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0.998715 | How do I get computer to recognize my older ipod touch so I can Import photos?
I can't get my computer to recognize my ipod touch older model so I can import photos.
If they do then does the iPod work?
- Inspect the dock connector for bend or missing contacts, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
3 Plz help me from the error - "org.apache.jasper.jasperException" | 2019-04-25T18:36:07 | http://www.amicuk.com/how-do-i-get-computer-to-recognize-my-older-ipod-touch-so-i-can-import-photos/ |
0.999945 | Online education is one of the largest and fastest growing segments of higher education. Five million online learners are projected to be working towards a degree in the U.S. by 2020. With such a large segment of the student population endeavoring to take some if not all their courses online, it has become vital that colleges and universities understand and embrace the unique set of preferences and needs presented by this learning group.
Since 2012, The Learning House, Inc. and Aslanian Market Research have conducted an annual survey of 1,500 online college students. The goal of these annual Online College Students studies is to help institutions better understand how to serve this specific student population.
The findings contained in their recent study, “Online College Students 2016: Comprehensive Data on Demands and Preferences”, show an increasing demand for distance learning in higher education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Summarized herein are some interesting facts and findings from the 2016 study.
An increasing number of students prefer online education. Quality and satisfaction with online classes continues to remain high, with 90% of survey respondents indicating they felt the online class experience was the same or better than their on-ground class experiences. Half of online college students say they definitely would not, probably would not, or are not sure if they would have attended their current program if it were not offered online.
Online students are cost sensitive. Tuition remains the driving factor for students when choosing their online classes. Students have seen a decrease in employer-provided tuition assistance, and 44% of students are using personal funds in combination with grants and loans to finance their education.
Mobile is widespread throughout the admissions and education process. More than 95% of online students own a mobile device. Phones and tablets are utilized during the college selection process – 51% of enrolled students conducted at least some of their research via a mobile device – as well as for participating in class and completing assignments. Once enrolled, 67% desire to complete at least some of their online learning on a mobile device, with 59% completing at least some of their courses online.
The online student demographic is changing. During the last five years, the average age of the online college undergraduate student has decreased from 34 in 2012 to 29 in 2016. Online graduate students’ average age decreased from 35 in 2012 to 33 in 2016. Online learners are likely to be single and have fewer children. They’re also earning less income; since 2013, the percentage of graduate students earning less than $25,000 has more than doubled.
Online students prefer a nearby campus. Nearly 75% of students report that, because they’re likely to visit the school campus while enrolled, they selected online courses from a school whose campus is within 100 miles of their home and their campus.
There are many paths to a degree. Many online undergrad students have previously earned credits from colleges and universities. They are seeking for these credits to be accepted when enrolling in online courses. Many are also interested in receiving credits based on their life experiences.
Comprehensive data on demands and preferences. Louisville, KY: The Learning House, Inc. | 2019-04-20T20:42:27 | https://holscience.com/hands-on-labs-news/todays-distance-learning-student-needs-preferences/ |
0.998334 | Positive Things about Introverts - The world has always loved extroverts, and an introvert is often viewed as a mismatch. Is that true? Or is there any advantage being an introvert? Let's find out.
There are some people out there who are always considered weird, who can not be read, understand, and hard to guess, often make others uncomfortable, and they are introverts. While the extroverts out there, seemingly so comfortable with a group of people, planning to go where the weekend is going, introverts might just sit on the edge of somewhere alone, searching for the truth of the way of life, or with a smile polite on his face watching people passing by.
It is common for introverts to accept the stamp of being arrogant, to have social anxiety or social phobia. But that's not true. Introverts are just more focused on their own inner world, unlike extroverts that are naturally oriented to the outside world. Introverts do not hate people, and they certainly do not need to be saved from their world, because there seems to be a popular misunderstanding. Which of course arises because extroverts are often considered better than introverts, and the world seems to accept this fact more. Here are some positive side and introverted person characteristics.
Introverts take care of themselves, may not necessarily speak unless spoken to, and will avoid conflict as a rule of thumb. They are not aggressive and insolent, and they certainly do not insult people. All things, they are very nice to be around with anyone though still prefer not to say much.
Introvert thinks a lot. And thinking so much allows them to understand and analyze things, not just at a superficial level, but at a deeper level, and as a result, they develop fully take on unique lessons. They, therefore, make good problem solvers and are assets in the workplace. In fact, they often prove to be very creative individuals because it's a very capable nature of thinking beyond the nuances of the obvious.
People may assume that they are not the best friends to play with, but that opinion soon disappears once someone interacts with them. It's just that they need to know someone to feel comfortable around them. Once done, they may just be happy to surprise you with the kind of thing they never hesitate to share. Extroverts might like all the noise, but an introvert might have a very unique story to tell ... he should want to tell them, that's all.
Extroverts are difficult to be alone, and always want to be accompanied by people for the same reason. The introvert is quite comfortable left alone with his mind and who may, on the other hand, seek silence from time to time. That does not mean that they prefer to be alone at 'all the time', they could just as well go to parties and do all that festive, but after they finish they may just want to go home and relax instead of going hanging out with the others.
Introvert has some close friends and prefers to set this up to collect contacts. They take time to get to know people, and make certain friends only after really knowing them well. In turn, they can still be very good friends as well.
Introverts do not always react violently and promptly in handling situations. They take time to understand events, think, and understand everything before saying anything. That's why they tend to suffer social oddities.
In a world where everyone wants to be heard, an introvert prefers to listen, which is a virtue. Introverts love to observe people and learn about their nature, and when someone speaks to an introvert, they get the satisfaction that has been heard, because an introvert is able to convey from what he has learned. Introverts do not judge, comment, or advise on what a person does not need to and should not do in his own life. They provide support without judgment.
Introvert is very low and simple. They, therefore, pose no threat to anyone. They are not always anywhere, wanting one form of activity or another, they are not demanding something done in their way, nor angry if it is not done, and they certainly do not take over and take responsibility, or force others to follow. They do not dominate, and they do not like other people to dominate their own lives in all things, they are very easy to be around with anyone.
Introverts prefer casual, lifestyle that is not full of activity and constant in terms of targeting something. They prefer to keep their own business, and the perfect roommate or neighbor.
Introverts do not open too often, they can not be read easily, nobody knows what they think, and sometimes, people may find them smiling for themselves i-all this just adds to the mystery of their lives. They are not like open books, so if someone really takes the time to get to know them, they will surely be surprised to see many interesting and unique sides of their personality.
Many introverts find it difficult to be themselves in a variety of situations, as most people find it easier and more comfortable to be around extroverts. They find it easier to do than have to explain their more complicated side of the world. Once we know, because so many positive sides of being an introvert, why do not people take the time to try to get to know them, what are they and for who are they? | 2019-04-25T14:28:10 | https://www.exoftrovert.com/2017/10/positive-things-about-introverts.html |
0.99848 | The general market is saturated with solar-powered devices for the everyday consumer: calculators, cell phone chargers, outdoor lights, and even hangers that automatically rotate your hanging baskets for even sunlight exposure. Bearing this in mind, marketing and implementing solar-powered air conditioning should be very easy; the same photovoltaic panels used in these consumer devices can be scaled appropriately to power the needs of a zonal or central air conditioning system. This environmentally friendly solution reduces power draw and the overall demand on power production facilities and, theoretically, proves to be a financial incentive to the consumer. If this method of powering air conditioning is so profitable, why is it not more prevalent?
If sun wasn't a variable in the overall equation, using solar panels is physically a very feasible means of powering an air conditioning system. The issue is that the power consumption of an air conditioner requires more solar panels that what would be a spatially and financially viable option for most people. Think of charging a cell phone; typically, this requires a total power consumption of 2 watts. An average photovoltaic panel outputs 13 watts per square foot. A single central air conditioner may pull 3500 watts/hour, which would theoretically require nearly 270 square feet of space for panels. This doesn't take into consideration multiple factors, such as losses due to efficiency and shade.
The effectiveness of photovoltaics is largely dependent on steady exposure to unobscured sunlight. Some locations, such as the American Southwest, are very conducive to this type of power, whereas the sun's more glancing rays in the midst of Northern New England's forests would hamper a solar panel's usefulness. Fortunately, the Southwest requires air conditioning to a much greater degree than Northern New England, so this inequality of effectiveness is relatively balanced by climate. In both cases, however, electrical energy harnessed from solar panels can be used as supplemental power for an air conditioning system. Though return-on-investments vary widely on a case-by-case basis, the everyday consumer could very well strike a balance so that cost savings by using a partially solar-powered air conditioner aren't outweighed by the initial investment; all while reducing the consumption of precious resources for power generation.
It's very common that attics can be over-insulated and under-vented, causing heat to become trapped inside, thereby preventing unwanted heat from exiting the home (this is also the cause for excessive condensation on walls and windows in the wintertime). By properly venting and insulating your attic and outside walls, heat can escape and cool air can penetrate your rooms.
Eliminating cracks, most commonly near windows and doors, prevents the unwanted escape of cool air. Proper filling of gaps and caulking will typically suffice.
Adequate circulation is frequently overlooked. Most people see return air vents and regard them as secondary to delivery vents, since they don't actively cool rooms. The fact is, however, these are just as important as air delivery vents; if air can't circulate, pressure builds in the room, reducing the effectiveness and increasing the demand on a cooling system. The lesser load placed on this system reduces the overall draw on solar panels, which increases their practicality.
If using photovoltaic panels simply isn't feasible for powering your air conditioning system, you can certainly use them to assist your cooling needs. For instance, solar-powered attic vents remove the excessive upper-level heat build-up that increases the load on your air conditioner. As an alternative to this, solar power could be harnessed for a heat pump, which is an especially effective method for providing cooling in a mild climate. | 2019-04-22T04:10:03 | http://www.thegreenbook.com/cool-your-air-with-solar-power.htm |
0.999999 | Is there a way to take a screenshot of an Android device and save it as an image file?
You can press the Power button + the Volume Down button at the same time to take a screenshot. It will be saved to your gallery.
Note: You need to keep the buttons pressed for around a second for this to work. This is to avoid the screenshot when this combination is accidentally pressed.
If you're rooted: you can install an app called drocap2. This will let you shake your phone, wait on a timer, or click on a notification in your notification bar to take a screenshot and it'll save it to your phone.
If you're not rooted: you can not run a screenshot app on your phone, period. You'll have to install the Android SDK on your computer, connect you phone via USB, and run a program called DDMS. This program is mainly used for developer debugging, but it has a screenshot utility under one of its menus. For a tutorial, see this page. Also, some constructor like Samsung have implemented this function on their phones (the buttons combination change from phone to phone, so search for yours).
However some screens are protected and therefore can not be captured, e.g. some system settings dialogs.
In the Galaxy S Froyo (Android 2.2) you can take screenshots by holding the back key and tapping the home button.
Install the Android SDK on your computer, connect the phone and run DDMS from the terminal and then select Device > Screen Capture (or Ctrl+S) and a screenshot will be made.
On a Samsung Galaxy S II, it's simultaneously pressing the Power+Home button. It's tricky though; 9 out of 10 times I can't get it. Obviously that's specific to that model of phone and not the Android OS.
As far as I know, there isn't any native app built-in to the OS for all phones, it's too bad really.
The following method also requires root, but may be better and easier if you need the screenshots while writing articles, app reviews or documentation.
You do not need complex instructions or the Android SDK, and this works on all rooted devices.
On the HTC EVO3D, you may press lock button and home button at same time to capture a screenshot.
End result, is a PNG file called my_picture_of_android_home_screen.png is saved.
Once rooted, I've liked working with Screenshot (Cyrket link).
Set the timer, go to your application and wait; or set it to “Shake” mode, go to your application and shake it. Hard. And files show up in a screenshot folder. Happy day.
I mean it. SHAKE IT HARD. Unless there's some trick to shaking and I'm doing it in the wrong direction, this is NOT a sensitive shaker.
UPDATE: yeah, I'm using the timer option. Either the Incredible has a lousy shake sensor, the app is implementing it weirdly, or something else -- but shaking was just ridiculous. Would have been a nice interface, if that worked.
(Variable) Timer to take screenshots works just fine!
ShootMe does work for me on the Galaxy Tab (2.2), even if I did not root it and the ShootMe page says, that it works only for rooted devices.
Your phone has to be rooted. If it is just search "screenshot" in the market for many options. For an unrooted phone you can use dolphin browser hd with an addon to get screen captures of a website.
On the Samsung Galaxy Pocket GT-S53001, you can do it without any third party software.
Go to the screen that you'd like to capture.
Press and hold the Home button (center), then right after that, quickly press the Power button. If you wait too much it won't work and you'll just set the phone block.
If that is done successfully, you should be able to hear the classic click and also see a white border appear in your screen.
Go check your Gallery application.
1: It's possible that this works on all Android phones running Gingerbread, but I didn't try personally.
When I got the 2.3.4 Upgrade on my Sony Ericsson Arc (from 2.3.3) holding down the power button brings up the "airplane mode/power off/silent" menu, and new to 2.3.4 is the presence of a "take screenshot" button as well.
What happens next is, a screenshot will be taken. Then you will be able to adjust it before either accepting or discarding the screenshot.
Some phones have the functionality built in, such as the previous mentioned Galaxy S. On the Droid Charge, hold the back button and press home. On most new LG Android phones, hold home and press power.
Unfortunately, the only universal method is using the Android SDK to take screenshots with a computer. Rooting and using a screenshot app works on many devices, but sometimes not, and it's not the easiest way to take a screenshot.
On Android 7.1.2, long press Home for OK Google and issue voice command Take Screenshot , it will respond with All right, taking a Screenshot, touch to continue.
The least time consuming method for me is using keyboard through USB OTG.
And then just press Print Screen.
On the xperia z5, you simply hold lock button and that gives you the option of taking screenshot.
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How can I take a high-resolution screenshot? | 2019-04-21T14:33:56 | https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1759/how-to-take-a-screenshot-with-an-android-device/1773 |
0.998522 | The penalty areaTwo lines are drawn at right angles to the goal line, 16.5 m (18 yds) from the inside of each goalpost. These lines extend into the field of play for a distance of 16.5 m (18 yds) and are joined by a line drawn parallel with the goal line. The area bounded by these lines and the goal line is the penalty area.
Within each penalty area, a penalty mark is made 11 m (12 yds) from the midpoint between the goalposts and equidistant to them.
An arc of a circle with a radius of 9.15 m (10 yds) from the centre of each penalty mark is drawn outside the penalty area. | 2019-04-22T16:57:07 | https://www.eastgwentreferees.com/the-penalty-area.html |
0.999993 | I keep being reported to HR. Am I the issue?
Reader: I have been reported to HR at every job I've had. Once, I got into an argument at the gym. The incident occurred on my own time, but since my gym membership was free through my employer, HR investigated. I eventually left that job for another, but I was fired after a few months when I got into a dispute with my supervisor. I have since moved on to another job, and all went swimmingly for four years until last week, when I had a dust-up with a co-worker. She reported me to HR, who told me the investigation is "ongoing."
At none of these times did I use profanity, raise my voice, threaten harm, etc. I feel as if I simply can never stand up for myself or even be critical without getting into trouble. I generally think of myself as an agreeable guy, but I can't help wondering if something is wrong with me. Is there? If it matters, I'm male, and all of these incidents have been with women.
Karla: First, thank you for not concluding with, "Females, man. What's their deal?"
I don't know that anything is "wrong" with you, or them. For me, it boils down to this: There's a disconnect between the signals you think you're sending and the ones your audience is receiving. And this disconnect is hurting your reputation and career prospects.
For example, there's more to being "agreeable" than avoiding profanity, yelling and threats. You can be perfectly calm but still come across as condescending, dismissive or gratuitously contrarian.
If you're standing too close, interrupting or challenging someone in front of a group, it can intimidate someone socialized in a lower-key communication style. This is true whether it's a man and a woman or a Yankee and a Southerner.
With a bristling co-worker: "I'm sorry, can we take a step back and try discussing this later?"
With HR or a manager: "Clarabelle and I are having trouble seeing eye-to-eye. Can we get your neutral input on this situation?"
With trusted friends and relatives: "I'm worried about how I come across with people who don't know me. Can I get your honest feedback?"
With a professional therapist (yes, I'm serious): "I'm concerned about interpersonal conflicts I've had in recent years that have affected my professional life. I need help analyzing these scenarios to understand what happened and better manage future conflicts."
In all of these, the goal is not to change or "fix" who you are -- it's to learn how you can interact most effectively and respectfully with people regardless of their gender, background or perspective. Something we could stand to see more of nowadays. | 2019-04-26T06:16:06 | http://www.lowellsun.com/news/ci_32206001/i-keep-being-reported-hr-am-i-issue |
0.992205 | When I ask questions about the application process in the U.S., people always respond by saying, "It depends on each college." That is really frustrating.
I'm not surprised you have gotten that response, because there is no "standard" procedure that U.S. colleges follow in the admissions process. You should study web sites and talk to representatives at each institution to which you are applying.
What kinds of documents do I need to send with my application?
Most colleges are going to need your school transcripts or mark sheets showing the grades you earned in each subject each year. Students living in a country such as the United Kingdom or India, where national exams (GCSE, HSC, etc.) are administered should also send those results. Admissions officers often focus heavily on those national exam results, since they provide a standard of comparison between many students from the same educational system. If your native language is not English, most colleges will ask you to submit the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or another approved English exam score. You may be asked to submit the SAT or ACT, two standardized exams used in the admissions process. You should submit everything in your native language, but please include English translations of all documents. Finally, an application fee is usually required, and if you are not a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S., you will have to submit an affidavit of financial support.
Do I have to write an essay?
The application form for each college will indicate what is required, or you can check the web sites. Beyond the basic credentials mentioned earlier, you might be asked to submit an essay, a resume detailing your activities and honors, recommendation letters from teachers and school administrators, and other information about yourself. It is common for private colleges to require these types of documents, since admissions decisions might take into account personal characteristics, leadership, or special talents. This might be due to the college's specific recruitment goals or the desire to look beyond the quantitative measures to distinguish between students. Essays, resumes and recommendations can be especially helpful if an applicant's grades or test scores are slightly low or if the applicant is being considered for merit scholarships. Some private colleges will allow applicants to submit videos and tapes, but please be careful about sending bulky items because admissions offices have limited storage space!
Public institutions often focus primarily on the school transcripts, national exam results and test scores. These are the "quantitative" items, according to Bill Smart, Assistant Director of Admission at Oregon State University. For instance, they might be looking for a specific grade average from students in each country. He pointed out that Oregon State does require the SAT from students attending American style schools, while the test is waived for other international applicants. You will find many variations of testing requirements at different colleges (both public and private). My advice is that you take two standardized tests: the TOEFL (or other English test) and either the SAT or ACT. In doing this, you will be prepared for whatever the different colleges might require. This is important because at the time you begin preparing for college you probably haven't decided to which institutions you will apply.
Are personal interviews required if I'm living outside the U.S.?
Very few universities will formally require international students to have an admissions interview. However, many private universities will offer optional interviews. Duke University, a highly competitive private university, allows students to have personal interviews with their alumni living around the world. Phyllis Supple, Coordinator of International Admissions at Duke, recommends that you take advantage of this opportunity. Even though it's not a formal part of the process, it shows staff members another dimension of a student, and a thorough report of the interview is written by someone who understands your community and your situation. This can bring to life your unique qualities. "Whether it is required or not," Supple advises, "Be prepared to talk about yourself and to ask probing questions. Don't just ask questions that can be answered by reading admissions materials. This is a two-way process. Admissions officers will learn about you, but more importantly, you will learn about the institution, so that you can make the best decision." If you are able to visit a college in the U.S., we recommend that you request a campus tour and personal interview if it is available.
With the currency exchange rate between the U.S. and my country, it is going to be difficult for my parents to send me to the U.S. Do you think I should even consider a private education?
Absolutely! Private colleges and universities often cost more, but they typically offer more generous financial assistance. They receive less funding from the government than public institutions do, but they receive many private donations. Do not eliminate a private university from your list of choices until you have investigated its financial aid and scholarship offerings for international students. I also recommend that you check with local organizations in your home country regarding scholarship opportunities. Before you start applying to U.S. universities, you should sit down and discuss finances with your parents. Discuss how much they can contribute to your education each year. For instance, let's assume that your family and other sponsors can afford to contribute at least $10,000 per year. You are considering a college that costs $20,000, and its literature indicates that scholarships of at least $10,000 per year might be available to top students. Since you are one of the strongest students in your class, it would be realistic for you to apply to that institution. There are two basic types of awards typically offered. Merit-based awards are the most common and are based on extraordinary achievements (academic, athletic, fine arts, etc.). Need-based awards are based on your family's financial situation.
Do public universities ever offer financial aid and scholarships?
Yes, some do. Some may offer similar awards to those offered by private colleges. Others will offer non-resident fee waivers, such as the University of Missouri - Kansas City, according to Keith Grafing, Assistant Director of International Student Affairs. UMKC offers in-state tuition rates for academically strong F-1 visa students who meet the criteria. Judy Young, Director of the International Office at the University of Texas at Arlington indicates that students who receive one of their academic scholarships will also pay "in-state" tuition rates at UTA. First year international students are eligible to apply for scholarships, but the number of recipients is extremely low, because of the high SAT score and very early acceptance required. University of Wisconsin - Superior has a similar policy for a limited number of students living outside the state of Wisconsin. Imran Mandviwalla, Sr. International Admissions Advisor at the University of North Texas, indicated that UNT has limited scholarships for incoming students (athletes, musicians, Mexican citizens, and Texas community college transfer students who qualify). Most of UNT's scholarships go to strong continuing students. Continuing students who receive at least a $1,000 scholarship will have their out-of-state tuition rate waived and pay the same rate as state residents do. Oregon State offers competitive academic scholarships and some other awards to international students for cultural service. All of the awards mentioned above cover only a portion of a student's funding, as is the case with most awards from private universities.
What are some of the other differences between a public and private university?
Tracy Williams, Study Abroad Coordinator at TCU, has worked at both types of institutions. "Because of the number of students, public institutions are regulated by rules that are applied to the masses, and there is less flexibility for individual circumstances. Whereas at a private institution, we make more case-by-case decisions. This applies to situations in the classroom as well as outside the classroom. A professor might know a student personally and support his application for an internship or spend more time with him during the academic advising process. Professors might even invite students to their homes. Faculty and staff are advocates of the students in every way, and we want them to succeed." However, Williams adds that "larger institutions may offer a more diverse international environment, with large numbers of students from all over the world." It is a personal choice. Some students want the cultural support group and familiarity of having 100 others from their country. Others prefer to be in an environment where there are only a few students from their country, so that they will learn more about different cultures and languages. Young from UTA adds that "larger universities may have a wider range of majors and more classes within each major from which to choose. The range of academic fields available at the college you choose is important, since the U.S. educational system makes it possible for students to change their majors. There are more choices at a large public university."
I understand that private colleges generally have smaller class sizes. But do state schools always have large classes?
Many students choose private universities because of the small class sizes, availability of personal interaction with faculty and classmates in the classroom, and opportunities for leadership outside the classroom. However, even the largest universities have smaller classes in the more advanced levels (the last two years, typically). Young at UTA indicates that "first and second-year students have to make the effort to make themselves known to whomever they are working with, but it is definitely possible." Finally, there are some public institutions that are actually quite small, such as the University of Wisconsin - Superior, with an enrollment of 2800. Steven Houghton, International Student Services Specialist, talks about being able to walk into the chancellor's office and say "Hi," which would be unusual at a large university. He has extensive contact with students during the admissions process and often picks them up at the airport when they arrive.
So...which do you think is better, public or private?
Both. That is a very personal choice, depending on your needs and interests. In my case, I didn't want to attend a large state school, but I didn't want to attend a very small school either. I chose a mid-size private university that could offer some of the features of both large public and small private colleges. You might look for completely different qualities. This is going to be an exciting process for you. You are asking good questions and researching the opportunities available at various U.S. institutions, so I am confident that you will make a good decision.
Provided by Karen Scott, Director of International Admissions, Texas Christian University. | 2019-04-20T00:22:44 | http://www.internationalstudentguidetotheusa.com/articles/common_college_questions.htm |
0.998557 | What does a car insurance policy look like?
There are numerous parts to an automobile insurance policy. Familiarizing yourself with the terms and content of your policy will help you locate a section quickly if you need to find it in the future. The first aspect of your policy will be the heading with the company name on it. This is the name of the automobile insurance company that you have the contract with. If you purchase your policy through a broker, the broker's name may be on the contract as well. Make certain you know the difference between the two. It is illegal for a brokerage firm to use the phrase "insurance company" in their name if they do actually offer the service themselves. The words "services", "marketing", and "agency" can serve as a hallmark to identify the brokerage firm's name from that of the actual insurance company.
The next two portions of the policy you will see will be the policy number and the policy period or term of your coverage. The policy number is a distinctly unique number for your policy. It helps to identify your policy from that of other consumers the company has. The policy number can be a combination of letters and numbers. This will change each time you purchase a new policy or renew your coverage. The policy term identifies the dates through which your policy is valid. Traditional policies are purchased in blocks of three, six, or twelve months worth of coverage. In order to determine more acute specifics, like the time your policy started on a certain day, you would have to request a "letter of experience" from your vehicle insurance company. That will have an exact breakdown of time.
Your contact information and your vehicle description will also be on the policy. Your contact information includes the address of your place of residence and your phone number. If multiple drivers are included on your policy, their various addresses will be included on the policy if they differ from yours. The vehicle description will include the year, make, and model of your car. Additional information will include the vehicle's VIN number. A VIN number works to identify a car in a similar manner that a social security number identifies a person. It can be found under the window of the driver side of your vehicle, close to the hood. A special mark may be included next to your vehicle's information, marking whether or not the car is deemed to be a high risk vehicle. This is common among higher end luxury cars or sports cars.
The most important section of your policy is the one that includes details about your premiums and the specifics of the coverage you have chosen. Identifying this section and educating yourself about its content will be beneficial to you. It will identify, in dollar amounts, what the limits of your coverage are. Other aspects of your policy will include your endorsements, the loss payee, the garaging address, and the signature of your insurance agent. You should familiarize yourself with all of these sections of your policy. | 2019-04-23T15:54:04 | http://www.carinsurancequote.net/what-does-a-car-insurance-policy-look-like.html |
0.998633 | The terrorist attacks in Paris, on 13 November, and the unprecedented terror alert in Brussels over the past days have raised a number of interrogations, in Europe and beyond, on the scope of terrorist activities in Europe and on the effectiveness of governments’ response to this threat. This short article addresses some of these key questions.
The terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November and the unprecedented terror alert in Brussels over the past days have raised a number of questions, in Europe and beyond, on the scope of terrorist activities in Europe and on the effectiveness of governments’ response to this threat. This article addresses some of the key questions.
1. Is terrorism a threat to Europe? Yes, at least some terrorist groups are.
According to the director of Europol, the European police agency, the threat from Islamist terrorism is ‘the most serious since 9/11’. There are at least three reasons for this. First, groups such as the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda (AQ) aim for mass casualties, as opposed to other groups that favour targeted killings or symbolic actions. Their aim is to instil massive terror among the population, in order to delegitimise their enemies and attract sympathisers.
Second, AQ and IS have clearly designated Europe as a target. AQ has already carried out several attacks in Europe in the past, most notably in Madrid (2004) and London (2005). More recently, among the attackers of Charlie Hebdo, at least one individual had received training from AQ. These days, however, IS has unequivocally displaced AQ as the main threat to Europe. The Paris attacks – following an attack against the Jewish museum in Brussels last year – indicate that IS is now decided and ready to carry out operations in Europe, whereas it had focused on territorial expansion in Iraq and Syria until then.
Third, whereas some AQ cells are still believed to be active in Europe, much larger numbers of Europeans have joined the IS ranks. According to the Europol director, up to 5,000 European citizens have left for Iraq or Syria. Although most of them are either dead (about 40% according to one study) or still in the Middle East (about 40% as well), a significant minority of them has returned to Europe. Not all of them are returning to Europe with malicious intentions, as many of these ‘foreign fighters’ are simply fed up or traumatised by their experience. Yet, some do come back to Europe, either to recruit new members or to plan violent actions on European soil. These individuals present a very serious threat, as illustrated by the Paris attacks. These ‘foreign fighters’ are clearly the priority of law enforcement agencies in Europe. The majority of arrests related to terrorism in Europe last year were related to jihadi groups, according to Europol.
Importantly, terrorism is far from being new in Europe. Most European countries have been confronted with domestic terrorism (such as separatist groups) or international terrorism (such as communist and anarchist groups, but also Islamist groups linked to Algeria or Morocco) from the 20th century. There is thus a long history of terrorism – and counter-terrorism – in Europe. Many of these groups once presented a very serious threat as well, until they were eventually dismantled or contained. Some of these groups are actually still active, as 99% of the attacks last year were conducted by terrorist organisations other than jihadi groups (mostly separatists), but overall these other forms of terrorism have become more benign today – to the point that most European citizens probably ignore that they still exist. This long and often forgotten European experience in combating and living with terrorism is very good news. A lot can be learned from past successes and failures in the fight against terrorism and radicalisation. We do not need to reinvent the wheel every time.
2. Is Belgium a ‘rear base for terrorists’, as some newspapers and observers have put it? No.
Although jihadi terrorist groups have taken roots in Belgium, it is not more a ‘rear base’ than any other country. A ‘rear base’ would imply that Belgium operates as a kind of hub for IS recruitment and operations in Europe (and not just in Belgium). As far as we know, this is not the case. ‘Foreign fighters’ operate in a more decentralised manner, eventually receiving instructions from IS leadership in Syria. A number of jihadi networks are active in Europe, including in Belgium, but not exclusively.
Having said this, it is true that the terrorist cell that carried out the attacks in Paris was tightly connected to Belgium. Indeed, some of the perpetrators of the attacks lived, had transited or had connections with Belgium, and one of them travelled back to Belgium just after the attack. He is still on the run. The mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was a Belgian citizen, whose name also appeared in several investigations related to attacks or failed plots in Europe over the past year. Yet, the investigation must still clarify how the cell came together (it probably relied partly on friendships born in Syria, where fighters are grouped according to their language and on informal networks in which Abaaoud could have played a central role), and when and how the attacks were planned.
Without being a ‘rear base’, Belgium has proved a fertile ground for IS recruiters. It is estimated that at least 400 Belgian citizens (perhaps more than 500) have joined the ranks of IS in Syria/Iraq, whereas the Belgian intelligence services are said to monitor closely about 800 people suspected of connections with IS (in details, according to Belgian Interior Minister, at the end of October: 272 would have joined IS in Syria/Iraq – out of which 80 would be dead, 13 would be on their way to Syria, 134 would have come back, 65 would be actively trying to depart for Syria, and 352 would be candidate to joining IS).
These statistics put Belgium on top of the list of countries ‘contributing’ to IS, per capita. Several elements can explain this. For many years, a number of radical groups were actively and openly preaching in Belgium, recruiting and preparing young souls for joining the jihad. This was notably the case with the organisation Sharia4Belgium, whose members were sentenced to jail in February 2015. Such phenomenon is not typically Belgian, however, as Sharia4Belgium was actually a franchise from a British group named Sharia4UK. Yet, that organisation was particularly effective and influential. Furthermore, there was also a sort of ‘snowball effect’. As studies show that radicalisation and recruitment often take place in family or friendship circles, the more individuals were recruited the more they were helping recruiting in turn.
Are there other explanatory factors? It has been said that Belgium’s integration policies have failed, with entire neighbourhoods completely neglected by the authorities. That is true, of course, and it is something that urgently needs to be addressed. This being said, as most studies on radicalisation show, better integration policies will not solve the whole problem as such: radicalisation is more related to a phenomenon of ‘estrangement’ than to socio-economic conditions (although the latter can facilitate ‘estrangement’). Moreover, neglected neighbourhoods are not a Belgian specificity… Is Molenbeek really worse than some suburbs in Paris or London? Finally, practical reasons have also been advanced at times, to explain Belgium’s allegedly central position in Europe’s jihad. As a small and well-connected country, Belgium is a communication hub. As such, it would offer easy escape routes for suspected terrorists. However, although such considerations could play a role, there is so far little, if any, evidence to support this argument.
3. Did Belgium fail to counter radicalisation and terrorism? Yes, partly, but so did everyone.
Just after the attacks in Paris, many fingers quickly pointed at Belgium as the weak link in the fight against terrorism. The attacks were ‘prepared in Belgium’, according to French President François Hollande, whereas the Belgian intelligence services ‘were not up to the mark’, according to a former French intelligence director. Belgium’s government responded that most attackers were French nationals and that the attacker of the Brussels’ Jewish museum in 2014 was a French national as well, radicalised in France, who returned to France just after the attack (he is now in custody, awaiting trial in Belgium).
The blame game is on. This is not only pointless, it is also simply missing the point.
Both Belgium and France need to rethink their policies vis-à-vis radicalisation and terrorism as, obviously, they have shown their limits. The Belgian government has already announced a series of measures following the Paris attacks, which will soon be discussed in the Parliament. Some of these measures, such as increasing resources for security and intelligence services, are most welcome since it had been identified as a problem for long. Other measures, such as the systematic imprisonment of returnees, may be less appropriate given overpopulation, lack of resources and radicalisation in jail. Other useful measures have been announced, directly inspired by this failure, such as the possibility for the (local and federal) police to have access to the list of individuals followed by the intelligence services.
What is really missing in Belgium, however, is a comprehensive and coordinated approach to counter-terrorism. There is no comprehensive strategy against terrorism, encompassing all dimensions from prevention to repression, including also foreign policy. Furthermore, such strategy could only be undertaken in coordination with all the relevant institutional actors, including regions, communities and cities. In the complex institutional landscape of Belgium, this is a challenge – but the current political momentum could and should be used for such purpose.
4. Was the counter-terrorism failure limited to France and Belgium? No, it was a pan-European failure.
The Paris attackers managed to escape the monitoring of Belgian and French services. But they also left and returned from Syria using different routes across Europe, travelling unnoticed by all European security and intelligence services. Their names appeared in Belgian intelligence files, they were controlled at the external borders of the EU, and even within the Schengen area. It is still too early to tell whether the Paris attacks could have been prevented, but we can already put forward some suggestions on how to improve a pan-European response to terrorism, in line with the EU’s counter-terrorism strategy.
First, it cannot be emphasised enough that closing the borders is not a solution to the terrorist threat, not least because home-grown terrorism and self-radicalised individuals are as much a problem as ‘returnees’. More fundamentally, however, European leaders should not dismantle the European project in the name of counter-terrorism. The European project (an open space of freedom, rights and prosperity) embodies the very ideal that is denied by IS and the likes. Our leaders must stand firmly for this ideal. This does not mean, however, that Europeans should be naïve or passive vis-à-vis terrorism. Clearly, the process of integration is gradual, but also experimental. In this sense, adjustments must be operated, when and where they are needed.
Two forms of adjustment are currently needed in Europe, to confront terrorism effectively. First, European countries have long lived in the illusion that security is cheap and optional, because there was no perceived direct threat to Europe and, had one emerged, the Americans and the main European powers would have come to the rescue. As a result, they constantly reduced the budget for their security apparatus (defence, intelligence, police), since the end of the Cold War. In recent years, austerity has increased the pressure on European finances, resulting in further cuts in security budgets. Indeed, in liberal democracies, cutting the defence or intelligence budgets is less costly electorally for politicians than diminishing education budgets or social benefits. The Paris attacks and similar events have demonstrated the short-sightedness of such decisions. Yet, the popular emotion following a terrorist attack is also rather short-lived and, therefore, it is still unclear whether European governments will actually commit to a durable reinvestment in their security apparatus.
Second, there is also a need for more cooperation between European countries, on all dimensions of the counter-terrorism spectrum. The Paris attacks have highlighted a number of cooperation failures among intelligence and security services. Some mechanisms and platforms already exist at the European level (such as Europol or the Schengen Information System), but they are under-resourced and under-used. Clearly, more can be done at this level. Nevertheless, it should be pointed out here that more cooperation cannot replace more investments in national capabilities. Both must go together.
5. Do we need a European CIA? No.
The idea to create a ‘European CIA’ is not new. It was already voiced following the 9/11 attacks, as well as the Madrid bombings. Following the Paris attacks last November, the proposal was aired once again by a number of politicians, including MEP Guy Verhofstadt and Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel. Such idea, however, appears utopian. It may even become counter-productive for a number of reasons.
A European CIA is impossible in the medium term. Intelligence gathering is an exclusive national competence and the EU has therefore no mandate to create such thing. Creating a European CIA would require Treaty changes, which is unlikely at this stage. The current political context is hardly one favourable to more European integration these days and, therefore, this proposition is unlikely to gather support. Furthermore, the world of intelligence is one of secrecy and distrust. Encouraging the agencies of 28 countries to share some basic information is hard enough, so needless to ask what they think about integration. Laying down ambitious objectives is fine, but setting unrealistic ones is deceptive.
More importantly, the idea could be counter-productive. On the one hand, it is a bad solution to a serious problem. There is indeed a need for more intelligence cooperation within Europe, but that is more likely to take place primarily at the bilateral level. In this regard, the burden lies upon the Member States, and it should not be transferred to the European level. In fact, echoing what I said above, there is a need for more investment in existing national intelligence services and, eventually, encouraging cooperation. The ‘European CIA’ narrative, conversely, could be used to avoid or delay such investments. On the other hand, it is simply the wrong allegory. If anything, Europe needs to strengthen cooperation between law enforcement agencies, thus a kind of ‘European FBI’. That would make more sense with the EU’s competences in justice and home affairs, and set itself in line with the numerous efforts and achievements that have already occurred in this field. Some measures will be taken at the EU level, and the role of Europol could be reinforced. The establishment of a new European Counter-Terrorism Centre within Europol, next January, is a step in the right direction. These are the kind of concrete and tangible actions that are required now. | 2019-04-19T18:13:12 | http://www.egmontinstitute.be/after-paris-five-questions-on-counter-terrorism-in-europe/ |
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0.930524 | But what about situations in which the person commits the act, and intended to do so, but was suffering from a mental or physical condition that impairs their ability to appreciate that they are doing something wrong or to control their behavior?
Four variations of the insanity defense currently exist: There are some variations on these two basic verdicts and how a defendant will plead.
Circuit rejected it in in the case of U. But truth be told, a large percentage of those behind bars for violent crimes and even nonviolent crimes have mental health issues.
First, a defendant is deemed insane if they were incapable of knowing what they were doing at the time the committing the object offense. In addition, unlike the irresistible impulse insanity defense, the defendant must lack substantial, not total, ability to conform conduct to the requirements of the law.
The ALI Test was seen as a breakthrough and byit was the law in a majority of states and, until Octoberthe law in a majority of federal courts. In spite of the notable flaws with the Irresistible Impulse test, by the beginning of the 20th Century almost one-half of the states adopted Irresistible Impulse to supplement the M'Naghten rule.
The defense was first successfully used by U.
This is generally because of the difficulty in proving legal insanity. This year alone, at least three high-profile trials have used the insanity defense thus far: If the statutes specifically state that by a legal definition, someone who is not clinically sane does not have the ability to reason right from wrong, then justice is not being served.
Proceedings before a Review Board are inquisitorial rather than adversarial. Loreen decides to make Aidan fall in love with her by feeding him a magic potion, which she concocts out of a mixture of her antidepressants. A plea of diminished capacity is different from a plea of insanity in that "reason of insanity" is a full defense while "diminished capacity" is merely a plea to a lesser crime.
The M'Naghten rule was embraced with almost no modification by American courts and legislatures for more than years, until the midth century. If the defendant is mentally incompetent to stand trial, the trial is delayed until the defendant regains competency.
If the laws could be made a little more consistent from state to state, the ability to adequately know what to expect from an insanity plea would be a bit more predictable. In Sweden, psychotic perpetrators are seen as accountable, but the sanction is, if they are psychotic at the time of the trial, forensic mental care.
Although the topic tends to turn toward the validity of the 2nd Amendment, the fact that people are not receiving the treatment they need for their mental health is disturbing.
HedrickF. This explains why, in Norway, the court considered the sanity of Anders Behring Breivikeven if he himself declared to be sane. Under this new test only perpetrators suffering from severe mental illnesses at the time of the crime could successfully employ the insanity defense.
The insanity defense is the subject of much debate because it excuses even the most evil and abhorrent conduct, and in many jurisdictions, legal insanity functions as a perfect defense resulting in acquittal.
However, these provisions were never proclaimed into force and were subsequently repealed. However, it is an extremely rare tactic to take in criminal defense.
The consequence of rendering a GBMI verdict is conviction and a criminal sentence. The nature of the hearing is virtually identical to that of a preliminary hearing. InCongress enacted a statute stating that: Arianna claims she is not guilty for killing Nora by reason of insanity.
As could be expected, Queen Victoria and the House of Lords strongly disapproved of the verdict; so they called on fifteen judges of the common law courts, including Lord Chief Justice Tindal, to answer a series of questions about of the law of insanity as applied in M'Naghten.
For example, in the wake of the shooting of Ronald Reagan, there was widespread and rapid reaction to the finding that the perpetrator, Mr. The NSW Supreme Court has held there are two limbs to the M'Naghten Rules, that the accused did not know what he was doing, or that the accused did not appreciate that what he was doing was morally wrong, in both cases the accused must be operating under a 'defect of reason, from a disease of the mind'.
Whether someone knows right from wrong is important, but when violence occurs and a family member is lost because of mental illness, there really is no victory whatsoever.
However, these provisions were never proclaimed into force and were subsequently repealed. Arizona upheld Arizona's limitations on the insanity defense.
The Act also reshapes the cognitive aspect of the insanity defense by replacing "unable to appreciate" with "lacks substantial capacity" to delineate boundaries between a total lack of understanding and partial comprehension.
Many states have followed suit and some have eliminated the insanity defense altogether. This conclusion comports with criminal law's fundamental conception of culpability. The decision is left to the court having jurisdiction over the accused.The Insanity Defense in the Twenty-First Century: How Recent United States Supreme Court Case Law Can Improve the System JuLiE E.
GRACHEK* INTRODUCTION A mentally ill prisoner "responded to the stress [of hearing another prisoner's murder] by cutting himself, and was subsequently given a disciplinary report and.
Aug 07, · Purists of the legal system argue that since everyone is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty, and since intent is an element of the crime, then once the defense raises the issue of insanity. The Insanity Defense Among the States Four states, including Kansas, Montana, Idaho, Utah, do not allow the insanity defense.
In other states, the standards for proving this defense vary widely. The insanity defense is a significant area at the nexus of law and psychiatry. This introduction merely provides a glance at the issues that run deeper.
Articles from Psychiatry (Edgmont) are provided here courtesy of Matrix Medical Communications. The insanity defense is traditionally classified as an excuse defense, in contrast with justification defenses like self-defense.
This classification indicates that, while the action committed by a defendant was impermissible, the actor is excused because of a prevailing condition, here insanity. The introduction of the "guilty but mentally ill" (GBMI) verdict in many states is the biggest development in insanity defense law since the post-Hinckley reforms. | 2019-04-20T16:42:51 | https://fohilao.palmolive2day.com/an-introduction-to-the-issue-of-the-insanity-defense-in-the-united-states-76256ij.html |
0.998272 | A friend mentioned Twitter's troubles, and said that Twitter lacks a real identity and a reason to exist that distinguishes itself from other services. That got me thinking about social networking generally and the purpose of various sites, which is what inspired this post. What purpose do the sites serve?
Facebook -- This is the big dawg. Everyone wants to be Facebook. So what is the purpose? Pretty much whatever you want it to be. Do you want to post a bunch of political stuff? Do you want to post about theology? Do you want to keep it limited to posting stuff about what you're doing, pictures, and so forth? Do you want your posts to be public or more limited? Do you want to play games? Do you simply want to keep up with friends and family and not post hardly anything yourself? You can do any of that. Your interaction can be with the public or only with your friends. Facebook's biggest strength is versatility.
Twitter -- Twitter does something Facebook does not do: By default, you can follow, retweet or "mention" anyone else. It pretty much levels everyone on the platform. If you simply want to get your voice out there in a public way, Twitter is the quickest way to do it - especially if you get retweeted by someone with a much bigger audience. Twitter's 140 character limit makes it ideal for a "hot take." That character limit is both the platform's greatest strength and greatest weakness.
Tumblr -- Tumblr is kind of like "Twitter Plus." You cannot mention people the way you do on Twitter, but it is more versatile. I am not sure Tumblr should be classified as a social networking site or as a blog hosting service with social networking features. Tumblr is the service that probably has the least identity.
Google Plus -- Google tried to integrate both Facebook and Twitter. To be brutally honest, there is not much point to being on Google Plus. Google integrated Plus with Blogspot, but it was too little, too late.
Instagram -- Share photos. That's it. Instagram knows what it is, and has built quite a following based on that. You can share photos with the public, or only with your followers.
Honorable mention: MySpace -- MySpace was Facebook before Facebook went public, and served some of the same purposes. It never grew or offered more, so it has withered.
Honorable mention: MyFamily.com -- No link here, as the site is dead. The purpose here was simple: A private, invitation-only service to keep up with family. You could post pictures, news, recipes or reviews, and everyone can see it. While it lasted, it was a great service. MF came before any of the other social networks, and was great for keeping up with family scattered over a large area. What most likely killed MF was the growth of Facebook, which offers everything MF did but without an annual subscription fee or limits on storage.
Social networking services offer different things, and each has its benefits. Which ones to use is entirely dependent on what you want to use it for. Except for Google Plus, which really has no use. | 2019-04-24T22:38:56 | http://www.sstibbs.com/scott/2016_archives/blog_2016_154.html |
0.99999 | Q: What is involved in fixing a crumbling chimney?
The top of my chimney is in bad shape, but my wife said she'd kill me if I go up there and work on it myself. Before I hire someone to do the work, can you tell me what needs to be done?
First, he removes the crown, the top few courses of brick, and the clay flue liners down to their first mortar joint. After the new flue liners and brick have been mortared in place, he builds a form for the new crown using a sheet of galvanized steel as the form's base. "Concrete and brick expand and contract at different rates," he says. The sheet prevents them from bonding. Also, unlike your existing crown, the new crown's edges should extend at least 1½ inches beyond the face of the brick and a have a drip groove molded into the underside. Lambert lays a reinforcing mesh in the form for strength and wraps each liner with cardboard coated with a form- release agent. The cardboard creates a crucial gap that allows the liners to expand and contract.
Lambert fills the form with concrete—"much more durable than mortar," he says—mixed with nylon fibers to eliminate cracking. To encourage drainage, he trowels the top of the crown so that it slopes away from the flues by ¼ inch per foot. After the concrete sets up, he takes the cardboard off each flue and fills the gap with a foam backer rod and high-quality 50-year silicone sealant.
Once the form comes off and all the work has been washed clean, Lambert sprays everything—brick, mortar joints, concrete, and clay flues—with a penetrating, breathable, siloxane water repellent, such as Prosoco's Siloxane PD. "Make sure it's not a sealer," he cautions. "Sealers can trap moisture within the masonry." Finally, Lambert puts a stainless-steel cap over each flue liner to keep out water and animals and to prevent sparks from landing on the roof.
The water repellent needs to be reapplied every 10 years or so as part of your regular chimney maintenance. The silicone around the flues should be checked every couple of years and replaced as necessary.
Shown: The crumbling flue tiles and cracked mortar around them mean that it's time for both to be replaced by a mason skilled in chimney work. | 2019-04-19T02:23:49 | https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ask-toh/crumbling-chimney |
0.999874 | Try easier levels of this lesson: Starbucks Cafes - Level 0, Starbucks Cafes - Level 1 or Starbucks Cafes - Level 2.
The cafe chain Starbucks has made a new policy about who can use its cafes. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has announced that anyone can enter a Starbucks cafe in the USA without needing to make a purchase. That means people are free to sit in the cafe or use the restrooms. Mr Schulz has asked all Starbucks staff to treat every person entering the cafe as a customer. He said: "Any person who enters our spaces, including patios, cafes and restrooms, regardless of whether they make a purchase, is considered a customer." This means people can simply use Starbucks to sit down, relax and use the Internet. The new policy applies to more than 8,000 cafes in the United States.
The new policy will also make it easier for store managers and baristas to do their job. There have been high-profile cases recently of managers asking real customers to leave a cafe or telling them they cannot use the bathroom. On April 12, two black men were arrested and escorted out of a Philadelphia Starbucks in handcuffs for waiting for a friend to arrive before they ordered. A week later, another black man was told he could not use the bathroom because he hadn't bought anything. He posted a video online of a white man using the bathroom in the same cafe without buying anything first. Mr Schultz said he didn't want to make Starbucks a public bathroom, but the new policy was "the right thing" to do. | 2019-04-19T02:18:47 | https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1805/180522-starbucks-cafes-m.html |
0.999999 | The grieving family of a Florida teenager who was killed when a bridge collapsed at the FIU campus in March have given fresh details about how she died.
Alexa Duran, 19, was one of six people who died when the pedestrian bridge suddenly gave way and fell onto cars on March 15.
She was a student of the university and was driving her father's Toyota 4Runner at the time.
Her grieving parents have now told that the impact of the bridge was so strong it 'flattened' their daughter until her body was as 'thin as a cracker'.
The only parts of her that survived were her belongings; an iPhone, a hair tie, a quarter, a toll pass, two wrinkled dollar bills, a black leather choker, a necklace, a ring, a sorority keychain and her driver's license.
They were put in a paper bag and given to her mother Gina.
'This is what they handed to me. They handed me my daughter in a freaking paper bag,' she told The Miami Herald this week.
Since the accident on March 15, the family have not touched anything in Alexa's bedroom.
They are still unable to unlock her iPhone and they have not been able to bring themselves to speak to Richard Gamble, the passenger she had with her in the car who survived.
Richard attended a memorial service for Alexa and shook the parents' hands but has not spoken to them.
On the day of the bridge collapse, Gina begged her daughter not to go to campus and asked her to instead stay with her to help at the family's dry cleaners.
She insisted on going because she had an appointment with a guidance counselor.
'My daughter’s body came back as flat and thin as a cracker but her iPhone survived without a single scratch,' she said.
Alexa had been injured so severely that her father could not look at her body, he said.
'As a father I felt like I had the responsibility of my household to at least identify her. But I couldn’t do it. I couldn't open it. .... I’m a coward,' he said.
They are desperate to get into the phone but do not know the passcode their daughter set.
Apple has told them they need a court order to unlock it and even if they were able to obtain one, the company said it can only access whatever Alexa uploaded to iCloud before she died rather than unlock the phone.
'Opening this phone will give me a glimpse into my baby’s last moments. What was she thinking? What was her last selfie? Anything. Anything,' Gina said.
They have decided to keep it in a box under her pillow in order to preserve the data until they can figure out how to access it.
Alexa's father has been coping with his grief by sending her phone text messages every day.
They have not washed her clothes since she died because they are desperate to keep her smell, her mother said.
'I can't let her smell get away. This is all I have left,' Gina said.
The towels Alexa used on the morning of the accident remain unwashed, her bed is still unmade and her room has not been changed.
She keeps strands of her daughter's hair in a box.
'I took them off her brush, bed, shower, bedroom floor, anywhere. I loved her hair. It was so thick and pretty,' she said.
Now the family have to go about the agonizing task of filling her position at the dry cleaners which they have owned since she was three.
Her mother explained that she kept the books and was meticulous about it, leaving a large void now.
'She started working here when she was a toddler, taking out stains with a little toothbrush. I remember taking her for a ride in the laundry bins,' her father said.
The exact cause of the bridge collapse remains unclear but concerns center on cracks which appeared in one of the support trusses 10 days before it was put into place.
Alexa's family say they plan to launch a wrongful death lawsuit once the mandatory notice period of 180 days, which their lawyers must honor before filing a suit against the university and the university, have passed.
Gamble, who survived the crash in the passenger seat, paid tribute to her separately.
He has filed a lawsuit against seven companies which were involved in the bridge's construction.
It reads: 'Upon the impact of the collapsed bridge, Mr. Humble was physically struck by portions of the vehicle and bridge, as well as the injured body of the driver of his vehicle.
Despite describing the incident in detail in his lawsuit, Richard has not yet given Alexa's family a detailed account of her final moments alive and they are desperate for it.
'I understand the pain and shock Richard must be in, but he’s really the only person who can give us closure.
'We haven’t spoken since it all happened, and all he would say is "I don’t know, I don’t know,'" her father said.
They said the pair were dating and that their daughter would dress up for him.
'She really liked him. She bought so much clothes. She wanted to dress up for him. They would talk in the car in the driveway late at night as we peeked through the blinds,' Gina added.
They want him to tell them what their final conversation was about, if their daughter was in a good mood or if she was mad and generally inform them about her 'last day on earth'. | 2019-04-20T03:13:30 | http://www.mr-mehra.com/2018/05/family-of-teen-killed-in-fiu-bridge.html |
0.999541 | Is eating grass-fed, certified organic meat healthier?
Remember that the health benefits or dangers of these foods goes way beyond the fat content. I am left with serious concerns about protein content, cholesterol, lack of fiber and lack of vitamins and minerals even in the best organic, grass-fed meat because, ultimately, it remains an animal food package with a relatively poor nutrient profile when compared to whole plants.
This is a great question, as this topic has become such a hot-button issue in the past couple years. Grass-fed, organic beef and other meats have become much more appealing and popular over the past several years, especially as the ‘locavore’, or ‘farm-to-table’, movement has gained momentum in the United States. Part of their popularity stems from the idea that there are likely to be health benefits to eating this type of meat; and for social and environmental reasons, it just feels better to support this type of meat production. Overall, grass-fed, organic meat just seems much more natural, and therefore, it must be better! Right? Unfortunately, the answer is not that simple.
Meat may only be labeled organic if it is produced using the following guidelines: the animal must have had access to the outdoors; it must have been raised without antibiotics, growth hormones, slaughter byproducts or genetically modified organisms (GMOs); the animal must have been fed 100% organic feed; then, it must have been processed without GMOs, irradiation or other ‘non-organic’ contamination. 1 These rules do not dictate the type of feed used, other than it be organic, but we often hear specifically that grass-fed has a better nutrient content. So, there end up being two possible health benefits to eating grass-fed, organic meat: first, it may be lower in contaminants and second, at least in the case of beef, it may have a better nutrient profile.
Unfortunately, the differences in contamination are less impressive than you might hope. One of the most comprehensive reviews2 found that there was no difference in the likelihood of bacterial contamination between organic and conventional meat. Regardless of farming method, about two thirds of all chicken had Campylobacter, and one third had Salmonella. Up to two thirds of pork had E. coli, and both the organic and non-organic meat was equally contaminated with Salmonella and Listeria. There were, however, some data to show that these bacteria were less likely to be resistant to multiple antibiotics in the organic meat.
In addition, there are unlikely to be major nutrient differences between organic and non-organic meat just by virtue of the organic label. On the other hand, if the meat is grass-fed instead of grain-fed, there are likely to be significant differences in the fatty acids present in the meat. A review3 specifically comparing grass-fed and grain-fed beef found that there is less overall fat, more omega-3 fats, and possibly more antioxidants in grass-fed beef. In addition, the omega-3 fats are in a much more favorable ratio with the omega-6 fats3. But how much of a difference does this make in our health? The truth is we don’t know for sure because we don’t have enough evidence comparing the consumption of grass-fed versus grain-fed meat and how it affects our health over a long period of time; however, I am seriously doubtful that this is the health revelation that some make it out to be.
Certainly, some of these nutrient differences in meat have been used to advocate for grass-fed, organic meat. The public is happy to buy this story if they like to eat meat, but the reality is that when the total nutrients of the food are considered, these trumpeted nutrient differences are likely to be relatively insignificant in the grander scheme of things. The table below is a comparison from the USDA Nutrient Database of 100 calories each of different samples of grass-fed ground beef, grain-fed ground beef, and broccoli. You can see that any nutrient differences between grass-fed and grain-fed beef are insignificant compared to the differences between the beef and the broccoli.
* It is presumed that this entry in the USDA nutrient database represents grain-fed beef, since grass-fed is specified separately, but this is not delineated.
Clearly, if nutrients have anything to do with health and disease (and of course we know they do), the significant choice for health is between plant and animal, not between grain-fed and grass-fed. As you can see, these two types of beef are still composed of animal protein, fat, cholesterol, and small amounts of several vitamins and minerals. The change in fat composition does not alter the basic nutrient content. The broccoli on the other hand, has plenty of protein, and a more healthful type of protein at that, less fat, a substantial amount of fiber, no cholesterol, and abundant vitamins and minerals, all of which are health-promoting.
Another way to think of this is to realize that regardless of what the animal eats, the particular flesh of the animal serves the same function. Muscle tissue must move bones, and muscle tissue in a grass-fed animal is the same as muscle tissue in a grain-fed animal. Both are made of the same basic muscle cell units performing the same basic functions. There may be different fat content throughout the muscle tissue, but there are only so many ways to make muscle, so you can certainly appreciate that the basic nutrients from eating a group of muscle cells is going to be similar irrespective of the animal’s diet.
The belief and discussion around the possible health benefits of eating animals grown in a more sustainable way is a good example of a lot of news generated about details out of context. There is a healthier fat profile and there may be tiny differences in absolute antioxidant content in grass-fed meat (these benefits don’t apply to the organic label alone – only to grass fed). For these reasons, if you must have meat, consuming grass-fed, organic meat or wild game instead of factory farm, grain-fed meat would be best; but remember that the health benefits or dangers of these foods goes way beyond the fat content. I am left with serious concerns about protein content, cholesterol, lack of fiber and lack of vitamins and minerals even in the best organic, grass-fed meat because, ultimately, it remains an animal food package with a relatively poor nutrient profile when compared to whole plants.
Smith-Spangler C, Brandeau ML, Hunter GE, et al. Are organic foods safer or healthier than conventional alternatives?: a systematic review. Ann Intern Med 2012;157:348-66. | 2019-04-24T18:46:57 | https://www.all-creatures.org/health/fh-grass-fed-organic.html |
0.999995 | What is the Bicycle Commuter Program?
You regularly use a bicycle for a substantial portion (at least 50 percent of the days you are scheduled to work in a calendar month) of your commute.
If you are an active fractional time base employee, you must commute by bicycle at least 50 percent of the days you are scheduled to work in a calendar month.
If you are an active intermittent employee, you must commute by bicycle at least 50 percent of the days you are scheduled to work in a calendar month.
The bicycle commuter benefit may be claimed by employees who combine using transit passes for a portion of their commutes with bicycling for a portion of their commutes.
Employees may change their participation in the Program on a monthly basis.
No. You are not charged an administrative fee.
May I claim the bicycle commuter benefit if my commute combines bicycling with using public transit?
Yes. The bicycle commuter benefit may be claimed by employees who combine using transit passes for a portion of their commutes with bicycling for a portion of their commutes.
How often do I have to commute via bicycle in order to qualify for the bicycle commuter benefit?
You must use a bicycle for a substantial portion (at least 50 percent of the days you are scheduled to work in a calendar month) of your commute.
If you are a full-time employee scheduled to work every work day in a calendar month, you must commute via bicycle at least 11 days in that calendar month (21 day working month and 22 day working month).
Scheduled leave days (such as vacation, annual leave, or sick leave) count as days you are scheduled to work.
You are on vacation for one week (5 days) in June (22 day pay period).
You are on vacation for 5 days and work 17 days in June.
You commute via bicycle during 11 of the 17 of the days you actually work.
You have commuted via bicycle during 11 of the 22 of your scheduled work days in June.
You are eligible to participate in the Program.
You are on vacation for three weeks (15 days) in June (22 day pay period).
You are on vacation for 15 days and work 7 days in June.
You commute via bicycle during 4 of the 7 of the days you actually work.
You have only commuted via bicycle during 4 of the 22 of your scheduled work days in June.
You are not eligible to participate in the Program.
If you are a less than full-time employee, you must commute via bicycle at least 50% of the days you are scheduled to work in a calendar month.
I travel often for work. I commute via bicycle on the days I am scheduled to work in the office, but I do not commute via bicycle at least 50% of the days I am scheduled to work. Am I eligible to claim the bicycle commuter benefit?
No, you must commute via bicycle at least 50% of the days you are scheduled to work in a calendar month.
Do state holidays count as days employees are scheduled to work?
Typically, state holidays do not count as days employees are scheduled to work. However, if your worksite is not closed during a state holiday and you are scheduled to work at your worksite on that state holiday, then that state holiday would count as a day you are scheduled to work.
Do scheduled leave days (such as vacation leave or annual leave) count as days employees are scheduled to work?
Yes, scheduled leave days count as days employees are scheduled to work.
Do sick days count as days employees are scheduled to work?
Yes, sick days count as days employees are scheduled to work.
Document your bicycle commute on the self-certification claim form (CalHR 873 - Bicycle Commuter Program Quarterly Self-Certification). Your signature on this form certifies that you meet the abovementioned eligibility criteria.
Is the bicycle commuter benefit taxable?
Yes. The $20 you are eligible to claim for each calendar month you participate in the Program is taxable.
What is the maximum amount I can claim?
If you are eligible to participate in the Program, you can receive $20 per calendar month, not to exceed $240 per calendar year. Please note this is a taxable benefit.
How do I submit a bicycle commuter benefit claim?
Follow the established process for your department. Either submit your claim through CalATERS Global or submit a STD 262A -Travel Expense Claim Form (TEC). Your signature on CalHR 873 - Bicycle Commuter Program Quarterly Self-Certification certifies that you meet the above mentioned eligibility criteria.
The self-certification claim form (CalHR 873 - Bicycle Commuter Program Quarterly Self-Certification) should be entered as a "receipt" in CalATERS.
As CalHR recommends submitting Bicycle Commuter claims on a quarterly basis, employees who claim this benefit in CalATERS should select the Non-Travel form and should cover a 3-month period (e.g. July 1- September 30). However, the expense information should be entered separately for each month ($20 for each individual qualifying month, with a $60 total: $20 for July 1, $20 for August 1, and $20 for September 1).
Add your participation in the Program to CalHR's Annual Bicycle Commuter Benefit Program Report for claims not submitted via CalATERS, if necessary.
Complete the Bicycle Commuter Benefit Program Report for claims not submitted via CalATERS.
Submit completed Bicycle Commuter Benefit Reports for the previous calendar year to CalHR via email by January 31.
If your Departmental Program Coordinator approves your claim, he/she shall follow your department's internal process to issue your payment.
What happens if I submit a bicycle commuter benefit claim and I do not meet the eligibility criteria to participate in the Program?
Making a false claim to the State of California by knowingly presenting or knowingly causing to be presented an untrue statement to obtain payment or funds from the State of California is grounds for removal from participation in the program and could result in legal action, including, but not limited to, adverse action. If you make a false claim, you shall reimburse the state for funds you receive for your participation in this Program.
Is there a deadline for submitting bicycle commuter benefit claims?
When will I receive my bicycle commuter claim check?
For departments that process TECs via CalATERS Global, payment is issued in the same manner as your payroll (direct deposit or warrant). Once the form is approved by the department, CalATERS Global takes five business days to issue payment.
Departments may have internal processes which include issuing claim checks directly to you.
Whom do I contact to determine the status of my bicycle commuter benefit claim?
Contact your Accounting Office or your Departmental Program Coordinator.
Whom do I contact if my bicycle commuter claim check is lost or stolen?
Contact your Accounting Office or your Departmental Program Coordinator. They will contact SCO CalATERS for further information.
Is there a complaint process?
Yes. You may dispute a denied claim to your department head or designee. Your department head or designee is the final approval authority for bicycle commuter benefits claims.
Is my department required to provide secure storage for my bicycle?
No. While departments are not required to provide secure storage for employee bicycles, CalHR encourages all participating departments to evaluate their facilities and budgets to see what, if any, options they may be able to provide for related amenities, including, but not limited to, secure bicycle storage. CalHR strongly encourages departments to provide all reasonably available amenities.
What happens if my bicycle is stolen from state property?
The state is not responsible or liable for the security of personal property.
If I live on-site, am I eligible to participate in the bicycle commuter program?
The bicycle commuter program is for employees who commute to work. Typically, employees who live on-site are not commuting to work. | 2019-04-22T00:19:27 | http://www.calhr.ca.gov/benefits/Pages/bicycle-commuter-program-frequently-asked-questions.aspx |
0.999992 | What are the requirements for establishing Ohio residency for tuition purposes?
1. The student is expected to live in Ohio for a full, 12 consecutive months immediately preceding the semester for which they are applying for residency. The expectation is that the student should not be absent from the state any longer than breaks between semesters and 3 weeks during the summer.
2. The student should demonstrate their intent to become an Ohio resident by transferring any items of registration to Ohio such as a driver's license, automobile registration, and voter registration (if applicable).
3. The student must demonstrate that during the 12-month period while establishing residency, that they have had sufficient income to meet all expenses without the need of money from outside the State of Ohio. Documentation of income sources used during the 12-month period is required.
What documentation do I need to submit to apply for residency?
Documentation varies depending on how you are applying for residency. Please see guidelines, exceptions and documentation required.
If I own or have the use of a car, am I financially responsible for the upkeep, gas, and insurance and reporting it for residency?
Yes. Students are responsible for reporting and being financially capable of paying for the upkeep, gas, and car insurance of a car they either own or have the complete use of during their residency review period.
If my parents or spouse move to Ohio, when am I eligible to become a resident?
You may be eligible for "instant residency" , C-3, if you are dependent upon a parent who is working full-time and has established domicile in Ohio before the beginning of a semester. You may be eligible if you are a dependent spouse of a person who has begun working full-time and established domicile in Ohio for reasons other than gaining the benefit of a state-supported education. Refer to C-3 in the residency guidelines for information on how to apply for this type of residency.
If I am moving to Ohio to attend The University of Akron as a graduate student and will be on a fellowship or assistantship, does my spouse qualify for "instant residency?"
Can I qualify for "instant residency" through someone other than my parent/legal guardian or spouse?
No. A student cannot qualify for C-3 "instant residency" through other relatives, fiancee's, in-laws, etc. A student may only be reviewed for "instant residency" through their dependency upon a parent/legal guardian or spouse who is living and working on a full-time basis in Ohio.
Does marrying an Ohio resident automatically make me a resident?
If my legal guardian is an Ohio resident will I be considered a resident for tuition purposes?
The residency guidelines allow students to be considered residents if they have a legal guardian who is an Ohio resident. However, setting up a legal guardianship with an Ohio resident in order to qualify for residency is not permitted. The burden of proof is upon the student to show that a legal guardianship was not arranged in order for the student to gain residency. In general, the expectation will be that the legal guardianship has been in effect for at least 12 months, and that the student has been financially dependent upon the legal guardian during that time. The student's relationship and involvement with his or her parents will also be a consideration.
If my parents move out of Ohio, how is my residency affected?
The state residency guidelines have two "grandfather clauses" to address this. If your parents are Ohio residents and move out of the state while you are an enrolled resident student at The University of Akron, you will continue to be classified as a resident through the completion of one degree program, provided that you maintain continuous fulltime enrollment (2 out of 3 semesters each year). If you apply for a second degree program (i.e. graduate or professional school), your residency will be reviewed and you will have to meet the residency criteria on your own.
Similarly, if you are a dependent student applying for admission to The University of Akron and your Ohio resident parents move out of the state, you will be considered a resident as long as you enroll within 12 months of the date your parents physically moved out of Ohio. A student would then have to maintain continuous fulltime enrollment (2 out of 3 semesters each year). Students will be required to submit proof of when their parents sold their home in Ohio (or ended an apartment lease) and physically left Ohio in addition to when their employment ended in Ohio. When a parent physically leaves Ohio and also ends their employment are both factors in determining when a parent has left Ohio and 12 month period begins for which a student must enroll.
I am currently considered a resident of Ohio. How is my residency affected if I leave Ohio?
Except for the past couple of years, I lived in Ohio my entire life. Shouldn't I (and/or my children and spouse) still be considered a resident?
In determining a person's eligibility for residency, the state guidelines are primarily concerned only with the 12-month period immediately preceding the term for which the student is applying for residency. The cumulative time a person lived in Ohio is not relevant if the person has been away from Ohio for more than the 12 months immediately preceding enrollment.
My parents are divorced, but one of them lives in Ohio. Does that make me a resident?
As long as a dependent student has one parent who has been an Ohio resident for at least the 12 months immediately preceding enrollment, they will be considered a resident whether or not the student actually lives in Ohio. To apply for residency, see C-1 documentation required.
How does being in the military affect my (or my children or spouse's) residency?
1. If you are an Ohio resident on full-time, active duty status with the military, you and your dependents are considered residents as long as Ohio has remained your state of domicile and you have fulfilled your tax obligation to the state while on active duty.
2. If you are not an Ohio resident but are stationed in Ohio on a full-time, active duty status, you and your dependents will be considered residents for tuition purposes.
3. If you are a person who is a member of the Ohio National Guard and who is domiciled in Ohio, you and your dependents will be considered residents for tuition purposes.
For information on how to apply, see Exceptions for Residency.
If I am currently working full-time in Ohio, am I eligible for residency?
If you are employed on a full-time or part-time and self-sustaining basis, you may be eligible for E-1 "Conditional" Residency.
Can I appeal a residency determination?
merits of the previously submitted validation of Ohio residency status form. The decision of the committee on residence status shall be final.
If I'm employed and being paid cash (ie: tip income, babysitting) is this income eligible for residency?
If I am paying taxes to Ohio, doesn't that make me a resident?
Not necessarily. If you are trying to establish residency in Ohio, paying taxes in Ohio is an indicator of your intent to become an Ohio resident. However, you must meet all the residency criteria to be eligible for residency for tuition purposes.
Will I automatically become a resident for tuition purposes once I have lived in Ohio for a year?
If a person is financially independent, they must be a U.S. citizen, Permanent Resident Alien, Political Asylee, Political Refugee, or hold a A, E, G, H, I, L, O, P, R, TC, TD or TN visa to be eligible for review as an in-state resident for tuition purposes. If a student is financially dependent upon a spouse or parent, the person they are dependent upon must also must be a U.S. citizen, Permanent Resident Alien, Political Asylee or Political Refugee, or hold a A, E, G, H, I, L, O, P, R, TC, TD or TN visa in order for the student to qualify to be reviewed for in-state residency. Students who hold an B, F, J, or M visa are not eligible to establish Ohio residency unless they are financially dependent upon a spouse or parent who is a bona fide Ohio resident. This is defined as a person who meets the criteria established in the Ohio Board of Regent's Guidelines and is also a U.S. citizen, Permanent Resident Alien, Political Asylee, Political Refugee, or hold an A, E, G, H, I, L, O, P, R, TC, TD or TN visa. (NOTE: This change was made by the Ohio Board of Regents and is effective July 28, 2003.) Students whose immigration status is pending are eligible to establish Ohio residency only if their most recent immigration status was eligible to establish Ohio residency. Financially dependent is defined as having been claimed for tax purposes since birth.
I own property or a business in Ohio, but live in another state. Does that make me or my dependents Ohio residents for tuition purposes?
The state guidelines do not grant residency to individuals or their dependents solely on the basis that they own property or a business in Ohio.
In submitting the Petition for Residency, what are some examples of acceptable income documentation?
The following are examples of some of the income documents you may submit with your petition: W-2 forms, pay stubs, financial aid award letters, notarized letters of support from Ohio residents, bank statements, and statements showing receipt of government benefits.
What types of income sources are not eligible for helping me establish in-state residency?
How important is it that I obtain an Ohio driver's license or register to vote in Ohio?
Obtaining an Ohio driver's license and registering to vote in Ohio demonstrates your intent to make Ohio your state of residence. Since the Ohio Board of Regents Guidelines are meant to exclude from residency those who are in Ohio for educational purposes only, transferring these items of registration is a way to show that you intend to become an Ohio resident.
I am currently trying to establish residency. How does leaving Ohio for the summer or any period for an internship, study abroad etc. affect my residency application?
The expectation is that students who are in the process of establishing their residency are physically living in the State of Ohio for the 12 consecutive months prior to the semester for which they are requesting reclassification. Leaving the state for the summer or for any length of time longer than a 3-week period seriously jeopardizes your claim to Ohio residency. Students that leave Ohio for internships, study abroad, etc. during their residency review period for any period longer than three weeks must submit a letter from their college office stating that the student was encouraged to participate in the internship or program and that it was approved by the college. Students must also maintain their home in Ohio while in the other state on the internship. Proof that their home in Ohio was maintained will be required which will include but is not limited to copies of canceled checks for the payment of rent, copies of leases, or documents proving the purchase of a home in Ohio. If these documents cannot be provided the absence will cause a denial of residency. Any income earned during the internship in another state is not eligible towards residency.
No. The state guidelines prohibit retroactive residency decisions. You must apply by the deadline for the semester in question in order to be reviewed for residency for that semester.
Contact the Office of the University Registrar at (330) 972-8300 or e-mail us at [email protected] for more information.
Can I use savings, mutual funds, stocks, etc. as "income" for establishing residency during my 12 month residency review period?
Savings, mutual funds, stocks, etc., may be used as income during a 12 month residency review period if the account(s) and funds are determined as eligible. If you have used savings, mutual funds, stocks, etc., that are in your name, you must also prove that you had these funds in your possession 12 months prior to the beginning of your residency review period. The residency review period is the 12 months preceding the semester you wish to be reclassified as a resident. The student must demonstrate and provide documentation proving that they had control over the funds if any other persons name is listed on the account. Eligibility of the account(s) and final determination will be decided by the Registrar's Office if another name is on the account other than the students. You will then be required to submit a minimum of three account statements: a copy of your account statement from one year prior to the start of your 12-month review period; a copy of your account statement from the beginning of your 12-month review period; and a copy of your most recent account statement. The balance from your most recent account statement will be subtracted from your account statement at the start of your 12-month review period. This "difference" in the balance is the amount you may report as savings used during your review period. This is the amount of savings, mutual funds, stocks, etc., that have been used to cover your expenses during your residency review period. The amount of savings, mutual funds, stocks, etc., that you had in your possession 12 months prior to the beginning of your residency review period is the amount that will be eligible to use as a beginning balance at the beginning of your review period. Students are not allowed to be "gifted" a sum of money, less than 12 months prior to the beginning of their review period, to use towards mutual. | 2019-04-23T07:58:32 | https://uakron.edu/registrar/residency/faqs/index.dot |
0.999979 | Spending limits on political campaigns and caps on individual donations remain "obstacles" to a deal on party funding, Sir Hayden Phillips has said.
His year-long review recommends both be capped, but despite "broad agreement" the parties can not agree on details.
However Sir Hayden believes a deal is "within reach" and is now to chair face-to-face talks between the parties.
The review, which also backs a £25m a year rise in state funding, is designed to "restore public confidence".
Sir Hayden's inquiry was commissioned by Tony Blair in March 2006 after it emerged that to fund their 2005 General Election campaign, Labour was secretly loaned nearly £14m and the Conservatives £16m. The Liberal Democrats said they borrowed £850,000 from three backers.
His recommendations also include the largest parties cutting spending between elections by £20m each.
The prime minister welcomed Sir Hayden's report, saying "it shows very clearly that there is now the basis for a new agreement on the funding and expenditure of political parties".
He said he hoped consensus could be reached in talks between the three main parties before the summer recess in mid-July.
Mr Blair said a deal would pave the way for legislation in the next parliamentary session.
Labour chairman Hazel Blears said the practical implications of capping donations would need to be studied.
"What he says, is that different political parties have got different historical structures, he wants to be able to recognise that ...he recognised that the three and a half million trade union members, ordinary working people who pay just a few pounds a year in terms of their political fund, are in a different position than massively big donors.
"So, we will have to think carefully about this and its affect on the party."
Conservative Party chairman Francis Maude said the party accepted the report's main recommendations.
"We believe that all political parties should work together to achieve this," he said.
Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesman David Heath said the key objective must be to restore public confidence in the political system.
"There are undoubtedly difficult areas for all of us to consider," he said.
In his 25-page report, Sir Hayden said a £50,000 limit on donations from individuals or organisations - as demanded by the Conservatives - would be "reasonable and attainable".
But he said this would create considerable difficulties for Labour if this meant it could no longer get considerable funding from trade unions.
One option would be to treat union donations as being made up of many individual gifts from members, he says.
This would only be acceptable if union members signed forms confirming they want their contribution to the union's political fund to support a particular party.
If there were to be an agreement, a cap on donations would lead to a fall in income so Sir Hayden recommends an increase in state funding.
He said state funding should be linked to backing among the public - proposing that eligible parties receive 50p each year for every vote cast for them in the most recent General Election and 25p for every vote in the most recent ballots for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and European Parliament.
An alternative would be to use an internet-based subscription system where people's donations of £5 could be matched by state funding.
But Sir Hayden acknowledged the difficulties which remain saying: "Achieving this will require tough decisions on all sides, particularly about donation limits and spending limits."
Other recommendations include new measures to prevent the breach of regulations on donations, strengthened controls on expenditure by third parties, public access to better, clearer information about the sources of party income and new powers for the Electoral Commission watchdog to oversee the new system.
The chairman of the Electoral Commission, Sam Younger, said he agreed with Sir Hayden's analysis that a new approach to funding was necessary.
"We are clear about the need for the Electoral Commission, as the regulator, to be as effective as possible.
"We are already reinforcing this, and will be ready to implement whatever changes are agreed following the discussion which we, like Sir Hayden, hope will take place quickly following today's report." | 2019-04-20T01:01:52 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6452493.stm |
0.999378 | A woman who struggled with obesity for almost 20 years has finally shed half her body weight - so that she will be around to watch her nephews grow up.
And Canadian Alison Fox - who didn't go on dates until her mid-twenties because of her weight - finally got the confidence to take the leap after moving to UK and getting her first ever boyfriend, who was there to hold her hand as she joined a fit club.
The 27 year old, who now lives in Nottingham, first considered trying to get fit after watching her beloved aunt, who had always been overweight, passed away at just 53 years old in 2009.
But it wasn't until her youngest nephew was born in late 2012 that she finally mustered the courage to take the leap and go on a diet, after promising herself that she would live to see him live into adulthood.
After joining WeightWatchers in 2013, she has lost more than ten stone, going from 21 stone 2lbs to her current weight of 10 stone 6lbs.
Alison has always struggled with her weight, from the age of nine she was teased at school in Ontario, Canada, and had to move schools when the bullying got too bad.
She spent her teenage years feeling down constantly, last to be picked for the school sports team and never asked out on dates.
She lived within a destructive cycle - as her self-esteem plummeted and her weight continued to increase.
But Alison was given a wake-up call on her health in December 2009, when her aunt, who had always been overweight, passed away at just 53 years old.
Soon after, she became an aunt herself and was tormented with the idea that her weight could mean she never saw her nephew grow up.
The shock wasn't enough though, and in 2011, a permanent move to the UK and the arrival of her first ever boyfriend saw her put on even more weight.
Then in 2012, Alison's youngest nephew was born and on a Christmas trip back to her hometown of Ontario, she made a promise to herself to stay healthy for her nephews so that she can be around as long as possible for them.
On her return to the UK, her disgust at her body shape meant she couldn't even look back at the family photos taken on her holiday.
On March 9, 2013, she signed up to her local Weight Watchers meeting in Nottingham.
After years of being bullied, Alison's fear of being mocked for her size left her unable to enter the room - but it was her boyfriend's promise to stay by her side and hold her hand through the ordeal that helped her to go through the first meeting.
She has attended a weekly meeting ever since and last week, reached her goal weight of 10 stone 7lbs.
Alison said: 'Losing weight has changed my life, I’m so much more confident and able to assert myself more.
'It makes me sad to think that I was this under confident, overweight girl for so long, I wish I’d done it sooner.
'I have bags more energy, I never hit the 2pm slump I always used to hit during the day and can easily climb numerous flights of stairs without getting out of breath.
'Each time I return home to Canada, my family don’t recognise me – they can’t believe how far I’ve come.
'The best thing of all is knowing that I can be there for my three young nephews and play games with them without getting out of breath.
'It’s amazing to see the look on their faces when I jump and run around with them, my youngest nephew even commented: “You’re different, Aunt Alison”, and I really am! | 2019-04-22T00:40:27 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2773563/My-family-don-t-recognise-Woman-27-never-date-credits-boyfriend-helping-lose-ten-stone-nephews-grow-up.html |
0.997973 | Sample Classification Essay" Hamilton vs. Jefferson" Two competing political philosophies have always existed throughout the United States relatively short history: one seeking to increase the power of the central government, and one seeking to While classification has been usedas a method for organizing essays and paragraphs, classification and other traditional methods of organization [also have come to be used as tools of invention, of systematically exploring subjects in Like skimming, scanning, paraphrasing, and summarizing, classification requires the ability to group related words, ideas, and characteristics.
Prewriting and purpose It is a rare writer, student or otherwise, who can sit down and draft a Classification Essay On Terrorism Words: 1176 Pages: 4 Paragraphs: 9 Sentences: 50 Read Time: 04: 16 The word 'terrorism' is on its own a very ambiguous term. essayhelp Sample Classification Essay Essay Title: Classification of Dance Break dance was created as a less lethal form of fighting by warring AmericanAfrican street gangs in 1970s in New York City.
Though the Classification Essay assignment is mostly given in an English or writing composition course of some kind, it may be appropriately given in other courses, as well. For example, a Government professor may have their students write a Classification Essay on the above example the three branches of the United States government. What is a Classification Essay? English classification essay a classification essay, a writer organizes, or sorts, things into categories.
Three Steps to Effective Classification: A classification essay conclusion is the closing section of the paper where a writer should put together the different classes tested and analyzed in the body paragraphs. Provide a summary of every category. So now that you know what makes a good subject, here are the classification essay topics youve been waiting for. | 2019-04-21T10:50:08 | http://greyhoundscansit.com/a6qh8j2l7.html |
0.999892 | What is an epidural space?
It is a space that surrounds the spinal cord and nerve roots. Furthermore, the back spine is separated into four regions: cervical (neck), thoracic (mid back), lumbar (low back), and caudal (sacral area). Therefore, the lumbar epidural injection defines the epidural space in the low back region.
What are the indications of lumbar epidural injection?
Among many indications the listed are the main indications: herniated disc, degenerated disc disease (DDD), radiculopathy, bone spurs, thicken ligamentum flavum, low back fusion, failed back surgery syndrome, chronic regional pain syndrome (RSD), diabetic neuropathy and spinal stenosis.
How does lumbar epidural steroid injection bring pain relief?
The pain is produced due to inflammation of the spinal nerve roots, which may be experienced as pins/needle sensation, shooting /stabbing pain which radiate from low back down to the legs and/or feet. With the lumbar epidural injection, steroids surround the lumbar spinal nerves, which help decrease the spinal nerve root inflammation and irritation. Therefore, the lumbar epidural injection can help decrease the low back and leg pain symptoms.
What are risks for the lumbar epidural injection?
Among many, here are few listed: increased pain, infection, bleeding, nerve damage, weakness.
How is the lumbar epidural injection performed?
After sterile preparation of the lumbar region, the injection site if localized under X-ray. Following the local anesthetic applied to the injection site, which can help decrease the injection site pain, the needle is guided toward the epidural space with the help of X-ray. After the space is localized, it can be further confirmed with liquid contrast, which can help further confirm the epidural space. After the space is confirmed, the steroid medication is injected, and the needle is taken out at the end of the procedure.
This is an outpatient procedure. Patients are monitored in the recovery room after the procedure. Patient is educated that pain relief may be achieved to its full potential over the 1-2 week period. Patient may experience some localized mid-back pain at the injection site, which may be minimized by the previously applied local anesthetic. Patients are discharged from the recovery room once they have the discharge criteria.
How long the relief from the lumbar epidural steroid injection would last for?
It varies from patient to patient. Usually, the pain relief can last for 6-8 weeks, and may require repeat the epidural injections if necessary. Please tell your pain physician if you are taking any blood thinners. For example: Coumadin, Plavix, Heparin, Lovenox and etc. The blood thinners need to be stopped before the epidural injection, and the time frame will be prescribed by your pain physician. | 2019-04-22T20:25:14 | https://ehr.wrshealth.com/live/patient_v2/instructions.php?id=1832491&iid=5124 |
0.998896 | ACTA MEPs they say "no"
The European Parliament has voted against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) aka "the bill that refuses to die."
The ACTA bill was rejected by an overwhelming majority in the European Parliament with 478 MEPs voting against the bill, leaving just 39 in favour, with 165 abstentions.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is an international treaty signed by 22 EU members - including the UK – and is aimed at standardising copyright protection, and curbing the trade of counterfeit physical goods, including copyrighted material online, such as films and music.
It has been compared to the US's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill, which sparked widespread disgruntlement across the internet earlier this year.
The final nail in the coffin?
While this should be the final nail in the coffin of the bill - The MEP vote on the bill followed five consecutive no votes by various European parliamentary committees - however it seems that Europe is unwilling to let ACTA die.
After the vote Commissioner Karel de Gucht announced that, regardless of the Parliament's rejection, the European Commission would wait for the European Court of Justice's decision on the treaty's compatibility with fundamental rights and freedoms, before considering what to do next.
Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group commenting on de Gucht's announcement said, "The bill should be dead and continuing on with the bill is extremely unwise politically." Adding "With this level of political discontent they should just start again, and consider a more multi-lateral agreement."
Killock recommends that the entertainment industries should go away and have a rethink, "Their profits are up and they appear to be making a good success of the internet. They should consider thinking of something that's less draconian." | 2019-04-24T15:41:32 | https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/world-of-tech/roundup/europe-says-final-no-to-anti-counterfeiting-agreement-1087991 |
0.998771 | What happens when you use the same satellites to control nuclear forces as well as conventional troops?
Accidental nuclear war, that's what could happen.
That's the warning by a Washington think tank, which argues that the U.S. is inviting nuclear war by using the same command and communications systems to oversee both nuclear and conventional forces. But such "dual use" systems risk an inadvertent nuclear war, because an attack on non-nuclear assets, such as satellites or radars, could be perceived as an attempt to cripple America's nuclear deterrent.
The Trump administration's draft nuclear policy already states that cyberattacks against America, or attacks on U.S. satellites, could constitute a strategic threat that merits a nuclear response. But this raises a problem called "nuclear entanglement," where the traditionally bright lines between nuclear and non-nuclear systems become blurred.
In a study earlier this year, the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace pointed out that Russia and China were guilty of entanglement. For example, Russia keeps nuclear submarines and bombers at the same bases as conventional ships and planes: thus a strike by conventional U.S. forces against conventional Russian forces -- the sort of operation common in World War II -- could be mistaken by Russia as an American strike on its nuclear forces, triggering Russian nuclear retaliation. China plans to attack American satellites to disable U.S. command systems and smart weapons that rely on satellite guidance, because China believes this to be a part of conventional warfare -- despite the Trump administration declaring otherwise.
But a new Carnegie study says the U.S. is making the same mistake. "Starting in the last decade of the Cold War, the United States has increased reliance on dual-use systems by assigning nonnuclear roles to C3I assets that used to be employed solely for nuclear operations," writes James Acton, co-director of Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. "Until the mid-1980s, for example, U.S. early-warning satellites were used exclusively for detecting the launch of nuclear-armed missiles. Today, they enable a variety of nonnuclear missions by, for example, providing cuing information for missile defenses involved in intercepting conventional ballistic missiles."
The U.S. has also scrapped its Cold War land-based communications systems for controlling nuclear forces. Which means that satellites have become virtually the only means for nuclear command and control, and those precious satellites are also handling non-nuclear communications.
Even as cyberwarfare and anti-satellite weapons have emerged as major threats, U.S. satellite systems have become less redundant. In the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. had two satellite-based communication systems for nuclear weapons. "Today, the United States is in the process of deploying just four Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites that will be the nation's sole space-based system for transmitting nuclear employment orders once legacy Milstar satellites have been retired," writes Acton. Similarly, one of two radio networks for communicating with nuclear missile submarines has been shut down.
Acton explores several scenarios where the U.S. could overreact. "Russia might attack ground-based or space-based U.S. early-warning assets to defeat European missile defenses that were proving effective in intercepting its nonnuclear missiles," he writes. "Washington might see such attacks, however, as preparations to ensure that limited nuclear strikes by Russia could penetrate the United States' homeland missile defenses."
The U.S. fears that Russia could launch limited nuclear strikes to paint America into a corner, where it must either back down or risk escalating into full nuclear war. But Russia could attack dual-use communications systems with the goal of disrupting the operations of U.S. conventional forces, which the U.S. might perceive as an attempt to cripple U.S. nuclear communications.
These issues apply to a lesser extent to China, which knows (and the U.S. knows that China knows) that a Chinese first strike wouldn't be powerful enough to prevent massive American retaliation. Still, a Chinese attack on, say, the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radar system could be taken as the prelude to a Chinese nuclear strike.
Acton does point out that the U.S. reaction will depend to some extent on context, such as whether Russia has placed its nuclear forces on alert. But this is a slender reed on which to avoid nuclear destruction.
Untangling nuclear entanglement will not be easy. Russia, China and the U.S. are likely to balk at the cost of separating their nuclear and non-nuclear command and control systems and facilities. Nor are they like to accept limits on weapons that threaten an opponent's command and control systems, even if those systems have a nuclear function.
Acton does suggest a few mild measures to mitigate the problem, such as more resilient command and control systems, or small space-based sensors useful for detecting ICBM launches, but not for conventional warfare.
The Carnegie report is particularly significant for missile defense. The proliferation of conventional ballistic missile threats against targets like ports, airfields or ships at sea means that missiles and missile defense have become an integral part of conventional warfare. This in turn means that missile defense systems have become conventional targets. Yet to attack them as part of a conventional war means scaring your opponent into fearing that this is the opening salvo of a nuclear strike. | 2019-04-26T09:11:13 | https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-russia-china-or-america-could-accidentally-start-nuclear-war-28692 |
0.9988 | We are looking to install a heat recovery ventillation system (HRV) in our home (new construction)and couldn't find any useful information on benefits and costs. Do you have any opinions about them?
- I don't have any experience living with HRVs but I have seen and recommended them in many new houses and retrofits. We heat with a high efficiency boiler and cool with central air that has a whole house fan and ductwork. So, in the and summer, we run the house fan, as well as bedroom ceiling fans alternatively to circulate preheated air or pre-cooled air.
If you have a furnace with ductwork, they are definitely useful for airtight houses - I think especially for new construction since you are doing everything at once and will save labor costs.
In many houses, windows don't sufficiently balance out air pressure, nor do they supply enough fresh air. I routinely run the whole-house-fan from the attic to supply fresh air and pressure.
- I like heat recovery ventilators that have heat and moisture recovery (energy recovery), since in the winter time you may end up with air that is too dry and then need to use a humidifier. Depending on where, when and how much you use the system, you might be able to save about 10-25% on heating and cooling costs, even though they need electricity to power the fan, especially if they are on 24/7.
-You need to remember to replace the filters on them or buy the reusable HEPA ones that can be washed.
- Also, depending on the type of furnace blower motor you have (is it single, double or variable speed) the amount of heat recovery may not make much of a difference during certain times, but that's probably when you are out of the house.
- Since you have a new house and the ductwork is there, it shouldn't cost too much to install it (<$2,000?).
An HRV is only required if you are not getting enough fresh air exchanges in your home. There's no value in installing an HRV if your house is already quite leaky. You need to get a home energy audit in which they do a blower door test to determine how leaky your envelope is. If your Air Exchangers/Hour run below .3 then you need and HRV. If not then it makes more sense to tighten up the envelope FIRST, THEN evaluate the need for an HRV. Caulking and sealing are cheap, and should be the first step in improving the performance of your home.
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0.998682 | White Castle is selling a hamburger and onion scented candle in their restaurants and online for ten bucks with proceeds (good luck finding out how much, but they say the promotion will raise $50,000) going to Autism Speaks. The candle has been a huge hit. It's sold out online and sales at restaurants have been brisk as well.
So should White Castle too be plucked clean and boiled as KFC was?
I don't think so. Despite some shortcomings, like a basic lack of information on the program and specific numbers on how much of each candle sale goes to Autism Speaks, this smelly candle is no Buckets for the Cure.
There are the important differences between the two programs.
The White Castle promotion doesn't try to cure an ill by contributing to it. It's just candle. A gross smelling one, in my opinion. But White Castle isn't trying to help those with autism by selling a product that just might contribute to their condition in the first place. While I did see a tweet or two about the connection between autism and gluten products that WC carries (or rather the gluten-free products it doesn't carry), the link isn't as offensive and distasteful as the connection between KFC and cancer.
The White Castle promotion is for loyalists. If you're not already a White Castle customer that loves the smell of hamburger and onion, how many of these candles will you buy? WC's latest cause marketing effort for Autism Speaks is for existing burger fanatics. Conversely, KFC's Buckets for the Cure with its major television and online advertising campaign is working hard to bring "pink" supporters into the chicken coop. White Castle is simply giving their most loyal customers a chance to support a good cause, and they're not asking them to eat another hamburger--and even go into one of their restaurants--to do it.
The scale is modest. As mentioned above, KFC's Buckets for the Cure is a huge promotion. White Castle's isn't. It appears that most of the candles are sold online and supplies are limited at stores. And with a goal of raising $50,000, WC's ambitions are modest compared to KFC, which hopes to raise over $8 million for Komen. Which donation will do the greatest good? It may appear KFC. But many, many millions more will be spent by cancer organizations educating consumers on preventing cancer through proper nutrition. And how many more millions in donations and partnerships will Komen lose because of the KFC fiasco? Who really did help their cause more?
The key is that White Castle maintains its distance. It doesn't connect its unhealthy food with a health cause as KFC does. Nor did WC choose to highlight its calorically dense food, as KFC did with the Double Down, the same week it promoted its involvement with a health cause.
Perhaps WC took a page from McDonald's play book. As kid I remember McDonald's raising money for charities like the Muscular Dystrophy Association. But later it wisely stepped back from directly supporting health causes and focused instead on its own charity, The Ronald McDonald House, which offers families a place to stay together when a child is receiving medical treatment.
Fast food restaurants can and should be involved with causes. It's all about fit and execution. Mike Swenson, a mentor of mine at the cause marketing consultancy Barkley in Kansas City probably summarized it best.
What do you think? Is White Castle's cause marketing really a symbol of "purity" and "strength" as its founders intended when they chose their name? Or does this promotion belong in the bucket of fast food cause marketing programs that didn't work? | 2019-04-26T06:48:28 | https://www.selfishgiving.com/blog/tag/white+castle |
0.998574 | A new British study has found that people who scored well on IQ tests as children are more likely to be drug users as adults, especially women. Authors James White and G. David Batty published their study online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and looked at data from almost 8,000 people over several decades to test what habits and qualities are tied to drug use.
The results suggest that men with high IQ scores at 5 years-old are 50 percent more likely to use drugs by the age of 30 than those with low IQ scores. High IQ scoring women at 5 years-old are twice as likely to use drugs than their low IQ counterparts. The authors are unclear why there is a link between intelligence and drug use.
Potential explanations are that intelligent people are open to new experiences, bored, or using drugs to cope with feeling different from their peers. Intelligence and drug use were linked independent of other factors like social class, household income, and other mental health problems.
Well high intelligence is often a precursor to one developing cynicism that destroys the happy illusion that most people live their lives in, revealing the world to be not much more than a big pile of dung. Drugs and alcohol help the highly intelligent re-experience this illusion so they can continue to interact with the rest of society.
Related to tolerance towards drug use in universities? I did not know anyone who took illicit drugs until I went to university, where quite a few people used them recreationally, and nobody seemed to be surprised or concerned about it.
More likely just a commentary on where you grew up. Drug use was rife where I was born, so moving to university meant hanging out with fewer stoners rather than more.
Could this be about how they are treated? The way they are made to stand apart from others their whole lives, perhaps even unrealistic expectations on the part of parents?
I knew a number of kids who went to "schools for the gifted" when I was a teenager - which I always found strange growing up in Switzerland where there was no such thing. In any case most of these kids went on to struggle with addiction or nervous breakdowns of some sort.
I agree with Rebecca's comment. A likely explanation that isn't mentioned is that kids who are perceived as "intelligent" or marked as such at an early age are often held to higher standards that they perhaps cannot live up to.
Alternatively, the notion that a certain child is special in this regard is reinforced constantly, both to the child himself and to his peers, educators, family members, and friends. This could lead to the child feeling entitled or even protected by his intelligence, and thus more likely to engage in risky behavior.
Nice to see another one of Adam Carolla's theories (that the brains of the very intelligent will eventually turn against their owners) confirmed.
"Intelligence and drug use were linked independent of other factors like social class, *household income*, and other mental health problems."
Define drug use. Is this experimentation or habitual? It makes a difference in analyzing/discussing results.
@Ricardo I agree with you that drug use needs to be defined. Is this simply smoking marijuana or is it the use of hard-core substances?
Listed in the methodology in the study abstract.
"measures of lifetime cannabis and cocaine use"
"cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy and polydrug use (more than three drugs) in the past 12 months"
They aren't distinguishing between recreational and addictive use. But from their results, it would seem they did run distinct correlations for the separate drugs and still found correlating effects. It appears to be across the board, not just smoking marijuana.
This was really the most interesting part of the conclusion. "Associations were stronger in women than in men and were independent from psychological distress in adolescence and life-course socioeconomic position. " I would guess that it's not a coping mechanism from being "made to feel different. " Then it could be more of a trying to fit back in behavior, which isn't what is happening if intelligent kids are more likely to use.
I think it is more an awareness that "you" are different and will tend to be more at ease challenging status quo assumptions of appropriate behavior, rather than some kind of coping mechanism, it's an identity signal of your ability to use intellect to rebel. There are also studies linking intelligence (in adults) to other forms of "radical" social positioning (atheism, libertarianism, anarchism, etc). So adding this one is not terribly surprising. It's the stronger association in women that really clinches it for me. Social pressures for conformity, as well as attempted means of control to impose it, are a lot stronger on women in many Western societies (US in particular). Higher intelligence tends to be the foremost effective weapon in fighting back against such controls.
Not exactly news... the link between IQ and drug use is fairly well established.
And even mentioning the fact surprises and offends a remarkable number of parents of intellectually gifted children, who still believe that having a high IQ is an unalloyed good.
Part of the reason could be that more intelligent people are less likely to buy in to anti-drug propaganda. They're more independent minded.
Have you ever tried talking to a person of profoundly average intelligence about drugs? It can be frustrating!
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0.999112 | "Making Revolution, Emancipating Humanity" emphasizes that the new synthesis is not the mere "pasting together" of that experience on the one hand, and the criticisms on the other hand. Running the good plays and discarding the bad plays. "It is not an eclectic combination of these things, but a sifting through, a recasting and recombining on the basis of a scientific, materialist and dialectical outlook and method, and of the need to continue advancing toward communism, a need and objective which this outlook and method continues to point to—and, the more thoroughly and deeply it is taken up and applied, the more firmly it points to this need and objective." There is continuity with the first stage, and it builds upon the tremendous achievements, but there is also a significant rupture with shortcomings in the first stage of the communist revolution. As the Manifesto concentrates and points out, the Chairman has brought forward a whole theoretical framework for the renewed advance of the communist revolution. Without all communists the world over steeping themselves in and carrying through on this new synthesis, there will be no way to initiate and then carry through on the next stage of the communist revolution.
"And the world stays fundamentally unchanged. Capitalism-imperialism continues humming in the 'background,' crushing lives and destroying spirits in its meat-grinder of exploitation. And the horrors continue unabated."
This is our standing and powerful refutation of every other trend in the world. On the other hand, the way that a lot of people look at what we're about—and not entirely without justification—is: "Here come the communists, turn out the lights, the party's over."
One thing this passage initially brings to mind is the point made in "Dictatorship and Democracy"...the statement from abroad "I firmly uphold those societies, but I wouldn't want to live there." (I don't have the exact quote in front of me.) During the Cultural Revolution in our Party, this point was perverted and distorted to serve a (bourgeois democratic) vision of socialism as utopian idealism/flowering of individualism, but the point itself was getting at both the great achievements and the actual, and serious, shortcomings and errors. Why do a lot of people look at our project this way: "here come the communists, turn out the lights, the party's over"? First, there is the continual onslaught of verdicts about the disaster and failure socialism has been. And this intersects with certain illusions people have in this society. This is a system where the imperialists accumulate vast amounts of wealth based on the superexploitation of people world over, a certain portion of that wealth is able to be, and certain resources are, devoted to research and intellectual work (including through grants and such). On this basis, there is an illusion of being able and a certain freedom to experiment, work with ideas in this society. And where this exploration and work isn't allowed, when it is suppressed and thwarted, the answer people look to is framed within and stays within the confines of commodity relations, and the extension of bourgeois right. That the answer lies within the confines of capitalism and the world as it is.
But, leaving that aside for the moment, there have also been serious errors at the same time as there have been great achievements. Particularly with regard to intellectuals and intellectual work. The linear, march-in-lockstep approach to transforming society and moving to communism, which gave rise to the stifling and strait jacketing of thought in many instances, limited and circumscribed the unleashing of the masses (especially the intellectuals and artists) and held back (or prevented) their going off in different directions in terms of working with ideas, experimentation and creativity. Directions which might have been counter to the main ways in which the genuine communists were struggling to lead things...and which certainly did not serve or appear to serve the immediate goals at any given time. I remember a story someone from China told of a close friend of his, a graduate student in mathematics, who was active in the '60s and '70s in support of the revolution in China, but left the movement. His reason: that in China work wasn't being done in his field of theoretical mathematics; it was not seen as so immediately useful—and his friend disagreed. But in actual fact this work is very valuable and part of getting to the truth. Of knowing the world and transforming it. There were definite tendencies to class truth, but truth has no class character. And people's class outlook and line does not "naturally" correspond or have more validity because of their class background. The Lysenko example still stands out—and there is much to learn from the errors of this instrumentalist approach and what was done to the whole way of thinking came off of that. In contrast to the epistemological breakthroughs concentrated in the new synthesis.
As the Manifesto says, there was a pronounced tendency in the first stage of the communist revolution to see the intellectuals as a problem—and not to recognize the essential contributions they will bring to the revolution and to the new society and transformation of that society. (Though that too will not be linear, but full of contradiction and it will pose great challenges to us.)1 And this went together with the reification of the proletariat (and oppressed).
The discussion in the new talk [Unresolved Contradictions, Driving Forces For Revolution] about the intellectuals and the solid core you are forging speaks to a very important dimension to this question of the intellectuals (coming from different backgrounds) in the leadership/core of the Party and beyond. There is the need for us to become on a higher level the political and literary representatives of a class. And more than that to bring forward a solid core (in essence intellectuals) both drawn from the proletariat, but also from those who are already in the intelligentsia. We face the need to win over a section of intellectuals acutely in making revolution today...and this is only a glimpse of the necessity in the future!
While holding firmly to the solid core—and not giving up state power—and constantly working to expand that solid core (through many channels), as much as possible, diversity and room to breathe must be given to the intellectuals, artists, and others. There is the attraction of the positive rights as discussed in Making/Emancipating.2 Bringing forward and aspiring to people's desire for a better world...in which people do confront necessity and will be struggling to wrench freedom out of that, but where this will no longer be done through class, exploitative and oppressive relations. Where 4 alls will be no more.
One thing I have been thinking about is the question of the united front all the way through...with the orientation, method and approach of solid core and elasticity at the heart of forging that united front. Forging and leading the united front will be a process and go through waves. My thoughts are not well worked out...and I think I have been viewing this in a pretty mechanical way...so this is pretty limited and initial. The united front will need to encompass and comprehend the maximum amount of elasticity, on the basis of an (expanding) solid core. And it will be a process which takes different forms—and goes through waves. And while there will be all the way the application of the first mouthful sentence, what I mean by viewing this mechanically is that carrying through this united front all the way through is not reducible to advancing this or that program and uniting people around it. Though certainly there will be plenty of times when there are concrete challenges posed to society as a whole or to large sections of society, and "united fronts" around given programs forged, but applying the approach of unleashing the maximum elasticity on the basis of the solid core. Of leading a whole broad process of mobilizing people to understand and transform the world, and finding the ways to put our arms around all that. All existing within a specific (and changing) world/international context.
There will be the particularity of the parachute closing in a revolutionary situation—when many different strands and streams of protest and rebellion, of opposition to the current order are drawn together around the revolutionary leadership and core—and unite around a practical program for radically changing society and meeting the felt needs of people diverse political trends and/or are neutralized and in disarray. And, while socialism should not be viewed as a linear process, with a succession of cultural revolutions, there will no doubt be revolutionary junctures in the transformation of society towards communism where there will be some aspects of the parachute closing. But the parachute will also open up and things spread out with all the differences, diversity, and contradictions. There will be the unresolved contradictions, on many levels, which will help to drive things forward. There will be demands for society to actually change and meet people's economic, cultural and social needs (a monumental task.) There will be different strata with different ideas about what society should be and there will be great diversity and people going off in different directions. And, at the same time, when the parachute opens there will be the pulls to settle in.
Leading all this will be challenging and complex. And absolutely requires the multi-leveled, multi-layered map. I have returned many times in the past months to the section in "Basis and Goals" on Living with and Transforming and continue to wrangle with this. Correctly applying solid core and elasticity, of grasping this dialectic, will be at the heart of moving ahead.
The more you wrangle with the content of the new synthesis—in all its aspects—the more what we are—and need to be—doing today comes into sharper relief. This is life and death. We must take this out into the world and make this a powerful material force, ideologizing revolution and communism onto the scene, on a higher level. We must initiate that new stage for real. It brings into sharper relief the need to actually make the links between today and tomorrow. To proceed on the basis of—and to bring to people that vision of how the world could be. And to more firmly grasp the role that bringing this vision to people plays in bringing them forward. The content of the new synthesis and the actual contradictions and vexing problems it is addressing, are the framework from which we must be proceeding and doing our work today as well as in the future. How must we go about making these great leaps? What is concentrated in solid core with a lot of elasticity must be grasped and applied all throughout this process of making revolution. It is not a approach for later or some catch phrase. It must be a living application of the new synthesis (as concentrated in the Manifesto).
The objective situation—and the obstacles we confront—is what it is...and there is no point in trying to make out like it is different. It is what it is—and it can be transformed. As the "Driving Forces" talk discusses, when you grasp the multi-leveled nature of reality, and the importance of the unevenness in things, then you can work on those contradictions to move all of that forward.
How are people going to be mobilized, and come to confront reality as it actually is, learn about the world—and the future that is possible? How are they going to be unleashed to make revolution? Is it through dogmatic lecturing to "set people straight" or revisionist spoonfeeding? ("here come the communists, turn out the lights, the party's over") Or is it through opening up space for people to advance ideas and to have them discussed. Space for people to wrangle (and at times sharply struggle) over the nature of society and the world and how to analyze and understand different developments in the world and the interests and programs of different classes? And discussion of big questions of line and outlook and epistemology? And how to make revolution? And all the while finding the ways for them to contribute to the revolutionary movement. And it has to involve the masses themselves increasingly—including collectively—taking responsibility for being a part of—and unleashing and leading—the contestation, contention and struggle—and for bringing others forward. It is a good thing when the masses jump into the struggle and join things with each other. We should encourage that and let it rip, rather than, having the comrades jump in to make the 'more correct' argument (which is not always more correct at all); it is in the course of struggling things out in these ways that people learn and also forge some comradeship.
We urgently need and must work for a scene that is alive with revolution. Where people who are working with us are actively engaging with all the big questions...and where there is (systematically and consciously) a multi-leveled Grasp Revolution, Promote Production approach. Holding firm to—and expanding the solid core in and around the Party—and on that basis unleashing a lot of things.
In forging a core now, we should appreciate the unevenness in things, which, as the Chair emphasizes, is the basis and potential for change...in this case, within the collective of people who have stepped forward in different ways (as well as in different individuals themselves), the questions that are being raised...the debates that people do want to engage in—and find the ways to not only work with people and draw them into making revolution. One young person concentrates challenges worth thinking about. On the one hand, he is clearly attracted to the revolutionary thrust of our work (and fighting the power); he speaks often of the power and importance of the Message and Call. But, he is also heavily—and very consciously—into metaphysics. And he is trying valiantly to reconcile these two opposing world views. And politically he is coming from identity politics (not in contradiction to the metaphysics) and argues for a postmodernist approach to looking at the different narratives. There is a lot of struggle ahead over many, many questions, but this must be done not by tailing him, or by proof-texting or just dismissing his thoughts. Not just stomping on them. But by frankly listening to what he has to say and his ways of looking at the world. And then, proceeding on the basis of the solid core of our line joining the questions on the highest level possible, comparing and contrasting these opposing world views. Both in a sweeping way, and in their particularity. And, this means study and work on our part. However things end up developing with this person, there are some lessons here.
The unevenness among people being drawn towards us, which is objective, is a source of motion and development that we must work on. It is not a problem that different people come at things from different places, look at things in different ways, go off in different directions, and work things out with each other. And every contribution people make on many fronts (as well as the criticisms and differences they have) will not be "predictable" or stereotypical and need to be recognized. And as we lead this process, we should be good at learning (including seizing on opportunities to unleash wrangling and contention) and promoting this mix. Of understanding more deeply how people think—and why they see things the way they do. And we need to be good at knowing when to pull the reins in tight in today's conditions (although this is on a whole different level), and insist on a particular analysis, position or way of approaching and doing something—and when to let the reins play out. This process is full of tension, but I think we are learning that the more we put the big and small contradictions (when appropriate) before those we are working with, and give them a sense of what we are trying to figure out and why, the more they themselves take up trying to solve problems (and are trained in the process). This is one element of grasping revolution and promoting production. Of course, there are far bigger questions involved in making the revolution, but this is a glimpse how we can and must put those questions before the masses and enlist them in collectively finding the solutions. It will and should be full of twists and turns, but it should also be a rich, living process that enables us to get at the truth. And it cannot be a "happenstance" process, where spontaneity just takes its course. It must be led, systematically on the basis of the solid core, but not in this dry and lifeless way that takes all the excitement out of discovery and changing the world.
What I feel is a pressing necessity is to have a more scientific understanding and evaluation of the people we are working with and, from a strategic perspective and with a strategic approach, to systematically work to bring them through the OHIO. And we have to think in those terms—not running "hot" or "cold" on people depending on how they are responding to us. To do the work if you will. This will not be a linear or predetermined process, but neither should it be left up to spontaneity. And it cannot be accomplished from the "inside of an area of work" out. There are all kinds of critical questions which do come up in the course of putting out the paper (big questions and big questions of line) which we do and should be even more putting before people, but this is still not sufficient. All these people are on different levels...and coming from different experiences and we have to pay attention to that and to unleashing a positive dynamic between and among people (as a whole), but there are also some threads to grab ahold of—and there should be systematic work around the Manifesto with all those who are stepping forward.
2. "What about the 'right' of the masses of people in the world to explore scientific questions? What kind of economic structure and culture—what kind of production and social relations, and what kind of superstructure—is necessary for that, and does that correspond to? Again, only a communist world. With the kind of division of labor that has existed in and has characterized every form of class-divided society—and in particular societies ruled by exploiting classes—there is no real right for the masses of people, for the great majority of society, to explore scientific questions. It doesn't exist for them. A few individuals here and there may emerge from among the masses and change class position, if you will, and be able to do that as their life's work and avocation. But for the masses of people there is no such right. The very functioning of the economic base, in dialectical relation with the superstructure—the dynamics of capitalist accumulation and the workings of the corresponding political system, the educational system, and the dominant ideas propagated throughout society, along with the division of labor that's bound up with all this—make it impossible for the masses of people to have the "right" to explore scientific questions.
"And what about those who presently do have the ability to do this? What about their 'right' to explore scientific questions in a whole new social context and framework, where much greater numbers of people are increasingly being freed and enabled to do this as well? What about the ability of people—even those who are presently conducting scientific work—to carry this out in a much more unfettered (not absolutely unfettered but qualitatively more unfettered) way, freed from the constraints imposed by exploitative and oppressive relations in society and the corresponding ways of thinking? What about that? What about having a situation where you're not scrounging around for grants on the basis of having to vitiate your own scientific project by presenting it in a way that meets the requirements of the ruling class—for example: 'This will help the Defense Department.' What about that 'right'? | 2019-04-20T02:59:44 | https://revcom.us/a/193online/lights_out10-en.html |
0.999588 | Why is this drug prescribed: Verapamil-based medications can be prescribed for several heart and blood pressure problems. The fast-acting brands (Calan and Isoptin) are taken for angina (chest pain due to clogged cardiac arteries), as well as irregular heartbeat and high blood pressure. The longer-acting brands (Calan SR, Isoptin SR, Verelan, and Verelan PM) are typically used only for high blood pressure. Covera-HS is prescribed for both high blood pressure and angina. Verapamil is a type of medication called a calcium channel blocker. It eases the heart's workload by slowing down the passage of nerve impulses through it, and hence the contractions of the heart muscle. This improves blood flow through the heart and throughout the body, reduces blood pressure, corrects irregular heartbeat, and helps prevent angina pain. Some doctors also prescribe verapamil to prevent migraine headache and asthma and to treat manic depression and panic attacks.
Most important fact about this drug: If you have high blood pressure, you must take verapamil regularly for it to be effective. Since blood pressure declines gradually, it may be several weeks before you get the full benefit of verapamil; and you must continue taking it even if you are feeling well. Verapamil does not cure high blood pressure; it merely keeps it under control.
How should you take this medication: Calan, Isoptin, and Verelan can be taken with or without food. Calan SR and Isoptin SR should be taken with food. Covera-HS, Calan SR, Isoptin SR, Verelan and Verelan PM must be swallowed whole and should not be crushed, broken, or chewed. You may open Verelan capsules and sprinkle the pellets on a spoonful of cool applesauce. Swallow all of the mixture immediately, and then drink a glass of cool water. Take this medication exactly as prescribed, even if you are feeling well. Try not to miss any doses. If the drug is not taken regularly, your condition can get worse. Check with your doctor before you stop taking this drug; a slow reduction in the dose may be required. --If you miss a dose... Take it as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the one you missed and go back to your regular schedule. Never take 2 doses at the same time. --Storage instructions... Store at room temperature away from heat, light, and moisture.
Why should this drug not be prescribed: If you have low blood pressure or certain types of heart disease or heartbeat irregularities, you should not take verapamil. Make sure the doctor is aware of any cardiac problems you may have. If you are sensitive to or have ever had an allergic reaction to Calan or any other brands of verapamil, or other calcium channel blockers, do not take this medication.
Special warnings about this medication: Verapamil can reduce or eliminate angina pain caused by exertion or exercise. Be sure to discuss with your doctor how much exertion is safe for you. Verapamil may cause your blood pressure to become too low. If you experience dizziness or light-headedness, notify your doctor. Congestive heart failure and fluid in the lungs have occurred in people taking verapamil together with other heart drugs known as beta blockers. Make sure your doctor is aware of all medications you are taking. If you have a heart condition, liver disease, kidney disease, myasthenia gravis, or Duchenne's dystrophy (the most common type of muscular dystrophy), make certain your doctor knows about it. Verapamil should be used with caution. If you are taking Covera-HS and you have a narrowing in your stomach or intestines, be sure your doctor was aware of it when the drug was prescribed. The outer shell of Covera-HS does not dissolve; do not worry if you see it in your stool.
Special information if you are pregnant or breastfeeding: The effects of verapamil during pregnancy have not been adequately studied. If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, inform your doctor immediately. The drug appears in breast milk and could affect a nursing infant. If this medication is essential to your health, your doctor may advise you to discontinue breastfeeding until your treatment is finished.
Recommended dosage: Dosages of this medication must be adjusted to meet individual needs. In general, dosages of this medication should not exceed 480 milligrams per day. Your doctor will closely monitor your response to this drug, usually within 8 hours of the first dose. Safety and effectiveness of this drug in children have not been established. Angina The usual initial dose is 80 to 120 milligrams, 3 times a day. Lower doses of 40 milligrams 3 times a day may be used by people who have a stronger response to this medication, such as the elderly or those with decreased liver function. The dosage may be increased by your doctor either daily or weekly until the desired response is seen. Irregular Heartbeat The usual dose in people who are also on digitalis ranges from 240 to 320 milligrams per day divided into 3 or 4 doses. In those not on digitalis, doses range from a total of 240 to 480 milligrams per day divided into 3 or 4 doses. Maximum effects of this drug should be seen in the first 48 hours of use. High Blood Pressure Effects of this drug on blood pressure should be seen within the first week of use. Any adjustment of this medication to a higher dose will be based on its effectiveness as determined by your doctor. The usual dose of this drug, when used alone for high blood pressure, is 80 milligrams, 3 times per day. Total daily doses of 360 milligrams and 480 milligrams may be used. Smaller doses of 40 milligrams 3 times per day may be taken by smaller individuals and the elderly.
Overdosage: Any medication taken in excess can have serious consequences. If you suspect an overdose, seek medical attention immediately. An overdose of Calan can cause fluid buildup in the lungs, kidney problems, seizures, dangerously low blood pressure, and life-threatening heart problems such as a slow or irregular heartbeat. After treatment for an overdose, you should remain under observation in the hospital for at least 48 hours, especially if you have taken the sustained-release form of the drug. | 2019-04-18T20:33:06 | http://medcatalog.net/tablets/calan.html |
0.998439 | Can Microsoft's new Lumia phones save Windows 10's mobile ambitions?
When Microsoft devices chief Panos Panay announced the company’s new Lumia smartphones Tuesday morning, he showed a boundless enthusiasm for the forthcoming devices.
He also had a message: Give Windows smartphones a chance. The folks in Redmond aren’t blind to the fact that the worldwide smartphone market is essentially a duopoly with Google and Apple running the show and more than 90 percent of all smartphones running those two companies’ operating systems. That’s why Panay pointed out the rapid adoption of Windows 10, which is running on more than 110 million devices just 10 weeks after the operating system was launched.
This seems to be Microsoft’s gambit: build an operating system and drive massive consumer adoption, then leverage its market share on the tablet and desktop to attract developers who will also create experiences that (surprise!) work on a Windows-powered smartphone. Those universal apps for Windows 10 are key to the company’s ambitions, since they also make Microsoft’s new Continuum for phones feature (which lets phone users dock their device to a monitor, keyboard and mouse to use it like a computer) work well.
A docking station turns the Lumia 950 and 950 XL into lightweight desktops.
On Tuesday morning, Panay showed off the Lumia 950 and 950 XL—two new smartphones built to take advantage of those features in Windows 10 Mobile and serve as Microsoft’s flagship phones for its smartphone platforms. It’s good news for Windows on mobile devices, since Microsoft’s smartphone lineup has been lacking a standard-bearing phone for over a year.
That’s all well and good, but Windows smartphones can’t succeed on Panay’s excitement alone. Microsoft still has to contend with the platform’s floundering app ecosystem. Earlier in the presentation, Corporate Vice President Terry Myerson happily told the crowd that Facebook had agreed to release a new universal version of its main app for Windows 10, along with refreshed versions of Messenger and Instagram. One of the potential benefits for Windows users of Microsoft’s patent deal with Google last week is that Windows Phone may finally get a Google-built YouTube app.
Those are clear examples of how dire the app situation is on Windows smartphones. Right now the platform is lacking key apps like Snapchat, and those apps from popular companies that Windows Phone does have, like Twitter and Facebook, are usually woefully behind their iOS and Android counterparts when it comes to features.
Microsoft's Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL.
Still, Microsoft has managed to pull off a transformation like the one it needs in mobile before. The company’s Surface line went from a punchline to a billion-dollar business over the past three years, with its competitors racing to copy Microsoft’s design of a tablet with a detachable keyboard. The Surface Pro line kicked off a whole market of 2-in-1 portables which can be used as both tablets and laptops, and has proven massively popular.
It always comes back to the apps, though, and that’s where the two markets diverge. One of the advantages the Surface Pro 3 has is that it’s able to run Windows desktop apps, which is a much broader set of programs than those just available through the Windows Store.
Meanwhile, there’s another issue: Microsoft isn’t producing as broad a range of phones as Nokia used to. The company seems to be banking on third-party handset manufacturers to pick up some of the slack, which is a difficult proposition. After all, those are the same handset makers Microsoft implicitly snubbed when it bought Nokia’s devices and services business, and building Windows phones doesn’t seem like a great path toward massive sales. Ultimately, it remains to be seen just what Microsoft can do in a very competitive, crowded market. | 2019-04-19T10:44:37 | https://www.pcworld.com/article/2989952/can-microsofts-new-phones-save-its-mobile-ambitions.html |
0.998988 | The Trump administration is reportedly looking for a replacement for Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, whom Trump criticized after Mattis tendered his resignation.
At least two candidates have turned down the job, which is typically viewed as one of the most prestigious posts in US government.
Despite President Donald Trump's stated satisfaction with acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, the White House has reportedly stepped up its search for a replacement for Shanahan's predecessor, Jim Mattis.
According to a Politico report, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane turned down an offer to take the job not long after Mattis' resignation - the second time Keane has done so.
In the weeks after Trump's election, Keane said he had been offered the position but declined.
Keane's latest refusal comes after Mattis, a retired Marine general and one of the men Keane recommended for the job, left over numerous disagreements with Trump, including Trump's decision to pull US forces out of Syria; Trump has changed his message from ordering an immediate withdrawal to one that could take four months.
Keane didn't comment on his decision to decline the job, but he has criticized Trump's Syria decision, calling it a "strategic mistake."
"Yes, I do disagree with it, and I've had the opportunity to tell [Trump] so," Keane said of Trump's decision when asked about it during a December 21 Fox News interview.
John Kyl, the former Arizona Republican senator who helped shepherd Brett Kavanaugh through his Supreme Court confirmation, also declined the job, according to Politico.
David Petraeus, a retired general and former CIA director who Keane also recommended for defense secretary in 2016, also quashed rumors he could take the job now, saying he "cannot envision returning to government at this time" and that he was "not sure" his views aligned with Trump's.
The aversion some experienced officials have toward working for Trump is part of a self-inflicted personnel problem for the administration, according to Peter Feaver, a Duke professor and expert on civil-military affairs.
Like most Republican administrations, Trump's Defense Department has a mix of retired military officials and former business executives in civilian positions, but many civilian officials who would otherwise be there are missing.
"The dearth of regular civilian policy experts" is due in large part to many of those experts having rebuked Trump during his campaign, Feaver said when asked about Trump's defense staff.
In March 2016, 122 "members of the Republican national security community" signed a letter saying they were "united in [their] opposition to a Donald Trump presidency."
In August 2016, 50 Republican national-security officials, many of whom were senior officials in the George W. Bush administration, signed a letter saying Trump "lacks the character, values and experience" to be president and "would put at risk our country's national security and well-being."
Many signatories of the August letter said they declined to sign the March letter but changed their minds after Trump's attacks on NATO and his invitation to Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's email.
In September 2016, 75 retired career Foreign Service officers - among them ambassadors and senior State Department officials who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations - signed an open letter saying Trump was "entirely unqualified to serve as President and Commander-in-Chief."
Some signees changed their minds in the weeks after Trump's election, but many remain on the outside despite numerous vacancies in the executive branch, particularly at the State Department.
The administration's rejection of "Never Trumpers" has been a hindrance, Feaver said.
At the outset, the administration was "putting in a lot of effort" to staff positions, Feaver said, "but they were hobbled by a very late start [and] by this self-imposed requirement" to keep out experts who had spurned Trump.
As a result, he added, the administration has "a very hard time finding the people of the caliber that they want."
The departure of Mattis - who Trump derided long before his resignation, which Trump later said was "essentially" a firing - adds another hurdle.
"Now there's another problem," Feaver said, "the very turbulent churn in personnel that is itself deterring other people from wanting to join."
"It's a big, big hassle" to take a government job, Feaver added, particularly for officials leaving lucrative private-sector jobs who could face scrutiny while being approved for their new roles. The possibility you could be fired or have your reputation tarnished by a presidential tweet or off-hand remark is another disincentive.
"Who wants to be secretary of defense after they saw how Mattis was treated?" Feaver said. | 2019-04-18T15:20:14 | https://www.businessinsider.in/a-retired-general-has-twice-turned-trump-down-to-be-defense-secretary-a-sign-trump-has-a-self-inflicted-personnel-problem/articleshow/67445894.cms |
0.998584 | On April 11, 1945, the spearhead of the advancing American troops of the 3rd Armored Division entered Nordhausen where they were to link up with the 104th Infantry Division before continuing its drive to the east.
The liberating troops had been told to "expect something a little unusual" in the Nordhausen area but they weren't prepared for the horrific sight as they entered Dora camp where they found 1,300 to 2,500 corpses along with a few survivors. They soon discovered the entrances to the Mittelwerk tunnels where they found rows of V2 parts and subassemblies stretched out through the tunnels. Work had stopped at Mittelwerk on April 10, 1945, but the assembly line was left with its electric power and ventilation systems still running, as if the former occupants had gone out for lunch, and would return after a while.
100 V2's were eventually shipped back to New Mexico for further study much to the annoyance of the British government who had been promised half of the captured V2's by prior agreement. By offering immunity, the Americans were able to entice some 1,000 German V2 personnel and their families to come to America to work on the US rocket programme, this included the head of operations Werner von Braun who was later to head the US ICBM & Saturn V programmes, eventually becoming Director of NASA.. The personnel were evacuated from the area 24 hours before the Russians arrived to occupy the Nordhausen region which had been scheduled for 21st June 1945. The first reassembled V2 was successfully launched on June 28, 1946.
After its liberation the site remained derelict and unused although on the first anniversary of the liberation (1.4.1946) a commemorative celebration took place at a monument erected by the Soviets at the crematorium. Having plundered any remaining plant and V2 component parts the Russians attempted to blow up the interior of the tunnels but finding this impossible they sealed the complex by blowing up the four entrances in 1948. In 1954 the crematorium was designated a 'site of honour' at a ceremony attended by thousands of people.
It was not until 1966 that the memorial officially, now designated the 'Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora' was established; by this time the crematorium and fire station were the only buildings still standing on the site.
The memorial was expanded in the 1970's with the construction of an administration building on the foundations of the former Political Department barrack with a typical East German exhibition overemphasising the antifascist resistance struggle of the political inmates while more or less ignoring the hardships suffered by the other inmate groups. The exhibition was not accessible to anyone from the west.
After reunification in 1989 the essential elements of the East German memorial were preserved although the permanent exhibition in the crematorium was replaced in 1995 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Dora Concentration Camp by a new permanent exhibition in a reconstructed accommodation barrack. This event was accompanied by the opening of a section of the tunnel system up to the first crosscut gallery (No. 46) to visitors after a new entrance tunnel had been dug to former rail Tunnel A from a point near the original southern entrance to Tunnel B.
A safe raised walkway was constructed along Tunnel A to Gallery 45 with many of the minor rocket parts still clearly visible littering the floor below including propellant tanks, nose cones, and gyroscopes which are all still recognisable. A V2 engine assembly can also be seen in Tunnel A.
The blocked entrance to Tunnel A, destroyed by the Soviets in 1948. A V2 rocket engine assembly can be seen on the bottom right.
At present, there is a small Mittelwerk display in the southern part of Tunnel A that served first as the prisoner barracks and then for the manufacture of the V1. Much of the remainder of the tunnel complex is still intact but is now partially flooded and dangerous to enter due to ongoing surface gypsum extraction.
The complex became a National Historic Site in May of 1991 and has since been protected from further damage. There are plans to extend the existing Mittelbau Dora memorial site and to build a new documentation center near the former concentration camp.
The outdoor facilities are open to visitors daily until sunset. The exhibition centre and tunnels are open from October 1 to March 31 between 10 am - 4 pm and from April 1 to September 30 between 10 am - 6 pm; the exhibitions are closed on Mondays.
Guided tours of the tunnels take place each Tuesday - Friday at 11 am and 2 pm and on Saturday and Sunday at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm and last approximately 90 minutes. Photography is not normally allowed in the tunnels.
Other web sites: V2Rocket.com - A very full and detailed history of the Mittelwerk facility and the Dora concentration camp with archive and current pictures.
Spearhead web site - war photographer Jim Bates' horrific scenes of Dora concentration camp after liberation by the Americans.
My thanks to Tracy Dungan from V2Rocket.com for permission to use material from her web site. | 2019-04-25T19:07:27 | http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/n/nordhausen/index1.shtml |
0.99897 | The elements of a breach of fiduciary duty action are (1) the existence of a fiduciary duty and (2) the breach of that duty that was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's damages. A fiduciary relationship exists when confidence is reposed by one party and trust accepted by the other. Such a relationship exists where confidence is reposed on one side and there is resulting superiority and influence on the other. When a fiduciary relationship has not been created by an express agreement, the question of whether the relationship exists generally depends upon the specific facts and circumstances surrounding the relationship of the parties in a transaction in which they are involved.
The law is clear that a broker owes a fiduciary duty of care and loyalty to a securities investor. The type and extent of this duty is fact specific. In other words, your relationship with, in the case, your broker/dealer and/or account executive will be determinative of the type of duty that you are owed. However, please keep in mind that the extent of this duty is organic. It is constantly changing. It is for this reason that your specific circumstances need to be reviewed by a qualified professional.
Fiduciary duties associated with a non-discretionary account. A non-discretionary account is an account in which the customer rather than the broker determines which purchases and sales to make. In a non-discretionary account each transaction is viewed singly. In such cases the broker is bound to act in the customer's interest when transacting business for the account; however, all duties to the customer cease when the transaction is closed. The duties associated with a non-discretionary account include, but may not necessarily limited to: (1) the duty to recommend a stock only after studying it sufficiently to become informed as to its nature, price and financial prognosis; (2) the duty to carry out the customer's orders promptly in a manner best suited to serve the customer's interests; (3) the duty to inform the customer of the risks involved in purchasing or selling a particular security; (4) the duty to refrain from self-dealing or refusing to disclose any personal interest the broker may have in a particular recommended security; (5) the duty not to misrepresent any fact material to the transaction; and (6) the duty to transact business only after receiving prior authorization from the customer.
Of course the precise manner in which a broker performs these duties will depend to some degree upon the intelligence and personality of his customer. For example, where the customer is uneducated or generally unsophisticated with regard to financial matters, the broker will have to define the potential risks of a particular transaction carefully and cautiously. Conversely, where a customer fully understands the dynamics of the stock market or is personally familiar with a security, the broker's explanation of such risks may be merely perfunctory. In either case, however, the broker's responsibility to his customer ceases when the transaction is complete. A broker has no continuing duty to keep abreast of financial information which may affect his customer's portfolio or to inform his customer of developments which could influence his investments. Although a good broker may choose to perform these services for his customers, he is under no legal obligation to do so.
Absent from the above list is the duty, on the part of the broker, to engage in a particular course of trading. So long as a broker performs the transactional duties outlined above, he and his customer may embark upon a course of heavy trading in speculative stocks or in-out trading as well as upon a course of conservative investment in blue chip securities.
Unlike the broker who handles a non-discretionary account, the broker handling a discretionary account becomes the fiduciary of his customer in a broad sense. Such a broker, while not needing prior authorization for each transaction, must (1) manage the account in a manner directly comporting with the needs and objectives of the customer as stated in the authorization papers or as apparent from the customer's investment and trading history; (2) keep informed regarding the changes in the market which affect his customer's interest and act responsively to protect those interests; (3) keep his customer informed as to each completed transaction; and (5) explain forthrightly the practical impact and potential risks of the course of dealing in which the broker is engaged.
Although no particular type of trading is required of brokers handling discretionary accounts, most concentrate on conservative investments with few trades usually in blue chip growth stocks. Where a broker engages in more active trading, particularly where such trading deviates from the customer's stated investment goals or is more risky than the average customer would prefer, the broker has an affirmative duty to explain the possible consequences of his actions to his customer. This explanation should include a discussion of the effect of active trading upon broker commissions and customer profits.
Between the purely non-discretionary account and the purely discretionary account there is a hybrid-type account which usually exists between most customers and their broker. Such an account is one in which the broker has usurped actual control over a technically non-discretionary account. In such cases the courts have held that the broker owes his customer the same fiduciary duties as he would have had the account been discretionary from the moment of its creation.
In Hecht v. Harris, 430 F.2d 1202 (9th Cir. 1970), the plaintiff, a 77 year old widow, opened a non-discretionary account with a major brokerage firm. Consistent with the practice in such accounts plaintiff received confirmation slips of each transaction and monthly statements on the status of her account. In addition, she spoke personally with the defendant broker several times a week. Nonetheless, the court held that the broker was liable to plaintiff for churning her account on the ground that he had traded excessively without informing plaintiff of the potential hazards involved in such a course of trading. Since the plaintiff was informed, for the most part, of the individual transactions in her account, the court's holding assumed that the defendant owed plaintiff the additional fiduciary duty to explain the risks of pursuing a particular course of trading. That assumption derived from the court's finding that the broker had taken full control over the plaintiff's account and thus owed her those fiduciary duties normally associated with discretionary accounts.
In determining whether a broker has assumed control of a non-discretionary account the courts weigh several factors. First, the courts examine the age, education, intelligence and investment experience of the customer. Where the customer is particularly young, old, or naive with regard to financial matters, the courts are likely to find that the broker assumed control over the account. Second, if the broker is socially or personally involved with the customer, the courts are likely to conclude that the customer relinquished control because of the relationship of trust and confidence. Conversely, where the relationship between the broker and the customer is an arms-length business relationship, the courts are inclined to find that the customer retained control over the account. Third, if many of the transactions occurred without the customer's prior approval, the courts will often interpret this as a serious usurpation of control by the broker. Fourth, if the customer and the broker speak frequently with each other regarding the status of the account or the prudence of a particular transaction, the courts will usually find that the customer, by maintaining such active interest in the account, thereby maintained control over it.
Importantly, the category which you fall in is not something that you should try to figure out yourself. You should attempt to make this determination in conjunction with a qualified professional.
Please keep in mind that the above information is being provided for educational purposes only. It is not designed to be complete in all material respects. Thus, it should not be relied upon as providing legal or investment advice. If you have any questions concerning this post, you should contact a qualified professional. | 2019-04-23T04:31:34 | https://www.floridastockfraudblog.com/2013/11/common-stock-preferred-stock-corporate-bonds-municipal-bonds-etfs-and-mutual-funds---south-florida-s.shtml |
0.992177 | When I was growing up, my parents would occasionally remind me of what I now know as the Thumper Rule (because it was one of Thumper's lines, repeated back to his mother when she chastised him for not following it, in Disney's Bambi): "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." They would also remind me that you can almost always come up with something nice to say about someone if you think about it for a while. Yet I still sometimes thought that truth alone was a sufficient criterion for making a statement.
If the statement is true, kind and necessary, you should make it. In fact, you should go out of your way to make it.
If true and kind but unnecessary, or true and necessary but unkind, you may make the statement unsolicited, and should make the statement in response to a direct question if you do not have an answer that satisfies all three.
If true but neither kind nor necessary, you should not make the statement unsolicited, but may make the statement in answer to a direct question. However, there are other options that may be better, including demurring, responding without answering the question, or simply remaining silent.
If none, the statement should never be made.
If a statement satisfies at least two out of three of true, kind and necessary, then it may be made.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am a bit of a stickler for truth, so I'm not keen on the idea of making a statement that is kind, necessary and not true. But there are people who do not share my view, and for those people there is some logic in this position. Using that same logic, it would be acceptable to give an answer that satisfies any one of the three in response to a direct question. Perhaps the canonical example would be answering "no" to the question "Does this make me look fat?" when that's not your actual opinion. If you believe that "little white lies" are acceptable, this might be the guideline that helps distinguish between those "white lies" and lies of other colors.
Or perhaps you should say nothing, if your words would not improve the silence.
I think Dale Carnegie would have agreed with you.
Someone invites you to a meeting and you do not want to go.
Truth: I don't want to meet with you.
Lie: My car broke down so I can't make it then.
Misleading truth: I already have a meeting (in 10 minutes which will be done in 5 and leave me plenty of time to make yours; but, I really don't want to attend yours and hope this will throw you off).
Is it true and honest?
If what you're saying is true, necessary, and kind but would still contribute nothing positive to the conversation then maybe you're talking about the wrong thing? | 2019-04-19T06:55:41 | http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2008/09/true-kind-necessary.html |
0.9997 | One strategy for building pectoral muscles is to separate the chest into four areas: upper chest, lower chest, inner chest, and out chest.
An anatomical illustration showing many muscles in the upper body, including the pectoralis major.
A variety of weight workouts may help build pectoral muscles.
Incline bench presses, a variation of flat bench presses, primarily work the upper chest and shoulder muscles.
An incline bench press is an exercise in which a person lies down with his back at an incline.
Push-ups strengthen the upper chest muscles.
Because the pectoral muscles are large, a workout to build pectoral muscles can be quite strenuous. It is important to work the different groups of pectoral muscles consistently to get the best results, and a variety of weight workouts can help build pectoral muscles safely and quickly. Consistency is key, and a workout regiment should be adhered to as closely as possible for as long as possible, preferably for a period of a few months.
One strategy to build pectoral muscles is to break the chest down into four parts: the upper chest, lower chest, inner chest, and outer chest. Then, it is necessary to find specific exercises that will benefit each group. Isolate the specific exercises into a workout routine, focusing on one area per workout. For example, on day one, work on the upper chest. On day two, rest. On day three, work on the lower chest. Continue this pattern on a schedule that works for you.
To build pectoral muscles in the upper chest, an incline bench press is a good start. An incline bench press is an exercise in which a person lies down with his or her back at a slight incline. Then, a barbell can be lifted above the body for several repetitions. People who want to build pectoral muscles but are new to this exercise should start with less weight and work his or her way up. Another good exercise for this area of the chest is the incline dumbbell fly.
To build pectoral muscles in the lower chest, try a decline bench press, which is essentially the same thing as an incline bench press, except instead of lying with the back slightly raised, the lifter will lie down with his or her back slightly lowered so the chest is below the hips. Another good option for lower chest muscles is the parallel bar dip, in which a person holds onto parallel bars, one with each hand, and lowers him or herself, then raises back up again.
The flat bench dumbbell fly and cable weight crossovers are good ways to improve the inner chest muscles. These exercises involve cross-body movements or movements that expand and contract the inner chest muscles. A flat bench press, in which the body lies flat on the bench, is a good way to improve outer chest muscle strength.
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What is a Dumbbell Fly? | 2019-04-20T02:39:38 | http://www.wisegeek.net/what-are-the-best-ways-to-build-pectoral-muscles.htm |
0.999965 | A federal judge has ruled that U.S. securities laws may cover an initial coin offering, handing the government a legal victory in its effort to regulate billions of dollars in cybercurrency offerings much like it does stocks.
The ruling came in a criminal case against a man charged with promoting digital currencies backed by investments in real estate and diamonds that prosecutors said didn't exist. U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie in Brooklyn, N.Y., said on Tuesday that the government can proceed with a case alleging that an initial coin offering is a security for purposes of federal criminal law.
"This ruling affirms the SEC's position that it has authority over ICOs and that market manipulation and anti-fraud provisions in the law apply," said Peter Henning, a professor at Wayne State University's law school in Detroit.
The New York case, which prosecutors said was the first criminal prosecution of its kind, involves Maksim Zaslavskiy. The Brooklyn businessman was charged with conspiracy and two counts of securities fraud in the defrauding of investors in two initial coin offerings. He'd argued that the ICOs at issue weren't securities but instead currencies. Zaslavskiy also said securities law was too vague to be applied to initial coin offerings.
In his ruling Tuesday, the judge said it will ultimately be up to the jury to decide whether the ICO at issue was a security, but the allegations in the indictment would support such a finding. The judge's decision focused on the particulars of Zaslavskiy's alleged ICOs, and not on other ICO transactions, but if upheld on appeal, the ruling could have broader ramifications.
"Per the indictment, no diamonds or real estate, or any coins, tokens, or currency of any imaginable sort, ever existed -- despite promises made to investors to the contrary," Dearie said in his ruling. "Simply labeling an investment opportunity as a 'virtual currency' or 'cryptocurrency' does not transform an investment contract -- a security -- into a currency."
ICOs are a fundraising mechanism used by blockchain startups that are similar to initial public offerings in equity markets. In an ICO, however, the money is raised before a product is ready for market. A team of developers and designers offers digital assets for sale that will be needed later on to access the software that's being developed. In theory, if there is demand for that software -- say a service like Uber but that is hosted on a decentralized network like the Ethereum blockchain -- the coins used to access that service will be in demand and therefore rise in value.
Clayton has repeatedly said the vast majority of the offerings should be registered and that the coins trade on secondary markets like other securities the SEC regulates. But ICOs have been slow to subject themselves to the agency's oversight, with a relatively small number of issuers moving to register. In a January interview, Clayton pledged to sanction more firms "if people don't change their ways."
Prosecutors argued that investments offered by Zaslavskiy in the two ICOs -- ReCoin Group Foundation and Diamond Reserve Club -- were investment contracts that were securities under federal securities laws. The judge, who on Tuesday rejected the defendant's request to have the case dismissed, voiced skepticism about the defendant's arguments that securities laws didn't apply to him.
"There was no blockchain, no real estate, there were no diamonds," Dearie told the defense at a hearing to dismiss the case in May. "It just wasn't there. It's a gossamer. There's just nothing to it."
Mildred Whalen, a lawyer for Zaslavskiy, didn't immediately return a voice mail message seeking comment. Zaslavskiy client has denied wrongdoing. John Marzulli, a spokesman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue, whose office is prosecuting the case, declined to comment. An SEC spokesman also declined to comment. | 2019-04-24T14:02:29 | http://cream.technology/crypto-news/145-general/1692-ruling-digital-currency-a-security |
0.998581 | (4) Figures to the right indicate full marks. 1 (a) Two concurrent forces P and Q acts at O such that resultant acts along x-axis. Determine the magnitude of Q and hence the resultant.
(4 marks) 1 (b) A cylinder with 1500 N weight is resting in an unsymmetrical smooth groove as shown in figure. Determine the reactions at the point of contacts.
(6 marks) 2 (b) Two cylinder are kept in a channel as shown in figure. Determine the reactions at all the contact points A,B,C and D. Assume all surfaces smooth.
(8 marks) 2 (c) A ball of mass 'm' hits directly to a similar ball of mass 'm' which is at rest. The velocity of first ball after impact is zero. Half of the initial kinetic energy is lost in impact. Find coefficient of restitution.(6 marks) 3 (a) Determine the Centre of gravity of the shadded area.
(8 marks) 3 (b) The lines of action of three forces concurrent at origin 'O' pass respectively through points A(-1,2,4), B(3,0,-3) and C(2,-2,4)m. The magnitude of forces are 40N, 10N and 30N respectively. Determine the magnitude and direction of their resultant.(6 marks) 3 (c) A 30N block is released from rest. It slides drown a rough incline having coefficient of friction 0.25. determine the maximum compression of the spring.
(6 marks) 4 (a) Find the support reaction at B and the load P, for the beam shown in figure if the reaction at support A is zero.
(8 marks) 4 (b) A gunman fires a bullet with a velocity of 100m/s 50? upwards from the top of a bill 300m high to hit a bird. The bullet misses its target and finally lands on the ground. Calculate (a) the maximum height reached by the bullet above the ground (b) total time of flight (c) velocity with which the bullets hits the ground.(6 marks) 4 (c) In the mechanism shown the angular velocity of link AB is 5 rad/sec anticlockwise. At the instant shown, determine the angular velocity of link BC velocity of piston C.
(8 marks) 5 (b) Due to slipping points A and B on the rim of the disk have the velocity as shown in figure. Determine the velocity of the centre point C and point D on the rim at this instant. Take radius of disk 0.24m.
(6 marks) 5 (c) A particle moves in a straight line with a velocity-time diagrams shown in figure. If S=-25m at t=0, draw displacement time and accelerator time diagrams for 0 to 24 seconds.
(8 marks) 6 (b) A force of 1200N acts along PQ, P(4,5,-2) and Q(-3,1,6)m. calculate its moment about a point A(3,2,0)m(4 marks) 6 (c) A point moves along the path y=x2/3 with a constant speed of 8m/s. What are the x and y component of the velocities when x=3. What is the acceleration of the point when x=3.(4 marks) 6 (d) A two step pulley support two weights A=40N and B=60N as shown. Find the downward acceleration of A if radius of bigger pulley is double that of the smaller one. Neglect friction and inertia of pulley. | 2019-04-24T18:49:59 | http://www.ques10.com/p/1008/engineering-mechanics-question-paper-may-2014-fi-2/ |
0.999045 | Could 'Grover the Good' win the White House today?
As a prominent Democratic newspaper, the World’s support for Cleveland, the Democratic nominee, was to be expected. But such insistent praise for a candidate’s truthfulness and honor was as remarkable then as it would be now — voters in the Gilded Age, like voters in the Digital Age, had ample grounds to regard “honest politician” as a contradiction in terms.
Applied to Cleveland, however, it was the unadorned truth. He was known above all for his integrity, and rarely has the power of such a reputation propelled a political figure so far, so fast. In 1882, he had taken office as the newly elected mayor of Buffalo and promptly declared war on a ring of crooked city aldermen who were taking kickbacks on inflated public contracts. The new mayor, derailing one such contract, flayed the council members who had approved it for their “barefaced, impudent, and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people.” Cleveland’s refusal to turn a blind eye to graft drew notice well beyond the city’s limits. Less than a year into his term as mayor, he became the Democratic candidate for governor of New York and went on to win the office in a landslide.
As governor, Cleveland battled constantly with Tammany Hall, the infamous New York City political machine, which controlled votes and manipulated elections through fraud, patronage, and intimidation. Unintimidated by Tammany’s clout, Cleveland fired corrupt officials linked to the machine, vetoed pork-barrel bills, and publicly inveighed against the political spoils system. Once again his implacable honesty made him a hero to voters hungry for better government. Hardly had Cleveland gotten used to being governor when reform Democrats began talking about him as presidential material.
That sent the convention into a paroxysm of adoration and cheers. Tammany’s obstructionist efforts came to naught. Delegates voted overwhelmingly to make Cleveland their standard-bearer, setting up a contest between a rough-hewn Democrat who had never even seen the nation’s capital and a dapper Republican — former House Speaker, Senator, and Secretary of State James G. Blaine of Maine — who was the very epitome of an entrenched Washington insider.
Voters were impressed. Cleveland won the election, the first Democrat to be chosen president since James Buchanan in 1856, and the last until Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
The remarkable Cleveland is generally remembered by Americans today, when they remember him at all, as the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms — he lost his bid for reelection in 1888 (despite winning a majority of the popular vote), but he ran again successfully in 1892. What he should be remembered for is his monumental incorruptibility and commitment to ethical government. As he had in Buffalo and in Albany, Cleveland brought with him to Washington the ardent conviction that “a public office is a public trust,” and that it was never appropriate for government to dole out favors at taxpayers’ expense, no matter how politically expedient.
He was never paralyzed by the fear of saying “no.” In his first term alone, Cleveland vetoed 414 bills, more than double the total of all the presidents who preceded him. Over his eight years in the White House, Cleveland rejected an astonishing 584 bills passed by Congress. That many of those measures were popular feel-good measures, such as authorizations for specious veterans’ pensions, makes Cleveland’s fortitude all the more impressive. Only 1 percent of his vetoes were overridden — a testament to the power of ethical principle to withstand the political appetite for spending other people’s money.
Some presidents never met a principle they wouldn’t abandon for electoral gain. Cleveland, principled to the bone, was of a different breed. | 2019-04-23T10:50:41 | http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby021915.php3 |
0.999773 | Bessette Pitney Text: A Spine Grows in Iowa?
A Spine Grows in Iowa?
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley called on President Donald Trump to “drain the swamp” and rescind an opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) that attempted to insulate unelected government bureaucrats from questions by the people’s elected representatives in Congress.
In his letter to the President, Grassley excoriates the OLC opinion for its claim that congressional committees and committee chairmen are the only “constitutionally authorized” requests for information originating in the legislative branch.
Grassley lays out a thorough case for the constitutional need for every member of Congress to request and receive information from the executive bureaucracy regardless of committee membership, chairmanship. Grassley also emphasizes the importance of oversight and inquiry regardless of partisan affiliation.
“I know from experience that a partisan response to oversight only discourages bipartisanship, decreases transparency, and diminishes the crucial role of the American people’s elected representatives,” Grassley said in his letter.
He further notes that the Obama administration continuously relied on “tenuous claims of privilege” to avoid scrutiny, leading to increased brinkmanship between the Legislative Branch and Executive Branch.
Grassley has long advocated for transparency in government and strong congressional oversight. Earlier this week, Grassley testified to the importance of unobstructed Congressional oversight in a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The hearing covered the continuously obstructed and still-pending investigation into Operation Fast and Furious at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a sad example of obstruction when oversight could make for better governance and improved accountability.
In February, I wrote to you about the importance of empowering whistleblowers to help you “drain the swamp.” Today, I write to urge you to encourage cooperation with congressional oversight as another key way to accomplish that goal and to alert you to a bureaucratic effort by the Office of Legal Counsel to insulate the Executive Branch from scrutiny by the elected representatives of the American people.
Our Constitutional system of separation of powers grants to Congress all legislative authority. The Supreme Court has recognized time and again that the power of congressional inquiry is inherent in these vested legislative powers. That is because without access to information held by the Executive Branch, Congress cannot legislate effectively or help assure the American people that their hard‑earned tax dollars are being spent wisely.
Every member of Congress is a Constitutional officer, duly elected to represent and cast votes in the interests of their constituents. This applies obviously regardless of whether they are in the majority or the minority at the moment and regardless of whether they are in a leadership position on a particular committee. Thus, all members need accurate information from the Executive Branch in order to carry out their Constitutional function to make informed decisions on all sorts of legislative issues covering a vast array of complex matters across our massive federal government.
Unfortunately, the May 1, 2017 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion authored by Acting Assistant Attorney General Curtis E. Gannon on this topic completely misses the mark. It erroneously rejects any notion that individual members of Congress who may not chair a relevant committee need to obtain information from the Executive Branch in order to carry out their Constitutional duties. It falsely asserts that only requests from committees or their chairs are “constitutionally authorized,” and relegates requests from non-Chairmen to the position of “non-oversight” inquiries—whatever that means.
The Constitution does not mention committees or committee Chairmen at all. The committee structure in Congress is simply how the Legislative Branch has chosen to internally organize itself. It works through committees “[b]ecause of the high volume and complexity of its work,” not for the purpose of cutting off the flow of information to members who do not chair those committees. Unless Congress explicitly tells the Executive Branch to withhold information based on committee membership or leadership position, there is no legal or Constitutional basis for the Executive Branch to do so.
[R]egardless of the Office’s ultimate legal conclusions, it should strive to ensure that it candidly and fairly addresses the full range of relevant legal sources and significant arguments on all sides of a question.
The Office must strive in our opinions for clear and concise analysis and a balanced presentation of arguments on each side of an issue.
The most recent OLC opinion is anything but balanced. For example, it fails to cite and analyze any authority that challenges its conclusion.
As a result, the opinion takes an unduly restrictive and unsupported view of the responsibilities of Members of Congress and the nature of congressional oversight. In so doing, the opinion equates requests from individual members to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from unelected members of the public. But the powers vested in the Congress—both explicitly and inherently by the Constitution—impose significant and far-reaching responsibilities on the people’s elected representatives. They include the authorization and appropriation of federal funds, the organization of federal departments, the enactment of laws executing the enumerated powers, the confirmation of nominees, the impeachment and removal of officers, and the investigation of the execution of the laws and of waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs. These responsibilities are all forms of oversight, all mechanisms that support the legislative check and balance of the executive power. All members participate in deciding whether, when, and how Congress will exercise these authorities.
The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recognized in Murphy v. Dep’t of the Army that, “[a]ll Members [of Congress] have a constitutionally recognized status entitling them to share in general congressional powers and responsibilities, many of them requiring access to executive information.” Each member “participates in the law-making process; each has a voice and a vote in that process; and each is entitled to request such information from the executive agencies as will enable him to carry out the responsibilities of a legislator.” Yet, the OLC opinion ignores these points and authorities. It avoids good faith presentation of any significant arguments contrary to its conclusion. It utterly fails to acknowledge or respond to anything supporting the notion that a request from a Member of Congress might be entitled to greater weight than a FOIA request.
The OLC opinion also inexplicably asserts that this responsibility of congressional “oversight” is restricted to only certain inquiries made by Chairmen or full committees on the grounds that only those responses can be compelled. As the OLC opinion notes, the rules of the House and the Senate authorize its standing committees to conduct oversight. And that authority, as the Supreme Court has recognized time and again, is extremely broad.
It is true that through this process Congress can compel the production of witnesses and documents. However, the scope of information Members of Congress need from the Executive Branch in order to carry out their Constitutional duties is far broader than merely what is obtained through compulsory process. The vast majority of information Congress obtains, even through a Chairman’s requests, is obtained voluntarily, not by compulsion. Yet, reading the OLC opinion, it would seem oversight is only “oversight” if it’s mandatory.
Simply put, that’s just not how it works.
First, by declaring that non-Chairman requests are not “authorized,” OLC purports to speak for the Legislative Branch, an act which itself lacks any authority. It simply is not the province of another branch of government to say which information gathering activities by Members of Congress are “authorized” or not. Voluntary requests for information from the Executive Branch by members or groups of members without regard to committee chairmanship or membership have occurred and have been accommodated regularly since the beginning of the Republic.
It would be an inappropriate intrusion into the legislative sphere for the courts to decide without congressional direction that, for example, only the chairman of a committee shall be regarded as the official voice of the Congress for purposes of receiving such information, as distinguished from its ranking minority member, other committee members, or other members of the Congress.
It is just as inappropriate for the Executive Branch as it would be for the Courts. Receiving information in response to voluntary requests is completely different from compelling information, and Members of Congress need access to both in order to do their jobs effectively. But the OLC opinion unnecessarily conflates the two in order to reach its conclusions.
Second, as noted above, nothing in the committee structure or in our internal rules suggests that Congress meant to stifle the flow of information to non-Chairmen. In fact, the consideration of compulsory process generally requires the consent or other participation of non-Chairmen. That process almost always begins with voluntary requests and negotiations with the Executive Branch. Non-Chairmen need to, and often do, participate in receiving information voluntarily in the course of that process in order to determine whether, and when, compulsory process becomes necessary. And, the decision to enforce that process through contempt belongs to the whole body—a decision in which every Member participates.
Even a cursory review of House and Senate committee rules, which the OLC apparently did not perform, plainly shows that most committees’ rules envision or require the participation of the minority ranking member or even the full committee in the issuance of a subpoena. Only a handful of committees have delegated the authority to a Chairman to unilaterally issue a subpoena without even consulting or notifying the Ranking Member. Thus, OLC’s distinction between Chairmen as “authorized” to seek information because such oversight can be compelled by a Chairman acting alone is mostly false. The Executive Branch’s so-called “longstanding” practice of responding only to Chairmen plainly does not, and cannot, depend on the voluntariness of such a response. The actual practice in almost every case, whether made to a Chairman or not, is that responses are fully voluntary.
The Executive Branch has in fact been voluntarily responding to requests from individual members for the entirety of its existence, whether or not those members did or had the power to unilaterally issue a subpoena. In most cases, congressional requests—even from Chairmen—never reach the compulsory stage precisely because of this process of voluntary accommodation. Traditionally, a subpoena has been used as a last resort, when the voluntary accommodation process has already failed. Thus that process begins, or at least ought to begin, well before a Chairman or a committee issues a subpoena or a house issues a contempt citation. OLC offers no authority indicating that courts expect the other two branches to cooperate with each other only when compelled to do so. Such a position would itself undermine the very purpose of comity and cooperation between the branches.
Imagine if the Congress took a similar position and refused to voluntarily disclose any information to an Executive Branch official unless the official was capable of compelling an answer. Imagine Congressional legal opinion instructing Members and staff to withhold all information about bills, nominations, or appropriations from most Executive Branch officials on the grounds that Congress has “no constitutional obligation to accommodate information requests from the Deputy Undersecretary of Legislative Affairs.” It’s absurd. It would never happen, but that is analogous to what this OLC opinion says. Members of Congress simply do not treat Executive Branch officials with such contempt and they do not deserve such treatment in return. This is especially true given that, unlike virtually all Executive Branch officials, Members are elected to Constitutional positions. Instead, the Executive Branch should work to cooperate in good faith with all congressional requests to the fullest extent possible.
Finally, the practical implications of the policy that this opinion is reportedly designed to support are extremely troublesome for the effective and efficient functioning of our constitutional democracy. Notably, leaving aside the fact that the contrived distinction between “oversight” and “non-oversight” requests makes little sense, the opinion does not say that determinations whether to comply voluntarily with an individual request depend or should depend upon the party of the requester. Nonetheless, I know that bureaucrats in the Executive Branch sometimes choose to respond only to the party in power at the moment. I also encountered significant problems in gaining answers to my requests from the Obama administration, whether I was in the majority or the minority.
I know from experience that a partisan response to oversight only discourages bipartisanship, decreases transparency, and diminishes the crucial role of the American people’s elected representatives. Oversight brings transparency, and transparency brings accountability. And, the opposite is true. Shutting down oversight requests doesn’t drain the swamp, Mr. President. It floods the swamp.
I also know from long experience that, even in a highly charged political environment, most requests for information—by majority and minority members—are not “partisan” or at least not intended to be so. Many requests simply seek information to help inform Members as they perform their Constitutional duty to legislate and fix real problems for the American people. That is the kind of information Republicans and Democrats in Congress need to be able to do our jobs on behalf of the people we all represent.
Therefore, I respectfully request that the White House rescind this OLC opinion and any policy of ignoring oversight request from non-Chairmen. It harms not just the Members who happen to be in the minority party at the moment, but also, Members in the majority party who are not currently Chairmen. It obstructs what ought to be the natural flow of information between agencies and the committees, which frustrates the Constitutional function of legislating. | 2019-04-21T06:25:09 | http://www.bessettepitney.net/2017/06/a-spine-grows-in-iowa.html |
0.999486 | Iron (II,III) oxide Fe3O4 nanoparticles (25 and 50 nm NPs) are grafted with amine groups through silanization in order to generate a positively charged coating for binding negatively charged species including DNA molecules. The spatial nature of the coating changes from a 2-D-functionalized surface (monoamines) through a layer of amine oligomers (diethylenetriamine or DETA, about 1 nm in length) to a 3-D layer of polyamine (polyethyleneimine or PEI, thickness ≥ 3.5 nm). These Fe3O4–PEI NPs were prepared by binding short-chain PEI polymers to the iodopropyl groups grafted on the NP surface. In this work, the surface charge density, or zeta potential, of the nanoparticles is found not to be the only factor influencing the DNA binding capacity, which also seems not to be affected by their buffering capacity profile in the range of pH 4–10. This study also allows the investigation of this 3-D effect on the surface of a nanoparticle as opposed to conventional 2-D amine functionalization. The flexibility of the PEI coating, which consists of only 1, 2, and 3° amines, on the nanoparticle surface has a significant influence on the overall DNA binding capacity and the binding efficiency (or N/P ratio). These polyamine-functionalized nanoparticles can be used in the purification of biomolecules and the delivery of drugs and large biomolecules. | 2019-04-26T09:18:13 | http://nsysa.ism-bordeaux.cnrs.fr/publications/2013/11-scientific-production/publications-2013/29-article-2013-19.html |
0.998607 | Despite early predictions and rapid progress in research, the introduction of personal genomics into clinical practice has been slow. Several factors contribute to this translational gap between knowledge and clinical application. The evidence available to support genetic test use is often limited, and implementation of new testing programs can be challenging. In addition, the heterogeneity of genomic risk information points to the need for strategies to select and deliver the information most appropriate for particular clinical needs. Accomplishing these tasks also requires recognition that some expectations for personal genomics are unrealistic, notably expectations concerning the clinical utility of genomic risk assessment for common complex diseases. Efforts are needed to improve the body of evidence addressing clinical outcomes for genomics, apply implementation science to personal genomics, and develop realistic goals for genomic risk assessment. In addition, translational research should emphasize the broader benefits of genomic knowledge, including applications of genomic research that provide clinical benefit outside the context of personal genomic risk.
Despite early predictions [1,2], genomic research has not (yet) created a new, more personalized medical care. Many reasons have been offered for this gap between expectations and reality. Some emphasize the evidence deficit: few genetic tests have been demonstrated to improve health outcomes [3,4]. Others point to the slow process of translation, calling for clinician education and decision support to expedite uptake of personal genomics [5,6]. Still others question the proposition that genomics will revolutionize medical care, arguing instead that expectations for personal genomics are inflated . In this paper we explore these explanations and suggest that each offers insights for addressing the gap between genomic knowledge and clinical application.
Many genetic tests have been marketed with scant evidence of clinical value. For example, a guidelines group evaluating CYP450 testing to inform use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for depression found no evidence that testing assisted decisions about drug use or improved patient outcomes . Further, CYP450 genotypes were not clearly correlated with drug levels in people using SSRIs . Clinicians are unlikely to embrace practice change when the evidence for benefit is so uncertain or incomplete.
But how much evidence is enough? The few tests that have moved rapidly into clinical practice suggest that evidence requirements vary. For example, clinical testing for BRCA mutations began within a few years of gene discovery, based on strong evidence of clinical validity—that is, evidence for a significant association between mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and risk of breast and ovarian cancer —but without evidence of improved health outcomes after testing . The likely explanation for this rapid translation is that clinicians valued a test that could identify which members of high-risk families had inherited the cancer risk. In this instance, clinical validity was sufficient to provide a test with a clear clinical purpose: to guide screening and prevention measures already in use for women at high risk .
Gene expression profiling of breast tumors offers a more contested example. Gene expression assays can be used to identify women at low risk of recurrence, who might safely avoid adjuvant chemotherapy, and clinical studies document changes in chemotherapy recommendations with testing . However, there are differences of opinion among expert groups about the evidence. Some consider the retrospective data establishing the clinical validity of gene expression profiling sufficient, while others argue that prospective clinical trials are still needed [13,14]. In fact, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have played a pivotal role in the uptake of some genetic tests: an RCT demonstrating benefit was key to wide adoption of pharmacogenetic testing for the drug abacavir [15,16]. Conversely, recent RCTs with partially conflicting results have failed to resolve the debate about the value of pharmacogenetic testing for warfarin therapy [17–19].
The issue of adequate evidence is likely to become even more controversial as whole genome approaches are adopted. For example, success in the development of targeted therapies for some tumor mutations has led to increasing use of tumor genome analysis in oncology . Yet tumors are often genetically heterogeneous and develop new genetic changes over time ; therefore, assessing appropriate uses and outcomes of this testing approach may require innovative analytic approaches.
These examples indicate that the evidence needed to justify clinical use of a new genetic test varies. For tests that meet a defined clinical need, the evidence requirements are likely to be obvious, and often may not involve RCTs, as BRCA testing illustrates. Where the purpose of testing is less clear, or the results difficult to interpret, the evidence requirements are likely to be more stringent, and experts may disagree on the evidence threshold. Expediting genomic translation therefore requires two efforts related to evidence: more clinical research focused on health outcomes, and consensus development concerning acceptable evidence thresholds for different uses of genomic information . Evidence requirements will be particularly important—and challenging to define—as genomics moves from tests of individual genes to whole exome and whole genome testing.
Although lack of evidence explains why some genetic tests are slow to enter clinical practice, it cannot explain the poor uptake of tests for which there is strong evidence of benefit. Documented barriers to appropriate genetic testing include lack of genetics knowledge among point-of-care physicians and a dearth of useful (and useable) clinical decision support. In addition, patients may be concerned about the cost of testing and follow-up or have difficulty understanding complex testing protocols. Patient follow-up may be particularly challenging among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations . As these barriers suggest, there is no single “correct” approach to implementation issues, because health systems vary in staffing, location, and capacity of the different clinical specialties involved. In particular, genetics resources (genetic counselors, medical geneticists, specialists with genetics expertise) vary and may dictate differing assignment of responsibilities in different health systems.
A case in point is universal tumor screening for Lynch Syndrome (LS) among patients with colorectal cancer. LS is a condition that confers a high lifetime risk of colorectal cancer and accounts for 2%–4% of colorectal cancers in the US . The Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention (EGAPP) program recommends screening for LS in individuals newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer to identify patients and family members at risk who will benefit from targeted screening and follow-up . There are many approaches to LS screening, involving choices about the initial screening test, the application of family history criteria at different stages of screening, and the methods used to reach family members when a proband is diagnosed with LS. Successful screening therefore requires local planning to define the preferred screening approach, followed by systematic procedures for implementation of each step of the screening process [26,27]. Given this complexity, it is not surprising that universal LS screening is far from common, with significant variability in screening procedures and low rates of follow-up of patients and family members [23,27,28].
Implementation science, which focuses on identifying and overcoming barriers associated with deploying and tailoring new interventions, offers a means to address the gap between testing capability and practice. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), developed by health services researchers at the Veterans Administration, can be a particularly useful framework because it provides a model that can inform both the initial implementation approach and the subsequent analysis that identifies the barriers and facilitators of success that can be used to guide improvements . As summarized in Table 1, CFIR recognizes several domains critical for successful deployment of a new medical service. The application of this framework to LS screening (Table 1) identifies many factors in implementation, and points to specific actions that institutions could take to improve uptake. For example, institutions need to be mindful of local capabilities and the need to coordinate LS screening across the different specialties of oncology, gastroenterology, and primary care. Some suggest the Electronic Medical Record as a way to standardize guideline adherence. However, not all organizations will have the information technology capabilities necessary for successful implementation [30,31]. Institutions may also need to consider the genetics knowledge of the clinicians ordering the tests and the commitment of institution administrators to implementation of a new standard of care. LS screening is likely to be launched successfully only if these issues are taken into account as screening procedures are adapted to local circumstances.
Tab. 1. Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) domains and Lynch Syndrome screening implementation.
Planning, buy-in, and execution will take different forms for different applications of genomic medicine, but the systematic approaches suggested by the CFIR framework will remain relevant. With the move from programs based on single gene conditions such as LS to genome sequencing approaches, a wide range of implementation challenges will need to be considered, including efficient identification and referral of patients, informed consent procedures, laboratory quality measures, and the scope of secondary findings, unrelated to the clinical problem for which testing was done, to be assessed and delivered. To address these challenges, investments in implementation science will be an important priority for genomics.
As efforts to strengthen the evidence base and pursue implementation science are undertaken, there is a concurrent need to define realistic expectations for personal genomics. The health information incorporated in the human genome is complex and heterogeneous; its value varies according to both the nature of the information and the circumstances of the patient. Information about being a carrier for an X-linked or autosomal recessive disease, for example, is primarily of value for people of reproductive age, and only then if they choose to use such information in reproductive decision making. Similarly, cancer risk information may be highly valuable to a young adult but of little interest to an elderly patient with end stage heart disease. This heterogeneity points to a central challenge for genomic medicine: the need to define the genomic information that is useful in a particular clinical context.
For example, pharmacogenetic testing can improve the safety of abacavir treatment for HIV-AIDS, and thiopurine treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia [15,32]. In both cases, pharmacogenetic tests are relevant only in particular clinical circumstances and serve to identify the minority of patients who are at risk for severe adverse reactions, so that an alternative drug or dosage can be used. This information has high clinical utility and points to a future in which pharmacogenomic testing will improve the safety and efficacy of medication use. However, conventional drug choices work for most people; few need individualized adjustment. Similarly, the early benefits of whole genome sequencing have related to gene discovery for rare disorders [33,34] and improved diagnosis of individuals with rare phenotypes whose problems have eluded conventional work-up .
Although personal genomics is touted as the means to move from one-size-fits-all to a more individualized approach to health care [20,36], these examples, as well as LS and BRCA testing, suggest a different interpretation: genomic risk assessment identifies the minority of outliers who require a modification in treatment or prevention efforts. These successes of genomic medicine underscore, paradoxically, that one size often does fit most, if not all.
In other words, the benefits of genomic risk assessment are important, but have little to do with the health care needs of most people, most of the time. Universal recommendations for vaccinations, Pap testing, and blood pressure evaluation still apply in the era of genomics, and all of us will benefit from well-balanced diets, regular exercise, and avoidance of cigarettes, no matter what genetic predispositions we have. When individual adjustments to care are needed, they most often relate to comorbidities or social circumstances —for example, individualizing an exercise program for a person who uses a wheelchair or adjusting Pap screening recommendations based on HPV status.
As a corollary, genomic risk prediction is likely to be least effective in addressing the population health burdens that matter most—those deriving from common complex diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Genetics contributes to risk for all these conditions. Rare outliers have high risk due to inheritance of highly penetrant mutations such as those causing LS. More commonly, genetics is only a modest contributor to risk.
For example, variation at over 40 loci is associated with likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, but a few lifestyle factors account for the majority of risk [38–40]. A recent study evaluating diabetes risk in more than 25,000 individuals illustrates the key role of lifestyle. In this study, a genetic risk score had substantially less effect on absolute risk than obesity: among normal weight individuals, 10-year risk of type 2 diabetes ranged from 0.25% to 0.89% across genetic score quartiles, while for obese individuals the risk ranged from 4.22% to 7.99% .
The same general observation applies to virtually all other common diseases: although genetic variation contributes to differences in individual risk, lifestyle and other social determinants of health play a dominant role in health outcomes . Variance in genetic risk for common complex diseases is modest compared to the effect of social factors. Thus, although the genomic risk profile of each individual is unique, most people’s genetic susceptibilities fall within a limited range, from a little below to a little above average . This point is particularly important in considering health disparities. For most people, in the words of Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code” . While the heritability of many diseases is only partially defined [20,39], there is little reason to think that a more complete description of genetic contributors will change this fundamental reality .
Further, identifying risk for common diseases is generally not difficult: a variety of metrics, including weight, blood pressure, and biomarkers such as cholesterol and hemoglobin A1c, are available for this purpose. Assisting people to make behavioral changes to reduce their health risks is more difficult. Yet it has been estimated that hundreds of thousands of premature deaths could be avoided by reducing smoking, improving diet, and increasing activity levels . As a corollary, public policies related to availability of healthy food, safe places to exercise, access to smoking cessation programs, and research on lifestyle modification are likely to be better long-term investments for improving public health than providing genetic screening for addressing common disease risks.
To be sure, genomic risk assessment is still of value, and opportunities to improve health outcomes through genomic screening are likely to increase over time. As the LS example illustrates, clinical translation of such discoveries will require both evidence for improved outcomes from screening and systematic efforts to implement screening programs. In addition to single gene conditions like LS, further research may point to ways in which genomic risk profiles can be used to identify outliers with high cumulative risk for complex diseases . As this knowledge accumulates, there will be increasing justification for genome-scale screening to ensure that high-risk individuals are offered appropriate targeted care. In some instances, genomic risk profiling could provide benefits in cases not limited to high-risk conditions like LS: for example, a genomic risk profile for cancer could conceivably outperform family history as a means to identify individuals with moderately increased risk who are candidates for early breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer screening . The potential harms of screening and the many nongenetic contributors to risk suggest, however, that this type of genomic profiling will require robust evidence of benefit .
It remains the case that genomic discovery related to the major disease burdens of the population will yield many variants of small effect. For most such findings, there is no translational gap in personalized medicine to overcome, because the information lacks clinical value. Instead, there will be an increasing need for analytic, technical, and clinical strategies that pull from the genome the information that can improve health care, while avoiding the introduction of large amounts of poorly predictive and distracting health information into the medical record.
Although most gene variants associated with common complex diseases will be poorly predictive and lack clinical utility for individual health care, they nevertheless represent highly valuable research findings. Every gene causally associated with disease is a marker for a biological pathway, potentially revealing unexpected mechanisms of disease, connections between different pathological processes, and interactions between biological pathways and environmental risk factors. Promising examples are proliferating at a rapid rate. For instance, genome wide association studies (GWAS) have clarified the importance of autophagy in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease, identified new loci associated with disease, and pointed to shared pathways between inflammatory bowel disease susceptibility and host responses to mycobacterial infection . In age-related macular degeneration, GWAS played a pivotal role in clarifying the importance of the complement system in pathophysiology of the disease , leading to new insights for therapy. Studies of the genetics of type 2 diabetes similarly provide insights about the relationship between this disorder and cardiovascular disease , the role of immune factors , and diverse contributors to insulin resistance . These examples underscore the power of genome-scale research methods that do not rely on prior biological hypotheses for gene discovery, and point to the increasing potential for progress as researchers move from GWAS to whole genome studies .
Genomics is a source of an expanding set of molecular tools for other avenues of health research as well . For example, there is a growing body of research demonstrating the powerful effect of epigenetic changes in gene expression as a source of disease risk . These studies may provide new insights into social determinants of health and could conceivably inform social policies related to issues such as maternal and early childhood nutrition or other environmental exposures relevant to health.
Genomic research can also improve care by defining the genotypes of other organisms. In a recent widely publicized case, an infectious agent was identified and treated through the use of DNA-based diagnostics , pointing to the growing use of genomics in pathogen identification . This use of genomics is an early indicator of an expanding role for the genomics of pathogenic and symbiotic organisms, with applications including the assessment (and potential amelioration) of the microbiome and the use of genomics in vaccine development .
These examples provide only a glimpse of the potential benefits of genomic health research. However, they offer an important insight about closing the gap between genomic knowledge and clinical care: the task is not solely, or even primarily, one of learning how to use individual genomes in clinical care . A person’s genotype undoubtedly offers useful information in some clinical circumstances, but much of the benefit will come from leveraging genomic knowledge to develop a more precise understanding of molecular physiology. Such efforts point to a different way in which the translational gap may be closed: by developing prevention and therapeutic strategies that provide benefit outside the context of genetic risk.
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55. Zimmer C (4 June 2014) In a first, test of DNA finds root of illness. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/health/in-first-quick-dna-test-diagnoses-a-boys-illness.html?_r=0. Accessed 4 August 2014. | 2019-04-18T12:45:28 | https://www.prolekarniky.cz/casopisy/plos-genetics/2015-2/closing-the-gap-between-knowledge-and-clinical-application-challenges-for-genomic-translation-54681 |
0.999999 | And one used in the Labyrinth..
You're in a room with two doors. There's a guard at each door. One door is the exit, but behind the other door is something that will kill you. You're told that one guard always tells the truth and the other guard always lies. You don't know which guard is which. You are allowed to ask one question to either of the guards to determine which door is the exit. What question should you ask?
I would ask... How many fingers am I holding up?
This one took me a bit.
I'd ask either guard: What door the other guard would say is the good door? And after that I will do the opposite.
Why? Because if I ask the guard who always tells the truth, he knows the other guard will always lie about it and in consequence he'll point me to the bad door.
If I ask the guard who always lies, he knows the other guard will show me the exit, so he'll lie and point me to the bad door too.
A genie in a distant kingdom is so smart and intelligent that he's able to answer and solve every question thrown at him regardless of the topic. What would you ask him to finally defy his knowledge?
What is the question you cannot answer?
Lol Golden, sorry, just saw your edit.. I thought that was a brain teaser at first.
No worries, I just realized I wasn't very specific in my question/answer.
Warlko, do they all go forward and then turn right?
You are standing outside a room with no windows, only a solid door. Outside there are three switches to three lightbulbs inside. You can go inside only once. How do you tell which switch goes to which light bulb.
Also. You are in a room. No windows no doors no way out. made of concrete. No way out.
The only things in the room with you, are a table and a mirror. How do you get out?
1) Turn one switch to off. Let us denote it switch 'A'.
2) Wait a sufficient amount of time.
4) Immediately enter the room.
5) The light remaining on is 'C' and then 'A' and 'B' can be determined from comparing the temperature of the bulbs.
And come on with the pun! the pun is the point!
Context: 10c coins, 20c coins, 50c coins, $1 coins, and $2 coins.
One cannot be a 10c coin.
One is not a 10c coin: That one is a 20c coin.
The other one is the 10c coin.
I ate three bowls of spaghetti for breakfast.
I ate one bowl of spaghetti for lunch.
I ate two bowls of spaghetti for dinner.
How many bowls have I eaten today?
Hopefully none, but you have eaten an awful lot of spaghetti.
Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance.
They decide to devide the bill up evenly and each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room.
A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends.
He pockets the leftover $2 and heads home feeling pleased with himself!
Each friend spent $9 on the room.
But wait..they started with $30!!! Where's the missing dollar gone?
1: There's $30 with the friends.
2: There's $30 with the clerk.
3: There's $5 with the bellhop and $25 with the clerk, 5+25= 30.
4: There's $2 with the bellhop, $25 with the clerk, and $3 with the friends, 2+25+3= 5+25= 30.
I realize that "trick" questions are the point of brain teasers, but isn't it cheating to give false information for your brain teaser?
The $27 they spent on the room includes the $2 in the bellhop's pocket. If you then say there are $2 in the bellhop's pocket and bump the number to $29 you're saying there are $4 in the bellhop's pocket. I'm wondering if that's intended as misleading information (say, including $2 in the bellhop's pocket that aren't related to this particular transaction), or if it's outright misinformation (given that the $2 in his pocket are actually included in the initial $27, meaning you can't add it twice to get $29).
See, the way you have it written there, they spent $29 on the room & bellhop and got $3 back, which means there isn't one missing dollar, there are two extra dollars (as you'd end up with $27 for room, $2 for bellhop, and $3 back to the friends - $32 total). That's if it's misinformation, as opposed to intentionally misleading via including two unrelated dollars.
That's actually a classic 'teaser. I know I've seen it in a Martin Gardner collection along with the fox/chicken/grain problem.
:( This one seemed to be missed!
You find yourself in a room with no windows, doors, holes, cracks, or any other means of escape. In the room with you is a table and a mirror. How do you get out?
Something like this, I may have the exact wording wrong.
Look in the mirror such that you can see the table. Do it again, so that you see what you saw.
Saw the table in half.
Take the two halves of the table and make a whole.
Climb out through the hole.
Woot! You got it! Anyone else wanna try?
I also have one waiting to be solvde.
you ring yourself outside of a room with now windows.
There is a lamp hanging in the room, contoled by one of the three switches outside of the room.
You only get one chance to enter to room, and go back out, and you don't see the light burning from outside of the room.
How can you find out which swicht is controling the lamp? | 2019-04-20T22:43:25 | https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=124069.msg5869981 |
0.999719 | Are stroke survivors who are dissatisfied with the treatments available in Australia at risk of travelling overseas for untested and potentially unsafe stem-cell treatments?
This is the question being asked by a new national study led by the University of Adelaide, in the hope of better understanding people's attitudes to such therapies and their experiences with local health care.
"Whether stem-cell injections are a safe and effective treatment for stroke remains uncertain. But Australian stroke survivors are among the many patients worldwide who travel to countries, including China, India and Mexico, seeking these treatments in the hope of a cure," says PhD student David Unsworth, from the University's School of Psychology.
"Not only does this place them at risk of further medical complications, the financial and emotional costs that are incurred are typically significant. Furthermore, patients who receive these treatments overseas are then ineligible to take part in any research trials back home."
As part of his PhD, Mr Unsworth has co-authored a review focusing on the risks and benefits of cell therapies for stroke, which was recently published in the journal Regenerative Medicine.
In a new nationwide research project, Mr Unsworth, under the supervision of Professors Jane Mathias, Simon Koblar and Dr Diana Dorstyn, is asking: what do stroke survivors really know about stem-cell therapies? What drives them to seek out these experimental treatments? And what do they think of the treatments and services available to them here in Australia?
"By understanding what stroke survivors know about stem-cell therapies, and the reasons why they may seek treatment from unregulated, overseas clinics, we hope to better inform patients and their families about the potential risks involved," Mr Unsworth says.
"In addition, by asking stroke survivors about their experiences in Australian hospitals and rehabilitation centres, we may improve the overall level of stroke care in Australia."
Adelaide stroke survivor Saran Chamberlain had to learn to walk again after suffering a stroke in her late 30s. She still has no feeling in her left hand, little movement in her left arm, and lacks sensation on the left side of her face.
While Saran has been happy with her treatments so far, she says: "I will try anything that may help".
"I have heard that stem-cell treatments can help the brain wake up and that it can also help with pain. I’ve not looked in detail about it but I would certainly consider it," she says.
"I must admit that I'm very excited about the potential benefits of stem-cell therapy, in that one of the benefits could be firing up the brain to get part of the body to move, in my case my hand. In turn though, I'm also conscious of the possible risks associated with it. I’m more excited about it, though." | 2019-04-21T22:29:33 | https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news89582.html |
0.999991 | Free rent on tropical island - is this 'dream job' too good to be true?
Apple is working with Goldman Sachs on a credit card that will carry the iPhone maker's digital wallet logo.
The card will replace a rewards-card Apple currently has with Barclays and is likely to be tied to Apple Pay, the Daily Mail reports.
It will be available in 2019, and could cause a major disruption to traditional high street banks, sources claim.
It could, for instance, provide loyalty points that offer discounts on Apple products. However the exact benefits it will offer remain unclear.
The collaboration comes as Apple puts increasing focus on revenue from online services and content, and as Goldman Sachs seeks to make more money from consumer banking operations.
The partnership was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing unknown sources.
Goldman has been incrementally pushing into consumer banking products.
It does personal loans and savings accounts under the brand Marcus, and has been looking at introducing other consumer products.
A co-brand credit card is when a company partners with a bank to create a credit card that will spur loyalty and spending with the company.
Details of the partnership are scarce, but Apple has indicated for a while that it intends to grow its payment platform, Apple Pay.
Currently only available on Apple devices, expanding into the physical realm will enable the tech company to achieve their ambition of replacing cash and plastic.
It would also allow Apple to serve more customers in a greater capacity.
A credit card would allow devoted iPhone customers to use Apple pay when purchasing items from a place that does not yet accept contactless or digital payment.
The Wall Street Journal did report that the marriage of the two companies could allow Goldman to offer in-store loans to customers buying Apple products.
There are hundreds of co-brand partnerships, with brands large and small, and it's an intensely competitive business for credit card companies.
Apple is a huge and iconic brand, and it would be a symbolic success for Goldman as it enters the consumer credit card market, industry experts claim.
"It's not going to put them on the map when it comes to market share, but it's definitely a strong customer base you want to have," said Brian Riley with Mercator Advisory Group, which specialises in consulting with companies looking to do co-brand credit cards.
This is the second time Apple and Goldman have been mentioned together as potential partners.
The Journal reported earlier this year that Goldman was looking to take over Apple's iPhone financing program from Citizens Bank.
Apple, which still gets most revenue from the iPhone, reported a hefty rise in earnings during the first three months of this year, alleviating worries about the iPhone's prospects and a hit from US-China trade tensions.
Analysts praised a big jump in revenues in Apple's services business, which is seen as an important element of diversification away from having revenues tied to gadgets.
A 31 per cent rise in services to $9.2 billion ($13.2b) was credited to revenue gains from Apple Pay, Apple Music and other programs.
Goldman Sachs Bank USA last month acquired personal finance startup Clarity Money. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Free-to-use Clarity Money is a leading app that uses artificial intelligence to help people manage their finances with personalised, "actionable insights" such as saving money or finding better credit cards, according to Goldman Sachs.
"Consumers want a better way to manage their finances," Goldman Sachs' chief executive Stephen Scherr said in a release.
Goldman Sachs and Apple both declined to comment on the report, which cited unnamed people close to the matter. | 2019-04-20T12:26:59 | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12050216 |
0.999992 | What kind of work visa should I apply for?
Hi - I'm 45 years old. I am a US citizen, born in the UK. I own two businesses in California, both are in tech and I'm CEO of both. One company is a service provider for software dev and has been around about 20 years. The other is a startup company. In order to fund the startup I need to bootstrap more funds into it, so I need to do some consulting. I would like to work in Sydney. I'm in discussion with the SC company about a consulting position there, for $145AUD/hour. I would like to start as soon as I can.
My research into Aus work visas so far indicates a 482 TSS visa might be the right type for me--there is no age limit. I could also open a branch of my company in Sydney, or use the existing overseas company to sponsor myself? Alternately, the SC company could do it, but then I would be able to lose the visa if the job ended, so I don't think that is optimal. If I can get a 4 year 482 I have a path to residency, and that would be good. I am concerned about the processing time and would like to start work immediately. I have an ETA visa now, but want to know if a bridge visa is possible, or if there are any other ways I can start work ahead of visa processing?
It sounds like you have done quite a bit of research. As you point out the 482 TSS visa is a possibility if SC company would sponsor you. That would be your quickest visa and at present it takes around 3 months to be processed. It is possible to get a Bridging visa when you put in an application for a TSS but the Bridging visa usually comes with the same conditions as the original visa, in this case as a Visitor Visa and therefore no work rights.
However it is possible to request work rights, but as it is a request the Department does not have to grant it. My experience has been that they do grant work rights if requested, but there is a possibility it won't.
You could put in an application for a Business Investment Visa, there are various stipulations for that such as turnover, minimum $500,000 per year, be nominated by a government organisation, or you could be nominated by a State or Territory and invest $1.5 million with that state or territory for 4 years. It is also possible to open up a branch of your current company here in Australia but that will take some time to establish. Business Visas can be complicated and I am happy to discuss this further if you would like to explore that particular option.
Having said all that, I imagine that SC company has accredited status and would therefore be eligible for fast track processing of a 482 Visa, probably only a couple of weeks. There is also a possibility you could be sponsored under the Global Talent Visa too. If you were sponsored by SC company you could apply for Permanent Residency after 3 years.
I hope this has answered your questions. If you require anything further feel free to either contact me through this site.
I hope it all goes well for you and I am available to process your visa application either through SC company or a Business Innovation Visa should you require. | 2019-04-21T18:59:19 | https://www.ask-an-agent.com.au/ques_of_week/view_detail_ques/ODE= |
0.991663 | How Can My Agency/Organization/Company Participate in the Campaign?
It's really easy to participate, but you have to make sure you include the #HireMyStrengths hashtag in your posts. The hashtag is the key to getting your posts seen and shared by more people. It allows anyone, whether they follow you or not, to quickly see all the posts for a given topic. It also allows the organizers and other participants in the campaign to quickly identify the #HireMyStrengths posts and retweet or share them on their social media to increase exposure.
Okay, I'm Ready to Get Involved! What Type of Social Media Content Should I Share?
Each one of those posts featured a different person (with or without a disability) who had a simple, one word strength (joker, enthusiasm, caring) written on their paper. Each post includes the person’s first name, something conversational but quick about their strengths, and the #HireMyStrengths hastag. The posts also include #NDEAM and the 2016 NDEAM campaign hashtag: #InclusionWorks. Your posts can get a little busy with all of the different hashtags, especially on Twitter, so don’t feel like you have to include every single one for each post. If you need more characters or want to simplify, you might use one or two but not all 3.
If you have several people at your agency or organization who are interested in participating in Hire My Strengths, you can work with the group to write out their strengths and take pictures at the same time—and save them to post throughout the month. That way we can maintain momentum and increase exposure for everyone involved. On Facebook, you can also create an album for “Hire My Strengths” and post a new picture tagged with #HireMyStrengths in the album every couple of days. One note about Twitter and Facebook—if your Twitter feed is set up to tweet every time you post something on Facebook, you’ll want to independently post the content to Twitter. It’s very common for Facebook posts to be too long for Twitter, and the hashtags get cut off. Remember: No hashtag = fewer eyeballs!
1. The picture campaign is a great way to generate content for your social media outlets, empower the people you support, join the conversation, and gain exposure for your group.
2. Make sure to use the #HireMyStrengths hashtag in your posts—hastagged posts are more likely to get attention: shares, retweets, likes, etc.
3. All “employment” related content is good to share with the #HireMyStrengths hashtag. If it features a person with a disability in the community, use the hashtag!
4. Keep the momentum going! If you have a group of people that’s excited about sharing their story, spread the pictures and other content throughout the month.
5. Be social! If you see other people/agencies/groups posting #NDEAM or #HireMyStrengths content, give it a like/share/favorite/retweet!
The last one isn’t mandatory, but it really is fun to be a part of a campaign like this and see how much attention it generates for such a worthy cause. It’s exciting and inspiring to think up new content and see how well it does on social media.
Inside of your group or organization, start talking to people about employment and about NDEAM. You can start building excitement for October now and start thinking about ways you can showcase what you’re doing in the realm of employing people with disabilities. In September, you might start gathering your media—print off some of the sheets, get people to take pictures, and collect any kind of internal releases/consents/permissions you might need before posting on your social media. And then in October, you can join in the sharing!
If you want to receive updates from the Employment First Taskforce on our social media efforts for NDEAM, send your contact info to [email protected]. You can also contact him if you have any questions about social media or content creation, now or anytime. | 2019-04-25T00:29:02 | http://hiremystrengths.org/toolkit |
0.999994 | (a) We entertained the children by sinigng lovely songs. Our teacher performed the piano.
(b) They liked the songs. Some orphans joined in the singing / song (with us).
(c) They clapped hands to the song. They thanked us for visiting them.
It is correct to say "she performed on the piano" or "she played the piano".
"She performed on the piano"gives an impression that she is"showing off" when playing the piano.
(b) They liked the songs. Some orphans joined in the singing / song (with us). I would prefer singing with us.
(b) Do we say, " ... joined in the song with us."?
Both are correct, but play is much more common.
as the song has already been mentioned?
(a) Some of the children joined in our singing .
(b) They joined in our singing group. | 2019-04-25T02:02:00 | https://www.englishforums.com/English/SingingSong/zjkkn/post.htm |
0.998843 | The carer of a severely disabled man from Nottingham who died on a day trip to a reservoir was on her phone before he died, an inquest has heard.
Majid Akhtar, of Sneinton Dale, Nottingham, was 28 when he died at King's Mill reservoir on September 10 2012.
He was on an activity day from Springwood Day Centre in Mapperley, Nottingham, when he died.
Nottingham Coroner's Court heard on Monday that carer Nikki Deaney was exchanging calls and texts with a man she had recently met on a dating site on the afternoon that Mr Akhtar died.
Mrs Deaney and Mr Akhtar had set off for a walk around the reservoir as he did not want to take part in the water-based activities.
The jury heard from Brynsley Shepheard, the man Mrs Deaney has been talking to on the phone while she had been caring for Mr Akhtar.
When asked to elaborate on the content of the calls and text messages, Mr Shepheard said he could not remember the details.
Mr McNamara said a three minute 53 second call was made at around 1.35pm between Mr Shepheard and Mrs Deaney, with a further call made to the emergency services at 1.42pm.
The jury of eight men and three women had previously heard that during the walk, Mr Akhtar ``fell out of view'' and was found by two people who were walking their dog.
Paramedics were called to the scene and attempts made to revive him, but Mr Akhtar was pronounced dead at King's Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
The inquest is expected to last four weeks. | 2019-04-20T00:24:01 | https://www.capitalfm.com/eastmids/radio/news/local/carer-was-on-the-phone-before-disabled/ |
0.999999 | I will be 39 weeks, and my doctor offered to induce me 5 days before my due date. Should I?
I am nervous because it is my first baby and I heard that being induced may make it a little bit of a worse experience. Please tell me what you think and your stories. Another thing is that I am also pretty miserable and my blood pressure keeps going up, so I am thinking I should do it to be safe. I am dilated 2cm but still have not felt any contractions.
No! It greatly increases your chances of a c-section. I would not consent to an induction before 42 weeks. Average gestation for a first time mother is over 41 weeks. Just wait it out.
I induced the day before my son was due. We had great sucess with it and plan on doing it again this Thursday for my 2nd child. After all the research and opinions out there. In the end it's up to you. With me I wanted to make sure I was at least 3cm dialted and 50-60 effaced and lost my mucus plug prior to inducing. These are all signs your body is preparing for labor. With your blood pressure increasing, I would highly consider inducing. Having to high a blood pressure can cause stress to your child and you my need a c-section because of that. I had an epidural after I started having contractions with my son and everything went smoothly. There is a higher chance of c-section with induction but this also percentage also include people who are have 2nd C-sections and planned c-section. My doctor said people who are induced who are not dialated or only 1 cm have a higher risk than people who are 2-3cm.
No No No! I was induced 3 days past my due date with my first and it was awful and ended in a c section. My body and the baby were just not ready yet. If it becomes an exorbitant amount of time that has passed I would say go for it. But this early I would just wait it out.
I personally would say "no thanks Doc" and see if you can just let the baby come on its own. Until it get to the critcal point you should be fine..uncomfy but fine. With my first my blood pressure was getting scary the last 2 weeks, but then he was on his way! With him I ended up having to get Magnesium after I had him do to my blood pressure issues... but I still had a natural birth. Stick to your guns and make your man be your bouncer! What you decided before you were in labor should be the plan during labor..sometimes they try to get you to change your mind and in your laboring state it's like "that sounds nice". Try and get the meds after you have the baby that way the baby's not effected.
I would say if you know your due date is accurate, go for it. If your not 100% sure on the conception date and your due date may be a bit off, then don't. As a previous comment stated, in the end its up to you, no one else. I was induced 2 weeks past my due date with my first, and it ended in a c-section. And thats at 42 wks! I know people who are induced at 39 and have success. | 2019-04-19T03:09:31 | https://www.babycenter.com/400_i-will-be-39-weeks-and-my-doctor-offered-to-induce-me-5-days_6906592_843.bc |
0.996665 | What is cloud security? Cloud security is the set of control-based technologies and policies designed to adhere to regulatory compliance rules and protect information, data applications and infrastructure associated with cloud computing use. Why do I need this certification? To identify technology enabled for securing mission-critical cloud-based assets under the scope of all policies, processes and compliance considerations that go along with this increasing trend in technology adoption. What will I learn? Application security Data migration Infrastructure architecture Get your Certification in Intermediate Cloud Security Today: The goal of the Intermediate Cloud Security Micro Certification is to provide a closer look at the core concepts cloud computing. Ideally, the student will be able to successfully retain knowledge needed to assess risks in moving to the cloud, identify common best practices, be able to remediate vulnerabilities known in cloud- based platforms, and feel confident as a practitioner in the cloud security. Concepts include application security, data migration, and infrastructure architecture of cloud-based systems. Such concepts are necessary for security professionals to tackle in today's ever-expanding cloud-enabled systems. The target audience for this course is data system owners, and custodians. Each target audience can expect to identify technology enabled for securing mission-critical cloud-based assets under the scope of all policies, processes and compliance considerations that go along with this increasing trend in technology adoption. | 2019-04-23T14:08:56 | https://www.cybrary.it/skill-certification-course/intermediate-cloud-security-certification-training-course/ |
0.999999 | How can I create textures styles with affinity photo?
Good morning, I have Affinity photo for iPad and I have a gardening company.
I need it to make garden designs.
I have given an example of what I want to do with volcanic gravel.
Just take your above top volcanic gravel image and make a style out of it.
I'm just seeing you asked for APhoto and not ADesigner on iPad. Can't tell if there are differences in their implementation regarding styles, since personally I don't use the iPad versions. - However some APh iPad user can hopefully tell you for sure here.
Does APhoto have under Layer Effects that Styles selection as shown in the video? If yes does it has that top hamburger menu too with "Add style from selection"?
On the desktop APh version you would select the gradient tool, switch for that in the context toolbar it's setting to "bitmap", which in turn opens an bitmap image browser and let's you select a PNG/JPG image and then you would add that as a new style to the styles panel.
Here is your above image (two styles inside a "volcania category") created on a desktop APh version, you can try to import that styles file and see if it is reusable for you.
¿Tiene APhoto debajo de Efectos de capa la selección de estilos como se muestra en el video? Si es así, ¿tiene ese menú superior de hamburguesas también con "Agregar estilo de la selección"?
En la versión APh del escritorio, seleccionaría la herramienta de degradado, cambie a eso en la barra de herramientas contextual, está configurando a "mapa de bits", que a su vez abre un explorador de imágenes de mapa de bits y le permite seleccionar una imagen PNG / JPG y luego lo agregaría como Un nuevo estilo para el panel de estilos.
Aquí está su imagen anterior (dos estilos dentro de una " categoría de volcania ") creada en una versión APh de escritorio, puede intentar importar ese archivo de estilos y ver si es reutilizable para usted.
Hello, after many attempts I have been able to create personalized styles, I made a video so you can see the steps to follow, thank you very much for your help. | 2019-04-25T19:50:39 | https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/76209-how-can-i-create-textures-styles-with-affinity-photo/&tab=comments |
0.998468 | Answer is: AExplanation not available for this question.
Which pair is wrong ?
Answer is: BA hydrometer is an instrument used to measure the relative density.
A pyrometer is a type of thermometer used to measure high temperatures.
Which of the following pairs of physical quantities has the same dimensions ?
Which of the following physical quantity is dimensionless ?
Which of the following is not matched ?
The most suitable unit for expressing nuclear radius is ?
Which of the following is not the unit of time ?
Which of the following physical quantities have the same dimensions ? | 2019-04-19T06:41:07 | https://zcos.in/general-study/physics-questions-all |
0.999648 | Generally speaking, laser CNC Router at work, are only needed in the normal environment can be directly processed, do not have to create any special environment to process products. But this is only relative to ordinary products, special circumstances need to be special auxiliary gas to be processed.
So laser CNC Router in cutting metal materials, why said to join the auxiliary gas? There are four reasons: one is to consider the auxiliary gas and metal material to produce chemical reaction, increase the intensity of work ability, better processing; second is through the gas equipment from the cutting zone blow slag, some cleaning slit; the third is cooling slits adjacent area and decrease occurred due to the factors of the size of the heat affected zone, can protect the focusing lens to prevent some of the combustion product contamination of optical lenses. Among them, the most important thing is the first point, generally based on this point to join the auxiliary gas. Since the need to assist gas, then the laser CNC Router which commonly used auxiliary gas it?
Nitrogen: in cutting boards, such as stainless steel or aluminum, nitrogen is used as auxiliary gas, can play a role to the auxiliary cooling and protection materials. Because these materials are prone to oxidation, the use of nitrogen can greatly prevent this from happening.
Oxygen: when cutting carbon steel, you can use the oxygen, because oxygen has a cooling and accelerated combustion to speed up the auxiliary role of cutting. General combustion is the need to have oxygen to be able to burn up, for containing a large amount of carbon impurities in carbon steel can accelerate the burning, so as to quickly cut. But it will appear to have largely blackening.
Air: This is in order to save costs and the use of auxiliary gas, using air as the gas assisted can cut stainless steel, but on the opposite side minor glitches, polished with sandpaper can ensure maximum accuracy. That is to say, the laser CNC Router in cutting a lot of material, it is possible to choose the air as auxiliary gas.
Therefore, laser CNC Router in the use process, usually directly choose air as gas assisted, unless it is finished processing requirements are very high, this time can be properly considered with nitrogen gas as auxiliary; or say hurry to processing of finished products and the choice to use oxygen gas as auxiliary gas. | 2019-04-22T12:05:30 | http://www.cnc-router-manufacturer.com/2016/05/auxiliary-gas-for-optical-fiber-laser.html |
0.99812 | In December 2015, an error with the interviewee's surname and nationality was identified and corrected as follows: (1) surname changed from "Phillips" to "Adeogun-Phillips"; (2) nationality changed from "Great Britain" to "Nigeria/Great Britain."
Lisa P. Nathan: My name is Lisa Nathan. I’m with The Information School at the University of Washington. I would like to thank you so much for your time today.
LPN: To begin with, I would like you to state your name, the, your home country, and your title here at the ICTR.
My name is Charles Adeogun-Phillips. I’m a Nigerian by parentage and British by birth and I’m a senior trial attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
LPN: Thank you. Can you walk me through your timeline at the ICTR and if you’ve had different roles, what they have been?
Indeed. I, I joined the, the ICTR, having had a few years of private practice in the United Kingdom, in January, 1998. I have since been in the Kigali office of the tribunal and the Arusha office. I spent one year in Kigali, investigating the crimes that were committed following the genocide, actually field, active field work. Following which in January, 1999, I came over to Arusha to prosecute the third trial or the fourth trial actually, pardon me, which was the Musema trial, as co-counsel or co-prosecution counsel.
Since the Musema trial, I have prosecuted nine other cases, eight of them as lead prosecution counsel, including the infamous case against Pastor Ntakirutimana alongside Ramsey Clarke who is the former Attorney-General of the United States. And as you know, Pastor Ntakirutimana was the president of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and he was extradited, and the only genocide suspect to be extradited from the United States of America today. So, that’s the story.
LPN: Thank you. I’d like to go back in time, approximately four years before you began working for the ICTR. Can you tell me where you were in the spring of 1994, when the events in Rwanda were unfolding?
I was in London, England in the spring of 1994. I had, I had a very interesting romance with the United Kingdom. I was bundled off to boarding school by my parents in Nigeria when I was 13 or 14 and having been to Repton School in England, I then studied law at Warwick University, went back to Nigeria to qualify as a barrister, and then returned to the UK to qualify as a solicitor. I did a Master’s in International Arbitration and started practicing in the City of London.
And so in 1994, I was in some practice in London when, when this happened. I have very vivid memories of actually watching this on TV as it unfolded and I had no idea that i-, in four years later, or five, three years later, I would be involved and be in the forefront of the development of what has become the fastest growing area of public international law today.
LPN: Can you tell me the story of how you then, y-, 1994 you had no idea.
LPN: So then, how did you come to work here at the ICTR?
Well I was a criminal defense lawyer in London for the most part. I, I worked in a, in a Greek firm in London doing essentially it was a general practice but I was, I was particularly interested in criminal defense work. And having done that for a couple of years, I then met a Nigerian judge who was then sitting at the I-, on the, on the ICTY bench, the, the former Yugoslav tribunal, just by chance.
And he told me that he was a judge in, in an international criminal tribunal and he asked if I would be interested i-, in applying to the sister tribunal, which was then just getting off the ground in Rwanda. I made my application and it was successful.
LPN: Can you tell me about when you first arrived in Kigali?
Well, what I had thought would be essentially a sabbatical from, from private legal practice in, in, in London eventually has lasted well over a decade. The early days in Kigali involved what was the formative years of, of, of an international prosecutorial office. The challenges were, were immense and one of the major challenges of our early years in Rwanda was, was essentially formulating its strategy, an investigative strategy as to how to investigate this, this, this heinous crimes . . .
. . . what strategies to use, how to investigate sexual assault and sexual crimes, what sorts of strategies, what our priorities are. Because you have to bear in mind that we had a set mandate from the Security Council to prosecute those who bear the ultimate and the greatest responsibility for genocide.
Well, how do you determine who, who bears the ultimate responsibility for genocide? What, what, what matrix and what benchmarks do you apply in reaching, in reaching that, that conclusion and the formative years of the office involved exploring various ideas as to how we would determine that. Would we go on the basis of thematic groups, government ministers, military officials, or regional or geographical groups?
It also involved the indifference, the, the, the po-, political indifference to the apprehension of suspects. How do we, how do we apprehend the suspect, because one of the most unique things about international criminal law is that the fugitives are everywhere but in your jurisdiction, and what is so unique is that you lack a police force and any law enforcement power, so you e-, essentially have to rely on the cooperation of member states of the United Nations, and those were very novel issues that we had to tackle.
Other issues, basic and very practical issues such as the composition of staff members. I, being on a team with a common law background, working with a lawyer from France who doesn’t understand the common law approach to this and he, he, he has a, a civil law approach to it. Communication was a problem. I speak only English; many of my colleagues only spoke French, very few of us were multi-li-, multi-lingual.
And apart from that, we, we, in the initial days of our operations, we didn’t have actually fully fledged staff members. We had volunteers, we had secondees from various governments who had seconded people to the tribunal to help out in the investigative process.
With, with the benefit of hindsight, one of the things that strikes me now and i-, if I had to do this again, would be that we lacked the involvement of national staff in the investigative process. We didn’t have any Rwandan help. What is the essential drawback of not having a Rwandan on your investigative team? Well, we’re foreigners.
We’re, we’re not native to the locality and there were so many diverse issues and intricacies about the whole genocide in itself that you, you are unable to understand or grasp at a very early stage if you don’t have that local context. Is that a criticism of, of, of the organization in itself? No; in the sense that it was difficult in the, in the context of Rwanda to involve nationals of Rwanda because you were not sure who was who. It’s a, it’s a conflict of two sides.
So how do you go about recruiting Rwandese staff when you’re not ac-, actually allowed to discriminate between one or the other, so the, the, the most practical thing was just to keep them out until we settled in. Therefore as foreigners, we then had to grapple with understanding the poli-, political and cultural context of the crimes which we investigate.
So there, there were immense issues which are absolutely unique to this area of specialization, the same issues that the ICC would confront in Uganda, in, in the Central African Republic, in the Congo, the same issues that the Yugoslav tribunal may have confronted in the Bosnia. They’re unique to the prosecution of international crimes. | 2019-04-22T18:25:33 | http://www.tribunalvoices.org/voices/video/117 |
0.999881 | 30 years ago, a singing Rob Lowe and Snow White, along with dancing coconuts, marked a low point for the show.
For the first time since 1989, the Oscars will take place without a host. Since Kevin Hart, following a controversy regarding past homophobic tweets, stepped down from the role, the Oscars have failed to secure a new host — a role that's been dubbed as one of the most thankless jobs in Hollywood.
Producers are reportedly planning to have a number of A-list actors introduce segments throughout the night, and while that might not sound too bad on paper, all it takes is a look back to the 1989 broadcast to see just how bad it can actually be. The 1989 Oscars broadcast is considered to be, quite simply, the worst in the award show's history. It was so bad, in fact, that the producer of the show, Allan Carr, the man behind films such as Grease and Grease 2, never worked in Hollywood again. His last producer credit on IMDb is listed as The 61st Annual Academy Awards.
But what could be so bad about an award show as to damage a respected producer's reputation irreparably? All one has to do is watch the opening number, which included in its approximately 11-minute runtime, among others things, Snow White, dancing Hollywood stars (as in, actual five-point stars), a singing Merv Griffin, dancing coconut drinks, a line of bellhops doing the can-can, Vincent Price and Snow White's "blind date," Rob Lowe, singing gloriously off pitch to the tune of Proud Mary. It was a lot to take in, and as Lily Tomlin quipped onstage following the number, "at this very moment they're trying to make sense of it."
Lowe, who had already starred in such films as St. Elmo's Fire and The Outsiders, somehow survived to have a career in Hollywood, unlike the producer. He was asked to reflect on that number by the New York Times.
"I remember vividly looking out in the audience and seeing Barry Levinson, who on that particular evening was the belle of the ball with Rain Man," he said. "And I could see him very clearly popeyed and mouthing, 'what the [expletive]?' But to be a successful actor, you have to have a big dollop of self-denial, so I managed to convince myself that I'd killed it."
But of course, that was not all. The night, which was geared around celebrity presenters and musical routines, also included a number called "The Stars of Tomorrow." Introduced by Lucille Ball and Bob Hope, it featured a number of up-and-comers, such as Ricki Lake, Christian Slater and Chad Lowe, singing about their wishes to be nominated for on Oscar. Blair Underwood opens the number singing, "Someday, I'll be the one who walks up here accepting the prize," Patrick Dempsey gets in a sword fight and dances Sammy Davis Jr.-style with a cane, Corey Feldman does his best Michael Jackson impression, and so much more. It looks and sounds exactly like the type of group number you would see at Disneyland or on a cruise ship. The song the group was singing was called I Wanna be an Oscar Winner, which is an award that no one in the ensemble has yet to ever be nominated for.
"That was the worst premonition in the show's history," Feldman told People when asked about the number last year.
"The dancing was good but the singing left a bit to be desired," Feldman also said. "So hopefully I get another opportunity to do something the right way at the Academy Awards."
Although, to be honest, the only way for the Oscars to do something the right way would be never to repeat what happened in 1989. | 2019-04-23T09:27:41 | https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/blog/the-last-time-the-oscars-were-hostless-things-did-not-go-well-1.4972977 |
0.999175 | English is the most prominent and well-known language all around the world. It is very famous and important, because, it is an international language. Most students do not know how to learn English fast. An English speaker can get a job easily at every corner of the world. Here, the professional writers of the cheap essay writing service will give you 10 tips to learn spoken English fast.
Learn Phrases: If you want to learn spoken English fast, then you should learn phrases not only words. You should speak phrases rather than words. Use the right grammar in your conversation. Read newspapers in order to improve your English.
Listen to English Songs: It is the most useful tip that you should adopt in order to learn spoken English. It is widely accepted that listening is better than writing; therefore, don’t hesitate in order to sing English songs. You should listen to more English songs then speak. You can write it and read in a loud voice. It is a very useful tip that you should adopt in order to improve your English.
Practice-Well: Actually English is a very complicated language; therefore, an ordinary man cannot understand it very easily. Most people are experienced in grammar rules, but, they are unable to speak fluently. If you want to learn spoken English, then you should practice it.
Think in English: Most people converse English fast due to their practice. Therefore, you should practice thinking in English, because, it improves your fluency. Generate productive skills in yourself. Try thinking for a few minutes about your habits in English. Do not feel puzzled while speaking English.
Don’t Apologize: Don’t say “Sorry I am unable to speak English”. In fact, try to speak your requirements in the English language. Use little phrases in your routine conversation such as, How are you, What’s going on, May I come in. All these little phrases are very beneficial for you in order to improve your English.
Never Give Up: Ups and downs are the most essential parts of our lives, so don’t give up learning in your life. If you are facing any difficulty in your course, you should never give up it. In fact, try to improve your weak points with hard work and struggle.
Never Translate Word For Word: You should translate language into the English language in order to improve your skills. Never translate word for word. It is not good to point in order to learn spoken English fast.
Understand The Contextual Clues: You should not focus on the textual meaning, in fact, you should keep in mind the contextual clues of the phrases. It is a very useful tip that you should keep in mind.
Generate Notes: You should create notes of every important point in your spoken English course.
Use Synonyms: If you forget a word then you should use another word. For that reason, learn different and actual synonyms of words. It is a very useful tip that you should follow.
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0.999972 | Converting Japanese hiro to Chinese zhàng value in the length units scale.
TOGGLE : from Chinese zhàng into Japanese hiro in the other way around.
Convert length measuring units between Japanese hiro (尋) and Chinese zhàng (市丈) but in the other reverse direction from Chinese zhàng into Japanese hiro.
This online length from 尋 into 市丈 converter is a handy tool not just for certified or experienced professionals.
0.55 市丈 is converted to 1 of what?
The Chinese zhàng unit number 0.55 市丈 converts to 1 尋, one Japanese hiro. It is the EQUAL depth value of 1 Japanese hiro but in the Chinese zhàng length unit alternative.
How to convert 2 Japanese hiro (尋) into Chinese zhàng (市丈)? Is there a calculation formula?
1. in practicing Japanese hiro and Chinese zhàng ( 尋 vs. 市丈 ) values exchange.
How many Chinese zhàng of length are in 1 Japanese hiro? The answer is: The change of 1 尋 ( Japanese hiro ) unit of length measure equals = to 0.55 市丈 ( Chinese zhàng ) as the equivalent measure for the same length type.
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The length converter from 尋 ( Japanese hiro ) measure to 市丈 ( Chinese zhàng ) equivalent. | 2019-04-19T20:18:41 | https://www.traditionaloven.com/tutorials/distance/convert-japan-hiro-depth-to-china-zhang-unit.html |
0.998482 | The context of this passage is that the disciples were just coming back from ministry. They were sent out in sets of twos to preach the coming of the kingdom, to heal, and to bring peace to those who would receive the message of Christ. When they returned and shared all their ministry stories with Jesus, He said, “’Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.” (Mark 6:31) I am thankful that God cares for our rest, and doesn’t want us to get burnt out. Taking time to rest, eat and sleep is important to Christ and should be important to us as well. How can Jesus use us if we wear ourselves out?
As Jesus and his disciples traveled by boat to a desolate place for rest, people followed them. There were many needy people. The disciples were expecting to eat and rest, not serve more people. But Jesus’ love for people was even greater than his love for rest. Jesus was will to change the plan because he had great compassion for the people. Jesus demonstrated again what it means to selflessly serve and give yourself for the sake of others.
Jesus ministered to the crowds of people that evening, healing the sick and teaching the Word. as it was getting dark, the disciples thought the answer was to send them away to get food. Yet the bible tells us Jesus incredible response; “But he [Jesus] answered them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ And they said to him, ‘Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?’” Basically we have nothing to give them Jesus. This feeling of inadequacy in ministry is more common than we want to admit. What can we possibly do or give? But we need to remember, when we serve with Jesus, He is all we need. And Jesus is all they need! He is the miracle maker, He is our provider, He is our answer to the emptiness in our lives, He is the one who offers forgiveness and righteousness to the one who feels the farthest from God, He is all we need!
As we serve, we will need to build times of rest into our lives. But times will come when we don’t get an opportunity to rest, and the need is great. We might feel we have nothing left to give, but Jesus is all they need! | 2019-04-19T18:30:36 | https://www.abundantlifebirdsboro.com/serving-with-jesuswhen-you-have-nothing-to-give/ |
0.999671 | The assumption that (in a triangle) the sum of the three angles is less than 180° leads to a curious geometry, quite different from ours, but thoroughly consistent, which I have developed to my entire satisfaction.
From another letter of 1829, it appears that Gauss was hesitant to publish his research because he suspected the mediocre mathematical community would not be able to accept a revolutionary denial of Euclid's geometry. Gauss invented the term "Non-Euclidean Geometry" but never published anything on the subject. On the other hand, he introduced the idea of surface curvature on the basis of which Riemann later developed Differential Geometry that served as a foundation for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
Both Bolyai and Lobachevsky first tried to prove the fifth postulate but, in time, felt the task impossible: Bolyai in 1823, Lobachevsky in 1826. Bolyai's father, Farkas - a friend of Gauss and a mathematician himself - was involved with the postulate in his youth. When he learned of his son's interest, Farkas made a dramatic attempt to dissuade his son from taking up the problem that so many others tried but failed to solve. However, when he realized that Janos' work had born fruit, Farkas urged his son to publish it at the earliest opportunity and, eventually, included it as a 26 page Appendix to his book that appeared in 1832.
Gauss, in a letter to F.Bolyai, approved of his son's work but claimed to have developed the same ideas some 30 years earlier. He even provided an elegant proof for one of Janos' theorems. An opinion exists that Janos was crushed by Gauss' letter and suspected Gauss of plagiarism. However it might be, he never published anything on the subject afterwards.
There is no doubt that Gauss, J.Boyai, and N.Lobachevsky were unaware of each other's work. However, Lobachevsky was first to publish a paper on the new geometry. His article appeared in Kazan Messenger in Russian in 1829 and, naturally, passed unnoticed. Trying to reach a broader audience, he published in French in 1837, then in German in 1840, and then again in French in 1855. As a rector of Kazan University, Lobachevsky was awarded a diamond ring by Tsar Nicholas, he also received several medals and citations for other services. However, not until years after his death, his name was associated with the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry. His last government citation Lobachevsky received just a few months before his death. He was cited for the discovery of a new way of processing wool.
Lobachevsky and Bolyai built their geometries on the assumption (C): through a point not on the line there exist more than 1 parallel to the line. This is equivalent to Gauss' assumption that the sum of angles in a triangle is less than 180°. The other possibility, viz., that no two lines are parallel was discharged by Saccheri as contradicting the second postulate. Saccheri, as all the others, assumed (probably, correctly) that Euclid had in mind exactly this interpretation: straight lines may be extended so as to have infinite length.
... we must distinguish between unboundedness and infinite extent ... The unboundedness of space possesses ... a greater empirical certainty than any external experience. But its infinite extent by no means follows from this.
Circles can be extended indefinitely since they have no ends. ("Going in circles" means exactly this: doing something repeatedly without appearing to achieve a certain end or with no end in sight.) However, circles are of finite extent.
Two distinct points determine at least one straight line.
A straight line is boundless.
Any two straight lines in a plane intersect.
It is very easy to envisage the objects (points, lines, and the plane) of a geometry that satisfies the five modified postulates. Plane is a sphere, lines are the great circles, i.e. circles whose plane passes through the center of the sphere, points are regular points (but on the sphere, of course.) As we already saw, in this geometry angles in a triangle sum up to more than 180°.
Logically speaking, the assumption of a single parallel line is equivalent to the fact that angles in a triangle sum to 180°. Furthermore, if this is true of a single triangle, this is also true of all possible triangles. In the geometry of Gauss, Lobachevsky, and Bolyai, parallels are not unique. This is equivalent to the sum of angles in a triangle being less than 180°. And again, this condition holds for all triangles provided it is true for any one of them. Riemann's spherical geometry completes a triad: no parallels and the angle sum is (always) more than 180°. | 2019-04-19T10:35:47 | https://www.cut-the-knot.org/triangle/pythpar/Drama.shtml |
1 | You are given an array of integers (both positive and negative). Find the continuous sequence with the largest sum. Return the sum. | 2019-04-19T21:25:40 | http://hawstein.com/2013/02/22/19.7/ |
0.999997 | It was a dark and stormy night.. I think I'll start with the summer of 1994. Thinking about it, may be even 1993. In late 1993 I returned to Germany from an 8 month internship in California to finish my business degree at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. I had passed all the exams before I left for Los Angeles so I only had to finish my thesis successfully to complete my degree. I wrote about 'contractual relations in the tourism industry' using some of the experiences gained during my internship. I finished it early summer 1994 and handed it in to Prof. Schanze. Time to find a job.
Job hunting proved to be not very easy at that time. Several of my friends who had completed their degree earlier than me (as they hadn't taken almost a year out as I had) were still searching. A lot of rejections came back, sometimes with my CV and associated backup (in Germany you send copies of your degrees, courses and a picture with the application), sometimes not. The odd invitation to an interview arrived as well, but none really led to anything promising. But I had no intention of giving up, so while doing some part-time work at a printers workshop and enjoying the summer (1994 was an exceptional summer in north Germany) I continued to search for opportunities.
I had applied for a position I knew I wasn't going to be invited for. It was one of those 'we are looking for someone with a PhD, 10 years work experience, 8 languages fluent but no older than 21 years' ads, I think for one of the big car manufacturers in Germany. As expected the recruiter replied swiftly that I wouldn't be considered for an interview for the positions offered in the ad. At least they had some information about me now, although I couldn't be sure if and how much they kept. Nevertheless applying turned out to be the right idea.
A few weeks later I received a letter that they were recruiting for graduate positions for a 'multinational company with billion turnover' in their European headquarters in the UK. If I was interested I should send my CV in English as soon as possible. I briefly thought about it and decided to go for it. While I hadn't planned to work abroad immediately after my graduation I was hoping to work abroad after gaining a few years of work experience. If they didn't want me in Germany, may be someone wanted me abroad? What was there to lose?
I had been active in AIESEC for several years (Another reason why I was interested in working abroad). A group of exchange students from Strathclyde had joined us and I turned to one of them for some help. He helped me to adapt my CV to the British format (German CVs look different than a British CV or American resume) which I then sent to the agency.
A few days later I received a confirmation that they had received my application and I would hear from them in the near future. The near future turned out to be the same evening, when I received a phone call from England. It was someone from their team in England who asked me a number of questions about my motivation to work abroad, my experience, my skills etc. He told me he would talk to their client and I would hear from them.
The phone call came the following Sunday evening, yes, they would like to invite me for an interview, could I please contact their German office as soon as possible on Monday. Of course I could. Calling their office on Monday I was told I would need to come to Munich for an interview on Wednesday, and by the way, the client was Intel. We agreed a time and then I had 1.5 days left to prepare for the interview. Now remember this was in 1994, kind of before the internet. Not a quick going to Google and searching for Intel, but trying to find something more or less recent in the library.
Wednesday arrived and I travelled the long journey to Munich (I was living in Oldenburg in the north of Germany at the time). I arrived in Feldkirchen and was picked up from the reception by one of the interviewers from the UK office. The interview was difficult but I felt it went reasonably well. They told me I would hear from them early in the new year (the interview took place two days before Christmas) and I travelled back to north Germany.
The new year started with several good news: First I was told that my thesis was very well received by Prof Schanze (and also by his assistant) and that my grades for it would be very good. Then the agency called to tell me I would need to travel to Swindon in England for a second round of interviews.
In early January I was on a plane from Bremen to Heathrow and then a taxi took me to Swindon. Several interviews took place with a number of recruiting managers and later in the evening all candidates were taken to a dinner. Before leaving for Germany and France the next morning we were told that we should expect a decision later during the week or latest early the next week.
I can't remember if it was at this stage or earlier that I almost got cold feet. Either way, talking to my then girlfriend I mentioned that I had slight doubts about leaving her behind should I get the job. Her response was 'of course you'll go, you'll never forgive yourself if you don't take such an opportunity'. She was right so when the offer came a few days later I immediately accepted it.
It was in a way also good news for the personnel manager of another company: He called me the next morning to tell me that they had decided to take another candidate and therefore wouldn't offer me a job. To which I could respond that I had just accepted another position anyway. I could almost feel his relief through the phone, making it much easier for him. I still told him that I appreciated his call as most companies just send a standard letter instead of going through the effort of a phone call.
I now had a month left for the big move from Oldenburg/Germany to Swindon/England. Websites like Deutsche in London didn't exist and I didn't really know of the internet anyway. But I managed to obtain quite a bit of information about living in the UK from various books and other sources. The removal van was ordered, notice given to my landlord, things packed, the flat cleaned and painted (in Germany the tenant usually has to do this before moving out), leaving parties celebrated and in mid February I left for Swindon.
The first few weeks were tough, but I managed to get through it thanks to the help of my hiring manager (who was the one who had picked me up from reception in Munich for my interview) and the others in the department. I'm still grateful to one of them for inviting me over to his house on my first weekend and generally helping me to settle in. I haven't seen him for years now (he has since moved to another company) and I very much doubt he'll read this, but it's still worth mentioning.
Since then I've changed job (internally) several times, sometimes more successful, sometimes less successful. I moved back to Germany (Munich obviously) but didn't really settle in and after 2.5 years moved back to Swindon again. I've written about it in earlier postings, Germany appears more and more 'foreign' to me the longer I live here. I'm very happy here, I like living in the UK and for the foreseeable future have no plans to move anywhere else (certainly not back to Germany).
That's how I got here, a combination of perseverance, luck, coincidence and interest to live abroad after gaining a taste of it when living in the US back in 1993. In 1993 I had a return ticket, I don't have one now. | 2019-04-24T22:06:43 | http://www.ministryofpropaganda.co.uk/2005propaganda/20051102-gethere.shtml |
0.999381 | Creates a -1/0/1 matrix that indicates whether a given gene/probe is differentially expressed in individual samples. The decision whether a gene is differentially expressed is done (a) using fold change thresholding or (b) selecting P largest and P smallest log ratios, where P is a proportion or (c) selecting log ratios enough below or above zero when the distance is given as a coefficient of standard deviation or median absolute deviation.
The expression input can be either log ratios or channel values, which are handled differently. Log ratios are directly used for fold change thresholding. Channel values are converted to log ratios by dividing them with reference samples. In this case, the expression matrix is assumed to contain both the target and reference samples. Reference samples are converted to a single column by taking a median. The columns that contain reference values are defined in the groups input. If the groups input is not given, values are assumed to be log ratios.
expr LogMatrix Mandatory Expression matrix. The values are assumed to be log ratios if the "groups" input is not given; otherwise, they are assumed to be channel values.
groups SampleGroupTable Optional Sample groups that define reference (control) columns in the expression input. The reference group name is given with the referenceGroup parameter.
indicator Matrix Matrix containing -1/0/1 for under/neutral/overexpression, respectively. The matrix has same dimension as the expr input. The value at position i,j is -1 if the gene i is underexpressed in sample 1, 1 if it is overexpressed, and 0 otherwise.
logratio LogMatrix Log ratios that were computed based on the expr and groups inputs. If "groups" was not provided (i.e., log ratios were not computed in this component), this output is empty and should not be used.
deviation Matrix Depending on 'thresholdType', this is a matrix of standard deviations (sd), median absolute deviations (mad) or empty (fold-change, top-most).
referenceGroup string "" Group name in the groups input that contains reference samples. Used to compute log ratios from channel values.
threshold float 4 Threshold that determines whether a gene is under- or overexpressed. Interpretation of the value depends on thresholdType.
thresholdType string "fold-change" Defines how differential expression is decided. Legal values are "fold-change" and "top-most" and "standard-deviation". For "fold-change", the threshold parameter is a linear fold change threshold. A gene is overexpressed if its log ratio is over the threshold and underexpressed if the log ratio is under 1/threshold. For "top-most", threshold is a fraction between 0 and 1 that defines how many genes with highest and lowest expression are selected. For example, if threshold is 0.1, the top 10% genes are overexpressed and the bottom 10% are underexpressed. For "sd" and "mad", the threshold is the coefficient of the standard deviation or median absolute deviation, respectively. The deviations are calculated for the log ratios. | 2019-04-20T07:26:51 | http://www.anduril.org/anduril/bundles/all/doc/components/SampleExpression/index.html |
0.99983 | Sexual abuse or harassment of any kind, partly moulds a girl into the woman she becomes in the future. To some, it might be what encourages the feeling to be successful. While to others, it could be what destroys the reasoning faculty. Whatever road she applies, either towards destruction or fulfilment, she finally reaches a place were she owns up to being a victim. This might not necessary be for the purpose of seeking validation or sympathy from the public, it could be a means of conquering those hidden fears that had suppressed her true purpose for as long as she can remember. Finally switching off the ticking explosives set around her existence and withdrawing from a universe were she had deprived her being from loving herself and others. Unfortunately, the claim of being a victim of sexual exploits, especially after so many years, is mainly perceived as a campaign directed against a person. Hence, holding views considered to be unorthodox or a threat to the society.
Still confused as to were these ideas originated from and as to why there is systemic prejudice against women, a young girl freely gives in to this ideology. Beliefs which enslaves the mind from rebellion and a mouth to everlasting silence, she conceals being a victim of sexual abuse, due to the fear of being unjustly labelled.
Is this the main reason why young women stay quiet after being sexually abused or harassed? and why does she feel the need to speak out after so many years?. What changed?
These questions, controversial as it may seem, there has to be some sort of explanation as to why she finally speaks and what kept her quiet initially. Owing to existing facts of many similar cases intended for the purpose of witch-hunting prominent individuals, people collectively tend to think that there must be a selfish motive behind speaking out after several years. Aside from the radical views, the unwillingness to believe her story also stems from or is attributable to lapses of recollecting specific information needed for conviction. Therefore, she is regrettably branded as a liar for many unexplainable loopholes in her story and for that reason, she is not treated with the respect and sympathy due to a victim of sexual abuse.
Firstly, before she became a victim without remedy, she was already perceived as a substandard object of the society! One who is subjected to contemptuous and dismissive language or behaviour as she walks by to school, work or amongst a social gathering. It is no news that women are placed below the belt, seen as inferior beings from time. it an icing on her already baked cake when she is blamed and mocked for any unwanted sexual advances and obscene remarks.
She never escapes a scrutiny from the public eye, regardless of if her life is at stake or unlawfully taken, snatched by the cold hands of her dominant.
To those who are quick to point a finger of “why now?” here is a little explanation for you.
No matter how you digest it, a woman’s worth depreciates when she is continually tagged with unpleasant situations. Aside from other shameful deeds which mostly takes 1 point or 2 point highest, sexual abuse takes about 5 points of shame if she only had 20 shame slots for a lifetime. When a fellow “object of ridicule” visually discern or gives ear to the demeaning sentiment expressed towards a sexually abused victim, her sensory nerves according to its stages of development, mainly at its earliest, immediately signals the reasoning faculty to withhold any information regarding sexual harassment or abuse. Reason being that, chastising others for eventually speaking or expressing ones’s feelings, forces her to conceal any form of a similar incident. Hence, refusing to speak about the exploit in a bid to protect what is left of her self-worth. This is why I would second to the silence of suffering and loosing a delicate part of oneself to the ugly incident, until it becomes an choice which she can handle with confidence.
Also, why I think some victims finally speak is to relinquish any form of bad energy or heavy burden left from that horrific day. Truth be told, numerous women still have not gathered enough courage to speak a word of that day, as it is with absolute difficulty, yet courageous to finally accept to be a victim of sexual abuse. A can of worms is unveiled, however more dreadful to the public ears depending on the relationship between her and her abuser. Frightening and shocking revelations of sexual abuse in the hands of close relations are strong reasons to believe most women are silent even in their graves. However, I think it is a form of relief, a process of healing when these women eventually speak regardless of time. Since people take different times to heal, just as they are dissimilar in nature. Therefore, victims of sexual abuse should not be reprimanded for not speaking during the time of abuse. | 2019-04-23T00:23:24 | https://yessinblog.com/2018/11/02/sexual-abuse-why-women-stay-quiet/?shared=email&msg=fail |
0.999936 | Am I really a bully? - With the rise in bullying claims and the new anti-bullying jurisdiction of the Fair Work Commission, more than ever managers and supervisors must answer that age-old question "Am I really a bully?". Jennifer Wyborn and Lauren Haywood set out some of the behaviours that have led to employees bringing anti-bullying applications in the Commission so you can answer that question more confidently.
Apprehended bias: Apprehended easily but difficult to establish - Apprehended bias has been in the news, with the unions' attempt to have Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon recuse himself - but what is it? James Robinson and Julia Virgo see how the issue played out in the Royal Commission.
Changes to Queensland's workers' compensation legislation in effect - Changes to Queensland's Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act have been assented to. While not all changes made in October 2013 have been reversed, Hedy Cray and Laura Hillman say employers must understand the changes and their rights and obligations.
Clayton Utz promotes five to the partnership from 1 January 2016 - Leading Australian law firm Clayton Utz is proud to announce the following partner appointments, effective 1 January 2016.
COP21: The road to Paris (via Bonn) - Climate negotiations heat up in Bonn in the lead-up to COP21 in Paris, where parties to the UNFCCC are expected to agree on the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. Brendan Bateman and Alison Packham set out the main challenges for the UNFCCC parties.
Critical developments in managing ill and injured employees - Employers must consider all legal risks arising from a range of legislative sources when managing or terminating the employment of ill or injured employees.
Drafting ADR clauses: Don't let bad drafting derail your resolution - Karen Ingram, Mark Curry, Ben Day and Felipe Pereira look at some of the common problems that arise in drafting alternative dispute resolution clauses in commercial contracts and the courts' treatment of them.
Expert determinations: final and binding? - Even if a contract states that an expert's determination will be final and binding, that determination will be open to review if it has not been made in accordance with the contract, as Katherine Mallik and Charlotte Gordon explain.
Full Court considers racial discrimination in the workplace - Rob Humphreys and Jennifer Wyborn look at a case involving inappropriate workplace remarks about lollies and cheese, which has caused the Full Federal Court to examine the proper application of key sections of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
Groundhog Day for Qld WHS entry permit holders and HSE reps - so review your right of entry protocols - Shae McCartney and Joanne Stevenson explain why Queensland businesses should review their right of entry protocols and update them now.
GST on digital products and new cross-border rules: A fresh new season or just more reruns? - Another draft of legislation to clarify the GST payable on overseas digital downloads has been released. Kelvin Ng and Luke Furness see what's changed.
High Court of Australia goes cold on patentability of isolated nucleic acid - In a highly anticipated decision, the High Court of Australia has unanimously determined that an isolated nucleic acid (coding for mutations in the BRCA1 gene, associated with breast and ovarian cancers) does not qualify as proper subject matter for patent protection, overturning previous decisions of the Federal Court of Australia (D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc HCA 35).
Hilary Heilbron QC to share her insights at the 14th Annual International Arbitration Lecture - This year's 2015 International Arbitration Lecture will be given by Hilary Heilbron QC, globally-renowned counsel, arbitrator and author in the field of international arbitration, who will present on "Dynamics, discretion and diversity ? A recipe for unpredictability in international arbitration?".
How does your safety management system measure up? - What do you need to think about when using self-assessment tools to assess your organisation's safety management system? Joanne Stevenson and Shae McCartney examine some of the recent self-assessment tools, and explain how you can get the best out of them.
Indigenous Procurement Policy: Are you IPP ready? - Government entities must now comply with the new Indigenous Procurement Policy. Alexandra Wedutenko and Natasha Smith explain what it requires, and some of the practical issues that will arise for procuring officers.
Investment protection and dispute resolution under the TPP - Jonathan McTigue and Caroline Swartz-Zern say the Trans-Pacific Partnership is another step in increasing protections to Australian citizens investing in the other member states of the TPP (including some of Australia's largest outbound trade partners).
Kidnap and ransom insurance: Don't wait until you need it! - Kidnap and ransom insurance is one of the most valuable yet underutilised insurance policies in your company's insurance portfolio, as Claire Wesson explains.
Major amendments proposed for NSW mining and petroleum laws - NSW mining and petroleum laws are in for major changes, which will affect current and future mining, CSG and petroleum projects, if five Bills introduced into Parliament late last week are passed.
Major shakeup of Australia's financial services sector on the way - The Federal Government has accepted the vast majority of changes recommended by the Financial System Inquiry headed by David Murray, and set out a roadmap for the biggest reforms in 20 years under five themes.
Mandatory data retention obligations commenced this week - Licenced carriers, carriage service providers and internet service providers must now retain and secure for two years metadata relating to the telecommunications services they offer, unless they have an approved Data Retention Implementation Plan, as Timothy Webb and Carmen Culina explain.
Mining royalties are payable for Mount Bruce Mining area, says High Court - Mining royalties are payable under a 1970 agreement following a decision by the High Court in a high-profile mining case, Mount Bruce Mining Pty Limited v Wright Prospecting Pty Limited HCA 37 (Clayton Utz acted for the successful respondent, Wright Prospecting).
New ACT regulations for exemption of minor development on heritage properties - It will be easier in the ACT to do minor developments which are of no significance to a heritage property's existing heritage values, say Nicole Besgrove and Claire Smith.
New enforceable undertakings regime for Queensland - Kathryn Pacey and Sam Higgs explain how Queensland's new enforceable undertakings regime as an alternative to prosecution for environmental offences will work.
New verification of identity requirements for paper conveyancing in Victoria - From 9 November 2015, new verification of identity requirements come into effect for persons who wish to lodge registrable instruments or dealings in paper form at Land Victoria. Sharene Hambur and Nicholas Chan set out the three steps you'll now have to follow.
Now is the time to act - review your annualised salary and offsetting arrangements in your contracts - Do you pay over the award? Now is the time to review your employment contracts, as the Fair Work Commission Full Bench has ruled that the standard absorption or offset clause in modern awards will be removed. Christy Miller and Amy Laing explain what you should do now.
Obtaining orders for substituted service: a practical guide - Debtors who are aware of the potential for banks and other creditors to take action against them often actively take steps to avoid the service of the Court's processes on them. Matthew Edwards says this is where substituted service can play an important role.
Pre-emption pitfalls during changes of control in a joint venture - Participants in joint ventures often seek to control who leaves and enters the joint venture via pre-emptive rights in the underlying joint venture agreement. Graham Taylor, Samy Mansour and Alexandra Chappell explain how courts will interpret these clauses where they are triggered by the change of control of a participant, and what you need to do if those rights are exercised.
Purchasing land for development: some useful special conditions - So you have found the perfect parcel of land for development. You are keen to snap up the property but don't want to go unconditional until you are confident that all necessary consents and approvals have been or will be obtained. Nicole Besgrove and Will Webster explain your options.
Renewable energy generators hit the regulatory hurdle! - Recent changes to the National Electricity Rules gave the industry more certainty but, ask Dan Howard and Bernard Avery, do they go far enough to facilitate a new breed of renewable generators?
Rights of entry: is taking photographs during a WHS inspection covered under your right to inspect? - Entry rights and rights of inspection will be considered by the Federal Court next year. Ashleigh Buckland and Emma Vautin set out the issues the Court will be forced to grapple with, and how its decisions could affect you.
Rise of the machines: New legislation may enable trials of driverless cars in SA - South Australia will be the site for the first Australian driverless vehicle trials, thanks to a change in the laws. Steven Murray, Andrew Fry and Jessica Lee see what's in this model for other states looking at regulating driverless cars - and beyond.
Seamless safety regulation for the NSW resources sector - A new Bill has harmonised the framework for work health and safety regulation across all onshore resource industries in NSW, and has brought much needed clarity to regulation of the petroleum industry, says Cilla Robinson.
Social media and bullying in the workplace: To friend or not to friend, that is the question! - A recent decision of the Fair Work Commission is widely reported to have found that deleting a colleague on Facebook will constitute bullying under federal workplace relations legislation, but is that correct? Don't believe the hype, say Michael Byrnes and Jacqui Ellis.
South Australia set to reform planning and development system - The South Australian Government has introduced a new bill aimed at overhauling the planning and development system, including a new infrastructure delivery scheme. Nicole Besgrove and Claire Smith look at the major changes ahead.
Stalled greenfields agreements get a boost with passage of Fair Work Act amendments - An important step towards greater workplace flexibility on major projects, including mines, has been taken with the passage of the Federal Government's Fair Work Amendment Bill 2014.
Strata redevelopment - potential in the strata reforms - The Strata Schemes Development Bill 2015 and Strata Schemes Management Bill 2015 have been introduced into NSW Parliament. Their overriding objectives are to improve strata living, minimise regulatory burdens and improve democratic processes within strata schemes. In addition, the reforms provide greater potential for urban repair through the redevelopment of aged strata schemes, by streamlining the process required to collapse an existing strata scheme.
Striking the right balance: Australia's intellectual property arrangements under review - Does Australia have the right balance between promoting competition and protecting intellectual property? That's the question the Productivity Commission must answer. Richard Hoad and Rebecca Lobb set out the main issues.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Emerging E&R opportunities for Australia - The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement should benefit Australia's exports of resources and associated goods and services, say Graham Taylor, Samy Mansour and Mary Konstantopoulos.
What the Trans-Pacific Partnership means for the agribusiness sector - The newly agreed Trans-Pacific Partnership will reduce or eliminate tariffs on a wide range of agricultural commodities, increasing export and investment opportunities, say Andrew Hay and Scott Girdler. | 2019-04-25T10:10:39 | https://www.claytonutz.com/knowledge/2015/october |
0.999998 | I understand that we're learning proper grammar, but leaving off 저는 is fairly standard, no?
If I had been writing this, I would have written: 저는 짠 수프를 좋아요. Is this just incorrect, or does it actually mean something different?
For the verb 좋다 the noun you describe cannot have an object particle (을/를). Something IS good, it cannot receive the action of "being good". 좋아하다 however is the opposite, something can BE liked. 저는 수프를 좋아해요. 저는 수프가 좋아요. These mean the same but just pay attention to the particle difference between 좋다 and 좋아하다.
를/을 is an object particle and as such cannot be used with descriptive verbs such as 좋다 (좋아요). It can only be used with action verbs like 좋아하다. | 2019-04-19T14:40:41 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/24961443/I-like-salty-soup |
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0.999872 | The fisherman has been criticised for mistreating the shark after footage of his impressive feat went viral.
An Iranian fisherman has been filmed 'surfing' on top of a huge whale shark in the Persian Gulf prompting criticism from a scientist who branded the stunt "not very clever".
The video surfaced on Instagram in early July. It depicts the fisherman, known only as Rahmat, easing himself onto the animal as it swims alongside his boat just below the water's surface.
The young man seamlessly transfers his weight onto the large fish, which does not seem to resist his company, and travels for around 20 metres at a sedentary pace.
The clip provoked anger from internet users while others pointed out that the opportunistic surfer had not actually harmed the animal.
France 24 Observers spoke to Maryam Mirzaloo, an Iranian researcher in paleoceanography about her fellow countryman's feat.
She said: "The animal we see in the video is not a whale, as the surfers originally thought, but rather a whale shark. They eat plankton and small fish, and live mainly in areas such as the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, off India, Australia, or the Philippines.
"They are very friendly fish, and many divers manage to approach them because they do not fear human presence. They can be up to 13 meters long, and weigh up to 30 tons, but it is obvious that it is not very clever to climb on them.
"Keep in mind that animals should not be touched in their natural environment. There are rules on how to approach whale sharks and how to preserve their habitat.
"Even though the man did not want to hurt the animal, it could have caused a stressful situation that disorientated it and that is not good for its health," she added.
The whale shark is classified as a vulnerable species. There are approximately 10,000 left in the world's seas and oceans. | 2019-04-26T09:03:12 | https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/watch-iranian-fisherman-surf-top-whale-shark-across-persian-gulf-1630845 |
0.998532 | SAN ANTONIO -- For one night, at least, the Spurs won the Kawhi Leonard trade.
In his first game in San Antonio since the Spurs traded him to Toronto over the summer, Leonard and the Raptors were routed 125-107 in a game that was even less competitive than the final score indicated.
"I don't think we handled this one very well," Raptors coach Nick Nurse said.
Said Leonard: "We didn't play well at all defensively. The Spurs did a great job pushing the pace and kicking out for wide-open shots."
When the game was over, Leonard had a long hug and conversation with former coach Gregg Popovich at center court. Popovich began talking to Leonard then told television cameras to get away from them and the two moved closer to San Antonio's bench. After continuing to talk for a couple of minutes, Leonard then spoke with Spurs shooting coach Chip Engelland, in addition to several former teammates, before leaving the court.
Leonard, who led Toronto (28-12) with 21 points on 8-for-13 shooting to go with five assists, was loudly booed as soon as he stepped onto the court for pregame warm-ups, again during introductions and at any point throughout the game when he had the ball.
He said he wasn't surprised or disappointed by the reception and blamed the media for the way the fans reacted.
"Probably," he said, when asked if he expected to be booed. "But I embraced it and enjoyed the moment, and it's only going to make me better.
"[The] media does a great job to stir people's minds and influence them to think a certain way," Leonard added. "So I already knew how that was going to be, the way the media was."
Those were the only times the fans at AT&T Center had anything bad to say about the proceedings, however, as San Antonio -- which has won 11 of its past 14 games -- demolished Toronto, which entered the game with more wins than any other NBA team.
That effort was led by DeMar DeRozan, who, like Leonard, was facing his old team for the first time. Although DeRozan, who declared on Raptors forward Serge Ibaka's cooking show this summer that he was going to score 50 points against Toronto, didn't quite get that far, he did more than enough to help the Spurs dismantle the Raptors.
DeRozan finished the game with 21 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists, recording the first triple-double of his NBA career in his 714th regular-season game, leading a complete effort from the Spurs that saw them shoot 55 percent from the field and finish with six players in double figures, led by LaMarcus Aldridge scoring 23.
"It really wasn't nothing," DeRozan said. "It was fun. It was extremely fun.
"It wasn't emotional at all for me. ... It was just a fun game for me."
Toronto, on the other hand, couldn't get out of its own way. The Raptors shot just 6-for-30 (20 percent) from 3-point range and generally looked discombobulated from start to finish. There was no better example of that than Danny Green, who was also making his return to San Antonio after heading to Toronto in the trade with Leonard in exchange for DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and a 2019 first-round pick. Green finished the game scoreless, missing all seven of his shots -- including going 0-for-6 from 3-point range.
"Disappointed in our play more than anything," Green said. "And in my play, especially."
The Spurs fans chant "traitor" as Kawhi Leonard lines up to shoot free throws in the second quarter.
Meanwhile, the Spurs -- despite Popovich's protestations beforehand -- played this game as if their lives depended on it. Even the coach admitted afterward he wasn't telling the truth about that.
"Well, two things," Popovich said. "One, that was a lie. A lot of people think it was a big game. But the truth is what I said after that: that we've never concentrated on one game. It's always about getting better, executing and competing for more of the 48 minutes than your opponent.
"That's your goal every single night. It doesn't matter who you are playing."
While Leonard was booed any time he was involved in the game, Green was cheered just as loudly throughout pregame introductions.
It made for an odd juxtaposition -- particularly when the Spurs, before the game began, played a tribute video honoring both Leonard and Green for their contributions to the franchise. Each time Green was shown on the screen, the crowd erupted into cheers -- which were then followed by boos when Leonard was on the screen.
The same thing happened during introductions, when Green was introduced first -- to a standing ovation -- and Leonard was quickly introduced after him, though fans still didn't miss the chance to boo him some more. Both the video and the way the introductions were handled were examples of the Spurs, who had concerns about trying to mitigate the negative energy sent Leonard's way Thursday night, trying to do just that.
"I felt badly about it," Popovich said of the way Leonard was treated by fans. "Kawhi's a high-character guy. We all make decisions in our lives with what we're going to do with our futures, and he has that same right as any of us. So I felt badly, in all honesty."
There was nothing Popovich or the Spurs could do about the reaction of fans, however, when the game began. Every time Leonard touched the ball, the fans made it a point to express their displeasure with the star who, after playing only nine games last season, made it clear he wanted nothing to do with the franchise any longer.
The most vicious moment came midway through the second quarter when, after Leonard was fouled, fans began chanting "traitor" at him. Eventually, the chants dissolved into boos -- and then cheers when Leonard missed the second free throw.
"I mean, it was expected," Green said of how the fans reacted. "We can hope, predict, and you expect the worst, but I've been in this league long enough where you know there's going to be some boos, there's going to be some cheers.
"I wasn't disappointed. I kind of expected it to be one or the other, and it wasn't shocking."
Things went sour between Leonard and San Antonio last season when there was a disagreement over how to handle the tendinopathy in his left quadriceps that bothered him throughout 2017-18. Leonard wound up playing only nine games with the Spurs -- none after mid-January -- and missed San Antonio's five-game loss to the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.
After scoring the opening basket of the game -- a driving layup, on which he was also fouled -- Leonard flexed and let out a yell. It was far more than his usual reaction to a made basket, especially to start a game, and was probably a better indication about his feelings in facing his old team than anything he said at his interview session before Thursday's morning shootaround.
"At times, yeah," Leonard said, when asked if he had any regrets about how his final year with the Spurs played out. "But it's a new year, new season. I'm just looking at what is in front of us right now."
That opening basket was about the lone bright spot for the Raptors, though, as the Spurs jumped out to a 15-5 lead and kept their foot on the gas from there. San Antonio led by as many as 23 points in the first quarter and finished the opening 12 minutes with a 38-19 lead. DeRozan had 9 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists in the first quarter alone and finished the first half with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists -- the first time a Spurs player had at least 15 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists in a half since Tim Duncan did it 12 years ago.
The rest of the Spurs looked equally motivated for a chance to exact some revenge on Leonard. Outside of a surge late in the second quarter that cut a lead of what was once as many as 26 points down to 16 at the break, Toronto was in a shambles.
Once the second half resumed, it was more of the same. While Toronto began the third quarter missing six straight shots -- including four 3s -- San Antonio went on a 12-0 run to push the lead back to 28 points and leave the ending decided aside from the final score.
"I feel good except for losing the game," Leonard said. "I'm glad I walked off the floor healthy. We got some things as a team to look at and get better at. But the past is the past, and I'm still playing.
"I really won't reflect on what has happened until I retire. I just try to keep moving and get better on what we are doing." | 2019-04-20T05:11:31 | http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25679062/spurs-fans-welcome-kawhi-leonard-back-san-antonio-relentless-chorus-boos |
0.999416 | Is this the U.K.'s 'Dallas' style oil bonanza?
OPEC pumped more oil in March. But will anyone want to buy it?
The latest data from the oil cartel shows that its members increased crude output in March, a trend driven by higher volumes from Iraq and Iran, which is pumping furiously after emerging from years of sanctions.
Iran's production rose by nearly 140,000 barrels per day, counteracting reduced output from the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria and Libya. Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait all maintained production at February levels.
OPEC warned that global demand for its product is fragile, despite low prices. Some of its major customers are suffering from slower economic growth, and the removal of fuel subsidies in oil producing countries may be hurting demand. In addition, mild weather in the Northern Hemisphere was discouraging buyers.
"Current negative factors seem to outweigh positive ones and possibly imply downward revisions in oil demand growth, should existing signs persist going forward," the group said in its monthly report.
Global oil markets have changed markedly in the last two years. Oil prices collapsed to as low as $26 per barrel in February, from well over $100 in 2014. They've since bounced back to over $40 a barrel.
The price slump has squeezed higher cost producers, who were forced to slash their spending and rethink some projects.
Yet major producers have continued to pump, pushing the global glut -- the difference between crude supply and demand -- to 2.5 million barrels per day in the first quarter of 2016, up from 2 million in the fourth quarter of last year.
OPEC countries will try once again to calm market volatility on Sunday, when they are scheduled to meet other major oil producers in Qatar to talk about capping output.
It's a tactic that has been tried previously without much success. Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed in February to hold output at January levels. But the deal had many conditions and didn't work out. Iran called the agreement "a joke," and pledged to boost its own production. | 2019-04-26T10:20:56 | https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/13/investing/opec-oil-iran-demand/index.html |
0.999995 | Off the hook: Police released the man they suspected of stalking an 8-year-old girl and trying to abduct her 12-year-old brother after the children recanted their story on Monday evening.
Canarsie: Man murdered on Flatlands Ave.
Cops released a man suspected of stalking an 8-year-old girl and attempting to abduct her 12-year-old brother in Crown Heights after the victims recanted their story on Monday evening.
The suspect turned himself in for questioning at a Canarsie police station earlier that day, about a day after police asked for public assistance in identifying him.
The girl told cops she first saw the man she accused of stalking her on Friday at 8:24 am on Eastern Parkway near Brooklyn Avenue, where she said he lurked behind parked cars as he followed her to a nearby school-bus stop. But she said the sight of other parents the scared him off, according to police.
That afternoon, the accusers alleged the man flagged down the boy’s school bus at 1:30 pm and tried to persuade a chaperone on board to give him the child, according to a report. The woman, who noted the man’s name was not on an approved list of guardians, then threatened to call the police, and he fled, police said.
The girl said she spotted the man again later that day outside her Crown Heights home at around 7 pm, where she said he was bizarrely taking pictures of her inside of her house, according to police. Authorities said the man asked her where she sleeps and who lives with her before fleeing after she refused to answer.
Her brother said he spotted the suspect a fourth and final time on Saturday outside his home at 11:15 am, when he approached the boy with questions about his parents and where he slept. But the kid said he rushed inside, and the man fled in a white four-door sedan, cops said.
This is irresponsible reporting. The two children admitted that they fabricated the story because their parents were out of town and they wanted to punish their strict babysitter.
that their dad is a NYPD SVU is very illuminating.
Brooklyn Paper is sometimes quite good, sometimes awful, this is just reckless and lazy.
Is the part about flaging down the school bus true? Didn't the police check that before releasing the man's picture? And the note -- didn't it appear to be a child's writing? NYPD could have gotten this man killed.
The NYPD is always way too quick to white-knight whenever they can and they screwed this guy. I hope he sues them good.
I'm not allowed near children or animals or homeless men for similar reasons. | 2019-04-26T11:44:39 | https://cngmid.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/43/dtg-crown-heights-stalker-turns-himself-in-2017-10-27-bk.html?utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=module&utm_source=similar&utm_content=intra |
0.999461 | Help the child identify the animal play figures (horse, cow, goat, pig), and the animals inside each door. Ask him or her to find other animals on the outside of the barn. Talk about the role of each animal on the farm and ask the child to make each animal sound!
Talk about how baby animals often have different names than full-grown ones. For example, a young pig is called a piglet and a young sheep is called a lamb. Ask the child to find animals in the barn using both the parent's name and the baby's name.
Help the child to identify the many colors seen on and inside the barn. Point to a color on the outside of the barn and ask him or her to find something the same color inside the barn. For instance, you might say, "Here is a yellow sunflower. Can you find something yellow inside?"
Ask the child to count the number of doors on the barn. Ask him or her to unlatch and open a specific number of doors and then to tell you how many are open and how many are closed.
Ask the child to unlock the hook latch on the double doors, and then to find the flocked animal figure that matches the pictures inside the barn doors (cow). Talk about which cow is "outside" the barn and which are "inside." Have the child put the cow figure inside the barn through the open door and then re-latch it. Repeat this with other doors and animals that match the pictures.
Help the child to tell a story using the animal play figures and the barn. For instance, you might start by saying, "One morning, the animals were outside when it began to rain. The horse decides to go inside the barn, but needs help opening one of the barn doors. Who does the horse ask for help?" | 2019-04-24T22:35:54 | https://www.melissaanddoug.com/latches-barn/2564.html |
0.998343 | Full title reads: "SKIMMING THE WAVES! - Mr. Arthur Bray sets new Motorboat record at Poole Regatta."
Mr Arthur Bray, the Vice Commodore of the British Motor Yacht Club, is entering his motorboat 'Dream Girl IV'. He checks something around the stirring wheel and then sits down. He will attempt to set the new World's motorboat speed record at Poole Regatta.
Mr Bray and another person in the boat leaving marina. Various shots of Mr Bray speeding across the water. He succeeds in his attempt. Mr Bray afterwards, smiling into camera.
Arthur Bray is pictured with his co-pilot Jimmy Couling, a Marine Engineer who was responsible for maintaining 'Dream Girl 1V's engine. Jimmy was also co-pilot in Holland during the mid-thirties, He was considered by many to have a magic touch with engines, marine and motors, (cars and motorbikes) How do I know - he was my father. | 2019-04-25T10:03:38 | https://britishpathe.com/video/skimming-the-waves-beware-other-items-share-this/query/wildcard |
0.998511 | It seems once again the Auckland War Memorial Museum has forgotten their remit is to tell the history of New Zealand's wars?
I am no gun nut but I always found a look through the displays in the Armoury a very interesting and worthwhile thing to do, seeing the horrid weapons of war that our troops used or contended with in the past. The display added a lot of context to the stories of our veterans.
I stand to be corrected, but I understood this to be a WAR Memorial Museum?
And what's better at conveying understanding, dozens of weapons (each with a little label describing the model # etc) inside sterile glass cases, or a display with pictures, quotes, context text and various artefacts including a few weapons? It seems that the Antique Arms Association thinks displaying as many weapons as will fit is the correct approach.
I think there is a place for both, Errol. | 2019-04-19T14:39:19 | http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/25667/auckland-memorial-removes-weapons-display |
0.999998 | TL;DR news is the only place to get all of your Scottish football news ranked and prioritised in order of importance for you.
Zenit St Petersburg have claimed a story in the Scottish Sun, stating that Celtic fans could be targeted by gangsters posing as fake police offers, as “fake news.” The Daily Record seem to agree, referring to the paper as “a downmarket English-based tabloid” in their coverage of the remark from Celtic’s next opponents.
Graeme Murty has stated that he nor the club are under any financial pressure to sell Alfredo Morelos.
Jose Mourinho has urged Alex McLeish to call up young Manchester United midfielder, Scott McTominay, before the English FA snap him up.
Murty has taken an entertaining 5-3 victory over Hamilton in his stride, stating that Rangers shouldn’t limit their hopes at simply finishing second above the rest of the Scottish Premiership sides.
Youssouf Mulumbu has told the Scottish Sun that Kilmarnock are now targeting a top four finish in the league.
Tommy Wright has urged his players to play like they did against Celtic each and every week for the remainder of the season. Although drawing 0-0 in each their remaining fixtures may not get them very far. | 2019-04-24T08:11:07 | https://www.thetwopointone.com/tldr-monday-february-19/ |
0.998777 | Energy is the ability to do work. Energy comes in many forms: chemical energy, electrical energy, heat energy, light energy, mechanical energy and nuclear energy. Wind energy is a form of renewable energy that comes from wind. Other types of renewable energies include slow but steady tidal power, geothermal power (only possible in some areas, tapping heat from deep in the Earth), and biofuels (fuels derived from plants and algae). These energy types are renewable because the source of the energy is never ending (wind, sun, water etc.). Perhaps wind energy might be the energy source for future cars?
Design a mast and sail for a car of the future. You have been provided with a car base to attach it to. Plan it using the materials given and the design engineer process. You will need to test and adjust your design so that you obtain the best distance travelled by your car.
Measure the distance it travels when using a fan (A more specific machine/toy could be provide: car, kit, plane, boat). | 2019-04-24T07:49:48 | https://www.madaboutscience.com.au/shop/science-extra/post/stem-activity-designing-a-wind-powered-car/ |
0.999983 | What Is a Microbial Biofilm?
A biofilm is a collection of microbial communities enclosed by a matrix of extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) and separated by a network of open water channels. These communities adhere to manmade and natural surfaces, such as metals and teeth, typically at a liquid-solid interface (1). Their architecture is an optimal environment for cell-cell interactions, including the intercellular exchange of genetic material, communication signals, and metabolites, which enables diffusion of necessary nutrients to the biofilm community. The matrix in which microbes in a biofilm are embedded protects them from UV exposure, metal toxicity, acid exposure, dehydration and salinity, phagocytosis, antibiotics, and antimicrobial agents (1). The protective EPS and the unsurpassed metabolic versatility and phenotypic plasticity of microbes, likely explain how bacteria are able to persist in so many different types of environments, including those that are inhospitable to higher forms of life. By forming organized communities with other microbes, they can even further extend their ability to adapt and thrive in even the most hostile environments.
What Role Do Biofilms Play?
The majority of bacteria in natural, clinical, and industrial settings persist in association with living or abiotic surfaces. Some contributions by bacterial communities are positive. In nature, they play an important role in the synthesis and degradation of organic matter; the degradation of environmental pollutants; and the cycling of nitrogen, sulfur, and metals. These metabolic processes are complex and typically can only be conducted through the concerted effort of multiple metabolically distinct microbes. In industrial settings, biofilms are important in processing sewage, treatment of petroleum-contaminated groundwater, and nitrification.
However, biofilms also contribute to biocorrosion, are associated with tooth decay, and are responsible for infections of the human body. With regard to biocorrosion, sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), such as Desulfovibrio vulgaris, contribute to the corrosion of steel. The presence of Streptococcus mutans in dental plaque is a hallmark of dental caries. Also, biofilms account for more than 80% of all microbial infections of the human body. Examples of biofilm infections of the human body include device-related infections, such as intravenous catheters and joint prostheses; infective endocarditis; and cystic fibrosis pneumonia (1). The protective nature of the biofilm structure makes the bacteria embedded within them remarkably difficult to treat with antimicrobials; biofilms are resistant to doses of antimicrobials 100- to 1000-fold over the minimum lethal dose for microbes outside of biofilms (2). Also, biofilms are highly resistant to both immunological and non-specific defense mechanisms of the body.
Past microbiology research focused primarily on pure culture, planktonic (free-swimming) bacteria. While extremely useful for deconvoluting the functional components and the regulatory networks of a single cell, this research tells us very little about community behavior. However, there are many difficulties associated with biofilm research. Biofilms are more difficult to culture than planktonic bacteria. Culturing biofilms must take into account the transport kinetics of nutrients throughout the biofilm and fluid forces on the biofilm. Simple experiments, such as dose response measurements used in liquid cultures, are made difficult by the heterogeneous, complex structure and undefined transport kinetics of biofilms (1).
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are addressing the complexities associated with biofilm research. We are creating new and innovative ways to study microbial biofilms. Our Microbial Cell Dynamics Laboratory houses a variety of equipment for microbial research, including two biofilm reactors. New technologies are being developed at PNNL for biofilm research, which are nondestructive, quantitative, and capable of producing spatially resolved temporal measurements. These efforts address a major challenge in microbiology, and they complement an objective of the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Genomics: Genomes to Life (GTL) program to obtain a functional understanding of multi-species microbial communities.
Controlled Cultivation, Molecular Biology, and Advanced Imaging of Microbial Biofilms - Researchers at PNNL are developing new and innovative approaches to analyze biofilms. We are designing and evaluating a fermentor to grow biofilms reproducibly; constructing genetically modified bacteria to study biofilm development; investigating single- and multiple-species interactions with reactive surfaces; and providing well-defined, controlled samples for developing biofilm research capabilities.
Noninvasive Biofilm Characterization Using Acoustic Microscopy New acoustic microscopy-based capabilities are being developed and demonstrated at PNNL to better understand biofilm community structure and dynamic space-time processes in three-dimensional, heterogeneous, living biofilms.
Experimental Metabolism Studies of Oral Biofilm Communities — Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methodologies developed at PNNL, metabolite production is being characterized in dental biofilms. Concurrently, stable isotope probing (SIP) will be used to identify the bacterial types that actively produce organic acids from the common sugar, glucose. This combined approach will pave the way for studying the metabolism of other complex microbial communities.
Proteome and Bioenergetic Analysis of Growth States in a Syntrophic Quad-Culture — Scientists at PNNL are developing a method to predict biochemical behavior in a simple, four-microorganism community based on analyses of transcriptome and macroscopic process data describing carbon and energy flow. Organisms of particular interest in this study are the sulfate-reducing and/or syntrophic Desulfovibrio vulgaris and Syntrophobacter fumaroxidans as well as the methanogenic bacterium Methanosarcina barkeri.
Dynamics and Spatial Expression of Signal Proteins in the Desulfovibrio vulgaris Biofilm and its Implication to Iron Corrosion — Anaerobic corrosion of iron is frequently linked to the activity of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB), which can form biofilms on the surface of steel. We are measuring the dynamic and spatial expression of green fluorescent protein-fused, two-component signal transduction system proteins in SRB, which may control biofilm formation.
(1) Hall-Stoodley L, JW Costerton, and P Stoodley. 2004. "Bacterial Biofilms: From the Natural Environment to Infectious Diseases." Nature Reviews: Microbiology. 2:95-108.
(2) Lewis K. 2004. "Persistor Cells and the Riddle of Biofilm Survival." Biochemistry (Moscow) . 70(2):267-274. | 2019-04-18T10:17:53 | https://www.pnnl.gov/sysbio/sysbio/biofilms.stm |
0.998169 | When World War II ended, Korea became a divided nation. North of the 38th parallel, a line that crosses Korea at 38 degrees north latitude, the Japanese surrendered to the Soviets. South of that line, the Japanese surrendered to the Allies.
As in Germany, two nations developed. The Soviet Union supported a Communist government in North Korea. The United States supported a non-Communist government in South Korea. On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. President Truman fought this move with help from the UN. The United States and other countries sent troops to assist South Korea. At first, the North Korean army captured almost all of South Korea.
Then the UN army made a bold counterattack. The attack was led by General Douglas MacArthur. In 1953, the two Koreas agreed to a cease-fire. The earlier boundary splitting North and South Korea remained the same.
North Korea had a Communist government. It had a strong army and tight government control, but it also had many economic problems. For more than 30 years, dictators ruled South Korea. But its economy grew, in part because it received U.S. aid. Free elections were held in South Korea after a new constitution was adopted in 1987.
A nationalist named Ho Chi Minh drove the French out of Vietnam. This worried the United States because Ho had turned to the Communists for help. Many Americans thought if one country became Communist, others would also, like a row of dominoes. This idea is known as the domino theory. A peace conference split Vietnam in two, with Ho taking charge of North Vietnam. The country had a Communist government. Communist rebels - the Vietcong - stayed active in the South.
The non-Communist government of the South had been set up by the United States and France. Its leader was Ngo Dinh Diem. When his government was threatened by Communists, the United States began to send troops. When they could not win the war on the ground, they tried bombing. Many people in the United States came to oppose the war.
How did the United States get involved in Vietnam?
In the late 1960s, President Richard Nixon began a plan called Vietnamization. This plan called for a gradual pullout of U.S. troops. At the same time, the South Vietnamese increased their combat role. The last American troops left in 1973. Two years later, North Vietnam overran the South and made Vietnam one country again. Today, Vietnam remains Communist but is looking for other nations to invest in its economy.
Fighting in Vietnam spilled over into Vietnam's neighbor, Cambodia. Rebels there were known as the Khmer Rouge. They set up a brutal Communist government. The Khmer Rouge killed 2 million people. In 1978, the Vietnamese invaded the country. They overthrew the Khmer Rouge. Vietnam withdrew in 1989. In 1993, Cambodia held free elections for the first time.
What happened in Vietnam after the United States withdrew?
In which year was the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam the highest?
What is the greatest number of troops the South Vietnamese army had at one time? | 2019-04-24T07:55:44 | https://asn.am/_access/world/curriculum/09-post-war-world/wars-korea-vietnam/wars-korea-vietnam.php |
0.998985 | House Democrats' efforts to force a vote on a measure that would protect special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE was defeated on the floor Thursday.
The Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, was introduced by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler Jerrold (Jerry) Lewis NadlerDemocrats leave impeachment on the table House Judiciary chair to call on McGahn to testify before Congress Tim Ryan doesn't back impeachment proceedings against Trump MORE (D-N.Y.).
Democrats blasted the closed-rule process before attempting to file a motion to sidestep Republicans and bring the bill to the floor.
The legislation comes as President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump calls Sri Lankan prime minister following church bombings Ex-Trump lawyer: Mueller knew Trump had to call investigation a 'witch hunt' for 'political reasons' The biggest challenge from the Mueller Report depends on the vigilance of everyone MORE is slated to speak with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod Jay RosensteinEx-Trump lawyer: Mueller knew Trump had to call investigation a 'witch hunt' for 'political reasons' Mueller questioned by TV journalist over details of report Cummings: Barr acting like 'defense counsel' for Trump rather than AG MORE amidst rumors he will step down or be fired — a move Democrats feel could hinder Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference.
Rosenstein’s fate remains unclear following reports he discussed invoking the 25th Amendment and secretly recording Trump with administration officials.
Conservatives have called for the deputy attorney general to testify under oath before the House Judiciary Committee and haven’t ruled out filing a privileged resolution forcing a vote on impeachment.
"President Trump and House Republicans’ recent efforts to ratchet up their campaign to undermine, interfere with and obstruct Mueller’s investigation warrant immediate action from Congress to protect the investigation into the Trump-Russia scandal," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro PelosiTrump pushes back on impeachment talk: 'Tables are finally turning on the Witch Hunt!' Moulton enters 2020 White House race Trump takes aim at Dem talk of impeachment MORE’s (D-Calif.) office said in an announcement of their intention to file the motion.
"President Trump has fired nearly every high-ranking official charged with investigating the Trump-Russia scandal. Now it appears that Rosenstein could be next – and it could happen as soon as today. President Trump knows that the walls are closing around him."
The measure would have codified the DOJ’s regulations on firing the special counsel, requiring the reasoning to be put in writing. It also would have provided a 10-day period in which a review of their removal could be reviewed. Under the legislation, all staff and materials would also be preserved while the investigation remained open. | 2019-04-23T02:08:31 | https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/408822-democrats-efforts-to-protect-mueller-fail-on-the-floor |
0.99938 | In Spain, the political landscape is changing.
Manuela Carmena, 71, the redoubtable candidate for left-wing coalition Ahora Madrid took 31.8% of the vote in the local and regional elections on Sunday (24 May), clawing back a 10-point lead held by her equally redoubtable rival, Esperanza Aguierre, 63, a countess by marriage, whose People's Party have dominated politics in the Spanish capital's politics for 24 years.
With 20 council seats, Carmena could become mayor if she secures the support of Socialist Party candidate Antonio Miguel Carmona, who won 15.3% of the vote and nine council seats.
Despite winning one more seat than Ahora, PP's chances of securing the municipality look remote.
Ahora Madrid was born of the popular anti-austerity protest movement that has shaken the Spanish political system to its core.
Among its chief members is the local branch of Podemos, the anti-austerity and anti-corruption party that enjoyed dramatic gains in the elections.
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias hailed the results as signifying the end of traditional politics in Spain, which has long been dominated by the PP and Socialists.
"This spring of change is irreversible," he said. "We will take up the challenge of winning the [parliamentary] elections against the Popular Party."
In Barcelona, anti-eviction activist Ada Colau, who is backed by Podemos, became the city's first-ever female mayor.
Colau's background in popular protests spans back to her opposition to the Iraq war and direct activism on behalf of recession-hit families battling eviction from their homes won her credibility with voters disillusioned by the established order in Spain.
Although the PP of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy claimed most votes nationwide, it saw its dominance in municipalities across the country eroded, including in traditional strongholds Madrid and Valencia.
Podemos and fellow populists Ciudadanos, which ran on a platform of economic reform, have firmly established themselves on the Spanish political scene, amid growing disenchantment about the effects of austerity, national unemployment figures of 23.2%, and a series of high profile corruption scandals.
Spain's increasing political divide was reflected in the race for the Madrid mayoralty, with Aguierre warning that allowing Podemos into office could endanger democracy.
"After that, we will vote, but like they do in Cuba," she said.
After initially refusing to run, citing her age, former Communist party member and human rights activist Carmena said she felt obliged to run for office to ensure reform of the corrupt old order, and end the growing division between rich and poor.
"What worries me most is the possibility that someone who has done so much harm to democracy and who is entangled in corruption scandals could take over the city council," Carmena told news website Diariocrítico, after two of Aguierre's officials were embroiled in a corruption scandal.
However, the struggle to claim power in the Spanish capital is far from over, and the left must resolve divisions if it is to claim the mayoralty, with Ahora and the Socialists having 20 days to reach a coalition agreement before the party with most votes is handed power. | 2019-04-19T16:33:51 | https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/former-communist-poised-seize-power-conservative-madrid-1502965 |
0.998436 | A return that is larger than some benchmark, especially the risk-free return. A portfolio, for example, may have an excess return above the index on which it is based. This occurs when the portfolio manager makes certain investment decisions that pay off for the investor. It is important to note that receiving an excess return almost always requires one to take on more risk.
The return on an asset or a portfolio in excess of the risk-free return. If short-term corporate debt provides a return of 4 1/2 % while U.S. Treasury bills are yielding 3 1/2 %, excess return on the corporate debt is 1%. Excess return is usually correlated with the riskiness of an investment.
The S&P MARC 5% Index is designed to track the performance of a risk-weighted portfolio consisting of three asset classes -- equities, commodities and fixed income -- represented by three component indices: the S&P 500 Excess Return Index, the S&P GSCI Gold Excess Return Index and the S&P 10-Year U.
The whole industry was able to have the net excess return of 23.
The excess return series includes 23 developed country indices, 21 emerging country indices, as well as two value-weighted aggregate indices: 1) the World Index (WI), which covers 23 developed countries and 2) the Emerging Markets Index (EMI) that covers 21 emerging countries.
The researchers estimate that over their sample period, institutional asset managers earned an annual gross excess return (alpha) of 131 basis points relative to the overall equity market.
Active asset managers earn their keep, but..
Nikko Asset Management has announced the launch of a new UCITS-compliant global credit fund, which would aim an absolute return of 4% and an excess return of 1.
2]) is an average change in the excess return as a result of unit change in the sentiment(optimism) index occurring over periods of its negative values and [[alpha].
market (Federal Reserve Board, 1996), the hypothesis tested is the excess return hypothesis, which states that expected returns move one-for-one with ex-ante interest rates.
Get the monthly geometric excess return of the fund vis-a-vis the risk-free return.
One way to see the high costs of storage and transportation through indexing is to look at the negative roll return by subtracting the spot return index (PR) from the excess return index (ER).
Implications of U.S. natural gas growth: will gas bills be cheaper?
69 excess return per dollar wagered) while the BPNN was 20% accurate with a $124.
As one would expect, the value portfolio has the highest average excess return of 0.
However, resourceful managers are getting sponsors to take another look, by coming to market with new ways to harvest excess return. | 2019-04-22T02:37:12 | https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/excess+return |
0.999984 | Bali, Indonesia, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Oct, 2018 ) :The US-China trade war will hobble global growth, the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday, cutting its forecast for this year and next and predicting that "everyone is going to suffer" from a clash between the world's two biggest economies.
At a meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali, the IMF painted a cautious picture for the near future, saying trade tensions and rising debt levels could dent China and the US -- and leave developing economies especially vulnerable to sudden stresses.
"There is no denying that the susceptibility to large global shocks has risen," the IMF's top economist Maurice Obstfeld told reporters after the fund cut its outlook for global GDP growth by 0.2 percentage points to 3.7 percent for 2018 and 2019.
Tensions have soared in recent months with Donald Trump's administration rolling out billions of Dollars in tariffs against China in a bid to tackle its trade deficit and rein in what Washington views as unacceptable trade practices by the Asian giant.
China has responded in kind with its own barrage of levies, rattling nerves especially among other Asian economies and already vulnerable countries like Argentina, Turkey and Brazil.
"Trade policy reflects politics and politics remains unsettled in several countries, posing further risks," Obstfeld said.
When the world's two biggest economies are "at odds", Obstfeld said, that is going to create "a situation where everyone is going to suffer".
- Rising protectionism - Finance ministers and central bankers from many of the IMF's 189 member nations are meeting in Bali this week with talk of rising protectionism taking centre stage.
The IMF report said "protectionist rhetoric" was being "increasingly turned into action", warning such uncertainty "could lead firms to postpone or forgo capital spending and hence slow down growth in investment and demand." Global trade is projected to expand by 4.2 percent this year -- 0.6 percent less than expected in July -- dropping to four percent next year.
The fund urged governments to focus on policies that can share the benefits of growth more widely, helping counter the growing mistrust of institutions, and to avoid "protectionist reactions to structural change." And it stressed "cooperative solutions" to help boost continued growth in trade "remain essential to preserve and extend the global expansion".
- 'Inflation surprise' - With US GDP growth expected to drop from 2.9 percent this year to 1.8 percent by 2020, the IMF also warned about the potential risk of an "inflation surprise", fuelled by the same tax cuts and rising spending used to cushion the impact from the trade war.
US stimulus also adds to the "already-unsustainable" debt and deficit that will undercut future growth, the report warned.
Further out, China's economic growth is expected to slow gradually to 5.6 percent as the government shifts to "a more sustainable growth path" and addresses financial risks, the IMF said.
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0.999946 | Finding the funds to grow a company or work through a difficult time is always challenging. The activities that CEOs and CFOs must undertake are the same regardless of whether the company is growing and self financing, raising capital or thinking about selling. In the end, value creation is all about the amount of future cash flow the company can generate.
Who should I get it from?
How much debt and how much equity?
Should I personally guarantee the company's debts? If so, how much?
The answer to all of these questions is surfaced by following a process that begins with end in mind, and then systematically works to narrow the likely and feasible alternatives.
Step one involves understanding the current and historical state of the business and how it got where it is. This is coupled with a clear articulation of the objectives of the shareholders and a defined go-forward strategy. Then forecast the likely scenarios and compare proforma company performance to competitive or industry benchmarks for realism. You should be able to assess the likely use of new funds and the timing of when they are required after several iterations. A nice byproduct of the process is an estimate of the value of the business and how it is likely to change over the forecast period.
Armed with this information, you can then begin to determine the go-forward capital structure and target funding sources. Test the market to see if you can really get the capital desired and drive the process in a competitive environment to negotiate and close the deal.
While this may sound easy, it takes time to prepare and execute... so being proactive is critical if you can (sometimes that is hard in a crisis). Getting the right team of players to partner with you and your management team is critical to drive the process and minimize distractions to operations. | 2019-04-19T06:54:03 | https://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread/23204 |
0.998764 | Purple 10 2 7/8" x 2 7/8"
Pink 4 2 7/8" x 2 7/8"
2 6 1/2" x 2 1/2"
6 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"
White 6 2 7/8" x 2 7/8"
4 6 1/2" x 2 1/2"
8 4 1/2" x 2 1/2"
4 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Yellow 1 4 1/2" x 4 1/2"
Take 10 purple 7/8" x 2 7/8" squares, 4 pink 2 7/8" x 2 7/8" squares and 6 white 2 7/8" x 2 7/8" squares.
Draw a diagonal line in pencil or water soluble pen on the wrong side of the purple squares.
2. Place a purple and pink square wrong sides together and using the line as a guide, sew a 1/4" seam on either side. Repeat for purple and white squares aswell.
3. Take a ruler and rotary cutter and cut along drawn line on each sewn square.
4. Press open, pressing seam towards darker fabric. Trim off 'ears' sticking out at corners of squares.
5. To make top and bottom slices of the block:Arrange a white piece 6 1/2" x 2 1/2", then two half square triangles of purple and white, and finally another white piece 6 1/2" x 2 1/2". 6. Sew together. 7. Make two, one for top slice and one for bottom slice.
8. Arrange a 6 1/2" x 2 1/2" piece of pink fabric, two half square triangles of pink and purple, then a single 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" square, as shown in photo below.
9. Sew together. Make two, one for top and one for bottom of block. 10. Arrange Half Square Triangles as shown in photo below, with a white piece 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" in the middle and a single square at the end. 11. Make two.
12. Arrange two strips as shown in the photo, matching seams.
13. Sew together. Make two of these.
14. Sew a piece of white 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" to each end.
16. Take the yellow 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" square and 4 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" squares.Draw a diagonal line on the wrong sides of the white squares. 17. Place two white squares on opposite corners of the yellow square, wrong sides together. Sew along diagonal lines.
18.Trim off leaving a 1/4" seam allowance.
19. Repeat for other two corners.
20. Again trim off, leaving 1/4" seam.
22. Sew a 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" piece of white fabric to opposite sides of the diamond. 23.Add half square triangles and single squares as shown in the photo below.
24. Now its time to sew all the pieces together! Mix up your colours for that Hippy look! I'd love to see your blocks, I've got a Flickr group here, so upload your photo and share your colour combinations!
That is just incredible... thanks sooooo much for the tutorial!!!!
Love this block, think it could be my next quilt. Thanks so much for sharing.
I love this block and used larger size for a quilt. Forgot about how fun it was to make. Gonna make a couple mug rugs for friends at work. Thanks for yet another project but at least mug rugs work up quickly!
This is wonderful! By chance do you have a .pdf version?
Amazing tutorial, I love this block and going to bookmark this page. Thanks for sharing.
Que lindo!Pensei que fosse mais difícil.
Ola! boa noite esse trabaçho é muito lindo manda para meu e-mail novidades. abraços e obrigada.
Adorei! Embora eu seja Brasileira e não fale Inglês, eu consegui entender apenas pelas ilustrações. Obrigado!
I love this block and your colors. So cheerful. Thanks for sharing.
THANK you VERY much!~ Love this.
well I did it. and learned a lot! not too shabby for a first try, but definitely lots to improve upon!
Thank you for sharing your time and talent with the world! I love the pattern and the colors! Beautiful!
Ballynanny Bluebells and another giveaway! | 2019-04-25T21:52:37 | http://lisnaweary-quilts.blogspot.com/2011/05/hippy-square-tutorial.html |
0.99995 | How to Address an Episcopal Priest?
I am noticing regional differences in how Episcopal clergy is addressed. Bishops are easy, male or female. But what about a woman Episcopal priest? Not Anglican. In Boston?
In Boston, the Mother form of address appears to be cringeworthy, so one is encouraged to use the priest's first name, adding the prefix Pastor for a woman, for more formality. My observation is based on working with about ten women priests of a certain age over the past twenty years.
The forms I include in my book are based on advice the Public Affairs office of the Episcopal Church in New York -- and that is that most of the women priests in the Episcopal Church go by Mother (Surname) in conversation/direct address, unless they are Dr. (Surname).
As to whether there are regional differences, there are many respectful forms of address ... including regional differences. But they tend to be more casual and informal. I just focus on the most formal forms -- since those tend to be the most widely accepted and best for all of us "outsiders" when addressing officials in a hierarchy of which we are not a part.
Regarding use of Pastor -- it is a good honorific to use with just about any of the Protestant clergy if you are unsure of what they personally prefer ... as far as I have observed, none of the denominations object to it. | 2019-04-24T03:49:25 | http://site.mawebcenters.com/honorrespect/Priest_episcopal.html |
0.999426 | One of the best places to look for a new job could be the company you are working for now. You may be interested in transitioning to a different role, shifting your career focus, working for a new department, or you could be relocating and want to continue working for the same employer.
Companies want to keep good employees, and if you're interested in a job change, but don't want to switch companies, checking out what options are available can make good sense.
Most companies list open positions online. In addition, you may be able to sign up to receive email alerts when new jobs are posted. Before you apply, be sure that you have the credentials the company is seeking. The company isn't going to give you a different job just because you applied. Plus, you are wasting your time, and the company's time, applying for jobs that aren't a good fit.
It's important to let your boss know that you have applied for another position before he or she finds out from someone else. However, it's also important to be careful as to how you mention your application. You don't want your boss to infer that you aren't happy with your current role, even if it's true. You may not get the new job, so it's important to stay on good terms with your supervisor.
The best rationale focuses on the positive aspects of the new job without expressing dissatisfaction about the job you have now. In fact, it is usually safest to emphasize that you are enjoying your current job, so your boss doesn't think you can't wait to move on.
What's the best way to apply? It depends on whether you are applying for a transfer or seeking a promotion. However, in both cases, companies typically have an internal job application process you will need to follow.
Following the instructions is just as important, perhaps even more so, when you are applying for an internal job opening versus an external position. Hiring managers expect all applicants to follow the rules. You won't get a pass if you don't follow the application guidelines. In fact, your application may not be considered if you don't submit the required application materials.
Don't presume that you will automatically be hired for the new job just because you are already working for your employer. Some companies will give preference to current employees; others evaluate all candidates equally.
That's why it's important to carefully write a cover letter targeted specifically to the job for which you are applying and to update and target your resume, as well.
Who do you know who can help your application? A referral from your current supervisor would be terrific, but other employees can also put in a good word for your candidacy. Again, be sure to talk to your boss before you start networking. You don't want your boss to find out that you are seeking a new position from anyone other than you.
Many companies require references, typically three employment-related references. If your reference list includes current company employees who are willing to attest to your qualifications it will boost your candidacy. Talk to managers and colleagues to see if they would be willing to provide you with a reference.
It's important to take the time to get ready to interview. Don't think that you'll get off easier because you already work for the company. In fact, you may be held to an even higher standard than external job applicants and may be expected to know more about the company and the job. Take the time to thoroughly prepare for the interview.
Check out the company website to be sure you are up-to-date with all the latest news. Review sample interview questions. Make a list of the company's requirements for the new job and the qualifications you have for it.
It's always important to say thank you for a job interview, regardless of whether you are interviewing for a job with your present employer or at a new company. Send a thank you letter via email or in writing to let your interviewer(s) know that you appreciate their consideration for the job.
If you do get the job, it's a good idea to take the time to thank your boss for the opportunities you were provided with while working with him or her. Also, thank everyone who helped support your candidacy for the position.
Don't feel bad if you don't get the job. There may have been other candidates, internal or external, who were a better fit for the position. Ask for feedback from those you met with. They may not be able to disclose why you weren't hired, but, if they can, it will help you plan your next steps—which could entail applying for another internal position or seeking employment outside the company.
Even though it can be challenging when you are excited about switching jobs, be sure not to neglect your current position. It's important not to slack off and to continue to excel in your present role. It will not only enhance your chances of getting a new job next time around. It will also assure your boss that you are still committed to the job you have. | 2019-04-25T05:12:39 | https://www.thebalancecareers.com/how-to-apply-for-a-job-within-your-company-2060650 |
0.999999 | When is Jon Hamm's Christmas Black Mirror airing?
Don Draper meets Charlie Brooker is TV not to be missed.
Jon Hamm's collaboration with Charlie Brooker on Black Mirror: White Christmas will air on December 16 on Channel 4, it has been confirmed.
The festive special of Brooker's dark anthology series will star Hamm, Rafe Spall and Game of Thrones actress Oona Chaplin.
"In a mysterious and remote snowy outpost, Matt (Jon Hamm) and Potter (Rafe Spall), share a Christmas meal together and swap creepy tales of their earlier lives in the outside world. Matt is a charismatic American trying to bring the reserved, secretive Potter out of his shell. Are both men who they appear to be?
"Along the way we see Jon Hamm offering an unusual form of romantic guidance to an inexperienced young man, watch Oona Chaplin thrust headlong into a nightmarish world of 'smart' gadgetry, and explore what might happen if you could 'block' people in real life, just as you can on Facebook or Twitter.
"All three stories are bound together into a suitably unsettling whole. Fans of eerie Christmas stories are in for a treat..."
Speaking about how he signed up for the project, Hamm said that he actually approached Brooker about the show rather than the other way around, because he was such a big fan of the show.
"I had been a fan of Black Mirror, and Charlie Brooker, because I have a strange predilection for offbeat British things, and this was no exception," said Hamm. "It came about in this very odd way, with me asking my agent if I could meet Mr Brooker.
"I didn't know he was even working on a third series or a Christmas special or anything, it was simply that I really liked his work and really wanted to meet the guy."
Black Mirror: White Christmas will air on December 16 on Channel 4. | 2019-04-19T22:55:43 | https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a612386/when-is-jon-hamms-christmas-black-mirror-airing/ |
0.998527 | What are the Requirements to Becoming a Nursing Director?
In the old days, most licensed nurses were simply RNs; supervisors came from the ranks of nurses and did not necessarily hold any special certifications or titles. These days, many RNs also hold special certifications. If they want to move up the career ladder, there are a number of different titles and roles they can vie for.
One of the roles nurses can move up to is nurse manager. This is a lower-level administrative position that also includes floor duties. Nurses who do well in this capacity and who have the business skills, communication and leadership qualities needed may then move into executive roles. Two top roles are Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Nursing (DON).
Chief Nursing Officers have been compared to CEO of companies. They are one of the higher roles nurses can vie for. Such a person may, in fact, be in charge of a healthcare facility, answering only to the senior healthcare setting administrator, if there is one.
A Director of Nursing (DON), on the other hand, usually works in long-term care facilities. He or she is the top of the executive ladder when it comes to all nursing matters, answerable only to top administrators and, to some extent, doctors.
In most states, a Director of Nursing is licensed in that field. They usually have, at minimum, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), several years of RN floor duty experience, a current RN license (of course), and often have to take on-going training and classes, as well as tests.
•Nursing Directors have to be top-level communicators. They have to keep the lines of communication open between doctors, patients, families of patients, healthcare providers (in addition to nurses), government officials, etc.
•Nursing Directors have to have excellent leadership skills. This job is not for shy people or for people who are good at following, but not leading. This requires, among other things, an extremely detailed knowledge of the ins and outs of nursing, as well as the latest trends and developments in the profession and in nursing science.
•Ideally, Nursing Directors have a graduate degree (masters or doctorate) in nursing and often an additional degree in business administration or healthcare administration.
•Some DONs may also have certifications in areas of special importance to the facility over which they preside.
•Nursing Directors usually come from the ranks of nurse managers — in other words, rarely does an RN get promoted to a DON. There is an expectation that, at the very least, a DON was a unit supervisor for a number of years before being elevated to DON.
•Nursing Directors are licensed by a special organization.
•Nursing Directors manage not just nurses, but healthcare – providing support people, as well as non-healthcare staff.
•Nursing Directors help set up strategies and policies; they are also consulted in regards to laws and nursing board changes.
•Nursing Directors may be legally held responsible for events and occurrences in facilities where they work; this means that they need to have a good knowledge of policies and legal requirements across the board.
•Nursing Directors need to be good at managing stress. | 2019-04-23T10:46:23 | http://medicalandhealthcare.com/articles/nursing/what-are-the-requirements-to-becoming-a-nursing-director.html |
0.999746 | Shown below in Figure 2.21.1 is the southwest corner of a 1:24,000-scale topographic map published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Note that the geographic coordinates (40 45' N latitude, 77° 52' 30" W longitude) of the corner are specified. Also shown, however, are ticks and labels representing two plane coordinate systems, the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) system and the State Plane Coordinates (SPC) system. The tick labeled "4515" represents a UTM grid line (called a "northing") that runs parallel to and 4,515,000 meters north of, the equator. Ticks labeled "258" and "259" represent grid lines that run perpendicular to the equator and 258,000 meters and 259,000 meters east, respectively, of the origin of the UTM Zone 18 North grid. Unlike longitude lines, UTM "eastings" are straight and do not converge upon the Earth's poles. All of this begs the question, Why are multiple coordinate system grids shown on the map? Why aren't geographic coordinates sufficient?
Figure 2.21.1 Southwest corner of a USGS topographic map showing grid ticks and labels for three different coordinate systems, including the UTM coordinate system.
Credit: USGS. "State College quadrangle, Pennsylvania"
You can think of a plane coordinate system as the juxtaposition of two measurement scales. In other words, if you were to place two rulers at right angles, such that the "0" marks of the rulers aligned, you'd define a plane coordinate system. The rulers are called "axes." The absolute location of any point in the space in the plane coordinate system is defined in terms of distance measurements along the x (east-west) and y (north-south) axes. A position defined by the coordinates (1,1) is located one unit to the right, and one unit up from the origin (0,0). The UTM grid is a widely-used type of geospatial plane coordinate system in which positions are specified as eastings (distances, in meters, east of an origin) and northings (distances north of the origin).
By contrast, the geographic coordinate system grid of latitudes and longitudes consists of two curved measurement scales to fit the nearly-spherical shape of the Earth. As you know, geographic coordinates are specified in degrees, minutes, and seconds of arc. Curved grids are inconvenient to use for plotting positions on flat maps. Furthermore, calculating distances, directions and areas with spherical coordinates are cumbersome in comparison with plane coordinates. For these reasons, cartographers and military officials in Europe and the U.S. developed the UTM coordinate system. UTM grids are now standard not only on printed topographic maps but also for the geospatial referencing of the digital data that comprise the emerging U.S. "National Map ."
Plot UTM coordinates on a map. | 2019-04-21T10:47:52 | https://www.e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/print/book/export/html/1690 |
0.999998 | She knew this to be her weakness.
[A] knew this to be [A's own] weakness.
Is there anything preventing sentences of this form from being used in this way?
"She knew this to be her weakness."
This sentence is completely grammatical, acceptable and idiomatic when "she" and "her" refer to the same person. Unlike some other languages such as Russian, English does not have a reflexive possessive pronoun. In most cases, we just use the usual possessive form corresponding to the grammatical person (and in third person singular, the gender) of the possessor (e.g. "I knew this to be my weakness," "He knew this to be his weakness," etc.).
The construction with just the possessive pronoun is normal in the above sentences. In some cases, the word "own" may be added after the possessive pronoun to emphasize contrast with another possible possessor, or simply to emphasize the identify of the possessor (in a context where it might be surprising that the possessor is the same as the subject of the sentence).
"Not thinking things through was his greatest weakness. She knew this was her own weakness as well."
"Some people are good at recognizing other people's weaknesses. But she has accomplished something even more valuable: she knows her own weaknesses."
Grammatically, the expression follows all the rules of English and makes perfect sense. I can neither find nor imagine any argument against it, while at the same time I am able to produce the above examples of its use.
It was written this way ONLY after some preceding sentence gave reference to who the subject "She" is.
"...at her..." // "...she knew..."
"She listened...she heard..." // "She knew..."
Those previous are the antecedents [the word (which can be another pronoun) the pronoun refers to] to one or more pronouns in the second sentence.
With the sentence all by itself, no context, verbatim, it could be interpreted as having two different meanings.
In the Third Person narrative, the subject knew this to be her own weakness.
In the Third Person narrative, the subject knew this to be the weakness of another.
YOU may never have seen this, but it's a legitimate sentence, more than likely used when there is no surrounding sentences give clue as to who A is. But that's speculation on my part; the fact is there's nothing wrong with it.
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Can quoted (i.e. citation) text retain its original sentiment? | 2019-04-23T18:41:32 | https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/345840/sentences-of-the-form-a-knew-this-to-be-as-weakness |
0.996399 | Is Milan Skriniar Ready for One of Europe's Elite Clubs?
Shrugging off more than a few seasons of mediocrity, there has been much to admire about Inter Milan so far in 2017/18. They have been top of the Serie A table, they boast the league's leading scorer in Mauro Icardi, and they have earned credible draws with title challengers Juventus and Napoli.
The fact that the Argentina striker has been so prolific is no surprise, thriving on the creativity provided by Ivan Perisic and Antonio Candreva, while Borja Valero and Marcelo Brozovic deliver even more chances from their roles in midfield.
Given that Luciano Spalletti is now in charge, the rising number of opportunities flowing towards Icardi is merely the universally admired coach continuing with the same swashbuckling approach he implemented with former clubs AS Roma and FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.
But it is at the other end of the field where this version of the Nerazzurri has made an unexpected leap. Inter have conceded just 13 goals in the first 17 games of the campaign, goalkeeper Samir Handanovic keeping no fewer than eight clean sheets over that period, including shutouts in those aforementioned meetings with Juve and Napoli.
Yet what makes this shift even more remarkable is that Spalletti is working with almost the same squad that proved to be so leaky under Stefano Pioli, Frank de Boer and Roberto Mancini prior to his arrival.
Handanovic might well be Europe's most under-appreciated goalkeeper, but the weaknesses of full-backs have been exposed repeatedly in previous campaigns. But while that duo—along with Joao Miranda—have looked much improved, it is unquestionably one summer signing that has finally made things click for this previously porous back line.
Milan Skriniar arrived from Sampdoria back in July, the Nerazzurri hierarchy clearly impressed with his efforts during 2016/17. That was his only year with the Genoa-based club, and in his 34 appearances there, the Slovakia international showcased the perfect attitude and approach needed to succeed in Serie A.
Many defenders have come to Italy with rigid ideas of how to play, their reluctance to move out of their comfort zone usually leading to rapid exits. Yet, from the outset, it was clear Skriniar possessed the intelligence, tactical flexibility and awareness needed to thrive on the peninsula.
He instantly looked comfortable with the increased pressure that comes with playing for a high-profile club like Inter, too, turning in an outstanding performance in his competitive debut against Fiorentina.
According to WhoScored.com, that 3-0 victory over La Viola saw Skriniar record one tackle, one interception and a game-high 10 clearances, leading a scrappy but resolute side to an important opening day win.
As the campaign has progressed, so too has his play and that of the team around him. Arguably the most in-form central defender in a league loaded with high-quality players in that role, he has drawn praise from almost everyone who has watched his consistently excellent displays.
"Skriniar is a great player; he's doing well," his new partner Miranda told Sky Italia (h/t Gianluca Di Marzio's website. "It was easy for me to get used to playing with him, and he can become amongst the five best defenders in the world."
The duo have been almost impenetrable, with Skriniar showing his ability in almost every facet of the game. He is strong in the air, with figures taken from Squawka.com showing he has won 55 percent of the aerial duels he has contested, despite standing just 1.87m (6'2")—not overly tall for his role.
Simultaneously, he has shown himself to be quick across the ground and diligent in his man-marking. According to WhoScored.com, Skriniar has recorded averages of 2.2 tackles, 1.2 interceptions and 4.8 clearances per game, yet committed just 15 fouls in more than 1,500 minutes of action.
To time his challenges that well is hugely impressive and has seen him collect just one yellow card, a feat that looks even more incredible when noting he has already gone head-to-head with the likes of Gonzalo Higuain, Dries Mertens, Andrea Belotti and Edin Dzeko.
Only the latter of that quartet managed to score against Inter, but while Skriniar is unquestionably an elite stopper, he has also shown excellent ability on the ball. As the tweet above indicates, his passing was excellent last term, and the 22-year-old has carried that over into the new campaign.
He has connected with 91.4 percent of his 58.9 pass attempts per game, according to WhoScored, trailing only Valero and Matias Vecino among all Inter players, and that led to speculation last month that Skriniar could join one of Europe's elite sides.
"I am not interested in Barcelona," he told Mediaset Premium (h/t FourFourTwo) when asked about the rumours linking him with a move to Camp Nou. "I play for Inter, and my objective is to play for Inter. I want to get them to win."
Goals like the one shown below, scored in a recent 5-0 rout of Chievo, will help raise his profile, while Inter legend Beppe Bergomi—himself a superb defender during a stellar 20-year career with the club—recognised the immense potential of Skriniar almost instantly.
"I knew from the moment he arrived that he could offer some interesting characteristics and qualities," the former Nerazzurri skipper told La Gazzetta dello Sport (h/t Football Italia). "Skriniar's playing style? He's a careful defender, he applies himself, he knows how to get the ball out of defence quickly and he also plays the ball forward."
That is a fair assessment, and one that has led to Manchester City reportedly joining a rapidly expanding list of suitors. City manager Pep Guardiola is, per Jordan Russell at Calciomercato.com, believed to be ready to spend €50 million to bring him to the Etihad Stadium, and it is not difficult to imagine him thriving in England.
Indeed, having watched Skriniar shine for Inter over the last few months, it is obvious that the Nerazzurri have signed an outstanding defender, one who would be worthy of a place in almost any team.
He has brought a calming and resolute influence to a defence that sorely lacked both before his arrival, while displaying a superb sense of where and how to position himself in order to avert danger. Those are qualities every side needs and ones that Milan Skriniar has in abundance. | 2019-04-22T05:59:46 | https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2750431-is-milan-skriniar-ready-for-one-of-europes-elite-clubs |
0.999232 | Martin Denny was born April 10, 1911 in New York City. A child prodigy, at age ten he studied piano under Lester Spitz and Isadore Gorn. For four years he toured South America with the Don Dean Orchestra, followed by a 43-month stint in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. Following his December 1945 discharge, Denny settled in Los Angeles, studying piano, composition, and orchestration at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. In early 1954 he relocated to Hawaii, contracting to appear at the Honolulu club Don the Beachcomber's. The following year Denny formed his own group, originally consisting of vibist Arthur Lyman, bassist John Kramer, and percussionist Augie Colón. In 1956, while appearing at steel and shipping magnate Henry Kaiser's Shell Bar — a club inside the open-air Oahu resort Hawaiian Village, complete with a small pond adjacent to the stage — the combo realized that the croaking of nearby bullfrogs blended perfectly with their tropical musical approach. On a lark, Colón also began imitating bird calls on-stage, much to the delight of the audience. Denny soon began incorporating South Pacific and Far East instruments into his arrangements as well, and by the time he recorded his Liberty Records debut, 1957's Exotica, his singular sound was firmly in place.
The release of Exotica proved perfectly timed — as the '50s drew to a close, tiki culture was all the rage in mainland America, with Hawaiian shirts a fashion trend and tiki torches a staple of backyard parties. Moreover, the evolution from mono to stereo recording and playback had taken root, and with its bird whistles, jungle calls, and far-flung instruments, the many distinctive components of Denny's sound were ideal for channel separation. Originally composed by Les Baxter, the instrumental "Quiet Village" was a massive success, earning Denny and his group an appearance on TV's American Bandstand, and the accompanying Exotica LP topped the Billboard charts. But ironically, even as his music came to embody Hawaiian culture and its mythical allure, Denny himself was no longer a fixture of the island musical culture — after a bitter contract dispute with Kaiser, he brought his group stateside, and they made their first mainland appearance at the 1957 Pebble Beach Crosby Open golf tournament party. Soon after, Kaiser lured Lyman back to Hawaii to assume Denny's vacated spot headlining the Shell Bar; Denny replaced him with Julius Wechter. Likewise, Kramer was later replaced by Harvey Ragsdale, and a second percussionist, Harold Chang, was also added the lineup.
For many listeners, the exotica craze proved short-lived, and Denny never again matched the success of "Quiet Village," although subsequent singles including "A Taste of Honey," "The Enchanted Sea" and "Ebb Tide" did find some favor on the pop charts. For connoisseurs, however, the story certainly does not end there. Denny continued making records in his trademark style throughout the '60s, many of them housed in eye-popping sleeves featuring model Sandy Warner, who was such a ubiquitous presence that she was even dubbed "The Exotica Girl." (Warner eventually recorded her own LP, Fair and Warmer, with Denny himself authoring the liner notes.) While his interests in African and Pacific Rim musical traditions yielded concept records like Afro-Desia and Sayonara, other efforts turned towards more conventional easy listening, which Liberty dubbed his "honey" sound. For the most part, however, Denny remained a restless innovator. For Primitiva, he recorded using a number of gongs, drums, and odd brass instruments acquired from a Buddhist mountaintop temple in Burma by friend and filmmaker John Sturges, on location to shoot the Frank Sinatra vehicle None But the Brave. (According to legend, the instruments were then carried down the mountain by a procession of Buddhist monks.) For 1969's Exotic Moog, his Liberty swan song, Denny even embraced electronics, much to the chagrin of his dwindling fan base.
With his recording career largely behind him, Denny maintained a busy touring schedule throughout the '70s and into the following decade. In 1985 he announced his retirement, settling in Hawaii with his longtime wife June, but three years later he grew restless, reuniting with Lyman, Colón, Chang, and adding bassist Archie Grant to return for a series of sold-out club dates. A Japanese tour yielded the live recording Exotica: The Best of Martin Denny. As the new decade began, he was the recipient of the Hawaiian Association of Music's Hoku Award for lifetime achievement; the honor coincided with the beginnings of an exotica/space age pop revival, and virtually overnight Denny's vintage LPs began disappearing from used record stores. He was also the subject a major CD reissue campaign on the Scamp label. Now a music icon for a new generation, Denny again returned to the road, making live appearances even into the 2000s. His last concert was held in Hawaii on February 13, 2005 at a benefit to aid tsunami victims. Just three weeks later on March 3, 2005 Martin Denny, icon and innovator, passed away at the age of 93.
Remember! The quality of this recording is not probably the clearest one because it was made from the oridginal vinyl. But a few cracks make this recording sound pretty nice! | 2019-04-18T18:33:32 | http://forum.funkysouls.com/t/martin_denny-69638 |
0.999999 | There's a song called "16 Tons" on the Dandy Warhols' newest album that you should know about. Yes, it's the Merle Travis coal-mining tale, covered prolifically by so many artists, but never by any so outwardly insincere as the Portland, Ore., power-poppers. The Dandys probably don't have much in their charmed lives resembling the hardships endured by the song's poor white Appalachian laborers, but instead of checking their privilege, they flaunt it: a filthy bari sax and lead singer/songwriter Courtney Taylor-Taylor's mock growl mangle Travis' populist pathos into an ironic, Screamin' Jay Hawkins-like caterwaul. It's a cringe-inducing misstep, made all the worse by its cavalier attitude toward the source material; to paraphrase a lady friend who was listening with me, "Proletarian alienation: how camp!"
I want you to know about "16 Tons" because it puts the rest of "This Machine," easily the shortest and most abstemious thing the Dandy Warhols have ever put out, into proper perspective. Specifically, it unearths vestigial smirks behind "The Autumn Carnival," "Enjoy Yourself," "Rest Your Head," "I Am Free" and "Slide," which otherwise register as straightforward radio rock - "suspiciously" straightforward. How else to take the second-person aphorisms of "Enjoy Yourself," or the rote Tom Petty-isms of "I Am Free," than as recompense for the shameless indulgence of their last two albums, "Odditorium or Warlords of Mars" and "...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..."?
One option is to take them at face value, I suppose, and assume that "This Machine's" restraint and simplicity marks an attempt by the band to get its ducks in order and recapture the punchy pop magic of, say, 2000's "Thirteen Tales of Urban Bohemia," a career high that constitutes a better best-of than any actual Dandy Warhols best-of. But ever since Ondi Timoner's damning 2004 documentary "Dig!" - a compulsory citation for anything written on the band since - giving them the benefit of the doubt has become harder and harder to do. Timoner depicts Taylor-Taylor as a determined poseur, tirelessly mythologizing the Dandy Warhols as a commercially viable version of the glamorously self-destructive Brian Jonestown Massacre and their insufferable lead singer, Anton Newcombe. This ad hoc expose had the lasting effect of framing their ensuing excesses - psychedelic space-outs, noisy eclecticism, smarmy pastiche and po-mo absurdity in general - as cynical calculations.
Except the Dandy Warhols don't make a very good case that they can function as a minimalist rock unit. Like reformed alcoholics who were more fun when they drank, "This Machine" is alternately sullen and unconvincingly earnest, and inoffensive to a fault. "16 Tons" is obviously an exception to this, and awful as it is, it represents a bold shamelessness that is nevertheless far preferable to the dry, strained hooks populating the rest of the album. "Odditorium" and "Earth" have it in spades, though, which drove critics nuts, and though I can dutifully recognize how bad those albums are, I can't honestly deny their outsize, tawdry appeal. "The World the People Together (Come On)" and "Mis Amigos," from "Earth," and "Love is the New Feel Awful" from "Odditorium" are typical of the indulgent, snarky power-pop that corroborates Timoner's implied accusations against Taylor-Taylor, and God help me, I sort of love them. Their showy clowning is a heady rush of shallow fulfillment. | 2019-04-22T05:17:31 | http://www.slabtown.net/albums/reviews/album_bellinghamheraldmachine.html |
0.999083 | Kingsley Consulting has been retained by a specialist Roofing Technology business that is seeking to appoint a Regional Sales Manager to help drive revenue and secure new business through specification opportunities. Our client over-delivers on value to their customers and with a prestigious history behind their successful brand, this role provides a fantastic platform to the successful candidate to develop their career with one of the leaders within the Flat Roofing and Roofing Technology space.
Manage and be responsible for the performance of your designated region and those Area and Senior Area Managers that report to you. Generate sustainable specification and project opportunities through existing and new client base. To achieve and, if possible, exceed your annual sales targets for your defined area and region that is set by the Company.
To ensure that you fully understand your role in delivering company business plans and objectives and develop your own vision for your area.
To seek and create new business by developing a clear understanding of market sector opportunity in your area and region and prioritising specifying clients within these sectors and to ensure that call cycles are properly recorded and adhered to.
To maintain regular and effective liaison with existing clients in order to understand their needs and drivers and exceed expectations.
To ensure that you and your team continually develops its technical knowledge and is able to demonstrate its technical competence and understanding through the reports, specifications and supporting documentation that it generates.
To promote close and collaborative team working across the business. In particular with other Management colleagues, and especially other Regional Managers, working constructively and proactively with others to capitalise on commercial opportunities and to resolve problems based on what is considered best for the Company in the long term, as opposed to any individual and/or Region.
Dynamic relationship builder and very driven.
Proactive and able to work successfully using your own initiative and approach.
Kingsley Consulting operates an inclusive and diverse recruitment process, whilst also ensuring our clients do the same and provide any advice or education to them in relation to this. If there may be any support or adjustments required at any point throughout your recruitment journey with us, then please let us know and our trained consultants will assist and advise you accordingly. | 2019-04-21T16:49:54 | https://www.salesroles.com/job/sales-marketing-executive/ |
0.999999 | Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. "
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents. Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " The ideology measure is based on respondent self-placement in response to the following question: "On a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is extremely liberal, 7 is extremely conservative, and 4 is exactly in the middle, where would you place yourself?" The placements are further classified such that 1 is extremely liberal, 2 is very liberal, 3 is somewhat liberal, 4 is moderate, 5 is somewhat conservative, 6 is very conservative, and 7 is extremely conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Tea Party identification is based on the following question, also asked in the survey: "Suppose the Tea Party movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?" Those who responded "Republican candidate" are considered Republicans (non-Tea Party movement) and those who responded "Tea Party candidate" are considered Tea Party Republicans.
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Race is calculated according to the race variable.
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Gender is calculated according to the GENDER variable.
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Community is based on the following question, "Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Age is calculated according to the AGEG variable.
Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature debated this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following proposals: Allowing Texans to openly carry handguns in public places so long as they have a license to do so. " Education is calculated according to the EDUC variable. | 2019-04-20T03:55:35 | https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/support-open-carry-june-2015 |
0.999999 | - The novel has in one form or another been adapted in a number of versions for television, movies, and others.
- The novel was intended to teach Wyss's four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance.
- Although movie and TV adaptations typically name the family "Robinson", it is not a Swiss name; the "Robinson" of the title refers to Robinson Crusoe. The German name translates as the Swiss Robinson, implying a Swiss version of Robinson Crusoe, rather than a Swiss family named Robinson.
- It is said that he was inspired by Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story in from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children.
- The book was edited by his son, Johann Rudolf Wyss, a scholar who wrote the Swiss national anthem. Another son, Johann Emmanuel Wyss, illustrated the book.
The Swiss Family Robinson follows a close family who have found themselves stranded on a desert island after a shipwreck. The story is told from the point of view of the father. The religious family is made up of their intelligent and resourceful father, a kind and caring mother, and their four sons named Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz. Fritz is the eldest son, 15 years old when the family lands on the island, and he is often tough on his brothers despite his good intentions. Ernest is the second oldest, and he is intelligent and well-formed, though indolent. Jack is the third oldest son, he is bold, but often thoughtless. Last is Franz, the youngest son, nearly 8 years old when the family first is stranded. The father is trying to teach them about nature.
The story follows the family's many good fortunes after they survive a shipwreck in a storm. They find themselves stuck on the ship, after being abandoned by their shipmates, but not too far from shore. Luckily, the family discovers many supplies on the ship, including clothing, tools, fish hooks, guns and gun powder, and various useful animals, such as cows, mules, hens, and pigeons. They find even more treasures on the endlessly fruitful island, and continue to prosper and make new and exciting discoveries.
There have been many adaptations of the novel with a wide variety of plots, characters, and endings. In the end they are all chiefly characterized by an improbable profusion and variety of animals -- penguins, kangaroos, monkeys, lions, grizzly bears, American buffalo, wild donkeys, iguanas, and even a whale - conveniently gathered together on a tropical island for the purpose of feeding and educating the boys, and instructing the reader. | 2019-04-24T18:05:13 | http://www.kernelscorner.com/2013/03/kernels-library-struggle-of-stranded.html |
0.999661 | Find a Troop Brownie Badges & Journeys 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1. 1st Award Key: Discover Key 1st Award Piece: Hear a Story 1st Award Piece: Love Water 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2. 2. 2nd Award Piece: Change a Story 2nd Award Piece: Connect Key 2nd Award Piece: Share Water 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3. 3. 3rd Award Piece: Save Water 3rd Award Piece: Take Action Key 3rd Award Piece: Tell a Story 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4. 4. 4th Award Piece: A world FOR Girls 4th Award Piece: Brownie Quest Lock 4th Award Piece: Brownie Wow! 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5. 5. A World FOR Girls A World of Girls (Story) A World of Girls: It's Your Story, Tell It! Brownie Journey Summit Award Brownie Outdoor Journey Brownie Quest (World) Brownie Quest Lock Brownie Quest: It's Your World, Change It! Brownie Wow! Bugs Build a Brownie Elf house outdoors. Cabin Camper Celebrating Community Change a Story Computer Expert Connect Key Create a mini garden. Cybersecurity Basics Cybersecurity Investigator Cybersecurity Safeguards Dancer Designing Robots Discover Key Eco Friend Fair Play First Aid Fling Flyer Design Challenge Girl Scout Way Give a gift of nature. Give Back Go on a nature detective walk. Hear a Story Hiker Home Scientist Household Elf Inventor Leap Bot Design Challenge Letterboxer Love Water Make a video about something in nature. Make a wind chime. Make something you can wear. Make window art. Make Your Own Making Friends Making Games Meet an artist who makes art out of things she sees or finds outdoors. Meet My Customers Money Manager My Best Self My Family Story My Great Day No camera? No worries! Outdoor Adventurer Outdoor Art Creator Painting Pets Philanthropist Play a nature dance game. Potter Programming Robots Race Car Design Challenge Rub or press something from nature. Save Water Senses Share Water Showcasing Robots Snacks Space Science Adventurer Take Action Award Take Action Key Take pictures from a miniature world. Tell a Story Think Like a Citizen Scientist (Brownie) Think Like a Programmer (Brownie) Think Like an Engineer (Brownie) Use your senses in nature. Wow, The Wonders of Water! (Planet) Wow, The Wonders of Water!: It's Your Planet, Love It! Write an earth song. | 2019-04-23T20:22:28 | https://trooptrack.com/achievements/71897 |
0.999999 | Question Does peripheral eosinopenia at the time of admission for Clostridium difficile infection predict higher inpatient mortality and other disease-related adverse outcomes?
Findings In this cohort study, peripheral eosinopenia at the time of admission for C difficile infection predicted higher inpatient mortality. The predictive value of eosinopenia for this outcome remains for patients presenting with normal vital signs.
Meaning In animal models, peripheral eosinopenia is a biologically plausible predictive factor for adverse outcomes, and human data from this study indicate that this frequent addition to an admission complete blood cell count is an inexpensive, widely available risk index in the treatment of C difficile infection.
Importance Recent evidence from an animal model suggests that peripheral loss of eosinophils in Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is associated with severe disease. The ability to identify high-risk patients with CDI as early as the time of admission could improve outcomes by guiding management decisions.
Objective To construct a model using clinical indices readily available at the time of hospital admission, including peripheral eosinophil counts, to predict inpatient mortality in patients with CDI.
Design, Setting, and Participants In a cohort study, a total of 2065 patients admitted for CDI through the emergency department of 2 tertiary referral centers from January 1, 2005, to December 31, 2015, formed a training and a validation cohort. The sample was stratified by admission eosinophil count (0.0 cells/μL or >0.0 cells/μL), and multivariable logistic regression was used to construct a predictive model for inpatient mortality as well as other disease-related outcomes.
Main Outcomes and Measures Inpatient mortality was the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes included the need for a monitored care setting, need for vasopressors, and rates of inpatient colectomy.
Results Of the 2065 patients in the study, 1092 (52.9%) were women and patients had a mean (SD) age of 63.4 (18.4) years. Those with an undetectable eosinophil count at admission had increased in-hospital mortality in both the training (odds ratio [OR], 2.01; 95% CI, 1.08-3.73; P = .03) and validation (OR, 2.26; 95% CI, 1.33-3.83; P = .002) cohorts in both univariable and multivariable analysis. Undetectable eosinophil counts were also associated with indicators of severe sepsis, such as admission to monitored care settings (OR, 1.40; 95% CI, 1.06-1.86), the need for vasopressors (OR, 2.08; 95% CI, 1.32-3.28), and emergency total colectomy (OR, 2.56; 95% CI, 1.12-5.87). Other significant predictors of mortality at admission included increasing comorbidity burden (for each 1-unit increase: OR, 1.13; 95% CI, 1.05-1.22) and lower systolic blood pressures (for each 1-mm Hg increase: OR, 0.99; 95% CI, 0.98-1.00). In a subgroup analysis of patients presenting without initial tachycardia or hypotension, only patients with undetectable admission eosinophil counts, but not those with an elevated white blood cell count, had significantly increased odds of inpatient mortality (OR, 5.76; 95% CI, 1.99-16.64).
Conclusions and Relevance This study describes a simple, widely available, inexpensive model predicting CDI severity and mortality to identify at-risk patients at the time of admission. | 2019-04-19T10:21:27 | https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2698956 |
0.99655 | 1. Drill one hole in center of heart where the knob will be placed and two small holes on each curve near the top where hanging ribbon will be threaded.
2. Paint the heart according to your preferences. The heart shown was sponge painted with three varying shades of blue, then metallic gold veins were painted for additional detail.
3. After the heart has dried, paint one coat of polyurethane to protect the paint finish.
4. Attach the knob by screwing through the hole in the back of the heart.
5. String the ribbon through two top holes and knot behind the heart.
5. Place adhesive rubber picture bumpers on each of the three corners on the back of the heart to prevent sliding when hung on the wall.
1. Paint the heart according to your preferences. The heart shown was sponge painted with three varying shades of blue, then metallic gold veins were painted for additional detail.
2. After the heart has dried, paint one coat of polyurethane to protect the paint finish.
3. Using small screws shorter in length than the depth of the heart, attach decorative coat/robe hook to the front of the heart in the center.
4. Attach sawtooth picture hanging hardware to the back of the heart. | 2019-04-24T16:09:25 | https://www.allthingschristmas.com/necklace/ |
0.999896 | President Trump acknowledged perilous realities in a 55-page national security report. This strategy is best read as a hint of how Trump might react.
President Donald Trump on Monday sized up the global competition for economic and geopolitical clout and outlined a muscular new national security strategy to advance America’s interests in the world.
His conclusions won’t come as much of a surprise for those who have listened to his speeches and watched his tweets carefully. Synthesized to two phrases: American internationalists’ aspirations for kumbaya partnerships with China and Russia are out; confronting fierce competition is in.
That competition doesn’t preclude trade deals that generate mutual benefits — the economy is still global — or military cooperation against common threats, terror groups included.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the demise of communist influences elsewhere, presidents of both major parties have alternated between confronting America’s rivals in tussles over economic and military might on one hand and striving to make friends with Moscow and Beijing on the other. To read this document, as well as Trump’s speech Monday, is to see that beyond his cordial-on-the-surface relations with China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the American president wants those governments to understand they can’t challenge American interests without inviting a bold American response.
Expect to read news stories likening Trump to Cold Warriors who for decades occupied the Oval Office. If so, he’s matching the Russian mindset that global military and politics is a zero-sum game: If we win, you lose. And vice versa.
Russia wants whatever Putin wants. China wants whatever Xi wants. When priorities collide, those nations protect their interests, as America must. “After being dismissed as a phenomenon of an earlier century, great power competition returned,” the document concludes.
This national strategy — presidents customarily issue these every few years — is best read not as an ironclad promise or threat but as a hint of how the administration might react to coming military, political and economic challenges: with unapologetic emphasis on the America-first philosophy Trump has revived.
The new strategic blueprint lays out a world full of threats — from terrorists, hackers, jihadists, global criminal organizations — and discusses how to confront each of them. But this is a forward-thrusting statement of purpose, not a delineation of tactics.
Allies and adversaries alike may read Monday’s document and perceive different levels of threat and opportunity. Good. | 2019-04-25T14:58:21 | https://www.naplesnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2017/12/20/another-view-trumps-steely-approach-worlds-security/968856001/ |
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