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0.999201 | How can a mirror and a scale get it so wrong?
I don't know why it is so hard to see ourselves accurately, but it is. Studies show that even people with the most accurate physical self-image pictures have a lag of weeks or months when they start to change shape. That means that those of us who have the most precise view of what their body looks like, still see themselves as they appeared weeks or even months before, while they gain or lose weight. This phenomenon is called "residual body image."
For the rest of us, the gap between actual body shape change and the image that we see in the mirror is dramatically different. Instead of weeks or months before our residual body image begins to shift, we may struggle ever to see the change in ourselves. We get a picture in our heads, and no amount of evidence to the contrary is going to change that image. It's pretty harmless in cases of small discrepancies, but it can be life-threatening if the difference between what you feel and reality is big enough.
Interestingly, this happens in both directions. Some bodybuilders are incapable of seeing when they are "big enough" and they will risk their lives with unsustainable workout routines, drugs, chemicals, pills and injections to get the gains they want. Some people refer to this as "bigorexia." Of course, it can happen the other way, where someone can look in a mirror and see fat where there is none to be seen by anyone else. As we have learned more about anorexia during the past few decades, the apparent numbers have exploded, but in reality, it's been with us all along, unrecognized and underreported.
These body-dysmorphic mismatches aren't our fault. Nobody sets out down this path deliberately, but our minds and our environment conspire to make even the most accurately minded person have doubts. Statistics show that for roughly one-quarter of the worst of these cases, the condition becomes fatal.
Hypnosis can aid in breaking the cycles that contribute to body-dysmorphia.
First, hypnosis aids in providing relaxation, providing a chance to "disconnect" from the problems and stresses of the day.
Hypnosis can create an environment of complete control. In a trance, the client can create an environment where every element is to their liking and is subject to their every command.
With hypnosis, it is possible "rehearse" scenarios, such as changes in eating habits, in a non-threatening way that can be paused, stopped, viewed from a distance or even tried on someone else.
With safely distant repetition and rehearsals, a client can become desensitized to real triggers and healthier behaviors tested and applied without risk and without leaving the room.
In hypnosis a phenomenon called "trance logic" allows the client to make connections and draw conclusions that might otherwise elude them.
Body dysmorphia is a subject that is near and dear to my heart, so let's chat and see if I can help.
See my "Credentials" page for more details. | 2019-04-23T14:09:02 | https://hypnotechs.com/services/body-image/ |
0.999983 | Assembly is the programming language closest to a CPU. 'Closest' here means that the keywords in the language translate 1:1 into instructions done by the CPU. With other (higher lever) languages, there's either an interpreter or compiler which unpacks the language and generates usually quite significantly higher number of instructions when the code is to be executed on a real CPU.
With assembly, you tell exactly the processor what you want done - at register level. Whereas higher level languages achieve a lot of operations by abstracting the ingredients into a function (subroutine) name, assembly is about the elementals of computation: manipulating bits, and registers (composed of 8, 16, 32, or 64 bits at a time) -- essentially, one of the smallest storage units of digital computers.
The things we often learn as programmers is a bit more "sophisticated", and rightly so! It's good to work on a level we're comfortable with.
All languages, deep down "enough", will be compiled into assembly. For example, Java is compiled to Java bytecode, which is then run in a virtual machine called JVM. The JVM however has to eventually execute plain assembly. Same with all other languages.
The question between those two choices has mainly to do with: at which point does the conversion to machine language happen; is it "early on" (compiled languages), or during the execution (interpreted languages). Python is interpreted, while C language is a compiled language. C produces traditional executable files; whereas Python source code is run by passing the file to the Python interpreter.
A computer simply can load binary values to registers; do comparison and the usual suspects like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; store the value back to RAM (memory); and do stuff like jump around in various parts of the code (the 'IF... THEN' equivalent).
At first the basic level of profiency in assembly is attained by learning the opcodes: what commands are available. In reality, even assembly commands are internally stored and executed as a sequence of microcode within the processor.
I did a lot of Intel x86 assembly programming as teen.
Is assembly really that hard?
Why does assembly have a hard-to-grasp reputation? It's probably because of the very terse and "weird" vocabulary. Also compared to other languages, there's so much of "nonsensical" stuff in assembly: why the heck do you "move the value 64778 to register this-or-that".. It doesn't seem to make any sense at all!
When you've learned to program in assembly, it all makes sense. But I have to admit that looking at some of the code now, in the year 2019 - that's some 25 years later - I don't recollect all the details anymore.
Let's look at a image uncompression program. It's a complete program, showing a RIX image on-screen. RIX is a format which is now almost extinct. It used to be quite popular in the wild, although very simple format. Because of being simple the .RIX was also a perfect training target for making a program that can interpret it.
;; in memory area pointed to by "maski" | 2019-04-25T00:39:01 | https://jukkasoft.com/2019/02/11/programming-in-assembly/ |
0.999999 | Why give $31 billion to a few poor kids?
I THINK IT'S really, really great that Warren Buffett decided to give away most of his fortune to the Gates Foundation, which will use it to fight Third World disease and help promote better schools, among other things. So don't get me wrong when I say that instead of lavishing the whole thing on malnourished or otherwise underprivileged children, he should be giving some of it to slick political operatives.
In his speech announcing the gift, Buffett said that he's "not an enthusiast for dynastic wealth." Unfortunately, as I have had occasion to point out in this space, the people who run the country are enthusiasts for dynastic wealth. The House of Representatives has just approved a bill that would slash the tax on inherited wealth, costing up to $774 billion over 10 years.
Now, let's put that number in perspective. Buffett is donating a staggering $31 billion to the Gates Foundation, which will spend a couple of billion dollars a year for eminently worthy causes. But here's the problem. In the global scheme of things, $2 billion is not that much money. The federal government spends a thousand times as much money every year.
So Buffett's gift matters as much as an annual increase or decrease of 1/10 of 1% of the federal budget. His gift amounts to a tiny fraction of what would be drained by the estate-tax cut. His gift is not unimportant; it just shows the limits of private fortune compared with public policy.
And, although Buffett may not be a raving liberal, he obviously believes in some notion of social obligation. As he said, "Huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society." This is the basis for progressive taxation, and the diametrical opposite of the view of conservatives, who believe that a private fortune "belongs to the people who earned it," to use one of their favorite phrases.
HOW MUCH WOULD IT cost to influence the political system to move 1/10 of 1% of the budget out of, say, wasteful subsidies and into the sorts of programs the Gates Foundation supports? I'm not sure, but it's way less than $31 billion.
Now, enthusiasts for the Gates Foundation point out that it has discovered highly efficient ways to make use of its money, which government -- needless to say -- does not always do. But some government programs do work. Moreover, private initiatives can serve as a model for how the government can use its resources more effectively.
The overarching problem is that American business has become rapacious and narrowly self-interested. In the 1950s and '60s, business leaders tended to see themselves as Buffett does: as community leaders with some responsibility to the greater public. They accepted, even embraced, reasonable regulations and taxes. During the 1960s, one business writer noted that "the American business community has finally and with unexpected suddenness embraced the idea of the interventionist state."
Starting in the 1970s, corporate profits began to tighten under growing foreign competition, and business leaders understandably started to fear the excesses of Ralph Nader and his ravenously anti-business outlook. Business grew more politically involved and more selfish in its goals. Almost all business involvement in politics today is an effort to get as much as it can from Washington while paying as little as possible. It's an obsessive focus on the short-term bottom line, with no attention to broader societal problems that affect business along with everybody else.
A good, slick campaign to create a public-spirited business lobby would help everybody in due time. Why should poor kids get all the money? | 2019-04-19T00:53:50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-02-oe-chait2-story.html |
0.999968 | Agency said the injection lowers blood sugar levels, and doesn't boost risk of heart problems.
The injectable drug Adlyxin (lixisenatide) has been approved to treat adults with type 2 diabetes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
The once-daily injection is to be used along with diet and exercise to improve patients’ blood sugar levels.
The FDA reviewed 10 clinical trials on the safety and effectiveness of Adlyxin. These studies included 5,400 people with type 2 diabetes. The drug was also specifically tested for heart issues in an additional 6,000 people at risk of heart disease, the FDA said Thursday in a news release.
The FDA concluded that Adlyxin helps normalize blood sugar levels. And it doesn’t appear to increase the risk of heart problems.
Adlyxin is in a class of drugs called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists. Other GLP-1 drugs include liraglutide (Victoza), exenatide (Byetta, Bydureon) and dulaglutide (Trulicity), according to the American Diabetes Association.
Adlyxin shouldn’t be used to treat people with type 1 diabetes. It also shouldn’t be used by anyone with increased ketones (a sign that the body isn’t getting enough insulin) in their blood or urine, or extremely elevated ketones (diabetic ketoacidosis), the FDA said.
Common side effects of Adlyxin included nausea, vomiting, headache, diarrhea and dizziness, the findings showed. Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) occurred in patients who took both Adlyxin and other diabetes drugs such as sulfonylureas and/or a long-acting (basal) insulin, the agency said.
Some people who took Adlyxin had severe hypersensitivity reactions, including serious allergic reactions (anaphylaxis), the agency said.
The FDA said it’s requiring drug maker Sanofi-Aventis to conduct post-marketing studies of Adlyxin.
More than 29 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, the FDA noted. In the United States, type 2 diabetes accounts for over 90 percent of diabetes cases, the agency said. If left untreated, persistent high blood sugar levels can increase the risk of serious complications, such as heart disease, blindness, and nerve and kidney damage.
SOURCE: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, news release, July 28, 2016.
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0.998962 | Is the half-fare (1-month) and STS Family card valid for the above trip? I've checked the sbb website and the cost is 53 and 74 CHF for 2nd class and 1st class (one-way) respectively. Is this correct?
The Swiss Half Fare Card and the STS Family Card are not valid for the Italian leg of the trip, but only for the Swiss leg (that is, Lugano-Chiasso). Please review the map we link to at the Swiss Half Fare Card page (under the header 'Features') for an exact overview of the validity network.
I found somewhat different costs, but these may depend on the exact connection you choose. The quickest and easiest connection I found (a direct connection without changes by EuroCity, taking about 1h00) costs CHF 21.00 per person for 2nd class, including the 50% discount for the Swiss leg. If you want to take the 50% discount for Switzerland into account when checking prices, you should select the option 'Half-fare travelcard' under the header 'Reduction for' during step 2 of the process.
Arno, thks. If I buy the return ticket from Milan (meaning I do not buy the return ticket from Lugano), am I still entitled to the 50% discount on the Swiss leg of the trip? Ie, ticketing is done at Milan.
Hi tyongchi. I'm not sure if the Italian railways in Milan can provide such a ticket. You can ask them if you want to know for sure. An alternative is to buy your return ticket, with the return date printed on it, in advance in Lugano. The Swiss railways can calculate the 50% discount for the Swiss leg in any case. | 2019-04-20T14:28:24 | https://www.myswissalps.com/forum/topic/train-from-lugano-to-milano |
0.998585 | The two-part series aired in the UK earlier this month.
Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland won't face any investigation from Ofcom.
The news comes after the television regulator received 230 complaints from viewers about Channel 4's decision to air the four-hour film earlier this month.
Leaving Neverland spotlights the disturbing stories of Wade Robson and James Safechuck, two men who have accused the singer of grooming them for molestation when they were kids back in the early 1990s.
Some viewers complained that the documentary misled them because the allegations made in the film hadn't been proved, and they claimed it wasn't clear enough that Jackson had been cleared of the accusations while he was alive.
The Jackson estate previously denied the claims made in the documentary and criticised the film when it first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Explaining its decision, Ofcom said in a statement: "We understand that this two-part documentary gave rise to strong opinions from viewers.
"In our view, the allegations were very clearly presented as personal testimonies and it was made clear that the Jackson family rejects them."
Since its premiere, the documentary has also attracted a lot of different opinions from across the celebrity world.
Earlier this month, Michael Jackson's nephew Taj came to the defence of the singer during an appearance on Good Morning Britain, while filmmaker Louis Theroux and Celebrity Big Brother's Roxanne Pallett have also weighed in on the accusations. | 2019-04-25T02:24:27 | https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a26940754/michael-jackson-documentary-leaving-neverland-ofcom/ |
0.982331 | Test-First Teaching provides a fundamental shift in the way people learn software development. Initially, it helps the student focus on learning very basic syntax, able to independently confirm when they have successfully completed an exercise. That immediate feedback is valuable for cementing knowledge.
Test-first teaching also teaches an understanding of all of the arcane error messages in a low stress situation. The first thing you see, before you have written a line of code, is an error. Then you discover what you need to do to fix that error. Test-first teaching helps people intuitively understand that mistakes are a natural part of the software development process.
In traditional programming exercises, you are either given a fairly large task and asked to implement the whole thing, or you are provided with "skeleton code" -- source code that has been eviscerated to remove key sections, which you are asked to fill in.
"Large task" exercises are often challenging to students because of their sheer size. Many lines of code need to be written before you receive any positive reinforcement. This can be frustrating to beginners, and boring for advanced students.
"Skeleton code" exercises are also frustrating. The task of the student should be to figure out how to write code that will accomplish the given task. With skeleton code, you are first presented with the task of figuring out what the original author was trying to do; of reading through the code (often littered with idiosyncratic idioms and obscure comments); and then of trying to implement just one part of the algorithm, without necessarily understanding the larger picture. If the fill-in-the-blank code section is too complicated, the student may never complete the assignment; if it's too simple, no learning may be gained by the exercise.
Finally, in both types of traditional exercises, as a student you don't really know when you are finished! Sometimes, you will succeed in the task, but neglect to print the results, and will keep at it, believing you are still missing something; other times, you might write code that seems to work but is crucially flawed in some way or another. This is one of the most powerful features of test-first development -- you code until the test passes, and then you stop coding. The test provides a map, informing you of where to begin, and where to end.
Test-first teaching is appropriate for both guided and solo use. Students in a classroom may rely on classmates or teachers for guidance; but if alone, the tests provide some measure of feedback and guidance (although unit tests can never actually debug and fix the code).
Perhaps the most important aspect of test-first teaching is that it teaches the whole process, from opening a new file in a text editor to compiling and running. At the end of the day, the students can say, "At least I know how to write a program." Many exercises, especially skeletons but also those based on tools and toy problems, end up skipping the fundamentals that are vital not just for coding on a day-to-day basis, but also for cementing the higher-level concepts into habits and skills.
Unit Testing refers to writing a set of functions that sit next to a given module of program code. These functions run a series of tests that assure, more-or-less thoroughly, that the program code performs as it is supposed to.
For example, assume there is a function called add that takes two integers as parameters, adds them together, and returns their sum. There might be one unit test that calls add with 2 and 3, and makes sure the result is 5. There might be additional unit tests that "push the envelope" in various other ways, testing its behavior with large numbers, negative numbers, illegal parameters (e.g. strings), and so forth.
Once a full suite of unit tests is developed, it is good practice to run these tests as often as possible.
Design. It forces you to think first about the design of the interface to the code, instead of jumping straight to the implementation. Having a well-designed interface is often more important than having an efficient implementation.
Discipline. Writing tests is often seen as a chore; writing the tests first guarantees that at the end of the day you will have written a suite of unit tests (rather than leaving them until the end and possibly never getting around to it).
Less Work. If you apply a tight cycle of write one test, then write the code to implement that test, then write the next test, your code ends up growing organically. This often (though not always) leads to less wasted effort; you end up writing all the code you need, and none of the code you don't need.
A Testing Framework is a tool or library that provides a backdrop for writing tests.
For example, to implement a test in the JUnit framework for Java, you write a class that extends the common TestCase superclass. Each method in your subclass that begins with the word "test" is a separate unit test. You then run the JUnit tool (both graphical and text versions are provided) and it loads your class and executes each test method in turn, monitoring the results and providing feedback.
Using RSpec for Ruby, you use the keywords describe and it to build a nested set of tests (also called "specs" or "examples" in the RSpec lexicon).
RSpec, which is used in this project, has more concise syntax and can be used in the same project, but creates a separate suite of tests, called "specs"
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0.999965 | Do healthy older adults need regular health care visits?
ANSWER: There's no hard and fast rule about how often seniors should see their health care providers. For most older adults, though, it's a good idea to have at least one medical checkup a year. At that visit, a provider can review medications, check on health concerns, talk about lifestyle topics and go over recommended tests.
Regular health care visits are the perfect opportunity to go over the medications an older adult takes -- a key step in maintaining good health. It's important for a health care provider to know about all of a senior's medications, including prescription and nonprescription drugs, dietary supplements, and herbal medications. That way, the provider can identify any that could be interacting with one another, possibly causing health problems, and confirm that the medications are managing chronic illnesses effectively.
Going over any health concerns ? even if they seem small ? is also an essential part of a senior checkup. Symptoms such as memory loss, sleep problems, constipation, fatigue or weight loss, for example, could point to underlying health problems that need to be evaluated. Or they might be side effects of medication that could be eliminated with a change in prescription.
Health care providers who see seniors also review lifestyle issues that affect how a person functions day to day. For example, it's important that seniors are able to navigate their environment in a way that allows them to do what they want, interact with others, perform daily tasks without trouble and stay healthy.
Another example is a bone density test, which is used to screen for osteoporosis. This test is recommended at 65 for women who have never broken a bone and who don't have other osteoporosis risk factors. For men, this test usually is recommended around 70 for those who have broken a bone at some point in their lives.
Other tests usually are based on an individual's specific health concerns and medications. For example, tests to check blood sugar; cholesterol; and minerals, such as sodium and potassium, may be appropriate. Some people also may need regular tests to gauge kidney and liver function.
Before your mother goes to see her health care provider, encourage her to write down questions or concerns she'd like to discuss. To help the visit go smoothly, it also would be useful for her to note any significant health concerns or conditions she's had in the past, as well as any health problems or symptoms she's experiencing now. She should bring along a list of all her medications, including over-the-counter medications, and their dosages, too. | 2019-04-21T04:07:02 | https://www.news4jax.com/digital-life-365/healthy-seniors/do-healthy-older-adults-need-regular-health-care-visits |
0.999621 | Are there any book with sheet music including all instruments of a classical gypsy jazz band?
What is it for? To learn how to arrange for gypsy jazz bands? Or just to learn tunes?
I want to arrange a tune of mine and see how to get things right!
If you want to understand arranging the best textbook on the subject is "The Complete Arranger" by Sammy Nestico. But it is expensive covers all instruments.
Just to make it clear, I am interested in Gypsy Jazz specifically, not in arranging in general.
I've done a lot of arranging over the years, beginning back in the eighties when I played in a 20's style jazz band with two brass and two reeds.
Slightly off topic, but there is a transcription of Django interacting with Rex Stewart and Barney Bigard in 1939 on Finesse (Night Wind). Its in Gunther Schuller's "The Swing Era The Development of Jazz 1930-1945". Its a great book, with Schuller's unique take on music. I don't always agree with him, but his focus is on the swing and trad music I like. This path is a rare thing for a major writer, and he examines artists & solos rarely mentioned by others. Lots of transcriptions.
Well I find Dyonisis question very interesting.
Historically the first transcriptions were published in England by Clifford Essex (Ultraphone and Souvenirs). Stéphane and Django's soli were transcribed acurately but with ....... a piano accompaniment!
Later on Bouncin' Around was transcribed by belgian guitarist Chas DOLNE and published by World Mudic Company in Belgium. Django's solo was transcribed but the accompaniment was just a grille and the bass part is not a transcription but an old-purpose bass part.
Then we had these books by André PYAIR, there was just the theme with non-gypdy chords (often not even jazz chords).
Then André DUCHAUSSOIR (nicknamed La Godasse by Django) published some books with axcellent transcriptions and correct chord forms. From time to time in the guitar press, René published some transcriptions of DR solos.
Many publications existed some strange chord-system like Cosimini's, some weird tablatures by Robin Nolan. But to my knowledge nobody ever produced a music sheet with instrument of a classical gypsy band.
What would be the nearest is 'Jouez Tzigane' by Francis Darizcuren (who is a bass player) but it only deals with 'folk tunes' (Gari-Gari, Dark Eyes, 2 guitars, Monti's Czardas, well this kind of stuff).
Some orchestral music sheets have been published by Francis DAY (Brick Top and Nuages arranged for piano, saxo alto 1 & 2, saxo ténor 1 & 2, trumpets 1 & 2, trombone, accordéon/violon, bass and guitar grilles).
In MHO what gives the better idea of the alchemy between 2 guitar parts can be found in the Ultimate Django Book or in Joe Charupakorn's book The Best of Django Reinhardt.
It is only a short comment about collecting these stuff for nearly 50 years. | 2019-04-20T01:14:09 | http://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/16519/pieces-in-full-score-full-band |
0.999991 | why doesn't this query below result in the correct answer: hash.has_key?("calories") the question is to find out if the hash variable has a key called "calories"
If it does, set a new variable called food to true.
So your second line should begin with food =. | 2019-04-25T18:49:18 | https://teamtreehouse.com/community/haskey |
0.999118 | I don't know about you, but this cold weather puts me in a mood to bake.
Looking in my freezer I found I had I had about a cup frozen strawberries that needed to be used. I thought "what can I make with these?"
Yes, I could have gone the usual route of making a yogurt smoothie, but then I found this recipe for Strawberry Muffins.
This recipe is easy and takes no time at all to make.
Also, If you want to make them a little lighter and healthier, use coconut oil instead of canola oil.
The muffins tasted great with butter. However, if you smear a little strawberry jam on them they tasted even better.
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) oil an 8 cup muffin tin, or use paper liners.
2. In a small bowl, combine oil, milk, and egg. Beat lightly. In a large bowl, mix flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. Toss in chopped strawberries and stir to coat with flour. Pour in milk mixture and stir together.
3. Fill muffin cups. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 25 minutes, or until the tops bounce back from the touch. Cool 10 minutes and remove from pans. | 2019-04-24T22:31:32 | https://q985online.com/tasty-strawberry-muffins/ |
0.998536 | Bethlehem AD 2013 is a recreation of the town of Bethlehem as it might have appeared in biblical times. It had been on my "to do" list for a few years, and this time I was able to squeeze the last presentation of the year into my schedule. My goal, as always, was to try to summarize the entire event with a single photo.
Digression: When I was studying photography at the local community college, I read a book on the use of the 35mm camera for black and white available light photojournalism. I clearly remember the author’s basic kit: Two Leica M bodies, along with a 35mm and an 80mm lens. This minimalist approach to equipment stuck with me. Today, these absolute focal lengths were no longer sovereign, since the APS (or half frame) sized sensors of most current DSLRs would require respective focal lengths of approximately 24mm and 50mm, if the proportions were to be maintained.
I carried spare batteries, spare SD cards, a P7700 in place of a second body, and a 24-70 2.8 Tamron to be used only in an absolute emergency.
Sneaking In: I had heard incredible stories about the long lines and the nearly impossible parking situation. Fearing the worst, I arrived at the facility two hours before the opening and parked two blocks away on Main Street. Really! That's where I parked. I walked over to the entrance and spoke briefly with some of the staff members. After chatting, I returned to my car to get my gear. When I returned, I circled around the back lot, trying to get a sense of the event. I found an open back gate and saw that a pen had been built to hold some period appropriate domestic animals. Besides goats and pigs, three regal looking camels walked about, obviously familiar with humans, and the treats they often carried. A family in period costumes made friends with the camels, so I started making photos. Photo #2 was done with the flash on-camera, with the Nikon diffusion dome in place. The flash head was set at a 45 degree angle to feather the light away from the lower edge of the frame.
Photo #3 was taken a little later. For this shot, the built-in flash served as a commander set to -2 stops. My SB-800 was the main light which I held overhead. The sky was darkened a bit, turning magenta at the horizon all by itself. Another version of the same setup can be seen in Photo #4.
I liked this photo because it would be easy to suggest that Charlie the camel was sniffing for treats. As it turned out, I didn't submit either of these two shots for the simple reason that Photo #2 had two smiling kids, which helped to carry the message of "kid friendly event".
In Photo #4, a "Rabbi" was calling his congregation to the Tabernacle using bugles made from the horns of an African Kudu. The green "glow" was provided by a gelled spotlight coming from behind the subject, and the low shutter speed (1/6 of a second, F 2.8, ISO 1600) gave some edge blur on the beard, but the face is stopped by the short burst of light provided by the on-camera flash. For this shot, the white balance was "Tungsten" and the shoe-mounted flash fitted with a CTO gel to give the ambient light a cool cast. I might add that this was the most successful application of "dragging shutter" I did all evening. I loved the lighting, but the shot doesn't carry much of a story.
I was getting ready to leave when I saw a procession just outside the entrance gate. It was the persona of King Harod "berating" those waiting their turn in Bethlehem (Photo #5). Nothing special so far as my equipment and technique. My flash was camera mounted with the diffusion dome in place. The exposure, typical of the settings I used this evening, included a shutter speed of 1/10 of a second, an ISO of 1600, and an aperture setting of 2.8, wide open for the lens. The ambient light included blue rotating spotlights in the background and the headlights from passing cars, an odd juxtaposition of the old and the new. I was careful to align my shooting position with the blue streaks from the spotlights, so I was moving constantly. My final choice shown below, is also the lead photo for the post.
This last shot shows has a bit more action, and it was the photo I submitted.
One Body, One Lens? Perhaps. The 20 2.8 Nikor is extremely compact, and the D80 body light in weight. But I found the prime (non-zoom) 20mm lens a bit too narrow for my taste. Focusing speed was a bit of a problem when shooting at night, although I don't know if any other lens would have been significantly better. For the most part, the 20mm lens was long enough. So how about an 18mm 1.8 lens? Such a lens does exist at the short end of the Sigma 18-35mm 1.8 zoom lens. While limited to an APS sized sensor, it could prove just the ticket for photographing under similar circumstances.
I don't doubt that most assignments could be completed with the two prime lenses I mentioned, but there are going to be problems at the short end. Trying to get enough a wide enough view in a crowded Bethlehem was a problem when working up close. My old standby, the 11-16mm Tokina still reigns supreme in these close quarters. | 2019-04-24T06:16:37 | http://tomjungphotography.blogspot.com/2013/12/bethlehem-ad-2013.html |
0.999012 | Clyde Aikau might be retiring, but he can still school some of the world's greatest surfers.
HONOLULU -- Clyde Aikau took some very deep breaths before heading down to the water, his extra-long, single-fin surf board in tow.
The 66-year-old Hawaiian is no stranger to the waves at Waimea Bay, on Oahu's North Shore, but Thursday was a bit different.
The waves were more than 50 feet high and the surf was pumping so loudly that people on the beach could barely hear. The Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau surf competition, the most prestigious big wave competition in the world, was on -- the first time in seven years that conditions have been good enough (read: huge enough) to hold it.
Dressed in a yellow rashguard, his bulky life vest protruding underneath, Aikau, who has announced his retirement from big wave surfing after this season, paused at the shore break for a moment, looking nervous, but also completely ready with his board tucked comfortably beneath his arm.
"The Eddie," as it's known, is especially important to Aikau because it commemorates the life of his brother, a legendary Hawaiian surfer and lifeguard, who died in 1978 after the Polynesian vessel Hokulea capsized during a storm. Eddie Aikau set off paddling on a surfboard to get help for his fellow crew members and was never seen again.
Clyde Aikau has been a sort of Godfather of big wave surfing since, winning the second-ever Eddie competition in 1986 and serving as a spokesman for both the spirit of surfing and of Hawaii.
And as the third heat got started on Thursday, all eyes were on him. Riding a board that looked even longer than everyone else's, Aikau paddled out to join young guns like Mark Healey, 31, and John John Florence, 23.
The clear crowd favorite wasn't shy about charging waves, riding down with a wide stance, his knees bowing out and his hands reaching to the sides to steady himself -- a "typical" Hawaiian style, according to the WSL announcers, who admitted they weren't alive in the 70s to witness when that style really made its mark.
Aikau didn't win it all on Thursday (John John Florence did). But with a 16th out of 28th place showing, the veteran had a very impressive day.
How's that for a swan song?
Surfers ride the waves at one of Waikiki's famed surf breaks in the early 1900s. | 2019-04-26T08:47:46 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/66-year-old-surfer-charges-massive-waves-for-his-swan-song_n_56cf57efe4b03260bf75f2a0 |
0.999999 | Do we need a canonical thread about stock trading? What would it address?
I've noticed that stock trading is a prominent theme among reinforcement-learning and neural-networks and deep-learning questions. I think this is because (1) stock trading is an easy problem to understand (2) the data is readily available and (3) striking it rich on the stock market is a popular fantasy.
Does this warrant the creation of a canonical thread? What should that thread address?
Usually, the subject matter itself is of secondary importance on stats.SE and users are asking methodological questions about how to design an experiment or account for an unusual quirk of their data (dependency structure such as spatial or temporal correlation, mixed effects, random effects, etc.).
As a statistical topic, there are some general comments which would appear to apply to all of the shallow stock trading questions, such as how one might frame the discrete choices available to the model (buy, sell, hold, short, etc.) as a reinforcement or more conventional approach. This seems like it's on-topic.
But the broadest versions of these questions are perhaps not suitable because they veer into quantitative finance. The most general question, "How do I make a profitable stock trading algorithm?" must certainly require a deep understanding of QF because feature engineering (how to represent financial data in a manner that is amenable to your algorithm) and computer engineering (how to load and process data to execute trades before your decision is "stale"). I think those kinds of questions are best answered by QF.SE, since it is certainly their core topic.
This question is motivated by this thread, where I opted to write a rather general answer because I had happened to spend a few dreadful weeks learning about QF. How to train a stock trading neural network so that the 'profit' parameter is maximized?
I doubt we really need canonical threads on different subject matter for data. It might be helpful to have canonical threads on different data types (binomial vs. normal), but not the meaning behind the numbers (e.g., presence of headache vs. not, presence of gastric distress vs. not, etc.). That seems to me like it negates the need for a canonical stock market thread. I'm not saying it should be off limits, but I mostly don't think it makes sense. In particular, the follow-up question, "What would it address?" seems like a major warning sign.
In the specific case of the stock market (or generalize to include other investment options, such as bonds, commodities, forex, etc.), I do see some value in a short thread that explains the principle of no arbitrage, simply because there is no escaping the occasional ignorant question. However, we arguably already have that: What machine learning algorithm can be used to predict the stock market?
On the other hand, if there were a type of question, say about neural networks, that is contextualized in the stock market and pops up commonly, but is always poorly asked, then a canonical thread on that issue would be helpful. Moreover, it would probably be most helpful to use the stock market as the example situation to motivate the question. I don't follow either investing or these types of questions on CV well enough to provide a great example, but something like modeling / forecasting a mean when the error variance changes unpredictably might be a the sort of thing where it would be helpful.
I would avoid it. This is my area of research. The two theories that won Nobel prizes were empirically foreclosed as wrong starting in 1963 and have had NO successful validation studies. ANNs as universal function approximators tend to fall into traps that you see in the traditional methodologies and don't work out of sample. It only looks easy.
Are the “Machine Learning” questions on topic?
Can I ask questions about an R package for machine learning with unclear documentation?
Should a “Neural Network” Stackexchange site be created?
Question A is a duplicate of question B + question C: what to do?
What is our stance on questions “looking for exercises to learn statistical concept X with library Y”?
What should we do with outdated answers? | 2019-04-22T10:38:31 | https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5519/do-we-need-a-canonical-thread-about-stock-trading-what-would-it-address/5521 |
0.999915 | The gun was available. Like it or not, there are areas where "educational gun use" is just not a factor. At some point, every time a gun is mentioned it is not about the Big #2 and preserving someone's little right.
There are 100 different scenarios. These two girls were placed with the grandmother. Grandmother has a gun near the bed. Where is mom? Does the grandmother have other children? Does she live in an area or have children that are involved in gangbanging or were involved in gangbanging? Grandma has a gun for a reason near the bed.
There are places where having guns laying about is "normal". Kids have access to them all the time. There are places where people use guns without a thought. That is the education. She is 11. She knew where the gun was, she reacted in anger over something trivial. Seems to me that is the going thing. She got her education. She probably does not have some psychological problem. She made a bad call. She may have made a bad call in an environment where bad calls are the norm. She may have seen it in action.
At some point, hell, at any point, these discussions should revolve about the benefit of the child. Not about protecting the right.
I don't think I mentioned the right even once. I just wanted to suggest that access to a firearm by a child is not in an of itself wrong. Access by a child untrained and uneducated is irresponsible. But access alone may not be.
People seemed to be focused on the access and not on the access + lack of education/training.
I just wanted to suggest that she got her education. If the girls lives in an environment where your neighbor, uncles, cousins, parents or friends have 2 or 3 guns about the house (pull it out, leave it on the table) then that is her education. She was trained. If she had the opportunity to witness a gun being pulled on herself or on others and it was fired then she was trained. There are a lot of houses that use that method of education and training.
Dad trained an 8 year old, 8 year old shot and killed him. There are factors that are beyond your control. In theory, one would wait until the child could think in abstract terms before training them. Should they ever reach that level.
So, yeah, access to a firearm by a child is wrong and all the education and training in the world cannot control all factors.
I wouldn't freak if you brought up a pic of your kid with a pink gun. BUT, I bet you would freak if you saw a picture of a 17 year old who was shot 15 times from behind with no gang affiliation and an honor roll student.
There is a difference between training and bad examples.
And I will grant that education and training, even real training, not the irresponsibility you suggest, cannot control all factors. Nothing can. The point of education and training is to mitigate risk and maximize potential for success.
If there are that many variables, then why do it?
This is true in all of life, not just firearms.
And the kids that have access that I'm speaking of also want to mitigate risk and maximize the potential for success. It is true in all of life.
I understand you're trying to be pointedly ironic.
Any substance behind it? Or do you just believe that teaching children to be responsible shooters is at best useless and at worst evil?
Further, taking a life or "mitigating risk" is huge. In fact, it is murder. Kids have to make it through puberty, deal with possible bullying and will largely go through heated moments of passion. They may face overwhelming depression at different points. Then there are the parties or get togethers where a gun is brought out and it goes off and the consequences are huge. | 2019-04-23T09:00:53 | http://www.city-data.com/forum/parenting/650003-news-11-year-old-west-virginia-3.html |
0.998952 | Drug dealer selling ecstasy pills.
Last month, a thought-provoking U.K.-based study was published on the use of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). Researchers suggest that repeated use of MDMA, known as ecstasy, may boost self-reported "emotional empathy." Evidently, previous studies had demonstrated that MDMA increased emotional empathy for short periods of time. The new study shows longer-term effects, which, according to the study's authors, could have implications for possible medical uses down the road.
MDMA is currently being assessed in two Phase III trials as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The drug's mechanism of action consists of eliciting release of the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, and noradrenaline.
In the recently released University of Exeter study, researchers compared the effect of MDMA on relative levels of empathy in three groups: One that used MDMA and other drugs, including cocaine, ketamine, and alcohol; one that used other drugs but not MDMA; and one that consumed alcohol only. In other words, all subjects were under the influence of something, and their levels of cognitive and emotional empathy were being compared to one another.
First, while the study's authors suggest that MDMA may be used safely there is the issue of the potential for abuse and possible long-term negative effects related to MDMA. This is a very important consideration in the event future medical uses are pursued.
Second, one must ask why only look at empathy as mediated by a mind-altering substance. Professor Celia Morgan, principal investigator on the research project, admitted: "We can't say whether differences in empathy are due to taking MDMA, or whether there were already differences in the people who use MDMA and those who don't before they started taking the drug."
Could the kind of empathy being measured among drug users be pseudo-empathy? Drug users may be bonding with one another as a result of sharing the experience of being high. They may seemingly have a better understanding of the thoughts and feelings of others, without the care or urge to improve their condition.
So, perhaps here a baseline comparison of people on and not on MDMA (or other substances) would be helpful.
Empathy is innate in most of us, that is, humans are generally predisposed to be empathetic without the need for a pharmaceutical facilitator. Altruistic behavior, which results from empathy, is essential to the sustainability of civil society. Of course, predisposition doesn't imply empathy will manifest itself in everyone. In fact, empathy can be suppressed through socio-cultural norms. And, ironically, mind-altering substances have been shown to impair empathic behavior.
Third, a broader interpretation of social empathy may be warranted, particularly when it comes to the kind of empathic behavior exhibited in the marketplace and policy-making realm. The above-mentioned study defined and measured cognitive empathy, which is the ability to understand the perspective of another person; and emotional empathy, which involves putting oneself in the emotional state of another. However, it's not necessarily the case that empathy is strictly personal. It could also be directed towards a group, fellow citizens, or even an abstract entity with whom there is no shared bond.
As the capacity to relate to a person, group, or fellow citizens, empathy is fundamental to human identity and behavior. The founding father of modern economics, Adam Smith, recognized the importance of empathy in social interaction, which extends to some of our behavior in the marketplace, and as policymakers. Smith is famous for the idea expressed in The Wealth of Nations that self-interested behavior can lead to an optimal level of societal economic well-being. However, Smith also wrote an equally important treatise on ethics: The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The two works are not contradictory. In fact, Smith argued that alongside self-interested behavior there is an "underlying strain of human empathy, presumably tempering excesses by some individuals at the expense of others." People can work out the morally correct thing to do by empathically putting themselves in the shoes of others.
It is sometimes posited that one of the tools used by healthcare policy-makers - cost-benefit analysis - is cleansed of empathy. While cost-benefit analysis has at its root a utilitarian framework, which has been associated with reduced empathic concern, how such analysis is put into practice in actual decision-making reveals varying degrees of social empathy. To illustrate, health insurers and policymakers often use cost-benefit analyses to inform coverage decisions with respect to healthcare services and technologies. However, insurers tend to adjust cost-benefit calculations with equity weights when considering coverage for treatments of life-threatening conditions. Or, they may even eschew such analyses altogether in cases of lifesaving drugs. | 2019-04-18T22:35:56 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2019/04/08/ecstasy-and-empathy/ |
0.998972 | Calculate grams of platinum per fluid ounce unit. The platinum converter.
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0.998269 | One of the best ways to expand the living space of a basic home is to construct a screened porch from a deck. This is a project can have various degrees of difficulty, based on the desired results.
One of the best ways to expand the living space of a basic home is to construct a screened porch from a deck. This is a project that can have various degrees of difficulty, based on the desired results. One thing for a homeowner to keep in mind is certain questions need to be answered before planning a project. This is a task that is often complex and not suited for a novice DIY homeowner.
Homeowners need to ask themselves a few basic questions when considering a screened porch.
What is the main purpose for the completed screen porch? Is the screen porch meant for certain seasons of the year? Will the completed space be for informal use or as a finished area?
These questions are meant to help you develop a design for the project and a suitable budget. A deck is often an open area and a screened porch will require a roof. This will add additional weight to the deck and means the foundation needs to support the extra weight.
Your imagination is the only limitation to the design options when converting any deck into a screened porch. Contractors who can complete these conversions often have examples of previous work you can view online. These pictures can be used for inspiration and to help you determine if any special options or features should be incorporated into the design.
One of the best ways to add a screened area to a deck with no roof is to set up a collapsible gazebo or a screen tent. These can often be found online or at any sporting goods store. They are often easy to set up and can be securely attached to any deck. The only other option is to hire a contractor to construct a custom screened porch for your deck.
There are many options available for roofing materials when building a roof over a deck. You can have a wood frame built or install light fiberglass panels. The best option is to have a roof structure that will blend into the existing roof of your home. Your options will be based on the look or result that needs to be achieved. One thing to keep in mind is every roof option has its own benefits and specific costs.
The material that is used for the screens on a porch will also vary. One option is to use panels that have been prefabricated for easy installation. Another option is to add a roll up screen to one open areas of the deck, if a roof and framing are in place. However, any extra amenities that are added will increase the total cost of the project.
Existing decks will not be bug-proof after screen panels have been added. There are gaps between each of the deck boards where insects can invade. One option is to cover the surface of the deck using carpet that is designed for use outdoors. Another solution is to staple gardening felt to the underside of a deck if a homeowner wants to maintain the unique look of their deck. Garden felt allows the deck to drain water and keep out any bothersome insects. | 2019-04-19T09:36:07 | https://www.homeyou.com/convert-deck-into-covered-porch |
0.999994 | Few bands rock & # 39; n & # 39; The Roll exhibition exhibits talent and class identical to the Rival Sons. The exhausting rock quartet, Long Seashore, California, has accomplished its boats since the beginning of 2009, and their latest launch, Feral Roots, is an album they’re pleased with – and for good cause. It’s confident, however nonetheless maintains a delicious delicacy that the band has been tirelessly grinding over six LPs.
AQ lately had the opportunity to speak to singer Jay Buchanan about making Feral Sweden, in addition to the early success of the band in Europe and its signature for Earache Data – a metallic pack the place the band was unsure they might fit and the band has been praised by the artist group over the past decade . 19659002] The newest release of Rival Sons is Feral Roots, and is the band's sixth studio album. What are you able to share with us about making an album?
Nicely, it was pretty involved, comparatively a lot.
The depth of the report could be very totally different in the sense that it allowed us to write it longer. Although sometimes we might go to the studio without materials, and we solely write three weeks or report and document songs as we go – which has proved to be excellent for us and has been wholesome solely because of the nature of who the band is collectively. You understand that we have now been given the alternative to gather and document a artistic flash point. But this report, we booked three periods, each of about five to six days, and between the periods we give ourselves a few months. So, this actually allowed extra introspection and reflection of the statement we needed to make.
The phrase "wild" describes a wild or uninhabited, picked up area, particularly after the animal has been launched from captivity. Is the title Feral Roots a private reference to the band's own roots or perhaps something in the material?
Southern California Mountains, my hometown of Wrightwood. But now I stay in Tennessee, and I finally moved my family to the woods. So, whenever you return to the type that I had been waiting for all my grownup life, I undoubtedly assume that I informed my story about all the lyrics and a whole lot of issues that we tried to research thematically and musically. I feel Feral Roots was very much in the type of a return, to create a character…. It was actually just watching the parts of music that we create and wanting to strengthen this stuff slightly than disturbing them.
The Rival boys come from Lengthy Seashore, California, however I feel – and inform me for those who feel totally different – the group's reputation really went out for the first time in the UK and throughout Europe, before steadily build up steam in every of the later data .
I feel this is able to be very correct, yes.
Was it indirectly associated to signing for Earache Data for years?
Completely! I feel it is truly a direct consequence of this. Once we signed with Earache Data – they’re in Nottingham, England, and their property and dimension have been based mostly on the North and positively on the metallic group. We were not one thing we did smoothly, in any means. It was very unusual to us. Once we signed into Earache – this little little metallic badge with a very good dimension – and we began to get around there, their strongest go well with was in the United States and throughout Europe. So, publicity right here and stepping into their group, this was our first prayer…. You realize, as in our first U.Okay. / European tour, we played help for the priest of Judah! I imply, we're a straight up rock & # 39; n & # 39; roll band.
However you have been properly acquired.
We had an excellent reception, thankfully. We didn't understand how things went when this was launched to us. At first, though Earache Data knocked on our door, we took a joke like that. I mean, we didn't understand how to assume. But understanding the cause Earache needed us to signal, we had a direct line of music that that they had been profitable for therefore many years. I imply taking a look at a band like Judas Priest and watching their first document … nicely, it's rather more rock & # 39; s roll-rhythm and blues-based.
I totally agree. This earlier stage is in conflict with their later years as a result of it is filled with metallic.
Properly, these are the belongings you like…. The fact that the band's begin sample can be rock & # 39; s & # 39; roll as a result of everyone loves it, but then you definitely get this collection of individuals – Judas is a superb example – who can get there and begin cultivating their own voice and conveying their very own fashion. Nicely like the first Rush plate, proper? It's a fairly simple bar-band type, as a result of this manner the bands reduce their tooth by enjoying one thing relatable. And once they grow collectively, individually and collectively, they naturally find their own rhythm and id.
The band has sometimes made comparisons with the onerous rock bands of the 60's, and I feel you’ll hear it – there are traces of Zeppelin, mountain, love, even Sonics.
Completely. We knew we have been going to play rhythm and blues-based rocks. We tried to make a gaggle of all the stars together with four, and I feel it took just a little bit earlier than we started the authenticity. There's a refinement course of and a rising process that doesn't actually have shortcuts. You could have to come to it truthfully and through expertise. It comes from trial and error – not from loads of errors. All you’ve got to do is lock your presentation. You could have to make your knowledge. At first, identical to now, we realized that content material and songwriters have been an ideal car to showcase what the band was able to. Writing a track is considered one of the issues that set the band apart, as well as to stay performances.
In organizing the details of this interview, I really needed to speak to you, Jay, as I first acquired into the Rival Sons in 2012 in an interview with Myles Kennedy from the Slash band. He stated you have been his favorite new band, and he made some extent of praise for the music, particularly. Actually, he stated that you simply reminded him of the hottest singer of all time, Jeff Buckley. Like, wow-what comparability! As a new group, if you hear such superb reward from different artists, what’s the response?
To start with, thank you to Myles! Myles is an effective good friend. Business & Rock & # 39; n & # 39; roll inventive world needs extra individuals than he is because he’s sort and pleasant individual. Every time it can be in contrast to somebody with such a mastery of their voice, like Jeff Buckley, I take it very proudly. There are lots of great singers in the world, and that is clearly an amazing compliment to Myles as a result of he is unimaginable. He approaches it from a special perspective than I do, however we speak lots about our mutual admiration for each other and one another's strategy. It's actually trippy once you're lucky sufficient to sit with one other singer as a result of the voice is such a private representation. There isn’t a external device. There are not any results. You're not utilizing totally different sticks or other guitar – that's what you’re. So I really like speaking to singers who’re so passionate, and somebody like Myles and the other singers I speak to will take it very significantly.
In truth, I feel the greatest rock-n singer. roll right now. But it is enjoyable – though there are definitely some very succesful singers, the songs seem to be virtually aftertaste nowadays. You really don't see many singers like Ronnie James Dion or Chris Cornell. Do you agree, and in that case, why do you assume it?
Properly, I’ll inform you what I'm going to say: everyone ought to sing. Because once you sing, you are feeling good. And everyone can sing. Now, whenever you do it professionally or in a band, totally different individuals are approaching it in another way – and there are lots of singers who are simply not good. They could be good men or ladies in entrance of them, and they are often really good entertainers as a result of that is also necessary. However the people who find themselves going to strategy the boats very rigorously and respectfully, properly, it’s totally different, and there are solely so many people who stand out. The identical goes for guitarists and drummers… musicians basically. Those that stand out are due to the proven fact that their private talent in art one way or the other met the art of being out there to them. So, you by no means know how it goes. But the entertainment factor… someone with the proper clothes or the proper factor to do…. there are so many individuals they’re in search of. They don't care about the capacity, they don't care about songs or different issues which might be the highest foreign money for me and the extreme substance. But what are you able to say just because some individuals don't respect this stuff? That's simply it. There's no harm in it because some individuals like what they want. I mean, some individuals go to McDonalds and on their behalf, that's the largest hamburger's objective. For other individuals they demand far more. Nevertheless it takes all types of people, and I feel music is for everyone.
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0.999999 | Conduct research to decide on the questions Provide a speech transcription Edit your transcript into a first-person story Teachers recommend having a word narrative interview paper; watch the number of words in your transcript. Make a list of questions. Which school subject is most important to learn? But after learning to put fears aside and finding a greater purpose in our actions, doing something greater than ourselves, he has also become a motivational speaker. Similarly, the professor acknowledges that students have different skills so she seeks to bring out individual talents and diversifies the evaluation process.
Body paragraph 3: What Is an Interview Essay? Though there are differences in the use of technology for education and business, both leaders acknowledge that it is easier to balance personal life and job responsibility with tremendous freedom due to technology.
Generally, you will want to choose a topic which is arguable — this means a topic in which there are varying opinions. If you want to quote the interviewee in some parts of your essay, make articles on problem solving and decision making to write the precise statement that he or she has said during the interview.
But then he experienced a personal transformation. Are there any other reasons?
Productivity is maximized. List personal goals, time period, qualities, location, social status, and other things describing the person. Research Paper Interview essays allow you to use people as your sources rather than interview essay template.
Your main question and any major follow-up questions that occur to you. Interview an older family member.
An essay that explores the different perspectives on a topic by using evidence from interviews with a variety of people. What is the difference between someone who is gifted and someone who works hard? Think first of the topic that you want to write about.
In trying to get more information about why people think the way dissertation abstracts international section b do on the topic, you will ask follow-up questions. According to the professor, it's the desire for a clear conscience and the ability to sleep at night that motivates her to lead with honesty.
How do I begin writing my interview essay? Similarly, the professor acknowledges that students have different skills so she seeks to bring out individual talents and diversifies the evaluation process.
College Entrance Paper Such writing has a lot in common with the career interview: For example, they both speak of being intrinsically motivated. Diversity is part of every classroom and every organization because people are diverse and organizations are made up of people. Make the Essay Meaningful: She specializes in helping people write essays faster and easier.
Essay writing for interview is a common thing in college.
Moral is high. Basically, what do you plan to tell your reader about this person? Seeing themselves as agents of change rather than managers defines their position and they strive to motivate and serve those they lead while keeping the goal always the top priority.
We are created differently so that when we work together as a team, we are more complete because on our own we lack the gifts that others bring. After interviewing two leaders, one in education and one in business, I realize that implementing the right principles and strategies combined with a clear philosophy of servant leadership creates an effective leader.
One big idea you learned III.
After interviewing two leaders, one in education and one in business, I realize that implementing the right principles and strategies combined with a clear philosophy of servant leadership creates an effective leader.
How to Write an Interview Essay: Overview of the Interview Essay Process Write your questions. This invitation for the stakeholders the students; the employees to share in the research on a university campus or to solve a problem in the workplace fosters a desire to effectively share in the vision of the leader which greatly improves both organizations.
Interview Essays with Journalists and Politicians.
However, you can easily organize your question and answer format essay using this outline as well.
Animal Farm By George Orwell, A Compare and Contrast of Napoleon and Snowball. | 2019-04-25T07:52:36 | http://aksarayguncel.com/interview-essay-template.php |
0.999087 | knowing when to leave, getting out of a relationship, leaving a relationship, should I leave?
There is a time when you should cut your losses and move on from a relationship. And there is also a time when you should learn to let go of what could have been and try to grow from your grief of losing a loved one. Letting go can be the most difficult thing a person goes through. For those that have truly loved another as strongly as could ever be imagined in the depths of the heart, letting go takes many months and in some cases, years. In other instances, letting go can be a mistake. A person considering leaving a relationship ought to think twice because small problems can be overcome, and every relationship suffers periods of ups and downs. The strongest relationships are the ones which see through the difficult periods and conquer them. In yet other relationships, emotional and physical abuse should be an immediate sign for leaving a relationship quickly.
When a relationship is strained and both partners are upset, neither partner is getting the satisfaction they want from the relationship. One might want love and attention while the other desires more freedom. A situation such as this can cause one to be pushed away while the other is clinging on to someone halfway out the door, pushing them as they go. If one person in the relationship wants to leave, the other must do their best to let go and try to move on. It is only by doing so will their significant other be able to find their way back, because you will have given him or her the freedom they desire. Letting go in this case can help mend the relationship in the long run. Letting go will help you heal within your soul and old problems will cease to exist in the heart and mind, enabling a new beginning with someone new or that love who got away. However, there can be no new beginning until the pain in your heart is released.
In many instances, a lover will enter a relationship head over heels in love. In time, when things settle down, a role reversal could occur and that once love-strung person could decide to end the relationship down the line for many reasons. To people out there considering ending the relationship for different petty reasons, I ask you to think again. There was something about this person that you so desperately loved, and for reasons unexplained your feelings might have changes. Most likely, your significant other has become attached and the thrill of the chase is no longer available to you. A survey done on men and women who left a relationship or got divorced was recently applied. Over 90% of these people who initiated the break up or divorce regretted it. People get separated and divorced all too often in this country for the smallest of reasons. I promise you now that most of the time it is not worth it. When you find love, you should keep it and work on it. Your feelings will always go in and out with the tide but if you can make it through the dark times, light will shine once again and your feelings of love will be restored. Acts of kindness, sympathy and love on a regular basis, even when you don't want to, will help most of the time.
However, there does exist the relationships which need to be severed, and severed completely. If your lover is constantly cheating and dealing out emotional abuse on any level, it is time to move on. Sometimes it may be difficult to see or even acknowledge. But if you are crying most of the time or feel hurt by your significant other on a regular basis, you must ask yourself if this is worth it. Why continue on a path filled with hurt, anger and despair when you could be leading a life filled with love and kindness? For most of you in this situation, you are hanging on to the memory of the love you once had between you. You so desperately want him or her to start treating your with the dignity, love and respect that was once given. This is completely understandable. However, the more you long for this treatment, the more your need will be displayed and the worse you will be treated. Here, again, we see the need to let go and move on. This is simply easier said than done, but it must be done for your own sanity and mental health. When physical abuse is involved, leaving should be your only option. Unfortunately for many women, they find themselves staying in an abusive relationship because they are too afraid to leave. They are afraid for their lives and afraid that they can simply not live on their own. Friends can help in every single situation above, and they can be the most helpful in this situation. | 2019-04-19T16:57:52 | http://advicediva.com/ad/articles/knowingwhentoleave.asp |
0.999988 | It was not clear for me that the shipment should come from Italy, I thoght I ordered from Germany.
It took relatively long time to get the goods - not longer than promised, but much longer than most competitors.
I bought the product via ***. It was not immediately clear that it was coming from Italy. I was a bit worried about this, however the process was very smooth. I would suggest a short paragraph explaining this next to the item. I would highly recommend the seller and the product. | 2019-04-24T09:55:14 | https://www.ekomi.co.uk/review-mk2shop-en.html |
0.998806 | We all come to a particularly perplexing fork in the road at some point in life, though many of us experience it time and time again. This fork in the road of life is a momentary point of pause, which generally offers little in the way of rest, in which we're required to make a decision, asking ourselves the difficult-to-answer question: which path should I take?
This was a particularly prominent question on my mind as I sat nervously with my right hand atop a crystal ball, my left hand pressed characteristically between my thighs. The fortune teller's dark, inset eyes peered into (what seemed to be) the depth of my soul, extracting and revealing personal details before approaching the lingering question.
You're about to undertake two journeys, she explained. One will be for pleasure, the other for business.
I swallowed nervously before she continued on.
You're going to come to a point where you'll have to choose between a hard road and an easy road, she explained, lifting her hand and pointing her forefinger at me rigidly. But don't take the easy road. The easy road will be three times harder.
This really slapped me awake, and got me thinking as I made my way back downtown from the bustling and eclectic neighbourhood of Vancouver's eastside where the psychic posted shop. I meandered my way between people of extremely diverse walks of life, observing the neatly dressed Jehovah's Witnesses handing out flyers to passersby, the business men on their way to meetings, the homeless man pushing his buggy of belongings and intermittently pausing to ask for spare change.
You see, in the days prior I'd been having a recurring thought that I couldn't quite shake.
Upon saying farewell to a period abroad in which I did nothing but pursue my own heart's desires, I found myself back home with a decision to make. What the psychic didn't realize was that I was already here, at the fork, peering with apprehension down each path to try and decipher which was truly the best.
And it was at this point that I began having a thought, seemingly forgetting my prior experiences with the opposite, which really got me down and broke my spirits.
It's so much easier not to try.
It's so much easier to ignore a passion or goal and just go with whatever life brings you instead of working hard to manifest something that feels right. It would be so easy for me to settle back into my old surroundings, get myself a solid and reliable 9 to 5, and just live with a manageable amount of monotony while intermittently enjoying my passion. It would be so easy.
You see, people assume that having a passion, a dream, and even a talent is something to be envied. They believe it's something that makes life easier, when it actuality, it has the tendency to make life more difficult, especially in the early stages. It requires additional effort, authenticity, practice, faith, and strength to obtain a similar level of fulfilment, which seems to be especially true when the passion is connected to a creative art form or craft.
Chasing a passion of one's heart is like pursuing the admiration of an unrequited lover. It requires a vulnerability that's painful. It's a road that's so littered with challenges of character, offering easy exits after each of its frequent discouragements. It's so mysterious and mystical, always slightly out of reach, causing bursts of excitement with any response while never failing to retreat from the impending danger of rejection. The fear of such places the pursuer in a constant state of worry, while the pursuit itself remains futile without complete devotion and transparency of the pursuer's passion.
Though I don't know what the hard road offers in the end, since I've only been on it for little over a year, I find myself in need of a serious reminder. You see, I have experienced the easy road, too.
And the psychic was right: the easy road wasn't easy at all.
The easy road. The easy road is generally a choice or decision that is simple to make in life. Whether stumbled upon or deducted logically from a set of circumstances, the easy road has clear guidelines for achievement and offers stability and certainty. The easy road will support a life: a home, a family, and perhaps an annual vacation.
The easy road, however, has another side that is often not anticipated. The easy road rarely encourages freedom, creativity, or passion. It creates a life of extremely limited possibilities with very little flexibility for growth, and tends to dispel any sense of individuality.
The easy road didn't work for me because it required me to forget my passion, my dreams, and my ultimate identity for the mere purpose of living. The strange thing was, without following my heart and expressing myself creatively, I didn't feel like I was living at all. At very least, I felt like I was living someone else's life. I woke in the morning with sadness and emptiness. Each action I took on this "easy" road felt like lifting weights way too heavy for my arms. And each and everyday as I undertook tasks I resented, I couldn't help but wonder: what's the point?
Knowing the true misery on the easy road, it's important for all of us passionate people to remember that, though the easy road appears to be just that with its smooth terrain and straight path, it will inevitably become more difficult the further we walk down it. As we proceed down the 'easy' road in life, we will encounter outside problems that make it significantly more difficult than the 'hard' road ever would have been to begin with, acting as shackles on our ankles, binding us to both the road itself and the problems it so inherently presents.
Over time, each becomes the opposite. | 2019-04-20T15:08:53 | https://www.alexasuter.com/love-alexa/hard-road-in-following-your-dreams |
0.999695 | Ask HighScalability: How do I organize millions of images?
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on how to store millions of images? Currently images are stored in a MS SQL database which performance wise isn't ideal. We'd like to migrate the images over to a file system structure but I'd assume we don't just want to dump millions of images into a single directory. Besides having to contend with naming collisions, the windows filesystem might not perform optimally with that many files.
I'm assuming one approach may be to assign each user a unique CSLID, create a folder based on the CSLID and then place one users files in that particular folder. Even so, this could result in hundreds of thousands of folders. Whats the best organizational scheme/heirachy for doing this?
Can we create BTree over multiple volumes? because I assume that machines will have different disk layouts and to utilize all of it and avoiding defragmentation at the same time. We have to create some form of Btree for photo storage which spans over multiple disk volumes (drives) on the box. Also Btree will have some metadata information about storing mapping of userid to folder locations.
Why not use folder name trunc(picture_id / 1000 )? or trunc(user_id /1000)/user_id/picture ?
It depends from file system too.
Here's one simple suggestion: compute the SHA-1 hash of the image, generate its hexadecimal form, and use the first two characters of the SHA-1 string as a first-level directory, the third and fourth characters as the second-level directory, and then place the file using the SHA-1 as the filename. SHA1 hashes give good distribution, even in the first few characters, so that will nicely distribute the files into a (relatively) balanced folder structure.
This simplistic approach will use no more than 256 folders at each level, but will result in a total of 65K second-level folders used to store the files. In an optimal world, storing 1M files means that each of these 65K second-level folders only has to store about 15 files.
Using the hexadecimal form of the image's SHA-1 has two very nice benefits: no name collisions, and any given file will only be stored once even if the same file is uploaded more than once.
The big disadvantage of this approach is that it mixes all of the images from all users into a single bucket. That may or may not be important for your use case.
Take a safe maximum number of users (say 1billion), add an integer ID and take the last 9 characters in chunks of three to create the path: i.e. your first user's files are in the \000\000\001\ folder; user 999,999,999's files are in the \999\999\999\ folder. This should keep the contents of any one folder to a fairly reasonable number.
Have you considered MongoDB GridFS?
Forgot about Scale Indefinitely On S3 With These Secrets Of The S3 Masters http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/7/scale-indefinitely-on-s3-with-these-secrets-of-the-s3-master.html. It's a similar problem to avoiding hot partitions in a key value database and there are numerous techniques for that.
You might also consider adding a level of indirection, keeping a separate key to location map, like DNS, so that if you need to move a file for load balancing reasons or space reasons you can do so without breaking anything.
Just store the images in S3 and add a couple of fields for bucket and key in your database. If the images aren't sensitive you can even serve them directly out of S3. If you're not comfortable with having them publicly available, then keep them private and just use S3 as a backend.
This is exactly the kind of problem that S3 was designed for.
Set up 3 linux machines, install Riak, and push all of your data into Riak.
IIRC, there was either a current or upcoming revision that allowed for S3-api work-alike access.
This solution has the benefit of being able to scale storage capacity and throughput by adding more machines, as well as being able to handle system/disk failures much better than single machines, RAID disks, etc.
June 21, 2012 | Josiah C.
I don't know if it should help, it's not exactly the same case as your.
In our case we have to store 10M of pictures related to ~500K items on an Unix system.
So we store in DB only the 500K items, and we use the item's id concatened with the item's namem to compute a md5.
And we do like Randall, we use a 2 level Folders tree by using the 2x2 first chars of the md5.
Our new system store the hash of each files in database to compute path and do integrity check later.
But we haven't enought data for the moment.
In a folder, we notice that over 1000 files/folders performance are not quite good, so 255 seems nice.
If you plan to use a Unix do not forget to do an Inode tunning of your partition, else you will get a no space left on device.
Whatever you do, please don't store the images in the file system. Yes, you will get a FS to do what you want with some of the above tricks, but really, think about it. Can you recognize and remove duplicates easily? Can you reorganize the way the images are stored? Can you do a backup, or even a hot-standby system? Not very easily! If you don't want to do offsite storage, consider staying with a database system.
We store several million images in a MySQL MyISAM DB of about 200GB - identifier, image data, hash sum. You can add whatever metadata you want. Don't know what performance you're looking for, but with very ordinary hardware, even virtualized, we get one image in a few ms, parallel fetching increases the efficiency.
Yes, maybe NTFS handles this more effeciently than ext4, reiser or xfs (which we tried), but still problems remain. With a database system, you can also use sharding or partitioning if your data becomes too large or if you need more performance. Key-value-stores like Riak could also be an option, but I don't have the expertise to comment on that.
The problem I have with your question is that I don't know what you plan to do with the images after you have stored them.
If you plan to serve the images over the web, I would recommend using Akamai/S3/etc like Brandon and Andy recommend. They have scaling built into their platforms. If you're not serving them to remote machines, then a CDN isn't necessary.
Will you be reading these images from disk frequently?
Are you just archiving them, or processing them repeatedly?
Will you be accessing a small subset (like the last 24 hours' worth of files) much more frequently than the others, or is it an even distribution?
Are they large files (10s or 100s of megabytes), or are they tiny images that are a few kb each?
Are there any security requirements for the storage of these images?
Do you need to name the files/directories in a way that makes sense to humans, so they can navigate the directory trees manually?
Regarding performance, do you need to be able to look up and read a single file really fast? Or be able to handle lots of concurrent file reads? Or is there some other performance requirement other than "it shouldn't break"?
The solution would likely vary depending on the answers to some of those questions.
I'd just use something like Swift or MogileFS and whatever ID you already have associated with the image.
I would suggested to keep the images on a filesystem instead of a database, the comments about using riak or another db isn't going to solve the issue.
Using a filestructure with sha1 and sorts is fine, but won't distribute it in a way you want with great scale.
GridFs or another distributed filesystem could help, but that's still not the performance you are looking for.
Using S3 isn't really the choice someone wanna go with millions of images. It's alright for startups and someone scaling up in the beginning, but when you want some sort of your own solution, which reduces the price AWS won't work forever.
I think you are looking for S3, Rackspace Cloudfiles without the extra cost and with some more flexibility.
For that I would say OpenStack Swift (used by Rackspace Cloudfiles) is the way to go.
Great decentralized structure (hashing ring).
Opensource and easy to setup.
If you would start with some hundred images, you could start with Rackspace Cloudfiles and later switch to your own public or hybrid cloud solution.
Deduplication will probably follow in next versions.
Have your service provide the url etc. to a rewritable domain, which first can be Rackspace and later switch to your own solution with OpenStack swift and serve all images from there directly. If you really need some sort of caching for peaks and OpenStack Swift should give up (unlikely), you can use a cdn or additional caching software (custommade or varnish etc.).
For further questions I'll be happy to help (I'll monitor the comments).
Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with any of the services mentioned.
and so on, with much much more users you could also build a deeper hierarchy. I also made good experiences with MogileFS https://github.com/mogilefs/ (http://danga.com/) also to have a cheap HA solution.
Keep the images in a database, the flexibility is superior.
Front your image requests with code to build a cache on the host.
Once a resource (image) is requested, have that host cache it on filesystem.
Maintain a list to determine LRU (Least Recently Used).
You would then prune based off of this list to your liking: You could set up a 'TTL' of sorts, or calculate the cache size and maintain it at X level.
At a higher level of growth requirement, you could dedicate servers solely to maintain this cache and have a single list that indicates what cache server the image is on and direct requests accordingly in addition to above suggestion.
I started a long comment, but did it as a blog post instead, because it was getting too long. Summary: I like the hash approach, but also consider using random numbers for folder names, and keep your number of file system entries to around 1000 per level.
+1 for OpenStack Swift, ideal if you don't want to place this with a hosted provider and have a lot of disks floating around! The added benefit being the metadata structure that is built into the objects and API natively. If you have low to moderate metadata needs, you could exclude the DB completely. More extensive metadata would require a supplementary database.
It really depends on a use case.
Of course system can be even better by splitting MD5 by first 2, 3, 4 chars as someone mentioned above.
We use a similar system to what has already been described but with a slight twist.
- Each folder will only have at most 99 subfolders.
What about MogileFS?, Uses MySql for storing metadata and local filesystem.
Be careful about recommending that images are stored in a database? My app has 100 million + images taking up over 100TB of disk. My database is about 100GB. If I ever had to do a restore of my database I might as well just turn the stie off because it would be in maintenance mode for so long that my customers would just go away. A database is just not good at handing ridiculous amounts of unsearchable binary data.
We have recently migrated our images servers to MogileFS + Nginx and it works great. You can add nodes if you ran out of space, make MogileFS store automatically several copies of your file. It is backup by a MySQL database which you can replicate to another server to prevent failure. Give it a look. | 2019-04-18T12:48:32 | http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/6/20/ask-highscalability-how-do-i-organize-millions-of-images.html |
0.999467 | Clarity versus Contrast - What's the difference?
I was recently browsing this very informative page about all of the Basic panel sliders and how each one works, when I started to wonder what the difference is between Clarity and Contrast.
The middle-to-dark areas become darker.
The middle-to-light areas become lighter.
Are these not just 6 ways of repeatedly saying the same thing? Both sliders are used to increase the contrast (and therefore sharpness) in the mid-tones. Then what's the difference exactly? I feel a bit stupid for asking this after using Lightroom for so many years..
Clarity is "adaptive". It looks at the image's structure and targets areas or regions. So its exact effect will vary depending on image contents.
Contrast is a more traditional adjustment and also targets the whole tonal range.
Put simply, "contrast" just stretches the histogram both to the left and right, making dark darker and bright brighter, thus affecting the global contrast across the whole photo.
"Clarity" is also known as "local contrast", and works similar to "contrast" in that it increase the contrast, but only in the local region, increasing the contrast of edges, thus making the image "pop" and adding some sharpness. | 2019-04-21T08:07:57 | https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/clarity-versus-contrast-whats-the-difference.14850/ |
0.999999 | Choose the correct word or phrase in each sentences.
1 I you this evening at about 7.30.
2 I’m tired – I think I home now.
3 We’ve finished the apartment.
5 At the moment to play the guitar.
6 My course finishes .
7 The train at 9.30.
8 It’s important the contract carefully.
10 The film I saw last night was really .
11 I’ve worked at this company two years.
12 Can you tell me what time ?
13 You can come if you want to, but my parents there.
14 England is not big as Germany.
15 There was a terrible plane crash – an hour ago.
16 Adrian is a very good friend of .
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence.
1 Let’s go to the beach this weekend.
2 Last week I lent Hilary the Harry Potter book.
3 There are twelve students in my class.
4 The name of the film is ‘Zero Hour’.
5 The film was very unpopular.
6 Last night it rained a lot.
7 I’ve got more DVDs than Simon.
8 Shall we have a coffee break now?
9 The President gave the news conference.
Decide which answer best fits the space.
Brussels is the main city Belgium, and it is the home of the European Union.
It has a reputation for a little boring, but this is unfair.
, it is a modern, lively city with some of the restaurants in Europe.
Every evening its bars are with visitors and locals who come to the wonderful variety of different beers.
Don’t forget to visit the Grand Place. There aren’t many market squares this one in Europe.
is a medieval town with canals and beautiful old houses. It is really visiting.
Find the errors in these sentences. Rewrite each sentence.
1 Liechtenstein, that has a population of 35,000, is between Switzerland and Austria.
2 The weather is getting colder and more colder.
3 I lived here for the last three years.
4 Chinese restaurants are always easy to find them.
5 I’m going to visit my aunt and uncle on the weekend.
6 I want to get home before the match will begin.
7 Every of my three sisters has blond hair.
8 We were enjoyed the party very much.
9 I’m sorry, you’re not be allowed to park there.
10 I watched the TV news while I eating my dinner.
11 She sang the song really good.
12 I’m beginning feeling hungry.
13 About what are you thinking?
14 I usually just have a sandwich for the lunch.
15 Laura catch the same bus as me in the morning.
autumn, one of my favourite activities is picking mushrooms.
I’ve been doing it I was young – we went out to the forest Sunday morning and we the day there.
In the old days it was easy, but now you a licence from the local council.
The problem was that commercial pickers took It was selfish, and ecologists it also destroyed the environment.
With new system there is a limit on the amount you .
Not thinks this is a good idea, , and many people pick the mushrooms illegally.
For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first sentence, using no more than three words.
1 My teacher wouldn’t let me leave early.
My teacher refused leave early.
2 She started working here three years ago.
She has been working here .
3 They make cars in that factory.
4 I haven’t been fishing before.
This is the first time that I .
5 The metro is cheaper than a taxi.
A taxi is the metro.
6 How much do these shoes cost?
7 I didn’t see the tree and I drove straight into it.
If I the tree, I wouldn’t have driven straight into it.
8 I haven’t got enough time to write the letter.
I’ve got to write the letter.
9 ‘You’ve passed your exam, Richard,’ said the teacher.
The teacher told Richard that he exam. | 2019-04-19T07:10:02 | http://www.etest.lt/anglu-kalbos-testai/intermediate-language-practice-final-test |
0.999999 | How did an amazing game developer like Factor 5 go out of business? It's seriously one of the biggest losses in the gaming industry in the last 6 years. They made a name for themselves with their Gamecube technology that made their games look just as good if not better than anything on the original Xbox. One can only hope that Nintendo will be able to resurrect some form of the company for the Wii U.
It's amazing that one failed PS3 game could take down such as company like Factor 5. I'm usually not superstitious, but I'm starting to believe in this "Nintendo curse," a curse that afflicts companies that once worked exclusively for Nintendo. Rare hasn't done anything worth paying attention to since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts; Silicon Knights is losing ground in their lawsuit against Epic Games; and Factor 5 has gone bust. | 2019-04-22T07:59:46 | http://www.nintengen.com/2012/01/look-back-making-of-rogue-squadron-2.html |
0.99833 | Is doTERRA a scam? doTERRA is operated under MLM business model, and doTERRA essential oils have much higher price than other brands. Indeed, multi-level marketing may lead to multilayer exploitation, which could be the root of the high price rather the true value of the product. In order to help the readers justify whether it is a “doTERRA scam” or a genuine “Gift of the Earth,” this doTERRA Reviews will analyze the doTERRA essential oils from the perspective of both consumer and business.
CPTG, Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade, is a registered trademark of doTERRA Holdings, LLC. doTERRA, formed in 2008, guarantees their essential oils to be 100% pure, natural and free of synthetic compounds or contaminates.
COMMENT: Unlike the food industry that organic certification is through the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), Government or industry regulatory agencies neither administer the CPTG protocol, nor issue the approval for the grade of doTERRA essential oils. As a matter of fact, a formalized grading system does not exist in this industry. CPTG trademark represents doTERRA’s own internal standards for sourcing and testing 100% pure aromatic botanical extracts using independent laboratory analysis. The CPTG trademark does mislead some consumers by the trick word ‘certified’ and wrongly assume doTERRA has a certification from the governmental institution.
According to the company, a third party examines every batch of the doTERRA essential oils through the GC-MS (Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry) process. This process ensures the oils are 100% pure and free of any contaminant, thus the safest and most beneficial essential oils available today.
Wikipedia defines the “GC-MS” as a method that combines the features of gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify different substances within a test sample.
COMMENT: “GC-MS” is one of the methods that can be used to ensure the pureness of essential oils. Qualify control is an internal process for almost all types of industries before they deliver the product to the market. This process ensures the reputation of a product or company and prevents the potential lawsuit incurred from defects or inaccurate tags. Outsourcing this task to an independent company that has the specialties in the relevant process is very common.
In general, doTERRA essential oils are with prices higher than others. For example, the doTERRA Lavender Essential Oil averages $1.4/ml, while prices from other brands are between $0.5 and $0.9/ml. doTERRA may not be the only brand with a high price, ‘Young Living’ and ‘Rocky Mountain’ are two examples.
COMMENT: The price reflects the cost. The cost reflects the production process. In most scenarios, the higher the price is, the better the quality is. One dozen grade AA eggs are usually under $3.20, but a dozen organic eggs may cost $6.09. It is true that MLM could potentially impact the price, but in a certain point of view, this structure has the similarity in the well-known model ‘manufacture-vendor-retailer-consumer’.
CPTG is a trademark owned by doTERRA. It is not a certification from any regulatory organization. Although it is a private grade endorsement from doTERRA, I do not feel doTERRA will risk its reputation and future with a false public guarantee, especially that could induce legal action against the business.
At last, I want to emphasize that I am not a fan of aromatherapy. However, when applicable, essential oil is one of the ways that I turn to before taking synthetic or modern medicine. I do use products from doTERRA mainly because my friend’s recommendation. It was started two years ago when I tried to prevent myself from getting infected while taking care of the family members with chicken pox, because I was never exposed to that. I currently use doTERRA to control my back pain, and it works well.
Like all herbal remedies, there is no rigorous scientific proof in the preventive care or medicinal usage, and one formula may work for a person but fail on another. Each person is different, so the real benefit should not be justified until the product is tried. If the quality is what one pursues, then doTERRA deserves a try.
doTERRA uses MLM as the marketing strategy. Many people believe MLM is an excellent home-based business opportunity. I have not done thorough research nor am actively engaged in any MLM. My way of MLM is purely social based, and I will recommend a product to my friend if I feel the product can benefit her or him. A good product will spread out naturally.
Unlike the household products, essential oils are not a requirement for the majority of people. The demand is the base of every business. doTERRA has other products such as “lifelong vitality supplements” and “SanoBella Shampoo,” which may be excellent candidates. In general, the price will be the main roadblock in promoting products from doTERRA. Only persons with above average income can afford them in a persistent manner. Nevertheless, doTERRA products are elegant gifts in many occasions.
doTERRA’s MLM is not a scam, but it is not a ‘get rich quick’ opportunity. Unless the focus is on retail sales, a commitment to an order of minimum 100 PV (around $100) each month is required.
In regard to the comment in the last paragraph of your post, there is no minimum monthly purchase requirement in doTERRA unless you are attempting to earn commissions. If you or someone one or two levels below you on your team recruit a new member and you want to earn commissions off that recruit (or any other person in your downline, for that matter), you must have a 100 PV Loyalty Rewards order in place, and if you wish to earn commissions on an ongoing basis you must maintain a monthly 100 PV Loyalty Rewards order, but only if you desire to earn commissions. I’m with you – I don’t believe doTERRA MLM is a scam, and I totally agree that it is not a “get rich quick” opportunity (although I’ve seen some pretty amazing things, and wonder just how hard those people had to work to “get rich quick”). I can say with strong conviction that I absolutely enjoy the working relationship I have with the company as an Independent Product Consultant – I love the essential oils and other health and wellness products the company offers, and I totally trust the integrity of doTERRA – and I continue to watch my business and bank account grow, however so slowly. I have had too many good experiences with the products myself to be anything but thrilled with my relationship with doTERRA, and I feel sad that the cost of the products prohibits having them in every household as a natural and safe option for daily health care needs.
A good product will sell itself, and definitely without the MLM strategy.
Why would a legitimate company follow a marketing strategy that is popular by so many fraudulent companies?
Essential oil sales rely on education – very few people would research enough to pick them up off of a shelf, and the money spent on advertising in 30-sec blurbs is better spent, in this case, on paying distributors to do in-home education. In doTERRA, the distributors are not required to sell anything or purchase anything regularly, so most of the distributors are actually simply regular users of the products who want a wholesale discount. doTERRA’s growth is not the same as most MLMs, because the product is worth the money even without the income potential. You are right that a good product will sell itself, but people need to be introduced to that product, and word of mouth (as in an MLM model) is the best way to do that. doTERRA oils do sell themselves, in my experience, and that is why it is the only MLM I’ve been willing to be a part of.
DoTerra does pay distributors ( wellness advocates) when you choose to do the business side, otherwise they may offer PV points. The big question is if it’s a fair compensation when compared to other sales agent jobs….? I don’t believe so. If you enroll as a business venture, you will need to spend 100$ a month to keep your account status , often people will spend well over $1000 before they start seeing commissions or 50$ bonus. I”ll let you do the math… You spend $150 on an order a month and you make $10-60 in commissions if you are lucky. Obviously some folks will make more, but the average Joe will not make money. whether or not you make money is irrelevant for DoTerra… They make $100 out of you no matter what. so it’s up to you to recoup that money or break even by signing up people… For Canadian folks remember exchange rates, brokerage fees, and shipping fees… you will need to account for when you see the price per item, DoTerra will add 6% on top of your total invoice price, plus exchange rates. Most people think their final invoice is the price they paid only to realize it doesn’t match your credit card statements.
You actual only need to have an order of 1PV within a year to get commission. Wellness advocates choose to make the 100PV orders in order to get free products of the month or because they want those products.
I have an issue with the pricing. I know some can be very expensive, but when comparing to the other oils on the market…doTerra is the only one that can be used aromatic, topical, and internal! I have done my own research and looked at many different oils out there. They say right on the bottle “for aromatic use only” that is how you know if an oil is pure or not. Truely pure oils can be ingested and and used on skin.
It has nothing to do with purity. The purest of pure oils can still be dangerous if ingested or used undiluted on skin.
Essential oils can cause great harm if used improperly. This is why all the leading respected aromatherapy bodies and authorities don’t recommend internal use except under the care of a qualified health care provider. And they always recommend that essential oils be diluted.
I signed on with tis company out of desperation last year , I believe August. I was having problems treating Lyme disease, so I trusted a (former) friend when she sang the praises of their products.
During the sign on process, she wrote me out what I now refer to as prescriptions using Oil of oregano, frankincense and On-guard that totaled 20 drops in a veggie cap 1x day for 14 days; off 14 days then repeat twice. I did feel as if there was a “die off” occurring. However, I started to experience abdominal issues that eventually led me to discontinue using this treatment and seek medical help.
THESE OILS ARE NOT SAFE FOR INTERNAL INGESTION!
This companies “wellness advocates” are trained for the most part by a trickle down process, which leads to serious issues! While they do offer a training/certification course via their own “University”, I personally have witnessed time and time again, their advocates diagnosing as well as dispensing medical advice and treatments! DANGEROUS! This is also illegal!
So, now I have serious stomach issues from trusting this person and this company!
No, no, no. Jane Pike is correct. Their purity IS their potency and is part of what make them potentially harmful when used internally or undiluted. Cinnamon or clove will burn your skin and melt plastic (many undiluted essential oils will melt plastic). They are plant products and not all plants are safely ingested. The oils from edible plants may be used internally under advisement of a health professional and at proper dilution rates. Very few essential oils can be used undiluted on your skin. Essential oils are potentially tens, hundreds or thousands of times more potent than the plants they come from depending on the plants yield during the distillation or extraction process. They can be harmful if cut or adulterated but they can be equally harmful if pure due to their potency.
I am not a distributor of any kind but I must say that I prefer doTERRA essential oils. Have you tried other brands? I have found price to be pretty comparable the quality a lot higher. No complaints from me.
Young Living oils can also be used aromatic, topical, and internal.
I purchased a 15 ml bottle of peppermint for $20 four months ago and use it daily by putting a drop on my palm and inhaling it. I have half a bottle left. How is that expensive? I believe it has cured my dust allergy, I have not taken allergy pills since.
My mom adores this stuff, and she got the sanobella shampoo and conditioner for me, and I LOVE it! I was having real issues with other shampoos irritating my scalp, but this stuff makes my hair feel like it did when I was a teen. I’m bummed that they seem to have discontinued the shampoo–I’ll have to try the other kind they sell.
If doTerra oils are so dangerous, why would a million dollar Corp. risk everything and lie to everyone that it is NOT DANGEROUS to ingest.?
They are NOT safe for ingestion, unless under the guidance of a health care practitioner, certified aromatherapist, or Naturopath! Their wellness advocates are none of those! Yet they are dispensing medical advice and treatments?
Just to weigh in on the topic. I have been using essential oils since 1999 and LOVE them, and so far I have enjoyed the products I purchased from doTerra. However, I want to point out only certain oils (and this would go for any company’s products) can be INGESTED. I don’t care who produces it – if you ingest eucalyptus prepare to get sick. Also, don’t think simply because an oil is ingestible you can swig as much as you want. Just like anything used for medicinal properties there are safe doses.
FDA is after these guys. They have been making wild claims for years and now after their consultants claim they have a cure for EBOLA the FDA is finally coming down on them. Some truth is good but all truth is better. doterra is far from telling the whole truth. Glad it helped some but it just takes money from many those who can’t afford it with their astronomical prices.
Biggest issue is for 5 years or so being in business, Doterra has been using these dropper caps (clear plastic top cap) that wastes about 20-100% of the oil in the bottle. For every drop dispensed, another drop is flowing down the sides. Most of it collects in the black safety ring that breaks away from the black cap when opened initially.
That’s great for company profits! That’s gross profit increased by 20-100%!
The benefit of a company overlord that takes a big chunk of the profit is that they can take the time to create a specific product for a specific use. That takes time and money and training for you to get to benefit from their trial and errors.
Essential oils can be tricky. Even though they’re plant based, they can be too harsh and create side effects if you don’t know what you’re doing.
If you’ve worked with essential oils and have done plenty of your own training, you may not be interested in joining a group/mlm because you are qualified to make your own good decisions and also benefit from direct purchases from EO companies without the middleman and save a ton of money.
What I like about this company is that it competes with Young Living which makes everybody better and it gives the lay person a way to learn about E.O.’s –which do amazing things.
A lot of what I’ve read on the comments is just plain incorrect and shows me that a little info is always dangerous to you, your kids, the pets and the plants.
Follow the advice of one of these companies or get your own training and you’ll be fine. Good luck and good health.
I have tried the products and they work. They have a product called OnGuard which I bought and it cured my wife’s headache in 2 hours (she had it all day). We use a diffuser in our bedroom as we sleep. On Guard should be in every hospital and nursing home in a diffuser. I have had a 15ml bottle for 2 months and still over 3/4 full. Quite a bargain for $25. I quit the sick care industry in this country long ago. DoTerra is now part of my Health Care system, and I am not a distributor but an advocate.
I spent $1500 or more on EO and LLV from doterra,i don’t know for some people works miracle but i didn’t see nothing,i triad treatment for:hemorrhoids,nail fungus,impotence,cracked heels,indigestion,etc.
I think everything is just a big scam ,or just a placebo !!!!!!!!
I have read the pros and cons for doTERRA oils on this page. I am a user of doTERRA oils and I must say, they have helped me tremendously. I don’t care if it says Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade on it or not. I just know that my pain is gone, my headaches are eradicated and I am sold on doTERRA oils. I do ingest some of them, but as someone above said, they are not ALL meant for ingestion. I ingest a combination of Marjoram and Frankincense in a capsule and my knee pain (bone on bone) is GONE! I no longer walk with a cane. Not every oil works for every person! I don’t believe doTERRA is a scam and when you think about the thousands of dollars spent on synthetic medicines that all have side effects, doTERRA is NOT expensive.
1. Not all MLM programs are a scam and actually many of them are really amazing companies that have chosen this structure to help empower people to earn money and still be able to do the things that they want (like stay at home with their kids, earn income without giving up their primary job, etc.). Avon was one of the first MLM style companies started in the U.S. and it was started by a door to door salesman that wanted a better opportunity! MLM is simply a different way to organize the money…instead of the traditional retail setting where money is paid to advertisers and to distributors and retailers, it’s set up for the individuals selling (or just purchasing) to make some additional income. In traditional companies the sales people and higher ups make commissions and bonuses if their marketing efforts pay off, and that’s really no different than making commission through an MLM structure. There have definitely been some companies that have used the structure to do illegal things, but so have churches and banks and plenty of other corporate structures!! Heck, Walmart is subsidized by our government, pays their employees awful, and makes massive profits and bonuses for their higher up…but they are still the biggest retailer out there… Just trying to make the point that there are good an bad examples in both worlds and lumping everyone together isn’t really a good choice ever.
2. Sounds like some people have gotten poor advice from independent doTERRA agents. That’s not cool at all, but again, a few people doing something that isn’t right doesn’t make the whole company bad and it doesn’t reflect on the products either. doTERRA teaches exactly that anyone that wants to treat a medical condition should consult an expert of their choosing (doctor, naturopath, aromatherapist, etc.) and should not be giving direct advice on dosage, frequency of even method of using the oils. I believe that your health is in your own hands and it is upon each individual to make well educated decisions about how they will treat ailments. Research and make decisions where you feel comfortable. Oils are deemed safe for ingestion, however, if you feel that there is too much risk based on the information you read, then don’t use them internally. Using some oils directly on the skin of an adult (like the woman that inhaled peppermint to relieve allergies) may be something that you feel comfortable with, but sensitization (a developed allergy from over exposure to something), or skin irritations may be a large concern and in that case you could use the rule of thumb to always dilute oils before using them. Again, do some research until you are comfortable. Just because an individual doTERRA rep instructed someone to do something doesn’t make the company awful. How many doctors out there prescribe antibiotics on a regular basis to treat something that could very well be a virus but they didn’t even test for?? How many kids do you know that get five rounds of antibiotics for an infection that won’t go away…instead of stopping the destruction of beneficial bacteria in the body and really trying to figure out what’s wrong??? How many people DIE every year from medication complications because doctors and pharmacists don’t recognize issues? There are a lot of professional people out there that get over zealous in how they handle the treatment of illness…it doesn’t mean that all doctors are bad. It just means that we need to take responsibility to read, educate and understand our own health!!
I’ve got a few doTERRA products, and I like them. I continue to research and learn more every day….like hydrosols for use on infants that can be super sensitive to the potency of oils, like different carrier oils are better with certain essential oils, and not all oils provide the same results for everyone (eucalyptus is supposed to be energizing and invigorating, but it just calms me down). There is a lot to learn.
Just wanted to note here that most of doTerra’s oils are “complete distillations” which is much lower quality than first distillations (highest quality). But they are sold at or above first distillation prices. And I think the fact that they and their consultants recommend using some oils undiluted is irresponsible.
There is generally only 1 distillation of a plant product. There is no 1st 2nd or 3rd distillations. That is incorrect. | 2019-04-21T07:00:10 | http://essential-oils.advisor-101.com/doterra-scam/ |
0.998344 | A skin-deep method with long-acting protection.
The contraceptive implant is as effective as other hormonal methods of contraception. It is a small, flexible plastic rod that contains a reservoir of the hormone progestin, which is constantly released through the entire body. The hormone prevents the ovaries from releasing eggs, and also thickens the cervical mucus, making it harder for the sperm to move.
You should consult your doctor or nurse when deciding if the contraceptive implant is right for you. If you do decide to get one fitted, your doctor or nurse will do this for you. A local anesthetic will take the pain out of the procedure, in which the implant is inserted under the skin of your inner upper arm. Once that's done, there's little to do or remember. The implant will release hormones for up to 3 or 5 years, so it's a good choice for all women who want a reliable, long-acting contraceptive. Should you decide to return to fertility, another minor surgery will remove the implant, and its effects will wear off very quickly.
Since you get it with a prescription, and it is inserted by a doctor or nurse, the contraceptive implant is a highly effective method of contraception.
Since you get it with a prescription, and it is inserted by a doctor or nurse, there is little chance of incorrect placement. The efficacy of the contraceptive implant is therefore high.
Yes. The contraceptive implant releases a progestin hormone throughout the entire body.
The contraceptive implant is inserted by a doctor or nurse and lasts for up to 3 years.
The contraceptive implant may cause irregular, lighter bleeding and reduce pain.
Why does a contraceptive implant have to be replaced after three years?
The contraceptive implant contains a reservoir of a progestin hormone, which is released in tiny doses to prevent pregnancy over three years. It will need to be replaced after this time because the amount of the hormone in the reservoir will run out.
Can you feel the contraceptive implant, or see it from the outside?
The contraceptive implant is a small, flexible plastic rod that is placed under the skin of the inner side of the upper arm. There will be a tiny mark at the point of placement, but this isn't very visible.
Is having a contraceptive implant placed painful?
Your doctor or nurse will use local anesthetic to minimize discomfort, and the procedure takes just a couple of minutes. Some women experience bruising or some soreness afterwards, but this will fade in time.
Can someone who does a lot of sport or exercise have a contraceptive implant?
Even after vigorous exercise, movement of the contraceptive implant is very rare and is not known to have serious implications. However, there have been reports of some women experiencing discomfort. If you cannot feel your contraceptive implant and think it may have moved, consult your doctor or nurse to ensure it is positioned properly.
What if I decide to have a baby?
After the removal of a contraceptive implant, women can become pregnant as quickly as women who have used no contraceptive at all.
When should the contraceptive implant be placed?
After consulting your doctor or nurse and checking that you are not already pregnant, the contraceptive implant should be placed within seven days after the start of menstrual bleeding, or within seven days after abortion, if you have had one. If it is placed at any other time, you will need to use an additional non-hormonal method of contraception for the first seven days.
The contraceptive implant is a small plastic rod that’s placed under your skin. It releases the hormone progestogen into your body, which prevents pregnancy. It can remain there for up to three years.
You can have it removed at any time during a minor procedure by a qualified doctor and your natural fertility cycle will restart relatively quickly.
Small silicone rods release hormones into the body.
The amount of time it takes to have one placed.
At this age, it can be left in until you reach the menopause or no longer need contraception.
It can stay in place for up to three years, but can be removed at any time.
Some women experience lighter periods.
Can be used when breastfeeding six weeks after childbirth.
Irregular bleeding after placement is common.
Some women experience weight gain, and pain in the breasts and abdomen.
It doesn’t protect against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
IS IT OK TO HAVE YOUR PARTNER PAY FOR YOUR CONTRACEPTIVE IMPLANT?
IS IT OK TO WONDER ABOUT THE VISIBILITY OF A CONTRACEPTIVE IMPLANT? | 2019-04-23T20:27:15 | https://www.mycontraception.com/contraception-methods/the-contraceptive-implant |
0.999999 | A regular polygon has 21 sides. Find the size of each interior angle?
The size of each interior angle of a polygon with n sides is equal to 180 x (n-2) / n. Therefore, if the polygon has 21 sides, the size of each interior angle is 180 x 19 / 21 = 162.86 degrees. | 2019-04-21T16:47:25 | https://mastersessaysharks.com/a-regular-polygon-has-21-sides-find-the-size-of-each-interior-angle/ |
0.997553 | So the question often comes up: if you can't have firearms--for whatever reason--what should you use to defend your home in time of need? It's a real question for people in countries with restrictive anti-gun laws, or for people who can otherwise not have firearms in their home.
So, let's look at some considerations for this kind of use.
1. Narrow hallways and doorways, with varying ranges--extreme close up to several yards.
2. Often a "barricade" type situation--get the family to a hardened point and defend.
3. Couches, tables, and other furniture to get in the way.
4. May need to be used by any capable member of the family--mom, dad and older children, with varying degrees of interest and experience.
Many will recommend a sword or other baseball bat. However, the narrow hallways and doorways can hinder the full-power swings needed. Movie example: Kill Bill 2's trailer fight w/ katanas. While a katana, long sword, or other may be a devastating weapon on an open field, they just don't have the room to work inside a home. Clubs and bats run into similar problems.
You could go with a shorter sword/machete type blade for this kind of environment, but the weapon still requires some room to swing. Also, you sacrifice range and strength/physicality/training become a more significant requirement. The kind of range you're working in is less forgiving.
choice for defending your home if firearms are not an option.
So--you want a weapon that functions with straight-line jabs, vs. slashing swings. You want a weapon that can give its wielder some distance from the bad guy. You want a spear.
A spear, functioning with short stabby thrusts, gives you some distance from your opponent. It is an ideal weapon for defending the frontdoor, bedroom, or stairway. The straight-line attacks are not hindered by narrow hallways or doorways, and a furious barrage of jabs will keep an attacker at bay. Spears have a variable range--you can hold the weapon at the end of the shaft for the longest range, or choke up as needed.
Furthermore, the spear is fairly intuitive in its use and does not require great strength to wield, making it ideal for use by the inexperienced. Bayonets--basically a spear--have been standard army issue for a long, long time, because they're simple to teach and they just work.
Cold Steel produces several spears, which are available on such obscure websites as Amazon. The Boar Spear with standard length shaft towers at near 7-feet, which may be too long. I would cut down the shaft to a more manageable 5 or so feet for this kind of use. While I do not personally own one, the Assegai with Short Shaft looks like may be the best out of the box offering. It's 38-inches of African-styled war spear, made for a powerful gut/chest stab. Can be used one or two handed, and runs for an affordable $40-$50. | 2019-04-22T06:35:21 | http://www.teotwawki-blog.com/2009/06/in-land-with-no-guns.html |
0.998338 | Eric Burgess and I conceived.
in the design of [the] message."
On July 6, 1990, Hoagland accused Omni magazine of "the height of editorial irresponsibility." What prompted him to vent his outrage to the international FTP audience? In its July article about a hypothetical "Mars Rover" mission to Cydonia, according to Hoagland the magazine "ascribed to Carl Sagan [my] work on . . . the pyramids and all the other things that are there." But the article referred to the "face" as merely a "mesa . . . named for its resemblance to human features," not as an artificial structure. And there were no references to the rest of Hoagland's "work," although Sagan did refer, metaphorically, to the region's mile-high mountains as "beckoning pyramids."
Frank Drake confirmed Sagan's account (September 27 and October 18): "Neither Eric Burgess nor Richard Hoagland contributed any ideas or even suggestions as to what should be on the Pioneer 10, and no suggestions as to any message content. They did point out that Pioneer 10 was going to leave the solar system and it would be nice to put some form of message on it. That was as far as their involvement went. I am sure that Eric Burgess would be glad to confirm this. . . . The idea that there should be an engraved plaque, and the type of information which should be engraved, was developed mutually by Carl and me. . . . I remember very clearly that we started with completely open minds as to what the message should be, and without any prior suggestions as to possible message content."
In a note of acknowledgements (see right) at the conclusion of Sagan and Drake's February 25, 1972, Science article entitled "A Message from Earth," Burgess and Hoagland are credited with the "initial suggestion to include some message aboard Pioneer 10." But as Hoagland acknowledges on page 98 of his own book, it was actually Burgess who first said to Hoagland, "It ought to carry a message." (Then, on the next line, Hoagland claims that he had already thought of the idea: "That was the unvoiced thought, which had been nagging at me ever since I'd gazed in through [the craft's] thick quartz windows" (italics in original).
The fascinating idea that there might be life on Europa, beneath ice-covered oceans kept liquid by the same Jovian tidal forces that heat Io [Jupiter's volcanic moon], was first proposed by Richard C. Hoagland in the magazine Star & Sky ("The Europa Enigma," January 1980 [accessible from the very bottom of this page]). This quite brilliant concept has been taken seriously by a number of astronomers (notably NASA's Institute of Space Studies, Dr. Robert Jastrow), and may provide one of the best motives for the projected GALILEO Mission. | 2019-04-21T08:46:32 | https://www.gpposner.com/hoagland.html |
0.999311 | How to enable the camera's motion detection from NVR?
1. Please go to Event & Action Management via web browser.
2. Please select Motion from Camera, click ‘Add’ and select different NVR actions such as ‘Event trigger Recording’, ‘Send E-Mail’ and ‘Digital Output’.
3. For example: Event Trigger Recording.
You could enable the recording as well as the video clip.
When there is an motion detected from camera and event trigger record & video clip is enabled, NVR will save video clip (up to 20 seconds) in ‘Event’ folder (inside ‘Videodata’ folder of HDD) of file system. Meanwhile, another complete five-minute recording file will be also saved in ‘Videodata’ folder in file system. This would help you to get detailed sequence when events happens. | 2019-04-23T10:24:02 | https://www.brickcom.pt/support/faq_contents.php?id=86 |
0.998923 | Looking for a vehicle that runs on something other than gasoline? Here are some alternative fuel sources you should know about.
Gasoline has long been the common fuel standard for vehicles in the United States. However, many alternative fuel sources have gained traction, especially in recent years. Here is a look at the emerging landscape of alternative fuel options.
Natural gas is an alternative fuel that is widely available and already quite popular with many auto manufacturers. Natural gas burns clean and emits far less carbon dioxide than gasoline, but methane emissions are higher than what is typical for gasoline engines, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Natural gas is typically inexpensive, often times a full dollar less per gallon than gasoline. Refueling stations have also become more common, which makes filling up the tank a breeze. Natural gas is one of the alternative fuels available with low barriers to entry for the average consumer.
However, if saving the ozone is your top priority, you may want to look elsewhere, due to the high levels of methane emitted.
With nearly every major automotive company channeling large amounts of money into developing electric vehicles, the buzz behind this alternative source of energy in the media is palpable.
Giving off no emissions, providing ample power and requiring low maintenance, electric cars are attractive options for the consumer wanting to make a green change. However, many electric vehicles are still expensive and short on range, some needing a full charge every 200 miles.
Demand for battery production and cost for eventual battery replacement is also a potential issue for manufacturers and consumers alike. Costs are expected to be driven down as electric vehicles continue to be adopted but, until then, many electric and hybrid vehicles stay out of range for many consumers.
Hydrogen is an excellent alternative fuel option, in that it is green in its emissions — the only byproducts are water and warm air.
While this benefit makes hydrogen an attractive option, there are potential production and storage issues if adopted en masse. Hydrogen requires a cool, compressed environment to be stored, which makes it a costly and logistically difficult alternative fuel option.
Propane — also called liquefied petroleum gas or LPG — is a byproduct of natural gas processing and crude oil refining. Already widely used as a fuel for cooking and heating, propane is also a popular alternative fuel for vehicles.
Propane produces fewer emissions than gasoline, and there is a highly developed infrastructure for propane transport, storage and distribution.
However, because propane is a byproduct of natural gas processing, the same drawbacks exist for propane as natural gas. Natural gas production creates methane, a greenhouse gas that is 21 times worse for global warming than carbon dioxide.
Biodiesel is a renewable, biodegradable fuel manufactured from vegetable oils, animal fats or recycled restaurant grease. It is a cleaner-burning replacement for petroleum diesel fuel. Engines can be converted to burn biodiesel in its pure form, and biodiesel can also be blended with petroleum diesel and used in unmodified engines.
Biodiesel is safe and reduces air pollutants associated with vehicle emissions, however, production is difficult, along with a distribution infrastructure.
A popular alternative among tuners and other high-performance enthusiasts, ethanol is an alcohol-based alternative fuel made by fermenting and distilling crops such as corn, barley or wheat, according to Edmunds. It can be blended with gasoline to increase octane levels and improve emissions quality.
Most gasoline engines are engineered to burn small amounts of ethanol but can be modified to burn an ethanol-rich mix commonly called E85. While they boost power and improve emissions, ethanol-rich mixes are not as efficient as burning pure gasoline and can have a negative impact on food prices, as farmers switch from growing corn for eating to growing it for driving. | 2019-04-21T11:04:56 | https://news3lv.com/features/drive-safe-las-vegas/everything-you-need-to-know-about-alternative-fuels-12-29-2017 |
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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it is cutting 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, a sign of how badly even the biggest and richest companies are being stung by the recession.
Microsoft was supposed to release its quarterly earnings report after Wall Street closed, but stunned just about everyone by making the announcement even before the opening bell rang.
Some of the layoffs will take effect immediately. Word is that 1,400 people will be told that today is their last day with the company.
The company announced the cuts as it reported an 11 percent drop in second-quarter profit, which fell short of Wall Street's expectations. Microsoft shares plunged 7 percent in pre-market trading.
The Redmond-based company says profit slipped to $4.17 billion, or 47 cents per share, from year-ago earnings of $4.71 billion, or 50 cents per share.
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BLUE JACKETS 3, COYOTES 0 At Columbus Phoenix 0 0 0--0 Columbus 1 1 1--3 First Period -- 1, Columbus, Malhotra 1 (Chimera, Hejda), 10:45. Second Period -- 2, Columbus, Chimera 1 (Hejda), 2:56. Third Period -- 3, Columbus, Boll 1 (Malhotra, Chimera), 6:25. Shots on Goal -- Phoenix 7-9-16 -- 32. Columbus 13-11-9 -- 33. Power-play opportunities -- Phoenix 0 of 6; Columbus 0 of 3. Goalies -- Phoenix, Aebischer 0-1-0 (33 shots-30 saves). Columbus, Leclaire 2-0-0 (32-32). A -- 11,944 (18,136). T -- 2:26. Referees -- Rob Martell, Bill McCreary. Linesmen -- Tim Nowak, Pierre Racicot. SENATORS 3, THRASHERS 1 At Atlanta Ottawa 1 0 2--3 Atlanta 1 0 0--1 First Period -- 1, Ottawa, Kelly 2, 1:14. 2, Atlanta, Kovalchuk 1, 6:56. Second Period -- None. Third Period -- 3, Ottawa, Vermette 2 (Phillips, Volchenkov), 1:42. 4, Ottawa, Corvo 1 (Spezza, Alfredsson), 7:35 (pp). Shots on Goal -- Ottawa 13-9-14 -- 36. Atlanta 5-10-14 -- 29. Power-play opportunities -- Ottawa 1 of 4; Atlanta 0 of 3. Goalies -- Ottawa, Elliott 1-0-0 (29 shots-28 saves). Atlanta, Lehtonen 0-2-0 (36-33). A -- 12,751 (18,545). T -- 2:25. Referees -- Paul Devorski, Dean Warren. Linesmen -- Jean Morin, Brad Kovachik. LIGHTNING 2, PANTHERS 1 At Tampa Bay Florida 0 1 0--1 Tampa Bay 1 1 0--2 First Period -- 1, Tampa Bay, Gratton 1 (Darche, Ward), 9:03. Second Period -- 2, Florida, Peltonen 1 (Jokinen), 4:04. 3, Tampa Bay, Gratton 2 (Ranger, Ouellet), 10:36 (pp). Third Period -- None. Shots on Goal -- Florida 7-12-12 -- 31. Tampa Bay 6-8-9 -- 23. Power-play opportunities -- Florida 0 of 5; Tampa Bay 1 of 5. Goalies -- Florida, Anderson 0-1-0 (23 shots-21 saves). Tampa Bay, Holmqvist 3-0-0 (31-30). A -- 18,540 (19,758). T -- 2:28. Referees -- Eric Furlatt, Dave Jackson. Linesmen -- David Brisebois, Shane Heyer. ISLANDERS 2, RANGERS 1 At Uniondale, N.Y. N.Y. Rangers 0 1 0--1 N.Y. Islanders 1 1 0--2 First Period -- 1, N.Y. Islanders, Bergeron 1 (Sillinger), 19:56. Second Period -- 2, N.Y. Rangers, Tyutin 1 (Hossa, Shanahan), 2:09. 3, N.Y. Islanders, Berard 1 (Guerin, Bergeron), 13:56 (pp). Third Period -- None. Shots on Goal -- N.Y. Rangers 12-13-12 -- 37. N.Y. Islanders 15-9-6 -- 30. Power-play opportunities -- N.Y. Rangers 0 of 6; N.Y. Islanders 1 of 7. Goalies -- N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 1-2-0 (30 shots-28 saves). N.Y. Islanders, DiPietro 3-1-0 (37-36). A -- 15,295 (16,234). T -- 2:35. Referees -- Marc Joannette, Chris Rooney. Linesmen -- Pierre Champoux, Brian Murphy. CANADIENS 3, PENGUINS 2 At Pittsburgh Montreal 0 2 1--3 Pittsburgh 0 1 1--2 First Period -- None. Second Period -- 1, Pittsburgh, Whitney 1 (Recchi, Crosby), 7:08 (pp). 2, Montreal, Plekanec 1 (Markov, Streit), 13:07 (pp). 3, Montreal, Kovalev 1 (Plekanec), 17:00. Third Period -- 4, Montreal, Markov 2 (Ryder, Koivu), 2:51. 5, Pittsburgh, Talbot 1 (Malkin, Recchi), 3:48. Shots on Goal -- Montreal 5-16-14 -- 35. Pittsburgh 9-12-7 -- 28. Power-play opportunities -- Montreal 1 of 2; Pittsburgh 1 of 5. 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0.999999 | 50 years after the June 1967 Israeli conquest of all of Palestine, the US Alliance-backed, invasion-, occupation- , theft- , genocide-, lying- and race-based pariah state of Apartheid Israel still comprehensively violates all basic human rights of the Occupied Palestinians. The Zionist ethnic cleansing of 90% of Palestine means that the Two-State Solution is dead and demands comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against genocidally racist, nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel and all its supporters.
The World must demand an end to race-based Apartheid Israel after the example of post-Apartheid South Africa and its replacement by a unitary state in Palestine with return of all refugees, zero tolerance for racism, equal rights for all, all human rights for all, one-person-one-vote, justice, goodwill, reconciliation, airport-level security, nuclear weapons removal, internationally-guaranteed national security initially based on present armed forces, and untrammelled access for all citizens to all of the Holy Land.
US Alliance Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes pervert public perception of reality by egregious mendacity and in particular via fake news through lying by omission. Thus Zionist lies about Palestine have become entrenched in the West e.g.
(e) the lie of a God-given Zionist “right” to Palestine, the land of the Palestinians (this is based on exceptionalist religious clap-trap but the Old Testament actually makes it quite clear that the genocidally racist Israelites were just one of numerous tribes in 1000BC Palestine that indeed took its name from the coastal Philistines. Mahatma Gandhi notably stated in 1938: “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct” [8, 9] . My Scottish ancestors were murderously “cleared” from their land by the English and their allies 200 years ago (leaving behind 2 crofters cottages that are still standing) and my Jewish Hungarian forebears likewise about 70 years ago in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (leaving behind property in Budapest) but as a pro-peace, anti-racist Jewish Australian I could not possibly contemplate a “Zionist” program of invasion and genocide of the UK and of Hungary and am utterly opposed to the genocidal Zionists dong to the Palestinians what the racist British, Nazi Germans and neo-Nazi Hungarian Arrow Cross did to my forebears).
Set out below is a succinct summary of the genocidally racist Zionist enterprise that has visited genocidal violence and ethnic cleansing on the Indigenous Palestinians.
(A). Biblical mythology, anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish theology and genocidally racist Zionism.
True Orthodox Judaism is opposed to Zionism (a) because Zionism is genocidal racism , and (b) because the traditional Orthodox Jewish position fro 2,000 years was that Jews can only return to Zion (Jerusalem) when the Messiah arrives to reveal the glory of the Lord to the whole world . Orthodox Judaism fostered the beautiful idea of a Kingdom of the Mind that has transmuted in the secular world into the wonderful international communities of scientists, scholars, musicians, artists and writers. Indeed Nathan Birnbaum, who coined the term Zionism, later rejected the evil Zionist ideology and reverted to the humanity of Orthodox Judaism .
Racist Zionism was significantly the child of genocidally racist, anti-Asian psychopath Theodor Herzl, a Jewish Hungarian writer and activist. The Zionist agenda was clearly racist (involving the theft and colonization of the country of another people) but was consistent with the general European racism of the time that was involved in massive colonization and genocide in almost all non-European parts of the world (Iran, Japan and Thailand being notable, fortunate exceptions) [3-5]. Theodor Herzl was explicit in stating the obscenely racist agenda of Zionism in this more general context about 120 years ago in his book “Der Judenstaat” (“The Jewish State”) (1896): “Shall we choose Palestine or Argentine? We shall take what is given us, and what is selected by Jewish public opinion. The Society will determine both these points. Argentine is one of the most fertile countries in the world, extends over a vast area, has a sparse population [the Indigenous inhabitants having been largely exterminated in the 19th century Argentinian Indian Genocide [24-26]] and a mild climate. The Argentine Republic would derive considerable profit from the cession of a portion of its territory to us. The present infiltration of Jews has certainly produced some discontent, and it would be necessary to enlighten the Republic on the intrinsic difference of our new movement. Palestine is our ever-memorable historic home. The very name of Palestine would attract our people with a force of marvellous potency. If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake to regulate the whole finances of Turkey. We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence. The sanctuaries of Christendom would be safeguarded by assigning to them an extra-territorial status such as is well-known to the law of nations. We should form a guard of honour about these sanctuaries, answering for the fulfilment of this duty with our existence. This guard of honour would be the great symbol of the solution of the Jewish question after eighteen centuries of Jewish suffering. For Europe we shall constitute there [in Palestine] a sector of the wall against Asia, we shall serve as the vanguard of culture against barbarism” [27, 28].
Luckily for Argentina, and indeed 20 other territories proposed for a Zionist colony, including my own country, Australia [28-30], the racist Zionists and successive racist British Governments decided to colonize and thence ethnically cleanse Palestine. There were 25,000 Jews (half immigrants) and 0.5 million Indigenous Palestinians in Palestine in 1880, and 250,000 Jews and 900,000 Indigenous Palestinians by the mid-1930s. Jews represented one third of the population by 1948 ; and even today after 70 years of recurrent mass expulsions (800,000 in the 1948 Nakba or Catastrophe and 400,000 more in the 1967 Naksa or Setback) and an ongoing murderous Palestinian Genocide, Indigenous Palestinians still represent about 51% of the population of the Holy Land which is composed of 5.9 million Jewish Israelis, 0.3 million non-Arab and non-Jewish Israelis, 1.7 million Indigenous Palestinian Israeli (second class citizens under Nazi-style Apartheid Israeli race laws) and 4.7 million Occupied Palestinians with zero human rights [11, 32].
In 1880 there were about 500,000 Arab Palestinians and about 25,000 Jews living in Palestine of whom half were immigrants. Genocidally racist Zionists have been responsible for a Palestinian Genocide involving successive mass expulsions (800,000 in 1948 and 400,00 in 1967) , ethnic cleansing of 90% of the land of Palestine and 2 million Palestinian deaths since 1935 from violence (0.1 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation (1.9 million). There are now 7 million Palestinian refugees, and of 12 million Palestinians about 50% are forbidden to even step foot in their own country on pain of death, only 1.7 million Palestinian Israelis are permitted to vote for the government ruling all of the former Mandated Palestine, and 4.7 million Palestinians have zero human rights as Occupied Palestinians in West Bank Bantustans (2.7 million) or in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2.0 million) .
The British and French divided up the formerly Ottoman Empire-ruled Middle East via the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. Australian soldiers were involved in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in WW1 that led to a famine in which 100,000 Palestinians died, this marking the beginning of the Palestinian Genocide [33-35]. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers were responsible for the Surafend Massacre, that was according to Wikipedia: “the premeditated massacre of many male inhabitants from the Arab village of Surafend (now the area of Tzrifin in Israel) and a Bedouin camp in Palestine by soldiers of the Anzac Mounted Division on 10 December 1918” .
After the conquest of Palestine in WW1 by the British with the help of Australian and New Zealand forces, Lord Balfour in 1917 offered Palestine as a Jewish Homeland to the Zionists in a letter to Lord Rothschild that included the caveat (subsequently grossly violated by the genocidally racist Zionists) that there should be no detriment to the Indigenous inhabitants or indeed to Jewish people around the world: “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country” . According to genocide-ignoring, holocaust-ignoring and racist Zionist historian, the late Professor Sir Martin Gilbert, the Balfour Declaration was issued in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to get traitorous Russian Zionists to keep Russia in WW1 .
Between WW1and WW2 there was massive Jewish immigration to Palestine resulting in massive and deadly displacement of Palestinian workers and tenant farmers from agricultural land. Resultant Palestinian opposition lead to armed conflict between Indigenous Palestinians and increasingly violent and racist Zionist invaders. In 1939 the British Government, concerned to maintain the loyalty of its scores of millions of Muslim subjects in the coming war, issued a White Paper constraining further Jewish entry to Palestine. Indeed the first WW2 casualties in the British Empire were Jewish illegal immigrants shot while attempting to land in Palestine. Some Jews recognized the great wrong being done to the Indigenous Palestinians. Thus the anti-Zionist Freeland League under Dr Isaac Steinberg proposed to make the Kimberley region of North West Australia a region of exclusive Jewish settlement. This proposal won widespread political support in Australia (Indigenous Australians were not even counted as Australians until after a 1967 Referendum) but was eventually vetoed by PM John Curtin in 1944 on Intelligence advice that quite possibly related to the British War Cabinet decision to Partition Palestine [39, 40]. In this period the Zionist terrorist group Irgun collaborated with the Nazis, and killed Allied servicemen before, during and after WW2. Irgun was involved in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and spawned the current rightwing Israeli leadership, but was removed from the Australian Government’s list of terrorist organizations in the 21st century (Zionists have effective carte blanche from both the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition and have subverted and perverted Australian institutions and public life). Australian Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes ignore the reality that numerous anti-racist Jews have staunchly opposed Israeli Apartheid and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide . In vain Sir Isaac Isaacs, a staunch anti-Zionist and Australia’s most famous Jewish citizen as the first Australian-born Australian Governor-General, stated in 1946: “The honour of Jews throughout the world demands the renunciation of political Zionism” .
After WW2 a greatly weakened Britain faced the reality of being unable to hold on to its vast Empire. Racist Britain had already decided on a Partition of India (perhaps for anti-Soviet strategic reasons) and enabled India to be partitioned on Independence in 1947 in a catastrophic process that generated 20 million refugees and killed 1 million people. Similarly Britain had decided on withdrawal from Palestine and the Partition of Palestine. In 1947 the UN approved a Partition Plan. In 1948 the British left, and the UN recognized the State of Israel. Well-armed Israeli forces committed atrocities (e.g. the horrendous Deir Yassin massacre that distressed anti-racist Jews like Albert Einstein) that encouraged 800,000 Palestinians to flee cities, towns and hundreds of villages in the 1948 Nakba (Disaster). The incipient Apartheid Israel seized a substantially ethnically cleansed 78% of the former British Mandated Palestine after defeating Arab forces from UK- or France-dominated neighbouring countries.
In 1956 Israel waged war against Egypt in collusion with UK and France who wanted to re-take the Suez Canal in a move opposed by the US . Many of the Egyptian soldiers were vitamin A deficient and were essentially blind at night. In 1967 Israel, now armed with nuclear weapons thanks to the US and France , invaded all its neighbours, conquered all of Palestine, the Sinai Peninsular of Egypt and the Golan Heights of Syria. A further 400,000 Indigenous Palestinians fled their homes, their communities and their country in the 1967 Naksa (Setback) [44, 45]. The Israeli war machine did not confine itself to killing Arabs but also attacked an unarmed US spy ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171, a crime that the US responded to in the most craven and secretive fashion . A massive increase in Zionist power in the US dates from about this time, quite likely connected with the new nuclear weapons status of a genocidal Apartheid Israel.
Apartheid Israel has justified it war criminal attacks in the Six-Day War with holocaust-threatened Israel David versus a genocidal Arab Goliath propaganda but a succession of top Israeli officials have confessed otherwise. Thus General Matituahu Peled, chief of logistical command during the war: “The thesis according to which the danger of genocide hung over us in June 1967, and according to which Israel was fighting for her very physical survival, was nothing but a bluff which was born and bred after the war”. Mordechai Bentov, a member of the wartime government, stated in 1971: “This whole story about the threat of extermination was totally contrived, and then elaborated upon, a posteriori, to justify the annexation of new Arab territories.” War criminal Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, stated in 1982 that “In June 1967 we had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him” . It gets worse – according to the late Itzhak Yaakov, a retired Brigadier General responsible for the development of Israeli nuclear weapons, Apartheid Israel planned to detonate a nuclear bomb in the Egypt if the war it launched in June 1967 turned against it (in 2001 Yaakov was given a two-year suspended sentence in Israel for attempting to reveal this) .
In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Egypt unsuccessfully sought to recover the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsular but the Sinai was returned in a US-brokered 1979 peace agreement between with a now US lackey Egypt and Apartheid Israel. Between1982 and 2000 there was Israeli occupation of much of Lebanon. The war criminal Israeli invasion of Lebanon was associated with the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres in which 3,000 Palestinians were murdered) in Israeli-occupied Beirut by Christian Falangist forces. The first Palestinian Intifada began in 1987 and was violently suppressed. In 1988 the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) under Yassir Arafat recognized Israel and in 1993 the Oslo Agreement permitted constrained Occupied Palestinian self-government. However the continued seizure of Arab lands led to a renewed Intifada in 2000 [44, 45].
In the 21st century, US-backed Israeli occupation, illegal settlements and violence continued with limited violent responses from Palestinians yielding disproportionate responses from the Israelis. In 2005 Israel pulled out from the Gaza Strip leaving a densely populated Gaza Concentration Camp [3, 49] violently guarded by land, air and sea and subject to crippling blockade by the neo-Nazi Israelis. Rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza killed 34 Israelis in the period 2004-2017 but the disproportionate Israeli responses involved high explosive bombardment from land, air and sea in repeated Gaza Massacres inflicted on one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world. Thus in the 2008-2009 Gaza War (Operation Cast Lead by the Israelis) about 1,300 Palestinians were killed versus 13 Israelis. In the 2014 Gaza Massacre (called Operation Protective Edge by the Israelis) 2,205 Palestinians (including at least 1,483 civilians) and 71 Israelis were killed .
Israeli deaths from Palestinian violence or “terrorism deaths” in the period January 2000 – February 2017 totalled 1,347 as compared to 9,505 Palestinians killed by Israelis in this same period. If one considers total 21st century Israeli deaths from terrorism, the Palestinian/Israeli death ratio for this period is 9.505/1,347 = 7.1. If one considers total 20th century plus 21st century violent deaths, the Palestinian/Israeli death ratio is about 110,000/ 3,847 = 29. By way of comparison, blood-soaked German Nazi leader and war criminal Adolph Hitler recommended an enemy partisan/German military reprisal death ratio of 10 . Nazi is as Nazi does.
(C). Palestinian Genocide and the Palestinian Avoidable Mortality Holocaust.
The GDP per capita is US$2,700 for Occupied Palestinians as compared to US$37,000 for Apartheid Israel . Such imposed poverty kills and whether a child dies avoidably from imposed deprivation or by bombs or bullets, the death is just as terminal and horrific, and the culpability the same. Avoidable mortality (avoidable death, excess mortality, excess death, untimely death, premature death , non-violent death that should not have happened) can be quantitated from UN demographic data as the difference between actual deaths in a country and deaths expected in the same period for a peaceful, decently governed country with the same demographics . For impoverished Developing World countries the avoidable mortality is about 1.4 times the under-5 infant mortality, for Occupied Palestine annual under-5 infant deaths total 3,000, and accordingly annual Occupied Palestinian avoidable mortality is 4,200 avoidable deaths per year as compared to an average of 553 Occupied Palestinians being violently killed each year by the racist Zionists.
Annual avoidable mortality is zero (0) for Apartheid Israel as for other prosperous Western countries based on invasion and genocide (the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). In the period 2000- February 2017 an average of 10 Israelis have been killed by terrorists in Israel minus Jerusalem each year but total Israeli deaths from terrorism in this period total 1,347 as compared to 9,505 Palestinian deaths from Apartheid Israeli state terrorism. This huge disparity is most appallingly seen in terms of the average Palestinian /Israel death ratio in the 21st century that is 72,000/ 0 = infinity for annual avoidable deaths and 9,505/1,347 = 7.1 for violent deaths .
As of February2017 and considering total 20th century plus 21st century violent deaths, violent Palestinian deaths have totalled about 110,000 [5, 51] and violent Zionist deaths since 1920 have totalled 3,847 ; accordingly the Palestinian/Israeli death ratio for violent deaths is about 110,000/ 3,847 = 29 as compared to the enemy citizen/ German military death ratio of 10 advocated by Adolph Hitler and executed in the Ardeatine Caves Massacre of 1944 [52, 53]. However Palestinian deaths from imposed deprivation since the middle 1930s can be estimated at 1.9 million.
The Palestinian Genocide has involved 2.0 million Palestinian deaths from violence (0.1 million) and from imposed deprivation (1.9 million), 7 million Palestinian refugees, the ethnic cleansing of 90% of the land of Palestine, and highly abusive, violent and indefinite confinement of millions of Occupied Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2 million) or in West Bank ghettoes (2.7 million). The horrendous dimensions of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide invite comparisons with the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by violence or imposed deprivation) [18, 54].
(D). Summary of the 100 year Palestinian Genocide and 50 year Occupation.
(1) The Palestinian Genocide commenced with the famine deaths of 100,000 Palestinians after conquest of Palestine in WW1 by the British and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) [33, 34].
(2) The violent killing of Indigenous Palestinians commenced with the 1918 Surafend Massacre by ANZAC soldiers .
(3) Since 1935 there have been 2 million Palestinian deaths from Zionist violence (0.1 million) or Zionist-imposed deprivation (1.9 million ) [5, 51].
(4) There are 7 million Palestinian refugees and all of the over 12 million Palestinians are excluded from all or part of Palestine .
(5) Of 12 million Palestinians (half of them children), 6 million are forbidden to even step foot in their own country, 4.7 million are held hostage with zero human rights under Israeli guns in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2.0 million) or in ever-dwindling West Bank Bantustan ghettoes (2.7 million), and 1.7 million live as Third Class citizens as Israeli Palestinians under Nazi-style Apartheid Israeli race laws .
(6) 90% of Palestine has now been ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants in an ongoing war criminal ethnic cleansing that has been repeatedly condemned by the UN and most recently by UN Security Council Resolution 2334 that was unanimously supported with remarkable Obama US abstention rather than veto [55, 56].
(7) GDP per capita is US$2,900 for Occupied Palestinians as compared to US$37,000 for Apartheid Israel .
(8) Through imposed deprivation, each year Apartheid Israel passively murders about 2,700 under-5 year old Palestinian infants and passively murders 4,200 Occupied Palestinians in general[5, 15].
(9) Apartheid Israel violently kills an average of about 550 Occupied Palestinians each year [5, 15].
(10) Occupied Palestinians are deprived of essentially all human rights by Apartheid Israel [10, 11].
(11) Nuclear terrorist, serial war criminal, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel determines that 73% of its now 51% majority Indigenous Palestinian subjects who are Occupied Palestinians cannot vote for the government ruling them (i.e. egregious Apartheid) .
(12) US-, UK-, Canada-, France- and Australia-backed Apartheid Israel in its genocidal treatment of the Palestinians ignores numerous UN General Assembly Resolutions and UN Security Council Resolutions, the UN Genocide Convention, the Geneva Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rights of the Child Convention, the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and many other aspects of International Law [5, 10, 11].
(13) Apartheid Israel has attacked 12 countries and occupied 5 with 1950-2005 avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries neighbouring Apartheid Israel totalling 24 million .
(a) 17 million avoidable deaths each year globally and 1,500 million such deaths since 1950 (this including 600 million Muslims), this carnage being linked to continuing Zionist perversion of US aid and foreign policy .
(b) 32 million Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, or from deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the pro-Zionist US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity in which Apartheid Israel is likely to have been complicit [13, 14, 57-63].
(c) millions of Indigenous deaths from violence or imposed deprivation in countries subject to Apartheid Israeli-backed, genocidal civil wars, notably Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Syria and South Sudan.
(d) 23 million American preventable deaths since 9-11 (1.7 million annually) inescapably linked to Zionist-beholden US Governments committing to a $40 trillion long-term accrual cost for Apartheid Israel and a $7 trillion long-term accrual cost for the killing millions of Muslims abroad in the Zionist-promoted War on Terror instead of keeping millions of Americans alive at home [64, 65]. – Australia has similarly committed to $11 billion per year long-term to the War on Terror ($150 billion since 9-11) with this fiscal perversion linked to 1.3 million preventable deaths since 9-11 and Canada has similarly committed hugely to the War on Terror with this linked to 0.1 million Canadian preventable deaths annually or 1.6 million preventable deaths in Canada since 9-11 .
(g) As documented here, the racist Zionists have a deadly record of mendacity. Indeed e-LIARS is an appropriate anagram for ISRAEL. Zionist-promoted Mainstream media fake news through lying by omission and lying by commission threatens rational risk management that is crucial for societal safety and successively involves (a) accurate data, (b) scientific analysis, and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk .
(h) As documented here, racist Zionism is deadly anti-Arab anti-Semitism through the ongoing Palestinian Genocide and the ongoing Muslim Genocide and Muslim Holocaust [5, 57]. However racist Zionism is also anti-Jewish anti-Semitic through (a) falsely conflating the activities of genocidally racist Apartheid Israel with all Jews, and (b) by endlessly and falsely defaming the large body if anti-racist Jews who are utterly opposed to the human rights abuses and genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel.
(E). What if the Zionists had genocidally colonized Australia as they did Palestine?
Australia ranks second in the world after Trump America in its fervent support for nuclear terrorist and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel and hence for nuclear terrorism, genocidal racism and Apartheid. Over 20 countries were suggested as possible sites of Zionist colonization and indeed the genocidal psychopath Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, suggested Argentina as an alternative to Palestine for Zionist colonization [27-30]. Indeed the anti-racist Jewish Freeland League led by Dr Isaac Steinberg gained strong Australian support for exclusive Jewish settlement of North West Australia before the 1944 UK war-time decision to partition Palestine trumped this “Australian solution”. However there are twice as many Australians (24 million) as Palestinians (12 million) and if the Zionists had done an Australian Gencoide rather than a Palestinian Genocide this would have meant the following outcomes today: 12 million Australians forbidden to step foot in Australia on pain of death; 90% of Australia ethnically cleansed of Australians; 73% of a 51% majority of Australians in Zionist-occupied Australia prevented from voting for the government ruling them; 9.4 million Australians highly abusively confined under violent military rule to a densely populated Australian Concentration Camp (4 million) or to other Australian ghettoes (5.4 million); an annual GDP per capita for Australia of $2,700 (as compared to $37,000 for the occupying Israelis); 9.4 million Occupied Australians excluded from all human rights; 6,000 under-5 year old Australian infants dying annually (as compared to the present 1,000); 8,400 occupied Australians dying avoidably each year (compared to zero such deaths for the Occupiers); 1,100 Occupied Australians being violently killed annually by the Zionists; and a “lucky” minority of 3.4 million Australians given Israeli citizenship in Australia, albeit under Nazi-style, anti-Australian, race-based laws.
What must decent people do?
Zionism is genocidal racism and the racist Zionists and their supporters must be sidelined from public life as have been Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Decent anti-racist people around the world must (a) inform everyone they can, and (b) urge and apply Boycotts. Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all people, politicians, parties, countries, companies and corporations complicit in the racist Zionist Palestinian Genocide by nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, racist Zionist-run, neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel, just as BDS was successfully applied against US-, UK-, Australia- and Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa.
Apartheid Israel is now at the cross-roads – it can (a) continue as a vile, genocidal, grossly human rights-abusing , neo-Nazi Apartheid rogue state or (b) dismantle Apartheid as was done in post-Apartheid South Africa. The 2-State Solution is now dead because of the ethnic cleansing of 90% of the land of Palestine. A peaceful , humane solution that would be of enormous benefit to all the world, to all the Jewish Israelis and to all the Indigenous Palestinians would be a unitary state in Palestine with return of all refugees, zero tolerance for racism, equal rights for all, all human rights for all, one-person-one-vote, justice, goodwill, reconciliation, airport-level security, nuclear weapons removal, internationally-guaranteed national security initially based on present armed forces, and untrammelled access for all citizens to all of the Holy Land. It can and should happen tomorrow.
. “Nuclear weapons and Israel”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel [my key website “Nuclear weapons ban, end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ahas been removed by persons unknown].
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. Theodor Herzl, Chapter 2, “Palestine or Argentine?”, The Jewish State: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/herzl2b.html .
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. Gideon Polya, “Book review: “An Unpromised Land” by Leon Gettler” – How Australia escaped becoming Apartheid Israel”, Book Reviews by Gideon Polya, 8 July 2009: https://sites.google.com/site/bookreviewsbydrgideonpolya/gettler-leon .
. Martin Gilbert (1994), “The First World War” , Holt, UK (p373).
. Leon Gettler, “An Unpromised Land”.
. Gideon Polya, “Book review: “An Unpromised Land” by Leon Gettler” – How Australia escaped becoming Apartheid Israel”, MWC News, 8 July 2009: https://sites.google.com/site/bookreviewsbydrgideonpolya/gettler-leon .
. Gideon Polya, “ Racist Zionism and Israeli State Terrorism threats to Australia and Humanity ”, Palestinian Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/racist-zionism-and-israeli .
. Gideon Polya, “Apartheid Israel Buries Serial War Criminal, Genocidal Racist And Nuclear Terrorist Shimon Peres”,Countercurrentds, October 1, 2016: https://countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/apartheid-israel-buries-serial-war-criminal-genocidal-racist-and-nuclear-terrorist-shimon-peres/ .
. Gideon Polya, “Country-by-country analysis of avoidable mortality in European countries”, Chapter 4, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/chapter-4-country-by-country-analysis.html .
. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/chapter-4-country-by-country-analysis.html .
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. Jacob Burns, “Israel “planned to detonate nuclear bomb in Egypt if it risked losing Six Day War”” , Telegraph, 4 June 2017: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/04/israel-planned-detonate-nuclear-bomb-egypt-risked-losing-six/ .
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. Gideon Polya, “US, Australia, Canada, Apartheid Israel & 4 Pacific Island States Opposed Palestine Flag At UN But 119 Nations Voted Yes”, Countercurrents, 14 September, 2015: https://countercurrents.org/polya140915.htm ).
. Antony Loewenstein, “Does the Zionist Lobby have blood on its hands in Australia?”, Antony Loewenstein, 2 July 2010: http://antonyloewenstein.com/2010/07/02/does-the-zionist-lobby-have-blood-on-its-hands-in-australia/ .
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0.998223 | *blows dust off teh LJ* I'm game, actually. I MISS writing, and I came across some old journal entries of mine from last June and was like -"this is really good. You should DO this more often", so if you want to sign a pact of some kind, I'm in.
A pact to post regularly would be too much for me at the moment, soooo.... my pact this term is going to be to set aside a regular time each week to write my own stuff even if it's only an hour. I need to spend less time on the internet not more but that said I would LOVE a group Skype chat.
We could use this comm to post writing-related tips / quotes / articles we come across that other people might find them interesting - that might provoke some discussion y/n?
1. What do you want to accomplish this week with your writing?
2. What are two things today you can do to make that happen?
3. What is one thing you can do each day to make that happen?
Integrate summary of Foucault article "What is an author?" into the overall argument for my paper.
Write up my margin notes on a book I read way back in October FAST without getting bogged down in editing myself so I can include it in the paper before I have to send it to my supervisor Friday.
In the comments STATE YOUR PACT for the next chunk of time whether it's a week, a month, a term whatever.
syntax and word choice are so entwined in the way I write, that I don't think I can just spew words without thought to how they go together and convey the mood, point, or image I'm after.
I realised after I'd finished my last fic that my Internal Editor had become so dominant it was in danger of paralysing me completely. I think it may be a fanfic-related problem because I obsess over getting every detail 'right'. I'm hoping I can be a bit freer with my own stuff. | 2019-04-25T15:59:35 | https://awesomenessland.livejournal.com/20318.html?thread=136542 |
0.999999 | === Compiling a Git repository === The git driver repositories contain the full Linux kernel tree. So, before working with a driver, a full kernel compilation should be done. The easiest way is to run: $ make oldconfig This will use your kernel old configuration, asking you only about the new features that have added (or moved), when compared with your original kernel version. The first build will take some time. In order to do it, just run: $ make After having the kernel built (and tested), subsequent compilations can be done by running: make M=drivers/media/ or, if the driver is currently at staging, by running: make M=drivers/staging/ With the above commands, only the media (or staging) drivers will be recompiled, if they got changed, saving you some time on testing the new driver features. NOTE: if you added new files or changed the files dependencies, you may need to do a full make. In this case, just run: $ make === Installing the new kernel === If this is the first time you're compiling the drivers, or if kernel version changed from your previous build, you should run a full drivers installation with: # make modules_install install Be sure to be root when installing the drivers. === Installing the new drivers on your kernel === After the first installation, you may just copy the new drivers with this small script: for i in `find drivers/media -name *.ko`; do if [ $i -nt /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/$i ]; then sudo install -m 644 -c -D $i /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/$i || exit -1 fi done Use this for staging driver: for i in `find drivers/staging/$1 -name *.ko`; do if [ $i -nt /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/$i ]; then sudo install -m 644 -c -D $i /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/$i || exit -1 fi done NOTE: If your kernel version changed, you'll need to re-build the kernel again, with $ make olconfig $ make In this case, you'll also need to re-install the drivers ans the kernel with: # make modules_install install === Removing the already loaded modules === This is probably the trickiest part. You can, of course, just reboot the machine, but this may take some time, so Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote a script that unloads all kernel modules from the memory. This script were integrated with the mercurial trees. There's an updated [http://linuxtv.org/downloads/git_tools/rmmod.pl rmmod.pl] version that works with git and with all kernels that put the media drivers at the right location. In order to remove all V4L/DVB drivers from the memory, all that it is needed is to run. as root: # ./rmmod.pl unload PS.: The other options of the script should be working as well, but they weren't really tested, since the only one that is really useful outside Mecurial tree is the capability of removing the drivers from the memory.
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0.999999 | Does that mean it is not possible to raise before the flop, since the Pot is 0 at that time?
The term "pot limit" is quite normal, you can look it up on the internet to find explanations of how it works (for exmaple: http://www.pokerstars.eu/poker/games/omaha/). It is the most common form of Omaha. It's something like: the extra amount you can put in equals the size of the pot after you would have checked or called. You can raise preflop because both players pay a blind so the pot is never empty. The visualization currently does not update the pot directly when blinds or bets are made, but the engine does update it.
Now player 3 can raise maximally 35, because if he calls 10, the total pot would be 25 so in total he may bet 10+25 = 35. In case no bets are made, i.e. at the start of a new street, then the maximum simply equals the current pot size.
But what i still don't understand is why the Engine forces me to 'call' in the following example.
Output from your bot: "raise 160"
Engine says: "The action is not re-opened to your bot, raise action changed to 'call'"
This looks wrong to me indeed, your bot should be allowed to raise here. We will take a look at it. Could you please post the history of the hand played before this one? I think it might be relevant.
I put the complete game in a Text-File. In Round 40 the Engine forces me to Call as in the example above.
Output from your bot: "raise 105"
Can you post a link to the game and then specify the round this happens?
Output from your bot: "raise 180" | 2019-04-20T00:28:43 | http://theaigames.com/discussions/heads-up-omaha/539090dd5d203ca22b8b4569/pot-limit/1/show |
0.999931 | 4.3.4 Why does social media content align with surveys data sometimes and not other times?
replicate survey data using social media content.
replicate survey data with social media data and sometimes not.
So we spoke about the O'Connor Study at some length in the last segment.
and which so O'Connor himself calls the result of the entire paper mixed.
had removed containing references to the pirate party, a small political party.
the election outcome on the basis of the Twitter content was substantially reduced.
So it was really quite a fragile finding.
we're talking about this particular problem or really science in general.
that don't produce significant results aren't published, we may never know.
And these may far outnumber those that are successful and are published.
replicating survey data with social media content.
survey measures over one time period and this story may get told.
at least be reduced in the next time period and we may never know that.
media data can be used for the kinds of purposes that surveys are used for.
Those who use social media are different in many of the population.
about experiences that are similar to those of the general population.
This just kind of has to be the case when there is alignment.
survey responses, and that's that social media is social.
for themselves, they're posting for others.
larger conversation that they're detecting in their environment.
characteristics reported in social media that we see in surveys.
the content from social media may matter.
extracting sentiment are used, they may lead to different results.
which we've talked about, that also may lead to different outcomes.
lead to different outcomes if they're slightly different.
also affect the degree to which these two data sources tell the same story.
to match with social media data in these studies may really make a difference.
maybe most survey questions ask about you as the respondent.
Others ask about the larger group, what do you think about the country as a whole?
may be more similar to the processes producing social media posts than another.
questions that ask the respondent about a larger group or a collective.
Question about the self, about the respondent is now looking ahead.
off financially, or worse off, or just about the same as now?
So it's about you and your family.
Versus a question about a larger group.
Now turning to business conditions in the country as a whole.
or bad times or what?
between social media data in particular, Twitter and each of these questions.
So this figure gives us a sense of this between 2008 and the end of 2011.
The black line is the Twitter sentiment ratio.
with a sentimental analysis tool called Lexipro.
data from our sentiment derived from the question about the self.
The first of those two questions we looked at.
the country as a whole, the collective.
moves more closely with the black line than the red line.
But it's not always evident.
the correlation between Twitter content and the question about the self.
may matter when looking at this kind of alignment.
estimate population characteristics, population parameters.
this particular advantage is evident overall across these four years.
other smaller time periods we don't see the relationship in all of them.
24, 46 months, so actually just around half of the months.
that might not be such a good idea.
At least given these data for these questions.
social media content might be used in place of surveys.
survey data or be used in situations where surveys are hard to do.
some possible explanations here but this really very preliminary and suggestive.
there was alignment over a four year period but not in monthly increments.
So what time period can we sort of rely on for this kind of alignment?
against survey data, and when can the social media data stand on their own?
some kind of gold standard is still required to evaluate social media content.
kinds of estimation processes that we currently use surveys for.
alternative modes and our entire course.
they're evolving, but the demand for surveys is as strong as ever.
widespread use and will be with us for the foreseeable future.
SMS, modes like video mediated interviews, and so on.
various populations is as great as ever, it's growing.
we continue to want to monitor people's experiences and their attitudes.
We really can't make good decisions as a society without this kind of information.
And as we change, we need to adapt our measurement processes to those changes.
whether it's from self reports as the case in surveys or sensors or social media.
to determine which modes of data collections maximize the tradeoffs.
So I urge you to go out there and use this knowledge and talk about it.
Let us know through the forum how you're doing.
hopefully you've been talking to each other throughout the course.
But put these skills and this new knowledge to use.
I've really enjoyed producing these videos.
I have been working on them over the last many months and it has been good for me.
I really hope it has been valuable to you and will be valuable going forward.
wish you all the best as you go forward. | 2019-04-24T17:52:33 | https://tr.coursera.org/lecture/data-collection-methods/4-3-4-why-does-social-media-content-align-with-surveys-data-sometimes-and-not-VxEvG |
0.998516 | What is it about us as human beings that makes us sometimes completely unable to stop ourselves from doing something we just know is going to end badly?
I was working on some "homework" from a quilt class last night and I could tell, as I was sewing the last strips on each block, that I was going to end up with whonky blocks. There were plenty of bias edges going on and I knew the strip I was attaching to the center of the block was a little too long, and that while I could certainly stretch those bias edges a little bit to make it fit, there would be a point of no return. Yet I continued to stretch and sew, and hoped for the best. After all, I'd cut and sewn everything exactly to the instructions, hadn't I? Maybe the teacher knew something I didn't and it would all work out in the end...ahem. Blocks finished, and seeing edges wave back at me, I spray starched the heck out of them, steam pressed them, and put the heaviest books on my shelves on top of them on the ironing board and left them overnight.
They're nice and flat today, but there's a clear bow in the outside edges. I either do some reverse sewing, or consign myself to grief when I try to attach all the finished blocks together at the end of the class next spring. What could've been maybe a ten or 15 minute fix yesterday before it went so far awry is now going to probably take me at least 45 minutes to an hour, if I don't end up having to recut some strips and start further back in the process.
I could see it coming. But I didn't stop myself.
Similarly, when my son woke up this morning, I gave him all of about 5 minutes before I mentioned a speeding ticket he'd gotten a couple of days ago. I wasn't yelling at him, simply mentioning to him that the only job he was going to have from me today was to fill out the information on the ticket and get it ready to stick in the mail. All in a very reasonable voice. Even so, before I even opened my mouth, I thought, "He's always cranky in the morning. Maybe I should wait an hour or so before bringing this up." But something in me (admittedly, the part still a little ticked at him for getting the ticket in the first place) just didn't want to stop myself. Yes, there was a subtext to me not stopping myself on that one that's entirely different from the subtext in the quilting incident. But both have the same basic problem--why can't I stop myself when I know something is probably going to end badly?
Fortunately, I just got a couple of eye-rolls and a bit of a snitty voice from my son. It could've been worse. And my quilt blocks can be saved--it's only fabric and a little time, after all. But it made me think of all the times we human beings make decisions we know are unhealthy, or we know will be dangerous, or we know will probably just make situations worse...and we don't stop ourselves. Although we may get some immediate benefit from our poor choices (sure, I was glad that my son was at least momentarily as annoyed about the ticket as I was, even if for different reasons), we know in the long run we'll probably regret having made whatever the decision was and may even have really dug ourselves a hole that it'll be very difficult to get out of.
And so another life lesson from quilting. Hopefully next time I'll stop myself before I sew a piece on that I just know is going to cause me grief later, and next time I'll stop myself before I say or do something I just know is going to end badly. Meanwhile, I have to go find my seam ripper. | 2019-04-25T14:19:13 | http://quiltingfortherestofus.com/blog/2008/08/when-you-can-see-it-coming.html |
0.999636 | This passage mainly deals with the different forms of collecting as a hobby and its psychological aspects. It secondarily deals with the purpose of collecting as a hobby.
The question asks to find which things are collected for making money.
So, that’s our first clue matching with the question.
Here, the word “,say,” has something special. When you find the word “SAY” in the middle of a sentence with two commas, you can be sure that this particular word is indicating an example or instance.
So, the answer is: antiques.
Collectors may get a feeling of _________ from buying and selling items.
Key words for the question: collectors, feeling, buying and sellingIn paragraph 2, you will find a sentence stating buying and selling items, that is: “But there may well be a psychological element, too – buying cheap and selling dear can give the collector a sense of triumph”.
Here, a sense of = a feeling of.
So, the answer is: triumph.
We can understand from the lines that these groups as “collectors’ clubs”. It’s saying that they can exchange information on items while attending those clubs. But the question requires one word only, so we choose the most important word from the sentence – “information”.
So, the answer is: information.
Key words for the question: Collectors’ clubs, similar interests.
Again, in this question we find “collectors’ clubs” as in the question above. Therefore, we must stay at paragraph 3 to find the answer. In the second sentence, we see a phrase “like–minded people”.
way in which collectors come into contact socially.
Here, in the sentence, bring means offer and people who have similar interests means like – minded people.
So, the answer is: contact/meetings.
The first clue of the question is given in paragraph 3.
As the questions in IELTS Reading frequently follow the text’s order, you should look at the following sentences and find the similar words to the question you are practicing. The final sentence of paragraph 3 states another purpose of collecting – which is “the desire to find something special” (Here, the word special means special item). But there is no mention of anything similar to “life-long”. Therefore you must continue reading to find the accurate answer. Interestingly, in the very next sentence, the author says “Some may spend their whole lives in a hunt for this” (“the whole lives = life – long”). Now, we can understand that the writer means to say “Collectors sometimes have a life-long desire/ spend their whole lives in a hunt for a special item.” So, the answer can be both “desire” or “hunt”.
So, the answer is: hunt / desire.
Key words for the question: searching, prevent, their life.
Scanning the sentence two times, you will understand that “This” means “spend their whole lives in a hunt for a special item”. We can also understand that “a hunt” means “searching for”.
So, the author is claiming that if they are not looking for a special item, they will feel “aimless”. Then, in the following lines, we are again told (in paragraph 4 line 7-8), if the collector finds that special item, they may then “feel empty”, because the search has ended with the finding of the special item.
So, the answer is: aimless / empty.
Key words for the question: stamp collecting, facts, different countries.
The writer is clearly of the opinion that stamp collecting has some educational value as it “opens a window to other countries” with things described or shown on their stamps.
So, the answer is: educational.
Key words for the question: male hobby.
Here, boys and men means male.
So, the answer is: trainspotting.
Key words for the question: the number of, buying dolls, grown.
As, in this question, the primary or main keyword is doll, we have to find every part of the text about “dolls”. Paragraph 8 talks about this topic. But it is about the things which interest doll collectors, but there is no information about the number of people buying dolls. No numeric data is given here.
Key words for the question: 16th century, made of, wax and porcelain.
In the same paragraph (paragraph 8) about dolls, the writer also says in the second sentence: “These have changed over the centuries from the wood that was standard in 16th century Europe, through the wax and porcelain of later centuries, to the plastics of today’s dolls.” So, it can be gathered from the lines, in 16th century, European dolls were often made of wood. And the wax and porcelain dolls were popular in later centuries, which indicates the 17th century and the ones after.
So, the answer is: False.
Key words for the question: arranging, by the size, less common.
Paragraph 9 should be focused, which contains information about arranging a stamp collection. In this paragraph, the author only states the reason behind some collectors’ liking to arrange their collection and the types of arrangement. But, you can find no reference to what kind of arrangement is more or less common.
Key words for the question: unusual objects, think.
In paragraph 10, the author says “One reason, conscious or not, for what someone chooses to collect is to show the collector’s individualism”, and gives an example by stating, “Someone who decides to collect something unexpected as dog collars,” (which means unusual objects), they may be passing on their belief (which means they want others to think) that they are interesting as well.
So, the answer is: True.
In the final paragraph, the writer says, “More than most other hobbies, collecting can be totally engrossing, and can give a strong sense of personal fulfillment.” This means collecting needs all your attention and makes you completely satisfied, while most other hobbies could not do the same (more than most other hobbies).
Here, give a sense means give a feeling and inspire means fulfill. | 2019-04-19T21:21:32 | http://www.ieltsdeal.com/ielts-reading-cambridge-12-test-5-passage-2-collecting-as-a-hobby-solutions-with-explanations-2/ |
0.997866 | It was in an early morning phone call that Jenny Baynham learned about a brutal attack on her brother.
Clearly distraught, her elderly mother said: "Oh Jen, I have got some terrible news."
Ms Baynham had spoken to her older brother Ian, 62, the night before he went out to celebrate his new job.
She too had secured a new job and the siblings had spoken about how their first week had gone.
Her new post had brought her back to London after 10 years in Australia, closer to her mother and two brothers.
But on the morning of 25 September, 2009, her world fell apart when her mother relayed the news of the Trafalgar Square attack.
Ms Baynham said: "I was absolutely shattered. I couldn't imagine my mother would ever tell me anything like that. She was desperately upset... At that point I didn't know it was a homophobic attack."
During the trial the court heard Mr Baynham was subjected to homophobic taunts before being punched to the ground.
Joel Alexander, 19, landed the blow before Rachel Burke and Ruby Thomas, both 18, kicked him as he lay unconscious.
Thomas and Alexander were found guilty of manslaughter. Burke was convicted of affray.
Mr Baynham died 18 days after the attack, which was fuelled by "drunkenness and loutish behaviour", Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, told the jury.
Mr Baynham's friend of 10 years, George Richardson, said: "I heard about the attack about 15 minutes after it happened.
"Philip [Brown], who was with him on the night, rang me from Trafalgar Square.
"Philip had told me on the phone how it started so I knew it [was a homophobic attack] straight away."
He then told Mr Baynham's sister about the nature of the attack.
She said she felt "bewildered" at learning the reason and sitting through the trial had been a "shocking" ordeal.
"I don't think anything has really changed and I think there's still a huge prejudice.
"I think as individuals everybody has feelings about different sections of society but it is tolerance that is so important.
"I don't feel angry but I feel a sense that something positive has to come out of it."
A spokesman for gay rights group Stonewall said although reporting of homophobic crime had increased it remained a "real concern" and the "tragic death" of Mr Baynham was just one example.
He said: "Lesbian and gay people in London are over one-and-a-half times more likely to alter their behaviour to avoid homophobic hate crime than gay people in the South West and Wales."
A YouGov study for Stonewall showed that one in five homosexuals had experienced a hate crime or incident in the past three years.
He added: "People don't develop homophobic attitudes overnight and suddenly start attacking gay people.
"Stonewall's research has shown that homophobic bullying and violence is endemic in Britain's schools.
"Nine in 10 secondary school teachers and more than two in five primary school teachers say that children - regardless of their sexual orientation - currently experience anti-gay bullying in their schools."
Figures from the Metropolitan Police show that between April 2009 and March 2010 homophobic crime rose by 22.2% from the previous 12 months - from 1,093 to 1,336 incidents.
The highest number of incidents were reported in the City of Westminster - up from 86 to 124 - where Ian Baynham was beaten to death.
Up to March 2010, Camden saw 100 (up from 70), Lambeth 98 (67), Southwark - 83 (58), Islington 75 (down from 86) and Bromley recorded 74 incidents (48).
In 2006-07 1,147 crimes were reported, in 2007-08 there were 961 crimes reported and this rose to 1,093 in 2008-09.
A Met spokesman said hate crime was still under reported but there had been a growing willingness of victims to report.
He said: "We recognise that the under-reporting of hate crime represents missed opportunities - to keep victims safe or otherwise support them, to identify and tackle repeat perpetrators and to identify and police hate crime hotspots, and thus we are always seeking ways to increase reporting."
Dean Ingledew, operational director for community safety in Westminster, said: "We are incredibly proud of Soho's vibrant gay community.
"We take this type of crime extremely seriously.
"We are working with the gay community to encourage the reporting of such attacks and we are closely monitoring the crime stats so any emerging issues can be quickly tackled.
"But when you take into account the 200 million annual visitors to the West End the chances of becoming a victim of any kind of crime in Westminster is thankfully extremely remote." | 2019-04-20T13:37:52 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-11999193 |
0.999934 | Is mondo grass (monkey grass) and or liriope grass toxic to rabbits? I cannot find anything on the list of toxic or non-toxic plants for rabbits.
I am looking for a ground cover that grows in shade, to put in my rabbit enclosure, but I want to make sure it is safe if they eat it. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you.
I have planted mondo grass in my yard and the rabbits keep eating it up. I've tried several times and I think I need to find another plant. I think you are safe to use mondo grass around your rabbit friends :). | 2019-04-25T15:58:18 | http://www.rabbitmatters.com/mondo-grass.html |
0.999261 | When it comes to classwork, the term paper can be exceptionally time consuming. Any writing project will take hours of research before it is even possible to begin writing. In order to get a top score on this assignment, students should use the following tips.
The easiest way to stay on track for this assignment is to create a schedule. Students can break down their work into set milestones and goals so that they know if they are actually on track for completing it on time. Whenever possible, the student should try to do as much of their work in advance as they can. By completing parts of the project early, students can ensure that they will actually have time to finish it.
Before a famous novelist like Mark Twain writers a single book, they read through hundreds or thousands of other novels. Students can do the same thing in their classes. By reading through example essays, the student can make sure that they actually know the correct writing style, format and citations that they will need to use. Additionally, these examples can be used to guide the student's bibliography and in-text citations without having to waste time flipping through a writer's manual.
The worst feeling in the world is remembering the perfect statistic or quote, but being unable to remember which book it was in. As the student reads through academic journals, books and websites, they should take notes about the exact location or page number where they found a specific quote. This will allow the student to make sure that they properly cite their information, and it will speed up the time that it takes to write later on.
While the student is taking notes about their research, they should also write down the publication date, title, authors and other relevant details. Creating a bibliography takes time, and it is generally the last thing that the student completes before they hand in their term paper. To make sure that the student is actually prepared to write the bibliography, they should write down every source that they come across in their research. In addition, tracking every source during the researching process ensures that the student can actually include all of the sources they used. As a rule, any information that is not cited is considered plagiarized. To prevent this from happening, students must take care to write down the bibliographical details of each source as they work. | 2019-04-23T04:38:12 | http://www.gnosisholisticinstitute.com/doing-research-for-a-term-paper-n-effective-cool-guide |
0.999952 | Is an internal locus of control desirable?
Within psychology, Locus of Control is considered to be an important aspect of personality. The concept was developed originally Julian Rotter in the 1950s (Rotter, 1966).
Do you believe that your destiny is controlled by yourself or by external forces (such as fate, god, or powerful others)?
In general, it seems to be psychologically healthy to perceive that one has control over those things which one is capable of influencing.
Internals can be psychologically unhealthy and unstable. An internal orientation usually needs to be matched by competence, self-efficacy and opportunity so that the person is able to successfully experience the sense of personal control and responsibility. Overly internal people who lack competence, efficacy and opportunity can become neurotic, anxious and depressed. In other words, internals need to have a realistic sense of their circle of influence in order to experience 'success'.
Externals can lead easy-going, relaxed, happy lives.
Despite these cautions, psychological research has found that people with a more internal locus of control seem to be better off, e.g., they tend to be more achievement oriented and to get better paid jobs. However, thought regarding causality is needed here too. Do environmental circumstances (such as privilege and disadvantage) cause LOC beliefs or do the beliefs cause the situation?
Sometimes Locus of Control is seen as a stable, underlying personality construct, but this may be misleading, since the theory and research indicates that that locus of control is largely learned. There is evidence that, at least to some extent, LOC is a response to circumstances. Some psychological and educational interventions have been found to produce shifts towards internal locus of control (e.g., outdoor education programs; Hans, 2000; Hattie, Marsh, Neill & Richards, 1997).
Hans, T. (2000). A meta-analysis of the effects of adventure programming on locus of control. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 30(1),33-60.
Hattie, J. A., Marsh, H. W., Neill, J. T. & Richards, G. E. (1997). Adventure Education and Outward Bound: Out-of-class experiences that have a lasting effect. Review of Educational Research, 67, 43-87.
Mamlin, N., Harris, K. R., Case, L. P. (2001). A Methodological Analysis of Research on Locus of Control and Learning Disabilities: Rethinking a Common Assumption. Journal of Special Education, Winter.
Marsh, H. W. & Richards, G. E. (1986). The Rotter Locus of Control Scale: The comparison of alternative response formats and implications for reliability, validity and dimensionality. Journal of Research in Personality, 20, 509-558.
Marsh, H. W. & Richards, G. E. (1987). The multidimensionality of the Rotter I-E Scale and its higher order structure: An application of confirmatory factor analysis. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 22, 39-69.
Rotter, J. (1966). Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcements. Psychological Monographs, 80, Whole No. 609. | 2019-04-26T06:28:30 | http://wilderdom.com/psychology/loc/LocusOfControlWhatIs.html |
0.998986 | What does the rear window defogger switch do? The rear window defogger is in charge of demisting your rear window, as the name would suggest. Notice the small grid-like wires laid out on your rear window? Electricity runs through them, creating heat and in turn melting any snow and ice from the window. Power to the defogger is controlled via a switch on the dashboard or center console which the driver can use at any time. When activated the switch lights up indicating that it is in fact on. How do you know you need your rear window defogger switch replaced? Your rear window does not defrost/defog The light on the switch does not light up Your rear window defogs occasionally but is not reliable How is the rear window defogger switch replaced by a mobile mechanic? The fuses are checked to ensure that is is not an electrical issue If faulty, the switch is removed and replaced The switch is tested for functionality How important is having your rear window defogger switch replaced? Although it wonäóťt cause the car to stop working, a malfunctioning rear window defogger switch will be a nuisance in the sense that you wonäóťt be able to see anything through the rear window. | 2019-04-25T18:38:20 | https://www.gowrenchauto.com/mechanic/rear-window-defogger-switch-replacement |
0.999847 | Will the U review or whitewash a research subject's death?
The Dan Markingson case, involving a drug trial, has been a self-perpetuated cloud over the school for a decade.
As scholars of medical ethics and proud alumni of the University of Minnesota, we have been pained by the cloud that has hung over our alma mater in the decade since Dan Markingson killed himself while enrolled in a university-sponsored drug trial.
Many prominent voices have called for an independent investigation into Markingson’s death, including editors of the world’s most prestigious medical journals and more than 250 other ethicists, physicians and scholars.
Unfortunately, rather than working to be accountable and transparent, the university administration has taken a relentlessly defensive posture — hiding behind its lawyers, targeting its critics and distorting the facts.
Most notably, the administration has dismissed the need for an independent investigation by claiming that the university’s treatment of Markingson “has been exhaustively reviewed by federal, state and academic bodies since 2004,” in the words of the university’s general counsel. However, some of these claimed reviews simply did not occur, while others did not examine the most troubling aspects of the Markingson case. For example, the administration has repeatedly claimed that the Hennepin County District Court exonerated the university in a lawsuit brought by Markingson’s mother. In fact, the university convinced the court that it had legal immunity from the suit and could not be held liable no matter how badly it may have treated Markingson.
The administration’s refusal to commission an independent investigation of the Markingson case has tainted the university for far too long. That began to change recently when the Faculty Senate responded to a letter signed by more than 175 scholars asking for an external, independent investigation into the Markingson case. By an overwhelming margin, the Faculty Senate voted to approve a “Resolution on the Matter of the Markingson case” and endorse an inquiry into clinical research practices at the university.
Any inquiry that merely considers the university’s forms and policies without examining the experiences of actual research subjects would only further erode confidence in the institution and compound the harm to its reputation.
In addition to seeking to limit the scope of the investigation, Kaler seems intent on handpicking the investigators. Any involvement by the administration in selecting the members of the investigative panel would destroy the body’s credibility. The offices of the president, the general counsel and the Academic Health Center are all important players in the Markingson controversy whose roles must be examined by the investigative panel. It would be a clear conflict of interest for the targets of this inquiry to select their own investigators.
Finally, the investigative body must be given the legal authority it needs to conduct a thorough investigation. It must be empowered to look at financial records, to obtain internal e-mails and communications, to give legal protection to whistleblowers, and to interview former patients and research subjects and protect them from retaliation. For example, the panel should have the authority to waive confidentiality agreements that former patients and their family members may have signed as part of legal settlements with the university.
The Faculty Senate’s resolution presents an excellent opportunity to bring closure to a tragic case that has sullied our university for far too long. But this can only happen if the investigation is thorough, broad and independent, rather than carefully managed by the administration.
Matt Lamkin is an assistant professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law.
and Maran Wolston, Philosophy Department faculty member, Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
I'm certain President Kaler would like to continue to bury the details of this case. Hopefully more ethical officials at the university will prevail.
Excellent article. If Kaler actually thinks the Markingson case was simply a one-of-kind tragedy at the U-MN he's beyond help. Wake-up Mr. Kaler, your psychiatry department has ruined many lives.
This egregious and disgusting behavior by the University's president has to come to a halt. This man and his ideas and morals are certainly part of the problem not part of the solution. We have lost all respect for the University over this scandal and the others that have been kept in the dark. Shame on Mr. Kaler and either do the right and ethical thing and step aside, or resign. It's apparent you are not able to lead this university with integrity and truthfulness.
At the very least, everyone involved at the U of M in the epic and continuous fumbling of the PR on this episode should be fired.
It seems that the University must be afraid that many more Markingson's will appear if such an investigation takes place. There is no other logical explanation for all the repeated statements of no-wrongdoing from the administration. Had this been case, the University would simply have produced all the documents that prove their claims and this case would have ended. That has never happened and agree with the fact that the PR representatives at the U that have been allowed to speak or answer inquires are some of the worst in their field.
I can appreciate the fact that many years have past since this young mans death, what I don't understand though is why the UMN has repeatedly offered up the same excuses time after time trying to defend themselves. And they are just that, excuses, not credible documentation that they looked into this death and how and why it happened, and any steps they've taken to prevent something as tragic as this from happening again. It isn't so much the act of suicide here from an obviously unbalanced young man, but the enabling to cover it's tracks afterwards by the University's top officials and legal team of any violations of human rights or human subject's protection. A totally independent investigation is long overdue, and if/when other such cases surface, the University has to be transparent in their handling of such tragedy's. Until that happens, I have lost all respect for research at the UMN.
It would be fitting of President Kaler to demonstrate the same amount of enthusiasm for seeking the truth about not only the Markingson case, but for the others the University is aware of or have taken great pains to avoid, as he displays on the football sidelines during gophers games. To have ignored this scandal for so long is such an embarrassment for the University as well as the state.
We are witnessing an abdication of responsibility on the part of University President Kaler. He has positioned himself as an executive unaccountable to anyone but himself. He must have been made fully aware of the Markingson scandal and agreed beforehand to staying on the University’s road of denial as a condition of his employment. It’s not rocket science folks, the University simply cannot allow a totally independent investigation conducted by qualified unattached investigators, knowing full-well what that investigation will reveal. How many more abused human subjects are there that the University knows about and have also tried to stifle? Hint: There are numerous. I’m old enough to recall Nixon raising his two fingers above his head and claiming that he’s not a crook following Watergate…The University by their denials are simply mimicking that disgusting behavior.
As a U-alum I am ashamed of this total disregard of responsibility from President Kaler. This scandal has hung like a cloud over the university for years and finally Kaler was given an opportunity to save face and claim he was just acting on the vote from the Faculty Senate and appoint an independent investigation of not only the Markingson case, but of the others that exist. President Kaler has a responsibility to answer to everyone and not just his immediate conspirators in cover-up mode. I was once proud of the reputation of the University of Minnesota's Medical School, and all of it's accomplishments. That pride has really taken a hit over this episode.
Agree with almost all of the posts. For Dr. Kaler to not recognize the fact that there are more human subjects and their families that have had research violation issues with the department of psychiatry is just ludicrous. The recent Fox News report showed another individual, and it's 100% guaranteed that there are many more such patients that were taken advantaged of, or had their rights abused by researchers at the University's psychiatry clinic's and hospital wards. I know personally of three such individuals.
It's quite amusing to think that the state's Attorney General's Office prosecuted Accretive for violating 100's if not thousands of patients protective health records at Fairview, and yet Kaler and University want everyone to accept and believe that nothing like that occurred with mentally ill patients within the two University controlled wards at Fairview? Having had a family member that worked on those and other mental health wards at Fairview, she was disgusted and alarmed on a regular basis over the violations occurring by research psychiatrists or their staff. For Kaler to insinuate that those incidents didn't take place on a regular basis is just ridiculous. To claim that all is 'today' without recognizing and admitting the the wrongs from the past just invites more of the same in the future.
Finally time to do the right thing?
Da Mayor: "Doctor, always do the right thing."
"Minnesotans expect us to be fair in providing access to the University for their sons and daughters. If we do not provide reasonable access--including access for those who are underprepared and historically underrepresented in higher education and in the upper levels of our socioeconomic life, the taxpayers and state government of Minnesota will turn their backs on our graduate, research, and outreach functions. Simply stated, it is imperative that we continue to embrace our land-grant roots if we are to thrive."
"The need for integrity permeates every aspect of the University. The education mission of the University must be taken seriously--not just the way to get state funding."
"Administrators should tell the truth, keep their word, implement what they promise, and not dissemble. My point is plain enough: Without integrity, the phrase higher education is an oxymoron."
"When making decisions, I view shared governance and consultation with constituent groups as only fair because of the enormous stake they have in the University. Without fairness there is no legitimacy and no buy in to the institutional vision."
"At the crossroads of expectation and reality, human fallibility and aspiration, individual will and institutional inertia, I hope that you will forgive my inevitable lapses, take joint responsibility for the nurturing of values and goals, and find comfort in the progress we make together."
"God bless all of you and God bless the University of Minnesota."
Mark Yudof handled a horrible scandal in the athletic department with grace and dignity, with no excuses and no dissembling. I have been very disappointed with the University of Minnesota administration since his presidency. Yudof fired people (the athletic director as well as coaches and support staff) and had Tonya Moten Brown essentially take over the athletic department. And his humility was not false.
The time for stonewalling has passed. Trying to dodge the issues inherent in the Markingson case is a fool's game. A university without integrity is not really a university. Bread and circuses do not a great university make, nor idle chatter about the infamous third greatest public research university in the world.
Time to walk the talk, President Kaler. Otherwise, disappointed University of Minnesota alums will have to take a hike from their alma mater. In the Twin Cities alone there are plenty of places for higher education philanthropy besides the University of Minnesota - Augsburg and Macalester colleges being two examples. Note that at these two schools the student debt at graduation is lower than that at the public University of Minnesota, to our everlasting disgrace. I hope not.
One might whine that Mac is a school for the rich, a terrible and untrue argument, but such a charge is obviously not credible for Augsburg College with its much more modest endowment. When Auggie, as it is familiarly known, got donor money of questionable provenance, they gave it back. This is what doing the right thing means. And the education available at Auggie is hardly for chumps. An Auggie, Peter Agre, recently won a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Nice ROI on that, I'd say. Kudos, Auggie, a Minnesota school that makes me proud. Macalester is also in this category as well as many other fine Minnesota small liberal arts colleges, or SLACs to use au courant higher ed jargon.
Our recent University of Minnestoa debt-saddled alums and their parents are none too happy with the performance of our university. Nor are our state legislators who are heartsick and bewildered by the fact that we are one of the leaders in the country - for student debt. Perhaps the plan is to salvage our position with sports dollars? I understand that Louie Nanne has been charged with raising two hundred million dollars for our athletics program. Under the present circumstances of crushing debt for our students, this is pathetic.
And of course if one desires to contribute money for medical research, there is always the Mayo. What's been going on at Fairview-University hospital lately does not exactly inspire warm and fuzzy feelings in the hearts of the populace. People will vote on the University's performance with their feet and their checkbooks. This goes also for the people in the state legislature.
If the University wants to see private philanthropic support, perhaps they should give us something to be proud of? Manufactured hash tags like #umnproud will not suffice.
Is it finally time to do the right thing in the Markingson matter? More evasion will only serve to further erode our reputation in the real world. Out there where recent University of Minnesota administrations apparently would prefer not to go.
Yesterday I put up a "for the record" post on an interview with President Kaler that appeared in the Minnesota Daily.
When I use this phrase, I try to put up the original material without highlights, emphasis change, or comments so that the readers may decide for themselves what they think about the document or statement.
The Faculty Senate just passed its resolution to create an independent, external panel to investigate how the institution conducts clinical research on human subjects. What do you think of the most recent developments in the Dan Markingson case?
I’m a big believer in shared governance, and so I’m willing to take the advice of the Senate and the panel. ... I think they will find that our review processes are robust and that we do, in fact, protect patients in clinical trials, but there’s been concern raised in how we do that, and so our goal is to air out clearly and very publicly what we do and have a panel of external experts validate that and be sure we are doing this absolutely as well as can be done.
It’s certainly resulted as a consequence of a lot of repetitive publicity about the Markingson case, but it’s not a review of the Markingson case; it’s a review of what we are doing now and what we’re going to do moving forward.
This is something that began before you were president. What do you see as your role?
My role is to look forward, and as I said, that will be the charge of the panel.
Though some, including University bioethicists and professors, may want more answers involving Markingson’s death, we should focus on avoiding potential tragedies and unethical behavior in the future.
The resolution passed by the Faculty Senate responded to an international call for an investigation into the death of Dan Markingson. How would an investigation that avoids the Markingson case do anything to restore confidence in the university?
The Daily weighs in on the #Markingson "investigation"
My question: Will the University of Minnesota Face Up To Ethical Responsibilities or Continue In Denial and Evasion?
The Faculty Senate wants an outside panel to examine clinical trials.
The University of Minnesota Faculty Senate is calling for an independent, external panel to examine how the University does clinical research on human subjects.
The measure passed in a 67-23 vote Thursday after renewed calls from scholars and bioethicists to re-examine the 2004 suicide of Dan Markingson, a 26-year-old who participated in a clinical drug trial 10 years ago at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.
Since Markingson’s suicide, many within and outside the University have raised questions about the CAFE study, the psychiatric drug trial he participated in and the University’s standards for ethical research.
An international group of bioethicists wrote to University President Eric Kaler and the Faculty Senate in October asking for an independent investigation of issues arising from the CAFE study.
The measure calls for a look at current human research practices at the University, not an investigation of the Markingson case.
The resolution that passed Thursday isn’t binding, said Eva von Dassow, Faculty Senate vice chair and associate classical and near Eastern studies professor.
But Kaler, who chairs the Faculty Senate, told reporters after the meeting that he’s moving forward with the recommendation.
University officials will begin scouting nationwide early next year for experts to conduct the review, Kaler said, but no timeline is set for when the evaluation would be completed.
The Faculty Senate made three amendments to the original proposal, including one that requires the results of the inquiry to be reported back to the Senate for discussion.
The other two amendments added more details about Markingson to the resolution and struck the word “investigative” from the panel’s definition.
While Thursday’s resolution doesn’t call for an investigation into the Markingson case, several faculty members said lingering questions from the incident have clouded the University’s reputation as a premier research institution.
Multiple reviews of the Markingson case at the University, state and national levels found no wrongdoing in the CAFE study. The only official finding of wrongdoing was a corrective action agreement for a study coordinator from a Minnesota Board of Social Work investigation last fall.
But several prominent scholars don’t believe past inquiries into the case were credible, said philosophy professor Naomi Scheman.
But Luepker said he supports a review of the University’s ethics procedures and practices despite his qualms about the proposal’s origins.
Cultural studies and comparative literature professor Cesare Casarino said the full truth of the Markingson case still needs to come out.
When it comes to determining whether there was any wrongdoing in the case, the burden of proof is on the University, Casarino said.
Dr. Stephen Olson, the CAFE study’s lead psychiatrist, told reporters after the meeting that he welcomes any investigation into the Markingson case.
He said at the meeting that Markingson’s suicide was tragic but unsurprising.
Olson said he and his colleagues involved with the study haven’t been able to fully defend themselves because they don’t have the legal right to release Markingson’s medical records.
The University already has channels set in place, like the Institutional Review Board, that hold it to “rigorous standards of ethics,” pediatrics professor Dr. Sue Berry said at the meeting.
But William Durfee, a mechanical engineering professor and Faculty Consultative Committee chair, said while the University passes those voluntary accreditation processes with “flying colors,” it might not be enough.
“There’s a sense … as faculty that we almost want to hold the University to a higher standard than that,” he said.
But Pellow said his confidence has faltered and he feels the University should respond to “a growing and global call” for an external review.
Not conducting the review, he said, could be dangerous for the University as a whole.
“As scholars around the nation, and indeed the world, look askance and wearily at our perceived troublesome practices … [they will] likely discourage their students and colleagues from studying here, working here and collaborating with faculty here,” Pellow said.
Anthropology professor Karen-Sue Taussig said the University needs to show its commitment to research ethics, especially to the 175 international bioethicists and scholars who signed the October letter to the Faculty Senate, many of whom are renowned in their fields.
“The fact that this cloud hangs over us in the way that it does shows that we are not being successful in demonstrating that to the public and our colleagues elsewhere,” she said.
To try to evade looking into what happened in the Markingson case is a very bad strategy for the university, painful as it may be after many years of denial that anything was wrong.
Markingson Case: Has the Gordian Knot puzzle been solved at the University of Minnesota?
But simply "give them an investigation of things as they are now" may solve the problem at one level, but will it will simply intensify questioning and even outrage at another. The time for stonewalling is over.
The alternative is to take the knot apart. Follow the unravelled rope from one end - the Markingson case - to the other end: clincal practices in the present. What was wrong - if anything - in the Markingson case? What has changed as a result of it - for example Dan's Law? And where do we stand now, has anything actually changed? Is there a difference between what is ethical and what is legal? Are we now following clinical practices in accord with the highest ethical standards not just the law?
"Profiles in courage" should not only be an exemplar for politicians. It is time for the University of Minnesota administration to step up to the plate and demonstrate some courage.
I'll write again as things develop. We all love our university. Some day I'd like to be #umnproud again.
In May 2004, Dan Markingson, while enrolled in a clinical trial of an antipsychotic drug (the CAFE study) at the University of Minnesota, committed suicide. Since then individuals and groups within and outside the University have raised questions about the study, how Markingson was recruited into it, his treatment during the study, and the circumstances of his suicide.
The FCC discussed the letter and the issues it raises at its meetings on Oct. 24, Nov. 14, and Nov. 21. While these discussions have not reached a conclusion, and members of the FCC have varying views, a consensus emerged that it is appropriate to bring the matter before the Faculty Senate at this time. The FCC wishes to emphasize the following points.
First, it is important that those participating in decisions about this matter familiarize themselves, with the history of the case and investigations conducted to date.
Second, as the FCC studied this issue, two things became clear: that the Markingson tragedy specifically had been investigated several times from different perspectives, and that those investigations did not address the broader question of whether the University's current policies, procedures and practices, some of them changed since the Markingson case, reflect both best practices in clinical research on human subjects and the faculty's high ambitions for ethical behavior. Members of the FCC also recognize that external evaluations can have the advantage of fresh perspectives not biased by familiarity with current practice, and are a way for the public to have the utmost confidence in the integrity of the research conducted at the University of Minnesota.
For this reason, the FCC feels that the way forward is to recommend that an independent and transparent examination be undertaken to evaluate the University's procedures, practices, and policies governing clinical research on human subjects, and in particular clinical research involving adult participants with diminished functional abilities. While the specific charge for such an examination requires further work, FCC believes issues to address may include investigator conflict of interest, institutional conflict of interest, consent policies and procedures, case management of enrolled participants, mechanisms for overseeing such research and mechanisms for addressing adverse events.
BE IT RESOLVED that a panel external to and independent from the University of Minnesota be constituted for the purpose of conducting an inquiry examining current policies, practices, and oversight of clinical research on human subjects at the University, in particular clinical research involving adult participants with diminished functional abilities. The administration, in collaboration with appropriate faculty governance committees, shall initiate the constitution of such an independent panel and shall support its inquiry. The panel shall have authority to obtain any records it deems necessary for a thorough inquiry, to the extent consistent with applicable law. At the conclusion of the inquiry, the panel shall issue a report that will be made publicly available, within the limitations of regulations governing the protection and privacy of individuals, including research participants, and the results will be reported back to the Faculty Senate so that senators have an opportunity to ask questions and discuss the report.
soothing music while you read.
Although Dean Friedman in only three years has had nowhere near the time in which to do similar damage, I believe that he also richly deserves a tribute.
Dr. David Brown - he of the scandal that cost the U of M $32 million for abuses in the medical school.
Dr. Frank Cerra - he of the foot-dragging performance in reforming conflict of interest rules at the University of Minnesota. Pay special attention to the unofficial medical school anthem at this link.
We had two insiders during this time. Dr. Al Michaels and Dr. Shelly Chu held the fort while numerous outside searches failed. Both were reputed to be good people. I have no evidence to the contrary.
And then there was... Dr. Deborah Powell. I don't even know where to go with this, but here is a start: "The Ethically Challenged U of M Medical School Administration" Among other highly questionable moves, Dr. Powell put Dr. Leo Furcht into a position of leading a group to redo conflict of interest policies at the University without informing committee members that he had been involved in quite a conflict of interest himself. Nice, huh?
And when Dr Cerra stepped down as VP/Dean, he was replaced by today's celebrant, Dr. Friedman.
So what to say about Dr. Friedman? I'll keep it simple and just post about a few of the preposterous things he has written, no doubt aided and abetted by people in the U of M's PR department, people like Justin Paquette whose modus operandi is obvious from this post.
So here are just a few links in tribute to our latest about to be emeritus dean. May he live long and prosper.
1. University of Minnesota Medical School Dean and Academic Health Center Vice President Dr. Aaron Friedman to Step Down Good overall summary - if I do say so.
Note especially the pathetic defense of homeopathy written, nominally, by two medical school deans, Friedman and Cerra. Don't all doctors take chemistry as undergrads? I guess a few of them don't remember much chemistry - at least the concepts of dilution to infinity and Avogadro's number.
Dr. Friedman's pitiful attempt to defame Dr. Carl Elliot: "We hope Star Tribune readers won’t allow Elliott’s campaign to cloud reality." Dr. Friedman's Star-Tribune commentary was shredded in the comments that are included in the link.
3. Latest from the University of Minnesota Medical School: All the News That's Fit to Manage?
"To complain internally to the university community about the unfairness of the press after having dissembled as outlined above is not worthy of a University of Minnesota medical school dean."
4. University of Minnesota Medical School Dean Aaron Friedman: Driven to Dissemble?
There is, unfortunately, more. But the point is made.
Needless to say, I will not be attending the big shindig scheduled to celebrate Dr. Friedman's stepping down, nor did I attend Mr. Rotenberg's bon voyage party.
To give a certain symmetry to this post, I'll end with a final celebratory interlude. Those of you who have done your link homework will recognize it as the unofficial anthem of the University of Minnesota Medical School. Let's hope that changes in the future.
I've put up a new post on the Star-Tribune Community Voices site.
KMSP-9 has graciously allowed embedding of their video report on this matter. It should be noted that their recent work has contributed greatly to progress in the Markingson case. Kudos.
For nearly 10 years, family and friends of Dan Markingson have pushed for an outside investigation of his death after he violently took his own life while enrolled in a drug study at the University of Minnesota.
On Thursday, the University of Minnesota's Faculty Senate took a bold step, passing a resolution that calls for outside experts to review how the school conducts research on human subjects.
"We are all of us under this cloud, and it has to be removed," Professor Naomi Scheman contended.
Markingson was mentally ill when he was recruited to sign up for the study. His psychiatrist, Steven Olson, was the principal investigator, and part of his salary was being paid by the drug maker.
Mary Weiss, Markingson's mother, repeatedly complained to the U that her son's condition was worsening, and she feared he would kill himself.
"He didn't pass away, he was killed," Weiss said. "They let him die."
Weiss, who is recovering from a stroke, was unable to attend the faculty Senate meeting, but a close family friend called the results of the vote "overwhelming."
"I never thought it would come to this, speaking on behalf of Mary Weiss," Mike Howard said. "Thank you."
Now, it's up to University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler to decide what happens next.
"I'll consult with experts on campus to identify external people who have the expertise necessary to make an evaluation," Kaler said. "We'll invite them to come review what we do and we'll report the result."
Kaler does have the option to do nothing. The university has long maintained that the death of Markingson was a tragedy, but not the fault of researchers.
An investigation by the FDA found no evidence of misconduct, but critics say that review was incomplete and they have been pushing for a far more in-depth investigation.
"I welcome any investigation," Olson said. "I've got nothing to hide. We didn't do anything wrong."
More than 3,000 people, many of them medical professionals, have also signed a petition calling on the governor to get involved in the Markingson case. That petition was delivered to Gov. Mark Dayton's office on Thursday morning. His staff says he will have a response soon.
Jeremy Olson is quite a good reporter who has been in on the Markingson situation for quite some time. At his previous job with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, he and Paul Tosto received the Primack Award from the U of M for their investigative journalism on this and related cases. I'll tidy up this paragraph with links later.
Nearly a decade after Dan Markingson died by suicide while participating in a U of M drug trial for schizophrenics, the U’s Faculty Senate raised his death as a reason to re-examine their institution’s handling of vulnerable research subjects.
At a meeting Thursday, the senate voted 67-23 to ask the university for a review of how the university recruits and protects people in clinical trials.
Questions have emerged in recent years about whether U psychiatry researchers coerced the young, delusional Markingson into a drug study that he didn’t fully understand and his mother didn’t want for him. Most recently, a petition by more than 180 leading researchers and ethicists asked the university to review its conduct.
Faculty members at Thursday’s meeting expressed different views on the issue — some questioning whether the U put research goals ahead of Markingson, who died at age 26, and others believing the institution did everything it could to protect him. The psychiatrist who treated and recruited Markingson to the so-called CAFE study, which was funded by drugmaker AstraZeneca to compare three antipsychotic drugs, even made a rare public defense of his research.
But most faculty members agreed that the university’s credibility in the research world has been damaged by a decade of unresolved questions over Markingson’s death, and that an independent, external review could help rebuild its reputation.
“We are all of us under this cloud and this cloud needs to be removed,” said Naomi Scheman, a philosophy professor and Faculty Senate member.
Whether the vote called for a broad look only at the university’s research practices, or a specific examination of the Markingson case, was a matter of dispute after the vote.
U bioethicist Carl Elliott, who has been a leading critic of the university’s conduct in the study, said it will have to address Markingson’s death in some meaningful way. “If anyone wants this investigation to clear the name of the university — as a lot of people said they do — then it will have to deal with Dan,” he said.
After Markingson’s death at a halfway house in May 2004, a review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found no wrongdoing by the university.
However, the state mental health ombudsman did raise concerns that Markingson was recruited by a psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Olson, who also could advise a judge on whether his patient should be committed to a state mental health hospital. And state legislation has since outlawed doctors from recruiting their own patients into psychiatric drug studies because of that risk of coercion.
Olson told the Faculty Senate that he felt badly for the loss of Markingson but that he did not coerce him into the study and that the call for an investigation was prompted by mistruths.
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler says he will form an outside panel to review how the U treats human subjects in clinical trials.
His announcement followed a faculty resolution today requesting a review of the U’s practices.
The panel is a response to the 2004 death of patient Dan Markingson, who killed himself while enrolled in a clinical drug study at the U.
Faculty leader Naomi Scheman says lingering questions over his death have put the U’s reputation under a cloud.
Kaler says he welcomes the review, saying it would put to rest any doubts over how the U handles people in clinical research.
Kaler said he will form the panel early next year.
Added later, Daily IT probs fixed. This link should work to give you formatted Daily report.
This has just come out.
Formatting on Daily site via web is strange.
The University of Minnesota Faculty Senate will discuss a resolution Thursday to create an independent, external panel to investigate how the institution conducts clinical research on human subjects.
The Faculty Consultative Committee is recommending that the full Senate approve the resolution in order to ensure the University is meeting ethical standards.
The proposed resolution stems from the years-old controversy surrounding University drug trial participant Dan Markingson, who committed suicide six months after joining the study in 2003.
Markingson participated in the CAFE study, a psychiatric drug trial sponsored by AstraZeneca and run by University professors.
In October, a group of bioethicists from around the world wrote a letter to the Faculty Senate asking for an outside investigation of the case. The group raised concerns about previous action on the case, including a Minnesota Board of Social Work investigation and a lawsuit filed against the University by Markingson’s mother, Mary Weiss.
Some researchers say an investigation will find more cases like Markingson’s.
Trudo Lemmens, a University of Toronto professor and one of the letter’s key authors, said part of its intent was to show that concerns about the Markingson case aren’t unique to researchers in Minnesota.
“The external academic community is really worried about what is happening at the University of Minnesota,” he said.
Multiple reviews of the Markingson case — from University, state and national bodies — found no wrongdoing in the CAFE study. The only official finding of wrongdoing was a corrective action agreement from a Minnesota Board of Social Work investigation last fall.
The board’s investigation found that study coordinator Jean Kenney made repeated errors in documentation, performed tasks beyond her expertise and didn’t adequately address family concerns over how Markingson was treated.
Associate professor in bioethics and public health Leigh Turner, who arrived at the University in 2008, said his colleagues have been concerned about the CAFE study as long as he’s been on campus.
“It’s just something that needs to be addressed, and it needs to be addressed in a definitive way,” he said.
Mechanical engineering professor William Durfee, chairman for the University’s Faculty Consultative Committee, said psychiatric clinical trials involving human test subjects are a highly sensitive area of research.
The panel’s investigation could provide reassurance that University research practices meet ethical standards, he said.
But Mike Howard, a close friend to Weiss who has been involved with the Markingson case, said he thinks it’s unlikely an investigation would find no wrongdoing, and he thinks there are other “victims” like Markingson.
“I find it hard to believe that they would not find anything wrong,” Howard said.
Issues with the University’s research practices in the Markingson case have lingered for years, Turner said.
Professor Durfee reported that this Committee provides recommendations to the Committee on Committees on who should serve as chair of those committees whose chair serves as an ex officio member of this Committee; it also makes a recommendation about the chair of the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Committee members discussed possible candidates to serve as committee chairs.
Professor Durfee next asked for comments on a letter about the Markingson case that had been addressed to the president and to the Faculty Senate and signed by a large number of bioethicists. (Mr. Markingson was a participant in a clinical drug trial at the University and committed suicide during the study.) The letter asked the Faculty Senate to request an independent inquiry of the case.
Professor Cloyd said the question is whether the Faculty Senate would take on the matter requested by the letter—or what process it would use to deal with the request.
Professor von Dassow said that in the 24 hours preceding the meeting she and a few other Committee members received letters urging them to act on this matter. She said the letters were not "cut and paste jobs," rather, each was the individual work of its author, and they come from University alumni and faculty as well as members of the public. She forwarded a selection of these letters to the Committee last night, since which time the Committee has received additional information about the investigations that are said to have been conducted in the Markingson case. In addition, a number of faculty senators wrote to the Committee asking that it bring the letter to the Faculty Senate. The Committee must decide on a response; if it cannot be the December Senate meeting, the next one is not until March.
Her recommendation, Professor von Dassow said, is that the Committee not make decisions on behalf of the Faculty Senate but put the letter on the docket for discussion. She said she believes the University administration is in error in refusing to address the issues raised in the letter except to deny them. She said she does not want to become an expert on IRBs and related research issues and try to adjudicate the matters, but the reply from the General Counsel contains statements that conflict with other material the Committee has seen. She said she believed the way to proceed is to have open discussion at the Faculty Senate meeting and she believed it should recommend an impartial review of the case. If the Faculty Senate votes "no" on making such a recommendation, the reasons for doing so should be made clear.
Professor Luepker said he respectfully disagreed with Professor von Dassow. This is not a matter on which to rush to judgment; "we are uninformed about all the facts," he said, so it is not reasonable to think that a group of 150 people can come to a decision. There is much information available about this case, some of which he knows, although not all of it. What bothers him, Professor Luepker said, is that the events in the case are being accelerated to the level Tuskegee and eugenics, and it would not surprise him to next hear a comparison with Dachau. He said he hoped that any discussion of the case would be based on the facts, not blogs and uninformed commentary. The case is ten years old, so there is no need to rush to judgment—because there is the potential to do wrong.
Much of the fight over the case is in the media, Professor Luepker said, and the justification for it is to “help” the University's reputation. In his view, making unfounded charges through press releases and interviews are not an attempt to help the University or illuminate the facts of the case; the aim is to damage the University.
Professor Desai said that the letter writers have a constellation of evidence and it should not be the Committee's job to sift through it. This has not gone away for ten years and the University's name is tarnished, and these are not just media or legal questions. The senate could ask for an investigation but it is not something the Committee should manage. She said did not want to be in the position of saying she does not know what is going on; the Senate could call for an investigation but it is not urgent, and it should do so because many people care about the University.
Professor Satin said that he feels a responsibility to go to his colleagues with answers, and if there was wrongdoing, he does not have the answer. He said he hoped the Committee could figure out how to figure this out. If the Committee can do fact finding, that would be great; if the Senate can do fact finding, that would be great; if there is need for an independent investigation, great. He said he has not looked at all the available information and cannot say whether the situation is acceptable. At least a group needs to take time to see what information is there and decide if it is necessary to do more.
Professor Durfee reviewed the draft docket for the December 5 Faculty Senate meeting and noted that the Committee had received a letter from 14 faculty senators asking that issues related to the case of Dan Markingson (a patient in a clinical drug trial in 2003 who committed suicide) be placed on the docket, that there be sufficient time for discussion, that there be a resolution for action, and that a letter from bioethicists be provided to the members of the Faculty Senate. Professor Durfee asked Committee members how they wished to proceed and noted that the docket as proposed already filled the time allowed for the meeting.
Professor von Dassow said she believed the Committee was obligated to honor the request from the senators, regardless of the time limitations. She also suggested that this Committee need not prepare a resolution; the authors of the request could be asked to do so.
Professor Konstan said he did not believe the Committee could provide an answer in the time left at this meeting to discuss the subject. It would be ideal if the request were moot; he suggested asking the president if he would assent to an external review, as requested by the letter from the bioethicists, and then the senate would not need to deal with it. If it is not moot, it would be irresponsible for the Committee not to bring forward the issue: it has gathered enough attention from colleagues that it should be taken up. He agreed with Professor von Dassow that the senators could draft a resolution.
Professor Ben-Ner said he did not know the answer to the discussion about putting a question to the president. He said he found annoying the table of analyses of the various reports about the Markingson case that were attached to the letter from the senators; anyone could write such rebuttals to anything any agency, judge or faculty member writes. What does this prove or disprove? What is the purpose of the request? To try to improve IRB rules? To get at the connection between parts of the Medical School and drug companies? To reexamine what colleagues from the Medical School have done then and what might they have done differently? Is to redress an alleged wrong committed in the past? He said it was not clear what purpose is served. He said he would be glad to talk about IRB rules and their enforcement, which have apparently changed in different directions during the past decade. He would be prepared to have an evaluation of the relationship between drug companies and clinical drug trials, about which he reads in the media but doesn’t know specific details in the University of Minnesota context. These are important matters that need to be considered thoughtfully by different bodies at the University without the urgency of a short deadline.
Professor Durfee said the discussion is about whether the issues raised in the letter should be on the docket. There has been a request from faculty senators; this Committee has final say over the docket. It needs to figure out to allocate time. Professor Ben-Ner said his point was not divorced from the question of why or why not but agreed that a request from multiple senators should be honored.
Professor Satin agreed and said the issue has gathered enough steam that the Committee should not drag its feet—it should put the matter on the docket. But it must come with information about the issue and faculty senators must realize that they will need to do a considerable amount of reading if they are to vote intelligently on any resolution.
Professor Satin said, apropos of Professor Konstan's comment about the possibility of the issue being moot, that irrespective of the outcome, it would be valuable to have a record of where the Faculty Senate stood.
Professor Ranelli said the matter should be on the docket.
Professor Luepker said what bothered him, is that the authors of the messages had already concluded what the answer should be. He agreed with Professor Ben-Ner that the table of analyses was annoying; he is smart enough to read the reports and reach his own conclusions. As for bringing the matter to the Faculty Senate, a group of 150+ people is not a good decision-making body unless there has been due diligence, and this Committee itself has not had the necessary discussions. He observed that there is only two weeks before the December 5 Faculty Senate meeting, during which time the Thanksgiving holiday falls.
If the issue is on the docket, it will need considerable discussion, Professor Durfee observed. Should it include a resolution, as the 14 senators requested?
Professor Satin said the matter needs to go on the docket but there should be no decision on December 5. There is no way that the members of the Faculty Senate will have sufficient time to make a decision. He suggested putting the topic on the docket for information and providing resources, and also inform the Faculty Senate that the Committee will be working to provide additional material later. But it should not be put on for anything other than for information, to be followed up at the next meeting.
Professor Ben-Ner repeated his question: why conduct now a discussion of events that occurred ten years ago? What is a Senate resolution seeking to address? Redress? He said he could not understand how returning to events of ten years ago would improve current practices. Before a perfunctory senate discussion of 20-30 minutes, the Committee needs to figure out what it is embarking on and be prepared to offer a reasoned course of action. The request by faculty senators has to be honored without questioning their motives for bringing up the issue for discussion, but the Committee should focus its effort on improving current rules and practices and not on deconstructing past decisions and analyses by various bodies that weighed in on the matter in the past.
Professor von Dassow said, in response to Professor Luepker's comment, that of course people who sent him emails had already decided. She said that only putting the item on the docket for information would satisfy no one but agreed that the Committee could not draft a resolution during this meeting. Many people know a great deal about the issue so it would not be an incoherent discussion.
Professor McCormick commented that if faculty senators need information, they also need to be reminded of what information is not available.
Professor Cloyd said the issue needs discussion broadly and the Faculty Senate is the appropriate venue. He asked what impact a resolution for action would have. Professor Durfee said that presumably it would constitute a request to the president to commission an external review of the case.
Professor Gardner said he was disappointed that the senators who sent the letter to the Committee did not submit a resolution as well, which would have been appropriate and would have helped the discussion here. This goes to the questions he asked before: what would constitute an independent inquiry? How will the Committee know what to move on?
Professor Konstan suggested that the matter could be referred to the Senate Research Committee.
His second question, Professor Gardner said, is about what IRB policies are now versus what they were ten years ago. Have there been changes that preclude events such as those that arose in the Markingson case? That is a subject about which there could be discussion and one that could be referred to the Senate Research Committee.
Professor von Dassow said she would like to leave open the possibility that there could be a resolution that faculty senators could vote on at the meeting. In response to Professor Gardner's question about what would constitute an independent inquiry, it is her understanding that it could be an inquiry conducted by a panel appointed by the governor and composed of people who have the requisite knowledge but who have not already aligned themselves with one side or the other in this case.
Professor Cloyd said that what needs to be conveyed to the Faculty Senate is that it should take the issues seriously and that this Committee endorses careful consideration; this Committee needs to identify a pathway to a conclusion. This Committee also asked "what's the question?" Is it scientific misconduct? Conflict of interest? A matter of informed consent?
Professor Durfee welcomed the president to the meeting.
The president began with a few remarks about the Markingson case.
Professor von Dassow commented that letter sent by Trudo Lemmens, et al. talks about the Markingson case because that case was the subject of a lawsuit and is a matter of public knowledge, but the concern is that similar problems exist in other cases as well and that they may represent systemic problems; she noted the criticisms of the reviews of this case that had taken place; she suggested that the University is obligated to examine how research is conducted, and in a public way; she said an independent inquiry could clear things up and provide a public benefit for the University, so it should resolve that there be one.
Professor Ben-Ner said that if there is a problem with IRB procedures, they should be addressed; if the rules appear to allow conflicts of interest, they should be addressed; if all drug companies participate in research, that should be addressed; if there is a problem with faculty members, it should be addressed. But it does not make sense to re-open all the details of this particular case.
Professor Konstan said that this feels like two rams battling each other—the struggle isn't being resolved. While the University may try to outlast the letter-writers, they seem in it for the long term. He suggested redirecting the attention to proposing a review that looks at the broader question of how the University currently conducts and oversees research with potential risks to human subjects. While they may want to avoid re-opening Markingson per se, and avoid subjecting the two researchers involved to double jeopardy, that shouldn't prevent the Committee from taking a serious look at whether the University's research policies and practices uphold the standards it aspires to. The Committee should pro-actively suggest that it is worth exploring whether institutional practices are consistent with the best practices of its peers, or whether they need to be improved. In other words, rather than continue rehashing Markingson, the Committee should be looking at whether the University learned something over the past 10 years and whether its current practices and policies are where it wants them to be.
The president said he would be willing to entertain a question about how such research is conducted.
Professor Luepker said, apropos of the FDA investigation in the case, that it has indictment powers and that its investigations are exceedingly thorough. He said he was offended by the interpretations of the investigation that have been advanced. He agreed with Professor Konstan that it would worth looking at whether there is adequate oversight of this kind of research because there are a many other units, including CLA, that do clinical research.
Professor Desai said she believed that the case has eroded public trust in the University and that it would be possible to get the best report (similar to the report that followed the Virginia Tech shootings) on what the University needs to do better to protect people coming to it for drug trials. If there is no trust in the University, its research is not trusted.
Professor Satin agreed with Professor Konstan's suggestion and commented that the authors of the letter from the bioethicists are reputable people in the field.
Professor von Dassow also agreed with Professor Konstan's suggestion as the right and reasonable way to proceed; this is less a matter of finding fault than of finding out what went wrong and what to improve. If the Faculty Senate were to adopt a resolution that articulated the goal of examining the norms and procedures governing this kind of research at the University, Professor von Dassow asked the president, could he support it? President Kaler said he would need to think about it; he said that it might be worthwhile to compare the University's current practices with best practices in the field.
3. Faculty Senate Docket, cont.
Professor Durfee returned the discussion to the Faculty Senate docket and asked if the Committee wished some discussion time allotted for the letter from the senators. It may not be especially long, he said, but is that the best way to proceed?
Professor Konstan thought so and suggested using separate microphones at the meeting for the speakers who support the letter, those who oppose it, and for speakers with questions. He said it would also be helpful to hear the president's views, if he is willing to share them with the senate.
Professor Cloyd agreed that time for discussion should be set aside and said that it should be framed as looking at the best possible approaches to conducting clinical research and whether the University is following those practices—and not looking backwards and trying to assign guilt. Professor Satin agreed on the need to focus on current practices and said that much has changed in the last ten years.
Professor Gardner said it could be appropriate for someone to move that the issue be referred to the Senate Research to present a proposal for the study of research practices. Someone should draft a motion. Professor Konstan said there needs to be a charge to the Senate Research Committee; one outcome of the discussion could be such a charge.
Professor Bearinger said that per Professor Cloyd, the Committee should take advantage of the conversation it has already had to help the Faculty Senate and avoid having to repeat everything.
It was agreed that Professors von Dassow, Durfee, Konstan, and Satin would develop a motion that the Committee would consider for placement on the docket. The motion would focus on human-subjects research, particularly research with vulnerable subjects.
Professor Durfee thanked Committee members for the discussion and adjourned the meeting at 3:00. | 2019-04-24T02:01:35 | http://ptable.blogspot.com/2013/12/ |
0.999738 | We know four trainers started in Pallet town. Three with one of the three original starters and Ash with his Pikachu. Apart from Gary, were the other two trainers ever revealed in the anime? And was it ever revealed who got which specific starter Pokemon?
First, the things we know: Ash got late and had to pick the reserve Pokemon Pikachu. The other 3 starter Pokemon already got picked, one of which was picked by Gary. At the end of the series, you could see that Gary picked Squirtle.
So the question is, who picked the other 2 starters and where were they mentioned?
Your question really inspired me to find a answer. I found answers on multiple sites.
In the series, Ash and co. encounter a Charmander that was abandoned by its owner. We might infer that the original owner was one of the other two Pallet Town trainers. In addition, the Bulbasaur Ash and co. encounter was raised in the Hidden Village, which the article linked states was a haven for, among other things, abandoned Pokemon. So it appears possible that the other Pallet Town trainers also abandoned his starter Pokemon.
These two mystery trainers' sole purpose in the anime was to be a plot device so that Ash would miss out on all 3 standard starter Pokemon and get Pikachu.
So they invented 2 other trainers to get the remaining Pokemon... and they were referenced a few times until after Ash got the Earth badge and returned to Pallet town. That was when Oak said that the "other two" gave up and flunked out. Thus writing them out of the show permanently... never to be referenced again.
I think the 2 trainers weren't meant to have a big part in this series. They were just needed to give Ash the rare Pokemon everyone wants to have.
Pokémon: Indigo League, episode 10 "Bulbasaur And The Hidden Village": Bulbasaur protects a "spa resort for pokémon" village in which the only human there, a girl by the name of Melanie, takes care of them. By theory, we conclude that Melanie does not want to be a trainer but more of a caretaker for pokémon and may have "abandoned" or set free Bulbasaur to choose his own path. But there is speculation that she might be too old to have recently left Pallet town considering she is as tall as Brock. He falls for her and is older than Ash and Misty.
Pokémon: Indigo League, episode 11 "The Stray": Charmander is left on a rock and his trainer said he'd be back for him. His original owner's name is Damian. Oddly enough he brags about how many pokémon he has on a table in pokéballs - over the 6 pokéball legal limit. By theory, he is one of the new pokémon trainers from Pallet town and chose the Charmander as his first. Starter pokémon are associated with "beginner" which in turn translates to some as "weak". A pokémon you catch and earned is less likely to be discarded because of work you put into it unlike the freely given pokémon at the start. This may be what Damian was thinking of Charmander at the time.
Pokémon: Johto League, episode 269 (or S3E152) "The Ties That Bind": Professor Oak bragged to Ash that Gary had chosen the best starter pokémon in the first episode without revealing which one this might have been. Gary Oak reveals his third pokémon in a match against Ash to be the evolved form of his starter pokémon, Blastoise (originally Squirtle).
Gary Oak was the only other trainer apart from Ash from Pallet town that was carried on through the anime series to be his rival. The other two were simply written off by Professor Oak (ep64) who stated that the other two flunked out of Pokémon Training.
I think Damian, the original owner of Ash's Charmander (now Charizard), was one of the Pokemon trainers from Pallet Town. Firstly, because he wasn't seen at the Pokemon League. Secondly, wild Charmanders weren't seen in the anime much or maybe at all. So it's reasonable to say that he got it as his starter.
I don't know about Bulbasaur, though. It probably belonged to a girl who quit in episode 30 something, because she wanted her Pokemon to just be her companions.
I agree with the Damian being another Pallet trainer. As for the other, it could be that girl in the original theme song that never appears in the anime and she could have had the abandoned Bulbasaur which Ash found.
I can't take credit for this answer as I got it from a YouTube video by ProtoMario.
Professor Oak or any other professor gives trainer a Pokemon with five Poke Balls and a Pokedex. In "Mystery at the Lighthouse", Misty says a trainer can have a maximum of six Pokemon and the others are automatically transported to the place where they got their Pokedex. Now Damien had over 6 Poke Balls and he said all Poke Balls contained Pokemon. So if he had been a trainer who got a starter Pokemon, he would have a Pokedex which would have directly transported all other Pokemon to Oak.
It makes no sense, but in episode 4 "The Challenge of Samurai", he says that all three trainers have passed and he lost to all three. At Cerulean Gym, one of Misty's sisters says that they lost to all trainers from Pallet. So it means they are on the same way. Now, Pewter Gym is before Cerulean Gym or Vermilion Gym. If all three were ahead of Ash from Samurai till Cerulean Gym, surely they passed Pewter before Ash. So Brock should have known them and Damien. But why did Brock act like it's Damien's first time he is meeting?
I know the trainer who picked Charmander. He kinda looked like the same as Ash, but I think its Red. Just saying guys, Red looks like Ash, but I don't know the Bulbasaur one. I saw one of Red's series, his starter was a Charmander, so maybe its Red.
Oh I also found who got Bulbasaur. Her name is Saur.
What would be considered canon in the Pokemon franchise?
Do HM's appear outside the games? | 2019-04-20T05:01:28 | https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/12992/were-the-other-trainers-from-pallet-town-ever-revealed/13018 |
0.999713 | Is there a fast way to convert .mov to .wmv?
I’m using MovieMaker right now, and it’s been going for over 45 minutes, and it says 71% complete. Is there a faster way to do this?
All the other answers seems good but I will give one more: media-convert.com.
Movie Maker is not the best for converting. Lot of times, it adds black bars to the videos and can get stuck just trying to render them. I use Hamster Video Converter which is REALLY easy to learn how to use and it supports MOV to WMV conversion, and lots of other formats.
Freemake, like Jeff said, is also pretty intuitive to use, while VirtualDub is pretty amazing, but it doesn't take MOV files (only AVI and MPG) and takes some time to get used to the interface.
Try Freemake Video Converter available at: http://www.freemake.com/.
A great little program that convert back and forth between .avi, .mov, .wmv .mp4, and .3gp. It's simple and easy to use. Plus it's free.
I use DVDfab for video conversions. For most jobs of videos under an hour long to similar quality formats are usually finished in under 10 minutes with excellent quality. The only problem is that it'll cost $50 for the full DVD ripper and $40 for the converter. However, if you plan on converting a lot of videos, it's worth it in my opinion because of the speed and quality. | 2019-04-26T16:21:33 | https://www.makeuseof.com/answers/fast-convert-mov-wmv/ |
0.998368 | Washington: In a move certain to please conservatives, President Donald Trump on Friday added five names to his list of candidates for a prospective U.S. Supreme Court vacancy as he presses ahead with a campaign to move the federal judiciary to the right.
Two of them are appellate judges who were nominated by Mr Trump earlier this year and confirmed by the Senate: Amy Coney Barrett and Kevin Newsom. Another, Brett Kavanaugh, sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, long viewed as a stepping-stone to the high court.
During his presidential campaign last year, Mr Trump identified 20 conservative candidates for the Supreme Court. Upon taking office, he named Neil Gorsuch to the court to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, restoring the Supreme Court's conservative majority. Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate in April and has established himself as one of the Supreme Court's most conservative justices.
Speaking at a Federalist Society conference of conservative legal advocates, White House Counsel Donald McGahn said Mr Trump is "very committed" to appointing judges who are "committed originalists and textualists," referring to a legal philosophy that relies on the actual wording of laws and the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
"They all have paper trails. They all are sitting judges. There is nothing unknown about them. What you see is what you get," Mr McGahn said.
The five jurists, all with strong conservative credentials, were added to the list with input from conservative leaders, and should another seat on the court open up, Mr Trump will nominate a candidate from the updated list of 25, the White House said.
Leonard Leo, an advisor to the president on Supreme Court nominations, said Mr Trump thought it was time to refresh the original list. "When you're committed to picking from a list you want to make sure it's as complete as possible," Mr Leo said in an interview.
Mr Kavanaugh, who was appointed to the federal bench in 2006 by Republican former President George W. Bush, served as a White House counsel under Bush and worked as an assistant to Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who investigated Democratic former President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Mr Grant and Mr Wyrick both joined state challenges to the Affordable Care Act, Democratic former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, and Obama regulations aimed at reducing emissions from coal-burning power plants, said Carrie Severino, chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative legal advocacy group.
At 81, Mr Kennedy is the second-oldest justice on the court behind liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 84, and some former Kennedy clerks have said he is considering retirement. Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer is 79.
On Friday, Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said she would support her party's Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused by several women of unwanted sexual contact, because of the importance of keeping the Senate under Republican control should another Supreme Court vacancy arise. | 2019-04-22T02:53:12 | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-adds-five-conservatives-to-list-of-possible-supreme-court-picks-1777056 |
0.999983 | here we are asked which among these could a subnet mask for class B, but in D option it is just the default network for class B. So according to me subnet mask will be C. As when subnetting is done in class B , it's subnet mask includes more number of bits than the network mask of class B.
What is masking? Is is not by default 0 masking in the n/w?
The default subnet mask for class B is 255.255.0.0. | 2019-04-22T14:58:55 | https://gateoverflow.in/128648/isro2017-29?show=209425 |
0.997645 | Dockless bike companies are increasingly taking over public spaces for private use, creating serious problems for Chinese cities.
Disruption has come to the once calm and steady business of municipal bikeshare, where the Chinese experience is a harbinger of the future for cities everywhere. Virtually overnight last year, red, yellow, and blue bikes sprang up on seemingly every corner in Guangzhou. But they had one crucial difference from the traditional public bike-share system that has been offering residents two wheeled mobility since 2010: They were dockless.
These bikes could be found – and left – anywhere in the city, thanks to a built-in lock that released when the user reserved the bike via a smartphone app and a QR code.
On the surface, this degree of convenience compared to traditional bike-share with its dedicated docking stations seemed a brilliant innovation in delivering a solution to the perennial “last kilometer” problem. After all, people who own bicycles lock them as close as they can to their destination – outside the office, on campus, at a bike rack near the grocery store – rather than leave them at designated locations. But the introduction of a private innovation did not come without headaches. For one, it seems there can be too much of a good thing, as bikes flooded the streets; for another, the sudden rush of rogue bikes for rent onto the streets of Guangzhou also upended municipal plans for expansion of the public system.
Guangzhou’s traditional public bicycle system launched in June 2010. With stations located along the Zhongshan Avenue BRT corridor, the system appeared to meet an obvious need in the neighborhood. According to data provided by the Guangzhou public bicycle company, as of December 2016, the system contained 8,850 bicycles and more than 110 docking stations. That’s an increase from the initial launch of 1,000 vehicles and 18 docking stations. A total of 35,382,400 trips have been made using this service.
Dockless bike share bikes’ surge in popularity in cities such as Guangzhou, where ITDP observed 55 percent of riders on a given day using a dockless bike, and only 2 percent using the city’s bike share bikes.
With five successful years under its belt, Guangzhou proposed a major bike-share expansion in 2015. The city government planned to launch 100,000 traditional public bicycles, which would make it one of the largest systems in the world (New York’s Citibike, for example, has 12,000 bikes). However, as of January 2016, there were still only 10,000 bikes. What happened?
Since September 2016, the privately-owned dockless companies Mobike, ofo, Xiaoming, Bluegogo, U-bicycle, and Coolqi Bike have been players in the Guangzhou market. With a simple per-ride price and convenient smartphone payment, these dockless bike-sharing systems have grown explosively. By the end of May 2017, more than 700,000 dockless shared bikes could be found on Guangzhou streets, with more than 7.5 million registered users and more than 4 million daily trips.
The impact of dockless bike-share on cycling culture has been remarkable. ITDP conducted a survey of bike volumes along the Zhongshan Avenue BRT corridor. Measured in June 2017, over a year after dockless bike-sharing came to Guangzhou, the volume of bikes in the vicinity of Gangding Station and Tangxia Station is up more than 500 percent and 100 percent respectively than in previous years. Crucially, about 55 percent of rides are on dockless shared bikes and only 2 percent are on traditional public bikes. Daily trips by the public bike-share have plummeted from 14,000 to 9,000 per day since the advent of private dockless bike-share.
While this growth might suggest that private dockless bikes are a superior product to traditional public bike-share with docking stations, the Guangzhou experience makes it clear that dockless bike-sharing companies value rapid launch over long-term management. With large deployments, shared bikes are put on the street in a disorderly manner with the hope of cornering the market. Operational costs are in turn transferred onto the back of the city, which must use its resources to keep the clusters of bikes from clogging streets, sidewalks, and public spaces. Newspapers have even reported that users are wedging private dockless bikes into the public system’s docking stations. The Guangdong/Guangzhou Consumers Commission claims that 73.9 percent of respondents expressed support for the development of dockless bike-sharing. However, at this time there is no formal agreement with the city, and these companies pay no fees to the city.
Recognizing the impact of dockless bike-share, the Guangzhou Communications Commission issued technical guidelines for parking urban bicycles in the city center and a blueprint for standardizing Internet rental bikes in Guangzhou. Meanwhile, the public system has undergone a transformation, driven in part by the innovations of the private system. At the moment, the Guangzhou traditional public bicycle system is building up its IT infrastructure to accept Yang Cheng Tong (a local transportation payment card), as well as mobile payments via WeChat, APP, and Alipay.
As private bike-share expands outside China – it can already be found on the streets of Seattle and Washington, DC – there’s debate over whether these two competitors can coexist. We think they can. Traditional public bicycle and dockless bike-sharing have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they learn from each other as a result. Traditional public bicycles are learning to go dockless and adopt online convenience from the dockless bike-sharing systems, while dockless bike-sharing is shedding its chaotic approach in favor of a more rational approach to growth and street parking. There are definitely advantages to having a set location for bikes (docked) and also more flexible bikes (dockless), but they can only work together if there is an intentional plan, with regulations for dockless to complement docked and to reserve precious space for pedestrians. Ideally, traditional public bicycles and dockless bike-sharing will become an organic blend offering a convenient service for the public’s “last kilometer” and short trips.
Progress is underway. Xiaoming, Mobike, and other companies are recognizing their mistakes and working on a virtual “geo-fence” to comply with new bike parking requirements. The public and private models are coming from opposite directions, but will hopefully meet in the middle to strike a compromise in both convenience and order, providing the best experience for all of the city’s mobility needs.
This blog post is modified from an article in the 29th issue of the Sustainable Transport magazine. You can find the article and others here. | 2019-04-25T01:02:53 | https://www.itdp.org/2018/03/06/st-mag-private-public-bikeshare/ |
0.998746 | Will the Irn-Bru Cup be a `Challenge` for the Pars?
In a competition which Dunfermline have only reached the final of once, can DAFC fight their way through to the next stage of this season`s Irn-Bru Cup with a win over Alloa Athletic at East End Park this weekend?
The Fifers reached the 2007-08 Challenge Cup Final where they went on to lose to St Johnstone at Dens Park in Dundee. Allan Johnston`s men would enjoy progressing further in this season`s competition to keep their momentum up, following 2 wins on the bounce and a 5 match unbeaten spell, which includes a 0-0 draw against Saturday`s visitors.
The Wasps have won 5 natches this season - all in cup competitions. Jim Goodwin`s side have only collected 2 points from their last four matches, but, did defeat Dundee United on penalties in the previous round to secure their passage through; albeit, the match was won on penalties following a 1-1 draw at Tannadice.
Key-Players for Alloa will include Iain Flannigan, Kevin Cawley, Alan Trouten and Greig Spence. However, the part-time outfit have a big enough squad to make changes to keep players fresh and fit, while still being competitive. Loanees Sam Ruscoe, Liam Burt and Dario Zanatta provide strong competition throughout the squad with experienced campaigners Neil Parry, Andy Graham and Steven Hetherington providing good strength in depth throughout the spine of the team.
Dunfermline also have a large enough pool to pick from which may see rotation brought in to play for this cup-tie. Players such as Cammy Gill, Danny Devine, Tom Beadling, Robbie Muirhead and Myles Hippolyte will be pushing for a start with Kallum Higginbotham, Aidan Keena and Lewis Martin also nearing fitness following operations. Ryan Williamson will be absent due to being on international duty which may see defensive cover brought into the 18-man squad, with Stuart Morrison the most likely candidate.
Speaking of the `Reserve` players, they are a major reason in the Pars being in this round following their dramatic 2-1 victory away to Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the first round, as the youngsters knocked out the holders. Lewis McCann impressed that night and may be hoping for game-time one more while Brandon Luke, Paul Allan and Matty Todd are other possibilities - although Stevie Crawford`s men have their own cup-tie to concern themselves over, as the DAFC Reserves take on Motherwell Reserved in Stirling on Tuesday (16th October) in the Reserve League Cup.
A win would see either club progress to the quarter-finals and a real chance of lifting the trophy. It`ll be a tough match despite the form of both teams heading into this Last 16 encounter. It may require another penalty-shoot, but, the Pars having a ginger baw in next week`s draw is all that matters, come Saturday tea-time. | 2019-04-22T00:57:34 | http://dafc.net/story.php?t=Will_the_Irn-Bru_Cup_be_a_%60Challenge%60_for_the_Pars?_&ID=3530 |
0.998987 | Is that the voice of one who has "made a decision to turn their will and their life over to the care of God"? Or is that the voice of one still living in fear and denial about their "lack of power" and their unwillingness to “let go and let God” heal and restore them to physical, mental, and spiritual health?
The "suggested program of recovery" as outlined in the book, 'Alcoholics Anonymous' (pg. 59) is a program of 'Faith in Action' (pgs. 76,88,93). That is to say, in order to recover from the "spiritual malady" (pg. 64), one must understand that they need to drastically change the way they have been living AND that they need to apply the principles of the program with the same vigor the co-founders and pioneers of Alcoholics Anonymous did. By taking such action, one can obtain the skills necessary to overcome their current predicament and ultimately become "happy, joyous and free" (pg. 133).
Unfortunately, the general manner in which the program of recovery is practiced and passed on today in the 21st Century, is but a faint shadow of the original program and tenets, as recorded in the 'basic text' of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous.
Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that's exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. That means we have written a book which we believe to be spiritual as well as moral. And it means, of course, that we are going to talk about God.
Besides a seeming inability to accept much on faith, we often found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice. Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference to spiritual things made us bristle with antagonism. This sort of thinking had to be abandoned. When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did.
Our friend was a minister's son. He attended church school, where he became rebellious at what he thought an overdose of religious education. For years thereafter, he was dogged by trouble and frustration. Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide - these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him. Post-war disillusionment, ever more serious alcoholism, impending mental and physical collapse, brought him to the point of self-destruction.
One night, when confined in a hospital, he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a spiritual experience. Our friend's gorge rose as he bitterly cried out: "If there is a God, He certainly hasn't done anything for me!" But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?" While pondering the answer he felt as though he lived in hell. Then, like a thunderbolt, a great thought came. It crowded out all else: "Who are you to say there is no God?"
Thus, was our friend's cornerstone fixed in place. No later vicissitude has shaken it. His alcoholic problem was taken away. That very night, years ago, it disappeared. Save for a few brief moments of temptation the thought of drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him. Seemingly he could not drink even if he would. God had restored his sanity.
Even so has God restored us all to our right minds. To this man, the revelation was sudden. Some of us grow into it more slowly. But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him. When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us!
So, we see that the co-founders and pioneers of Alcoholics Anonymous had no doubt as to their need of God, and that He did for them what they could not do for themselves.
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe. The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves.
If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. This we did because we honestly wanted to and were willing to make the effort.
In Chapter 5, 'How It Works', the co-founders and pioneers delineate how they overcame their dilemma, their "seemingly hopeless state of mind and body" (from the Forward to the First Edition).
Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it-then you are ready to take certain steps.
(1) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable.
(2) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
(3) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
(4) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
(5) Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
(6) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
(7) Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
(8) Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
(9) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
(10) Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
(11) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
(12) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
If you are not convinced on these vital issues, you ought to re-read the book to this point or else throw it away!
How sad that the decision was made to remove such an urgent admonishment.
EDITOR’S NOTE: All text cited is from the 'basic text' of ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’, first edition, which is in the public domain. | 2019-04-23T22:07:07 | https://www.focusedandfree.net/2018/10/recovery-or-simple-sobriety.html |
0.9999 | Is Muslim's belief about 'Second Coming Of Jesus a.s ',contradictory to Quran?
Is Muslim's belief about 'Second Coming Of Jesus a.s.'contradictory' to the Qur'an?
Assalam O Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi!
I invite only MUSLIM brothers and sisters to discuss the Topic/Issue of 'Second-Coming-Of-Jesus' according to QURAN- ONLY!
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) foretold the second coming of Prophet Jesus (peace and blessings be upon him) as one of the signs and preludes of the Hereafter.
Breaking the cross refers to refuting the invented story of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection. Killing the pig means prohibiting its meat again, as in Islam and in the original Law of Moses. Jizyah is a tax paid by non-Muslims instead of the zakah (obligatory charity) paid by Muslims, in return for the equal rights, protection, and services they enjoy in a Muslim state. This ruling will be abolished, as all Christians will follow Jesus in his second coming and become Muslims.
However, his coming will be preceded by the appearance of the Antichrist (the Dajjal, the Imposter), who will come to intrigue people away from the truth of Islam, by showing what appears to be miraculous actions—by the will of Allah— that deceive only the naïve and unbelievers.
It is narrated on the authority of `Abdullah ibn `Umar that one day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal (the Dajjal) in the presence of people. He said, “Verily, Allah (hallowed be He and High) is not blind of one eye. Behold, but Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal is blind of the right eye as if his eye is like a swollen grape.” Also the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “I was shown in a dream in the night that near the Ka`bah there was a man fair-complexioned, fine among the white-complexioned men that you ever saw, his locks of hair were falling on his shoulders. He was a man whose hair were neither too curly nor too straight, and water trickled down from his head. He was placing his hands on the shoulders of two persons and amidst them was making a circuit around the Ka`bah. I said, ‘Who is he?’ They replied, ‘Al-Masih son of Mary’” (Muslim).
Apart from that, no other details are given as to how Jesus would look like, what language he would speak, nor any other marking features. His face will not be as that portrayed and consecrated by the Christians and their churches. This has been visualized, from imagination, several centuries after his departure.
However, true believers will first know the Antichrist by his deeds as narrated by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Similarly, Jesus will not be mistaken for anybody else, as he will declare himself as a prophet of Islam, coming to correct his message and to unite all the believers under the banner of Islam.
In Islam, the second coming of Christ is not only one of the peculiar signs of the Hereafter, but is a glorious conclusion of the history-long confrontation between tawheed (monotheism) of all genuine prophets on the one hand, and the multitude of polytheist deviations that infiltrated the teachings of Jesus after his departure, until it gradually engulfed almost all Christian creeds. These led to deifying Jesus, making him the son of God, and one part of a triune god, the same as in many other deviated or invented religions.
That this confrontation will be a major aspect of human history is stressed and amazingly expressed in the Qur’an. The Qur’an repeatedly exposes Christian distortions and warns those who advocate these invented deviations. Such a major history-long set of deviations that spread among considerable and influential segments of the world population, will naturally end toward the end of time with a decisive proclamation of truth. This proclamation will justly come through the same prophet who was misunderstood most, whose message was most sinfully tampered with, and whose personality was disfigured in such a way as to deceive generations of people and to corrupt the pure monotheistic belief he carried.
The second coming of Christ does not contradict with the fact that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the Seal of the Prophets, by whom the messages and guidance of Allah to humanity have been completed. The return of Jesus is not a new phase of divine messages of Allah, but a final reaffirmation and revival of the message of Islam, the eternal call of all prophets and messengers.
I will most certainly be joining you in soon. First I would like to know a few things which will help me understand your approach to the matter.
1- How important do you think for a Muslim is to believe in prophet Jesus a.a .Ascention and Descend ..to stay Muslim?
2- How much importance should a Muslim give to Hadith provided it is proven contradictory/offending to Quran?
3-How authentic do you think is the source we know as Hadith ,ESP. The one which is directly related to a Belief in Islam, unlike those AHadith which relates Ethics in Islam?
Abu Huraira added "If you wish, you can recite (this verse of the Holy Book): -- 'And there is none Ofthe people of the Scriptures (Jews and Christians) But must believe inhim (i.e Jesus as an Apostle of Allah and a human being) Before his death. And on the Day of Judgment He will be a witness Against them."
Let's have a look at the subject matter of some previous Ayaat of this Surah (Nisa).
1-"The CLAIM of the ENEMIES of JESUS a.s."
that..they have 'killed' the the son of Mary a Messenger of Allah.
2- "Allah's CLAIM about JESUS a.s. "
a-The enemies of Jesus could NOT kill him.
b-The enemies of Jesus could NOT crucify him.
The above TWO MAIN CLAIMS are very CLEAR.
Here comes the disputed situation..
Well as I far as I can say starting with the Tafseer of Ibne Kathir (Kaseer) which is available online..Muslims were forced to believe in a story of 'someone' replaced with Jesus and was killed or crucified instead of him.
This is what I have been hearing since my childhood..too very very interesting story, indeed..on behalf of A GOD who couldn't find any other solution but to replace a Human with another Human,to save one and kill other, unjustfully.
2-He wanted to keep 'unbeliever's in DOUBT that they have killed/crucified him.
Does God sometimes 'run out' of "common Sense"
WHo should be blamed for such a Chaos..People who couldn't know who was killed and who was saved...or the Great God Almighty!
Please Justify with un-veiled thinking.
I know there can be many other stories or conclusions about the DOUBTED SITUATIONS..but Who cares!
The stories of other prophets before him who were rescued form the dangerous situations...openly. Abrahim,Joseph, Jonah..alaihissalaam etc.
As previous Ayat gives us a clue why they wanted to do it..
Now here comes another dilemma.
I would like to discuss this with another example from Quran ...but not here..because I'm focusing on something different and do not want the distarction at the moment..
I will add the description later ..Inshallah..
So I move on to the next Ayat in FOCUS 4:159 The very Ayat mentioned by Abu Hurairah r.u.
This Ayat will decides every thing.
Please look back the SUBJECT MATTER discussed in Ayat 4:157 again.
Remeber Allah has informed us about a diputed situation and He ,Himself is refuting the CLAIM of the disbelievers.
Everyone among the people of the scripture was required to believe in him before his death. On the Day of Resurrection, he will be a witness against them.
And there is none among the People of the Book but will continue to believe in it before his death; and on the Day of Resurrection, he (Jesus) shall be a witness against them.
it's obvious that most translators preferred to use 'him' instead of 'it'. Shakir and Sher Ali preferred this/it..
"That all people of the Book will keep on believing nothing except this/it that they have killed or crucified Jesus, before theri deaths."
The dispute was ABOUT THE CLAIM THAT THEY HAD KILLED JESUS.
Support: The inference is furthur supported by the fact discussed in the Ayat..that JESUS HIMSELF WILL WITNESS AGAINST THEIR CLAIM OF KILLING/CRUCIFYING HIM...when all the disbelievers who kept on beliveing in a WRONG CLAIM will be gathered ON THE JUGDMENT DAY.
Let's assume that Allah planned to send him down ..before Judgement day which is obviously NOT mentioned in the Ayat...still....only because Allah wants everyone to BELIEVE IN JESUS...and he comes and all people believe in him...then why would he be WITNESSING AGAINST THEM....?????????????
3-ON THE JUDGMENT DAY JESUS WILL WITNESS AGAINST THEIR CLAIM.
4-ABU HURAIRAH HAD A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOUR.
2- Why Allah wants people to believe in Jesus a.s. when a majority of people do not believe in his Final Messenger Muhammad s.a.w. and His Final Message Quran..to date?????????????????
3- Last but not the least who gave this right to Abu Hurairah r.a to connect his 'report' to an Ayat of Quran he himself couldn't understand?????????????????
4-BTW..No where in Quran we can find a single clue that Jesus a.s. will descend down from the sky before Judgment day.
If it has to be such an 'important' historical event then Quran must have reported it BOLDLY...without hesitations.
5-Why do we need him after 'THE GAME IS OVER'?
The accepted faith of most of the Muslims is that Jesus(pbuh) is alive in the Heaven. According to them Jews wanted to kill him on the cross and Allah raised him alive in the Heaven.
If you are one of the Muslims who believe in the faith mentioned above, you need to read along the rest of the discussion.
May I ask you: 'do you have evidence from the Quran to support your conviction that Jesus(pbuh) is alive and that he was raised alive?' Most probably you don't have evidence. You simply relied on an accepted opinion of the majority Muslims. Quite a few of you will come up with evidence(s) and that makes the entire discussion so much interesting.
I am trying to show you plenty of evidences from the Quran to prove that Jesus(pbuh) is not alive -- he is dead and that he was not raised alive in the Heaven. Unfortunately this may sound so much like a Qadiani propaganda. However, it is not a Qadiani propaganda and the author of this text is not a Qadiani. It is true that it was the Qadianis who for the first time proclaimed that Jesus(pbuh) is not alive in the Heaven, rather he died a natural death. Because originally it was a Qadiani thought, believing in this judgment seems like you are believing everything that the Qadianis proclaim. Then you fall prey to the curse that you are no more a true Muslim! So you play safe and reject any and all opinions propounded by the Qadianis.
I will show you how it is possible for traditional Muslims like you and I to believe in his death yet not be a Qadiani or Ahmadiya. I urge the readers to have an open mind and read through the critique.
That I believe there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad(pbuh) is His Rasul.
That I believe Muhammad(pbuh) is the Last and the Final Nabi. No Nabi can come after him. Period.
I believe in Total Quran – its entire message and teaching.
I believe no verse in the Quran contradicts each other and there is no abrogation of verse(s). My understanding of the Quran will not attempt to contradict its message and teaching.
I will not twist the meaning of verse(s) to reach a conclusion. Wherever possible, I will analyze and critique both schools of thoughts and show various possibilities of the subject.
E Muslims believe various matter mentioned in the Bible. We came to know of Adam, Jesus, Noah, Joseph, Moses and so many other prophets from the Bible. We believe in them because we find their reference in the Holy Quran. Believing in any of these prophets do not necessarily make us Christians. We came to know about creation of Adam from the Bible. We believe in it because we find similar reference in the Holy Quran also. Believing in creation of Adam did not make us Christian. Similarly, it may appear that only Qadianis believe that Jesus(pbuh) is dead. If we find proof of his death from the Holy Quran, we must believe it. Believing in Jesus'(pbuh) death would not make us Qadiani just as believing in creation of Adam did not make us Christian.
Another argument for not believing in death of Jesus(pbuh) is that most Muslims all over the world believe that he is alive in Heaven. Can they be wrong? Just because an opinion is widely accepted by the mass does not validate its authenticity. Billions of Christians believe Jesus is Son of God, so the concept must be correct, right? Wrong. Billions of Hindus and Buddhist believe in their respective religion to be correct, that does not make their religion correct or perfect. Again we know Hindus and Buddhist are wrong. Thus if a notion is upheld by popular opinion, such notion need not become absolute truth.
Muslims all over the world uphold the Christian faith that Jesus(pbuh) is alive. The whole foundation of the Christian faith is rested on this concept and most Muslims overtly support their viewpoint. Somehow the Christian concept has infiltrated in Muslim faith long ago and now it seems it is part and parcel of Islamic concept.
Muslims take the help of two sites from the Holy Quran to obtain support for their viewpoint. The verses are 3:54 from Surah Al-e Imran and 4:157-158 from Surah An-Nisa'. We will give you correct translation of the verses, word for word, so that you can get the point. It is a sad that many Muslims blame the correct translation to be false and cite incorrect translations as authentic. We will show you several examples of correct and incorrect translations so that any sensible person can find out the true picture.
3:55 Behold! Allah Said: "O Jesus! I shall cause you to die and I shall exalt you towards me and I shall clear you of those who reject Faith, and I will make those who follow you above those who reject Faith - until the day of Resurrection. Then towards Me is your return, so that I shall decide among you as to in which you used to dispute.
The key word here is "wafat" . The most correct meaning of "wafat" is death, or take away soul. If soul is taken away from a person, it is nothing but death. The problem arises with regards to this verse, when Muslims refuse to interpret the meaning of "wafat" as death. Irony is that all scholars who translated the Holy Quran do agree "wafat" means death. Each and every scholar translated the word "wafat" as death in at least 20 different instances in their translations. However, in this particular verse, they interpreted the meaning as ‘take away' and insinuate physical ascension. These translators did not hesitate to twist the actual meaning of the word of Allah to support Christian faith and to some extent weak Hadith narrated by Wahab bin Munnabba, Kab Akbar and one isolated Hadith by Abu Hurairaa.
While the Quran is the word of Allah, Hadith is word of a person. Hadith is not the words of Allah. A person can err, Allah can not err. That is why we often refer to some Hadith as Sahih Hadith - i.e. True Hadith. Because some Hadith may not be true. We don't say the same thing about the Quran that some of its verses are Sahih verse and some are doubtful! This fact itself indicates that a few Hadith are not absolutely correct. Hadith is the sayings of prophet Muhammad(pbuh), but the prophet himself did not write down the Hadith. Several generation after the death of the prophet, Hadith was compiled by scholars. In this process hundreds of Hadith were rejected as they appeared to be false. In the end when the scholars agreed that a particular Hadith is correct, it was compiled into a book.
In spite of this we consider some Hadith to be true and some as weak. Some Muslims even say that for one correct Hadith there are thousands of false Hadith. This boils down to the fact that there are few Hadith that are not true. Fact remains that Hadith is a collection of words of a person, by persons. Please don't misunderstand, I am not saying reject all Hadith.
My contention is that the position of the Quran is superior to Hadith. Whenever a Hadith comes to contradict a Quranic verse, the Quran must prevail, not the Hadith. But to most Muslims, the argument is Hadith has to be correct no matter what, because so many scholars unanimously certified that those are Sahih or True!!! So to ratify a Hadith, let the Quran become wrong or let one verse of the Quran contradict another verse, who cares? Let Allah's word be confusing and contradictory, a Muslim is happy because to him Hadith is absolute!!! What a shame!
The second condition can not take place till the first condition is met. In other words, before Jesus(pbuh) can be raised, first, he must die. Let us see various translations of the same verse.
Rashad Khalifa : "O Jesus! I am terminating your life, raising you to Me….."
Mohammad Sarwar: He left out the word "O Jesus" in the translation. Here Allah addressed Jesus(pbuh) by name. To translate the word as Allah told Jesus is inappropriate. "Save you from the enemies" is extra word interpolated in the Quran! Sarwar totally omitted the word "warafiuka" in his translation, instead interpolated his own thoughts in the translation. Rating * or worse.
From this analysis we can see how these scholars have changed the words of Allah according to their own will and to support what they learned during their childhood and now they are conditioned to think that way. Some have mistaken the correct use of verbs(Pickthall, Khalifa). Some have omitted key words and interpolated fabricated words (Pickthall, Sarwar, Malik) and passed it over as Allah's word! To derive a remote synonym for a word is one thing (Yusuf Ali, Shakir, Al-Hilali & M. Khan. Malik) but to fabricate additional words and omit key words are gross act of negligence and corruption.
The most correct meaning of the word "wafat" is death. Wherever in the Holy Quran the word "wafat" is used, all these translators derived the meaning as death, except in this verse 3:55, where they don't see "wafat" as death!!!! What is the problem here? Why are they contradicting the meaning of 'wafat'? What stops them from translating the words of Allah in its true context? They are seeing imaginary words only to support heresy they learned during their childhood.
Here are some of the verses in the Holy Quran where Allah used the word "wafat". The verses are 2:234, 2:240, 3:193, 4:15, 4:97, 6:61, 7:37, 7:126, 8:50, 10:46, 10:104, 12:101, 13:40, 16:28, 16:32, 16:70, 39:42, 40:67, 40:77, 47:27 etc. In each of the instances, all these scholars translated the word "wafat" as death, or a word very close to death but none of them used a word to mean take away in alive condition. Let us examine some of the verses and see how these translators derived the meaning of "wafat" in these instances.
Khalifa: "…..let us die as righteous believers"
Khalifa: "…And let us die as submitters."
Khalifa: "…or terminate your life…."
Khalifa: "…Let me die as submitter…"
You many go ahead and verify the translations of all other verses. If you do so, you will start discovering an emerging corruption (pardon me) by all the scholars. They misguided you by not translating a word correctly. Given all these facts, may we conclude that Jesus(pbuh) must die first before he can be raised?
In the same verse 3:55 use of two words "wafat" and "rafa" may have led you to a double jeopardy. On top of that you are under constant influence of Christian doctrine. As a result you simply believe that Jesus(pbuh) did not die and instead was raised alive in heaven. In doing so, you are actually believing the Christian faith and failing to see the true teaching of the Quran. Not only that, now you are making one verse of the Quran contradict another.
The meaning of the word is ‘to raise', ‘to exalt'. In order to validate the Christian faith, first, you refuse to see ‘wafat' as death, and then interpret ‘rafa' as physical ascension. When these two incorrect interpretations are combined, you find that Jesus(pbuh) was raised to the heaven.
Let us examine the use of the word ‘rafa' in the Quran. The word ‘rafa' occurred many times in the Quran conveying a meaning of spiritual honor and exaltation. Please note carefully what Allah says in the verse. He is saying that Jesus(pbuh) will be raised towards Him and not towards Heaven. So the question of Jesus(pbuh) being alive in the Heaven can not arise, because he was not raised in the Heaven. In the literal context even if we think that he was raised bodily near Allah, question comes, where is Allah? Is He ensconced somewhere in the sky, in Heaven or in a throne like a king? Didn't Allah say that He is omnipresent – in other words, He is present everywhere? Would you say that Allah is confined in a physical body towards which He raised Jesus(pbuh)? Please answer, how can Jesus(pbuh) be raised to sky or Heaven when Allah said he will be raised towards Him. And that Allah is present everywhere (2:115); Allah is nearer to man than his heart (8:24); Allah is nearer to man than his jugular vein (50:16).
If that be true, then Jesus(pbuh) could not have been raised physically and bodily in to the sky. If really he was needed to be raised bodily towards Allah, then he could very well stay in Jerusalem, yet be near Allah - because Allah is present everywhere and in Jerusalem too.
This drives home the true meaning of the word ‘rafa' – exalt in honor and/or exalt in spiritual dignity. This verse tells us that while the Jews were planning to kill him, (he will not be killed, rather) Allah will cause him to die a natural death and sanctify him against the charges of the enemies. Once again, please notice the sentence: Ya Isa, inni mutawaffika WA rafi'uka ilaiya… that is ‘rafa' will take place only after the ‘wafat'. ‘Rafa' after death can not mean physical ascension, but only exaltation in rank. This is more implied when the words ‘I shall clear you of those who reject Faith' are present with it. This shows that while Jews plotted heinous crime against him, and brought him utter disgrace and condemned him as a cheat and planned to put him to a shameful death on the cross etc. Allah will instead save him and exalt him in honor and dignity.
Since the use of the word 'rafa' raised Jesus(pbuh) alive, the use of the same word in case of other prophets must do the same thing! Ask yourself, if you know of any other prophet who was raised alive in the Heaven? None? What about Prophet Idris(pbuh)? Regarding Idris(pbuh) Allah says in Surah Maryam 19:57 as: And We raised him to an elevated state. (WA rafa'naa hu…). The use of ‘rafa' here should prompt you to declare that Allah raised Idris(pbuh) in alive condition in the Heaven or at least to a place hanging high above. If we apply the same logic, in case of Jesus(pbuh), use of the word 'rafa' kept him alive for 2000 years; therefore the same use of the word 'rafa' in case of Idris(pbuh) must keep him alive for 2000 years or so. The problem now is about these two alive people in the Heaven – Jesus(pbuh) and Idris(pbuh). The Muslims already made stories and speculations that Jesus(pbuh) will descend from the Heaven in the later days, but what about Idris(pbuh)? Has Idris(pbuh) come down already or when is he going to descend or is he going to stay there perpetually?
Great Prophets like Muhammad(pbuh) are exalted.
Prophet Ibrahim(pbuh) has been exalted by Allah.
Prophet Idris(pbuh) has been exalted by Allah.
Righteous servants of Allah are raised in degrees.
All good deeds are raised towards Allah.
House of pious Muslims are raised high by Allah.
From this discussion we see that no where the use of ‘rafa' meant physical ascension. However, in 3:55 verse, you would interpret physical ascension just to validate the Christian faith. Whereas, if we honestly translate the word 'wafat' as death, then 'rafa' after death cannot mean physical ascension, rather exaltation in honor.
* my forefathers believed Jesus(pbuh) was raised alive, were they wrong? I would rather follow my forefathers (instead of following the teaching of Quran).
I faced similar dilemma when I was approaching the truth. Eventually I was able to reconcile the verses of the Quran and not make one verse contradict another. I was able to come out of the influence of Christian faith in Islam and find out the true meanings. At this time I don't care what Qadianis say. My identity is Muslim, my religion is Islam and I believe what Allah and Rasul say.
My aim is not to blame you for believing in certain way. My aim is to show you that you have been kept in darkness, away from the truth. Unlike others, I am not jumping into conclusions by force, rather I am trying to show you the true picture, and leaving the decision to yourself. With this let us revisit two verses from Surah Ale Imran, 3:53-54.
3:54 And they made plotted and planned and Allah made His plans. And Allah is the most Excellent of the plan-makers.
3:55 Behold! Allah said: 'O Jesus! I shall cause you to die and I shall exalt you towards me and I shall clear you of those who reject Faith, and I will make those who follow you above those who reject Faith - until the day of Resurrection. Then towards Me is your return, so that I shall decide among you as to in which you used to dispute.
In case of each prophets, Allah made plans against plots made by oppressors. This is the practice of Allah to protect His messengers at the time of aggression of enemies. Allah protected Musa, Ibrahim, Yusuf, Lut, Muhammad (pbu them) to name a few. In case of Jesus(pbuh) snatching him away from the enemies and lifting him alive in the Heaven can not be called a subtle and better plan of Allah when neither was it in the power of Jews nor in the power of anybody to counter it. In fact a better and subtle plan can be designed against another plan when it is contrived in a parallel manner.
Verse 4:157-158 from Surah An-Nisa' are the other two verses often analyzed to prove that Jesus(pbuh) did not die. Let us examine to see if the contention is valid one or a corrupt analysis.
4:158 Rather, Allah exalted him towards Himself. And Allah is Exalted in Power, most Wise.
The Jews always claimed that they killed the Masih, the son of Maryam. Allah is telling Muhammad(pbuh) that although they claimed that they killed the Masih, in reality they could not murder him nor could they kill him by crucifixion. Then again, in the very same verse, Allah is telling that they could not kill him for certain.
Two types of death are being discussed here (a) a general murder (b) killing by crucifixion. The Jews wanted to cause either of the two types of death to Jesus(pbuh). Allah assures us that they failed to cause either type of death to him. The traditional Muslim faith is that since Jesus(pbuh) was not murdered or killed by crucifixion, only possibility is that he is alive somewhere!!! Muslims totally ignore the fact that Jesus(pbuh) could have died a natural death later on! If Jesus(pbuh) died a natural death, it is still valid that the Jews could not (a) murder him or (b) kill him by crucifixion.
Your strongest argument is that this verse clearly tells "…. They could not murder him nor could they crucify him….". I have checked the translation of the word "swalabu" by Yusuf Ali, Pickthall, Hilali & Khan, Rodwell, Sarwar, Khalifa and Shakir. They all translated the word as "crucify" and not "kill by crucifixion." I would not say they are wrong. To understand the word 'crucify' you will have to apply your analytical mind.
The very intent of putting a person on the cross was to kill him as an evil or a wretched person. On few occasion if a person did not die on the cross, the Jews used to break his legs and hands and leave him to die. Jews would make sure that if a person was doomed for cross that person must die. Jews would not put a person on the cross and later let him walk away. So the meaning of crucifixion has an inherent sense of causing death thereby. Webster dictionary defines the word "crucify" as "to put to death by nailing or binding the hands and feet in a cross." In case of Jesus(pbuh) if the scholars translate the word as "crucify" they are not wrong. But if we interpret the meaning that he was never ever hanged on the cross, then we are missing the entire message. If we further say that Jehova or someone else was hanged in his place, then we are really messing up everything and failing to see the true message of the Quran.
Please look carefully at the verse. The question of "killing" is the issue. In response to the claim by the Jews that they killed Jesus(pbuh), Allah's reply is that (1) he was not killed or murdered in the normal fashion (2) he was not killed by crucifixion. This negates the possibility of Jews killing Jesus(pbuh) in any manner whatsoever, supported by the very last sentence of the same verse: "they could not kill him for certain."
Although every attempt was done to prove that Jesus(pbuh) evaded death and was raised alive, because of verse 3:55, the Muslims could not prove conclusively that Jesus(pbuh) was raised alive. So they took the refuge of verses 4:157-158 to justify the belief. In order to substantiate the belief, now they invented a rambling story that has no support from the Quran. However, let us analyze the story.
According to the story, on the eve of actual crucifixion, a different person's features became exactly like Jesus(pbuh). The Jews mistook the other person (Jehova?) as actual Jesus(pbuh) and hanged the wrong person on the cross. We don't want to go into the debate of how absurd it is for person's features to get changed. Let us give the benefit of doubt by saying that the other person's features did not change but to the Jews it appeared so. They mistook the other person to be actual Jesus(pbuh).
Regardless of whether this story is true or false, regardless of whether Jesus(pbuh) was hanged on cross or not, fact remains that he could not have been raised before his DEATH, as testified by verse 3:55. If he was raised alive, then the verses 4:157-158 and 3:55 are in contradiction. The Muslim scholars will never want you find out that their preaching are contradictory and that they cannot conclusively reconcile these and several other verses.
4:157 Hilali & Khan :"And because of their saying (in boast) "We killed Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allah," -but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of Isa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man)….
If we leave aside the stories and concentrate on understanding the verse we will see a different perspective. In the verse 4:157 please notice carefully, WA lakin subbiha lahum means "He was made to resemble to them" or "it was made to resemble to them" or "a likeness of that was made for them" or "a similitude was made for them" -- not "someone was made to resemble him". In the sentences, "it" or "that" refers to the incident and not a person. So Jehova resembling Jesus(pbuh) can not arise. It was Jesus(pbuh) who was made to "resemble" to them. Resemble to the very issue in question here: likeness or similitude of death. The issue is not Jesus(pbuh) resembling a different person or a different person resembling Jesus(pbuh). Jesus(pbuh) was set up on the cross and he was made (by Allah) to resemble to them (as if he really died) by sending him to a comatose or fainted state.
The Jews took a fainted or comatose Jesus(pbuh) as dead. "Verily those who differ regarding him are certainly in a doubt about him." The word "differ" here refers to the those people who, at that time and later on refuse the clarification given by Allah that "…. They could not murder him nor could they crucify him….". It is also possible that they would differ with their original contention that "Surely we have killed the Christ - Jesus son of Mary". Question remains, why should there be confusion if they really, positively and absolutely killed Jesus(pbuh) by crucifixion? Remains of his body should have been somewhere in Jerusalem to prove their contention. However, based on the clarification given by Allah, based on the fact that he lived till he had gray hairs (3:46, 5:40 - discussed next), based on various happenings after the incidence of crucifixion and in absence of any proof of his tomb in Jerusalem, they were in doubt whether these people really killed Jesus(pbuh) or not. This confusion among "those" people came up because after the incidence of crucifixion, they may have heard about Jesus(pbuh) talking, walking and mixing with his disciples (openly or secretly).
If they really killed Jehova taking him to be Jesus(pbuh), then his mortal remains or tomb should have been somewhere in Jerusalem. This tomb should have come to be recognized as the tomb of Jesus(pbuh). In reality there is no tomb in Jerusalem that was ever identified or can be identified (correctly or otherwise) as the tomb of Jesus(pbuh).
In Summary: The confusion arises because Allah said "…they did not crucify him.." What is important to understand is the word means ‘to kill by crucifixion'. The reason Jews put a person on the cross is to kill him according to their custom. They would not put a person on the cross and later let him go away. So, the word "crucify" has an inherent meaning of killing by crucifixion. Killing by crucifixion was their intent, and with this intent they did put him on the cross, however, they failed to kill him.
Please read an interesting site about substitution theory: Was Jesus Substituted on the Cross?
Many Muslims say verse 4:159 indicates Jesus(pbuh) will come back. If you think so, please read an interpretation of the verse 4:159: Interpretation of Verse 4:159. If you think surah Zukhruf verse 43:61 says Jesus will come back please read Jesus Sign of Hour.
Evidences from the Bible and other authentic history tells us that Jesus(pbuh) was tried on the cross when he was 32 years old. For the sake of debate, if Allah did not raise him alive and if he did not die on the cross, what happened to him thereafter? Are there any evidence from the Quran? Trust me, there are evidences.
23:50 ... We sheltered them in a high ground having meadows and springs.
Various commentators of the Quran do agree about the use of words 'gray-haired age' and 'old age'. However, they contend that old age refers to the time when he will descend from the sky. As we can see from this discussion, Jesus(pbuh) was not raised alive in the Heaven and he is dead. This gray hair age must have happened while he was still living during his time, some 2000 years ago. Then Allah also tells us that Jesus(pbuh) was later on sheltered in a place full of meadows and springs. These verses supports other verses and we can further ascertain that Jesus(pbuh) survived the incidence of crucifixion and lived up to old age.
67:3 Who has created the seven heavens in harmony. You can not see in the creation of the Rahman any inconsistency. Then turn again the gaze. Do you see any crack?
67:4 And then turn again the search once more, the eyesight will return to you defeated, while it is fatigued.
There are several other verses where Allah says there is no change in the course of Allah, that there is uniformity in the law of nature.
17:77 … And you will not find any change in Our course.
33:62 … and you will not find any alteration in the course of Allah.
35:43 … But you will never find any change in the course of Allah and you will never find any shifting in the course of Allah.
48:23 the law of Allah which has been in operation from before, and you will never find any change in the course of Allah.
Which law of Allah has been in operation since before? Is it just the law of earth moving around the sun and movement of the planets and nothing more? What would you say about the law of birth, senescence and death? Don't you agree that even birth and death are laws of Allah? That flower bloom, wind blows, day and night happen, sunrise and sunset—everything is in accordance to the law of Allah. Then Allah testifies you will never find any change in the course of Allah. Had there been a change, don't you think Allah would have specifically told us so?
If Jesus(pbuh) is alive in the Heaven, his age today is more than 2000 years!! How can he live that long defying rules and laws set forth by Allah? Are we not making words of Allah contradict when we say in case of Jesus(pbuh) Allah changed his law and made him live that long? This brings us to the next question: can a person live that long? Let us see what Allah has to say about it.
16:70 And Allah creates you, then He causes you to die; and among you someone is caused to return to the worst of the age, resulting in his not knowing anything after knowledge. Allah is truly all Knowing, most Capable.
These verses tell us that whoever lives too long, Allah returns them as crippled and not knowing anything after knowledge. This is more like a cycle of life. Birth --> Infancy --> Childhood --> Adulthood --> Old age. At very old age, a person reverts to a state much like infancy, depending on assistance for almost every daily routine: eating, bath, walking, toilet etc. As if Allah reverts the person in constitution (36:68) and makes him another infant. Like an infant, at this time he does not remember things and has no knowledge of events around him.
In this context, if Jesus(pbuh) is allowed to live that long, by now he is so crippled and in the worst part of life that there is no use of him to come back and do anything for Islam. In fact he cannot do anything worthwhile at that age.
Thus you can see, when a Muslim denies the death of Jesus(pbuh) he is putting so many verses of the Quran to contradict each other. Most Muslims don't realize that they are putting one verse to contradict another. When it is pointed out to them, they get so alarmed that now they try desperately to justify themselves. They successfully justify themselves, however, in the process first they invent several ridiculous stories, then they mutilate the translation to gain support for these stories and then they approach the Quran like hypocrites – believe part of it and reject part of it. They interpolate new words in translation as if these were Allah's words and refrain from correctly translating a particular word. The Quran cannot support the stories they invent. Rather these rambling stories contradict the Quran again and again. It is sad that Muslims don't want to believe in the total Quran.
There are several convincing proofs in the Quran regarding death of all living being and particularly all Rasuls. Most Muslim don't like to pay attention to this for various reasons, mainly due to fear of being caught in double jeopardy regarding Jesus(pbuh) death. If one does not believe in these verses and teachings, then he is in a way rejecting part of the scripture and believing in those parts that suits him. Like a hypocrite.
(2) Rasuls before him have passed away.
Based on this, we can interpret that since all Rasuls before Jesus(pbuh) passed away, he too will pass away. Both you and I agree to this, but the question is when he will pass away? I say he passed away after spending his normal life, you say that he is alive and eventually he will pass away when he will come back on the earth, revive Islam and so on. It is important to understand the meaning of the words ‘passed away'. If you think ‘passed away' do not mean ‘death', then there must be other prophets who are alive. You must specifically tell us which other prophet(s) before Jesus(pbuh) did not die and living at that time. Since we know that all prophets before Jesus(pbuh) are dead, the use of words ‘passed away' clearly means death.
In the verse 5:75, we know that all Rasuls before Jesus(pbuh) died, but right now based on this verse alone we are not sure about him. Then in verse 3:144, we further come to know that all Rasuls before Muhammad(pbuh) passed away. We already concluded ‘passed away' in the verse 5:75 meant ‘death'. In this verse, the meaning of 'passed away' is very clearly given by Allah as (a) he dies, (b) be killed. So by 'passing away' Allah meant death and killing and nothing else. Thus we can conclude that the use of the same word in verse 3:144 can not mean anything different other than death. If Jesus(pbuh) was an exception and did not pass away, Allah surely would have mentioned it. It is not a small exception by any means.
These two verses are so convincing and unambiguous that there should not be any doubt about his death! But alas! Muslim people have tremendous hesitation in accepting the words of Allah! The verse conclusively proves that Jesus(pbuh) who arrived more than 600 years earlier to Muhammad(pbuh) has definitely passed away.
Remember, if you don't believe the teaching of the verses, you are not believing the total Quran. When the verse 3:144 was revealed, if the Muslims had any knowledge that Jesus(pbuh) was still alive, they would have raised a question.
Much later, when Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) actually died, it was hard for Muslims to accept the sad news. Thinking that it was conspiracy of the rumormongers, Hazrat Umar (r) drew his sword and declared that whosoever would say that Muhammad(pbuh) was dead, he will behead him. At this critical situation, Hazrat Abu Bakar arrived, seeing the critical situation, he went into the hut of the Prophet and ascertained the truth. Then he came out and recited the same verse from Surah Ale Imran 3:144 and further declared that whosoever wants to worship Muhammad, let him know that he is dead, and whosoever wants to worship Allah, let him know that Allah is all abiding.
This incidence conclusively proves that all the companions of the Prophet and Caliphs knew that all Rasuls before Muhammad(pbuh) had died. If the companions believed that Jesus(pbuh) was still alive, then at least someone would have raised a point here.
If this is not enough, let us explore more verses. From verse 5:75 above, we already know that "the Messiah, son of Maryam was none but a Rasul…". Let us see what Allah tells about Rasuls in general.
The Quran categorically tells that all prophets were human being, they were not superhuman or god. Because they were human beings, whatever is natural to a human being has to apply to them as well. All human being eat food for sustenance, so also all Rasuls were dependent on food for sustenance of their physical bodies.
25:20 And We did not send before you any the Rasuls, but they surely ate food and walked through the street.
Whatever applies to human being has to apply to Rasuls also. Emphasis on such mundane thing like eating food and walking on street suggest that there is nothing extraordinary in their lives. They are just like any other human being. This is true about their life and death. Once again, I must reiterate that if you don't believe in the death of Jesus(pbuh) you are putting all these verses to contradict each other. Not only that, you are believing only part of the Quran that suits you and rejecting other part that does not fit your notions and Christian dogma.
There is one verse in the Quran where Jesus(pbuh) summarizes his relationship with his people.
The verse is from Surah Ma'idah 5:116-117.
This is another definite evidence of death of Jesus(pbuh). On the Day of Judgment Allah will question Jesus(pbuh) whether he taught his people to take him as a god. Jesus(pbuh) will reply that he did not teach so, and he bears witness that during his lifetime his people did not take him and his mother as gods besides Allah, but he does not know what they did after his death.
We all know that Christians do regard Jesus as Son of God and Mary as a goddess. If Jesus(pbuh) is alive, this should not have happened. How to reconcile this verse? According to the verse, the Christians were supposed to take Jesus and his mother as deities only after his death (wafat)!! And his death is yet to happen!!!! The answer is if this has to happen, then according to the verse Jesus(pbuh) must have died. It is only after his death people accepted him and his mother as god and goddess.
The key word here is ‘wafat' - death. Falamma tawaffai tani - that is, ‘but when you caused me to die.' Those who don't want to believe in the message, translate it saying that ‘when you took me away' thereby suggesting that when he was raised alive. Thus when Jesus(pbuh) was not with them physically, they started accepting him and his mother as god and goddess.
Did Allah Say Jesus(pbuh) Will Come Down?
Based on two different verses you believe Jesus(pbuh) was raised bodily in Heaven. If that is so, he has to come down one day. At least you believe he will come down one day. Please show me just one verse where Allah said He will send him back. The verse should be at least as clear and precise as the those where Allah said Jesus(pbuh) will be raised. If you find one, please e-mail me back. If you think verse 4:159 is THE verse about his Second Coming, please read the following sites by the same author: Interpretation of Verse 4:159 and Jesus Sign of Hour.
There is absolutely no verse in the entire Quran where directly or indirectly Allah said anything about Jesus(pbuh) coming back later days. Since Allah did not say anything about Jesus(pbuh) coming back, where and how did you come up with the story?
Your contention is that Allah specifically said Jesus(pbuh) was raised alive in the Heaven! My argument is in that case Allah must specifically tell us when and where Jesus(pbuh) will come down. Allah can not just leave the matter unanswered. It is a serious matter. Allah can not leave such an important and serious matter to be answered outside of the Quran by a Hadith or Christian commentary or an Islamic Fatwa.
Brothers and sisters of Islam, please note here that in the Quran Allah has spent plenty of time and space to narrate about Jesus(pbuh), his birth, his mother Maryam, his childhood, his bringing up, his death and so on. In case of few other prophets Allah has given so much details. And then do you think Allah just forgot to mention about his coming back, especially keeping him alive for more than 2000 years?
4:82 Do they not then ponder over Quran? And had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein a much discrepancy.
86:13-14 Verily this (- the Qur-an) is a conclusive discourse, and it is not a thing of joke.
It is up to you to summarily reject the arguments because it appears like a Qadiani or Ahmadiya debate. Once again I am reminding you, you don't have to become a Qadiani or Ahmadiya to believe in the total Quran. In order to reject the Qadianis or Ahmadiyas, you are trying to burn your own house. For one brief moment, can you leave the Qadianis alone and think over the whole message. How come the way you understand the Quran cannot justify two verses, how come they way you understand the Quran is full of contradiction, how come the Quran is full of so many mismatch?
I know in spite of all the discussion, it is extremely difficult for you to come out and accept the truth. Deep inside something is prohibiting you from accepting the logical discussion. Many of you will say all these are wrong interpretation. Your mind will prompt you to say these are falsification of the teaching of the Quran. Please read again and tell me which part is false, where did I misguide you, where is the forgery. There is no forgery.
Please think about it: If you do not believe that Jesus(pbuh) is dead, then you must come up with concrete evidences from the Quran and only from the Quran. You must conclusively reconcile all the verses that I mentioned in my discussion. Please don't say such and such scholar told that he is alive!!!! Please don't say such and such book clearly tells that he is alive!!!! Please don't say such and such Fatwa testifies that Jesus(pbuh) is alive!!!! To validate the words of these scholars, are you going to shatter the words of Allah? Please don't give greater value to a man-made book over that of divine scripture.
Please have courage to accept the truth. It has nothing to do with Qadianism. You are not converting in to Qadiani faith. This is not a Qadiani propaganda.
Last of all, what about the prophecy that Jesus(pbuh) will come back to the earth in the later days and revive Islam? After the above discussion, we can conclude that a dead person can not come back no matter what. This is against the principle of Islam. The Original Jesus(pbuh) - the prophet can not and will not come back in the later days. Period. However, in fulfillment of various prophecies, it is possible for another person to come Jesus's spirit and do something for Islam. This is outside the scope of current debate.
Many readers responded back with several Hadith narrating Jesus(pbuh) will come back and do something. The readers are unable to discard those Hadith or justify their validity.
If we take the literal meaning then these Hadith fails to satisfy the common sense. However, most of these Hadith may be interpreted in allegorical sense and not in their literal sense.
A few absurdities are: Jesus will fight with a sword (in 21st century or later! Come on, give me a break.); Jesus will land on the Minaret (why not on the ground); Jesus will kill a swine and break a cross (what purpose will it serve, or does it mean one swine and one cross is standing in the way of Islam? Or will he kill all the swine in the world and break all the crosses, a formidable job indeed.); Jesus will end the jijya (where is jijya practiced today, is it in Syria? Then why not stop it before his advent, so that his mission will be easier. Does it mean he will confine his mission only to Syria? What about the fiscal policies of the rest of the countries, will he interfere with them?).
The Dajjal is viewed by many as an individual. Jesus is supposed to kill the Dajjal. The attributes of Dajjal-the individual fail to satisfy any reasoning. Quran is not very clear about Dajjal (Gog and Magog). Dajjal will be faster than cloud, he will command barren land to grow vegetables, on his command milch animals will produce abundant milk, he will occupy most peoples house, he will command the sky and rain would fall, his followers will live in abundance etc. statements are probably NOT referring to an individual, rather a government, a superpower or may be a system. It could very well be America. Please recollect all the attributes of Dajjal and see if you can find likeness with what is happening in America and what the government practices there. Many scholars indicated similar notion. They think Dajjal would not be a singular individual, rather a superpower government or country. I leave this debate up to you.
The purpose of the website is not to discuss the Dajjal rather drive home this point that Jesus(pbuh) is dead.
YOU BOTH GOT ME WRONG. OBVIOUSLY. WITHOUT GIVING A SECOND THOUGHT TO YOURSELF.BECAUSE YOU NEVER CARED TO READ MY OTHER POSTS WHICH CAN REFLECT MY MIND .YOU SHOULD READ THEM.
I DO NOT BELONG TO ANY SECT OR PROMOTING ANY SECT.
I'M TRYING TO PROVE THAT JESUS ALIHISALAAM WILL NEVER COME BACK AS HE WAS NEVER RAISED TO SKY.
"SO ALL HADITH REPORTING ABOUT JESUS SECOND COMING ARE WRONG."
HOW DO YOU THINK I'M SUPPORTING THE IDEAS OF AHMADIYYAH WHEN I'M 'NOT' SUPPORTING ANY HADITH AT ALL WHICH IS OFFENDING QURAN.
IF JESUS A.S. CAN'T COME..NO ONE CAN COME BACK IN 'HIS NAME'.
IT'S THE MATTER OF COMMON SENSE BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
POINT TWO: WHEN I AM PROVING THAT THE CONCEPT OF SECOND COMING IS WRONG OR OFFENSEIVE TO QURAN THEN DEFINITELY I BELIEVE IN THE NATURAL DEATH OF PROPHET JESUS A.S.
I LEFT ALONE SOME PHRASES ON PURPOSE..KEEPING THIS IN MIND THAT PEOPLE WHO THINK HE WAS RAISED UP THE SKY..WILL GET STUCK AT 'RAFA'..IT WAS TO SAVE MY TIME AND MAKE MY POINT CLEAR , ONLY.
I WAS EXPECTING IT....DON'T WORRY.
THANKS UMMAH FOR HELPING ME...PROVING THE DEATH OF JESUS A.S.
FOR THOSE WHO SAYS AN 'INCARNATED JESUS' IS HERE AND HAS CREATED ANOTHER SECT (AHMEDIS) JUST BECAUSE OF THE ABOVE CATEGORY.
3- THOSE CHRISTIANS WHO SAYS MUHAMMAD S.A.W. COPIED FROM THERE SCRIPTURE TO WRITE QURAN.
I have been referreing to this Ayat before in some discussions to show that Jesus a.s.will show his indifference to the claim of his followers..and will say he never claimed that he was God.
Because if he comes back before Judgment day He might "correct" the "wrong" conception of his believers.
But All Christians will keep calling him a son of God till Qayamah...unless they believe in Quran and become Muslim.
But they just AVOID calling him the SON OF GOD...lol!
1- 'I will put you to death'..A NATURAL DEATH ..and NOT THE DEATH OF DISHONOUR ON CROSS.
4- 'I will give 'superiority' to the BELIEVERS OF JESSUS OVER THE NON-BELIEVERS.....TILL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
5- " I will give my JUDGMENT for the DISPUTED MATTERS ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"
1-Allah promised NATURAL DEATH for Jesus a.s.after he will be be sent back from Heaven on Earth.
Does it make any 'sense' ?
..after so many years of DISHONOUR....!
Which makes no sense either...I'll give you natural death..then I will raise you towards me...haha..
What's the use of raising a dead body?
Isn't this belief VERY CLOSE to CHRISTIAN BELIEF...that Jesus DIED AND THEN WAS RAISED.?
3- What is the use of 'Inni Mutahhariaoka' "I will remove all the blames from you"
5- Allah meant all by this (and by all the fabricated Hadith they use to support their calim...) that He wanted to send 'AN INCARNATED JESUS' to solve all the disputes.
which is against the CLAIM OF QURAN..
Since the DISPUTE WILL BE SOLVED ON THE JUDGMENT DAY AS HE PROMISED IN THE AYAT.
Why did he say That "I will give superiority" to JESUS'S BELIEVERS...OVER NON-BELIEVERS...till the JUDGMENT DAY.
Well the scope of this topic..is not to prove Jesus a.s.'death' directly..a favourite topic of Ahmedis..and a joy of an argument to listen to (Between Sunnis and Ahmedis)..
The SCOPE OF THIS TOPIC is to REFUTE THE DANGEROUS CONCEPT/MISCONCEPTION/BELIEF OF SECOND-COMING OF JESUS A.S.ACCORDING TO QURAN ONLY.
According to NEW TESTAMENT ...'false prophets' will be born and will claim to be "JESUS"...can you figure out something...!
who said "The son of man's sign will be shown on the sky..."..a man who USED TO TALK IN PARABLES!
...so if what Jesus said 'might' be 'True' if it has not been corrupted"
This is the CONCEPT which can be GENUINELY OPPOSED by ALL CHRISTIANS and many Christian-minded-MUSLIMS...who STOPPED READING QURAN after reading Hadiths in BUKHARI...etc..
and has been promoting Christianity in tje name of Islam.
Otherwise ...it's just obvious, whoever on Earth will /has been claiming to be JESUS has been OPPOSED.
The DISPUTE of JESUS'S BELIEVERS AND NON_BELIEVERS will remain as such UNTLESS THEY EMBRACE ISLAM ...and ACCEPT QURAN AS A "FINAL TESTAMENT"
Don't listen to Ahmedis listen to Quran...ONLY!
ISLAM IS ISLAM -NOT CHRISTIANITY...EITHER...BECAUSE IN KEEPING JESUS ALIVE..THEY HAVE CAUSED A'DEATH' TO THE 'MESSAGE' HE BROUGHT.
2- Everyone is DESTINED to TASTE DEATH.
Inference: Jesus is not 'living' in heaven.He died naturally on this Earth, a natural death.
MV (Mike) says that Muhammad s.a.w 'stole' everything from there Scriptures...Q ..Do you find it similar, brother?
ANOTHER RULE/LAW: "NO ONE RETURNS" "NO-SECOND-COMINGS"
But there is a ban on any population which We have destroyed: that they shall not return.
See they not how many generations before them we destroyed? Not to them will they return.
Addition: Why Muslim 'raised' Jesus to sky...?
but they all missed this Ayat which clearly says what happened to Jesus a.s. and his Mother.
Suunis says this Ayat is not clear..it might be referring to a refuge or shelter when Allah wanted to save Mary a.s. and Jesus a.s. from harm.
1-Allah made the Son of Mary and his Mother...a sign..
2-Allah gave both of them a Refuge/Shelter...not just a dwelling...to carryon their jouney of life..
QURAN IS THE FINAL TESTAMENT=FINAL AUTHORITY...NOT HADITH.
Well...that's why I call myself an 'ordinary Muslim'!
1-'Dajjal' (Anti-Christ) is NOT mentioned in Quran.
Comparason amongst all these translations becomes inevitable as everyone refer to them and most of us are not very familiar with the Arabic language.
1-Jesus's name is in bracket...which means it's by the choice of translator for Arabic "wa innahu" in Arabic.
3-Some of the above translations of 'wa inna hu" refer to 'Quran'(this) instead of Jesus as.
A THOUGHT: All who want to "bring" "Jesus" in this form or that...please ask yourself just 'one fair question' ...how many LAWS OF ALLAH are you OFFENDING by bringing him to earth again...Are you not doing it to feed THE IDOL OF YOUR OWN EGOS inside you....????????????????
..because we all live in different Time-Zones..(a nice topic Time -Zone)..and obviously think differently ..too!
Note: I have revised my posts.
Referred to the "Jesus-A Prophet Of Islam" Topic for detail.
I just wanted to say a few words…the words I couldn’t say in any of the sectarian/no-sectarian forum OPENLY..because they all have Moderators and Scholars.lol!
The TRUE UNITY is in purifying our selves by asking questions. No question is wrong as my professor said once …I say yes.. all questions are right ..but the 'right question' is ONLY ONE…It cuts open the 'VEIL of delusion' of our minds and unite our hearts into ONE inseparable bond.
Islam is Islam. Sects are not Islam. They are sections , They are Taboos. They are the main reason why there’s so much blood-shed in the Muslim world, so-called UMMAH (Ummah ..not you..)...which is sophisticatedly wrapped in a term..called "School Of Thoughts"
Have you ever observed the 'soap bubbles' closely! There’re bubbles trapped inside bubbles…the big bubble is ONE bubble from outside but from inside it’s all divided…Let’s try to pop up each and every small bubble inside the big bubble.. so that ONLY ONE big bubble remains…"ISLAM".
Yes..we can do it..with the "Spirit-Of-Islam"
Only then we can be able to unite ALL RELIGIONS into ONE RELIGION OF ALLAH.
We can’t unite people by starting a new sect as a RESCUE ARK. Neither we can do it by LEAVING THE RELIGION OF ALLAH. We can only do it by HOLDING HUBLULLAH…THE QURAN!
My Love and Prayers to ALL!
The perspective of this poem is Muslim/Human. | 2019-04-23T11:12:36 | http://absoluteastronomy.com/discussionpost/Is_Muslims_belief_about_Second_Coming_Of_Jesus_as_contradictory_to_Quran_69535 |
0.999999 | Find the limb length for a leaf in a tree.
Given: An integer n, followed by an integer j between 0 and n - 1, followed by a space-separated additive distance matrix D (whose elements are integers).
Return: The limb length of the leaf in Tree(D) corresponding to row j of this distance matrix (use 0-based indexing). | 2019-04-25T17:03:25 | http://rosalind.info/problems/ba7b/ |
0.998151 | Here are two versions of an inexpensive, homemade, outdoor movie screen for camping.
Make your own outdoor movie screen and Revive the drive in theatre, from days gone by. Instead of pulling up a car, why not a quad or just pull up a lawn lounge and enjoy the show.
Cut two 12 foot carpet tubes to 8 feet in length and the other one, 10 feet long.
Lay the carpet tubes on the ground. The 10 foot piece, will be the top and the 8 foot pieces will be the legs. Put the 10 foot carpet tube, across the top of the 8 foot pieces. Wrap with packing tape to hold in place.
Pound the fence posts into the ground the same distance apart as the carpet tube legs.
Stand up the carpet tube frame and put down over top of the fence posts.
Stretch the white material across and staple to the top and sides of the carpet tubes.
This requires an rv with an awning...so slightly more expensive. If you have to buy the rv., a little more than slightly. I'm really assuming, you already have one.
12 feet of heavy string or lightweight rope.
When you purchase the vinyl, ask the fabric store if they have an empty cardboard fabric tube. After the vinyl has been cut, immediately roll it around this cardboard tube to prevent creases. This 30 second task will save you from headaches, later.
Run a strip of white duct tape along the length of the top edge, on the front and backside of the vinyl.
Put a 3 inch strip of duct tape on the bottom edge, on both sides of the vinyl, on each corner. Now put one in the center.
Mark with a pen, 1 inch in from the edges.
Poke holes on the pen marks with a sharp knife or a hole punch.
Use a pen to mark 1 inch in and 1 inch down from the top edge, on the vinyl. Measure across to the other side and mark with a felt pen, where to put the remaining grommets. Make sure they will be evenly spaced with the last mark 1 inch in from the other side.
Find out more about how to install grommets.
What about spacing when you hate math?
Measure full length of vinyl; divide in half to find center. Make a mark here, also centered on the width of the duct tape. Make a mark on each end, one inch in from edges. Use a hole punch to make holes on these marks. Install the grommets.
Now measure from the center of the outside grommet to center of middle one. Divide this in half and mark. Do the same on the other side. Once again, make the hole and add the other grommets.
Do this one more time between each of the holes. For 108 inches in length you should end up with 9 in total for the top edge.
Install a grommet on each of the bottom corners and center of he vinyl.
Slide the awning hooks into the slot on the awning.
Hang the vinyl up on the hooks.
Tie heavy string or lightweight rope, through the grommets in the center and bottom corners.
Put tent pegs in the ground and attach the strings.
For storage, roll the vinyl around the cardboard fabric tube and secure with 3 wide rubber bands.
For extra protection, slide the outdoor movie screen, inside a carpet tube.
We used the plastic lid from an icy square container as a cap. It fit perfectly on the end of the carpet tube.
To use your outdoor movie screen, you will need a projector, a laptop and some good speakers.
The Epson 3 LCD projector EX3212 has a fairly good picture and is quite reasonably priced.
If you live to the north, it stays light until quite late in the summer. It is important to get a projector with a sharp picture, otherwise you will have to wait until it's really late, to start the movie.
If use your outdoor movie screen for a late night movie, you may have to invite all your camping neighbors, so they won't care about the noise! | 2019-04-22T12:33:33 | https://www.make-craft-projects.com/outdoor-movie-screen.html |
0.999999 | The owner of a 51-year-old downtown business says it will close today and move to the Dayton Mall area.
Dayton Barber College owner Todd LeMaster says police constantly harassed students after a student’s arrest on suspected felony drug trafficking nearly two years ago.
Dayton police deny LeMaster’s claims that the school was targeted.
The college will board up its 28 W. Fifth St. location and reopen Monday at 2741 Lyons Road in Miami Twp. LeMaster says the new facility underwent $300,000 in renovations.
Aside from the felony drug arrest on April 4, 2009, Dayton police Lt. Larry Faulkner said most arrests made of students were for minor marijuana charges and followed citizen complaints.
Faulkner said there have been few problems at the college in recent months.
Police began working with the college and the Ohio Barber Board after complaints about suspected drug activity.
LeMaster agreed that students wouldn’t be allowed to hang out front, but didn’t always keep that promise, Faulkner said. This prompted more complaints and investigations.
LeMaster, who has owned the college for 21 years, said he never formally complained about police to avoid trouble.
Students performed 400 hair cuts a week before problems with police began, LeMaster said.
The school gets about 200 clients a week now. Enrollment dropped from about 75 students to 45.
LeMaster appealed a public nuisance charge filed on April 15, 2009, by the city’s division of housing inspection brought on by the student’s arrest for suspected drug possession and trafficking charges.
The City of Dayton Nuisance Appeal Board upheld the charge and ruled that LeMaster could have known of the student’s criminal activity if reasonable care and diligence had been exercised.
LeMaster said he found the nuisance charge personally painful because he strived to maintain a quality business.
via Barber college owner says move prompted by police harassment.
Let me translate the above paragraph in bold italics for you: “It was a terrible perception having young black males standing on the public sidewalk,” Faulkner said. “The Spaghetti Warehouse, and The Dayton Chess Club and Tri-College Bookstore” and the one resident on E. Fifth Street didn’t like the cigarette butts on the sidewalk.
Had LeMaster put up a little wrought iron fence, and put cafe tables out- served latte – and had at least one white student- he’d still be there.
Despite the City being at least 50% African American, the reality is that the Monarchy of Montgomery County only tolerates enough African Americans to stay in power. We have no interest in strengthening and supporting black business- unless they are large supporters of the political machine or move in the correct circles.
The damage has been done, yet another business in Dayton closes up and moves to suburbia- and we can wait for the next art gallery, coffee shop or tax supported business to take the bait.
Best wishes to Mr. LeMaster. Sorry to see you go.
DAYTON — An unidentified man was shot four times early Friday morning during an argument at Hammerjax nightclub in downtown Dayton, police said.
The victim was taken to Miami Valley Hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
Police responding to reports of a disturbance heard gunshots shortly after they arrived at the nightclub at 111 East Fourth Street at about 2:30 a.m.
via Man shot at downtown Dayton nightclub.
The difference- one club owner hosts birthday parties for Rhine McLin and gives gifts of tile mosaic portraits.
While shootings at nightclubs…. hmmm.
Next Post: Violated, AGAIN- lost count. Chainsaw missing.
Interesting point about the wrought-iron fence and cafe tables there. When Oregon district eateries/drinkeries take over part of the sidewalk, does the city get paid fair value for the property and does the business pay higher property taxes for the bigger footprint?
Interesting you bring up the tables and fence – coincidence that it’s what Rob (Ohio Coffee Company, on the corner of Fifth and Ludlow) has been trying to do for months now? He FINALLY received clearance, but you should ask him about the myriad things he had to do to make it happen. | 2019-04-18T21:05:34 | https://esrati.com/barber-college-gets-scalped-city-gets-beheaded/6145 |
0.999999 | George Soros ist ein US-amerikanischer Investor ungarischer Herkunft und Betreuer vieler Fonds, unter anderem des Quantum Funds. Bekannt wurde er, als er im September 1992 auf die Abwertung des britischen Pfunds spekulierte und damit einen Gewinn von rund einer Milliarde US-Dollar erzielte. Mit seinem Vermögen unterstützt Soros unter anderem Bürgerrechtsorganisationen sowie politische Aktivisten.
Context: An open society is always in danger. It must constantly reaffirm its principles in order to survive. We are being sorely tested, first by 9/11 and then by President Bush's response. To pass the test we must face reality instead of finding solace in false certainties. This election transcends party loyalties. Our future as an open society depends on resisting the Siren's song.
Context: Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality — but reality as distorted by a misconception. Under normal conditions misconceptions are self-correcting, and the markets tend toward some kind of equilibrium. Occasionally, a misconception is reinforced by a trend prevailing in reality, and that is when a boom-bust process gets under way. Eventually the gap between reality and its false interpretation becomes unsustainable, and the bubble bursts.
Context: We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process. And the market fundamentalists have managed to reduce providing those public goods.
Context: The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposition position. I assume that markets are always wrong. Even if my assumption is occasionally wrong, I use it as a working hypothesis. It does not follow that one should always go against the prevailing trend. On the contrary, most of the time the trend prevails; only occasionally are the errors corrected. It is only on those occasions that one should go against the trend. This line of reasoning leads me to look for the flaw in every investment thesis.... I am ahead of the curve. I watch out for telltale signs that a trend may be exhausted. Then I disengage from the herd and look for a different investment thesis. Or, if I think the trend has been carried to excess, I may probe going against it. Most of the time we are punished if we go against the trend. Only at an inflection point are we rewarded.
Context: The war in Iraq was misconceived from start to finish — if it has a finish. It is a war of choice, not of necessity, as President Bush claims. It goes without saying that Saddam was a tyrant, and it is good to be rid of him. But in invading Iraq as we did, without a second UN resolution, we violated international law. By mistreating and even torturing prisoners, we violated the Geneva conventions. President Bush has boasted that we do not need a permission slip from the international community, but our disregard for international law has endangered our security, particularly the security of our troops.
Context: It's more difficult, you know, to bring about positive change than it is to make money. It's much easier to make money, because it's a much easier way to measure success — the bottom line. When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. Why not use an entrepreneurial, rather than a bureaucratic, approach. As long as people genuinely care for the people they're trying to help, they can actually do a lot of good.
Context: The Palestine problem does not have a purely military solution. Military superiority is necessary for Israel's national security, but it is not sufficient. The solution has to be political, as President Clinton recognized.
Context: The Republican Party has been captured by a bunch of extremists … People who maintain that markets will take care of everything, that you leave it to the markets and the markets know best. Therefore, you need no government, no interference with business. Let everybody pursue his own interests. And that will serve the common interest. Now, there is a good foundation for this. But it's a half-truth.
Context: On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy. On a personal level, I am a very critical person who looks for defects in myself as well as in others. But, being so critical, I am also quite forgiving. I couldn't recognize my mistakes if I couldn't forgive myself. To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Context: Before the invasion of Iraq, we could project overwhelming power in any part of the world. We cannot do so any more because we are bogged down in Iraq. Iran and North Korea are moving ahead with their nuclear programs at full speed and our hand in dealing with them has been greatly weakened.
Context: You know, I learned at a very early age that what kind of social system or political system prevails is very important. Not just for your well-being, but for your very survival. Because, you know, I could have been killed by the Nazis. I could have wasted my life under the Communists. So, that's what led me to this idea of an open society. And that is the idea that is motivating me. | 2019-04-25T06:23:13 | https://beruhmte-zitate.de/autoren/george-soros/?page=2 |
0.996995 | The UK was now finally consistent in producing promotional items for Madonna's new album releases and this particular release throws up a major collecting mystery because in addition to the now standard LP with with rear rectangular sticker of far more interest to the collect was a supposed promotional picture disc. However, just as with the 'Material Girl' 7" with mini poster, this is the other item that has doubt about it's authenticity.
This is often billed as a German item not only due to the 'Pro' catalogue number which was not used for promotional items for the UK but also because it featured the same edited versions available on the official German promo LP. However, the often-overlooked credits at the bottom of the disc state: 'Made In UK' and this is shown in the gallery below. Mystery still surrounds this item. It could well be the first example of a Madonna bootleg picture disc, but, to confuse matters further there is also a bootleg that appeared at a later date when each of Madonna's studio albums were given the bootleg picture disc treatment. The later bootleg is contains the same tracks from the LP - not the edited versions - and also has the same rare image of the LP release. It is, however, of noticeably poorer quality, the colours being over saturated - as one collector pointed out making Madonna look like she had been hitting the fake tan! So the question remains whether or not this original is official. It is undoubtedly rare and of superior quality to the later bootleg and fetches high prices on the occasions it is offered for sale. If not official, it may well have originated from an official pressing plant albeit not as an official release.
While the (original) picture disc is undoubtedly the most desirable item of the 'You Can Dance' collectables, there are also several additional UK promotional items. Shown below is a large banner, a mini 7"x5" double sided standee and a large 60"x40" poster, all of which are surprisingly scarce. These are all shown with an LP for comparison purposes although the banner itself was originally displayed with a number of empty LP sleeves as part of a set display.
Distinguishing the promotional items issued at this time can be a challenge: - the 'Who's That Girl' press pack used an earlier image from 'True Blue', while the 'True Blue' album was duly reissued to promote 'Who's That Girl', while the latest album 'You Can Dance' used an image from the 'Who's That Girl' tour. Which just goes to show how fluid the marketing of Madonna was at this time!
To add further to the fluidity, not to mention confusion, there was also a cross-over with two very similar promotional posters with slightly different credits. The UK version, which has a '1987 Sire Records Company' credit in the bottom left hand corner, and the UK catalogue number in the bottom right hand corner, was used to promote the LP as part of a limited edition poster release (with round sticker) and also appeared as a limited poster edition for the 12" of 'The Look of Love'. However, a USA version with a '1987 Sire Records Company. Made in U.S.A. For promotional use only. Not for sale.' credit, but also with the same UK catalogue number in the right hand corner also appeared with an alternative limited edition poster edition (with a square sticker). As at least some of these LP were Irish pressings it would appear that a batch of US promo posters were shipped (to Ireland?) for this purpose, although the square sticker also contained the UK catalogue number. See the ALBUMS tab for more details. However, for ease of reference both of these promotional poster variations are shown below.
As usual there is also a US press pack, which is perhaps one of the more easily sourced of the press packs. It consists of a promotional photo - from the 'Who's That Girl' tour - and a three-page biography. See also the reissue of 'True Blue' in 1987 which also uses the same image but with a 'Sire' logo in the bottom right hand corner.
In 1988 sales of 'You Can Dance' was certified platinum by the R.I.A.A., signifying sales in excess of one million units. This was commemorated in January of that year with a press release and a specially reprinted promotional photo from the 'Who's That Girl' World Tour in 1987. Due to the limited nature of the press release, this photo is much scarer than the photo that accompanies the main press pack. | 2019-04-21T12:17:59 | http://www.madonna-decade.co.uk/you-can-dance1.html |
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0.999999 | Megan Fox is an American actress, and model.
Megan Fox has sometimes been credited as Mega Fox or Foxy Megan.
Megan Fox was born Megan Denise Fox on May 16th, in Rockwood, Tennessee, United States. Her zodiac sign is Taurus.
As an actress, Megan Fox has performed in movies such as Red Sonja, released in 2011, The Leaving (2011) in which she portrays Amy Beth, Jennifer's Body (2009) in which she portrays Jennifer Check, Jonah Hex (2010) as Leila, The Crossing (2011), and This Is 40 (2012) (character: Desi).
Q: When is Megan Fox's birthday?
Written by Evan Daugherty (screenplay), André Nemec (screenplay), Kevin Eastman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters) and Peter Laird (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters), "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (also known as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V", "Ninja Turtles") is an Action/Adventure/Comedy film, released in the USA on August 08 of 2014 . Megan Fox (April O'Neil) and William Fichtner (The Shredder) are starring, alongside Alan Ritchson (Raphael), Noel Fisher (Michelangelo), Jeremy Howard (Donatello) and Pete Ploszek (Leonardo).
Written by Jeff Schaffer (screenplay), David Mandel (screenplay), and Alec Berg (screenplay), "The Dictator" is a Comedy film, released in the USA on May 16 of 2012 , starring Sacha Baron Cohen (General Aladeen), Ben Kingsley, Megan Fox, John C. Reilly, Anna Faris and B.J. Novak.
Starring Will Arnett, Michael Fassbender (Burke), Josh Brolin (Jonah Hex), John Malkovich (Turnbull), Julia Jones (Cassie) and Michael Shannon (Doc Cross Williams), "Jonah Hex" is an Action/Adventure/Drama film written by William Farmer (story), Tony Dezuniga (characters appearing in magazines published by DC Comics), and John Albano (characters appearing in magazines published by DC Comics), released on June 18 of 2010 in the USA.
Released on September 18 of 2009 in the USA, "Jennifer's Body" is a Comedy/Science Fiction/Thriller film . Amanda Seyfried (Needy Lesnicky) and Johnny Simmons (Chip Dove) are starring, alongside Adam Brody (Nikolai Wolf), J.K. Simmons (Mr. Wroblewski), Amy Sedaris (Toni Lesnicky) and Chris Pratt (Officer Roman Duda).
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a film directed by Michael Bay, and written by Roberto Orci (story), Alex Kurtzman (story), and Ehren Kruger (screenplay), released in the USA on June 26 of 2009 . Megan Fox (Mikaela Banes) is starring, alongside Shia LaBeouf (Sam Witwicky), John Turturro (Agent Simmons), Rainn Wilson (College Professor), Jon Voight (John Keller) and Josh Duhamel (Captain Lennox).
"Transformers" (also known as "Prime Directive", "The Transformers", "Transformers: The IMAX Experience") is a film written by John Rogers (story) and Alex Kurtzman (screenplay), released on June 27 of 2007 in the USA , starring Megan Fox (Mikaela Banes), Josh Duhamel (Captain Lennox), Tyrese Gibson (USAF Tech Sergeant Epps), Rachael Taylor (Maggie Madsen), Anthony Anderson (Glen Whitmann) and Jon Voight (Defense Secretary John Keller).
Megan Fox and John C. Reilly to be in "The Dictator"! | 2019-04-19T17:31:04 | https://theiapolis.com/actress-0OLZ/megan-fox/ |
0.999999 | I hope you don't mind if I ask you a question: I am having a little argument with a friend about if capitalism requires winners or losers. He says no, and in fact, that losers hurt the market because they have less money to spend.
I, on the other hand, think that capitalism requires, at least, the opportunity to fail. From there it doesn't seem like much of a leap to say that it requires losers. My questions is, what would a capitalist economy look like if every transaction was a win-win transaction? Would that be an ideal economy? Would it be sustainable? What would happen?
I think that they are having trouble resolving this question because it's a wrong question ("Ask the wrong question, you'll get a wrong answer.") It can be answered trivially, so let me propose a better question, and then answer that.
By definition, every transaction in a free market economy is a win-win transaction. Both parties see more value in what the other party has than in what they have, so they trade. In any other circumstance, one or both value their current circumstances better, and refuse to trade. The only kind of trade you can have in a free market economy which leaves one of the parties immediately worse off is when they are forced to trade against their will.
Leaning heavily on Ludwig von Mises' tome Human Action, remember that the future is uncertain. People's opinions about the future differ. People take actions based on those opinions. All actions involve an element of risk. It's simply not possible in this world for all actions to succeed. Some will pan out, some will come up dry (very deliberately choosing to use those two cliches).
Every transaction is undertaken because the individual perceives a benefit at the time. Therefore, her question is trivially answered "every transaction in a free market (capitalist) economy already is a win-win transaction." I don't think she'll be satisfied with that answer, however, because I don't think the question is right. I think a better question, following from the dispute between her and her friend, is "Does the proper operation of capitalism rely on some people making mistakes?"
The answer to that question is "No". It's more a matter of mistakes being inevitable, and capitalism surviving them. If people didn't make mistakes, then capitalism would work much better ... but then again, so would socialism. Capitalism has a lot of flaws, whereas socialism is perfect in its design and has no flaws. The trouble is that imperfect people have to carry out both systems. Capitalism trades off the constant presence of small mistakes and thereby avoids the big mistakes that a socialist economy will make. | 2019-04-18T18:32:08 | http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/value-transactions |
0.999837 | Natural: These ingredients are relatively unrefined agricultural commodities such as grains (corn, wheat, oats), grain by-products, plant-based proteins meals (soybeans, corn gluten, alfalfa) and animal-based proteins (pork, fish). These contain a variety of macro-, micro-, and non-nutrients and are considered chemically complex.
Refined: Compared to natural ingredients, refined ingredients are chemically simple as the result of further processing from the source material, often removing non-nutrient components. The goal of a refined ingredient is often to provide one major nutrient and possibly trace amounts of other nutrients. Examples include casein, sucrose, glucose, fructose, and cornstarch, among others.
Standard (natural ingredient) diets: Also called grain-based or cereal-based, standard diets are a widely used type of laboratory animal diet, used to support reproduction, growth, and maintenance of animal colonies. Because of the nature of the ingredients and the scale of production, there will be a greater degree of nutrient variability relative to diets using refined ingredients. While this type of diet has been used in research for more than 75 years, the inherent presence of non-nutrients in these diets can impact phenotype.
Medicated diets: Serving a veterinary purpose, these diets with added medications can supplement a standard diet to prevent or treat common infections (such as pinworms and fur mites) in laboratory animals.
The formulation of a diet matters as it could affect the interpretation of and confidence in the research results.
Open formula diets have published ingredient lists along with the recipe, while closed formula diets are proprietary, listing the ingredient composition but not the recipe. By definition, open formulas are fixed, meaning the same recipe is followed for each production. Closed formula diets can be either fixed or variable (the recipe can change over time).
While fixed formulas are unchanging, variable formulas can have shifting ingredient inclusion rates over time, in an effort to manage nutrient variability. However, end-users will not be aware if or how a formula like this changes over time.
Laboratory animal diet manufactures rely on stringent ingredient sourcing and manufacturing practices, for instance, purchasing ingredients only from approved suppliers and testing or inspecting the products before inclusion. The goal is to manage variability over a long period of time and achieve nutrient stability.
Study endpoints can be affected by the inclusion of non-nutrients in a diet, which may be inherent in the natural ingredient or present as a contaminant, such as arsenic, lead, mycotoxins or certain pesticides.
Several strategies can be employed to avoid these non-nutrients. Corn- and wheat-based ingredients can be screened for mycotoxins. Or a diet can exclude fish meal to minimize nitrosamines, a potential carcinogen, and lower arsenic levels. Excluding alfalfa meal greatly lowers background autofluorescence, which interferes with imaging in live animals.
As mentioned in a previous, the good, the bad and the ugly effects of dietary phytoestrogen in lab animal diets avoiding phytoestrogens, is a prime concern as they can mimic both the structure and the function of estrogen in mammals, leading to unpredictable effects and potentially unreliable results. Use of a standard diet that excludes soybean and alfalfa meals, or a purified diet, will help avoid any impact of dietary phytoestrogens.
Diet is a valuable research tool when chosen with intention. By understanding the potential variables with a diet, such as ingredients, nutrients, non-nutrients, formulation strategies, and manufacturing approaches, you will be better prepared to make more informed decisions. | 2019-04-25T20:48:18 | https://blog.envigo.com/diet-selection-101-making-informed-decisions-about-lab-animal-diets |
0.99919 | Sequence alignment help: BWA is not my friend!
Question: Sequence alignment help: BWA is not my friend!
I need some help with sequence alignment using BWA as I'm at my wits end.
Background: I've sequenced wheat DNA (note, highly repetitive) using the Illumina HiSeq 2000. I have contigs and scaffolds as assembled by the sequencing company and I have two reference genomes that should be pretty similar to my sequences. I have attempted sequence alignments of contigs and scaffolds against both reference genomes using BWA bwasw with default parameters. Note that the two reference genomes are in large scaffolds themselves.
Problem: I keep getting really bad alignments! Aligned sequences are heavily truncated in every instance, with less than half the sequence actually aligning to the reference! And if something does align, it's repetitive sequence. I have masked repetitive sequences and this alleviates the problem a little but doesn't solve the massive truncating problem. In addition, the majority of my sequence data doesn't align to anything and is clustered under "unaligned sequences".
Anyone with BWA experience or any experience with sequence alignment? I'd really appreciate a push in the right direction as this has been keeping me busy for much too long!
Hi, could you please add some examples of the commands you used, and of the version of the data formats you are using? It is difficult to know what is the cause of your problem otherwise. Can you check if the quality scores in your fasta file are encoded using the phred+33 scheme, and not phred+64 (see wikipedia - fastq)? Another possibility is to use a software like Trinity for doing assembly without a reference genome.
The data formats are in fasta. I did create an index for the reference genome before hand.
I'm not sure about the quality scores for my fasta file - what impact could that have?
I'm not really using the mapping to assemble, I need to compare to the reference genome for comparison's sake.
The quality scores would affect your results because if they are not encoded correctly, bwa may think that the sequences have a lower quality than the real one, and align them more poorly. But I don't think that this is your case anyway. In any case, you should look at the distribution of quality scores in your dataset (e.g. check the option QualityScoreDistribution in Picard Tools).
Another question is if there any specific reason why you used the bwa bwasw algorithm. The bwa mem should be more accurate, did you try that?
p.s. in the command line you posted there are some errors in the paths to the reference genome index file and the fasta files.
BWA is a short read aligner that was designed to quickly match short reads to genomes. It won't work all that well when you are aligning contigs to other contigs.
You will need to use other tools: for example lastz or MUMMER or do pairwise alignments with blast.
Both bwa-sw and bwa-mem work with scaffold-to-scaffold alignment as long as the sequence divergence is not so large. I suspect the problem is caused by the input data. Also the wheat genome is much larger than human. Mummer and Quast which uses mummer probably won't work.
So now I'm confused. The difference between my sequence and my reference shouldn't be that great - they're just different cultivars. Also, I only sequenced one arm of one chromosome and I'm comparing it to a reference genome, scaffolds of that same chromosome arm only. Would Mummer work alright with a smaller sequencing subset? My chromosome arm should be roundabout 200Mb?
I would first check if these are really wheat sequences (e.g. mapping wheat cDNA with blat) and whether there are low-level errors in data processing. Bwa-mem is also recommended over bwa-sw, though I doubt this can make a difference. If you are aligning 200Mb against 200Mb, Mummer should work. It is worth trying. A question though: how did you sequence one arm of a chromosome?
Thanks. I think I should try a couple of different things and see what works best. I am worried about my data quality though - the sequencing stats all look good, but who's to say it's all wheat sequences?!?!
Oh, for the chromosome sequencing: I made metaphase preparations on microscope slides and excised the chromosomes I wanted with a laser using this fancy microscope called the PALM® Robot-Microbeam system (P.A.L.M. Microlaser Technologies AG, Bernried, Germany).
So, BWA doesn't seem like the best option then.
I'll take a look at some other options. Does anyone have any experience with Bowtie? Would that be a viable option?
no, sorry, bowtie also is only for short-reads alignment. In your case you should use one of the tools suggested by Istvan.
Guess I should get cracking!
Why Longer Reads Must Be Trimmed Or Divided Into 36Bp ?
How do you run a BWA alignnment command in R? | 2019-04-26T02:10:33 | https://www.biostars.org/p/101123/ |
0.999921 | How do I become an Amazon Best Seller?
These days, it's really easy to become an Amazon number-one Best Seller, and tons of people offer this service. It's all about strategy; it's not about the quality of your book. We also offer this service ─ and every one of our authors that we've done this for has hit number one.
But you still want to have a great book that people are going to refer, keep reading and pass on to their friends. We're here to help you create a book that brings in clients, sales, readers, and connections over time.
Our Amazon number-one Best Seller service includes a lot of content. We're promoting you as an author, so that you have that Amazon Best Seller status over time. We can even go backward with a book that's already published and turn it into number one Amazon Best Seller. It's a matter of creating that content and positioning you and having that quality content that is on Amazon and elsewhere ─ social media, on your website and so on ─ so that your Best Seller status lasts for months and even years, with people finding you, referring you, coming to you and seeing you as an expert in your field.
How do I write for my audience?
Writing for yourself is very different from writing for your audience. For a lot of the authors that come to us with an existing manuscript, this is where they get stuck, because the first draft you are really brain dumping. You're writing for yourself. You're writing things that you know, that you remember, that are in your head, and you're just getting it down on paper.
When you're writing for your audience, you're speaking to their concerns. You're speaking to what they want, that their emotional pressures are and so on.
What'll happen is, we might look at a manuscript and it's like, "This is how I started my book. This is why I'm writing this book. This is how I got into this thing. This is how I did it, and this is how to do it." That's writing for yourself.
Writing for your audience starts with empathy. It sounds like this: "You may be feeling a lot of frustration and overwhelmed, because you have just been appointed as head of the sales department and you know that if you don't make those sales targets, you're entire team is going to suffer. You might lose your job. You might lose your family. You're not going to be able to save for the future and have a college fund for your kids. That's why this sales book, and everything that I'm going to teach you in this book, is going to make a huge impact on your life." The approach is different.
So that's the difference between writing for yourself versus writing for them and being in their world. You want to make sure you distinguish that and write for your audience and not for you.
Should I write a business book or a personal book?
Well, you know, people come to me all the time and say, "I don't know if I should write a memoir or a business book. I have so many personal stories to tell, and they really mean so much to me, and I really, really want to share that with the world. But at the same time, I want to be seen as an expert in, say, insurance or sales or something like that, and I really want it to help my business. So maybe I should do a memoir first and then a business book... or should I do the business book first?"
Well, what I say is: you want them both together in one book, because you want that business book that also has your personal stories so that you make that connection with people. This helps people relate to you as an individual and want to do business with you.
If you just have business, it's dry, boring. If you just have personal, it doesn't lead to anything. Id you put them together, you have a personal connection that also showcases your credibility and your expertise. You have a book you love, that has your heart in it and that you can give to the world and make a difference with it.
Is one draft all you need to write a book?
Another pitfall is that people think that one draft is all you need to write a book. Right? Just write it out, and it's fantastic. And if you're talented, you can just write it and it's done. They don't realize that writing is actually rewriting. That's what my journalism teacher taught me in my first day at journalism school. Writing is rewriting. You need to write and craft and craft.
So, with our amateur writers, we tell them, “Look if you're writing your book yourself, you should plan on at least three drafts.” We, as professional writers, plan on two to three drafts.
We have one stage in our process called “Tell My Story.” That’s where we're interviewing you and gathering the content. And then we start writing it. First draft, second draft, third draft. First draft, we don't even get to everything. We get to maybe 80 percent, because there are holes in there. There's logic that's missing. There are stories that don't match. So, the first draft is maybe about 80 percent of your content.
Second draft, we get closer to 100 percent, because we've got all the answers from you. Third draft, we're really honing it for voice and theme, and looking at the book as a whole, so that the reader has an incredible journey from the beginning through the middle to the end.
A book is a journey. A book is actually a hero's journey, an emotional journey that you're taking people on. So, even if you're writing a business book, you want to take your reader on an emotional journey. And it may also be called the hero's journey. So, you know, one of the great stories that I love is [The] Lord of the Rings, right? So we have the little hobbit who's unsure in his world. And then he decides to go on a journey, and he's facing all these foes and battles, but he has guides all along the way. But in the end, he has a final battle, his final climax. He himself has to pull the courage and all the lessons that he's learned along the way and have the courage to finally face his demons and win the battle. In his case, it's throwing that ring into that fire, right?
So, your book wants and needs to take the reader on that journey. In the beginning, in your introduction and your first chapters, you're talking to a reader who's unsure, who's maybe frustrated, who's challenged and confused about whatever problem they're facing in the world. Then you take them on the journey. Every single chapter is a new challenge or a new thing that they have to deal with and learn in that journey to success. And you share with them along the way. Your reader is going to feel relieved, comforted, clear, confident, all along the way. At the end, they finally get that last piece that they need. And they are going to win and learn and earn that right to be successful. By then, they're going to be transformed, confident, clear, positive about what needs to happen and healed by what needs to happen because of all the lessons you've taught them along the way. At that point, you invite them to join your tribe and go to the next level of growth.
Even with a business book, you are taking them on that emotional journey, that hero's journey from problem to solution, solution, solution, to transformation and growth. So, make it a great business book.
What's the difference between a book and a blog?
So, in this digital era, we have websites, and everybody talks about blogging, and then there are books. So, what's the difference between a book and a blog?
Right, so a book and a blog may be similar, but they're two different mediums. It's like the difference between a watercolor and an oil painting, for example.
People will say, "Hey, I've got a bunch of blogs, can't we just put it together in a book?" Yes, you can put all your blogs together in a book, and it's called your collection of blogs that happens to be in a book.
However, if you want to create a cohesive book, you need to use the blog as your content ─ not as a mishmash of stuff. A book is its own art form that's a longer conversation, a longer set of topics that tie together, and then the blogs can be content to fill that conversation.
So with any story, there's a beginning, a middle and an end. With a book it's the same thing: there's a beginning, there's a middle and there's an end. With each blog, there's a beginning, a middle and an end. So with the blog, we can't use the beginning and we can't use the end, but we can use the middle. That content can help create a book from scratch as its own artistic form. You’re going to give the world this book that will set you apart for credibility, grow your business and inspire people.
What's the difference between a book and marketing copy?
A book can be a marketing piece and, of course, a marketing copy of course is marketing copy. They can both serve the same purpose, but it's how it's expressed. Marketing copy tends to be very short. “Are you going through a divorce now? I can get you saved. Call me.”It gets into hunger and desire. A lot of times there's ALL CAPS, and there's exclamation marks and there's question marks, and then there's here's what you need to know in yellow highlights and stuff.
But a book is a long piece. If you write like that in a book, it's annoying. An entire book of people shouting at you and constantly wanting your attention ─ it's too much. A book, it's about sharing content, information, knowledge. You're taking someone through a journey. Your reader wants to be immersed in a world. You can plant the seeds of a call to action, but don't have your story mixed up with your marketing; otherwise, you turn people off.
What's the difference between a book and a workbook?
Your book is your calling card out there. It's on Amazon. You're giving it to people. You really want to tell your personal story and have client stories and anecdotes in there, as well as having your method and your system and the overview. This creates the rapport so that people get an idea of what you're about, what you have to give; and they want to work with you. That's what your book is for.
Your workbook is where you have all the nitty-gritty stuff like, "Okay, make sure you do this and then fill in the blanks for this, and here's the question and here's the step."
To give you an idea: one of our authors had sent me a manuscript, and she's a holistic healer, and so she had her personal story. She explained how to do it, and then she had a meditation. I said, "You know, they can't read the book and sit and do a meditation at the same time. You can't read and meditate at the same time. Put your meditation on your online course or on your website or your workbooks, but have that book focus on you and your method, and why they need to do it and what the results are."
Keep them separate. You want to have a little bit of “how to” in your book ─ but an overview, not all the nitty-gritty stuff. The book is the why. The workbook is the how.
What are the top three mistakes people make when writing a business book?
We actually divide it into two steps. One is the "Tell My Story" step, and one is the "Write My Book" step.
So what happens is that people start writing and writing and writing, and they go, "Oh good. I've finished. This is my book." What they don't realize is that, well, that was your rough draft. That was your brain dump for you. You need to now take that raw material and turn it into a manuscript that’s compelling for your ideal audience. So that's what we call the Write My Book step. What happens with amateur writers is they think that that brain dump ─ that rough draft ─ is their book. They don't realize they have to go and actually craft the book for their audience. So that's the first mistake.
The second mistake ─ or pitfall shall we say ─ that people make is that they're not clear about their target audience. Oftentimes, we ask people, "Well, whom are you writing for?" They say, "Well, everybody. Everybody can benefit from this book." Well, not everybody is interested in veterinarians. Not everyone is interested in what to do after you've been through a relationship breakup, or not everyone is interested in holistic healing or so on. You get the idea.
So you really want to narrow that, and also, too, writing for Baby Boomers versus writing for Gen Xers versus writing for digital natives or even teenagers is totally different. The language is different. The approach is different. The thinking is different. So, you need to be really, really clear about whom you're writing for so that you can be in their world and get their pain point and really narrow that down. We have something called the Plan My Book questionnaire, where we go through that and identify that. The more you can be clear about that, the stronger your manuscript is going to be.
The third pitfall that people have with their books is that they put [in] too much "how to." They're very focused on how to do it. They even put questions and exercises and checklists and stiff in it, which is great in a book. But what happens is that a lot of times it comes at the expense of actually explaining it and creating rapport with the reader through anecdotes and stories. So that's the third pitfall we see: too much how to and not enough connection with the reader.
We are ghostwriters. And people will say to us, "Well, so and so, you know, they can get it done for this much. And I just talk to them, and they edit it, and they turn it into a book." Well that's the problem: you're talking to them, and they're editing it. They're editing your words and turning it into book. With us, we're taking your content, and we're ghostwriting it in a way that your reader actually wants to read it.
A good ghostwriter skillfully creates a compelling narrative that people want to read and that sounds like the best version of you. That's why we plan on two to three drafts, because we're doing that work. We’re not just taking your words and printing them, because it doesn't necessarily reach out and grab your reader. You want narrative that's going to grab your reader and get them hooked, and make them want to keep reading and then do business with you.
What's the difference between a book and a podcast?
A podcast and a book are different formats, reaching different audiences, using different platforms. A book is something that you own in tangible form. It's something that you, physically, can give to others. It has your name on it, and of course it can be on Amazon and so on. In contrast, there isn't a way to follow up in a physical, tangible way with a podcast. With a podcast, you are getting in the minds and hearts of people. The two can definitely merge. We have clients who are taking their podcasts and turning them into books.
If you have your ideas codified in a book, you can turn that into podcast topics, invite people and position yourself as an expert in those clusters of topics that match your book as well. | 2019-04-21T18:21:11 | https://www.authorbridgemedia.com/FAQs.html |
0.999041 | Subtitle: Restoration Wars and Social Maneuvers: Is political and social chaos an opportunity for revolution or for further clampdown?
Restoration Wars and Social Maneuvers: Is political and social chaos an opportunity for revolution or for further clampdown?
Daily life has a new rhythm: routine disruptions. DPacing an accelerated news cycle and affective bursts from smart phone notifications, our subjective autonomous systems are increasingly synced up with crisis-state and techno security tempos.
We don’t know what the next surprise is going to be, but we know it’s coming.
The “strategic surprise” has been an object of study for the security state for some time. The State wants to detect and disrupt such emergent surprises, especially as they coalesce into an insurgent event. State and Capital have for years tried to subsume surprise, whether deploying “shock and awe” military operations, governing via outrage-inducing tweets, or buzz-marketing through offensive ads. Most relevant here is the way corporations have integrated “creative destruction,” “innovation” and “disruption” into its management commands.
Rather than think of this process as a final subsumption, let’s consider it the last desperate resistance-grab. Ultimately the State cannot control the stochastic character of any extreme direct action. The stochastic refers to something being randomly determined. Eruptive events will inevitably recur, but the particular concrete details are unpredictable (think here of mass shootings and incel terrorism).
The result is an entropy of bursts of randomness. Controlled disruptions, like controlled demolitions, are an engineering reality, but a political fantasy. Instead, we have a security state characterized by disrupted controls. This State itself is no longer unified—it unleashes surprises on itself.
Such internal rifts can be traced to two simultaneous “wars of restoration.” In a previous issue of FE (See “Reality Wars,” FE #399, Fall 2017), I focused on the more obvious one: The trumpists’ MAGA, an ethno-nationalism enacted via what I call a downsurgency (not an uprising, but a rapid downsinking while taking others with them).
The charismatic authoritarianism of Trump’s version is matched by a parallel combatant, one that seeks to preserve a political center by implementing techno-controls on access and political expression. We can call this one a centrist techno-nationalism.
As though reading from the same Cold War cosplaybook, agents in this nexus regularly called Russia’s interference an “act of war” against the U.S., even comparing it to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, investigating Trump’s collusion with the Russkies, called Russia’s activities “information warfare” (after also using the “sowing discord” meme).
What results from these networked declarations? New civil defense alliances, including Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies forming partnerships with tech companies and well-funded NGO counterintelligence units. Their goal is to restore an American people via unity against divisiveness. They wish to defend civil society by any means necessary, even if it means waging a massive decentralized stealth cyberwar on its citizens.
Trump and his team have replied by mimicking the discourse. Presidential hatchet-maiden Kelly-Anne Conway accused the anonymous author of the early September, “I am Part of the Resistance” New York Times op-ed of intending to “sow discord” and “create chaos.” Trump has repeatedly called the mainstream corporate press “the enemy of the people,” de facto declaring war on them as commander-in-chief.
When putative adversaries can only preserve social order by denouncing each other for secret subversion via deliberate disorder, we’ve entered a different phase of State power. The State’s internal conflicts are no longer squabbles, but mêlées. If internally everyone is sowing division, who will be there to reap it? And, how grimly?
The US government is now actor and terrain for an amplified internecine warfare. War has lost its status as metaphor because it now frames the action thoroughly. Politicians and their mouthpieces (people or news platforms) name others as enemies and invoke wars: performative utterances that summon war into being.
Since we’re already being asked to revive the Cold War, we might as well update that old canard “mutually assured destruction” with something like “mutually assured disruption” (M.A.D.). With mutually assured disruption, the State cannot control its own sowing of discord when it targets divisiveness.
With the “whatever enemy” now haunting its own ranks, the State acts in a frenzied manner while stymieing many of its own operations. But let’s not comfort ourselves with the residual fantasy of a standoff.
In these M.A.D. wars of restoration, each camp invokes a unified America now under threat by adversaries who have become enemies. The double headed eagle found on the flags of many nations now lands in the US, which has been converted into a cockfighting arena. The victor will likely add more razors to its claws to ensure no velvet glove will ever cover it.
The future is unwritten, however, as the Security State begins to incapacitate itself, we find ourselves caught in multiple concurrent wars (civil, cold, social, cyber) where anything can happen and openings present themselves.
The game is afoot! But what kind of game, and what maneuvers are possible within such an unstable terrain?
As these mutual wars of restoration are being waged within the State, some seek comfort in conventional (visible, audible, measurable) movements. Others, recognizing the return of other wars (social, civil, popular), will be in the shadows formulating maneuvers.
Let’s briefly reflect on this common, but complex word. Maneuver’s generic meaning dates from the mid 18th century: an “artful plan or adroit movement.” It signifies moving skillfully, with craftiness.
A maritime version of the concept refers to changing the direction of a moving ship “as required.” We are here reminded that the roots of “cyber” in cybernetics is in the Greek kyber (governance) and specifically the kybernetes, or boat steerers. But the captain is not the only one who can change a ship’s course, or the only one with maneuvers.
Maneuvers, of course, have military origins. Contemporary war theorist Martin van Creveld identifies surprise as one of the six features of maneuver warfare. This military strategy advocates actions that defeat the enemy by incapacitating their decision-making through shock and disruption, often via simulation.
To put it simply, a movement is a maneuver by other means. There is a whole inventory of maneuvers that could be accounted for here; operational gestures with roots in guerrilla, insurgent, anti-colonial, and network-centric warfare. Lamentations over the Occupy and #blacklivesmatter operations ignore their innovations in direct action, especially ones that took police, journalists, and the population by surprise.
In this ecology of continuous yet condensed crisis, we will inevitably see cycles of insurrection also act stochastically. The State’s ongoing counterinsurgency operation now takes place in the internecine State war, potentially putting the ability to pacify a population into crisis.
A State, emerging out of colonial, civil, and religious wars in the name of subduing them, now reverts back to its origins as a social war (or war to defend society).
What would it mean to become ready for the next surprise event? We could develop a keen eye for the emergent, finding ways to outflank these competing coups.
Let’s remember the historical instances where collective power generated such surprise. Disruptions, in the moments they were becoming ungovernable, have created a legacy of social maneuvers.
A new repertoire of such maneuvers, in a ripe moment of crisis and internecine chaos, create clearings for events that might even lead us to surprise ourselves.
Jack Z. Bratich is a zine librarian at ABC No Rio in New York City, and an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University.
His research applies autonomist social theory to such topics as crafting, public secrecy, social movement media and conspiracy theories. He is currently writing about cultural forms emerging in the failure of neoliberalism and the mobilization of communications warfare. | 2019-04-24T22:34:31 | https://fifthestate.anarchistlibraries.net/library/402-winter-2019-discordia-americana?v=1546470000 |
0.997482 | This is such a great recipe! I love it because I don’t have to cook anything…it is a light, deliciously creamy dish. It’s great to bring to a potluck (mix sauce with zucchini just before serving), served as the main course or as a side dish. Most satisfying I must say!
Optional: You could substitute a gluten free noodle or rice noodle very successfully in this recipe. Even rice noodles that are slightly warm or at room temperature would be very tasty and similar to the raw cucumber/zucchini version.
I made this dish again this past fall, just prior to travelling and it was very tasty & practical while travelling. It was easy to eat from a small travel container and no preparation needed. Two thumbs up!!
This dish is gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, soy-free, egg-free, raw food, vegetarian, and FULL OF FLAVOUR!!
– Put cashews, water, salt, cayenne, oil, vinegar and garlic in a blender, but do not blend it yet (so cashews can soften slightly while preparing the noodles).
– Prepare noodles, place in a bowl and snip a few strands with scissors so they aren’t super long.
– Blend ingredients that have been soaking in blender, until smooth. Stir chopped dill into sauce.
– Pour sauce over zucchini noodles and toss to coat pasta.
– Nice served on leafy greens and/or sprouts because greens/sprouts get coated with excess sauce.
ALTERNATIVES: Add to noodles: 1/2 up broccoli or cauliflower florets (cut in small pieces) or thinly sliced red pepper. | 2019-04-25T04:36:51 | https://riverstonenaturals.com/blog/creamy-dill-pasta-raw-food/ |
0.997322 | How do families with concussion concerns pick sports?
With the influx of data on concussions, how do families sort through the statistics and decide what sports they will allow their children to play?
When Generation X athletes were taking their first steps onto America's fields, courts and gyms in the 1970s, talk of concussion prevention was nonexistent in youth sports.
Fast forward to 2014. Baseline concussion testing and research initiatives, such as the Healthy Kids and Safe Sports Concussion Summit hosted by President Obama in May, are informing coaches and parents about the consequences of concussions and preventive measures to take.
Recently, for example, participation in youth football has taken a hit. Enrollment in Pop Warner, the largest youth football program in the country, has decreased by nearly 9.6% since 2010. Some experts attribute this drop to the increased awareness of the consequences of concussions. A 2012 study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that football players sustain the most concussions of all high school-aged athletes, with 11.2 concussions reported per 10,000 athletic exposures.
Gymnastics, in the last decade, saw a sharp uptick in concussion frequency. From 1998-2004, the average rate of concussion per 10,000 athletic exposures was 1.6, according to Clinics in Sports Medicine. From 2004-11, that rate for gymnastics spiked to 7 concussions per 10,000 athletic exposures, according to a study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Soccer is the highest risk sport of concussions for girls, with 6.7 reported injuries per 10,000 athletic exposures, according to the 2012 NAS study.
In swimming, the incidence of concussions is only 1 out of every 100,000 athletic exposures, according to a study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine in 2011.
Lacrosse trails only football in terms of concussion risk, with 6.9 reported for every 10,000 athletic exposures, according to the 2012 NAS study.
Basketball is the second-highest concussion risk sport for girls, with 5.6 reported for every 10,000 athletic exposures, the 2012 NAS study showed. That's double the rate for boys basketball. .
Take a look at how these families made their decisions.
Jared Morson, 13, is obsessed with football. The Olney, Md., native fell in love with Joe Paterno's Penn State Nittany Lions at a young age, and it didn't take long for him to start tossing the pigskin with his father, Jeff.
"He is the epitome of a 13-year-old football junkie," his father says. "He just loves the game."
Morson started playing tackle football at 7 for the Howard County (Md.) Terps. He began at center but got tired of blocking for everybody, his father said. Morson now plays quarterback and recently was invited to the National Underclassmen Elite 100 Camp at the University of Oklahoma in Norman as one of the nation's top 100 developing players.
The family believes Morson, at 11, did suffer a concussion, but not from football. His father says Morson and another child were on the playground and banged heads. The nurse sent them home, concerned they both might have had concussions. "He was fine the next day," Jeff Morson says of his son.
But Morson is prone to migraines, which makes it difficult for his parents to determine the extent of his injuries after he gets hit in football.
Despite that, and the new information that has come to light about concussions, Morson's parents agree they would never dare take their son out of a sport that he loves so dearly.
"Every play makes me nervous, though," says his mother, Michelle, "because you never know."
Aleka Frazier, 10, of Bethesda, Md., got her first exposure to gymnastics in the backyard. After learning how to do a cartwheel from her mother, Marie, a former cheerleader, Frazier was hooked. She has delved into tumbling now that other sports she plays are on hiatus for the summer.
Frazier says she owes much of her passion for gymnastics to Gabby Douglas'gold medal performance in the all-around event at the 2012 London Summer Games. Before long, Frazier was cartwheeling through the house.
She is now getting her first exposure to some of the sport's trickier apparatus, such as the beam and vault. "I like the vault because I get to run fast and then I get to fly in the air," she says. "But sometimes I'm wondering, 'Oh, what happens if I don't land this?'"
So far, it's nothing more than bumps and bruises — except when she was learning back handsprings. "I've landed on my head and on multiple parts of my body. But I've been able to recover," she says.
Her parents, naturally, worry about her safety. "Hopefully (Aleka) doesn't end up with a concussion," Her mother says. "But I'm not God. I don't know what could happen ahead of time."
The Willings of Arlington, Va., are a soccer family. Both girls, Nicole, 15, and Danielle, 13, play for DC Stoddert Soccer, the largest youth sports organization in Washington, D.C. Their mother, Joy, a former high school player, plays for two women's recreational leagues.
Nicole got into the sport first when she started kicking the ball around on school and neighborhood teams at 5.
Many experts attribute concussions in soccer to improper technique when heading the ball and poor neck strength. To reduce injury, DC Stoddert Soccer doesn't teach heading until ages 11-12.
Critics of the sport say heading should be eliminated altogether. Joy Willing, DC Stoddert Soccer's girls' travel commissioner and a recreational youth soccer coach, disagrees. "It is a necessary thing to know for the game," she says. "And if you don't teach it, the kids are going to do it anyway."
When it comes to her girls getting injured, Joy doesn't fret over headers, noting her girls' strength and the quality of DC Stoddert Soccer's coaches. Instead, she worries about their knees.
"Just from crashes, collisions, falling, you worry about that with girls a lot," she says.
Danielle "plays through pain and we are still trying to figure that out," says her mother. "We've come to the conclusion that she has a fairly high pain threshold."
The Seliskar family of Arlington, Va., lives a chlorinated life. Stephen, 20, swims for Purdue University. Andrew, 17, a rising high school senior, is one of the most sought-after swimmers in the nation — recruiting website collegeswimming.com ranks him third for the class of 2015.
The brothers' first exposure to sports, though, came from soccer. Both began playing at 6.
"Soccer is great for fitness at the sandlot level. But at 14 and above ... it becomes scary rough as a parent," says their dad, Dan. "I can recall one (14-and-under) game where a parent of the opposing team was screaming at his child to 'take out' my son when he was on a breakaway."
Both his sons picked swimming as their primary sport when they were 13 or 14.
"I am so glad my kids chose swimming," Dad says.
Isaac Aronson, 12, is a sports connoisseur. The Bethesda, Md., native has tried everything from jazz dancing to baseball, karate and soccer. But lacrosse is his passion.
Aronson started lacrosse in kindergarten for a recreational league aimed at teaching basic stick-handling. When he got to second grade, his lacrosse coaches started to introduce checking. He was hooked.
"He's a hitter," said his dad, Lou. "He loves the physical contact."
The parents understand that hitting is a necessary component of lacrosse. "You just know that somebody is going to get his bell rung," says Lou.
In 2012, Aronson had his first concussion. While he was bending down to scoop up the ball, an opponent illegally crosschecked him across the crown of his head. Aronson slammed backwards into the turf field and lost consciousness.
The family spent the rest of the afternoon in the emergency room. "That night I spent about two or three hours learning everything I needed to know about concussions that I was too afraid to ask," Lou says.
The parents pulled their son out of school for a month. "I spent most of my time sitting in a chair in the dark," Aronson says.
When he finally got clearance to return to lacrosse three months later, he was noticeably cautious on the field, according to his parents. But within a couple of games, he returned to his truculent playing style.
"I put myself in a situation to help the team," he says, "so if it's taking a hit, it's taking a hit."
The Caldwell children of Pineville, Ky., practically grew up on the golf course. Their father, Donnie, has been the resident PGA Professional at the local Wasioto Winds golf course for 13 years.
As a veteran of the cut-throat environment of junior golf, Donnie turned to the First Tee, an international youth organization that promotes life skills and leadership through golf.
The Caldwells enrolled their eldest son, Austin, 18, at First Tee of Pine Mountain in 2000. "I just jumped right in," he says.
But he was never a single sport athlete. At 5 he began playing tackle football.
In Kentucky, high school golf and football are played during the same season. As a freshman, Austin opted for football. Not long after, he sustained his first concussion when he was knocked down during a game.
"Definitely the parent button goes off and you're extremely hopeful they're okay," Donnie says.
Then, just one year later, Austin had his second concussion, after taking a particularly forceful hit to the helmet. He insisted on playing but was benched by the coaches for the rest of the game.
During his junior season of football, Austin suffered a torn shoulder labrum, requiring surgery and an extensive recovery process. The football injury bled over into his golf game, forcing him to reconstruct his swing.
As senior year approaches, Austin is hoping to earn a golf scholarship.
"We love watching him under the Friday night lights," his dad says, "but we also understand that he needs to have wellness for life."
Emily Durkee, 11, of Elk Ridge, Md., has been playing basketball since joining a co-ed league at 4. Her mother, Carol, is a former basketball player at Wayne State College.
In third grade, Emily started playing for an all-girls travel league. By sixth grade she had quit travel soccer to focus exclusively on basketball.
"I really want to play for a good high school and hopefully get drafted into the WNBA," says Emily, who just broke 5 feet tall.
As her coach the past four years, her mom has noticed the dynamic on the court change as girls hit their growth spurts. "The game has gotten pretty physical," she says, "even at the sixth, seventh and eighth grade level." | 2019-04-22T20:37:35 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2014/09/03/youth-sports-concussions-football-soccer-lacrosse-basketball/15037213/ |
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0.999923 | For other uses, see Protagonist (disambiguation).
Look up protagonist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A protagonist (from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (protagonistes), meaning 'one who plays the first part, chief actor') is the leading character of a story.
The protagonist is at the center of the story, makes the key decisions, and experiences the consequences of those decisions. The protagonist is the primary agent propelling the story forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a story contains a subplot, or is a narrative made up of several stories, then each subplot may have its own protagonist.
The protagonist is the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience, and who is opposed by the antagonist. The antagonist will provide obstacles and complications and create conflicts that test the protagonist, thus revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist's character.
The earliest known examples of a protagonist are found in Ancient Greece. At first, dramatic performances involved merely dancing and recitation by the chorus. Then in Poetics, Aristotle describes how a poet named Thespis introduced the idea of one actor stepping out and engage in a dialogue with the chorus. This was the invention of tragedy, and occurred about 536 B.C. Then the poet Aeschylus, in his plays, introduced a second actor, inventing the idea of dialogue between two characters. Sophocles then wrote plays that included a third actor.
A description of the protagonist's origin cited that during the early period of Greek drama, the protagonist served as the author, the director, and the actor and that these roles were only separated and allocated to different individuals later. There is also a claim that the poet did not assign or create the protagonist as well as other terms for actors such as deuteragonist and tritagonist primarily because he only gave actors their appropriate part. However, these actors were assigned their specific areas at the stage with the protagonist always entering from the middle door or that the dwelling of the deuteragonist (second most important character) should be on the right hand, and the tritagonist (third most important character), the left.
In Ancient Greece, the protagonist is distinguished from the term "hero", which was used to refer to a human who became a semi-divine being in the narrative.
Euripides' play Hippolytus may be considered to have two protagonists. Phaedra is the protagonist of the first half, who dies partway through the play. Her stepson, the titular Hippolytus, assumes the dominant role in the second half of the play.
In Ibsen’s play The Master Builder, the protagonist is the architect Halvard Solness. The young woman, Hilda Wangel, whose actions lead to the death of Solness, is the antagonist.
In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is the protagonist. He is actively in pursuit of his relationship with Juliet, and the audience is invested in that story. Tybalt, as an antagonist, opposes Romeo and attempts to thwart the relationship.
In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Prince Hamlet, who seeks revenge for the murder of his father, is the protagonist. The antagonist would be the character who most opposes Hamlet, Claudius (though, in many ways, Hamlet is his own antagonist).
Sometimes, a work will have a false protagonist, who may seem to be the protagonist, but then may disappear unexpectedly. The character Marion in Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960) is an example.
A novel that contains a number of narratives may have a number of protagonists. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, for example, depicts a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp. Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace depicts fifteen major characters involved in or affected by a war.
In some cases, the protagonist is not a human: in Richard Adams' novel Watership Down, a group of anthropomorphised rabbits, led by the protagonist Hazel, escape their warren after seeing a vision of its destruction, starting a perilous journey to find a new home.
^ πρωταγωνιστής, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library.
^ "protagonist". Dictionary.com, Random House. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
^ Harper, Douglas. "protagonist". Online Etymology Dictionary.
^ "Protagonist - literature". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1 April 2016.
^ a b Storey, Ian; Allan, Arlene (2008). A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. p. 84. ISBN 1405102144.
^ Telias, Rozei (2018-07-06). Moreno's Personality Theory and its Relationship to Psychodrama: A Philosophical, Developmental and Therapeutic Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 9781351021081.
^ a b Bart, M. P. (2018-03-22). History of the Literature of Ancient Greece. Charles River Editors. ISBN 9781632956316.
^ The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947–2005: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Edward E. Ericson, Jr., Daniel J. Mahoney.
^ Moser, Charles. 1992. Encyclopedia of Russian Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 298–300.
^ Adams, Richard, 1920-2016. Watership Down. London: Rex Collings Ltd, 1972. Print. | 2019-04-23T00:57:34 | http://hitchhikersgui.de/Protagonist |
0.999534 | Last June and August, I wrote about the link between eating chocolate and improving heart health. Briefly, researchers have long been interested in flavonoids and in particular (at least in so far as menopause goes) in isoflavones. (See soy posts for more on isoflavones). The specific compound or molecule of interest in cocoa (the non-fat component cocoa bean extract or liquor) are flavanols, which are also found in lower concentration in apricots, peaches, apples, green and black tea, red wine and cider). Note that the quantity of flavanols in chocolate depends on manufacturing, including fermentation and roasting, and how much treatment is given to reducing bitterness and improving consistency. What this means is that dark chocolate has the highest concentration of flavanols and milk, the lowest.
What have researchers learned so far?
Flavanols found in cocoa and cocoa powder may be powerful antioxidants and as such, help to mitigate certain factors that contribute to atherosclerosis, such as the formation of plaques in the arteries that lead to stroke and other coronary events. Thus, as antioxidants, they may actually neutralize toxic oxygen species circulating in the bloodstream.
Experimental data suggest that ingestion of flavanols may help to regulate proteins and other compounds that encourage an inflammatory response to leads to heart disease.
Flavanols may also help to stabilize the lining and muscular tone of the arteries and prevent them from narrowing.
Additionally, flavanols may moderately protect against high blood pressures, although studies have been mixed.
Finally, flavanols may help to maintain blood sugar levels and improve the ratio of good to bad fats in the blood.
However, while numerous studies suggest that chocolate may benefit the heart, less clear is whether or not a causal relationship exists. Still, the idea is attractive enough that researchers continue to delve into the potential benefits of functional foods containing flavonoids and in flavonols found in dark chocolate. This time, writing in the journal Appetite, they report on a newly published study that examined the effect of eating flavonoid-rich dark chocolate on a process called oxidative stress, in which the ratio of circulating oxygen free radicals to circulating antioxidants is imbalanced (free radicals are those nasty, unstable molecules or atoms that can wreak havoc and lead to disease, including heart disease, diabetes and high cholesterol).
Over a period of three weeks, 25 healthy men and women were asked to eat 50 g of dark chocolate daily. The women in this particular study were premenopausal, primarily because use of hormone replacement has been shown to modify oxidative stress that has been attributed specifically to LDL (low density lipoprotein, also known as the bad cholesterol). They also omitted any other cocoa products from their diet and tea, red wine and other drinks that were rich in antioxidants.
Not only did eating dark chocolate daily have no impact on body mass index or the subjects’ weight, but it significantly increased the percentage of HDL (high density lipoprotein or good cholesterol) and led to a significant declines in blood fats levels as well. Dark chocolate consumption also appeared to lower markers of oxidative stress and damage to good fats in cells by almost 27% in women in the study, indicating a favorable effect on LDL, a change that was not similarly observed in men. This suggests that eating dark chocolate could possibly benefit women more than men, at least in terms of the heart. And, while menopausal women were not studied, the researchers say that the protective role of dark chocolate could possibly be especially favorable during menopause, when waning levels of estrogen make women particularly sensitive to oxidative damage and heart disease.
As with similar studies, we still don’t have a definitive cause and effect. However, a little dark chocolate has the potential to go a very long way. | 2019-04-26T09:57:21 | http://flashfree.me/?s=flavonols |
0.99999 | For many of us are born to have feelings about this date. I Think it just another day but is it really something different? Here I take facts and dates in time that may show how this date became a problem day for so many across this world.
The Knights of the Temple know as Templar in history became the most powerful society of men ever know. How did poor Knights in monks clothing become so rich and feared that they became hounded by Kings.?
In short no treasure was found in the city of Jerusalem as Rome had cleared out all riches long before in time.We know as carvings exist in Rome to this day showing the looting by soldiers of the holy temple and the Jewish gold carried with 9 candle Menorah across to carts that transported it all back to Rome.
This sect of holy men made Knights was started to rescue fallen fellow knights on the battlefields. The famous statue in London depicts two knights on one horse. It was that fact that made the legend. When many rich sons of Yore came to join the fellowship the gift of cash was handed over to Templar. They worked on protecting pilgrims traveling to see the holy city along the route from the sea at Acre. Over years this service became famous and with membership growing the cash flow was put into banking and Knights became money lenders to Kings. It was the first method of real banking in the world. It can be researched but every penny of Knights Templar rich accounts can be traced to the above methods and no treasure ever existed. Banking alone made the society rich and really powerful with it. They did nor excavate under the temple searching for treasures and they did find evidence that Jesus did not exist. This made them the enemy of some and friends to others.
When King Phillip 4th of France borrowed so much he could not pay it back he decided on bring the Templar to heal. He had men circulate and spread stories of witchcraft and Devil worship that had been the Knights Templar way for years.They even performed homo sexual orgies and worshiped a cat who was the Devil incarnate. Soon the Knights became hunted down and in chains and ropes led to the fires of death to satisfy the cruel.
Strange it is that both Pope and King died within weeks of Templar deaths and the curse said to be placed by Moley on his accusers who had tortured him to give false statement.
The Knights of Saint John or Knights of the Temple ended that day and all found put to the sword .Sad but true they as innocent of any charge and died through King Phillips greed.
It ended on October 13th 1314 when the 23rd Grand Master the 70 year old Jacques de Moley was with other high command Knights burned at the stake in Paris France. He is said to have cursed each man who had accused his order of so many crimes including Heresy which caused his death by fire. Seems the curse worked as both Pope and king died suddenly. Then did he really say anything?
Now the story of Friday 13th again but it is goes back into Viking legend. Friday is named after Goddess Freya who being gifted two black cats by Thor the God of thunder ruled fertility.
Then 12 Norse Gods sat feasting at the table in halls of Valhalla when in came the uninvited Loki who had come to assist the blind God Hoder Lord of Darkness to kill Balder the beautiful God of joy.
Odin the mighty had loved this son and had decreed no one touch him. Loki the Frost Giant adopted son to Odin was the 13th member at that table.
It was said that the Goddess of womanhood had 13 menstruation in a year which was unlucky for her lovers. The Spartans give us a name for this as Triskaidekaphobia or fear on number 13. It was Judas in Pauls tale of Jesus.
Friday being the 6th day of week is associated with the Devil as 6 is the number of the beast 666 in Biblical law.
in Rome Friday was the hanging day event enjoyed by the onlooker but no joy for the criminal. This rule carried on in England until hanging was banned as punishment in 1965 in England 1974 in Northern Ireland. No death penalty but life time jail on the public funds.
The story of the last supper tells of Judas being number 13 at that table and so all follows as fact Friday 13th is to some the worse day ever invented. Depends really if one believes myth and legend is real or again man made stories. Maybe King Phillip 4th wanted that day when he set about his attacks on innocent Knights about their service and business. Banking may be a bit of a golden goose even today for the vast industry of that profession who know how to make cash out of lending investing your moneys and giving you back less that 1% of the cash you loan to them each time you place funds in your account. My family had the largest private bank in UK called Parr Bank ltd it ran with some 8 offices nationwide and sold out when private banking was made illegal in 1958. Sold to Matins bank who became Barclays bank. Maybe Knights Templar blood runs in my veins as banking goes back to them direct. it would then explain why 1231 is the last recorded date on my family records. After that total blank going backwards in time.
Friday 13th is but a day and nothing more sinister exists other than in the mind of mankind through superstitions that go back to the cave man when no education existed only knowledge of fear. Still if you are stuck on this better read all you can and leave an open mind is best advice dear friends.
Go with God and be happy all your days.
I found it fascinating how banking began! Great post as always!
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0.999424 | What are the surgical treatment options available for ovarian cancer patients?
Surgery is known to be one of the main treatments for ovarian cancer. The extent of surgery depends on the spread of cancer. For women who are of the childbearing age and who have the cancer detected at the earliest stage, it might be possible to treat the cancer without removing the ovaries and the uterus. The treatment method of surgery for ovarian cancer has 3 main categories, staging laparotomy, interval cytoreduction, and debulking.
This process is done by laparotomy, which is a vertical incision in the abdomen that is large enough to allow the surgeon to look at the cancerous tissue inside the body. This also leads to the removal of the uterus which is a surgical procedure known as a hysterectomy. Along with the removal of the uterus, the ovaries and fallopian tube is removed and is known as bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy or BSO. Another procedure known as an omentectomy is also done which is the removal of the omentum, as ovarian cancer spreads to this area as well.
If fluid is found in the pelvic or abdominal cavity, the doctor will extract the fluid, send it for laboratory tests to check for cancer cells and wash the area with saline water.
The main goals of this surgery include determining how far the cancer had spread, obtaining an accurate surgical staging and diagnosis.
This is also known as a follow-up surgery and is done for women whose cancer responds to chemotherapy which includes the procedures of laparotomy and laparoscopy. The same surgical protocols are followed as in staging laparotomy.
Debulking is known as the procedure that involves the removal of as much of the cancerous tumor as possible. This procedure is very important when the cancer has spread throughout the abdomen at the time of the surgery. The main goal of the debulking procedure is to leave behind no visible cancer. The procedure is also done to ensure that there is no recurrent cancer and to also ensure the removal of cancer symptoms.
This type of surgery usually performed in very advanced and recurrent ovary case. In this method, maximum removal of disease done followed by installation of hot water along with chemotherapy drug inside the abdominal cavity (HIPEC). HIPEC is performed with the help of a machine. | 2019-04-22T17:17:02 | https://onco.com/ovarian-cancer/ovarian-cancer-surgery/ |
0.99972 | Roy Keane: I am not some animal that needs to be tamed!
FORMER MANCHESTER UNITED midfield hardman Roy Keane has scoffed at the idea that he might need 'taming' after becoming Martin O'Neill's assistant with the Republic of Ireland.
The former Ireland skipper held his first press conference in his new role on Wednesday afternoon and hit back at claims that his fiery personality could present a problem.
Keane admitted he was there to push the players and may have to reign himself in at times, but doesn't think he and O'Neill will have any problems with him being his own man.
He said: "There's nothing to tame. I'm not some sort of animal, you know what I mean?
"I'm a footballing man, I like to work hard and push people, and sometimes I suppose I have got that slightly wrong on one or two occasions over the years.
"But generally speaking, I look back and I think I have got a lot of it right.
"Yes, there are areas I need to look at, particularly as now I'm the assistant, when to step back, and hopefully I get that right as well.
"But I am also there to push the players and put demands on the players, like we did today in training.
"We have got some good players and sometimes the players themselves are the last to realise how good they are.
There's nothing to tame. I'm not some sort of animal, you know what I mean?
"We have got some really good young players and we have got to push them and put demands on them because from my own experience, I used to like that. I used to like people pushing me.
"That's the name of the game from when you're a kid. My manager from when I was a kid at [boys' club] Rockmount - 'Come on, you can do better'. I loved it, it was great.
"But obviously, there's a way of speaking to people, I understand that, there's a way of getting that message across and how you put the demands on them.
"You have to treat people with respect and hopefully the players from the last few days will appreciate that."
Earlier, O'Neill went on record to insist he would not dictate what Keane could and could not say.
He said: "I am going to try to clear something up here: I am not Roy's father, absolutely not.
"He can look after himself, he can say what he wants. Seriously, he is under absolutely no gagging at all and I am quite sure I would not even have to have that conversation with him.
"I am not going to sit there saying, 'Don't say this, don't say that'." | 2019-04-22T22:07:41 | https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/442842/Roy-Keane-I-am-not-some-animal-that-needs-to-be-tamed |
0.998686 | Hey! Who is getting ready to apply for physical therapy programs this coming cycle? How is everyone feeling about the new prompt this year: "What is professionalism in the context of being a student in a doctor of physical therapist degree program? I'm not feeling too hot. Any guidance would be appreciated. I'm not even sure what the prompt is asking. I was so mentally prepared for last year's prompt and now I have to brainstorm all over again. I was also wondering how my stats are looking? Would love some input. How is everyone else doing?
Your stats look great and you're definitely doing well so far on observation hours and setting variety. You are definitely on the right track! I applied last year and I think that prompt was a good one for developing a strong personal statement. Like you, I'm a little confused by the new prompt. It seems like they want you to discuss what characteristics and ideals you will embody as a physical therapist and how those will make you an exceptional medical professional. You can tie in your background and why you chose PT to make it more substantial. Good luck with your application!
This may be a good prompt for nontrads, life experience may give some ideas to the meaning of professionalism.
This and your own observations/experiences while shadowing are all you need for that essay.
Where did you find the essay prompt?
I'm applying this upcoming cycle also! Btw, where did you find the essay prompt?
Edit: I found it on the Facebook page.
I did the same thing and basically found that page when I was researching how in the world they came up with that new prompt. Slowly brainstorming ideas...I was talking to some PTs that I work with and they agreed that it wasn't the best prompt and that it's pretty vague. I guess in that sense it might be a good thing since you can pretty much talk about anything you want. I'm just super anxious and want to make sure I'm saying what the admissions people want haha. Good luck to everyone!
I guess I'm just confused about the "...in the context of being a student in...". Are they asking what is professionalism as a DPT student? (that wouldn't make much sense..lol) Or are they asking as a DPT student, what does professionalism mean to you in the PT field?
Well don't "say what the admissions people want" or you're going to come off as scripted, cliched, and fake. Use real world experience that relates to you and how you've demonstrated professionalism, and say how these characteristics impact physical therapy.
In a DPT program you will most likely take "Professional Practice" courses. They want you to be ethical and represent the profession well. You may be overthinking the prompt.
I would think about why the physical therapy profession changed from a masters to a doctor and what the new educational level does for the profession. As a student how will you embody professionalism in a Doctorate of Physical therapy program?
I didn't know anybody at any school I applied to and did fine. It's what you know about the profession and how you fit into it.
I'll change it, it's not only what you know but also who you know..... I don't mean you personally in terms of classmates or staff. I meant networking if you lack everywhere else, or are a tie with someone else in terms of stats. Grad programs have affiliated agreements with other undergrad university which increases your chance of getting in due to the relationship they almost have to let at least 1 person in, some letters of recs will go put you ahead of others with the same stats. DPT programs have contracts with hospitals and clinics in order to send their students there for clinical rotations right? Why not get a LOR from someone from those clinics or hospital? Why get an adjunct not related to major professor to do your LOR when you can get the chairperson of BIO or allied health who know the staff of the school you are applying to. I did all of these and it definitely helped me. These are the things that people with great stats typically don't need to worry about. Once the interview is granted it's now time to show what you know. I killed my interview which was the time I could really show that I am a fit for the program which got me in but my networking helped me get an interview with only a 3.2. It's hard to show fit in your essay because there is 1 essay for many schools.
Agreed those things can help - but I definitely wouldn't consider them "the best" advice. The best advice is to rock your cGPA and pGPA. If you are average on that, rock your GRE. Get observation in a variety of settings which will allow you to showcase insight you've gathered on the profession and write great essays. I personally think letters of rec help the least - and will not get you in if these other factors are poor (although a BAD letter of rec can kill your chances). It's highly unlikely you are going to be tied with someone on pretty much every factor except letters of rec to the point that they would be looking at who sent yours in and if they're staff on an affiliated hospital or not. However, congrats on your acceptance and it's great you're into your first choice.
Agreed on 95% of the post. There are so many factors and I shouldn't have said best advice. What I am talking about is situational.
GRE: I got a 150 on the GRE but had 3.25ish GPA this is average to slightly under. I also had 2 years of research and 2000 hours of volunteer hours. I took the GRE 3 times and got within the same 3 points every time for both Q and V. They actually design the test to make it that way. I studied for 2 months lol so GRE is hard to change dramatically unless you didn't study hard the first time.
GPA: People who did majors like neuroscience or chem at a natural science university might have lower grades and because of the amount of credits they already, it's significantly harder to increase both cGPA and Science GPA dramatically. pGPA can be increased fast however due to the small amount of credits considered.
In summary GPA and GRE are the most important but they are hard to change by the time someone gets on SDN worrying about their acceptance ( senior year for many). A "good trick" that can tip the scale in your favor is to network the way I explained earlier. One of my professors from who is very well known literally emails the prospective school saying hey we have an affiliate agreement I have this student applying with a 3.x, is a great student etc. The schools(who ever is the coordinator) reply to him. It can help why not do it?
Okay, so, I know this is a personal statement. But, I was wondering how personal I should get. Should I only talk about my observation experiences and tie it back to the prompt or can I also talk about stuff I do outside the realms of PT. I work at a high end retail store on the side and there are so many things I can say about my job that relate to "professionalism" in the PT field. I don't know if that would come off as off topic and weird.
It depends how you pull it off. If you can relate it to the PT field then do so. I worked at Publix for years and definitely mentioned that in my essay.
The better to be more unique, tie it in.
Bump. Anyone else find this prompt much more difficult than the previous?
GRE: 149, 149, 3.5 AW : Weak point for me - but it's above the requirements for all the schools i'm applying to.
Recommendation letters: 3 total - 1 from PT I connected very well with at outpatient clinic, 1 from my supervisor at my internship, and 1 from my professor/advisor from WSU.
Will likely be applying to the following : UW Madison (Early decision), UW Lacrosse, Concordia St Paul., NAU, UW Pudget Sound, maybe a few more but i'm banking on that early decision acceptance!
Any tips or advice for these schools or my stats?
Assuming I reach the minimum number of observation hours, will my "relevant experience" make up for the limited hours and low verbal GRE score?
From my understanding, as long as you reach the minimum requirements for hours and it being in a variety of settings you will be good to go. Your experiences look good, GPA looks great, and your GRE score is very good. You should have no problem! I only have 149 on both sections of the GRE, and based on what i've seen on here people have been accepted with even lower scores than what I have, given the rest of their application 'made up for it' so to speak.
Observation: 100+ inpatient rehab, will be doing outpatient pediatrics and sports rehab this summer.
I have a question for ya'll. Do you suggest applying to schools on July 1st, even if you don't have GRE scores yet or enough observation hours? I know you can add observation hours and GRE scores after submitting the application, but do schools see the new updates? I'm not sure if applying early would be favorable to me or not.
Hours: 200+ hours worked as a tech in a private practice, 50 hrs volunteered in acute-care inpatient setting.
Relevant experience: PT tech experience, involved in LAM disease research independent study to assess effects of exercise on women with LAM.
Extracurriculars: President of pre-health campus organization for non-science majors, building supervisor at campus recreation center, worked at orphanage overseas in India, side-walker at equestrian therapy clinic for disabled children, attained first aid/ CPR certification, taught summer school at local tutoring center and worked closely with mentally/physically disabled students.
I honestly don't know if the amount of schools I'm going to apply to is just too overwhelming but girl's gotta have choices!
Second Career Applicant - I've been working as a desk jockey (financial analyst/manager) since graduating.
Only 10 more days until the PTCAS application is open!!! So exciting! Good luck to everyone!
Does have a 3.5AW score on the GRE significantly hurt your chances of admissions if you have over 150 in both Q and V sections?
Glad to see another Texas applicant!
I go to Sam Houston State, and I'll be applying to TWU, UNT, UTMB, Angelo State and Texas State!
It's the PTCAS applicant data report from last year, on page 8 it shows the number of schools last year's applicants applied to vs how many acceptances they received, the more school people applied to, the more chances they had to get in up to about 5 or 6. People that applied to more than 6 schools didn't really get any extra acceptances.
Any advice or recommendations would be appreciated. I had one bad semester that brought my cGPA and pGPA down a lot (3.7 to 3.58) so it is a slow process trying to get my cGPA back up. Fulfilled all of my pre-requisites already so I can't really change that.
Have you heard anything about UW-L admissions?? Any input would be appreciated! I've seen the admissions data on their site but haven't heard/read much about it. I'll be applying there early decision. I'm a WI resident too if that counts for anything.
I actually emailed UW-L with some questions. Some things I learned: ED window typically receives 100 applications from "very strong candidates", and they traditionally fill half their 45 seats prior to Nov 1st. They do not give preference to in-state students.
I feel like, assuming you have everything else in order, you have a really good shot.
I finally got my writing score back for the GRE, so time to post my stats! How do you guys feel about it? Also, good luck to everyone!
You should have no problem getting in!
Thanks! Just kinda overly paranoid about it. Stressful. Do you know anybody who has gotten in there?
Ugh thank you for asking this question!! This prompt is so odd, I just don't really understand how to go about it. I look forward to reading other's responses..
Hours: 500+, I'm a pt tech for outpatient clinic.
Extracurriculars: Was a high school teacher for two years, a full time personal trainer for one year, and in college I was a membership director for an honors society. I was also in a band that toured.
Applying: Belmont (ED), TSU, WKU, Nova, possibly South College if they get accredited this year. | 2019-04-21T15:12:02 | https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/dpt-2016-2017-applicants-gpa-gre-hours-essay.1193683/ |
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0.999997 | "I just got out of a meeting with the Secret Service. I'm still in the parking lot," said Rich "RJ" Rappaport at the beginning of our phone interview. The reason for the meeting? Some discussion about fake money.
Rappaport is the founder of Atlanta-based RJR Props, a movie prop company that specializes in faux cash for filming. His money was used in "The Wolf of Wall Street," "The Fast and the Furious," the Netflix series "Ozark" and in 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar music videos. But printing money is a delicate business, which is why he stays in touch with the men in black.
"I wanted clarity about laws and regulations. Most other companies that make prop money are actually producing illegal prop money, and that can get a show shut down and someone fined and jailed."
Technically, fake money in the US should adhere to strict federal rules (outlined in the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992) which include being printed on one side only and being significantly larger or smaller than actual currency. But not everyone is on board with the rules, and incidents do happen.
In 2001, during the filming of "Rush Hour 2" in Las Vegas, about $1 billion in convincing prop money was blown up during a scene, but some bills escaped destruction and ended up in circulation. That's when the Secret Service got involved. The event set a precedent for prop money makers.
RJ said he speaks directly with the government to comply with federal rules while finding ways to create the best possible fake dollars. He makes two types: one for close-ups and one that will look real from about 15 inches away. He calls them high grade and standard grade.
"Our standard grade prop money is printed on both sides, but has an optical illusion built into it. It looks realistic at an arm's length, but when you start bringing it closer, it actually changes over and it reveals itself as fake." The trick, he said, is to make it look real on camera but fake if somebody tries to spend it at a store.
"We also have a high grade type, better known as close up money. That's the one you use for a close-up scene, or if somebody is counting money and putting it in someone else's hands. That looks fantastic. But since it looks so real, we can print it on one side only."
To comply with federal laws, reproduction money cannot be made by modifying the design of actual money, so RJR Props have created their own design.
"We start from scratch. We start with blank paper. We get a paper that looks incredible. Some of our paper has a color change as you move across: pink-yellow-pink or green-yellow-green. We're the only company in the world that does this because it's very expensive, but we want our money to look right," said Rappaport.
At a glance, the high-grade money looks just like the real thing. But once you zoom in, the differences become obvious.
Instead of "United States Federal Reserve," the words under the "100" in the top left corner read "Unreal Fake Currency Reserve." The artwork of Franklin's face has been done from scratch, and doesn't have his name underneath it. The seal is a different design, and the two signatures actually read "Ima Not Real" and "Not Real Currency" instead of the names of the Treasurer of the United States (changed to "Treasurer of the Treasurer") and the Secretary of the Treasury (turned into "Secretary of the Secretary"). Nothing survives the scrutiny: even "United States" is spelled with a "W" instead of a "U."
How much does prop money cost? RJR sell theirs in stacks of 100 bills, with the standard grade going for $45 per stack, and the high grade for $65. They also make a special "distressed" type of money that looks like it's been in circulation. That costs an extra $20.
"It's very difficult to make, harder than people would imagine. It's made by hand. Every bill is wrinkled, creased, stained, cigarette-burned. Everything that you might find on money in circulation, that's what we do to it. It's a difficult process, usually requiring 15 or 20 people sitting around a table."
One of the largest orders of prop money RJR has ever filled was for Neflix's "Ozark," in which a drug cartel lawyer, played by Jason Bateman, stashes large amounts of cash in the walls of his house and other locations.
"We didn't know what was going to happen and it turned out to be absolutely fantastic. It was absolutely iconic. You never know how these things are going to turn out. But that was a very very memorable moment," said Rappaport.
The Atlanta area, where RJR is based, has recently become a huge filmmaking capital, thanks to attractive tax credits, and has earned the nickname "Hollywood of the South." It boasts the largest purpose-built studio outside of Hollywood, Pinewood Studios, where "Avengers: Infinity War," and "Spider-Man: Homecoming" were both filmed.
"We have an operating room that you would see in a hospital. We've got doctors offices. We've done an entire computer laboratory with the latest, newest servers. We had to do what's called a server farm for the movie 'Ant Man.' We have airport props like walk-through metal detectors and baggage scanners and they're all fully operational. I think we have five or six aircraft, some of them are real and can be filmed from the inside or the outside. We've got cameras from some of the earliest American TV shows, like the 'Howdy Doody' show and 'Sesame Street.' We got vintage cameras from the original NBC, ABC and even CNN studios."
A large part of the business is music videos, which fuel a lot of the demand for fake money. "We get music video artists probably 20 times a week, which is really quite, quite a bit if you think about it," said Rappaport.
While most props are rented, money is almost always purchased (and occasionally flaunted on Instagram.) But does anybody in the business use real cash?
"Yes, actually there are a number of artists who use real money," Rappaport revealed.
"But I can't say who uses real money and who uses fake money because it would be a security risk."
Top image: A still from "Breaking Bad" | 2019-04-24T04:23:34 | https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/rjr-props-fake-money/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1lxC2M7rpZBWP0LhBWV9iF8I2vDgRG4hoc-sa89D99P7jl0hjxVndIvA4 |
0.999999 | President Trump Donald John TrumpImpeachment? Not so fast without missing element of criminal intent Feds say marijuana ties could prevent immigrants from getting US citizenship Trump approval drops to 2019 low after Mueller report's release: poll MORE on Friday unleashed a barrage of early-morning tweets aimed at Robert Mueller Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE, blasting him as a conflicted and biased special counsel before Mueller is expected to file new documents in the Russia investigation.
The president called the investigation "a total Witch Hunt" and also sought to undermine the credibility of his own deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein Rod Jay RosensteinImpeachment? Not so fast without missing element of criminal intent Collins: Mueller report includes 'an unflattering portrayal' of Trump Holder: Any 'competent' prosecutor could win obstruction case against Trump MORE, who had been overseeing the probe, by arguing he is "totally conflicted."
"Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James Comey James Brien ComeyImpeachment? Not so fast without missing element of criminal intent Dem lawmaker: 'Quite clear' Trump committed impeachable offenses The Memo: Mueller's depictions will fuel Trump angst MORE are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest," Trump tweeted, referring to the man he fired as FBI director.
In a subsequent tweet, Trump asked if "Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest [will] be listed at the top of his Republicans only Report."
He also argued that the Justice Department should investigate 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonImpeachment? Not so fast without missing element of criminal intent Former Bush assistant: Mueller report makes Obama look 'just plain bad' Seth Rich's brother calls for those pushing conspiracy to 'take responsibility' MORE, the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton Foundation.
"Will all of the substantial & many contributions made by the 17 Angry Democrats to the Campaign of Crooked Hillary be listed in top of Report. Will the people that worked for the Clinton Foundation be listed at the top of the Report?" he wrote.
The tweets come on what is expected to be a momentous day in Mueller's long-running investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
His office is expected to submit new filings later in the day detailing the status of cases against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort Paul John ManafortEx-Obama White House counsel's trial set for August House Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report New normal: A president can freely interfere with investigations without going to jail MORE and Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, both of whom pleaded guilty to separate charges.
Trump's tweets break a relatively brief period of silence on the Mueller probe during memorial services for former President George H.W. Bush, who died on Nov. 30.
For the second time in recent weeks, the president turned his fire on Rosenstein. He asked if the No. 2 Justice Department official's "scathing document written about Lyin’ James Comey" will be included in Mueller's final report on the probe.
Referring to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant signed by Rosenstein against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, Trump asked, "Isn’t Rod therefore totally conflicted?"
The debate over whether Rosenstein should recuse himself has long hung over the Russia probe, but the deputy attorney general said he has consulted with appropriate officials and that his position did not present a conflict.
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, a Trump loyalist, is now believed to be overseeing the probe in the wake of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsThe Memo: Mueller's depictions will fuel Trump angst Collins: Mueller report includes 'an unflattering portrayal' of Trump Trump frustrated with aides who talked to Mueller MORE's ouster.
The president last week retweeted a photoshopped image showing several Trump opponents in jail, including Rosenstein, suggesting they should be locked up for treason.
The president also took aim at top Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann, calling him a "horrible and vicious" prosecutor who "wrongly destroyed people’s lives, took down great companies." | 2019-04-20T23:11:53 | https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/420200-trump-launches-twitter-tirade-at-mueller-ahead-of-expected-manafort |
0.99889 | Which country currently(will) exerts the most global economic influence(in the future)?
Respondents believed the U.S currently wielded the most economic influence, but saw China replacing the U.S. as the greatest global economic power in the future.
61.4% of Koreans cited the U.S. as the greatest global economic influence currently, while only 25.4% named China. However, when asked which nation would hold the most economic influence in the future, a striking number of people switched their response from the U.S. to China. 60.4% of Koreans believed that in the future China will exert the most global economic influence, while 23.9% named the U.S. This change was visible regardless of generation. The reason for the difference in perceived current and future influence is that over half (56.2%) of those who cited the U.S. in the first question switched to China for the second question. In contrast, 90.9% of those who cited China in the first question also cited China in the second question.
The sample size of each survey was 1,000 respondents over the age of 19. The surveys were conducte d by Research & Research, and the margin of error is ±3.1% at the 95% confidence level. All surveys employed the Random Digit Dialing method for mobile and landline telephones. | 2019-04-21T16:52:29 | http://en.asaninst.org/contents/2013%EB%85%84-5%EC%9B%94-34%EC%A3%BC%EC%B0%A8-%ED%95%9C%C2%B7%EB%AF%B8-%EB%8F%99%EB%A7%B9-%EB%AF%B8%EC%82%AC%EC%9D%BC-%EB%B0%A9%EC%96%B4%EC%B2%B4%EC%A0%9C/ |
0.999703 | 1. Two men X and Y started working for a certain company at similar jobs on January 1, 1950. X asked for an initial salary of Rs. 300 with an annual increment of Rs. 30. Y asked for an initial salary of Rs. 200 with a rise of Rs. 15 every 6 months. Assume that the arrangements remained unaltered till December 31, 1959. Salary is paid on the last day of the month. What is the total amount paid to them as salary during the period?
2. If the ages of P and R are added to twice the age of Q, the total becomes 59. If the ages of Q and R are added to thrice the age of P, the total becomes 68 and if the age of P is added to thrice the age of Q and thrice the age of R, the total becomes 108. What is the age of P?
3. Two taps A and B can fill a cistern in 12 min and 15 min respectively. They are opened together but after a few min, A is turned off and the rest of the cistern is filled by B in 5 min. After how many minutes was A turned off?
4. A sum of Rs. 30600 is divided between Richa and Atish, who are respectively 18 and 19 yr old, in such a way that if their shares are invested at 4% per annum compounded annually, they shall receive the same amount on reaching 21 yr of age. What is the share of Richa?
6. The number of votes not cast for the Praja Party increased by 25% in the National General Election over those not cast for it in the previous Assembly Polls, and the Praja Party lost by a majority twice as large as that by which it had won the Assembly Polls. If a total 2,60,000 people voted each time. How many voted for the Praja Party in the Assembly Elections.
7. Two liquids A and B are in the ratio 5 : 1 in container 1 and 1 : 3 in container 2. In what ratio should the contents of the two containers be mixed so as to obtain a mixture of A and B in the ratio 1 : 1?
8. Richa wanted to sell her two chairs that cost her a total of Rs. 545. She sold both the chairs. On selling one chair, she got 15% profit but she also generated a loss 12% on the other one. She did not get any profit and any loss in the whole transaction so. What is the cost price of the chair that she sold for a profit?
9. Meera invested some money in Local Community and obtained a profit of 6%. She again invested her money but this time she generated a loss of 9% on this transaction. If the investment of money was in the ratio of 2:3, then what is the loss percentage in the whole transaction?
10. Meera went to a Laptop shop. The cash price of laptop was Rs. 24945. She paid Rs. 3945 and gave the rest of money in two equal annual instalments. If the rate of interest is 5% compounded annually then what was the value of each installment?
Therefore Total amount paid = 52200 + 41100 = Rs. 93,300.
Let n be the number of pages.
n = 15.71 = 16 sheets.
Clearly, the sheet reduced by 4 and percentage reduction in number of sheets =(4/20) x 100 = 20%.
So, the number of votes not cast for the party would be = 1.25n.
Majority of votes in the previous polls = (votes cast) – (votes not cast) = (260000 – x) – x = (260000 – 2x).
(Margin of loss this year) = 2 x (Margin of victory last year).
(2.5x – 260000) = 2(260000 – 2x).
The number of votes not casted for the party in the previous assembly polls = 12000.
So, the number of votes casted for the party = (260000 – 120000) = 140000. | 2019-04-26T09:38:19 | http://www.mentorforbankexams.com/2017/05/quantitative-aptitude-quiz-for-niacl-mains.html |
0.999999 | Many of us will be well acquainted with 'driver' personalities who want everything done now (some even want it done yesterday). Often known as Type-A's, they push and prod, manipulate and intimidate. If they have no challenge confronting them at the moment, they get bored and seek one out.
I asked one such manager if he thought he was addicted to urgency. He went beyond agreement. He told me he thrived on adrenaline and didn't know if he could live without it.
What we're talking about is the stereotypical entrepreneur or manager. This type often sets unrealistic (or unnecessary) deadlines simply because they believe they work best inside a pressure cooker. When they get mad, most everyone gives them a wide berth - especially if they've ever fired someone in a fit of anger.
Despite being viewed as intimidating bullies by some, these people get a lot of things done. They'll do whatever it takes to get results.
Yet it's this very trait that gets them in trouble: Because they focus on results, they're often elevated to positions of leadership. So, it's easy for them to think that their organizations would be more successful if everyone else were more like them.
Picture the entire world comprised of high-pressure task-focused people. Who does the detail work? Who keeps company teams from killing each other? Who encourages?
Let's consider that perspective for a moment. Picture the entire world comprised of high-pressure task-focused people. Who does the detail work? Who keeps company teams from killing each other? Who reviews the full scope of numbers to make sure we're not blowing the budget? Who looks back to make sure all the bases are covered before declaring a project done? Who encourages?
Obviously, a Type-A world wouldn't work. As it stands right now, Type-A's make up about 18 percent of the population. Thus, to gain greater effectiveness and greater efficiency, Type-A's must learn how to optimally engage the other 82 percent.
One good approach is to remember this fact: slower up front equals faster down the road. It seems counter-intuitive, but truth is truth.
For example, well over half the population likes higher levels of human interaction than Type-A's do. Yes, dealing with people takes time that task-focused Type-A's don't like to give, but leaders can't lead if no one is following. The solution? Take time to acknowledge individual input. People will be more committed to the cause.
In other words, slower up front means faster down the road.
Another example is setting very tight deadlines and then not coping well when "stuff" happens. When delays occur (and they do), work stops or slows down. Since they want to conquer problems, Type A's often pull out their weapon of intimidation to get things rolling again. This can backfire! People who distain confrontation may disengage, or worse yet, resort to passive aggressiveness. Such behavior is aggressive in return, but uses passive methods that can be explained away innocently if challenged.
Such passive-aggressive responses may include sitting on an order to delay delivery even further, or feigning ignorance of what's expected.
Instead of using threats or coercion, Type A's do well to remember that slower up front equals faster down the road. Working with people to find solutions instead of pushing them wins people over. Again, it takes more time and effort than Type-A's like to give, but one gets more flies from honey than from vinegar.
- Analytical types want to analyze. Let them. Sure, it takes extra time, but they may uncover a hidden problem and save even more time down the road.
- People-people want to connect with others and encourage them to get engaged. Sure, some time-consuming idle chit chat occurs. But in the long run, people who are engaged offer more dedication to results than people who aren't. That investment of time pays off down the road.
- Most overlooked by Type-A's are the quiet, steady workers who don't call attention to themselves. Their dedication produces much of the work that Type-A's don't want to do. Although they don't ask for it, these people like an occasional acknowledgement.
Again, it takes extra time to verbally recognize someone's input, but ignore a person's hard work and over time his commitment levels wear thin—with correlating reductions in productivity.
Bottom line, people appreciate the results-focused, no-nonsense approach that Type A's bring to the table. If Type-A's can appreciate what everybody else brings - and take the time to acknowledge it - effectiveness and efficiency are more likely to rise to levels that Type-A's appreciate.
Let me say it one more time: slower up front equals faster down the road.
Somebody PLEASE tell my boss this! In fact, maybe some brave sould should just get her to read this!
As a type A I find this very timely and well-expressed. Relieved to find I'm onto most of these issues - a happy accident more than anything - but really grateful for the heads-up! | 2019-04-22T14:14:39 | https://www.management-issues.com/opinion/2641/slower-up-front-equals-faster-down-the-road/ |
0.998909 | 1. Determine the meaning of unknown words using a variety of context clues, including word, sentence and paragraph clues.
2. Use context clues to determine the meaning of homophones, homonyms and homographs.
3. Apply the meaning of the terms synonyms and antonyms.
5. Apply knowledge of individual words in unknown compound words to determine their meanings.
6. Use knowledge of contractions and common abbreviations to identify whole words.
7. Apply knowledge of prefixes, including un-, re-, pre- and suffixes, including -er, -est, -ful and -less to determine meaning of words.
8. Decode and determine the meaning of words by using knowledge of root words and their various inflections.
2. Predict content, events and outcomes by using chapter titles, section headers, illustrations and story topics, and support those predictions with examples from the text.
6. Create and use graphic organizers, such as Venn diagrams and webs, to demonstrate comprehension.
1. Use the table of contents, chapter headings, glossary, index, captions and illustrations to locate information and comprehend texts.
2. List questions about essential elements (e.g., why, who, where, what, when and how) from informational text and identify answers.
4. Draw conclusions from information in maps, charts, graphs and diagrams.
5. Analyze a set of directions for proper sequencing, clarity and completeness.
1. Recognize and describe similarities and differences of plot across literary works.
4. Identify and explain the defining characteristics of literary forms and genres, including fairy tales, folk tales, poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
5. Explain how an author's choice of words appeals to the senses.
6. Identify stated and implied themes.
7. Describe methods authors use to influence readers' feelings and attitudes (e.g., appeal of characters in a picture book; use of figurative language).
2. Develop a clear main idea for writing.
5. Organize writing by providing a simple introduction, body and a clear sense of closure.
6. Use a wide range of simple, compound and complex sentences.
7. Create paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting sentences that are marked by indentation and are linked by transitional words and phrases.
16. Rewrite and illustrate writing samples for display and for sharing with others.
1. Write stories that sequence events and include descriptive details and vivid language to develop characters, setting and plot.
2. Write responses to novels, stories and poems that demonstrate an understanding of the text and support judgments with specific references to the text.
3. Write formal and informal letters (e.g., thank you notes, letters of request) that include relevant information and date, proper salutation, body, closing and signature.
4. Write informational reports that include the main ideas and significant details from the text.
5. Produce informal writings (e.g., messages, journals, note and, poems) for various purposes.
2. Spell multi-syllabic words correctly.
3. Spell all familiar high-frequency words, words with short vowels and common endings correctly.
4. Spell contractions, compounds and homonyms (e.g., hair and hare) correctly.
5. Use correct spelling of words with common suffixes such as -ion, -ment and -ly.
6. Follow common spelling generalizations (e.g., consonant doubling, dropping e and changing y to i).
7. Use resources to check spelling (e.g., a dictionary, spell check).
8. Use end punctuation marks correctly.
9. Use quotation marks around dialogue, commas in a series and apostrophes in contractions and possessives.
11. Use nouns, verbs and adjectives correctly.
14. Use nouns and pronouns that are in agreement.
15. Use past, present and future verb tenses.
16. Use possessive nouns and pronouns.
1. Choose a topic for research from a list of questions, assigned topic or personal area of interest.
3. Acquire information from multiple sources (e.g., books, magazines, videotapes, CD-ROMs, Web sites) and collect data (e.g., interviews, experiments, observations or surveys) about the topic.
4. Identify important information found in the sources and summarize the important findings.
5. Sort relevant information into categories about the topic.
6. Understand the importance of citing sources.
7. Use a variety of communication techniques, including oral, visual, written or multimedia reports, to present information gathered.
1. Ask questions for clarification and explanation, and respond to others' ideas.
3. Identify the difference between facts and opinions in presentations and visual media.
1. Identify and generate equivalent forms of whole numbers; e.g., 36, 30 + 6, 9 x 4, 46 - 10, number of inches in a yard.
a. Recognize 100 means "10 tens" as well as a single entity (1 hundred) through physical models and trading games.
b. Describe the multiplicative nature of the number system; e.g., the structure of 3205 as 3 x 1000 plus 2 x 100 plus 5 x 1.
c. Model the size of 1000 in multiple ways; e.g., packaging 1000 objects into 10 boxes of 100, modeling a meter with centimeter and decimeter strips, or gathering 1000 pop-can tabs.
d. Explain the concept of tenths and hundredths using physical models, such as metric pieces, base ten blocks, decimal squares or money.
3. Use mathematical language and symbols to compare and order; e.g., less than, greater than, at most, at least, <, >, =, less than or equal to, greater than or equal to.
4. Count money and make change using coins and paper bills to ten dollars.
5. Represent fractions and mixed numbers using words, numerals and physical models.
6. Compare and order commonly used fractions and mixed numbers using number lines, models (such as fraction circles or bars), points of reference (such as more or less than 1/2 ), and equivalent forms using physical or visual models.
7. Recognize and use decimal and fraction concepts and notations as related ways of representing parts of a whole or a set; e.g., 3 of 10 marbles are red can also be described as 3/10 and 3 tenths are red.
a. Use conventional mathematical symbols to write equations for word problems involving multiplication.
b. Understand that, unlike addition and subtraction, the factors in multiplication and division may have different units; e.g., 3 boxes of 5 cookies each.
a. Translate contextual situations involving division into conventional mathematical symbols.
b. Explain how a remainder may impact an answer in a real-world situation; e.g., 14 cookies being shared by 4 children.
d. relate subtraction to division (repeated subtraction).
11. Model and use the commutative and associative properties for addition and multiplication.
12. Add and subtract whole numbers with and without regrouping.
13. Demonstrate fluency in multiplication facts through 10 and corresponding division facts.
14. Multiply and divide 2- and 3-digit numbers by a single-digit number, without remainders for division.
15. Evaluate the reasonableness of computations based upon operations and the numbers involved; e.g., considering relative size, place value and estimates.
d. temperature – degrees (Fahrenheit or Celsius).
3. Tell time to the nearest minute and find elapsed time using a calendar or a clock.
4. Read thermometers in both Fahrenheit and Celsius scales.
5. Estimate and measure length, weight and volume (capacity), using metric and U.S. customary units, accurate to the nearest 1/2 or 1/4 unit as appropriate.
6. Use appropriate measurement tools and techniques to construct a figure or approximate an amount of specified length, weight or volume (capacity); e.g., construct a rectangle with length 2 1/2 inches and width 3 inches, fill a measuring cup to the 3/4 cup mark.
7. Make estimates for perimeter, area and volume using links, tiles, cubes and other models.
1. Analyze and describe properties of two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using terms such as vertex, edge, angle, side and face.
a. Use physical models, like straws, to make different sized angles by opening and closing the sides, not by changing the side lengths.
b. Identify, classify and draw right, acute, obtuse and straight angles.
3. Find and name locations on a labeled grid or coordinate system; e.g., a map or graph.
5. Build a three-dimensional model of an object composed of cubes; e.g., construct a model based on an illustration or actual object.
1. Extend multiplicative and growing patterns, and describe the pattern or rule in words.
2. Analyze and replicate arithmetic sequences with and without a calculator.
3. Use patterns to make predictions, identify relationships, and solve problems.
4. Model problem situations using objects, pictures, tables, numbers, letters and other symbols.
5. Write, solve and explain simple mathematical statements, such as 7 + ? > 8 or ? + 8 = 10.
6. Express mathematical relationships as equations and inequalities.
7. Create tables to record, organize and analyze data to discover patterns and rules.
8. Identify and describe quantitative changes, especially those involving addition and subtraction; e.g., the height of water in a glass becoming 1 centimeter lower each week due to evaporation.
2. Draw and interpret picture graphs in which a symbol or picture represents more than one object.
3. Read, interpret and construct bar graphs with intervals greater than one.
4. Support a conclusion or prediction orally and in writing, using information in a table or graph.
5. Match a set of data with a graphical representation of the data.
6. Translate information freely among charts, tables, line plots, picture graphs and bar graphs; e.g., create a bar graph from the information in a chart.
7. Analyze and interpret information represented on a timeline.
8. Identify the mode of a data set and describe the information it gives about a data set.
9. Conduct a simple experiment or simulation of a simple event, record the results in a chart, table or graph, and use the results to draw conclusions about the likelihood of possible outcomes.
10. Use physical models, pictures, diagrams and lists to solve problems involving possible arrangements or combinations of two to four objects.
1. Compare distinct properties of rocks (e.g., color, layering, texture).
2. Observe and investigate that rocks are often found in layers.
3. Describe that smaller rocks come from the breakdown of larger rocks through the actions of plants and weather.
4. Observe and describe the composition of soil (e.g., small pieces of rock and decomposed pieces of plants and animals, and products of plants and animals).
5. Investigate the properties of soil (e.g., color, texture, capacity to retain water, ability to support plant growth).
6. Investigate that soils are often found in layers and can be different from place to place.
4. Use examples to explain that extinct organisms may resemble organisms that are alive today.
5. Observe and explore how fossils provide evidence about animals that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.
6. Describe how changes in an organism’s habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.
1. Describe an objects position by locating it relative to another object or the background.
2. Describe an objects motion by tracing and measuring its position over time.
3. Identify contact/noncontact forces that affect motion of an object (e.g., gravity, magnetism, collision).
4. Predict the changes when an object experiences a force (e.g., a push or pull, weight, friction).
1. Describe how technology can extend human abilities (e.g., to move things, to extend senses).
2. Describe ways that using technology can have helpful and/or harmful results.
3. Investigate ways that the results of technology may affect the individual, family and community.
4. Use a simple design process to solve a problem (e.g., identify a problem, identify possible solutions, design a solution).
5. Describe possible solutions to a design problem (e.g., how to hold down paper in the wind).
1. Select the appropriate tools and use relevant safety procedures to measure and record length and weight in metric and English units.
3. Read and interpret simple tables and graphs produced by self/others.
4. Identify and apply science safety procedures.
5. Record and organize observations (e.g., journals, charts, tables).
1. Describe different kinds of investigations that scientists use depending on the questions they are trying to answer.
2. Keep records of investigations and observations and do not change the records that are different from someone else's work.
5. Discuss how both men and women find science rewarding as a career and in their everyday lives.
1. Define and measure time by years, decades and centuries.
2. Place local historical events in sequential order on a time line.
2. Compare the cultural practices and products of the local community with those of other communities in Ohio, the United States and countries of the world.
3. Describe settlement patterns of various cultural groups within the local community.
1. Use political maps, physical maps and aerial photographs to ask and answer questions about the local community.
2. Use a compass rose and cardinal directions to describe the relative location of places.
3. Read and interpret maps by using the map title, map key, direction indicator and symbols to answer questions about the local community.
4. Use a number/letter grid system to locate physical and human features on a map.
5. Identify the location of the equator, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole, Prime Meridian, the tropics and the hemispheres on maps and globes.
6. Identify and describe the landforms and climate, vegetation, population and economic characteristics of the local community.
7. Identify ways that physical characteristics of the environment (i.e., landforms, bodies of water, climate and vegetation) affect and have been modified by the local community.
8. Identify systems of transportation used to move people and products and systems of communication used to move ideas from place to place.
1. Define opportunity cost and give an example of the opportunity cost of a personal decision.
2. Identify people who purchase goods and services as consumers and people who make goods or provide services as producers.
3. Categorize economic activities as examples of production or consumption.
4. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of specialization and the division of labor to produce items.
5. Identify different forms of money used over time, and recognize that money facilitates the purchase of goods, services and resources and enables savings.
6. Explain how the local community is an example of a market where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
7. Identify examples of economic competition in the local community.
2. Explain the structure of local governments and identify local leaders (e.g., township trustees, county commissioners, city council members or mayor).
3. Identify the location of local government buildings and explain the functions of government that are carried out there.
4. Identify goods and services provided by local government, why people need them and the source of funding (taxation).
5. Define power and authority.
6. Explain why the use of power without legitimate authority is unjust (e.g., bullying, stealing).
4. Read and interpret pictographs, bar graphs and charts.
5. Communicate information using pictographs and bar graphs. | 2019-04-20T03:10:36 | https://www.nlsd.k12.oh.us/Content2/168 |
0.999936 | In Anglo-Celtic culture this imagery summons up associations with folk traditions of the witches' cauldron, into which all kinds of impure substances were added (think Macbeth) and then transmuted by recitation of spells . So is it possible that the witches were practising a form of alchemical tantra?
The female medieval peasant Wiccans ('witches') were demonised and persecuted by the Church, whereas the upper class male alchemists usually got away with their mind-expanding practices, by claiming they were engaged in transforming base metals into gold.
Despite what some Christians still claim, Wicca has nothing to do with Satanism. Wiccans no more believe in Satan than do Buddhists. Satan is a bogey-man dreamt up by Christian theologians to explain why, if God is loving, omnipotent and omniscient, there is evil in the world. Satanism is thus an offshoot of Christianity, and many of its rituals involve perversions or parodies of Christian rites.
Wiccans may be organised into covens, though many are solitary practioners. The belief that a coven must have thirteen members is a pernicious fiction spread by the medieval Church in order to associate Wicca with Satanist parodies of Christ's Last Supper. Wicca has its origins in ancient Celtic beliefs and pre-dates both Christianity and Satanism.
In Celtic traditions, cauldron, grail and chalice symbolism abounds, so it is no surprise that the medieval witches are associated with use of 'vessels of transformation'. The story of the Holy Grail is a Christianised pre-Christian Celtic legend.
The Gundestrup Cauldron is also clearly a ritual vessel.
Wicca is a pagan healing religion. In pre-Christian times the knowledge of the healing power of herbs and psychological healing techniques was the province of the wise woman (or sometimes cunning man) of the village. Throughout the Middle Ages most of rural Britain, especially the wilder western Celtic areas, was only nominally Christian with ancient folk beliefs continuing to thrive.
It is interesting to note that the word 'pagan' derives from the Latin for 'countryman', and 'heathen' from those who live on the heaths (the heather-clad fells and moors of western Britain). For utilitarian purposes as well as magic, the wise women would have used cauldrons to extract the active ingredients form their herbs.
Towards the end of the Middle Ages political unrest, religious schisms and plagues led to a period of paranoia when all dissent was punished with sadistic severity. Many hundreds of thousands of traditional healers (and some early scientists) were arrested and burnt at the stake for being in league with the devil. This period is known as 'the burning times' by modern Wiccans.
The old beliefs went underground and survived in isolated areas of Britain and Ireland from the end of the sixteenth century until the repeal of the anti-Wiccan laws in 1951 (Wicca was still illegal in Britain until after World War Two !). The religion slowly emerged from obscurity and re-established strongholds in its traditional Celtic homelands (for example Glastonbury - the original Avalon of Merlin and the Arthurian legends). It arrived in the U.S. sometime in the late 1960's and found a fertile field for growth in the hippie counter-culture of that period.
Its growth then appears to have been steady but unspectacular until the mid nineties, when a combination of cultural factors and the growth of the internet led to a massive increase in numbers. There may now be as many as three million Wiccans and Wiccan sympathisers through the English-speaking world. Wiccans in the U.S. are still subject to prejudice, and many of them dare not 'come out of the broom closet'. The situation in Britain is normally more tolerant, as paganism in some parts of rural Britain has never been far below the surface.
Wicca is not a patriarchal or oppressive religion. There is no jealous, punitive sky-God. Wicca particularly venerates the feminine aspects of spirituality. In contrast, there is little or place for the feminine aspects of spirituality in standard Abrahamic monotheism.
Wicca celebrates the divine feminine with colorful ceremonies, symbolism and rituals. (Many Wiccans are accomplished artists and designers). The non-macho nature of Wicca extends to welcoming gays and lesbians, who are still treated as abominations unto the Lord by the Abrahamic religions.
The turning of the year also symbolises the processes of birth, death and rebirth of the individual. To the jaded city-dweller, these ancient numinous festivals with their evocative names and customs seem to offer a glimpse of a long-lost pastoral idyll.
The FWBO has a program of ritually celebrating the female Buddhas, or Prajnas, on the day and time of the year associated with each of them. The cycle begins with the Summer Solstice and female Buddha Mamaki.
Wonderful blog, great information. You provide a very insightful point of view. Very interesting!
Wicca does not predate Christianity. Indigenous beliefs of the various peoples of Europe certainly do, but those were not Wicca.
Very informative.Thanks for the blog. | 2019-04-20T08:43:34 | http://seanrobsville.blogspot.com/2009/11/cauldron-chalice-and-grail-symbolism-in.html |
0.999992 | Iron-clad Liability Protection for Idea Submissions?
Several bloggers and commentators have been critical of the Travel Channel about its website soliciting people to submit their ideas for what could possibly become a new hit show. As pitching television show ideas has become a complex, involved and costly process, should one really blame them for trying to streamline the process? If people are willing to share their ideas for no compensation, are they not free to do so? The comments seem to chide the Travel Channel for setting itself up to be sued for copyright infringement, idea theft or breach of implied contract (the current trend when copyright claims fail). Which did in fact happen when one of the idea submitters claimed his idea was used without compensation. Cardillo v. BBC, NBC Universal and the Travel Channel. Cardillo submitted his idea for a television show on the Travel Channel's website. His idea was to follow his family as they traveled down to South America in an Winnebago. The idea was described in no more than a few, very generalized sentences. When the show "The Great American Road Trip", which was a reality show competition involving seven families traveling across the country in recreational vehicles, aired on television, Cardillo claimed that his idea was stolen and sued. However, the court sided with the Travel Channel and dismissed Cardillo's claims. In order to bring a claim of copyright infringement, Cardillo had to first register the idea for copyright protection. It is well known that an idea is not protectable under copyright law, just its expression. And even if he did register the two sentence description of his idea, it probably would have been futile as there is no shortage of more substantive lawsuits where the courts have not been able to find copyright infringement even where the creative work is much more extensive and idea copying more difficult to deny. See Life-Line to the Lifeblood for a few examples. Even though it won the lawsuit, it appears the Travel Channel has decided to avoid future lawsuits and has taken down that portion of their website. Instead, I found the following disclosure: "How do I submit an idea for a show or series? For legal reasons, Travel Channel cannot accept unsolicited ideas or material, and any unsolicited ideas, pitches or material will be returned or discarded unread. Travel Channel only accepts proposals from established production companies who have previously discussed their idea with a network development representative and been asked to submit a summary of the idea or who have received an RFP." But should this really close the case on whether a studio or production company is able to host a website that solicits submissions of ideas, and limit its liability for lawsuits? If the website made it clear what the idea submitter can expect if he or she submits an idea, even if it is nothing – no compensation, no credit and no ownership – and if the submission is restricted to a short description, could it become feasible? Would it assist in avoiding such frivolous lawsuits from the Cardillos of this world? I think NBC Universal's policy (as provided on their website, and below) may be heading in this direction. It takes a much stronger stance than the Travel Channel's policy above and leaves no room for doubt as to the consequences if anyone submits their ideas and creative work unsolicited: "Submissions While we are always happy to hear from you, it is NBC Universal's policy not to accept or consider creative materials, ideas, or suggestions other than those we specifically request. This is to avoid any misunderstandings if your ideas are similar to those we have developed independently. Therefore, we must request that you do NOT send to us any original creative materials such as screenplays, stories, original artwork, etc. Any communication or material you do transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post shall be deemed the property of and may be used by NBC Universal, or its affiliates, for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, NBC Universal is free to use and shall be deemed to own, any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information. Disclosure, submission, or offer of any submissions to the Site shall constitute an assignment to NBCU of all worldwide rights, titles, and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in such submission. NBCU may edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate, and otherwise use in any medium any submission that you forward to NBCU and will own exclusively all such rights, titles, and interest and shall not be limited in any way in its use, commercial or otherwise, of the submission. NBCU is and shall be under no obligation to: (1) maintain any of your or any user's submissions in confidence; (2) to pay to you or any user any compensation for any submissions; or (3) to respond to any of your or any other user's submissions." So if a company were to use a similar disclaimer but in connection with a solicitation to submit ideas, could it be sufficient to avoid claims of copyright infringement as submitters give up ownership as well as claims of breach of implied contract as they would not have an expectation of being compensated for their ideas?
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0.999999 | Pregnancy App Article: "12-week dating scan"
This is the first of your routine scans and despite the name, can be done between 8 and 14 weeks.
It's also known as the dating scan because one of the things it can pinpoint is your baby's exact gestation, so you'll have a better idea of your baby's estimated due date (EDD).
Before the scan you'll be asked to drink lots of water so you have a full bladder - this puts the uterus in a better position to be scanned. This can be a tad uncomfortable, and if your scanning clinic has particularly long waiting times you may find yourself crossing your legs and trying to ignore the flushing sound from the nearby loos.
You'll be asked to lie down for the scan itself, and the sonographer will rub some sticky, clear (and cold!) jelly over your abdomen.
A hand-held gadget called a transducer is moved over your belly and bounces high-frequency sound waves around, to create a picture on the monitor. Don't worry, it's painless and won't harm you or your baby.
The clarity of the picture depends on a number of things, and it may not be immediately obvious which parts of your baby you're looking at. The sonographer will be able to help you work it out, though he or she may need to prod your belly a bit to 'encourage' the baby to position themselves for their big close-up.
Having to drink all that bloody water before a scan only to find there's a delay before your appointment and then you feel like you're going to explode. I'll never forget one nurse asking me (when they were nearly 30 mins over time), 'Do you think you could just pop to the loo and let just a little bit out?' Errrr - NO!
Age and size: the exact stage of pregnancy will be calculated from the measurement made from crown to rump. This will give you a more precise estimated due date.
Number of babies: are you expecting one baby, twins or <gulp> more?
Development and growth: the sonographer will check your baby's limbs and spine for any visible abnormalities. They will look at the head, limbs, feet, heartbeat and whether the major organs are developing as they should.
The health of the placenta and its position, which may have implications for later in the pregnancy.
Seeing the first picture of your baby is a great milestone, and often the moment when it all feels 'real'. Some hospitals will sell you a copy of your scan image so you can go and show everyone the very first photo of your sproglet-to-be. | 2019-04-18T10:37:51 | https://www.mumsnet.com/apps/content/pregnancy/scan-dating-week-12 |
0.999651 | This post discusses a few studies on BMI and body composition and CVD mortality. It was prompted by a Twitter conversation wherein Rob made claims regarding frail obese people, and that obesity science must address body composition to move forward. The idea being that people with BMIs up to 40 don't have a "weight" problem, they have a fat problem, and the solution is to gain more lean mass then lose fat mass whether or not there is net weight gain/loss/neutrailty in the process. BMI is essentially a useless measure.
There are a lot of people, particularly in the "strong women" and Healthy-At-Every-Size (HAES)/related communities putting forth a similar message, that weight doesn't matter, and the former, especially, promoting lifting heavy weights and "thickness". A sizeable proportion of people from just about every corner of the internet is fixated on the concept of preserving and/or building lean mass. Building lean mass -- in all contexts -- is promoted as healthy, and health protective. At worst, lean mass is benign.
As a BMI outlier, I have considerable skin in this game so I got curious when presented with a study that showed reduced CVD mortality for those with high muscle vs. low muscle, irrespective of fat mass. There appears to be yet another one of those "obesity paradoxes" discussed in the literature. I'll discuss problems with that study as well as what kind of actionable information it provides in a future post. In short, once you have CVD and/or surgical intervention, your survival rate increases with increased adiposity and fat free mass. Those with the lowest fat seem to fare the worst in one study, while this is improved by higher FFM in another.
What about developing CVD (or other diseases) in the first place? Heart disease rates are (seemingly universally?) higher among the obese (by BMI) than the lean. Is it ALL about just the fat though?
Searching out the full text of Rob's article, other articles were suggested. Among them was this: Body Mass Index, the Most Widely Used but also Widely Criticized Index: Would a Gold-Standard Measure of Total Body Fat be a Better Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality?
I think many will be shocked by, and perhaps scratching their heads over, the results here.
This study of over 60,000 subjects followed up for an average of 15 years. They looked at BMI, %BF, FMI (fat mass to height) and FFMI (fat-free mass to height) and resultant CVD mortality.
This study sure gives me pause, and fits in with what I've been thinking (and doing) for going on two years now regarding total weight: Should we worry so much about preserving "Lean Mass" in people who got obese on the SAD?
Is being heavier healthy depending on body composition? The main study discussed in this post seems to indicate otherwise. I share some thoughts at the end. You can browser search on "My Thoughts" to skip to that if you like.
Is a High BMI Relevant to Health Risk?
I either get into discussions about BMI, or think about BMI quite a bit, because I have a high BMI-to-size ratio still. I'm much smaller now than I was at my current weight in my 20s, and I have saved enough odd pieces of clothing to know it's not clothing size inflation. I have generally considered BMI to be "useless" for individuals, because, you know, all of the ripped athletes with BMIs over 30. I also "run" in fitness circles on Facebook, and these are dominated by those who prioritize resistance training (several are and/or train strength or physique competitors). When it comes to weight loss, there are numerous lines of reasoning that all converge to the goal being as close to 100% fat loss as possible. Lean body mass is almost universally seen as a positive, or at the very minimum, benign. It's prime tissue, never to be lost without a dang hard fight to preserve!!
Lastly, there are a number of female internet celebs (some objectively overweight/obese) who promote their healthy lifestyle including lifting heavy weights. Some will lament that their doctor doesn't care that they can squat XYZ lbs, while others actively promote getting thicker. I've seen again and again that rather than fat loss, perhaps it may be better to focus on muscle gains. The primary study I'm discussing here would indicate otherwise.
Is a high BMI with low adiposity healthy?
By healthy, I'll use my own comprehensive definition. Healthy as we age is being at a lower risk for chronic degenerative diseases "of aging" and a reasonable expectation to live longer. A healthy person possesses a wide range of biomarkers consistent the aforementioned risks and expectations. No pet biomarker adoption, while others go ignored. Where one can't pick their genetics, a healthy lifestyle fosters improvements or manages abberant biomarkers. Healthy is having the ability to be active and functional. And ultimately, healthy must include a mental state of well-being, because none of the aforementioned are much good if you can't sleep, are stressed out all the time, or cannot enjoy relationships with family and friends.
Body Mass Index, the Most Widely Used but also Widely Criticized Index: Would a Gold-Standard Measure of Total Body Fat be a Better Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality?
This study followed over 60,000 people (roughly 44K men and 16K women) for an average of 15 years looking at cardiovascular disease mortality. The cohort was predominantly white (98%) professionals, and averaged ~43 years of age at baseline. Here is the table of all baseline characteristics.
noting that for men, that is near the current classification for Class II Obesity (over 35) while for women it was just over the current classification for Class I Obesity (over 30).
My point in stressing this is that "very high BMI" does not imply the severe obesity (over 40) that is present in over 5% of the current US population! In other words, the risk ratios found in this study could be way worse if it had started at the turn of the century.
Compared with a medium BMI, a very high BMI was associated with a hazard ratio (HR) of 2.7 for CVD mortality.
There was a stronger association for BMI than for BF% (HR=1.6) or FMI (HR=2.2).
Compared with a medium FFMI, a very high FFMI was associated with a HR of 2.2 for CVD mortality.
These estimates were markedly smaller for FFM (HR=1.2).
When the analyses were restricted only to the sample with hydrostatic assessments (N=29,959), the results were nearly identical, with even slightly larger differences in favor of BMI (HR=3.0) compared with BF% (HR=1.5) and FMI (HR=2.1).
That last one really drives a pretty large nail into the coffin of body composition trumping BMI. Even when using only the more exacting body composition data (still a considerable almost 30,000 subjects), the hazard ratios persisted, and if anything became slightly stronger.
The simple and inexpensive measure of BMI can be as clinically important or even more than total adiposity measures assessed by accurate and expensive methods. Physiological explanations for these findings are discussed.
WHOA!!! Say what? This is one of those studies that make me go Hmmmm, that's for sure!
This is by no means a comprehensive review of the literature. I'll try and follow up with more, but offer no promises. The above and one other are studies that were "suggested" in my search for Rob's study that I've also included. I was reminded of a very recent study (August 2017) that challenged the notion of "metabolically healthy obese people".
While this study didn't look at body composition, the last line of the Conclusion is in agreement with the results of the body composition study. Then there's this study, which I won't comment further on (or this post never gets posted), but I'll include the abstract and the graphic that jumped off the page at me.
Background: Fitness level and obesity have been associated with death in older populations. We investigated the relationship between aerobic fitness in late adolescence and early death, and whether a high fitness level can compensate the risk of being obese.
Methods: The cohort comprised 1,317,713 Swedish men (mean age, 18 years) that conscripted between 1969 and 1996. Aerobic fitness was assessed by an electrically braked cycle test. All-cause and specific causes of death were tracked using national registers. Multivariable adjusted associations were tested using Cox regression models.
Results: During a mean follow-up period of 29 years, 44 301 subjects died. Individuals in the highest fifth of aerobic fitness were at lower risk of death from any cause [hazard ratio (HR), 0.49; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.47–0.51] in comparison with individuals in the lowest fifth, with the strongest association seen for death related to alcohol and narcotics abuse (HR, 0.20; 95% CI, 0.15–0.26). Similar risks were found for weight-adjusted aerobic fitness. Aerobic fitness was associated with a reduced risk of death from any cause in normal-weight and overweight individuals, whereas the benefits were reduced in obese individuals (P < 0.001 for interaction). Furthermore, unfit normal-weight individuals had 30% lower risk of death from any cause (HR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.53–0.92) than did fit obese individuals.
Conclusions: Low aerobic fitness in late adolescence is associated with an increased risk of early death. Furthermore, the risk of early death was higher in fit obese individuals than in unfit normal-weight individuals.
While aerobic exercise is not known for lean-mass building, whatever the body composition changes (or metabolic ones) associated with aerobic fitness are trumped by obesity as measured by BMI.
All three of these studies were rather large (60K, 520K and 1.3M) and had relatively lengthy follow-ups (15, 12 and 29 years) in populations that were healthy at baseline. As previously noted, this isn't a comprehensive review or search, but I have yet to come across a similar study of this nature that has shown a benefit to a high BMI -- irrespective of body composition.
There seem to be various "obesity paradoxes" mentioned in the literature vis a vis obesity and CVD (and all cause) mortality. Basically, higher BMI, lean mass and even adiposity seems to be protective in certain circumstances. What circumstances are those? Well, these seem to be almost exclusively (please let me know of studies otherwise!) in studies involving elderly populations and/or those with existing CVD (often marked by an event and or surgery).
This post started getting way too long, so I had broken this discussion out into another post. In doing so I somehow lost the second part so it may be a while, but I'll do my best to get that out quickly. When published, this link should work: High BMI and Mortality Once You Have Cardiovascular Disease. It includes a discussion of "Rob's study": Relation of Muscle Mass and Fat Mass to Cardiovascular Disease Mortality that showed reduced hazard ratios for cardiovascular disease mortality with high muscle/low fat and high muscle/high fat body compositions compared to "frail" low muscle/low fat body compositions. I have a couple of other studies in a similar vein as well to discuss. There are some rather interesting outcomes, and taken together with the studies discussed here could lead to various interpretations.
I feel the need to reiterate from my summary, and numerous mentions over the years, that this is an issue where I have considerable skin in the game. I don't have any current health issues other than the joint problems (that are at least partly genetic, but also I believe "load" related to carrying around extra weight). There's a family history of heart disease on both sides, different sorts and whatnot, but as I circle the sun for the 55th time, I think more and more of how I can maximize my chances of living a longer, productive life. In 2007 I suspect my BMI hovered near, at or even over 50, and even getting down to a normal size in 2008 I weighed too much. Part of starting this blog was to determine if that was "OK" so long as I was healthy, etc. I've since lowered that BMI down below the threshold for obesity (yay!), and am closer to a normal weight than I have been since the 1990s. I'm also physically much smaller now (let's not pick apart body parts as my shape has changed so this is not universally true) at the very same weight I was starting my sophomore year in college.
As I wrote in my first post about Lean Mass, I have come to question the "obsession" with retaining FFM during weight loss.
TL,DR: If someone gains 100 lbs, it's NOT all adipose tissue, so when you go to lose the weight, wouldn't you want to lose the FFM as well?
My recent success has come with not prioritizing protein intake (and eating less animal protein than I used to) and letting the chips fall as they may. I was "forced" rather sedentary due to joint issues and surgery during and after my most recent weight loss, so there was little in the way I could even do to try to preserve it. In the end I didn't turn into a pile of goo, and I can lift heavy things with much the same ease as I could when I was heavier. I won't go so far as to say that I deliberately lost FFM, but I am reasonably confident that blowing right through my previous years-long plateau was because I just ate less and kept on keeping on and lost not only fat but that excess FFM.
I'd still like to lose some more mass, and studies like *ALL* of the above confirm to me that this might be a healthful approach. I am, however, NOT interested in undertaking any adventures in sarcopenia, though I don't seem to have any issues in this regard either. I have good bones and I'm freakishly strong -- at least for now.
I think the BMI/Body Composition study (Ortega, et.al. 2016) provides some sobering evidence to ponder as regards the benefits of resistance training for hypertrophy and/or deliberately gaining lean mass. To each his own, but I'm more interested in being strong enough to remain mobile (and compensate for my impairments in the legs department), active and productive as I age than I am in becoming Ernestine Shepherd (who totally rocks!). At this point, I've accumulated excess FFM, and the question really is, what to do with it!!??!! If you are looking to gain FFM from a lean physique, your interpretation of this study, or "take aways" so to speak, will likely differ from mine.
My *intuition* says that FFM is metabolically expensive, something that is normally thought of as a positive. However in the absence of disease, whether it is the sheer weight of this mass, or stress on other organs (heart, liver, kidneys especially) to support it, extra weight of any sort seems to be detrimental (if anything) over a lifetime. Once you have disease, however, those stockpiles can help you survive a taxing event such as a heart attack or bypass surgery. If you've frail at the get go, there's just not much in the tank to support healing and survival. This makes sense to me. You?
In Ortega 2016, the hazard ratios over 2 are considerable!!!
Here we have a large population size even for where "gold standard" measures of body composition were used.
How often do we see HRs of 1.12, 1.57, etc. For MUCH smaller samples. When you are dealing with HRs over 2, it is time to pay attention. The headlines would read "200+% increased risk ..." or "100+% increased risk ..." instead of the 12% and 57% increased risk for the two HRs I pulled out of my hat there.
when using only the ~30,000 people for whom "gold standard" body composition measures were available, the HR was 3.0!
But ... but ... but ... I'm muscular! Very high FFMI (fat free mass index, like BMI but using FFM to height): HR = 2.2 for all , HR = 2.1 for the ~30K people with "gold standard" body composition measures.
Is there anything actionable in all of this?
For me there is. I've long ago let go of hiding behind my "health". Health is multifactorial, but in the end, obesity = less healthy. It just does.
My own very high BMI was WAAAAAAAAAAY over the cut-off of 32 in the Ortega study.
If I were lean from a start point, there may well be reasons other than aesthetics to build lean mass. But I'm not. Coming from a point of excess fat and fat-free mass, MY takeaway is that normal BMI is a reasonable and health-promoting goal after all. So-called "overweight" is a more fuzzy area, but even there, clear trends emerge.
Stop with the "throw away the scale" stuff ... if you carry extra fat tissue, you know who you are, and chances are even if you "carry it well" (perhaps especially so, I can relate!), you've got extra FFM hanging on too. You don't need anything but a mirror and a scale to figure this out.
Aim to reach an appropriate weight for your skeleton by eating less. Consider NOT worrying about preserving the *excess* FFM through exercise and high protein intake. Consider NOT trying to outrun or outlift your fork or trying to recompose yourself to health and fitness.
Disclaimer: All of the above are "if you were a loved one and asked me for advice". | 2019-04-20T19:00:27 | http://carbsanity.blogspot.com/2017/12/high-bmi-and-risk-of-cardiovascular_7.html |
0.998775 | The victims of Yemen's conflict Jump to media player Counting the cost of six months of conflict in Yemen.
Who's in charge in Yemen? In 90 secs Jump to media player The political situation in Yemen is one of the most confusing in the Middle East. Here's a 90-second guide to the key players in the country's current unrest.
Who are Yemen's Houthis? Jump to media player Escalating tensions between Yemen's government and the armed Shia Houthi movement are threatening to plunge one of the poorest countries in the Middle East into a wide-scale armed conflict.
The poorest country in the Middle East, Yemen, has been pounded by a Saudi-led coalition for six months.
The Saudis are leading 10 allied countries and have vowed to fight until the Houthi rebels and their allies have been defeated.
Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi fled to Saudi Arabia in March following gains by the rebels.
Although he returned to the southern city of Aden this week, the war continues to inflict a heavy cost. | 2019-04-21T20:53:03 | https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-34347197/yemen-conflict-victims-of-six-months-fighting |
0.998355 | How to decrypt an encrypted docx file using LibreOffice SDK for C++?
I am a developer working with a lot of MS Office files. I have a with encrypted docx file and want to decrypt it (i know the password) and save to another file (without a password). When i open this encrypted file by Libre UI (i install version 5.0), it asked me to enter password. When password is given, Libre can decrypt that file and show the content. Howerver, when I try to use soffice.exe to decrypt that file by command line, I cannot find any option that support decrypt for docx. So i downloaded Libre SDK (version 5.0.4) and try to use it to decrypt that file. However I don't know how to use your SDK to do that job. Can you give me some sample code in C++ using your SDK to decrypt an encrypted docx file? | 2019-04-19T20:25:52 | https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/63041/how-to-decrypt-an-encrypted-docx-file-using-libreoffice-sdk-for-c/ |
0.999986 | Reirradiation of primary brain tumours: survival, clinical response and prognostic factors.
Title: Reirradiation of primary brain tumours: survival, clinical response and prognostic factors.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: First, the aim was to determine the survival and quality of life after reirradiation of relapsing primary malignant brain tumours. The second aim was to assess the influence of a set of potentially prognostic factors on survival. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-two patients received reirradiation for recurring primary brain tumours. The interval between the two consecutive treatments was at least 1 year. External beam irradiation for the initial and recurrent tumour was usually delivered with two opposing lateral fields or two wedged fields in orthogonal directions. The median physical doses of the first and second radiation course were 50 and 46 Gy, respectively. The median cumulative biological equivalent doses (BED) were 200.4 (alpha/beta = 2 Gy) and 115.2 Gy (alpha/beta = 10 Gy). During follow-up, corticosteroid medication and the WHO-performance were registered at regular intervals. The radiological response was assessed by reviewing all available CT- and MRI-films. Potentially prognostic factors with respect to survival were evaluated by both univariate and multivariate analyses. RESULTS: A clinical response (i.e. clinical improvement) was seen in 24% of the patients. Of the evaluable patients, nearly one-third showed a complete (8%) or partial (22%) radiological response. The median overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) after retreatment were 10.9 and 8.6 months, respectively. By multivariate analysis, four independent prognostic factors for survival were identified: (1), the WHO-score before retreatment (P = 0.002); (2), the length of the interval between treatments (P = 0.008); (3), the tumour histology; and (4), the response to initial treatment (P values, 0.04). The median survival times for patients with WHO-scores of 0-1 and > or = 2 were 14.0 and 7.4 months, respectively. Patients with oligodendrogliomas had a median OS of 27.5 months, whereas patients with astrocytomas had a median OS of 6.9 months after retreatment. Long-term complications of retreatment were seen in three patients, all of whom had a cumulative BED(2) of > 204 Gy (with alpha/beta = 2 Gy). The quality of life after retreatment, however, was well preserved in the majority of patients. They remained ambulant and capable of self-care until the time of progression which occurred after 8.6 months (median PFS). CONCLUSIONS: After an initial treatment with radiation up to tolerance levels of normal brain tissue, reirradiation of recurring primary brain tumours seems feasible. During the time until clinical progression, patients remained independent with a reasonable quality of life. | 2019-04-20T19:07:42 | https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/188654 |
0.999904 | This article is about the city in Zimbabwe. For the royal kraal of the Zulu empire, see Bulawayo (Zulu empire).
View of Bulawayo's Central Business District (CBD) from Pioneer House by Prince Phumulani Nyoni. The CBD is 5.4 square kilometres and is in a grid pattern with 17 avenues and 11 streets.
Bulawayo (Ndebele: koBulawayo) is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland. The city's population is disputed; the 2012 census listed it at 653,337, while the Bulawayo City Council claimed it to be about 1.2 million. Bulawayo covers an area of about 1,707 square kilometres (659 sq mi) in the western part of the country, along the Matsh' Amhlope River. Along with the capital Harare, Bulawayo is one of two cities in Zimbabwe that are also a province.
Bulawayo was founded around 1840 as the kraal of Mzilikazi, the Ndebele king. His son, Lobengula, succeeded him in the 1860s, and ruled from Bulawayo until 1893, when the settlement was captured by British South Africa Company soldiers during the First Matabele War. That year, the first white settlers arrived and rebuilt the town. The town was besieged by Ndebele warriors during the Second Matabele War. Bulawayo attained municipality status in 1897, and city status in 1943.
Bulawayo is, at least historically, the principal industrial centre of Zimbabwe; its factories produce cars and car products, building materials, electronic products, textiles, furniture, and food products. Bulawayo is also the hub of Zimbabwe's rail network and the headquarters of the National Railways of Zimbabwe.In recent years, the city's economy has struggled as many factories either closed or moved operations to Harare. Still, Bulawayo has the highest Human Development Index in the country, at .649 as of 2017.
Bulawayo's central business district (CBD) covers 5.4 square kilometres (2.1 sq mi) in the heart of the city, and is surrounded by numerous suburbs towards the outskirts. The majority of the city's population belong to the Ndebele people, with minorities of Shona and other groups. Bulawayo is home to over a dozen colleges and universities, most notably the National University of Science and Technology. The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, formerly the National Museum, is located in Bulawayo, and the city is in close proximity to popular tourist sites like Matobo National Park and the Khami Ruins, and World Heritage Site.
The city was founded by the Ndebele king, Lobhengula, the son of King Mzilikazi born of Matshobana who settled in modern-day Zimbabwe around the 1840s after the Ndebele people's great trek from Nguniland. The name Bulawayo comes from the Ndebele word KoBulawayo meaning "a place where he is being killed". It is thought that, at the time of the formation of the city, there was a civil war. A group of Ndebeles not aligned to Prince Lobengula were fighting him as they felt he was not the heir to the throne, hence he gave his capital the name "where he (the prince) is being killed". It is said that when King Lobengula named the place "KoBulawayo" his generals asked "who is being killed mtanenkosi (prince)?" and he replied "Yimi umntwanenkosi engibulawayo", meaning "it's me, the prince, who is being killed". At the time Lobengula was a prince fighting to ascend his father's (Mzilikazi) throne. It was common at the time for people to refer to Bulawayo as "KoBulawayo UmntwaneNkosi" "a place where they are fighting or rising against the prince". The name Bulawayo is imported from Nguniland which was once occupied by the Khumalo people. The place still exists: It is next to Richards Bay.
In the 1860s the city was further influenced by European intrigue, and many colonial powers cast covetous eyes on Bulawayo and the land surrounding it. Britain made skillful use of private initiative in the shape of Cecil Rhodes and the Chartered Company to disarm the suspicion of her rivals. Lobengula once described Britain as a chameleon and himself as the fly.
During the 1893 Matabele War, the invasion by British South Africa Company troops forced King Lobengula to evacuate his followers, after first detonating munitions and setting fire to the town. BSAC troops and white settlers occupied the ruins. On 4 November 1893, Leander Starr Jameson declared Bulawayo a settlement under the rule of the British South Africa Company. Cecil Rhodes ordained that the new settlement be founded on the ruins of Lobengula's royal kraal, which is where the State House stands today. In 1897, the new town of Bulawayo acquired the status of municipality, and Lt. Col. Harry White became one of the first mayors.
At the outbreak of the Second Matabele War, in March 1896, Bulawayo was besieged by Ndebele forces, and a laager was established there for defensive purposes. The Ndebele had experienced the brutal effectiveness of the British Maxim guns in the First Matabele War, so they never mounted a significant attack against Bulawayo, even though over 10,000 Ndebele warriors could be seen near the town. Rather than wait passively, the settlers mounted patrols, called the Bulawayo Field Force, under Frederick Selous and Frederick Russell Burnham. These patrols rode out to rescue any surviving settlers in the countryside and attacked the Ndebele. In the first week of fighting, 20 men of the Bulawayo Field Force were killed and 50 were wounded. An unknown number of Ndebele were killed and wounded.
During the siege, conditions in Bulawayo quickly deteriorated. By day, settlers could go to homes and buildings in the town, but at night they were forced to seek shelter in the much smaller laager. Nearly 1,000 women and children were crowded into the small area and false alarms of attacks were common. The Ndebele made a critical error during the siege in neglecting to cut the telegraph lines connecting Bulawayo to Mafikeng. This gave the besieged Bulawayo Field Force and the British relief forces, coming from Salisbury and Fort Victoria (now Harare and Masvingo respectively) 300 miles to the north, and from Kimberley and Mafeking 600 miles to the south, far more information than they would otherwise have had. Once the relief forces arrived in late May 1896, the siege was broken and an estimated 50,000 Ndebele retreated into their stronghold, the Matobo Hills near Bulawayo. Not until October 1896 would the Ndebele finally lay down their arms to the invaders.
In 1943, Bulawayo received city status.
In recent years, Bulawayo has experienced a sharp fall in living standards coinciding with the severe economic crisis affecting the country. The main problems include poor investment, reluctance by government to improve infrastructure and corruption and nepotism leading to most original dwellers of the city migrating south to the neighbouring South Africa. Water shortages due to lack of expansion in facilities and supplies have become steadily more acute since 1992. Cholera broke out in 2008. Though the city is the centre of the southern population generally categorized as the Matebele, the composition of the city is made up of people from all over the country. The Central Business District has the widest roads which were deliberately made so to accommodate the carts that were used as a primary means of transport back when the town was planned and erected.
Bulawayo is nicknamed the "City of Kings" or "kontuthu ziyathunqa"—a Ndebele phrase for "smoke arising". This name arose from the city's historically large industrial base and specifically draws from the large cooling towers of the coal powered electricity generating plant situated in the city centre that once used to billow steam and smoke over the city. The majority of Bulawayo's population belongs to the Ndebele ethnic and language group (otherwise known as Northern Ndebele).
2 Barbourfields The suburb was named after a former mayor, H. R. Barbour, who during the colonial era was greatly interested in the welfare of the indigenous people. There is a place called Barbour in Argyll & Bute. Barbour is a Scottish family name, though it was apparently first recorded on the English side of the border, in Cumberland and Northumberland. The father of Scottish vernacular poetry, John Barbour (1320–1395), is best remembered for his epic poem "The Brus", telling the story of King Robert I. The origin of the name is occupational (a cutter of hair as well as an extractor of teeth during the Middle Ages).
3 Barham Green The suburb was named after two people. The first was a former Bulawayo City Councillor (who later became an Alderman) Mrs. M. E. Barham, M.B.E. and the other was Rev. Rufus Green. They were critical in the establishment of this suburb. During the colonial Rhodesia era, it was designated for the Coloured community.
4 Beacon Hill Also known as Beryl Drive, reference is made to fact that it is the high point of the suburbs and possesses the areas with the highest marking beacon at its summit.
5 Bellevue The suburb was named after the estate name. It is sometimes spelled Belle Vue. The origin of this universally popular place name is ultimately French – "beautiful view".
7 Belmont Industrial Area The area was named after a former Bulawayo City Engineer, Mr. Kinmont.
8 Bradfield The suburb was named after Edwin Eugene Bradfield, a pioneer.
9 Burnside This area used to be a portion of former town council area and used to be part of Matsheumhlope Farms. The name is derived from the reference to the River Matsheumhlophe. "Burn" is a Scottish and northern English word for a stream.
10 Cement This was named after the surrounding industrial area, responsible for the making of cement.
14 Douglasdale The Douglas family, descendants of William de Douglas (late 12th century), was one of the most powerful in Scotland.
16 Emakhandeni Emakhandeni is the isiNdebele name for Fort Rixon, which was the area where the regiment aMakhanda were located. eMakhandeni is the locative term.
17 Emganwini Reference is made to the plentiful amarula trees in the vicinity.
20 Entumbane This is where King Mzilikazi was buried. It is one of the dozens of high-density suburbs of Bulawayo, commonly referred to as the "Western Suburbs". The first disturbances that led to the Gukurahundi were sparked in Entumbane, hence the term "Impi ye Ntumbane" that refers to the disturbances.
22 Famona The suburb was named after Famona, one of the daughters of King Lobengula. It means jealousy or envy must end (literally, "die").
23 Fortunes Gate (including Mtaba Moya) The suburb's name comes from the original property name, and the gates are those of the original market building.
24 Four Winds The suburb name comes from the original property name; the first house was on top of a hill.
25 Glencoe This name is etched into the Scottish psyche as the bleak glen in the Highlands where, in 1692, a party of MacDonald men, women, and children were treacherously massacred by the Campbells, who were acting under government orders.
26 Glengary The suburb was named after its estate name. The "Glengarry" bonnet is an oblong woollen cap, popular amongst pipe bands.
27 Glenville (including Richmond South) The suburb was named after its estate name.
29 Greenhill The suburb's name is a reference to scenery and topography.
30 Gwabalanda Named after a Ndebele chief, Gwabalanda Mathe.
34 Hillcrest The suburb's name comes from the reference to topography. It is Greenhill's crest.
35 Hillside The suburb's name is a reference to topography (Greenhill's slope).
36 Hillside South The suburb's name comes from its position as the south facing slope of Greenhill.
37 Hume Park "Hume"/"Home" is a Lowland Scottish family name.
38 Hyde Park The name originates from the large number of residents who trace their ancestry to England.
40 Iminyela This is the name of a type of tree common in the area.
41 Intini The name was given as a commemoration to the Mhlanga family, who originally set out with the Khumalo family under Mzilikazi as gratitude to their contribution to the Ndebele Kingdom, Mthwakazi. The Ntini is the totem of the Mhlanga-Mabuya clan.
42 Jacaranda This is a reference to the jacaranda trees.
43 Kelvin (Industrial area, includes North East and West) The area was named in reference to a suburb of Glasgow. It takes its name from the River Kelvin, a tributary of the River Clyde.
44 Kenilworth The suburb was named after its estate name.
45 Khumalo The suburb was named after the Royal Clan of the Matabele. The Khumalo hockey stadium is here.
46 Khumalo North This is a reference to the position of Kumalo suburb.
50 Lakeside Lakeside is the stretch of water at the junction of the Old Essexvale Road and the road to the suburb of Waterford, and then on to Hope Fountain Mission.
51 Lobhengula It is named after the second and last Matabele King, Lobengula.
52 Lobenvale The suburb's name is derived from a combination of King Lobengula's name and Umguza Valley.
53 Lochview The suburb's name is in reference to Lakeside Dam and is famous in the city for its large Scottish residents and the Scottish style houses. According to the Bulawayo City Suburb Names website, the suburb was named in reference to Lakeside Dam.
55 Mabuthweni The suburb's name means "where the soldiers are"; the name was given in reference to a bachelors' quarters.
56 Magwegwe The suburb name is named after Magwegwe, who was one of the significant people in King Lobengula's royal Bulawayo town.
57 Magwegwe North This is a reference to the position relative to that of Magwegwe.
58 Magwegwe West This is a reference to the position relative to that of Magwegwe.
59 Mahatshula Mahatshula is named after one of the Ndebele Indunas, Mahatshula Ndiweni.
60 Makhokhoba The suburb got its name from the actions of Mr. Fallon, who used walk around with a stick. The name comes from the word "umakhokhoba" which was how the locals referred to Fallon, meaning "the little old man who walks with a stick". The word actually describes the noise of the stick hitting the ground, ko-ko-ko, or the doors. It is the oldest African dwelling in the city. Political activism was rife in the pre-ZAPU era.
61 Malindela The suburb was named after the mother of Faluta, who was the mother of Lobengula, i.e., after Lobengula's maternal grandmother.
62 Manningdale It is named after the developer of the suburb.
64 Matsheumhlope The name comes from the association with the river ("White Stones"). White stones in Ndebele Proper and Zulu language are "amatshe amhlope".
65 Matshobana The suburb was named after Matshobana, who was a chief of the Khumalo clan and more significantly he was the father of Mzilikazi, the founder of the Ndebele Kingdom.
66 Montgomery It is named after Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, a decorated British Army commander.
67 Montrose The suburb was named by the estate developers, and street names are of many Cotswolds villages and towns.
69 Mphophoma The name comes from a descriptive Ndebele name for the area, which was derived from the sound the Mpopoma River makes when flowing.
71 Mzilikazi The suburb was named after the founder of uMthwakazi, King Mzilikazi. It is a stone's throw away from Barbourfields suburb, separated by a road called Ambulance Drive that leads to one of Zimbabwe's large hospitals, Mpilo.
72 New Luveve Reference is made to the suburb Luveve; see Luveve suburb.
78 Nketa It is named after the traditional heritage site of Nketa Hill on which King Lobengula assembled his entire kingdom and divided its citizens according to cultural ethnicity and stages of incorporation into three groups: the Zansi which is Xhosa for "south", referring to the people who left the Zulu Kingdom originally; the Enhla or Nxele, which referred to the second mass incorporated group, which was the Swati, Pedi, and Sotho, with whom they settled in Mhlahlandela 1; the final group was the Hole /ˈxɒli, which constituted of the Shona, Kalanga and Bakwena. Most historians argued that this was clear evidence of Lobengula's lack of foresight and political tact as he was literally undoing what his father had spent his lifetime trying to achieve: a unified kingdom with a single identity.
90 Phelandaba Phelandaba translates as "the matter is concluded", a reference to the successful conclusion to the struggle for security.
91 Phumula Phumula means "a resting place", reference to the fact that many have built homes there to retire to.
97 Rangemore The suburb adopted the original estate name.
98 Raylton The suburb adopted the original estate name.
101 Romney Park The suburb was named after George Romney, a British painter.
106 Souththwold The suburb was named by the estate developers, and street names are of many Cotswolds villages and towns.
108 Suburbs This was the first suburb in Bulawayo and retained that name. The suburb has many tree-lined avenues and is where the Centenary Park, Natural History Museum and the Bulawayo Athletic Club are found.
111 Tegela The name is derived from a Ndebele word ukwethekela meaning "to visit".
113 Thorngrove The suburb's name came from the large number of mimosa (thorn) trees in the area.
115 Tshabalala This is the "isibongo" or praise name for Lobengula's mother, Fulata, who was of Swazi extraction.
Retained the old estate name.
The city sits on a plain that marks the Highveld of Zimbabwe and is close to the watershed between the Zambezi and Limpopo drainage basins. The land slopes gently downwards to the north and northwest. The southern side is hillier, and the land becomes more broken in the direction of the Matobo Hills to the south.
Due to its relatively high altitude, the city has a subtropical climate despite lying in the tropics. Under the Köppen climate classification, Bulawayo features a semiarid climate (BSh). The mean annual temperature is 19.16 °C (66.44 °F), similar to Pretoria at a similar altitude but almost 600 km (373 mi) farther north. As with much of southern and eastern Zimbabwe, Bulawayo is cooled by a prevailing southeasterly airflow most of the year and experiences three broad seasons: a dry, cool winter season from May to August; a hot dry period in early summer from late August to early November; and a warm wet period in the rest of the summer, early November to April. The hottest month is October, which is usually the height of the dry season. The average maximum temperature ranges from 21 °C (70 °F) in July to 30 °C (86 °F) in October. During the rainy season, daytime maxima are around 26 °C (79 °F). Nights are always cool, ranging from 8 °C (46 °F) in July to 16 °C (61 °F) in January.
The city's average annual rainfall is 594 mm (23 in), which supports a natural vegetation of open woodland, dominated by Combretum and Terminalia trees. Most rain falls in the December to February period, while June to August is usually rainless. Being close to the Kalahari Desert, Bulawayo is vulnerable to droughts and rainfall tends to vary sharply from one year to another. In 1978, 888 mm (35 in) of rain fell in the three months up to February (February 1944 is the wettest month on record with 368mm) while in the three months ending February 1983, only 84 mm (3 in) fell.
Bulawayo has good-quality tap water owing to the management of the water authorities, meeting international standards. Bulawayo does not recycle waste water but uses treated waste water for irrigation.
Bulawayo experiences water shortages in drought seasons due to the overwhelming increase in population versus the static and sometimes decreasing capacity of the reserve dams. The geographical factors causing water scarcity are rising temperatures, the area's high elevation and the arid environment of Matabeleland. Bulawayo provides residents with water by using a system of dams, treatment plants, and reservoirs.
Environmental and sanitation circumstances have detrimental effects on water quality. Sources such as groundwater and tap water are subject to pollution due to waste from burst sewers contaminating them. Samples taken from well water from the Pumula and Robert Sinyoka suburbs show that well water maintain levels of coliform higher than the Standards Association of Zimbabwe and World Health Organization give.
The population of Bulawayo, according to the 2012 national census, stood at 653,337; however, this figure has been rejected by the Bulawayo City Council authority with Councillor Martin Moyo claiming an anti-Bulawayo conspiracy to under-fund projects in the city.
The population of the city according to metropolitan council sources is closer to 1.5 million and a more closer and estimated figure being 1.2 million. Reports have alluded to the de-industrialization of the city as the reason for its population decline, a claim which was rubbished as council officials referred to the fact that, in 1992 the city's population stood at 620,936. It had grown in the number of households due to urban expansion. City authorities also laid claim to the fact that the current water challenges facing the city were a result of an increasing population despite its economic challenges.
Bulawayo was known as the industrial hub of Zimbabwe. This has led to the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair being hosted in Bulawayo. It had a large manufacturing presence with large industries based here before Zimbabwe's economic collapse. However, some of these companies have either moved operations to Harare or have closed down — which has crippled Bulawayo's economy. Most factories are deserted and the infrastructure has since been left to deteriorate. The reason for the de-industrialization has largely been political, with some factories like Goldstar Sugars removing machinery to open new factories in Harare. When the Zimbabwean government passed indigenisation laws, some successful businesses were taken over by ZANU-PF supporters, only to close down a fews years later.
Many locals argue that it is because of marginalisation they experience against the government due to cultural differences between the Shona in Harare and the Ndebele in Bulawayo because the National railways of Zimbabwe (headquarters in Bulawayo) is a government parastatal and, as such, should have been thriving had it not been for embezzlement of funds by company executives who are believed to be Shona. The water issue is not new and had brought about the "help a thirsty Matabele" initiative of the 1970s and the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project which would put an end to the water issue in Matabeleland was drafted; however, this project was put on hold soon after independence.
These allegations have all been labeled hogwash by the relevant authorities. However, they have only fueled the secessionist initiative into a general opinion. The city still contains most of what remains of Zimbabwe's heavy industry and food processing capability. This includes a thermal power station that resumed operations in February 2011 after a capitalisation deal with the Government of Botswana where Bulawayo would supply 45 megawatts in three years.
Like many parts of the country, Bulawayo has for the past ten years[when?] seen a huge drop in service delivery and an increase in unemployment due to the resignations of people seeking better prospects across the border. Many people resorted to farming, mining, and the black market for sustenance, while others depended on the little foreign currency that would be sent by family in other countries. However, with the introduction of the multi-currency system in 2009, a new approach is seen by investors in the city who admire the already-available infrastructure; the huge workforce; and Bulawayo as great prospects. It is set to once again contribute greatly to the economy of Zimbabwe.
The city is served by Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport and the other international airport in the region being the Victoria Falls International Airport. Bulawayo is the capital of the bigger Matabeleland province which is arguable Zimbabwe's tourism paradise. Matabeleland boosts of Victoria Falls, Matopo National Park, Hwange National Park, Khami Ruins and a bigger share of Lake Kariba. The city is located within an excellent road and rail transport network linking the region to South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique.
Bulawayo is governed by the Bulawayo City Council, which is headed by the Mayor of Bulawayo.
Although controlled by the main opposition party MDC-T, the council has managed to stand out as the leading municipality in Zimbabwe in service delivery to its residents, through campaigns engineered by the city council such as the #mycitymypride campaign and #keepbyoclean on social media. These have been met with positive responses by residents and other stakeholders in the city. In recent years, Bulawayo has been widely perceived as the cleanest city in Zimbabwe due to the council's effective waste management strategy.
In 2015 the city of Bulawayo was praised for its town planning that, unlike major urban areas such as Harare and Chitungwiza, has not been marred by corruption and problems such as illegal settlements.
Bulawayo has museums of national importance, including the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, National Gallery, Bulawayo and the Bulawayo Railway Museum.
Bulawayo is home to the Queens Sports Club and Bulawayo Athletic Club, two of the three grounds in Zimbabwe where test match cricket has been played.
Bulawayo Golf Club, the first golf club in the city and country was established in 1895. The Matsheumhlope Stream cuts through the 18 hole course in the suburbs.
It is home to Hartsfield Rugby grounds where many international Test matches have been played. Hartsfield was developed by Reg Hart, after whom the grounds were named and on which field many of southern Africa's greatest rugby players have competed. It is home to two large football teams: Highlanders and Zimbabwe Saints. Other football teams include Bantu Rovers, Chicken Inn, How Mine, Quelaton, and Bulawayo City (R).
The city has a total road network of about 2100 kilometres; 70 percent was declared in 2017 in a poor condition. The R2 road links Bulawayo with the Capital Harare.
The city has Bulawayo Station on the Harare-Gaborone main line and the Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway.
On the 1 November 2013, a new terminal of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport, formerly known as Bulawayo Airport, was opened.
Bulawayo is home to a large number of hospitals and other medical facilities. The United Bulawayo Hospitals, a public hospital network, operates Bulawayo Central Hospital, Richard Morris Hospital, Lady Rodwell Maternity Hospital, and Robbie Gibson Infectious Diseases Hospital. Mpilo Central Hospital, is the largest hospital in Bulawayo, and the second-largest in Zimbabwe, and features a nursing school and midwifery school on its campus. Bulawayo is also home to Ingutsheni Hospital, which at 700 beds is the largest psychiatric hospital in Zimbabwe. Other hospitals in Bulawayo include All Saints Children's Hospital, Hillside Hospital, Mater Dei Hospital, the Nervous Disorders Hospital, St Francis Hospital, and Thorngrove Isolation Hospital.
In Bulawayo, there are 128 primary and 48 secondary schools.
Bulawayo is home to a number of colleges and universities. The National University of Science and Technology, the second-oldest university in Zimbabwe, was established in Bulawayo in 1991. Solusi University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution established in Bulawayo in 1894, gained university status in 1994. Additionally, the University of Zimbabwe and the Catholic University of Zimbabwe, both based in Harare, operate satellite campuses in Bulawayo.
Bulawayo is home to a number of institutes of technology and vocational colleges, including Bulawayo Polytechnic College, Speciss College, and the Zimbabwe School of Mines, among others. The city is also home to several teachers' colleges, including the Blended Education College of Southern Africa, Hillside Teachers' College, and the United College of Education.
The Chronicle, a state-owned daily newspaper, and its Sunday edition, The Sunday News, are published in Bulawayo. The Chronicle is the second-oldest newspaper in Zimbabwe, and along with The Herald, published in Harare, it is one of two major state-owned newspapers in the country. UMthunywa, a state-owned Ndebele-language newspaper, is also published in Bulawayo, where the majority of the population belongs to the Ndebele people. Private online publications like Bulawayo24 News and B-Metro are also based in Bulawayo.
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0.667354 | 1) This is too much information that might overwhelm or discourage someone from looking at my case.
2) Only including the recent information since the start of symptoms might leave out the critical clue that could crack my case. This is particularly true since an autoimmune disease is also being considered (both my infectious disease specialist and rheumatologist have referred me to Mayo).
I just want to get some answers and get better. Does anybody have any advice as to what or how much information to provide for the initial referral (prior to acceptance)? Any advice overall for increasing my chances of getting an appointment or getting a diagnosis?
With regards to the physician referral, I have the form from the infectious disease specialist and have sent the rheumatologist the form. Does anyone have any advice for when many different specialties are a possible cause/involved?
Really, any suggestions or guidance at all would be appreciated. No doubt I'm overthinking and over-stressing this, but I'm running out of FMLA at work and am tired of feeling crummy. I want to make sure I've done or am doing everything I can to get better.
Hi @peabody88. Being thorough is certainly not a bad thing. Although I cannot promise an appointment or guarantee that you will get one right away, having a physician referral is a strong start. If your physician is urging you to seek an appointment, it may be more beneficial to have your physician or provider request the appointment. If they are not aware how, you could certainly share this link and information with them, https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/provider-relations/refer-a-patient. Again, this does not guarantee that you will get an immediate appointment, but having a physician on your side is a good start. Do you think this is something that your provider will support?
Yes, I picked up the referral form from the infectious disease specialist on Friday (not sure if the rheumatologist sent hers to Mayo directly or hasn't completed it yet) and will be sending it with all of my documentation on Monday. I was just overthinking/worrying about how much and what information to send.
@peabody88, this is a tough question I am not qualified to answer. If it would give you peace-of-mind, I suggest calling the Mayo Clinic appointment office and asking that very question. They will be able to provide you with the best guidance on what documents to send on and where to send them. Their contact information can be found here, https://www.mayoclinic.org/appointments. They will be the best resource to address your concerns as they are trained to answer the very question you are asking. | 2019-04-21T22:54:00 | https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/advice-on-providing-information-to-get-initial-appointment/ |
0.995324 | Question: How Bimodal Is A Methylation Distribution?
Analysing methylation from a sequencing experiment, we seem to be having some bimodal distributed values.
1- Is there a way to assign a p-value (or any metric) on how bimodal a distribution is?
2- Does it even make sense to ask this question? (Why or why not?).
Apologies in advanced if the question is too off topic.
1) The advice given in this CrossValidated thread seems solid. Really, if you've got a hairy stats question, those are the guys to ask.
From work I am involved in on CpG islands I guess that your trends should be bimodal, it can be seen clearly in CpG island methylation in human and in full transcript methylation in Ciona.
There will be a Deaton et al paper coming out in Genome Research later in the year that will also show that the 'CpG shores' hypothesis is less likely.
The reference you gave is about someone who comments on a method based on a package that he never used or even looked at.
Sorry, but it does seem a little bit too vague (plus it doesn't answer my question).
Also, minus one for referencing Google.
looks like a mixture distributions problem. If you data looks normal, then an EM algorithm and likelihood ratio test could solve this.
I am sure this is not quite so easy.
Actually, I get similar distribution from HumanMethylation450 data.
Why does methylation data have bimodal distribution? | 2019-04-26T14:31:55 | https://www.biostars.org/p/8233/ |
0.999631 | When can we expect more access to Google Fonts? Mailchimp has added more Google Fonts to their font library, and it would be great to have more fonts available, since Google Fonts have made "web safe fonts" a thing of the past.
I agree. I would like to not rely on images, as some email clients don't natively open images.
I'm shocked that Google fonts aren't an option in designing email campaigns. One of the reasons we rebranded using Google fonts (Raleway, in particular) was because they are so accessible now. And then I started working in CC only to be disappointed with a real lack of fonts to choose from.
Now that I know MailChimp does use Google Fonts, I am looking into a possible change. Fonts are very important for brand recognition!
As long as we are talking about actual typography (versus simply readable text), let me put in a word for using smart quotes, apostrophes versus foot-marks, long dashes where appropriate, etc. Every time I code one of these into CC, it defaults to the (inaccurate) norm. Good typography pre-dates computers by centuries, and my company doesn't want to be seen as clunky, inelegant or unsophisticated.
Access to Google fonts or Typekit fonts would be an enormous step forward for CC.
Yes, please! Fonts are so important to keeping a consistent brand. Right now I've been creating images in Canva, and uploading them to CC. I've love to cut down the time it takes to create emails by being able to create all of the components in one space.
Yes!! This is a feature we desperately need to modernize the look of our emails and keep them consistent with our new branding. Although switching to another email service would be a hassle, their support for Google Fonts is really making us consider the possibility.
This is still one of the most frustrating design omissions in CC. Other services have provided this for a long time, and it's so important for distinguishing our brand that we are considering changing to a more functional alternative.
Can you add custom fonts through your HTML?
I am finding my hands tied in CC while trying to update the look of my emails. The fonts available are from 5 years ago, and the design templates are laughably outdated. Please at least allow me to use Google Fonts, which are everywhere today!
I was looking to use Google fonts in a CC campaign and thought it would be as simple as doing a search for the process in the community. I had no idea that it was NOT a thing. Bad CC, bad CC! Please catch up with the times!
To my fellow commenters: if you care enough to comment, please care enough to vote (up at the top) and hopefully CC will get the message and implement Google fonts.
Any updates on this? I really would love for access to Google Fonts besides having to implement on this our own via HTML.
I'm adding my voice to the crowd voting for adding Google Fonts to the typeface options!
I too, am surprised that CC does not integrate with Google Fonts. I have looked at other providers and they have added that feature. CC needs to keep up! | 2019-04-26T15:59:49 | https://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Email-Campaign-Experience/Access-to-Google-Fonts/idc-p/320581 |
0.999862 | This seminal 1969 album is steeped in revolution, vitality and protest: the aural equivalent of a demonstration march. Jefferson Airplane's uncompromising Volunteers is rooted in the belief that music can change the world.
You'll immediately hear finer pacing, enhanced information retrieval, and superior transparency. Soundstages stretch far and extend back, with instrumental separation giving all of the musicians their own place in the mix. As a result, subtle albeit important details &#mdash; Hopkins' rollicking piano, guitarist Norma Kaukonen's biting tones, Garcia's deft pedal-steel work — emerge in three-dimensional fashion amidst a musical canvas that manages to be both edgy and produced, raw and revealing. Jefferson Airplane has never sounded more vital.
Much had changed in America — and within Jefferson Airplane — in just the two short years since the release of the San Francisco collective's breakthrough smash Surrealistic Pillow. The countercultural movement had darkened, government involvement in Vietnam escalated, and regard for human rights fallen. Retreating from the excessive experimentalism that graced its prior two LPs, the Airplane responded to the social circumstances with defiant, assured, and cohesive songs shot through with driving psychedelia, crunchy acid-rock, and rustic country. From start to finish, it's the aural equivalent of a demonstration march.
Having drawn attention for the inclusion of profanities in multiple tunes, the Top 20 LP also ran up against the nonprofit Volunteers of America after the sextet wanted to title the record Volunteers of Amerika in order to express further dissatisfaction with the country. While Grace Slick and Co. gave into the charity's desires to switch the name, there's nothing compromising about Volunteers. Kaukonen's leads cut searing swaths through urgent fare like Eskimo Blue Day and anthemic We Can Be Together, which boldly speaks out against convention and in favor of chaos and anarchy. | 2019-04-19T16:33:09 | http://rockian.biz/mfsl/mfsl2176.htm |
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