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0.998678 | There are few things more important to the creation of a website than making it user-friendly for your clients. Of course you want to create an aesthetically pleasing web space that will speak to your demographic, reinforce your brand image, and possibly even win accolades (what else would you expect if you shell out for an award-winning graphic designer?). But if your clients can't figure out how to navigate through your site, find the products and services they're looking for, get questions answered, and ultimately, hire you or purchase your wares, then it doesn't matter how great your website looks. In short, you need to embrace the design mantra "form follows function" in order to ensure that those who visit your website can actually become your customers. Here are just a few ways to make your website effective.
1. Avoid clutter. There's nothing worse than visiting a website that appears promising only to discover an appalling clutter of text, graphics, and buttons that you can barely wade through, much less find what you're looking for. Keep it simple if you want to appeal to a viewer's sense of balance and order. Pare down the text to make it digestible, limit graphics to just a couple of well-picked pix per page, and don't have any more buttons or links than are absolutely necessary. Also, keep pop ups and other ads to a minimum (or forego them altogether for an experience that clients will find a lot less annoying).
2. Make navigation obvious. Your buttons don't have to be visible from outer space, but they should be large enough to be noticeable and placed so that visitors can easily navigate to the area they're interested in (whether it's your blog, an "about" page, or your online store). By making sure that anyone who visits your page can easily find their way around, you have a much better chance of making a sale.
3. Check links frequently. How do you think you would feel if you found an item you liked for sale on a website only to click the "buy" button and find the link broken? Certainly it seems like a minor frustration in the grand scheme of things, but how likely would you be to follow through on your purchase by calling a contact number? And be honest: what are the odds you'd ever come back to the site? Now you know how your clients feel when one of your links breaks, so make every effort to check them frequently and update accordingly.
4. Provide appropriate tools. The obvious tools of the trade for any business include a way to connect with customers, a forum for them to view your goods or services, and of course, a way for them to make purchases. Equally important, however, are tools that allow them to ask questions, make comments, learn more about your products, receive updates, and so on. If you're not providing the tools your clients require to do business with you, then you could be shooting yourself in the foot.
5. Ask for feedback. The best way to give your clients everything they want or need from your website is to go straight to the source and ask. So provide a forum for customers to make suggestions (and then try to implement them).
Sarah Danielson is a writer for SeaReach an asset protection company and manufacturer of asset marking and security printing solutions. | 2019-04-20T18:40:47 | http://www.ecommercespot.com/articles/Client-Focussed-Website-Design.aspx |
0.997165 | My current artist signature is the Kanji (Japanese and Chinese) symbol for "Hill" inside an open circle. (Maki, in Finnish, means "Hill.). The circle is a Zen circle (enso) which is a symbol for wholeness, or enlightenment. The two dots over the "a" are how my name is written in Finnish. The two slashes over the enso, and the rectangle around the whole image were put there for aesthetic reasons, I like how it looks. I've been using this or various versions of it since about 2013.
Before that I signed most paintings with a block Maki - MAKI - usually with the date beneath it. I was inspired to sign my work with something unique by artists like James McNiell Whistler, and East Asian artists who sign their works with a "seal" or a "chop," and others who used various symbols to sign their work. I'm a big fan of Japanese prints, especially from the 1930's and earlier. I love how the chops are all over the artworks. It's aesthetically appealing to me.
I've always had an inquisitive nature - I've called myself an "Independent Researcher Into Realms of Consciousness" since I was about 15 years old. ( It's the one statement about myself that I feel "fits" me ). At around that age I would fall asleep pondering the question, "Who's looking out of my eyeholes?" And if you can focus intensely on that - whole new worlds of consciousness and insight open up to you. Twenty years later I found out that that very question, in the form of "Who Am I?" is the exact form of inquiry into consciousness that the renowned Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, (who is beloved by Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, and Taoists alike), used to help people see beyond their limited sense of self awareness.
That is also the time period when I became a student of psychology, philosophy, and religions, looking for the answer to one question. "What is wisdom?" and it's corollary, "Who Am I?" I've always been an avid and fervent reader, and in this case I was looking for the source wisdom - which in Sanskrit is called "shruti," the revealed wisdom, as opposed to what is someone else's second hand interpretation, which is called "smriti". I found the answers in hundreds of excellent books. Some of the very important authors in my philosophical upbringing included Alan Watts, J. Krishnamurti (His book “Meditations” especially), Carl Gustav Jung, and Joseph Campbell among many, many others. "The Perennial Philosophy" by Aldous Huxley, is a great anthology and summary of most of the world's enquiry into wisdom --and led me to original sources like --The Tao Te Ching -- The Dhammapada -- The Upanishads -- The Gnostic Gospels (especially the Gospel of Thomas) which are designated as "the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke." These are "esoteric" (shruti) sayings that are more profound and harder to comprehend than the "exoteric" (smriti) sayings that at that time were meant for the largely uneducated masses of people in the early days of Christianity.
-- More sources that were important to me are -- The New Testament (especially St. Matthew) -- various books about Zen -- and books by enlightened contemporary authors like Eckhart Tolle, (his book "The Power of Now" is the one book, that I would keep if I could only have one book, it covers everything a person needs to know about consciousness -- the short version of that book is "Practicing The Power of Now."). Other very worthwhile authors are Ramana Maharshi, Eknath Easwaran, Mark Neppo, Michael Singer and Ken Wilber. (No one is better than Ken Wilber in describing the levels of consciousness of human beings - he wrote many excellent books, all well worth reading. The best simple, yet comprehensive guide of his work is titled "No Boundary." A must read for anyone interested in states of consciousness). I've always been interested in Eastern philosophy because they come from a position of wholeness and union - and the idea that at the deepest, most intuitive levels God is within everybody and everything - Gnosis! or "Tat Tvam Asi" as the Chandogya Upanishad would say.
With no question mark, no dash, no punctuation whatsoever. I believe that most artists ponder essentially the same question. It's probably at the deep root of creativity and learning.
It's been a lifelong endeavor. Do I understand what true wisdom is? - Ask me yesterday. | 2019-04-24T02:53:21 | https://www.ronmaki.com/my-artists-signature/ |
0.999992 | If mathematics is about finding solutions to well-defined problems, then philosophy is about finding problems in what previously we thought were well-settled solutions. Mark Steiner's The Applicability of Mathematics As a Philosophical Problem mirrors both sides of this statement, admitting that mathematics is the key to solving problems in the physical sciences, but also asserting that this very applicability of mathematics to physics constitutes a problem.
What sort of problem? According to Steiner, the reigning "ideology" or "background belief" for the natural sciences is naturalism. Typically naturalism is identified with the view that nature constitutes a closed system of causes that is devoid of miracle, teleology, or any mindlike superintendence. An immediate consequence of naturalism is that it leaves humanity with no privileged place in the scheme of things. It's this aspect of naturalism that Steiner stresses. Naturalism gives us no reason to think that investigations into nature should be, as Steiner puts it, "user-friendly" to human idiosyncrasies. And yet they are.
Steiner's point of departure is Eugene Wigner's often reprinted article "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences." Wigner concludes that article with a striking aphorism: "The appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve." Throughout the article Wigner refers to the "miracle" and "mystery" of mathematics in solving the problems of physics. Yet although Wigner leaves the reader with a sense of wonder, he does not indicate how this sense of wonder translates into a problem that demands resolution. Enter the philosopher Mark Steiner.
Steiner's project is to take Wigner's pretheoretic wonder at the applicability of mathematics to physics and translate it into a philosophical problem for naturalism. The applicability of mathematics to physics is not a problem for a mind-first Platonic world-view or a math-first Pythagorean world-view or a Logos-first theistic world-view. It is, however, a problem for a nature-first impersonal world-view. According to Steiner, naturalists are in no position to expect that, much less act as though, mathematics should assist in the discovery of physical insights. That naturalists do counts against their naturalism.
It is important to understand that Steiner is not simply appealing to the success of mathematics in resolving the problems of physics. It is not the isolated successes of mathematics as applied to problems in the physical sciences that for Steiner constitutes a philosophical problem (after all, there are many instances where mathematics has failed to be successfully applied to problems in physics). The problem, rather, is the global success of mathematics as a research strategy for facilitating discovery in the physical sciences.
This is a subtle point, and one impossible to convey without actual case studies from mathematics and physics. Indeed, much of Steiner's book consists of such case studies. Consider, for in stance, the physicist Paul Dirac's discovery of the positron and antiparticles more generally. The positron is a particle just like an electron, only with a positive charge. Yet when Dirac proposed the positron, there was no experimental evidence for it. Indeed, there was no reason even to expect its existence. Why, then, did Dirac propose such a particle?
Dirac was at the time trying to understand the Klein-Gordon field equation and the energy levels it assigned to certain quantum systems. He wanted to extend this equation relativistically to the electron, but he found that the only way to do so was by factoring it. Unfortunately, the equation resisted factoring over the real and complex numbers. Dirac therefore "brute-forced" the factorization by introducing higher dimensional "number-like" objects (the property where these objects differed from ordinary numbers was commutativity of multiplication).
The factoring worked and gave Dirac the relativistic solution he wanted for the electron. But because the "number-like" objects he introduced also had a higher dimension than the ordinary numbers, Dirac's solution to the Klein-Gordon equation also yielded extra solutions--solutions corresponding to the extra dimensions of his "number-like" objects. One of the solutions suggested a positively charged particle that in every other way was identical to the electron. What started as a mathematical trick designed to factor an equation and yield insight into the electron therefore yielded an entirely new particle and, indeed, an entirely new type of matter--antimatter, the discovery of which fundamentally altered our understanding of the physical universe.
Dirac's mathematical manipulations and physical speculations would have remained just that except for two facts: (1) In 1932 Carl Anderson experimentally confirmed the existence of the positron. (2) In the nineteenth century mathematicians had already constructed the "number-like" objects that Dirac needed to factor the Klein-Gordon equation. They are known today collectively as the Clifford algebra, and Dirac had to reinvent it to get a relativistic equation for the electron.
Where is the philosophical problem for naturalism in examples like this (and Steiner makes clear that such examples are wide spread throughout mathematics in its application to physics)? The problem is that mathematics is a thoroughly human enterprise. Nature may condition us to see patterns that are readily perceived--that, as it were, ride on the surface structure of nature. At the same time, nature should be indifferent to human idiosyncrasies. Thus, the problem for naturalism posed by Dirac's reinvention of the Clifford algebra and subsequent discovery of antimatter is that it occurred entirely through the manipulation of humanly constructed notations, and with attention not to physical reality but to human convenience.
Equations that are factorable are much easier for us to deal with than those that are not. Factorability, however, has no physical significance. A world indifferent to us has no stake in rendering itself intelligible to us by making the equations that describe it factorable through some mathematical device (like the Clifford algebra). And yet precisely such idiosyncratic manipulations of humanly constructed notations result in genuine and previously unsuspected physical insights.
There really is a problem here for naturalism. As Steiner notes, in every other area where human constructions are manipulated according to human convenience, naturalism expects and indeed confirms no profound insight into the structure of the world. The rules of chess, for instance, do not yield insight into the structure of the atom. The study of palindromes (sentences that read the same backward as forward; e.g., "Madam, I'm Adam") tells us nothing about the first three minutes after the Big Bang.
Indeed, the claim that human constructions manipulated according to human convenience supply insights into reality belongs to what traditionally has been called magic--the view that what humans do in the purely human world (i.e., the microcosm) mirrors the deep structure of the world at large (i.e., the macrocosm). Naturalism has no place for magic. And yet the applicability of mathematics to physics is magic. Ac cording to Steiner, mathematics is the last redoubt of magic, but one that stands se cure and is in no danger of naturalistic debunking. This is a user-friendly world where we humans are the users, and where the tool of discovery that renders the natural world friendly is mathematics.
In place of naturalism, Steiner therefore opts for an anthropocentrism which affirms that humans do have a privileged place in the scheme of things. Steiner's anthropocentrism falls short of a full-blown metaphysical position like Judeo-Christian theism, Platonism, or Pythagoreanism. But it stands sharply against the widely held evolutionary view that humans are mere accidents of natural history.
The Applicability of Mathematics As a Philosophical Problem is a technical contribution to analytic philosophy that presupposes not just a background in philosophy but also extensive exposure to mathematics and physics. Readers without the relevant technical background should be prepared to find no more than 20 percent of the book intelligible. Even so, Steiner's challenge to naturalism is accessible, powerful, and well worth pondering.
William A. Dembski is a fellow of the Discovery Institute. He is the author of The Design Inference (Cambridge Univ. Press) and the editor of Mere Creation (InterVarsity). His book Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology is forthcoming from InterVarsity.
Copyright © 1999 by the author or Christianity Today, Inc./Books &Culture Magazine. | 2019-04-25T02:05:46 | https://billdembski.com/documents/1999.07.steiner_review.htm |
0.998698 | In this article I'm going to explain how to create a simple Program in ASP.net MVC using Controller. This article will help those who are beginners to ASP.net MVC.
Follow below steps to accomplish the task.
Step 1: Open Visual Studio 2013 or higher, then click on File-> New -> Project.
Step 2:Select Web Application and give name and location then press Ok button.
Step 4:Select Controller in solution explorer then right click on Controller and then Add new Controller.
Step 5:Select "MVC 5 Controller – Empty" then click on Add.
Step 6:Give a name for that Controller as "DemoController" and click on Add button. Keep in mind while given Controller name do not delete Controller name.
Step 7:Design your Method over there. | 2019-04-20T20:11:15 | http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/46241-create-a-sample-aspnet-mvc-5-project.aspx |
0.999612 | Hashmicro Catering Management Software features robust tools and an easy-to-use interface for providing an amazing experience to the user. From taking orders to tracking the delivery, our catering management system will help you in improving your business exponentially.
Manage your inventory, take orders, track your deliveries and manage your invoices, all at the same place. Thus, eliminating the need for double entries.
Automate the routing and estimated time of delivery as well as automatic grouping and assigning couriers for your orders. Our Catering Management System also allows driver’s smartphone would also have access to the interface for proper tracking.
HashMicro Catering Software features an online ordering portal, so you can take orders easily. The portal is user friendly and has an enticing interface.
Estimate your supplies and manage your inventory accordingly. The software allows you to keep track of your procurements.
Automatic scheduling of kitchen orders ensures that all your orders are processed in time.
The simple to use order portal helps your business and your customers in placing orders with the least possible effort. The front-end customer portal can be customized to match your corporate branding as well.
Based on the incoming orders, system is able to automate the order processing to the kitchen based on the preparation and delivery time, as well as assigning the couriers based on the routing of the delivery locations.
All orders will be shown in the kitchen screen for the chefs. Chefs can then view the orders to make based on the different stations, and the different timings. Chefs can then update the food processes on a real time basis.
Customize your menus to add variety for a multitude of clients. Add or remove items to the menu. Define recipies for each food item with our recipe manager. Use the discount management tool of this software to define across-the-board discount for different clients.
Automate your inventory and manage your procurement accordingly. The inventory management tool helps you in stacking your supplies wisely, meanwhile helping you to prevent wastage from unnecessary procurement of goods.
Generate reports related to kitchen production, sales, deliveries and billing with our advanced reporting interface. The data driven approach delivers appropriate statistics and metrics for precise analysis of your catering operations.
Add more functionalities to your Catering Management Software by joining it with our other software solutions. Make your catering management software more efficient and effective.
Our Accounting System lets you easily create purchase orders, delivery orders, recurring invoices, seamlessly manage transactions and gain insight into your profits and losses.
Integrating Catering Management System with Purchasing System will help you gain better control of your procurement, manage the costs spent on your food materials and better manage your suppliers. | 2019-04-23T00:30:25 | https://www.hashmicro.com/catering-management-system |
0.998245 | I'm wondering if there's a way to view the URL of a pdf file, like in Windows 7? When I open one in Windows 8 with Classic Shell, it is just a 'page' but has no URL at the top.
IE doesn't have the native ability to render PDFs so most likely you had some ActiveX-based addon on Windows 7 which opened the PDF inside IE and showed its URL. That addon is usually installed by the PDF Reader such as Adobe Reader or PDF XChange Viewer.
You can still press Ctrl+J to open the IE Downloads window when you try to load a PDF. Right click the PDF and click "Copy download link" to get the URL. | 2019-04-23T14:38:19 | http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3077&p=14404 |
0.999999 | If you live in , Alaska, and believe that you have sustained some form of legal wrong, you may wish to file a lawsuit against the individual who allegedly wronged you.
If you're contemplating filing a lawsuit, there are several things you need to consider, and it is not a decision to be made lightly. You should not file a lawsuit without seeking the advice of a Homer, Alaska civil litigation attorney first.
Once you hire a Homer, Alaska litigation attorney, he or she will be able to advise you on your chances of succeeding in your lawsuit. Furthermore, your lawyer can inform you on what a lawsuit is likely to cost, both in time and money. Obviously, your lawyer has some control over what it will cost you, based on their fees, and whether they bill an hourly rate, or charge on a contingency rate.
Consultation With Your Attorney: Before filing any case in Homer, Alaska, you should talk with a local attorney. Your Homer, Alaska attorney will be able to advise you on the merits of your lawsuit, and your chances of success.
Drafting a Complaint: Once you have decided to go through with filing a lawsuit in a Homer, Alaska court, you need to draft a complaint, with the help of your lawyer. A complaint is usually the initial step in actually filing a lawsuit. The complaint is the plaintiff's first opportunity to lay out the allegations against the defendant. If a complaint doesn't allege facts that add up to a legitimate lawsuit (that is, even if everything alleged in the complaint is true, the defendant has still not committed a legal wrong that the court can compensate), the case will have to be dismissed. When a case is dismissed for this reason, the court usually gives the plaintiff a chance to re-submit the complaint, with the errors corrected.
Serving The Defendant: Once you have drafted your complaint, you need to serve the defendant with it, and file it with the court. Homer, Alaska requires that lawsuits be served on defendants in a certain way. This is to ensure that the defendant has a good deal of notice that they're being sued, giving them time to find an attorney, and work on how they're going to defend themselves. It is highly preferred to serve defendants in person (with a disinterested third party delivering the papers to the defendant). Occasionally, however, the defendant cannot be found, or is trying to avoid service, they can be served by mail with court approval.
Await the Response: The defendant in Homer, Alaska has an chance to respond to the allegations against them. They have several options in how they respond to a lawsuit. They can move to dismiss the case (arguing that, even if everything the complaint alleges is true, they would still not be liable for anything), or they can file with the court, and serve upon the plaintiff an answer. An answer is a point-by-point disposal of every allegation against the defendant. The defendant can admit the allegations, deny them, or claim that they do not have enough information to admit or deny them (which essentially operates as a denial). Usually, the defendant will admit the inconsequential allegations, so they don't have to be litigated (if the lawsuit is about a car accident involving the plaintiff and defendant, they'll probably go ahead and admit that the accident took place), but deny any allegation that could establish liability, if true (they'll deny responsibility for the car accident, for example). If the defendant does not respond by the deadline, they will have a default judgment entered against them, and automatically lose the case.
How Can A Homer, Alaska Tort Lawyer Help?
As you can see, it can be a complicated and difficult process to file a lawsuit in Homer, Alaska, and it is, in fact, much more complicated than the basic outline you just read.
You should seek the advice of a qualified litigation attorney if you are planning on filing a lawsuit against somebody who you think has wronged you in Homer, Alaska. | 2019-04-20T21:01:04 | https://litigationattorneys.legalmatch.com/AK/Homer/file-lawsuit.html |
0.999994 | A DOZEN blobs of light glowed on Capt. Geoffrey Macfarlane's sky-blue radar screen as he steered "SeaCat Scotland" out of Dover harbor. Each blob represented a vessel likely to cross the path of Hoverspeed's huge car-carrying catamaran as it headed for Calais.
"The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world, with around 500 ship movements a day, and it seems to get more crowded every year," the skipper said as his twin-hulled ship reared up out of the water and picked up speed to 32 knots. "It's becoming an art to dodge the traffic."
Five years ago, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Francois Mitterrand signed a treaty to build a "fixed link" between England and France, it was widely assumed that after the tunnel opened in 1993 passenger ferries plying the stretch of water the French call la Manche (the sleeve) would be phased out.
It was not to be. One of the most striking effects of the "Chunnel," even before it opens, is the vigorous competition between its future operators, Eurotunnel, and shipping companies determined to keep on carrying people, cars, and freight between Britain and continental Europe.
The growing fleet of catamarans, each big enough to carry 450 passengers and 80 cars, represents only part of the fight-back approach the ferry operators are adopting.
Graeme Dunlop, managing director of P&O European Ferries, says his company has already introduced a new generation of super-ferries on the run between Dover and Calais. This summer ships like the "Pride of Kent" are carrying up to 2,000 people and 650 vehicles on the 75-minute journey.
With the cross-Channel market growing at 5 percent a year, Mr. Dunlop said, the Chunnel is "a challenge we can live with."
Hoverspeed, with its steadily expanding 45-minute SeaCat service, is just as certain that it can find a way to survive and prosper, despite the huge tube buried beneath the seabed.
The Chunnel is a mammoth project: Twin rail tunnels and a service tunnel between them each have a length of 31 miles.
But critics of the environmental as well as the economic impacts of the tunnel have been proved wrong, Eurotunnel authorities say. Long-term damage to the landscape has been kept to a minimum.
At the two Chunnel entry points - Shakespeare Cliff near Folkestone and Sangatte just south of Calais - the 5.5 million cubic yards of chalk and clay removed from the Chunnel were pumped into giant lagoons. As the lagoons filled up, large expanses of artificial land were created. These are now being planted with grass, shrubs and trees.
At Folkestone a 345-acre switchyard is nearing completion. There, cars and freight will be loaded onto trains undertaking the 35-minute Chunnel journey.
On the French side, at Coquelles where there was more room for spreading out, a 1,729 acre terminal, the size of London's Heathrow Airport, is being built. Initially land was scarred on both ends, as room was cleared for rail tracks, freight- and vehicle-loading bays, and an array of service buildings. But already the two terminal sites are being carefully landscaped.
William Coleman, a Eurotunnel official, admitted: "There are limits to what can be done to green any terrain after such massive construction efforts." But he claimed the two terminal sites had not turned out to be the eyesores some had predicted.
Roger Vickerman, head of the Channel Tunnel research unit at the University of Kent, believes that even if there had been significant damage to the landscape, it would have been a price worth paying for the variety of economic impulses already being generated by the Chunnel. "It is opening up new economic prospects not only in Britain and France but in many neighboring countries," he said.
General manager of the Calais Economic Development Council, Patrick Le Guillou, provided a measure of the Chunnel's economic impact by forecasting massive growth in the Nord-Pas de Calais area, until now plagued by slow growth and high unemployment. "At present about 10 million passengers pass through Calais every year," he said. "Before the end of the century we expect the figure to be 35 million - as many as currently use Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris."
Anticipating the opening of the Chunnel, hotel capacity in and around Calais has doubled in two years. And to handle the 30-35 million tons of freight expected to pass through the port by 1998, Mr. Le Guillou's organization has started work on a 125-acre cargo-handling center.
"The Chunnel will affect not only Anglo-French economic relations," Le Guillou said. "It will be a conduit for an expanding trade between Britain and all the countries of Europe."
The decision to build the Chunnel allowed French railways - Soci Nationale de Chemins de Fer (SNCF) - to justify building a high-speed line connecting Paris, Lille, and Brussels with Calais.
The French have also built a high-speed track from Paris to the new EuroDisneyland east of the city. Passengers from London will be able to meet Mickey Mouse via the Chunnel in under four hours.
Professor Vickerman described early British reactions to the impending advent of the Chunnel as "more modest." British Rail, he said, had had to contend with the heavy population density of Kent, where there had been vociferous protests against a high-speed rail track connecting Folkestone with London.
"The immediate local economic benefits of the Chunnel in Britain are less obvious than in France," he said. "There will inevitably be job losses in Channel ports like Dover, because the ferry companies will have to slim down their operations to compete with Eurotunnel," he says. "In Britain the longer-term economic benefits of the Chunnel are likely to be felt nearer London."
Vickerman's analysis highlights the contrast between British and French responses to the opening of the Chunnel.
James Bird, chairman of the East Kent Business Centre, which is spearheading a program of economic growth near Dover, took a cautious line. "We face a number of serious challenges, but also opportunities," he said, and pointed to figures indicating that there will be nearly 6,000 job losses in the area between now and 1995.
But among the French there tends to be boundless optimism about the future. In Calais, Mr. Le Guillou compared the importance of the Chunnel to that of the Suez Canal when it was first built. | 2019-04-18T12:48:33 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1992/0610/10102.html |
0.999466 | PARIS - Noel Goutard, Valeo SA's former chairman, had been trying for several months to regain a leading role in the company he helped build into the world's 10th largest supplier.
He succeeded last week with help from Valeo's largest shareholder, French holding company CGIP, which has been seeking in vain a buyer for its 20 percent stake in the troubled company.
The result: Andre Navarri's 10-month tenure as Valeo chairman was brought to an abrupt end. Navarri, 48, was ousted by the board of directors, controlled by CGIP, and replaced by Thierry Morin, previously the chief operating officer.
That was only a first step. At Valeo's annual meeting on May 30, shareholders will be asked to approve a new two-tier structure: Morin will head the management committee and Goutard will head the supervisory board. Valeo said Goutard, 69, who retired in May 2000 after 13 years as chairman, will oversee long-term strategy.
Succeeding Goutard was never going to be easy for Navarri. Goutard is seen as the man who in 1987 saved Valeo from a bad diversification strategy and made it into a success story. He did it by cutting costs, spinning off non-core assets and making acquisitions.
But Navarri also was to find unwelcome legacies, including the $1.7 billion purchase in summer 1998 of the electrical systems business of the former ITT Automotive.
ITT's American plants were starved of new investment, and the Rochester, N.Y., plant, which employs 3,500, suffered from bitter labor relations.
On top of this, Valeo has to contend with a slowdown in auto markets in the United States and Europe, and a rise in commodity prices.
Still, Valeo's board is hoping that Goutard, who started his professional life as a financial analyst in the United States, will find ways to lure investors.
'The name of this particular game is pumping up the share price,' said Gaetan Toulemonde, an analyst at Deutsche Bank in Paris.
The comments come as Valeo's shares were trading at around $40, down from about $73 in January 2000. The fall is painful for CGIP. It bought its shares at an average price of about $50 and would like to make a capital gain when it sells them.
Among suppliers said to have been approached to buy all or part of Valeo in recent months are Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. and Siemens AG. PSA's Faurecia is too busy digesting the recent acquisition of Sommer-Allibert to consider such a move.
But finding a partner for Valeo - which, in Latin, means 'I am healthy' - won't be easy. | 2019-04-23T22:48:08 | https://www.autonews.com/article/20010326/ANA/103260771/navarri-out-as-valeo-restructures |
0.999999 | I thought as I start the NgValidationFor project I'd journal my progress. I'm writing this with someone particular in mind: me. Specifically, me in 2 years who will no doubt wonder why I made some of the choices I did. Everyone else, move along now - nothing to see. Unless the inner workings of someone else's mind are interesting to you... In which case: welcome!
I've got a project on GitHub and I'm starting to think about implementations. One thing that bit me on jVUN was being tied to a specific version of ASP.Net MVC. For each major release of ASP.Net MVC I needed separate builds / NuGet packages and the like. A pain. Particularly when it came to bug fixes for prior versions - the breaking changes with each version of MVC meant far more work was required when it came to shipping fixes for MVC 4 / MVC 3.
So with that in mind I'm going to try and limit my dependencies. I'm not saying I will never depend upon ASP.Net MVC - I may if I think it becomes useful to give the users a nicer API or if there's another compelling reason. But to start with I'm just going to focus on the translation of data annotations to Angular validation directive attributes.
To that end I'm going to begin with just a class library and an associated test project. I'm going to try and minimise the dependencies that NgValidationFor has. At least initially I may even see if I can sensibly avoid depending on System.Web (mindful of the upcoming ASP.Net 5 changes). Let's see.
NgValidationFor.Core - the core part of the project which converts data annotations into AngularJS 1.x validation directive attributes.
NgValidationFor.Documentation - this is an ASP.Net MVC project which will become a documentation site for NgValidationFor. It also doubles as a way for me to try out NgValidationFor.
Yes it works, but I'm not going to pretend it's pretty. I don't like having to wrap the usage of NgValidationFor with Html.Raw(...). I'm having to do that because GetAttributes returns a string. This string is then HTML encoded by MVC. To avoid my quotation marks turning into " I need to actually be exposing an IHtmlString. So I'm going to need to depend upon System.Web. That's not so bad - at least I'm not tied to a specific MVC version.
I'm not too keen on the implementation I've come up with for NgValidationFor either. It's a single static method at the minute which does everything. It breaks the Single Responsibility Priniciple and the Open/Closed Principle. I need to take a look at that - I want people to be able to extend this and I need to think about a good and simple way to achieve that.
Finally, usage. Model.GetAttributes(x => Model.RequiredField) feels wrong to me. I think I'm happy with having this used as an extension method but it needs to be clearer what's happening. Perhaps Model.NgValidationFor(x => Model.RequiredField) would be better. I need to try a few things out and come up with a nicer way to use NgValidationFor. | 2019-04-25T01:54:13 | https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2015/05/ngvalidationfor-baby-steps.html |
0.999999 | Could the Brisbane River be considered a deity? And if it were deemed a god or goddess, would it mean the community would be more reverent to this grace-ful waterway? To consider this question I turn to David Haberman's wonderful book River of Love in an Age of Pollution (2006).
Haberman spent several years in India conducting ethnographic research about the people who revere the Yamuna River, the Goddess Yamuna, the Mother. For thousands of years the river has been worshipped as a divine entity but, says Haberman, recent ecological trauma has placed the river in both environmental and religious jeopardy.
The Yamuna river is among the holiest in india. A sister to the sacred Ganges, the Yamuna rises in the land of high peaks, ice and snow and flows through India, into the Ganges and onwards to the sea (Bay of Bengal). But Haberman's view of this endanged river is shocking. Littered witih toxicity, the river Goddess is seriously ill. The task of his marvellous book is epic, to document the plight of the river and travel its length bearing witness to its failing health.
Talking with people along the way from Hindu priests, ecologists and locals, Haberman weaves a story of resilience and deep spiritual grace. The Goddess Yamuna is the Goddess of 'exquisite love and compassion', of 'loving generosity' and 'Mother of the World' (2006:104, 107). Honouring the Goddess by immersing onself in her sacred flow is said to 'increase love' (122), to be cleansed of sin and 'evil consequences' (126), and to be healed of illness. Hearing about the Yamuna's role in healing he asks: 'One might wonder: what will happen as she who protects from disease herself becomes a possible source of disease through pollution?' (127).
Haberman makes a pilgrimage far to the source of this sacred river. At the headwaters, the Yamunotri glacier, the river's water is pure, clean, clear. He calls the water here 'aquatic drops of nurturing love' (44). But as the river travels downstream the water colour changes as the effects of industrialisation, chemical outflow, agricultural pesticide and fertilizer runoff, urban development and sewerage interact. The grace and elegance of the river shifts from the beauty of the loving sacred Goddess to a sewer which 'can no longer sustain life' (81). Eutrophication from a build up of toxic contaminants suffocates the Yamuna.
For example, a recent news item from India reports that just this week the Yamuna will be inundated with 30 tons of toxic paint from 300 clay idols of the Goddess Durga will be immersed into its flowing waters. The news report indicates that although there are guidelines for religious communities to follow in relation to river pollution, they are not being enforced. The outcome - the Goddess Yamuna continues to suffer.
Along his river journey David Haberman meets a priest who declares that the Goddess 'is dying' (137). The priest recalls how he 'used to bathe in the river with faith when she was alive' and with a great deal of sadness adds: 'When the river is finished, life will no longer be possible for human beings'. Others argue that despite the pollution, the spiirtual power of the river is still strong.
Haberman's book is a masterful lesson of reverence and worship in the face of rapid ecological decline. There is a message here about love, compassion and action. We need to love a river, an ecosystem, the Bay, the ocean, the forest, our local places. But beyond love we need to care for these environments actively. Haberman says what's needed is 'a vast outpouring of love, a mighty river of love that will nouris and sustain us while washing away the pollution that is threatening the very fount of all life' (195).
Reflecting on the need for love of and for the Goddess Yamuna brings me back to this river valley in Brisbane and to the possibility that deep reverence, honour and love can be piled upon its grace-ful flow.
Haberman DL, 2006, River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press. | 2019-04-20T20:37:48 | http://rivercityandsenseofplace.blogspot.com/2007/10/action-compassion-love.html |
0.999989 | This article talks about love, grace, redemption, transformation.
The other day a friend sent me a link to a brilliant blog post. The author of the blog recently asked a number of US pastors and teachers the question: "What's the Message of the Bible in One Sentence?".
"God was so covenantally committed to the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him may have eternal life!"
"God is in the process of recreating the universe which has been corrupted by sin and has made it possible for all those and only those who follow Jesus to be a part of the magnificent, eternal community that will result."
"The Bible tells how the loving Creator God restored a lost humanity and cosmos through re-establishing his rule through Jesus Christ and the provision of life to His honor."
"God has made promises to bring His people to Himself and He is fulfilling them all through Christ."
"A holy God sends his righteous Son to die for unrighteous sinners so we can be holy and live happily with God forever."
"God glorifies himself in the redemption of sinners."
"The movement in history from creation to new creation through the redemptive work of Father, Son, and Spirit who saves and changes corrupted people and places for his glory and their good."
"The message of the Bible in one sentence is that genuine truth, unlike every human philosophy, is far too luxuriant, too enthralling, too personal, too all-encompassing, too sovereign, and too life-changing to be reducible to one sentence (or, as Einstein once put it, the challenge is to 'make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler')."
"God is redeeming his creation by bringing it under the lordship of Jesus Christ."
"'God so loved the world that the gave his one and only Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life' (John 3:16)."
"God, who made us and everything else, loves us and gave himself for us that we might live forever with him as new creatures in a new creation—the news is good!"
"The message of the Bible is the transforming grace of God displayed preeminently in Jesus Christ."
"The Bible is the record of God's promise of and deliverance through Jesus Christ."
I wonder how you might answer the question? How would you summarise the message of the bible in one sentence?
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0.999993 | Documentation for electrical limitations of IO pins/PMODs?
I apologize for the inane question. I'm a beginner to any kind of hardware design, and I would like to play with some of the breadboard gadgets I've got lying around (7-segment displays, switches, etc) to get some basic practice. I'd like to know where to find the voltages and current limitations associated with the IO pins of the device so I don't fry anything on my first go.
In general, the most important thing is not to exceed 3.3V and avoid reverse polarities.
Although avoiding output short circuits and overloads is good practice, it is unlikely that excessive currents will damage the FPGA IO. Their nominal rating is 8mA, they will begin to limit current if this is exceeded.
So they have in-built series resistance? Thanks, I'll read through the datasheet carefully.
It's not series resistance, it's a nonlinear current limit in the output drivers. Once the current exceeds about 8mA, the output voltage will drop quickly, but it won't change that much before 8mA. | 2019-04-21T13:04:37 | https://forum.mystorm.uk/t/documentation-for-electrical-limitations-of-io-pins-pmods/528 |
0.999457 | 1 Between knit stitches Bring yarn under the needle to the front, take it over the needle to the back and knit the next stitch.
2 Between purl stitches Bring yarn in front of needle, bring it over the needle to the back and to the front again purl next stitch.
3 After a knit, before a purl Bring yarn under the needle to the front, over the needle to the back, then under the needle to the front; purl next stitch.
With yarn in front of needle, bring it over the needle to the back; knit next stitch. | 2019-04-21T22:01:02 | http://knittingdatabase.com/stitches.php?stitch=15 |
0.999821 | We got a few recommendations to check out Shinjuku Gyoen. Starting mid-March, adults pay an entrance fee of 500 JPY. TL:DR: totally worth it.
Like the previous parks, Sakura was blooming but not on all the trees yet.
You can however, step right up to them and touch the flowers.
And some of them were low enough that Madelyn could reach them.
‘Hanami’ is the traditional get together for flower viewing.
The park is empty enough for a shot like this.
I didn’t even need to pull a branch down to do this.
Groups of people were taking turns taking photos under this one.
There’s a Japanese-style garden here in Shinjuku Gyeon.
Got them to ignore the wide field for just a few seconds.
See? Banyak crowd around each tree!
So… we shoot from a low angle.
Getting rid of annoying people!
Angled just right to block a person behind her. Hah!
Got my son to take this photo.
Lovely mix of white and pink Sakura.
One way to keep your head warm.
My last view of Shinjuku Gyoen.
Last day. And 1 last visit to Ueno Park. This truck served Sakura ice cream. It tasted like…er… flowers.
Remembering the times when he needed to be fed as a baby.
Playing around with slow shutter speed.
The trees outside the hotel are finally blooming!
I like how even public roads are lined with Sakura trees.
Bye Japan! We shall be back! | 2019-04-18T16:20:49 | https://photobyed.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/springtime-in-tokyo-3/ |
0.999842 | Translation:The secretaries' table is new and expensive.
The table of the secretaries is new and expensive. Not "....expenseive"
Should this be "a titkárnők az asztaluk?
I would not have noticed it, but now I wonder too.
I know that asztal is table and íróasztal is desk, but I think in this context desk should be accepted.
There is an apostrophe missing on secretaries'. Must of the plural possessive nouns in this section are also missing.
The default translation I see above does have the apostrophe.
Is there a difference between a titkárnők az asztala or a titkárnők asztala? It seems like the definite article is sometimes there but sometimes not.
There's not much difference between them, but usually the shorter version is used, because, well, it's shorter.
"a titkárnők az asztala" is not correct, at least not in this sense. It could mean "his/her table is the secretaries". | 2019-04-19T13:05:51 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16539148/A-titk%C3%A1rn%C5%91k-asztala-%C3%BAj-%C3%A9s-dr%C3%A1ga |
0.999947 | Transmission: Automatic Color:White Interior Color: Black Average Vehicle Review: (5 reviews) I love this truck. I feel they are a little on the expensive side but still a great truck. It has everything I wanted in a vehicle and performs impressively.
Transmission: Automatic Color:Silver Interior Color: Black Average Vehicle Review: (5 reviews) I would recommend getting a vehicle from car max because they care. I would highly recommend looking for Joseph Elias the #1 salesman who helped me get my truck.
I would recommend getting a vehicle from car max because they care. I would highly recommend looking for Joseph Elias the #1 salesman who helped me get my truck. | 2019-04-19T10:50:54 | https://www.carmax.com/cars/gmc/sierra-1500/slt/leather-seats?location=miami |
0.999997 | Oil has been at the heart of Sudan's conflict for decades. It is a critically important piece of the Sudanese economy, accounting for half of Khartoum's revenue and nearly 98 per cent of the southern government's revenue.
How much oil does Sudan produce?
Roughly 490,000 barrels per day. Production grew sharply for several years - output has more than doubled since 2003, when Sudan produced roughly 210,000 barrels per day - but now seems to have hit a plateau.
Is all of Sudan's oil in the south?
No, but most of it is.
Southern Sudan accounts for between 75 and 80 per cent of Sudan's daily output. Its most productive oil fields are in the Paloich and Malut areas of Upper Nile state.
Another 5 per cent comes from the Abyei region, often described as “oil-rich.” That shorthand is not entirely accurate, at least not anymore: While Abyei accounted for 25 per cent of Sudan's output in 2004, production has declined markedly since then.
Most of the productive oil fields remaining in northern Sudan are in South Kordofan state, another disputed territory which is supposed to hold “popular consultations” on its status later this year.
So why the dispute over oil revenues, if the south controls most of the oil?
Southern officials have said publicly that they'd like to keep 100 per cent of the profits from oil production after their country becomes independent.
Problem is, they can't. All of Sudan's oil refineries are located in the north. What's more, Southern Sudan will be landlocked, and its only pipeline to the sea runs to Port Sudan in the north.
The south's oil reserves are useless without the north's cooperation, in other words - and Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has already threatened to shut down the pipeline if Southern Sudan claims an unfair share of revenues.
When the two sides do negotiate a new royalty deal, Southern Sudan will almost certainly claim a larger share. The two sides currently split southern revenues equally under the terms of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
There is talk of building another pipeline to the sea through Kenya, allowing Juba to bypass Khartoum, but that would be a long and expensive project. For now, at least, Southern Sudan will depend on the north to export its oil.
Where does Sudan sell its oil?
Most of it - nearly two-thirds - goes to China, Sudan's largest trading partner.
The state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation controls 40 per cent of the largest oil consortiums in Sudan. It has invested heavily in Sudan's oil infrastructure, including the pipeline to Port Sudan and several refineries in the north.
The industry wasn't always dominated by China: Chevron was the first oil company to invest in Sudan, and the French firm Total has a large concession in the south. But decades of civil war, and pressure from human rights groups, scared off many Western firms. The Canadian firm Talisman was forced to sell its 25 per cent stake in one of Sudan's oil consortiums in 2002 because of a divestment campaign. | 2019-04-23T14:34:37 | https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/southsudanindependence/2011/07/20117216441419555.html |
0.999999 | The books make it clear that they offer the reverse service (see the following question: What Do the Gringotts Goblins Do With Muggle Money?).
Q: When people trade in Muggle money for Wizard money, what does Gringotts do with the Muggle money?
Just speculation, but squibs who go out into the muggle world to work will need Muggle money and also wizards might need it while doing Muggle studies research or trying to remain under cover, so I guess they keep it for reverse exchange.
This seems entirely reasonable speculation. Nevertheless, I don't recall any example in the books of converting Galleons to British pounds or other forms of Muggle currency. Does anyone have a more canonical source than speculation that indicates that this happens?
But maybe he's just worried that if he converts some gold to Muggle money and tries to spend it, it will look suspicious if either Muggle authorities or the Dursleys find out.
Economically, I can't see any reason why they wouldn't offer this service. Galleons clearly have value, so the goblins should have no problem accepting them. They get some Muggle money from exchanges, and they seem resourceful enough to be able to obtain it in other ways if need be.
Converting wealth in the Wizarding world to wealth in the Muggle world is also the subject of the following question: Rich Wizards, Poor Muggles. However, I don't see an answer to my question there. One issue brought up is inflation of Muggle currencies, but as long as the goblins aren't printing Muggle money, I don't see why this would be a problem. There is also speculation that the Ministry of Magic doesn't want wizards to become suspiciously wealthy in the Muggle world.
Even if those answers are right, however, that doesn't answer my question. Gringotts could just restrict the amount of money that it will convert for a single person in a certain amount of time.
Seems like they would. There are a couple of examples that leap out at me of wizards using Muggle money.
First, there's Mr Weasley at the Quidditch World Cup.
'You'll be paying now, then?' said Mr Roberts.
'Ah - right - certainly -' said Mr Weasley. He retreated a short distance from the cottage and beckoned Harry towards him. 'Help me, Harry,' he muttered, pulling a roll of Muggle money from his pocket and starting to peel the notes apart.
Hard to see where he'd have got it from if not from the only wizarding bank. There's no mention of Harry giving it to him, or doing some kind of exchange and that would seem unfair on Harry - to expect him to come up with cash - and I would've thought Harry would've talked Mr Weasley through it - or held onto the money and just handled the payment himself, if it was his. Also, where would Harry have got the Muggle currency? Hermione could have given it to him, but, again, I would doubt it.
Given he says 'bought', money must have changed hands. Archie could have Confunded the cashier, I suppose, and handed over wizarding money - but that would surely be frowned upon by the Ministry of Magic. Might be a bit suspicious of wizards are routinely putting their currency into the Muggle world - not quite living up to the spirit of the Statute of Secrecy is it? And it's clear Archie doesn't have any Muggle blood in him, since he doesn't realise that a flowery night-gown is not suitable Muggle clothing for a man.
This is the only meaningful statement from JKR on the topic, and it's hard to make a conclusion with any certainty. But clearly, exchanging Wizard money back to Muggle money would be one of the ways to put it into circulation, although not quite sneaky enough to fit JKR's description. But since they do wish to "get rid" of their Muggle money, it stands to reason they would happily do it the "easy" way, if someone wanted them to.
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Why couldn't wizards in the Harry Potter world create Muggle money and use it to buy gold? | 2019-04-26T13:47:12 | https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107122/would-gringotts-convert-wizard-money-to-muggle-money |
0.998405 | The DEA continues to generate outrageous headlines.
In a true case of irony, several federal employees with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have failed drug tests over the last five years. But unlike the harsh punishments they have imposed on others in some instances, these individuals merely received a slap on the wrist.
The findings came from internal DEA discipline logs first uncovered by USA Today and then reviewed by Huffington Post. There have been 16 reported instances of DEA employees failing drug tests since 2010.
While some of these employees chose to resign or retire instead of dealing with drawn-out proceedings, none of them were fired for their offense. Most of them received short suspensions that were as brief as a single day.
However, these short punishments seem to be commonplace at the DEA, regardless of the offense. Suspensions of just a few days were administered in 30 individual cases of driving while intoxicated, including four while driving a government-owned vehicle and one which involved a hit-and-run.
There were also nine logged instances of employees losing or stealing drug evidence and two general violations of policy on DEA drug use.
Other examples included 62 instances of an employee losing or stealing a firearm, four cases of committing fraud against the government and two incidents of depriving individuals of their civil rights. No firings took place in response to any of these violations.
However, they are formally willing to make exceptions for "limited youthful and experimental use of marijuana." | 2019-04-20T05:11:50 | https://www.thefix.com/several-dea-employees-failed-drug-tests-kept-their-jobs-anyway |
0.999963 | I will rarely eat somewhere if the Yelp rating isn’t above 3 stars, but for Blue Hour I made an exception. I think I read somewhere that they got a new executive chef, and the menu looked really tasty. It didn’t hurt that it’s walking distance from my apartment too. It made for a nice date night dinner. It’s a pretty large restaurant for Portland standards, like over 50 seats? and the space just feels large and elegant. Portland restaurants tend to feel more homey and comforting.
When you’ve had one, you’ve had ’em all right? This was actually a pretty nice bite, albeit a taaaaaad fishy, but it had a bit of ponzu sweet soy asuce which was nice.
We wavered on the appetizers because there were many choices that looked good. I like deferring to the servers when this happens because they usually know better than us what’s special or delicious that day. He said this was kind of a specialty of the chef, so it was an easy decision after that. It looked like it was drenched in sauce, but it was actually a good balance of flavors. The seaweed salad was actually really tasty and had Chinese inspired flavors. I wished there were more of it!
When I met Dumpling Man, he wouldn’t eat oysters, and now he shares the whole lot with me! Ah, how I’ve changed him so, made him a real man of the world! The food world anyways, hehe. These were fresh and briny, but it wouldn’t have hurt for them to be plumper. The mignonette was a nice contrast, but I usually find oysters to taste best with just a light squeeze of lemon.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang, these were TASTY! I’ve had many a scallop in my life, many that I thought were well caramelized, but these were booooooooooooomb. Yes, I said “bomb” without “da” and it’s just cooler that way, so NO judging. No wonder those Top Chef judges always harp on the caramelization, because it makes such a big difference. It really packs a punch of flavor, brings out that natural sweetness you never know could exist in a bivalve. You would have thought the walnuts was a strange addition but it somehow worked. The fennel puree turned out to to be on the runny side, maybe from the herb brother. What resulted was some delicious sauce I was using my bread to sop up. Overall, a winning dish in my book.
Really well prepared lamb leg, not too gamey. The crust was flavorful and the meat was a good medium rare. There was so much added flavor from the roasted cauliflower, the pureed whatever it was sitting on and all that sauce. Like the previous dish, I tried to sop up the sauce with the bread.
Sadly, this wasn’t as exciting as it sounded, maybe because it was missing the foie mousse. The kitchen ran out of it! Anyways, it just tasted like something that was pre made and taken out of the fridge right before serving. The texture was aite, the taste was aite, but there was no love here and I need dessert made with love.
Bluehour was surprisingly pretty good. The flavors and execution was spot on. The only ding is that it is pretty darn pricey, especially for Portland, where you can get really great food at a pretty great price. I suppose what you’re paying for is ambience because as I said before the dining environment is quite nice. So come here for a special occasion or maybe just for drinks with friends. There’s a nice bar area, which I’ve hung out at before. It’s a shame this place doesn’t get more attention because it’s pretty solid. If you only have the chance to eat at a few places in Portland, I would put this lower on your list. It’s good, but probably not worth a trip here just for it. One thing’s for sure though, they KNOW how to caramelize their scallops! | 2019-04-26T09:57:05 | https://overworkedunderfed.com/2012/02/28/bluehour/ |
0.999999 | Main MessageThe main message of the song is that we should be helping one another and working together, trying our best to undo all the wrongs we have done upon this world, instead of continuing the actions that will further damage the world.
The main underlying message found in both songs is that the world is a wonderful place, and that we should be doing our best to save and preserve its beauty, benefiting every single living thing on this planet.
Main MessageThe main message of the song is that we should always try to look at everything in a positive light, and that there is truly something wonderful about the world, everyone, and everything living on it.
Historical ContextThe song was written in the early 90s, a time that signified the end of the cold war, a long lasting war that brought lots of pain and death upon the world. Many environmental issues also began to surface.
Historical ContextThe song was released in 1967, a year important to African Americans such as Louis Armstrong due to them being given a right to vote just 2 years ago. Overall life had gotten much better for African Americans over the years.
While these two songs may have beenwritten in two different times by two differentpeople, they both share a similar message,one of preserving the Earth and everyone on it. | 2019-04-25T04:07:51 | https://edu.glogster.com/glog/comparing-songs/2dqhvs4ad5g?=glogpedia-source |
0.994104 | Mickey Boodaei has been a leading entrepreneur in the security space for years. He co-founded Imperva, which went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011, and he co-founded Trusteer, which was sold to IBM for $1 billion in 2013. Soon after the latter acquisition, he founded Transmit Security.
Interestingly, Boodaei did so without seeking venture capital. He indicated that by putting his own money (and that of co-founder Rakesh Loonkar) into the start-up, it felt more like when he founded his first firms, but in this case, there was no one else to answer to.
Transmit Security provides, "a cross-channel identity platform that is designed to simplify, accelerate, and reduce the cost of identity-related projects," as Boodaei explains. He also notes that "security and customer experience are the two most important goals of any organization today. We bundle these together and address them as a single challenge." In this interview, he explains his personal journey as a CEO, the importance of a strong co-founder, and his opinions on the evolving threat landscape.
Peter High: You are the Chief Executive Officer of Transmit Security. Can you provide an overview of the company?
Mickey Boodaei: We founded [the company] four and a half years ago with the goal of building a cross-channel identity platform that is designed to simplify, accelerate, and reduce the cost of identity-related projects. These include projects such as authentication, authorization, fraud prevention, account opening, among others. Our R&D Center is in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the rest of our technical teams are physically close to our customers in the US and Europe.
As a company, we focus on large enterprises with millions of end-user customers. Most of our customers to date have been banks, insurance companies, telcos, and retailers. We have two global financial customers with over 20 million users each, and about 20 customers with more than five million users each. Our customers typically use our platform to consolidate and accelerate multiple initiatives in the identity space. For example; multi-factor authentication in biometrics, behavioral analytics, and advanced fraud detection, attributes-based access control, new data protection regulations, using the mobile device as an authenticator for call centers, branch and web, authorization and authentication around open API's, and more.
The platform significantly shortens time-to-market for our customers. It allows you to manage more technologies more easily and significantly reduce integration and maintenance costs of identity-related projects. It is an extremely advanced orchestration technology that abstracts the entire identity ecosystem from your applications, and therefore, significantly simplifies one of the most complex IT problems there is. The more complex your environment is and the more complex your applications are, the more value you would see from our platform.
High: Yours is an organization that is experiencing extraordinary growth, and you have been able to do so without venture funding. Could you talk about the way in which you have grown, as well as the advantages of having done so without taking on venture funding in your early stages?
Boodaei: Our goal was to build a big company that is focused on what we enjoy doing around cybersecurity, which is working with large enterprises. We wanted absolutely zero external pressure as to the direction of the company or the speed in which we are growing. Therefore, my co-founder Rakesh Loonkar and I decided to invest our own money in the company.
We have been relatively successful in the past, so we could afford the risk of losing many millions if we failed. Today, Transmit is a profitable company, so the investment paid off. Not taking money from venture capitalists is not something everyone can do, so we consider ourselves lucky to be able to fund ourselves. Personally, I find it uncomfortable taking someone else's money when I can do this with my own.
I also believe that it made us more focused and got us to work harder. If you look at first-time entrepreneurs, they are eager to secure their future. For us, by using a considerable amount of our own fortune, we created a strong motivation for ourselves to succeed that is not dissimilar from first-time entrepreneurs. This is the idea behind the self-funding concept of our company.
High: As you gave the overview of Transmit Security and the wide array of areas in which you play, a CIO or technologist reading this might start thinking about the solution aspect of what you do. Naturally, there are people and process steps necessary to fulfill all that you described. Could you talk about the balance between people practices and processes that need to be instituted as complements to the solutions one implements?
Boodaei: We believe that identity protection is the most important aspect of security today. Look at all the biggest data breaches and cyber-attacks over the past five years, and they are all strongly related to identity protection. Each attack starts with spoof identities, stolen credentials, the abuse of permissions, and access to identifiable information.
If you think about it, identity-related information is how attackers breach your systems, and identity-related information is what most attackers are after once they breach your systems. Two decades ago, the focus for security was network security and protecting the perimeter. Over the last decade, the focus is more around endpoint desktop. With all the recent changes in the amount of information services, mobility, and cloud, the focus now is around identity. Identity is a hard challenge to solve because it spans across multiple services, channels, and systems. Identity protection is also the focus of many recent regulations across the world.
On the other end, identity is the biggest source of pain for end users and customers when it comes to customer experience. Identity is at the heart of the way you onboard customers, the way you authenticate customers, and the way you authorize sensitive customer activities. The customer experience is one of the key elements for success in today's environment. Security and customer experience are the two most important goals of any organization today. We bundle these together and address them as a single challenge. For organizations, it is more around bringing together people that used to do things in silos. It is about bringing together security people, fraud prevention, customer experience, identifying people to work on a common goal. It is important to focus on identity and have a cross-channel strategy that brings security and the customer experience together.
High: I am curious about how you see Transmit Security operating in the broader ecosystem of solutions. One of the challenges for CIOs, CISOs, and others who manage the broader security footprint is thinking about how to ensure that they have a portfolio of solutions that will comprehensively safeguard the enterprise. How do you think about operating in that broader ecosystem?
Boodaei: Both security and identity are highly fragmented markets. There are many identity solutions and components which enterprises use together. They use directories with customer information, databases with entitlements, web services, traditional authenticators, such as passwords, knowledge-based questions, one-time passwords, to name a few. Then we have new authentication technologies such as face, voice, fingerprint, and behavioral. We have device ID technologies, device security technologies, and many more.
All of these are part of the bigger identity and security space. All these technologies need to be used across different applications in customer journeys. This is where Transmit could help because it is the platform that brings everything together. It is the orchestration and abstraction platform that allows you as an organization to build and reuse complex journeys in a fast and efficient way. It allows companies to manage these different technologies across the organization.
High: As a serial entrepreneur, I am curious how an idea occurs to you. What was the kernel or idea that Transmit Security was born out of, and when did it occur to you?
Boodaei: When Trusteer was acquired by IBM in 2013, my co-founder Rakesh and I knew that we were too young to retire. We love the excitement and loved the space. We also did not want to be part of IBM, and this was pre-negotiated with IBM. IBM is a different type of organization than a startup and requires different skill sets. Doing another startup was the obvious direction for both of us.
We also wanted to stay in the broader cyber security space because we believe in expertise and experience. At the same time, we wanted to do something that was different from Trusteer. If you look at cybersecurity over the years, traditionally, there are three main submarkets to security: network security, endpoint security, and identity. Both Rakesh and I did network security in the past. I was the founder of Imperva, which is a web application and database security company, and Rakesh was the founder of OneSecure, which is today the Juniper Intrusion Prevention System. We both did endpoint security at Trusteer, which is an anti-malware solution for financial organizations.
Naturally, identity was our next challenge. Also, in our opinion, proving a person’s identity while keeping IT user experiences is one of the biggest challenges in security today. Our 20 plus years of experience in the market allowed us to skip the research phase since we knew what was missing for large enterprises to move faster and secure their customer identities. This is based on our experience at the companies we founded and with the companies we have worked with.
We started to talk to various enterprises to figure out the most pressing use cases that a platform like Transmit could solve for them. The use cases we identified determined a roadmap and go to market strategy. The core of Transmit’s platform is the same as we envisioned when we started to discuss the concept four and half years ago. It is all about being able to bring everyone together onto a single platform that consolidates fraud, security, customer experience, and identity management and allows customers to consolidate and accelerate these projects.
High: You have mentioned Rakesh Loonkar, who has been your co-founder several times and has deep experience in the security space. You are based in Israel while he is based in the United States, and yet you have developed a strong bond that has carried you through multiple entrepreneurial ventures. How have you been able to collaborate effectively despite the distance?
Boodaei: The secret is that you must be close to your customers, especially when you sell to large enterprises like we do. This is more important than being physically close to your co-founder. Rakesh is in the US and physically close to our customers there. I am closer to our customers in Europe, so that works well. For something like this to work, you need good chemistry.
Rakesh and I have different skill sets, so we complement each other. I trust him completely, and I believe he trusts me as well. That is a key part of being able to work together over distance. We talk daily, and we meet a few times a month. It is also important to build the tools across your organization to collaborate, share information, and work more efficiently. We have teams in Israel and all over the world. Being able to have open, fast communication between everyone is important.
High: You operate in a fast-evolving space. How do you stay current? As you look to the future, how do you ensure you are cognizant of changes in the general landscape relevant to your customers and your products? Likewise, how do you see your own product evolving over the next several years?
Boodaei: We are lucky because the way our product works allows us to work very closely with our customers. If you look at the big financial institutions or retailers, identity is something that goes across the entire organization with multiple initiatives. With each one of these, we are working closely with our customers. At any given time, we have a good understanding of what they are trying to do in the identity space. They constantly share their vision and leadership with us.
Our customers are proactive when it comes to working with us. They share their vision on what they want the customer journey to look like in the future and what they are trying to do. By consolidating all that feedback from our customers, processing it, and keeping track of all the new initiatives and new technologies and inventions in the market, we try to bring all that together into a single roadmap. That is what is going to keep us up to date in the future.
One of the smartest things we did is to invest a lot of energy at the beginning in building a platform that is flexible, scalable, and allows us to build a lot of capabilities and models extremely quickly on top of it. Our ability to take feedback from our customers, digest it, and implement and adopt new technologies that become available in the market is important, not just for us, but also for our customers. That is the main reason why we are being chosen in so many projects, because we allow our customers to keep innovating using a single platform and technology.
High: In addition to running Transmit Security, you also are an active startup investor. What sort of criteria do you use to determine how best to invest, and, how do you divide your time between actively managing your enterprise versus advising and staying involved in the broader community of startups?
Boodaei: I use an extremely simple criterion. It is based on my personal interest. When I see a technology that is interesting, this is usually the trigger for me to invest. Having said that, today, I am investing less than I used to. I simply do not have the time because Transmit takes about 150 percent of my time.
Before I invested in early-stage startups, specifically in cybersecurity, which was demanding. That is the main reason why I stopped. When I was active, I invested in about a dozen companies, all of which were in the cybersecurity space. I learned a lot by working with these smart entrepreneurs and by looking at the way they think and the way that they tried different market approaches. That was a good experience for me. | 2019-04-25T00:30:26 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2018/06/11/a-serial-entrepreneur-identifies-the-sweet-spot-between-customer-experience-and-security/ |
0.999999 | .net: What are you going to speak about at Generate?
John McFaul: I'm talking about understanding yourself, the industry and what you want out of it. I'm talking about leading and not being lead. I'm talking about choices, balance, soul and seeing another way. I'm talking about being comfortable understanding that its all an education and there is no right way and certainly no time limit.
Actually I'm talking about my lifelong love affair with bicycles...and perhaps a bit in there about beards. I'm talking about gravitating to likeminded folk. I'm talking about how I simply had no choice but to follow my heart.
The talk subject is something I feel very strongly about (now, having done it) as it's all about change and following your soul. It sounds so, so easy but you know as well as I do that this industry of ours doesn't really give anyone the breathing space to think in those terms and we simply get swept along in its tide. From running a successful design company responsible for some huge campaigns around the globe to where I am now took a lot of soul searching, and, well, a lot of balls. It also took a couple of relocations as I tried to understand what I really wanted out of life. A large period out in NYC with Pepsi didn't make things better! Simply put, I had to bring my worlds together - that of my work and my play. Riding bikes defines me, you see. It's what I'm best at. Some might say that I'm also a pretty decent designer (the jury is still out on that, ha!) but the point I'm trying to make is that of balance. To get to my balance I had to move myself from one world into another. It took time but it was very much worth the toil.
.net: What do you think makes a good conference?
JMF: Diversity and inspiration. Creative folk are inquisitive beasts. They need to know. Everything! They want to go away inspired. Oh, and what about the freebies?
.net: How did you get into speaking at conferences?
JMF: I've always been able to speak openly about things like this, and I like to do so. I was a senior lecturer at a university for quite some time and I feel it's important to enthuse and nurture. It's important to inspire and hopefully open people's eyes to possibilities.
.net: What projects are you working on right now?
JMF: I'm feeling happily typecast these days as I'm up to my neck in bicycle, running and lifestyle brands. There's a new UK bicycle brand about to launch that is going to be huge (I can say that sort of thing as I know who is involved) and I have creative reign there. There's also one in Germany that is a more artisan outfit, and they're equally pleasurable for me to be working with. Both allowing me to do what I do and be who I am. All my clients tend to allow me to explore creatively so, I suppose, thats where the longevity lies. You know, allowing a creative individual to be creative; allowing for innovation! I know - crazy! It's fun!
.net: What are the big ideas you're thinking about at the moment?
JMF: My thoughts are filled with expeditions and epic endeavours...obviously! Fun seems to be the glue to everything in my head.
.net: What are the factors that have driven the direction of your career?
JMF: Until my mid 30's I just went along with the ebb and flow of the industry, believing I was doing what I wanted to do in that the industry kept coming back and asking for more. The team were pretty successful. We grew and grew and we were biggish both sides of the Atlantic. The truth is, I was too busy to understand what I wanted and there weren't enough hours in the day to think about anything other than the NOW. The birth of my first child coincided with the credit crunch so things had to change, but I didn't realise by how much my world would need to be shifted.
I'm a very driven individual. With it comes a whole heap of baggage: I can't help upsetting the apple cart and I'm endlessly inquisitive. Those are my character traits and the building blocks of this career of mine. I have a flip side though, and that's of a soul-searching romantic who yearns simply for time. Because 'middle ground' isn't exactly a destination I'd pause on in any career brochure I always feel the need to engineer my own 'place'. There's nothing wrong with that. It does tend to liven things up a little though as nothing is ever simple and every day has a certain 'making it up as I go along' feel. That's my way though...living life how I want to live it. It suits me.
.net: What advice would you give to designers who are thinking of striking out on their own?
JMF: Try. It's a huge education that has its (rather large, if the truth be known) ups and downs but you'll come out the other side a richer individual (I use rich in a soulful sense rather than the all-consuming monetary nonsense). It's not easy and certainly not for all but simply understanding that you want change and opening the door to the unknown is a step you might begin to love. I have, so where I am now isn't necessarily where I'll be in 10 years time. Life is very much what you make it, and there really isn't a course in the country to educate you on that. Just enjoy it and understand it isn't a race. | 2019-04-19T12:19:21 | https://www.creativebloq.com/john-mcfaul-following-your-soul-7133799 |
0.999864 | How did these people get driver licenses?
Every so often, I have days (afternoons, nights) where I think to myself, "Oh my god, I'm surrounded by eeediots!" The drive home tonight was one such occasion.
I ended up behind this tan Toyota Camry (do they make them in any other color?). As we completed the turn, it began to accelerate normally, but abruptly levelled off at exactly 35 MPH. (The speed limit was 45.) I got stuck behind it, and we went toodling all the way up to CA-237 E with traffic passing on either side at 45-50. As we got on the freeway, I passed and glanced over. It was a little old lady driving, her husband in the passenger seat.
She was obviously unaware of the danger she presented to herself and those around her by moving more slowly than traffic. Being cautious is always good, but aside from impeding the flow of traffic, moving very slowly or quickly compared to surrounding traffic makes it more dangerous to merge, particularly in emergencies.
Needless to say, she was holding neither a straight line, nor a constant speed (although it was at least fairly close to the surrounding traffic), and was holding up traffic (me) in the left lane. Fortunately, after a couple miles, she realized she was holding up traffic and moved over.
I was in the next-rightmost lane, moving quite a bit faster than the traffic in the rightmost lane. (I was, perhaps, too much faster a la case #1, but slowing down.) A forest-green Subaru Outback was in the rightmost lane, sandwiched between two other cars. Just as I'm about to begin overtaking her, she flips on her blinker, lets it blink exactly once, then shoots into the lane.
I dodge around her, accelerating to get past her quickly, and give her the horn. (Past experience has taught me it's better to be in front of crazy/stupid people than behind them, unless they're going really fast.) She accelerates, seemingly trying to keep pace with me, which of course she can't do as I'm driving Shiro. As I slide back into the lane in front of her (signalling properly), I catch a glimpse of a younger woman, phone glued to her right ear, mouth open in mid-sentence.
I move into the right lane, preparing to exit, and she slips in behind, both of us moving faster than we should be. I have to resist the urge to break-check her--I'm trying to avoid safety issues, not create more of them--as I enter the offramp.
I can't but shake my head. Stupid people. And it's so easy to become one, too.
The tan Camry has its own name (coined by a friend of mine): the Tamry.
Though I've done a few things of the nature myself I must admit.
Well, you're going to come across bad drivers everywhere. It's not just in Northern California. It's just as bad here on the Central Coast. You have a lot of Cal Poly students who drive as bad as a drunken redneck driving a turbo-charged forklift on the 101.
Every time I go out, I think to myself, "I'm the master of my own domain. I'm in control." In other words, I can see people driving poorly but I know how to react to them and if I have to drive defensively, I will. | 2019-04-18T23:09:46 | https://deskitty.livejournal.com/357455.html |
0.998365 | James - Meaning of James, What does James mean?
[ 1 syll. ja-mes, jam-es ] The baby boy name James is also used as a girl name, but it is much more common for boys. It is pronounced in English as JHEYMZ †. James is an English and Hebrew name of Hebrew origin.
In addition, James is an English variant of the name Jacob (Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian).
The name Jamie (English) is the female equivalent of James.
What are the Variant Forms of James?
James is a widely used name; it has 76 variants that are used in English and other languages. Variants used in English include Jacques (also used in Dutch and French), Jaem, Jaemes, Jago, Jaim, Jaime (also used in Portuguese and Spanish), Jaimes, Jame, Jamese, Jamesen, Jamesie, Jameson, Jamesy, Jamez, Jameze, Jamies, Jamisen, Jamison, Jamse, Jamsie, Jamyes, Jamze, Jasha, Jaym, Jaymes, Jaymz, Jecis, Jemes, Jiminy, and Jimm. Other English variants include the short form Jay, and the diminutive forms Jaimey, Jaimie, Jamey, Jamie (also used in Scottish), Jas, Jaymie, Jem, Jemmy, Jim (also used in Dutch), Jimbo, Jimmie, and Jimmy.
Foreign variants of James include Chago (Spanish), Chango (Spanish), Chanti (Spanish), Diago (Portuguese), Diego (Italian and Spanish), Diogo (Portuguese), Giacomo (Italian), Giamo (Italian), Hagop (Armenian), Hamish (Scottish), Hemi (Maori), Iago (Italian, Spanish, and Welsh), Jaco (Portuguese), Jagu (Breton), Jaimito (Spanish), Jakome (Basque), Jascha (Russian), Jaume (Catalan), Jayme (Portuguese and Spanish), Kimo (Hawaiian), Santiago (Spanish), Seamus (Irish and Scottish), Seumas (Irish and Scottish), Shay (Irish), Simidh (Gaelic), Tiago (Portuguese and Spanish), and Yago (Spanish).
See also the related forms, Aaronjames, Jack, Jamond, and Jami.
James is very popular as a baby name for boys, and it is also considered trendy. Its usage peaked in 1944 with 5.539% of baby boys being given the name James. It ranked at #1 then. The baby name has since experienced a fall in popularity. In 2017, its usage was 0.725% and its ranking #4, enjoying a minor resurgence in the recent decade. Among all boy names in its group, James was the most popular. In 2017, 8.583% more boys were named James than the next most popular name, Jacob. James has in the past century been mostly given to baby boys. In 1989, the name James was given to 177 times as many baby boys than girls.
Baby names that sound like James include Jamese, Jas, Jaymes, Jaymz, Jamse, Jamyes, Jamze, Jankó, Janós, Janse, Janz, Jemes, Jenks, Jenx, Jiang, Jing, Johns, Jones, Jong, and Jóhannes.
† Pronunciation for James: JH as in "joy (JH.OY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; Z as in "zoo (Z.UW)"
Which Famous Persons bear the name James?
Actor James Caan, born 26 March 1940, The Bronx, New York.
Actor James Cagney, born James Francis Cagney, Jr., 17 July 1899 - 30 March 1986, New York, New York.
Actor James Coburn, born 31 August 1928 - 18 November 2002, Laurel, Nebraska.
Actor James Cromwell, born 27 January 1940, Los Angeles, California.
Actor James Darren, born James William Ercolani, 8 June 1936, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Actor James Dean, born 8 February 1931 - 30 September 1955, Marion, Indiana.
Actor James Doohan, born 3 March 1920 - 20 July 2005, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Actor James Franco, born 19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California.
Actor James Gandolfini, born 18 September 1961, Westwood, New Jersey.
Actor James Garner, born James Bumgarner, 7 April 1928, Norman, Oklahoma. | 2019-04-18T13:29:27 | https://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/James/m |
0.908406 | If you have a lot of mouths to feed or want to make a dish that will last you a few days, have you thought about making lasagne at home? It's fairly easy to make, it can be made the day/night before, and is the ultimate comfort food.
1) Bring large pot of water to a boil. Add uncooked lasagne noodles and boil for 8 minutes. Drain and lay the lasagne noodles flat on a greased cookie sheet.
2) Add olive oil to frying pan and add chopped onions. Once onions are translucent, add 1 lb of Italian Sausage and cook until sausage is cooked all the way through. Add 1 1/3 jars of ready-made pasta sauce to the pan. Add chopped mushrooms. Bring mixture to a boil. Once it starts boiling, remove from heat.
4) Pour remaining pasta sauce on top, cover with foil, and bake in pre-heated oven at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, uncover, sprinkle mozzarella cheese and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and heat uncovered for another 10 minutes or until cheese is melted.
If you want to bake later on, you'll need to increase the baking time 10-15 minutes.
Adapted from http://www.barilla.com/content/recipe/barilla-wavy-lasagna-italian-sausage-marinara-sauce (it is also printed on the back of Barilla's Wavy Lasagna box). | 2019-04-20T12:46:05 | http://www.hawaiimomblog.com/2015/07/recipe-lasagne.html |
0.999999 | What Causes Flashing Backlights With an LCD?
It doesn't matter whether your LCD TV uses a CCFL or an LED backlight -- if the screen starts flashing, flickering or dimming, it usually means one of three things: the bulb is dying, the inverter is broken or the bulb was incorrectly installed. Fortunately, a TV repair service can easily fix all these problems.
Unlike plasma televisions, in which the plasma molecules can illuminate themselves, the liquid crystals in LCD TVs are transmissive. This means they require a third party to light up the image on the screen. LCDs use two main types of backlighting technology. The first and older of the two is CCFL, short for "cold-cathode fluorescent lamp." The more modern of the two is LED, which stands for "light-emitting diodes."
LCD TVs have a lifespan of between 60,000 and 100,000 viewing hours. On the high end, this means you could keep your LCD TV on 24/7 for more than 11 years. However, neither LED nor CCFL bulbs have such a long lifespan. The website "Electronics Weekly" says the average LED backlight lasts about 50,000 viewing hours, while a CCFL backlight usually lasts between 20,000 and 40,000 viewing hours. If the image on your screen flickers or flashes, it may be a sign that the backlight is dying and needs to be replaced.
According to one CCFL bulb online retailer, dying backlights are responsible for roughly 95 percent of flickering and flashing backlights. However, in the other five percent of cases, a problematic inverter may be to blame. The inverter supplies the backlight with its power. When the inverter begins to fail, it disrupts this flow of electricity, resulting in a flashing or flickering bulb. Just as the backlight itself can be replaced to elongate the lifespan of an LCD TV, so can the inverter.
Installing a new backlight -- whether using CCFL or LED bulbs -- is not a task for a novice. It involves detaching the LCD screen from the rest of the television, removing the old light and soldering the new one into place. Improperly installing either the backlight or the inverter will result in a bulb that is not receiving the full flow of electricity. Just as a regular light bulb in a lamp will flicker when it's not screwed in all the way, so will a CCFL or LED backlight when it is incorrectly installed. For this reason, you should have a professional install these critical elements for you.
How Much Radiation Does a TV Emit? | 2019-04-20T14:52:00 | https://itstillworks.com/causes-flashing-backlights-lcd-12171293.html |
0.995448 | Macroautophagy is a cellular process that sequesters senescent or damaged organelles and proteins in autophagosomes for recycling their products. Autophagy is also involved in the removal of cells that have undergone classical apoptosis. Hence, autophagy can be generally considered as a protector of cells against various stressors and a cellular response to routine wear-and-tear. Paradoxically, autophagy may also be related to a form of non-apoptotic program cell death. Thus, autophagy can either protect cells or promote cell death, depending on the cellular and environmental context. Changes in autophagy are early events within the course of many degenerative diseases frequently associated with aging. Some of these modifications clearly precede the clinical diagnosis of these diseases and might mark the evolution from pre-clinical to overt diseases. Endocrine-metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes, thyroid dysfunctions associated with the aging, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and many forms of endocrine cancer are closely linked with disturbances into the autophagy flow. Even endothelial alterations related to these metabolic disturbances, including atherogenic processes, are associated to these modifications. Chronic complications of metabolic diseases are also linked to alterations in autophagy rates and flux. Sarcopenia and neurological age-associated degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer disease, are pathophysiologically related to different forms of cell dysfunction linked to macroautophagy impairment. Imbalances in the antioxidant capacity within the cell result in oxidative stress-mediated injury. Selective autophagy mechanisms, as well as vesicular secretion and pathways related to senescence are relevant topics involved in the pathophysiology of these complex diseases. Some questions arise as natural consequence: Is autophagy a target for therapeutic intervention in these degenerative diseases? If affirmative, what is needed to do? What are the optimal autophagy rates and/or flux to be obtained at the critical tissues? Aligned with the answers to these and other related questions might help to the development of new therapies to take advantage of the potential cytoprotective effect of autophagy in chronic degenerative diseases as a potentially promising avenue of investigation.
• Chronic complications of metabolic diseases: diabetes neuropathy and nephropathy, are also linked to alterations in autophagy rates and flux.
• Selective autophagy as a cell response to aging and metabolic, degenerative and tumoral diseases.
• Autophagy and senescence in oncogenesis, tumor progression and metabolic diseases. | 2019-04-20T20:43:12 | https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/7552/autophagy-in-endocrine-metabolic-diseases-associated-with-aging |
0.999981 | Like many other new parents, Tricia and Steven McHale are besotted with their baby daughter. Nestled together on their sofa, they take turns to cradle 15 week old Elizabeth Mary, who drinks thirstily from a bottle.
The two exchange the occasional word as they watch her, enraptured. But while this is a scene played out in countless other houses across Britain, for Tricia and Steven, this blissful moment has been hard won.
off to conceive since their honeymoon in 1992, and had wondered why they had never fallen pregnant.
It was only when they began trying in earnest five years ago that they realised there was a problem.
could cope with another person to depend on him.
Tricia has been mentally and physically disabled since a tragic road accident aged 13. As she made her way to the sweet shop, a reckless driver knocked her down.
She lay in a coma for eight weeks, with a further five weeks spent on a children's ward.
unsteady on her feet and unable to walk more than a few steps without support.
Over the years though, despite the challenges they knew they would face, both Tricia and Steven became overwhelmed by a yearning to become parents.
Five years ago, they decided to try to conceive. When despite their careful calculations nothing was happening, they sought help.
The couple saved for a course of IVF which did result in a pregnancy. Sadly, Tricia miscarried between 10 and 12 weeks. A second attempt also ended in early miscarriage.
Dejected, the two began saving for another course of IVF. In the meantime, they experimented with other methods of insemination.
Before they had embarked upon the second round of IVF, Tricia was stunned to find that she had finally managed to fall pregnant without IVF.
Both were elated – but given their history of miscarriage, they were reluctant to celebrate too soon.
As the pregnancy progressed, despite the physical toll carrying a child had on Tricia, the McHales were able to relax.
But then a new fear took over.
Tricia had read about a disabled woman whose baby was taken away from her by the social services.
Now, she was terrified the same would happen to her.
'I was so frightened the hospital would take her away because of my disability,' says Tricia, with tears in her eyes.
'I was told I had to notify the authorities that I was pregnant. I thought that meant they would take Elizabeth away.
'When I was in labour the midwives came in and asked me who was going to look after my baby.
During her labour, Tricia was reassured by the midwives, who told her if the authorities were going to intervene, they would have done so by now.
For his part, Steven was adamant that Tricia should be the main carer for her daughter.
her – that's the distinction,' he adds.
Tricia and Steven set about putting measures into place to enable Tricia to enjoy motherhood as independently as possible at home.
wheeled walking aid to which they attached a basket and a mattress.
'We employed a childminder to look after Elizabeth for two days a week, and the other three days, a mother's help comes to assist Tricia,' Steven says.
Steven works just 10 minutes away so that he can rush back at any moment if necessary, and says his firm has been 'so understanding' – allowing him to save up six weeks holiday from last year to add to his two weeks paternity leave, and giving him the flexibility to work from home.
And Steven put notices and signs up around the house to remind Tricia how to make up Elizabeth's feeds.
Seven weeks after the birth of 5lb 13oz Elizabeth Mary, Tricia is coping well. She takes care of the day feeds, while Steven is doing all the night feeds.
Indeed both are as bewitched by baby Elizabeth as they are by each other. Something which is hard to top, given their devotion to one another.
While the tumultuous early days of having a newborn can rock the foundations of even the strongest marriage, Tricia and Steven are more in love than ever.
'It's made our relationship better than ever,' says Steven. 'My feelings are stronger than ever. Everything has been cemented.
One Born Every Minute is on Channel 4 tonight, 25 January, at 9pm. | 2019-04-25T22:18:35 | http://tiskin.com/disabled-mother-tricia-mchale-speaks-of-fears-her-daughter-would-be-taken-into-care/ |
0.995816 | Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (WPM) rose 2.92% with the finishing price of $22.58 in Friday Trading Session. The stock price showed -1.25% negative in value from one year high price and revealed 49.73% higher in value from its one year low price. In the recent week Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. stock price volatility was noted 1.77% while for the last month volatility was seen at 1.98%. Its Average True Range (ATR) shows a number of 0.48. Return on assets (ROA) results to 4.70%. While Return on investment (ROI) reached to 1.30%.
In terms of profitability, The Company has a profit margin of 33.60%, gross margin of 36.80% and an operating of 36.20%. The stock price changed 2.17% in the past week. Shares of the company have performed 35.62% over the last three months and moved 13.47% over the last 12- months.
The 3.26% up picture painted by the trends generated around 20 SMAs. The established market sentiment toward the stock has created a trading environment which can suitably be described as optimistic.
There has been up move seen around 50 SMAs. The stock price is showing 9.07% distance above 50 SMA. On the surface, it seems as the higher the 50-day moving average goes, the more bullish the market is (and the lower it goes, the more bearish). In practice, however, the reverse is true. The 50-day moving average is perceived to be the dividing line between a stock that is technically healthy and one that is not. Furthermore, the percentage of stocks above their 50-day moving average helps determine the overall health of the market. Many market traders also use moving averages to determine profitable entry and exit points into specific securities. Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (WPM) has demonstrated up trend based on recent movement of 200 SMA with 17.50% during the course of recent market activity. This trend reveals recent direction. The current direction of 200 SMA is upward. When the price over the last 200 days is moving with increasing trend, look for buy opportunities and when it shows decreasing trend the price is below the last 200 days, look for sell opportunities.
The current value of the RSI is 63.68. The relative strength index (RSI) readings highlights overbought above 70 and oversold below 30. The stock also has a beta of -0.01. When beta is less/more than 1, it can be interpreted that the stock is theoretically less/more volatile than the market – something traders will surely be keeping an eye on. | 2019-04-24T08:06:01 | http://www.stockmarketstop.com/2019/03/active-stock-under-review-wheaton-precious-metals-corp-wpm-2/ |
0.999946 | John Surtees won World Championships on two wheels and four. A remarkable achievement. Unlikely to be repeated (Valentino Rossi, maybe?) A racer who would be equally at home in the Halls of Fame of both motorcycle and car racing, 'Big John' rarely won the accolades his success deserved, for he was a man who kept his own counsel and ploughed his own furrow. His critics suggested that was his biggest problem, but he himself simply says: 'I suffered perhaps from an excess of enthusiasm, of always wanting to get deeply involved with any project on which I was working.' Surtees' prowess on motorcycles won him universal respect, and soon after trying out cars for Vanwall and Aston Martin in 1959, he switched full-time to cars in 1960. A victory in Formula 500 for Ken Tyrrell at Goodwood confirmed the wisdom of the move, and he made his F1 debut for Lotus in Monte Carlo. One race later, he finished second at Silverstone in the British GP, before taking pole position in Portugal. Despite the prodigious speed he showed, this was the point at which Colin Chapman was forging his deep alliance with Jim Clark, and Surtees elected to move to pastures new just as the British team really began to establish itself. After winning the World Championship for Ferrari in a dramatic Mexican Grand Prix in 1964, Surtees quit the Prancing Horse in the middle of the 1966 season after internal pressure became intolerable, and thus left Jack Brabham a clear run to the title. After a dismal 1969 season he left BRM to set up his own team, Surtees Racing Organisation, for 1970, just as BRM started winning again. In a car, as on a bike, Surtees was a fearless, tough but fair competitor, as quick as the best without being wild. But where most of his rivals contented themselves with riding or driving, he had a deep interest in the workings of his machines. Some said he should have simply concentrated solely on racing, itself difficult enough, but he liked to tinker and probe in an unceasing quest for technical perfection. Surtees has few regrets, however. Such an approach worked perfectly well as his exploits on motorcycles passed into legend and he took MV Agusta to countless victories and the World Championships in 1956 (500cc class), 1958, '59 and '60 (350 and 500). In that final year he also began the car racing career that would take him to the unique double by the age of 30. A year after his four-wheel World Championship he was badly injured when his CanAm Lola T70 crashed at Mosport Park in Canada. It was a mark of the man that he astonished doctors with the speed of his recovery. Resilience and determination were always Big John's hallmarks in a career that deserved even greater success. | 2019-04-18T19:06:23 | http://historicracing.com/driver_detail.cfm?driverID=1255 |
0.997963 | How healthy is the United States? This question has dominated the minds of many health experts and researchers for several years. Given the diversity and vastness of the United States, it is not easy to determine the health status of the population. A number of parameters and health measures have to be evaluated before estimating the health status of any society. Based on available date from the above variables, I would say that the health ranking of the United States is a B. although, some states are highly ranked in some health determinants than others, overall, the entire United states health status is ranked at a B. The following analysis of health determinants as recommended to by the United Nation will justify my position.
To begin with, the rate of per capita public health funding is slightly above average in most status. Most states in America spend a huge junk of their resources on funding health programs. Barr, (2008), asserts that some states like Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut have committed vast resources to public health issues. On the other hand, some states are still lucking behind in this field. For instance, the rate of public funding in Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma is below average. These states still experience low rate of the uninsured population, low rate of high school graduation and unavailability of primary care physicians.
Further analysis reveal that even in states with superior scores in most health determinants, this states are still grappling with issues of low rate of immunization coverage, and high rate of occupational fatalities. In summary, an evaluation of the combined health determinants in the Unites States ranks the country at a B. These include the rate of high school graduation, rate of usage of early prenatal care and the rate of access to health care. According to Shi, & Stevens, (2011), most states have enacted policies and legislation to bolster the health status of their citizens, but further action is needed to enable the country attain the United Nations health recommendations. | 2019-04-23T20:30:00 | https://essayswriters.com/essays/Analysis/how-healthy-is-the-united-states.html |
0.999998 | What can the Chinese government do to keep the wealth gap from widening?
China could rebalance its economy away from wasteful investment, which mainly benefits elites in construction and related industries, toward consumption and services, which provides more opportunities for middle-class workers.
China could also invest more in education so that everyday citizens could participate in more high-value-added labor as a way to earn a larger slice of national income. China could also enforce its laws against corruption, bribery and cronyism more rigorously and clamp down on tax avoidance and capital flight.
What is driving China's growing wealth gap?
Most of the income inequality in China can be explained by corruption and elitism. In the 1980s and 1990s, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, China reformed its system of state-owned enterprises (SOES). Some of these SOES were closed, some were privatized, and some remained SOES, but were designated as national champions in their respective industries and allowed to thrive free of normal competition.
In each case, stock in the privatized companies or senior management roles in the new national champions was given to loyal Communist Party cadres and to so-called "princelings" who were the sons and daughters of leading officials or survivors of the Long March days of Mao Zedong in the 1930s. During the export and investment led boom that followed, these enterprises made enormous profits which went principally to the owners and senior managers and not to the workers.
This boom has continued beyond the bounds of normal expansion through China's over-investment in infrastructure, much of which is wasted. In effect, China is misallocating national wealth in favor of the SOES and private companies favored by government, which enriches a few at the expense of the nation as a whole.
How unequal has the current Chinese economic system become in comparison to capitalist systems in countries such as the United States?
Income inequality is a global problem. It has always existed in traditional oligarchical systems such as those in South America. It was less prevalent in North America and Europe and former Commonwealth nations that had a strong rule of law and offered good economic opportunities to those people who did not necessarily start out from a privileged position.
It was also not much of a problem in Communist nations such as Russia and China because there was relatively little wealth to begin with. Elites may have lived better but they were constrained by the relative poverty of their countries. Since the new age of globalization began in 1989, China and Russia have become much richer, which increases the opportunities for cronyism and theft by elites.
The situation in the US is exacerbated by bank and auto bailouts, other forms of government favoritism, and an opaque and complex tax system. The causes of income inequality in China, Russia and the US are different but the result is the same. China has greater income inequality than the US, but both countries are approaching the point where income inequality is so extreme that it threatens to cause social disorder.
The ruling Communist Party aims to preserve social stability to avoid any challenge to its grasp on power. How big of a concern is this widening wealth gap to China's Communist Party?
Income inequality should be deeply disturbing to the Communist Party leadership because it has historically been a source of social instability in China. The demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989 were in part attributable to increasing inflation, which is a form of income inequality because it is most damaging to those with fewer investment options to hedge against inflation.
However, the Chinese elites are themselves the main beneficiaries of income inequality in the short run. Capital flight from China is accelerating, which is a sign that at least some elites have adopted a "take the money and run" attitude and no longer care about continued Communist Party dominance provided they can extract enormous wealth from the country before the social disorder become more pronounced. The widening wealth gap is troubling, but it is not clear whether there is much political will to stop it.
Listening to mainstream market commentary on television and reading the financial press leaves one with the impression that the economic recovery is gaining strength and that stock market indices, at or near all-time highs, will go higher still.
The litany of market happy talk is impressive. The unemployment rate has dropped to 6.1%, down about 4 percentage points from its peak, and is expected to go lower in the months ahead. The economy created about 230,000 jobs per month in the first half of 2014, which brings the increase in jobs to nine million since the economic recovery began in mid-2009. Interest rates remain low, which supports high asset valuations in stocks and housing. Inflation is tame and expectations about future inflation are well anchored. To hear the stock market bulls tell the story, all is right with the world.
But all is not right. In fact, the fundamentals of the U.S. economy are in awful condition and are getting worse. Almost everything about the happy talk story is superficial, and falls apart under scrutiny. There is an alternative narrative of bad news that is seldom discussed on mainstream business channels but is well known to analysts. When these adverse trends are taken into account one conclusion in inescapable. The stock market and economic fundamentals are on a collision course. One or the other will have to swerve. Either the economy will have to improve rapidly and unexpectedly and reverse its fundamental weakness, or inflated stock values are heading for a precipitous fall. The evidence suggests that the latter is more likely.
The first weak link in the happy talk chain is the nature of job creation. For example, it was reported than 288,000 jobs were created in June. But full-time jobs declined by 523,000 while part time jobs increased by about 800,000. The widely reported increase in net jobs masked a disastrous loss of full-time jobs offset by a huge increase in part-time jobs. The part-time jobs offer fewer hours, lower pay and few benefits. They may be better than no job at all, but they are not the kind of jobs that will support discretionary consumer spending on which the economy relies for growth.
This trend in part-time jobs is not new. There are 7.5 million people working part-time on an involuntary basis compared to about 4.4 million doing so in 2007. This rise in part-time jobs is expected to continue because it is driven in part by Obamacare, which does not require coverage for part-time workers. Employers are aware of this and simply cut full-time jobs and replace them with part-timers to reduce insurance costs.
Nor is there any comfort in the declining unemployment rate. Much of the decline is attributable not to job creation but rather to the decline in the number of people looking for work. Once people stop looking for a job, they are no longer technically “unemployed” and the unemployment rate drops even though no job has been found. As columnist Mort Zuckerman said, “You might as well say that the unemployment rate would be zero if everyone stopped looking for work.” Only 62.8% of Americans participate in the work force today — the lowest level since 1978.
The news gets worse. Not only is labor force participation low, and full-time employment collapsing, but the productivity of those working is now in decline. This decline in productivity is another drag on growth. The reason for it is even more disturbing. Productivity is declining because capital expenditure has slowed. Businesses are keeping up with demand by employing part-time workers instead of investing in the plant and equipment needed to make full-time workers more productive.
Not surprisingly, this triple-whammy of declining full-time jobs, declining productivity and slowing capital investment means that real wages are stagnant. If workers can’t make more, they can’t spend more without borrowing. Borrowing is more difficult because home equity has not recovered from the 2007 housing crash and lending standards are the most stringent in years. Companies won’t invest in equipment if consumers can’t spend.
The result is a death spiral of lower consumption, lower investment, declining productivity, stagnant wages, and underemployment all feeding on each other and making the overall economy weaker. This is the real reason for the shocking 2.9 percent decline in first quarter GDP. It was not the result of “cold weather,” which by the way happens every winter.
There are other signs of ill health in labor markets. In a dynamic labor market, net job gains reflect large numbers of new jobs and lost jobs as employees confidently quit their jobs in the expectation of finding new ones. But evidence reported by Goldman Sachs and James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute shows that job turnover has declined sharply as employees are extremely reluctant to quit their jobs in an uncertain environment. This tends to lock-out the unemployed who lose job entry opportunities and to weaken wage growth as employees lose leverage to demand raises.
Labor force participation is unlikely to rise significantly partly because of generous benefits that provide an adequate lifestyle for those out of the labor force. The U.S. has over 50 million on food stamps, 11 million on disability, and millions more on extended unemployment benefits. Prospective loss of these benefits creates a high hurdle to motivate a return to the workforce.
The news from abroad is no better. China is slowing precipitously and may be on the brink of a credit collapse. European growth is near zero and even the mighty German economy, the locomotive of Europe, is slowing partly because of weaker demand from Ukraine, Russia and China.
So, the conundrum is complete. Stock indices march to all-time highs while economic fundamentals fall apart. The two will be reconciled either with a spectacular turnaround in growth or a spectacular collapse in stock prices. The problem is that a turnaround in growth can only come from structural reform, not money printing. Structural reform is the job of the White House and Congress, not the Federal Reserve. Since the White House and Congress are barely speaking, no help should be expected from that direction. Therefore a stock market collapse is almost inevitable and is probably coming soon.
Jim Rickards appears on the very popular, Alex Jones, Infowars radio show. He tells Alex to watch what they do. Not what they say.
Jim Rickards, Senior Managing Director at Tangent Capital, discusses whether Argentina's second default on its sovereign debt will have a contagion effect on global financial markets.
Jim Rickards talks with Paul Buitink about the crisis and his presentation for 20 September in Rotterdam.
"The world is witnessing a climactic battle between deflation and inflation," Jim Rickards writes in his excellent new book The Death of Money.
"It is just a matter of time" before this battle comes to a head.
At some point, the U.S. economy will experience "an earthquake in the form of either a deeper depression [from deflation] or higher inflation, as one force rapidly and unexpected overwhelms the other."
For the most part, the government creates this one... by "printing" trillions of dollars.
For starters, we "have no living memory of it." The last episode of persistent deflation was in the Great Depression. Rickards calls deflation "the Federal Reserve's worst nightmare." For one, deflation "increases the value of government debt, making it harder to repay."
Because of fear of deflation, the Fed can't stop its money printing. If it did stop, "deflation would quickly dominate the economy, with disastrous consequences for the national debt, government revenue, and the banking system."
Which will win – inflation or deflation?
Rickards explains that "the most likely path of Federal Reserve policy in the years ahead is the continuation of massive money printing to fend off deflation." The Fed assumes it can later deal with inflation that it might create.
I agree with him. Governments have proven for centuries that – while they might be pretty bad at most things – one thing they're pretty good at is creating inflation through printing money.
The easy conclusion is that inflation will win... but many times, the easy conclusion isn't necessarily the right one.
In his book, Rickards builds a strong case for how deflation could win as well.
Whether inflation or deflation wins this battle, Rickards makes a strong case for a higher gold price.
The global debt markets have mushroomed to an estimated $100 trillion dollars! According to the latest statistics. | 2019-04-19T04:16:25 | https://jimrickards.blogspot.com/2014/08/ |
0.99998 | What are strategies to close the gap between new ideas and implementation? The question may need to be adjusted a little, but many educators are reading, sharing, learning, and growing together. However, what are ways in which we can put these new ideas into action in a timely manner? I'm sure self-initiation, problem-solving, risk-taking and the freedom to fail and learn from such failure will be a part of the conversation. As a principal, I would love to have some strategies to close this gap.
Shawn's question is an important one, and several guests will be responding to his question over the next week.
In schools, I believe the key to "closing the gap between new ideas and implementation" is making sure that teachers are key in determining which new ideas are the ones being implemented. All too often, we are viewed by administrators, particularly many in school district central offices, as their "instruments" in executing "flavor of the year" programs.
And why should administrators make that a priority? Because, if they don't, it's unlikely that they'll be effective.
Many years ago, I helped operate a soup kitchen on San Jose's (CA) Skid Row. We were well-meaning, but not the most responsible neighbors. On day I was sweeping around the passed-out men and women on our front porch when a police car drove-up. An officer got out and started yelling me, saying that we couldn't control thing and they received many complaints about us. As the officer continued, one of the men on the porch pulled himself up on the railing and yelled out, "Officer, Larry tries. He tries hard. We just don't listen to him!"
I've often thought about that incident during my nineteen year career as a community organizer and eleven years as a public school teacher. I've framed the lesson I learned that day as a question, "Do I want to be right? Or do I want to be effective?"
In my organizing career, I learned that a key to engaging people to move beyond their comfort zone is to first build a relationship -- a reciprocal one. A relationship entails eliciting from others their hopes and dreams, along with sharing your own. It involves finding learning the frustrations and challenges that people are experiencing. It involves looking for ways to help the other person realize those hopes and dreams and get beyond those challenges. And, if these "new ideas" can genuinely help in those ways, then building a relationship means framing the invitation to try it in a way that speaks to what the other person wants, which may not be the way the "idea person" would prefer to frame it. It is the difference between "being right" and "being effective."
Up until the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson was a master "implementer." Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and many others tell a story about his arrival in Washington, D.C. as a Congressional aide. He lived in a boardinghouse with other aides -- and took four showers each night and brushed his teeth five separate times in the morning so he could get to know the interests of his colleagues.
Many years later, as President, he still understood that he had to talk personally with as many Congressmen as possible, to learn what they needed to make them feel important. So, he would invite individual Congressmen and Senators to breakfast, to lunch, to dinner. He would call them at 6:00 in the morning. If they weren't up, he would talk to their wives.
Creating a legacy is key.
Though the "goodies" can be important tactical tools, during my organizing career, I also always found that the best leaders were interested -- in their own way -- at how organizing could help them create their own legacy. It could be us having a conversation about how their children might look at them and learn from them if they saw their parents leading a negotiation session with the mayor or how they wanted to be able to describe themselves ten years from now -- the key to getting a real "buy-in" to investing themselves into making change was creating an avenue to building a legacy.
This all takes time. But, as Larry Cuban reminds us, the most effective administrators are marathoners and not sprinters.
Readers might also be interested in learning more about these tactic and strategies at The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence and Creating Change.
I worked for several years as a Teacher Leader in a small rural school district. I taught half the day, the other half I worked with my colleagues. Sometimes we met in small groups, discussing lessons or looking at student work. This was before professional learning communities had become vogue, but that's what we were.
Most often, I sat with individual teachers exploring how to use new technology. Our district had recently gotten wired, and with the help of several grants, new hardware and software was sitting in our classrooms. But most of the teachers did not know how to use the equipment or the programs. Oddly, the time and mechanism for professional learning among the adults was given only limited attention in the writing of these grants, or overlooked completely. Having a peer, not a tech expert, to work with and talk to about what this new innovation will mean in my classroom made teachers more comfortable and more eager to try things that some of our administrators were sure they'd never do.
Something I learned during that time that has stuck with me: Most teachers want to know anything "new" is truly safe and useful before they trust it with their students. I found this to be true not just with new technology, but with new ideas, reforms, approaches, curriculum redesigns, and other things often imposed upon us, rather than developed by us.
Teachers need time to play with new ideas and plan for successful implementation. Given the luxury of time, and a way to pilot new things (maybe one class at a time), and time to reflect on implications and possibilities before going all out, most teachers will not only embrace effective new educational ideas, but create them. This process doesn't necessarily have to take months or years, but it is a necessary process for many teachers, especially those who have seen so many reforms and gadgets come and go. The time and support for adult learning should be built into any implementation plans.
The inertia gap between new ideas and implementation is a common dilemma in our schools. The solutions are unique to settings and circumstances, but overcoming it begins with an orientation to action and a school culture that values implementation. Collaborative teacher time is too limited and precious for good ideas to stay inert in a "needs more study, let's have more meetings, no implementation" cycle.
You have heard the saying "paralysis by analysis". Paralysis by over-talking, over-studying, over-planning is just as common in schools. Certainly study and planning has its place, but the prevailing orientation must be toward action and practice.
Ironically, in many respects, the talk-study-planning phase is more fruitful once practice occurs. It is informed by experiences, the study is more focused, the planning about future practice -- all buoyed by the energy of activity.
One cannot say enough about overcoming the stasis of non-action and recognizing the power of momentum.
One consideration in the planning phase is to put a time limit on when "roll-out" begins, choosing a date that is both reasonable while also ambitious. This conveys an expectation that we are going to "try this", and that through practice we learn most and become better.
Once implementation begins, some form of regular Study Team meetings, which brings teachers' together to discuss and reflect on their practice, is powerful in institutionalizing a culture of implementation. It creates an environment of reflection, refinement, planning and support for on-going practice, while making public this practice. Such public and collaborative practice also institutes an accountability with support toward implementation.
Also, monitoring of implementation via classroom visits supported by informal conversations is an incredibly simple yet powerful method of promoting practice. The saying "what gets monitored gets done" is apt. The motivation here is really to support and praise--to cheerlead if you will--implementation.
In addition, we often create "weekly practice logs" where teachers' tally, or journal, about practice, which they bring to study team meetings. Such structures institutes the good practice of self-reflection through journaling or data analysis, heightens professionalism via accountable practice, and sets up more focused meetings.
New teaching techniques necessitates practice. Just as one learns any new skill--music, language, dance, or sport through trial. Practice, with on-going support and study, is necessary to create schools that are imbued with a feeling that "we implement here". It is both exciting and powerful to be involved in a school with a true culture of continuous innovation.
Thanks to Renee and Kelly for their contributions!
Please feel free to leave a comment sharing your reactions to the topic or directly to anything that has been said in this post. I'll be including readers' comments in the last post in this series. | 2019-04-24T04:09:30 | https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2013/12/response_teachers_must_help_determine_new_ideas_being_implemented.html |
0.998635 | After a long time alone in the territories of the saltwater crocodile: What is the conclusion of such an experience?
Having lived face to face with the saltwater crocodile in its natural habitat and having been able to view it in so many different situations of its everyday life, only one conclusion is possible: Despite the very powerful appearance, this is definitely no monster.
Actually, there isn’t even a greedy predator continuously on the search for prey. What is to be found, is an understandable creature that sometimes seems to enjoy itself by playing in the waves when the water is warm, and that without any doubt, spends much of its time curiously watching what is happening in its surroundings without the intention to hunt or express aggression. Very likely much of what would be felt as threat to humans is caused by the crocodile’s curiosity.
Watching saltwater crocodiles in the free nature and being confronted with them one to one is connected with a very deep fascination, and once the fear has calmed due to finally understanding the animals rules, this captivation can reach degrees which are hard to describe with words.
Certainly this mighty predator can create a danger for us individually when living in or visiting its natural habitat and any accident that has left somebody badly injured or killed is a real tragedy.
But without any doubt those rules - which abiding by will allow us to stay save in the territory of the crocodile - do exist and it is the neglect of these principles that can lead to fatal consequences. This could be compared to our road rules for traffic in the cities.
restrain, that most other animals don’t even take notice what has just passed by. It is not chasing after anything, does not know any kind of torture, and does not even need to hunt all the time due to its efficiency.
Finally, when it kills, there is always a clear reason and for any prey, the end would come almost fast as a flash. So, in the very end of the trip in the world of the big crocodile, after arriving back into mankind’s modern civilisation, things are sticking out: It’s humans who are causing cruelties that are absolutely unprecedented in the history of life on this planet.
If there are any monsters on earth, then they can only be we humans ourselves. Keeping the planets other life forms in narrow cages for their entire life to get cheap meat or eggs, carelessly destroying the habitats of other living creatures, is our behaviour alone.
Maybe we should accept the strongest predator as a teacher, who can make us understand many important things. For example, that disturbing other life forms as little as possible is a precondition for a durable existence at the top of the food chain.
Or that there are hidden rules in nature, connected with limitations, and that not being willing to find and accept them is bonded with high danger of disappearing from this planet very fast and suddenly. | 2019-04-20T20:36:35 | http://saltwatercrocodile.info/html/final_conclusion.html |
0.999911 | To freeze this recipe, make sure you choose fresh filo pastry and freeze the unbaked pie in the cake tin covered with plastic freezer wrap and heavy-duty foil. Thaw it, uncovered, in the fridge for 4 hours or overnight, then bake it as described left.
1. To make the filling, heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium-low heat.
2. Add the spring onion and cook until soft. Stir in the spinach and cook until just wilted. If using frozen spinach, cook until heated through.
3. Drain the spinach mixture in a colander and press out as much moisture as possible. Leave to cool, then tip onto a clean cloth, gather up the sides and squeeze the excess moisture out of the spinach. Chop coarsely.
4. In a bowl, combine the spinach mixture with the cottage cheese, feta, dill, parsley and rice, mixing very thoroughly. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper, bearing in mind the saltiness of the feta.
6. Unwrap the filo pastry and cover the pastry with a barely damp cloth to prevent it drying out and becoming brittle. Combine the olive oil and melted butter.
7. Brush the butter mixture all over a 20cm springform cake tin. Place one layer of filo on the bottom, brush with the butter mixture, top with another layer at a slightly different angle, brush with the butter mixture, and so on, forming 7 layers. Spoon all of the spinach filling on top of the layered filo, spreading out evenly.
8. Fold over any excess filo across the top of the filling and continue layering, forming 5 more layers. Brush the top with butter and then, using a very sharp knife, score the pastry and filling, before baking, into 8 pieces. Scatter black sesame seeds over the top for decoration, if using.
9. Bake the spinach pie for 30 minutes, then remove the springform ring and cook for a further 15 minutes, until sizzling, deep golden and crisp right through each of the filo layers.
10. Cut again along the original slits before serving. Serve hot or cold. | 2019-04-20T12:59:56 | https://goodfood.uktv.co.uk/recipe/spinach-filo-torte/ |
0.998824 | - Sheamus defeated Zack Ryder. Dolph Ziggler was on commentary.
AJ & The Club did a show opening promo about how they would win at MITB. Enzo and Cass interrupted and called them 'Sawft'. Gallows made fun of Enzo for being a former manager of a Hooters. Enzo said The Club had been champs on every continent but Antartica. The New Day made their way to ringside and got on commentary.
- Enzo/Cass and The Club went to a double DQ after The Vaudevillains and New Day interfered and all four teams brawled.
- Renee Young interviewed Rusev backstage. Rusev said he was greater than Muhammad Ali. Titus O'Neil interrupted and said he would beat him at MITB.
- Kevin Owens and Alberto Del Rio beat Cesaro and Sami Zayn. Zayn and Owens disappeared for part of the match and fought to the backstage area before returning. When Owens came back, he attacked Del Rio and then pinned Cesaro.
- Another promo with Bob Backlund and Darren Young. Bob tells Darren he saves money by only wearing one pair of clothes, right down to his "tighty whities".
- Baron Corbin defeated Kalisto with End of Days. Dolph Ziggler was on commentary.
- Backstage segment with Sheamus and Apollo Crews. Sheamus makes fun of Crews but Crews punches Sheamus, sending him into a bunch of objects.
- Chris Jericho defeated Dean Ambrose after hitting the Codebreaker. After the match, Ambrose attacked Jericho with a ladder to end the show. | 2019-04-25T16:07:25 | https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/wwe-smackdown-spoilers-club-vs-enzo-cass-chris-jericho-vs-dean-ambrose-214256 |
0.999631 | Should I capitalize the 'i' in Internet and use a hyphen in e-mail?
Should I capitalize "Internet" and hyphenate "e-mail"?
The Internet is a proper noun. In the English language, almost all proper nouns begin with a capital letter. Therefore, when referring to the Internet, a global interconnected network of computers, always capitalize the first letter. It should be noted that the word internetwork refers in general to a network of computers; it does not require capitalization.
Note: Depending on the style guide you or your organization follow this rule may be different. For example, in the Microsoft Manual of Style "Internet" is capitalized. However, in the Associated Press Stylebook "internet" is lowercase.
Short for "electronic mail," the spelling of e-mail is widely accepted as both "e-mail" and "email." However, according to Merriam-Webster and other authorities, the correct spelling is "e-mail" because it is the compound noun of the words "electronic" and "mail." Other style guides like the Microsoft Manual of Style use "email" with no hyphen.
Computer Hope also chooses to use "e-mail" to help prevent confusion with other compound nouns and other words with the "e-" prefix.
See the hyphen, Internet, and e-mail definitions for further information and related links. | 2019-04-22T00:31:16 | https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001053.htm |
0.999999 | That the difference between the 4, 6 and 8?
The 4 also uses a traditional tongue liner, as opposed to the wrap liners in the 6 and 8.
The flex is different between the 4,6, and 8. The 6 and 8 also have a nicer wrap liner and shock absorber boot board. I don't recommend them unless you want to get your tongues replaced every few weeks. They break off of the rivet easily.
grilled_cheese The flex is different between the 4,6, and 8. The 6 and 8 also have a nicer wrap liner and shock absorber boot board. I don't recommend them unless you want to get your tongues replaced every few weeks. They break off of the rivet easily. | 2019-04-20T22:45:46 | https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/845703/Difference-between-the-Fulltilt-defendants- |
0.998689 | Along with Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang became one of Taiwan's most prominent directors during the 1990s. His films regularly appeared in festivals around the globe and he received lavish praise from film critics worldwide. Born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai moved to Taiwan 20 years later and graduated from the Chinese Cultural University in 1982. For the next ten years, he supported himself by working in theater and writing screenplays for films and television. He directed his first feature in 1992, Rebels of the Neon God, which, with its tough but tender depictions of disaffected youth, earned him comparisons to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In addition to Fassbinder, Tsai was also influenced by François Truffaut, to whom he was exposed as a student. Like Truffaut, who developed a collaboration with actor Jean-Pierre Léaud over the course of several projects, Tsai cast Lee Kang-Sheng as the lead in all of his films. (Lee appeared with Léaud in What Time is it There? as an homage to Truffaut.) Although not a professional actor, Lee, who claimed his own devoted cult of admirers among Tsai's fans, exuded a unique presence onscreen and a naturalness before the camera that Tsai used to great effect. His style differed from his idol Truffaut's, however. As with his countrymen Yang and Hou, Tsai preferred long takes, few close-ups, and sparse dialogue. And like another of his influences, Michelangelo Antonioni, he displayed a genius for placing the camera at exactly the right spot and letting the action unfold before it. Rebels of the Neon God would become a template for the rest of his films, all of which, in some way, were about loneliness and walked a tightrope between deep sadness and deadpan humor. In his second film, Vive L'Amour, three isolated Taipei dwellers connect in odd ways via a vacant apartment. In the much more unsettling The River, a young man develops a debilitating neck ailment that may or may not be psychosomatic after he is discovered by a movie director and asked to play a corpse floating face down in the dirty Tamsui River. The Hole concerns a mysterious epidemic sweeping Taipei as the new millennium approaches, and features a number of surreal musical numbers. Perhaps his most humorous film, What Time is it There? features Lee as a man on the street selling watches and who becomes obsessed with the idea that Paris exists in a completely different time. In addition to his features, Tsai also made a number of videos and short films, the latest of which, The Skywalk Is Gone, was set near where a skywalk (that served as an important location) in What Time is it There? was demolished. The film both commemorated the skywalk and served as a bridge to the director's next feature. Tsai's honors include the FIPRESCI award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for The Hole, the Silver Bear at the 1996 Berlin Film Festival for The River, and the Golden Lion at the 1994 Venice Film Festival for Vive L'Amour. | 2019-04-25T00:02:33 | https://www.allmovie.com/artist/tsai-ming-liang-p194191 |
0.999999 | The story: In a future Los Angeles run by warlords, the Nurse (Jodie Foster) runs a secret hospital for criminals inside the Hotel Artemis, assisted by her trusted orderly Everest (Dave Bautista). The city's poor are rioting over access to water, but her priority is patching up assassins with the codenames Waikiki (Sterling K. Brown) and Nice (Sofia Boutella). Soon, she faces a tough decision: Will she choose family over the Hotel's rules, placing herself and Everest in grave danger?
Jodie Foster is not exactly a prolific actress. Since 2011, she has appeared in four movies, three of them dramas that address the world we live in today in an allegorical fashion.
In family drama The Beaver (2011), which she directed, a man wakes up to find that he can speak only through a hand puppet. In science-fiction adventure Elysium (2013), the blighted Earth is home to the poor, while anyone with money has fled to a space station.
In this film, also set in the future, Los Angeles is in the grip of a cabal of politicians and gangsters. The Nurse (Foster) is a cog in the machinery of oppression that keeps the 99 per cent down.
Elysium buries a moral message in a pulpy premise ("rich people live in the sky and the poor are stuck on the ground"). Foster's new movie is much the same ("gangs have stolen all the city's resources; the poor have nothing").
Set-ups like that can lead to fantastic films. Think John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981) or The Thing (1982).
Despite Foster's credible performance, however, this movie will be forgotten in a month.
Writer-director Drew Pearce makes his feature debut, after a career spent mostly on screenplays (Iron Man 3, 2013; Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, 2015).
Nearly all the action takes place inside the building, once a grand hotel, now functioning like a Swiss bank of hospitals.
The Nurse accepts the worst of the worst without moral judgment. A group of dangerous patients are trapped inside because of the insurrection outside. Each hatches plans to turn the situation to his advantage.
Pearce mixes a range of tones, including the closed-in paranoia of horror classic The Thing, the escape-room thrills of Foster's earlier film, Panic Room (2002), all wrapped in a noir-ish look that recalls Blade Runner (1982).
It is a bold mix, but marred by a lacklustre visual-storytelling style; everybody labours over exposition in dialogue.
There is a fatally mushy, predictable arc for Foster's character.
Finally, the screenplay contrives suspenseful traps for its characters, only to toss them ex-machina escape hatches in the nick of time. | 2019-04-19T05:22:28 | https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/laborious-storytelling-makes-this-hotel-one-to-check-out-of |
0.999071 | Find a Wildlife trip that explores Central Europe. There are 8 tours to choose from, that range in length from 3 days up to 16 days. The most popular month for these tours is June, which has the most tour departures. | 2019-04-18T11:25:21 | https://www.tourradar.com/i/central-europe-wildlife |
0.998633 | Hello! I\'m a Film-Noir buff from Brasília, Brazil. This is the very first time I listen to your podcast, which strikes me as a wonderful initiative. To be truthful, I am not very fond of \"The Strange Love of Martha Ivers\", especially because I wasn\'t compelled by this particular blend of noir and melodrama. In addition, I\'d contend that Rózsa\'s score is not among his greatest. This Hungarian \"devil\" is my favorite Hollywood composer, but his works can be somewhat repetitive and intrusive. As far as I\'m concerned, his score for TSLOMA would provide a fitting instance of such \"flaws\". I prefer his work in The Asphalt Jungle. That\'s just my particular opinion, though, and I thoroughly enjoyed your analysis of the film. Just another brief observation: I believe the film has an important religious element; I also think it would be possible to characterize its outlook as Christian. As far as I\'m concerned, there is a particular scene which introduces the religious element in a subtle but powerful manner: While waiting for Martha, Sam peruses some volumes in her dazzling library. He ends up examining a particular book: Boswell\'s Life of Johnson. Well, Samuel Johnson is an outstanding representative of a time when Christian tradition was ingrained in the constitution of everyday life. I think this is very important. For instance, the character played by Van Heflin becomes acquainted with Christian morality while staying in hotel rooms. Should this be overlooked? I don\'t think so. After all, despite all his vices, Sam has kept something of a moral sense, absent in the case of Martha or Walter, who are both lost souls. What do you think? I\'d love to hear your thoughts. | 2019-04-22T10:19:25 | https://outofthepast.libsyn.com/webpage/episode_34_the_strange_love_of_martha_ivers/comments |
0.999997 | How much is Tom Keifer Worth?
Tom Keifer net worth: Tom Keifer is an American singer who has a net worth of $6 million. Tom Keifer is most famous for being the founder and lead vocalist of the group Cinderella. Coming from a musical family, it's no surprise that Keifer turned out to be a successful musician. From a young age, he learned how to play a guitar and joined a rock band while in junior high school. He went on to pursue a career as a musician by forming Cinderella with a friend. He started writing materials and as a shy guy, he built up the courage to become the lead vocalist. Keifer caught the attention of Bon Jovi and Cinderella's road to success was born. The albums Night Songs (1986), Long Cold Winter (1988) and Heartbreak Station (1990) received raving reviews from music critics. However the band went through a difficult period, as Keifer lost his voice. After undergoing several unsuccessful surgeries, the band released their fourth album, Still Climbing (1994), which was a flop. This led to the breakup of Cinderella in 1995. In 1997, the band reunited and toured a year later. The band was signed to Sony Records however, a few years later, they were dropped by the record label. Cinderella continued to tour in 2000 and 2002. Keifer released a solo album titled "The Way Life Goes" in 2013 and a deluxe version of that same album in 2017. | 2019-04-22T02:57:17 | https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/singers/tom-keifer-net-worth/ |
0.999991 | What is the difference between an elder and a deacon? If you could sum up the job description of an elder or pastor in a few words, what would it be? Similarly, if you could sum up the job description of a deacon in a few words, what would it be? The best I have ever found is this. An elder is in charge of spiritual oversight of the church while a deacon is in charge of physical oversight.
All people have all sorts of needs. But all needs boil down into one of two categories - spiritual and physical. And God has organized His church to meet both sets of needs. The elders have been placed in their positions to meet the spiritual needs, and the deacons are chosen to meet the physical needs. We see this all over in the Bible, but this distinction is first set up during the early stages of the church. The first place we see these two ministry functions clearly outlined is in Acts 6. A physical need arises in the church, and the apostles realize that although meeting this need would be a good thing for them to do, it would distract them from their God-given priorities.
But rather than just ignore the need, they choose some people from the church to meet that need. In this way, the need is met, and the apostles are able to focus on their purpose in the church. This need is introduced in Acts 6:1 and centers around the issue of a type of discrimination that was going on in the early church.
1Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
There are two groups of people in verse 1. The Hebrew Jews and the Hellenistic Jews. Both are Jews. The Hebrew Jews are those who tried to remain as obedient to the laws and traditions of Judaism as they could during the dispersion. They still spoke Hebrew. They dressed in their traditional clothing and were obviously very different from all of the other surrounding people. The Hellenistic Jews, on the other hand, had adopted the language, customs and culture of the Greek civilization. They probably no longer spoke Hebrew, but spoke Greek. They didn't dress in traditional Jewish clothes, but wore the kind of clothing the average Roman citizen wore. It was very difficult to tell the Hellenistic Jew apart from anyone else on the street. And naturally, the Hebraic Jews began to look down on the Hellenistic Jews as "second-class" Jews. The Hebraic Jews thought that the Hellenistic Jews had sold out and compromised. They lived and looked too much like the world.
We see this sort of thing happen all the time in churches across America today. In some churches in the Midwest, people will think you are second-class Christian if you don't wear a suit to church. Of course, if you go out to the West Coast, people will think you're too stuck on outward appearances if you do wear a suit to church. There are other ways we try to discriminate between Christians who are really devoted and those who are not. For example, I tend to think that people who come to a Wednesday night prayer meeting and Bible study are the committed ones, while everyone else are "second class." But this is an outward actions that does not necessarily reveal an inward motive. We cannot judge people as "spiritually immature" simply because they don�t come to Wednesday night Bible study. We could also list things like tattoos, what kind of car a person drives, what music they listen to, what they drink with their meal, what they wear to church, how they behave in church, how much money they give to the church and so on. While some of these may be good indicators of spirituality, none of them are able to reveal a person's heart motives to us, which God alone sees. So we must be careful not to judge or discriminate against them.
This is what the Hebraic Jews were doing. Somehow, they were the ones who gained more control in the early church, and in the daily distribution of food among the widows, the Hellenistic Jews were being ignored and overlooked. The Hebraic Jews must have thought that the Hellenistic widows did not deserve to be cared for because they were compromising with the world. They were carnal Christians. And so the Hellenistic widows were going hungry. They had a need which nobody was meeting.
Now, this is just one example of a physical need in the church. There are numerous other physical needs that must not be overlooked in the church. There are always numerous people in the church who have needs. There are the sick or poor or hungry. People who have need of work, or food or clothing. People who have mental, emotional, financial or psychological needs. And it is the responsibility of the church to meet as many of these needs as possible. But here in Acts 6, we are told exactly who has a need and what it is.
They were women who could not work. They were widows who might have had children they were taking care of, or who were too old to remarry or work. They were without food. They were hungry and had no means of getting food. This need is not somebody who could work, but just doesn't want to. This need is not somebody who is making poor financial decisions with the money they do have. This is a real need. These widows are without money and without recourse. They have not way of getting money or getting food. And Biblically, the church is supposed to take care of widows in this situation.
James 1:27 tell us to visit orphans and widows in their distress. "Visit" doesn't just to go by and spend some time chatting with them. The word is episkeptomai. It means to care for, to be concerned about, to be there for them in their time of need, to supply for their needs. It even carries with it the idea of actively looking for them. It doesn't mean waiting for them to come to us and ask that we meet their needs. It means looking around the church and seeking out those who are genuinely in need. This is the way the word is used right here in Acts 6:3 also. It is translated there as "seek out from among you."
Stephen uses it later in his sermon in Acts 7:23. Moses grew up in the royal courts of Egypt, but when he was 40 years old, he decided to go and see how his brethren among the Israelites were doing. Acts 7:23 says, "Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit (episkeptomai) his brethren, the children of Israel." Moses actively sought out his brethren to see if there was any way he could help them. You know what happens. He tries to help them in his flesh by killing an Egyptian, which forces him to flee to Midian where he hid for 40 years before returning in the power of God.
But the point is that we are to seek out and care for those in the church who have genuine needs. We don't wait for them to come to us. Sometimes, as here in Acts 6, those with needs seek out help for themselves, but for the most part, we should be on the look out for them, and then doing something to meet their needs. So this is what the church is supposed to do for those who are in need. And specifically here in Acts 6, and James 1:27, the widows. Now the Bible contains very clear and careful instructions on how to care for widows.
1 Timothy 5:3-16 contains the Biblical teaching on the care of widows. This passage provides a clear, step-by-step process for determining which widows to care for and how their needs should be met. Verse 3 shows first of all that there are two classes of widows. There are widows and widows indeed. There are widows and those who are really widows. You say, "What's the difference?" Well, the following verses reveal that a widow is anyone who has lost her husband to death, divorce or departure. But a widow indeed is more than just a widow. A widow indeed is a woman who not only has lost her husband, but is completely without help from family members. She has no one in the world who will meet her needs. You see the husband's role was to protect and provide for her. If he dies, then it is the role of her father, her brothers or brothers-in-law, her uncles and her children, if they are grown, to take care of her. But if there is nobody to meet her needs, then she is a widow indeed. She has nobody to provide for her or protect her.
So Paul gives instructs for both in verses 4-16. First, for those who are widows. He says that they should be cared for by their extended family. In verse 4, he calls upon children and grandchildren to take care of her. He says in verse 16 that any of her Christian family members should take care of her. He says in verse 8 that if a family does not take care of its widows, they are worse than unbelievers. He says in verse 14 that younger widows should get re-married if at all possible. But what about those who do not have any family members who support them? What about those who are widows indeed? He says in verse 5 that they should rely on God in prayer and supplication. And then in verse 9, she should be put on the widow's list. Under certain conditions, the church provides for these widows and cares for them (5:9-16). They in turn, kind of become "staff widows" are expected to serve in the church and meet the needs of other people in church, and help teach, train and support the younger women (Titus 2:3-5).
Apparently, it is these widows indeed who are being neglected in Acts 6. It is not all of the widows, but only the Hellenistic widows. They do come to the apostles and ask for help. And the apostles correctly discern that something must be done to meet this need, but that they themselves cannot meet it and still focus on what God has called them to do. In fact, very likely, they realize that this situation has arisen, because they have not been giving enough time to the teaching of the Word. However, they can't do both. They cannot meet this real need and still perform their God-given priorities. They cannot care for the widows and accomplish their purpose in the church. So in verses 2-4, they discern that they need some help. They set their pastoral priorities and lay out some principles for choosing deacons.
2Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. 3Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; 4but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
They gather the church together and say, "Look, here's a need that must be met. But our purpose is not to serve in this way. God has ordained us to meet people's spiritual needs with the Word of God. If we neglected the Word, in order to serve tables, certainly, people would be fed physically, but then they would starve spiritually. "But we do recognize that this need is important, and so select some men to meet this physical need. Meanwhile, we will continue to focus all our energy on meeting the spiritual needs. We will do this through two things - prayer and preaching the Word."
It is not that they disliked caring for the needy, nor does it imply that they thought they were too important for such work. To the contrary, they knew that such work was vitally important. But they knew that caring for the sick and poor was not their first priority. Their first priority was not meeting the physical needs, but meeting the spiritual needs of people. So they tell the church to select men to meet the physical needs. Notice in verse 3 that there are three stated requirements for deacons.
First, they had to be men of good reputation. Or men of honest report. This means both inside and outside the church, they are to be well liked. They must be men who are honest and reliable. It is not a popularity contest, but these men are well known and well liked in the community. Second, they are full of the Holy Spirit. These men are spiritually mature. The working of the Holy Spirit is evident in their lives. They reveal the fruit of the spirit and a knowledge of the Word. They are under the control of the Spirit. Finally, they are also full of�wisdom. They are wise and understanding. They are men of discernment. They are able to correctly judge the actions and motives of people to whom they are giving care. Handling the funds of the church requires great wisdom and prayerful discernment.
So from these three qualifications, we see that they are not spiritual slackers. Sometimes, deacons in churches are chosen simply by whoever is willing to serve, or whoever has money to give. But these men were spiritual giants in the church. These were men of faith and integrity and power. They were intimate with the Word and filled with the Holy Spirit. They were wise and discerning. No deacon should ever feel that they are second class leaders in the church. Being a deacon is a high privilege and is meeting a great need that pastors and elders cannot meet.
Now, there are other qualifications besides these three. 1 Timothy 3:8-13 lists several more. They are to be men of dignity, not double-tongued, not addicted to wine, not greedy, and must live out in life what he believes. His wife has certain qualifications also, and he must be devoted to her and be a good father to his children. We could go into great detail on all of these. One author who has is a man named Alexander Strauch in his book, The New Testament Deacon.
1 Timothy 3 also lists the qualifications for elders. There are many similarities between the two offices, but the main difference is in the function. Deacons are to meet the physical needs of the members of the church; the elders are to be those who meet the spiritual needs of the church, primarily through the teaching of the Word. This is what we see the apostles say in verse 4.
4but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
The two things every pastor, every elder should focus on is prayer and preaching. If these things are not getting done, it is his responsibility and the responsibility of the church to cut things out of his schedule, and take away certain responsibilities until these things become his number one priority and purpose and function in the church. It has become popular today to think of the pastor and the elders as the ones who go about serving people and visiting people in the hospital and in their homes and helping them do the fix-it projects at home and spending time with them on the golf course and in the fishing boat. Now, these things are all fine and dandy for a pastor, or an elder, to do, IF the people in the church are being fed spiritually.
We all know we need food in order to live. That is why we expend so much energy to provide food for ourselves. Yet, most people don't know they also need the Word of God in order to live. In the Old Testament, Moses told Israel, "'�[God] let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know�that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord'" (Deuteronomy 8:3). Our Lord also said, "'Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man shall give to you'" (John 6:27).
I am convinced that the main reason the American church is so spiritually weak today is that the majority of pastor's have neglected the systematic teaching of the Word. The Christians who attend churches where the Word is not taught are suffering from severe spiritual malnutrition. And somebody who is malnourished has no strength, no power. They get sick easy. They are easily defeated by any enemy that comes along. All they do is lie around half asleep. A church that is well fed spiritually will be a healthy, powerful, vibrant, growing church. This is why it is so important for the pastors and elders of every church to focus primarily on prayer and preaching.
The contemporary church�has erroneously taken the responsibility of nurturing care for the people of God from under the leadership of the deacons and has reassigned it to the pastor�.Pastors must be caring people, but�the saints should do the work of the ministry.
Pastors who prefer to spend time caring for people's physical needs may be depriving the deacons of assuming their God-given function. If they feel led to focus on such needs instead of teaching the Word, perhaps they unapologetically should step out of their role as pastor-teachers and live out their goals as helpers, people of deep compassion for physical needs. This would open up pastoral slots for others to preach and teach the Word. Christians need the teaching of God's Word at all costs. This must not be neglected.
Churches who prefer having a pastor spend most of his time doing visitation and counseling should consider finding a person specifically for these tasks.
Prayer and preaching the Word are the primary functions and responsibilities of the spiritual leaders of the church. Meeting the physical needs of the church are the priorities of the deacons and church body at large. Toward this end, the early church chose seven men who were responsible to meet these needs. We read about them in verses 5-7.
5And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch, 6whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them.
You know what is interesting about these seven names? They are all Greek names. This implies that all of them were Hellenistic Jews except for the seventh. Luke tells us that Nicolas was a proselyte from Antioch. This means he was a Gentile convert to Judaism who then became a Christian. So none of the seven were of the Hebraic Jews. This doesn't mean that the Hebraic Jews couldn�t be deacons. They could. But the apostles were so intent on making sure that the minority, those who were often overlooked and ignored, were taken care of, they picked seven men from among the minority to make sure the work got done. If we want to reach out to someone, it is often best to pick mature Christians from among that group to do the work. Now certainly, because these men were Godly men, they took care of the Hebraic Jews also, but they did so fairly and with justice.
In the chapters to come, we read more about Stephen and Philip. Great men of God devoted to His service. Stephen becomes the first Christian martyr and was a powerful Bible teacher. Philip was an evangelist carrying the Gospel to an unreached and often hated people group - the Samaritans. He had four daughters who became prophetesses and were influential in the life of Paul.
We don�t know anything much from the Bible about the other five, but literature outside the Bible does give us some hints. Prochorus supposedly became the assistant and secretary to the apostle John. After John died, Prochorus became one of the elders of a large church in Nidomeda before being martyred.
We don't know anything about Nicanor, Timon or Parmenas, but some believe that Nicolas became a false teacher who started the Nicolaitian heresy mentioned in Revelation 2:6, 15. We cannot be sure that Nicolas of Acts 6 is the one who started the Nicolaitian heresy, but there is some speculation that he was.
I see from these seven numerous paths a deacon can take. First of all, like Stephen, Philip, and Prochorus, they can go on to great service and ministry and fame within God's church. Like Stephen, they may end up dying for the truth of Christianity. Others, like Stephen, may spread the Gospel far and wide, and raise up wonderful Christian families to carry on the work. Or, like Prochorus, they may change roles from being in charge of the physical oversight to being in charge of the spiritual oversight of the church.
Then there are those deacons like Nicanor, Timon and Parmenas, who continue to serve God behind the scenes in relative obscurity. They are happy to quietly and faithfully serve God. Their service is rarely recognized, but that is how they like it. They almost never get their name in the bulletin, and especially not in the newspaper. They just love to help people whenever, wherever and however they can. Of course, they will not be overlooked in heaven, for God sees what is done in secret and will reward them. I am certain that there were hundreds, if not thousands of Christians in the early church who greatly benefited from the service of these men. 1 Timothy 3:13 says that those deacons who serve well obtain for themselves a high standing in the church and great boldness when they stand before Christ. Some deacons change roles and functions and gain public recognition. Some continue to anonymously serve God behind the scenes. Those are two highly commendable categories of deacons.
But then some, possibly like Nicolas, end up in false doctrine and teaching heresy. I have known deacons like this - who want more power and fame and notoriety for themselves than God has seen fit to give them, and so they try to get it for themselves, and end up leading many people astray. It is a very sad thing and can lead to disaster.
But whatever happens eventually to these seven, all of them initially have a part in what we read in verse 7. Because they began to serve and minister and meet people's physical needs, the apostles were able to devote more time to prayer and preaching, and look what happens in verse 7.
7Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.
Verse 7 is the secret to church growth. The Biblical method for growing a church numerically, spiritually and in ministry expansion is simply to feed the flock. Healthy sheep reproduce naturally. Sick and malnourished sheep curl up and die, or wander away looking for grass elsewhere. But when we provide rich, thick, nutritious, lush grass for them to eat their fill of, they will eat and reproduce. It's inevitable. As the apostles are freed to focus on teaching, we see that three things happen naturally.
The Word of God spread. People went everywhere talking about the Bible and what they had learned under the apostle's teaching. People take what they learn and spread it around. It comes out at work. It comes out in the neighborhood. It shows itself in changes of behavior and work ethics and family priorities. When the Word of God is taught, the Word of God spreads.
Second, the number of disciples multiplied greatly. Many people were not only coming to faith in Christ, but were also continuing down the path of discipleship. They were living their lives for Christ and were making a difference in the world through the way they lived.
Finally, a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith also. This means that many of the priests were becoming disciples. Though many of them were formerly very antagonistic to Jesus Christ and the fledgling Christian church, they were now seeing that Christ truly did fulfil the Old Testament laws and prophecies and so they were becoming Christians and living in obedience to the truths of Christ.
When God's Word is preached and God's people are cared for, God does great things in and through His church. And the key to it all was the deacons. They let needy people know that they were cared for. They let the apostles focus on their purpose of prayer and preaching.
Deacons are extremely important in the church for enabling it to function as it should. They meet the physical needs of people so the elders and pastors can meet the spiritual needs. They are ministers of service while the elders and pastors are ministers of speaking. One is not better than the other. Both are necessary for the healthy function and growth of the body.
The greatest deacon of all is Jesus Christ, who came to be a serve and to give his life as a ransom for many (Matt. 20:28). Deacons follow in His footsteps by being strong without being harsh, gentle without being weak, caring without being sentimental, and forgiving without being spineless. The Deacon is the pastor's, the congregation's and the community's best friend because he is Christ to them all. | 2019-04-21T14:39:15 | http://www.tillhecomes.org/Text%20Sermons/Acts/Acts%206%201-7.htm |
0.999184 | I can hear the hot water recirculating motor in my apartment. It's a loud hum. The pipe that the motor feeds from goes through my unit though oddly enough the noise is loudest down the pipe (in my unit), away from where it enters and away from the motor. I have 20ft high ceilings with exposed pipes.
When it shuts off it sounds like a cat meowing, in need of help.
Maintenance has tried to grease the motor to eliminate the cat noise -no luck. I took a look at the motor and there is a crack on a piece of rubber covering its "axle" (or whatever its called).
The main pipe coming through my unit is not completely sealed off at the ceiling (i.e. there's space between the pipe and the hole as it goes through the ceiling). Though I don't think this makes a difference, as I'm hearing the actual motor not the sound of water pumping.
Is there anything that can be done (internal or external) to minimize the humming? Is it normal for a recirculating motor to make this noise? Are some brands quieter than others?
Start off by caulking around the pipe where it enters your unit. Depending on how much reduction that provides, you might have to cover all the exposed pipes with closed cell foam pipe insulation. | 2019-04-19T08:15:28 | http://supersoundproofing.com/forum/index.php/topic,2628.0.html |
0.999999 | Background and experience: I had previously been the head of a management consulting information center, but left primarily because they relocated the office.
What matters to me: I wanted to return to work but stay close to my children.
Why I joined: I had no idea what type of work I would find that allowed me to be home for my kids, but I submitted my resume and hoped for the best.
The work I do for them: What was first going to be a short-term assignment has now turned into a steady flow of work with a great company (Ernst & Young). Most of what I do is researching companies, their executives and boards, in order to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley rules. I went into the Boston EY office for half a day of training, and since then the work has all been from home.
How ClickNwork works for me: Because I am contracted out, I use the ClickNWork site just for invoicing. I generate a weekly timesheet that I submit via email, this is turned into an online invoice which I then submit.
Input: I work pretty much full-time. I generally start at 6:00 with work that has been assigned to me the previous evening, then plan my day around the work load once the client staff get in.
Benefits: Aside from being better able to juggle family life by working from home, the lack of commute allows me to get more into a day. The connectivity with EY has worked out very well and I have only had a couple of technical issues that have been quickly resolved. Being on the company's IM and email systems allows me to feel part of the group, and since many people combine working from home with office work, location is never an issue.
What's Next?: I hope the current arrangement will continue. | 2019-04-18T19:07:27 | http://clicknwork.com/fiona.asp |
0.999491 | The Daffodil Rip van Winkle Narcissi species is a fall planted bulb. This tiny Narcissus with its unusual aster-like flowers blooms extremely early in the spring - at the same time as the Crocus. It is a real eye catcher despite its small size and it is easy to grow and colonize. The blossoms last up to 4 weeks and appear in very early spring. They are great for mass plantings containers and borders.Rip van Winkle bulbs once planted can remain in the ground for many years. They will multiply and produce the most abundant flowering results in the 2nd and 3rd year. If necessary very large clumps of bulbs can be lifted as soon as the leaves wither and then they can be divided and replanted as soon as possible. After flowering let the leaves yellow before cutting them back. The plants are deer rabbit and squirrel resistant..
The Daffodil Yellow Hoop Petticoat Narcissi species is a fall planted bulb. This tiny Narcissus with its unusual aster-like flowers blooms extremely early in the spring - at the same time as the Crocus. It is a real eye catcher despite its small size. It is easy to grow and to colonize. The blossoms last up to 4 weeks and appear in very early spring. They are great for mass plantings containers and borders.Yellow Hoop Petticoat bulbs once planted can remain in the ground for many years. They will multiply and produce the most abundant flowering results in the 2nd and 3rd year. If necessary very large clumps of bulbs can be lifted as soon as the leaves wither and then they can be divided and replanted as soon as possible. After flowering let the leaves yellow before cutting them back. The plants are deer rabbit and squirrel resistant. | 2019-04-25T09:45:25 | http://plants.max-superstore.com/Daffodil-Species-Rip-van-Winkle-Fall-Bulbs |
0.999905 | Does anyone have an opinion as to the MT2 ER32 and ER40 collet chucks that are sold on ebay? I am also considering a Beall collet chuck. The main differences between the 2 styles that I see is that the Beall will allow through the spindle stock mounting and the taper mounted chucks are cheaper. Is the spindle mounting of the Beall chuck inherently more accurate than a morse taper mounted chuck? I recently purchased a South Bend 9" Junior lathe that I have cleaned and repainted and am now purchasing tooling for it. The lathe will be used for hobby work.
You can also roll your own. It's not too hard to make an ER adapter for threaded spindles. ER-32 is probably closer to your through-hole capacity, but it can be done for ER-40 as well. In all liklihood the additional capacity of the ER-40 will hardly come into play since you can turn larger stock in a regular 3 or 4 jaw. The ER-32 is lower cost unless you happen to have the larger collets already or need them for another application.
Is this http://www.bealltool.com/products/turning/colletchuck.php what you mean when you say "Beall chuck"?
If so, it looks like it accepts ER-32 or ER-40 collets. I'm not sure what other ER-style collet chucks you may be referring to, but having the ability to pass long work through the spindle is extremely handy on occasion.
As far as inherent accuracy: the less overhang, the better. A collet that fits into the spindle taper itself is likely going to be the most accurate. But, that will somewhat limit capacity.
Another thing to consider is the range-of-diameter capability of ER collets, a highly desirable feature not available in, say, Morse taper collets that are single-size.
In part it depends on what you are holding. I use collets to hold milling cutters in my 9x20 lathe. Since the shanks of the cutters are ground to precise size I don't need to cover much range. So to get minimum runout and maximum holding power I use morse taper collets like Little Machine Shop #1609.
I decided to go with this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=350024988571&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=022 With the morse taper, I can also use the chuck on my wood lathe. Once I get some experience using my lathe, I'll try making a threaded chuck like TGTool. Where did you get the outer ring? I suppose I will be able to use the ring off of the morse taper chuck I purchased.
Search for er32 nut and you'll find them for typically $12-$20. | 2019-04-25T09:22:07 | http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/archive/index.php/t-27694.html?s=ff6b866ca4126bff1e321353256dca3c |
0.99999 | China is a large nation in the world with one fifth of the world's population. Who is the father of this large country? It is Huangdi that laid the foundation of Chinese civilization and from whom everyone can find the merits of Chinese people living since ancient times. Under his leadership, prehistoric Chinese tribal life was transformed and presented a new civilized image to the world.
His family lived on Xuanyuan Hill in Xinzheng County, Henan Province, Huang's family name is Youxiong and his first name is Xuanyuan. Because he had a special attachment to the yellow earth, he was called Huangdi by the people ('Huang' in Chinese means yellow symbolizing the yellow earth and 'Di', emperor).
It is recorded that, in the Prehistoric Times, there lived many clans and tribes around the Yellow River and the Yangtze River and Huangdi was the most renowned tribal leader at that time. When the tribe lead by Yandi (Huangdi's close relative) began to decline, Huangdi's tribe was flourishing. During this period, Chiyou often lead his stronger tribe to invade other tribes, and invaded Yandi's tribe. With the help of Huangdi, Chiyou was defeated. Afterward war between Huangdi and Yandi began and when the war ended Huangdi had become the leader of many tribes.
Many outstanding achievements were made during the reign of Huangdi in architecture, science and culture. Palaces and boats were devised, and arithmetic and medicine also began to appear. He instructed his people to plant corn, and invented tools for guiding the direction of travel. With the help of his wife, people began to feed silkworms and spin thread into silk. In addition, characters and musical instruments were invented by his officials. All in all, many creations came from the Huangdi period.
Huangdi was buried on the Mt. Qiao (Bridge) in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, and nowadays Huangdi Mausoleum known as 'The First Mausoleum in China' has been visited by numerous people home and abroad especially on the day of Qingming Festival (April 4th or 5th).
As Huangdi was the first leader with the great moral and superior wisdom that developed early Chinese civilization, the people regard him as the forefather of the Chinese nation and call themselves the offspring of Huangdi.
did he invent kung kung fu? was he the real person who invented kung fu?
Surya, you should understand that there are many kinds of Kung Fu or Martial Arts. It's difficult to figure out who invented Chinese Kung Fu. However, according to the material I read, it was Fu Xi who invented Kung Fu. He was a leader of a tribe but regarded as a God later. He lived in much earlier time than Huang Di.
It was not fuxi that invented kung fu. Huangdi was the one who created kung fu. He created it because he thought it would would be great for the body. Also becuse he was a great philosopher on medicine.
May i know who is chiyou? Because it was not explained there.
Fiona, Chi You is a leader of another clan. He lived in the same period with Huang Di. It is said that he is as powerful as Huang Di. His clan members are also strong. Huang Di and Chi You had a battle in Zhuolu located in Zhangjiakou City. At last, Huang Di united Yan Di and defeated Chi You. | 2019-04-24T04:15:35 | https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/prehistoric/huangdi.htm |
0.999999 | 1.A body is taken from the centre of the earth to the moon. What will be the change in the weight of the body?
The weight of the body at the centre of earth will be zero (g = 0). As the body is moved from the centre to the earth surface, its weight will increase due to the increase in the value of g. At the surface of the earth, the weight of the body will be maximum. As the body is moved above the surface of the earth its weight will decrease due to decrease in the value of g. At one place where the gravitational force of earth and moon are equal and opposite, the weight will become zero. Beyond this upto moon, gravitational force of the moon and hence weight of the body will go on increasing.
2.An artificial satellite revolving coplanar with the equator around the earth, appears stationary to an observer on the earth. Calculate the height of the satellite above earth's surface. Given that g = 9.8ms-2and radius of the earth R = 6.37×106 m.
4.Show that moon would depart forever if its speed were increased by 42%.
If the distance between the earth and moon is r, then necessary centripetal force( = MMv2/r)is provided by the gravitational attraction ( = GMEMM/r2) between earth and moon.
5.Satellites remain in orbit instead of falling to the earth because they are beyond the main pull of earth's gravity. Is this statement correct?
No, not at all. If any object were beyond the pull of gravity, it would move in a straight line and would not curve around the earth. Satellites remain in the orbit because they are being pulled by gravity, not because they are beyond it. For the altitudes of most earth satellites, the earth's gravitational field is only a few percent weaker than at the earth's surface.
6.A satellite orbiting close to earth's surface in a circular path falls about 4.9 m each second. Why does not this distance accumulate and send satellite crashing to earth?
In each second, the satellite falls about 4.9 m below the straight-line tangent it would have taken if there were no gravity. The earth's surface also curves 4.9 m beneath a straight line 8 km tangent. The process of falling with the curvature of the earth continues from tangent line to tangent line, so the curved path of the satellite and the curve of earth's surface "match" all the way around the earth.
7.Why are space rockets usually launched from west to east?
We know that earth rotates about its axis from west to east. Therefore, any point on the earth's surface has linear velocity from west to east. When a rocket is launched from west to east, the linear velocity of earth is added to the launching velocity of the rocket.
8.Why does earth not retain hydrogen and helium molecules in its atmosphere?
The average velocity of a gas molecule depends upon its mass and temperature. Lighter molecules such as hydrogen and helium have a high average velocity than the heavier molecules. Therefore, lighter molecules have a greater chance to escape from the planet. This explains why the earth does not retain hydrogen and helium molecules in its atmosphere while much heavier molecules, such as oxygen and nitrogen, do not escape.
9.The mass of earth is M = 6×1024 kg and its radius R = 6.4×106 m. How much work will have to be done in taking a 10 kg body from the surface of the earth to infinity? What is the gravitational potential energy of the body on the earth's surface? If this body falls from infinity to earth, what will be its velocity when striking the earth?
10.A satellite of mass 1000 kg moves in a circular orbit of radius 7000 km around the earth. Calculate the total energy required to place the satellite in the orbit from earth's surface.
Take g =10ms-2 and earth's radius R = 6400 km.
Total energy required, W = Gain in K.E. + Gain in P.E.
11.A particle is projected vertically upward from the surface of the earth (radius R) with a kinetic energy equal to half of the minimum value needed for it to escape. Calculate the height through which it rises above the surface of earth.
Thermal Properties of Matter - NCERT Qts.
Laws of Motion - HOTS Qts. | 2019-04-21T02:17:19 | https://smartindia.net.in/classroom/topic/?subject=92&grade=14 |
0.999994 | Which leads me to my question - why is compensation in academia so crappy? George Smoot made $149,000 last year, and Elizabeth Blackburn made just over $250,000. Dr. Blackburn would barely qualify as a HENRY - High Earner, Not Rich Yet. I certainly have my ideas as to why, as noted in the link on Storify. And salary certainly doesn't encompass all compensation, but salary can be a good marker of what total compensation is. But, if I was making more in the Finance field, doing incredibly less important work, why could I get away with negotiating higher salaries and compensations? Maybe I'm still looking at this with that M&A lens, and maybe I won't stop looking at it in that vein, but I would really love some sort of answer. $250,000 for a Nobel Prize winner just doesn't sit right with me. Especially when my bosses were walking away with seven and eight figure bonuses, on top of high six figure salaries. For buying up a paper company and liquidating its assets or putting a small chemical firm out of business.
I couldn't possibly come up with a banking and finance equivalent to the Nobel Prize, but if someone on one of those billion dollar contracts felt he was being cheated, even slightly, they would have no problems sending their resume out to other firms. I certainly did. And if my future hospital ever shafted me with the inflation adjusted equivalent of $250k after I'd won the Nobel Prize (I can dream, dammit), I would definitely start shopping my CV around.
I think taxpayers would throw a fit. Most academics are paid by taxes and if an academic researcher was making more than the president of the United States, then I could see them getting pretty angry about that.
@Brian, shockingly, the California tax payers aren't throwing a fit over the UC Berkeley head coach being paid about an order of magnitude more than Blackburn. Now, *some* athletics pay for themselves, so maybe that's not a fair comparison. But there are other clinical profs at UCSF making nearly two million a year.
Personally, I'd be happy with 250k, even with a Nobel. If my university wanted to send another couple million my way for research, that'd be loverly, but there's only so much personal compensation I'd need- although I suppose I might need more in SF. It's hella expensive out there.
But when you put Blackburn's salary next to the coach, I can't deny I'm upset about it.
You can't compare salaries of professors and coaches. Most schools separate those accounts anyway because of the massive conflict of interest in using state funds to promote a team. Scientists will never make as much in academia as they would doing a similar job in industry. I think you will find that compensation outside of academia is more on par with other professional degrees, but that's the sacrifice you make to pursue your own research interests.
Nobel laureates do not attract that much salary because in many cases their most productive years are way behind them.
This, of course, begs the question of why the most currently productive scientists are not paid more, if they in fact bring in so much more of the ~$30B in yearly NIH funding. Why isn't there a richer market for talent?
Maybe if there was a yearly winner-take-all "NIH science tournament" we would see higher salaries.
Employees who work hard will never be compensated unless the Government stops corruption. | 2019-04-20T16:10:22 | http://www.labspaces.net/blog/1448/Fair_Compensation |
0.999705 | If we asked the following questions, would you know the answers?
Who is your mortgage lender?
What interest rate you are paying?
What is the current mortgage amount outstanding?
How much per month are your mortgage payments?
Are you in a fixed rate – if so when does it end?
What rate will your mortgage revert to after any current deals ends?
What will your new mortgage payments be per month?
Are you paying your lender’s standard variable rate?
The current value of your house?
Once your current rate ends unless you review your mortgage you will revert to your lender’s Standard Variable Rate ( SVR ) – dependent on lender this could mean a rate of anywhere between 3% and 6% .
If looking to change lender ( re-mortgage ) you need to be reviewing your mortgage 3 months before your current deal ends as with re-mortgage solicitors have to be involved in the process which sometimes can delay matters.
If employed how much & for how long will your employer pay you if off work?
If self employed – do you have any cover in place to protect your income if off work?
If your income stopped due to accident or illness how would you be able to pay your monthly mortgage and bills and maintain your ( and if applicable your family ) lifestyle?
If you died how much life cover do you have – would it repay your mortgage?
If you had a critical illness such as a Heart Attack or suffered a Cancer have you cover which would pay out for a second opinion and access to treatment by the best doctors in the world?
Do you have any policies which offer cover / treatment for your children in the event of them suffering a critical illness?
Time flies by and peoples circumstances change – it maybe that when you last took out your existing cover you were young, free & single – but now you are married / living with your partner and have children and a bigger mortgage !
Life companies now offer much more by way of benefits and flexibility in their policies – Manchester Mortgages can review your existing policies and advise on the best way to provide the cover you need to suit your present circumstances.
If you’re being honest you most probably knew a few of answers straight away such as your mortgage lender and how much your mortgage payments currently are – the rest maybe not.
Bury is a growing an busy town situation north of Manchester but is still part of the Greater Manchester conurbation. Like many parts of up and coming areas, Bury is a very popular place for people to live and there are all sorts of houses available including new builds, those for first time buyer, plenty of larger properties for remortgagers, and many recently constructed buildings for people and families with previous poor and bad credit.
One of the companies at the centre of house and home buying in the Bury area is Manchester Mortgages and I caught up with their Bury mortgage broker Andrew Butterworth. “There’s a large amount of potential for buying a house in Bury” he told me. “But not just Bury, the whole area is thriving with many applications for mortgages made every week”.
What future did Andrew see for Bury? “I see it growing into a cosmopolitan hub with lots of different housing available for a very varied and differently skilled workforce” he replied. The closeness of the larger university cities means education and high tech business skills will be in demand but that’s not all, there will also be big opportunities in the service sector too. All these people will need housing and at the moment the mortgage applications I am handling are roughly 5 a week – which is a considerable amount. I broker a wide range of mortgage services including buy to let, first time buyers, remortgages and bad credit mortgages too. Of course I still see plenty of home movers mortgages” (mortgages aimed at people who are either up or downsizing)”.
“There’s a lot of interest in Equity Release too” says Andrew, and this is also accounting for the large amount of money being spent on new build properties throughout Bury and it’s surrounding areas. “Many of the new properties are for the older population – retirement homes and the like, but there are also flats and first time buyer homes being constructed too” he said.
WHAT DOES ‘GUIDE PRICE’ MEAN ?
A Guide Price is normally connected with a property that will be sold at Auction – subsequently the Auctioneer has publicized a value that they feel is the base the property ought to offer for – as a rule in all actuality properties at closeout for the most part offer for significantly more than their Guide Price and is a method for pulling in buyers to the Auction.
WHAT’S A ‘FIXED PRICE’ ?
At the point when properties are publicized at a settled value this implies the vender ( merchant ) is searching at that cost and not hoping to arrange/acknowledge a lower figure – thusly if the asking cost is £ 200,000 that is the thing that the dealer needs – it doesn’t stop you however offering less.
WHAT DOES ‘OIRO’ MEAN ?
OIRO implies ” Offers in the Region Of ” along these lines if a property is promoted at OIRO £ 200,000 the merchant is searching for a figure around this sum yet would demonstrate that they would acknowledge a lower figure – for instance £ 190,000 or £ 195,000 so constantly worth beginning off with a lower offer.
WHAT DOES ‘OIEO’ MEAN ?
OIEO implies ” Offers in Excess Of ” hence if a property is promoted as OIEO £200,000 the vender is searching for offers over this figure – for instance £ 210,000/£215,000 and so forth – again through there is no motivation behind why not to offer a sum underneath the £ 200,000.
WHAT DOES ‘CORPORATE SALE’ MEAN ?
At the point when a property is publicized as a Corporate Sale it generally implies that the property has been repossessed by a Bank or Building Society as the home loan customer has defaulted on the home loan installments and the moneylender has designated an organization to offer the property to reimburse the home loan/advance extraordinary on it.
Corporate property deals are normally done by means of an Estate Agency, the primary weakness is that you need to experience the Estate Agent to arrange the cost with the organization and this can be a moderate procedure and even once your offer has been acknowledged the property will stay available until you trade contracts – along these lines you could have paid for a valuation, specialists look charges and moneylenders administrator expenses and going to trade when the corporate organization acknowledges a higher offer from another person.
Continuously think about making as a lower offer whatever the cost or condition put on it – begin low – you can simply build the offer at a later date.
Getting an appointment with a mortgage lender can be very restrictive… What is meant by that is they usually have set times of work ie 9 – 5 Monday to Friday or occasionally Saturday Mornings.
It has been estimated that an appointment with a major high street lender can take upto 2 ½ hours which would normally mean employed people would have to take off time of work using up holidays or a self employed person might have to lose ½ a days work which is then starting to cost money.
Another main stream lender who doesn’t offer the facility to go into a branch has recently advised it is taking upto 2 weeks to obtain a telephone appointment which can then be 1 hour long or potentially even longer.
This can very frustrating when you have found the house that you want to buy or if remortgaging arranging the finance for additional borrowing for perhaps home improvements.
Using a professional Mortgage Broker can take away all that inconvenience.
Most Mortgage Brokers will work around your working week understanding that 9-5 Monday to Friday is not always convenient.
They may have a office which you can go to outside these hours, say on the way home from work.
They may be able to offer an appointment at your place of work or visit you at home to discuss your mortgage requirements.
People today live busy lives and there is alot of call on your time and dealing with organisations who have set times of opening can be very difficult.
Being able to deal with a organisation who will work around your busy lifestyle can be much less stressful.
Imagine being able to be sat in the comfort of your home and have all the high street lenders and other specialist lenders (as not everybodys situation is the same) come to you.
Ask you what is important to you when arranging your mortgage not tell you what is available from a limited proposition and hope your circumstances meet that particular lenders criteria.
This is what a mortgage broker can offer they can look at what is available from the whole of the market not from a limited range, they can meet with you at a time and place convenient to you and take the time and effort to look at all options available. | 2019-04-18T10:40:28 | http://www.mortgagebrokeradvice.co.uk/category/brokers/page/2/ |
0.999949 | A group of 114 House Democrats signed onto a letter calling on Senate to delay their vote on the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court until a "thorough investigation" is conducted into an allegation he committed an act of sexual assault decades ago.
In the letter, the lawmakers argue it would be inappropriate to move forward with the confirmation without a probe due to the gravity of the accusations.
The letter was spearheaded by Rep. Lois Frankel Lois Jane FrankelDemocrats put harassment allegations against Trump on back burner GOP on defensive over Dem votes on policies geared toward women Endorsements? Biden can't count on a flood from the Senate MORE (D-Fla.), Brenda Lawrence Brenda Lulenar LawrenceHillicon Valley: Washington preps for Mueller report | Barr to hold Thursday presser | Lawmakers dive into AI ethics | FCC chair moves to block China Mobile | Dem bill targets 'digital divide' | Microsoft denies request for facial recognition tech Lawmakers, tech set for clash over AI Bipartisan group asks DHS, ICE to halt deportations of Iraqi nationals MORE (D-Mich.) and Jackie Speier Karen (Jackie) Lorraine Jacqueline SpeierLawmakers offer bipartisan resolution highlighting sexual assault prevention Democrats put harassment allegations against Trump on back burner Speaker in waiting? Rapid rise of Hakeem Jeffries fuels talk MORE (D-Calif.) and sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate Republicans tested on Trump support after Mueller Anti-smoking advocates question industry motives for backing higher purchasing age Former Bush assistant: Mueller report makes Obama look 'just plain bad' MORE (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Charles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHillicon Valley: House Dems subpoena full Mueller report | DOJ pushes back at 'premature' subpoena | Dems reject offer to view report with fewer redactions | Trump camp runs Facebook ads about Mueller report | Uber gets B for self-driving cars Dem legal analyst says media 'overplayed' hand in Mueller coverage Former FBI official praises Barr for 'professional' press conference MORE (D-N.Y.), Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking member Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday.
"To hold a vote now would be an insult to women and girls, sending a powerful message that they don’t matter and will not be believed. Let’s instead set an example for our children that sexual violence should be taken seriously and emphatically denounced," they wrote.
"If the allegations of sexual assault are true, they speak to Brett Kavanaugh’s character and ability to determine right from wrong. Before giving Kavanaugh power to make decisions about women’s lives, their protection under our laws prohibiting sexual violence, and their physical autonomy, Congress has a responsibility to allow the American people to learn the truth."
The call to delay proceedings comes in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford going public with allegations that Kavanaugh attempted to assault her while they were both in high school. According to Ford, Kavanaugh held her down and sought to prevent her from screaming for help while intoxicated during a party in high school.
Kavanaugh asserts the allegations are "false."
House Democrats said they believe Ford deserves to be heard, referencing the woman who came forward with sexual harassment allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991.
"In the age of #MeToo, the vitriol that Anita Hill endured cannot happen again, both in our national discourse and throughout any testimony that Dr. Ford chooses to provide," they continued.
"Over this past year, survivors across the country have come forward with harrowing stories of sexual assault and harassment. Their bravery and experiences cannot be in vain," they wrote. "Dr. Ford did not want to go public with her story, knowing the hostility, retaliation, and disbelief she would face. We applaud her courage for risking it all. Now that Dr. Ford has taken the brave step to come forward, we must do all we can to treat her with decency and respect."
The Senate Judiciary Committee has invited Ford to testify before the committee Monday. Kavanaugh is also expected to testify under oath next week. | 2019-04-22T02:55:42 | https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/407270-house-dems-push-to-delay-kavanaugh-vote-for-investigation |
0.994969 | How to place an order for a client - Knowledgebase - AppTech Corp.
This article provides an overview for partners to place an order on a client's behalf.
3 - If the client does not exist, create a new client. Otherwise, click the orange shopping cart icon next to the client profile.
4 - Ensure that a blue message shows on the top of the page, "Please note that this order will be created for client". If you do not see this message, please log out and try this process again.
5 - Browse the catalog, and add the desired service(s) to the cart by clicking the green "Order Now" button.
6 - Go through any configuration questions that the service(s) may have.
7 - Once all products have been configured, you will reach the "Review & Checkout" page. Ensure that configurations and quantities are correct.
8 - If all configurations and quantities are correct, click the green "Checkout" button.
9 - Verify that all of the client's information is correct. If it is not, please update the client profile.
10 - Add any additional notes.
11 - Check the box next to "I have read and agree to the Terms of Service".
12 - Click the "Complete Order" button.
13 - The order is now placed. AppTech Engineers will review the order, and contact you with any clarifications or changes if needed.
This article provided an overview for partners to place an order on a customer's behalf. If you had any issues or questions, please contact support. | 2019-04-21T04:56:33 | https://myaccount.apptechcorp.com/index.php?rp=/knowledgebase/2/How-to-place-an-order-for-a-client.html |
0.999998 | Attention students… for today’s daily announcements contest, points will be awarded as follows: 3 for first, 2 for second, 1 for third and so on. Take your answers to Stephanie in the Social room.
Scott is planning on running the Boston marathon and the New York City marathon. He found a store that has runners on sale and he wants to buy enough to see him through both marathons. If each marathon is 26 miles and each pair of runners lasts 10 miles, how many pairs of runners should Scott buy?
Which of the following numbers does not fit the sequence?
There are seven spectrums of colour in the rainbow. What are they?
Contest winners will be announced and prizes awarded at tomorrow’s assembly!
Attention students! For today’s daily announcement’s contest, answer the following questions correctly, take your answers to Stephanie in the Social room, and receive a $5 Subway card. Points will be awarded to all students in the order in which they answer the questions. 5 for the first person, 4 for the second, 3 for the third, 2 for the 4th, and 1 for the fifth person and everyone afterwards.
What does an anemometer do?
What country does the tropic of cancer run through?
Fix this sentence: We plan to have our family picnic irregardless of the weather.
What numbers are factors of 12?
Why can throwing a blanket over a fire put out the flames?
An octogenarian is at least how old? NAME 3 famous people who have reached this age and tell me WHY they are/were famous.
10. Unscramble the following word: IDFRYA. Once you have done that, go and see the Art teacher for today’s code word.
No points or a $10 Subway gift card, 1 point and a $5 Subway gift card, or 3 full points and no Subway gift card.
What is a series of 3 related novels called?
What is the range of: 47, 23, 17, 21, 76?
What type of resource are fossil fuels?
Who fought in the Cold War? When?
What chemical element does the letter C stand for?
Students who will be participating in this year’s Graduation Ceremony need to meet and discuss plans for photographs, outfits, and the ceremony on Friday, June 1 at 12:30 PM in the VC room.
Daily Announcements – Contest Continues!
Daily prizes will vary. Today, we will be giving away $5 gift certificates to Subway. Today 5 correct answers will = 1 point, which is = to 1 star on the tracking sheet!
1. What happened in Springhill, Nova Scotia in 1958?
2. What type of boat is an unofficial symbol of Canada?
3. We left New York at 9 p.m. and arrived in Madrid at 4:30 a.m. our time. How long was the flight?
Daily prizes will vary. Today, we will be giving away 5 $5 gift certificates to Subway. The first 5 students to answer the following questions correctly will win! 1 point will be awarded for each correct answer.
2. If you were visiting Nairobi what country would you be in?
4. If you compose a sonnet, how many lines should it be?
5. How many time zones are there around the world?
A list of questions or tasks will be posted on random days throughout the week in the announcements. Take your answers to the questions to Stephanie in the Social room where you will be awarded points for correct answers. Your name will be added to a tally sheet where your points will be tracked. 10 correct answers will = 1 point. We will be awarding a grand prize at the end of the semester to the student with the most points – an Ipod touch!!!
1. Who became prime minister in 2006 when Paul Martin’s liberals lost the election?
2. What world famous circus was founded in Quebec by a group of street performers? What year was it?
3. What northern territory was established on April 1, 1999?
4. What Canadian city was once known as Bytown? What province is this city in?
5. Where was Canada’s first university founded? | 2019-04-21T04:48:32 | https://www.bsec.ab.ca/tag/contest/page/2/ |
0.999998 | Although he was only in the 10th grade, David had been in juvenile court several times.
His offense could be summed up in one sentence: He couldn't read.
The teasing, frustration and embarrassment that came from being a 10th grader unable to read led to much of David's "bad behavior" and "acting out" against teachers and classmates. Eventually, he landed in the principal's office and juvenile court.
Rather than help David read, which would help him overcome his behavioral problems, his teacher in Louisiana's Caddo Parish school system found an easier solution.
She would ask David, whose real name has been withheld to protect his identity, to read to his classmates at the start of every class.
He would struggle with the words on the page. His classmates would laugh.
He would act out, once even taking a swing at a student.
The teacher would remove him from class, allowing the day's lesson to finally begin even though the punishment for David's outbursts opened the door to alternative school and even jail time.
"A child who can't read is a fairly typical situation," said Clay Walker, a Shreveport, La., lawyer who took David's case for the Southern Poverty Law Center. "But instead of getting the help they need they're getting pushed into the juvenile court and jail."
After taking David's case, Walker was able to get David out of alternative school and into a neighborhood school. He has also received remedial reading classes and special education services.
The SPLC has filed a class action complaint against the school district to ensure students with disabilities receive the services they need.
Editor's note: David's name has been changed to protect his identity. | 2019-04-22T18:51:34 | https://www.splcenter.org/news/2015/07/27/david |
0.999998 | Why did Macron say France should 'offer homage' to Nazi collaborator Petain?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel should not have taken part in a ceremony in France on Sunday marking the centenary of the Armistice as it is an event for the "winners" of World War One, said the leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Germany lost the war and Merkel's participation in a ceremony for the former allies amounted to an attempt to rewrite history, AfD co-leader Alexander Gauland said.
"We can't put ourselves in a historical situation that clearly favours the winner and walk alongside Mr. Macron through the Arc de Triomphe," he said, referring to the famous Paris monument.
Gauland's comments stood in marked contast to the themes of reconciliation and the need for vigilance against resurgent nationalism which characterised the official commemorations in London and Paris for the millions killed during World War One.
With U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting just a few feet away, French President Emmanuel Macron denounced those who evoke nationalist sentiment to disadvantage others, calling it a betrayal of patriotism and moral values.
In London, Britain's royal family was joined by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who become the first German leader to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph war memorial in an historic act of reconciliation.
The anti-Islam AfD entered the German parliament for the first time last year, drawing support from a broad array of voters angry with Merkel's decision in 2015 to welcome almost a million, mainly Muslim asylum seekers.
Its leaders have been rebuked for comments that appear to belittle the Nazi dictatorship or suggest that history books should be re-written to focus more on German victims.
In a rare public display of emotion, Macron and Merkel held hands on Saturday during a poignant ceremony in the Compiegne Forest, north of Paris, where French and German delegations signed the Armistice that ended the war, one of the bloodiest in history. | 2019-04-23T10:16:23 | https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/germany-has-no-place-in-ww1-ceremony-for-winners-says-far-right-leader-1.6639195 |
0.999863 | I think my password was stolen. What should I do?
Follow the same steps described on the article "I lost my password. How do I retrieve it?" | 2019-04-25T15:41:55 | https://botcomics.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200917198-I-think-my-password-was-stolen-What-should-I-do- |
0.999766 | In this article, we discuss how to create a user registration form with Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate and Thymeleaf. We validate the user registration fields with hibernate validator annotations and a custom field matching validator to validate if the email and/or password fields match. We will create Role-based Spring security with a MySQL database.
Basically, we will develop a simple User Registration Module using Role-based Spring security which can use in any spring MVC based projects.
Let's get started with our objective what we'll build?
We will develop a simple User Registration Module using Spring Boot 2, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Hibernate 5, Thymeleaf and MySQL. We validate the user registration fields with hibernate validator annotations and a custom field matching validator to validate if the email and/or password fields match. We will create Role-based Spring security with a MySQL database. | 2019-04-22T14:18:25 | https://www.javaguides.net/2018/10/user-registration-module-using-springboot-springmvc-springsecurity-hibernate5-thymeleaf-mysql.html |
0.999134 | Treviso Italy - The Friendliest Town in Italy?
Treviso, known to many through Ryanair flights via, what they call, "Venice Treviso airport" (actually Treviso airport and not Venice), is a city that tends to be overshadowed by its nearby neighbour Venice.
Treviso though has a lot to offer in its own right and is a far better base than Venice for anyone who wants to explore the whole Veneto region.
This is a pleasant, prosperous town of parks, rivers and 81,000 inhabitants – friendly inhabitants they are too. I generally find that the people of the Veneto (except the slightly snooty Venetians) are the friendliest in the north of Italy and Treviso is the friendliest place of the lot - many say it is the friendliest town in all of Italy.
A superb 17th century farmhouse, a beautiful setting and old fashioned hospitality await you at the Ca' Bianchini. The farmhouse is a little outside of Treviso and you'll get a real taste and feel of Italian rural life with Treviso and other great Italian towns and cities (like Venice) on your doorstep.
Treviso has few decent hotels, however they cost way less than Venice and, since you are only a short train ride from Venice, it is a great option if you'd like to explore Venice without the high expense of actually staying there. Which hotel though? My choice is the Hotel Rovere.
A few hours spent wandering around the city centre and the arcaded streets around Piazza dei Signori are pleasant hours well spent. Visit the tourist office just off the Piazza in Piazzetta Monte di Pietà, 8 – they have some decent walking tours and maps of the main sights.
Treviso markets itself as the city of water and though not exactly Venice it does have a very pleasant river and attractive canals - a sort of mini-Venice in a way.
Being the home of Benetton it is also a very prosperous place and the shops you find are mostly of the quality designer/very expensive variety. The main shopping axis extends from Corso del Popolo through Piazza dei Signori and into via Calmaggiore.
For those who love antiques the Mercatino D'Antiquariato, held on the fourth Sunday of each month, has some real gems and a whole lot of rubbish too. It is a great way to spend a day and even if you don’t buy much you'll experience really genuine Italian hustle and bustle - I love it!
The main historical sights that are worth seeing include the Piazza dei Signori and the Palazzo dei Trecento behind the Piazza – both are of 15th century origin.
The simple yet moving 13th century Church of San Francesco is a particular favorite of mine and is a place in which a sense of peace prevails, a nice place to sit quietly when no one is around .
A few of the other notable places include the 15th century Cathedral and the Loggia dei Cavalieri which was once a 13th century club for the rich.
Don’t miss the famous Prosecco wine route (Strada del Prosecco). This is Italy’s oldest wine route and provides the opportunity to sample local produce and the slightly sparkling Prosecco white wine. Read more about this route and others in our Veneto wine route guide.
It is really difficult to eat badly in Treviso - this city is famous for it's excellent cuisine. My suggestion is the Le Beccherie in Piazza Ancilotto- it's where Tiramisu (click for the recipe) was invented and they've been serving traditional Veneto dishes (and inventing a few of their own variations) for decades.
Tip: If you fly into Treviso on Ryanair don't go straight to Venice. Rather spend a few days in Treviso - you'll be glad you did.
Many of the photos of Treviso on this page were taken by Jill Boff. You'll find more of Jill's photos on our Facebook page. | 2019-04-26T12:07:50 | https://www.italymammamia.com/treviso-italy.html |
0.999989 | A number of people are working hard to get the neighborhood's feral cats spayed and neutered and also to keep them fed.
"Feral" traces back to the Latin word "ferus," meaning "wild." Which animal below do you think gets its name from the same Latin word?
English got the word "zebra" from Portuguese, and Portuguese likely got the word from the Latin word "equiferus," meaning "kind of wild horse." ("Equus" is the Latin word for "horse.") "Ferus" plays a role in the history or "ferocious" too. That word can mean "very fierce or violent," as in a "ferocious tiger," and also "very great, extreme," as in "a ferocious appetite." The word "fierce" itself comes from "ferus" too. It shares the first meaning of "ferocious" but can also describe something expressed with force or anger, such as a "fierce argument," or something very harsh or powerful, such as a "fierce storm." | 2019-04-20T04:59:54 | http://wordcentral.com/buzzword/buzzword.php?month=11&day=20&year=2018 |
0.996958 | Political analysts expect a close vote on compromise health care reform legislation (ABX1 1) negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez (D-Los Angeles) in the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday, the AP/Sacramento Bee reports (Lawrence, AP/Sacramento Bee , 1/20).
The Senate had delayed a hearing until the Legislative Analyst's Office completed its report assessing the impact of the health care reform plan on the state's budget deficit ( California Healthline , 1/15). The Assembly approved the measure in December 2007.
The hearing also will include testimony from Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill, as well as supporters, opponents and those seeking amendments to the proposal. Health care reform efforts in other states also are expected to be discussed.
Committee Chair Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) cited several problems with the reform plan, including inadequate efforts to control health insurance costs and a lack of minimum health care coverage requirements for employers who would be forced to provide insurance.
Meanwhile, Núñez contends that the bill "is fundamental reform," adding, "In the end, this is what gets us closest to universal health care. It's reform that's doable, practical, that has a shot" ( AP/Sacramento Bee , 1/20).
Summaries of an editorial and opinion piece regarding health care reform in California appear below.
San Jose Mercury News : Schwarzenegger's "proposed budget cuts, which will do considerable damage to a health care system already in crisis, are only exacerbating the political challenge of passing his" health care reform plan, a Mercury News editorial states. "The $14.5 billion budget crunch means Californians should expect to sacrifice to ensure the state can pay its bills," the editorial states. "The governor should be taking every step possible to ensure the state meets its commitment to provide essential health care to its residents for years to come," the editorial concludes ( San Jose Mercury News , 1/15).
Diana Bontá, Molly Coye and Kenneth Kizer, Sacramento Bee : The health care reform deal is not perfect, "but it is a strong and bold start to improving a health care wreck that desperately needs an overhaul," Bontá, Coye and Kizer -- former directors of the Department of Health Care Services -- write in a Bee opinion piece. "We believe this plan brings California closer than ever to achieving comprehensive health care reform that benefits everyone," Bontá, Coye and Kizer write (Bontá et al., Sacramento Bee , 1/22).
KPBS' "KPBS News" on Monday reported on the Senate hearing. The segment includes comments from Kuehl (Goldberg, "KPBS News," KPBS, 1/21). | 2019-04-20T00:43:41 | https://californiahealthline.org/morning-breakout/health-care-reform-bill-faces-tough-test-in-senate-hearing/ |
0.999849 | How is an arrest made?
Normally, before an arrest can be made, a complaint must be filed charging a specific person with violation of a criminal law. A complaint is a sworn document made by someone who knows the facts of the crime by either direct knowledge or through investigation. Once this is done, the peace officer can then obtain an arrest warrant. A warrant of arrest is an order signed by a judge, authorizing a peace officer to arrest a person accused of committing a crime.
Soon after the arrest, the accused (now called the defendant) is taken before a judge who explains the charges contained in the complaint. The judge is required to set an amount of bail and advise the defendant of his rights. The sole legal purpose of bail is to guarantee the defendant's appearance in court for later proceedings. It is allowed in virtually all cases, including felonies.
In setting the amount of bail, the judge is required to consider not only the seriousness of the offense, but also the defendant's ability to raise the necessary money. If the defendant cannot post the bail, he remains in custody and is normally transferred to the county jail to await further action in the case. Bail may not be set so high to punish a defendant by keeping him in jail pending his trial.
The local law enforcement agency investigating your case will present it to our office upon completion of their investigation. We will "screen" the case to determine if there is sufficient evidence to prove that an offense was committed and that the person accused actually committed the crime. After a case is accepted by our office, the arrest is made and bail is set, the case is presented to the Grand Jury for indictment.
Texas law requires action by the grand jury before a felony case can be filed in district court. If the grand jury believes that there is sufficient evidence to prove that a person has committed a felony) it votes to issue a "true bill") or indictment. At least nine grand jurors must vote in favor of an indictment, or the case is "no-billed" or terminated. The prosecutor assists the grand jury; but, the actual deliberations on cases are secret. Only the grand jurors are present when voting is in progress.
After the criminal case has been filed, the case will be scheduled for a pre-trial setting. At this hearing, the defense attorney usually advises the judge whether the defendant wants a trial or will plead guilty. If a trial is desired, the defense will notify the judge if a jury is required. Certain motions concerning legal issues may also be heard at this time. If your presence is required, you will be notified in advance. To keep you informed of the progress of the case, you will be notified of any court setting; however, you will not always be required to appear.
The prosecutor presents the case for the State, attempting to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crimes charged. The defendant may present his or her side of the case or no case at all. The jury (if there is one) or the judge must decide whether the State's case has been proven by legally-competent evidence.
If the defendant is found guilty, a second phase of the trial begins at which time the punishment is set within the range authorized by law. The defendant may choose whether he wants his punishment set by the judge or a jury. Many judges rely on the probation department to prepare sentencing investigation and recommendations.
Following a conviction, the defendant has a right to appeal to higher court for review on points of error in procedure or application of the law at the trial. At this stage of the process, there is generally little victim or witness involvement.
If the prosecutor determines that there is not sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction, he may file a motion asking to dismiss the case; this is only done after a thorough investigation and normally after police have exhausted all avenues for obtaining additional evidence. The judge will grant the motion to dismiss if he is satisfied that the case cannot be proven at trial.
A defendant may choose to plead guilty and may not want a trial. In this case, the judge would impose a sentence immediately or at a separate hearing.
The prosecution and the defense may decide to negotiate a plea in the case. The negotiated plea is basically an agreement between the attorney representing the State and the defendant and his attorney. It acknowledges that the State will recommend a specific punishment if the defendant will enter a guilty plea. There are advantages to both the State and the defendant in reaching such an agreement. The agreement is not binding upon the judge, who may impose any punishment within the range authorized by law.
Our goal in negotiating a plea is to achieve a sentence similar to what a jury would likely do under the circumstances. If you have any questions regarding this process, contact the prosecutor handling your case.
Should I talk to an Investigator or Defense Attorney about the case?
The defense attorney or his investigator is performing a legal duty by investigating the case. If the defendant is indigent, the attorney and investigator may be appointed by the court; however, they are not working for the judge. You are free to discuss or refuse to discuss the case with the defense attorney or anyone employed by the defense. We are available and willing to assist you should you decide to discuss the case with the defense. Require anyone who claims to be investigating the case to show identification. If you have any concerns, feel free to call our office before you discuss the case with anyone.
Witnesses receive a subpoena which tells them when and where to appear, and what if anything, to bring with them. Occasionally witnesses feel offended by being "ordered" to appear in court. The law provides that we cannot have a case postponed, despite the illness or incapacitation of a witness, unless that witness has been served a subpoena. Therefore, subpoenas are actually issued to protect our case.
Our office will attempt to notify witnesses well in advance of the subpoena being issued.
After receiving a subpoena, please check with our office before going to court. This may prevent an unnecessary trip in case of a last minute change in the trial schedule.
The truth of your testimony, the manner in which you give it and your appearance on the stand will all be considered by the jury or judge deciding the case.
Your manner of dress may have an impact on jurors who hear your testimony. Therefore, dress neatly and conservatively when appearing in court.
Can I be compensated for being a witness?
As a general rule, no. If the witness is from outside the state or the county in which the trial is held, travel expenses and a per diem may be allowed.
When can I have my property back?
Property which has been stolen can often be returned to the owner prior to the trial. Sometimes this cannot be done --particularly if the property is currency or when it directly identifies the accused (e.g., by fingerprints).
To determine if the property can be returned to you prior to the trial, contact the police agency that investigated the case. They will furnish our office with documentation of ownership and the necessary affidavits to obtain a court order to restore the property to you. If your property must be held until trial, and/or received into court as evidence, it can usually be restored when the trial is over. | 2019-04-26T00:55:33 | http://brazoscountytx.gov/Index.aspx?NID=226 |
0.999547 | What's in issue No. 23, Dec. 31, 1998?
Two elders (Raymond Cole and Bryce Clark) talk about the split in the Church of God the Eternal. Alan Ruth interviews both men for The Journal. Differences include whether certain holidays (for example, Mother's Day and Thanksgiving) are pagan and who is more faithfully following the faith once delivered through WCG founder Herbert W. Armstrong. Another bone of contention involves specific unclean meats.
Journal writer Mac Overton interviews Larry Salyer, the new president of the Global Church of God, and quotes Global elder Raymond McNair on plans after the November breakup of the church. Mr. Overton asked Mr. Salyer whether he sees God's hands in the church's division into two camps. Is it a loyalty test to separate the wheat from the chaff?
Mr. Overton also interviews John Ogwyn, an elder in the new Living Church of God, founded in November by Roderick Meredith (who founded Global in 1993). In the split, most Global members, including most elders, have moved to the LCG. Mr. Ogwyn told The Journal that LCG income is "running at 75 percent of the [Global] presplit level."
The Journal's Bill Stough checks to see how the Global split is playing in Peoria. Well, maybe not actually Peoria, but other towns in Illinois and Missouri.
Thing are looking up for a Church of God member accused of a 1974 murder of a policeman. The Tyler, Texas, police would rather release the church member than show prosecutors their evidence. Also, police have learned that guns seized during the arrest of the member and his brother do not match any of those stolen at the time of the murder.
A Church of God member who found himself selling silk plants on street corners to make a living has helped organize the Building Bridges Sabbath Gathering in Arizona. Wayne Speed says Building Bridges is a way for Church of God brethren to keep in contact with each other now that they are divided into many groups. Building Bridges meets one Sabbath a month at 10:30 a.m., when no regularly scheduled congregations' meetings are scheduled in the area. Readers may remember Mr. Speed's article in the January-February 1997 issue of The Good News (published by the United Church of God, an International Association) about his turnaround from poverty and eking out a living selling silk plants on street corners. In the Good News article he described getting back on his financial feet and starting up a truck-driving school.
Letters to the editor contain corrections about the number of elders in the Christian Biblical Church of God (pastored by Fred Coulter) and the proper name of the church founded by David Hulme and friends; an apology for a practical joke that backfired involving Global and Living founder Roderick Meredith; passionate letters from Global and Living supporters; and an epistle from J. Kelley in answer to the November letter from IRS employee and Church of God member Dean Hardester about Y2K.
On The Journal's "Columns and Commentary" page, Drury Sylvester expresses his frustration with the Y2K debate (people describe the problem but offer few constructive and realistic recommendations, he complains); Jeff Patton, former Global Church of God managing editor of publications, is following the Global-Living split; Garry Pifer, a UCG elder, expounds on the "elders who rule well" (he says "rule" is mistranslated in the KJV); Abigail Syltie reports on her stay last summer with an Amish family in northern Missouri (the family helpfully arranged for her and her sister to meet with other Sabbatarians on the Sabbath during the visit); Dave Havir compliments you if you're not an exclusivist but wonders if you could be an elitist; and Melvin Rhodes says The Journal makes "democracy intolerable" (but don't quote him out of context).
A Cincinnati congregation of the United Church of God, an International Association, invites Christian Educational Ministries' Ron Dart to speak at its December "family tournament" and get-together. Read the print version to see what happened when certain United elders got wind of the invitation. The Journal interviews Mr. Dart, Jim O'Brien (the Cincinnati pastor) and Roy Holladay (a United council member).
The Christian Leadership Academy changes the focus for its Russellville, Ark., campaign and attracts a varied crowd. CLA founder Alfred Harrell says honing in on the Sabbath instead of trying to include many Church of God teachings contributed to a good turnout. Next stop for the CLA: West Memphis, Ark., Jan. 23.
The antimorality campaign to legitimize sexual deviancy and other manifestations of immoral behavior is the " scam of the century," says Brian Knowles, who reviews a new book by Gordon Muir. "Dr. Muir writes with the indignation of a prophet," reports Mr. Knowles. "If you are a parent or a minister, you need this book."
In the midst of the Church of God wars, Journal writer Bill Stough thought it would be a good idea to report on dramatic answers to prayers. So he interviewed several people with fascinating stories to tell. They run the gamut from a healed hamster to a possible resurrection to freeway traffic freezing in time.
The independent United Church of God Big Sandy sponsored its "Building Bridges Celebration Weekend" Dec. 25-27. Jill Hughes, visiting from Coopersburg, Pa., writes of a successful get-together attended by people from all over the country, including several singers from Southern California.
The Association for Christian Development moves into new offices in Washington state.
Two members of the council of elders of the UCG-AIA hear the appeal of a church family that was suspended from attending Sabbath services a year and a half ago. Gary Antion and Roy Holladay listened to the statements of Tim and Hope Lindholm of the Minneapolis, Minn., area.
The UCG-AIA plans its fifth general conference, which this time will be in Cincinnati March 6-8.
The Church of God International releases its 1999 schedule of events, which includes a Bible Study Weekend near Tyler, Texas, in April.
The Canadian Church of God is organizing a midwinter " spiritually refreshing weekend" for Jan. 23-24 in Ontario.
" Notes and Quotes" includes the Worldwide Church of God moving its Sabbath services off the former campus of Ambassador University and Servants' News' examination of the role of Herbert Armstrong in the Church of God.
This issue also includes a front-page picture of the "Karen brethren" in Thailand. Letters to the editor also include an informative note from one of the Karens, Thaw Thi Ko. The Karen brethren have been written up several times recently in The Journal. | 2019-04-18T23:34:53 | http://www.thejournal.org/dec98.html |
0.999995 | Implement [[pooling]] in the function <tt>cnnPool</tt> in <tt>cnnPool.m</tt>.
Implement [[pooling]] in the function <tt>cnnPool</tt> in <tt>cnnPool.m</tt>. You should implement ''mean'' pooling (i.e., averaging over feature responses) for this part.
First, we want to compute σ(Wx(r,c) + b) for all valid (r,c) (valid meaning that the entire 8x8 patch is contained within the image; as opposed to a full convolution which allows the patch to extend outside the image, with the area outside the image assumed to be 0) , where W and b are the learned weights and biases from the input layer to the hidden layer, and x(r,c) is the 8x8 patch with the upper left corner at (r,c). To accomplish this, one naive method is to loop over all such patches and compute σ(Wx(r,c) + b) for each of them; while this is fine in theory, it can very slow. Hence, we usually use Matlab's built in convolution functions which are well optimized.
Observe that the convolution above can be broken down into the following three small steps. First, compute Wx(r,c) for all (r,c). Next, add b to all the computed values. Finally, apply the sigmoid function to the resultant values. This doesn't seem to buy you anything, since the first step still requires a loop. However, you can replace the loop in the first step with one of MATLAB's optimized convolution functions, conv2, speeding up the process significantly.
However, there are two important points to note in using conv2.
To each of convolvedFeatures, you should then add b, the corresponding bias for the featureNum-th feature. If you had not done any preprocessing of the patches, you could then apply the sigmoid function to obtain the convolved features. However, because you preprocessed the patches before learning features on them, you must also apply the same preprocessing steps to the convolved patches to get the correct feature activations.
Implement pooling in the function cnnPool in cnnPool.m. You should implement mean pooling (i.e., averaging over feature responses) for this part.
Now that you have a trained softmax classifier, you can see how well it performs on the test set. These pooled features for the test set will be run through the softmax classifier, and the accuracy of the predictions will be computed. You should expect to get an accuracy of around 80%. | 2019-04-21T23:13:35 | http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Exercise:Convolution_and_Pooling&diff=prev&oldid=860 |
0.926617 | Ferdinand de Saussure is one of the world’s most quoted linguists, which is remarkable as he himself hardly published anything during his lifetime. Even his few scientific articles are not unproblematic. Thus, for example, his publication on Lithuanian phonetics is grosso modo taken from studies by the Lithuanian researcher Friedrich Kurschat, with whom Saussure traveled through Lithuania in August 1880 for two weeks and whose (German) books Saussure had read.. Saussure, who had studied some basic grammar of Lithuanian in Leipzig for one semester but was unable to speak the language, was thus dependent on Kurschat. It is also questionable to what extent the Cours itself can be traced back to Saussure (alone). Studies have shown that at least the current version and its content are more likely to have the so-called editors Charles Bally and Albert Sèchehaye as their source than Saussure himself.
The closing sentence of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics has been challenged in many academic disciplines and subdisciplines with its contention that "linguistics has as its unique and true object the language envisioned in itself and for itself". By the latter half of the 20th century, many of Saussure's ideas were under heavy criticism.
The principles and methods employed by structuralism were later adapted by French intellectuals in diverse fields such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Such scholars took influence from Saussure's ideas in their own areas of study (literary studies/philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, respectively). However, their analogous interpretations of Saussure's linguistic theories led to proclamations of the end of structuralism in the two disciplines.
↑ David Kreps, Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence, Springer, 2015, p. 92.
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↑ Boris Gasparov. Beyond Pure Reason, pp1-8, 2010.
1 2 Fendler, Lynn (2010). Michel Foucault. London: Bloomsbury. p. 17. ISBN 9781472518811.
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↑ Halliday, MAK. 1977. Ideas about Language. Reprinted in Volume 3 of MAK Halliday's Collected Works. Edited by J.J. Webster. London: Continuum. p113.
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↑ Turner, Mark. 1987. Death is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism. University of Chicago Press, p. 6.
↑ Thibault, Paul. 1996. Re-reading Saussure: The Dynamics of Signs in Social Life. London: Routledge.
↑ Munteanu, E. 'On the Object-Language/Metalanguage Distinction in Saint Augustine's Works: De Dialectica and de Magistro', p. 65. In: Cram, D., Linn, A. R., & Nowak, E. (eds.). History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Retrieved April 16, 2015 from https://books.google.com/books?id=IWtCAAAAQBAJ&pg.
Wittmann, Henri (1974). "New tools for the study of Saussure's contribution to linguistic thought." Historiographia Linguistica 1.255-64. | 2019-04-26T11:39:59 | http://library.kiwix.org/wikipedia_en_computer_novid_2018-10/A/Ferdinand_de_Saussure.html |
0.999998 | Using New Perspectives Microsoft Office 365 Office 2016 Introductory version text. Questions about this text, MindTap and SAM?
I am using the New Perspectives Microsoft Office 365 Office 2016 Introductory version. My main focus is Excel but will cover modules in Word, Access, and Power Point. I am new to this course and unsure as to what assignments I should require my students to complete in each module. In MindTap, there are several type of assignments I can require: SAM training, SAM exams and SAM Textbook Projects. What has been your experience with these assignments? Do my students need to register for SAM if I assign these items? I probably want to err on assigning too little as opposed to too much since they are also required to read chapters from their MIS text.
Another option would be to require my students to complete the case problems that are in the text. This is appealing since the case problems are labeled as apply, create, challenge, and troubleshoot. However, all students would have the data files and I am concerned about students not doing their own work. If I assigned the case problems from the book is there an easy to determine if they have done their own work or not?
It looks like if I assign the SAM Textbook projects each student would have their own data file but these projects are similar to the case problems in the text and they are not labeled as to the learning objective ( apply, create, challenge, and troubleshoot) as done in the textbook. Therefore, I suspect the SAM Textbook projects aren't necessarily designed with this text in mind but to support all the Cengage computing textbooks.
I have a lot of questions about the text and the options I have as an instructor but I am unsure where to turn for assistance. Does Cengage have staff who are well acquainted with this text and how would I contact them?
Hi Karl, they will need to register to get SAM access, I don't use the SAM training exercises but I do use the projects (these don't necessarily follow the textbook, but the textbook will help them learn what they need to do). They come with their own data files that students download, along with an instruction sheet. When the students finish they upload their completed file to SAM and it grades it. Then it will give the student a list of what they got wrong, along with SAM Training on how to do it.
I generally allow up to 3 attempts on each graded project.
Thank you. So SAM automatically assigns training to students based on how well they did? If so, is there something I need to do to make that happen?
If you want training assigned for grade, you Can you do this to the mind tap learning path. If they are already set up as practice you can set them up as graded assignments easily by flipping a switch. You can also get a DSS to help you set up Sam paths if you want to force them through training before or after an exam. we can talk more in detail about those later. But, training is available for all students via SAM study guide reports so They can remediate and train on missed tasks. There is nothing you need to do since I believe by default these these reports are turned on for delivery immediately after students take an exam or complete a project.
It can be overwhelming because there is SO much information in that text. And YES, there are Cengage folks and Faculty Partners who can help you with course setup and training. If you let your Learning Consultant know what assistance you need, she/he can make it happen!
Like @MarkVerhoeven said, they must pay for a SAM or Cengage Unlimited code in order to access the ebook and SAM assignments. I require SAM Projects and Exams after my students work through the Textbook Project. Since I allow multiple tries on Projects and Exams, students will use the Study Guide report to Train and Remediate on missed tasks and the resubmit for a better grade before the deadline.
My course is LMS integrated so students access all reading and assignment links via my Canvas course. I work hard to teach them how to use the amazing SAM reports in order to really learn the material and get the best possible grades. We also have active discussions in class and online about some of their errors and how to fix them. SAM has provided us with a great teaching and learning tool/experience for both faculty and students! Let us know if you have any more questions and how we can help..
Thank you for your reply. By the textbook project do you mean the tutorial module in the book? The book also has a review assignment and four cases. I was thinking about doing the tutorial in-class and assigning one of the SAM Projects. Do you go through any examples step by step in-class? How long does it take the students to complete a SAM Project out of class?
That is good to know about the useful reports SAM generates. Are they easy to find? I have had a couple of sessions with my rep but we mostly discussed MindTap. I wasn't even aware that my students needed to register for SAM and we haven't really looked at SAM yet.
I did want to add I assigned the SAM Projects using MindTap. At this point, I don't have a SAM account? Do I need to create one and if so, should I work in SAM and not use MindTap?
You have one Cengage account so there is no separate SAM account. Students can access those assignments via MindTap or through your LMS if you are integrated. Your SAM section is automatically created when you create your MindTap course. Let us know if you have other questions!
Your students don’t need to register for SAM since it is already in the MindTap learning path. Their one Cengage login will get them to everything inside mindtap. Yes, Sorry I use the word textbook project into Tutorial interchangeably. I discuss the module objectives and run through the key points of the tutorial in class briefly. I am hoping the students come prepared and have already read through it. If they come prepared, the SAM project takes about one hour to do, and then they can review the reports, do some remediation and training, and make corrections to resubmit the project for a better grade . I typically will create a Video tonpist and discuss some of the problem areas in class so they are well prepared to do the project. And then of course I’m there to help them with any issues as needed on our lab days .
My class is in the traditional Face to Face format and I would like to give an exam in class after covering the first four Excel modules. I know there are exams for each module but I did not locate a multiple chapter exam. Instead of a multiple choice test perhaps an cumulative type assignment would work better that they could complete in-class. Is this something that is available?
@Karl I assume you are using SAM? If so you can create an exam on all modules or ask the DSS to build one for you OR use an Excel Capstone Project.. . Hope this helps!! | 2019-04-23T22:45:02 | https://community.cengage.com/t5/Computing-Instructor-Forum/Using-New-Perspectives-Microsoft-Office-365-Office-2016/td-p/10590 |
0.99937 | He is better than you, he is grand.
And he can craft in darkness.
The strands on his head move deliberately, effortlessly iridescent.
His constructions fit stadiums inside stadiums inside stadiums.
He plants dreams right into the ground, and he can levitate a horse.
He can shave just by thinking about it.
Those large feet face gravity everyday like loyal soldiers.
But he stumbles looking up.
And his chair broke and is so small.
1. Your sister adjusted the spool, holding the fabric taut, it reflected in the mirror behind her, it's blue filled the rectangle completely. 2. She heard they were making more puddles. 3. Look at all those mailboxes. Do you remember which one is ours? 4. I ask your sister what sentence she wanted to say, and she said "I love you, Mama." 5. We are grinding our mirrors to soap. 6. The spool is a door. That which you cannot enter is your way out. 7. Africa the floor. Palestine the floor. Now travel without visa. 8. Worthy people, the anthem of God is on your shirt. 9. How can you get any two sentences to question and answer each other? 10. A play.
Scene: a theater space, the floor painted to look like the Palestinian flag (or is it South Africa?). Center stage is a tall blue spool of thread (wool), on top of which is a star, as you'd put on a Christmas tree. Sitting just to the left is your sister (stage left), sitting in a chair, knitting something or otherwise using the blue wool.
Scene: a tall and wide spool of blue textile, just small enough to fit through the doorway, both of which are center stage. The spool is directly in front of the doorway. To the left is a chair, where your sister is sitting. In front of her is a box made of stained glass. Its different sides show a number of objects: you decide what they are. On the wall to the left is a canvas painted the same shade of blue as the spool. It is the same size as the doorway. Stage right is a pinball table. The front of the stage is painted to look like a South African or a Palestinian flag. Your sister is knitting or otherwise using the blue textile to make some kind of object.
Scene: as above, your sister, age 8 in the sitting role, knitting. Your sister, age 28 will appear from behind the blue spool some time before speaking.
Scene: a tall and wide spool of some kind of blue thread, just small enough to fit through the doorway, which is rear center stage behind the spool. To the left of the spool is a chair, where your sister is sitting. In front of her is a lit box whose walls are stained glass. Its different sides show a number of objects: you decide what they are. On the wall to the left is a canvas painted the same shade as the spool. It is the same size as the doorway. Stage right is a pinball table, whose theme is The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, or some other theme, preferably one based on an iconic memoir by an icon of American literary history and a woman (again, your call). The stage floor is painted to look like the South African or Palestinian flag, or the flag of the African National Congress. Your Sister, age 8, is knitting or otherwise using the blue thread to make some kind of object. Your Sister, age 28, is waiting in the wings. Do something with them.
The other 3 photos are not posted on this website in order to protect the identities of those involved; however, all 6 photos were on view at Beulahland during the event in June.
She cursed as the twig cracked beneath her boot. The sound, nearly imperceptible to human ears, easily startled her quarry back into docility. The hreinin’s amenability served well for hunting and normal work but was not what she needed today. She cursed again as she trudged to find another vantage point to fade from the herds awareness.
The gravel crunched and spat as she careened down the narrow road. Her father’s not quite anachronistic letter had found her, dragging her back into a life she had fought hard to leave behind.
The tiny dilapidated trailer loomed in the tree line, smelling of molder and rot instead of roasting meat and mulled wine. The sleigh to the side, once one of her favorite of her father’s toys, lay in shambles.
The letter, written with quill in a tight script, had given little indication as to what had caused him to abandon the trailer or the job, or why he needed her instead of one of her siblings.
She began a quick mental assessment of the things she would need to repair the slay as her truck came to a halt.
She squinted towards the herd as she pulled her hood tight against the wind. She no longer remembered if it had been days or weeks since she had moved from the spot, having no way to mark the passage of time.
The herd had slowly forgotten her presence, gone back to playing and fighting amongst themselves, digging through the snow for scraps of food below.
She had had her eye on a spritely little doe for some time, hoping she would be the first. The little doe had a way of prancing and charging that kept even the adults on their toes.
She could not keep a small smile from creeping towards the corners of her mouth as she watched the little doe thunder towards an aggressive buck.
“You will be my Thunder”, she whispered to herself.
The buck lowered his head to meet Thunder’s charge and the hunter’s trace of a smile turned into a full-blown grin.
Instead of completing the charge Thunder leapt.
And Thunder began to fly. | 2019-04-24T18:14:05 | https://www.hoursfestivals.com/collaborative-project-results/category/all |
0.99999 | [email protected] 2009-10-16 Umbrella issue for editorial fixes/enhancements.
Associated changes in this document: <#rfc.change.edit.1>, 1, 3, 3, 3.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2, 3.2, 3.2, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4, <#rfc.change.edit.15>, 6, 8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.2, 9.2, A, B, <#rfc.change.edit.24>, D.
[email protected] 2010-08-23 Make sure we do not have a normative dependency on RFC 2183.
Associated changes in this document: 1, 3.2, 3.4, 9.1, 9.2.
The Content-Disposition response header field is used to convey additional information about how to process the response payload, and also can be used to attach additional metadata, such as the filename.
[email protected] 2010-08-23 Can value be quoted-pair as well? It is "value" only in RFC 2183, but "quoted-string" only in 2616. UAs seem to handle quoted-strings, although some have trouble unescaping backslashes.
The parameters "filename" and "filename*", to be matched case-insensitively, provide information on how to construct a filename for storing the message payload.
Depending on the disposition type, this information might be used right away (in the "save as..." interaction caused for the "attachment" disposition type), or later on (for instance, when the user decides to save the contents of the current page being displayed).
"filename" and "filename*" behave the same, except that "filename*" uses the encoding defined in [RFC5987] , allowing the use of non-ASCII characters ( [USASCII] ). When both "filename" and "filename*" are present, a recipient SHOULD pick "filename*" and ignore "filename" - this will make it possible to send the same header value to clients that do not support "filename".
[email protected] 2010-08-24 We should be consistent about what RFC 2616 defaults to (ASCII vs ISO-8859-1).
When the value contains path separator characters, all but the last segment SHOULD be ignored. This prevents unintentional overwriting of well-known file system location (such as "/etc/passwd").
Many platforms do not use Internet Media Types ( [RFC2046] ) to hold type information in the file system, but rely on filename extensions instead. Trusting the server-provided file extension could introduce a privilege escalation when later on the file is opened locally (consider ".exe"). Thus, recipients need to ensure that a file extension is used that is safe, optimally matching the media type of the received payload.
Other aspects recipients need to be aware of are names that have a special meaning in the filesystem or in shell commands, such as "." and "..", "~", "|", and also device names.
Note that this example uses the extended encoding defined in [RFC5987] to specify that the natural language of the filename is English, and also to encode the space character which is not allowed in the token production.
Here, the encoding defined in [RFC5987] is also used to encode the non-ASCII character.
[email protected] 2010-08-24 Add an example that uses both "filename" and "filename*" and mention current UA behavior.
The "filename*" parameter (Section 3.3), using the encoding defined in [RFC5987] , allows the server to transmit characters outside the ASCII character set.
Future parameters might also require internationalization, in which case the same encoding can be used.
Using server-supplied information for constructing local filenames introduces many risks. These are summarized in Section 3.3.
Furthermore, implementers also ought to be aware of the Security Considerations applying to HTTP (see Section 15 of [RFC2616] ), and also the parameter encoding defined in [RFC5987] (see Section 5).
[email protected] 2010-08-23 The registry technically is for the MIME header, but has been used for C-D in other protocols already. What's missing are instructions that new registrations should state which protocol they're for. Do we want to attempt to modify the registry?
Reschke, J., “Applicability of RFC 2231 Encoding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Headers”, Internet-Draft draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-12 (work in progress), April 2010.
Reschke, J., “Applicability of RFC 2231 Encoding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Headers”, RFC 5987, August 2010.
Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax”, RFC 3986, STD 66, January 2005.
This specification requires support for the extended parameter encoding defined in ↑ I ↓ [draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http] [RFC5987] .
By default, HTTP header field parameters cannot carry characters outside the ISO-8859-1 ( [ISO-8859-1] ) character encoding (see [RFC2616] , Section 2.2). For the "filename" parameter, this of course is an unacceptable restriction.
Unfortunately, user agent implementers have not managed to come up with an interoperable approach, although the IETF Standards Track specifies exactly one solution ( [RFC2231] , clarified and profiled for HTTP in [RFC5987] ).
For completeness, the sections below describe the various approaches that have been tried, and explains how they are inferior to the RFC 5987 encoding used in this specification.
An 'encoded-word' MUST-NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'.
An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in parameter of a MIME Content-Type or Content-Disposition field, or in any structured field body except within a 'comment' or 'phrase'.
In practice, some user agents implement the encoding, some do not (exposing the encoded string to the user), and some get confused by it.
Some user agents accept percent encoded ( [RFC3986] , Section 2.1) sequences of characters encoded using the UTF-8 ( [RFC3629] ) character encoding.
In practice, this is hard to use because those user agents that do not support it will display the escaped character sequence to the user.
Furthermore, the first user agent to implement this did choose the encoding based on local settings; thus making it very hard to use in multi-lingual environments.
Some user agents inspect the value (which defaults to ISO-8859-1) and switch to UTF-8 when it seems to be more likely to be the correct interpretation.
As with the approaches above, this is not interoperable and furthermore risks misinterpreting the actual value.
The table below shows the various encoding approaches and for them in released user agent versions as of August 2010, based on the test cases published at <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231>.
Update rfc2231-in-http reference. Actually define the "filename" parameter. Add internationalization considerations. Add examples using the RFC 5987 encoding. Add overview over other approaches, plus a table reporting implementation status. Add and resolve issue "nodep2183". Add issues "asciivsiso", "deplboth", "quoted", and "registry". | 2019-04-25T04:03:11 | https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-rfc2183-in-http-02.html |
0.997382 | This question is asked about a dozen times a day. Some drivers will come in and have a bad microphone. I suggest replacing it. I always recommend a noise canceling microphone. Why? Because a noise canceling microphone gives cleaner audio to the radio. Cleaner audio in is cleaner audio out. It is our goal to hear clearly when we need directions.
Now, which on is better? Several factors determine which is better. The kind of radio is number one. If you are using a basic CB radio that has not been peaked and tuned, stick with the stock microphone. A noise canceling microphone has reduced audio to the radio so it will make you sound distant and far off. "Out in the weeds" is a common expression. If your basic CB radio has been peaked and tuned, the Road King is an excellent choice. It will work just fine for these radios.
For 10-meter amateur radios that have been converted to CB channels, either a Road King or an Astatic 636L would be a good choice. For the new generation of super modulated radios, the Astatic is actually a better choice. These would be the Northpoint and the Magnum S series radios.
The final factor is, which feels good in your hands? Some people feel that Astatic's tear drop shape makes it difficult to handle. Others feel that the rounded case of the Road King with the thumb button makes it difficult to handle.
Which is best? They are both great. Whichever one you like will work best for you. | 2019-04-24T01:57:50 | https://www.layover.com/trucking-news/page/74/road-king-or-astatic-which-is-best- |
0.997677 | Looking for a little summer reading? How about a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that's sold over 30 million copies worldwide, spawned a motion picture worthy of three Academy Awards and bested the Bible as the most inspirational book of all time?
"I remember starting it and just devouring it," said Oprah Winfrey. "This was one of the first books I wanted to encourage other people to read."
It may be turning 50, but "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been called a timeless classic - and for a generation of readers, their favorite book.
"Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum."
You could almost feel the steamy summer heat of Maycomb, Ala., the fictitious Depression Era, deeply-segregated Southern town disrupted by an explosive charge that a black man raped a white woman … an accusation town lawyer Atticus Finch knows is false.
But this multi-layered morality tale is seen from a child's point of view - Finch's six-year-old daughter, Scout, played in the 1962 movie by Mary Badham.
"I felt so attached to her," Badham said. "I just wish I could've been as smart as Scout and always been there with the comeback. But, oh well!"
Badham was on hand for the ultimate book club this weekend in Monroeville, Ala., the town Maycomb was modeled after. It's hosting a four-day, 50th anniversary celebration, complete with a marathon "Mockingbird" reading; tours of the town; and samplings of Monroeville's signature drink (a tequila mockingbird).
But while the "Mockingbird" faithful have flocked here to soak up Monroeville's Southern charm, noticeably absent from the festivities is the town's most famous resident - the novel's 84-year-old author, Harper Lee.
"It called to mind, for me, that whole scene where Sheriff Tate says to Atticus, 'You can't go shine a light on these people when they don't want it,'" said independent film and former CBS News producer Mary McDonagh Murphy.
For her documentary and book about "Mockingbird," Murphy interviewed almost everyone - everyone but Harper Lee.
"I began to see that the story wasn't Harper Lee - the story is the novel," said Murphy. "The story is the impact the novel had."
Lee won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Two years later, the late Gregory Peck won the Oscar for Best Actor playing Atticus Finch.
And "To Kill a Mockingbird" is required reading in schools across the country . . . a book, teachers say, students actually like to read!
But perhaps Harper Lee's greatest triumph is her searing portrayal of the ugliness of racism and injustice.
James McBride, author of "The Color of Water," says that was a courageous act.
"What other writer during that time was willing to take on this subject with the kind of honesty and integrity that she did? What other white writer?" he asked.
With such overwhelming success, Lee (whom her friends and family call "Nelle") decided a follow up was futile, according to her older sister, Alice (who's 98 and still practicing law).
"She said she couldn't top what she's done," remarked Alice Finch Lee. "She said, 'I haven't anywhere to go but down.'"
In fact, the intensely private Lee hasn't given a single interview since 1964.
"She said that reporters began to take too many liberties with what she said," said Alice Finch Lee, "so she just wanted out. She felt like she'd given enough."
Folks here in Monroeville seem to understand.
On this sultry summer weekend, her words - published 50 years ago today - are enough. | 2019-04-20T16:43:55 | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/to-kill-a-mockingbird-turns-50/ |
0.999176 | Consider the following: You just moved from Texas to North Carolina. While you were in Texas you appointed your brother as your Power of Attorney. Your brother still lives in Texas. You have not named an alternate.
North Carolina law does not prohibit someone out-of-state from serving as your Power of Attorney. However, in this scenario you would want to ask yourself a couple of key questions: In case of emergency, will your brother be able to serve? Will he have the resources or ability to get to North Carolina if he is needed? If the answer to either of these is no, you may need to see an attorney who can update your Power of Attorney and appoint someone who is more available to serve when called.
Even if you can answer yes to all of those questions, you may consider adding a local alternate Power of Attorney. North Carolina statutes provide for the ability to appoint someone who would be able to serve if your primary Power of Attorney is unavailable. In the above scenario, this would be someone who could act in place of your brother until he was able to serve.
However, an alternate is not required and if your Power of Attorney is readily available or if they moved with you, your documents may still be fine. Either way, having your documents reviewed by an attorney will save you time and anxiety later on when those documents are really needed. | 2019-04-24T22:15:33 | https://www.raefordlawyer.com/i-just-moved-to-north-carolina-do-i-need-to-change-my-power-of-attorney/ |
0.99978 | The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran: the path to preventing traffic injuries?
Reducing and preventing road traffic injuries (RTIs) is a challenge faced by all nations . The manuscript by Naghavi et al. highlights the huge burden of injuries in Iranian children , most of which are the result of road traffic injuries. The manuscript revealed a rising death rate from injuries among children from 1971 to 2005. The authors' previous work has documented the fact that Iran has the highest RTI death rate of any country where such data are available [3, 4]. The authors described and documented the main reasons for the rapid increase in RTIs. It is not a surprise that Iran's subsidized gas, which is 10 times cheaper than its production cost, and the rapid increase in vehicle production (more than 1 million cars and 1.5 million motorcycles produced every year since 2002) are important contributing factors in Iran's RTI burden . Indeed, when it comes to RTIs, Iran is experiencing one of the downsides of joining the club of countries with rapid economic growth over the past three decades.
The manuscript has some limitations. The comparison to previous years is weakened by the limited amount of historical data. Only data on the capital Tehran were available in 1971. In addition, improvements in the quality of data throughout the study period make the data difficult to compare to previous years. The most important limitation is the completeness of the data and whether the increases in RTI rates are due to better statistics about RTIs rather than true rates of increase. As much as the latter is true, it still does not explain all the increases in RTIs in Iran. However, the results of the study and the previous work of the authors provide a clear picture of RTIs in Iran today and their increasing burden. In general, the study shows the importance of the data systems that capture the burden of injuries in Iran and suggests such systems could be a model for other countries with similar economic growth.
Strategies to prevent traffic injuries have been discussed and promoted in many publications [1, 5]. These measures include designing safer cars and roads and enforcement of speed and weight limits. In addition, enforcing occupant protection through child safety seats, seat belts, and helmet use, to name a few, is essential. Unfortunately, Iran has a long way to go to reach these objectives. Iran is a country with deep cultural roots; however, it is a late bloomer when it comes to modern mechanization. Iran's rapid increase in motor vehicle use may have started in the 1950s, with its first automobile production occurring in the late 1960s. Car production started its peak in 2002 . This would place Iran about 80 years behind the US and much of Europe in motor vehicle use.
What Iran is facing now is similar in many ways to what the US once faced. At the beginning of the century, motor travel in the US was a novelty, with an estimated 8,000 automobiles on the road. By 2000, more than 226 million vehicles were registered . As the number of vehicles and drivers in the US increased, so did deaths and injuries - from 1.0 motor-vehicle deaths per 100,000 to 26.7 per 100,000 in 1930 . For the most part, these rates remained very high until 1970 (27.7 per 100,000), except for a brief decline during World War II due to lack of fuel availability . After 1970, rates began to decline. It took the US about 70 years to curb the burden of RTIs. Iran and other countries should not follow this model.
The victories of motor vehicle safety in the US are well-documented . Substantial gains in driver education, vehicle safety, and road design were implemented through legislation and public awareness campaigns. Above all, these victories were due to the work of public safety champions. President Herbert Hoover convened the first National Conference on Street and Highway Safety in 1924. President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened an Accident Prevention Conference on vehicle safety in 1936 and called for lower speeds, better lighting, and stronger auto frames. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Traffic and Motor Safety Act and the Highway Safety Act in 1966. Lawyer and activist Ralph Nader led a consumer movement for vehicle safety in the 1960s. His work inspired hundreds of activists who joined together to help with his work (they came to be known as "Nader's raiders"). William Haddon, a public health physician and epidemiologist who became the first director of the National Highway Safety Bureau, revolutionized the scientific approach to preventing motor-vehicle injuries by developing the Haddon Matrix . His work recognized that injuries are like infectious diseases, a result of the interaction between a host (person), an agent (motor vehicle), and the environment (road).
The US success story was built upon the hard work of champions who pushed to reduce RTIs and to improve motor-vehicle safety. As in many success stories, many components must come together to achieve the goal of safer roads. However, the essential ingredient is the dedication and vision of the champions who make motor-vehicle safety their cause. Iran is in dire need of champions such as those who have driven road safety improvements in the US. Their contributions will no doubt expedite the time it takes to achieve a success story similar to what the US has experienced. It is time for champions of RTI prevention and control and motor-vehicle safety to step forward in Iran. The manuscript by Naghavi et al. makes a strong case for Iran to follow the US's path, but at much faster pace. | 2019-04-21T12:53:18 | https://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478-7954-8-4 |
0.999023 | Question: What is a distribution agreement?
A distribution agreement is a contract between two parties pursuant to which one party (the “manufacturer”) agrees to allow the other party (the “distributor”) to distribute the goods manufactured by the manufacturer. It may be used for many different types of goods. A distribution agreement sets out the terms and conditions upon which the distributor agrees to distribute the goods. | 2019-04-21T12:54:09 | https://legalvision.com.au/q-and-a/what-is-a-distribution-agreement/ |
0.999987 | As US swimming sensation Michael Phelps sets his sights on more gold medal wins at the Beijing Olympics this weekend, the BBC's Michael Hirst examines the part an extraordinary diet has played in the sportsman's remarkable success.
If it is true that you are what you eat, then here is the suggested intake if you want to become history's most successful Olympian.
For breakfast: three fried egg sandwiches, with cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, fried onions and mayonnaise, followed by three chocolate-chip pancakes; a five-egg omelette; three sugar-coated slices of French toast and a bowl of grits (a maize-based porridge), washed down with two cups of coffee.
For lunch: half a kilogram (one pound) of enriched pasta; two large ham and cheese sandwiches on white bread smothered with mayonnaise, washed down by energy drinks.
For dinner: Another half-kilogram of pasta, perhaps with a carbonara sauce, followed by a large pizza and more energy drinks.
That combination may not sound very healthy, and at a staggering 10,000 calories, would feed five average men for a day.
But the menu is reportedly all in a training day's eating for champion swimmer Michael Phelps, who won six gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics and is aiming for eight this time round.
"Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do," said the US swimmer, after winning his 11th Olympic gold.
Judging by the amount he eats and swims, that is not altogether surprising.
Even though the 23-year-old spends a solid five hours of each day burning off those calories, the diet still seems excessive. Is he following some sort of dietician guru's programme?
Barbara Lewin, a nutritionist who has advised international athletes on their dietary health for almost two decades, thinks not.
"Health-wise, if he were eating like this long-term, he'd probably be having to see a cardiologist regularly," Mrs Lewin told the BBC.
She recommended cutting out the egg yolks, replacing the white bread with whole-wheat, throwing some fruit and vegetables into the mix, and spreading the food out over the day with regular snacking.
But while the quality of the calories consumed by the six-foot four-inch (1.93m) swimmer may not seem healthy, Ms Lewin suggested there are good reasons behind Mr Phelps' diet.
"I've worked with more than 1,000 endurance athletes - swimmers and runners - and one of the most common problems they have is glycogen depletion - the result of not getting enough carbohydrates," she said.
"Nine out of 10 times the reason an athlete doesn't reach their personal best is because they're not getting enough carbohydrates and that's what your muscles need for food."
Phelps won his sixth gold medal in Beijing in the 200m medley on Friday, and will be aiming to equal fellow American Mark Spitz's record of winning seven gold medals in a single Olympic games when he takes to the pool for Saturday's 100m fly.
He will break Spitz's 36-year record if his team qualify, and go on to win, Sunday's 4x100m relay.
The very process of challenging that record entails a hectic schedule of heats, semi-finals and finals.
With that kind of turn-around, topping up his carbohydrate count is key, Ms Lewin suggested. The copious amount of refined carbohydrates consumed in the bread and pasta he eats will digest quickly and give the swimmer instant energy.
Phelps, who weighs around 85kg (187lbs), understands this. Asked what was needed to continue his gold-medal winning streak, he said simply: "Get some calories into my system and try to recover the best I can."
Keeping his carbohydrates topped up between races, said Ms Lewin, is important for avoiding what athletes call "hitting the wall" - that stage in an endurance competition when the body has used up all its carbohydrate fuel (sometimes known as muscle glycogen) and instead starts the much less efficient process of burning fat for energy.
The Phelps diet is not recommended for everyone. Due to his muscle-intensive physique, the swimmer's metabolism - the process of converting food into energy - far exceeds that of a more average man, said Jeff Kotterman, director of the US National Association of Sports Nutrition.
"It's a combination of peak performance coupled with the fact that he has an enormous metabolism - he burns more calories sitting at a desk than a lot of people burn walking," Mr Kotterman told the BBC.
He suggested Phelps, with an estimated 8% body fat, probably burns 1,000 calories per hour during his swimming training, compared to the equivalent exercise for an average person - vigorous walking - that would burn between 170 and 240 calories.
Consequently, trying to emulate the Phelps diet by consuming up to 12,000 calories a day in order to attain his physique would more than likely come to a wobbly end.
One pound of fat has roughly 3,500 calories, so an ordinary man could put on almost three pounds of fat a day.
But then again, Michael Phelps - who has now won the 400m medley, 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 4x100m free relay, 4x200m free relay and the 200m medley in world record times - is clearly no ordinary man. | 2019-04-21T16:53:14 | https://sports-nutritionist.com/food-for-fuel.php |
0.99932 | Am Fam Physician. 2000 Jul 1;62(1):175-176.
A 90-year-old woman presented with a history of rash under her breasts (Figure 1) and axillae that progressively worsened over a period of two months. She described the eruption as red, irritated, painful and prone to bleeding. No pruritus or scaliness was present. She had tried numerous over-the-counter medications, but none had provided relief. The patient had no rash in any other location and no history of recent antibiotic use, medication changes, new undergarments or exposure to new hygiene products. She denied any associated fevers or chills or recent infection. The biopsy (Figure 2) demonstrated focally impetiginized and inflamed skin with multifocal acantholysis (disrupted connections between keratinocytes in the epidermis). Immunofluorescence studies for immunoglobulins and fibrinogen were negative. The patient responded to a course of oral prednisone, cephalexin (Keflex) and fluconazole (Diflucan).
Which one of the following is the correct diagnosis for the lesion shown in the left-hand column, given the patient's history, physical examination and immunopathologic findings?
The answer is D: benign familial pemphigus. Chronic benign familial pemphigus, or Hailey-Hailey disease, is a rare autosomal dominant, intraepidermal, nonscarring bullous dermatosis with variable expressivity. About 70 percent of patients report an antecedent family history. The dermatosis was first described by the Hailey brothers in 1939.
Impetigo alone would not generally cause such a prolonged and confluent rash. In addition, there would usually be other areas with bullae or rash associated with autoinoculation.
Intertrigo, which is usually caused by Candida, often occurs in the inframammary folds, and an empiric trial of antifungal treatment would have been a reasonable course of action in this patient. The severe inflammation is less common for intertrigo alone, and a likely incomplete response to antifungal treatment would prompt a search for other diagnostic possibilities.
Contact dermatitis under the breast may be associated with allergens in brassiere materials or topical powders and creams applied to the area. Again, the severity of the rash, its long duration and superinfection make this relatively benign diagnosis less likely.
Histologically, pemphigus vulgaris may appear similar to benign familial pemphigus but generally has more prominent acantholysis and positive immunofluorescence studies.
The basic defect in benign familial pemphigus is a disruption of cellular cohesion resulting in acantholytic damage to the epidermis.1 A number of external stimuli can precipitate acantholysis, including friction, freezing, heat, perspiration, ultraviolet radiation, toxic compounds, allergens and, more importantly, infectious agents (bacteria, yeasts and viruses).
Benign familial pemphigus usually begins in adulthood and is characterized by recurrent blistering lesions with a marked predilection for the intertriginous areas2 (Figure 1). The eruption begins with groups of small, flaccid, pruritic, easily ruptured vesicles. Secondary impetiginization is common. The lesions may become verrucous and usually heal without scarring. Rarely, the oral, esophageal or ocular mucosa may be involved.
The course of Hailey-Hailey disease is characterized by periods of exacerbation and remission. The disease severity and frequency usually decrease with age. Remissions lasting several months to years may occur. The disease has a seasonal pattern with exacerbations in the summer months, mostly because perspiration and friction can precipitate the appearance of the lesions. Malignant degeneration of the lesions, although reported, is rare.
The affected areas should be kept as dry and as free of friction as possible. Talcum powder or antiperspirant products that contain aluminum chloride are beneficial, although aluminum chloride products should only be used on intact skin to avoid irritation. Because benign familial pemphigus is autosomally inherited, genetic counseling is recommended.
1. Michel B. Commentary: Hailey-Hailey disease, familial benign chronic pemphigus. Arch Dermatol. 1982;118:774–83.
2. Hamm H, Metze D, Brocker EB. Hailey-Hailey disease. Eradication by dermabrasion. Arch Dermatol. 1994;130:1143–9.
3. Quitadamo MJ, Spencer SK. Surgical management of Hailey-Hailey disease. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1991;25:342–3. | 2019-04-18T11:24:17 | https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/0701/p175.html |
0.998255 | Random facts and trivia and bloopers I found on www.imdb.com about Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, etc. Enjoy!
Angel Tagline: Live fast. Die never.
Cold Case Tagline: Hope lives...because the evidence never dies.
"How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways"
"Romeo, Oh Romeo, Get Out Of My Face."
Sweet November Taagline: She Just Needed A Month To Change His Life For Ever.
Mariska Hargitay keeps a photo of her mother Jayne Mansfield on her desk on the set.
The following statement appears at the beginning of each and every episode: "In the criminal justice system, sexually based crimes are considered especially heinous. In New York city, the dedicated detectives who investigate this vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the special victims unit. These are their stories."
Mariska Hargitay's real-life father, Mickey Hargitay appears in the episode "Control". He plays a man on an escalator, who is seen speaking to Detective Benson.
Factual errors: In "Atonement", one of the beat officers calls in the purse snatching as a 10-22. A 10-22 means to "disregard last statement", not a purse snatching.
Factual errors: In more than one episode, characters refer to the District Attorneys of various New Jersey counties. New Jersey has county prosecutors, not District Attorneys.
Errors in geography: The episode "Wannabe" has a criminal leaving a gun on the subway tracks of the 7 train, "near the Brooklyn Bridge station". The 7 train does not stop at, or anywhere near, the Brooklyn Bridge.
Factual errors: In "Magic Hour", we see a full moon. The next day there is a total eclipse of the sun which requires a new or dark moon.
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the end of "A Witch's Tail", Phoebe misspells her own name ("Pheobe") when signing her divorce papers.
Continuity: In the episode "A Witch In Time" the character Phoebe is running down the street in a pair of floppy brown moccasin boots. When she stops running she is suddenly wearing black leather healed boots.
Revealing mistakes: In the episode "Astral Monkey" the bandage on the doctors neck switches from left to right in between shots.
Crew or equipment visible: In the second season episode, "P3 H20" when Prue and Phoebe drive up to the lake in her black Mazda Miata, a cameraman and boom mike are reflected in the driver's side door as they move up to get the shot of the girls inside the car.
OMG! I just found this peice of trivia on Law and Order... I happen to like it... What do you think?
After her departure from the series, Jill Hennessy wrote and directed the film Acting Class, The (2000) using Law & Order's sets. Many L&O cast members such as Jerry Orbach and Angie Harmon volunteered to appear in her film, which was a mock-documentary. The show was known for underplaying the background stories of its characters. During the 1995-96 season, hints were dropped that the characters of Jack McCoy and Claire Kincaid were lovers (a fact confirmed in a later episode). Many fans enjoy spotting where and when these subtle hints occur in each episode. The distinctive "thunk-thunk" sound effect used in between scenes was created by combining close to a dozen sounds, including that of a group of monks stamping on a floor!
Alyssa Milano replaced Lori Rom in the role of Phoebe Halliwell.
In Episode #3.6 "Primrose Empath", Prue (Shannen Doherty) gains superpowers to fight the demon Vinceres (Morgan Weisser). The fight scene in the manor is very similar of the scene in Matrix, The (1999) when Neo (Keanu Reeves) fights Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in the railway station.
The actress with the most Charmed Fan Mail is actually not one of the main stars of the show. Actress Finola Hughes who plays Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige's mother receives the most fan mail from Charmed series viewers.
The Book of Shadows is almost entirely hand-painted.
Alyssa Milano like the drawings in the book so much she the artist paint murals on her walls at home.
In the episode Charmed and Dangerous, there were more scenes. The scene where Piper was writing her will was longer. It included a part where Leo asks what he is going to do with the book of shadows, and Piper tells him to give it to one of his charges. There was also a scene where Phoebe and Cole are writing the spell to vanquish the Source. In Witch Way Now, there was a deleted scene where Leo and Darryl searched the witch hunter's office and they got caught.
The syndicated airings on TNT are cut by a little bit. It is most noticeable in episode 1.22 when we hear the sisters calling Prue's name when she's unconsious, and in 3.02 when they freeze Kate's parents.
The original ending of Oh My Goddess Part 2 did not end with Chris waving his hand and Leo blowing up. It originally showed Chris waving his hand and Leo disappeared and you see him in a cage in Valhalla. | 2019-04-21T16:56:48 | http://americanwoman8787.tripod.com/id9.html |
0.998815 | The best way to prevent injury is by having strong, flexible muscles and joints which resist strain and injury. Stretch slowly, and never do any exercise that causes pain. The exercises below can make your core trunk muscles resistant to future attacks of back and neck pain.
Lie on your back with your knees bent. While trying to keep your lower back flat, slowly let both knees fall together toward the floor. Hold for ten seconds, then go back to start position with knees up. Repeat other side. Repeat the exercise ten times.
Stand straight up with hands above head. Slowly reach your hands to the right and hold for ten seconds, then straight up and pause, then go to the left and hold for ten seconds, then straight up again and pause. Repeat the stretch ten times.
Start with the feet shoulder width apart. Your hands are outstretched for balance. Lower your body slowly (do not bounce up and down) until the thighs are horizontal. Hold your squat position for five seconds, then stand. Repeat ten times.
This exercise requires a great deal of balance. You may put one hand on a chair back to balance. To do this exercise, stand on your right leg. Extend your left leg out in front of you until it can almost touch the floor, 18 inches in front. Next, slowly begin to swing the left leg to the side so the leg may touch the floor, 18 inches to the side, then back behind you, then back to the starting position. You left leg will have made a large semicircle path from front to back. Repeat 10 times, then switch legs.
Hold a racquet, golf club or broom across your shoulders as shown. Without moving your feet, slowly rotate your shoulders to the left, then back to the right. Do this stretching exercise for five minutes before playing to loosen up and reduce risk of strain.
Place a towel on the floor. Start on your right foot with your left hand on the floor, as shown in picture one. Next, jump upward from this position, across the towel landing on your left foot and right hand. Get momentum going and hop from side to side for one minute, then rest. Repeat for ten one minute intervals.
Laying supine, cross right leg over left leg. Grip left hamstring and begin to pull toward yourself while raising 90 degrees. Hold for 10 seconds. Repeat with opposite leg. | 2019-04-22T20:37:39 | http://spinegrouparizona.com/education/strengthening-exercises.html |
0.998619 | How do you convey a message effectively? We are still figuring it out. In our case we make a customizable bundle of essential outdoor gear for programs and parents to ensure participants are prepared for outdoor education and adventure experiences. That's a mouthful, but before I'm not sure I had a concise statement of what HMWOutdoors does. Sure, I knew we built a kit, I spent a couple of years formulating the idea and more than a year after that designing, testing and assembling everything. But how do I summarize that into something I can say in a sentence or two before the elevator door opens.
Part of our issue is we offer a complete kit for outdoor adventure. No one else does that. That means we are mowing down new opportunities we have to create a new buying construct for our solution in the minds of our partners and customers. Normally people purchase items found in our kit as individual items from multiple vendors using multiple brands. The only other places to get the individual items we include is from big box stores, or national outdoor retailers.
Instead of that we have pulled together all the essential items a youth would need in one place, under one brand.
So we started out with FB, Twitter, Pinterest, Adroll, and Google ads, I've developed a few campaigns that get a good click through rate, but don't convert to sales. I think my opinion of FB and all the other platforms is to create an awareness that we exist. I'm good about getting our ads to follow you around the internet. I changed the site, but still didn't convert.
Things that seemed to work were running a location based campaign for a specific conference we were attending and pressing the flesh with outdoor educators.
I identified local program and outdoor educators and demonstrated the YAK to them.
So going forward I'm focusing on domain specific conferences and local school. I'm excited. What I'm learning is everything you are doing, everything I'm doing is preparation for the next step. Then you take that step and then the next.
I am still developing our voice. All the best on this journey. Talk to you soon. | 2019-04-19T04:33:15 | https://www.hmwoutdoors.com/blogs/founders-corner/the-only-easy-day-was-yesterday |
0.999955 | The short answer to the question what is Lean 4.0? is: the combination of well-known Lean Manufacturing / Lean Management principles and Industry 4.0 / digitalization and digital transformation.
While many organizations have started to improve the efficiency of their processes and operations with Lean – and are still far from being done with reaping all benefits from the Lean approach – the rise of Industry 4.0, digitalization and digital transformation show new and more improvement and development potentials.
It soon became obvious that there should be no choice between implementing Lean and Industry 4.0 but go for a smart combination of both, as they complement each other.
For instance, implementing high-tech automation solutions on waste-ridden processes makes no sense. Lean is therefore considered a forerunner or even a prerequisite to Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. On the other side, digitalization, smart automation and other Industry 4.0 solutions reveal new improvement potentials and opportunities to apply Lean principles and tools. Industry 4.0 enables Lean to break free from Industry 3.0 limitations and apply on a new level. Think about the limitations that additive manufacturing remove compared to traditional manufacturing, for example.
Is a robotic motion a waste? | 2019-04-24T15:52:17 | https://hohmannchris.wordpress.com/lean-4-0/ |
0.999993 | Synopsis (from Amazon): In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before - Caroline Ingalls, Ma in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books.
In the frigid days of February 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband, Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril.
For more than 80 years, generations have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier's most famous child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our past.
One (or more) Sentence Summary: I was (and am) a HUGE fan of Little House on the Prairie books and the TV show. When I first heard about this book, I couldn't wait to read it. The books and the show never really focused on Caroline. The book Caroline: Little House, Revisited, is a wonderful tribute to Ma! We are allow to really get to know and understand her, including how important family was to her. She made so many sacrifices for her family and was a very strong and caring women.
I really enjoyed Caroline: Little House, Revisited and am hoping there will be more (at least a sequel). Please let there be more!
Would I Read Other Books by the Author: Yes. I am hoping there is a sequel to Caroline: Little House, Revisited.
Sarah Miller began writing her first novel at the age of ten, and has spent the last two decades working in libraries and bookstores. She is the author of two previous historical novels, Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, and The Lost Crown. Her nonfiction debut, The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century, was hailed by the New York Times as "a historical version of Law & Order." She lives in Michigan. | 2019-04-22T06:20:06 | http://www.seasidebooknook.com/2017/11/caroline-litte-house-revisited.html |
0.999999 | Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents . Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." The ideology measure is based on respondent self-placement in response to the following question: "On a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is extremely liberal, 7 is extremely conservative, and 4 is exactly in the middle, where would you place yourself?" The placements are further classified such that 1 is extremely liberal, 2 is very liberal, 3 is somewhat liberal, 4 is moderate, 5 is somewhat conservative, 6 is very conservative, and 7 is extremely conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Tea Party identification is based on the following question, also asked in the survey: "Suppose the Tea Party movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?" Those who responded "Republican candidate" are considered Republicans (non-Tea Party movement) and those who responded "Tea Party candidate" are considered Tea Party Republicans.
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Race is calculated according to the race variable.
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Gender is calculated according to the GENDER variable.
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Community is based on the following question, " Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Age is calculated according to the AGEG variable.
Respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should be deported immediately." Education is calculated according to the EDUC variable. | 2019-04-18T17:05:04 | https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/deportation-undocumented-immigrants-february-2015 |
0.998758 | With my son coming home from the Army (it has been a nice visit), I am surprised at how many people think this is the right time for me to sit down and "have a talk" with him. I am not at all sure where this idea originates, but it is amazing how many people have brought this up.
Apparently, the theory is that I (as the Father) have some great knowledge that he (as the Son) needs to hear and that, for whatever reason, I have never given it to him before. Now That He Is A Man (as they will say it), I am apparently supposed to impart this knowledge to him over lunch or dinner or something, in a very important Talk.
I think, maybe, it arises from television and movies, where we always see fathers and sons sitting down for a serious talk. It may just come from the increasing feminization of things, given how much women seem to like having such talks. I know that wives are frequently the ones who want their husbands to have such talks. Who knows where it comes from, but I wish it would go away. Seriously.
My son lived in my house for 23 years. Do you think there is something I wanted to tell him but just kept forgetting all those years? Is there some wisdom or understanding I just never got around to mentioning but which he needs now? I don't think so.
I can imagine having some kind of a talk. If he had some girl he was preparing to marry, then maybe we could talk about marriage. Of course, I am not sure what new I could say to a man who observed 23 years of my marriage that he would not already know.
I can imagine having a son who is troubled by some temptation to sin imposed by his peers and who comes to me for help, but I find it hard to work out how that would happen. If it is sin, I would tell him not to do it. He knows I would tell him not to do it. So, that conversation is not very useful or very long.
He is not going into my profession (he is a soldier, I am a lawyer), so not a lot of professional advice is needed.
In short, I raised my son the way I wanted him raised. I made mistakes, I am sure, but how would I know? There are things I theoretically would "have done differently," but so what? He does not need to sit and listen to me whine about how I raised him. I do not live a life of regrets, after all. We are where we are.
In short, this is not a movie script. In scripts, they include these talks to create a sense of emotional closeness for the audience, but I cannot imagine sitting my son down and talking to him that way. I can imagine him coming to me with questions, but that is up to him.
So, we sit and have lunch and talk about all the little things people talk about when they like each other's company. In two days, he will be headed back to his duty station. He is a man, with a man's world to live in. I raised him and have faith in him.
In short, it was not television. It was not a movie. It was me and my son. It was perfect. It was just what it ought have been.
Driving earlier today, I saw a couple walking along in which the young man had a long ponytail. It reminded me of a young preacher I knew many years ago, who also had a ponytail.
I assisted the church in some trouble it had with a prior pastor and in its search for a new pastor, but was not involved in the actual hiring process. The church was not a great church, being more of a community church with no strong theological convictions, but felt it could find a good pastor anyway. They ended up hiring this young man.
When I first spoke to him by telephone, I was surprised to hear him mention having a ponytail (as if it mattered to me) and how "surprising" it was to the people where he had started working. When I visited him at his church, he talked again about his ponytail and how "cool" it was that they hired him anyway and how "shocked" people were to see his ponytail. He was really quite proud of that ponytail and how he perceived others responding to it. He even asked if I was "surprised" to see a minister with a ponytail. I was rather amazed that he thought it was such a big deal at all. I knew lots of men with ponytails. It was the Seattle area, after all.
Over the years, I have thought about him a great deal. A ponytail is an interesting thing, isn't it? It does not matter at all. Seriously, what difference does it make? It does not make you stronger or wiser or a better Christian. A ponytail (like any hairdo) is important only in so much as it impacts others. My looks don't matter to me, they matter to those who look at me.
But that was not his attitude at all. His attitude was that having a ponytail was important to who he was. It would have to be because no man in our culture would grow one without thinking about it. He wanted to be a man with a ponytail, regardless of how it impacted his ability to work for God. He knew the ponytail would bother others, but felt that it was a good idea to force them to deal with his ponytail. He knew it would be a problem, and he kept it so that it could be a problem because of how important it was to him.
I knew, or I felt strongly, that he would never succeed. No man who values his hair more than the members of his church will succeed as a pastor. No man who believes that shocking people is a valuable ministry choice will succeed in a job that requires love. A true minister would have been concerned about more than his ponytail.
We see this in other areas. A pastor will insist on the music he likes, not what his people respond to, and say they "need to change." A pastor will insist on preaching the way he likes ("It's my style") rather than the way his people need to hear the word. Young pastors will want to dress casually in an area where preachers dress nicely, even though the people like to have preachers dress nicely. How many pastors have told me, in effect, "they have to adjust to me"? They have to like my ponytail.
I was right about the young minister with the ponytail. He lasted almost two years but was fired because of what seemed to be a simple matter, but no one there had ever come to really love him. Why? Because he did not love them. He loved his ponytail.
Preachers need to know that their duty is to love their neighbors, to love their people, to love their God. It is not their duty to have ponytails (or not have them). It is not their job to love themselves in such a way. If I ministered in a place where men had to be bald to be heard, I would shave my head in a moment. If I minister to people who need my hair to be longer than it is, I would grow it longer. What is hair compared to the faith of God's people?
Preachers and ponytails. An odd and a sad connection in the life of a small church and a young minister. I hope they both learned a lot through the process.
Earlier this week, I blogged on the question of God and American Football. I previously spoke also of my concern over how many Christians seem to view the Tim Tebow situation as some miraculous work of God.
Anyway, a good friend asked a good question about the whole Tebow situation. "But I have been wondering lately if God is particularly blessing Tebow's efforts because Tebow is presenting a positive image to the world of how a Christian should live their lives, even the rich and famous." She concludes this way: "It's not because Tebow's a Christian, but because he is a powerful witness and God is using that. Does that make any sense?"
The answer, of course, is that it makes a lot of sense in modern American ways of thinking. It is, in fact, an excellent question about how we think about God and about life. The argument is that there is something special about Tebow that God wants to promote by allowing him to win games.
Perhaps, as my friend suggests, this could be a sign to us of "how a Christian should live" life. We should, in that sense, be more like Tebow. God, in this view, is blessing Tebow so that we would want to be more like him.
Trouble is, we really don't have any basis for this idea because we know almost nothing about him. We think we know a lot, but we actually know very little He makes a whole lot of money, we know that, but we cannot mean that God wants us all to make a lot of money. He is publicly praised and admired by thousands, but God surely does not mean that. But we really don't know much else. We do not know what he does on a daily basis. We have no idea about "how he lives" at all. All we know is what we see on Sunday.
The Bible tells us that we are to look to Christ and to the apostles as examples of how to live (and, generally, to leaders whom God has given us). The example of Christ is about how to deal with suffering, something with which Tebow seems totally unacquainted. I have heard people say that he "suffers" because "people mock him." Christians being mocked is common. Has he had a child die? I know many Christians who have lost children, or whose parents are ill, or who are suffering for their jobs. How is Tebow an inspiration to them? He is still a very young man, after all. Does him winning a few football games really inspire greater Christian faithfulness? God has given us leaders of the faith, men and women who have endured the suffering of life. We should not look to young men barely beginning life as our examples.
In America, we think of success as something to emulate, but the Bible tells us to remember those who suffer for Christ and those who lead the body of Christ, and to emulate their way of life. Hebrews 13. We are not to emulate the wealthy, but the faithful. From God's point of view, exalting Tebow in order to have others act like him seems inconsistent with what we are commanded to do.
God has told us, in fact, that we are not great. We were chosen as the weak, the dishonored, the despised, the low. 1 Corinthians 1:26-31. His purpose was to ensure that we would not be proud in ourselves but only in God's power. It would be quite inconsistent to hold that He would then create a great athlete as the one whom we are to exalt and emulate.
We also have to consider that not everyone considers Tebow a great Christian example. Tebow's very career choice is anathema to many faithful Christians, who believe that Sunday is a day given by God for rest and worship, so any admiration for him would be tempered by his helping Christians justify ignoring that requirement. I do not hold this, but many faithful Christians do. Catholics will not admire his rejection of their faith, certainly. Tebow's faith, what little we know of it, seems a fairly common brand in many ways, but is not consistent with most churches at all.
Further, of course, is the question of how this is all working anyway. I suppose you would have to say that part of God's plan is having Tebow play terribly for three quarters, being entirely dependent on his defense succeeding, and then suddenly play well for a few minutes to win (even being dependent on other players making major mistakes). How is this evidence of God's wanting us to be like Tebow? If God has decided to give us athletic success as a standard to follow, wouldn't we be excited about Aaron Rodgers?
Aaron Rodgers is a Christian, a very open and apparently faithful Christian. He quarterbacks the best team in football. They are undefeated. They have not required miraculous turnarounds in the fourth quarter, but are dominant throughout games. Rodgers is the highest rated quarterback in the NFL and is universally said to be playing the position as well as anyone ever has. Yet no one speaks of God being involved at all. He does his job, as we all do, and remains faithful to his testimony and his God.
Let me be clear. I know that God has, for whatever reason, decreed that Green Bay be undefeated and that Denver be winning these games. His reasons for doing so are beyond my knowing. These facts impact millions of lives, not just a few fans, and I do not understand how all of it works. God is far beyond my understanding.
But I know that I will never look to Tim Tebow or Aaron Rodgers as an example of how to live my faith, but to Christ. In the same way, their losses will never cause me to reject my faith.
Put simply, I do not know why Denver is winning now. I do not know if God is somehow rewarding Tebow (at the expense of faithful Christians on other teams). I do not know if it is part of a test of Tebow's maturity. I do know that whatever He is doing, it is much more than I can understand.
Enjoy the football (at least the fourth quarter), but be careful about attributing your feelings to God. God is far beyond our understanding.
My older son, Andrew, is coming home tomorrow for a Christmas season visit. Andrew is our second child and left us at the end of March for his new Army career. We saw him in very early June at his boot camp graduation, but have not seen him since that time. He is stationed out west.
There are a lot of things to think about with him coming home. First, of course, we have to find a place for him to sleep (having emptied his room of his stuff), but that is not a big issue. As he says, he is a soldier now and can sleep just about anywhere.
More importantly, this is his first visit home as a grown-up. He was a legal adult when he left, of course, but had never lived away from home. He comes back as a grown-up. He left as a skinny kid but has had months of physical training and can pass military physical tests, so he is certainly going to look different. He has lived nine months away, with different people, doing different things, so he will be different.
He is our second child to leave home, so we are not totally out of touch with the situation, but it remains interesting.
How quickly people change. I think we forget this as we go through life. We see the same people all the time and their changes just seem natural to us, so we don't think about it. I have a friend who was single when I met him, now he is married with two children. He has changed a lot.
Andrew comes "home" to a very different place than he left, just nine months ago. Our second daughter has been in college since June (so she has changes, too) and the second son (our last child) is now 17 and driving, with a job, so many things have changed.
As you get ready for your Christmas time, spend some time thinking about how you have changed. And, especially, remember this: change is what you want.
As Christians, we are never at the end of our changes. God is in the process of making us like Christ. The Holy Spirit is producing fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Gal. 5:22.
Are you more loving this year? Is your joy greater, your peace more consistent, your patience more steady? Is your life (your every day) filled with your kindness, your goodness, to others? Are you more faithful, more gentle, in greater self-control.
If so, then rejoice in a good year. Peter tells us that these qualities make us useful and that if we lack these things, then we are "blind or short-sighted." 2 Peter 1:8-9.
It will be nice to see Andrew again. I am curious about what I will find in my son, but, to be honest, I am also concerned about what he will find in me. Will it be the great things of God coming true in my spirit and life? Or will it just be the same old me he left?
Tomorrow could be interesting for both of us.
As the Tim Tebow craze continues (see the blog from November 17), we find ourselves back into the old question: "Does God Care About Football Games?"
The same question can be asked of any other sport, of course. We see athletes frequently claiming God's hand in their victories. These claims are always followed by someone arguing that "God does not care about football games." Then, of course, you get the old "with all the terrible things in the world, God is too busy to worry about football games." Or, finally, you get the "football just isn't that important anyway, why would God care?" response.
So, does God care about football?
When an unbeliever states any opinion about God, we can forget it having any validity. Unbelievers do not believe anyway. So, let's think about professing Christians who ask the questions.
This, of course, is a false question at its heart. The question presupposes that God exists in the same way we exist; that he is waiting to see who wins or how he can help his person win. We know this is nonsense. The idea that God is "cheering for" a team is nonsense. He is God. He already knows who will win and who will lose and how they will win or lose. He is not waiting to see what happens. He does not care in the way that we care.
But, of course, that does not really answer the question either. Those who say "God doesn't care about who wins a football game" are saying a lot more than they think they are saying. "It's just a football game" they will say. Well, no, it's not.
There are dozens of men whose livelihoods are involved in every game. Their errors and heroic acts will be judged by their bosses and they could lose their jobs. Jobs matter to God, do they not? Players are often injured, sometimes severely. God cares about injuries, does he not? Coaches are fired. Does that not matter to God? Christian coaches get fired, does God not care about them?
The Tebow crowds have the idea that God just "wants Tebow to win," but that means he wants the Christians on the other team to lose. Tebow is not the only Christian in football. Every time his team wins, some other Christian's team loses. Does God not care about the other Christians? That is ridiculous and Tebow would say it is ridiculous. God does not love Tebow more than his other children.
Each team has thousands of fans, hundreds of thousands, all of whom are impacted by whether their team wins or loses. Does God not care about them? Many of them are Christians. If a team loses, then its fans lose and this matters to them. So, when we say God does not care about football, we are saying God does not care about his aspect of the lives of his people. The circle of "uncaring" widens a great deal.
If the team loses, then fewer fans will come to the next game, impacting hundreds (thousands) of workers in the stadium, in the restaurants around the stadium, in stores that sell football gear. A family who normally gets a few hundred dollars from parking cars in their yard will get less now, money they could have used. Do you say God does not care for them, or for the people who are laid off in the stadium because attendance is down?
If the team wins, then people will be happy for a little while, if they lose, people will be saddened. Does God not care how people feel?
Eventually, you have to decide if you believe in God at all. A God who "does not care" about an activity that impacts hundreds of thousands of lives, in dozens of ways, seems pretty small to me. There are sixteen games a week, millions of lives being impacted, dozens of men being injured, thousands of jobs being effected, millions of dollars moving from here to there, but they say God does not care. This is absurd.
God is sovereign. To say that a team wins "because God wants Tebow to win" is just nonsense. God would not put one man above all other men in such a foolish way. God did not "choose" a team for some childish reason. He is sovereign.
Teams win and lose because of how people play, they play because of who they are, and they are who all history has made them. And God makes history. God cares about people in a far more comprehensive way that can be explained either by "He cares about football" or "He doesn't care about football."
Too often, we think that "God is sovereign" just means that He has the ability to control events. On the contrary, it means that events are all under His control. We each, as independent agents, work in accordance with who we are, with the skills he has given us, with the level of commitment and caring he has given us. The result is what God intended and decreed from the beginning.
My God is not careless, neither is He is a team booster. He is the soveriegn Lord of All. Including football.
I think most of us kind of enjoy the holidays, but it can certainly be a time of great busyness. We are two weeks out from Christmas and things are starting to "heat up" a little bit.
In the midst of all the gifting and cooking and baking (and eating), we are also repeatedly told that we are "too busy" doing all the gifting and cooking and baking (and eating). We are told to "be hospitable" but not to "go overboard." We are told that we "celebrate Christmas to remember Christ" but also told "not to forget Christ." We are told that our gifts to others are like the gifts given to Christ, but that we are not supposed to give too many gifts (which seems really odd).
We are, in short, guilty no matter what we do. We are guilty if we spend to much money or too little money. We are guilty if we invite lots of people over or invite too few. We are guilty if we enjoy Christmas too much and guilty if we do not celebrate it enough. This is crazy.
We sit in churches filled with Christmas decorations to hear sermons about how wrong it is that we decorate too much at Christmas.
First of all, please remember at all times that Christmas, like all our so-called "Christian holidays," is not something God ordered us to do at all. It has come and gone through history. It is sometimes very popular and sometimes it has been outlawed (by serious Christian rulers, by the way). Today, people think that Christians are the ones who insist on the holiday, but, in fact, it is the most serious Christians who have had the most objection to the holiday over the centuries.
In short, you cannot "keep Christ in Christmas" because He was never there, except when someone wanted to think of Him in it. The celebration is a purely secular celebration of a day. If you spend any time being upset that lost people do not remember Christ at Christmas, then think about the fact that they don't remember Him any other time either.
Second, do try to keep your head about you. Christmas is like every other day of your life. Your duty is to love God and love your neighbor. So, how are you doing? It may not be as simple as you think.
For many of us, Christmas is a time of rather undisciplined love. We give more than we should to the people around us, in part because we have lost touch with how to really love them. I can give my children gifts, which is far easier than giving them myself.
As wives, try to take some of the "busy busy" out of the season, for yourself and your family. Relax a little. Enjoy the time with your family and friends.
Whether or not to celebrate Christmas is, to be honest, not much of a spiritual question, because it is not really a spiritual holiday (we are past the Old Testament days of feasts and such). But, each day remains a spiritual day on which the spiritual duties are the same.
Love your husband or wife this Christmas. Love your children. Love your neighbors. Love your God.
And don't worry too much about the food.
I am back to the problem of days. The calendar tells me it is Thursday, but it feels like Friday to me. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday also felt like Friday. It is a week of Fridays.
How odd that we have "feelings" about days. There is a Monday feeling (usually not considered a positive feeling). There is even a Tuesday feeling and a Wednesday feeling. There is certainly a Sunday feeling. How odd this all seems.
We have to remember that days are just an invention of mankind. The day I call Thursday could just as well be called Kumquat or Dirt Shoe. There is no permanence to the days. We even changed our calendar a couple of hundred years ago, keeping the same names but changing what day it was. So it isn't "really Thursday" in any sense.
But this is how human beings are. We tend to attach meaning to things that have no real meaning at all. Once something is part of our life, we think it is important. We eventually come to embrace whatever it is and defend it or, in the alternative, we hate and despise it and fight against it. But "it" is just something we made up.
We see this with the flags of countries. A country makes a flag from a design of cloth. The cloth is not special and could have been used for shirts or socks, but is used in a flag. Somehow, over time, the flag design becomes special to us and we "defend the flag" in some odd sense. In the United States, we now have people who will fight each other over a flag. Not in a war defending their country, mind you, but in a parking lot. Why? Because the flag gives us a feeling.
In this sense, people who burn flags for political theater and people who object to people burning flags share the same problem. They think the flag has inherent value. They have decided that the symbol actually "is" the actual thing it symbolizes. There are men in my area who would physically fight anyone who tried to burn the flag, but who will not obey the speed laws of the country the flag represents. How did we get so strange? We honor the symbol more than the reality.
The same thing is true in our churches. We have decided to "observe Christmas" on December 25, for no really good reason, and now it is a big deal. We are angry if anyone does not want to "observe Christmas" on December 25 and we claim there is a "war on Christmas," but that is like a war on the flag. Christmas is not real. It is just something we invented (well, not us, but people a long time ago). If no one ever celebrated it again, God would remain God. God never said to celebrate it anyway.
So, it is always Friday to me this week. Next week, it may always be Tuesday. You just never know. When I tell someone I feel like it is Friday, they don't laugh at me. They tell me what day it feels like to them and we laugh together.
All told, I think I prefer reality to symbols. I love my wife more than my wedding ring. I love my country more than I love any flag I see. I love Christ much more than any celebration of Christmas or Easter or any other day someone made up. I am not upset when someone doesn't celebrate Christmas or tell me "Merry Christmas."
But I wish I could get rid of the every day as Friday feeling. That's just weird. | 2019-04-22T16:36:05 | http://www.graceforlaw.com/thought-for-the-day/archives/12-2011 |
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This quiz challenges you in improving vocabulary. One part of improving vocabulary is learning to spell correctly. Have you ever looked at a dictionary and wondered if anyone could possibly know all the words it contains? There are at least 250,000 words in English - so you'll have quite a task to learn them all!
English uses so many words that, although a word might have many synonyms, each has a slightly different meaning. You can nearly always find a word to say exactly what you want to say. So, no more excuses for boring word choices!
By improving your vocabulary, you will have a better understanding of the English language and be able to write much more interesting stories.
Stretch your vocabulary by trying this English quiz.
Without changing the meaning of the sentence, choose the best replacement for the word in italics.
The boys walked home because they were eager to try out their new game.
The boys raced home because they were eager to try out their new game. 'Raced' is an improvement for the less vivid 'walked'.
Lizzie said that she had a secret to tell us.
Lizzie announced that she had a secret to tell us.
The family left the rubbish from their picnic.
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Tom was happy to be offered such an important role in the school play.
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The children were tired after climbing the mountain.
The children were weary after climbing the mountain.
The girls were sad when their cat went missing.
The girls were downhearted when their cat went missing. The other words are excellent vocabulary choices, but they do not have the same meaning as 'sad' in this sentence.
The class liked those hot, sunny days when they were allowed to play cricket all afternoon.
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0.999952 | Is the pain in my hips caused by MS?
I am not sure I have MS but I have had pain in my hips and have noticed when I walk something has changed, I can't seem to walk increase my speed in walking. Other changes, are that my legs have felt weak or heavy at times. I must add that I have been diagnosed with Alkylosing Spondilitis years ago but only now am having problems. Thank you.
Pain in the hips is not a direct symptom of MS and will certainly cause you to walk more slowly. See what your doctor thinks; I am not sure why you should specifically be concerned about MS based on the information you’ve provided.
Can MS start in your finger?
Can MS start in your finger? I've had a numb finger tip for 3 days on my ring finger on my right hand. It's just the finger tip. I went to my doctor and she said its probably nerve related and try not to bend my elbow or put pressure in the area. Someone mentioned MS to me, now I can't seem to shake the possibility.
There is no reason for you to worry about MS based solely on numbness in the tip of your little finger. Of course, MS is one of the possible causes (there are probably over a thousand things that could cause this symptom) but this symptom is far more commonly caused by ulnar nerve compression at the elbow, the second most common entrapment neuropathy after carpal tunnel syndrome. Your doctor was correct.
Is there a treatment that will work for both bladder cancer and MS, or at least not worsen the bladder cancer?
I have pre-existing low stage, non-invasive transitional cell carcinoma (found during investigations for MS). I have an employment history of chemical exposure that likely triggered both. I have been using Copaxone since diagnosis however my neurologist has asked me to step up treatment. The bladder cancer is immune mediated; for that reason, anything that suppresses my immune system will likely worsen the cancer. Is there an MS treatment that will somehow work for both, or at least not worsen the bladder cancer? I've seen that rituximab is used for some cancers however bladder cancer is not one of them. Any input would be really appreciated, even as a starting point for discussions with my neurologist and urologist. They don't have much experience dealing with both conditions. Thank you so much. My cancer is recurrent.
You and your doctors will need to have a discussion of relative risks, specifically the risk of worsening your transitional cell carcinoma through the use of potentially unnecessary MS disease modifying therapies versus the risk of under-treating your MS. The only drug to definitely avoid is cyclophosphamide, which is associated with the development of transitional cell carcinoma. There was some initial concern that Tecfidera may be uniquely associated with transitional cell carcinoma but this is not a current concern and some are talking about studying Tecfidera as a treatment of cancer. Aubagio is not cleared by the kidneys and could be an option; it is easy to clear Aubagio out of your system quickly.
Highly active DMTs that are selectively cytotoxic (Rituximab, Lemtrada, Ocrevus) may alter cytotoxic responses and immune regulation in negative ways but this would be a larger concern with Lemtrada. Tysabri is not cytotoxic and may be a good choice if you are JCV antibody negative and need a highly active drug.
I hope this helps you and your doctors with this decision.
Should I hold off on taking Gilenya before or after my surgery?
I am currently on Gilenya for my MS and am being considered for a knee replacement surgery. I know I can't be without my Gilenya for more than 14 days or I have to complete the observation process again. Because Gilenya lowers my lymphocytes, should I be holding the Gilenya before and/or after my surgery?
1. Your low white blood count and lymphocyte count on Gilenya is expected and not abnormal.
Based on the information you’ve provided , there is no reason to stop taking the Gilenya before your surgery. It takes 1-2 months for the pharmacodynamic effects of the drug to wear off after your last dose, and stopping it for this long of an interval places you at an unnecessary risk for a relapse. The final decision should be made by your own physicians who have a more intimate knowledge of your medical condition and concurrent medications.
Can you get the JC virus even if you don't have multiple sclerosis?
Can you get the JC virus (infection) even if you don't have MS?
J.C. Virus is ubiquitous, meaning that is located throughout the environment and nearly everyone is exposed to the virus at some point in their life; researchers estimate that the virus resides latently in the kidneys and certain bone marrow cells in up to 90% of adults. This virus has no special relationship to MS patients.
Can I drink Peruvian Maca?
I have multiple sclerosis and and I have been on Rebif for 4 years. May I drink Peruvian Maca?
We know of no adverse interactions between Peruvian Maca and any of the MS disease modifying therapies, including Rebif.
How can I prevent my legs being numb and sore in the morning?
I go to sleep with my legs hurting but when I wake up they are either numb or beyond sore. What can I do to prevent this from happening or make it go away quickly?
You can try to stretch your legs as soon as you wake up in the morning to see if that helps. It may also have to do with the position you sleep in, sometimes sleeping with a pillow between your knees can help (if you sleep on your side).
Why is the Ocrevus infusion process so different from Tysabri?
I am currently on Tysabri and used to the 2 hr infusions required. Since I am JC virus positive, I have recently been switched to Ocrevus but have been informed that my first infusion will take 5 hrs. Why is the infusion process so different? Thanks.
Tysabri has a low rate of infusion reactions and can be administered quickly.
Some drugs like cyclophosphamide must be administered with a large volume of IV fluids over many hours and this lengthens the infusion time.
Does changing Tysabri regimen make people with MS more susceptible to infections?
Will changing Tysabri regime from 4 weekly to 6 weekly make me more susceptible to infections like the common cold?
Moving from an infusion every 4 weeks to every 6 weeks should not increase your risk of infection.
What is an MS neuro "following"?
I would like to know how to understand an MS neuro "following"?
If followed for 5 years and not dismissed, and the plan is for a 2 year interval brain MRI, am I in the clear? Or is the expectation more likely that McDonald criteria will be met eventually? This whole process is so confusing. What does it take to dismiss a possible MS patient? Or will I be stuck forever in "limbo"?
2. If your MRI scans are not consistent with MS, meaning they are normal or non-specific abnormalities only, and you have remained stable by clinical and MRI criteria (no relapses or new MRI lesions) for 5 years, then you probably do not need any further monitoring.
Ask your doctor which situation fits you best.
I have just seen another neurologist. My symptoms indicate multiple sclerosis. Due to the MRI though they will not diagnose me. My family doctor and the ENT I saw both said it was a MS. Both doctors deferred to a neurologist for him to give me a diagnosis.
Based on my MRI report though the neurologist will not diagnose me. He said I didn't fit the typical lesion pattern in my brain.
This is what the MRI report said; " 10–11 foci of T2/FLAIR hyperintensity within the supratentorial cortical and periventricle white matter. These measure at 24–5 mm in size.
I have been going to my doctor for almost 2 years with various neurological complaints. Everything else has been ruled out. Yet the neurologist I saw could not give me another explanation of what was going on.
Over the course of what's been happening I've even questioned if I am doing this to myself. I went to a psychiatrist who assured me the symptoms were organic in nature.
I am a little peeved at that neurologist. He had all my test results and had already made a decision before even seeing me that I did not have multiple sclerosis. His exam consisted of asking me to open my mouth and say ahh, listening to my heart and lungs. That's it. He didn't even ask what my symptoms were. When he walked in he said that he only had 15 minutes with me, and he always runs on time.
He then proceeded to give me a referral to see another neurologist. I'm tired of getting handed off to another doctor because the doctor I am seeing doesn't have an answer and is not interested in trying to find out what's going on with me.
I am a 55-year-old woman who has had various neurological symptoms since I was 26. I'm really good at ignoring symptoms. But it has gotten to the point I cannot ignore them anymore.
Any advice would be more than appreciated. I live in a very small rural community in Ohio. I have been to the Cleveland clinic and that Dr. also said I didn't have MS. Fine if I don't have MS where do I go from here? And why does my doctor and my ENT both say I have it?
As a sidenote, I'm sure you can tell I'm frustrated and concerned. Every time some medical person ask me if I'm anxious I tell them yes wouldn't you be anxious if you were sick and nobody was helping you? So I went on the Internet and I have been researching and become my own advocate. I use the national Institute of health library. So my research is a viable source. Unfortunately I made the mistake of mentioning something to the neurologist I jjust saw. He immediately became defensive and told me to Google the next doctor that I am going to be seeing. He then turned and walked out of the room and that was the end of the visit.
I guess this is a philosophical question. If no one else is helping me why can"t I try to help myself. And why is that so wrong?
Please feel free to edit this rather long question if needed.
In a case such as yours, it is important to arrange a follow-up visit with the neurologist to discuss the cause of your symptoms. Please also understand that white spots on an MRI are not synonymous with MS in most cases. Misinterpretation of an MRI scan is one of the most common reasons for doctors, usually non neurologists, to misdiagnosis MS.
If a good neurologist takes a full history and examination and reviews your images and things you have a conversion disorder, be open this possibility and ask them to refer you to someone who can help you. Many doctors are unwilling to tell people they have a conversion disorder because it takes a lot of time to help people with this type of problem.
One thing is for sure: If you’ve experienced symptoms for 30 years and several neurologists still can not find anything wrong, it is probably not a serious problem and unlikely to be MS. But this does not mean you do not have problems that you need help with managing.
I do not find that most psychiatrists are very helpful with patients who have conversion disorders. The best solution is a good physical and occupational therapist and a neurologist capable of working with you over time.
What do 3 new brain lesions mean?
It has been one year since my first MRI which shows 3 new brain lesions. 1 in the gray matter and 2 in the white matter. Doe this mean the MS is active?
Unequivocal new white spots (also called T2 bright spots) on an MRI with an appearance typical of MS is an indication of activity since the prior MRI scan. This is more significant if the interval between the scans is relatively short, such as 6 to 12 months as in your case. If all that is seen is a new white spot, it is impossible to determine if this activity occurred a day after the initial scan or just in the past few weeks. This is most relevant if you started a new treatment sometime after the initial MRI scan and you are trying to determine if the new therapy is working well for you.
It would not be possible to determine if the new white spot occurred before the new therapy started working or after the new therapy started working if you there was a gap in time between the first MRI scan and the start of treatment. However, if any of the new white spots enhanced after the administration of contrast (usually something called gadolinium) then the activity is more recent, usually in the past 2-4 weeks.
You can type in "MRI" in the search box in the upper right corner of this page to read a lot more about MRIs and how to interpret them.
Should I get a piercing and tattoo if I have MS?
I have had MS for about a year and a half. I am told that I will most likely be getting an MRI annually. I know during the MRI I have removed my body jewelry in the past, but I was interested in getting a microdermal piercing on my chest. I have spoken to a piercer at a tattoo shop and she told me the material for the piercing is made up of surgical steel. I'm wondering since half of the piercing is set in the skin and unable to be removed would I be able to still get an MRI? I would like to get this piercing but I don't want it to interfere with the MRI, come out painfully while I'm getting the MRI, or get it and then have to get it removed.
I also have Kaiser, so I don't know if that helps. Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing back.
Inert/noble metals and metal alloys, non-magnetic metals should be safe to have in an MRI. Some examples include copper, silver, gold, titanium, etc. While surgical steel may be safe, it is conceivable that the radiology department will refuse to scan you because it would be very difficult to prove what exactly the metal is really made of. Such a decision would be a common conservative approach to prevent burns/thermal injury. If they did allow an MRI, there remains the possibility that the tattoo will result in artifact which could obscure the MRI image, potentially making interpretation impossible.
If future MRI surveillance is critical to monitor your disease and treatment, you may want to hold off on the tattoo. In MS care, there eventually comes a time where new disease activity is unusual and MRI is typically is not needed.
Can you have a normal neurological exam and still have MS?
Can you have a "completely normal" neurological exam but still have MS? My neurologist said further diagnostic testing is unnecessary. I'm still worried.
1. You experienced a syndrome consistent with MS and recovered almost completely; a typical syndrome often associated with a near normal exam even during the attack and often associated with a completely normal exam after recovery is something called a sensory myelitis. This is a syndrome of numbness and tingling in the feet that moves up to the legs often to your trunk over several days, often associated with a tight band sensation around the trunk but nothing else.
2. You’re symptoms and findings may not be amenable to a typical neurological exam. This is common with cognitive symptoms.
I need some advice. Three years ago I had an attack of numbness, tingling in my legs and tremors in my hands that lasted a month. I saw a neurologist in the ER and they did an MRI of my brain and spine and both were normal. After my attack resolved my muscles became very stiff and still are after 3 years. After the attack last year which was 3 years later I felt my spine up and down like my nervous system was active and felt heat.
Then my neck and back felt like I had some type of damage in both areas. My right leg left is weak and I am uncomfortable swallowing. And recently in March my neck on both sides I feel some type of pressure in both my arteries? My right leg is so weak and my right arm feels like a 10 pound weight is on it. I walk with a slight limp now. I saw an MS specialist and my MRI and exam was normal in March but if you watch me in the day you can see my weakness in my right leg. I really believe this is MS. Please help me!!
There are many possible reasons for the type of symptoms you describe in your question. If the MRI of your brain and spine is normal after 3 years, MS is a much less likely diagnosis.
Do not become fixated on a particular diagnosis; instead, see your neurologist again with an open mind and ask him to list all the possible causes for your symptoms. If he or she can not figure it out, ask for another opinion.
Is it safe to take a month without drugs before starting a new medication?
I was on Avonex for 15 years and Plegridy for 1, is it safe to take a vacation from medications for a month before starting a new drug?
In general a one month off drug is safe, but should be discussed with your clinician as the timing partly depends on which drug someone is switching to – some take longer than others to take effect.
I have not taken an MS medications but am JC positive. How can that be?
I have not taken any MS meds but recently came up JC positive how is that?
The JC virus (JC stands for John Cunningham) is a ubiquitous virus (meaning it exists throughout the environment,particularly in sewage systems) that most people get exposed to sometime in their life. Exposure is not associated with any specific symptoms, so you will never know if you’ve been exposed without testing.
One such test called the JCV antibody test is done in MS patients to determine their risk of developing PML on prolonged Tysabri treatment. This antibody test is positive in about 60 % of people. Many more people have been exposed to the JC virus, but do not make antibodies against the virus even if the virus remains latent in their bodies.
There is no known relationship between any disease modifying treatments for MS and JC virus antibody positivity. Therefore, and to answer your question, you do not need to receive any MS treatments to be JCV antibody positive. Furthermore, a positive JCV antibody test does not indicate any disease related to this virus or any problem at all. It only indicates that you are at increased risk of developing a rare brain infection (called PML) if you received prolonged treatment (> 2 years) with Tysabri.
I'm interested in switching from Tecfidera to Ocrevus and have some questions about making the switch.
How should I transition off Tecfidera as far as preparation and time frame? Which immunizations need to up to date? If I need to update immunizations such as MMR when is the best time to do this? What other tests and images should be done prior to starting Ocrevus? What factors would make me a poor candidate for the new medication? What premedication is recommended with the Ocrevus infusions to decrease infusion reaction? What is the risk for PML with Ocrevus if I am JC negative and how often should this be rechecked? What tests and follow up imaging should be done to determine whether Ocrevus is working for me? If well tolerated, is Ocrevus something I could use exclusively and long term as a DMT?
3. Imaging may help determine if you are a good candidate for Ocrevus; Ideal candidates for Ocrevus include patients with active relapsing MS (relapses and new MRI activity in the past year) with significant risk factors for disease progression or progressive MS patients under the age of 55 who are still ambulating, particularly if their rate of worsening is rapid and there has been evidence of active inflammation on MR imaging.
People over the age of 55 with very slowly progressive MS or and patients with severe disability from MS (wheelchair bound with significant loss of independence or worse), especially if at risk for pulmonary infections or other frequent infections, may not be the best candidates. Therapeutic decisions in these patients require individual evaluation.
A definite diagnosis of MS requires characteristic syndromes (not just symptoms) and characteristic findings on examination supported by MRI findings and sometimes CSF findings; Over 98 % of definite MS cases have characteristic MRI findings and over 90 % have characteristic CSF findings. Characteristic new lesions on MRI in the correct clinical setting supports the diagnosis. CSF findings may be negative at onset but usually positive with continued disease activity over 5 years.
Headaches after spinal taps (also called lumbar punctures) can be avoided if the doctor uses a small (22-25 gauge), atraumatic spinal needle . Unfortunately few doctors have learned how to use these special needles. | 2019-04-19T00:18:49 | https://www.healthcarejourney.com/q--a-for-virtual-ms-center/archives/05-2017 |
0.999091 | Is Intel Corporation Finally Turning the Corner?
Some good things are happening at two of the core revenue-generating divisions of chip manufacturer Intel (NASDAQ:INTC). While the company boosted its revenue guidance for the current quarter, buoyed by enhanced sales of business PCs, Intel also developed a customizable technology that could significantly brighten the prospects of its highly profitable server chip division.
The recent developments amount to welcome news for a company that has witnessed a steady slowdown in growth in the face of a shift toward smartphones and tablets. That's one area where Intel has failed to secure its market presence until now, leading to persistent doubts about the long-term sustainability of these events.
Intel's stock price rose by more than 5% after the company raised its revenue projections for the ongoing quarter by around $700 million. While this was prompted by a welcome increase in demand for PCs that cater to business, the scenario was not totally unexpected.
Companies like Intel are likely to enjoy the extended benefits of Microsoft's decision to end support for the Windows XP operating system in April this year, given the sheer number of computers that still run the 12-year old OS and need to be upgraded as a result.
Here's the catch: Until now, this trend has largely been limited to business in developed markets such as the US. The retail segment, on the other hand, continues to see a steady decline in demand for PCs that have been sidelined in favor of more handy devices such as tablets. And with research firm IDC continuing to predict a 6% fall in PC unit shipments for the current year, this may be nothing more than a temporary shot in the arm for Intel.
The competition is never far behind, as industry rival Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) unveils a technology that is set to improve the energy efficiency of its products by as much as 25 times by the year 2020. That's something that again highlights Intel's continuous need to innovate and stay ahead in the race.
Apart from PC chips, Intel's highly profitable server chip division, which recorded a 11% year-over-year increase in revenue during the recent first quarter, also seems to be giving reason to feel good at the moment. Apart from introducing a newer and more efficient version of its popular Xeon series of processors, Intel recently adopted a new technology that enables it to produce customizable variants of its server chips for large companies like Facebook and eBay that specifically require such products.
While this is definitely a good move, given the competition that the company is facing in the form of low-power chips designed using technology from ARM Holdings, the entire server industry continues to feel threatened by long-term concerns about cloud computing. At the same time, while server chips yield higher profit margins than those made for PCs, they are certainly no match for the latter category in terms of volume sales.
None of the above feel-good factors are enough to erase the memory of the stunning $929 million operating loss incurred by Intel's mobile and communications segment during its recent first quarter. That has proved to be the single biggest setback for Intel's plans to catch up with Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), the established market leader in the smartphone processor category.
Qualcomm has its own share of problems. The company has watched its profit growth shrink as a result of slowing high-end smartphone sales in the developed markets and is now increasingly focusing on emerging markets like China in a bid to cater to the mid- and low-range smartphone category.
But even here, Qualcomm has to fight it out with local chipmakers such as MediaTek that have gained considerable market share by selling products at rock-bottom prices. However, Qualcomm's long-term prospects remain bright, given its expertise in manufacturing chips that offer integrated 4G LTE connectivity. Unfortunately, that's also an area where Intel remains generations behind the former company.
The sudden uptick in PC demand is unlikely to sustain Intel's profitability in the long term. On the other hand, the improving prospects of its server chip division appear to be more grounded in reality, and the unit is likely to provide support while the company realigns its long-term growth strategies.
For now, Intel's biggest need of the hour continues to be the search for a secure, alternate source of revenue that would help it to rediscover growth and instill long-term confidence in its investors. Until then, all that one can do is to keep a watch on this company from the sidelines. | 2019-04-18T18:29:03 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/23/does-this-put-intel-back-in-the-reckoning.aspx |
0.999999 | St. Lawrence's menu promises first class bar food. Does it deliver?
Dinner didn't start well. St. Lawrence on North Peters Street inherited daiquiri machines when the bar/restaurant moved in, but they didn't have one of the two advertised house-made drinks the night I was there. Not impressive, but I was there during Tales of the Cocktail, so maybe attendees cleaned them out. Fortunately, the one they had - blueberries, basil and gin - was refreshing and balanced. Then we were told that they were out of Miller Lite as well. How does that happen?
St. Lawrence's kitchen is clearly aspiring to do a higher quality version of pub grub. They're not reinventing the burger, the po-boy or chicken wings, but they're going for creative versions of them. The most novel appetizers were the spring rolls, which contained most of the makings of a Reuben. The house-fried potato chips had just enough thickness to give them substance, and we scraped the pimento cheese dip down to the bowl's finish. Bibb lettuce cups with a small salad including pickled shrimp were light and deceptively complex.
The kitchen seems to aspire to more than it can manage at times. The awkwardly named FGT Po-Boy - a po-boy version of the BLT made with fried green tomatoes - suffered from too-thin tomato slices that were then left to fry far too long. The bacon was also extra crispy, but that was the only wipeout, and I assume the frying is likely better most of the time. Another reviewer found the tomato slices too thin on another visit, so that may be an ongoing issue.
It was also surprising how colorless and uncomposed the plates were coming out. My poor sandwich looked naked and alone, positioned sadly in the middle of a big, white plate, and the Bibb lettuce appetizer met a similar fate. In the past, I've smirked at Top Chef contestants freaking out over presentation, but I appreciated their anxiety when a number of good dishes appeared unimpressive when brought to the table.
I want St. Lawrence to succeed because the Canal Street end of Decatur/North Peters is a dismal gateway to the French Quarter for tourists, and it needs the sort of place St. Lawrence is trying to be. The menu's inviting, and the kitchen's aspirations are obvious. A little more attention to detail and they could realize those goals.
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0.998755 | (Phys.org) —Rice University researchers have created a CMOS-compatible, biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red, green and blue light in much the same way the human eye does.
The new device was created by researchers at Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) and is described online in a new study in the journal Advanced Materials. It uses an aluminum grating that can be added to silicon photodetectors with the silicon microchip industry's mainstay technology, "complementary metal-oxide semiconductor," or CMOS.
Conventional photodetectors convert light into electrical signals but have no inherent color-sensitivity. To capture color images, photodetector makers must add color filters that can separate a scene into red, green and blue color components. This color filtering is commonly done using off-chip dielectric or dye color filters, which degrade under exposure to sunlight and can also be difficult to align with imaging sensors.
"Today's color filtering mechanisms often involve materials that are not CMOS-compatible, but this new approach has advantages beyond on-chip integration," said LANP Director Naomi Halas, the lead scientist on the study. "It's also more compact and simple and more closely mimics the way living organisms 'see' colors.
Biomimicry was no accident. The color photodetector resulted from a $6 million research program funded by the Office of Naval Research that aimed to mimic cephalopod skin using "metamaterials," compounds that blur the line between material and machine.
Cephalopods like octopus and squid are masters of camouflage, but they are also color-blind. Halas said the "squid skin" research team, which includes marine biologists Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and Thomas Cronin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, suspect that cephalopods may detect color directly through their skin.
Based on that hypothesis, LANP graduate student Bob Zheng, the lead author of the new Advanced Materials study, set out to design a photonic system that could detect colored light.
"Bob has created a biomimetic detector that emulates what we are hypothesizing the squid skin 'sees,'" Halas said. "This is a great example of the serendipity that can occur in the lab. In searching for an answer to a specific research question, Bob has created a device that is far more practical and generally applicable."
Zheng's color photodetector uses a combination of band engineering and plasmonic gratings, comb-like aluminum structures with rows of parallel slits. Using electron-beam evaporation, which is a common technique in CMOS processing, Zheng deposited a thin layer of aluminum onto a silicon photodetector topped with an ultrathin oxide coating.
Color selection is performed by utilizing interference effects between the plasmonic grating and the photodetector's surface. By carefully tuning the oxide thickness and the width and spacing of the slits, Zheng was able to preferentially direct different colors into the silicon photodetector or reflect it back into free space.
The metallic nanostructures use surface plasmons—waves of electrons that flow like a fluid across metal surfaces. Light of a specific wavelength can excite a plasmon, and LANP researchers often create devices where plasmons interact, sometimes with dramatic effects.
"With plasmonic gratings, not only do you get color tunability, you can also enhance near fields," Zheng said. "The near-field interaction increases the absorption cross section, which means that the grating sort of acts as its own lens. You get this funneling of light into a concentrated area.
"Not only are we using the photodetector as an amplifier, we're also using the plasmonic color filter as a way to increase the amount of light that goes into the detector," he said. | 2019-04-24T00:42:20 | https://phys.org/news/2014-08-biomimetic-photodetector.html |
0.999995 | Translation:A lion is not a tiger.
Why don't I use genitive case for negation "Lew nie jest tygrysa"? Why is it still instrumental case?
The genitive for negation works only with accusative, and not after prepositions.
I am not Polish, but it appears that the instrumental takes precedence over the genitive.
Looks at liger I'm confused.
Can someone link me a useful website that shows how to conjugate nouns like this? I don't know whether to use Tygrys, Tygrysem, etc. I'm not used to a language where verbs change so I need to learn these.
Have a look here, mostly at the part about cases of course.
This website is quite good for learning grammar.
Why does 'nie' come before 'jest' here, but in another example, it came after?
Lew to nie (jest) tygrys.
There is no verb here. (if jest is ommitted), and you put "nie" after to.
Polish has no articles. It could be "the" or "a", but "a" makes more sense.
One can only report sentences when doing the lesson and getting asked those sentences.
I tested out of most of the tree, so I haven't seen this sentence before.
Damn. I wish I had an open.
The Instrumental of "lew" is "lwem". Yeah, I guess it's less regular than usual.
The correct answers are: "Lew nie jest tygrysem" and "Lew to nie tygrys".
what is the difference exactly between "tygrys" and "tygrysem"? why not "lew nie jest tygysem"?
Apart from a typo (tygRysem), your sentence is fine.
"tygrys" is Nominative, "tygrysem" is Instrumental.
The accepted options here are "Lew to nie tygrys" and "Lew nie jest tygrysem". | 2019-04-18T15:21:56 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/12280053/Lew-nie-jest-tygrysem |
0.999999 | Jerwa & Murray Jump Through Dynamite's "Stargate"
The Stargates are opening up at Dynamite Entertainment. After announcing last month that it had nabbed the license rights for TV's currently reigning champ of old school, mission-oriented science fiction, the publisher takes its first step through the world-hopping wateriness of the entire Stargate world with a specially-priced #0 issue hitting shops this October. Introducing the creative teams and storylines for "Stargate Universe," "Stargate SG-1" and "Stargate Atlantis" series, the $1.00 comic book dishes up 22-pages of story much like past launches from the publisher.
Last month, CBR caught up with writer Chuck Dixon about his plans for the new TV show tie-in "Stargate Universe," and with the actual launch coming closer, we speak now with the respective ongoing writers of "SG-1" and "Atlantis," Brandon Jerwa and Doug Murray.
"I was a latecomer to the franchise, I'll admit," Jerwa told CBR, saying that though he was only a casual "Stargate" fan before the past year, he caught up on the entire ten-year run of "SG-1" just months before Dynamite called with the writing gig. "To say that I was surprised when Dynamite approached me to be part of their Stargate launch is a massive understatement; I guess it was really a pleasant coincidence coming together. I agreed to join in without knowing which series I'd be writing, but we came to the mutual conclusion pretty quickly that 'SG-1' was really the best fit."
Jerwa plans on using his past sci-fi chops from titles like "Battlestar Galactica" to good use in the Stargate world while still matching the unique tone of "SG-1." "I like the Stargate franchise because it combines the exploratory wonder of classic 'Star Trek' with some cool military action, but it does it all with a sense of humor and fun. Science fiction isn't really that fun very often and I have to admit, it's a welcome change from some of the other things I've been working on! That's not to say that the book won't be deadly serious at times. When things turn dangerous in the TV series, it's never a cakewalk. The stakes are high and the threats are very real. The same will be true for the comics."
In the #0 issue, Jerwa plans on puling readers into his bigger series as fast as he can. "My chapter is a classic teaser and definitely gives you something to worry about until the start of the series proper, but it's also a nice little open doorway into the SG-1 universe for anyone who might be joining us for the first time," Jerwa said. "I have some overall plans for at least 12 issues worth of stories. I want to structure it like a season of the TV show as much as we can. Four issues equal, roughly, a two-part episode; one to two issues will be standalone stories that may or may not have an impact on the overall story.
"There will be two distinct plotlines when we start. One focuses on Daniel Jackson as he comes into contact with a woman from his past, and the other has Cameron, Sam and Teal'C on a mission in a prototype ship to investigate a very major deep space anomaly. How these stories may or may not come together will be revealed in the fullness of time."
Of course, without budget of casting constrictions on the comics page, Jerwa explained that he'll be able to tap into the full cast from "SG-1's" long TV run. "The Season 10 cast will be key players, but you can't keep Jack O'Neill out of the picture for too long. And besides, he's far too much fun to write. Budget is no obstacle, as you say, and I am definitely keeping that in mind in terms of casting and special effects. "Go big or go home" is my mantra going into this."
Covering the floating city side of the Stargate equation, Doug Murray steps onto "Stargate Atlantis" with a strong knowledge of the series and franchise. "I have been a fan of the Stargate Franchise almost from day one," Murray told CBR. A chance preview of "SG-1" at a past San Diego convention led to his watching the series, and later work for Creation Conventions allowed Murray to meet and interact with Stargate cast members.
"My initial impression of the Stargate series was that it was a clever way to do an adventure show, spreading the action around to many planets and many villains," Murray explained. "As it progressed, it got more into character and became more interesting because of it. 'Atlantis' started off as a sort of weaker sibling, but when they introduced Ronon they ramped things up a bit, and the action became more personal-also, I thought Joe Flannigan really added a touch of snark to the show-which worked for me."
One area of the series that excited Murray as a writer was the strong military bent Stargate holds, synching up well with his past work on classics like Marvel's "The 'Nam." "People on TV (and movies and comics) usually don't really understand how the military works," Murray explained. "I've always been a little annoyed by that. I'll give you a concrete example. In the new 'G.I. Joe' movie -- based on characters that were, for the most part, created by my longtime friend Larry Hama -- we see Duke wearing Major's insignia and a stubble in dress blues! Later, he is always addressed as Captain. That means either they didn't know what the insignia meant (which I find impossible to believe), or they didn't care!
"On the Stargate shows, they've done a fine job of actually showing the workings of the military. Ranks are consistent, people get promoted on a regular basis, and orders come down through channels-just like they should. This allows the show writers (and me, now), to provide a kind of internal continuity that grounds the show in reality. I mean, guys are flying between stars and using energy weapons-but they celebrate when a Captain is promoted to Major, just like folks in the real military would do. The only problem I have with all this is the fact that they're Air Force-no service is less likely to produce ground troops for this kind of mission than the Air Force. Ah well, you can't get everything right!"
Like Jerwa on "SG-1," Murray's plans for "Atlantis" involve picking up the show's threads as a "Season 6" for the cast of characters. "I pick up in issue #0 right where the show left off, with the Atlantis in San Francisco harbor and the crew having a break. That break turns to something else when a problem rears its ugly head-and that's the basis of the opening story," Murray said, noting that the first arc of the series will take place entirely on Earth before space-bound adventures overtake the cast.
"I am trying to deal with some evolution of the characters-I get into the relationship between Rodney and Keller, and the one between Sheppard and Ronon," Murray added. He wishes to wrap dangling threads from the series in a character-specific sense. "Like anyone else, I have my favorites in the cast. Sheppard and McKay will remain as the central characters, with Ronon as the action guy. I'll do a little more with Ronon than they've done on the show in recent days, and I'm sure I'll bring in a couple of new characters. There's a young lady named Larrin that appeared in a few episodes that I have my eye on-she'll have something to do when the Atlantis-and Sheppard-- return to the Pegasus galaxy."
And with a return to space, fans of "Atlantis" can expect to see some big name villains over the course of the series, though many of them may not appear immediately. "Well, the Wraith are still out there-and as Atlantis left the Pegasus Galaxy when it did, we don't really know what happened to them-or how they will evolve now that their basic life chemistry has been changed," Murray hinted. "We also know that the Replicators are still out there-although not as powerfully as before. I think I can use them-in different ways-to tell some interesting stories. And there are a lot of races we haven't even discovered yet. Who says the Atlantis even goes back to the same planet it was on?"
Overall, the questions raised in "Stargate" #0 should draw in longtime fans of the series as well as readers curious to see what the fuss is about, or as Jerwa put it, "I feel like we have a solid starting point for moving ahead. Once I have an idea of how long this series is going to continue, I may go back and examine some dangling threads from the TV show. At the outset, I want as clean a slate as possible." | 2019-04-20T16:25:38 | https://www.cbr.com/jerwa-murray-jump-through-dynamites-stargate/ |
0.997043 | For much of the second day, it must have seemed like old times for the Chennai crowd. For over a decade, people have flocked to the MA Chidambaram stadium to see Sachin Tendulkar score his obligatory century - four in six Tests, two of them match-winning efforts against Australia - and in the master's absence, the turf was claimed by Virender Sehwag, look-alike apprentice first, but now very much his own man.
Sehwag's 155 was over two-thirds of the runs India made while he was at the crease and with the second highest score being 34 its importance can not be overstated. However it was a study in contrast to the innings Tendulkar played six years ago. That innings - 155 off 191 balls - deflated Shane Warne's confidence, and set up an Indian win after Australia had established a useful first-innings lead. It was an immaculate knock that emphatically marked out territory and so demoralised Australia that they were pulverised in Kolkata despite Tendulkar not contributing much.
Where Tendulkar's innings had been masterful and chanceless, Sehwag's was an mix of glorious strokeplay, wild heaves and impetuous hoicks that barely evaded fielders. Two inside edges off the wretchedly unlucky Michael Kasprowicz squirted past the stumps, and a couple of mishits off Warne barely eluded the fielders, but he also regaled the crowd with some sumptuous strokeplay, in particular the cover-drive and nonchalant pull that greeted Glenn McGrath on his return for a second spell.
As he had at the MCG last Boxing Day, Sehwag was content to let the bowlers hold sway for the first hour. The shackles only came off with the introduction of Warne who he greeted with some tremendous lofted strokes through the leg side. But having reached his hundred in just 147 balls, he lost sight of the objective - to ensure that India don't have to bat a second time on a pitch where variable bounce is already a worry.
Every so often, he would step out and attempt an ungainly heave, as if unaware of the fact that India still had to overhaul Australia's modest 235. What made it worse was the fact that those batting around him weren't exactly in sublime form. To say that such methods are the Sehwag way is to do an injustice to a man who is clearly capable of so much more.
The same accusation couldn't be made about Kasprowicz. It's one of the great travesties of international cricket - or an indicator of Australian cricket's depth - that such a magnificent bowler will most likely retire with figures that are inferior to men like Andy Caddick - fantastic on his day, but an underachieving sulk when things weren't going for him.
Kasprowicz has always strained every sinew, and never let the shoulders droop, not even when Sachin Tendulkar drove him to despair on that tour six years ago. Since his return from the wilderness six months ago, he has picked up 24 wickets at 23.7, markedly superior to his overall career figures of 73 wickets at 32.5. Crucially, he has slotted seamlessly into the role of second or third seamer, providing an accurate and threatening option on pitches where guile and heart are every bit as important as skill.
Skill has never been Warne's problem, but against India he continues to be a wan shadow of the bowler who has made a habit of making great batsmen look inept. The man who has 76 wickets from 12 matches against Pakistan (average 18.6) and 59 from 13 Tests against Sri Lanka (at 25.54) simply cannot master either India's batsmen or the conditions.
Warne's conundrum is even more bizarre when you look at the success that bowlers like Ashley Mallett (28 wickets at 19.1) and Greg Matthews (14 at 29.07) - neither quite in the Warne class - have had in Indian conditions. And while even Nicky Boje's innocuous left-arm spin has won a Test match in India, Warne - who responded to the crowd chanting his name by impersonating Tendulkar's big hits and Billy Bowden's signals - is yet to enjoy an Indian summer. On this evidence, it's hard to see when the sun will shine.
Dileep Premachandran is assistant editor of Wisden Cricinfo. | 2019-04-20T17:14:21 | http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/142474.html |
0.99995 | I was walking near the National Gallery of Art and passed a garden that displayed plants which attracted birds. One of these plants was the wax myrtle. I'm particularly fond of the Northern Mockingbird and I understand they are attracted to wax myrtle berries. I have two questions: 1. Can you recommend any varieties that are 4-5' tall, and no more than 4' wide? 2. Do these varieties require a male plant to produce berries? The spot I am considering is sunny and moist. Thank you for your help.
There are some cultivars of wax myrtle (Myrica or Morella cerifera) that are shorter than the straight species. Look for 'Fairfax' (4-5'), 'Luray' (4'), or 'Tom's Dwarf' (3-6'). Myrica can be monoecious or dioecious. Plants in the nursery industry are often selected for monoecious character (that is, separate male and female flowers occur on the same plant), so that separate male and female plants (in dioecious selections) are not required for landscape plantings. | 2019-04-25T14:57:58 | https://ask.extension.org/questions/450626 |
0.999936 | The recent upsurge in threats and violence against groups of students, and most specifically against students in a Parkland Florida high school, has been deeply distressing to all of us in the public safety community. A tragedy of that magnitude causes us to engage in some self-reflection and ask – how safe are Marietta’s schools? Here in Marietta we have sixteen public and five private schools and the Marietta Police Department (MPD) is the principal local law enforcement agency responsible for emergency response to each. There are a total four MPD School Resource officers assigned to Marietta High School and Middle School. We fully accept our responsibility and duty to the greatest extent possible, to partner with each of them to help maintain safe secure learning environments.
1. Campus Violence Prevention Policy: A template for a Campus Violence Prevention Policy designed by the Marietta Police Department (in light of recent events) was sent to all school administrators operating within the city. It has been given as a guide and can be modified to suit individual school preferences. We recommend that schools develop a written protocol for addressing threats against groups in school(s).
2. Training: The Marietta Police Department has trained over 15,000 of our residents in a program entitled Civilian Response to Active Shooter Event (CRASE) and we recently began partnering with the WellStar system to co-teach a related program entitled “Stop the Bleed.” We have now combined the two nationally-certified programs into one appropriately entitled “What You Do Matters” which certified MPD instructors will schedule and present this program to any Marietta school upon request.
3. School Physical Environment Target Hardening - The MPD has several officers certified in a process entitled Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). The process entails extensive surveys of school security features, with photos and a series of confidential recommendations designed to reduce the opportunities for crime. They are available to school administrators, free of charge upon request.
4. School Threat Vulnerability Assessments – The MPD has several officers certified in conducting threat vulnerability assessments of schools. Threat vulnerability assessments are different than CPTED inspections insofar as threat assessors examine schools in terms of tactics that have historically been used in school attacks. Following each tactical inspection, the officers generate extensive confidential reports which include photos and detailed recommendations for improved security measures in each school. School Threat Vulnerability Assessments are offered free of charge to any school in Marietta upon request.
5. Marietta P.D. Officer Response to Active Shooter Event Training – Continuous ongoing annual training programs for Marietta Officers include semi-annual ALERT training for all officers which always includes response current police standards for active shooter events. In addition, each year the department conducts at least one table top training exercise and one full-scale (practical) training exercise for response to active shooter events at schools or colleges. MPD records include curricula and rosters of officers for each training event.
In the first quarter of 2018, MPD will roll out a new certified training program entitled External Response to Active Shooter Events (ERASE). ERASE is designed to teach officers response protocols for outdoor active shooter events (like Las Vegas).
6. Summary - In summary, the MPD addresses the issue of school security with a comprehensive list of programs and initiatives that include physical target-hardening of schools, recommendations for internal school violence prevention, training of students, parents and faculty in recommended civilian responses to active and mitigation to active shooter events and continuous training of police officers to state-of-the-art police response protocols. | 2019-04-24T02:28:14 | http://mariettaga.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1589 |
0.999999 | Redacted Mueller Report Coming Out Within 1 Week, AG Barr Tells Congress The attorney general says work is going well in redacting the special counsel's report about the Russian interference in the 2016 election — and DOJ has at least one other report coming too.
Attorney General William Barr arrives to testify about the Justice Department's FY 2020 budget request before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday.
"I'm glad to talk to Chairman [Jerry] Nadler and Chairman [Lindsey] Graham as to whether they feel they need more information and if there's a way we can accommodate that," Barr said.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler, D-N.Y., has been unequivocal in his calls for access to the full work product from Mueller's office — not only his report but the testimony, intelligence and other material that supported his findings.
The chairman responded to Barr's comments on Tuesday in a post on Twitter that appeared to hold the view that no negotiations are required: The law grants Congress access to the material that Nadler has requested, he argues, irrespective of the views of the attorney general.
In a subsequent post, Nadler said that no discussions of any kind are now underway: "We still have not heard from the attorney general."
The attorney general also announced something else likely to please Graham: a forthcoming report about investigators' use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the Russia investigation.
Graham has joined other Republicans in calling for answers about how authorities used material from former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, author of the infamous Russia dossier, in the request for surveillance of Carter Page, a onetime junior Trump 2016 campaign aide.
The attorney general also said the door appears open to more investigations or reports about the conduct of the Russia investigation — music to the ears of Republicans who have followed the lead of President Trump in calling it a "witch hunt" or suggesting it is the product of a conspiracy by the FBI and the Justice Department.
"More generally I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation, trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr said.
The Democratic majority on the House Judiciary Committee has voted to authorize Nadler to issue a subpoena for Mueller's work product and evidence if necessary.
Barr told lawmakers later in the hearing that he isn't planning to give an unredacted copy of the Mueller report to Congress absent the negotiations he said he would be open to undertaking with Nadler.
In other words, Nadler won't get a copy without at least asking and, perhaps, a separate dispute. If Nadler tries to use his power to issue a subpoena, that could lead to a court case.
Barr also wrote that Mueller's office neither fully implicated nor exonerated Trump on the question of obstruction of justice; Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided Mueller's findings were "not sufficient" for charges, Barr wrote.
The attorney general said on Tuesday that although he is preparing for Congress and Americans to read what they can of Mueller's full report, the conclusions of which they are already aware are clearly important.
"From a prosecutor's standpoint, the bottom line is binary, which is: charges or no charges," Barr said.
Trump welcomed that conclusion and has claimed full vindication by Mueller. Graham and others took the opportunity to go on offense for themselves by amplifying calls for inquiries into the conduct of the investigation itself.
— those that would violate the privacy of people Barr called peripheral players to the main story. | 2019-04-22T21:02:53 | https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711376539/barr-mueller-report-out-within-1-week-ig-report-on-russia-inquiry-this-summer |
0.999025 | A yeast starter is ready to pitch anytime after it has attained high krausen (full activity), and for about a day or two after it has settled out, depending on the temperature. Colder conditions allow the yeast to be stored longer before pitching to a new wort. Yeast starters that have settled out and sat at room temperature for more than a couple days should be fed fresh wort and allowed to attain high krausen before pitching.
A key condition to this recommendation is that the composition of the starter wort and the main wort must be very similar if the starter is pitched at or near peak activity. Why? Because the yeast in the starter wort have produced a specific set of enzymes for that wort's sugar profile. If those yeast are then pitched to a different wort, with a different relative percentage of sugars, the yeast will be impaired and the fermentation may be affected. Kind of like trying to change boats in mid-stream. This is especially true for starter worts made from extract that includes refined sugars. Yeast that has been eating sucrose, glucose/dextrose, or fructose will quit making the enzyme that allows it to eat maltose - the main sugar of brewer's wort.
If you make your starter using a malt extract that includes refined sugar, it is better to wait until the yeast have finished fermenting and settled out before pitching to the main wort. Why? Because towards the end of fermentation, yeast build up their glycogen and trehalose reserves; kind of like a bear storing fat for the winter. Glycogen and trehalose are two carbohydrates that act as food reserves for the yeast cell. Yeast slowly feed off these reserves when other food is not present, and use this food extensively to fuel the synthesis of essential lipids, sterols, and unsaturated fatty acids when pitched to an oxygenated wort. (Yeast will rapidly deplete their glycogen reserves when exposed to oxygen.) While glycogen can be likened to the fat that a bear stores for winter, the other component, trehalose, acts more like the bear's heavy fur coat. Trehalose seems to get built up on both the inside and outside of the cell membrane, and is generally believed to make the membrane structure more robust and more resistant to environmental stresses. By allowing the yeast starter fermentation to go to completion, these reserves are built up, and upon pitching, the yeast starts out with a ready fuel supply and a clean slate to better adapt it to the new wort. As noted earlier, though, these same reserves are used by the yeast while in hibernation, so if the yeast are left too long before pitching, the reserves may be depleted and should be replenished with a fresh starter wort fermentation before use. | 2019-04-20T10:27:41 | http://howtobrew.com/book/section-1/yeast/when-is-my-starter-ready-to-pitch |
0.999074 | What exercises should I do for muscle pain in the back?
Like most health issues, it requires a little more information to answer with any authority.
If you mean muscle pain in your lower back, then doing gentle rotation stretches with the painful side down (lying on sore side, shoulders flat, opposite leg rolling over to floor) can open up the painful side of the spine which means less joint and nerve compression, and less pain.
Coupling this with some core exercises (exercises utilising the deep abdominal and lower back muscles to stabilise spine while adding challenges to body position) like bridging with your feet on a fitball (laying on your back) or simply position yourself on hands and knees with knees together and try to raise one arm at a time without moving your trunk or hips side to side (harder than it sounds). Ensure you're only engaging the deepest muscles by "drawing" lower belly in, don't tense/brace or bear down.
If your pain is more in the upper back it could be postural, so being more aware of time spent on devices (facebook-itis), or computer, and doing regular stretches for your Pec muscles (arms up on corner of room and lean in) and postural holds (back against a wall, pull shoulders and head back gently until you feel tightness between shoulder blades) and holding for a minute, several times throughout the day. If you're a gym type person, add in some seated row, reverse flies or similar back exercises to strengthen the muscles that support this area.
Don't forget the foam roller and spiky ball - while painful to use they can be really useful at releasing myofascial trigger points and mobilising a stiff spine.
Back pain is varying and very individual.
The best approach is to get an accurate diagnosis of what the underlying problem is before jumping around trying treatments.
Generally if bending and curling makes your back pain worse than the opposite (arching and leaning back) MAY help if you have a simple stretch or compressing problem.
However if you have a problem with overloading the spine when you sit or a lack of deep muscle tone, the exercises and treatment will be quite different. An experienced physiotherapist, in just one session, will find out what is wrong and how you can help yourself.
Hello, I suggest you to watch this quick video about exercise and back pain.
what do chiropractors do? what can they help with? | 2019-04-23T06:26:40 | https://www.healthshare.com.au/questions/51421-upper-back-muscle-pain/ |
0.999937 | How do you say this in Italian? Merry Christmas and Happy New year . lizvasilkova 25 Dec 09:27 AM. Native language. Russian English (UK) Italian Closed question Question about Italian. How do you say this in Italian? Merry Christmas and Happy New year . Read more comments. EleonoraWish 25 Dec 10:49 AM. Featured answer Native language. Italian buon natale e felice anno nuovo . buon natale e... Here is how to say happy new year in italian 31+ collection For wishing Your Mom, Dad,Son, Daughter, Brothers, Sisters, Girlfriend, Boy Friend, Grand Parents, Neighbors, And friends.
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This stylish Happy New Year card in Italian (Felice Anno Nuovo) is customizable, you can change the year in the placeholder. Two elegant Champagne glasses filled with sparkly Champagne. Please note: all gold is gold effect (faux gold) and was created digitally.
An Italian toast for the new year. There are lots of way to say �happy new year� in Italian. Here are just some of them. Buon anno! = Have a good year! | 2019-04-23T06:42:26 | http://gottalentwinner.com/australian-capital-territory/how-to-say-in-italian-happy-new-year.php |
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