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0.99907 | Abstract: We consider the space of probability measures on a discrete set X, endowed with a dynamical optimal transport metric. Given two probability measures supported in a subset Y⊆X, it is natural to ask whether they can be connected by a constant speed geodesic with support in Y at all times. Our main result answers this question affirmatively, under a suitable geometric condition on Y introduced in this paper. The proof relies on an extension result for subsolutions to discrete Hamilton-Jacobi equations, which is of independent interest. | 2019-04-26T03:00:27 | https://publist.ist.ac.at/ist/works/7981 |
0.998789 | L is for the way you look at me. My you / the way you look at me / get used to it / i lose control- live/ rolling wave- live Mobile Bay Cardsleeve - MBoriginal occasion x. The track received a second surge in popularity in late January, when Drake.
Paroles de chanson Christian Bautista - The Way You Look At Me traduction lyrics video. “ Look At Me” was first released on December 30,, via Soundcloud. It samples “ Changes” by Mala. Download the way you look at me.
“ The Way You Look Tonight’ ” is a song from the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. No one ever saw me like you do All the things that I could add up too I never knew just what a smile was.
Lyrics to " The Way You Look At Me" song by Christian Bautista: No one ever saw me like you do All the things that I could add up too I never knew just what a smile. Traductions en contexte de " love the way you look" en anglais- français avec Reverso Context : I love the way you look in your mask. Thank you so much! - Des sourires, en gros.
I can' t get in the door now Better get out of my way Never really saw me coming You left with nothing to say This is for everybody Who always put me down. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936.
I don' t own the song. No copyright infringement intended. this is the song ' the way you look at me' from Christian Bautista with lyrics I do not own anything of this! | 2019-04-25T04:57:36 | http://flatpress-fr.info/?option=com_content&view=article&id=4881 |
0.999867 | I was fortunate enough to attend a book-launch for “Eat Portugal – The Essential Guide to Portuguese Food” by Lucy Pepper and Célia Pedroso.
As a foreigner living in Portugal for many years one would imagine that I’d know all there is to know about our cuisine. But this book is a gem. It is divided into sections: Recipes, Glossary, Useful information and English/Portuguese, Portuguese/English dictionary.
The recipes are surprisingly simple but delicious and written in a style that makes the reader want to head for the kitchen: “Broad Bean Stew (Favas à portuguesa) Broad beans become interesting when cooked with mint and meat juices”.
And so on and so forth. The article, rightly, provoked a storm of protests not only from the Portuguese but also from foreigners.
Lucy and Célia can explain why the writer got it completely wrong.
Sue: What would you say to the restaurant critic who wrote the above?
Lucy: I remember that review. First, I’d just say “grow up, Adrian, and stop showing off”.
At the time he hadn’t been to Portugal, so I’ve never understood how he had such strong feelings about the place. If he HAD been here and said them, I’d have forgiven him; everyone has an opinion. Of course, you can find bad food in Portugal, but I must say that it is a lot harder to do here than, say, in Britain, which, although she has changed her foodmap forever and is now one of the greatest places to find amazing food, it’s also too easy to find utter rubbish, from the horrible generic frozen pub food to plasticky bakery food and some dreadful restaurants.
Poor Adrian wasn’t blessed with a Portuguese mother-in-law. I acquired one 13 years ago, and I’ve been her experimental guinea pig ever since... she, like many Portuguese, is of the opinion that the British are a bunch of sissies who need to learn to appreciate Cozido à Portuguesa (lit. Boil-up, à la Portugaise) ... and I learned.
I would also forgive Adrian for what he said if he had ever been presented with a great ugly plateful of Cozido à Portuguesa, with its fair share of ears and noses poking out, and boiled flour and blood sausages sitting mushily at the edges, or with an evil looking dish of Feijoada (Bean Stew, with meat and often with cured sausages) with so many ingredients in it that you imagine it can’t taste of any of them. I would forgive him because I took my time to appreciate them. However, once you can get past the looks, the flavours are interesting, deep and lodge themselves into your new found “this is what Portugal tastes like” area of your brain.
I am pleased that Adrian will be denied that pleasure.
Célia: I had forgotten about that review. Glad you point it out because many people feel some kind of fear or even repulsed just based on what their eyes see on the table. Once you get over that visual first impression you'll find a tasty cuisine. Sometimes simple, sometimes rich, but very different from our neighbour, Spain, which surprises most visitors. As one important British restaurant critic (Marina O'Loughlin) says, Portuguese cuisine is still very underrated. I suppose if Adrian had tried the Migas à Moda do Alentejo (a bread and pork dish from Alentejo) cooked by Lucy he would never have written that nonsense.
Sue: “Eat Portugal – The Essential Guide to Portuguese Food” is aimed at foreign residents, tourists and the Portuguese themselves. How did you manage to create a book that would satisfy all three?
Lucy: We initially aimed the book at tourists and foreign residents. The fact that it resonates with the Portuguese is a huge added bonus and a lovely surprise. When we started working on it, I wasn’t at all sure how it would go down with my Portuguese friends, this “bifa” writing about their food.
We wrote it in a casual, chatty way, so that it was easy to pick up and easy to read. Maybe that has also helped to appeal to everyone.
Célia: The non-Portuguese were our first target and the reason why we wrote the book in the first place. Somehow, now that the book is published, many Portuguese also love it and ask for a Portuguese translation, which was a happy surprise. Apparently traditional dishes are not as cooked as often as they used to be in many households, and people don' t feel confident in doing it anymore without a recipe; this could explain this warm reaction. Also, Lucy's design is very appealing and makes the book easy to read and use.
Sue: I’ve always been curious about cookery-book writing. How do you choose the recipes, and did you actually try them yourselves?
Lucy: The recipes are ones that one or other of us already makes from time to time or that a friend or relative makes and was happy to give us the recipe. We tried all the recipes (and photographed most) as we wrote the book, with a great deal of help from Célia’s mother.
Célia: We chose the recipes based on our knowledge and experience, thinking of what non-Portuguese would like to cook at home, after a visit to Portugal. A selection of recipes that could represent most of the country, including Madeira and Azores islands. Yes, we tried, taste and photograph them, with a hand from my mother, a great cook and expert in Portuguese cuisine. During the writing and cooking process I was very moved to see how Lucy's love for our food is as passionate as mine. I'm convinced she eventually will get over her baba de camelo (camel's spit) and lampreia de ovos (egg lamprey) disgust.
Sue: Which is your favorite recipe?
Lucy: This week, it’s Milho Frito (fried corn), a side dish from Madeira. It’s something I only discovered a couple of years ago and it is fiendishly good... and extremely simple to make. Simply cook up a thick batch of fine grain cornmeal/polenta (well salted, add garlic and a little shredded kale if you like), cooked until it’s well cooked and rubbery, let it cool, refrigerate for a few hours to enhance the rubberyness. Slice into 1” cubes or sticks and deep fry, until golden and crispy on the outside. I didn’t say it was good for you.
Célia: That is a difficult question as I love most of the recipes in the book, but I would say Migas à Moda do Alentejo and Bacalhau à Braz (cod with eggs and chips). The desserts are also a matter of perdition. I recommend them all.
Sue: Where can people buy “Eat Portugal”?
Lucy: We’re currently looking into getting it to Amazon.
It’s available in Lisbon, Porto and Faro airports and many bookshops across Portugal.
Sue: Do you have any plans for a follow-up book?
Lucy: We’re thinking of extending it a little, but we’re going to see how it goes for now.
** Here's a video of Lucy talking about the book. She's in a very famous café in Belém (near Lisbon) which makes the BEST (and only - because they're original) pastéis de Belém (custard tarts). Yum.
This is the second blog post I've read today about Portugal. Hmm, think there's a message that I'm to go there?
I don't believe I've ever had Portuguese food.
Alex - I can't believe it! | 2019-04-24T07:49:38 | http://www.susanroebuck.com/2011/07/eat-portugal.html |
0.998899 | Mixed sledge hockey at the Paralympics? Not on the Canadian team.
Hockey Canada is shocked and surprised by a memorandum from the International Paralympic Committee last week announcing that teams which qualified for the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games could add female athletes to their roster.
The jarring announcement clashes with the fact that no Canadian women are playing at that level yet, if it's ever possible -- and this is where the best players are.
"The inclusion of female athletes for ice sledge hockey is a step in the direction of promoting greater female participation in this sport and the Paralympic Winter Games in general," said the notice. It said the decision was "responding to the request of the nations widely and regularly practising in the sport of ice sledge hockey."
Except there was no consultation with Canada, the reigning world and Paralympic champions. That's according to Hockey Canada's Johnny Misley, executive vice president, hockey operations.
"We find this very puzzling," said Misley. "There's been no dialogue on this for a long time. It's odd. It's very odd."
The only explanation Misley's been told is that it's an offering to help the "B" pool countries develop -- Estonia, Sweden, Poland, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. It's unclear exactly how adding a female would help, though.
The Swedish team is the curiosity here. At the 2006 Turin Paralympics, they actually had a female player on their roster, only to be told she was ineligible because it was a men's tournament.
But don't expect Canada to embrace the concept. At this point in time there is no Canadian female player ready to play at the level of the Canadian national men's program; nor will anyone be ready by 2010. A fledgling national women's team is in the works, coached by Elmira's Keith Metzger. His wife Sandra is the manager, and daughter Corin, 16, is a top forward.
Metzger says the existing number of females playing sledge hockey world-wide needs to increase before debuting at the Paralympics. The only other country with a national team is the U.S.
"The Canadian women sledge hockey players have been telling us they want their own program," said Metzger. "In the best interest of all females playing sledge hockey in Canada and world wide, we need to continue the commitment of developing female national sledge hockey teams. Establishing these teams would encourage the sanctioning of women's sledge hockey as a Paralympic sport, similar to what the able-bodied women's programs have done through the International Olympic Committee."
Canadian women want and deserve full Paralympic status in the sport when they're ready. Not like this.
Do you know where you'll swim after June 2009?
Let's Make Waves, a coalition of parents, students, citizens, and members of not-for-profit sports organizations, is warning that Toronto swim clubs, community swims, and Parks and Recreation programming will be further stressed or disbanded altogether come June. That's when the Toronto District School Board plans to close 39 out of its 79 school pools.
The group is encouraging supporters to attend the Community Development and Recreation Meeting on Thurs. April 16 at 9 a.m. at City Hall. Swim attire is encouraged.
For more information see www.letsmakewaves.ca.
AthletesCAN, the association of Canada's national team athletes, has expressed its disappointment with CBC's decision to cancel 'The Inside Track' hosted by Robin Brown after 24 years on air.
The show specializes in bringing the human side of Canadian sport to the forefront by introducing its listeners to athletes they may not have heard of otherwise. Last week CBC announced the show would end its run on June 28. | 2019-04-22T08:39:38 | http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Columnists/Korn/2009/04/10/9077616-sun.html |
0.999916 | Career Advice Can basic income help workers adapt to new world of AI?
Can basic income help workers adapt to new world of AI?
As a self-confessed health-food eater, I rarely enter fast-food joints, but nostalgia and the feeling that it's an obligatory childhood experience saw me bring my daughter to a McDonalds. While the novelty of receiving a toy with your food quickly won her over, what struck me most was the automation.
McDonald's has always been known for its efficiency, but for many teenagers and young adults, it also functioned as a place to get your first job. They would train you, as you gained not only a paycheque, but experience.
But looking at the company's new self-serve kiosks, I couldn't help but think that the era of an eager teenager asking "would you like fries with that" will soon be a relic of the past.
Related: Ontario's social experiment: Can basic income buy happiness?
Of course, this is nothing new and, for even the mildly observant, automation has crept into our lives in many ways. I order my Starbucks coffee on my phone, rarely speaking to an individual. Ditto for my Beck taxi. When the roles of cashiers and retail sales people become fully automated, rendering them obsolete, it's been estimated that will add 7.5 million people in the United States to the ranks of the unemployed.
While experts and pundits argue about what new roles and opportunities will spring up to replace the increasingly complex jobs being assumed by machines, in darker moments, I fret about what a jobless future will look like for our children. Naturally, many will still work, but some may find themselves existing on an income guaranteed by the government. That is, if the pilot project Ontario launches this summer goes well.
In this three-year, basic-income experiment, selected low-income individuals will receive almost $17,000 annually. Many observers will be glued to the exercise to see if, as expected, it improves the health, security and job prospects for those in precarious work environments.
Among those will be Rob Rainer, a Perth, Ont.-based basic-income advocate and former board member of Ontario Basic Income Network, a group of advocates across the province.
"There has been an explosion of interest in basic income in the past 18 months. Even in the tech sector, many are seeing and perceiving how large-scale AI and automation will impact jobs," Mr. Rainer said.
Yet, it's not only cashiers and those in tech. Mr. Rainer was quick to point out that even my job has a best-before date as new companies enter the market with machines that can write articles and replace journalists.
Large-scale automation means we need to reimagine what productivity looks like and few of us will be immune, he observed.
As a former executive director for the not-for-profit group, Canada Without Poverty, Mr. Rainer was exposed to many different ideas on how to manage poverty and all the evidence suggested to him that a guaranteed-income scenario made the most sense. For the past four years, he's rallied behind the cause, calling it "a buffer against the forces of technology and uncertain employment in the future."
While the concept may be startling to some, Mr. Rainer says that it's a natural progression from services already offered in the province. For example, residents of Ontario already receive childcare benefits based on income and seniors receive a form of guaranteed income. The missing link, he says, is the working-class population.
The pilot comes at a time when there is a global discourse on how to manage what's been called the "great decoupling," where economic growth does not correspond with the expected job creation.
For many, basic income sounds distasteful, since it suggests that able-minded people are getting a "free ride." However, as the World Economic Forum suggests, our mindset needs to change to accept that, in this new economy, "humans are free-riding on the efforts of machines" and not other humans. In other words, we aren't piggybacking off our neighbour's hard work, but benefiting from the equivalent of our car or toaster, so that we can pursue other lucrative options. Will that make this concept more palatable?
A change in mindset remains critical if we are going to adapt to a world where it's estimated technology could replace 45 per cent of the activities people are currently paid to perform.
"There is no fear that masses of people will sit at home and not make a contribution. There are many that continue to work, today, even if they are financially secure," Mr. Rainer insists.
Rather, basic-income programs allow recipients to explore options not available to them if they are struggling to survive, such as retraining or new job options.
"The Ontario pilot is the most advanced political development [to combat poverty] and, if it s done right, and bears the results we hope it will, will go a long way," Mr. Rainer said.
Leah Eichler writes about workplace trends.
What skills will you need when your product becomes a service? | 2019-04-21T00:49:21 | https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/can-basic-income-help-workers-adapt-to-new-world-of-ai/article34841748/ |
0.998482 | 1. With a sharp knife, slice off the sides of the mango, avoiding the large seed in the middle.
2. Cut parallel slices into the mango halves to dice, being careful not to cut through the skin.
3. Scoop the mango cubes out of the mango skin using a spoon and skewer each mango cube onto a lollipop stick.
4. In a bowl, stir to combine the yogurt and honey.
5. Dip each mango into the yogurt until coated.
6. You may need to use a spoon to help spoon yogurt onto the mango cubes evenly.
7. Sprinkle desired toppings onto each mango cube and place mango cubes on a baking sheet lined with wax paper.
8. Place in the freezer until mangos are slightly frozen and yogurt has set, 1 to 2 hours. Serve. | 2019-04-19T11:07:37 | http://freskaproduce.com/recipes/frozen-yogurt-dipped-mango-pops |
0.995342 | I just realized that my vitamins "may contain soy." Should I just skip them for the rest of the Whole30? I'm on Day 7.
If it just says may contain, but everything else about them -- the active ingredients and the inactive/other ingredients -- are all okay, you can keep taking them, that sounds more like an allergen warning for people who are very sensitive and must avoid even traces of soy. Just be sure you've really checked all the ingredients, because it is pretty hard to find ones that are completely Whole30, especially if this is a multivitamin. | 2019-04-24T11:15:04 | https://forum.whole30.com/topic/56697-daily-vitamin/ |
0.999999 | A mother is usually also a wife, and has the management of a family and a direct influence over subordination to her head, has the seat of authority and wields the sceptre of government. From a position of entire dependence, she has risen to power and rank, and though her throne may be in a cottage, and her dominion the little work of household affairs, yet is she not the less really responsible, than is that youthful queen who now sways a sceptre over the four quarters of the earthWith this comparison to Queen Victoria, the author conveys the importance that he or she believes a mother's role holds within her own household. While the author says women have risen "from a position of entire dependence," her role, according to this analogy, is one of "authority" and "power and rank" and the author argues that mothers are as responsible for their charges as a monarch is over the territories under his or her command. Launching the article with such a statement makes mothers seem powerful, indeed, and would make it difficult for anyone to question their authority or their power to influence their children in the desired ways.. But for what is she responsible?
She is responsible forThe author repeatedly begins paragraphs with the phrase "She is responsible for..." This kind of matter-of-fact statement to open each paragraph makes the author's point sound irrefutable. If he or she had written these statements differently ("I believe a mother is responsible for..." or "A mother may be considered responsible for...") they would not have nearly the same strength. the nursing and rearing of her progeny; for their physical constitution and growth; their exercise and proper sustenance in early life. A child left to grow up deformed, bloated, or meagreThe author frequently closes paragraphs with a statement that suggests that women have it within their power to control whatever the topic of the paragraph may be. In the case of children's physical constitution, the author says that children who are not physically strong show "maternal negligence;" In the section on habits, the author says that the mother can identify a child's tendencies, good or bad, and "repress or bring them forth;" In the section on principles, the author compares the mother to a gardener who can weed out negative character traits while nurturing positive ones; In discussing temperament, the author says that even though women may not be able to control the constitutions that their children are born with, "for regulation or correction of these passions, a mother is responsible;" In the paragraph on education, the author says that a mother must "see that her sons and daughters have all benefits" of an education within what their circumstances will allow; And in the final section on religious education, the author notes that teaching these ideas is "within the ability of every parent" and asks if children grow up ignorant of spiritual matters, "what mother... can expect them to rise up and call her blessed?" By not only opening each section with a statement that a mother is responsible for a given set of traits but also closing each section by saying that women have complete control over those traits and can influence their children in these ways, the author argues quite forcefully that these are responsibilities that mothers can and must attend to., is an object of maternal negligenceCertainly words like "negligence" are highly emotionally charged. By suggesting that a mother whose child is in poor physical condition is negligent in her duties, the author may inspire guilt or anxiety among mothers who fear being judged if their child had a physical problem. Similarly, the author later uses other emotionally charged words ("parental disregard" or "odious productions") to try to make his or her point.. | 2019-04-24T02:47:03 | https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/how-does-creator-source-1 |
0.998944 | It is the responsibility of every car owner to take their car for servicing. It is important to make sure that your car is well maintained if you want it to serve you for a long period of time. So many people get stressed the minute they think about taking their car for repairs because some service providers do a terrible job. No one wants their car back from the repair shop with more damages than it had when you were taking it there in the first place. Thus, you should not just settle on a specific auto repair shop without first thinking about a few factors. Outlined below are some of these things.
One of the main things that you need to do is to seek recommendations. The best types of recommendations are not gotten from just anyone. You have to ask people that you trust to recommend an auto repair shop that can offer you the best services. One of the good things about seeking recommendations is that they make things easier. You can get suggestions of some of the best auto repair shops that some of your family members or friends have visited the minute you ask for recommendations.
Another factor that you should consider is location. Ask yourself whether the repair shop is conveniently located based on where you live. One of the best things that you can do for yourself is choosing an auto repair shop near you because you never know when you will need the services.
In order to grow in your career or even be perfect at what you do, you need experience. Therefore, before you decide on the first auto repair shop you come across, get to know if the mechanics have the right experience. You can seek to know if the mechanics handling your car are certified or not. Another things that you also need to know is the length of time the shop has been operating. It is through these questions where you can tell more about the level of experience.
There is nothing as good as honest reviews from satisfied clients. Some of the auto repair shops with the best reviews are the ones that provide the best services. You should never search blindly without reading reviews. You have to know what other clients have to say about various auto repair shops in your location.
In conclusion, you should choose a shop that gives the best services at fair prices. Compare costs before you decide on a specific one. | 2019-04-22T08:28:14 | http://studioschoolaurora.org/on-brakes-my-experience-explained.html |
0.999683 | The question is : white background , white subject evenly light.
Sorry it's how to meter and compensate .
Or meter on grey card and over expose ?
My first choice is to use an incident meter, not the reflective meter in my camera.
When I was shooting snowy owls in daylight in a snow field in Canada I used + 1.5 Exposure Compensation with the meter in my camera .
My highlights were fine, and my whites were white. I see a lot of very grey snow images on the web that were under exposed due to the reflective meter in the camera trying to get the white snow a mid-tone grey.
Or use a 16% grey card and the reflective meter in your camera without exposure comp. This should give you nice whites as well. This sounds like the answer they were wanting.
All these suggestions will work, not sure what the folks asking the question think is the correct answer.
I suspect they want to see that the photographer understands the limitations of reflective light meters, versus incident light meters.
Every one should shoot some jpgs of a 16 or 32 step grey scale and see what their meter says is the correct exposure, and what exposure is actually needed to capture the entire grey scale in the image.
If this is a studio situation, static 90 percent white subject and pure white photographic backdrop, I would bracket like crazy if I didn't know the intent of the final photo.
(Properly) meter on (photographic 18 percent) grey card and don't compensate.
At least that way, if the equipment is properly set up you should get a fairly "normal" exposure for the scene, regardless of the content of the scene. Otherwise, you cannot know the reflectance value of either the subject or the background based on the stated question alone. White can mean a lot of different things to different people and under different circumstances.
Cameras are designed to meter properly for a scene of photographic 18 percent grey and yield a normal exposure.
You cannot think like a photographer with these types of questions. There are better ways, but for those who don't know anything about photography (like HR departments hiring the in house photographer) they ask questions that some book told them to.
These small and medium sized companies that hire in house photographers rarely know or care what is best, they think in simple terms or use whatever answer they find on the internet or in a book. The white rabbit in snow is basically a standard question and 90% of the time, they want to hear +1 EV. If you go back about 10 years or so, you'll find that answer in so many magazine articles on digital photography.
Originally, I answered shoot some test exposures in Manual Mode, and expose to the right, being careful not to blow the highlights, but I deleted it because I thought they were after a simpler RULE type answer.
While I think this is very close to what Ziggy is suggesting also, I think using a grey card ( is it 16 or 18% grey?? I have seen both numbers ) without exposure compensation is the answer they were expecting.
Lots of ways to skin a cat I always say, and one would hope that a real pro knows several ways to skin a cat.
Absolutely. I wasn't disagreeing with you or ziggy. Over the years doing product work, I've just heard this question or variant of it way too many times. The vast majority of the time, the people aren't looking for the "right" answers, they are looking for what they read on google.
Even Nikon uses the white rabbit in the snow EV/EC explanation. (scroll down about half way). Then scroll down further to the expose for light subjects for more of the ev/ec talk.
A lot of photography classes online and in schools now use this same approach.
Not that this approach is wrong in and of itself, but the problem is that no one teaches the other ways any longer. If you google "meter and compensate for white on white" the vast majority will automatically jump on the ev/ec bandwagon. Sadly it has become the normal. Every year it seems that photography gets dumbed down a little further.
The amount of compensation needed will vary on the subject (size & brightness) so the best answer is to meter on the grey card which is made to be the mid grey the camera averages exposures to - Giving exactly the right compensation, in the same way an incident light meter would. No compensation is needed (or desirable) when a grey card has been used for metering. | 2019-04-25T15:58:19 | https://dgrin.com/discussion/comment/2065706/ |
0.999994 | One of the top questions people ask about bankruptcy is what will happen to their debts. Although the answer to this question can be complicated, in general it will depend on the type of debt-whether it is secured or unsecured. Knowing how each type of debt is treated during bankruptcy can help you assess whether it would be a good fit for you.
What is the difference between debt types?
Each type of debt is treated differently by creditors and in bankruptcy. Secured debts are debts that are secured by a pledge of collateral. Common types of secured debts include mortgages and car loans. If you are unable to pay a secured debt, your creditors may take and sell the collateral to pay off your debt. If the sale price is not high enough to cover your debt, the creditor may then sue you to obtain a judgment for the unpaid amount ("the deficiency").
Conversely, unsecured debt involves no pledge of collateral. Since collateral is absent in this type of debt, creditors generally may not take any property if the debt is unpaid. However, creditors may file a lawsuit against you or sell the debt to a collection agency to coax you into paying the debt. Common unsecured debts are medical bills and credit card debt.
What happens to each type in bankruptcy?
As mentioned earlier, the fate of each type of debt is different in bankruptcy and largely depends on the type of bankruptcy filed. In Chapter 7 bankruptcy, most of your unsecured debt will be discharged, freeing you of your obligation to repay it.
However, Chapter 7 affects your secured debt differently. Although it can relieve you of your personal liability for the debt, it does not affect your creditor's right to retake the collateral. Because of this fact, if you would like to keep the collateral in Chapter 7, it is necessary to stay current on the payments. However, if you do not want the collateral, Chapter 7 can protect you from being sued for the deficiency.
If you file Chapter 13, on the other hand, both debt types become part of the repayment plan. Under the plan, you repay your debts in monthly installments over three to five years. However, the plan only requires you to pay your unsecured creditors the amount they would have received in Chapter 7. Since most unsecured creditors receive nothing in Chapter 7, you do not need to fully repay most unsecured debts in Chapter 13. Because of this fact, most unsecured debts end up discharged after only pennies on the dollar (if even that much) are paid towards them.
With regard to secured debt, Chapter 13 can give you the help you require to become current. Filing Chapter 13 does not discharge your secured debt. However, it does give you three to five years to catch up on your secured debts. While you are making payments, you can keep the collateral. Also, your creditors may not repossess the collateral during this time. When Chapter 13 ends, you are current on your secured debts and resume making your regular payments toward them, assuming that you have not paid them off by this time.
Although these rules may seem simple, in reality there are many exceptions. If you are struggling with debt, you are well advised to consult with an experienced bankruptcy attorney. The attorneys at Minnillo & Jenkins, CO. LPA can give you a detailed analysis of how bankruptcy would affect your unique situation and offer guidance on how to proceed.
Would Chapter 13 be a better fit for you?
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When should you consider filing for bankruptcy?
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Is Individual Debt Adjustment Right for You? | 2019-04-22T16:20:15 | https://www.mjbankruptcy.com/Articles/Secured-vs-Unsecured-Debts-in-Bankruptcy.shtml |
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Output 109: This output is included in 4 transaction input(s). | 2019-04-21T03:00:12 | http://monerolink.com/tx/6dd945ee564f8832a98f612b0495484cfb77b45bb0be2bebc916d81e1dfc0318 |
0.999972 | Asymmetrical power relations in recruitment and selection When applying for a position, the recruiter often has more power than the recruited person. In an interview, for example, one is calm while the other is often nervous! For recruitment managers the cost of employing resource (A) over resource (B) is small when both are otherwise equal (experience, professionalism, fitting-in, pay-grades, education, etc.). For the person to be recruited, on the other hand, not getting a position comes at a significant cost (job-vs.-no job). Develop four recommendations on how this asymmetrical power relationship can be overcome? The report question differs from your tutorial exercise.
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0.999999 | Determine what a File Manager really is and the way it is different from its pc equivalent.
A File Manager tool is available in all hosting Control Panels. As the name suggests, it is used to manage the files inside an account and all File Managers support a range of standard features - browsing, moving, copying and deleting files. A number of Control Panels may offer more complex features too - changing file and folder permissions or creating and unpacking archives. Even though files may be uploaded and downloaded through an FTP client, the File Manager is employed much more often, so the simpler to use it is, the easier it shall be for you to control your online presence in its entirety. The opposite is also true - a File Manager which is tough to use could make it more irritating and complicated for you to manage the site content, particularly if you don't have previous experience.
When you purchase a shared web hosting plan from our company, you could take advantage of a sophisticated File Manager tool, that is part of our Hepsia hosting CP. It offers many functions and even conventional ones like copying or moving files can be accessed using right-click context menus, that will make you feel as if you’re employing an app on your desktop computer. If you move entire folders, their structure shall be kept unchanged, so you will not have to concern yourself with scrambled files. The context menus shall give you access to many other innovative capabilities too, so things like creating an archive of an entire folder or creating a password-protected area will be only a click away. What's more, you'll not need a third-party FTP program to upload content, due to the fact that our File Manager supports drag-and-drop file and folder uploads. You may also use three separate file editors – a plain text editor, a WYSIWYG editor and a code editor.
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0.999367 | What can I say about Rebecca Redman that I haven't already said? If you ask her, I think she would call this the second "official" Watercolor Paintings album, the first was "Open Your Mouth". This album takes a distinct step towards a darker motif compared to previous folk/pop releases. This is one of the first documents of a mostly Hoshwa-less Watercolor Paintings since he began playing regularly with his sister Rebecca. Look forward to the heavy droner "Showers Of Stones" though there are plenty of tunes on here that are culled from previous cassette or CDR releases that have been reinvogorated with a new backing band and excellent mid-fi recording fidelity.
This is the LP edition on Plan-It-X Records. | 2019-04-18T21:10:29 | https://lostsoundtapes.com/collections/friends-releases/products/watercolor-paintings-when-you-move-vinyl-lp |
0.999532 | Q: I am a landlord who tries to be careful about my process in selecting tenants. I would like to ask prospective tenants to provide me with evidence of their legal immigration status. Do I have the right to include such a question on my application form?
A: Before this year, there was confusion about the right to inquire about immigration status, but the question has now been clarified by the Legislature, at least for purposes of state law.
As of Jan. 1, Section 1940.3 prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration or citizenship status of a tenant or prospective tenant or occupant of residential rental property. The statute also prohibits any local government from enacting any contrary ordinance.
The statute states that landlords continue to have the right to request information to document the financial qualifications of a prospective tenant through any other means. The statute also indicates that the landlord remains free to comply with any federal law, but in our view, there is no federal law requiring a landlord to investigate a tenant's immigration status. | 2019-04-18T12:36:22 | https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Landlord-can-t-ask-about-immigration-status-3290902.php |
0.999972 | Will the Philadelphia Eagles find a trade partner for quarterback Nick Foles? The clock begins ticking Tuesday, when the NFL's window for putting franchise tags on players opens.
The franchise tag is a labor designation that restricts a player's potential movement in exchange for a high one-year salary. Each team can put the franchise tag on one pending free agent, a decision that is expensive but also provides massive leverage against losing a player, ensuring the team a hefty return if that player ultimately departs.
Teams have until March 5 (at 4 p.m. ET) to put franchise tags on their most valuable players.
The expected salary for quarterbacks with the franchise designation in 2019 is $25 million. The Eagles' trade options hinge on the franchise designation -- they can't carry Foles on the books at that number as a backup to Carson Wentz. But if there is competition among quarterback-needy teams who wish to sign Foles, the Eagles can put the tag on him and then make a trade.
Pro Bowl defenders Jadeveon Clowney and C.J. Mosley are among the other players who are candidates to be tagged this offseason.
The Falcons keep saying that signing Jarrett to a long-term extension is a top priority, but it hasn't happened just yet. Talks were tabled during the season but should be in full swing now after the team cleared more than $15 million in cap space following the releases of CB Robert Alford, K Matt Bryant and DE Brooks Reed. If the sides don't come to an agreement, tagging Jarrett at a price of around $15.5 million for 2019 could be an option, although the Falcons haven't used the tag freely over the years.
New Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta wouldn't deny that the tag is in play for Mosley. It's just not very practical. Using the projected $15 million tag on Mosley would eat up more than half of Baltimore's available cap space. Mosley is the leading tackler for the NFL's top-ranked defense and he's one of the core leaders on the team. But there could be debate whether Mosley deserves to be the highest-paid middle linebacker in the game. Asked if the Ravens would consider the tag for Mosley, DeCosta said, "I think everything is on the table right now. I certainly hope that C.J. is back. I believe in my heart that he will be."
The Cowboys want to avoid putting the tag on Lawrence for a second year. He made $17.1 million in 2018 on the tag and would make $20.5 million in 2019. The Cowboys wanted to see if Lawrence could repeat his production from 2017 and he did, putting up 10.5 sacks with 39 quarterback pressures and earning a second Pro Bowl nod. A year ago, there seemed to be little hope a long-term deal could be done. This year, there seems be a little more optimism, even with a tight window to negotiate. If the Cowboys use the tag on Lawrence again, they run the risk of him not showing for the offseason program, minicamp, training camp and potentially regular-season games.
To be determined is whether he'll be tagged as a defensive end or a linebacker, and the difference is roughly $1 million. Clowney has 18.5 sacks the past two seasons and has missed only one game in that span after missing 17 in his first three seasons. He has become a major disruptor and the Texans would love to keep him paired with a healthy J.J. Watt. Clowney stepped up as the Texans' top pass-rusher when Watt missed 11 games in 2017. The Texans have roughly $64 million in cap space so it won't be a strain to tag him, which would give them extra time to work out a long-term deal.
The Chiefs appear motivated to retain Ford, whether that's on a long-term contract or as the franchise player. Ford would cost about $15 million on the franchise tag. He indicated during the season that he would sign the tender if he's tagged, calling that decision a "no-brainer.'' It would be a shame for the Chiefs to watch Ford play for another team after he finally fulfilled the promise that led them to draft him in the first round in 2014. "When we drafted Dee a few years ago, all those things that we envisioned for him, he kind of showed that he was that player. ... We are excited about bringing him back," general manager Brett Veach said.
The Rams have made a habit in recent years of using the franchise tag, most recently on safety Lamarcus Joyner and previously on cornerback Trumaine Johnson (in back-to-back seasons). But this season, the tag could be used on Fowler. The Rams traded for Fowler at midseason as a short-term rental and the former first-round pick provided a needed presence from the edge. If the Rams tag Fowler, it probably would be at the cost of a defensive end, which would amount to more than $17 million. That's a steep price tag on a roster that's also in need of a defensive tackle and potentially a safety. In 10 games with the Rams last season, including the playoffs, Fowler had 3.5 sacks and a forced fumble.
The Vikings knew they'd face a tough decision with Barr when they opted not to extend the former first-rounder last offseason, which then put him in the position to play out his fifth-year option. Minnesota has to decide whether it wants to spend the estimated $15 million on a franchise tag to keep Barr around -- or possibly plan to trade him soon after. Barr smoothed out an up-and-down season toward the end of 2018, recording the first multiple sack game of his NFL career and generating 23 total quarterback pressures on 94 rushes, according to Pro Football Focus. While he has said he wanted to return to Minnesota, Barr expressed a desire to keep all of his options open if he hits free agency. "I know my worth and I know what I got to do I've got to do it for me," Barr said at the Pro Bowl. Though Barr has been an integral part of Mike Zimmer's defense since he was drafted in 2014, for a team up against the salary cap, spending that amount to retain Barr doesn't seem realistic when there are other more pressing needs as well as the likelihood that the Vikings will be able to find his replacement in the draft or elsewhere.
The Patriots could strike an extension with Gostkowski before free agency, but if they don't, assigning him the franchise tag would help them maintain some leverage to keep him in the fold in 2019. While the tag of about $5 million is richer than the club would project to pay on an annual basis as part of a multiyear deal, it could be a placeholder until the sides hammer out a longer pact. Some might ask, "Why not DE Trey Flowers or OT Trent Brown?" The thinking is that their franchise-tag numbers would be too high for the team's liking.
The Giants aren't in any position to allow 25-year-old defensive playmakers to walk. Collins wants to stay and get paid top safety money. But given the unpredictability of the safety market the past few years and his position (strong safety), it's going to be hard to find a middle ground that suits both parties.
The Eagles are hoping to get some value in return via tag and trade as they move on from the former Super Bowl MVP. With the franchise number for quarterbacks expected to be around $25 million, Philly needs to have a trade partner lined up before going down this road. If a trade doesn't materialize, the Eagles can let Foles walk and settle for a compensatory pick in 2020.
Designating Bell the franchise player for the third straight year is unlikely. Bell's yearlong holdout broke goodwill with the team, and with many around the league believing his third tag is worth $20-plus million, Bell's holdout notwithstanding, the Steelers either wouldn't want to pay that or wouldn't allocate the cap space to keep the tag in place. The transition tag is more tenable, especially if the Steelers can prove it's worth around $9.5 million instead of $14.5 million because of Bell's absence in 2018. But Bell can't be traded unless he signs the tag or the Steelers utilize an offer sheet for a convoluted sign-and-trade plan, which is risky if other teams aren't interested in the offer sheet's numbers. Plus, the NFLPA would argue such a move violates the spirit of the tag and the collective bargaining agreement.
Gould has been the most accurate kicker in the league in his two seasons in San Francisco, converting 96 percent of his 75 field goal attempts. That kind of production makes him a valuable commodity in a league where kickers seem to miss clutch kicks on a regular basis. The franchise-tag number for kickers in 2019 is expected to come in somewhere around $5 million, a number the Niners can easily absorb, given they should have between $60 million and $70 million in cap space. Ideally, the 49ers would like to sign Gould to an extension before free agency, and the sides have had talks toward that, but it's hard to imagine a scenario in which they'd just let him walk with no better option clearly available.
The franchise tag has seemed likely since Clark's agent told ESPN.com in October that his client is willing to wait for a deal that makes him one of the NFL's highest-paid pass-rushers, even if it means playing on a tag first. "We plan on Frank being with us," coach Pete Carroll said at the end of the season, seemingly an indication that the Seahawks will tag Clark if they have to. Clark turns 26 in June. He's coming off his best season and his 32 sacks since 2016 are ninth most in that span, so it's nearly impossible to imagine the Seahawks letting him get to free agency. With well over $50 million in projected 2019 cap space, the Seahawks can easily absorb the $17 million to $18 million cap charge that would come with the tag.
Smith will be back with the Bucs in 2019. The question is whether it's under the franchise tag or a long-term deal. He has started 64 consecutive games, tied for second most of any left tackle in the league behind Jake Matthews. That would make Smith the top left tackle in the free-agent market. Yes, he has shined at times, but he has also had some issues with consistency. Still, at just 25 years old, the Bucs believe he has not reached his ceiling and his greatest asset is his durability.
Is Foles worth a third-round pick?
Mike Golic Sr. says it is not a lock that Nick Foles would be successful on a new team. | 2019-04-20T04:27:02 | https://abc30.com/sports/2019-franchise-tag-candidates-and-predictions-for-all-32-nfl-teams/5143391/ |
0.999999 | AddDevices Adds up to 200 new devices to the M2M database only, without activating service. Devices will appear in the M2M Management Center in a “Pre-Active” state.
Change4GDeviceIdentifier Change the hardware for a 4G line of service, and optionally change the service plan.
ChangeDeviceCostCenter Change or remove the cost center code for one or more devices.
ChangeDeviceCustomFields Assign up to five custom field values.
ChangeDeviceIdentifier Change the hardware for a 2G or 3G line of service, and optionally change the service plan.
ChangeDeviceServicePlan Specify a new service plan.
ChangeDeviceState - Activate Activate service.
ChangeDeviceState - Deactivate Deactivate service.
ChangeDeviceState - Restore Restore service that is suspended.
ChangeDeviceState - Suspend Suspend service.
CheckDeviceAvailability Check whether specified devices are known to the Verizon network and are available to be activated.
CreateDeviceGroup Create a device group.
DeleteDevices Delete devices from the account.
DeleteDeviceGroup Delete a device group.
GeAccountInformation Provide an account name or number to retrieve all information about the account.
GetAggregateDeviceUsage Obtain data and SMS usage.
GetCallbackRegistrations Obtain a list of registered URLs for callback services for an account.
GetDefaultDeviceGroupInformation Obtain information for the default device group.
GetDeviceConnectionHistory Obtain a list of network connection events and AAA attributes for a device during a specified time period.
GetDeviceExtendedDiagnosticsInformation Obtain basic diagnostic information about a specified device, including connectivity, provisioning, and billing status.
GetDeviceGroupInformation Obtain information for a device group.
GetDeviceGroupList Obtain a list of all device groups.
GetDeviceInformation Obtain all information about a specified device - state, service plan, MDN/MSISDN, MIN, and IP address information.
GetDeviceList Obtain a list of all the devices.
GetDevicePRLInformation Obtain the PRL version currently assigned to the device.
GetDeviceProvisioningHistory Obtain the provisioning history of a specific device.
GetDevicesInformation Validate whether devices are in a given account, and retrieve a subset of information about each device.
GetDeviceUsageHistory Obtain the usage history of a specific device.
GetImeiMismatch Retrieve a list of all 4G devices with an ICCID (SIM) that is not paired with the expected IMEI (hardware).
GetLeadInformation Obtain additional lead-related information for devices provisioned under a Verizon Partner account.
GetNewPassword Generate a new password for the UWS login credential.
GetRatedDeviceUsage Obtain rated data and SMS usage of a device for the current billing period.
GetRequestStatus Returns the current status of an asynchronous request that was made for a single device.
GetServicePlanList Obtain a list of all data service plans associated with a specified account.
GetSmsMessages Retrieve SMS messages sent from devices.
GetStateAndServicesList Returns a list of all Stage states defined for the account.
LogIn Allows the customer application to log into the UWS server with a username and password to start a UWS session.
LogOut Allows the customer application to end the UWS session.
MoveDevice Move active devices from one billing account to another within a customer profile.
RegisterCallback Register a URL for callback messages.
SendSmsMessage Send an SMS message to one or more devices.
StartSmsCallback Resend queued SMS messages from devices to the account’s callback service for SMS messages.
UnregisterCallback Unregister a URL for callback messages that was previously registered.
UpdateDeviceGroup Update the name and description of a device group, and add or remove devices in a device group.
UploadDevices Uploads device identifiers for new devices from OEMs to Verizon. | 2019-04-23T14:05:06 | https://m2mdeveloper.verizon.com/docs/ts-docs-wns/src/API_Reference/API-Quick-Reference.html |
0.999999 | Most scientists think humans spread east from Taiwan to the Pacific.
But an international team, including Professor Alan Cooper of Australia's University of Adelaide, says the pattern of humans moving out of Southeast Asia with their animals is more complex.
The researchers report their DNA study of domesticated pigs today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Humans have been domesticating pigs as a source of meat for so long that Cooper says tracking their movement is a good substitute for human migration routes.
Cooper, an expert in ancient DNA, and colleagues analysed mitochondrial DNA from pigs in a number of Southeast Asian countries.
They then compared it with the DNA of pigs that historically populated the Pacific.
Cooper says the oldest pig DNA they studied came from the tooth of a pig found in the hobbit cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, dated to 6000-7000 years old.
Previous studies have found genetic similarities between Southeast Asian pigs and Pacific ones, suggesting the pigs moved from one to the other.
But Cooper says this latest research has identified the exact route they took.
"Pigs which go out across the Pacific and become the Polynesian pig, appear to originate around Laos, Cambodia and southeast China," he says.
"We can actually see them coming down the Malaysian peninsula and across the Sunda island chain [Indonesia and New Guinea]."
Cooper says while most scientists think humans spread to the Pacific from Taiwan, this pig DNA evidence suggests they have a more complex origin.
"The trouble is we don't find any pigs from Taiwan going east," he says. "So we've got quite a different route."
He says the findings support other theories that suggest Pacific was populated by humans from a number of places.
"There does seem to be a diversity of movements involved in this system and it's not going to be as simple here as they went from Taiwan out to the Pacific," says Cooper.
Where did the rats go?
Cooper says preliminary evidence from a similar DNA study of rats, an animal that is also closely associated with humans, supports this argument.
The rat study suggests humans moved out into the Pacific east from Taiwan but also took a southerly route, he says.
Cooper says animals such as pigs and rats that move with humans are a much better indicator of human movement than humans themselves.
It's easier to study ancient DNA from animals because there are more animals than humans and they are easier to get access to, he says.
Also, when studying ancient human DNA, there is the problem of contamination with genetic material from modern humans.
Use these social-bookmarking links to share Pigs and humans trekked across the Pacific. | 2019-04-24T02:24:26 | http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/03/13/1866959.htm |
0.998503 | Can we lose weight by getting morning sunlight?
Well, it can't hurt to get out and get a morning walk in the sunlight. Heck, it might even help!
"Doc, will I lose more weight if I cut out diet soda?" I've heard this question many times, and this topic has been ALL over the internet since last week, when a new study came out about diet soda and weight loss. I realized it's time for me to blog about the Great Diet Soda Debate.
Diet soda (and artificial sweeteners) have become an emotional topic for some, and everyone needs to calm down, take a deep breath, look at what the study actually said, and then decide for themselves what they would like to do!
The new research was published May 27 in Obesity, the journal of The Obesity Society, and was co-authored by James O. Hill, who is well-known for his work with the National Weight Control Registry. http://www.nwcr.ws/people/Hill.htm To briefly summarize, researchers took a group of 303 people who were ALREADY DRINKING DIET SODA on a regular basis, and then told half the group they could continue diet soda, and instructed the other half to switch to water. They then followed them for 12 weeks, treating them with an 'aggressive' behavioral weight loss program, with intense counseling and guidance on nutrition, journaling, exercise, and behavioral strategies.
At the end of 12 weeks, they compared the amount of weight lost in each group - Group A who continued to drink their favorite diet soda, and Group B who quit diet soda, and switched to water. The results were surprising, to say the least. Lo and behold , Group A - those who continued to drink diet soda - actually LOST MORE WEIGHT than Group B - those who had stopped the diet soda and switched to water! Group A lost an average of 13 pounds, while Group B lost only 9 pounds. Group A - the diet soda drinkers - lost 44 % more weight!
How could this be? And why? Well, first of all, NO ONE thinks that diet soda is a magic weight loss trick. And second of all, it's important to remember that Group A, the 'bigger losers' did not ADD diet soda to their diets, they were already drinking it in the first place - they were just allowed to continue it. So, the suspicion is that Group A performed better, and lost more weight, because they were feeling content, satisfied that they could continue a favorite treat, so they AVOIDED A SENSE OF DEPRIVATION. Group B likely felt deprived of their favorite treat, and research shows that if people feel deprived, they are less likely to adhere to a healthy overall plan.
"The most likely explanation was that having access to drinks with sweet taste helps the (artificially-sweetened beverage) group to adhere better to the behavioral change program."
Saw a significant reduction in serum triglycerides."
And "Additional research published in 2009 on weight loss maintenance, drawn from the National Weight Control Registry, found that successful weight loss maintainers drank three times more diet beverages than those who had never lost weight."
So, what to do? It appears that if you are ALREADY using diet soda, and this is an important 'treat' for you, then it's probably not the best idea to try to cut this treat out while you are just starting a new healthy diet/exercise/behavioral weight control program. The sense of deprivation may weaken your willpower, and you might find it harder to stay on track with the rest of your healthy choices. Later, once you're "on a healthy roll" with your program, you may want to cut out diet soda to gain additional possible health benefits (such as a possible lower risk of kidney disease).
But if you find that cutting out your diet soda leaves you feeling deprived, and then you go off the rest of your healthy routine, you might want to add back in the occasional diet soda treat, if it's important to you! I just had a patient come in with this very problem. She had been doing REALLY well with healthy diet, exercise, and weight loss, but derailed herself when she stopped diet soda and ended up feeling deprived. She hadn't even heard about the recent study, but was feeling frustrated and angry at herself, and wanted to know what to do. We talked it through, and she is going to re-add the occasional diet soda - the 'risk' is certainly outweighed by the 'benefit' in her case!
Remember, the goal is PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION when it comes to healthy lifestyle. The goal is to be GOOD ENOUGH to get the health benefits we seek - NOT perfect. If you try too hard to be perfect, and you fall short, you might end up giving up ALL the healthy changes you've already made - and that would be a disaster! NO ONE is perfect (no one I've met anyway) and we have to pick and choose key healthy changes, and focus on those which are going to give us the 'biggest bang for the buck' in terms of health benefit. Remember - "don't let perfection become the enemy of the good" - to misquote Voltaire.
And don't let a SENSE OF DEPRIVATION DERAIL YOU! | 2019-04-25T01:54:30 | http://healthyweightcenter.blogspot.com/2014/06/ |
0.998561 | Q. Thoughts on the week?
TOMMY FLEETWOOD: Today was more of a battle than I wanted it to be. I had four drivers and today I hit three sort of dodgy shots and one of them was the third, made double. From there it was a scrap.
But still happy with myself in the end for the way we handled it and the way we played and the way we battled out there. It was great really. Couldn't ask for much more. Always comes down to the last times and that putt, I thought -- I really did think that was going to break in. But yeah, really good week.
Q. Proud of yourself because of the way you did battle back from the early indiscretion and giving yourself a chance right down the death?
TOMMY FLEETWOOD: Yeah, didn't really know what the winning score was going to be. But 3, 4 and 5 -- 4, I hit a bad wedge shot and had to get up-and-down, and 5 I actually hit a good iron shot but misclubbed it. It's really hard with the wind swirling, and nearly did it again.
Just really did have to keep going, because you didn't know what was a good score and I wanted to get back to level through nine and push on.
13, the par 5, hit two bad shots, made par, and I was a bit angry after that hole but kept it going. But very pleased.
Q. The plan for you now?
TOMMY FLEETWOOD: It's Christmas, isn't it. I'm going to go home and not do much. We've had a long stint, really. I was going to play last week and didn't. From August onwards, we really haven't missed any that we could play. It's been great seeing my game progress back to where I would like it to be, but it's time for a rest. Time to go home and see everyone. | 2019-04-23T04:45:37 | http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=125969 |
0.999294 | Electric potential is the amount of electric potential energy that each unit charge would have at a particular point in space. It is measured in Joules per Coulomb or volts. Two points in space have different electric potentials due to their positions inside a field.
Since gravity is more in our everyday experiences, sometimes it's easier to compare this to the situation for gravity. The gravitational potential is the amount of gravitational potential energy that each unit mass would have at a particular point in space. If you raise a ball to a height, h, that point in space has a larger gravitational potential than it did when it was at ground level, and if you release a point mass at that height, it will start to move because it has gravitational potential energy. If you drew field lines, they would point from the raised ball towards the ground. So, as you follow field lines, the amount of potential changes - or to be exact, it decreases. This is the same for electric potential.
This is the same as the equation for the electric field created by a point charge, so in other words, the field created by a conducting sphere is the same as that of a point charge.
Electric field is defined as the force that a +1 coulomb test charge would feel at a particular location. But electric field is also the rate of change of potential. So, if the electric field of a sphere is the same as a point charge, it follows that the potential will also be the same as a point charge.
Exactly the same as the electric field equation but with a single radius r instead of r-squared. To use the equation, all you have to do is plug in some numbers and solve.
It starts off at some maximum value at the surface and then decreases quickly as you move further away. But what about inside the sphere? What about this region of the graph?
For that, we need to think about the fact that electric field is the rate of change of potential. We know from Gauss's Law that the electric field inside a conducting sphere is zero. This is because the charge on a sphere spreads out on the surface. This means that once you enter the sphere, the charge enclosed by a radius, r immediately becomes zero.
From the surface, all the way to the center, the electric potential stays constant.
Electric potential is the amount of electric potential energy that each unit charge would have at a particular point in space. Two points in space have different electric potentials due to their different positions inside a field.
From Gauss's Law, we know that the equation for the electric field of a conducting, charged sphere is the same as the equation for the electric field of a point charge. Electric field is also the change in potential. So, it follows that the equation for the potential of a charged sphere is also the same as the equation for the potential of a point charge. It looks like the equation in the section above, where Q is the charge on the sphere, epsilon-zero is a constant that is always equal to 8.85 * 10^-12 and r is the distance you are from the center of the sphere. We can plot this equation with respect to the radius from the center of the sphere, creating a graph that looks like the one in the section above.
Gauss's Law also tells us that the electric field inside a conducting sphere is zero. Since electric field is the rate of change of potential, this means that the potential must not change inside the sphere. So, for the inside of the sphere, the graph remains flat, as also shown above. | 2019-04-25T13:43:12 | https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-potential-of-a-sphere.html |
0.999939 | So far this semester, you have studied several different types of statistical tests that can be used in different situations (e.g. independent-samples t-test, chi-squared test for independence). For each of the situations below, please describe which statistical test you would use and why you would choose that test.
You are designing an experiment to determine whether watching Planet Earth leads people to become more concerned about the environment. You randomly assign participants to watch either a) two hours of Planet Earth or b) two hours of a reality TV show. Afterwards, you ask them to indicate their concern about the environment using a slider that goes from 0-100. You hypothesize that those who watched two hours of Planet Earth will report being more concerned about the environment than those who watched two hours of a reality TV show. What test would you use to test this hypothesis?
Q: Bellamee Company has bonds outstanding with five years to maturity and a face value of $5,000. The bonds are currently priced at their face value. | 2019-04-23T10:51:37 | https://studydaddy.com/question/so-far-this-semester-you-have-studied-several-different-types-of-statistical-tes |
0.997244 | Growing Stages: A Lesson in EcoZenography?
Comedian W.C. Fields is famous for saying “never work with children or animals”. He never mentioned anything about plants, but perhaps, with a little coaxing, he might have included them too. As a stage designer investigating ecological practice, designing with plants seemed like an obvious place to begin. But with little to no gardening experience, and nightmare visions of botanical armageddon on the day before opening night, designing with plants was a daunting prospect.
Fast forward a couple of years and I can happily report that designing with plants is not just ‘do-able’, but is also extremely rewarding from both a creative and personal perspective. Since 2012, I’ve worked on several plant-based projects under the banner of ‘The Living Stage’ – a project that combines stage design, permaculture and community engagement to create a recyclable, biodegradable and edible performance spaces. Part experiment, part theatre and part garden, the project has had three iterations since its initial inception: first as a portable garden amphitheatre (Castlemaine State Festival, Australia); second, as part of the creation of a Trans-Plantable Living Room (World Stage Design, UK); and third as a sound art installation for The People’s Weather Report (Arts House, Australia).
There’s no doubt that each Living Stage project has been a steep learning curve in gardening and ecological practice. Perhaps the biggest challenge was learning to collaborate with nature on its own terms. Unlike most of my other stage projects, I couldn’t ask the plants to ‘hurry up’ or ‘slow down’ or request that the sunflowers kindly ‘hold off from flowering until opening night’. Integral to this shift in thinking was the (sometimes harsh) realisation that nature could not be argued or negotiated with. Instead, I had to find ways to adapt my design to work in synchronicity with nature’s processes. And while this might sound tedious at first, this is also (as I soon discovered) what was most exciting about the work.
As a stage designer, I love nothing more than to see my designs evolve from a tiny sketch into the final physical design. However, nothing beats the magic and exhilaration of planting the seeds that grow into a stage which also attracts an ecosystem of its own. With this feeling comes the satisfaction of creating a design that can be literally consumed by the community; its physical structures may become their garden beds, its plants become their food, and its waste become their compost. In this context, waste is not something that ends up in landfill, but instead becomes a valuable resource.
Working with living systems allows us to see ourselves as part of nature, to experience the environment not as something to tame or control, but rather as an extension of ourselves. Plants have a way of bringing us (if you’ll pardon the pun) back down to earth. By growing things we learn to slow down, to test the moisture of the soil, take pleasure in the diversity of colours, textures and scents, welcome the presence of bees and rejoice in the first drops of rain. Perhaps it is no surprise then that Horticultural Therapy – a form of therapy that uses gardening to improve people’s social, spiritual, physical and emotional well-being – is on the rise. I now regularly use ‘ecoscenography’ to describe projects such as The Living Stage. But I’m starting to wonder; is ecoZenography a more apt description?
Photos by: Valeria Pacchiani, Nick Roux and Gisela Beer. The Living Stage projects would not have been possible without the support of many wonderful people. Please see project links for full credits. | 2019-04-25T08:29:52 | https://ecoscenography.com/2014/12/12/growing-stages-a-lesson-in-ecozenography/ |
0.999892 | Is it the right time to invest in gold?
Gold prices have fallen from their peak of around Rs 30,000 per 10 grammes reached in July 2016 to around Rs 26,500 currently. In fact, gold prices had tumbled down to less than Rs 25,000 in December 2016 post demonetisation.
Gold prices have fallen from their peak of around Rs 30,000 per 10 grammes reached in July 2016 to around Rs 26,500 currently.
In fact, gold prices had tumbled down to less than Rs 25,000 in December 2016 post demonetisation, a fall of more than 17% from the highs in July 2016. Gold prices have recovered some lost ground in the last three months,so is it the right time to go for gold now?
The impact of demonetisation was severe on gold prices as the government placed several restrictions on buying gold in order to flush out black money. Now, four months after the demonetisation drive, the impact seems to be wearing off and gold prices have started moving northwards from the lows reached in December 2016.
Considering that the economy will put up strong performance now that the impact of demonetisation is wearing off, there is likelihood that the gold prices will move up going forward.
Also, the dollar has been gaining against the Indian rupee and since gold prices go up with fall in the value of India rupee as domestic gold prices are based on US dollars, the chances of gold prices appreciating are high. In view of these macro-economic and market factors, it is likely that gold prices in India may surge higher and may even surpass the levels reached in July 2016.
Hence, it would be a good idea to invest in gold now to reap the benefits of appreciation in gold prices in future. | 2019-04-21T16:58:50 | https://www.indiainfoline.com/article/news-personal-finance/investment-in-gold-is-it-the-right-time-to-invest-in-gold-117031100187_1.html |
0.997889 | The information below is taken from scans of BBC letters provided under the Freedom of Information Act.
Is the statement - that people "need to notify us in writing" - true?
First, letters from TVL/BBC can ask for a response, but they cannot compel. Their letters can be ignored. A householder's need for a licence arises only if he or she undertakes an activity that is licensable (watching or recording broadcast television); if not, there is no need for the householder to communicate with the licensing authority.
Second, the expression "TV licence" is a misnomer, since a TV does not require one (otherwise, they would be issued when the TV is sold). The licensing requirement is for the receiving of television broadcasts. This includes satellite and overseas broadcasts, as well as domestic terrestial channels. A licence is not required for the ownership of a television, or its use for DVDs, video games, etc.
(2) A person who installs or uses a television receiver in contravention of subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.
Update August 2009: TVL/BBC has provided the following information to anti-TV licence campaigner Vladimir Bukovsky, who owns a television able to receive broadcasts, but pays no licence fee. The information is in the form of three letters, the first two of which assure him that he is under no obligation to buy a licence, unless he watches broadcasts.
These statements may come as a surprise those who have believed previously that a TV need only be installed for receiving broadcasts to be subject to licensing requirements, as opposed to used.
Nevertheless, the 3 August letter explains that Section 363 of the Communications Act 2003 must be read in conjunction with Regulation 9 of the Communications Regulations 2004, which refers to installation or use of apparatus for the purpose of receiving television programme services. If one does not intend to watch broadcasts, then installation ceases to have that purpose.
Visit Vladimir Bukovsky's Refuseniks website. | 2019-04-24T20:19:10 | http://bbctvlicence.com/Questions%20and%20answers.htm |
0.999995 | Is there anything more fun than waking up in the morning and thinking about going to the gym to lift weights or jog on the treadmill? After a hard days work, the gym is one place you don't even want to think about. Sometimes, even the thought of exercising at home with your own equipment can be less than desirable. Sometimes, just trying to get and stay motivated to exercise on a regular basis can be a challenge. No matter how you look at it, exercise can be downright boring and even tedious at times. So, you may be wondering just how you can get the motivation you need to exercise on a regular basis. If you've been wondering what you can do to make exercise more fun, you'll find some ideas below that just may help to make exercise more fun and a little bit easier.
First things first, you should exercise with a friend. You can challenge each other, help each other out, keep each other motivated and on track, make each other laugh or just make a game out of your exercise programs. You can also try something different. If you go to the gym each and every day and use the same piece of equipment or use the same piece of equipment at home, you should try mixing things up. Reverse your routine or just change the order of your exercises. Go to a city park that has playground equipment and use the slide, climb on the monkey bars, do pull-ups, hang from your knees, just let your imagination guide you.
You don't always need to follow a strict routine, just get out there and have fun working your muscles. An outdoor circuit in the park is also something you can try. There are some parks that have circuit courses set up with a planned course where all you have to do is walk or jog to each station and then follow the instructions. If there isn't a planned course, then you should do a combination of jogging and walking, picking a distance of a couple hundred feet.
Jog 100 feet then drop and do a couple of pushups, walk the next 100 feet and then drop to do sit ups. You can also ride a bike around your neighborhood or hike on a hiking trail. A walk in the park or around your neighborhood is also a great way to get some exercise. Doing yoga in the park or on a beach is also a nice and relaxing way to exercise both your body and your mind. Playing a competitive sport is also something you can try.
A lot of cities have team activities such as softball, volleyball, tennis, soccer, and so on. These types of activities will not only provide you with good exercise but they will also help you to meet new people as well. When you exercise, try to picture your muscles getting bigger. Research has shown that if you focus all of your thoughts on the muscles that you are working, they will respond better.
Try to watch them work with each repetition as your muscles contract and relax. When you exercise, try to picture your muscles getting bigger. Research has shown that if you focus all of your thoughts on the muscles that you are working, they will respond better. Try to watch them work with each repetition as your muscles contract and relax. As you can tell, there are plenty of ways you can make exercise more fun and interesting.
You don't need to follow the same routine day after day, as you can do many other things to get in some exercise. The important thing is that you should always try to incorporate exercise in any various form into your everyday life and make these habits the kind of habits that will last a lifetime.
Read more on Bodybuilding workouts. Check out for exercises workouts and biceps workouts. | 2019-04-23T16:00:24 | http://www.4-oc.com/fitness_exercise__how_to_make_exercise_fun_369020a.html |
0.996135 | I stumbled into Castles and Crusades a few months ago and I've really enjoyed reading it. I have since purchased all the core books. I say that so that you know my question below is not a criticism of the system. It is a genuine question to those who may have much more experience in actually playing the game than I do.
When reading a review of C&C somewhere, one of the reviews had the following criticism of the system. He complained that in 1st and 2nd Edition the Wizard and Cleric's powers were held in check (at least somewhat) by the fact that Saving Throws became very easy to make at higher levels and they weren't affected by the level of the caster or the level of the spell in question. So even though a Wizard might have Finger of Death and other nastiness, the equivalent level Fighter would likely have an 80% - 90% chance to save. C&C doesn't do this. Saving Throws are affected by the level of the character but they are also affected by the level of the caster. So that Finger of Death is very likely to be much more effective. The reviewer's criticism is that the casters' power level far outstrips the non-caster at high levels.
For those with some experience in actual play, how does this play out? Is it a real issue or is it a criticism by someone who hasn't played the game? If it is a legitimate concern, how have people dealt with the problem?
The person who wrote the review does not understand the system. Saving throws have a "Challenge Level" (CL) in addition to the base number. When saving against a spell cast by a spellcaster, the default CL of the spellcaster's level should be used by GM, in addition to any other challenges that might affect the outcome. Also, the character making the saving throw adds his level to the roll. So, saving throws tend to scale up equally among equal level encounters.
mmbutter is correct. The extra challenge of the saving throw is equal to the level of the spellcaster. This is the default core mechanic to the C&C game.
While in earlier versions of the D&D game (1E, 2E) a fighter's save vs. spells was a defined number -- example every fighter of the same level needs a 13 (or whatever) to save vs. spells, C&C does this differently making the challenge scale up against higher level spellcasters. Of course in C&C as a fighter increases in levels of experience, they add their experience level number to all saving throws. So fighters have a easier chance to save vs. spells against lower level spellcasters in C&C, and a more difficult time saving against spellcasters of higher levels. If the fighter and spellcaster are of the same level, the Challenge Level (CL) is effectively negated by the figher's bonus to saves which is equal to the fighter's experience level.
This is where prime attribute and secondary attributes come in as not all saving throws are made against the same type of attribute (12 base vs. 18 base).
I have found in my play experience for many years now that tough saving throws versus spells are very important aspect of the C&C game. In C&C, since the saving throw challenge level scales, and makes saving throws generally tougher versus opponents of the same level (then earlier versions of the D&D game), this makes clerics and wizards very dangerous opponents. In the old days of D&D, every high-level fighter could easily save against most spells from enemy spellcasters because the target number to roll was relatively low (a static 2, 3, 4, etc depending on the level of the fighter) -- not so in C&C. Because of this wizards are feared again. Clerics of power are holy beacons of might and can be the most difficult of foes. This is a strong feature of the C&C game.
Isn't that the point though? The fighter never gets better at saves. In fact, it's even worse because they are unlikely to ever get an attribute boost.
Now, agreed, this is the same as a 1st level somebody saving vs. charm person cast by a 1st level wizard. It doesn't get harder, or easier. And doesn't matter what level the spell cast is, so it's just as hard to save against Charm Person as it is to save against Finger of Death.
But it's certainly DIFFERENT from AD&D. I think most of us tend to embrace that. But also, I don't play (or see) many C&C games going much past level 12.
I think having magic stay so potent makes all those potions, scrolls and spells that offer protection, better saves', immunity to being held, etc... remain very important, and make attaining magic items that confer similar benefits a worthy goal.
Besides, people who make such complaints always forget the biggest "balance" of all. However many spell casters are in their own party.
No issue here. Imagine working your spell caster up to high level and finding your spells are ineffective because your opponent has a save of 2. The C&C approach keeps things potent and dangerous.
Always a point worth making when examining a particular class on its own. Adventurers are meant to be part of a balanced, nutritious breakfast.
Yep. 4 to 6 parts are the usual nutritional recommendation.
The saves did get easier against spells that had saves, most were about 50% and that's at the higher level range (10th to 12th level), around the time most would quit the campaign anyway.
This is the most common critique of C&C I see on the web, but I personally like the idea of a high level spellslinger being dangerous to an entire party. Very unfun for everyone when the sorcerer witch-king's most potent attacks continually fizzle!
That said, I've never liked 'insta-death' spells/traps in any game system, and tend to modify effects so that a pc may be out of the fight/heavily penalized, but not entirely gone.
I've not played high level much but wizards are still weak at low levels and if they become feared later.. great seems fitting. The game is different, so go with it. I've heard of using the level of the spell x2 as the wizard's CL not the level of the wizard. Should not the straight STR, DEX, CON fighter has a weakness.. yep. Just like the INT no armor wizard has a weakness.
I haven't played crazy-high levels (most of mine have topped out around 10th), but up to that point i haven't had an issue with how saves work. I don't have a problem with wizardly magic being scary at high levels. It's just a matter of what you're used to and what you want to accept. I'd say that so long as everyone in party can contribute regardless of class, then there isn't an issue.
Its simple power envy. Spell casters are on their way to becoming demi gods, and Clerics are conduits for gods. Plus, the big draw back to being a spell caster, is your everyone's primary target. Which is why they need the fighter types to stay alive. Plus, the fighter types keep them alive when they have drained themselves of all their power and need their MASSIVE amount of time to fully recharge. So the real problem is, no one does what it takes to make spellcasters burn up their resources. So no one see's them while they are weak. Which makes spell casters happy. At least Clerics and Druids have decent fighting ability when they are drained. Wizards and Illusionists are pretty much screwed.
Again, what I mentioned above, how many spell casters does the PC party have?
One factor that helps keep the spell casters in check, is one that I always see people wanting to ignore... Material Components. I get that it takes some book keeping to do this, but, it is actually an important thing to do to keep their power in check, and drain gold from the characters. Abstracting the system doesn't do as good a job as either. For example, saying that a character must spend 100gp/spell level/adventure doesn't allow 1st level characters to cast that first adventure unless you give them a one time exemption, which will feel unfair to other players. But it also doesn't properly account for the cost of some spells components, nor does the rarity of certain components become evident. There are other considerations, not the least of which is encumbrance. The weight and bulk of the components will limit other items they can carry. And what of some that are fresh or alive? Worse, what of those that smell and could attract or alert monsters?
The Maul of the Titans is a great weapon.. that takes two hands and weighs a ton and has huge EV.. if you ignore the limits, everyone would want/use one. I agree on the components. I always force the spell caster to "state the range and area of effect (before) as you cast". Then Make the right V, S, and M casting obvious.. say something if required, move your hands if required and do what is required with the material components.. oh and where did you keep that spell book again when we all fell in the river of mud and slime?
Want spell components to matter much more? My suggestion is having some specialized spell components that actually boost the power of the spells. For example, the material components of a fireball could be specially obtained from a rare or dangerous source to make the casting of the spell act as if it was one level higher, or an additional +2 CL to save against (as in one particular case I have used, when cast with special material components the spell offered no save at all against it's effects) or whatever else the mind of the CK can come up with. While I don't usually like to keep that level of detail as CK, I've had one player who was playing a wizard who wanted to keep lists of components for his spells.
In addition, we use rules to have spell components contained within specialty wands, rings, amulets, and staffs so that the wizard can perform a ritual to put those components into these vessels. I recently have even taken this to another extreme where based on the type of wizard vessel the spell components are "stored" in, the special item (ex: wand) commits X% more into. For example, if the specialty wand, which is not easy to get, has certain spell components stored in it the amount the wizard stores in the wand is actually 20% more than the character actually committed.
Even though I don't usually like this level of minutiae, I've had great fun coming up with things like this to make the wizards (and clerics) feel special with their more "mundane" gear.
The problem only comes when you keep the enemies the same level as the party which is not expected or assumed. Facing down a level 18 opponent should be something you pause and consider before engaging. Likewise, the party getting to that point should be something of amazing luck, skill, and bravery.... you're never quite sure in C&C what kind of save you're going to make, need, or fail and that keeps the players on edge. Or it does when I run it.
It also puts a huge emphasis on magic items which, arguably, can be a bad thing.
There are pros and cons to both approaches: C&C and AD&D. Predictability can be boring but it also allows 'effortless heroism' (oh, gee, I survived that disintegrate because I can roll above a 6 on my d20) which is not awful -- you know what the PC will survive -- but C&C goes the other way and when you do roll and make that save, the effect is more "YAY! I f'n made that!"
Of course both things can happen in either... just one encourages it more often because less is certain.
Thanks, guys. I appreciate the responses. I'll mark this down as a criticism of someone who hasn't actually played the game then and not worry about it much.
There is a good chance that whomever it is, has played. There are a few people who want it to play exactly like 1e and don't like how Saves scale. Which, I don't have a problem with that preference; I have a problem with them going around to different places saying that the system is broken because of it. I've been playing since 04. I've played a bunch of 1e mods and ran a bunch of 1e mods. The fact that saves remain deadly at higher levels, is a feature as far as I'm concerned. I love that I can scare the poops out of my players when I whip out a fireball or a magically trapped door. They don't know how difficult it will be to save against. It keeps the game exciting. | 2019-04-26T05:37:12 | https://trolllord.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17202&p=254654 |
0.999997 | Have a good method or tips? Let's collect them here.
2. Take the whole tire off the rim using tyre levers. Use small levers or nail pullers, too wide levers (bicycle levers) can be tricky.
3. Inflate the new tube slightly, powder it with for example talcum and put it inside the tire.
5. WHILE ALL THE TIME TAKING CARE THE VALVE IS NOT STRESSED, push one bead hard onto the rim with a starting point 90 degrees from the valve, and continue squeezing the rest on, using a lever for the last part. This first bead is not as hard as it seems, just push the rim and tire hard together at the starting point.
6. Deflate the tube a bit by depressing the valve, but no need to squeeze out all the air.
7. The final tire bead is the hard part: Still being mindful of the valve not being pushed in any way (better that it's flat than pushed upright), and again starting 90 degrees from the valve, start putting the bead on. I used locking pliers to squeeze the tire at that point to have a fixed reference that will not pop off. Now work 2 levers or the nail pullers gradually up from the starting point, but 3 levers/pullers might be better. Force is needed, but take care not to hurt the tube. You might have to put on more soap for this step.
8. Once everything is on, move the tyre on the rim so that the valve is perfectly aligned with the hole.
Pullers should probably be made more blunt by filing or grinding. | 2019-04-22T08:49:02 | http://xcskiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5118&p=22432 |
0.999898 | The choice is stark: Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis hopes to ride President Trump's backing to victory, while Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum hopes to energize his party's voters as an unabashed liberal.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Voters were deciding Tuesday whether to keep Florida under Republican control with a close Trump ally or elect its first Democratic governor since 1994 – and the first African-American – after a campaign marked by a deadly hurricane and gun violence.
Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis hoped to ride President Trump’s backing to victory in the governor’s race Tuesday, while Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum sought to energize his party’s voters as an unabashed liberal.
Carrying a “Veterans for DeSantis Nunez for Governor” sign, former Army Sgt. Dave Matthews said DeSantis supported veterans, which is why the candidate had earned his support.
“We can’t have a socialist state, especially with the health care. We just want to protect our borders,” said Matthews, who lives in an Orlando suburb.
More than 5.2 million Floridians had already voted before Election Day – with Democrats casting slightly more ballots than Republicans. More Democrats voted early in 2016 also, but Trump won the state due to a GOP surge on Election Day.
“It appears there was a printing issue,” Supervisor of Elections Ron Turner said.
Voter Ryan Mach was one of the voters turned away. “They scanned my license, and then they said, ‘We don’t have a ballot for you,”‘ he said.
This election – expected to be close – could shake up the political landscape in the nation’s third largest state.
The last time Democrats won a Florida governor race was Lawton Chiles’ re-election in 1994, and Republicans have controlled the Legislature since 1998. But the past two gubernatorial elections have been close.
“Us winning tonight, I think, will send a message to Mr. Trump, and Mr. DeSantis as well, that the politics of hatred of division and separation, that they’ve come to an end,” Gillum said.
The mayor has been hampered by allegations of corruption, based on an FBI investigation into Tallahassee City Hall, though Gillum has said he’s not a target of the probe.
The winner could play a major role in the 2020 presidential election. Florida is the largest state with a history of swinging either way. DeSantis could have a chance to return a favor for Trump, or Gillum could help boost the Democrats’ nominee to challenge him.
Associated Press contributors include Jennifer Kay in Miami Beach. | 2019-04-19T12:20:28 | https://www.pressherald.com/2018/11/06/democrat-challenges-republican-partys-hold-on-florida-governors-seat/ |
0.999999 | Your task is to write a program to raise an integer matrix to a given power using modulo arithmetic. There is no back story here; at least not one that can be told. The application is too confidential (spying and military intelligence and all that) to be described in public.
The input consists of a number of problems. Each problem starts with a line holding three numbers (N, M, and P) separated by single spaces. 1 <= N <= 100 is the size (N by N) of the matrix to be processed. 2 <= M <= 32000 is the modulo base and 1 <= P <= 32000 is the power to which the matrix must be raised. Following this line are N lines, each holding the n integer values of successive rows of the matrix as a series of positive integers i: 0 <= i < M separated by single spaces. Input is terminated by a line with three zeros.
Output for each problem consists of the N rows of the result matrix, followed by a blank line. Each row is output on a single line as a sequence of integer values separated by single spaces. It doesn’t matter that lines may be quite long – no-one will be allowed to read them anyway. | 2019-04-20T10:58:34 | https://www.acmicpc.net/problem/5095 |
0.998755 | I just recently got this laptop from Best Buy, it's only been two days, and I've noticed that the screen flickers/blinks sometimes. Is there any way to fix this or would I have to bring my laptop into a repair place? I wouldn't be addressing this problem, but the screen flickering hurts my eyes, espeicially when I'm reading my textbooks that are online.
I bought my PC about 3 weeks ago at a Best Buy in Houston while I visited the united states. About one week after I got it it started to flicker at random times and I don't know what to do. I have checked online and tried all the solutions including:upgrading graphics driverdisabling some settings in the intel graphics control centerreduce screen refresh frequency (I couldn't do this as the new update to the windows 10 fixes the rate at 60Hz)disabling automatic screen light adjustmentchecking for verified updated BIOS from lenovo website and installing itrunning checks from safe mode non of these solutions is working. Please help me as I am now back home in Nigeria and cannot possibly return the laptop to bestbuy or send it for repair to Lenovo. I really need this laptop functional for school as I spent a lot of money to get it.
My Yoga 3 Pro won't wake up from sleep / hibernation, the only sign of activity is the keyboard lights just blinking, AGAIN! :-(. This is a common problem with Yoga 2 13 models I have learnt, not only from various boards, but also my self, when I returned a yoga 2 13 after 5 days, and got the Yoga 3 Pro model. The laptop is now only 6 months old. I experienced the same wake up problems 3 weeks ago with my 3 Pro, and the shop here in Copenhagen sent it back to service. When I got it back 4 days ago, the service team had just changed "Cinch Audio" and updated the BIOS. It seems like they never really fixed the real problem. Two days ago the computer again had problems to wake up, and now it seems to be frozen in this blinking mode. I I have tried hard reboot (holding the power button for ca 20 secs), but it won't solve the problem. Has anyone experienced the same problem, and any durable solutions to it? If it stays like this, I'll hand it in, try to get it reimbursed and I will gladly buy another computer, but not from Lenovo anymore.
Hi again, Again the screen freezed, computer stopped to work and shut down. When i tried to restart it, switch on button started blinking but computer is not starting. It's like computer is in sleep mode and not "weaiking" up!. Attached is the video showing what's happening. Any advice?
Hello to all I have a Lenovo yoga Pro 2 and i have a big Problem!!!!!!!! The notebook dont turn on and the power button and the Keyboard are blinking and the Screen is black ..... I tryit to remove the Battery and the BIOS Battery too , power button pushed about 20-30 secs and then i tryed to turn it on again but i still have the same Problem ...... Any Hints or Solutions please Thanks !!!!!!
Q: Hibernate or shut down?
I've always had the practice of shutting down my home pc/laptop before going to bed. I always used the hibernate option throughout the day while I"m working on it/them. A lot of my friends had their hard drives crashed and always used the hibernate option. This despite the fact that both me and my friends use our machines for hours during the day.
I had this weird belief that hibernate reduces the life of hard disk and adds pressure on it.
Few days ago I read that recent computers are best suited for hibernate option and shutdown isn't necessary.
My PC has got i3 processor and the motherboard was bought in 2010. It is running windows 10 - 64 bit.
Should I always hibernate my PC/Laptop or carry on with my practice of shutdown as I finish my day and the use the machine for the last time?
Hi, it's a matter of choice, I see no technical impediment to using either. However if you have fast start active (it is by default) then to some degree when you shut down you are using hibernate anyway. Fast Start saves your system into the hiberfil.sys file and when you restart it loads the system from this, much faster. For this reason when requested to restart (from a program update or windows update) you must restart, not use shutdown.
Q: Shut Down or Hibernate?
Can anyone give an answer to something that has bothered me for ages?
Does it harm a computer turning it off after you are through, and then back on again later, rather than leave it running?
Does it do less harm to put it in Hibernate mode than to close it down completely?
Is it best to have the system close down the monitor and hard drive after a short period of non-activity and leave the cpu switched on?
Which of these is best for minimising wear and tear on the computer... or is there a fourth option?
Lol that debate comes up pretty frequently.. can probably find a few old threads if you run a search.
in my opinion its pretty much 6 of one half dozen of another. it was a major issue back when screen burn in was common and before harddrives spun down, etc. now its more of a personal preference i think.
I turn mine off at night simply because i dont want to listen to the fans. i leave it on during the day because i dont want to wait for it to boot.
My brother says he always puts his computer on Hibernate because it's much faster to boot up. However, I would like to know if this will cause any long term damage to my computer? If not, I may start Hibernating to shave off like 45 seconds in booting up. If so, I'll stick to Shutting Down.
No damage. Microsoft and computer makers (Asus, Gigabyte etc..) would never allow that to happen.
Q: IE is blinking and can't be shut off!
Running Windows Vista (will be upgrading to 7 soon) and have IE 8.
IE associated itself (somehow) with ZIP archives on my computer. I didn't like this so I installed WinZip and associated these file types with that instead.
However - the central issue is that when IE was associated with these archive files and I attempted to open one, Internet Explorer would open, then blink wildly - the window would appear and disappear rapidly. If I opened Task Manager, it would show the IE application process appearing and disappearing rapidly in there as well. It was so fast that I couldn't select it and then click "end process" quickly enough. It also rendered the entire OS unusable to the point where the Start menu wouldn't respond and allow me to shut down the computer normally. I wound up having to physically power down by holding in the power button.
It's not enough to say "Don't use IE." I want to know what's causing this. I have never seen this issue before.
I ran Avast! antivirus and Ad-Aware anti-spyware, thinking this might be a malware issue of some kind, but neither program is able to find any infections of any kind. I also downloaded the latest updates via Windows Update.
I am having issues where I have changed the time that the display goes to sleep on my computer. Yet it will never shut down completely.
This is after a power surge that caused it to shut down. Everything is working fine apart from the settings not working.
Attached are screen snips are the current settings that I have it on.
I also have two External Hard Drive attached - one is powered via the USB - 500GB and the other is plugged in 1TB.
First thing is to remove any electrical current within the machine and then try to shutdown the machine. To do this please remove your laptop battery from the machine and remove any chargers so that there is no power in the machine and then press the power button. This should clear any stored current. After that please boot up the machine normally and test if shut down works?
My moms computer shuts down when its put into hibernate. Any ideas?
Hibernate is just like shut down, but it saves your session so you can continue it when you turn back on, instead of starting a new one. Its supposed to turn off like that.
My favorite rig, the HP laptop mentioned in my specs, takes over 5 minutes to hibernate and anything between 5 and 10 minutes to shut down.
Clearing Page File when shutting down is disabled as this is often mentioned to be the culprit for long shut down times.
Absolutely no other issues. Laptop boots quite fast, wakes up from sleep and hibernation in seconds. Runs smoothly, is in every sense a dream machine for me. Running Seven Ultimate, SP1 not yet installed, all other updates OK.
Malware scans come back with nothing, Event Viewer shows nothing special. The only other issue, although very small and one that does not bother me, is a 5 to 10 second freeze when opening a new tab in IE9; whole machine freezes, mouse and kb do not respond, if watching streaming video it stops, until the new tab is opened.
When hibernating or shutting down the HD spins all the time it takes to finally shut down or go to sleep. When shutting down, Windows goes in seconds to Logging off screen, which then stays several minutes. After that, the Logging off text on screen changes to Shutting down, which also takes several minutes.
I seem to recall those issues being caused by processes that won't stop until some timeout limit is met. Sometimes an external device or network connection is working.
You can test the easy stuff by disconecting any external devices, then any network connections and shut down.
Otherwise there is the mind-numbing task of going into task manager and turning off individual processes and shutting down to test until you find the offending process (you can do them 3 or 5 at a time to speed thing up).
Once you know what process is causing the delay you can deduce what device or program is the cause and work from there.
Q: Question, Should I Shut Down, Standby, or Hibernate?
For years I shut down the computer every night, then turn it on in the morning, but some one told me I should just leave it on all the time and use the Hibernate feature under the Power options? I've never become familiar with this or the difference between Hibernate and Standby.
I have ZoneAlarm Pro as a firewall, along with Earthlink, which stops span and scans for virus email before I can dl it, so I feel sort of save there, but am not sure about this.
I also have an APC back up power supply to cover me against power failure, and it will save and shut all programs down and turn off the computer after waiting a few minutes.
Is it better to leave the computer on all the time and have the HDs turn off after an hour or so, the monitor turn off, and then have the computer go to Hibernate mode, instead of rebooting each day?
A:Question, Should I Shut Down, Standby, or Hibernate?
What service pack are you on?
Within the past two weeks whenever I put my T440 into hibernate it causes the computer to shut down entirely, closing all of my programs. This is problematic since it is a function I use multiple times a day and I do not want to have to leave my laptop on/in sleep mode at all times. I am using Windows 10 with LENOVO GJET99WW (2.49 ), 6/52018 BIOS Version/Date. Checking the 'Power & sleep' settings does not show anything that would cause the laptop to shut down. This even happens when I select "hibernate" from the start menu and don't close the laptop. Anyone else run into this issue or know of applicable drivers/fixes for this?
For the last two months, I am not able to shut down/hibernate cleanly. In addition, my windows update is also not able to check for updates.
After working for half an hour after starting, various applications hang.
I have never reinstalled my OS.
Ok so when I had XP I would always use hibernate and only about once a week I would actually reboot the computer completely. Now that I have Windows 7 I would like to do the same. But now when I click hibernate the screen goes black and everything shuts off but the computer acts like its in standby. The lights are still on and computer is running. Once this happens I cannot get back into windows or reboot without holding down the power button to force a reset. Each time that I have done with Windows 7 boots an error saying the computer was not shutdown correctly. Anyone know why it won't completely power off when I click hibernate. I have tried it about 5 separate times and it has not worked once. Thanks. Jon.
Did you install any Acer drivers, or did you let Windows find and install everything for you?
32-bit Vista Home Premium OEM, roughly 3.5 years old.
My problem--well, the main one I want sorted--is that of late, my laptop will BSOD and restart when I attempt to hibernate or shut down. In such a situation, all I can do is opt to restart in safe mode, from which it shuts down very quickly and easily. This is essentially an intensification of an earlier problem where to get my computer to shut off, I'd have to disconnect it from the mains electricity and try from there. Now it doesn't seem to care either way whether it's on the mains or not.
BlueScreenView flags up acpi.sys, hal.dll and ntkrnlpa.exe as problematic files, but despite Googling extensively the problem looks pretty specific to my machine so I've had to ask for pro help.
Can somebody please help me identify what's wrong?
The problem seems to be caused by an unindentified driver. Try Driver Verifier to help find the cause.
I'd suggest that you firstbackup your data and then make sure you've got access to another computer soyou can contact us if problems arise. Then make a System Restore point (so youcan restore the system using the Vista/Windows 7 Startup Repair feature).
In Windows 7 you can make a Startup Repair disk by going to Start....AllPrograms...Maintenance...Create a System Repair Disc - with Windows Vistayou'll have to use your installation disk or the "Repair your computer"option at the top of the Safe Mode menu .
- Select "Create custom settings (for code developers)" and click"Next"
- Select "Select individual settings from a full list" and click"Next"
- Select everything EXCEPT FOR "Low Resource Simulation" and click"Next"
I bought a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Vista Home Basic over a year ago and have had endless problems with the hibernate and shut down. With both the laptop would start the process then almost immediately reboot. I have reinstalled Vista 4 times and it worked fine for about 2 days. I have been blaming Dell becuase they could not fix it. I had a suspicion that it could have something to do with windows updates but could never pinpoint the exact one.
This week I reinstalled Vista one more time. Everything worked well until I installed Vista SP1, then the hibernate and shut down problems were back. I did a system restore to remove the update and my laptop works fine, so the update is the culprit.
My question is: Is there a fix for this or will I never be able to update to SP 1 or 2 and how does that affect my system?
Q: Hibernate, Shut Down and Suspend buttons all log me out of session!!
Greetings! Here I have a trouble whenever I want to shut down my computer, it happens that it doesn't matter if I click the Shut Down button or Hibernate or Suspend all do the same, log me out of my session and take me to the Lock Screen image that I've setted. The only way to shut down my computer from Windows is pressing the power off button on my computer and as far as I understand this strange behaviour isn't normal. So how to make all those buttons do their work properly? Over all the Shut Down button (it pisses me off!!). How can I configure that?
Windows 8 Professional (Activated), 3 Gb RAM memory, GeForce GT 430 video card, ASRock motherboard, hard drive partitioned with Arch Linux OS installed on the other partition.
If any extra information is required just make me know. I appreciate every given help. Thank you.
A:Hibernate, Shut Down and Suspend buttons all log me out of session!!
mine works fine it would seem to be some kind of hardware disconnect try updating mobo drivers?
Hi guys. I can't change the effect of my "Shut Down" button. I follow the right instructions and select "Restart" or Hibernate" but it stays "Shut Down".
I know how to do it in properties menu of "Start" button, but it don't work. (Right-click and select properties and so on...... I know that route; don't change the effect). Whats the issue?? Thanx.
Forgive me, but you are clicking Apply after making the change? If so, have a look at Brinks tutorial, much more detailed, with several methods. Good luck.
I'm running Windows 8.1 (64 bit) on my Lenovo G500 laptop. It has AMD RadeonHD 8570 (2GB) graphics card, Intel integrated HD graphics, i5 processor, 500 GB SATA Hard disk and 8GB DDR3 RAM.
I am facing frequent Driver Power State Failure since today morning. I have neither updated any driver in the last few weeks neither installed/uninstalled any new software. I don't know why I am getting this error. I have not been able to even shut down my laptop properly. While shutting down, it suddenly closes. I know that because prior to shutting down my laptop I move some shortcuts on my desktop to another place. When I start my laptop again, they are at their initial positions.
It found errors but couldn't fix them. I have attached the log at the end of the post.
I then installed windows 8.1 again (update method, keep files and apps intact) by going to My computer and then choosing the windows installation from bootable USB drive. My cd rom driver is damaged therefore I've been using bootable USB via Rufus to install windows. I have been using this method for many years and all installation goes fine. | 2019-04-22T04:08:26 | http://thewikipost.org/topic/oQmNjaMrRcLMVkIZyCfNmmX0xIQMtNrK/Lenovo-Yoga-S1-12-can-t-shut-down-or-hibernate-i-led-always-blinking.html |
0.999974 | lmmc: "sinto muito por você não ter nascido na áustria (...)"
"sinto muito por você não ter nascido na áustria (...)"
depois de algumas aulas trabalhando com o mestre friedrich goulda em algumas obras escritas por compositores austríacos (e claro, exaurir suas possibilidades interpretativas), a pianista argentina martha argerich ouviu a frase do título do post.
How do national characteristics affect music-making?
I'm often asked whether orchestras around the world vary from one to another. My reply, like most people's answers to interesting questions, is yes and no.
As individuals, from whatever country or culture, the musical differences between players are negligible. Given how much time musicians spend practising over and over again the same music from the same region from the same period of time this is not particularly surprising. The vast majority of orchestral music was written in a span of roughly two hundred years within a geographical area not much more than a third of the size of Europe. It is inevitable that the musical personalities that this attracts and influences develop huge similarities.
The classical music world is a much smaller place than it used to be. Recordings, and the ease of hearing them, mean that almost anyone can hear almost anyone else's performance. Young people can travel to study abroad without much trouble and today's abundance of international youth orchestras allows for a far greater exchange of ideas at a crucial stage in a musician's development than ever used to be the case. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a matter for debate but the reality is that orchestras and musicians sound a lot more alike than they used to.
But, put a hundred players into an orchestra and as a group their national characteristics reveal themselves with all the obvious differences of that particular country's identity. With apologies for stereotypical generalisations, it is hard for me not to be aware of the work ethic of the Japanese orchestras, the style of the Italians, the passion of the Hungarians, the discipline of the Americans, the sophistication of the Swedes, the teamwork of the Dutch, the freedom of the South Americans, the cultural confidence of the Germans, the 'no-worries' Australians, and the English…well being English myself I couldn't possibly comment.
How much I need to adjust what I do in order to connect with each orchestra is another two-fold answer. As a musician, not really at all. I believe there is a right sound and style for each composer and try to broadly re-create that wherever I go. But the means of achieving this varies hugely from country to country. One nation's joke is another's awkward moment. Ending a rehearsal too soon in one place is as bad as using every minute of it in another. Whereas you might need to draw more expression out of discipline in one city, you could find yourself having to encourage more focus within the passion of another.
A musical score is a passport to a foreign adventure and I feel fortunate to be able to experience so many different ways of achieving an essentially similar goal. It seems there is no right way to make music. It is an international language that no one can claim as their own and which everybody speaks with their own accent. There is something wonderfully healthy about this truly global equality. | 2019-04-22T09:16:19 | http://www.morenalaura.com/2012/01/sinto-muito-por-voce-nao-ter-nascido-na.html |
0.998773 | ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Die Wahl hat eines der weltgrößten Länder tief gespalten und einem das Militär liebenden, Minderheiten tyrannisierenden, auf die Medien einprügelnden Heißsporn, der verspricht, ein korruptes Establishment zu beseitigen, die Präsidentschaft verschafft. Ich spreche hier nicht von der US-Präsidentschaftswahl des Jahres 2016, die Donald Trump an die Macht brachte, sondern vielmehr von jener 2018 in Brasilien, deren Gewinner der am 1. Januar offiziell ins Amt eingeführte „Trump der Tropen“ Jair Bolsonaro war.
Bolsonaro ergänzt die wachsenden Ränge angeblich „transformativer“ politischer Führer – darunter Trump, der ungarische Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán und Jarosław Kaczyński, der faktisch in Polen das Sagen hat –, die an die Macht kamen, indem sie auf das Establishment schimpften und versprachen, die Korruption im System auszumerzen. Wird er es Trump, Orbán und, im geringeren Umfang, Kaczyński gleichtun und der Verbreitung neuer Formen der Korruption vorstehen, während er gleichzeitig versucht, durch Änderungen bei der Regierungsführung seine Macht zu festigen?
Trump hat wiederholt versprochen, „den Sumpf trockenzulegen“, dabei jedoch ein Maß an Korruption ermöglicht, das in der amerikanischen Geschichte beispiellos sein dürfte und Auswirkungen auf breite Bereiche der Bundesbürokratie hat. Er hat offene Stellen unbesetzt gelassen, Haushaltsmittel zusammengestrichen, etablierte Verwaltungsverfahren und -protokolle umgangen und Diplomaten beiseitegeschoben. Weitgehend verschont hat er das Militär, obwohl er auch hier die Fachkompetenz seiner Kommandeure regelmäßig zugunsten seines Bauchgefühls kleinredet.
Janine R. Wedel, anthropologist and University Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, is the author of Unaccountable: How the Establishment Corrupted our Finances, Freedom, and Politics and Created an Outsider Class.
Excellent article! Its a tropical tragedy, that's what it is!
Project Syndicate just wont print anything balanced... Its all too establishment and left thinking.. Mind you so is a lot of our press..
Shame.. We deserve better.. Some of us have offered to write for the site and have offered some material but it’s not been accepted..
Of course it’s been great fun to get on and tear the papers apart and spar with the leftys on the responses but even that is getting old.. not been a real challenge.. Yawn.
The problem with this article, as with many published in Project Syndicate, is that it reveals more of the authors' political beliefs and positions rather than substance.
Several examples: She states that influence peddling and nepotism etc under Trump have reached unprecedented levels. Was she not aware of the enormous contributions made to the Clinton Foundation and in outrageously high speaking fees to Bill and Hillary in anticipation that Hillary Clinton wouldwin the presidency in 2016? I could site the speech fees and "donations" to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for the Uranium agreement as but one example that even the NYT deplored. Or if the author deplored Trump's disagreements with his generals as a sign of incompetence, why didn't the author cite the PROFOUND disagreements Pres Obama had with his generals, his Sec Def and Sec State over not attacking Syria when Assad gassed rebels.
If the author decried the role of nepotism in Trump's listening to Jered Kurschner, why does she not cite how Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarette (who lived in the White House with them) repeatedly were able to influence Pres Obama to override his own foreign policy experts?
I am no Trumpet and as such seek a balanced view in each article. The problem with this article, as in a lot of Project Syndicate authors, especially from the Professoriat is that they allow their overwhelmingly anti-Trump, pro-Dem bias to justify omitting any critical comparison of past Presidents that they apparently support, in favor of more gross generalizations without any historical analysis to support their chosen narrative..
Corruption is NOT just found in the political arenas. It may be more in your face.
SO, I am adding comments about FACEBOOK, because I think that FACEBOOK is one of the real sneaky players on the international scene.
There are a few underhanded players that have and are getting a lot of support because the public worldwide does not understand just how corrupt messaging has become, and corrupt leaders are everywhere.
So, I’m adding a bit of content while I am still trying to clarify a few problems with something called PROFIT. There are really quite a few players joining the field of corruption, again I am going to focus on FACEBOOK as a populist movement that really isn’t, and shouldn’t be looked to as a leader, kinda like the guys that Janine Wedel already mentioned.
Just what is everyone searching for?
and just what is happening, while everyone is searching, if they are searching at all, especially for anything of the likes of PROFIT…..
Of course I think this comment post is NOT off-base, or off-subject at all. If anyone does I really apologize, and will try to do better, some other time.
Next, I would like to apologize by writing that I am NOT being radical, YAHOO is.
For right now, the only thing I can write is that if any ONE is searching for PROFIT and questioning the functions of economy, they’re probably looking in all the wrong places, and following all the wrong transformer.
Could anything like a right place be discovered by answering the next 3 questions?
What is a service? What is a product? What is a utility? What is an economy?
Well, finally a few people are starting to address part of the real problem about the economy in 2019 that everybody wants to effectively play with, and skirmish around.
First of all the basic problem is that other player of the populist movement, Facebook is not a friendly little book. The website, is more than just a website. It is a computer operating platform using computer code, built on top of free code designed by other human beings, using, reflecting, and transmitting from originally free source coding others’ personal content and context.
Facebook is essentially a data-analysis-tool, operating electrically, and electronically. Facebook does NOT produce anything. FACEBOOK intercepts what others produce, receive, and exchange. Irrational exuberance has uplifted FB to unknown heights.
An end-user activates the FB switch by entering a password on the FB PIXEL, and by login to a computer. This allows a signal to be sent to the computers that FB uses to intercept electrical impulses. These impulses are modified by coding to change the sine wave of the electrical impulse. At different locations, there are many computers that receive the intercepted electrical impulse. These are rows of boxes upon boxes with wires, and holes to access the connection activated by the on-off switch action of the end user, to complete the circuit so the electrical signal is complete. Any mechanical or electrical telecommunication system products that FB uses and is forced to purchase are minimal contributors to economic activity of the US, national GDP. THE FB business activities and operations contribute at a significantly minimal level to any real tangible products to allow exchange of any remnant of anything that resembles anything close to real wealth from one person to another person. FB business activities do not effectively generate any opportunities for creation of economic activities, products for an opportunity to exchange any real tangible usable goods.
This whole system functions as an effective neutral and up to an effective negative, non-goods producing transmission device. One computer is a sender, the other computer is a receiver, the whole system is only a transmission device. This system is still a telecommunications system. This can include all hardwired products, or hardwired and no-wire, radio transmission devices. A handheld device is essentially a very good radio that also can function as a lot of other things due to coding and changing sound and electric waves. Home computers, and hand- held computers are computers that function as senders and receivers. They are tools that the user cannot use alone to analyze any data that is created from any sent or received messages. FB business activities only uses, and does not add value to anything, or anybody, other than the owner of what is essentially a dummy corporation. There is NO REAL PRODUCTION of anything. FB is essentially operating as a totally independent telecommunication system, and creating a revenue stream only for itself by intercepting data. This is not even a real business monopoly, that at least produces some THING. Nothing is produced. There is no real service. There is only an artificial revenue flow to one intercepting entity. Anyone can live just fine without FB.
We don’t think about it all. We need to be very thankful to the work that a lot of people have done before we were alive to imagine, work and create what they have for us, especially Tesla, Franklin, Marconi, Edison, and many others. In the past, there was much real production and consumption of hard goods involved in the telecommunications systems worldwide.
Today, we are using robots and computers as tools. We take them for granted. We don’t think much of the form of the computer or robot either. A hand-held phone today is really a computer and a robot. Facebook is neither of those things. Facebook is an independent operating system using data. It is an organization, an artificial entity functioning as an artificial family, a corporation, that does not effectively contribute anything to anybody, anywhere.
It operates as a very fast-acting data-analysis-tool. It is different than a marketing tool. It uses coding to access data, by intercepting and reselling data. FB DOES NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING. FB is NOT an industry. It works alone. It does not share anything. FB does not CREATE anything. FB only takes away records of your actions and everything about you. FB changes you effectively into bits to sell your actions and records of your existence to other people or corporations. FB is a label used to label a recycling corporate entity, that is only code recycling data. This is not a real business. This is only a tool, that could be applied for some business activity. BUT, the tool is not being used correctly. This is a data-analysis-tool that is being MIS-applied.
Everyone needs to get on the same page and acknowledge that a data-analysis-tool of certain computer operating systems are being used to categorize data in certain ways from different sources by coding. A data-analysis-tool is code controlling electrical impulses. Electronic impulse responses are transmitted and changed, or stored. The coding is documenting and saving the data from different sources, and is sharing that source data with other computer operating systems. Codes are being applied so that data can be examined and then applied for different functions by using variations of other codes to ultimately sell data that has been sourced by coding. Just selling data derived from activities of human beings does not allow human beings to use the data-analysis tool themselves. Just selling data of human beings effectively depletes all positive work effort opportunities for the human beings to produce anything, even writing.
Facebook is a data analysis tool. Facebook is not a social media platform. Facebook is not a private address book. Facebook is not a telephone. Facebook is not a telegraph. While code is applied to electrical waves, and sound waves, it affects the transmission of a normal electrical or sound wave. While operating, by modifying the sine wave, the motion or impulse of a natural electrical or sound wave is changed. This change can be analyzed and interpreted from the “coding” into words and numbers. These words and numbers can be the same as the sounds, or electrical waves that were originally sent, or they can be changed by the coding.
We are holding robots in our hands. Those robots used to be very big computers the size of large rooms. They used to be heavy, and even slow, cumbersome machines, requiring many people to get them to work to send messages back and forth to other people.
In 2019, a lot of the parts have become so miniaturized, and so effectively designed that we hardly know we are using a thing at all. Facebook is a for-profit operational organization that is using a well-designed coding system to “fetch” or “intercept” data from messages, without destroying the content of the original message. As the well-designed coding system intercepts the data it keeps an electronic “copy by coding” of specific information or all the information from the intercepted messages.
A data-analysis-tool INTERCEPTS any messages between an original sender and the final receiver of the message.
A data-analysis-tool intercepts the original message, and can take information out of the original message. The message can continue to the final receiver, without the final receiver noticing any changes to the original message as it was sent by the sender.
FB is not a website. FB was not code designed for a telecommunication electronic operating system for private messages nor to ensure privacy of the communicative process between two human beings, or any variable arrangement between any individual or groups of human beings.
FB is a design and an application of code that creates an operational platform that was designed corruptly, and intentionally. The platform has been misrepresented to the public and other corporate entities.
The mis-representation of what code can do and effectively does, operating code as a platform for computer operational systems architecture and infrastructure really is a first basic problem.
A second basic problem is the wrong interpretation by any end-user, of the activities that interim software applications were designed and can do with computer code while the code is “fetched”, “sent”, “stored”, systematically “sold” and “resold” to others. The activities are NOT necessarily benign.
It is essential to remember that a corporate entity such as FB does NOT produce anything in the material world. It is not necessarily bad that it does NOT produce anything. However, a real economy needs production of something by real people for people for a transaction to occur to reflect any measurable economic action in the real world.
A simple yet radical solution is not to focus on solving any of Facebook’s problems at all. The real problem is to first recognize and analyze what the real problem is. The entire world can live, grow and survive quite well, and effectively without FB.
YAHOO is way off base to even suggest that anybody other than Mark Zuckerbug needs to solve any problems about Facebook. Everybody needs to look out for themselves, and better than Zuckerbug did.
The public needs to recognize that a data-analysis tool does NOT produce anything. It just takes from everything, if there is anything left to take from. A data-analysis tool does not create any product to add to any economic activities.
Who cares about Facebook, or Mark Zuckerbug?
That last question especially applies to Bolsonaro and the rest of the gang.
Or if someone can get a good link, I’m sure a lot of users of FB might appreciate knowing a bit about what they are really using. I cannot get a good hyperlink to post…..
PS. A real replacement for FB could be something like ATHENS or SHIBBOLETH – so articles like the following example would be easily accessed by an educated public.
It would probably help to review a bunch of peer-review articles from that international conference back in 2012, and a few others…….
I am afraid that the USA, even Brasil, are a very different ballgame than the post-communist transition economies in Poland or Hungary, and others for that matter. In the latter, everything was owned and operated by the state. There was no reasonable measure of value for state assets. Hence, the first round of privatisation enriched former state/party functionaries. Similar to Russia or Ukraine. It takes quite some time to build all legal institutions to prevent the 'abuse of power' by functionaries. Presumably several generations and many changes of political power through elections. Even in the USA, the rule of law, a professional state apparatus, did not really 'bite' before the end of the 19th century, some 100 years after the creation of the republic.
Janine R. Wedel calls Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, Trump, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Poland’s de facto leader Jarosław Kaczyński a bunch of “dirty populists.” These Trumpish leaders all preached water during the election campaigns. Now in office, they drink wine just like the predecessors they deposed. Whipping up popular resentment against the political and economic elites, they accused them of corruption, cronyism and nepotism, that had been the source of social grievances. They vowed – just as Trump did – to shake up politics and “drain the swamp” once elected.
Bolsonaro mirrors and courts Trump. He is called “Trump of the Tropics.” Although many Brazilians are revolted by his racist, sexist and homophobic comments, his Trump-like conservative rhetoric, and simple solutions to complex problems like the record high unemployment rate, epidemic of violent crime and rampant corruption, have attracted many supporters. He praised the dictatorship-era torturers, proposed that police should be given immunity to kill criminals.
Hours after Bolsonaro took office, he issued an executive order transferring the regulation and creation of new indigenous reserves to the agricultural ministry, which is controlled by the powerful agribusiness lobby. This will lead to an increase in environmental degradation and violence against indigenous populations in the Amazon. The power of environmental agencies will be reduced. This will make mining and commercial farming on indigenous reserves available for exploitation.
Brazil’s new foreign minister Ernesto Araújo, a Trump-loving antiglobalist, lauded Trump for saving Western Christian civilisation from “radical Islam” and “cultural Marxism.” He urged Brazil to join Trump and extend his pledge of “making America great again” to the wider hemisphere. That Bolsonaro urged Brazil to distance itself from China, its primary trading partner, is music to Trump’s ears. The administration seems to be warming to the idea of having a friend down south that shares its agenda and ideology.
manipulating the electoral system by gerrymandering.
The regime had created a network of corrupt oligarchs who finance Orban and his party. He has attacked the EU relentlessly, comparing it to the Soviet Union and launching a “Stop Brussels” campaign. At the same time, some of his family and supporters have become rich, partly due to winning EU-funded contracts to build Hungary’s roads, railways, waterworks and other public infrastructure. More than 80% of public investment comes from the EU’s cohesion funds.
One of the reasons Orban gets away with graft is because he has successfully changed the subject to distract the public from his misdeed. Although Hungary has few immigrants of any kind, he plays the chauvinistic anti-immigration card, deliberately designed to appeal to the European and American far right. In recent months there has been a backlash to his policies. Notwithstanding the cold weather and the holiday season, Hungary has lately seen large protests.
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) is a socially conservative, Eurosceptic and nationalist party, swept to power in 2015, winning a parliamentary majority with 37.5% of the vote. It has come under heavy fire from Western media and institutions, which have accused the regime of dismantling democracy with policies designed to limit civil liberties, control media, politicise the civil service and judicial independence.
While PiS is strongly rightwing on social issues, it emphasises the need to tackle inequality and propagates strong welfare policies. However it broke its promise to purge corruption and cronyism, when it became known that at least four relatives of PiS officials or employees work in its European Parliament offices – or the Brussels office of its European parliamentary grouping.
In July 2016, the European commission issued Warsaw with a three-month ultimatum to address threats to the rule of law or face potential sanctions. PiS reacted scornfully, with party leader Kaczyński calling the commission’s ultimatum “amusing”. He is highly controversial and generally disliked. Widely criticised for being racist and xenophobic, he claimed migrants arriving in Europe could cause “epidemics” due to “various parasites.” Last year a new Polish law criminalises blaming Poles for any wrongdoing during World War II.
Populists may be good at winning elections. But they often are incapable of running their countries. Critics say in next year’s election, the Law and Justice Party is unlikely to sustain its current parliamentary majority in Poland. Last November Trump’s GOP lost the midterm elections to Democrats, who pose a threat to the rest of his presidency.
... which, quite understandably, "hasn't quite found its 'sea legs,' yet, but STAY TUNED."
Fundamentally, I find the driving-force to be, "the Internet." Suddenly, the entire world finds itself "connected," both to other nations but especially to "itself." Suddenly, they realize that they have a common purpose and a common goal. But, they don't necessarily quite yet know how to get there.
I guess these things just take a little time. Perhaps only the political historians and PhD-winners who are doomed to follow us will fully understand what has just happened to all of us today, perhaps while all of us are admiring the flowers that are growing over all of our heads from the underside.
What, pray tell, is a "liberal fascist" when it is out, eh?
Could it be that you are mistaken and that you call Liberals in this fashion because they don't adopt discriminatory views that you might like and are adamant enough about it to annoy you?
It fosters a leftish instinct of feminism to drive a wedge against anyone that holds any form of nationalistic view or sense of ownership for the concept of nationalism however benign and needed to recover from the failed spirit of multilateralism.
Also an alternative view is much needed now that globalism has been proven to be the wrong track and unsustainable for the modern world.
In a nutshell most liberals have stopped listening and learning…. just telling.
Here is a test… if you are a liberal fascist bigot you will decry such discussion, but if you are a true and purposeful liberal then you will seek to learn more about any alternative or refinements to benefit the order of humans, however far it may fall from your baseline liberal beliefs…. Which one are you?
Thanks. Sort of....I had a feeling feminism might be the sort of thing you didn't like. Feminism, covers an awful lot of different beliefs and opinions; some agreeable to the vast majority of people, like women should be allowed to drive and to go places without male accompaniment. Some ideas are more radical but you apparently don't like feminism, full stop. The rest of your ideas are simplistic, angry and unworkable because they fail to recognise the complexity of the world you must learn to live in. Globalism has its problems but how far are you willing to go to undo it. Do you want to prohibit visits to North America or the UK by anything other than wooden ships? Would that stop globalisation? Maybe you are just angry and haven't thought things through.
I asked you a question I ask as a test to decide which type of liberalist you are… well you certainly fall closer to the danger zone of not interested in anything that does not fit the perfect world view that liberals tend to hold.
If you had asked more questions on the reasons why I held different views that would have helped, but you immediately assume I am wrong and if I am not chanting the perfect extreme world view liberals hold then I am an extremist or worse..
Of course I am always prepared to be wrong but that’s what you show with your words..
Yes..Many people are angry with where we are at..… I am not angry but highly concerned with where we are being taken and want us to stop and reset before it is too late..
Your notion that we must learn to live in the world as it is proceeding is real stupid... we have a responsibility to stand up for what we believe and what we want ….not just take it.. that’s pacifist thinking and not how I was brought up or educated.
I also think you should get some education on the changes now ongoing with globalization…. Globalization needs to be fixed and significantly reset and some of Trumps approach is dead on… and events around the world are proving him correct.
I am not suggesting going back to wooden boats or such…. but better trade practices for sure.
Anyways… I would encourage liberalists to ask more questions and learn as the some of “the other guys” may have some good points even if it upsets the perfect world religion you guys have sold your souls too.
I participate a lot to this site and find the material is too far to the left.. but its sometimes fun to stick up the other point of view.. but This article got my tirade as it stank of that non balanced not listening viewpoint..
I am not sure what you call, "left." The term seems to be used for things you don't agree with, whether it means anything else or not. I take it "right," in your mind means just that, and by extension closer to your own beliefs.
As for balance, I think Project Syndicate provides a great resource. I read the articles on Venezuela, and in some ways I agree with what's said, although I take some of it with a grain of salt. I am not afraid of ideas I don't subscribe to. I do listen.
As for your seeming support of the new President of Brazil. I will just give you a bit of personal information. I am a gay man. The President is quoted as saying that he would, "rather have a dead son than a gay son." That statement alone is sufficient for me to question everything he does on a fundamental level and to question his legitimacy in the role he now occupies. Unless he retracts that statement and apologises wholeheartedly - and many others like it pertaining to other groups of people - he is incapable of leading his country and is doomed sooner or later to failure.
If we learn nothing else from history, inclusion and providing a means for ALL of us to learn to live successfully with each other is the way forward. Failure to recognise this condemns us to conflict even over the most fundamental issues like a right to survival and existence.
Many of us will fight retrograde ideas with everything we have, and in the end, history shows, we win. I am not much bothered by your objections to immigration and feminism and other things, for me, Largely I support the things you don't. People like the President of Brazil and those who support him threaten my survival. If you are trying to convince me otherwise, you will have a lot of work to do.
Its all due to a huge change in the social fabric in the last 50 years... remember many of us white right males who have lived through that period.. like Trump.... are not at all happy with most of these changes.. some is our fault in not wanting to change... we respect that could be true.... but some we belive are the seeds of our western societies destruction.. hence the angry white guy syndrome.
Jorden Peterson has some good stuff on this..
I don't see the populists as the problem I see them as a breath of fresh air from the establishment and a needed escape valve…. As these elites are not listening to a huge chunk of the population... but it poses the last chance ….. If Trump does not get his way and is removed then his right minded population will riot and wont be just be wearing yellow vests like the French equivalent they are the segment that will be pissed and well armed already and will be toting guns!
I'm afraid there is nothing more for me to say, you are a free agent. You can carry on until they come for you. I might not be here to speak on your behalf. Good luck.
I am firm on one thing.. I have seen enough.. I don't have any time for Islam and what it is doing to our christen society and that should give you some comfort as they certainly do not have that live let live viewpoint for such minorities... so you should support the direction we are taking to stop the immigration outrage. Passivist liberal orders won’t fix that and that's clear.
The parallel is false. I believe the author doesn't know nothing about Brazil.
Sorry, but I believe that people like you don't know nothing about Brazil. Before taking office, Bolsonaro and his son were already involved in a corruption scandal. Not to mention ministers Onyx and Mandetta. No hypocrisy, please. | 2019-04-25T09:56:45 | https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/two-ways-populist-leaders-enable-corruption-by-janine-r--wedel-2019-01/german?barrier=accesspaylog |
0.998874 | To mark with a slip of paper, etc., showing ownership, contents, etc.; classify. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
To affix a label to:-pr.p. labelling; pa.t. and pa.p. labelled. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
To mark; designate. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
To affix a label to. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
To attach a label to. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
Labeling. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
A small slip of paper, etc., attached to anything to show where it is to go, who owns it, etc. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
A small slip of writing affixed to anything to denote its contents, ownership, etc.: (law) a paper annexed to a will, as a codicil: (her.) a fillet with pendants: (arch.) the dripstone over a Gothic window or doorway arch. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
Slip of paper, &c., with name, title, &c., affixed to anything. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
A marked slip, as of paper, affixed to something to show what or whose it is. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
A narrow slip of paper, parchment, &c., affixed to anything, denoting its contents, destination, &c., or to attach a seal to; a paper anuexed to a will as a codicil; a fillet, with pendants or points, added to the family arms by an eldest or only son while his father is still living; a long, thin brass rule, with a small sight at one end and a centre-hole at the other, commonly used to take attitudes, &c.; the drip-stone, a projecting moulding over doorways, windows, &c. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
A small slip of paper or parchment attached to anything, on which a writing is inscribed to tell its nature or contents, or on which an address is written; a thin brass rule, having a sight at one end, used for taking altitudes; a paper annexed to a will, as a codicil. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
Labled. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
What are the misspellings for label? | 2019-04-18T18:19:01 | http://www.spellcheck.net/definitions/label |
0.999761 | Which Grocery Store Aisle Is Ginger In?
If you're looking for fresh ginger, check the produce aisle. It should be close to the garlic and onions or the herbs.
You can also look for ginger paste in the produce area. It'll be with blended herbs and spices in squeeze tubes, often somewhere around the lettuce.
For dried ginger, look in the spice aisle. Most grocery stores keep it in the spice racks, but if there's a bulk spice section, check there, too.
If you need minced ginger, you may be able to find it in the international aisle on the shelves with Asian products.
Amazon - Any type of ginger you need can be found on Amazon, from ginger root, to ground ginger, to squeeze ginger. Plus, you can compare products and get deals on bulk ginger.
Walmart - Walmart sells Great Value Ground Ginger, fresh ginger and an assortment of ginger products. Check product availability online and in stores through the store locator.
Your Local Health Food Store - There will be plenty of options at your local health food store. Most likely, you'll be able to get bulk ginger powder there, too.
Whole Foods - Whole Foods sells fresh, ground and pickled ginger products.
Target - If you're at Target, you can pick up Spice World Squeeze Ginger or the ground spice from Simple Balanced and Market Pantry.
Trader Joe's - Trader Joe's has fresh and ground ginger from its store brand.
Safeway - Safeway sells Lee Kum Kee Minced Ginger in the international aisle, ginger root in the produce section and various ground ginger brands in the spice aisle.
Kroger - You'll see ginger paste, fresh ginger and ground ginger at Kroger.
Publix - Publix has all the ginger essentials.
Ethnic Markets - Check ethnic markets for the root and assorted ginger products.
Asian Markets - Asian markets also typically offer ginger in various forms.
There's no limit to how many different drinks you can prepare with ginger. Make homemade, all-natural ginger ale, brew ginger tea or spice up your lemonade. If you like more of a bite, opt for fresh ginger, but if you like a mellow flavor, go for the dried kind.
Where cookies are concerned, ginger is essential in that all-time favorite, the ginger snap. But try adding ginger to desserts like vegan lemon bars, apple pie, vegan ice cream and all kinds of treats.
Ginger is an important ingredient in many stir-fry recipes. It adds spice and a special sort of zest. You can also add ginger to sauteed veggies, marinades and sauces to kick up the flavor. | 2019-04-23T14:30:23 | https://thrivecuisine.com/grocery-store-guide/where-to-find-ginger-in-the-grocery-store/ |
0.999999 | If you were to alphabetically arrange the major body systems, which would be first on the list?
Death Valley national monument is situated in what two states?
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What are the last two abstract nouns in the Pledge of Allegiance?
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What, according to Lewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky" were "all mimsey?"
It lies east of Cuba and west of Puerto Rico and is the second largest island in the West Indies. Name it.
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Meteorologist Mamie Melrose just announced that she expects to see a stratus cloud close to the ground on Tuesday. What is she predicting?
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The Green River, the Dolores River, and the San Juan River flow into the Colorado River. Therefore, what four-syllable term describes these rivers?
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If it is 11 AM at the prime meridian, what time is it at 30 degrees west longitude?
The flag of what Asian nation includes a red circle on a white background?
This passage is about what country? - In 1789, the National Assembly abolished feudalism and drew up a "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen," proclaiming that "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights."
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What is the color of anthracite?
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What piece of American literature was described as a seven-hankie book based on actual events about two dogs and a cat who share a marvelous journey?
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Cirrhosis, a disease provoked by alcoholism, affects what organ?
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What is the central bank of the United Kingdom founded by the British Parliament?
Sunlight causes the potato to turn green and produce what poison?
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This man shot John F. Kennedy from the Texas School Book Depository.
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The Oscar winner for Best Picture of 1951, it ended with a long dance number set to the music from which the movie's title was taken.
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According to the endosymbiotic theory, they may have originated as seperate bacteria, because they have their own DNA. Enzymes required for respiration can be found embedded in the membrance of its matrix, the cristae. Name this organelle that performs cellular respiration, often called the powerhouse of the cell.
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Transform this into an interrogative sentence: The dog bit the postman.
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An icosahedron (eye-KAH-suh-HE-drun) has this many faces.
A cube has this many vertices.
The faces of a dodecahedron are this regular polygon.
A tetrahedron has this many edges.
It was written by Max Freedman and James Myers in 1952, and was first recorded on April 12, 1954 at the Pythian Temples Studio in New York as the "B" side for Thirteen Women. Though it did chart, it was not commercially successful until actor Glenn Ford suggested it as the music over the opening credits of the film Blackboard Jungle. Identify this song recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets, the first rock-and-roll song to hit number one on the American record charts.
This Scandinavian country is connected to the mainland by the Jutland peninsula.
This Scandinavian country, famous for its fjords, has its capital at Oslo.
The Nobel Prize winners are announced in Stockholm, this country's capital.
This country's largest lake is Saimaa, and it is the farthest east of all the Scandinavian countries.
You have a standard deck of playing cards. WIthout replacement, what is the probability that you will draw a red ace followed by any face card or ace?
This Paris museum has works such as the Mona Lisa and Liberty Leading the People.
Formerly an office building, this Milan gallery contains Primavera and Venus of Urbino, among others.
St. Sebastian and Madonna With a Flower are among the works housed at this St. Petersburg museum.
The Soldier Drinks and Sacrifice can be found in this New York museum, which typically features more modern art.
After serving as the third New York Attorney General, this man would become a United States Senator. Later in his life, he would be charged and acquitted of treason for attempts to create and lead an independent nation in what is now the American southwest. Name this first vice president not to become president, and the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a gunfight.
What body does the moon Io orbit?
What body does the moon Triton orbit?
What body does the moon Phobos orbit?
What body does the moon Dysnomia orbit?
As a child, she and her siblings created imaginary lands such as Angria, Gondal, and Gaaldine which later appeared in the stories they wrote. Her only novel was published as two volumes of a three volume set, with the third being her sister's Agnes Grey. Publishing this work under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell, identify this British novelist best know for Wuthering Heights.
The number of vertices in a polyhedron, minus the number of edges, plus the number of faces, equals this.
Two times the sine of x times the cosine of x equals this.
E to the i pi equals this.
e to the natural log of x equals this.
Known for her persecution of early protestants, who was the second ruling Queen of England?
Mary's half-sister, the third ruling Queen of England, was known as the Virgin Queen. Who was she?
What time is it in the state of Washington when it is 7:00 AM in Virginia?
Which king and queen were responsible for the Spanish Inquisition?
In which war was Mathew Brady a famous photographer?
What is the mass of one milliliter of water?
Name the Danish author of "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid," and "The Snow Queen."
Name the national park in Arizona that was established on Februrary 26, 1919.
Name the oldest man to serve as president of the United States.
Name the first and only Catholic President of the United States.
Name the youngest President of the United States.
name the youngest elected President of the United States.
Who carved Stone Mountain, but is better known for his work on Mt. Rushmore?
Equal to Faraday's constant divided by the charge of an electron, or the ideal gas constant divided by Boltzman's constant, it was never measured by its namesake. That namesake, an Italian chemist, realized that the volume of an ideal gas is proportional to the number of particles. Name this physical constant, the number of particles in a mole, equal to 6.02 times ten to the 23rd.
Identify the Shakespeare play in which the following location plays a prominent role: Dunsinane Castle, the castle of the title ruler, which sits atop a hill next to Birnam Wood.
Identify the Shakespeare play in which the following location plays a prominent role: Elsinore Castle, atop which two watchmen see the ghost of the recently-deceased king who was murdered, as it turns out, by his brother.
Identify the Shakespeare play in which the following locations play prominent roles: Venice, from which the title character hails, and Cyprus, the island to which he travels as a military commander to fight against Turkish forces.
Identify the Shakespeare play in which the following location plays a prominent role: Dover, where the title character and the Earl of Gloucester (GLOW-stur) end up at the end of the play. Neither is doing very well, as Gloucester is blind, and the title man has gone mad after two of his three heirs have mistreated him.
White became the color of choice for wedding dresses in 1840 when this Queen of England was married in white.
Which African nation's flag is pure green?
Identify the largest organ of the human body.
What is histology the study of?
What is the fear of fire?
What was Charles Dodgson's pseudonym?
Michael Collins and Jim Lovell were co-credited with developing the symbol for this mission. Their original design was rejected because the talons were empty, and appeared warlike. When the olive branches were moved from the beak to the talons, it was accepted, even though later it was discovered that the unseen sen was in the wrong place. Identify the mission which used this design on its mission patch; of which Lovell was not a part, Collins stayed behind, and Aldrin and Armstrong walked on the moon.
Identify the following literary classic that has become a movie that won the Best Picture Oscar: This Tolkien work features the epic Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
Identify the following literary classic that has become a movie that won the Best Picture Oscar: This Judith Guest novel tells the story of the Jarret family and their life after the death of Buck, and the attempted suicide of Con.
Identify the following literary classic that has become a movie that won the Best Picture Oscar: This work tells the story of Paul Bäumer and the tragedy that befalls him while fighting in World War I.
Identify the following literary classic that has become a movie that won the Best Picture Oscar: This novel relays the story of patients in a mental institution, and includes the characters R.P. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched.
What does the circle on the flag of Japan symbolize?
What is the capital city of Jordan?
The Dead Sea is the saltiest body of water in the world, containing 27% dissolved solids. What is the approximate percentage of dissolved solids in the world's oceans?
Identify the mammals that are divided into two broad groups, toothed and baleen.
Gills are part of which body system in fish?
Name the deepest spot in the oceans.
What term, reminiscent of wash day, indicates the process of concealing the source of a large sum of money by moving it through several bank accounts?
Identify the only gemstone composed of just one element.
What is the most common color for lapis lazuli?
What small four-stringed guitar was developed in Hawaii by the Portuguese?
Name the canyon on the island of Kauai that is known as the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific."
What we call the state of Hawaii, he named the Sandwich Islands to honor the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Who was this English explorer credited with the European discovery of these islands in 1778?
The toes of its limbs end in strong curved claws. It lives upside down hanging by these claws on branches of trees. Algae grows in its hair giving it a greenish color. Name this very slow-moving animal of South America.
Name the ironical story in which a wife sells her hair to buy a watch chain for the husband who sold his watch to buy combs for his wife.
What did Walt Whitman describe as "the beautiful uncut hair of graves"?
Provide the name of the month associated with turquoise and blue topaz and the flowers narcissus and holly. It starts on the same day of the week as September, and it contains Pearl Harbor Day, the Bill of Rights Day, and the winter solstice. Name this month, formerly the tenth month on the Roman calendar.
What is the sum of the whole numbers from 1 through 10?
An inflammation of THIS is called glossitis. Identify this strongest muscle in the human body, used for speech and taste, and found in the mouth.
Name BOTH legislative bodies that form the Congress of the United States.
This American composer was born in Texas in 1867. He received a posthumous Pulitzer in 1976 and produced the opera Treemonisha. He is most well-known for his compositions such as "The Chrysanthemum" and other "rag" pieces. Name this man, composer of "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer."
This is a geographical feature which Heracles moved in order to clean out the Augean stables. It often forms the Greek letter "Delta" as a shape when it enters a larger body of water. It completes the saying, "Over the ______ and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go!" What is it?
No longer considered a planet, some scientists believe that THIS was not originally part of our solar system but was captured by our sun's gravitational pull instead. Name this heavenly body.
Things are not what they seem in which novel where Gen, an accomplished thief incarcerated for stealing the king's seal, is dragged from his cell by the king's magus. The magus and Gen take turns telling their party myths about the god of thieves. Gen is totally human in seeming lack of heroism and need for sleep and food. The magus makes the transition from smug, superior scholar to decent guy. What is the title of this Newbury Honor book by Megan Whalen Turner?
Who was the United States President when the Watergate hearings were held in Congress? He later became the first and only President to resign his office.
Watergate is a building complex along what river that flows through our nation's capital?
This man's statue has been somewhat controversial, and its design was changed to reflect a more humble, meditative pose. Whose memorial, to be built across the tidal basin from the Jefferson Memorial, will be the first to be built in Washington since the World War II Memorial in 2004?
A recipe calls for 2/3 cup of sugar. You have only 1/2 cup of sugar. What fraction of the recipe can you make?
What is the largest prime factor of 2008?
What is the sum of the odd numbers from 1 through 179?
The Hope, the Jubilee, and the Excelsior are only three famous ones of these. They are ranked 10 on the Mohs scale of hardness. What are they?
This mineral and gemstone is the birthstone for the month of November. It is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, and comes in a variety of colors, from blue to straw yellow. Name this, with a rank of 8 on the Mohs Scale.
The titles of Stephanie Meyer's novels about Edward and Bella all have some element of the cosmos in them. What it the title of the novel that follows Twilight?
What are the third and fourth titles in this Stephanie Meyer series?
Spinels were originally thought to be these red gems which also fill in the blank of this title of a young adult novel by Philip Pullman, The _____ in the Smoke. What is it?
A typical flower has many of these. What is this flower part, the male organ, usually comprised of two parts?
Provide the name of the two parts of the stamen.
This British physicist, astronomer, mathematician, natural philosopher, and theologian was born in Lincolnshire, England. In 1699, he accused Leibniz of plagiarism. Name this man who is well known for his discoveries related to optics and prisms and his laws of motion.
This British politician was born in 1951 and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007. A member of Parliament since 1983, name the current British prime minister, successor of Tony Blair.
This woman's mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, did much to improve morale in World War II. Her son, Charles, is likely to assume the throne when she dies. Name the current queen of England.
Roy G. Biv is one way students remember these colors. In order from longest to shortest wavelength, what are the colors in the visible spectrum or the rainbow?
Which, if any, words in the following sentence are collective nouns? Our class of boys is waiting for that group of girls.
The collective noun association with geese is gaggle, with sheep is herd, with lions is pride, and with crows is what?
What do you call a day of worship?
The name for a seat for a bike rider or a leather seat for horses, with stirrup.
When the land which became this STATE was acquired in 1867, many Americans thought it quite foolish. In fact, the agreement by which it was purchased was known as "Seward's Folly" for the Secretary of State who made the agreement with Russia. Name this, the 49th State.
What decimal is half a percent of 100?
This animal is the second-loudest animal in the world. It is a land animal whose call can be heard three miles away. Name this, the largest New World monkey.
Alpha and Beta are the first two letters of whose alphabet? They look remarkably like our letters A and B, but the originate thousands of years ago.
This country, a nation of islands, extends along the Pacific coast of Asia. It consists of four main islands and about 3,000 smaller islands. Nearly 73% of this country is mountainous, and its highest mountain is the famous Mt. Fuji. Name this nation.
MATH: What is the result when you divide 13 by the square root of 13?
Name the 11-year old male protagonist of The Amulet of Samarkand. This boy is able to summon a five-thousand-year-old djinni [GEE-NEE] and possesses abilities far beyond those of the usual magicians in the novel.
Name this hero of the American Revolution, inventor and politician who said, "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Which "large person" said, according to the King James Version of the Bible,"Am I a dog that thou comest to me with staves?" This man represented the Philistines in a battle where he was killed by a stone to his large head.
Though he wrote numerous comic operas and a symphonic poem, they are rarely performed today. Born in 1854 and trained as a violinist, he became the leader of the United States Marine Band in 1880. Identify this American composer known as "the March King."
A symbol for Atlanta, what is the mythical bird that burns itself to death every 500 years and rises from its ashes?
In which country do you find the Temple of the Sun, built by the Mochica Indians, more commonly known as the only round building along the famous Inca Trail through Machu Picchu?
What substance, which makes the alcohol in alcoholic beverages, also makes bread rise?
Frederic Bartholdi, a French sculptor, created many works. What is the name of the one that stands tall near New York City and holds a lamp?
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention created a government with three separate branches, each with its own distinct powers. Name these three branches of the U.S. government.
According to the story line, what is the first novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series written by C. S. Lewis.
Elizabeth George Speare's 1959 Newbery award-winning novel is a romantic, historical tale about a young girl's rebellion against bigotry and her Puritan surroundings. This novel's protagonist is Kit, a free-spirited sixteen-year-old colonial girl from Barbados who comes to live with relatives in the hard-working town of Wethersfield, Connecticut. What is this novel, still popular today?
Name the city in Massachusetts where Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, is set, and which, in 1692, 19 so-called witches were actually hanged.
Believe it or not, there actually is an animal called a "zedonk." This animal is a hybrid mix of a donkey and what other four legged, hoofed animal?
Zedonks are hybrids along with over 100 dogs recognized by the American Canine Hybrid Club. What hybrid results from a Poodle and a Labrador Retriever?
A Beagle and a Basset, both loveable hound dogs, produce what deli-sounding hound?
If a woman was born in New York in 1780, in what century did she die if she lived for 30 years?
What is the compound adjective used to describe letters that are not capital letters?
Of virtuoso, prodigy, legato or tenor, which term means "an expert musician"?
He wrote Humoresque, but he is more famous for his New World Symphony. Name this Czech composer.
What is the term for "choral music without instrumental accompaniment"?
What name is given to the base line on a map from which latitude is calculated? It has zero degrees latitude and is equidistant from the two geographical poles.
What is the name of the country whose largest city at 2.3 million is Guayaquil? Two high, parallel ranges of the Andes traverse this country from north to south.
In 1832, these famous islands about 600 miles west of Ecuador became part of that country. Darwin visited them - you name them!
This Greek painter moved to Spain, and earned the nickname literally meaning "The Greek." Name this painter who painted View of Toledo.
Nine of them were thought to follow Apollo, each representing some form of art, music, dance, craft, or skill. Who are these Greek females from whom we derive the word "music"?
Herakles (HER -ah-kleez) defeated this creature in his first of twelve famous labors. Provide the two-word name for this animal whose skin Herakles wore afterwards.
He's known for other attributes, but can you name the Greek god associated with vegetation, being "twice born" through his mother and then his father's thigh, and honored in a great festival in Athens which led to Greek tragedy and comedy?
Blockbuster science-fiction Series whose "third" episode ended with a lightsaber fight on the volcanic planet Mustafar.
This volcanic rock is actually a type of glass. It is full of air pockets which make it light enough to float.
What is the name used for 1,024 gigabytes?
Starting on January 1, what month will it be when exactly one fifth of the year has passed?
The name's the same: In optics, especially in a camera, a hole or opening through which light is admitted, AND an evil science corporation controlled by an AI unit gone wrong named GlaDOS.
Identify all prepositional phrases in the following sentence: Timmy sat behind the table, waiting to surprise his sister who walked through the door."
Name the U.S. President whom two Puerto Ricans tried to assassinate in Blair House in 1950. This is also the President who has no middle name.
Find the result when 30 is divided by 0.75.
What famous play begins with the lines, Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene . . .
What is the name of the noble gas with the atomic symbol He, which is lighter than air, and makes a voice higher pitched when inhaled?
This country is geographically, politically, and officially part of two continents -Europe and Asia. The smaller northwestern portion (Thrace) is part of Europe, while the larger portion (Anatolia) is part of Asia. Name this nation.
This prolific Austrian composer lived in the Classical era of music. He composed such works as the Jupiter Symphony and Eine [I-nah] Kleine [KLEYE-nah] Nachtmusik [NACH-museek] He is well known as a child prodigy, going on his first tour at the age of seven. Name him.
What is the musical term for a work of music usually composed of a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra?
In the movie Shine, the main character suffers a mental breakdown while learning a notoriously difficult concerto by this composer. Who is this Russian composer, pianist, and conductor whose second and third concerti are his most popular?
What are the objects thought to be the very bright centers of distant galaxies, where a kind of energetic action is occurring, probably due to the presence of a super-massive black hole at the center of that galaxy?
For what does Quasar stand?
Name the kind of neutron star that emits beams of high-energy radiation which we see in a unique way due to a misalignment of the star's rotation and magnetic axes [AX-eez]. This causes the radiation generated within the magnetic field to sweep in and out of our line of sight.
This literary hero is now played on film by actor Daniel Craig, but he was first seen in the novel Casino Royale and later, From Russia with Love. Name this Ian Fleming hero also known as 007.
Ninety years is a long time for anyone to be swinging though the jungle. No doubt Edgar Rice Burroughs would be both amazed and amused that his greatest creation is still finding fans worldwide. Name the character he created who was portrayed in 1930's films by former Olympian Johnny Weissmuller.
Identify the country in which the Fall of the Bastille occurred in July 14, 1789.
Think carefully before answering this question: Provide the specific name for country in which the resignation of Vaclav Havel occurred in July 20, 1992.
Only the United States, Liberia and Burma/Myanmar use the rather unpopular system of units known as the US Customary Units or Standard Units. What is the name of the other system of units used by most of the rest of the world?
You are going on a road in Canada in which the speed limit is 80 km/h. What is the speed limit in miles/hr? Round to the nearest units digit!
Your little sister is bothering you again. She wants to know how tall she is. If she is 1 meter tall, what is her height in inches? Round to the nearest units digit!
Name the river which the famous London Bridge, constructed in 1973, crosses.
An earlier London Bridge, constructed in 1831, can now be found in Lake Havasu City in which state?
What is the economic terms that means "the value of all the goods and services produced in an economy, plus the value of the goods and services imported, less the goods and services exported."? This term is abbreviated as GNP.
The boundary between THIS economic term and deflation is called price stability. What is this economic term?
What word is missing from this old joke among economists that states: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a __________ is when you lose your own job.
This Greek god, the guide for the dead, was often depicted holding a staff carved with snakes. Who is he?
The rod of Asclepius (ah-SKELP-ee-us) has a single snake twirled around a stem. Hermes carried it, but nowadays, the image of two snakes in a double helix pattern is associated with medicine. What name, beginning with "C" is given to this staff?
Hermes is known as Mercury in Latin. So tell me, using numbers 1 - 8 with 1 being the smallest and 8 being the largest planet in our solar system, what number corresponds to the size of the planet Mercury?
How many bits are in a byte?
For what does the S stand for in BASIC?
On August 29th this caused massive amounts of destruction on the gulf coast including over 80 billion dollars in damage. Name the hurricane that ravaged Louisiana in 2005.
FEMA was widely criticized for its inadequate response to hurricane Katrina. For what does FEMA stand?
Katrina is a fairly important character in the first novel of The Inheritance Cycle. What is the title of this first of, so far, three novels?
Math: What is the answer when the square root of 676 is divided by 2?
Math: What is the area of a triangle whose sides are 8, 10, and 6?
This novel by Libba Bray is the first of a trilogy. Gemma Doyle wants to leave India, runs off when her mother refuses to send her to London, has a dreadful vision and witnesses her mother's death. Two months later, Gemma is enrolled in London's Spence School for Young Ladies. She gradually learns to control her visions and enter the "realms" where magical powers can make anything happen and where her mother waits to instruct her. What is the title of this popular young adult novel?
Cheeseheads and badgers abound in this Midwestern state.
This is one of the least populated states and first gave women the right to vote.
This "Buckeye" state was the boyhood home of Wilbur and Orville Wright and was a deciding factor in the 2004 presidential election.
This state was considered so industrious that its symbol is beehive. It is probably better known for its Mormons.
This East Coast state is home to Harper's Ferry and the Greenbrier Hotel, a bunker for Presidents during the Cold War.
This state has the "Loneliest Highway in America" near Great Basin National Park, but is also home to major gambling centers.
This was the 48th state and is the only state that does not follow Daylight Saving Time, except for on its Navajo Reservation.
Both this state and New Mexico claimed the title of "The Sunshine State." This southeastern state kept the title, forcing New Mexico to find a new nickname.
You find pelicans in a number of states, but this is "The Pelican State" because of the number of pelicans you find in its bayous and other watery places.
This state, with capital at Providence, is "The Ocean State."
It shouldn't be a surprise that this is the "Mt. Rushmore State."
"The Sunflower State" also has the state flower on its flag; its northern border is Nebraska and its southern is primarily Oklahoma.
The Last Frontier" state is the one to the far north of the lower 48.
Some think "The Pine Tree State" should be Georgia, but this nickname belongs to a state with capital at Augusta. | 2019-04-19T12:50:11 | https://quizlet.com/516011/jh-academic-bowl-practice-questions-flash-cards/ |
0.999997 | As a week dominated by President Trump Donald John TrumpForget the spin: Five unrefuted Mueller Report revelations Lara Trump: Merkel admitting migrants 'one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany' Financial satisfaction hits record high: survey MORE’s response to the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., draws to a close, many Republicans are worried that serious damage has been done to their party.
Specifically, they argue that Trump may have set back years of efforts to make the GOP more appealing to an increasingly diverse American electorate.
There is no mistaking the seriousness with which they view the situation.
Few were assuaged by the news Friday of White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon’s dismissal. Bannon, who came to Trump from the “alt-right” world of Breitbart News, was a voice for economic nationalism within the White House.
Many Republicans have rushed to distance themselves from Trump, after he proclaimed that there were “very fine people” on both sides in Charlottesville. A 32-year-old counterprotester, Heather Heyer, was killed last Saturday after she was hit by a car allegedly driven by a man who harbored far-right views.
Marchers from neo-Nazi organizations were among those who had come to the Virginia city for an event billed as “Unite the Right.” They held a torch-lit parade at the University of Virginia last Friday night and chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans.
Trump twice gave public remarks that were widely condemned as being too equivocal. In particular, a chaotic news conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday left even seasoned political observers shell-shocked.
The two living Republican ex-presidents, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, released a joint statement implicitly condemning Trump. So, too, did the party’s leaders in both chambers of Congress, Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanAppeals court rules House chaplain can reject secular prayers FEC filing: No individuals donated to indicted GOP rep this cycle The Hill's Morning Report - Waiting on Mueller: Answers come on Thursday MORE (Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellElection agency limps into 2020 cycle The Hill's Morning Report - Will Joe Biden's unifying strategy work? Dems charge ahead on immigration MORE (Ky.).
But the high-profile criticisms may not be enough to mitigate the damage wreaked by Trump. He has the bully pulpit of the presidency, and the firestorm around his comments reached parts of popular culture — late-night talk shows, for example — where statements from McConnell or a Facebook post by Romney hold little sway.
“It’s terribly frustrating,” said Heye, who added that it would be incorrect to view the damage as confined to black or Latino voters. There are plenty of white people who find such a stance unpalatable, he suggested.
Trump’s defenders would make a very different case, noting among other things that the self-declared experts of the Washington GOP were enthused by previous presidential nominees, such as Romney in 2012 and Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainBiden's sloppy launch may cost him Cindy McCain weighs in on Biden report: 'No intention' of getting involved in race Why did Mueller allow his investigation to continue for two years? MORE (Ariz.) in 2008, both of whom failed to win the presidency as Trump did last November.
As the president himself likes to point out, he won the White House by scoring victories in states that Republicans had not won at the presidential level for a generation, notably the so-called "Blue Wall" states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
“We didn’t break it, we shattered that sucker,” then-President-elect Trump told a rally late last year.
Some people in Trump’s orbit say there is no reason why he cannot repeat the achievement again.
One problem with that theory, of course, is that it is Trump himself who has seemed so focused on race and identity for the past week. And his comments have been welcomed by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and others on the extreme right.
More broadly, those who argue that the GOP desperately needs to improve its image with minorities and young people say their point still stands, regardless of Trump’s election victory.
“Nothing has repealed the long-term demographic trends in this country, and nothing has changed the imperative for Republicans to appeal to a more diverse electorate if they hope to win national elections,” said strategist and pollster Whit Ayres, a long-time advocate of the need for the party to modernize its appeal.
“Trump managed to stitch together an electoral college majority while coming millions of votes shy of a majority of the popular vote,” Ayres added.
Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonForget the spin: Five unrefuted Mueller Report revelations Former senators launching effort to help Dems win rural votes Biden's announcement was a general election message, says political analyst MORE by about 2.9 million votes, or around 2 percentage points, even as he won a relatively comfortable 306-232 victory in the Electoral College.
The strategist who described Trump’s comments as a “disaster” said that the best way forward for candidates in next year’s midterms could be to run on local issues to avoid “nationalizing” their races. But even that might not be enough, the strategist added.
Moderate Republican voices such as Heye, meanwhile, are still grappling with their shock at what has transpired.
“In Charlottesville, we are talking about neo-Nazis chanting truly vile things. To see the president come out the way he did — it’s impossible for me to try to convince an African-American, or Hispanic, or Jewish voter why they should vote Republican,” Heye said. | 2019-04-25T16:07:30 | https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/347176-the-memo-gop-fears-damage-done-by-trump |
0.999999 | This article is about the novel. For the TV episode ending the season adapted from this novel, see The Expanse (TV series).
Leviathan Wakes (2011) is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. It is the first book in the Expanse series, followed by Caliban's War (2012), Abaddon's Gate (2013), Cibola Burn (2014), Nemesis Games (2015), Babylon's Ashes (2016), Persepolis Rising (2017), and Tiamat's Wrath (2019).
Leviathan Wakes was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel was adapted for television in 2015 as the first and part of the second season of The Expanse by Syfy.
Leviathan Wakes is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System. Earth, governed by the United Nations, and the Martian Congressional Republic act as competing superpowers, maintaining an uneasy military alliance in order to exert dual hegemony over the peoples of the Asteroid belt, known as "Belters." Belters, whose bodies tend to be thin and elongated due to their low-gravity environment, carry out the gritty, blue-collar work that provides the system with essential natural resources, but they are largely marginalized by the rest of the Solar System. The Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), a network of loosely-aligned militant groups, seeks to combat the Belt's exploitation at the hands of the "Inners," who, in turn, have branded the OPA a terrorist organization.
The ice hauling ship Canterbury (nicknamed the Cant by Belters) is en route from Saturn's Rings to Ceres Station when it encounters a distress signal. Five members of the Cant's crew are dispatched in a shuttle to investigate: executive officer James "Jim" Holden, a former officer in the UN Navy (UNN); chief engineer Naomi Nagata, a Belter; pilot Alex Kamal, a veteran of the Martian navy (MCRN); engineer Amos Burton; and medic Shed Garvey. They discover an abandoned transport vessel called the Scopuli. They find no trace of the ship's crew, but they do discover the beacon transmitting the distress signal. Suspecting that the ship may be a trap set by pirates, they take the beacon and begin returning to the Cant. Before they can make it, an unknown stealth warship arrives and, without warning, destroys the Cant with a nuclear weapon. Holden sends an angry message to the attacking ship, but it ignores him and departs. Based on the highly advanced technology of the warship and the discovery that the beacon from the Scopuli is of Martian origin, the survivors suspect the MCRN of being behind the attack.
With the shuttle damaged by the debris field, lacking the necessary fuel or supplies to reach a port, and fearful that should they put out a distress signal of their own the attackers may return, Holden broadcasts a message out to the entire system implicating Mars in the destruction of the Cant, hoping to negate any attempt to kill them as part of a cover-up. In response, the shuttle is ordered to rendezvous with the MCRN battleship Donnager, flagship of Mars' Jupiter Fleet. En route, they receive a message from Fred Johnson, chief of Tycho Station, an engineering outpost and construction platform, offering his support. Johnson had been a highly-decorated commander in the UNN when he was ordered to brutally quell a Belter uprising, for which he was nicknamed the "Butcher of Anderson Station." Guilt-stricken, he had resigned his commission and become an advocate for the rights of Belters. As the shuttle makes its way to the rendezvous, they are pursued by a group of unknown ships.
On Ceres Station, Belter detective Josephus "Joe" Miller of Star Helix Security, the Earth-based private security firm responsible for policing the station, is contracted to locate Julie Mao, daughter of wealthy magnate Jules-Pierre Mao, and send her back to her family on Luna against her will. When Holden's message reaches Ceres, riots erupt, which leads Miller to discover that the station's riot gear is missing.
Aboard the Donnager, the ship's captain denies any knowledge of MCRN involvement in the attack on the Canterbury, and instead suspects that one or more of the survivors from the shuttle may have bombed the Cant as an act of OPA terrorism. The unknown ships that were pursuing the shuttle ignore warnings to change course and are fired on by the Donnager. To the surprise of the Martian crew, the ships return fire and are revealed to be the same stealth ships that attacked the Cant. Despite the fact that the Donnager is one of the most advanced and deadly warships in the Solar System, it is steadily overwhelmed by the mysterious enemy ships and eventually boarded. During the battle, a railgun round penetrates the hull, decapitating Garvey. Realizing that the Cant survivors are the targets of the attack, a team of the Donnager's Marine contingent are ordered to evacuate them. Although all of the Martian Marines are killed in the process, the four surviving Cant crew members are able to escape aboard the light frigate Tachi just before the Donnager is scuttled. Still unsure of who is trying to kill them, they decide to go to Tycho Station. There, the Cant survivors share what they've seen with Fred Johnson, who reveals that he is an influential member of the OPA. They receive new transponder codes for the Tachi from Fred, disguise the ship as a gas hauler, and rename it the Rocinante. Fred sends the Roci (as her crew nicknames her) to Eros Station to find an OPA operative working under the pseudonym Lionel Polanski.
On Ceres, Miller has noticed an exodus of criminals from the station. He also discovers that Julie Mao's father had warned her of an attack in the Belt just two weeks before the destruction of the Cant. He is then confronted by Anderson Dawes, leader of the Ceres chapter of the OPA, who tells him that Julie Mao had joined the OPA and had disappeared while performing an important mission for them aboard the Scopuli. Dawes cautions Miller not to investigate the matter any further. Miller presents this information to his boss, Captain Shaddid, but she also instructs him to drop the case. Miller, however, finds himself obsessing over Julie and, when he persists, he is fired by Shaddid, who is revealed to be in collusion with Dawes. However, Miller is still able to access docking logs for all of the ports in the Belt, which he had been granted access to before his termination. Realizing that the Scopuli was the same ship mentioned in Holden's broadcast, he is able to discern that the Rocinante is the former Tachi from its registry information, and he departs for Eros.
On Eros, Miller finds the crew of the Roci at a hotel where Lionel Polanski was listed as a guest. In Polanski's room, they find the body of Julie Mao covered in a strange organic growth. On her phone, Miller finds logs detailing the progression of her affliction, which seems to be fueled by exposure to energy and radiation, and the coordinates of an asteroid where one of the ships that attacked the Cant is docked. Before they can leave the station, a radiation alert is declared and station security begins herding people into radiation shelters. Miller recognizes some of the security officers as criminals from Ceres, who are wearing the missing Star Helix riot gear. He and Holden stay behind to investigate while the rest of the crew is sent back to the Roci. They discover that the people in the shelters have been dosed with an unknown substance and exposed to extremely high levels of radiation. As they make their way to the docks, they realize that the people in the shelters were infected with the same organism as Julie and the radiation was used to feed its rapid growth. They witness the infected attacking the security forces and spreading the infection to anyone who had been able to avoid the radiation chambers. They escape Eros just as it is being overrun.
Fred contacts Holden and tells him that analysis of a data chip belonging to one of the dead Marines from the Donnager reveals that the mysterious stealth ships were built on Luna. Holden makes another public broadcast sharing this information, hoping to ease the tensions created by his prior implicating of the MCRN. This strategy backfires, however, and the UN, fearing that they will be blamed for the attack on the Donnager, launch a preemptive strike against the MCRN by destroying Deimos, site of a Martian military installation, which results in a standoff between the two sides.
Miller and the crew of the Roci follow the coordinates from Julie's phone and find one of the stealth ships, called the Anubis, abandoned. In the reactor room, they find that the same organic growth that was on Julie Mao's body has consumed the entire remaining crews of the Anubis and the Scopuli, whom they had taken prisoner. They find a video explaining that the organism is a biological replication mechanism created by extrasolar aliens and placed on Phoebe which was then launched into the Solar System with the intent of reaching Earth and hijacking its early biosphere in order to create something, but was captured by Saturn's orbit, thus sparing Earth. Protogen, the corporation who had discovered the entity on Phoebe and dubbed it the "Protomolecule," orchestrated its release on Eros as an experiment, to try to find out what it was designed to do. They had carried out the false flag attack on the Cant in order to start a war that would distract the Solar System from what was happening on Eros. The Roci crew nuke the Anubis and return to Tycho Station, where they discover that data is being transmitted from Eros to a secret Protogen facility. They attack the station, with the Roci destroying the two stealth ships guarding it, and Miller and Fred leading a boarding party consisting of Fred's OPA soldiers, who are able to capture it.
The lead scientist, Anthony Dresden, reveals that all of the scientists on the station had been "modified to remove ethical restraints," so that they could emotionlessly perform their research without empathy for the victims on Eros. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the Protomolecule, not only for its innate scientific value, but to protect against the clear threat presented by the aliens who created it. Realizing that Dresden's rationale is likely to be accepted by the powers that be on Earth and Mars, and his horrific research allowed to continue, Miller shoots Dresden without warning, angering Holden. "He was going to get away with it," Miller explains later, "He was talking us into it. All that about getting the stars and protecting ourselves from whatever shot that thing at Earth? I was starting to think maybe he should get away with it. Maybe things were just too big for right and wrong."
Back on Tycho, Miller and Fred come up with a plan to destroy Eros to prevent anyone else from trying to obtain a sample of the Protomolecule. They intend to commandeer Tycho's main project, the massive Mormon generation ship Nauvoo, and crash it into Eros at the correct speed and angle to propel it into the Sun. Miller leads a team onto the exterior of Eros to plant bombs to detonate its ports, so that no one can get in and sample the Protomolecule before it is destroyed. He then decides to stay behind and die when they go off. However, just before the Nauvoo impacts the station, the entirety of Eros somehow changes course. The Protomolecule has some advanced method of spaceflight that can negate g-force and inertia. Eros then sets out for Earth, the largest source of biomass in the Solar System, at a speed that no human-made ship can match. Miller takes one of the bombs into the station to attempt to destroy its maneuvering capabilities. However, listening to the voices on the communication system, he realizes that Eros is being guided by Julie Mao, who believes she is piloting her racing pinnace. He finds her, her body morphed into the Protomolecule's architecture, and, in the process, is exposed to and presumably infected by it. However, he is able to convince her to direct Eros away from Earth. The station crashes into the surface of Venus, where the Protomolecule begins assembling a new, unknown structure.
Critical reception for Leviathan Wakes has been positive, with Kirkus Reviews giving the novel praise. The book's action sequences were highlighted by SF Signal, and Tor.com wrote that the book had a "satisfying volume completion". Locus Online also praised the book. Wired.com's GeekDad praised the novel for not containing "overly-complex descriptions of the way governments and corporations work" or "made-up words and cryptic names".
Leviathan Wakes was followed by the novel Caliban's War in 2012 and Abaddon's Gate in 2013. It was announced in 2012 that Orbit Books had ordered a further three books in the Expanse series, in addition to five novellas set in the same universe. The first of these sequels was announced in September 2013 as Cibola Burn and was released on June 17, 2014 in hardcover, Kindle, and on Audible in the US.
On April 11, 2014, Syfy announced that they had ordered a TV series based on the series of "The Expanse" books, especially the first book, Leviathan Wakes. The cable network ordered 10 episodes, produced by Alcon Television Group (ATG). Academy Award-nominated screenwriting duo Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (known for the films Children of Men and Iron Man) wrote the pilot; they were to continue to serve as writers, as well as executive producers. The series has been widely critically acclaimed, and was renewed for a second season in May 2015, ahead of the show's December 2015 première.
The show was renewed for a third season.
The show was dropped from Syfy after the third season, but Amazon has picked it up and will produce a 4th season.
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The blog of the authors.
The web site for the series. | 2019-04-24T01:55:44 | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_Wakes |
0.999997 | The 1400 block of North LaSalle, where Emily Fredbloom was struck.
Last Friday, Emily Fredbloom, 26, died from injuries sustained in late August, when she was struck by a cab driver while crossing LaSalle Street in Old Town.
On the Near North Side, LaSalle is a wide, five-lane street, which encourages speeding by drivers, and creates wide crossing distances for pedestrians. These issues were, or may have been, factors in a several recent serious crashes on this stretch of LaSalle.
On March 23, 2012, around 2:30 a.m., law student Jesse Bradley, 32, was crossing LaSalle westbound at Division Street (1200 North). Southbound motorist Bianca Garcia fatally struck him and fled the scene. Witnesses said she driving at a high rate of speed, and tests found she was intoxicated. Last July, Garcia was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Last Tuesday, September 16, around 4:50 a.m., a 23-year-old man was attempting to cross LaSalle at Chicago Avenue (800 North). Witnesses said the man “darted” across the street and was hit by a southbound female motorist, according to police. The man was critically injured and the driver was not cited.
In the most recent case, Fredbloom, a resident of south-suburban Lansing, was trying to cross westbound on the 1400 block of North LaSalle on Saturday, August 30, around 2:05 a.m., according to Officer Janel Sedovic from News Affairs. Witnesses say Fredbloom, who worked at a nurse at Northwestern Hospital, “bolted out into the street,” according to Sedovic.
Fredbloom was struck by a northbound cab driver, Sedovic said. The driver, a 51-year-old man, was cited for failure to exercise due care for a pedestrian in the roadway, and failure to reduce speed to avoid a crash.
Fredbloom was taken to Northwestern, where she was pronounced dead last Friday at 4:29 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy performed Sunday found that she died from complications that arose from injuries sustained in the crash.
Better enforcement of the 30 mph speed limit, along with reconfiguring LaSalle to calm traffic and make it easier to cross the street, could help prevent these kind of tragedies in the future.
What, specifically, could be done and how in order to make LaSalle safer to cross? What are the actionable steps?
Good question. Since LaSalle isn’t an IDOT-jurisdiction road, there are many options. So far IDOT has not permitted CDOT to install protected bike lanes on its streets, and has generally been slow to embrace traffic calming measures.
Speed cameras, high-visibility crosswalks, pedestrian islands, and curb extensions might be fairly easy to implement. If traffic volumes allow, a 5-to-3 road diet with protected bike lanes, similar to what was proposed on Milwaukee in Gladstone Park, would be ideal.
Depending on the amount of traffic that LaSalle sees, a road diet could help slow down traffic. I believe LaSalle operates as 3 lanes inbound / 2 lanes + parking Outbound in the morning and reverses that setup during evening rush hour.
When I worked on that area, LaSalle was never really congested during the rush hour periods. I could see a road diet help on LaSalle north of Chicago.
Additionally, I dont think there is much retail on LaSalle and the side walks are large which I think aids in making LaSalle feel separated from pedestrians.
That’s just my two cents..
They could begin by removing the trees from the median so drivers have more time to see pedestrians entering the crosswalk from the other side of the street. There are also speed cameras all over Chicago now. Sounds like LaSalle needs to be added to the list of streets that need one!
For the last few weeks I have not been able to bike (due to small surgery), so I have been walking and taking CTA. As a result I have experienced first-hand how scary, and often impossible it is to have to cross streets anywhere in this town. SOVs, mostly speeding, do not give a damn about any of the signs, show nothing but contempt to pedestrians, and I think nothing short of some type of physical restraint is going to change them. Why should they? The speed limit of 35 MPH on most main streets is hardly enforced, and people who mow down pedestrians get off with a slap on the wrist, unless they were found to be roaring drunk. If there are lights at the crosswalk, the times to cross are mostly inadequate for people whose mobility is impaired. Chicago is overdue for a drastic lowering of the speed limits, a huge increase in enforcement (cameras—YES) with serious consequences for violations, and a good dose of civic re-education about the value of life.
I thought that any street without a posted speed limit sign was 30 mph (not 35). Anyone know? I’m In the same boat, haven’t biked since I was 8 1/2 months pregnant! Three weeks without a bike is torture! :) As is being ridiculously pregnant and trying to do anything.
I get that many people are quick to blame motorists since they usually win out in a motorist-pedestrian clash but there are many incidents where pedestrians are to blame. They, too, must exercise due diligence. Motor vehicles cannot stop on a dime.
This happened at 2:00am on a Saturday in August. In and around Downtown Chicago, while not as bad as Sunday mornings, that’s still prime time for fast traffic with drunks and taxi cabs jockeying for position. Fred bloom was probably just tired just getting off work (and nursing is a very tiring job) but pedestrians *have* to pay attention.
The only reason cars have to attempt to “stop on a dime” at crosswalks is due to the high sped limits on these roads. 20 MPH should be the speed limit city-wide, this is the only way we will stop pedestrian (and motorists/ passenger) deaths on city roads.
20mph for bikes and trains too?
Yes, for bikes, we are after all supposed to abide by traffic laws. If joggers want to get above 20 MPH, they are welcome to and I applaud them.
Trains – let’s try to get freight trains UP to 20 MPH then we can talk. Otherwise the “do not cross” gates should keep *most* people out the way of the Brown line and Metra trains.
Redesigning LSD to not be a racetrack would also make LaSalle safer. Drivers doing 70mph southbound on LSD end up going too fast for conditions after exiting at LaSalle.
Correct, the default speed limit in Chicago and Illinois is 30 mph.
I concur, I went for a walk through the loop the other evening, and I can’t count how many red lights I saw run. I want to see red light cameras at every single downtown intersection. PReferably every intersection in the city, but we can start with the extremely pedestrian dense sections of the loop, south loop, west loop, and the near north neighborhoods.
Ideally cars should not put themselves in a position where someone can jump out behind them and they cannot stop in time. Realistically however, that is unlikely without lower speed limits.
Well, Ideally cars should not put themselves in a position where someone can jump out behind them and they cannot stop in time. Realistically however, that is unlikely without lower speed limits.
When bikes kill tens of thousands of people a year, then we can talk about speed limits for cyclists.
Where? I’ve never seen it on Western.
LaSalle is a *great* candidate for a real, enforced, bus lane. Or a streetcar.
I recall seeing one while riding south from Evanston—Next time I ride will take a photo. But now you’re making me question whether it was on Cicero around Lincolnwood (where I saw it for sure); Cicero is also IL50, where I presume IDOT sets the limit rather than the city? My original point was that, posted or not, people drive much faster than any speed limit here.
Definitely seen it on Cicero.
Thought more about Western (did *not* go so far as to check streetview) and still can’t think where on the northside. Perhaps south of the Ike on either or both of Western and Ashland, tho.
Is there a way to pull together as a group of advocates to work on this issue? Does such a group already exist?
Advocating on issues like this is a big part of why Streetsblog exists. Other groups currently working on local pedestrian safety issues include the Active Transportation Alliance and the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists. If you want to get involved, I suggest contacting Active Trans’ Jason Jenkins at jason[at]activetrans.org, 312-427-3325.
Trees actually have a traffic calming effect because they visually narrow the driver’s perception of what’s ahead. If you can’t see what’s ahead then you slow down. The trees are already “removed” on the approach to the left-turn lanes.
I think the main issue is speeding. When pedestrians are hit at high speeds their likelihood of drying increases dramatically. One nearly free way of adjusting the speed on a long, wide stretch of LaSalle Street is to adjust signal timing and eliminate any “green waves” that may exist that allow motorists to travel at greater than the speed limit between any two signals between, let’s say, Wacker, and Clark Street.
For the record, Emily Fredbloom did not “bolt” out in front of the speeding taxi. She was walking in the crosswalk, eastbound across LaSalle but didn’t make it across before the light changed as many pedestrians to this very day are not able to do. The faulty police report was based on one so called witness who was coming home from the bars. The witness’ report directly contradicts existing video of the accident that surfaced later. According to the judge who saw the video, the driver had plenty of opportunity to avoid the pedestrian and should have been able to see her and take action had he been paying attention. To this very day, that stretch may still be a “speedway”, the light at LaSalle and Wells is still too short to allow pedestrians to cross safely and it is the only light on that stretch that does not have a timed delay between the East/West red light and the North/South green light. Pedestrians-be aware, drivers -pay attention to the road, witnesses-tell the truth, police-do a better job investigating and reporting, and to the city…. please check into the intersection and the speed on LaSalle for the good of all. | 2019-04-25T03:50:05 | https://chi.streetsblog.org/2014/09/23/emily-fredbloom-dies-after-taxi-crash-on-the-lasalle-street-speedway/ |
0.982488 | What is the only thing your business needs if you hope it will succeed? You will need to sell, but you will need efficiency when doing some operations.
If you run a store that uses a warehouse to store goods and products, make sure you have swift inventory translations.
Fast inventory swap is the quick way to go to inventory inventory that you currently have, so you can order more. The goal is to minimize so-called lead times.
Lead time is the amount of time that a business is purchasing with a customer. In many cases, a business usually supplies a security set in order.
Using warehouse software is one of the best ways to make inventory shifts quicker. It also helps maintain inventory movements and improve the accuracy of various inventory records.
There are several benefits to this, one of the most important is to have more capital available to you. Capital can not be tied to the stock.
Storage software helps to better utilize storage space and the ability to use the room in the warehouse's room as much as it can.
Using warehouse software, you can increase storage availability because it will be easier to find specific items for receiving, assembling, packaging, and delivery points.
What do you think is this increased efficiency for your business overall? This will increase overall productivity and significantly reduce inventory maintenance costs. Inventory costs are a significant part of total business costs. By reducing them you give yourself a good competitive advantage.
Utilization of software helps minimize paperwork, plus warehouse operations can be quite stressful because usually a substantial amount of paperwork is required on a consistent basis.
Handling this paperwork requires a lot of time and attention to detail. In order to maximize your time, you must reduce the amount of paperwork you need.
Now many paperwork has to be taken, but that does not mean that it can not be accelerated. With the help of storage software, timely and accurate data traffic for the efficient and efficient operation of stocks and information can be ensured.
While some other things that will be able to track electronically would include receiving reports, selecting tickets, moving tickets, list of packages, etc. All these things should no longer be printed. This saves not only time but also saves a lot of paper.
Inventory software helps reduce dependence on warehouse staff and now your business is likely to be out of stockpile staff. Some of these people can be very well trained while others may not.
No matter how good the mistakes can be and what they are doing. Thus, it will always be a good idea to reduce your addiction to warehouse personnel as soon as possible and put the power into your own hands.
Storage software allows this. It will be able to standardize things like stock movements, picking methods, and inventory. It also helps to reduce your dependence on non-formal practices.
As a result, you will reduce your money to people. | 2019-04-25T18:37:47 | http://wallingford-ct.org/storage-software-that-helps-you-optimize-the-flow-of-warehouse-functions/ |
0.99764 | What are the causes and effects of religious conflicts?
the religion does not conflict. The people who follow the religion make conflict, by not respecting other beliefs of the religion, and the making of stereotypes. | 2019-04-21T10:52:51 | https://qanda.typicalstudent.org/what-are-the-causes-and-effects-of-religious-conflicts |
0.99823 | In order to be effective, the primary emphasis of a TB infection control program should be on achieving these three goals.
The first and most important level of the hierarchy, administrative measures, impacts the largest number of people. It is intended primarily to reduce the risk of uninfected people who are exposed to people who have TB disease.
The second level of the hierarchy is the use of environmental controls to reduce the amount of TB in the air. The first two control levels of the hierarchy also minimize the number of areas in the health care setting where exposure to TB may occur.
The third level of the hierarchy is the use of respiratory protective equipment in situations that pose a high risk of exposure to TB. Use of respiratory protection equipment can further reduce the risk for exposure of health care workers.
Travelers who anticipate possible prolonged exposure to people with TB (for example, those who expect to come in contact routinely with clinic, hospital, prison, or homeless shelter populations) should have a tuberculin skin test (TST) or interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) test before leaving the United States. If the test reaction is negative, they should have a repeat test 8 to 10 weeks after returning to the United States. Additionally, annual testing may be recommended for those who anticipate repeated or prolonged exposure or an extended stay over a period of years. Because people with HIV infection are more likely to have an impaired response to both the TST and IGRA, travelers who are HIV positive should tell their physicians about their HIV infection status.
If you think you have been exposed to someone with TB disease, contact your health care provider or local health department to see if you should be tested for TB. Be sure to tell the doctor or nurse when you spent time with someone who has TB disease.
If you have latent TB infection and you are in one of these high-risk groups, you should take medicine to keep from developing TB disease. There are several treatment options for latent TB infection. You and your health care provider must decide which treatment is best for you. If you take your medicine as instructed, it can keep you from developing TB disease. Because there are less bacteria, treatment for latent TB infection is much easier than treatment for TB disease. A person with TB disease has a large amount of TB bacteria in the body. Several drugs are needed to treat TB disease. | 2019-04-24T18:23:13 | http://tbghana.gov.gh/node/41 |
0.999937 | Does this fabric look familiar? It's the same one I used here to reupholster some chairs.
But I don't want everything to be so plasticky (I know that's not a real word but I like it..) and store- like looking. I like to bring a touch of personal style, even to the things that hold my random junk stuff.
So I decided to make more of these DIY Storage Boxes (I made the 3 boxes shown above when inspired by this post) and today you will want to make some too!
I've used this technique for cardboard boxes and shoe boxes (and their lids).
All you need is: A cardboard box in whatever size your little heart desires, some fabric (a canvas drop-cloth would make a nice neutral choice), and some permanent adhesive (I used fabric glue). A glue gun would work as well.
-Measure your box and cut enough fabric to not only cover the box but to be glued inside the box; how much fabric should be inside the box is completely up to you.
- I always mark the corners of the box on the fabric with a pen (like shown by red circles here) to help me remember where the box should be.
- Once you are done with that, your fabric should look something like this (cross shape).
- The left and right flaps are longer than the up and down ones because I wanted the fabric to go all the way to the bottom of the box on the inside. I would have done that with the other sections but the width of my curtains did not allow it.
-It should look like this when you are finished with this step.
-This red line marks the excess fabric.
-The picture below shows what to do with this excess.
You are almost done with your DIY Storage Box!!!
-This is what your edge will look like; as you can see there is a small opening. Feel free to add a little glue in there and press until it adheres.
This is how my storage box looked at this point but I wanted the inside all covered as well so I just measured the piece that was still revealing the cardboard and cut a piece of fabric to glue in there.
Oh, and just for fun...this is how you cover your box with fabric according to my sweet daughter..haha! But she recommends using a glue stick!
And what did my new stylish storage box end up holding? Bath towels, of course!
You can use these DIY boxes for storage or to decorate your home with. I've used them for both purposes and have been very pleased with them!
Thanks so much for reading! I know what you are going to do now....find some boxes and buy some fabric! Go ahead, because I'm off to go finish mine! Happy gluing!
What is your favorite crafty way to get organized?
So much better than having ugly cardboard boxes laying everywhere!
These are super cute! Love the fabric you chose!
Hi Hanzy! Thank you! She is always imitating what I'm doing!
Hi Jenna! Thank you! They were some old curtains I had laying around and I couldn't wait to go to the fabric store so I just used that!
Great idea, so much better than going out and buying ugly plastic bins!
Thanks Rochelle! My thoughts exactly!
Hi Angel! Thanks for following and welcome to Restoration Beauty! I will check yours out too!
So pretty! I would love you to come join my Pin Me Linky Party that starts in a few minutes at 8am CST. I allow up to 3 links each week!
Hi Diana! Thanks for stopping by, following and for the invitation! I just finished linking up to your party!! Thanks again!
I love how it turned out! & your daughter is seriously cute (glue sticks) lol Thanks for sharing & linking up @ DearCreatives.com Hope to see you again this week.
Thank you Theresa! Lily loves to DIY right beside me and I just love it! Will see you at your link party!
I need more storage, but cute storage can be so expensive. I love this idea and you make it sound so easy.
Love your boxes! I have to go save those copy paper boxes from the recycle bin. They even have lids!
Great instructions so I don't have to re-invent the wheel! Thanks for sharing.
Your idea of a fabric covered cardboard carton for a storage box is as interesting and as easy as it can get. I have tried making one after seeing this, but didn’t get the kind of finish – painting the box seems a good idea to me. | 2019-04-22T14:47:09 | http://www.restorationbeauty.com/2013/02/diy-storagedecorative-boxes.html |
0.999424 | A VIOLENT Paisley thug slashed a work colleague in the face in a broad daylight attack outside an amusements - to steal his PlayStation.
Paul Chalmers, 24, was only free to attack Derek McLaughlin, 38, because he had been released early from a jail term for blasting a heavily-pregnant teenager in the face with pepper spray.
He left Mr McLaughlin covered in blood and nursing a huge facial injury after attacking him in Paisley town centre.
Mr McLaughlin, who worked with Chalmers at the town's QAS factory, now has a scar about nine inches long, which runs from the left side of his mouth, along his cheek and ends under his left ear.
He also has a scar at his left ear, and one on his head, as a result of the incident, which took place so Chalmers could steal his PlayStation console and games he had in his backpack.
The "brutal and unprovoked" attack took place after McLaughlin and Chalmers walked through the town in a bid to pawn the games console.
Chalmers, who has previous convictions for carrying a knife, carrying a knuckleduster and assault with a knife, was caged in May 2018 for 16 months for blasting Chantelle Heron in the eyes with pepper spray when she was 37 weeks pregnant.
But he was released on August 13 last year, and just six weeks later he attacked Mr McLaughlin.
The thug was today caged for seven years.
They were unable to offload the console as it was late in the evening and staff in the pawn shop they had gone to were unable to test it was working properly.
As they walked along Paisley High Street, near an amusement arcade called Leisureland, Chalmers struck.
Chalmers went on trial over the attack, denying leaving Mr McLaughlin scarred for life by assaulting him with a knife, claiming it could not be proved a knife was used.
Giving evidence about the alleged attack, Mr McLaughlin said: "I got slashed. It was outside Leisureland. It was Paul Chalmers.
"That f****** idiot slashed me. I was shocked, I was all blood.
"He stole my bag off me."
CCTV footage of the incident was played in court, showing McLaughlin covered in blood after being dragged along the ground by Chalmers, who swiped at his face with a stanley blade, leaving wounds that took 38 stitches to seal.
Callous Chalmers denied his guilt, claiming through his solicitor it could only be proved he had punched his victim, as that was what could be seen on the CCTV footage.
But Procurator Fiscal Depute David McDonald said it was "a brutal and unprovoked assault" that lasted less than a minute - but would have lifelong consequences.
The prosecutor explained: "The assault was done in just under 40 seconds.
"Forty seconds - and that left Derek McLaughlin with the scars that we've seen - scars he'll have for the rest of his life.
"What you've seen is reality TV - a reality I hope none of you have to live.
"He carried out an unprovoked and brutal attack on Derek McLaughlin - and for what? A PlayStation and a few games."
And, after hearing that the clothes Chalmers had been wearing on the day in question were found in his bedroom, covered in McLaughlin's blood, with a stanley knife in the pocket which was also covered in blood, the jury convicted him by majority.
Sheriff David Pender called for background reports to be prepared ahead of sentencing and said: "You have quite a deplorable record for crimes of violence and this conviction is in the same vein."
And, when Chalmers returned to the dock today to learn his fate, the judge ruled there was only one was he could deal with him.
He gave him an extended sentence of seven years - a four-year jail term and three-year period where he will be monitored in the community once released from prison. | 2019-04-25T04:36:58 | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4045369/paisley-slash-attack-scar-paul-chalmers-derek-mclaughlin-slashing-blade-playstation/ |
0.999994 | Is it possible that a person could be misdiagnosed with diabetes, and really have hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose) in non-diabetic people?
I would like to have known a little bit more about your reasons for asking this question, which would help me reassure you about your concerns.
However, the short answer is 'no', confusion between hypoglycaemia and diabetes mellitus (or ‘sugar diabetes’) is almost impossible with modern blood testing techniques.
The diagnosis is made by testing the fasting glucose levels in the blood.
If the results are not obvious then a glucose tolerance test should be carried out where the patient fasts overnight, has a blood test done, and then takes 75g of carbohydrate (sugar) and has another test done two hours later.
This usually clears up any doubts about the diagnosis one way or another.
If you are not happy with the explanation of your diagnosis, you could ask that this test be done.
You don't say if you are now on treatment with diet alone, or with tablets or insulin, because in the initial stages of treatment symptoms of hypoglycaemia can occur (feeling weak, very hungry, a bit sweaty, even a little confused) while the dose is adjusted to suit the individual. | 2019-04-26T00:08:27 | https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ask-the-expert/diabetes-faqs/a727/diabetes-or-hypoglycaemia/ |
0.999101 | Why did the Roman government fear the spread of Christianity?
The Roman government feared the spread of Christianity because the Romans thought that if people who became Christians would stop worshipping the Roman gods. Early Christians also refused to pay homage to the Roman Emperor as divine, which was seen as challenging the Roman government.
Why did romans fear christianity?
They blamed Christians for the fire that burned Rome.
Why did Roman authorities fear the early Christians?
Why did the Romans worry about the spread of Christianity?
Why did Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire?
Why did christian spread throughout the roman empire?
They heard of and/or saw Jesus and then the apostles do miracles by the Holy Spirit when Rome was occupying Israel, and they started to have a seeking heart towards God. As more people looked for God, more started to convert to Christianity.
Why did Christianity threaten the Roman government?
Why did the Romans want to stop the spread of Christianity?
Why did the Romans try to stop the spread of Christianity?
Romans wanted to stop the spread of Christianity because they feared that the followers of Christianity would revolt against the government.
Why did paul spread christianity across the roman empire?
For he is also a Roman. But many Romans did not accept his preaching. The Roman Empire lost it's empirical power but not it's ecclesiastical power which is catholicism, not Paul's preachings.
Why did the Roman government persecute the Christians?
The Romans, being old-order, paganistic, and authoritative in their earlier years saw Christianity as a threat to their concurrent existence. It conflicted highly with their pagan state religion, and was a huge divide between progressive monotheism and the now ageing polytheism. As a result, the Romans persecuted the Christians and seeked to eliminate them from overtaking their Republican Conservative ideals.
Why did the Roman government begin persecuting Christians?
The Roman Government began persecuting Christians under Emperor Nero. Nero began to execute large numbers of Christians following the Great Fire of Rome. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, the population searched for a scapegoat and rumors held Nero responsible. To deflect blame, Nero targeted Christians.
How did the Romans help spread Christianity?
How did the Roman Emperors spread Christianity?
Did Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire?
yes but that's all i knowNo. Christianity spread from the disciples of Jesus Christ beginning in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost.
How and why did Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire?
Why did Christianity spread so fast in the Roman world?
How did roman emporors affect the spread of Christianity?
one emperor was baptized after seeing a cross in the sky and winning a battle thus allowing Christianity in Rome.
How did the roman empire help the spread of christianity?
The Roman Emperor Constantine (c.274-337), edict of Milan in 313 made persecution of Christians illegal.
Why did Christianity seem threatening to the roman government?
Cause the romen rulers tried to stamp out Christianity by killing its followers.
Why did Christianity spread so successfully while the Roman Empire declined?
The rapid spread of Christianity coincided with the decline of the Roman Empire, and some historians believe that Christianity contributed to that decline.
Why did the roman government mistreat the minority Christianity population?
because christian values undermined roman morals and because people liked Christianity it threatened roman rule so they had to eradicate it or else they would face destruction.
Did Paul spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire?
How did the roman empire help spread christianity?
The Roman Empire made Christianity the official religion of the Empire, and 'encouraged' the peoples it conquered to convert.
How did the roman emperor Constantine spread Christianity?
What did Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire?
Did Socrates spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire?
No. Socrates lived around 300 years before Jesus Christ.
When did Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire?
Slaughter and suppression of other religions, and it provided a religious hierarchy of bishops which was valuable for emperors to use as a control measure to supplement his secular power.
Why did the Roman government view Christians as enemies of the empire?
Roman empire on the spread of Christianity?
Originally, the Roman Empire persecuted the early Christian Church(that is what the Book of Revelation was all about), but, in the end, it became Christian, under Emperor Constantine.
Did Christianity spread despite the torment from the romans?
How did the attitude of Roman leaders toward Christians change as Christianity spread?
When did the Romans try to stop the spread of Christianity?
Why did the Roman government tolerate Judaism but not Christianity?
The Roman government tolerated Judaism but not Christianity because Jews respected old religious traditions and Jewish traditions forbaded worshipping more than one god. Thanx! !!!!!!!!
Why did the spread of Christianity happen?
Why did Christianity seem threatening to Roman government?
How did Christianity affect the roman governance?
Because almost everyone was Christian at one time, the government had an easier time controlling all the people. The people were united, which gave the Empire strength. It was a little easier to defend, because there were not as many quarrels going on inside the empire.
How did Christianity spread quickly through the Roman Empire?
How did Paul spread Christianity across the Roman Empire?
He spread the Gospel and wrote letters.
How did the Roman Empire's roads help spread Christianity?
What did the Romans build that help spread Christianity?
Why was Christianity able to spread so quickly throughout the roman empireand how did roman and christian values combine?
It spread through strong and passionate evangelization. Truly these people were ready to die for Jesus and that send a very powerful message. The Romans didn't change until Constantine came along.
Why was Christianity able spread so quickly throughout the Roman Empire and how did Roman and Christian values combine?
How did the geography of the Roman Empire affect the spread of Christianity?
Well as we know Rome is near the Tiber River so it was difficult for people to cross it to spread Christianity.
Why did the Christians fear God?
Which Roman emperors encouraged the spread of Christianity?
How did Roman leader try to stop the spread of Christianity?
Which Roman leader exactly? Whom are your referring to?
What impact did the Roman Empire have on the spread of Christianity?
Why did Christians fear the advent of Islam?
Islam, at the time, was the only major religion to be seen after Christianity had grown. During a time which would lead to The Crusades, this wide-spread 'other' religion was viewed as a direct threat by the whole of Christendom. The Islamic Caliphates were also a direct threat to the Christian Empires (like Byzantium, New Carthage, etc.) and conquered large swathes of formerly "Christian lands" in the Middle East and North Africa.
Why did Christianity spread the most?
Christianity spread more than any other religion because it became the state religion of the Roman Empire. Because of this, Christianity was enforced throughout Europe, North Africa and much of the Middle East. Eventually, those who refused to be Christian were persecuted, tortured or killed.When Europeans spread out to found colonies in the New World, they took Christianity with them, often spreading it by military force.
Why did the Europeans spread Christianity? | 2019-04-21T01:11:06 | https://www.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_Roman_government_fear_the_spread_of_Christianity |
0.999999 | Why do most applications have fairly limited 'undo' history functionality?
I've been caught out on multiple occasions (granted its technically my fault) where I've needed to undo a number of changes (be it in photoshop or whatever else) to be hit by a greyed out undo button - no further history available. I don't know about you, but potentially losing a lot of work because of this limitation results in a terrible user experience.
Is there a reason why applications can't just hold at least a full-session history? Surely a temporary file is all that's needed to store changes and said temporary file could be configured to the user's preferences (in terms of max size, etc)?
This question does not appear to be about user experience within the scope defined in the help center.
Trust me when I say this - undo/redo is one of the biggest implementation, testing and maintenance headaches in any significantly sized application.
Granted, it is a wonderful thing to be able to undo/redo something as it relaxes the user and lets them test and explore their environment without worry. However, the usefulness of an undo history starts to diminish right after the first undo. Slowly, mind - but surely.
Full kudos to those that do provide a full undo history, but it is almost certainly as a result of a well planned, well executed approach with a supporting frame work, implemented from day 1, and around which all functionality revolves.
If that framework is not introduced first, it's a major challenge to bolt it on afterwards, and it's easy to get bogged down in it.
The rapidly escalating complexity of testing undo/redo with any possible action in any possible sequence of changes of any size.
In addition, it is almost universal that if you undo a string of actions and then make another change, you cannot redo all the steps you just undid, because the system has changed state and the redo may well not be valid.
Now one popular use of long undo/redo history is to go back and look at something how it was, and then to go forward again.
I would suggest that the annoyance of not being able to undo more than say 10 steps is not nearly as annoying as undoing 50 steps and then accidentally pressing a keyboard button which throws away the redo history so that you can't redo all that work you just did. I for one get very nervous when I've undone something over a lot of steps, and tend to save first as a fall back, and maybe therein lies the lesson: save often and save versions.
I totally agree that a full undo history is highly desirable - it's just not simple, and that's why it gets dropped down the feature list when tight time and budgetary constraints come into play.
There are both technical and business drivers for this problem.
Technically, undo/redo is very complex to implement for an application of any reasonble complexity. Not only does it need to handle the complexity of the app, but it requires tracking of state over time and the ability to reset that state. In some application spaces, notably graphical editing, true undo is not technically feasible, you can only take a snapshot after each action and return to the prior snapshot. If you insert a letter in notepad, undo can relatively easily delete that letter. If I apply some mathematical transform on a graphical image, I can't necessarily replay the reverse mathematical process and get the original image. Storing unlimited number of snapshots of both data and state will become resource limited.
From a business perspective, if I can apply 100 man days (as an example) to implement unlimited undo, or I can apply 100 man days to deliver 3 new requested user features, I may get a better return on my 100 days by implementing the 3 new features. This may be shortsighted, but we have certainly seen shortsighted business decisions before.
The book Design Patterns outlines how to implement undo/redo functionality (see the Command Pattern). It's a slick design, it'd be easy to test, and having unlimited undo's probably wouldn't be much of a problem. However, it comes at the cost of designing your entire system around the pattern and undo/redo looks like it might become incredibly difficult for complex data models.
However, simply storing all relevant application state, at each revision point, would be easy to design and implement. You could even add it to the application at later development stages without much effort. However, this easier strategy comes at the cost of memory, which you would probably manage with a limited number of undos/redos. ... hence the "limited 'undo' history functionality".
I would prefer versioning like e.g. Google Docs offers. You can jump between different versions of your document and revert to any of it. In my opinion this is often a more useful approach, although it might not be reasonable for all kind of applications to keep a complete history of changes.
P.S - I know you have 8 GB of RAM today but still if you are using applications like Adobe Photoshop or perhaps 3D software, which save a lot of information if you have significant amount of changes, then this can be a huge resource hog.
Proper undo for a complex application is hard to design in as an afterthought, and for many applications it's simply infeasible to implement efficiently in time (i.e. reasonable UI delays) or space (i.e. too much disk or memory storage usage). Video editors come to mind; but for many applications, much or all of the document in memory would need to be saved between every edit, and that gets expensive quite quickly. Just saving the changes is often very difficult, because it's a cross-cutting concern; every modification to the application state needs to be classified as to whether it is undoable or note, and needs to have an inverse (to perform the undo).
I got so fed up with lack of proper undo for text editing that I wrote my own notepad, which actually saves the entire log of edits along with the underlying text file. That way, my undo/redo persists across instances of the application. To avoid the whole "undo 50 steps, then accidentally lose redo history with a new action" problem, the undo log is strictly accumulative - if you start with foo, then undo and replace it with bar, it saves three versions - foo, blank, and bar, so you never lose a version.
There's absolutely no good reason aside from incompetence of developers. Good software usually has a solid undo/redo implementation since it is built upon design principles that separate actions from data and its presentation. I've done this myself and I have to disagree with the Roger's answer - it's certainly not terribly complex to test, at all, if the application is designed from the start with undo in mind.
There is no UX reason to limit undos. The reason undos are limited are due to hardware and software limitations (which were greater in the past than today).
In usability terms no you shouldn't be limited, but as has been well pointed out its not easy. In my experience Notepad++ has an excellent undo feature. I suspect its part of the Scintilla component that Notepad++ is based on. Its all open source so you might be able to figure out how they implement it.
MS Word, OneNote and Outlook 2010 have, under certain conditions, a more limited Undo History than most people realize.
Try this: Start a new Word doc and type in a line or two of text, then, press and hold the Backspace key to remove the last few words. Now, press Undo or Ctrl-Z...to get back that backspaced text, you'll find you've now lost not only this but most of the text you typed in!
The lesson here is that Undo is tough and you must have a sound test strategy. Even the big guys can get this terribly wrong.
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Why should I provide an undo error message? | 2019-04-20T06:46:45 | https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/12629/undo-history-why-limit-it/12682 |
0.999956 | Labour in turmoil: Who's gone from the shadow cabinet?
A Bridlington born MP is to officially launch her opposition to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party today.
Former Shadow Business Secretary, Angela Eagle, says she wants to unite the party.
Mr Corbyn said he was disappointed over the leadership bid.
Shadow health secretary Diane Abbott has told ITV's Good Morning Britain that Angela Eagle's support for the Iraq invasion and an increase in tuition fees show she is the "Empire Strikes Back" candidate against Jeremy Corbyn.
The Corbyn-supporting Abbott said her party's embattled leader must be on any leadership ballot as she played down talk of splits within the party and reports of political "Armageddon".
She joined Daily Mirror associate editor Kevin McGuire in doubting Eagle's success in a race with Mr Corbyn as the pair were questioned about the stature of a challenger who came fourth in a previous race for Labour's deputy leadership.
Angela Eagle is to launch her Labour leadership contest on Monday, but how does it work?
Ed Balls has told Peston on Sunday that Angela Eagle's leadership bid is "essential" as Jeremy Corbyn "can't do the job".
The former shadow chancellor said no one believed Corbyn could ever become prime minister.
"Frankly there is no message at all coming from Labour in the last two weeks about what the solutions to these big problems are," he told Robert Peston.
"There's got to be a change. It's not just necessary for Labour, I think it's necessary for the whole country.
"We need a strong opposition which believes it can form the next government and I'm afraid nobody thinks Jeremy Corbyn is going to be the prime minister of our country."
The MP for Scunthorpe Nic Dakin has resigned from the Labour Front Bench after "further failure of leadership" from Jeremy Corbyn at today's PLP meeting.
The Great Grimsby MP Melanie Onn has joined her fellow Labour MPs in Hull and resigned from her role on the front bench.
This is the moment Dennis Skinner shook Jeremy Corbyn's hand before appearing to flick the V-sign at the former shadow cabinet following their resignations.
Prominent Labour figures Angela Eagle and John Healey have both resigned from their positions on the frontbench.
Healey has resigned as shadow housing minister, while Eagle quit as shadow business secretary, saying that the Labour Party needs a "leader who can unite rather than divide".
Can Jeremy Corbyn ride out wave of resignations?
Students debate: Should we stay ... or should we go? | 2019-04-21T04:58:31 | https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/topic/eu-referendum/ |
0.99895 | What's in a Solar Setup?
Electricity is the movement of electrons through a conductor. Electrons are usually found orbiting the nucleus of an atom. Materials that have 'free' electrons are conductors. Metals are very good conductors.
Electricity occurs naturally, in lightning, in our bodies. Electricity has been known about for long time. 150 years ago electricity became more than a curiosity through the work of people like Thomas Edison. These people worked out how to generate to usable quantities of electricity. Two different forms of electricity were developed: Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC). In AC the electrons move in one direction and then the other. In DC the electrons move continously in one direction. There was a divide about which form to use as the standard, but AC was adopted. AC became the standard because it can be transmitted with less power loss, allowing less power stations and locating them further from cities.
Electricity is first generated at a power station, then transmitted over powerlines to where it is used.
Electricity is generated when magnetic fields move through a conductor. It is only generated when the magnetic fields are changing. You can generate electricity by moving a magnet next to a wire.
Most electricity is generated in coal, gas, oil or nuclear power plants. Hydro is also used, but much less so.
All of these involve spinning a turbine. A turbine looks a bit like a propellor or fan but thicker and long. In Hydro it is water directly turning the turbine, where as the others work by the following: The fuel is combusted (burned), and the heat generated is used to boil water - creating steam. This steam rises very fast and runs through a turbine, turning it rapidly.
The spinning of the turbine is what generates the electricity. Put simply turbines contain a magnet, which is spun very fast by the steam or water. The magnetic field put out the by the magnet is thus moving very fast. Surrounding the turbine are coils of wire (conductor), which the magnetic field moves through. This induces electricity in the wires.
The amount of electricity generated depends on the speed of the turbine, the size of the magnet (and thus its magnetic field), the number and size of wire coils and a few other factors.
When electricity is generated, it is not created but rather converted from one form of energy to another. From energy 'stored' in chemicals (gas, coal) to electrical energy.
Electricity can be transmitted a long way. It is transmitted via large cables to near where it is going to be used. It is trasmitted at very high voltages, which reduces power loss (coming soon: an explanation on power, power loss and transformers). When it gets close to where it will be used it is 'stepped down' to the voltage normally found in the home (usually around 110V or 240V depending on the country).
Once it arrives at its 'destination' electricity is drawn by electrical appliances. | 2019-04-23T22:48:38 | http://solarfacts.net/solar_power/electricity_basics/ |
0.99844 | Set up a new Analytics account with Google. Visit https://www.google.com/analytics, click the Access Google Analytics or Create an account button (top right), and follow the on-screen instructions.
You will need to set up a "property" with Google. See this link for instructions: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1042508 Make a careful note of the Tracking ID that you will receive in Step 10. Please disregard Google's further instructions about adding "tracking code" to your website. There is a Drupal module installed on your IndieCommerce site which will do this for you. We will configure this module shortly.
Before leaving Google Analytics, make sure you enable eCommerce Tracking for your property. Unless you do this, sales from your website will not appear in Google Analytics. This is important data for making decisions, so you'll definitely want this one. Follow the instructions under "Enable Ecommerce in your reports" here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009612?hl=en#Enable Do not continue with the next sections on Tracking Setup. Drupal will take care of this for you, you just need to enable E-commerce tracking for your new property. | 2019-04-24T22:54:37 | https://www.bookweb.org/indielite/google-analytics |
0.998594 | In a case involving Texas-based BNSF Railway Co., the Supreme Court ruled that the corporation could not be sued in Montana for injuries that were sustained elsewhere. This Supreme Court ruling could have a significant impact on future personal injury suits by limiting where they can be filed.
The justices ruled, 8-1, that States can not hear claims for injuries that occur out-of-state where the injury was sustained or that occur outside of the state where the company or corporation is based. The ruling threw out a state court’s ruling that allowed the claims against BNSF to be heard in Montana or anywhere within BNSF’s nationwide network.
The case involved two plaintiffs who sued BNSF for two separate and unrelated injuries under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, a federal law that permits injured railroad employees to sue for compensation from their companies.
A South Dakota resident and BNSF truck driver, Robert Nelson, alleged he injured his knee in a slip-and-fall incident on the job in 2011. South Dakota resident Kelli Tyrrel filed suit against BNSF in 2014 alleging her late husband developed fatal kidney cancer because of exposure to carcinogenic chemicals on the job. Nelson’s injury occurred in Washington state, and Tyrrel was exposed to dangerous chemicals in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.
Both suits were filed in Montana, where BNSF conducts much of its business, employing over 2,000 Montana residents and operating trains on over 2,000 miles of railway. However, the Supreme Court ruled that merely doing business in Montana "does not suffice to permit the assertion of general jurisdiction over claims like Nelson's and Tyrrell's that are unrelated to any activity occurring in Montana."
“The Supreme Court’s BNSF ruling is important because it reaffirms the Court’s commitment to due process. Specifically, it limits where Plaintiffs (whether as a corporation or as an individual) can sue a defendant who has allegedly injured it (or him/her). This ruling is significant because it will give great clarity and predictability to Defendants as to where they may be sued for injuries,” said Andrew Shedlock, a litigation attorney at Kutak Rock LLP, based in Minneapolis.
Typically, plaintiffs can file lawsuits against companies where they are based, incorporated or do a significant portion of business. This Supreme Court ruling benefits businesses that do not want people “shopping” for states that have laws that allow them to more easily file personal injury suits.
The problem, according to Houston, Texas, personal injury lawyer Neal Davis, is that companies often choose particular locations in which they do business based in part on limiting their financial exposure when sued. “That means plaintiffs will likely have to file their personal injury suits in states that are often hostile to plaintiff claims and that the plaintiff has no contact or connections to. That is why Justice Sotomayor’s dissent described the majority opinion as a windfall for large corporations,” Davis said.
Cristina Fries is a contributing author at Bigger Law Firm Magazine. She has overseen marketing strategies for mid size and large law firms. | 2019-04-18T17:18:15 | https://www.biggerlawfirm.com/supreme-court-limits-where-companies-can-be-sued-for-personal-injuries/ |
0.927372 | Q. In which database should I look for teen pregnancy articles, especially one with statistics?
Find articles on the topic use the library's Opposing Viewpoints database, which provides articles from newspapers, magazines and journals (many of which may contain statistical data). Use the keywords "teen pregnancy" as the keywords.
For additional articles on the topic, use the library's Proquest Central database, and use keywords such as 'teen pregnancy."
There are E-books available on the topic using the library's Ebook Central (Proquest) database. Use the keywords 'teen pregnancy" for a relevant results list of E-books. Click on the title of the E-book to access. | 2019-04-22T14:32:59 | https://chat.library.berkeleycollege.edu/faq/138694 |
0.999933 | Why am I seeing retransmissions across the network using iperf3?
host-a and host-b are connected to the same switches. They are on the same L2 network. Both are connected to the above switches with LACP 802.3ad bonds and those bonds are up and functioning properly.
pod-a and pod-b are on host-a and host-b respectively. I'm running iperf3 between the pods and see retransmissions.
Removing the kube-bridge from the equation results in zero retransmissions. I have tested host-a to pod-b and seen the same retransmissions.
The sending side sees drops, but nothing in the amounts we are seeing here (1-2 max per line of output; which I hope is normal).
Also, I'm using 9000 MTU (on the bond0 interface to the switch and on the bridge).
update: tried with 1500 MTU, same result. Significant retransmissions.
update2: appears that iperf3 -b 10G ... yields no issues between pods and directly on host (2x 10Gbit NIC in LACP Bond). The issues arise when using iperf3 -b 11G between pods but not between hosts. Is iperf3 being smart about the NIC size but can't on the local bridged veth?
author of kube-router here. Kube-router relies on Bridge CNI plug-in to create kube-bridge. Its standard linux networking nothing specifically tuned for pod networking. kube-bridge is set to default value which is 1500. We have a open bug to set to some sensible value.
Do you think errors seen are due to less MTU?
It appears that something (NIC or kernel?) is slowing down traffic when its being output to the bond0 interface. In the linux bridge (pod) case, the "NIC" is simply a veth which (when I tested mine) hit a peak around 47Gbps. So when iperf3 is asked to send packets out the bond0 interface, it overruns the interface and ends up with dropped packets (unclear why we see drops on the receiving host).
I confirmed that if I apply a tc qdisc class to slow down the pod interface to 10gbps, there is no loss when simply running iperf3 to the other pod.
This was enough to ensure that an iperf3 run without a bandwidth setting didn't incur retransmissions due to overrunning the NIC. I'll be looking for a way to slow down flows that would egress the NIC with tc.
update: Here's how to slow down traffic for everything but the local bridged subnet.
You can't have one TCP connection exceed 10Gb with a 20Gb bonded interface. Now, if you did an iperf3 -P 2 it might work for a total of 20Gb, depending on the setting of /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/xmit_hash_policy on both hosts -- default is layer2+3, but if you set it to layer3+4 (hash on src/dst ip/port) it should spread the load between the two NICs up to your bond's full speed.
I stumbled across this post with a similar issue, but I'm experiencing drops when I run iperfs with 2+ parallel streams of less than 20Gb total between 10Gb*2 bonded hosts in different subnets... Juniper has replicated the issue but doesn't have any good answers yet :( If they can't figure it out, perhaps Linux QoS is the next step.
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0.999823 | It is not uncommon for a person forming a UK company to mistakenly incorporate one limited by guarantee instead of one by shares (or less commonly, visa versa).
In situations where this happens, it can lead to a number of problems for the registrant.
Unfortunately, there is no quick solution to this problem and it is likely that additional expense will be necessary to correct the position and to provide the desired outcome.
One of the issues is that a company name is usually selected after careful thought and consideration. Assuming that the registrant still wishes to use it, they could not then incorporation another business with that name as it would be returned from Companies House as unavailable.
The first incorrectly formed entity is already using it and the rules governing existing company names would apply.
Even if a second company incorporation was to be carried out using a different name, the original entity would still exist and be under the ownership of the registrant.
They would remain liable for the fulfilment if that entities statutory obligations which would accompany it. The preparation of yearly accounts, the annual return and so on will still be required for the first company.
In addition, the registrant would have already incurred formation costs on a company which they can not use. On the basis that they required a trading entity, an entity limited by guarantee would be completely unsuitable for that purpose.
Changing the type of company is not a possibility as there is no mechanism by which the alteration from guarantee to shares can be carried out.
Option 1 involves the dissolution of the company limited by guarantee and thereby releasing its name.
Once the entity has been dissolved, a new company of the correct type could then be incorporated using the newly available name.
Dissolving a limited company might take as long as three months which would probably cause a significant delay in the planned business activities.
Although perhaps a minor risk, there is no assurance that when the first company is dissolved another person would not then appear and register the name which the original registrant was keen to use.The allocation of company names is carried out on a first come first served basis and there is no means of reservation without actual purchase.
There would be dissolution fees payable to Companies House (currently £10). In addition, there would be resources used in the preparation and submission of the required documents..
The second option would be to change the name of the company limited by guarantee which would take a considerable shorter time period compared to that of dissolving the entity.
The express service is able to change a name on the same day and once this is completed, a new incorporation of the correct type can be initiated.
The disadvantage with this option is that the company name change is an additional expense on top of the dissolution and second company purchase.
There is still a slight change that the name will be registered in the period between the time it is changed and the time when it is then re-used.
Although the following comments will be of little comfort to those who will make this mistake in the future, when forming a company always check and double check all aspects of your application thoroughly. | 2019-04-22T00:07:16 | https://www.completeformations.co.uk/companyfaqs/uk_company_setup/changing_guarantee_to_shares.html |
0.999799 | In patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease, does galantamine improve clinical outcomes?
Design: Randomized placebo-controlled trial (Video-Imaging Synthesis of Treated Alzheimer's Disease [VISTA] trial).
Setting: 14 sites in Canada.
Patients: 130 patients 51 to 94 years of age (mean age 77 y, 63% women) with mild-to-moderate dementia (Mini-Mental State Examination score 10 to 25 and cognitive subscale of the Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale [ADAS-cog] score ≥ 18). Exclusion criteria were residence in nursing homes, disabling communication difficulties, active medical issues or competing causes of dementia, receipt of antidementia medications within 30 days, hypersensitivity to cholinomimetic agents or bromide, or participation in other galantamine trials.
Intervention: Galantamine, 8 mg/d for 4 weeks, followed by 16 mg/d for 4 weeks, then 16 to 24 mg/d for 8 weeks (n= 64), or placebo (n= 66).
Outcomes: Extent of attainment of personal goals on the Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) score (much worse, no change, much better) assessed by physicians and by patients and caregivers. Secondary outcomes included mean change on the 11-item ADAS-cog (0 = no impairment to 70 = severe impairment), Clinician's Interview-based Impression of Change plus Care-giver Input (CIBIC-plus) (1 = very much improved to 7 = very much worse), Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) (higher scores = better performance), and Caregiving Burden Scale (CBS) scores (higher scores = higher burden); and adverse events.
Patients in the galantamine group had better goal attainment on clinician-based assessment of GAS scores than did those in the placebo group, but groups did not differ for GAS scores assessed by patients and caregivers (Table). Patients who received galantamine also had better ADAS-cog and CIBIC-plus scores (Table). Groups did not differ for DAD and CBS scores (Table). More patients in the galantamine group had adverse events than did those in the placebo group (Table).
In patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease, galantamine improved clinical outcomes, but adverse effects were common.
Sources of funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Janssen-Ortho Canada; Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation.
For correspondence: Dr. K. Rockwood, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. E-mail [email protected].
‡Abbreviations defined in Glossary; RRI, NNH, and CI calculated from data in article.
§A negative SRM was a positive treatment effect.
After several randomized trials of cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer disease, controversy persists over the clinical meaningfulness of statistically significant but small treatment effects that have been found using such standardized psychometric scales as the ADAS-cog. With GAS, in the study by Rockwood and colleagues, the clinician identifies dementia-related problems that the patient or caregiver wishes to change (the goals), then sets outcome levels that reflect degrees of improvement and deterioration. Standardized scoring adjusts for the number as well as the importance of the goals, enabling GAS to be used as a research tool. That the clinician-based GAS, the ADAS-cog, and the CIBIC-plus all showed significant improvement in the galantamine group compared with the placebo group provides concurrent validity for using individualized, clinically meaningful GAS as an outcome measure, and confirms previous studies showing the short-term efficacy of galantamine in Alzheimer disease. Both galantamine and donepezil have been shown to reduce caregiver time spent helping with activities of daily living by > 50 min/d in moderate-to-severe Alzheimer disease (1, 2), an amount most would consider to be clinically meaningful.
For the practicing physician, for whom research scales are impractical, dementia-related problems that the patient or caregiver recognizes and considers relevant may be a more sensitive way to assess response to pharmacologic treatment of dementia. A functional deficit that is a major concern for 1 family may not be important to another. With the GAS method, achievement of clinician and patient–caregiver goals may occur despite declines in more global scales (3). | 2019-04-19T02:21:39 | http://acpjc.acponline.org/Content/145/2/issue/ACPJC-2006-145-2-050.htm |
0.999732 | The horse evolved as a grazing herd animal. All of their nutritional needs were met by the ground that they stood upon, and if predation was light, and water plentiful they may not travel at a faster pace than a trot for most of their life. In ideal conditions, they thrived and their energy demands were easily met. I guess you could say that life was good.
When a domestic horse is asked to operate at a faster pace day in and day out, like you would see in a performance horse training program, more energy than that provided by forage alone may be required. For generations that additional energy was provided by high starch grains. I believe that it's time that we rethink that practice.
Horses have been domesticated for about 3500 years, but, their digestive system evolved for 200,000 years before that. There was no place in nature where the evolving horse could consume large amounts of the high starch mature grain commonly used in most feed concentrates today. The enzyme that breaks down starches and sugars in the digestive system is amylase. Since horses did not historically consume significant amounts of starch at one time they did not need to produce amylase in large amounts, so they don't. They do produce enough to process light starch loads, but larger amounts eaten at one time, say two pounds or more, easily overwhelm the digestive system's ability break the starch down.
So what happens then? Grain passes through the stomach and small intestine undigested to ferment in the hind gut. This continues in a domino effect to alter the acidity of the hind gut, killing beneficial bacteria, which, in turn, limits the proper digestion of the best source of energy in the horse, it's forage.
At this point digestive efficiency has gone out the window, or more plainly put, out the back of the horse. Hose down a fresh manure pile and see how much grain is washed out. I prefer to think of that grain as rented, not purchased.
Is there an effective way to provide additional energy that suits the horse better? I believe that there is. We have been advancing the principle of low starch, moderate vegetable fat supplementation for many years. The natural evolution of that principal has led us to add multiple natural vegetable fat, protein, and fiber sources along with yeast as a digestive aid in a low starch package that does not overwhelm the horses normal amylase production. The result is support with the "lightest footprint" in the entire system, and support, rather than disruption in the hind gut. A healthy beneficial bacteria population in the hind gut allows better utilization of of the hay or pasture, better production of water soluble vitamins, and less need for additional, potentially disruptive, sources of energy. In other words, a horse that functions the way 200,000 years of evolution says it should. | 2019-04-25T10:18:37 | https://www.renewgold.com/blog/nutrition-care/limiting-starch-performance-horse |
0.999953 | A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one, police said Monday.
"This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and that's why he did what he did," Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said.
"He has converted to (Islam) here in the past few years," Hastings said. "We're not completely clear on what he was upset about. He had never been in the military.
"He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them. That's what he said."
Police Chief Stuart Thomas said Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway was killed. Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville was wounded and in stable condition, Thomas said.
Police arrested Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, of Little Rock, Thomas said. The suspect was previously known as Carlos Bledsoe, he said.
The soldiers wore fatigues, had recently completed basic training and volunteered to help attract others to the military, Thomas said.
He said the gunman targeted the military but was not believed to be part of a broader scheme.
Interviews with police showed that Muhammad "probably had political and religious motives for the attack," the police chief said.
Thomas said Muhammad would be charged with first-degree murder, plus 15 counts of committing a terroristic act. He said those counts result from the gunfire occurring near other people.
Hastings said the attacker pulled up in a car outside the Army-Navy recruiting office around 10:30 a.m. and fired at the soldiers outside.
According to the Associated Press, the vehicle was stopped on Interstate 630 a short time later, and the suspect was taken into custody. Police found an assault rifle in the vehicle.
Jim Richardson, the manager at a drug store around the corner from the Army-Navy center, said people at the store didn't realize anything was amiss until they heard sirens outside.
"Nobody heard any gunshots," Richardson said.
Lt. Col. Thomas Artis of the Oklahoma City Recruiting Battalion, which oversees the Little Rock office, said the victims were not regular recruiters.
He said they were serving two weeks in the Little Rock office.
As part of the Hometown Recruiting Assistance Program, the soldiers were sent to "talk to friends, folks in the local area. They can show the example, 'Here's where I was, and here is where I am,' " Artis said.
[+3] - contrex - 06/03/2009[quote="cjhsa"]has been being [/quote] Is English your native language? If not, you have some excuse for the above, but if it is, you sure are a dumb s.o.b.
It's so telling by the lack of responses that the loony left doesn't want people to see/read this information.
We are already at war, internally. It officially began April 15, when the first return salvo was fired by the good guys, but the war has been being waged by the left wing douchebags for many, many years.
It's so telling that you have to answer your own loony posts, cjhsa, because nobody else gives a flying f*ck about the sh*t that you write.
The story without the picture?
Is English your native language? If not, you have some excuse for the above, but if it is, you sure are a dumb s.o.b. | 2019-04-18T20:20:09 | https://able2know.org/topic/132928-1 |
0.999892 | Unanswered questions surround the circumstances of the soldier's death.
A British soldier who was shot dead in Iraq, where he was helping to train local soldiers to fight the Islamic State (Isis) has been named by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as Lance Corporal Scott Hetherington of the 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
The 22-year-old father-of-one from Middleton, Greater Manchester died at Camp Taji military base on Monday (2 January). An investigation is underway.
In a statement, the MoD said Hetherington died as the result of a "tragic incident". The use of the word "incident" as opposed to "accident" has led to speculation that he was shot by another British soldier inside the camp. The Guardian reported that the death may have occurred when a soldier accidentally discharged his weapon, although the claim has not been verified.
Lieutenant Colonel Rob Singleton, Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, said Hetherington, who became a father in October 2016, was "utterly professional and talented... full of character, fun, and his enthusiasm was infectious. The battalion has lost a huge talent and a real character. He will be missed dearly and we will never forget him."
Nicknamed "Snowball", Hetherington was a vehicle commander in the Force Protection Platoon at the camp, 27 km north of Baghdad. There are currently around a thousand British services personnel in Iraq and Syria, plus an estimated 200 special forces. Many of the British troops are training their Iraqi counterparts to deal with the threat from Isis.
Quoted by the Mail, Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mike Penning said: "Our thoughts are with the soldier's family, friends and colleagues, and I would ask that their privacy is respected at this difficult time. An investigation has started into the circumstances surrounding this tragic incident." | 2019-04-24T10:02:27 | https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/british-soldier-shot-dead-iraq-named-l-cpl-scott-hetherington-1599146 |
0.999999 | Are these correct and what's the difference in meaning between them?
1. There aren't any cars down here.
2. There isn't a car down here.
3. It didn't catch any mistakes.
4. It didn't catch any mistake.
5. It can discard unsolicited letter to your house.
5. It can discard unsolicited letters to your house.
6. There is more rumor about you.
8. I like to eat hamburgers.
9. I like to eat hamburger.
The 1st 2 sentences are correct, you added the s when there is more than one car.
Sentence 3 doesn't make much sense to me. What about "It didn't detect / pick out / come across / find any mistakes"?
"It can discard unsolicited letters to your house." is gramatically correct yet I would need the context to tell you whether the sentence makes sense for the purpose you intend.
"There are more rumours about you." or perhaps to make the sentence sound better "More rumours about you are circulating." (If you want to use the singular then the sentence would be "Another rumour about you is circulating.") Yes, rumours are countable.
Sentence 8 is correct, 9 definitely not. By the way, if you are speaking of a general habit use the first sentence, but if you are referring to a the fact that you'd like to eat a hamburger at a particular moment, then you'd have to say: "I would like to eat a hamburger."
2. There isn't a car down here. (different intonation - emphasizes the absence of cars - indicates some surprise at something unexpected - means same as "There isn't a SINGLE CAR down here."
The second one is grammatical, but not the first in this pair. Count nouns in the singular (letter) require a determiner like "a", "the", "my", etc.
Are these correct and what's the difference in meaing between them?
4. The mailman will discard unsolicited letters to your house.
5. I need a graphics card.
6. I need a graphic card.
7. I am not confident with my ability to run.
8. I am not confident with my abilities to run.
"a lot" can only be singular, but in casual usage the agreement with the verb is determined by the word that comes after "a lot of". Another useful fact about "a lot of" is that it goes with both countable and non-countable nouns. Thus, it means both "many" and "much".
There is no significant difference in meaning. "gossip" is defined as trivial or groundless rumors. A "rumor" is a piece of unverified information passed by word of mouth.
I'm sorry. It doesn't help much. I don't understand what you mean by "an unsolicited letter". It's "an", not "a", by the way.
I believe it's called a "graphics card" -- a card which enables graphics. By the way, "graphics" is not plural. Neither are "mathematics", "physics", "economics", and similar words.
I think you want "I am not confident of my ability to run."
What's the difference in meaning between these ones?
1. There's a lot of rumor about you.
2. There are a lot of rumors about you.
When would you use plural and when would you not for the word 'rumor'?
3. I am not confident with my ability to run.
4. I am not confident with my abilities to run.
Use 'rumor' or 'rumors' (Remember it's a count noun!) the same as 'chair' or 'chairs'. It simply depends on how many there are.
"a lot of" can be followed only by a (singular) noncount noun or a plural count noun, so only sentence 2 is correct.
Sentence 3 is the correct one. You're only talking about one ability -- your running ability.
Okay, I am understand this a lot better now, thanks.
2. Too bad cars cant take a shortcut like that. ( Is this saying that cars cannot take that specific shortcut like that?
Does it matter which one I use? Or it depends on the situtaion?
4. It depends on the locations. ('Locations' is countable?
I have checked these words at dictionary.com but they don't have 'situations' nor 'locations', so does that mean they are incorrect?
5. TV on the desktop is a great feature and the Leadtek will definitely be getting a lot of use.
6. TV on the desktop is a great feature and the Leadtek will definitely be getting a lot of uses.
How To Add A Word To The English Dictionary!?
Rules When Using A Double Consonant Before ***? | 2019-04-22T08:50:21 | https://www.englishforums.com/English/AddingS/jvqj/post.htm |
0.982336 | To build a customer profile you could ask a focus group some of the questions listed below and carry out questionnaires. Alternately you could ask yourself or people in your company/class the same questions.
1. Describe the type of person who could be your typical customer (or will be your typical customer).
2. What is the age range of potential customers?
3. Are potential customers likely to be male or female or does gender matter?
4. What is the geographical location of potential customers? Where are they likely to live?
5. What are the most likely occupations of potential customers?
6. What are the general likes /dislikes of potential customers?
7. What does a typical customer want from the product you design and manufacture?
8. What makes your product more suitable to potential customers than that of your competitors?
9. What are the most common design requirements shared by your potential customers?
10. What factors are your potential customers likely to consider before purchasing your product?
11. What do your customers value from your company, products or services?
12. How will potential customer find out about the product you are selling?
13. What have previous customers said about your company / product?
14. Does the cost of your product influence a customers decision to buy from you?
Marketing Literature - through the post.
When you have created a customer profile you will be able to focus all your efforts on potential customers. This will help you promote / advertise your product directly to those most likely to buy. | 2019-04-22T09:58:04 | http://technologystudent.com/despro2/cusproff.html |
0.999432 | When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?
Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the truth, which leads to the worst kind of sentimentality. But I'm also a sentimental person who feels quite a bit of nostalgia.
Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.
Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.
Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.
I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.
I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.
I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I don't think it's just like a nostalgia thing of "He's not as good" - I think it's because that earlier stuff was aggressively marketed as a lifestyle to them.
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.
We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.
Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.
Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.
I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.
Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.
Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for "Paris.' As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else's memories. | 2019-04-22T10:54:57 | http://www.logon2quote.com/quotes-and-sayings/tags/quotes-about-nostalgia |
0.99864 | How many times is the name Jesus mentioned in the quran?
[2:87] We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of messengers; We gave Jesus the son of Mary Clear (Signs) and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you a messenger with what ye yourselves desire not, ye are puffed up with pride?- Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay!
[2:136] Say ye: "We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses andJesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (in Islam)."
[2:253] Those messengers We endowed with gifts, some above others: To one of them Allah spoke; others He raised to degrees (of honour); to Jesus the son of Mary We gave clear (Signs), and strengthened him with the holy spirit. If Allah had so willed, succeeding generations would not have fought among each other, after clear (Signs) had come to them, but they (chose) to wrangle, some believing and others rejecting. If Allah had so willed, they would not have fought each other; but Allah Fulfilleth His plan.
[3:52] When Jesus found Unbelief on their part He said: "Who will be My helpers to (the work of) Allah?" Said the disciples: "We are Allah's helpers: We believe in Allah, and do thou bear witness that we are Muslims.
[3:55] Behold! Allah said: "O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection: Then shall ye all return unto me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.
[3:59] The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: "Be". And he was.
[3:84] Say: "We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the prophets, from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another among them, and to Allah do we bow our will (in Islam)."
[4:163] We have sent thee inspiration, as We sent it to Noah and the Messengers after him: we sent inspiration to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, to Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the Psalms.
[4:171] O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah: Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.
[5:46] And in their footsteps We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him: We sent him the Gospel: therein was guidance and light, and confirmation of the Law that had come before him: a guidance and an admonition to those who fear Allah.
[5:78] Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary: because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses.
[5:112] Behold! the disciples, said: "O Jesus the son of Mary! can thy Lord send down to us a table set (with viands) from heaven?" Said Jesus: "Fear Allah, if ye have faith."
[5:114] Said Jesus the son of Mary: "O Allah our Lord! Send us from heaven a table set (with viands), that there may be for us - for the first and the last of us - a solemn festival and a sign from thee; and provide for our sustenance, for thou art the best Sustainer (of our needs)."
[5:116] And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah'?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, Thou I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden.
[19:34] Such (was) Jesus the son of Mary: (it is) a statement of truth, about which they (vainly) dispute.
[42:13] The same religion has He established for you as that which He enjoined on Noah - the which We have sent by inspiration to thee - and that which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses, and Jesus: Namely, that ye should remain steadfast in religion, and make no divisions therein: to those who worship other things than Allah, hard is the (way) to which thou callest them. Allah chooses to Himself those whom He pleases, and guides to Himself those who turn (to Him).
[43:57] When (Jesus) the son of Mary is held up as an example, behold, thy people raise a clamour thereat (in ridicule)!
[43:61] And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): therefore have no doubt about the (Hour), but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way.
[43:63] When Jesus came with Clear Signs, he said: "Now have I come to you with Wisdom, and in order to make clear to you some of the (points) on which ye dispute: therefore fear Allah and obey me.
[57:27] Then, in their wake, We followed them up with (others of) Our messengers: We sent after them Jesus the son of Mary, and bestowed on him the Gospel; and We ordained in the hearts of those who followed him Compassion and Mercy. But the Monasticism which they invented for themselves, We did not prescribe for them: (We commanded) only the seeking for the Good Pleasure of Allah; but that they did not foster as they should have done. Yet We bestowed, on those among them who believed, their (due) reward, but many of them are rebellious transgressors.
[61:6] And remember, Jesus, the son of Mary, said: "O Children of Israel! I am the messenger of Allah (sent) to you, confirming the Law (which came) before me, and giving Glad Tidings of a Messenger to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad." But when he came to them with Clear Signs, they said, "this is evident sorcery!"
[61:14] O ye who believe! Be ye helpers of Allah: As said Jesus the son of Mary to the Disciples, "Who will be my helpers to (the work of) Allah?" Said the disciples, "We are Allah's helpers!" then a portion of the Children of Israel believed, and a portion disbelieved: But We gave power to those who believed, against their enemies, and they became the ones that prevailed. In the Arabic original text of the holy Quran, Jesus Peace be upon Him is mentioned explicitly by name exactly 25 times.
Three verses of the Noble verses mentioned above don't have His explicit name but it's mentioned in the translation for clarification.
Can a used cell phone be added on to a cell phone plan?
Can I get a plan on a found cell phone?
Answer . Can't imagine that any reputable company would remove the customer who owns the phone from it. They might help you find the person who it belongs to.
What is the cheapest cell phone plan?
Trust me here, I know Sprint, Verizon, AT- and T and all those seem nice but T-Mobile is the real deal! When you get the unlimited family plan you only have to pay $29.99 a month!
What are cell phone plans?
There are many cell phone plans that you can view online. A cellphone plan is the service that carriers such as Verizon, AT&T,Sprint, or T Mobil provide in the USA that allows you to make andreceive phone calls on your cellular device.
How do prepaid cell phone plans work?
Which cell phone plan should i buy?
It depends what you want from it. Try doing an online search to compare what is available.
What is the best cell phone plan?
What do cell phone plans do?
Do you have to be 18 to have a cell phone plan?
In order to get a contract plan with a major US carrier, you have to be 18 years of age.
Who has the cheapest cell phone plans?
If you are talking cheapest as in price only, not the amount of minutes you get, you might consider Tracfone. You can get 400 plus minutes to use over the course of an entire year for less than $100.
What is the cost of a cell phone plan?
Cell phone plans range from $20 plus a month all the way to over $100 per month.
What cell phone plan is the cheapest?
You can get a year's worth of service and a cell phone on Tracfone for under $100.
Are cell phone plans usable with any cell phone?
No. Each carrier has allowed cell phones for their carrier. If you have a GSM carrier though, you can buy an unlocked phone to use on that carrier even if the carrier doesn't support the phone. All you do is move your sim card.
When you buy a cell phone do you have to have a plan?
What is the cheapest family plan for cell phones?
If you are looking for the best deal for a family plan when it comes to cost and minutes, T-Mobile offers the best value by far. Not only do they have the cheapest plans, they also have the cheapest add a line prices when you need more than two phones.
What is the best family plan for cell phones?
Do you have to pay for cell phone plans?
You can take the benefits of cell phone plans if you are residingin U.S.A. Lifeline is a Federally created program that gives adiscount on basic phone service allowing it to be easier to affordfor households that are low-income. There is a qualifying criteriato take the benefits of this program.
How old do you have to be to have your own cell phone plan?
Well in order to have a plan you have to be able to sign a contract. So i believe legally that it's 18, unless your emancipated or something.
What is your cell phone service and plan and how do you like it?
You are going to get loads of answers to this !... I'm with '3 Mobile' my plan is 100 minutes or texts, costing £4.00 per month ! It's perfect for me - as I only use my mobile as an 'emergency contact' phone.
Can you have a cell phone plan at 16?
You would have to either be on your parents plan or get a pay as you go plan.
What does a cell phone data plan do?
A cell phone data plan allows you to go online on your cell phone or use an email client on your phone.
What is data in cell phone plans?
What is the best emergency cell phone plan?
If all you want is a phone to stick in your glove compartment and use for emergencies then it's going to be the TracFone. TracFone has the cheapest yearly service and the cheapest phone. You can pick up a TracFone for $10 and then the yearly airtime will run you about $80.
How has the best cell phone plans?
The best cell phone plan depends on your usage, the number of phones on the plan and the current offers by service providers and retailers. To find them, you have to put in a little research time to find the best offers that are around.
Where can you get international cell phone plans?
Most large service providers have 'roaming' plans. Though they should be scrutinised carefully as they differ greatly and can also be extremely costly.
Are ATT cell phone plans reliable?
AT&T is pretty reliable i think, they're cheaper than higher end carriers like Verizon wireless, some pros are you get rollover minutes for years, they have a large selection of phones and fast 3g service.
How many ATT cell phone plans are there?
There are four basic categories of plans based on your requirements. They are individual plans, family plans, prepaid plans, and data plans. Within each category, AT&T will have more plans to target your needs.
Where can you do a prepaid cell phone plan comparison?
Is the walmart cell phone plan cheaper than a Verizon cell phone plan?
Depending on your plan and use Walmart may be cheaper or more expensive than verizon. It depends on your needs for your phone. Contact the company's and compare rates to get a better idea suited for your needs.
Is the Walmart cell phone plan legit?
The SmartTalk plan (by walmart) is a pre-paid plan. It received some pretty decent reviews, and I know people who have it. Everyone I know who has it seems pretty satisfied.
How can you get a sprint cell phone plan?
Your best bet is to find a local sprint store and speak to a representative about plans and options as well as current deals they may have. Other electronics stores such as Best Buy or Radio Shack can also set up sprint cell phone plans.
What is a month to month cell phone plan?
A pay-as-you-go plan. AT&T has GoPhones that do this. Virgin Mobile has month to month plans. You can cancel the plan anytime you want, unlike with a contract.
What company has cheap cell phone plans?
What types of cell phone plans is there?
There are many types of cell phone plans. A family plan is a special deal where members of a family sharing this plan will either have free minutes with one another or their minutes will be at a reduced rate. For those who do not use cell phones very much, you can get pre-paid minutes as well.
How do you get out of your cell phone plan?
You will have to pay an 'exit fee' equivalent to any unused months of your contract. For example - say you're in month 7 of a 12 month contract. You would pay for the remaining five unused months. Speak your service provider for clarification.
Are cricket cell phone plans inexpensive?
Cricket cell phone plans are generally inexpensive compared to plans from the three main phone companies in America because they are normally on the go phones.
How are Verizon cell phone plans used?
Verizon has several different cell phone plans that can be used including contract plans and pre-paid plans. Depending on which type of plan a person selects they can choose to have voice calling, texting and data plans.
How to get out of a cell phone plan?
Only by contacting your cell phone operator you can change or cancel your plan. Once your plan is cancelled you have two alternatives. Ask your current mobile phome operator for another plan, or then move onto another operator whose plan fits better to you.
What is the cell phone plan that AARP offers?
There are various cell phone plans that are on offer from AARP. Customers would get a 5% discount, and in some cases no contract which means the user is not tied to the deal for months. The buyer can choose from a selection on anytime and and anywhere plans from no minutes to 4000 minutes a month.
What is an example of a senior cell phone plan?
An example of a senior cell phone plan is Verizon's Nationwide 65 plus plan. Plans such as these are not very expensive and are a good option for senior's who do not plan on using very many minutes.
How is the best cell phone plan determined?
By how many minutes are in the plan and how much money you spend on texting along which wireless company you choose to pay a month along with special service fees.
What are the cheapest cell phone plans for seniors?
What are the best cell phone plans that you can get?
There are many different types of cell phone plans available. It would depend on what kind of plan you would need. If you are a family, a family plan would be the best to go with because you get discounts. If you are single and don't use your phone very much, a pay as you go plan would be best.
Are there any cell phones without plans?
There are cell phones that work without plans. Phones like the Iphone have plans that you need in order to work the phone. Some phones like a tracefone have no plans and you just pay for minutes you need.
What are the best ATandT cell phone plans?
There are a few good AT&T cell phone plans and deciding the best one is down to personal taste. Some of the best one's are 450 minutes for $40 per month and 900 minutes for $60 per month.
Where are there comparisons for different cell phone plans?
There are many plans that one can find. You can compare them at the Consumer Reports website. You can also compare them at the Wirefly website or Whistleout website.
Where can you get a prepaid cell phone plan?
Prepaid cell phone plans are available from all major cell providers including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, TracFone, U.S. Cellular, and Cricket Wireless.
What are cell phones pay as you go plans?
Most cell phone companies offer pay as you go plans. Pay as you go plans lets one control the cost of their phone plan. One only pays as one uses the phone. One can still get many features and extras with pay as you go plans.
Who offers cell phones with no plans? | 2019-04-19T17:37:03 | https://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_times_is_the_name_Jesus_mentioned_in_the_quran |
0.999999 | Timothy Bowen Comedy: LEAVE MATT MULLINS ALONE!!!!!!!!
Well, to summarize for the lazy, here's the tl;dr: A lady came to the open mic show and was specifically offended by Matt Mullins, a fellow local comedian and friend of mine. Harsh words were spoken, accusations and name calling were abound, and after a grueling day of flame war action, Matt put on his make up, turned on the tape deck, and took the wig down from the shelf.
Maybe I find this video super funny specifically because I'm somewhat involved in the whole drama of it all, but I definitely think this should be seen by as many people as possible. | 2019-04-19T05:39:06 | http://timbowencomedy.blogspot.com/2013/08/leave-matt-mullins-alone.html |
0.999813 | Since the discovery of graphene in 2004, many layered materials have been thinned down to a monolayer and proven to be stable in ambient conditions. Among these, monolayers of the MX2 family, where M is a transition metal atom (typically Mo, or W) and where X is a chalcogen atom (S, Se, Te), have been shown to be direct band-gap semiconductors with emission in the visible-near infrared range. This makes them promising candidates for ultrathin electronic and opto-electronic devices. In addition, due to the particular bandstructure and broken inversion symmetry in these atomically thin crystals, the optical selection rules are chiral and electron-hole pairs can be selectively created in one of the two non-equivallent K valleys of the Brillouin zone. This could allow to store and process information via the valley index of carriers in these ideal 2D systems.
As shown in the above Figure, the optical properties of these materials are dominated by excitons: bound electron-hole pairs with strong binding energy due to quantum confinement and weak screening of the Coulomb interaction. For all the members of the TMDC family, the photoluminescence spectrum at low temperatures exhibits well resolved neutral excitons (X) and charged excitons (T) peaks. However, for MoS2, which is particularly interesting due to it's abundance in nature (molybdenite), the spectrum which is usually reported in the litterature consistes of a single, very broad peak (50 meV linewidth) at around 1.9 eV that has been attributed before to the neutral exciton. This is in stark contrast with the spectrum shown in the above figure, which suggests that the spectrum of monolayer MoS2 is actually similar to the ones observed for the other members of TMDC family, with well defined X and T peaks. Where does this discrepancy comes from?. As will be discussed below, it comes from laser induced-doping and degradation of the optical quality of MoS2 monolayers due to interactions with the SiO2 substrate.
What is the optical spectrum of monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) ?
While studying the optical properties of monolayer MoS2 and MoSe2 deposited onto SiO2 substrates, me and my colleagues at LPCNO (Toulouse) have discovered that laser exposure changes the photoluminescence spectrum of monolayers in a non-reversible way. This happens at power densities that so far have been considered to be non-destructive (fractions of µW with a laser spot size of about 1 µm). We have shown that after several minutes of laser exposure, the trion (charged exciton) emission increases while the neutral exciton emission decreases, suggesting a laser induced doping of the monolayers. This is shown in the top pannels of the following figure; the spectra as a function of excitation power reveals an increase of the trion emission in both MoS2 and MoSe2 monolayers. When going back to the lowest power excitation, the PL shape has significantly changed (bottom pannels).
Interestingly, in MoS2 monolayers the neutral exciton emission can be totally quenched when exposed to a laser of enough power. When this happens, the photoluminescence spectrum of MoS2 at low temperature consists of a broad peak at 1.9 eV followed by a small low energy emission (see blue curve below). This is the most common PL spectrum of MoS2 found in the litterature. This broad peak has been attributed before to the neutral exciton emission. In reality, it lies at a much lower energy than that of the exciton, which is found to be around 1.96 eV previous to high laser exposure. The figure below shows the PL spectrum of a MoS2 monolayer before (red curve) and after (blue curve) being exposed to a pulsed laser with an average power of several tens of µW. Note that both spectra have been obtained for the same monolayer under identical conditions, revealing that the optical properties of this monolayer has been changed in a non reversible way.
The exact microscopical mechanism by which laser exposure changes the optical properties of TMD monolayers still needs to be clarified, but it seems clear that the SiO2 substrate plays a key role. Indeed, by inserting a buffer layer of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) between the silicon substrate and the monolayer, the effects of laser exposure are dramatically reduced. The most immediate consequence of these findings is that in order to study the intrinsic properties of excitons in MoS2 (and other members of the TMD family), very low excitation power densities should be employed if the monolayers are directly in contact with SiO2. In many cases, experiments are performed with pulsed lasers, in which case the peak power densities can be easily larger than the ones required to change the optical response of these materials.
It has been shown recently that treating MoS2 monolayers with an organic superacid (TFSI) can increase the photoluminescence quantum yield up to nearly 100% at room temperature (see here). We have employed this technique and performed photoluminescence spectroscopy at T= 4 K on MoS2. We show that this treatment reduces the localized emission induced by defects on the monolayer, and together with the use of very low excitation power, we were able to obtain very well defined neutral exciton (X) and trion (T) peaks at 1.96 eV and 1.93 eV, respectively. Since the majority of published MoS2 spectra consist of a single broad peak at 1.9 eV, we have performed polarization resolved photoluminescence in order to confirm the correct identification of both peaks.
When excited with circularly polarized light, only one of the two non-equivallent K valleys of the Brillouin zone will be occupied, and at steady state both excitonic complexes exhibit partially circularly polarized emission (see figure below). The very sharp peak at 1.88 eV correspond to a Raman peak (the laser energy is 2.1 eV in these experiments). Note that the low energy emission, possibly related to localized excitons, is unpolarized.
When excited with linearly polarized light, which is a mixture of right and left circularly polarized photons, a coherent superposition of excitons is created in both valleys (valley coherence). As a consequence, the neutral exciton emission is linearly polarized in the same axis of that of the incident laser (see figure below). As expected, the trion complex presents no linear polarization.
Recently, we have shown that encapsulating TMDC monolayers with few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) allows to access the intrinsic, high optical quality of these 2D crystals. Indeed, we observe an excitonic linewidth as low as 2 meV at low temperatures (see figure below), which is more than one order of magnitude narrower than the typically broad peak that has been attributed to the neutral exciton in the past. In addition, no signature of charged excitons is visible in the photoluminescence spectra. This spectacular improvement can be due to several reasons: the capping layers act as a barrier to charge transfer from the SiO2 substrate to the monolayers, and it also avoids any transfer of the substrate's roughness to the MoS2.
As shown in the figure above, excitation with a circularly-polarized laser 25 meV above the exciton resonance results in a high degree of circular polarization at steady state (35%), whereas using a linearly polarized laser results in robust valley coherence as evidenced from the high degree of linear polarization of the exciton peak (55%).
Applying a perpendicular magnetic-field results in a Valley Zeeman effect and a rotation of the linear polarization of the luminescence, which is a key result in what concerns the possibility of manipulating a coherent superposition of valley states in these promising 2D systems.
PhD thesis: Spin-dependent electron transport in semiconductors.
under the supervision of Daniel Paget and Alistair Rowe.
My thesis work was funded by the Gaspard Monge international grant.
To get the manuscript of my PhD thesis, click here. | 2019-04-23T22:45:11 | http://fabiancadiz.com/index.php/cv/2-uncategorised/11-approaching-the-intrinsic-homogeneous-limit-in-transition-metal-dichalcogenide-monolayers |
0.999558 | He looked up at the black hole. He didn't see it as a cave mouth anymore; instead, he thought of it as a doorway. And something had come out of that doorway that should have been extinct. A ripple of nausea ran through his gut as he remembered another cave from his past. It wasn't true that deep caves were always dead and sterile places. Some caves were very much alive, and held secrets that were horrifying and deadly.
Summary: Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn't recognise, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain.
Formed a billion years ago, the Appalachian’s Black Mountain hosts a terrible legend. Only one elder remains to guard its long-forgotten, deadly secret and there is a fear that there is evil lurking again. Some hikers have gone missing, and the rescue team sent to search for them has not returned. Meanwhile, in nearby Ashville, Professor Matt Kearns is drawn into the mystery of an ancient artefact recovered from the mountainside, and an image too grotesque to be real.
My thoughts: This book is awesome, fantastic, mind-blowing and many other superlatives. The author has taken one of the most popular legends - that of Bigfoot - and given it a brilliant twist, turning what could have been a very typical story into something endlessly interesting. My first thought when I started reading was: It's story about Sasquatch being real - what's not to like? I soon began to realize that it was a lot more than just that. It is at times hard to follow a book when there are too many sub-plots, too many things going on all at once. But in Black Mountain, the author manages to keep you on the edge of your seat throughout. Every little strand of story is just as engaging and the build-up is amazing. I could anticipate a big finish and it did arrive with a bang!
I have always been a fan of multiple points of view, and the author has pulled them off perfectly. I loved the fact that the book also offers little bits from the creature's point of view. The dialogue had a good flow to it and as the book progressed, I really started to care about the characters, which enhanced my reading experience even further. Not to mention, all the action. Saying that the book is action-packed would be an understatement. The author gives a move for move, blow for blow description of every fight, every interaction. I could visualize the scenes in the book perfectly and it was exciting to read. I am sure this book would make a great movie.
The book is fast paced, but not too fast either; just fast enough. This isn't just another run-of-the-miller thriller. Black Mountain, and I believe the entire series, has a lot to offer. There are touching, bittersweet moments when Alex struggles after his past, there are times which are funny, quirky and romantic and then there are moments of bone chilling terror.
There are many characters in the book, so for someone who hasn't read the entire series, it may be slightly confusing. Having read Arcadian Genesis, I was acquainted with the main characters and their story-lines, but there are things that I would probably understand better after reading the other books in the series. While it's not a perfect standalone, I would still recommend the book to people who haven't read rest of the series; better yet, I recommend you to read the whole series - trust me, it's worth it. Grab your copies right here! | 2019-04-22T01:23:09 | http://www.tabularasabookblog.com/2012/12/black-mountain-by-greig-beck.html |
0.999762 | Passive houses: warm, dry and sustainable, so why not more?
Warm, dry and cheap to run, passive houses - also known as super-houses - are built to a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency, using high-spec windows, insulation and mechanical ventilation systems.
They typically keep indoor temperatures to 20 degrees centigrade year-round.
Jason Quinn is a passive house designer and the country's only passive house certifier, he says New Zealand houses are often cold, drafty and mouldy and with tens of thousands of new homes being built in the next decade, employing passive house technology is a no-brainer.
With just 24 fully certified passive houses in the country Quinn has published a book of case studies showing the benefits of passive design which will be launched at the Passive House Conference in Wellington this weekend.
A passive house uses, Quinn says, tiny amounts of energy annually.
"What makes it a passive house is a performance standard for very low energy use for heating and cooling, and when I say low, I mean really low - the same amount of power you use to run your fridge would heat your house for the whole winter keeping the temperature at 20 degrees centigrade throughout whole home."
It is a relatively new concept; the first passive home was built in 1991 in Germany. The passive part refers to the windows, walls and floor.
"The things that will last for 100 years or more, instead of looking at how good is that air conditioner or how cheap is that burner to run."
This means the house has to be designed right from the start, he says.
"Everything works together, if you just took the passive solar technologies and just smashed them back into a building without doing that modelling and knowing how it's going to work you can actually cause some problems," Quinn says.
He tells Kathryn Ryan of an Auckland home he's trying to fix that became a solar oven in the summer.
"I've got a home I'm working on in Auckland this week where they've built themselves a solar oven by applying those [passive] technologies without doing the most important part which is running the simulation and knowing how it will all work."
The Dunedin High Street cohousing project is an example of how to get it right, he says.
"They've insulated the slab, the walls and the roof and the they've put in mechanical ventilation with heat recovery - throughout each of those homes they'll have fresh air all the time, you know that perfect spring day? It's like that all the time in their house everywhere."
They've taken really good care at the junctions between different building elements such as roof and walls, and walls and windows, Quinn says. It is at those junctions where air leakage can happen.
The better the insulation the more those junctions matter, he says.
"It's like a bucket, if you have a whole bunch of holes in it you don't care about any one particular hole but if you've got a well-sealed bucket and you poke a hole in it - it matters."
All passive houses built thus far in New Zealand have mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, he says.
"It's a system that takes exhaust air from the wet parts of the house; the kitchen the bathrooms and exhausts it through a heat exchanger and brings some fresh air through that same heat exchanger so the outgoing warm air preheats the incoming fresh air and it works the same way in reverse in the summer for your air-conditioning.
"You don't waste the energy by throwing it out the window by opening windows or exhaust fans - you can recover it."
Quinn says people often confuse passive houses with solar passive houses.
"Solar passive is a guess and hope system, put some more windows towards the north and maybe it'll be OK, maybe not, the difference is with a passive house you've done the modelling so if you do orient it for passive solar because you've got a great site you can take into account and use less insulation, but if you get a site that's in the valley and you've got no northern aspect you maybe put more insulation in so you still have the same energy bills."
No one passive house is the same as another he says, they are designed to perform in all of New Zealand's varied climates.
"If you have one in Kaitaia it's going to have double glazing and more insulation than the New Zealand building code, but not much more, just really careful about thermal bridges perhaps whereas in Queenstown we will have triple glazing and much thicker insulation."
He says both houses would have the same winter heating bills.
The current building code has just three climate zones for the whole country, just one for the entire South Island, he says.
For passive houses 17 climate zones are used, and adjusted for elevation, so an elevated site in Queenstown would have a different specs to a lakeside house, he says.
New Zealand's current building code is pretty poor, he says.
"It's dis-incentivising good design for one thing, it's just a legal minimum and not meant to be used for design but a legal minimum.
"It doesn't have any requirement for ventilation in it - which is the big thing, if you're in an existing home you should have continuous ventilation in that building and be heating it all winter for your health and we don't have that in our homes because it's not in the code."
He says that shows even in newly-built homes.
"Even modern houses built today you'll often find mould within just a few years at the edges of the carpet where it's just too cold and too damp."
The book, which can be downloaded for free, will be launched at this weekend's Passive House Conference in Wellington. | 2019-04-26T16:26:08 | https://static1.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018681402/passive-houses-warm-dry-and-sustainable-so-why-not-more |
0.997947 | WAS DOG ATTACKED BY 'BEAST OF BUCKS'?
A DOG nearly died from horrific injuries inflicted in a savage attack by ‘the Beast of Bucks’.
Rescue pooch Daisy was being taken for a walk by owner Carlos Romero, from High Wycombe, in woodland near local beauty spot Tom Burt’s hill when she was attacked by a ‘black panther’.
The poor dog was rushed to the vet after the incident which owner Carlos thinks was the "beast of bucks"
Terrified Carlos believes his beloved pet was pounced upon by a jungle lion as the area is a hotspot for sightings of big cats. In 2001, experts confirmed prints found on Wycombe Heights Golf Centre were those of a puma. Since then, locals have reported several sightings of a black big cat in the area, leading it to be nicknamed the “Beast of Bucks”.
Carlos was walking Daisy, who is a mixed breed, in the woods when she went off to investigate something in the undergrowth.
Minutes later she howled in pain and came out limping towards her owner with blood gushing from gaping wounds on the side of her body.
Carlos rushed her to the vet for emergency treatment and is now warning other local dog owners to be careful when walking their mutts.
He said: "It must have been a powerful animal to have done this to her.
"I was terrified because the area where we walk is frequented by lots of dog walkers and children.
“If it is a panther, somebody needs to do something about it.
"You can’t leave an animal like that on the loose with children and pets around."
"It is lucky Daisy is a larger dog - a smaller dog that gets caught up in something like that could be dead."
IS net closing on MISSING LYNX?
But local vet Adam Maxton, of Temple End Surgery, said it was more likely to be a deer than a panther.
He said: "It is highly unlikely that a panther has caused that. It is more likely to be a deer with antlers."
A spokesman from the British Big Cats Society said the UK has plenty of ideal countryside which is good hunting ground for panthers, cougars, leopards and even lions and tigers because there is lots of woodland for them to hide in and leap out on their prey.
He added that escapees from private collections and small zoos are now living wild and have started families, fuelling the British big cat population.
He said: "Believing in big cats is not like believing in the Loch Ness monster. There is absolutely no doubt that they are out there.
"The most credible reports are from farmers, and those guys know their stuff. We have also had policemen reporting sightings to us. For every report, there are going to be others who don't report it."
It’s the latest of a spate of big cat sightings in recent years with reports of pumas, lions and tigers being spotted across England.
In 2010 it was revealed that there had been more than 100 sightings of exotic and unidentified animals in England since 2005.
Many zoologists think Britain has a large wild population of big cats which have been breeding and forming colonies in remote areas of countryside since the late 1970s, when the Dangerous Wild Animals Act forced owners to dump exotic pets.
Last year a man claimed to have come face-to-face with a ‘puma-like beast’ near the countryside home of the Duchess of Cambridge's parents Michael and Carole Middleton at Bucklebury, Berkshire.
In October 2012 a bushy-tailed, long-necked animal, dubbed the 'Creature of Curridge', two miles from Bucklebury, was spotted by local businessman Don Prater.
And in 2011 young mum Natasha Wysockyj told how she fled in terror after she was 'stalked by a black panther' while out walking with her family in a wood at Pangbourne, a few miles from Bucklebury.
In 2007, Patricia Lewis, of Earley, near Reading, said she saw a panther on the prowl in a wooded valley just outside Pangbourne while Geoff and Sylvia Killgallon, of Caversham, Reading, said they saw it stalking the fields around their home.
A similar creature was also seen in Shinfield and Ashampstead near Reading in December 2007 and in 2005 a long, black cat-like creature dubbed the Beast of Berkshire was seen stalking through the countryside between Tilehurst and Pangbourne. | 2019-04-26T04:27:11 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1968116/dog-suffered-horror-wounds-after-being-savaged-by-a-puma-on-country-walk-owner-claims/ |
0.999588 | One of the most common interview questions you may encounter is, “What you are looking for in your next job?” The interviewer wants to know whether your goals are a match for the company. Your answer also allows an interviewer to see whether your skills and interests make you a good candidate for the job at hand.
To answer this question successfully, consider your goals as they relate to the position. While your answer should always be honest, it should also show how you will add value to the company.
Read below for tips on how to answer, as well as examples of strong sample answers.
When preparing for an interview, review the requirements of the job listing. Then, make a list of your own interests and goals, making sure to take note of any overlap.
Seeing the commonalities between the two lists will help you craft a strong response to this question. Your answer should emphasize your goals and interests as they relate to the job.
Your response to this question will be slightly different for every place where you interview, because it will be tailored to that specific job opening.
Frame your answer so that it shows how you will benefit the company. For example, you might explain that you want to work for a company that encourages teamwork and team projects because you thrive in a team environment. It will show the interviewer that you will do well in the company’s team-driven culture.
Even though you want to show how you are a good fit for the company, you should not be dishonest. Always keep your answer truthful, since employers can tell when an answer is inauthentic. Focus on real answers that also show that you will do well on the job at hand.
Finally, avoid making salary and benefits the focus of your answer. Responding that way puts the focus on your desires, instead of the company's.
"I'm looking for a position where I can have the opportunity to use my written communication skills. As a marketing assistant at your company, I would be able to apply my years of experience as a successful grant writer and would be able to write the kinds of materials I most enjoy working on."
"I am hoping for a job that will allow me the chance to boost sales at an already successful company, such as your own. I am looking for the opportunity to use the skills that I have developed during my years in marketing to engage your sales force and increase productivity and international sales."
"I am excited by the opportunity to work with an innovative, successful company such as your own. I look forward to utilizing the experience I have in technology to help streamline a company’s products for even more successful implementation."
"In my next job, I would like to be able to have a positive impact on my patients and to be able to help them lead a more functional and healthy lifestyle. Your facility offers patients a total recovery program, and I feel that my experience, education, and specialization would make this a good fit for me."
"I look forward to working for a company whose mission I firmly believe in, such as your own. I look for jobs about which I am passionate because this allows me to be extremely productive and creative."
Interview Question: How Would Your Colleagues Describe Your Personality? | 2019-04-25T05:22:33 | https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-are-you-looking-for-in-your-next-job-2061264 |
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Step 1: Parents will need to set up a Parent Portal account. If you are a student new to the district, please create an account on Parent Portal or login with a current account if you already have one. Parent Portal is located here.
Please bring the following information with you: student's birth certificate, social security card, immunization records, parent's driver license, and proof of residency.
Step 2: Parents will log into Parent Portal and there will be only 4 sections of information to fill out electronically. | 2019-04-20T00:48:58 | http://www.bushlandisd.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=418569&pageId=2306068 |
0.999771 | Question: Help obtaining splice site data from dbSNP!
I have been trying to download the splice site mutations found in dbSNP along with their corresponding genomic coordinates and nucleotide changes. I have spent way too much time trying to create a local mySQL instance of dbSNP from this site: https://cgsmd.isi.edu/dbsnpq/downloads.php#dbSNPdownloadsTables . The sql dumps and .txt dumps are not in UTF-8 encoding and I cannot figure out an encoding to get them to render normal text.
Any suggestions on ways to get this data from dbSNP? Any help would be much appreciated!
Don't think you need to make it that complicated, could you try an Ensembl BioMart query instead?
Not sure if you will be able to download everything that way though. Edit: works fine, please follow Emily's suggestion to get the results file.
That query is going to get to 30940 variants. If you do it that way, I suggest you download your data using Export results to compressed web file (notify by email). If you try to download that directly, it'll just stop partway through due to a lost connection and you won't get all your data.
Yes can confirm this, using "compressed web file" (.gz) and notify by email, took only few minutes until the download was ready.
Thanks Michael and Emily! This has made this process so much easier. I still need the genomic reference nucleotide for each variant. I understand that to gain a true reference, I would need to specify populations and look into allele frequencies. Would using the "ancestral allele" serve as a good surrogate?
To provide some context -- I am trying to obtain a set of benign splice site mutations. To do this I set a filter for minor allele frequencies that are > 0.05. I need reference and alternate nucleotide positions so that I can gauge the effectiveness of programs that predict pathogenicities of splice site mutations. I believe the ancestral allele should be decent surrogate because I assume the most common allele in the chimp genome is reported, but still have some reservations.
You can get the alleles and the minor allele as attributes in BioMart. If you know ref/alt and the minor allele, then the other one is the major allele. Ancestral is also useful.
Obtaining Dbsnp Identifiers From Ucsc Snp131 Table.
How to get chimpanzee SNP data from NCBI?
How to get 1000 Genomes data in bulk? | 2019-04-21T22:39:50 | https://www.biostars.org/p/133259/ |
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0.995947 | The next screen will present you with various options: Lock or unlock a device, add content, adjust time limits, age filter, in-app purchases and web browser settings. The first time you access the settings, you'll be asked to opt-in to the new feature, which is just you saying you agree to let Amazon sync settings between the device and the dashboard. You no longer have to use your child's tablet or Android device to set limits and restrictions. Here's what you need to know. Amazon's FreeTime service gives parents an easy-to-read view of precisely what a child is doing on an Amazon tablet or Android device.
So maybe now you agree with me, That old idiom "a picture is worth a thousand words" develops new meaning when the camera in your hand is trend case with glass screen protector for apple iphone 7 and apple iphone 8 - black gold the tiny one attached to your phone, The megapixel war may have been declared over a little too early, but phone cameras aren't just about the numbers any more, Forget about a curvy display or even the processor, As far as I'm concerned, it's the camera that has all the smartphone's most advanced tech, and also its most socially important, Taking a picture and sharing it has become a central part of our lives..
However, after Thursday night's debate he sent tweets with some very curious letter selections. First there was this: "Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night. The problem is, he is a choker, and once a choker, always a chocker! Mr. Meltdown."While not being chock-full of misspellings, this was something of a shocker. Trump's tweets normally cast a perfect spell. A few hours later, things got a little worse. There were two more tweets captured by Twitterati and reported by Politico. "Leightweight chocker Marco Rubio looks like a little boy on stage. Not presidential material!" read one.
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The biggest drawback is that FaceTime only works when calling another iPhone 4. If your social circle is stuffed full of hip young gunslingers all rockin' the latest tech, then you're laughing, but it's not much use if your mates have better things than a phone to spend a monkey on. It also requires Wi-Fi, but as that means calls are free we don't see that as too much of a drawback. 3G FaceTime could be on the cards if Apple can work something out with the networks, but we can't see the providers being too keen on promoting a feature that cannibalises their voice calls business and puts more strain on their data infrastructure. Compatibility with Skype and other VoIP apps is also a possibility. | 2019-04-23T18:14:06 | https://www.dermatologyacademy.it/trend-case-with-glass-screen-protector-for-apple-iphone-7-and-apple-iphone-8-black-gold-en-d10439.html |
0.999997 | Mike Pence for Vice President?
It is extremely unusual that being nominated to run as a major party's candidate for Vice President would be harmful to the person accepting the nomination, but that is what would be the case for Mike Pence. There are positives, of course, but there are enough negatives that this would ultimately be a bad career move for Indiana's governor.
The most obvious problem is this: Donald Trump is a raging dumpster fire. As Trump's running mate, Pence would be obligated to defend Trump throughout the next three and a half months. Trump has said and done a number of outrageous things over the last year and is still not trusted by even a lot of Republicans who support him. By attaching himself to Trump, Pence would be accepting Trump's baggage as his own. It would be very difficult to walk that back after the election is over, and if Pence tries to do so he may wind up looking worse in the process.
If Trump wins, Pence gets the prestige of being Vice President but would be further saddled with Trump's antics. If Trump acts illegally to restrict free speech or due process, or attempts to force the military to commit war crimes, Pence would be tarred by that too. One lesson for Pence is that Bill Clinton's antics in office harmed Al Gore in 2000. Pence would not have the perch of the Vice President's office from which to launch his campaign if he avoids Trump, but he would also have a cleaner record in running for President in 2020 or 2024.
Indiana is a Republican state, and Pence has a financial advantage over his opponent in a rematch of 2012. Hillary Clinton is deeply unpopular here, so even with Trump leading the ticket the Presidential race is likely to have at least a net neutral effect if it is not a positive for Pence. Indiana's economic climate is strong and that always helps the incumbent. Trump's ability to win the Presidency is questionable at best, so Pence would be taking a safer bet by staying where he is instead of joining forces with Trump.
Some Republicans think moving Pence would be useful because of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) controversy last year, but in terms of Indiana politics that has pretty much played itself out and will probably not be a factor in the 2016 election. If Pence becomes Trump's vice presidential nominee, RFRA will be re-litigated not only in Indiana but all across the nation as well. I do not buy the argument that RFRA damaged Pence, and the only people still motivated by it are people who would never vote Republican anyway. There is no need to make that a distraction going forward, though.
No matter who replaced Pence on the ballot, choosing a new candidate for governor with handicap the Republican Party's chances of holding onto the seat. Pence already has a strong campaign infrastructure in place, so a new candidate would have to build a statewide campaign and start winning voters with only two and a half months before early voting starts. Sure, some of that can be transferred but throwing the ballot into chaos with only two and a half months to go would hurt the party. Pence needs to consider what he would be leaving behind and if his replacement loses some Republicans may hold a grudge.
Pence has a lot to lose by going with Trump, both in the short term and in the long term. There is a significant upside, of course, but that depends on how Trump behaves over the next four years - something that is by no means predictable and could actually be harmful. Pence would be wise to respectfully decline and pick the safer bet of staying on as governor. | 2019-04-24T22:44:38 | http://www.sstibbs.com/scott/2016_archives/blog_2016_096.html |
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0.998376 | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common behavioral disorder of childhood, and is marked by a constellation of symptoms including immature levels of impulsivity, inattention, and hyperactivity (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). The National Institutes of Health declared ADHD a "severe public health problem" in its consensus conference on ADHD in 1998. In the ongoing dialogue about ADHD in gifted children, three questions often arise. Are gifted children over-diagnosed with the disorder? In what ways are gifted ADHD children different from gifted children without the disorder and from other ADHD children? Does the emerging research suggest any differences in intervention or support?
Initial findings suggest two points for consideration (Kalbfleisch, 2000; Kaufmann, Kalbfleisch, & Castellanos, 2000; Moon, 2001; Moon, Zentall, Grskovic, Hall, & Stormant, 2001; Zentall, Moon, Hall, & Grskovic, 2001). First, Kaufman and her colleagues' (2000) work indicates that identified gifted ADHD children are more impaired than other ADHD children, suggesting the possibility that we are missing gifted children with milder forms of ADHD. Second, high ability can mask ADHD, and attention deficits and impulsivity tend to depress the test scores as well as the high academic performance that many schools rely on to identify giftedness. Also, teachers may tend to focus on the disruptive behaviors of gifted ADHD students and fail to see indicators of high ability.
These delays are of concern because early provision of appropriate services is important for academic and social success. Gifted children whose attention deficits are identified later may be at risk for developing learned helplessness and chronic underachievement (Moon, 2001). ADHD children whose giftedness goes unrecognized do not receive appropriate educational services. It is recommended that children who fail to meet test score criteria for giftedness and are later diagnosed with ADHD be retested for the gifted program (Baum, Olenchak, & Owen, 1998; Moon, 2002).
As a group, ADHD children tend to lag two to three years behind their age peers in social and emotional maturity (Barkley, 1998). Gifted ADHD children are no exception (Kaufmann & Castellanos, 2000; Moon, 2001; Zentall, Moon, Hall, & Grskovic, 2001). This finding has important implications for educational placement. As a group, gifted children without ADHD tend to be more similar in their cognitive, social, and emotional development to children two to four years older than children their own age (Neihart, Reis, Robinson, & Moon, 2002). When placed with other high ability children without the disorder, ADHD children may find the advanced maturity of their classmates a challenge they are ill prepared for. Also, gifted children without the disorder may have little patience for the social and emotional immaturity of the gifted ADHD student in their midst. This is not to say that gifted ADHD students should not be placed with other gifted students. The research is clear that lack of intellectual challenge and little access to others with similar interests, ability, and drive are often risk factors for gifted children (Neihart, Reis, Robinson, & Moon, 2002), contributing to social or emotional problems.
It is difficult to differentiate true attention deficits from the range of temperament and behavior common to gifted children. There is concern in the literature that clinicians err on the side of pathologizing normal gifted behavior (Baum, Olenchak, & Owen, 1998; Baum, Owen & Dixon, 1991; Cramond, 1995; Leroux & Levitt-Perlman, 2000; Webb, 2001). Common characteristics of gifted children can be misconstrued as indicators of pathology when the observer is unfamiliar with the differences in the development of gifted children. This difficulty can be exacerbated when the gifted child in question spends considerable time in a classroom where appropriate educational services are not provided. The intensity, drive, perfectionism, curiosity, and impatience commonly seen in gifted children may, in some instances, be mistaken for indicators of ADHD (Baum, Olenchak, & Owen, 1998; Webb, 2001). The creatively gifted child may appear to be oppositional, hyperactive, and argumentative (Cramond, 1995). Gifted children with some kinds of undiagnosed learning disabilities will be very disorganized, messy, and have difficult social relations (Baum & Owen, & Dixon, 1991; Olenchak & Reis, 2002).
Ideally, a diagnosis of ADHD in gifted children should be made by a multidisciplinary team that includes at least one clinician trained in differentiating childhood psychopathologies and one professional who understands the normal range of developmental characteristics of gifted children. Since as many as two thirds of children with ADHD have coexisting conditions such as learning disabilities or depression, assessment must include an evaluation for these disorders as well (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2000). School personnel rarely have the training needed to differentially diagnose ADHD, and few clinicians are aware of the unique developmental characteristics of gifted children. Accurate assessment must be a team effort.
The available research suggests that we should not assume that all interventions recommended for ADHD children are appropriate for gifted children who have the disorder. Early findings suggest that there may be some differences in the way we intervene with gifted ADHD children. Treatment matching is crucial. Effective interventions are always those that are tailored to the unique strengths and needs of the individual. There is wide agreement in the literature on gifted children with learning problems that as a general strategy, intervention should focus on developing the talent while attending to the disability. Keeping the focus on talent development, rather than on remediation of deficits, appears to yield more positive outcomes and to minimize problems of social and emotional adjustment (Baum, Owen & Dixon, 1991; Olenchak, 1994; Olenchak & Reis, 2002; Reis, McGuire, & Neu, 2000).
In addition, there is limited evidence that some of the commonly recommended interventions for ADHD children may make problems worse for ADHD children who are also gifted (Moon, 2002). For instance, since gifted children tend to prefer complexity, shortening work time and simplifying tasks may increase frustration for some gifted ADHD students who would handle better more difficult and intriguing tasks. Similarly, decreasing stimulation may be counterproductive with some gifted ADHD children who, as a group, tend to be intense and work better with a high level of stimulation.
There has been some concern that problems with inattention or hyperactivity that are better attributed to a mismatch with the curriculum (Baum, Olenchak, & Owen, 1998; Webb, 2001) or to characteristics of high creative ability (Cramond, 1995) are wrongly attributed to ADHD. Although there are good reasons to believe that misidentifications occur, there are yet no hard data on the frequency with which gifted children are over- (or under-) diagnosed or over- (or under-) medicated. Until systematic studies are conducted, we should be cautious about rejecting ADHD diagnosis in gifted children out of hand because there are serious, long-term negative consequences for undertreating the disorder (Barkley, 1998). The available research on ADHD children indicates that nationally, there is a good deal of undertreatment as well as some overtreatment of ADHD children. | 2019-04-20T14:29:20 | https://www.hoagiesgifted.org/eric/e649.html |
0.999833 | The first questions revolved around language. The respondents' and their families' Finnish and Swedish language skills were surveyed. It was examined whether the respondents had used Swedish, Finnish or both in different types of contexts, e.g. at home, at school, with friends, at bureaus and banks, and at work. The respondents were also asked whether they preferred not to use Swedish with authorities because they were afraid of receiving hostile service, and if they felt that their errands had not been taken proper care of in the past due to an official's lack of Swedish language skills. The respondents were presented with a set of statements about bilingualism and using the Swedish language in Finland, and they were asked if attitudes toward the Swedish language in different contexts -- such as at work, in politics, and in media -- had changed within the previous year. It was queried whether Swedish-language service offered by the state and municipality had improved or worsened within the previous year, as well as Swedish-language service in the private sector.
The next questions covered media, the press, radio, and television. The respondents were asked if they listened to radio or watched television in the morning, and their choice of radio station or television channel in the morning was queried along with the topics of particular interest to them on morning television. In addition, it was examined which newspapers the respondents read, either printed or online, and if they had downloaded radio or television programmes, films, books, video games, magazines or newspapers from the internet within the previous 12 months. It was also queried whether they had written or read blogs or used social media services designed for Swedish-speaking Finns or other social media services. Finally, opinions were examined on reading newspapers and books exclusively on digital devices.
After this, the respondents were asked if they felt a sense of belonging in various lands and regions, such as Finland, Swedish-speaking Finland, Sweden, the Nordic, and the European Union. The survey also examined the strength of the respondents' cultural identity as a Finland-Swede in different groups of people and situations, and whether or not the respondents felt a sense of belonging in various groups. They were also asked to estimate how likely the people around them would help in a variety of situations or if they would act in a selfish or even illegal manner.
One set of questions pertained to the environment and climate change. The respondents were asked what they already did to reduce their carbon footprint (e.g. sorting waste, cycling or using public transport instead of driving a car), what they would be willing to do for a better environment (e.g. paying more taxes, lowering their personal standard of living), which sources of carbon emissions should be controlled more harshly, and what factors they deemed as the most significant threats to the seas. Finally, the respondents were asked which aspects they deemed important in their personal well-being, e.g. health, steady personal finances, friends and family, a person's appearance, nature, a meaningful job, and politics. | 2019-04-24T16:44:23 | https://services.fsd.uta.fi/catalogue/FSD3201?lang=en&study_language=en |
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0.998998 | An increase in income increases the intercepts of the budget line but leaves its slope constant - assuming constant prices. The locus of tangents of budget lines with indifference curves forms the income-consumption curve or the set of commodity combinations (x, y) purchased as income increases - assuming constant prices and taste (M&Y 10th Fig. 4.1a; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.1a;B&Z Fig. 3.14; B&B Fig. 5.2; B&B Fig. 5.3). If prices change so does the income-consumption curve (M&Y 10th Fig. 4.1b; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.1b; B&Z not displayed; B&B not displayed).
The amount of a commodity (x) purchased at different levels of income can be derived from the income-consumption curve (M&Y 10th Fig. 4.2; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.2; B&Z Fig. 3.14) to form Engel curve (M&Y Fig. 4.2, p. 92; B&Z not displayed; B&B Fig. 5.3). The Engel curve plots changes in the level of X consumed (x-axis) against changes in money income (I on the y-axis). The shape of an Engel curve depends on the type of commodity and consumer taste - assuming constant prices. The quantity of a commodity (x) purchased will increase at either an increasing or decreasing rate as income rises - depending on the type of commodity (M&Y 10th Fig 4.3a & 4.3b; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.4a & 3.4b; B&Z not displayed; B&B Fig. 5.4). The Engel curve can be useful in marketing research as it will indicate the path of demand for a given commodity as income increases (or decreases).
If the price of one commodity (x) changes a new set of combinations (x, y) is created between the changing tangents of the budget line and indifference curves forming a price-consumption curve for the commodity (x) - assuming constant income and prices of the other commodity (y) (M&Y10th Fig. 4.4; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.6; B&Z Fig. 3.14; B&B Fig. 5.1). The price-consumption curve shows how much of a commodity (x) is purchased if its price changes - assuming constant income and constant prices for the other good (y).
The demand curve for a given commodity (x) can be derived from the price-consumption curve showing how much of that commodity (x) is purchased at different prices - assuming constant income and constant prices for the other good (y) (M&Y 10th Fig. 4.5; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.7; B&Z Fig. 4.1; B&B Fig. 5.1). The shape of the demand curve (x) depends on taste, income and the type of commodity - assuming constant prices for the other good (y). Note that the demand curve is plotted with the quantity of x on the x-axis and Px on the y-axis. For normal goods the demand curve is downward sloping from the left reflecting the basic Law of Demand: the lower the price, the greater the demand.
Consumer surplus is the difference between the maximum a consumer is willing to pay for a total quantity of a commodity (x ) and what the consumer actually pays (M&Y 10th Fig. 4.9; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.12; B&Z Fig. 4.8; B&B Fig. 5.14).
It is critically important to appreciate that the demand curve reflects 'willingness to pay'. Thus to get quantity C, a consumer is willing to pay P. However, the consumer would have been willing to pay a higher price to get a smaller quantity. In effect, a consumer gains a bonus or a surplus because at P he or she gets that smaller quantity (plus much more) and at a lower price.
Accordingly, as price rises or falls the consumer surplus changes (M&Y 10th Fig. 4.10; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.13; B&Z Fig. 4.10; B&B Fig 5.15). Similarly, the size of the consumer surplus will vary according to the shape of the demand curve - the gentler the slope, the greater the consumer surplus (M&Y 10th Fig. 4.11; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.15; B&Z not displayed; B&B not displayed).
A consumer price index measures the combined income effect of price changes of given commodity combination (x, y). It measures how much income must increase or decrease to purchase the same commodity combination (x, y) at different price levels - through time (M&Y 10th Fig. 4.13; M&Y 11th Fig. 3.17; B&Z not displayed; B&B Fig. 5.20).
If combination Qx + Qy cost $100 in year 1 but cost $110 in year 2 then, in effect income would have to increase 10% if the consumer was to purchase the same fixed quantities of x and y in year 2. If income did not increase by 10% then the utility or satisfaction of the consumer would decline. The increased cost of the same basket of goods and services is a measure of price inflation.
In Canada the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the usual measure of consumer price inflation. A typical or standard basket of goods and services purchased by Canadians is determined during the Census (say in the year 2001). The price of this basket is also estimated for that year. In subsequent years the cost of the standard basket is estimated. The degree to which the cost increases for the same basket of goods and services provides the estimated consumer inflation rate. If consumers are to simply maintain their level of utility then income must increase by at least the same rate as the CPI.
d) changing shopping habits: if consumers shift from high-end specialty or department stores to low-priced 'big box' stores like Walmart reduced prices would indicate that inflation is lower but the quality of service may also be less. | 2019-04-23T22:48:14 | http://compilerpress.ca/ElementalEconomics/211%20&%20214%20Micro%20&%20Macro/2.6.htm |
0.765822 | Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison on federal charges Wednesday, then was hit almost immediately with fresh state charges in New York that could put him outside the president's power to pardon.
In Washington, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson brushed aside Manafort's pleas for leniency and rebuked him for misleading the U.S. government about his lucrative foreign lobbying work and for encouraging witnesses to lie on his behalf.
"It is hard to overstate the number of lies and the amount of fraud and the extraordinary amount of money involved" in the crimes, Jackson told Manafort, 69, who sat stone-faced in a wheelchair he has used because of gout. She added three-and-a-half years on top of the nearly four-year sentence Manafort received last week in a separate case in Virginia, though he'll get credit for nine months already served.
The sentencing hearing was a milestone in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election campaign. Manafort was among the first people charged in the investigation, and though the allegations did not relate to his work for candidate Donald Trump, his foreign entanglements and business relationship with an associate the U.S. says has ties to Russian intelligence have made him a pivotal figure in the probe.
Shortly after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was sentenced to an additional 3.5 years in prison, his attorney Kevin Downing said there was no Russian collusion on the part of his client.
Prosecutors are updating judges this week on the cooperation provided by other key defendants in the case . Mueller is expected to soon conclude his investigation in a confidential report to the Justice Department.
Minutes after Manafort's federal sentence was imposed, New York prosecutors unsealed a 16-count indictment accusing him of giving false information on mortgage loan applications. The new case appeared designed at least in part to protect against the possibility that Trump could pardon Manafort, who led the celebrity businessman's 2016 White House bid for months. The president can pardon federal crimes but not state offenses.
New York's attorney general's office had looked into whether it could bring state-level crimes against Manafort but faced a possible roadblock because of the state's double jeopardy law . That statute goes beyond most other states by preventing state-level charges that mirror federal counts that have been resolved — and also prevents prosecutors from pursuing state-level charges when a person has been pardoned for the same federal crimes.
Still, Manhattan prosecutors, who brought the new indictment, contend their case is safe because mortgage fraud and falsifying business records are state but not federal crimes.
At the White House, Trump said he felt "very badly" for Manafort but hadn't given any thought to a pardon. "No collusion," the president added.
On Wednesday, Judge Jackson made clear the case against Manafort had nothing to do with Russian election interference and she scolded Manafort's lawyers for asserting that their client was charged only because prosecutors couldn't get him on crimes related to potential collusion with the Trump campaign.
"The no-collusion mantra is simply a non sequitur," she said, suggesting that those arguments were meant for an audience outside the courtroom — presumably the president.
The judge said conspiracy charges concerning Manafort's unregistered foreign lobbying work and witness tampering were "not just some failure to comply with some pesky regulations" as his attorneys argued.
Instead, she said they were evidence that Manafort had spent a considerable portion of his career "gaming the system." He undermined the American political process by concealing from the public and Congress that he was working on behalf of Ukraine— and earning millions of dollars that he never reported to the IRS, she said.
"Court is one of those places where facts still matter," she said.
Reading from a three-page statement, Manafort asked for mercy and said the criminal charges against him had "taken everything from me already." He pleaded with the judge not to impose any additional time beyond the sentence he had received last week in a separate case in Virginia.
"I am sorry for what I have done and all the activities that have gotten us here today," he said in a steady voice. "While I cannot undo the past, I will ensure that the future will be very different."
Manafort said he was the primary caregiver for his wife and wanted the chance for them to resume their life together.
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"I think the judge showed that she is incredibly hostile toward Mr. Manafort and exhibited a level of callousness that I've not seen in a white-collar case in over 15 years of prosecutions," Downing said. | 2019-04-21T17:01:56 | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/Paul-Manafort-Trump-Campaign-Head-Sentencing--507075761.html |
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After the Bernie's movies, Kiser kept on in comedy, appearing in film and television — with, in later years, a growing emphasis on the latter medium. His filmography is studded with some of the biggest hits of the past few decades: Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Three's Company comprise only a small part of it, with his role as H.G. Wells in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman being perhaps the most amusing. In 2013 he moved to Austin, Texas and tried something entirely new: teaching. The Actor's Arena, which he founded with actress and partner Joy Leigh, caters to all who'd like to appear on the stage and/or screen, from neophytes to experts. Kiser isn't just finding success — he's paying it forward.
Judge Reinhold's 1980s career is absolutely stuffed with comedy triumphs of the decade: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Beverly Hills Cop, and Gremlins are only a few of them. His role in Beverly Hills Cop, Detective Billy Rosewood, is arguably what he's best known for decades later, and given the movie's now-ironclad status as a classic, it's no surprise why. Indeed, his role in Cop catapulted him to films like Roadhouse 66 and Head Office, but Reinhold, by his own admission, developed an unpleasant attitude that turned studios and coworkers away. "I was spoiled and I was arrogant," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. "I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so."
After returning to supporting roles, Reinhold developed a stronger work ethic and has been appearing regularly onscreen ever since. His filmography contains more family-friendly movies than it once did, from the Santa Clause series to Clifford's Big Movie. He's also appeared in a number of hit television shows, including Monk and Arrested Development. As it stands now, Reinhold's career is a testament to persistence and an object lesson in change: It's never too late, too hard, or too slow.
Phoebe Cates isn't just an actress — she's a performer of every stripe. From her time at Juillard to an invitation to join the School of American Ballet to a short, if very successful stint as a model, she's been in front of a camera hundreds of times in hundreds of ways. It's no mystery as to why: From her magnetic disposition to her warm brown eyes, Cates has always been someone you want to watch. This translated to big-screen success when she appeared in teen classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Linda Barrett, the sophisticated older girl who acts in contrast to the main cast's stumbling adolescence.
After that legendary role, Cates appeared in a variety of films, from Gremlins to Drop Dead Fred, in addition to the covers of teen-oriented magazines like Seventeen and Tiger Beat. As the years went by, she settled down with fellow actor Kevin Kline, had some children and saw them off to adulthood. Though she's appeared in film and TV now and then, she's largely got her priorities held more close to home. Perhaps most notable is her New York City boutique, Blue Tree, a charming hole-in-the-wall filled with an ever-changing selection of what makes the woman in the red bikini smile.
Long before comic book movies ruled the cineplex, technology was omnipresent, software engineers were rockstars, and the average Joe knew to head to an electronics shop with how much RAM he was interested in buying in mind, there was Revenge of the Nerds, the little story about computer geeks that could. Anthony Edwards and Robert Carradine, two of the eponymous nerds, were at the forefront of this movement, pocket protectors and thick-lensed glasses at the ready, making the case for being proudly uncool. Sequels ensued, and a lifetime place in the pop-cultural firmament.
Carradine and Edwards have remained part of the entertainment circuit ever since: Carradine spent years playing Lizzie McGuire's dad, while Edwards has recently been seen on Netflix's Designated Survivor. Both also went on to marry, have children, and generally settle into middle age. They haven't left the nerdy life entirely behind, however: recent years have seen Carradine and Nerds co-star Curtis Armstrong producing and hosting TBS's King of the Nerds reality show, in which misfits battle to claim the title of most successful nerd. Though nerdiness isn't quite what it used to be, one thing remains certain: it's here to stay.
In Just One of the Guys, her breakout 1985 school comedy, Joyce Hyser plays a teen reporter fed up with the treatment her good looks and fashion sense inspire in the male teachers she needs to impress to make her dreams come true. In a fit of rebellion, she enrolls as a boy named Terry at a rival school and decides to see just how far she can go if seen as an aspirant reporter first and a pretty young thing second. Hijinks, of course, ensue, and Hyser's quirky charm carries her through everything from nerd-vs.-jock entanglements, romantic confusion, and journalistic triumph. It is, in many ways, the platonic ideal of the 1980s comedy: teens get into trouble, boys chase lustfully after girls, and the underdog wins the day.
After its release, however, Hyser laid low. She's been seen on film and television here and there, from the CSI series to 2014's The Wedding Pact, her most recent movie, but by and large she's devoted her life to other things. Principally, she's now a philanthropist on behalf of the Harold Robinson Foundation, an organization that works to send underprivileged kids on camping retreats they couldn't otherwise afford. As a member of the Board of Directors, Hyser cites her own experiences in summer camp as pivotal to the pursuit of her dreams and something she is dedicated to making sustainable, innovative, and above all accessible to kids of all backgrounds.
Airplane! is likely one of the world's most quoted movies. People everywhere note that they have a "drinking problem" after splashing water on their face, ask after inflatable "autopilots," and those named Shirley are… well, either huge fans of the film or its biggest detractors. Regardless, Airplane! is solidly considered a classic, and star Robert Hays' performance as Ted Striker is no small part of that. He blended humor with just the right amount of straightforward protagonist cool and the rest is history — multiply-quoted, highly-YouTubed history.
Hays has persisted in Hollywood for decades now, exploring the world beyond comedy, yet also seeing what else he can do within it. His work encompasses kid-oriented fare like Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey as well as more overtly satirical, adult-oriented projects such as Superhero Movie and Sharknado 2: The Second One. He's not just working in front of the camera, however — he's behind it as well. 1986 saw his directorial debut in the ABC science fiction series Starman, and he's gone on to serve as a producer on such films as Nicky's Birthday Camera and Kelly Kelly. He's not above returning to his roots, either — 2013 saw him appear in a Wisconsin tourism ad that reunited him with Airplane! co-director David Zucker.
Gedde Watanabe's career is a complicated one. If his face looks familiar to you, it's likely from his performance as Long Duk Dong, the lecherous foreign exchange student from the otherwise soft-hearted John Hughes romantic comedy Sixteen Candles. It's a character that hasn't aged well, to the point where Watanabe recounts being accosted on the street by strangers offended by both the portrayal and the fact that he took the part in the first place. As he told NPR in 2008, "I was making people laugh. I didn't realize how it was going to affect people."
That might have been the capstone to his career. But Watanabe has remained a strong and steady actor, appearing in everything from Sesame Street to Gung Ho and its television spinoff and Weird Al Yankovic's UHF. But there is one role that eclipses the rest, perhaps even that of Long Duk Dong: Ling, from Mulan, the skinny military recruit that starts off as more than a little bit of a slacker and ends up as the titular heroine's true and trusted friend. Not a bad second act for "the Donger."
Michael Winslow might be more well known by his moniker, the Man of 10,000 Sound Effects, than by his actual name. Watch his work in the Police Academy movies or Spaceballs, and there will be no doubt as to why: if it makes noise, no matter if it's mechanical, animal, or totally imaginary, Winslow can imitate it with an accuracy that borders on the bizarre. It's a skill he developed as a lonely child with too much time on his hands, and one that remains unique — he's even got a 1985 record to his name entitled I am My Own Walkman.
This talent has served him well in the decades since his two most famous movies, from public television to wry, referential commercials. He's hosted WGN's Way Back Wednesdays with Winslow since 2008, during which classics of the 1980s play, and has moved into the world of mobile gaming by providing voices and sound effects for the Wizard Ops series of games. You're also likely to see him in advertising: Geico hired him to do his thing for their "We Hired a Celebrity" campaign, in which he delivers literally dozens of effects in 32 seconds. Perhaps most original, however, is his ThatsKungFu app, which produces his kung-fu-style sound effects for the wannabe martial artist in everyone. With a talent like Winslow's, you can't help but go far — and he's certainly done just that.
Princess Vespa, the Princess Leia send-up from Mel Brooks' irreverent parody, Spaceballs, is likely one of Daphne Zuniga's most widely remembered roles. Alongside her faithful droid of honor Dot Matrix, voiced by the inimitable Joan Rivers, Princess Vespa flees an arranged marriage, encounters an enormous spaceship shaped like a maid, and finds love with the ever-so-handsome Lone Starr. It's among the most beloved films in Brooks' impressive lineup and Zuniga is a big part of that — her pitch-perfect spoofing of 1980s valley girl culture remains remarkably timeless.
But Zuniga's career was far from done. She's likely as well known for her role as Jo Reynolds on Melrose Place as she is for her time as Vespa, succeeded by parts on mainstay programs including One Tree Hill and Beautiful People. Perhaps most impressively, Zuniga is a passionate and committed environmentalist. She's worked with organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Waterkeeper Alliance, Environment California, was a founding member of the Earth Communications Office, and served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation. Zuniga might be able to play vapid, but through her tireless work on behalf of the earth, it's clear she herself is anything but.
Julie Brown has done a little bit of everything. She's performed in nightclubs, where Lily Tomlin first found her and subsequently put her in 1981's The Incredible Shrinking Woman. She's worked on sitcoms, including Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Jeffersons, and Newhart. She's released albums full of songs like "I Like 'em Big and Stupid" and "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun." Back in the 1980s her music videos were in heavy rotation, her resume was expanding by the day, and the whole world was laughing at her jokes. It all culminated in 1988's Earth Girls are Easy, written, produced, and starring Brown, in which she plays an average girl who makes some off-world friends.
Though that decade was her apex, Brown really hasn't slowed down much in the years since. She had her own sketch comedy show in 1992, The Edge, appeared in everything from Clueless to Batman: The Animated Series, and even had a parody character in Tiny Toon Adventures called Julie Bruin. In more recent years, she's remained busy with parts on The Middle, as a writer for Melissa & Joey, and, in 2012, judging on RuPaul's Drag Race alongside her similarly monikered fellow MTV vet Downtown Julie Brown.
A Christmas Story is a holiday classic — everyone quotes "you'll shoot your eye out!" from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day. Peter Billingsley, little Ralphie himself, is the heart of it all, from his fear of neighborhood bully Scut Farkus to the tears that fill his big blue eyes as he lies to his mother about, yes, shooting his eye out. He was a kid when it was filmed, with a kid's natural cuteness going for him — but where another young actor might have relied on that alone, Billingsley infused his performance with more than a little snappy irony. His Ralphie loved his family, but he wasn't going to lie to you: he was all about the toys.
Billingsley's career has taken him far and wide since then. He was nominated for an Emmy for his role in after-school special The Writing on the Wall, released an album entitled Christmas Stories … Christmas Songs, and continued the Christmas Story legacy by producing a musical adaptation that debuted in 2010. Perhaps his most interesting work, however, has happened behind the camera. He garnered another Emmy nomination as co-executive producer for Dinner for Five, served as executive producer on 2008's Iron Man, and directed 2009 romantic comedy Couples Retreat. An impressive lineup of work, to be sure — and probably not something he has to do in a pink bunny outfit. | 2019-04-24T05:05:45 | https://www.looper.com/146262/whatever-happened-to-these-80s-comedy-stars/ |
0.99996 | This modification introduces two very important concepts to the field of scientonomy - one-sided authority delegation and mutual authority delegation. We have been already actively using this terminology in our research, so it is time we openly accepted what we actually practice. So my verdict is accept.
That being said, I would like to urge the authors (or anyone interested in the subject) to start thinking about possible theorems that can be deduced concerning authority delegation, mutual authority delegation and one-sided authority delegation. Defining these concepts is only the beginning; now the task is to use these concepts to deduce theorems concerning theory acceptance and method employment in delegating mosaics. This is a very important next step.
Modern science involves specialization and a division of labor. Thus instances where scientific communities will rely on the expertise of other scientific communities are all pervasive. The two definitions given here for one-sided and mutual authority delegation seem, in themselves, useful and unproblematic. However, I believe they both inherit problems from their parent, the definition of authority delegation.
Situations where condition 1) of the authority delegation definition is met (ie. where community A accepts that community B is an expert on topic x) are surely extremely widespread in science. However, situations where condition 2) is met are likely to fairly, or perhaps extremely rare. Community B is likely to accept a theory on topic x if community A says so only if community A's views on topic x do not conflict with the accepted theories and employed methods of community B. Where such a conflict occurs, the definition would only be met if community B rejected its own theories without further assessment by its own methods.
Returning to the definitions at issue, one-sided authority delegation is most likely to occur when the community B at issue is a community whose primary goal is non-epistemic. Such a community might rely on community A's views on topic x, and have little of value to contribute to A, making the authority delegation one-sided. Since such a community B would lack its own theories and methods that might come into conflict with community A's views on topic x, the current authority delegation definition is likely to be an unproblematic partner for the application of the one-sided authority delegation definition to real communities.
Mutual authority delegation is likely to pose more problems, since in such cases both the communities in question are likely to be epistemic communities, with theories and methods that might possibly come into conflict over some topics x of mutual concern. Scientific communities that rely on one another's expertise in their respective domains are likely to be very common. Communities that satisfy the mutual authority delegation definition proposed here, on the other hand, are likely to be be quite rare, because of the authority delegation definition's condition 2's restrictive nature.
My verdict to accept comes with reservations, since I worry that many, or most instances of mutual reliance between scientific communities will not qualify as instances of mutual authority delegation, because their mutual reliance will be conditional in ways that the current authority delegation definition is to restrictive to encompass.
"Mutual authority delegation is likely to pose more problems, since in such cases both the communities in question are likely to be epistemic communities, with theories and methods that might possibly come into conflict over some topics x of mutual concern."
Typically, I think the reliance of epistemic communities on the expertise of other epistemic communities is quite common, as Patton acknowledges: "Scientific communities that rely on one another's expertise in their respective domains are likely to be very common." But he is concerned that condition 2 is too restrictive to capture this phenomenon because epistemic communities are reluctant to delegate authority to other epistemic communities when their values conflict.
Personally, I think there is much less of this sort of conflict within science than Patton thinks. While scientific disciplines are likely as jealous of their supremacy within their domains, most authority delegation occurs with communities representing outside domains.
Take for instance the building of a particle accelerator. The particle physicists will delegate to the geological community the authority over questions about the geological stability on the accelerator site. They will also delegate to the civil engineering community the authority over questions about the concrete pour used at the site. While civil engineering may not be an epistemic community (I believe the jury is still out on applied sciences), both geology and civil engineering are based on principles that clash fundamentally with the principles of particle physics – i.e. classical mechanics. This fact does not stop the particle physics community from delegating important questions to them. Just as the civil engineering community and the geology community delegate authority over questions of the subatomic world to particle physicists. Community A will accept a theory on topic x of community B says so, even if values clash, provided that the phenomenon in question, x, is within the domain of B (and not A).
I think Patton is right that actual delegation of authority where values are in conflict is rare, but I think that is only because that is not how authority delegation occurs in science. Typically, the domains of various scientific communities are separate enough that the kind of value-clash that worries Patton is rare. If an actual value-clash occurs in science, it typically occurs within a domain and is therefore an intermural affair of some scientific community.
I agree with Paul that there might be more to the notion of mutual delegation than the suggested definition allows. Yet, I also think that we have to separate two issues: it's one thing to ask whether the suggested definition is flawless, it's another thing to ask whether it is the best available on the market. While I do agree that it is far from flawless (after, what is flawless?), it's a fact that we don't have any alternative at the moment. So, I believe that the suggested definition is the best available, and thus is acceptable.
As for the idea of conditional delegation, suggested by Paul, I encourage scientonomists to pursue it further.
I agree that the current definitions of authority delegation, mutual authority delegation, and one-sided authority delegation, despite their problems, are currently the best available such definitions. They should be accepted, although further work on the concept of conditional authority delegation is needed.
This page was last modified on 1 February 2017, at 22:17. | 2019-04-20T00:15:29 | https://www.scientowiki.com/Modification_talk:Sciento-2016-0004 |
0.999999 | Anon1: What do you do for a living?
Anon2: I build houses for people.
Anon1: And what do _you_ do for a living?
Anon1: Kevin, what did _you_ do for a living?
Kevin: I help people destroy data. | 2019-04-19T05:24:14 | http://schestowitz.com/UseNet/2005/July_2005_4/msg00097.html |
0.999998 | With minimal supervision, author complex nonclinical regulatory documents ensuring the coordination and integration of the scientific and regulatory input from development team members. Support the performance goals (including quality and timeliness) for submissions of relevant documents in support of INDs and NDAs. Help cultivate an organizational culture which promotes behaviors that lead to superior business performance.
1. Coordinate with DS&B/PCO scientists to generate compliant regulatory documents (study reports, IND summaries, NDA summaries, etc). Apply scientific expertise to provide critical assessment of document content ensuring the coordination and integration of the scientific and regulatory input from cross-functional team members. Review (QC) documents to ensure data integrity.
2. Participate in relevant document sub team(s) and ensure effective planning and management of timelines for all components of assigned documents. Work proactively with DS&B/PCO scientists and Dossier Managers to ensure timelines are met.
3. Participate in document strategy sessions, including messaging, document flow, logic, and consistency for assigned projects. Act as Coordinating Author to create CARA structures and assign tasks for writing, reviewing and approving documents. Ensure compliance of documents with submission and publication standards.
4. Provide leadership in developing processes and associated guidelines relevant to authoring, as well as ensuring that DS&B/PCO scientists receive appropriate training and guidance regarding these. Generate and update Model Documents.
5. Act as Coordinating Author for Initial IBs.
6. Comply with internal and external processes and guidelines while managing the review process and, on an ongoing basis, resolve issues, errors, or inconsistencies with pertinent team members to ensure timely completion and high quality of assigned documents.
7. Review and edit documents, as required.
8. Provide feedback and/or leadership, as appropriate, in the Documentation Subteams particularly in regard to document creation and establishing timelines.
1. MS/PharmD/PhD in a relevant scientific discipline, or MS/BS with a minimum of 12 years (MS) to 8 years (PhD) in the pharmaceutical industry, preferably within pharmacology/drug metabolism-pharmacokinetics or nonclinical development, with a good understanding of drug discovery, drug development, drug safety, and regulatory document development. | 2019-04-19T18:31:33 | https://www.biospace.com/job/1861789/senior-scientific-writer/ |
0.998945 | After forming in 1992, the Fugees -- made up of Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel -- were one of the most celebrated hip-hop groups of the decade thanks to their socially conscious songs. In 1997, however, The Fugees broke up. Now, Jean has revealed the real reason behind the Fugees breakup: his troublesome relationship with Hill and the fact that she lied about the paternity of her child.
In his autobiography Purpose, on sale Tuesday, Jean wrote that his tumultuous affair with Hill led to the Fugees' ruin.
Jean and Hill began dating in the early days of The Fugees, and continued their dalliance after Jean married designer Marie Claudinette. The relationship was rocky, even after the great success of their 1996 album, The Score.
When Hill got pregnant with her first son, Zion, she tried to convince Jean that the boy was his, even though the real father was Bob Marley's son, Rohan. When Jean found out Hill had lied to him about paternity of her child, things hit a breaking point.
Not that Jean and Hill had the best relationship before the paternity lie.
Back in 2003, Michel also pointed to Hill's first-born son as a point of contention for The Fugees.
"When she got pregnant, definitely things started goin' on," he told Rolling Stone almost 10 years ago. "Things got crazy." The paternity was not revealed, but Hill had reportedly allowed Jean to think it was his son until the delivery.
"People don't know how calculating she can be," an anonymous friend added to Rolling Stone. "Lauryn used Ro' to pull herself out of the relationship with 'Clef, and she happened to get pregnant. She hoped that baby was Wyclef's, because it would've forced his hand. But it wasn't."
When the Fugees broke up, Hill went on to record the 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which is still considered one of the best in hip-hop history. Afterwards, she removed herself from the public eye. She briefly reunited with The Fugees in 2004 but continued to harbor anger.
"The Fugees was a conspiracy to control, to manipulate and to encourage dependence," she told Trace magazine at the time. "I took a lot of abuse that many people would not have taken in these circumstances." She also mentioned Jean. "As a young woman, I saw the best in everyone, but I did not see the lust and insecurities of men. I discovered what a lie was, and how lies manifested themselves."
Since then, Hill has remained elusive, exhibiting bizarre behavior when in public and failing to pay $1.8 million in taxes.
Jean explained that he is finally discussing the Fugees' breakup to find closure.
"Two wrongs don't make a right, so I accepted my wrong for that period and being an adolescent, being kind of cocky," he told MTV News, continuing, "This is a period of my life, and that's how I felt. If anything, I just brought closure to a chapter — because at the end of the day, I didn't do Miseducation, so there was no closure in my chapter, but I kept writing and writing. It was important just to be honest. I'm not known to sugarcoat, so it's either yes or no. And for [someone] picking up something and reading it, I don't think that I should've left it as a myth. Because even if I said it or she said, history is gonna say what it is."
CORRECTION: Several Getty captions for photos in the slideshow above erroneously stated that the [Such-and-Such] concert in 2006 was the Fugees first together in 10 years. This is not the case. They also performed together in 2004.
COMMERCIAL IMAGE - In this photograph provided by The Canadian Press Images/Ottawa Bluefest via AP Images, Ms. Lauryn Hill is seen here performing at the RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 10, 2012. The Ottawa Bluesfest is ranked as one of the most successful music events in North America. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press Images PHOTO/Ottawa Bluesfest via AP Images). | 2019-04-22T16:58:33 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wyclef-jean-lauryn-hill-paternity-lie-fugees-breakup_n_1894364 |
0.999934 | 1 - Peel the kiwi fruit and chop it into small chunks. You don't want the skin because it's mostly dead and doesn't have much DNA in it.
2 - Put the chunks in a jar and mash the kiwi as much as you can. This is to break up some of the cells and provide a large surface area over which to extract the DNA.
3 - Mix together the washing up liquid, the salt and the tap water and stir slowly until the salt has dissolved. Don't stir too fast or else you'll get lots of bubbles! This mixture is also known as an extraction buffer. The washing up liquid is a detergent and this breaks open the cell membranes and nuclear membranes. Once these membranes are broken, the DNA stored in the cells can escape. The dissolved salt (or sodium chloride) is made up of positively charged sodium ions and negatively charged chloride ions. DNA is also negatively charged and attracts the positively charged sodium ions. This neutralises the charge on the DNA, which allows the strands of DNA to stick together and form the clumps we will see later inthe experiment.
4 - Add the extraction buffer to the mashed up kiwi and MASH! The more you mash, the more DNA you will get out at the end.
5 - Incubate the kiwi and buffer mixture at 60 degrees Centigrade for 15 minutes. To make your own incubator, take a large basin and half fill it with boiling water from a kettle. To reduce the temperature, add about the same amount again of normal tap water. Using a thermometer will help you reach a more precise temperature. Carefully put the jar with the kiwi into the incubator and leave to stand for 15 minutes. Incubation helps to break up the cells further and starts to degrade some of the cell's proteins.
6 - Remove the jar from the incubator and filter the kiwi mixture through a fine sieve or coffee filter paper into another jar. This removes all the unwanted lumps and bits of kiwi fruit. You should be left with a green liquid, and this contains the kiwi fruit DNA.
7 - Take the ice cold alcohol and pour it slowly down the side of the jar. The alcohol will form a transparent layer on top of the kiwi mixture, as the alcohol is less dense.
You can use a paper clip or some tweezers to pick up the DNA. It will be long and stringy and clump together. DNA is a very long molecule and when it clumps together, it forms something a bit like a rope. This is safe to play with a poke at. The DNA you have extracted has come from billions of kiwi fruit cells, which is why you can see it so easily. If you were able to unravel the DNA in just one human cell and stretch it out, it would be two metres long. However as DNA is so thin, you would not be able to see it without an incredibly powerful microscope.
Is dementia in your genes?
THE PROCEDURE BRINGS LIFE AND MOTIVATION TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY - THANKS. | 2019-04-23T22:33:41 | https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/how-extract-dna-kiwi-fruit?page=1 |
0.999999 | Ethan Frome Theme Dissection The author focuses on many big themes throughout the novel Ethan Frome. He goes into great detail for each characters special theme. Some characters are isolated others are determined. Each theme has a consequence for the characters, some consequences are life changing others are small changes to the life that are not very noticeable. The three major characters in the novel that are affected are Zeena, Ethan Frome, and Mattie. Zeena Frome is Ethan's wife who has many illnesses. Mattie is related to Zenna and serves as the made throughout the novel. The themes are a major part of the novel, each theme are constantly affecting each person, each choice they made and how the story turns out all revolves around the themes affecting each and everyone of the characters in the novel. The most noticeable theme in the novel Ethan Frome is isolation. Isolation affects each and everyone of the main characters through the entire novel. Ethan is a man who does not talk much at all. He is affected by isolation because he keeps to himself, he basically isolates himself. He is constantly working out getting wood for the mill or doing other jobs not giving him time to talk to anyone. The stress that is put on him because of this mother being sick also causes him to keep to himself, making him depressed because things are not like they used to be in his home. A quote from the novel that speaks of isolation is: " A part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface... In a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access." -Prologue Being in the town of Starkfield keeps Ethan Frome isolated from the rest of the world. Starkfield is a small town and does not offer to many interesting things. He has lived in the same house his entire wife, first with his mother and now with his wife Zeena. The home is isolated in the mountain away from everyone else in the community. A quote describing Ethan's isolation in the town due to him for not moving assay is: " Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away".
This quote from the prologue suggest that Ethan was not smart by staying in town, he essentially isolated himself. Ethan Frome is not the only isolated character in the novel, Mattie is also an isolated person. Mattie was not always isolated from things. When her parents died causing her to get a job and move in with Zeena and Ethan Frome is when the true isolation started. Mattie gets stuck inside caring for Zeena most of the time at the Frome house, the same way Zeena cared for Ethan's mother. This is causing her to be trapped in the house all day with only Zeena to talk to occasionally. Mattie does not know anybody else to talk to since she is new to the area, she is cut off from society. | 2019-04-20T03:26:21 | https://www.majortests.com/essay/Ethan-Frome-543786.html |
0.998307 | That's the driving distance. It would take 5 hours 44 mins to go from Detroit, Michigan to Burlington, Wisconsin.
The flight distance (direct flight from Detroit, MI to Burlington, WI) is 267.45 mi. | 2019-04-18T23:09:39 | http://freemileagecalculator.com/miles-from-detroit-mi-to-burlington-wi |
0.999526 | Is ethnic diversity good or bad for economic development?
Studies done relying on cross-country analysis reach a conclusion that greater ethnic diversity has a negative effect on economic development. These findings have supported the view that Africa’s “growth tragedy” is a result of high degree of ethnic diversity in the continent. However, theoretical literature has often emphasized the trade-off between the benefits of diversity and the costs of heterogeneity. On the one hand, ethnic diversity can be beneficial by enhancing productivity through innovation, skill complementarities, or increased creativity, trade, and product variety. On the other hand, diversity can generate an inefficient provision of public goods, ethnically biased policies, and conflict or disagreement over common public goods and policies. In general, these theories imply that there exists a maximum scale or size at which ethnic heterogeneity can be most beneficial i.e. on a smaller scale we should find a positive effect of ethnic diversity and on a larger scale we should find a negative effect.
In this paper, García-Montalvo and Reynal-Querol develop a systematic strategy to study the effect of diversity on growth by analyzing this relationship at different spatial scales. The uniqueness of this study is the use of grid-country cell data which offers flexibility to the authors in testing their hypothesis and the common theoretical predictions at different scales. Previous research has typically relied on political and/or administrative frontiers, or cities/SMA boundaries, to define the unit of analysis.
Since many areas of the world do not have information on geo-coded high-resolution measures of economic development García-Montalvo and Reynal-Querol use satellite night light density as a proxy for local economic activity. Satellite night light density data are available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and have been used recently by many scholars in various studies. Recent evidence suggests that nighttime lights are an excellent proxy for actual income, while survey means have very little if any, informative content to estimate true income. In addition, population data comes from the Gridded Population of the World. For each cell, the authors construct measures of luminosity per capita which is the basic dependent variable in the regression analysis.
The data for the geospatial location of ethnic groups at the grid level is taken from the data GREG (Geo-referencing of ethnic groups). The full GREG dataset has global coverage and consists of 929 groups. Figure 1 below is a map which shows the ethnic diversity in Africa and neighboring countries. Darker shades of blue indicate greater population density.
The theoretical literature points to a positive relationship between diversity and development on a smaller scale and a negative one at a countrywide level. In essence, reasons highlighted are that negative effect of biased policies and institutions at the state level outweigh the benefits of trade and other positive spillovers from the interaction between various ethnic groups. To address this problem called modifiable area unit problem (MAUP), authors design their study to test at different scale sequentially from the smallest grid to countrywide grid.
Table 1 below reports the basic result of the paper which provides evidence that there is a positive effect of ethnic diversity on growth at a smaller scale controlling for the country–fixed effect. The magnitude of impact of ethnic fractionalization is of similar size even when including other control variables such as geographical diversity, population concentration and access to natural resources as can be seen in Table 2.
The results are robust to a large number of other potential issues such as to a random change in the initial location of the point that defines, together with the level of resolution, the exact location of the area covered by each cell. Garcia-Montalvo and Reynal-Querol also show that the positive effect of heterogeneity on economic growth is not due to urban area, nor is it simply capturing an agglomeration effect.
However, it should be noted, in their analysis, reducing the degree of resolution of the grid decreases the association between ethnic diversity and development, to the point of finding no association between heterogeneity and development. This can be noticed in Figure 2 below.
The authors make a convincing case for their results above using the example of the continent of Africa which exhibits extremely rich patterns of ethnic diversity (Figure 1). They rely on findings of historians and anthropologists who have found that markets for trade of goods among different ethnic committees are formed around the boundary of their respective regions under control. Consequently, more markets exist with greater ethnic diversity in a particular region. Since, ethnic communities tend to specialize as noted by previous studies, greater diversity facilitates increased gains from trade. Ethnic groups that are geographically close to one another may, therefore, have a large volume of trade despite their different ethnic origins. In order to provide evidence of this potential mechanism, the authors show that local markets in Africa are located close to ethnic borders, supporting this interpretation. | 2019-04-20T13:02:23 | http://focus.barcelonagse.eu/is-ethnic-diversity-good-or-bad-for-economic-development/ |
0.999434 | Ford Motor Co. is repackaging a previously announced $900 million manufacturing investment in the Detroit area, boosting the number of jobs added from 850 to 900.
Most of the new workers will build a new generation of electric vehicle at Ford's existing factory in Flat Rock, Michigan, south of Detroit, which will see an $850 million investment. The company also plans a roughly $50 million autonomous vehicle manufacturing center at an undisclosed site near Detroit that will add hardware to existing vehicles.
Back in January of 2017, Ford had announced different plans for the money, directing $700 million to the Flat Rock plant to make hybrid, electric and autonomous vehicles. Later that year, the company moved an all-electric SUV to a factory in Mexico, freeing more space at Flat Rock to build future electric and self-driving cars and adding $200 million to that investment. At that time, it was promising 850 new jobs.
Wednesday's announcement comes just after a three-day string of venomous tweets by President Donald Trump condemning crosstown rival General Motors for shutting down its small-car factory in Lordstown, Ohio, east of Cleveland. Trump demanded that GM reopen the plant, criticized the local union leader and expressed frustration with GM CEO Mary Barra.
Joe Hinrichs, Ford's president of global operations, wouldn't directly answer questions about whether Trump's actions influenced the moves, but said Wednesday that the investment is part of the company's plans to run its business more efficiently. The timing of the announcement was due to requirements that parts suppliers be notified of manufacturing plans, Hinrichs said.
"We've been running our business this way for 10-plus years," he said in an interview. Hinrichs said Ford is aware that auto manufacturing gets a lot of attention these days, and said he is proud that Ford employs more workers represented by the United Auto Workers union than any other manufacturer. A union spokesman confirmed that statement.
The company intends to add a second shift at Flat Rock to build an electric vehicle, which Hinrichs would not detail. Ford said production would begin in 2023.
Hinrichs said that company projections of electric vehicle sales made it clear that Ford needed more space to build them.
"We had to change some of our plans," he said, adding that the new plan is a better use of capital spending dollars.
Ford said it expects more electric vehicle sales in the coming years largely because millennials, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, are more open to buying them. The company also sees higher gasoline prices and stronger emissions regulations in the future as well as more electric vehicle charging stations.
The Flat Rock plant now builds the Mustang muscle car and the Lincoln Continental luxury car, which has a murky future because Ford has announced it intends to stop selling all cars in the U.S. but the Mustang. It plans to transfer 650 workers from Flat Rock to other factories in April.
Hinrichs said the new autonomous vehicle center will start modifying existing Ford models with plans to deploy them in 2021, as previously announced.
Did Ford just tease an electric Mustang as Tesla debuts Model Y? | 2019-04-23T22:39:08 | https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ford-repackages-factory-investment-jobs.html |
0.999911 | Any LED flashlight style (center positive) 16.8mm boost laser driver?
I see, my bad. I meant to say either batteries.
And I think it's case neutral, but I will check with DMM before I attempt to solder the wires onto the diode.
I don't think you can find out with a DMM. It is better to use the case pin as the anode and using a CV/CC supply try to see if you can get light with the cathode on the right when looking at the back of the diode with the case pin in the down position. You will only need ~50 mA to see if it is case positive or not. If not, then move the anode to the right and the cathode to the left.
I only stocked the case neutral ones. Avoided the others.
Even if Gallium-Nitride diode itself doesn't show up, Zener diode could show up in DMM because 1.5 to 2 Volts zener point is kinda required for the laser diode in order to defend that from ESD. Not all Gallium-Nitride laser diodes have that Zener diode built-in though, I wonder if Sharp 505nm diode has one.
Nevertheless, I can't wait to get that laser done. I'd imagine that 505 - 510 nm laser is like that of "Go" green light on the LED traffic lights which is a nice Aqua green color.
Can you read the micro-printed number around the diode's window? I have a list of these numbers and the pinout diagrams for each with the wavelength range I measured for each batch of them. It could save you time and uncertainty.
Some of the Sharp diodes have a photo-diode inside the case. Don't know about Zeners.
I will look at the numbers at the business end of the aqua green laser (the exact name of the color for the curious would be turquoise), I will need to find a decent ring LED loupe so I can read the tiny laser marked numbers.
Why the flashlight lens in the laser? That's to keep the dirt out of the lens, of course. I found out the hard way that it's not easy to clean tiny lens, I have a laser with ugly beamshot but still usable, so now I am going for preventative method (flashlight lens).
Let me know that number if/when you get it and I will give you the information I have on it. Good luck.
It was certainly hard to see through the anti-static bag however I had to triple-check to make sure.
* EDITED: After a quick browsing, apparently what I have is a higher binned laser diode, right into the Emerald green wavelength, between 507 - 509 nanometers, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a 520nm diode, as 505nm diodes are considered prototypes for some reasons. Would have been nice if it was SB1573N91 but I will be fine with that higher binned diode as it will still look nice regardless.
After reading a bit more on those ~500 - 510nm laser diodes, it have made me feel uneasy as they're apparently very easy to turn into fancy LEDs... If that happens, I would be pretty discouraged because DTR's 505nm diode supply have dried up (I don't know if he would plan on getting more of 'em), and possibly elsewhere. Too bad they're not VCSELs, as they're far more tougher than regular FP diodes.
That diode is case neutral and is closer to 510nm , but nowhere near 520nm. These Sharp diodes aren't that easy to damage as long as you don't drive them harder than 300 mA. I would use the Nano Boost driver set to 275 mA, since it is not case positive. I have used this driver with many of my Sharp diode builds. Good luck.
That's a relief. And I am not planning on driving it past 200+ mA, just enough for it to light up at 5 - 10mW which is good enough for the general usage (I am just going to use it as a Lithium-ion battery powered laser pointer more for the novelty purpose of collecting very rare laser diode in this case).
I tried to fit nano in the LED pill in my blue laser, it didn't fit, so I am looking for one that fits in the pill in this laser.
* EDITED: I was initially hoping to score the round 16.8mm 50-225mA adjustable current X-Boost (item #062) from Flaminpyro, however it looks like he stopped selling the drivers. So I decided to create this thread more to try and find a new source of the driver to buy one for my laser.
If you are truly wanting to limit the output to 10 mW, you will have to drive it at a lower current than 200 mA. At 275 mA, they put out more than 100 mW. And that is with an acrylic lens. These do lase at 50 mA. I'm not saying that is the threshold, but it might be close to your output requirements. I haven't tested these for power at such low levels, so it is more of an educated guess.
I may do the same with Aqua green diode laser as long as potentiometer is sturdy.
It is easier to do with a spectrometer. Before you reach threshold the light covers several nms in a small haystack waveform. Once you reach threshold it becomes a sharp peak. Multi-modes are more complicated as you will have a single mode lase before the others do.
That's an interesting point, especially with the multimode laser diode lasing threshold.
Calibrated spectrometer would be nice to have, still very expensive even used off eBay. Very hard to DIY too, even with FPGA or some fancy software on the microcontroller.
Yeah, I had wanted one years before I finally pulled the trigger and bought one. Eventually I want to get the Ocean Optics HR4000 as it has a more pixelated sensor, so it should be even more accurate across the wavelengths I am interested in. I have seen them for as much as $2,000.00, but I am always on the lookout for a good deal if it has the grating and slit I also need in it. | 2019-04-25T19:41:52 | https://laserpointerforums.com/threads/any-led-flashlight-style-center-positive-16-8mm-boost-laser-driver.103710/page-2 |
0.99997 | does this hotel have a muslim prayer room?
Good day! The hotel has a muslim prayer room. | 2019-04-25T10:33:34 | https://www.tripadvisor.be/Hotel_Review-g298520-d1024582-Reviews-Gulfstream_Hotel-Kazan_Republic_of_Tatarstan_Volga_District.html |
0.999612 | Sitting high with pride in arguably the best cul de sac in the beautiful coastal suburb of Moana Heights. Imagine coming home after a hard weeks work to sit on your front verandah with a cold beer for yourself & a glass of Shiraz for the wife & take in not only the sea air but the view as well?
This is the Southern Lifestyle that has thousands of people/families every year deciding to make that change!
So right now, in this suburb, I could not think of a better home for you to prepare for your future.
Offering 4 very generous in size bedrooms all with ceiling fans, the grand master has a walk in robe & ensuite with upgrades to the toilet, sink & tap ware, while bedrooms 3 & 4 have built in robes. The family bathroom is not only perfectly positioned to prevent any guests you have over for an evening traipsing through your home, but to service bedrooms 2,3 & 4.
They say 1st impressions last, then the delightful facade will not disappoint, neither will the entry, with new light fittings & neutral decor that has just been refreshed throughout & the timber floating floor that serves 2 purposes, 1) being a nice contrast, & 2) assisted with the kids reaction to allergies.
The large lounge with a reverse cycle wall unit is ideal for the parents to escape & have a bit of peace & quiet away from the kids. If you want to show off your culinary skills by having dinner guests over, then the formal dining area will certainly be appealing.
The heart of this home is the bright & clean kitchen that boasts a gas cooktop & wall oven. There is an abundance of cupboard & benchtop space, along with a dishwasher & eye level microwave provisions. the long breakfast bar is where you stop for a quick chat & grab a snack & drink for the families that are always on the go. All this overlooks the meals area where you can have the normal family meals without using all the good cutlery & China.
I think its nice to have options, so here is an option for you!
Convert to a home theatre?
That is one discussion that I am not getting involved in!
To assist in energy efficiency, temperature control, & security, there are roller shutters to the East & West facing windows, as well as being able to close off sections of the home as you need. A gas hot water service ensures the largest of families never run out of hot water when your teenagers all of a sudden start taking half hour showers!
Outside is just what you have been waiting for.........A huge unique in design gabled & paved all weather entertaining area that could cope with all of your friends & family popping in for a bbq.
To keep the kids occupied while the adults do what adults do at these gatherings, there is the sparkling fibreglass, salt chlorinated, fully fenced inground pool. No need to worry about water bills for topping up the pool just use your 5,000 litre rainwater tank.
The rest of the garden delivers enough space for a swing set, trampoline or the long awaited family pet!
Last, but not least, your man cave! Yes the big 5m x 7m powered shed could easily be transformed to suit 'your stuff', or this may even suit a tradie as a workshop. This thought is compounded even more because of the drive through access from the double carport with auto roller doors. This family home of just over 245m2 sits on a block of 797m2 & is just waiting to be a part of your family growing up!
We have everything in the South & surrounded by all the necessary amenities such as medical, shopping, schooling, transport which includes the new rail extension at Seaford, the duplication of the expressway, the vines of Mclaren Vale & of course a short stroll to the glorious Moana beach!
Click on the video link to see why you should choose the South! | 2019-04-21T10:19:28 | http://southrealestate.com.au/buying/houses/property/126/7-elberry-close-moana |
0.999556 | Trump: "President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial."
In a move that stunned people on both sides of the aisle, President Donald Trump stood beside Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference Monday and took Putin's word that Russia did not meddle in the 2016 presidential election. Just days earlier, Trump's own Justice Department indicted a dozen Russians on charges that detail explicit attempts to influence the election.
The Associated Press asked Trump if he would denounce that interference and warn Putin not to do it again now that all U.S. intelligence agencies had found evidence of meddling. After a meandering answer, Trump said he had faith in "both parties."
That led to swift criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike, who quickly took to social media. Obama's former CIA Director John Brennan called Trump's comments "nothing short of treasonous" and Republican Sen. John McCain said it was "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."
"Russia is not a friend to the United States or our allies. There's no question that they meddled in our election, and all evidence points to Putin's direct involvement," Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers says in a statement on her Facebook page. "In order to put America first, the President must hold Russia accountable for their adversarial actions and their continued efforts to undermine our democratic institutions."
Her Democratic challenger Lisa Brown said on Twitter, "I support the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in our 2016 elections. The most important question right now is not what the president said, but if House GOP will stand up to him. Congress must not just talk, but act to prevent future election interference."
After the backlash, Trump attempted to walk back his comments on Tuesday, claiming that when he said he didn't see any reason why it would be Russia that tried to meddle, he meant to say "why it wouldn't be." He also said it "could have been other people also."
The original print version of this article was headlined "Putin on a Show" | 2019-04-24T10:08:42 | https://m.inlander.com/spokane/reactions-swift-to-trumps-dismissing-russian-interference/Content?oid=10962543 |
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"AND u.referenced_table_name = '$table' " . | 2019-04-19T15:12:19 | http://www.artfulsoftware.com/infotree/tip.php?id=605&r=1 |
0.99999 | Read the following text from Psalm 69.
22 Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
Does this text bother you? Do you find it difficult to reconcile the “harsh” language of this passage with others so brimming with love like this one?: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
Troubled souls often raise such questions: If all parts of the Bible are equally inspired, how do you explain passages like Psalms 69:22-28, which call for punishment upon one’s enemies? How can you harmonize this judgemental attitude with Jesus’ teaching that we should love our enemies?
Others claim that the composers of these psalms speak in the indicative mood (the “explanatory” mood), and not in the “imperative mood” (the mood of command or request). That is, they merely were stating what would happen to the wicked; they were not actually asking God to destroy the wicked.
Still, another group of scholars advocate that the psalms are an accurate record of what the psalmists were feeling, but there is no divine approval for the sentiments. Rather, God would have us to love our enemies.
Before responding to these explanations, we need to consider some principles that must guide any endeavor to understand the meaning of Scripture.
(1) We must bear in mind that “every scripture is inspired of God” (2 Timothy 3:16). The book of Psalms belongs in the Bible; it is inspired of God. Our Lord asserted that when David wrote in “the book of Psalms” (Psalm 110) he spoke “in the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 22:43). Christ quoted from the Psalms, and considered them to be on the same plane as the Law and the Prophets (cf. Luke 24:44).
Likewise, the writer of Hebrews, when quoting from the Psalms, often identified a passage as having been spoken by the Holy Spirit (cf. Hebrews 3:7). Any view that would diminish the integrity of Psalms is an attack on inspiration, hence upon God himself.
(2) We must remember that any difficulty that exists in coming to an understanding of this issue is in our minds; the fault is not with the text itself. The Holy Spirit, the ultimate author of the Psalms, and Jesus, the Son of God, are not in conflict with one another.
In consideration of Psalm 69:22-28, we must first observe that this passage belongs to a type of Old Testament literature known as the imprecatory psalms. A number of these psalms appear throughout the inspired collection, wherein the authors pray for the destruction (imprecation) of their enemies, often employing the most vivid language (see Psalms 55, 59, 69, 79, 109, 137).
In light of these principles, let us examine the previously noted explanations of these difficult passages.
(1) Is the “sub-Christian theory” a valid explanation for these passages? No, it isn’t. It reflects a misunderstanding of progressive revelation, promoting the idea that the Christian ideal was a development of religious thought over several centuries. This view fails to recognize that the ultimate author of these inspired prayers was the same one who revealed the New Testament.
As Gleason Archer noted: “Progressive revelation is not to be thought of as a progress from error to truth, but rather as a progress from the partial and obscured to the complete and clear” (1974, 460).
By way of contrast, we actually find a wonderfully high ethic reflected in many of the psalms—an ethic that is consistent with New Testament revelation.
We submit that the sub-Christian theory is woefully misguided and is based on an erroneous presupposition.
(2) Was the Psalmist simply explaining what would happen to the wicked (the “indicative theory”)? Some imprecatory statements may fit with this theory, but this explanation certainly does not satisfy the entire spectrum of these prayers of condemnation—some of which make actual request of God to destroy the enemy.
(3) Are the psalms merely a record of what someone said, just as, for example, the New Testament contains the words of Pilate, Judas, and others—accurately recorded, but not an example to be followed?
It is true that some passages in the Bible are inspired only to the degree that they merely are a correct record of what was said, i.e., the Holy Spirit ensured that the account was recorded without error. This view, however—as it pertains to these passages—fails to take into account what the Bible actually says. Nowhere are the words of Pilate, Judas, etc., attributed to the Holy Spirit.
On the other hand, David (and the other psalmists) wrote “in the Spirit” while composing psalms. We therefore find this view lacking a proper concept of the Psalms’ inspiration.
How, then, can we resolve the seeming difficulty of the inspired text speaking in one place of hatred for enemies, and yet, in another, enjoining love for one’s enemies?
(1) We must take into account that the Old Testament did encourage a high ethic in dealing with one’s fellow-man (see Leviticus 19:18), just as the New Testament requires us to “abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good” even today (Romans 12:9).
(2) Probably the most important key to understanding this issue is this: David is not praying to God out of malice and vindictiveness against someone he dislikes personally. It is not a matter of personal revenge; rather, these “harsh” statements reflect David’s awareness of God’s justice and his intolerance for sin.
They [these hard sayings] are not statements of personal vendetta, but they are utterances of zeal for the kingdom of God and his glory. To be sure, the attacks which provoked these prayers were not from personal enemies; rather, they were rightfully seen as attacks against God and especially his representatives in the promised line of the Messiah (1988, 172).
(3) Sin has not disappeared, and there are still enemies of the redemptive plan of God. God feels the same today toward rebellion as he did in David’s time. The Bible is not in conflict with itself over truths written in plain prose in both Testaments—namely, the righteous will be rewarded, and the wicked shall be punished (cf. Psalm 1; Matthew 25:46).
If these prayers of malediction were intrinsically sinful, one would have a difficult time explaining the Lord’s “curse” upon Capernaum (Matthew 11:23-24), Paul’s prayer of anathema upon false teachers (Galatians 1:8-9), the apostle’s denunciation of Alexander the coppersmith (2 Timothy 4:14), and the prayer of those martyrs who, under the altar of God, asked for vengeance from the Lord (Revelation 6:10).
C. S. Lewis was correct when he wrote: “[T]he ferocious parts of the Psalms serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness and that . . . is hateful to God” (1958, 33).
Alexander McClaren challenges the modern reader, “Perhaps, it would do modern tenderheartedness no harm to have a little more iron infused into its gentleness, and to lay to heart that the King of Peace must first be King of Righteousness” (1892, 375).
(4) We must bear in mind what it means to love enemies. As William Holladay put it: “The call to love one’s enemies must be exercised within the context of the claims of justice: if an injustice has been done, then it needs to be made right” (1993, 311-12).
The Greek word used in connection with the love of enemies is agape. This is a love of the will whereby one chooses to treat others, even enemies, within the context of their eternal welfare. God has proved his agape to us, in that while we were yet enemies, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).
Loving one’s enemies would be expressed in the following thoughtful actions: one would pray for them, be reconciled to them (if possible), do good to them (e.g., feeding them – cf. Matthew 5:44; 5:25; Luke 6:27; Romans 12:20). The goal is that by one’s good works, he may convert the enemy (cf. Matthew 5:13-16; 1 Peter 2:12).
However, if a person chooses to remain an “enemy of the cross” (Philippians 3:18) and continues to afflict us, Paul warns that justice will be served by God “at the revelation of our Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus” (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9).
This is not a desire for personal revenge; rather it is a comfort that the will of God shall prevail.
May God help us to deepen our concern for the souls of people. Too, may we desire to see every wicked way abolished, so that people will be rescued from the destiny of the wicked.
A love for truth will inevitably lead to a hatred of error (Amos 5:15). A love for righteousness will direct us to have a hatred for wickedness. All the while, we must love the enemy, while we hate the enmity. We must be concerned for their souls, and treat them accordingly.
A. F. Kirkpatrick admonishes: “Men have need to beware lest in pity for the sinner they condone the sin, or relax the struggle against evil” (1906, xciii).
The difficulty for many, presented in these passages, may not be in understanding them, nor in reconciling the teaching of Scripture. Rather, the challenge is bringing our lives to conform to God’s will.
Archer, Gleason. 1974. A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. Chicago, IL: Moody Press.
Holladay, William. 1993. The Psalms Through Three Thousand Years. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
Kaiser, Walter. 1988. Hard Sayings of the Old Testament. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Kirkpatrick, A. F. 1906. The Book of Psalms. Cambridge, England: University Press.
Lewis, C. S. 1958. Reflections on the Psalms. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, and Co.
McClaren, Alexander. 1892. The Psalms. Vol. 3. New York, NY: George Doran Company. | 2019-04-25T00:48:02 | https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/1156-do-the-imprecatory-psalms-and-christian-ethics-clash |
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