on a 24-hour-a-day basis."
Whether or not the tape actually does these things is less clear. And athletes seem to be wearing it for a variety of reasons that go beyond the marketing — face-warming certainly isn't one of the recommended uses.
Most of us first noticed the tape on beach volleyball players.
Several reviews of studies have analyzed the clinical use of kinesio taping for people with musculoskeletal conditions, and found no evidence it helped patients. So people with chronic conditions that need treatment (not usually Olympic athletes) probably won't see any benefit from using the tape.
Some researchers have found that taping can have potential benefits for people with lower back pain, but reviews haven't found any strong significant overall benefit.
At least one review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that "Kinesio taping is superior to minimal intervention for pain relief." Other studies have found that the taping may potentially increase range of motion slightly, but there's not necessarily evidence that one type of tape is better than another. Researchers who have looked to see if tape improves blood flow have said that they found no evidence of that effect.
Overall, it seems that if there's any benefit, it's not large or easy to measure.
Yet there are many athletes who have have turned to tape. In addition to Olympians and NFL players, Lance Armstrong and David Beckham used the adhesive during their careers.
Even if the tape doesn't do much from a physical perspective, there may be a good reason for the athletes who use it to keep doing so.
Competitions are won or lost by fractions of a second, so even some very slight pain relief or increase in range of motion matters to an Olympic athlete. A .05% performance gain could be the difference between standing on the podium or sitting off to the side.
If there's no performance boost whatsoever from the tape, it could still be worth wearing if an athlete thinks it helps them. Study after study has documented the benefits of the placebo effect. People who think they've been given caffeine or morphine feel less fatigue or pain, even if all they've ingested is a sugar pill.
As physiology professor Steve Harridge told Reuters in 2012, "the fact that athletes think it's going to do them some good can help in a psychological way."
Athletes tend to cling to anything that might give them a performance boost. If tape makes someone feel there's less reason to worry about a tight hamstring or sore back, the relaxation that comes with that state of mind may make the difference between a winning performance and one that falls short.
That alone could be good enough reason to do it. | 2019-04-18T23:23:37 | https://www.businessinsider.com/why-winter-olympics-athletes-mirai-nagasu-ted-ligety-wear-tape-2018-2 |
0.999028 | Large stocks, small stocks, long-term corporate bonds, long-term government bonds, and treasury bills.
Large stocks, small stocks, long-term government bonds, long-term corporate bonds, and treasury bills.
Small stocks, large stocks, long-term corporate bonds, long-term government bonds, and treasury bills.
Question 2. Question : (TCO 1) A direct equity claim arises through investment in _____.
Question 3. Question : (TCO 1) What factors must be considered in choosing between investment alternatives?
Question 4. Question : (TCO 1) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an organized exchange?
An organized exchange functions as a primary market.
Securities are bought and sold in an auction market by brokers acting as agents for buyers and sellers in a central location.
An organized exchange may be either national or regional.
An organized exchange has a central location where all trading takes place.
Question 5. Question : (TCO 1) Secondary markets provide _____.
Question 6. Question : (TCO 1) The process of selling a new issue of securities so that the price is guaranteed to the selling firm is referred to as _____.
Question 7. Question : (TCO 1) The first exchange to become a publicly traded company was the _____.
Question 8. Question : (TCO 1) The _____ is the tax rate that applies to each new dollar of income.
Question 9. Question : (TCO 1) The index which gives equal weight to every company included, and is therefore not dominated by any single company, is the _____.
Question 10. Question : (TCO 1) The success of a short investment position depends on _____. | 2019-04-23T12:43:14 | http://www.homeworktuition.com/fin-351-devry-week-1-quiz-latest-3/ |
0.998567 | Let's take a look at what other people are saying about the Vikings, and starting with an unlikely source: the podcast of Tony Kornheiser.
Kornheiser, known first for his work as a Washington Post columnist and more recently as the co-host of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, went on an interesting tangent while talking about Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman, a Minnesota native.
"I'm going to say this, and I've said this to other people. There are 122 teams in the four major [men's] sports in America," he began.
"Minnesota Vikings fans are the most passionate, the most rabid, the most self-delusional, the most totally consumed with their team of any of these teams. I know this. I know Vikings fans."
"This is the most inordinate amount of pressure on any athlete in the world, including LeBron James. That's on Kirk Cousins. They live and die with the Vikings."
"The Vikings know their Super Bowl window will never be opened wider than it is now; they didn't want to gamble on Case Keenum catching the same lightning in a bottle that he did in 2017. The return on the expensive Cousins investment will come down to how well the QB does when things break down."
He concludes with this: On paper, this Vikings team is better than last year's Viking team. But history has shown that doesn't guarantee more wins."
• ESPN's Bill Barnwell takes a look at all 32 teams and their path to the Super Bowl, ranking them in order of their Football Power Index rating. The Vikings are No. 5 and are given a 6.9 percent chance to win it all.
Barnwell points to the usual suspects — offensive line play, health and the kicking game — as reasons the Vikings could stumble.
He ends like this: "Otherwise, this might be the most talented roster in the league."
"That incredible play against the Saints? It means nothing. It was rendered less important than the approximately 700 touchdowns Philly rained down on them the following week.
"It may as well have never happened."
The past is the past, but Drew is not wrong in this: There could be a strange emotional hangover from last season. | 2019-04-18T23:13:51 | http://www.startribune.com/tony-kornheiser-says-kirk-cousins-faces-more-pressure-than-any-other-pro-athlete-in-america/492556991/ |
0.99915 | I'm putting together a slideshow incorporating several AVs and wondered how to set the music input levels so that when presented one AV isn't louder than the other?
The way I do that, is to extract the sound track from each video, then use them as separate files in the Timeline (making sure the synchronisation is OK between the video and the sound track). In PTE it is easy to have a silent video: in Objects and Animation, there is a video option: "Mute audio" which does exactly that.
For extraction of the audio part from the video, I use VLC-media player from VideoLAN: Menu "Media", then "Convert/Record", and I select the profile as "WAV", no Video CODEC and MP3 as the Audio CODEC.
I am sure there are other ways, maybe even from within PTE to extract the audio, but that works for me at present.
Optionnally I also use the free software "Audacity" to set the overal volume, the balance between each channel, etc.
In PTE, go to "Project Options", "Audio" tab, "Add Audio File" after selecting "video files" instead of "audio files" at the bottom right of the sreen (just above "open") and then at the bottom right of the screen: "Convert tracks to MP3 for EXE". The extracted audio track is pushed at the far end of the slideshow (after any existing other sound file, I think) and needs to be brought back under the video it belongs to.
Just drag the video to the PTE sound track, and you get it as a separete sound track.
No need for an external conversion.
Hi all, many thanks for taking the time to answer my question. When inserting a video clip from my SLR the sound doesn't appear separately. Perhaps it's because it's embeded?
Also, the question was actually relating to getting sound levels from several AVs within a single presentation all at the same level (decibels) so that they are all at the same volume. I hope you can help?
Indeed, your recorded video file (from camera) contains the sequential images and also the sound track.
In order to manage the sound level of your video, the procedure is to extract the sound from the video as a separately manageable item, and to mute the video to avoid any interference.
My previous procedure was to create a physically separate audio file from the video, as if it came from a musical CD. That is not necessary as explained by Tonton Bruno, since all can be done within PTE. Neat!
Let me try to answer your question in different words and in a slightly different way. Yes, the audio is embedded in the video by your SLR and if you simply enter the video on the slide list there is no way to control the sound on your video.
PicturesToExe has a very easy way to separate the audio from the video. First, in Objects and Animations screen on the "Properties Tab" click the mouse in the box marked "Mute Audio."
Next, click on the "Project Options" button on the lower left of the screen then click on the "Audio" tab. Now click on "Add Audio File" and when the box to Open and audio file appears, where it says "files of type" and defaults to "audio files," click on the little down arrow in the tiny blue box to the right and from the menu choose "video files." Now navigate to your video file and select and open it.
Now your audio for this video is fully adjustable via the waveform just as if you had entered an mp3 or other audio file.
As for the audio volume from several AV's , you CAN adjust them individually via the waveform, but the better way is to do it in an audio editor such as Audacity.
Thanks Lin, for the step by step instructions, hopefully foolproof as always.
Please note that there is a little "Gotcha" attached to both methods described above If you ONLY want the Audio of a video.
If you are making an EXE from the Project then the WHOLE VIDEO is included in the EXE which pumps up the File Size.
The way to avoid this is to EXPORT the completed soundtrack when the project is finished, delete all soundtracks and re-introduce the SAVED (adjusted/composite) soundtrack as a single Audio Clip.
It would probably be wise to make a copy of the project in order to do this to be able to go back if necessary to make late changes.
If your output is Video then this is not necessary. | 2019-04-22T12:18:31 | https://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/topic/20978-music-input-levels/ |
0.997227 | THE MODERATOR: Good evening. I'd like to welcome our leader for the first round, Bryson DeChambeau. Bryson, you recorded a fine 6‑under par 66; 35, 31, nine birdies, including six of the last seven from 12 to 18.
Bryson, what a great start to the tournament for you. Perhaps you can offer some thoughts on your round today, especially the last nine.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, it's obviously my best round out here, 66. I was just looking to shoot something in the 60s this week because I haven't done that yet in my couple times playing here.
What a magical back nine. Wind started to pick up, right around Amen Corner, and it was tough. It was not easy one bit. But we just stuck to what we knew we should have done, and we did, and was able to execute a beautiful 9‑iron on 12 that kind of jump started my back nine, hitting it to five feet, making that putt got me rolling.
Only thing we didn't really understand was on 14, we hit a shot, just a little up in the wind and just got really hit by the wind and ended up short rolling back, and that was a big mistake. But other than that, that was the only mistake, other than the drive on 17. I'll have to work on that hole on the range after tonight.
Q. The green looks good, by the way, so far.
Q. Was there anything that clicked that was a little different on the back nine at all that wasn't quite going for you? Was it just the way it developed?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Just the way it developed. Honestly, I was hitting it great all day, driving it well. Just an accumulation of great golf that finally showed in the score.
Q. As you saw the shot on 18, what was going through your head?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Should have pulled the flagstick out (chuckles), should have had Tim go out there and pull it out or tinned it. But no, it was a great shot, and I was excited just to tap‑in to finish off a great round.
Q. You mentioned earlier this week that your preparation would need to be more intense for Augusta than perhaps other tournaments. Can you just share an example of something you had to do earlier this week that you have perhaps never had to do before?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: I had to spend more time on the putting green. Normally we have contour maps, and I'm able to rely off those pretty easily. Unfortunately we don't this week, and I understand that. Totally respect that, and you know, I like the challenge, actually. It's kind of fun. I think going out there and trying to use your eyes as much as possible, get your sense of balance and where level is, it's really a very unique skill. It's a tough skill to develop and create, but one that if you can do that, then in other tournaments, too, using the contour maps, you can be really deadly with both of that, combined together.
But here this week, it's about really practicing and looking at slopes and making sure you can see the line go in the hole.
Q. They mentioned in the broadcast that you had made some changes with your iron this week. Could you detail that as much as you feel comfortable doing? And second, you had spoken about in 2016, you didn't feel you were ready to win this tournament. I know there's three rounds left, but what makes you feel better about that possibility this time around?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Well, last week we spent a good deal‑‑ and it started‑‑ it's been going on for a couple years now with my wedge play and my iron play not being as good as I know it could be for the swing that I have.
So everybody was like, well, is the one length‑‑ it's not. It's something else that we were missing. And so last week I said I'm going to stay here at Dallas National until I figure out what it is on this gear system.
I stayed there for 14 hours on Wednesday hitting 125 shots out there on this system trying to figure out what was happening with the wedges, and we knew it was something in regards to the spin loft curve and us being on the wrong side of the spin loft curve, but we didn't understand how to get it back on the correct side.
And so after careful observation and some really deep, deep thinking on what's happening and some cool depictions of how the club was moving through the ball, we started to realize it was something we could do with the shafts. And so we went the other way with my previous logic, which I don't really want to give too much about it out, but we went the other way with the way I was previously thinking, and it actually started to work.
From then on we were working on just fine tuning it and just getting a good understanding of what is going to fit me perfect in any situation. We've come really close to a really good answer. Obviously it was good enough to shoot 66 today. I think I just need a little more practice to get comfortable in all situations.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Again, there's a bit of the maturing aspect of it, understanding how to control certain emotions on the golf course. Not necessarily from an attitude perspective. Just from a nerve perspective, being comfortable in different situations and being able to go, I can do this, this is not a problem, compared to in 2016, I'm like, I'm not sure if I can do it. That's really what the change has been.
Q. This is very unscientific, but there is such positive energy out there on the course all afternoon. Koepka is getting birdies all over the place; you are; Phil almost got a hole‑in‑one. Can it be contagious at all? Do you get impacted by that?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, absolutely, there is an energy and there is something in science that does talk about that and more and more science is coming out about that.
Yeah, it's great to have momentum and great atmosphere and gets you all pumped up. Creates some adrenaline flow and allows you to get in a different mind‑set. I believe that's partially what happened today, yeah.
Q. You're a guy that likes to break down things and study things. What's the process for you like, just learning the nuances of a place like this?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Well, you saw me working as hard as I possibly could leading up to this event. I think a lot of the preparation is needed coming into this event. I think just experience over time, I don't know if I'm going to be able to figure out every little nuance of this golf course in my third year playing, but what I can do is prepare as good as I can and be comfortable with my own game in any situation; so that when I get out here, any situation that arises, I feel I can execute and play the game that's necessary.
So yeah, that's as best of an answer as I can give you on that one.
Q. You played well today obviously, but a lot of guys seem to struggle, especially with the pin locations today. Can you talk about how challenging that was out there?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: 14. 14 was brutal. And you couldn't miss it short, and I did the only thing you couldn't do; if you hit it past it, it was okay. Even a little right of the flag it was okay. You know, and I think‑‑ what was another good one? 11 was tough. 10 was difficult. A lot of hole locations; 6 was difficult and 5 was even difficult, too.
It's just a great test of golf to start out the first round of Masters, and to be honest, it's great to sift through some of the really good players and maybe not so great players in this event right now.
And look, it's not to say they are bad players. It's just it's very difficult out there and you've got to be‑‑ every aspect of your game has to be on point. So it's kind of nice, you can almost break away from the pack if you play well.
Q. You mentioned 14‑hour practice session. That seems like an awfully long time. Is that a common thing for you? Is that‑‑ do you get tired at some point?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: If I get driven enough to where it's been a long enough time to where we haven't figured something out, I will exhaust every resource until I figure it out. And that's common with me. I become almost a little, in a positive way, OCD about trying to complete something, very positive way.
It's only certain times. I won't make my bed at all. I don't really care too much about that (laughs). But outside‑‑ inside the game of golf, I can sometimes become very OCD, and it's a positive thing that's allowed me to play well.
Q. What's the longest session that you've had?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Probably that one. I've had days back at Mike Schy's place, the 10 in Fresno, California‑‑ Madera California. I've gone from 6:30 to 7:00 a.m. till 8:00 at night. Why not.
Q. When you saw where the ball landed on 16, how much did "ace" go through your mind?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: The whole time it was rolling. I've never had an ace, ever, unfortunately. I was hoping it would go in.
Q. What was the club?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Nice little 8‑iron off the higher part of the face.
Q. What's the plan for tonight? Will you hit some balls before you head home?
Q. And do you like going early/late or late/early?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Doesn't matter to me too much. I know if I'm trying to hit it my best and trying to figure something out, early/late is something I do appreciate because I can give myself a little test run and try to make some changes if need be to play better the next day.
But as of right now, it's better to play good, and hopefully go back out in the morning and do the same.
Q. You mentioned the word challenge and fun, and the fun of the challenge. We asked that of Jack Nicklaus this morning, and he talked about how that is the difference; it's supposed to be fun. Does that change your‑‑ considering the importance of this tournament, does it change the way you are, your approach, because you're having fun out there?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, I think when I execute, when there's a given challenge and I execute up to the standard of the given challenge, that's what's fun to me. When I'm not performing, then I go into grind mode and try to figure out why it didn't work and how we can implement something else that may make it better in the future.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Some people could say that I just think‑‑ overthinking is usually a cause of not really understanding the situation and not really being able to decipher what's going on.
And so sometimes overthinking is necessary to say‑‑ to go down a rabbit hole and be like, okay, that doesn't work, so now I have to go find another route. So overthinking eventually gets you to the answer. You just have to keep going down the hole.
Q. When you said no hole‑in‑ones; is that in competition?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Xander doesn't have one either two. Top‑10 players in the world don't have hole‑in‑ones, at least that's what I was told. I may be wrong on that but that's what I was told. Pretty unique.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: No. You're always on the tip of your toes out here. You can't let one shot go awry, and that's what Mr.Jones and Mr.MacKenzie, that's the way they designed this golf course. That's the beauty of this golf course and that's the beauty of this championship. It's a great test of golf.
Q. Didn't mean it quite that way. I meant, you felt so good about the way you were playing, a comfort zone?
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: It was fun when I had to make a 2‑inch putt on the 18th hole. That was about it.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, Bryson. We wish you all the best and a great round today. | 2019-04-24T08:08:00 | http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=149000 |
0.999992 | Given the specs, it seems if your probes measure 77mOhms; that leaves you with the ability to measure 0-23mOhms if max it can measure is 1 Ohm? Or can it read higher than 1 ohm?
1 Ohm is 1000 mOhm. So if your probes are 77mOhms you can measure 0-923 mOhm. It can read up to 1.24 Ohm, but over 1 is not precise enough. | 2019-04-23T12:52:53 | http://jaanus.tech-thing.org/half-ohm/half-ohm-final-design/ |
0.998181 | Reference words are a type of rhetorical device that allows a writer to create cohesion throughout a text by reintroducing, manipulating, or anticipating information continually and in interesting ways.
Reference words can be almost any part of speech, but most of them are pronouns and noun phrases.
Reference words can refer in three directions: upward to a previously mentioned portion of text, downward to a subsequent portion of text, or outward to an entity that is not mentioned in the text.
A. Reference words that refer upward in a text are called "anaphoric."
B. Reference words that refer downward in a text are called "cataphoric."
C. Reference words that refer outward from a text are called "exophoric." | 2019-04-20T18:54:54 | https://www.ntid.rit.edu/sea/processes/referencewords/process/summary |
0.996459 | You could use newsconomy for multiple things. You could go there just to look at or find interesting things.
You could find things by different topics by using tags in a url. For instance, say you wanted to find items about dictionaries. You could go here: http://newsconomy.com/tag/dictionary You could find interesting things on youtube: http://newsconomy.com/tag/youtube etc.
When you submit things, you could tag them with certain tags to create lists of items. For instance I created a list of items of my blog posts about newsconomy by tagging them with newsconomy when I submitted them: http://newsconomy.com/tag/newsconomy If I wanted to show someone some blog posts about newsconomy, I would just need to give them the link to the list of newsconomy items.
You could display rss feeds you make on other websites by using feed2js. I displayed an rss feed from newsconomy on my blog, on the lower right part that starts with "Newsconomy: mudge's items"
When you submit items, they automatically go into your account. You have a list of items that consists of everything you have submitted. For example the user sqs has his items here: http://newsconomy.com/sqs You can get items you submitted (or other people) with certain tags by putting the tags in the url, like this: http://newsconomy.com/sqs/dictionary Putting items into your account and tagging them helps you remember things better, and helps you find them later.
Finally, buying items is a way of trading items with people. It's not fully developed yet. Also, buying items puts them at the top of lists, and all buying is recorded with the items.
Yeah something needs to be done to implement this law on a broader level. I read on https://www.essaysontime.com.au/ that they are moving to make sure every states uses it. | 2019-04-23T20:42:25 | http://nickmudge.info/?post=81 |
0.998823 | The Conservative Party has decided to sell the lease on its London HQ.
The Tory party board agreed on Tuesday to move to "new, more suitable premises as soon as possible".
Newspaper reports suggest leaving Smith Square in Westminster could raise £6m for the Tory election war chest.
Conservative Central Office has been home to the party since the 1950s but it is 11 years since it hosted an election victory party.
Announcing the sell-off, Mr Howard said he was impressed by the "unity of purpose" shown at the board meeting.
Raymond Monbiot, chairman of the Conservative National Convention and deputy Tory chairman said: "The decision taken today is just one more element in streamlining the Conservative Party machine for fighting the next general election."
Shadow home secretary David Davis told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: "I'm afraid 32 Smith Square has got old and we need to find rather more purpose-built accommodation for modern use."
Mr Davis said the party wanted somewhere with open plan offices and facilities like a television and press centre.
The decision is also a symbolic move away from a building which in recent years has become heavily associated with plotting and back-biting against the leadership.
Labour famously moved from Walworth Road to Millbank ahead of its 1997 election triumph, although it has now moved to Old Queen Street.
The decision comes as Mr Howard's new team of shadow ministers start their first day in the job.
Among other changes announced on Tuesday was MP Boris Johnson, editor of the Spectator magazine, becoming a vice-chairman in charge of campaigning.
Despite cutting size of his shadow cabinet by more than half to 12, Mr Howard has now given jobs to more than 100 MPs.
Monday's reshuffle also saw former leaders John Major, William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith, as well as ex-chancellor Ken Clarke, form a new council of "wise men".
Big winners in the changes include new shadow home secretary Mr Davis and new shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin.
Tim Yeo also takes up the huge joint brief of education and health.
Mr Yeo said the changes would make the Tory top team able to react much more quickly to events.
The senior ministers will be backed by teams of junior "shadow secretaries".
One notable absentee from the council of "wise men", Lord Heseltine, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he would not have expected to be included in such a group and was encouraged by the start Michael Howard had made.
"What he has done and the way the announcements have come through is one of the most encouraging things that has happened in the Conservative Party for a very long time.
"I believe that he has recognised the fundamental fact about the Tory Party, which is that it is a broad church and to work, to be effective, to appeal widely, you have to represent a spectrum of opinion and mould it together into a fighting force," the former deputy prime minister said.
The Tory chairman role has been split between Lord Saatchi, the advertising guru who helped Margaret Thatcher towards her historic 1979 election victory, and former health spokesman Dr Liam Fox.
Lord Saatchi will be focusing on making Conservative Central Office a "premier political machine" once again.
Dr Fox will instead be the public face of party headquarters, taking charge of campaigning, policy and media issues.
Labour chairman Ian McCartney accused Mr Howard of downgrading the health and education portfolios.
"While it takes two shadow cabinet members to run a declining Tory Party, apparently it takes only one to deal with the whole of the NHS and the schools system," added Mr McCartney.
That critique was echoed by Liberal Democrat chairman Matthew Taylor.
"Michael Howard has appointed the same old faces to promote the same old faded and unpopular policies, redirecting NHS and education funds towards subsidising those able to afford private treatment and private education," he said. | 2019-04-20T16:29:16 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3260953.stm |
0.999999 | Was the car park of an apartment complex the reason for a triple murder, or were cars just a pretext for a hate crime?
Michael Nam points to a parking space in the Finley Forest condominium complex in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It doesn't look like much - a stretch of pavement and a stone marker with the word "reserved" in faded white letters. Two squashed pinecones are lying on the ground.
It meant something to Craig Stephen Hicks, though. Once when Nam parked his car there, Hicks came out of his apartment with a gun holstered on his hip. It was at about four on a November afternoon.
"I was like, 'Is this for real?'" Nam says. "I'm not afraid of your gun, but why the hell did you bring it out?"
They argued over the parking space. Hicks, who is 46, took out his mobile phone and showed him a map of the condominium complex, pointing to the places where people are allowed to park - and which places are reserved.
Finally Nam - more annoyed than scared - moved his car.
Image caption The three victims: Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.
"I'm like, 'You're a middle-aged guy, and you want to make it an issue,'" Nam says. "You be you."
In the complex, each apartment gets a reserved space. But there are unreserved spaces throughout the car park and those who live in the complex can also park there. Residents often find that their reserved space is taken, so they park in an un-reserved one or in someone else's parking place.
The system is chaotic and the source of many complaints.
Residents say Hicks had two parking spaces he focused on in front of his apartment.
Hicks' wife, Karen, was also vigilant. She'd come out of the apartment when she thought rules had been violated.
"She'd say, 'You're not allowed to park here'," Nam says.
Recalling these encounters with his neighbours, he glances over at the offending vehicle, a white 2007 Volvo. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a degree in biology, and works at a local pharmacy as a technician.
He lives in a tranquil place - at least most of the time. A pond is nearby with a wooden dock, and the air smells like pine needles. Two geese fly overhead.
This week, though, the place has been anything but peaceful.
On Tuesday afternoon, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, were shot dead.
Barakat was studying dentistry at the graduate level at University of North Carolina. Razan Abu-Salha was a student at North Carolina State University.
They were all shot in the head, and were found dead in their apartment. Hicks has been arrested.
Afterwards a woman called 911 and described what she'd heard - terror and mayhem, followed by silence.
"More than one girl screaming and then nothing," she told the police. "Then I heard more shots go off."
As I was speaking to Nam on Wednesday afternoon, a helicopter hovers over the condominiums, momentarily drowning out his voice.
Journalists from around the country, including me, have come here. They've also taken up most of the parking spaces.
We are not all here to cover a story about an alleged parking dispute. Instead, the question is whether the killings were motivated by the victim's Muslim faith. It's also why the story has gotten so much attention on social media.
No one doubts the horror of the incident on Tuesday afternoon.
But if the victims were killed because of their religion, it becomes an "international" incident, as one journalist, a North Carolina reporter for the News & Observer, tells me.
The chief of the Chapel Hill police, Chris Blue, issued a statement about the shootings: "We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated, and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case."
Karen Hicks is quick to say she and her husband were concerned about parking spaces, describing her married life to reporters in front of her lawyer's office in Chapel Hill on Wednesday.
He is a "champion", she says, for the rights of individuals. Her eyes are filled with tears. She holds a piece of paper, a press statement, in front of her, and her hands are shaking.
When asked to explain more about her husband's views, though, she looks confused.
"It's almost like you have to be with him to understand," she says. "I know you can't just say, 'Trust me'" her voice trails off.
A moment later, her lawyer, Robert Maitland, puts his hand on her shoulder. Her husband was studying to be a paralegal, she says.
"He was unemployed," says Maitland after the press conference, speaking quietly to a reporter on the steps of his law firm. "He was 'the parking-lot guy' - you know the type. He would go around and check on parking spaces."
But the father of the female victims is not convinced.
"It was execution style, a bullet in every head," Mohammad Abu-Salha told the Charlotte News Observer. "This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far."
The condominium complex, a place where graduate students and young families live, is located in a small college town. People here have plenty of stories about parking - and almost as many theories about what happened on Tuesday.
Phil Varnadore, a University of Florida graduate, is walking two dogs, a husky named Chance and a mutt called Billy, near the pond.
"We all have parking spots. You have a right to them," he says. But as he says: "Usually you call a tow truck before you commit murder."
Still he downplays the idea of a hate crime, saying: "I don't think it made it easier to kill them because they were Muslim, black or whatever."
Gina Rocket, who has lived there for the past year and a half, says she isn't sure about the motive. "I think it could be a combination - a hate crime that was also about parking."
Late in the afternoon Nam gets ready to go inside his apartment.
"I heard they were dental students," he says, explaining that he hopes someday to work as a pharmacist. "I was like, 'Man, they were so close.' I'm sure they had the same dreams I do - you want to go out and help people."
Hicks is being held without bail, and a hearing is scheduled for 4 March. | 2019-04-23T08:33:36 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31395467 |
0.999884 | Q: A smoke shop has approached our station about advertising. Can we advertise any tobacco products?
A: Yes, some. Federal law prohibits the advertising of cigarettes, little cigars and all smokeless tobacco products on radio and television stations. The most important provision is the definition of "little cigar," because there is not much question about what constitutes a cigarette. However, the prohibition does extend to "roll your own" products, such as cigarette papers and tobacco.
This leaves the advertising of cigars (regular, big old stogies) and pipe tobacco permissible. The station can also advertise the pipes themselves and the other paraphernalia which pipe smokers use.
Keep in mind that the use of the word "cigarette," even as a part of the name of a store (i.e., as in the required sponsor identification) is prohibited. This is true even if the ad has nothing to do with smoking-related products. For example, a retailer named "Joe's Cigarette and Convenience Store" could not advertise its weekly milk special because the word "cigarette" appears in the name of the store which would be required for the sponsor identification (and for other obvious reasons).
Q: What disclosures are required when an automobile dealer advertises a sale on credit?
A: Both federal and state law require that if the ad copy contains any of the credit terms, or "trigger terms," then all of the credit terms must be disclosed. Typically, a car purchase is "closed-end" credit where credit is advanced for a specific period of time and a specific purchase transaction.
Amount of any finance charge.
All disclosures must be clear and conspicuous. The disclosure requirements for auto credit sales ads DO NOT allow the advertiser to make minimal disclosures and refer to a toll-free hotline or a print ad for more details, as is the case with auto lease ads. Different rules control the disclosures required for auto lease ads.
Q: May an auto dealer advertise a new car for sale as "$97 above cost?"
A: Yes. However, state law [RCW 46.70.180(1)(d)] regulating auto dealers, requires that any computation of "cost," when advertising that a new automobile will be sold at a certain amount above or below cost, must be calculated by using the exact amount of the factory invoice on the specific vehicle referred to as the "cost."
Q: I have an advertiser who really wants to get people's attention. May I use sirens in the company's spots?
A: There's nothing like a good, loud siren to scare the daylights out of an unsuspecting driver who does not know whether he or she is hearing it on the radio or on the street. For many years, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) had a rule (former Section 73.4240; deleted effective 11-28-83) which prohibited the use of "sirens and like emergency sound effects in broadcast announcements." However, the fact that the FCC eliminated its rule does not, necessarily, make it okay in every circumstance. Stations and advertisers must take care not to use such sound effects in such a way that they will result in liability from sources other than the FCC. In addition, the station will want to keep in mind the FCC's anti-hoax rule, to ensure that no violation occurs.
Q: May our station advertise fireworks?
A: Yes. There is no state or federal law that restricts retailers from advertising fireworks, regardless of who the retailer is or where the fireworks are sold. However, caution should always be taken when writing and producing the spot not to make it misleading or deceptive with respect to the legality or not of the fireworks sold. Washington state law allows cities and counties to adopt and enforce fireworks laws that are more restrictive than the basic state law. Therefore, a specific firework may be completely illegal in one city but legal in the surrounding county and the neighboring city. The Washington State Association of Broadcasters (WSAB) has defeated several attempts to prohibit the advertising of "illegal" fireworks, a bill usually targeting fireworks sold on Indian Reservations. Such a law would be devastating to broadcasters because a station cannot control where its signal goes, and would end up advertising fireworks that were legal in one place and illegal in another, both within the signal of the station. | 2019-04-24T19:06:53 | https://wsab.org/misc-advertising-issues |
0.999995 | KinoCritics Article: Let's Do Lunch!
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Sony Electronics Inc. kick-off the Sundance 2010 festival with an invitation to the press to have the first peek at the selected art-form performances and installations of the New Frontier on Main program over a light but palatable lunch. My kind of an invite!
One by one, Frilot introduced the featured artists up close and personal. She announced the title of their artwork and asked them to briefly describe what their art form had to do with film. In addition to the artwork showcase, thirteen panel discussion events and six feature films would début during the week in support of the impact art forms have in the ever changing culture of film.
I noticed actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (remember him as a ‘90s child star in Angels in the Outfield with Danny Glover) and was curious why he chose to participate in the 2010 art form team. I listened to him describe his passion to run a collaborative production company that would open up the world to his doorstep, i.e., he would work together with many people around the world to make creative film products. His idea is not to limit ventures with people within the industry but to look beyond for a wider audience—the world. Wow! Just think! That is respectively you and me! There was wisdom beyond his years as he explained the process. I was in! He got me hook, line and sinker to check how the hands-on-lab at his New Frontier on Main exhibit called hitRECord.org. Naturally, I was not the only curious George. Fortunately, some of the hitRECord company gurus (producer: Jared Geller, director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, art director: Marke Johnson, and Chief Technical Officer: Mike Everett) were on hand to mingle and explain the project. | 2019-04-25T22:12:39 | http://kinocritics.com/article.php?ar=330 |
0.999965 | Lymphoma - body, contagious, causes, What Is Lymphoma?
Lymphoma (lim-FO-ma) is the name for a group of cancers that arise in the lymph nodes, which are part of the immune system. These cancers include Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Lymphoma is a general term for a group of cancers that begin in the lymphatic system, the body system that includes the tissues and organs that make, store, and carry the white blood cells that fight infections and other diseases. This system includes the bone marrow * , spleen * , and hundreds of bean-sized lymph nodes * throughout the body. Lymphoma results when white blood cells, or lymphocytes (LIM-fo-sites), undergo changes and start to multiply out of control. Eventually, the cells crowd out healthy cells and create tumors * . Lymphoma can occur in a single lymph node, a group of lymph nodes, or in other parts of the lymphatic system, such as the spleen or bone marrow. Eventually, it may spread to almost any part of the body.
Lymphoma is divided into two main types: Hodgkin's disease, named after Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, who discovered it in 1832, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The cancer cells in Hodgkin's disease look different under a microscope than do the cells in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, both cancers make a person sick in the same way. Some types of lymphoma are among the most common childhood cancers. Nevertheless, most cases of lymphoma occur in adults.
No one knows exactly what causes lymphoma. It is not contagious, like a cold or chickenpox. People with other kinds of cancer sometimes have what are known as risk factors. A risk factor is anything that increases a person's chances of getting a disease. Having AIDS * or an autoimmune disease * increases the risk for lymphoma. However, most people with lymphoma have no known risk factors.
Scientists recently have made great progress in understanding how certain changes in DNA may cause normal lymphocytes to become lymph-omas. DNA is material that people inherit from their parents that carries the instructions for everything the cells do. Just as people get bumps and scrapes during their lifetimes, the genes * , which are part of DNA, also suffer different kinds of damage or malfunction. When that happens, a cell may receive wrong signals that cause it to grow out of control and form a tumor.
In addition, certain viruses appear to cause changes in genes that can lead to lymphoma. Epstein-Barr virus * can cause lymphoma in people with weakened immune systems * . In people with healthy immune systems, the same virus has been linked to a form of the disease called Burkitt's lymphoma. This illness occurs in children and adults in Central Africa, but is rare in the United States. A virus called HTLV-1 * causes a kind of lymphoma seen almost only in certain geographical areas, particularly Japan, the Caribbean, and the southeast United States. In most cases, however, doctors simply have no idea why lymphoma develops.
* bone marrow is the soft, spongy center of large bones that produces blood cells.
* spleen is an organ near the stomach that helps the body fight infection.
* lymph nodes are round or oval masses of immune system tissue that filter bodily fluids before they enter the bloodstream, helping to keep out bacteria and other undesirable substances.
* tumors (TOO-morz) are abnormal growths of body tissue.
* AIDS, short for acquired immuno-deficiency (im-yoo-no-de-FISH-un-see) syndrome, is the disease caused by the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV). In severe cases, it is characterized by the profound weakening of the body's immune system.
* autolmmune disease (aw-to-im-YOON disease) is a disease resulting from an immune system reaction against the body's own tissues or proteins.
* Epstein-Barr virus (EP-stine-BAHR VI-rus) is a common virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
* immune system (im-YOON SIS-tem) is the body's defense system, fighting off attacks by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other foreign substances that can cause illness or hurt the body.
* HTLV-1, short for human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1, is a virus that is associated with certain kinds of adult leukemia and lymphoma.
Some people with lymphoma have early symptoms that cause them to go to the doctor. Others, however, may have no symptoms at all, or they may mistake their symptoms for the flu or another ordinary illness. This is because the body responds to lymphoma as though it were an infection. For example, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the widow of President John F. Kennedy, was diagnosed with lymphoma after she went to the doctor thinking she had the flu. John Cullen, a hockey player for the Tampa Bay Lightning, experienced his first symptom as a pain in his chest after a game. Other common symptoms of lymphoma are painless swellings in the neck, armpit, or groin; night sweats; and tiredness. In addition, the same physical reaction that causes itchiness in allergic reactions can cause widespread itching in lymphoma.
This drawing shows the lymphatic system, which includes a network of tiny tubes that branch, like blood vessels, it tissues throughout the body. Lymph nodes are located along this network.
If lymphoma is suspected, the doctor can order various medical tests, including imaging studies to allow the doctor to see inside the body. Because many of the symptoms of lymphoma can be caused by non-cancerous problems such as infections, the only way to be sure that a person has lymphoma is to do a biopsy (BY-op-see). This procedure involves removing a sample of tissue from a lymph node, or sometimes even an entire node, for examination under a microscope.
Once the doctor knows for sure that a patient has lymphoma, the next step is to do something called staging. This means seeing whether the cancer has spread, and if so, how far. Staging is the most important step in deciding what kind of treatment a person with lymphoma will get and what the outlook for survival is. The systems used to stage Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma are different, but the goal of both is to decide the best treatment for the patient.
Early stage non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that has not spread is usually treated with radiation therapy, which uses high-energy waves to damage and destroy cancer cells. If the disease is widespread, it will probably require chemotherapy (kee-mo-THER-a-pee), which uses anticancer drugs that can reach everywhere in the body to fight cancer cells. Chemo-therapy drugs are given either through a vein in the arm or as pills. Sometimes chemotherapy is combined with radiation. Hodgkin's disease also is treated with radiation, chemotherapy, or both.
Both chemotherapy and radiation can have side effects, because treatments that kill cancer cells can affect healthy cells, too. The most common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea (feeling sick to the stomach), vomiting, hair loss, and tiredness. Nausea and vomiting can be prevented with medication, and, fortunately, most of these side effects go away after the treatment is completed.
Is It Possible to Prevent Lymphoma?
Unlike many other kinds of cancer, there are no known factors related to lifestyle, such as exposure to sunlight or specific eating habits, that a person could change in the hope of lowering the risk of getting lymphoma. However, preventing HIV (AIDS virus) infection would prevent many cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Will Treatment for Lymphoma Change in the Future?
Today researchers are studying how normal lymphocytes develop into cancer cells. This information may be used one day in gene therapy * to replace abnormal genes with normal ones and allow cells to grow normally again. This same knowledge also is being used to try to detect lym-phoma earlier and to test how completely lymphoma has been destroyed by treatment.
Lymphoma cells sometimes become resistant to chemotherapy. This means that the cancer cells are able to change so that the drugs are no longer effective. Drugs are being studied that can interfere with this resistance, thus making chemotherapy more effective. Treatments that help the patient's immune system recognize and destroy the lymphoma cells also are being investigated.
Because treatment of both non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease usually involves chemotherapy and radiation, one of the hardest parts of living with lymphoma is coping with treatment. Many side effects of chemotherapy and radiation are short-term and will go away when treatment stops. However, other side effects are long-term. For example, treatment may affect a person's ability to have children, or it may trigger the development of a different lymphoma many years later.
Follow-up care may continue for years or even decades. Aside from doctor's visits, though, once all signs of cancer are gone, people can go back to doing whatever they did before they got lymphoma. Most children with childhood lymphoma will survive it, and they can expect to lead normal lives as adults.
Nearthe end of World War 11, an Allied ship loaded with sulfur mustard, a poisonous gas used by the Germans during World War 1, blew up in an Italian port. Doctors treating the injured soldiers noticed that the gas had an effect on the soldiers' immune systems. Because certain cancers form in the immune system, the doctors wondered whether a related gas called nitrogen mustard could be used to treatthe cancers. They discovered that it could. Today nitrogen mustard is one of about 30 anticancer drugs that have helped to save or prolong the lives of people with lymphoma and other cancers.
* gene therapy is a treatment that works by altering genes.
Hobbie, Douglas. Being Brett: Chronicle of a Daughters Death. New York: Henry Holt, 1998. A father's account of his young adult daughter's struggle with Hodgkin's disease.
Hurwin, Davida Wills. A Time for Dancing. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995. A novel about the friendship of two teenage girls, one of whom is diagnosed with lymphoma.
American Cancer Society, 1599 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30329-4251. A national, nonprofit organization that provides accurate, up-to-date information about lymphoma.
Lymphoma Research Foundation of America, 8800 Venice Boulevard, Number 207, Los Angeles, CA 90034. A foundation that supports research and provides information on lymphoma.
National Cancer Institute, Building 31, Room 10A03, 31 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-2580. This U.S. government agency offers information about lymphoma to patients and the public. | 2019-04-23T19:58:24 | http://www.humanillnesses.com/original/Kid-Men/Lymphoma.html |
0.999996 | . يقدم Park Regis Anchorage Hotel خدمات لا غبار عليها وكل أشكال اللياقة وحسن الضيافة اللازمة لإسعاد ضيوفه. يقدم الفندق فرصة للاستمتاع بشريحة واسعة من الخدمات بما فيها: واي فاي مجاني في جميع الغرف, خدمة التنظيف يوميًا, خدمة سيارات الأجرة, خدمة حجز التذاكر, تسجيل وصول/خروج سريع .
في Park Regis Anchorage Hotel غرف نوم يزيد عددها عن 33 صممت بذوق وعناية لتوفر لك كل وسائل الراحة . بعضها يحتوي أضاً على تلفزيون بشاشة مسطحة, إغلاق, اتصال لاسلكي بشبكة الإنترنت (مجاني), غرف لغير المدخنين, مكيف هواء. يمكنك الاستمتاع بالأجواء المريحة التي تقدمها حمام سباحة خارجي, حديقة طوال النهار. يشكل Park Regis Anchorage Hotel بخدماته الراقية وموقعه الممتاز، قاعدة مثالية للاستمتاع بإقامتك في تونزفيل.
يُرجى الإحاطة علمًا بان مواعيد مكتب الاستقبال من 7 صباحًا إلى 9 مساءً من أيام الاثنين إلى الجمعة، ومن الساعة 8 صباحًا إلى 5 مساءً يومي السبت والأحد والعطلات الرسمية. في حالة الوصول متأخرًا، يُرجى إعلام الفندق مقدمًا لأي إجراءات تسجيل وصول بعد ساعات العمل.
Would have liked a kitchen sink in the room otherwise satisfactory.
Great location near a lot of restaurants with the Maritime Museum across the road.
We had a very average nights stay. The airconditioner rattled and mad a horrible noise all night so we had to move to the sofa in the lounge room which was hard as a rock. The aircon really didn't work properly at all, very old.
Thanks Great, I'll be back.
The A/C leaked while I was there but it was fixed straightaway. Lovely balcony, bed, kitchen & even Foxtel premiere & action movies! I was alone but it would be great for a couple. Dishwasher & washing machine - no need to leave.
Apart from our room being quite small, the only thing we didn't like was not being able to open the windows for fresh air (preferable to the air-conditioner) - as there were no fly-screens on the windows it meant there was nothing to stop flies and mosquitos!!
The staff are very friendly & helpful. The units are big & well equiped. We had great stay there when visiting our son. We will stay there next time we go toTownsville.
We were travelling from Townsville back to Brisbane and needed a place to stay overnight this one seemed very good value and was in the main dining precinct so it gave us some good options for dinner that evening. Reception was great very polite and helpful Wi-Fi is a bit limited but again for this price who could complain the bed was very comfy and the room was really neat and clean.
We had a pleasant stay with nice beds and pillows. Room was clean and comfortable if a little dated. Some revamping had been done though the bright purple cushions and foot runners on the beds were a bit garish! It's a nice place in a good location down Palmer Street but could probably do with some updating. Good value for the price though.
Good stay. There were no breakfast options which was a shame.
The hotel states their reception is open until 9pm. We arrived at 8.30pm and it was already closed. They remote on the key that was left for us did not work, so we had to call them and wait for them to bring us a replacement. Really annoying. The apartment was pretty average, cleaning standards not very high as there was food scraps on the couch and tv remote. It is not a king bed as they claim but 2 single beds joined together (pet hate). Also the cleaner was not very nice - always whinging for us to get out of the room so she could clean it, locking the elevator up on check out time with all her cleaning stuff, and swearing around our young child. Overall, pretty average hotel. We needed a self-contained apartment on this occasion so that is why we chose it. Amenities in the apartment were good and did the job.
We had a great time staying in Park Regis. The staff are very accomodating. We will surely stay with Park again next time.
Plenty of room in the whole apartment. Located in easy walking distance from good resteraunts and bars.
Very good. The only complaint I have is the food in the resteraunt down stairs. We ordered lamb shanks. And got not much mash, lots of fat and not much meat. The rest of the experience was great. | 2019-04-19T14:17:02 | https://www.agoda.com/ar-ae/park-regis-anchorage-hotel/hotel/townsville-au.html |
0.999915 | Forums Wyrmrest Accord Void Elves and Elune?
So, is there any particular lore for how Ren'dorei are being received by Kaldorei?
What about Ren'dorei being interested in Elune?
And just on the topic of Elune at all, has there ever been any canon for New/Dark Moon Elune aspects or popular RP fanon?
Thinking about making a Void Elf Huntress, kind of want to incorporate some Elune worship into that if it makes any kind of sense at all.
I've seen no particular indication yet of how the Kaldorei feel about the Ren'dorei, but perhaps one of these days.
I've also seen nothing to indicate that the Ren'dorei have any interest in Elune. You could play an individual Ren'dorei as taking interest in Elune anyway, depending on how they feel about the Kaldorei, Kaldorei culture, Elune's place in it, etc. It would be unorthodox for a Thalassian elf, to say the least, especially if it was supposed to be a long-standing interest rather than a new one, but unorthodox doesn't have to equal wrong.
Regarding the dark side of Elune, if you don't mind spoilers for patch 8.1, you should look up Tyrande's part in the upcoming Darkshore questlines.
Elune is not a friend of the void, demonstrated at various times throughout lore. Void elves or otherwise void-infused beings will likely find themselves having a very hard time getting involved in that faith or befriending kaldorei that are strongly connected to it.
The Night Warrior is addressed as Elune's "darker half", but as far as we know, it is in no way related to void magic. There is not really anything associated with a "new/dark moon", rather She will enter a solar eclipse to channel this side.
TL;DR being an Elune-worshipping void elf would be an uphill battle for sure. I recommend doing some additional research on Wowpedia to determine if it's something you'd actually want to follow through with!
Honestly the only evidence I can really think of, in terms of Void-Night elf relations is the fact that a number of Void Elven tourists used to hang around Darnassus, chatting to the locals and looking around.
The game hasn't given us much to go off at all to be honest.
I don't think your idea is illogical, OP. It's certainly unorthodox, but that can be fun!
apparently Tyrandes new elune powers are a bit voidy.
I admit that I didn't do much research before posting myself. I wanted to see community knowledge/input about such an idea. I'll hit up WoWpedia later tonight about it.
And yeah, owing to the fact she's Thalassian, it certainly wouldn't be a long standing interest. But if there was some kind of Void connection she thought she could see, I thought maybe the huntress would gain a new interest in the faith.
I have seen Void elves following the Light so I see no reason they could not follow Elune.
One such one here (though Naaru specifically), but I can explain it in general.
Light Worship wasn't exactly unknown among the High Elves and Blood Elves. Though it did take a dive when Arthas visited, by the time of the Sunwell's restoration it did at least start to make a come back.
Now that said, I don't see why a void elf couldn't become interested in Elune and begin to worship her. I don't really see a problem with that in any group. Issues may arise among her more conventional followers, and how you are treated by others of your race, but really nothing is stopping you nor should there be anything stopping you from it. With some up and coming things with Elune next patch.. I could even see some potential comparisons being drawn along with interest.
I don't see why a Void Elf would worship Elune other than to try and fit in. Which is fine, if that's what you want to RP. I guess for myself and others, there should be a pretty good justification for it before walking up to any practicing kaldorei with your tentacle hair.
After all, they were, by all accounts, blood elves before experimenting with the void. If I recall correctly, the sin'dorei didn't care much for their primitive cousins' belief system and openly mocked them for it.
I'm sure, for many, that viewpoint might have softened after joining the Alliance.
As someone who has maintained a blood-turned-void-elf character with a more progressive mindset, I'll offer my two cents.
Kaldorei will receive ren'dorei differently according to the individual characters. Some people enjoy roleplaying their kaldorei characters in a more traditional, old-school style. Think along the lines of WC3 night elves. Meanwhile, some will play their kaldorei characters in a more progressive style. To me, it's not unlike the way humans operate in the real world. We have people out there who are very regressive, clinging to tradition, conservative belief systems, and even sometimes old hatreds. Likewise we have people out there with incredibly progressive mindsets, discarding traditions in favor of moving forward at all costs no matter how uncomfortable that may be and what risks it may introduce. Most importantly, however, there is an entire spectrum between these two extremes made up of people who walk somewhere in the middle, taking ideas from both sides and forming them into their own unique philosophies.
That all being said, I feel like it's very reasonable to expect that some kaldorei will hate your ren'dorei character. On the other hand, some may welcome them with open arms. Others still will fall somewhere between these two extremes. One example I can think of off the top of my head for how kaldorei and ren'dorei interact in Lore is the way that Shandris Feathermoon and Magister Umbric interact through the Alliance war campaign quests. They don't seem to be best friends or anything, but there doesn't seem to be an immovable wall of hatred stopping them from getting along either. So to me, again, that leaves a ton of room for interpretation and freedom in how a kaldorei player chooses to have their character interact and how ren'dorei players have theirs react as well.
The same goes for curiosity about Elune and the decision to follow her teachings/ways/etc. A void elf may not come from a people who are predisposed to turning to Elune, but that doesn't mean that individuals can't transcend their upbringings and circumstances, growing and evolving their mindsets while allowing recent events to shape them and cause them to become curious about their ancient kin and Elune herself. A desire to fit in, to belong, can also be a very strong component of any void elf considering what they deal with and the exile from their very lands and homes.
So yeah, I say go for it if you want to have a void elf who is curious about Elune and the faith that surrounds her. You truly have a lot of freedom to explore that angle especially if you find yourself RP'ing with the right people.
This is kinda what I gather too. Elune is still such a mystery even after all this time, but it has kinda always felt like there was a heavy component of Arcane and Light to her: hence the expression of those magics by means of holy magic and/or astral spells. The night warrior thing seems like it would have to be touching into the realm of the Shadow or maybe Death somehow if even only slightly. I'm not sure what other school of magic it could be attributed to based on what we know about the schools from Chronicle 1.
From the Kaldorei perspective void elves would be the void corrupted descendants of the Highborne.
From the void elf perspective interest in Elune can make a fair amount of sense. The idea of someone becoming interested in ancient religions their people abandoned long ago is not a stretch and happens all the time in the real world.
Keep in mind not all void elves have to be void scholars. Were they political dissidents? (Early speculation that void elves were the last followers of teachings of Kael'thas still makes a fair amount of sense.) Were they there to support a more magically gifted sibling? Did they have a close relative who was studying the void and they were banished with them for good measure? Were they in the Ghostlands because they were destitute?
For these people the experience of being forcibly injected with void then finding themselves in a strange new land could be fairly traumatic. Then bumping into the people who were your people ~8,000 years ago. The idea of returning to your people's ancient traditions/religion could be quite appealing. After all, what had sun worshiping done for them?
Overall I would expect the Kaldorei to be very suspicious of void elves. These are the people who destroyed civilization 10,000 years ago and they're playing footsie with another power beyond their understanding or control? C'mon, we've seen this show before.
Then again the Kaldorei have never been more in need of Allies and today's Kaldorei aren't the isolated elves of Warcraft 3. The Alliance values of tolerance and inclusion have made significant inroads into their society.
nothing in canon, but why not?
Wanted to come back and add additional thanks for all the new responses! I was finally able to start my Velf toon last night and am mulling all this over while I level her up!
Faith is an interesting thing to have on any character. It can help determine the drive of that character, set their morals, and life goals.
For a ren'dorei, it's important to remember that they began as something else. Something other than void-infused beings. If your objective is to play a ren'dorei, their age will play a big factor in the feasibility of the concept you propose.
High elves and Blood elves reach adulthood in their 20s both physically and in the eyes of society (Edge of Night, pg 3; World of Warcraft: The Comic, various Issues; Horde Quest: What I Do Best). But high elves and blood elves can live as long as 3,000 years in rare cases (as with King Anasterian Sunstrider). It will be important to take into account the philosophies and beliefs your character might have been exposed to throughout her life. If she is very young, she might be more malleable to turn to the Elunarian faith. At the same time, if she is older and well studied, she could still be turned toward it for a good enough reason.
One way I could see this concept working well would be if the ren'dorei in question was swept up in the chaos with Umbric and his followers and was never actively seeking to study and use the void. Rather, if he or she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time for whatever reason and became a void elf with the others as a result. Being transformed into something you are not creates a huge crisis of faith. Just look at Sylvanas.
Furthermore, one of the many stops made by Umbric and his followers during their travels in the Ghostlands was to the Sanctum of the Moon. It is very possible that your void elf could have discovered some ancient text regarding Elune. But given the high elves lack of faith since their exile, it's more likely that such a volume would have contained history for posterity rather than values or teachings of the Elunarian faith.
Later, after joining the Alliance once more, the ren'dorei could possibly learn rumors about Elune returning corrupt beings to their true and normal selves. This has happened in the canon on a few occasions. Most notably with Avrus Illwhisper (Quest: In the Hands of the Perverse), a felmusk satyr who sought redemption in Elune's eyes and went so far as to sacrifice himself to earn it. Of course, this more commonly happens with spirits of the fallen, such as Elune's redemption of the Fallen Priestess (Quest: Washed Clean) and Eranikus (Old Quest: The Nightmare Manifests).
It's possible that a ren'dorei might believe Elune could save them from the void corruption. That alone could be reason enough for a ren'dorei to start upholding faith in Elune. As for whether Elune would welcome that ren'dorei, or if other followers of the faith would welcome him or her too, is difficult to determine. | 2019-04-18T15:08:14 | https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20769729431 |
0.998355 | How to connect to VPN, the terminal server, and your office computer from your personal Mac computer after VPN has been installed. VPN is only for off campus use. Use the terminal server to access your network drives and internet. This servers acts just like a computer on campus.
Note: You must have VPN installed on your computer before connecting to it. Click here for instructions.
You will not have internet access while connected to VPN. Connect to the terminal server if you would like to access your network drives and the internet at the same time.
Step 1:Click on Applications in your dock. Select Cisco, then Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client.
Next to Connect to, type "vpn.etown.edu" if it is not already present in the field.
Click the arrow next to Group and choose 1-Non-College-Owned-Computer. Enter your Etown username and the password you provided on the VPN form. Click Connect.
Note: Make sure your username is all lowercase, otherwise you will not be able to connect. You will be locked out after 10 unsuccessful attempts to log in. Contact the Help Desk to have your VPN account unlocked.
You are now connected to VPN, which is indicated in the upper right corner next to the time.
Step 1:Click the VPN icon in the upper right corner.
Before you can connect into one of the Terminal Servers or your Etown desktop, you need to create the Remote Desktop Connection.
To do any work on your network drives at home, you must connect to the terminal server. This is a remote desktop connection to a server named ecfsHome-ts (faculty/staff) or ecStudent-ts (students). You will log onto that server with your Etown network username and password. The terminal server is simply a college computer that you can use from home, or even your office.
Faculty and Staff can also connect to their office computers using the name of the computer for the connection. Make a note of your office computer's name. It will be on a label on the outside of a desktop computer or inside, above the keyboard on a laptop computer. Leave your office computer on when you want to connect to it from home.
Step 1:Download the Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac, if you do not already have it.
2 - PC Name - the name of the computer or server for the connections (e.g. ecfsHome-ts for faculty/staff or ecStudent-ts for students, or your office computer name).
3 - If the connection is on a secure machine, you may enter the credentials for the connection.
Do not enter credentials if you are connecting through an unsecure or shared computer.
Close the window. Your connection settings will be saved.
After you have created and saved your Remote Desktop connections, you can choose the machine for the current connection.
Choose your saved connection (1), and click Start (2). If you haven't used the Remote Desktop Client before, see the Create Remote Desktop Connection section.
If you receive a security warning, click Continue.
If prompted, enter your Etown username and password. Type "jaynet" for the Domain. Click OK.
You will be connected to the selected computer or server. | 2019-04-25T06:59:39 | http://helpdesk.etown.edu/helpconsole2012/kb/default.aspx?pageid=mac_vpn_connection |
0.998821 | * 1. Overall School Experience: I feel welcomed at my child's school.
* 2. Overall School Experience: Teachers show respect for the students.
* 3. Overall School Experience: Students show respect for other students.
* 4. Overall School Experience: The school meets the social needs of the students.
* 5. Overall School Experience: I like the school's report cards / progress reports.
* 6. Overall School Experience: The school has an excellent learning environment.
* 7. Overall School Experience: I respect the school's teachers.
* 8. Overall School Experience: I respect the school's principal.
* 9. Overall School Experience: The school succeeds at preparing children for middle school.
* 10. Overall School Experience: The school has a good public image.
* 11. Academic Experience: I am informed about my child's progress.
* 12. Academic Experience: I am informed about my child's progress.
* 13. Academic Experience: I know what my child's teacher expects of my child.
* 14. Academic Experience: I am informed about my child's progress.
* 15. Academic Experience: The school's assessment practices are fair.
* 16. Academic Experience: The school meets the academic needs of the students.
* 17. Academic Experience: The school expects quality work of its students.
* 18. Safety (Health and Well-being): My child is safe at school.
* 19. Safety (Health and Well-being): My child is safe going to and from school.
* 20. Safety (Health and Well-being): There is adequate supervision during school.
* 21. Safety (Health and Well-being): There is adequate supervision before and after school.
* 22. Family Involvement: My child's teacher helps me to help my child learn at home.
* 23. Family Involvement: I support my child's learning at home.
* 24. Family Involvement: I feel good about myself as a parent.
* 25. Family Involvement: I spend time reading at home with my child. | 2019-04-25T11:08:52 | https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FHRKHPZ |
0.999693 | The way we say 'goodbye' is different depending on the place where we live, who we say it to, if we see the person every day or if we won't see each other for a long time.
In this lesson, you will read short dialogues between people saying 'goodbye'. Pay attention to each scenario and the words used.
Do the task at the end of the lesson to practise what you have learned.
Let's focus on some GOODBYE SCENARIOS.
Kevin: It was great seeing you again after so long. Thanks so much for having me to stay.
Rachel: Don't mention it. You can come back any time.
Kevin: I'd love to. But next time you must come and visit me.
Rachel: Oh, that'd be great! Well, I've got some vacation coming up. I might come for a week.
Rachel: Your flight's being called. You should really make a move.
Kevin: Oh, yeah. Thanks for having me and showing me around.
Rachel: It was nothing, really. Don't forget to let me know you got there OK.
Kevin: I will do. I'll text.
Rachel: Now get going before you miss your flight. Take care and see you again soon. Bye!
(2) You are best friends from school. One of you is going to Japan for a year. The other is staying at home to finish their studies. Promise each other to keep in touch.
Karen: We haven't been apart for so long. I'll miss you.
Emily: Yeah, I'll miss you, too. It's only a year. I promise we'll keep in touch. We can make video calls every week. I'll send you pictures, too. I can't wait to go there already.
Karen: I'm so happy and excited for you!
Emily: Maybe you can come and visit me while I'm there.
Karen: I wish I could, but you know I need to finish my studies.
Karen: We'll be in touch for sure.
Emily: Definitely! Well, I have to go now. I need to pack my bags and get ready.
Karen: Sure. It will be a long flight. Text me when you get there.
Karen: Take care. Bye for now.
(3) You are ending a Skype call with a language exchange friend.
Hana: Nice talking to you.
Linh: Yeah. Maybe we can chat again sometime soon?
Hana: I'll be online at the weekend, probably.
Linh: OK, I'll check around this time to see if you're online.
It was great chatting with you.
Good to chat with you.
It was great to talk to you.
Nice to talk to you again.
Note: We say "chat with" and "talk to".
(4) You meet a colleague at a company event. You have a small talk but then one of you leaves.
Harry: Happy to see you here, Anna. Back for another company event?
Anna: Oh, Harry, lovely to see you here.
Anna: I've been quite busy with work lately. And you?
Harry: Well, I just came back from holiday. I was away for two weeks and now I'm falling behind on tasks. I'm trying to get myself organised again.
Anna: Yeah, that must be tough.
Harry: So, Anna, um, would you like a drink?
Anna: No, I'm fine thanks.
Harry: Well, it's been nice talking to you, Anna. You don't mind if I go and get myself a coffee? See you later.
Look, I have to go. Catch you later.
You don't mind if I go and get myself (a coffee)?
(5) You are workmates saying goodbye on Friday, at the end of the week. One of you is celebrating your promotion with a drink after work. The other has to stay to finish some work.
John: OK, I'm off now.
Mark: Have a nice weekend. See you on Monday.
John: Oh, Mark. I almost forgot. I'm taking colleagues out for drinks to celebrate my promotion. We're going to a bar in about an hour.
Mark: That's great news. Congratulations!
John: Thanks. Will you join us?
Mark: That'd be great, but I have a deadline to meet and I need to work overtime to finish the task.
John: It's OK. Well, see you next week then. Bye now!
(6) The last moments with your boss on your last day at work.
Chris: We're sorry to see you go. Thank you for all your hard work.
Kevin: It was great working with all of you.
Chris: Oh, this is for you, Kevin - just a little something from us.
Kevin: Oh, that's very thoughtful of you. You needn't have done that.
Chris: It's nothing really. Best of luck in your future endeavours.
Write two dialogues in full using the goodbye scenarios below. The first one needs to be an informal conversation and the second one formal.
You are flatmates. One of you is going out for an hour or two to do some shopping. The person going out asks whether their flatmate wants anything from the shops.
You are colleagues at a dinner party. One of you is the host. The other decides to leave even though it is still early. The early leaver needs to make a decent excuse.
We usually use the adjective 'bad' to say that something is badly made, of bad quality or harmful.
It's also very common to describe films, books, food, products, events, experiences, weather, and so on, as being bad.
In this lesson, you will learn how to use 10 different adjectives and a verb phrase that can replace the word 'bad'.
Let's look at the example sentences below. Look up the pronunciation of new words and practise.
We went on holiday in May but the weather was absolutely awful. It was raining all day.
Going there in summer was a really awful experience. The streets were busy with tourists and the weather was very humid.
Traffic in this area is awful.
Note: Awful is not used with 'very'. You can use absolutely or really instead.
The journey was terrible – it took us eight hours to get there by train.
The food there is good but the service is terrible.
Can you write it down for me, please? I have a terrible memory.
Have you ever noticed how terrible doctors' handwriting can be? Much of what is written on prescriptions is impossible to read.
Note: Terrible is not used with 'very'. You can use absolutely instead.
Your handwriting is appalling. I can barely understand anything.
It's important to raise awareness about Indian women working on tea plantations in the northeast part of the country. Plantation workers on tea gardens in Assam earn between $1.50 and $2 per day and live in appalling conditions. Workers' houses are old and have no access to sanitation facilities. Their children do not receive proper education and health care.
Note: You can also use appalling when you talk about situation, crime, injury, etc.
Social media can have a negative effect on your mental health without you even realising.
Overexposure to sunlight can have negative effects on your skin such as sunburn and skin cancer. Don't forget to protect your skin from the sun.
Travelling helps you grow as a person and boosts your confidence but, on the negative side, it costs a lot.
There was a lot of negative feedback from viewers when the new TV show came out.
Globalisation has a negative impact on wages on developing countries.
People's reliance on social media can have a detrimental effect on their mental health. Those who use them too frequently can feel increasingly unhappy and isolated from others.
Air pollution can be detrimental to health.
Obesity is a serious problem in many Western countries.
Too much stress can have serious consequences for people's health. You cannot eliminate all stress from your life, but you can relieve some of it by doing exercises, meditation, or trying breathing exercises to help you relax.
Floods are considered one of the most expensive natural disasters. They can cause serious damage to crops, private property (including homes and businesses), public infrastructure like roads, rail networks, and many more.
Note: Serious is used to talk about illnesses, problems, accidents, crimes, etc. You can use this word in more formal English.
Personally, I don't like driving when it's raining heavily because the visibility is really poor.
Checking social media platforms before bed can lead to poor quality of sleep.
Stress and lack of sleep are some of the main reasons for poor health.
A poor diet can affect people's health.
It is extremely important for people to wash their hands frequently, especially before having a meal, because poor personal hygiene can lead to many diseases caused my germs.
Note: Poor is more formal than bad.
Going to the dentist is a bit scary and I find it an unpleasant experience.
Replying to emails on a daily basis can be an unpleasant task.
Some people may feel unhappy at work and some of the reasons for that can be related to pay, colleagues, flexibility, chances for promotion, and so on. There will always be unpleasant circumstances, but the key is to find work rewarding enough.
Filling in different forms in public institutions is a complete nightmare.
My neighbours are always noisy at the weekend and it's a real nightmare for me when I need to study or work at home.
Our holiday was a nightmare - our flights were delayed for hours, and stayed in hotels without any Wi-Fi.
We were in desperate need for money.
I was in a desperate situation with very little money.
Water pollution is becoming a serious problem around the world and some countries face a desperate shortage of clean water.
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We usually use the adjective 'good' to say that something is well made or of high quality, that we enjoy or like it very much. We can also use adjectives to say that something is extremely good in a very exciting way.
In this lesson, you will learn how to use 10 different adjectives that can replace the word 'good', which can make you sound like a better English speaker.
Let's look at the example sentences below.
Fort Collins in Colorado is a nice place to live. It is considered one of the best cities in the U.S. It's a college town with a great atmosphere and lots of open spaces and outdoor activities to choose from.
Oh, you have such a nice house.
What a nice surprise! I didn't expect to see you here.
Whenever you feel sad, take some time to write down all the positive things about your life.
I've had the chance to live abroad and I must say that it has been a very positive experience for me.
There are positive aspects to being a freelancer, but negative ones too.
Doing exercises has a positive effect on health.
Some parents prefer living in the countryside because they think the rural environment has a positive effect on their children's health.
Drinking plenty of water has a beneficial effect on your skin.
I always drink this tea in winter because it has a beneficial effect on my immune system.
When you get at the top of the hill, you get fine views of the city and the river.
They enjoy good food and fine wines.
I love going to that restaurant because their food is always first-class.
I bought this car because it was in first-class condition.
This company has always made first-class cars.
Note: You can use the adjective first-class to talk about a product or service that is much better than most others.
I bought a second-hand car in excellent condition.
Your English pronunciation is excellent.
It was a perfect day out.
We had a perfect holiday.
The weather was perfect during the trip. | We had perfect weather during the trip.
Sydney is an amazing place.
The food at that restaurant is amazing value for money.
The view is just incredible.
My grandmother always has incredible stories to tell. I love staying with her every holiday.
Our trip was absolutely brilliant.
The film was absolutely brilliant.
She's brilliant at dealing with difficult customers. | 2019-04-21T04:42:36 | https://www.yourenglishsuccesstoday.com/english-language-blog/archives/05-2018 |
0.999998 | I was really geared up to like this novel, but in the end I felt like I was slogging to the finish. Maybe I would have liked it as a kid (if only because of the great premise), but I just feel like there are a lot better choices out there.
For starters, this book is - in my opinion - very poorly written. The narrator breaks flow constantly with useless parenthetical statements like, "I had climbed out of bed and crossed to the door of my room in about four shuffling steps. (It wasn't a very big room.)", which the reader could have figured out easily enough without the parenthetical aside. Narrative leaps into the future are common, like: "I certainly gave his shoulder socket a nasty yank; it troubled him for a long time afterward.", and the overall effect is truly detrimental to the horror atmosphere, because if we know nothing else, we at least know that THAT character isn't going to bite it any time soon, apparently! And the whole "twist" premise of the entire book is utterly *ruined*, in my opinion, by the sheer amount of time and effort that is spent in the first six chapters hyping up that some terrible disaster is going to occur and it totally ruined everyone's lives - by the time the disaster actually occurred, I was expecting something pretty drastic, like DEMONS IN SPACE (a.k.a., "Doom"), so the actual disaster seemed sort of piddly and manageable in comparison.
Let's talk about the big twist - if you're worried about spoilers, drop down to the next paragraph. Remember how in the classic Star Trek episodes, they'd find God every other week, or the meaning of all life in the universe, or something else that was almost more spiritual than scientific in nature? Well, that's what this book is - the spaceship that houses the characters encounters a mysterious phenomena that is the "Universal Life Force" (TM?) and it turns their entire ship into a living, breathing organism. The white blood cells are basically made up of Roombas. And while that frankly sounds like the most original and interesting premise in a book I've read this year, the bad writing and poor handling of the subject matter just completely kills it. It just doesn't make sense that something would turn a ship into a perfect replica of the human body - complete with white blood cells! - and there's not an attempt at Technobabble to justify it, so it edges into "Just Bugs Me" territory very quickly.
Right, plot out of the way, I was annoyed that a book written by a female author would rely so heavily on the standard female stereotypes for characters. Every woman in the story is characterized as daughter, wife, or mother, and while they all have high IQs and nice jobs, the women are limited to the "traditional" medical and navigational roles. I can't think of a single man in this book who doesn't handle the situation with aplomb and/or die with dignity, but the women can't stop crying and vomiting and carrying on - including a bridge officer who abandons her post in a major emergency to check on her husband. The "main" girl character is so silent as to almost be a non-entity, and only pulls herself together when the children of the party need her. And, of course, both the female love interests are great with children. I've come to expect a little more variety and depth in female characters in books these days, and this just feels like a total setback.
Moving on, I was expecting oodles of gore, based on the reviews I'd skimmed prior to going in, but I didn't think this was a very gore-heavy book, at least no more so than the stuff that traumatized me as a 12-year-old. There are some pretty disturbing deaths and situations, mostly of the "dissolved by acid" or "absorbed into another organism" kind, so I guess as a parent, just know your kid's limits and what will or won't keep them up at night with nightmares.
Ultimately, I made it to the end, and this isn't the worst book I've ever read by any means, but I did find it disappointing. The premise was interesting, but the complete lack of attempts to set it up in a realistic fashion was frustrating. Every time I tried to sink into the story, the authorial intrusion of the narrator jumping forward to remind us that they survived in the long run (or else how could he be telling the story "in retrospect") propelled me out again. I couldn't identify with the characters at all, largely because the female characters feel like empty ciphers and the main character rarely seems to have much depth himself. I wouldn't really recommend this book when there's as good or better sci fi out there to read. | 2019-04-23T08:41:12 | http://www.anamardoll.com/2011/03/review-living-hell.html |
0.99851 | North Carolina Tax ID Application - How to Make the North Carolina Tax ID Application Easier?
When it comes to completing the North Carolina Tax ID application, many people complain that the instructions can be confusing and that completing it correctly is not something they managed to do the first time.
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Using an online North Carolina Tax ID application service? -- The State of North Carolina has made understanding the application instructions a little bit confusing.
This is why it makes sense to pay a small fee, and to use an online North Carolina Tax ID application service instead.
Such a service can make the application process incredibly simple, and have your application form being sent to the State of North Carolina in just a few minutes.
What do you need to use a service? -- All you need to be able to use a Tax ID service is basic information about your company, and a way to pay online for the service's fees.
The basic information includes address information, the name of the person legally responsible for the company and what type of company your organization is. A credit card or a PayPal account is the only extra information required of you in order to complete the North Carolina Tax ID application form.
How long does the form take to complete? -- It should not take you more than five minutes to complete the application form and to pay for the online service.
Once you have paid, the company will then forward your North Carolina Tax ID application to the State of North Carolina. They will then forward the email with your Tax ID in it to you within just a few days.
Once you receive it, your company is legal in North Carolina as far as paying tax is concerned. | 2019-04-20T02:40:17 | https://northcarolinataxidapplication.page.tl/How-to-Make-the-North-Carolina-Tax-ID-Application-Easier-f-.htm |
0.999871 | When it comes to space travel, there's no shortage of enthusiasm to get humans to Mars, with Space X's Elon Musk saying his company could take passengers to the Red Planet by 2025, and NASA being asked by Congress to achieve the mission by 2033.
But while making the trip could be technologically feasible in the next decade or two, are humans really physically and psychologically ready to abandon Earth and begin colonising the Red Planet?
Nope, not a chance, according to a recent paper by cognitive scientist Konrad Szocik from the University of Information Technology and Management in Poland.
Szocik argues that no amount of year-long Martian simulations on Earth or long-duration stays aboard the International Space Station (ISS) could prepare human astronauts for the challenges that Mars colonisation would provide.
"We cannot simulate the same physical and environmental conditions to reconstruct the Martian environment, I mean such traits like Martian microgravitation or radiation exposure," Szocik told Elizabeth Howell at Seeker.
"Consequently, we cannot predict [the] physical and biological effects of humans living on Mars."
In a recent article, Szocik and his co-authors discussed some of the political, cultural, and personal challenges Mars colonists would face, and in a nutshell, the team doesn't think human beings could cut it on the Red Planet — not without making changes to our bodies to help us more easily adapt to the Martian environment.
"My idea is that [the] human body and mind is adapted to live in the terrestrial environment," Szocik told Rae Paoletta at Gizmodo.
"Consequently, some particular physiological and psychological challenges during [the] journey and then during living on Mars probably will be too difficult for human beings to survive."
While NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko famously spent a year on the ISS— the ordeal was not without significant physiological effects and pains resulting from so much time living in space.
But those hardships would be much less than what travellers to Mars would experience, who would be making much longer journeys — and not knowing when or if they could ever return to Earth.
"These first astronauts will be aware that after the almost one-year journey, they will have to live on Mars for at least several years or probably their entire lives due to the fact that their return will most likely be technologically impossible," the authors explain.
"Perhaps these first colonisers will know that their mission is a 'one way ticket'."
The researchers acknowledge that inducing travellers into a coma-like state might make the voyage itself more bearable, but once they've arrived, colonists will be faced with an environment where artificial life support is a constant requirement — that is, until some far-off, future terraforming technology can make Mars' arid and freezing environment hospitable.
Until that happens, the researchers think that humanity's best prospects for living on Mars would involve some kind of body or genetic altering that might give us a fighting chance of survival on a planet we've never had to evolve on.
"We claim that human beings are not evolutionally adapted to colonise cosmic environments," the authors explain.
"We suggest that the best solution could be the artificial acceleration of the biological evolution of the astronauts before they start their space deep mission."
While the team doesn't provide details of what that would entail in their paper, Szocik told Gizmodo that "permanent solutions like genetical and/or surgical modifications" could make colonists capable of surviving on Mars in ways that unaltered humans can't.
According to NASA's former chief scientist for human research, Mark J. Shelhamer, while these ideas may be interesting and help further the discussion about what it will take for humans to adapt to Mars' environment, once talk turns to genetics, you run into a minefield of other potential issues.
"Already, people have suggested selecting astronauts for genetic predisposition for such things as radiation resistance," says Shelhamer.
"Of course, this idea is fraught with problems. For one, it's illegal to make employment decisions based on genetic information. For another, there are usually unintended consequences when making manipulations like this, and who knows what might get worse if we pick and choose what we think needs to be made better."
Those sound like pretty fair points — especially considering Szocik goes as far as to suggest that "human cloning or other similar methods" might ultimately be necessary to sustain colony populations over generations without running the risk of in-breeding between too few colonists.
Clearly, there's a lot to work out here, and while some of the researchers' ideas are definitely a bit out there, we're going to need to think outside the box if we want to inhabit a planet that at its closest is about 56 million km (33.9 million miles) away.
For his part, Shelhamer is confident that the right kind of training will equip human travellers for the ordeals of their Mars journey — and if current estimates on when we can expect to see this happen are correct, we won't have too long to wait to see if he's right.
"I think we can give astronauts the tools — physical, mental, operational — so that they are, individually and as a group, resilient in the face of the unknown," he told Gizmodo.
"What kind of person thrives in an extreme environment? What types of mission structures are in place to help that person? This needs to be examined systematically."
The research is published in Space Policy. | 2019-04-18T12:56:57 | https://www.businessinsider.com/wed-probably-have-to-genetically-transform-our-bodies-to-survive-elon-musks-mars-colony-2017-3 |
1 | To be precise open-domain question answering is the task of answering a user's question in the form of short texts rather than a list of relevant documents, using open and available external sources.
In order to better understand why taking a broader context into account can be necessary or useful, let's consider an example. Assume that a user asks this question: "Who is the Spanish artist, sculptor and draughtsman famous for co-founding the Cubist movement?"
In an attempt to infer the correct answer to the users' question, given the top-ranked document, a reading comprehension system most likely will extract "Georges Braque" as the answer, which is not the correct answer.
In this example, in order to infer the correct answer, one has to go down the ranked list, gather and encode facts, even those that are not immediately relevant to the question, like that fact that "Malaga is a city in Spain,'' which can be inferred from a document at rank 66, and then in a multi-step reasoning process, infer some new facts, including "Picasso was a Spanish artist" given documents positioned at ranks 12 and 66, and finally "Picasso, who was a Spanish artist, co-founded the Cubist" given the previously inferred fact and the document ranked third.
In one of our recent papers, we propose a new model, TraCRNet (pronounced "Tracker Net"), to improve open-domain question answering by explicitly operating on a larger set of candidate documents during the whole process and learning how to aggregate and reason over information from these documents in an effective way while trying not to be distracted by noisy documents.
Input encoding: This layer is in charge of encoding each of the documents and the question to single vectors given their words' embeddings. For this layer, we used a stack of N transformer encoder blocks that is followed by a depth-wise separable convolution followed by a pooling function to get a single vector representation for the whole document or the question (see the transformer encoder in the above figure).
At step 3, TraCRNet has a high level of attention for the document #66 using heads #1 and 4 (blue and red) as well as for the question using head #3 (green) while transforming the document #12. This is in accordance with the fact that the model first needs to update the information encoded in the document #12 with the fact that ``Malaga is a city in Spain" from the document #66.
Later, at step #7, while encoding the question, TraCRNet attends over document #12, which has information about "Picasso who is a Spanish artist'' (updated in step 3) using heads #1 and #4 as well as document #3, which contains information about "Picasso as a co-founder of Cubism" using head #2 (green). | 2019-04-23T14:48:52 | http://mostafadehghani.com/2019/02/01/learning-to-transform-combine-and-reason-in-open-domain-question-answering/ |
0.99985 | Let's start with the definition of a key word.
With that in mind, let's look at the top of a fine BBC report focusing on one of the major religion-news stories of the past few days -- the acceleration of the Vatican's process toward Pope John Paul II being officially called a saint. This story has been getting lots of mainstream press attention, but I want to focus on the BBC report because it's a good one, yet still needs a few more words of content if the goal is to be consistent with what the ancient Christian churches teach about the role of those in the "great cloud of witnesses" who are called saints.
The signing of a decree by Pope Benedict XVI recognising that a miracle took place at the intercession of John Paul II represents the final step to beatification for the late pontiff.
It is the culmination of a process that was initiated officially in June 2005, two months after his death, but that had been called for by his faithful even before he breathed his last.
French nun Sister Marie Simon-Pierre said she and her community prayed constantly to John Paul for a miracle.
The signing of a decree by Pope Benedict XVI recognising that a miracle took place at the intercession of John Paul II represents the final step to beatification for the late pontiff. It is the culmination of a process that was initiated officially in June 2005, two months after his death, but that had been called for by his faithful even before he breathed his last.
Now, as often happens in mainstream coverage of issues of this kind, these sentences make it sound as if the nuns only prayed "to" John Paul for their sister's healing. I am sure that this is not the case, based on Catholic teachings. It would be more accurate to say that the sisters repeatedly asked him to pray "with" them -- acting as another intercessor -- as they prayed to God and to Jesus Christ as the agents of healing. They would certainly be asking for the intercessory prayers of St. Mary, the mother of Jesus, and others as well. Still, I know that the "prayed to" grammatical construction is very common and that, in and of itself, there is no problem with that.
So let's head on to the main issue. Note that the BBC story accurately says that the proper Catholic authorities have ruled "that a miracle took place at the intercession of John Paul II." The problem is that the story never says that God, not John Paul, performed the healing.
Now, I hear you. Some of you are saying, "Of course it was God that did the healing. Everybody knows that."
Actually, I have heard plenty of non-Catholics claim that Catholics believe that they pray to a saint so that the saint has the power to heal someone, simple as that. I have also heard Catholics say that someone prayed "to" this or that saint and that he or she "healed someone." If you ask the followup question, most Catholics will immediately amend that statement to note that they cried out for the saint's intercessory prayers -- to God -- and a person was healed or saved from peril.
Think of it this way (to paraphrase imagery from the writer Frederica Mathewes-Green, the wife of our parish priest): Let's say that you are a devout Christian believer and your child is seriously injured in an accident. You rush to the hospital and the find that your loved one is in surgery. The doctors tell you to go to the waiting room and stay calm. What do you do? You whip our your cellphone and start calling your pastor, your family members and, especially, other devout believers who are your friends, urging them to join you in prayer.
Now, does this action suggest that you believe that these people -- acting alone or together -- will be able to heal your child? Of course not. You are asking them to join you in prayer to God for healing. They are acting as intercessors.
Of course, there are millions of Christians who believe that believers should not be encouraged to pray in this manner, in addition to offering direct prayers to the Trinity. Most Protestants (note the word "most") fit into that modern tent.
Now, do BBC journalists need to get into all of that? Of course not.
However, simply using "to pray to" language is sketchy, without some signal that what is being discussed is a matter of intercession. This isn't a matter of theology. It's a matter of accurately describing what these believers think and believe is happening. Journalists don't have to believe it in order to accurately describe it.
The key to John Paul II reaching the status of blessed lies with a young French nun, whose experience has been judged a miracle.
Sister Marie Simon-Pierre was 44 and working as a nurse in a hospital maternity unit near Arles, in southern France, when she fell ill, in 2001. Diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, she described how the neurological condition worsened dramatically following the death of John Paul II, on 2 April 2005. As soon as the special dispensation had been granted to allow John Paul II to be considered for beatification, her community began to pray to him for a miracle.
"My fellow sisters from all the French and African communities started asking John Paul II to intercede for my healing. They prayed incessantly, tirelessly, right up to the news of my healing," she has described.
She explained that she knew she was healed when she was able to hold a pen and write his name on a piece of paper.
"And my handwriting was perfectly legible! Astonishing! I laid on my bed, amazed. Exactly two months has passed since John Paul II returned to the House of the Father. I awoke at 4:30, amazed at having been able to sleep. I suddenly got out of bed: my body was no longer painful, there was no rigidity and, inside, I was no longer the same."
On Friday, after months of deliberations and a complex process that has involved both medical experts and Church officials, Pope Benedict XVI confirmed that such a dramatic and scientifically inexplicable shift in her physical condition was indeed due to the intercession of John Paul II.
The case fulfilled the criteria for a miracle -- the healing was instant, without scientific explanation and long-lasting.
"Her case is exceptional as we know that you cannot normally be cured of neurological diseases. As far as I know there are no documented cases in medicine of a regression of such kinds of illnesses," Mr Andrea Tornielli said. "That is why the case was so emblematic -- and of course it was the same illness that John Paul had suffered from 1992, and which had shaped the final years of his life."
Yes, there were complications. One skeptical doctor simply said that previous experts had simply been wrong when they said the sister suffered from Parkinson's Disease, a condition that is notoriously difficult to diagnose in its early stages. The article covers all of that quite well.
As I said earlier, this article is much better than the norm. It just needs a bit of intercession -- by someone on the copy desk. All we need is a few more accurate and informed words.
Newer Post"Far right" or "mainstream" angst?
Older PostThe Herod in all of us? | 2019-04-26T11:39:31 | https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2011/01/praying-towith-john-paul-the-great |
0.999997 | To go to the main website, Calculation Devices for Algebra left click on these words..
The calculator on this webpage solves equations ofthe type shown above, for X, when the values for A,B, K, and N, are entered into the white boxes below.
Delete the numbers in the white boxes below, and enter your own numbers. Then, left click with the mouse, on the yellow or blue background, and the value of X will be calculated, in the green box.
The formula in this green box cannot be seen, so it is reproduced here: =N/(A+B+K) I created this formula by solving the equation on the top of this page (AX+BX+KX= N) for X, and then I defined A, B, K and N in terms of the white input boxes. This was done with the Microsoft Excel name function.
With this calculator you can enter positive as well as negative numbers. You can also enter very large and very small numbers, involving over 250 digits.
Numbers that have many digits will be displayed in scientific notation, using the letter E. For example 900000000000000 is displayed as 9E+14, and 0.00000000000009 is displayed as 9E-14.
To contact the author use the above email address, or left click on these words for a website communication form.
To go to the main website, Calculation Devices for Algebra, (www.TechForText.com/Algebra) left click on these words. | 2019-04-25T19:04:10 | http://www.techfortext.com/Algebra/DefiningVariablesInTermsOfCells/ |
0.996965 | Will Activist Investor Push EMC To Spin Off VMware?
Hedge fund holding company Elliot Management has taken a $1 billion stake in storage giant EMC, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal last week. The activist investor with an estimated $25 billion under management is reportedly looking for the company to spin off VMware and Pivotal.
EMC has long opposed spinning off VMware, which is a potential move often floated. It most recently came up in late May when two Wells Fargo analysts advocated the spin off of VMware. Elliot is among those impatient with EMC's stock performance, which has risen only 163% over the past decade, compared with the Dow Jones U.S. Computer Hardware Index's 309% gain.
There's no reason to believe EMC CEO Joe Tucci would now welcome such a move, according to the report, noting his planned retirement is set for next year. Having VMware and Pivotal operate as separate companies, which EMC has a majority stake in, lets it operate under its "federation strategy." This would allow EMC, VMware, Pivitol and RSA to work together or individually with fewer competitive conflicts. An EMC spokesman told The Journal the company always welcomes discussions with shareholders but had no further comment. Elliot Management did not respond to an inquiry.
Freeing EMC of those companies could make it a potential takeover target for the likes of Cisco, Hewlett Packard or Oracle, though, the report noted, due to EMC's 31 percent decline in market share in the external storage market. EMC's stake in VMware is approximately 80 percent.
Elliot Management has taken many stakes in companies including BMC, Juniper and EMC rival NetApp. The company also made a $2 billion bid to acquire Novell in 2010, which the company rejected. Novell was later acquired by Attachmate. | 2019-04-21T07:00:12 | https://redmondmag.com/blogs/the-schwartz-report/2014/07/spin-off-vmware.aspx |
0.999178 | Does Accutane work for hormonal acne?
For people with hormonal acne, the skin's sebaceous glands (aka oil glands) tend to be more sensitive to certain hormonal—particualrly what are referred to as “androgens” like testosterone as well as cortisol. Therefore, an imbalance in these hormones—caused by different factors such as stress, sleep, diet, environmental toxins, and certain medications—can lead to more (and more severe) breakouts.
Accutane (Isotretinoin - a derivative of vitamin a) is considered the single most effective oral medication for the treatment and prevention of acne and works by normalizing the activity of the sebaceous glands. Therefore Accutane is typically very effective in the treatment of hormonal acne—even the most severe cases of cystic acne and adult acne.
Accutane is a very intense drug with many potential (sometimes severe) side effects and is often considered a "last resort" treatment. As with any type of acne, It is always best to start with an effective topical acne treatment using acne medications (such as benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, and/or topical retinoids such as Retin-A) to help cleanse the skin and balance oil production from the outside. That being said, while people with hormonal acne can typically see at least some (or significant) improvement with the right skin care products, the addition of oral medication is often necessary to achieve completely clear skin.
There are several other oral medications (acne drugs) that can be considered and implemented—alongside a good skincare routine—to help control hormonal acne before Accutane. One of the risks associated with Accutane is birth defects if taken while pregnant. Therefore, women considering Accutane are legally required to be on some form of birth control to prevent a (potentially dangerous) pregnancy. What is interesting is that certain hormonal birth control pills (i.e. oral contraceptives) can also significantly improve hormonal acne for some women by balancing the hormones and improving the activity of the sebaceous glands. Therefore, it may be advisable for some women to start by implementing a hormonal contraceptive pill alone to see if that can help control their acne without the need to add Accutane as well.
For women with persistent hormonal acne that does not subside with topical treatments, hormonal contraceptives, or other oral medications (such as Spironolactone and Antibiotics), it may be advisable to consult with your physician about adding Accutane to your acne treatment. | 2019-04-20T10:28:19 | https://www.mdacne.com/questions/does-accutane-work-for-hormonal-acne |
0.996668 | When Don Kernodle stood in the center of the ring at the Chattanooga, Tenn., Memorial Auditorium one night in the mid-1970s, everything seemed to be in place -- the referee, the fans, and a pair of tough rivals in Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson.
But Kernodle suddenly realized one thing was missing -- his tag team partner. As he looked toward the audience, he spied his teammate in the second tier of seats, sitting with some women, eating their popcorn, and waving goofily.
That, in a nutshell, was "Roughhouse" Fargo.
It didn't end there, of course. Popcorn in tow, Fargo raced to the ring, helped Kernodle tie up Hickerson and Condrey and pound the heels into oblivion. The fans ate it up, just as Fargo ate up the popcorn he strewed on the ring apron during the melee.
"It was funny as heck," Kernodle said. "He was a little guy, but he was tough and the fans just loved him."
Fargo died Wednesday, August 20th, at his home in China Grove, N.C., just north of Charlotte. His passing at the age of 80 represents the loss of a legend who looked like a mild-mannered desk clerk when he wrestled and refereed in the Carolinas, only to morph into an offbeat avenging angel when he hit the mats in Tennessee.
"Sonny was a one of a kind. He was a huge box-office draw for us in Memphis and one of the great people in our business," said Jerry Jarrett, a fixture in Tennessee as a wrestler and later promoter.
Fargo was born Jack Lewis Faggart, July 20, 1928, in Rowan County, N.C., and lived most of his life in the area. He wrestled mainly in the Carolinas, Tennessee, and the Gulf Coast area, starting in the 1950s. During a career that spanned more than a quarter-century, he worked as the "Masked Rebel," toiled ringside as a masked valet for the Assassins tag team, and served as a second for the legendary tag team of Jackie (nee Hank), his real-life younger brother, and Don Fargo (Don Kalt).
In his pre-"Roughhouse" days in late 1950s and early 1960s, he frequently paired with Jackie, including once when Don went on the disabled list after accidentally shooting himself in the leg. The Jackie and Sonny show invaded Madison Square Garden several times in 1960 against opponents like the Bavarian Boys, Ricki Starr and Miguel Perez, and the Bastien Brothers.
By the mid-1960s, Fargo was embarking on his unique dual wrestling life in neighboring states. He refereed in Jim Crockett's Mid-Atlantic promotion, occasionally wrestling on preliminary matches, yet he continued to headline cards in Tennessee well after he turned 50.
Clad in old tights and tiny boots, Fargo's gimmick, even though he was a good guy, was to throw the rules out the window, and maul everyone and everything in sight, including Jackie at times, just like a crazed man who'd been temporarily liberated from a padded-wall cell.
"Jackie just knew how to play that angle of when to get 'Roughhouse' and take care of the family chores. When he came, it was 'School's out, man!'" explained Lance Russell, the longtime voice of Memphis wrestling. "We could always be assured there'd be a lot of folks in the arena to see the 'Roughhouse.' Total craziness."
Climbing into the crowd, uttering nonsense on interviews, attacking opponents with ketchup bottles or ice cream cones lifted from concession stands -- few wildman antics were beneath his standards.
"Sonny had the crazy gimmick and was so successful with it because Sonny made the gimmick real. Most of the fans in our area really thought he was nuts. Whenever we needed a shot in the arm, Sonny would come in to help out. Sonny was a good and decent person," Jarrett said.
The Fargos held the Southern tag team title for the Tennessee office and worked on and off as a team through the 1960s and 1970s against the Interns, the Von Brauners, and other stars. Russell thought Fargo's wiry, underwhelming physique, compared with more muscular wrestlers of the day, meshed perfectly with the "Roughhouse" concept.
"He looked anything like a wrestler and I just thought it played into the picture of him not caring whether the opponent was bigger than he was or not. It didn't make any difference. He'd hit him with anything he could get his hands on," Russell said.
Tinker Todd, who wrestled him in the Mid-Atlantic and Tennessee, and often traveled with him, marveled at the way Fargo was primarily a low- or mid-carder in the Carolinas before he got the big break across the state line.
Even more memorable to Todd, though, was a serious car accident when a reckless driver near Lexington, N.C., struck Sonny's Oldsmobile 88. "He and I almost got killed," Todd said. "We were with Abe Jacobs and I got thrown out of the car and caused myself a little damage."
Fargo wasn't above beaning a foe with an oxygen bottle, either, a trick he employed as valet to the Assassins in 1963 during a stint in Florida. Instead of using Fargo as a run-of-the-mill, distract-the-ref manager, Joe Hamilton of the Assassins relied on the valet to revive the team with fresh oxygen during exhausting sequences.
A near-riot ensued one night in Jacksonville, when Fargo brought the bottle crashing down on Eddie Graham, who was a second to the Assassins' opponents. "When Sonny hit Eddie with it, the sound echoed all through the building. The bottle knocked Eddie cold for a few seconds and left a knot the size of a hen's egg on the back of his head. Eddie didn't ask to do it a second time," Hamilton recounted in Assassin: The Man Behind the Mask.
Back in Crockett country, Fargo was close to the late Johnny Weaver, and officiated at prominent events such as Starrcade. Les Thatcher, who first met him upon entering the Mid-Atlantic in 1963, thought Fargo was an ideal third man in the ring, with an exacting sense of when to insert himself in the action and when to stand back.
"He absolutely understood that. He was a heckuva referee," Thatcher said. "Matches were better when he was in there because he understood the flow of the match and when he needed to control it, and you just don't find that in most refs today."
In recent years, he enjoyed attending the NWA Legends Fanfests in Charlotte and seeing old comrades. He had been in declining health, suffered from diabetes, and was a double amputee. "The thing that just jumped out at me was it hadn't changed his personality at all. I was so in admiration of that," said Thatcher, who sat near him at the 2007 fan event. "He was the same character, just laughing and cutting up. He was just Sonny."
Kernodle and brother Rocky visited Fargo for about 30 minutes at his home last Saturday, knowing he was in bad shape. "He was one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet and he was always there for you, helping you in any way he could," Kernodle said. "We had a lot of respect for him. We loved him a lot."
Fargos' wife Delores died in 1999. In addition to brother Jackie, he is survived by a son, Obie; a daughter, Debbie Parson; and numerous relatives. A funeral is scheduled for Sunday at Landis Baptist Church, Landis, N.C.
Steven Johnson is a writer and editor in Virginia and can be contacted at [email protected]. | 2019-04-20T00:18:26 | http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2008/08/23/6552226.html |
0.999844 | The venerable BFI publication Sight & Sound revealed an interesting difference of opinion in the just-announced results of its latest poll of critics and filmmakers to determine the current thinking on which films are the Greatest Ever. This year, for the first time, Vertigo aced out Citizen Kane to take the top spot in the critics' poll. Filmmakers, meanwhile, went for Ozu's Tokyo Story.
The other big surprise in the critics' poll is the appearance of Dziga Vertov's 1928 documentary Man with a Movie Camera in the number-8 spot, evidence of that pioneering film's increasing currency with movie-lovers.
The poll takes place only every 10 years, and is widely considered the most definitive of its kind, especially in terms of its international reach. When the poll was first run, in 1952, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves reached the number-one spot. For each of the five decades since then, critics have elevated Citizen Kane to the number-one spot. The filmmakers' poll didn't begin until 1992, but they too chose Citizen Kane as the greatest film ever made every time.
This year, Sight & Sound editor Nick James said, the magazine approached "more than 1,000 critics, programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other cinephiles." The magazine got 846 top-10 lists back by the deadline, with a total of 2,045 different films cited.
What do the results mean? That's for film buffs the world over to sort out. From my perspective, I'd say it's a matter of time as much as anything else — Citizen Kane is still as great as it ever was, but the passage of another decade may have taken movie-watchers to a place where Hitchcock's haunting Vertigo, with its indelible themes and impeccable style, simply feels more urgent and more contemporary than Welles's wunderkind debut. Vertigo also entered a new golden age with its 1996 restoration, and the ramifications of that re-issue probably weren't yet felt in full when critics voted in 2002. There were a couple of youngish films on the critics' lists, too — Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love at #24 and David Lynch's Mulholland Dr at #28.
As far as the filmmakers go, what about the new pre-eminence of Yasujiro Ozu, certainly among the most contemplative of great directors? I'll just note that its presence along the list, along with Kubrick's 2001 and Tarkovsky's Mirror, might reflect a fondness for what's sometimes known as "slow film" or "slow cinema" — reflective, deliberately paced movies that run counter to the fast-cutting rhythms generally demanded of mainstream cinema. Current film-festival and art-house faves like Alexander Sokurov, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Terence Davies are emblematic of the trend, as are more classic directors like Ozu, Kubrick, and Tarkovsky.
Another takeaway from the filmmakers' list? They love Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, who are either overvalued by their peers or undervalued by the critics. (The Godfather movies dropped out of the critics' top 10 this year, probably in part because votes for the first two films had been combined in previous polls but not this time.) I couldn't find a full list of the directors that participated, but the BBC says they included Scorsese, Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, and Mike Leigh. | 2019-04-20T12:31:58 | http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/08/sight-sound-revises-best-films-ever-lists/ |
0.999792 | Millions of Americans don't have one, and some of those who do resist tapping what they've saved. I'd like to propose an alternative for both sets of people: The "oh, crap!" fund, a savings account for not-quite-emergency expenses.
One of the reasons people don't have emergency funds is misplaced optimism. People think that if they're healthy, they'll stay healthy. If they're employed, ditto. The car will keep running, the roof will never need to be replaced and, since everybody's a better-than-average driver, there won't be any accidents.
Behavioral scientists call that "recency bias," which is the delusion that whatever happened in the recent past will continue into the indefinite future.
Everyone, though, has experienced "oh, crap!" moments: the no-parking sign they didn't see, the crown the dentist says they need, the smartphone dropped in the toilet. A relatively small amount in such a fund can keep people from turning to expensive credit cards or payday loans.
"The power of just a few hundred dollars of savings can really help reduce the use of short-term, high-cost lending," says John Thompson, chief program officer for the Center for Financial Services Innovation, a nonprofit that promotes financial health.
Having a cushion is particularly important if you're a homeowner. In a recent Harris Poll survey commissioned by NerdWallet, nearly two-thirds of homeowners say they've experienced anxiety about their home, with unexpected home repair costs the top cause of anxiety.
The "oh, crap!" fund is designed to be spent, not hoarded. Emergency funds are meant to be spent, too, but people are often reluctant to part with money labeled as savings, says financial literacy expert and Rutgers University professor Barbara O'Neill.
"People hate to experience losses, (and) pulling money out of a savings account feels like a loss," O'Neill says.
Many people also give up on the idea of an emergency fund because any money they manage to put aside is quickly wiped out by unexpected expenses. They don't realize that the emergency fund did its job by keeping those expenses from going on a credit card, or that saving for unexpected expenses is a "rinse and repeat" deal. You don't just hit a savings goal and you're done. You save, you spend, and then you save again.
The "oh, crap!" fund can help people build that muscle. It can be viewed as a transactional account with constant additions and subtractions as life unfolds. The fund also can help people who already have savings they don't want to touch except in big emergencies, such as a job loss.
The first "oh, crap!" goal can be pretty modest, say $500. For those new to saving, here's how to get there.
Consider using an online bank, since most don't have minimum balance requirements or account fees and they'll let you name the account almost anything you'd like (although anything stronger than the word "crap" might get you a "tut tut — let's keep it clean" auto-response from the bank).
Some prepaid cards, such as American Express Bluebird and WalMart MoneyCard, have a savings feature if you don't use bank accounts.
Those with regular paychecks and bank accounts can set up automatic transfers, so $10 or $20 or whatever amount you like gets swept into a savings account each pay period. Or you can use technology that automatically rounds up your purchases to the nearest dollar and deposits the money in savings.
Bank of America's Keep the Change debit card and Chime, a mobile bank account, both offer this option. Or try Digit, an app that analyzes your spending and moves unneeded funds to a savings account.
Decide to put aside a set dollar amount or percentage from every check or other income you receive. Examples: "I'll save $10 from every paycheck and 10 percent of any windfalls."
Once you're in the habit of saving, keep going. Your next goal can be $2,000, which is the median cost of the largest financial shock experienced by households studied by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
After that, you can shoot for the traditional emergency fund recommendation of building a fund equal to three months' worth of expenses. | 2019-04-23T04:57:31 | https://www.shared.com/savings-last-minute-expenses/ |
0.998231 | When Carl left in 1981, Ed Carter was basically Carl's replacement in terms of being the main lead guitarist.
I hadn't known (or had forgotten) that Carter exited in the fall of '81 until some time in '82. That would perhaps explain why Jeff Foskett was hired on at the end of 1981 even though they still already had Adrian Baker and Ernie Knapp in addition to Meros and Figueroa.
It appears Carl brought back both Ed Carter and Billy Hinsche in 1982 when he returned. I believe Ernie Knapp was gone immediately (not sure Carl ever played a gig with them when Knapp was in the band; though Carl did return for that short string of shows in early 1982 before departing again for a few more months). But Adrian Baker stayed on for awhile in 1982.
Did Billy join in 1982 while Adrian Baker was still in the band? If so, that was a pretty large backing band at that point: Bobby Figueroa (or Mike Kowalski), Mike Meros, Adrian Baker, Jeff Foskett, Ed Carter, Billy Hinsche.
Has there ever been a clear, definitive explanation for why both Ed Carter and Billy Hinsche were let go in 1995? (And were they both gone at the exact same time?). I would guess cost/age was the biggest factor; they were replaced by younger (and probably cheaper) guys in the form of Tim Bonhomme and Chris Farmer.
Back to Ed Carter, he seems to have first popped back up playing the 1998 "Farm Aid" gig with Brian Wilson (Matt Jardine was also there). I can't recall if Ed did any other gigs with Brian that year. I know Brian took Matt with him when he did the "Front Row Center" TV show appearance; I can't remember if Ed was with him at that one.
Ed of course joined Al's "Family & Friends" in 1999. The first "Family & Friends" gig in 1998 had Steve Heger on drums and Randell Kirsch on bass. I think both Bobby Figueroa and Ed Carter joined up early in 1999. But I know Al had some guys rotating in and out as he went along, as the tour schedule was inconsistent. Ed usually played bass with Al too. But I saw a 2000 gig with "Family & Friends" where Craig Copeland (lead guitarist) was out, so they brought in Randell Kirsch on bass and Ed Carter moved to lead guitar.
Hey Jude, you touched on an always interesting to me, seldom discussed topic....why were Eddie Carter and Bllly Hinsche let go in 1995? They were long time members of the band, both, especially Billy, tight with Carl and Al. Did those 2 principles not support them? Was it strictly a Mike Love $ conscious move....but still no support from Carl or Al? All very strange to me....would love to hear Billy chime in with what happened...he would know the true story.
I'm pretty sure there has never been a definitive explanation for their departures. I know they were both gone either at the same time or very soon after one another. My only guesses would be all the obvious ones: cost and/or musical reasons. Meaning, maybe they wanted someone (e.g. Farmer) who could do more backing vocals (Ed Carter did sing sometimes, but he was not a regular part of the vocal stack as far as I know, and in many cases didn't sing).
Relatively few of the backing guys over the years seemed to leave of their own choosing. The fact that so many of them turn up after their exit from the touring band continuing to play BB music with various off-shoot/tribute bands tells me they probably weren't choosing to quit the touring band to do something else musically. That's not to say someone here and there maybe wanted a lighter work schedule, etc. But in most cases, I would imagine the idea is to add something else to the touring band sound, or freshen things up with younger members, and/or members who can do more vocal parts, and so on.
Ed Carter, Bobby Figueroa, Billy Hinsche, and Matt Jardine all were touring with Al's band within a few years (or less) of leaving the "touring band."
More recently, both of the most recent exits from Mike's band, Christian Love and Randell Kirsch, have been playing with "California Surf Inc." (along with Bobby and Ed). Now, we had heard for some time that Christian Love was itching to exit Mike's band going back several years; so he may be one anomaly where he didn't want a rigorous touring schedule, but doesn't mind playing gigs here and there for a little extra coin.
Other guys like Phil Bardowell and Adrian Baker have played in various off-shoot bands. (Baker was essentially swapped out from Mike's band for Kirsch in the 2000s, and later on I recall Baker not expressing fond thoughts of Mike).
"Toughening up" the live sound maybe isn't the best term for CBS to use, but to "beef up" the sound was something that wasn't a bad thing.
In late 1979/early 1980, it was one of the last times that actual BBs on stage outnumbered backing players. It was five or all six BBs backed by only three (Figueroa, Carter, and Meros). With Carter on bass, the guitarists in the band were only Carl and Al. Al wasn't a prominent guitar player in the mix at that time (Al *is* a good guitarist, he just didn't show it as much in the touring band).
So having another guitarist (Carter), and then having someone else (Chemay) fill out the bass, was something that could only help the band. Adding one more guitar wasn't going to make them sound like AC/DC or anything, but it would get them a bit more guitar-oriented and little less piano/keyboard oriented. They ultimately as the years went by chose to never go particularly guitar-heavy.
I always figured years ago that Chemay was brought in mainly for the European 1980 tour simply to beef up the sound for Knebworth, since that was being recorded and videotaped for release. While that apparently wasn't the case, Chemay was gone soon after and as soon as they were back in the US in July, only a week or two after Knebworth, Chemay was gone.
But it was only the next year that Carl was gone, and they added Baker and Knapp (and then eventually Foskett). So all of a sudden instead of six BBs and three backing guys, it was five (or sometimes only four) BBs and five or six backing guys.
I don't know about toughening but it sure as heck made them sound better. You can notice a difference between Knebworth and the DC concert in '80 for sure. It gave them a nice guitar sound. Sadly within a few years they gave into the keyboard /synth 80s and the keyboards overwhelmed the guitars for the next decade plus.
Jude - some answers/clarifications: Adrian Baker wasn't with them in late '81 or early '82 (I think the falsettos were all covered by Bruce, Al, and Bobby Figueroa during that time). When Eddie dropped out due to his hernia, they brought in Jeff for lead guitar but also gained the addition of another falsetto singer (who ended up doing nearly ALL of the falsettos). Ernie Knapp was indeed with the band when Carl played those few shows in late March and early April of '82 - when Carl returned fulltime in May, and instituted a new rehearsal regimen, Knapp was out, Carter was back on bass, and Adrian returned (interestingly, when Brian was absent - as he was for much of the May-November '82 shows - Bruce took his spot on grand piano while Adrian played electric piano for two thirds of the set). Adrian was gone by November, and Carl brought Billy back to take his place that month. I don't think Adrian and Billy played a show together until 1990, when Adrian returned to replace Jeff on falsetto vocals.
I'm pretty sure Ian and Jon's Concert book covers this topic.
I have that book C-Man, and it doesn't explain the details, as far as I can see, unless I missed it. It does briefly mention in 1995 that Ed and Billy were replaced by Farmer and Bonhamme, but no reason given as to why. Perhaps had t do with Vocals, but Bonhamme doesn't sing. Farmer of course, did, and sang the high parts for a while. I've never heard Billy mention it in any of his social media communications either. Considering how close he was to Carl and Al, perhaps it was his choice. Would love to hear the details of this fairly elusive time in Beach Boys band history.
Since it's been said that Al had a voice/range closer to Brian's than Bruce's was, how much of Brian's falsetto was handled by Bruce? Did Al take the falsetto while Blondie and Ricky were in the group or was it Bobby Figueroa when he was there?
I believe Ian and Jon's book covers the circa 1977 small purge of band members, who supposedly/allegedly were let go for not adhering to TM.
But I can't remember if they cover the reasons behind Billy and Ed leaving in 1995. I think they cover that it occurred, but did they get into the reasons?
Awesome, thanks for the clarification. I had seen some pics of 1982 shows with Bruce on piano and Adrian on keyboards, after Foskett joined, so I knew Adrian was in the band at some point in 1982.
So I would guess by the time of that widely circulating November 1982 Jamaica Music Fest recording, Adrian was gone and Billy was back?
It would be interesting to know what was behind Baker's coming and going. It's interesting that, upon returning full time in May, Carl's "demands" so to speak had to do with tightening up the band's sound and setlist, yet he brought back (or okayed bringing back) Adrian Baker, even though Carl himself was documented watching that 1981 Queen Mary show and commenting that it was "painful." While he didn't specifically cite Baker (I believe Carl said something like "some rehearsal would help a lot"), he had to have seen/heard that Adrian was sounding pretty off doing those falsettos.
I *do* think a *little bit* of that awful Queen Mary 1981 gig is explained by the mix, because someone posted some clips of the show on YouTube taken from a much later (possibly European) broadcast of the show, and the show has been mixed much better and it at least smooths out some of the worst aspects. I think the live mono TV sound and even the live stereo radio simulcast made an already iffy show sound even worse.
While we're on the subject of comings and goings, I've also been curious by the strikingly large amount of musical chairs that took place in 1990. You have Mike missing some gigs in May and June to tour in Japan. For *some* of those shows, I've read Jeff was still with the band and sang a lot of Mike's leads. But I've heard the one circulating recording from June, and Jeff isn't there and *Al* is singing lead for the most of the show including most of Mike's leads.
It appears Jeff missed some shows in June (and maybe earlier?), and Matt Jardine stepped in for these shows even though he wasn't yet the full-time official "falsetto" guy, and then Jeff came back for a bit (he's on the July 4th gigs, his last), and then either immediately or soon after Adrian Baker re-joined (but with Matt still playing with the band as well?), and then Matt officially "replaced" Adrian around 1992? I think there's a 1992 "Beach Boys Band" publicity photo that includes both Matt and Adrian.
There's also a 1990 soundboard recording where Mike is back, but *Al* is absent (Mike mentions, seemingly sarcastically, that Al is on "sabbatical"), and neither Foskett nor Baker are present, and Matt does the falsettos and Al's leads (including "Somewhere Near Japan").
Later in the year, Carl *also* missed some shows, and weirdly they hired a replacement lead guitarist (can't remember his name, but he had big 80s hair).
HeyJude, at the May 1990 Mikeless show I saw in Atlanta, both Al and Jeff co-sang a lot of Mike's leads. Matt Jardine covered the falsettos, and Gerry Beckley helped fill in the harmonies. They also did "Sister Goldenhair."
I think it was your report from years ago that I was remembering in thinking that Jeff was at some of the "Mike-less" shows in 1990.
But apparently at some point later in May or June, Foskett dropped out for awhile, as the June 2 Ontario show I've heard has no Jeff, and Al was singing all of Mike's leads (apart from the bridge to "Sloop John B", which Gerry Beckley sang).
But Jeff did return at some point, as he's on the July 4th Cape Cod show (his last show), which circulates on video.
I believe Mike missed the shows in May/June due to an "Endless Summer Band" string of dates in Japan. I think Foskett had previously been a part of that sideband, but I recall seeing some Japanese TV appearances Mike made during that time, and I don't think Jeff was in the band at that point (which would make sense as well if Jeff was with the BBs during some of the gigs Mike missed).
I've always found in interesting that, even when Mike was gone for a string of shows in 1990, they didn't really alter the setlist (other than doing Beckley's "Sister Golden Hair"). You'd think they would have dropped a few "Mike lead" songs and picked some more stuff for Carl to sing (or had Carl sing a few of the Mike leads).
It's interesting that we have recordings through the years of Mike, Al, and Brian all singing a lot of the "surf" and "car" songs, but never Carl. How weird would that have been, to hear Carl take the lead on "California Girls" or something?
Didn't Carl cover Mike's leads when he was ill in 1970?
It's been a million years since I listened to the murky audience recordings. Did Brian sing some of the leads? I recall the general idea put around was that Brian took Mike's leads, but then others suggested it was Carl.
In any event, it's a bit easier to think of the 1970 Carl voice filling in for Brian or even Mike. I just think it would be odd to hear 1990s Carl singing those Mike leads.
Has Mike ever discussed or even mentioned why he'd bail on his own band to play these half-assed cover band shows at the time when the Beach Boys were actually a hot act riding on a #1 hit single?
Considering how possessive he was of the BBs as a touring brand, it's surprising Mike would miss BB gigs.
He strikes me as the Tom Scholz type, who allegedly one time in the late 70s injured himself at the end of a Boston show and missed one song in an encore where the rest of the band went on, and allegedly immediately freaked out and made the entire band sign an agreement that they would never perform a note without him on stage.
I have no doubt that Mike would never have done such a thing in 1996 or 97.
My best guess for those 1990 dates is one of two things, and actually they both could go hand in hand. He may have booked the gigs prior to BB gigs were offered and booked, and no doubt, especially back in 1990, he could probably make some nice money *not* splitting gig proceeds with the other BBs by doing those gigs in Japan. Even an off-shoot side band like "Endless Summer Band" was in-demand enough in Japan in 1990 that they booked the band for TV show appearances.
I've always wondered if it was a coincidence or not that the following year, the Beach Boys themselves toured Japan for the first time in, I believe, 12 years.
FOSKETT: I was asked to leave by Michael and Carl. I know that during the past several months there has been some discussion over the internet on my departure, and I will set the record straight now. I was having an affair outside my marriage that was causing a great deal of turmoil in the closely-knit BB organization. All the wives traveled on the road at one time or another, and seeing me with someone other than my wife made them suspicious of their husbands. Not a good scene. My ego was way out of control. I think Michael thought that I was holding back money from the side gigs that he and I did with the Endless Summer Beach Band, and so he was unhappy about that, and Carl was unhappy with my ego and my affair. They did the right thing by letting me go; right for them and definitely right for me. I needed to straighten up and get back into "the real world." I did, and my wife and I will soon be celebrating our 11th anniversary.
Foskett's comments almost make it seem like *Foskett* was booking the band's gigs, or at least acting as some sort of ad hoc manager for that side band. I'm not sure how else it would even be possible for him to "hold back" money from gigs.
We also have Al, Carl, Dennis, Brian...and now Mike...singing lead on "Help Me, Rhonda"!
I seem to recall that ESQ reported (I think it was the September '95 edition) that two of the longtime touring sidemen were planning to retire at the end of the year...they didn't name names, but a few months later, it became obvious who they meant. So this could have simply been a case of them growing tired of the touring grind. Or of the inter-band bickering. Or both.
since there's been a lot of great discussion outside the time when Blondie and Ricky were in the band, I'm going to edit the main post and include all the info that people have willingly provided here and in a couple of other topics I have found that list the BB touring members.
Thanks for all the help and discussion!
I think there should be some discussion of the other on-stage players over the years, such as their various horn sections. I remember (vaguely) some shows in the '70's that featured some amazing horn contributions, but don't recall any names.
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0.999851 | Here's a new recipe I found in Cooking Light. I calculate them at 4 points each.
Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine flour and the next 4 ingredients (flour through salt) in a large bowl, stirring well with a whisk. Make a well in center of flour mixture. Combine yogurt, butter, milk, and egg in a bowl, stirring well with a whisk. Add yogurt mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until moist.
Place 12 foil cup liners in muffin cups; coat liners with cooking spray. Spoon 1 tablespoon batter into each liner. Top each with 1 teaspoon jam. Top evenly with the remaining batter. Combine 1 tablespoon sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; sprinkle over batter. Bake at 375� for 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove from pan; place on a wire rack.
I'm going to try these. I make a real strawberry bread that is very fattening, and this sounds close. Thanks! | 2019-04-20T03:24:11 | https://www.healthdiscovery.net/bcb/threads/85904-Strawberry-Cinnamon-Muffins?s=9e158e24eb663d2d62ac2392be6f06bb |
0.998722 | Why push RFID now to the information management market? Waiting for RFID to be 100% proven and standardized is missing opportunities now for ROI. Instead of taking the Wal-Mart mandate and doing the bare minimum, it's a good time to leverage the mandate and incorporate tracking information into the entire supply chain process.
I tend to focus on the things that information management professionals will get into and treat information management as the profession, not data warehouse, or other architectural construct, management. Over just the past few years, that has included DW and CRM (with arguments about which came first), ERP, clickstream, data quality and master data management - anything to do with large volumes of data. In other words, these are the things that an information management career can easily consist of. I'm anticipating adding RFID data management to this list.
As for organizations venturing into RFID, we're talking about innovation. What strikes me is the high variation in RFID applications - it's everything from experimental gadgetry to bet-your-business risk prevention and supply chain management. Whether this data gets added to the data warehouse or, more likely, an ODS-type structure, it's us, the information management professionals, that will manage it.
Organizations should think about "what is causing my sub-par decisions?" and if any of that be alleviated with an RFID approach. Chips can be in practically anything. Does having chips on many things sound far-fetched? IIn 1981, we thought of the personal computer this way.
Quick update on my blog entry about IBM BI... Maybe we should consider Cognos more prominently in this equation. Back in March, when IBM unveiled DB2 Version 9.1, some vertical offering development was announced between IBM and Cognos. I was also reminded that Cognos 8 Special Edition was packaged with some IBM software.
As well, we are seeing the 2 pitched together more prominently in RFIs/RFPs.
I think it's important to be aware of market trends, especially if you are going to market for DW/BI solutions. DB2 shops who purchased Informatica in 2003-2004, and there are some, wish they had seen the Ascential deal coming for the tighter integration expected.
Today, RFID is optional. People only voluntarily implant themselves with the chips - about the size of a grain of rice, enabling extra convenience in such things as door entry, letting the dog out, secure access and the like. This article says there are about 60 - 80 people that have had RFID chips voluntarily implanted. Some of them are nightclubbers since some European clubs implant their VIPs for identification and convenient charging.
Is Tom Clancy aware of this trend?
I thought these chips were implanted into hands, but the subject of the article says he made himself some PANTS that block the tags for security purposes.
With the Microsoft advances in SQL 2005, can the complex and more expensive offerings of the UNIX platforms, like IBM, maintain their position?
IBM, let's not forget, has yet to make their BI move. Who will it be? And will it be too late?
I consider Microstrategy, Cognos and Hyperion, in that order as candidates. Business Objects has made their own push to be positioned alongside the large players so I don't see them in play to IBM. IBM has a handle on ETL with its purchase of Ascential. Duplicate technology is always a problem in M&A since the acquirer doesn't want to pay for anything it already has. Cognos has an ETL tool, but it doesn't exist in the field, to my knowledge, outside of shops with the Cognos BI toolset. So, while a slight overlap, it's not fatal to a deal.
Unwanted technology can also be a problem in a deal unless the acquirer can find a way to want it. Application software does not appear to be an interest to IBM since it has only dabbled in it over the years. MicroStrategy several years ago abandoned its application software while Cognos and Hyperion are going headstrong into that market. Could this be a plus for a MicroStrategy option? Maybe. MicroStrategy has put out messages in the past of not being interested in M&A, but I have to believe that will or has changed.
What will happen? I don't know. Deals take much more than putting a puzzle together from the outside. Valuations, culture fit, personalities, priorities and timing all play a part. I believe a deal will get done, but the when and where remain to be seen. | 2019-04-19T09:13:15 | http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/mcknight/archives/2006/07/ |
0.999592 | This lower fat pie crust is adapted from a cooking light recipe. I made it for a quiche and placed it up against a full fat recipe and this one was actually preferred!! I made it with coconut oil instead of butter and shortening.
Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in a bowl; cut in coconut oil as best as you can with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal.
Make a well in center of flour mixture. Pour hot water into center of well. Gently draw flour mixture into the water until moist clumps form. Press dough into a 4-inch circle. Cover, and chill 30 minutes.
Slightly overlap 2 sheets of plastic wrap. Unwrap dough; place on plastic. Cover dough with 2 additional sheets of overlapping plastic wrap. Roll dough into a 13-inch circle. Fit dough into a 9-inch pie plate coated with cooking spray. Fold edges under; flute. | 2019-04-19T18:17:50 | https://www.joyofkosher.com/recipes/lower-fat-pie-crust/ |
0.790496 | Currently I have a sudoku puzzle solver program and I've tried all the puzzles I can find that are labeled the "hardest" on various sudoku video games and puzzle books. My solver has solved them all. It currently uses the following 4 polynomial time rules (i.e. polynomial time if the board was $N^2 \times N^2$ instead of $9 \times 9$).
4) For each row/column and block that intersects it, see if there is a value that can only appear in the intersection 3 cells either for the row/column or for the block. Then no other squares in the row/column or block can have that value.
After these rules are applied repeatedly, if the puzzle is not solved, then the program guesses a value for a cell and sees if this leads to a solution or contradiction when the above four rules are applied repeatedly. If a contradiction is found, then the value is removed from the possible values for the cell. This guessing is applied separately for each cell+possible value if the number of possible values for the cell is 3 or less. There is no simultaneous guessing for multiple cells. If at least one possible value is removed for some cell, then the above 4 rules are again applied repeatedly until guessing is required again. And repeat. If it ever happens that the 4 rules and guessing don't provide any additional information, then the program gives up and prints out the partial solution it found.
Now, there are about 10 or 20 different polynomial time rules that have been devised to rule out possibilities and infer cells' values in sudoku, and I only implemented 4. Furthermore, the guessing only guesses one cell's value at a time and merely removes the value from the possible values for the cell if a contradiction is found. So it's weird to me that this solves all the hardest puzzles I can find. Can someone produce a puzzle hard enough that my program can't solve it?
In response to the OP's request I'm posting this as an answer - although all I did was happen to know of a place where he found a puzzle that defeated his algorithm.
My solver uses no strategies at all but only guessing, and so the code is extremely short. There are plenty more that you can try from the second link, but you'll have to copy down the puzzles yourself.
Start with a simple puzzle, and then I made this harder and harder by the removing the known field values. The main hardness of a sudoku puzzle is at the beginning.
What is a good approach to demonstrate solvability of this type of puzzle without use of brute-force? | 2019-04-18T10:16:34 | https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/899213/can-someone-produce-a-sudoku-puzzle-where-guessing-more-than-one-cells-value-at |
0.999999 | Use the derivatives of the words in a sentence or a small story.
1) Produce – product – production – productive – productivity – producer.
2) Technology – technological – technologically – technologist.
3) Consume – consumer – consumption.
4) Provide – provision – provider.
5) Supply – supplier – supplies.
6) Compete – competition – competitive – competitor.
8) Equip – reequip – equipment – reequipment.
5. Fill in the blanks with the necessary prepositions: in (3), by (2), to (3), on, from, with, of, over.
1. Interview your group-mate about his / her visit to the supermarket.
1. Where do you go shopping? To the supermarket? Small food stores? Bazar? Why?
2. You make a shopping list, don’t you? What items do you put on your shopping list?
3. Do you prefer buying cheaper or more expensive products?
5. Do you buy canned ready-to-use / half-ready products?
6. Would you rather buy foods that were advertised?
Discuss the methods of processing food.
1) Fry, bake, process, boil, skim, mix, smoke, roast, can (tin), grill, granulate, pasteurize, condense, dry, puff, grind, mill, whisk, freeze.
2) Grocery. Fruits. cherry, plump, pear, apple, lemon, orange, apricot.
Vegetables: beetroot, garlic, onion, watermelon, cucumber, carrot, pees, melon, cabbage, pumpkin, tomato.
Cereal Grains: corn, buckwheat, groats, oats, bread, millet, wheat, barley, rye.
Meat products: beef, chicken, lamb, pork, wheal, turkey, sausage, poultry, mutton, duck, goose.
Fish: salmon, herring, crabfish, sprouts.
Milk products: milk, butter, cheese, curd, yoghurt, cream, sour cream, ice-cream.
Bakery: honey, vinegar, oil, eggs, sugar; beverages: wine, (sweet) carbonated water, mineral water, energizer, coca-cola, beer, liquor, brandy, champaign, balm, whisky.
Discuss the recipes of foods and the countries they came from. Add your own ones.
1) pasta, macaroni, rice, varenyky, coca-cola, stuffed cabbage rolls (golubtsy), pizza, pancakes, pop-corn, puding, cabbage soup.
2) China, the USA, Spain, Great Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Greece.
FOOD INDUSTRY IN UKRAINE | Comment upon the following questions with a partner. | 2019-04-22T02:19:16 | https://doclecture.net/1-46596.html |
0.999998 | What is the floor tile? MFG & series/color? Love it!
You mention an L shape desk but is that a window or a open shelf between rooms? Looks like a window, but can't tell for sure in the picture. Are you going to put the desk there & block that? Not sure that would look too good. If you're doing a slate tile (grayish in color?) why not consider a slate blue or colonial blue for your walls with a carpet that has a mix of color in it? Light pink is also very pretty for the walls that would match with the gray color as well. It's a warm inviting color & calming too, if your working in the office. Add pics with gray & pink matting around the them. Not sure about the slate color but for a farm look ( I guess) what about a taupe for the walls? Just throwing out some ideas, not sure what colors you like but I read from a designer that you should rip pics out of magazines that appeal to you 10 to 12, then look at each one carefully & see if there is something common in all of them. Once you figure out what it is you can work from there. Maybe you tend to pick pics that have the same or similar colors, light walls with dark furniture & floors or just he opposite. She did go on to say that if you only decorate with a color because it is the latest trend, chances are you're not going to like the finished product. So maybe try that out, just saying. Best of luck with your choices.
I have no idea what tile / color to use. Please help!
Thank you Sam, bluemonkey, anilup and Kelly. You guys are the best. I'm definitely calming down. Sam, the color was stopping me because I kept thinking it is going to be so bland. I appreciate so much all of your advice. Sam, I'm checking out the Emsler...online of course. I really don't have a tile company close to me that I can go to except for Home Depot and Lowes :( . I am so amazed at the help you guys give. I guess I have to send for some more samples to see the colors. I ordered a Daltile Sample of their P'zazz Grey shimmer and I swear it was a sage green. Everytime I think I have the "one" something is not right. I wish a company close to me would stock these tiles :( , If you all don't mind I'm going to attach some photos of light fixtures for my vanity. I'll need 3 of them. I'm not sure I like any of these that much but these are the styles I'm looking at. if you guys know of something better please let me know. My budget is around $100 or less per light. Which do you like best?
Thanks so much for the feedback...light grey tile it is and I'll certainly take a look at Echo Ridge...looks great from the photos! :) Sorry...I didn't clarify my question regarding the oak/tile baseboards. I was thinking of removing the dated oak baseboards and use the light grey tile as baseboards cut at about 3 inches in height. I don't often see the same cut tile used as baseboards in photos, with the exception of bathrooms. Your thoughts?
What color grout for black slate tile floor? | 2019-04-24T04:03:17 | https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5496441/what-is-the-floor-tile-mfg-series-color-love-it |
0.999027 | Antony and Cleopatra Essay Question: How is power play illustrated in the behaviour of Antony and Cleopatra and Antony and Caesar in Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’? In your answer make close reference to the text. (600-800 words) The strength of the powerplay used in Shakespeare’s play ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ becomes evident in many different situations as characters assert themselves over others to create the outcome they desire.
In ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ this dominance is displayed in multiple relationships, however the two main power struggles exist between Antony and Cleopatra in their relationship and Antony and Caesar in their struggle to gain power. This use of power to control another eventually ends in tragedy with the deaths of both Antony and Cleopatra and in the process their devoted servants. “ In Antony’s relationship with Cleopatra quite often the use of power comes from Cleopatra manipulating Antony to agree with the way she wants events to occur.
The utilization of powerplay between these two characters begins very early in the play, first showing itself in Act 1 Scene 1, when Antony refuses to hear the Roman messenger and to instead spend time with Cleopatra. This is the first indication of how strong a hold Cleopatra has over Antony to make him reject his Roman duties as a Triumvir. However, Cleopatra’s influence over Antony can only extend so far and the limits of her control are shown in Act 1 Scene 3.
She aims to prevent Antony from announcing his return to Rome and at the same time to convince him to stay, first by feigning illness then taunting him. When Antony finally does state his motives for leaving Cleopatra, to attend Fulvia’s funeral, she increases her taunting notably declaring: O most false love! Where will be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill ” With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see, In Fulvia’s death how mine received shall be. (Act 1, Scene 3.
Lines 63-65) In stating this Cleopatra aims to make Antony feel guilty to leave her and instead attend the funeral of Fulvia. By insinuating that he does not care for her, Cleopatra has unintentionally brought about the opposite of what she wished to achieve in making Antony stay. Here Antony turns the argument around and is able to manipulate Cleopatra accordingly, by threatening to leave Cleopatra with the possibility of not coming back. This is too much for her to take and so she changes tactics and begs for forgiveness and recognizing that Antony has his Roman duties to attend to.
No other significant scenes arise until Cleopatra’s hold over Antony is again shown in Act 3 Scene 11 when Cleopatra does not even intentionally manipulate Antony and he follows her from battle back to the relative safety of Egypt. This scene emphasises the hold that Antony is under as he has abandoned his Roman duty, which was supposedly the most important thing in his life, and has replaced it with the love of a ‘gypsy’, as many Romans including Caesar, refer to Cleopatra. Antony’s statement “My heart was to thy rudder tied by th’strings… (Act 3, Scene 11. Line 55) shows how he himself now recognises the strength of his love to Cleopatra and that he would follow her anywhere. Much of the powerplay present between Antony and Caesar is discovered through use of conversations with other characters and not through direct conversation between Antony and Caesar themselves. Caesar’s dislike for the amount of time Antony is spending in Egypt with Cleopatra is first brought up in Act 1 Scene 4 were it becomes apparent that he is also losing respect for the much admired Roman general Mark Antony.
The only way Caesar accepts Antony and his apology is by Antony agreeing to a marriage with his sister Octavia. This suggestion is made by Agrippa, whose intention is to bring the two men closer together and to settle their dispute. This works in Caesar’s favour. If Antony declines the proposal then it could be seen that he was rejecting his Roman duty and instead putting his love of Cleopatra in the way, the other alternative is that the marriage between Antony and Octavia will not prosper and Caesar can use Antony’s rejection of Octavia to wage war against him.
However, Antony finds an excuse for waging war against Caesar because Caesar has fought and killed Pompey without consulting his fellow triumvirs despite having signed an agreement in Act 2 Scene 6. Further, Caesar has imprisoned Lepidus putting Antony in more doubt about Caesars intentions and whether or not he will try to take Antony out of power as well. Therefore, Antony returns to Egypt where he has the relative safety of distance and the time to gather an army to match Caesar’s. For Caesar this is the final straw and he takes Antony’s flight as a sign to begin a war and overtake him. | 2019-04-20T17:08:35 | https://freebooksummary.com/powerply-antony-and-cleopatra-74559 |
0.998247 | About Why hierarchical task management?
As I often say, the web is kind of like the wild west. Anything can be created, anything can be imagined. Every day new needs appear that could be turned into business. The information world is a parallel universe where every entity, every person, every place, every concept, every interaction mechanism of the real world can have its avatar.
Having this is mind, one can have a deep feeling of freedom, the feeling that everything is possible and can be done.
For someone who knows internet quite well and has entrepreneurial skills, opportunities abound and ideas come at a high pace. Every day, every week new ideas appear, often good ideas that would deserve some time for testing them and verifying if they have already been materialized. Each of them could potentially lead to the creation of something that would enrich the internet world and, in parallel, the real world.
Here comes the wish to contribute to the world by creating something useful and innovative.
However, without effective organization, there is not enough time... ideas accumulate in a fertile mind without managing to get things done. Big lines are there but details stay fuzzy and hard to estimate. Having a great idea can lead to a feeling of pleasure and even excitement when thinking about benefits that could be achieved through it, but it is double-edged: it makes the idea a recurring obsession if it is not materialized.
A strong feeling of frustration comes from it: the feeling of having an immense task to accomplish without really knowing where to start. A feeling of despair which rises with each new idea, because experience has taught that, once again, the idea will not become a reality. So these ideas persist as unprocessed information, which seems to be a loss of energy and engenders stress.
It is necessary to look into personal organization and different task management techniques. Lots of books to read about this! The web is a goldmine of information on task scheduling and personal organization. Numerous articles describe techniques to improve managing these ideas, these tasks, so that they become a plus instead of a heaviness.
The accumulation of 'things to do' in the mind of the subject is a generator of stress. Consequently, it's possible to rid oneself of this accumulated stress by 'depositing' these thoughts, these ideas, these 'things to do' somewhere else, whether on paper, on a recording, or saved in a file or in a database.
Thoughts are sometimes fleeting... Access to support must be nearly instantaneous: if a few minutes pass, the information can be lost.
In order to be able to adapt to the complexity of large projects or accomplishments, tasks must be organized into a hierarchy in the form of a classification tree.
actionmanager.net was created with these key requirements. | 2019-04-19T18:35:14 | http://www.actionmanager.net/about.php |
0.999558 | Below is a conversation i just received from a Sr. CFO candidate. This is what happens when inexperienced little girls do key word searches and can't read a resume.
I just got a call from (company name removed to protect the mentally deficient) in Irvine, California. Doing a search for a Manager of Financial Reporting. I told the recruiter that this really wasn't in my "strike zone," even though I believe I have the ability to do the job, but I'm a CFO.
She disclosed that the job was in (city removed) I asked, "Is this XYZ Company?"
I used to be the CFO of XYZ Company. In fact, I was the first CFO of XYZ Company and took the company public.
Oh. I guess I missed that on your resume. Does that mean you're not interested?
Sandra, This put a smile on my face during the boring hours of work, so on behalf of everyone who read it, we thank you!
Always, always do the homework before making the initial contact whether that's looking at a Resume or reading up their LinkedIn account. The candidate will be more willing to offer information if they have realise that you have already invest time into them.
Knowing their passed experience and background can go a long way, and sometimes will give you something to relate to with a candidate.
I blame the hiring company, not the recruiter.
Nice thought Mitch and I know where you are coming from but as a practical matter how does a company know what or how the agents of their agents are recruiting or what they are saying to individual candidates. Unless a candidate, such as this one, picks up the phone and complains to the hiring company they have no way of knowing.
While all companies should do their due diligence, insist that certain practices should or should not be implemented they have no control or knowledge of how the individual recruiter may be interacting with potential candidates.
Hiring companies only know if they get qualified candidates. If they do they measure successful recruiting as receiving those candidates that enable a hire and of course those candidates will normally be pleased with the recruiter who opened the door.
These examples are why I don't talk to 'recruiters'/'headhunters' who have less than three or so years of experience. I say this since after I went out on my own I was receiving calls from newbies, asking for advice on how to be successful in our business.
As Mr. Lee said, the key here is in Training and also having management that knows when no matter how much training is administered, some of these clueless beings need to be terminated and released back into the sea.
The real crime here is as everyone here knows already- these dimwits only make our jobs harder.
If for no other reason than the amount of time we spend apologizing for these clients' last contact by these dysfunctional types.
I knew things were only going to get worse when back in 1981 or so I was hearing Employment Agency staff calling themselves 'recruiters'.
Whomever planted that bad seed ought to be identified and flogged. | 2019-04-18T13:13:59 | https://recruitingblogs.com/forum/topics/do-you-know-why-candidates-think-recruiters-are-idiots?page=4&commentId=502551%3AComment%3A1792396&x=1 |
0.999998 | Our choir put on their special stoles yesterday. It was Transfiguration Sunday, where we celebrate the glory of God in Christ. The name comes from Jesus' appearance changing during the event. While it has never caught on in the society at large (too long a name?) it is a big deal in some church traditions. It is the last Sunday before Lent, so you can think of it as a sort of a mardi gras for the robe and stole crowd before the somber time of Lent.
<p>The gospel writer Mark has a story right after the spiritual high of the transfiguration recorded in first nine verses of chapter nine. It seems while Jesus and the inner circle of disciples were on the mountain with Moses and Elijah in presence of God, the rest of the disciple team were unable to heal a boy.
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love; true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
The church I serve is in Ohio, but my family's home is still in Pennsylvania so I travel between the two. I am constantly forgetting to put a “1” in front of the “other” area code, going to a store that is in the “other” mall and last week I ended up going west instead of east on the turnpike because I forgot which state I was sleeping in that night.
Home is a place that is familiar. There is a shared history between you and the place, it agrees with you. You're at home when you know where everything is and who everyone is. You can be yourself at home.
Wandering without a home is a common yet under diagnosed affliction. I'm not talking about the problem of actual homelessness, but of not have a home for one's heart. Individualism and a flurry of choices have had the unintended effect of making us feel like strangers everywhere as the social landscape changes around us. Like yours truly on the turnpike, we end up going the wrong way because that way led to home just a little while ago.
Augustine said, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee, O Lord”. One thing I've learned while I've had my call in Ohio and my family in Pennsylvania is that my true home, where I can be myself, where all is familiar and in the right place, is ultimately in heaven.
For Christians, earth just doesn't fit right. The sadness, evil, disappointment, injustice unsettle us. The best work for goodness and justice, and I believe that no Christian is ever truly at home in our fallen world, maybe that is why Jesus said he had “no place to lay his head”. His home and ours is in heaven where every tear is wiped away and death is no more.
This is great for old hands to remember what is like to be new to the strange and wonderful world of church in general and Presbyterian in particular. New Presbyterians can painlessly catch up while smiling their way through the cartoons, diagrams, and helpful hints. There is history: “History Six Most Notorious Heretics” , theology: “How to Explain Predestination to Your Friends”, and Bible Study “Five Grossest Bible Stories”.
Excellent book to buy and give to someone as you invite them to church or to give to make that new visitor feel welcome. If you are a Goodyear Heights Presbyterian Church member or visitor, a copy is in our library for your enjoyment.
There were lots of preparations. My wife put make-up on me and my daughter fixed my son's hair. (We had no choice in the matter, which is probably a blessing to all those who will look at the pictures in the years to come.) The pictures were taken with a minimum of fuss and by the wonder of digital photography displayed on the computer in a few minutes for us to choose among. We negotiated who looked best in which pose and found ones we could all agree on to have printed.
My wife surprised me later when she said that she didn't picture herself the way the pictures showed her. I said I had the same feeling looking at my pictures, I know that is me in the picture, but I still “see” myself as my favorite college picture from 25 years ago. My sweetheart said that is how she sees me too.
The image we have in our mind differs from the picture that the camera takes. Genesis tells us that humans were made in the image of God (1:26) and Christ is also referred to as the image of God in Colossians 1:15. A part of the understanding of image of God is that there is more than meets the eye in both humanity and in Christ.
When I look at my wife, I see not just what the camera records, but a quarter century of life and love shared something that can't be captured by pixels and bits. I hope I can look at other people with the same eyes, certainly not with the same detail, but seeking all the same to see not just the portrait, but the image of God in them.
Getting a little romantic before Valentine's day. | 2019-04-21T06:33:18 | https://christyramsey.org/index.php?m=02&y=06 |
0.999999 | Shalom. In order to complete a text I need some missing words in Hebrew. My dictionary doesn't have them. Could you spell the following words in Hebrew (using Latin letters, as my e-mail program does have Hebrew)? The words I need spelled are: Globalization, New Age, International Monetary Fund, New World Order, Neo-liberalism, Internet, Wide World Web, computer, Rome, World Bank, Bar Code, William Henry Gates III, Bill Gates, Brussels. Sorry for the inconvenience but I have no one else to help me on this matter. Ciao!
I have a few questions: When it's the New Year, Jewish people eat apple in honey; do you have a recipe? Do men help cleaning the house when it's Easter? Who is Haman? How does his head look like?
Can a vegetarian eat animal crackers?
Does television have any educational value?
I must say that I personally find television very educational. The minute somebody turns on the television, I go to the library and read a book.
Thinly sliced cabbage with mayonnaise.
I would like to thank you for using the letters "Shabbat" to spell Shabbat. I enjoy reading many Jewish books in English but the one thing that always bothers me is Shabbat spelled "Shabbos." While that may be the pronunciation of many English-speaking Jewish people, they don't write tzedaka as "tzdukuh." Thank you.
First correct answer* to the Shlemazel Puzzle wins 1,000 dollars**!
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**Canadian dollars, paid out in installments: One dollar a year for a thousand years! | 2019-04-23T16:53:56 | https://ohr.edu/holidays/purim/parodies_of_our_publications/1554 |
0.999994 | arky skrev: Ingen hast for min del Går ganske fort å lage knivene, fin prokrastineringsaktivitet Hvilken kniv vil du helst ha foresten?
Har fått fatt på noen fin fine pyrittbiter også. Så da er det bare å få sydd skinnposen igjen .. tenkte jeg skulle slå sytråd av lindebast. Har endel lindebast igjen fra i fjor sommer.
Gleder meg til å se de pm meg adressen din så skal jeg sende kniven snarest!
The domestication of fire must be ranked among the key `revolutions' in prehistory. The sociologist Goudsblom (1992) has drawn attention to the fact that of the main attributes of `civilization' -- tool-use, language and control of fire -- only one, control of fire, is beyond dispute exclusively human. Many publications have discussed the use and production of fire in prehistoric and historical times (to name a few important ones: Hough 1926; 1928; Birket-Smith 1929; Harrison 1958; Oakley 1955; Perles 1977; Pyne 1995; Collina-Girard 1998). Many authors have suggested two stages in the domestication of fire: the `age of fire used' and the `age of fire kindled' (after Frazer 1930). We do not know when ways to produce fire were first invented, but it is reasonable to assume that people knew how to make fire since the moment that hearths are a regular phenomenon on prehistoric sites; this is the case since the Middle Palaeolithic.
Archaeological evidence points to an increasing importance of the hearth in the daily life of small groups of people since the beginning of the last glacial. The Upper Palaeolithic hearth not only attracted many activities in which fire or heat was functional, but also played an important role in social life. The evolution of a simple language to a complex one, involving abstract concepts, may have been spurred by daily gatherings around the fire, where stories were told and rituals performed. The characteristically `modern' pattern consisting of dense rings of artefacts of various kinds around hearths, as observed at many Upper Palaeolithic sites (see e.g. Olive & Taborin 1989; Stapert 1992), seems to be largely absent in older periods. It is in any case remarkable that hearths in `socialized' contexts are found in large numbers since the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic.
Reliable knowledge about fire-making equipment from the Palaeolithic is hardly available. When studying material from Upper Palaeolithic sites in Holland, Denmark and Germany, dating from the Late Glacial, we noted `tools' of a type hardly noticed before: flint implements with a markedly rounded end (Johansen & Stapert 1995). These strongly reminded us of similarly rounded objects from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. Many sites from the latter periods contained rounded flints, often together with pyrites. Ethnographical sources indicate that flint and pyrite were used in combination to produce fire. Therefore, rounded implements from the Neolithic and Bronze Age have been interpreted as strike-a-lights by Evans (1872: 284) and other authors. In this paper we suggest that at least some rounded tools from the Upper Palaeolithic served the same purpose.
2 percussion or friction of stone on stone.
With both techniques, the produced sparks or glowing wood particles are caught in material that will easily smoulder. Though many materials are suitable for this purpose, one of the best seems to be the dried inside of Fomes fomentarius, a fungus growing on old or diseased trees. When a piece of fungus has begun smouldering it is used to set fire to some easily ignited material (e.g. thin rolls of birch bark). Friction of wood against wood can be achieved in many ways. Some well-known implements are the fire-drill (often involving a bow), the fire-saw and the fire-plough. Among the Australian Aborigines, men sometimes used their shield (soft wood) and spear-thrower (hard wood) together for this purpose (Spencer & Gillen 1904).
In this paper Rounded flint tools from the Upper Palaeolithic: strike-a-lights?
Upper Palaeolithic pyrite concretions, showing clear traces of use, are known from Laussel in France (Perigordian or Solutrean) and Chaleux in Belgium (Magdalenian). At several other sites, e.g. at Vogelherd in Germany (Aurignacian) and Pincevent in France (Magdalenian), pieces of pyrite have been found which do not (or no longer) show traces of use. The nodule recovered at Chaleux has a groove, probably resulting from forcefully and repeatedly rubbing a flint against it. Such grooves have also been observed on pyrites in ethnographic contexts (e.g. Nieszery 1992: Abb. 2).
In northern Europe, pyrites from the Palaeolithic are rarely preserved. We therefore concentrated on the flint tools used in the production of fire. Our experiments (see below) show that when a flint tool has been used as a strike-alight for some time, it reveals a characteristic wear pattern: rounding, in many cases visible to the naked eye, in addition to dense sets of scratches and gloss. In the literature we found quite a few descriptions of flint artefacts with rounded ends. In general these were not interpreted as strike-a-lights, and most authors have not incorporated this tool type in their typological lists. Other authors mention the existence of this type, but without offering any interpretation. Campbell (1977: 13) described such pieces as follows: `blades or flakes with one or both ends worn smooth by some rubbing process'. He noted the presence of this type in many assemblages from the Creswellian in England. Two blades with rounded ends (`lames a bout emousse') from Gough's Cave in England (Creswellian) were illustrated by Leroi-Gourhan & Jacobi (1986: figure 3, nos. 3 & 4). Two blades with `rubbed ends' from the Creswellian layer in Three Holes Cave were illustrated by Barton & Roberts (1996: 252-3); these are associated with a hearth dated to around 12,190 BP. In a recent publication on Hengistbury Head (England), several rounded flint tools are described, with good microscope photos (Barton 1992: 120, 123), again without an explanation (though there were hints from micro-wear analysis of `stone-on-stone' contact: Barton 1992: 170; Barton pers. comm. 1998). Rounded implements are also described at several Magdalenian sites, e.g. Chaleux (Otte 1994), Andernach (Bosinski & Hahn 1972) and Kniegrotte (Feustel 1974). There are good reasons for caution relating to the interpretation of rounded tools. Many different uses could have resulted in rounding. Engraving in limestone or slate is one of the possibilities. Flints with rounded ends (especially burins, but also other tool types) are known from Lascaux, which may have been used for engraving the limestone walls of the cave (Leroi-Gourhan & Allain 1979).
Two rounded flint implements are known from the Hamburgian site at Oldeholtwolde in the Netherlands, dating from Dryas 2 (Stapert et al. 1986) (FIGURE 2: 1, 2). One combines a rounded end with a burin. The tool was not produced at the site, as it cannot be refitted in a reduction sequence with other blades or flakes and is also a unique type of flint on the site. No use wear was present on the burin edge (Moss 1988). The second rounded tool from Oldeholtwolde is a blade (fragmented because of secondary frost-splitting), whose proximal end is rounded. Both tools show sets of striations on the rounded parts. Among the material from the Hamburgian site at Sassenhein in the northern Netherlands, so far four rounded pieces have been identified (FIGURE 2: 3-6). It is notable that these are all crested blades, which are thicker and sturdier than regular blades; some rounded ends have a borer-like shape. In several cases, the rounding is associated with micro-splintering, especially on the ventral face. Another Hamburgian site in the northern Netherlands is Vledder (Beuker & Niekus 1996), where one fragment of a rounded blade was found (FIGURE 3: 5).we shall be mainly concerned with the technique involving percussion or friction of stone on stone. According to Perles (1977: 33) it is possible to produce fire by striking flint on flint, but this does not work (Oakley 1955; Collin et al. 1991). It is certainly possible to produce fire by striking two pyrites together, as done by several groups of Inuit (Parry 1824: 504). By far the most common technique, however, is to strike, or forcefully rub, a flint tool against a piece of pyrite. Pyrite and related minerals such as marcasite consist of iron and sulphur (mostly Fe[S.sub.2]), though other elements (such as copper) may also occur. These minerals produce quite hot and relatively long-lived sparks when struck by a flint. Pyrite may occur in the form of large crystals, but is found more often as concretions in limestone or clay. Pyrites can be collected on cliff beaches of Denmark, France and England, but may also be found in secondary deposits such as moraines. Pyrite easily decomposes in the sandy soils of the North European Plain. In such situations only the `strike-a-light', consisting of flint, will survive archaeologically.
In historical times, the wood-on-wood technique was much more widely used than the pyrite method. The latter remained in use especially in peripheral areas: by Eskimos, Aleutians, Fuegians, Aboriginal groups in southeastern Australia, and probably Tasmanians. The wood-on-wood technique was applied almost everywhere else. However, the situation further back in time, during the Stone Age, was probably the reverse, suggesting that the pyrite technique is the older of the two; at the end of this paper we shall return to this question.
From the prehistoric record of Europe there are many indications for the use of the flint/pyrite technique, but hardly any for the wood-on-wood technique. In classical and later times, however, both techniques were known in Europe. Quite a large number of graves dating from the Neolithic or the Bronze Age contained fire-making equipment, consisting of one or several flint tools and a lump of pyrite; in rare cases also remnants of Fomes fomentarius were found. In northern Europe, sometimes the basal parts of flint daggers were used as strike-a-lights. From men's graves of the early Bronze Age in Denmark, miniature flint daggers are known (FIGURE 1: 1-3) that were used exclusively for this purpose (Petersen 1993: 141).
From Neolithic Switzerland, several rounded flints used as strike-a-lights, as well as several pyrites, have been found in antler hafts (Strobel 1939: Abb. 14; Uerpmann 1981: Tafel 13). Though preservation of organic materials at several Swiss sites is very good, distinct wooden tools for the production of fire have not been identified. Several possible fire-sticks have been reported for the site of Seeberg Burgaschiseesud (Stabe: Muller-Beck 1965: 95-8), but no `hearths' with drill-holes, and Muller-Beck is not certain that the wood-on-wood technique was used here. Several rounded flint tools have been found at Burgaschisee-sud, pointing to the use of the pyrite technique, though these were not interpreted as strike-a-lights; similar tools are known from many other Swiss sites. Sometimes used-up cores were exploited as strike-a-lights in the Neolithic (Nieszery 1992), but sturdy blades or bar-shaped tools with one or two rounded, ends, with lengths of 5-10 cm and rounded cross-sections, are more common (see for examples FIGURE 1: 4, 5). Such bar-shaped pieces are frequently found in megalithic tombs and in barrows. `Ice-man' Otzi owned such a strike-a-light, carried in a leather pouch which among other things held a piece of fungus, probably Fomes fomentarius; some pyrite particles were also found (Egg et al. 1993; Nieszery 1992).
It is clear that during the Mesolithic the flint/ pyrite technique for producing fire was in use. The most important evidence is finds of pieces of pyrite. From several Mesolithic sites we also possess remnants of Fomes fomentarius, for example from the well-known Early Mesolithic site at Star Carr (England), where also rounded flints and pieces of pyrite were found (Clark 1954). Pyrite and remnants of Fomes fomentarius were found at several sites at Duvensee in northern Germany (Schwantes 1928; Bokelmann pers. comm. 1998). Fomes fomentarius is furthermore known from the Kongemose site in Denmark, and from several Maglemosian sites as well. Pyrites have been found at several Maglemosian sites in Denmark (e.g. Mullerup (this pyrite is burnt), Ulkestrup east, Maglelyng XVIII and Svaerdborg I, all on Zealand). A male grave at Nederst (Jutland), dating from the Ertebolle period, contained a lump of weathered pyrite among other artefacts (Esben Kannegaard Nielsen pers. comm. 1995).
Rounded flint tools from the Upper Palaeolithic: strike-a-lights?
Two rounded flint implements are known from the Hamburgian site at Oldeholtwolde in the Netherlands, dating from Dryas 2 (Stapert et al. 1986) (FIGURE 2: 1, 2). One combines a rounded end with a burin. The tool was not produced at the site, as it cannot be refitted in a reduction sequence with other blades or flakes and is also a unique type of flint on the site. No use wear was present on the burin edge (Moss 1988). The second rounded tool from Oldeholtwolde is a blade (fragmented because of secondary frost-splitting), whose proximal end is rounded. Both tools show sets of striations on the rounded parts. Among the material from the Hamburgian site at Sassenhein in the northern Netherlands, so far four rounded pieces have been identified (FIGURE 2: 3-6). It is notable that these are all crested blades, which are thicker and sturdier than regular blades; some rounded ends have a borer-like shape. In several cases, the rounding is associated with micro-splintering, especially on the ventral face. Another Hamburgian site in the northern Netherlands is Vledder (Beuker & Niekus 1996), where one fragment of a rounded blade was found (FIGURE 3: 5).
On the Danish island of Lolland, two Hamburgian sites were excavated: Solbjerg 2 and 3 (Petersen & Johansen 1996). Solbjerg 2 produced one rounded tool (FIGURE 3: 3); Solbjerg 3, nine specimens (FIGURE 3: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7). We also identified rounded tools among the material from several Hamburgian findspots in Germany: Meiendorf 2 (one burin), Hasewisch (one piece, with the rounded end opposite a scraper), Poggenwisch (one burin) and Teltwisch 1 (a blade and a burin). Other examples were published from Ahrenshoft (Hartz 1987) and Schalkholz (Tromnau 1974). From the Federmesser site of Usselo in the Netherlands one rounded tool is known: a crested blade. Another rounded tool of the Federmesser tradition, from Westelbeers in the southern Netherlands, was decribed by Arts & Deeben (1976: 26 & figure 20: 65). The Epi-Ahrensburgian site of Gramsbergen in the eastern Netherlands (Johansen & Stapert in press) produced one specimen; the proximal part of a blade is very strongly rounded, over quite a length (FIGURE 2: 7). A few microscope photos of rounded flint implements are shown in FIGURE 4. Especially notable are the dense sets of parallel striations on the rounded ends.
At the above-mentioned Hamburgian sites in the Netherlands and Denmark, no engravings in stone or perforated stone pendants have been found. It therefore seems to be a reasonable proposition that the tools with rounded ends were used as strike-a-lights. It would be nice, however, to posses some independent evidence to corroborate our hypothesis. One possibility is to look for residues: fine particles of pyrite embedded in depressions on the surface of the rounded parts. The burin of Oldeholtwolde was analysed by Dr G. Boom (formerly attached to the Department of Applied Physics of Groningen University). He used a scanning electron microscope (SEM), coupled to a spectrometer for chemical analysis on element level. Boom discovered two minute particles containing sulphur and iron; one also contained copper. These could be pyrite or marcasite particles. We cannot be certain, however, because a mineralogical determination was not attempted. Mr H. Bron of the same department has looked at a series of rounded tools, including several specimens from Hamburgian sites in the Netherlands and Denmark. He found a few particles containing, among several other elements, sulphur and iron. The most convincing example is a rounded tool from Solbjerg 3. These preliminary results are encouraging, and we hope to continue this line of research.
It is likely that closer examination of Upper Palaeolithic lithic assemblages in Europe will produce many more examples of tools with rounded ends. Reports on use-wear analyses of Upper Palaeolithic flint material in most cases do not contain descriptions of such tools. One reason might be that these implements are quite rare, and therefore had little chance of ending up in samples; the rounding often occurs on pieces not classified as formal tools.
In 1995, we carried out experiments at the Archaeological-Historical Experimental Centre at Lejre in Denmark, together with a group of Scandinavian students of archaeology. Flint tools similar to the prehistoric ones described above were used on a range of materials, including hard and soft limestone, slate, quartzite, sandstone, cow's hide and pyrite. Before and after use, these tools were examined under a stereo-microscope. The main goal was to see if use on pyrite would produce characteristic wear patterns. The results will be described in more detail elsewhere. Repeated use of flint on pyrite typically resulted in distinct rounding of the flint, very similar to the rounding observed on Late Palaeolithic specimens described above. On the rounded parts, massive striations can be observed: sets of subparallel scratches densely packed together (FIGURE 5, at right). Numerous striations on flint tools resulting from use on pyrite are also mentioned by Collin et al. (1991). In addition to massive scratching, the rounded areas show a fairly high gloss. Several other attributes may also occur, such as crushing and/ or splintering.
All experimental tools used on materials other than pyrite show very different patterns of use wear; especially notable is the absence of dense sets of striations. It appears that the combination of distinct rounding, gloss and massive scratching is quite characteristic of flints repeatedly and forcefully rubbed onto pyrite in order to produce sparks. Although this result is encouraging, it does not prove conclusively that the rounded flint tools presented above were strike-a-lights; this would require more analysis. Yet the use wear on the archaeological specimens described above is very similar to that on the experimental pieces employed on pyrite, also in terms of surface area, coarseness and density.
Similar rounded tools were identified among the material from several Palaeo-Eskimo sites in western Greenland (Johansen & Stapert 1997). During the past two decades, several dozen Palaeo-Eskimo sites have been excavated in the Disko Bay area along the west coast. The sites are ascribed to the Saqqaq culture (c. 2500-1000 BC) and the Dorset culture (c. 800 BC-AD 1000). The historically known Eskimo are representatives of the Thule culture which emerged about AD 1000. At many Palaeo-Eskimo sites in Greenland, preservation of organic materials is excellent. Not only bones but also wooden objects often have survived. Qeqertasussuk is a site of the Saqqaq culture in Disko Bay where many wooden artefacts were preserved (Gronnow 1988); however, wooden tools for the production of fire are absent (Gronnow pers. comm. 1997). So far, we have identified stone implements with rounded ends in the material from at least four Palaeo-Eskimo sites in western Greenland. The sites stem from both the Saqqaq and Dorset cultures. Nine such tools were found at Ikkarlusuup Tima (FIGURE 6); this site belongs to the Dorset culture, and dates to the 1st millennium BC. Three dwelling structures with hearths were observed (Stapert & Johansen 1995/96). In most cases, the rounded tools are re-used `burin-like tools' located close to hearths. We are convinced that these were strike-a-lights, used in combination with pyrites. Pyrites were found at several Palaeo-Eskimo sites in this region, for example at Qeqertasussuk where also at least one rounded tool was present. The rounded implements in Greenland are not made of flint but of silicified slate (killiaq). We used experimental tools made of this material on pyrite, and studied the resulting use wear. Both the experimental pieces and the rounded archaeological specimens show the same use-wear as the European flint artefacts described above (see FIGURE 7).
The historical Thule Eskimo in Greenland are known to have produced fire mainly by the wood-on-wood technique (FIGURE ; only in the extreme northwest did people employ pyrite (Birket-Smith 1929). Judging by our results, the pyrite method seems to have been the oldest in Greenland. No good evidence for the wood-on-wood technique exists for periods predating the Thule culture.
There has been considerable speculation about how methods for the production of fire were discovered, and which technique was the first. Some authors believe that the observation of sparks produced during flint-knapping inspired the discovery. John Evans (1872: 281) suggested that the use of pyrite nodules as hammerstones in flint-knapping might have triggered the invention of fire-production. According to Hough (1890: 571), the flint/pyrite technique was the `original discovery', gradually replaced by wood friction because this technique is easier to apply, and the necessary materials easier to obtain. Pyrites are more difficult to find than suitable pieces of wood, even in the Arctic. Pyrites from a `mine' in Boothia Peninsula were traded in historical times (Hough 1926: 112). In later publications Hough changed his opinion on this matter: `... wood methods occurred prior to mineral methods' (Hough 1928: 3). The site of Guitarrero Cave in the Andes region is sometimes mentioned as having provided evidence for the wood-on-wood technique during the early Holocene or even the Late Glacial (e.g. Collina-Girard 1998). At this site six `hearths' with drill holes and three firesticks were found (Lynch 1980: 243-52). However, these all came from the uppermost levels, and one of these objects has been directly radiocarbon-dated to 2315-125 BP.
Our work seems to support the idea that the pyrite technique is indeed the oldest. For the European Stone Ages we possess much evidence for the flint/pyrite method, but hardly any for the wood-on-wood technique. Similarly, the bearers of the Saqqaq and Dorset cultures, predating the historical Thule Eskimo, probably only produced fire using pyrite. Both in Europe and in Greenland, therefore, the pyrite technique seems to be the oldest. The percussion techniques used in Tierra del Fuego and Australia may reflect the original tradition of fire-making.
An important question is how Middle Palaeolithic people (including Homo sapiens!) produced fire. Distinct hearths are known from this period. Some wooden objects from the Middle Palaeolithic have been interpreted as fire-making tools, such as an 8.5-cm long specimen from Krapina. These examples do not seem very convincing, however (Collina-Girard 1998). Distinctly rounded flint tools from the Middle Palaeolithic are rarely mentioned. Yet, rounded tools do occur in some sites of the later Middle Palaeolithic, e.g. at Buhlen in Germany (L. Fiedler pers. comm. 1998). Pyrite was found at the Mousterian site of Grotte de la Hyene in France by A. Leroi-Gourhan (Feustel 1973). These few indications are not enough for concluding that fire was produced by means of flint and pyrite during the Middle Palaeolithic, though this is a distinct possibility. We must realize, however, that both the wood-on-wood technique and the pyrite/pyrite method have little chance of being demonstrable on sites with poor preservation.
Acknowledgements. We thank the Archaeological-Historical Experimental Centre at Lejre, Denmark, for supporting our experiments in 1995. We are grateful to H.J. Bron (Groningen University) for SEM photos of flint tools. We thank Nick Barton (Oxford University), Denise Leesch (Service et Musee d'Archeologie, Neuchatel), Prof. G.J. Boekschoten (Amsterdam) and Prof. J. Goudsblom (Amsterdam) for critically reading a first draft. We thank two anonymous referees for their comments. Finally, we are grateful to Xandra Bardet (Groningen) for correcting our English text.
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0.999886 | Can the candidate work full time at MPD HQ? (300 Indiana Ave NW, Washington, DC; located across street from Judiciary Sq Red line stop on Metro)? There are no reimbursable expenses. | 2019-04-21T14:41:33 | https://www.hireitpeople.com/jobs/2855-net-developer |
0.999999 | Where can I launch model rockets?
With regards to CASA, these can generally be broken into three areas, Small Model Rockets, Model Rockets and High Power Rockets.
1. Small Model Rockets (Commonly known as Low Power Rocketry (LPR)) are rockets that weigh less than 500grams Gross Lift Off Weight (GLOW), carry less than 25grams of propellant and produce less than 20Newton-seconds(Ns) of impulse ('D' impulse motor).
These can be flown pretty much anywhere and to any height. These are great for smaller parks or fields. With all rockets, common sense should prevail and you should always consider your surrounding environment including (but not limited to), other people, buildings, trees or any other object.
2. Model Rockets (Commonly known as Mid Power Rocketry (MPR)) are rockets that weigh between >500g and 1500grams GLOW, carry less than 125grams total propellant (no more than 62.5grams per individual motor) and produce less than 320Ns of total impulse (less than 160Ns of impulse per individual motor) ('G' impulse motor).
If you are in controlled airspace, you are only allowed to fly these to 400feet (121.7metres) Above Ground Level (AGL). If you are outside of controlled airspace, you can fly these to any altitude below controlled airspace eg. if there is controlled airspace starting at 2,000feet (609.6metres), that will be your maximum ceiling. *Note: controlled airspace is generally quoted as Above Mean Sea Level (AMSL) and therefore you need to take into account the altitude of your launch site.
If you wish to fly into controlled airspace, you will require an instrument issued by CASA which has varying rules to abide by. The best thing to do when flying these rockets is join a local rocket club who should have the necessary instruments/permits in place.
3. High Power Rockets (Commonly known as High Power Rocketry (HPR)) are rockets that weigh >1500grams GLOW and/or have greater than 62.5grams in an individual motor and/or produce more than 160Ns in an individual motor ('H' impulse motor).
It does not matter how high you plan to fly, you must have an instrument in place to operate high power rockets. It is best to join and speak with your local club to discuss what size motors you can fly at their relevant launch sites.
The following information is from CASA's "New to model rockets? Get to know the rules" flyer.
For free advice, instruction, imformation and public liability insurance, contact your local rocket club and speak with an experienced flier.
Buying or building your model rocket and then enjoying the launch can be a relaxing and fun way to spend the day... but did you know that there are Australian Government rules that determine where and how you launch?
* Your small model rocket must weigh less than 500g, carry less than 25g propellant, produce less than 20 Newton-seconds of impulse and be made of balsa, wood, paper or plastics or a combination of those materials, but contain no metal as structural parts.
* Do not operate in a movement area or runway of an aerodrome, or the approach or departure path of an aerodrome without approval.
* Do not operate in a manner that is hazardous to persons, property or aircraft.
* When launching larger model rockets, refer to Part 101 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations'1998 (CASRS).
* Consider the benefits of approved rocket areas.
* Read the safety information available through clubs and associations.
* Your model rocket must be in compliance with the model rocket safety code.
* Speak with an experienced flier before you launch.
* Our environment and the people around you.
* Joining a local rocket club. | 2019-04-25T17:43:21 | https://ausrocketry.com.au/launching-model-rockets |
0.999983 | How come edges frequently so boring? CSS provides you with plenty of choices for dressing your edges but most Web-site designers, when they customize the edges whatsoever, concentrate on developing a border that's only a thin black (sometimes another color) solid line. While it's perfectly acceptable to produce edges like this, this means that the Web site designs are likely to look nearly the same as almost every other Web site made with CSS.
The conventional border is designed in CSS as: border-style: solid border-width: 1px border-color: black Or perhaps in shorthand as: border: solid 1px black There is nothing wrong with this particular border, it is simply boring .
Hopefully, after you have look at this article, you will have a better appreciation from the options you've for styling your edges, and also you will not limit you to ultimately only a plain black or colored border.
May possibly not seem sensible to show from the border, in the end, most elements in HTML possess the border hidden or off automatically. However for elements like images it's wise to inform the browser to depart the border off. This way, should you result in the image a hyperlink , it will not come in your design by having an ugly colored border around it.
border-style: none Observe how linked images look with and without edges . There's additionally a border-style: hidden which is comparable to the border-style: none style. The only real distinction between hidden and none would be that the hidden style prevents every other border from exhibiting around that element while using the falling apart edges model in CSS 2.
The very first three styles (dotted, dashed, and double) operate in every modern browser. The 4 starred (*) styles (groove, ridge, inset, and start) fail to work in Ie. | 2019-04-24T08:32:31 | https://www.alotspace.com/use-cascading-down-style-sheets-to-alter-border-styles/ |
0.99981 | Blood test will now predict death!!?
American scientists have claimed that they developed such a method of blood tests Which can be predicted that How many lives have a person left?
Research has been said in the study this test will help people in real danger and those elements can be monitored which can be a threat in the future.
This research has been done by researchers of Yale University of the United States and they also claim that this blood test predicts an individual's age is extremely authentic, practical and easy.
9 bio makers were seen in this blood test it was applied to the data of the past medical research reports.
After this, an algorithm was predicted according to 9 biomakers, such as white blood cells etc.
Researchers say that this test is helpful in predicting an individual's age because it examines the effects of aging within the human body.
Scientists have said that it will be practically tested in the near future, but instead of genetic tests, these results will not be like 'stone on line'. It can get high.
Researchers of yale university want to determine these elements due to which the age of cells increases, so that people can be helped for long life.
According to researchers, in the next step, measures will be formed which will tell a person's lifestyle to increase their biological age. | 2019-04-20T03:18:20 | https://steemit.com/blood/@aamir37/blood-test-will-now-predict-death |
0.998946 | Washington(CNN) During a tense exchange late Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris pressed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about whether he had discussed special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation with anyone, including any individuals at the law firm founded by the President's personal attorney.
On the second day of confirmation hearings, the California Democrat asked the appellate judge whether he had "ever discussed special counsel Mueller or his investigation with anyone."
After answering "with other judges I know," Kavanaugh was asked if he had discussed the probe with anyone who works at Kasowitz Benson Torres, the New York law firm founded by President Donald Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz.
Kavanaugh replied that he's unsure he knows everyone who works at that law firm and asked the senator if there was a specific person she was talking about.
"I'm not remembering, but I'm happy to be refreshed or if you want to tell me who you're thinking of," Kavanaugh said.
"You've been speaking for almost eight hours to this committee about all sorts of things you remember," Harris said. "How can you not remember whether or not you had a conversation about Robert Mueller or his investigation with anyone at that law firm?"
Harris fired back, "I think you are thinking of someone, and you don't want to tell us."
"If there is a list of names he can be given of the lawyers to whom she is referring, I think that's fine," Lee said. "But I think it's unfair to suggest that an entire law firm should be imputed into the witness's memory when he doesn't know who works at the law firm."
Harris, who has been mentioned as a 2020 presidential contender, returned to questioning Kavanaugh, asking him again if he had a conversation with anyone about Mueller's investigation.
"The fact that it's ongoing, it's a topic in the news every day, I talk to fellow judges about it. It's the courthouse in the District of Columbia. So, I guess, the answer to that is yes," the Supreme Court nominee said.
Once again, Harris asked Kavanaugh if he spoke with anyone employed at Kasowitz's law firm about the special counsel investigation, arguing that he can answer the question without a list of its employees.
"I'd be surprised but I don't know everyone that works at that law firm," Kavanaugh said, adding, "I'm not remembering anything like that but I want to know a roster of people and I want to know more."
Harris then moved on to other points of questioning, but not before she told Kavanaugh "clearly you're not going to answer the question."
Kavanaugh responded to the questioning again on Thursday saying he hasn't had any "inappropriate" conversations about the special counsel's Russia investigation "with anyone," adding he doesn't "recall any conversations of that kind with anyone."
"I don't recall any conversations of that kind with anyone at that law firm," Kavanaugh said during the third day of hearings. "I haven't had any inappropriate conversations about that investigation with anyone."
The law firm also issued a statement to CNN on Thursday, saying, "There have been no discussions regarding Robert Mueller's investigation between Judge Kavanaugh and anyone at our firm."
Harris pushed back against the law firm's denial, telling CNN, "They're not under oath."
Asked if she didn't believe them, Harris said again, "They're not under oath. The question was asked under oath."
A Democratic aide told CNN that "we have reason to believe that a conversation happened and are continuing to pursue it." No further details were provided by Harris to Kavanaugh during the hearing, and she said she would have questions for the record for Kavanaugh about the issue.
Currently a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Kavanaugh, 53, was nominated to the Supreme Court by Trump in July to replaced retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, he could establish a conservative majority on the nation's highest court for decades. The third day of his confirmation hearings continues Thursday.
This story has been updated to reflect additional developments.
CNN's Phil Mattingly, Daniella Diaz, Manu Raju and Dana Bash contributed to this report. | 2019-04-23T16:24:53 | https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/06/politics/kamala-harris-brett-kavanaugh-hearing/index.html |
0.999792 | How many players can be connected to a MUSH at once? There are 3 factors which affect the answer to this question.
Each player connection comes in over a TCP/IP socket, and each socket require that the operating system allocate it a "file descriptor", a number which refers to that socket. In addition, each file which is opened by the MUSH process (standard input, standard output, standard error, one for each log file, one reserved for reading help/news/events files, one to accept connections) requires a file descriptor.
When you run out of descriptors and the MUSH tries to open another one, it will likely either crash or hang. Since the MUSH requires about 10 descriptors for itself (6 if you define SINGLE_LOGFILE), subtract that from the hard limit to figure out how many players you can support.
There's also a practical limit. The more players you have connected, the more work the CPU has to do to service the process, the more memory will be used (for player objects and for all those queued commands), and the more load will be placed on your network connection. At some point, your game will begin to lag increasingly. Once again, little can be done unless you have a budget for better hardware.
Finally, you can set a limit on how many players your MUSH will accept in your mush.cnf file. Usually, you just want to set your login limit at the highest practical value, taking the above things into consideration. So, if you've got a max of 64 file descriptors, and you don't define SINGLE_LOGFILE, figure you can have 54 players connected, and set login_limit accordingly. Remember, however, that your admin and players with the login @power can connect even over your login_limit, and if they run out your file descriptors, expect bad things to happen. | 2019-04-18T23:06:37 | http://community.pennmush.org/node/185 |
0.999354 | When everything shakes, in whom do we trust?
Is there anything wrong with Rob Bell's gospel?
David Pawson has an international ministry as a speaker and writer. His series on 'Unlocking the Bible' has sales the world over. In a completely new venture he is broadcasting 'Fireside Chats' as a means of reaching a worldwide audience using the technology of the internet.
Update: The following transmission is now over. There was a bit of a 'glitch' at the DP end and at the 'listening end' I found that I could only access the broadcast by using Firefox (browser) on a desktop PC (running Windows 7). It didn't work using Internet Explorer; and neither FF, IE nor Google Chrome (browsers) could connect on a laptop PC running Vista).
No doubt these teething problems (at both ends of the connection) will be overcome.
David Pawson is now in his 82nd year of life. He is still travelling and ministering on an international basis and has recently returned from a conference in America at the International House of Prayer where he spoke on a number of very important subjects including Divorce and Remarriage.
Pawson who was formerly a pastor in Goldhill Baptist Church and then Guildford Baptist Church has, through and throughout his ministry, tackled important topics head on. His books have included titles on male leadership, spirit baptism, the Toronto blessing, the doctrine of Hell etc.
In 2003 he felt that God was speaking to him about 'The Challenge of Islam to Christians', and in a video and book of that title, Pawson documented the present rapid rise of Islam in the West. He spoke of what Islam is, arguing that its rejection of Jesus Christ's divinity mean the two faiths cannot be reconciled, and he proposes a Christian response, based on the church purifying itself.
From his childhood in the north of England, David Pawson had wanted to be a farmer, but by the time he had completed his studies for a B.Sc. in Agriculture at Durham University, he felt God was calling him into full-time Christian ministry. He then studied for an M.A. in theology at Wesley House, Cambridge University, and subsequently joined the Royal Air Force as a chaplain, serving in Aden.
After leaving the RAF he served as a Methodist minister, but went on to become the pastor of Gold Hill Baptist Church in Buckinghamshire.
Later, as pastor of Guildford Baptist Church ('Millmead', which he helped to design), he established a reputation among both evangelicals and charismatics as a Bible teacher. From here his teaching tapes - originally made for the church's sick and elderly members - became popular worldwide. Under his ministry, Millmead became one of the largest Baptist churches in the United Kingdom.
Pawson left Millmead in 1979 and engaged in an itinerant worldwide Bible teaching ministry. As of 2010, Pawson, aged 80, is still preaching at events across the globe.
His teaching and resources can be found at Anchor Recordings. | 2019-04-19T08:30:07 | https://658.uk.endis.com/Articles/277940/Christians_Together_in/Survival_Kit/David_Pawsons_Fireside.aspx |
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0.99961 | Located at Cruice Park is the Durundur Station Memorial, a sandstone monument in tribute to 6 of Queensland's early settlers - the Archer brothers. The explorers and pastoralists who've a number of locations throughout Queensland either named by them or in honour of them.
Who were the Archer Brothers?
The Archer brothers were the sons of William Archer, a Scottish timber merchant. 6 of the 7 brothers played a major role in the colonisation of Queensland, with the first of the brother's, David, arriving in Sydney in 1834. He was soon joined by William and Thomas in 1838. The brothers had planned to seek out pastoral lands on the Darling Downs, but this initial plan did not come to pass as all the best pastoral land had been staked out already by the time William and Thomas arrived in Australia. Instead, they turned their attention to the Stanley River region and established Durundur Station which is now the site of Cruice Park near present day Woodford.
Durundur was just the start of the brothers' quests for prosperity.
Thomas and David explored the Burnett Region and Fitzroy River, establishing Eidsvold and Coonambula runs, while Archibald Archer became a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1867 and served the state for 17 years. Brother Colin Archer not only became a successful shipbuilder in Norway, but was also the first to sail the vessel - Ellida, up the Fitzroy River to present day Rockhampton.
The Archer brothers named their station 'Durundur', which is the aboriginal name for the Moreton Bay Ash (Eucalyptus tessellaris). with the ambition to use the land for sheep breeding. However, the property proved unsuitable for sheep, so instead, Durundur became a base camp for travellers and pioneers.
Naturalist and explorer Ludwig Leichhardt stayed at Durundur for several months in 1843 and 1844, as he explored south-east Queensland. The property also became a popular stop for miners looking to strike it lucky at the Gympie Gold Fields.
Looking straight out through the doorway to the ridge on the near horizon you can see a tall hoop pine, a stout bunya pine and a large stand of bamboo. This is the original site of 'Durundur' homestead.
The first home was built on that site by the Archer brothers in 1841 and was a rough slab building cut from local timbers. This was followed by a much grander home built from Red Cedar that burnt to the ground in 1879, never to be rebuilt.
In 1841 it is believed to have been the most Northerly inland settlement of the colony of New South Wales not accessed bu ship. (The colony of Queensland was not declared until 1859) Brisbane remained as a penal settlement until 1842 and as a result an exclusion zone kept all freehold settlements at a distance of 50 mls (approx. 80 kms).
This monument was designed and created by Woodford Sculptor Guy Robinson and commissioned by the Woodford Historical Society with funding from the Moreton Bay Regional Council. The artist would also like to thank Jeff Horsley for his assistance transporting and installing this monument.
The 'Durundur Monument' was officially unveiled by Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AC The Governor of Queensland 26th October 2013.
Interested in Learning More about Durundur?
If your interested in reading a little more about what happened to the Durundur property in the 1900's, Bill Kitson published the article 'Repurchasing estates: the transformation of Durundur'. | 2019-04-24T00:58:23 | http://visitmoretonbay.com.au/natural-attractions/durundur-homestead-monument-woodford |
0.999155 | Thousands of exoplanets are known to orbit nearby stars and small rocky planets are established to be common. The ambitious goal of identifying a habitable or inhabited world is within reach. But how likely are we to succeed? We need to first discover a pool of planets in their host star's "extended" habitable zone and second observe their atmospheres in detail to identify the presence of water vapor, a requirement for all life as we know it. Life must not only exist on one of those planets, but the life must produce "biosignature gases" that are spectroscopically active, and we need to be able to sort through a growing list of false-positive scenarios with what is likely to be limited data. The race to find habitable exoplanets has accelerated with the realization that small planets transiting small stars can be both discovered and characterized with current technology, such that the James Webb Space Telescope has a chance to be the first to provide evidence of biosignature gases. Transiting exoplanets require a fortuitous alignment and the fast-track approach is therefore only the first step in a long journey. The next step is sophisticated starlight suppression techniques for large ground- and space-based based telescopes to observe small exoplanets directly. These ideas will lead us down a path to where future generations will implement very large space-based telescopes to search thousands of all types of stars for hundreds of Earths to find signs of life amidst a yet unknown range of planetary environments. | 2019-04-18T21:23:08 | http://pmaweb.caltech.edu/~physcoll/abstracts/16-17/Seager16.html |
0.999567 | I'm trying to transfer data between two atmega 328p (arduino uno board). I have made a small program understand how SPI work. I need it for a bigger project.
Sadly, both boards display "12".
My understanding of the SPI protocol is that the slave only responds to the master, hence SPDR won't contain 250 until after the master has transmitted 12.
Try sending a dummy byte from SPI master after the first byte, to read out a byte from the slave.
I don't see an sei() anywhere. Does Arduino need it?
Second, I don't think that you are continuing to clock the SPI during the return time. The master HAS to provide the clock during all transfers, whether they originate from the master or from the slave. You don't put 250 into the slave data register until AFTER the data from the master is received. So, have the master send the data byte, then one more; the second only serves to transfer the slave's data back to the master.
You CAN put 250 into the slave data register, before hand, and have it waiting there for action by the master. Then, while the master is sending, the slave will also be sending, and you will have your double transfer with one 8-bit clock burst and the second clock burst described in the preceding paragraph is not needed.
1. Only master sends values.
2. The wire between SS pins is not needed when there is only one slave. Still the master SS pin should be configured as output. Slave SS is configured as input and wired to GND.
3. Command "SPDR = byte" on the master side causes that SPDR registers in master and slave exchange their values. The same command in slave only writes a value to SPDR with no further action.
Suppose we want to send number 3 to the slave and we want the slave to multiply received number by 4 and return the result to master. In slave SPDR register is zero.
In master we write "SPDR = 3". The communication starts and numbers in SPDR-slave and SPDR-master are exchanged.
Now we have number 3 in slave and 0 in master. Master is not interested about this number so it only waits a moment.
In slave an interrupt is fired. In ISR we read SPDR value, multiply it by 4 and write the result back to SPDR.
Master sends a dummy byte, say 255. Registers again exchange. Then we have number 255 in the slave and 12 (3x4) in master.
Master reads SPDR and prints the result. | 2019-04-24T07:03:04 | https://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/spi-between-two-328p |
0.98403 | Name: Koro, also called "Sharp Stone"
Description: All things considered, Koro is a rather standard example of his kind. Just shy of six feet in height and sporting a musculature not unlike an athlete's - lean and well defined - but nothing special besides. His fur is a dark gold-brown colour marked with darker spots and a somewhat lighter chest, and there's little of note about him besides. No hair, standard brown eyes, almost a carbon-copy standard fur pattern... so Koro compensates. He wears various furs and leathers, elaborately put together and decorated, to make himself look unique, though he'll discard them for standard fare when on a hunt.
Strength: 54 Though it's never been a high personal priority, physical aptitude is a must for every Ye'en in the day-to-day needs of living. In Koro's case, it certainly helps when you can pull a bow string back far enough and drag larger game back home.
Endurance: 71 The ability to survive is key to living, and the ability to endure is key to stalking. Koro has never forgotten these lessons in his training.
Intellect: 32 Instinct rules his actions and reactions; while Koro has mastered his art through slow and dedicated training, he's not very bright or quick to learn.
Willpower: 33 To not be seen is his method of survival... unfortunately, when he is seen, he's quick to turn tail and run.
Personability: 68 Koro is a silver-tongued devil among his kind, knowing well that the hardest prey to hunt are people. They're not to be felled by arrows, but actions.
Aptitude: 32 Magic has never been a priority of the hunters... with nigh no exceptions.
Reflexes: 77 Of all the people of his tribe, none can match (or likely will ever match) Koro's accuracy and speed. Even among other master hunters, he's not one easily bested.
Within his family, Koro is the fourth child of eight, third son of four, all by the same two parents. And among them, he is... persistent in his shade of vanilla; neither standing out nor falling into the background. Simply one of the family, no greater or lesser than the others. His brothers and sisters have all since gone on with their own lives, and all but two have moved on to new tribes and families, and with their parents' passing not many years back, Koro's contact with his family has all but dried up. Instead, he invests himself fully into his relationships within his current tribe, particularly two women: Massi and Shima.
After going on more than a few group hunts where the felling blow has been debated, Koro's taken on the habit of dying his ammo red. The shafts of his javelins decorated, his sling bullets dipped, and his arrow flights only made with red feathers.
Koro's nickname comes from both his skill at hunting and his clever tongue. Umi, though, has given him a nickname of her own: "Dull Stone." | 2019-04-22T02:06:14 | https://aesira.fandom.com/wiki/Koro |
0.999793 | A system that performs analysis and comparison of audio data files based upon the content of the data files is presented. The analysis of the audio data produces a set of numeric values (a feature vector) that can be used to classify and rank the similarity between individual audio files typically stored in a multimedia database or on the World Wide Web. The analysis also facilitates the description of user-defined classes of audio files, based on an analysis of a set of audio files that are members of a user-defined class. The system can find sounds within a longer sound, allowing an audio recording to be automatically segmented into a series of shorter audio segments.
(c) grouping the feature files based on at least one of (i) similar measurements for the feature files, and (ii) distance between the vector for a sound file and a vector for a reference, to facilitate rapid classification, storage, and/or retrieval of sound files based on a predefined search criteria.
2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the predefined search criteria is based on the feature file of a particular audio file.
3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the predefined search criteria are similar to a user created sound.
4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the predefined search criteria are characteristics of a predefined set of example audio files.
5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the acoustical feature is a set of Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs).
6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the statistical measurement is the average value of the first derivative of each acoustical feature.
7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the statistical measurement is the standard deviation of the first derivative of each acoustical feature.
(c) a code segment for grouping the feature files based on at least one of (i) similar measurements for the feature files, and (ii) distance between the vector for a sound file and a vector for a reference, to facilitate rapid classification, storage, and/or retrieval of sound files based on a predefined search criteria.
9. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for analyzing sound files as recited in claim 8, wherein the predefined search criteria is based on the feature file of a particular audio file.
10. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for analyzing sound files as recited in claim 8, wherein the predefined search criteria is similarity to a user-created created sound.
11. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for analyzing sound files as recited in claim 8, wherein the predefined search criteria are characteristics of a predefined set of example audio files.
(c) segmenting the feature files based on at least one (i) similar measurements for the feature files, and (ii) distance between the vector for a sound file and a vector for a reference, to facilitate rapid classification, storage, and/or retrieval of sound files based on a predefined search criteria.
13. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the content-based comparison compares a user-supplied sound to successive regions of the sound that is to be segmented to measure the similarity between the measurements of the two sounds' acoustical features.
14. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the content-based comparison compares a user-supplied sound to successive regions of the sound that is to be segmented, measuring the frame-by-frame similarity between the two sounds' acoustical features.
15. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the content-based comparison compares adjacent regions of the sound that is to be segmented, measuring the similarity between the regions' statistical measurements.
16. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for segmenting sound files by using content-based statistical comparison of a plurality of acoustical features of a sound file chosen from the group consisting of at least one of loudness, pitch, brightness, bandwidth, and MFCC coefficients thereof to determine the segment boundaries.
17. A computer program according to claim 16 in which the sound files include a segment of digital audio on a storage device.
18. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for segmenting sound files as recited in claim 16, wherein the content-based comparison compares a user-supplied sound to successive regions of the sound that is to be segmented, measuring the similarity between the statistical measurements of the two sounds' acoustical features.
19. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for segmenting sound files as recited in claim 16, wherein the content-based comparison compares a user-supplied sound to successive regions of the sound that is to be segmented, measuring the frame-by-frame similarity between the two sounds' acoustical features.
20. The computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for segmenting audio files as recited in claim 16, wherein the content-based comparison compares adjacent regions of the sound that is to be segmented, measuring the similarity between the regions' statistical measurements.
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0.998004 | Though best known for its heart-healthy fats, salmon may also fight cancer, thanks to good stores of the mineral selenium. You can sear a salmon fillet in 15 minutes, so what are you waiting for? Start with this first recipe, then use leftovers to make two more impressive meals.
1. PREPARE salsa. Toss together mango, bell pepper, onion, lime juice, mint, and jalapeño chile pepper in small bowl. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Cover and chill at least 1 hour to blend flavors.
2. PREPARE salmon. Combine lemon juice and paprika in large shallow baking dish. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Place salmon in dish and flip to cover both sides. Marinate, covered, up to 1 hour in refrigerator.
3. REMOVE fillets from marinade. Discard marinade. Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Sear fillets 15 minutes, turning once, or until just opaque. Serve with salsa.
1. BLEND sour cream, lemon juice, and 1½ tablespoons of the dill in small bowl. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Set aside.
2. COAT large nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Add oil and heat over medium heat. Spread potatoes evenly over bottom of pan, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes or until heated through. Remove cover, raise heat to medium-high, and press potatoes with large spatula. Cook 5 minutes or until potatoes brown and begin to crisp, turning occasionally.
3. COMBINE salmon, scallions, mustard, and the remaining 1 tablespoon dill in medium bowl while potatoes cook. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Add salmon mixture, combining with potatoes by turning sections with spatula (try not to break up potatoes). Cook until heated through, about 2 minutes. Serve with dill cream.
1. COMBINE mayonnaise and wasabi paste until smooth in small bowl. Start with ¼ teaspoon of the paste and add more to suit your taste. Gently fold in salmon.
2. PLACE 4 slices of the bread on flat surface and top each with ½ cup of the salmon mixture, 1 onion slice (separated and evenly spread over salmon), 1 pepper ring, 1 tablespoon of the ginger, and ¼ cup of the arugula. Top with remaining 4 slices of bread. | 2019-04-22T16:03:37 | https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/a20471664/sophisticated-salmon-dishes/ |
0.999999 | If we recognize that a given polynomial follows a certain pattern, we can use that pattern to factor the polynomial.
• the second term is twice the product of the factors being squared: 10x2y = 2(5y)(x2).
Thus, the factorization is (5y - x2)2.
You can multiply to check the factorization.
Check the form of 16w2 - 81y6.
• the second term is a perfect square: 81y6 = (9y3)2.
Thus, the factorization is (4w + 9y3)(4w - 9y3). You can multiply to check the factorization.
The polynomial 16w2 + 81y6 is not a difference of two squares because the terms are added rather than subtracted.
The polynomial 16w2 + 81y6 cannot be factored using integers.
We can also use patterns to factor the sum or difference of two cubes.
• the second term is a perfect cube: 27x6 = (3x2)3.
So, the polynomial is a difference of two cubes.
Thus, the factorization is (2y - 3x2)(4y2 + 6x2y + 9x4). | 2019-04-26T12:07:13 | https://algebra1help.com/factoring-trinomials-using-patterns.html |
0.999835 | I had the "opportunity" to watch my car fall off a flatbed tow truck last night in the middle of Brooklyn. Nothing like waiting two hours for a tow truck because the car wouldn't start, and then seeing it sitting in the middle of a busy intersection while the tow-truck driver keeps repeating "How did that happen?"
I'm waiting on a phone call from the towing company as to what's next, but should I even try to repair a car that fell about five feet off a flatbed tow truck? If so, what kind of damage should I be sure to check for? Since it was dark and I could not see the car very well, all I could see was major damage to the front end (from hitting the bed of the truck on the way down), and the radiator was all bent out of shape. I'm assuming the towing company will just look to repair it the cheapest way possible, and I don't want to have problems in a few months with something that should have been fixed the first time.
TOM: I can tell you how it happened, Joe. The driver forgot to attach the safety chains. Or forgot to secure them. When you flatbed a car, you chain the chassis to the bed of the truck so the car doesn't what? Fall off while you're driving!
RAY: A five-foot drop can do a lot of damage. How do I know? I dropped a car off a lift one day, from about five feet. And I mangled it.
TOM: He called the owner of the car and said: "I have good news. You'll never have to worry about that wind noise from the sunroof again."
RAY: Obviously, the front end of your car got bashed, Joe, but the real question is whether the frame got bent. If a frame is bent badly enough, it can never be adequately restraightened. If that's the case, you can't align the wheels, and the car is, essentially, junk.
TOM: So the most important thing to do now is to have someone who is advocating for YOU inspect the car. If it were me, I'd either have the car towed to my own dealer (by some other towing company!) or call my insurance company.
RAY: If it's a newer car, you might want to take it to your dealer first. They'll give you a full-price assessment of what it would cost to fix. You can use that as a "second opinion" when dealing with your insurance company, which is who you should call next.
TOM: Tell the agent what happened and where the car is, and ask him or her to do a damage assessment and an estimate. Insurance companies have people who do nothing but inspect damaged cars and figure out whether the car can be repaired, and if so, what's the cheapest way to repair it.
RAY: And then let the insurance company pay for the repair. It'll chase the towing company to recoup the money. But the last thing you want is the son of the towing company's owner hammering out the frame in a parking lot at night by the light of a Coleman lantern.
TOM: And don't be surprised if your insurer declares the car a total loss. That may be the best scenario for you. When a car has fallen off a truck or a lift, you can't always see everything that's been damaged. It's like when my brother got clocked in the head by that transmission. Some symptoms might not show up for a while.
RAY: So if it's a "total loss," you'll have to negotiate with your insurance company for a settlement based on the value of the car. And that requires some research on your part. Why? Because the insurance company's business model is based on paying you as little as it has to. So you don't have to accept the first offer.
TOM: But if the insurance company declares it totaled, I'd accept that news stoically, and start over with a car that hasn't tried to learn to fly. Good luck, Joe. | 2019-04-21T00:09:07 | https://www.cartalk.com/content/today-joes-car-fell-tow-truck-now-what |
0.998358 | I think there's a discussion somewhere on the possibility of George Boleyn having illegitimate children.
His father, Thomas Boleyn had 3 siblings: James, Margaret and Anne.
I have no information on James past the death year of 1561.
Margaret married John Sackville. She died in 1533. Her son was Richard Sackville who married Winifred Brydges. He died in 1566, she in 1586. They had at least 2 children, Thomas and Anne. Thomas Sackville became Baron Buckhurst, 1st earl of Dorset. He died in 1608. Thomas's sister Anne married Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre. Anne died in 1595 leaving no known living children.
Thomas's other sister Anne married John Shelton. They had two children, John and Mary. John (junior) married Margaret Parker, sister of Jane Parker Boleyn, Lady Rochford. They had two children, Mary and Ralph. This Mary was Mary Shelton Scudamore who served Queen Elizabeth. Mary's marriage to John Scudamore was the catalyst for the story that Elizabeth broke Mary Shelton's finger - at least according to Mary Queen of Scots. Eleanor Bridges writing to the Earl of Rutland in 1576 said "the Queen has used Mary Shelton very ill for her marriage. “She hath telt liberall bothe with bloes and yevell wordes, and hath not yet graunted her consent.” No one ever bought her husband more dearly."
Unfortunately I have no information on Ralph.
Are you looking for heirs to the earldom of Ormond in the male line? As far as I know James Boleyn, Thomas's brother held the title of 7th earl of Ormond through his mother's line.
In 1597 George Carey, 2nd baron Hunsdon and grandson of Mary Boleyn, Queen Anne's sister, considered claiming the Ormond earldom but did not pursue it. Elizabeth Sheffield, niece of Charles Howard 2nd baron Effingham (married to Katherine Carey, daughter of Henry Carey and Anne Morgan) had married the 10th earl of Ormond, Thomas Butler in 1583 so this title came back into the extended family but not directly to the Carey/Knollys branch of the Boleyns.
Wasn't Margaret (Meg) Shelton thought to have had an affair with Henry VII, or have I been reading too much fiction?
Mary or Margaret Shelton (sometimes written as Marg or Madge) was Henry VIII's mistress in 1534/1535. You can read more on the relationship in her Wikipedia article, 'The Mistresses of Henry VIII' or 'The Other Tudors'. | 2019-04-19T06:43:05 | https://queryblog.tudorhistory.org/2010/09/question-from-sharon-other-boleyn.html |
0.99999 | Will Ontario act on Law Commission's advice to address precarious work crisis?
A "landmark" report on precarious work released last week by the Law Commission of Ontario gives academic confirmation to what workers' advocates have been saying for years: that an increasing proportion of workers in Ontario (and Canada, for that matter) find themselves stuck in insecure, temporary or part-time jobs that put them barely above the poverty line. And that regulatory loopholes and shoddy enforcement of employment laws are leaving these workers vulnerable to burnout and abuse.
Roughly one fifth of workers in Ontario have precarious jobs, according to the report -- that is, jobs that provide "low wages or insufficient hours of work, few or no benefits, little job security and minimal control over their work conditions." They've counted in that number anyone whose job (or combination of jobs) earns them less than 1.5 times the minimum wage, plus two or more of the following criteria: no pension, no union and small firm size.
Precarious jobs are most common in food services, hotels, agriculture and service industries such as repair, maintenance, laundry, personal care, and business and building support services.
What is so worrying about precarious work, the report points out, is not only the growing proportion of workers who depend on it, but the fact that they're increasingly stuck in this kind of work for years on end. An entry-level position leading to better jobs down the line has become an out-of-date fantasy for many.
-Increasing employer and employee awareness of workers' existing rights under the Employment Standards Act, and improving the province's enforcement of those oft-ignored standards.
-Changes to the Employment Standards Act to better protect workers in precarious jobs.
-Awareness, enforcement and reforms to workplace health and safety legislation.
-Reform and improvement of provincial training and education programs.
For the Wynne government not to act swiftly on most or all of the report's recommendations, but rather to cherry pick a few of the easiest while ignoring the rest would be a shameful exercise in heel-dragging.
-giving all workers entitlement to 10 days of emergency personal medical leave per year (a right currently denied in workplaces with 50 or fewer employees).
On the trickier ones -- those requiring a substantial injection of public funding, or likely to provoke howls of protest from employers -- the LCO recommends more study of the options.
For instance, on the question of requiring employers to pay part-time workers at the same rate as full-time employees doing the same work, the LCO says the government should "consider what amendments could be made to the ESA" in this respect.
On the minimum wage -- which the government has frozen since 2010, with a yet-to-be-fulfilled promise that it would "appoint a committee… to provide advice on the minimum wage in advance of the 2012 budget" -- the LCO advises simply that this committee be convened. No call here to actually increase the minimum wage or index it to inflation, as other provinces have done.
The report also discusses the possibility of creating a system to provide health benefits to the many workers currently without coverage, for instance through a mandatory, multi-employer funded system similar to the WSIB. The recommendation is merely to form an advisory council that would "explore" these options.
Those who pretend to believe that precarious work is a term made up by hand-wringing socialist to decry the rise of non-unionized consultant jobs should aquaint themselves with the stories of workers whose jobs are in fact precarious. The Toronto Workers' Action Centre, which deals with these workers every day, has been collecting and sharing their stories on its website. There you can find one account after another of stolen wages and other mistreatment of people who are barely earning enough to cover their rent and bills.
What is the point of having employment laws at all, if not to protect the most vulnerable workers from abuses like this? Clearly Ontario’s current laws and enforcement system aren't up to the task. For a start, it's the least the government could do to promptly act on all of the recommendations in the LCO report.
Hundreds of New York City fast-food workers, fed up with poverty wages and abusive working conditions, walked off the job this Thursday, demanding minimum pay of $15 an hour and the right to organize and collectively bargain without fear of retaliation. | 2019-04-26T10:20:05 | http://rabble.ca/news/2013/04/will-ontario-act-law-commissions-advice-address-precarious-work-crisis |
0.999919 | The outlet and plug type used in Kiribati is I. Take a look at the picture below to see what this plug and socket type looks like.
All sockets in Kiribati provide a standard voltage of 240V with a frequency of 50Hz.
You can use all your equipment in Kiribati if the standard voltage in your own country is between 220V-240V. This is case in most of Europe, Australia, the United Kingdom and most countries in Africa and Asia.
If the standard voltage in your country is in the range of 100V-127V (which is most common in the US, Canada and countries in South America) you will need a voltage converter in Kiribati. Without a converter you might damage your electronic equipment.
The standard frequency in Kiribati is 50Hz. | 2019-04-19T17:01:43 | https://world-power-plugs.com/kiribati |
0.99973 | The bravery and the unyielding spirit demonstrated by the Chinese people during the blizzards at the beginning of the year and the recent earthquake reflect the most precious traits of the nation that need to be carried on.
What does she mean with "glass ceiling" and "18 million cracks"?
What does "buyer's remorse" mean?
The "ice-thawing" process picked up pace suddenly in the past few weeks after Japan donated money quickly to help China fight the natural disasters and sent a rescue team to the earthquake-stricken Sichuan province.
What does "salad years" mean?
Earthquake pets: To save or not to save?
What does this headline – So much for Beckham as a voice for MLS (latimes.com, February 12, 2008) – mean?
In the debates, "human nature" and "human right" are frequently mentioned. In many cases, however, these two concepts are abused.
What does this sentence – The defendant denied that he had touched the computer, but his fingerprints on the keyboard gave the game away – mean?
Monday afternoon was a very special occasion. The three-minute silence of mourning was one of the most memorable moments of my life. | 2019-04-20T08:48:33 | http://language.chinadaily.com.cn/columnist/columnist_103.html |
0.992789 | Are Nokia and Intel Working on a Chip Together?
Both companies are dropping clues that Nokia and Intel are working on a new mobile chip—a move that could solve serious problems for both. Intel and Nokia's love affair, it seems, is bigger than Meego.
3. SemiAccurate actually reported that Nokia and Intel are working on an Atom-based SoC called Penwell, which for various technical reasons (including extra room for extra components created by the 32nm manufacturing process) looks like its shaping up to be a system-on-a-chip, in the style of Qualcomm's Snapdragon or Apple's A4.
4. This would make sense for both companies, therefore, well, it would make sense for both of these companies.
Nokia's current smartphone lineup hasn't found a foothold in the US, and their netbook business is just learning to walk, so a partnership with Intel could help them develop high-end, unique hardware to power flagship handheld devices and new lines of netbooks, which, unlike last time around, might actually be worth their sky-high price tags. For Intel, well, Nokia is huge—the biggest cellphones manufacturer in the world—so having an in with them can't be a bad thing. | 2019-04-21T08:15:15 | https://gizmodo.com/are-nokia-and-intel-working-on-a-chip-together-5474850 |
0.998559 | "We thank Newmont's shareholders for their overwhelming support for this compelling value creation opportunity as we build the world's leading gold company,"
Barrick's Proposed Deal To Newmont Is "Nonsensical"
Feb.25 -- Mike Dudas, head of metals and mining research at Vertical Research Partners, examines Barrick Gold Corp\'s all-stock merger proposal for Newmont Mining Corp. He speaks on \"Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas.\"
Mar.05 -- Gary Goldberg, chief executive officer at Newmont Mining, discusses his company\'s joint venture proposal to Barrick Gold Corp. He speaks with Bloomberg\'s Ed Hammond on \"Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas.\"
Feb.25 -- Mark Bristow, chief executive officer at Barrick Gold, discusses the company’s $17.8 billion hostile bid to acquire Newmont Mining Co. He speaks with Bloomberg\'s Danielle Bochove on \"Bloomberg Markets.\"
Mar.05 -- Gary Goldberg, chief executive officer at Newmont Mining, discusses his company\'s joint venture proposal to Barrick Gold Corp., his concerns about a full merger of the companies, and feedback from shareholders. He speaks with Bloomberg\'s Ed Hammond on \"Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas.\" | 2019-04-19T04:33:57 | https://article.wn.com/view/2019/04/11/Newmont_Shareholders_Vote_Overwhelmingly_to_Create_World_s_L_4/ |
0.993627 | The United States celebrated the July Fourth holiday on Monday with parades, baking contests and picnics draped in red, white and an extra layer of blue, as police ramped up patrols because of concerns about terrorism and gun violence.
[NEW YORK] The United States celebrated the July Fourth holiday on Monday with parades, baking contests and picnics draped in red, white and an extra layer of blue, as police ramped up patrols because of concerns about terrorism and gun violence.
Millions of Americans marked independence from Britain with celebrations as boisterous as a music-packed party by country music legend Willie Nelson for 10,000 people at a race track in Austin, Texas, and as staid as colonial-era costumed actors reading the Declaration of Independence at the US National Archives in Washington.
"It's a good day for reflecting on the positive things about America - the sense of freedom that you can go after and achieve whatever you want," said Helen Donaldson, 48, the mother of a multi-ethnic family of four adopted teens living in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Mrs Donaldson, a white Australian immigrant, cheered with her two New Jersey-born African-American daughters, both 12 and dressed in red, white and blue, as a recording of the Star Spangled Banner played to kick off a children's relay race. Nearby, in the baking contest tent, 13-year-old Nate Fisher entered his cherry blueberry tart into competition.
"I have high hopes," he said, flashing a smile.
History was made in the traditional hotdog-eating contest at New York's Coney Island when long-time champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut took back the Mustard Yellow International Belt from last year's upstart winner Matt Stonie.
Mr Chestnut set an unofficial new world record by downing 70 hotdogs in 10 minutes - topping his previous record of 69 franks. In the women's division, Miki Sudo successfully defended her title by eating 38 hotdogs in 10 minutes.
With the holiday taking place days after attacks in Baghdad, Dhaka and Istanbul, the New York Police Department deployed eight new "vapor wake" dogs, trained to sniff out explosives on a moving target in a crowd.
The department's presence this holiday was boosted by nearly 2,000 new officers just days after they graduated on Friday from the New York City Police Academy.
"You're going to see a lot of people in heavy vests, helmets and long guns and they can respond at a moment's notice to any incident," NYPD Chief of Department James O'Neill told a news conference.
"There's also a lot you won't see."
Police in Chicago, which has seen a spike in gun murders this year, announced a stepped-up presence with more than 5,000 officers on patrol over the long weekend, traditionally one of the year's most violent, said Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson.
The Chicago Tribune said at least three people had been killed and 34 wounded over the holiday weekend by Monday evening.
Dry weather forecasts across the country thrilled fireworks lovers, although some spots in Michigan have been so rain-starved that pyrotechnic shows were cancelled in a handful of communities near Detroit because of the risk of fires.
A 19-year-old tourist in New York's Central Park suffered a severe foot wound on Sunday after an apparent homemade firework exploded when he jumped off a rock and stepped on the device, authorities said.
In Compton, California, a 9-year-old girl's hand had to be amputated when she was injured after unwittingly picking up a lit firework, media said.
In New York, more than a million people packed balconies, rooftops and the East River's banks for the 40th annual Macy's Fireworks display, which the department store said showcased more than 56,000 pyrotechnic shells and effects.
The musical accompaniment featured the United States Air Force Band playing patriotic numbers including This Land is Your Land and Stars and Stripes Forever and Grammy-winning vocalist Jennifer Holliday will sing America the Beautiful. | 2019-04-19T12:29:27 | https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/red-white-and-extra-blue-as-tight-security-marks-us-july-4th-celebrations |
0.99918 | There are all sorts of ways of taking notes!
You can use a graphic organizer or make a memory map.
1. Use some sort of easily understood organizational system.
2. Include accurate supporting details.
3. Use as few words as possible.
4. Only use words you understand.
6. Add colour-coding and illustrations.
7. Make good use of space.
9. Show evidence of great effort.
10. Show evidence of deep thinking.
12. Include your given and surname, division number and the date.
1. Start with a dash.
2. Leave a space after the dash.
3. Do not start with a capital letter.
4. Use as few words as possible.
5. Rephrase and use your own words if possible; use quotation marks if you copy exactly.
6. Do not use a period at the end.
8. Leave out verbs if possible.
1. Choose the key words and concepts in your rough notes.
2. Choose a graphic organizer.
3. Decide how to divide your notes into sections that match your organizer.
4. Code your notes into sections.
5. Get some plain white paper and sketch out the organizer shape.
6. Write your notes in the various sections. Use ink.
7. Add coloured illustrative bits to make organized notes.
8. Add the source of information, your name and division number. | 2019-04-24T20:46:14 | http://msrosenreads.edublogs.org/tips-for-researching/research-process/note-taking/ |
0.999542 | You signed in with another tab or window. This property can be accessed in the onload event handler function. Note Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 returns body as the activeElement when it is accessed inline during the loading of a document. I added the iframe back in and changed the src to about:blank. you can read more at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7904417/jquery-ui-creates-unspecified-error-when-loading-iframe-in-ie9 or just google.
I'm confirming this issue based on feedback. Attached is: (a) The code on the page that activates the editor (b) The editor content that is being loaded (c) The custom config. Since the access causes the error, the only recourse is a try / catch. comment:28 Changed 2 years ago by Reinmar Milestone changed from CKEditor 4.4.3 to CKEditor 4.4.4 The 4.4.3 milestone was shortened, so the remaining tickets must be postponed.
This is when the error need to be accrue with IE9 browser. Web Platform API Reference HTML/XHTML Reference Properties Properties activeElement activeElement activeElement abbr accept acceptCharset accessKey action activeElement ActiveXObject alinkColor all allowfullscreen allowTransparency alt altHtml anchorNode (baseNode) anchorOffset (baseOffset) anchors applets applicationName I checked many scenarios - hidden iframe, dynamically created iframe, different kind of buttons/links that have to be clicked to trigger form submit - no luck. comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by tj.vantoll Here's an approach that core took to deal with this problem: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/85fc5878b3c6af73f42d61eedf73013e7faae408.
If the focus returns to the parent document, focus also returns to the same active element. Changeset: aadae5058a44e745ebdbee5d5333402699326188 comment:11 Changed 4 years ago by dmethvin Milestone changed from None to 1.10 comment:12 Changed 4 years ago by timmywil Resolution fixed deleted Status changed from closed to reopened comment:19 Changed 2 years ago by msaiz Hi, I've updated my install to jqueryui version 1.10.4. However when I added a 100ms sleep to the cfm the error happened again.
alinkColor is "#0000ff". I have noticed that you use plugins like: iespell confighelper. Based on your descriptions I have prepared iframe.html file that can be put in editor samples folder and will call editor from replacebyclass.html. Why didn't Monero developers just improve bitcoin?
Could you please download git version or source version from builder - http://ckeditor.com/builder, make checked and then see where error occurs. You signed out in another tab or window. Test 1. This error never happened before with previous quarterly releases, I'm surely positive the hotfix has broken this.
Edit: The watch lists: activeElement Unspecified error. Download in other formats: Comma-delimited Text Tab-delimited Text RSS Feed Context Navigation Next Ticket → Copyright 2013 The jQuery Foundation Hosting provided by Media Temple CDN provided by MaxCDN Download Documentation comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by muzzamo I believe this is an issue in jquery core. The content you requested has been removed.
Terms Privacy Security Status Help You can't perform that action at this time. As far as my experience I found two workarounds for this problem: call document.documentElement.focus() - this will somehow force document invalidation use document.documentElement.activeElement instead of document.activeElement Hope it help someone. =============== problem is: ie9.0.8112.16421 64bit (not ie8, not ie7, not ff, not chromium) gives "unspecified error" when calling active = document.activeElement; in line 4716 or so. Sign in to comment Contact GitHub API Training Shop Blog About © 2016 GitHub, Inc.
However, in IE8 when the data has been saved, the display returned to the previous page, and the user clicks the link to edit the text again, the editor generates this Last edited 3 years ago by royshoa (previous) (diff) comment:18 Changed 3 years ago by poddys That sounds exactly like our situation, with a top iframe that has buttons, and the But no problemswith RadComboBox, that control seems to be ok on the form, no error is thrown. I think that it is because the CKEditor trying to focus itself when the layout is hidden or something like this.
Could anyone of you tell me what have I missed? TJ VanToll @tjvantoll Front-end developer Tech author Developer advocate for Telerik Web & NativeScript Blog Archives Speaking Bugs with document.activeElement in Internet Explorer Aug 30, 2013 | Comments There are two If you don’t believe me, open IE9 or IE10 and try for yourself - run document.body.blur() in the console. What does it mean button to revert page?
I click a button to revert to the calling page, and then click on the link to load this page again, I DO get an error. Remarks You can set the active element with the setActive method or the focus method; however, using the setActive method has no effect on document focus. Make sure the script debugger is enabled (F12 developer tools -> script -> start debugging). If that person does not reply within 14 days, the ticket will automatically be closed, and that has happened in this case.
plugins/widget/plugin.js- if ( ( editable.isInline() ? Attachments (4) aCode_Extract.txt (503 bytes) - added by poddys 4 years ago. I added the trivial html boilerplate to the cfm and the error still didn't come up. Thank you so much!
To help save others some pain, I felt these needed to be documented. Perhaps there is a simple way to reproduce this and there is a bug in editor? Is there any chance you could provide reduced (as small as possible) and working sample page/application that shows this problem? Thanks!
How do R and Python complement each other in data science? One page was using cols and rows and the other was using width and height, but I changed them to match with no change in behaviour. The active element retains focus in the parent document even when focus is shifted from the parent to another application. So i there something to do with that? | 2019-04-25T08:46:13 | http://www.download-now.net/Arkansas/document-activeelement-unspecified-error-ie.html |
0.996681 | The Story: An upscale chef finds himself when he quits his job and starts his own food truck business. The Lowdown: An unfailingly pleasant little comedy that would benefit from more conflict and a sharper tone, but it's a proven crowd-pleaser that will play well to food and food-truck aficionados.
Starring: Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Sofia Vergara, Emjay Anthony, Bobby Cannavale, Oliver Platt, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey, Jr.
Much has been made over Jon Favreau returning to his indie roots with Chef, and, of course, if you’re comparing the film to an Iron Man outing, then, yeah, it’s pretty indie. But with 20-plus credited producers, executive producers, co-producers and associate producers — not to mention a cast of famous names — it’s clearly on the high-end of indie-ness. The result, in any case, is a small, consistently pleasant movie with a degree of charm. It’s a film that is almost impossible to dislike. It has nice characters, good production values, lots of lovingly photographed and appetizing food — and almost no dramatic tension. This isn’t the movie’s only problem, but it’s the one that keeps it, for me, from being anything more than pleasant. It just never feels like there’s anything really at stake here, making it hard to be all that invested in the characters. Pleasant only takes you so far. At least, it only takes me so far, because a lot of folks seem to love Chef. That’s a leap I can’t make. But others, I suspect, can.
In many ways, Chef is a live-action — and R-rated (mostly for language) — variation on Pixar’s Ratatouille (2007), right down to its nasty food critic (here played by Oliver Platt), albeit one who is treated a bit more fairly. (Bear in mind, a critic just made that assessment.) And like the animated film, it requires the viewer to adapt to certain lapses in reality, especially as concerns business permits, food truck regulations and child labor laws — any one of which might have profitably offered the film a degree of genuine conflict in its particularly meandering second half. Also, not in its favor is Chef’s heavy leaning on social media in general and Twitter in particular (to the point of product placement) — things that will one day make the movie seem quaint, and not in a good way.
Favreau stars as upscale chef Carl Casper, who is also a workaholic, divorced dad. (The workaholic aspect is essential for any neglectful movie dad.) Carl is at loggerheads with his boss (Dustin Hoffman) who insists he stick to the tried-and-true menu — a stance that causes Carl to be raked over the coals by big-noise food blogger Ramsey Michel (Platt). After becoming involved in a Twitter war with Michel, Carl promises to show him a new menu if he’ll come back, but the boss nixes this, demanding the same old thing. Unsurprisingly, Carl quits to strike out on his own. (Any similarity to Favreau breaking away from making big-budget blockbusters with this little film are hardly coincidental.) Since Carl’s very public battle — and meltdown — with Michel, he finds the world isn’t beating a path to his door, leaving Carl no choice but to let his ex-wife, Inez (Sofia Vergara), set him up with a food truck in Miami thanks to her first husband, Marvin (Robert Downey, Jr.).
Right there, the story pretty much stalls as it sails along a series of predictable events built around driving the food truck back to Los Angeles with his attention-starved son, Percy (Emjay Anthony), and his sous chef, Martin (John Leguizamo). Will Carl and his son bond? Will the food truck (mostly due to Percy’s Twitter campaign) be a success everywhere they go? Will Carl and Inez patch things up? Will there be smiles all around? Will there be a not-very-surprising twist? What do you think? As I noted, it’s all pleasant and good-natured. Some of the casting is a little wasteful — Dustin Hoffman has little to do, and Downey’s role is more odd than funny. There are few big laughs, but the movie has a consistently amusing tone, and that counts for much. Rated R for language, including some suggestive references.
I have been reading your reviews for a few weeks now and I mostly agree with them. I have stayed home from movies based on some of your reviews. Unfortunately, your somewhat tepid review of Chef didn’t keep me from investing in this movie. Here are my observations. 1) Watching people slicing, frying, and artfully arranging food is actually the most interesting part of the film. 2) Lacking any real tension or conflict except for a disappointed ten year old is a problem. I dozed off more than once especially after everything seemed fixed with the father/son . And that was a weak source of conflict. 3) Buying the relationship between Jon Favreau and Sophia Vergara was perhaps the biggest stretch of all. That was obviously his ( director/writer’s) fantasy and it did not serve the story in any way. Though I enjoy looking at her, the transparency of this choice made it annoying. And finally the biggest lesson learned was the utter helplessness I felt knowing that I am a good 3000 miles away from a decent Cuban sandwich. It was almost torturous.
I would like to add that for foodie movies nothing beats The Big Night . The stakes were high in that one and it was brilliant.
You can’t say I really recommended it.
Will this thing never die? | 2019-04-20T22:17:26 | https://mountainx.com/movies/reviews/chef/ |
0.999999 | Jake Gyllenhaal recently dropped nearly 30 pounds to play sociopathic cameraman Lou Bloom in "Nightcrawler," but now he's taking his body transformation to a whole other level.
The 33-year-old actor looks unrecognizable in a new still from the upcoming flick "Southpaw," which tells the tale of Junior Middleweight Champion Billy “The Great” Hope as he faces a personal tragedy while fighting his way to the top. Gyllenhaal, who plays Billy in the Antoine Fuqua-directed film, clearly hit the gym for the role, gaining 15 pounds of muscle, according to Deadline, who obtained the image.
“Jake is going to change how people see him," Fuqua told Deadline of Gyllenhaal's transformation. "I had him training twice a day in the boxing ring, he did two-a-days seven days a week. I pretty much had him with me and my trainer every day. I took him to almost every fight. I had him train at Floyd Mayweather’s gym in Vegas and we watched Floyd’s fights, and the Manny Pacquiao fight. He trained in New York at Church Gym with real fighters. We literally turned him into a beast," he added. "Jake, my God, he’s a very electric, powerful fighter in this movie, and a guy who fights for his daughter. I’m confident that this will change how people see Jake, as a leading man."
Gyllenhaal is receiving a lot of award season buzz for his performance in "Nightcrawler" and it appears next year might be another big one for the actor.
<strong>Movie:</strong> "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016) <br> <strong>Role:</strong> Batman, the Caped Crusader. <br> <strong>Weight Gain:</strong> Affleck's wife, Jennifer Garner, said <a href="http://comicbook.com/blog/2014/04/09/batman-vs-superman-ben-affleck-has-17-inch-biceps/" target="_blank">he has been working out at least twice a day</a> and that he’s currently sporting 17-inch biceps. | 2019-04-24T20:09:19 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jake-gyllenhaal-southpaw_n_6251010 |
0.993046 | After Sony Pictures canceled the Christmas Day release of The Interview, following terrorist threats similar to the 9/11 attacks, the studio also announced that they have "no further release plans for the film", which has many wondering if the movie is delayed indefinitely, or if it will be put on the proverbial shelf forever. In the film, Seth Rogen and James Franco star as a producer and TV journalist who are asked to kill Kim Jong-Un (Randall Park), after they secured an interview with the North Korean dictator. While it remains to be seen if and/or when the full film will be released, the death scene has been leaked online, which some believe may have been the reason for the massive Sony hack in the first place.
Gawker originally released the clip on Monday, which the site later removed, but the scene has surfaced again, showcasing the fiery death of the North Korean leader, set to the Katy Perry hit song "Firework." A New York Times article reveals that this scene in particular caused Sony's chief executive, Kazuo Hirai, to break a 25-year tradition by intervening in a Sony Pictures decision, which has long been autonomous from its parent company. The executive insisted that the death scene be toned down, removing images of Kim Jong-Un's flaming hair and chunks of his skull after the explosion.
Seth Rogen, who co-directs with Evan Goldberg and stars in The Interview, and Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal sent Hirai three different versions of the death scene, one which was vetoed by Hirai, another which was vetoed by the directors and a third, dubbed "shot #337," in which, "there is no face melting, less fire in the hair, fewer embers on the face, and the head explosion has been considerably obscured by the fire, as well as darkened to look less like flesh." On September 29, Hirai approved this version, but asked Amy Pascal to tone down the violence even further, with a caveat that this scene cannot make it into the film's international version.
Amy Pascal did press for Seth Rogen to tone down the scene even more, which he did, stating in an October 6 email that they removed, "fire from the hair" and "the entire secondary wave of head chunks." The filmmaker/star added, expressing his apparent exasperation with the process, "Please tell us this is over now." While it isn't known if or when fans will ever get to see this scene on the big screen, you can take a look at the leaked clip below, showcasing the death of Randall Park's Kim Jong-Un. What are your thoughts about this death sequence? Chime in with your thoughts below. | 2019-04-25T14:28:04 | https://movieweb.com/interview-movie-kim-jong-un-death-scene/ |
0.998989 | Why did authorities say Laquan McDonald lunged at Chicago police officers?
After a Chicago police officer shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last year, the initial information reported in local media outlets was fairly limited: A teenager armed with a knife he would not drop was shot and killed while approaching or lunging toward officers, police said. That was the story reported by the Chicago Tribune as well as the local NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates.
However, graphic video footage of the shooting released on Tuesday evening — several hours after prosecutors said that Officer Jason Van Dyke had been charged with first-degree murder — showed that the teenager was veering away from the officers, and that Van Dyke opened fire within seconds of arriving. An attorney for Van Dyke has said the officer feared for his life and for the lives of the other officers.
As a result, a rather obvious question emerges: Why was it initially reported that McDonald had been lunging at officers when he was shot?
In an interview Wednesday, Camden said that the information he released did not come directly to him from Van Dyke or any of the other officers who responded.
Camden, who spent nearly three decades as an officer before becoming deputy director of media relations, said when he speaks about shootings involving police, he talks to union representatives who have arrived at the scene to gather information and then he relays that to reporters.
Questions about the suggestion that McDonald lunged at officers continued to linger this week, stretching into the hours before the video was released. Jamie Kalven, the Chicago journalist who obtained McDonald’s autopsy report, told the Chicago Reporter that someone came to him and Craig Futterman, an attorney, and said the shooting “wasn’t being vigorously investigated” and told them there was a horrifying recording of what had happened.
The head of the police union said he was asked Tuesday about the suggestion McDonald had been lunging.
Angelo said he had no idea where the comment came from, noting that there were “a lot of officers” around when McDonald was shot and that any of them could have relayed that detail.
“It could’ve been anyone on the scene at that incident,” Angelo said. | 2019-04-24T04:16:13 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/11/25/why-did-authorities-say-laquan-mcdonald-lunged-at-chicago-police-officers/?utm_term=.ffbfd271c874 |
0.999862 | A SIGN language interpreter helped a mother follow proceeding in the District Court as her son pleaded guilty to assaulting his frail and elderly grandfather.
Before the court in Ardcavan was Peter Winters (23) with an address at Castleview, Bridgetown, represented by solicitor Lana Doherty.
Ms Doherty spent some time with the family before Judge Gerard Haughton dealt with the case. The grandfather, John Winters was sworn in ready to give his evidence of what happened last month in Castleview. At that point, the defendant indicated that he did not wish to put the injured party through the ordeal of testimony.
A plea of guilty to assault was entered and the judge confirmed to the grandfather that his evidence would not be required. At that point, the old man apologised to the accused for some of the terrible things he had said.
The court heard a summary of what occurred on November 25 when Peter Winters came to the house in Mulrankin. There was an argument over money and the defendant threw water over his grandfather, later throwing a dog on to the bed where John was lying. The old man activated his panic button to call gardaí who found the accused hiding in fields nearby. The defendant then spent two weeks in prison custody.
The judge was reminded that a suspended sentence was hanging over the defendant as a result of breaches of a barring in force at the house. The order was taken out by his grandmother, since deceased. Judge Haughton said that, by law, he must formally consider the suspended terms the next day (Wednesday, December 9). He remanded Winters in custody for one more night but indicated that he would not be looking to extend the time spent in custody any further.
When the case was called the following day, Ms Doherty said that her client had nowhere else to go other than to his family. 'He has finally agreed that he needs to go in to treatment in relation to drink and drugs,' she said.
She added that if he is in custody in Cloverhill, he can be assessed by a staff member from a treatment facility, and if he is approved for a place, he can go from Cloverhill to treatment. She said that he wants to be home for Christmas but accepts he has to go to Cloverhill to get a chance of going for treatment.
'The safest option for everybody involved is if he was remanded to try get into treatment,' she said, adding that if he was let out on bail it could be up to eight weeks before he gets in. She took some time to consult with him about the implications of being kept in prison during December. | 2019-04-18T13:28:46 | https://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/courts/man-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-his-frail-grandfather-34289164.html |
0.999997 | Why does Paris want its famous Big Wheel toppled?
Fairground stallholders blocked the Place de la Concorde in central Paris on Thursday to protest against an order to pull down the city's famous Big Wheel. But does City Hall want the landmark taken down?
It's been a landmark in Paris each Christmas for sixteen years but now the Big Wheel is under threat of being toppled and fairground workers are not happy.
On Thursday they used trucks to block Place de la Concorde in protest over the state's demand that the famous Ferris wheel lording over the square be taken down.
Demonstrators dressed as Father Christmas also gathered at the square, watched by dozens of riot police.
The 70-metre (230-foot) Big Wheel has been a fixture of the Christmas village on the Champs-Elysees since 2000, drawing around 300,000 visitors a year with its breathtaking views of the city.
It's clearly popular in Paris with one of the official tourist websites waxing lyrical about the wheel and Campion.
"Perched at a height of 70 metres (this is the world's largest mobile Ferris wheel), you can enjoy a breath-taking view of the Tuileries Gardens, the Louvre and the Christmas lights on the Champs-Elysées," reads the site Paris Info.
"A symbol of the festive season in Paris, the Big Wheel has been set up every year in this spot by Marcel Campion, known as ‘the king of fairground entertainers', since the year 2000."
It made a return this summer around the Euro football tournament but it appears its days are numbered.
So at a time when Paris is desperate to attract tourists after seeing a dramatic fall in visitor numbers, why does the city want to tear down such a popular attraction?
Officially the culture ministry has accused its 76-year-old owner, fairground king Marcel Campion, of illegally occupying a site of historic interest.
He says a high-ranking state official from the body that preserves historical monuments ordered him to take it down.
But there appears more to it than a dispute over the illegal occupation of an historic site.
It appears Paris authorities are no longer comfortable to be working with the king of the fairground.
After years of suspicion Campion, or at least his company “Festivals and Leisure” (Fêtes et Loisirs), is finally under formal investigation for various offences including: olluding with competitors, abuse of property, money laundering, favouritism and involvement in organised crime.
In July a legal case was opened into the conditions by which Paris City Hall hands out the contract for the installation of the Big Wheel.
Campion has denied any wrongdoing, saying the City of Paris gave him permission to leave the wheel up until May 2017.
Campion told AFP he was "defending the world of fairgrounds" against what he sees as attempts to have them banished from Paris.
"I'm not a gangster," he said, pointing out that the Big Wheel "contributes to the city's fame."
"When justice wants to do her job, she'll have to meet me. I know that people have been attacking me for many years. But I trust the justice system," he told Le Parisien earlier this year. | 2019-04-20T21:21:12 | https://www.thelocal.fr/20161124/why-is-paris-ordering-the-big-wheel-to-be-pull-down |
0.999991 | The world's a mess. How do thoughtful people make sense of it all? In this series we've asked a number of our authors to suggest a book, philosopher, work of art - or anything else, for that matter - that will help to make sense of it all.
The world we live in is a dangerous and confusing place. In my quest to make sense of it, I'm returning to Marxism and Freedom - 40 years after reading it for the first time.
It was written by the founder of the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism, Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987). I read the book for the first time in 1979: the year Margaret Thatcher was elected in Britain, and the formal beginning of the neoliberal counter-revolution. Dunayevskaya called it a "changed world". At that point the book was already over 20 years old, but I found something refreshing about its engagement with Marxism as a living philosophy connected with daily life struggles.
My return to Marxism and Freedom here in 2019 has focused on some of its ideas that might help orient our thinking in the present. This, at a time when we're facing the morbid stages of neoliberalism in its neo-fascist and authoritarian-nationalist forms: from Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro to Donald Trump in the US, from Turkey's Recep Erdoğan to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Dunayevskaya (who was born Raya Shpigel but took her mother's maiden name) was not an academic but a revolutionary intellectual schooled by organisations and their struggles. She joined the revolutionary movement in the United States as a teenager in the early 1920s, and was kicked out of the Communist Party at age 18 after asking for a discussion about Leon Trotsky. He was a leading Marxist revolutionary who was expelled from the USSR in 1929 after criticising Joseph Stalin.
Dunayevskaya joined the Trotskyist movement. She is probably best known as Trotsky's Russian language secretary in Mexico, which is where he settled after his expulsion and where he was assassinated in 1940. By the time he died, Dunayevskaya had broken with Trotsky over his defence of the Soviet Union after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939.
She argued that Russia was a state-capitalist rather than a socialist society, and held that Marx's theory of liberation had been transformed into its opposite by the Communist Party intelligentsia to justify a ruthless totalitarian system.
reestablish Marxism in its original form, which Marx called 'a thoroughgoing Naturalism, or Humanism'.
Prefiguring what is now called intersectionality, she highlighted "new passions and new forces" that emerged in freedom struggles. She argued that activists and intellectuals must keep their ears open to these new voices and new articulations of freedom that had often been silenced or ignored.
She also declared the African and Asian decolonisation movements that developed after the end of World War II epochal, as they raised the question of human relations as a "totality of devotion to the struggle for freedom".
The brilliance of Marxism and Freedom, and its re-articulation of Marx's Marxism as a theory of liberation, is that it was written in collaboration with miners, autoworkers and students who contributed to "a new understanding". The point was not only that people think, but also that people in struggles develop new ways of knowing through experience, dialogue and self-reflection.
All this was exciting to me as a 21-year-old who had already become cynical about programmatic socialist groups that often viewed movements as fodder to be mobilised. I probably didn't understand it fully at the time, but I remember meeting Dunayevskaya in 1985 just after the year-long British miners strike had suffered an historic defeat.
I don't think it's correct for us to try and solve it for others. I think what we have to do is to create the conditions for everyone to be able to experiment with choices, in love.
When we met she spoke to me about the importance of worker-intellectuals to Marxist-Humanism. Here she included the black auto worker from Detroit, Charles Denby, the author of Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal. They met in the late 1940s and remained colleagues until his death in 1983.
I have just the man to fill Stalin's shoes -- my foreman.
Marxism and Freedom remains alive to me in 2019. It's not only because we live in an age of myriad crises that threaten humanity, but the book reminds humanity to keep our ears and minds open to new and often unthinkable revolts.
In this moment of violent suppression, new forms of struggle continuously emerge and reach for a future. It is here that the ideal and the real are revealed as being not far apart: where Marx's humanism as a living body of ideas is enlivened by real movements for freedom. | 2019-04-24T06:30:02 | https://allafrica.com/stories/201904090488.html |
0.999794 | Can we negotiate our child's financial aid award?
In some cases, yes. If you decide to appeal all or part of the award, follow the instructions in the award letter. In most cases, this will involve a polite business letter or email to the financial aid administrator (FAA) and a follow-up telephone call or meeting. Because the FAA may handle a number of similar requests, it's important to clearly label your correspondence. You should also be persistent in following up on your request, but not to the point of being a pest.
The financial aid administrator has authority to exercise "professional judgment" to reduce the loan component of your child's aid package and/or increase the scholarship, grant, or work-study component. Your chances of successfully renegotiating your child's aid package are best in two situations.
The first situation is where you have any special circumstances that affect your ability to pay your expected family contribution (what the federal government's financial aid form says you can afford) or any additional shortfall (the difference between your child's financial need and what the college offers in its aid package). Examples of special circumstances include the disability of you or your spouse, a recent job loss or prolonged unemployment, unusually high medical expenses, long-term care costs for an elderly relative, or some other situation that puts above-average constraints on your current income and savings. By contrast, a general plea of an inability to pay will likely fall on deaf ears — most parents make financial sacrifices to send their kids to college. If you have a special circumstance, you should provide written documentation to the financial aid office.
The second situation is where your child has been accepted at two direct competitor colleges, and one has offered a more generous financial aid package than the other. This strategy works best with direct competitors. Although many colleges don't care if they lose an applicant to a more (or less) selective college, they generally don't like to lose an applicant to a direct competitor. In this case, you might contact College A and inquire if it could possibly match the amount of grants, scholarships, and/or work-study that College B offers. Of course, your child must have the qualities that College A is looking for.
Underlying your success in either situation will be the principle of supply and demand. Your chances will be best in the years when colleges are vying for limited applicants, as opposed to the years when applicants outnumber the available college slots. Your child's high school guidance counselor should be able to give you an idea of the competitiveness of any particular college year. | 2019-04-22T16:08:36 | http://www.forefieldkt.com/kt/trns.aspx?xd=ED14&xsl=content&il=tm&firm=Susan%20E.%20Thomas%20CPA |
0.999999 | Complete following sentences using the right article: THE, A, or AN, only when necessary (sometimes no article is required).
We fed the pigeons in _____ Trafalgar Square.
There’s a clinic on _____ left.
The Queen lives in _____ Buckingham Palace.
What did you see at _____ Globe Theatre?
We went sightseeing and we saw _____ Eiffel Tower.
The museum is between _____ bank and the hotel.
Is there _____ supermarket in Anfield Road?
Jane went on a boat on _____ River Thames.
Take _____ second turning on the right.
There is _____ underground station near here. | 2019-04-21T22:30:48 | https://teachersteatime.wordpress.com/tag/articles/ |
0.999999 | We've seen how Luke's purpose in his Gospel is to tell the story of Jesus in such a way as to reveal him as the Messiah of Israel and the Savior of the World. So far Luke has done this mainly by showing us a selection of Jesus' deeds and his words in explanation of those deeds, which had a tendency to raise questions. Who do you think you are, forgiving other people's sins? Why don't you fast? Why do you heal on the Sabbath? etc. Now Luke will give us an extended sample of Jesus' actual teaching, in a discourse that is sometimes called "The Sermon on the Plain." We will examine the opening section of it today.
A question about this passage that has to be addressed is that of its relationship to the very similar "Sermon on the Mount" of Matthew 5-7. The two sermons have a great many points in common: the Beatitudes, the House built on the Rock, etc. More than that, the two sermons even have the same three-point outline: The Blessings of the Kingdom, The Behavior of the Kingdom, and an Exhortation to Obedience rather than Foolishness based on the first two points. But there are also some important differences. The sermon in Luke is much shorter over all, though it has some points that the Matthean version leaves out (i.e., the woes). In Matthew, Jesus blesses the poor in spirit in the third person; in Luke, he blesses the poor plain and simple in the second person. In Matthew, Jesus goes up a mountain to preach the sermon; in Luke, he comes down a mountain to a level place (hence "The Sermon on the Plain"). With these differences, how can both accounts of the sermon be true?
There are two logical possibilities to explain these two documents. One is that they are two different accounts of the same sermon. If that is so, then either one of the Gospel writers was confused about the location, or the discrepancy between going up and coming down is solved by taking different spots on the same mountain as a vantage point. In either case, neither account could simply be an accurate summary of what Jesus said, but each is "spun" somewhat by the interests of the writer. I think the second possibility is inherently more likely: that Jesus used the same material with a slightly different application on two different occasions. He was, after all, an itinerant preacher who was speaking in a different town every day or so. It is inconceivable that he did not re-use his material often in that kind of ministry, and he was under no more obligation to say exactly the same thing to every audience than I am when I use the same outline with different groups at different times. A lot of liberal students of the Gospels create a lot of problems in the text simply by making assumptions about Jesus' ministry that are contrary, not only to the doctrine of inspiration, but to plain common sense. He must have said everything once and once only, or if he repeated anything he must have done it verbatim? On what other assumption can you conclude that one of the Gospels must have got it wrong? Give me a break! The alleged "discrepancies" between the two accounts then are mainly the product of unrealistic assumptions about what Jesus' ministry must have been like.
Two important conclusions follow from this line of reasoning. The first is that there is no reason not to see both sermons as accurate summaries of Jesus' teaching. The second is that Luke's version should be studied as a text in its own right and not thought of simply as a condensation or abridgement of Matthew's material. That is the approach that we are going to take in this series. So let us read these words carefully.
The first thing to notice is that this sermon is addressed to Jesus' disciples (vs. 20a, "turning his gaze"), though others were there to overhear it. This is an important observation, because with it the apparent difference with Matthew ceases to be a problem. Luke's version is not recommending poverty as such. Rather, it is the poverty of Jesus' disciples--the poor in spirit--which is blessed.
We should also notice in passing the skill expended on the composition of this discourse as a whole. The woes carefully parallel the blessings: the poor correspond to the rich, the hungry to the full, those who weep to those who laugh, those who are hated and despised to those who are loved and approved. Each series, moreover, is climactic. The emphasis is therefore placed on the last member of each series, how we are received by men. If we are received like the prophets, i.e. rejected and mistreated, for Jesus' sake, we are blessed. If not, if we have the approval of those who persecuted the prophets and will eventually kill Jesus, then we are cursed. So the ultimate point of the whole is not being rich or poor, hungry or full, happy or sad, as such, but it is how we relate to Jesus in a world that is opposed to him and which can be expected to treat us as it did him. Riches or happiness bought at the expense of aligning ourselves with the world against Jesus is a woeful thing because it will lead to our being cursed in eternity, with all that illusory current blessing reversed. Poverty or hunger or sadness that is the result of being on the side of Jesus and the prophets is blessed, for it will be rewarded in eternity with the reversal of all our present distress. We will miss this, the main point of the passage, if we focus on each beatitude or curse separately rather than seeing the two series as wholes as the rhetoric of the sermon intends.
What is Jesus trying to teach us here then? Surely that believers can expect this life to be a struggle, involving the possibility of poverty, hunger, sorrow, and rejection. The pictures of the Christian throughout the New Testament bear this lesson out. We are athletes, farmers, soldiers. The appeal of the New Testament Gospel is not, "Come to Jesus and he will solve all your present problems," but rather, "Come join the right side in the cosmic spiritual War!" We are encouraged to count the cost before doing so. It may involve poverty, hunger, sorrow, rejection, and death. But those who undergo such things for Jesus' sake are blessed anyway because great is their reward in heaven.
The Christian life is depicted as a struggle, but the second point is that the joy of following Christ outweighs the struggle, so that even if we are poor we may consider ourselves to be blessed to be Jesus' disciples. Surely our future reward is one reason why this is true. (The fact that we dismiss it contemptuously as "pie in the sky" shows how secular we have really become.) But the verb "blessed" is in the present tense! Not just "will be blessed," but rather " already are blessed." Being poor with Jesus is a happier condition than being rich without him right now. Being hungry with Jesus is a happier condition than being full without him right now. Weeping with Jesus is a happier condition than laughing without him right now. Being rejected with Jesus is a happier condition than being accepted without him right now. Why? Because with Jesus we already enjoy the forgiveness of sins, a clean conscience, a sense of purpose in life--and best of all, a personal relationship with Jesus himself--right now. A bigger house and fancier car, filet mignon rather than a Big Mac, hilarious personal circumstances, and such popularity that you are elected homecoming queen: all of this amounts to precisely nothing in the scale of value next to the kingdom of God, next to knowing Jesus as your Savior, Lord, and Friend. For what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
It follows from all this that the world is deluded about the source of true happiness. Wealth, pleasure, popularity--all are good things, but all of them are empty without Christ. If they are the best you've got, then woe to you!
Woe to you who are rich! Woe to you who are full! Woe to you who laugh! Woe to you who are well thought of by the men whose fathers killed the prophets! Woe to you who have chosen these things rather than Christ. You are of all men most to be pitied.
Finally, Jesus is teaching us here that there is coming a Day when it will be made plain who has made the right choice. At present the lies of the world succeed because man looketh on the outward appearance. But one day all that will be stripped away and what we know deep down in our hearts even now will be undeniable. Then the true poverty of those who have chosen to live for riches will be revealed. Then the true starvation of those who have chosen to live for their bellies will be revealed. Then the true sorrow of those who have sought happiness in the world will be revealed. Then the true Rejection of those who have lived for popularity will be revealed. Woe to those who have chosen these things! But on that Day, praise God, the true wealth of those who gave up everything for Jesus will be revealed. Then the true fullness of those who were hungry for his sake, the true joy of those who mourned for his sake, the true Acceptance of those who suffered ostracism for his name, will also be revealed. Blessed are those who have chosen the kingdom of God and his righteousness--blessed are those who have chosen the King! Let us therefore chose rightly now, for in that Day we will be stuck for all eternity with the choice that we have made.
"Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 20 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. 22 Blessed are you when men hate you and ostracize you and cast insults at you and spurn you name as evil for the sake of the Son of Man. 23 Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, you reward is great in heaven; for in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets. 24 But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full. 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. 26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for in the same way their fathers used to treat the false prophets." | 2019-04-24T10:09:48 | http://donaldtwilliams.com/donald-t-williams/config/custom-files/docs/sermons/Luke6_12-26.htm |
0.998423 | Using these two cornerstones, what is the gold standard of VR movie? Simple: interactive real-time computer-generated experiences, i.e., VR video games. VR video games are full solid angle by nature, and if users properly calibrated their displays, they also show proper distortion-free 3D, at least as long as developers don’t screw up. (I won’t name names here, but I’ve seen some very bad stuff among the current Oculus Rift demos. Fortunately, the market will soon weed those out.) Since video games rely too much on interactivity to scratch the same itch as watching a movie, the closest thing to perfect VR movies right now are Half-Life-style cutscenes, where the viewer can freely move and look around while scripted events are unfolding, and the developers took great care to make sure viewers don’t miss important things by wandering off (watch the excellent Half-Life 2 embedded commentaries to learn what exactly goes into that).
So what’s the difference between VR video games as movie-like experiences and stereo movies? The former are free-viewpoint video, i.e., the viewer can change viewing position and direction dynamically after the movie has been produced, whereas the former have baked-in stereo, i.e., they show a 3D scene from a fixed viewpoint and using fixed viewing parameters, which cannot be changed afterwards and only look correct if viewed using the exact same parameters. Machinima is a good illustration: if machinima movies were distributed as script files that are viewed live inside the game engine that produced them, they would be VR movies; if they are rendered into (stereo or mono) movie files and viewed on YouTube, they are not.
To reiterate: stereo movies can only be watched properly if the projection parameters used during production precisely match those used during viewing (the old toe-in vs. skewed frustum debate is just one little aspect of that larger issue). That’s why I don’t call them 3D, and that’s why they don’t work in VR (with “work” defined as above).
Let’s assume there exists some camera rig that can capture completely seamless full-solid-angle video, to cover the panoramic aspect. How could this rig be used to capture stereo video? In regular stereo filming, there are two cameras side-by-side, approximating the average viewing parameters used during playback, i.e., approximating the position of the viewers’ eyeballs. But if the viewer is free to look around during playback, how can the fixed camera positions used during recording match that? Spoiler alert: they can’t. Now, there are approximations to create stereo movies that provide some sense of depth for 360° panoramic projection — but notice I’m using the 2D term “360°” here, on purpose. That’s because those methods account for viewers looking around horizontally, i.e., for yaw, but they don’t account for viewers looking up or down, i.e., for pitch, or at least they don’t right now. But even if the approximations did account for pitch (which would be a straightforward extension), there are two things they can not account for: head tilt, i.e., roll, and translation.
Let’s talk roll first. When viewing a stereo picture, the displacement vector between the left and right views must be parallel to the line connecting the viewer’s pupils. Do a simple experiment: look at a stereo picture, or go see a stereo movie, and tilt your head 90° to the left or right. Boom, stereo gone, instant eye pain. With baked-in stereo, there is no way to account for different roll angles short of rotating the entire video with the viewer, which would be a recipe for instant nausea (think about it).
Translation, such as imposed by positional head tracking, has the same fundamental problem. The reason why positional head tracking is important is because it introduces motion parallax, an important depth cue. But how can a movie with baked-in stereo reproduce motion parallax? If there is a cube directly in front of you, you see the front face. If you move to the left, you see the side face as well. But if the capturing camera didn’t see the side face, how can the movie show it to you during playback?
The bottom line is that showing a movie with baked-in stereo in a VR setting, e.g., on a head-mounted display, implies disabling positional head tracking, and disabling roll tracking. And even if viewers are conditioned not to move or tilt their heads, even yaw and pitch are only approximations that introduce some noticeable distortions. As the Oculus Rift dev kit v1 has shown, disabling positional tracking is bad enough for most people; disabling roll tracking is much, much worse.
Does this mean live-action VR movies are impossible? No. It only means that baked-in stereo is not an applicable technology, so don’t buy stock in companies that produce “360° 3D movie capture cameras.” They might get away with it now, but they won’t be able to for long. Just like black&white or silent movies don’t really have blockbuster appeal these days.
What are the alternatives? Machinima is one, clearly. Why shouldn’t there be a machinima Citizen Kane? If zombie Orson Welles were working today, he probably would be able to use the constraints of the medium to glorious effect. And Lucasfilm are on the job.
But to get to real live action, we need true 3D cameras instead of stereo cameras. The distinguishing feature of a true 3D camera is that it doesn’t capture baked-in stereo views of whatever scene it’s recording, but a true 3D model of the scene, which can then be played back from arbitrary viewpoints later on. The Kinect is one example of a (low-res) 3D camera. LiDAR is an alternative, and so are algorithms creating 3D models from many 2D photographs. The problem with the latter two, at least right now, is that they don’t work in real time. But for movie production, that’s not really a problem. And before you get all nitpicky: yes, it’s possible to convert a stereo camera into a 3D camera by running a stereo reconstruction algorithm and creating 3D models from the stereo footage. The distinction is in the product (baked-in stereo vs live-rendered 3D models), not in the technology to create the latter.
Any way it’s done, the bottom line is that the technology for proper live action VR movies is not there yet. 3D cameras are low-res and have occlusion problems, or 3D capture spaces are so involved gear-wise that they are not practical for larger or longer scenes. In the short run, if you’re an aspiring VR movie producer, better read up on how to use game engines to create machinima.
Let me close with a related thought: I’m expecting that proper VR movies will use an entirely different language, so to speak, than “traditional” movies. Watching a VR movie would be more like being on stage during a live play, instead of viewing a scene unfold through a viewpoint prescribed by the director. It’s going to be very exciting to see how this develops.
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Great post. I also think that movies are intrinsically hard to pair with VR since movies are all about attention distribution, something which is very hard to do in an environment where restrictions feel very unnatural. I do, however, think that AR and VR ‘theater’ has the possibility of being successful, since the focus there lies more on the people on stage and less on the environment.
I’m currently working on a VR play, as in I’m doing the tech side of it. We’ll see how it plays out.
I’ve been speculating about this a lot. People take videos with consumer cameras and phones to capture moments. You watch those videos to relive those moments. I’ve always wanted to take that “moment-capturing” to the next level. If you wanted to capture that moment to the fullest extent, you would want 3D, 360 degree video with binaural sound, so you could look around this moment as it’s happening, similar to this musical performance (http://www.hello-again.com/beck360/main/beck360.html), except 3D. I thought this would be possible if you had 3D wide angle cameras pointing in 6 directions, stitched together in post. Reading this blog post made me realize how much this won’t work, but makes me realize how awesome the consumer cameras of the future will be.
One way i could see it sorta working that wouldn’t be a too big paradigm shift for old-school movie makers, would be to have a “virtual theater”, a ring array instead of a stereo pair (to account for roll), and some algorithm to interpolate between viewing positions (and cameras). This would still, mostly, let directors retain control over camera positions and orientation, zoom etc, while providing a immersive yet theater-like experience for the viewers.
For a more full 360×180 3d experience, i guess it could be possible to have a camera ball with lots of fisheye lenses with overlapping fields of view (each lens’ field of view should be fully covered by the combination of it’s neighbors’, and even better if also by it’s neigbhors’ neighbors), and the depth information would be extracted from the parallax between the different lenses; allowing for the viewer to move their head freely, within a certain volume. Hiding the person/rig holding the camera would be added obstacle for this (unless the cameraball is built around something like a x-copter drone, or hung on fishing lines or something of the sort). If the director insists on directing the viewer’s attention to an specific direction, a variety of filters could be applied, mainly stuff similar to vignetting; though i guess it would be possible to lock the view angle for more extreme cases (obviously something that shouldn’t be abused). For zooming, besides depth compression, it would be possible to change the relative scale of the world, by making the cameraball expand and contract (either just put the cameras on telescopic poles, or something more complex, like a Hoberman sphere ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRL0tMaNgjQ )); well, for the less extreme cases, i guess it could be possible to just interpolate the viewer size without changing the physical size of the camera.
There is a third possibility, but this might be a bit too high-tech for the moment; big lightfield cameras (bigger than most of the ones we got; the lightfield capturing surface area bigger than a human head). This would have similar benefits as the ring array but require less extrapolation; and i guess you could make a cube of it and get a 360×180 capture as well). I think Microsoft was working on a screen that could both emit and capture lightfields at high resolution without being thicker than a pane of glass (i don’t remember the details, but it would somehow redirect light inside of it almost 90 degrees and send it down to one of the screen’s edges, while preserving the lightfield information).
And i guess if extrapolating parallax via software can produce good enough results with just 3 points of view as input, it might work to have 4 almost fully spherical cameras arranged on the tips of a tetrahedron (with their blindspots aimed at the center of the tetrahedron); i guess this would be like a minimalist version of the cameraball described above.
I’ve been thinking this over a lot recently. Specifically I’ve been thinking of replication of real-world spaces in VR. The 360 degree video or photo has a fixed origin around which the user can rotate perspective. When the video moves from the origin, the user is in a tunnel, like a sphere stretched out. At best this is like rewinding or forwarding video. You are on a train tour of the scene, but are locked onto the rails. A solution would be to capture a room on a grid of interconnected 360 photos, and have a software program draw ALL the intervening frames similar to image stitching or tweening. This would allow X & Y freedom of movement at eye level. For the Vertical shift, a second grid around hip height would be used, which would connect to the eye-level grid at the same ratio as each “snap point” on the upper grid.
For the photography, a 360 degree camera on a adjustable height tripod that snaps between the two height positions (roughly 5′ 9″ and 2′ 9″) would be used. To get perfect replication, a grid would be used to capture the room. A laser projector that displays the photo positions as points on the floor. Each point, snap a lower and higher 360 photo.
This would give you a series of photos (similar to Google Streetview) that have all connecting positions extrapolated by software. Pair this with a 3D scan of the room ( Kinect, Project Tango) and you would have a highly accurate roam-able recreation of space with strong detail.
Email me if you want, I have diagrams and many more ideas on this.
Ryan, your post is precisely what this article is trying to call attention to. Having even a spherical representation allows you to rotate your head but there is no 3D. One needs to understand that depth perception comes from the different position of your eyes in space seeing things as different angles. The effect you get with Oculus Rift on with a 360 degree picture is that of looking at the inside of a painted sphere, not an experience of 3D. Kinect scan has a finite depth and won’t work for outdoor spaces. Lasers can give you estimated depths but you still can’t get all the information captured for all the different angles you eyes can be be position and be viewing.
I’m glad to see this article as it seems so obvious to me. I just don’t understand why Oculus is necessary for what they are calling VR movies. Clearly you can’t move your head at all in a VR movie and if you can’t, then just use some simpler device which allows simple 3D viewing. To get full VR movies, you need incredible processing power to allow the viewer to move in the 3D environment because each frame has to be dynamically generated. This can not be achieved by home computing currently and even for something like existing movies it takes massive parallel computing along with post processing and editing effects to produce something like Avatar. There may be a point at which we reduce the level of complexity somewhere in between home computing and massive parallel and time consuming movie like quality to allow for cloud computing to allow users to participate in somewhat movie like computing if you allow for something like Onlive to process and deliver the video to you. Then you have other concerns like latency. If you think moving your head fast and the latency on an Oculus is a problem now, try putting in a delay caused by round trip over the cloud. However, I think predictive algorithms and some hybrid local processing along with the technology like Artemis can provide could potentially reduce this problem. I have experimented with positional head tracking with and Oculus using just a web cam about a year ago and I found it “acceptable”. If a web cam can be acceptable with it’s latency, latency over the cloud is achievable. In my personal opinion, Facebook should now purchase a company like Onlive and then we’ve got an awesome VR future, with one more purchase such as Square/Enix it would be mind blowing !
I only just discovered this blog and really like what I’m reading and what’s being discussed. I agree on the physical limitations of real-life recording for VR, and that machinima would be wise choice for now.
However, I do see an opportunity for technical solutions in the grey area between these two. Meaning either 1) some lightfield-like capturing/playback of ‘local’ elements like faces, distant people that are streamed into a layer of a real-time 3D CG scene or 2) Non-realtime CG synthesis of a “good enough” lightfield that can be rendered from in realtime when using an HMD. For this option, I would already like to see how well a static scene can be made.
ps. OK, it’s been awhile since we talked — but I left Academia (and VR) 1.5 years ago and now reading up VR stuff again for a hobby. Good to see you still going strong, just like with your VR/LIDAR/Kinect tracking from some years ago.
Hi Gerwin, how are you doing? Sad to hear you left VR. Yeah, I’m still doing it; somebody has to carry the torch so that all the stuff that was discovered/invented long ago doesn’t get forgotten by the new developers rushing in now. Apparently, there are a few users of Vrui and LiDAR Viewer at TU Delft now. I’m getting bug reports from there.
I don’t know how many ways to say this but capturing the environment with two points in space and thinking you can now use head movement in VR just doesn’t work. You have to completely recreate the physical world in 3D space in order to view it in the unlimited angles once the Oculus is strapped on. Are people still just not grasping this concept?
@Harley, I agree that just capturing from two points is not enough, even if you capture the “full solid angle” for both. I guess I wasn’t completely clear, because I was referring to a much broader approach to light field capturing.
Theoretically, one should capture the “complete” (high-dimensional) lightfield, meaning a continuous function of all incoming light from any angle at any position. Like with all practical forms of lightfield capturing, you give up some degrees of freedom, limit the capture domain, and (often) discretise data. Examples are taking a normal photo or in CG rendering a spherical full solid angle at a single point.
The interesting challenge in lightfield capturing specifically for a (seated) HMD experience as the target, is to match the translational and rotational range, and to determine its lower limit sample resolution. This lower limit is determined by how well we need to restore/render the original lightfield by interpolation and reconstruction (at run-time) for HMD output. In practice: where, how many and at what resolution full solid angles should we capture.
Even in CG, increasing dimensions and sampling rate makes it quickly into a seemingly unsurpassable amount of data. Most likely, big parts of this enormous amount of data has a high redundancy and could be subject to compression and easy interpolation. For example, distant scene objects hardly change appearance throughout the spatial range of a (seated) HMD user.
I’ve seen approaches for autostereoscopic displays, but I’d be interested to read about or even see experiments in people attempting to do this type of stuff for HMDs.
Oh, oh. “Jaunt provides an end-to-end solution for producing cinema-quality [VR] experiences that are simply unforgettable,”‘ said Arthur van Hoff, CTO of Jaunt.
Well, let’s see how that pans out.
This boom, stereo gone is true, but mainly because of the viewing medium (usually polarized glasses cancelling the stereo effect), not via a dedicated per ee view that stereo HMD offers.
I;m going to disagree with this. Someone’s already mentioned Jaunt.
Almost all 3D cinema uses circular polarization, which works no matter how you turn your head. Either way, that’s not the problem. The problem is that the stereo images are generated using horizontal offsets, because our eyes are horizontally offset when we hold our heads level. If you now tilt your head 90 degrees, your eyes are no longer horizontally offset, but vertically offset, but the stereo image on the screen is still horizontally offset. Therefore, the illusion of 3D breaks down completely, and you get a headache while your eyes are trying to make sense of what they’re seeing. That stays true with HMDs. In real-time CG viewing, the stereo separation in an HMD is always adjusted to match the separation vector between your eyes, but with pre-rendered video with baked-in stereo that’s not possible.
I recently installed a large stereo screen at a partnering institution, and the principal there told me that she always gets headaches from 3D movies (and our screen). I watched here watching it, and noticed she leans her head to one side by about 20 degrees or so, like many people do. That’s the problem right there, because the separation vector between her eyes is no longer parallel to that of the stereo imagery, and her eyes try to compensate by moving vertically, independently. That never happens in the real world, and causes eye strain and headaches.
We’ll see how this pans out. Efforts like Jaunt etc. get people really excited at first glimpse, because nobody has ever seen panoramic stereoscopic movies before. But once people spend more time with those, we’ll know for sure whether they really work or not.
I seem to have skimmed the part where you explicitly mentioned “turn your head 90 degrees” before the boom-stereo-gone.
Circular polarization also does break down at those angles, linear polarization breaks down at much smaller tilt.
on an unrelated note – absolutely loved the video on the 3 kinect 3D model presence demo!
Bookmarked this blog / repository on VR.
The brain/eyes are quite flexible with respect to misaligned stereo, but even if it apparently works, there are side-effects. From speaking to many people, I think one of the main reasons why viewers report headaches from 3D movies is that they tilt their heads while viewing, if not even by much. They still get some stereo effect, but they are giving their eye muscles a really hard time to adjust to vertical disparity, which never appears in the real world.
We are seeing a lot of this in the CAVE. By design it’s a single-user environment because of its head-tracked stereo, but in practice it’s used by small groups. We have to explicitly tell the tracked user to keep their head level, or the other viewers will get headaches quickly. The CAVE uses active (shuttered time-multiplexed) stereo, so loss of stereo separation has nothing to do with it. | 2019-04-18T21:17:43 | http://doc-ok.org/?p=833 |
0.999979 | Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Dancers"
Dancers possess an aura of self-confidence and an ability to enjoy themselves more in social situations . does this sound natural?
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Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "dandoles" | 2019-04-22T23:06:14 | https://hinative.com/en-US/dictionaries/Dancers |
0.999349 | Every migrant I met in Malta had been through some tragic times, perhaps in the war-torn countries they left behind; during the dangerous sea crossing from Africa to Malta in tiny, over-crowded boats; or in their 18 month internment in a Maltese detention centre upon arrival. However, there were a few who, against incredible odds, had met with some success. I met ______, a Somali, born in Saudi Arabia, and raised in Kenya as he was visiting a friend in the small grocery store in one corner of the Eritrean restaurant at the Marsa Open Centre. His English was impeccable and after telling me what kinds of goods they sold at the store (pretty much everything), he asked me what I was doing at the Marsa Open Centre. I showed him some of the drawings I had been making and gave him the usual explanation that I was a student of architecture from Canada working on my Masters thesis project. He said it was no surprise that the Centre was such a horrible place to live as it was never meant to have people living in it. It was formerly a school after all.
_____ had been in Malta for 5 years but he no longer lived at the Marsa Open Centre. He had an apartment in the city. He told me that he worked for the International Organization for Migration at their offices in Valletta. His job was to provide interpretation to fellow asylum seekers who had presumably applied to be resettled in other countries and were being interviewed by those countries. He told me he spoke 4 languages.
This was the first and only refugee I met on my trip that had such a good job (or any job for that matter) but even he was not satisfied with staying in Malta. He had been offered asylum in Ljubljana, Slovenia and would be moving there in a month. They had given him a flat, a passport, and with that the freedom to travel anywhere he wanted. He said that he had told them that he would not go without his girlfriend and they had accepted her as well.
I cannot explain why ______ had been so successful at freeing himself from the limiting life that the Centre offered while others I met had been living there for up to 7 years with little hope of leaving anytime soon. Most people around me seemed to exist in some kind of permanent state of limbo, struggling to find odd jobs, and relying on the Centre for money and shelter but I was extremely happy for him and it made me believe what he said next. Anyone can have their own apartment and a decent life within a few weeks of being released from detention. All they need is a good job. | 2019-04-18T18:28:48 | https://thesmalleningworld.com/maltaremembrances/150 |
0.99998 | What are the steps required to use the Defender Token Programming Wizard?
1. To start the Defender Token Programming Wizard, from Active Directory Users and Computers, click Defender on the menu bar. Note: The Defender menu option will be displayed after you have selected the Defender OU.
2. Select Program Tokens from the menu. Alternatively, select Program on the username Properties, Defender tab.
3. The Defender Token Programming Wizard (Welcome) dialog box is displayed.
4. Click Next. The Defender Token Programming Wizard (Token Types) dialog box is displayed.
5. Select the option button for the token type that you want to program, then click Next.
Please refer to the Defender Token Administration Guide for additional details regarding this process. You may download a copy here: Defender - Release Notes and Guides. | 2019-04-21T01:00:34 | https://support.oneidentity.com/defender/kb/86209/how-to-use-the-defender-token-programming-wizard |
0.999987 | Oreo's parent company Mondelez International Inc said last month that it decided to invest $130million in building four new production lines at a plant in Mexico, but US plants will stay open.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated his claim on Tuesday evening that he would stop eating Oreos, citing the cookie maker's decision to close a plant in Chicago and move it to Mexico.
'I'm never eating Oreos again,' Trump, who originally took a stand against the cookie on Friday, said, adding that he would consider it if he could find some that were made in the United States. Trump's claim is partly true.
Oreo's parent company Mondelez International Inc said last month that it decided to invest $130million in building four new production lines at a plant in Mexico, which will replace nine older production lines at its Chicago plant.
Guzzinati said the decision to invest in the Mexico plant came after discussions with union representatives for workers at the Chicago plant.
She said the company determined that the new production lines would cost $46million less per year in Mexico than in Chicago, and said labor was 'one of many factors'.
Guzzinati noted that Oreos continue to be made in some US plants, including in New Jersey, Oregon and Virginia.
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0.996209 | After my wife had returned home we expected a police raid or something, but nothing happened. Immediately, my wife was on the phone, trying to connect with her new employer, which she so prudently had found well beforehand, and now she was imploring them to help us. We did not have enough cash for even one plane ticket, and we needed two. Fortunately, the employer already knew what was happening in Turkey and agreed to advance us the money. Thus our plane tickets were purchased for us immediately.
We fled the country the very next evening. The day was spent in crazy packing and preparation. We were leaving nearly everything we had bought in Turkey. Around midnight we stepped out of our apartment for the last time, carrying two suitcases and a couple of bags. I looked back at our temporary home and only shook my head in sad disbelief. It had served us well while it lasted. It was a typical furnished modern apartment in a typical Turkish apartment house, completed with a customary sofa and plump armchairs, a Turkish rug, a dishwasher, a huge bed, and various trinkets. We did not manage to add to its furnishing much — just a few lamps, cookery, and other small things. Still, it used to be our home. The only thing that we carried from the apartment, except for our luggage, was our live Christmas tree that we bought the last Christmas. (I was somewhat surprised that Turkish supermarkets sold Christmas decorations and tiny live Christmas trees planted in soil-filled baskets.). I hated the thought of throwing it away. Therefore, we took it to the lobby and implored a security guard to give it to a maintenance guy in the morning so he would plant it somewhere on the building grounds.
The taxi turned around and left without us. We were stunned. What special permit? What was he talking about? My wife was frantic while she continued to ask the security guard the same question again, again and again. He called us another taxi, but this time my wife showed the driver our boarding passes, which she smartly printed a while ago. The driver seemed satisfied this time, and so we got into the taxi and drove off.
The ride took us less time than we expected, for it was late and the highway was relatively free from its usual crazy traffic. As we were approaching the airport, the driver grew visibly nervous and angry. In the next few minutes, I understood why. The entire road that led to the departure section was blocked by a shouting crowd of men and hijabed women, nearly every one of them waving the national flag. They surrounded our car immediately, so the driver had to step on the brakes. The men studied us through the windows, and then reluctantly let us proceed. I noticed that every vehicle that approached the airport was given the same treatment.
The last trial that we had to endure occurred at the police checkpoint. We both had our Turkish ID and our US passports at ready. The custom officer briefly glanced at mine and waved me in, but he had taken such a long time studying my wife’s ID and passport that we both nearly fainted. The ID had the name of the university where my wife worked. Also, that week a presidential degree required all academic faculty to return to Turkey and prohibited all international travel, including research-related activities. It was not clear whether that degree covered international faculty.
He scrutinized it from both sides several times, grunted, looked at my wife, and leafed through the passport at least fifty times. It felt like a slow torture. Finally, he returned the documents to my wife and waved her through. At least, we were within departures territory.
Later, we learned that a large number of the airport customs officers were arrested under a pretext of being clandestine members of the Gulen organization. We are still wondering if that particular custom officer, who handled my wife’s documents, was one of them. Undoubtedly, he scrutinized the ID with its school name with great interest but then he allowed us to go through. Was it a coincidence or a conscious decision on his part? I guess we will never know.
As soon as we boarded the plane, I fell asleep and woke up only in Paris. I had not felt so relieved in years.
Now, when I look back at it, I think how it all began, so innocently and happy. Precisely one year and a half ago my wife was invited to join a faculty of a certain private university located in Istanbul. It sounded like a good opportunity and so we agreed to relocate to Turkey.
The city positively impressed us from the very beginning. Its newer districts looked extremely modern. Besides, it gave off a somewhat surreal feeling, for it is unbelievably huge.
In fact, Istanbul is of the size of a small country, and even its diverse transportation, which includes metro lines, trams, buses and private shuttles, is unable to resolve the problem of overcrowded rides, and hours spent on the road and choked highways. Istanbul has two faces; one of them is distinctively European, the other is Asian. The city itself is a home of many different religious communities, the largest of which is, of course, several branches of Muslims; the Christian community is relatively small but, due to the history of the city, it is highly noticeable.
One moment you tend to forget that you live in a Muslim country, then suddenly you are being reminded of it. There is, for instance, a visible separation of genders. You notice it right away. It is quite a mysterious thing in itself for we often wondered how on Earth Muslim girls and boys manage to meet and form couples and so on. Nevertheless, they do, for when you go to a shopping mall, you see a lot of young families with children. In any case, the male part of the populace visibly enjoys more respect than the female one. It is a rare occasion when someone yields his place to an elderly woman on a crowded bus, but someone (quite often a woman) always does so for the sake of an elderly (or not so elderly) man.
It has often been said that the Muslims, unlike Westerners, hold their elderly in a prodigious respect. Indeed, there is a tradition in Turkey to visit their elderly parents once a year to kiss their hands. But in general, old people are practically invisible. In fact, you do not see them anywhere. The streets are filled with young and middle-aged men who hurry in large groups, or sit in restaurants and cafes drinking their tea. There are a fair number of women on the streets as well, but as the sun goes down, their presence becomes rare.
It has also been said that the Muslims are ardent believers. I cannot say anything about that for sure, for nobody had tried to talk to me on that subject, but we did notice that the astonishing multitude of mosques built recently stayed almost empty. Of course, most Turks religiously observe the Ramadan, which from the start and till its ending one month later turns into a marathon of all-night eating. At the beginning of the holiday, restaurants and cafes stay deserted till sundown, but, as the Ramadan gradually progresses, people start eating openly during the day. The number of shoppers who carry plastic bags laden with food from stores triples. The quantity of leftovers thrown on the ground, especially half-eaten loaves of special Ramadan bread, turns into a carpet. Street dogs, which usually eat any thrown-out food, become choosy. They grow fat and lazy, but it is a sign of the Muslim charity to feed street dogs during the Ramadan, although there is always someone who feeds them during the year. I must say that there is a fearful quantity of stray dogs living on the streets of Istanbul. It is not so apparent in the center, but as you move towards a periphery, you are surprised by their sheer number. They come in all shapes and types, but, despite their monstrous appearance, they are mostly friendly and docile.
There are active Christian Churches in Istanbul. It was yet another exciting experience for us to attend an Easter Celebration in the Greek Orthodox Church, when the Patriarch of Constantinople was officiating The church was packed, but what caught my eye were groups of Muslim women, all dressed in black and wearing their hijabs, who came to watch the celebration spectacle. They had their cameras at ready and were filming all the proceedings while laughing merrily at what they probably saw as exotic and hilariously barbaric customs.
If you have not previously heard a call for prayer, which is performed five times a day, you might find it slightly shocking. The number of mosques and their attached minarets is astounding. Just a few years ago Istanbul had significantly fewer mosques than it does now. Apparently, one of the President Erdogan’s claims to the eternal glory is building more and more mosques. Nowadays, a mosque can be found in a virtually every city block of the new districts. Despite this abundance of mosques, more mosques are being built, especially in newer parts of the city. It seems that Erdogan has decided to overdo all former sultans who tried to glorify their names and their rule by erecting new mosques in their names or the names of their favorite wives. The President also cares about the overall look of the city: he orders demolition of its old residential districts and erecting in their place ultra-modern glass covered high-rises with attractive penthouses on top or elephantine buildings that house various government Ministries. The imposing facades and overall architecture of the government buildings makes one imagine the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
Istanbul is a modern city; in newer districts people live mainly in high-rise apartment buildings united into enormous complexes, surrounded by high concrete walls with barbed wire on top. There are also unbelievable quantities of Wi-Fi aerial columns; some of them constructed as fake trees.
Stores and shopping centers are divided into either traditional or Western. The Europeanized establishments sell alcohol, while the traditional ones do not. In traditional areas, a larger proportion of the female population wears hijabs; Kurdish women are dressed entirely in black. Some women, more Westernized one, wears Western clothes, and many young girls go around with their heads uncovered and even wear short skirts. You could also see guys dressed in shorts and wearing long hair, tattoos, and earrings in the downtown area. It is the world within the world.
But there is definitely a trend away from Westernization. Nowadays, women are attacked for wearing shorts or revealing clothes. A woman was kicked in the face for wearing shorts. A month ago there was a fight in one of the downtown pubs —a group of devoted Muslims entered it and started to beat up customers with chairs because the customers dared to drink alcohol during prayer time. I remember a pub where we used to go. I wonder if it is still open, and if it is, how safe its patrons feel.
In fact, this aggressive de-Westernization of Istanbul had begun quite recently, roughly a year prior to our arrival. For instance, many restaurants and street cafes across the city used to serve alcohol but now it is prohibited nearly everywhere. During our stay, there were only a few places in the central touristy districts like Kadikoy that still did it. Erdogan, while he was the Prime Minister, introduced new restrictions on sale of alcoholic beverages. For instance, no alcoholic beverages could be sold within a certain distance from either a school or a mosque. Since the number of mosques has grown, there are not many places left to engage in this sinful commerce.
Same goes for hijabs, which also suddenly became ‘popular’ three years ago. Nowadays, young and not so young women wear them. Why? The explanation that was given to us by a young female student went like this: “Because I want to look like a respectable woman.” Clearly, the notions of what is respectable and what is not, are changing fast in Turkey, which is not surprising, because in his countless public speeches, the President often waves the Holy Quran, thus reminding his subjects of their glorious Ottoman past and their present sacred duties.
The university where my wife worked turned out to be a traditional institution unevenly divided along the traditional and Western lines. Perhaps 90 percent of the female student body was dressed in a strictly traditional way, with covered arms, legs and head. It was the same was with administration and faculty. Even the public facilities were divided by this principle — three traditional cubicles with a hole in the floor and a plastic container for washing, and two cubicles furnished with western toilets. Men and women could enjoy their (segregated, of course) praying rooms.
The official school communications were filled with the usual rhetoric regarding intolerance to discrimination on the grounds of nationality, religion and so on. In short, the school positioned itself as a strictly secular institution designed only for learning.
She said it with such fervor that for a moment I was sure I had spotted a tear in her eyes.
Shortly after that we began to talk about propriety, morals and ethics.
(Later, she told my wife that she had started to cover her head less than a year prior to our conversation, when Erdogan issued a special permission. Until then, hijabs were prohibited in public institutions, including universities).
I will not go into great details about that trip but will only say a few things that I deemed important. First, the trip included three visits to different mosques. Students were obliged to attend religious services, so my wife and I were forced to loiter outside and wait patiently for the end of the services. The only good thing about it was that we could visit the facilities (for a mosque’s facilities, which are always located within the enclosed grounds but outside of the mosque itself, are widely used by the public as public toilets. Some of them even charge a fee for entrance.) One of the teachers tried to persuade us to accompany them into a mosque and observe the service, but we politely declined the honor.
Secondly, the trip itself consisted mostly of visiting historical sites where a customary local guide (who was hired by the school) was lecturing the students on the past glories of the Ottoman Empire. As far as translation allowed us to understand it, these lectures roughly described the good old days, when past Sultans ruled their people with justice and kindness. According to the guide, at the beginning, Turkish sultans were extremely modest folks. Unlike the corrupted Byzantine elite and especially the Byzantine priesthood, they abhorred the luxury of palaces, and they always catered to the needs of their people. It was only later on, when Sultan Mehmet II had had enough of Byzantine scheming’s and their corrupt influence and was literally forced to destroy the whole Byzantine Empire, the new Westernized tradition of luxury, decadence and degradation were introduced to Turkish courts. Since then, things went terribly wrong until the Ottoman Empire, once a glorious and most perfect political machine, fell into shambles.
Speaking of corrupted Byzantine influence, it was rather sad to see some former churches of that period turned into mosques. Of course, we kept such sentiments to ourselves. All in all, our impression of these lectures and the whole tour was of blatant nationalistic propaganda poured on the students. Combined with an obligatory attendance to prayer and other small things, it began to worry us a little. It did not look so innocent anymore. In fact, it smacked of pure nationalistic brainwashing, not unlike the very popular historical serial The Magnificent Century based on the life story of Suleiman the Magnificent — the very guy who had tried to overtake Vienna but died on the way back after experiencing tremendous military defeat. The series, which appeared on Turkish television, was so filled with grotesque historical distortions and whitewashing of the former good old days of medieval tyranny that it was simply hilarious. In fact, we couldn’t believe our eyes.
I mention this serial only because now I fully realize how typical this creation is in regards to Erdogan’s regime of militant nationalism, totalitarian terror, and traditional Islamic values, even though Erdogan thought its portrayal of the times and people was overly decadent.
The second incident that I would like to mention happened some time later when we again were invited to a students outing — a barbecue in the country — organized by the school and of course, supervised by a number of teachers.
Already forewarned by the previous experience of endless waiting outside of mosques, we nevertheless agreed, having the idea that in the countryside, there would be no mosques; besides, a barbecue in a country sounded innocent enough. In addition, my wife seemed concerned with yet another strange thing, namely — her students never talked to her outside of class. It was impossible to figure out why they exhibited such behavior. Were they shy? Or was it due to another reason? Perhaps, a barbecue could serve as a nice opportunity to get to know each other. And so we went. The bus transported us, along with a large group of students and several teachers, into a mountainous area, which looked bucolic enough.
Then the weird stuff started. One of the teachers announced to us all that we are going for a little country hike at the end of which we will visit a beautiful local waterfall.
All the students were herded into one group. Suddenly there appeared a guy who looked exceedingly like a drill sergeant, and pretty soon it became apparent that what we were witnessing was, in fact, paramilitary training: the poor students were told to climb stiff hills, walk over a rough terrain and so forth. It was a surrealistic spectacle in a way, for all the females in the group were dressed according to a strict Islamic tradition. The weather was hot, so all these girls sweated profusely under their hijabs and heavy coats while they climbed hills, crossed fast creeks and so on — bizarre in the extreme. This paramilitary exercise went on for nearly four hours at the end of which we returned to the place where we had initially started our strenuous journey. Several guys attended to preparing barbecue food while all others whipped out their praying mats and performed an afternoon prayer.
After that day, my wife and I began to wonder seriously what was the university was really all about. Only weeks later, a departing foreign faculty member told us in private — look, guys, this school is Gulenist. Since then we began learning about the Gulen movement. | 2019-04-25T00:38:37 | https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2016/12/11/witnessing-the-death-of-a-secular-turkish-state-part-2/ |
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Question 2: How will we increase our market share with these Core customers?
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