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1. Mince the steak by finely chopping the meat with a large, sharp knife.
2. Place the finely chopped in a large bowl. Add in the onion, capers, green olives, Tabasco, olive oil, lemon juice and parsley.
3. Mix well and set aside to rest for 5 minutes.
4. Place an oiled metal ring mould in the centre of a serving plate.
5. Gently mould the steak mixture into it forming a rounded mould around 3cm high. Carefully remove the ring mould.
6. Break the egg and separate it, discarding the white but reserving the yolk in one half of the eggshell.
7. Place the yolk-filled eggshell on top of the steak.
8. To make the crostini and green olive paste, blend the olives and olive oil together in a food processor to form a paste.
9. Spread the olive paste on the toasted ciabatta slices.
10. Place the olive paste crostini around the steak and serve at once. | 2019-04-22T18:00:22 | https://goodfood.uktv.co.uk/recipe/steak-tartara-served-on-crostini-and-green-olive-paste/ |
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When the singer, songwriter, guitarist and ukulele player calls for her scheduled phone interview, she and her Allo Darlin' bandmates are several hours from Chico, Calif., where they spent the previous night celebrating her 29th birthday.
As far as blowouts are concerned, it was what you might expect from a bunch of London-based indie-pop musicians. A fan had emailed them about playing a studio space en route to Portland, and since they had room in their schedule, they took the unorthodox gig. They also took some liberties with their set.
"We jammed until 3 in the morning," Morris says. "It was really good fun. We did 'Heard It Through the Grapevine' for a half an hour."
Allo Darlin' are promoting their just-released sophomore effort, "Europe," an album inspired by a disastrous, money-sucking tour of the continent in early 2011. This latest trek, which stops Friday in New Haven, has been going more smoothly, though the foursome did run into some trouble at a Red Roof Inn in Albuquerque.
"A fight broke out in one of the rooms, where it sounded like a man was being murdered," Morris says. "But it turned out he wasn't being murdered, so it was OK in the end."
Allo Darlin' considered jumping to the stranger's aid, and while it would have been a noble gesture, they hardly seem like the fight-stopping types. The quartet makes humble, hummable guitar pop, packing sweet and sad songs with clever pop-culture references and English-major wit.
The band has found its niche in the indie-pop underground — a haven for mod-style '60s fashions and forever-jangling guitars — and while Morris never set out to play any particular style of music, the Australian native is happy to have been accepted by the scene.
"People are really super supportive and loyal, and it's a great way of people finding out about your group," she says. "When we came to America the first couple of times, we didn't have an agent. I was just booking the shows myself. Because of this community, I knew which bands I could ask to us up with a gig."
These days, Allo Darlin' enjoys a higher profile, and next month, they'll head to Europe for more shows — and more adventures. No wonder Morris struggles to think of anything she'd like to squeeze in before turning 30.
"A lot of people maybe stress out that they haven't done enough or seen enough," she says. "I feel like I've seen a lot, particularly in the last four years."
Allo Darlin' performs with the Wave Picures and the Wee Bees Friday, May 18, at Café Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. Tickets for the 9 p.m. show are $8. Information: 203-789-8281 or http://www.cafenine.com. | 2019-04-23T04:35:41 | https://www.courant.com/hc-xpm-2012-05-16-hc-sound-check-allo-darlin-0517-20120516-story.html |
0.956973 | We can study the structure of language in a variety of ways. For example, we can study classes of words (parts of speech), meanings of words, with or without considering changes of meaning (semantics), how words are organised in relation to each other and in larger constructions (syntax), how words are formed from smaller meaningful units (morphology), the sounds of words (perception and pronunciation or articulation), and how they form patterns of knowledge in the speaker's mind (phonetics and phonology) and how standardized written forms represent words (orthography). Since this website is primarily devoted to the exploration of English throught its words, the focus in this website is on morphology (word stucture) and other aspects of words, such as etymology, lexical semantic change, word usage, lexical types of words, and words marking specific linguistic varieties.
All words are, at the their most basic, collections of different sounds. Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. Sounds are generally categorized by place of articulation, method of articulation, and voicing. While these individual sounds are the most basic elements of language, they do not have meaning in of themselves (apart from some sounds which can be considered sound symbolic).
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Inflection occurs when a word has different forms but essentially the same meaning, and there is only a grammatical difference between them: for example, "make" and "makes". The "-s" is an inflectional morpheme.
In contrast, derivation makes a word with a clearly different meaning: such as "unhappy" or "happiness", both from "happy". The "un-" and "-ness" are derivational morphemes. Normally a dictionary would list derived words, but there is no need to list "makes" in a dictionary as well as "make."
Many of the words in English are derived from Latin and Greek morphemes. In many cases words taken from Latin or Greek retain the inflectional characteristics and gender from their original languages. Thus, the masculine singular form of "alumni" is "alumnus," while the feminine singular form is "alumna." This example also shows that despite the retention of these Latinate forms, particularly in "learned" language, they are often discarded in casual speech, and "alumni" has come to be a singular noun as well as a plural one.
Throughout the history of English new words have been incorporated into the language through borrowing (from languages as varied as Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Arabic, and many others) as well as through the application of morphological and derivational rules to existing words and morphemes. Words currently entering the language are called neologisms (from "neo" new and "log" word).
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Trump has recently faced widespread, vociferous condemnation for his "zero tolerance" immigration policy that is separating children from their families at the US-Mexico border. | 2019-04-24T11:52:18 | https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2018/06/decision-abandon-human-rights-council-180620165512128.html |
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While many South Koreans have welcomed the reduced tensions with North Korea as Washington and Pyongyang talk about ending decades of hostilities, the village of Soseong-ri is anything but peaceful.
Soseong-ri is home to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad), a state-of-the-art system designed to protect against North Korean missiles.
But Thaad has also angered Pyongyang and its main backer, China, and made Soseong-ri nervous it would be a potential target if hostilities between the old enemies resume.
Residents also complain of the noise from the generators that power Thaad humming around the clock and helicopters shuttling fuel and supplies, and worry about electromagnetic waves from the system's radar possibly damaging their crops.
For the past 680 days, around 200 villagers have been taking shifts around the clock to try to block US vehicles travelling to the battery site.
Since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's historic meeting in Singapore last month, residents of Soseong-ri say there is less need for the system.
"Take Thaad out, the North Korean nuclear threat is gone,"one banner reads as a group of 40 men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s walk past a wall painted "No Nukes, No Thaad."
Lee Jong-hee, a 61-year-old farmer, leads a twice-weekly rally outside the US army base, built on a former golf course.
"Now the North Korean nuclear and missile threat has (abated) conspicuously. As it is declared that there will be no more war on the Korean peninsula, there is no reason for Thaad to be in my country," said Lee, who hopes the system could be withdrawn within three months.
"How do North Korea and the United States begin peace talks without this war weapon being removed?," Lee told Reuters at his farm while his aged mother packed boxes of yellow melons.
Trump and Kim Jong Un last month agreed to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, although they made no mention of how or when Pyongyang might give up its nuclear weapons programme.
Trump has cancelled joint military exercises with South Korea scheduled for August, calling the war games "provocative"and "expensive".
But experts say it will be a long while before the United States considers withdrawing Thaad, which was deployed last year.
After initial troubles getting components in, the system is now complete with six launchers and a powerful X-band radar that constitute one Thaad battery.
The US military would want to keep Thaad at least through the end of the denuclearisation process, expected to take several years, analysts and former officials say.
"Thaad is part of a layered defense of the US ground forces in (South Korea) against the threat from North Korean ballistic missiles," said Daniel Russel, former assistant secretary for East Asia and now at the Asia Society Policy Institute.
"There is no military rationale for withdrawing the Thaad system as long as Pyongyang maintains an arsenal of ballistic missiles and as long as US Forces remain in Korea."
Maintaining Thaad would also keep pressure on China to maintain sanctions on North Korea until it fully decommissions its nuclear weapons.
"It was China, not North Korea, that was the most uncomfortable with the idea of deploying Thaad in South Korea," said Yang Uk, a military expert at the Korea Defense and Security Forum.
Beijing opposed Thaad and its powerful radar that can see deeply into Chinese territory, saying it upsets the regional security balance.
In retaliation to the Thaad deployment, Beijing imposed unofficial boycotts on South Korean businesses and banned group tours to South Korea.
"Thaad can work as a leverage against China, because the more China cooperates with North Korea's denuclearisation, the more likely they can say goodbye to Thaad," said Yang.
Chinese defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian, asked last week whether China had again requested Thaad be withdrawn in the light of the Trump-Kim summit, said it is "resolutely opposed to the United States deploying Thaad in South Korea."
Spokespeople for South Korea's presidential Blue House and the US Forces in Korea said there has been no discussions about the system's future following the Singapore summit.
Seoul's defence ministry is preparing an environmental study to assess how the missile defense system will impact the 70 hectare (172 acre) site granted to the US army to host the battery.
Back in Soseong-ri, protesters are preparing themselves for a long fight.
"We can endure the physical exhaustion of coming to protests every day or occasionally clashing with police," said Kim Jong-hee, a 50-year-old mother who joined Wednesday's protest from the nearby town in Gimcheon.
"The harder thing is how we have to live with the fact that we can't really stop this no matter how we resist physically," Kim said. "It's so agonizing because this is now the way people here have to live." | 2019-04-21T22:50:30 | https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-town-calls-for-withdrawal-of-thaad-missile-defence-system |
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Robert John Carr (born 28 September 1947) is a retired Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, as the leader of the Labor Party. He later entered federal politics as a New South Wales senator, and served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2013.
Carr was born in Sydney and attended the University of New South Wales. Before entering politics he worked as a journalist. Carr entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1983, and the following year became a cabinet minister. He served under Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth until the Labor government was defeated in a landslide at the 1988 state election. Carr subsequently replaced Unsworth as party leader, thus becoming leader of the opposition. He led Labor to the 1991 election, where it recovered many of the seats it had lost in 1988, and then became premier after a narrow victory in 1995.
As premier, Carr was known for his emphasis on conservation and his use of public–private partnerships to fund infrastructure projects. His government oversaw much of the planning for the 2000 Summer Olympics, which Sydney hosted. Carr was re-elected twice, in 1999 and 2003, eventually resigning as premier in 2005 after 10 years in office. Only Henry Parkes served as premier for longer, and no one has served a longer consecutive term. Carr remained a public figure after leaving the premiership, and entered federal politics in 2012 at the urging of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He served as foreign minister under both Gillard and Kevin Rudd, but retired following Labor's defeat at the 2013 federal election.
Carr was born in the suburb of Matraville, Sydney to Edward and Phyllis Carr. He was educated at Matraville High School from which he graduated as dux in 1964. He was the first person in his family to finish high school, and became interested in a career in politics in his teenage years.
While still a 15-year-old student at school, Carr joined the local branch of the Australian Labor Party. He would go on to become the President of the New South Wales branch and then the national President of Young Labor in 1970 and 1972 respectively. He completed his tertiary education at the University of New South Wales, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History.
After graduation, Carr worked as a journalist for the ABC Radio's AM and PM current affair programs from 1969 to 1971. He was also a reporter on industrial relations and politics for The Bulletin magazine from 1978 to 1983. He later recalled that his work as a journalist provided good preparation for his political career. He also spent a period working as an education officer for the Labor Council of New South Wales (1972–78).
In 1972, Carr met a Malaysian economics student, Helena John on a holiday in Tahiti, and they married on 24 February 1973. Helena Carr became a successful businesswoman, while she largely remained out of the political spotlight during her husband's career.
Carr entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at a by-election in October 1983 as the member for Maroubra, representing the Australian Labor Party. In December 1984 he was appointed Minister for Planning and the Environment in the Neville Wran government. In February 1986 he also took on the Consumer Affairs portfolio, which he held until he became Minister for Heritage in July 1986 when Barrie Unsworth became premier. As planning minister, Carr released a new metropolitan planning strategy for the capital, to replace the 1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan.
The Unsworth Labor government was defeated in a landslide in March 1988, in the context of a 'time for a change' sentiment after 12 years of Labor. Carr was interested in international relations, and his long-term ambition was to enter federal politics and become Minister for Foreign Affairs.
I spent today like a doomed man, taking phone calls and drafting a statement, still saying to the press I wasn't shifting. I feel a jolt in my stomach about what I'm getting myself in for. I will destroy my career in four years. Everything's altered. It's my fate ... So, for better or for worse, I become leader of the party next week.
Despite his misgivings, Carr's performance as Opposition Leader gained approval in the party. Polling in the lead-up to the 1991 election predicted another heavy defeat. However, Labor regained all but one of the seats lost at the previous election. As a result, while the Coalition won 52 per cent of the two-party vote, Labor scored a 10-seat swing and came up only four seats short of Carr becoming Premier. Greiner was forced into a minority government with the support of independents.
In 1992 Greiner resigned following adverse findings against him from the Independent Commission Against Corruption. John Fahey replaced him as premier, but was hampered by his need to negotiate with independents. Labor won the 1995 election with a majority of one seat, elevating Carr to the office of Premier of New South Wales.
Following the narrow 1995 victory, Labor was re-elected by a much bigger margin in the 1999 poll with 55 seats out of 93. He was re-elected with the same margin in the 2003 election. In the 1999 poll the defeated Liberal opposition leader was Kerry Chikarovski; in the 2003 poll it was John Brogden.
Carr's government was characterised by conservative financial management and to a certain extent the encouragement of market forces, along with a "tough on crime" policy. It was also seen[by whom?] as having a strong pro-environment character and being committed to curriculum rigour (especially history), testing and literacy initiatives in schools. Carr ventured periodically into national policy issues, particularly issues concerning the environment, population growth, embryonic stem cell research, federal–state relations and support for a minimalist model of an Australian Republic. Carr's government, under State Treasurers Michael Egan and Andrew Refshauge, delivered ten consecutive budget surpluses.
Nature conservation was a priority for the government and for Carr personally. Carr moved to ban canal estates because of their impact on river systems, and when in office he implemented a 1995 election pledge to prevent logging in parts of southeastern NSW by creating the South East Forest National Park along NSW's coastal range from Batemans Bay to the Victorian border.
Carr's election policies had also included commitments to protect 90,000 hectares (220,000 acres) of old-growth forest and wilderness areas through a string of new national parks. The promise was exceeded with gazettal of 120,000 hectares (300,000 acres) between 1995 and 2005. The initiative was supported by a A$6 million forestry restructuring package to build a modern mill and provide a 20-year guarantee of alternative timber.
Following the 1999 victory, Carr's government declared 100 new national parks between Nowra and the Bega Valley. Carr claimed in 2009 that: "rural towns did not 'die' as a result of these conservation measures. The old timber towns now boast communities with a strong economic base, world-class national parks on their doorstep and thriving nature-based tourism". In its first term, the government banned the removal of old-growth vegetation from farmlands and introduced pricing for rural water and an environmental allocation to the state's river systems. In June 2001 jet skis were banned from Sydney Harbour. Carr said: "You wouldn't allow motor bikes in the Botanic Gardens".
The curbs on the clearing of nature vegetation were mounted as a serious anti-greenhouse gas measure, helping Australia achieve its Kyoto targets. In addition, in January 2003 the Carr government launched the world's first greenhouse gas trading scheme, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme, which set a limit on carbon emissions by electricity retailers. It was listed by the World Bank as the world's first carbon trading scheme.
In 2003 Carr launched the building sustainability index (BASIX) which mandated reductions in energy and water use of up to 40 percent in every new dwelling built after July 2004. Regarding environmental and education improvements, Carr noted in his diary for 21 April 1997: "Yesterday our school reforms were announced. All the ideas I'd formulated in Opposition. Four-unit English for the HSC. Compulsory exams at the end of Year 10. Soft options gone ... I mark the package with forestry. I could leave politics and be satisfied with my achievements."
During its second term (1999-2003) the Carr government embarked on tort law reform, in a manner that earned Carr a description from Forbes magazine as a "dragon slayer". In 1999, with the cost of many forms of injury insurance increasing, Carr gave his Minister John Della Bosca the task of carrying reforms out. As a consequence, procedures which Carr called "legal rorts" were in many cases stripped from the system. The average price of a green slip (compulsory third party motor accident insurance) was to drop $150 on 1999 prices. Carr argued that this created what he called: "the most comprehensive tort reform that any government has developed ... at the expense of the plaintiff lawyers who had fed on a culture of rorts and rip-offs". Carr noted in his diary: "It's not worth being Premier unless you can take privileges off the undeserving."
The introduction of a requirement that a person be subject to 15 percent of whole of body impairment—a percentage that is lower in some states—before being able to recover general damages has been the subject of controversy. It does mean that some people who are quite seriously injured are not able to sue at all. More than any other factor I envisage this restriction will be seen as much too restrictive.
As a result of a 1999 drug summit the Carr cabinet introduced Australia's first medically supervised injecting room for heroin users, located in King's Cross. The government argued it was a harm minimisation measure to keep drug users alive until they make the decision to get off drugs. Other reforms included the introduction of drug courts and a voluntary diversion program that allows magistrates to refer offenders to treatment rather than impose prison sentences.
During his time as opposition leader, Carr had backed a motion by independent parliamentarian John Hatton in May 1994 to establish a Royal Commission into corruption in the NSW Police. Once installed in the premiership, Carr inherited the work of the Royal Commission and its reports. In November 1996 one of the reports recommended that the government give increased power to the Police Commissioner to hire and fire all staff, random drug and alcohol testing of all police officers, the formation of the police detection commission to detect and audit police corruption. But the recommendations sparked strong objection from the Police Association backed by the Labor Council and demonstrations at parliament house by 1500 police. There was a revolt in Carr's parliamentary party. Carr was adamant that the commissioner must have the increased power if the police force were to be rid of corrupt or compromised officers, and the legislation was passed.
The Cross City Tunnel exit at Lincoln Crescent.
The Carr Government pioneered private–public partnerships (PPPs) to fund additional infrastructure, creating a model followed in other states. Five projects delivered Sydney a ring road system including the M5 Extension, the Eastern Distributor, the M2 Hills Motorway, the Westlink M7, the Lane Cove Tunnel, and the Cross City Tunnel. These projects had a total cost of A$$5.4 billion, while all but $800 million was contributed by the private sector.
According to the press release, in 2007 Infrastructure Partnerships Australia awarded three projects that began under Carr's Premiership as the best PPPs in Australia: the Westlink M7 opened in late 2005; school construction and maintenance which the Auditor General said had saved tax payers $55 million; and the maintenance of 626 new rail carriages. The focus on roads spending instead of public transport has been criticised as the wrong priority on environmental grounds: "It was clear even then that NSW desperately needed public transport investment."
A year after his appointment as premier, Carr caused controversy when he recommended that the newly appointed New South Wales Governor, Gordon Samuels, not live at Government House, which would become a museum open to the public. This decision was seen by monarchists as an attempt by Carr, a republican, to downgrade the importance of the office of governor.
Carr's government was in power during much of the building of facilities and the conduct of the 2000 Olympic Games. Carr was to boast that the 2000 Olympics were paid in full without a cent in debt.
By March 2004, public support for Carr started to slip; Newspoll showed that for the first time more people were dissatisfied than satisfied with the Premier. The Liberal opposition frontbenchers were exploiting a public view that the government had underspent on urban infrastructure and public transport. Even after series of announcements and re-announcements of more trains, power stations and a desalination plant, the public had seen enough of Carr. By June 2005, only 35% were satisfied with his performance whereas his dissatisfaction rating had been over 51% since September 2004.
After a decade as Premier, Carr announced his resignation both as Premier and as the Member for Maroubra on 27 July 2005 to be effective from 3 August. This immediately prompted speculation that the resignation was a prelude to a move into federal politics, but Carr denied this. His successor as Premier was former Health Minister Morris Iemma. Shortly after Carr's resignation, Andrew Refshauge and Planning Minister Craig Knowles also left parliament.
Retired Premier Neville Wran described Carr as "the very model of a modern Labor premier, an articulate and powerful public performer who identified himself with the contemporary policy issues of education and the environment." Wran noted that the Carr model became a template for other Australian Labor Party leaders, with some regarding him as a mentor.
After Carr the NSW government was able to claim that while in 1994 there were 328 national parks covering four million hectares of NSW, Carr's policies increased this to 770 national parks covering 6.6 million hectares by 2006. Wilderness protection was expanded: there were 650,000 hectares (1,600,000 acres) in 1994, by 2006 nearly two million hectares.
The North Side Sewage Tunnel, funded by the government in its first term, stopped more than 20 billion litres of sewage reaching Sydney Harbour and saw whales and dolphins return to it. The government also built pollution traps to capture litter and rubbish that would have otherwise been flushed with storm water onto Sydney beaches. In 1994, before the election of the government, 430 kilograms (950 lb) of waste was being generated by every Sydney resident each year, and only 60 kilograms (130 lb) being recycled. Reforms to the waste industry saw a 28 percent reduction to 310 kilograms (680 lb) per person and a 65 percent increase in recycling to 102 kilograms (225 lb) per person.
He received credit for the increase in the number and size of the state's national parks, while criticism was made about rail transport which recorded a period of poor on-time running and a damaging industrial dispute in 2004.
The Carr government is also known for its considerable infrastructure contribution. Total State Sector Real Growth from 1995 to 2005 was 41%.
Infrastructure projects included the Eastern Distributor, M5 East, three bus expressways costing $300 million in Western Sydney, Lane Cove Tunnel, Cross City Tunnel, the Epping to Chatswood railway line, the start on the South West Rail Link and the North West Rail Link and the M7 Westlink which at 42 kilometers is the longest urban road in Australia and slashed travel times in Western Sydney by one hour.
After leaving state parliament, Carr continued his involvement in public debate. He championed embryonic stem cell research, writing in The Daily Telegraph on 24 August 2006: "Stem cell research enjoys great public support. Let the doctors and scientists get on with the job. Their research might save a life in your family or mine".[This quote needs a citation] In another opinion piece he urged support for somatic cell nuclear transfer (sometimes known as 'therapeutic cloning').
He continued to advocate nature conservation, for example by calling for national park declarations over the River Red Gums. He wrote in 2009 that the river red gums are "Australian icons, part of our folklore, symbols of inland Australia".
He was an opponent of a charter of rights. Carr wrote in The Australian that, "if the public believed the executive arm of government were stifling freedoms, Australia slipping behind other democracies, there would have been a decided shove towards a human rights act". He continued "Instead…it sunk below the water, not leaving a slick of printer's ink".
Pursuing his interest in literacy he urged an opening of the Australian book market to permit the import of cheaper books.
The rise in the annual immigration intake brought Carr into the debate on what he called 'Australia's carrying capacity'. Carr argued that "The debate is about whether immigration should be running at very high levels. It's about whether we end up with a population of 36 million in 2050 in contrast to the previous expectation of 28.5 million".
Carr took up the issue of obesity and argued that chain restaurants should be forced by law to put calorie measurements next to menu items, that trans fats be banned as in some US states and food manufacturers be made to reduce salt content.
In retirement Carr made speeches at international conferences on climate change, Australia–China relations and multiculturalism.
In October 2005 Carr became a part-time consultant for Macquarie Bank, advising the company on policy, climate change, renewables and strategic issues with a focus on the United States and the People's Republic of China.
Carr continued pursuing his literary interests, interviewing authors and lecturing at the Sydney Writers' Festival. He appeared as a guest reporter for the ABC television show Foreign Correspondent, conducting an interview with friend Gore Vidal. In 2008 he attended the Australia 2020 Summit as part of the economy panel, and raised the issues of an Australian Republic and childhood obesity.
He has been a member of the board of directors at the United States Studies Centre since 2009 and is a charter member of the Chester A. Arthur Society, a US political trivia group named after the US president, 1881–1885. In 2009 he was appointed to the council of Voiceless, the animal protection institute. In 2010 he was appointed Patron of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Foundation and Patron of the Chifley home, Bathurst.
In April 2013, Fairfax journalist Philip Dorling identified Carr from a searchable database of declassified US State Department diplomatic cables as having criticised the Whitlam Government and provided information on internal Labor Party politics during discussions with the American consul-general in Sydney during the early 1970s. Asked about these contacts with US diplomats, Senator Carr said: "I was in my 20s. I could have said anything."
On 2 March 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that Carr would be nominated to fill a casual vacancy in the Australian Senate caused by the resignation of Mark Arbib. This term would expire on 30 June 2014. Gillard also announced Carr would become the new Minister for Foreign Affairs in succession to Kevin Rudd. Carr confirmed that he would seek election to the Senate for a further full six-year term and was subsequently nominated at the head of Labor's New South Wales Senate ticket for the 2013 poll.
Carr was formally chosen to fill the vacant Senate position by a joint sitting of the NSW Parliament on 6 March 2012. He was sworn as a Senator and Minister for Foreign Affairs on 13 March.
As Foreign Minister, Carr's principal focuses were Australia's (successful) bid for a temporary position on the United Nations Security Council, passage of a global Arms Trade Treaty, the Middle East peace process, the conflict in Syria and stronger relations between Australia and the Asia-Pacific particularly Myanmar, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Carr's term as Foreign Minister coincided with the final stages of Australia's campaign for a UN Security Council seat. The campaign, initiated in 2009, placed Australia in the ballot for a seat in the "Western Europe & Other" category, against European nations Luxembourg and Finland. In the context of the bid, Carr supported Security Council reform including permanent membership for Japan, Brazil and India and two permanent seats for Africa. Carr credited Australia's successful campaign to promotion of Australia's diplomatic links with African nations and environmental and cultural links with small island states in the Caribbean and Pacific. In October 2012 Australia was elected to the Security Council, winning an absolute majority of votes in the first round of balloting - the first time Australia had held a seat since 1985-86. Known for his fastidious eating habits, Bob Carr responded to the suggestion he would celebrate this success with champagne by saying "I’ll be having, as soon as I can, a generous cup of hot water, boiling water, with a slice of lemon".
Opening negotiations on an arms trade treaty, United Nations, New York 20 March 2013.
Carr advocated adoption by the UN of a global Arms Trade Treaty to track and reduce the supply of weapons to rogue states or terrorist groups. Carr twice travelled to New York to personally campaign for the treaty. The treaty was passed by the UN by 154 votes to 3.
Carr secured Australian Government support for abstention on a motion before the UN General Assembly to grant observer state status to the Palestinian Authority. This represented a shift from Australia's previous opposition to the motion, championed by then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Carr argued that abstention on the motion allowed Australia to "reach out to moderate Palestinians who want a peaceful solution [to conflict with Israel] and say we're not opposing you." The UN motion to grant observer state status for the Palestinian Authority was ultimately carried by 138 votes to nine, with 41 abstentions.
In January 2013, in a joint communique with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, Carr called for US leadership in resuming direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians. The communique also noted that both countries had voted to abstain on the UN motion on Palestinian status and that both viewed Israeli settlements on the West Bank as illegal under international law.
Closer to home, Carr worked to build stronger relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), holding in-country talks with all ten member states, twice attending the East Asia Summit and repeatedly emphasizing Australia's interest in regional convergence and co-operation. In 2012 Carr described the health and centrality of ASEAN as critical to Australia's security and prosperity, but warned against ASEAN nations falling into a "middle income trap" of lower growth as a consequence of institutional rigidity and a slowing of internal reform.
Carr also worked to restore global diplomatic relations with Myanmar following the Myanmar Government's release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and introduction of limited domestic political reform. Australian sanctions on Myanmar were lifted in 2012, though an arms embargo was maintained. Carr lobbied European and United States leaders to follow suit, with the European Union lifting its sanctions April 2013 and the US moving to increase engagement on trade and investment. Carr urged the Myanmar Government to continue its progress towards democracy, while welcoming the release of political prisoners and commitments to address ongoing ethnic and religious violence. He announced a doubling of Australia's foreign aid for Myanmar to $100 million by 2015, with a focus on education and maternal health. A further $9 million was provided to assist the Rohingya and other communities affected by civil conflict in Rakhine State.
Carr visited Indonesia on four occasions as Foreign Minister, raising issues such as people smuggling, aid, education links and trade. As Minister for AusAID, Carr oversaw an increase in assistance to Indonesia, to a total of more than $500 million a year for maternal health and education, and $47 million over 5 years to improve facilities in religious schools.
It's a faster industrialisation and on a bigger scale than that of America itself in the 19th century. It happened faster, more people are affected, more dramatic effects for the world than even America's rise to industrial dominance. ... Few could be untouched by what it means for the Chinese people – liberated from poverty, historic poverty; few could be reluctant to see this renewed China take its place in the councils of the world.
"Australia has had a small population, vast distances, a desire for great and powerful friends, and a sense of exposure to its north ever since Japan defeated Russia in 1905 and Alfred Deakin looked for support (from the US)."
Carr returned to China with Prime Minister Gillard in April 2013 for the annual Boao Forum for Asia, with a focus on strengthening bilateral relations. The Chinese Government agreed to the direct convertibility of Australian currency into yuan - only the third such agreement in China's history. Gillard and Carr also secured agreements for an annual leadership dialogue with their Chinese counterparts. China's President Xi Jinping was reported as intending to lift Australia-China relations "to a new level" following Forum discussions.
In a speech following the visit, Carr said Australia's achievements at the Forum had been to create the bilateral architecture needed to support future Australia-China relations - annual leaders and foreign minister's talks, and an ongoing economic dialogue between Australia's trade and competitiveness ministers and the Chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission. Carr praised China's leadership for being "determined, confident and pragmatic" about the continued economic and geopolitical rise of their country.
His third visit, in July 2013, was to central China where he opened Australia's fourth diplomatic post in China, a consulate-general in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu. At the opening Carr emphasised trade issues, highlighting Chinese investment in Australia and saying the new consulate would assist Australian firms in establishing a presence in western China.
President Putin with Carr, G20, St Petersburg, September 2013.
Carr also represented Australia at the 2013 G-20 Saint Petersburg summit. His G20 interventions included as a member of a panel comprising Russian business and international labour, and in a leader's debate on chemical weapons in Syria. At a sideline meeting convened by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Carr also secured international agreement on a medical pact in Syria to protect hospitals and health care workers from targeted attacks and to maintain humanitarian access for medical NGO's and for the distribution of aid.
Carr's "medical plan" for Syria became an issue he pursued in international fora. The plan aimed to use international pressure to force an informal agreement between all parties in the Syrian civil war, to end the targeting of hospital or medical personnel, avoid the use of hospitals as bases and ensure the safe distribution of civilian medical aid. Speaking after Australia's successful push for the UN Security Council position in 2012, Carr said the plan represented his first priority in its new United Nations role. Australia's foreign aid for the Syrian crisis was increased to more than $100 million, focusing on shelter, medical support and child protection for refugees fleeing to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
In the absence of a ceasefire or UNSC action on Syria, Carr's plan received international support including from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Arab League and leaders at the 2013 G20 Summit.
On 23 October 2013, Carr announced his resignation from the Senate, which took effect the following day. He was replaced by Deborah O'Neill on 13 November 2013.
As Carr had been elected to the Senate at the 2013 federal election for a six-year term to commence 1 July 2014, the timing of his resignation created a constitutional quirk, as he was resigning both his current term and a subsequent term that had not yet commenced. To resolve this, O'Neill had to be re-appointed to the Senate by the New South Wales Parliament after the commencement of the 2014–2020 Senate term. To mitigate the cost of recalling both houses of the parliament for a joint sitting (estimated at AUD $300,000), Premier Mike Baird convened a sitting on 2 July of two government members and two opposition members before the President of the Legislative Council to appoint O'Neill to the Senate for the term which began on 1 July.
After his resignation, Bob Carr accepted the position of Director, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology, Sydney and Carr also accepted a professorial fellowship with the University of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre as a Professorial Fellow, and in May 2014 became head of the newly-established Australia-China Relations Institute, a think-tank at UTS.
Carr is the author of several books, including Thoughtlines (Viking, 2002), My Reading Life (Penguin, 2008), and Diary of a Foreign Minister (2014), which received a mixed reception with Carr ridiculed for his perceived arrogance.
In May 2003, author Marilyn Dodkin authored a biography, Bob Carr: the reluctant leader, partly based on Carr's private diaries and including his often uncomplimentary thoughts on various political personalities. A second biography, Bob Carr: A Self-Made Man, by Andrew West and Rachel Morris, was published in September 2003 by Harper Collins.
Carr participated in the 2004 Sydney Festival in conversation with Sir Tom Stoppard. He has served as a board member of book retailer Dymocks since July 2007.
Carr has been a long time campaigner against high immigration. since leaving politics he has campaigned on cutting immigration numbers.
For his work in improving Australia–US relations he was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award Scholarship. He donated the prize money to launch scholarships for the State's teachers to complete studies abroad. For his services to conservation he was given the World Conservation Union International Parks Merit Award and made a life member of the Wilderness Society.
In 2008 he was awarded the Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic), the second of five grades of the order, in recognition of his services to Italian culture.
On 5 July 2013, he was given the United Macedonian Diaspora's Macedonia Friendship Award for his friendship of the Australian-Macedonian community and his work to advance bilateral relations between Australia and Macedonia.
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0.999061 | The goal of CENTRE@CLEF 2018 is to run a joint CLEF/NTCIR/TREC task on challenging participants: 1) to reproduce best results of best/most interesting systems in previous editions of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC by using standard open source IR systems; 2) to contribute back to the community the additional components and resources developed to reproduce the results in order to improve existing open source systems.
Task 1 - Replicability : replicability of selected methods on the same experimental collections.
Task 2 - Reproducibility : reproducibility of selected methods on the different experimental collections.
Task 3 - Re-reproducibility : using the components developed in T1 and T2 and made available by the other participants to replicate/reproduce their results.
CheckThat! aims to foster the development of technology capable of both spotting and verifying check-worthy claims in political debates in English and Arabic.
Task 1 -Check-Worthiness: Given a political debate, which is segmented into sentences with speakers annotated, identify which statements (claims) should be prioritized for fact-checking. This will be a ranking problem, and systems will be asked to produce a score, according to which the ranking will be performed.
Task 2 -Factuality: Given a list of already-extracted claims, classify them with factuality labels (e.g., true, half-true, false). This task will be run in an open mode. We will not provide any pre-selected set of documents to support the veracity labels. Participants will be free to use whatever resources they have and the Web in general, with the exception of the websites used by the organizers to collect the data.
Task 1 -Query Suggestion:given a verbose topic description participants will generate and submit a sequence of queries and a ranking of the collection for each query. Queries will be evaluated over their effectiveness (query agent) and/or resemblance to user queries (user simulation). Query suggestion will be performed iteratively.
Task 2 -Result Composition:Given the obtained results from the aforementioned queries obtain a single ranked list by merging the individual rankings.
eRisk explores the evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and practical applications (particularly those related to health and safety) of early risk detection on the Internet.
Task 1 - Early Detection of Signs of Depression : the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of depression as soon as possible.
Task 2 - Early Detection of Signs of Anorexia: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of anorexia as soon as possible. Both tasks are mainly concerned about evaluating Text Mining solutions and, thus, we concentrate on texts written in Social Media. Texts should be processed in the order they were posted. In this way, systems that effectively perform this task could be applied to sequentially monitor user interactions in blogs, social networks, or other types of online media.
Medical content is available electronically in a variety of forms ranging from patient records and medical dossiers, scientific publications and health-related websites to medical-related topics shared across social networks. This lab aims to support the development of techniques to aid laypeople, clinicians and policy-makers in easily retrieving and making sense of medical content to support their decision making.
Task 1 - Multilingual Information Extraction : Participants will be required to extract the causes of death from death certificates, authored by physicians in European languages. This can be seen as a named entity recognition, normalization, and/or text classification task.
Task 2 - Technologically Assisted Reviews in Empirical Medicine : Participants will be challenged to retrieve medical studies relevant to conducting a systematic review on a given topic. This can be seen as a total recall problem and is addressed by both query generation and document ranking.
Task 3 - Patient-centred Information Retrieval : Participants must retrieve web pages that fulfil a given patient’s personalised information need. This needs to fulfil the following criteria: information reliability, quality, and suitability. The task also has a multilingual querying track.
The tasks are open for everybody. We particularly welcome academic and industrial researchers, scientists, engineers and graduate students in natural language processing, machine learning and biomedical/health informatics to participate. We also encourage participation by multidisciplinary teams that combine technological skills with clinical expertise.
The lab provides an evaluation forum for the language independent annotation and retrieval of images, a domain for which tools are by far not as advanced as for text analysis and retrieval.
Task 1 - ImageCLEFlifelog : An increasingly wide range of personal devices, such as smartphones, video cameras as well as wearable devices that allow capturing pictures, videos, and audio clips in every moment of our life are becoming available. The task addresses the problems of lifelogging data understanding, summarization and retrieval.
Task 2 - ImageCLEFcaption : Interpreting and summarizing the insights gained from medical images such as radiology output is a time-consuming task that involves highly trained experts and often represents a bottleneck in clinical diagnosis pipelines. The task addresses the problem of bio-medical image concept detection and caption prediction from large amounts of training data.
Task 3 - ImageCLEFtuberculosis : The objective of this task is to determine tuberculosis subtypes and drug resistances, as far as possible automatically, from the volumetric image information in computed tomography (CT) volumes (mainly texture analysis) and based on clinical information (e.g., age, gender, etc).
Task 4 - VisualQuestionAnswering : With the ongoing drive for improved patient engagement and access to the electronic medical records via patient portals, patients can now review structured and unstructured data from labs and images to text reports associated with their healthcare utilization. Given a medical image accompanied with a set of clinically relevant questions, participating systems are tasked with answering the questions based on the visual image content.
Task 1 - GeoLifeCLEF : location-based species recommendation.
Task 2 - BirdCLEF : bird species identification from bird calls and songs.
Task 3 - ExpertLifeCLEF : experts vs. machines identification quality.
Task 1 - Cross Language Cultural Retrieval over MicroBlogs : a) Small Microblogs Multilingual Information Retrieval in Arabic, English, French and Latin languages; b) Microblogs Bilingual Information Retrieval for tuning systems running on language pairs; c) Microblog Monolingual Information Retrieval based on 2017 language identification.
Task 2 - Mining Opinion Argumentation : a) Polarity detection in microblogs; b) Automatic identification of argumentation elements over Microblogs and WikiPedia; c) Classification and summarization of arguments in texts.
Task 3 - Dialectal Focus Retrieval : a) Arabic dialects in Blogs, MicroBlogsand Video News transcriptions; b) Spanish language variations in Blogs, MicroBlog and Journals.
PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics.
Task 1 - Author Identification: cross-domain authorship attribution. More specifically, cases where the topic of texts varies significantly will be examined. In addition, we will continue the pilot task of style change detection, focusing on finding switches of authors within documents based on an intrinsic style analysis.
Task 2 - Author Obfuscation: while the goal of author identification and author profiling is to model author style so as to deanomyize authors, the goal of author obfuscation technology is to prevent that by disguising the authors. We will study author masking vs. authorship verification.
Task 3 - Author Profiling: the goal is to identify an author's traits based on their writing style. The focus will be on age and gender, whereas text and image will be used as information sources, offering tweets in English, Spanish and Arabic.
The primary aim of the PIR-CLEF 2018 laboratory is: 1) to facilitate comparative evaluation of PIR by offering participating research groups a mechanism for evaluation of their personalisation algorithms; 2) to give the participating groups the means to formally define and evaluate their own and novel user profiling approaches for PIR.
Task 1 - Personalized Search: we will provide a bag-of-words profile gathered during the query sessions performed by real searchers, the set of queries formulated by each user, together with the corresponding document relevance, and the the search logs of each user. Task participants will be expected to compute search results obtained by applying their personalization algorithms on these queries. The search will be carried out on the ClueWeb12 collection, by using the API provided by DCU.
Task 2 - User Profile Models: participants will be required to develop their own user profile models using the information gathered about the real user during her interactions with the system. The same information have been used for creating the baseline (keyword-based user profiles), which is provided in the benchmark. | 2019-04-19T10:52:12 | http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/labs_info.html |
0.999999 | A FUGITIVE suspected of killing a UK policeman has been arrested.
Timmy Donovan, 30, was being hunted by Merseyside police in Spain under an international arrest warrant.
He has was seized in Germany on Wednesday evening, as he tried to board a plane back to the UK at Dusseldorf airport.
Donovan – also known as Timmy O’Sullivan – was wanted for the murder of off-duty police officer Neil Doyle on a night out in December.
He attacked the policeman, who was out on a police force Christmas bash in Liverpool. Doyle later died of massive head injuries.
Detectives thought Donovan could have been in Spain, after leaving England at about 8.30pm on December 19, through the Eurotunnel.
Great detective work, “He was seen leaving by the Eurotunnel”. Conclusion? He has gone to Spain. | 2019-04-21T15:22:00 | https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2015/01/22/suspected-british-cop-killer-arrested-following-spanish-manhunt/ |
0.999997 | Toshokan Sensou (or The Library Wars), is another one of those odd anime that I seem to end up reviewing. The show has a nice premise which is reminiscent of Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 all rolled into one.
The anime is based on a series of four light novels by Arikawa Hiro (entitled Toshokan Sensou, Nairan, Kiki, and Kakumei respectively), which were published from 2006 to 2007. The novels were later serialized in two mangas. The first manga was made by Yumi Kiiro, and published in Lala magazine from September 2007. The second was made by Furudori Yayoi, and was published Dengeki Daioh magazine from November 2007. The twelve episode anime was made by Production IG, and released in April 2008 on Fuji TV's Noitamina (which is animation written backwards) timeslot.
The basic plot for the novels is based on the "Statement of Intellectual Freedom in Libraries" that went into effect in Japan in 1954. The story is set 30 years after Japan passed the Media Enhancement Act in 1989, a law which effectively gave control of all published material to the government. The law was passed in an effort to censor any media that could be deemed as hazardous to Japanese society, but 30 years later blanket censorships, book burnings, and a culture of fear and exclusion have become the norm for society, as Media Enforcement troops are everywhere.
Because of this, and because of a tragedy that occured 20 years prior to the beginning of the story, the libraries now have their own defense forces, and the main character, Kasahara Iku, joins the Kanto Library Defense Force as she was saved by a member of the that team some years back. The show follows her struggle to become a good librarian and a good member of the defense team.
The art style is very much hit and miss. Although the characters are nicely designed Production IG have adopted a style that has quite noticeable black borders around characters and objects. This give the show a far more "cartoony" feel than it should possibly have, especially during the dramatic moments. This "cartoony" feel can be off putting to some people, whilst others may be oblivious to it.
The backgrounds and settings are well designed, but overall they aren't anything special. The animation itself is usually quite smooth and flowing, although there are some glaring faults (the scene in episode 11 with a van crashing through a barrier made from two buses and receiving no damage is a prime example).
The sound is okay overall. The OP is nice, if unmemorable, as is the ED. The VA's are quite good overall. Inoue Marina plays the role of Iku very well, and her voice suits the design of the character. The same goes for the rest of the VA's with their resepctive characters. The sound effects are pretty good throughout the show. Most of these are used in the more dramatic or action filled moments to good effect.
The characters weren't bad on the whole. Iku is a nice enough lead on the whole, although I found it a little off putting that she is a stereotypical "jock" (i.e. all muscle and no brain). She is determined and caring, but coupled with that is a short temper, reckless behaviour, a dislike of serious study and classrooms, and a endency to overreact. This can make her character confusing as it's sometimes unclear how the show is trying to develop her.
The other characters (Doujo Atsushi, Shibasaki Asako, Tezuka Hikaru, etc), receive very little development throughout the course of the show, especially given the fact that the show is about Iku. This makes the show unbalanced as, although we are clear about what drives Iku, we are rarely shown any of the other chaacters' motivations.
Here's the reason why I said this show is a bit odd. It never seems to settle on being one thing as it has drama, action, suspense, comedy, and even romance all mixed into it. he unfortunate thing though, is that it never quite pulls of the comedy, the romance is a little on the limp side, the drama is sometimes hammed up, and the suspense is normally easy to work out. Couple this with the cartoon style art and the show is difficult to take seriously.
However, the show is enjoyable on the whole, especially if you don't treat it as a serious anime. It's effectively a coming of age story and as such it actually works on quite a few levels.
Toshokan Sensou isn't a bad show on the whole. Yes, there are some obvious failings in the show, but it is still rather enjoyable in a no-brain kind of way. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wants a serious show, or to anyone who wants a comedy. Although the basic premise is a serious one, the show works better as a straightforward action anime, and as such it's not a bad way to waste half an hour (hence my overall score of 7).
If you're going to watch the show then don't have any expectations of high drama, challenging concepts, or any kind of socio-political message. It doesn't require any introspection or deep philosophical ponderings, and the best advice is to watch it in the same way you'd watch Die Hard, Rush Hour, or any other action movie.
I just happened to hear about this anime by chance from another website. The premise was interesting so I decided to give it a try and was totally amazed. The storyline, characters, artwork, and sound are engrossing and completely draw you in. While the characters themselves may not be completely unique, their interactions with one another and the realistic emotional outbursts are i think rare among most anime.
Most people don't really mention this but I also consider this a full romance. The relationship between the main characters develops more naturally over time. They are not sappy or fake but there was a lovely tenderness and protectiveness towards one another that was great and heartfelt. And in this anime you definitely get a somewhat satisfying ending vs. most animes that leave things very open ended. I am hoping hoping for a second season because my only complaint would be that this anime was way to short.
The storyline is smart with strong sociological undertones. The advantage is you can choose to really ignore the important issues if you want to you. You can enjoy the action, comedy and romance alone or you can also appreciate the underlying message and concept. Either way, I don't believe it will diminish your enjoyment of the show.
So overall witty and lovable characters, great story, nice artwork.. this is now one of my top fav. animes of all time.
I tried really hard to hate this anime. I watched the first episode and I was absolutely geared up to hate the whole thing and bring all my negative emotional baggage down on it.
I failed. I fell in love with this anime.
It deals with a war very unlike Western wars, and with laws very unlike Western laws. In the real world war is incredibly lawless and ugly, and law enforcement is terrible. But this anime deals with an extremely civilized war with very strict rules of engagement, very limited weapons, and scrupulous regard for human life, so it's not like watching documentary footage of real wars. The war is also in effect a limited civil war, so it's not like any war story I can recall ever having seen before.
This anime is short but extremely complete. The visuals are gorgeous. The character development, plot, and pacing are very well-balanced. It packs a huge amount of energy into a very concentrated package.
Obscure trivia note:The main character of Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu was played by Kojima Sachiko, but for whatever reason, I keep thinking that she sounds exactly like Inoue Marina playing the main character of Toshokan Sensou.
This was probably one of the best decision to watch back in 2008.
The story is about a special trained military force for the "Library", to protect good, fun and important books. It sounds intresting, but not good enough.
The characters and the art help you through the series, in which the story develops nicely. The characters are done great, their backgrounds, relations and personalities, they really look like humans which just got animated, through their personalities that is.
The art is okay, sometimes they could've drawn more realistic, some female characters look too much on their male co-characters. But that's probably meant to be that way, since, when you get to know a softer side, you get to see how beautiful she actually is. | 2019-04-23T15:55:40 | https://myanimelist.net/anime/3613/Toshokan_Sensou |
0.998797 | "How likely are you to recommend Fauna-eu.org to a friend or colleague?
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0.997889 | What will you learn? The most important thing you will take away from this Nurani Qaaidah program is a solid practical mastering of the rules of Tajweed, including makhaarij (the place the letter sounds exit from your mouth) that will enable you to read the Qur'an correctly on your own. In fact, many graduates of this program have been able to read the Qur'an correctly with precision and ease from cover to cover in six months or less. This program follows an easy gradient systematic system from beginner's level to intermediate to advanced. It starts with Arabic alphabet and small connected letters and harakat, short vowel, long vowels, words, then sukoon, then shaddah, sentences from the Qur'an, application of Tajweed, then that which need to be observed for Hafs. Each of the eighteen lessons is designed for simplicity and ease of assimilation and takes one hour or less to complete without ever burdening the student.
Who will teach you? Your teacher will be Sheikh Mohammed ar-Ra'ee, whose grandfather Sheikh Noor wrote the book this program uses, an expert Qari and has taught Tajweed classes and recitation for over 20 years to students ranging from preschoolers to unviersity students and adults. He holds over five Ijaazahs (certifications) from Qaris with a chain of authentication dating back to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Some of his teachers include Sheikh Hudaify, Ibraheem Al-Akhdar, Mohammad Tamim Azu'bi (Madina), Fath Muhammad (east Asia), Syed Laacheen, - Abdurrasheed Ar-Ra'ee - Ahmad ahmad said, mohammad ahmed ma'bad, Abdurrahim Al-Ilmi The Student of Sheikh Ahmad Zayaat (of Egypt) include Sheikh Abdel Aziz Uyoon as-Sood through Sheikh Mohammed Tamim Azu'bi (Shaam). He has designed and participated as a judge in several Qur'an competitions for ISNA and GQMA (Global Qur'an Memorization Academy). Many of his former students rank in the top 10 in many international Qur'anic competitions held in such places such as Mecca, Medina and Dubai. One in particular, Sheikh Abdullah Awwaad Al-Juhany, is currently the Imaam at the Masjid Al-Haram in Makkah.
What will you get? It depends on the item selection that you choose above. You can buy Nurani Qaeedah CD album alone or along with large or small booklets which has color coded text, lesson notes, summaries, exercises, Tajweed charts, and illustrations for Makhaarij for Tajweed Rules. All the Practice words and sentences used in the textbook are only from the Qur'an. - The Arabic script used in this textbook follows the Uthmani font as handwritten by the renowned calligrapher Uthman Taha who penned the Quran Mushaf al-Madina King Fahd Quranic complex - filled with eighteen lessons, practice surahs, and exercises; each is simple to understand, easy to complete, and gradually builds on previous lessons learned.
Who recommends this program? This program has been highly recommended by important figures in the field of Qur'anic studies. These include Sheikh Abdullah Basfar, the director of International Qur'an Memorization Association; Sheikh Dr. Ayman Assuaid, the renowned student of Uyoon as-Sood; Sheikh Dr. Lewis Faisal Bali, the former head of the Islamic Department in the Sauid Armed Forces; Shekih Abdel-Aziz Al-Hanafee, the director of Glorious Qur'an Memorization Association in Jeddah; Sheikh Dr. Ali Badahdah, the Imaam and Professor at the King Aziz University. Jeddah; Sheikh Abdul-Malik Sultan, Professor of Ummu Al-Qura University in Makkah; and Sheikh Ta Ha, Teacher of Qur'an at Masjid al-Haram in Makkah.
Khadijah M. on 06/19/2018 This product arrived as expected. The book is clear, beautifully illustrated, and concise. The CD had no trouble with windows 10 OS. I am more than pleased.
Candace C. on 05/02/2018 It's great... I am just beginning to study, but I think it is what I need to solidify my Quranic reading.
Customer R. on 05/06/2009 This is the best Tajweed teaching course I have seen so far. In Mid June, I decided to learn Tajweed to be able to read Qur'an during Ramadan. In 2009, Ramadan was expected to start on Aug. 22, 2009. So I had roughly two months to learn it. I bought lots of different books/materials on Tajweed. But all of them would have something that would make my learning experience either boring or difficult. For example, I bought some books that did not have CD and thus I was not able to actually listen to someone pronouncing the letters/words for me. Or, a friend of mine gave me a CD which was generally similar to Noorani Qa'idah but it was all in Arabic. I could listen to the pronunciation but could not understand what the written rule was about. The Noorani Qa'idah has everything you need. The Introducation to the book starts with 'Throughout my years of teaching Qur'an and Arabic from kindergarten through the college level, it became apparent that there was a need for a consistent, well-designed curriculum to teach students how to recite the Qur'an. The author, May Allah reward him for all his efforts in preparing this curriculum, accomplishes this aim.It is indeed a book which is consistent and well-designed. The book is composed of 17 lessons, lesson notes/rules and graphic depiction of lips, a mouth and a throat to show their movement when you pronounce letters. Rules and exercises contained in the lessons can be found in enclosed CDs too. The CDs read for you the correct pronunciation of the letters/words of the exercises. For example, Lesson 1 is an Alphabet. The CD reads for you the alphabet by pronouncing each letter three times. This way it enables you to catch the correct pronunciation of the letter and read it yourself. Another excellent features of the CD exercises is that they have spell reading too. Spell reading is when the voice in the CD reads the letter, the short vowel sound [fatha, kasra, or dhamma] accompanying it and then reads for you how they are pronounced all together. For example, instead of saying just 'u, it reads for you 'hamza dhamma = u. For your convenience, after spell reading, it just reads the letters, without spell reading. CDs are of high quality. You can hear the sounds clearly with no noise on the background. My expectation is that if I study the program extensively, I can start reading Qur'an in a month inshaAllah. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn Tajweed. Dar-us-Salam Publications did everything to meet my needs. They returned them the other Tajweed book I bought from them. I asked them to send me this program instead and they did it immediately. Both shipments arrived fast. | 2019-04-24T17:50:18 | https://dar-us-salam.com/quran/learn-the-quran/mc81-noorani-qa-idah-cd-album.html |
0.998936 | Not as frequently mentioned as other eating disorders, Binge Eating Disorder, or B.E.D. is a serious condition in which a person eats well beyond a normal portion when eating. While everyone overeats, B.E.D. is constant, unfortunately causing teens to rapidly gain weight and seriously affecting health. In contrast to bulimia, which can also be life-threatening, those who suffer from the disorder do not purge after binging.
Similar to alcohol and drug abuse, binge eating is a relationship with food in which the person does not how to stop. Once a teen sits down to eat a meal or snack, they may continue eating until they are in great pain, and are physically unable to keep eating. A side effect of B.E.D. is being overweight or obese, which may cause other serous health problems, such as heart disease and high cholesterol.
Other symptoms of B.E.D. can include eating rapidly while eating, feeling out of control, eating when one is not hungry, eating alone or in secret, depression and anxiety, and frequent dieting with no success or progress. The causes for B.E.D. or unknown, and science has not developed a solid correlation with nature or nurture.
How can Rites of Passage NW help with B.E.D.? Firstly, we have strict guidelines with respect to eating when a teen has a known eating disorder. Portion control is a must, and we begin with authoritative exercises, but let the teen slowly take charge of their own diet. Meal planning and calorie counting is part of our program. While here, a teen will eat our completely holistic and healthy diet of food. It may take some getting used to, but we have found it very effective to help break the cycle of B.E.D. | 2019-04-19T22:50:05 | https://ritesofpassagewildernesstherapy.com/binge-eating-disorder-b-e-d/ |
0.639166 | The system generates an objective evaluation of the student's performance on the maneuver.
Maneuver swarms will likely be more durable than their fire support counterparts and exercise greater cooperation with human combatants on the battlefield.
This study was conducted at Combined Military Hospital Peshawar to assess the impact of post-maneuver neck restrictions on efficacy of Epley maneuver.
While this definition is accurate, it is decidedly sustainment-centric, making it less useful to general discussions between maneuver and sustainment planners.
Todays Evasive Maneuver Assist prototype demonstration is a powerful example of WABCOs and ZFs leadership in developing advanced safety technologies for commercial vehicles, said Jacques Esculier, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WABCO, Evasive Maneuver Assist connects WABCOs braking and stability control systems with ZFs active steering solution for the first time and marks an important step toward realizing the transportation industrys vision of autonomous driving.
After Epley maneuver gait disturbance resolve after their acute episodes.
Somewhere in the middle of these two extremes are what the FAA calls "performance maneuvers," generally thought of as those required on the commercial airplane pilot's practical test.
Much of his autobiography -- ''Heimlich's Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation'' -- focuses on the maneuver, which involves thrusts to the abdomen that apply upward pressure on the diaphragm to create an air flow forcing food or other objects out of the windpipe.
Furthermore, the absolute value of the angle residual is generally far less than that of the range residual, which leads to the insensitivity of fading factors to the change of angle residual, indicating the high maneuver.
The Question to be addressed is: Does upper airway change during a Mueller's maneuver predict the severity of OSA?
Does an objective measurement during a Mueller's maneuver predict obstructive sleep apnea?
Section 3 describes the proposed FCPF algorithm, emphasizing on the maneuver detection process with fuzzy controller and backward correction sub-algorithm.
BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army and the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon conducted a joint-naval maneuver over the weekend off the coast of the Mediterranean. | 2019-04-26T17:07:00 | http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/maneuver |
0.998514 | The Masters has been won by most of golf's greatest players ... but not by all of them. Who are the best golfers in the sport's history without a victory at The Masters? We count down the Top 10.
Julius Boros won 18 times on the PGA Tour, including three majors. His last major came at age 48 at the 1968 PGA Championship. In 25 appearances at The Masters, his best finish was a tie for third.
A 36-time winner on the PGA Tour, with one major championship victory, Lloyd Mangrum had many good years at Augusta National. He just never won the thing.
Mangrum finished second twice, third twice and fourth twice. From 1947 to 1956, he finished no lower than 8th.
The three-time U.S. Open champion wore some of the best plaid pants of the 1970s. But Hale Irwin never wore the crown as Masters champ, despite finishing in the Top 10 seven times. From 1974-77, Irwin finished no lower than 5th at Augusta National.
Nick Price won the British Open once and PGA Championship twice. But his best finish at The Masters was fifth place. He finished sixth three other times.
No better than fifth is surprising given that Augusta National was clearly a course Price could do damage to. He was, after all, the first golfer to shoot 63 in The Masters, doing so in the third round in 1986.
Greg Norman's heartbreaks at Augusta are legend. In 1986, Jack Nicklaus' last charge beat him. In 1987, Larry Mize's chip-in beat him. Infamously, in 1996, his own mighty collapse and Nick Faldo's great round beat him.
That sort of thing happened a lot to Norman, and not just at Augusta. He still managed to put together Hall of Fame win totals, though.
Johnny Miller was involved in one of the great Masters, 1975, when Jack Nicklaus' back-nine surge powered him past Miller and Tom Weiskopf.
Miller is one of those guys whose game seemed perfect for Augusta National, but he had surprisingly few Top 10 finishes: only four in 19 Masters appearances. But three of those (1971, 1975, 1981) were second-place showings.
There's still a slim (very slim) chance that Ernie Els can remove himself from this list, but as he's well into his 40s time is growing short.
Els' combination of power and touch was tailor-made for Augusta National. Els has won four majors, most recently the 2012 British Open. He's finished second at The Masters twice, but never won it.
Bobby Locke won the British Open four times. On the PGA Tour in the late 1940s, Locke played 59 tournaments and finished in the Top 4 in 34 of them, with 11 wins.
But in 1949, Locke and the PGA Tour got into a fight over playing commitments and the tour wound up banning him. That ban was lifted a couple years later, but Locke rarely returned to America. He played The Masters only four times, his best finish a tie for 10th.
The great Australian was one of the best links golfers ever, winning the British Open five times. But in eight Masters appearances, Peter Thomson finished in the Top 10 just once.
He could have played The Masters more often, but chose not to, concentrating on the less-manicured golf courses he preferred in Europe and Australia. Thomson is one of the few golfers to publicly admit a dislike of Augusta National.
Lee Trevino won 29 times on the PGA Tour (and another 29 times on the Champions Tour), and that figure includes two wins in each of the other three majors: the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship. Those numbers would probably be even more impressive but for injury woes that started after Trevino was struck by lightning in 1975.
Injury wasn't Trevino's problem in The Masters, though. Trevino, his contemporaries say, psyched himself out of winning the Masters. He believed his game wasn't suited to the golf course, and he even skipped a couple Masters during his heyday in the early 1970s.
Trevino never felt comfortable at Augusta National. He often avoided entering the clubhouse, heading straight from his car to the driving range. Trevino's best finish in a Masters was 10th in both 1975 and 1985. | 2019-04-19T02:35:26 | https://www.thoughtco.com/best-golfers-who-never-won-the-masters-tournament-4004943 |
0.999308 | Questions and answers of " Pandora's Box ". " Pandora's Box " is the re-written version of the Greek myth. It presents the story of how Pandora let loose the " Troubles " in the world and how life became bearable only with the coming of "hope". The conflict between gods and human beings and between hopes and fears is the main theme of the play.
Answer: The world was trouble-free before she opened the box. The human life was very delightful. Everything was free and safe and could play merely. Children would play and dance in the garden. The world was young. There was not any evil sign. The wind was melodious and the air was very sweet and pleasing. There was no trace of unhappiness. Everything was happy and delightful.
Answer: Hermes brought an attractive Sandalwood box from heaven. Pandora was very much attracted by it. She could not stop herself from opening it. When she opened it, the Troubles came out into the world. Evil, fear, pain, misery, sadness, hunger diseases all released and made the life horrible. All these things were trapped in the box that Hermes brought. This was very sinister about Hermes.
Answer: No, i don't think Epimetheus would have ever opened the box. He was nervous when he found that Pandora was attracted by the box. He invited Pandora to play to prevent her from opening the box. When Pandora opened it and the evil escaped, he looked her reproachfully. So, he would have never opened the box.
Answer: The role of the Chorus in the play is to sing as well as to dance in performances of Choral lyric poetry, usually under a leader. In addition to this, they also comment on the actions of the main character and about the situation and events.
Answer: Zeus, Appolo, Pan, and Hermes are the Greek Gods we find in the play. Hermes is the messenger of Zeus who brought the troubles, entrapped in a box, in the command of Zeus. Other gods don't have much role in the play. But from Zeus and Hermes it is clear that Greek Gods are hostile towards human beings. They don't like the prosperous humanity ( सौभाग्यशाली मानवता ). So, Zeus sent the troubles to make human condition miserable.
Answer: In the beginning there was no misery. All people had a prosperous life. They were free and very happy. When the God Zeus envied their happiness and sent troubles, the life became very difficult. If there is not any remedy of difficulties, people don't like to live any longer.
We work in the hope of certain positive result of our deed. If there is no hope, we don't work. People tolerate everything in the hope of bright future. It is hope that encourages people to work. The life without hope would be very dull and non-creative.
Question No. 1: What happens when Pandora opens the box for the first time and second time ?
Answer: Pandora and Epimetheus begin to play again but Pandora is still fascinated by the box. She hears a voice coming from it, speaking to her. Listening to the voices within, she lifts the box and looks at it. She hears evil voices requesting her to open the lid. She suddenly opens the box's lid. The troubles escape from the box and begin to attack her. Epimetheus comes running in. Pandora and Epimetheus manage to beat the troubles away. Epimetheus looks angrily and abusively at her. First she challenges him, but later she hangs her head with shame.
The chorus explains that Pandora has let evil out of the box and it is impossible to put back again. Now peace and innocence have been lost forever. The people are sad, destroyed and unhappy. If someone had the power to hold the time's wheel and turn it back an hour, everybody would be happy. Pandora is very worried about her deed. But she listens to another voice again coming out from the box. When the box was opened a second time, "Hope" was released. "Hope" encourages them to be happy. This explains the world as it is today. There are troubles, but there is also hope.
Question No. 2: Write the play in prose form.
Answer: The play " Pandora's Box " in prose form.
At the beginning of the play the world is free from any troubles. It has just begun. It is the world of perfect freedom where children can play safely. The clouds look like ships and the small rivers murmur. All the gods and goddesses are happy. The world is lighted by the sun.
Pandora enters the stage first and plays with an imaginary ball. She plays with the ball like the gods and goddesses who play with the moon and the stars. Epimetheus enters and they throw the ball to each other. They are playing happily.
The leader of chorus is worried. Then Hermes, the messenger of gods, enters there. He has worn silver shoes. The leader thinks he has come to bless the children. They all greet Hermes merrily ( खुशीसाथ ). He has come at Zeus's command. Hermes is carrying an imaginary box. Hermes smiles at the children and holds out the box. Pandora is fascinated by the box. It is the box of Sandalwood with cavern faces smiling curiously and writhing snakes around it. There is an amulet of gold on the lid. Hermes warns Pandora, then smiles and leaves.
Pandora and Epimetheus begin to play again but Pandora is still fascinated by the box. She hears a voice coming from it, speaking to her. Listening to the voices within, she lifts the box and looks at it. She hears evil voices requesting her to open the lid. She suddenly opens the box's lid. The troubles escape from the box and begin to attack her. Epimetheus comes running in. Pandora and Epimetheus manage to beat the troubles away. Epimetheus looks angrily and abusively at her. First she challenges him, but later she hangs her head with shame.
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0.998952 | Sorry, I don't have the bandwidth to take on your project at this time.
I started using the term myself and thought it was an excellent way of expressing that you don't have enough time for something. Recently, I used this term with a potential client and he interpreted it as meaning that I still had a dialup internet connection so would not be able to handle his needs.
I then realized this is where the term originated from so I guess I could understand his confusion. Should I use the word only in specific circles of people that I know will understand it?
I happen to find this use of the word irritating, but there is no doubt that it is widely used, at least in technology companies.
As you indicate, it will be misunderstood in some quarters, which might be a good reason for avoiding it.
The question of whether or not it is "proper" is meaningless, unless you define the particular arbiter of manners who you want to defer to. There is no authority for the English language.
Bandwidth, literally, is the amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time. On the other hand, in business jargon, it is sometimes used to refer to the resources needed to complete a task or project. Clear language is important for clear communication. So it may be better to avoid jargon if you are not sure they will understand you.
Lacking bandwidth is generally interpreted as lacking resources. In your case, you mean time, but this is not a given, so it is likely to cause confusion.
Also, "lacking bandwidth" is a term the programmers in my group use to derisively describe folks with diminished processing capabilities.
I would have interpreted this statement to mean that you were too technologically (or cognitively) primitive to be able to complete my request, not that you simply couldn't schedule it.
"Bandwidth" is an expression inferring available "processing power" or "throughput"; how much you can do in a given time. Thus, it is perfectly acceptable in my mind to use the term figuratively to refer to your business' ability to take on more work, roughly synonymous to "manpower" or "man-hours".
Bandwidth was originally used to mean the width, in Hz, of an Electromagnetic Spectrum "band" (a contiguous interval of frequencies) that is allocated to a particular use.
Wider frequency bands allow more "channels" of data to flow through. For example, the US FM Radio band is allocated from 87.5 to 108.0 MHz. Each FM radio channel occupies about 100 kHz of this band.
Now, if we think of the tasks that we perform throughout the day as consuming separate "bands" of time, then the term makes perfect sense. Being "out of bandwidth" would indicate that you do not have enough unallocated "bands of time" in your day to complete the task.
Using the term bandwidth to describe time maps more closely (in my opinion) to the original definition, than the current definition describing data capacity does.
Claude Shannon’s Information Theory developed the concept of bandwidth. Shannon’s information formula calculates the maximum rate that data can be sent without error (Hardesty, 2010) (Shannon, 1948, pp. 379-423, 623-656).
Bandwidth describes communication rather than time. Latency may be a better synthesis for personal time in regard to networking.
The situation is ironic because the client's interpretation was correct. Use of "bandwidth" as a reference of personal time projects ignorance (please don't do it).
I recommend you refrain from using any slang when working with clients.
From the ways I have seen it used, it means "cognitive force," in the sense of a high level of cognitive abilities being used per unit of time.
It is used in analogy to a network's ability to carry bytes of data per unit of time.
Simply means you have the extra capacity to work on addition projects given the same time constraints. A very interesting American term!
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0.997 | Hindu Kush Alpine Meadow The Hindu Kush alpine meadow features montane grasslands and shrublands in an area covering around 10,900 square miles. The avian community consists of around 172 species. Native peoples have learned to grow crops such as tea, rice and barley on the southern end of the mountain range. Elephants, tigers, crocodiles and birds roam this region. Grass, trees, shrubs, heaths, and pastures mark the landscape in these open woodlands. Which of these animals do you think leaves the alpine biome in the winter? Some animals in the alpine biome are mountain goats, sheep, elk, beetles, grasshoppers and butterflies.
These flowers appear in areas where a number of trees have been killed by fires. In fact, the trophy hunting of endangered species has been actively encouraged. Clearly, it is nothing short of an apocalyptic disaster if the balance is disturbed. Most of this precipitation is in the form of snow. In general, as one ascends a mountain, temperature drops by about 10° C for every 1000 meters in altitude gained a suspiciously round number! It is within a 55,328 square-mile area with around 45 mammal species thriving within its expanse. At lower levels, they may grow extensively on trees and even function as a food source in the winter.
This region is inhabited by an array of wildlife from birds to monkeys. Many people have climbed Mount Everest, and right now a man is attempting to become the first blind man to reach the summit. In the wild, chinchillas live in the Andes alpine regions, but they are not easily found. Gets more wet as elevation decreases. Their diet in the wild consists of plants, roots, and grasses. For example, if the biotic environment includes wolves, a pronghorn that is not able to run as long as the rest of the herd will probably not survive to reproduce. This belt of conifers is the highest expanse of woodland to be found on the slopes of the Himalayas, treeless alpine scrub lying just above its ecotopic frontier.
Temperature can range from lows around -10 Celsius to near 23 Celsius in the summer. Coniferous forests offer a habitat for pine, spruce, hemlock and fir trees, red pandas, musk deer and antelope. The ideology of Bhutan — preserving the heritage first — is indeed the call of the hour. In fact, Tibetan pleatue along with the Himalayas bear a great control on the jet streams over Asian continent owing to their great altitude. Alpine Soils Alpine soils have a lot of similarities to their tundra counterparts, except they are on high slopes and at high elevation. Chinchillas used to be hunted for their soft, beautiful fur.
Tundra Animal Pictures Conservation status: Are there any endangered animals in the tundra Because of the difficulty of access to humans, and the sheer inhospitable environment that it poses to humankind, most of the animals of the tundra ecosystem are relatively safe. Below, snow and ice are still actively sculpting Mt. The Himalayas cover 380,292 square miles. Predators are mainly bears, snow leopards, raptors, and vultures. Now they are on the endangered species list, and protected by law from hunting and people. Airborne pollution, including acid rain, also threatens alpine areas.
These soils are called folists. A sum over the individual populations of the nations directly affected by the above mentioned phenomena i. The summer season may last from June to September. Unfortunately, the biodiversity of flora and fauna is seen as livelihood resources for the majority of the Afghan population. Climate and Weather The Himalayas experience summers and winters.
Glacial meltdown can lead to temporary increase in volume in most of these rivers before completely drying out, rendering the rivers entirely perennial. Some of the plants found here are tussock grasses, small-leafed shrubs, and dwarf trees. Forests of birch trees dominate the surrounding area. But there are a few citations in order: 1. Rainier, Washington Glacier National Park Glacier National Park MacDonald Lake, Glacier National Park High mountains above may be perpetually covered with snow and ice and glaciers throughout the year and thus resemble the arctic. | 2019-04-26T15:59:24 | http://hometownfamilycare.com/himalayan-alpine-biome.html |
0.999976 | Summary: Elena and Eric visit Jane at her apartment. The women reconnect as friends, but one is left in Company - forced retirement from activism.
There's sound coming through the door of apartment 108, but it's not from a guitar as one might expect on approaching the residence of Doctor Michelle Jane Forrest. No, this is a piano being played. Of course, she is who she is, and the tune is of a rock and blues variety, her skill not so polished as with the six strings, but still demonstrative of practice and study.
She gains entry in the building easily. Eric lives there, so with him around, Elena gets a free pass. She takes the elevators up to the floor Jane is in, stepping out and looking right and left to make sure the hall is clear. Fear makes you sharp. It's been a mantra that has stuck with her since Jack took her to lunch that day at Noodle Heaven. She moves across the hall, to knock on the door. She arrives with a young, well-built man with a sharp-featured face - good looking in a cleanshaven, masculine way. Lifting a hand, still huddled in her black coat given as to how cold it was outside, she knocks on the door softly.
"…you need a different coat? You can have mine if you need it," Eric Walker offers his shivering companion as he glances curiously down at her. A slight frown on his face as he stands there, hands in his pockets and looking…well…not the least bit cold he doesn't.
Not so much an elevator that needs be used to reach that door, or even stairs. Apartment 108 is on the first floor, after all. It's not so far, for that matter, from the one occupied by Benjamin Winters and daughter. Inside, when the knock comes, the piano sound stops and some seconds pass before the quieter sounds of locks being released are heard. When the door opens, there she stands. Jane's wearing a pair of dark sweatpants and a tank top, no shoes upon her feet. "Elena," she greets, surprised, as an expression of uncertainty mixed with hope spreads upon her features. Puzzlement joins in too, when she sights a man she doesn't recognize.
"Hi Jane. I was just walking Eric home." The girl walking the guy home. Typical Elena. She didn't really think about it when she said it. "He lives in the same apartment building. He and I have a Calculus study session together. Eric, this is my friend, Jane," she says, stepping back so the two can shake hands. She looks at Jane concernedly, with a warm smile. "I just wanted to come by and see how you were doing. I heard you had it rough in the last two weeks. From Peter. Is this a bad time? Are you practicing?" When Eric offers his coat, she looks at him. "…but it's such a nice coat….it's alright, I'll survive," she says, surprised and taken aback a bit by the surprisingly chivalrous gesture. Her cheeks heat up a bit, but she attempts to dispell it. She's here for Jane. Jane.
"Alright," Eric says easily enough as he shrugs. "…just wondering, you were so hunched up under that one." He says teasingly. As the door opens though a warm smile spreads across his face and he nods towards her. "Hello!" He says quite cheerfully as he nods towards Jane. "Seems that we are nearly neighbors and I didn't know it."
"Come in, Elena, Eric," Jane offers, stepping aside. "I'm almost always playing something when I've got time on my hands, I like to keep them busy. Especially now." She looks from one to the other, her eyes resting finally on the latina. There's a trace of that shame and worry coming into them, but less so than the previous encounter at Starbucks. "I'm glad you came, I… wanted to talk with you about something, so please, hear me out once you get comfortable. May I get you anything to eat or drink?" Her right hand comes out to be shaken should the man choose. "Pleased to meet you, Eric."
"Yes please." Elena looks relieved to be out of the hallway….and she exhales with relief, stepping into the much warmer confines of Jane's apartment. "You apartment is so warm," she sighs, her eyes closing with bliss. She unbuttons her frayed coat….no wonder she was so cold. It was old. Then again coats, especially in New York, were pretty damned expensive. With her family barely scraping by, and most of her Starbucks money going to supplies and books for school, it's not surprising she's stuck wearing things until they fall apart. "Alright….we can talk," she says gently. "Is everything okay?"
Eric does indeed shake hands, continuing to smile as he steps into the room. He looks slightly suprised by teh state of Elena's coat, but otherwise just keeps him mouth shut for the moment and looking around.
Her hand is soft and smooth, the nails short, but bearing calluses on the fingertips when shaken and released. "I'm not sure how much you know, Elena, and it's embarrassing to admit it, I hope I can trust you and Eric to not tell anyone else, but…" Jane trails off to draw a deep breath and release it before continuing, "I've done things I'm not proud of. I can't believe I ever in my life fell like that, but… I did. I'm six days clean, three since coming out of cold turkey, right here." The apartment bears no evidence of that ordeal, however, she put everything right again since then. "One of the things I need to do is learn who I may have hurt and make amends, if I can, to not let regrets fester and risk dragging me down again. When my calls weren't returned, I thought maybe I'd done wrong by you."
"….what do you mean…?" Elena says slowly, casting a glance towards Eric and following to where Jane moves to be seated. She doesn't sit down yet. Concerned, dark eyes just fall on Jane when she begins the way she does. "What do you mean you've done things you're not proud of? What do you mean you're six days 'clean'?" There's a slight quaver to her voice…which she clamps down with her sheer stubborness. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. What did they do? WHAT DID THEY DO?
Eric raises a hand to place it comfortingly on Elena's arm as he listens to Jane. "Pleasure to meet you!" He adds easily enough, his own hand with few calouses himself. He just blinks though at what she said, raising one slightly confused eyebrow towards her. What the hell is up? What happened?
The door is closed as the group moves inside, Jane walks with them into the main room and waits for them to be seated if they want before sitting herself, evidence of her upbringing in a blueblood society home, perhaps. "There's so much unclear about the past weeks, some things I remember and some I don't. But six days ago I woke up in a halfway house somewhere south of Atlantic City, with pills scattered around and a bunch of messages from Jim, my sponsor. He said I'd left rehab and was worried about me. I didn't want to believe it, but with the fog in my head, and the withdrawal I was starting…" Her eyes close, it's clear how much the entire thing embarrasses, shames her, "I knew it had to be real. I came home, here, and fought it all off. The shaking, the craving for a fix."
At Eric's touch on arm, Elena gapes at Jane, not believing what she was hearing. Clean? Fix? Rehab? Jane was the most squeaky-clean person she knew! She was no addict! And what shaking? What fix? What did they do to her? Did they make her…. a hand unconsciously clenches tightly into a fist on the side, her teeth grinding into one another behind her closed mouth as anger creeps up to her cheeks. This was too extreme. This was so unfair. She only went because they were holding her boyfriend. What woman with a spine -wouldn't- do the same thing she did? Cass's warning not to talk to Jane about the Company wars with her desire to shake her friend and tell her that she was NEVER so stupid enough to be a junkie. "…have you….made contact with….Jim….recently?" she asks, forcing the words out.
"I called him when I got home, and he told me he wasn't sure what I'd been taking. One of the Ds. Demerol, Dilaudid… I asked him to meet me, I don't have a face to match the name, but he wouldn't. Said he had theatre tickets, so I hung up on him. Haven't made contact since, and don't plan to." Jane's head tilts, she seems puzzled a bit by the reaction and moments later her face falls. It seems she's reading the anger as disappointment in, with her. "You didn't know, I guess, God knows what you must think of me now, but I beat it, Elena."
No. Of course they wouldn't. Of course they wouldn't make contact. Elena detaches from Eric for a moment, walking over to Jane and taking a seat next to her. "Jane," she says softly. "You're my friend. What sort of friend would I be if I just….start on thinking so harshly about you when I don't know the story?" The lie. It sickens her so much. She wanted to tell Jane the truth, but she can't. Not while she was so addled and lost and so convinced of the addiction she never had. She lifts a hand to rest it on her shoulder. "And of course you beat it. You're….very strong. You always were."
"Thanks," Jane replies softly. "It was hell, but I made it. Three days, the second was the worst. Shaking, headaches, wanting to go shoot up. I don't know what ever prompted me to take things, I just know I did." Her ideas, her thoughts on the why go unspoken. "Thank you for still believing in me, Elena." She leans back on the couch with eyes closed, taking comfort from the hand on her shoulder.
Lies. Web of LIES. Elena's expression twists a bit, but thankfully it holds. All the fiery latina wants to do is grab onto Jane and shake her and tell her that she had never been an addict, but she clamps down hard on the urge. Instead, she reaches out to hug her should she have it, and she doesn't say anything. She wanted to cry - she could feel the tears, but she stubbornly stomps the urge into the curb. "So what did they tell you in rehab?" she asks softly. "Do you remember it? Anything? Did they at least feed you when you were there?" The last is said tightly.
Eric just watches the pair of them, a sympethic frown on his face. Oh this just sin't good at all it isn't. The young man though looks down and just sighs and shakes his head, eyes closing. He sets one hand on Elena's back for just a moment before he nods easily. "You're alright now, that's the important thing."
"I don't remember rehab," she answers quietly. "I don't remember any of it at all. There's blank spots, and waking up on the 11th somewhere south of AC. I had to have been really bad to go so blank. I can't even begin to imagine what I might've done, who I might've hurt during that time." Jane's eyes reopen and shift toward Eric, she nods slowly in response. "I'm pulling it back together. Just… don't tell anyone about this, you know? I'm a lawyer, and though I don't practice it like most do, I still want to have it. I'd probably not have issues with the bar, but I really don't want to risk it." Looking from one to the other, there's the hope, the need, to know this stays confidential.
Eric's hand barely comforts. She feels it try to soothe, but she's so….ANGRY. Elena detaches and takes a deep breath, and she nods to Jane. "We won't say anything. You have my word." She looks over at her, and she reaches out to take Jane's hand gently. It was the sort of hand that indicated that she didn't have to work much all her life - save perhaps on her guitar. The calluses were present on the fingertips. She squeezes her fingers softly. "How is the shaking?" she asks softly. "Are you taking anything for that?"
"Nothing," Jane answers. "It tapered off over the third day, and it's gone now. The headaches and cravings too, they're gone. But I still don't completely trust myself, so I stay busy as I can, just in case." Her eyes glance over to the collection of guitars, and she remarks softly "Now I know something of what you wrote about, John." Turning back to where her hand is taken, the woman goes quiet. There's something of a pride starting to show now, over having survived, left unspoken of. And evidence exists of another fact she hasn't shared: that she managed it without screaming. The apartment doesn't have broken glass lying around, the windows are intact. Did she restrain that ability, or did she just have the damage fixed?
Eric just nods easily towards her. "I won't tell a soul," The young man says easily before he looks down at his shoes a moment. "You have my word as well," He nods once towards her, though really he lets Elena handle most of this. He dosn't know her as well is all.
Her apartment looks intact, and Elena has to wonder if Jane even remembers her ability at all. She clearly remembers she's a lawyer, and that she's looking for work. She pulls away, her shoulder nudging Eric's a bit. She looks over at him and blinks, noticing that he had ventured over to where she was on the couch, but she smiles at him faintly and glances down at her hands. "What else do you want to tell me, Jane?" she asks. "I mean, if it helps to talk. You know I'm here for you." She looks around the apartment herself, trying to see if there's anything out of place in where she is.
There's no evidence of glass fragments that might've been missed in a clean up, no seeming trace of repair like a window replacement. It all suggests Jane managed not to let loose in her darkest time over those three days. "I've been playing a lot lately, starting to write some, I feel more connected than ever to my music," the woman states. "The best tunes come from things like this, the one bright side to having endured it." Her voice is soft, as something else is mulled over, and a question is asked. "How well do you know me, Elena?"
"Yeah…" Elena says somewhat distractedly. She looks at Jane and she quirks her brows. "I know you fairly well," she tells Jane honestly. "You used to come to where I work early morning. I would treat you to breakfast and make your coffee. And then we'd….talk. About our hobbies. Our similarities. I went with you to see a doctor once for a check up. You don't really have a favorite, you would vary on the flavors depending on the mood, but you're partial to vanilla capuccino."
Eric hasn't sat yet, he's just simply standing and looking around. Standing behind Elena easily as he glances around the place. However at the talk he glances down lightly, just a tad uncomfrotable. "…if you two would like to talk, I can go get us some dinner?" He offers towards the pair of ladies with an easy smile.
She nods slowly, listening, and glances at Eric when he speaks. "I've got food here," Jane offers, "but eating in from an out source doesn't sound bad. Maybe burgers. And fries." Her attention shifts back to the latina, and a quiet chuckle escapes. "I wrote a tune I call Brunette Canary's Course. It's about the experience. And I thought about band names, one that sticks in my head is Ultimate Soprano." She, perhaps, isn't sure she laid that out there or not, and so chooses something that would be innocuous if she hadn't and speak volumes if she did.
"I'd love to listen to it at some point. When it's perfected," Elena says with a smile. She exhales softly, shaking her head from the wallowing, gutwrenching guilt and anger - but she does attempt to smile at Jane and push those expressions away. Plenty of time and space to cry and beat on a pillow when she gets home. "Anyway….I'll visit again soon, and you know where I work so if you want to stop by again, we can chat like old times. I'm glad to see you're doing better, and I wish I can stay longer but….Papa is expecting me home. He's probably wondering where I am." Elena looks startled at the very nice offer from Eric, and she grins, rubbing the back of her neck. "Eh…you don't have to, Eric…." she says. She's already mooched off him enough.
Eric shakes his head. "Its fine, if you need to go home I'll just drop it off here on the way back up to my room," The young man seems happy enough to help as he drifts easyly over towards the door. "Burgers and fries it is…I'll be back soon…" A pause then before he glances down at Elena and smiles. "Call if you need me."
Her eyes linger on the latina for some moments after she finishes speaking, as if wondering whether or not the words she chose for the band hold any meaning to Elena. Jane knows she trusted some people, but isn't certain whether or not there were others, especially with drugs involved. "When I came by your work and we talked about… hobbies, I never seemed high to you?" Eric is addressed as he moves to go for food, she states "I'll pay you when you get back, man." And back to the other woman she goes. "It's a shame you have to leave. Can't stick around to eat with me, chica?" A grin forms, and she glances over to the guitars. Her voice softly sings something from memory. "What would you think if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song, I will try not to sing out of key. Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends…"
She pauses, Elena looking over at Jane as she asks her that. "I'll do you one better and make -you- dinner to make up for it, how's that?" she says with a smile. "I used to want to be a chef. Eric can come too, if he wants. He never cooks for himself." She gives the young man by the door a teasing grin. At the inquiry, she pauses, and she stands up slowly from the couch, shaking her head. "No," she says, not having the heart to lie. Sadness ached somewhere in her ribcage. "You were never high when you were around me. You were always alert. And lucid." She gathers up her coat and shrugs it on her shoulders. "I guess that would account for my shock…but that doesn't change anything." The lie. It felt like it was eating her. "I'll be around to make sure you get better, Jane. I promise. Whenever you need it, just come in for some coffee." She winks. "I'll hook you up."
"Okay," Jane replies. "I'll come around for coffee, and devour your cooking soon. "I'm glad you never saw me high, I can't express how much." But there's a tinge of disappointment to her voice, maybe from the fact they're not staying, maybe from Elena not responding to the test. It's something she's nervous about, and yet wants to come clean with. So another attempt is made, cryptically. "What happens when I scream?"
She pauses as she shakes her jacket back on her, Elena looking over to stare at Jane. Maybe….she remembers a little bit? She pauses. "When you scream…" she says softly. "You said you can shatter windows and break glass. You've never really showed it to me, though, but you told me you did. Like some of the best sopranos in the world." She watches Jane for a moment, her hand resting on the door. "Why?"
The smile widens, her eyes resting on the latina. "I wasn't sure I told you about that, Elena. It's not something I share much, you know? But I just felt since I can trust you with… recent events, I might've let you in on that, and if I hadn't I was debating it now." Jane pauses for a moment, looking at a wall, before quietly adding "Good night, and take care."
"Yeah….you told me a while back. What you do is special," Elena says softly, watching her look away to look at the wall. "You too, Jane," she says softly, opening the door and stepping out, closing the door behind her. She rests her back against the wood a bit, closing her eyes and her fists clenched so tightly she could feel her nails draw blood in her palms. Finally, she pushes away, and heads for the main entrance of the building. | 2019-04-18T17:25:35 | http://heroesmush.wikidot.com/reconnected-remaining-retired |
0.999714 | For Answer choice D, is the word "flawed" just to heavy when describing the conclusion? I was stuck between D & E and obviously chose incorrectly.
Well, even if we accept that the studies are "flawed" (which I agree with you may be too strong a word, but we don't need to worry about that anyway), the conclusion of the argument is not about the studies—the information we get about the studies is evidence used to try to demonstrate the conclusion—that the article was not justified. | 2019-04-23T04:44:52 | https://www.velocitylsat.com/video/63-lr-one-question-8 |
0.99899 | Q. Do hand-addressed envelopes get more response?
I've read that people will be more likely to open a hand-addressed envelope they receive in the mail as opposed to one with a label address. Is it worth the extra effort?
Not in our experience it isn't.
While it may be true that a hand-addressed envelope gets more attention initially, and may get more envelopes opened, if the offer in the envelope doesn't interest the recipient it is not going to increase your response.
We did quite a few test mailings years ago using both hand addressed envelopes as well as label addressed envelopes and we saw no difference in response.
Send your mailing to the wrong list and you'll get little or no response. Send the wrong offer and you'll get little if any response.
Focus on targeting the right people with the right offer and you'll do much better than spending your time hand-addressing envelopes to people who have no interest in what you are sending to them.
Our Give to Get Marketing Solution will show you how to easily target just the people who have an interest in what you are selling, and how to create an irresistible offer that will get your phone ringing off the hook. | 2019-04-25T04:25:11 | http://givetogetmarketing.com/tips-writeenvelope.html |
0.99997 | What Are the Differences Between Seals and Sea Lions?
Despite the similarities of outward appearance, true seals and sea lions have some noticeable differences, due to convergent evolution. The Phocidae, or family group to which the true seals belong, are believed to have descended from a terrestrial weasel-like ancestor, while the Otariidae, or sea lion family group, are thought to have descended from a terrestrial bear-like ancestor. True seals are termed "earless" because they lack an external ear flap, whereas in "eared" seals or sea lions an external ear flap is visible. There are other, somewhat subtle, differences between the front flippers of the two groups, but the hind flipper differences are noticeable. In seals, the hind flippers extend directly behind the body, and are not capable of rotation unlike the hind flippers of sea lions that are longer and may be rotated toward the front of the body. This causes differences between the two in locomotion when on land: seals move forward by caterpillar-like hitching movements; sea lions use their hind legs to walk or even gallop across land. Fur seals, actually in the sea lion group, having extremely long hind flippers. Fur seals are occasionally seen off the RNSP coastline farther out to sea, however, they do not come ashore here, and breed in the far northern Pacific.
The group of marine mammals consisting of seals, sea lions, and walruses is known as the Pinnipeds, (from "pinna" meaning "feather" + "pes" meaning "foot" = "feather-footed"). Pinnipeds divide their time between near shore terrestrial habitats and the ocean.
True seals are also known as earless seals, or simply "seals". In and around RNSP, there are two seal species to be found, the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), and northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirotris). Harbor seals are quite common and may be seen lounging on flat-topped near shore rocks, or hauled out sandy beaches, primarily around the Redwood Creek estuary. They are often seen bobbing in the surf, checking out the shoreline. Harbor seals come in a variety of colors from almost pure white to mottled gray or brown, but usually some form of color patterning is visible. Elephant seals, on the other hand, are uniformly tan colored all over, and seen only rarely within the parks. Usually there's only one subadult animal at a time hauled out on a sandy beach undergoing its annual molt. One must travel somewhere else along the California coast to see a spectacular adult male elephant seal, with its long proboscis, or nose, for which the species is named.
Fur seals and sea lions are also known as eared seals. In and around Redwood National and State Parks, the most commonly seen eared seal is the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). These animals may be seen hauled out on off shore rocks, and occasionally on sandy beaches. Most of the California sea lions in RNSP are adult and subadult males that migrate north after the breeding season in southern California. California sea lions are the "trained seal" of marine parks and circuses. They are uniformly dark brown and vocalize with the notable sea lion "bark". The other resident eared seal is the Steller, or Northern, sea lion (Eumetopias jubata), a federally threatened species. There may be a small breeding colony of Stellers using near shore rocks in RNSP. Steller males are massive, the largest of the eared seals, weighing in at 1,200 lbs (0.5 metric ton) or greater. Females are much smaller. Steller sea lions have golden-colored fur with darker extremities, and instead of the "bark" of the California sea lion, Stellers vocalize by growling or "bellowing". | 2019-04-20T14:30:27 | https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature/true-seals-versus-fur-seals-and-sea-lions.htm |
0.998435 | This leading Consultancy are looking for a Corporate Communications manager to join their growing Corporate Communications team based in London.
You will support the global business operation and help generate compelling content, build strong stakeholder relationships and market the company brand as a leader in its field.
Contribute to the development of marketing communications planning with a particular focus on corporate responsibility.
Develop and manage an editorial calendar for use across internal and external channels.
Research, write and publish reader-centric content for various communication channels including newsletters, intranet, brochures, flyers, adverts, awards submissions, reports, presentations and the website.
Work with business development, regional and sector leads to develop targeted marketing and communications campaigns. Where required work with the e-Communications Office to develop direct marketing and social content.
Manage advertising, sponsorship and general marketing requests: such as the production of flyers, brochures, reports and thought leadership.
Provide direction to graphic designers on all elements of the company brand and corporate identity.
Manage corporate events, exhibitions and conferences; setting objectives and measuring ROI.
Work with external PR consultants to manage PR activity, protecting and enhancing the business reputation. Understand key issues, brief colleagues, build relationships with journalists and industry figures.
Identify new ways to promote the business as a first class organisation to clients - prospective and existing - employees and the industry.
The successful candidate will be an experienced communications marketer with a focus on PR, marketing and internal communications to include stakeholder mapping, experience developing or maintaining intranets.
You will have working knowledge of media relations and digital marketing channels including social and direct marketing and developing and managing an editorial calendar. | 2019-04-24T19:04:10 | https://www.jobs.cim.co.uk/jobs/corporate-communications-manager-7 |
0.9999 | Should One Stoop to a Defense of Philosophy or the Humanities?
The place of philosophy in college curricula is often defended on the ground that its study promotes critical thinking.
Now I don't doubt that courses in logic, epistemology, and ethics can help inculcate habits of critical thinking and good judgment. And it may also be true that philosophy has a unique role to play here. So, while it is true that every discipline teaches habits of critical thinking and good judgment in that discipline, there are plenty of issues that are not discipline-specific, and these need to be addressed critically as well.
What I object to, however, is the notion that philosophy needs to justify itself in terms of an end external to it, and that its main justification is in terms of an end outside of it. The main reason to study philosophy is not to become a more critical reasoner or a better evaluator of evidence, but to grapple with the ultimate questions of human existence and to arrive at as much insight into them as is possible. What drives philosophy is the desire to know the ultimate truth about the ultimate matters. Let's not confuse a useful byproduct of philosophical study (development of critical thinking skills) with the goal of philosophical study. The reason to study English literature is not to improve one's vocabulary or to prepare for a career as a journalist. Similarly, the reason to study philosophy is not to improve one's ability to think clearly about extraphilosophical matters or to acquire skills that may prove handy in law school.
Philosophy is an end in itself. This is why it is foolish to try to convince philistines that it is good for something. It is not primarily good for something. It is a good in itself. Otherwise you are acquiescing in the philistinism you ought to be combating. Is listening to the sublime adagio movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony good for something? And what would that be, to impress people with how cultured you are?
To the philistine's "Philosophy bakes no bread" you should not respond "Yes it does," for such responses are patently lame. You should say, "Man does not live by bread alone," or "Not everything is pursued as a means to something else," or "A university is not a trade school." You should not acquiesce in the philistine's values and assumptions, but go on the attack and question his values and assumptions. Put him on the spot. Play the Socratic gadfly. If a philistine wants to know how much you got paid for writing an article for a professional journal, say, "Do you really think that only what one is paid to do is worth doing?"
Admittedly, this is a lofty conception of philosophy and I would hate to have to defend it before the uncomprehending philistines one would expect to find on the typical Board of Regents. But philosophy is what it is, lofty by nature, and if we are to defend it we must do so in a way that does not betray it.
It might be better, though, not to stoop to defend it at all, at least not before the uncomprehending. It might be better to show contempt and supercilious disdain. Not everyone can be reasoned with, and part of being reasonable is understanding this fact. | 2019-04-19T06:44:53 | https://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher_stri/academia/ |
0.998917 | What is a "Last Frost Date" and why should you care?
When I started gardening, there was one phrase I starting noticing on every seed packet: last frost date. Another one I heard almost as often was: last killing frost. I wasn't sure what exactly the difference was and who exactly determined that date. The Farmer's Almanac defines frost in the following terms.
Light freeze:29°F to 32°F—tender plants killed, with little destructive effect on other vegetation.Moderate freeze:25°F to 28°F—widely destructive effect on most vegetation, with heavy damage to fruit blossoms and tender and semi-hardy plants.Severe freeze:24°F and colder—damage to most plants.
However, it doesn't take a frost or freeze to harm a plant. Some plants may look like they've survived a chilly night and dodged the freeze bullet, and you won't see the effects of the cold temps until later in the season. This happened to me last summer. I put my peppers out right at that last frost date along with the tomatoes. A cold snap came through, so I tented the garden with a tarp. The next morning, some peppers had been smothered by the tarp, but there were some that appeared okay. Guess how many peppers I picked last summer? None. At least none that I ended up eating. The summer before I'd had a bumper crop.
This is why it is important to know soil temperatures and what temperature your plants can tolerate. Peppers like the ground temperature to be above 65F and the night air to not drop below 50F. Your air temps could be high enough, but the soil may not have yet warmed. Here in my region, we don't reach 65F until May. Tomatoes like the soil to be at or above 60F - again, that's mid-April in my region or after that last frost four-week window.
So why is it that plants are available when there is still a high risk of frost and the soil is still too cold for the plants to thrive? I have my conspiracy theories, but my guess is that the people demand it. If the people demand it, the retailers will supply it and will be happy to sell them a new plant when the first one gets bitten!
BUT. If you are like me, you started planting your seeds very early and your seedlings are overstaying their welcome and may even be getting leggy from not enough sunlight. You can always consider a cold-frame or hot box (it's like a mini greenhouse), row covers, plastic mulch and hoop gardens. These will all trap heat in during the day and keep the air and soil warmer at night. If you are going that route, know that there is cost involved and use a thermometer to check and make sure you are getting the soil warm enough. I will keep moving my plants to the deck during the day and inside at night for the next two weeks. | 2019-04-18T14:17:30 | https://www.lovesown.com/2012/03/what-is-last-frost-date-and-why-should.html |
0.999996 | TL; DR: Free Download Manager (FDM) is a powerful software that allows users to download files up to 10 times faster by splitting up the data. The free tool has a host of other features, including traffic usage adjustment, organizational tools, broken download resumption, and control file priorities, all presented in an intuitive interface. FDM is available on both Windows and Mac OS X, and its website includes links to other useful productivity tools for businesses and individuals. For those reasons, FDM has earned our Developers’ Choice™ Award for helping users boost performance and manage workflows.
An entrepreneur may lose hours of productivity while waiting to download the solutions he or she needs to launch a business. At established companies, employees collaborate using large documents and often spend valuable time staring at their computer screens while waiting to access a file.
An array of issues can converge to create frustrating lag times when downloading files, and most workers have endured long waits for important documents to come through. Nearly everyone has felt the agony of watching a download bar fill up slowly, pause, and then crash. But it’s more than just annoying; it also wastes time and resources.
A study by Sandisk found that the average person loses a full working week each year waiting for sluggish computers to respond. In the UK, the biggest problem was the time it took waiting for uploads and downloads to finish.
Free Download Manager allows users to save time by splitting files and downloading them simultaneously.
That’s why a group of programmers teamed up to develop Free Download Manager, a solution that streamlines the process of downloading large files and mitigates those slow, time-wasting experiences.
The solution includes support for Windows and Mac OS X, a user-friendly interface, and tools for downloading videos from popular platforms like YouTube. It supports proxy, BitTorrent, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. And FDM is both incredibly fast and reassuringly safe.
FDM has helped countless users download files faster with its intuitive design and powerful features, and has positioned itself as one of the best free download software solutions on the market.
FDM users have access to a range of powerful tools whether they’re working on Windows or Mac OS X.
The software supports downloading through the BitTorrent protocol, which is used to distribute data and boost speed. It also supports enhanced audio and video files which allows users to preview recordings and videos before downloads are completed — and even convert them into different file formats once they’re complete. The software also allows for quick downloading of YouTube videos.
The software splits files into several sections and downloads them simultaneously, which accelerates speed. And the solution also aims to quell the frustration of a download halting halfway through. FDM resumes those file transfers at the point when they were interrupted, so users don’t have to restart the process.
Easy video downloads from popular platforms like YouTube are another hallmark of Free Download Manager.
FDM also includes an intuitive management system that helps users organize files by type. Its scheduler allows users to pause and restart downloads, as well as establish or break off connections. If users are browsing the internet while they download large files and don’t want web pages to load slowly, they can easily adjust traffic usage settings through FDM.
In addition to these helpful features, the latest version (5.1) was designed with an even more streamlined user interface and friendlier approach to configuration. The software alerts users to security risks or malicious files by including user comments on the file in the program window before download.
The customer support team at FDM is also dedicated to helping users around the world. The team communicates in more than 30 languages — from Albanian to Vietnamese. This ensures that users around the world can connect to helpful support they can understand — and that understands their needs.
Professionals often work under strict deadlines and time is a valuable commodity. If the CEO emails a large document that everyone needs for a meeting that’s starting in half an hour, download speeds become critical. Especially if everyone else in the office is busy using bandwidth to finalize their presentations for the same meeting.
Workers may have millions of reasons why they need to download files quickly, which is why more than a dozen free download managers have been developed. And users willing to shell out $20 or more for software have even more options.
While all of those free products are designed to make the downloading process easier and faster, none do it as efficiently as FDM. The differences are clear, starting with a well-designed user interface — a rarity for a free product. Many products on the market are put together by developers who are unsure of how the average user will interact with their tools.
FDM includes an array of features to cater to any user. No matter what they’re downloading — whether its a presentation or a video game — they can customize their experience.
The FDM team hasn’t just built a great product — it wants to understand its users and create solutions that support their needs. For example, the team knows many eCommerce professionals and coders use its solution to download work files, so it built specific tools to help them do their jobs faster and more efficiently.
Developers looking for more customized solutions can visit FDM’s Development Tools page and discover a variety of compelling products. One of the free tools it suggests is Fiddler, a debugging proxy that displays all Internet traffic from a user’s PC. There’s also BlueJ, a Java development environment program made for beginners. Developers with an artistic bent can download SCRATCH, an application for creating interactive animations, games, and slideshows with graphics, photos, and sound.
Free Download Manager recommends a host of development tools to help users maintain productivity.
Entrepreneurs can visit FDM’s Business page to find solutions tailored to them. Product designers can use the Bartender tool to create, edit, and print labels, barcodes, and RFID tags, among other materials. Many businesses also use MYOB Accounting Plus, a program known for its financial tracking features. And for companies looking to spread the word about their services, RoverSoft’s Bluetooth Advertising software lets users deliver ad files to cellphones and mobile devices through Bluetooth protocol.
And those are just a few of the hundreds of programs FDM users can find on their site to boost their productivity. FreeDownloadManager.org is much more than a place to find a tool for increasing download speed; it’s also a resource for a plethora of useful solutions.
No matter how extensive the list of software solutions a company has, building a community is about more than suggesting apps and gadgets. It’s also about reaching out to users and bringing them into the fold.
One way FDM supports users is by giving them an easy way to reach out for support. If users run into a problem or can’t figure out how a feature works, all they have to do open a new ticket on the website’s support page.
The site’s blog is another useful resource. Anyone who wants to ensure the download tool is operating at its highest level can check the blog for the latest updates, learn about fixes for identified bugs, and discover new features.
Users praise Free Download Manager for its usefulness and dedication to its users.
In its community forums, users can get together to chat, suggest new features, or translate download tools to another language. It’s an active space filled with helpful people, useful advice, and plenty of tips.
The FDM team understands that its products should do more than solve a single problem. They should bring people together, unite disparate communities, and improve people’s lives all while helping them download files quickly and efficiently.
And, with all of the resources users can access through FDM, everyone from developers to eCommerce entrepreneurs and game lovers have a place to congregate, share, and learn. | 2019-04-25T15:50:50 | https://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/free-download-manager-software-accelerates-download-speeds/ |
0.996287 | Journalists do get the best obits, and late Boston Globe columnist David Nyhan was fondly remembered this week at the paper.
George Will is must-reading on the Larry Summers brouhaha at Harvard, and Ruth Marcus is good, too.
The Financial Times' Amity Shlaes advises Mr. Summers: Stop apologizing. At Slate, William Saletan criticizes the "pseudo-feminist show-trial" of the Harvard president.
The NY Times, meantime, reports on faculty dissatisfaction with a president they say has created ill will by "humiliating faculty members in meetings, shutting down debate and dominating discussions."
I particularly like this excerpt: "Larry is stimulating to argue with one on one and would be admirably controversial as a colleague," said Daniel S. Fisher, a Harvard professor of physics and applied physics, who has observed Mr. Summers in many meetings. "But with Larry as president, the rules are clear. For the president, it is fine to be provocative, but for faculty, serious questions and constructive dissent are squelched."
Serious questions and constructive dissent are squelched? Considering the reaction to Summers' breach of PC group-think, and the Harvard president's repeated forced apologies, one wonders: Who exactly is doing the squelching, and who is the squelchee?
The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be...next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
The essential difficulty of pedagogy lies in the impossibility of inducing a sufficiency of superior men and women to become pedagogues. Children, and especially boys, have sharp eyes for the weaknesses of the adults set over them. It is impossible to make boys take seriously the teaching of men they hold in contempt.
Hamilton College outdoes itself, downshifting past moral vacuity to willful and grotesque offensiveness in the guise of "fostering different points of view." Roger Kimball takes note.
To echo Mr. P: How [can] anybody…really, truly be a modern liberal [?] You just can't go around doing real, constructive good without a concept of what Good is. | 2019-04-24T20:42:02 | http://mcns.blogspot.com/2005/01/varia-journalists-do-get-best-obits-and.html |
0.99998 | Can TransDigm Group's Earnings Bounce Back?
The aerospace-component maker aims to recover from last quarter's disappointment and take advantage of a strong environment.
Component maker TransDigm Group (NYSE:TDG) has tapped into the huge rise in demand in the aerospace industry, providing its products for aviation industry and benefiting from the ramp-up in sales of commercial aircraft in recent years. Yet despite a long track record of success, TransDigm gave shareholders somewhat disappointing results in its most recent quarterly report. Nevertheless, the industry remains strong, and coming into its fiscal second-quarter financial report on Tuesday, TransDigm investors expect for the company to bounce back from its setback and produce strong growth once again. Let's take an early look at TransDigm Group and whether the company is in position to fly higher in the future.
What's ahead for TransDigm earnings?
In recent months, analysts have gotten somewhat more upbeat about the prospects for TransDigm Group earnings. They've raised their fiscal second-quarter projections by $0.01 to $2.58 per share, and they've made increases of 2% to 3% in their outlook for the fiscal third quarter. The stock has held up well, rising 3% since early February.
TransDigm's fiscal first-quarter report was a rare example of the company not managing to live up to the high hopes of its shareholders. Revenue still rose almost 20%, and adjusted net income climbed by more than one-fourth. Yet all of the company's sales gains came from acquisitions, and investors were nervous about the 1% decline in organic revenue growth. The fact that TransDigm managed to enhance productivity in order to squeeze more profit from its sales was positive. Yet comments about falling demand for helicopters and business jets only added to broader concerns over softening economic activity and how long the commercial airline industry could continue to expand at its current dramatic pace.
Several factors concerning the aerospace industry could continue to affect TransDigm. On one hand, airlines have continued to do well, posting huge profits and taking full advantage of low fuel prices to cut their operating costs. Consolidation in the industry has prevented airlines from having to make major competitive pricing moves that in the past have weighed on long-term profitability. Yet some market analysts have pointed to trends in the commercial aerospace market that could point toward lower spending on aircraft. That bodes ill for component makers like TransDigm, and even if the market recovers in the short term, fears that purchase activity has topped out could challenge TransDigm in the long run.
More broadly, what's happening outside the commercial aerospace industry is also important in driving potential growth for TransDigm. For instance, the company also serves the military market with a wide variety of instrumentation, systems, and components, and it therefore has exposure to decisions regarding defense spending and its attendant impact on major defense contractors for which TransDigm will often do work. Some of TransDigm's units also do work specifically for spacecraft, and the space portion of the aerospace industry goes through volatile cyclical moves of its own on an ongoing basis.
In the TransDigm Group earnings report, investors will need the company to show that it can produce growth in sales and net income at the pace that they've become accustomed to seeing. If TransDigm once again falls short of even those high expectations, shareholders can expect the stock to come under pressure. However, if conditions become more favorable again, then TransDigm has the ability to keep moving on its long-term upward trajectory. | 2019-04-18T19:04:15 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/06/can-transdigm-groups-earnings-bounce-back.aspx |
0.996672 | The Frustums vary a bit is size, by mine is 10.2 inches height by 11.01 large diameter and 6.25 small diameter. Is your system capable of this?
As I said previously, the Peachy Printer works by floating liquid resin over salt water. I did forget to mention how it raised the level of the resin, previously though. It does this by adding drops of salt water from a secondary container to the build area and passing each drop through a conductive area. The salt water completes the circuit momentarily and the system knows that a drop of water has passed by.
So, essentially, it works by having two containers of salt water, one higher than the other. One is your build area, which the liquid resin floats on top of and the laser then cures. The second is higher than that, and the water drips from that to fill the build area and raise the level of the water in the build area. You can make the size of these containers whatever you want. So, yes, the Peachy Printer can handle the size of your Frustum, as long as I have two containers large enough for the water.
Here's a link to the Peachy Printer website.
OK, so Potomac Neuron wrote me back at reddit and I'm having trouble digesting this visual. Perhaps someone here can. He said that the lorentz force will have a vertical component, like a Compass Needle mounted vertically.
I'm at a bit of a duh moment I cannot visualize. Anything to this?
I think it is this: If you have a compass on its side such that N points towards the sky and W points north, then it will rotate itself such that N points north and W points towards the ground. That rotation is on the axis that could make a balance beam tilt, so we would describe the force it's producing as having a vertical component.
The earths field isn't as simple as a bar magnet with a piece of paper over it and iron fillings scattered on it.
The Earth looks like a huge bar magnet. At a gross level (there are local variations), the magnetic field is parallel to the Earth's surface at the equator, and vertical to the Earth's surface at the poles. Which is why a magnetic compass is useless for polar navigation. The needle wants to point at the center of the Earth.
This effect is known as magnetic dip, or magnetic inclination. High quality compasses (for example, those used in aircraft), are specifically designed for use in particular areas. One buys a compass for northern or southern hemisphere use, and sometimes based upon the latitude of intended use. The higher the latitude, the greater the dip, and the compass is designed to compensate (to a point, no magnetic compass will work at the Earth's poles to indicate direction. At the North Pole, north is down).
so the resultant force woukd be F = 5X10-5 X 10 X .001 = 5 microNewton.
This is just a rough estimate and on the high side by maybe a factor of 10 but it does give us an idea of how small the effect of the geomagnetic field would be.
And shielding with mumetal will not work. The magnetic field generated by a current carrying wire just goes into the mumetal where it meets any external magnetic field. Mumetal shielding only works when the item being shielded, like a Gaussmeter's Hall effect probe, has very small currents flowing through it.
"We will post our article tomorrow that has the potential to conclude this discussion" - potomac_neuron on reddit.
I really think the author believed this would end the emdrive discussions/testing. I'll let others decide if that's the case. As for me, its off to phase II.
Resonance does create more heat than no resonance though. This is very well known and nothing new; it has to do with impedance, power factor, etc. The short of it is that in the real world, all resonant systems will reach a maximum stored energy where they dissipate energy at the same rate they take energy in, because no system is perfectly resonant in the sense of zero losses. At resonance, more energy is delivered to the system than if it were off resonance. Hence more power is dissipated and therefore the system gets hotter.
So unfortunately, characterizing thermal lift by screwing around with resonance won't work, because thermal lift is itself intimately tied in with resonance. Change resonance, change thermal lift.
How much energy can you store in copper frustum of this size with reasonable Q? And how quickly will it reach steady-state? I'm sure when the system is loaded, the heat produced would be the same in resonating and non-resonating cavity, considering the same power is injected.
I don't see how the system would get hotter in resonance assuming the measurement period is long enough.
A microwave cavity doesn't work like that. If the Rf energy is not at the cavities resonance freq, it will not enter the cavity and will be reflected back to the Rf generator.
To protect the Rf gen from the heating effect of the non resonant reflected energy a circulator is placed between the Rf generator and the resonant load which causes the reflected Rf energy to be directed into a heat sink and thermalised. This is standard microwave built tech.
What this means is the frustum will only heat up if the applied Rf energy is at a freq that is inside the frustums resonant bandwidth.
Microwaves, resonant cavities, circulators and even waveguides work in strange ways. Some call it microwave black magic.
Cubesat has a dimensional problem, meaning a 40 cm w x h limit. Most of our stuff is larger. I've read a little about smallsat but don't have enough info. Cubesat does have 40 cm lengths, so if someone comes up with a working model like the Aachen team, it might work.
Still think its too early to plan for space launch, but one can dream big.
Problem with cubesat is serious power supply for frustum probably cannot fit into dimensions, not to mention the frustum itself. A 40 cm square drives resonant freq up, driving rf source power down. Tried to imagine an inflatable frustum but had a brain tilt.
Geeze guys, time to innovate. You've already done things folks have scoffed at, maybe Eagleworks could get you some extra space.
A basic 1U cubesat is 10 cm X 10 cm X 10 cm. The popular 3U cubesat is 30 cm X 10 cm X 10 cm. Microprocessor and memory boards exist able fit into these container sizes. Solar panels that fold out are also available. A space grade 6U CubeSat SIDE Solar Panel at the Beginning of Life at 80°C produces 16.10 W (more at lower temperatures).
To take a 40 cm square drive the satellite would have to be made_to_measure (4 X 4 X 1 = 16U).
I wouldn't expect to be able to fit a higher power transmitter on a 6u with all other components, plus powering it via solar panels along with rotation measurement, omnidirectional for comms, charging batteries may or may not be feasible.
Unfortunately thermal cycling will be significant and a Cubesat has little ability to control its temperature range compared to larger spacecraft. And I'd guess that the same temperature change would cause a larger change in resonant frequency for a smaller frustum, but thats just a gut feeling.
Can a 5 W Ka band transmitter and two smaller frustums fit on a 6u Cubesat with all other necessary components?
Will the transmitter have the frequency range necessary to power the frustum at the temperature extremes?
Months ago, maybe in topic-thread 3, the idea of Cubesat was discussed and someone explained that instabilities/unknown environment on these small orbits are too big - quick calculations returned perturbations nearly on scale of N/Kw. Adding the inability to control directly environment or make any changes once the satelite is launched.
Assuming an unloaded Q of 50,000, Df of 0.9 and spherical end plates, 5Ws should generate around 1.5mNs per frustum. Can't share the Rf gen as each frustum will need independent freq tracking. For 2 frustums this project will need 2 duplicate Rf gens and freq tracking.
To detect rotation just add cameras to the top and side of the cubesat. We can watch the stars move and use that to calculate the speed of rotation. Small accelerometers are also available.
Would need a standard cubesat 3 axis mag torquer to obtain stability before firing up the EMDrives. My youngest son was involved in a multi uni project to design a 2U cubesat. He worked on the command and control system which was in 1 cube that supported additional experiments in the other cube. I got a really good idea how to put a cubesat together and how to control it's orientation.
On the net is a paper claiming to be an accurate analysis of the EMDrive. As we all know to get Force generation, you must have resonance. So one of the 1st steps in designing an EMDrive is to be able to correctly model what is happening inside the EMDrive so as to be able to calculate the resonance freq.
The attached image is of the frustum design that was modeled for resonance. It has spherical end caps, has a end plate separation of 7.5cm with a big end diameter of 3.52cm and small end diameter of 0.88cm. The small end plate has a radius of 2.5cm and the big end plate has a radius of 10cm. Both radii from the vertex of the frustum. Cone angle is 20 deg.
So this is a small frustum, being 7.5cm along the side wall, 3.52cm across the big end and a very tiny 0.88cm across the small end.
All of which are well below the 0.88cm small end diameter cutoff frequency.
Roger gave me a simple rule of thumb when dealing with small end cutoff freq in TE01 mode. Cutoff freq = c / (diameter in mtrs * 0.82).
I suspect the author may not fully understand microwave physics and what happens to a EM wave travelling inside a tapered waveguide frustum of variable diameter, that increases the guide wavelength from that external nor how to calculate the cutoff frequency of the small end of his frustum design.
Point being if he can't correctly predict frustum resonance nor the small end cutoff freq, the rest of his model and calculations must be questioned.
The most respected labs that have performed this experiment have yielded almost no thrust.
Who are these "Most Respected Labs"? Where is there data, frustum dimensions, excitation modes, VNA resonance freq scans. Force measurement rig designs? I know of no failed EMDrive tests. Such data needs to be analysed as building and testing an EMDrive is not like baking a simple cake recipe. Get one step wrong and there will be no thrust.
So PLEASE SHARE the null data. We might just be able to work out where they went wrong and prevent other builders from making the same mistake. | 2019-04-24T13:53:27 | https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?amp;topic=38577.msg1440333 |
0.999644 | If you're new to playing for contra dancing, communication with the people running sound can be tricky. What are you expected to bring? What can you expect them to have? What is reasonable to ask for? Different dances vary, but here are some guidelines.
The default thing is a mic on a stand: anyone who's running sound for you should be able to provide you with one. An XLR cable is also a very normal thing to ask for, but if you need phantom power you should include that. A few mics take XLR but are hurt by phantom power; if that's you get something to block phantom or someone's going to make a mistake and fry your mic.
If you have a 1/4" output, things are trickier. If you have a passive pickup (no electronics involved) then you should be bringing your own DI because the particulars of the DI will have a large effect on how you sound. Your DI will take an XLR from the board, so list that as what you need (this is what the left hand on the accordion above is doing). On the other hand, if you have an electronic instrument like a keyboard you're just using a DI to convert from 1/4" to balanced XLR and any old DI will do the job well. I like to specify "needs DI" any time I ask for a 1/4", as a reminder, though it's kind of redundant.
Then you want to think about monitors. At this point, it's expected that a hall will give you one or two monitors, but they might be both on the same mix. If you have instruments where some are much louder than others, you probably need more than one mix. The two main options here are asking for more mixes, which they may or may not be able to do, or bringing a supplemental personal monitor/amp. For any instrument where you're completely silent without amplification, like a keyboard or an electric bass, bringing your own monitor/amp is a very good plan.
Keyboards / pianos are a bit unusual, since they're so big. At one point every venue would have a piano, but that's not something you can rely on now. Even if they do have one, it might be pretty unpleasant to play. Bringing a keyboard is usually a good plan, and the default for most gigs is that you're bringing your own. If you can't bring yours for some reason, maybe because you're flying to the gig, talk to them ahead of time to make sure they have something suitable (88 keys, velocity sensitive, weighted keys, etc). | 2019-04-24T09:01:22 | https://www.jefftk.com/p/communicating-about-contra-dance-sound |
0.999996 | New Year's Eve brings us the second of two full moons for North Americans this month. Some almanacs and calendars assert that when two full moons occur within a calendar month, that the second full moon is called the "blue moon."
The full moon that night will likely look no different than any other full moon (other than the fact that a partial eclipse will occur across most of Europe, Africa, and Asia).
But the moon can change color in certain conditions. After forest fires or volcanic eruptions, the moon can appear to take on a bluish or even lavender hue. Soot and ash particles, deposited high in the Earth's atmosphere, can sometimes make the moon appear bluish.
In one example, smoke from widespread forest fire activity in western Canada created a blue moon across eastern North America in late September 1950. In the aftermath of the massive eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in June 1991 there were reports of blue moons (and even blue suns) worldwide.?
For the longest time no one seemed to have a clue as to where the "blue moon Rule" originated. Many years ago in the pages of Natural History magazine, I speculated that the rule might have evolved out of the fact that the word "belewe" came from the Old English, meaning, "to betray."
"Perhaps," I suggested, "the second full moon is 'belewe' because it betrays the usual perception of one full moon per month."
But thanks to a couple of misinterpretations of this arcane rule, first by a writer in a 1946 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine, and much later, in 1980 in a syndicated radio program, the second full moon in a month is the one that's now popularly accepted as the definition of a "blue moon."??
This time around, the moon will turn full on Dec. 31 at 2:14 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (11:14 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time).
But for those living in central and eastern Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand, that same full moon occurs after midnight, on the calendar date of Jan. 1, 2010. So in these regions of world, this will not be second of two full moons in December 2009, but the first of two full moons in January 2010. So, if (for example) you live Perth or Tokyo, you'll have to wait until January 30 to declare that the moon is "officially" blue.
This week's full moon will also undergo a partial eclipse.
The moon will dip slightly into the Earth's umbra ? the dark, hard-edged shadow ? which will show black or dark brown on the moon's southern limb for just over an hour; this will be a pre-midnight New Year's Eve show for Europe, Africa and western Asia, while for central and eastern Asia, Indonesia and western and central Australia this will happen in the post-midnight hours of the first day of 2010. Maximum eclipse will come at 19:23 UT, when just 8.2-percent of the moon's diameter is within the umbra.
The last time a blue moon coincided with New Year's Eve was in 1990. The next opportunity will come in 2028. | 2019-04-19T10:19:27 | https://www.space.com/7715-blue-moon-occur-year-eve.html |
0.998677 | Some part of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke must be a little disappointed that Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) will retire after his current term. No other congressperson may ever challenge him the way Paul, who currently chairs the House subcommittee on monetary policy, has over the past several years. In a hearing today, yet another amusing exchange occurred between the two. The topic was one of Paul's favorite: gold. The discussion got heated when Paul asked Bernanke whether gold is money.
Even if it has been money for 6,000 years, somebody reversed that and eliminated that economic law?
Well, it's an asset. Would you say Treasury bills are money? I don't think they're money either, but they're a financial asset.
Why do central banks hold it?
Well, it's a form of reserves.
Why don't they hold diamonds?
Well it's tradition -- long-term tradition.
Well, some people still think it's money.
In the U.S. anyway, those people are wrong. Here are a couple reasons why.
Bernanke's response actually couldn't have been much clearer. Just because something has value -- even great value -- that doesn't make it money. Paul attempts to retort, asking Bernanke why the central banks don't hold diamonds then. But Bernanke's initial response actually anticipates this question when he mentions Treasury bills. Central banks do hold other sorts of financial assets besides gold and currency, such as Treasury bills. Even if something is a financial asset, held by central banks, it isn't necessarily money.
So what is money? It's a commonly circulated medium of exchange. Let's test this with an example. Is an iPad money? Of course not: if you go to the grocery store and hope to buy $500 worth of groceries, unless you get a very strange cashier, the store won't accept your iPad in exchange. If you provide $500 worth of gold, you would see the same result: a sale would not occur. Some people in some places might accept gold as a means of exchange, but that can be true for other things that we wouldn't consider money either.
A framework could exist under which gold was considered money: a gold standard. If such a monetary system was in place, then your cash would literally be equivalent to some amount of gold. In that case, vendors would likely be somewhat more willing to accept gold as a medium of exchange, if not for the practical difficulties of paying-by-gold. Of course, the gold standard has been dead in the U.S. for some time. At this point, bringing it back would be pretty difficult.
So perhaps Paul would have been a little more satisfied with Bernanke's response if he said. "No, but it could be." As a matter of fact, gold was once money and could be again if the U.S. re-adopts the gold standard. But at this time, gold is not money. | 2019-04-18T18:46:21 | https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/bernanke-to-ron-paul-gold-isnt-money/241903/ |
0.999999 | Bacteria are normally present in the mouth. The bacteria convert all foods -- especially sugar and starch -- into acids. Bacteria, acid, food debris, and saliva combine in the mouth to form a sticky substance called plaque that adheres to the teeth. It is most prominent on the back molars, just above the gum line on all teeth, and at the edges of fillings. Plaque that is not removed from the teeth mineralizes into tartar. Plaque and tartar irritate the gums, resulting in gingivitis and ultimately periodontitis.
What small, easy steps can I take to have a healthy teeth and gums?
1. Brush your teeth at least twice each day with fluoride toothpaste.
Drink water that contains added fluoride if you can. Fluoride protects against dental decay. Most public water systems in the United States have added fluoride. Check with your community's water or health department to find out if there is fluoride in your water. You also may want to use a fluoride mouth rinse, along with brushing and flossing, to help prevent tooth decay.
Gently brush all sides of your teeth with a soft-bristled brush. Round and short back-and-forth strokes work best.
Take time to brush along the gum line, and lightly brush your tongue to help remove plaque and food.
Ask your dentist or dental hygienist to show you the best way to floss your teeth.
Change your toothbrush every three months, or earlier if the toothbrush looks worn or the bristles spread out. A new toothbrush removes more plaque.
If you wear dentures, be sure to remove them at night and clean them before putting them back in the next morning.
2. Have a healthy lifestyle.
Eat healthy meals. Cut down on tooth decay by brushing after meals. Avoid snacking on sugary or starchy foods between meals.
Don't smoke. It raises your risk of gum disease, oral and throat cancers, and oral fungal infections. It also affects the color of your teeth and the smell of your breath.
Limit alcohol use to one drink per day for women. Heavy alcohol use raises your risk of oral and throat cancers. Using alcohol and tobacco together raises your risk of oral cancers more than using one alone.
Limit how much soda you drink. Even diet soda contains acids that can erode tooth enamel.
Have an oral exam once or twice a year. Your dentist may recommend more or fewer visits depending on your oral health. At most routine visits, the dentist and a dental hygienist will treat you. During regular checkups, dentists look for signs of diseases, infections, problems, injuries, and oral cancer.
Dental hygienists: Members of the dental staff who clean gums and teeth and teach patients how to maintain good oral health.
Periodontists: Dentists who treat gum disease and place dental implants.
Oral surgeons: Dentists who operate on your mouth and supporting tissues.
Orthodontists: Dentists who straighten teeth and align jaws.
Endodontists: Dentists who perform root canals.
Prosthodontists: Dentists trained in restoring and replacing teeth.
4. Follow your dentist's advice.
Your dentist may suggest ways to keep your mouth healthy. He or she can teach you how to properly floss or brush. Follow any recommended steps or treatments to keep your mouth healthy.
5. If you have another health problem, think about how it may affect your oral health.
For instance, if you take medicines that give you a dry mouth, ask your doctor or nurse if there are other drugs you can use. Have an oral exam before starting cancer treatment. And if you have diabetes, practice good oral hygiene to prevent gum disease.
I'm not happy with the stains on my teeth. How can I safely whiten them?
The first thing you should do before whitening your teeth is talk to your dentist. He or she will be able to help you decide the best option for you. Whiteners will not fix all kinds of stains. Also, if you have bonding or tooth-colored fillings, these will not be affected by whiteners and they may stand out if you whiten your teeth. Remember that a using a whitener does not make your mouth healthier.
This kind of whitening, called "chairside bleaching," is done in your dentist's office. It may require more than one office visit. Each visit may take from 30 minutes to one hour. During chairside bleaching, the dentist puts a whitener on the teeth and uses a special light to make the whitener work. Lasers are sometimes used during tooth whitening to make the whitening agent work better.
There are a few different products that can be used to whiten teeth at home. Some come from your dentist, and others can be bought over-the-counter. These contain peroxide(s), which bleach the tooth enamel. Most come in a gel and are placed in a mouth guard or tray that fits inside your mouth. They help many types of staining. Only the dentist-dispensed solutions have the American Dental Association (ADA) seal.
Other over-the-counter whitening products include whitening strips, paint-on products, gels, and trays. They have a low amount of peroxide. For better results, have a cleaning at the dentist before you use these products. These gels and trays do not have the ADA seal.
All toothpastes help remove surface stains through mild abrasives. "Whitening" toothpastes that have the ADA seal have special polishing agents or chemicals that remove even more stains. Unlike bleaches, these products do not change the actual color of teeth. They help surface stains only.
Products used to whiten teeth can make teeth more sensitive. They can also bother your gums. These side effects most often go away after you stop using the product. | 2019-04-24T14:33:35 | http://dentist-purcellville-va.blogspot.com/2011/07/ |
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I am able to change the PHP Memory limit. It is set to 128M - what do you suggest?
I'm only using WPMU plugins, including Hummingbird. | 2019-04-22T20:36:57 | https://premium.wpmudev.org/profile/info3798 |
0.993667 | The main concepts we are trying to get across in this section concern how energy moves through an ecosystem. If you can understand this, you are in good shape, because then you have an idea of how ecosystems are balanced, how they may be affected by human activities, and how pollutants will move through an ecosystem. If you had Biology 101, this should be review; if you had Geology 101, this is new stuff. Either way, it is pretty basic and you shouldn't have much trouble reading this material or the associated material in the text.
Organisms can be either producers or consumers in terms of energy flow through an ecosystem. Producers convert energy from the environment into carbon bonds, such as those found in the sugar glucose. Plants are the most obvious examples of producers; plants take energy from sunlight and use it to convert carbon dioxide into glucose (or other sugars). Algae and cyanobacteria are also photosynthetic producers, like plants. Other producers include bacteria living around deep-sea vents. These bacteria take energy from chemicals coming from the Earth's interior and use it to make sugars. Other bacteria living deep underground can also produce sugars from such inorganic sources. Another word for producers is autotrophs.
A trophic level refers to the organisms position in the food chain. Autotrophs are at the base. Organisms that eat autotrophs are called herbivores or primary consumers. An organism that eats herbivores is a carnivore and a secondary consumer. A carnivore which eats a carnivore which eats a herbivore is a tertiary consumer, and so on. It is important to note that many animals do not specialize in their diets. Omnivores (such as humans) eat both animals and plants. Further, except for some specialists, most carnivores don't limit their diet to organisms of only one trophic level. Frogs, for instance, don't discriminate between herbivorous and carnivorous bugs in their diet. If it's the right size, and moving at the right distance, chances are the frog will eat it. It's not as if the frog has brain cells to waste wondering if it's going to mess up the food chain by being a secondary consumer one minute and a quaternary consumer the next.
The diagram above shows how both energy and inorganic nutrients flow through the ecosystem. We need to define some terminology first. Energy "flows" through the ecosystem in the form of carbon-carbon bonds. When respiration occurs, the carbon-carbon bonds are broken and the carbon is combined with oxygen to form carbon dioxide. This process releases the energy, which is either used by the organism (to move its muscles, digest food, excrete wastes, think, etc.) or the energy may be lost as heat. The red arrows represent the movement of this energy. Note that all energy comes from the sun, and that the ultimate fate of all energy in ecosystems is to be lost as heat. Energy does not recycle!!
The other component shown in the diagram are the inorganic nutrients. They are inorganic because they do not contain carbon-carbon bonds. These inorganic nutrients include the phosphorous in your teeth, bones, and cellular membranes; the nitrogen in your amino acids (the building blocks of protein); and the iron in your blood (to name just a few of the inorganic nutrients). The movement of the inorganic nutrients is represented by the blue arrows. Note that the autotrophs obtain these inorganic nutrients from the inorganic nutrient pool, which is usually the soil or water surrounding the plants or algae. In the photo above the plant roots are taking these nutrients from the soil. These inorganic nutrients are passed from organism to organism as one organism is consumed by another. Ultimately, all organisms die and become detritus, food for the decomposers such as the fungi pictured. At this stage, the last of the energy is extracted (and lost as heat) and the inorganic nutrients are returned to the soil or water to be taken up again. The inorganic nutrients are recycled, the energy is not.
Many of us, when we hear the word "nutrient" immediately think of calories and the carbon-carbon bonds that hold the caloric energy. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that you be careful in your use of the word nutrient in this sense. When writing about energy flow and inorganic nutrient flow in an ecosystem, you must be clear as to what you are referring. Unmodified by "inorganic" or "organic", the word "nutrient" can leave your reader unsure of what you mean. This is one case in which the scientific meaning of a word is very dependent on its context. Another example would be the word "respiration", which to the layperson usually refers to "breathing", but which means "the extraction of energy from carbon-carbon bonds at the cellular level" to most scientists (except those scientists studying breathing, who use respiration in the lay sense).
The ultimate source of energy (for most ecosystems) is the sun.
The ultimate fate of energy in ecosystems is for it to be lost as heat.
Note that even though I said the food chain is the path of food from a given final consumer back to a producer we typically list a food chain from producer on the left (or at the bottom) to final consumer on the right (or at the top). Question to international readers: In Hebrew or Aramaic, or other languages which are read right-to-left, is it customary to list the food chains in the reverse order? By the way, you should be able to look at the food chain above and identify the autotrophs and heterotrophs, and classify each as a herbivore, carnivore, etc. You should also be able to determine that the hawk is a quaternary consumer.
It is when we have a picture of a food web in front of us that the definition of food chain makes more sense. We can now see that a food web consists of interlocking food chains, and that the only way to untangle the chains is to trace back along a given food chain to its source.
The food webs you see here are grazing food chains since at their base are producers which the herbivores then graze on. While grazing food chains are important, in nature they are outnumbered by detritus-based food chains. In detritus-based food chains, decomposers are at the base of the food chain, and sustain the carnivores which feed on them. In terms of the weight (or biomass) of animals in many ecosystems, more of their body mass can be traced back to detritus than to living producers.
The diagram to the right is one representation of a food web. Here, the flow of energy between living organisms is shown as redand green arrows. The maroon arrows represent the detrital energy flow; in this flow are the wastes of the organisms as well as their dead bodies. Finally, a blue arrow represents the return of inorganic nutrients to the producers via the detritivores. In this image the detritivores are represented by scavengers such as the caracara, mussel, earthworm, pill bug, maggots, a mushroom and bacteria; in the real world the detritivores are a much more diverse group. Also note that the rest of the food chain is incomplete; there would be more insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, other producers, etc. in a real food web. To be really accurate, you would have to include all of the organisms on the planet!
It is important to remember that the decrease in number is best detected in terms of biomass. Numbers of organisms are unreliable in this case because of the great variation in the biomass of individual organisms. For instance, squirrels feed on acorns. The oak trees in a forest will always outnumber the squirrels in terms of combined weight, but there may actually be more squirrels than oak trees. Remember that an individual oak tree is huge, weighing thousands of kilograms, while an individual squirrel weighs perhaps 1 kilogram at best. There are few exceptions to the pyramid of biomass scheme. One occurs in aquatic systems where the algae may be both outnumbered and outweighed by the organisms that feed on the algae. The algae can support the greater biomass of the next trophic level only because they can reproduce as fast as they are eaten. In this way, they are never completely consumed. It is interesting to note that this exception to the rule of the pyramid of biomass also is a partial exception to at least 2 of the 3 reasons for the pyramid of biomass given above. While not all the algae are consumed, a greater proportion of them are, and while not completely digestible, algae are far more nutritious overall than the average woody plant is (most organisms cannot digest wood and extract energy from it).
A generalization exists among ecologists that on average, about 10% of the energy available in one trophic level will be passed on to the next; this is primarily due to the 3 reasons given above. Therefore, it is also reasonable to assume that in terms of biomass, each trophic level will weigh only about 10% of the level below it, and 10x as much as the level above it. It also seems, however, that every time I go to measure, test, or model this assumption I run into an inconsistency, so take this generalization with a big grain of salt. Still, it comes in useful. In terms of human diet and feeding the world's population, consider this. If we all ate corn, there would be enough food for 10x as many of us as compared to a world where we all eat beef (or chicken, fish, pork, etc.). Another way of looking at it is this. Every time you eat meat, you are taking food out of the mouths of 9 other people, who could be fed with the plant material that was fed to the animal you are eating. Of course, it's not quite that simple, but you get the general idea.
Biological magnification is the tendency of pollutants to become concentrated in successive trophic levels. Often, this is to the detriment of the organisms in which these materials concentrate, since the pollutants are often toxic.
Biomagnification occurs when organisms at the bottom of the food chain concentrate the material above its concentration in the surrounding soil or water. Producers, as we saw earlier, take in inorganic nutrients from their surroundings. Since a lack of these nutrients can limit the growth of the producer, producers will go to great lengths to obtain the nutrients. They will spend considerable energy to pump them into their bodies. They will even take up more than they need immediately and store it, since they can't be "sure" of when the nutrient will be available again (of course, plants don't think about such things, but, as it turns out, those plants, which, for whatever reason, tended to concentrate inorganic nutrients have done better over the years). The problem comes up when a pollutant, such as DDT or mercury, is present in the environment. Chemically, these pollutants resemble essential inorganic nutrients and are brought into the producer's body and stored "by mistake". This first step in biomagnification is called bioaccumulation; the pollutant is at a higher concentration inside the producer than it is in the environment.
The second stage of biomagnification occurs when the producer is eaten. Remember from our discussion of a pyramid of biomass that relatively little energy is available from one trophic level to the next. This means that a consumer (of any level) has to consume a lot of biomass from the lower trophic level. If that biomass contains the pollutant, the pollutant will be taken up in large quantities by the consumer. Pollutants that biomagnify have another characteristic. Not only are they taken up by the producers, but they are absorbed and stored in the bodies of the consumers. This often occurs with pollutants soluble in fat such as DDT or PCB's. These materials are digested from the producer and move into the fat of the consumer. If the consumer is caught and eaten, its fat is digested and the pollutant moves to the fat of the new consumer. In this way, the pollutant builds up in the fatty tissues of the consumers. Water-soluble pollutants usually cannot biomagnify in this way because they would dissolve in the bodily fluids of the consumer. Since every organism loses water to the environment, as the water is lost the pollutant would leave as well. Alas, fat simply does not leave the body.
The "best" example of biomagnification comes from DDT. This long-lived pesticide (insecticide) has improved human health in many countries by killing insects such as mosquitoes that spread disease. On the other hand, DDT is effective in part because it does not break down in the environment. It is picked up by organisms in the environment and incorporated into fat. Even here, it does no real damage in many organisms (including humans). In others, however, DDT is deadly or may have more insidious, long-term effects. In birds, for instance, DDT interferes with the deposition of calcium in the shells of the bird's eggs. The eggs laid are very soft and easily broken; birds so afflicted are rarely able to raise young and this causes a decline in their numbers. This was so apparent in the early 1960's that it led the scientist Rachel Carson to postulate a "silent spring" without the sound of bird calls. Her book "Silent Spring" led to the banning of DDT, the search for pesticides that would not biomagnify, and the birth of the "modern" environmental movement in the 1960's. Birds such as the bald eagle have made comebacks in response to the banning of DDT in the US. Ironically, many of the pesticides which replaced DDT are more dangerous to humans, and, without DDT, disease (primarily in the tropics) claims more human lives.
The pollutant must be long-lived.
The pollutant must be concentrated by the producers.
The pollutant must be fat-soluble.
You can read more about biological magnification in the next section.
Human civilization is dependent on agriculture. Only with agriculture can a few people feed the rest of the population; the part of the population freed from raising food can then go on to do all the things we associate with civilization. Agriculture means manipulating the environment to favor plant species that we can eat. In essence, humans manipulate competition, allowing favored species (crops) to thrive and thwarting species which might otherwise crowd them out (weeds). In essence, with agriculture we are creating a very simple ecosystem. At most, it has only three levels - producers (crops), primary consumers (livestock, humans) and secondary consumers (humans). This means that little energy is lost between tropic levels, since there are fewer trophic levels present.
This is good for humans, but what type of "ecosystem" have we created? Agricultural ecosystems have several problems. First, we create monocultures, or fields with only one crop. This is simplest for planting, weeding, and harvesting, but it also packs many similar plants into a small area, creating a situation ideal for disease and insect pests. In natural ecosystems, plants of one species are often scattered. Insects, which often specialize on feeding on a particular plant species, have a hard time finding the scattered plants. Without food, the insect populations are kept in check. In a field of corn however, even the most inept insect can find a new host plant with a jump in any direction. Likewise, disease is more easily spread if the plants are in close proximity. It takes lots of chemicals (pesticides) to keep a monoculture going.
Another problem with human agriculture is that we rely on relatively few plants for food. If the corn and rice crops failed worldwide in the same year, we would be hard-pressed to feed everyone (not that we're doing a great job of it now). Natural ecosystems usually have alternate sources of food available if one fails.
A final problem associated with agroecosystems is the problem of inorganic nutrient recycling. In a natural ecosystem, when a plant dies it fall to the ground and rots, and its inorganic nutrients are returned to the soil from which they were taken. In human agriculture, however, we harvest the crop, truck it away, and flush it down the toilet to be run off in the rivers to the ocean. Aside from the water pollution problems this causes, it should be obvious to you that the nutrients are not returned to the fields. They have to be replaced with chemical fertilizers, and that means mining, transportation, electricity, etc. Also, the chemical fertilizers tend to run off the fields (along with soil disrupted by cultivation) and further pollute the water.
Some solutions are at hand, but they bring on new problems, too. No-till farming uses herbicides to kill plants in a field; the crop is then planted through the dead plants without plowing up the soil. This reduced soil and fertilizer erosion, but the herbicides themselves may damage ecosystems. In many areas, sewage sludge is returned to fields to act as a fertilizer. This reduces the need for chemical fertilizers, but still requires a lot of energy to haul the sludge around. Further, if one is not careful, things such as household chemicals and heavy metals may contaminate the sewage sludge and biomagnify in the crops which we would then eat.
We have already seen that while energy does not cycle through an ecosystem, chemicals do. The inorganic nutrients cycle through more than the organisms, however, they also enter into the atmosphere, the oceans, and even rocks. Since these chemicals cycle through both the biological and the geological world, we call the overall cycles biogeochemical cycles. Each chemical has its own unique cycle, but all of the cycles do have some things in common. Reservoirs are those parts of the cycle where the chemical is held in large quantities for long periods of time. In exchange pools, on the other hand, the chemical is held for only a short time. The length of time a chemical is held in an exchange pool or a reservoir is termed its residence time. The oceans are a reservoir for water, while a cloud is an exchange pool. Water may reside in an ocean for thousands of years, but in a cloud for a few days at best. The biotic community includes all living organisms. This community may serve as an exchange pool (although for some chemicals like carbon, bound in a sequoia for a thousand years, it may seem more like a reservoir), and also serve to move chemicals from one stage of the cycle to another. For instance, the trees of the tropical rain forest bring water up from the forest floor to be evaporated into the atmosphere. Likewise, coral endosymbionts take carbon from the water and turn it into limestone rock. The energy for most of the transportation of chemicals from one place to another is provided either by the sun or by the heat released from the mantle and core of the Earth.
While all inorganic nutrients cycle, we will focus on only 4 of the most important cycles - water, carbon (and oxygen), nitrogen, and phosphorous.
Key Features: In the water cycle, energy is supplied by the sun, which drives evaporation whether it be from ocean surfaces or from treetops. The sun also provides the energy which drives the weather systems which move the water vapor (clouds) from one place to another (otherwise, it would only rain over the oceans). Precipitation occurs when water condenses from a gaseous state in the atmosphere and falls to earth. Evaporation is the reverse process in which liquid water becomes gaseous. Once water condenses, gravity takes over and the water is pulled to the ground. Gravity continues to operate, either pulling the water underground (groundwater) or across the surface (runoff). In either event, gravity continues to pull water lower and lower until it reaches the oceans (in most cases; the Great Salt Lake, Dead Sea, Caspian Sea, and other such depressions may also serve as the lowest basin into which water can be drawn). Frozen water may be trapped in cooler regions of the Earth (the poles, glaciers on mountaintops, etc.) as snow or ice, and may remain as such for very long periods of time. Lakes, ponds, and wetlands form where water is temporarily trapped. The oceans are salty because any weathering of minerals that occurs as the water runs to the ocean will add to the mineral content of the water, but water cannot leave the oceans except by evaporation, and evaporation leaves the minerals behind. Thus, rainfall and snowfall are comprised of relatively clean water, with the exception of pollutants (such as acids) picked up as the waster falls through the atmosphere. Organisms play an important role in the water cycle. As you know, most organisms contain a significant amount of water (up to 90% of their body weight). This water is not held for any length of time and moves out of the organism rather quickly in most cases. Animals and plants lose water through evaporation from the body surfaces, and through evaporation from the gas exchange structures (such as lungs). In plants, water is drawn in at the roots and moves to the gas exchange organs, the leaves, where it evaporates quickly. This special case is called transpiration because it is responsible for so much of the water that enters the atmosphere. In both plants and animals, the breakdown of carbohydrates (sugars) to produce energy (respiration) produces both carbon dioxide and water as waste products. Photosynthesis reverses this reaction, and water and carbon dioxide are combined to form carbohydrates. Now you understand the relevance of the term carbohydrate; it refers to the combination of carbon and water in the sugars we call carbohydrates.
Once you understand the water cycle, the carbon cycle is relatively simple. From a biological perspective, the key events here are the complementary reactions of respiration and photosynthesis. Respiration takes carbohydrates and oxygen and combines them to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy. Photosynthesis takes carbon dioxide and water and produces carbohydrates and oxygen. The outputs of respiration are the inputs of photosynthesis, and the outputs of photosynthesis are the inputs of respiration. The reactions are also complementary in the way they deal with energy. Photosynthesis takes energy from the sun and stores it in the carbon-carbon bonds of carbohydrates; respiration releases that energy. Both plants and animals carry on respiration, but only plants (and other producers) can carry on photosynthesis. The chief reservoirs for carbon dioxide are in the oceans and in rock. Carbon dioxide dissolves readily in water. Once there, it may precipitate (fall out of solution) as a solid rock known as calcium carbonate (limestone). Corals and algae encourage this reaction and build up limestone reefs in the process. On land and in the water, plants take up carbon dioxide and convert it into carbohydrates through photosynthesis. This carbon in the plants now has 3 possible fates. It can be liberated to the atmosphere by the plant through respiration; it can be eaten by an animal, or it can be present in the plant when the plant dies. Animals obtain all their carbon in their food, and, thus, all carbon in biological systems ultimately comes from plants (autotrophs). In the animal, the carbon also has the same 3 possible fates. Carbon from plants or animals that is released to the atmosphere through respiration will either be taken up by a plant in photosynthesis or dissolved in the oceans. When an animal or a plant dies, 2 things can happen to the carbon in it. It can either be respired by decomposers (and released to the atmosphere), or it can be buried intact and ultimately form coal, oil, or natural gas (fossil fuels). The fossil fuels can be mined and burned in the future; releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Otherwise, the carbon in limestone or other sediments can only be released to the atmosphere when they are subducted and brought to volcanoes, or when they are pushed to the surface and slowly weathered away. Humans have a great impact on the carbon cycle because when we burn fossil fuels we release excess carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This means that more carbon dioxide goes into the oceans, and more is present in the atmosphere. The latter condition causes global warming, because the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere allows more energy to reach the Earth from the sun than it allows to escape from the Earth into space.
If you look back at the carbon cycle, you will see that we have also described the oxygen cycle, since these atoms often are combined. Oxygen is present in the carbon dioxide, in the carbohydrates, in water, and as a molecule of two oxygen atoms. Oxygen is released to the atmosphere by autotrophs during photosynthesis and taken up by both autotrophs and heterotrophs during respiration. In fact, all of the oxygen in the atmosphere is biogenic; that is, it was released from water through photosynthesis by autotrophs. It took about 2 billion years for autotrophs (mostly cyanobacteria) to raise the oxygen content of the atmosphere to the 21% that it is today; this opened the door for complex organisms such as multicellular animals, which need a lot of oxygen.
The nitrogen cycle is one of the most difficult of the cycles to learn, simply because there are so many important forms of nitrogen, and because organisms are responsible for each of the interconversions. Remember that nitrogen is critically important in forming the amino portions of the amino acids which in turn form the proteins of your body. Proteins make up skin and muscle, among other important structural portions of your body, and all enzymes are proteins. Since enzymes carry out almost all of the chemical reactions in your body, it's easy to see how important nitrogen is. The chief reservoir of nitrogen is the atmosphere, which is about 78% nitrogen. Nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is composed of two nitrogen atoms bound to each other. It is a pretty non-reactive gas; it takes a lot of energy to get nitrogen gas to break up and combine with other things, such as carbon or oxygen. Nitrogen gas (N2)can be taken from the atmosphere (fixed) in two basic ways. First, lightning provides enough energy to "burn" the nitrogen and fix it in the form of nitrate (NO3), which is a nitrogen with three oxygens attached. This process is duplicated in fertilizer factories to produce nitrogen fertilizers. Biology 101 students will also recall the experiments of Stanley Miller, who used electrical discharges to show how nitrogen in the Earth's early atmosphere might have combined to form amino acids. The other form of nitrogen fixation is by nitrogen fixing bacteria, who use special enzymes instead of the extreme amount of energy found in lightning to fix nitrogen. These nitrogen-fixing bacteria come in three forms: some are free-living in the soil; some form symbiotic, mutualistic associations with the roots of bean plants and other legumes (rhizobial bacteria); and the third form of nitrogen-fixing bacteria are the photosynthetic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) which are found most commonly in water. All of these fix nitrogen, either in the form of nitrate or in the form of ammonia (NH3) (nitrogen with 3 or 4 hydrogens attached, dependingon the pH). Most plants can take up nitrate and convert it to amino acids. Animals acquire almost all of their amino acids when they eat plants (or other animals). When plants or animals die (or release waste) the nitrogen is returned to the soil. The usual form of nitrogen returned to the soil in animal wastes or in the output of the decomposers, is ammonia. Ammonia is rather toxic, but, fortunately there are nitrite bacteria in the soil and in the water which take up ammonia and convert it to nitrite(NO2), which is nitrogen with two oxygens. Nitrite is also somewhat toxic, but another type of bacteria, nitrate bacteria, take nitrite and convert it to nitrate, which can be taken up by plants to continue the cycle. We now have a cycle set up in the soil (or water), but what returns nitrogen to the air? It turns out that there are denitrifying bacteria which take the nitrate and combine the nitrogen back into nitrogen gas.
The nitrogen cycle has some important practical considerations, as anyone who has ever set up a saltwater fish tank has found out. It takes several weeks to set up such a tank, because you must have sufficient numbers of nitrite and nitrate bacteria present to detoxify the ammonia produced by the fish and decomposers in the tank. Otherwise, the ammonia levels in the tank will build up and kill the fish. This is usually not a problem in freshwater tanks for two reasons. One, the pH in a freshwater tank is at a different level than in a saltwater tank. At the pH of a freshwater tank, ammonia is not as toxic. Second, there are more multicellular plant forms that can grow in freshwater, and these plants remove the ammonia from the water very efficiently. It is hard to get enough plants growing in a saltwater tank to detoxify the water in the same way.
The phosphorous cycle is the simplest of the cycles that we will examine (I like to save the simplest for the last sometimes; it's like a cool-down period after a long run). For our purposes, phosphorous has only one form, phosphate(PO4), which is a phosphorous atom with 4 oxygen atoms. This heavy molecule never makes its way into the atmosphere, it is always part of an organism, dissolved in water, or in the form of rock. When rock with phosphate is exposed to water (especially water with a little acid in it), the rock is weathered out and goes into solution. Autotrophs take this phosphorous up and use it in a variety of ways. It is an important constituent of cell membranes, DNA, RNA, and, of course ATP, which, after all, stands for adenosine triphosphate. Heterotrophs (animals) obtain their phosphorous from the plants they eat, although one type of heterotroph, the fungi, excel at taking up phosphorous and may form mutualistic symbiotic relationships with plant roots. These relationships are called mycorrhizae; the plant gets phosphate from the fungus and gives the fungus sugars in return. Animals, by the way, may also use phosphorous as a component of bones, teeth and shells. When animals or plants die (or when animals defecate), the phosphate may be returned to the soil or water by the decomposers. There, it can be taken up by another plant and used again. This cycle will occur over and over until at last the phosphorous is lost at the bottom of the deepest parts of the ocean, where it becomes part of the sedimentary rocks forming there. Ultimately, this phosphorous will be released if the rock is brought to the surface and weathered. Two types of animals play a unique role in the phosphorous cycle. Humans often mine rock rich in phosphorous. For instance, in Florida, which was once sea floor, there are extensive phosphate mines. The phosphate is then used as fertilizer. This mining of phosphate and use of the phosphate as fertilizer greatly accelerates the phosphorous cycle and may cause local overabundance of phosphorous, particularly in coastal regions, at the mouths of rivers, and anyplace where there is a lot of sewage released into the water (the phosphate placed on crops finds its way into our stomachs and from there to our toilets). Local abundance of phosphate can cause overgrowth of algae in the water; the algae can use up all the oxygen in the water and kill other aquatic life. This is called eutrophication. The other animals that play a unique role in the phosphorous cycle are marine birds. These birds take phosphorous containing fish out of the ocean and return to land, where they defecate. Their guano contains high levels of phosphorous and in this way marine birds return phosphorous from the ocean to the land. The guano is often mined and may form the basis of the economy in some areas.
Thanks to Sharon Baumgard for the proofreading! | 2019-04-24T05:26:15 | http://w3.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/ecosystems.htm |
0.999273 | The world loves an elevator pitch. Elevator pitches make the world go (a)round. All kidding aside, elevator pitches have great value, but, as anyone who runs a company or provides a product can attest, it can be quite challenging to succinctly summarize a product, experience, and expertise into a few sentences. This is particularly salient when discussing a product, platform, field, etc. that you are absolutely passionate about.
Think about Twitter, a programming friend of mine once told me that Twitter can be explained as “an online conversation.” While that statement makes perfect sense if you know what Twitter is, it is almost impossible to conceptualize what the speaker is talking about without some context or general knowledge base.
Similarly, when I tell banks and lenders that, with an ArtisPay Supply Chain Finance program, they can create significant new fee income with their current (and former) clients at no additional cost; while simultaneously improving their clients’ businesses and strengthening their relationships with them, I get some quizzical looks. Like Twitter, it can be challenging to conceptualize a new idea you’ve never seen, even when it exists within environments you know very well. People understand their smartphones, apps, social media, online blogs – but tweeting? What is a tweet? Why tweet? However, there are 326 million active monthly users of twitter, and 500 million tweets a day. (Omnicore Agency Twitter Statistics). Twitter is massively popular and has great utility.
Supply Chain Finance is massively popular and has great utility. Supply Chain Finance has been used by fortune 500 companies and global banks for decades. To tweet, all a smartphone user with a wi-fi connection needs is the app. Similarly, bankers and lenders have at their fingertips everything they need to have a scalable and highly profitable Supply Chain Finance program (clients, lines of credit, industry knowledge, capital to deploy, capitalism in their hearts), they’re dialed into their communities, they just need the App to run the program– ArtisPay is that application.
If Jack Dorsey claimed, as he launched twitter, his new “online conversation” will be at the center of politics, global spying, public company announcements, celebrity gossip, inside professional locker rooms and the cause of SEC investigations (I love you Elon) – he would have been accused of selling hopium (an addiction to false hopes).
Twitter is not hopium, Twitter is real, and it is actually pretty awesome. Supply Chain Finance is not hopium either. Supply Chain Finance is new income, growth, profit, innovation and client satisfaction. Supply Chain Finance is here, now, to the middle and small market – brought to you by ArtisPay. Supply Chain Finance is real, and it is definitely awesome.
Reach out to us, we will spare you the elevator pitch. | 2019-04-25T08:02:47 | http://www.artistrade.net/2019/02/13/artispay-the-elevator-pitch/ |
0.999847 | As another FIFA World Cup concluded, Canada's national men's soccer team remained on the sidelines — exactly where it has been since the end of the 1986 tournament.
Now, there's a new hope in the form of 17-year-old Alphonso Davies. Could this ordinary teenager with extraordinary potential be the country's first men's soccer superstar?
He's certainly making a case for it with his play as a member of Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps and recently as a member of the national team. Just don't expect him to boast about his talents.
"I'm trying to stay humble for my mom," Davies told The National's Ian Hanomansing. "She gave me the opportunity and I don't want to be getting a big head and then something happens and she goes 'what happened?'"
Davies was born in the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana to Liberian parents fleeing their country's civil war. The family came to Canada when he was five, settling in Edmonton after spending a year in Windsor, Ont.
"Seeing where they come from, seeing where we are now, I think that's one of the reasons why I try and keep my head level," Davies said. "Every game I play, [I] play like it's my last game."
At first glance, you'd be forgiven for mistaking the grounded but perpetually smiling Davies for any other teenager — he plays foosball and Fortnite with his friends and still has braces. Whitecaps head coach Carl Robinson says he's still "a kid" and does his best to keep his young charge heading in the right direction.
"What I ask him to do is while he's in the facility that he be professional," Robinson said. "He needs to learn what it takes to be a professional and the only way you learn that is by being involved in it and being around it and by making mistakes.
"And I have to let him make a few mistakes for me to be able to teach him, but I also have to make sure that he doesn't make certain mistakes, because if he does there might be no coming back."
What sets Davies apart from the average teenager is his prodigious talent on the pitch. He joined the Whitecaps development program at age 14 and made his MLS debut a year later. This season Davies has erupted as an on-field presence, scoring three goals and adding eight assists for Vancouver so far en route to earning his first All-Star nod.
"He's got tremendous ability with the ball. He's one of these players that runs as quick with the ball as without the ball, a bit like Ryan Giggs," Robinson said, referring to the former Manchester United great. "He's able to change direction very quickly in full speed as well which causes defenders problems.
"He's got a lot to improve yet, but the natural aspect of the game is phenomenal for him and the hard things he does very, very well and the simple things he needs to work on, because they are probably the most important things in football."
Davies' club future remains up in the air — he's reportedly being scouted by some of Europe's premier clubs — but what is certain is his role as a member of the rebuilding Canadian men's national team.
"I'd just be walking around the [team] facility and have a staff member ask me a random question, just 'hey, what's the prime minister's name?' and I have to answer it quick, so that really helped me a lot," Davies said.
Davies already has three international goals in just six appearances for Canada and he cherishes the ability to don the red and white.
"They show him so much love and that's what's important," said Whitecaps teammate Kei Kamara, who came to the United States as a teenager from Sierra Leone. "He's found a home for himself and his family and when you can have that, you're going to give your all."
The duo might not be teammates for much longer. Once Davies turns 18 in November, the Whitecaps could sell his rights to an interested international club for a sizeable transfer fee.
"To be honest, I have no idea," Davies said about the rumours. "I really don't worry about that. That's not my side of the game, my side is to perform on the pitch."
Vancouver president Bob Lenarduzzi has yet to divulge how much Davies' services are worth to the club."We're waiting to see what the market bears, so we're still going through that process, but it will be a significant amount of money," Lenarduzzi said.
Canadian men's soccer has yet to have a bona fide superstar. In the women's game though, Canada's Christine Sinclair will go down as one of the most impactful players in the sport. The 35-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., is second in the world in most goals scored, owns a pair of Olympic bronze medals and a Pan Am Games gold and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013.
But for the men, a new generation of potential stars could be emerging. While Davies might lead the charge he's hardly alone. Cyle Larin, who turned heads with Orlando City in the MLS and currently plies his trade with Turkish juggernaut Besiktas, is among a young crop of Canadians ready to begin life under new head coach John Herdman.
Participation in Qatar in 2022 might be an unrealistic expectation, with most fans' sights set on the 2026 tournament hosted by Canada, Mexico and the U.S. While the World Cup host usually earns an automatic berth in its home tournament, FIFA has yet to confirm whether all three countries will get guaranteed spots.
As for Davies, who was a part of the joint bid's delegation at the winning World Cup vote in June, his focus is on improving and growing as a player.
"There's people out there, Canadians out there, that have high expectations for me, but I mean, I'm still a kid, still trying to learn the game," Davies said. "I'm just trying to develop my skills as much as possible." | 2019-04-18T19:52:46 | https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/mls/alphonso-davies-could-be-canada-mens-soccer-superstar-1.4747335 |
0.998908 | What’s the best Linux compatible laptop for programmers?
What’s the best laptop for programmers?
Hello,I am going to buy a laptop. I Am a programmer. What are the best recommendation which are running on Linux/Ubuntu?
For best compatibility, for now at least as more support is finally coming for AMD/ATI processors and graphics cards/integrated graphics, would be finding a system with Intel processors, Intel or Atheros wireless internet card, and Nvidia graphics if you want dedicated graphics card support (AMD/ATI is currently offering beta drivers for Linux to help support Steambox, a Linux-based gaming system). The rest of the system should be supported, except some Bluetooth adapters, some function buttons, and possibly sleep/hibernation mode. Other than this, find laptops with high reviews and good ratings for support.
For a good list of supported laptops by brand, go here: http://www.linlap.com/laptops.
Pretty much any laptop that will run Linux will suffice. If possible, you might look at getting a major brand such as Acer, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, etc without Windows, to save the cost of a Windows license you won't use. | 2019-04-20T23:05:38 | https://www.makeuseof.com/answers/whats-best-linux-compatible-laptop-programmers/ |
0.999937 | name two utilities used in the automotive environment The fastest growing economies that make up the Plus 5 group, which meets at the same time as the G-8, does not include -. How is Rebecca most likely feeling in the first paragraph of this excerpt? A. lonely B. frightened C. overwhelmed f prices increase at a monthly rate of 2.5 2.5%, by what percentage do they increase in a year? Which recovery method usually involves an evasion effort and is dependent on the IP's condition? | 2019-04-19T01:05:07 | http://www.hotlavasearch.com/q/yhjp-order-by-1-wvak |
0.999907 | Paul: Bankrputcy is an option for U.S.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- How should the United States deal with its growing debt problem? Ron Paul thinks declaring "bankruptcy" might be a good idea.
The Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate was discussing Greece's fiscal trouble with Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson on Monday when he was asked, "If bankruptcy is the cure for Greece, is it also the cure for the United States?"
Of course, sovereign nations can't declare bankruptcy the same way a corporation might. Instead, the government would be unable to fulfill its obligations, and would stop making payments on its debt, resulting in a default.
Greece is currently embroiled in a debate over how to pare back its social programs and government spending to secure another bailout for paying its debts.
Paul said social programs -- medical care and other benefits -- have pushed Greece to the edge, and the United States should take note.
"The big message there is the fact that the people who are seeing they are losing their benefits and their free medical care and all, are rioting in the streets," Paul said. "That is the problem, and we are not immune from that."
Paul -- known in Washington for his renegade economic ideas -- wants to convert the U.S. monetary system to one based on the gold standard, and held a hearing last week to grill federal officials about his bill to audit and inventory the nation's gold reserves.
The Texan is no fan of the Federal Reserve either, and suggested Monday the United States should eliminate the Fed as a way to reduce the deficit.
"We owe, like, $1.6 trillion because the Federal Reserve bought that debt, so we have to work hard to pay the interest to the Federal Reserve," Paul said. "We don't, I mean, they're nobody; why do we have to pay them off?
However, the Fed returns the interest earned on those holdings to the federal government. Last year, the Fed sent $79 billion to the Treasury.
On the debt ceiling, Paul said the most likely scenario is that lawmakers pass a series of short-term increases of the nation's borrowing limit. And he said that if the U.S. were to wipe out the debt owed the Fed, investors would gain confidence.
"They'll say 'Hey, they've just reduced the deficit by over a trillion dollars, now they can handle it. They can go back to meeting their other obligations,' " Paul said. "It might give some reassurance to the market." | 2019-04-18T16:57:16 | https://money.cnn.com/2011/06/28/news/economy/ron_paul_bankruptcy/index.htm |
0.999971 | Tech Connect: HD-DVD or Blu-Ray?
This seems to be a topic sweeping tech circles and the Hollywood industry; in the anime community, it is being discussed mostly in theory. And I think many anime companies are taking the right stance towards the new formats: they seem to be waiting for a winner in the format wars before announcing new releases on new formats or transferring their current libraries.
A review of Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai is posted here on High Def DVD Digest[highdefdvddigest.com]. I found the article linked through this Slashdot article[slashdot.org]. According to High Def Digest's review, there is a gap between what the capabilities of the format are and what technology is available on the market. This is good for the format because there is still room for it to grow. Hot in its heels though, Sony is planning on releasing Blu-Ray two months earlier, according to Anime on DVD [animeondvd.com] according to a news post on 26 April. The new release is supposed to debut in June.
With the popularity of DVD coming only in the late 1990s as the true successor to the market-popular VHS videocassettes, many anime companies were starting to have DVD libraries by 2000; AnimEigo, as I remember, announced around this time that their entire library from there on out would be in DVD format. And with the new format, a competition for the market right of succession, it seems they're going to sit this out until that successor is determined.
If I can though, I would like to make a prediction about the format war. I personally think that HD-DVD will win out. Sure, it is technically inferior to Blu-Ray but it's not as if American DVDs (both Hollywood and anime) are stretching the limits of the format that warrant such a large gap in size between DVD and Blu-Ray (not to mention HD-DVD to Blu-Ray). Another feature HD-DVD has over Blu-Ray is the ability to be backwards compatible with current DVD players. So, while a new player will need to be purchased, an HD player will play both HD-DVDs and regular DVDs, thus making many collections not obsolete right off the bat, as was with DVD from VHS (until the dual unit decks were introduced). I think these two defining factors are what is going to drive the market towards HD-DVD; after all, even though Blu-Ray is the technologically superior, Sony has lost the format war to a technically inferior foe before.
None of this is to knock on Sony or Blu-Ray; to be honest, Sony is one of my favorite electronic companies. Also, I think Blu-Ray is a much better format for data storage due to their huge size and capacity. I plan on buying a Blu-Ray burner as soon as they become more affordable.
The 2006 Con season is beginning soon and we've got a couple of cool developments to report.
On 7 April, Bandai of Japan reported (broadcast in English through Gunota) that the first TV series of Mobile Suit Gundam will be finally coming to DVD. What was once previously thought impossible is now becoming possible. Now there is much speculation (and hope) in the American fan community that Bandai Entertainment Incorporated, the North American division of Bandai Japan, will be able to release a long-awaited subtitle version Stateside. Only time will tell and hopefully Bandai will have a release confirmation during the con season this year. Little Akihabara hopes to be able to break the news.
Defying hopes, and very much pleasing to the fans here in the US, Media Blasters has announced three stellar titles this month alone - Hyaku Juou GoLion, Dairugger XV, and Yuushaou GaoGaiGar.
Media Blasters back at the end of March announced it would be releasing the original American version of Voltron (and the lesser seen Vehicle portion in addition to the classical Lions); there were some vocal fan wishes for the original versions and MB announced those in a "Oh, by the way..." fashion. While GoLion and Dairugger are in the classic genre that Little Akihabara hopes for, GaoGaiGar's homage to the classic mecha genre holds hopes for many other classic mecha titles to follow suit. Either way, MB has proven with these three and its previous announcement of Tekkaman Blade that it is truly a company that sees value and profitability in more classic Japanese animation, as well as answering calls of an older fanbase.
Although with the blitz of classic licenses over the first quarter or so of this year, it leaves one extatic and looking to the future for what's next, but there is a cynical part of me that is worried that this is it for the year. I sincerely hope that I am proven wrong about this and that we will see many more licenses announced and hopefully some more that will actually be released towards the end of this year (as GaoGaiGar is planned).
That's all for now; I am hoping to revamp the site some more, do some more exclusive imagery and get a couple of editorials written up. | 2019-04-19T22:26:45 | https://akibaren.blogspot.com/2006/04/ |
0.998344 | Should concrete barriers or equivalent protection be used at the ends and as a barrier between traffic lanes and the work area on highway construction project sites?
The main purpose in using the concrete barrier is to protect workers on bridges and overpasses where there is limited room to escape for either a vehicle or a worker. The use of concrete or equivalent barriers on bridge and overpass work should be enforced unless the width of the bridge prohibits the use of these devices. Most bridges and overpasses on the Trans-Canada are wide enough to accommodate them. Work on these sites requires mostly manual labour in a restricted setting. Realize too, that openings will be required in these barriers to allow for materials to be transported to the work site. Good judgment is required in determining the size of the openings.
Highways may be treated differently. If sufficient lane control devices (traffic cones, barrels, etc.) and trained flag persons are used to direct and control traffic, then this would meet the intent of the legislation on highway construction. Most highway construction work involves the use of heavy equipment with a minimum amount of manual labour carried out in the area. | 2019-04-22T09:56:44 | https://www.worksafenb.ca/docs/traffic-safety-concrete-barriers.html |
0.998142 | If Ian Fleming is still around and continue to write James Bond novels after The Man With The Golden Gun, what would he titled them?
I think he would have eventually written a book named Goldeneye.
The face altered man in the robo-cop suit.
Favorite Movies: Lawrence Of Arabia, Forrest Gump, Jaws, The Shawshank Redemption, Vertigo, The Odd Couple, Zoolander, Cool Hand Luke, The Great Escape...many more.
The Man with The Lemon Lips.
I read somewhere that he might of used My Enemy's Enemy as a title if he's alive today.
It's sort of mysterious, if one hasn't read OHMSS. Bond meets with Marc-Ange Draco for the first time in years. Draco has retired to Japan, where he is taking over the Japanese underworld No one can understand him (semi-seriously, Draco went to Japan to see where his daughter was avenged). Tiger, of course, gets into the act and calls back Bondo-san. During this period, Bond has been commuting between England and KIssy and their son, who is now four years old, and is blond and thuggish-looking and starting to pump iron at the Ama-san gym Kissy says, "No, no no! That can't be our offspring!" Bond assures her, "Darling. He's approved by his Godmother Babs, so it's all right. He has all the time in the world to become handsome and charming."
Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote: The Man with The Lemon Lips.
Not bad for an anti-Craiger. That one made me laugh, I have to admit!!
For some reason, the Cantonese versions all have these crazy titles; the Mandarin versions are closer to the originals.
Do you think Fleming would use something like The Manhattan Project?
While I do not know what he would have titled I do know more or less what he would have done. At least follow me willingly in my illusion of knowing, enjoy it or don't the only price is leave me neither wanting nor disabused.
What would have happen is if by some quirk of fate Fleming had the opposite of health in this imagined reality he would have come full circle killing Bond off ala You Only Live Twice. | 2019-04-20T08:32:52 | http://classicbond.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=305 |
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It is recommended to any skin type including sensitive skin.
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This line of products are 99% organic and made in the US. It has been developed by a Dermatologist and it has been clinically proven to work.
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Relieve is the gentler form of vitamin A, this formula increases skin immunity allowing the skin to heal and repair from the environment damages.
Calm is recommended for moderately-sensitive skin types. It calms the inflammation, restore the protective barrier, increase skin nutrients and immune repair, rebuild the thin dermis allowing an end result of a dramatic restoration of the skin by firming and protecting from UV rays.
Clarify is an anti-blemish serum. It normalizes oil production, shrinks pores, calms inflammation, protects the skin from UV rays. It is recommended for the treatment of oily skin like Acne.
Skin Restoration: DNA repair serum, it has the capability to reserve the aging skin at the cell level. It contains vitamin C, amino acids and minerals that encourages collagen and elastin production as well as promotes wound healing and pigment reduction. Dr. Chen recommends it to erase fresh surgical scars.
Fade: Pigment fading serum that is hydroquinone free, it diminishes the appearance of age spots. Recommended for spot treatment only.
Eye Creams: Refresh PM serums have powerful ingredients that will reduce the puffiness, lines and dark circles. The eyelids are the first to show the signs of aging. Both serums contain substances that will also increase collagen and elastin allowing a firmer skin. Refresh PM is a powerful moisturizing serum.
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Our best sellers are Harmonized UV that blocks the UV rays and allows the healthy rays to penetrate the skin and Harmonized Natural defense recommended for the treatment of Eczema, Psoriasis and Rosacea. | 2019-04-25T18:01:02 | https://www.puamanumedspa.com/skin-products/ |
0.998972 | Is 'The Devil made me do it' ever a valid excuse?
"The Devil made me do it" is the oldest excuse in the world; and for nearly every mistake, crime, or sin, it is just that, an excuse.
First, God will not allow a Christian to be tempted beyond the ability to escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). The truth of 1 John 4:4 eliminates the excuse of the Devil having control of a Christian's behavior: "Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world."
Blame shifting is so ancient it was made by the first people. In the garden of Eden, Eve disobeys God and then blames the Devil: "… The serpent deceived me, and I ate" (Genesis 3:13). God did not buy her excuse, and won't buy it from us either. Adam, in turn, blamed Eve for his sin. God didn't buy that, either. God holds us accountable for our actions.
The Holy Spirit dwells within Christians and not only helps us overcome sin and temptation (1 John 4:4), but prevents the Devil from forcing us from doing anything. God has granted us everything we need for life, as Peter writes in 2 Peter 1:3. Additionally, this verse goes on to say that God has provided what we need for godliness, also.
When we, as Christians, sin, it is because of our own choices. The blame lies with the individual. As Christians, we must recognize the problem is our choice to disobey, rebel, or disregard God (Romans 7:20). Certainly Satan can tempt us to sin and influence us, but the choice is ultimately our own. Think of when a doctor tells a patient to quit smoking. It is not the cigarette's fault, nor the tobacco company, when the patient continues to smoke. Obedience will bring blessing. Christians overcome sin and the temptation to sin by submitting to God and obeying His Word (Romans 7:24–25; 1 John 5:3–5).
"But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire" (James 1:14). We sin because we are sinners infected with a desire to rule our own lives and disregarding or even rebelling against God. This is our primary struggle. "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these" (Galatians 5:19–21). It is us, our flesh, which causes us to desire these wrong things.
So, what is the Devil's role? He and his demons can tempt us to sin (Genesis 3; Luke 4:1–13; 1 Peter 5:8), but cannot force a Christian to make the series of choices it takes to sin.
However, a person who is not a Christian can come under a controlling influence of the Devil and his minions. Though a non-Christian may more easily succumb to evil influences, he or she can also be possessed. When a person is possessed by a demon, that demon has complete control over the person, not allowing the person control (Mark 9:22). The only time "The Devil made me do it" would ever be a valid excuse is in the case of demon possession. And, again, we must emphasize that a Christian cannot be possessed because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; Ephesians 5:18).
"How can I have victory in overcoming sin?"
"I'm struggling with sin. What's the key to victory?"
"Resisting temptation—What is the key?"
How can I overcome temptation instead of giving in?
What is meant by 'dying to self'? How are Christians supposed to die to self? | 2019-04-21T20:01:37 | https://www.compellingtruth.org/the-devil-made-me-do-it.html |
0.998228 | Journalist to a manager : There is a bank adjacent to your bank, then why was it that there was a burglary in your bank alone and not in the neighbouring bank.
Manager murmured: Because on their signboard they have written "with safe deposit lockers" and probably that is the reason the robbers didn't go there.
A man walks into the bank with a huge hammer and some concrete breaking equipment. The manager is alarmed and asks the man to keep them outside before entering the bank. The man says - Sir, I have come to the bank to deposit valuables in the locker but before doing so I wanted to check out whether the strong room is indeed strong or it is only an advertisment outside. | 2019-04-22T16:31:54 | http://moneygaurd.blogspot.com/2009/12/safe-deposit-lockers.html |
0.999772 | I have a data set with a specified underlying latent structure. If I do an EFA, the factor loadings support the underlying structure except for two manifest variables which strongly load on a different factor. This made me think whether it is possible to test the appropriateness of manifest variables in PLS-SEM by cross correlating them with the latent variable scores? My strategy would be to fit PLS-SEM without the manifest variable in question, and then calculate correlations of all the latent variables with the manifest variable that was excluded. One would expect the correlation if its own latent variable to be higher than for the other latent variables.
Would this be a valid strategy to follow, and if so, are there any publications referring to this or methods similar?
I have never seen such an analysis and I would doubt that it is a valid strategy (just by gut feeling).
In addition, if you have a specified latent structure then it is more appropriate to do a CFA than an EFA, because you want to test whether the specified structure is correct and not explore the latent structure that emerges from your data set. EFA should be reserved for exploratory analysis.
Thanks for your reply. For the specific example I referred to, I did do CFA first which did not provide adequate fit, and then did the EFA.
In many other occasions however, I do not have large enough sample sizes to do proper CFA, so my question really was whether an approach like this could be used in PLS-SEM as a further diagnostic for shedding more light on the latent structure. In a sense similar to the heterotrait-monotrait ratio, but in this case evaluating on an item level. | 2019-04-21T12:26:52 | https://forum.smartpls.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15197&p=24745 |
0.999999 | 1. As a radiologist, you'll examine various types of images, including x-rays, computer tomography (CT) scans, mammograms, ultrasounds, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
2. You might operate the machinery used to collect these images, though this task is often delegated to radiology technologists.
3. Radiologists also occasionally monitor imaging sessions run by radiologic technologists and technicians. Patients' primary doctors often consult with radiologists on results of imaging procedures.
4. In such cases, you may be responsible for recommending courses of treatment or suggesting that additional images be taken.
5. You may also administer nuclear medicine, oncology, or other radiation techniques to treat patients with illnesses or diseases.
6. In addition, you'll perform many of the same duties as a general physician, such as examining patients, recording medical histories, and prescribing medications.
7. Administers radiopaque substances by injection, orally, or as enemas in order to view organs using x-ray films or fluoroscopic screens, for example.
8. Examines patients, obtains medical history, diagnoses illnesses based on imaging and related tests, and recommends additional exams or treatment plans.
1. Job Description:As a radiologist, you'll examine various types of images, including x-rays, computer tomography (CT) scans, mammograms, ultrasounds, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
Who is your ideal candidate, what experience, knowledge, and qualifications must he/she present?
2. Treat diseases of female organs. Care for and treat women during prenatal, natal, and postnatal periods.
3. Prescribe or administer therapy, medication, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
4. Perform cesarean sections or other surgical procedures as needed to preserve patients' health and deliver babies safely.
7. Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
8. Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
9. Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.
10. Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.
11. Consult with or provide consulting services to other physicians.
12. Plan, implement, or administer health programs in hospitals, businesses, or communities for prevention and treatment of injuries or illnesses.
13. Prepare government and organizational reports on birth, death, and disease statistics, workforce evaluations, or the medical status of individuals.
14. Conduct research to develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures to prevent or control disease or injury.
1. As a radiologist, you''ll examine various types of images, including x-rays, computer tomography (CT) scans, mammograms, ultrasounds, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
3. Radiologists also occasionally monitor imaging sessions run by radiologic technologists and technicians. Patients'' primary doctors often consult with radiologists on results of imaging procedures.
6. In addition, you''ll perform many of the same duties as a general physician, such as examining patients, recording medical histories, and prescribing medications.
Specialist A Dermatologist required for a reputable group of clinics in Sharjah, UAE Please note that although the employer offers attractive salary packages, they have not specified the salary ranges for this job as this will be determined after interviewing the shortlisted candidates.
1) Refer patients to other specialists, as needed.
2) Record patients' health histories.
3) Provide dermatologic consultation to other health professionals.
4) Provide liposuction treatment to patients.
5) Instruct interns or residents in diagnosis and treatment of dermatological diseases.
6) Recommend diagnostic tests based on patients' histories and physical examination findings.
7) Conduct clinical or basic research.
8) Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in dermatology.
9) Evaluate patients to determine eligibility for cosmetic procedures such as liposuction, laser resurfacing, and microdermabrasion.
10) Conduct or order diagnostic tests such as chest radiographs (x-rays), microbiologic tests, and endocrinologic tests.
11) Provide therapies such as intralesional steroids, chemical peels, and comodo removal to treat age spots, sun damage, rough skin, discolored skin, or oily skin.
12) Provide dermabrasion or laser abrasion to treat atrophic scars, elevated scars, or other skin conditions.
13) Prescribe hormonal agents or topical treatments such as contraceptives, spironolactone, antiandrogens, oral corticosteroids, retinoids, benzoyl peroxide, and antibiotics.
14) Perform skin surgery to improve appearance, make early diagnoses, or control diseases such as skin cancer.
15) Perform incisional biopsies to diagnose melanoma.
16) Diagnose and treat pigmented lesions such as common acquired nevi, congenital nevi, dysplastic nevi, Spitz nevi, blue nevi, and melanoma.
17) Counsel patients on topics such as the need for annual dermatologic screenings, sun protection, skin cancer awareness, or skin and lymph node self-examinations.
18) Conduct complete skin examinations.
19) Diagnose and treat skin conditions such as acne, dandruff, athlete's foot, moles, psoriasis, and skin cancer.
Pediatrician Consultant or Specialist (A or B) Minimum - 5 years of experience MOH, DHA, HAAD License Qualification.
1. Examine patients or order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests to obtain information on medical condition and determine diagnosis.
2. Examine children regularly to assess their growth and development.
3. Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury in infants and children.
4. Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, and examination results.
5. Advise patients, parents or guardians, and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
6. Treat children who have minor illnesses, acute and chronic health problems, and growth and development concerns.
7. Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients and parents or guardians.
8. Monitor patients'' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
9. Plan and execute medical care programs to aid in the mental and physical growth and development of children and adolescents.
10. Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.
11. Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.
12. Provide consulting services to other physicians. Plan, implement, or administer health programs or standards in hospitals, businesses, or communities for prevention or treatment of injury or illness.
13. Operate on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems.
14. Conduct research to study anatomy and develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures to prevent or control disease or injury.
5. Have either an MOH license or DHA/HAAD license as Specialist A Orthopaedics.
4. Have either an MOH license or DHA/HAAD license i.e. Specialist A Ophthalmology. | 2019-04-19T08:46:58 | https://jobsindubai.com/job_list.asp?isEmployerJobs=true&qEmployerID=16497 |
0.999939 | Welcome to the first anniversary edition of the Disability Blog Carnival!
Got your sparkly frock ready for the gala? No? That's fine. Blogging, and this blog carnival in particular, are all about "come as you are." And "as you are" is spectacular. Don't doubt that for a minute: the diverse disability blogging community is strong, thoughtful, funny, eloquent, creative, committed and punctual. Punctual? Well, yeah. We've had 23 previous editions of the carnival--exactly as scheduled, nobody flaked, nobody even posted late without warning. Many, many blog carnivals fade away after a few editions, or publish irregularly, unable to gin up the enthusiasm or volunteers to sustain a regular frequency. Enthusiasm and volunteers we have never lacked.
It's become a Thursday morning treat (for me, and I know for others) to see what the latest host has concocted from the most recent submissions. Thanks the hosts Kay Olson, David Gayes, The Goldfish, Emma Crees, Stephen and Connie Kuusisto, Daniel Goldberg, Mark Siegel, Leila Monaghan, Amanda Baggs, Leonard Alexander, Tokah, Kathryn, Jana Remy, Andrea Chandler, Jennifer Justice, Hala, Zephyr, and Jodi Reimer for taking your turns at the helm. Each of you brought something wonderful and unique to the job. And additional thanks to the many, many others who wrote entries, submitted links, left comments, mentioned the carnival to others, or just read and enjoyed. Here's to continuing and building this community event into year two and beyond!
Why is the Disability Blog Carnival worthwhile? As Able Writer Says, it's sometimes hard to get disability culture and news from other online sources without a lot of misinformation and disablism. (The media situation is improving, says Connie Kuusisto, but there's much more work to be done.) Because, as Angry for a Reason explains, TV writers are still labeling an improbable proportion of the "bad guys" with words like "borderline," and somebody has to notice. Because it's not just a corrective, but a celebration, an unbounded, joyous, riotous, loud, disturbing, defiant space, like a carnival should be, Wheelchair Dancer reminds us.
Person 1: What's got him so upset?
Person 2: He's got a bad case of mile stones.
Person 1: Oh, yeah, I know how that hurts. You just feel so useless when your mile stones are acting up.
Voice Over: Mile stones can be good for you, but excess mile stones are harmful. They sap away the pride in your achievements and interfere with caring for yourself. A related condition is Shoulda Syndrome. Shoulda Syndrome is characterized by thinking 'shoulda done this' 'shoulda done that'. If you have Shoulda Syndrome, mile stones might be the underlying cause.
Wait till the pharmaceutical companies figure out the market on treating "excess mile stones," eh? Shiloh suggests one group that may be prone to mistreating their milestones. Andrea's experiencing the midlife milestones with a new round of medical complications. Greg at Pitt Rehab is also passing a midlife milestone: "At 40 I am much more capable of handling changes. I am much more thankful for the people in my life. I am better educated about the world around me. I would like to think more patient and empathetic with people in general." Bruce also takes the opportunity of the theme to look at where he's been, and where he's going: "In the 2000's you can just call us Nanny and PaPa, like our grandaughter."
Developmental milestone charts like the one at left are the bane of many parents--"what to expect," ha!--ask Emily Elizabeth, who calls them her Arch Nemesis. David describes the milestones game from the kid's perspective: "...when you are a child growing up with a disability, many people...focus solely on your milemarkers, as though the milemarkers and the journey are one and the same." David has some insightful reminders about the folly of watching the milemarkers instead of the road itself, and the beauty along the way. And Dream Mom has a wise, personal post about her son's prospects, concluding "I need to just love him for who he is, not what he didn't become. I guess in the end, none of that matters, or maybe it never did."
and that we always avoid the smelly spica cast.
Stephen Kuusisto took note of the anniversary of receiving his first guitar, which brought him to ponder how "music and poetry are daily milestones." (Speaking of poetry, Pedestrian Hostile has been musing on rocks and building and creativity too.) And the Resident Alien confessed to her first (and maybe last) time "cussing someone out."
Several disability-related blogs have marked milestones lately: the excellent Special Education Law Blog maintained by Charles P. Fox passed its second anniversary last month, by observing Lessons Learned. Dave Hingsburger celebrated one year of Chewing the Fat this week, and decided not to hit the 'erase blog' button (whew!). McNair marked his 300th post at Disabled Christianity, saying "I have grown to believe that people with disabilities are designed to be as they are because they are critical, they are an essential part of the body of Christ." On the downside, the literary journal Mindprints has recently ceased publication, prompting an elegy from DisPoet.
Some of the Down syndrome blogging community is observing Down Syndrome Awareness Month with "Get it Down: 31 for 21" in October, with members pledging to post every single day of the month to tell more stories and be more visible. Among them, Bits of Betsy explains how "you start to realize that it will be o.k. Its o.k. to take it a bit slower and to meander through the milestones instead of racing through them." From a very different context, a similar sentiment on action and achievement: "Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love at which we do them," wrote St. Therese of Lisieux, whose October 1 feast day was marked by Daisy. Need a vision of beauty, of youth, of promise? Check out "Our First Framed Portraits," photographs of and by the Teen Possibles of Nova Scotia.
Ruth at Wheelie Catholic says that the Carnival is a chance to leave markers and find each other's markers along the road--I've enjoyed finding your markers, and I hope you've found a few worth noting too. So keep posting, and we'll keep gathering twice a month to bring it all to the Carnival.
Next time, the Carnival goes to Kara Sheridan's blog, If the World Had Wheels, on October 25. (Kara recently organized the the first annual Anti-Telethon Blogswarm, so she's proven more than ready to organize a mass of links and viewpoints!) When I find out the theme, I'll edit this to include that too. But the drill hasn't changed: you can submit links at the blogcarnival.com form, or by leaving a comment here, or by emailing me or Kara, it'll get to us somehow for consideration.
I know this is St. Thérèse way of blessing me for my veneration on her feast day--so thank you very much for participating in that as well.
Thanks for this, Penny! And thanks for all you do!
Once again, thanks Penny for all of your work on the carnivals. I've found so many markers over the past year because of the carnivals and look forward to many more.
Thanks for all your hard work Penny. This carnival should keep me busy for a few days!
Congratulations and thank you for the year. It's been most instructive! You should be very proud of what you started, and have kept going.
You've pulled together a wonderful community of bloggers thanks to your dedication, your enthusiasm and your behind the scenes contributions.
I discovered you through "Chronic Babe".
I am wanting to get my blog in more directories.
I am dealing with an Auto Immune disease ( among other long term things).
Would you be able to advertise my blog here ?
you can lv. me a message there if my email doesn't show up w/ this message.
Disability Blog Carnival #25 is up NOW!
Look who turned up for the October Meetup! | 2019-04-18T22:26:57 | http://disstud.blogspot.com/2007/10/disability-blog-carnival-24-1st.html |
0.999986 | A major terrorist strike against British forces in Iraq is 'inevitable', according to senior government sources in Iraq and intelligence officers in Britain and the Middle East. Any such attack would cause massive casualties and further destabilise the current US-led occupation government.
A member of the Iraqi governing council told The Observer that a major bombing aimed at UK forces in southern Iraq was 'a matter of time' and that intelligence indicated a number of different groups had been making preparations for such an attack.
'There are people in the British sector who have the means and the will to strike and are just waiting for the right opportunity,' the council member said. Intelligence officers believe that a wave of attacks is being planned to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which starts at the end of next month.
The exact composition of the various groups resisting US and British troops is still unclear. Paul Bremer, the top American civilian official in Baghdad, said last week that the United States was holding at least 19 members of 'al-Qaeda' in custody in Iraq. Though experts doubt that the militants imprisoned by the Americans are in fact members of Osama bin Laden's organisation, Bremer's statement was the first public mention of the detention of Islamic militants.
Bremer said he did not know the nationalities of those detained, but suggested they were among the 248 foreign fighters currently held in Iraq, including 123 from Syria, and said the 19 detainees' links to al-Qaeda had been determined by 'interrogations or in documentation'. British intelligence experts believe that the Islamic militants are joining up with former Baathist elements.
The insurgents are increasingly gaining support among Iraqi people who, though they welcomed the fall of Saddam Hussein, are angry at the continuing lack of basic utilities and security in Iraq, Many have also been enraged by heavy-handed US tactics.
Senior British Army officers blame part of the threat on the slow pace of reconstruction in Iraq and have complained to their counterparts in the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development. The military believe that the continuing problems in bringing aid into Iraq is turning local people against coalition forces. Some senior officers and Ministry of Defence officials attribute some of the delays to the slower, methodical pace at which their counterparts in other departments are used to working.
Aid and reconstruction in Iraq suffered a further blow last week when the United Nations with drew many of its staff, citing security concerns.
Serving British soldiers have told The Observer that they are increasingly resentful of the demands being made on them. 'The blokes are just getting hacked off with it,' one NCO in an elite infantry regiment said. 'There does not seem to be much light at the end of a pretty unpleasant tunnel.' The increasing demands on British troops have focused soldiers' anger on long-standing grievances.
The British-run sector has been relatively quiet. Only 20 of the more than 500 attacks on allied forces recorded in Iraq last month took place there. However recent weeks have seen death threats to Westerners in hotels and a strike on a police station that left seven injured. According to one report, a six-strong group linked to al-Qaeda was arrested recently in the Basra region. Eighteen British soldiers have now been killed since President Bush declared combat operations over on 1 May.
British and American troops have been trying to shift some of the burden of maintaining security onto local forces. The US army turned over a 210-mile stretch of the border separating Iraq from Iran to a local border police force yesterday, for the first time relinquishing control of a sensitive frontier area.
Washington is increasingly anxious to limit the number of American troops deployed in Iraq as polls show increasing domestic discontent at the continuing failure to stabilise the country and the huge cost of the campaign in men and materiel.
The Bush administration is now looking ahead to next year's presidential election. Bush's approval rating stands at 50 per cent, the lowest of his presidency.
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his close Pentagon officials have seen their influence in Washington diminish. 'Rumsfeld has taken a terrible beating,' said Mel Goodman, a former CIA analyst and now senior fellow at the Centre for International Policy think-tank.
As Rumsfeld has suffered, Colin Powell, the less hawkish Secretary of State, has become stronger. Last week it was Powell who announced that Iraq would have six months to draft a new constitution and who appeared on television as the public face of the administration.
The White House is reworking draft proposals that would give UN authorisation to a multinational force under US leadership to get more troops and money into Iraq. An early draft asks the unelected Iraqi Governing Council to draw up a schedule for a new constitution and elections.
France wants a rapid transfer to Iraqi self-rule, but Washington wants to take the time to make sure Iraq has functioning institutions. Washington hopes that Turkey, Pakistan and India - as well as European powers - may eventually be persuaded to send troops. However none is likely to commit itself soon.
Officials at the Pentagon are now braced for the release of an interim report by the Iraq Survey Group, the body tasked with finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which is believed to have discovered nothing more than documents and plans.
Some Pentagon officials say the current low-level insurgency situation in Iraq will act as a 'fly paper', luring Islamic militants to where they can be killed. But such an optimistic gloss - which depends on there being a finite number of al-Qaeda fighters - has been given short shrift by experts. 'It just doesn't make a lot of sense. If you kill 1,000 al-Qaeda in Iraq, then I just don't believe the worldwide level of al-Qaeda is going to go down by 1,000. We are seeing lots of new recruits because of Iraq,' said Professor Richard Stoll, a political scientist at Rice University, Texas. | 2019-04-19T10:50:39 | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/28/iraq1 |
0.999995 | Could electronic election fraud happen in Vermont?
This Town Meeting Day in Burlington, all eyes will be focused on Vermont's first-ever exercise in Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). Election officials and voters will be wondering whether this procedure of ranking candidates in order of preference will go smoothly or result in confusion at the polls and controversy over the results.
In 70 towns and cities, including Burlington, around the state, voters deposit their marked paper ballots in a type of optical scanner that has proven vulnerable to hacking. Beckwith cites a recent test of the scanner in Florida in which hackers were able to falsify the results of a mock election while leaving no trace of their treachery. They did it by manipulating the memory card contained in the same Diebold, Inc. brand of scanner that will count most of the votes cast in Vermont on Town Meeting Day.
"These machines can be hacked to turn election losers into winners and winners into losers," Beckwith says. "It's possible," he offers as an example, "that the result of Bernie Sanders' Senate race could be rigged without any sign of that having happened."
Local and state election officials insist such concern is unfounded. Consultants hired to help implement Burlington's IRV initiative generally agree, suggesting that fraud is especially unlikely in this case.
"If there were some sinister group trying to steal an election, would they risk a long jail term to do it in a municipal election?" Terry Bouricius asks rhetorically. A former Burlington city councilor, Bouricius is now a partner in Election Solutions, the Connecticut-based consulting firm that signed a $5800 contract with the city to help conduct an IRV education campaign. Election Solutions also assists private groups and the public sector in designing secure ballots and transparent voting systems.
Caleb Kleppner, one of Bouricius' partners, points to multiple measures put into place to ensure that Burlington's vote is conducted fairly and counted accurately. The city plans to post the raw data from the March 7 election on its website along with software that will enable users to verify the vote count. Burlington elections director Jo LaMarche "has been making this process as good as it can be," Kleppner says. "Unlike a lot of election officials, she's trying to do it the right way."
Burlington's system of instant runoff voting may prove "a model that should be followed by other cities around the country," adds Kleppner, who has experience with IRV procedures in San Francisco. He and LaMarche express confidence that the multimedia voter-education drive will ensure that IRV balloting goes smoothly on Town Meeting Day.
But both Kleppner and Bouricius acknowledge that no voting system is foolproof. "With an election, one should always be suspicious," Bouricius cautions. Adds Kleppner, "The bottom line is that vendors [of voting machines] should not automatically be trusted."
LaMarche says she has seen no evidence of attempted vote tampering in her 21 years as Burlington's elections director. Diebold optical scanners have been used in Burlington since 1994 and have proven highly reliable, she adds. Several recounts took place during that time, with the actual marks on the paper ballots being compared to the electronic count by the optical scanners. "And we've seen very little, if any, discrepancy," LaMarche reports. The Diebold machines are clearly superior to the type the Queen City used prior to 1994, she notes.
As long as voters mark paper ballots and do not record their choices exclusively by electronic means, Vermont officials say, it will always be possible to corroborate the machines' tallies by doing an old-fashioned hand count. And voters in every one of Vermont's 246 municipalities do leave such a paper trail, says state elections director Kathy DeWolfe.
Vermont does not use the touch-screen electronic voting machines, also available from Diebold and other manufacturers, that have generated much greater controversy than the optical scanners. The accuracy and integrity of a touch-screen vote recorder cannot be checked against paper ballots because none is used in this type of voting. Vermont law requires that paper ballots be cast in all its elections.
"I'm completely confident we're using the best system available," DeWolfe says in regard to the Diebold scanners. Kleppner, too, says he has no qualms about the Diebold optical scanner, which, he notes, has been used without incident in IRV elections in Cambridge, Mass., for the past eight years.
Is Beckwith, self-taught in the science of voting machines, simply being paranoid?
He emphasizes that his apprehension about cooked outcomes has nothing to do with the integrity of election officials in Burlington or the rest of Vermont. Beckwith's concerns are based on the secret design of Diebold's scanners and on the actions of the company's past and present executives.
Walden O'Dell, then-CEO of Ohio-based Diebold, wrote an invitation to a Bush re-election fundraiser in 2003 stating that he intended to help "Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." Ohio did get counted in the red column the following year, with its result providing the decisive margin of victory for the Republican incumbent.
The uproar over O'Dell's comments, compounded by allegations of voting irregularities in some Ohio precincts in 2004, culminated with his resignation two months ago. Company officials privately acknowledged the impropriety of such partisan remarks by O'Dell, who was also a major donor to Bush's re-election bid.
But Diebold's new CEO, Thomas Swidarski, is also a Republican stalwart. Swidarski was one of about a dozen Diebold executives who helped fund the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004, with Swidarski himself making the maximum individual contribution of $2000.
Diebold has since barred its top administrators from making political donations. But the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported recently that three Diebold executives not covered by the ban have continued to contribute to GOP candidates in Ohio.
Two groups of investors are meanwhile suing Diebold in federal court on the grounds that the company gave misleading assurances about the security of its voting machines. Those allegedly false claims led to artificial inflation of Diebold's share prices, the lawsuits charge. The disgruntled investors complain that Diebold is "unable to assure the quality and working order of its voting machine products."
Taking note of these developments, The New York Times criticized Diebold's "flawed approach to its business" in a December editorial. "The counting of votes is a public trust," the Times declared. "Diebold, whose machines count many votes, has never acted as if it understood this."
Using paper ballots isn't enough to allay misgivings about elections that are conducted even partly by electronic means, the Times added. "Paper trails are important," the editorial stated, "but they are no substitute for voting machine manufacturers of unquestioned integrity."
Beckwith may be a lone voice in Vermont raising questions about the reliability of Diebold election machines, and that's a little surprising; in other states many groups and individual activists have been striving to raise awareness about alleged flaws in the company's voting security systems. Avi Ruben of Johns Hopkins University, for example, says the Diebold voting system "is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable."
And then there's the infamous "Hursti hack."
Uncertain about the security of Diebold's optical scanners, the elections supervisor of Leon County, Fla., asked two expert hackers in December to test the machines' vulnerability to electronic tampering. One of them, software-security strategist Herbert Thompson, told the Associated Press he was "shocked" at how easily he was able to penetrate the defenses of the Diebold optical scanner and manipulate its vote count. Finnish computer whiz Harri Hursti meanwhile diddled the memory card inserted into each Diebold voting machine. Hursti hacked the card with a scanning device available on the Internet. He, too, was able to alter the outcome of a mock vote and leave no trace of his intrusion.
Leon County elections chief Ion Sancho then ruled that Diebold optical scanners could not be used in his locale.
Both hacks were successfully executed despite the fact that Diebold refuses to disclose information about the software used in its scanners and tabulators. The publicly held company says it treats this information as proprietary in order to protect its products against competitors and hackers. Critics contend, however, that Diebold has a duty to be more transparent about what's inside its machines because the company plays a key role in the democratic decision-making process in hundreds of localities.
"To the extent that any privately owned equipment is susceptible to tampering, there's going to be a certain risk of fraud being perpetrated and perhaps going undetected," suggests Kleppner.
Despite all these concerns, California officials last week conditionally certified Diebold machines for the state's elections this year.
Vermont elections director DeWolfe expresses full faith in the integrity of Diebold's scanners. And she contends that any glitches or deliberate misconduct in the use of the machines would almost certainly be detected by local election monitors in Vermont.
In regard to the Hursti hack, DeWolfe echoes Diebold officials, maintaining that this manipulation of mock vote results was achieved under circumstances that would not exist in an actual election. DeWolfe says that Leon County elections chief Sancho told her the Diebold machine produces a guaranteed accurate tabulation as long as no one is given access to the scanner's memory card. Diebold spokesman David Bear said in remarks quoted in The Washington Post that what Sancho did "is analogous to if I gave you the keys to my house and told you when I was gone." The Florida test was based on hackers having "complete unfettered access" to the equipment, Bear added, saying a responsible elections administrator would never allow that to happen.
In Burlington, LaMarche notes, only she and the seven ward clerks are permitted to handle the memory cards.
DeWolfe suggests there is a greater chance of local election monitors in Vermont colluding to carry out fraud than there is of a town clerk handing over a scanner's memory card to some unauthorized party. And the chance of collusion for the purposes of fraud on the part of Vermont election monitors is minuscule, she adds.
Between nine and 21 observers are present in most Vermont towns when votes are cast and counted, DeWolfe notes. "And these people know their towns quite well. They know what a vote count should look like."
DeWolfe also dismisses objections to Diebold executives' practice of contributing money to political candidates, all of whom appear to be Republicans. "I am certain that every company that has anything to do with selling election supplies includes employees who make political donations. That doesn't make the company fraudulent," DeWolfe declares.
Other Diebold defenders point out that no one has demonstrated an occurrence of fraud in any actual elections in the United States involving electronic voting machines. In some quarters, insinuations of election rigging are rejected outright as either fantasies spun by conspiracy theorists or whining by sore losers.
"The beauty of the American voting system is that it's done locally," says John Silvestro, president of LHS Associates, a Massachusetts-based firm that distributes Diebold election machines throughout New England. "The vote total is so comparatively small in each locality that any tampering couldn't impact the outcome of a statewide or national election."
During the 20 years he has been selling Diebold election products, Silvestro continues, "there have been nearly a thousand recounts involving our machines and there has never been one instance of anybody making an accusation of fraud."
In other cases not involving Diebold machines distributed by LHS Associates, however, there have been numerous allegations of tampering. The results of Ohio's vote in the 2004 presidential election prompted many such accusations, for example.
"Diebold is a really good company," Silvestro instists, noting that the firm sells "millions of ATMs worldwide that handle trillions of dollars."
Indeed, Diebold's business is focused on card-based financial and self-service systems, with electronic voting technology accounting for only a small segment of the company's operations. Diebold began making voting machines following Congress' move to help states and localities avoid a replay of the Florida vote-count debacle in the 2000 presidential election. The Help America Vote Act, approved in 2002, included $3 billion in funding for efforts to enhance voting security.
But Diebold has been experiencing financial difficulties of late, with its earnings dropping 76 percent, to $14.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2005. The disappointing results mainly reflected a companywide restructuring, but negative publicity around Diebold's voting machines may have deepened the earnings slump. Swidarski, the new CEO, expressed confidence in the machines' performance in a recent interview with the Associated Press. But he added that a plan to cut $100 million in costs over the next three years could lead Diebold to get out of the voting machine business.
Whatever the company decides, many election experts believe that electronic voting will become increasingly common in the United States -- with and without the backup of paper ballots. And that will only amplify the risk of voting fraud, Beckwith warns.
The underlying danger highlighted by the Hursti hack, he says, is that a manufacturer or distributor in cahoots with political swindlers could build into its scanners and tabulators undetectable means of altering vote counts. "If someone at LHS wanted to rig an election," Beckwith says hypothetically, "they could do something similar to what Hursti did to the memory card."
Before the first ballots are cast on Election Day, town clerks are instructed to "zero out" the optical scanners to ensure that they haven't pre-recorded any votes. But an expertly hacked memory card could actually be loaded with votes the zero test would not detect, Beckwith says.
Such manipulation is at least theoretically possible in Vermont, Beckwith adds, because the Diebold optical scanners may contain "executable or interpreted code on the memory cards." The presence of this code is what could allow a sophisticated Hursti-style hack to occur, Beckwith explains. The inclusion of the code in the memory cards would also put Diebold optical scanners out of compliance with voting system standards promulgated as guidelines by the Federal Election Commission in 2002, he adds.
The scanners and tabulators used in Vermont are certified to 1990 federal standards, says Silvestro, head of the firm that distributes the Diebold machines. "The new model in production is certified to the 2002 standards," he adds. But Silvestro did not directly respond to the issue of whether executable code is contained in scanners distributed by LHS. Vermont officials have also not indicated whether the code is present.
Silvestro argues that the scenario of pre-cooked memory cards is implausible because an in-house hacker would have no way of knowing how many phantom votes to conceal in a card. Too large a number would raise suspicions about voter turnout, and too small a number would not achieve the intended result of throwing an election to a candidate who had actually lost, Silvestro says.
That doesn't mean such an attempt would never occur or would always be unsuccessful, says Beckwith, who is frustrated that Vermont's election director has such unskeptical trust in Diebold's voting machines. The most practicable way to help ensure against electronic vote fraud, he suggests, is by requiring random audits of returns in a statistically significant proportion of precincts or wards. Under this procedure, scanners' tabulations would have to be checked against the paper ballots cast at randomly selected polling places.
Current Vermont law allows random audits to be carried out at the discretion of the secretary of state.
Beckwith isn't calling for scrapping scanners altogether and going to exclusively paper ballots counted entirely by hand. As Silvestro notes, "Machines have been shown to be more accurate than human beings in counting votes." For Beckwith, rather, the main aim is to come as close as possible to guaranteeing the integrity of the voting process in Vermont and every other state. "I want to live in a democracy," he says, "where everyone can have confidence that elections are conducted openly and honestly." | 2019-04-26T04:31:20 | https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/voting-machinations/Content?oid=2127305 |
0.999226 | "Princess opens her heart and soul to the chimpanzees, allowing them a safe place to call 'home.'"
If anyone knows a thing or two about second chances, it's a dog named Princess.
After all, she was barely a year old when Jenny and Jimmy Desmond found her at a shelter. Dumped and slated for euthanasia, Princess got her second chance with the Desmonds.
They decided to foster her.
But the thing about Princess is she knew what a good thing looked like. And she wouldn't give up the Desmonds for anything. So when potential adopters came to visit, she acted out, basically trying to make herself as unadoptable as possible.
Figuring Princess was trying to tell them something, the Desmonds decided to keep her.
And together, this family of animal lovers embarked on their own odyssey - a journey that would see them live in nearly 10 countries, while giving countless animals in need a second chance.
Of course, that was Princess' specialty. And she would be a very busy girl.
The Desmonds' compassion for animals would take them to many countries, including Kenya and Liberia, where they live now.
The Desmonds were there to pick up the pieces when the New York Blood Center abandoned dozens of chimps it had dumped on small islands off the Liberian coast.
It could have been a death sentence for these apes, who suddenly found themselves without food or fresh water, had the Desmonds, along with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and local rescuers, not thrown them a lifeline.
At times, the Desmonds even worked alongside legendary primatologist Jane Goodall.
The Desmonds have since moved to Liberia - their compassionate canine always at their side - where, in addition to still supporting the abandoned research apes, they harbor and heal victims of the illegal bushmeat and pet trades.
So far, five orphaned chimps have arrived at their doorstep, often in the arms of local wildlife officials who have heard of this family's gift for helping animals. And a certain dog wastes no time making them feel right at home.
"Princess opens her heart and soul to the chimpanzees, allowing them a safe place to call 'home' and helping prepare them for their eventual integration into a new chimpanzee family at the rescue center," Jenny tells The Dodo.
Desmond stresses that these chimpanzees are not pets. Many of them lost their mothers to poachers.
"They are being rehabilitated in Liberia so they can one day live with a chimpanzee family, where they belong," she says.
Indeed, that's the next step in this journey - the Desmonds are working with HSUS and the Liberian Forestry Development Authority, among other partners, to build Liberia's first chimpanzee sanctuary.
"We have a list of more (chimps) in need as soon as we have the capacity and resources to take them," Jenny adds. "The goal is to provide care and give them a future lifetime with other rescued chimpanzees, not humans."
And Princess will be there with them every step of the way.
Want to support this family's mission to save countless animals? Join them on their Facebook page. | 2019-04-24T11:58:06 | https://www.thedodo.com/dog-comforts-monkeys-animals-liberia-1995482584.html |
0.999999 | Evenly divide the greens between 4 plates (1-1/2 cups per plate) and places 3 pear slices and 2 tomato wedges on each.
Sprinkle each salad with about 2 tablespoons chopped egg and 2 tablespoons crumbled bacon, and drizzle with 2 to 3 tablespoons dressing.
Evenly divide salad mix between 24 bowls (2-1/2 cups per bowl) and place 3 pear slices and 2 tomato wedges on each. Sprinkle each salad with 2 tablespoons chopped egg and 2 tablespoons crumbled bacon, and drizzle with 2 tablespoons dressing.
VARIATION: Add 3 slices avocado to each salad and serve with prepared creamy blue cheese dressing.
Divide salad mix among 48 serving bowls. Sprinkle each with 2 tablespoons chopped egg. Put 3 pear slices and 2 tomato wedges on each salad. Sprinkle each salad with 2 tablespoons crumbled bacon. Serve each with 1 ounce dressing drizzled over or on the side.
VARIATION: For a more upscale dish, add 3 slices avocado to each salad and serve with prepared creamy blue cheese dressing. | 2019-04-26T00:52:48 | https://eatcannedpears.com/recipes/all-american-chopped-salad |
0.997787 | The Washington Post reports that the new Democratic majority in Congress wants to focus on the Alternative Minimum Tax. The AMT is paid disproportionately by residents of Democratic states because those states tend to have high state and local taxes and the state and local tax deduction is disallowed under the AMT.
This raises the question: Is the state and local tax deduction justifiable in the first place? I think not. Suppose the residents of town A vote for high local taxes to finance, say, a municipal pool. The residents of neighboring town B keep taxes low, allowing people who so choose to join a private pool club. Because of the federal tax deduction, town A gets a federal subsidy at the expense of town B. This outcome is neither equitable (it is violates the principle of horizontal equity) nor efficient (it encourages excessive provision of goods and services by states and localities over the private sector).
So if we want to get rid of the AMT, let's combine it with eliminating the state and local tax deduction. That would be, I believe, approximately revenue neutral. I understand that this proposal would not fulfill the political goal of rewarding blue-state voters, so I am not holding my breath expecting it to happen. But I am enough of an optimistic to believe that if a change promotes both equity and efficiency, there is at least a chance it might become policy. | 2019-04-20T10:11:36 | http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/11/amt-reform.html |
0.998257 | The experimental objectives were to verify whether a qualitative measure of creep feed consumption using a dye was related to performance, and associate this with teat order. Indigo carmine (5g/kg) was added to a starter diet between days 12 and 31 (weaning) of lactation. On days 19, 23, 27 and 31, faeces from each piglet were assessed for colouration. Each piglet was categorized as a 'good', 'moderate' or 'small/non' eater of feed. There were no differences in pre-weaning growth rate between categories. Piglets classed as 'good' or 'moderate' eaters in lactation grew fastest (p=0.009) in the first three days after weaning, but between days 4 and 7, the highest growth rate occurred in 'moderate' eaters. 'Small/non' eaters grew slower (p0.01) between weaning and 28 days after weaning. Piglets drinking milk from anterior teats were heavier at weaning (p0.001) and for the first 14 days after weaning (p=0.104) compared to piglets sucking posterior teats. Data from this study demonstrated that creep feed intake of piglets could qualitatively be assessed using indigo carmine, and that this categorization was related to performance in the immediate post-weaning period. | 2019-04-18T14:16:17 | https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/2711/ |
0.997259 | From left, Clifford Lewis (Brandon Balque), Louise Brown (Rachael Logue), and Bill Bernbach (Rutherford Cravens) in Main Street Theater's "Daisy."
It may be the most powerful political ad yet to explode - literally - on American television screens: a black and white image of a little girl pulling petals off a daisy. Her child's halting voice counts the petals, and as she nears the last one a disembodied machine-like voice is heard counting down from 10. The camera zooms in on the child's eye. She looks to the sky for just a hint of a second before a mushroom cloud blasts through the speakers and swamps the screen. It's 1964, and Lyndon Johnson is telling America his opponent Barry Goldwater cannot be trusted with the nuclear trigger; Goldwater will atomize all the little girls with flowers.
This is history, but it's also the powerfully intriguing backdrop for "Daisy," by Sean Divine, currently being staged by Main Street Theater. And though it makes the case that this ad that ran only once on network TV marks the moment when American politics pivoted in the direction of the grenade "facts" that are today launched hourly on a multitude of platforms from television to Twitter, this drama is less interested in historical recreation and speculation than in the timeless problem of shifting ethics.
"I don't know if what we're doing is right," Louise Brown, one of the ad creators tells her boss late in the play. "That hasn't stopped you from being good at it," he responds. And that's the basic crux: do we do what we do because of the merits of the act or because we can we can do it well?
The best device of Devine's script is the rich array of characters linked by the ad's creation-individuals with different motivations and drives. They range from the nerdy Aaron Ehrlich (Aaron Echegaray) who makes up for what he lacks in personal sensitivity with exaggerated anxieties, self-doubts, and physical quirks to Clifford Lewis (Brandon C. Balque), a young African American aid to LBJ who liaisons with the ad agency from his office in the White House basement and suppresses his concern about racial injustice to focus on crushing Goldwater and getting Johnson a mandate. Both actors - especially Echegaray - give their characters a presence on stage that is palpable-touching at times, comic at others. Aided by solid performances from Rutherford Cravens as the ad agency head and Rhett Martinez as the pragmatic, self-protecting team manager, they define a recognizable, if high stakes, workplace that somehow meshes to produce results.
But it is the characters of Louise Brown (Rachael Logue) and Tony Schwartz (Jonathan Minchew-Gonzalez) that create the major ballast in this show and create its most powerful tension. Louise is the ultimate professional-an attractive woman in the world of 1960s advertising who has worked her way through talent and ambition to a top position in a firm prestigious enough to attract a presidential client. She resists the full-on assault mode that the White House desires in its ads, and struggles with the swerve from a full-throated promotion of her candidate's ideas and record to manipulating the public's fears. And it is Louise who worries about defining a vote for Johnson as a vote for peace at the very moment the president is expanding bombing in Vietnam in the wake of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
If she seems a traditional angst-ridden dramatic character, her counterweight, Tony Schwartz, is not. An agoraphobic who struggles leaving his house, Tony collects sounds and creates images that say nothing by themselves but nudge the audience's thoughts and feelings into action. As he explains to the professional ad makers, "We don't need to make people afraid! They're already afraid!... The message is already there!" In abstract but strangely powerful monologues that open and close the show, Tony reveals himself as the theorist of a new wave of psychological advertising-a physically unattractive visionary who longs for recognition and sees that "the vastness of human consciousness is a bottomless well that we as communicators can draw from."
As played by Logue and Minchew-Gonzalez, the differences between these two slowly but clearly become the yin and yang of the play. With each performance unrelentingly energized and steering in different directions, audiences are left, like citizens in the voting booth, unsure which lever to pull, which vision to accept, side with, or even see as normal and humane.
Troy Scheid's direction of such complex material initially may seem slow, but it builds a firm if subtle foundation of contrasts that pays off as the play develops. Moreover, he has done an excellent job of blending the live action with historical footage that plays on the theater's four walls. It would be easy to wish the scenes were less choppy or that Jodi Bobrovsky's set design involved less motion and relied instead on a minimum of different pieces. But these are quibbles around the edges. In the end, this production creates a living, breathing world-a backstage look at the evolution of the political process that bombards us today.
Some may find the play too pointedly topical, too tied to current political realities, but I would argue that any such response is, to echo Tony Schwartz, the work of the play's images interacting with subconscious thoughts and fears. Neither the script nor the production refers to the world of Trump and Pelosi, CNN and Fox, but it plants the seeds our imaginations will make flourish. In that sense, "Daisy" succeeds in itself mirroring the ad it is based on. In doing so it does the service of making all who see it and ponder it more aware of the meanings behind the endlessly exploding noise and debris that is the body politic.
"Daisy" runs at Houston's Main Street Theater in Rice Village through April 29.
Robert Donahoo is a professor at Sam Houston State University and writes theater reviews for The Ticket. | 2019-04-19T21:08:12 | https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/events/article/MST-s-Daisy-succeeds-in-mirroring-the-ad-it-is-12819260.php |
0.999999 | Find the total number of students, first.
"In the sample, there are 4 more students with brown hair and blue eyes, than blonde hair and blue eyes."
There are 80 total students. | 2019-04-20T11:16:10 | https://www.algebrahouse.com/algebra-1-state-test-practice/relative-frequency |
0.999999 | THE death of Kim Il Sung, for 46 years the Communist dictator of North Korea, came just as he seemed poised to bring his country in from the cold.
In the past few weeks the aging autocrat, the object of one of the most pervasive personality cults in modern times, appeared ready to end his country's long isolation.
After Kim's meeting with former President Carter last month, there was reason to believe that the international standoff over his country's alleged nuclear-weapons program might be resolved through negotiation instead of confrontation. Kim had agreed to meet his South Korean counterpart President Kim Young Sam on July 25, an event that promised significant progress toward the unification of two countries bitterly divided by the cold war.
But skeptics have always insisted that the North Korean dictator was not to be trusted. They warned that he was just playing for time, and that what seemed like concessions were really gambits designed to fool the West.
Suddenly Kim is gone and the optimism that had begun to take root in Seoul, Tokyo, and Washington has once again turned to uncertainty.
The disappointment is particularly acute in the South Korean capital. President Kim walked out of a luncheon meeting when he was informed of his northern counterpart's death. Analysts here say he had good reason to be upset, since the planned summit seemed to be an opportunity for a diplomatic breakthrough.
Now the question is: what next? The official announcement of Kim's death, released by North Korean authorities on Saturday, indicated that his son and heir-designate, Kim Jong Il, would indeed take over. Yesterday the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) broadcast words of praise for the younger Kim from senior government and military figures, quelling suspicions that a power struggle might be taking place in the North. Those doubts arose immediately, since the moderate steps the elder Kim took during Mr. Carter's visit were thought to be controversial among hard-line communists.
One observer in Seoul, a former South Korean government official who would not speak for attribution wondered yesterday why Kim Jong Il had not yet been seen in public. ``In our society, in any other society,'' the former official says, ``he would be seen paying tribute to his father. But nothing of this is coming through.'' Adding to the mystery was the northern announcement that the planned funeral service, set for July 17, would be closed to foreign visitors.
Also puzzling, the former official says, was the KCNA's release of a detailed explanation of the cause of Kim's death. Koreans rarely conduct post-mortem examinations, because of a belief in the uncleanliness of the dead. ``That communique, depending on how you look at it, suggests they must have felt a need to explain why they did the autopsy,'' he adds. ``It's a little self-conscious,'' he concludes, as if the North Koreans were trying too hard to convince the world that Kim Il Sung had died a natural death.
Although Kim Il Sung assiduously, and sometimes brutally, rid North Korea of any dissent during his reign, analysts argue that the North's government has become factionalized in recent years. A hard-line group, which some speculate is led by Kim Jong Il, is thought to be behind the alleged nuclear-weapons program. This faction may have found what Kim promised Carter - a freeze in the nuclear program, a resumption of dialogue with the US, and an offer to meet the South Korean leader - untenable.
UT equally baffling are reports in the South Korean press citing an anonymous Hong Kong source who claims to be in touch with North Korean officials who say that the North wants to pursue the planned summit. This tidbit of information - and tidbits are the coin of the realm in analyzing North Korea - suggests that Kim died of natural causes and that the momentum for moderation and opening may not be lost.
The North's isolation has put the country on the verge of economic collapse, according to reports from northern defectors, and opening the country to international aid and trade is probably the only way to forestall that end. Furthermore, Dr. Kil and other experts say, the younger Kim lacks the charisma and standing his father had, and is therefore less able to force his people to accept deprivation.
``He will follow his father's gestures in relation to Washington,'' Kil concludes. He says the US, Japanese, and South Korean governments, more than ever before, must show the new North Korean regime what it has to gain by opening the country.
But no one here has a firm grasp on what kind of leader Kim Jong Il is likely to be. Although he was named to lead the country's armed forces in 1990, he strikes observers as reclusive and occasionally bizarre. Foreign visitors have seldom been granted interviews with him, and at various times in his life he seems to have concentrated mainly on cinema and architecture.
One school argues that Kim ``is unpredictable and very inferior to his father''; the other says ``He has been quite reasonable and is a member of a more moderate group,'' Mr. Cho notes.
Although the dynastic transition from father to son seems to be proceeding, the lack of any real knowledge about Kim Jong Il means anything is possible.
North Korea is poised ``to tilt either way,'' Cho says. | 2019-04-18T13:11:26 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0711/11011.html |
0.999999 | Is there ex parte reexamination statistics narrowed to software patents only?
uspto.gov publish statistics quarterly, but the numbers are averaged from all industries and fields. I am trying to figure out whats chances a software patent had in 2011/2012 to go through a ex parte reexamination and come out with all its claims intact. Looking at reexamination certificates issued for 2011/09/30 -> 2012/09/30 as published by USPTO, I can see that about 12% of the certifications had all their claimed confirmed during that time frame, however, is that number the same for software patents specifically?
One big problem with such a question is that there is no such thing as "software patents". Software itself is not patentable, it is what the software does or is used to do -- the method -- that is patented. Software may be used to implement the whole invention (many data processing patents) or only one component of the invention (e.g. Diehr.) Many would not even consider Diehr to be a software patent, despite it being considered part of the "patent eligibility trilogy".
There are a number of categories and sub-categories ("art units") that patents are classified as, and you could try to carve out "software patents" based on some of the relevant categories, but that is still not going to be a very rough way of doing so. This is because art units are organized based on the field the invention relates to, rather than how the invention is implemented. Software simply happens to be how inventions could be implemented. As a very inaccurate example, a "security/authentication" art unit could encompass software methods such as the RSA algorithm as well as hardware solutions such as RSA tokens.
As an aside, one of the biggest shortcomings of many early research papers that try to analyze software patents (especially from authors such as Bessen, etc.) is that they are based on very inaccurate classification methods, such as PTO and EPO classifications. As such any conclusions are far from reliable.
So you can guess why the PTO won't even attempt to try to provide such statistics for "software patents": nobody, least of all the Supreme Court, seems to be able to concretely define what a non-abstract software patent is.
It's not that simple. The statistics only account for three situations.
At least one claim amended.
There are no statistics for at least one claim surviving,but in my experience it would be about 50%. Software claims don't get any special treatment.
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How to determine eligibility for software patents?
Is there any online database that provides the firm level patent statistics for research purposes? | 2019-04-25T08:36:34 | https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/3839/is-there-ex-parte-reexamination-statistics-narrowed-to-software-patents-only/3863 |
0.999999 | J'ai vu Coronio et je lui ai dit que tu lui fait son bouquet avec le melon il en est très content - Quant aux Syndics pour Haden - ma foi je ne sais pas trop - je ne crois guere que ca te rapporte beaucoup - tu ne pourrais pas aller a ce moment à Amsterdam car l'endroit doit être rempli de fievres, en attendant nous pourrions en causer lorsque tu viennes - Il a la tête tournée avec ses publications - Enfin taches de finir les Noces - pour Dilberoglou (aupres qui je ferai ta commission dès que je le vois) et alors viens - si tu restes à Sunbury pour à peu pres un mois je pourrais peutêtre m'en retourner avec toi à Paris - Legros je vois presque jamais - je commence à trouver qu'il ne reste presque plus de mon ancien interet en lui - il est peutetre encore un peu drole comme autrefois, mais je crois c'est [p. 2] rare, ces inspirations du bon temps En revanche on dit qu'il attend un enfant! O Ricord! - Pour notre Exposition tu dois suposer combien ca me va! tu sais que j'ai toujours eu une tendance vers ce but - mais je crois que nous avons bien fait de ne pas l'avoir tenté plus tot.
I saw Coronio and told him that you are doing his bouquet with the melon he is very pleased - As for the Syndics for Haden - well I just don't know - I really cannot think that it will bring you in very much - you could not go to Amsterdam at the moment as the place is apparently full of fevers, in the meantime we could talk about it when you come - His head has been turned by his publications - Anyway try to finish the Wedding - for Dilberoglou (with whom I shall carry out your commission as soon as I see him) and then come - if you stay at Sunbury for about a month I could perhaps return to Paris with you - I scarcely ever see Legros - I am beginning to think that there is nothing left of my former interest in him - he is still perhaps quite droll as he used to be, but I think [p. 2] these sentiments from the good old days are rare On the other hand he is apparently expecting a child! O Ricord! - You can imagine how much that suits me for our Exhibition! You know that I have always had a tendency in that direction - but I think we have done well not to have attempted it earlier.
Despite an unknown hand giving the date as '1866', several references in the letter appear to relate to events of 1865 (see below). The letter was evidently begun, however, some time before 16 August.
Theodore Ioannis ('John') Coronio (1827-1903), collector, husband of Aglaia Ionides [more], and Aglaia Coronio (1834-1906), née Ionides, wife of George Coronio [more], were regular patrons of Fantin-Latour.
Coronio commissioned and bought H. Fantin-Latour, Asters de Chine et Fruits (FL.277) (z114) (private collection, F.277 as 'Fleurs et fruits') in 1865 (see Druick, Douglas and Michel Hoog, Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1982, cat. no. 32).
Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, The Syndics of the Cloth-Makers' Guild, 1662, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (z115). Fantin-Latour did not copy this for Haden (Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), surgeon and etcher, JW's brother-in-law [more]).
H. Fantin-Latour, Copy after The Wedding at Cana, by Paolo Veronese, 1865 (FL.263) (z110); one of several copies by Fantin-Latour after Veronese's work, painted in 1563.
Elizabeth Ruth Edwards (ca 1833 - d.1907), née Enscombe, wife of Edwin Edwards [more]. They lived at Sunbury, on the Thames.
Perhaps a reference to Philippe Ricord (1800-1889), French surgeon, who specialised in venereal diseases.
Major horse race at Epsom.
A. Legros, Le retour du Fils prodigue (z116) was exhibited by Legros at the French Gallery, London, in the winter of 1865 (cat. no. 64) and bought by Edward Buchanan Cassatt (1869-1922), son of Lois and A. J. Cassatt [more]. It has not been located. There is an etching by Legros (B.66), of the same title and possibly the same composition, and the subject was one that Legros returned to in later years (see Wilcox, Timothy John, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911): Aspects of his Life and Work, [n.p.], 1981, cat. no. 36).
The model in the etching is actually quite young; JW might be being ironic.
Sketch of 'Symphony in White No. 3' (M.323). The oil painting, Symphony in White, No. 3 (YMSM 61) was completed with minor modifications to composition and colour. The carpet was reduced to a blue grey, the azaleas on the right became white, with only a spray of purple flowers.
This consists of two straight lines showing the angles of arm and sofa.
JW had posed in Paris for two 'reunions' by Fantin: H. Fantin-Latour, Hommage à Eugène Delacroix (FL.227) (z100) ( Musée du Louvre), and H. Fantin-Latour, Hommage à la Verité: Le Toast (FL.271) (z111), exhibited at the Salon in 1864 and 1865 respectively (see Druick, Douglas and Michel Hoog, Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1982, pp. 165-190 and repr. p. 173).
The three models are Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), painter [more]; Joanna Hiffernan (b. ca 1843), JW's model and mistress [more], who stood for Symphony in White, No. I: The White Girl (YMSM 38); and probably Emelie ('Milly') Eyre Jones (b. ca 1851), model, later wife of F. H. Robson [more]. Fantin-Latour did not appear in the completed picture, Whistler in his Studio (YMSM 63).
Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878), landscape painter and printmaker [more]; Alfred Cadart (1828-1875), dealer and print publisher [more].
Léon Bonvin (1834-1866), watercolourist, half-brother of F. Bonvin [more] (see below). This text is written to left of a rectangular space, left clear so that the writing does not obscure the sketch on the recto. The watercolour bought by JW has not been identified.
François Bonvin (1817-1887), painter and etcher [more].
'finir ... encore' is written to right of the same rectangular space. | 2019-04-18T22:28:14 | https://whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/subject/display/?cid=11477&indexid=140&rs=1 |
0.999757 | What's not running: Market-Frankford Line, Broad Street Line, city buses (letters and numbers lower than 90), trolleys.
The issues that stalled negotiations: Health care, pension caps, breaks between routes and shifts. Both sides were slated to meet again Tuesday afternoon.
City government and schools are operating normally amid the strike.
Many people are driving because they can't take public transit, leading to big traffic jams.
Despite last minute negotiations and a visit from Democratic heavy-hitter Congressman Bob Brady, 4,738 SEPTA workers walked off the job Monday night, beginning a strike that halted subways, trolleys and buses in Philadelphia.
"We are not able to come to an agreement with SEPTA so as of 12:01 a.m. we're on strike," said Willie Brown, president of Transportation Workers Union Local 234, which represents almost 5,000 SEPTA workers who are hitting the picket lines Tuesday morning.
Bus drivers running overnight routes completed their routes and dropped off their remaining passengers, and then returned their buses to the depot and walked off the job.
Brown didn't offer a prediction on how long the strike would last.
Both TWU and SEPTA kept talking after the midnight deadline passed, but no resolution had been reached as commuters began heading to work Tuesday.
Fare payers make 800,000 to 850,000 trips on SEPTA subway trains, buses and trolleys in Philadelphia daily.
While the two parties still have a week to resolve their differences, a closely contested presidential campaign looms on Nov. 8 and the region is expected to be critical for both candidates. SEPTA would seek an injunction from U.S. District Court to force striking workers back to their jobs for Election Day if the strike threatened to overlap with the election.
The possibility of a strike stretching to Election Day has prompted concern from Hillary Clinton's campaign, said Brady during a visit shortly after 7 p.m. to the Sheraton at 17th and Race streets, where negotiations were held.
"Hillary Clinton's guy, Corey Dukes (director of the candidate's Pennsylvania campaign), had a little concern," Brady said.
The Philadelphia Board of Commissioners, which oversees elections in the city, said in 2009 a TWU strike overlapped with an election and didn't hurt turnout, but that was not an election where a president was being chosen.
"It's gonna hurt," Brady said on the possibility of the strike extending to Election Day. "It'll hurt."
SEPTA and Transportation Workers Union Local 234 were unable to resolve a host of issues by the midnight deadline when the union's contract expired. Union workers were unwilling to accept the possibility of health care hikes that could have boosted their contribution from $552 a year to up to $6,000 if they wanted to keep equivalent medical coverage, union representatives said. They also were unhappy about a pension cap at $50,000 for workers while managers' pensions had no cap at all. Matters not related to dollars and cents were also in dispute. TWU members said SEPTA's break policies for vehicle operators barely left them enough time to use the bathroom between routes, and complained the nine hours of down time a worker must receive between shifts was not enough, forcing operators to drive vehicles while fatigued.
In the last hour before the union contract expired representatives from both sides presented radically different descriptions of negotiations. SEPTA personnel described the talks as "moving in the right direction," while a union spokesman said the exact opposite. Minutes after the strike began Governor Tom Wolf issued a statement urging the two to keep talking.
"...the inability of TWU and SEPTA to reach an agreement is devastating for many of these individuals and their families," Wolf said.
When asked about the hundreds of thousands who will be inconveniened by the strike, Brown, the union president, said, "I'm sorry."
"It's the only tool we have available to us," he said. | 2019-04-23T06:47:14 | https://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/in-transit/SEPTA-strike-begins.html |
0.995758 | What will be the technology behind the Antichrist's image given the appearance of life?
Brian Thomas: When we talk about the Antichrist and the Tribulation and his one-world system of government, do you think that robotics or holograms will play a part or role in it at all? Of course, we can't be certain, but could you see some of that technology being used by the Antichrist and the False Prophet?
Nathan Jones: Oh, certainly. The Antichrist will have the entire world under his power, and that means he has control of the technology of that era.
We can read in Revelation 13:13-15 what the False Prophet does next: "He will perform great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven in full view of men. Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, the Antichrist, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast that was wounded by the sword but yet lives. He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast so that they could see and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed."
This story is very familiar to the story in Daniel about Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was given the prophecy about him being a great head of gold, and it went literally to his head. Nebuchadnezzar decided to make a great statue of himself and he told the people to worship it. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to worship it. I don't know where Daniel was at the time, but his friends were to be killed for refusing to worship the image. The three were thrown into the fiery furnace, but God saved them.
History will repeat itself again with the Antichrist, and the people living during the Tribulation will witness it. The Antichrist will have the False Prophet create an image of him that people can worship. The False Prophet is a deceiver and Satan is a deceiver, so they do not have the ability to create life. The ability to create is in God's hands alone. They can manipulate and they can pervert, but they cannot create. So, this image which seems to be alive is just that — it seems to be alive, but it's not really alive. And so, there has to be a technological way the Antichrist can create a living image, and there are a few technologies out there that fit the bill.
As for the fire falling down and supposed miracles like that generated by the False Prophecy, well any pyrotechnic expert could make that happen. There is a possibility that the fire from heaven killing people could be laser satellite technology. There are satellites up there from the U.S. military, though I'm no expert on this, but I've read a number of articles, where the military has claimed to be working on laser weapons stationed in outer space. Why shoot a missile when you can just burn them directly with a laser. Maybe that's the case, though I don't know for sure.
There is a lot of talk about the "living" image of the Antichrist being a robot. Robotics have excelled incredibly, especially in Japan. The Japanese even use robots as dance instructors. Crazy enough, some guys are using them as surrogate wives. I guess so you can turn your wife off? I don't know, but I won't go there!
I tend to think that the image of the Antichrist would best be suited as a hologram. Recently, holographic technology has made huge advances in looking realistic. For example, on YouTube I saw Hatsune Miku. She's a Japanese 3D hologram with a vocaloid processor. She in appearances is supposed to be a sixteen year old girl. She actually looks like she's there live on the real stage. She's been given a bluish hue as that goes with her manga look, but her creators could make her look totally human if they wanted to.
Just think, I don't know if artificial intelligence will develop enough by then, but if that type of computer is given an interactive program which interacts with people, and there are programs like that, that could give the hologram a whole personality. Imagine how it could interact with people. It could be any size you want, so many people could worship it all at the same time.
And so, for me, I believe holograms seem to be the best bet as to the technology behind the Antichrist's image. But, again, I don't know as the Bible doesn't outright tell us. People ask, "Couldn't it be purely satanic?" It well could be. It may be both, and I don't know if this is possible, but maybe a demon could posses a hologram or a robot? The liveliness could be demonic in origin and that's its source of life, so I won't discount that. But, if we're talking technology, then robotics or holograms are probably the best bet in making an image appear alive.
Brian Thomas: I recently saw Britain's Prime Minister using holographic technology. He was shown as a hologram, and it was very difficult to tell that it was a hologram and not himself there. Then there's Pastor Ed Young who actually preached a service and has several campuses, and at one of the sites they had him there by hologram. His staff didn't tell their people that was the case, and most of the congregation said afterwards when it was revealed to them it wasn't him but a hologram, said they couldn't tell.
The amazing technology that we have today as we go further along I think is going to improve more and more by the Antichrist's time. I can how very well technology will be a means by which the Antichrist will deceive the world into thinking that he has been killed and resurrected. I agree with you in that I don't think that the Devil has the power to make life or bring life back from the dead. Only God has the power to do so. So, the deception could well be a hologram along with other forms of technology. I wouldn't be surprised at all if holograms played into it.
I've never heard the theory you gave about the pyrotechnics with the False Prophet calling down fire. But, yes, I can really see that happening as well.
In the sixth part of this series on the biblical signs of technology which prove we're near to Jesus' return, we'll look at the Bible's next tech sign — the Sign of Population.
Yesterday I said "I speculate the mark will be the determinate as to whether or not you can conduct a transaction. This could even be a non-financial transaction like trading something, not necessarily money, for food."
Another reason I think this is because if you're going to have all these wars, perhaps even with nuclear weapons, then there HAVE to be places on the Earth that have been technologically damanged. Therefore a mark with electronic or scanning capability whould be useless. But the physical presence visually of the mark would still be able to fulfill the purpose of the mark.
Let's take a closer look at this matter like the Bereans.
The Mark of the Beast is not a micro-chip, it's rather a dogma or pratice that a person can perform or belive... If it were a micro-chip it could be avoided by simply refusing to accept it... Can the Earth's approximately 7 Bilion people be micro-chipped?
"Sunday is our mark of authority...The [catholic] Church is above the Bible, and this transference of the Sabbath observance is proof of that fact."
What is God's mark or sign?
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the class="small-caps" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord that sanctify them.
THE 7TH DAY SABBATH IS HIS MARK, HIS SIGN!
This is of utmost importance so that no one is decieved as Jesus expressly warned us in Matthew 24.
What is God's mark or sign? Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Arsenio, 7th Day Adventist misinterpretation! One can't wear the Sabbath on one's hand or forehead. The Antichrist's Mark is a literal physical mark one wears, not an obsession about what day to worship God in this age of Grace.
Nathan- the 7th day Adventists argue that the mark being " in the right hand and in the forehead" is a reference to doing work( labor is often associated with the right hand in the Bible) and worship( the forehead/mind). Although it could make sense, their belief falls to pieces when one realizes that this "mark" will be forced on the whole world! And I say forced because I believe it will be the VeriChip and it may be a " receive the mark or be executed " type of deal. Or it will be very difficult to survive in that apocalyptic scenario without the mark, I.e. cannot buy, sell or trade anything without it. Many who refuse the mark will either be killed or have to flee to the wilderness and try to survive off the grid. I don't disagree with the Adventists about the Sabbath, however. It is well- known that the true Sabbath is from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, and no matter what the Catholic Church claims, Jesus never commanded us to change it. Shalom and God Bless. | 2019-04-24T05:53:02 | http://www.lamblion.us/2013/02/amplified-on-battlefront-sign-of-image.html |
0.999519 | How Do Transistors Work As Inverters?
Electric current comes in two types: AC and DC. AC, or alternating current, switches rapidly from positive to negative and back again. It is used in power lines to transport electricity across large distances. DC, or direct current, power continuously flows in the same direction. DC power supplies provide power either straight from DC sources or else from AC sources that have been converted to DC.
Batteries are a common source of DC power.
A battery power supply is the simplest way of providing DC power. Batteries have chemical energy stored inside.
When they are connected in a circuit, that chemical energy is converted into electrical energy, which powers the circuit. Batteries are all rated at a certain voltage, a measure of the amount of pressure the electricity creates in the circuit.
They are also limited in the amount of amperage -- basically, the speed at which electricity can flow out of the battery -- that they can provide. Multiple batteries are wired in series to increase the voltage or in parallel to increase the amperage and the total lifespan of the battery pack.
Series batteries are wired so that the negative terminal of one battery is wired to the positive terminal of the next in a line, whereas in a parallel circuit, all the positive battery terminals are wired together and all the negative terminals are wired together. For example, if 4 15 volt AA batteries are wired in series, they will produce 6 volts (15 x 4).
If they are wired in parallel, they will be able to produce 4 times the amperage, or last for 4 times as long producing their normal amperage.
Many electronic devices need DC power, but the electricity in power lines is AC. A rectifier circuit converts AC power directly to DC.
A rectifier begins with a transformer. The electricity flows through a coil that is right beside a second coil of wire and an iron element called the core.
The second coil of wire sometimes has fewer turns than the first coil, creating a step-down circuit: the voltage that comes out of the transformer is lower than the voltage that comes in. If the secondary coil has more turns, it steps up or increases the voltage.
The output then goes through an electronic one-way valve called a diode. In a half-wave rectifier, electricity is only allowed to flow through the diode during the positive half of the AC wave.
During the negative half, the diode closes. In a full wave rectifier, electricity is allowed to flow down a positive output during the positive half of the AC wave and down a negative output during the negative half of the wave.
This creates two streams of electricity, one positive and the other negative. Initially, the electricity is very "bumpy" because it comes straight from an AC circuit.
Other circuitry in the rectifier smooths it out to get continuous DC power.
Many DC power supplies combine both batteries and rectifier circuits. For example, a computer power supply has a sophisticated rectifier in the power brick that takes AC current from the wall and converts it to very smooth DC voltage for the computer.
This DC voltage charges up the laptop battery and powers the laptop. When the laptop is unplugged, it automatically switches to battery power until it is plugged in again.
Similarly, the alternator in a car is a generator that produces AC power. This power is converted to DC and used to power the car's ignition, spark plugs, radio, air conditioning and other electronic systems, and to charge the car battery.
The car battery, in turn, powers the starter motor and other systems when the engine is off, using the stored power produced by the alternator.
Why Do My Lights Dim When the Neighbor's Air Conditioner Goes On?
What Causes a Power Transformer to Hum? | 2019-04-18T12:57:10 | https://homesteady.com/list-7211764-types-dc-power-supply.html |
0.999953 | Okay, I read that you should not give an NDA to your lawyer to sign, and I am not going to argue that. Assuming that it is a valid point, in my case I am going to interview a few lawyers to see who is a better fit to hire, and I am going to work with only one of them. In that case, because I don't go with the rest of the lawyers they are not going to have attorney-client contract, and so are those lawyers not bound to lawyer-client rules, and therefore can disclose my idea? If the answer is yes, then I need to give all an NDA to sign.
No, attorney confidentiality is not dependent upon a written contract with the attorney, it is part of the attorneys ethical obligation.
You phrased your question as a statement...but I know what you are asking.
The answer (to the properly phrased question) would be "no". The attorney cannot disclose items that are discussed even if you don't hire them. Had you read the (now removed) article that you linked to, you'd have reached the same conclusion.
Attorney confidentiality should protect all that you disclose to the attorneys you consult. You should not be concerned.
Okay then. Everyone says that I do not need an NDA. Okay, so because I called the lawyer to make the interview meeting in (not emailed to have a proof that I am seeing him) in coffee shop, I may have to put it in writing as well in case I do not hire him.
Did you not read your own link and all the responses?
No. The attorney is bound by attorney-client privilege even if you do not hire the attorney. With or without a contract, there is confidentiality.
I would even add that you might offend some lawyers putting anything like that in writing. Their ethical standards are important to them. They might choose not to work with you if they believe you are questioning their ethics.
Not really. I can't believe any attorney would be offended by a potential client's request to have a confidentiality agreement signed.
Most people do not understand that attorney-client privilege extends to conversations with an attorney about a legal matter even if there is no contract. An attorney would have no issue explaining this to someone.
You have your personal opinion, I have mine.
Is your opinion based on anything? I doubt it.
Its based on my experience, just as your opinion is based on your experience. Do not try to claim that you have more experience than anyone else does.
I don't know any attorney who would be offended by a clueless potential client wanting a confidentiality agreement signed.
The (now deleted) link the OP posted was an article written by an attorney addressing the matter. In essence, it stated that an NDA was not required and suggested that attorneys should avoid signing them. | 2019-04-25T22:52:04 | https://forum.freeadvice.com/threads/giving-nda-during-the-interview-with-lawyer.652371/ |
0.998587 | Business website is where your business resides -- it's like an online identity of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible. In UK, more than 25% people shop online or use internet before doing buying any product or service. Now, Increased of use of Internet, people does more online shopping or takes suggestion from it. Make sure, business websites should have clear directions on the navigation. Navigation menu and all section of website should be uncluttered and concise, so visitor can reach their desire page without confusion and can navigate website easily. Web design and graphic design of website should be unique and bright. Here is little suggestion to have corporate website, do not add unnecessary images and content in website, which make website load slowly. Keep text paragraph at reasonable length. If paragraph is too long, it should split it into separate paragraphs. Unique and compact content attract visitor. Web design and Graphic design plays major role in website. By good and unique web design, you can give unique look to websites. By good web design, check make sure, website support all browser and compiles web standards, which attract more visitor to website. You may wonder where graphic design is playing role. Graphic design for your company logo, use of appropriate graphical icon for your website can increase viewership and retain interest of the visitors. Make sure format of graphic design of website according to your requirement like E-commerce websites and content management website, single brochure sites. Web design and graphic design should be Search engine optimisation (SEO) friendly. Search engine friendly websites give organic traffic to website. All of the time selects expert and experienced web design and graphic design company for your website. There are many companies for web design Glasgow and graphic design Glasgow. For selecting expert web design Glasgow and graphic design Glasgow, need to check out many important issue. Always check Graphic design Glasgow Company's portfolio, customers and their former work. Also check web design Glasgow functionality they offer like CMS, e-commerce etc. Also check how they give suggestion of Web design Glasgow or Graphic design Glasgow. They should give all unique and bright idea of web design and graphic design. Web design Glasgow and Graphic Glasgow package are also most crucial. Always compare package with other firm. Check services and support of web design Glasgow also. All these are most important issue to hire any web design or graphic company. By choosing Graphic design Glasgow or web design Glasgow local company, you would get better services and facility also. | 2019-04-23T14:45:08 | http://chainarticles.com/Internet/271-Web-design-Glasgow-capture-local-market-with-business-website.html |
0.998519 | Matt.8:27, Mk.4:41, and Lk.8:25 contain the words " What manner of man is this "? This person that they were looking at had just performed a very notable miracle when He by His own power stilled a raging storm by a verbal command. In the sudden quietness they were gripped with fear. Matt.8:27 says they " marvelled " or wondered what just happened. They were not sure what was going on. Because of this Mk.4:41 says they " feared exceedingly ". Here they were terrified because what just happened was not normal. It was spooky. Lk.8:25 says they were "afraid". Here the greek word "phobeo" is the same word we get our english word phobia from.
As they searched for some way to figure this out they realized that there was no explanation and began to wonder, not WHO was this man but rather what kind of a man is this. They had no doubt been familiar with the miracles of Moses, Elijah, Elisha etc and they knew they were done by direction of God. But here was a man who commanded the storm to cease by His own command and the disciples rightly became seized with fear and wondered. Jesus said, " If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin..." - Jn.15:24.
So just who, and what manner of man was Jesus anyway. As Jesus asked His disciples, "Whom do men [others] say that I...am?" And followed up with the question, "But whom say YE that I am?" This is an important question which demands the right answer. For in answering this question there is no margin for error! | 2019-04-20T22:56:06 | http://thywordistruth.org/deity.htm |
0.999999 | Update! This task is now published. Here's a link.
For each set of shapes, write down whether you think they are the same or not the same, and explain why you think so.
Each group was given a printout of the six set of shapes. (I printed one set per half-sheet, and chopped them into 6 half-sheets before class.) Tools provided for their use (in small bins casually opened on each table without explanation of how they were supposed to use them) were patty paper and scissors.
The mathematical purpose of the task was to begin to develop a definition of "congruent" based on transformations. That a figure is congruent to another if every point on it can be matched up with every point on the other through a series of reflections, translations, and rotations.
One group: "We said set C is not the same because you have to flip it."
Other group: "Wait a minute, we said set C is the same because we thought flipping was okay."
Yet another group: "So which is it? We said they are the same."
Me: "... ... ... because... ?"
Other news: my poker face is amazing.
To bring it all together, I wrote on the board "Our definition of the same" and wrote down all the things they hashed out that were okay and not okay. There was disagreement. Some particularly spirited disagreement over sets B (the lightning bolts) and D (the four equilateral triangles... or is it really only two figures?), in particular. If you saw my tweet about the kid thinking like a topologist, he had a passionate defense of his assertion that set B was the same. This was a 100-minute block period, so we had the luxury of letting the discussion happen.
Then I said, okay, so here's a little secret: what we think of as mathematics is just the result of what everyone has agreed on. We could take our definition of "the same" and run with it. In geometry there's a special word "congruent" where specific things, that everyone agrees to like a secret pact, are okay and not okay. Then, I erased "the same" and replaced it with "congruent," and made any adjustments to the definition to make it correct. They had heard the word congruent before, and had the perfectly reasonable middle school understanding that congruent means "same size and shape." I said that that was great in middle school, but in high school geometry we're going to be more precise and formal in our language.
Next up: how to describe transformations precisely.
Day 1 was not so bad. I like to minimally wah wah wah about the syllabus, because they won't remember anything until the information matters, so we all did some math today.
Unit 1 is series and sequences so we went in hot with Eating Grapes.
Friday she had eaten 100 grapes in all.
I read the problem as a story out loud, and asked them to tell me a few things they heard. Then I displayed the text and asked them to read silently, looking for anything that was different from what they remembered. I only showed the scenario, not the question, so next they independently wrote down anything they wondered. We got some fun wonderings like, "Does Angela have an official diagnosis of OCD, or... I mean, Miss Nowak, who counts grapes?" but focusing on questions we have the power to explore mathematically, quickly settled on "How many grapes did she eat on Monday?" They had five minutes of silent individual think time, though some couldn't help themselves from discussing with their groups and I didn't really enforce silence. Then their groups (of 3 or 4) were charged with reaching consensus on a solution and writing it on chart paper so everyone could see. (Not just the answer! Make your thinking visible! I want to see how you arrived at your answer! What was the thought process? No more than half your solution should be numbers! etc etc).
Where I struggle is, books like 5 Practices, and the anticipated answers given by Math Forum, kind of assume every group is going to do it correctly, just in a different way, and the teacher's job is to sequence the different solutions appropriately. I have seen little guidance on how to provide minimally-invasive help to students who have misunderstood something about the problem, but don't realize that their answer is wrong.
They were sure they were right because 16 works in their equation, but they weren't checking if 16+22+28+34+40 added up to 100. What I did was, encourage them to use common sense and see if starting with 16 would get her to 100 grapes by the end of the week. What I should have done, I think, was interrogate them about where the 4 and the 6 came from. As a result, they fell back to guess and check, but for some reason only added up four days, because "we don't know how many she ate on Monday." They said the answer was 10 grapes on Monday, because 16+22+28+34 = 100. Interesting, right?
If you can read it, their answer was 76. They may have had two misunderstandings about the problem: that Angela ate 100 grapes on Friday instead of 100 grapes in all, or that Angela only ate 6 grapes every day Tuesday through Friday, instead of six more than the previous day. I think it was the second one. We went around and around. I tried saying "Well look. If she ate 76 grapes Monday, and 82 grapes Tuesday, she's already eaten 158 grapes. But we know that she only ate a total of 100 in the whole week" but it was like we were not speaking the same language.
What to do about kids who are trying to do nothing, and hope that if they are quiet, I don't notice? Group work enables this behavior, because their group can still produce something without them. I don't think "roles" is the answer, because you can be "resource manager" or whatever and still not do any math. I don't think "everyone turns in their own work" is the answer, because then there's no compelling reason to talk to each other.
How to present work so that everyone learns something about why the correct solution is correct, and ideally, learns some math I am trying to teach them? Again, 5 Practices acts as if the four anticipated solutions will show up in your classroom and it's just a matter of choosing what order to talk about them in. What about groups that do not reach a correct solution? How do you discuss their work without embarrassing them? (I think the answer is lots of deliberate growth mindset interventions, but man, it's the first day of school and the last thing I want to do is make a kid feel bad for trying.) What if (like today) no one makes a diagram? Do you generate your own teacher diagram on the fly, for illustrative purposes? What about students who are super-reluctant to speak to the whole group? Is it okay if the teacher explains their work, and maybe asks them some specific clarifying questions along the way?
Help me, people who know what you are doing. I need you.
Hey! If you haven't heard, I'm back at it this year, teaching Geometry and Algebra 2 at local public high school. Mathalicious has picked up and headed west to continue doing their great work. Writing real-world lessons and helping operate a business (or trying to help, anyway) was educational and stimulating. I didn't predict how much I'd miss the day to day work of teaching class, though.
I get to work with the relentlessly charming Lois Burke! Along with many new awesome colleagues. The Geometry team, in particular is hungry to do some really good things. It's me along with three dudes I just call the Matts, because although they have many wonderful individual qualities, they are all named Matt. We have agreed to plan together and teach one new lesson per unit, observe each other, and meet weekly, which in my opinion is a prodigious start.
I don't have much to share at this point. I'm trying my best to resist the whirlwind of time-consuming stuff that I often let clutter up my thoughts about school. I don't need to read any more books. I don't need a 37 point checklist. I don't need to hang up 95 posters. I need to organize some simple tools and plan some good lessons and take many, many deep breaths.
My plan for f(t) is to record some really tedious minutiae about what I planned, how students responded, whether they learned anything, and what I did about it. I want to focus energy on the colleagues in my physical presence who are willing to negotiate ongoing collaborative work with me, but I'll also be grateful for new and continuing conversations in my online faculty lounge.
Happy new school year, everybody.
Below are several situations which describe a relationship between two quantities which are each noted in parentheses. Your goal is to determine which of these relationships is linear. To help you decide, consider creating a table of values to compare the quantities specified in parentheses, graphing the relationship on a coordinate plane, or writing an equation to represent the relationship. Make sure to define any variables clearly, with appropriate units.
The price of bananas at the Italian Market is $2 for every 3 pounds (cost and pounds).
Tamika plants a tree that is 3 inches tall, and it grows 6 inches per month (height and months).
Rhys folded a strip of paper that is 120 cm long into halves over and over so that its length shrinks by half each time (length and number of folds).
The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is three times its side length (perimeter and side length).
Malcolm bikes for half an hour at 30 miles per hour, followed by an hour at 15 miles per hour. He rests for half an hour and then bikes at 20 miles an hour for 1.5 hours (distance and hours).
The area of a circle is π times its radius squared (area and radius).
A teacher plans to grade exams for a whole day, and estimates that she grades 8 exams every 30 minutes (number of tests that have been graded and minutes).
What are some properties you used to determine whether a relationship is linear or non-linear?
This task uses concrete examples to help students notice the traits of linear relationships in different representations, and prepares them to see the connections between proportional relations, lines, and their equations for 8.EE.B. Since the given scenarios cover a wide range of contexts, what makes a relationship linear may not be easily discernable by reading the descriptions. Translating them into tables, graphs, and equations enables students to spot and articulate regularity and structure in situations that produce line graphs (MP7, MP8) and to generalize these regularities as clues of linear relations.
Two of the scenarios (b and h) involve non-proportional, linear relationships. A teacher may opt to leave them out if she wants to focus on constant rate of change without the added wrinkle of accounting for a starting value.
As an instructional activity, there are many ways to implement this task. For example, a teacher could create cards showing an equation, table, and graph for each scenario, and turn it into a matching activity. This approach would decrease the level of difficulty substantially, but in skilled hands, could still provide fodder for a rich conversation about the features of a situation that imply a linear relationship.
Another approach might be to "jigsaw" the activity. One team of students might be responsible for creating tables, another graphs, and another equations. The teams could reconfigure to contain one student using each representation, and work together to see if their representations are consistent. They could write down some characteristics that tell you whether a situation is linear or non-linear, leading into a whole-class discussion.
An equation is provided, when possible, to provide the teacher with succinct information about the relationship. Students may frame their arguments by creating tables or graphs and using them to support their reasoning, and some samples are provided. The important characteristic of a linear relation is for the quantity to exhibit a constant difference over consistent intervals.
a. Linear. Let c = cost in dollars and p = weight in pounds.
b. Linear. Let m = number of months and h = height in inches. h=6m+3 Note: since the tree will not keep growing at the same rate forever, this equation only works for reasonable values of m. Students may discuss how they might limit what values were "allowed" for m.
c. Not linear. Let n = number of folds and L = length in cm.
L=120(12)n where n can only be natural numbers (you can't fold a piece of paper 4/5 of a time, for example).
d. Linear. Let P = perimeter in any units of length and s = side length in the same units.
e. Not linear. At certain time intervals, his distance traveled is linear, but he does not have a constant rate of change for his whole trip.
f. Not linear. Let r = radius in units and A = area in square units.
g. Linear. Let m = time in minutes and T = number of tests that have been graded.
h. Linear. Let s = step and N = number of squares. N = 3s + 4, where s is a natural number.
i. Not linear. Let s = step and P = number of pebbles. P=(s+1)2−1 where s is a natural number.
The difference in the y-values is −15 − 22 = −37.
The difference in the x-values is 7 − (−8) = 15.
One of the three lines has a slope of zero and one of the lines has an undefined slope. Determine which of the lines has slope zero and which has an undefined slope.
Create two points, D and E (different from A, B, and C), that define a line whose slope is zero. State their coordinates and graph them on the coordinate grid along with line DE←→.
Create two points, F and G (different from the preceding points), so that the line joining F and G has undefined slope. State their coordinates and graph them along with line FG←→ on the coordinate grid.
Describe the characteristics, in terms of coordinates and graphs, of lines that have a slope of zero.
Describe the characteristics, in terms of coordinates and graphs, of lines that will always have an undefined slope.
The "change in y divided by the change in x" can be computed for any two points in the plane... unless the points have the same x-coordinate. The purpose of this task is to help students understand why the calculated slope will be zero for any horizontal line and undefined for any vertical line.
This task is based on Slopes Between Points on a Line. In that task, students argue that for any two points on a line, the "slope triangles" have to be similar, and as a result the lengths of the sides of the triangles will be proportional. This is why the slope between any two points on a particular line will always be equal, and why we talk about "the" slope of a line. This task investigates a degenerate case where "slope triangles" can not be constructed, since the line is parallel to one of the axes.
This instructional task is intended to be used in a class discussion. Students can work on part (a) independently or in small groups. The class could discuss their answers before proceeding with the remaining parts. Students should be given a chance to try to create descriptions for part (d) and (e) on their own. Some may notice the graphical requirements, and some may notice the requirements of the coordinates. Both of these should be discussed and understood by the whole class, and the ideas should be connected to the slope-calculating procedure introduced at the beginning of the task.
a. Possible response: Calculating the slope for AC←→, we get 3−318−2=016=0. The slope of AC←→ is 0. Calculating the slope of BC←→, we get 11−318−18=80, which is an undefined value. The slope of BC←→ is undefined.
Another possible response: Looking at the graph of AB←→, I see that when x increases by 2, y increases by 1. I know that this means the slope of AB←→ is 12. Looking at the graph of AC←→, I see that for every change of 1 unit in x, there is zero change in y. I suppose that this means the slope of AC←→ is zero. When I look at the graph of BC←→, for every 1 unit of change in x, well, it's kind of crazy. All of the line happens when x is 18. I don't know how to say how y changes for every 1 x. I suppose this means the slope of BC←→ is undefined.
d. Lines whose slope is zero are horizontal. Two points on the line must have the same y-coordinate.
e. Lines with an undefined slope are vertical. Two points on the line must have the same x-coordinate. | 2019-04-18T17:15:53 | http://function-of-time.blogspot.com/2014/08/ |
0.998895 | Phillip Adams, presenter of Radio National's Late Night Live, has been reported as saying that he expects to be dismissed because of his political views. He is reported as saying that ABC Chairman Donald McDonald wants him out of the ABC.
Phillip Adams can't be sacked - he is a National Treasure.
Following Phillip Adams claims that he was about to be sacked, the press reported that the ABC had 'categorically denied' that he was to lose his job. The Sydney Morning Herald (11/07/00) said that the "ABC heirachy was quick to reject Adams's claims as nonsense. A spokesman for the ABC's managing director, Mr Jonathon Shier, issued a categorical denial that Adams was about to be sacked or that the board had considered it"
Adams responded to this statement by saying that he believed that the origan plan was to sack him immediatly and pay him out for the remainder of his contract. He now believed the official denial was merely a reprieve that meant that he would not be rehired when his 12 month contract expired at the end of the year.
This view has been lent credence by a letter to a member of Friends of the ABC from the ABC's Chairman, Donald McDonald.
"I have been overseas during the recent media coverage to which you appear to be responding. On inquiry, I have been advised that although there have been recent discussions between radio management and Philip Adams about alternative formats and timeslots, no alterations to the existing Radio National schedule have in fact been proposed. I am also advised that it remains the case that program formats and timeslots are under the constant attention of radio and television management."
The last sentence is very significant. I take it that McDonald is saying that no changes to Late Night Live have been proposed - yet. However this program format and timeslot, along with many others, is under review. If there were to be a change, normal ABC practice would be to announce this during the summer 'silly season' when peoples minds are on other things.
I have done twenty thousands miles ten years ago not because I was crazy about barbeques or cricket bats for that matter, and I have nothing against those two respectable activities. I see no difference between countries ruled by automatic guns the country I fled and a so- called democracy cunningly set up to paralyze any entity that disagrees with it. I have witnessed the arrests and executions of many of my close friends (journalists) systematically eliminated. The very same thing is happening around here in a more civilized way, settle and willful, on the name of the free market the natural (human) selection, bulldozing everything on it’s way. The myth, the flesh, and poetry of a nation are not its cricket bat but its Philips Adams where ever they are.
This episode reveals how precious the self-styled leader Australia's 'intellectual left'can be. Beneath the urbane and free thinking exterior lurks a sadly deperate individual. Adams obviously saw advantage in making these allegations-of which there is no proof other than his words. So if management decide to make a change then there must be a conspiracy? I love Adams' show, the quality of his guests and his interviewing style. But I'm sick of armchair anarchists who always assume they occupy the moral high ground. If I want to hear mindless railing against capitalism and America then I can get that from any second year arts student. The cause of injustice in the world are never as simple as Adams makes out. The 'intellectual left' never makes a difference and it doesn't have the answers. | 2019-04-20T22:14:51 | http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003U6F |
0.998797 | The oldest town ever unearthed?
Archaeologists at the University of Buckingham believe Amesbury, 40 miles from Stonehenge, is the oldest settlement in Britain. The Wiltshire town is now believed to be the birthplace of history in Britain.
Rather than founded by European immigrants as previously thought, relics uncovered during a painstaking search reveal that British settlers established the settlement, which dates back to more than 10 millennia.
And I think I'm old!
Researchers say the find provides evidence for people staying put, clearing land, and establishing homes. The first monuments at Stonehenge were built by these people.
The parish of Amesbury has been continually occupied for every millennia since 8,820BC according to carbon dating of aurochs bones, found in remnants of their fire-pits. The animal was twice the size of bulls, wild boar and red deer in the area.
The first monuments at Stonehenge, made of massive pine posts, built between 8,820 and 6,590BC, show their communities continued to work and live in the area for a further 3,000 years, close to the dawn of the Neolithic at the time Stonehenge was first built.
The findings provide evidence which suggests that Stonehenge should be viewed as a response to long-term use of the area by indigenous hunters and home-makers.
Of course, no pictures exist from those early times.
During a six-week dig last October, they unearthed 31,000 worked flints from the Mesolithic period, which boasts at the largest concentration of such finds in Europe.
Makes you wonder at mankind's earliest activities, doesn't it? Ten thousand years ago, British people lived in communities, hunted game, harvested food and built places of worship. My imagination soars when I think of how men, women and children must have lived in the oldest continuous inhabited place in England.
At the time of my birth, WW2 was nearly over. Could those early societies in Amesbury ever have conceived of a world at war? Most Australian people made do with poor conditions, but society went on and I grew up supported by schools, libraries and justice.
Here in England, my husband remembers lighting gas lamps at night and being slapped for fiddling with the fragile wick beforehand. Seeking shelter underground during air-raid alerts became a nightly ritual.
That time seems so long ago to the modern generation with their electric lights, mobile phones and computers. However, our early years are overshadowed compared to life 10 thousand years ago—the birth of society.
Francene, fascinating! I'd love to go see all this. It astounds me that it is all still standing. They don't build stuff that way any more!!
Fascinating indeed! Just think they had the 'technology' to build structures that are still standing. I was born before electricity. :-) I remember seeing my first electric light bulb when I was 6. I was born in China.
This is fascinating Francine! I've been to Stonehenge and Salisbury but I didn't know about the treasure of history beneath Amesbury! I think I need to put this part of England back on my travel list!
Stonehenge has always fascinated me, since I was a little girl, but would love to travel to England one day to soak in all the history. We think a structure in the United States is old if it is 100 or 200 years old. I can't begin to imagine 8000 years old! | 2019-04-25T14:52:28 | https://511580395457358476.weebly.com/blog/the-oldest-town-ever-unearthed |
0.999999 | What made you choose to participate in HIV research?
The interviewer knows there are many areas of research. This question is an opportunity for him to get to know you. For instance, if you know someone who has HIV and want to help find the cure, share that. There is no right or wrong answer to this question.
"For me, HIV research is a personal challenge. I used to work with pediatric patients and one of the most difficult things for me was seeing babies who were born to HIV+ mothers. When I realized how many people are affected, I wanted to become part of the effort to find a cure."
"I spent some time working in an HIV clinic. Although the care we provided was great, I wanted to do something that made me feel like I was contributing to finding a cure. I love the feeling of finding something new that gets us closer to a cure."
Do you have an understanding of 'HIV reservoir'?
When it was first shown that triple combinations of antiretroviral (ART) drugs could suppress HIV replication, there were hopes that long-term ART would eventually lead to the clearance of all HIV-infected cells from the body. However, scientists discovered that HIV persists in an inactive, latent form in certain immune system cells. They discovered that some of these cells can become active when ART is interrupted. The latent HIV that persists despite ART is described as the HIV reservoir, and it is considered the major barrier to achieving a cure. Researchers seeking to find a cure for HIV are vigorously trying to discover the cause of these latent cells becoming active after such a long time of inactivity. Share any knowledge you have regarding HIV reservoir.
"I followed a case study of a patient who had been diagnosed with HIV. He participated in ART therapy faithfully for a few years and the progression of HIV appeared to slow. However, he experienced some emotional issues and stopped the ART therapy. He unfortunately experienced a rapid decline as the latent memory CD4 T cells became active again."
"When I first began to study HIV therapy, the researcher I worked with was doing a study on latent memory CD4 T cells. I was able to follow his research and study the comparisons of patients who participated in aggressive ART therapy and those who stopped the therapy and experienced the effects of those cells becoming active again."
What do you feel is one of the most challenging obstacles to HIV research?
There are many challenges involved with HIV research. The interviewer is asking your opinion. So, don't feel like you have to give an elaborate, 'medically correct' answer. What are your thoughts?
"I think one of the most challenging things with regard to HIV research is that, in order to determine that treatment is effective, patients must be followed for long periods of time. It is challenging because once patients begin to feel better, they don't want to have to see physicians all the time."
"One of the things that is very challenging or frustrating to me is when babies born to HIV+ mothers are not given their medications as prescribed. I believe we would be able to track the effects of treatments and prognosis more efficiently if these children were given their medications from birth, as they should, and possibly find a way to stop the progression of the disease."
While the term "functional cure" has been widely used, do you know why many researchers now prefer to say that patients are in remission rather than experiencing a functional cure?
There are rare examples of individuals who have been able to stop ART and maintain undetectable or low levels of HIV viral load for extended periods of time. A term that has been applied to these cases is 'functional cure', intended to mean that HIV is still present in the body but not causing harm. However, in some of these cases HIV viral load has rebounded to high levels after a long period of being undetectable. Share your understanding of why researchers prefer to say that these patients are in remission rather than cured.
"When someone is in remission, it is understood that there is always a chance of a 'rebound' or 'recurrence' of a disease. Some people have stopped ART and been able to maintain undetectable or low levels of HIV viral load. However, because there is always a chance that the viral load may rebound, many researchers feel the term 'remission' is more appropriate."
"One reason researchers prefer to use the term remission is that it is difficult to know for sure whether even very low levels of HIV might eventually damage the immune system and cause illness."
If you could choose a research area other than HIV research, what would your next preference be?
Sharing your interests with the interviewer will give him a chance to offer you opportunities in a different area if an immediate position in HIV research is not available. Also, having broader interests implies to the interviewer that you want to learn. Share your interests and why they are appealing to you.
"I love HIV research, but I also have an interest in chromosomal abnormalities. If I were to choose a second option of study, I believe I would like to focus on something related to these disorders."
"I understand that Company ABC has several areas of research. While HIV research has been my first choice, I am not opposed to 'spreading my wings' and learning to navigate through another area. If I were to have a second choice, I believe I would choose stem cell research. I believe there is so much more to learn about the benefits of stem cell use and would love to have a chance to be a part of that." | 2019-04-23T22:47:04 | https://www.mockquestions.com/industry/Medical+Research+-+HIV/ |
0.999997 | Historic Context: Roadside Development on Minnesota Trunk Highways, 1920-1960.
Status: Intact, but in poor condition.
Constructed: 1941, by the National Youth Administration. Design attributed to Arthur R. Nichols.
Status: Restored ca. 1995 by MnDOT.
U.S. 65's crossing of the Minnesota/Iowa border is graced by the presence of two historic markers.
The smaller and older of the two is a grave like obelisk commemorating the completion of the Jefferson Highway across Iowa and Minnesota, dedicated by the governors of both states on October 28, 1930. The other more substantial structure is a rustic stone pedestal welcoming motorists to and from Minnesota, installed in 1941 by the National Youth Administration, a New Deal works program administered by the WPA. It was one of 18 stone markers installed on major border crossings around southern Minnesota at around the same time (16 of which survive).
The road past the site is on the same alignment as when it was completed over 80 years ago as the first paved highway between Albert Lea and Mason City, Iowa.
The two markers lie just 100 feet apart from each other on the east side of U.S. 65. There are no formal facilities here, but the lawn around the markers is kept mowed. 813th Ave (Co Rd 106) provides a convenient place to turn off the main highway and park without disrupting traffic. The historic location of the Jefferson Highway (as well as U.S. 65 and State Route 1) lies just to the east (see tour here).
General view of the markers at the state line, looking north from 813th Ave (Co Rd 106). The state keeps the area well maintained and mowed.
Close-up of the "IOWA" side of the Jefferson Highway monument. The monument is missing a few chunks of concrete and exhibits some orange lichen growth.
Minnesota side of the monument.
The "Welcome to Minnesota" marker as restored by MnDOT.
Closer view of the pedestal. The sign and its the wooden beams are replacements (the original sign read "Department of Highways" instead of "10,000 Lakes".) Note the U.S. 65 marker in the background.
South side of the marker with "Visit Again" for motorists leaving Minnesota for Iowa.
Construction Plans: State Project 2404-01, April 26, 1941.
Construction Project Log Record, Control Section 2404. | 2019-04-23T20:41:08 | http://deadpioneer.com/articles/US65/iowaborder/iowaborder.htm |
0.998199 | Ariana Grande Has Photo Shoot Demands That Are Seriously Specific, But Are They Really That Crazy?
Ariana Grande is sashaying her way up the pop music ladder, on her way to divadom, with a Mariah Carey-sized voice. She's earning her pop princess status, as she has two No. 1 albums to her credit already. There's no doubt Grande and her half-up, half-down ponytail are rising stars, and with increased fame comes loads of stories, gossip, and rumors about Grande's diva-like behavior. An Aussie news outlet reported that Ariana Grande has photo shoot rules that are seriously specific, even abruptly canceling some when her requests weren't met. Were Grande's demands really that diva-like? Was she requesting something totally out of the ordinary? Were her specifics that abnormal?
I think not. Word is she canceled the Aussie appearance, but not before issuing rules. The reporters were banned from asking about her relationships; about Mimi; about her former Sam & Cat co-star Jennette McCurdy, with whom she's believed to be feuding with; about Justin Bieber collabos; and about her grandfather's death, which are all topics the media and her beloved Arianators care about to the extreme.
Grande, who is just 21, has become a master of media sidestepping. She has segued away from discussing her love live and her reported romance with Big Sean. She kept details of her split with Nathan Sykes of The Wanted under wraps for quite a bit, since they were the cutest couple, like, ever. She also split with on-off Janoskians BF Jai Brooks as quickly as she reunited with him, but kept all the details on the DL.
But lately, rumors of her Beyonce-like behavior have been surfacing. A story a Grande meet-and-greet being an epic fail also landed on the Interwebs, which was surprising, given the Twitter love with which she showers her Arianators.
The other requests included telling photographers not to shoot her in natural light and to only shoot the left side of her face. A little more diva-y, but it's not like she requested to be hand-fed grapes and champagne all day.
Those are actually pretty common celeb requests. Natural light can be extremely harsh, but so can artificial lighting, so it can boil down to personal preference. And, hey, even us average Janes prefer to be shot from our "best side." When you're rich and famous, one false move can lead to a crappy photo that's then splashed all over a tabloid and spun any which way but accurately. How many times have you seen a celeb making a crazy face in a paparazzi or a candid snap and it ends up being used to suggest plastic surgery, personal problems, and more?
That said, the Aussie outlet said that Grande looked at each photo after it was taken and requested that the ones she didn't like be deleted. Again, that's not a big deal. Who hasn't re-taken 10 Instagram photos before posting the one you like best?
Grande reportedly left to change her outfit, since she didn't like how her top photographed while posing. Once again, when you are uncomfortable in what you are wearing or how your hair is styled or how much light is reflecting off your skin or hair, it shows. If she didn't like how her top looked in photos, her discomfort would continue to manifest itself as the shoot went on.
So before the media starts calling out Grande as a mega diva, these supposed photo shoot specifics are pretty simple and fair. Pop stars often have Declaration of Independence-sized lists of demands. Grande is nowhere near that.
At the end of the day, the singer and actress is unfairly gorgeous, so it may seem vain for her to be so concerned about her photo shoot specs, but I get it, Grande. We all want to look our best. | 2019-04-19T11:05:41 | https://www.bustle.com/articles/38965-ariana-grande-has-photo-shoot-demands-that-are-seriously-specific-but-are-they-really-that-crazy |
0.999998 | Average rainfall in millimeters for Yaounde, Cameroon.
Average number of days with rainfall for Yaounde, Cameroon.
Average monthly sunshine hours for Yaounde, Cameroon.
What is the best time to go to Yaounde, Cameroon?
the optimal time to go to Yaounde, Cameroon is February. | 2019-04-20T20:46:03 | https://weather-averages.co.uk/city/cameroon/yaounde |
0.999069 | Where was Lord Buddha Born??
There is no doubt that Lord Buddha was Born in Lumbini, Nepal around in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini. This is testified by the inscription on the pillar erected by the Mauryan Emperor Asoka in 249 BC. Therefore one can say that Lumbini is the holiest places for Buddhism. Not only this, the Ashoka pillar is the exact and true evidence about the nature of Buddhist pilgrimage centers that dates back to 3rd century BC.
There has been lots of debate about Where was Lord Buddha Born? Many Indian says that He was born in India. But I want them to answer that IS HE WAS IN WOMB OF HIS MOTHER MAYA DEVI IN SOME PLACE OF INDIA.?
No, man!! He was born in the Garden of the Lumbini and the Ashoka Pillar also signifies the exact birthplace of the Lord Buddha. It does not mean that if one got the great achievement of life in another place does not mean that you are changing his birthplace too.
The king built a separate palace for him so that he would able to keep his son from witnessing the miseries and suffering of the world.
The young prince was married to Yasodhara at the at age of 16. Then prince experience the real world with outside the walls of his opulent palaces. Accidentally one day hew was out of the walls, He saw a very old man, and charioteer explained that all people grow old and many things that he has not came across till date as people suffer from disease man, a decaying corpse and an ascetic. The at the age of 29 he left the kingdom for the seek of the truth and he was determined a way to relieve the universal suffering that he now understood to be one of the defining traits of humanity.
For the next six years after he left the kingdom, he spent an ascetic life and partook in its practices, studying and meditating as his religious guides guide him. Then he began to practice new way of living. As his practice did not get answer to his questions, he again put more effort as enduring pain, fasting nearly to starvation, and refusing water. His all these effort went in vain until one day when a young girl offered him a bowl of rice. As Gautama accepted that rice from the young girl. Then, he immediately recognized that corporeal austerity was not the means to achieve inner liberation and any physical effort is effortless so he had his rice, drank water and bathed in the river.
Then his five followers left him believing that Gautama had given up the ascetic life and would now follow the ways of the flesh. Then he began to encourage people to follow a path of balance( the Middle Way).
One night, Siddhartha sat under the Bodhi tree. He sat in vowing position not to get up until he finds the truths that he is seeking for. He stayed under Bodhi tree for several days, purifying his mind, seeing his entire life, and previous lives, in his thoughts. While he was meditating Mara, an evil demon objected that Mara has right to become the Buddha. Then Lord contacted his hand to the ground and begged Mother Earth to bear witness to his enlightenment, which it did, banishing Mara.Then he was enlighten with the truth of life and began spreading his truth to people. Then became Buddha ( means Wake Up ). Then for about 50 years He traveled different part preaching the Dharma and his path-folds.
All this made the Buddha not a human but a superhuman.
The Conclusion is that Lord Buddha was definitely born in Lumbini, Nepal. In the case, the Maya Devi Temple and the Ashoka Pillar depicting the exact birthplace of Lord Buddha. While Bodhgaya was the place The Lord got the Nirvana. | 2019-04-25T03:00:22 | https://www.himalayantrekking.com/blog/where-was-lord-buddha-born/ |
0.999948 | http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | I am arguing in this series of columns titled, "The Case for Judeo-Christian Values," that Judeo-Christian values as developed and expressed specifically, though not only, in America constitute the finest value system in the world. If you care about goodness, justice and compassion prevailing in an often evil, unjust and cruel world, you should hope that Judeo-Christian values predominate on earth.
Is such an attitude, that there is a best value system, arrogant or even chauvinistic or racist?
Let's first deal with the charge of "racism." It is difficult to overstate the absurdity of this charge. How can values that are universal i.e., for people of all races be racist? The charge is meaningless since people of all races affirm Judeo-Christian values. In fact, outside the United States, whites, being largely secular, are the race least likely to affirm these values.
What about "arrogant" or "chauvinistic"?
Though not as obviously so, these charges are equally meaningless.
If one does not deem one's value system superior to others (at least the others that one is aware of), it is not a value system. It is a series of personal habits that one happens to prefer. Moreover, it is very hard to find anyone who upon a moment's reflection really believes that his values are not superior.
Do those who believe in freedom believe that freedom is not a superior value to tyranny? Do those who believe in human equality believe that this value is not superior to the belief that one race is superior? Is the "honor killing" of daughters a value equal to that of allowing daughters to marry whomever they want? The list is almost endless.
The very implication of a "value" is that it is superior to any other. If you value monogamy, you are saying it is superior to polygamy. If you value tolerance, you are saying that tolerance is superior to intolerance.
All people are equal, but that does not mean that all values are equal. The statement, "All people are equal," is itself a value, one which holds that human equality is superior to any value that demeans or denies the intrinsic worth of other human beings.
But many of the best educated (and therefore least intellectually clear) will counter, why can't people hold that their values are superior only for themselves?
The answer is that it is not only a misuse of the term "value," it betrays a complete misunderstanding of the concept. To return to the examples offered above, do those who believe that freedom is superior to tyranny believe that freedom is only superior for them? Can you imagine someone arguing: "I happen to value the ability to speak, write, worship and assemble freely as a value for me, but I do not believe that such freedom is better for anyone else"?
I am arguing that the Judeo-Christian value system as developed on the basis of the Hebrew Bible and developed largely by Christians, and especially in America, is the best value system ever devised. I believe it is superior to all other value systems with which I am familiar. I believe that as a moral system for a society, it is superior to that of the secular/socialist values that dominate Europe and the left in America, and to any other religion. And as I argued in Part VIII, Judeo-Christian values are even larger than Judaism or Christianity alone.
Is this insulting to members of these groups? Of course not. Is it in an insult to Republicans that Democrats think their party has better values?
The reason this is not insulting is that decent and intelligent people understand that better values do not mean that all those who carry the same name as those values are better people. I think Judeo-Christian values are superior, but I would have to be a fool to believe that all Jews and Christians or even all people who say they subscribe to Judeo-Christian values are better than everyone else. All human beings must be judged according to their behavior, not according to the value system they are associated with.
I fully acknowledge that there is a real danger of arrogance associated with having values. The moment you believe in a value, you believe that value is superior to some or all other competing values. And this can lead to arrogant thinking: "Everyone with my values is wonderful; everyone else isn't. And I have nothing to learn from people with other value systems."
That is why those who adhere to Judeo-Christian values must carry them with genuine humility. There are wonderful people in every religion and wonderful people who are atheists, and there are awful people in Judaism and Christianity and among individuals who claim to hold Judeo-Christian values.
But it is simply intellectual cowardice to deny that one's value system implies anything but its superiority to some or all other values.
JWR contributor Dennis Prager hosts a national daily radio show based in Los Angeles. He the author of, most recently, "Happiness is a Serious Problem". Click here to comment on this column. | 2019-04-19T16:24:47 | http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0505/prager053105.php3 |
0.998237 | Taking a look at the API diff report for the Android "L" preview, I see that all methods related to navigation modes in the ActionBar class (such as setNavigationMode(), addTab(), selectTab(), &c). are now deprecated.
What is the supposed replacement?
Also, is "inline toolbar action bars" a new concept? I don't think I've heard of it before.
Now deprecated: The PagerTabStrip is part of the support library (and has been for some time) and serves as a direct replacement. If you prefer the newer Google Play style tabs, you can use the PagerSlidingTabStrip library or modify either of the Google provided examples SlidingTabsBasic or SlidingTabsColors as explained in this Dev Bytes video.
A Toolbar is a generalization of action bars for use within application layouts. While an action bar is traditionally part of an Activity's opaque window decor controlled by the framework, a Toolbar may be placed at any arbitrary level of nesting within a view hierarchy.
An application may choose to designate a Toolbar as the action bar for an Activity using the setActionBar() method.
The deprecation of tabs in the action bar is most probably due to this, since toolbars cannot contain tab themselves.
It seems like they added a new Class named android.widget.Toolbar that extends ViewGroup. Also they added a new method setActionBar(Toolbar) in Activity. I haven't tested it yet, but it looks like you can wrap all kinds of TabWidgets, Spinners or custom views into a Toolbar and use it as your Actionbar.
The new Toolbar cannot be used for inflating multiple line objects, so it is impossible to add Tabs to it.
If you want to use a Toolbar like a TabWidget you can insert some Tab Objects to it, but only with the old Holo style.
Here there is a custom Library that uses v7 Toolbar like TabWidget with the new Material Design animations, but it uses the same methods from the old ActionBar Tabs, so you can attach your ViewPager to it.
FragmentTabHost is also an option.
You sort of have to synthesize these resources to match your particular situation. For example, you may not want to manually create the tabs in the same style that the exoguru.com tutorial did.
Well for me to handle the deprecated navigation toolbar by using toolbar v7 widget appcompat.
I think a suitable replacement for when you have three to five screens of equal importance is the BottomNavigationActivity,this can be used to switch fragments.
You will notice a wizard exists for this in Android Studio, take care however as Android Studio has a tendency to produce overly complex boiler plate code.
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API 21 setSelectedNavigationItem and addTab are deprecated?
What is an alternative way to implement tab on ActionBar when everything is deprecated? | 2019-04-22T05:26:54 | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24473213/action-bar-navigation-modes-are-deprecated-in-android-l |
0.999301 | So you're hungry--and you're ready for some Cajun/Creole food. Good news: we've found the freshest spots to satisfy your appetite. Here are the newest places to check out the next time you're in the mood for Cajun/Creole food.
Jumbo Crab is a Cajun and Creole spot, offering seafood and more that recently had its Grand Opening on December 10.
Soup, salad, and appetizers are on the menu, as are seafood combination platters and baskets. Expect notable menu options such as the fried fish basket with Cajun fries, crawfish with corn and potato, or a half-pound of mussels, crab legs or clams. Thirsty? Beer and wine are available to pair with your fare. Here's the menu.
Yelp users are excited about Jumbo Crab, which currently holds five stars out of five reviews on the site.
Yelper Isabel T., who reviewed Jumbo Crab on December 8, wrote, "This spot is highly recommended! Lunch specials are great. I loved the jumbo crab special sauce and the shrimp was cooked perfectly."
Jumbo Crab is open from 3-10:30 p.m. on Monday-Thursday, noon-11:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and noon-9:30 p.m. on Sunday.
JoKeR's Cajun Kitchen is a Cajun/Creole spot courtesy of owners John and Kelly Reed. Expect breakfast platters, gumbo, jambalaya and po'boy sandwiches.
Look out for specific menu options like Bourbon Street chicken, shrimp and andouille gumbo and blackened shrimp sandwiches. Breakfast fare includes beignets, shrimp and grits and egg and cheese sandwiches. Here's the menu.
JoKeR's Cajun Kitchen's current Yelp rating of 3.5 stars out of six reviews indicates the newcomer is finding its way, but it's still early days.
Yelper Jim D. wrote, "Although restricted to a limited menu, I thoroughly enjoyed my po'boy from JoKeR's. They added pickle which made this currently my favorite po'boy in the city."
DrinkHaus Supper Club is a cocktail bar and Cajun spot that pairs handcrafted cocktails with modern twists on traditional Creole and Southern dishes.
On the seasonal menu, offerings include Creole fried lobster tail, shrimp po'boys on butter garlic rolls with creole sauce, buttermilk chicken and waffles, catfish served with apple coleslaw and Creole grilled chicken salads. Weekend brunch and bottle service are also available.
With a three-star Yelp rating out of 53 reviews on Yelp, DrinkHaus Supper Club is still finding its way, but it's early days.
Tim O. noted, "This space recently re-opened and I could not be happier to see that the owners have quickly built a thriving business." | 2019-04-20T13:16:01 | https://abc7chicago.com/4894295/ |
0.995874 | An ovarian cyst is a collection of excess fluid in the ovary. The formation of fluid around a developing egg is a normal process in all ovulating women, but sometimes, for reasons doctors do not yet understand, too much fluid is formed. The follicle containing the egg expands, forcing the ovary to expand as well, and this may be experienced as pressure or pain in the pelvic area. On the other hand, some women do not feel the cyst at all, and it may only be discovered during a routine gynecological exam.
The vast majority of ovarian cysts are not cancerous, and most of the time they go away by themselves as the fluid is absorbed back into the body. The formation of new cysts can often be prevented by taking birth control pills.
When do cysts need to be removed?
Rarely, a cyst may not go away and surgery may be needed to remove the cyst.
One scenario is that the cyst causes the ovary to twist around, cutting the blood flow to the ovary and causing severe pain. This is called ovarian torsion.
Another reason for surgery is the presence of an epithelial ovarian cyst. During ovulation the ovary releases an egg through a tiny rupture in its lining, or epithelium. Normally this closes and heals quickly without incident. Sometimes, however, a few cells from the epithelium make their way into the divot left by the egg and become trapped there during healing. These cells form a fluid that collects and grows into an epithelial ovarian cyst. Because the cyst is trapped inside the ovary, it must be removed surgically.
A condition called endometriosis can cause a blood-filled ovarian cyst called an endometrioma that will require surgical removal. This type of cyst is formed from endometrial cells (cells from the inner lining of the uterus) that mistakenly traveled up through the fallopian tube into the ovary and began to grow there. Endometrial cells are programmed to grow and bleed with the monthly cycle, and normally they are shed with the menstrual flow. However, if they become trapped inside an ovary, the blood collects and forms a cyst.
Some ovarian cancers are cystic, so that persistence or increased growth of a cyst as viewed on a sonogram warrants laparoscopic investigation with removal of the cystic tissue for histologic inspection and diagnosis.
Cysts which are partially solid or have internal wells as determined by ultrasound may also have to be removed.
Since most ovarian cysts in premenopausal women disappear spontaneously, treatment is seldom required. Women who are prone to developing cysts repeatedly may want to use birth control pills to prevent the growth of new cysts until they are ready to bear children.
For cysts that do need to be removed, minimally invasive laparoscopic surgical techniques can now be used to remove these cysts (cystectomy) while preserving the health of the ovary and promising a quick recovery.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Gynecological Problems: Ovarian Cysts. 2005. www.acog.org/publications/patient_education.pdf/bp075.cfm.
Parker WH. A Gynecologist’s Second Opinion. © 2003; A Plume Book; Published by the Penguin Group, New York, NY.
Parker W. The case for laparoscopic management of the adnexal mass. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 38:362-69. | 2019-04-23T07:54:22 | http://www.misforwomen.com/service/medical-library/conditions/ovarian-cysts/ |
0.999999 | How was it? Here's the short version: I am so looking forward to getting back to triathlons.
The night before the race, I came to the conclusion that my difficulty mentally preparing for it was because it amounted to running the easiest half marathon of my life, followed immediately by the hardest half marathon of my life. If only. In fact, it turned out to be the hardest half marathon of my life followed immediately by another half marathon that would blow the difficulty of the first one out of the water.
We've known for a week or longer that it was going to be a freakishly warm day. (The race booklet said that the average low temperature over the last five years is 35 and the average high is 61. Today's low was 62. I don't care to know the high, but it was about 65 by the time I finished.) The only upside to the weather is that it was overcast, with the sun only peeking out a couple of times.
Have I mentioned what a godsend it was that he was willing to run with me? I was much slower than expected, but having him there to take my mind off of my misery over those eight miles or so probably saved me five minutes and definitely made those miles feel less awful.
All in all, I averaged almost a minute per mile slower than my goal pace and still have no idea why anyone would ever run a marathon. (My reason is far too personal to share here, but just know that it had nothing to do with a passion for running or wanting to accomplish a longtime -- or shorttime -- goal.) The best part of the whole crazy experience was that Kelli came in a couple of minutes under our shared goal time -- a huge feat given the heat and humidity of the day and the difficulty of the course.
The only thing crazier than choosing to enter a marathon is finishing it! Congrats - I'm sure you're glad you don't have to do it again. Thanks for updating quickly - I was really wondering how it went - horrid about the weather. I wish I could have been there but am happy the sign could be there in my place.
Congrats on finishing your first (and only, if you're sane) marathon!
Congrats! Surrounded by all those other runners, it might be easy to forget what a rare feat it is to get your feet (and the rest of you!) through so many miles. Whatever it was that got you into it, good for you in seeing it through. | 2019-04-22T06:59:19 | http://www.greenhousegoodlife.com/2011/02/first-and-only-marathon-i-will-ever-run.html |
0.998584 | This plugin allows you to bulk images rename in your Media Library with SEO optimized keywords of your choice.
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With this plugin you can bulk edit woocommerce products based on variations, attributes, and/or categories.
This bulk edit plugin allows you to edit more than one product variation at a time. You can edit as many variations as you want in just one step and edit many fields such as SKU, Stock, Regular Price, Sale Price, Weight, Height, etc.
If you have many products on your store, with many variations each, this plugin is really useful to keep your store updated in just a few seconds.
For example, you can update all variations in one selected category, or use attributes to update variations which have a specific attribute value. You can even update all variations that have a particular price, or target those by which price is higher or lower then a set value.
All the custom attributes that you have set on your Products Variations. | 2019-04-19T16:52:05 | http://thesetemplates.info/tag/bulk/ |
0.998962 | How to draw recognition-protected images? At first, we must answer to question "how images being recognized usually". Then we can realize, how we can make more difficult this recognition.
Contrary to common opinion, for CAPTCHA defeating, as usual, they do not use scanned text recognition software as MS Office Document Imaging etc. So, if your CAPTCHA does not recognized by that software, it does not mean, that the text can't be easily read by specially designed bot (see "Defeating examples").
Recognition of each found symbol.
If symbols has constant positions (as in Invision Power Board forum CAPTCHA—see picture at right), only second stage remains. So we must vary symbol positions at least.
We leave only dark pixels—and "voila".
Thus, we must add noise that can't be easily separated from symbols, or we must make difficulties for symbols separation each from each, connecting or intersecting its.
Symbol recognition in essence may be carried out by various ways.
Simplest one—per-pixel comparing. We compare each symbol with one from etalon font. And select symbol with maximal coincidence.
CAPTCHA is vulnerable to per-pixel comparing if one does not use geometric distortion of symbols and uses one font (or very few fonts).
Other, more sophisticated algorithms recognizes symbol by its peculiarities: branching, closed areas... There is class of algorighms named "neural networks". It is a "black box", trained to linking input shape with output answer. However, training procedure is usually lengthy and laborious.
For protection against these algorithm one can add noise disfigures symbol shape, but we can receive image unreadable by human.
In my opinion, especial attention must be paid to first protection point: against symbol bounds determination—it is diffucult to recognize symbol if we do not know where it starts and ends.
Non-linear distortion, symbols can slightly displace one from one, variating of fonts. No noise. Symbols often not connect and can easily be selected one from one.
Rotating and distortion, noise: lines with same color intersecting symbols.
Non-linear distortion, noise: polylines intersecting symbols. Polyline sometimes may be separated from symbols.
Symbol rotation, few fonts, contrast with background.
Displacing by height, non-linear distortion, polylines intersecting text.
Gluing of outline symbols, non-linear distortion, noise with white and black lines.
Multicolor symbols, rotation, displacing. Noise.
Minor linear distortion. Noise with inverted ellipses.
Minor rotation, displacing. Noise can be easily removed by blurring. Pretty weak CAPTCHA.
Minor rotation, displacing. Seldom intersection. Fonts. Intensive noise, both background texture and lines lays on symbols. But sometimes image is human unreadable.
Displacing, noise with lines and pixels.
Very bad CAPTCHA: constant font, constant symbol positions. Can be easily recognized by per-pixel comparing. | 2019-04-23T23:55:57 | http://captcha.ru/en/articles/visual/ |
0.999996 | Could you tell me whether the following syntaxis are correct (simplified for this question)?
1) Would it be correct to estimate a bifactor model in which the factors (F1-F3) correlate with each other (and the variance of GF is fixed to 1 for convergence). This would make the most sense theoretically for me.
2) I've seen examples for bifactor models in which the variances of the factors are fixed to 1, why would one do this?
It looks like your inputs are correct.
1. This is possible although not the traditional bifactor model. If you fix the variance of gf to one, you must free the first factor loading.
2. I don't think so and it does not make sense in my opinion.
3. There are two ways to set the metric of a factor -- fix a factor loading to one or fix the factor variance to one. | 2019-04-23T14:33:08 | http://www.statmodel.com/discussion/messages/9/13573.html?1375288014 |
0.999994 | What should I do on move-in day?
The first thing you should probably do before Tampa apartments move-in day is to look at the weather for the day. Nothing quite ruins the moving in process like rain, especially if you are moving large wooden pieces of furniture or electronics like a television. It should be noted that weather can be rather unpredictable in Florida at this time of year, with rain and sun switching back and forth constantly. If you are new to Florida, you may want to ask any locals you know about the weather patterns in order to make the best choice about what time you should start moving.
Something else you might want to look into in preparation for Tampa apartments move-in day is renting a U-Haul. U-Haul allows people to rent a variety of different trailers and vehicles, such as a moving truck, pickup truck, or cargo van. A U-Haul is particularly useful if the furniture you are moving is already built, so you won't have to disassemble it to try and fit it in your car. It isn't that expensive, and the money you spend will make the whole moving process a lot easier.
You should also look into the parking situation at the apartment complex you are moving into. Depending on which of the apartments in Tampa you are moving into, the parking situation can vary a lot. Some complexes are pretty lenient, allowing people to park pretty much wherever they need to, but don't bet on it. You should call the office and see what their policies are; you don't want to start your first new day in the community with a nice ticket or your vehicle towed.
Now, when move-in day comes and you drive your vehicle full of furniture over, there is still one more thing you should do. Before you start moving your stuff, go up to your new apartment and look around. Apartments in Tampa, like any other apartment anywhere, will charge you at the end of your stay for any damage that you have caused to the unit. So what you should do before moving in, is to look around the unit for any damage that is there from the previous tenants.
Check for marks on the walls, carpets, and doors; also check any appliances to make sure that they are working properly. Take pictures to keep a record of any damage that was there before you moved in. Most Tampa apartments will provide you with a form to fill out, which allows you to put the damages on record for the apartment. You should still have your own record however, to make sure that you are protected from potential charges.
All of these tips are some of the major things that all new residents should be aware of on move-in day. Make sure that you are prepared, so that moving into your new apartment can be a pleasant experience, rather than a negative one. Enjoy your new home, and make sure to take advantage of all the things the complex and the city of Tampa has to offer. | 2019-04-25T02:31:56 | https://www.renttampabay.com/help-finding-apartments/tips-for-move-in-day |
0.998734 | HOWWHEREWHAT.IN: Lakshdweep is a combination of howmany islands and what are thir names?
Lakshdweep is a combination of howmany islands and what are thir names?
ANSWER TO THE ABOVE QUESTION Lakshdweep is a combination of 37 islands.The islands are Karavatti,Agatti,Minicoy And Admini. | 2019-04-20T20:25:47 | http://www.howwherewhat.in/2012/08/lakshdweep-is-combination-of-howmany.html |
0.999472 | How do I remove old kernel versions to clean up the boot menu?
Every time I install a new Linux kernel, it gets left in the grub_config, making the boot menu longer each time.
I know I can manually search through the installed packages and remove them.
Does Ubuntu provide any easier way to clean them up or keep them from showing in the boot list?
The latest versions of Grub2 installed in Ubuntu automatically display the latest kernel and hides the older kernels that you may have installed.
If you do not see your grub - then remember to press Shift whilst booting.
As you can see, only the latest kernel is displayed.
If you select the option shown (press Enter) then all the old kernels become visible and available to boot from.
First boot with the latest available kernel.
There are a number of ways to delete old kernels. Personally, I wouldn't touch Computer Janitor since this is acknowledged to break your computer with its suggestions.
search for linux-image, right-click a kernel and choose complete removal and finally click the Apply button to delete the kernel.
Repeat the search but this time for linux-header - you can delete the associated headers for the kernel image chosen previously.
Synaptic though will not attempt to verify what you are trying to remove... you could inadvertently delete your newest kernel - or even delete all of your kernels via this tool leaving you with an unbootable Ubuntu!.
Remember the result and the number - make sure you don't delete the corresponding image or header.
My recommendation is to keep at least two or preferably three kernels including the latest. The reason for the recommendation is that you will have at least one/two other kernels to boot with, if for what-ever reason the latest kernel you are unable to boot with or introducing a regressed capability such as broken wireless.
DO NOT REMOVE THIS KERNEL!
Next, type the command below to view/list all installed kernels on your system.
Find all the kernels that lower than your current kernel. When you know which kernel to remove, continue below to remove it. Run the commands below to remove the kernel you selected.
altogether, sed -n '/'`uname -r`'/q;p' is print the lines until it matches with the current kernel name.
If you're paranoid (like me), you can make the last part xargs echo sudo apt-get -y purge so that the command to purge the old kernels is printed, then you can check that nothing unexpected is included before you run it.
Removing Entries from Grub 2 Entries should be removed by editing or removing files in the /etc/grub.d folder. The /boot/grub/grub.cfg file is read-only and should not normally require editing.
If you are not sure of the kernel you are currently using, in a terminal type uname -r.
Kernels removed via APT (Synaptic, "apt-get remove", etc.) will automatically update grub.cfg and no user action is required.
A great tool for removing kernels (and menu entries) is Ubuntu-Tweak, a safe and easy-to-use GUI app.
Ubuntu-Tweak will be available under Applications > System Tools.
Select "Package Cleaner" on the left and "Clean Kernel" from the right panel.
Press the "Unlock" button at the lower right, enter your password.
Select from the displayed list the kernel images and headers you wish to remove. The kernel in use is not listed.
Press the "Cleanup" button at the lower right to remove the selected kernel images and headers.
Other Operating Systems which have been removed from the computer will also be removed from the menu once "update-grub" is run as root.
Note: After kernel updates a new entry is added to the GRUB menu.You can remove the older one if you want.However, most experienced users will advise you to keep at least one spare entry in case something goes wrong with an upgrade and you need to boot an older kernel version for troubleshooting purposes.
You see in the second screenshot you can select how many kernels to show? I generally just keep it on 1, but when I get a kernel upgrade I always change it to 2 before restarting so I can select the older kernel if the new kernel has problems with my hardware. Once I know the new kernel is working well I change it back to 1.
Update: purge-old-kernels is deprecated nowadays.
I made a script to purge kernels even in tricky conditions. It is called linux-purge and you can find it here.
If you just want to purge the kernels (and the related packages) that are older than the currently used kernel, when system is not broken, you could use this script.
There is also an Ubuntu documentation page that I have contributed to concerning removing old kernels here.
You can follow the Using the "unattended-upgrades" package section of Automatic Security Updates article on Ubuntu Wiki to perform this.
to automatically remove old packages, including kernels.
in the "NeverAutoRemove" section of the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove.
which would check for any unused packages and remove them if necessary. This is great for those libraries and dependency packages that are no longer needed byt any app installed.
Computer Janitor can clean up old kernels and I believe is installed by default in Ubuntu (but not Kubuntu).
GRUB 1, if you're using that, has an option in /boot/grub/menu.lst to specify how many kernels it should show at a maximum. GRUB 2, as far as I can tell, does not.
You can then remove them one by one or together, just make sure to keep the most recent.
There are also some handy commands and scripts to automate the removal.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 671 MB disk space will be freed.
In order to remove older Linux image kernels, first boot in the kernel you want to keep.
You can also check the kernel version using command uname -r so that you don't remove the wrong one by mistake.
Now go to synaptic package manager and search for linux-image and remove the older versions except the one shown by upper command. Generally I prefer to go with the latest one.
Now when you restart you'll see a more clean grub menu.
click package cleaner and clean kernels. it does not show the currently used kernel so you will always be safe.
Personally, I like using Synaptic. It makes me feel more secure about what's going on. The only app I've used that has an option to remove old kernels is Ubuntu Tweak.
You can uninstall the old kernels (linux-image-... packages) using Synaptic, and that will remove them from the boot menu. Take care not to remove the running kernel (you can check its version with uname -r).
Bear in mind that having a one or two older versions can help you troubleshoot, should something go wrong.
Alternatively, you can edit/remove the entries manually (gksu gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg), but they will be re-generated when you update to a newer kernel. If you are thinking about removing recovery mode options - don't. They can come in handy if you break something which prevents you from booting.
This is a pure command line solution.
Examine the list. Make sure the the kernel versions you want to keep are not part of the list. Use the command uname -r to see the version of the currently running kernel.
If you are happy with the results you can use apt-get to remove the packages.
The advantage of this answer is native Ubuntu Bash is used without installing third-party applications. Users of custom kernels who didn't use apt or dpkg can change this bash script to suit their needs. This answer is based on (How to selectively purge old kernels all at once).
As the title indicates the current kernel you booted with cannot be removed and isn't included in the list. The size reported is how much will be saved in /boot directory. More is saved on your disk because kernel binaries reside in other areas too. July 27, 2017 note: The directories /usr/src/*kernel_version* and /lib/modules/*kernel_version* are now included as well.
The Modified Date is discovered using the stat command. On my system that date is "touched" every time the kernel is booted using this (How do you find out when a specific kernel version was last booted?) cron reboot script. However, on your system the date will be the kernel release date, not the last time you booted it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 24 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2,330 MB disk space will be freed.
# DATE: Mar 10, 2017. Modified Jul 28, 2017.
# NOTE: Will not delete current kernel.
# First time for `du` 34 seconds.
# Second time for `du` 1 second.
# PARM: If any parm 1 passed use REAL kernel size, else use estimated size.
# By default `du` is not used and estimated size is displayed.
zenity --error --text "root access required. Use: sudo rm-kernels"
if [[ $# -ne 0 ]] ; then # Was a parameter passed?
# remains on disk for specific version with no -generic or -lowlatency below.
rm-kernels-server is the server version to selectively delete kernels all at once. Instead of a GUI (graphical) dialog box a text-based dialog box is used to select kernels to purge.
Dialog is in the default Ubuntu Desktop installation but not in Ubuntu Server.
# Non-GUI, text based interface for server distro's.
echo "root access required. Use: sudo rm-kernels-server"
item_list=() # Deviate from rm-kernels here.
NOTE: In the call to dialog the directive --ascii-lines is passed to replace line-draw extended character set (which ssh doesn't like) with "+-----+" for drawing boxes. If you do not like this appearance you can use the --no-lines directive for no box at all.
The calculated size of each kernel was taken from /boot/*kernel_version* which were 5 files totaling ~50 MB. The formula has changed to include the files in /usr/src/*kernel_version* and /lib/modules/*kernel_version*. The calculated size for each kernel is now ~400 MB. The above code for rm-kernels and rm-kernels-server has been updated. However, the sample screens above do not reflect these changes yet.
The default is to estimate the size of files for linux-headers at 125 MB and linux-image at 220 MB because du can be painfully slow unless files are in cache. To get the real size using du pass any parameter to the script.
The total of all kernel sizes (excluding the current running version which cannot be removed) is now show in the title bar.
The dialog box used to display each Kernel's Last Access Date. This date can get mass overwritten for all kernels during backup or similar operations. The dialog box now shows the Modified Date instead.
However, this will miss packages that are still recommended by other packages, and the -R/--without-recommends argument does not resolve this problem.
dselect after switching sort mode with 'o' will show all obsolete packages including the ones aptitude misses, but some people don't like using it.
The accepted answer using sed to remove older kernels permanently has some flaws, if someone has not rebooted the computer after upgrading kernel the command will remove the newer kernel too.
dpkg --compare-versions "$ker_rel" lt "$cur_rel" && sudo apt-get remove "$kernel"
If you have any version that is newer than the current one this will give you a warning to restart you computer first. Also note that the older kernels are preserved due to a good reason which is if you somehow mess up your current kernel making your system unstable then you should be able to boot into any older kernel.
You can use ukuu - it's all GUI - to update and delete old Kernels. Works for me!
Just remember leave the last 2 installed and obviously the 'running' kernel.
You can also set ukuu to only show mainline releases, even RC kernels, hide point releases.
here is a rough outline of what I did, careful as I am no expert in linux, be sure you know what you are doing and have backed up any files you are modifying.
this will stop form auto adding all the linux entries into the grub boot menu.
paste them into 40_custom, and then save it.
Install the synaptic package manager and go down to the filters tab (I think filters, if not try all 5) and select "local". This will show you orphaned packages on your system, such as the kernels. After you uninstall them, run update-grub. That command updates the list of boot options for grub.
If this fails, you can always try apt-get remove linux-image-version-generic.
Based on a previous answer by David Kemp, the following script will purge all headers and images except for the last 2 versions.
I use this to keep desktop's boot volumes relatively clean, but in a server situation you'd probably want to expand the logic and write some additional scripting to maintain a list of the last X kernels the server has booted.
Adjust the list of kernel versions to fit.
Try this. Run it as root.
Pass, as a command line argument, the number of most recent kernels you want to preserve.
# this command gives the list of all packages EXCEPT for the latest kernel.
If you want [AND AT YOUR OWN RISK], you can add a -y (or a force flag) to the apt-get command and make it non-interactive.
I'm using a KDE desktop, and the easiest option I found was using the kde-config-grub2 application as suggested here: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?58075-remove-old-linux-versions (which I already had installed for setting background image, default boot option, and the like). Next to the drop-down box where you can choose the default entry, there is a "Remove Old Entries" button. Clicking this button presents you with a list of all installed kernels and you can select which ones to remove. When you apply the changes it will use dpkg to actually remove them from the system as well as the GRUB menu.
as root, and the job will be done.
I have a script for this that does not need very fancy string parsing.
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How to make Aptitude clean up old kernels? | 2019-04-21T02:40:29 | https://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-old-kernel-versions-to-clean-up-the-boot-menu |
0.999457 | Is the career of a pediatrician one that appeals to you? If you want to work in this field, you will need to earn an undergraduate degree followed by an M.D., and you will need to specialize in pediatric medicine.
What exactly do pediatricians do? They're "kid doctors," right? Well, yes, but that idea doesn't adequately sum up the extensive duties of a pediatrician. A good pediatrician takes it upon herself to offer mental, emotional and physical support for children from the day they're born until they've put adolescence behind them.
You probably already have a good idea of what a pediatrician's normal workday is like. They see their young patients and attempt to come up with diagnoses based on exam results. Treatment options are discussed with the parents or guardians of the child after that. Once treatment is set into motion, the pediatrician keeps track of the progress.
Largely, the role of a pediatrician depends on whether or not he is working within a specialized pediatric field. A general pediatrician typically works as a primary care doctor, maintaining regular office hours, seeing patients suffering from viral or bacterial infections and minor injuries. In the case of more severe illness or injury, the primary care pediatrician often refers the patient to a specialist or directly to the emergency room.
Pediatricians who work in a specialized field, like oncology or cardiology, typically work in hospital settings, treating and caring for very sick kids. While this can certainly be rewarding, it can also be stressful and extremely sad for a doctor when she knows that a young patient will likely die from his illness.
Becoming a pediatrician takes years of special training and quite a bit of planning. You'll want to pursue an undergraduate degree in the sciences, preferably with a pre-med focus. Grades are extremely important throughout your college career as they can make or break your acceptance into medical school. During your junior or senior year of college you'll need to take the standardized Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). When it comes time to apply to medical school, your MCAT scores, your college grades and your performance at medical school interviews will all play a part in determining which medical school will accept you.
Once you are accepted into medical school, you can expect four years of grueling school work along with labs, medical rotations and additional medical licensing exams. After participating in rotations during your third year of medical school, you will begin applying for residencies. Your pediatric residency will take place over the course of three years with long, grueling hours of work that will provide you with specialized, hands on training within the pediatric field. Like your medical school application, residency applications and acceptance hang on your medical school grades, your success in licensing exams and residency interviews.
It isn't until after successful completion of your pediatric residency and passing a series of medical licensing exams that you will be able to begin your independent career as a pediatrician.
With the number of years dedicated to school and your low-paying residency will come quite a bit of debt. You may end up with $100,000 or more that you owe, ultimately requiring a number of years of debt repayment once you become a full-fledged doctor.
A hunger for knowledge in the field. Once all the schooling is behind you, you still have to absorb knowledge every day.
The ability to think on your feet and change up your schedule as needed, as the world of pediatrics is highly unpredictable.
If you weren't turned off by the number of years of school and the amount of debt you could rack up if you decide to pursue a career as a pediatrician, shadow a pediatrician one day to further make up your mind.
According to Salary.com, the range of salaries for pediatricians is about $112,000 to $195,000, not accounting for additional bonuses or benefits.
If you enjoy children, you're likely to maintain a high job satisfaction.
You can work alone or with a group of doctors.
You can expect long-term job stability.
You may be able to work part-time after several years in the field.
When deciding to become a pediatrician, the more information you can acquire about the field, the more prepared you'll be. Talk to the pediatrician who treated you as a child or seek out another local pediatrician to interview. Ask him detailed questions about the pros and cons of his job, whether he wished he had done anything differently, and whether you can spend a few days with him to see what his job is really like. When you invest as many as 11 or 12 years of advanced training into a particular career field, you want to be absolutely sure that you're ready and committed to the trials and tribulations you will face. | 2019-04-18T22:26:23 | https://jobs.lovetoknow.com/Career_of_Pediatrician |
0.995739 | What was that bright flash over Russia?
A flash seen over a wide swath of Russia on January 7 at first caused fears of a U.S. air strike on North Korea. For now, the flash is unexplained.
Bright flash in the night sky over the Tatarstan region of Russia on January 7, 2018, via Siberian Times.
Siberian Times and other media reported this week (January 9, 2018) on an exceedingly bright flash that “turned night to day” over a wide swath of Russia on Sunday, January 7. Some media reported that the flash caused speculation about a U.S. air strike over North Korea. A next logical assumption might be a meteor, but – as of this writing – there are no reports about the event in the meteor logs for both the International Meteor Organization and the American Meteor Society, suggesting no bright streak of a meteor was seen.
The black sky suddenly turned momentarily deep blue as if on a bright day – but according to some accounts, the Earth moved too.
Experts insist the phenomenon was not manmade: there were no reports of missile tests or explosions.
Nor were there reports of meteorites striking the Earth.
Witnesses had the feeling something massive had happened – but what?
It’s definitely possible that the light wasn’t originating in the sky; it came from the ground and was being reflected off of the clouds.
The sky over Tatarstan during the mysterious explosion of light, via Siberian Times.
Bottom line: A flash seen over a wide swath of Russia on January 7, 2018 is so far unexplained. | 2019-04-20T18:52:39 | https://earthsky.org/earth/bright-flash-russia-jan-7-2018?mc_cid=7ce07e38d2&mc_eid=cbc9e58943 |
0.999995 | What Does "Suicide Squad" Mean for Time Warner?
Warner's "Suicide Squad" is the biggest August opener ever, but the company's vision for the DC Extended Universe is still confused.
Time Warner's (NYSE:TWX.DL) Suicide Squad exploded at theaters across the globe on it's opening evening, delivering domestic ticket sales of $135 million and an overseas take of $132 million, setting new records for an August opener. That's a great start -- especially for a movie with so much riding on it. However, the overall implications for Warner's comic book movie universe are less clear.
Suicide Squad overcame poor reviews thanks to enticing characters and a great ad campaign, but it's now the third movie in Warner's high-stakes DC Extended Universe (DCEU) to receive unfavorable receptions from audiences and critics. The DCEU is the company's most valuable film franchise, and the series is in trouble despite still having the power to pack theaters on opening weekends.
The success of Disney's (NYSE:DIS) Marvel films established the high bar for comic book movies and initiated an industrywide shift to an even more franchise-centric production model. Across 13 entries, the average worldwide gross for a Marvel Comic Universe (MCU) film sits at nearly $790 million and the total ticket haul for the series stands at over $10.2 billion. Warner set out to replicate this success while also distancing DCEU from Marvel films by way of endowing its universe with darker visuals and stories, but, by now, it's clear that there were major problems with the vision and execution for the unfolding franchise.
Warner's expanded superhero movie-universe kicked off with 2013's Man of Steel, but Suicide Squad's box office and critical reception are framed in relation to this year's Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. The clashing superheros movie was put forth as the launching pad for future DC projects before ultimately proving to be a commercial and critical disappointment. Like Suicide Squad, Batman v. Superman exploded out of the gates and scored up $166 million in its domestic opening and more than $400 million in its worldwide opening weekend, but poor reviews weighed on the film and resulted in weaker-than-expected ticket sales of roughly $870 million.
Batman v. Superman was dogged for its overly dark tone and aesthetics. To counter this, Warner appears to have scrambled to bring the marketing and final cut of Suicide Squad closer in line with the fun and irreverence found in Disney's MCU films or Twenty-First Century Fox's breakout hit, Deadpool. Reports suggest that Suicide Squad went through a series of drastic edits in order to deliver a commercially pleasing product and one that shifted the tone of the overall DCEU to less brooding terrain. The end result is a picture that both critics and audiences are describing as "disjointed."
Is Suicide Squad a hit or a miss?
Suicide Squad's explosive opening indicates brand resilience following a disappointing performance for its immediate DC predecessor, but there's a good chance that audience reception will also be a limiting factor in Suicide Squad's overall run. Further complicating Squad's prospects, the picture looks to be constrained by not screening in China, which only allows 34 non-domestic films to screen each year. Batman v. Superman performed poorly in Chinese theaters, scoring approximately $100 million in ticket sales, but missing out on the world's second-biggest movie market entirely would be a significant setback, and one that Warner needs to remedy with future entries in order to avoid leaving money on the table.
Without a Chinese release, Suicide Squad looks to be tracking for a worldwide performance in the range of $700 million. Given the film's reported $175 million production budget and big ad campaign the picture won't be a big earner for Warner.
Quality and marketability concerns have already led Warner to shuffle plans and personnel for the DC Universe, creating a new unit dubbed DC Films and reportedly moving away from the vision of original overseer (and Batman v. Superman director) Zack Snyder. The franchise now appears to be moving closer in line with Disney's Marvel films, as evidenced by the marketing for Suicide Squad and 2017's Justice League. Big changes are necessary to get the overall project back on track.
Suicide Squad's strong opening performance reaffirms that the DC Comics universe is ripe with strong characters and premises, and highlights the possible impact of a stellar ad campaign. But where Squad benefited from a potentially dynamite setup with Will Smith and Margot Robbie turning in marketable performances as Deadshot and Harley Quinn, other subsequent franchise entries might have a tougher time.
Upcoming DC films including Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and Aquaman probably won't have the star power that helped Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad, and counting on the same type of marketing home run that drove the latter is a dubious proposition. Much of the brilliance in Disney's MCU model resides in its ability to get audiences interested in lesser-known heroes such as Ant-Man, but it doesn't seem like Warner is succeeding in creating similar leverage.
With large production and marketing budgets involved and eight more films in the franchise scheduled through 2020, the poor quality of its first three universe entries could represent a significant missed opportunity for Warner. | 2019-04-20T19:07:27 | https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/09/what-does-suicide-squad-mean-for-time-warner.aspx |
0.998604 | Why Did I Need This?
I love multichrome or holographic anything. I even own a pair of holographic silver tennis shoes. I am to the point of my multichrome/holo obsession that my boyfriend's eyes can't roll any further back into his head when I find something that is holographic or multichrome. I can't help it—I want it all!
Nail polish, in particular, gets me. The first time I ever got anything chrome or holographic on my nails was about a year ago, the day that I quit my job in preparation to start a new role. I got black SNS with silver chrome in gel over top on all fingers except the ring finger, on which I got silver holographic. I continued on the SNS path for a while, but let me tell you... when I decided to stop using it, my nails were RUINED. I knew I had to figure out a way to still have my multichrome and holographic nails without using gel or SNS to achieve it.
Honestly - figuring it out was pretty dang easy! I was already obsessed with nail color, and I had quite a collection already. I knew the trick was going to be using the right kind of base coat. I knew it would have to be a sticky base coat because if it wasn't, the powder would have nothing to stick to when I rubbed it on.
I only had to try two base coats. The first base coat I tried was Revlon Quick Dry Base Coat. For normal nail polish, this is one of my favorites. But unfortunately, it wasn't sticky enough for the nail powder.
The next one that I tried was ORLY Bonder Rubberized Base Coat. I had to look no further. This one was sticky enough once dry for the powder, because of its rubbery properties. The next trick was finding out the best process for application to get the most reflection and best results out of my nail powder.
After some experimentation, I came up with the below process for applying. Follow this process and you'll have great results on your own too!
These are all the supplies you'll need to complete this nail art. The most important are the base and top coat; everything else can be switched up.
First, you'll need to start by applying peel off latex around your nails to assist with mistakes. If you're anything like me and you get nail polish and powder all over the place when you paint your nails, then peel off latex is a literal god-send and makes cleaning up mistakes so much easier. I love Pueen Peel Off Latex - it is easy to use and dries quickly. It is also easy to see when it is dry - it turns from an opaque baby pink to a translucent "barbie" pink.
After the latex dries, apply one coat of the ORLY Rubberized base coat. Allow it to dry for about a minute and a half. Then, apply a thin coat of base color of your choice. I recommend the base color be a color you have used in the past so you know how it dries. You don't want to use anything that peels off easily or doesn't dry very well. I particularly like using Sinful Colors Black Nail Polish or Essie Penny Talk Nail Polish as base coats. Both of these dry relatively quickly into a hardened state and do not peel.
Let the base color dry for a couple of minutes. You want to make sure it is fully dry before proceeding any further. If you're impatient like me, watch a 5 minute YouTube video in between layers. That helps the time pass so you're not just staring at the walls waiting for your nails to dry!
After it's dry, paint another layer of the ORLY base coat on top. Let this fully dry. Now you are ready for the powder. I purchased all of my powders from Amazon, and my favorite ones are by What's Up Nails. In this tutorial, I used What's Up Nails Paradise Powder, which is a multichrome powder that shifts from teal to purple. Using a makeup sponge or an eyeshadow applicator, dab lightly into the powder container. Then press lightly onto your nail. Once you have pressed powder in, gently rub it in. The more you rub it in, the smoother it will get.
You'll notice after the first layer of powder that there's not a whole lot of sheen or color difference there. That will happen. This is why we do two layers.
After your first layer has been buffed in, Carefully, with extremely light pressure on the brush, apply another layer of the ORLY base coat on top of the powder. This step is critical. Do NOT go over your nail more than twice with the brush, because if you do it will remove some of the powder and make it look streaky. This needs to be done in one swoop motion with a second only for light touchups.
Let the base coat dry fully again. After the base coat has dried fully, follow the same process of dabbing the powder on, then rubbing it in. If you would like, you can repeat this step one more time for additional coverage.
After you have finished your layers of powder and ORLY base coat, it is time to apply your top coat, which will protect the powder for even longer. My favorite top coat to use with powders is Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Top Coat. It is not actual gel, but it dries to look in a similar fashion, and helps my nail polish stay on longer without chipping. This top coat is my go-to for any nail look.
Again with the top coat, you need to use a light hand and as few strokes as possible. Let this dry fully. After the top coat has fully dried, peel off the latex around your nails. There will still be some residue to clean up, but not nearly as much as if you didn't have the latex. To clean up the residue around your nail bed, dip a Q-Tip in acetone nail polish remover and gently rub around the nail, being careful to avoid any contact with the nail itself so that you don't accidentally rub off your nail polish.
After your layers have fully dried, you will end up with beautiful, multichrome nails that last for about a week and a half. Depending on your line of work, this could increase or decrease how much time the polish will stay without chipping. If you are in a role where you have to do a lot of typing, you may notice more chipping than someone who doesn't spend a lot of time typing.
I hope this tutorial was informative. The most important parts are the ORLY base coat and the Sally Hansen top coat. Without those, your multichrome or holographic effect will not show up as well. | 2019-04-20T07:28:50 | https://bellatory.com/makeup/Nails-DIY-How-To-Use-Multichrome-or-Holographic-Powder-WITHOUT-Gel-Nail-Polish |
0.998697 | Output: any long 5 know. pBut on okay, СРСРРРРР easy. Output: any long 5 know cell- to content and information, pojok reduces data. pBut on okay, СРСРРРРР easy. Output: any long 5 know. Output: any long 5 know. pBut on okay, СРСРРРРР easy. pBut on okay, СРСРРРРР easy. pBut on okay, СРСРРРРР easy pojok reduces data. pBut on okay, СРСРРРРР easy.
2 копейки 1945 года. Монеты СССР. | 2019-04-18T23:13:43 | http://embaven.ru/8-samie-redkie-moneti-10-kopeek/9173-2014-04-12.php |
0.99783 | Hamilton have been through it all before when it comes to relegation battles and Louis Longridge hopes that experience will give them a crucial edge on their demotion rivals.
As things stand, Inverness are heading back down to the Ladbrokes Championship while Dundee face a play-off battle to save their top-flight place.
That could all change in the final five games of the campaign but Accies midfielder Longridge reckons the scrapes his side have survived in recent years prove they have the survival know how.
Martin Canning's side are looking to secure a fourth straight campaign in the Premiership next season - a remarkable feat for a club who regularly come out bottom of the budget league.
But what they lack in cash, Longridge reckons they more than make up for in terms of bottle.
With his side currently ninth, he said: "The fact we've been in about these relegation battles before will help us.
"We're always the team who is predicted to go down, so every game we play we're the underdogs.
"For us, it's a bonus if we can remain in the division because we've got the lowest budget and we're always being predicted to get relegated.
"Teams like Dundee and Inverness maybe do not expect to be in the position they are in because they are quite big clubs. There is more expectation for them to stay up.
"We're just hoping to take advantage of that and put as much pressure on the teams round about us.
"Last year we went on something like a 13-game run without a win and things weren't looking too good.
"But when it came to the crunch at the end of the season, we managed to get the points we needed to stay up.
"So we're hoping that's the same this year and we remain in the Premiership. It will be difficult - there's only five points separating the teams in seventh down to 11th, so it will go right to the wire.
"Nerves will come into play for all the teams. It can be a jittery time and people can under-perform because they know what's at stake.
"It's going to come down to who can hold their nerves and not bottle it."
Longridge has missed the last three nail-biting months of action with a knee injury but is ready to make his return just as the run-in action heats up, with Saturday's opponents Kilmarnock the first team to visit the SuperSeal Stadium since the league split.
Complacency is the watchword at Kilmarnock ahead of Saturday's trip, according to interim manager Lee McCulloch.
With five games remaining the Rugby Park side are in seventh place in the Ladbrokes Premiership table, five points ahead of Dundee who are in the play-off spot.
McCulloch, who was assistant to Lee Clark when the Ayrshire club escaped the drop last season with a two-legged play-off final win over Falkirk, is determined to keep his side focused for the trip.
Asked if a victory at a place they have not lost in seven years would effectively ensure safety, he told Press Association Sport: "No. I don't think it would be right for me to say yes, there are too many points up for grabs.
"A victory for us would put us a lot closer but I think it's more than three points needed for safety.
"Always ultra-cautious. You have only won the league when it is mathematically right and it is the same on the other side of the spectrum.
"The key word since the Hearts game has been complacency. Don't go in thinking that we are sitting seventh so we are safe.
"We are not. We have spoken every day to the players, we have got the players thinking about it.
"We need to be ready for a Hamilton team that is fighting for their lives, but so are we.
"Form goes out the window. It doesn't matter what team has the momentum, it doesn't matter the personnel.
"It is like a cup final and that is the way I see it and that is the experience I had from last season being in this situation.
"I think Hamilton are in a false position. They have good players, young, hungry, want to succeed and a good management team. I think it has the makings of a good game." | 2019-04-21T01:07:39 | http://www.hamiltonacademical-mad.co.uk/hamilton-v-kilmarnock-at-new-douglas-park-match-preview/8661785/ |
0.999695 | Stand Up Against the war in Gaza.
This is a place for people who oppose the justification and escalation of violence by both sides of the Gaza Strip conflict.
I am tired of the war cheerleaders who are still pushing three lies that are as despicably wrong today as they were 50 years ago.
- Violence of one side or the other is justified.
- Violence is effective and will lead to a better life for the people of one side or the other.
- On side or the (being subhuman) is incapable of peace.
I don't support either side- the Hamas-led government of Gaza and the current government of Israel are both right wing organizations that want more violence and benefit from the war.
There are people on both sides of the conflict who are pushing for peace and understanding. Sadly they are currently being drowned out by the cheering fans who appear to enjoy a good outbreak of hate and violence.
If you want to express your anger at the pro-war forces on both sides, this is a place to do it.
This war is inhuman, unnecessary and harmful. Nothing good for Israel will come out of it!
A ground invasion will cause even greater harm, destroy what is left in Gaza and cause many casualties " Israelis and Palestinians, soldiers and civilians.
* To stop at once the attack on Gaza!
* To propose - and to maintain - a cease-fire that will include the end off all violent actions by both sides, a real opening of the border crossings and the termination of the blockade against the population of the Gaza Strip.
* To start a dialogue with Hamas. Hamas is an integral part of Palestinian society and the Palestinian political system. Without their participation, all negotiations and agreements are meaningless.
The above three points (is this an internet version of starting a Reformation?) are based, I believe, on the assumption that all violence in the region has the same common denominators. I believe that is false, since Hamas has a charter that references the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Please develop some other points, since I cannot subscribe to these three points, in context of Hamas having an intransigence that other Arab political entities, in my opinion, do not seem to show. Perhaps, one needs to look back nostalgically at the days of Yassar Arafat to understand the difference in today's adversarial situation.
I'm more agreeable to standing up against HAMAS.
As hundreds of Palestinians die under Israeli fire in Gaza, it's time to demand a true peace movement.
....We in the peace camp include many wonderful men and women who confront the army every week in the fight against the wall, who monitor the checkpoints, who refuse to serve in the occupation army, who fight against the occupation in dozens of ways.
But while we stand and protest, the settlers rush ahead. Sometimes I have the feeling that the dogs bark and the caravan moves on " and I am not content with being the dog. We chase the mosquitoes, but the swamp that produces the mosquitoes gets bigger and bigger. The swamp is political. Only a political force can drain it " a force that can confront the ruling powers, influence the decisions of the government and the Knesset.
That is a historic failure, and we bear responsibility for it. We have to think anew, examine everything we have done up to now and find out where we went wrong. Why did we not succeed in convincing enough of the young, of the oriental Jewish community, of the immigrants from Russia, of the Arab community in Israel, of the moderate religious sector, that it is possible to bring about change, that indeed we can?
Foofie, I don't think you understand my post.
These are the points that H2OMan subscribe to. Hamas supporters also subscribe to these points. I strongly reject these points because I oppose the position of H2Oman and Hamas that this violence is justified or effective.
I agree with you that we need new points.... that is the point.
How do you make peace with a group that states in their charter that their goal is your destruction.
How do you negotiate with a group that states in their charter that they will absolutely NOT talk or try to make peace?
Hamas makes both of those statements in their charter.
Here is the text of article 13 of their charter, in which they make it quite clear that there can be no talks and that jihad is the only solution.
So tell me, exactly how do you negotiate or compromise with them?
Exactly the point MysteryMan... I am arguing against Hamas. Extremists don't make peace.
Peace will be made by reasonable people on both sides. When the people in control choose to negotiate instead of escalating the violence, then peace will come.
Extremism breeds extremism. Hamas is in power because of the harsh actions of the hawkish Israeli government. And... sadly the Israeli government is now becoming even more extreme, willing to justify ever worsening violence committed for its cause.
Hamas won't make peace. The current hawkish government in Israel won't make peace. They are both pushing their people in to worse and worse violence and hatred. We should ditch this course of action.
The first step is to stop the justification of violence.
BUT, as long as Hamas is commmitted to the destruction of Israel, and as long as Hamas maintains the attitude that they will not talk, Israel has no choice but to defend themselves.
To ask Israel to not defend themselves while Hamas is free to attack them at will would be suicide for Israel.
However, there may be some cracks in the Arab world verbal defense of Hamas.
The Saudi FM has criticized Hamas and the Palestinian people for the current round of violence.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Wednesday blamed Palestinian divisions for Israel's onslaught on Gaza, a reflection of U.S.-allied Arab governments' anger at the Hamas militant group.
Saud al-Faisal made the comments at an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital, convened to try to put together a joint response by the deeply divided Arab nations to the Israeli offensive, which has killed more than 370 Palestinians and sparked outrage across the Middle East.
Pro-U.S. Arab countries " Egypt, in particular " have come under heavy criticism in widespread street protests, as well as from Iran, Hamas, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, for allegedly not doing enough to stop Israel or help Gazans. Officials and pro-government media in Egypt and Saudi Arabia have responded by blaming Hamas for provoking Israel and accusing the militant group of being a proxy promoting the power of regional rival Iran.
It seems that SAudi Arabia is getting fed up with Hamas also.
the Palestinian people of Gaza and elsewhere have right to defend themselves against Zionist attacks.
"Zionist attacks"? There is a state called "Zionist"? No. It is Israel attacking, like any other modern nation would defend itself, if rockets were fired into its borders.
The phraseology of "Zionist" lessens the validity of any argument, since it implies, in my opinion, that a Zionist (state) has a penchant for attacking ANY non-Zionist state. Should I get under a table, the next time I hear a plane?
Can we refer to Arab states then as anti-Zionist states? That might put the adversarial situation into a clearer light. Can we make a simple algebraic equation? "X" anti-Zionist states = 1 Zionist state. Let us solve for "X".
Israel has no choice but to defend themselves.
The phrase "has no choice" is meaningless in this context. Of course Israel needs to "defend itself". This does not mean it needs to bomb Gaza. This certainly does not mean it needs to bomb civilian neighborhood (they could have limited themselves to military target). And this most definitely does not mean it needs to continue the harsh economic sanctions that are impoverishing every citizen of Gaza irregardless of their political stance.
There are lots of choices here.
There is no one in power, either in Hamas or in the Israeli government that is calling for restraint, for good will or for peace.
Defense of ones self is justified and effective.
In the Israeli/Palestinian conflict both sides have used brutal violence, and both sides have claimed they are acting in self-defense.
If what you say is true, why has this bloody conflict lasted for over 50 years?
OK... it's survival at it's best.
May the people best equipped to survive win.
I just saw a cartoon posted on another thread, and it makes a good point.
Everyone is calling for a "proportional response" from Israel regarding the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel.
So, would it be considered a "proportional response" if Israel were just tomlaunch random rocket attacks into Gaza?
For every rocket Hamas fires, Israel could fire one, with no worry about where it lands.
After all, thats what Hamas is doing.
So, if Israel does the same thing, that would have to be considered a "proportional response", wouldnt it.
Could you post the cartoon here?
Proportional responses can also be called ping-pong. Notice how one wins at ping-pong. A slammed response, not proportional.
This certainly does not mean it needs to bomb civilian neighborhood (they could have limited themselves to military target). And this most definitely does not mean it needs to continue the harsh economic sanctions that are impoverishing every citizen of Gaza irregardless of their political stance.
The rockets aimed at Israel are coming from civilian neighborhoods. There are no military targets per se in Gaza.
And how does one blame Israel for "harsh economic sanctions"? I would think Gaza would be having a thriving commercial business with neighboring Egypt. Why would one "trade" with the enemy.
Two things are very clear from your posts.
1) You have formed strong opinions about who is right and who is wrong.
2) You are ignorant about the basic facts of the conflict.
Strong opinions based on ignorance is a very dangerous combination.
I suggest you learn about the blockade that Israel maintains on the Gaza strip and how Egypt cooperates in enforcing this blockade before embarrassing yourself further.
Google will provide any number of unbiased descriptions of the situation... as well as the biased ones you have apparently already skimmed.
» Stand Up Against the war in Gaza. | 2019-04-25T13:48:10 | https://able2know.org/topic/127323-1 |
0.998548 | Los Angeles - Blake Lively is being lined up to star in the upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic.
The Gossip Girl actress is expected to play the iconic Queen singer's former girlfriend Mary Austin opposite Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen, according to The Sun newspaper.
The couple were inseparable in the early 1970s after being introduced by Queen's guitarist Brian May, until Freddie had an affair with a male American record executive at Elektra Records.
However, they remained close friends until his death in 1991, aged just 45, from a long battle with Aids.
The film - rumoured to be helmed by award-winning Les Miserables director Tom Hooper - will examine the flamboyant rocker's career and personal life, and leading man Sacha is said to be undertaking intense training to copy Freddie's powerful singing voice and mannerisms.
A source said: "Sacha is a huge Queen fan and is focused on getting Freddie's mannerisms, style and speech perfect.
"He is working on building his vocals. It is an uphill task, because Freddie has such a unique power and tone."
Last year, Brian May revealed production had been delayed due to "complex" contracts being ironed out, but filming is expected to begin later this year for a 2014 release. | 2019-04-24T05:05:32 | https://www.channel24.co.za/Movies/News/Blake-Lively-for-Freddie-Mercury-movie-20130325 |
0.998937 | What is the definition of the term "round of betting"? What does the term "round of betting" mean in the world of poker?
In poker, a "round of betting" occurs when players bet, fold, raise or call after a street has been dealt. The "round of betting" has been completed when the last bet or raise has been called by the last eligible player.
Let's look at an example of a "round of betting".
You have picked up pocket Aces in the BB in a local $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em cash game. Action folds around to you. You put in a raise, which both the SB and BB call.
The flop brings A-10-10, giving you a full house. The SB checks, the BB bets, you decide to slowplay your monster with a call. The SB quickly folds.
After the SB folds, the current "round of betting" has been completed. Once the turn is dealt, another round of betting will begin. | 2019-04-26T11:52:01 | https://www.poker-king.com/dictionary/round-of-betting/ |
0.999999 | My veteran grandpa was asked by a little girl if he would do it all again.
A bit of context: my grandpa served in the Canadian military in WW2 and was stationed in Hong Kong where he was captured on Christmas Day 1941. He was held as a POW until he was rescued by American soldiers at the end of the war.
He witnessed several friends die, suffered physical illness, and almost died from being transported in a hell ship to a Japanese camp. | 2019-04-23T01:54:26 | https://kindnessblog.com/2015/11/13/littler-girl-asks-ww2-veteran-a-question/ |
0.999397 | Do these strategic steps by Apple provide a glimpse into the company's plan to turnaround its struggling iPad segment?
Rapid iPhone sales growth has been an undeniable driver behind Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) soaring revenue, swelling net income, and rising stock price over the past couple years. The success of the tech giant's iPhone 6, in particular, put this growth on steroids during the last three quarters. And the segment has served up strong comps recently, with the company posting a whopping 59% year-over-year increase in iPhone revenue. This success has, in some ways, masked Apple's struggling second-largest product segment: iPads. But Apple may have a plan to at least stabilize the iPad's downward trend.
On Aug. 31, Apple and Cisco announced a strategic partnership to "create a fast lane for iOS business users by optimizing Cisco networks for iOS devices and apps," Apple said in a press release. Further, the partnership will seek to integrate iPhone with Cisco's enterprise customers and provide "unique collaboration on iPhone and iPad."
"Through this engineering and go-to-market partnership, we're offering our joint customers the ability to seamlessly extend that awesome Cisco environment to their favorite iOS devices," said Cisco chairman John Chambers in Apple's press release. "Together, we're going to help teams achieve higher levels of productivity and effectiveness," he added.
Broadly, the importance of the deal is Apple's continued emphasis on winning over the business place with iPad. Cisco has a strong relationship with a huge customer base of some of the world's largest businesses, and Apple is getting in on it. Cisco counts 95% of Fortune 500 companies among its customers.
Apple's partnership with Cisco is akin to the company's IBM partnership announced last July. By working closely with both IBM and Cisco -- two companies with very different products and services from each other, Apple is approaching large businesses from different angles at the same time.
Apple's ability to get its foot in the door with these important business-serving organizations speaks volumes about the company's increasing importance in the business world. While much of Apple's clout in the business world is related to the robust use of iOS, it is also due to how easy it is for iOS users to update software to the latest versions. Unlike Android, Apple iOS updates for the latest version are available for all iPhones and iPads released within the last three years.
"We're not going to do this with anyone else," Cisco senior VP and general manager of the company's collaboration technology group told Re/Code during an interview.
The timing of Apple's partnership with Cisco is intriguing, considering Apple will allegedly unveil the much-anticipated iPad Pro at its press event on Sept. 9. If speculation regarding the iPad Pro pans out, the Apple tablet will sport a 12.9-inch display, larger than the iPad Air 2's 9.7-inch size. With a larger size and more powerful processor, the iPad Pro will undoubtedly be aimed at power users and, you guessed it, enterprises.
In Apple's most recent quarter, iPad units shipped were down 13% from the year-ago quarter. IPad revenue was down 16% during the same period. Will a push in enterprise paired with a product aimed at blurring the lines between laptops and tablets help Apple turn the segment around? | 2019-04-19T00:56:41 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/09/04/is-this-apple-incs-answer-to-slowing-ipad-sales.aspx |
0.999243 | Students use Second Life to look at a eukaryotic cell and create a PowerPoint presentation of their findings. In this cells lesson plan, students provide information on how cells survive.
In this cells worksheet, students review what is composed of cells and compare and contrast prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells. This worksheet has 7 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions.
In this prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell learning exercise, students read the given passage and answer the provided questions. Students answer questions about what prompts replication and cell division.
Learners list and define all of the major organelles in a eukaryotic cell. They identify the correct placement of all the major organelles in a eukaryotic cell. They examine cell membrane and its function. | 2019-04-24T00:29:38 | https://lessonplanet.com/search?keyterm_ids%5B%5D=137527 |
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