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0.997898 | Refreshingly sticky, soaked with spiced syrup, this summery dessert is delicious eaten with a dollop of Greek style yogurt.
Beat the free-range eggs. Zest the oranges. Zest the lemons. Juice the oranges. Juice the lemons. Toast the flaked almonds.
1 You will need a 23cm round, deep cake tin lined with greaseproof paper.
2 For the cake, mix together the almonds, sugar and baking powder in a large bowl. Whisk the oil with the eggs and pour onto the dry ingredients. Add the grated rinds and mix well. Pour into the prepared cake tin and place in a cold oven.
3 Turn the temperature to 180’C (160’C fan) gas 4 and bake for 40-50 minutes or until risen and firm to the touch. If the surface browns too quickly, lay a piece of greaseproof paper over the top.
4 Meanwhile make the syrup: place all the ingredients in a small pan, bring to the boil, stirring occasionally then simmer for 5 minutes until syrupy. Set aside.
5 Carefully transfer the cake onto a rimmed plate. Using a sharp- tipped knife, score the surface of the cake then drizzle on the syrup, letting it soak into the sponge. Leave to stand for 20 minutes.
6 Just before serving scatter on some toasted flaked almonds.
7 Variation: For individual puddings, you will need 8 x 150ml pudding basins, base-lined with a ring of greaseproof paper. Cook for 15-20 minutes.
Unclear recipe: have ingredients been repeated in the list by mistake?
This cake is delicious and had a lovely tangy taste. It also is easy to make and a great alternative gluten free cake. | 2019-04-21T23:06:27 | http://www.cookwithmands.com/recipes/moroccan-orange-and-almond-cake |
0.99915 | Chemical interactions with the environment intrinsically compound over countless eons. Over time, the difference between chemical reactions and the environment grows. The slow accumulation of these interactions begins to compile into the most primitive functions, and eventually natural chemical reactions occur that allow these functions to be almost independent in environment, but not yet holding functional desire of their own.
These simplistic mechanization turn into independent vessels as soon as they hold within themselves the isolated function that causes them to "do" something in the environment and as soon as they have some chemical/molecular component that constitutes a "defensive shell" of some sort, the most rudimentary concept of life exists.
Layer upon layer of these functions are outlined and contained within these vessels - as they interact with their environment. Each new function included in a specific tandem to the environment itself. It is as thought the environment and the vessel of pre-constituted life are in contact with each other in order to craft each other.
The molecular functions compound further and further, and the "desire of life" extends in new avenues as a living vessel partakes in new advantages crafted through selective processes to better interact with the environment, to better survive, and eventually to thrive.
That core function, desire, is so strong it will be the true firmament upon which living history will grow upon.
A) This sequence follows the general historic retrace of animal genetics in evolution. With an artistic eye, evolution features can be easily seen. From one image to the next we can see shifts in size of the domed brain pan, as well as changes in placement of the front teeth.
DNA: These skulls represent a general lineage from animal species that either have not been made extinct, or have left remnant fossils to study, such as 12) Repenomamus. So, for example 8) Horse did not evolve into 7) Rabbit directly of course, but DNA tracers have revealed the genetic connection of those two species.
B) Seeing the difference in hand bones can be remarkable, the greatest similarity being between 1) Human and 2) Human Ancestor Autralopithecus. Migration in hand bones and wrist bones is subtle, but telling, and while we see great difference between 1) Human and 8) Prehistoric Fish With Boney Limbs: Crossopterygian, the overall structure is amazingly similar with simple considerations. What must be asked is, why are these limbs not vastly different? They are very similar in the formation of rigid structures with jointed features, a wrist base, and finger bones for articulated movement at the end of the limb.
Hand Bones: Hand bones share great similarity in lineage - even visible in the rather large leap from the mammal hand 4) Rat to the reptile hand 5) Sea Turtle shows how vast changes of species leave remnant similarities, showing only small changes in wrist bone structure in this case.
C) Following the development of brain sections back through time displays progressive shape shifting and migration of brain parts. In the following images, three major parts have been noted.
D) Another hierarchy to look at is the complexity of brain synapses in brain tissues through evolution. As the following image shows, as we walk backwards in time from Human Beings to Reptiles, layers of development have been added one by one.
There is ample evidence for the theory of evolution, however understanding the unfoldment of that process is not fully necessary.
What is essential to see and marvel towards is the expected universe existing in a miraculous condition whereby a single Lightwave spectrum is capable of unwinding into all created things.
Religious doctrine or speculation may leave some people adamant about one theory or another - but there is little room for such argument because in our lifetimes, what we have is what we see, and what we see is fully interconnected.
Living animals are forced to meet their basic living needs, and to fend off violence and oppression - it's in their DNA to do so. How we accomplish that is yielded by chosen avenues in the expression of desire. The ability to indulge in what is wanted immediately, or to craft new pathways that serve in the betterment of individuals, and all of humankind.
We are animals until we seek otherwise - all humans, like species, orient themselves by mentality. Mentalities permit behavior and behavior creates the world.
The nuances can be discussed forever, however the basis for heightened consciousness leaves no second-guessing.
The condition of Cosmic Conscioussness is a the advent of establishing a higher order internally, as we put down rudimentary mentalities that pre-date our modern era in the evolution of consciousness and towards the real future of humankind.
Let's move on to a brief discussion of the decisions of consciousness. | 2019-04-23T18:52:03 | http://cosmictome.com/animal-evolution-2-2/ |
0.999999 | This guide argues that events are the milestones in creating partnerships, and one of the main milestones should be a conference or seminar at which all the key interests come together to commit their support to the new organisation. This is best held after a series of workshop, but before all decisions on projects and structure have been taken.
Large meetings and committees are not good for working through difficult issues. You can often make a lot more process by taking some time out in smaller groups and reporting back.
Introduce the issue to the large group, and set tasks for smaller groups. State time limits, how to report back, and arrange where each group should go.
Break into smaller groups of not more than 6 to 8. Meet and discuss the issue. Appoint a facilitator, recorder, reporter if necessary.
Report back to the large group.
As an alternative reshuffle into new small groups and report back to each other within the groups.
Among the committee meetings and workshop sessions allow time for social events where people can get to know each informally. People are far more likely to get involved and support something which is fun.
Development trusts and other partnerships of any size will require staff, and some of these at least should be directly employed by the Trust. Secondees and volunteers can be immensely valuable, but only operate effectively if they have support and guidance. Consequently the Board of a Trust will have to consider appropriate recruitment procedures, terms and conditions of service and other issues of staff management.
Development trusts often have two senior key staff &endash; the executive director and the project manager &endash; supported by an administrator.
The start up process for a Development Trust or other partnership should be directed by a steering group. If the partnership is to become a company, the steering group should be a 'shadow' Board &endash; acting as if they were the Board, even though they may not be the same individuals who will ultimately take responsibility.
Clarify accountability and terms of reference.
Run some sessions as workshops, rather than formal committee meetings, and develop agreed action plans.
Whoever holds the cheque book controls the programme. Should this power to lie with an existing organisation?
Staff will follow the directions of whoever pays their wages.
In this context information is power, and whoever produces papers, agendas and writes the minutes controls the meetings.
On the other hand, incorporated structures like companies generate extra costs and responsibilities for those on the Board.
I suggest that for big programmes where a number of interests want a real stake over a long period, go for a company. For short-term projects work through existing structures, and fora.
See also Accountability, Constitution, Terms of reference.
It is tempting, in forming a partnership, to concentrate mainly on formal structure &endash; because that determines where power and control lies. However, just as important in the long term is the style of the organisation: is it open and accessible, does it offer opportunities for personal development to those involved, is it an empire-builder, or is it prepared to work with others?
A successful partnership will have a shared view of these issues internally, and practice what it preaches externally.
A useful early exercise for a steering group is to brainstorm the words by which members would like the partnership described.
Ensuring their own operations are sustainable by developing an asset base or other means of earning revenue to cover core costs.
Promoting the development of sustainable local communities offering a high quality of life for those living and working there.
Environmental sustainability: the principle that development in this generation should not compromise the ability of future generation to meet their needs.
Brainstorm issues under each heading. Strengths and weaknesses relate to internal matters for the group or organisation, opportunities and threats to the external. Divide up a chart, and ask people to fill in and stick on Post-it notes.
Draw up a summary and discuss how to build on your strengths, do something about your weaknesses. make the most of the opportunities, avoid or eliminate the threats.
Turn these conclusions into an Action plan.
Additionally they can get tax relief on money donated from others e.g. gift aid, and investment income is paid at gross not net.
Team building is the process of helping a group develop shared aims and objectives, values and a plan to put them into action. People working together are better able to get to know each other than, for example, members of a steering group meeting every month or two &endash; so team building workshops can be particularly important for partnerships. If possible use in a trainer who specialises in team building to plan a programme. If not, an 'away day' with a facilitator to work on simple techniques like Brainstorming and SWOT can achieve a lot.
The purpose and membership of the group.
Who services it with agendas and minutes.
How often it meets &endash; and for how long.
The topics or issues the group covers.
lThe powers of the group to make decisions.
What funding it has, if any.
To which committee or group it reports back.
Draw a horizontal line on a piece of paper.
Graduate it into appropriate blocks of time (days, weeks, months). The first mark is NOW, the last the completion date.
Think of all the tasks to be completed.
Place the tasks on the time line in the order of when they have to be done, and which are the most important to do at a particular time.
Draw out and deal with any suspicions from past contacts.
Be open and honest about what you are trying to achieve &endash; and about any problems.
Be prepared to make mistakes &endash; and admit them.
If a Development Trust or other partnership is a charitable company, the Board of directors will also be trustees &endash; that is, they will have responsibilities under the Charities Acts as well under company law. These responsibilities are wide ranging, and trustees should be well briefed and offered training in their role.
Values are statements of what we consider important. Since they may be emotive, political, and difficult to express, they are frequently hidden. However it is difficult to understand each other or reach agreement if we are unclear about values &endash; and so shared values are fundamental to successful partnerships.
For example, council officers faced with a tight project timetable may be frustrated by a community group which insists on numerous meetings, held in the evenings, leading to the appointment of a representative steering group. The officers value cost-effective delivery of 'product' acceptable to their political masters and the Government; the group values openness and democratic process. In groups where there may be underlying differences of values it is often most productive to concentrate first on what there is in common by discussing outcomes &endash; what you would like to happen at the end of the day &endash; and how you can get there.
The idea of a vision of the future seems to me rather broader than purpose or mission, because it places more emphasis on values and approach &endash; how you do things as well as the result you achieve. Vision may be a helpful term if you are using participation techniques that encourage people to create pictures of what they want, or develop models. Partnerships need vision &endash; and visions.
See Past and Future, and the Vision information sheet.
Self-help groups of people with a shared interest seeking to assist each other.
Community groups of activists concerned with a locality or local issue.
Small local charitable organisations with management committees and paid workers.
National charities with local branches.
Bodies like Development Trusts which may see themselves as not-for-profit companies.
There will be a wide range of community and voluntary organisations in any community, and they may be concerned about the creation of any new body which may compete with them for scarce resources. They may also be suspicious &endash; with good reason &endash; of initiatives which are simply devices for large organisations to access Government funds by claiming they are working in partnership.
Anyone seeking to create a Development Trust should consider what benefits the Trust will bring beyond those offered by existing bodies, and seek to recruit them as allies in the start up process. They may otherwise become enemies.
Create clear terms of reference.
Set a limit on how long they continue.
Encourage creative thinking rather than formal committee procedures.
This technique , which combines action plans with a time line, can be useful in planning the development of a partnership. However, while helpful, it is important to recognise that partnership building doesn't run on rails, and there will be many excursions and diversions from the chart!
Set up a calendar of days, weeks or months for the process, with the period across the top of a sheet of paper.
Identify main events like meetings and publications as 'milestones' in the process, and position them as on a time line.
Work out the subsidiary tasks to achieve the milestones, including which must be started before or after others.
Draw these under each other as lines across the calendar, the length of line indicating time to complete, with start and finish points marked.
Project management computer software is available to carry out workload planning, but can be rather time-consuming to use. | 2019-04-20T10:36:56 | http://partnerships.org.uk/pguide/sz.htm |
0.997453 | The sour cream and lime add a pleasing touch of acerbity to this cake.
1. Preheat the oven to 325 F. Lightly grease and flour a baking pan.
2. Sieve the flour, baking powder, baking soda & salt together. Beat the butter, sugar and lime zest until creamy.
3. Add eggs one at a time and gradually beat in the mixed dry ingredients, alternating with the sour cream. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 35 to 45 mins or until done.
4. To prepare the frosting, beat the butter and lemon zest in a medium bowl until creamy. Gradually beat in the icing sugar and enough lime juice to make a spreadable frosting. Spread the top and sides of the cake with the frosting. | 2019-04-25T18:51:10 | http://www.cookingwithswapna.com/2012/04/lemon-and-lime-sour-cream-cake.html |
0.999975 | I'm always interested in the topic of transportation. How could I not be? My father ran a very successful truck and trailer company that had a parts department, sales department, service department, and paint and body shop. His company served as a support system to the truck and trailer industry. Dad's company kept other companies on the road. In fact, I remember one year where his slogan [which he put EVERYWHERE] was "On the Road Again". You know, like the song by Willie Nelson, "On the Road Again"?
Of course, he had to get permission from Willie to use the title of his song on all his advertising and to play the song for radio and t.v. commercials. [Yes, we had t.v. commercials. My cousin on my Dad's side did those.] And you'd think that would've been hard to get Willie on the phone and to ask him. I can still hear my Dad tell that story.
"It was easy. I put in a few calls. He called me back, and said, 'Sure.'"
Nothing was signed. Nothing was official. But? This was Willie Nelson. On the phone. And we never got sued. Of course, years later I was riding in the passenger seat while Dad was driving, and we were listening to the news. And they were talking about Willie Nelson's income tax woes. Basically, he hadn't been paying his taxes, and he owed them quite a bit in back taxes and penalties.
Likewise, I'm always particularly interested in how our ancestors made their living. And I always perk up when I find one that's involved in transportation in one way or another. I have a 2nd great grandfather, Daniel Rook Vaughan, whose maternal uncle, James Rook, was a teamster. That couldn't have been an easy job back in 1860. They'd be dirty and grimy. They'd be constantly exposed to the elements. But what an integral part of life! They'd be moving cargo and people from one point to another in a time where there wasn't many other alternatives.
But another one of my peeps that I'm fond of was Clayborne Leander Bouquet. He was a railway messenger for Wells Fargo and for the company that would become American Express. I call him a 'peep' because he isn't an ancestor of mine, but he married my great-grandmother's sister, Genevieve. And while Clayborne [whose name ROCKS, btw] didn't drive a team, or in this case wasn't a railway engineer, he was the person that protected everything and everyone on that train and did so by risking his own life. He did this for years on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. Maybe he wasn't as dirty and grimy as James, the teamster, but it couldn't have been easy to keep the peace on those trains and to be so far away from Genevieve and his 2 girls.
While researching him, I found that Clayborne and Genevieve eventually divorced, and Clayborne eventually pursued [quite naturally] a law enforcement position where he could stay at home. All of which leads me to one of my interests in the 1940 US Census. [Yes, I know. Finally.] When did Clayborne give up the 'rails' for a more 'still' life? When did he and Genevieve divorce? In the 1930 US Census, it's recorded that Clayborne had risen up the ranks to Chief Messenger, and he was still married to Genevieve. That's where I lose his story, and I don't pick his trail back up until the late 1950s when he passes away.
Tracking ol' Clayborne down in the 1940 US Census will hopefully nail down a few things for me about his and Genevieve's stories.
But? When the 1940 US census is released, it won't be indexed, and that's where you can help. Join the 1940 US Census project and sign up to be a 1940 Census indexer. Being an indexer is one of those support jobs, like my Dad's company was. The more people who sign up to index, the quicker it will get done. And the quicker it gets done, the more researchers will be back on the the road again hunting down all those family stories.
Note: I am a 1940 Census Ambassador [another one of those support jobs], and this blog post enters me into a contest for a $50 Amazon Gift Card. Now. I don't need to tell you how happy I'd be to get that, do I? But I'd be even happier if you signed up to be a 1940 US Census Indexer.
Congratulations on being named one of the Winners of The Ambassador 1940 US Census Contest. I really enjoyed your post...as a Texan, I know all about Willie and being on the road...especially in Texas. It can be a long way between here and there. Enjoyed reading about your 'On The Road Again Family'.
I hope you will have a chance to stop by and read my Winning Entry...Ring-A-Ding-Ling...1947 Mobile Phone Calling.
Interesting to find a theme like transportation running through your research. The connection to Wells, Fargo & Co is pretty cool; I just saw a little story on the company's history on CBS' Sunday Morning today.
Congrats! Wonderful story, while reading your story, I had visions of the I-80 truck stop! Another family venture that had to do with "On The Road Again" Hope to see more from you! | 2019-04-23T06:47:14 | https://www.4yourfamilystory.com/blog/willie-nelson-transportation-and-the-1940-census |
0.999067 | To determine and set the correct tire pressure, proceed as follows: ■ Remove the valve cap of the tire that is to be checked.
■ Press the tire pressure gauge securely onto the valve.
■ Read the tire pressure and compare it with the recommended value on the Tire and Loading Information placard .
■ If the tire pressure is too low, increase it to the recommended value.
■ If the tire pressure is too high, release air by pressing down the metal pin in the valve.
Use the tip of a pen, for example. Then, check the tire pressure again using the tire pressure gauge.
■ Screw the valve cap onto the valve.
■ Repeat these steps for the other tires. | 2019-04-22T00:36:45 | http://www.mersuv.com/mbread-449.html |
0.998477 | Is it possible to read the ClipboardFusion database with an external tool?
Long, slightly complicated story...for months I was using CF on a computer without a network connection, so all my lists are only stored locally. Since I last used that computer, the security policies have changed such that I can't start CF because it requires admin privileges and I don't have that. I need to recover the lists I was using on that computer. Is there any tool I can use to examine the database and recover my lists?
Is it sensitive info? We may be able to recover the data if you're able to send us the database file. If the files is less than 50 MB you can attach it here, attachments are protected by default, meaning that only Binary Fortress staff can retrieve them.
Yeah, I'm afraid it is. I can't remove the file from the computer it's on.
If it's in one of the common database formats - like SQLite - I might be able to find a reader for that database. It didn't look like SQLite.
You won't be able to read it with an external tool, unfortunately.
Do you have access to a settings backup from ClipboardFusion on that machine? They're usually in the C:\Users\username\Documents\ClipboardFusion Backups folder. | 2019-04-19T14:26:01 | https://www.clipboardfusion.com/Discussions/View/is-it-possible-to-read-the-clipboardfusion-database-with-an-external-tool/?ID=4e571f75-cee0-48d7-9898-e4796ab9fb8d |
0.998589 | The short article below was originally posted as a comment posted in response to our publication of a leaflet to appeal for clemency on humanitarian grounds for Schapelle Corby.
Listeners to ABC Brisbane local radio's Morning Show presenter Madonna King will often be moved almost to tears by her frequent impassioned exhortations against injustices inflicted upon ordinary people as a result of crime, political expediency or bureaucratic indifference. Yet this capacity for compassion somehow does not extend to demanding humane treatment, let alone justice for a clearly innocent Australian woman, now rotting away in Bali's Kerobokan prison, diagnosed as clinically insane and at risk of losing her life. Schapelle Corby, found guilty of the ludicrous crime of importing a quantity of cannabis valued at $35,000 in Australia into a country where it would be worth only $5,000, is now five years into her astonishingly harsh 20 year prison sentence.
The fact that Madonna King works for the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation at the same time is a sign of problems in our public media. The observer has to wonder how she can obey her employers in the public sector and Mr Murdoch in the corporate sector without compromising her delivery of information.
Yes, Madonna King has shown that she can speak out against injustice as she did in co-writing the book with Cindy Wockner about the Bali 9.
Yet, how is it that was Madonna King had nothing to say when that mob of journalists burst into Schapelle Corby's cell recently and rifled through her personal belongings? Now there is an issue Madonna King could sink her fangs into: Australian woman incarcerated in crowded cell for twenty years is humiliated and harassed by prison authorities with the approval of the Australian government and the Australian public.
Perhaps Madonna King needs stronger evidence that defenseless women are being harassed by prison authorities? Fair enough! We don't want her to rush in without strong evidence, do we? Then consider Renae Lawrence (one of the Bali 9) who was interviewed (proprietary software may be required to view interview) the same day Schapelle Corby was cornered and photographed in her cell. Renae's slurred speech and bruised face was the result of being bashed by prison guards recently. What their reason was I don't know, but no reason would be sufficient. Did the humanitarian Madonna King immediately press the Australian government to enquire after Lawrence's welfare? Did she rail about it on her radio program? Did she contact Renae's father for more information? No, No and No. In the land of the 'fair go' it is okay for defenseless women prisoners to be bashed senseless or harassed by the media - so long as it happens somewhere else.
Just send her these quotes... with a Picture of Schapelle..?!
Ed. There was a defamatory comment here from a person who disapproves of Madonna King's work as a journalist. It would have been more helpful if they had given their comment as an opinion based on an argument, but I am conveying the feeling here. | 2019-04-23T10:25:26 | http://candobetter.net/?q=node/1863 |
0.999994 | Identifying victims in an air crash can be a challenging task. While you may think that it's simply a case of having a passenger list, there is the difficulty in identifying bodies found many years later.
In fact, a recent discovery of a hand and arm that were found in a glacier have been identified due to the benefits of DNA testing. The body parts were found in an Alaska glacier and were identified as a man who had been on a plane in the 1940s. The plane hit the side of a mountain at that time and thirty people had died in the flight.
Missing Person or Air Crash Victim?
Identifying the body parts was important in finding out if it was a missing person, for instance, or a murder victim. Peace of mind is important for the families and friends of a deceased person, which means that this kind of discovery needs to be identified as quickly and accurately as possible.
In this particular air crash, twenty-four passengers and six members of crew died. It wasn't until the late 1990s that two men found the remains of this one specific passenger, which by that time were mummified. The remains were then sent to a medical examiner who tried to take prints before embalming the remains.
The public health department tried to match up the fingerprints to several databases but since the prints weren't very clear, they were unsuccessful. Then, samples from the arm were sent to a DNA laboratory that does commercial work.
Still, with the remains in the state they were in from so much time passing, the lab was also unsuccessful in obtaining a clear DNA sequence. Essentially, the DNA was extremely degraded because it had been frozen for such a long period of time.
A couple of years later, however, the samples of the remains were sent to a Canadian DNA expert. He was successful in obtaining DNA that could accurately be sequenced. The expert did still need to find family members thought to be related to the man so that he could confirm a DNA match.
Another expert who specialised in removing DNA from embalmed remains was asked to help. This expert had devised new procedures that let mitochondrial DNA be read. This kind of DNA is passed on in a family through women. The expert was successful in obtaining a mitochondrial DNA sequence. Once relatives were contacted for comparison, the DNA of the man could be confirmed.
However, it was still an immense challenge to get in touch with those relatives. A forensic genealogist had to be involved at this point in time. Attempts were also made to rehydrate the fingers so that a better fingerprint could be obtained. With most layers of skin long gone, this was a significant challenge! Fortunately, a new solution to rehydrate the fingers had been developed and the fingers were soaked in the solution and then imaged with sophisticated procedures to provide accurate fingerprints.
These prints were more recently compared to a set at a national centre in the United States, resulting in a match. With the previously obtained DNA, the findings were confirmed when the genealogist compared the mitochondrial DNA to a relative who had been found.
Clearly, teamwork played a part here in that there were a number of people working within their own specialist fields and using the resources available to identify the man. The result was that DNA played a pivotal role in helping to identify the man although having more than one means for identification helped to ensure the identification was accurate. Hopefully, we will see more positive, successful outcomes of cases where an air crash victim requires identification.
How does one obtain dna for ancestral testing from a body that's been embalmed? They are holding the body while I find out. Can you please help. You didn't state the name of the expert who specializes in doing that, so I don't know who to contact to ask. Help would be so dearly appreciated!
A sophisticated biometric odontologic documentation and data filing would be very helpful in all cases of disaster victim identification. | 2019-04-26T08:15:56 | http://www.exploredna.co.uk/dna-air-crash-victims.html |
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0.997615 | This fragment of the “Garrison story” took place in less than one month, crowded with physical movement between Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and several sites in Connecticut. For those who want to reconstruct that detail, several sources are listed at the conclusion of this article.
There were at least two national contexts to this “Flight from Arrest”. One was the clamoring in black communities to meet a need for training young men in manual skills. In the 1830’s, as black communities developed their own institutions, this need was dominant. Responses to this need gave rise to the Canadian Wilberforce Community, and calls for similar efforts in numerous towns in the United States. A larger national context was a burgeoning struggle over the American Colonization Society.
The need for funds to support the establishment and maintenance of manual schools, as well as for regular separate black schools inspired the Boston community to seek funding in England, where it was felt that abolitionists would be ready to send aid. To raise that money was an original purpose for Garrison’s first trip to England. It was not until he was actually in England that competition for that aid became clear. Garrison became aware that Elliot Cresson, agent for the Colonization Society, who was barnstorming the country also seeking aid for colonization, an idea which Garrison found repugnant.
Gathering at the Meeting House, members of the black community met to wish Garrison well on his first trip to England. After that community gathering, a few leaders had an additional “send-off”, held at the home of George Putnam, where Garrison was presented with a silver cup, with appropriate hope for a bountiful trip.
The trip is fully reported in other places, and the encounters which Garrison, Thompson, O’Connell and others had with Elliott Cresson, representing the Colonization Society are commonly described. The competition for financial aid for the schools was trumped by the need to respond to the larger idea and purpose of colonization. That story of the trip had long-ranging significance. Garrison’s efforts contributed to the diminishing of the Colonization Society’s success, in large part because he convinced both Clarkson and Wilberforce to renounce support for the ACS. That effort dominated the trip.
The struggle over the Colonization effort is an exciting one, told in many other places. Here the concentration is on the “Flight from Arrest” which happened as Garrison left Boston, to prepare for sailing from New York . He actually had to spend a good part of a month in flight from a pending arrest. If that arrest had occurred it is likely that there would have been no trip, and possibly an end to Garrison’s life.
Garrison left Boston on a Friday, going only as far as Providence, where he spoke to a gathering at a black church. The next day he went to Brooklyn, Connecticut, to the home and family of Helen Benson, later to be his wife. On Sunday he spoke at the local Unitarian Church, where his early mentor, Samuel J. May, served as Minister. People in Brooklyn and the neighboring town of Canterbury were engaged in bitter dispute over the attempt of Prudence Crandall to enroll young black women in her Academy, in Canterbury. May and Garrison were both open in support of her intent. That Sunday meeting was an occasion for further conflict between people from the two towns. Prudence Crandall was present, having gone the short six miles to Brooklyn. The town clerk from Canterbury, Andrew T. Judson, foe to Crandall, was also present, and was disturbed at what he heard. He hadpublicly claimed that blacks ought to be sent to Africa , or “kept as they are here”, an indication of the Colonizationist views he espoused generally. Judson was also provoked at Garrison, because of reports of the conflict in Garrison’s Liberator. In one article Garrison used strong names to condemn Judson as utterly despised. The offense taken by Judson is a lively part of this “Flight from Arrest”.
The next day, Monday, April 8th, a stage driver who was to have called for Garrison, mysteriously failed to do so; friends got him into a “common wagon”, and in a furious drive caught up to the coach, Garrison covered in mud. Thirty minutes after Garrison left the Bensons, they discovered the reason for the coach driver’s default. A local sheriff arrived with five writs against Garrison, sworn out by Judson, seeking to detain Garrison on a charge of libel. The sheriff chased Garrison, but did not reach him. The Bensons sent word to Hartford and New York, warning Garrison that the writs were an attempt to capture him and ship him off to Georgia!
The days to come were crowded, Garrison one day in Hartford, the next going to New Haven, for an appointment to have a portrait painted. There were days when he moved between New York, and Philadelphia, trying to avoid the agent who carried the writs. Some of the trips were by steamboat, one a fast trip by horse, led by Robert Purvis, from Philadelphia. Letters from these crowded days indicate that Garrison was with either one or both of the Tappan brothers in New York, and with the Sharpless family in Philadelphia where he at least “consulted” with friends Forten, Cassey, Hinton, and Purvis.
In one of the letters from those tumultuous days, Garrison wrote to Isaac Knapp he feared that “no doubt the Colonization party will resort to some base measures to prevent, if possible, my departure for England”. To friend Harriet Minot, he wrote that he had missed one boat to Liverpool, but that he was hoping to “baffle the vigilance of the enemy”, announcing that he will go to New York for another sailing.
Finally, May 1, Wednesday, Garrison was board ship, embarking for Liverpool. The last evening, before his departure, he spoke to a “large audience”, in the Methodist African Church, in New York. In his letter to Minot, Garrison commented, that the value of my labors in their behalf bears so small a proportion to their unbounded gratitude and love!” He also reported that “Mr. Finley, the General Agent of the Colonization Society, was present, and witnessed a tremendous assault upon his darling scheme”.
Philadelphia, at the Library Company, where I met Phil Lapsansky, librarian-researcher-historian.
In conversation with Phil Lapsansky, he showed me a couple of pieces of paper with writing clearly in the hand of Garrison. One was labeled, “Sonnet”, and the other, “The Abolition Cause”. What startled me immediately was the date on the sonnet. It was dated “April 18, 1833, Philadelphia”. These two were written during those days recorded above when Garrison was trying to board a ship to England, at the same time running back and forth at least between Philadelphia and New York, evading the threatened arrest! To me here was writing by Garrison which might illuminate some of his actions and thought during those difficult days.
The Sonnet and a summary of the essay are included on a page after the notes for this essay.
So ended that one “Flight From Arrest”.
A “Sonnet” , written by Garrison, in Philadelphia, April 18, 1833, during the time of his “Flight from Arrest”, below.
Notes from “The Abolition Cause”, written at the same time as the “Sonnet”, excerpts quoted below.
A listing of the primary sources of this story.
The story is told in a least two places: in Henry Mayer’s All on Fire, 148 fll., and in the Garrison biography by his sons, Vol I., pages 334 fll.
All thrilling with delight, forgot its rest.
The “Sonnet” is open to divergent interpretation, and I invite each reader to enter that divergence. It begins with a “mateless bird”. In “lonely” mood, and speaks of “soiled plumage” and “broken wings”, a lack of summer to “soothe its sufferings”. The fowler, who is the one who seeks to shoot the bird, is represented in “Disappointment”, yet has his “prey”, in “fatal aim”.
Place the two writings in the context of Garrison’s wild days of flight, running from the enemy, wildly moving from place to place to avoid detection and arrest. The confident faith of Garrison is the ultimate note he sounds. It is worthy of pondering. | 2019-04-24T00:48:15 | http://theliberatorfiles.com/flight-from-arrest-1833/ |
0.999996 | What's with all these Wizard of Oz adaptations these days? I can't have been the only one who was taken for surprise when ads for an animated feature began popping up this year. Didn't a Disney movie just come out that took visual cues from the 1939 classic? Oz seems to be experiencing a Renaissance lately... though, really, it's never gone out of style. It's the American fairy tale, full of characters unique to the heart and soul of U.S. culture. Dorothy Gale even hails from Kansas, located smack dab in the middle of the country. Its main exports include wheat and heroes.
One of the latest attempts to reexamine the story is The Black Brick Road of O.Z. by Daria (who hails from Russia, pretty much the opposite side of the world as Dorothy's Kansas). I know what you're thinking: "The Black Brick Road of O.Z.? Sounds like yet another emo retelling of the Wizard of Oz story. How original. Do you collect those Todd McFarlane action figures too?"
Thus, it was to my surprise when it turned out this webcomic isn't significantly darker than the books themselves. Sure, there are moments like the Tin Man getting his body destroyed and having his heart placed in a jar. And yet, while those scenes are somewhat dark, they are played rather whimsically. The inescapable candy-colored palette does a lot to brighten the mood as well. It looks like something straight out of My Little Pony, which kind of contradicts the artistic decision to to make the titular road black. The traditional Yellow Brick Road would've have complemented the scenery perfectly. (Yellow, pink and purple? Totes adorbs!) The various comic versions of The Wizard of Oz have certainly gone far darker than this.
It's continuing evidence on what a huge influence Homestuck has become among emerging webcomic creators. The cracked sensibilities of Andrew Hussie are reflected here, where gothic moodiness and bubblegum cuteness seems to hang in the balance. There are times when that aesthetic is woefully inappropriate. For a child's fairy tale, though? It's an excellent fit. Sure, this Dorothy's Kansas is less a windblown Dust Bowl and more a Strawberry Shortcake village. It's little wonder that, outside of a slight concussion, Dorothy (who thinks her name's Dolly) has little trouble adjusting to the slightly stranger world of Oz.
Where I don't think The Black Brick Road of O.Z. quite succeeds in replicating Homestuck elements is when Daria attempts to incorporate interactive storytelling. One happens early on in the comic, when Dorothy finds herself in the crashed remains of her house. It's displayed in an isometric view reminiscent of adventure games. It also resembles how Homestuck dropped its characters straight into a Sierra-style adventure game. You can click onto several hotlinks around the room to see visual representations of Dorothy's backstory.
The sudden appearance of a video-game sequence, however, feels tonally out of place with the rest of the webcomic. Homestuck can get away with this because, from the beginning, the entire comic was steeped in video game symbolism and language. Most of The Black Brick Road of O.Z., though, plays out like a standard comic. Sure, there are elements of absurdity, such as when the witches each have their own televised segment with an unseen interviewer. But switching up the format to where, suddenly, you have to click around the screen? It's jarring, and not in a good way.
Tags: webcomics, Daria, The Black Brick Road of O.Z. | 2019-04-23T06:03:55 | https://www.cbr.com/goodbye-black-brick-road/ |
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French Polynesia - Gambier Islands Gambier Islands is 2 hours behind San Francisco.
French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands - Taiohae Taiohae is 2 hours, 30 minutes behind San Francisco.
French Polynesia - Tahiti - Papeete Papeete is 3 hours behind San Francisco.
French Southern Territories - Port-aux-Francais Port-aux-Francais is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Gabon - Libreville Libreville is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Gambia - Banjul Banjul is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Gaza Strip - Gaza Gaza is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Georgia - Tbilisi Tbilisi is 11 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Germany - Baden-Wurttemberg - Stuttgart Stuttgart is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Germany - Bavaria - Munich Munich is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Germany - Berlin - Berlin Berlin is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Germany - Hamburg - Hamburg Hamburg is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Germany - Hesse - Frankfurt Frankfurt is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia - Dusseldorf Dusseldorf is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Ghana - Accra Accra is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Gibraltar - Gibraltar Gibraltar is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Greece - Athens Athens is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Greenland - Nuuk Nuuk is 5 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Grenada - Saint Georges Saint Georges is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Guadeloupe - Basse-Terre Basse-Terre is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Guatemala - Guatemala Guatemala is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
Guinea - Conakry Conakry is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Guinea Bissau - Bissau Bissau is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Guyana - Georgetown Georgetown is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Haiti - Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Honduras - Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong Hong Kong is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Hong Kong - Kowloon Kowloon is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Hungary - Budapest Budapest is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Iceland - Reykjavik Reykjavik is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
India - Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Bihar - Patna Patna is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Chandigarh - Chandigarh Chandigarh is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Delhi - New Delhi New Delhi is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Gujarat - Ahmedabad Ahmedabad is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Gujarat - Surat Surat is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Gujarat - Vadodara Vadodara is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Karnataka - Bangalore Bangalore is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Madhya Pradesh - Indore Indore is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Maharashtra - Mumbai Mumbai is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Maharashtra - Nagpur Nagpur is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Maharashtra - Pune Pune is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Orissa - Bhubaneshwar Bhubaneshwar is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Punjab - Ludhiana Ludhiana is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Rajasthan - Jaipur Jaipur is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Tamil Nadu - Chennai Chennai is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Telangana - Hyderabad Hyderabad is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Uttar Pradesh - Agra Agra is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Uttar Pradesh - Kanpur Kanpur is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Uttar Pradesh - Lucknow Lucknow is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - Uttar Pradesh - Varanasi Varanasi is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
India - West Bengal - Kolkata Kolkata is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Bali - Denpasar Denpasar is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Bali - Singaraja Singaraja is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Java - Bandung Bandung is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Java - Jakarta Jakarta is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Java - Malang Malang is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Java - Semarang Semarang is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Java - Surabaya Surabaya is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Java - Surakarta Surakarta is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Kalimantan - Balikpapan Balikpapan is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Lombok - Mataram Mataram is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Papua - Jayapura Jayapura is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Sumatra - Medan Medan is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - Sumatra - Palembang Palembang is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Indonesia - East Nusa Tenggara - Kupang Kupang is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Iran - Esfahan Esfahan is 11 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
Iran - Tehran Tehran is 11 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
Iran - Yazd Yazd is 11 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
Iraq - Baghdad Baghdad is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Iraq - Basra Basra is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Ireland - Dublin Dublin is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Israel - Jerusalem Jerusalem is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Israel - Tel Aviv Tel Aviv is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Italy - Milan Milan is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Italy - Naples Naples is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Italy - Rome Rome is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Italy - Turin Turin is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Italy - Venice Venice is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Jamaica - Kingston (Jamaica) Kingston (Jamaica) is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Fukuoka Fukuoka is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Hiroshima Hiroshima is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Kawasaki Kawasaki is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Kitakyushu Kitakyushu is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Kobe Kobe is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Kyoto Kyoto is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Nagoya Nagoya is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Okayama Okayama is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Osaka Osaka is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Sapporo Sapporo is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Sendai Sendai is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Tokyo Tokyo is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Japan - Yokohama Yokohama is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Jordan - Amman Amman is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kazakhstan - Almaty Almaty is 13 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kazakhstan - Aqtau Aqtau is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kazakhstan - Aqtobe Aqtobe is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kazakhstan - Astana Astana is 13 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kenya - Nairobi Nairobi is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kiribati - Tarawa Tarawa is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kiribati - Christmas Islands - Kiritimati Kiritimati is 21 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kiribati - Phoenix Islands - Rawaki Rawaki is 20 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kosovo - Pristina Pristina is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kuwait - Kuwait City Kuwait City is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek Bishkek is 13 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Laos - Vientiane Vientiane is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Latvia - Riga Riga is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Lebanon - Beirut Beirut is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Lesotho - Maseru Maseru is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Liberia - Monrovia Monrovia is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Libya - Tripoli Tripoli is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Liechtenstein - Vaduz Vaduz is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Lithuania - Kaunas Kaunas is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Lithuania - Vilnius Vilnius is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Luxembourg - Luxembourg Luxembourg is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Macedonia - Skopje Skopje is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Madagascar - Antananarivo Antananarivo is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Malawi - Lilongwe Lilongwe is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Maldives - Male Male is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mali - Bamako Bamako is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Malta - Valletta Valletta is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Marshall Islands - Majuro Majuro is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Martinique - Fort-de-France Fort-de-France is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mauritania - Nouakchott Nouakchott is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mauritius - Port Louis Port Louis is 11 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mayotte - Mamoutzou Mamoutzou is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Aguascalientes - Aguascalientes Aguascalientes is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Baja California - Mexicali There is no time difference between Mexicali and San Francisco.
Mexico - Baja California - Tijuana There is no time difference between Tijuana and San Francisco.
Mexico - Chihuahua - Chihuahua Chihuahua is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Federal District - Mexico City Mexico City is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Guanajuato - Leon Leon is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Guerrero - Acapulco Acapulco is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Jalisco - Guadalajara Guadalajara is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Nuevo Leon - Monterrey Monterrey is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Quintana Roo - Cancun Cancun is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - San Luis Potosi - San Luis Potosi San Luis Potosi is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Sinaloa - Mazatlan Mazatlan is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Veracruz - Veracruz Veracruz is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mexico - Yucatan - Merida Merida is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Micronesia - Pohnpei - Palikir Palikir is 18 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Moldova - Kishinev Kishinev is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Monaco - Monaco Monaco is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mongolia - Choibalsan Choibalsan is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mongolia - Hovd Hovd is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Montenegro - Podgorica Podgorica is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Montserrat - Brades Brades is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Morocco - Casablanca Casablanca is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Morocco - Rabat Rabat is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Morocco - Tangier Tangier is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Mozambique - Maputo Maputo is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Myanmar - Yangon Yangon is 13 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
Namibia - Windhoek Windhoek is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Nauru - Yaren Yaren is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Nepal - Kathmandu Kathmandu is 12 hours, 45 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
Netherlands - Amsterdam Amsterdam is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Netherlands - Rotterdam Rotterdam is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
New Caledonia - New Caledonia - Noumea Noumea is 18 hours ahead of San Francisco.
New Zealand - Auckland Auckland is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
New Zealand - Chatham Island Chatham Island is 19 hours, 45 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
New Zealand - Christchurch Christchurch is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
New Zealand - Wellington Wellington is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Nicaragua - Managua Managua is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
Niger - Niamey Niamey is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Nigeria - Abuja Abuja is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Nigeria - Kano Nigeria Kano Nigeria is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Nigeria - Lagos Lagos is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Niue - Alofi Alofi is 4 hours behind San Francisco.
Norfolk Island - Kingston Kingston is 18 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
North Korea - Pyongyang Pyongyang is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Norway - Oslo Oslo is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Oman - Muscat Muscat is 11 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Pakistan - Faisalabad Faisalabad is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Pakistan - Islamabad Islamabad is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Pakistan - Karachi Karachi is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Pakistan - Lahore Lahore is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Pakistan - Peshawar Peshawar is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Pakistan - Sialkot Sialkot is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Palau - Koror Koror is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Panama - Panama Panama is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby Port Moresby is 17 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Paraguay - Asuncion Asuncion is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Peru - Lima - Lima Lima is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Philippines - Cebu City Cebu City is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Philippines - Manila Manila is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Pitcairn Islands - Adamstown Adamstown is 1 hour behind San Francisco.
Poland - Gdansk Gdansk is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Poland - Krakow Krakow is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Poland - Lodz Lodz is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Poland - Poznan Poznan is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Poland - Szczecin Szczecin is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Poland - Warsaw Warsaw is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Poland - Wroclaw Wroclaw is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Portugal - Azores Azores is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Portugal - Lisbon Lisbon is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Portugal - Porto Porto is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Portugal - Madeira - Funchal Funchal is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Puerto Rico - San Juan San Juan is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Qatar - Doha Doha is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Reunion (French) - Saint-Denis Saint-Denis is 11 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Romania - Bucharest Bucharest is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Anadyr Anadyr is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Kaliningrad Kaliningrad is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Kazan Kazan is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Moscow Moscow is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Murmansk Murmansk is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Novgorod Novgorod is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Novosibirsk Novosibirsk is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Omsk Omsk is 13 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Perm Perm is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Saint-Petersburg Saint-Petersburg is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Samara Samara is 11 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Sochi Sochi is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Ufa Ufa is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Vladivostok Vladivostok is 17 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Russia - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is 18 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Rwanda - Kigali Kigali is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre Basseterre is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Saint Lucia - Castries Castries is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Saint Vincent Grenadines - Kingstown Kingstown is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Samoa - Apia Apia is 20 hours ahead of San Francisco.
San Marino - San Marino San Marino is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome Sao Tome is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah Jeddah is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Saudi Arabia - Mecca Mecca is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh Riyadh is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Senegal - Dakar Dakar is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Serbia - Belgrade Belgrade is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Seychelles - Victoria (Seychelles) Victoria (Seychelles) is 11 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Sierra Leone - Freetown Freetown is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Singapore - Singapore Singapore is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Slovakia - Bratislava Bratislava is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Slovenia - Ljubljana Ljubljana is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Solomon Islands - Honiara Honiara is 18 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Somalia - Mogadishu Mogadishu is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Africa - Cape Town Cape Town is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Africa - Durban Durban is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Africa - Johannesburg Johannesburg is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Africa - Port Elizabeth Port Elizabeth is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Africa - Pretoria Pretoria is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Korea - Busan Busan is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Korea - Incheon Incheon is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Korea - Seoul Seoul is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Korea - Taegu Taegu is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
South Sudan - Juba Juba is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Spain - Cordoba Cordoba is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Spain - La Coruna La Coruna is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Spain - Madrid Madrid is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Spain - Barcelona - Barcelona Barcelona is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Spain - Canary Islands - Las Palmas Las Palmas is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Spain - Majorca - Palma Palma is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Sri Lanka - Colombo Colombo is 12 hours, 30 minutes ahead of San Francisco.
Sudan - Khartoum Khartoum is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Suriname - Paramaribo Paramaribo is 4 hours ahead of San Francisco.
eSwatini - Mbabane Mbabane is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Sweden - Stockholm Stockholm is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Switzerland - Basel Basel is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Switzerland - Bern Bern is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Switzerland - Geneva Geneva is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Switzerland - Lausanne Lausanne is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Switzerland - Zurich Zurich is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Syria - Damascus Damascus is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Taiwan - Kaohsiung Kaohsiung is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Taiwan - Taipei Taipei is 15 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Tajikistan - Dushanbe Dushanbe is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Tanzania - Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Tanzania - Dodoma Dodoma is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Thailand - Bangkok Bangkok is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Thailand - Khon Kaen Khon Kaen is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Timor Leste - Dili Dili is 16 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Togo - Lome Lome is 7 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Tokelau - Tokelau - Fakaofo Fakaofo is 21 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Tonga - Nukualofa Nukualofa is 20 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Trinidad and Tobago - Port of Spain Port of Spain is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Tunisia - Tunis Tunis is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Turkey - Ankara Ankara is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Turkey - Istanbul Istanbul is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Turkey - Izmir Izmir is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Turkmenistan - Ashgabat Ashgabat is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Tuvalu - Funafuti Funafuti is 19 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UAE - Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi is 11 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UAE - Dubai - Dubai Dubai is 11 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Uganda - Kampala Kampala is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UK - England - Birmingham (UK) Birmingham (UK) is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UK - England - Liverpool Liverpool is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UK - England - London London is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UK - England - Southampton Southampton is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UK - Northern Ireland - Belfast Belfast is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UK - Scotland - Edinburgh Edinburgh is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UK - Scotland - Glasgow Glasgow is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
UK - Wales - Cardiff Cardiff is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Ukraine - Kiev Kiev is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Ukraine - Odesa Odesa is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Uruguay - Montevideo Montevideo is 4 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Alabama - Birmingham (US) Birmingham (US) is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Alabama - Mobile Mobile is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Alabama - Montgomery Montgomery is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Alaska - Adak Adak is 2 hours behind San Francisco.
USA - Alaska - Anchorage Anchorage is 1 hour behind San Francisco.
USA - Alaska - Fairbanks Fairbanks is 1 hour behind San Francisco.
USA - Alaska - Juneau Juneau is 1 hour behind San Francisco.
USA - Alaska - Nome Nome is 1 hour behind San Francisco.
USA - Alaska - Unalaska Unalaska is 1 hour behind San Francisco.
USA - Arizona - Mesa There is no time difference between Mesa and San Francisco.
USA - Arizona - Phoenix There is no time difference between Phoenix and San Francisco.
USA - Arizona - Tucson There is no time difference between Tucson and San Francisco.
USA - Arkansas - Little Rock Little Rock is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - California - Anaheim There is no time difference between Anaheim and San Francisco.
USA - California - Fresno There is no time difference between Fresno and San Francisco.
USA - California - Long Beach There is no time difference between Long Beach and San Francisco.
USA - California - Los Angeles There is no time difference between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
USA - California - Oakland There is no time difference between Oakland and San Francisco.
USA - California - Riverside There is no time difference between Riverside and San Francisco.
USA - California - Sacramento There is no time difference between Sacramento and San Francisco.
USA - California - San Bernardino There is no time difference between San Bernardino and San Francisco.
USA - California - San Diego There is no time difference between San Diego and San Francisco.
USA - California - San Jose There is no time difference between San Jose and San Francisco.
USA - California - Stockton There is no time difference between Stockton and San Francisco.
USA - Colorado - Aurora Aurora is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Colorado - Denver Denver is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Connecticut - Hartford Hartford is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Delaware - Dover Dover is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - District of Columbia - Washington DC Washington DC is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Florida - Jacksonville Jacksonville is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Florida - Miami Miami is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Florida - Orlando Orlando is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Florida - Pensacola Pensacola is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Florida - St. Petersburg St. Petersburg is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Florida - Tampa Tampa is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Georgia - Atlanta Atlanta is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Hawaii - Honolulu Honolulu is 3 hours behind San Francisco.
USA - Idaho - Boise Boise is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Illinois - Chicago Chicago is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Indiana - Indianapolis Indianapolis is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Iowa - Des Moines Des Moines is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Kansas - Topeka Topeka is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Kansas - Wichita Wichita is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Kentucky - Frankfort Frankfort is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Kentucky - Lexington-Fayette Lexington-Fayette is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Kentucky - Louisville Louisville is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Louisiana - Baton Rouge Baton Rouge is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Louisiana - New Orleans New Orleans is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Maine - Augusta Augusta is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Mariana Islands - Guam Guam is 17 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Maryland - Baltimore Baltimore is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Massachusetts - Boston Boston is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Michigan - Detroit Detroit is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Minnesota - Minneapolis Minneapolis is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Minnesota - Saint Paul Saint Paul is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Mississippi - Jackson Jackson is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Missouri - Jefferson City Jefferson City is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Missouri - Kansas City Kansas City is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Missouri - St. Louis St. Louis is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Montana - Billings Billings is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Montana - Helena Helena is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Nevada - Carson City There is no time difference between Carson City and San Francisco.
USA - Nevada - Las Vegas There is no time difference between Las Vegas and San Francisco.
USA - New Hampshire - Concord Concord is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New Jersey - Jersey City Jersey City is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New Jersey - Newark Newark is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New Jersey - Trenton Trenton is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New Mexico - Albuquerque Albuquerque is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New Mexico - Santa Fe Santa Fe is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New York - Albany Albany is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New York - Buffalo Buffalo is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New York - New York New York is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - New York - Rochester Rochester is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - North Carolina - Charlotte Charlotte is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - North Carolina - Raleigh Raleigh is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - North Dakota - Bismarck Bismarck is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Northern Mariana Islands - Saipan Saipan is 17 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Ohio - Akron Akron is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Ohio - Cincinnati Cincinnati is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Ohio - Cleveland Cleveland is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Ohio - Columbus Columbus is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Ohio - Toledo Toledo is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Oklahoma - Oklahoma City Oklahoma City is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Oregon - Portland There is no time difference between Portland and San Francisco.
USA - Oregon - Salem There is no time difference between Salem and San Francisco.
USA - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg Harrisburg is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Philadelphia is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh Pittsburgh is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Rhode Island - Providence Providence is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - South Carolina - Columbia Columbia is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - South Dakota - Pierre Pierre is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - South Dakota - Sioux Falls Sioux Falls is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Tennessee - Knoxville Knoxville is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Tennessee - Memphis Memphis is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Tennessee - Nashville Nashville is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Texas - Arlington Arlington is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Texas - Austin Austin is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Texas - Dallas Dallas is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Texas - El Paso El Paso is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Texas - Fort Worth Fort Worth is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Texas - Houston Houston is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Texas - San Antonio San Antonio is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Utah - Salt Lake City Salt Lake City is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Vermont - Montpelier Montpelier is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Virginia - Norfolk Norfolk is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Virginia - Richmond Richmond is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Virginia - Virginia Beach Virginia Beach is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Washington - Seattle There is no time difference between Seattle and San Francisco.
USA - West Virginia - Charleston Charleston is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Wisconsin - Madison Madison is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Wisconsin - Milwaukee Milwaukee is 2 hours ahead of San Francisco.
USA - Wyoming - Cheyenne Cheyenne is 1 hour ahead of San Francisco.
Uzbekistan - Tashkent Tashkent is 12 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Vanuatu - Port Vila Port Vila is 18 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Vatican City State - Vatican City Vatican City is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Venezuela - Caracas Caracas is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Vietnam - Hanoi Hanoi is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh is 14 hours ahead of San Francisco.
West Bank - Bethlehem Bethlehem is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Western Sahara - El Aaiun El Aaiun is 8 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Yemen - Aden Aden is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Yemen - Sana Sana is 10 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Zambia - Lusaka Lusaka is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco.
Zimbabwe - Harare Harare is 9 hours ahead of San Francisco. | 2019-04-25T04:21:21 | https://www.happyzebra.com/timezones-worldclock/currentlocal.php?city=San%20Francisco |
0.999148 | We know that an angle is a right angle if it is 90 degrees. An angle is acute if it is less than 90 degrees, while it is obtuse if it is between 90 and 180 degrees. Therefore, the angle is less than $90^o$ and is acute. | 2019-04-26T01:43:00 | https://www.gradesaver.com/textbooks/math/applied-mathematics/elementary-technical-mathematics/chapter-12-section-12-1-angles-and-polygons-exercise-page-387/1 |
0.999103 | To answer the question if you should wear a swim cap, let's first think about why you are swimming and to what purpose would the cap be to you. So why do you swim?
If you are out there stroking from one side of the pool to the other for fun or great exercise and you have short hair, buying a swimming cap could be an overkill, therefore not necessarily something you'd need or enjoy. Only thing you need is a swim suit and and some decent goggles and you are set. On the other hand, if you are out there to become a competitive swimmer or you are already competing, it could be beneficial for you to wear a swimming cap and spend some time researching the types of caps that are out there.
1) Do you have long hair? If so, I'd suggest you do wear a swim cap as it is very hard to swim with the right technique, with the right head position while trying to lift your head to keep the hair out of your face. Also, some folks say that using a swimming cap does prevent your hair from chlorine damage, but I wouldn't think too much about to this. Chances are, you don't spend 40hrs a week in the pool for your hair to get damaged anyway, so you are safe there.
2) For the group of you that will be swimming in competitions and you don't suffer from long hair disease :), I'd suggest you DO NOT wear a swim cap in your regular swim practices on most occasions. The reason for this is that you want your time spend in the swimming pool practicing to be harder and with more drag than while you are racing. Your head without a swimming cap, has ears flopping around and more pores, so the drag is much higher. If you work harder in practice, just by having more drag, your racing will feel much faster. So, to keep your drag larger in swim practice, stay away from swim caps. Not to be confused with minimizing resistance while swimming.
3) There are times in swim practices, however, that you should swim at competitions speed and practice certain things you will do in your swim meet. For example, practicing relay starts, relay exchanges, starts, turns or plain all-out sprints. During these activities, you might want to consider wearing a swimming cap as it gets you used to the feeling which you will have while competing. When you swim with a swimming cap, your body and head feel a bit differently than without swimming cap. Because you have less drag with a swimming cap, you will glide further in streamline positions and could go much deeper into your starts etc. So, practicing these with a swimming cap once in a while, before you go to your main swim competition is a good idea.
4) If you are an open water swimmer or do swim often in a very cold water, it is a very good idea to wear a swim cap as it helps with keeping your body heat. Most of your body heat usually escapes through your head, so by placing a swim cap on it will keep you warmer for longer. On the other hand, you can also easily become overheated in a warmer pool, so be careful.
5) If you think swim caps are uncool and you are out there to make a fashion statement by not wearing a swim cap, then think again as swimming caps come in a huge variate of colors, designs, materials, you can even design your own swimming cap, so don't worry about the way you look and get the cap that serves your purpose.
As mentioned above, there are swim caps made from many different materials. They range from lycra to latex and to silicon caps. If I have to give you just one advice about swimming caps, DO NOT buy Lycra caps. Pardon my french, but they are just dumb. First, they add more drag, they will not stay on your head and they will definitely not protect your hair from chlorine. For everyday swim practices, it is better to invest in latex or silicone caps. Latex caps are cheaper, but they do not last very long so it could be better to invest in silicone type cap. However, be careful that the cap is not very tight on your head as your ears will start hurting after few minutes in the pool. From my personal experience, I'd suggest Latex caps for practice swims.
Finally if you are after a minimal drag in the water, the newish no-crease swim caps which are very smooth might be the way to go for you.
Another reason to wear a swim cap is when you are swimming in open water and there is a danger of being hit by a boat or a windsurfer's board, a brightly colored swim cap will make you more visible and decrease the risk being hit.
Always wear a swim cap when swimming especially in a pool from a hygiene perspective. Have you ever looked in the plug hole after washing your hair? Think what it's like with hundreds of people per day swimming through the pool. If you don't believe me, ask the pool attendants if you can look at the filters! It's also not pleasant for those swimming behind to take in a mouthful of hair, be it long or short!
yes I agree with the fact that precaution is very important while we practice any sports. Wearing safety gear is really important.
Should male swimmers be required to wear swimming caps with their costume?
@anonymous: in majority of swimming pools there is no requirement to wear a swim cap for anybody, however, if there is a requirement to wear a swim cap, it shouldn't take into account if you one is a male or female. Long hair is long hair no matter if you are a man or a woman, so if you have a swimming pool where they require swim cap, then everyone should wear one.
I think that you should wear a cap half of the time. In practice, wear a latex, and in races, wear silicone, THey cut the water better.
I dont think you loose more heat out of your head than your body when in open water (or any where). It's generally the fact that our head is not covered (possibly wearing a wet suit/clothes) best not to confuse heat lose, its the same on all parts of an exposed body.
thanks for the insight. You are correct that head by itself is no more special in heat loss than any part of the body, but from what I understand if you are in cold water and rest of your body is working or is covered with a wetsuit, then your head is more prone to have higher heat loss percentage than normal. Ears are probably the most crucial part here as they have a lot of blood vessels. | 2019-04-24T20:04:49 | https://blog.swimator.com/2010/11/should-i-wear-swim-cap-how-to-choose.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=open&toggle=YEARLY-1199138400000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1288562400000 |
0.998398 | L’ineffabile Cianciullo si sta prendendo una gragnola di commenti informati scrivendo a quelli che credeva essere suoi fedeli ed ignoranti seguaci. lasciate un commento anche voi, può darsi che così comincino a leggere qualcosa o almeno abbassino il cachè all’indiana col bindi in fronte.
Alberto Guidorzi ci segnala che oramai i grandi Paesi esportatori hanno quasi solo soia da OGM. Dove comprano, quanto costa e che resa per ettaro ha la vecchia soia non-OGM usata dai nostri mercati di nicchia locali?
Ci scrive infatti Guidorzi che: “La società brasiliana di consulenza Célérès ha comunicato che l’adozione di soia, mais e cotone transgenici nel 2011 ha avuto un trend di aumento molto forte.
Soia: La soia ormai rappresenta 82,7 % della superficie totale brasiliana, ossia 20,8 milioni di ha con un progresso del 13,4% rispetto al 2010. Trattasi essenzialmente di varietà GM tollerati agli erbicidi suddivisi tra quattro “eventi transgenetici”, ma ormai si deve annotare anche l’adozione di varietà GM a doppia resistenza, erbicidi e insetti nocivi.
Mais: La coltivazione del mais transgnenico è autorizzato alle semine in Brasile da soli quattro anni ed ormai il mais GM copre 9,1 milioni di ettari, ossia il 64% delle superfici totali. In brasile sono autorizzati 16 “eventi transgenici” immessi nelle varietà di cinque società sementiere. Le varietà coltivate si suddividono per il 47,2% delle superfici con resistenza agl’insetti, 41,7% inglobano la doppia resistenza a erbicidi e insetti, mentre 11,1% sono resistenti a soli erbicidi.
Con forti diminuzioni dell’uso di pesticidi.
Bt cotton has surpassed 90 per cent of cotton acreage this kharif season with farmers continuing to gain from the high-yielding seed since its commercialisation in 2002.
Over the last eight years, farmers have got better output through Bt cotton seeds compared to the conventional seeds. “Although, the final figure is yet to be assessed, we can safely say that the Bt area has crossed 90 per cent of the total cotton acreage this year,” said A B Joshi, textile commissioner. India is one of the fastest adopters of Bt cotton, especially after the introduction of Bollgard II, an insect-resistant genetically modified (GM) seed that reduces pesticide use by up to 80 per cent, two years ago.
However, 100 per cent use of Bt may not be possible as a section of farmers continue with conventional seeds, says Joshi. India’s cotton sowing area has increased substantially over the last three years to 110 lakh ha this kharif season, from 103 lakh ha and 98 lakh ha in 2009 and 2008, respectively.
Ashok Damji Daga, a Coimbatore-based cotton trader, attributed this growth to a significant rise in the minimum support price (MSP) and higher yield in the area under Bt seed. Till August 26, about 106 lakh ha was covered under cotton, thanks to a favourable climate. Total cotton output this year is estimated at 325 lakh bales (1 bale = 170 kgs) as against 295 lakh bales in the previous year, according to data by the Ministry of Textiles.
With mill consumption estimated at 221.5 lakh bales and export cap at 49.5 lakh bales, total mill cotton demand in the country is expected to fall to 315.5 lakh bales this cotton year (October ‘10 - September ‘11) as against the availability of 370.5 lakh bales. Last season, the total demand was estimated at 333 lakh bales against supply of 373.5 lakh bales.
According to sources at the ministry of textile, the evolution of Bt in the cotton sector has created additional value in the country worth Rs 40,000 crore until 2008. (Additional value from cotton sector includes income from exports, saving foreign currency through lower imports, technology tax to the government and cheap raw material available for local users, including ginners and textile manufacturers).
India earned Rs 2,800 crore through exports in 2008, while potential savings through lower imports was at Rs 7,545 crore. The user industry earned Rs 500 crore through availability of locally originating lint which has now become an import substitute.
Availability of cottonseed oil has eased pressure on vegetable oil, while cottonseed meal exports have fetched an additional Rs 3,500 crore. Processors like ginners earned Rs 720 crore. Farmers became rich with an additional income of Rs 20,000 crore due to higher yield with Bt technology.
Farm labourers recorded a growth of Rs 1,300 crore and technology providers earned a gross fee of Rs 280 crore. Hybrid seed companies shared less than one per cent of the total additional income with a sale of 238 packets worth Rs 110 crore. | 2019-04-25T22:52:55 | http://www.salmone.org/tag/cotone/ |
0.999669 | Have you made Ample Brown Betty For A Crowd?
1. Toss bread cubes with butter; divide half of the cubes among four greased 12"x9"x2" baking pans.
2. Arrange apples over bread, using 10 cups per pan.
3. Mix 2 cups of brown sugar, sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon; divide into fourths and sprinkle over the apples.
4. Mix water and lemon juice; pour a fourth into each pan.
5. Top with remaining bread cubes. Sprinkle remaining brown sugar equally over pans.
6. Cover and bake at 375 for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake 25-30 minutes longer. | 2019-04-23T06:36:41 | http://www.recipekey.com/therecipes/Ample-Brown-Betty-For-A-Crowd |
0.999208 | Live streaming from the Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine is available at http://krytyka.com/en/danyliw2015.
What does it mean to be Russian in Crimea? This should now be phrased in past tense because, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in February 2014, being Russian in Crimea has become a different experience. It is now associated with being not only ethnically Russian but also with a political status, of “becoming” a Russian citizen, in a territory which is situated in the no-man’s land of international law as a de facto annexed territory.
Rather I now ask: what did it mean to be Russian in Crimea (in the period preceding the 2014 annexation)? I’m interested in this question because it has been a largely taken for granted idea that Crimea is a region populated by a Russian ethnic majority population. Many of whom, preceding annexation, were seen as more loyal to Russia than Ukraine, if not holders of Russian passports (although in 2012 and 2013 I could not find anyone with Russian citizenship and/or a Russian passport), supportive of Russian nationalism and pro-Russian sentiment, if not separatism.
Since annexation, understanding what it means to be Russian in Crimea has become more salient because ethnic Russians are often the overlooked community, as presumed endorsers of the annexation. I acknowledge, of course, that Crimea’s ethnic minorities—notably Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians—have faced increased, and horrendous, discrimination since annexation, from the closure of schools, to arrests and violence. However it is often presumed that ethnic minorities are the only losers of annexation. Aside from the social difficulties, for example the everyday disasters of banking, property rights, passports, Russia’s ban of methadone for (former) heroin users, human rights, democracy, ethnic Russians in Crimea now exist in a territory where they have, culturally, ethnically and politically, to be Russian. However, the data that I collected in Crimea shows a much more fractured picture than the notion of a Russian ethnic majority, and the mutually exclusive categories of “ethnic Russian” and “ethnic Ukrainian” can explain. Instead I am interested, in everyday terms, in how being Russian is experienced, negotiated and subverted, and combined, or related, to ideas of being Ukrainian and Crimea, and situated vis-à-vis Crimea, Ukraine and Russia.
The most ardent supporters of being Russian and of Russia—who I label Discriminated Russians—as individuals who feel threatened by Ukraine and victims of post-Soviet policies of Ukrainization. They felt marginalized within Crimea, and Ukraine more broadly, feeling that more prominence was now given to Ukrainian language, culture and interpretations of history, at the expense of Russian language, culture and interpretations. However these individuals were both a minority of respondents, and were politically active, associated with pro-Russian organisations, such as Russkaia Obshchina Kryma (Russian Community of Crimea) and Russkoe Edinstvo (Russian Unity). Hence, they were quite different to those respondents (i.e. the majority of those I interviewed) who were not members of these organisations. Rather, most identifying as ethnically Russian were able, and happy, to reconcile being Russian to belonging, politically, to Ukraine. As they described, having to watch cinema in Ukrainian (as was mandated across Ukraine) was not a “strangulation” of Russian language and culture, but just a “bad law”.
There were also many respondents who subverted ideas of being Russian, either rejecting ethnic categories in favour of emphasising their political membership to Ukraine—who I label Political Ukrainians—and those who combined their identification as Russian, and with Russia, with their identification as Ukrainian, and with Ukraine, by identifying as Crimean. These two categories as I conceptualize them—Political Ukrainians and Crimeans—do not fit neatly with the mutually exclusive labels. This is precisely what makes them interesting and challenging to the idea that Crimea was populated by an ethnic Russian majority: how would these individuals, who hybridized their sense of ethnicity or rejected ethnic labels, identify in a census? This is why it is vital to engage with notions of ethnicity, and identity more broadly, in everyday terms, i.e. in terms vernacular individuals use to describe themselves, and to unpack the rationale of this identification.
I emphasize in my research the complexity of being Russian in Crimea and problematize the idea that being Russian determined identification with Russia, and much less, support for the Russian regime under Putin. However, the story I tell of support for territorial reconfiguration, in other words support for secession or annexation, is much simpler. In the period preceding Crimea’s annexation by Russia there is a tragic irony to the evidence from my respondents which demonstrates the lack of support for secession and annexation. Simply put, most supported territorial status quo because they considered Crimea to be a legitimate part of Ukraine while others, primarily Discriminated Russians, preferred peace to war, believing that secession and/or annexation could only result in “bloodshed” and “conflict”, a cost they were neither willing to bear nor support. They conceived also that Russia did not want Crimea.
However, just because there was a lack of ethnic instability, to the extent that most respondents supported territorial status quo, this did not mean that there was not political fragility. Rather respondents, regardless of identification, were antipathetic to the Yanukovych regime, and to Kyiv more broadly, who they saw as taking more from Crimea than they were willing to invest. In this scenario, Crimea’s autonomous status appeared more fiction than a political reality because Crimea could neither make it initiate its own legislation nor hire locals to positions of power, subservient to Donetsk-based clans and interests.
There were clearly tensions existing in Crimea preceding annexation. However these can be explained more by the broader issues of political fiefdoms and a culture of endemic corruption, issues that continue to plague Ukraine, than by ethnicity. The greatest illustration of this is that, in spite of the diversity of identities within the ethnic Russian majority, there was relative homogeneity of concerns: socio-economic, corruption, disempowerment vis-à-vis Kyiv and support of territorial status quo. From this, Moscow should take note that Crimean residents neither like to be governed by corrupt, if not criminal, vested interests as post-annexation authorities exemplify nor from afar, whether by Kyiv or by “snooty Muscovites”. | 2019-04-20T14:35:50 | https://krytyka.com/en/community/blogs/identity-crimea-annexation-bottom-perspective |
0.999912 | What do you think is the best rank order of the following responses?
b. Adequate and current learning materials.
c. Clean and well-maintained physical facilities.
d. Food and health care.
e. Safe and secure neighborhoods.
For nearly 70 years, the 1896 Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, allowed racially separate schools as long as they had equal facilities. Then in 1954, Brown v. Board of Education reversed the 1896 decision and changed decisions regarding equal opportunity. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination and Title VI of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA) prevented the allocation of federal funds to segregated K-12 public school programs. The Coleman Report (1965) found student background and socio-economic status were more important in determining education outcomes than differences in school resources. Title I of ESEA provided resources for the education of low-income students and Title VI provided grants for “handicapped” children. In 1970, Title VI was revised as the Education of the Handicapped Act and was separated from the ESEA. Eventually this “special education” program became the Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA). Equality of educational opportunity for our children and youth has been elusive for the federal government as it has attempted to reach the goal in each of its 50 states.
Locally, the LWV of the Midland Area will be discussing and reaching consensus on a series of questions relating to the role of the federal government in public education during the month of September. We are interested in hearing wider thoughts and opinions from citizens around us. Over the next few weeks, the Midland Daily News has agreed to share our information with you, its readers. This is the third article in that series. We invite responses through letters to the editor, contact with our website (www.lwv-midland.org), correspondence with our League at PO Box 1203, Midland, 48641 and attendance at our Sept. 14 and 28 meetings. Information on the time and location of the discussion meetings is available in the calendar of events on our web site.
Linda Darling-Hammond, professor of education at Stanford University, contends that the emphasis on equity promoted through ESEA led to increased spending on urban schools, resulting in higher-paid teachers, fewer teacher shortages and smaller achievement gaps. The smallest racial differences in reading scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress were reported in 1988. The racial achievement gap has fluctuated since 1988, never returning to the narrowed levels of that year. Contrary to the much-publicized Coleman Report, these data seem to suggest that federal policies and funding can have a profound effect on schools. Additionally, economists have linked increases in student achievement and reductions in achievement gaps with increased school funding investments in the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois.
In 1991, Harvard Professor Ronald Ferguson used a larger data set than Coleman had used and found that spending levels did have an effect which increased as the target of the funding moved closer to teaching students. He determined that student learning would be most profoundly affected by investments in teacher quality measured by assessments of skills and knowledge as well as by experience and advanced degrees.
In 2001, renewal of the ESEA resulted in a change in the name of the law to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Testing requirements were expanded and an aggressive federal role in holding states accountable for showing improved student performance was introduced. Both supporters and opponents agree that NCLB dramatically increased and reshaped the federal role in education. NCLB imposes sanctions on schools that do not meet annual yearly progress (AYP). This has the effect of giving underperforming public schools fewer resources. Studies done since the enactment of NCLB suggest that threatening public schools and teachers with punishment has harmful effects on the students who remain in public schools.
Supporters of NCLB appreciate the increase in accountability for schools and teachers. Critics have decried the lack of federal funding for many of the act’s mandates, the emphasis on penalties, the reliance on standardized tests, and the lack of attention to gifted students as well as to subjects like science and social studies.
Charter schools were originally proposed as an opportunity for educators to test research-supported methods for reaching hard-to-educate children. Currently they are public schools operating under a charter which is often issued by a university, such as Central Michigan University. In 2009, a large-scale research study funded by pro-charter advocates (Center for Research on Education Outcomes) revealed that only 17 percent of 2,403 charter schools had significantly more growth in test scores than traditional public schools. In fact, 37 percent of the charter schools showed significantly less growth. The study also revealed large differences in quality among charter schools.
• Secure housing, food and health care, so that children can come to school ready to learn each day.
• Provide supportive early learning environments.
• Equitably fund schools which provide equitable access to high-quality teaching.
• Provide well-prepared and well-supported teachers and leaders.
• Support standards, curriculum and assessments that focus on 21st-century goals.
• Encourage schools to be organized for in-depth student and teacher learning.
The professor contends that our country must refuse to continue hiring minimally-trained teachers and paying the lowest salaries to teachers in the poorest districts. All school districts, she says, should be able to recruit top candidates. She is just as certain that similar funding policies should be adopted by the federal government for recruiting, training and keeping strong educational leaders as highly-qualified educational administrators.
When schools are not funded adequately, there is a long-lasting impact. Children and youth in under-funded schools are not offered educational opportunities equal to those offered in well-funded schools. A child’s education follows him/her for a lifetime. It is vital that each of our children has an equal opportunity for the best learning situation possible in his/her local public school. The Constitution puts some responsibility on the federal government for making that possible.
Please join the LWV of the Midland Area in this study and discussion. Visit our web site www.lwv-midland.org for more information and additional links. Also, look for further questions and discussion here on the MDN Editorial Page. | 2019-04-19T06:28:03 | https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/editorials/article/Federal-government-role-in-K-12-eduction-6962802.php |
0.999241 | Can psychedelic drugs 'reconnect' depressed patients with their emotions?
Imperial research suggests psilocybin can help relieve the symptoms of depression, without the 'dulling' of emotions linked with antidepressants.
Working out if someone is happy, angry or afraid, from the look on their face, is a skill we may take for granted.
For some people, however, such as those with chronic depression, this innate ability to pick up on and respond to emotional prompts like a facial expression can be disrupted, with the brain becoming oversensitive to negative stimuli.
While antidepressants drugs can help to combat the symptoms of depression for patients, they can dampen how the brain processes strong emotions – effectively turning down the dial on the hypersensitivity to negative emotions but also ‘blunting’ intense positive mood.
Now, findings from a small trial carried out at Imperial College London suggest that psychedelics, like magic mushrooms, may hold the key to sidestepping some of these effects in treating depression, by reviving the brain’s activity and effectively reconnecting patients with their emotions.
Previous research has shown that psilocybin – the active compound in magic mushrooms – may help to alleviate symptoms in patients with persistent depression by ‘resetting’ brain activity.
In a recent study, published in the journal Neuropharmacology, the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial focused on the potential of the drug to change brain activity in key areas involved in emotional processing.
They found that after treatment with psilocybin, patients with depression who did not respond to conventional treatments, reported improvements in their mood and symptoms. However, the researchers also observed a stronger response to emotional faces (happy and fearful) with increased brain activity in an area called the amygdala – the almond-shaped region of the brain involved in processing emotions and which is known to play a role in depression.
According to the researchers, the findings suggest an alternative pathway to tackling the changes seen in the depressed brain, which could potentially avoid some of the side effects seen with ‘Prozac-like’ selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the most commonly prescribed antidepressants.
“Our findings are important as they reveal biological changes after psilocybin therapy and, more specifically, they suggest that increased emotional processing is crucial for the treatment to work,” explained Leor Roseman, first author of the study and a member of the Psychedelic Research Group.
In the small, open label trial – which means the patients knew what they were taking – a total of 20 volunteers with depression were recruited and asked not to take any antidepressant medication in the two weeks leading up to the trial. They were then given two oral doses of psilocybin alongside psychiatric support, receiving an initial low dose of the drug before taking a second, much stronger therapeutic dose a week later.
In order to capture changes in brain activity, 19 of the volunteers completed fMRI scans before and after the treatment. They were shown images of human faces that were either happy, scared or neutral, with the fMRI capturing their responses as changes in blood flow throughout different regions of the brain.
Following treatment, patients reported feeling emotionally re-connected and accepting, with one patient describing the experience as an ‘emotional purging’. Results from the scans revealed that patients had a stronger response to emotional faces (happy and fearful) following psilocybin treatment, particularly in the amygdala.
The authors highlight that while the findings are interesting, follow up studies are needed to confirm the effects are directly related to the drug, rather than other factors, such as the psychological support provided during the trial or stopping their SSRIs.
Larger trials are now planned by the group and their collaborators, in which patients with depression don’t know whether they are receiving psilocybin, an SSRI or placebo, and parallel studies will be done in healthy non-depressed people. These studies will also aim to find out if psychedelic therapy has any lasting impact on activity in the amygdala and emotional processing.
In a second paper, published in the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology, Roseman and team used questionnaires to capture patients’ feelings about the quality of their experience under the psilocybin and how this related to their depressed changes.
One of the dimensions of experience the researchers looked at has been called the ‘mystical experience’, which includes any feelings of unity, a loss of boundaries of the self and transcending time and space during the treatment.
They found that the stronger a patient rated this experience, the greater their decreases in depressive symptoms weeks after treatment, suggesting the mystical element of their psychedelic experience may help them maintain long-term mental health.
Roseman adds that future trials with psychedelics may look at enhancing this aspect of the experience while reducing anxiety in order to improve the effectiveness of the therapy.
Building on its body of research to date, the group is now planning further studies which will compare psilocybin directly with a leading antidepressant for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Trials are set to begin in early 2018.
‘Increased amygdala responses to emotional faces after psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression’ by Leor Roseman et al. is published in Neruopharmacology.
‘Quality of acute psychedelic experience predicts therapeutic efficacy of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression’ by Leor Roseman et al. is published in Frontiers in Pharmacology. | 2019-04-20T03:56:16 | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/184091/can-psychedelic-drugs-reconnect-depressed-patients/ |
0.999999 | I'll try to keep this as short as possible.
Morality: A system of standards & values used to evaluate actions as being good or bad with respect to the standards & values.
Secular Morality (SM): A moral system (morality) which deals with morality outside of religious/theistic/dogmatic traditions and/or claims.
Religious, or Non-secular Morality (RM): A moral system (morality) which is based on religious/theistic/dogmatic traditions and/or claims.
This OP is not concerned with pointless questions or arguments surrounding subjective vs. objective morality - it deals solely with the moral systems which demonstrably/actually exist. Lines of argumentation relying on unsupported claims of subjectivity or objectivity will be disregarded.
1. The applicability of the system and it's standards & values to its participants.
2. The system's ability to improve or be improved by its participants.
3. The system's ability to provide reliable results according to its standards & values.
4. The system's ability to resolve conflicts/disputes about its standards & values.
Additional criteria may be suggested at any time.
Based on the above criteria, it's clear that secular morality is superior to religious (non-secular) morality.
I would object to 4.
- SM conflict resolution is based on skeptical inquiry. ..etc.
I would say that the millions of dead people from the conquest driven secular social morals of socialists countries would be evidence against this.
Pointing to RM that has the same effect would not answer this objection.
The objection is, that SM is not defined inherently by the traits of #4, and has shown a drastic and repeated tendency to contradict this standard. So it is false and should not be accepted as a true statement.
Unfortunately, those examples are from regimes which wouldn't be recognized as truly SM as defined by the OP since they are all based in dogmatic ideologies. This is more commonly known as the Atheist Atrocities Fallacy. History has already illuminated for us the use by Stalin of the very same dogmatic infrastructure in the form of the pre-existing religious tyranny that proved to be the perfect vehicle for his godless religion of Communism. Hitler expressly confirmed multiple times that he was doing god's work. These were atrocities committed in the name of dogmatic ideologies, not secularism. Nobody in their right mind would say that the problem with Communist Russia or the Holocaust is that there was too much skeptical inquiry going on.
SM as defined in the OP inherently implies a rejection of dogmatic ideology and therefore indeed does inherently value skeptical inquiry.
They were not Religious atrocities, they were "state" atrocities. Atrocities done in the name of the state, not in the name of a religion.
So it doesn't fall under RM.
Or else SM doen't exist in reality.
How is the OP different than a dogmatic ideology?
SM: A moral system (morality) which deals with morality outside of religious/theistic/dogmatic traditions and/or claims.
Therefore, such dogmatic regimes are not considered truly secular, not in their ideologies, nor in their actions. Again, all this has already been illuminated for us by history. There are many reasons why the Stalinistic regime is not considered to be secular, the simplest being their dogmatic enforcement of state atheism, which, by definition, is a violation of the core principle of secularism. Do you honestly think that the differences between non-dogmatic secularism and repulsive and cultish regimes such as Stalinism, or the similarities between Stalinism and other dogmatic religions have not already been considered ad nauseam?
Again, how is the op not dogmatic in regards to SM?
First I'm completely willing to accept your rejection of the counter example I gave. My problem is that I don't see the OP as then internally coherent so as to apply it to reality in a meaningful way.
By lumping atheism in with religion, you basically have covered the gambit of beliefs under "RM". Leaving nothing for SM to include except that which you cherry pick.
For example the way you have answered the Atheist atrocities appears to be an appeal to how it hurt the "non participants". Same with Nazies. Which simply pushes them in the RM when they just as well could have been called SM effects.
Given your definition, what weight is given to those in the SM society that don't adhere to SM? What happens if such morality is conductive of putting people like Stalin and others in power (hypothetical)?
What are some actual examples of SM as you describe at work? (A question to help direct your explanation).
MT, I provided a clear explanation of why your counter examples (which weren't at all specific, btw, you'd have to be less vague for them to be considered seriously) aren't considered secular according to the definition. If you have a problem with the definition, that's fine, but really, the fact that a regime which dogmatically enforces any kind of belief (or lack thereof, in the case of Stalinism) by definition violates the core principle of secularism is nothing complicated.
Of course, many do call those examples (which ones, btw?) secular, but as explained, this is incorrect, if only for the above-stated reason, but there are others.
As for examples of SM, these are literally everywhere (another indication of SM's superiority). Don't tell me you can't think of one place in the world where the society makes moral decisions based on facts and evidence instead of dogma. But more importantly, this isn't really the point, and there's no value in nitpicking every single example we have of SM in the world and trying to show something bad about them in order to win some pointless points. The point is that, when considering the moral systems we have available to us, secular morality is by far superior to any religious morality, based on the criteria provided.
As for examples of SM, these are literally everywhere (another indication of SM's superiority). Don't tell me you can't think of one place in the world where the society makes moral decisions based on facts and evidence instead of dogma.
If they were literally everywhere then it should be fairly easy to just answer the question, no?
Yes, and I said I was willing to accept that the counter examples don't fall into SM as you have defined it.
My objection has moved then to the second point.
No, I can't think of any. Especially any that are not applied "dogmatically". I think you definition is logically incoherent, and self defeating.
Have it your way, dude. If you want to play games and pretend that you don't know what it means when even your very own government bases its morality on principles such as rational examination of evidence instead of dogmatic ideologies, then I don't see any point in continuing a discussion with you.
Again, that's not the point, as already explained.
So you won't provide an example of a SM even though you stated that they are "literally everywhere". It sounds like you can't actually provide an example and are trying to avoid supporting your point.
I you to support your claim that "As for examples of SM, these are literally everywhere". If it's as easy as you make it out to be, then you should have no trouble.
Again, regardless of the fact that one was already provided, this is, as already explained, irrelevant to the point of the discussion. My "trying to avoid" it is because I have no desire to engage in gotcha games. The topic is that, when considering the moral systems we have available to us, secular morality is by far superior to any religious morality, based on the criteria provided. Either address the topic or move along.
As I generally consider my gov to be based on moral principles of a Dogmatic religious base, I don't see how that supports your point.
I see the ideology of communism as an official form of "secularism". They are certainly dogmatic, but I think that is where your OP fails, in that any form of gov is going to be Dogmatic, and any form of morality is going to be dogmatic in nature.
Which makes your definition exclusion of dogmatic, logical impossible.
I appreciate your time, and if you feel you have explained it to the best of your ability, then thanks for your effort.
That's unfortunate, but understandable. With regard to the usual and incorrect theistic claim that the country was built on religious principles, whether it was or wasn't is completely irrelevant to the principles which govern (and should govern) it today.
But since you brought it up, we need only look to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who both explicitly explained that the country is definitely not founded on religion. The Declaration of Independence itself proclaims that the source of authority is internal (SM), not external (RM) with: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". Further, the way in which the declaration (and other documents before it after which it was fashioned) refers to natural laws again coincides with the SM principle of rational inquiry and discussion or evidence.
I see the ideology of communism as an official form of "secularism".
To repeat again once for another time, dogmatically enforcing any kind of belief (including a lack thereof) is by definition a violation of the core principle of secularism, and therefore any regime guilty of such conduct cannot (and indeed is not) considered to be secular.
They are certainly dogmatic, but I think that is where your OP fails, in that any form of gov is going to be Dogmatic, and any form of morality is going to be dogmatic in nature.
You are obviously confused about what it means to be dogmatic, which is to enforce something incontrovertibly. This is the exact opposite of how democratic governments work.
So then SM can't be enforced at all?
the end result seems the same. Be it by democratic agreement by the majority onto the minority, or by dictatorship. The end is a rule applied dogmatically.
No, it's forwarded as fact. I guess you're trying to make a clever gotcha here, but you obviously misunderstand what it means for something to be asserted incontrovertibly, as would be required for something to be dogmatic, compared to facts which are offered to support a conclusion. You have every right to try and dispute the conclusion with your own facts, which is precisely opposite to something being incontrovertible.
Enforcing something is not dogmatic. If we agree that the use of force is acceptable in certain circumstances (criteria which are subject to change, and often do change - the exact opposite of something being incontrovertible), there's nothing wrong with that.
Again, you misunderstand then, what it means for something to be dogmatic. A rule which is applied by authority granted democratically, a rule which is determined based on facts and reasoned evidence and agreed upon as a result of rational discourse, is the furthest thing from dogma which is asserted incontrovertibly. I'm sure you've experienced laws being changed in your lifetime, and legal definitions being updated or improved upon - this is literally the antithesis of incontrovertible dogma. The SM processes behind those changes, by definition, are not incontrovertible, and therefore not dogmatic.
What about when people don't agree. specifically the minority.
Two things. First, I have seen religion do this in regards to us law. So religion is not inherently opposed to this.
Second, you seem to have switched from morals to legality. Those are two different things. I am not aware of any moral system that was voted on at all ever. Much less applied to those who disagreed in a non dogmatic way.
Again, regardless of the fact that one was already provided, this is, as already explained, irrelevant to the point of the discussion.
Which one was already provided? I can't seem to find it.
Just because an action is accepted does not make it right, morally; it makes it liked or imposed.
The question is why do the thoughts of one relative, subjective individual (who influences others) equal what is 'good'? Is it because of he and the other participants 'liking' his system of thought, or is there a standard that is best that he can appeal to?
SM does not have one that is best, nor could it make one up.
If the Being is all-knowing, then He would know what is best, and He would be the standard that best is derived from by subjective human beings.
By revealing that standard human beings would know what is best. Having given them a volition, they would be able to submit to that standard or reject it to their detriment. When they rejected that omniscient standard, all hell would break out. People would start calling good as evil and evil as good.
"Encourage change" would be a problem.
How would the participants ever arrive at a best?
This type of SM philosophy is what people fight over - a disagreement on what is better or best.
You throw around words like good and better and best, but what they equate to is what you prefer/like, since your system is ever changing.
The 'Golden Rule' is what most religious beliefs are based upon, although I only defend ONE, the Judeo-Christian system of belief. I will argue with you against any other system of thought and belief.
Improvements provided that the system has built on what is right, instead of what is thought by the individual and his adherents to be good. Hitler (and other depots) built on a system, that if realized, would have resulted in the extermination of whole classes of human beings, such as the Jews.
Now, if there is no best or ultimate, fixed standard, how do we even get to best, let alone good? Good is whatever works, or whatever one person or group can pressure others to accept.
So Thou shall not kill, lie, steal, covet, etc., (love your neighbor as yourself) is not providing the most reliable results, results that we should follow?
The opposite is to kill those who oppose you, lie, steal from them, take what you want from them for only you and those you like to count. You can only live by that standard until someone else applies it to you. Then your moral indignation is shown if you are still alive.
Adaptation means that best has not been found, followed, or known.
Based on whose skeptical inquiry, whose rationale, whose data, whose demonstratable results.
I see what is happening on campuses around your country where conservative views are ostracized and squashed. That is what happens when SM is questioned and criticized. It is all a power game, without an ultimate standard. Everyone wants their liberal position as the relevant position (on the road to either anarchy or dictatorship).
No, not conquest or coercion in the case of Christianity but choice. It relies the individual recognizing there is One who has our best interested in mind and it depends upon the obedience of the INDIVIDUAL to doing what is good or best because the revelation of God has changed their whole being.
Superior in whose SM view (Kim Jong-un, President Xi's, an oppressive military junta, or Putin's)? Because an individual or group says their changing view is superior to another groups views does not make it so unless there is an ultimate standard that their view can be measured by? Otherwise, they are just imposing their likes. Hitler did not like Jews. Kim Jong-un does not like Americans. He sees America as evil, not good; it opposes his self-rule. President Xi sees America as an undesirable because it impedes his view of China being the world power that dictates to others. Putin has ideas of Russian expansion (good for them, bad for the rest because of the very methods in which he may use to achieve his aims). If these atheistic and agnostic regimes achieve their goals, the world will be a radically changes place. Once the Judeo-Christian system of thought is supplanted, anything is possible).
The fight between Republicans and Democrats in the US is a fight for the future. If liberal leftwing Democrats win out heaven help America. The Democrats are on the way to a socialist, big government State, just like China, just like Russia, just like North Korea, where the government has comprehensive control over the people.
How did Hitler control the masses? By controlling the mass media, the institutions of higher learning, and also monitoring and conforming the gatekeepers of that society to their ideology.
Future, you were challenged to support this claim and provide an example that meets the definition you provided in the OP. According to the rules you can either support this claim or formally retract it.
Would you say that the standards and values laid out in the SM are true for the person who holds that SM?
If so, how is it not dogmatic?
If not, how can it provide a guide for whether actions or moral or immoral?
Also, if you think I've overlooked your post please shoot me a PM, I'm not intentionally ignoring you. | 2019-04-24T03:00:43 | http://www.onlinedebate.net/forums/showthread.php/28278-Secular-Morality-vs-Non-Secular-Morality?s=02f953a243a51f15b44b7d077e0b7345&p=556897 |
0.99549 | For a given string consisting of lowercase English letters, find the first non-repeated character if any.
After you solve this problem, solve First Non Repeated Character For Each Prefix.
Input. The input file consists of one or more input strings, one per line and is terminated by an EOF character. Consider the following example.
Output. The output file consists the count of unique non-empty substrings for each input string. The following example corresponds to the previous example input.
We solve the problem by detecting the letters that are repeated and then finding the first that is not.
For example, consider input string ‘aab’. To determine the repeated letters, iterate the string in the following way. At each letter, record the occurrence of the letter the first time you find it and the repetition of the letter every subsequent time you find the letter. You may use a hash or an array with sufficient capacity if you have aversion to hashes. When you are done, iterate the string again and return the first letter that is not repeated. | 2019-04-23T10:12:46 | http://ruslanledesma.com/2016/12/11/first-non-repeated-character.html |
0.999434 | FOREWORD First of all we would like to thank God because of Hiss blessing we can finished this referat. We also would like to thank our supervisor dr. Arie Polim Sp.OG (K) for giving us valuable advice and support always when needed. Other important persons considering our referat are our family for their support. Our colleagues whom we like to give our special thanks for giving us an opportunity to share their knowledge and the best available information.We choose Obesity and Infertility as our referat title. We realize this referat is far from perfect, therefore we hope any constructive advices or critics to make our referat better. As a final word we hope this referat is useful and enrich knowledge about poor ovarian response.
index (BMI) of 18.5-24.9 kg/m2, overweight as a BMI of 25-29.9 kg/m2, and obesity as a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or greater. When the BMI is greater than desire value it may lead to fertility problems among both males and females. It can disrupt the hormonal balance which is necessary for normal egg and sperm production.4 The association between increased weight and cardiometabolic disease is widely recognized, but obesity also plays a significant role in the development of reproductive disorders by increasing the risk of infertility, breast cancer, and endometrial cancer.5 Hence, we tried to collect evidence showing association between obesity and infertility because their association remains unclear.
1.2 Goal 1. Determine the correlation between obesity and infertility on women.
opposed to during infancy, is more strongly associated with amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, and long menstrual cycles.
atributable to overweight and obesity among women of repriductive age.
15 years the prevalence of obese-I (25,0-29,9) is 32% and obese-II (30,0) is 36%.
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levels are indicative of seminiferous tubule dysfunction, therefore subnormal levels clearly reflect irregular spermatogenesis. Studies carried out in normal monkeys revealed that inhibin B levels correlate positively with sertoli cell number (as well as function), and indicate that reduced levels of inhibin B in obese men are likely to signify fewer sertoli cells than in men of normal weight.The general consensus is that obese men have significantly lower than normal levels of inhibin B, and, indeed, inhibin B serum levels were 2532% lower in obese men compared with men of normal weight.This marked decrease in the most accurate marker of normal spermatogenesis indicates that the production of male gametesis seriously impaired in obese males.
secondary infertility. Obesity is defined as BMI of 30 kg/m2 or greater. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally and getting worse. There is association between obesity and infertility. Obesity make time for conception longer in women. Obesity is also a strong risk factor for polycystic ovarian syndrome. Obesity in adolescence and young adulthood is more strongly associated with amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, and long menstrual cycles. Obesity decreases successful pregnancy rates in both natural and assisted conception cycles. In men, obesity increases incidence of oligospermia and azospermia, increase in the DNA fragmentation index , decreased inhibin B and decreased testosterone estrogen rasio. Management for infertility in obese population including weight loss and managing hormonal imbalance.
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http://apps.who.int/BMI/index.jsp?introPage=intro_3.html. 9. Barba C, et al. Appropriate Body Mass Index for Asian Populations and its Implications for Policy and Intervention Strategy. Lancet. 2004 (363); 157 63. 10. Barasi ME. Nutrition at Glance. Jakarta: Penerbit Airlangga; 2007. 11. American Society for Reproductive Medicine. 2013. Fertility and Sterility Vol. 99 No. 1. Elsevier inc: Birmingham, Alabama. 12. Hoffman, Barbara L. et.al. Williams Gynecology second edition. Dallas, Texas. The McGraw-Hill: 2012.
13. Burney RO, Schust DJ, Yao MWM. Infertility. In: Berek JS, editor. Berek & Novaks Gynecology. 14th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2007. 14. Callahan TL, Caughey AB. Blueprints Obstetric and Gynecology. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2009. | 2019-04-26T10:07:01 | https://www.scribd.com/document/187967141/Obesity-and-Infertility |
0.999393 | What Could Tesla Stock Do If Musk Leaves The CEO Role?
What could happen to Tesla (TSLA) stock if Musk moves out of the CEO role?
What about if he leaves the company altogether?
In a previous article, I outlined why I thought there was a very real chance that Tesla CEO Elon Musk could wind up in a non-executive chairman role by 2019. I think the chance of Musk leaving the company outright is low, but I do think the chance of him stepping out of his CEO role is a bit more pronounced. This is all my opinion based on his erratic behavior over the last six months and based on my experience with the SEC suing company executives civilly.
Certainly, I believe that if Musk is not made to move out of his position, that the Board of Directors is failing to do its job and protect the interests of shareholders. I said as much on this webcast I did about a month ago, where I went more into depth about why the Board of Directors needs to do their job, even if it is inconvenient for them at a company where Musk is heralded as savior.
Today I wanted to address the next obvious question that comes up that I did not address in my previous article: what could happen to Tesla's stock price if Musk were to step down as CEO?
I believe if Musk were to leave the company outright and not stay on in some type of non-executive role, it would be devastating for the stock. It would absolutely crush the "Elon Musk call option premium" that many, including myself, believe is the reason that the stock is still valued as high as it is today. Musk leaving the company outright could simply result in a stock price much lower, in my opinion.
But him staying on in a non-executive role might actually be viewed by the market as a favorable (if not the most favorable) scenario. I think bond investors would find it to be a good move, at the very least. Bonds are often the "smart money" that winds up eventually leading the equity. I think responsible investors would praise such a move. They would get the benefits of having Musk still working at the company, with his name tied to the technology, but they wouldn’t have to suffer the direct liabilities and consequences of Musk's actions. Furthermore, Musk moving out of his CEO role would open up an immense opportunity for the company to either bring in a seasoned automobile executive or an executive with extensive public market experience – either one of these, I believe, would prove to be a large positive for the company and would likely result in the share price moving higher.
Think about it: if Musk leaves his role as CEO and somebody with Wall Street experience takes his place, you get the best of both worlds. You get to keep some of the Elon call option because he will be there to innovate, and it would also help exude more confidence when it comes to the routine everyday procedures that need to take place as a public company.
Of course, there are several other situations that are possible. One of those situations is Elon Musk staying on as CEO and hiring a COO. Interviews with three auto industry veteran executives show they all believe that the company needs more top level talent and that Elon needs a COO.
Based on several years of executive departures, I’m not sure that this method would work (with Musk staying as CEO). From the outside looking in, to me, it seems like you are either a Musk enabler or you are out the door. It has been extremely difficult to find other current executives and board members at Tesla that have criticized Musk for his actions (at least publicly). However, there have been no shortage of executives who have reported to Musk or have been subordinate to him who have left the company over the last couple of years. Most recently, over the past week, both the Chief Accounting Officer and VP of Worldwide Finance.
To me, this has always indicated that Musk may not be the best person to work for and that the company may not be the most organized workplace.
For example, the Chief Accounting Officer who recently resigned after less than just a month on the job gave up a $10 million equity package when he resigned. "In leaving the accounting chief job, Morton walked away from a $10 million new-hire equity grant that would have vested over four years," Bloomberg wrote after he left.
On the scales of decision making, when you have $10 million on one side, whatever is on the other side must carry significant weight to upset that balance. People don’t just walk away from $10 million equity awards without good reason.
Whether the Tesla board understands that it is not time for another Band-Aid, but rather time for a larger change, remains to be seen.
The last potential scenario is everything staying exactly the way it is right now: Musk remains CEO and continues to be the head decision maker on all fronts while loyal shareholders, and maybe even the Board of Directors, start to potentially realize the situation that they have gotten themselves into. In a situation where Musk stays as CEO and no other executive changes are made, I believe it’s difficult to predict a scenario where the company does anything other than what it has been doing over the last six months, which, in my opinion, has been nothing short of just embarrassing itself.
The obvious conclusion here is that not all of the scenarios involving Musk stepping down would be negative. In fact, the opposite. This isn’t an article proposing only situations where I believe shareholders would see the value of their stock decline. Rather, I’m trying to inject common sense into the discussion and help people realize that Musk stepping down from CEO may not be the worst thing in the world. In fact, it might be the company's best strategic option right now, especially given the reported SEC investigation.
To me, it feels like there’s an outside chance that the company is already preparing for Musk to stand down. There’s a small part of me that feels like Gene Munster's recent comments to the company, combined with Musk's recent antics, telegraph that the company may be willing to subject Musk to an officer or director bar as part of an SEC settlement regarding the "funding secured" fiasco. Of course, I’m not a securities attorney and I am only guessing here, but in my previous article I did note that an officer or director bar would be a catalyst that could move Musk out of his CEO role in short order.
On a public relations front for the company, it would be much easier to move him out now and then agree to an officer and director bar a couple months from now, than it would be to shock the market by surprising them with such a bar up front.
I still stand by my prediction that Musk will not be CEO in 2019. Whether it is a result of an SEC mandated change, or simply the Board of Directors just coming to their senses remains to be seen.
Long investors should try to put their loyalty to Musk aside and consider why such a scenario may be their best option. Shorts and skeptics are probably praying that Musk stays on in the same capacity and continues to usher in one controversy and problem after the next, as it seems he has been doing this year. | 2019-04-19T17:00:52 | https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-17/what-could-tesla-stock-do-if-musk-leaves-ceo-role |
0.999999 | I'm sort of kind of working on the research end of a back-burner project involving an astronomy club, and I have a few questions.
The main one involves telescopes. I'm trying to find what would be the most realistic type of telescope for the club to invest in. Anyone familiar with this area?
Standard reflector scope probably with a minimum of a 6" mirror, along with a motorized drive mount. Photography would likely be an interest of any club of this sort, so some form of digital camera and mount, as an accessory. You could google such stuff to find out typical price ranges.
Probably a Newtonian reflector. They are the most powerful and highest resolution telescopes for the size and money. Although a Cassegrain reflector is also a good choice. In any case, both are reflector types and that is what any astronomy club would aspire to.
Is this a school club?
Most adult astronomy clubs are get-togethers (sometime called "star parties") where several people bring their telescopes.
It is a school club.
For an school astronomy club, my first choice for the main telescope would probably be a Dobsonian, but the other suggestions that have been offered would work too.
Dobsonian is good because it is pretty simple and inexpesnsive (comparatively), right? But isn't it mainly for deep-sky viewing? I'll look into it more, I guess.
I was thinking more of smaller telescopes, though. Somewhat unrelatedly, would there be any benefits to using a refractor? Besides money, anyway(see below).
Also, on the price range: What do you think would be within a school club's budget?
I would think a few members of a school astronomy club would have their own telescopes and bring them for the group to use, so you could have a variety of tubes. Even some binoculars work well for astronomy.
I still haven't worked out all the conditions, but some club members might own telescopes and such. I'm still thinking of having some club materials though. | 2019-04-20T11:01:51 | https://absolutewrite.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-154165.html?s=b611dc893ee098be22a9d2dfe6eaffa4 |
0.99678 | Shirataki noodles are called as Miracle Noodles and are completely gluten-free, calorie free, vegan and paleo. They are translucent, gelatinous Japanese noodles, which are made from the konjac yam, are low in calories and carbohydrates. They can be substituted in a variety of recipes that call for noodles.
Shirataki noodles mimic the taste and texture of regular noodles. They have no taste of their own but have a slight fish-like smell. Before cooking, they should be rinsed off multiple times to reduce the smell. They can absorb the flavors, spices you cook with just like regular noodles. But, shirataki has slimier consistency and are soft compared to rice noodles. These noodles are commonly available cooked. Be ready to compromise over taste and smell.
Shirataki noodles come pre-packaged in liquid. The noodles are watery and has fishy odor, which comes from the plant they are made from. If you soy or tofu shiratataki noodles, they are mixed with tofu or other ingredients and can be used in place of regular noodles. Veggies stir fried in turmeric powder makes this dish a all natural delicacy loaded with fiber, anti oxidants.
Shirataki noodles are high in fiber, have no calories, no carbohydrates and are gluten-free, calorie free, vegan, paleo and calorie-free. Sounds too good to be true, but they are as healthy as it sounds. That’s why they are called Miracle noodles.
Common mistake many of them do when cooking shirataki noodles is using them directly. Never use these noodles directly. Rinse them thoroughly a few times. Washing them alone is not enough. For best results, follow below steps.
Step 1. After opening package, discard water.
Step 2: Rinse noodles under running water multiple times.
Step 3: Heat water and add noodles to hot water. Drain.
Step 4: Add little oil to a pan. Fry noodles till all water evaporates.
Cook shirataki carefully including all steps.
If using dry noodles, skip step 1, do step3 first and step2 next.
In a pan, add oil and heat to medium.
Add onion, cabbage, bell pepper. Increase heat to high.
Add salt. Keep stirring. Cook for 3-4 minutes till vegetables are crunch yet cooked.
Add chilli powder, coriander powder, spaghetti squash and parsley.
Stir once and turn off stove immediately.
Add cooked vegetables over shirataki noodles. | 2019-04-20T04:51:57 | http://www.ujwalasdelicacies.com/purple-cabbage-with-shirataki-noodles/ |
0.999912 | Bankruptcy is not a "quick fix" for your financial problems. Filing bankruptcy should be a last resort after it has become obvious that you simply cannot pay your creditors and you need help. So rather than asking yourself "Can I file for bankruptcy?" the more appropriate question might be "Should I file for bankruptcy"?
Do you have so much debt that your income will not cover the cost of carrying the debt?
Have your attempts to make arrangements with your creditors to repay your debts proved unsatisfactory? If so, you may be wondering -- "Can I file for bankruptcy?" -- and it's very likely that you can.
Filing bankruptcy may be the best action if you have thousands of dollars worth of debt. If your debt load is only a few hundred dollars, you can probably work out an arrangement with each of your creditors and this arrangement will end up looking better on your credit report.
Bankruptcy has helped many people to achieve financial freedom and pay off large debts, but filing should not be taken lightly, as it also has serious consequences.
Most credit companies will not issue lines of credit or loans to individuals with bankruptcies in their credit report, so if you plan on purchasing a home or new automobile at any time in the future, keep this in mind. A bankruptcy can remain on your credit report for up to 8 years. Although some companies are willing to make exceptions, it's best to keep your credit options open if you can.
So, back to the question: Can I file for bankruptcy?
In most cases, anyone can file for bankruptcy, but you will need to know which chapter of bankruptcy to file under. If you have steady job, Chapter 13 bankruptcy may be best for you, since an agreed upon amount will be taken from your paycheck each pay period and applied to settle your debts.
If you own valuable property, such as a luxury car or an expensive home, filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy may be the best decision, so you can sell these items and apply the money to your debt.
Chapter 11 bankruptcy is usually limited to businesses. If you own a business, Chapter 11 bankruptcy can help you to use the business as collateral and lengthen the time that you have to pay your debts.
No matter what type of bankruptcy you choose, you should make sure that you have an in-depth conversation with your lawyer, attorney or financial advisor about all your legal or financial issues to make sure that this is the best decision for you. Once you file, or even before you make the final decision to file, you may want to attend bankruptcy classes so that you will know how to organize your finances, and what to do when you meet with your creditors to make payment arrangements. Also, if consolidating debt or taking out a second mortgage are viable options for you, consider these before putting a bankruptcy on your credit report.
To get a specific answer to your questions about filing bankruptcy visit Curadebt.com. They can outline all your options. | 2019-04-18T22:33:15 | https://www.controlcreditcarddebt.com/filing-bankruptcy.html |
0.999957 | It's never too late to switch into a career that aligns well with your passions.
Some of the best skills and lessons are learned through your extracurriculars rather than your classes.
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Nicole graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences in 1983 with a BA in Comparative Literature and from Stanford University with a master's degree in Documentary Production. Since then, she has built up an impressive movie track record, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bug's Life, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, and the short story, Sanjay's Super Team, for which she was directly nominated for an Academy Award.
Editor: I first spoke with Nicole in the summer of 2016. Though at the time I was a trading intern, I grew up around the arts and could not shake off the feeling that it was my calling. During our conversation, I mentioned my fears of switching my plans so late in the game, especially into a field I barely studied in college. She told me of her decision to switch from bioengineering to comparative literature when she was in my exact shoes. Though it was such a risky decision, her later success came from her persistence in studying what she knew she loved.
Tell me about your background leading up to this job. How did you recruit for it?
After graduating from Penn, where I had produced a few short training videos for the school, I went on to get a Masters in Documentary Film at Stanford. When I finished there, I wasn’t quite ready to start making a documentary film of my own and really needed to pay the rent, so I got a job at Industrial Light Magic as a production assistant on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Turns out I really enjoyed that work, and soon heard about another opportunity at a small company that created animated commercials and MTV station ID’s.
After seven years of learning about animation and producing, I came to Pixar. At the time, they had only produced some short films and commercials. I arrived just as production was ending on the first Toy Story. Initially, I joined only to produce an interactive CD-ROM game but ended up staying after it was finished to work on feature films. I had never worked in computer animation until then, so I had a lot to learn. You have to remember that it was an incredibly new medium at that time, so nobody knew much about it then.
What is the typical path to become a producer?
There really is no typical path to becoming a producer. Some folks move through the ranks, while others come in with outside experience and move directly into that role.
The producer is ultimately the primary advocate for getting the film done and making sure it’s great while working within the necessary schedule and budget constraints. The production management structure works to support that effort under the producer’s leadership.
The associate producer focuses on specific, day to day management of the Pixar team, budget and schedule. This role can benefit from a business background, but it is not necessary. It is important to be a filmmaker first and foremost.
I like Disney-Pixar's emphasis on social issues and breaking barriers in recent years, especially in Brave and Sanjay's Super Team. How did Pixar carry out this change and what do you see Pixar exploring in the near future?
It wasn't a specific executive decision to make more “diverse” films, but there has been recognition that we need a more diverse group of storytellers. I’m currently involved in mentoring a group of young women artists and hoping that out of this group a director eventually arises.
It’s exciting to see that the whole film industry is recognizing we need to include more women as writers and directors, as well as people from all kinds of different cultural backgrounds.
What can current students look forward to in terms of changes and developments in the animation and media industry in the next five years?
Opportunities in media in general and the animation industry in particular will continue to grow as more and more content is available on TV and over the internet from a bunch of different networks — much like the recent emergence of Netflix and Amazon. Additionally, the next big frontier is virtual reality. Everybody is trying to figure out how to create and distribute entertainment content with a non-linear narrative.
What soft and technical skills are most useful to succeed as a producer?
Soft skills are often under-rated when you’re in school, and are the most critical to being an effective producer. You need to be able to have a vision, think critically, rise above the fray to move an effort forward, and work with all kinds of different people to bring the best work out of them in the service of your project or to persuade them to support what you’re doing. Technical skills are often a lot more straight-forward to acquire and use when needed.
Are there roles in animation firms for non-artsy or non-technical people?
There are some MBAs here with a finance background that manage financials and analyze our process. Animation is a rather labor-intensive undertaking and we typically have over 300 people work on a film over the course of production and distribution. Our finance people provide us a detailed analysis of what part of our pipeline is working efficiently and what isn’t.
If you could go back to Penn, what would you definitely take advantage of?
I would definitely take a computer animation course.
A strong liberal arts education will serve you well if you want to be a visionary and creative leader.
I started out in bioengineering and ended up in comparative literature while participating in every incarnation of theater available at Penn at the time. In my senior year, I was the director and chair of Bloomers where I found myself ultimately responsible for pulling together a spring show. It was incredibly challenging and ultimately enormously rewarding, and taught me a whole lot about working with a team of talented people to create something out of nothing.
Editor's note: Bloomers is Penn's all-female comedy troupe.
Disclaimers: The views presented here are solely those of the interviewee. They do not represent Pixar or any of the other individuals or institutions named above. | 2019-04-23T19:58:29 | https://thesign.al/nicole-pixar/ |
0.99874 | 1: this project was to create a toy model in blender. 2. I learned how to make models in blender as well as how to edit their shape and location 3. I am very proud of how good my model looked and how I had no prior experience with the program. 4. | 2019-04-22T08:33:40 | http://myriverside.sd43.bc.ca/benjaminp2016/tag/it10blender/ |
0.999854 | Recent launch of the iPhone 5 made me decide that it was time to upgrade my old iPhone 3GS. I knew I was going to stay with my current telco provider (Orange, or as they are now known, EE), so I just went into an Orange shop to discuss my options. To cut a long story short, instead of buying a new iPhone 5, I ended up getting Samsung Galaxy S3. Among the reasons for getting an S3 was the fact that it was one of a small but growing number of NFC handsets in the UK market and I knew that Barclaycard and Orange have just made their Quick Tap wallet available on the S3 and I was keen to try it. Here are some observations based on my first-hand experience: 1. Telcos could and should do a much better job at marketing the new services, such as NFC, and need to ensure that their front-line staff are properly trained. An example of my conversation with an Orange salesman: - Me: "This (S3) does have NFC, doesn't it?" - Salesman: "NFC?? Oh, I am not too sure, let me check." ... - Me: "And how do I sign up to the Quick Tap wallet?" (followed by me explaining to him what a Quick Tap wallet is) - Salesman: "Oh, I think you probably have to call Barclaycard to get it set-up, I don't really know." As it happens, both Orange and Barclaycard websites had a description of the wallet, but I didn't see any links or suggestions how to obtain it. Finally, I downloaded the app from Google's PlayStore and followed the relatively straightforward steps in the app to register and link a card. Only when I got home I realised that my phone packaging box had a sticker on it saying "Hold your phone here to get started with Quick Tap", but I didn't notice it at the time and the salesman didn't point it to me either. In other words, I knew what I wanted and was able to get it; someone less determined than me may not even realise their phone had these capabilities. 2. The experience of using NFC seemed to get better over time. Armed with my new mobile wallet, I set out to try paying with it (you see, unlike a "normal" customer, I actually think about payment!) I went to my local town (Bromley) and into the Boots store, as I knew it was one of the early adopters of contactless terminals. My suggestion that I was about to pay with my mobile phone was met with visible excitement from the cashier staff - there was no queue, so two of them came over to take a look, saying "How exciting! We've seen contactless cards, but not the mobile phone payments yet!" However, the first transaction was actually quite painful - I touched the phone against the terminal and nothing happened; I thought perhaps I needed to log-in to the app (the answer is, I don't), so I did that, and the result was the same. Finally, after a few times of trying, there was a beep and much to our relief, the transaction went through. However, the second transaction was better (only took a few taps) and the third onwards have been absolutely smooth - literally, "tap and go". I don't think I was doing anything different and I even went back to the same merchant, so perhaps the phone needed "to go through the motions" to properly activate the NFC chip? Again, I am a patient geek and I want this to work, so I persevere; the question is, how many "normal" customers would have had the courage to try it again if their first transaction was anything like mine. 3. There are more merchants accepting contactless than we think, but they could do a better job telling us about it. I knew I would be able to pay contactless at Boots, Pret-a-Manger and a few other well publicised merchants. I was positively surprised that I could actually pay in a lot more places than that, including small independent merchants, such as my local independent CD store and my local fishmonger. The "where you can pay" feature inside the Quick Tap wallet showed that even a cafe at my Virgin Active gym was accepting contactless. More visible signs of contactless acceptance at the counters would be helpful though - some terminals are obviously different, but others look just like regular card terminals, so I couldn't really tell if I could use my phone without asking about it. 4. Merchant cashier staff are crucial to shaping customer opinions and should become "the ambassadors" for new technology to succeed. When buying breakfast and coffee this morning at Pret-a-Manger I again tapped the phone to pay, the cashier's response stunned me - "Do you realise that if someone gets hold of your phone, all your money is gone?", he asked me. After I regained my speech, I said, "is this what you tell all your customers?" Unfortunately, the overly emphatic "No!!!" could only mean, "yes, I do"... How does that help the already security-anxious consumer? Overall, I've enjoyed tapping my phone over the last few days. Having said that, more often than not I reached for my actual wallet only to remember to take out my phone (old habits die hard!) While the experience now is easy - literally, "tap and go", it's not really a step change from paying by card. And there are no additional services for now, other than the summary of transactions I get on the phone. It's enough to excite my inner payments geek, but my experience seems to suggest that we are still some time off from a mass market adoption of NFC. | 2019-04-18T22:23:13 | https://www.celent.com/insights/738582077 |
0.999768 | In part one of Wired.co.uk's epic length Q&A with Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige, the shepherd of the Marvel Cinematic Universe talked on bringing CGI characters to life and utilising IMAX to its fullest for Guardians of the Galaxy. Here, Feige discusses which hero team he'd be part of, television's Agents of SHIELD and the upcoming Marvel series for Netflix, and bringing Chris Pratt and Karen Gillen into the Guardians of the Galaxy universe.
Which Marvel's superhero teams would you personally join?
X-Men would be. The Who? It depends on your mood. I've been spending a lot of time with the Guardians over the last year, so I think it would be a lot of fun to ride around on the Milano with them. The Avengers have a lot of responsibility -- a LOT -- the Guardians less so. I think it would be a lighter, more fun time with them. At least for now!
How might the Agents of SHIELD TV series connect to Guardians of the Galaxy?
I'm not sure. They're working on the second season right now, they're cracking the episodes for that, so I'm not exactly sure what their plans are. But I know that everyone's very happy about the connectivity between Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Agents of SHIELD. They're constantly aware of what we're doing in the movies and take their lead from the feature films. I think they've already tied in a couple of blue aliens in the first season that might may or may not relate to blue aliens in Guardians -- I'm not being coy, by the way, I'm really not sure if it does or not. There's always that chance for connectivity but I'm not exactly sure what they've got in store for episode-by-episode for season two.
How do upcoming Netflix series -- Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and The Defenders -- contribute to the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
I think they're being very smart about that, approaching the shows the way we approach movies, which is to focus on the core project, make sure it's as great as it can be, beginning, middle, and end.
Then they see if there are places where it makes sense for some interweaving of continuity. Right now, their goal, and they're in production on the Daredevil series, is focusing on making it the best incarnation of Daredevil that has ever existed.
How challenging was the casting for this movie?
We knew that the movie was going to succeed or fail based on the casting of Peter Quill, Star Lord. He's in a film with talking raccoons and talking trees and green women and greyish-red hulking maniacs and blue, pink or yellow people on various planets.
What was going to link, ground and anchor the movie for our (primarily!) human audience that is going to see it was the character of Peter Quill. Also, by extension, the music and soundtrack Quill listens to. What sets this movie apart and makes it Marvel is that it isn't just taking place on the other side of the universe without any connection at all to Earth or humanity.
The movie has a little bit of Earth to introduce Peter. He's our human entry point into this world so we needed to be entertained by him, moved by him, and connect to him.
What made you settle on Chris Pratt as Star Lord?
It was a long process to cast him. We auditioned a lot of people and did quite elaborate screen tests, more elaborate and more of them than we had ever done before in search of a star for one of our films. We saw close to a dozen very, very good, well-known actors for his part. Then Chris came in, and initially he didn't want to. I think he felt a little self-conscious because his body was in Parks and Recreation shape, which is much closer to the shape I'm in than the shape he's in now! And the audition required a lot -- the costume didn't exist yet but we knew roughly what it was going to be so put the actors in all these long trench coats. We gave them these guns and in addition to the acting scenes we made them do some posing with the guns, all gunslinger style towards the camera. I think he was self-conscious of doing that too, and when he came in to do that move -- it wasn't based on that move why he cast him, let's put it that way! Now, it's his signature move and it's in the movie and it's awesome.
How do you know when you've found the right hero for a Marvel movie?
Chris was by the far the most dynamic, the most charismatic of any of the actors we'd seen. We have this barometer now when we're casting -- it's Hemsworth, it's Evans, it's Ruffalo, it's Renner, it's Scarlett Johansson. So when we're bringing somebody into the universe, that's a high bar they have to match.
Sometimes, you find yourself going "OK well, I guess this could work, this person could be good" but what you really want to feel is "That's the guy! No question! Get him!" We weren't feeling that until Chris came in.
How did you cast the character of Drax?
Chris is also the reason we cast Dave Bautista [as Drax]. James was very smart and did these chemistry tests between Chris, once we'd decided to hire him and thankfully he agreed to do it, and Dave, and that was really what brought out Dave. He'd done a number of good auditions by himself up to that point, but it was really when we put the two of them together that they both came to life even more so.
Chris Pratt seems to be a rising star. Did that influence the decision?
The fact that the Lego Movie came out and is tied -- or just below! -- Winter Soldier for one of the biggest movies of the year is great, and the fact that he's getting a lot of heat for Jurassic World is a bonus. The best thing for us though is that he's the perfect Peter Quill and will take his rightful place alongside all those other iconic Marvel actors.
What made you choose Doctor Who star Karen Gillen to play space pirate Nebula?
We were looking at people in the States and the UK.
Karen had two things going for her. One, she had a great audition.
It was a great bonus that she had a fanbase from Doctor Who, but that wasn't the driving factor. And two, she was willing to shave her head! She ended up not only shaving her head, but last year at San Diego Comic Con, you may remember she came out in a wig and dramatically revealed her shaven head. It was so ballsy and so awesome. She did all her interviews, and the behind-the-scenes footage that you'll start to see rolling out of the movie, completely bald, out of makeup. She's beautiful with and without hair, and it was really, really cool that she was willing to do that. Nebula, the character she's playing, is a conflicted character who needs to have a number of different layers and a performance that comes through her rather striking, dramatic look. | 2019-04-23T16:56:32 | https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kevin-feige-pt-2 |
0.999996 | Read the passage below and write the answers to the questions which follow in boxes 28-40 on your answer sheet.
GT Reading: "The Shock of the Truth"
A. Throughout history, there have been instances in which people have been unwilling to accept new theories, despite startling evidences. This was certainly the case when Copernicus published his theory – that the earth was not the centre of the universe.
B. Until the early 16th century, western thinkers believed the theory put forward by Ptolemy, an Egyptian living in Alexandria in about 150 A.D. His theory, which was formulated by gathering and organizing the thoughts of the earlier thinkers, proposed that the universe was a closed space bounded by a spherical envelope beyond which there was nothing. The earth, according to Ptolemy, was a fixed and immobile mass, located at the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars revolved around it.
C. The theory appealed to human nature. Someone making casual observations as they looked into the sky might come to a similar conclusion. It also fed the human ego. Humans could believe that they were at the centre of God’s universe, and the sun and stars were created for their benefit.
D. Ptolemy’s theory, was of course, incorrect, but at the time nobody contested it. European astronomers were more inclined to save face. Instead of proposing new ideas, they attempted to patch up and refine Ptolemy’s flawed model. Students were taught using a book called The Sphere which had been written two hundred years previously. In short, astronomy failed to advance.
E. In 1530, however, Mikolaj Kopernik, more commonly known as Copernicus, made an assertion which shook the world. He proposed that the earth turned on its axis once per day, and travelled around the sun once per year. Even when he made his discovery, he was reluctant to make it public, knowing how much his shocking revelations would disturb the church. However, George Rheticus, a German mathematics professor who had become Copernicus’s student, convinced Copernicus to publish his ideas, even though Copernicus, a perfectionist, was never satisfied that his observations were complete.
F. Copernicus’s ideas went against all the political and religious beliefs of the time. Humans, it was believed, were made in God’s image, and were superior to all creatures. The natural world had been created for humans to exploit. Copernicus’s theories contradicted the ideas of all the powerful churchmen of the time. Even the famous playwright William Shakespeare feared the new theory, pronouncing that it would destroy social order and bring chaos to the world. However, Copernicus never had to suffer at the hands of those who disagreed with his theories. He died just after the work was published in 1543.
G. However, the scientists who followed in Copernicus’s footsteps bore the brunt of the church’s anger. Two other Italian scientists of the time, Galileo and Bruno, agreed wholeheartedly with the Copernican theory. Bruno even dared to say that space was endless and contained many other suns, each with its own planets. For this, Bruno was sentenced to death by burning in 1600. Galileo, famous for his construction of the telescope, was forced to deny his belief in the Copernican theories. He escaped capital punishment, but was imprisoned for the rest of his life.
H. In time, however, Copernicus’s work became more accepted. Subsequent scientists and mathematicians such as Brahe, Kepler and Newton took Copernicus’s work as a starting point and used it to glean further truths about the laws of celestial mechanics.
I. The most important aspect of Copernicus’ work is that it forever changed the place of man in the cosmos. With Copernicus’ work, the man could no longer take that premier position which the theologians had immodestly assigned him. This was the first, but certainly not the last time in which man would have to accept his position as a mere part of the universe, not at the centre of it.
Select the correct letters A-I, and write your answers on your answer sheet.
Look at the following statements and the list of people (A-I) below.
Match each statement with the correct person and write the appropriate letters (A-I) in boxes 35 -40 on your answer sheet.
35. He, among others, used Copernicus’s theories to advance scientific knowledge.
39. He was responsible for Copernicus’s ideas being made public.
Can you explain questions 33 and 39 and their answers? | 2019-04-19T21:38:39 | https://www.ielts-mentor.com/reading-sample/gt-reading/3159-the-shock-of-the-truth |
0.999981 | Can essential oils cause hair color to change?
I've been adding tangerine EO to the water I use to mist my second day hair. Today I noticed that the water is actually light orange from the EO. I have dark brown hair. Will it cause any color changes or weird orange highlights?
I don't know about Tangerine EO, but I've read several times and places that EO of Rosemary does darken hair.
Maybe I should use EO of Rosemary to darken my hair when the summer is over instead of getting it dyed my natural color. | 2019-04-21T02:36:22 | https://curltalk.naturallycurly.com/discussion/172776/can-essential-oils-cause-hair-color-to-change |
0.999337 | Opinion Piece: Is the economy squeezing the life and profits out of insurance?
In the current challenging economic environment, consumers are tightening up their purse strings, and many are considering cutting what they deem to be “unnecessary” costs. One of the first things that people tend to draw back on is their insurance payments for household, life and funeral coverages. This is leaving many insurance companies with the challenge of retaining their customers and achieving further growth.
To address this challenge, a vast number of insurers are breaking away from “business as usual” to explore new ways to achieve growth. New and emerging disruptive technologies – and the many ways they can be leveraged for both growth and customer retention – may well hold the key.
Insurance has, over the past decade, continued to build on a traditional approach with regards to retaining and increasing its customer base. However they are failing to attract younger generations with traditional product centric and distribution approach. With a product-centric portfolio that is sold via an agent distribution channel and is typically designed around a one-size-fits-all formula, insurers have managed to maintain their hold on the market. As the customer’s buying behaviours are changing there is a need to meet the urgent demands of a millennial market by insurers.
The “new customer” is no longer satisfied with working through agents to liaise with their insurance companies, preferring instead to go directly to their organisation of choice. They are also more reactive to personalised services. While most customers, both businesses and individuals, still require “conventional” insurance policies for protection and risk management, many of them are looking for far more flexibility and choice in how their policies are structured.
Unfortunately, the majority of insurance companies are only just realising the potential to be unlocked in data and analytics. Most have relied for far too long on historic and segment based data to obtain a very broad and insubstantial – for today’s market – view of their customer.
There are a number of medium to long-term trends that are predicted to disrupt the insurance industry by 2020. This includes the recent rise of the FinTech/InsurTech, ever-changing demographic landscape, and the increasing economic significance of emerging markets. All of these factors are geared to significantly impact the structure of the insurance industry.
South African insurers are already investing in new technologies that enable them to adapt to the changing environment. Digital technology and data analytical capability will be significant components of facilitating more real-time engagement with consumers. Furthermore, it will assist insurers to anticipate their changing needs and manage insurance risks proactively rather than reactively.
Insurers are slowly migrating to a more customer-centric proposition, which leverages the insights that analytics, ubiquitous data and connected devices provide. This enables them to offer personalised and tailored products, real-time, omni-channel engagement platforms, improved relationship management and a more satisfying experience overall.
Know Your Customers (KYC) has never been more important than now, and these technologies enable insurers to gain invaluable and specific insight into the needs, wants and current circumstances of their clientele. This, in turn, translates into increased customer acquisition and retention, and a significantly improved and more stable bottom line.
Insurers realised that for them to be sustainable in the future they need to be part of the life time events of their customers. Implementing technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, Big Data and analytics can be daunting prospects for any industry. This is particularly relevant to the insurance industry which is typically mired in convention and legacy processes.
In order to be effective with these implementations, and achieve the desired outcomes, insurers can start by reviewing where their biggest costs and lowest returns are incurred. Once they know where their biggest profit drains are, and what products or services yield the lowest returns, they can begin by eliminating or streamlining these areas, starting small and growing their digital strategy from there.
Leveraging technology solves business problems as a service and can help to simplify and reduce their internal Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and help them to transform their business to meet future customer needs and be part of the life time activities of their customers. This also releases legacy infrastructure which can drain resources and capital. Insurers can look to optimise their processes, which aids in releasing capital for re-investment elsewhere.
Externally, they can delve into their historic data and identify problem areas, such as closed books – which effectively ties up capital in a veritable “no-man’s land” to be left unused for years. Investigating closed books can provide unique opportunities for insurers to upsell, or re-package these policies to their existing customers, allowing them to re-purpose the capital while giving their customers incentive to stay with them. Outsourcing this process can provide a big lift to the industry, freeing insurers from managing the processes and IT that support their mature product lines.
This data, coupled with smart devices and application-based platforms, can be put to use to better identify with their market. This allows insurers to tailor their products and offer services such as cover for only those instances when their customers require it, and none when it’s not needed.
In this way, insurers can move towards a new way of offering insurance, catering to the new customer and remaining relevant, competitive and on top of their game. | 2019-04-21T04:10:43 | http://financialmarketsjournal.co.za/opinion-piece-is-the-economy-squeezing-the-life-and-profits-out-of-insurance/ |
0.985229 | Caffeine is a natural substance found in more than 60 plants. The FDA considers caffeine to be both a food additive and a drug. This article explores caffeine's effect on the body, how much is too much, symptoms of caffeine overload, and tips for breaking the caffeine habit.
Caffeine is a bitter, white substance that occurs naturally in more than 60 plants, including coffee beans, tea leaves and cacao pods (used to make chocolate). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers caffeine to be both a food additive and a drug.
The most common sources of caffeine for most people are coffee, tea, soda and chocolate. The amount of caffeine in foods and drinks varies. For coffee and tea, the amount of caffeine per cup depends on the brand, the type of beans or leaves used, how it is prepared and how long it steeps. Most soda pops, not only colas, contain caffeine. Energy drinks are growing in popularity, particularly among teens and young adults. The caffeine content of these drinks ranges from 60 mg to more than 250 mg per serving.
Caffeine is the main ingredient in over-the-counter (non-prescription) stimulants that reduce fatigue (tiredness), increase alertness or give an energy boost. It is also added to other over-the-counter and prescription medications.
What effects does caffeine have on the body?
Caffeine passes into the bloodstream from the stomach and small intestine. Once in the bloodstream, caffeine stimulates the central nervous system -- the nerves, brain and spinal cord -- to make you feel more awake and alert. Caffeine reduces fatigue and improves focus and concentration. It also causes the release of acid in the stomach, and some people report heartburn or indigestion after consuming caffeine.
The effects of caffeine can be felt as soon as 15 minutes after it is consumed. The level of caffeine in the blood peaks about 1 hour later and stays at this level for several hours for most people. Six hours after caffeine is consumed, half of it is still in the body. It can take up to 10 hours to completely clear caffeine from the bloodstream.
How is caffeine used in medications?
Caffeine is a common ingredient in many prescription and over-the-counter headache remedies, pain relievers and cold medicines. Through caffeine’s effects on the central nervous system, it helps these drugs act more effectively -- and helps the body absorb headache medicines more quickly.
If you are concerned about your caffeine intake, read the product label on over-the-counter medications or the information sheet that comes with prescriptions to determine whether a medication contains caffeine. The FDA requires that the medication labels list the amount of caffeine they contain.
Caffeine is also found in some herbal products that people take as supplements, including guarana, yerba mate, kola nut and green tea extract. These products are not required by law to show their caffeine content on the label, and there is no set standard for caffeine content.
The average American adult consumes 200 mg of caffeine a day. This is the equivalent of two 5-ounce cups of coffee or four 12-oz. colas. Consuming up to 400 mg or four cups of coffee, does not cause problems for most people. But caffeine affects people differently, depending on their size, gender and sensitivity to it. In people who are sensitive to caffeine, even moderate amounts can cause insomnia (trouble sleeping), rapid heart rate, anxiety and feelings of restlessness. Health and nutrition experts agree that consuming more than 600 mg of caffeine a day (equivalent of four to seven cups of coffee) is too much.
Teenagers and young adults often drink energy drinks and/or large amounts of strong coffee, putting them at risk of consuming too much caffeine.
What are the symptoms of having too much caffeine?
Can an individual develop an addiction to caffeine?
Many people develop a tolerance for caffeine. This means that their body gets used to having caffeine every day. Over time, they must keep increasing their caffeine intake to achieve the desired effects of alertness and ability to concentrate.
What are some tips for breaking the caffeine habit?
Cut down slowly on the amount of caffeine in your diet. If you have developed a dependence on caffeine, an abrupt cutback can cause headache, fatigue, difficulty concentrating and even flu-like nausea and muscle pain. These symptoms are called ‘caffeine withdrawal.’ In general, the more caffeine you are used to consuming, the more severe withdrawal symptoms are likely to be. Symptoms of withdrawal begin 12 to 24 hours after the last caffeine intake and can last 2 to 9 days.
People who want to cut down on caffeine often make the mistake of stopping totally. When they experience withdrawal symptoms, they go back to drinking coffee or cola or taking a headache medication with caffeine in it to make the symptoms disappear. This starts the dependency cycle all over again. Avoiding the withdrawal symptoms is one of the most common reasons why people continue their caffeine habit.
To successfully reduce your caffeine intake, gradually reduce the amount of coffee, tea, soda and energy drinks you have each day. Begin to substitute cold caffeinated beverages with water. Water is a healthy choice and satisfies the need for drinking a liquid. Water also naturally flushes caffeine from your body and keeps you hydrated.
If you are a coffee drinker, gradually switch from regular coffee to decaf. First alternate between decaf and regular, then slowly change to more decaf and taper off regular coffee. Gradually reducing your caffeine consumption over a period of 2 to 3 weeks will help you successfully change your habit without causing withdrawal symptoms.
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0.999997 | Two Strings are called the anagram if they contain the same characters. However, the order or sequence of the characters can be different. In this program, our task is to check for two strings that, they are the anagram or not. For this purpose, we are following a simpler approach. First of all, Compare the length of the strings, if they are not equal in the length then print the error message and make an exit, otherwise, convert the string into lower-case for the easy comparisons. Sort both the strings using bubble sort or other sorting methods. If the strings are found to be identical after sorting, then print that strings are anagram otherwise print that strings are not the anagram.
Check for their lengths. If the lengths are not equal, then strings are not an anagram.
Else, convert the string to lower case character to make the comparison easy.
Some language allows the strings to provide inbuilt function for sorting of string. If not then convert them to character array for sorting.
Finally, check for the equality of content.
Both the strings are anagram. | 2019-04-24T20:17:35 | https://www.javatpoint.com/program-to-determine-whether-two-strings-are-the-anagram |
0.999139 | Pakistan had recently refused to grant India the \'Most Favoured Nation\' status for conducting trade.
Meanwhile, Exports from India to Pakistan reached almost $2.3 billion while exports from Pakistan to India were only $430 million from 2013 to 2014.
Surprise, surprise! Narendra Modi's latest diplomatic move included a surprise visit to Lahore on Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's birthday and a visit to the latter's ancestral home as well.
The impromptu meeting that was initiated by Modi during his speech in the Afghan Parliament has been in the works for a long time but was cancelled time and again before External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Pakistan for 'Heart of Asia' conference.
As pointed out in this Tehelka article, Pakistan wants to conduct trade with India, despite all reservations. The army belligerently had conceded that business ties with India are of utmost importance, though the reasons may vary and be based on funding the ammunition barrel to fuel border skirmishes.
MFN status: Given, not given or refused?
There is no proposal under consideration to give India the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status, Pakistan commerce minister Khurram Dastgir Khan had recently stated.
He said the "existence of a negative list was a clear indication that the MFN status had not been given to India", Dawn newspaper reported. Khan also said that since Modi government took over last year, no bilateral trade talks had taken place.
MFN has been in doldrums ever since 2011 as India has sought the status but Pakistan has refused to throw clarity on the status.
Under the WTO agreements, countries cannot normally discriminate between their trading partners. Grant someone a special favour (such as a lower customs duty rate for one of their products) and you have to do the same for all other WTO members. This principle is known as most-favoured-nation (MFN) treatment.
MFN would allow India, in principle, to enjoy lower tariffs and fewer trade barriers in its economic relationship with Pakistan.
Exports from India to Pakistan have reached almost $2.3 billion while exports from Pakistan to India were only $430 million from 2013 to 2014, according to the Indian Department of Commerce.
These numbers are lower than the potential for trade between the two, something think-tanks and experts believe it can help improve overall relations including the diplomacy related matters.
Some experts estimate that a normalized trade regime between the two nations could eventually send the figure soaring to $40 billion.
To aid India-Pakistan relations and improve bilateral ties, experts believe that a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) needs to be created for the region.
This zone would benefit industries from both countries that could help remove trade barriers.
The textile, automotive and pharmaceutical industries would be the most likely to benefit from such an economic zone, according to the report published in 2014 by Transnational Strategy Group.
In 2012, intensified trade diplomacy between Islamabad and New Delhi yielded a range of achievements. Early in the year, Pakistan abolished its positive list of 2,000 goods that could be imported from India, and replaced it with a negative list of about 1,200 items that could not be imported (more than 500 of these untradeable items belonged to the automobile, iron, and steel sectors).
Islamabad pledged to eliminate this negative list entirely by the end of 2012, thereby bringing the two countries closer to a fully operational MFN regime, which however hasn't succeeded as mentioned by Woodrow Wilson center.
Conclusion: Trade with India is critical for Pakistan if it wants to develop its industries into economies of scale rather than closed sectors that rely on governmental help for sustenance. Only time will tell if the Modi-Sharif coup translates to business deals. After all steel magnate Jindal was present for a reason, right?
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0.998252 | Can't uninstall V-Raxtor (32-Bit) completely from your computer?
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Many people have tried just everything to uninstall V-Raxtor (32-Bit) and thought it's gone successfully. However, when they update or install another software on computer the error message comes up saying that you need to uninstall V-Raxtor (32-Bit) first to do this. If you are one of the many who have tried to work out this agonising process and want to completely uninstall V-Raxtor (32-Bit) from your computer.
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Wait for the standard uninstall process to be finished. Go ahead and clean the V-Raxtor (32-Bit) leftover files.
Step 7. Once done, scroll through this section and find V-Raxtor (32-Bit) and related folder to be deleted.
In order to remove V-Raxtor (32-Bit) from your computer you need to make a choice whether do it manually or pick an uninstaller software to finish the job for you.
I highly recommend you to use an uninstaller for good. Because when you uninstall V-Raxtor (32-Bit) manually, it's high likely it will fail, which will cost you huge amount of time and energy and at the mean time, it can also be very dangerous on the next registry editing step.
Consequently, it is the main reason to use an uninstaller to remove V-Raxtor (32-Bit) from your computer. But, what uninstaller to can be chosen to use and how will it work to remove windows unwanted programs?
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STEP 2: Select V-Raxtor (32-Bit) from the detected program list and click "Run Uninstaller".
STEP 4: Wait for the standard V-Raxtor (32-Bit) uninstall process to be completed and select Scan Leftovers to detect leftover files/registry entries and click Delete Leftovers.
Step1: Open V-Raxtor (32-Bit) Uninstaller and click the "Not list above" button.
Step 2: Specify the install directory of V-Raxtor (32-Bit)(usually in C:\Program Files\); then click the Scan button to start the removal.
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0.998379 | Are we designers or developers?
On the about page of this site I used to call myself a "developer/designer/occasional writer". It's a bit confusing, and I still find it hard to know what to answer when someone asks me what I do for a living. Am I a Web designer? A Web developer? A Web programmer? All of them? Neither? It really is a difficult question to give a simple answer to.
My answer depends on who is asking, when, why, and under what circumstances. Sometimes I'll say that "I work with the Web" or "I build websites", both of which are true but don't really say what I do. It would be easier to be able to give a short, simple, reasonably precise answer.
In a way I am very much a designer, despite doing little to no graphic design these days. Many make the mistake of thinking that design equals graphic design, but design is also about making things work. And since that is what I do, maybe I should call myself a Web designer.
I don't though. "Web designer" to me is a job description that is badly tainted by my experiences from the dotcom bubble. It reminds me of the masses of unskilled people that were hired just because the big Web agencies wanted more employees. It also makes me think of hobbyists using the WYSIWYG mode of a cracked copy of Dreamweaver or GoLive to build sites. So I find it very hard to call myself a Web designer.
As an alternative, I've been using "Web developer" for some time. The problem with that is that many people assume that a Web developer does mostly back-end programming, which I don't do a whole lot of. It does sound more professional than Web designer though.
What other options do we have? Well, there are titles like User interface programmer, Front-end developer, User experience architect (argh, I'm allergic to the phrase "user experience"), and others. There are many titles, but few that actually describe what I do in a way that makes it understandable to people who do not work in the Web industry.
Is this really a problem? Most of the time, no. But it is a bit awkward to not be able to tell the hairdresser or your neighbour what you do for a living and have them understand it. "I work with the Web" or "I build websites" seems to kind of work, but that doesn't tell them if I do graphic design, programming, or both.
Do you consider yourself a designer or a developer?
Do you call yourself a designer or a developer?
If you're up for it, feel free to motivate your answers. | 2019-04-18T16:18:46 | https://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200708/are_we_designers_or_developers/ |
0.999556 | What really makes this pencil so great: The red end cap.
I've intended to write a more in-depth review of the Caran d'Ache Swiss Wood pencil for a while now. It's recently exploded in popularity, so much that they're difficult to get a hold of, and many retailers have raised the price. Pencils.com is sold out again, despite the fact that they now sell the Swiss Wood for over $5 per pencil. C.W. Pencil Enterprise regularly carries them, and they also have the best price at $4.50. What makes this pencil so great? So great, in fact, that it really has been the only pencil that I've used regularly for the past few months?
The weight. This is a hefty piece of wood. The marketing copy describes it as dark brown Swiss Beech wood from the Jura forest, but I wonder whether the wood has been dyed that dark brown color. Other products made from beech wood don't have that extremely dark-chocolatey hue, and the soy-sauce/chocolate/earthy smell doesn't exactly smell like wood. But anyway, this pencil is solid, and has near-perfect balance, even without an eraser.
The end cap. Speaking of no eraser, the end cap on this pencil is painted red with the white Swiss Cross. Enough said.
Point Retention. Point retention on this pencil is exceptional. If I had to point to one particular selling point, this would be it. People may ask, "why on early would you spend upwards of $5 on a single pencil," but the Swiss Wood seemingly writes forever. Caran d'Ache has marked the core as an HB, but to me it's a shade lighter and harder (probably more like an "H"). For textured paper (like that found in the Baron Fig notebooks), it's perfect, because it leaves a legible line without forcing you to sharpen your pencil every two pages. Yesterday I wrote three single-spaced pages in a dot-grid Baron Fig Confidant and still had a nearly intact long point on the pencil. The lighter graphite also doesn't ghost or smear.
The point on a Swiss Wood Pencil lasts forever. You can also see the size difference between the Swiss Wood (on the right), and the Black Wood (on the left). For it's size and hardness, the Black Wood doesn't do a bad job with point retention, either.
Darkness. Compared to a pencil like the Caran d'Ache Black Wood, the graphite in the Swiss Wood can be too light for some everyday uses. When marking up or annotating documents at work, the Swiss Wood can be borderline illegible for some people. I typically use a pen (with red ink) to mark stuff up, so this isn't a huge deal for me. At the end of the day, every pencil has tradeoffs in this regard: you sacrifice darkness for point retention, and sacrifice point retention for darkness. The point retention on this pencil is so good, and it works so well in my Baron Fig (my preferred pencil paper), that I'm willing to give up some darkness, even though I generally favor 2B pencils.
Compare the darkness of the Swiss Wood vs. the Black Wood pencil, which is a "mini-jumbo" pencil with a softer, darker core. The paper is laid cream-colored paper from Papier Plus in Paris.
Price. I feel like I have to mention price again. This is an expensive pencil. One of the most expensive that I own. If the "burn rate" on this pencil was higher, and it didn't last as long as it does, it wouldn't be worth the price to me.
DISCLAIMER: I purchased the product featured in this review with my own funds, for my own personal collection. Pardon the repetition; I did a mini-review of this pencil (along with a few other Caran d'Ache pencils) while back, but I couldn't help revisiting this one because it's been getting a lot of attention lately. | 2019-04-19T06:28:50 | https://www.gentlemanstationer.com/blog/2015/9/30/pencil-revisited-the-caran-dache-swiss-wood |
0.999797 | UNITED STATES: U.S. anti-terrorism agents arrested seven people in the last two days suspected of planning attacks on federal offices in Miami and the landmark Sears Tower in Chicago, a law enforcement source said on Thursday.
The source, elaborating on a brief statement on the operation from Florida authorities, said the suspects had thought they were dealing with the international al Qaeda group but had been infiltrated by a U.S. government informant.
Media reports said no weapons or explosives were found, including in a raid at a warehouse in the poor Miami suburb of Liberty City, where heavily armed security agents were seen by residents on Thursday afternoon. They had left by the evening.
"In the past couple of days, the U.S. government has taken into custody seven people who were conspiring to conduct jihad (holy war) in the United States," the law enforcement source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"They thought they were dealing with al Qaeda," the source said, adding the suspects had been trying to buy weapons and other things needed to carry out attacks.
The source said the government had an informant with whom the suspected conspirators had discussed their plans. "There was no immediate threat because we were in on the discussions." the source said.
A parade through Miami to celebrate the Miami Heat's National Basketball Association championship and expected to attract about 200,000 people, was still due to go ahead on Friday.
CNN said it had been told by sources that six of the suspects had been arrested in Miami and a seventh in Atlanta.
The FBI declined to give details of the operation, saying it would provide more details on Friday morning in news conferences in Miami and Washington.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, confirming arrests had taken place but giving no details, said there was no threat to people in Miami.
"Earlier today, the FBI, in conjunction with federal, state and local authorities, executed arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into a terrorist-related matter," the statement said. | 2019-04-21T18:26:49 | http://archives.dailynews.lk/2006/06/24/wld04.asp |
0.997556 | There is no minimum fundraising target for this event. However, we ask participants to raise as much money as they can in support of Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice.
The Bolton Abbey 10K and family-friendly 5K are new events for runners of all abilities.
For those who found Run Bolton Abbey very challenging, these events, which also take in the stunning scenery of Bolton Abbey, could be just the event for you. 90% of the routes are on tarmac roads and well-made paths.
There is a choice of two distances - 10K or 5K - which will appeal to all, whatever your running ability.
Both runs start and finish in the shadow of the Abbey ruins. The 10K takes in stunning views of the River Wharfe including the stepping stones, the Strid and the aqueduct.
The entry fee includes free car parking (normally £10) close to the start/finish area and complimentary admission to the Bolton Abbey Estate for the day.
All participants benefit from chip-timing, road closures and participants will receive a unique bespoke Bolton Abbey 10K medal.
Yes, if the dog is on a short lead and the owner cleans up after them.
Can I ride my bike in the estate?
No, bike riding is not allowed on the estate paths.
Yes, children under 12 can run within arm's reach of an adult in the 10K event. Children under 8 can run within arm’s reach of an adult in the 5K event.
What are the full terms and conditions of this event?
The person completing the form is doing so as the parent or guardian of a participant aged under 18, in which case the parent or guardian must inform the participant that they have signed the terms and conditions on their behalf and that their participation in the event will be governed by these terms.
The person completing the form is doing so as the leader of a corporate team. It is the duty of the corporate team leader to notify the other team members of these terms and conditions and that the leader has signed them on behalf of the own team. The team leader must further ensure that all team members agree and accept that their participation in the event is governed by these terms and conditions. Any team member who does not so accept these terms should be withdrawn from the event.
The person completing the form has or reasonably believes that they have the participant’s consent to their doing so on the participant’s behalf. The person completing the form must make the participant aware of these terms and conditions in good time before the event. In the event that the participant does not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, they should withdraw from the event. Participation in the event shall be deemed to be acceptance of these terms and conditions by the participant.
The entry fee is non-transferable and non-refundable. Due to unexpected health and safety reasons on the day, the Run Bolton Abbey events may have to be reduced or altered to accommodate unexpected complications (for example, flooding).
Please do not swap or pass on your race number – we will not know who to contact in an emergency if you do. Any runners doing so will be disqualified. Make sure you write your name, emergency contact details and any medical information – including medication you may be taking – on the back of the number. If you have any conditions we need to be aware of, please mark a red cross clearly on the front top right hand corner of your race number.
The organisers retain the right to make a change to the advertised start time and to stagger the start with two minute intervals between groups that they will decide. Please note that staggering will not effect the participants race time as the organisers intend to use a chip timing system which will record their time from when they cross over the start and finish line.
By participating, participants agree to take part in post-event publicity which may include interviews, photography and/or filming for Sue Ryder internal communications, local and/or national media.
Participants are personally responsible for updating the organisers with any new address and telephone details. All participants must provide emergency contact details. In the case of an emergency, Sue Ryder may use the Emergency Contact details provided by you to contact your home or office.
The event has been designed as a low-risk event for the averagely-fit person. All participants should satisfy themselves that they are in good health and physically able to participate in the Bolton Abbey events. If in doubt, participants should consult a GP or hospital doctor prior to the event. In the entry process we ask if the participant has any health issues that we should know about. By providing this information you are consenting to us passing it to the first aiders employed at Bolton Abbey where we deem it reasonably necessary to do. This information will only be used to assist in safeguarding the welfare of participants.
Any participant who drops out after crossing the starting line must report to an official to prevent any unnecessary search being started. They should also make sure that their tag is handed back to the steward at this point.
Bolton Abbey 10K and 5K is operated by Sue Ryder, and all participants take part at their own risk. Neither Sue Ryder nor its sponsors accept responsibility for any loss, injury or damage suffered by any participant personally or to their property as a result of taking part in Run Bolton Abbey in the absence of negligence or breach of statutory duty on the part of either Sue Ryder or its sponsors. Personal accident and public liability insurance cover is advised to cover any loss, damage or injury you may sustain yourself or to your personal property or cause to a third party or their property. Your signature on the entry form or your clicking on the box in the on line entry conforms your acceptance of these conditions of entry. If during the event you are involved in an incident with a third party please ensure that you pass on all your details - it is not the responsibility of the event organisers.
Sue Ryder has a comprehensive risk assessment process for each event which aims to minimise or eliminate the risk to everyone taking part. However, by taking part in this event, you acknowledge that there may be conditions or circumstances beyond our control that can lead to unforeseen risks.
Anyone under 18 years old must have their entry form signed by a parent/guardian and must abide by the rules. It is the responsibility of the parent/guardian of each under-18-year-old to ensure they or their children are suitability fit and healthy to take part in the event. Under-12s must be within arm’s reach of their parent/guardian at all times in the 10K race. In the 5K, under-8s must be within arm’s reach of a responsible adult at all times. Running whilst carrying a child of any age (whether in a front or back baby carrier/harness, in your arms, on your shoulders or piggyback) is not permitted during the event, as it poses a substantial safety risk. Walking whilst carrying a baby or child is permitted as long as their safety and welfare is not compromised. Wheeled objects (e.g. children’s scooters, skates, bikes etc) are not allowed at Bolton Abbey. This is a foot race and wheeled objects are a hazard.
The half marathon and 10 mile routes are not suitable for any persons under 18.
Due to the terrain, buggies/pushchairs are not allowed on the fun run.
Due to the nature of the terrain, the routes are not suitable for wheelchairs.
Participants are reminded that this is an outdoor multi-terrain course and that it is participants own responsibility to wear footwear and clothing appropriate to the nature of the course and the weather on the day as parts of the course may be slippery and exposed to the elements.
Bolton Abbey 10K is an exclusive Sue Ryder fundraising event. Sponsorship monies raised may not be given to or shared with any other organisation. Participants are advised that they have a legal responsibility to ensure that all sponsorship monies and donations received for Run Bolton Abbey are paid to Sue Ryder within a reasonable time.
Sue Ryder asks that participants and supporters do not smoke during the event. For health and safety reasons, participants may not consume alcohol prior to or during the event.
Participants and supporters are welcome to take pictures on the day but please ensure that where the pictures captures images of children that only one's family members are included. Unfortunately, there are people out there who will use photos and videos for negative purposes; bullying, grooming, locating, and trolling can all start with a misjudged photo. If an individual, a parent or a carer asks for any photo to be removed or deleted, it should be done without question at the earliest opportunity.
Please be aware that by registering you authorise Sue Ryder to process your personal and sensitive data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 for the purposes of this event. Sue Ryder will endeavour not to use any photographs, images or likenesses of children aged 16 or under. By ticking the terms and conditions box on our registration form you agree to Sue Ryder using your personal and sensitive data for the purposes outlined above.
The Bolton Abbey events are multi-terrain routes via roads, paths, tracks and open land around the Bolton Abbey Estate. There is one road crossing on a minor road on the route. Whilst all roads and crossings will be marshalled, the roads will NOT be closed and therefore for your safety and the safety of others participants must abide AT ALL TIMES with the instructions of police/marshals around the course, including stopping if necessary. Some parts of the routes are not on public rights of way so please do not attempt to run the route at any other time except for as part of the Run Bolton Abbey event.
Please note that the route involves private land and some farmland so dogs aren’t allowed on the route.
The use of earphones is discouraged. Earphone users must be able to hear and respond to marshals' directions and be aware of other users around them.
I hereby apply to participate in this event.
I or my parent/guardian accept and agree that neither the organisers nor officials, the land owners, sponsors and fellow competitors shall be liable in any way, or in any circumstances, for damages or injury that I may suffer during this event.
I understand and agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the event and the rules of the organisers.
I agree to participate in this event at my own risk.
I agree to run with consideration for others.
I agree that the conditions of my entry state that I will follow the instructions given.
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0.999341 | Listen to three conversations using relative pronouns.
Man: Who is this party for?
Woman: Tim. He's the guy who I was telling you about.
Man: Refresh my memory. Is he the guy who opened the new cafe.
Woman: No, that's Larry. He's the guy who just moved in the house down the street.
Man: Oh, the house that has that huge garage.
Woman: Yes, that's the house and that's the guy.
Man: So, where do you work?
Woman: I work for a tech company that makes business software.
Man: Really, what kind of software do you make?
Woman: We build tools that help companies manage their money.
Man: Really. My company, which deals with that sort of thing, might be interested.
Woman: Great. Let me give you my card.
Man: Do you know whose desk this is?
Woman: I think that is Joan's desk.
Man: No, that's Joan's desk. The one that has two monitors is Joan's desk.
Woman: Hmm! Well then, I don't know whose it is then.
Man: Well, someone must know who sits here.
Woman: Right, someone. Just not us.
I went to a shop where they sold rare clothes. | 2019-04-25T12:16:36 | http://soundgrammar.com/learn/L5-CEFR-B2/L5-06-relative-pronouns.htm |
0.999994 | Are there any color conventions for network cable? I'm talking jacket color here, not the color of the individual conductors. I've seen and used mostly grey and blue which is what's usually readily available. I have to make a few runs and using some color would help differentiate them up in the rafters. However, I don't want to choose a particular color if it has some special meaning in the realm of professional installers.
In my experience (and I'm NOT a networks person btw), but rushed and hurried network installations take a VERY long time to fix. Poor cable management, poorly planned installations and messy unorganised cables (not just comms cables ;) is very unprofessional and very expensive to fix later.
There's no universal standard that I know of.
When we pulled Cat6 in our building a few years ago, we implemented our own standard.
At one point we ordered some cross-over cables and they came in orange, so we threw out all of our white home-made ones and only used orange for cross-over.
The only one I thought may be a defacto standard was red for crossover. I've seen red used for both, but 9 times out of 10 if I find a red patch cable somewhere it is a crossover.
Other than that, I've seen orange, green, blue, grey, yellow, etc all used for all kinds of uses.
In our office, we did standardize a bit with orange for data and green for voice. We were using a VoIP phone system so in reality they were all just data runs for 2 LANs. Plus the phones have a pass-through LAN in them and will VLAN tag the phone and data for two different VLANs. So in the end it wasn't really necessary.
I did see neon pink in a data closet today and was a bit curious about that. It seemed to just be part of all the other data runs though, so maybe it was just someone got the pink cable on the cheap because nobody else wanted it :).
Currently I'm using the following (color selection was based on the options at Fry's in the lengths that I needed).
I prefer to only use red for cross-over cables. Other then that it doesn't matter all that much.
In a large server room, it can be useful to define some sort of standard, but I have never seen anything consistently applied between multiple organizations.
So Blue cables are always phone lines (non IP), Yellow's on a separate LAN, and Red is dangerous. Same goes for wall faceplates.
In addition to the good points above, I've learned that it's good to stay away from exotic colors (Pink, purple, etc), unless you are SURE that you can have plenty on hand.
At some point you will need to do some emergency cable replacement at 8:45PM, and Frys and Office Depot are the only computer-friendly businesses open at this hour. They close at 9PM. They only carry green, grey, blue, yellow and red cables.
If that doesn't fit into your color scheme, you might need to come back and fix this later, which requires another downtime.
I don't think there is an industry standard for cable color. This is usually an optional request when cables are going to be ran by a company. Most of the time this will be specified by the network engineer spearheading the project.
I've seen cables being ran from MDF to each IDF by color. I have also seen infrastructure types being differentiated by color (clients, servers, virtual infrastructure, etc..)... implementations like these are usually not standard.
There are probably no any common standard, i.e. we use gray for gigabit ethernet, blue for FE, yellow for the uplinks, black and dark-grey for the non-important equipment you may disconnect almost anytime (i.e. temporary test servers), red for the equipment you may never disconnect (i.e. SANs).
As some of the people already wrote, there's no standard as such. It's best to make up your own, document it and stick to it.
The thing which you probably know that is also important is to make sure you do everything "the right way" from day 1. If you don't I guarantee you won't be bothered with sticking to it.
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What happens when you plug two sides of a cable to a single networking device? | 2019-04-22T16:58:15 | https://serverfault.com/questions/103238/network-cable-color-conventions |
0.999996 | How Electricity and TV Diffused the "Population Bomb"
In the late sixties, India was the poster child of Third World poverty. In 1965, the monsoon rains failed to arrive, food production crashed, and much of the country was on the brink of starving. Asked for help, President Lyndon Johnson is reported to have told an aide, "I'm not going to piss away foreign aid in nations where they refuse to deal with their own population problems." Johnson came around, but by the end of the decade India was viewed in the West as, at best, a basket case and, at worst, a "population bomb" that threatened the entire planet.
Given this history, it's hard not to see the success India has had feeding its people and slowing population growth as the finale to a Bollywood movie — one most Americans stopped watching in 1970. "In a recent exercise," Stanford's Martin Lewis writes in a new article for The Breakthrough, "most of my students believed that India’s total fertility rate was twice that of the United States. Many of my colleagues believed the same. In actuality, it is only 2.5, barely above the estimated U.S. rate of 2.1 in 2011, and essentially the replacement level."
What did it? Lewis created a series of fascinating maps comparing Indian fertility rates to per capita wealth, female education level, electrification, access to TV, and other metrics to answer this question. His first map is one of the most striking. It shows the entire southern half of the country, plus the northern pan handle, as having fertility rates below replacement levels.
Wealth, electricity, education, and moving to the city are all loosely correlated with lower fertility, but the strongest correlation is watching television. "The map of television ownership in India," writes Lewis, "does bear a particularly close resemblance to the fertility map." He notes that two Indian states with a low level of female education, which is traditionally inversely correlated with low fertility, still had low fertility rates, a fact that may be explained by its high levels of TV penetration. Lewis bolsters his argument by pointing to a study from India that found declining fertility after cable TV was introduced into poor neighborhoods.
How does TV act as a contraceptive? Lewis notes it may be because "many of its offerings provide a model of middle class families successfully grappling with the transition from tradition to modernity, helped by the fact that they have few children to support." It may not be TV generally, but rather soap operas specifically that paint a vision for poor women of how much better life with fewer kids might be.
Maybe the reason the West has been so slow to appreciate this Indian success story, Lewis speculates, is because it contradicts everything we've come to believe about overpopulation. Back in the late sixties, some prominent Western ecologists called for the sterilization of Indian men and the halting of food aid, so as to not prolong the suffering. A book called The Population Bomb that proposed these things sold four million copies.
Hopefully now, anyone concerned about both human development and the environment will come to see electricity, rising wealth for the poor, and even TV not as anathema to human development but, at least in many parts of the world, essential to it.
Read the article at The Breakthrough: "Population Bomb? So Wrong, How Electricity, Development, and TV Reduce Fertility"
Submitted by Ryleigh on Mon, 12/16/2013 - 02:04.
Submitted by Geography student on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 15:08.
This hypothesis of TV affecting fertility is interesting but may well be minor compared to the decrease in infant mortality. In a society where ones children are ones security in old age having children survive to adulthood is vitally important. When infant mortality increases birth rates may increase to try to have at least some children survive. So infant mortality should also be compared with TV use.
Additionally, in the book "the population time bomb" the author did not realize the huge increases in yield per acre possible from short grain varieties that have increase food production in India faster than population growth. Without this increase the scenario in "the population time bomb" may well have happened. | 2019-04-23T08:04:44 | http://www.newgeography.com/content/003706-how-electricity-and-tv-diffused-population-bomb |
0.999231 | In 1998, the nations of the world agreed to create the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold accountable and bring to justice individuals responsible for mass murder, genocide, and war crimes.
Sixty ratifications were needed to get the ICC off the ground. This was achieved April 11, 2002. This means that from July 1, 2002 onwards, any acts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity committed after this date can be tried by the Court.
In Rome, July 1998, the ICC was given the go-ahead with a vote of 120 to 7. The seven who voted against were United States of America (USA), China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, and Yemen. All of USA's allies voted for the ICC, while the United States (U.S.) were very vocally against it and left standing with a list of countries that included those that the U.S. itself has termed as 'rogue'.
At the beginning of May, 2002, the Bush Administration announced that it had resolved to 'unsign' the Rome Statute creating the ICC. Were the U.S. afraid of an international body having jurisdiction over them? This is unlikely; at least the Center for Defense Information pointed out that the meaning of such a Bush administration non-ratifying signatory relates with the fact that the U.S. do not feel like to be bound by the ICC’s jurisdiction or to follow any of its orders.
Would the United States like pre-empt ICC jurisdiction by investigating any charges against U.S. citizens? This is unlikely, too: the treaty specifically limits the court’s jurisdiction to 'the territory of any State Party and, by special agreement, on the territory of any other State' (Article 4).
And thus, the explanation of that enigmatic attitude could be 'It's a mystery' .
'Because the U.S. government has no intention of ratifying the court's treaty anytime soon, it has focused on the supposed outrage that the court would have jurisdiction over the citizens of a state that has not ratified the treaty. But it is common practice for a government to prosecute a foreign national for crimes committed on its territory without first seeking permission of the foreigner's government. The jurisdiction of the ICC amounts to no more than a delegation of this widely accepted power for the most serious human rights crimes. Indeed, Washington itself routinely exercises far more expansive jurisdiction in unilaterally pursuing alleged terrorists or drug traffickers even when their crimes were not committed on U.S. soil'.
A Selective U.S. Vision of Justice. Human Rights Watch World Report 2000.
It's not widely understood by the lay population why the United States of America deems the ICC unfit for jurisdiction over American citizens and military personnel. The previous posts on this topic make it sound like the United States is an arrogant bully, unwilling to relinquish its perceived monopoly on Justice.
The real reason the United States refuses to get on board this noble enterprise is that the ICC violates the most important document in American law: the US Constitution. Most Americans have heard of this document, and many find it to be somewhat important.
The fundamental issue: All parts of the American judicial system are, in one form or another, answerable to the American citizenry. There is a complex system of checks and balances in place to make sure that any power that is granted can be removed by a mandate from the people. This is not so with the ICC. Based on the most fundamental principles of the nation, the United States cannot recognize the jurisdiction of such a body.
Some in the international community would have the United States ignore the Constitution. Those countries in Europe who have Constitutions (not all of them do) have relatively new ones, which are easily changed, and do not always protect all of the freedoms which Americans hold dear. The Freedom of Speech and the accountability of governors to the governed (something which is not present in the EU, which is governed by a body far removed from the voters) are both curtailed in many European national charters. This represents a very important distinction between American and European political philosophy. With the emergence of the EU, the latter has of late been more and more designed to keep the "damage" that can be caused by the people, who are considered to be uninformed, unintelligent, and unwashed, to a bare minimum. The people with true power are the elite, the aristocracy, the intelligensia. These groups are expect to know what is Right, and to not abuse their power under any circumstances. Conversely, American political philosophy is based on an overriding mistrust of government. It assumes that power will be abused eventually, no matter how good the original intention was. Thus the system of checks and balances for every level of American government.
The proponents of the ICC expect the US citizenry to simply trust that the court will not be used to carry out political grudges and that no one could ever be wrongly indicted. They do not seem to recognize that there is no trust of government in the American system.
Even further undermining the ICC's chances of US ratification is the method by which judges are selected. Each signitory country gets one vote for nominated judges. That means that Britain's vote is the same as Nigeria's vote is the same as Russia's vote is the same as tiny Lichtenstein's vote. Thus, the judges elected will not be representative of people, but of governments. Small countries that are politically and economically insignificant can vastly affect the ICC's agenda. This is great for those small countries, but not so great for the majority of the world's population, who end up getting jilted if they live in a large country. The disturbing ramifications of this are that relatively minor countries with dubious interests can form voting blocs that will put their own nominees into power. Third world African nations could align with Arab nations in exchange for oil or military support or some other equally valuable commodity, and in return they would use their votes to help put in judges sympathetic to the middle east and antagonistic to the West. At that point there is no limit to the number of "war crimes" trials that could be held against nations defending interests which are perfectly legitimate in the eyes of the West but criminal in the eyes of the Middle East (or, at least, the eyes of the autocratic and generally corrupt rulers that reside there.) Rest assured that the first people on the chopping block would be the entire upper eschelon of the Israeli government, soon followed by those of the American government. For all the assurances by its supporters that the ICC will not be used for political retribution, there is virtually nothing to stop exactly that from happening.
There is much, much more. A look at the ICC's charter reveals a long list of purported "crimes" that have yet to truly be defined. One of the crimes, though, is the crime of "humiliation". It is a war crime to humiliate someone during a war, and that person need not be present, or even alive. This is well-intentioned, of course, making it a war crime to drag the bodies of the vanquished behind your tanks. However, how far is it possible to take the "humiliation" case? It will be humiliating to Iraq and particularly to Saddam Hussein if we discredit and then remove their current regime during war. Will that be a war crime? You can bet on it, if most of the judges are put in place by small, sparsely populated, under-developed countries with nefarious governments and interests in Iraqi oil. There is a long litany of cases much like this, where well-intentioned articles in the charter defining what a war crime is could easily be manipulated to serve virtually any political goal.
The ICC is definitely worth a closer look to anyone who feels indignant over the US' unwillingness to accept its jurisdiction. By all accounts, it doesn't reflect American principles. If standing up for their long-held principles makes Americans arrogant, elitist, unilateralists, then so be it, but the ICC will not govern over citizens and military personel of the United States until it is made answerable to them, just like every other court in the nation.
Special thanks to Steven Den Beste of USS Clueless (http://denbeste.nu) for bringing these issues to my attention. Before I read his material, I thought the ICC was a pretty good idea, too.
The court will not admit cases which are being investigated or prosecuted genuinely by a state which has jurisdiction over it (Article 17, 1(a) of the Rome Statute). Thus, the USA could easily prevent any American from ever being tried in the ICC by trying them under their own oh-so-great system of justice instead. But I guess what they really want is to reserve the right to not even try war criminals, as long as they're American war criminals.
If concerns about procedure or yet-to-be-defined crimes were the issue, the US could easily demand clarification and define clear requirements that would have to be met in order for the US to support the ICC. If those were resonable and fair, I'm sure the international community would be willing to accomodate. However, so far the USA have insisted on its citizen to be immune from prosecution, period.
It is perfectly normal and accepted that if you leave your country and commit crimes elsewhere, you will be tried under the laws of the country where you committed them. The USA isn't willing to go to war about its citizens being tried for murder or drug trafficking elsewhere. Apparently because those crimes can usually not be tracked back to the US government itself.
The US government cares not a nickel for the constitution and the benefits of its judical system when they apply to people it doesn't like. POWs of the war against the Taliban are deliberately kept off US territory in order to avoid having to grant them all those pesky rights they would have if they were tried in a US court. Better yet, the US claims they're not even POWs at all, because POWs have some rights too.
So to summarize: There is only one reason why the US government is opposed to the ICC, and it has nothing to do with standing up for any principles or rights, except the principle that The USA can do no wrong (because "wrong" is defined as "what the USA doesn't like") and the right of the USA to do whatever it damn well pleases, in any way it pleases. And if that includes genocide, crimes against humanity or a war of aggression or two, then so be it. | 2019-04-24T05:53:39 | https://everything2.com/title/International+Criminal+Court |
0.999603 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- You've no doubt heard the language by now -- that Americans are plagued by an oil addiction.
More oil drilling could act like a nicotine patch for smokers, an addiction expert says.
In his 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush used the analogy while pushing for more research into alternative energy sources, saying, "here we have a serious problem. America is addicted to oil."
But is U.S. dependence on oil a true "addiction"?
Jack Henningfield, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University who has extensively studied addictions, said there are parallels.
"Oil addiction is not an addiction in the medical sense, like a drug addiction or a tobacco addiction," Henningfield said. "But it is an addiction in the sense that powerful behaviors are involved. They're difficult to change, [and] it can be agonizing for people to change."
Henningfield said that when it comes to substance addiction, the brain rewires itself to depend on the chemical.
So, how does Bush's proposal for more oil drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge fit in to the science of addiction?
Without commenting on the effectiveness of that proposal, Henningfield said the idea behind it can be compared to a smoker using a nicotine patch.
"We have to give people ... some kind of aid to just function and just get along," Henningfield said.
He added, however, that while studies show that aids such as the nicotine patch can help people function in the short term, as part of an effective long-term solution, additional drilling "may do little to actually help people in the short or long term to the oil addiction problem" and "could actually divert attention away from long-term solutions."
Democrats argue that Bush's proposal would only enable America's oil addiction.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said recently, "Foreign oil, the president said we were addicted to it. And what does he want to do? He wants to reinforce the addiction."
Pelosi has said she will not schedule votes in the House of Representatives to lift the bans on offshore drilling and oil exploration in ANWR.
Henningfield said that's why any strategy to break an addiction must have a long-term goal. Ultimately, he said, kicking any habit can boil down to economics, as smoking studies have shown.
"Money talks for addictions. Money gets people's attention. And the most important single driver to get people to quit smoking is the rising cost of cigarettes," Henningfield said. "So, with addictions -- whether it's cocaine, nicotine or oil -- money talks." | 2019-04-26T14:29:44 | http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/23/america.oil.addiction/index.html |
0.999784 | We asked cosmologist Pau Figueras everything you've ever wanted to know about black holes. In the other part of the interview he explained what black holes are, physically, and how we hope to observe them. In this second part of the interview, he explains how Einstein's theories predict their existence, and how to describe them mathematically.
Please note that since this interview was conducted, hard evidence for black holes has been detected. It comes from gravitational waves. See Black holes exist! to find out more.
How were black holes first predicted?
Einstein published his [general theory of relativity] in late 1915, and only a few months later, in early 1916, [Karl] Schwarzschild found the first solution of the Einstein equations. [By solution we mean some values for the variables describing the curvature of spacetime and the distribution of matter that satisfy the Einstein equations.] [This solution] describes the gravitational field of a spherically-symmetric body: a black hole.
At that time it wasn't understood that that solution corresponded to a black hole. In fact even in the 30s the greatest minds of that time, [including] Einstein himself, despised the idea of a black hole because it contained a singularity, namely a place where curvature is so large that even general relativity breaks down. It took nearly 50 years to really understand what a black hole is, and this was done only in the 1960s.
General relativity asserts that massive objects curve spacetime (see here to find out more). How do black holes affect the curvature of spacetime?
The strength of the gravitational field is measured in terms of the curvature. And because black holes are very massive and they are very small, their gravity is very strong and [creates] a very large curvature of spacetime.
where is Newton's constant [of gravity], is mass of the object and is speed of light.
The Schwarzschild radius is, more or less, the size that a given object, with a given mass, should have in order for it to be a black hole. For instance, if we managed to concentrate all the mass of the Earth into a sphere of a radius of a few centimetres, then that object would be a black hole.
Of course we know that this cannot happen because there are other forces in nature which prevent it, but in other circumstances it can happen. For example, when very massive stars run out of nuclear fuel, they cool down and they collapse, and at some point they become small enough so that the whole mass fits within a Schwarzschild radius – therefore they form a black hole.
For example, the Schwarzschild radius of the Sun is of the order of a few kilometres. So if we managed to concentrate the whole mass of the Sun into a sphere of a few kilometres, then that would be a black hole.
Can you characterise a black hole so simply, with just a few features, such as mass and size?
One of the reasons why black holes are so important in our understanding of general relativity is because of their simplicity – because they are made of the most fundamental building blocks of the theory, namely space and time alone. They are very simple and therefore we can understand them.
This [is in contrast to] other gravitational objects, such as stars. In order to understand a star, [as well as needing] to take into account general relativity, you also need to understand nuclear physics to account for the nuclear reactions [and] plasma physics to understand the transport of heat within the star. This gets very complicated and we are often led to study these objects within certain approximations.
We don't have to do that with black holes because they are only made of space and time, so we have a complete understanding of them within our theory alone. We don't need any other physics. This simplicity gets translated into the fact that they are just described in terms of very few parameters.
In the vacuum case [?], if the black hole is static, then it must be spherical and there is only one parameter characterising the black hole, namely its mass. [However], objects in nature, like stars, rotate, so the black holes that occur in nature should have some rotation. The Schwarzschild solution was found [just] months after Einstein published his theory, but it took another 50 years to find the general solution which has rotation and is relevant to describe the black holes [we might find in] nature. This Kerr solution is described entirely by just two parameters, namely the mass and the spin of the black hole. With these two parameters you can fully characterise all black holes in nature and we don't need to make any approximations to understand those objects. This is why they are so important.
In a sense, black holes are no different than elementary particles [in particle physics] because we only need to specify a few parameters [to describe these]. The same with black holes - [they] are the elementary particles of general relativity.
Are black holes the biggest open mystery of general relativity?
This is important because most of the tests [of] general relativity [involve] situations where gravity is weak, or relatively weak. For example, we've tested bending of light, the precession of the perihelion of Mercury.
Detecting black holes would be important because the signals that we would get, namely those gravitational waves, would be generated in regions where gravity is very strong. It would allow us to test the strong field regime of general relativity, which is something that we haven't been able to do so far. This would put very strong tests on general relativity, so it's very important that we [observe] black holes: [the observations would give us] a completely new window into general relativity.
Watch the full interview with Figueras in this video or listen to it as a podcast.
Pau Figueras is Stephen Hawking advanced postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge.
I have often though of all singularities being connected to the same place. Could it be that black holes are providing the energy and material for the continued expansion of the universe? Each one a gravitational link to the event horizon of the expanding universe and a their formation a natural consequence of this?
With a force of gravity as strong as that of a black hole, I find it highly unlikely that the singularity would intermingle with others of its kind. Black holes are born from the explosion of massive stars that literally rip a hole in spacetime. By this being said, its become popular opinion that on the other side of the black hole (escaping the 'white hole') is a whole new region of dimensional reality - with new laws of physics and nature.
It'd be a cool thing to see though. This would add to the expanding idea that the universe is a massive sphere. Like the earth, we'd start a one location, set sail, and wind up being able to return back to that location having "sailed" across the surface of the cosmos.
Assuming a black hole rotates about an axis. As more and more matter is absorbed by the black hole and there is no reduction in rotation speed would there come a time when the "equator" approaches the speed of light? Our understanding of forces means that the particles could not exceed the speed of light and the black hole would become less spherical and more shaped like a rugby ball. To extrapolate further there would come a time when the "North and South" of the black hole would emit energy as the particles escape the gravitational field. Like an ice skater spinning when they bring their arms in the rotation speed increases the black holes rotation speed should also increase. This would fuel more particles to be emitted North and South. There is also a case for Hawking radiation at the equator. Opinions please.
Background: I am a Sophomore at MIT majoring in Electrical Engineering and Physics.
1. When you add mass to a black hole, it becomes less dense. Think about two planets colliding (m1,m2); the collision would not produce an object with a radius = r1 +r2. The volume of the object may double, but remember that the volume is determined by the cube of the radius rather than the radius itself, thus, the radius only increases by the cube root of two. In terms of black holes, the density is defined by mass/volume, and mathematics has shown that when you double the mass, the volume increases eightfold (2/(1/4)). An interesting connection can be drawn to further clarify: If you have a black hole with a mass that is 387 million times that of our sun, it would have a density roughly that of water.
2. Where my understanding of your claims diverge is when you refer to the equator of the black hole. For this case we will assume that black holes rotate about the same axis that their former stars did. When defining the components of a black hole, we can identify most things with limits involving infinity and zero. A black hole, as you probably know, is comprised of a singularity, where if we define the black hole on an x-y-z plane, is a vertical limit approaching negative infinity on the z-axis. The point theoretically exists at the end of this theoretical, snow-cone-like shape, and is the source of the immense gravitational pull that black holes are so famously known for. Black holes also have what we call a Schwarzschild radius. We define this as a relationship between C and "R," where "R" is the radius of the black hole where the gravitational force is equal and opposite to the speed of light with respect to R(hat). Before that is the event horizon, the umbra shrouding the interior of the black hole (we can see where the event horizon begins because F of gravity is < C). So, when you mention the black hole's "equator," I assume you're referencing the semi-sphere that we can define mathematically as the event horizon. Reduction in rotational speed exists so long as you have a gravitational force, a velocity of your reference object, and a radius to reference. Centripetal acceleration, which would be used in most cases, can be defined as V^2/R where V (in this case) is C and R is anywhere you want it to be in the black hole. R has a finite distance where C becomes < the force of gravity, as referenced previously, and the point I believe you're referencing is the limit approaching the Schwarzschild radius, but you could also be mentioning either side of the radius (from the top or bottom - think hyperbolic). I suppose this is where I'd ask for clarification.
When an ice-skater pulls their arms in, they accelerate centripetally because they decrease their overall radius, thus producing a larger "a." This example helped me understand what you were talking about. Visible electromagnetic radiation is emitted from just outside the event horizon of a black hole, which is easily explained since it doesn't have to overcome the immense escape velocity that dwells in the inner boundaries of the black hole, but what you're asking about is Hawking Radiation, which relies on the fact that black holes have a finite entropy - which is still highly theoretical. Hawking Radiation, since it does not obey the properties confined to the electromagnetic spectrum, could theoretically escape from inside the event horizon, allowing your claim to be valid.
Hawking Radiation is about as soundly developed as quantum mechanics, and I'm in no position to validate or invalidate cutting-edge claims in that field, and neither is anyone at this point, unfortunately.
Please excuse my trite response, but my answer as far as the polarity and shape of an angularly accelerating black hole is about as extensive as my knowledge on ancient Greek poetry... if you catch my drift, haha. But given the things we know about physics, objects with mass and gravitational pull attract, and black holes aren't magnetic enough to repel each other. When two black holes collide, they form a quasar, which has the same "anatomical shape," if you will, as a normal black hole. It's vector and scalar values diverge, however (density, mass, volume, etc...). At this point, it is hard to discern how a quasar behaves with respect to Hawking Radiation and I apologize that I cannot help you further.
I've provided my knowledge, now here are my opinions.
1. I really do like the idea you have with reference to the ice-skater, but I don't know that a black hole behaves the same as normal bodies do, because centripetal acceleration does not yield time dilation, and black holes are theorized to slow time as the distance between a chosen photon and the singularity approaches zero (for more info see the theory of Special Relativity - with respect to black holes, of course).
My suggestion to you is to pursue research on quasars, Hawking Radiation, and the physical forces allowed in the domain of a black hole, as I'm sure professors and scholars who are more well-versed that I could help you a bit more.
2. I'm curious as to what your background is in terms of Physics. Knowing this would allow me to know what theories and concepts you are taking into account when forging your theories, which could also help me - maybe you know way more than I do and I need to catch up!
3. Let me know what you've found out since I posted this comment! | 2019-04-22T16:31:46 | https://plus.maths.org/content/what-black-hole-part-2 |
0.998728 | In this newsletter we have included a number of topics that are top of mind with many of our members so we hope you find the information helpful, or at least a timely reminder.
We are well into 2015 with many of our members having returned from a successful Winter Gift Fair.
The weather was great and visitor numbers were pleasing. It was great to receive reports from many exhibitors’ recording solid sales and good leads from a number of first time visitors, all of which contributed to the positive atmosphere around the fair.
The lunchtime online education seminar was well attended, everyone enjoying their hot soup while learning about the importance of having a good website.
The NZGTA negotiates a raft of services for members to enjoy.
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Dean Vincent, representing Baker Tilly (NZ) Transaction Services (BTTS) partnered with the NZGTA to provide members with services across the field of business acquisitions and sales. BTTS are experienced negotiators, who will work for you to maximise your exit when selling your business.
We will soon be advising the first of the Baker Tilly education/information evenings free to NZGTA members.
So whether you are considering a short or long term plan, starting succession planning or looking to buy or sell a business, it is important you have the right information and planning processes in place to get the best outcome.
See the article in the Winter Gift Fair & Homeware magazine – “Business Evolution” Passing on your business to the next generation.
Independent Verification Services (IVS) are a new NZGTA partner in 2015.
Steve Brading, IVS’s Client Services Manager will be the associations contact, details can also be found on the NZGTA website.
With ever evolving legislation and training requirements, IVS will be an important partner for many of NZGTA members, offering services targeted mainly for those of you that import a small number of containers each year.
You will no longer need to maintain your ‘Approved Transitional Facility’ status or ensure staff has approved Operator and Accredited Persons certification.
IVS are an accredited service provider with MPI (formally MAF) and offer a Multi-Location Transitional Facility Service, dealing with all MPI requirements.
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Changes are coming, replacing the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and the Machinery Act 1950 but do you know how this will impact you and your business, are you prepared?
As a business owner, like all others you will be faced with reviewing your health & safety systems, processes also information/education literature currently in place at your business, there are no exceptions; it applies to all organisations in New Zealand.
More information is available from WorkSafe about PCBUs, business.govt.nz and in addition, an article which provides an interesting overview of the changes and impacts is one by Hayes Knight.
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This year, 13,500 retailers have used Gift Trader to research and order new products from you and your competitors, spending an average of 6 minutes in the site.
Images sell. Items with professional quality, high resolution images are the big seller.
More remote retailers spend more time in Gift Trader. Blenheim and Whanganui, and Rotorua have some of the most active Gift Trader buyers.
Detailed product descriptions help your items sell – and they’re a great way to have your items found too.
Straight after Spring Gift, our Online Gift Fair starts, with an even wider marketing campaign than ever before.
Make sure your products are ready for the influx of retailers looking for the hottest Christmas sellers.
If you need any help with Gift Trader, email [email protected] and he’ll walk you through the process.
The NZGTA maintains a list of Commission Agents who are looking for products to represent. The list is regularly updated following each of the Gift Fairs, also as notifications are received. The list is available for all current NZGTA members, so if you would like a copy, please email.
Fresh Info Company’s Shane Vuletich recently assessed the economic footprint of 5 of XPO's Auckland exhibitions. Fresh Info is a leading authority contributing to Tourism and Major Events evaluation for both central and local government authorities.
The recently released report by Fresh Info Company, commissioned by XPO, provides an evaluation of the XPO Exhibition show portfolio’s impact on tourism and GDP in the Auckland region.
Including Autumn and Spring Gift Fairs the report drills down on specific data supporting the importance of the Autumn and Spring Gift Fairs. An interesting read for both Gift Fair exhibitors and visitors alike to identify the huge potential and opportunities available in supporting and growth of the Gift Fairs.
The organisers work hard to ensure the greatest market coverage reaching visitors to the Gift Fairs.
To keep you informed see what the organisers are up to check out the Marketing board in the main exhibitor lounge above show info.
A copy will also be in your exhibitor pack.
The NZGTA Chair has worked hard over the past 12 months fostering a new relationship with Retail NZ (formerly the Retailers Association of NZ), with current membership of around 5,000 members.
This association has increased the NZGTA’s ability to educate and promote Gift Fairs to visitors and provides stronger lobbying power when challenging issues on behalf of our members such as GST reforms.
Retail NZ now exhibit at the NZ Gift Fairs, as well as supporting and promoting the Auckland ‘Lunchtime’ Gift Fairs seminars, giving retailers another reason to attend. Retail NZ actively promote Gift Fairs as an important event to their members.
Long-time visitor to the gift fairs, Raylene Marsh, owner of the Design Depot, winner of the GIA award in New Zealand and also Waikato’s Top Shop award in 2014 is an example of successful retailing, even in a tough market.
Featured in the Autumn Gift & Homewares magazine it reflects on the journey, learning gained from entering the GIA awards and the importance of undertaking a critical evaluation of the business, also a great team building exercise.
Not an easy task, but Raylene was fortunate that John Heng (Taylor Road), a GIA Global Honouree in 2012 was able to provide invaluable guidance based on taking his own business’s through the GIA entry and evaluation process in 2012.
It’s no doubt a changing market for wholesalers and retailers alike, but there are success stories reflecting both online and bricks & mortar businesses identifying both have a place and an opportunity to prosper given the right environment.
Educating visitors through lunchtime seminars is a growing part of the Gift Fairs platform to help with embracing online sales understanding online retail trading.
You will be aware from recent media the Government is now resolved to begin capturing GST on international items purchased online by NZ consumers.
The NZGTA has been actively lobbying Government on this change, to lower what is known as the de minimis threshold. Why? Because we know it’s only fair that international online sellers face the same GST tax obligations that NZ retailers face (and whom our members supply product to).
Petitions – You will have seen the self scan kiosk at Autumn Gift Fair and prior Spring Gift Fair allowing visitors and exhibitors to support a petition for change.
Letters to Bill English, The NZGTA has sent a letter to Bill English endorsing the same stance taken by Retail NZ to have this legislation reviewed.
Media commentary - Brent Spillane elected Chair included the need for de minimis change when asked what our members would like to see announced for the NZ budget.
But it doesn’t stop here! The NZGTA remains concerned that the Government is prioritising ‘digital services’ such as Netflix and iTunes ahead of ‘other physical goods’ (such as gift & homewares) in relation to the review.
We are therefore asking retailers and members of NZGTA to fill out the template letter created by Retail NZ onsite at the Spring Gift Fair to voice the importance of physical goods under this review.
You’ll see information on the template at the Show Information desk computers near the main cafe. We also encourage you to talk with Retail NZ who have a stand in hall 3 of the show about what other actions we can collectively take to get more action underway.
The NZGTA is very fortunate to be led by its Founding Member, Chairman and Executive Committee - a group of dedicated and passionate people with vast industry experience who work to ensure longevity of the Gift and Homewares industry.
If you would like to be part of this group of dedicated people, nominations will be called at the end of the year; those selected will be put forward for a vote at the AGM in March 2016.
We aim to ensure the best representation across our total membership. If you wish to be considered for nomination, please email with your details and outline of industry experience or expertise.
XPO have made a significant investment in world leading technology, bringing you a smart phone APP to simplify the collection of retailer contact info and orders, replacing the old way of collecting business cards and filling out endless forms.
The new Smart Phone App was made available free to trial for exhibitors at Winter Gift, and it was great to see such positive feedback.
With the APP you can collect real time data and quality sales results. Simply scan visitor badges, then continue to take orders scanning your products. Another feature of the App is that you can include a range of pre populated follow-up questions, survey your prospects or customers.
During and post event, log in to your XPO leads web interface to export all your data in a handy excel file complete with prospect names, contact details and orders.
XPO leads is free to download, and access pricing starts as low as $200 per show for 2 users (for 3 show exhibitors).
Talk to your sales manager for a demo.
If you want to see it in action, just watch the you tube video and see for yourself.
The NZGTA has reallocated funding to pay for new venue imposed exhibitor car parking fees in 2015.
This means reducing the exhibitor function from 2 to 1 night at both the Auckland fairs and reducing food and beverage amenities in the Key Buyers lounge to barista coffee and light refreshments.
The executive committee will review funding options in 2016.
Entry is open to all visitors at the Gift Fairs making purchases from 10 different exhibitors. A great tool, encouraging purchases to be made at the fair.
Exhibitors can foster visitor participation by asking to sign the entry cards after each order is placed.
Keep a few entry cards on your stand, ensure an opportunity isn’t missed. Additional cards are available at the ‘Info desk”. | 2019-04-18T12:16:05 | http://www.nzgta.org.nz/T++Cs+and+Code+of+Ethics/Newsletters/NZGTA+Newsletter+Issue++2.html |
0.999646 | Where should SIR-Spheres® microspheres be optimally used in the treatment paradigms for unresectable liver tumours?
The study was a retrospective analysis of 160 elderly (≥ 70 years) and 446 younger (< 70 years) consecutive patients from 11 US centers who received RE using ytrrium-90 (90Y) resin microspheres (90Y radioembolization [90Y-RE]) between July 2002 and December 2011. A further analysis was conducted in 98 very elderly patients (≥ 75 years).
Mean ages (± standard deviation) in the younger (< 70 years), elderly (≥ 70 years), and very elderly (≥ 75 years) cohorts were 55.9 ± 9.4 years, 77.2 ± 4.8 years, and 80.2 ± 3.8 years, respectively. Overall survival was similar between elderly and younger patients: 9.3 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 8.0-12.1) and 9.7 months (95% CI, 9.0-11.4) (P = .335). There were no differences between cohorts for any grade adverse events (P = .433) or grade 3+ events (P = .482). Analysis of patients ≥ 75 years and < 75 years confirmed similar overall survival (median, 9.3 months vs. 9.6 months, respectively; P = .987) and grade 3+ events (P = .398) or any adverse event (P = .158) within 90 days of RE.
The American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has published the SIRFLOX Study Abstract as part of the 2015 Annual Meeting Abstracts which revealed a statistically significant improvement in median Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in the liver when combining FOLFOX chemotherapy (± bev) with SIRT using yttrium-90 (Y-90) resin microspheres as first-line treatment of patients with liver metastases from mCRC.
It is anticipated by clinicians that important new information will arise from the Oral Abstract Session that facilitates a greater understanding of the implications and impact of the SIRFLOX study for SIR-Spheres® Y-90 resin microspheres in first-line mCRC, and how this may apply to clinical practice.
In first-line treatment of patients with non-resectable CRC liver metastases, the addition of SIRT to standard chemotherapy failed to improve overall PFS.
The SIRFLOX study results revealed a statistically significant improvement in median Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in the liver. Reported median PFS in the liver was 20.5 months in the SIR-Spheres microspheres + mFOLFOX6 chemotherapy+/- biologic agent bevacizumab arm versus 12.6 months in the mFOLFOX6 +/- bevacizumab arm, with a P value p=0.002 and a Hazard Ratio of HR=0.69.
This means that there was less than a 0.2% chance the result in the liver was due to chance alone and that there was a 31% reduction in the risk of tumour progression in the liver for patients whose treatment included SIR-Spheres microspheres while on study.
The Complete Response Rate in the liver was 6.0% in the SIR-Spheres microspheres + mFOLFOX6 +/- bevacizumab arm versus 1.9% in the mFOLFOX6 +/- bevacizumab arm, with a P value of p=0.02. This result indicates that patients who received SIR-Spheres microspheres as part of their treatment experienced approximately a threefold higher rate of complete disappearance of tumours in their liver, compared to patients who did not receive SIR-Spheres microspheres.
The Overall Survival (OS) data from the SIRFLOX study will be combined with the FOXFIRE and FOXFIRE Global studies to provide sufficient statistical power in over 1,000 patients globally to detect a clinical significant difference in OS between the SIR-Spheres microspheres and control arms. Analysis of OS from the SIRFLOX study cannot be progressed at this time for reasons of (a) bias and (b) statistical power for these studies. Overall OS data is anticipated in 2017.
The ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago brings together 30,000 oncology professionals from around the world. Educational sessions feature world-renowned faculty discussing state-of-the-art treatment modalities, new therapies, and ongoing controversies in the field. Science sessions present the latest round-breaking research in oral and poster format.
The SIRFLOX data will be presented at ASCO by Dr Peter Gibbs in the oral presentation session starting at 3 pm on Saturday 30th May 2015.
The SIRFLOX study is an international, multi-centre, randomised controlled study that enrolled over 500 patients with mCRC whose disease was non-resectable and had spread to either the liver alone or the liver plus a limited number of sites outside the liver, including lymph nodes and the lungs. | 2019-04-26T17:10:58 | https://sirt.org.uk/research.php |
0.997396 | The real estate agent on the "For Sale" sign is what's known as the "listing agent," also known as the "seller's agent. The listing agent markets the home and negotiates an offer strictly on behalf of the seller, the person who is trying to get top dollar from buyers like you. They have a signed contract with the seller(s) and certain obligations to them. Your best interests as a buyer are not one of those obligations.
You may think you're being cagey not having an agent-- that you'll just slip in under the radar and have a look during an open house, chat with the listing agent, get a little information, no strings attached. You get to talking and end up telling the listing agent all about yourself…perhaps mentioning how well-qualified you are to afford the house. The seller's agent is obligated only to the seller, so if you do not have an agent representing you and share personal information that gives the seller an advantage in later price negotiations, guess what? The seller's agent is obligated to share that with the seller, and they can use that to negotiate in their favor if you make an offer they think is too low.
Maybe you think you won't have to pay a commission if you don't have an agent. That's what a friend of a friend of mine thought when he called my listing agent to let her show him my house. He thought he'd save himself and me from paying the commission, but I had a signed listing agreement with my agent. That agreement stipulates the seller (me) pays both the listing and buyer's agents' commissions. It's customary: 3 percent to each agent, though the commission to the buyer's agent is negotiable; I could have requested as low as 2.5 percent, but my agent discouraged me. She cautioned that many buyer's agents won't bother showing homes where the seller hasn't agreed to pay them the full 3 percent commission.
Get your own agent--and not the listing agent's partner, spouse, son, daughter or buddy from the same office. My listing agent has a husband and daughter who are licensed real estate agents. If someone came to her as my listing agent wanting to buy the house, she would have steered them their way so they would get the 3 percent on the buyer's side. In other words, don't ask the listing agent for their recommendations for a buyer's agent.
Take time to find an agent with whom you feel completely comfortable communicating and who thoroughly understands the locations and price range you're looking in.
Do as much preliminary house hunting online as you can to get a snapshot of what's listed in your market.
Have your agent set appointments for you to see the homes that pique your interest or accompany you to open houses.
Let your own agent be your eyes, ears, mouthpiece and negotiator if you're buying a house. | 2019-04-18T13:26:30 | http://www.improvementcenter.com/blog/buyers-agent.html |
0.999788 | appendix C at the back of this manual.
allowed under the copyright laws.
adapter is plugged into a power outlet.
server to connect one peripheral to your network.
provides connectivity to 10Base-T and 10Base2 networks.
a serial printer, use a parallel-to-serial adapter.
1. GDI printers are not supported by HP JetDirect print servers.
HP OfficeJetPro Series, and the OfficeJet R40 and R60.
application can be used to access and manage these print servers.
Bidirectional parallel port (IEEE 1284).
Test button (sends print server configuration page).
2 LEDs on front indicate LAN activity/status.
2 LEDs on back indicate 10 or 100 Mbps.
Network port (Ethernet): RJ-45 (10Base-T).
3 bidirectional parallel ports (IEEE 1284).
Test button (sends print server configuration page to Port 1).
J3265A: 2 LEDs on back indicate 10 or 100 Mbps.
J3264A: switch for 4 or 16 Mbps.
the print server and configure it for Novell or Microsoft NOSs.
HP JetDirect external print servers.
Thin coaxial cable with BNC connector.
for 10 or 100 Mbps operation.
(operating at 4 Mbps or 16 Mbps).
Four pairs of unshielded twisted-pair cable with RJ-45 connector (operating at 4 Mbps or 16 Mbps).
concentrator that supports link beat (link test pulse) signals.
On; no LAN activity detected.
not able to attach to the network.
On; heavy LAN activity detected.
to print a configuration page. See Chapter 2 for more information.
Link established at 10 Mbps.
Link established at 100 Mbps.
speed and uses half duplex.
switch or hub is operating.
used by checking the LEDs at the RJ-45 connector.
Verify that your printer parallel port(s) work properly.
Generate a configuration page from the print server.
2. Switch off the power for each printer.
16 Mbps or down for 4 Mbps.
300X, 170X, and EX Plus have one printer port ➌.
5. Connect the print server to the network ➊ or ➋.
6. Connect the print server to the printer(s) ➌, ➍, and ➎.
recommends that you attach that printer to Port 1 ➌.
power switch, the print server is switched on after you plug it in.
should be green—either steady or blinking.
11. Switch on the power on your printer(s) to begin printing.
Port 1 of the printer server.
button on the print server.
one is lit. See p.1-8.
cycle through four configurations, as outlined in the following table.
configuration page will be printed.
indicating they are cycling through the PDLs.
1. Unplug the power cord from the print server.
*Measurement includes any protrusions for connectors, legs, etc.
Note: If two parts are listed for one country/region, either part can be used.
be required to correct the interference at their own expense.
Composite System as defined in the FCC Rules and Regulations.
This equipment complies with CISPR22/EN55022 Class A.
The following Declaration complies with ISO/IEC Guide 22 and EN 45014.
applicable specifications recognized in the European community.
Canada. Complies with Canadian EMC Class-A requirements. | 2019-04-26T05:45:39 | https://manualzz.com/doc/3224179/hp-jetdirect-170x-external-ethernet-print-server-installa. |
0.999999 | Integrate Formidable Forms with your HubSpot account with the HubSpot WordPress plugin. Add and update Contacts in your HubSpot CRM account from the data submitted from your WordPress forms.
In your WordPress admin, go to 'Formidable' → 'Add-Ons' and click the 'Install' button for the HubSpot WordPress plugin.
Generate an API key by following the instructions in the HubSpot docs.
Go to the WordPress dashboard on the Formidable → Global Settings → HubSpot tab.
Paste your HubSpot API key on this page and click the 'Update Options' button.
You're all set to create HubSpot forms.
Now that your WordPress site is connected to HubSpot, it's time to create your HubSpot forms.
If you haven't already created a form to collect contacts, create a form now.
Go to edit the form which you will be linking to HubSpot. Go to the 'Settings' → 'Form Actions' tab for this form and click on the HubSpot icon.
This will give you the mapping settings for your HubSpot form. The HubSpot forms plugin will automatically fetch all the fields. Your current form fields will be seen on the left which you can match up with HubSpot form fields. Be sure to map a form field to each required HubSpot field.
Save the changes and submit an entry in your form. After submitting an entry, you should see a new contact listed in HubSpot.
The Formidable → Global Settings → HubSpot page includes an option to turn on debug mode. When enabled, any error messages will show on-screen after the form is submitted and while setting up the form action. | 2019-04-22T23:56:25 | https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/hubspot-forms/ |
0.99996 | WASHINGTON, DC -- If an asteroid struck Earth, which of its effects--scorching heat, flying debris, towering tsunamis--would claim the most lives? A new study has the answer: violent winds and shock waves are the most dangerous effects produced by Earth-impacting asteroids.
The study explored seven effects associated with asteroid impacts--heat, pressure shock waves, flying debris, tsunamis, wind blasts, seismic shaking and cratering--and estimated their lethality for varying sizes. The researchers then ranked the effects from most to least deadly, or how many lives were lost to each effect.
"This is the first study that looks at all seven impact effects generated by hazardous asteroids and estimates which are, in terms of human loss, most severe," said Clemens Rumpf, a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
"The likelihood of an asteroid impact is really low," said Rumpf. "But the consequences can be unimaginable."
Rumpf and his colleagues used models to pepper the globe with 50,000 artificial asteroids ranging from 15 to 400 meters (49 to 1312 feet) across--the diameter range of asteroids that most frequently strike the Earth. The researchers then estimated how many lives would be lost to each of the seven effects.
Large, ocean-impacting asteroids could generate enough power to trigger a tsunami, but the wave's energy would likely dissipate as it traveled and eventually break when it met a continental shelf. Even if a tsunami were to reach coastal communities, far fewer people would die than if the same asteroid struck land, Rumpf said. Overall, tsunamis accounted for 20 percent of lives lost, according to the study.
Only asteroids that spanned at least 18 meters (nearly 60 feet) in diameter were lethal. Many asteroids on the lower end of this spectrum disintegrate in Earth's atmosphere before reaching the planet's surface, but they strike more frequently than larger asteroids and generate enough heat and explosive energy to deal damage. For example, the meteor involved in the 2013 impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia, was 17 to 20 meters (roughly 55 to 65 feet) across and caused more than 1,000 injuries, inflicting burns and temporary blindness on people nearby.
"This report is a reasonable step forward in trying to understand and come to grips with the hazards posed by asteroids and comet impactors," said geophysicist Jay Melosh, a distinguished professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.
Melosh, who wasn't involved in the study, added that the findings "lead one to appreciate the role of air blasts in asteroid impacts as we saw in Chelyabinsk." The majority of the injuries in the Chelyabinsk impact were caused by broken glass sent flying into the faces of unknowing locals peering through their windows after the meteor's bright flash, he noted.
The study's findings could help mitigate loss of human life, according to Rumpf. Small towns facing the impact of an asteroid 30 meters across (about 98 feet) may fare best by evacuating. However, an asteroid 200 meters wide (more than 650 feet) headed for a densely-populated city poses a greater risk and could warrant a more involved response, he said.
"If only 10 people are affected, then maybe it's better to evacuate the area," Rumpf said. "But if 1,000,000 people are affected, it may be worthwhile to mount a deflection mission and push the asteroid out of the way." | 2019-04-23T01:12:19 | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/agu-nsr041917.php |
0.999831 | The social cost of private water: what are the options?
A return to public forms of administration in water supplies is a phenomenon that has been spreading globally. Over the past 15 years almost 235 cities around the world, among them Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires and Kuala Lumpur have either terminated or have desisted from renewing the contracts with private concessionary companies. In the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and the Scandinavian countries, for example, water delivery is, by a tradition, almost 100 percent public.
The water management situation in the region of Catalonia, Spain is catastrophic. The omnipresence of the private water sector is creating hugely negative impacts at the economic, social and environmental levels. As a result, Catalan municipalities are being swept by the wave of water remunicipalisation that is taking place across the globe, and the drive to recover public management of water systems is gaining force.
Public water operators and social movements from 90 countries gathered in Barcelona in mid-September to reflect on how to consolidate a public model of water provision and how to address critical issues of financing clean water for all.
RTL Z Nederland - Publieke diensten komen in gevaar door internationale handelsverdragen zoals TTIP en CETA, stellen maatschappelijke organisaties in een nieuw rapport. In het ergste geval worden overheden gedwongen om diensten als gezondheidszorg, onderwijs, water en energie te privatiseren.
The Indian Express - The municipal body’s financial losses from water works has reportedly increased by Rs 60 crore per annum, leading to demands, from both opposition parties and the local community, for the ouster of the private player.
Thruthout - Private companies have been working to make a profit from water since the 1600s, when the first water companies were established in England and Wales. The first wave of water privatization occurred in the 1800s, and by the mid- to late-19th century, privately owned water utilities were common in Europe, the United States and Latin America, and began to appear in Africa and Asia.
This article was written for Eau publique, eau d´avenir, published June 2015(French edition of Our Public Water Future: The Global experience with remunicipalisation) and translated into English. This is Greek translation done by SOSte to NERO in Thessaloniki.
Business day Live - Water is an essential natural element, but around the world, it’s also an artificially endangered resource. That would explain why the parties represented at a recent international conference on water rights in Lagos ranged from remote towns with hand-pumped wells to modern public utilities in European cities. Precisely because water is universally in demand, it faces boundless threats of exploitation, in countries rich and poor.
The Nation - Water is an essential natural element, but around the world, it’s also an artificially endangered resource.
Sustainable water without private finance?
At UN meetings in Addis Ababa, private finance has been touted as key to achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals, but campaigners argue that public finance is more reliable and more likely to secure the human right to water for all.
While TTIP is currently attracting the most attention, more trade agreements are looming. In July, world leaders holed themselves up in back rooms to discuss TiSA, an extensive service agreement intended to put (public) services, like the water supply, in the hands of the international market.
This article was written for Eau publique, eau d´avenir, published June 2015(French edition of Our Public Water Future: The Global experience with remunicipalisation) and translated into English.
In March 2013, the councillors of Nice, the fifth largest city in France, and of the surrounding communes announced that the city’s water services would gradually shift towards public management.
In the last 15 years there have been at least 180 cases of water remunicipalisation in 35 countries, both in the global North and South, including high profile cases in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.
The question of how to finance water and sanitation is crucial. Leading international institutions emphasise the role of private finance despite major concerns. The idea that private finance can bring the needed investment is remarkably persistent in global policy circles and leads to a dangerous lack of attention to the far more realistic option of mobilising public finance for infrastructure to provide essential services for all.
L’Observatoire des multinationales, LE Transational Institute et cinq partenaires européens publient ce jour la version française d’un livre pionnier sur la remunicipalisation dans le monde: Eau publique, eau d’avenir. L’expérience mondiale de la remunicipalisation. Cet ouvrage unique en son genre associe des chercheurs, des dirigeants de services publics de l’eau, des syndicalistes et des militants de la société civile.
Business Day Live - IT IS 8am as Hassan Abdullahi lugs his handcart loaded with six jerrycans of water up the slope to God’s Grace Calabar Kitchen. This is his third trip from a private water tap to his major customer. | 2019-04-19T08:35:44 | https://www.tni.org/en/search/language/en/tags/home/tag/index.php/created/2015/field_suites/439?option=com_flexicontent&view=tags&id=33&Itemid=1&lang=en&more=18 |
0.999999 | The Missouri Mom: Accident Safety - What to do when you drive up on a car wreck at night?
Accident Safety - What to do when you drive up on a car wreck at night?
maybe a possum or two, and a lot of white and yellow lines.
However, last night as I topped the hill I saw a man standing in the middle of the road - dancing. My first thought was "oh boy, this should be good" then I noticed his car was parked dead center of a giant tree and was not going anywhere any time soon.
It was just a few minutes after midnight, and I knew I may be the only person traveling that particular highway for hours, so I knew (for my own conscious) I had to stop.
While I won't go into details of the accident, because frankly I know very few, I will share a few tips on how to stay safe and still do your civil duty to help a fellow citizen in need.
- Do not get out of the car - while I could see the gentleman's car was definitely messed up, I did not know this guy, nor did I know what he was capable of. I stayed inside my car and directed the man to stay 3 foot away from the window of my car - I told him if you come close I will leave.
- Do not give them your name - you are not required to introduce yourself to the person you are helping. I rolled my window up when I was speaking to the 911 dispatch officer - I gave her my name and phone number, and requested that she stay on the line with me until someone else arrived on the scene of the accident.
- Do not offer to help - I never asked the gentleman if I could help him. I instructed him that I was calling 911 to get some help, but I never offered any assistance to him.
- Do not roll your window all the way down - I know it seemed rude, but I kept my window cracked (about an 1 1/2) with my finger on the button when I needed to speak to him - the rest of the time it was completely up.
- Do not let them know if you have any weapons - letting someone know what you have on you, could only make them want what you have. It is okay to protect yourself, but keep your tools to yourself.
- Ask if they are alone - see if there is someone else in the car, you need to let the authorities know, but also you need to know so you can protect yourself.
- NEVER assume you are safe - for me it was a gentleman who honestly was not completely with it - could have been under the influence of something, but even if it had been a woman and children I would would have treated the situation the same. They may seem okay, but you do not know what you cannot see - it could always be a trap.
Remember, while it is always good to help someone else, you are still the most important person in your own life. | 2019-04-21T12:38:09 | http://www.themissourimom.com/2014/12/accident-safety-what-to-do-when-you.html |
0.999998 | What's the story behind these vivid Hakata dolls?
(CNN) — Craftsmen from many regions of Japan are noted for their hand-made dolls, but Hakata dolls -- known locally as "ningyo" -- are perhaps the most famous.
With production based in and around Fukuoka, a coastal city on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, these pint-sized pieces of art have a long and evolutionary history.
"Production of Hakata dolls supposedly started in the early 17th century," explains Harry Sargant of Inside Japan, a British company that organizes tours of Fukuoka.
"A lowly roof tile craftsman called Souhichi Masaki is said to have begun making basic ceramic dolls, which were then copied by other craftsmen. Over time they became increasingly sophisticated and colorful."
The largest city on Kyushu, Fukuoka is actually two cities -- Fukuoka and Hakata -- rolled into one.
After the two merged in 1889, the name Fukuoka was applied to both, but many residents still think of their home as Hakata.
The dolls remain one of Fukuoka's most iconic symbols.
Ningyo are popular across Japan, both as ornaments and reminders of Fukuoka's rich culture and heritage.
"Most dolls are depictions of famous historical characters," explains septuagenarian master doll-maker Kuniaki Takeyoshi.
"You'll find everything from bijin (beautiful women), kabuki players, characters from noh (musical dramas) and religious and legendary figures, right through to sumo, samurai and children."
Most dolls on the market are contemporary, although a small number of more valuable vintage examples date back to the post-World War II period, when a number were taken back to the United States by servicemen as souvenirs.
While the number of ningyo craftsmen based in Fukuoka has declined, a small band of enduring and highly skilled artisans keeps this niche industry alive.
"It's certainly a difficult task inspiring the next generation of doll makers," says Takeyoshi, who is also president of the Fukuoka Doll Making Union. "There are about 70 master craftsmen alive now."
Takeyoshi is doing what he can to promote the art of doll making.
Through events, meetings and government liaison, the Fukuoka Doll Making Union works to encourage interest from youngsters, as well as to market ningyo at home and abroad.
Visitors to Fukuoka who wish to see how ningyo are made should stop by the Hakata Traditional Craft Center, while at the Shogetudo shop in the city's Nakasu neighborhood they can even paint their very own Hakata doll.
Daniel Allen is a journalist and photographer based in London and St. Petersburg. | 2019-04-25T10:13:23 | https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/japan-fukuoka-hakata-dolls/index.html |
0.999069 | Finance Minister Eugene Cox has categorically denied that a deal had been done with any of the banks to exchange political favours for 60/40 exemptions.
In an article in Friday's Mid-Ocean News it was implied that one of the banks had been offered a "quid pro quo" deal by the Progressive Labour Party Government.
The article said that any lifting of the 60/40 rule - which limits the foreign ownership of local companies to 40 percent - involved the "bank's facilitating the fast-tracking of black Bermudian entrepreneurs who want to enter the traditionally white-dominated retailing and wholesaling mainstream".
The article says that the local importers and owners of the Phoenix stores, Bermuda General Agency (BGA), was sold for $12 million to black entrepreneur Wendall Brown, and it was implied that either Bank of Bermuda or Bank of Butterfield had loaned the money in return for an exemption.
Mr. Cox said: "This is nothing I know of. When I saw the headline I thought it was interesting, but I knew nothing of it. It is ludicrous to think that we had anything to do with it. Ludicrous.
"I categorically deny any involvement with this." Neither bank would say if it had given the money to back the deal. Bank of Butterfield would issue no comment on Friday, and a spokesman for Bank of Bermuda said: "We are not going to comment and do not wish to respond to this."
The article by veteran journalist Patricia Calnan, was headlined "Shock multi-million dollar BGA sale."
Ms Calnan, who said her sources for the story were reliable and came from various sectors, reported that Ward Young had sold the business which was founded by his family at the turn of the century for more than $12 million.
The story said that Mr. Brown ran a betting shop, and had an unnamed source stating the "deal was a curious one".
The Mid-Ocean reported that the BGA was predominantly a pharmaceutical business which became part of the US Rexall Drug Company in about 1914 and diversified in to the wholesale as well as retail business, selling toys, books, magazines and cards as well as groceries.
It stated the "source" said that the deal had received "huge" financial backing from an unspecified local bank.
The source was quoted as stating: "It seems that this has been just one of several deals being pursued by the Progressive Labour Party Government as part of its determination that more major businesses come under black ownership."
The article read: "The BGA deal is seen as just one thrust in efforts to diversify ownership of the local economy prior to a planned relaxation of the 60/40 Bermuda ownership regulations. The two main local banks - The Bank of Bermuda and the Bank of N.T. Butterfield - are in the forefront of efforts to achieve this. It is understood that the PLP Government's quid pro quo for any such lifting of the 60/40 rule involves the banks facilitating the fast-tracking of black Bermudian entrepreneurs who want to enter the traditionally white-dominated retailing and wholesaling mainstream."
The Mid-Ocean News also claimed that there was "considerable" dissension within the ranks of the PLP over this approach, and said the source told the newspaper that many PLP backbenchers were concerned by the lack of discussion over the 60/40 issue "even within their own party".
Mr. Cox has promised to look into the relaxation of the ownership rules for the banks to allow more foreign investment.
The Bank of Bermuda wants exemption to allow it to list on the Nasdaq which the bank says will boost shareholder value, and Bank of Butterfield has also applied for an exemption.
So far there has been no announcement on whether the exemption will be allowed. | 2019-04-22T13:05:46 | http://bermuda.org.uk/60_40.htm |
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0.999341 | I'm working on a group horror video project and have scenes involving rapid pregnancy. We started using just plain old liquid latex designs and while the effect is being achieve, the latex after being stretched/inflated once can never be used again. This makes 2nd takes, reshoots a nightmare as it can take a long time to make each inflatable stomach prop.
While searching online I came across some similar related effects, but am having the darnedest time identifying what material this is. Some type of foam latex? Silicone? The elasticity appears to be very high and it can be reused over and over again.
I know the attached photo may be of little help, but it's a photo of the props in the video being used. Any identification or perhaps suggestions on a material that can achieve this effect but be re-used repeatedly would be incredibly appreciated.
Hard to tell the exact material they used, but it's possible that it's still latex. One thing to keep in mind about latex is there are a lot of different types of latex bases out there, and different pigments. Some pigments will weaken the latex a bit as well. What type of latex were you using? There is a variety called "balloon latex" that might work better for you.
There are also materials like polychloroprene that are used in making balloons, but I have no experience working with it.
We can rule out foam latex for that application, as it would not stretch that far and would not have same shiny surface seen in the video.
Silicone is another option, but a bit more expensive.
What types of issues were you having with your current implementation that made it not reusable?
I used basically liquid latex (link below) painted onto a plaster mold with between 10-15 painted thin coats with a small amount of acrylic flesh colored paint mixed in.
The issues is that it would stretch fairly well, but the elasticity would cause the latex to stay very stretched out and extremely rippled. It would never even come close to it's original shape after being inflated. Any suggestions on some types of latex would be much appreciated. I tried looking up "balloon latex" but am having trouble finding some links to it.
Also, maybe it's possible that I am not curing this properly? I've just been pulling it from the mold and waiting a few weeks for it to dry out.
It's possible that their ammonia free latex went bad (or was just bad from the start), and it's also possible that it's an old bottle that sat for ages before selling, or even got a lot of UV/thermal exposure. Hard to say. My guess is that a better latex might do the trick for you.
They have a variant that is already caucasian flesh tone pigmented that may be a good base to start with. You would just need to do some tests to find out how many layers you need to build up to get the right effect. Too thick and it will not stretch as much, too thin and it might tear.
Based on what you said it sounds like your latex was fully cured. It was likely just not great latex. As latex is an organic material it can break down over time and exposure to different temperatures and UV can speed that up.
Ammonia is used in liquid latex formulas to preserve the latex. Since you had an ammonia free latex it would have started breaking down much faster, and who knows how long it sat around in warehouses or the store shelf before it was purchased. | 2019-04-21T18:08:30 | https://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/4913/material-identification |
0.999985 | Martin Kaymer may have won his first major at Whistling Straits, but most of the talk revolves around Dustin Johnson.
Whistling Straits' manifold defenses were apparent last week, or were until the tournament hung in the balance late on Sunday afternoon. How does it defend itself against this?
When the bunkers are almost too numerous to count (Golf Digest's Ron Whitten set the unofficial number at 967), so many that a gallery can't help but tramping through any number of them, even leaving some of them unidentifiable, do they not cease being an architectural nuance and expose the course to scorn?
The 92nd PGA Championship turned on one of those bunkers late on Sunday, when Dustin Johnson was unaware his ball was in one on the 72nd hole. He grounded his club, resulting in a two-stroke penalty that downgraded this PGA Championship from one that history would recall for its entertainment value to one that will be remembered for its controversy.
Blame Johnson for failing to read the PGA of America's warnings about the bunkers, "the number one item on our local rules sheet," Mark Wilson, co-chairman of the PGA of America rules committee, said, "simply to explain that all of the bunkers that were designed and built as sand bunkers on this golf course would be played that way."
For the record, the winner of the PGA Championship was Germany's Martin Kaymer. The loser, clearly, was Whistling Straits.
Lost amid the bunker controversy was this: Where was Johnson's caddie, Bobby Brown, to warn him about the possibility his ball was in a bunker? The caddie is responsible for knowing the rules, too, and with Johnson preoccupied with attempting to win a major championship, Brown bears some blame for not identifying potential pitfalls.
A Twitter check of players' reactions to the Dustin Johnson flap produced a consensus: Whistling Straits has bunker issues.
From Ian Poulter: "Gutted for Dustin shocking rule, 900+ bunkers and probably only 100 rakes I don't get it, sorry Dustin you deserved to be in the playoff"
From Stewart Cink: "I like Dustin Johnson. It's too bad. Maybe Whistling Straits should rethink some of those obscure bunker-ish features."
From Stuart Appleby (in part): "I'm very [ticked] and angered that this is way the 2010 PGA came to an end...Dustin and caddy are ultimately responsible for their actions....but WTH. I think that they need to make significant changes to the course that has hundreds of pointless bunkers that patrons have to walk through to view players."
From Trevor Immelmann: "That is ridiculous, since when can a 1000 spectators walk through a bunker? Stupid!...This is an unfortunate finish to the PGA! Just goes to show that you should never have this many bunkers on one golf course"
From Oliver Wilson: "There was always going to be issues with those traps, massive shame it was those circumstances"
From Rickie Fowler: "Proud of the way my boy DJ handled the ruling...I think a bunker that fans have been standing in all day should be considered a waste bunker"
From John Daly: "was that so called 'bunker' manicured & maintained all week to be classified as a bunker--if not I would be appealing it DJ! You deserve to be in that playoff!"
The future of golf won't unfold without Tiger Woods, notwithstanding those who already have written the obituary to his career. Even conceding them the point, the forecast isn't bleak.
Kaymer is only 25 and is emerging as a major star. He has finished in the top eight in four of the last five majors. Prior to his victory in the PGA Championship on Sunday, he had finished seventh in the British Open, eighth in the U.S. Open and sixth in the '09 PGA Championship. He finished 54th in the Masters.
Johnson is 26 and is on the threshold of stardom -- provided, of course, that his psyche is not irreparably harmed by his U.S. Open and PGA championship pratfalls.
Then there is Rory McIlroy, 21, who in his last three tournaments, each of them featuring the best players in the world, he has finished T-3 in the British Open, T-9 at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and T-3 in the PGA Championship.
Watson finished third in Ryder Cup points to secure a spot on the U.S. team.
Who knows? Either Watson or Johnson could have made a significant move toward securing the honor with a victory on Sunday, which would have made either the only multiple winner with a major championship.
The PGA of America is shameless in using its showcase event, the PGA Championship, as a public relations platform for promoting the Ryder Cup, the most hyped (or overhyped) event in golf.
So it may have been unperturbed that the U.S. captain, Corey Pavin, was involved in a kerfuffle with the Golf Channel's Jim Gray last week. Gray reported that Pavin told him that Woods would be a Ryder Cup captain's pick. Pavin denied it. Gray confronted him in the media center, conveniently ensuring international headlines. Any publicity is good publicity, right?
But was it really necessary, especially on the eve of a tournament of substantially greater importance? Why were Pavin and European captain Colin Montgomerie even in the PGA field, other than to provide them another forum for publicizing what in essence is an exhibition, albeit an entertaining one, that is still 2 1/2 months off?
By the way, Pavin can prevail in his spat with Gray. All he has to do is forgo naming Woods to the Ryder Cup team, negating Gray's claim.
The Ryder Cup, naturally, came up when CBS' Jim Nantz had Jim Remy, the president of the PGA of America, in the television booth.
"Just a quick word before you go, about your captain, Corey, who's going to do a great job for you. He already has," Nantz said.
"He has," Remy replied. "He's doing a great job."
A great job as defined...how? Choosing uniforms? Generating publicity? No disrespect for Pavin intended, but what else is there until he announces his wild-card picks, the first decision a captain makes that will have an impact on the actual competition?
The sport of Tiger watching is endlessly entertaining, be it his talent when he's hitting it stiff or his genius when he isn't and still posting a good score.
Woods tied for 28th in the PGA, his worst finish in the four major championships (he tied for fourth in the Masters and U.S. Open and tied for 23rd in the British Open). Yet he'll still be interesting to watch, in this case to see how he recovers his enthusiasm, given that the tournaments that matter most to him won't begin anew for eight months.
Apparently he'll have a new coach, Sean Foley, but he'll need some new goals, too. It's conceivable he has only a single PGA Tour event left, the Barclays, the first event in the FedEx Cup playoffs (and on Sunday he wouldn't verbally commit even to playing it). And he's no certainty to make the Ryder Cup team.
Heretofore, winning begat winning for Woods, who used his tour success as the impetus for continuing to drum the competition in post-season events. No doubt it was fun for him, fun the ingredient missing as he faces uncertainty in the near future.
He used to own them, of course. At Whistling Straits, he played them in even par. This year, he ranks 182nd on the PGA Tour in par 5 performance (a 4.72 scoring average). As a point of reference, in 2000, his scoring average on par 5s was 4.37.
Is it time to render a verdict on Padraig Harrington, that undergoing a swing change after winning the last of three major championships in 2008 might have been career mismanagement? The cost has been two years from the prime of has career, an investment for which he has zero victories to show.
Harrington, 38, missed the cut in three of the four majors this year, including the last two. In the eight majors he's played since his last victory, in the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills in 2008, he's missed the cut in four and had only a single top 10, a T-10 in the PGA Championship in 2009.
Of those in the mix on the back nine on Sunday, the least likely winner would have been Steve Elkington, 47, who hasn't won a tournament since 1999 and likely won't win another until the Champions Tour beckons.
Elkington came up two strokes short, but he did earn a valuable consolation prize. Recall that earlier this year he was part of a controversy when it was revealed that PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem was soliciting sponsor exemptions on his behalf. For the first time in 24 years, Elkington no longer had a PGA Tour exemption.
He has rectified that for 2011. By virtue of his T-5 finish, he earned $270,833, running his season total to $938,494, or enough to finish in the top 125 on the PGA Tour money list this year, restoring his full exemption.
Why is it called the U.S. Women's Amateur when the two finalists are girls? Jessica Korda and Danielle Kang are each 17. Kang won, incidentally, 2 and 1.
Two of the four major championships were won by members of the same country club. Phil Mickelson, who won the Masters, and Kaymer are members at Whisper Rock Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. (as are two members of CBS' broadcast crews -- Gary McCord and Peter Kostis)...Stuart Appleby can be excused his indifferent performance in the PGA Championship -- he finished T-68th. It was the 13th straight week that Appleby had played, a streak that began with the Verizon Heritage on April 15. He had scheduled a break after the Greenbrier Classic on Aug. 1, but his final-round 59 there produced a victory that earned him a start in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the PGA Championship the following two weeks...Wisconsin native Steve Stricker tied for 18th in what might have been his final tournament (save, possibly, for the Champions Tour) in his home state. Stricker might have been a factor were it not for a triple-bogey six he made at the 17th hole in the second round. Stricker will be 48 when the PGA Championship returns to Whistling Straits in 2015 and he'll be 50 when the U.S. Open is played at Wisconsin's Erin Hills in 2017.
PGA Tour: Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. Defending champion Ryan Moore. LPGA: Safeway Classic presented by Coca-Cola on the Ghost Creek Course at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Ore. Defending champion M.J. Hur.
The PGA of America bills the PGA Championship as Glory's Last Shot. What then does that say for the FedEx Cup playoffs? Or the Ryder Cup? Of the final WGC event on the schedule, the HSBC Champions?
The PGA Championship doesn't need artificial hype, notwithstanding its status as the fourth major (not in reference to its place on the schedule, but for its importance relative to the other three majors).
It consistently delivers among the most entertaining shows in major championship golf, as it did again last week. | 2019-04-19T23:00:10 | https://www.golfdigest.com/story/golf-strege-monday-recap-0816 |
0.999556 | Question: I've been wanting to write a book for a while now and have multiple ideas for books. My problem is I can't figure out how to get my ideas from my head into a readable format. Any advice?
It is normal to have some anxiety when facing a blank page. We want our writing to be perfect from the very first word until we type "The End." That desire can create a lot of pressure and performance anxiety.
But almost no one writes that way, just as no one plays piano brilliantly without having put in years of practice.
Often we have to start by writing a bad draft... or an outline... or just a collection of ideas. Or maybe you start by doing research and writing notes down on index cards.
The point is to get yourself engaged with the material by writing something. As you do this, the ideas will develop and take shape.
Maybe you're working on an outline when suddenly an idea for a scene pops into your head, so you take advantage of that and write just the one scene.
Later, you may decide that scene is garbage and throw it out, but by then your ideas will have developed further, the characters will have become more real, and you may have several more scenes written that you feel better about.
-- knowing that later you will revise it to make a better second draft.
Important tip: It's easier to revise than to write something from scratch.
What you hope for is that at some point the writing will just start to flow and the story that emerges will be fairly solid. For some writers, it takes a long time to get to that stage. For others, it's a matter of getting into the right state of mind.
You want to be focused and engaged with the ideas. It's almost like putting yourself into a hypnotic trance. When you're focused, any anxiety or doubt is set aside, freeing you to write.
On the other hand, Harper Lee did quite well by writing just two books in 50 years. There's room for all types.
If your problem is self-disciple -- making the time to write or making yourself write in the time you've set aside -- you might consider joining or forming a writers group.
Assuming you have weekly meetings, have everyone in the group commit to writing something each week and sharing it at the meeting. This gives you some motivation because you don't want to bear the shame of being the person with nothing to share. | 2019-04-22T22:06:25 | https://www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/how-to-put-it-down-on-paper.html |
0.999929 | The controversial claim that the UK sends £350m a week to the EU was a "gross underestimate", Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said.
He told the Guardian the UK's contribution was already £362m a week and would rise to £438m by the end of the post-Brexit transition period.
Vote Leave's claim that £350m could go to the NHS instead was hotly disputed during the EU referendum.
Tory MP Anna Soubry said Mr Johnson had to "man up" and stop "conning people".
Labour accused Mr Johnson of returning "to the scene of his previous crimes".
A campaign bus used by Vote Leave, including Mr Johnson himself, during the referendum campaign was emblazoned with the slogan: "We send the EU £350 million a week - let's fund our NHS instead."
It was widely criticised because £350m per week is an approximate sum for the UK's "gross contribution" to Brussels.
It doesn't take account of the country's rebate of £75m a week which means that the true amount leaving the Treasury's coffers is significantly lower.
Does the £350m claim stack up?
Mr Johnson told the Guardian "there was an error on the side of the bus."
"We grossly underestimated the sum over which we would be able to take back control."
The paper said the foreign secretary "conceded that the leave campaign had used a gross figure", but he said about half of the total eventually saved could be redirected to fund public services.
"As and when the cash becomes available - and it won't until we leave - the NHS should be at the very top of the list," he added.
Among those to criticise Mr Johnson's use of the figure was the head of the UK's statistics watchdog, Sir David Norgrove, who called it "a clear misuse of official statistics".
Reacting to Mr Johnson's latest remarks, Labour's Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer accused him of having "no shame".
And Ms Soubry, a pro-EU ex-minister who has rebelled against the government several times over Brexit, said she was "surprised and disappointed" the foreign secretary had chosen to resurrect the claims.
"What I do know is that this is not going to be additional funds that will go to the NHS - and that was an important part of the trick that was played on the British people," she told the BBC's Daily Politics.
"Boris is being irresponsible to continue to con people in this way. He should be honest about the challenges that Brexit poses to our country.
"This is grown up, this is proper stuff, he's got to man up to the position he holds."
Meanwhile, Eloise Todd, from the anti-Brexit campaign Best For Britain, said: "This is a yet another untruth from Boris, a man who has become so obsessed with the lie he slapped on the side of the bus."
Mr Johnson was speaking after fellow Leave campaigner Nigel Farage last week suggested he was "warming" to the idea of holding a second referendum in order to "kill off" the Remain campaign for a generation.
However, the foreign secretary rejected the idea, saying the first referendum had caused "an awful lot of heartache and soul-searching".
"I'm not convinced that the public is absolutely gagging for another Brexit referendum," he added.
Mr Johnson said he believed the result of any second vote would be "pretty much the same" or a heavier victory for Leave.
Boris Johnson: Does his £350m a week Brexit claim add up? | 2019-04-25T21:58:26 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42698981 |
0.999995 | It is interesting to note that Wizards finally seems to be catching on to the fact that they have to actually design Standard as a format, otherwise you end up with a mediocre format. I&rsquo;ve recently begun to see Wizards make a real attempt to sculpt formats with card printings and card choices, the most glaring example of which was reprinting Mana Leak in M11. I want to talk today about one of the core elements of formats, and how they operate.
The most important concept to understand here is Natural Predation. The Natural Predator(s) of specific cards or strategies are cards and/or strategies that are inherently strong against them. Natural predator/prey relationships are the core of a good format. They operate to keep various strong elements in check and make good formats. There are basically two types of Natural Predators.
This is an archetype versus archetype predation. Strategic Superiority happens when one deck&rsquo;s strategy either 1) advances the strategy of their opponent&rsquo;s deck, 2) has no reasonable way to interact with or hinder the opposing deck or 3) has an unstoppable trump.
An example of (1) would be, for example, from Old Extended, playing a Sanity Grinding deck against Dredge. I would presume in most instances, this will result in the Dredge player winning, because the Sanity Grinding deck has a fundamental strategy that advance&rsquo;s the Dredge deck&rsquo;s strategy.
I would be surprised if Deck B was able to win even a single game against Deck A, as they will likely be dead before they cast their first Tyrannax. Deck B&rsquo;s strategy is just terrible against Deck A&rsquo;s. In this situation, Deck A has Strategic Superiority.
In Lorwyn-Shards T2, Cruel Control against your typical aggro-deck.
This deck had Strategy Superiority because of the dual trumps in the match-up &ndash; Kitchen Finks and Cruel Ultimatum. The aggro deck had no real way of dealing with the advantage generated by those cards and thus the game became about whether or not the Cruel Control mage was able to find and resolve those spells before he died. Since this happened frequently, the match-up was favorable for Cruel Control. The aggro deck could win, but it was definitely an uphill battle.
At the core of most strategies in T2 is one of these four elements. These four elements form the basic structure of what I will call the Circle of Predation. The Circle of Predation demonstrates inherent strategic strengths of one type of strategy against another. It is not Strategy Superiority, just inherent advantage. In other words, it&rsquo;s not to say that these strategies can&rsquo;t beat the strategies that prey on them, it&rsquo;s that they have an uphill battle to do so.
In healthy formats all elements of the Circle are present, so the format can shift as necessary. Unhealthy formats occur when the Circle is broken or a specific broken card/strategy appears.
There are two main wrenches in the Circle of Predation &ndash; Combo and Tempo. These two types of decks exist in a weird space. Combo decks tend to be lynchpin decks, which means that they, like big spell decks, can be vulnerable to predation by the Counterspell. But they can also be vulnerable to predation by The One-Drop. Usually these types of combo decks will be good against Counterspell decks. Thus Combo will usually exist either between the Counterspell and The Big Spell or The One-Drop and The Counterspell.
Tempo decks (Ponza is the primary example) prey on two types of decks &ndash; decks with weak manabases and The Big Spell. Their greatest natural predator is usually The One-Drop. The thing with these decks is that they can end up preying on almost anything because they prey on weak manabases. It is possible for a Counterspell deck, Big Spell deck, or Incremental Card Advantage deck to have a weak manabase, leaving the door open to a Tempo deck to prey on it.
Each of these showcases inherent advantages to the appropriate side within the circle.
It is important to remember, however, that the Circle isn&rsquo;t law. It only represents natural advantages certain strategies have over others. This isn&rsquo;t to say, for example, that Counterspell decks can&rsquo;t beat One-Drop decks, or that Big Spell decks can&rsquo;t beat Counterspell decks. In fact, things like this frequently happen.
So how do you reverse trends in the Circle?
Jund was a perfect example of #1. Jund is an incremental card advantage deck, but the card quality and power was just so much better than anything else in the metagame, and thus it dominated the metagame for a while.
Many modern builds of UW control are examples of #2. They run some countermagic, but also run things like Planeswalkers and Titans that are big spells, so they can just out-trump you in ways also. Thus they can act as a Big Spell deck or a Counterspell deck depending on the scenario, giving them a lot of flexibility.
A good example of #3 is the modern Red Deck. With the Red Deck today, there are two types of games &ndash; games where the red deck has Goblin Guide and games where the red deck doesn&rsquo;t. This is because when the Red Deck has Goblin Guide it is acting as a true one-drop deck, and thus has all the advantages associated with that strategy. However, when it doesn&rsquo;t have Goblin Guide the strategy becomes much weaker, since it relies on a two-drop to do that job.
The easiest way to have a healthy format is to have each element of the circle be a strong a viable part of the metagame. While this is hard to achieve exactly, it is reasonable to have each element of the circle at least exert a strong presence. It is difficult to foresee exactly which element will be the strongest, but it is reasonably easy to allow each element some room to play in a given format.
In order to keep each element in the format strong, each element has to have strong cards to work with. This means that there needs to be good one drops in aggressive colors (typically white and red, but basically red in most formats), good counterspells, good big spells, and good two-for-ones. The reason I argue for the printing of Mountain Lion (Red Savannah Lions) and reprinting of Counterspell (i.e. UU Counterspell) is because these two cards would strengthen those elements in the Circle enough to give play in those departments.
The experiment with Cancel proved that Cancel alone is not strong enough to give Counterspells play in T2. In fact, the combination of Essence Scatter and Negate is not strong enough. There needs to be a 2 mana counter that has play against both creatures and non-creatures. Mana Leak fills this role for now (which is why it was so huge when it was printed), but Counterspell would be better for it. The fact of the matter is, a card like Mana Leak or Counterspell is necessary for a healthy Standard environment.
The necessity of a good one-drop in red at all times makes me think that Mountain Lion would need to be printed. Maintaining a good one-drop in the core set would free Wizards from the need to print a good red one-drop in every base set, opening up design space. It&rsquo;s possible that they want to print this good one drop anyway, but Mountain Lion is a viable replacement if they want to go in a different direction.
By creating a Circle that is not heavily skewed toward any individual strategy you bring balance to a format at a core, fundamental level. But it does not make the format interesting.
Interesting formats are created by wrenches thrown in the typical paradigm represented by the Circle. This is where Combo and Tempo come in. Combo and Tempo interact with the Circle in different ways than the core elements, exerting stress on the format that makes it different. Stone Rain is a critical element for Tempo decks, because of the nature of the archetype. Applying pressure is critical, and that has proven to be only effective when it starts at 3 at the latest. Starting at 4 is simply too slow.
I am happy that Wizards has pushed the power level of creatures. They always should have been a relevant and important part of tournament magic and they are now finally taking their rightful place on tournament tables everywhere. However, a focus on creatures vs. non-creatures is too simplistic. It does not encompass how Magic formats operate as a whole.
What I have presented here does not encompass every Magic format either, but it is a pretty good skeleton of how T2 operates and how Extended will operate in the future. Eternal formats are basically a different animal. Still, Standard, as Wizards&rsquo; most popular format, needs to be designed to be a fair and balanced environment. The Circle of Predation is a good place to start. | 2019-04-19T04:25:19 | https://www.coolstuffinc.com/a/sculpting-formats-circle-predation/ |
0.999986 | What do these problems have in common?
They resist any simple solution. In policy research they are called "wicked."
This is because cause-effect relations are complex and solutions unclear; many of these problems are urgent, yet there is no central authority to solve them; their magnitude is often hard to estimate; and those trying to solve them may even contribute to causing them.
The EU refugee crisis, the topic of a recent U.N. summit, is a good example: Driven by regional conflicts and poverty, and assisted by trafficking networks, people from Africa and the Middle East continue to take enormous risks to enter EU territory by land or sea.
For several years now, thousands of refugees have died on this journey each year and no solution is in sight. EU member countries continue to blame their neighbors for either taking in too many refugees or for refusing to help, while there is little shared interest and limited capacity for actually addressing the sources of the problem.
What's the best way to effectively address these types of wicked problems?
Facing the current refugee situation, U.N. member states got together two weeks ago to sign a declaration for a more coordinated response to the refugee crisis. Yet, critics have pointed out that the goals are too vague and the document is not legally binding. Such meetings have happened several times in the course of the EU refugee crisis - with very little outcome. In reality, "grand solutions" for large-scale problems either do not exist, or they are too vague or controversial to be of much value.
The Paris climate agreement is another example of an attempted grand solution to a large-scale problem - climate change. The goal was to get all nations to agree on limiting temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. To reach consensus, all participants further agreed to assist developing countries technologically and financially to ease the transition to renewable energies. The agreement was signed by all participating nations - 175 in all.
‘Grand solutions’ that emanate from centralized political organizations have proven ineffective in making substantial progress on so-called wicked problems.
A number of development experts have argued that "small wins" might be a promising alternative to tackle large-scale problems. Small wins focus on smaller-scale independent projects with attainable and measurable objectives. For example, many firms independently develop solutions to increase energy efficiency or to avoid waste. Likewise, several EU countries have looked into better ways of processing asylum applications and easing the integration of refugees.
Such small wins may not solve the entire problem - in these cases, climate change or refugee crisis - but they have tangible positive outcomes in line with longer-term goals. Also, the more countries and parties deal with the same problem, the greater the number of innovative experiments.
We argue in a recently published article in Research Policy that there is a promising way of linking small wins to larger development objectives - the "modular" approach. We studied this by looking specifically at the development and adoption of so-called sustainability standards in the global coffee industry.
In only about one decade, sustainable coffee standards, which encompass environmental sustainability and worker health, have become broadly adopted. Why?
But they also reinforce each other's effect: For example, omission of pesticides has a positive impact on farmers' health. Furthermore, doing without pesticides serves as a foundation for advanced practices, such as organic farming, which may increase the brand and market value of coffee beans. This helps private farms and cooperatives generate more revenue and make further investments into their workforce and production capabilities.
Overall, modular solutions can reduce the complexity of climate adaptation and refugee integration. In developing and disseminating such solutions, intermediary organizations are very important - development agencies, standard-setters, consulting groups, NGOs, industrial relations partners.
Of course, modular approaches cannot eradicate today's large-scale problems entirely. But they are more practical than grand solutions and more scalable than small wins. And they do not require reinventing the wheel. As a result, wicked problems may not look so wicked after all. | 2019-04-18T11:18:46 | https://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-coffee-industry-can-teach-us-about-solving-the-worlds-most-challenging-problems-2016-10 |
0.999998 | Q: Is there a connection between The Magician Trilogy and the Charlie Bone books?
A: There is a connection between the Magician Trilogy and the Charlie Bone books. I began to make notes for The Children of the Red King a year or two after I had finished The Magician trilogy. Initially, it was a response to requests for a fourth book about my Welsh protagonist, Gwydion Gwyn, but I decided to have a new hero, Charlie Bone, and to give him, not only a Welsh ancestor, but also an African bloodline, so that he would be linked to a wider world. In The Magician Trilogy, I used slightly lyrical prose, to reflect the musical Welsh language. With Charlie Bone, the language is more straightforward.
Q: Ancient Welsh mythology is integrated throughout The Snow Spider. Why did you use Gwydion as a basis for your protagonist in The Magician Trilogy?
A: I used Gwydion as a basis for my protagonist in The Magician Trilogy because, in the Welsh myths, he is described as the greatest storyteller in the world. His character stood out from all the others. I was captivated by him, and longed to find a way to bring him into the present, and to introduce him to a new generation.
Q: How did you come up with the idea for the world from which the Snow Spider comes? Does this snowy world have a name?
A: In ancient mythology there is a place called the Otherworld, a parallel world where the spirit lives. There is also the Tir na n'Og, a land of youth where one never grows old. My son had requested a story about other worlds (i.e the planets in outer space) but I cheated and chose to use the mythological worlds rather than reverting to science fiction. I imagined this world to be icy cold, pure and white, perhaps because I began to write it in the depths of a very cold winter. My children remarked that the cobwebs were covered in frost and looked like holograms, where it might be possible to glimpse another world.
Q: Which character in the first book do you most identify with?
A: I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture. But if I identify with anyone in The Magician Trilogy, it must be Gwyn, because I am seeing most situations through his eyes.
Q: The theme of searching for family recurs throughout the Charlie Bone books and The Magician trilogy. Why is this an issue that you're drawn to?
A: I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right, and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.
Q: You make magic relevant to contemporary readers. How do you see magic in the real world?
A: I prefer to think of magic in its proper place, in stories. Folktales, legends, and fairytales were the books I first learned to read for myself. They were a great comfort and have influenced a lot of what I write. However, we all need a little magic in our everyday lives - through coincidence, happenstance, serendipity, and so on. And there are certain times of year, certain weather, certain moods when the world around us is not exactly as we thought - when we might actually see a fawn getting off a bus - as Gabriel Garcia Marquez did.
Q: How, when, and where do you write?
A: I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.
Q: Where do you find inspiration for your stories? Which writers have influenced you?
A: Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper. Ideas are suggested by newspaper articles, magazines, and TV documentaries. But always there is the big story of fairytales in my head to dip into, to enliven the facts: the endless stream of shape-shifters, healing drops, wands, frozen hearts, poisoned chalices, falling stars, ghosts, flying horses, sorcerers, magic cloaks and much, much more. Bruce Chatwin has influenced the way I write, but much of what I write has been influenced by all those anonymous writers who contributed to books of legends, myths, and fairytales.
A: What next? A new Charlie Bone Trilogy, a book about Uncle Paton's childhood and The Red King Saga, which will tell the story of the Red King and his original ten children. | 2019-04-20T00:58:18 | https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/qa-jenny-nimmo/ |
0.999999 | Nanoscience and nanotechnology are international household terms because of the substantial potential that exist in the physical, chemical, and biological phenomena discovered in these fields. From a physics perspective, a number of nanoscale systems show great promise to revolutionize many areas of society. For me, the field of nanocrystalline materials exhibits the greatest potential to elucidate our understanding of fundamental physical phenomena (electricity, magnetism, etc.) and to be incorporated into devices that could improve our lives. For nanocrystalline materials to become widely employed and, hence, competitive with traditional macroscopic materials in electronic, optical, and magnetic device applications, more must be understood about their intrinsic properties and how to control, distribute, and integrate nanomaterials in an effective manner.
A) What is the nature of magnetism and light emission within the smallest nanocrystalline materials?
B) What is the safest, most time and cost efficient, size scalable, and controllable method to handle and distribute nanoparticles to fabricate functional devices, architectures, and materials?
Answering these questions would: A) help the scientific community better understand how to exploit nanoscale phenomena to make enhanced magnetic devices and light-emitting materials; B) help establish manufacturing systems and protocols for industrial and commercial outfits (both large and small) to employ nanomaterials for functional device fabrication.
To address these questions, I developed complementary research interests in physics, materials science, and chemistry to synthesize, to characterize, and to investigate nanomaterials and nanoscale phenomena. To research nanomaterials that possess the highest standards of quality, composition, and purity, one typically must synthesize the materials oneself. Thus, my research activities are intrinsically multidisciplinary and have involved integrated components of condensed matter physics (optical spectroscopy and magnetic measurements), materials science (electron microscopy, electrochemical analysis, materials fabrication), and chemistry (nanocrystal synthesis and electrophoretic deposition).
My group has addressed these fundamental questions through the development of vibrant programs of research along two major trajectories: I. Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanomaterials and II. Physics and Materials Science of Magnetic and Luminescent Nanocrystals. | 2019-04-18T14:48:54 | http://jameshdickerson.com/overview |
0.999465 | Sputnik: It has been revealed that the two countries have signed an agreement that makes it possible for US companies to fly planes and launch spacecraft from the Brazilian Air Force's Alcantara Launch Centre (ALC) in the northeast of the country. In which other technological/economic spheres could the two countries cooperate?
Cedê Silva: Under the agreement, Brazil will essentially rent the Alcantara Launch Centre for Americans to launch nonmilitary rockets. Alcantara is very close to the Equator which makes launching rockets from there much cheaper. It is a positive agreement for both sides since the Launch Centre is currently underused and the Brazilian space program is still underdeveloped. Brazil scrapped an agreement with Ukraine in 2015 under which Ukraine would use Alcantara to launch rockets with commercial satellites. It is important to note that the new agreement will still be submitted to Congress on both countries.
As for others spheres, Brazil and the US have straightened their ties on cooperation on military technology. For instance, then-Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis visited Brazil in August 2018, and US and Brazilian intelligence cooperated in advance of the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 to thwart a terrorist attack. Furthermore, Brazil and the US have a lot of room to increase their bilateral trade, despite being competitors in some key markets, such as both being agricultural superpowers selling soy to China.
The most important debate we will see in the very near future, I believe, is the debate about 5G technology. China is increasing its push to become an IT world power and the US is already battling a sort of 'Internet Cold War' for influence. We did not see this openly discussed during President's Bolsonaro visit to D.C., but the debate about adopting Chinese technology has already reached Brazil's Congress.
Sputnik: During his trip to Washington, Bolsonaro visited the CIA headquarters. Could this be connected with ongoing discussions regarding the Venezuelan crisis and what the next steps for the US and Brazil will be?
Cedê Silva: We can only speculate on what was discussed during the visit to the CIA. So far, Brazil has a strong non-military intervention stance in Venezuela and I don't see any reason this would change. There's no interest for Brazil to risk its soldiers in order to force a regime change in Venezuela. What's more concrete is that our Justice minister Sergio Moro visited the FBI and signed an agreement for the mutual exchange of biometric data. So the two countries are improving their cooperation on fighting crime.
Sputnik: Donald Trump claimed that he will look "very, very strongly" at supporting Brazilian NATO membership. Would this increase the potential for military confrontation between Brazilian and Venezuelan forces?
Cedê Silva: So far, Brazil has been invited to become what NATO calls "Partners across the globe", a status which includes countries such as Colombia and Japan and grants preferential access to purchase US military equipment and technology. This also includes training, exercises, and the support for a few operations such as to counter piracy, but does not make them full-fledged members. President Trump did say he would "talk to a few people" to see Brazil becoming a full NATO member but this is far-fetched, from all sides. Once again, no matter the result, I don't see any potential for military confrontation between Brazilian and Venezuelan forces because Brazil has no interest in risking blood and treasure for regime change in Venezuela.
Sputnik: What are the expectations of ordinary Brazilians from Bolsonaro's trip to the US? How are Bolsonaro's economic advisers planning to reform the Brazilian economy?
Cedê Silva: From my experience working closely on this question, what most Brazilians would like to see is a visa waiver for tourists to visit the US, which is very unlikely to happen, if ever. The ordinary Brazilian will be happy if the unilateral visa waiver President Bolsonaro just granted to Americans and a few other nationalities helps bring tourists and create jobs in Brazil. Regarding the second question, our Economy Minister Paulo Guedes recently presented to Congress a very ambitious pension reform, which is necessary for Brazil not to become the next Greece. The debate will be intense because we have an elite caste of wealthy public workers who oppose it, but hopefully, Brazilians will push their elected officials to approve it this year.
One big victory President Bolsonaro will bring back home is President Trump's support for Brazil to join the OECD, a longstanding Brazilian ambition. Soon Brazil will have larger seat on the table where several important public policies are discussed. | 2019-04-26T02:40:05 | https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201903211073411882-brazil-trump-bolsonaro-oecd/ |
0.999791 | MS Were there other contenders to Jules Verne?
SC The ‘loose’ parameters that Berny and I had set to aid us in selecting the book turned out to be rather counterproductive. There were no other contenders, because we had unwittingly rejected all options through our process of elimination. We stumbled upon The Mysterious Island at a juncture where we were contemplating abandoning the search completely.
BT We didn't approach this project wanting to tackle any specific author or narrative. We went around the bookstore looking for something that fit the parameters that we were developing as we were searching. The Mysterious Island was the last book that we picked up at the end of a 2-hour search, and we really chose it regardless of the author and not with any real desire to read it. The fact that Jules Verne relies on a lot of pseudo-science, which lends itself to our diagrammatic approach, was more of a happy coincidence than anything else.
MS: Has diagramming the novel changed the way that you visualize the novel while reading? Not only in the sense that you’re looking for elements to diagram, but also how you imagine the book as you’re reading it. Does this happen with other fiction your read?
SC: Reading is hardly ever a visual experience for me; not in a tangible sense, anyway. When I read I usually just experience abstracted flashes of color. Nothing is completely embodied. Diagramming the novel (and other texts) actually aids me in seeing and better engaging with the content.
BT: We gave a talk about this project recently, and someone asked us if we were enjoying the book. I said, “We're not enjoying the book, but we're enjoying the project.” At this point, I'm reading the novel with the explicit goal of trying to formulate a diagram, or rather with the hope that something, even a sentence, would strike me as diagrammatic. If I were to verbalize what is happening in my mind as I read it, it's almost as if flashes of a graph, table, illustration, or set of data forms vaguely and then quickly disintegrate as I eliminate each option. Simultaneously, I’m visualizing the characters on top of a mountain, in their cavern, on the beach, hunting animals… Of course, sometimes it’s a complete blank.
With this project, I am deliberately searching for data sets or latent systems, but not so with other fiction. In fact, when reading fiction, I find myself craving the sensation of being lost in a narrative rather than trying to construct a meta-narrative. However, I have previously read texts where I would feel some connection to a diagrammatic potential. Prior to Isle-to-Isle, I've used the visual language of diagrams to interpret T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse. With these two examples, what I felt was really something very implicit and inherent. For Isle-to-Isle, the medium of data visualization was decided upon before the actual reading of the text, which sometimes makes it difficult for me to force a system onto or out of the text.
MS: Have you thought about reversing the process, i.e. generating text narratives based on your diagrams? I’m thinking about the question in two different ways. The first would be just to hand some of these graphs to a writer and have her intuitively construct a narrative to fit your data. The second way is more automated but already happens to a certain degree in journalism, with algorithms using GIS data to generate earthquake and weather reports. Is that something you've considered?
SC This is an interesting proposition and actually highlights one of my favorite aspects of the project – visual, conceptual and material heterogeneity. As this is a personal project, neither of us have any obligation to ‘correctly’ represent the information by any means, which gives us a lot of freedom to experiment. This idiosyncrasy in output provides different entry points by which others access the narrative, subverting the pedagogical tendencies of graphs and maps. Berny especially has been quite adept in using different materials to physically build her diagrams.
In relation to the first scenario, the mercurial nature in which we communicate the data we have gathered/identified creates incongruity that would be difficult for a writer to synthesize. Due to the ambiguity of language and the changeable nature of words, subjective interpretation is an inherent by-product of the analysis of qualitative information; for as John Berger says, “we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.” This is not so much of a predicament as it is exciting. The aforementioned writer when faced with our highly inaccurate diagrams might intuitively fabricate a narrative that far surpasses the original.
Generating the diagrams algorithmically would facilitate uniformity in visual output and greater statistical/quantitative accuracy. However, as a means of storytelling, this is hardly effective. In the hopes of maintaining objectivity, I had initially wanted all my diagrams to have a consistent style. In retrospect, I am glad I was unsuccessful; the affective quality that exists as a result of our digression in the representation and reception of the text would probably have been compromised as a result.
BT I haven’t thought about this reverse process, but I’ve considered an extension of this project that relates a little to what you’re saying. I would love to do a final infographic that analyses all of my own diagrams across the 50 weeks. In that sense, I would be trying to discover a narrative within my creations – what could the diagrams say about this period in my life, or how my relationship with the novel changed over time? How was I responding to Sher’s ideas? On the other hand, our aesthetics change so much from week to week that I suspect that I wouldn’t be able to put together a cohesive narrative, or even assess any kind of pattern.
MS Now that you’re roughly halfway through, how has your approach changed toward the project?
SC When we started the project, I used to work on the diagrams at the beginning of the week. However, at about 24–25 weeks in, I now read the 10 pages an hour or two before the time to submit. I find that my capacity to problem-solve is better within a shorter time frame. Although, I must admit, when the diagrams don’t appear by midnight on Sunday, it’s usually my fault.
BT In the first few weeks, I was approaching the narrative like an average reader. I really wanted to experience the story first and foremost, and then generate the diagram later. This was something that set my approach apart from Sher’s initially; she was mining data from the outset. I do still want to follow the story now that I’m invested in it, but I’m finding it difficult to maintain the empathy that I once had for the characters. I don’t think this is because of the project, but because of certain issues of power and colonisation that have emerged in the narrative, and with which I’m growing increasingly uncomfortable. Nevertheless, I still use those emotions to drive my generation of the diagrams.
To be honest, I don’t think I went into Isle-to-Isle with any expectations. I half-knew that anything could happen, and I think it really shows in my diagrams. One week I might spend half-an-hour sketching something on graph paper, another week I’m embroidering, and another week I’m doing a mega-diagram comprised of twenty smaller diagrams. I don’t put too much pressure on myself to create something amazing every week. So it’s quite difficult to say that my approach has morphed from one thing to another, since there are so many factors that could affect me each week – how busy or stressed I am, what artwork or design style is stuck in my head, what Sher did the previous week, whether or not I feel like designing something purely descriptive or illustrative, etc.
MS Could you select a graph from later on in the project and describe how it was made? Maybe you can contrast that with some of your earlier graphs.
SC It was during the 17th week of Isle-to-Isle that I began to view the project as more than a design exercise. That week, I had attended the MoMa PS1 Art Book Fair and had purchased a book from Sternberg Press entitled Speculative Drawing by Armen Avanessian and Andreas Topfer. Reading it put me on a different thought trajectory altogether. I decided to draw my diagram freehand, something that I had avoided doing despite Berny’s encouragement to do so in earlier weeks. My motivations for rendering the diagram in this way are articulated within the surrounding text around the drawings (done in blue ink and watercolor). This diagram illustrates how “design… has the potential to be a powerful conduit for speculative dreaming – cultivating a more organic process of thought.” Instead of being preoccupied with systemizing the data or the accuracy of representation. I explore the potentials of the text as catalyst for new ideas, experimenting with non-digital media in an attempt to liberate my methods and preconceived notions of how to visualize and interact with information.
BT My diagram from Week 22 was the most structurally ambitious, even though I probably spent a longer time on my embroidered diagram from Week 16. I had a lot of emotions reading those ten pages – the characters’ base had been invaded by apes, and they ended up killing all of the apes except one, whom they trained to be their servant. It just seemed really disgusting to me and too reminiscent of the indiscriminate, holier-than-thou attitude of white colonists, and particularly hypocritical considering they were supposed to be abolitionists! So I broke down the conflict between man and ape into a 10-stage system that mirrors colonial attitudes. I visualized each stage with a mini-diagram using only lines and geometric shapes, to attempt to convey a very essential type of cruelty and power struggle.
Again, it’s difficult to pit a later graph against an earlier graph, because my approach differs from week to week. I used the same technique of sketches on graph paper in Weeks 1, 6, and 23. But I would definitely compare my diagram from Week 22 to the one from Week 8. It also tackles the issues of power dynamics and colonisation, as the characters climb to the top of a mountain and manage to survey, map, and lay claim to the island. In this case, I discuss how knowledge – represented by a line circumscribing a previously undefined mass – can be an important element of control. I’m fairly sure that I’ll keep returning to these themes as we progress, devising different (but not necessarily better) methods of visualization. I don’t think the point of our project is to get better, or to evolve. It is really to experiment.
MS Do you see this project as an “interesting experiment,” something that's served its purpose but is relatively limited in its application? Or is this something that's more scalable, where elements of the project can be integrated in your own future design practice or the design practices of others?
SC I think at the back of our minds, Berny and I always had bigger aspirations for the project. We believe in its potential to take on a more consummate form and have toyed around with compiling our collective diagrams into a book or exhibition. Given the changeable nature of the project, we are trying not to confine ourselves to any concrete assumptions about the final output and will wait until all 50 diagrams are done before deciding what direction to take.
This project has been an extremely humbling experience for me, forcing me to rethink and confront certain biases within my own design practice. It has opened my mind to the endless approaches toward qualitative information and how to manifest it. I gradually weaned myself off a self-imposed stipulation of specificity that caused me so much grief at the start of the project. The issue of ‘subjectivity,’ which I had initially considered to be an impairment in my processing of the information, I now view as an illuminating tool, a way to ‘embody new perspectives’ within the text.
I always thought that prerequisites of ‘good design’ were responsibility, resolution and functionality. However, my measure of that success for that utilitarian agenda has extended into something more ambiguous. Design is equally as effective if it can become a catalyst for new ideas through a process of inspiration and speculation rather than indoctrination.
BT I don't know if this will have any practical application on a larger scale, but I certainly feel that the project implies a degree of openness and possibility about both reading classics and visualizing data. These are acts that are understood to be very academic in their own ways, and we're overturning those expectations by insisting on our very personal interpretations of the text. I don't think the point of this project is to say that we should apply diagrams to literature, but that we can expand what it means to read and interpret a text or a set of data.
I will probably not have what you call a design practice. Sher is primarily a designer, while I am and will be juggling multiple roles in the visual arts. Designing is just something I do on the side, and I do integrate design elements into my art. I have been exploring this idea of designing diagrams about things you wouldn't really think to represent in diagrams, like my emotions and memories, but this is the first time that I've really used a suite of diagrams as a representation of an ongoing, malleable experience.
What I'm really absorbing from this project is that it gives me the outlet to create while relieving the pressure to create. This is something that will probably be important to me down the road, as I balance different responsibilities. I'll likely come up with different "assignments" for myself in order to keep creating without necessarily pursuing a full-blown art practice, and even better if I can find a collaborator like Sher, to whom I can be accountable. The other thing about this kind of project is that I don't have to be the artist that is looking to create a new Gesamtkunstwerk. I don't know if my diagrams are art, and I don't know what they'll look like at Week 48, 49, 50, but I know that I'll still be making something at Week 48, 49, 50. I find this structure much more liberating than if I had an infinite amount of time to work in a studio.
SS First, a little backstory. How did you guys decide to work together, and how did this (very) specific idea come about? Also, why the decision to look to a singular source (for such a prolonged period of time) to create your own material?
SC I wanted to learn how to collaborate with other people, because it was a life skill that I believed that I lacked. Working with Berny seemed like the perfect starting point because she is far more efficient and responsible than I am, which gives me an inexplicable sense of security. We had both dealt with qualitative information in our personal work but in different ways. We wanted to work on a project where we would have creative autonomy, yet still maintain a reciprocal relationship. The singular source was to maintain commonality, providing a baseline by which to make work.
BT Sher and I had crossed paths a few times, both in Singapore and in New York. I found out that she had started doing information design when she shared her projects on Facebook, and it really resonated with my own artistic explorations of the visual language of diagrams. But I feel like the first time we truly connected over our shared interest in data visualisation was when she came to my senior open studios and saw the work that I had produced. We had a really intense and engaging conversation about my work and how it related to and differed from her own.
A couple weeks later, we met up to discuss the possibility of a collaboration. I think any discussion of a collaboration begins with the identification of overlapping interests, and we thought about how we had both done visualizations of literature. Over the course of dinner, we decided that it would be interesting to see what would happen if two people with similar interests but different approaches tried to visualize the exact same source material. If I remember correctly, we brought in the other elements of the project, such as the year-long time frame and the web element, because they were aspects that we hadn't yet fully explored in our own work. We also wanted to be able to do a substantial project without it feeling massive. Breaking it down into regular small parts just seemed the most logical thing.
SS How do you guys manage to read 10 pages of this novel, then process it AND create a diagram every week on top of your real-world commitments? Where do you draw your energy from, what are your rituals, and what do you hold sacred?
SC My real-world commitments are what fuel me to generate my diagram on a weekly basis. I work better under duress, so having a limited amount of time to create the diagram forces me to think harder and faster. I have tried giving myself a looser time frame, but that’s actually slowed the process more. Call it masochistic, but I think I enjoy the self-imposed deadline and the liberty to disregard it.
BT It's certainly tough, but I never view it as a chore. It's a challenge, but never a chore. This project is basically a creative and intellectual exercise for me; it's what constitutes my art practice right now. Sometimes, if I have too much to do, or if I'm just too worn out to get my diagram out on time, I choose a really simple idea or technique, or we post our diagrams late. So there's always this degree of leeway, but I'm also committed to generating each diagram.
Regarding rituals, I don't really have a pattern, but try to focus on my instinct. It needs to feel fundamentally true to my reading experience. What really strikes me about that set of 10 pages, whether diagrammatically, emotionally, or intellectually? For example, some incidents in it do rile me up or really bother me, and I become obsessed with trying to represent it fully in order to bring out themes that I don't think Jules Verne intended, but rather took for granted. If nothing sticks out when I first read it, I just read it again and again until something grabs me. Some weeks, I struggle so much that I come up with the idea within an hour or two of our official deadline (midnight on Sunday).
SS What are your fears as creators and how do you respond to those?
SC I don’t consider myself a creator as much as a respondent. Perhaps the distinctions are marginal, but I do not feel as if I am creating, so much as repurposing existing information into a new form.
BT Within the context of the project, I'm worried that I'm being too easy on myself as much as I'm worried about being too ambitious and then falling short of that ambition. It depends on the material for the week. But the great thing about Isle-to-Isle and the brevity of 10 pages/week is that I get to relieve the pressure creating the best and fullest representation of the material. Even if one week isn't as good as another, it's still a good indication of either my connection or lack thereof to the material, or external circumstances that influenced my reading of the novel (which is still a part of our reading experiences).
Broadly speaking, I fear that I won't keep up the momentum of creating. Even though I'll be working in the arts, I am concerned that I won't be able to keep up even some semblance of a practice. I think this project, with a low-impact yet long-term commitment, reinforces how I can continue creating while balancing it with all my other responsibilities.
SS I'm also curious to hear your thoughts on putting your own work out there.
SC It was a little daunting at first, given that mining for data out of fragments of narrative means that neither the information gathered nor the diagrams made is entirely comprehensive. I have had to let go of many preconceived biases and a pathological need to resolve everything. Things became a lot easier when I stopped thinking in terms of absolutes.
BT I'm don't have strong feelings about this one way or the other, probably because I made a decision after I finished junior college (JC) to start a blog where I would post every "creative endeavor," no matter how trivial. Even if it was a silly doodle or just one photo, I wanted to hold myself accountable to the process of creating and documenting creation. I do find that after going through art school, I've become much more particular about the presentation of my artwork online. With Isle-to-Isle, however, it's pretty much a given that some of my diagrams won't be as good as they could be, and since that's within the parameters of the project, it doesn't bother me.
SS How do you guys go about forging community for yourselves?
SC Weekly updates about the project on our personal social media channels is probably as far as we have gone in sharing the project with our friends. We made a Facebook page so that people could see the process behind the final product and as a way for friends to keep track how the project was progressing. Unfortunately, I think much more of the ‘forging’ has landed in Berny’s hands because I am no longer engaged with most of my social media.
BT By collaborating with people who have similar interests, much like with this project! In all seriousness, I find that I connect best with people one-on-one. There's all sorts of psychological baggage about group settings that I won't get into here, but it honestly feels rejuvenating to be able to engage with an person on a really deep and personal level. My community right now is really a support system made up of these individual buttresses.
For example, I think Sher and I are very different people with very different personalities and interests, but somehow we've forged a very meaningful friendship, which was built on the foundation of Isle-to-Isle and which is reflected in the processes and outcomes of this project. Crucially, our partnership means we have to be accountable to someone other than ourselves, which is always a great motivator. Community does emerge out of shared experiences; I think back to how close I was and still am with my JC art classmates because of our two years together making art in the same physical space.
I'm in a weird intermediate phase of my life, where I'm only planning to be in New York for another half a year before moving back to Singapore. It's quite difficult to think about forging a community in a state of impermanence. I think it was really important for me to continue my friendships with people back in Singapore, and to also start forging connections with acquaintances who share similar aspirations, or even similar roots (in Singapore or in Asia). I would say that I'm laying the groundwork for a future community or group of communities that I hope will continue to grow and interweave.
SS What's next? Project-wise, and in life?
SC Project-wise, Berny and I have been toying around with the idea of the book. The stylistic incongruence of the diagrams might be a nice visual accompaniment to the text. I do not believe that the site is the best way to highlight the relationships between diagram and text. Although I will admit that this impediment has influenced the design of the diagrams to some degree. I think that, having the work culminate in a physical embodiment will lend something to the way the work can be experienced.
BT We still have about half of Isle-to-Isle to go, and I think it's just going to get more and more interesting each week. The novel is a slow-burning one, but it's building up to a big reveal, which will hopefully mean a change of pace. Sher and I have been vaguely talking about trying to get word of our project out there, and also thinking about applying for grants so that we could design a book or present an exhibition based on the project. At the end of the project, I do want to design an overarching diagram that analyses all our (or at least my) diagrams that were generated for the project. I'm actually concerned about whether the end of Isle-to-Isle will leave a void in my life! I hope I'll be able to fill that void with another collaborative project.
As mentioned, I'll be leaving New York mid-next year for Singapore. In the meantime, I'm really trying to absorb as much out of New York as I can by doing a number of arts-related internships, before I go back home to get a real, paying job (probably in an art museum). | 2019-04-25T20:09:25 | http://isle-to-isle.space/interviews/ |
0.999999 | How do I Calculate Density?
Density is the mass of an object divided by its volume.
Density often has units of grams per cubic centimeter (g/cm3). Remember, grams is a mass and cubic centimeters is a volume (the same volume as 1 milliliter).
Density is a fundamental concept in the sciences; you will see it throughout your studies. It is used quite often in identifying rocks and minerals since the density of substances rarely changes significantly. For example, gold will always have a density of 19.3 g/cm3; if a mineral has a density other than that, it isn't gold.
You probably have an intuitive feeling for density in the materials you use often. For example, sponges are low in density; they have a low mass per unit volume. You are not surprised when a large sponge is easy to lift. In contrast, iron is dense. If you pick up an iron skillet, you expect it to be heavy.
Students, and even teachers, often confuse mass and density. The words heavy and light on their own refer to mass, and not density. A very large sponge may weigh a lot (have a high mass), but its density is low because it still weighs very little per unit of volume. For density, you also need to consider the size, or volume, of the object.
How do I determine density?
Density is not something that is directly measured. Typically if you want to know the density of something you will weigh it and then measure its volume.
You collect a boulder and take it back to the lab, where you weigh it and find its mass to be 1000 g. You then determine the volume is 400 cm3. What is your boulder's density?
In this case the mass is 1000g and the volume is 400 cm3, so you divide 1000g by 400 cm3 to get 2.5 g/cm3.
Another tricky thing about density is that you can't add densities. If I have a rock that is made up of two minerals, one with a density of 2.8 g/cm3, and one with a density of 3.5 g/cm3, the rock will have a density between 3.5 and 2.8 g/cm3, not a density of 6.3 g/cm3. This is because both the mass and the volume of the two minerals will be added, and so when they are divided to get the density the result will be between the two.
Typical densities for gasses are on the order of thousandths of grams per cubic centimeter. Liquids often have densities of about 1.0 g/cm3, and indeed, fresh water has a density of 1.0 g/cm3. Rocks often have a density around 3 g/cm3, and metals often have densities above 6 or 7 g/cm3.
How do I calculate specific gravity?
Because the density of water in g/cm3 is 1.0, the SG of an object is will be almost the same as its density in g/cm3. However, specific gravity is a unitless number, and is the same in the metric system or any other measurement system. It is very useful when comparing the density of two objects. Since specific gravity is unitless, it doesn't matter whether the density was measured in g/cm3 or in some other units (like lbs/ft3).
You have a sample of basalt with density 210 lbs/ft3. The density of water is 62.4 lbs/ft3. What is the specific gravity of the basalt?
So we divide the basalt (210 lbs/ft3) by the density of water (62.4 lbs/ft3), and get S.G.= 3.37.
Why should I calculate density or specific gravity?
Have you wondered why hot air balloons rise? When the air is heated, it becomes less dense until the balloon's total density is less than that of the atmosphere; A hot air balloon is literally floating on the denser, colder air.
Do you know why volcanoes erupt?
This huge boat weighs a lot, but it its density must be less than 1.0 g/cm3 because it is floating.
The main reason that magma rises to the surface to erupt at volcanoes is because it is less dense than the rocks that surround it.
A ship floating on water is a great illustration of the difference between mass and density. A ship must have a density of less than 1.0 g/cm3(the density of water), or it will sink. Ships have a large mass, because they are made of steel, but because they have a large volume, their density is less than 1.0 g/cm3. If enough mass is added to them such that their density goes above 1.0 g/cm3, they will sink.
To try some practice problems, go to the sample problem page!
Where is density used in the geosciences?
I still need more help!(See the links below for more help with density).
Edinformatics on-line lab on mass, volume and density is put together by NYU. It allows you to look at pictures of measurements and to enter data.
Hyperphysics, at the Georgia State has a page about density and a density converter. This includes several related pages including instructions of measuring density using the Archimedes principle.
Wikipedia's specific gravity page has an explanation of what specific gravity is and how it is used and even discusses its use in the geosciences and mineralogy. However, the content of Wikipedia articles may change and so you may want to be cautious.
Wikipedia's Density page has a general discussion of density and its history, calculation, and units. However, the content of Wikipedia articles may change and so you may want to be cautious. | 2019-04-25T04:47:58 | https://serc.carleton.edu/mathyouneed/density/index.html |
0.999991 | The Company announces that it has today repurchased 133,694 Ordinary shares into Treasury at 89.66 pence per share.
Following the transaction the Company holds 86,928,303 Ordinary shares in Treasury. The remaining shares in issue less the total number of Treasury shares is 129,913,492. | 2019-04-20T06:23:32 | https://investegate.co.uk/jpmorgan-glbl-con-in--jgci-/rns/transaction-in-own-shares/201811081711258384G/ |
0.997484 | One key hypothesis I arrived at early on in my research was that intermediation was an increasingly strategic and systemically necessary function for the global economy that took off in the 1980s (Sassen, 1991/2001, 2012; Sassen-Koob, 1982). This in turn led me to generate the hypothesis about a need for specific types of spaces: spaces for the making of intermediate instruments and capabilities. One such strategic space concerned the instruments needed for outsourcing jobs, something I examined in my first book. But what began to emerge in the 1980s was on a completely different scale of complexity and diversity of economic sectors: It brought with it the making of a new type of city formation. I called it the global city – an extreme space for the production and/or implementation of very diverse and very complex intermediate capabilities. This did not refer to the whole city. I posited that the global city was a production function inserted in complex existing cities, albeit a function with a vast shadow effect over a city’s larger space. In that earlier period of the 1980s, the most famous cases illustrating the ascendance of intermediate functions were the big mergers and acquisitions. What stood out to the careful observer was how rarely the intermediaries lost. The financiers, lawyers, accountants, credit rating agencies, and more, made their money even when the new mega-firm they helped make eventually failed. Finance became the mother of all intermediate sectors, with firms such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan making enormous profits, followed at a distance by the specialized lawyers and accountants. From the early phase dominated by mergers and acquisitions, intermediation has spread to a growing number of sectors. This also included modest or straightforward sectors: For instance, most flower sellers or coffee shops are now parts of chains, they only do the selling of the flowers or the coffee, and it is headquarters that do the accounting, lawyering, acquisition of basic inputs, etc. Once, those smaller shops took care of the whole range of items; they were a modest knowledge space. Intermediation can now be thought of as a variable that at one end facilitates the globalizing of firms and markets and at the other end brings into its envelope very modest consumer oriented firms. It also contributes to explaining the expansion in the number of global cities and their enormous diversity in terms of specialized knowledges.
Beginning from a concern with how relational perspectives being developed within economic geography might contribute in important ways to relational understandings of global cities and the world city network, in this introductory chapter we outline a renewed critical agenda for global cities research that attends to issues of agency and practice in the making of global cities. We see the future development of this agenda as having four crucial elements: first, a need to incorporate perspectives on agency and practice from relational economic geography into global cities research; second, a need to specify the practices underlying global city making; third, a need to recognize the diversity of actors involved in global city making; and, finally, a need to account for the role of actors and practices not only in the making but also in the un-making of global cities.
This chapter is about understanding the role that commodity traders play in the world city network. Commodity trade is crucial in shaping economic globalization, both in the form of physical exchange of goods and in the form of financial transactions. Some older geographical thoughts on the role of traders and trade in shaping urban fortunes, most notably the work of James Vance (1970), are presented. These insights are confronted with a detailed overview of the contemporary practices of commodity traders in coordinating global supply chains and transactions, effectively linking various markets and places across time and space. The main hypothesis we induce is that in order for commodity traders to act as global agents they prefer the concentrated agglomeration benefits offered by (world) cities.
There is a growing awareness in urban social science of the importance of commercial real estate as a medium by which large cities are embedded within global capital networks. This trend is most pronounced in the office markets of international financial centres and has become more marked with increasing globalization of commercial real estate. Nuances of market processes can be lost in over-simplistic categorizations such as ‘international financial capital’ or ‘property developers’. Diversity in the nature of office investors leads to substantial differences in the motivations for building international portfolios and in impacts for the cities concerned. This chapter provides a detailed examination of the City of London office market, drawing on a unique database tracing office ownership over some 40 years. The changing tides of ownership, from predominantly local domestic to over 60 per cent non-UK owned in 2014, are linked to transformations of the City of London economy.
In the commercial real estate markets of New York and London, transaction costs are high due to the private nature of the markets, the heterogeneity of real assets, and the time it takes to acquire and dispose of property. Broker intermediaries provide knowledge of the asset, the market and the counterparty to the transaction and by doing so can increase trust between parties and improve market efficiency. However, the unique practice of intermediation observed in London wherein both seller and buyer typically retain broker representation can create significantly higher transaction costs compared to New York. Moreover, when two broker intermediaries ‘work a deal’, a ‘tri-dyad’ network structure forms in which those who work between become privy to all aspects of the investment, which creates a significant informational advantage for the intermediaries. The system of double brokerage creates a ‘tertius gaudens’ effect.
Transnational urban space-making has been discussed either in the context of corporate impacts on global cities or of transnational urbanism in the migration literature. This chapter brings together these two research strands and discusses the dual role of transnational professionals in global city making as both decision-making business practitioners in transnational corporations and also individuals with transnational social-spatial practices as specific transmigrants themselves. It is based on data deriving from 45 semi-structured interviews with transnational financial professionals accompanied partly by mental maps drawn by them, and complemented by expert interviews with real estate agencies as well as a group interview with Tokyoite peers. The chapter sheds new light on a so far neglected aspect of global city making by presenting empirical evidence on transnational professionals and their dual space-making process as micro-level actors embedded in the global cities network.
This chapter investigates how the offshore services industry contributes to processes of global city making in India’s financial capital, Mumbai. It looks for synergies between the city’s offshore services sector and its onshore financial services sector, nursing the idea that the latter should be regarded as Mumbai’s main ‘global city maker’, and exploring the hypothesis that the offshore services sector contributes to global city making mainly by supporting the functioning of the city’s onshore finance sector. The chapter shows that while operational interactions between Mumbai’s offshore and onshore financial services sectors are limited and while the offshore services activities themselves do not accumulate commanding powers in global production networks, it is through human capital formation, auxiliary services upgrading, financial services demand creation, and reputation-building that the offshore services industry fosters the city’s onshore finance sector and thus indirectly, yet meaningfully, contributes to the making of Mumbai as a global city.
Maritime industries are very important enablers of global trade: ports have already been coined ‘frontline soldiers of globalisation’ (Ducruet and Lee, 2006), and global cities are often port cities. Likewise, port institutions can be viewed as ideal global city makers, in the way they are targeting global flows for serving local interests. In this context, this chapter explores the city and the port of Hamburg, Germany. As a paradigmatic case of local–global governance, the Albert Ballin Konsortium is discussed, which was founded in 2008 in order to ensure local stakes in the Hapag-Lloyd shipping line and to avoid its takeover by a global competitor. The chapter discusses the conflict between the increasing de-coupling of maritime services from the traditional mainport and local political strategies. The research reveals the not so common case of a somehow reluctant global (port) city, due to the city makers’ strong concern for local interests.
This chapter examines the effects of advanced producer services on ABN AMRO’s corporate strategy leading up to the bank’s failure in 2007. Our historical reconstruction reveals how consultancy-inspired narratives about globalization, consolidation and shareholder value structured the bank’s geographies of risk and opportunity. Located in Amsterdam, a second-tier global city, ABN AMRO acted upon interpretations of a worldwide merger and acquisition craze that was framed as ‘the global endgame’. This narrative legitimized shareholder-value-inspired reorganizations and valuation metrics that contributed to the bank’s eventual demise. The chapter shows how multinational corporations, facing shareholder pressure, utilize strategic management consultancy narratives to legitimize their decisions to stakeholders. Yet, the bank’s eventual failure also illustrates the limits to the agency of global city makers such as bankers and consultants as this agency is constrained by credibility in financial markets and wider positionality in a system of financial centres. | 2019-04-21T02:13:05 | https://www.elgaronline.com/search?f_0=series&page=5&pageSize=10&q_0=New+Horizons+in+Regional+Science+series&sort=relevance&t=Geography_Main_ID |
0.999999 | Context: After several years of planning and deliberations, AMS members approved a fee for the construction of a new $110M Student Union Building (SUB) to be built on University Square. This event marked a shift in priorities toward a more student-centred campus core. The implementation process included four key stages – Facility and Functional Planning, Architectural and Engineering Design, Construction, and Move-In. The AMS hired Cornerstone Planning Group to assist with consultation and analysis and to produce a Facility Program report to guide the architectural and engineering design process towards an appropriate concept for the new SUB.
Approach: The intention of the planning process was to make sure that the new SUB could support the mission of the AMS – “to improve the quality of the educational, social, and personal lives of the students of UBC”. The key to achieving this objective was to fully understand the kinds of services, programs, activities, and events to be accommodated in the new SUB and then derive suitable estimates of the amount and kind of space needed to support these functions and how the spaces need be organized to provide a supportive and positive environment. A series of workshops, meetings, displays, and informal surveys were conducted over several months to obtain student views on objectives and priorities. A SUB Project page was set up on the AMS website to keep everyone up to date on the study process and provide opportunities to submit questions and comments.
Results: Cornerstone completed the Facility Program on schedule allowing the project to move forward on schedule. | 2019-04-25T07:45:15 | http://cornerplan.com/projects/strategic-planning/facility-programs/university-of-bc-sub-renewal-facility-program/ |
0.999979 | Rev 12:1 - A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Rev 12:2 - She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.
Rev 12:3 - Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.
Rev 12:4 - Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.
Rev 12:5 - She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”[fn] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
Rev 12:6 - The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
Rev 12:7 - Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
Rev 12:8 - But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.
Rev 12:9 - The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Rev 12:10 - Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
Rev 12:11 - They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
Rev 12:13 - When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
Rev 12:14 - The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.
Rev 12:15 - Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.
Rev 12:16 - But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
Rev 12:17 - Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus. | 2019-04-26T06:11:45 | https://www.blueletterbible.org/niv/rev/12/8/s_1179008 |
0.99964 | You can use this exercise as a fun team-building activity or as a warm-up session for your delegates. It encourages the delegates to open up and get to know a bit more about each other.
Delegates have a chance to discover similarities and shared interests with their team mates.
Split the group into teams of three or four people. Each team has 5 minutes to find out more about each other. The information includes full names, education and one common interest or goal that they all share.
At the end of 5 minutes, one person from each team should introduce his or her team mates to the group and explain the benefit of their shared interest in 2 minutes.
Explaining the Test: 5 minutes.
Rate = 2.8 out of 5 :::: 15 Ratings. | 2019-04-21T16:36:36 | https://www.skillsconverged.com/FreeTrainingMaterials/tabid/258/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/587/Icebreaker-Common-Interest.aspx |
0.999453 | What were the birth names of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) was born V. I. Ulyanov.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein.
Josef Stalin (1879-1953) was born Josef Dzhugashvili. | 2019-04-21T09:15:53 | https://answersuniverse.com/what-were-the-birth-names-of-lenin-trotsky-and-stalin/ |
0.999999 | As the days become shorter and the nights become longer we turn our thoughts to snow clearing. Due to budget cuts, the Big Noisy City has exactly one snow plow. The plow can clear exactly one lane of a road in a single pass. Whenever there is snow on the ground, the plow departs from its hangar and tours the city, plowing as it goes. What is the minimum time that the plow needs to clear every lane of every road?
The first line of input contains two integers: the x,y coordinates of the hangar (in metres). Up to 100 lines follow. Each gives the coordinates (in metres) of the beginning and end of a street. All roads are perfectly straight, with one lane in each direction. The plow can turn any direction (including a U-turn) at any intersection, and can turn around at the end of any street. The plow travels at 20 km/h if it is plowing, and 50 km/h if the lane it is driving on has already been plowed. It is possible to reach all streets from the hangar.
Your output should be the time, in hours and minutes, required to clear the streets and return to the hangar. Round to the nearest minute. | 2019-04-20T21:16:25 | https://www.acmicpc.net/problem/4363 |
0.999167 | Comedienne Michelle Wolf launched her new Netflix series The Break on Sunday and wastes no time in recent headlines with the NFL, the #Metoo movement, and the royal wedding. Their controversial presentation at the Correspondents Dinner of the White House was also addressed.
The Daily Show became a topic of conversation among the news analysts at the end of April, resulting in a joke she made at the expense of Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Much of the criticism came from those who missed the point they wanted to try completely; What they interpreted as the spokeswoman's appearance was a commentary on the idea that she lies in the name of the president ("She burns facts and then she uses the ashes to create a perfect smoky eye, maybe she was born with it maybe it's lying. [ Break ] It's probably lying. "
The alleged controversy was one of the many things Wolf addressed in the series premiere of her new show, her short but pointed answer coming in the middle "It was not a gaze-based joke for the record," she said, "that was her ugly personality, she has the Mario Batali of personalities." The episode, in a section on what it means to be a feminist Writing about herself as a "sports smash," Desk Piece found that Wolf had the idea that all women must support each other to call themselves feminists, and what followed was a list of five women she did not want to support right now, including newly appointed CIA director Gina Haspel ("Who Knew a Glass Ceiling to Fracture?") and Bill Cosby's Devoted Ms. Camille ("Oh, you have your husband supported? What is the plan after? Start a supergroup with Dottie Sandusky? "
1; and then, if you're convinced, these Refs have good eyesight and can make the right call to see if they might want to become a cop Think about it: Refs can see things, they are not threatened by black men, and their reaction to sudden movement is simply to throw a flag, or another solution is that we can stop it, black ones Killing people and avenging us for centuries of deep-rooted racism in our society I do not know, I'm just thinking aloud. "
* At the Miss USA contest erb: "This year, participants shared their #MeToo experiences in recorded videos, which is crazy, because the whole contest is a great # me too. These women literally walk in swimsuits across the stage, so judges can score their bodies and perhaps reward them with money. "
* At the royal wedding," So I have this theory that Prince Harry Meghan Markle in suits and was a fan of her, and now the rest of their relationship shields them from better shows from. He's like, " suits is the best," and she says, "You're right, there are no better shows." And he says, "What did I have about Big Little Lies ? "And she says," No, it's terrible. Ugly people, hard to follow, very few suits. "
The final act of the episode included Late Night with Seth Meyer's & # 39; Amber Ruffin. Together, they and Wolf have berated women who have decided not to have their own families. Wolf concludes, "If babies really were the best job in the world, men would have found a way to do that."
What do you think of The break with Michelle Wolf ? Rate the series premiere on the following poll and make the comments with your responses. | 2019-04-19T04:55:34 | https://newsbeezer.com/michelle-wolf-39-the-break-39-series-premiere-recap-sarah-huckabee-sanders/ |
0.999824 | Vandana Singh's story "Delhi," from the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (remember Matt Cheney's review?), has been nominated for a prize. During the evaluation period, she's made the story available on her website here (expiring link -- so go now, if you're going to go).
I read it, and liked it. The mix of history, speculative thinking, real science, and observations about the chaotic, contradictory city of Delhi seems to have a lot of potential. Is there a novel here?
Staring unseeingly into the bright clamor of the highway, he has a wild idea that, he realizes, has been bubbling under the surface of his consciousness for a while. He recalls a picture he saw once in a book when he was a boy: a satellite image of Asia at night. On the dark bulge of the globe there were knots of light; like luminous fungi, he had thought at the time, stretching tentacles into the dark. He wonders whether complexity and vastness are sufficient conditions for a slow awakening, a coming-to-consciousness. He thinks about Om Prakash, his foolish grin and waggling head, and his strange intimacy with the bees. Will Om Prakash tell him who Pandit Vishwanath really is, and what it means to 'work for the city'� He thinks not. What he must do, he sees at last, is what he has been doing all along: looking out for his own kind, the poor and the desperate, and those who walk with death in their eyes. The city's needs are alien, unfathomable. It is an entity in its own right, expanding every day, swallowing the surrounding countryside, crossing the Yamuna which was once its boundary, spawning satellite children, infant towns that it will ultimately devour. Now it is burrowing into the earth, and even later it will reach long fingers towards the stars.
I won't explain all the reference points here (read the story). Rather, a comment: what seems different (Indian?) in Vandana Singh's style is her juxtaposing of the ongoing reality of poverty in Indian life with the imaginative freedom of speculative metaphors from science.
Warning: the story is kind of hard to read -- some kind of formatting problem.
Also, Vandana Singh's writing main page is here.
2. Hemu (a.k.a. Raja Vikramaditya) was the last Hindu ruler of Delhi in the mid-1500s and not Prithviraj Chauhan as she writes.
Did Napoleon of Medieval India Vikramaditya Maharaja Hemu really belonged to Sasaram of Bihar ?? Was he really a Rauniyar Bania of OBC category ???
In the absence of any historical disclosure one has to go thorough the history of Sher Shah /Adil Shah (of Suri Dynasty) the Ruler of Sasaram to know who Vikramaditya Hemu was ???.
The Strange Case of "Kurban Said" | 2019-04-26T12:25:18 | https://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2005/03/indian-speculative-fiction-writer.html |
0.999708 | Spell-checkers have given all of us a crutch when it comes to writing; we let them fill the gaps in our lacking spelling capabilities.
We've stopped memorizing the phone numbers of friends and family and have given that responsibility over to the contact lists in our cell phones.
I've found myself using yet a new crutch, the iPhone typing auto-complete/correct functionality. In order to compensate for users hitting the wrong keys on the tactile-less soft-keyboard on the iPhone, Apple dropped in some software that determines what I intended to type, even when I screw up a few letters. For example "lrtters" automatically gets converted to "letters" so I don't have to a) either type more slowly to get it right the first time, or b) have to go back and correct the mistake myself.
I can type very fast on the iPhone thanks to this auto-complete/correct feature. I've gotten intentionally lazy at hitting the correct keys because the iPhone is surprisingly good at figuring out what I intended to type anyway. Why should I bother trying to hit the right keys!?
Next step will be building in some contextual and grammatical nuances to the system can auto-correct even the most horribly butchered words.
I don't understand why cafes, by-and-large, in the U.S. skip one of the most important parts of the experience; servers!
Cafes in Europe and Asia have folks dedicated to the cafe tables, whether indoor or out, who take your order, and bus tables. However we don't have this in the U.S. I find it a strange anomaly that we seem to have left it out of our culture.
I'm "making a tape." Well, not really, rather I'm building a playlist in iTunes, but it feels like I'm making a tape; something I used to do when I was a kid. The thing to do was build a compilation of music you liked for a certain person, or occasion, and record each song from one tape to another.
It used to take time and patience and skill as you had to sync the start/stop points on two different analog "tapes" for music recording.
I find it a deeply emotional process. Today's version of it is comprised of dragging/dropping songs I like into a playlist, which doesn't carry the same weight as investing the time in fast-forward/rewind/record to locate the right song to record to the destination tape, but it's still a heavy process.
Each song is a piece of me. Pulling a piece of myself from one place and dropping it in another has always been therapeutic. | 2019-04-24T08:25:02 | http://one.valeski.org/2007/07/ |
0.998628 | A human wave of chanting, sign-waving protesters made their way downtown from the base of Montreal's Mount Royal on Friday as they joined a series of student-led marches around the world demanding that government take action on climate change.
A beating drum signalled the beginning of the march, which spanned several city blocks as thousands of students and other protesters denounced what they see as government's failure to take action to stop an impending climate crisis.
Earlier Friday, students formed human chains around six Montreal high schools, forcing the cancellation of morning classes.
The protesters are demanding stronger government action on climate change, including a law to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Organizers said that under current commitments, the temperature could rise twice that much by 2020.
"Although individual actions are crucial, the fact is that collective and institutional decisions must be taken to reflect the seriousness of the situation," read a statement by a group of university organizers.
"While the student population is investing in education that is costly in money and time, in precarious conditions accentuated by indebtedness, unpaid internships and a culture of competitive performance, climate change is increasingly threatening the future for which they struggle."
The group said 150,000 students were on strike, representing 120 student associations.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna praised the young Canadians participating in the marches and encouraged them to continue taking action for a more sustainable future.
"They know climate change is real, and that the cost of inaction is enormous," she said in a statement.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault also said he was encouraged by the message being sent by Quebec's youth. "We all live on the same planet, and it's an effort we have to do together," he said.
Other climate marches took place in cities including Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Regina and Vancouver, as well as in close to 100 countries around the world.
High school students protested outside of Ontario's legislature in Toronto on Friday afternoon, demanding the government take action to address climate change.
Leilani Rocha, an 18-year-old student from St. Mary's High School in Pickering, Ont., said she's concerned that no level of government is taking the impacts of climate change seriously.
"This is an emergency," she said. "We need extreme change and to actually take action right now."
Rocha said she hopes the collective protests across the country send a message that youth are ready to make sacrifices in their lives to improve the environment.
"We can't take our cars everywhere," she said. "Sometimes we may need to take the bus or walk or bike. We're okay with that ... but the government needs to realize, because we're okay with that, they need to make legal change." | 2019-04-19T02:21:04 | https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/17/news/quebec-students-join-global-marches-demand-climate-change-action |
0.999974 | In a food processor, combine 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda and salt. Pulse to combine.
Add 1/2 cup cheddar cheese and frozen diced butter. Pulse until combined and the size of small peas. Add milk and process until dough holds together.
Prepare a surface with remaining flour. Pat dough to a 1/2-inch thickness. Cut out 1 1/2-inch circles. Place biscuits on parchment-lined baking sheets.
Bake in oven for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.
Prepare cheese butter spread: Mix 1/4 cup cheese and 2 tablespoons butter. Slice biscuits in half; spread cheese mixture on biscuits. | 2019-04-22T17:02:43 | https://www.aldi.us/en/recipes/sides/breads-rice-pasta/cheddar-cheese-biscuits/ |
0.999999 | The consumer advocate group Commercial Alert entered the debate about buzz marketing Tuesday, with a request to the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether stealth campaigns violate rules against deceptive advertising.
"Fraud is fraud, and a harmless-sounding name such as 'buzz marketing' doesn't change that," states the letter to the FTC.
Commercial Alert focused its disapproval on companies that hire actors to pretend to be consumers. "This is all about shills being required to disclose," Executive Director Gary Ruskin told OnlineMediaDaily.
While the organization is mainly concerned with face-to-face campaigns, online initiatives also could prove problematic, Ruskin said. For instance, an online campaign that involves marketers creating a blog that looks like it's written by a consumer might be troubling "because it would be omitting the key fact that it's a product of the marketing department," Ruskin said.
But some say that such a use of undercover marketers online isn't necessarily unlawful. Doug Wood, a lawyer who heads the advertising and marketing practice at Reed Smith, said the FTC only bars misrepresentations that are material and that would mislead a reasonable consumer. On the other hand, "innocent puffery"--or making subjective and vague claims about a product's superiority--is usually okay.
What would cross the line online? One scenario might involve a pharmaceutical company creating a blog supposedly written by a doctor that touts the medical advantages of a particular drug, said Wood.
On the other hand, he said, a blog that just talked about one product tasting better than another might not be deceptive under federal law, even if the blog was written by professional marketers masquerading as consumers.
Andy Sernovitz, CEO of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, indicated that his organization's ethics code even more strictly prohibits misleading consumers. A phony blog wouldn't pass muster under WOMMA's internal code, he said.
But, he added, even WOMMA's relatively strict ethics code is fuzzy about online campaigns that straddle a line between entertainment and deception. "There's a big list of sticky questions," he said. "One of them is--how do you allow creative freedom in these creative hoaxes and the like?"
For instance, consider this year's McDonald's Lincoln French Fry effort, meant to satirize the auction on eBay of a grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly resembled the Virgin Mary. The McDonald's campaign, which had TV and Web components, involved creating a fake blog by a fictional married couple who discovered a french fry shaped like Abraham Lincoln's profile.
That blog--meant as comedy--potentially falls into a gray ethical area, Sernovitz said. "It's going to take a couple of years to figure this out," he said. But, he added, "if it's obviously entertainment, then there's not a deception issue." | 2019-04-21T00:27:03 | https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/35303/consumer-group-protests-stealth-marketing.html?edition= |
0.999999 | On the TV show "Deal or No Deal", a contestant is faced with a number of briefcases (26 in the US version) in which various amounts of money have been placed. The contestant is asked to select one to keep, unopened. Then the player plays a number of rounds.
In each round, the contestant is asked to select some of the other briefcases to open (usually several in the early rounds, decreasing in number to the later rounds). After seeing what is in the open briefcases, the contestant has a better idea what possible amounts of money could be in his briefcase.
A banker, who has also seen what has been opened, then offers the contestant a sum of money--- usually this offer is smaller than the average of the remaining prizes (significantly so at first, but closer to the average in later rounds). The contestant can either take it, or reject the offer and continue to play another round. The excitement of the game centers around the decision that the contestant faces: "Deal or No Deal?"
What should the contestant do?
The answer depends on what the contestant's view of risk is. In the language of game theory, whether the contestant accepts depends on how risk-averse the contestant is.
We can understand this concept mathematically in the following way: if I gave you the choice between a sure $50 or a 50-50 chance of getting $100 or nothing, which would you take? You are risk-neutral if you are indifferent between the options, because they have the same expected value. You are risk-averse if you would take the sure $50, and risk-loving if you prefer to take the gamble. Thus, on "Deal or No Deal", the banker usually assumes that players are risk-averse, so he lowers the offer so that players will be more likely to take the gamble and continue to play.
Modern utility theory, developed by Von-Neumann and Morganstern, sheds more light on what risk-aversion is. We could ask a different question: given an amount $x, at what probability level p would you be indifferent between a sure $x or a lottery in which you had probability p of getting $100 and probability (1-p) of getting nothing?
Understanding human behavior in terms of utilities and preferences is the subject of game theory, which forms much of the modern language of mathematical economics. See also St Petersburg Paradox.
Su, Francis E., et al. "Deal or No Deal." Math Fun Facts. <http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts>.
An excellent readable text on game theory is Straffin's Game Theory and Strategy. | 2019-04-20T02:24:01 | https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/20002.6-8.shtml |
0.997769 | I've joined a book club! Thinking back, I'm a little shocked that I've never been a part of one before. I'm such a lover of books and have more than I know what to do with, so why have I never joined forces with other readers?
The first book that our little club chose was a new John Grisham thriller, Sycamore Row. It's more or less a sequel to A Time to Kill (didn't read the book, but definitely watched Matthew McConaughey rock it in the movie!), although it reads perfectly well as a stand alone novel.
With quarterly meetings, I think this book club is the perfect addition to my year and will aide in my efforts to read even more than I already do. I'm so excited!
Have you ever been in a book club? If so, what did you like/dislike about it?
I have never been in a book club. I'd love to though!
I was part of a book club before. There were three of us at work who discovered that we were all reading the same book at the same time! So we decided to start a book club. We each invited some friends to join, and we ended up with 8 of us together. It was great; we met once a month, and it lasted for about six months. Eventually it petered out, as we weren't very organized or structured. But it was fantastic! I'd love to be part of a book club again! | 2019-04-25T13:05:33 | http://www.hautewhimsy.com/2014/01/book-club-adventures.html |
0.997744 | Why Is Cardamom Scandinavia's Favorite Spice?
If I had to choose one spice that sums up Swedish baking, it's definitely cardamom. Some of the most classic fika recipes involve cardamom in some way, from yeast cardamom buns to cardamom cake.
The same is true for the rest of Scandinavia; cardamom is a spice that's widely used in Scandinavian baking. In fact, a woman recently told me Finnish cardamom is the best to buy, which I thought was puzzling since, of course, cardamom isn't produced anywhere near Finland.
Cardamom is far from being a local Nordic ingredient. Native to India, the spice is said to date back to the time of the Vikings, when they first encountered the spice in what is now Turkey, where at the time, Constantinople was the bridge between Asia and Europe, and a hub of trading.
Over the years, cardamom has come to be a staple in the Scandinavian baking pantry, so much so that it makes up one of the most significant markets for cardamom export. The entire European Union imports over 1,200 tons of cardamom a year, worth about $6 million, and Sweden tops its lists of leading markets. Per capita use of cardamom is about 60% more in Sweden than it is in the U.S.
It might sound odd to say, but if you want a little taste of Sweden, just add cardamom. | 2019-04-18T15:08:32 | https://amp.thekitchn.com/cardamom-scandinavias-favorite-spice-the-art-of-fika-219626 |
0.994684 | I am leading a team of 16 engineers (4 sub teams.) We have been doing a great job, deliver what business needs on time. Two months ago, we were asked to deliver a couple new features in a short time (40% of the estimated time.) This is a hard deadline and it was a pure business decision.
I had serious talks with my team and explained it to everyone that we really needed this done. We removed features we did not need, planned everything in steps, and delivered everything as plan.
I know it was my fault and I have plan to mitigate this in the future. Anyway, I still have a hard feeling toward him and I really don't like this. I was tempted to talk to him because I know if I don't do that I might have this feeling hanging there for a while.
Should I talk to my boss and tell him that I don't like what he did? Or it's better to only discuss about it and tell him my plans to mitigate this in the future.
There was a feature that I did not explain it to anyone and my boss knew that when he talked to us. He was so pissed about this and talked to me in a not-so-nice way in front of my team.
Should I talk to my boss and tell him that I don't like what he did?
It probably depends on your relationship with your boss.
If you have a good relationship, then it makes complete sense to tell him privately something like "I understand your criticism, but I'd prefer that we discuss this kind of thing privately, rather than getting angry in front of my team."
If your relationship is poor or adversarial, and your boss is the type who never takes constructive criticism well, then that sort of move might provoke more anger. In that case you might be better off to just explain your plan to mitigate this sort of problem in the future and hope for the best.
So he pegged you down a notch or two in front of the class.
He probably overreacted and / or had a bad day or was pissed at you.
It could have well been to ensure that the others fall in line.
But frankly, it's his prerogative as long as he remains civil.
That doesn't mean you can't defend yourself in the moment and / or admit a mistake if it was one.
If this happens again you certainly could let him know privately that you don't apreciate him talking you down like that in front of your team as it diminishes your ability to get results from them.
How this is received depends on your relationship, professional standing within the company, his opinion of you and his personality.
How long is an appropriate wait time before a new hire goes asking for work?
How should I address a popular team member leaving? | 2019-04-25T02:16:42 | https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/126853/should-i-directly-talk-to-my-boss-if-i-dont-like-what-he-did |
0.9999 | Each person has a logical thinking. However, not all people can enjoy them to the fullest. Some have it more developed than others. But logical thinking can be trained with tasks. The riddle of Einstein is one of the most popular. To solve it in the mind is very difficult, but reaching the table, she loses much in complexity.
Recall the essence of the problem. On one street there are 5 houses of different colors, they are people of different nationalities. They all drink different drinks, smoke different brands of cigarettes and bred different animals. Question: who grows the fish?
1. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
3. The green house is immediately to the left of white.
4. The Dane drinks tea.
5. The one who smokes Rothmans lives next to the one who grows cats.
6. One who lives in the yellow house, smokes Dunhill.
7. The German smokes Marlboro.
8. One who lives in the center drinks milk.
9. A neighbor who smokes Rothmans, drink water.
10.Anyone who smokes Pall Mall, raises birds.
12.The Norwegian lives next to blue house.
13.The one who raises horses, lives in the blue house.
14.The one who smokes Philip Morris, drinking beer.
15.In the green house drink coffee.
Draw a table. Specify all the characteristics of houses and their rooms.
Fill in the table. Let's start simple. So, the Norwegian lives in the first house (1), which is adjacent to blue (12). Consequently, house # 2 is blue. The owner of the Central house, i.e. number 3, drinks milk (8). Blue home grown horses (13). Now, logically, you can fill in the rest of the table.
It is easiest to start with the string "house color". According to the problem, the green house is immediately to the left of the white (3). This home can be a No. 3 or No. 4. Green may not be the first house, because to his left is blue. We also know that in the green house drinking coffee (15), and in the house №3 drink milk. So, green house No. 4, respectively, building No. 5 - white. Learn the colors of the remaining two houses. It is known that the Englishman lives in the red house (2). In the first the Norwegian, then the Englishman lives in the house №3 and the color red. Therefore, the first house yellow, his owner smokes Dunhill(6).
Now let's see what drinks I prefer these people. It is easier to determine what drink Norwegian. We know that in the third house, drink milk, and green coffee. The Dane drinks tea(4). The one who smokes Philip Morris drinks beer (14), but the Norwegian smokes Dunhill. From which we infer that he was drinking water.
Go ahead. Find out who lives in a blue house. His owner smokes Rothmans and breeds horses. This is not a Norwegian or an Englishman. The Swede also can't live in this house, because he breeds dogs. Not a German, as he smokes Marlboro. So this is Dane and he drinks tea (4).
Beer is drunk by one who lives in the white house and smokes Philip Morris (14).
Unknown to us, the owners of houses No. 4 and No. 5. The German cannot live in the white house because he smokes Marlboro. So the Swede lives in the white house and breeds of dogs (11), and German in green.
The table shows that the remaining brand of cigarettes (Pall Mall) the Englishman smokes, and he throws the birds (10). Norwegian, on the basis of section 5, growing cats. We have one who throws the fish is German.
What at first glance seems insoluble, upon closer examination turns out to be simple.
Logic puzzles - it's not just fun fun, it is workout for the brain.
Uncle lived without a wife and without children, And was much more to many wonderful inventions in the fad will indicated That will be the one who'd guessed the Riddle from Einstein about the house and about the people, About who lived in them, and drank what had been arranged a competition among the servants and among Rodney Competed together, they first answered the question.
Einstein's riddle — a logic problem known, according to legend, created by albert Einstein during his childhood. Also there is a perception that it is assuming that the first house on the right, get a little different situation but the same answer. Uncle lived without a wife and without children, And was much more to many wonderful inventions in the fad will indicated That will be the one who'd guessed the Riddle from Einstein about the house and about the people, About who lived in them. | 2019-04-18T20:28:33 | https://eng.kakprosto.ru/how-35069-how-to-solve-the-riddle-of-einstein |
0.9988 | I don't think that libraries should be replaced by the internet. This is because they are very useful. There are many good resources there like books and computers. For people that do not have a computer at home, the library is very handy to use one. Also, they have good books for research (better than the internet), and more variety of books for entertainment. Plus, if you were to replace all books with electronics, you would have to carry you electronics around all day instead of a book. Also, then the people who work at the library would lose their jobs, including youth who are just getting a job. Therefore, I think that libraries should not be replaced by the internet. | 2019-04-24T02:43:51 | http://72.rtms.ca/archive/blogs-1/21-rachel/libraries |
0.99976 | My wife and I have a mutual best friend (groom.). My wife and I do not know any of the brides friends or family and my wife will not know anybody at the wedding except for the grooms side of the family (who will be sitting at the table were the grooms family will be seated).
Also, any friends that my wife and I know (grooms friends) are single males. My wife will feel very uncomfortable sitting around a table full of single guys(who may or may not bring their girlfriend).
Before my wife and I got married and before dating when we were all friends all of the grooms (single) friends would be hanging out and swarm my girlfriend (now wife) when we went out. How to address the situation?
Also, what is my wife suppose to do when I (part of wedding party) has to go and take pictures? Also, they are getting married in a big heavily congested city (no real parking at the church so people have to go in shuttles) so I do not want my wife trying to keep up by herself.
The best policy in this situation is to be honest with your hosts about your concerns. We get this question a lot today from worried party members and for the most part the Bride and Groom completely understand and tend to have no issues including your wife either on the shuttle or with seating her with you for the event.
If the shuttle is full, which it can be, then have her follow in your car or pay for a taxi. Ask if it is ok to have your wife hang out in the background while photos are being taken.
One more person will not make a difference since the bride and groom take so many photos they would not even notice her there. And there is a lot of down time for the party so you will get to spend some time with your wife while waiting for your turn.
Just make sure that when it is time to be a part of the wedding party that you tend to your responsibilities. The Bride and Groom chose you to share in their special day, so you do have to make sure to make them feel loved and special too. | 2019-04-24T04:46:54 | https://www.wedding-ideas-guide.com/mutual-best-friend-getting-married.html |
0.997829 | Now, let's find errors from our lessons during the first week of this May below.
1. I work on the desk.
2. Childrens were very excited.
3. I've been used this for over 20 years.
今日の答え："1. I work at the desk. / 2. Children were very excited. / 3. I've been using this for over 20 years." | 2019-04-20T10:24:18 | https://www.englishplusjp.com/2018/06/27/english-plus%E3%81%AE%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%A9%E7%BF%92-%E8%87%AA%E5%88%86%E3%81%AE%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E9%96%93%E9%81%95%E3%81%84%E3%81%AB%E6%B0%97%E3%81%A5%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E5%8A%9B%E3%82%92%E3%81%A4%E3%81%91%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%81%93%E3%81%86-2018%E5%B9%B45%E6%9C%88%E7%AC%AC1%E9%80%B1%E3%81%AE%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%A9%E7%BF%92-%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E7%B7%A8/ |
0.99863 | Did it hurt? A little, but not more than getting vaccinated or an injection at the dentist and it's over before you realise it anyway. The piercer will usually distract you which is a good thing, because the build up before would likely be much worse than the actual split second of the needle going through. If you really want a piercing don't be put off by the prospects of pain, stubbing your toe is much worse.
What is the healing process like? I also had my belly button and tongue pierced and the healing process for the nose piercing was definitely the easiest. Your nose is a pretty 'stationary 'body part and it will heal much quicker than e.g. belly button piercings and is less likely to get infected. You will have to wear a basic stud made of either stainless steel, titanium or 14k gold for the first 4 weeks. Your piercer will also give you instructions on how to care for the piercing, which usually just involves cleaning it with a special disinfectant twice a day. The healing process isn't bad; it's a wound and you have to make sure to protect it, but it's only tiny, so it's not a big deal. After the first 4 weeks, you are allowed to change your piercing and wear a ring or a different stud, but make sure that once you have taken out the old one, you put the new one in asap! At least for the first year the hole is going to start closing up super fast, in a couple of minutes it will already be smaller.
Will you wear your nose piercing for the rest of your life? Maybe not for the rest of my life, but I definitely want to wear it for many years to come. I think little studs look very elegant on older women, so I might switch out the ring for a stud at some point. Piercings are a lot less permanent than tattoos; it's totally fine if you only want a nose ring for a couple of years. After you take it out, a tiny hole might be visible for a few months, but that will close up eventually. | 2019-04-22T12:33:07 | https://anuschkarees.com/blog/2012/08/09/nose-piercing-faq-and-inspiration |
0.999197 | potential of primate research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's significant role in these controversial studies.
Admittedly, the scientists did not offer an answer to the ethical standard question... but neither did the animal activists.
What would YOUR ethical standard be that would allow experimentation in a given animal species (say worms, mice or monkeys)?
It seems to me that your failure to offer such a standard indicates the obvious: you are against all experimentation. A fact that you are trying to hide from the public.
Though vivisectors might label 'dignity' as a stupid notion, I don't, and I suspect that many others don't either.
"It seems to me that your failure to offer such a standard indicates the obvious: you are against all experimentation. A fact that you are trying to hide from the public."
I'm not too sure whom or what you are referring to. I wouldn't allow any experiment on any organism that appeared to act intentionally and resisted. I've written far too much for any informed person to claim that I'm hiding anything concerning my beliefs on this matter. I rescue earthworms after hard rains. I'm a vegan.
It is falacious to reason that because someone opposes research on mice, that therefore, their position on research on monkeys (or an anything else) must be erroneous. You are "thinking" like a vivisector.
The point is that in the interview you did not introduce yourself as a vegan that is against any sort of animal experimentation. If that's what you believe, why don't you state so in public?
"I wouldn't allow any experiment on any organism that appeared to act intentionally and resisted."
Bacteria can move away from noxious stimuli. Does it do it intentionally? Is it resisting? Would you ban research on baceria too until we better understand their minds?
Your 'standard' is entirely subjective and relies on a personal judgement of intentionality.
You are "thinking" like a vegetable... intentionally or not. | 2019-04-21T07:06:00 | http://primateresearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/for-record-primate-research-at-uw.html |
0.999493 | The images are still burned into my mind. A group of Islamist terrorists hijacked four passenger jets. They crashed two jets into the World Trade Center and crashed one into the Pentagon. The passengers on the fourth jet revolted when they realized what was happening, fighting with the terrorists and causing the jet to crash into a Pennsylvania field. The terrorists picked planes bound for the West Coast, so they would be filled with fuel for maximum damage. The fanatics willingly killed themselves for a chance to slaughter thousands of innocents.
I was doing a temporary assignment at the Indiana University Admissions Office when I heard that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I pictured in my mind one of those small personal airplanes, only to later realize it was a huge passenger jet. On my lunch break, I spoke with some friends and watched the coverage on television. It was surreal, like a movie. It did not seem real at all. Later, I would see gas lines stretching down the street and all of the milk and bread were gone from the downtown Kroger store.
We have been fighting a War on Terror since the 1970's, but September 11 raised the stakes dramatically. It was not the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, as other Islamist terrorists bombed the WTC in 1993, shortly into Bill Clinton's first term. Later that year, terrorists would slaughter American troops in the Mogadishu Massacre. Over the next few years, the Khobar Towers were bombed, American embassies in Africa were bombed, and the USS Cole was bombed.
What is still stunning is how the terrorists were able to accomplish so much with so little. They did not have chemical, biological or nuclear weapons at their disposal when they woke up that Tuesday morning. Instead, they had box cutters. They used their box cutters to hijack four jet liners and crash them into buildings. The worst terrorist attack in American history, an attack that as even more devastating that the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, did not involve a single Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Four years later, we are fighting a war in Iraq. We invaded Iraq two years ago to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The justification for that war was the strong possibility that Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction. For two years, the anti-war crowd has shrieked that the war was based on a "lie" because we have not found the expected stockpiles of WMD. They argue Iraq was not a threat and what we should never have invaded. Some are calling for us to leave now.
I point you to the pictures above to make this point: with or without WMD, Hussein was a threat. He has documented ties to terrorists. He helped fund Palestinian suicide bombers who were slaughtering Israeli civilians. He tried to assassinate President George H. W. Bush. The 9/11 terrorists turned our own transportation infrastructure against us using nothing more than box cutters and the knowledge of how to fly a large jet.
No, Hussein was not involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Those despicable acts were masterminded by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization. Nonetheless, 9/11 changed the way we look at foreign policy and national defense. Because of the large threat that small cells of terrorists represent, we could not stand by and wait for Hussein to do something. He needed to be taken out.
We are not fighting a conventional war with enemies we meet on a battlefield. We are fighting an enemy that is simultaneously so fanatical that they will kill themselves in order to kill "infidels" and is so cowardly that they will hide behind women and children in order to drive up collateral damage. Whether we like it or not, this is a war we have no choice but to fight. | 2019-04-26T04:31:44 | http://www.sstibbs.com/scott/2005_archives/editorial_2005_17.html |
0.999818 | Australia: Can India take them on?
It's not easy trying to find a chink in the Australian armour. The cricket team is closest to the perfect team that one can think of.
It's not easy trying to find a chink in the Australian armour. The cricket team, now in line to claim their second World Cup in a row, is closest to the perfect team that one can think of.
So perfect is their armour that no missiles can penetrate them, so fool-proof their strategy no, psychologist-coach can out think them, and there is no weakness in their players that can be exploited.
They stick together and if one goes down the other takes up the battle. A bunch of eleven men have never been so programmed like humanoids to win and just win all the way.
Australia it must be remembered is the most sporting among nations. At one stage, they had seven World Cups (or its equivalent) as varied as rugby and sailing. It is the barren toughness of the outbacks that shapes national character. They never give-up and are ready to take on anything. Qualities they have exhibited in plenty during this World Cup.
The other day in the Super Six when Stephen Fleming put them into bat, he had them writhing in pain with seven down for a paltry 84. If at all anyone could have outthought them, it was Stephen Fleming who has shown great on-field ingenuity in the recent past. But even he failed after getting a stranglehold. It is a familiar story that the Aussies once again defied defeat and embraced victory.
First Fleming surprised Australia by putting them in, a ploy which would have surprised them. But Australians are not ones who can be thought-out by such strategies. Fleming had the fast bowlers with him but not enough to rattle the Aussie front rank. But rattle he did because of the extraordinary lift that the St. George's Park provided.
Strangely enough left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori was brought in early for variety and also to take the pace off the ball to prevent any Australian attempt at furious acceleration. In 10 overs, Vettori, who did not get much to bowl at home against India, gave away only 40 runs a good record against Australia.
The ending was the same — an Australian victory. What lessons does that match throw up for India whose strategies against the Aussies (in a possible final showdown) must be now taking shape in the laptops of the Indian think-tank?
Some strategies would have firmed up now.
1. Get Matthew Hayden early on. Hadyen is out of nick, as rare an occurrence as the team itself being out of touch. No one is more aware of this than Hayden himself who is trying to take his mind off his batting by going out surfing and not doing any extraordinary batting practise. Hayden has to be rattled early on now that he is a bit under-confident.
2. Harbhajan Singh should be central to the Indian plans against Australia. They have a traditional weakness against off-spin, and a bit wary about Bhaji. He has to be brought on early for a probing spell after eight overs or ten, irrespective of whether the quickies are delivering or not.
3. The top order has been softened up a bit but the finishing combine of Michael Bevan and company need to be taken care off. At the moment, the only way to snare him is to trap him to a run-out, since he takes the ones and twos early on. Lure him for a double run with a feigned misfield in the deep. Sounds easy, isn't it?
4. A bit of aggressive field placing when the slow bowlers are on. In fact, radical changes in field placings. Daring close-in positions can be tried out instead of traditional placings. That is important since they pick out gaps well from regular positions.
5. Pre-judge the Australian field placing against Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag. The opening partnership is most crucial to Indian confidence later on in the match. Sehwag must cut out the off-side slash just for this one match. Or, even the scoop over mid-wicket. Coach John Buchanan would also have worked out a way to cut out the flying-flick over point or third man for six which only these two batsmen play. Buchanan knows more than anyone what a century partnership can do for Indian's confidence.
Strategies can be reeled off. But which strategists can sort out the Australians? All depends on that day. If the first light which bursts over the African savannah on that day brings a tingling of good hope for the Indians, only then can the Aussies be stopped. | 2019-04-25T04:04:22 | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/australia-can-india-take-them-on/story-2uZnq9wvjweyIGWVafWciM.html |
0.999984 | The mandate of the African Development Bank (AfDB or the "Bank") and its related entities (collectively the "Bank Group") is focused on the sustainable economic development and social progress of the African member countries of the Bank Group. The Bank Group’s Policy on Disclosure and Access to Information (the "DAI Policy") provides the primary channel for achieving the above-mentioned objectives. The DAI Policy was adopted by the Bank Group Boards of Directors in May 2012, and became effective in February 2013.
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0.999495 | Roger Federer received a standing ovation from the Rod Laver Arena after yet another straight-sets victory - this time against seventh seed Tommy Robredo - moved him into the semi-finals of the Australian Open.
Federer, the world No1 and top seed, was occasionally threatened by Robredo, who has looked revitalised in this year's tournament. But whenever Federer was threatened he simply moved up to the gears. In the end, the 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), 7-5 score was a fair reflection of his dominance.
"Conditions were very slow and it was windy so I had to adjust to that," said Federer. "Tommy is a tough baseliner so he plays it smart. I tried to change things up a bit but I struggled to find my rhythm. Overall, I played pretty well. The breaks of serve were due to the windy conditions. My attacking style worked out well and I volleyed really well. As long as I get through I'm happy."
Federer will next play Andy Roddick, who proved far too good for his fellow American and former flatmate Mardy Fish as he won through 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. World No42 Fish upset fourth seed Ivan Ljubicic in the first round but failed to deal with the power of Roddick - the sixth seed - who secured his third appearance in the Australian Open semi-finals in one hour and 27 minutes.
Roddick took the first set with two breaks and despite dropping serve at the beginning of the second doubled his lead with three breaks of his own. Two further service breaks in the third set saw Roddick home. He powered past his compatriot with a 92% first-serve success rate, while Fish struggled throughout and conceded 26 unforced errors compared to just two from the world No7.
"I played pretty flawless," said Roddick. "It's probably the best I've played against him. Mardy might have been a little bit nervous at the beginning as he made a few errors he wouldn't normally make, but that's about as well as I can play. I felt great going into the game physically and I feel like I'm hitting the ball well. The gap on Roger has probably been closing a little bit and I'm playing about as well as I can. So if I play Roger then I will look forward to it."
Fish added: "He puts so much pressure on you and I didn't feel like anything was working. Andy can go all the way and win the tournament."
(6) Andy Roddick (USA) bt Mardy Fish (USA) 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. (1) Roger Federer (Swi) bt (6) Tommy Robredo (Esp) 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), 7-5. | 2019-04-22T16:12:40 | https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/jan/23/tennis.australianopen20074 |
0.997658 | 1. Stir saffron into hot water and set aside for 5 to 10 minutes.
2. Stir saffron water, mayonnaise, and minced garlic together until smooth.
1. Wisk together flour, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, and kosher salt in a shallow bowl. Dip sliced eggplant into beaten egg, then dust with flour mixture and place onto baking sheets.
2. Heat 2 tablespoons oilve oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Fry eggplant slices until golden brown on each side, about 2 minutes per side. Add 2 tablespoons of oil before frying each batch of eggplant.
3. Once all eggplant have been fried, roll into cylinders, and secure with toothpicks. Garnish with parsley and serve with saffron mayonnaise. | 2019-04-23T18:02:48 | http://breezywillowfarm.com/recipe/pan-fried-eggplant-rolls-with-saffron-mayonnaise |
0.999782 | Who Should Pick Up the Check on a Date?
The only thing more sensitive than a money question is an etiquette question about money.
Today, we have one very specific (and sensitive!) money question in mind: Who should pay for dinner on a date?
LearnVest, working with TD Ameritrade, surveyed over 2,000 men and women, and found that the answer differs across generations—and between sexes.
When asked who should pick up the check on a first date, 59% of total respondents said that the man should always pay–unless the woman has asked him out. This opinion got more popular with age: While 50% of respondents who fell in Generation Z (ages 18-23) agreed, 71% of the Lost Generation (ages 67-82) felt the same way.
And when the distinction was made solely between males and females, 55% of men and 63% of women agreed that the man should cover the cost.
The next most popular opinion: 42% of respondents said that whoever asks for the date should swing the check, with a 36% to 49% split between men and women, respectively.
It's great to have an idea of the accepted paying-for-date practices, but what's the reasoning behind these answers? We spoke with eight members of the LearnVest community to find out who should be paying for a date ... and why.
I don't like it when men don't even offer to pay at the beginning of dating. I don't expect it, but the gesture is appreciated. For example, if the guy has picked the tab up for dinner, I'll suggest going for drinks after, which will be on me. It's a back-and-forth when you start going out with someone, and I think it should be 50/50(ish). Until recently, I always had the good fortune of dating guys who insisted on paying for the first couple of dates. Then, a few years ago, I met a guy who asked me out for dinner, and when the bill came, he just pulled out his half of the bill. Major turnoff. When the guy does grab that check, I'll insist we split it, but that chivalrous act still counts for something.
I would say it depends on who asked who. The person who sought out the date should be the one responsible for footing the bill, regardless of gender. If both parties agreed to a "blind date" situation, then I would think it would be only fair to go "dutch." If a relationship develops, both parties should share the cost of any subsequent dates, since both parties are equally interested in pursuing the relationship. As the father of a little girl, I'd consider any boy asking my daughter to pay for anything on a date to be an unsuitable match for her—although I think that I would just use that as another excuse to not let her date! I guess I am old school: I still believe that if a boy is interested in a girl, then it's his responsibility to "woo" her, so to speak.
Whoever initiates the date should pay. If it's unclear, it goes to the guy, especially for the first few dates. I’m old school and from the South, where the gentlemanly thing to do is to pick up the tab, unless you’ve been invited out by the woman. If you go out for a drink afterward, maybe the woman can pick that up or the cab. Once you have a relationship established, certain economic realities can become part of the equation, like if one person makes more money and can afford to pay more.
I don't expect anyone to pay my way—in fact, I get a little uncomfortable when someone picks up too large of a tab on the first date. It feels greedy, and if I'm not planning on accepting an offer for a second date, it seems like I'm taking advantage. That said, if the guy is insistent on paying, I'm not going to create tension where it previously did not exist. If the guy kicks a fuss over who is paying or makes a point of not paying my half of the bill, I take this as a sign that he's a.) a cheapskate b.) a jerk and c.) will carry this petulant attitude into matters of greater importance.
It depends on what you define as a date. In the early stages of a relationship, everything is a date. Eventually, being together, going to dinner, movies, etc., becomes just living your life. In the 'living your life together' phase, I think something equal or close to equal (if one person makes much less) is important. Even in long-term relationships, I think it is important to make time for dates to do something special and deliberate. I think paying is less about the financial aspect of it and more about the effort. I wouldn't expect my partner to set up the dinner, plan everything and then ask me to pay. I'd expect to plan the night as a gesture to her, and then paying would be a natural extension of my taking her on a date.
I always do the "wallet grab," but I fully expect the guy to wave me off and take care of the check. That being said, I always offer to pay for a beer/coffee/movie after. That's how I handle first dates, but as you get to know each other, it's easier to figure out who's paying for what. If I found this great Groupon to do [insert activity here], I'm certainly not going to ask you to pay me back. I used to say, "Oh, I'd never let a guy pay for me! I can take care of myself! I'll open my own door, thank you very much!" But let's be serious here: I work for a nonprofit and don't make a whole lot of disposable income. Plus, if he's not willing to at least offer to pay his share, I'll assume he's cheap or rude—or both.
I think the man should pay on a date, but in a serious relationship, if a guy has limited means, the girl should be sensitive enough to either volunteer to go dutch or make dinner. Even in these days of "equality," I still think the guy needs to pay initially to avoid the impression of being cheap, socially awkward or a "loser."
At first, whoever does the asking does the paying. From there, I think it needs to more or less trade off, so if one person is doing all the asking at first, the other person should offer to pay at least by the second date. I would not be impressed if someone asked me out on a formal date and didn't pay; I'd be much more relaxed if it was just a "get cocktails" situation. As I've gotten older, I've grown a little more rigid in terms of my expectations for manners. Of course, taking someone out for dinner can sometimes be cash-prohibitive, but I still expect someone to do something nice for me to make it feel date-y.
Is My Bad Credit Ruining My Relationships? | 2019-04-23T08:33:08 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2013/02/15/who-should-pick-up-the-check-on-a-date/ |
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