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0.998477 | : : I could use some help with our problem. I live in a building where there are over 10 active prostitutes doing business in the building. The door to one of the prostitutes' apartments is less than 3 feet directly across from mine. 'Johns' have knocked on my door more than once. Since I have been here for less than 6 months there have been 2 robberies by 'John's. I am frightened for my safety as this criminal element has free access to the building.
: : What are my options and how should I go about this?
: First and foremost get the police involved. Call them, and keep calling them if nothing changes. Also, have all the neighbors you can call also. In these situations, the squeaky wheel gets greased. If you make enough noise, the cops will do something. Then they'll be police records with which to go after the landlord. I may also help to call you city council member, and maybe some of the minor players like community board people. When it comes to the cops, they can squeak louder than you can.
: If you can rally enough neighbors that you feel safe doing it, you could also take direct action. Sit in the lobby an grill anyone going to the suspect apartments. Bring a camera and take pictures. The Johns would LOVE that. | 2019-04-22T00:30:28 | http://tenant.net/forum/board/messages/arcs97/arcs97Q4/1827.html |
0.999568 | Who Should be in the Demo?
First of all getting a group of people together who have other things to do is often quite a challenge. The best way we have seen is to arrange the demos all for one day and then discuss them at the end of that day when everything is still fresh in your mind. If that is not possible then at least make sure one person sees all the potential solutions.
The second point is that each member of your team that will use the Web to Print solution you choose will have different requirements so it really helps if you get a broad cross section of different positions within the company involved. We would suggest the Web to Print Project Leader (you need one!) / decision maker, the person building the products and the account manager of your first customer is a minimum. On top of that you could add people from your sales and production teams.
A good demonstrator will break a demo down into three parts, first they will find out about your business and especially your Web to Print requirements, then they will demonstrate the product specifically around your requirements and finally it should be questions and answers.
How long will a demo take? Well, in general, if it is over an hour you have gone off track. It is important that you drive the demos, if you let the demonstrator just show you the system then either they will show the bits that demo really well (even if you are not going to use those features) or they will try to show you everything, which is when things really take a long time. This is where having your checklist, especially your first customer and products in front of you, can really focus the demo to what you need.
We have all had it happen, as soon as someone has just left you come up with the most important question that you forgot to ask. At the end of your demos you will probably have a preferred provider, go back to them with anything that was not clear, anything that you forgot to ask and if you saw something you liked in another system then ask about if they have something similar.
The big thing is to never assume anything about a bit of software, you know what you need more than the person doing the demo. Remember you are about to enter a contract for a service or buy the software outright so assumptions can be expensive mistakes! In fact the suppliers don't want you assume either, it is way better for us to sign you up to something that works for you and that you know the limitations of the system in your application of the solution.
Never worry about asking for a follow up demo! If someone important couldn't make the meeting or you want to see something in more detail, then get the supplier back in for a follow up meeting.
No off the shelf solution can meet all the requirements of everyone. If after going through your demos and not finding any solution that has what you need then you have a couple of choices. The most extreme would be to look to develop your own solution. It is not for the faint hearted though, as it will be very expensive in terms of time and money.
Our advice is to at least consider paying for custom development on an off the shelf package. Most suppliers offer this service and custom development is probably more common than you think. Why take this route? In pure money terms it will nearly always work out cheaper. Basically custom development is building on top of what is already hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lines of code. If you are building from scratch you have to develop the feature you want plus those hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
The other thing is that, depending on the terms and conditions, you are pushing the support and maintenance of your custom feature back to your Web to Print supplier. Never underestimate how much time and money that will save you in the long run.
Remember it is generic and we really do recommend that you work through the previous sections to make it more focused on what you need. | 2019-04-18T12:47:23 | https://red-tie.com/web-to-print-guides-checklist.php |
0.999522 | Likely the most obscure movie I'll be watching all year, Black Mountain Poets is an independent Welsh comedy/drama that played a few festivals in the U.S., but hasn't, to my knowledge, had any formal release outside the U.K. It's essentially mumblecore: a largely improvisational character study that places a small group of actors within a rich setting, and watches as they fumble their way through it. Like most mumblecore, the quality of the film relies heavily on the innate appeal of the actors and their ability to find compelling notes of conflict with each other and introspection within themselves. Unlike most mumblecore, Black Mountain Poets is beautifully photographed, making good use of the natural light in a stunning natural setting.
Alice Lowe and Dolly Wells star as petty criminals who steal a car from two poets and then assume their identities at a rural poetry retreat in the Black Mountains of southeast Wales. Aiming to win the absurdly large cash prize for best poem, the con artists fake their way through the opening ceremonies, but they find that the rest of the weekend — which entails camping along with the other four neurotic contestants — forces them to confront their insecurities and the limiting manner in which they've chosen to lead their lives.
My plot synopsis makes Black Mountain Poets sound more focused than it is, as its affable cast struggles to mine compelling characters and narratives, forcing the audience to project their assumptions upon the movie — and wonder if the end product is anywhere close to what director Jamie Adams had in mind. With such a high-concept premise — crooks hiding among poets — one might expect a knowing peek inside a selective literary community, or a satire of the clashing lifestyles and worldviews of intellectuals and criminals, but it does neither. the small collective of characters is indistinctly composed of weak-willed worriers who don't seem to show any literary aptitude or preoccupation with poetry until the plot requires them to perform at the very end. Instead, Black Mountain Poets centers primarily on the personal issues between the assertive Lowe and the passive Wells, but it doesn't go much further than illustrating that one is assertive and the other passive. Although the direction in which Black Mountain Poets steers that generic situation is, itself, dramatically prosaic, it also opts for the common mumblecore trope of the non-ending, abruptly offering an emotional cue while the narrative is left to linger indefinitely. That this non-ending involves some of the movie's most evocative cinematography doesn't go so far as to imbue it with meaning, but leaves the impression of a better movie than it may have actually delivered.
Black Mountain Poets was brought to my Potluck Film Fest by Flickcharter David Conrad, who can be found on Flickchart under the username DavidConrad. He ranks it on his chart at #612 / 1662 (63%), placing it at #96 on his chart of 323 comedies. Black Mountain Poets ranked on my Flickchart at #2266 (41%), where it's #502 out of 885 comedies. | 2019-04-22T14:04:16 | https://medialifecrisis.com/acting-out/popgap-29-black-mountain-poets-2015.html |
0.998676 | Amazon Elastic Block Store snapshots show no progress, or I receive the error "ConcurrentSnapshotLimitExceeded". How can I resolve this?
Multiple EBS snapshots for a volume are stuck at less than or equal to 100% progress in pending state and when I try to launch a new one I receive the following error: ConcurrentSnapshotLimitExceeded. How can I resolve this issue?
Amazon EBS allows up to 5 snapshots per volume to be in progress concurrently. When multiple snapshots are running concurrently, newer snapshots remain in the pending state until pending snapshot with oldest "Started" time moves to the completed state.
EBS snapshots can be deleted while they are in progress, and if you initiate a new snapshot, the displayed progress percentage might be stuck for an extended period of time. The deleted snapshot progress will continue until 100% completion, and if you try to initiate more than 5 snapshots (including any that may have been deleted while they were in progress) you will receive the error message ConcurrentSnapshotLimitExceeded.
You've reached the limit on the number of concurrent snapshots you can create on the specified volume. Wait until the 'pending' requests have completed, and check that you do not have snapshots that are in an incomplete state, such as 'error', which count against your concurrent snapshot limit.
Note: As a best practice, allow sufficient time for the previous snapshot to be completed. AWS recommends waiting 15 seconds between create-snapshot API requests for the same volume. For additional information, see Amazon EBS FAQs. | 2019-04-22T10:27:18 | https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ebs-snapshot-stuck/ |
0.999999 | For each question below, can you select which figure in Greek Mythology would be in the alphabetical rank listed if its first letter had not been removed?
Each question contains four Greek Mythological figures missing their first letter and will ask you to pick the one that comes in the indicated place alphabetically of the choices. For example, if the choices are -Pple, -Anana, -Ineapple, -Ate and the question states "3rd", you'd choose -Ate because Date comes 3rd alphabetically amongst the four choices given. | 2019-04-24T00:55:26 | https://www.sporcle.com/games/jrage2009/alphabetized-greek-mythology |
0.999044 | What does ZANU-PF stand for?
He leads the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which is opposed to Mugabe's party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF).
In addition to stabilizing the economy, the political agreement, under which Robert Mugabe (the long-time leader of the ruling party, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front [ZANU-PF]) remains president and Morgan Tsvangirai, (the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change) becomes prime minister, also recognizes the need to respect differences of political opinion.
Mugabe's government embarked on haphazard and sometimes violent land reforms led by supporters of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party.
This is forcing ordinary people to be dishonest,' he said, noting that many people have two cards, one for the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the other showing membership of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
As expected, the Secretary of State's remarks drew a stern response from Didymus Mutasa, Foreign Affairs secretary for the governing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.
Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front won 55 of Parliament's 120 elected seats, compared to 34 for the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change, the national election commission announced. | 2019-04-21T02:31:51 | https://www.acronymfinder.com/Zimbabwe-African-National-Union_Patriotic-Front-(ZANU_PF).html |
0.999719 | In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Issac Newton solved the two-body problem and explained the motion of objects in the sky, solving a mystery that had haunted mankind from the beginning. How important was this? In the history of the intellectual development of the human race the first big step was when we came down out of the trees, the second was Newton's solution to the two-body problem, we're waiting for the third.
Newton discovered gravity, discovered the laws of motion, developed calculus, and yet the hard work still lay before him. His goal was to explain the motion of objects in the sky. Kepler had proposed three laws of planetary motion, and had recorded a great amount of data that suggested that the laws did describe the motion of the planets in particular. However, Kepler had no idea why his laws held. Newton's goal was to explain Kepler's laws. He succeeded, and his efforts mark the beginnings of modern mathematics and physics. It's the most significant event in the history of our understanding of how the world works.
And yet, here's a little bet for you, I'll bet that you cannot find a solution to the two-body problem in any book that is being used in any high school or university undergraduate course in math, physics, or engineering. Email me if I'm wrong.
Note: the one-dimensional case is covered here.
We will start by making a good assumption, that the sun and an orbiting planet can be represented by point masses, and that the force between them is given by Newton's law of gravity. We will also make an assumption that is not true, that the sun is 'fixed' in space and does not move. This second assumption simplifies the problem; after solving the simplified problem in this section, we will drop the assumption in the next section and solve the problem without it.
The sun will be fixed at the origin of the coordinate frame. We will use polar coordinates to describe the planet's trajectory, r(t) and θ(t).
Note: vectors are in bold type, so r(t) is the vector from the origin to the planet, and r(t) is the length of the vector.
We'd like to be able to solve the DEs and write down the functions of time that describe the planet's orbit. That ain't happening. We have two coupled differential equation; one is non-linear. Non-linear equations are difficult; none of the techniques we've studied in CWT Vols 1 thru 4 apply to this problem. No analytic solution exists. Imagine Newton, after discovering gravity, the laws of motion, and calculus, finally writing down his first differential equation, and it's not solvable. Tough break! The problem of calculating the trajectory as a function of time is known as Kepler's problem, and it can be solved iteratively, see the reference at the bottom of the page.
While a closed form solution is not possible, Newton was able to show that Kepler's laws could be derived from the equations of motion. We will content ourselves with showing that the orbit is an ellipse.
r(t)2θ'(t) = h, a constant.
r(t)θ'(t) is the tangential velocity of the planet, and mr(t)r(t)θ'(t) is the angular momentum of the planet. So this shows that the angular momentum of the planet is constant, corresponding to Kepler's second law.
Et viola'. This shows that the planet's orbit is an ellipse (see last section).
Given that the preceeding was the simplified version of the problem, some trepidation in proceeding to the unsimplified version is understandable. However, not to fear, all the work has been done.
In reality, both the objects move. However, if no 'outside' forces are acting on the objects, their center of mass will be non-accelerating. We can use the center mass as the origin of the coordinates for the problem. Given these coordinates, a line from one object to the other will always pass through the origin.
So, by using the value m23 /(m1 + m2)2 for the mass of the 2nd object, the problem is identical to the one solved in the previous section. | 2019-04-19T00:26:35 | http://berkeleyscience.com/pm.htm |
0.999998 | Is it cyclohexane or is it benzene?
Benzene, C6H6, is an organic aromatic compound with many interesting properties. Unlike aliphatic (straight chain carbons) or other cyclic organic compounds, the structure of benzene (3 conjugated π bonds) allows benzene and its derived products to be useful in fields such as health, laboratory, and other applications such as rubber synthesis.
Benzene derived products are well known to be pleasantly fragrant. For this reason, organic compounds containing benzene rings were classified as being "aromatic" (sweet smelling) amongst scientists in the early 19th century when a relation was established between benzene derived compounds and sweet/spicy fragrances. There is a misconception amongst the scientific community, however, that all aromatics are sweet smelling and that all sweet smelling compounds would have a benzene ring in its structure. This is false, since non-aromatic compounds, such as camphor, extracted from the camphor laurel tree, release a strong, minty aroma, yet it lacks the benzene ring in its structure (Figure 1). On the other hand, benzene itself gives off a rather strong and unpleasant smell that would otherwise invalidate the definition of an aromatic (sweet-smelling) compound. Despite this inconsistency, however, the term aromatic continues to be used today in order to designate molecules with benzene-like rings in their structures. For a modern, chemical definition of aromaticity, refer to sections Aromaticity and Hückel's Rule.
Figure 1. Top-view of camphor, along with its monoterpene unit. Notice how camphor lacks the benzene ring to be "aromatic".
Many aromatic compounds are however, sweet/pleasant smelling. Eugenol, for example, is extracted from essential oils of cloves and it releases a spicy, clove-like aroma used in perfumes. In addition, it is also used in dentistry as an analgesic.
Figure 2. Eugenol, an aromatic compound extracted from clove essential oils. Used in perfumes and as an analgesic. The benzene ring is labeled in red in the eugenol molecule.
Due to the similarity between benzene and cyclohexane, the two is often confused with each other in beginning organic chemistry students.
If you were to count the number of carbons and hydrogens in cyclohexane, you will notice that its molecular formula is C6H12. Since the carbons in the cyclohexane ring is fully saturated with hydrogens (carbon is bound to 2 hydrogens and 2 adjacent carbons), no double bonds are formed in the cyclic ring. In contrast, benzene is only saturated with one hydrogen per carbon, leading to its molecular formula of C6H6. In order to stabilize this structure, 3 conjugated π (double) bonds are formed in the benzene ring in order for carbon to have four adjacent bonds.
In other words, cyclohexane is not the same as benzene! These two compounds have different molecular formulas and their chemical and physical properties are not the same. The hydrogenation technique can be used by chemists to convert from benzene to cyclohexane by saturating the benzene ring with missing hydrogens.
A special catalyst is required to hydrogenate benzene rings due to its unusual stability and configuration. Normal catalytic hydrogenation techniques will not hydrogenate benzene and yield any meaningful products.
Benzene can be drawn a number of different ways. This is because benzene's conjugated pi electrons freely resonate within the cyclic ring, thus resulting in its two resonance forms.
Figure 4. The Figure to the left shows the two resonance forms of benzene. The delocalized electrons are moved from one carbon to the next, thus providing stabilization energy. Ring structures stabilized by the movement of delocalized electrons are sometimes referred to as arenes.
As the electrons in the benzene ring can resonate within the ring at a fairly high rate, a simplified notation is often used to designate the two different resonance forms. This notation is shown above, with the initial three pi bonds (#1, #2) replaced with an inner ring circle (#3). Alternatively, the circle within the benzene ring can also be dashed to show the same resonance forms (#4).
The phenyl group can be formed by taking benzene, and removing a hydrogen from it. The resulting molecular formula for the fragment is C6H5. NOTE: Although the molecular formula of the phenyl group is C6H5, the phenyl group would always have something attached to where the hydrogen was removed. Thus, the formula is often written as Ph-R, where Ph refers to the Phenyl group, and R refers to the R group attached to where the hydrogen was removed.
Figure 5. Figure demonstrating the removal of hydrogen to form the phenyl group.
Different R groups on the phenyl group allows different benzene derivatives to be formed. Phenol, Ph-OH, or C6H5OH, for example, is formed when an alcohol (-OH) group displaces a hydrogen atom on the benzene ring. Benzene, for this very same reason, can be formed from the phenyl group by reattaching the hydrogen back its place of removal. Thus benzene, similar to phenol, can be abbreviated Ph-H, or C6H6.
Figure 7: Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), an antioxidant found in green teas and its extracts, is famous for its potential health benefits. The molecule is a type of catechin, which is composed of multiple phenol (labeled in red) units (polyphenols - see polycyclic aromatics). Since catechins are usually found in plant extracts, they are often referred as plant polyphenolic antioxidants.
As you can see above, these are only some of the many possibilities of the benzene derived products that have special uses in human health and other industrial fields.
Figure 18. Systematic (IUPAC) name of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (common name), or TNT. Note that the methyl group is individually named due to the exclusion of toluene from the IUPAC nomenclature.
Figure 19. The common name 2,4-dibromophenol, is shared by the IUPAC systematic nomenclature. Only substituents phenol, benzoic acid, and benzaldehyde share this commonality. | 2019-04-24T00:00:53 | https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Organic_Chemistry/Map%3A_Organic_Chemistry_(Bruice)/15%3A_Aromaticity_(Reactions_of_Benzene)/15.08%3A_The_Nomenclature_of_Monosubstituted_Benzenes |
0.999999 | What is the shape of space? Before we can answer this question, we must decide what it means to ask it. "Space" here refers to the universe as a whole, but specifically to the vast vacuum lying between the stars and planets and other chunks of matter. We generally think of this space as empty, but the behavior of light suggests that space is in fact filled with a substance that nineteenth century scientists called "aether". Instead of trying to imagine what aether is made of or what its properties are, just think of aether as the "fabric of space".
As light passes near a large body, such as a planet, the path of the light bends. The Earth's gravity keeps our Moon in orbit, while the Moon's gravity affects the Earth's tides. If space were truly empty, there would be no way to explain the distortion of light rays or the influences of gravitating bodies on one another--how would gravitational attraction be transmitted through empty space? Postulating the existence of aether gives gravitational force, as well as magnetic and electrical forces, something to travel through.
To understand how matter affects the path of light, imagine a large sheet of rubber with a helium balloon trapped beneath it. As the balloon rises, it creates a large bulge in the surface of the rubber.
Now picture yourself as a Flatlander living in the surface of the sheet. (1) If you want to get from a point at the bottom of the bump to a point on the opposite side, it is shorter to go around the bulge than to go over it. You do not perceive the bump as a hill--it is a bulge into a third dimension which you cannot detect--but as an expanse of land too wide to walk across. Similarly, light rays in Flatland curve around the bump--light does not always travel in a straight line, but its path follows the straightest possible line. Like the balloon, dense bodies in our universe distort the fabric of space into a higher dimension, the fourth dimension, causing light to travel in a curved path.
The fabric of space is distorted locally by matter, but all of space may also be curved into something other than ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space (3-space). Thinking about possible shapes of space is an important part of the science of cosmology, and it leads to speculation about fascinating scenarios which sound like plots from science fiction novels. What if you could travel billions of light years in one direction and end up back at Earth, without ever altering your course? What if when you returned, you were a mirror image of your former self? What if everything in the entire universe appeared to be within a few feet of you? We will consider shapes of space which could produce these phenomena. | 2019-04-26T10:26:58 | http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/STG/ma8/papers/leckstein/Cosmo/intro.html |
0.999997 | Why do I need to provide analytical information for my substance?
This information is needed to verify the composition of your substance and to ensure that the chemical identifiers, such as IUPAC name or CAS number, are appropriate.
What spectral data does ECHA require?
ECHA requires, as a minimum, ultra-violet (UV), infra-red (IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra (Annex VI section 2.3.5, REACH). You can also provide a mass spectrum in place of an NMR spectrum. For some substances, this information is not sufficient or appropriate and, in such cases, you need to provide other types of spectral data. For example, in the case of inorganic substances, X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF) or atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) are likely to be more appropriate techniques.
Is it possible to get access to the analytical information of other (potential) registrants?
No. ECHA protects the confidentiality of the analytical information submitted by (potential) registrants.
What type of justification is acceptable for not submitting certain analytical data?
An acceptable justification should be based on technical feasibility or scientific necessity, meaning robust scientific argumentation.
Does 100 % of the substance composition have to be accounted for?
Yes. The sum of the typical concentrations of each constituent should add up to 100 %.
Where can I find further information that would help me in complying with the requirements related to substance identification?
Within a solution of a complexing agent and a metal salt, a metal-complex will be formed. This complex remains in solution and will not be isolated at any time. Does this complex have to be registered?
The salts remain in their ionic form in the solution.
In this particular case, the third condition is not fulfilled, since the salts do not remain in their ionic form in the complex. Therefore, this exemption does not apply and the complex would be subject to registration. This case is discussed in Attachment 1 ‘Ionic Mixtures' of the Guidance document to Annex V.
Complexes consisting of chelated ions must be registered if they are themselves manufactured, imported or placed on the market. However, there are different exemptions in Annex V which could be considered, for example if the complex results from a chelating agent functioning as intended (‘substances which are not themselves manufactured, imported or placed on the market and which result from a chemical reaction that occurs when: (a) a [...] chelating agent [...] functions as intended').
Must the water-free (anhydrous) substance and the hydrates of this substance be regarded as the same substance?
For the purpose of registration, hydrates of a substance and the anhydrous substance are regarded as the same. If the anhydrous substance is registered by the manufacturer/ importer, and if a company uses that substance to manufacture the hydrated substance, this company is regarded as a downstream user. Therefore, the respective registration dossier must include the necessary information for the anhydrous and the hydrated substance occurring within the supply chain, i.e. the chemical safety assessment with exposure assessments and risk characterisations of hydrated substances and the water-free substance. This information needs to be communicated along the supply chain in safety data sheets which should include all the necessary facts, e.g. exposure scenarios and identified uses for the water-free as well as the hydrated substance which occur within the supply chain. The registration number of the registered anhydrous substance must be specified in section 1 of the SDS. The provisions foreseen for downstream users according to Articles 37 and 38 can be implemented for both the hydrates of a substance and the anhydrous substance.
Registrants need to take into account in their CSA the potential implications of specific forms of the substance on downstream uses, in particular when the form is changed during downstream use.
When my substance contains an anionic and cationic part, do I have to provide analytical data for the identification of each ion?
Yes. To confirm the presence of the ions, you need to provide analytical data for the identification and quantification of each ion.
My substance includes configurational isomers. Should I regard it as a mono-constituent substance?
Configurational isomers (e.g. enantiomers, diastereoisomers) are regarded as different constituents. Therefore your substance may only be regarded as a mono-constituent substance if one specific isomeric form is present at a concentration of at least 80%.
My substance is a multi-constituent substance which consists of a reaction mass of all the possible stereo isomeric forms for my substance. Am I technically required to name my substance as a "reaction mass"?
Provided your well-defined substance consists of all possible stereo isomeric forms as the main constituents of that substance, you can identify your substance in IUCLID section 1.1 using only the IUPAC name of the substance without specifying the stereochemistry. However you should still identify your substance as a multi-constituent substance. Information on the identity and concentration of each of the individual stereoisomers should be reported in IUCLID section 1.2.
How do I specify unknown impurities in IUCLID?
the number and the individual concentration range of each unknown impurity in the remarks field.
In addition the typical concentration and concentration range of the unknown impurities has to be provided.
Do I need to report concentration ranges for each constituent?
Yes. You need to report concentration ranges (i.e. both minimum and maximum values) for each constituent. These should be representative of the substance as manufactured/imported and you can take them from, for example, certified specification limits that often form part of a certificate of analysis (CoA). It is important that the concentration ranges are realistic and do not cover different substances.
What happens if I do not assign an EC entry to my phase-in substance?
REACH-IT will provide you with a list number once your registration passes the business rules. You will be able to download this automatically created EC entry as an i6z file from REACH-IT. You will be requested to assign this list number when submitting any update of your registration.
My substance is a UVCB substance. I cannot derive any IUPAC name for it. What should I report in the ‘IUPAC name' field of IUCLID Section 1.1?
You must report the chemical name of your UVCB substance in the ‘IUPAC name' field of IUCLID Section 1.1. You can find the naming conventions for deriving the chemical name of UVCB substances in Chapter 4.3 of the Guidance for identification and naming of substances under REACH and CLP. An example of a chemical name for UVCB substances is "Oligomerisation reaction products of formaldehyde and phenol".
My substance is a multi-constituent substance. I cannot derive any IUPAC name for it. What should I report in the ‘IUPAC name' field of IUCLID Section 1.1?
You must report the chemical name of your multi-constituent substance in the ‘IUPAC name' field of IUCLID Section 1.1. The generic format for the chemical name is "Reaction mass of" followed by the name of each main constituent separated by "and". In principle, the name of the main constituents should follow the IUPAC rules. An example of a chemical name for multi-constituent substances is "Reaction mass of ethylbenzene and m-xylene and o-xylene".
Where should I report the ratio of isomers present in my substance?
You should normally report each individual isomer and their typical, upper and lower concentration levels separately in IUCLID Section 1.2.
Indicate that specific isomers have not been reported separately in the "Justification for deviations" field.
My substance is a component of a mixture. Can I report the composition of the mixture as a "Legal entity composition of the substance" in IUCLID Section 1.2?
No. The "Legal entity composition of the substance" should only be used to report compositions of the substance on its own that you manufacture or import. For instance, if your substance is formulated with a solvent upon manufacturing, you should only report the composition of the substance without the solvent as "Legal entity composition of the substance".
If your substance is only made available as a component of a mixture, the "legal entity composition of the substance" to be reported should still be for the substance on its own.
You should not confuse a mixture with a multi-constituent substance or a UVCB substance. Under REACH and CLP, a mixture is obtained by blending two or more substances without a chemical reaction. Substances within a mixture should be registered separately. A multi-constituent substance or a UVCB substance is normally the result of a chemical reaction. A multi-constituent substance or a UVCB substance should be registered as such.
I want to make use of the specific provision in Annex V(6) to the REACH Regulation for the registration of hydrates. How should I report the different compositions that are covered by the registration?
Assign the reference substance for the anhydrous substance and select the corresponding type of substance (mono-constituent, multi-constituent or UVCB) in Section 1.1.
For technical reasons, report the composition of the anhydrous substance as the first composition with the composition type "Legal entity composition of the substance" in Section 1.2.
If you manufacture or import the anhydrous substance, you should report the composition of that substance as the first composition.
If you do not manufacture or import the anhydrous substance, you will still need to report a composition corresponding to the anhydrous substance as the first composition in Section 1.2. In this case, we recommend you to report a theoretical composition where the reference substance for the anhydrous substance is reported at a typical concentration of 100 % (w/w). Select "Legal entity composition of the substance" as the type of composition. In the "Description" field, indicate that the reported composition is theoretical. In the "Justification for deviation" field, indicate the following: "This composition is neither manufactured nor imported. It is only reported for technical reasons because the derogation for the registration of hydrates is applied".
Report all other relevant compositions, including the composition of the different hydrates that are covered by the registration. For the compositions referring to hydrates, indicate "Hydrate covered by the registration of the anhydrous substance" in the "Justification for deviation" field. The ‘Type of composition' of the reported hydrate compositions should be ‘legal entity composition of the substance'.
As a polymer importer, what should I report as analytical information in IUCLID Section 1.4 of my registration for the monomer?
You should provide sufficient analytical information to verify the identity of the monomer you register. The analyses typically consist of spectral and chromatographic data and a chromatogram of the original monomer or other substance used in the manufacture of the polymer. For further information, please consult Q&A 72 agreed with national helpdesks.
I encounter difficulties in getting hold of the analytical data for the monomer from the non-EEA manufacturer/supplier of the polymer. Is this a valid justification for not attaching any analytical data in IUCLID Section 1.4?
No. You should provide sufficient information in IUCLID Section 1.4 to identify the monomer to be registered.
If an OR has already been appointed by the non-EU manufacturer, propose to that OR to take on the legal responsibility envisaged in Article 8 of REACH for the polymer importers (see also Q&A 834).
You may also consider any relevant scientific method to fulfil this information requirement. Should you consider information that is not limited to analytical data on the original monomer, we recommend you follow a clear and transparent approach carefully documented when reporting the information in IUCLID Section 1.4 of your registration.
What is the substance type of an inorganic substance with variable stoichiometry and how should this variability be reported in the IUCLID dossier?
The substance is in principle identified as an inorganic UVCB due to the variability of the molecular formula.
The variability in the stoichiometry should be reported under the molecular formula field (e.g. MxGyO2, x=a-b, y=c-d).
In case only one constituent block is reported in section 1.2 of the IUCLID dossier, a justification for reporting a single constituent in the composition of a UVCB substance (expected to have a variable complex composition) should be provided in the “justification for deviations” field.
Do I need to give a description of the manufacturing process for the identification of my UVCB substance, and, if yes, to what level of detail?
Details on any extraction/isolation/purification step.
In addition, you can also report the reaction schemes or process workflows to complement the description of the manufacturing process as an attachment under the "Attached description" heading of IUCLID Section 1.2.
Can the chemical name of a UVCB substance be sufficient to describe the manufacturing process required for its identification?
No. The chemical name alone does not include all the process circumstances determining the composition of the UVCB substance and therefore its identity. For further details on the information expected to be reported on the manufacturing process of UVCB substances, please consult the Q&A 1199.
I encounter difficulties getting hold of the full details of the manufacturing process for the UVCB substance I intend to import. How shall I proceed?
You first need to define which information on the manufacturing process is relevant for the identification of the UVCB substance. The Q&A 1199 will assist you in deciding which information on the manufacturing process matters for the identification of your UVCB substance.
The more you know about the composition of the UVCB substance, the less you will be dependent on the manufacturing process to identify your substance. For instance, you may not need to specify the ratio of reactants used to manufacture the substance if you can define the reaction yield and the content of residual starting materials from the compositional information. Be aware that in this case you will still need to explain why some elements of the manufacturing process expected to be submitted are not provided, as indicated in Q&A 1318.
If the missing information on the manufacturing process prevents you from identifying the substance and the non-EEA manufacturer does not share this information directly with you, you may propose to the non-EEA manufacturer of the UVCB substance that they appoint an only representative (OR) in accordance with Article 8 of the REACH Regulation.
ECHA has also prepared a template that can be used to collect the necessary information from the non-EEA manufacturer. The template is available through our website here.
I consider that part of the information expected to be reported on the manufacturing process description according to Q&A 1199 (e.g. ratio of reactants, purification steps, isolation) are not necessary for the identification of my UVCB substance because it is identified and named based on the exact identity of its constituents only. How should I report this in IUCLID?
You need to provide all the relevant information on the manufacturing process in IUCLID section 1.2 as instructed in the Q&A 1199. If you consider that some of the information is not relevant, you need to clearly explain why this information is not included in the same field where the manufacturing process description is provided (i.e. in the ‘Description’ field of IUCLID Section 1.2).
For the identification of a UVCB substance, I am supposed to provide information on the manufacturing process. Can I instead report in IUCLID what I know about the composition of the UVCB substance?
No. The manufacturing process description is necessary to circumvent the limitations of identifying UVCB substances by their composition only. You therefore need to provide both types of information (composition and manufacturing process description) in IUCLID section 1.2. For further information on how to report the manufacturing process description and the composition of UVCB substance, please refer the Q&A 1199 and chapter 9.4.2 of the manual ‘How to prepare registration and PPORD dossiers’ available on the ECHA website: https://echa.europa.eu/manuals.
Some of the information on the manufacturing process description I need to include for the identification of my UVCB substance is confidential. Will this information be disseminated?
No. ECHA will not disseminate the manufacturing process description reported by registrants in compositions of the type ’legal entity composition of the substance’ in IUCLID section 1.2. This concerns both the information reported in the field ‘Description’ and any document included as ‘Attached description’.
Lead registrants need to additionally provide generic information on the manufacturing process of the jointly registered UVCB substance in the section 1.2 field ‘Description’ in compositions of the type ‘boundary composition of the substance’. This information will be displayed on the REACH-IT Joint submission page for the members of that joint submission to see.
My substance is a petroleum UVCB substance. What kind of information should be provided in the manufacturing process description?
The source material from which the petroleum stream is obtained. This could be crude oil in the case of straight-run atmospheric distillates and atmospheric residue. For other petroleum substances, the source materials are often intermediate stocks and the name of the petroleum stream(s) to which the refinery process is applied should be specified. For example, for reformate fractions the source material could be heavy naphtha fraction from the atmospheric distillation of crude oil; for vacuum distillates the source material could be the residue from the atmospheric distillation of crude oil; the source material for base oils is normally a vacuum distillate; the source used to manufacture a naphtha fraction as a result of cracking process could be a vacuum distillate or heavy atmospheric gas oil. For imported gas oil, the source material could be various petroleum streams derived from crude oil, however they need to be specified as far as possible.
The refinery process(es) applied to the source material(s). This may include blending processes (blending to specification), for which specification described by an international standard (e.g. EN228, EN590, etc.) should be provided. For a light reformate fraction, for example, the refinery processes include crude oil fractionation, naphtha hydrotreatment, catalytic reforming and reformate fractionation.
The description as to how the final fraction is collected (atmospheric distillation, distillate/residue fraction; vacuum distillation, distillate/residue fraction; solvent extraction, extract/raffinate phase, etc.).
Specification of the registered substance. Measured typical values of boiling point range and carbon number range need to be provided. If a stream is defined in its EC description by other parameters, e.g. viscosity, they also need to be provided. The refinery specific process parameters (e.g. refining temperature, catalysts, solvents, etc.) do not need to be provided.
It is important to mention that all the relevant information on manufacturing process description should be included in the “Description” field in section 1.2 of IUCLID. Information on manufacturing process that cannot be provided as free text (graphs, schemes, etc.) should be provided in a document and attached as instructed in Q&A 1199. | 2019-04-25T16:23:09 | https://echa.europa.eu/support/qas-support/browse/-/qa/70Qx/view/scope/REACH/Substance+Identification |
0.997659 | Are you aged between 40 and 74 why not have a free Health Check.
What happens at the health check, and how to get one?
The checks are offered in GP surgeries. They may also be offered at other suitable and accessible locations in your community.
There are two parts to NHS Health Check. First, you will be asked a few simple questions and then have a few straightforward health tests. These will allow an assessment of your risk of developing four diseases: heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease.
A simple blood test will check your cholesterol level. This is taken two weeks before your appointment.
After this, a healthcare professional (who could be your GP, Practice Nurse or HCA) will give you your results and explain what they mean. In some instances, tests may have to be sent away for analysis. This means that some people won't get their test results immediately and may be asked to return at a later date for this discussion.
Why is the NHS Health Check important?
An NHS Health Check will help to identify your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes or kidney disease. Together, these four diseases are the largest cause of death in the UK. They affect more than 4 million people in the UK and are the reason for one-fifth of all hospital admissions.
Everyone is at some risk of developing these four diseases. But by identifying that risk early and taking steps to reduce it, you can improve your chance of maintaining or improving your health as you get older.
Once the NHS Health Check has shown you your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes or kidney disease, you'll find out what you can do to reduce your risk. That may mean lifestyle changes such as eating a healthier diet, cutting down on alcohol, or increasing the amount of physical activity that you do.
If you're at higher risk, those changes may be combined with medical treatments, such as medicines to lower raised blood pressure or cholesterol. You may be offered NHS support to help you stop smoking or lose weight.
These changes can help you to improve your health and prevent a disease that may otherwise have developed. NHS Health Check is expected to prevent 1,600 heart attacks and strokes a year and save 650 lives.
NHS Health Check and NHS LifeCheck are two different but complementary things.
The NHS Health Check is a face-to-face assessment with a healthcare professional. The check is for adults between 40 and 74. It will assess your risk of four important vascular diseases, then provide tailored advice and support to help you lower or manage this risk.
NHS LifeCheck is an online interactive tool that can help people aged 12 and above to take steps towards a healthier lifestyle. Users of the tool are asked for a few key pieces of information, including gender, and height and weight. LifeCheck uses this to direct users to useful information and advice on a range of key health issues, including weight, smoking, alcohol consumption and mental health.
Contact your practice on 01263 822066 press option 2 & then option 3 to arrange an appointment. Don't forget you will need to have a blood test at Cromer Hospital two weeks before your appointment. | 2019-04-18T18:15:35 | http://www.sheringhammedical.nhs.uk/nhs-health-checks,56150.htm |
0.998858 | economic crisis — and for the worse.
become the third largest in the world.
net consuming countries plummeted deep into negative territory.
China's manipulated currency, the yuan, gives it a huge unfair advantage over its global trading partners.
direct investment, but also repel domestic investment.
In China's case, a fixed (or pegged) currency regime is a huge unfair advantage.
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percent tariff on all Chinese imports.
Meanwhile, the Chinese economy grew nearly 5 times faster than the U.S. economy!
so has its compliance with revaluing the yuan.
Considering the breadth and depth of the economic crisis, I think China poses a valid threat to a global economic recovery.
perfect tool for the job: Currency devaluation.
A weaker yuan could boost China's economy and international trade.
initiatives to level the global playing field. To this point the U.S.
goods — a 27.5 percent tariff.
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the Wall Street insiders don't want you to know!
Find out how the "big boys" bank truckloads full of cash.
The Pentagon has announced there have been a series of recent run-ins.
don't think China will hesitate to look out for its own best interest.
What's more, it might start scaling out of the U.S. Treasury market.
cautious around longer-term government bonds right now. | 2019-04-19T00:46:24 | https://www.peakprosperity.com/forum/money-and-markets-china/15377 |
0.999804 | Average rainfall in millimeters for Nadi, Fiji.
Average number of days with rainfall for Nadi, Fiji.
Average monthly sunshine hours for Nadi, Fiji.
What is the best time to go to Nadi, Fiji?
the optimal time to go to Nadi, Fiji is August or December. | 2019-04-20T21:00:10 | https://weather-averages.co.uk/city/fiji/nadi |
0.999994 | The star of Mr. Robinson remembers his days before becoming a famous comedian.
In his early twenties, Craig Robinson led a double life: At night, the Chicago native was hustling to make a name for himself in the city's robust comedy-club circuit; come morning, he'd be struggling to stay awake while teaching music to elementary school students. It was ages ago, sure—years before Robinson broke out on NBC's The Office as Darryl Philbin, the irritable warehouse employee, then appeared in films like Hot Tub Time Machine and This Is The End. But Robinson didn't have trouble channeling those early days to concoct his own new semi-autobiographical sitcom, Mr. Robinson, which premiere tomorrow night on NBC. "This show is tailor-made for me," Robinson says of his debut turn as a leading man, in which he plays an elementary school teacher and musician. Seeing as he has some real-life experience, we talked to Robinson about how to best handle annoying children, how he's dealing with his moment in the spotlight, and what important lesson he learned from Steve Carrell.
Is it safe to say Mr. Robinson incorporates some autobiographical elements?
Yes. It's autobiographical in the sense that I was a schoolteacher in Chicago. A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off [laughs]. I would get super-serious with everybody and they would be like, "Oh okay. This is serious time!"
I was teaching them a little bit of piano, a little bit of recorders, and some singing. I was doing comedy at the same time. On the show, they've got me playing in a band at the same time as teaching. But [in real life] it was really me doing comedy at night and me going to school in the morning. I was trying to make these two things work. It really was going into school sometimes and falling asleep on the desk before class.
Some booze on the breath, perhaps?
I was in my early twenties. I was 22-ish. I graduated from college and went right into teaching. The first year I taught in Indiana at a couple schools and then I moved over to Chicago. Specifically there was this one class—let's just say they had a teacher in the room with them all day as well as a security guard in the room with them all day. Until it came time for music: They would just drop them off. All of a sudden they didn't need the security guard and the teacher. So yeah, that was always a class I had the most trouble with.
It's hilarious to picture you as a teacher, but I guess teaching is its own kind of performance.
The first thing they tell you is: "Don't smile with the kids because they'll eat you alive." I was like, "Aw man, these kids are cool!" Nope! But no, the kids were actually pretty great.
How did you come to teaching?
My mother is a retired music teacher. She taught me in high school and she would take us and put us in these madrigal groups. We would go to a museum or whatever and just perform. So I started to do that with these kids. I would take them out to do Christmas programs and put on shows. It was a nice experience. My mother prepared me for plenty of stuff. And my father, too. There was always some performance going on with my family.
What's your advice on how one should handle unruly or downright annoying children?
You've come to the right place! Actually, I was terrible. I was the same to the kids as I was to the teachers. I never really got that part. So no, I was kidding before. You haven't come to the right place. It's so different, though, with the kids on the show. You're like, "All right, you guys, settle down!" And they settle down. It's because they're getting paid.
That's the secret, then. Bribe the kids.
Yes! Pay the children and then see what happens. "Be quiet and you'll get a couple of dollars." What kid wouldn't?
How did you strike the balance between making Mr. Robinson a family-friendly network sitcom, but also in line with your more adult sense of humor?
[Mark and Robb Cullen] are the writers of the show, and they've known me for years. They actually cast me my first time as a regular on Lucky on FX. So we know each other from like 2001. So they've been to my shows, they know my act, and they know my fan base. So that's what they were trying to strike: keep it real with what my fans have come to expect as far as seeing me in movies like This Is the End or what have you, and then also bring that workplace-environment comedy. And then you've got the music element: They're having a ball writing silly songs. So there's definitely that balance. But that fell mostly on them. My job is to steer the ship. I'm kind of like the point guard: I dish to everybody and then I get a few points in there myself.
It's your first go as a leading man.
It's fun! I got my actual band on the show, so I got my family around, my homies. It's people I know. When I got my band behind me, it's like I'm superman! As you're coming up and doing all these other shows, I would notice that people have other people around that they know. I always wanted that environment and now I'm in a position to get people that I know around me. As far as the comfort level, it was just fun. I felt ready, if you will. I would notice watching, maybe, Steve Carell or Seth Rogen or whoever, they always had the best trailers or the best room, but they were never in them because they were always working.
If you're going to be the lead, you better be ready to always be working.
Cast members look to the person at the top of the call sheet for leadership.
They will say that it trickles down from number one. At the same time, though, I will say it's very much an ensemble show. We all respect each other and we all came in and had a great time and looked forward to coming into work. Everybody's so excited about the premiere, about working together. So it's cool. I couldn't have asked for a better cast of people to be surrounded by. They all hit it out of the park and I'm the one tossing it up there. Boom!
Do you feel it's important to have more African American-led casts on network TV?
I don't know if it's a majority [black cast], but we definitely got some folks in there. The best actors for the roles got it. So that's what happened. Maybe we can get some more people along the way. But it's definitely something people should pay attention to and go, "Okay! This is very entertaining!"
I think it's safe to say Mr. Robinson is the perfect fit for you.
It's me presenting me to the world. You really get to see what I do. | 2019-04-25T02:30:40 | https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/interviews/a36891/craig-robinson-mr-robinson/ |
0.999889 | Importance of R & D in Industry : Research & Development constitute up to 10% of the profit in some industries. It is always important to look for new products, processes as well as diversification in emerging areas.
New Product Development : It is a formidable task. Finding a new product idea and testing of product technically and commercially is very important. Quality should be balanced against profits.
This is the most important step in development of a new product.
The idea stage is not costly so many companies take months or years to develop a new product.
It is important to know all of the details of a potential new product, including consumer demand, source and cost of raw materials, supply, technology involved etc.
Many products or product ideas exist abroad but not yet introduced in the country.
Communication with consumer: It is important and new ideas can be obtained from suggestions and complaints from salesmen, retailers and consumers about existing products. New releases of computer programs is an example of this.
Communication inside company: The R & D section should always be on a look out. Also marketing, advertising and production sources can generate new ideas.
Ideas from top management: These people have good vision and their ideas are far reaching.
The idea can follow a forward or a backward path given above.
Screening of the idea: This is done to check following.
Will the product return profit?
Does the product satisfy consumer needs?
Will the product be acceptable to consumers, wholesalers and retailer?
Is it unique and does it have certain characteristics that offer totally new service to the customer?
Does the product fit the capabilities of the company from the standpoint of production and marketing skills as well as complement the existing product line.
Is the new product a novel or copy of existing product of another manufacturer? Market development for new product is to be done from scratch, while that for existing product it is penetration in already existing market.
Does our company have capabilities for development of such a product?
How much capital is required for development of product and is it available in time?
Insignificant difference with respect to existing product.
Timing of introduction of product when market is in bad shape. Also untested product is hurriedly introduced in market, which leads to failure.
Insignificant: The product is not better than existing ones, in that category, so consumer neglects it.
Confused: There is lack of understanding on the part of the consumer.
Mismatched: The performance of the product does not match the appeal.
Poor product performance: The product does not give required results.
Wrong Market for the company: Non retail company entering into retail market can lead to failure due to over-estimation of their production, marketing or financial capabilities.
Not much by-products or unwanted products formed.
Whether product changes state from solid to liquid or from liquid to gas at a particular temperature.
The temperature and humidity conditions for storage.
Effect of bacteria, moulds, yeast on the product.
Testing in the Factory: The in-house testing shows the suitability of the product. It runs concurrently with the product development. The product being developed should be checked in its various stages to determine acceptability.
Consumer sampling tests: Valuable information can be obtained at a relatively low cost by checking with a small population of the product's potential success. It also indicates changes required in it. The selection is designed to include 1/3rd of people with low income, 1/3rd with medium income and 1/3rd with high income, so that a broad spectrum is selected. The sample is given to them and told that researchers will ask for feed back after some time and most people are ready to give feed back if the product is given to them free of cost.
Market testing: This is done on a scale larger than consumer sampling test, but it is done in a smaller town. Based on the feed back, corrections or improvements are made in product and then it is tested in three or four larger towns which are separated from each other and are in different geographical areas. If it succeeds and if repeat orders are obtained then it is introduced on national level. However, it is bypassed if similar product already exists.
Testing shelf life of packing: Good and attractive packing is very important for the success of the product. In future, consumers will ask for better and convenient packing. There should not be any deterioration or loss of product in storage due to high or low temperature. The packing used for the product should be good enough till it is used by the consumer. Volatile products might tend to deteriorate the packing or may explode.
Commercialization: It is the final step. Company may decide to sell it in bulk or in retail or both. The bulk and retail markets are entirely different. For bulk sales more contacts and salesmanship is required. The packing for the two will be different. For retail sales a chain of retailers must be formed and they should first be convinced about the product.
There can be many other problems.
Inflation can cause upsets in price.
Increasing size and sophistication of domestic and foreign markets.
New Process for Existing Products: This is very important. Most of the Patented processes can not be used for the product. Using alternative raw materials and processes can overcome this problem. To do this Literature Survey needs to be done.
From the existing libraries of existing technical institutions, data can be obtained for products from Handbooks, Encyclopedia, Publications, Chemical Abstracts. Most of these are now available on-line.
There can be a number of processes based on different raw materials. These have to analyzed for availability of raw materials, and critical equipment. | 2019-04-24T00:52:27 | http://svlpipe.com/new_product.htm |
0.999035 | Former Vice President Joe Biden Joseph (Joe) Robinette BidenMcAuliffe says he won't run for president in 2020 Ex-Obama campaign manager: Sanders can't beat Trump Trump says he'd like to run against Buttigieg MORE said Wednesday he doesn't believe Democrats should move to impeach President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Dems demand Barr cancel 'inappropriate' press conference on Mueller report DOJ plans to release 'lightly redacted' version of Mueller report Thursday: WaPo Nadler accuses Barr of 'unprecedented steps' to 'spin' Mueller report MORE if they retake control of the House in next month's midterms.
"I hope they don’t. I don’t think there’s a basis for doing that right now," Biden told "CBS This Morning."
Biden, who is viewed as a potential 2020 candidate for president, argued that Democrats should let special counsel Robert Mueller Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE conclude his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and issue a report on his findings.
He added that there are more pressing issues to address, such as what he views as attacks on unions and neglect of the Environmental Protection Agency.
"There are so many things to attend to immediately," Biden said. "Let's see where the investigation takes us."
Democrats need to pick up 23 seats in the House in next month's midterms to reclaim the majority.
Some liberals have pushed for the party to make impeachment a priority if in fact Democrats secure a majority, but party leaders have repeatedly said the issue is not at the top of their agenda.
Instead, top Democrats have said they intend to focus on campaign finance reform, and would launch investigations into issues involving the president if they took over the House.
Some party members previously moved to introduce articles of impeachment against the president, but the measure failed overwhelmingly. | 2019-04-18T18:30:51 | https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/411962-biden-i-hope-dems-dont-move-to-impeach-trump-if-they-retake-the |
0.999999 | Is it a good idea to use strings in a struct as values to static properties?
I'm in a discussion with a co-worker concerning the use of structs. I have a couple of structs that contain several static properties that are used throughout our website. The value of those properties are all strings. They're not very long, the longest value has 29 characters.
His argument: "I am saying there is no performance gain because there are strings inside of them. For value types yes you gain memory/gc benefits. With strings they are ref types so allocate to the heap and won't give any benefit."
My argument: "...I'm simply treating the string values as value types by using the struct, therefore saving time and gaining performance by not having to instantiate it every time."
Let me know if I'm completely wrong and should just use classes or if there is a better way of using the structs for my values (i.e: readonly instead of static, etc...).
"For value types yes you gain memory/gc benefits." -> True.
"With strings they are ref types so allocate to the heap and won't give any benefit." -> True.
"..I'm simply treating the string values as value types by using the struct" -> This doesn't make sense. You can't "treat" as value types or reference types. That's determined by how String is implemented. Given that String is read-only and un-subclassible in most programming languages, it usually has value semantics (even if it is really implemented as a reference to a heap object"
"therefore saving time and gaining performance by not having to instantiate it every time." -> The struct doesn't matter here. String constants are in a static portion of the program, they're not subject to garbage collection, and they're not on the heap.
Putting these strings in struct vs. a class doesn't matter. As long as they're string constants, they're lazily initialized the first time the struct/class is references.
This is a head splitting description. First, strings are always reference types, no matter how or where you declare them. Your struct will be empty because you have no non-static members. The references will take up 4 * 12 bytes in size. Where the characters are will no longer matter, they will remain in the same place for the lifetime of your process. If you want the text to be laid out in a struct you must use character arrays instead and declared them non-static.
Second, there are no properties in your example. You only have data members.
Performance-wise you gain nothing by having strings contained in a struct. You may even lose performance if you are not careful by cause boxing and unboxing.
Either way, for accessing the strings it would not bear significance. Reading a string of only a couple of characters will already take longer than finding the first character, which is really what this is about. And this ratio will quickly increase as the string gets longer.
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Is it a bad idea to use getters/setters and/or properties at all? | 2019-04-21T11:12:46 | https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/385973/is-it-a-good-idea-to-use-strings-in-a-struct-as-values-to-static-properties |
0.65169 | Well it’s been a week and a month since we moved into our house in Stratford and it’s been pretty eventful.
We are still unpacking boxes but at least the living room, dining room, kitchen, master bedroom and spare bedroom are in good shape. The boxes are contained to the spare-spare-bedroom and the basement. We need to get more book cases and a wardrobe type thing to hide some of our junk away.
We are awaiting a couch which we ordered to replace our crappy old loveseat. It should be here at the beginning of September which will be nice since we are tired of the old love seat.
We’ve done a little bit of exploring in Stratford and discovered the wonders of the Stratford Public Library (which, much to my delight, has a graphic novel section).
We are also hoping to have a little housewarming potluck Bar-B-Q type thing this weekend. It’s the September long weekend so we are hoping people are free (though we are also assuming that a lot of people already have plans).
So to summarize: The home is good, and coming together. Stratford is feeling more and more like home. We don’t like walking up and down stairs, though we will cope. | 2019-04-25T10:10:53 | http://forestpirate.net/archive/a-month-and-a-week-into-home-ownership/ |
0.999613 | Content warning: harm to babies.
I've never been an especially emotional person. I'm generally reasonably happy, sometimes excited sometimes bored, but almost never sad, anxious, or angry. One of the more surprising things about becoming a parent has been feeling a change here.
Another man with a medical problem related his run-in with the promoters: "I went up on the stage to make an announcement to find the father that was stoned on acid and got separated from his wife and baby, because the baby had been stepped on by an Angel and they thought the baby was dead. The Stones' manager said, 'We're not making any personal announcements; we've told people where lost and found is, we've told people where the Red Cross is. There will be no personal announcements. I don't care if you die; there's not going to be an announcement.' He was the most uptight dude anybody ever saw."
In the past I would have read over this paragraph like any other, but now the image of a baby being stepped on struck me so hard I couldn't think about anything else. I flashed between panic, fear, protectiveness, and anger, over and over, emotions I'd felt extremely rarely before. This was a third hand account of something 45 years earlier, in a world where far too many children die, but babies must not be stepped on just sat there, burning into my head. I was completely thrown.
Depending on location, they will have between ten and thirty minutes to get out. That time line does not allow for finding a flashlight, tending to an earthquake injury, hesitating amid the ruins of a home, searching for loved ones, or being a Good Samaritan. "When that tsunami is coming, you run" Jay Wilson, the chair of the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (OSSPAC), says. "You protect yourself, you don't turn around, you don't go back to save anybody. You run for your life."
I just sat there on the bus with a huge hole in my stomach. I was 3000 miles away and Lily wasn't in any danger, but the tension between the official advice to save myself and the fierce need to protect her was strong enough to bring me to the edge of crying.
The other place I've noticed a change is that now I'm occasionally angry. Someone does something not the way I think they should have, and I start to feel a bit of red rising up. I'm pretty sure this one is only an indirect change, mediated by long-term sleep deprivation, but it's frustrating how counterproductive it feels. I try to push it back down, and get back to "what did they believe and why, when they made their decision, such that this was the best option for them," but at times anger does get in the way.
This wouldn't have changed my decision to have kids, but I do better now understand the arguments people make about how we should encourage or discourage having kids based on how being a parent changes your experience of the world.
I'd be tempted to say that not being anxious etc is mostly my being very lucky overall in my life circumstances. I'm going to have food and shelter; what is there to be anxious about? Except that lots of other people with similar life experiences do have substantial anxiety, depression, etc. Which makes me think this a different kind of being lucky and is more something about the way I am, for mostly unknown reasons. | 2019-04-21T05:03:54 | https://www.jefftk.com/p/parenting-and-emotional-changes |
0.999708 | Resistance to pension reform marked the French political scene in May and June of this year, as public sector unions demonstrated against proposed legislation.
We asked Martine Durand from the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate to explain the basic reasons for the reforms and the protests.
OECD Observer: There seems to be agreement in France, even among the unions, that pension reform is needed. Why is reform necessary and where do the key differences lie?
Martine Durand: Like most other OECD countries, France is facing rapid population ageing because of low fertility and longer life expectancy. This means the dependency ratio of older people – those aged 65 and over as a proportion of those aged 20-64 – will rise from 25% at present to 50% by 2050. In other words, there will be more older people, but fewer people of working age to support them.
These demographic trends are putting tremendous pressure on the French pension system, which is based on what we call a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) distributive principle; people who are currently working pay the pensions of those in retirement. Everybody agrees that reform is necessary; if nothing is done soon, public deficits could rise by some 5% of GDP over the next 30 years. And public debt could more than double. So, without reform now, our children and grandchildren will pay the price.
There are two ways to put the PAYG system on a sounder financial footing. The first is to increase total contributions; the second is to reduce pensions. Virtually no one in France favours cuts, so we are left with raising contributions. This in turn can be achieved in two ways: by increasing the number of people at work or by raising the rate of contributions currently levied on labour, and perhaps taxes on capital too. The disagreement in France has mainly been on which path to take: the government’s reform plan puts the emphasis on extending working lives (which is one way of raising employment), while some unions have argued in favour of paying higher contributions.
What is your view on this debate?
MD: France already has a high tax burden by international standards. Raising taxes or social contributions further would have a negative effect on job creation and growth, which in the end would be unhelpful to solving the pension problem. An overall strategy is needed to get more people into work. France is rather unique in the OECD as it combines both very low youth and older worker employment rates, with above average rates for prime age workers. Raising youth employment rates would help relieve the pensions burden. But a longer working life must be part of the solution. This means introducing both later retirement and reducing early retirement.
Fortunately, there is room to manoeuvre on both fronts. The current official retirement age is 60, which is one of the OECD’s lowest, yet, France also has one of the OECD’s highest life expectancies. And at 36%, France’s employment rate for 55 to 64 year olds is also one of the lowest in the OECD, whose average is 48%. Abolishing financial disincentives towards retirement beyond the legal age, while aligning the mandatory contribution periods of public servants to (the longer) private sector period, seems to me a sensible way of raising the employment rate of older workers.
The most urgent step is progressively to eliminate provisions that subsidise early withdrawal from active life – first and foremost, early retirement schemes. Too often in the past, these schemes have been used to make people redundant, while at the same time helping to reduce unemployment figures. A number of OECD countries have already taken this step, but experience shows that it is not enough. In many cases, the actual retirement age still remains two or three years below the official retirement age, because there are other provisions, such as disability benefits, that also encourage people to stop working early.
What else is needed to make the reforms work?
MD: Older workers cannot be expected to hang on in the labour market if they can’t find work. Moreover, those jobs would have to be of high enough quality to encourage them to stay on. This requires a real change in attitudes all round: governments must adapt their employment policies; public employment services must meet the specific needs of older workers; measures that reduce benefit dependency and facilitate the integration of older workers in the labour market should be taken.
Employers, both private and public, must learn to view older workers as a genuine asset. They will need to eliminate discrimination against them, invest in their training, and adapt working hours and conditions to fit their needs.
But workers must also understand that early retirement is not a right, and that, unless they can afford otherwise, they must get used to working a longer career.
But can people be realistically expected to change their attitudes in this way?
MD: Yes, there are some interesting recent experiences out there. Finland’s National Programme for Ageing Workers is one attempt to improve the status of older workers, with encouraging early results. More time will be needed to assess it properly, though.
In the meantime, businesses are taking initiatives of their own, with companies in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK starting to recruit and train older workers. Even in France, a number of large firms have introduced major changes in their production processes to adapt working conditions to the particular needs of older people, making production lines more ergonomic and so on. As it turns out, these workplace improvements have also made these jobs more attractive to young people too. | 2019-04-20T23:06:54 | http://oecdobserver.org/news/archivestory.php/aid/1042/French_pension_pickle.html |
0.999999 | PUBLISHED 1Dec2018: I always find it exciting to see people build great things for their home and family, especially when they’ve never done it before. Chaz C. is a man who did just that. He lives in Kansas City, and in early 2018 Chaz decided to get serious about building cabinets for his home. He has succeeded, too.
Chaz is one of more than a hundred people who’ve taken my online cabinetmaking course during the past year. It’s called BUILD YOUR OWN TRADITIONAL FACE FRAME CABINETS and he did a fabulous job on that first project of his following the methods I teach. The photos you see here are all of his bathroom vanity.
I got to know Chaz fairly well as I helped him through his project with one-on-one advice by email in addition to the plans, illustrations, videos and instructions that make up the course. He was one of the more active students I’ve had, with about 60 emails asking questions and seeking clarification during the building process. Chaz is a careful man, and his diligence paid off. You can see the design he came up with here in one of his preliminary sketches.
Chaz used the kind of 3/4”-thick birch veneered plywood I recommend for main cabinet bodies, and I helped him decide how to arrange the drawer openings and face frames to accommodate the sink and shelves as he drew up his design. To make things a little easier, Chaz opted to paint his cabinet, so he saved money using poplar for all the solid wood parts. Poplar’s an economical option that’s hard enough to resist damage and is tight-grained so it takes paint well.
As it turned out, Chaz did make his own raised panel doors from scratch using simple joinery and the bare minimum of tools I recommended. The angled bevels you see are made using a sharp hand plane – no fancy router table nor router bits needed. “I loved that I could do this without any special jigs or blades”, remembers Chaz.
He did end up buying a few tools, including a belt sander based on my recommendations. My top pick for him was a Makita. I bought this same model back in the late 1980s and it’s still working great for me. I also own and recommend a Porter-Cable model. Though not quite as nice to use as the Makita, it’s quite good and at a lower price. Both these machines are made to use 3” x 21” belts, which is a common size. The Makita actually handles 3” x 24” belts quite nicely, too.
Chaz is exactly the kind of person I make my online courses for. On Tuesday December 4 I’ll be starting the next session of my online cabinetmaking course – BUILD YOUR OWN TRADITIONAL FACE FRAME CABINETS. I have room for 10 people who want to learn how to build classic face frame cabinets for the kitchen, bathroom or spaces that need builtins. Class size is limited so I have time to help people one-on-one by email as they work through the course.
The course itself comes with 42 videos, detailed plans and instructions, plus you get unlimited one-on-one access to me for advice for 30 days after the course sessions start. Money-back guarantee, too.
Click here to learn more about BUILD YOUR OWN TRADITIONAL FACE FRAME CABINETS and the money-back guarantee it comes with. | 2019-04-21T20:06:43 | https://baileylineroad.com/how-to-build-cabinets/ |
0.999272 | Freedom and Flourishing: Are some questions just too difficult? Part I: Should I blog about DIP?
Are some questions just too difficult? Part I: Should I blog about DIP?
The other day I was talking to Ruth about this blog. Ruth is a nurse who has worked in psych wards and prisons. So she has an interesting range of experiences to talk about and she's interested in economics.
I mentioned that there were some issues that I steered clear of in my blog because they were just too difficult. Ruth objected strongly to this approach on the grounds that ‘someone should be writing about the difficult issues’. I’m not sure why that someone should be me, but I can see the point she was making.
The first example that Ruth gave of what she was talking about was the high incidence of mental illness among young people that has been linked to drug use. She said that this had increased to a huge extent, since the 1990's. We talked around the problem for a while and later exchanged emails about it. The story that Ruth tells below is one of the saddest stories I have ever read.
Ruth says that the most prevalent mental health diagnosis in acute mental heath facilities these days is a relatively new one - Drug Induced Psychosis (DIP). People are only admitted to acute mental health facilities if they are in danger to themselves or someone else (not simply suffering extreme effects of illness as was the case prior to the onset of the drug problem). DIP is now recognized in the DSM4 manual - the diagnosis tool used by all western mental health medics. A major difference between DIP and schizophrenia is the level of associated violence and treatability. Schizophrenia is treated reasonably well with psychotropic medications as the primary treatment regime whereas DIP is treated mostly through drying out and containment (of extreme violence) with medications used as secondary measures.
Can I tell a story? It's the story of a young man, well, a boy about to be a man. He was out with his friends celebrating early, his 18th birthday which was to fall during the next week. So this weekend he and his friends went partying to celebrate. During the night one of his friends slipped him a tablet - slyly into his drink. The young man woke the next day still tripping. He was happy as can be, but by the Tuesday, his parents were very worried and took him to the doctor; he was still tripping - having a laugh. He celebrated his 18th birthday in an acute mental health ward, thinking he was still tripping, but was now fed up with being unable to tie his shoe laces, unable to get the fork into his mouth and having to eat with his hands. He was now hating this experience and getting angry with himself for not 'straightening out'. He began to cry in desperation. He cried over and over again, day in day out, while the medics tried in vain to help. After a couple of weeks, his parents wanted to take him home - they wanted to get him out of hospital thinking that maybe it was the hospital causing their son's problem. They took him home and he stopped crying. He still could not tie his shoe laces, or dress himself if there were buttons to be managed. But his parents were happy he'd stopped crying. After all, this fine young man was looking down the barrel of a great career as expected dux of his school, and a fine life. They were devastated at this turn of events. After a few days they brought him back to the hospital. They had not helped him and were even more devastated than they were before. This young man spent nearly a year in hospital, unable to 'get off his trip' as he so beautifully put it.
I was one of his nurses at the time. I was 22 years old, just 4 years his senior. Eventually both he and I left that hospital. But our paths met again in another hospital, another city even, about 6 years later. He told me he had never had a job for more than a few days, he still couldn't do up his buttons - he didn't wear buttoned garments - and that he was still having his 18th birthday trip. He still wanted to study economics (ironically enough) at university. He could still quote and discuss GDP / inflation / employment figures, monetary and fiscal policies, but old figures, those he'd learned for the HSC he still wanted to sit. And yet that young man has no mental health issues in his family, had all the academic potential in the world and a caring, present family. His parents had never divorced, his siblings all got along ok, his relationship with his girlfriend was going well. And there were no identifiable early warning signs of a mental illness about to strike. This man has DIP. He has never been diagnosed with schizophrenia, or any other mental illness.
I wish I was telling the story of just one man, but I'm not. I've seen this same story and similar others so many times. Are some questions too difficult? Yes Winton, absolutely some questions are too difficult and too costly to avoid asking AND finding answers for.
The discussion continues in the next post. | 2019-04-23T08:27:30 | https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2010/09/are-some-questions-just-too-difficult.html |
0.999256 | "I need a witness!" exclaimed the security screener at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Because I had forgotten to remove my belt before going through a scanner, he explained, I must undergo an "enhanced patdown."
I told him that if he jammed his hand into my groin, I'd file a formal complaint. So he summoned his supervisor to keep an eye on the proceedings.
I thought of this exchange last week when the New York Times revealed that the Transportation Security Administration has created a secret watchlist for troublesome passengers.
The TSA justified the list by saying that its screeners were assaulted 34 times last year, but did not release any details about the alleged assaults.
The memo would be more accurate if it stated that anyone who fails to unquestioningly submit to all the TSA's demands would be found guilty of insubordination. As an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, Hugh Handeyside, told the Washington Post, the policy gives the agency wide latitude to "blacklist people arbitrarily and essentially punish them for asserting their rights." Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey) expressed similar worry. "I am concerned about the civil-liberty implications of such a list," she said.
According to the TSA, travelers can take consolation in the certainty that its agents will never assault them. But Americans have filed thousands of complaints that suggest otherwise, claiming screeners used excessive force or inappropriately touched them. How many have been fired as a result? It's hard to say: When I asked the TSA, they told me to file a Freedom of Information Act request.
One ongoing court case is showcasing the TSA's prerogatives. Airplane captain James Linlor was traveling through Dulles Airport in 2016 when he suffered a brutal patdown that left him requiring surgery. A TSA video shows that the patdown was proceeding normally, if somewhat aggressively, until the TSA agent, without warning, administered what appeared to be a karate chop to the captain's testicles.
Linlor sued, claiming that the TSA violated his rights with an unconstitutional and unreasonable search. In a hearing last year, a lawyer for the Department of Justice argued that there's no law "establishing a specific degree of permissible intrusiveness of a security screening pat down," and that, since there's no law, Americans should have no legal recourse. Federal Judge James Cacheris scoffed at the government's "oratorical calisthenics." The case is now before an appeals court.
The TSA has a long history of intimidation. In 2002, it created a system of fines to penalize travelers with bad attitudes, charging up to $1,500 for any alleged "nonphysical interference." This included any "situation that in any way would interfere with the screener and his or her ability to continue to work or interfere with their ability to do their jobs," according to a spokeswoman. The TSA failed to specify exactly how much groveling was necessary and eventually abandoned the regime of fines.
If I have not yet made the TSA watchlist, it's not for a lack of trying. The agency's former chief, John Pistole, once claimed a 2014 article I wrote was "misleading, inaccurate and unfairly disparages the dedicated (TSA) workforce." The following year, after I endured a patdown in Portland, Ore., that nearly turned my private parts into a pancake, I raised hell in USA Today and elsewhere.
The TSA's latest anti-privacy charade is yet more evidence that the agency should be done away with. After pointlessly groping countless Americans, the TSA has no excuse for groping more. | 2019-04-22T18:27:50 | https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-30/tsa-keeping-secret-watchlist-americans-who-fight-back-against-pointless-groping |
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0.999147 | They've slid down the table to 11th, a long way off the pace for a Europa League position. 'We started to defend in a very good way in the last month, I think. Physically, technically, he is improving tactically. Hudson-Odoi continued his eye-catching Europa League campaign with a goal and an assist at the Olympic Stadium, and Sarri was encouraged by the 18-year-old's display - while sounding a familiar note of caution.
Paris Saint-Germain's Kylian Mbappe and Neymar have been among those linked with a move to Madrid , with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez joking on Monday, "I would like them both". Rodriguez is a playmaker who needs the team to be built around him and while he is a slightly more willing runner than Ozil, he is not a high-octane player and that's what Emery seems to want.
With the Browns , Beckham will be reunited with receiver Jarvis Landry , a close friend and teammate at LSU. That Tigers squad also included Browns wide receivers coach Adam Henry. When news of the agreement broke, Mayfield posted a photo on Twitter of him shaking hands with Beckham. However, there's one bit of brutality even Martin thinks is too much and that is the world of sports.
Going into the second leg, the tie was on a knife-edge due to Barcelona's inability to score an away goal in a 0-0 draw at the Lyon Olympic Stadium. Messi added: "There are some very good teams left like Manchester City, Juventus like I said". Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have both shown just why they will go down as two of the greatest players to ever step on a football pitch this week.
Scott won when the tournament was played in March. He missed a scheduled tournament for the first time since returning past year from spinal fusion surgery, and said it was more to make sure a growing problem that started last month in Los Angeles did not get worse.
He has 30.5 sacks in 67 games since joining the Chiefs as the No. 23 overall pick in the 2014 National Football League draft. After all, the Chiefs made him expendable because they're switching from a 3-4 front to a 4-3 under new coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.
The Browns have options in free agency and don't have a pick until the second round of the draft. He had 77 receptions for 1,052 yards and six touchdowns last season. Odell Beckham Jr.is a member of the Cleveland Browns . When Martin isn't furiously trying to finish the "Game of Thrones" series, he's cheering for both NY football teams.
The Packers kicked off their shopping spree by signing former Ravens defensive end Za'Darius Smith, as Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported. "Amos is an excellent safety who's been great for Chicago over the past couple of seasons", The Ringer's Robert Mays writes.
Things between the two got tense after they both went after the ball in hopes of beating the buzzer at the end of the third quarter. Ibaka took exception to Chriss' defense as they battled for an inbounds pass with one second left on the clock.
The blitzing linebacker was the Jets' first coup of free agency and was followed Tuesday morning by reports they had signed C.J. Mosley to a five-year, $85 million deal. In five seasons with the Vikings, Barr has totaled 13.5 sacks and been voted to the Pro Bowl four times. Barr was the ninth overall pick in the 2014 draft by the Vikings.
The Kansas City Chiefs addressed their biggest weakness on the first day of free agency by signing former Houston Texans safety Tryann Mathieu. Safety Tyrann Mathieu intends to sign a three-year, $42m deal with the Kansas City Chiefs, according to multiple reports Monday.
Now, after trading him to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for third- and fifth-round picks, Pittsburgh will be eating $21.1 million in dead money on their 2019 cap so Brown can catch TDs for another team. Brown, under the tutelage of New England offensive line coach Dante Scarnecchia, became an elite tackle. Brown started all 19 games for the Patriots, and didn't miss a snap throughout their playoff run, which culminated with a victory over the L.A.
With the expected signing of two-time Super Bowl victor Trey Flowers, the Detroit Lions will field a very talented defense in 2019 that includes the likes of defensive tackle Damon Harrison , the team's 2018 sack leader in defensive end Romeo Okwara , and last year's rookie steal in defensive lineman Da'Shawn Hand.
He is set to earn $10 million in 2019, with no guaranteed money remaining. As the Green Bay Packers were another team that was in on acquiring Jackson, he ultimately chose to sign with the Eagles on a three-year deal, which is worth $30 million total.
It was a huge result. We must make incredible efforts in epic situations to go through. City have the opportunity to reach the quarterfinals of the competition for just the third time in their history when they face Schalke on Tuesday, leading 3-2 from the first leg in Germany .
The club announced the hiring of Zinedine Zidane as manager on Monday, and also the sacking of Santiago Solari . Almost 10 months after he resigned, Zidane returns to a club in disarray. The results led to allegations of in-fighting at the club, with Ramos said to have argued with president Florentino Perez in the dressing room after the Ajax match , while it was also suggested he clashed with Marcelo in training.
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The majority of Irving's income came in 2018, when he played under a restricted free agency tag of over $2 million, but appeared in just two games. It's medicine; I do not consider it a drug, rather than the Xanax bars or the hydros or the Seroquel and all that insane s-t that they feed you", he said. | 2019-04-19T01:04:19 | http://tri-lakestribune.net/sport/?page=51 |
0.999956 | Will Manuel Pellegrini inspire West Ham when they take on Cardiff?
Can West Ham continue to climb the table with a victory over Cardiff? Opta has the answers.
"West Ham United have won their last six matches in all competitions against Cardiff City, scoring 14 goals and conceding just two in those wins."
They are [1.67] to win.
West Ham United have won their last six matches in all competitions against Cardiff City, scoring 14 goals and conceding just two in those wins. They are [1.67] to win.
This is the first league meeting between West Ham and Cardiff since the 2013-14 season, when the Hammers won both matches 2-0 in the Premier League under Sam Allardyce. West Ham are [2.92] to win to nil.
West Ham have lost their last three home Premier League games against promoted sides, more than they had in their previous 17 such games in the competition (W11 D4 L2). They've never lost four consecutive top-flight home games vs promoted sides. A Cardiff win is [6.0].
Cardiff have lost seven of their eight Premier League games in London, including the last six in a row. Their only victory came at Fulham in September 2013. West Ham are [2.62] to win half-time/full-time.
Cardiff are looking to secure consecutive top-flight victories for the first time since April 1962 - the second win back then came against West Ham (3-0). They are [4.3] in the Draw No Bet market.
No side have won more games from behind in the Premier League this season than Cardiff, with all three of their victories coming in such a manner. The half-time West Ham/full-time Cardiff double result is [51.0].
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock has never won an away Premier League match in London (P12 W0 D2 L10) - including home games when he was manager of QPR and Crystal Palace, Warnock has picked up just three wins in 30 Premier League matches in London (W3 D8 L19). The draw half-time/West Ham full-time double result is [4.7].
West Ham's Javier Hernandez scored twice against Newcastle on Saturday - as many goals as he'd scored in his previous 16 Premier League games combined. He's not scored in consecutive league games since February. Hernandez is [2.5] to score.
Felipe Anderson has scored four goals in his last four Premier League games for West Ham. No West Ham player has more scored league goals than the Brazilian this season (5), while he's also created a club-high 25 chances so far. Anderson is [3.4] to find the net. | 2019-04-25T15:02:55 | https://betting.betfair.com/football/opta/west-ham-v-cardiff-preview-opta-stats-tuesday-4-december-2018-031218-629.html |
0.999226 | Remove artificial light, and the possibilities are endless.
My goal is to build a life I never need to have a vacation from.
Remove artificial constructs, and the possibilities are endless. | 2019-04-21T00:29:18 | http://followingourrainbow.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-goal.html |
0.998104 | Charm Your Way to Influencing Everyone. Do you use the same exact approach to both groups and individuals? No matter what your style is, you want to incorporate one trait, and that is that you're considerate and will listen to everyone around you and take everyone's thoughts, concerns, and ideas into consideration. This goes a long way in making people feel appreciated, which will make you a positive influence.
Challenge those around you: One of the most important things you can do to influence others is to challenge those around you. If there's a tough situation on the hands of you and your staff, offer your own ideas and potential solutions, but really challenge them to offer their own as well. This will be a positive influence on those around you in that by feeling challenged in any given situation, they'll feel that they can always have something to contribute and that their opinions and suggestions are actually valued. This can go a really long way.
Listen to suggestions: People want to be heard, and for you to be listening to the opinions, ideas, and suggestions of others, it certainly shows positive influence in that it shows true engagement. Again, people want to feel valued and want to feel like their suggestions and opinions matter, so it's very important to give them both that platform and opportunity. In my personal experiences, in a managerial role, I've seen great success with this. For example, if a certain situation arises that creates differing opinions, it's of great benefit to hear everyone's opinion. From a standpoint of being influential, it shows people that listening to those around you is one of the true traits of a great leader.
Tell people what they need to hear: In terms of being influential, it's important to always try to say the right things and to not say the wrong things. Albert Einstein once famously said, \"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.\" Be influential on your staff in that they should be imaginative. This is important in inspiring creativity in the workplace and establishing you as someone who shines with influence among their peers.
It's no secret that it's important to be a positive influence on those around you. From my experience, this is especially true in the office. It's good to keep morale up, and if you're someone who is in a managerial role, it's very important to be influential in a positive manner. Face it - influence matters, and it's not exactly easy to be influential in a positive way. However, with that said, I'm confident that I can help.
Here, I want to share with you some tips on how you can influence others in a positive way around the office.
Identify your style: Self-awareness is where it all begins. Do you use the same exact approach to both groups and individuals? No matter what your style is, you want to incorporate one trait, and that is that you're considerate and will listen to everyone around you and take everyone's thoughts, concerns, and ideas into consideration. This goes a long way in making people feel appreciated, which will make you a positive influence.
Tell people what they need to hear: In terms of being influential, it's important to always try to say the right things and to not say the wrong things. Albert Einstein once famously said, "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere." Be influential on your staff in that they should be imaginative. This is important in inspiring creativity in the workplace and establishing you as someone who shines with influence among their peers.
How do you try to be influential in your life and to inspire those around you? Let myself and the readers know in the comments below! | 2019-04-25T00:32:52 | https://www.magnatag.com/blog/post/charm-your-way-to-influencing-everyone |
0.892605 | A condenser unit used in central air conditioning systems typically has a heat exchanger coil to cool down and condense incoming refrigerant vapor into liquid, a compressor to raise the pressure of the refrigerant and move it along, and a fan for blowing outside air through the heat exchanger coil to cool the refrigerant inside. A typical configuration of such a condenser unit is as follows: The heat exchanger coil wraps around the sides of the unit with the compressor inside. In this heat exchanger coil, the refrigerant goes through multiple tube passes, which are surrounded by heat transfer fins through which cooling air can move from outside to inside the unit. There is a motorized fan inside the condenser unit near the top, which is covered by a fan grill to keep any objects from accidentally falling inside on the fan. The fan is used to blow the outside cooling air in through the heat exchanger coil at the sides and out the top through the fan grill. These condenser units are located on the outside of the building they are trying to cool, with copper refrigerant tubing between the unit and indoor evaporator coil, one refrigerant line for vapor refrigerant entering and another line for liquid refrigerant leaving the unit. Of course, an electric power supply is needed for the compressor and fan inside the unit. | 2019-04-21T02:32:47 | http://gc-heatingandcooling.com/customerresources/how-it-works/how-an-air-conditioner-works/condenser |
0.999722 | Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) - Two months.
It looks like it might be that long before a local grand jury decides whether to bring charges in the death of Michael Brown - the loud, passionate calls for swift justice notwithstanding.
The shooting of the African-American teenager by a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer has sparked days of demonstrations and nights of often violence protests in the St. Louis suburb.
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch told CNN affiliate KMOV that his office planned to begin presenting the case to a grand jury Wednesday. The grand jury could levy significant charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed the 18-year-old Brown.
(CNN) - The Army will conduct "a comprehensive, coordinated" review into the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl - the recently freed soldier whom some have deemed a hero, others a deserter - the military branch's civilian leader announced Tuesday.
Secretary of the Army John McHugh began a statement on Bergdahl's case by saying that "we are grateful that an American soldier is back in American hands" and insisting "our first priority is ensuring Sgt. Bergdahl's health and beginning his reintegration process."
McHugh didn't address specific questions surrounding how the soldier ended up detained in Afghanistan or what he did while in that situation. But he did say that the military's review "will include speaking with Sgt. Bergdahl to better learn from him the circumstances regarding his disappearance and captivity."
"All other decisions will be made thereafter, and in accordance with appropriate regulations, policies and practices," McHugh said.
(CNN) - Three weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flights 370 set off from Kuala Lumpur, search aircraft set off Saturday from Australia - hoping to, finally, find the Boeing 777 in the southern Indian Ocean where experts now believe it ended up.
The area that search teams - including a Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 and an Australian P-3 Orion that set off Saturday morning from Perth - are now focusing on is 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast from where they'd been concentrating for more than a week, and it's closer to the Australian coast. This change is thanks to a new analysis of satellite data that Australian authorities say show the commercial airliner could not have flown as far south as once thought.
Saturday's renewed search comes days after Japan and Thailand both said they'd sent new satellite images to Malaysia showing debris fields that could be related to the plane, which vanished with 239 people aboard.
Air Vice-Marshal Kevin Short, commander of Joint Forces New Zealand, told CNN's Erin Burnett five of the dispatched aircraft "located debris in their search area" on Friday. Some of the spottings were "hundreds of miles away" from each other, although Short said this vast expanse is "not unusual" given the ocean conditions and the time passed since the airplane's purported crash.
That includes 11 small objects spotted by one of his military's P-3 planes. CNN's Kyung Lah, who went out on a U.S. Navy P-8 search plane Friday, said the crew of that plane spotted white objects, orange rope and a blue bag. | 2019-04-19T06:49:04 | http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/tag/greg-botelho/ |
0.999991 | Jeffrey Perkel at Biotechnically Speaking has a great overview of a recent paper in Nature Methods (see also coverage at GenomeWeb).
The study in question used second-generation sequencing (with the ABI SOLiD system) to peer inside a single cell isolated from a mouse embryo. By sequencing the messenger RNA (mRNA) produced by the cell's genome they were able to generate a high-resolution snapshot of the genes switched on by the cell.
Isolating and analysing RNA from a single cell is no small technical feat, and although the technique still has its limitations - for instance, the technique can't detect certain RNA molecules (e.g. those without a poly(A) tail) and it's currently unable to discriminate which DNA strand the gene is expressed from - the results provide a far more comprehensive picture of gene expression than the array technology that has been the workhorse of gene expression studies for the last decade.
I'm excited about the possibilities this study opens up. Here's one: from a single fertilized mouse egg, an entire body plan emerges. That body plan has anterior, posterial, dorsal, and ventral "sides," and it doesn't take long in development for those differences to become obvious. Wouldn't it be neat to study each cell at the two, four, eight, and sixteen cell stages, to see precisely when those changes, which initially are morphologically invisible, emerge?
The technique offers even greater potential for small organisms where development is very tightly constrained (e.g. the worm C. elegans): here it would now be possible to build a near-complete and quantitative catalogue of the genes switched on in every cell at each stage in development. This is very cool stuff. | 2019-04-26T16:23:34 | https://www.wired.com/2009/04/using-new-sequencing-technology-to-look-at-gene-expression-in-a-single-cell/ |
0.999974 | Andriy Kavetsky submitted Solution 1038694 to Problem 43644. Return the length of the longest word in the string.
Andriy Kavetsky liked Problem 43646. Return ! if array element starts with a certain letter. Otherwise return ?
Andriy Kavetsky submitted Solution 1037924 to Problem 43646. Return ! if array element starts with a certain letter. Otherwise return ?
Andriy Kavetsky submitted Solution 1037141 to Problem 1407. Is it an Armstrong number?
Andriy Kavetsky submitted Solution 1037073 to Problem 43641. Find matrix of indices for multidimensional matrix.
Andriy Kavetsky submitted Solution 1037072 to Problem 43643. Create cotangent function out of sine.
Andriy Kavetsky liked Problem 43643. Create cotangent function out of sine. | 2019-04-18T21:26:13 | https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/players/7714989-andriy-kavetsky |
0.999959 | When can I expect mining rewards?
Each pool pays out 16 minutes after it finds a main block. Main blocks are found on the network every 64 seconds. The larger the pool is, the larger the chance of it finding a block. Luck factor plays a role as well. In summary, the larger the pool is, the more frequent payouts you can expect. A healthy pool finds a block every 6 hours or less.
Do I earn more or less depending on pool power?
No. Each miner earns the same on a smaller or larger pool. The only difference is the payouts frequency. Larger pools pay out more often, but smaller payouts, smaller pools pay out less often, but larger payouts.
What is pool config and how does it affect my payouts?
Every pool has a fee and donates to XDAG community fund. Fee and community fund payout are subtracted from main block reward (1024 XDAG). Rest of each block reward is split amongst all pool's miners, connected or previously connected. There are two important variables, "reward for found block" and "reward for direct contributions to found block". When these values are zero, each miner is paid proportionally to it's hashrate. When "reward for found block" is greater than zero, miner that found the block receives a larger payout for the found block. When "reward for direct contributions to found block" is greater than zero, all miners which contributed to new found block are given larger payouts. In summary, zero values for these two variables mean most steady payouts (in terms of payout amount). When these values are greater than zero, your payouts might jump up and down in terms of amount, depending on your luck factor. Pools with these variables set to non-zero values are more suitable for larger miners, as those miners have a greater chance of either finding a block or directly contributing to it - pools with such config resemble solo mining. Pools with both values zero are suitable for any miner and provide most steady payouts.
Extra rewars are a special feature of our pool. Top 3 miners (by hashrate) on each of our pools receive extra rewards periodically. These rewards are paid out from accumulated pool's fee, and don't affect payouts to other miners at all. Extra rewards are calculated each five minutes, and are paid out at the end of the day. So whenever you are the in the top 3 positions on the leaderboard on any of our pools, you are earning extra coins. The more powerful the pool is, the larger the extra rewards for top 3 miners on that pool are (as the pool itself is earning more, because it finds main blocks more often). A common strategy for large miners is to place their machines on a pool they will be the largest miner on (or at least in top 3). The larger the pool you are in top 3 is, the larger the extra rewards are. Top miner on each pool receives 50% of total daily extra reward. Second miner receives 33%, third miner receives the rest. Please note these values are augmented all the time depending on pool power and network hashrate and therefore fluctuate during the day, so displayed value is only an approximation. You can always check your extra paid out rewards by using the Payouts page. Extra rewards are marked separately, and can be filtered.
Do I receive less when mining just for a fraction of time?
No. Whenever you mine, your hashpower is taken into account. Even if you disconnect, you will still receive payout for your work next time the pool finds a blocks. Moreover, you will receive any extra rewards you may have accumulated during your mining period. Extra rewards are distributed each five minutes, summed at the end of the day, and paid out.
How does the automatic pool switching work?
Pool switching is a fully automated process. Automatic pool switching triggers for any pool node that became desynchronized, offline, or we perform maintenance on it (such as upgrading it to a newer version). You won't notice any connectivity issues longer than 6 minutes, in most cases, you won't notice any connectivity issues at all. From your point of view, the only thing that happens is that your miners will show they are connected to different pool than they originally were. You can observe this behavior on miners, payouts and leaderboard pages. Once the automatic switch is over, your miners will be put back to their original pool. Pools that are currently under maintenance are marked differently on the world map, and show "Maintenance" on main pools listing.
Can I view my miners hashrate history and status?
Yes. All of this information is available on the miners page. Once you filter your miners by e-mail or wallet addresses, this filter becomes persistent and is by default available also on the payouts and leaderboard pages. Leaderboard uses your filter to mark your miners so you can easily see your leaderboard position.
Are miner offline notifications supported?
Yes. You can subscribe to miner offline notifications by using the miners page. You can also unsubscribe at any time. When all of your workers under the same XDAG address become offline, and stay offline for 15 minutes, we will send a "miner offline" notification to your e-mail address. Furthermore we monitor all your named workers, and if any of them becomes missing for 15 minutes, you will receive a "workers offline" notification. Individual worker offline notifications are supported only for named workers. If you don't use named workers, you can enable "connections decreased" notification, we will send an e-mail whenever your steady connections count decreases.
What are the benefits of a worldwide pool?
The XDAG network benefits greatly by having a mesh of interconnected, fast nodes on powerful servers. Our solution improves network stability and supports further decentralization. From your point of view, worldwide pool allows you to mine wherever you are, with lowest latency. Moreover, you can always have all your miners data in the same place, and never more you have to search for your detailed payouts, statistics or graphs on multiple web pages.
Are your mining packages safe?
Yes. We don't modify the binaries in any way, only the official releases are mirrored. We do provide custom batch files so you can get your miner going with a single click, without the hassle of configuring everything yourself. | 2019-04-24T16:28:52 | https://xdag.org/en/faq |
0.999935 | Q: Could you begin by explaining what the question "Can we manage with(out) markets?" means?
This question presents a false dichotomy. We can and must manage with and without markets. We need both. The underlying reason why a school such as SOM should even be interested in this question is that human economic organization is always a mixture of markets and bureaucracy, markets and other institutions.
The underlying reason is, more or less, at the level of biology. What we're looking for is a theory of human organization. And the theory says that some parts of society can be organized very efficiently via markets, while, in other parts of society that have more complex and nuanced relationships, markets would be a disaster.
Markets are a special set of rules of the game that define institutions to enable mass exchange of resources at a low cost. A market is an efficient device which takes many different decisions made under fairly low information conditions, and calculates the redistribution of resources and bids, and reallocates the money to one area and the goods to the other. It is an extremely efficient way of handling desired redistribution of resources.
Because we believe in innovation, we spend much of our time looking for places where markets work. In essence, human beings have so many things to do that they cannot constantly carry hundreds of prices and hundreds of market details in their heads, nor can they constantly deal with bureaucrats. You want to be able to go buy a chocolate bar without a hassle. Once you've bought the chocolate bar, you might vaguely remember that it cost 85 cents. Maybe, next time you buy it, it will be 90 cents. You would go away from the store indignant if it turned out to be $300. The market system enables you to almost always operate with not that much information, not that much need for memory, and not that much need to deal bureaucratically or hierarchically with the people who are selling you the chocolate bar.
We can pretty well date markets to at least 3,000 BC. The Babylonians had the first clear examples of markets. It is of interest to note that the increase in the functioning of markets is not completely smooth. It has not gone up and up and up over all time. For markets to really work, you also have to have the infrastructure of the economy developing at the same time. For example, from early Rome to late Rome, the functioning of markets increased. Post AD 400 they fell.
Things that we take for granted — weights and measures, standard accounting, standard commercial code — are part and parcel of setting the environment for a good market economy. To this very day, our economics departments and, to some extent, even the finance departments, underestimate the importance of accounting, law, and the commercial codes. These features, to put it abstractly, are needed parts of the game. A good business school should be turning out individuals who are highly sensitive to the fact that good standards, honest laws, lack of corruption, consistency in treatment are vital to decent societies and decent economies.
Many of the markets in Guatemala are going to be different than the markets in the former Soviet Union (they had markets, black or otherwise), or the markets in the United States. The corruption indices are different in every one of them. Political factors, such as political disturbance and the features of a kleptocratic society, have an influence on whether or not people will risk utilizing markets.
I must add, on top of that, you cannot have markets without an elaborate money and credit mechanism. The money and credit mechanisms are an invention of human society. They are part of the rules of the game.
Q: Where do you think markets work especially well?
Markets work very well for what in law are called "fungible chattels" — items such as most standard consumer products. Of course, all of us pride ourselves on appreciating fancy tables, fancy sofas, fancy cars, but on the whole, there is something like a more or less standard car or a standard kitchen table.
Many commodities have the property that they are fungible — in other words, one unit looks the same as another. To a gourmet, every orange is different, but to an ordinary individual, oranges are more or less the same. If you have something in which the unit is more or less the same, it is capable of mass production, and it is desirable for mass consumption, a market is the way to go.
Markets do not work that well when the item is highly specialized or it is one of a kind. The market for Yosemite Valley is not a particularly free and open market, and we would be insane to let it just be in private hands. It essentially belongs to the society. They can subcontract it to be run by private enterprise but, essentially, the monopoly rents should be captured by the society.
If, for example, somebody wants to pick up a unique fad, such as collecting bottle tops, society has no particular valuation for this, and if there's a monopoly in it, entry is easy and the market is just reflecting the monopoly, without any externality. In contrast, Yosemite has an externality to all of the society, so to allow it to be appropriated is a problem.
Q: Where do stock markets fall in all this?
Stock markets can and should be virtually automated. They are an example where things could get so efficient that the economic theory is pretty close to the practice.
Now, there's a distinction that I want to make. The stock market is a marvelous mechanism for buying and selling stock efficiently. Whether that mechanism provides the appropriate valuation of stock is a different question. It provides the valuation, obviously, at this second, but it doesn't tell you what the underlying worth of the business is.
The trouble with the financial interpretation of the virtues of markets is that they have allowed modern finance to almost make a disconnect between the actual corporation and the piece of paper representing ownership of the corporation. The market is efficient in redistributing the piece of paper. It is not efficient in the long-term evaluation of the firms behind the pieces of paper. Many people will claim that it is, but there is no substitute for knowing both the physical aspects of the firms and the legal environment in which the firms operate. And that calls for a completely different skill.
Q: Is the move toward private equity that's been happening lately changing how financial markets function?
No. The current move toward private equity will change within a few years and go in the other direction. There are all sorts of markets. Most people misunderstand the stock market, in the sense that they think that the stock market is one uniform market for the financial and manufacturing institutions of society. In fact, there are markets for institutions, as well as stocks of institutions, and the price that a firm sells at might not be the same as the sum of what its shares sell for. That is because there could be an arbitrage between what the public is willing to pay for the shares and what a bunch of private investors who have evaluated the firm and the details of the financing are willing to pay for the firm. When the investors have bought a firm, they may break it up, they may do something else to it, but, basically, a few years later and a few billion dollars having been removed, appropriately, they will take a look at the transformed institution and say "now is the time to go public." They arbitrage between the market for firms and the stock market.
Q: Markets are essentially less centralized than management. Is that an important distinction?
Yes. Enormous. Let me say there was a fake competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, in the following sense. A lot of people thought that the fight was both political and economic, and you could not sort out the two. The odds are that if the Soviet Union had adopted free markets, as China is doing, and had stuck with their political philosophy, they might still be in business.
What I am suggesting is that the idea that markets equal democracy is just false. Democracy is about freedom of political choice. And the question of economic choice simply says little about political predilections.
Q: Is there any advantage to the functioning of markets under a democratic political system?
I think that, on the whole, the functioning of both markets and voting tend to be more and more associated with democratic structures. As a matter of fact, years ago I didn't understand why there were so many different tax authorities in the United States. My memory is that there are over 80,000 different tax authorities. Every local school district, for example, is pretty well its own tax authority. The reason turns out to be that you use markets as the efficient decentralizing device where that works, and where that doesn't work, you hopefully try to use voting as the decentralizing device.
It's not easy to get all of the nice properties that markets have with voting. In particular, a nice property that a competitive market has is that you can devise a price system that essentially no one can argue about. Thin markets are different. You have to have enough competition. And, by the way, enough competition turns out to be a fairly small number. If you have 20 or 30 suppliers of almost anything in an area, that's certainly enough competition. In some cases it could even be four or five.
Q: You mentioned that the former Soviet Union had some markets. What were you thinking of?
You could buy your apartment. There were farmers' markets. They were limited. And there were enormous black markets. As a matter of fact, you see that stopping of a legal market from existing merely presents an opportunity for an enormous black market, and somebody else profits by it.
For that matter, take the whole question of the drug culture. I, personally, would have a government-controlled drugs market, controlled by fairly toughly designed laws, rather than making it illegal. All that making it illegal does is to make a bunch of gangsters rich. It would be much better to make society rich. If there are people who wish to be addicts, use the revenues from them to build their own hospitals and cure facilities. The good example of bad control was prohibition.
Q: Does the scale of the market change the dynamic?
To a certain extent, yes. The bigger a mass society, the more it is absolutely critical to have efficient markets, and the more probable it is that you have them. But the great trouble is that externalities exist in many, many areas of human affairs, like cleaning up smog or controlling traffic.
Take controlling traffic: You can go a long way with market mechanisms, but they are much more complicated than other markets. As you are probably aware, on certain toll roads, you pay according to the time of day. In London, you pay to use downtown London at many hours. A lot of people will argue that this is, quote, "unfair" and it favors the rich. Well, it does favor the rich, but it favors the poor as well, because the rich are being soaked if they want to use the facility at that time.
There are many areas where you can design markets by putting in the laws in such a way that they control the externality, and you can get the market to fit the problem. But market design presents a complicated challenge.
Q: So you have to manage the market.
a matter of fact, the design of markets is frequently a way for individuals to become obscenely rich. The first person to design a market, if he can commercialize it, will make an enormous gain.
Q: That's a good incentive.
It's an extremely good incentive.
Q: How well do you think theory, at this point, explains the functioning of markets?
I think the last 50 years has seen an enormous jump forward in the understanding of the key role of markets. And not merely the key role of markets, but the other institutions of society that are required to monitor and run a modern economy.
A perfectly good example is given by the clearinghouse: Except for a few people, economists regarded an institution such as a clearinghouse as a quaint triviality. But clearinghouses are a key element in a modern economy. The ability to know that millions of checks a day can all flow into a central institution and have the books balance within a few hours is staggering. And without modern technology and modern law, markets as we know them currently would not function.
By the way, market structure is changing fast. The speed of the emergence of markets is enormous. When I think of things in my own lifetime they are amazingly different now from previously.
Well, the mere fact that, if you go back to the 1940s, the transaction in a financial exchange was a big deal. The public was almost afraid of the stock markets. If you go back to 1910, the stock markets were strictly for the rich and sophisticated. Anybody else who got near them got taken to the cleaners. You go back 10, 20 years, most people kept their stock certificates in lovely pieces of engraved paper. That will be completely dead within another 10 years. I used to keep virtually all of my stock in stock certificates. Now this option is going down to next to nothing, and it will soon not be feasible to do so at all.
The idea of a future, a put, or a call, or a derivative instrument, all of these instruments have been around in one form or another. I can show you a 17th-century put, and I can argue that there probably were futures in Babylon, but the modern manifestation is totally different.
Q: Are there any dangers in the modern manifestation? Some people worry about derivatives.
Yes. There are dangers. There are enormous dangers, but many of them will be corrected biologically — meaning a bunch of people will get taken to the cleaners, and then somebody will make sure that that couldn't happen quite the same way again. Is the modern manifestation good? I can make out a case that it will be either good or bad. You have to look at it case by case. But there are dangers — in particular, in derivative instruments that are not well designed or understood.
Q: How long have you been studying markets?
Q: And, over that time, understanding in general has changed. How much have your ideas about markets changed?
Considerably. I had no idea of how close markets were to a general theory of organization or how important information was and the fact that a modern economy is more and more and more an information and an algorithm-transformation economy. Tom Krens [director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation] pointed out to me that in buying certain forms of conceptual modern art, you can buy the program as to how to build a certain item. And that is, in some peoples' minds, classified as art. I won't get into the art appreciation end of it, but the general idea is that — starting at a point, not far different from the double helix and the ideas in computer science — trade in plans and in algorithms is now becoming more and more real, as contrasted with trade in goods.
I think that game theoretic/information theoretic thinking has impacted our understanding of markets considerably. Understanding what information is needed is critical, and understanding competition is critical.
Q: In a way, that's been acknowledged for a long time, right? Insider trading is a threat to the market because insiders have different information.
Well, there's a question as to whether insider trading is good or bad — it's not always necessarily bad.
If I were in control of market regulation and design policy for the United States, my main concern would be to force as much transparency as possible. I'd hardly worry about insider trading, per se, if that were done. That would mean, of course, that insiders would have to announce their information to the markets as early as possible. But then, what would happen is you would get legitimate insider trading. Let me explain the distinction. Many financial institutions are perception devices. They are like eyes. Some people who have been trained can see things better than others, especially experts. In a certain sense every expert is an insider, whether he wants to be or not. Why? Because, when he looks at a business, he sees many levels of risk, while an amateur has a far cruder picture of the risks.
My feeling is that society would benefit from absolute transparency on all raw data, including costs of production, new techniques, everything. Have an absolute requirement of disclosure. After that, any insider can do, basically, what he wants.
And what would happen would probably be that you would buy the shares where active insiders held large segments of their own business, because you would believe that they are acting in their own self-interest, and your interests are aligned with them. I tend to like markets where, to use the phrase, the purveyors eat their own cooking.
Q: Is there a risk in absolute transparency that, essentially, there's too much data?
It's impossible to have too much transparency, financially.
Q: If you're designing or creating a market, what are the things you have to keep in mind? What are the fundamental rules you have to be concerned about?
What the item being traded is, what the externalities are, what group of individuals it is designed to serve. If you're designing a market for a very sophisticated bunch of individuals, that would be very, very different than designing a market for a very unsophisticated bunch. These are all very different.
I was once somewhat concerned with the design of weather derivatives. Consider the Rocky Mountains. The Rocky Mountains have several major roads through them, which are useful for truck traffic, and they have lots of ski resorts. When there's heavy snow, the roads are slow or even shut down, and the ski resorts are doing great business. When there's no snow, the ski resorts are starving, and the truckers can go through the Rockies with great ease. There's a potential market there. You cook up snow futures where you guarantee the ski resorts and the truckers a minimum living, depending upon the weather. They would offset each other, so there's a market.
Q: What keeps a market like that from forming?
Set-up costs. When we were looking at this derivative, it was too early. In other words, people weren't sophisticated enough, and it would have cost too much to actually get a sellable instrument and inform people that it existed. Once an instrument like that takes off, then it probably has legs for many years.
Q: You teach Security Analysis at Yale. Is that a chance to essentially put into practice your theories?
Yes. Though I would say it's the other way around. Knowledge of practice helps theory more than theory helps practice.
In practicing what I preach, I learn a great deal.
I'm finishing my third volume on the theory of money and financial institutions, with the stress being on the importance of markets, the importance of information, the importance of expertise, and the growing closer and closer of the concepts of a general theory of organization with the problems of finance and the role of money and markets in the economy.
I'll just add that, for whatever it's worth, the role of government money is being minimized in the modern economy, because the more the communication gets to be cheap and efficient, the easier it is for subgroups to build networks where they trust each other and where they enforce trust on each other. In doing so, it obviates the need to use government money. And so, you get sub-clearing groups where — I've got a big firm and you've got a big firm, and we do a lot of trade with each other, we can balance the books monthly without having to pay each other in cash. What is happening is that the power of every central bank is weakening considerably. Sooner or later, there will be a proper world central bank, and there will be a hierarchy in area and national central banks. | 2019-04-20T11:22:13 | https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/can-we-manage-without-markets |
0.999998 | Question: I was wondering if you could give me examples of story goal for paranormal romance stories. I think I'm confusing story goal with internal and external goals. Any advice will help thank you.
1. Is primarily pursued by the protagonist.
2. Affects or involves most of the other characters. Either they have an interest in whether this goal is achieved, or they are concerned with the same type of goal themselves.
In Twilight, as it appears to me, the story goal is to gain possession of Bella. Edward (the protagonist) wants to possess her, but in a way that preserves her humanity, while James (the antagonist) wants to consume her humanity by biting her and turning her into a vampire. The werewolves seem concerned with preventing her from being possessed by any vampire, and this goal involves/affects all the other vampires, werewolves, and her father to some extent as well.
On the other hand, the personal concern of Bella (the main character) seems to be her desire to become a vampire and join with Edward.
She has strong feelings for Edward (symptom) and tries to be rational about them (response), but it appears as though the only thing that would satisfy her desire (solution) would be for him to give into his desire and bite her.
Meanwhile, her inner conflict concerns her low opinion of her value, looks, etc. and whether these make her unworthy of Edward's love - even though she appears to be his intellectual match.
Note that the protagonist and the main character (or principle POV) can be different characters, as in this case, but more often they are the same character. However, just as Bella's desire to be bitten is something unique to her in Twilight, a character's personal goal is their own, while the story goal is shared with or involves others. | 2019-04-22T12:07:09 | https://www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/story-goal-in-paranormal-romance.html |
0.999999 | When should I use this type of document?
A curriculum vitae is a more extensive document typically used by those with graduate education who are pursuing positions in academia or research.
A curriculum vitae or CV is similar to a resume in that it provides an overview of your professional and educational experience. The difference between the two primarily lies in content and purpose. A CV is typically developed for teaching applications or research positions in a university or research setting. A resume is prepared for employers outside the academic environment.
Include all relevant research experience in your area of specialization. You may choose to list publications, conference presentations and any other evidence of scholarly work in this section.
List all teaching fellowships, assistantships, or any other experiences working with students in a classroom/laboratory setting. You may also choose to list teaching interests or similar categories.
Include service to the university or community. You may also include professional associations, volunteer work, committee membership, etc. in this section.
It is important to incorporate evidence of research, teaching, and service in your CV, but choice of category headings to cover these areas is purely subjective. Most CVs include a sampling of the category headings listed below. Choose category headings that emphasize your particular strengths and achievements. Also, depending on the position to which you are applying, it may make more sense to rearrange categories. For instance, if you are applying for a college teaching position where teaching is the focus, it is recommended to focus on that general area early in the CV. If research is the primary focus of the institution to which you are applying, listing research-related categories near the beginning of the CV will be most effective. | 2019-04-24T20:02:55 | https://www.uwb.edu/careers/job-search-tools/resumes/vita-outline |
0.998892 | Take a deep breath---Earth is not going to die as soon as scientists believed. Two new modeling studies find that the gradually brightening sun won't vaporize our planet's water for at least another 1 billion to 1.5 billion years---hundreds of millions of years later than a slightly older model had forecast. The findings won't change your retirement plans but could imply that habitable, Earth-like alien worlds are more common than scientists thought.
Humans are warming the planet by emitting heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide. But behind the scenes, a far slower, deadlier warming process is unfolding. The sun is getting brighter and hotter over time. As it does, more water evaporates from Earth's surface into the atmosphere, where it traps additional heat from the planet. This water-driven greenhouse effect will keep going long after people have stopped burning fossil fuels that now add CO2 to the atmosphere. Eventually, Earth's greenhouse effect will spin out of control, vaporizing all of our planet's water and ending life as we know it.
How long does Earth have? Climate modelers disagree. In one recent study, planetary scientist Ravi Kopparapu of Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, and colleagues used computers to model how Earth would respond to increasing solar radiation. Just 6% more sunlight was enough to send the greenhouse effect into overdrive and vaporize Earth's water, the researchers found. At the current rate of solar brightening---just over 1% every 100 million years---Earth would suffer this "runaway greenhouse" in 600 million to 700 million years. Earth will suffer some preliminary effects leading up to that, too. After just 150 million years, the researchers found, the stratosphere will warm enough to let some water vapor reach high in the sky, where solar radiation will break it down into molecules that can escape to space. In this "moist greenhouse," the planet would be too hot for complex surface life, but a few hardy marine organisms and microbes could soldier on.
But not so fast, says Eric Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Kopparapu's model is pretty rudimentary, Wolf says: It analyzes what happens in one dimension---altitude. As a result, the model excludes clouds and wrongly assumes that climate factors like humidity are the same everywhere on Earth. Wolf and his Boulder colleague, Owen Brian Toon, simulated Earth's future using a more realistic 3D climate model from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Their model included clouds, and a host of other details such as regional differences in moisture, Wolf says. It also assumed that atmospheric CO2 levels would start at 500 parts per million---25% higher than today---and stay there indefinitely.
Then Wolf and Toon cranked up the sun. After they made our star 15.5% brighter than it is today, the simulated Earth had warmed from its current average of 15°C to 40°C. That's hot, but not too hot for liquid water to survive. The oceans didn't boil off. The stratosphere also didn't heat up, so no moist greenhouse occurred either. The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests. Earth warms slower than in Kopparapu's model, Wolf explains, because clouds and dry regions such as deserts, both of which the 1D study lacked, send a lot of heat back into space.
A similar 3D climate-modeling study, reported last month in Nature, found that a runaway greenhouse wouldn't occur for at least 1 billion years. The leader of that study---Jérémy Leconte, an astrophysicist now at the University of Toronto in Canada---says his group's earlier date for Earth's demise than Wolf and Toon's stems partly from differences in how the studies modeled clouds.
The 3D models shed new light on how long Earth could potentially support life, says planetary scientist James Kasting of Penn State University Park, who wasn't involved in either study. Still, they may slightly underestimate how long Earth could support life, he suggests. The studies assume that CO2 levels stay the same, Kasting says, but they may actually fall as Earth warms. That's because calcium carbonate rock formation and other natural carbon-sequestering processes might speed up in warmer conditions, pulling CO2 from the atmosphere and blunting warming at least temporarily. He also cautions that the studies don't model life's response, so they can't assess how long life actually will survive.
Kasting says the studies may be most useful for refining estimates of sunlike stars' habitable zones: the range of distances at which orbiting rocky planets can host abundant liquid water. Kopparapu's 1D study, on which Kasting was a co-author, suggested that our solar system's habitable zone starts at 0.97 to 0.99 astronomical units (AUs), just inside Earth's average orbit of 1 AU. The new studies, if correct, suggest that Earth-like worlds orbiting sunlike stars have a bit more breathing room: Leconte's group's study pegs the inner limit at 0.95 AU, and Wolf and Toon's at 0.93. This change could mean that our galaxy harbors 5% to 6% more habitable planets than previously thought, Leconte estimates. | 2019-04-25T00:53:24 | http://www.kleanindustries.com/s/environmental_market_industry_news.asp?ReportID=620867 |
0.999952 | Otherwise, what if Yang Ming asked him if he wanted another room card? Therefore, the staff member naturally described the prior two people as a couple and completed the task .
After finishing breakfast at the resort's restaurant, Sui Guangqi announced the end of the party . "Here marks the end of the gathering . It seems that everyone had fun . There will be a bus coming to the resort which returns to the city . We can grab a ride! As for the matter beforehand about pooling money, the bill is on me . We should gather together frequently in the future! Although we've graduated, we are still friends!"
After breakfast, Yang Ming and the others went on the bus and returned to the city . Yang Ming went back to the university with Zhou Jiajia . He also made a promise to Sun Haoming to hang out together when they had free time .
Sui Guangqi had gone to the room where Yang Ming and Zhou Jiajia had stayed . He saw the large pool of blood on the sheets . He couldn't help but gnash his teeth!
Yang Ming! Yang Ming! Actually, you got a big bargain! I didn't expect that Zhou Jiajia was actually a virgin!
It seemed that Sui Guangqi had a misunderstanding!
Yang Ming didn't sleep well yesterday . When he returned to university, he separated from Zhou Jiajia because he planned to return to his dorm and rest .
Although Yang Ming didn't show it on his expression, his heart was very anxious . He still had things to do - a very important thing . He had to find Wu Chiren!
After returning to the dormitory, and after two more hours of sleep, Yang Ming drove to Red Flag Junior High School .
Looking at what was ahead of him, a familiar yet unfamiliar teaching building, Yang Ming didn't cherish the memories . In fact, Yang Ming's junior high school life was all painful memories, except for Su Ya .
Yang Ming couldn't forget Wu Chiren's white eyes and bitterness for the rest of his life .
"Buddy, who are you looking for?"
When Yang Ming wanted to enter the school, he was stopped by an old uncle who was watching the gate .
Yang Ming looked up . Ha, wasn't he the old uncle in the past? Yang Ming said with a smile, "Uncle Ma, don't you know me?"
"You are . . . " Uncle Ma looked at him for a long time and suddenly exclaimed, "Yang Ming! You brat! It's really you!"
Yang Ming smiled and nodded, "Uncle Ma, you still remember me!"
"Crap, how can I forget you?" Uncle Ma said with a glare, "You always got into a fight in front of the school gate . I don't think I can ever forget you!"
" Hehe , it's all in the past . " Yang Ming smiled .
"What are you doing now? Why, you even drive . " Uncle Ma glanced at the Jetta parked at the school gate .
"I'm studying in Song Jiang Ìndustry University . The car belongs to my friend . " Yang Ming smiled .
" Aiya ! That's great!" Uncle Ma was surprised . "You have grown up, Yang Ming . Turned over a new leaf?"
"During that time, I was young and insensible," Yang Ming said with a smile . I can't go to university?
"Alright, not bad!" Uncle Ma smiled as he nodded and said, "Why are you coming to school? Are you here to see me?"
" Hehe , I just came to see you . " Yang Ming smiled and said, " Oh ya , which class does Wu Chiren teach now?"
"Wu Chiren?" Uncle Ma said with a disdain, "You came for him?"
"What's wrong? I want to ask him about something . " Yang Ming looked at Uncle Ma's expression and asked curiously .
" Hmph , that kid, I have long recognized that he wasn't a good person . He was behaving stealthily like a thief and finally, something happened!" Uncle Ma sneered .
"What happened? What do you mean?" Yang Ming asked quickly .
"Wu Chiren was reported for asking the parents of the students for bribes!" Uncle Ma said, "The Education Bureau dealt with him last year and fired him . "
"Fired?" Yang Ming was a bit dumbfounded . He didn't care about what happened to Wu Chiren . His main objective now was to look for Wu Chiren and find out about Su Ya's letter!
" En , he was already fired a long time ago . " Uncle Ma said .
Yang Ming sighed helplessly and then asked, "Uncle Ma, do you know where Wu Chiren went after he was fired?"
"How would I know about this?" Uncle Ma shook his head and said, "I heard that he seemed to run off to Donghai to do business . Who knows . . . ai , you wait!"
Uncle Ma suddenly waved at a teacher not far away . "Xiao Zhang, did you live in the same community area with Wu Chiren?"
"Uncle Ma, are you calling me?" The teacher, Xiao Zhang, turned around and said, "Yup, I lived in the community area with him before, but he moved . "
"Where did he move to? His former student is looking for him . " Uncle Ma said .
"I don't know . He didn't have a wife or a child, but he lived alone . Who knows? But rumors said that he seemed to be doing business in Donghai . " Teacher Xiao Zhang said .
" Oh , I see . You may go . " Uncle Ma dismissed him with a wave .
Yang Ming didn't have any other means to go about it . Why did Wu Chiren go off to Donghai? It seems that the search for him wouldn't be easy .
"You saw it too . The teachers in the school actually hate Wu Chiren . I think this guy was the scum of the teaching team . I didn't want to get along with him . Even Xiao Zhang, who lived in the same community area with him didn't know . I think you shouldn't be asking any further!" Uncle Ma spoke and shook his head .
"Alright, no matter what, thank you, Uncle Ma . " Yang Ming nodded and said helplessly .
"Right, Yang Ming, why are you looking for in Wu Chiren? I remember that you weren't on his good side . He also forced your little girlfriend to transfer to the other school, right?" Uncle Ma was very clear about Yang Ming's affairs .
"I just came to him for this matter! He had taken away the letter that Su Ya wrote to me! If I didn't participate in the class reunion, it would still be under the carpet because I didn't know about it . " Yang Ming said with anger, "I want to find him to ask for those letters!"
"It turns out to be like that . Then, I can't help you anymore!" Uncle Ma sighed and said, "I didn't expect you to be still infatuated with that little girl! But even if you find Wu Chiren, he would likely have thrown away those letters like garbage!"
In fact, Yang Ming also thought about the situation as Uncle Ma described . Who would keep letters that had nothing to do with themselves? However, although Yang Ming knew that the possibility wasn't big when there was a slight hope, he would continue to follow it!
Since these were the only clues right now, Yang Ming wouldn't give up easily!
"Thank you, Uncle Ma . . . Yes, you wait for me a little while!" Yang Ming suddenly remembered that there were still two bottles of white wine in the trunk of the car . He found them when he looked in the trunk by chance the other day . It wasn't a famous wine, but Yang Ming was aware that Uncle Ma loved alcohol .
Yang Ming took out the two bottles of white wine from the trunk of the car and gave it to Uncle Ma . "Uncle Ma, take these two bottles of wine and drink them . Someone else gave them to me and I have no use of them . "
" Ha ! You, kid, still remember that I like to drink! Then, I won't be generous!" Uncle Ma was unambiguous with a bright gaze on the liquor .
After saying goodbye to Uncle Ma, Yang Ming frowned . Now the priority was to find Wu Chiren! However, now that Wu Chiren had gone to Donghai for business, the search was much more difficult!
Although Donghai wasn't far from Song Jiang, it wasn't easy to find a person in a city!
Yang Ming suddenly remembered a person - Sun Jie! Wasn't her family from Donghai? Moreover, it seems that her family had a considerable force in Donghai! In fact, Yang Ming first thought of Tian Donghua . But, he didn't know why when compared to Sun Jie, Yang Ming was more inclined to Sun Jie!
That passion left a deep impression on Yang Ming so that he always had some tickle deep down in his heart .
The last time he went to Hong Kong, the perfume he brought back for Sun Jie had not been given . With that thought in mind, Yang Ming quickly drove back to the house and took the gift meant for Sun Jie . Of course, he also brought the mink coat for his mom .
"Big Ming, what did I say to you? Do you put it in your heart?" Yang Ming just entered the house and he was stopped by his mother .
After his mother lost her job, she was at home . Although she couldn't help herself, Yang Ming still let her rest at home for a while . When he had a startup, he hoped that she could participate .
"What?" Yang Ming said, "What about the company? Uncle Zhang is planning for it . "
"What company? I'm talking about Chen Mengyan! I'm wondering because New Year is coming soon within a month! When will you bring my future daughter-in-law home? I have prepared the red envelope!" Mother Yang glared at him in a blaming manner .
" Ah ! Mom, are you talking about Chen Mengyan? You can rest assured . I will bring her back to you in a few days on New Year's Day!" Yang Ming suddenly realized . "I have mentioned it to her . "
"Really?" Mother Yang asked with some doubt . Every time she mentioned this question, Yang Ming tended to cover it up . He wouldn't say anything if he didn't need to . Why would he take the initiative today?
Chapter 398: Went For Nothing. Translator: VinceStar Editor: PrisMiko Otherwise, what if Yang Ming asked him if he wanted another room card? Therefore, the staff member naturally described the prior two people as a couple and completed the task . After finishing breakfast at the resorts restaurant, Sui Guangqi announced the end of the party . Here marks the end of the gathering . It seems that everyone had fun . There will be a bus coming to the resort which returns to the city . We can grab a ride! As for the matter beforehand about pooling money, the bill is on me . We should gather together frequently in the future! Although weve graduated, we are still friends! After breakfast, Yang Ming and the others went on the bus and returned to the city . Yang Ming went back to the university with Zhou Jiajia . He also made a promise to Sun Haoming to hang out together when they had free time . Sui Guangqi had gone to the room where Yang Ming and Zhou Jiajia had stayed . He saw the large pool of blood on the sheets . He couldnt help but gnash his teeth! Yang Ming! Yang Ming! Actually, you got a big bargain! I didnt expect that Zhou Jiajia was actually a virgin! It seemed that Sui Guangqi had a misunderstanding! Yang Ming didnt sleep well yesterday . When he returned to university, he separated from Zhou Jiajia because he planned to return to his dorm and rest . Although Yang Ming didnt show it on his expression, his heart was very anxious . He still had things to do - a very important thing . He had to find Wu Chiren! After returning to the dormitory, and after two more hours of sleep, Yang Ming drove to Red Flag Junior High School . Looking at what was ahead of him, a familiar yet unfamiliar teaching building, Yang Ming didnt cherish the memories . In fact, Yang Mings junior high school life was all painful memories, except for Su Ya . Yang Ming couldnt forget Wu Chirens white eyes and bitterness for the rest of his life . Buddy, who are you looking for? When Yang Ming wanted to enter the school, he was stopped by an old uncle who was watching the gate . Yang Ming looked up . Ha, wasnt he the old uncle in the past? Yang Ming said with a smile, Uncle Ma, dont you know me? You are . Uncle Ma looked at him for a long time and suddenly exclaimed, Yang Ming! You brat! Its really you! Yang Ming smiled and nodded, Uncle Ma, you still remember me! Crap, how can I forget you? Uncle Ma said with a glare, You always got into a fight in front of the school gate . I dont think I can ever forget you! Hehe , its all in the past . Yang Ming smiled . What are you doing now? Why, you even drive . Uncle Ma glanced at the Jetta parked at the school gate . Im studying in Song Jiang Ìndustry University . The car belongs to my friend . Yang Ming smiled . Aiya ! Thats great! Uncle Ma was surprised . You have grown up, Yang Ming . Turned over a new leaf? During that time, I was young and insensible, Yang Ming said with a smile . I cant go to university? Alright, not bad! Uncle Ma smiled as he nodded and said, Why are you coming to school? Are you here to see me? Hehe , I just came to see you . Yang Ming smiled and said, Oh ya , which class does Wu Chiren teach now? Wu Chiren? Uncle Ma said with a disdain, You came for him? Whats wrong? I want to ask him about something . Yang Ming looked at Uncle Mas expression and asked curiously . Hmph , that kid, I have long recognized that he wasnt a good person . He was behaving stealthily like a thief and finally, something happened! Uncle Ma sneered . What happened? What do you mean? Yang Ming asked quickly . Wu Chiren was reported for asking the parents of the students for bribes! Uncle Ma said, The Education Bureau dealt with him last year and fired him . Fired? Yang Ming was a bit dumbfounded . He didnt care about what happened to Wu Chiren . His main objective now was to look for Wu Chiren and find out about Su Yas letter! En , he was already fired a long time ago . Uncle Ma said . Yang Ming sighed helplessly and then asked, Uncle Ma, do you know where Wu Chiren went after he was fired? How would I know about this? Uncle Ma shook his head and said, I heard that he seemed to run off to Donghai to do business . Who knows . ai , you wait! Uncle Ma suddenly waved at a teacher not far away . Xiao Zhang, did you live in the same community area with Wu Chiren? Uncle Ma, are you calling me? The teacher, Xiao Zhang, turned around and said, Yup, I lived in the community area with him before, but he moved . Where did he move to? His former student is looking for him . Uncle Ma said . I dont know . He didnt have a wife or a child, but he lived alone . Who knows? But rumors said that he seemed to be doing business in Donghai . Teacher Xiao Zhang said . Oh , I see . You may go . Uncle Ma dismissed him with a wave . Yang Ming didnt have any other means to go about it . Why did Wu Chiren go off to Donghai? It seems that the search for him wouldnt be easy . You saw it too . The teachers in the school actually hate Wu Chiren . I think this guy was the scum of the teaching team . I didnt want to get along with him . Even Xiao Zhang, who lived in the same community area with him didnt know . I think you shouldnt be asking any further! Uncle Ma spoke and shook his head . Alright, no matter what, thank you, Uncle Ma . Yang Ming nodded and said helplessly . Right, Yang Ming, why are you looking for in Wu Chiren? I remember that you werent on his good side . He also forced your little girlfriend to transfer to the other school, right? Uncle Ma was very clear about Yang Mings affairs . I just came to him for this matter! He had taken away the letter that Su Ya wrote to me! If I didnt participate in the class reunion, it would still be under the carpet because I didnt know about it . Yang Ming said with anger, I want to find him to ask for those letters! It turns out to be like that . Then, I cant help you anymore! Uncle Ma sighed and said, I didnt expect you to be still infatuated with that little girl! But even if you find Wu Chiren, he would likely have thrown away those letters like garbage! In fact, Yang Ming also thought about the situation as Uncle Ma described . Who would keep letters that had nothing to do with themselves? However, although Yang Ming knew that the possibility wasnt big when there was a slight hope, he would continue to follow it! Since these were the only clues right now, Yang Ming wouldnt give up easily! Thank you, Uncle Ma . Yes, you wait for me a little while! Yang Ming suddenly remembered that there were still two bottles of white wine in the trunk of the car . He found them when he looked in the trunk by chance the other day . It wasnt a famous wine, but Yang Ming was aware that Uncle Ma loved alcohol . Yang Ming took out the two bottles of white wine from the trunk of the car and gave it to Uncle Ma . Uncle Ma, take these two bottles of wine and drink them . Someone else gave them to me and I have no use of them . Ha ! You, kid, still remember that I like to drink! Then, I wont be generous! Uncle Ma was unambiguous with a bright gaze on the liquor . After saying goodbye to Uncle Ma, Yang Ming frowned . Now the priority was to find Wu Chiren! However, now that Wu Chiren had gone to Donghai for business, the search was much more difficult! Although Donghai wasnt far from Song Jiang, it wasnt easy to find a person in a city! Yang Ming suddenly remembered a person - Sun Jie! Wasnt her family from Donghai? Moreover, it seems that her family had a considerable force in Donghai! In fact, Yang Ming first thought of Tian Donghua . But, he didnt know why when compared to Sun Jie, Yang Ming was more inclined to Sun Jie! That passion left a deep impression on Yang Ming so that he always had some tickle deep down in his heart . The last time he went to Hong Kong, the perfume he brought back for Sun Jie had not been given . With that thought in mind, Yang Ming quickly drove back to the house and took the gift meant for Sun Jie . Of course, he also brought the mink coat for his mom . Big Ming, what did I say to you? Do you put it in your heart? Yang Ming just entered the house and he was stopped by his mother . After his mother lost her job, she was at home . Although she couldnt help herself, Yang Ming still let her rest at home for a while . When he had a startup, he hoped that she could participate . What? Yang Ming said, What about the company? Uncle Zhang is planning for it . What company? Im talking about Chen Mengyan! Im wondering because New Year is coming soon within a month! When will you bring my future daughter-in-law home? I have prepared the red envelope! Mother Yang glared at him in a blaming manner . Ah ! Mom, are you talking about Chen Mengyan? You can rest assured . I will bring her back to you in a few days on New Years Day! Yang Ming suddenly realized . I have mentioned it to her . Really? Mother Yang asked with some doubt . Every time she mentioned this question, Yang Ming tended to cover it up . He wouldnt say anything if he didnt need to . Why would he take the initiative today? | 2019-04-21T06:52:46 | https://www.readlightnovel.org/so-pure-so-flirtatious/chapter-398 |
0.999937 | I've never been hiking in such extreme situations, but if in the situation in the question, i.e. you're hiking in very cold weather and someone falls in (let's say so pretty much their whole body is under, and it's a lake not a river, so no current) what's the best course of action?
Specifically, how do you get them out safely without endangering yourself or others, and what do you do to minimise the risk of hypothermia and other related conditions when they're out?
Talk - Can you talk them out?
Reach - Are they close enough for you to reach, with a branch if necessary?
Throw - Do you have a rope or anything you can throw? This can include flotation devices - even if you don't have a rope this increases the likelihood of survival.
Row - If you have a boat, canoe or raft, row out to get them if it is safe to do so.
Go - If all else fails, pinpoint where the victim is and go for help.
You try to avoid going in the water yourself unless absolutely necessary, but the 5 options above should all be looked at in order.
Get dry clothes from someone's backpack (maybe the best option).
Borrow clothes from someone else (ie, strip off the wet clothes and take someone else's jacket, etc.). This, of course, now gives you two people who aren't properly dressed, so you really want to accelerate efforts to get the whole group to safety. Since this puts another person at risk, you'd want to be pretty cautious about employing it.
The whole idea of changing clothes is that your hiker will be lots more likely to be able to warm himself back up in dry clothes than in wet clothes, so you're looking for any reasonable option to help that happen.
Next, you need to assess your status and consider getting the whole group to safety as soon as possible. If you've been able to get your soggy hiker into some dry clothes (fully or partially), you may be able to just continue your hike. You'll generate some body heat by moving, which will help some. If you have a short distance to travel in order to reach shelter / warmth, this is probably your best bet.
If, however, it's cold enough that you're not going to warm up by hiking, or if you don't have dry clothes, or you had to borrow some clothes from someone (leaving two or more hikers under-dressed) I'd strongly consider getting a fire started in order to warm up and dry off. Some sort of reflective surface (tarp, rock wall, etc.) may help warm you a little more evenly. Dry out your clothes, but don't burn them!
Keep an eye on time vs. your itinerary. If stopping to build a fire will cause you to not be off the trail by nightfall, you'll need to decide if you're staying put overnight or sending someone out for help. All the usual wilderness first-aid guidelines apply here -- don't send anyone anywhere alone, and a group of four is a great deal better than a group of two or three. If you don't have a large enough group to send a capable party for help, I'd be inclined to stay put and keep the group together.
The whole idea here is to keep your head and use the resources of the group to avoid making the situation worse while you're trying to recover.
How cold the water is.
What gear they are carrying that prevents them swimming?
How muddy the bank / lake bed is - will you get stuck if you enter or approach the water?
I'd personally consider going in after someone just about the last option, and even then only when you've no extra clothing and other ready to aid you leaving the water safely. I believe you can likely be more use from the water edge than in trouble with them, even if its only to grab any wood or such that will float and get it as close to the person as possible to aid in keeping them afloat.
Is there ice? If so, the victim may be nowhere near the edge of the lake itself, and you need to consider how much weight that ice can take.
What do you have available? Assuming there is ice, anything that can spread your weight is useful, as is anything long. Bear in mind many people find gripping difficult in cold water due to shock, but any floatation device or improvised life aid should work.
Best case scenario in my mind is that they pull themselves out the water, either by swimming or by pulling themselves onto the ice and keeping their weight distributed on any ice. At that point you need to go through the steps to increase body core temperature, (by fire, drying clothes, getting out of any wind etc).
It's a pretty complicated question to answer, particularly in a short time span, which I'd imagine goes some way to contribute towards the numbers of people killed in bodies of water each year, and those that die trying to save them.
A couple of additional points which I think have not yet got the attention they deserve.
Time is of the essence. I've once seen a report that stated that the average swimmer can make it about 50 meters max in 4°C water before drowning. That is not a lot! Meaning, that if the person in distress cannot hold on to something which helps them stay afloat you have very little time at your hands.
Ice is incredibly dangerous. If the person in distress just broke through a layer of ice it will be almost impossible for them to rescue themselves, unless they have the right tools and experience (or the water is very shallow). It should also be obvious that it is very dangerous for yourself to go anywhere near the place where the ice was broken. If you cannot avoid this, try to spread out your weight, i.e. lie on your belly and spread all fours. Use whatever you can to extend your reach, such as a belt/jacket/backpack strap.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged survival cold-weather emergencies hypothermia or ask your own question. | 2019-04-19T07:20:08 | https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/1221/falling-into-an-ice-cold-body-of-water |
0.999999 | What can be said about BMW that hasn't been said before?
The German luxury carmaker, which celebrated its 100th birthday this year, has for its entire history released a seemingly never-ending stream of breathtaking, record-setting, and smile-inducing machines that have consistently beguiled the automotively inclined.
The essence of BMW boils down to its uncanny ability to produce successful new ideas while remaining faithful to its heritage.
And that heritage, by the way, includes innumerable victories in motorsport — on two wheels and four.
Here is the story of 100 years of BMW, one of the best brands around.
The Bavarian Motor Works story begins with aircraft engines. Their IIIa radial engine quickly gained a reputation for being one of the best and most reliable of its time. Orders from the German government flooded in, overwhelming the small factory.
Now about that logo: While it is widely known as the "propeller," the blue and white center was meant to represent the Bavarian flag. It was designed by the brother of Karl Rapp, who founded BMW predecessor company Rapp Motorenwerke.
After the company was barred from building military-aircraft engines following World War I, BMW produced its first motorcycle, the R32, in 1923. It was very innovative.
While they are rarely sold, recent prices for R32s at auction include $163,000 for a 1924 model in 2009 and a $139,000 in 2011 for a 1925 model.
BMW built its first production car in 1928, the 3/15. It was a licensed copy of the British-designed Austin 7.
Investing in car manufacturing was fueled by BMW's failure to find significant profit in making civilian aircraft engines. This was despite the fact that its engines, such as the 132 Hornet, were excellent.
A Junkers JU 52, powered by three BMW 132 engines. The 132 was developed from the American-built Pratt & Whitney Hornet.
The BMW 303 was also a significant first for the company: It is the origin of the famous kidney grille, still features on all their cars today.
... which included an overall win by the 328 at the 1940 Mille Miglia — one of only three wins by a non-Italian make in the epic race's 30-year history.
Once the Nazis came to power, BMW again began producing military equipment. Forced laborers built machines that fueled the German war effort; most were prisoners of war or inmates of the nearby Dachau concentration camp.
After the Allies triumphed, BMW's plant was left in ruin, and the company spent the next decade on the verge of collapse.
The Isetta, designed by Italian refrigerator company Iso, was license-built by BMW from 1955 to 1962. The single-cylinder car saw only moderate success, but it was enough to get the ball rolling again.
BMW returned to developing their immensely powerful supercharged motorcycles after the war. Wilhelm Noll and Fritz Crohn won the Sidecar World Championship (which remains to this day an actual thing) on a BMW RS54 in 1954 and 1956.
What was the big deal with BMW motorcycles? It's all about the way the engine was mounted. Positioning the cylinders transversely (or sticking out of the sides) meant better cooling and allowed for a more compact bike. The "boxer" layout remains to this day on BMW motorcycles.
Since the very beginning, BMW motorcycles have also used a drive shaft rather than a chain or belt.
Stunning as it is, the BMW 507 was a spectacular commercial flop. After production costs skyrocketed, BMW had to pull the plug before the program dragged the entire company into bankruptcy. Only 252 were ever built.
But don't feel sorry for the lovely 507: The surviving cars will fetch $2 million to $3 million at auction today, while the car has lived on in spirit in the more than 75 years of BMW roadsters that followed it.
Introduced in 1961, the BMW 1500 was the first of the "New Class," a trifecta of models that definitively secured BMW's financial success as a carmaker. Many of the styling cues on this model inspired the next 55 years of their design language.
From the New Class came the 02 series, which included the 2002 turbo, to this day one of the most beloved BMWs ever.
Another great BMW: the 3.0 CSL. This is a racing variant and one of BMWs famous "art cars." American sculptor Alexander Calder painted this one.
A Bavarian Tesla? This 1972 BMW 1602 is indeed fully electric. But without the battery technology of today, the 1602 used nearly 800 pounds of traditional lead-acid car batteries packed under the hood.
Though even the company's current 'i' line is seeing only limited success, BMW has toyed with fully electric cars for a long, long time.
In 1975 BMW launched the 3 Series, and in the 41 years and five generations since, the car remains just about the quintessential luxurious, sporty set of wheels.
The M1: BMW's first mid-engine car and their only supercar to date — 453 were built from 1978 to 1981.
In 1986, BMW put the engine from the M1 into their E28 5 Series sedan (left). Thus the "M" car — and the entire concept of the "businessman's express," or high-performance sedan — was born. To this day the M5 is widely praised as being the best of its type.
The BMW Z1 roadster will forever be remembered for one thing: Its electronic slide-down doors.
Bond in a Bimmer: For a three-movie stretch in the 1990s, James Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan) drove a BMW Z3, this Z8, and a massive, V12 powered 750iL.
The Z8, designed by Henrik Fisker, was heavily inspired by the great 507 roadster.
... a growing lineup of cars, including the Clubman, Countryman, Paceman, and many versions of the classic Mini Cooper.
They also acquired the Rolls-Royce brand in 1998 from Volkswagen.
BMW has made several attempts at success in Formula One — the best period being in the early 2000s with the Williams F1 team.
As for motorcycles, BMW still churns out epic machines like this HP4.
The first M3 arrived in 1985. While it has always played second fiddle to the M5, it is still a force unto itself.
Announced just this year, the new BMW M2 — sure to make drivers happy as only an M car can.
... and the i3, an all-electric city car and the smallest of BMW's young "i" line of electric or electric-hybrid cars. It is so far the third-best-selling electric car on the market, behind only the Tesla Model S and the Nissan Leaf.
At the top end of the "i" range is the i8, a hybrid sports car that looks like a futuristic version of M1. Business Insider loved it.
BMW has an uncommon ability to create the automotive style and technology of the future while remaining linked to its own decorated past.
So where to next? BMW chief Harald Krüger introduced the "Vision Next 100" concept at the Geneva Motor show this year as an educated guess at what the BMW a century from now will look like. We shall see. | 2019-04-25T15:04:36 | https://www.thisisinsider.com/bmw-is-turning-100-heres-its-story-2016-4 |
0.927481 | Newspotting: Do some voluntary work, pay less council tax?
This is the question I was asked last week.
I was on my lunch break at work down in Kennington South London, when I was approached by a girl accompanied with a photographer.
She asked if I'd have time to answer a couple of questions. It was one of those moments where I thought why not.
She asked for my thoughts on the idea of people doing some form of local voluntary work if it meant getting a reduction in their council tax bill.
A very interesting idea I thought. I said to her that for me it would depend on what type of voluntary work I'd be required to do.
The main issue I had and which I explained, is that if people do more voluntary work and are paying less in council tax, it means that local authorities are receiving less money from local tax payers.
Now here's a thought. Less money received from tax payers means local authorities might have to cut back on the services they can provide.
Would the voluntary work on offer be about people carrying out the sort of roles normally provided by a your local council?
If that's the case, then I'd be reluctant about volunteering. I like the idea of encouraging more people to get involved in helping out in their local communities, but not if it means people start taking many of the functions that a local government should be responsible for.
I think the girl I was speaking to was slightly impressed by the angle I took in answering her question. The obvious answer is to say of course, I'll do anything to pay less tax.
She told me that she was interviewing people for Lambeth Council's newspaper, Lambeth Life. Lambeth council are interested in possibly starting such a scheme.
She said my comments would be featured in the paper and I had my photo taken by the photographer.
As I headed to a local cafe to get a sandwich I thought more about her question. Perhaps this is the part of David Cameron's 'Big Society' where people are being encouraged to get more involved in running their local communities.
I'm not against the idea in principle, but with local government facing big spending cuts, and looking at further ways to save money; I'm just a little sceptical about the idea of getting volunteers to deliver services and take on roles that should be the responsibility of government. | 2019-04-23T18:29:03 | http://www.rodneysblog.co.uk/2010/10/do-some-voluntary-work-pay-less-council.html |
0.999999 | Jesse Jackson and some conservatives say voters should have full representation in Congress. FROM D.C. TO NEW COLUMBIA?
WILL ``New Columbia'' become America's 51st state? Jesse Jackson says the time has come for the nation's capital, which would be renamed New Columbia, to gain statehood, including full representation on Capitol Hill. If Congress and President Bush won't agree, the Rev. Mr. Jackson threatens an appeal to the United Nations to end ``tyranny'' over the federal city.
It might surprise people from other nations to learn that here at the heart of Western democracy, the 604,000 residents of Washington, D.C., cannot vote for either the House of Representatives or the Senate. It was only 29 years ago that this mostly black city won the right to vote in presidential elections.
With democracy movements sweeping Eastern Europe and even the Soviet Union, the political consciousness of Washington citizens is being stirred. They call their city ``the last colony.'' If citizens of Budapest, Warsaw, and Moscow are winning the right to vote, they ask, why not Washington, which has more people than three states?
Jackson, who can always draw a crowd of TV cameras, has adopted statehood for the District of Columbia as his newest cause c'el`ebre. Calling it ``a question of simple democracy,'' the preacher-politician says it is time for D.C. voters to have two senators and at least one representative in the House, just like any state.
Even some conservatives who have strongly criticized D.C.'s city government, such as Rep. Stan Parris (R) of Virginia, now agree that the district should have a voice on Capitol Hill. Mr. Parris says it is unfair that district residents must pay federal taxes and serve in the military without full representation in Congress.
Parris would solve the problem by allowing D.C. residents to vote for Congress as if they were residents of neighboring Maryland. No new state. No new senators. District residents would share Maryland's two US senators, and be given representatives in the House in proportion to their population.
Jackson, who many suspect would like to be a US senator from New Columbia, denounces as ``half remedies'' anything that falls short of statehood. Merging Washington with Maryland for voting purposes would deny the capital an opportunity to ``solve our own problems,'' Jackson says.
Even in this pro-democracy age, statehood for the capital city will be a difficult goal, predicts R. Kent Weaver, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Furthermore, Mr. Weaver suggests that Jackson's threatened appeal to the UN could backfire.
Even so, Weaver says that D.C. residents are clearly being ill-served. ``They are being denied the right to vote, which is a basic American right,'' he observes.
In 1978, Congress tried to remedy the situation with a constitutional amendment that would have given the district two senators and a representative as if it were a state. However, only 17 states ratified the amendment out of the necessary 38, and the amendment died.
Merger with Maryland. Gov. William Donald Schaefer (D) of Maryland set off a flurry of speculation when he said he would ``have no problem with D.C. becoming a part of Maryland.'' Jackson retorted: ``Thanks, but no thanks.'' Jackson said that would be like turning D.C. into a ``bantustan,'' or black homeland, as in South Africa.
``Metro state.'' Some critics of D.C. statehood say the city fathers do not take the idea far enough. Their proposal: create a new state out of D.C., plus surrounding areas of Maryland and Virginia. This new metropolitan state would currently have 3,734,200 people. It is rapidly growing, and would be fairly well balanced between racial groups and political persuasions.
Greater home rule. Congress supplies only 13 percent of D.C.'s budget, but can control how the entire city budget is spent. Federal officials clamped down, for example, on D.C. spending for abortions. One solution: home rule except where there is an overriding federal interest.
Law professor Philip Schrag of Georgetown University says this is a poor time to debate statehood because of the drug charges pending against Washington Mayor Marion Barry. ``If we had a new mayor and the district seemed to be solving its crime and economic problems, the country might take a different view of the statehood issue,'' the professor says.
But Judith Best, a political scientist at State University of New York at Cortland, favors merging the District of Columbia with Maryland.
Charlene Drew Jarvis, a D.C. council member, says the biggest problems are political. Everyone knows that Washington would probably elect two new Democratic senators, and Republicans cannot accept that. The whole thing is ``real partisan,'' she says.
One in a series of weekly articles on life in the United States. | 2019-04-18T16:19:47 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1990/0329/adc.html |
0.999234 | The Minnesota congresswoman introduces legislation to protect the greenback from the new world order meddling of Tim Geithner, the Benedict Arnold of treasury secretaries.
You can say a lot, and we most certainly have, about the utterances that emerge from Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann's mouth, but you can't say that she doesn't stick to her guns. On Tuesday, the congresswoman asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner whether he would "categorically renounce the United States moving away from the dollar and going to a global currency as suggested this morning by China."
What happened in the meantime? Geithner appeared before the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday morning and confused his audience, not to mention currency traders watching the live stream of the event all over the world, by appearing to indicate that he was open to an idea proposed by China's Central Banker Zhou Xiaochuan calling for the creation of a new "super-sovereign" international reserve currency.
Asked today about a currency proposal from China at a Council on Foreign Relations event, Secretary Geithner stated he was open to supporting it. Despite attempts to clarify his remarks later in the day, the unguarded initial response calls into question his true intentions.
His true intentions! It's not enough that the right thinks Geithner's a power-mad statist who wants to destroy the free market for all time, while the left thinks he's a minion of Goldman Sachs determined to hand billions of taxpayer dollars to his plutocrat buddies! No, the truth is far, far worse. He's a Chinese mole, a real-life Manchurian treasury secretary, programmed to take over the Treasury Department of the United States and destroy the value of the U.S. dollar. He is the Benedict Arnold of treasury secretaries!
Yet even as I jest, I have to acknowledge that currency traders dumped the dollar within seconds of Geithner's initial comments, and they only stopped panicking after the moderator of the CFR event, former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, gave Geithner an opportunity to reiterate the platitude that the dollar would remain the world's "dominant currency." It seems ludicrous that the world's currency traders could be so naive, but hey, all it takes is a trickle of stupidity to start an avalanche of sell orders.
So what did Geithner really say? I watched the CFR event in real time, and the first thing that struck me was how much more relaxed and comfortable Geithner appeared in front of an audience of his peers -- bankers, regulators, financial journalists -- than he does when facing Senate and House committees, giving speeches, or appearing on CNN. It's a lot easier not dumbing yourself down for an audience that understands what you are talking about than sparring with the likes of Maxine Waters, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann or Jim Bunning. Geithner spoke fluidly and confidently about a range of issues. But it's possible that that very sense of comfort set him up for a fatal trap.
Here's what Geithner said after being asked to comment "on the Chinese government proposal about a global currency."
I haven't read the governor's proposal. He's a -- a remarkable -- a very thoughtful, very careful distinguished central banker. Generally find him sensible on every issue.
But as I understand this proposal, it's a proposal designed to increase the use of the IMF's special drawing rights [SDRs]. And we're actually quite open to that suggestion.
But you should think of it as rather evolutionary, building on the current architecture, than -- rather than -- rather than moving us to global monetary union.
Moments later, Altman followed up.
ALTMAN: A number -- I haven't read the -- the governor's essay either. But a slew of news reports interpreted his comments to suggest that the world needs a super reserve currency and that the dollar on some gradual basis ought to be replaced in favor of that. And I wasn't entirely clear on what your response was.
GEITHNER: Well, as I said, I haven't read his proposal, but I thought the initial reaction was sort of ahead of the details of the proposal I saw. The only thing concrete I saw was a reference to extending the use of the SDR.
I do think Geithner stumbled a bit here. While it is true that the substantive policy recommendations in Zhao Xiaochuan's proposal had to do with strengthening the IMF's Special Drawing Rights -- which are best thought of as an accounting technique used to manage the books between the IMF and sovereign nations -- it's foolish to deny that those proposals came in the context of a clear call to replace the U.S. dollar as the de facto international reserve currency. Geithner should have been more sensitive to that, although I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Considering how much he has on his plate and how much time he has spent this week testifying before Congress, he probably didn't have time to review the Chinese proposal. He is simultaneously trying to fix the banking system, overhaul regulation of the financial sector, save the auto industry and help get the U.S. economy out of a recession. I forgive him for not being up to date on Chinese schemes for international monetary union.
The point is, it is not necessarily a stupid or bad thing to bolster the IMF SDRs. One way to think about SDRs is as credits that nations with trade surpluses can use to balance their accounts with nations that have trade deficits. The IMF is the clearinghouse, and the result is increased liquidity. In a world with vast global imbalances, largely due to the fact that the U.S. runs huge deficits but the U.S. dollar is the de facto international reserve currency, greater use of SDRs could help even things out, and perhaps even alleviate pressure on the dollar.
Dani Rodrik, the Harvard economist, argued in February that the "easiest and quickest way to create global liquidity and enable credit-starved emerging and developing countries to increase their spending is for the IMF to engineer a vast new SDR allocation. It can be done at the stroke of a pen, and it does not require the IMF to negotiate a program for every country that needs a loan."
Let's remember some basic facts. The U.S. fiscal stimulus will be a lot less effective if it is not accompanied by similar fiscal action elsewhere. Developing nations are severely limited in what they can do in this respect because they have little room for domestic borrowing. Serious fiscal stimulus requires that they have resort to external resources, of which there is a severe shortage at the moment (both because of the flight to quality and the borrowing that is going on in the developed world). The existing swap lines and the IMF's new short-term lending facility have had few takers, in part because no country wants to signal that they are (or may be) in trouble and running out of resources. A generalized SDR allocation -- in return for a commitment to spend a share of these resources in pursuit of a globally coordinated fiscal stimulus -- would give countries the cover needed to do what is good for them and for the rest of the world without suffering a reputational penalty.
The main objection to the creation of SDRs has always been that this would be inflationary. In the current environment, this is a plus rather than a minus. Inflationary, you say? Pile it on! That is exactly what the doctor ordered.
On March 11, in preparation for a meeting with the finance ministers of the G20, the Treasury Department released a proposal that included a call for a one-time increase in SDR allocations for IMF members as part of a plan to improve global financial stability. In retrospect, I think it's pretty clear that Geithner was thinking in terms of what he had already proposed when he said the Treasury was "open" to Zhao's suggestion to increase the use of special drawing rights. And he probably imagined that he was talking to an audience that was attuned to such subtleties.
But, of course, as the treasury secretary of the United States he was talking to the entire world, which includes ample quantities of trigger-happy currency traders and right-wing isolationists who see any hint at global monetary union as an impermissible sacrifice of U.S. sovereignty to America-haters who will use their new powers to seize our children and force them to pray before graven images of Karl Marx every morning.
Call me crazy, but I don't think that's part of Tim Geithner's master plan. | 2019-04-26T13:54:47 | https://www.salon.com/2009/03/26/michele_bachmann_and_geithner/ |
0.996298 | ‘The Martian’: What Would It Take to Grow Food on Mars?
(Spoiler alert) In the movie, when Watney (played by Matt Damon) gets stranded on Mars, he plants potatoes in a greenhouse using Martian soil and his own “metabolic waste.” And it works: He’s able to stay alive for more than a year living largely on potatoes.
Martian soil is devoid of the nutrients found in Earth’s soil, and it is also fine, meaning water would likely seep through it much more quickly than it would on Earth. Using human poop or other fertilizers could provide a quick boost of nutrients, such as nitrogen, and may also change the texture of the soil so it would cling to water longer, said Sokoloff, who was a crewmember last year at the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah.Earthly soil gets its nitrogen from the atmosphere, though atmospheric nitrogen is in a form that is not easy for plants to use. To transform nitrogen into a better “food” for plants, bacteria “fix” it.
Martian soil is also laced with nasty chemicals called perchlorates, which would have to be chemically removed for plants to grow there, Sokoloff said.
And then there’s gravity. Mars has about one-third the gravity of Earth. Though experiments have shown that some plants can grow relatively normally in microgravity on the International Space Station (ISS), there’s really no way to mimic the “gravity-lite” of the Red Planet.
“Plants use gravity as a way of orienting themselves, so some plant species may or may not be confused,” Sokoloff said.
For instance, willow seedlings taken up to the ISS grew twisted because, in microgravity, they never developed their orienting “root-shoot axis,” Sokoloff said.
To determine what food ingredients to actually bring to Mars, scientists must balance trade-offs among the nutritional density of a crop, the resources required to grow them and the germination time. Scientists may be growing lettuce on the ISS as a demonstration, but “man cannot live on lettuce alone,” Sokoloff said.
Before the Martian farming project gets going, humans would need to know a lot more about how plants will grow. That’s part of the reasoning behind simulations of the Martian environment, such as the Mars Desert Research Station.
Scientists there have grown everything from native desert plants to barley and hops in the station’s simulated Martian soil. The soil, called Johnson Space Center Simulant I, is produced using Earthling rocks and soil based on Martian soil samples from 1970s-era Viking landers.
And researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada are growing plants in low-pressure, or hypobaric chambers to mimic the thin atmosphere of Mars. The team exposes plants to a host of rough conditions — including varying levels of carbon dioxide, pressure, heat, light, nutrition and humidity — to see which plants are hardy enough to survive Martian conditions outside a self-contained, air-controlled greenhouse, The Star peported.
Growing plants out in the Martian elements, and not in a temperature- and air-controlled greenhouse, would be much more challenging, Sokoloff said.
And even if people decided it’s ethically acceptable to “terraform” Mars, it would be hundreds of years before the thin Martian atmosphere could be transformed into an oxygen-rich cradle for life.
While the microbes were busy creating an atmosphere, solar wind would constantly be blowing that atmosphere away, because Mars lacks a magnetosphere (a magnetic field to shield the planet from solar radiation), he said.
Even if people could figure out how to generate atmosphere faster than it dissipated, Martian winters can be a bone-chilling minus 207 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 133 degrees Celsius). It’s possible that people could tailor an atmosphere with greenhouse gases that trap heat, but Mars is simply farther from the sun than Earth is, so it would still likely be colder than our planet on average, Sokoloff said.
Follow Tia Ghose on Twitterand Google+. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on Live Science. | 2019-04-21T15:10:58 | https://occupymars.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/growing-food-on-mars/ |
0.999994 | The Objective : Carrots will grow sideways when grown in a constantly spinning cage. Based on my research, I believe that the stem of the plant will grow toward the light but the roots will grow in between and toward both forces (gravitational + centrifugal). Also, the roots will grow longer with a stronger resultant force. The centrifugal force was caused by the rotation of the pots inside the spinner. The resultant force was calculated at a 127.5 degree angle starting from vertical and equal to almost 1.6X the gravity force (51.2ft/s2).
1. Construct a structure to hold and rotate the potted plants.
a. Build frame that holds the plants.
b. Attach the crosspieces that hold the frame and put it on the bearings.
c. Take apart dryer to get electric motor and attach it to the frame.
d. Put in the lights.
e. Pot and plant the seeds.
f. Attach the pots to the outside frame.
2. Grow plants in rotating structure and grow non-rotating plants.
b. Water the plants every 2-3 days until they are finished growing.
3. Take the plants out and unearth them to get results after 6 weeks of growth.
4. Organize the results into graphs and write report.
The plants that were in the spinner grew longer than the ones on the ground. The average was a 77% increase in length (1.77times).
In addition, the angle of growth was between 114 degrees and 135 degrees (measuring from vertical). The average angle was 125 degrees.
My hypothesis was correct. The roots grew at almost exactly the angle than I predicted. The roots of the plants in the spinner grew longer than the roots of the plants on the ground, just as I had predicted.
This project is to investigate How creating artificial gravity in carrot plants changes their growth and development. | 2019-04-22T04:11:00 | http://www.kidsprojects.info/Plant-Biology/Effect-of-Centripetal-Force.php |
0.999999 | TL; DR: Founded in 2009 by entrepreneur and tech enthusiast Jon Rettinger, TechnoBuffalo has been keeping consumers and businesses informed of the latest technology and tools for nearly a decade. The website broadcasts honest, unbiased product reviews, tips, and tech industry news through an array of resources, including videos, in-depth articles, and its social media channels. Whether you’re a consumer looking for the latest smart appliance to add to your home’s IoT ecosystem or an IT pro seeking software to streamline your company’s operations, TechnoBuffalo’s team of experts is there to deliver the info needed to make an educated purchase. We recently caught up with Jon, who told us how TechnoBuffalo evolved over the years and continues to pump out useful educational information to its global audience.
Roughly 10 years ago, Jon Rettinger was living in a one-bedroom apartment in SoCal and eking out a living running marketing for a software development firm. He was getting by, but Jon knew working for someone else for the rest of his life wasn’t the path he was destined to take. Then, his PC crashed and he bought his first Mac. Unfamiliar with the new operating system, Jon went on YouTube expecting to find a video guide, but he found nothing but cat videos.
“So I figured I would just try to make some videos and try to help people,” Jon said.
He went to work, posting tutorials that walked viewers through how to navigate the OS. A year later, YouTube began its Partner Program, a revenue-sharing system between the company and content creators. Jon found the name of the person heading the project and sent him a three-page, hand-written letter outlining why he should be accepted. And he received a response.
The head of the program asked that he not ever write him again. He also informed Jon that he had been accepted into YouTube’s new venture.
Jon Rettinger founded TechnoBuffalo to help consumers and businesses make more informed tech purchasing decisions.
Jon hypothesized that video content was going to be the next big hit. He also realized that websites had yet to capitalize on the opportunity, so he began contacting companies and pitching his ability to create content for them. And, after refining his business plan and securing funding, TechnoBuffalo was born.
Today, Jon and the TechnoBuffalo crew are committed to dishing out the scoop on the latest technology and tools to make people’s lives easier — whether it’s a consumer deciding on a new smartphone or a marketer looking for software to streamline sales campaigns. The aim is to inform — a goal the folks at TechnoBuffalo easily achieve. And the team’s entertaining writing style and engaging video production techniques have visitors returning in droves.
When you get down to the nuts and bolts of TechnoBuffalo’s mission, it’s really all about helping people avoid making technology purchases that don’t deliver the type of ROI they’re seeking. The team executes this mission with both expansive and focused profiles of the latest mobile, tablet, computer, home entertainment, and gaming technology. But the content isn’t just product centered. TechnoBuffalo also covers tech sector news and geek culture.
As a result of its 10 years in the review space, TechnoBuffalo has earned a stellar reputation among consumers and technology manufacturers alike. Jon and his team regularly receive the latest games, phones, smart TVs, and software, among many other products, to review. And the approach is always the same — reviews are always meant to deliver unbiased insights on the product in question. The team’s conclusions on a product are the result of careful study and are transmitted with authority and enthusiasm.
Delivering industry news is a major part of TechnoBuffalo’s content strategy. Events, such as Google’s 2018 I/O Keynote, are covered to help web professionals and businesses that rely on SEO and analytics prepare for what’s coming down the pipeline. On the consumer side, updates, like news of HTC’s upcoming release of a new flagship device, help those in the market for a new phone set their expectations and budgets.
In the spirit of Jon’s founding mission to help foster better purchasing decisions, TechnoBuffalo’s educational resources help readers decode the latest advancements out of Silicon Valley and beyond. One content piece introduces readers to a bundle covering AI and Deep Learning, which provides an in-depth look at the often misunderstood concepts. The seven ebooks and the 10 hours of video in the series examine programming languages and platforms that can help prepare IT pros uncover emerging job markets and opportunities for career advancement.
Jon told us TechnoBuffalo’s video content is really what separates the company from other review sites. And TechnoBuffalo’s dedication to continuously improve on this front plays a huge role in the company’s success.
Jon noted that being informative is not enough. Videos must look professional and engage consumers. As a result, TechnoBuffalo built its production aesthetic around the viewer experience. The music choice is suited to the product being displayed without distracting from the presentation. And the sound is always edited in a way that magnifies the points being made while allowing the viewer the space to take in the product design.
Along with cutting-edge camera technology, TechnoBuffalo utilizes cinematic techniques to invite the viewer into the narrative. Slow pans and subtle zooms showcase the devices down to the most minute detail. The camera work accentuates the beauty of the design, an important advancement in today’s marketplace. Utilizing steady camera technology for tilts and other 3D moves around the products creates the most immersive experiences possible without actually holding the product in your hands.
Simple but timely animation helps demonstrate some of the technology that viewers can’t observe. For example, Jon’s review of the Sony A1E OLED TV goes into great detail about the product’s sound-emitting screen technology. As Jon explained in the review, vibrations are created by the actuators in the back of the set and then amplified through the glass. The process is made clear in the video review with the visual aid of clean, white graphics provided by the production team while Jon gushes about the experience of using the set in the TechnoBuffalo offices.
All of these aspects serve to make the videos more engaging and contribute to their informative value. But the most entertaining element may be Jon himself. He demonstrates his acumen for design and technical capability with fluency and personality. His excitement for Sony’s television processors and their ability to handle the playback he throws at his own with sporting events and FPS video games is contagious.
Personality and preferences weigh heavily in TechnoBuffalo’s content. However, the focus is always on the technical achievement or lack thereof. Jon told us the goal is to be specific and fair when critiquing a product.
Though he founded the company out of a one-bedroom apartment, Jon makes it clear that TechnoBuffalo is now a collaborative effort. And all staff members contribute ideas to the content planning and production process.
Jon told us the content creators at TechnoBuffalo are given plenty of freedom to roam. And this is fine with the company president, who would rather not micromanage employees. He’s happy to see team members meet their responsibilities independently. And that autonomy shows in the writing. Opinions serve as subheads in Brandon Russell’s review of Huawei’s P20 Pro smartphone. Just by scanning the headings, such as “I love the gradient paint job,” and “The camera is a triple threat,” readers get an idea of Brandon’s take on the product.
Another regular contributor, Danny Zepeda, has a succinct style that cuts to the heart of the matter in his posts, often covering electric vehicles and hybrid cars. In a review of Kia’s Niro, he praises the new production model, which differs vastly from the concept car unveiled early this year at CES. Danny’s initial impressions of the vehicle included “gaudy” and “ostentatious”. But he then pivots to the more family-friendly version consumers will see at the local Kia dealership. He praises the 64 kWh battery, which is expected to deliver 201 horsepower and 291-pound-feet of torque, as well as 280 miles on a single charge.
All of this works to hit one overarching metric.
TechnoBuffalo is more of a partnership these days. The Editor-in-Chief uses the same metric as Jon: If he would read it, he publishes it. And Jon said there’s just one qualification for all content TechnoBuffalo posts.
TechnoBuffalo has become a reliable voice in the tech review space. Companies send products to Jon and his team because of the weight TechnoBuffalo reviews carry with consumers. However, no company is guaranteed a glowing review. Even with products they adore, the team members pull no punches when it comes to design flaws or impediments to a smooth user experience.
An avid sports fan, Jon modeled a recent review on an MMA fight, pitting the iPhone X against the Pixel 2 XL. There were five scoring categories: design, camera, display, performance, and intangibles. The competition was bruising, and Jon gleefully described all the aspects he loved about both devices as well as their vulnerabilities. He delivered on his promise to choose a clear winner. And though the iPhone X’s flaws included the “hump” created by the phone’s camera housing which prohibits it from lying flat on its backside, Apple’s flagship took the match.
TechnoBuffalo maintains its autonomy because it is not owned by a large conglomerate. Jon said he is proud of the fact that the website is able to deliver authentic responses and informed criticism. This freedom has built trust with his readers and allows him to create new ventures that his readers want to see. The company plans to expand its focus and launch a satellite site soon for more movie news, comic books, and anything related to the new generation of geek culture.
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0.999044 | MENLO PARK, Calif. - At the turn of the last century, the economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen -- coiner of the phrase "conspicuous consumption" -- railed against needless waste and the tendency of the rich to indulge themselves with expensive homes and superfluous possessions.
So he might have appreciated the irony of the sales pitch for his soon-to-be-demolished home at 2006 Sand Hill Road, fabled avenue of Silicon Valley venture capitalists: "Build Your Own Dream Home! Fabulous West Menlo Park Location."
The rustic two-story house, where Veblen lived the last few years of his life and died in 1929, was marketed by real estate agents as a "tear down." It was sold to local developers in September for $1,115,000 by Charles Sims, 59, whose grandmother Ann Bradley Bevans Veblen, a sharpshooter and suffragette, was Veblen's second wife. The house is a charming but somewhat ramshackle affair reflective of Veblen's abhorrence of froufrou.
Mr. Sims, a biochemist, lost his job at a biotechnology company 18 months ago. His wife, Lyn, 55, a software project manager, was laid off four years ago. Mr. Sims grew up in the house, which Veblen moved into the year after he retired from the New School of Social Research in New York in 1926. Although Veblen's time in the house was brief, it holds deep and long associations with the economist, who, in addition to his radical theories, was known for romantic dalliances with students.
The house has been described by the biographers Elizabeth Watkins Jorgensen and Henry Irvin Jorgensen as "an arty, board and batten, two-story redwood shanty, with a movable skylight roof in one of the upstairs bedrooms." It was built in 1910 by Veblen's first wife, Ellen Rolfe Veblen, from whom Veblen was estranged.
He began teaching at Stanford in 1906 and lived in a faculty cottage next to the property. Ellen Veblen built the house, mixing the concrete with her bare hands, according to some accounts, "in order to keep track of her estranged husband's comings and goings," said Russell Bartley, a Veblen scholar and professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
As if building a watchtower were not enough, she made a concerted and ultimately successful effort to have Veblen forced out of his Stanford teaching position, Professor Bartley said.
Veblen eventually married Mr. Sims's vivacious grandmother, known to friends as Babe, who was a former student of his at the University of Chicago. His first wife hung on to the house and, upon Babe's death in 1920, offered to sell it to him for $2,000. He moved in in 1927. He died in an upstairs bedroom, which is now outfitted with Mr. Sims's computer and an exercise bicycle.
Even after death, the house retained a simple, albeit rickety, Veblen aura, lending to this once unassuming neighborhood of oak trees and cottages an intellectual and bohemian cachet. In 1958, Ken Kesey, the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," moved into a cottage on Perry Lane next door.
"Thorstein Veblen had lived there," Tom Wolfe wrote of the Perry Lane neighborhood (now called University Park) in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." "So had two Nobel Prize winners everybody knew about though the names escaped them."
To Nancy Eldredge, who edits the University Park Temblor, a local newsletter, the impending loss of the house represents further homogenization of the neighborhood, where the number of original houses is shrinking steadily each year, fetching from $800,000 to $2 million for the land. "It's a miracle that something so woodsy and rustic is still here," she said. Since she moved into the neighborhood nine years ago, she said, "the hammers replacing the humble old with the big and shiny new haven't stopped."
The farmstead where Thorstein Veblen grew up in Nerstrand, Minn., not far from his alma mater, Carleton College, has fared better. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been preserved by a local economist and businessman. Mr. Sims and his wife plan to move to Chapel Hill, N.C., to seek new jobs. "The house is rotting away," he said. "But I don't see the flaws as dramatically as other people."
Keri Nicholas, the Coldwell Banker broker who sold the house, said that up to two houses might eventually be built on the site. For all its history, she said, the house is not suited to today's needs. "For people with two kids, space is everything," Ms. Nicholas said. "They want the kitchen-family room and the master suite."
Veblen would not exactly be rolling in his grave. When he died, he left specific instructions that he was to be cremated, "as expeditiously and inexpensively as may be, without ritual or ceremony of any kind."
The impending demolition "couldn't be more apt," said Sidney Plotkin, a professor of political science at Vassar and president of the International Thorstein Veblen Association, a scholarly group whose mission includes analyzing the implications of Veblen's work for the contemporary political economy.
"It would put a wry smile on his face," Professor Plotkin added. "He understood that real estate was an exercise in inflated values that could vanish in a split second." | 2019-04-19T08:44:05 | https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/09/us/an-inconspicuous-consumption-yields-at-last-to-market-forces.html |
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0.998927 | Or: why doesn't this work the way I expect?
Most Chinese users expect Chinese characters to sort by number of strokes or by phonetics. But in most non-Chinese versions of Word and Excel, Chinese characters will sort by Unicode code point values. To add the stroke and phonetic sort options, you must install Chinese proofing tools for Office.
See the page on MS Office Language Packs and Proofing Tools for information on obtaining these features. The following instructions assume you've installed one or more language packs for Chinese.
Without an Office language pack, the default sort is by Unicode. This is generally in Kangxi radical order, although I believe it gets weird once you get into the number ranges of rare characters.
In this example the sort is by the Kangxi radicals 乙, 子, and 己, which are numbers 5, 39, and 49 (and in the wrong order by the Simplified system: 7, 74, 72).
In Word, sorting by stroke starts working after you've installed an Office language pack for Chinese, with no adjustments to your settings, but you'll need to change something in Options to enable phonetic sorting.
To get "Phonetic" sort working properly for Chinese characters in Word, or to get "Stroke" and "Syllabary"/"Phonetic" sort to work in Excel, you must switch to a Chinese editing language.
In Excel or Word, go to the File tab, select Options, and then Language. Look for "Choose Editing Languages". Select a Chinese option, click the "Set as Default" button, and then click the "OK" button. Close all Office apps (including Outlook), then proceed. If you don't see Chinese listed there, you need to install at least one Office language pack for this language.
After installing an Office language pack for Chinese and selecting Chinese as the editing language, you'll have more options.
In the Excel "Custom Sort..." dialog box, click the "Options..." button and you'll find stroke and phonetic ordering.
In PRC mode "Syllabary" means Hanyu Pinyin, and the characters are now sorted alphabetically by the letters J, K, Y (己, 孔, 乙).
In Chinese (Taiwan) editing language mode (or Hong Kong or Macau), "Phonetic" means Zhuyin Fuhao.
In this example, characters are sorted in "Bopomofo" phonetic order by the initials ㄎ, ㄐ, ㄧ (孔, 己, 乙).
By installing both the Chinese (PRC) and Chinese (Taiwan or HK or Macau) packs, both types of phonetics will be available.
Most Chinese users expect the characters to sort by number of strokes. This works in both Simplified (PRC) and Traditional (Taiwan / Hong Kong / Macau) editing modes.
In Chinese editing modes if you try to sort from "A to Z" or "Z to A" it will sort by stroke anyway, but in this example we see the custom options dialog, and the characters sorted by 1, 3, and 4 strokes (乙, 己, 孔).
OK? Feel free to send questions, comments, or suggestions anytime. | 2019-04-21T22:02:39 | http://pinyinjoe.com/faq/sorting-chinese-in-excel-and-word.htm |
0.999999 | Blumhouse has the opportunity to turn the franchise into an anthology series that is not currently on screen.
"He was waiting for this night … he was waiting for me … I was waiting for him," says Jamie Lee Curtis & # 39; Laurie Strode before she loads her Tactical Shotgun. She is prepared for the war, a war many have been thinking about. They were wrong. Michael Myers is back. David Gordon Greens Halloween A direct sequel to John Carpenter's original from 1978, The Shape (James Jude Courtney and Nick Castle) looks set to arrive in Haddonfield for a final showdown with Laurie Strode forty years after their original encounter. The film was not only sold as a return to the form of the franchise, but also as the conclusion of Laurie's story, in which her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Maathhak) are involved in the conflict. It is this sense of inference, the age of trauma bubbling to the surface, and two primitive forces mutually observing each other over generations, which makes Halloween so different from what came before.
But that's not an era of franchise dying, especially no brand as popular as Halloween . Despite the perfect ending that Green has developed with this film, which respects the legacy of Carpenter's original and feels up to date in today's social climate, there will be more Halloween. Producer and horror author Jason Blum said in an interview with Forbes last month, "I'd like to do sequels, and I hope we'll do a sequel and we'll do a sequel when the movie comes out We're not going to decide if we're going to do a sequel or not until we see the reaction to this movie, but I really hope I can do it. "The reaction is in full swing and the box office numbers continue over the weekend Ascending, the decision on whether to continue, seems to be simple. Only a few weeks ago there were rumors that preparations had already begun in the next episode. Green's band not only returned Curtis as executive producer, but also John Carpenter for composing and executive producer and Nick Castle in the role of The Shape. Halloween seems like a magical convergence of creative arrangements that happens so seldom. The chances that all parties will come together again to create a continuation that is not only desirable but necessary seems small. So what happens when the 31st of October rolls again?
There is no better way to further appreciate the legacy of Carpenter and Hill than to return to this anthology idea. Blumhouse has proven to be a pioneer and offers filmmakers with original ideas low budget options. Green managed to get on the plate and deliver a worthy conclusion to Michael Myers' story, and it seems counterproductive to ask other filmmakers for the same, so we will not find the franchise in the same situation as in the 1990s Simply be replaced with Jason or Freddy for the same effect. Surely there could be more films with Michael Myers entertaining us and perhaps scare us. But can there be more films with Michael Myers who have something to say? That seems much less likely. But by broadening the concept of Halloween as a film franchise to include everything we love about vacations – "Black cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts, witches and all their hosts" as the children sang in Carpenter's movie – we can have something much more exciting on our hands. We can get a chance to be surprised by Halloween annually. It's time to rethink our ideas of what is Halloween . It's time to finally rest Michael Myers and reshape evil. | 2019-04-23T12:31:33 | https://newsbeezer.com/what-halloween-means-for-future-movies/ |
0.999639 | (CNN) – ISIS the main target of airstrikes being carried out by a U.S.-led coalition.
But what targets have been struck, and is the campaign working?
(CNN) – Lawmakers and military analysts have said boots on the ground will be necessary to defeat ISIS.
But the United States' Arab coalition allies are reluctant to put boots on the ground, so will the task ultimately fall to the U.S.?
"We need to be a little more clear about what U.S. troop presence we're talking about – advisers, special operators – it's not zero boots on the ground," said CNN political commentator Jay Carney.
(CNN) – The latest round of airstrikes in Syria are targeting ISIS-controlled oil fields, striking the terrorist group's cash flow.
U.S. surveillance had identified the targets over the last several weeks, said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Hitting the oil installations "would cause the least amount of collateral damage, but yet seek to do really do damage to the infrastructure of ISIL," said Chambliss, using an alternative name for the group.
(CNN) - U.N. Security Council members on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution to address the growing threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters, a measure that U.S. President Barack Obama applauded while insisting it "must be matched and translated into action" to have any effect.
"Resolutions alone will not be enough, promises on paper cannot keep us safe, lofty rhetoric and good intentions will not stop a single terrorist attack," Obama said.
(CNN) – The latest airstrikes in Syria appear to be part of an effort to cut off money flowing to ISIS, targeting oilfields under the terrorist group's control.
"This is a smart thing to do for several reasons," said CNN military analyst Lt. Col. Rick Francona. | 2019-04-22T02:30:34 | http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/09/24/ |
0.999977 | There seems to have been a long-running argument within the British Labour Party as to whether some factions within that party can be considered to be antisemitic. The current leadership of that party has been very strongly criticised by others in the party and elsewhere for not fully accepting the Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. For example, the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) has taken the view that some examples of antisemitism given by the IHRA should be removed because they stifle the possibility of freely criticising the actions of the Israeli government. The examples removed from the IHRA definition include: accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel than their own nations, claiming that the existence of the state of Israel is inherently racist and comparing Israeli actions with those of the Nazis.
The furore created by all this seems quite intense. It's certainly not an academic argument over the definitions of words. It's deeply personal. For example, Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who had relatives who died in the Holocaust, reportedly angrily told the party leader: "You're a f****** anti-semite and racist".
What do you think? Is it antisemitic to compare actions carried out by representatives of the State of Israel to actions of the Nazis? Is it difficult to distinguish between antisemitism and criticisms of Israeli government policy? Could the current Labour Party leadership really be described as antisemitic?
What do you think? Is it antisemitic to compare actions carried out by representatives of the State of Israel to actions of the Nazis?
Of course not, jews can be fascists too.
Is it difficult to distinguish between antisemitism and criticisms of Israeli government policy?
It shouldn't be, I wouldn't expect a jewish fascist to admit that he is one.
We have a similar problem here in the U.S. - anyone critical of the Israeli Defense League is accused of being antisemitic. That's the political card they always play but it's transparent.
I'm getting fed up with been woken up every morning by my clock radio with news reports that keep using the words "problem", "antisemitism", and "Jeremy Corbyn".
The continual banging on and on and on, is yet another attempt by the media to hope that **** sticks.
The Labour party has around 400,000 members. There have been 70 complains about careless comments on social media arguments, which are mostly about criticisms concerning the human rights abuses of Palestinians by Israel.
The right wing have turned this into a media circus as they have very little of substance with which to criticise JC and his popular anti-austerity, anti-inequality movement which the establishment are **** scared of.
1) The Labour party have NO racist policies.
2) The Labour party have no antisemitic policies.
3) Many in Labour, including Jews, think that Israel is abusing human rights in Palestine.
4) Some in Labour would rather bring false accusations than allow JC and Momentum from getting power.
There is no doubt that amongst its 400k membership some can be defined as having antisemitic views.
This is only a 'problem' because the media want it to be.
I think there is a very significant problem when anyone feels they have to identify with one race or another.
When white people do it the inherent racism in having say a "white members club', or a "white person's literary prize".
How would you react if there was a prize for science that is restricted wholly to "whites only"?
Yet, Jews have all these things, but insist that such organisations are not racist.
The human "race" simply cannot afford the luxury of racism; positive or negative. When you reserve privileges to certain 'ethnic' groups, you are denying those to others.
When you decide to self identify with such groups, be they "white" or "black" "asian" or "jewish" you immediately tend to favour other members of that group. That is prejudice.
Jews seem to want all the honours and favours of their select group but are angry that they get excluded by others. This is how, once you believe that 'race' is a valid category, you reify the category and attract the suspicion of others who do the same from "other" races.
Some Jews might want to preserve whatever arbitrary differences that they think being a Jews entitles them to. Do they also want other races to ignore the fact that people like Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernancke, Paul Wolfowitz, the Koch brothers, George Soros - (those that have profited from austerity,) are Jews? Is it any surprise that people seeing the world's financial institutions being run by people of Jewish decent think that these people might help each other out? Might tend to favour other members of their group to the disadvantage of others.
There is NO DOUBT that "white" institutions demonstrate racism against black people.
And this is the point at which Labour members find themselves silenced. Labour members fear to mention basic facts about the operation of positive racism.
None of the above observations can be expressed by Labour members.
When Iain McNichol was chairman, several people (many of them Jews) were suspended without a hearing for thinking about these issues.
With him gone, people have been seeking justice for against the 'thought police', and that is now taken as a stick to hit JC with.
The above is a minefield of sensitive viewpoints.
But the main bone of contention is that there are thousands of people in the party - thought police that will also take exception to ANY criticism of Israel and accuse people of antisemitism. And the right wing of the party have pushed to extend the definition of antisemitism to include criticisms of Israel.
Is it antisemitic to compare actions carried out by representatives of the State of Israel to actions of the Nazis?
Not necessarily, but it's not necessary, either. Why drag out the old nazi comparison all the time? It's not the only-ever example of persecuting minorities or killing civilians. The UK does it; the US does it; Russia does it... pretty normal, really. But still bad.
Not for me, and not for Jews who disagree with that policy.
But it can be difficult for someone who does agree with the policy and is sensitive to criticism.
Could the current Labour Party leadership really be described as antisemitic?
I don't know them personally, so I suppose it's possible, but I doubt it.
There are several different issues here.
One is equating any opinion, approving or dissenting, with an "ism"; assuming that all opinion must be motivated by one's political allegiance, or tribal attitude - as if there were no other basis for judging other people's actions. In fact, I'm quite capable of recognizing a person's value and virtues, or a government's competency in other areas, and still disagree with, even condemn, some of their decisions.
Another, is taking all criticism personally - even by people who had no say in making the policy or taking the actions that are criticized. There is a tendency for members of some ethnic groups, as well as some vested interests and political factions, to take personally every comment regarding any member of their group - as if they were a single unit.
The most important in this context is deflection and misdirection. Leveling charges of prejudice against any and all detractors is a well-known stratagem used by both persons and factions who know they are in the wrong and intend to carry on acting badly. You can always disarm opposition by accusing it of being racist: a racist motivation invalidates everything they say and write, without any consideration whether it's true.
Perhaps a touch of antidisestablishmentarianism in the air with a new Labour party growing out of the old? (always wanted to use that word!). The conservatives probably need to split too - the Religious Armageddonists and Socially Progressive Capitalists.
Having a problem with criticism of military aggression by any nation, Israel or otherwise, is obviously not bigotry. Amazing the dumb manipulative BS these people sprout while paid by the taxes of workers. Much of foment is pushed along by the likes of the Koch and Murdoch parasites.
Long as it works, they will not only keep doing it, but keep escalating.
If this really were all about the right wing press concocting a story to unfairly discredit Jeremy Corbyn then it wouldn't be particularly interesting to me. It would be business as usual. But there seems to be some genuine anger within the Labour Party towards the leadership which isn't just invented. People like Margaret Hodge appear to be genuinely angry. Curious.
I agree with some previous comments that, on the face of it, comparing the actions of the State of Israel to the actions of the Nazis is not antisemitic. Whether or not it's accurate is a different question.
...But there seems to be some genuine anger within the Labour Party towards the leadership which isn't just invented. People like Margaret Hodge appear to be genuinely angry. Curious.
I don't know anything about your country's internal workings. But I would caution you to examine more closely this "genuine" anger. Anger is the political currency of the moment: like bitcoin, it's costly, destructive and deceptive. A lot of the genuine anger - of the working class, of the right, of the white, of the middle class, of the rural folk, of the nationalists, of the men - is cultivated and manipulated.
Ask how many of the angry comments come from Russian sock-puppet Twitter accounts.
Ask how the polls are taken.
Ask, most urgently: Cui bono?
No, the nazis should never come into any discussion, ever. It's a smoke-bomb. That reference instantly skews all arguments, distorts all facts, sabotages all reasoned consideration of present facts.
All extreme action is extreme; all dictators dictate; all bullies bully - in this, the comparison of any example with any other is accurate and valid.
In the particulars, they are all different. If you want to criticize an action, do so on its own particulars.
I love it when people put their finger right on the button. Yes, this game of outrage is rife.
Steve, all you need do is think of those angry MPs as engaging in the political equivalent of a Neymar dive and then all becomes more clear :). People are becoming better actors, less worried about being caught lying because there is no longer a social sanction for it. It's considered a fair tactic to achieve an end today while in the past it was treated as unforgivable.
As I always say, hominids developed big brains precisely for the purpose of deception, to gain advantages over the unaware, and this is just one more example.
Ho hum. This stuff isn't about races or racism or religion. It is tribalism when you scrape away the verbiage. Basically folks like to: 1. join groups and 2. act in their own self interest, and 3. like to play the victim.
Thus if I am an American jew, I tend to look favorably on the Israeli state and I use the antisemitic card against real and perceived criticism. If I am not Jewish, perhaps I dislike the actions of the Israeli government so I vocalise this. I can expect to be called antisemitic, my retort is to call my critics Nazi-like. In addition if I read about black Americans getting a different treatment in hiring, I cry reverse discrimination. I am then called a racist.
No one wants to feel like they are getting an unfairly substandard deal... especially those who have historically gotten unfairly excellent deals.
Greta wrote: Steve, all you need do is think of those angry MPs as engaging in the political equivalent of a Neymar dive and then all becomes more clear . People are becoming better actors, less worried about being caught lying because there is no longer a social sanction for it. It's considered a fair tactic to achieve an end today while in the past it was treated as unforgivable.
I do take both of your points and can see this process of what might be called "outrage hyper-inflation" in action. But in this particular case, in the case of at least some of these Labour MPs on this subject, I don't think those points apply. When an MP who has close relatives who died in the Holocaust accuses the Labour leader of antisemitism she may be wrong but I don't think it's a cynical political tactic. The feelings appear to me to be entirely genuine. I guess it just goes to show that this is still a very emotive issue, despite the fact that numerous other atrocities have been perpetrated by various groups against various other groups in the last 70 years.
I will watch the development of this particular News-thread with interest.
Basically folks like to: 1. join groups and 2. act in their own self interest, and 3. like to play the victim.
I go along with the other stuff, but take some exception to 3.
First, it's not always clear when someone is "playing" the victim and when they speak up against being victimized. An outsider doesn't always know who has done what to whom behind closed doors; whether an actual victim is under- or over-stating their own suffering, and to what end. For example, many abused women and nearly all abused men actively help their abuser to hide the real state of affairs. Siblings, parents and friends who are systematically taken advantage-of quite often make excuses and cover for the user. It does also happen that the user or abuser presents him or herself as the perennial victim. That's what makes situations difficult to judge.
I don't think most people like to play the victim; I think they would rather be seen as heroic, or at least competent.
What's unique about Israel is that the European Jews really were victimized (over a much longer time than just the Hitler era). Part of the reason was that their god segregated them, out of jealousy, just the same way an abusive husband cuts his wife off from friends and family, and keeps her for himself alone, (This isn't my opinion; it's in that famous book.) and they stayed apart, even when they were no longer an independent nation. Good way to preserve cultural identity; very bad survival strategy. But they're stuck with it now, and it was the key to getting a country again. Who wouldn't use that opportunity in the circumstances?
And who - which ambitious individual, which corporation, which interest bloc, which political party, which nation doesn't use whatever line of woo, whatever psychological advantage is in their possession to further their agenda? Israel would be stupid to waste the Victim card.
It's up to everyone else to recognize this and devise an appropriate response - instead of a knee-jerk one.
Then again, my family had some people gassed in WWII but we are not still feeling wildly aggrieved about it. My father's family was forced out of Austria by the Nazis, leaving everything they owned behind, and started again with nothing in Australia. I appreciate that some people hold grudges for longer than others but I do think the victim card is being played when it comes to politicians. Very, very few of them will miss opportunities for ethical reasons as far as I can tell.
It's like workers comp (which I worked in for a couple of years, worse luck). Almost all injuries seem to be genuine, but plenty of them are overplayed. Still, Jews must surely be getting jumpy now because genuine anti-Semitism is probably more widespread than any time for many decades. | 2019-04-21T00:58:30 | https://onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15729 |
0.999987 | SCENARIO: This exercise is analytically similar to both the Oil Pricing and Pepulator Pricing exercises. Participants sole objective is to maximize their own points with complete indifference to the other participants. Participants are to play either an X or a Y and, depending on other participants’ choices, a payoff is awarded each round. Only before rounds 5, 8 and 10 are players allowed to confer with each other.
MECHANICS: This exercise is played in ten quick rounds. Players are grouped into fours. Explanation of the exercise should take no more than 5 minutes. The ten rounds should take about 15 minutes, while debriefing can take from 30 to 45 minutes.
This is a so-called “social trap” exercise, in which long-term maximization requires unenforced mutual trust where significant short-term gains are possible by breaking that trust. Communication must be implicit, and is hence highly ambiguous and subject to misinterpretation, usually by the projection of negative and adversarial intentions that don’t actually exist.
The exercise highlights the frequency with which we make imprecise and inadequately supported assumptions, suggesting the importance of making and keeping assumptions explicit and testing them periodically.
The difference between reacting to the other side’s moves (or one’s perception of what those moves mean, or will be), and acting purposefully to influence the other side to (re)act constructively, is easily illustrated by comparing the experience of different teams. The monetary variation tends to be dramatic between cooperative and competitive games, and analysis usually suggests that to establish the former some team has to take a risk.
The danger of self-fulfilling assumptions is also illustrated. Parties can turn cautious competitors into the cutthroat adversaries they fear by proceeding with pre-emptive ruthlessness. | 2019-04-23T08:40:40 | https://www.pon.harvard.edu/shop/win-as-much-as-you-can/ |
0.999726 | Is Symphony a potential Bloomberg killer? The Baron asked that question when the editor interviewed the founder of the Silicon Valley start-up a year and a half ago [Symphony: movement in a major key].
How far its cloud-based messaging platform manages to dislodge Bloomberg from its dominant position as the financial world’s favourite chat system has yet to play out.
What’s certain is that its strategic alliance with Thomson Reuters, announced on Tuesday, is a big deal and possibly a game changer.
Its founder David Gurlé, a French communications entrepreneur, spent six years at Reuters, so speculation about a link between the two firms was only natural.
The collaboration could help claw back some of the market share lost to Bloomberg since the Thomson organisation acquired Reuters in 2008.
Symphony is backed by some of Wall Street’s biggest players including the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, and investment bank Goldman Sachs, as well as Google, which operates the ubiquitous search engine and much more.
Last month it raised fresh funding that promoted it to the ranks of privately-held start-ups worth more than $1 billion, known in finance industry parlance as unicorns.
Banks have been under pressure to slash financial information costs, much of which goes on pricey Bloomberg terminals - 325,000 of them exchanging 400 million messages and 17 million chats a day. Financial data, news and other functions are included in the cost - about $22,000 per machine.
Symphony’s solution is cheaper and, for some users, better, whether it’s for exchanging chatter about trades or industry gossip.
Eighteen months ago, Gurlé, Symphony’s chief executive, was adamant that his system is not a potential Bloomberg killer, though he conceded it could be seen as a threat if the Bloomberg terminal was used exclusively for messaging.
Yesterday, he described the agreement with Thomson Reuters as his network’s missing piece.
Debra Walton, Thomson Reuters’ global managing director of customer propositions, called it a potential game changer. She said it reflects the company’s desire to break down barriers to communication for their clients, many of whom already use Symphony.
"Thomson Reuters' messaging service is well utilised," Walton said. "However, we are not in the business of providing messaging for messaging's sake. We provide holistic workflow solutions for customers, and if their choice is to use Symphony to communicate we want them to have that choice."
The deal means that, from later this year, the 200,000 licenced users in 170 banks and fund managers in Symphony’s network will be able to share charts, news and data found on Thomson Reuters’ flagship Eikon terminals, if they are also Thomson Reuters users.
David Craig, head of Thomson Reuters’ financial and risk division that runs Eikon, took to Twitter to hail the deal. | 2019-04-22T02:16:22 | https://thebaron.info/editorial/the-unicorn-that-could-help-slay-bloomberg |
0.999822 | If during a ATP / WTA / Grand slam tennis tournament, rain falls consistently for the entire 2 weeks, would the tournament just be cancelled? Has this ever happened in a grand slam? Is there an actual rule to say when a tournament would be abandoned due to rain or would they just keep waiting till the rain stops?
Doubles competition at 1987 Dow Chemical Classic (Birmingham) was cancelled due to rain before completion of the first round matches.
Grand Prix tennis circuit was a predecessor of ATP Tour.
At 1974 Viceroy Classic (Honk Kong), neither singles nor doubles competition were finished. See Wikipedia page on 1974 Grand Prix.
Final of the 1980 Congoleum Classic (Indian Wells) was not played due to rain. Doubles competition was cancelled after the first round.
The 1981 Monte Carlo Open singles final was abandoned due to rain.
Both singles and doubles finals at 1987 Volvo International (Stratton Mountain) were cancelled due to rain. Sources: 1, 1a.
Doubles final at 1998 Stella Artois Championships (Queen's Club) was cancelled due to rain.
Final of the doubles competition at 1999 Heineken Trophy ('s-Hertogenbosch) was cancelled due to rain.
Singles final at 1973 Austrian Open (Kitzbühel) was cancelled due to rain. See also here.
Doubles final at 1991 Virginia Slims of Palm Springs was not played because of the rain.
In 1994 Eurocard Open (Lucerne), the doubles competition was cancelled after two of the quarterfinals. Sources: 1, 1a.
In 1997 Direct Line International Championships (Eastbourne) both singles and doubles finals were cancelled due to rain.
Doubles semifinals at 2000 Amelia Island were cancelled due to rain.
ATP/WTA tournaments last one week, only Grand Slam ones last two weeks.
Tournaments schedule are planned to manage weather problems, sometimes it happened that a player has played two singles match the same day.
In history never happened that a Grand Slam tournament was totally abandoned by weather. You can check the list of men and women winners.
No major (a.k.a grand slam) tournament has ever been cancelled due to bad weather. I've never heard of any standard one week tournament being cancelled due to bad weather, either. Since tennis tournaments are held all over the world, they tend to be scheduled during times when the weather is good in whatever part of the world the tournament is being held. For example - Paris in late May/early June for the French Open, where you might get a little bit of rain but it's generally good weather. Some other examples are the Australian Open in January during the Australian summer when it's hot and sunny - the same thing with the Indian Wells Masters series event in March in the southern California desert when the weather is nice and warm.
The US Open had a streak where for 4 straight years the men's final was delayed until the following Monday because it rained on the final Sunday. That is how most weather delays for majors are handled - the matches will just be delayed until the weather is good enough to play. It has, however, prompted the USTA to construct a roof over Arthur Ashe stadium recently because of the delays weather has caused over the years. | 2019-04-25T15:52:19 | https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/12000/has-a-atp-wta-grand-slam-ever-been-rained-out |
0.998947 | Hands down, I just love espionage movies. It is because these are the stories that actually happen in some parts of the world, especially in these times of terrorism and war. There is a sense of realism, and the secrecy and intrigue that goes with it.
In a TV interview, Matt Damon said there are only few sequels that stand out as classics to satisfy the excellence of the original, among them are the Godfather 2, The New Testament, and The Bourne Supremacy. I would agree to that. This film is one of the best espionage-suspense films that I have seen. THE BOURNE SUPREMACY is an adaptation of the book of the same title, written by Robert Ludlum. Although this isn't truly a faithful adaptation of the book, the tweaks and the alterations are well-done and have made this film a consistent sequel to the first movie/adaptation "Bourne Identity" for it answers many of the questions that the first movie posed.
In this sequel, Jason Bourne is now happily living the quiet life with the love of his life, Marie (played by Franka Potente) in Goa, India, away from the world of spies and conspiracies, away from the world of assassins. But Jason is still bothered by some nightmares of his past as a government assassin, a memory that was erased from his mind due to amnesia a few years back. Meanwhile, miles away, a CIA operation was botched and a couple of agents were murdered by a stealthy assassin who, in the process, planted Bourne's fingerprint on the scene of the incident. With such a frame-up successful, the CIA organized an operation to capture and bring Bourne to justice. Bourne, on the otherhand, knowing the hunt on his head has once again commenced, arms himself with his lethally brilliant skills in cloak and dagger, to turn the hunter into the hunted.
The movie is superbly brilliant, from the acting to its directing. this sequel is directed by Paul Greengrass, which meets up to his predecessor Doug Liman, who directed the first film with a certain modern-spy-thriller panache that is very lively and somewhat upbeat, and never misses on the action and the intriguing storyline. An example is that of an action scene, a fist-fight where the focus of the camera is closed-up on the characters and the intensity seen in their faces, and less-focused on the fighting techniques, since it is more interesting to feel the impact of the fight directly from the character's expressions. It may be contrasting the fact that there have already been so many action movies that focus on the martial arts and the stunts, and not so much on the acting that takes place during the fight scene. In so many aspects, acting on this movie is magnificent. When Matt Damon acts on this film, he really gets into his role, it is as if he really is a different person, as if he really is Jason Bourne. A character who is haunted by his past, a character that intends to pass through the gates of redemption and intends to, once and for all, end the haunting of the ghosts from his past. Recurring from the first film are the characters of Brian Cox, who always delivers an impressive performance, always playing a villainous character whose ruthlessness is as deep as it seems, and there's also the character played by Julia Stiles, who looks more pretty when she does not play a lead character as she is on this film. But the other main character, opposite Bourne, is the character played by Joan Allen, who also delivers a shining performance, especially at the scenes when she's having a conversation with Jason Bourne. Both their characters make a great clashing duo. And oh, in the end, there's this intense car-chase action sequence where we find Bourne against another assassin. In a typical action movie, the hero usually gets to fist-fight with the toughest bad guy. On this film, their duel takes place with their cars. Intense is the word, it stands up to, and even surpasses the chase scene of the first BOURNE movie.
Overall, BOURNE IDENTITY is one of the never-should-miss action movies of the year. Breathtaking action. Great intrigue. Brilliant action sequences. Triple-A acting. Brilliant dialogues. Superb storyline. Bourne Supremacy indeed has that SUPREMACY. | 2019-04-18T13:26:11 | http://justanotherfilmjunkie.blogspot.com/2004/10/ |
0.775328 | What makes a truly great fantasy/paranormal novel? Numerous things of course, but I filter it down to two key qualities. First, the reader becomes so invested in the characters that she lives and dies by their successes and failures. Secondly - and most importantly - by the end of the book, the reader has forgotten that the fantasy world is not real.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone definitely fulfills both of these qualities. You become totally immersed in a very foreign world that seems entirely believable and follow Akiva and Karou's every move with anticipation, excitement, and terror.
What makes this book so wonderful can be broken down into a few more subcategories. First, our leading lady Karou and leading man Akiva. Karou is everything you want in a teenage protagonist. Smart, artistically talented, brave, funny, independent, not obsessed with boys, and devoted to her friends and family. Akiva is haunted and angry, yet also resourceful, loyal, romantic, and fundamentally good. Their romance is a key part of the story, but Karou in particular exists without Akiva. While their relationship was a bit insta-love, the intensity fit the situation. The reader gets to know Akiva before Karou does. This sets a mysterious tone, but also downplays the speed of their romance. And what a romance it is. Laini Taylor has a knack for writing scenes between Akiva and Karou that make your heart race and keep you turning back the pages to re-read the romance.
Family and friends are a key part of Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I loved Karou's best friend Zuzanna. Their banter was hilarious and showcased how Karou both could and could not have a normal life. Most important was Karou's family, the chimaera who raised her: Brimstone, her "father," Issa, Yasri, Twiga, and Kishmish. Karou spends much of her life running errands for Brimstone - collection teeth. While Issa fusses over her, Brimstone is reserved with his praise and affection, but you know it's there. Brimstone is a character we slowly learn more about and come to truly admire and respect. In fact, one of the key differences I see between Akiva and Karou is how Karou's confidence and vivaciousness implicitly shows a girl who is well-loved. Even though Karou's family are absent for large portions of the book, their presence is always felt. It's wonderful to have a strong family plotline is a YA novel - a unique one but strong nonetheless.
Laini Taylor's writing is simply marvelous. Despite having rich, detailed descriptions, the book flows smoothly. The action, character development, and romance are spread evenly throughout the book so it never drags. I particularly loved how the world was slowly revealed to the reader. There's a fine balance between mystery and confusion. I hate books that keep me in the dark for three fourths of the story, but I didn't feel that way with this book. I was puzzled but intrigued. And I loved how the things that seemed inconsequential or confusing when I first read it made complete sense when I revisited them after I finished the book. A good book is one that is richer on the re-read than on the first go through.
The world building was just about perfect. The book is made up of seraphim and nephilim. Traditionally, these creatures are known as angels and devilish creatures. But these are not your harp strumming, robe wearing angels. Neither are the chimaera, despite their animal/human appearance, the thoughtless devils that we associate with legend. No. The seraphim and nephilim are locked in an eternal fight. Both sides have created their own mythology about who began the wars and who is at fault. Both creatures are fully described. Or at least as fully described as is necessary for a first book in a series. There was never an info dump, but I finished the book with a clear idea of the introduced creatures, their legends, and the physical world in which they lived. As for the human world, the setting in Prague was lovely. The ornate Eastern European city added to the book's decadence.
I can't recommend Daughter of Smoke and Bone enough. The characters are enchanting, the story rich and emotional, the romance sweet and hot. The book ends leaving you screaming for more.
Welcome to the fan club of this book. It rocked right? Great review!
This is a great review of the book, but unfortunately I didn't fall in love with the story as much as I hoped I would. I was SO caught up in Karou that when it switched to Madrigals, it through me off.
I'm planning on getting this really soon! I'm so excited to read it. Great review. It's making me too impatient to get it.
I can't believe I've put this one off for so long---you make it sounds so amazing! I definitely need to get to this one soon. Great review!
I agree with you. This is one of the BEST books I've read, not only this year, but ever. Great review.
Reading your review makes me want to read it real bad, I've heard great things about this book and can't wait to read it myself!
I'm going to be reading this one soon. I've read only positive reviews about this one.
"There's a fine balance between mystery and confusion.
I loved this book too and such great characters . Brimstone made this book for me. He was mysterious and yet watched over her.
Completely agree! I've been trying to come up with a review that matches how awesome this book is but I fail every time. I absolutely loved this book and can't wait to read more. Lovely review, Alison.
I love this review so much because it explained so eloquently why I enjoyed the book. It's definitely one of my favourites I've read so far this year. I love this statement especially, "A good book is one that is richer on the re-read than on the first go through" because it's so true! I loved the feel of family in this book too, most of YA books disregard it or it's there simply for the sake of being problematic but you can tell everyone genuinely loved each other. This book made me want to go to Prague so much!
Agreed! This book was so amazing. I loved Karou and the writing definitely was fantastic. Awesome review, and so glad you enjoyed it :).
"the reader has forgotten that the fantasy world is not real."
Fantastic review Alison, absolutely agree with everything you said! I loved how important family, even a dysfunctional one, was in this book!
This is a beautiful review. You hit on so many points that I look for in books (worlds that feel real, characters I'll care about, family, the way the romance progresses--those re-readable romance scenes!) Now, finally, I think I'm warming up to the idea of getting over the hype and reading this book. Thank you.
I have this on my shelf...I really need to read it because I have heard such great things about it!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I want to read this one so bad, I like how you broke everything down.
I'm really glad you like this book. I wish I could have like it more. Nice review!
This is a remarkable review for Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I am so glad that you liked it. It is one of my favorites for the year. | 2019-04-23T20:35:43 | http://www.alisoncanread.com/2011/12/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-by-laini.html |
0.999999 | Where has Mubarak stashed his millions?
This house (pictured left) in Knightsbridge, central London, is believed to belong to Hosni Mubarak's son, Gamal.
(CNN) -- Global efforts are intensifying to seize assets belonging to Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, following the revolution in the north African nation.
The former Egyptian leader may now be residing in Sharm el-Sheikh following his flight last week from Cairo -- but where is his fortune?
What moves have been made to track down Mubarak's assets?
Switzerland's government said Friday it had moved to freeze assets in the country's banks that might belong to Mubarak or his family. The Swiss Cabinet had frozen all funds belonging to Mubarak or "his circles," according to a statement from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
The British government has not yet moved to freeze any assets held in the UK, but the Serious Fraud Office told CNN that they were preparing in case they are asked to do so.
Where is Mubarak, where is his money?
--Nicholas Shaxson, Chatham House analyst.
One UK opposition politician on Sunday urged the government to do more. "I think it would be a very prudent thing to do to freeze suspicious accounts here because it will take a new government quite a while to mount some kind of legal claim on them," said Mark Malloch Brown, a minister in the last Labour government.
"It would be a real pity if when they did the money had gone. I think it would be great for the reputation for the City of London if those accounts were frozen now."
What is the true value of Mubarak's assets?
It is widely believed that Mubarak and his family are extremely wealthy, but estimates as to his total net worth vary widely and haven't been confirmed. Nicholas Shaxson, a Chatham House analyst with specialist knowledge of both Africa and tax havens, suggested to CNN that a conservative figure might be between $1 and $2 billion, although he cautioned that no one outside the family really knows.
Global Financial Integrity, a Washington DC-based research and advocacy group, said $57 billion flowed out of Egypt between 2000 and 2008, lending to widespread speculation that some of that money went to corrupt leaders. "The exercise of power is an expensive business in corrupt countries and a dictator will have many supporters to pay off," said Shaxson. "Without wanting to minimize the amount of money allegedly plundered from Egypt by Mubarak, they should be chasing his supporters too."
The idea that Mubarak did anything illegal is pure speculation at this point.
How do dictators take money out of their countries?
It's rarely the case that looted assets are removed from a country in the form of cash in a suitcase, said Shaxson, adding that it's fairly easy to plunder a country when you control the whole political system. What's more likely to happen is that cash is removed through commercial trade deals.
"If you buy machinery for instance worth $1 million, you pay $2 million, and the trader might agree to put $1 million into a bank account in a tax haven," explained Shaxson, author of "Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World."
"In that way you can effectively disguise the theft."
Where are Mubarak's assets now held?
Many of his assets are likely to be in the form of real estate such as property or yachts, Shaxson added. "Mubarak's assets are likely held in places where his family visit and feel comfortable, such as London, Singapore or Dubai. He is also likely to own property in the United States and Switzerland."
The family may now be trying to liquidate those assets, according to one author of a book on Mubarak. "I know that some people in London are filing petitions for the freezing of the family's assets," Aladdin Elaasar, author of The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Volatile Mid East told The Sunday Times.
How successful will attempts to seize his assets be?
"The UK, the U.S. and Switzerland are the three main countries where 'dirty money' is laundered, and those countries will want to be seen to be doing something," said Shaxson.
"But the bigger picture is the wholesale looting of Egypt. If Switzerland and the UK get away with saying we've found a few hundred million, that disguises the real issue which is the complicity with which Western countries help corrupt leaders in developing nations to loot their citizens, especially by using secretive offshore tax havens, such as Jersey or the Cayman Islands."
What problems will investigators face?
The main problem in tracking down Mubarak's assets is the many layers of secrecy that disguise ownership. "His houses will not be owned under the name H. Mubarak Esq," Shaxson said. "They might be owned by a trust registered in Cyprus, run through Switzerland for example. There might be up to five layers of secrecy, and devices known as "flee clauses" that the immensely wealthy use to throw investigators off the scent and hinder attempts to seize illegally obtained assets."
Have assets belonging to other dictators ever been seized?
Yes. Up to $700 million belonging to the family of former Nigerian president Sani Abacha was returned to his own country by Swiss authorities after his death in 1998, according to pressure group Tax Justice Network. Up to $684 million was recovered from the family of Ferdinand Marcos after he was ousted from the Philippines in 1986, it added.
But these are drops in the ocean when compared to the total amount looted from developing countries, according to Shaxson. "The UK and Switzerland should not be allowed to get away with saying we've found a few hundred million dollars and leading people to think they are acting against 'dirty money.' Look how quickly Swiss authorities said they were closing down Mubarak's assets: It means they always knew where it was, and they're only doing something about it now because he's in the news."
"These countries are complicit in allowing the developing world to loot their citizens."
What can be done to clean up the system?
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an agency at the forefront of a global crackdown on money laundering, is trying to set up a system of exchanging information between tax havens. However Shaxson said the whole system was riddled with holes, as it was only signed between developed countries, not the developing countries from where most money is being looted.
"Perhaps more will happen because of the publicity surrounding Mubarak's money though," he said. "There is more of a climate that money laundering is unacceptable now. Because the UK has such huge influence in offshore tax havens it could reform the political system if there is political will."
UK Business Secretary Vince Cable told the BBC that his government would act against any British bank involved in helping Mubarak improperly move funds but said London would not act alone.
"I wasn't aware that he (Mubarak) had enormous assets here but there clearly needs to be concerted international action on this," Cable told the BBC.
"There is no point in one government acting in isolation but certainly we need to look at it. It depends also whether his funds were illegally obtained or improperly obtained." | 2019-04-25T00:28:28 | http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/14/chasing.mubaraks.millions/index.html |
0.998606 | Why would anyone want to root their Android device?
Get full control of your phone, be able to alter system files, run more specialized and detailed apps, make better backups (see Titanium Backup), have better power/battery control, open up "super user" capabilities of many apps.
There are a lot of reasons why rooting your Android phone is useful, but you're probably here because you've already decided to do it.
There are now utilities that root your phone in one click. Chainfire's one-click rooting utility worked for me without any problems.
1. Go to the Chainfire website.
2. Search for the model of your phone. In my case, I searched for "nexus 5" and easily found it.
3. Click on the download link which brings you to a page with some details about the file and a link to the zip file.
4. Make sure your phone is in developer mode and USB debugging is turned on. You can tell if you have dev mode on by opening up your phone settings and scrolling down to the bottom where the "About Phone" option is. If your developer options are on, it will say "Developer Options" just above "About Phone." Go into dev options and look for "USB debugging" and turn it on.
Go to the settings menu, and scroll down to "About phone" and tap it.
Scroll down to "Build Number" at the bottom.
Tap "Build Number" seven (7) times. You'll see some messages about becoming a developer to work through.
5. Next, unzip the file you downloaded and run the batch/sh file for your operating system. I'm on Windows, so I ran the root-windows.bat file.
At that point I followed the on-screen instructions which resulted in my phone being rooted.
Read the Warning Screen Carefully!
This can wipe your data. If you don't know what's going on behind the scenes, back everything up first.
Note: you are solely responsible for anything that happens to your phone. I had good results with Chainfire but there is no guarantee anyone else will. Always back up your phone before doing ANYTHING like this!
Are you human? What is 10 + 2? | 2019-04-25T16:18:25 | http://www.scotsscripts.com/blog/computer-stuff/how-to-root-your-android-in-one-click.html |
0.999999 | As a general rule of thumb, the Institue of Medicine of the National Academies recommends that children and adults consume 14 grams. of dietary fiber for every 1,000 calories of food eaten. Given the summary dietary fiber and calorie information presented above, there would be about 0.0 grams of dietary fiber per 1,000 calories of Cheese, low-sodium, cheddar or colby.
So, based on this information, can we consider Cheese, low-sodium, cheddar or colby to be a high fiber food? The answer is No - definitely not. | 2019-04-20T08:49:52 | https://www.highfiberdiet.net/milk-cheese-dairy/1+cubic+inch/87964 |
0.999898 | African trypanosomiases are caused by trypanosomes that are cyclically transmitted by tsetse. Investigations aiming to generate knowledge on the bacterial fauna of tsetse have revealed distinct symbiotic microorganisms. Furthermore, studies addressing the tripartite association between trypanosomes-tsetse-symbionts relationship have so far been contradictory. Most studies included Sodalis glossinudius and, consequently, the association involving Wolbachia is poorly understood. Understanding the vectorial competence of tsetse requires decrypting these tripartite associations. In this study, we identified Wolbachia and trypanosomes in Glossina palpalis palpalis from three human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) foci in southern Cameroon.
Tsetse flies were captured with pyramidal traps in the Bipindi, Campo and Fontem HAT foci. After morphological identification, DNA was extracted from whole tsetse flies and Wolbachia and trypanosomes were identified by PCR using different trypanosome-specific primers and two Wolbachia-specific primers (Wolbachia surface protein and 16S rRNA genes). Statistical analyses were performed to compare the trypanosome and Wolbachia infection rates between villages and different foci and to look for an association between these microorganisms.
From a total of 2122 tsetse flies, 790 G. p. palpalis were analyzed. About 25.32% of flies hosted Wolbachia and 31.84% of non-teneral flies were infected by at least one trypanosome species. There was no significant difference between the global Wolbachia prevalence revealed by the two markers while some differences were observed between HAT foci. From 248 G. p. palpalis with trypanosome infections, 62.90% were with T. vivax, 34.68% with T. congolense forest, 16.13% with T. brucei (s.l.) and 2.42% with T. congolense savannah. Of all trypanosome-infected flies, 29.84% hosted Wolbachia and no association was observed between Wolbachia and trypanosome co-infections.
This study revealed differences in the prevalence of Wolbachia and trypanosomes in G. p. palpalis according to HAT foci. The use of only one marker has underestimated the prevalence of Wolbachia, thus more markers in subsequent studies may improve its detection. The presence of Wolbachia seems to have no impact on the establishment of trypanosomes in G. p. palpalis. The tripartite association between tsetse, Wolbachia and trypanosomes varies according to studied areas. Studies aiming to evaluate the genetic polymorphism of Wolbachia and its density in tsetse flies could help to better understand this association.
Tsetse flies are dipteran insects of the genus Glossina. With a certain number of requirements linked to environmental factors such as the climate, the vegetation, the type of soil, the presence of domestic and/or wild fauna, and the effects of human activity, the distribution of tsetse flies is discontinuous across 37 sub-Saharan countries. Tsetse flies are the cyclical vector of African trypanosomes that cause human and animal African trypanosomiases. Two subspecies of African trypanosomes are pathogenic for humans: Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense that causes the acute form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in eastern and southern Africa, and T. b. gambiense which is responsible for the chronic form of HAT in western and central Africa [1, 2]. About 60 million people are exposed to the risk of HAT and, for the first time in 2016 and up to date, the number of reported cases is below 3000 [3, 4]. In recent decades, efforts undertaken on HAT control have brought the disease under control and led to its inclusion into the WHO “roadmap for elimination of neglected tropical diseases” with a target set to eliminate HAT as a public health problem by 2020 .
Alongside T. b. rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense, other African trypanosomes including T. b. brucei, T. congolense, T. vivax and T. simiae are responsible for the animal African trypanosomiasis (AAT) or “nagana” in animals. AAT is one of the biggest constraints to livestock production and a threat to food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Human and animal trypanosomiases have impacts on human and animal health, but also on animal productivity and, therefore, the peasant economy. In both human and animal trypanosomiases, tsetse flies play a key role in the transmission of parasites between different vertebrate hosts. To achieve HAT elimination and boost AAT control, the integration of vector control as component of new control strategies is becoming crucial. A better understanding of how trypanosomes develop in tsetse flies appears to be an important step in the process leading to the development of innovative vector control strategies. In recent decades, growing interests have been focused on tripartite interactions between trypanosomes, tsetse fly and tsetse-associated symbiotic microorganisms. Currently, three symbiotic microorganisms including Wigglesworthia glossinidia, Sodalis glossinidius and Wolbachia have been reported to be associated with tsetse flies. While W. glossinidia is an obligate primary symbiont, S. glossinidius is a secondary and a non-essential symbiont which seems to affect vector competence of tsetse by favoring the midgut establishment of trypanosomes through a complex biochemical mechanism. Wolbachia spp. are also non-essential symbionts that infect a wide range of invertebrates. Abundant in both male and female germ-cells and also in the somatic tissues, Wolbachia spp. are found in a wide range of arthropods and nematodes . Transmitted vertically from mother to offspring , Wolbachia can protect their hosts against viral pathogens . It has the ability to induce cytoplasmic incompatibility that leads to embryonic death in tsetse flies [9, 10]. Investigations on Wolbachia in tsetse populations may improve vector control through the development of transgenic tsetse with the ability to release specific molecules that can interfere with the establishment of trypanosomes. Previous studies reported Wolbachia in several tsetse species from insectariums and few wild tsetse populations such as Glossina morsitans morsitans, G. m. centralis, G. f. fuscipes, G. austeni, G. pallidipes and G. brevipalpis [11–15]. Investigations on the tripartite association between trypanosomes, tsetse fly and its symbiotic microorganisms reported contrasting results. For instance, Alam et al. reported a negative association between Wolbachia and trypanosome infections in G. f. fuscipes, suggesting that the presence of Wolbachia could prevent trypanosome infections. Despite these interesting results, little investigation has been undertaken on the tripartite association between tsetse fly, trypanosomes and Wolbachia, and therefore this tripartite association is not well understood. A better understanding of this association requires the collection of more data on trypanosome and symbiont infections in different tsetse species from various tsetse infested areas. In tsetse flies of the palpalis group, investigations on the tripartite association were focused essentially on S. glossinidius and trypanosomes [16, 17]. These investigations revealed a positive association between the presence of S. glossinidius and trypanosome infections [16, 17]. However, there is currently very little, if any, data on the tripartite association involving Wolbachia in tsetse of the palpalis group.
In the present study, Wolbachia and different trypanosome species were identified in wild populations of G. p. palpalis caught in three sleeping sickness foci of southern Cameroon with the final goal of generating data that may shed more light on the tripartite association and help to understand the impact of Wolbachia infections on the transmission of African trypanosomes.
This study was performed in the Bipindi, Campo and Fontem HAT foci located in the forest region of southern Cameroon (Fig. 1). The Bipindi and Campo HAT foci are located in the Ocean Division of the South Region of Cameroon. The Campo HAT focus offers several types of biotopes (farmland, swampy areas and equatorial forest) while the Bipindi HAT focus shows a typical forest bioecological environment.
The Bipindi (3°2'00"N, 10°22'00"E) HAT focus has been known since 1920 . It covers several villages located along the roads and its bio-ecological environment is characterized typically by an equatorial forest with farmland along the roads and the villages. The wild fauna composition is highly diversified . Peasant agriculture, hunting, fishing and breeding of livestock are the main socioeconomic activities. The focus is surrounded by hills and has a dense hydrographic network with many rivers crossing farmlands. The bioclimatic environment offers suitable habitats for tsetse flies.
The Campo HAT focus (2°22'00"N, 9°49'00"E) lies along the Atlantic coast and extends along the Ntem River which constitutes the border of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. This focus is characterized by an equatorial rainforest with a hydrographic network containing several rivers and swampy areas. Its fauna composition is highly diversified. The climate is typical maritime equatorial comprising four seasons. The main activities of the inhabitants are fishing, picking fruits, hunting and farming.
The Fontem HAT focus (5°40'12"N, 9°55'33"E) is located in the Lebialem division of the southwest region of Cameroon. It is characterized by a tropical humid climate, having an irregular relief with many hills and valleys that are crossed by fast-flowing streams. The main population activities are subsistence agriculture, palm oil extraction, animal husbandry and small-scale poultry farming. The dense population of humans, domestic animals (dogs, pigs, sheep and goats) and tsetse flies are found scattered in the pre-forest/forest vegetation of the valleys and hills.
Tsetse flies were collected during four entomological surveys in the three HAT foci of Cameroon. During the first survey in the Campo HAT focus in 2012, tsetse flies were trapped at Akak, Campo beach, Ipono and Mabiogo villages. During the second survey in 2015, tsetse flies were trapped at Bidjouka, Ebiminbang and Lambi villages of the Bipindi HAT focus. The third and fourth surveys were performed in 2015 and 2017 at Bechati, Besali Folepi and Menji villages in the Fontem HAT focus. During each survey, pyramidal traps were set for 4 consecutive days. In total, 197 traps were set up: 105 at Campo, 50 at Bipindi and 42 at Fontem. The geographical coordinates of each trap were recorded using a global positioning system (GPS). Tsetse flies were collected twice a day. All collected flies were morphologically identified, counted and sorted into teneral and non-teneral flies as described by Pollock . Thereafter, each identified fly was put into a microtube containing 95% ethanol. In the field, microtubes were kept at room temperature, and in the laboratory they were stored at -20 °C.
DNA was extracted from whole tsetse fly using the cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) method as described by Navajas et al. . Briefly, the alcohol preserving each fly was evaporated by incubating the opened microtubes at 80 °C in an oven for about 1 h. Thereafter, each tsetse fly was disrupted with a pestle in CTAB buffer (CTAB 2%; 1 M Tris, pH 8; 0.5 M EDTA pH 8; 5 M NaCl). The disrupted fly was incubated at 60 °C for 30 min before the addition of chloroform/isoamylic alcohol mixture (24/1, V/V). DNA was precipitated by addition of isopropanol (V/V) followed by centrifugation at 13,000× rpm for 15 min. The resulting DNA pellets were washed twice with cold 70% ethanol and then dried overnight at room temperature. DNA pellets were finally re-suspended in 50 µl of sterile water before storing at -20 °C until use.
The identification of Wolbachia was performed using two sets of primers. The first set of primers, wspec F1 (5'-YAT ACC TAT TCG AAG GGA TAG-3') and wspec R1 (5'-AGC TTC GAG TGA AAC CAA TTC-3'), described by Werren & Windsor , amplifies a fragment of the 16S rRNA gene. The second set of primers, wsp F1 (5'-GTC CAA TAR STG ATG ARG AAA C-3') and wsp R1 (5'-CYG CAC CAA YAG YRC TRT AAA-3'), described by Baldo et al. , amplifies a fragment of the Wolbachia surface protein gene. All PCR reactions were performed in a final volume of 15 μl containing 3 μl of DNA extract, 1.5 μl of 10× PCR reaction buffer, 2 mM MgCl2, 20 pmol of each primer, 200 mM of each dNTP and 0.3 units of Taq DNA polymerase (New England Biolabs, Massachusetts, USA; 5U/μl). The amplification program comprised an initial denaturation step at 94 °C for 3 min followed by 37 amplification cycles of denaturation at 94 °C for 30 s, annealing at 54 °C (wspec) or 53 °C (wsp) for 30 s, and extension at 72 °C for 1 min. A final extension was performed at 72 °C for 5 min.
At the end of PCR reactions, 10 μl of amplified product was analyzed by electrophoresis on 2% agarose gel containing ethidium bromide. Each gel was visualized under UV light and then photographed.
Different trypanosome species including T. brucei (s.l.), T. vivax, T. congolense forest type and T. congolense savannah type were investigated. Trypanosome identification was performed as previously described by Herder et al. using the primers TCF1/2 (5'-GGA CAC GCC AGA AGG TAC TT-3'; 5'-GTT CTC GCA CCA AAT CCA AC-3') for T. congolense forest type , TCN1/2 (5'-TCG AGC GAG AAC GGG CAC TTT GCG A-3'; 5'-ATT AGG GAC AAA CAA ATC CCG CAC A-3') for T. congolense savannah type , TBR1/2 (5'-CGA ATG AAT ATT AAA CAA TGC GCA G-3'; 5'-AGA ACC ATT TAT TAG CTT TGT TGC-3') for T. brucei (s.l.) and TVW1/2 (5'-CTG AGT GCT CCA TGT CCC AC-3'; 5'-CCA CCA GAA CAC CAA CCT GA-3') for T. vivax . The amplification reaction was carried out in a final volume of 15 μl containing 1.5 μl of 10× PCR reaction buffer, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 0.5 μl of dNTPs (200 mM for each dNTP), 1 μl (10 pmol) of each primer, 0.3 U of Taq DNA polymerase (New England Biolabs; 5U/μl), 3 μl of DNA extract, and nuclease-free water. The amplification program comprised an initial denaturation step at 94 °C for 5 min, followed by 40 amplification cycles of denaturation at 94 °C for 30 s, annealing at 60 °C for 30 s for the four trypanosome species investigated in this study, and an extension step at 72 °C for 1 min. A final extension was performed at 72 °C for 10 min.
Amplified products were resolved on 2% agarose gel containing ethidium bromide and visualized under UV light.
Statistical analyses were performed using the R 3.4.1 . A Chi-square test was used to compare, between foci, the infection rates of Wolbachia sp. and different trypanosome species. The differences were considered significant when P-values were lower than 0.05. To analyze the relationship between Wolbachia sp. and trypanosome infections, a generalized linear model (package stats in R) was used with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Trypanosoma vivax was excluded for these analyses because its life-cycle is restricted to the mouthparts of tsetse flies.
From the 197 traps used in this study, a total of 2122 tsetse flies were collected during the four entomological surveys: 1216 (57.3%) tsetse flies were caught in the Bipindi HAT focus, 632 (29.78%) in the Campo focus and 274 (12.91%) in the Fontem focus. Four different tsetse species and subspecies including G. caliginea, G. tabaniformis, G. p. palpalis and G. p. pallicera were identified. Glossina p. palpalis was the only tsetse subspecies caught in the Fontem HAT focus. In the Campo HAT focus, 632 tsetse flies were identified, of which 619 (97.94%) were G. p. palpalis, 9 (1.42%) G. pallicera, 3 (0.47%) G. tabaniformis and 1 (0.16%) G. caliginea. In the Bipindi HAT focus, 1216 tsetse flies were identified, of which 1208 (99.34%) were G. p. palpalis and 8 (0.66%) G. pallicera. In the three HAT foci, 34 (1.6%) teneral flies were identified: 1 (0.05%) at Bipindi, 24 (1.13%) at Campo and 9 (0.42%) at Fontem. For the molecular identification of Wolbachia and different trypanosome species, 790 (37.23%) G. p. palpalis were randomly selected.
From 790 tsetse flies that were randomly selected and analyzed by two set of primers (wspec F1/wspec R1 and wsp F1/wsp R1), at least one of the two markers identified Wolbachia infections in a total of 200 tsetse flies. This gave a global infection rate of 25.32% (200/790) (Table 1).
The highest infection rate of 71.83% was observed in tsetse flies caught at Menji in the Fontem HAT focus and the lowest infection rate of 13.64% in flies caught at Mabiogo in the Campo HAT focus. Between HAT foci, a significant difference (χ2 = 6.9543, df = 2, P = 0.0309) was observed in the Wolbachia infection rates. Similar results were observed between villages of the same HAT focus, except in the Bipindi focus where the difference in the Wolbachia infection rates was not significant (χ2 = 1.1123, df = 2, P = 0.5734) (Table 1).
Of the 200 tsetse flies with Wolbachia infections, 130 (65%) were positive for the 16S DNA marker and 121 (60.5%) for WSP. Fifty-one (25.5%; 51/200) of these infections were simultaneously identified by both 16S and WSP markers (Table 2). However, no significant difference (χ2 = 0.3837, df = 1, P = 0.5357) was observed between the number of Wolbachia infections identified by these two markers.
In the Bipindi and Campo HAT foci, WSP appeared more sensitive because 40 (19.14%) and 62 (20.19%) Wolbachia infections, respectively, were identified by this marker while only 26 (12.44%) and 29 (9.45%) infections, respectively, were identified by 16S in the same focus. Wolbachia infections simultaneously identified by the two markers in the Bipindi and Campo HAT foci were 12 (5.74%; 12/209) and 29 (9.45%; 29/307), respectively. The difference in sensitivity between these markers was significant in the Campo (χ2 = 14.049, df = 1, P = 0.0002) HAT focus, but not in the Bipindi (χ2 = 3.5265, df = 1, P = 0.0604) HAT focus (Table 2).
In the Fontem HAT focus, 16S rDNA detected significantly (χ2 = 40.269, df = 1, P < 0.0001) more infections than WSP (Table 2): 75 (27.37%) Wolbachia infections were identified by 16S compared to 19 (6.93%) identified by WSP. In this focus, only 3.65% (10/274) of Wolbachia infections were simultaneously detected by 16S and WSP (Table 2).
Regardless of the marker used in this study (16S or WSP), a significant difference (χ2 = 22.831, df = 2, P <0.0001 for WSP; χ2 = 8.296, df = 2, P = 0.0158 for 16S rDNA) was observed in the Wolbachia infection rates between all the three HAT foci (Table 2).
From 790 tsetse flies randomly selected, 11 were teneral flies. These 11 flies were excluded from the identification of trypanosomes because they had never taken a blood meal. From the remaining 779 non-teneral flies that were subjected to molecular identification of trypanosomes, 248 (31.84%) were infected with at least one trypanosome species: 156 (62.90%) with T. vivax; 86 (34.68%) with T. congolense forest type; 40 (16.13%) T. brucei (s.l.) and 6 (2.42%) T. congolense savannah type (Table 3). Between villages of the same HAT focus, no significant difference was observed in the infection rates of different trypanosome species except for T. congolense forest type (χ2 = 10.254, df = 2, P = 0.0059) in the Fontem HAT focus (Table 3).
Trypanosoma vivax was found in tsetse flies caught in the three HAT foci. Its prevalence in tsetse flies was 21.64% in the Campo HAT focus, 20.1% in the Bipindi HAT focus and 18.11% in the Fontem HAT focus. The highest infection rate of 27.27% was observed at Mabiogo in the Campo HAT focus and the lowest infection rate of 15.94% in tsetse captured at Folepi in the Fontem HAT focus (Table 3). Between HAT foci, no significant difference (χ2 = 1.161, df = 2, P = 0.5596) was observed in the infection rates of T. vivax.
Trypanosoma congolense savannah type and T. brucei (s.l.) were found in tsetse from the Campo HAT focus. Their prevalences were 1.97% for T. congolense savannah type and 13.11% for T. brucei (s.l.). The highest infection rate of T. congolense savannah type (5.63%) and T. brucei (s.l.) (36.36%) were found at Ipono and Mabiogo, respectively, of the Campo HAT focus. The lowest infection rates of T. congolense savannah type (1.42%) and T. brucei (s.l.) (7.41%) were found at Akak and Campo beach, respectively.
Trypanosoma congolense forest type was identified in tsetse caught in the Campo and Fontem HAT foci. Its prevalence was 5.57% in tsetse of the Campo HAT focus and 26.04% in those of the Fontem HAT focus.
Thirty-five (14.11%; 32/248) co-infections comprising 5 triple and 30 double infections were observed. The double infections included 18 (7.26%) T. congolense forest type + T. vivax, 8 (3.22%) T. brucei (s.l.) + T. vivax, 2 (0.81%) T. congolense forest type + T. brucei (s.l.), 1 (0.4%) T. congolense forest type + T. congolense savannah type, and 1 (0.4%) T. vivax + T. congolense savannah type. The five triple infections were composed of 3 (1.21%) infections with T. congolense forest type + T. vivax + T. brucei (s.l.), 1 (0.4%) with T. congolense forest type + T. congolense savannah type + T. vivax, and 1 (0.4%) with T. congolense forest type + T. congolense savannah type + T. brucei (s.l.).
From tsetse flies that were simultaneously analyzed for the presence of Wolbachia and different trypanosome species, 25.4% (198/779) harbored Wolbachia and 31.8% (248/779) were infected with at least one trypanosome species. Considering the fact that T. vivax is found exclusively in the mouthparts, single infections involving only this parasite were excluded from association studies between Wolbachia and trypanosomes. With these criteria, 125 flies with single infection of T. vivax were excluded. The 31 flies with double and triple infections involving T. vivax were considered for association studies. With the exclusion of 125 flies with single infections of T. vivax, only 123 tsetse flies with trypanosome infections were subjected to association studies. The Bipindi HAT focus was also excluded from these investigations because only infections due to T. vivax were found in tsetse caught in this focus. From 123 flies with trypanosome infections, 37 (30.08%) hosted Wolbachia (W+T+) while the remaining 86 (69.92%) were devoid of Wolbachia (W-T+) (Table 4). Fifty-six tsetse flies hosting Wolbachia were infected by T. vivax. These 56 flies were also excluded and consequently only 144 tsetse flies (W+) hosting Wolbachia were considered for association studies. No trypanosomes were identified in 38.89% (56/144) (W+T-) of these 144 flies. A total of 340 (59.65%) tsetse flies (W-T-) were devoid of infection with either trypanosome or Wolbachia (Table 4).
A generalized linear model (glm), used to test whether the presence of Wolbachia could have impact on the trypanosome infections, revealed no significant association between the two microorganisms in the Campo HAT focus (r = 0.009, P = 0.993; 95% CI: -0.77–0.71) and in the Fontem HAT focus (r = 1.403, P = 0.161; 95% CI: -0.17–0.99) (Table 4).
The entomological surveys revealed four tsetse subspecies, with G. p. palpalis being the predominant subspecies in the three HAT foci. These data confirm previous reports and highlight not only the great adaptability of G. p. palpalis, but also the fact that it is the main vector of African trypanosomes in southern Cameroon [17, 29–32]. The variation of tsetse subspecies according to HAT foci (only G. p. palpalis at Fontem, G. p. palpalis and G. p. pallicera at Bipindi and four species at Campo) indicates how the bio-ecological and bioclimatic conditions characterizing each HAT focus may have impacts on the tsetse fauna [30–32]. The unusual presence of G. tabaniformis suggests either an advance of human activity towards areas where it is usually confined or its incursion into anthropized areas where they can easily find vertebrate hosts for their blood meals.
The identification of Wolbachia in G. p. palpalis contrasts with results of Cheng et al. and Doudoumis et al. who did not identify Wolbachia in G. p. palpalis as in other tsetse of the fuscipes group. Our results are in line with those of Schneider et al. who used sensitive PCR based-methods and identified Wolbachia in G. f. fuscipes. The sensitivity of molecular markers and the method used to detect Wolbachia are important factors that can affect Wolbachia infection rates. In our study where two markers (16S rDNA and WSP) were used, neither was more sensitive because no significant difference (P = 0.53) was observed between their overall performances. However, between HAT foci, significant differences were observed in the infection rates identified by these markers. For instance, WSP was two-fold more sensitive in the Campo focus (20.19% of infections with WSP against 9.45% for 16S rDNA) while 16S rDNA showed higher sensitivity (25.37% against 6.93% for WSP) in the Fontem HAT focus. If one marker had been used, the overall Wolbachia prevalence would have been approximately 15.32% for WSP and 16.45% for 16S rDNA. Each single marker underestimated the Wolbachia prevalence since about 9% of infections would have not been detected by each of them. The use of two markers improved the detection of Wolbachia. Our results suggest the combination of two markers for accurate identification of Wolbachia and the need to develop new bio-makers for reliable detection of Wolbachia infections. The identification of Wolbachia in natural populations of G. p. palpalis has important implications for the development of new strategies for vector control. With its ability to induce cytoplasmic incompatibility and to be transmitted from mother to offspring, Wolbachia can be genetically modified in order to produce bio-molecules that can interfere with the establishment and/or development of trypanosomes in tsetse flies. This can affect the vectorial competence of tsetse and disease transmission could be blocked through the genetically modified Wolbachia strains that conferred resistance to tsetse fly.
The overall Wolbachia infection rate of 25.32% is lower than the 44.3%, 98% and 100% reported in G. f. fuscipes , G. austeni and G. m. morsitans , respectively. These differences could be related to specific biological characteristics of each tsetse subspecies. Indeed, for identical stimulus, interactions between tsetse and its symbiotic microorganisms vary with biological response of each tsetse subspecies. Such variations affect interactions between tsetse and its symbionts and, consequently, the Wolbachia infection rates. Variations of analytical methods could also explain these differences. In the present study, whole tsetse was used, while in other studies investigations were performed on isolated tissues. It is also plausible that there is a low density of Wolbachia in G. p. palpalis as already reported in Rhagoletis cerasi and Drosophila paulistorum . This hypothesis is strengthened by results of Wamwiri et al. where G. austeni populations from Kenya had a high density of Wolbachia compared to those of South Africa. This low density could explain results of Doudoumis et al. reporting no Wolbachia in G. p. palpalis.
The differences in the Wolbachia infection rates according to HAT foci are in line with observations reported elsewhere [12, 13, 15]. These differences could be related to eco-climatic conditions characterizing each focus. Although the three HAT foci are all located in the forest region of southern Cameroon, each of them is characterized by specific environmental and bio-climatic conditions that have impacts on tsetse biology, its symbiotic microorganisms and finally on the interactions between tsetse and its symbionts. Between villages of the same HAT focus, the differences observed in the Wolbachia infection rates can be linked to specific microclimates encountered in each village. This hypothesis is in line with observations reporting that in habitats where environmental conditions fluctuate slightly, the interaction between tsetse and its symbiotic microorganism is stable as well as the transmission of symbionts from mother to offspring . A better understanding of the vector competence of tsetse requires considering the variability of biotopes within and between tsetse infested regions.
The identification of different trypanosomes confirms previous results [31, 32, 36] and indicates current transmission of these parasites. The co-existence of T. congolense forest and savannah types indicates that the geographical limit (T. congolense savannah and forest in the savannah and forest zones, respectively) tends to change with time. Between HAT foci, the significant differences observed in the trypanosome infection rates could be explained by the fauna composition and the contact frequency between tsetse and mammals.
Regardless of the HAT focus considered here, an increase was observed when our trypanosome infection rates were compared with those previously generated in the same HAT foci (35.1% against 32.4% at Campo in 2008; 20.09% against 9.8% at Bipindi in 2010 and 37.73% against 6.3% at Fontem in 2006) [17, 31, 37]. These results could be explained by the fact that whole tsetse was investigated in our study while previous investigations were undertaken mostly on tsetse midguts. However, the number of flies with immature, mature infections and mouth part infections are unknown with our approach.
In addition to simple infections, our results showed that approximately 14.11% of tsetse of southern Cameroon carried mixed infections of different trypanosome species. These results are in agreement with those of previous studies reporting mixed infections in animals and different tsetse subspecies of Cameroon [36–38] and other African countries [39–41]. Since whole tsetse was analyzed, no information could be inferred from the part of tsetse that was co-infected by trypanosomes. It is difficult to know the proportion of mature co-infections of different trypanosome species. Remarkably, some trypanosomes of triple infections (T. congolense forest type, T. congolense savannah type and T. vivax) can be found in their mature forms in tsetse mouthparts. This highlights a high probability that several trypanosome species might be transmitted by a tsetse fly during a single blood meal on a vertebrate host. In such context, further investigations are required to understand which parasite will establish in the host and how mixed infections will impact the trypanosome transmission dynamics and animal health. With a high number of double and triple infections, there is a need to understand the evolution of these infections and their potential impacts on the transmission dynamics of trypanosomes.
The high trypanosome infection rates indicate not only their high transmission in the forest regions of southern Cameroon, but also the need to implement and intensify control operations to achieve HAT elimination and reduce the incidence of AAT. The identification of trypanosomes in whole tsetse generated more data on trypanosome infections and highlighted AAT as threat for animal health in HAT foci of the southern Cameroon.
The 29.84% of tsetse with co-infections of Wolbachia and trypanosomes corroborates results of Alam et al. and Aksoy et al. . This relatively low co-infection rate can be related to the biological effects that this bacterium has on various parasites . The absence of significant correlation between Wolbachia and trypanosome infections (Table 4) suggests that the presence of Wolbachia does not seem to be an obstacle for the establishment of trypanosomes. This result contrasts the negative correlation reported in G. f. fuscipes by Alam et al. who subsequently suggested the prevention of trypanosome infections by the presence of Wolbachia. The tripartite association between tsetse, Wolbachia and trypanosomes seems to vary according to tsetse subspecies and tsetse populations. Obtaining an overview of the vector competence of tsetse requires also taking into consideration the teneral status of tsetse and its first blood meal on a non-infected host because these factors affect its ability to be infected and could mitigate the influence of symbiotic microorganisms.
With the differences observed in the sensitivity of markers and the presence of tsetse with Wolbachia infections and/or without trypanosomes, additional investigations on these bacteria are needed. Instead of focusing only on the presence/absence of Wolbachia, investigations aiming to characterize Wolbachia and to determine its density could generate additional data that may help to better understand Wolbachia infections as well as the contribution of this bacterium in the vector competence of tsetse flies. Moreover, as Wolbachia is maternally transmitted from mother to offspring, studies on population genetics of tsetse coupled with Wolbachia identification could enable to understand the differences in the susceptibility of different tsetse genotypes to Wolbachia infections.
The present study reveals significant differences in the infections rates of Wolbachia and trypanosomes in G. p. palpalis from HAT foci of southern Cameroon. The identification of Wolbachia with only one marker underestimates its infection rates and the combination of several markers enables achieving higher accuracy. Co-infections of Wolbachia and trypanosomes are not common and no association between these two microorganisms was revealed in G. p. palpalis. The tripartite association between tsetse fly, Wolbachia and trypanosomes seems to vary according to tsetse infested areas and a better understanding of this association may require additional studies aiming to evaluate the genetic polymorphism of Wolbachia as well as its density in tsetse flies.
This work was supported by IRD through Jeune Equipe de Recherche Associée (JEAI EpiReTryp), UMR INTERTRYP and the University of Dschang.
JEAI EpiReTryp, UMR INTERTRYP and the Fond institutionnel d’appui à la recherche de l’Université de Dschang, Cameroon.
All data generated and/or analyzed during this study are included in this article.
SK was involved in sample collection, identification of symbionts and trypanosomes, and in drafting the manuscript. EO and TM participated in the sampling. FN revised the manuscript. GS participated in tsetse fly sampling, conception and design of the study, and drafting the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This study was carried out in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Animals of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dschang, Cameroon.
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R Development Core Team. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing; 2017. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL: https://www.freestatistics.org/cran/. | 2019-04-22T20:37:03 | https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-018-3229-2 |
0.999999 | Matthew Mottola MS & # 39; 17 started chasing a problem in 2013. Why do so many people hate work, and why does it have such a negative stigma? He became obsessed with this problem and worked tirelessly until he found a solution.
Mottola started what he would later understand was a freelancer when he was just a freshman in college. "I would like to make business plans for people, financial models," he said. "He paid me better than an ice cream shop". Mottola was a consulting company with one man, and he loved it.
He thought of this job as an extension of how he could help people, and then he realized that what he was really doing was starting his freelance business. This work helped pay for college, and that's what led him to Babson for graduate school.
Mottola wanted a program that would allow him to concentrate on building his business. Babson's Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Leadership (MSEL) was the perfect solution.
"I chose Babson instead of going to an accelerator," said Mottola. He knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, and Babson was the place he wanted to be.
All MSEL students follow a required experiential course called the Learning Entrepreneurial Action Project (LEAP). Mottola has used LEAP as an opportunity to launch the business idea it had created, a platform that connects freelance students to businesses through project-based work.
Translating his freelance experience on this platform, Mottola believed he could contribute to accelerating the career of students. The platform offered every student the opportunity to acquire real-world skills, learn what they wanted to do after graduation and have tangible experiences to put into their curriculum.
"Freelance was the reason I joined Babson. I presented myself with a portfolio of my freelance projects, along with a sketch of the business I wanted to create, and fortunately they let me in," said Mottola. "I truly believe that Babson would not have accepted me without this experience. I wanted my platform to translate the opportunity that freelance offered me and made it accessible for other students and for whatever they were shooting."
During his program, Mottola devoted all his time to building the platform. "At Babson, I learned to identify a problem and find the cheapest and fastest way to make it possible." He used his professors, his colleagues and the many resources of Babson to build his solution.
Approaching the degree with a dwindling bank account and uncertainty in his future, Mottola realized that he may not be the right person to achieve his original goal of improving work. "Babson was phenomenal in giving me the picture for the question, & # 39; Why me?"Why was he the right person to build this platform and solve this problem?
At this point in time, it was not. Mottola knew he lacked the technical skills to carry his idea forward. He turned to his next opportunity: a job in San Francisco at Gigster, the direct competitor for the platform he was building.
Mottola started Gigster's lowest possible sales role, offering him a golden opportunity to listen to customers' weaknesses. "I would have taken a job as an office manager, because I just wanted to talk to customers," he said. Although he was full-time at the Gigster, Mottola had not abandoned his platform. He used the opinions and feedback of Gigster's customers to improve his solution, with the ultimate goal of making mainstream freelance.
After nine months of work for Gigster, Microsoft contacted Mottola to take his freelance work to their corporate environment.
At the beginning he was hesitant. "I was afraid of losing my entrepreneurial roots," said Mottola. "I loved Silicon Valley. It looked like a giant Babson, where everyone tries to change the world. I was afraid to leave that environment."
But, after meeting the Microsoft team, seeing the changes that CEO Satya Nadella led within the company, and reflecting on Microsoft's potential in the freelance space, Mottola realized that this was the next ideal step of your journey.
"In this sector, there is a problem of supply and demand – a group of freelancers who love their jobs and companies that want to engage themselves as freelancers. The basis for linking these two at the corporate level was missing. It struck me the fact that Microsoft was the main player to solve this problem. "
The first thing Mottola did to Microsoft was to turn all the walls of his office into customer travel maps, a design thinking tool that he took away from Babson. This allowed him to see weaknesses and prioritize which features were most important to customers when launching and resizing freelance programs. From these characteristics, he led an interfunctional team to develop the tools, models and best practices prepared by Microsoft 365 Freelance Toolkit for companies to start and scale freelance programs.
"Everything needed to launch this product was a reflection of Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®," said Mottola. "From the leadership skills I've worked with all the different types of people, to the agile structures to identify real problems and drive solutions, I owe everything to Babson."
Mottola has taken its entrepreneurial mindset and used it to stimulate change in one of the largest companies in the world. He used his Babson upbringing to innovate from within – and ultimately solved the problem he had pursued throughout his career. | 2019-04-23T09:51:42 | https://www.archynetys.com/tech/matthew-mottola-of-microsoft-%C2%B7-babson-thought-action/ |
0.999999 | With The Passage Season 1 in the can, and the show still awaiting word on its future, it's time to take a look at the show's prospects for renewal.
The Passage was one of the more surprising entries to Fox's schedule. It was initially in the works as a movie before making the jump to TV.
Despite being ordered to pilot in January 2017, Fox did not order the project to series until May 2018.
There were some reshoots on the pilot, but it's clear Fox knew the show would be a good fit.
The big issue for the series was that it is heavily serialized. These type of shows have a knack for picking up some solid sampling for the earlier episodes before tailing off to cancellation levels by the end of the season.
Related: On the Bubble: Should Manifest Be Renewed or Canceled?
That being said, The Passage Season 1 Episode 1 scared up 5.2 million total viewers and a 1.3 rating. By the time The Passage Season 1 Episode 10 aired, that episode scored 3.1 million total viewers and a 0.7 rating.
As a whole, The Passage Season 1 averaged 3.7 million total viewers and a 0.9 rating.
The series ranks ninth out of Fox's 16 scripted series. The erosion throughout the first season is definitely a cause for concern.
The good news for The Passage is that it is adding a lot of viewers when seven days of DVR is factored in.
The main thing hindering the show's future is the looming changes coming to Fox with the imminent Disney takeover.
It's already been revealed that WWE SmackDown is moving to Fox in the fall. That will be taking up residence on the network for five years, airing 52 weeks a year.
There's also Thursday Night Football, which will be airing on Fox in the fall once again, meaning there will be less room for scripted programming than ever.
Then there's The Masked Singer. Nobody expected the show to be a hit, but it quickly solidified itself as Fox's most-watched and highest-rated new series.
In live + same day measures, The Masked Singer Season 1 averaged 8.2 million total viewers and a 2.6 rating.
Simply put, it's a difficult time to be a bubble scripted series on Fox. The network is poised to continue its scripted scale back if it means higher ratings across the board.
The Passage is owned by Fox, so that will go in its favor. Networks have been known to let more marginal performing shows remain on the air despite lower ratings.
From a quality standpoint, The Passage is in good standing.
It's an ambitious series which focuses on a group of people being experimented on to create a cure for a virus that's headed to the U.S.
If you watch The Passage online, you know that The Passage Season 1 Episode 10 turned the entire series on its head.
We're heading into spoiler territory so beware!
Moving the action to the year 2116 at one of the last human outposts in the world was a ballsy move and one that really set it apart from some of the other dramas on Fox.
It went from being a drama series about a group of people trying to save the world from the outbreak of a virus to a post-apocalyptic one in similar vein to AMC's The Walking Dead.
The jump in time will allow the series to have a fresh start if a second season is commissioned. The buzz for the finale was through the roof, so it's possible that many people will catch the series in between seasons to see what all the fuss was about.
There's a quality to The Passage that is rarely seen on broadcast TV. It resembles some of the bigger budget more popular series.
While there's no word on what the budget for the series actually is, it can't be cheap, and that could make things difficult if Fox entertains the possibility of a season 2 renewal.
For the most part, the cast is great. The frontrunners are Saniyya Sidney and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
There are a lot of pros and cons at play here, and The Passage is right on the bubble for renewal or cancellation.
It's YOUR turn, The Passage Fanatics!
Should the series be renewed for Season 2?
Hit the comments with your thoughts! | 2019-04-25T14:50:50 | http://origin.tvfanatic.com/2019/03/on-the-bubble-should-the-passage-be-renewed-or-canceled/ |
0.999609 | Will Trump's embrace doom Tuesday's GOP primary victors?
The president's support meant everything to Bill Schuette and Lena Epstein. But it could prove fatal in Michigan's general election.
This much is clear: You can't win a Republican primary in Michigan without Donald Trump on your side.
What remains to be seen is whether any candidate embraced by Trump can survive this November's general election in a state the president carried by only a whisker in 2016, when his popularity was at its zenith.
That Trump's place in the hearts of Michigan's Republican voters remains secure was confirmed by Tuesday's election, in which candidates who won the president's explicit endorsement or campaigned in support of his nationalist agenda swept the GOP nominations for governor, U.S. Senate, and the US. House of Representatives.
Conversely, Republican candidates who expressed the teensiest bit of skepticism about Trump were largely swept aside, consigned to political oblivion for the duration of 45's reign.
Adios, Brian Calley. Good to know you, Sandy Pensler.
And hey, term-limited state Sen. Mike Kowall, R-White Lake, maybe Michigan Republicans aren't ready for a congressman as circumspect in his appreciation for the incumbent president's genius as you are.
In Kansas, Trump-endorsed firebrand Kris Kobach was clinging to a razor-thin lead in his bid to upset incumbent Republican governor Jeff Colyer for their party's gubernatorial nomination.
In Missouri, Josh Hawley, the conservative attorney general Trump campaigned for, easily won the Republican nomination to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill this fall.
Those wins in Michigan, Kansas and Missouri extended the president's near-perfect record for picking GOP primary winners. As of Wednesday, he had backed the victorious candidate in at least 14 of 16 Republican primary contests held since he took office in 2017.
But his record in one-on-one showdowns between Republican and Democratic candidates is more problematic: When the polls opened Tuesday, Trump had backed the winner in only one of the four of those match-ups.
Troy Balderson, the Trump-endorsed Republican in the closely watched special election for Ohio's 12th Congressional District, was leading his Democratic rival by less than a single percentage point Wednesday morning with virtually all of the votes counted. But even if Balderson holds on, the president has lost most of the inter-party fights he's picked.
In Michigan, Trump's endorsements of gubernatorial candidate Bill Schuette and senatorial candidate John James helped both men overcome rivals perceived to be more muted supporters of the incumbent president.
Schuette never let GOP audiences forget that his only serious competitor, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, had withdrawn his endorsement of Trump late in 2016 after the publication of the Hollywood Access tape in which the Republican presidential nominee boasted of sexually assaulting women, even though Calley reaffirmed his support after Trump's election.
And James' race against GOP businessman Sandy Pensler appeared too close to call until the final weeks of the primary campaign, when Trump's 11th-hour embrace gave James a decisive edge.
But now both Schuette and James enter the general election campaign as candidates closely identified with Trump and his distinctly nationalist brand of Republicanism. Ditto for Lena Epstein, a co-chair of Trump's Michigan campaign, who squeaked to victory in the five-way GOP race to succeed U.S. Rep. David Trott, R-Birmingham.
In the governor's race, about 150,000 more voters cast ballots in the three-way Democratic primary than voted for all four candidates in the Republican contest.
In the 11th Congressional District, which hasn't elected a Democrat in more than half a century, a competitive primary among five Democrats drew the same number of voters as turned out for an equally crowded and fiercely fought Republican congressional primary.
And in In Oakland County, a frequent bellwether in statewide elections, nearly 30,000 more voters participated in the Democratic primary than in the Republican contest.
A great deal can happen between now and the November general election: The White House could win concessions from some of the trading partners it's currently at war with — or de-escalate in time to avert the serious repercussions Michigan automakers fear. Robert Mueller could issue a preliminary report exonerating Trump and his family of any criminal culpability in the Russian conspiracy to undermine the U.S. electoral process. The Department of Homeland Security could find more of the migrant children it has misplaced.
But the odds hardly favor those happy resolutions, and the president's stature in the eyes of Michigan's Democratic and independent voters could just as easily continue to deteriorate, as it has since his narrow election victory here in 2016.
Then the presidential embrace that buoyed loyal foot-soldiers like Schuette and Epstein in Tuesday's primary election could become the insurmountable handicap that seals their fates on Nov. 6.
Brian Dickerson is the editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press. Contact him at [email protected]. | 2019-04-22T12:28:56 | https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/brian-dickerson/2018/08/08/trump-popularity-michigan/928270002/ |
0.999986 | What will I learn from the lesson learning what job do you want you are older?
During this lesson you will how to ask someone what they want to do when they are older and why. At the end of the lesson there are a couple of exercises to practise what you have learnt.
This lesson is part 2 in 'what job do you want when you are older' you will learn how to ask and answer questions.
Mr bean I want to be a pilot.
Mr Jones: A pilot? why?
Mr Bean: Well I like planes, and I want to travel.
Mr Joens: What do you like to do?
Mr Bean: When I'm not studying or playing sport, I love to read. I like to watch TV, too.
Mr Jones: What do you like to watch?
Mr Bean: I like to watch the travel channel. how about you.
Mr jones: I like to watch the movie channel. I want to be a film director.
Write the question on some paper and answer the following questions form the brief conversation.
What does Mr Bean like to do?
Why does he want to be a pilot?
What does he like to watchon TV?
What is Mr Jones favorite TV channel and why?
What do you want to be when you are older? I want to be a famous singer.
Where does he want to go? He wants to be a singer in America.
When does he want to travel? He wants to travel as soon as possible.
Who do they want to vist? They want to vist is parents.
How do you want to pay? i want to paid into my bank account.
Why do you want to be a Doctor? I want to be able to help people.
Why do you want to be a pilot? I like to travel and see new places.
Match The questions with the answers.
Who flies a plane? a firefighter.
A person who treats sick people? a pilot.
A person who repairs cars? a musician.
Who writes letters and helps in a office? a doctor.
Someone who designs Building? a teacher.
Who helps fight fire ? a secretary.
Someone who plays a piano? a mechanic.
Gives instructions to the students? an architect.
Practise: copy and write and fill in the missing blanks.
Who flies a plane? a pilot.
A person who treats sick people?
A person who repairs cars?
Who wriates letters and helps ina office?
Who helps fight fire ?
Someone who plays a piano?
Gives instructions to the students? | 2019-04-21T20:42:24 | https://www.easypacelearning.com/all-lessons/english-level-2/170-jobs-work-and-occupations-english-lesson-learning-what-you-want-to-be |
0.999618 | How important is a single artwork within the artist's body of work? At Artsy we try to answer this question by extracting and scoring a set of features across roughly one million artworks. We call it an iconicity score and we calculate that in Apache Spark for the entire dataset in under 5 minutes.
First, we retrieve artwork features (eg. artwork size or number of users that liked the work), artist features (eg. number of users following an artist), the origin of the work (eg. the work is in a museum) and art genome data (eg. an art historically important sculpture) from HDFS using Hive. Here's a subset of the query.
Some features are binary and others require minor transforms. For example, the fact that the work belongs to a museum scores 1, and otherwise scores a 0.
Features are packed in a vector to become usable by the built-in Spark functions.
Since having 10,000 artist followers doesn't make a work 10,000 times more important than the fact that it belongs to a museum, we must normalize them for unit variance across the entire data set. This is also a good time to weigh some features more than others according to our understanding of the art world.
The score is just the sum of the normalized and weighted features.
We write this data in JSON format to S3, then load it in a system that serves the Artsy API.
In our dataset this creates a nice distribution. Here's an example of iconicity across works by the street artist Banksy.
We notably sort works by iconicity in search results and in the carousel on top of artist pages. We also have made it available in our public API. | 2019-04-21T14:04:09 | https://artsy.github.io/blog/2017/04/21/calculating-the-importance-of-an-artwork-with-apache-spark/ |
0.999015 | Is it? No, of course not. And yet, yes. Perhaps it is.
Bill Shankly's famous remark about the meaning of the beautiful game, surely not intended to be taken entirely seriously, has rarely appeared more challenging than in the geographical setting of an otherwise forgettable 1-0 win for Poland over Japan.
A narrow victory for an eliminated team, who, courtesy of results elsewhere, failed to prevent the opposition from progressing to the round of 16, is not the stuff of an all-time classic.
But for at least some of those who travelled to Volgograd to witness the final match of the city's World Cup hosting duties, this unremarkable fixture offered a glimpse of the reconciliatory and unifying power of football.
Decades before Shankly offered his pithy phrase, the future Liverpool manger served as ground crew in the RAF during the Second World War.
As conflict raged across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia, one city - both its civilian population and the soldiers stationed there - endured unparalleled suffering and hardship.
After being heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe, Stalingrad, a model centre of industry on the banks of the Volga, was fought over bitterly by the Wehrmacht and the Red Army from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943, when the remains of the German Sixth Army surrendered after being cut off and encircled by a Soviet counter-offensive.
Just three months later, Dynamo Stalingrad and Spartak Moscow played "the match in the ruins", a morale-boosting fixture held at the Azot Stadium, one of the only sporting venues to escape the destruction that reduced much of the city to rubble.
Few of the estimated crowd of 9,000 present at that game could imagine, 75 years and one month on, the gleaming new Volgograd Arena, boasting a capacity of 45,000, witnessing Jan Bednarek score the winner for Adam Nawalka's team against a lacklustre Samurai Blue.
Coincidentally, this was a game between an ally of the Nazis, engaged in its own pitiless war in the Pacific, and Poland, a country that suffered more than almost any other during those dark years.
The venue for such a symbolically powerful contest may be one of the newest and most eye-catching structures in the area, but the new home of Rotor Volgograd will forever find itself in the shadow of a neighbouring spectacle, the impact of which cannot be measured in mere numbers of seats, pitch dimensions or goals scored.
Adjacent to the stadium and rising above it, the memorial ensemble "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" is a remarkable collection of statues strategically positioned along the climb up Mamayev Kurgan, the highest hill in the city, offering commanding views of the surrounding area and across the Volga.
Here, 200 steps, one for each day of the battle, leads awe-struck visitors up to The Motherlands Calls, the extraordinary centrepiece at the summit of the hill.
A masterpiece of both sculpture and structural engineering that towers 85 metres from plinth to the tip of its raised sword, the statue dares all who look upon it to remain unmoved as it urges patriotic Russians to come to the defence of the nation.
In 1983, 40 years after the game that defied the bloodshed and misery of the war still raging throughout the country, the players who participated in the match between Dynamo and Spartak returned to the city for a poignant reunion at the memorial.
This month, others took the opportunity presented by the World Cup - long a harmonising force crossing cultural and political boundaries impenetrable by other means - to pay their respects to the city's tragic past.
Among them was Thomas Miller, a psychiatrist from Nuremburg who has a Stuttgart season ticket and has been to every World Cup since 1990.
His uncle Egon Miller fought at Stalingrad and, after being wounded, was evacuated on one of the last hospital trains to leave the city before counter-attacking Soviet forces sprung their decisive trap.
Egon returned to duty on the Eastern front and was captured, spending five years as a prisoner of war. Thomas, having double checked with his cousin, was quite clear on one point in particular - Egon never spoke badly of his treatment at the hands of his Russian captors, despite the terrible toll Adolf Hitler's war had taken on the country.
And considering the trepidation held by some in the West before the tournament, a similarly glowing review, albeit in far lighter circumstances, was offered by his nephew: This World Cup has been a logistical and cultural triumph so far in the estimation of Thomas, who remarked upon the sweeping changes undergone in Russia since his last visit in the late 1980s, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Shared a compartment back from Volgograd with Thomas, a psychiatrist who lives in Nuremberg.
Dr Miller's dry wit also offered an indication of the healing power of time combined with that eternal balm for the human soul, sport.
Having arrived in the city on Wednesday and caught South Korea's shock victory over the holders on television, Thomas, somewhat sheepishly, remarked on the irony of the location in which he witnessed the spectacular demise of Die Mannschaft's campaign in Russia.
Earlier, when arranging the journey, he told the travel agency specialising in Russian trains that it was "nice for a German to be able to book a return ticket to Stalingrad". In reply, they hoped he would have the best trip ever.
Unknown challenges and unwanted causes of division may lie ahead, but for this month at least, all was well in Volgograd, thanks to patience, forgiveness and football. | 2019-04-18T13:11:15 | https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/ruins-world-cup-footballs-healing-power-still-work-volgograd |
0.998586 | Luke Perry, seen here last October during a press appearance for the TV series Riverdale, has died following a massive stroke, his publicist said Monday.
Luke Perry, who rose to fame as bad-boy Dylan McKay on the TV series Beverly Hills 90210, has died at age 52. Perry's publicist announced Monday that the actor "passed away today after suffering a massive stroke" in Los Angeles.
Perry reportedly suffered a stroke last Wednesday, when TMZ and a number of media outlets reported that an ambulance took him from a house in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to a hospital.
When he died, Perry "was surrounded by his children Jack and Sophie, fiancee Wendy Madison Bauer, ex-wife Minnie Sharp," and other close relatives and friends, his publicist said.
News of Perry's death immediately triggered tributes and condolences from other celebrities, including Molly Ringwald, who said via Twitter, "My heart is broken. I will miss you so much Luke Perry. Sending all my love to your family."
Perry's failing health prompted emotional comments from one of his former costars Sunday night, when Shannen Doherty, who starred alongside Perry on 90210, told Entertainment Tonight, "I can't talk about it [here] because I will literally start crying. But I love him and he knows I love him."
"It's Luke, and he's my Dylan," Doherty added, speaking at an event for the Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation.
"The family appreciates the outpouring of support and prayers that have been extended to Luke from around the world, and respectfully requests privacy in this time of great mourning," Perry's publicist said.
While Perry was best-known for playing a teenager, he was in his early 20s when he joined the cast of Beverly Hills 90210 in 1990. In the years since, he also had recurring roles on a number of other shows, from OZ to Riverdale.
In a statement, the makers of Riverdale called Perry a "beloved" member of their team who was "everything you would hope he would be: an incredibly caring, consummate professional with a giant heart, and a true friend to all."
It added that Perry had been a "father figure and mentor to the show's young cast."
Perry's prolific acting career includes his extensive work as a voice actor. His famously husky voice has been part of animated series that range from The Simpsons and Biker Mice From Mars to Johnny Bravo.
Perry also made headlines in October 2016, when he greeted his 50th birthday by appearing on the cover of AARP's magazine, along with the headline, "Welcome to the 902-5-OH." | 2019-04-23T04:48:49 | https://www.ksut.org/post/luke-perry-dies-former-90210-actor-was-52 |
0.999691 | Have you ever felt that life has treated you unfairly? What does that question mean? Is life unfair, and if so in what context? Is life unfair for those who have a physical or mental illness, who come from a broken home, who grow up in an impoverished, drug and crime ridden neighborhood as compared to those who do not? Is life unfair for those who do not come from a monetarily successful family as compared to those who do? Is life unfair for those who experience the doors of social and economic opportunity close on them, yet open for others? Throughout my life there have been times where I have questioned why certain things happen to certain people, including myself. Is it being in the right place at the right time, or possibly being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Is it fate, karma, coincidence, circumstance, society, who you know, some spiritual intervention, genetic makeup, or just the luck of the draw that determines what is considered fair or unfair? Is unfairness real, perceived, or both?
How emotionally distraught do you become when you perceive unfairness in your own life? How does that distress impact your attitude, drive, and resiliency to persevere through that perceived unfairness? Understanding the role of what you do and do not have control over is key to lessening the detrimental impact of perceived unfairness. There are many significant factors that have contributed to the formation of your life that you did not have control over. Your genes, parents, siblings, relatives, place of birth, the social and economic environment your were born into, having been a victim of abuse or nature's wrath are all examples of what you had no control over. However, to use what you had, or presently have no control over to justify unfairness in your life resulting in unhappiness, a lack of self-respect and a sense of failure is a choice. Why would you choose to allow what you do not have control over to override what you do have control over? You have control over your attitude, beliefs, behaviors, how you treat those you love and those who love you, and adhering to the core values that you wish to reflect your character. A meaningful life is not as much about the cards you are dealt, but rather how you decide to play your cards. To be optimistic in the face of adversity, to persevere in the face of self-doubt, and to maintain integrity in the face of unethical temptation are decisions to improve each hand your dealt and improve your chances of succeeding in your life's journey.
Real unfairness relates to the day-to-day treatment of others rather then the perceived unfairness of what your life started with or without; and working to eliminate that day-to-day unfairness is a cause worth fighting for. Unfairness is defined as, “not based on or behaving according to the principles of equality and justice: unkind, inconsiderate, or unreasonable.” Any discrimination of another based on race, greed, color, gender or sexual orientation is an example of real unfairness. A society that ignores such unfairness ignores the very potential of all humanity. Whether perceived or real it is still your decision to allow unfairness to be used as either a life long detriment, or a catalyst and motivator to persevere and live a productive and purposeful life. To think as a victim is to surrender your life to something or someone outside of yourself. To think as a winner is to internally believe you have the potential to overcome any obstacle or level of unfairness, perceived or real that would prevent you from becoming the best person you can be. To succumb to unfairness is to accept personal and professional defeat. It requires personal accountability to overcome the perceived unfairness of the things you did and do not have control over; and the courage of conviction to act in overcoming the real unfairness of how much of humanity is treated. To be fair is to be just, and to be just is to be fair. Let us all strive to focus on fairness toward one another, and less on using perceived unfairness as an excuse not to live a fulfilled and meaningful life.
We have all found ourselves in situations where discussing others is a dominant topic of conversation. Many times it is challenging to distinguish between gossip and the offering of a constructive opinion or observation about another individual's behavior. An initial awareness of the reason for the conversation is critical to that determination. If the conversation focuses on demeaning the individual rather than analyzing the outcome of that individual's behavior it is gossip, and degrades the credibility of those conversing. If the conversation focuses on a lesson learned from the behavior of another it is an opinion, and can be beneficial in stimulating further discussion and exposure to varying thoughts and ideas from others.
Gossip is defined as, "idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal and private affairs of others". Idle in the context of talk refers to conversation that is of no real worth, importance or significance. Opinion is defined as, "a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty". Although an opinion may lack certainty, it is the basis for many discussions, and can lead toward further understanding about any issue or topic brought forward. | 2019-04-18T14:24:51 | https://www.rifenbary.com/jays_blog/index.cfm?postdate=7/1/2014 |
0.999999 | Bowe Bergdahl's Sentence: No Prison Time : The Two-Way Bergdahl, who walked off his military post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, was dishonorably discharged and will lose his rank and forfeit pay.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (center) arrives at the military courtroom facility for a sentencing hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Friday.
The judge, Col. Jeffery Nance, had wide discretion in determining a sentence for Bergdahl, who walked off his military post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years. He could have given him anything from no prison time to life in prison.
Prosecutors had been seeking 14 years in prison, while defense lawyers had asked for no prison time and a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge.
"The judge didn't explain his reasoning; he didn't explain the mitigating factors," NPR's Frank Morris reported from the court.
The military court heard testimony from three current and former service members who were wounded while searching for Bergdahl. Prosecutors argued that he deserved a significant prison sentence because those service members were injured as a result of his actions; the defense said that he did not intend for anyone to get hurt and that it was the Taliban that actually injured them.
In a tweet after the sentencing, President Trump said, "The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military."
Trump's comments on Bergdahl have been a factor in the case. While on the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly called Bergdahl a traitor and suggested that he should be executed. He highlighted those comments again at a recent press briefing, on the same day that Bergdahl pleaded guilty to the charges.
That led Bergdahl's defense to file a motion to dismiss, saying that Trump's remarks amounted to unlawful command influence. Nance ultimately decided that he wouldn't throw out the case, saying that he was "completely unaffected" by the remarks and would still be able to rule fairly.
Bergdahl's dishonorable discharge strips him of his veteran's benefits. However, as Frank reported, that will automatically go to appeal with another military judge. That judge is able to mitigate the existing sentence, Frank said, but is not allowed to impose a harsher one.
"I was sitting in back of Bowe Bergdahl. He was stressed, he often looks stressed though," Frank said. "You could see a big vein snaking across his temple. He was trembling a little bit after the sentence was announced."
Bergdahl has been stationed at a base in San Antonio, and Frank says that now he has "a job waiting for him at an animal shelter in San Antonio. ...He's earned a reputation as someone who is amazingly good with feral cats." | 2019-04-23T19:37:07 | https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/03/561852721/bowe-bergdahls-sentence-no-prison-time?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=bowebergdahl |
0.996516 | My stay was fun. Everything was very nice and the staff was great. I enjoyed the stay here with my private room. I'm very grateful to the therapy who did their best. Thank you especially to those that put up with me. I would recommend Westgate Gardens to friends and family.
This facility was well organized with the patients, caring employees were good at teaching me and showing me patience while I was learning. One of the employees that goes above and and beyond her line of duty to help residents and employees is Lucy. She tries so hard and deserves a good word at least. I would recommend Westgate Gardens Care Center to friends and family.
Everyone on Station 1 was truly amazing. They greeted me with a smile, and that by itself just warmed my heart. Thank you for all of your help. I will recommend Westgate to family and friends.
My whole stay was excellent. When I came here I was very weak. PT worked with me and I am much stronger and confident. I also had a shoulder replacement. OT has been working really hard to get my range of motion back. We are still working hard to improve! I will absolutely refer this place. It is always clean! Everyone here is always in a positive mood. Then there is PT & OT staff - Outstanding!!
I have lived at Westgate for 5 years now and have made many wonderful friends whom I'll love forever! I'll sure miss them. .Most of the people here are wonderful people with wonderful qualities. Always loving and giving. I have not met one person I dislike that works here. I absolutely would recommend Westgate Gardens to anyone.
The workers went out of their way to make my stay as good as possible. Although I wasn't always the most happy person and gave them a hard time, they were still nice to me. Thank you to everyone. I really enjoyed my private room too. I would recommend Westgate to everyone that may need help.
I had great experience her at Westgate. The food was great and the staff took good care of me.I would absolutely recommend Westgate to family and friends.
I enjoyed my stay. I had a great experience with everyone. The staff was really good to me! I would recommend Westgate to family and friends.
Everyone has bee polite and caring. Physical Therapy employees were very helpful. I really enjoyed Ricki and Peter. I would be happy to recommend Westgate to family and friends!
I would recommend Westgate to family and friends. I enjoyed my stay at Westgate. My private was lovely.
Westgate Gardens Care Center is a Medicare-certified rehabilitation and skilled nursing home located in Visalia, California. We specialize in rehabilitative physical, occupational, and speech therapy for those suffering from an illness or recovering from a major medical event such as joint-replacement surgery, stroke, injury, or heart attack. To schedule a tour, contact us at (559) 733-0901. | 2019-04-23T22:36:44 | https://www.myreputation.com/reviews/westgate-gardens-care-center-visalia?p=0&sort=2 |
0.999999 | Dr. Kinach is a mathematics teacher educator whose research centers on the tasks of mathematics teacher preparation and their impact on pre-service teachers’ mathematical understanding and teaching practice. Through design research, she studies the role of physical manipulatives and other visual representations in transforming prospective teachers' procedural views of mathematics and preferences for direct instruction. Known for her content-specific pedagogical innnovations, her cognitive strategy (IACTS) develops preservice teachers' pedagogical content knowledge through a teaching routine based on a depth of knowledge framework that improves teaching practice by asking preservice teachers to consider what they are teaching (rote skills, memorized vocabulary words, rich concepts, problem-solving strategies, ways for students to justify their thinking). Through design research she also is developing tasks related to generalizing figural sequences to assist teachers in facilitating the transition to symbolization that all early algebra students undergo. Currently, she is exploring the potential of semiotics and Peircean diagrammatic reasoning for teaching teachers how to sequence mathematical learning tasks logically from concrete to pictorial to symbolic forms of representation to foster deep learning.
What prior experience do pre-service teachers have with using visual representations to learn concepts and solve problems in mathematics?
In the absence of such experience, what types of tasks generate an appreciation for the role visualization plays in mathematics learning and an ability to use visual tools effectively to develop math concepts, processes, and relationships?
What do pre-service teachers need to know about learning mathematics through visualization in order to effectively support student learning using visual tools?
on childrens mathematics achievement. ST Math is a neuroscience-based K-8 mathematics curriculum that teaches mathematics concepts visually without words. The team hypothesize that providing students with visual experiences of mathematics concepts prior to the introduction of concept vocabulary will result in increased mathematics achievement and problem-solving ability for all students, but especially for second-language learners.
Kinach, B. M. (2016). Digital visualization tasks for mathematics teacher development: A semiotic chaining analysis. Paper presented at the 13th International Congress on Mathematics Education, Hamburg, Germany, 24-31 July, 2016.
Kinach, B.M. (2014). Generalizing: The core of algebraic thinking. Mathematics Teacher 107(6): 432-439.
Kinach, B.M. (2002). A cognitive strategy for developing prospective teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in the secondary mathematics methods course: Toward a model of effective practice. Teaching and Teacher Education 18(1): 51-71.
Johnson,Mina Catherine*, Johnson,Mina Catherine*, Johnson,Mina Catherine*, Campana,Ellen, Campana,Ellen, Coleman,Grisha, Glenberg,Arthur Mitchell, Kelliher,Aisling G, Kelliher,Aisling G, Kinach,Barbara, Megowan,Colleen, Megowan,Colleen, Savenye,Wilhelmina C, Tinapple,David A. Embodied STEM Learning Across Technolog-Based Learning Environments. NSF-EHR(8/15/2010 - 7/31/2016). | 2019-04-25T20:40:16 | https://education.asu.edu/barbara-kinach |
0.999998 | The purpose of the study were: i. Look at the level of education attained by parents of slum children and parental interest or involvement with their children's schoolwork. ii. To investigate the attitudes towards school held by the subjects and their level of achievement motivation. iii. Find out whether there is any significant correlation among parental level of education parental involvement, students attitudes towards school and students achievement motivation. The sample consisted of 251 standard seven pupils from 4 primary school in the slums of Nairobi. The instruments used for data collection were: i. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) to provide information on students’ achievement motivation. ii. Likert-type scale to measure students’ attitudes towards school. iii. Questionnaire to measure parental level of education and parental involvement with their children's schoolwork. For data analysis the following techniques were used: - i. Descriptive statistics to describe data. ii. Coefficient contingency to test strength of relationships. iii. Chi square test to test for significance of relationships. iv. Multiple regression analysis to establish contribution made by each variable on the other. The findings of the results indicated that there i. Was no significant relationship between students achievement motivation and a. Students attitudes towards school b. Parents level of education c. Parental involvement with their children’s schoolwork at p < 0.05 level of significance. ii. Was no significant relationship between students' attitudes towards school and a. Parental level of education b. Parental involvement with their children's schoolwork at p< 0.05, level of significance. iii. There is a significant relationship between parental level of involvement and parental level of education at p <0.05 level of significance. It was concluded therefore that parental level of education and parental level of involvement are not related to students' attitudes towards school nor to students' achievement motivation. There is need therefore to investigate the factors that are likely to influence students' attitudes towards school and students' achievement motivation among slum children. | 2019-04-26T02:45:15 | http://usiuservicedesk.usiu.ac.ke/handle/11732/2905 |
0.999201 | Dislike: The TSA agent in SeaTac airport: "Sir, you need to stay with your bags and make sure they go through the scanner! We don't have anyone to push them through!"
Like: My kids, who behaved the entire flight down to Phoenix.
Dislike: The woman who booked a flight down to Phoenix at the last minute and split up her entire family (including a 4-year old).
What I thought at the time: I didn't care, as I wasn't sitting next to her. But Brenda was. I'm always impressed with the grace of people who try to help -- like the man who switched seats so the woman could sit next to her daughter. Or Brenda offering to entertain the girl with our DVD player.
Dislike: The Alaska Airlines pilot who bounced our 737-900 off the runway upon touchdown.
What I thought at the time: Well, there was a brief moment of terror as the plane bounced up (hello, Zero-G!), and I wondered if we were going to come down OK. Cameron thought it was fun.
What I thought later: The more I thought about this landing, the stranger it seemed: Usually you glide in and hover over the runway (ground effect) before touching down. But this time, the plane seemed to drop -- almost as if the wind changed at the last second, and we lost our lift. My hat's off to the pilots who can handle this kind of stuff, as scary as it seems from the cabin.
Dislike: The lady in front of me on the plane who stood up as soon as the plane stopped, and then complained about how slow everyone was exiting. She also kept leaning into me from the aisle.
What I thought at the time: Here's a tip to those with claustrophobia or agoraphobia: Don't stand up as soon as the plane lands, because then you'll be standing in the crowded aisle, which will only compound your problems.
Like: The Alaska Airlines baggage claim. The bags were there when arrived (a first for me).
What I thought at the time: Wow!
What I thought later: Oh, yeah, it took 20 minutes to exit the plane and 10 minutes to walk to the baggage claim.
Like: The guy at the Hertz rental counter and the great, open design of the rental car center.
What I thought at the time: Architectural design can lower one's stress level.
What I thought at the time: I hate making mistakes like this. Fortunately, the officer was nice and cut us some slack because we were from out of town.
Like: Carol and Gar meeting us in a parking lot (after we got pulled over by Avondale's finest) and guiding us to their house. We felt very welcome! | 2019-04-20T02:15:44 | http://andyoblog.andrewolson.com/2012/02/passage-to-phoenix-likes-and-dislikes.html |
0.999138 | The controller has asked you to produce a report that identifies the total outstanding receivable by customer, as of the period-ending date. Which report would fulfill this request?
Sender Clearing Rules automatically generate the sender clearing transaction line.
Sender Distribution Rules automatically generate the sender transaction distribution line(s).
You can use only one set of Autoaccounting rules per pair of sender/receiver chart of accounts.
Receiver Clearing Rules automatically generate the receiver clearing transaction line.
Receiver Distribution Rules automatically generate the receiver transaction distribution line(s).
Invoice is voided in the prior period.
Natural accounts were defined with an incorrect account type.
Natural accounts were defined to store both statistical and monetary values. | 2019-04-19T08:43:47 | http://www.microsoftresource.com/free-2018jan-ensurepass-passguide-oracle-1z0-516-dumps-with-vce-and-pdf-download-121-130/ |
0.990695 | the 85mm f1.2L II vs 135mm f2.0L??
hi, I just got Canon's 5D and want to buy a fixed lens for headshots and glam/beauty shots; i'll be shooting in a studio. I wanted to know if any of you have experienced either lenses. (obviously I need a nice fast lens. and nothing too distorting).
I don't specifically have experience with theses fixed focal length lenses but I would say that the quality of these lenses isn't what should be in question but the angle of view and how you tend to show. Oh, also how much room you have when you shoot. I love shooting with longer lenses but when I set up a studio I don't always have that much room to scoot back. Of course, if you have another lens you will use for full body shots, I guess this would probably be more for head and shoulders, 3/4, or headshots? If I had to go further I think I would go for the 135mm because 85mm isn't too far from 50mm but it's also a little wider than what I like to use for portraits. Personally, I don't think I'll be getting one of these lenses anytime soon because they are kinda pricy haha. Also, don't let the max aperture be a large deciding factor if you shoot a lot in the studio as you can control lighting but you probably know that. Also, I am generally able to shoot at something other than max aperture even with a 2.8 lens.
i actually have pretty decent space to shoot in (about 3 feet worth of subject to background, and about 2 feet from subject to camera), and yes I certainly will be doing many types of shots including face, 3/4, and full-lengths. hence my inquiry on the 135mm lens.
Andrew is correct; you should be paying more attention to angle of view (prospective).
Your Canon is a full frame digital meaning the chip sensor is about the same size as the standard frame size of a 35mm film camera. This frame size is 24mm height x 36mm length and diagonal measure is 43.3mm. The diagonal measure is important because years ago it was determined that the best focal length for all-around picture taking is a lens with a focal length about equal to the diagonal. In the case of the 35mm film camera and your digital, the accepted normal focal length is the diagonal rounded up to 50mm. This give an angle of view of about 53 degrees, considered about the same as the human experience.
As to studio work, portraits and ¾ head shots, with your diagonal measure, it has been determined that a lens with a focal length of 105mm is best. Actually this is the minimum; a longer focal length is OK too. Why 105mm or better? Too short a focal length distorts the portrait prospective. A 35mm equipped with the standard 50mm, when used for portraits, causes the nose to reproduce slightly enlarged and the ears to be reproduced slightly too small. People tend to look at their portrait when taken with too short a lens and say, “I don’t photograph well”. Actually they have a mental picture of what they look like. This is their view from their make-up or shaving mirror. The 105mm on a 35mm camera duplicates this prospective. Shorter lenses do not so duplicate.
As an artist you are free to use whatever lens and technique you choose. There are no laws or standards for art. I am just telling you what is known to be within acceptable limits, and what sells if you plan to draw income (money) from your photo work.
i understand that this is a bit hard for me, as i'm still very much all in the learning process and discovering the lovely advantages of renting too. but for this next lens I want to purchase, I plan to do everything from headshots to full-length fashion glam to portraits. (i have for now the 24-70mm zoom I use for candids, and plan to also get the 100mm macro for providing super close-ups for the makeup artists).
would the 135mm really distort *that* much? (Canon *does* have the 100mm, but i'm willing to spend for better quality glass as in a pro lens).
Myself, I always heard that you wanted at least an 80mm lens for portraits though I think 80 would be good for full body shots and then for anything closer you could use longer, like 100mm or more. I think a new lens was released that was targeted for people buying the 5D but I'm not sure. I thought it was something like the 24-105mm f/4 L IS. It's not as fast but being L glass, I'm sure it's great. I mean, I have a Sigma brand 24-70mm f/2.8 lens similar to the Canon lens that you have and I can get some pretty good shots out of it when I stop down and don't use the ultra wide angle 24mm and f/2.8. Of course, I usually use this lens on my 20D as well but it also works quite well on my 35mm Canon.
Anyway, my main point that that I always heard that 85mm was a good portrait length though longer won't hurt, you'll just have to get further away. Also, if you shoot a lot of females, it's usually good to shoot just a little bit above them and if you have too long of a lens, you'll have to get higher up from further back to get full length shot. Personally, I would go for a really good zoom that includes 80-135. There is the Canon 28-135 that I've heard is very good. It's a little on the slow sie in terms of max aperture but it's also got Image Stabilization. Plus like I said, if you use studio strobes, you'll usually be over f5.6 anyways.
Alan N. Marcus Hi againg mai and hellow to Andrew, Again mai, your camera is of the full frame 35mm size. Be careful of advice coming from others with experiences that stem from cameras with other size sensor chips.
Again the diagonal measure of your sensor chip determines what lens is normal and what lens is wide angle and what is telephoto. On your camera, 50mm is normal. Shorter is wide angle and longer is telephoto.
For your camera, the 105mm I talked about, considered ideal for portraiture and ¾ head shots. It is about 2.5 times longer than the diagonal measure of your sensor chip. This is a fact of physics and should be considered gospel.
Andrew, the Canon 20D has a sensor chip that is smaller by a factor of 1.6 than the 5D. This means the normal lens for thie 20D is about 30mm. For portraiture and ¾ head shots, the ideal for the 20D would be 2.5 times 30 or 75mm or rounded up, ideal is about 80mm.
Mai, why do you think a lens like a 135 distorts? Nothing could be further from the truth. Short lenses appear to distort when the resulting print is viewed from the wrong viewing distance. Long lenses appear to compress when the print is viewed from the wrong viewing distance. When image viewing distance is incorrect, a short lens appears to distorts by causing the nose to be too big as compared to the ears. A long lens seem to compress (telescope) distance. As an example, when photographing a distant automobile with a long lens, the rear bumper appears too close to the front bumper. This is called compression. The picture can appear weird but the image is actually true to life. The print is just being viewed from the wrong viewing distance.
Correct viewing distance is the focal length of the taking lens times the magnification used to make the final print (image). I know this is too complicated for you just now. Fpr now, know that you have lots to learn and years to do it in.
I know that my camera's sensor is smaller but I DID start out with a 35mm slr so I, myself, know how this all works. I have heard I dont' know how many times on here that anywhere from 80mm to 135mm in the 35mm or fullframe digital format is a good good focal length for portraits. 80mm doesn't really distory. You can use this for full body shots and you can get closer and not have distortions for headshots. 135 definitly will keep you further away and will compress the field of view more but you will definitly have success with the 85 in terms of compression/distortion.
Either will do you well though the 85 will let you stay closer for full body and 3/4 shots though you will have to get a little closer that what you or the model might be comfortable with.
80-135 applies to full frame and normal 35mm.
i had the 20D for a short period (w/the 18-70mm zoom I think). but i'd 'outgrown' my 1st digital which was the nikon D70. and had that nikon for over a yr--all too familiar w/the annoying factor adjustment tho LOL.
thanks, yes there *is* much still to learn for me lol. thanks, I do understand the focal lengths and the whole 'correct viewing' vs final print viewing. i'm also still *working* on that lol.
(btw, i've had *alot* of fun doing experimentals in distorting subjects w/my zoom @ 24mm and producing some really interesting effects: very editorial IMO).
the distortion I was referring to is that, I was told by another photographer who also shoots glam, that too long of a telephoto lens will stretch the subject too much causing the "head too big while body too thin". kwim? but I understand here what you're saying too, and will definitely look into Canon's 100mm lens (the closest Canon has).
ANDREW - the only lens the 5D canNOT take are the ones designed for the factor adjustment, since the 5D is full-framed already and doesn't need any RE-adjusting. kwim? other than that, it can certainly take any of Canon's low-end or L lens.
yeah I know :) I'm pretty familiar with Canon's cameras. Good luck on your decision! See if you can try them out of course. Use the salesperson as a trial subject in the store! haha. | 2019-04-26T08:23:26 | http://www.betterphoto.com/forms/QnAdetail.asp?threadID=25823 |
0.999633 | In order to determine which roles different aspects of a living organism have in relation to a mental event, it is necessary to make the distinction between the form of a metal event (the explicit side) and its content, its meaning (the implicit side). A simple example can be used for this purpose. The sentences ‘one and one are two' and ‘jedan i jedan su dva' have different forms but exactly the same meaning. If the same meaning can have different forms, the meaning cannot be identified with the form.
The form is evidently preserved in the brain, but there does not seem to be a part of the brain responsible for the meaning. This suggests that the meaning and the corresponding mental representations are stored in different aspects of the person, and that the brain plays an important role in storing these representations, but not necessarily meaning. It is indicative in this respect that the disruption of articulated language due to a brain injury is not inevitably accompanied by loss of comprehension. Sufferers of aphasia often know that the words they are uttering are wrong, but they cannot correct or alter them (‘Pass me the bread - no, not the bread, the bread - no!') (in Gregory, 1987, p.31). Or, they recognise the meaning of a written word, but not the word itself and use a similar one to describe it (e.g. sword for duel or monk for hermit) (Gilling and Brightwell, 1982, p.63). As early as 1930 physician A. A. Lowe showed a patient who had suffered a stroke (that had damaged his brain) simple words such as dad, child or vice. The patient read father, girl and wicked. The patient evidently understood the meaning of words, although he could not read the printed version. There is now strong evidence that most amnesic patients are well able to process information in terms of its meaning, although their memory remains impaired. This all indicates that the comprehension of meaning does not seem to be affected even after the brain has been damaged.
On this basis it is proposed that the non-representational, implicit content of a mental event (meaning) is preserved as energy structures in the soul. This, however, is not so simple. Any particular instance of an image or word is too specific to be directly related to its meaning. When we learn a new word (e.g. table) we usually connect it to the idea that such a word represents. This idea is never a specific table (otherwise the word would not have acquired universality). The rings consist of these ideas that act as an intermediary between the content and the form, between the soul and the brain.
In relation to the example ‘one and one are two' the above can be summarised in the following way: neuro correlates in the brain are mostly responsible for a particular form (e.g. the English language). These correlates are constructed through physical exposure to such forms. Considering that the brain acts as a relay between the soul and the material world, when the brain is damaged the content is not lost. Rather, it is like being in a prison - the transformation of sensations into perceptions is impeded, as well as the output (e.g. verbal report). What is preserved in the rings are the general ideas of oneness, plus-ness, equal-ness and their relations (so speakers of different languages have fairly similar ideas about ‘one plus one are two'). Any specific instance of ‘one plus one is two' requires both, the rings and their neuro-correlates. On the other hand, the non-representational content of a mental event is preserved in the soul as an imprint, or energy configuration. That tacit meaning of ‘one plus one is two' consists of relations without necessitating the objects that relate. This is why it is difficult to formulate them (what would be the meaning of ‘one and one equals two'?). These relations represent a dynamic component. Those aspects of experience and information that are preserved in the soul are not context dependent and are timeless. They approximate universal principles. So, the soul does not contain any formal representations (e.g. specific images, symbols or words), not even their generalised ideas. Its constructed energy can be intimately linked, but cannot be identified with the rings. Of course, related soul processes, mental processes and brain processes tend to reinforce each other, although the brain processes are the strongest. In other words, the brain and the mind act like scaffoldings, helping the formation and reinforcement of energy configurations in the soul, which, in turn, enables meaningful organisation of mental representations.
The above does not only refer to language structures, but to our perception of objects too. One clarification may me necessary in this respect: the form and the content are not intrinsic features of an object, but rather the result of an interplay between a subject and an object. For example, the form of a table (e.g. its solidity) is influenced by our perception (in fact, it is, as any other object, mostly empty space). The meaning of a table also depends on an observer (presumably, it has a different meaning for a human being and an ant crawling on its surface).
Not surprisingly, our mental faculties, such as cognition, affect, and volition, also have this dual aspect.
Affect - at least two components of affect can be distinguished: feeling (an experiential component) and emotional reactions (a physiological and behavioural component). It is proposed that the former is a capacity of the soul. The brain does not feel the pain. Neither, of course, the body does (otherwise the nerve impulse from an affected area of the body would not need to travel to the brain centres that relay the pain). On the other hand, emotional reactions normally involve certain physiological processes, and are closely related to the brain and body. This distinction applies also to Autonomous Nervous System (ANS) reactions, not only semi voluntary ones. Observations of animals and humans who have a damaged ANS show that they still feel, although their feelings are somewhat muted (see Dana, 1921, and Hohmann, 1966), which is to be expected. The patients' reports indicate that they experience affects even in the absence of physiological reactions. Thus, physiological and behavioural changes reflect the type and degree of a reaction, but not the quality of a feeling.
Cognition (thinking) - although computer processing is sometimes compared to cognition, computers, in fact, are not near to thinking in human terms. When we think, we constantly make choices and are creative. Computers cannot do either. Thoughts can be intentional, while computers do not have any intentions (they are programmed). This unbridgeable difference arises because thinking also involves the non-material aspect of the person, and has its formal and tacit (implicit) component. Sometimes our thoughts may be formulated but they do not need to be. We usually think too fast for any formulation, so it is likely that a pre-verbal process takes place. A cognitive event starts with intending a meaning that creates a tension in the non-material energy configurations. This, in turn, triggers corresponding activity in the rings and the brain, which can produce a sentence or an image related to this configuration.
Volition also consists of one implicit aspect and the explicit one. The tacit aspect can be associated with intent which is, as already discussed, different from will. It is observed, for example, that sufferers of Parkinson's disease can be more successful in their movements if they intend to get somewhere, than if they focus on the movement itself (one patient, for instance, danced to the toilet). This is because intent can exploit the plasticity of the brain, and therefore, utilise unaffected areas (intent is not very strong though, so it has limited value in this respect). On the other hand, willing the movement is an attempt to recreate the form, and therefore uses the same brain circuitry that is not working well. This can also explain how different muscle sets can be invoked to do the same task, even if the original skill was not acquired using these muscles. For example, you can sign with your foot and the signature will still be recognisably yours (see the above quote).
Spontaneous mental processes - beside the mental processes that are intentional or responses to stimuli, there are also spontaneous mental processes. They are worth a closer look too. Sometimes (in fact, very often) it seems as if our thoughts or images have come from nowhere. They often intrude, impose on us. Yet, normally we own them, we are aware that they are a part of ourselves. So, it is more appropriate to call them spontaneous, rather than unconscious or subconscious. After all, we are conscious of such mental events, although perhaps not of what has caused them.
The part of the soul associated with the rings consists of a number of fields. Each field has a certain amount of energy and is in interaction with other fields. The result of that interaction is an increase or decrease of the energy in the field and a change in its shape or volume. Energy has a natural tendency towards equilibrium if other factors are not involved. Thus, even those fields that are not in one's awareness can be active if there is some permeability between them and a non-equilibrium state. Spontaneous changes are based on mutual interaction of the fields (energy does not have its own will). They can affect the soul if they have an energy potential even when we are not aware of them, and this can trigger unintentional thoughts. This makes the notion of the unconscious more complex: it may involve automatic brain processes, energy shifts in the soul, and spontaneous realignment of the rings. The trigger for all of them may be an external stimulus (e.g. association), although this is not necessary.
One way of looking at this is to consider that energy is a process. Both, the brain and the part of the soul associated with mental life are not objects but processes. The brain is not the brain and the soul is not the soul unless working (the brain can get energy from the body, the potential between energy fields in the soul, or intent). To be what they are, they need constant activity. However, thankfully, this is not to say that this activity has always to involve an ordinary level of thinking, as characterised by beta-waves. The whole system has the capacity to move below ordinary clatter and chatter (which can be empirically detected by a change in dominant wave patterns). This can be beneficial in many ways and is a standard practice in spiritual traditions.
. Some quantum physicists tend to perceive reality in a comparable way, but such similarities are beside the point here.
. Of course, the above example can be formulated more universally, such as x + x =2x, but this is still far too narrow. The nearest expression of its content would probably be through musical tones. | 2019-04-19T12:18:29 | http://www.thesynthesis.info/synthesis/mind/materials-mind |
0.999983 | Paul Hill I have finished writing a guitar book that I want to sell on iTunes and then on other sites. As it is a music book, I need to use music flat and sharp symbols.
I wrote the book in InDesign and am now in the process of finishing (and learning) the more technical side of things. I used a "b" letter in it's own character style so that I can either replace it with a flat symbol font or other method. I tried using a unicode character for the flat symbol and it works on the iPad and iPhone but not on Adobe Digital Additions.
Should I use unicode characters in the book if it isn't recognised on some readers or does anybody have a better suggestion?
EBookCompiler It would depend on the format the ebook, and it could depend on which fonts the user has installed. The safest thing would be to use images of the music.
You could always use a screen capture program to capture the images off your own screen.
Paul Hill Any musical examples are images. It is in the text that I have the problem. I would have thought images within the text flow would have sizing issues when viewed on different sized screens, unless I could somehow use CSS to size and position the symbols. | 2019-04-26T10:19:54 | http://www.ebookfriends.com/archive/topic6_191.php |
0.999873 | WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) One of the shop's most popular T-shirt designs is their "Butte America" design, which sports a simple logo on the front and the Orphan Girl headframe on the back.
One clothing company in Butte is taking apparel design a mile high and a mile deep.
Underground Clothing Co. opened December 2017, and co-founder Shelby Carver says it's a brand that draws on Montana's sense of hometown pride.
Carver and her husband Robert operate the company from a small retail space at 1120 E. Front St., where they offer apparel printed with in-house designs. But from that modest location the couple has big ideas for their brand.
The company specializes in Montana- and Butte-themed T-shirts, hoodies, tanks, hats and more that sport simple yet evocative prints, capturing everything from the headframes of Butte to the outlines of buffalo.
The store offers clothing for men, women and kids, and there's also a few onesies for the little ones.
Carver said the company got its start when her father, who owned Gillam's Furniture Emporium, located directly next to Underground Clothing Co., was liquidating his store. Her dad had some extra clothing, which Carver thought she could sell from the empty commercial space next to her dad's shop.
"We really weren't sure what we were going to open a store as," explained Carver. "I just always wanted to have a store, so we were cleaning this area and trying to fix it for several months before we figured out what we wanted to do."
Carver said it was her husband's idea to start designing T-shirts.
At first she thought it was a terrible idea, but she started to come around.
According to Carver, some of the shop's most popular designs include their "Butte America" design, which sports a simple logo on the front and the Orphan Girl headframe on the back, "The Sportsman," "Last Best Place" and their St. Patrick's Day logo, which features the Travona headframe inside a shamrock.
Incidentally, Carver said the first year they rolled out the St. Pat's design their first order sold out almost completely in one day. Luckily, they were able to print another order in time for the big day.
Neither Carver nor her husband have long-term design experience, but both liked to draw while they were growing up.
Carver says she used to like to draw cartoon characters and that her mother was very encouraging.
"I would draw these really dorky cartoons and she just loved them so much," said Carver, laughing. "I made this big, human-sized cutout of a cartoon and she kept that thing forever."
In her education, Carver has tried on numerous hats.
In college she started out as a business major because she wanted to be an entrepreneur. But what she found at the university she attended was curriculum geared more toward "climbing the corporate ladder," in her words, rather than how to run a business. Next she majored in art, at which time she did learn a little design, and later she studied education.
Today Carver works full time at Youth Dynamics in Uptown Butte, and she says creating Underground has given her a chance to get back in touch with her artistic sensibilities.
"I've never had any job where I got to use my creative side," she said. "This is a good balance."
Robert Carver, meanwhile, works full time at FedEx.
He and his wife design the company's logos together using a combination of computer programs and hand drawing. They don't always agree on everything, Robert said, but collaborating on the store and coming up with the designs has brought them closer.
"It's really exciting and we really love seeing people wearing our stuff," said Robert, describing the experience.
Carver describes herself as the doer in the relationship and often likes to rush ahead, while her husband is more of a perfectionist. It turns out to be a match made in heaven, she said, because they balance each other out.
In addition to their store on Front Street, Underground apparel can be found at Butte Copper Co. and Kidz Klozet in Butte, and at Montana Woolen Shop in Bozeman. Similarly, the Carvers have done a few pop-up shops and have set up booths during Butte's St. Patrick's Day celebration.
Although the shop is small, behind its back wall there is plenty of space to expand.
When Carver and her husband started working on the space, which now boasts an outdoorsy vibe, it looked a bit like a giant closet filled with a hodgepodge of stuff. Carver set a goal of opening in December 2017, so they worked nights and weekends to open in time for the holidays. In all, the renovation took 6 months.
Because the couple works, they are open just three days a week with the help of two employees, but they hope to expand their operations.
Robert said one day he'd like to see the store become a full-time business and distribute wholesale throughout Butte and the state. But for now, he said, they're starting small and hope to build a strong foundation.
When asked to describe their brand, Carver said Underground Clothing Co. is all about Butte and Montana roots.
"My husband and I talked so much about how we've lost so many stores in town," said Carver. "(So) we really just wanted to have clothes that were in town that we wanted to wear."
"We love Montana and we love the outdoors and we love Butte, so that's what we've been focusing on," she added. | 2019-04-20T02:16:33 | https://workingwomanreport.com/butte-apparel-company-specializes-montana-pride/ |
0.999947 | Bomb disposal teams were called in and a nearby pub evacuated after water company engineers mistook a Monty Python film prop for a hand grenade. After nearly an hour of examination by bomb experts, they counted to three. No more. No less. Three was the number they counted, and the number they counted was three. Four they did not count, nor two, except to proceed to three. Five was right out. Once the number three had been reached, being the third number, they declared that the grenade was actually a copy of the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" used in the film Monty Python And The Holy Grail. A police spokeswoman confirmed that the device was a toy and that it had been no danger to the public.
The more I think about this, the cooler I think it is.
Eons ago when I was looking at different grad schools, I remember liking Pattie Maes's work on software agents. Her "fluid interfaces group" seems just as interesting.
Schneier hits the issue on the head: increasingly, our actions and statements are not lost in the sands of time, but are recorded, stored, and analyzed for profit and power. Sometimes recording information about yourself is desirable, since it can create a convenient way to remember things you might've forgotten . But right now, it's rarely you who actually stores and controls the data on yourself. Instead, corporations and governments "own" data about you , and use it to advance their own interests.
Ideally, we would each choose how much personal data to divulge and to which party we divulge it based on how much we value the services that use our personal data. For instance, advertising is a modern annoyance that could theoretically be made less annoying if advertisers could be more targeted. That is, part of the reason advertising is annoying is that most of the ads we see are not remotely interesting to us. Enter the miracle of personal data: if only advertisers knew enough about each of our real interests, then they would know which ads weren't interesting to us, and they would show us only ads that were actually interesting! This argument is basically a lie , but it highlights the idea that there should be a tradeoff between our privacy and our convenience, and that we should get to choose which we value more.
My favorite example of this tradeoff is Facebook, a place where people divulge all sorts of private information. Given that Facebook holds a treasure trove of demographic, interest, social data, and ad targets, its an obvious business plan to try to monetize it through advertising. Facebook's efforts to do so, e.g., their Beacon initiative and the recent revision to their Terms of Service, have gotten a strong backlash because people really do care about how their personal data is used, and whether its being used in a way that serves their interests or another's .
Another Facebook example comes from employers monitoring their employees' Facebook pages, and holding them accountable for their private actions (e.g., here and here). This issue exemplifies a deeper problem with the public availability of private data. Schneier mentions in his opening paragraph that it's bad that conversations are often no longer ephemeral. But, what does that really mean? Well, consider what it might be like to try to run for public office (say, Congress) in 2030, having grown up with most of your actions and statements being recorded, by Facebook, by modern advertisers, etc. During the campaign, all those records of the stupid, racy, naive things you did or said when you were young, innocent and didn't know better will come back to haunt you. In the past, you could be assured that most of that stuff was forgotten, and you could grow into a new, better, more mature person by leaving your past behind. If everything is recorded, you can never leave your past behind. Nothing is forgotten, and nothing is truly forgiven.
So, the cost of losing our privacy is not measured simply in terms of how much other people know about our current actions and attitudes, which is a high cost anyway. It's also the cost of defending your past actions and statements (potentially even those of your childhood), and of having those judged by unfriendly or unsympathetic voices. Sometimes I wonder whether blogging now will hurt me in the future, since it would be easy for a future potential employer to trawl my blog for statements that seem controversial or attitudes that they deem undesirable. There used to be a stronger respect for the division between public and private lives, but I think that's been fading for a long time now. Blogs are public forums. Facebook is a semi-public forum . Your workplace is under surveillance by your employer. Your streets are watched by the government (for your protection, naturally). In fact, the only truly private place is your home .
The upside of recording everthing, and a point missed by Schneier, is that it's not easy to use all this data in a coherent and coordinated fashion. Credit card companies know a tremendous amount about each of us from our purchase histories, but they struggle to use that information effectively because they don't have the computational tools to individually understand their customers. Instead, they build aggregate profiles or "segments", and throw out all the other details. Although the computational tools will certainly improve, and there will be startling revelations about how much corporations, governments and our neighbors know about us, I'm not terribly worried about the dystopian future Schneier paints. That is, for most of us, we'll be hiding in plain sight because there will be too much information out there for us to stick out. The real dangers lie in believing that you shouldn't be careful about what you let be recorded, that you can avoid being noticed regardless of what you do or say (aka security through obscurity), or that you can continue hiding once you've been noticed. Privacy is not dead, it's just a lot more complicated than it used to be.
My favorite feature of Safari is the "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" one, which lets me remember what I was looking at before I rebooted my computer, or before Safari crashed.
Generally, I come down on the side of personal control over data about yourself, at least for private parties. That is, I should be able to authorize a company to use data about myself, and I should be able to revoke that authority and know that the company will not store or sell information about me to other party. With governments, I think the issue is a little trickier, since I think they have legitimate reasons to know some things about their citizens.
The marginal cost is so low for showing an ad to someone who's not interested in it that you'd be crazy to expect economics to drive advertisers to show you less of them. Besides, it's hard to say before seeing an ad whether we're actually not interested in it.
This point makes it clear that businesses have a legitimate path to getting a hold of their customer's personal information, which is to give people something in return for it. Ideally, this would be a customized service that utilizes the personal data to make better recommendations, etc., but sadly it's often a one-time payment like a discount and the data is then sold to advertisers.
To their credit, Facebook gives its users better control over who can see what aspects of their profile than many past social networking websites.
And if you live in a city, attached to city services, even your home is not as private as you might think. One of my favorite examples of this comes from testing the raw sewage of a neighborhood for traces of illegal drugs. | 2019-04-21T18:44:36 | https://www.cs.unm.edu/~aaron/blog/archives/2009/03/index.htm |
0.999865 | An Oakland jury Thursday awarded $172 million to 116,000 current and former employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the first of dozens of wage and hour class-action lawsuits targeting the giant retailer to go to trial.
The world's largest retailer was ordered to pay $57 million in general damages and $115 million in punitive damages to employees for violating a 2001 state law that requires employers to provide 30-minute unpaid lunch breaks to employees who work at least six hours in a shift.
California law requires companies to pay workers a full hour's wages for every missed lunch. Lawyers for Wal-Mart had argued that workers did not demand their penalty wages on a timely basis.
But jurors in Alameda County Superior Court decided otherwise, handing a big win to the group of employees who had worked in Wal-Mart's California stores from Jan. 1, 2001, through May 6 this year.
A jubilant Michael Christian, one of the San Francisco lawyers who represented the plaintiffs, said the verdict made for "a good day."
"There was an abundance of evidence that Wal-Mart knew that workers did not get meal periods for many years and they did nothing," he said. "The jury concluded that conduct was unacceptable" and that Wal-Mart "deserved to be punished for its willful indifference to its workers."
Wal-Mart said it disagreed with the verdict and would appeal. The company also said that because the case involved a meal-period statute that was unique to California, the verdict had no bearing in any other state.
But many legal experts said that with similar litigation pending in about 40 other states, the verdict was certain to have a ripple effect far beyond California.
Toby Marshall, a Seattle lawyer who represents workers in a similar class-action against Wal-Mart in Washington, said Thursday's verdict would strengthen other claims.
"This is a very clear public statement that its policies are against the law," Marshall said of Wal-Mart. "While each state's law is different, the fact that one jury found that Wal-Mart's corporate policies are resulting in wage and hour violations means that it's more likely that a jury here in Washington or elsewhere is going to find violations."
Wal-Mart has acknowledged that it had "compliance issues" when the statute took effect in 2001, spokeswoman Mona Williams said in a statement.
"Wal-Mart has since taken steps to ensure all associates receive their meal periods, including adopting new technology that sends alerts to cashiers when it is time for their meal breaks," she said. "The system will automatically shut down registers if the cashier does not respond."
Williams added that based on a ruling in another California trial, Wal-Mart believed that punitive damages could not be recovered in this case.
Juror Jeff Pector, a 52-year-old software developer, said he and several other jurors believed that the punitive damage award should have been higher.
"Wal-Mart, in my opinion, had clear knowledge of what the law was requiring, full, timely, uninterrupted meal breaks, and from the top down to the store manager, it seemed that there was disregard for the laws that were passed in California," Pector said in an interview after the verdict was announced. "We wanted to send a very clear message that in California, even really big companies need to follow the law."
Last year Wal-Mart settled a similar lawsuit by workers in its Colorado stores for $50 million, and an Oregon jury awarded 83 Wal-Mart workers in that state about $2,000 each for lunch period violations.
The California verdict, if upheld, would amount to an average of nearly $1,500 for the employees; individual awards would probably vary by length of service. In addition, Wal-Mart would probably have to pay the plaintiffs' legal fees, to be determined by the court.
To Deborah Hensler, a Stanford Law School professor who has studied class actions, the size of the award did not seem out of bounds.
"These days, when multibillion-dollar damages against corporations are not unheard of, it doesn't strike me immediately as being a remarkably high award," she said.
The verdict couldn't come at a worse time for Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart. The retailer, under pressure from organized labor and community activists, has been working diligently to present a more positive image of itself.
In an October speech in which he outlined support for an increase in the federal minimum wage, Wal-Mart Chief Executive H. Lee Scott Jr. said the company was committed to "taking care of those whom we serve: our associates and working families."
The company's critics, however, were quick to say that the Oakland case points to broader problems with how Wal-Mart treats its employees.
"Today's verdict affirms that time-theft labor abuses are a chronic and systemic problem for Wal-Mart and its dangerous business model," Andrew Grossman, executive director of the union-supported group Wal-Mart Watch, said in a statement. "At Wal-Mart, not only is there no such thing as a free lunch for employees but, in this sad case, there is no lunch at all."
In addition to the similar wage and hour class-action suits in other states, Wal-Mart faces lawsuits accusing the retailer of discriminating against female employees and tolerating sweatshop conditions in the factories of its foreign suppliers.
Thursday's verdict, which came after a closely watched three-month trial, may bode poorly for Wal-Mart in its pending cases, several observers say.
Nelson Lichtenstein, a professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and editor of the new book "Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st-Century Capitalism," said the verdict posed a problem for Wal-Mart on two fronts, affecting both its reputation and its bottom line.
"It's a clear pattern that Wal-Mart has: Managers of the individual stores have a labor budget which is so tight that the store can't function without shaving the law, cutting corners and engaging in this practice of super-exploiting the workers," Lichtenstein said. "Wal-Mart just can't get out from under their public relations problem -- that's one side. Here, though, we're actually talking about real money, not just reputation."
Pasadena attorney Dan Stormer, one of several lawyers representing the foreign factory workers suing Wal-Mart, called the verdict "a message that those days are over -- they can't simply oppress their workers, ignore the laws and expect to get off scot-free."
Los Angeles lawyer Richard J. Simmons, who represents employers, said that by Thursday afternoon news of the verdict was "absolutely burning up the wires of employment attorneys around the state."
He called the punitive damage verdict "not typical" for cases involving meal and rest periods and said that part of the jury's award "is extremely vulnerable" on appeal.
In his view, the verdict will have widespread implications by encouraging more litigation, he said.
Said juror Pector: "I personally was hoping that our decision would send a message beyond Wal-Mart. We were really ruling on the Wal-Mart case and that's what it was about, but I hope other businesses in California are paying attention."
Thursday's jury award represents about one week's worth of Wal-Mart's $10.3 billion in profit last year. The company has more than 3,800 stores nationwide and more than 1.3 million employees. It operates 157 Wal-Mart stores and 34 Sam's Club stores in California, which employ nearly 74,000.
The verdict was announced after the close of markets. Shares of Wal-Mart, which are down 8% this year, fell 5 cents to $48.60. | 2019-04-19T02:47:09 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-23-fi-walmart23-story.html |
0.999306 | For nearly a year, Americans have been driving less and, as a result, buying less gasoline and diesel. Although this shift benefits the environment and U.S. energy security, it raises challenges for meeting the investment requirements of the Nation's transportation system. The Federal Highway Trust Fund, a primary source of funding for the U.S. transportation industry, is supported primarily by motor fuel taxes. The trust fund's financial health, therefore, depends on increasing fuel consumption. As Americans purchase less fuel, the fund's revenues are declining. At the same time, the costs of highway construction materials and labor have spiked, leading to a shortfall in States' abilities to fund highway improvements.
This issue of PUBLIC ROADS features an article about the impacts of reduced fuel consumption on the transportation system in Texas. In "Higher Gas Efficiency Equals Lower Fuel Revenues," the author reports on a recent study by the Texas Department of Transportation that supports the need for new approaches to funding critical infrastructure.
The sustainability of the current funding system has been in question for years; however, little has been done to address the problem. Recently, the U.S. Congress passed a last-minute measure to add general revenues to the Highway Trust Fund so the Federal Highway Administration could continue to reimburse States for Federal-aid construction costs. This solution will work for the short term, but a viable long-term funding solution is needed.
The path away from motor fuel taxes includes numerous options. One option being explored by several States is public-private partnerships (PPPs), an innovative strategy to finance new transportation corridors by allocating responsibilities to the parties-public or private-best positioned to produce the desired results. PPPs tap new sources of private capital and can result in transportation projects being completed faster, with greater savings and improved system performance.
Another option is high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, which address the need for transportation funding and congestion reduction. HOT lanes are a proven way to generate revenue needed to build and maintain roads, while easing congestion by providing motorists with more travel choices. Studies show that many drivers during rush hour are not going to or from work and could drive at a different time. HOT lanes encourage these drivers to use the road during offpeak times to reduce congestion.
These are only two of the many funding solutions available. Although the transportation community does not know which of them will play the greatest role in the future of highway finance, the current means of financing highways is not sustainable. But one factor is a given: traffic congestion will continue to grow and become increasingly unmanageable unless new approaches are taken.
As the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users expires in 2009, it heralds the beginning of the end of conventional highway financing. The next surface transportation authorization must provide greater flexibility to States to utilize sustainable revenue sources that will increase mobility and enhance economic productivity. | 2019-04-19T13:01:00 | https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/08nov/editorsnotes.cfm |
0.999999 | Complete each sentence with the correct auxiliary verb.
The train dodoeshavehas just arrived.
They dodoeshavehas been learning English for two years.
My uncle dodoeshavehas not eat fish.
I dodoeshavehas not live here.
DoDoesHaveHas anybody rung up for me?
She dodoeshavehas not play the piano.
How dodoeshavehas we get there? | 2019-04-24T04:42:13 | https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/auxiliary-verbs/exercises?ex04 |
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0.99912 | This article is about the politician. For the Spanish writer, see María Salas Larrazábal.
Mary Salas is a California politician from Chula Vista, California. She is a former California Assembly member who represented the 79th Assembly District from 2006 to 2010. She ran for the California State Senate in 2010 but lost. In 2012 she was elected to the Chula Vista City Council, a position she previously held from 1996 to 2004. She was elected Mayor of the city of Chula Vista in 2014.
Salas' father, is one of 9 children of Felix and Urbana Casillas, who onces lived in the La Punta adobe, after moving to the United States, through El Paso, from Mexico. Salas was born in 1948 in Chula Vista. She married Sal Salas in 1967 at the age of 19 and became a stay-at-home mom. After 17 years she and her husband divorced. At the age of 37, Salas enrolled in San Diego State on her way to earning a bachelor degree in social work. In college, she became involved with MANA de San Diego, a women's organization that mentors young Latinas, which led her into city politics.
Salas served as a member of Chula Vista's Civil Service Commission and Planning Commission. In 1996 she became the first Latina elected to the Chula Vista City Council in 1996; she was re-elected in 2000. As a councilwoman, she chaired the University Working Group to establish a higher education center in the region and co-chaired the Blue Ribbon Committee for the "San Diego County Preschool for All." She gained a reputation as a member who was willing to speak her mind.
Salas ran for mayor against fellow city councilmember and political ally Steve Padilla in 2002, but lost. She was termed out of the city council in 2004.
She served as a member of the Sweetwater Authority Board of Directors in 2006.
In 2012 she ran for re-election to the Chula Vista City Council, representing District 4. In the November runoff election she defeated Linda Wagner, 57.6% to 42.3%.
Mary Salas became the first Latina Mayor of Chula Vista, California in December 9, 2014.
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0.998453 | A year ago I was convinced the handwriting would disappear. It would extinct like an ancient art only practiced by a handful of people across the world. But then I discovered the Pro Pen on my Surface.
Will the handwriting extinct like an ancient art?
Around 1880 a group of entrepreneurs and scientists met in Paris to discuss the future. The issue was how the French capital would look like fifty years. The conclusion was bleak: by continued growth in population and economy, they foresaw that the Parisian avenues would be buried under several meters horseshit. In 1885 the first car was invented.
The French scientists and I made a mistake. The handwriting will not disappear and here's why. This article will discuss the advantages of digital ink.
First things first. How to write in digital document? How to create digital ink? MS OneNote and recently Edge allow to annotate. Drawing with a mouse isn't that easy though. So it is very interesting to use a digital pen. The Pro Pen which comes with the Surface is presure sensitive and works like a charm! It allows to draw, make selections, erase and activate OneNote on your Surface. And it is very easy which was proven by my 4 year old son who didn't need more than 1 minute to start colorizing drawings.
Typing is fast. Handwriting is slow.
Handwriting is better because it slows the learner down.
By slowing down the process of taking notes, you accelerate learning. If a skilled typist is sitting in a classroom, he or she will be able write down almost every word that the lecturer utters.
The thing is, that transcription process doesn't require any critical thinking. So while you're putting the words down on the page, your brain doesn't have to engage with the material.But if you are taking notes by hand, you won't be able to write down every word the speaker says. Instead, you'll have to look for representative quotes, which slows you down.
How can digital ink be useful in education?
I use OneNote to create digital textbooks. In my document, I sometimes create pages in which I create schemes, sketches, etc. 5 years ago several students were taking pictures of my notes on the blackboard. This made me realize something had to change. I started to use OneNote and made the same notes using a digital pen on a Surface.
Able to save and reuse the notes in other classes, years and able to share via email, cloud or shared documents.
The notes are scalable and movable.
The notes are clear, there is more contrast (on a white background) and easier to erase.
Able to use color and background pictures.
Using a digital pen, you're able to correct homework or assignments. The student can even get live feedback in a shared OneNote document.
New tools like Office Mix, Snip and Edge browser allow annotating while creating screencasts or saving notes on a webpage. These annotations will bring clarity and more focus on the subject.
I never used the whiteboard while during remote lessons (distance learning via Skype for Business) until I took a Master course at Sheffield-Hallam university in which we used whiteboards to brainstorm. Using the whiteboard allows students to be involved, organize thoughts and to brainstorm.
Why describing a subject using complex definitions when you can clarify with a single stroke of the pen?
While creating courseware, the pen can be interesting to highlight some parts in the text or images. Thinking about Biology. Why describing the leaf edge in words when you can clarify with a single stroke of the pen.
Well, I rest my case. The handwriting will not disappear. And in striving for a paperless classroom, the digital pen offers so much benefits.
If you are interested on the impact of the pen, check the publications of Pam Mueller and the website of WIPTTE. | 2019-04-21T20:15:52 | http://www.zelfstudie.be/blog/en/digital-inking |
0.998477 | My grammar is good. Can't I proofread my own work?
I have no doubt that your spelling and grammar is good, however, we become so close to our own work that we fail to spot errors. As we read work we are familiar with our eyes skip over words and sentences as our brain knows what is coming. This is also true for familiar words and phrases, rather than really seeing it, our brain sees what we expect. I have been trained to read closely, taking in every letter and punctuation mark and, as a fresh pair of eyes, I am more likely to pick up on those typos and grammatical mistakes that manage to find their way into your work.
Can't I just use a spell checker?
Spell checkers are great and very useful but they will not pick up everything. For this task you really can’t beat a human being! A spell checker will not pick up those words that are spelt correctly and sound the same but mean something totally different. Examples of this are: ‘taught’ and ‘taut’, ‘heroin’ and ‘heroine’ and ‘to’, ‘too’ and ‘two’. It may also fail to pick up on the incorrect placement of words such as ‘than’ and ‘then’.
Isn't getting a friend or family member to proofread for me just as good?
A friend or family member may be able to do a great job spotting spelling and punctuation mistakes, but as a proofreader I am trained to do much more than this. I am trained to ensure that the style of your manuscript is laid out correctly and consistently, for example: that dialogue is punctuated correctly, when the use of italics is appropriate and that all running headlines are correct. A family member or friend may not know when to use and em or en dash instead of a hyphen or when a word break needs altering.
Will I be able to understand the proofreader's mark up? Don't they use funny symbols?
The majority of proofreading is now done electronically and I am trained to mark up in Word using track changes and on PDF. I am also trained to mark up on hard copy (paper) using BSI symbols, so I can work in a way that suits you. Whichever way you want your proofreading completed, I will ensure that you can follow and understand my recommended changes and the reasons behind them.
When should I hire a proofreader?
The proofread is the last line of defence in ensuring your manuscript/project is perfect and ready for publication. In traditional publishing the proofread would come after your novel has been edited and is ready to go. Why not just publish straight after editing? Because typos can sneak in during the editing process. I view proofreading as the final polish, ensuring the beds have been made and the cobwebs have gone, before you send your work out into the world.
Doesn't proofreading cost a lot?
While having your manuscript/project proofread may seem like a big financial layout, it can prove to be cost effective in the long run. Imagine that you have spent a long time writing a novel, you get it beta read and edited and then publish. The reviews start coming in, and your heart sinks when they comment on how they liked the book but it was let down by typos. This impacts on the star ratings the reviewers give. You then not only have to pay for your book to be proofread, but you have had to pay out again to ensure physical books and eBooks are corrected. It has now cost you twice as much to have your book printed. This is one of the reasons why publishing houses use proofreaders.
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0.999254 | We few. We happy few. We Band of Brothers. For he who sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother.
Could there be a more appropriate quote for this journey, the team and its achievements? Lord knows, blood has been shed in this by those toiling at the oars, lifting boats and equipment and keeping us on schedule.
So, ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow is St Crispin’s day and the last day of our odyssey down the Mississippi. The Crispin’s day speech from Henry V is one of my all-time favourites and I can think of no more auspicious end to our journey than it should fall on the 25th of October and give me an excuse (not that I really needed one) to quote a line or two.
In truth, I am using it as something of a screen, as the prospect of finishing tomorrow is pretty overwhelming. How can I in any way adequately summarise my feelings at this point? I cannot.
Over the last 24 hours, our group has been swelled by serried ranks of family and friends and still they come. There were 20 odd people on the bank when we arrived today after our 36 miles and there would have been many more if they had been able to find us! Derek Mayne and Simon Holden were the crew with me and Paddy and stalwarts they were too. Novice rowers only a couple of months ago, they rowed through tough conditions with commercial traffic of all sizes and shapes hurtling down the river as we ducked and weaved our way through. Top, top men both.
Tomorrow, we have commissioned a launch to take everyone with us on the last 36 miles of our journey. I very much hope to make this a celebratory paddle, with people dropping into the boats so they can feel that they have been part of the last day. The sense of expectation is rising and folk are plotting and planning, with clinky bags of champagne and beer to greet us when we land. It is very exciting indeed.
But right now I feel as flat as a pancake and all I can think of is my band of brothers. This is exactly the feeling you get when you have striven for a specific target – an Olympics, a World Championship, a Boat Race – and then you achieve your objective. Somehow, oddly, you always feel flat for a while. The enormity of all this will take weeks to sink in, I suspect, and perhaps I will only really begin to see it through the prism of others vision, as mine is too narrow. By tomorrow, with a bright new sunshine day, I shall be ready to embrace the whole scene and be ready to savour some of what we have done. I promise!
So think of us tomorrow, on St Crispin’s day, and raise a glass to the band of brothers on the Mississippi.
I am not sure if my timing is right but it looks as though you will finish today. Fantastic effort and very well done – sorry to hear that the local skippers are less than complimentary. I am sure most of the southern hospitality has been exemplary, however!
I think the only appropriate final song must be Big River by Johnny Cash. Well done indeed and see you on the touchline for the Oundle matches, I hope.
Huge congratulations John & crew.
is something else altogether. A truly wonderful amazing marvellous,but above all else truly generous thing to have done for all those under privileged children who will benefit from all your efforts !!!!!
love to be there with you.Thank you for the best blog fantastic reading.Hope to speak soon.
I type this as I get off a plane from Tokyo and just as you about to finish your epic journey. I am really sorry not to be with you in NO but can’t wait to catch up on your return. You are and what you have done is simply IMMENSE!
We are so amazed at what you’re about to complete – as I type you are about two hours away from your planned finish time. As Scott said – typically factually – it’s a Big River. Just very best wishes to you, the family, the team…..we’ll be toasting you here in Hammersmith shortly, and telling everyone we know to dig deep in their pockets like you’ve been digging deep in your heart and soul! What a trip. Lots of love.
A hearty congratulations to you all! To Paddy and Pritch… what a slog, makes P to M seem like a hop and a skip.
CONGRATULATIONS!! A monumental achievement. Wish I could be there to celebrate with you. | 2019-04-18T18:43:05 | http://www.mississippimillion.com/2014/10/st-crispins-day/?replytocom=1558 |
0.999826 | How do we move $1 trillion of investment into our communities? $1 billion a time.
Did the people who met Steve Jobs in 1976 have any inkling that they were talking to the person whose name would for a generation be synonymous with "entrepreneur"? More often, people have believed to have found the next incarnation of Jobs only to be disappointed. Perhaps you can help me determine if the subject of this article could become the Steve Jobs of impact investing.
From my perch in Salt Lake City on the west side of the Rockies, over the last few years I've been hearing rumblings from the other side of the mountains. In Denver, Dr. Stephanie Gripne has created one of the most dynamic centers of impact investing and social entrepreneurship in the world. With a goal to catalyze impact investments of over $1 trillion and a plan to get there, it is about time that people outside the Rocky Mountains took note.
Dr. Gripne founded the Impact Finance Center as a partnership between the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business and the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
In 2014, the Center launched the CO Impact Days and Initiative with a three year goal to catalyze $100 million of impact investment in Colorado-based social ventures. The event has grown into a marketplace for impact investing.
Wendi Burkhardt, co-founder and CEO of the Colorado-based social enterprise Silvernest was an early participant in CO Impact Days. She says, "I am inspired by the opportunities that Stephanie and IFC are creating to employ traditional philanthropic donations as capital investments that offer a substantial return and thereby further the impact and intention of the applied funds. I’m excited by this untapped opportunity to bring these worlds together."
Will Morgan, Director of Impact for Sonen Capital, has worked with Dr. Gripne for several years, providing grant funding for the Center. He sees the need for the infrastructure that the Center is working to create. "I think IFC's work is great. Investors are searching for more meaning with their assets and resources. Social enterprises and private businesses that create positive impacts are starved for resources. It's a natural thought that more infrastructure needs to be put into place so that both sides of the equation can get what they need," he says.
Jeramy Lund, Managing Director of the Sorenson Impact Center at University of Utah, agrees. He notes that she drove great collaboration. He says, the CO Impact Days event was a big success. "The way she was able to bring together the major foundations and get them to agree on collective impact was impressive heavy lifting. To pull it off on the first year was amazing."
Dr. Gripne isn't working to create a marketplace for impact capital by leveraging her Wall Street experience. She doesn't have any formal finance training or experience.
Rejecting her father's business career as path for her life, Dr. Gripne earned a PhD in Wildlife Conservation at the University of Montana. Her early career had working in academia, the Journal of Wildlife Management, the USDA Forest Service and the DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It isn't clear when she learned to calculate the present value of an investment.
It was working with her father, however, that she learned about the power of doing good with investment dollars. " Before my dad passed, we completed some of my first direct impact investment deals together. We partnered with families going through medical bankruptcy. We basically created an affordable housing model where my family would buy a house and give the families partial equity of their rent and all equity above a ten percent return. These were essentially people with good credit who were faced with a medical emergency and were struggling to make ends meet."
"That experience – the joy of philanthropy with a financial return -- permanently changed my course," she adds.
Since then, her focus has been on impact investing, not for her own account so much as for her community, her country and the world.
The Center operates its $700,000 annual budget largely through grants today, but Dr. Gripne plans to make it financially self-sustaining. Already, she says, the Center earns some revenue through research and development, thought leadership, education, marketplace Impact Days and sub-advisory services.
She acknowledges that the Center is really just getting started and that it may be too soon to measure future results, but she is optimistic. "Having only just launched this catalytic concept this year, we are currently operating at a negative gross margin of -18%. A significant portion of our expenses come from the development of the intellectual property we'll be bringing to market in the coming months and years. Once we can begin to generate revenue from that IP in the form of educational workshops and sub-advisory services, we aim to be self-sustaining within 18-24 months, and profitable by 2019."
Dr. Gripne's early success comes from her passion. Burkhardt explains, "Stephanie is truly a force of nature and I am always amazed at her ability to produce the results that she does! In addition to her being an incredibly accomplished academic, [IFC] capitalizes on something much greater. It is a true labor of love for her – it is her deepest passion and that fuels her at the highest level of performance."
Her sense of the problem drives her. Rhetorically, she asks, "In [these] times of economic uncertainty, climate change, and social division, how do we increase the flow of resources to the ventures that will deliver positive impact on our economy, society, and environment?"
To address the problem, the Center helps high-net-worth individuals and institutions with $10 million to $5 billion to invest to do it with more impact and lower fees. Dr. Gripne says, "We do this though outreach, education, and technical assistance that allows them to understand their objectives in terms of financial return, impact, risk, and liquidity and them help them find ways to make their philanthropy more efficient, their investments more effective, and in many cases start directly investing."
For example, we recently assisted, Nicole Bagley, an individual philanthropist and trustee on multiple family foundations to make her first impact investment into Silvernest, a women led technology company working to help the aging population age in place by providing housemates for additional income, companionship, and help around the house. Not only is she looking for her next investment, she is exploring her first impact investment with one of her family foundations and has joined the Impact Finance Center as a Senior Advisor.
Despite progress that some see as remarkable, Dr. Gripne is impatient. She sees building a critical mass of participating investors as her greatest challenge. She needs financial help to create the marketplace she envisions and needs more people to begin investing within that framework. For many, it will be their first impact investment.
Dr. Gripne is all about rapid growth. "We have the research, educational curriculum, and statewide marketplace; we now are in a place of finding the catalytic philanthropic gifts and partners to allow us to scale," she says.
Morgan notes, "Steph is doing a lot. Frankly, I think she could or should slow down and focus on a few things deeply. She has tremendous potential, and has accomplished an enormous amount with IFC in the last two years. She's stretched in many directions due to the potential of this burgeoning field of impact investing and she wants to do it all."
"I'm working on narrowing her focus, but I don't carry much sway," he added.
Dr. Gripne sees potential for a multi-national scale to the Center's work, helping to create a global marketplace for direct investments in social ventures.
" How do we move $1 trillion of investment into our communities? $1 billion a time. How do we move $1 billion into our communities over five years? By investing in the infrastructure to create a national impact investing marketplace," she says, making the possibility of catalyzing massive amounts of investment capital sound perfectly reasonable.
Until we build the infrastructure for a national impact investing marketplace that syndicates 10 regional impact investing marketplaces we will not see institutional money flow into our communities at the scale that is needed to solve society's most pressing problems that include supporting a diverse spectrum of social impact, including improved school readiness, education, accessible jobs, healthy homes and neighborhoods, family economic security, community development and revitalization, climate resilience and more.
On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 1:00 Eastern, Gripne will join me for a live discussion about her work in the Rocky Mountains and her efforts to build a global infrastructure for direct impact investing. Tune in here then to watch the interview live. Post questions in the comments below or tweet questions before the interview to @devindthorpe. You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes.
Watch the interview and in the comments below let everyone know what you think. Is Gripne really on to something here? Could she be the Steve Jobs of impact investing? | 2019-04-24T06:22:25 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2016/06/22/is-this-wildlife-conservation-phd-the-steve-jobs-of-impact-investing/ |
0.998958 | Mai Chanukah ? What is Chanukah the Talmud queries, a question we find with respect to no other holiday. The Talmud goes on to explain that Chanukah celebrates the miracle of the oil which burned for eight days, thus allowing the needed time to prepare fresh pure oil. However in reciting al hanisim during davening and benching the focus is very different. Instead of celebrating the rededication of the Temple , the miracle of Chanukah is one in which G-d delivered "the strong in the hands of the weak, the many in the hands of the few". As in the Talmud where the military victory is given scant attention Al hanissim mentions only peripherally the lighting of the menorah, without in fact making mention of any eight day miracle. What then is Chanukah celebrating?
Interestingly the Rambam begins the laws of Chanukah by answering that same Talmudic question and codifies the history of Chanukah, something he too does nowhere else. The Rambam begins by telling us that the military victory enabled Jews to be sovereign in their land for almost 200 years. And this is reason to celebrate. This despite the fact as the Ramban notes, that the Chasmoneans were Kohanim , and as such were improperly usurping political power from the descendants of the tribe of Judah . It is only in the next stanza that the Rambam mentions the miracle of the oil. Apparently the basis of Chanukah is Jewish nationhood even if it is "secular" in character but the details of the festival are derived from the miracle of the oil.
Prayer means to beseech G-d for the basic practical necessities of life. Wealth, health, wisdom, peace and the like. Thus in our prayers it is al hanisim with its emphasis on the military victory that we commemorate. After all if the Chasmoneans had lost the war we would not be here celebrating a Jewish victory. Judaism like so many other ancient religions would have been absorbed by the dominant culture. However the Talmud, our basic text of learning, of the meaning of life sees beyond the military victory recognizing it as only a means to an end. Chanukah is time to celebrate our spiritual continuity, the light of Torah, Torah Or , as we continuously strive to attain higher levels of holiness, ma'alim bakodesh . It is for this reason that the Talmud, written hundreds of years after the actual story, focuses not on its cause but its effect. The light of Torah can never be extinguished. Just light it and there is no telling how long it will last.
These two aspects, the military and the spiritual while complimentary, co- exist in somewhat of a tension, a tension born out in modern day Israel and across the Jewish world. Chanukah is probably the most widely-celebrated holiday of the year uniting Jews of all different persuasions. Undoubtedly some see it as a victory for a small sect of religious Jews, at odds not only with the Hellenists but the majority of the Jewish people who were willing to abandon much of Jewish faith and practice. It is a holiday of rejection of the dominant culture in favour of values derived from our eternal Torah. Others see in it a small nation surrounded by hostile enemies emerging victorious in the battles it is forced to wage. It is a celebration of Jewish nationhood.
Whatever the reason for the festival, be it physical or spiritual, it appears to make little sense to celebrate Chanukah after the destruction of the Temple . To celebrate sovereignty when it no longer exists seems meaningless and celebrating the rededication of the Bait haMikdash when it is in ruins seems on the surface downright silly. The Talmud tells us that there were many festivals established during temple times and all with the exception of Purim and Chanukah were quite logically discontinued with the destruction of the Temple .
Why then was Chanukah retained? It appears obvious that our Sages must have seen the seeds of the future redemption hidden in Chanukah. Interestingly the Talmudic expression used in describing the establishment of Chanukah is LeShannah acheret literally for another year. Chanukah was established for another year, for another era in the Jewish future. This is the meaning of the second blessing we say each night as we light the Chanukiah Who has wrought miracles for our fathers in those days, in our times.
Chanukah is much more than the ability to light the menorah in the Temple or to maintain a Jewish state. Such reasons can not explain celebrating Chanukah while in exile. It appears that the continued celebration of Chanukah was to remind the Jew, especially during the long and often bitter exile, to maintain the balance of the practical and the ideal, of winning the war and keeping the light of Torah burning. We can not have one without the other. Without dealing with the physical realities of life, without for example in our own times the advent of Zionism, the light of Torah would be much smaller than it has become. But if a Jewish state is the ultimate goal then we are fighting in vain. When we learn how to properly appreciate and balance the practical and the ideal we will merit a Jewish nation at peace with the light of the Temple menorah shining throughout the world. | 2019-04-22T06:01:26 | http://torahinmotion.org.c1.previewmysite.com/articles_dvarim/divrei_torah/archives/chanukah_future_redemption.htm |
0.999747 | I'm currently reading a book – published by a well-respected and long-established publishing house – that I would class as pretty poorly written. It's not bad, in the sense of misspellings and grammatical errors everywhere, but nor does it shine. The prose is pedestrian, frequently verging on dull. The dialogue attribution is littered with unnecessary adverbs (and while I'm not averse to an adverb or two, you do start to notice them when they're used to modify every single speech verb). One of my favourite phrases so far is 'stared desultorily', which suggests to me that neither the author nor the editor understood the meaning of the word 'desultory' and the appropriateness, or otherwise, of applying it to a word so fixed and determined as 'stare'. And given all this, I can't help wondering: what was it about this book that was good enough to get published when so many others fall by the wayside?
The answer, of course, is the concept. Not even the plot – the initial idea. I've read an awful lot of YA books lately, and a large subset of them had two things in common. First, they each belonged to one of the two most popular teen genres at the moment, dystopian fiction or supernatural romance. And second, though none of them were particularly well written, plotted or executed, they all had an underlying concept that was sufficiently interesting for me to have picked up the book in the first place. Which, overall, makes me sad – all these books with so much potential, and yet it's gone largely unfulfilled.
Obviously publishers are going to chase trends. I get that. If something is popular then any business is going to want to ride the wave of that popularity while they still can. And because trends are fleeting, and publishing is a lengthy process, perhaps a decision has been taken to reduce the amount of time and money spent on editing. But (and this isn't just because it's my profession) I can't help but see that as a mistake. If traditional publishing houses want to survive in the current world of DIY and ebooks then as well as being more agile, they surely also need to maintain their quality. They have to be able to show that they add value. At present, many people still take the view that it's safer to buy a book from a mainstream publisher than it is from a self-publisher, because they know they'll be getting a certain level of polish. But with self-publishers becoming more savvy, that gap is closing. Which means the one thing traditional publishers can't afford is to churn out second-rate books just to cash in on a trend. It's that kind of thing that will start people questioning what they're for.
Having said all that, I suspect there may be another factor at work: namely, that what writers consider to be good writing isn't necessarily the same as what readers consider to be good writing. Unpublished writers have a tendency to gather in groups of like-minded individuals, where they spend their time getting picky over whether a sentence expressed one way is better than a sentence expressed a slightly different way. They swear religiously by rules like don't use too many adverbs and use one POV per scene. Yet most of the books I've read lately seem never to have come within spitting distance of those rules. And if that's the case, who are the rules for? Do most readers even care about the overuse of adverbs? Do we, the writers, have a duty to stick to our definition of good writing notwithstanding? Or are we just concentrating on the picky stuff as an excuse for why we haven't sold a million copies already, not realising that the publishers are right: concept is key? I don't have answers to any of these questions, but at the very least they're worth asking.
Ohmigosh, I am SO with you on the "fabulous concept, poor execution" roll! Yes, yes, yes! In the ongoing argument re: traditional publishing versus self-publishing, one hears repeatedly this idea that what's been vetted by an editor will be good writing, and that simply isn't the case. | 2019-04-21T02:38:42 | http://www.afesmith.com/blog/is-bad-writing-bad |
0.999992 | The alpha airline for budget travelers?
The new low-cost carrier Virgin America takes flight tomorrow (Tuesday), and I dropped by JFK airport this morning to receive a tour of one of its new planes.
My guide was Adam Wells, the man most responsible for designing what's in the hulls of Virgin America's aircraft. We walked through a plane sitting on the tarmac. Adam pointed to the tinted windows, which filter out harsh sunlight. He said that the glare-reducing windows combine with soft interior lighting to help passengers appear healthier. Once he pointed this out, it became obvious: There was no harsh yellow and green light, which makes passengers in many standard airplane cabins appear washed out. "The goal is to make passengers feel more relaxed," he said. And his theory is that passengers will relax more if they look around and see other people looking relaxed.
The airline's seats feel more like the seats you would find in a Mercedes-Benz than in the economy-class section of an airplane. Under each seat there's a hidden bucket that prevents your tush from feeling any metal bars through the seat cushion. (Thus, the seat avoids the common "bump in the rump" problem that makes so many air travelers so irritated.) The upholstery also cradles the spine a bit more than the typical airline seat.
Adam was quick to point out another of the features he championed: A sleek mini-bar at the back of the coach class cabin from which passengers can fetch waters and sodas in mid-flight. If you want food, you press the button marked "food" on the remote control that is hidden in your armrest, place an order using a touchscreen TV, and then swipe your credit card through the bottom of your seatback screen to pay.
My favorite unique service is that you can use the "Qwerty" keyboard on the back of your seat's remote control to sound off about your experience. When was the last time you heard of coach class passengers being encouraged to email a customer satisfaction survey to corporate headquarters in mid-flight?
Earlier: Virgin America has sparked a price war. | 2019-04-21T05:06:01 | https://www.budgettravel.com/article/the-alpha-airline-for-budget-travelers_9308 |
0.999999 | Is it okay for Christian women to wear pants?
In some Christian traditions, women are told they cannot wear pants. The concerns usually have to do with dressing modestly or with the idea that wearing pants could make a woman look like a man. According to the Bible, is it okay for women to wear pants?
To be clear, pants were not a part of biblical cultures (In fact, modern jeans as we know them became popular in the 1800s.). Instead, we look at Scripture for what principles may apply. First, Paul clearly notes, "Women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works" (1 Timothy 2:9-10). The focus in this passage is modesty.
In 1 Peter 3:3-4 we also find, "Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious." Again, the focus is on the inward beauty of a woman rather than a focus on external clothing. In both cases, a woman who wears pants could both be modest and not focused on external clothing.
Some who advocate against wearing long pants use Deuteronomy 22:5 that says, "A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God." But there are some problems with the application of this passage. First, this command was to the Israelites living under the Law of Moses and does not directly apply to Christians today. Second, wearing pants is not viewed by Western culture as only a male piece of clothing, but as something both men and women commonly wear.
Two additional aspects may also be considered. First, Romans 14 discusses the issue of a stumbling block to other believers. In some cultures, a woman who wears pants may be seen as a stumbling block to other people. In other words, wearing pants in some contexts could cause the focus to be on the people rather than on helping people grow in Christ.
A second area is in situations in which parents teach their girls to wears skirts or dresses instead of pants. Paul wrote, "Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord" (Colossians 3:20). As a young person, you will need to obey your parents in this area even if it otherwise is not a biblical requirement.
Women can clearly wear pants in most situations without it being a concern. The Bible's focus is on serving God, dressing modestly, and using clothing in ways that do not cause others to stumble. In the case of children, we are also called to live in obedience.
Is it okay for a Christian man or woman to wear earrings?
It is possible to be a Christian feminist? Is feminism against the Bible? | 2019-04-22T22:38:18 | https://www.compellingtruth.org/women-wear-pants.html |
0.999839 | Is Sam Horowitz' Bar Mitzvah Dance Video Kosher?
Sam Horowitz performed a dance at the Omni Hotel in Dallas to celebrate his bar mitzvah. Sam danced on stage in November 2012 with eight (visibly taller) women dancers in a number that lasted less than three minutes where he appears on stage about halfway through. As of 8/18/2013 the video has received 726,000 views on YouTube.
I think that yes, the video is kosher and an appropriate way to mark the coming of age of a young man. It is a cute and sweet and entirely wholesome performance. I assume that Sam likes to dance. He does it well. And now that he is 13 he chose to descend to the stage to enter and dance with the women in an innocent and shy way.
Some rabbis disapprove of the ostentatiousness, the cost and what they perceive of as the inappropriateness of the event. David Wolpe wrote (ranted) in the Washington Post, "The egregious, licentious and thoroughly awful video that is circulating ‘celebrating’ a Bar Mitzvah contains so much that is offensive that it requires restraint to hold oneself to three ways in which this display slaughters the spirit..." I guess I saw a different video - one that elevated my spirit.
For the record, the bar mitzvah is a rite of passage ritual that began in medieval times and has been associated with calling a boy to receive an aliyah to the Torah at his thirteenth birthday. To the rabbis who innovated that ritual that was an appropriate way to mark the coming of age of young boy. The rite presumes that an aliyah to the Torah has positive meaning in a community and that a young boy will appreciate an aliyah as a symbolic way to mark his turning into an "adult". That may be the case.
Yet, I have attended synagogues in which aliyahs are granted in a less than wholesome and equitable way to wealthy donors and to the favorites and cronies of the rabbis and gabbais. And I have seen many bar mitzvah boys endure the requirements of an aliyah performance as an anxiety ridden ordeal, rather than a pleasant ritual.
In his dance, Sam looks to me happy and full of positive expression. I deem what he did to celebrate, a proper and kosher expression of his coming of age. Mazal tov Sam!
Yes, corporate raider billionaire Carl Icahn is a Jew.
Wikipedia says, "Icahn was raised in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, where he attended Far Rockaway High School. His family was Jewish in name, but his father was a 'dogmatic atheist'. His father was a frustrated opera singer who settled on being a cantor, before becoming a substitute teacher. His mother also worked as a schoolteacher. He graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1957 and then joined New York University School of Medicine, but he dropped out after two years to join the army."
Icahn's net worth (3/2013) is $20 billion. He tweeted on August 13, 2013 that he had taken a stake in Apple stock and the buying that ensued sent the stock up over 5% within a day.
Is Steve Lonegan, the anti-Spanish former Mayor of Bogota, Jewish?
No, New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan is not a Jew. He is Catholic and attends St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Bogota.
Don't confuse this town with the capital city of the same name in Colombia, South America, where the official language is Spanish and the national motto is Libertad y Orden.
The Bogota NJ city council made it perfectly clear last week that is wants no Spanish billboards in that borough.
Apparently NOBODY told these folks how dumb they look protesting a billboard. So they escalated the matter by protesting to the offending advertiser, McDonalds, and by calling for a boycott. Thankfully. McD's won't budge.
They are removing all doubt down there south of Teaneck. Even NPR is mocking them. Anti-hate web sites feature Bogota's Mayor as a poster boy for racism.
Yesterday morning on FOX and Friends First, Steve Lonegan, Mayor of Bogota (pronounced Bug-OH-dah), New Jersey, proved that bigotry, pettiness, mean-spiritedness and prejudice are alive and well on FOX News Channel and, sadly, it seems, also in New Jersey. Mayor Lonegan is very, very, very upset that McDonalds has posted a Spanish-language billboard in his fair city of 8,000 (1,680 of whom are Hispanic) and is agitating to get them taken down.
I don't know why Mr. Lonegan did not try to rename his borough. After all Bogota looks a lot like, Bogotá, the capital city of the Spanish speaking South American country Columbia. Wikipedia reports that, "Bogotá is the largest city in Colombia, and one of the biggest in Latin America."
Bogota is a Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 8,249. Bogota was formed on November 14, 1894 from portions of Ridgefield Township at the height of the "Boroughitis" phenomenon. Portions of Bogota were taken in 1895 to form part of the new Township of Teaneck. Bogota was named in honor of the Bogert family, which had been the first to occupy the area.
The Mayor of the Borough of Bogota is Steve Lonegan. Members of the Bogota Borough Council are Pat Kearns, Joe Noto, George T. Shalhoub, Melissa Schnipp, George Silos and Patrick McHale. In July 2006, the conservative Mayor Lonegan, who in previous years had unsuccessfully sought several higher offices, including a race for governor in 2005, created a firestorm when he engineered a Borough Council resolution requesting that McDonald's remove a Spanish-language billboard for iced coffee in town. Lonegan said the billboard was 'divisive.' The story received national publicity, occurring concurrently with a national debate on illegal immigration.
My teacher, Rav Soloveitchik taught that the selichot prayers are an outcry to God, a form of prayer that is out loud and hence a blatant public event. Outcry prayers he says, are different from more ordinary request prayers, more dramatic and more emotional.
The obvious repetition in those liturgies makes sense to the Rav because outbursts expressing needs and drama and emotion are repeated.
I disagree. Outcries ordinarily are one-time events. Only in utter desperation are they repeated. We who recite this prayer are not in utter desperation.
The repetitions of Selichot are way too numerous to make sense to me as outcries. And the label of "outcry" or "outburst" is hardly a category bearing significant cognitive meaning, deep theological content or any distinctive personality.
So no, it is not correct to read the selichot as outcries. What then are the selichot?
Selichot are quiet and personal and above all, meditations seeking compassion.
Repetition is a hallmark of meditation. And compassion is a central end goal of the High Holiday season, central in particular to the Yom Kippur liturgy.
In his wonderful book, "Before Hashem You Shall Be Purified : Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on the Days of Awe," by Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Arnold Lustiger, Lustiger says, "On Rosh Hashanh, Hashem moves from the throne of justice to the throne of mercy (p. 35)." Call it mercy or or call it compassion, I agree that movement takes place in the prayers for these holidays.
Through this season our prayers call on us to alternate between a definite certainty of the Kingship of God and a great uncertainty of the worthiness of our actions. We vacillate, we move at times into the personality of the brave public celebrity who is sure that we are number one and our God is number one.
Then we move into the personality of the insecure meditator, who seeks through meditative introspection a confirmation of the worthiness of his meager life. In one part of our service we crown God our King. And in another we meditate and seek the king's compassion so that we may live another day.
We start out this dramatic up and down High Holiday season as meditators seeking the compassion of God in the repetitions of the selichot prayers. Next we will go on to proclaim the Kingship of God on Rosh Hashanah. Then on Yom Kippur we will return and focus on our complicated quest for compassion with many quiet and personal selichot meditations -- persistently seeking compassion.
Is Google NOW incredible or creepy? Is NOW kosher?
There sometimes is a fine line between incredible and creepy.The Times hints at this in a review of phone app technology that seems to know what you are thinking, especially Google NOW.
Case in point. Yesterday I had to go from Teaneck, NJ to Forest Hills Queens, NY to attend the funeral for my sister's father-in-law. Knowing the possible traffic situations I figured on leaving my house an hour earlier, at Noon. I actually left about 12:15.
The event time and location were in my Google Calendar. And so, I was on the GWB I got an alert from Google NOW at about 12:30 - telling me I had better leave now to get to the funeral on time.
First I thought, this is incredible. Then I thought, this is creepy. Finally I thought, NOW is not a New Yorker and does not have a clue about the time you need for getting around the city, especially for potential parking time.
Already, an app called Google Now is an important part of Google’s Internet-connected glasses. As a Glass wearer walks through the airport, her hands full of luggage, it could show her an alert that her flight is delayed.
The Times mentions some of the other amazing feats that NOW can offer - once you give up your privacy entirely to Google. I have it on my phone and I've been kept apprised by NOW of package deliveries, (Google's imagined) travel time to home and work and other meetings, stock prices, nearby restaurant recommendations and more.
Bottom line? Let me say I certify that NOW is kosher. You will have to judge for yourself whether it is incredible or creepy.
My son, his wife and children have decided to make aliyah to Israel. My husband and I understand their practical and idealistic motivations for this decision. We applaud what they are doing and feel pride in their Judaic and Zionist ardor. We plan to visit them in Israel periodically, but we have no plans to move there.
At times we both admit to ourselves that we worry about them and that we will sorely miss them. What advice can you give us to help us cope with this bittersweet situation that we face?
First, know that you are not alone. In our area, a good number of Modern Orthodox families with young children make aliyah. An underlying motive for this uprooting is the financial burden of local day school tuition. That concern combines with years of sincere devotion to the Zionist dream. Modern Orthodox education encourages pride in the miracle of the State of Israel. And many Jews simply feel a mystical attachment to the Land of Israel. | 2019-04-21T10:45:04 | http://tzvee.blogspot.com/2013/08/ |
0.999999 | Is this crazy weather the result of mankind's continuous interference in the environment? Or is it simply the normal cycle of climate changes through the ages? No one seems to know for sure, but the fact is that natural phenomena such as tornadoes and hurricanes have been hitting our country with more force and frequence than in past decades.
One tornado has just hit Silverado Farm, a cattle and milk producer, and made havoc. The barn roof was torn, several trees were uprooted, the farm truck was overturned... But the worst thing is that the tornado destroyed several sections of the fence that surrounded the property. The fence was very well built, with concrete posts every two meters, and barbed wire enclosing the whole farm perimeter (the perimeter, in meters, is an even number, making the fence perfectly regular).
Now several posts are broken or missing, and there are gaps in the fence. To prevent the cattle from getting out of the property, the fence must be restored as quickly as possible. Reconstructing the fence to its original form, with concrete posts, will take a long time. In the meantime, the farm owners decided to close the gaps with a temporary fence, made with wooden posts. Wooden posts will be placed in exactly the same spots where missing/broken concrete posts were/are. However, in order to make the temporary reconstruction faster and less expensive, the owners decided to use fewer posts: a wooden post will be used to replace a missing/broken concrete post only if the length of the barbed wired needed to close the distance to the next post (wooden or concrete) exceeds four meters.
Given the description of which posts are missing/broken, you must write a program to determine the smallest number of wooden posts needed to close all the gaps in the fence, according to the owners' decision.
The input contains several test cases. The first line of a test case contains one integer N indicating the number of original concrete posts in the fence (5 ≤ N ≤ 5000). The second line of a test case contains N integers Xi indicating the state of each concrete post after the tornado (0 ≤ Xi ≤ 1 for 1 ≤ i ≤ N) . If Xi = 1 post i is in good condition, if Xi = 0 post i is broken or missing. Note that post N is next to post 1. The end of input is indicated by N = 0 .
For each test case in the input your program must produce one line of output, containing an integer indicating the smallest number of wooden posts that are needed to restore the fence, according to the owners' decision. | 2019-04-26T07:59:28 | https://www.urionlinejudge.com.br/repository/UOJ_1266_en.html |
0.998255 | What is an allergy to gluten called?
Browse the article What is an allergy to gluten called?
When someone says he has an allergy to gluten, he usually means he has a gluten intolerance.
When a person has a food allergy, his immune system has determined that that food is dangerous to the body and he has a reaction to the food. The immune response symptoms (such as hives, itching, swelling, trouble breathing, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dizziness, nausea, vomiting) are time-limited and in most cases they don't cause lasting harm to the body. The exception to this is when a food allergen causes an anaphylactic reaction, which is life threatening. If you have a food allergy, it may be temporary. Children often grow out of food allergies by age five.
Gluten intolerance is a food-induced reaction that is unrelated to the immune system. It is a reaction of the digestive tract that causes gastrointestinal symptoms when the sufferer eats foods containing gluten, a protein found in wheat and other grains. Unlike allergies, intolerances cannot be measured by antibody tests, which measure immune responses. The only way to diagnose a gluten intolerance is through an elimination diet. Eliminate any foods you suspect might be causing the symptoms. When the symptoms stop, you can begin slowly reintroducing the foods one at a time. This is called an "open challenge." When the symptoms reappear, you will know which food was the culprit.
There is no treatment or cure for gluten intolerance. You will have to follow a gluten-free diet if you don't want to deal with the symptoms. You may find, however, that rather than being gluten intolerant, you just have a gluten sensitivity. In this case you may be able to tolerate a low-gluten diet instead of eliminating gluten from your diet altogether. You should consult your physician or a dietician to help you determine what diet is right for you. | 2019-04-19T12:25:02 | https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/allergies/food-allergy/wheat-gluten/what-is-a-gluten-allergy-called.htm/printable |
0.946152 | Updated: Royal Bank of Scotland's chief executive, Stephen Hester, says he would be happy to see the UK government-owned lender sold 'today', as he embarks on a tour of Gulf states - with video.
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the banking giant that was taken over by the British government after recording the biggest loss in UK corporate history, is ready to be privatised once more, says the bank's chief executive.
On the first leg of a tour of Gulf states, Stephen Hester told The National the bank had cleaned up its balance sheet and resolved the problems that brought it to the brink of collapse in 2009.
"I'd be happy if the government started selling shares today," Mr Hester said yesterday in Abu Dhabi. "We're ready to stand on our own two feet."
The process of privatising the bank would be unlikely to start until regulatory changes to the British banking system were complete, and the timing of any share sale would ultimately be decided by the UK government, he added. But he said he hoped it could get under way next year.
"I'd be disappointed if the process of reprivatisation didn't start some time in 2012," he said.
As he embarked on a tour of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar and Kuwait, Mr Hester said interest from government funds based in the Gulf would be "terrific" from the bank's point of view.
However, it is important to "keep up our contacts with investors" in the region, he said.
"The Middle East is the location of a large amount of investment capital … RBS is a partially government-owned bank which one of these days will want to have a broader shareholding base," he said.
Mr Hester also confirmed a recently revealed investment from the Libyan Investment Authority had been frozen.
The Libyan regime's sovereign wealth fund had deposited US$110.1 million (Dh404.4m) in the RBS Special Opportunities Fund, according to a leaked document obtained by the advocacy group Global Witness.
At the time the documents were written in June last year, the value of the investment had fallen to $74.4m.
"We have had some modest amount of Libyan assets, which pursuant to the UK government policy, are now frozen," Mr Hester said.
The UK government froze assets linked to the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and his family this year.
RBS, headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, was 83 per cent nationalised by the British government in 2009. The bank recorded losses of £24.1 billion (Dh145.81bn) for 2008, the bulk of which came from a writedown of its stake in ABN Amro, acquired the year before.
RBS' balance sheet increased in the years preceding the financial crisis, becoming at one point the biggest company in the world by total assets, according to the Global 2000 list of companies compiled by Forbes magazine in 2008.
The bank is not as large today after its attempts to take risky investments off its balance sheet.
Among the asset sales RBS conducted was that of its UAE retail banking business to Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank last year.
The UK government also owns a 41 per cent stake in Lloyds Banking Group, which it also bailed out after the bank was forced to merge with HBOS.
The government's stakes in both banks are now managed by UK Financial Investments, alongside its stakes in Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley.
Qatar has indicated a desire to take part in the privatisation of RBS and Lloyds Banking Group.
The Independent Commission on Banking is due to make a recommendation to the UK government on how to make structural reforms in the country's banking sector to promote financial stability and competition.
The commission is due to report by the end of September. | 2019-04-24T04:31:12 | https://www.thenational.ae/business/rbs-woos-gulf-as-it-aims-to-go-private-1.376950 |
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