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0.99995 | This is a series of videos describing all the glitches and tricks I used in Portal Done Pro.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 1 - Duration: 7 minutes, 23 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 2 - Duration: 7 minutes, 30 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 3 - Duration: 7 minutes, 51 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 4 - Duration: 8 minutes, 19 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 5 - Duration: 9 minutes, 4 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 6 - Duration: 7 minutes, 49 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 7 - Duration: 8 minutes, 7 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 8 - Duration: 9 minutes, 9 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 9 - Duration: 8 minutes, 6 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 10 - Duration: 8 minutes, 43 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 11 - Duration: 9 minutes, 20 seconds.
Portal Done Pro - Commentary Video - Part 12 - Duration: 9 minutes, 46 seconds.
This is a series of speedrun routes for Phase 1 of a Portal 2 speedrun.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_transition01 - Route - Update 1 - Duration: 48 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_transition01 - Route - Duration: 49 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_speed_ramp - Route - Duration: 33 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_jump_intro - Route.mp4 - Duration: 66 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_crazy_box - Route.mp4 - Duration: 57 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_bomb_flings - Route.mp4 - Duration: 44 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_bomb_flings - Route - Update 2 With Slow-Mo - Duration: 3 minutes, 35 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_bomb_flings - Route - Update 1 - Duration: 44 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_03 - Route - Duration: 59 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_01 - Route - Duration: 87 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a3_00 - Route - Duration: 77 seconds.
Portal 2 - Phase 1 - sp_a2_turret_intro - Route - Update 1 - Duration: 31 seconds.
These are the world records I have achieved for the time challenges in Portal 2.
DemonStrate - Portal 2 - Challenge - Trust Fling - 39.95 - Duration: 50 seconds.
DemonStrate - Portal 2 - Challenge - Triple Laser - 12.45 - Duration: 26 seconds.
DemonStrate - Portal 2 - Challenge - Propulsion Intro - 18.51 - Duration: 29 seconds.
Apex: First carry game! 13 kills. - Duration: 24 minutes.
Wrecking Ball (Hammond) Grapple Shield Bug - Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds.
Some tastey headshots - Duration: 25 seconds.
Super Hot Action Camel - Duration: 98 seconds.
Clutchrat point retake - Duration: 89 seconds.
Bigger Brain Pharah Play - Duration: 32 seconds.
Big Brain Pharah Play - Duration: 35 seconds.
Widow DM - Some good kills - Duration: 4 minutes, 18 seconds.
Widow should always be this awesome - Duration: 25 seconds.
First successful Nightfall feat. Milano and Matt - Duration: 21 minutes.
Had to turn up... - Duration: 6 minutes, 11 seconds.
How to win with a DPS team - Duration: 18 minutes. | 2019-04-25T20:13:57 | https://www.youtube.com/user/Transgenic86 |
0.999787 | Because of Cadaver's Daemon Prince, I think I'm going to have to change my current Obliterator model into a Daemon Prince model as well. The truth is that the Daemon Prince is just a better HQ choice all around for the points.
So, that bumps my terminator Sorcerer from it's HQ spot. I still like the model, though and now I have free points as well. I also have one more plastic terminator - bringing my total potential terminators to nine.
Following this line of reasoning, I was thinking of perhaps breaking my Terminator squad into 3x3 detachments (being that 3 is one of Nurgle's numbers).
Terminators: 3 Champions with Power Fists & Combi-Meltas with an Icon of Nurgle.
2xTerminators: Champion with single Lightning Claw & Heavy Flamer, 2 Champions with Lightning Claw Pairs, with an Icon of Nurgle.
The problem is that these three units cost close to 600 points! If I drop the Icons, I can get them down to 475 points. The problem is that it doesn't really fit with my army theme.
So I thought of dumping them all into the same unit. So I'd get a unit of 9 models with 4 lightning claw pairs, 3 combi-meltas/powerfists, 1 lightning claw/heavy flamer, and a "commander" of some arrangement.
This unit would cost a little more than 500 points but could also be very potent unit of shock troops. My concern really isn't in its cost (as I've got the points to burn at this point) or the equipment (as I'm a little limited with bits...but if the set up is horrible, let me know and I might be able to change it a little) but my primary concern is the number 9. Is a unit of 9 going to be considered to be a horrible offense to Nurgle? What if I divided the unit up into three units of three or something like that?
For the record, I did play this army in on full game with the unit of 7 Terminators and they ended up trouncing a 220 point unit of Loyalist Terminators and a 400+ point Loyalist HQ before dipping below 50%. So I do really like them. The 16 S4 WS4, I4 power weapon attacks from the lightning claw models are pretty intimidating too.
9 is unfluffy it is the number of tzeentch by the old fluff who feeds off hope. 7 would be a much fluffier number. I would maybe get it down to seven. I think 9 terminators is overkill by a ton. The problem is they will be too Killy and annihilate the enemy.
Yeah 9 termies is like putting all you eggs in one basket, I would just go with 5, That is plenty killy, But we also need to know how you use them. Do you deepstrike or slogg it up. do you have a mobile/ sloggy army?
I tend to find that when i use my termies, they maybe get one or two good kills in before the enemy has reacted and moved away. a good way to et around this is try and do a Hammer and anvil aproach where you deeptrike your temies on one flank (with some bikes maybe?) and then have tough units and hqs on the other, so the enemy is trapped between 2 attacks, but this would mean separating you army, So you want a fast is tough is unit to go up the centre really (spawn maybe?) so as to draw fire and stop the enemy from escaping from the flank attacks.
I understand what you're saying here. My army lacks a bit of anti-tank, so I thought that keeping the option open for the unit to be able to ace a tank if necessary. I'll continue my stream of thoughts below.
9 is unfluffy it is the number of tzeentch by the old fluff who feeds off hope. 7 would be a much fluffier number. I would maybe get it down to seven.
That's the size of the unit now. It does work well. But I have two leftover models and some points to eat to get to 2,000. What about 3 units of 3? Is that fluffy enough?
My army is primarily foot slogging (4 units of 7 Plague Marines, a Lord on Palanquin). I also will have a Land Raider. My idea is to put the Lord with a assault-oriented Plague Marine unit and stick them in the Land Raider. Then I'll shove that unit into a flank or center. I may deep strike the Termies using the Lord's icon. However, my concern is that means they won't be able to assault till turn 3 at the earliest. Of course, if they foot-slog - I'm in the same boat.
Hmmm, that's some good information. So if I go with 3 units of three - each tweaked to function a certain way - could that be helpful?
Thanks guys! This dialogue is very helpful to me.
Hey Em, I'm a big fan of Chaos termies even though alot of people write them off as uneffective in the new codex. I think the key is to try and keep their point cost down but have them in larger units. This can be a bit of a tough proposition, as they are quite expensive at their base cost if you are building a large squad.
The lightning claws are going to add to the points with 4 total but I think the abilities are worth the cost. I think I would drop the single LC on the heavy flamer model and replace it with a standard power weapon. Once in assault you will need a few throw away models for any failed saves and as he should have filled his role by thinning the opponents numbers prior to assault he would be the first guy I would sacrifice when the enemy starts causing casualties.
The 3 powerfists are good to have for some heavy hitters after the lightning claws guys do their work, however I think the combi meltas may be overkill with three. As others have stated it does seem to be a mixed role for the squad with the anti tank. If split in separate squads I could see the benefit but if you choose a larger squad I think you could drop them or what I feel is a better option for an assault role is to replace them with combi plasmas. As you can rapid fire them the turn you deepstrike, you will cut through everything from othe terminators down to the lowliest of troops. Thinning them out prior to an assault should guarantee fewer losses once you charge and in that regard I find the combi plasma the best "take all comers" option for terminators.
Now if you really want to go wild add a Lord in Termi armor with a Daemon Weapon to this unit. He will plow through units with alot of attacks at I5, which will make the unit uber deadly, although quite expensive. Alternatively, you could simply use a Lord in the LR as you mentioned for some heavy hitting support. It's a reliable depstrike but you risk having a large amount of high cost units in one area of the board, which will draw and excessive amount of fire.
Anyway, whatever tactics you choose, I recommend higher numbered units. They will save points on icons and lower the risk of them having to take morale tests. And frankly, dropping down a huge unit of termies in front of your opponents valuable units and ripping them to pieces. It'll bring a smile to your face every time.
Well, I think they definitely have potential in the new codex. I'm not quite sure how to use them as far as deployment, though. If I deep strike, I can't assault...which means it'll be turn 3 before they can do anything. So do you suggest starting with them on board (especially with run)?
Fair enough. Do you suggest ablative wounds in terminator squads? In that case I'd probably use a 30 point model.
The 3 powerfists are good to have for some heavy hitters after the lightning claws guys do their work, however I think the combi meltas may be overkill with three. As others have stated it does seem to be a mixed role for the squad with the anti tank.
Fair enough. I think that makes sense to me. I was just thinking about using the 1 AP2 Assault 1 shot they each get would be pretty good vs other terminators.
If split in separate squads I could see the benefit but if you choose a larger squad I think you could drop them or what I feel is a better option for an assault role is to replace them with combi plasmas. As you can rapid fire them the turn you deepstrike, you will cut through everything from othe terminators down to the lowliest of troops.
That is actually a really great idea. Hmmm, I'll have to think on this.
Thanks for your input. It was helpful. | 2019-04-21T20:14:25 | http://forums.tauonline.org/forces-chaos/56421-changes-my-chaos-list-terminators-hq.html |
0.999878 | I think It's OK on paper (and presumably on a breadboard too). I'm trying to wrap my head around on how to convert it to a finished product that sits inside a plastic box.
For instance, can I create a single PCB that contains all the components? If not, how can I connect these multiple break-out boards together? Is soldering some wires on both boards to connect them is a viable option?
My ultimate goal is to create a product that is for sale. So I mean something that can be mass-produced and can meet regulatory requirements.
This is why I was thinking about a single PCB. Arduino (or should I say ATMegaXXX?) is fairly simple to place on a custom PCB. So I was thinking perhaps I could "re-create" my break-outs (see above) on this PCB thus creating a single piece including all components and the microcontroller. For some reason this makes sense to me but I don't know how hard it is or if it is even possible.
First, you should read this this question here.
The reasonable answer here varies a lot depending on how involved you want to get, and what volumes you want to sell at.
Fortunately, you're not using any breakouts with truly exotic parts. The nRF8001 is just a QFN part, which can be soldered by hand without too much trouble.
Design a PCB layout that contains everything.
(Optional) - Figure out if you want to put it in a enclosure of some sort.
(Optional) - Determine how you're going to have the enclosures produced or modified from an existing product. You can have a contract machine-shop do the work, but again, $$$$.
Send out to have PCB prototypes manufactured. I like OSHPark, but there are LOTS of options.
Find out your prototype doesn't work.
Rent/Beg/Borrow some equipment to do EMC pre-qualification testing (for FCC).
Realize you have an EMC disaster.
Respin boards a few more times (e.g. go back to 1 again) to fix the pre-qualification EMC issues.
Feel like you have a decent layout, have it FCC tested.
Pay $10K+ for FCC testing.
If you're lucky, you passed, you now have a proper, FCC certified product.
Nope, go back to 1 again if you failed.
Do lot assembly, either manually (major time investment), or contract out (expensive!).
Note that you can contract out the prototype assembly, but doing so is expensive, even if you do it in china. The magic (or cursed, really) term here is "NRE", or non-reoccurring expenses/engineering. Colloquially, it's the "setup cost" of doing a production run. Sure, you may only pay $5-50 per-widget to have them assembled, but there will be a $1000+ base charge. This reflects the fact that the primary time-cost on the part of an assembly house to build your widget is setting up the production line, working up and debugging a pick-and-place routine, building test-setups, etc... Once everything is up and running, the actual per-unit cost is fairly marginal.
This is also why commercial electronic devices can be so cheap. They're made in truly enormous volumes, and that lets the companies amortize the NREs across the entire production run. NREs are basically the bane of any small electronics business. They're also basically the reason specialty widgets are so expensive. Places like spark-fun can get away with fairly cheap products because they have their own complete assembly line in-house, and even there, you're often paying 4X+ the cost of parts for just the IC on a PCB with a few cents worth of passives.
Since you seem to be new to PCB design, this is possibly not a great first project. It's doable, but expect it to cost 4X+ what you expect, and take 2X+ the time you planned. There are a LOT of facets to designing a proper product, and they each contain an entire field.
It'd probably be better off to start out with some simpler boards, maybe a through-hole-only arduino clone, or similar (though SOIC can be soldered without a hot-air station or anything).
If you're serious, you will have to lean SMT assembly practices. Through-hole only is not a viable stance anymore.
Expect to buy a lot of tools, and burn a lot of money in failed prototypes.
Expect 3 board revisions. At minimum, before you have something you can get tested. I could maybe do it in 2, if I got really, really lucky, but I doubt that would happen, and this sort of thing is my day-job.
Hardware is HARD, and worse, it's completely unforgiving. If you're coming from a software engineering background, you basically have to discard all your assumptions, as they will actively hurt you.
Imagine a software project where "compiling" can take 4 weeks. That's hardware development.
By "product", do you mean for sale? Giveaways to friends? One for yourself? How many do you expect to make? It isn't (monetarily) worth creating a board for one or five pieces unless you want to for reasons of aesthetics, reliability, demonstrating your skills to a potential employer, etc. OTOH, if you sell a product, it will to meet regulatory requirements in the jurisdiction(s) in which you intend to sell it. So the - admittedly unsatisfying - answer is: it depends. :) (In other words, we need more information).
Chinese board houses advertise they can do small runs for quite reasonable prices, but expect to spin the board several times unless it's a pretty simple one. Not dissing their abilities or skills as I have no experience with any of them, but as a practical matter of communicating exactly what you want, the first time, to a business half a planet away, a business you might not be familar with yet, and someone with whom you might not share a native language. Even with those obstacles out of the way, boards can take several- to many spins to get to a first production revision.
For a small handful of boards (depending the size of a "handful"), hand-wiring on hobby PCBs or strip-boards can be effective and not too expensive.
Approach any PCB manufactures and deliver them your GERBER files with correct Bill of Materials.
You can easily make a single PCB. consider PCB with components on both sides, and multi stackable PCB only if the dimension of required PCB matters.
Try not to place nRF antenna and crystal for the micro controller close to each other.
Compile your arduino code. this will generate a build folder inside temp folder Search for yourArduinoProjectName.hex inside that folder.
Single PCB is not viable, as some chips are near impossible to solder by hand. Also, you'd have to get your PCB checked for FCC compliance (because of the bluetooth), which you don't want.
You could design a PCB that contains the Arduino micro controller (ATMega328), and that all the other board plug into.
Wires could also be a solution, by you probably need to find a way to securely mount all the boards inside the enclosure (no rattling).
PS I'd suggest something like an Arduino Nano as it's smaller, and you can remove the header pins and solder wires directly to PCB.
Why is the result of this product operation wrong?
How do I reduce this down to a smaller, more permanent prototype?
How to convert bool array to byte?
How to convert this sketch to keep only one if-else statement? | 2019-04-22T04:38:55 | https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/6801/how-to-convert-this-prototype-to-finished-product |
0.999999 | Becky James tells BBC Sport Wales TV how a health scare has given her a new-found perspective on life and sport.
Welsh cyclist Becky James says she has a new perspective on life and sport after a cancer scare.
The 23-year-old had an operation to remove abnormal cells following a cervical screening in May 2014.
The double world champion's health concerns contributed to her missing the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
"At the time I thought, 'It doesn't matter about being injured, the main thing is I have to get my health right,'" she said.
"That is definitely the way I think now," James added in a frank interview for the BBC's Sport Wales programme, to be broadcast on Friday.
James won gold in the keirin and sprint at the 2013 Track World Championships, but has been out for 18 months with shoulder and knee injuries.
She made her comeback at the Revolution Series in Derby at the weekend, and has been named in the GB team for the Dudenhofen GP in Germany.
James said her priorities have changed but retains her ambition to succeed as a international athlete.
"Being out for over a year has given me a massive perspective on being happy and enjoying what I do," she said.
How did she find out about the abnormal result?
James did not have cancer, but a smear test revealed abnormal cells that could have developed into the disease if left untreated.
"I went in for my routine smear and two weeks later had the result which said 'abnormal smear' and then I went down and they explained it to me," she said.
James said a nurse explained her result on a scale which had five categories - clear, mild, moderate, severe and cancer.
"I asked, 'Where am I?' and she said, 'You're here, on severe' and I thought, 'Oh my gosh.' I really didn't know what to expect," added James.
"She explained everything - how they burn cells away and that if you leave it then it can develop into cancer.
"I was reading about it on the internet - possibly the worst thing you could do - I was just constantly worrying about it.
"It was a really stressful time, I found it really emotional but I had my family there," added James, whose partner George North - the Northampton Saints and Wales rugby union wing - returned to training in June after a series of head injuries.
James is concentrating her efforts on qualifying for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
After making her comeback in Derby this month, James will next compete as part of the GB team in Germany on the 28 and 29 August.
She then intends to compete in three World Cup events over the winter to gain qualifying points.
Britain's Olympic track team will be selected in mid-June 2016, with performances during the period running from 1 October 2015 to 1 June 2016 taken into consideration.
"There was times when I didn't know if I was going to get back and I used to get so upset about everything," added James.
"But once I came through that I realised I love what I do and that's why I'm coming back and why I want to get to the Olympics because I love my job and I love cycling."
You can watch Sport Wales from 20:00 BST every Friday on BBC Two Wales and on the iPlayer.
Can Wales survive the toughest pool?
Read more on Rugby World Cup 2015: Can Wales survive the toughest pool? | 2019-04-22T10:40:12 | https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/34002238 |
0.999277 | In case you haven't noticed, people like watching television shows and movies based on comic books.
This fall has been particularly exceptional television adaptations: The Walking Dead season premiere pulled in more than 17 million viewers, while more than 8 million watched the first episode Gotham, making it Fox's best fall drama debut in 14 years. More than 6 million raced to see The Flash pilot, giving The CW its highest ratings ever. About 5 million are regularly tuning in for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and nearly 3 million for the third season of Arrow.
It's not limited to live-action series, either: 2 million people watch Teen Titans Go!, and more than 1 million tune in to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Nickelodeon.
On the big screen, all four feature films starring Marvel characters -- X-Men: Days of Future Past, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 -- each grossed more than $700 million each worldwide. So far, comic book movies have generated more than $3.8 billion dollars this year. While it's unknown how many of those dollars are from repeat viewings, that's still a lot of people.
Every year it's predicted that the superhero fad, and the comic book fad, in Hollywood is going to soon end. And yet, this year continues the upward trend of audiences not only responding to the material, but coming out in droves. Studios are packing their slates with adaptations; Warner Bros. is so convinced of demand that is' locked in a slate of movies through 2020.
With so many eyes focused on these characters and stories, the comics industry has never been in a better position to turn viewers into new readers.
It's happening somewhat, as sales are definitely improving, but the numbers of the comics industry are still a shadow of the productions they inspire. An entire month of comic books and graphic novels in North American specialty stores generated an estimated $50 million in September. Hundreds of comic book and graphic novel titles combined did somewhat better than the colossal flop that was Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, which grossed just $38 million worldwide. Nielsen BookScan recently announced that 5.6 million graphic novels have been sold this year, from January to mid-September. That's roughly the equivalent of the audience for second episode of this season's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Yes, there are a lot of apples and oranges getting compared here, and comics don't need to match or surpass every other entertainment industry's numbers to be considered successful. It's not that no one is coming over from the movies and shows, but those people probably would've found their way over to comics regardless. Conversely, there's going to be some people who will never come migrate to comics. But there's definitely a cross-section of people in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who would at least be open to picking up a comic now and again if they enjoy these movies and TV shows they spawn.
There's still a lot of low-hanging fruit we're leaving on the trees. So how to get those viewers?
There have been some really good programs that have packaged comics with DVDs, toys and video games. There are comics getting placed at wholesale retailers, and in schools and libraries, and other places frequented by the unconverted. These are great strategies, and they're helping. But the biggest driver isn't going to be clever product placement; it's story.
Let me explain. The G.I. Joe commercials from the '80s have often been cited as an example of what should be done to get people reading comics. They remain one of the few examples of a TV ad for a comic book. But the point isn't that it was just a commercial. What made it irresistible for many kids was that it was a cartoon, like the then-airing G.I. Joe animated series, and each commercial ended with "the story continues in Marvel Comics," accompanied by a picture of the cover to the issue out at the time. It was like a mini-episode with a cliffhanger ending, and you could only get the ending in the next issue of the G.I. Joe comic. The implication was that the cartoon was just part of the story. The comic book wasn't an adaptation, or an unrelated narrative that "didn't count"; it was a continuation of what you already loved.
Of course, the truth is that the G.I. Joe comic was completely separate from the TV show, but that wasn't necessarily evident to kids right out the gate. It also didn't really matter, because the comic was good. What mattered was that kids were being driven to the comic by the show they already liked (albeit cartoons in the commercials). It's the difference between a stranger coming up to you to sell you something, and a trusted friend recommending you something.
A similar "the story continues here" strategy can work today. It requires the movie or TV show to provide the impetus and the incentive to go track down the comic either in a store or online. Marvel already produces comics set in its cinematic universe, but there probably aren't many fans of Marvel's movies who don't read comics that actually know they exist. That's because they're not being told about them in the one environment we know they will experience: the movie itself. This may sound like a crazy idea. Why would Marvel put an ad for a comic book in their movies? If it is story-driven, it can work. Marvel has already experimented with crossovers between its TV and film divisions, when Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. were closely woven together. Why not extend that to the comics? The end-credits scene with our first look at Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver could have been the opening scene of a comic book. The scene could have ended with "To be continued in Avengers: The Age of Miracles comic book" (to use significant dialogue from that scene as a title for a made-up one-shot comic). Some people will go seek out the comic, others won't. For those that don't, there's no real change in their experience. But you can bet such a comic would've gotten a lot more press and higher sales than any other Marvel cinematic comic tie-in. And if the comic was good, meaning it actually told a story and wasn't just filler, then some of those people would go looking for more comics.
That's just one example. The point is that the comics aren't desperately waving their arms for attention. The medium that already won them over is pointing them to the comics. And most importantly, people are being driven to the comics because there's more story to tell. Stories, or the promise of more stories, are what drive people to look and buy for more. | 2019-04-24T10:17:31 | https://www.cbr.com/turning-viewers-into-readers/ |
0.997021 | I'd say the Bush comparison is reasonable -- he entered office on the campaign rhetoric of "a more humble foreign policy," but hadn't really wound down previous interventions (Iraq no-fly-zone enforcement, Kosovo, etc.) by 9/11, after which of course it was all escalation.
The US had already been involved in Vietnam for years, albeit mostly with "advisors" and so forth, when LBJ suddenly found himself in the White House, and it was of course far more so when he left (there was also the invasion of the Dominican Republic, etc.).
Truman came into office at the end of World War II, presided over the end of that war and the occupations of Germany and Japan,US intervention in the Greek civil war, then Korea, etc.
And then there were the "banana wars" that stretched from the Spanish-American war through the early part of FDR's administration (and, really, after that).
So no, Obama is hardly unique.
Would this statement be accurate? "Obama is the first two-term President who had American soldiers dying in the line of duty for all 8 years he was in office."
Well, I certainly agree with your basic premise. Clearly, U.S. military involvement overseas ramped up after 9/11 and started to ratchet back down after the surge. It still probably isn't back to where it was before 9/11, so in that sense one could say that Obama has been at heightened levels of military engagement for his whole presidency, whereas Bush had an 8+ month window of relative placidity before the Bush ramp-up began. But this like talking about a plateau when you're already in the mountains or at least the foothills.
Probably only in the sense of not ending Afghanistan, as one focal point, and even there would only have lasted a few months longer than Bush, as I would consign War on Terror along with Cold War as too diffuse of meaning.
Did Bush the younger lie us into war? Or Is it more proper to say that he lied us into an escalation of an ongoing war?
Almost certainly not. The Moro-American conflict in the Philippines spanned the entirety of Theodore Roosevent's presidency. And of course there were the Indian wars. | 2019-04-25T20:45:00 | http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2017/01/was-obama-really-first.html |
0.998246 | matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage; "he signed and mailed his dictation without bothering to read it"
(dictate) a guiding principle; "the dictates of reason"
(dictate) say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary"
(dictated) determined: determined or decided upon as by an authority; "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching"
Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken.
(Dictations) Trying to decipher lyrics from songs can be included in this section.
A message from an ascended master, an archangel or another advanced spiritual being delivered through the agency of the Holy Spirit by a messenger of the Great White Brotherhood.
A technique in which the teacher reads a short passage out loud and students write down what the teacher reads; the teacher reads phrases slowly, giving students time to write what they hear; the technique is used for practice as well as testing.
This type can only be used if you insert sound recordings. In the question it plays back a sound. In the answer you need to provide the foreign language word.
The act of speaking into a recording device, or the sound file resulting from this process. | 2019-04-19T07:21:38 | http://googledictionary.freecollocation.com/meaning?word=dictation |
0.999072 | Jeff Jonas' presentation to OECD about big data and wicked leaks on Dec 1, 2010.
10. VOTER George F Balston YOB: 1951 D/L: 4801 13070 SW Karen Blvd Apt 7 Beaverton, OR 97005 Last voted: 2008 DECEASED PERSON George Balston YOB: 1951 SSN: 5598 DOD: 1995 Is This Voter Deceased? When it comes to best practices in voter matching, if only a name and year of birth match, this is insufficient proof of a match. Many different people in the U.S. share a name and year of birth. Human review is required. Unfortunately, there are thousands and thousands of cases just like this and state election offices don’t have the staff (or budget) to manually review such volumes.
11. VOTER George F Balston YOB: 1951 D/L: 4801 13070 SW Karen Blvd Apt 7 Beaverton, OR 97005 Last voted: 2008 DECEASED PERSON George Balston YOB: 1951 SSN: 5598 DOD: 1995 Now Consider This Tertiary DMV Record DMV George F Balston YOB: 1951 SSN: 5598 D/L: 4801 3043 SW Clementine Blvd Apt 210 Beaverton, OR 97005 The DMV record contains enough features to match both the voter (name, year of birth and driver’s license) and/or the deceased persons record (name, year of birth and SSN). For the sake of argument, let’s say it matches the voter best.
12. VOTER George F Balston YOB: 1951 D/L: 4801 13070 SW Karen Blvd Apt 7 Beaverton, OR 97005 Last voted: 2008 DMV George F Balston YOB: 1951 SSN: 5598 D/L: 4801 3043 SW Clementine Blvd Apt 210 Beaverton, OR 97005 DECEASED PERSON George Balston YOB: 1951 SSN: 5598 DOD: 1995 Is This Voter/DMV Person Deceased? The voter/DMV record now shares a name, year of birth and SSN with the deceased person record. In voter matching best practices, this evidence would be sufficient to make a determination that this voter is in fact deceased. This case no longer needs human review.
13. VOTER George F Balston YOB: 1951 D/L: 4801 13070 SW Karen Blvd Apt 7 Beaverton, OR 97005 Last voted: 2008 DMV George F Balston YOB: 1951 SSN: 5598 D/L: 4801 3043 SW Clementine Blvd Apt 210 Beaverton, OR 97005 DECEASED PERSON George Balston YOB: 1951 SSN: 5598 DOD: 1995 Context Accumulates As features accumulate it becomes easier to match future identity records. As events and transactions accumulate – detection of relevance improves. Here we can see George who died in 1995 voted in 2008. | 2019-04-23T22:46:32 | https://www.slideshare.net/jeffjonas/eocd-big-data-flows-vs-wicked-leaks |
0.998522 | Daylight Savings Time in Canada and Switzerland: Benefit or Bi-Annual Annoyance?
Today, daylight saving time is used in over 70 countries and affects about 1.6 billion people. The number of countries grew steadily from 16 in 1970 to 75 in 1990, as most European countries reintroduced daylight saving time and many Asian countries took it up for the first time. In the meantime, some countries — China, India, South Africa and the Philippines among them — abolished it after a short while.
In the past, when lighting a home was the major proportion of electricity consumption, adjusting clocks to take advantage of late-evening sunlight seemed to make sense to save energy. But in today's world, the power required for air conditioning, heaters and electronics substantially exceeds the energy saved by fewer lighting.
Canada was one of the first countries that introduced daylight saving time 100 years ago as a way to save coal. But now, daylight saving time is for many Canadians only a tolerated biannual ritual. And there is one prominent exception: Saskatchewan rejected daylight saving more than 50 years ago. Since 1966, Saskatchewan lives in a perpetual state of daylight saving time. Located in the Mountain Time Zone, the 1.1 million inhabitants synchronize their clocks with Central Standard Time, the time zone located just to the east.
In fact, there are more places in Canada that chose not to change the time: This includes northeastern British Columbia, the East Kootenay region of southeastern B.C., three communities in northwestern Ontario, the eastern tip of Quebec and Southampton Island in Nunavut.
Alberta considered abolishing daylight saving time in 2017. The topic has been debated for months, with people and organizations across the province. In a survey more than two-thirds supported the proposed legislation. However, the Alberta government has rejected a bill aimed at ending the semi-annual time change. The province stated that abolishing daylight saving time would have a negative impact on Alberta’s economy.
Daylight saving time was introduced in Switzerland 1981. Since then, it has remained a controversial issue. When France introduced daylight saving time in 1976, the question arose whether Switzerland should follow. In a referendum, held in 1978, the Swiss people refused to change the hour. But as a growing number of European countries introduced daylight saving time in 1980, the government ignored the 1978 vote and submitted a new proposal to parliament in order to bring the country into line with the new European time standard. The government said a common policy on this issue could facilitate the functioning of a European single market. Switzerland was the last country in Western Europe to adopt the new system. In the meantime, several attempts failed to abolish daylight saving time. Since 2016, a new proposal is pending in the parliament. Surveys show that 62% are in favour of abolishing daylight saving time. But the government insists on its position, saying a policy change would undermine relations with other countries, notably with the most important trading partners.
In February 2018, the European Parliament voted 384 to 153 to review the justification of daylight saving time. If the EU does abolish the time change, Switzerland will follow very quickly. | 2019-04-23T00:22:18 | http://swissbiz.ca/is_article.php?articleid=112 |
0.996787 | I want to visualize graph of y = k/x (k > 0). Assume k = 10, for this example. I referred to basic command, but it's not giving me the graph as I want.
I want same scale on both axes (i.e. same length for y and x axes for 1 unit). Generally the y axis is automatically scaled, so that x pixels represent different units on y and x axes. I don't want that. I also want to have grid lines of unit squares.
The documentation for showing graphics has lots of options. In your case, aspect_ratio=1 will give the same scale, and gridlines and similar options control grid lines.
For even more control of those grid lines, read the documentation for this (search for) [xlist,ylist]: and you can pass in whatever lines you want.
Or you can make the ticks different as well.
Thanks, aspect ratio helps! But still the gridlines are at a distance of 2 units. I wanted at a distance of 1 unit. How do I to that?
I've edited my answer. The documentation is actually pretty helpful, though I agree that finding the "show" command is not at all obvious. | 2019-04-24T12:25:56 | https://ask.sagemath.org/question/24046/how-do-i-use-sage-to-plot-this/ |
0.999346 | 40. Why is vasodilation prominent in the skin when a person increases physical activity? a) It increases delivery of nutrients to the skin to induce sweating. b) Because skeletal muscles are close to the skin, they receive the oxygen via diffusion. c) Heat is dissipated across the skin from the blood to help cool the body. d) Exercise produces metabolites that induce vasodilation. c)Heat is dissipated across the skin from the blood to help cool the body. | 2019-04-23T18:29:52 | http://memorize.com/ch-19/nessaram994 |
0.769887 | Deciding on what ingredients should constitute a concert performance is not unlike arranging a fine dinner menu.
That is how violist and violinist Mario Gotoh looks at it as a member of the Silkroad Ensemble. And the Silkroad Ensemble’s repertoire, derived from music ancient and new, classical and folkloric, provides a vast array of ingredients, diverse and exotic.
A delicious selection of slow, fast, medium, and tango music has been carefully picked and mixed for the Ensemble’s WOMADelaide performances in Botanic Park.
Gotoh, a fashionable foodie with a bent for good gourmet TV shows, likens it to Netflix’s Chef’s Table wherein chefs source foods of the land in mysterious worlds such as the Amazon and use their skills and instincts to concoct new culinary marvels.
Thus has Silkroad’s creative programme team devised a performance which brings music together with Louisianan, Venezuelan, and African inspirations, Old World with Dvorak’s New World Symphony imbued with Chinese translation, Indian rhythm arrangements in percussions, and American with Jewish jazz influences.
Silkroad is not like any other musical phenomenon of our time.
It was the creation of the superstar cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, and its spirit follows musically the idea of that ancient Silk Road, the Eurasian trade route which fearlessly connected countries and continents in the name of silk, spices, and international economic relations.
For Yo-Yo Ma it was bringing together ideas, education, artistes, and musical and cultural traditions. It began in 1998 and two decades later its path has wound around the globe; its sounds and ideas being aired from schools to the greatest stages of the world. It is linked to Harvard University and the Rhode Island School of Design. It has recorded 7 CDs, won a top Grammy, published a book, featured in a major documentary, and commissioned countless new works.
Its musical membership now numbers more than 60 musicians, arrangers and composers and behind them a vast team of production specialists, managers, and designers, as well as a substantial board.
The instruments played include the pipa, sanxian, merhu, sheng, shakuhachi, oud, mugham, kamancheh, janggo, ney and even the piano and double bass as well as violins, viola, cello and clarinet. And, not forgetting the voice.
Brooklyn-based Mario Gotoh is among nine performers coming to Australia and New Zealand on tour. She has been a part of this great cross-cultural musical empire for six years. She also tours and performs with an ensemble called The Knights. She’s a Grammy Award-winning musician and composer with dual doctorates in music and a reputation for innovation. She was the original violist/violinist in the Broadway hit and soundtrack for Hamilton, the Musical.
To Adelaide she is bringing just her viola, a precious instrument she had made to her own specifications about six years ago. It is growing into her character, sound, and style as she plays it, she says.
She was just five when she fell in love with the violin. Her older sister brought one home from school where she was learning in class.
“I immediately wanted to play it,” she recalls.
Now, aged 34 and “unmarried and free as a bird”, she gives her life to playing and touring. Australia and New Zealand are exotic new shores for her but she recently was inspired by a visit to Cuba where she encountered a very different form of human communication, one between people who don’t have cellphones and the Internet to consume their lives.
Cuban music is not yet a part of the Silkroad repertoire, but with its rich “cross-pollination” of musical ideas it probably won’t be long.
“Inclusivity,” is the word that springs to Gotoh’s mind when explaining the raison d’etre of the Silkroad Ensemble.
“Silkroad is in the spirit of Yo-Yo Ma. As artistic director and creative founder, his idea was that of expanding classical and world music in a way which made it more inclusive than just any one genre; opening it up as a global cultural celebration. Therefore we have a group of musicians from different backgrounds and traditions, cross-pollinating to create new spaces, finding ways that are familiar rather than focusing on the differences.
“That’s why our performances are not only diverse but exciting, getting an audience hungry for what is new and foreign,” she says. Indeed; an extraordinary musical menu. | 2019-04-19T19:27:15 | http://www.thebarefootreview.com.au/menu/news-opinion/123-2014-interviews/1808-interview-silkroad-ensemble-for-womadelaide-2019.html |
0.999998 | I am attempting to construct a simulation with loads applied to welded components on a tubular frame. I had run simulations on just the frame model previously and was successful, but I am having difficulties with the full assembly including the welded components so I made this test model to see if I could get it working on a simpler level. However, I am still having issues with under-constrained bodies even after simplifying the model to several simple weldments and one welded component. I am applying fixtures at joints similar to my approach when conducting simulations on just the frame, and am using a bonded contact between the welded component and beam element to simulate the weld joint. Can someone indicate why I am still getting unconstrained body errors when I try to run the simulation? I'm attaching the test assembly I'm using. | 2019-04-22T22:51:50 | https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/200221 |
0.958145 | Kalanick's decision 'was a surprise to everyone', a second Uber spokesman said.
Uber Technologies Inc Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, co-founder of one of the most influential technology companies of its generation, resigned on Tuesday under mounting pressure from investors over his leadership.
Kalanick's departure caps a tumultuous period for the world's largest ride-services company, which upended the taxi industry and transportation regulations globally with Kalanick at the helm.
"I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors' request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight," Kalanick said in a statement first reported by the New York Times and verified by an Uber spokesman.
Kalanick, 40, has faced increased scrutiny in recent weeks following an investigation into the culture and workplace practices at a company he helped start in 2009 and is now the world's most highly valued startup.
But it was a chorus of demands for changes at the top from some of Uber's biggest investors that ultimately forced Kalanick out, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Venture capital firm Benchmark, whose partner Bill Gurley is one of Uber's largest shareholders and sits on its board, as well as investors First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Menlo Ventures and Fidelity Investments, all pressed Kalanick to quit.
They delivered a letter to Kalanick while he was in Chicago, the New York Times reported, citing people with knowledge of the situation. The newspaper, which was first to report Kalanick's resignation, said he would remain on Uber's board.
Kalanick's decision "was a surprise to everyone", a second Uber spokesman said.
Kalanick's departure comes after a lengthy investigation led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Uber hired Holder to look into its culture and workplace practices after a female former employee publicly accused the company of what she described as brazen sexual harassment.
Privately held Uber has been valued at $68 billion, shattering the norms for Silicon Valley startups, and the company embodied many of Kalanick's aggressive and pugnacious personality traits.
Following the release of recommendations stemming from the Holder investigation, which called for increased controls and oversight at the company, Kalanick said last week he would take a leave of absence for an undetermined period.
He said he needed space to grieve the death of his mother, who died recently in a boating accident in which his father was also seriously injured, and to work on his leadership skills.
Gurley, one of Kalanick's closest confidants, praised the CEO on Twitter, after calling for his resignation.
"There will be many pages in the history books devoted to @travisk - very few entrepreneurs have had such a lasting impact on the world," Gurley wrote. | 2019-04-26T14:43:37 | https://en.xnkkhanhvua.com/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-resigns-under-investor-pressure |
0.9996 | Video calling is about as easy as it gets these days. You have tons of options to find the one you like most. Here are the best video chat apps for Android!
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0.999919 | A good mix of Musical Goodness and Up-Beat Electronic songs.
why haven't I've found this before?? Such a Good Playlist. | 2019-04-21T01:23:27 | https://www.listenspotify.com/en/spotify-playlist/6096/Ultrachill |
0.997824 | Since I am often asked basic questions about paganism, I thought it might be helpful to answer some of those that I am asked most often, in easy, layman's terms.
Paganism is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of religions, belief-sets and spiritual paths. For some, paganism refers to any pre-Christian religions, for others it refers to any polytheistic religion (those that include the worship of many gods and/or goddesses), for others it includes both of these and more. The lack of a firm and agreed definition makes the question 'What is paganism?' a very difficult one to answer.
I have lots of pagan friends and acquaintances and while they represent a wide diversity of spiritual beliefs and practices, most of them, including myself, would probably be more accurately described as neo-pagans. Neo-pagans like us follow spiritual paths that are usually inspired by, or derived from ancient pagan religions. It is impossible to follow exactly the same religions as our ancient ancestors because we don't have enough evidence to know all the details about them. And so our pagan paths are adapted, to fill in the gaps of ancient paganism we don't know about because of lack of evidence, to fit a modern lifestyle, and to enable us to follow the beliefs we have each developed from our own experience and search for truth.
Some pagans believe in a single god, some believe in a god and goddess, some believe in many gods and/or many goddesses, some believe there is no god and some are not sure whether there is/are god(s) or not. Some worship these gods, and some (even those who believe in them) do not.
I am an animist because I believe that 'spirit' exists in all humans, animals, plants, non-living things like rocks, planets, oceans and wind, and abstract concepts such as love, creativity, night and change. I worship these spirits as gods and goddesses so that I can invoke them, become united with them and benefit from their power.
I feel a strong affinity to the Celtic deities and will often worship or invoke them to help me. Some pagans feel closer to the deities of other cultures - Native American, Norse, Roman, Greek, Egyptian... etc.
Most pagans I know venerate nature and feel it is important to respect their environment, ecology and the earth. And many pagans revere the ancestors of both their own blood and/or the land they live in.
Do you do spells and magic? What does this involve?
Lots of pagans (not all) perform spells and magic, myself included. This involves using powers or energies not yet defined by science for a particular intended outcome. It's a bit like saying a prayer... with bells on. Instead of merely asking a god(dess) for something and leaving it in their hands to perform, the spellworker invokes that power themselves to make their intention happen. Spells and magic like this can be thought of as DIY-wish-granting (or prayer-answering). They are usually done by performing some sort of ritual, which can be either simple or elaborate.
Isn't that immoral? Is it right to 'tempt fate' or try to change the course of events in that way?
Back in the day when I was a Christian, I would pray to god to ask him to change things such as to make a sick loved one better again. Now that I am pagan I find this sort of approach lazy and not particularly successful. Pagan spells are much more active than passive. I do not see spirits, gods and goddesses as better than I am, (even though they can be more powerful). I see us as equal, but different.
We can and should use the energies around us rather than ignore them and live constantly at their mercy, which to me, is a waste of energy, resources and talent, and a shirking of responsibility. I believe we should use all our abilities, to the best of our ability, as far as it's possible to do so.
I am responsible for my own life. This responsibility includes making the most of what I have and being thankful for it. If I have the ability to make things better by using spells and spirit energy, then I ought to use this ability, and show my gratitude to whatever spirits or energies help me do that.
What do 'pagan rituals' involve?
A ritual can be very simple (for example lighting a candle, meditating, burning incense or oil, taking a ritual bath, chanting or making an affirmation), or it can be more elaborate and involve a whole combination of these (and other) practices. A more elaborate ritual will often begin with 'casting a circle', a method used to create a sacred space. This can be done either alone or with a group. I will give instructions on circle casting in a later post.
Do pagans celebrate religious festivals?
Most pagans (again, not all) celebrate the turning of the earth's seasons, known as 'The Wheel Of The Year'. This is marked by festivals at roughly six week intervals. The summer and winter solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes are festivals known as 'quarter days'. Their dates are determined by the position of the sun, and so these dates vary slightly from year to year, but are fixed by science, and so everyone who celebrates them, does so at an easily agreed date.
In between these, there are four other festivals, known as 'fire festivals' or 'cross quarter days'. The dates of these are determined either by the position of the sun or a calendar date, and some pagans like to adjust these dates slightly according to the phase and/or position of the moon. Because different pagans determine these dates using different methods, these festivals are celebrated on dates that can vary slightly from one pagan to another.
Many of the Christian celebrations, such as Easter and Christmas, have derived from ancient pagan festivals that were 'Christianised' in order to persuade the ancient pagans to become Christian without having to give up their festivities.
Do pagans have churches or temples?
A sacred space can be created anywhere, indoors or out, by casting a circle. Since many pagans revere nature, they feel it can often be more effective to worship outside in the natural environment. There is little need therefore for pagan temples built by man.
However, many ancient sites are used by modern day pagans for worship and celebration. These sites, being usually open to the elements, enable the participants to be close to nature in addition to being close to the energy of their ancestors who built them. Since many of these monuments are built following astrological geometry and along ley line intersections, they also connect those who worship or celebrate there to the powers of the universe and psychic energy.
What do you have to do to become pagan?
Nothing, unless you want to join a particular branch of paganism that requires some sort of initiation, specific practices or course of study for you to join. You can identify yourself as pagan simply by having pagan beliefs and there is no obligation to worship, celebrate festivals, join a group or partake in any particular pagan practices. As a pagan you are free to follow your own spiritual path as you deem fit.
If you wish to join a pagan group there are thousands to choose from and each group will have its own requirements for those who wish to join. There are pagan groups for people who share common beliefs and practices, as well as pan-denominational groups where pagans of any path are welcome to join.
These days it is easy to find information on paganism. Your local book store and library will stock texts, often found in the 'spirituality' section. A quick internet search will yield uncountable sources of information and ways to contact groups.
Take a look at the other blogs included in The Pagan Blog Project. Some of the participants are new to paganism and using the project as a way to explore their path, whilst others are experienced pagans who are very knowledgeable about their chosen aspects of paganism. Ask questions and make comments on blogs, and if someone you feel you 'click' with has shared their contact details, get in touch with them and see where it takes you.
See if there is a local pagan moot or pagan pride event in your area. A moot is a meeting of pagans, sometimes to share worship or celebrations, sometimes to take part in activities such as political or environmental activism, and often as simply a social meeting to contact like-minded people, chat and make merry. Pagans are ordinary people with ordinary lives and jobs and most are very obliging when it comes to helping others explore paganism as a beginner.
Loved your post! You really have a way with words, so that you make it all sound very clear and precise.
This is an outstanding post! So very informative, even for the absolutely clueless beginner (as myself). Thank you!
When I first read the title - I smiled. Great read. This would make a wonderful brochure or informational guide to share with others who don't follow this path.
I have always felt a Magick around me since I was young. I was always told what to believe and it left me broken and incomplete and I was searching for something never knowing why or what it was I had been searching for. Now that I have found what this beautiful Magick is I am happier and so full of life. I am finally alive and completed. | 2019-04-25T10:21:48 | http://www.okifolki.co.uk/2012/01/pagan-z-b-is-for-beginners-guide-to.html |
0.998971 | Are Schneiderman and Liberal Groups Selling Out to Obama on Bank Fraud?
If the president thought his mortgage investigation announcement would be an easy sell to progressive critics, he was only half right at best. The announcement -- especially the appointment of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman -- did win praise from a number of liberal groups.
But there were other headlines in the progressive Internet this morning, too: "Is Eric Schneiderman selling out?" asked prominent financial blogger Yves Smith. David Dayen called it "The Schneiderman Gambit." "Nice Try, Mr. President," said attorney/blogger Abigail Field.
Smith's subheader says Schneiderman "joins Federal Committee that looks designed to undermine AGs against mortgage settlement deal." Dayen's reads, "Financial fraud unit appears designed to fail and grease skids for foreclosure fraud settlement." Field's says that "Breuer and Khuzami (two other unit leaders) have to go and indictments have to be immediate."
Atrios (Duncan Black) said "It's hard to see the Schneiderman thing as anything but bad news," while both David Dayen and Yves Smith wondered if the groups cheering the announcement are part of an orchestrated White House plan.
These are smart folks, and they're almost certainly right about the situation in some ways. Does that mean that the groups praising the president are wrong? Not necessarily.
Disclosure: I have a fellowship with one of those groups, the Campaign for America's Future. I've supported the effort to investigate the banks and block the administration's proposed sweetheart deal for bank fraud.
These criticisms of the president are in line with those I've made myself, including last night. "We already have a Financial Crimes Unit," I said about the speech. "It's called the Justice Department (and) it indicted more than 1,000 people after the Savings & Loan crisis."
The administration's lack of prosecutions has been inexcusable. His administration has refused to prosecute even the most compelling prima facie cases of and has appointed one revolving-door banker after another to key economic positions. Its financial settlements with Wall Street have been disgraceful. For far too long the president pushed the nonsensical argument that "Wall Street and Main Street rise and fall together."
And with an election coming up, bankers can write big checks that most other people can't.
So there's no reason to assume that the White House wouldn't rather make a symbolic gesture rather than offer substantive change. The skepticism's fully warranted.
Like these commentators (I think very highly of them), I was very disappointed to learn that Schneiderman was to be a "co-chair" rather than heading the team. That means the group's being run by a committee, not a leader. Committees are designed for paralysis and gridlock, not efficiency.
It's ironic at best that the president promoted "streamlining government" and "eliminating bureaucracy" -- and then appointed a committee in the next breath.
People may remember Breuer from his weak performance on 60 Minutes, defending the administration's inaction on bank crime, and from revelations that both Breuer and Eric Holder worked for the prominent Wall Street law firm Covington & Burling (which played a key role in pushing the MERS scam that played such a key role in the financial collapse).
"If I didn't know better," David Dayen writes, "I'd think that they had this guarantee in hand from the White House, so they could push out to their lists with the 'big victory' they received."
Here, too, skepticism's understandable after what we've seen. But have these groups really "fallen in line" behind a secret White House plan?
A lot of activist groups declared "victory" too soon on both health care and financial reform. That took the left's bargaining chips off the table and led to a much weaker outcome. But nobody's blessing a bad deal and folding their cards here.
Did these groups collude with the president? Remember, this is the president who's only really lost his temper publicly with people like them -- he labeled their positions, which were both more pragmatic and popular than his own, as "purist" -- and whose administration once singled out "the institutional left" for its nastiest attacks.
To believe that you'd have to believe that CAF, MoveOn, New York Working Families Party, the AFL-CIO, New Bottom Line, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and the Campaign for a Fair Settlement -- all of which have harshly criticized the White House -- were in on a plan to undermine the very goal they've been promoting for months.
Maybe there was a memo I didn't get, but I can't see that happening.
Personally I wouldn't have worded some of yesterday's statements as effusively. But I think I understand why they were written, and it wasn't to hoodwink the American people.
Consider the context in which they were issued. Twenty-four hours beforehand, the world looked like this: No investigations of major Wall Street players. One sweetheart settlement after another. The administration had just announced that the deal they'd been opposing for so many months was complete and that the president would tout it in his State of the Union message.
These groups and others had been working hard, both publicly and privately, to turn things around. They had added leverage because the White House had planned a populist-based State of the Union message.
Here's what happened over the course of those 24 hours: Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, the public voice of the deal, publicly retracted it. Then reports indicated that the president had pivoted and would now make investigating Wall Street, rather than the deal, the centerpiece of his mortgage comments.
Then it was learned that Eric Schneiderman, who showed extraordinary courage in bucking this deal, would "chair" this effort. (Some of the announcements were issues before it was learned that he was part of a committee.) The announcements were issued after three major reversals in a very short time.
I certainly don't accept the idea that Schneiderman is a sell-out. It took extraordinary courage for him to stand up to the administration on this deal, especially given reports that they put him under extraordinary pressure to cave in.
And heroics aside, he's a smart guy. He's won money from foreclosure suits and used it to help homeowners. He took on health insurers who gamed their provider networks. Presumably this isn't the end of his life's ambitions, either. He's raised more money during his first year as Attorney General than either Eliot Spitzer or Andrew Cuomo did in their first years as Governor.
Whatever Eric Schneiderman's goals are, I doubt they include being stigmatized by progressives as a sell-out. His actions over the last few months have not been those of a guy who rolls over easily. It's safe to assume that he wants to prosecute bank fraud, and that this appointment will give him access to the resources he's needed to conduct a thorough investigation.
Schneiderman certainly knows he'll be up against a lot of resistance. But he also knows he'll hold a lot of leverage -- leverage he can use with both his words and his actions. And consider what he gains: Clout, a national platform, greater jurisdictional reach, and more resources at his disposal.
Consider this: What would it do to the White House if Schneiderman labeled the entire effort a sham, resigned in protest, and continued his investigations alone? He must know he has leverage now, and presumably will use it if necessary.
These liberal groups may not always be perfect -- who is? -- but they seem to have a clear set of goals here. They want to kill the administration's cushy bank fraud settlement, get more money on the table to help homeowners, and investigations and prosecutions for bank crimes.
Why the announcements? Again, I don't speak for any of these groups. But my observation is that behavioral modification techniques can be very effective when applied to politicians: Apply the electric shock when they do the wrong thing, reward them when they do the right thing. Obama's shift in rhetoric, his backing away (at least for the moment) from the deal, and his embrace of Schneiderman all earned him a moment of positive reinforcement.
These groups are smart enough to understand what Schneiderman's up against. But they're also smart enough to know that Schneiderman will need a lot of backup if he's to succeed. They'll presumably be working to amplify Schneiderman's leverage every chance they get.
And if it becomes a brawl, hopefully a few of them will be willing to roll up their sleeves and say "I got yer soi-disant right here."
Could they be miscalculating? Sure. But it seems to me it's worth a shot.
"This isn't a victory at all," David writes, "at least not yet." I agree 100 percent. If past experience is any guide, they'll resist Schneiderman every step of the way.
That's where the public comes in. There's no doubt that the 360,000 signatures calling for investigations and an end to the settlement had an impact. So did press reports of liberal disaffection and phone calls from upset citizens. Going forward, Schneiderman and others will need help from the grassroots. People will need to keep pressuring the administration every step of the way.
This could turn out exactly the way David and Yves are predicting -- as a cynical and failed gambit. If the final deal's a lousy one, we'll say so. But that hasn't happened yet. The worst reaction of all would be to assume that the public can't influence the outcome, and then turn away without ever trying.
This doesn't have to end badly. But it will if people assume the worst. Joe Hill said "Don't mourn, organize." In this case I'd say organize now, and don't mourn unless we lose. We haven't lost yet. | 2019-04-19T08:34:41 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-schneiderman-obama_b_1232096 |
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Bibliographies can be created three ways - (1) by using the export feature in EndNote, (2) by copying formatted references from EndNote into Word or (3), by using the CiteWhileYouWrite (CWYW) feature.
(1) Exporting: With your EndNote library open, go to File > Export. A Save As dialog box will pop up. Choose a location to save your file (desktop is usually easiest); change or keep the file name the same as your library; and then, VERY IMPORTANT, change the file type from Text File to Rich Text Format. Then click on Save. NOTE: This option will export your entire EndNote library. If you only want certain references to export into a bibliography, it is better to choose option 2 or 3 below.
(2) Copying formatted references: With your EndNote library open, select the reference you want in your bibliography by clicking on it once. Then right click on it once. A menu will pop up—select Copy Formatted (NOT just Copy). Open a Word document (ideally the bibliography template) and paste the reference into the document. HINTS: To select multiple references that are listed TOGETHER, hold the Shift key down on your keyboard and select the references by clicking each one once with your mouse. If you wish to copy multiple references that are NOT listed together, hold the Ctrl key down on your keyboard and select the references by clicking each one once with your mouse. (Note, these instructions are for PC users). Then proceed as before by right clicking and selecting copy formatted.
(3) CWYW: This feature automatically creates the bibliography for you as you insert references when writing your paper. Additional information about this feature is found on the CWYW page.
How do I get my Bibliography to display in alphabetical order?
1. Select the citations in your bibliography.
2. In Word, go to the Table menu -> Sort; select Paragraphs, text and hit OK.
To create a bibliography with annotations choose the Annotated Output Style. Select the citations you want to include and go to Edit -> Copy Formatted. Or use the keyboard command Ctrl + K. Then paste your citations into a Word document. The annotation is taken from the abstract field in your citation. | 2019-04-25T08:19:21 | https://www.luthersem.edu/technology/helpdocs.aspx?m=6370&post=2924 |
0.999511 | Ralph Lauren Exclusive Scent Let the story begin: The famous American fashion designer Ralph Lauren's original name is Ralph Rueben Lipschitz, but after years of bullying in relation to his origin, his brother decided to to change the family's last name. Ralph Lauren originally started designing ties while working for Brooks Brothers. These were made of old dust residues and in English classical style, as Ralph Lauren linked the English style with class and character. He founded Polo Fashions in New York in 1968. Here he designed casual and classic men's fashion. The fire is especially known for its polo shirts, which are found in a wealth of colors and designs. In 1971, Ralph Lauren's women's collections came to. Today, he is not just the name for casual, like luxury fashion clothes for men, women and children. He has also designed things for the home, cars, jewelry, glasses, delicious scent series and much more. The logo is inspired by Polosport and created by the professional tennis icon, René Lacoste, who also designs the crocodile clothing. The Smell of Success: Ralph Lauren's delicate and classic design goes on in the perfume series, which he began to design in 1978. The many different perfumes from Ralph Lauren, like his popular and world-renowned polo shirts, are characterized by the eye-catching logo and the brilliant colors. It is aroma that expresses a strong personality and a luxurious lifestyle and is one of the most sought after scents in the world. In short, Ralph Lauren's scent is a collection of classic scent notes based on the "less is more" principle. This means in all its simplicity that it is you who carries the fragrance and not the smell that carries you. Nicehair.dk also smells of Ralph Lauren: Ralph Lauren has both made Eau de Toilette and Eau de Parfume for both women and men in the many amazing scent series and some elements of these fragrances, you can of course also buy from Nicehair. com. For the man at Nicehair.dk: Polo Blue feels like fresh air, freedom and relaxed elegance. - Polo Red is an adrenaline boost for the excitement-seeking man. - Big Pony prepares the man for any occasion ... with sport, seduction, adventurous and style. For the woman at Nicehair.dk: - Romance is the fragrance of lasting love - committed and spontaneous. - Tender Romance is the fragrance of sensitive new love - enchanting and hopeful. - Ralph is the aroma that conquers your optimism and kindness. If necessary, click on the fragrances and read more about them each. You can also seek good advice and guidance from our always helpful customer service. This either by mail or by telephone. Remember that at Nicehair.dk we have extremely fast delivery and that it is free if you have the option of picking up your orders in one of our Nicebeauty stores in Esbjerg and Kolding, respectively. Ralph Lauren - "No party without a horse"! | 2019-04-26T02:17:06 | https://nicebeauty.com/eu/brands/ralph-lauren.html |
0.999971 | What happens next? There's only one way to find out.
"Set phasers to stun!" you yelled at your hairdryer. Artist Craig Davison captures everyone's younger nerdy days in his "Shadows" series. H/t Nerd Approved.
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Why did Claire's earrings always turn your ears green?
What it means when someone texts or IMs you an affirmative answer.
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In discussions of the year's best film, it's easy for horror to get overlooked. Here are 19 of the genre's best offerings in 2013.
Breakfast hoagies. Lunch hoagies. Dinner hoagies. All of the hoagies.
It’s almost impossible to keep up with everything that comes out, but you should try — or revisit — these fantastic albums.
Really, how is there no cheese emoji? | 2019-04-21T01:37:15 | https://flipboard.com/@hertzfeldt/cool-stuff-d2p1ggivz |
0.999963 | Update: Why should Ricky Ponting [Images] not be banned, for a period of five Tests, for unfair practices that contravene the spirit of cricket?
Think back to September 2003, and the Pakistan-Bangladesh series. Then Pakistan captain Rashid Latif was docked for claiming a catch, when the ball had touched the ground. He was suspended for five games -- effectively missing the entire one day series between the two sides.
On that occasion, the match referee while handing out his sentence said: "As captain a lot of responsibility falls of Rashid Latif and he committed a serious offence by claiming that (unfair) catch which constitutes unfair play and a level-three offence of ICC [Images] code of conduct (offensive and penalties). Therefore, the Pakistani captain shall be banned for five one-day internationals."
The match referee was -- surprise, surprise -- Mike Procter no less; the same official currently in the hot seat in the India versus Australia series.
So, again -- if the BCCI is serious about "upholding the honor" of the team and the country, should it not file, with irrefutable video evidence (external link) available by making a simple call to the broadcasters, a complaint against Ponting for unfairly claiming a catch, and further defending his "integrity" and insisting that the catch was 100 per cent fair?
Or does responsibility for ensuring that the game is played in the right spirit merely vest with some captains, but not with others?
In the aftermath of the dramatic events of Sunday, during the last day's play in the second Test between India and Australia in Sydney, Australian captain Ricky Ponting has had much to say-- and the bulk of his statements constitute a defence of his own integrity.
Ponting, then fielding at silly point, had dived to hold a ball that ballooned off Mahendra Singh Dhoni's [Images] pads; he got to his feet and vociferously claimed the catch, though replays at the time indicated he had grounded the ball.
That could have been justified as happening in the heat of the moment - but later in the day, after play, and with the benefit of video replays to draw from, Ponting not only maintained that he had caught it clean, but suggested that an Indian journalist who had questioned the catch "shouldn't be standing there".
"There's no way I grounded that ball," Ponting told a press conference. "If you're actually questioning my integrity in the game, then you shouldn't be standing there."
A while later, he reiterated his conviction that the catch was clean. "I'm saying I'm 100% sure I would have caught that catch off Dhoni," Ponting said. "As it turned out it was given not out anyway, am I right or wrong?"
What is startling about the picture is not that the ball is touching the ground, but that a prone Ponting actually has his eye directed towards it.
In other words, Ponting clearly had to have been aware that he had grounded the catch - and yet, even with the benefit of hindsight, he not only claims otherwise, but suggests that his integrity cannot be questioned. | 2019-04-25T05:47:01 | https://www.rediff.com/cricket/2008/jan/07prem.htm |
0.999998 | How local is the local field potential?
The local field potential (LFP), usually referring to the low-frequency part of an extracellularly recorded potential (< 500 Hz), is nowadays routinely measured together with the spiking activity. The LFP is commonly believed to mainly reflect synaptic activity in a local population surrounding the electrode but how large this population is, i.e. how many neurons contribute to the signal, is still debated. In this modeling study we investigate which factors influence the spatial summation of contributions that generate the LFP signal. A better understanding of this is crucial for a correct interpretation of the LFP, especially when analyzing multiple LFP signals recorded simultaneously at different cortical sites.
We use a simplified two-dimensional model of a cortical population of neurons where the LFP is constructed as a weighted sum of signal contributions from all cells within a certain radial distance to the recording electrode. First we consider a general formulation of the model: if the single-cell LFP contributions can be viewed as current dipole sources , the single-cell amplitude will decay as 1/r2 with distance r to the electrode. On the other hand, for the two-dimensional geometry considered here, the number of neurons at a given distance increases linearly with r. In addition to these two opposed scaling factors the amplitude of the summed LFP signal also depends on how correlated the single-cell LFP sources are. We calculate the LFP amplitude as a function of the population radius and relate it to the above factors. We show that if the single-cell contributions decay as dipole sources or more steeply with distance, and if the sources are uncorrelated, the LFP is originating from a small local population. Cells outside of this population do not contribute to the LFP. If, however, the different LFP sources are uniformly correlated, cells at any distance contribute substantially to the LFP amplitude. In this case the LFP reach is only limited by the size of the region of correlated sources. This result highlights that the spatial region of the LFP is not fixed; rather it changes with the dynamics of the underlying synaptic activity.
We further validate these results through LFP simulations of morphologically reconstructed cortical cells [2–4] where we study the effects of neuronal morphology on the size of the region contributing to the LFP. Finally, we show the laminar dependence of the reach measure used here and discuss potential implications of the interpretation of experimentally recorded LFPs.
This work was partially funded by the Research Council of Norway (eVita [eNEURO], NOTUR), EU Grant 15879 (FACETS), EU Grant 269921 (BrainScaleS), BMBF Grant 01GQ0420 to BCCN Freiburg, Next-Generation Supercomputer Project of MEXT, Japan, and the Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology. | 2019-04-24T16:31:02 | https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2202-12-S1-O8 |
0.997051 | Consumer and environmental groups yesterday pleaded with Ohio's high court to end $600 million in subsidies approved by utility regulators more than two years ago to bolster FirstEnergy Corp.'s finances.
Not a penny of the surcharge, known as a distribution modernization rider, is being spent to update the local power grid for FirstEnergy's three Ohio utilities, they said. Instead, the money is being used to bolster the company's balance sheet with the expectation that the company will be able to borrow money at a cheaper cost later.
Groups challenging the 2016 order by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) say the payments are illegal under state law.
"It is an illegal customer-funded corporate bailout," Kimberly Bojko, an attorney for Ohio consumer groups, told justices during oral arguments.
PUCO and FirstEnergy argued the payments will indirectly lead to upgrades of the local power grid by bolstering the utility's credit ratings, enabling it to borrow money in the future at a lower cost.
Thomas McNamee, a lawyer for the commission, said grid modernization will cost billions of dollars and FirstEnergy faced the threat of credit rating downgrades at the time the surcharge was approved.
"All of these things take money, and unfortunately these utilities are, were, in a bad credit condition," McNamee said.
The legal dispute is another thread in a political drama involving FirstEnergy, and one connected to the Trump administration's efforts to bail out struggling coal and nuclear plants.
The case began in 2014 with requests by FirstEnergy and AEP Ohio for subsidies to aid money-losing Ohio power plants. PUCO approved a version of the utilities' proposals, requiring utility customers in deregulated Ohio to buy energy from the coal and nuclear plants for the purpose of "stabilizing" electric rates from volatile swings related to natural gas prices (Energywire, April 1, 2016).
Consumer groups and competing generators, which argued the subsidies could cost as much as $8 billion over their eight-year terms, successfully challenged the plans at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which blocked PUCO's order from taking effect.
Within days, FirstEnergy proposed a scaled-back version of its power plant subsidy plan to avoid FERC jurisdiction. The commission ultimately adopted a counterproposal from PUCO staff to inject FirstEnergy utilities with cash to improve the parent company's finances (Energywire, Oct. 13, 2016).
However, groups challenging the plan told Ohio Supreme Court justices that there wasn't adequate evidence in the case record to justify $200 million a year in financial aid with no assurance or requirement that grid investments would come in the future.
"Not one penny is required to be spent on distribution," Bojko said.
Lawyers challenged PUCO's claim that FirstEnergy was unable to borrow money for grid modernization and that the company would pay hundreds of millions of dollars in higher interest costs to do so.
Credit ratings for all three FirstEnergy utilities have remained at least a notch above investment-grade despite the bankruptcy of affiliate FirstEnergy Solutions.
Last year, Moody's changed its outlook for the company's credit ratings from "negative" to "positive." Standard & Poor's went further by upgrading the ratings of the utilities and parent company following a court settlement with FirstEnergy Solutions' creditors.
FirstEnergy's stock price is up 20 percent since the credit support surcharge was approved, hitting a 52-week high last month. Ohio utilities have further distanced themselves from FirstEnergy Solutions and its struggling generation business since the Chapter 11 filing last spring.
Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor questioned lawyers about PUCO's PowerForward grid modernization initiative, how the FirstEnergy payments are related and how the payments made to date might be applied to future work.
In August, the commission released a "roadmap" to guide the state's grid modernization efforts.
Environmental groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund lauded FirstEnergy's initial $516 million plan even as the parties disputed the legality of the surcharge under court review.
Rachel Bloomekatz, a lawyer for a coalition of environmental groups, told justices yesterday that PUCO's grid initiative is unrelated in that it will be paid by customers under a separate surcharge.
"What distribution service is this rider helping?" she asked. "The answer is 'none.'"
McNamee, however, said the first step to modernizing the grid is ensuring the utilities are healthy enough to borrow money.
"You can't have a house without the foundation," he said.
Parties challenging the FirstEnergy surcharge include the Ohio Manufacturers' Association, Ohio Energy Group, Ohio Consumers' Counsel, Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council, Ohio Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Environmental Policy & Law Center.
Akron-based FirstEnergy was not a party to the appeal but was allowed to intervene.
James Lang, a company attorney, told justices that PUCO hired an outside monitor to ensure that funds meant to help stabilize the utilities financially are properly spent. That independent monitor has yet to raise any concerns, he said.
The FirstEnergy surcharge was approved for a term of three years, meaning the surcharge of about $3 a month for the typical FirstEnergy residential customer will disappear from bills at the end of 2019.
The 2016 order, however, left open the possibility that FirstEnergy could reapply to continue the charge for another two years, bringing the total price tag of the subsidy to $1 billion over five years.
FirstEnergy spokeswoman Tricia Ingraham said in an email that the company plans to seek a two-year extension of the distribution modernization rider before a Feb. 1 deadline. | 2019-04-22T18:50:36 | https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060111513 |
0.999513 | Meanwhile, there's some question whether senators have the authority to block Burris' appointment if it comes to them. Senate Democrats think they have the authority — and the votes — but legal scholars say that's uncertain and the issue could end up in federal court.
Although the Senate refused to seat Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo in 1947, a compromise delayed a decision on whether he'd ever be admitted, and his death months later left the legal question unresolved. Associate Senate Historian Donald Ritchie said there was no Senate precedent for a situation such as this.
Burris, 71, a consultant and former Illinois attorney general and comptroller who'd unsuccessfully challenged Blagojevich for governor but later became an ally, was the first African-American elected to statewide office in Illinois.
Obama's departure leaves no blacks in the Senate, Rush noted, and he said that senators shouldn't block a well-qualified black appointee.
"I don't think they want to go on record doing that," he said, adding that he and others would "persuade," "challenge" or "beg" colleagues to reconsider.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the rest of his leadership team issued a statement saying that while they respected Burris' years of public service, "This is not about Mr. Burris; it is about the integrity of a governor accused of attempting to sell this United States Senate seat."
Any Blagojevich appointee "would serve under a shadow and be plagued by questions of impropriety. It is unfair to Mr. Burris, it is unfair to the people of Illinois and it will ultimately not stand."
"I'm absolutely confident and certain that the United States Senate is going to seat a man of Roland Burris' unquestioned integrity, extensive experience and his long history of public service. This is about Roland Burris as a United States senator, not about the governor who makes the appointment."
Blagojevich said that with no alternate path available to fill the post such as a special election, for him not to fill it would deprive Illinois residents of their fair share of representation.
Burris defended Blagojevich, saying that "As a former attorney general of this state, I know — and I think most of you all know — that in this legal process you are innocent until you're proven guilty."
Obama said in a prepared statement that he agreed with the Senate Democrats' stance. He called Burris "a good man and a fine public servant," but said, "I believe the best resolution would be for the governor to resign his office and allow a lawful and appropriate process of succession to take place. While Governor Blagojevich is entitled to his day in court, the people of Illinois are entitled to a functioning government and major decisions free of taint and controversy."
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the incoming chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said that Senate Democrats shared blame for the mess. After all, he argued, they'd opposed Illinois holding a special election to fill the seat, hoping that Blagojevich would leave office and his successor would guarantee that the Senate seat went to a Democrat.
Bruce Ackerman, a constitutional law expert at Yale Law School, said that if the matter went to court, judges would consider Powell v. McCormack, a 1969 Supreme Court ruling that found that the House of Representatives didn't have the authority to exclude elected Rep. Adam Clayton Powell because of corruption allegations. The House refused to seat him in 1967 and later voted 307-116 to expel him. The court said that the Constitution required the House to admit Powell and then it could expel him by a two-thirds vote.
"The Senate could not exclude a person because the governor is simply under suspicion of things of this kind; that's my view at least," Ackerman said. "If there is evidence of corruption in the appointment, the Senate can refuse to seat people on that ground. But the fact of the matter is the governor of Illinois is acting under his lawful authority as the governor of Illinois. . . . It's quite a different thing to say that the lawful governor of a state cannot make an appointment because they don't like what they've heard about him."
Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Reid, said that Senate Democrats didn't think that Powell v. McCormack applied because they weren't judging the appointee but "whether appointment itself is tainted by fraud," which was within their power to exclude with a majority vote under Article 1, Section 5, of the Constitution. "This is like judging the integrity of an election, free from fraud or corruption. It's the process that led to the (appointment), not the appointee's fitness." | 2019-04-21T16:56:01 | https://www.bradenton.com/latest-news/article34064067.html |
0.999996 | The basic block diagram of a pacemaker system is given below. The function of each block is explained briefly.
1. Timing circuit: The timing circuit determines the basic timing rate of the pulse generator. It consists of an RC network, reference voltage source, a comparator etc.
2. Pulse width circuit: The stimulating pulse duration is determined by the pulse width circuit. It is triggered by the output from the timing circuit. The pulse width circuit is also an RC circuit as the timing circuit. The output of the pulse width circuit is fed into the pace limiting circuit.
3. Pace limiting circuit: The function of pace limiting circuit is to limit the pacing rate. The maximum pacing rate is usually selected as 120 pulses per minute. The pace limit circuit limit the pacing rate by disabling the comparator for a preset interval of time.
4. Heart stimulator circuit: This is also called output circuit since it provides the proper input pulse to stimulate the heart and hence called heart stimulator circuit.
5. Refractory circuit: This circuit provides a period of time following an output pulse or sensed R-wave. During this time the amplifier will not respond to outside signals.
6. R-wave sensing circuit: The function of R-wave sensing circuit is to detect or sense a spontaneous R-wave and to reset the oscillator when the pulse is not needed.
7. Reversion circuit (Return circuit): It allows the amplifier to detect a spontaneous R-wave. In the absence of R-wave, this circuit again allows the oscillator to generate pulses at its preset rate. This circuit is called reversion or return circuit since it allows to return the oscillator to its active state.
8. Voltage monitor and controller: This circuit continuously monitors the battery voltage. As the pacing rate is depending on the efficiency of battery, it has to be monitored regularly. If the battery voltage is decreased, it triggers the energy compensation and pulse duration controller circuit.
9. Energy compensation/ Pulse duration controller circuit: If the battery voltage is decreased the energy compensation circuit increases the pulse duration so that the pulses delivered to the patient are not affected by the battery charge loss.
10. Rate slow down circuit: It is a special circuit which slows down the heart rate during certain conditions such as cell depletion. So the cell depletion is monitored by the voltage controller circuit, and whenever cell depletion occurs, the voltage monitor/controller circuit activates the rate slow down circuit. This circuit slows down the rate by limiting the current to the basic timing network. | 2019-04-22T18:03:19 | http://www.electronicsandcommunications.com/2018/02/block-diagram-of-pacemaker-system.html |
0.999926 | Add the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office to those in favor of rapper Meek Mill getting a new trial.
The city's DA believes Mill — who has controversially been behind bars since November due to a probation violation — deserves to have his case heard in court again, and that his original gun and drug charges from a 2008 arrest should be dismissed.
The DA, which made the announcement during a court hearing Monday, supports a new trial due to "questions of credibility" regarding the officer who arrested Mill over a decade ago, spokesman Ben Waxman said.
It will still be up to the judge overseeing Mill's case to determine whether a new trial actually takes place. The judge — Genece E. Brinkley — did not dismiss Mill's charges during Monday's hearing. She did set another court date in June, however.
Earning the backing of the Philadelphia District Attorney's office was a considerable victory for Mill's team nonetheless.
"Cheers erupt as #MeekMill legal team announces Philly DA's decision to support new trial for rapper," Alicia Lozano, a reporter for Philadelphia's NBC 10 station, tweeted. "Meeks lawyer says they will appeal to the Pa. Supreme Court."
Mill, 30, tweeted a quote from attorney Angelo Pinto shorty after Monday's announcement.
"The time is really now to create change," the tweet reads.
Many have argued Mill's latest incarceration is the result of a failed justice system. He received a two-to-four year sentence after a pair of arrests while he was on probation last year — one for fighting at a St. Louis airport, and the other for doing wheelies on a dirt bike without a helmet on.
The charges from those arrests were ultimately dropped, yet the judge still considered the incidents as violations of Mill's probation.
Mill served multiple months behind bars after being arrested in 2008 when a gun was found on his person. | 2019-04-25T21:41:44 | https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/meek-mill-deserves-new-trial-charges-dismissed-da-article-1.3936581 |
0.999987 | Well, we are already at the end of our third week of the Autumn Term. The week started in an exciting fashion with reports back from the Butser Hill Challenge. Lots of the Lower Juniors took part in the run and, despite it being very steep, they were able to complete the course in great style. During the week children have been busy working on their countries for Country Fortnight. The Lower Junior Classes have been exploring all sorts of different landscapes and features as they have built a detailed picture of their countries. We have countries such as Beech Land and Jwomababa, full of exotic creatures and with rather strange anthems. The children have been practising anthem music and traditional dances, as well as investing national games such as biscuit Frisbee! Today each class has presented to the LJs their idea of a new country with its own rules and parliament. It was an exciting afternoon.
Also this week, Elm have been investigating maps and looking at how we use them. They have also been working hard to improve their horse riding skills. The Year 4s have started their Listen to Me programme for this term. They are learning the rhythms and beat of Samba music and will be playing percussion instruments to great effect at the end of the term.
The children have continued to read The Arrival this week as well as explore themes of Pet care and new arrivals to countries. They have been writing Guides to Pet care, and have chosen some of their pets from Countries fortnight to illustrate the point. They have also been working on a Guide to My Country for new arrivals to the country of their choice. Using conjunctions and commas they have been able to generate some fabulous sentences describing these countries.
In maths, the children have been looking at number puzzles and investigations and looking at how estimating can improve the accuracy of their work. They have worked on strategies for subtracting numbers and have tested number lines to see how they can help. This coming week they will be looking at puzzles and investigations involving multiplication and division.
They will all have Maths, English and Topic homework set throughout the term. Maths will be set on a Monday and will be either worksheets or Ed City work. English or Topic homework will be sent home on Wednesday and they will have a week to complete it.
The Year 3 s and 4s have started their tables this week. They will also be bringing home spellings this coming week and will be tested on them at the end of the week. As a new adventure, they will be giving a password and instructions to log on and create a rock star which they can develop by earning money from tables challenges at https://ttrockstars.com/login. This is a great activity to help them remember their times tables and we know they will enjoy it!
Times tables challenges can also be found on Ed City. If you are having trouble logging into Ed City site then we have found that Google Chrome if the best search engine to use to access the site. | 2019-04-23T12:26:52 | http://classsh.primaryblogger.co.uk/2016/09/23/lower-school-news-we-23-9-16/ |
0.999958 | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued new rules on payday loans this week.
Consumer advocates say the rules will help low-income people and families trapped in endless cycles of debt.
The industry argues that payday loans provide an option for people facing unexpected expenses or financial emergencies. The rules could cripple the industry, which collected about $3.6 billion in fee revenue in 2015, according to the CFPB.
Here's what you need to know about payday loans and the new regulations.
Payday loans are typically between $200 and $1,000 and must be paid back when a borrower receives his or her next paycheck.
On average, borrowers incur a $15 fee for every $100 borrowed, according to the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA), which represents payday lenders. That's the equivalent of a more than 391% annual interest rate.
Where do you get them?
A patchwork of state laws may limit access in some areas or cap the amount people can borrow. Some states have banned them entirely, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The CFPB argues that most customers who take out payday loans can't afford them.
About four out of five payday loan customers re-borrow their loan within a month. A quarter end up re-borrowing more than eight times, according to the CFPB. All the while, they rack up new fees.
Watchdog groups have long labeled payday lending practices as "predatory."
Dennis Shaul, CEO of the CFSA industry group, concedes that some customers do get trapped by payday loans in a harmful cycle of debt -- but it's a small percentage, maybe 15%, he says.
He insists the industry is not out to prey on the financially vulnerable.
"We're making about an average of 4% return on investment," he told CNNMoney. "We're not making an obscene profit on the backs of people."
What do the new rules do?
1) Vetting borrowers: Lenders will need to check out a borrower's income, living expenses, and their major financial obligations (like a mortgage or car payment). In most cases, that'll mean pulling a credit report.
2) Special rules for loans under $500: Borrowers who take out some smaller-sized loans won't necessarily have to go through all the vetting hurdles. But those borrowers must pay at least one-third of their loan before they can take out another. Frequent borrowers and indebted borrowers may also be prevented from borrowing again.
3) Limits on number of loans: If a borrower takes out three payday loans in "quick succession," lenders must cut them off for 30 days. Also, unless they can prove an ability to pay it all back, borrowers cannot take out more than one payday loan at a time.
4) Penalty fee prevention: Lenders cannot continue trying to withdraw payments for a borrowers' account if they don't have sufficient funds. After two payment attempts, lenders will be required to re-authorize a payment method with the borrower.
The CFPB's new rules, which will take effect in July 2019, will also apply to other types of loan products beyond traditional payday loans. They include auto title loans, deposit advance products, and longer-term loans with balloon payments.
What does this mean for payday lenders?
Shaul says the industry wants to to prevent the rules from taking effect -- perhaps by working with the CFPB directly, convincing Congress to intervene, or by filing a lawsuit.
If they can't stop the rules from going into effect, Shaul says he expects payday lenders will be hurt, but they'll likely develop new products that comply with the rules.
Some payday lenders, however, may be forced to close up shop.
What does this mean for consumers?
If payday loans become unavailable in some areas, the CFPB says there are alternative options. Those include certain short-term loans offered by some community banks or credit unions. Some employers also offer advance payday programs. Neither of those options likely would be affected by the new rules.
-- CNNMoney's Donna Borak contributed to this report. | 2019-04-26T11:54:52 | https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/07/pf/payday-loans-cfpb-rule/index.html |
0.998029 | While CIWS systems are effective on naval vessels, there is a reason; they usually have a clear firing background and detect the missile from several thousand yards away. Even then, they still fail to intercept incoming missiles a fair amount of the time (the Harpoon game gives them a 80% success rate, which may be a little low).
Now take the CIWS on a tank. ATGMs are fired from much shorter ranges (500-3000 yards). Unless they are air-launched, your firing background will have trees, rocks, buidlings, other vehicles, etc. Your success rate will (or should) drop drastically. I once fell in love with CIWS mounts on tanks, but I've since realized the truth: they won't work.
A. Active Sensors: Forget it. You've just spent millions to make your tank harder to see (emission cloaking, stealth, chameleon, etc.) and you're going to put a beacon on top of it saying "slap another HARM missile into me please." Bad idea. If you make your active sensor very short ranged (say 0.1-0.2 miles) to make it harder for enemy forces to detect, the CIWS will *not* have time to react to an incoming missile. Active sensors can also be jammed.
B. Passive Sensors: Passive radar is basically enhanced thermograph, not a motion detector. It gives the CIWS computer a pretty picture and a specialized computer program (probably Complexity 3 or 4) must determine if any of the things it sees are are incoming missiles. Given the amount of time it will have before the missile impacts vs the rotation speed of the passive radar (once per second? twice? ten times? -- the program will likely need more than one pass to make a positive identifaction), the computer probably won't be able to pick the missile out as a missile in time unless it's slow and/or coming from a long ways off. Also, in the heat of battle, lots of things are going to be moving around the battlefield, possibly confusing the CIWS (this isn't a problem at sea). For example, a friendly SAM team fires at a helicopter on the other side of your tank -- only to have the CIWS think the missile is coming at the tank and shoot it down.
A. Aircraft: If air-launched weapons are enough a threat to your armored units to justify a CIWS mount, then either you've lost air superiority or your ground-based anti-aircraft weapons are insufficient. In either case, you tanks will die quickly; putting a puny CIWS turret on your tank will not save you. You should spend the money instead on ways to knock out the enemy's aircraft -- cure the disease, not the symptom.
B. Infantry: Okay, the infantry are dug in, some 500-1000 yards away firing missiles that can cover that range in 2-3 seconds (or much less, for hyperkenetic missiles); are you going to tell me that that's enough time for the CIWS to spot the missile, recognize that it's a missile, rotate to face it and fire with any degree of accuracy? I don't think so. Plus, the missile is going to be coming in at 3'-4', so the CIWS will have to look down, adding ground clutter (and infantry) to it's detection problems.
A. Decieving the Sensors: Some armies may use remote-controlled rocket launchers, firing cheap, obsolete rockets (say, M72 LAWs or AT-4s) at CIWS-equipped tanks. This will bleed away the CIWS' limited (usually 20-40 bursts) ammo supply quickly, leaving them vulnerable later to the primary ATGMs. To keep you honest, mixed in with those sacrificial lambs may be a top-line missile, so if you've turned of the CIWS to save ammo -- whap.
B. Other Weapons: If ground-based CIWS are really effective, your enemy will start using other weapons that are much harder to intercept. One-shot railguns are one choice; autoloading recoiless rifles (in underwing aircraft pods) are another (think a 75mm's 5dx15(10) round won't go though your top armor? The range is awful but they're very cheap). And, of course, large autocannons can chew through your top armor as well. Robotic mini-planes (basically small RPVs), with a fair amount of sensor masking, may replace missiles in some situations.
C. Multiple Attacks: A robot-controlled system can easily fire missiles from two (or more) completely seperate locations simultaneously; your CIWS can only stop one. Aircraft (and some ground vehicles) can launch multiple missiles as well, overwhelming the capabilities of the CIWS (think of seven 70mm guided missiles at once). Cluster bombs and dispensers will overwhelm a CIWS.
D. Anti-tank CIWS: If CIWS on ground vehicles would work, then you could use robot sentries designed as static (and hidden) anti-tank weapons, armed with one-shot railguns, using the same technology (as soon as the robot picks detects a tank within a certain range, it makes an IFF query and immediately fires if the tank's IFF fails to respond correctly).
A. Hull Down: With a tall dome on the top of your turret, you can no longer assume an effective hull-down position (the CIWS mount is there for everyone to see). Being able to hide behind something while still being able to shoot over such cover is vital for tanks (or a soldier, for that matter); the less of you that is seen the better, which it pretty hard to do with a CIWS mount.
B. Friendly Fire: Dismounted mechanized infantry will severely dislike CIWS weapons firing over or through their formations, even if their armor DR can take it (if nothing else, it's a potentially fatal distraction to be hit by CIWS fire from behind). Normal infantry are likely to have lighter armor and so may be vulnerable to heavier CIWS guns. Side note: Combat Infantry Dress (the standard TL8 soldier's armor, according to Ultra tech) has DR 12 on arms and legs, which requires a weapon as small as 3mm to pentrate it half the time; not fatal, but not good. | 2019-04-23T11:03:24 | http://copeab.tripod.com/Campaigns/CIWS.htm |
0.999434 | a beggar can get AUS $50.000 a year?
THE hours are long and the work monotonous, but begging pays well for at least one of Sydney's homeless men who earns up to $50,000 a year from good samaritans.
Ken Johnson, 52, makes his living on busy George and Market St, outside the Myer store in Sydney's CBD, where he sits for up to 16 hours daily, seven days a week.
On a good day, he said, he takes in $400 from generous passers-by.
On slower days, he still picks up amounts between $75 and $150.
"I'd be really disappointed if I did a long Friday and I only had $250," said Mr Johnson, who has been living on the streets "since the late '90s".
"I knock off when I feel like it, or if I've done brilliantly. But on those good days, you might be on such a high that you go for a few more hours and get a bit more money."
Mr Johnson wouldn't say how much he earned last year. But he did reveal that donated coins and notes are stashed in a safe place, before being taken to a bank branch and deposited in his account several times a week. Some of the money is given to a friend.
Asked what he used the money for, he told The Sunday Telegraph he did not smoke, drink nor take drugs, but was raising money to help the friend who needs a liver transplant.
Mr Johnson displays a sign that reads: "Needing support for major family exp(enses) including just heaps for medicine. Paying up is a big grind. Please leave me alone, if you are the abusive nasty sort."
When The Sunday Telegraph caught up with him last Wednesday, business had been good.
In 20 minutes, he collected $30 in coins and notes. One woman handed him $10.
"I've had three hours off today," he said, after treating himself to a breakfast from Hungry Jack's.
"I got a $20 note earlier, so I'm sitting on about $60 for the day and the afternoon rush is still to come.
"There's a general rule in donating and that is that people are more likely to help out when they are towards the end of their day, when they're happy and heading home."
His tax-free income might sound fine but, unlike most jobs, there's no sick leave nor superannuation plan.
He does not draw welfare because "it makes you feel like a cripple".
Mr Johnson said he could not afford to rent and lived on the streets because the money had been spent to pay for bills for his friend.
"Most hostels don't have space to store things and to rent a small unit just costs too much when you're at stress point," he said.
Originally from Newcastle, he said he came to Sydney "in the 1990s" to fight a court battle against the RTA, seeking to have part of the Pacific Highway at Swansea deemed illegal.
"Inner-city accommodation was, and still is, just off the face of the earth - it's just too expensive," he said.
"I was unemployed at the time, so decided to sleep on some concrete steps while I was in Sydney and I just got used to it."
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures from the 2006 Census show 27,374 homeless people in NSW.
An Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) spokeswoman said "rough sleepers" represented about 16 per cent of the homeless.
She said many turned to begging because government welfare did not cover costs, and "for those who do receive income support, payments may be inadequate to meet the costs of temporary accommodation and food. The Newstart unemployment payment is about $32 a day.
"Of those who do sleep on the street, only a tiny minority choose to do so, as a lifestyle choice. For most people who are homeless, there is no choice."
THE weekly pay packets of hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers in South Australia and Queensland will be given a boost after the states' industrial relations commissions yesterday awarded increases to the minimum wage.
The QIRC handed its lowest paid, full-time adult workers a $16.20 weekly wage increase. From next month, they will earn $568.20 a week.
The rise ensures Queensland workers are on par with NSW's lowest-paid wage earners, who were awarded a $15.50 increase last month.
The Australian Workers Union described the Queensland decision as "fair".
"The commission's decision is a good outcome for the AWU, its members and for the working families across Queensland," senior industrial advocate Chris Simpson said.
The SAIRC handed down a $14 increase, taking SA workers to $560.65 a week.
A disappointed Business SA chief executive Peter Vaughan claimed the SAIRC had shown "no consistency" with last month's Australian Fair Pay Commission ruling, which froze the national wage on $543.78 to protect jobs and promote economic recovery. The state's employer groups had requested no increase.
"This increase in minimum wages is likely to flow on into price increases, and may lead to operators reducing labour costs and cutting staff," Mr Vaughan said. "Many businesses are already taking the appropriate precautions to avoid reducing staff levels and with unemployment levels expected to rise in coming months, this increase ... will put further pressure on jobs."
SA Unions had asked for a 3.91 per cent increase, which would have raised the lowest wage to $568, but state secretary Janet Giles applauded the decision not to freeze wages.
The wage rise will take effect in SA from October. | 2019-04-22T10:03:33 | http://ichaview.blogspot.com/search/label/welfare |
0.999992 | Whoa, can you believe it’s been two weeks since PhoneGap Day EU 2016 in Amsterdam? It was an honor to host members of the PhoneGap community from all over the world at the beautiful Het Compagnietheater. We couldn’t have done it without our partners Web Conferences Amsterdam (the team behind Mobilism).
We had another amazing lineup of speakers for this PhoneGap Day. Our diverse group of speakers came in from all over the world to inform and entertain our attendees. Kerri Shotts got things started off right with an epic talk on Common PhoneGap Gotchas. This talk is a must watch for beginner and advanced PhoneGap Developers.
Remy Sharp gave us a thought provoking talk called State of the Gap in which he posits do we still need PhoneGap? The TL;DR answer is yes but we are still committed to the original goal of PhoneGap which is to cease to exist someday when browsers catch up. Remy followed up his talk with a great blog post with the same title.
We were a little worried that his plane wouldn’t make it in time but we were so happy to be able to have Sani Yusuf fly in from Nigeria. Sani killed it with his talk on how Hybrid Apps Powering African Mobile Solutions. You think you know a lot about mobile development but there are unique challenges when you target your app to other countries and Sani’s talk is so eye opening and informative.
You know, we wished we could have brought over all of our incredible speakers from PhoneGap Day US 2016 but we knew that we had to have Dean Haddock of StoryCorps talk about how users are using the StoryCorps app to share their stories and connect with one another. I dare you to watch the video when it becomes available and not have all of the feels.
We kicked off the workshop day with 2 separate tracks so attendees could choose their own adventure whether they wanted to learn more about plugin development or app submission best practices.
Check out the slides and resources from all the workshops below. We’ll be adding the recordings soon!
Big thanks to all of our amazing sponsors! | 2019-04-23T10:02:22 | https://phonegap.com/blog/2016/06/02/recapping-phonegap-day-eu-2016/ |
0.995745 | Registered Craniosacral Therapist based in Norwich, Norfolk.
What does craniosacral therapy actually feel like?
Most people find cranial sessions pleasant and relaxing. People often talk of feeling as if they have "had their batteries charged". Sometimes people feel tingling or numbing sensations or they may experience momentary pain related to past events. When this settles the net result is one of feeling better. People often feel as if things are reorganising inside them or as if a weight has been lifted from their shoulders.
The client usually lies (or sometimes sits) fully-clothed on a comfortable treatment couch. The therapist makes contact by placing their hands lightly on the client's body and tuning in to what is happening by ‘listening’ with their hands. Contact is made carefully so that the patient feels at ease with what is happening.
The number of sessions required depends entirely on the condition being treated. Acute injury and disease states can benefit enormously from 2 - 6 sessions; with chronic debilitating disease or severe injury, it is usually necessary to work for longer in order to develop well-being and skills of managing symptoms, as well as dealing with symptoms directly.
Will treatments help if I have no particular symptoms?
Yes, many people find that craniosacral therapy helps them feel better and enjoy life more. Their energy levels improve and they are able to deal with everyday stress more positively. People often find it easier to fight off minor infections, and regular treatments may help prevent more serious conditions from developing in the future.
What is the interval between sessions?
Initially sessions are usually a week to a fortnight apart. With long-term treatment the frequency of sessions usually reduces.
How safe is Craniosacral Therapy?
The light touch used in Craniosacral Therapy means that it is one of the safest therapeutic forms. It is a non-directive, non-analytical, non-invasive approach - essentially the art of listening and enabling the body to heal itself.
No. Because of the name, craniosacral therapy, people often think that it concerns only the head and spine. CST is not a form of head massage although contact is made with the head in most sessions.
Sessions are generally around 50 minutes.
I'm interested but sceptical - do I have to believe in it for it to work?
It helps to have an open mind, but the benefits of craniosacral therapy are not dependent upon faith in the treatment.
What is the difference between Craniosacral Therapy and Cranial Osteopathy?
Craniosacral therapists study cranial work exclusively. Most craniosacral therapy courses last two years. Cranial osteopaths train initially in osteopathy, a more mechanical approach, and then do postgraduate training in cranial work of variable length.
Craniosacral work tends to be integrated with psychotherapeutic understanding, theory and practice. There is a variable amount of overlap between individual approaches in the two professions. To get a fuller picture, talk to a practitioner to find if their attitude and approach is suitable for your needs.
How would you sum up the effects of craniosacral therapy?
Craniosacral therapy improves people's quality of life in general as well as helping with specific problems. It can help you recover from the results of accidents, falls and strains as well as diseases. Psychological and traumatic conditions can also be helped. Cranial work can reduce stress and improve the functioning of the immune system.
"I have found craniosacral treatment not only to be a very pleasant and enjoyable experience, it has also been extremely beneficial in helping to relieve the tensions that underlie headaches, including migraines." | 2019-04-19T06:16:41 | http://still-works.co.uk/craniosacral-therapy/faqs/ |
0.999141 | Subtitle: The Synthesis Of Creationism Vs. Darwinism?
In many Cutting Edge articles the Hegelian Dialectic of thesis versus antithesis equals synthesis has been shown to be active in competing governmental ideologies. The thesis of Capitalism versus the antithesis of Communism equals the synthesis of Fascism and this blending of diverse elements could very well be the dictatorial system employed by the antichrist. Fascism allows private ownership of business, but output and sales are strictly controlled by the government.
And there is another movement taking shape that is equally insidious. The ongoing and extremely heated debate between the thesis of Creationism versus the antithesis of Darwinism (evolution) appears to be headed for the synthesis of "Intelligent Design." This compromise which rejects both the creative act of God and the mathematically impossible odds posed by evolution (as it applies to the spontaneous origin of the species), is headed toward a position which will lend itself to a growing subliminal belief among the masses. The premise--whether overtly stated or not--is that our existence is due to the work of a superior intelligence beyond planet Earth. And that intelligence is not God, but an advanced civilization of "extra-terrestials."
As David Bay has often said: "Conditioning, conditioning, conditioning!" This world with its ever-increasing emphasis upon "group-think" is being manipulated by supernatural forces and precious few are even aware of it. The fascination with space travel and UFO's continues to capture the imagination of millions and a mind set is slowly taking shape that fully expects aliens to invade the Earth and take over. And Hellywood (spelling intentional) is doing everything in its power to reinforce this belief by cranking out movies and television specials on the subject.
Recently I read a very interesting article about this present generation and its unprecedented attitude of protectiveness where their children are concerned. Individualism is being discouraged and teamwork emphasized. Public schools, organized sports and the work place are contributing to the "team player" concept. Their reasoning is that unity and conformity are to be sought to insure the common good. The "rugged individualist" of the past--the maverick entrepreneur who took chances to achieve financial/political success--is frowned upon because that path is not safe. Seeking one's own niche in life by daring to be different and not following the herd has become a frightening prospect to them. So without even realizing it, moms and dads are being duped into turning their kids into psychological lemmings! My friends, this same thing has already happened in China, Viet Nam, and North Korea. Well over a billion people have been rendered docile and thoroughly conditioned to conform to the political/social/economic whims of their leaders. And our country is definitely on the fast track toward that same Illuminist goal.
What should believers do to stop this mass slide into the arms of antichrist? The only thing we can or should do is continue to be faithful and witness for Jesus Christ until He removes us by death or the rapture--whichever comes first.
"For the mystery of lawlessness (that hidden principle of rebellion against constituted authority) is already at work in the world, [but it is] restrained only until he who restrains is taken out of the way. 2 Thes. 2:7 (Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified).
At first glance it would appear that the concept of unity and docility of the masses is contrary to the "hidden principle of rebellion against constituted authority." But please note that the principle is hidden. It's aim is to destroy the authority of God and must remain hidden until the time is right for it to be unleashed. And when the restraining influence of the Holy Spirit (not the Spirit Himself) is removed at the Rapture of the Church, God's plan regarding the judgment of Israel, along with the rest of the world, will be implemented by "the man of sin"--Satan incarnate. And all those who have been pre-programmed will conform to his plan without even giving it a second thought!
"In which at one time you walked [habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God]" Ephes. 2:2 (Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified, emphasis mine).
"You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false" John 8:44 (Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified).
"Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" 2 Thes. 2:9-11 (KJV, emphasis mine).
What is the great lie that God will actually help Satan to pull off? The Bible does not supply us with a specific answer, but may I be so bold as to suggest that it involves the person of the antichrist and his claim to be the Christ--the Messiah of Israel? The overwhelming majority will refuse to receive "the love of the truth," so God will allow them--yes even help them--to believe that monstrous lie and be eternally damned.
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me" John 10:27 (KJV).
"I have come in My Father's name and with His power, and you do not receive Me [your hearts are not open to Me, you give Me no welcome]; but if another comes in his own name and his own power and with no other authority but himself, you will receive him and give him your approval" John 5:43 (Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified).
"Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders" 2 Thes. 2:9 (KJV).
Today orthodox Jews are anxiously anticipating the coming of their Messiah, but are blind to the fact that He came to them 2000 years ago. And when the antichrist comes upon the scene working stupendous miracles, they will welcome him with open arms! From their earliest days as a people, God led them by miracles and their collective "national psyche" has been conditioned to respond to that stimulus. So for the man of sin to be accepted as their "messiah" he must convince them in that manner. And convince them he will--along with untold numbers of false christians who are professors and not possessors.
Have you ever thought about what the "all power and signs and lying wonders" might be? I certainly have and based upon the growing public fascination with UFO's and extra-terrestials, believe it probable that such things will attend the unveiling of the super politician and world leader the Bible tells us is going to rule over Earth for seven years. And as we have stated in other articles, UFO's have to be fact and not fiction, because there is simply too much accumulated evidence by credible witnesses to dismiss them. But at the same time we must understand that making ninety degree turns at incredible speeds violate the laws of physics. (Such gyrations have been seen on radar and attested to by experts). According to those laws, nothing possessing mass can possibly do such a thing and this leads us to conclude they are of supernatural origin--not aliens coming from some "advanced civilization" in outer space.
So if I were the devil and wanted to soften up people to accept my man as their leader, I definitely would make every effort to discredit the belief that God created the world and everything in it. A vital part of my strategy would be to create a point of view that would allow a compromise between creationism and atheistic evolution. Because I am convinced only a relative few truly believe in either of these opposing concepts and the majority are sitting on the fence somewhere in the middle. Therefore, the synthesis--the compromise--of "Intelligent Design" will likely draw from those merely leaning in one direction or the other and combine them into a majority position.
The intellectual danger for Christians is that the position of intelligent design is preferable to evolution. But we must understand it is still poison because it denies a Sovereign and all-powerful Creator-God. As I have stated before, it would be far easier for me to swallow the concept that humans are a science project of little green men from Mars than merely the product of random chance. Betting that a turtle will outrun a race horse has far better odds than does the spontaneous generation of life via evolution. | 2019-04-26T11:54:09 | http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/p249.htm |
0.999906 | who was kept in the dark about the UFO subject during his official capacities. He was asked by a number of close associates " WHY - as a commander of the British Defence Forces - AND as a member of N.A.T.O. - do you continually make statements about UFO's ?" - He states that this subject (UFO's) has great significance and should no longer be denied and kept secret. He emphatically states, "That there is a serious possibility that we are being visited - and have been visited for many years - by people from outer space, from other civilisations" He goes on to state that we need to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want."This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation, and not the subject of rubbishing by tabloid newspapers."
"quote" made in JULY 2000 by Hill-Norton.
It was his reputation for excellence and traditionalism within the armed services that seems so incongruous, to some, when laid alongside Lord Hill-Norton's very public interest in UFOs. He founded the pressure group UFO Concern, wrote the forward to three of Timothy Good's books, including 'Unearthly Disclosure' , and raised the matter of secrecy surrounding several British UFO incidents in the House of Lords. Upon chairing the House of Lord's investigation into UFOs, he publicly criticised the Ministry of Defence for destroying UFO-related documents after just 5 years in the archives.
"I have asked a number of questions about the base (RAF Feltwell in Suffolk) and never get a satisfactory answer"
To the so called "Rendelesham Forest Incident"- sometimes referred to as the U.K. Roswell.
In 1980 two air bases owned by the RAF, namely RAF/U.S.A.F Bentwaters and RAF/U.S.A.F Woodbridge were leased to the U.S. Air Force and reputedly held a large stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons. Woodbridge was also the home of the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron - a unit that reported directly to the U.S. Department of Defence in Washington.
At approximately 2 a.m. on the 27th December 1980,an unidentified object was picked up by radar at RAF Watton in Norfolk (UK). The object went off the screen in the area of Rendelesham Forest in Suffolk. RAF/U.S.A.F Bentwaters also tracked the unidentified object - Bentwaters being in the direct vicinity of Rendelesham Forest.
At approximately 3 a.m. two U.S.A.F security guards observed unusual lights outside the back gate of RAF Woodbridge and three patrolmen were sent to investigate. These three men reported seeing a strange , glowing object seemingly of metallic appearance and of a triangular shape. They reported it being approximately two to three meters across the base and two meters tall, giving off a bright white light which illuminated the entire forest. Also it had a pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath - it was hovering but apparently had legs. When the men approached the object it manoeuvred through the forest and out of view, to be briefly seen again an hour or so later near the back gate.
Various theories have been put forward to explain away the Rendelesham Forest events including the idea that the lights were caused by a lighthouse on the coast - this theory is unfounded when the geography and topography of the area is examined. Another convoluted theory put forward by a skeptic (Channel 4 Television 10th April 2002), endeavoured to link the events to a craft (of some description) being carried by U.S.helicopters at about the same time, only illustrates the depths that "so-called educated skeptics" will sink to in order to enforce their opinions. One fact is certain - whatever happened it was witnessed by staff at the base - including very senior staff members as well as locals living nearby.
Lord Hill-Norton stated "I have no doubt that something landed at this U.S. Air Force base and I have no doubt that it has got the people concerned into a considerable state. The Ministry of Defence has doggedly stuck to it's normal line, that nothing of Defence interest took place. Either large numbers of people - including the commanding general at Bentwaters, were hallucinating - and for an American Air Force nuclear base - this is extremely dangerous - or what they say did happen. In either of these circumstances, there can be only one answer - that it was of Extreme Defence Interest to the U.K."
Lord Hill Norton has further stated "The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be overwhelming... A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances.. been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by..interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another"......actual quote.
What did Astronaut Gordon Cooper have to say ? | 2019-04-19T02:38:08 | http://phils.com.au/lordhillnorton.htm |
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0.981055 | I am running AIx 4.3.3 ML.11-Post on a RS/6000-42W (PPC-604e @ 120MHz, 128MB ECC RAM), under perl 5.10.0, stdio, no threads, no largefiles, built with gcc-3.4.3 (built native). Output of perl -V appended. Module compiles withour error, but every test fails with the same fail message. I have tried the "suggested patch" from another reporter, but I do not get his results (cover will not run until Devel::Cover is basically installed---after copying the made binaries into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Devel/, cover runs, but that does not change the test results at all---they all still fail, just the same. Here is a typical error message: t/achange.t ............. Cannot close perl -I/usr/lanth/aux/PERL/MODULES/Devel/Devel-Cover-0.64/ -I/usr/lanth/aux/PERL/MODULES/Devel/Devel-Cover-0.64/blib/lib -I/usr/lanth/aux/PERL/MODULES/Devel/Devel-Cover-0.64/blib/arch -MDevel::Cover=-select,change,-ignore,blib,Devel/Cover,-merge,0,-coverage,statement,branch,condition,subroutine /usr/lanth/aux/PERL/MODULES/Devel/Devel-Cover-0.64/tests/change : at /usr/lanth/aux/PERL/MODULES/Devel/Devel-Cover-0.64/blib/lib/Devel/Cover/Test.pm line 187. END failed--call queue aborted. t/achange.t ............. Dubious, test returned 22 (wstat 5632, 0x1600) Failed 1/1 subtests Here is the output of perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=aix, osvers=4.3.3.0, archname=aix-stdio uname='aix rowena 3 4 000059419100 unknown unknown aix ' config_args='-Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=/usr/local -Dinstallusrbinperl -DDEBUGGING -Uusethreads -Uuselargefiles' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=undef, usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O -g', cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.3', gccosandvers='aix4.3.3.0' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld', ldflags =' -Wl,-brtl -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lbind -lnsl -lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lc -lbsd perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lc -lbsd libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=a, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Xlinker -bE:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/aix-stdio/CORE/perl.exp -bE:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/aix-stdio/CORE/perl.exp -bE:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/aix-stdio/CORE/perl.exp' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags=' -bhalt:4 -bexpall -G -bnoentry -lc -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV Built under aix Compiled at Feb 25 2009 00:08:55 %ENV: PERL="/usr/local/bin/perl" @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/aix-stdio /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/aix-stdio /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . | 2019-04-24T00:29:55 | https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=43947 |
0.99927 | Does anyone really think Smith's proposed amendment has the slightest chance of passage? Cindy Hyde-Smith would like us to believe she does.
Recently, columnist Sid Salter, parroting the line of newly appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith, called the effort to balance the federal budget via the Rand Paul bill known as the "penny plan" a meaningless, theatrical move. Paul's plan, simply put, would have cut one penny from each dollar of discretionary spending, i.e. 1 percent of the budget, each year. The plan, had it passed, would have cut spending by $13 trillion over 10 years and balanced the budget in five years.
Smith, Salter, and other opponents of the "penny plan" allege that it would result in draconian cuts to Social Security and the defense budget. Such claims are made to confuse and frighten voters. First of all, Social Security is now classified as an entitlement program and, thus, is not part of discretionary funding. Second, the "penny plan" calls for reduction of the overall discretionary budget. How the discretionary funds are allocated will still be up to Congress. There is nothing in the plan to prevent Congress from fully funding the defense budget and cutting spending elsewhere. Where do we make up the difference? I suggest that the federal government start by no longer funding projects totally unrelated to the limited governing powers granted to it by the U.S. Constitution.
In lieu of voting for a plan that actually offers a real solution for balancing the budget, Cindy Hyde-Smith has chosen instead to co-sponsor a resolution seeking to amend the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced budget each year. Talk about theatrics and grandstanding. Smith's resolution is the poster child for form over substance. Such an amendment first would require the approval of at least two-thirds of the members in both the U.S. House and Senate. Assuming Smith could muster such a bi-partisan vote, the proposed amendment then would require approval by three-fourths of the states. That's 38 states. The last time the U.S. Constitution was amended was in 1992. That amendment took 202 years and seven months to receive the approval of the requisite number of states. How much more in debt will we be by then? There is no guarantee that the amendment would be ratified at all. If the amendment actually were to become law, the budget would have to be immediately balanced with nothing off the chopping block. Congress can't even pass an unbalanced budget as evidenced by the passage of the recent $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill. Imagine Congress trying to pass a mandatory balanced budget.
Does anyone really think Smith's proposed amendment has the slightest chance of passage? Cindy Hyde-Smith would like us to believe she does. Does she think the voters of Mississippi are so naive? All we see is a newly appointed senator who already is voting as she is instructed by the D.C. establishment, a senator who votes against a valid plan to balance the budget while simultaneously offering a “balanced budget amendment” that has no chance of ever passing, a senator who says what she thinks voters want to hear, knowing full well that, if she has her way, she will never have to balance the federal budget.
So who is the real snake oil sales person in this game?
Pat Nozinich is the vice chair of the Tate County Republican Executive Committee and secretary of the Tate County Republican Club. | 2019-04-24T10:12:07 | https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/05/31/cindy-hyde-smith-grandstands-balanced-budget-plan/659545002/ |
0.999817 | The student can explain, in a logical sequence and with a visual aid, the cosmological argument for the existence of God and can name other arguments sometimes used.
Before we can know whether there is a God, we must first define what such a God would be like? What characteristics do you think a divine being would have to possess? A spirit being, who is eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, and everywhere. This definition becomes the beginning point of this discussion.
Discuss the methods of proof.
Find a common point of agreement.
Our method for approaching the answer to this question is to start with something virtually all can agree on, even all can observe: The Universe Exists. Except for those who doubt any existence at all, we can use the universe as a common starting point. The earth and stars, and the sun and moon, and human beings exist. We know this from physical observation. So we use the existence of the universe as a point of beginning. This approach is, in fact, what the Bible itself recommends. In Romans 1:19-20, Paul writes that "since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made." So God expected people to look at what has been made and to ask, "Where did this come from?" So the world, the universe and human beings are here. Something brought these into existence. Their presence asks, "Where did we come from?" We are effects. What is our cause? This is our starting point as we think about whether God exists. The universe exists. What was its cause?
Present four basic questions about the universe, each of which has two and only two alternatives. Note the drawings which help us visualize the reasoning process we are using. These drawings can help you explain this lesson to someone else. From this beginning point of agreement that the universe exists, we can discuss with someone a series of questions, each of which has only two answers—a yes or a no. It is important to examine both alternatives to each question. The "yes" and "no" possibility of each must be considered to see which is more in harmony with what we know. We should, then, examine both alternatives to determine which is the more likely answer. Based on this answer we will move to the next step.
Question 1: Did the universe have a beginning? There are only two alternatives—yes, it had a beginning or no, it has always existed. Which alternative has the most support from observation. There is strong agreement among scientists on this point: the universe has not always been here. Such proposals as the "steady state" theory or the oscillating model have been made in an attempt to show that the universe is eternal. These, however, have generally been discarded as impossible. Dr. William L. Craig, in his book, The Existence of God, stated, "Both the steady state and oscillating models of the universe fail to fit the facts of observational cosmology. Therefore we can conclude once more that the universe began to exist" (pp. 59-60). Dr. Edwin Hubble has plotted the speeds of the galaxies and says they are moving apart at enormous speeds. From this observation, scientists conclude that there was a point of beginning when these galaxies sprang into existence and started their journeys.
Dr. Robert Jastrow, founder of NASA's Institute for Space Studies, has written in God and the Astronomers, "Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same. The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy" (pp. 11). Look at these points which suggest that the universe has not always been here. Energy is being changed from a useful to a non-useful state. If everything had always been here, there would be no useful energy left. Also, since, according to the second law of thermodynamics, unattended systems tend toward chaos, had the earth always existed with no intervention, it would by now be in chaos. So the evidence is quite clear that the universe had a beginning. It has not always been here. All but a few scientists have drawn this conclusion.
Question 2: Did the universe begin with a plan? The universe had a beginning, but was that beginning accidental and spontaneous, that is by chance, or was the beginning with a plan? Let's look at both possibilities.
Dembski (ed.), Mere Creation, p. 371.) Ross lists twenty-nine characteristics of the universe and forty-five characteristics of the solar system that must be just as they are for life to exist on earth. He calculates the possibility of these happening by chance on even one planet in the universe at one in “one hundred billion trillion trillion trillion” (p. 381). Now the critical question. Can we provide an example of anything in our experience that has order, system, function, and design which got that way by accident rather than plan? Can we imagine a camera, for example, appearing by accident? Could then the far superior human eye have come by accident? A computer without a plan? a TV set rising spontaneously out of a pile of electronic parts? the Empire State Building without blueprints? Could any such things come into existence purely by chance, by accident? If none of these lesser things could have come into existence without a plan, then how could the great universe or the beings that live on the earth have come with no plan, entirely by accident? If everything we know of with order and design was planned, is it conceivable that the universe, the greatest of all things would come purely by accident? Nothing in our experience allows such a conclusion. Can you stand at the Royal Gorge in Colorado and imagine that the bridge spanning the canyon came by accident? Then can you imagine that the immeasurably more magnificent river, mountains, trees, and sky surrounding that bridge came by accident? Of course we have discovered by accident some things that already existed or by accident have found uses for things that already exist. But is there anything that operates, that has system and design that came into existence by accident? Sir Fred Hoyle, in his book The Intelligent Universe, used this analogy. "What are the chances that a tornado might blow through a junkyard containing all the parts of a 747, accidentally assemble them into a plane, and leave it ready for take-off?" He also computes that for a blindfolded person to solve a Rubik's Cube, he would have to make one move every second for 1.35 trillion years. If that stretches your imagination, think of getting the 200,000 amino acids required for each human cell by chance and , still by chance, getting them at exactly the same time so they could work together in a single cell. Hoyle concludes, "As biochemists discover more and more about the awesome complexity of life, it is apparent that its chances of originating by accident are so minute that they can be completely ruled out. Life cannot have arisen by chance." (pp. 11-12, 19, 251). Recently the greatest chess player in the world, Gary Kasparov, was defeated at chess by a highly sophisticated computer. Would anyone seriously consider that this computer came into existence by accident? That someone turned up on a deserted island where there were mineral deposits and frequent lightning, and there sat "Big Blue." Yet, some ask us to believe that the even greater human brains that built and programmed this computer resulted from an accumulation of chance events. Recent biological discoveries demonstrate that each cell not only contains matter but it contains information as well. In fact, the nucleus of each human cell contains more information that all 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica put together. For life to have come from accident, then, not only must matter have sprung into being in a functioning form but all the required information coded within it had to come at that same instant. So we reason that if everything in our experience with order and design came from a plan, then the universe with its order and design on the greatest scale of all, must also have come from a plan. Some who deny the existence of God propose “a big bang.” This explanation suggests that all existing matter began from a very small but powerful substance the size of a geometric point with no dimensions which exploded to give us all that now exists. Their initial substance, they say, came into existence by accident and its accidental explosion gave us all we have. This explanation falls short in two principal ways: (1) it provides no explanation for the origin of the beginning substance and (2) evidence does not support the proposition that all living things came from the same substance. Which explanation, then, is more in harmony with what we know? Plan or accident? Which is more reasonable? Remember our approach. Each of our four questions has only two possible answers —yes or no. We are not asking which answer can be proved beyond all doubt. We are, rather, asking, "Which of the two possible alternatives is the more likely?" Did our universe come by accident or by plan? Our experience clearly suggests that "by plan" is the more likely alternative.
Question three: Did the plan have a planner?
Obviously, if there is a plan, there must have been a planner. No blueprints without an architect, no design drawings without an engineer. If an object's order requires that it came from a design, that design requires a designer. Certainly our experience can provide no case of a plan without a planner. Since there is no support for a plan without a planner, then if there is a plan, there must be a planner. Look at the drawing below and see how each step of our process is being tracked. With each question there are only two alternatives: a yes or a no. With each question we are looking at which is the more likely alternative in view of what we know about the question. Each time, the answer is a “yes.” Yes, the universe had as beginning; yes, it came by plan; yes, it had a planner. Plan?
Question four: What must the planner of the universe be like? This planner of the universe designed and brought all material things into existence, set them in order, gave them the ability to reproduce, and sustains their existence. Since he existed outside of matter, He must non-material. Since he created time, he must be outside of time, or eternal. Since He created space, he must be outside of space and thus is everywhere. He must have vast knowledge to know how to create life, reproduction, and order. He must have tremendous power to bring all these things into existence. Again, we take the “yes” alternative. We cannot conceive of the planner of the universe without such qualities.
So where have we come? Back to our definition of God—a spirit being who is eternal, with vast knowledge, tremendous power, and who is everywhere. We began with what we can observe—that the universe exists, and have looked at the evidence to select the more reasonable of two answers to four basic questions about where it came from. Practice drawing the complete chart to keep these steps easily before you. This approach to answering the question about God's existence is called the cosmological argument—that is, an argument based on the existence of the cosmos or world. We are listing this as our first reason for God's existence.
Several other arguments may also be made for the existence of God.
Human beings have a sense of purpose not present in lower animals. Where did this sense of purpose come from if we are only accidental creatures? Why do only humans have this sense of purpose if we ascended from lower forms? Why do only humans desire to have a meaningful existence, to produce something beneficial, to improve the human condition, to be of service to others? If we are the product of lower forms of life, then where, along the chain of development, did such a desire creep into our psyche?
where did this conscience come from? Does not this characteristic of humans suggest that a moral being made us and imparted to us this quality? Surely this is more likely than to say conscience was accidentally inserted between two steps of an evolutionary chain?
Human beings can think on a level far beyond that of any other life forms. If humans sprang into existence from nothing or from lower animals, how can we account for our astounding mental capacities? Complex mathematical thinking and abstract reasoning are so far beyond what animals can do mentally. Such processes are surely beyond the power of an accumulation of accidents to produce. The gap between humans and any other form of life is so great that chance is not an acceptable explanation for the differences.
All civilizations throughout history have believed in some form of a higher being. Where did the notion of a power greater than humans come from? Why this universal longing for a power greater than ourselves unless such a power put that desire in his creation? No great world civilization has been primarily atheistic. Why not? So, we have suggested five basic reasons for believing in God: (1) as the best explanation for the existence of the universe, (2) because humans have a sense of purpose; (3) because humans have a conscience, (4) because of the powers of the human mind, and (5) because all civilizations have believed in a higher power. Learn to do the simple drawing suggested as a way to visualize this approach to explaining "Why I Believe in God." It demonstrates the four essential questions and shows that each of them has only two possible answers. At each stage, we discuss which alternative is more reasonable.
Faith is the result of this evidence and reasoning. The Bible calls faith an outcome. Faith is the result of an examination of the evidence. Romans 1:19-20 tells us that God expected people of old to look at the universe as evidence and conclude that there was a creator and then to honor Him. The evidence was to produce faith. John teaches the same: "these [signs] are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God" (John 20:31). Look at the evidence, he says, and faith will be the result. Hebrews 11:1, likewise, teaches that faith is a "conviction" that unseen things are real, and that conviction becomes the basis of how we act. We do not, then, decide what we would like to be true and then "leap" to that conclusion calling it faith. Rather, we look at the evidence and draw the most reasonable conclusion. Once we have concluded that a spirit-being exists, we take that conclusion as a foundation for our faith and action. The faith of scripture, then, is not founded on personal feelings or experiences. Faith, as the Bible presents it, begins as a conclusion arrived at by a careful examination of the evidence—and the evidence is sufficient for us to conclude that a spirit-being with all power and all knowledge not only exists, but made the universe and all that is in it. Believing that, we accept our accountability to the God who made us and we seek to live in a way that pleases Him. This faith grows as we become closer and closer to God and He becomes more and more an important factor in our lives. We grow to trust in Him and to believe that He knows best for our lives.
We do not, then, believe there is a God simply because we want to believe it. We come to that conclusion by evidence and reason. Having found a belief in God the best answer to the cause of what we see, we then begin to develop our own personal relationship with Him. Useful References Paul Little, Know Why You Believe. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Ill., 1988.
The student can define God.
The student can explain, in a logical sequence and with a simple drawing, the cosmological argument for the existence of God.
Blank sheets for the quiz and pencils as necessary.
Materials for writing on the board.
Review/Notes sheets on which students can take notes.
The existence of a spirit being who is eternal, all-knowing, allpowerful, and everywhere can be proved through the reasoning processes we normally use to determine what we accept as true.
Have some young man lead a song such as Our God, He is Alive or Our God is an Awesome God or Mighty is Our God.
Have another young man lead in a prayer and ask that he include praise to God for His greatness and power and interest in us.
Ask how many students taught the 10 steps to someone during the past week. Without spending too much time on this, ask them about their experience.
Hand out a blank sheet of paper and ask the students to draw the 10 pictures and to put beside each of them the location of one verse of scripture they could use to explain it. Since grading this quiz would take longer than earlier quizzes and would occupy too much class time, tell students before the quiz that when they are done you would like them to hand in their papers with no names and that you will grade them and compute the class average later. When most have finished you may have to call time because one or two slow ones might hold up the class too much. For each correct drawing, give them 7 points. For a related scripture with a drawing, give them 3 point. This will total 100 points.
The lesson for today deals with the important question of how to explain that God exists. Be sure students have a copy of the article “Is There a God” to use during the class meeting.
Read Hebrews 11:6 and comment on how important it is that we believe God exists. This is the foundation stone of all aspects of our faith. And, if we are seeking to share our faith with someone who does not believe in God, then we need to be prepared to help that person deal with this issue.
Hand the students the Review/Notes sheet they are to complete during the class period today and which will become their review sheet for the next quiz.
Let’s assume that I am talking with someone who says, “I really have a hard time believing that there is some great power out there somewhere that we can’t see who sorta runs the world.” I want you to help me move through some steps I could use to teach that person about God. Use the article you have as a resource as I ask you questions.
To decide whether such a being exists, I have to first look at ways of knowing. What are the two basic ways to know things? (Visual: observation and reasoning.) Q: Give an example of each in our daily experience. (For example—I know a car is in my driveway because I can see it (observation). But I might also say I know a car has been in my driveway and left because of tracks only a car could make in the snow (reasoning). Q: Which of these is most useful in looking at the question of God’s existence? (Reasoning.) In fact, it is particularly the type of reasoning called effect to cause that we want to use. That is, we see that something is here (an effect) and if we find that there is only one possible cause for this effect, then we have proved the existence of that effect. If, for example, I see tracks in my yard that only a dog can produce and see droppings that only a dog can leave, then I know a dog has been in my yard even though I have not observed him. So, can we prove the existence of God? Not by observation because God cannot be observed. But if there are effects present which only what we have defined as God could produce, then we have proved God’s existence by reasoning.
Now my friend and I need a point of common agreement as a starting place for our discussion as to whether God exists. Q: What did the article suggest as a starting point for such a discussion? (The Universe Exists. Visual: The Universe Exists. This is the start of a larger visual so be sure to place it properly on the board. Be sure to ask the students to make this drawing on their Review/Notes sheet.) Q: By what means do we draw this conclusion? (Observation.) So we can both agree that the earth, the planets, the stars exist. This is the effect, what is the cause that brought the universe into existence? Now we want to move through a series of questions about the universe we have agreed exists. Each of these questions will have two and only two answers—either a yes or a no. Our method is to ask, which alternative is the more likely—yes or no. Since we cannot see God, we want to reason to the best conclusion we can about Him and this is a way to do that.
Q: What question should we ask first about the universe? (Did it have a beginning? Visual: a triangle under the statement “The Universe Exists” and in the triangle the word “beginning” and put a “yes” and “no” at the two base angles of the triangle.) Q: What evidence would help us to decide whether a yes or no answer here is most likely? (Let the students give some of the points about “a beginning” made in the article or you may ask some questions that will lead them to give that information—such as “What do astronomers say about whether there was a specific point of beginning or whether the universe has always been? After looking at the evidence, then mark the “yes ” side as correct.
Q: If the universe began with a plan, is it more likely that the plan came with a planner or without a planner? (Visual: triangle with “planner?”) Q: Do we know of any plan without a planner? Q: So, which is more likely, that the plan came with a planner or without a planner? (Now mark the “yes” and move to the next question.
Review the drawing to be sure everyone has it correctly on his/her review sheet.
Next class period, I’ll ask you to do the drawing as a way to show that you have remembered this lesson.
It would be very good for you to teach this lesson to someone in your family or to a friend before next week.
Paul Little, Know Why You Believe. Intervarsity Press: Downers Grove, Ill., 1988.
Hebrews 11:6 says that without ___________ it is impossible to believe in God.
The two ways of knowing are through _________________ and __________.
As we think about the existence of God, we reason primarily from __________ to ___________. | 2019-04-18T21:00:03 | http://ebiblestudy.org/lessons/sharing-your-faith-teen/5 |
0.999405 | Is the Senate About to Pass a Law That Discriminates Against Over Half of Americans?
What would you think of a law that clearly discriminates against rural Americans, lower income Americans, minorities and the elderly -- no chance of getting passed, right? Wrong. The Senate is poised to pass such a bill. The revised Dark Act, sponsored by Senator Roberts (R-KS), has been introduced as an amendment to S. 764, and would preempt the laws of Vermont, Connecticut, Maine and Alaska that call for the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food and substitute an unconscionable, discriminatory alternative.
The Roberts bill is so discriminatory it may be unconstitutional and a violation of equal treatment under the law. Polls show that close to 90 percent of Americans want to know about whether the foods they purchase were produced using genetic engineering. Several states have responded by passing laws that require a statement on the food package that the food was produced or may have been produced with genetic engineering. Vermont's law is scheduled to go into effect on July 1 of this year.
But Monsanto and the major chemical and food companies now facing that deadline are doing everything they can to undermine the American people's right to know about their food. So even though 64 countries around the world have GE labeling, and the companies have to label in those countries, they have spent well over $100 million in the first six months of 2015, according to federal lobbying disclosure reports. Now they have gone to the Senate and pushed a bill that rescinds the states' labeling laws, and bans any future state labeling laws, and substitutes instead only a voluntary labeling scheme that allows this labeling to be through QR codes, websites and call in numbers rather than on package labels.
Studies show that half of low-income people do not even have smartphones. So this Senate bill shuts them out of knowing what is in there food. Almost half of rural people do not own smartphones. So they are discriminated against as well. And minorities are a disproportionate percentage of low income and rural Americans so this is also discriminatory against them.
Two-thirds of the elderly do not own smartphones so they won't be using QR codes or websites in the supermarket. In fact only 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Moreover, smartphones and data plans are expensive and nearly half of those who have smartphones have had to cancel or shut off their cellphone service for a period of time because the cost of maintaining that service was a financial hardship.
Even those who have the phones and a service plan are not guaranteed consistent access to the internet, and far fewer than that have ever used a QR code--only 16 percent have ever scanned a QR code and only 3 percent of those people do it regularly. So the Robert's bill scheme to allow a voluntary labeling based on QR codes is on its face discriminatory against the poor, the rural, minorities, the elderly and other groups less likely to own a smartphone or know how it is used. This is such obvious discrimination it would seem sufficient in itself to deep six this Roberts' bill. But the Chemical and "Big" food lobby is very powerful and may have the votes to permanently hide what is in our food from tens of millions of Americans.
So imagine the future if the Robert's bill actually passes this week. Even assuming you are among those with a smartphone and the appropriate app and the knowledge of how to use let's contrast the QR solution with on package labeling required by the states but now preempted by this bill.
With conventional labeling you walk down the grocery aisle examining the products on the shelves, you pick up each one and quickly find the information you need on the package - simple, fast and effective. Now imagine that each time to pick up the dozens of products you are buying, for each one you have to pull out your phone, open up an app (if you can connect to the internet), wait for the camera to focus on the bar code, try and see whether it is GE or wait for a webpage to load, and then finally read to see if the information you need is there. Or the bill allows you to try and call and 800 number for information on each and every product you buy. That's a lot of effort to go through to get basic information that any company could easily simply have on the package. And they know it. They have calculated that excluding those that do not have or know how to use smartphones plus those that cannot spend the considerable extra time for the burdensome QR code, website or 800 number process will mean that only a small percentage of shoppers will actually be informed about whether their food is genetically engineered. Hopefully the Senate will realize that their duty is to allow all of the public the right to know and not to come up with pseudo-solutions that favor the biotech's industry's continuing drive to keep us in the dark.
Proposals to use QR code technology in lieu of on-package labeling also raise serious questions about the privacy of consumer data. What data would be exchanged and how might companies be able to use that data? For instance, would a company be able to determine which customers are viewing their products through QR codes, website, or capture their phone numbers when calling an 800 number? Could they use that data to target consumers through advertising? Would any personal data be exchanged? The government thus far has a poor track record protecting consumer data and curbing the massive marketing machines of the food industry. This system only opens consumers up to further exploitation.
Let's pull back from the specific GE labeling issue and ask a larger question. Are QR codes, websites, and 800 numbers the way we want food labeling to be done in the future? Whether a product is GE or not is just one of many disclosures that could be moved to smartphones or other technologies away from clear, on package labeling. So we can see that QR codes, websites and call in numbers for GE food information could set a dangerous and misguided precedent. We do not want this discriminatory, burdensome and privacy invasive technology to become the norm. The Robert's bill is therefore not part of the solution to GE food labeling but rather part of the problem. It is an unacceptable, discriminatory bill that allows corporations to continue to prevent Americans from getting the information they need to make informed choices about the food they buy and feed their families. | 2019-04-23T04:33:59 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/is-the-senate-about-to-pa_b_9471606 |
0.998442 | Sun Quan's SGZ has been translated at Empire Divided by Sun Bofu.
The start is a bit rough(first few paragraphs) but after words it gets very smooth.
w00t! You've done it! Thank you for sharing the translation!
If Bofu wants some input regarding the Chinese passages, I can work on it if I can get the original file by email (I don't like working with online texts).
Ya thanks for the translation.
Quan took their advice. [Zhou] Yu and [Cheng] Pu served as left and right commanders and each was given 10,000 troops. They took part with [Liu] Bei to meet with Duke Cao at Chi Bi and greatly defeated his army. The Duke(Cao Cao) burned his remaining ships and led his retreat.
I found this part interesting, does this mean the bit about Huang Gai pretending surrender and burning his ships isnt quite correct? Cao Cao burned his own ships?
I don't know the translator, so I can't be sure, but it could just be a grammatical error in the translation (for something like "The Duke's remaining ships burned, and he retreated."
That's actually the passage that sparks the most debate on the Chibi issue. Who burnt the boats? How many were burnt? How decisive was that to Cao Cao's retreat? I'm sure there's a thread somewhere where Han Xin, Great Deer, and other people fought a great battle over it, but I can't seem to find it at 2am. Bleh.
Note that Zhou Yu and Huang Gai's bio both note that there's an active scheme of Wu's that burnt Cao Cao's boats. It's likely that not all the boats were burnt, and they had some more fighting before Cao Cao realized that he was really getting creamed, so he burnt the *remaining* (key word!) boats and retreated.
Cao Cao most certainly burnt his own boats.The sequence of events in Liu Bei's and Cao Cao's bios certainly point to that.
1)Cao Cao advances on Chi Bi.
2)He is hit by a fire attack by parties who are under debate(Liu Bei or Huang Gai).
3)Cao Cao retreats on land and water to Nanjun.
Now then,this obviously shoots Zhou Yu's description in the foot.The whole raging inferno couldn't be true if Cao cao has enough ships to make retreating on water a practicalit that would be mentioned.Additionally the fact that he retreats to Nanjun also shows that his hit at Chi Bi wasn't as bad as most people seem to think or as the novel portrays.
Note that when he later retreats he heads straight back to Xu Chang.If he was on a full retreat then why go to Nanjun?
4)Cao Cao's troops in Nanjun are ravaged by an epidemic.
5)Cao Cao withdraws to Xu Chang.
Now then as we see Cao Cao goes to Nanjun but then goes to Xu Chang only after his troops are ravaged by the epidemic,making his regrouping impossible.
But now he has a rather large fleet moored at Nanjun.Cao Ren hasn't enough men to use it and moving it up further to Xiang Yang would take more manpower than he can spare plus they would also be essentiallu useless at Xiang Yang.
As such he burns them to prevent their capture.An expensive solution indeed,but a sensible one.
Does anyone know where to find the SGZ bio of Zhou Yu?
I don't see a point in this, everyone can copy it.
dengai wrote: Does anyone know where to find the SGZ bio of Zhou Yu?
Re: SGZ Biography of Sun Quan.
Anyone got any linkage to this? The empiredivided site is down. | 2019-04-22T12:57:38 | http://the-scholars.com/viewtopic.php?t=9669 |
0.999999 | The future of MagicWB - will there be any?
I would like to use this moment to speak to all MagicWB users as the author of my product.
A lot of users have asked me in the last months when they could expect a new MagicWB version with a new color scheme and more colors. With the release of MagicWB 2.0 I have already agreed that I will continue the development of MagicWB if the response to MagicWB 2.0 would be good.
Unfortunately I am more than disappointed at the lack of readiness of the Amiga users to support good shareware (that they use every day). In the last months I have well monitored the spreading and establishment of MagicWB and I can almost find it on any Amiga (even in department stores). Various tests prove it again and again that so many users do use MagicWB 2.0 on the one hand, but only few of them actually registered it on the other hand.
Only a fraction has registered MagicWB during the last year (i.e. 0.04% of all potential users have registered it). I would like to express my gratitude here to all those who were honest enough to support this project with their registrations.
You can not just expect others to register and support the further development of MagicWB, since other people unfortunately think the same way and this thinking has the result that I am no longer willing to invest so much time in a new version when I get so little feedback from the unregistered MagicWB users.
A new MagicWB costs me a lot of time and hard work and I expect to receive a certain incentive to do this by brushing up my pocket money. I am not working on MagicWB to improve it for myself, instead I do this because the users urge me to do it and because they reward me for doing it through their registrations. However it is not worth the energy and time any longer if no one registers MagicWB.
There are already specific plans in existence (since 1995) for a totally new and more colorful MagicWB. But I have frozen this project temporarily because I can not see a sense in it if only a fraction will register it. However I would really prefer to continue the MagicWB project... but for nothing I also won't do a thing!
Why am I writing this text? Well, I intend to address especially those who have not registered MagicWB to this day and give them food for thought: Without your support for MagicWB I will not continue it. One can not always take without giving. Shareware is based on mutuality ("to share").
I will now make this offer to all those who were too lazy to register: The "public release" of MagicWB 2.0 and especially this new website are means for me to test if you are still interested in a further development of MagicWB. I have made the registration process as easy as ever possible through new and very comfortable registration methods. So, from now on there should be no valid reason to say that you would register MagicWB if the registration would be easier. It is now the easiest thing it could get! If you don't register MagicWB now but have it still running on your Amiga, you are indirectly saying "no" to a future version and continued development of MagicWB.
The test extends over the coming months. The amount of new-registered users in this test period will be decisive of the future of MagicWB and if I will continue my work on it. If the amount of registrations within this period is not going to improve I will interpret this as a "no" to any further development of MagicWB and will eventually have to stop this project (as much as I would regret it).
It is indeed pitiable that I have to write this, but as always the subject "software pirating" also fits here: The more successful a software product is the more is it going to be pirated with the result that more and more users do not recognize the moral sense of duty to purchase a product they use. With this attitude these people will destroy more than they think (or intend). Please don't let me down -- I would love to continue the development of MagicWB and make the Amiga a better computer.
I also encourage you to copy & save this MWB-Now-Button and to place it on your homepage and also convince others to use it. With that you can actively support MagicWB and ensure its future for the Amiga. Thank you! | 2019-04-20T12:46:14 | http://sasg.com/mwb/future.html |
0.998326 | Are you upgrading your existing shower, or installing a brand new bathroom? Either way, this is the perfect opportunity to improve the functionality of your bathroom and introduce a new style element at the same time. Don't forget: new fixtures are as likely to improve water efficiency as they are to make you smile. Bathrooms are essential, so go ahead and make yours essentially your own!
This project details the installation of a shower base, wall panels and door. The rough plumbing must be in place prior to installation.
For the installation of a shower base only, go to steps 1-5.
For the installation of a pivot door, go to step 7.
Read the project Install a bath or shower faucet for more information.
Ensure the framing meets the manufacturer's specifications. For example, certain manufacturers require studs spaced at 12" intervals to support the shower stall instead of the standard 16" intervals.
It is preferable to set the prefabricated shower base in cement or on a concrete slab subfloor.
Throughout the installation, protect the interior surface of the shower base with thick cardboard or a protective cover.
1.1 - Block the drain with a properly-fitting ABS cap or a clean rag.
1.2 - Measure the floor space as well as the exact location of the drain pipe.
1.3 - Cut the cement board, then cut the opening for the drain with a 3 ¼" hole saw.
1.4 - Check that the panel fits well on the frame and that the opening is located where it should be.
1.5 - Glue the cement board panels to the subfloor with construction adhesive.
1.6 - Remove the ABS cap or rag.
1.7 - Measure the height of the drain pipe, which should stand 1/2" proud of the floor. Cut the excess.
1.8 - Put a plastic bag over the drainpipe and secure with a tie wrap.
1.9 - If needed, add wood studs on each side at the front of the shower to support the pivot door. Plastic or fibreglass structures are not solid enough on their own.
For a shower that will have tiled walls, apply a bead of silicone sealant to the tiling flange and screw to the sides of the shower base.
2.1 - Test fit the base to make sure the drain is aligned with the opening.
2.2 - Check for level and ensure that the gap between the studs and the edge of the base is no more than 1/8". Insert shims under the base if necessary.
2.3 - Mark the top edge of the base on all three sides.
3.1 - Run a bead of sealant under the body of the drain.
3.2 - Insert the body of the drain (5) into the opening in the shower base.
3.3 - Insert the rubber gasket (6) on the threaded end under the shower base. Press down.
3.4 - Place the fibre gasket (7) on the rubber gasket, then screw on the nut (8). Tighten a ¾ turn with a wrench, but do not over-tighten.
3.5 - Put dishwashing liquid on the end of the body of the bottom drain (5) and drain pipe to make it easier to connect them.
4.1 - Spread out a 1" layer of self-compacting concrete. Protect the drain area. Set in the base and line up the drain pipe with the bottom drain.
4.2 - Press down so that there is good contact with the concrete.
4.3 - Ensure that the top edge is aligned with the marks on the studs and that the base is level.
4.4 - Protect the base with a protective sheet.
4.5 - Screw the base into the studs or fasten to the studs with clips provided by the manufacturer.
5.1 - Coat the neoprene ring (4) with a silicone lubricant, then insert it into the top part of the drain (5).
5.2 - Screw the threaded ring (3) onto the drain (5) and tighten.
5.3 - Clean the drain and remove any residue.
5.4 - Insert the strainer (1).
5.5 - Plug the drain again.
5.6 - Pour some water into the shower base and check for leaks. Bubbles around the drain indicate leaking.
5.7 - Unplug the drain.
5.8 - Ensure there isn't any water accumulation and that water is flowing properly.
This section deals with modular showers with wall panels and does not detail tile or drywall installation.
Make sure there is wood framing behind the front of the wall panels to install the pivot door.
6.1 - Install the back panel and insert the tabs into the appropriate slots in the base.
6.2 - Measure and mark on the wall the location for the faucet, shower head, and spout. Verify with the template provided by the manufacturer to ensure the locations match.
6.3 - If a template has not been included with your plumbing hardware, take a large piece of cardboard and press it against the wall where the faucets will be installed. The outline of the different elements will make a mark on the cardboard. Remove the cardboard.
6.4 - Press the cardboard against the shower wall panel and transfer the markings for the location of the plumbing fixtures.
6.5 - Compare the measurements on the cardboard to the measurements on the wall.
6.6 - Determine the dimension of the hole for the tap valve. Ensure the decorative cover plate will cover the hole.
6.7 - Use a hole saw to drill a hole for the valve.
6.8 - Slide in the panel, top first. Align the valve with the hole in the panel.
6.9 - Firmly press the panel against the studs.
6.10 - Slide in the last panel, starting at the top.
6.11 - Correctly align the bottom of the panels with the edge of the base. The gap between the panels and edge of the base must not exceed 1/32".
6.12 - Check the walls for plumb.
6.13 - Secure the front of the panels to the studs, from bottom to top.
6.14 - Use galvanized screws to secure the top. Shim where necessary.
6.15 - Cover the tops of the panels with water-resistant moulding.
6.16 - Install the faucets according to the manufacturer's instructions.
6.17 - Apply silicone sealant to waterproof all joints, including the decorative cover plate.
7.1 - Determine how you want the door to open. The pivot hinges will be installed on the side opposite the shower head.
7.2 - Mark the location of the threshold, 1/8" from the inside edge.
7.3 - Measure the width of the shower base.
7.4 - Cut the base track to this measurement, less 1/16".
7.5 - Run a bead of silicone sealant under the threshold and secure to the base at the previously marked locations.
7.6 - Install the pivot hinges at the two ends of the stud.
7.7 - Place the pivot jamb against the wall and on the threshold. Level vertically.
7.8 - Mark the location of the screw holes and remove the jamb.
7.9 - Drill the screw holes and screw the jamb to the structure.
7.10 - Depending on the model, attach the drip rail to the bottom door frame.
7.11 - Insert the lower pivot for the bottom of the door in the threshold hinge mechanism.
7.12 - Slide the upper pivot on the door and screw in the upper hinge.
7.13 - Align the magnetic strip from the other side, on the threshold, opposite the door jamb.
7.15 - Mark the location for the screw holes and remove the jamb.
7.16 - Drill the holes and screw the jamb to the structure.
7.17 - Open and close the door to check the magnetic strips are aligned.
7.18 - Install a waterproof seal around the door.
7.19 - Insert the plastic screw plugs and caulk the jambs and threshold with bathroom sealant.
Renovating the bathroom: where to start? | 2019-04-19T17:27:18 | https://www.rona.ca/en/workshop/diy/install-a-shower-kit-with-base-wall-and-door |
0.998013 | Hitting the right notes with musical and pre-taped segments in a television award show can be tricky. A cautionary example might be that of Rob Lowe dancing with a woman dressed as Snow White in the opening of the 1989 Oscar telecast.
The juggling act becomes even trickier when a telecast primarily known for its glitter and glitz comes on the heels of a national catastrophe. In 2001, for example, the Emmy Awards show was twice postponed before finally airing in the wake of terrorist attacks. Producers of tonight's 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards show find themselves facing a similarly sensitive situation as the country mourns the death and destruction left by Hurricane Katrina.
The return of Ellen DeGeneres, who successfully presided over the 2001 telecast as emcee, is expected to go a long way in establishing the right tone. But director Ken Ehrlich also has added several pre-taped segments aimed at elevating the tenor of the broadcast. Foremost is a series of brief monologues given by presenters remembering the first time they won Emmy Awards. The group is mostly A-list: John Travolta, Candice Bergen, Billy Crystal, Michael J. Fox, Lisa Kudrow and Charles S. Dutton.
The memories are touching or, in some cases, act as landmarks in pop culture history. Travolta reflects upon accepting his Emmy on behalf of his first love, actress Diana Hyland, who had died a few months before the award. Bergen recalls the political fallout that was triggered in 1992 when Vice President Dan Quayle spoke out against the character she played on CBS's hit show Murphy Brown.
But it is Dutton's recollection that promises to be tonight's show-stopper. In 1967, the 54-year-old actor was sent to a Maryland prison for manslaughter. From there, he went to the Yale School of Drama and Broadway stardom. In tonight's show, he describes how he felt as he stood onstage in 2000 after receiving an Emmy for directing The Corner, an HBO mini-series about a family's struggle to escape a life of drugs in Baltimore.
"As I started to speak, what hit me was the journey itself - the fact that some 30 years earlier, I was on a stage in a prison in Hagerstown, Md., and here I was now in Hollywood holding the Emmy," Dutton said last week in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles.
"The thought that overwhelmed me: America works. That's what I'll be talking about in the taped segment that airs just before I present the award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series during the telecast."
Dutton dates the start of his acting career to a day in 1972 when he found himself in isolation at the Hagerstown prison: "In those days, it was common punishment to put you on a cold cement floor - no blanket, no sheet, no toilet, just a hole in the floor, and you only got fed every 72 hours," he said.
Inmates in isolation were, however, allowed one book. In Dutton's case, it was an anthology of black playwrights that included Douglas Turner Ward's 1965 work, A Day of Absence. Described by The New York Times as a "reverse minstrel show," the Obie Award-winning play features an all-black cast, in whiteface makeup, recounting the mayhem that occurs when a town in the Deep South is suddenly and inexplicably faced with the disappearance of all its black citizens.
"It's a hilarious political satire, and it had me just breaking up in laughter on this cold cement floor in the isolation cell," Dutton recalled last week. "And I decided that when I got out, I was going to get the craziest guys I knew in the prison - the most demonstrative - and put on a drama group, with me directing and starring in this play, even though I had never done either."
With the help of a local actress who volunteered as prison drama coach, Dutton successfully staged A Day of Absence as part of the prison's 1972 Christmas talent show. "There were 14 or 15 acts in the talent show, and 13 or 14 of them were singing groups. And they were all singing 13 or 14 different renditions of My Girl [The Temptations 1965 Motown hit]," Dutton said. "So, I knew whoever did something different was going to win."
Dutton said he felt like a winner before the production even ended. The moment arrived when he delivered the play's big speech, a plea made on national television by the white mayor for the black residents to return: "It was during that speech when I had that captive audience - I guess, pun intended - in the palm of my hand, that I realized I was doing what I was born to do while on this planet."
Dutton's troupe did win, and he will never forget the moment. "It had all the pomp and circumstance of an awards show. They announced the winner on the stage with all the groups standing there - going from third place, to second, to the winner. We all got our little statuettes - cheap little plastic things that were supposed to look like Oscars - but the audience was screaming and shouting, and that was the start of my emergence as an artist."
Any awards show that creates a space for such memories can't be all bad. On the other hand, the Emmy telecast does also have a history of both goofiness and excessive self-congratulation, and it looks as if both patterns are likely to continue tonight.
One pre-taped segment will be a salute to the network anchormen who left the airwaves during the past year. While such a tribute to ABC's Peter Jennings, who died of lung cancer last month, seems apt, saluting CBS's Dan Rather is another matter. Rather was forced to step down in March after serving as correspondent for a 60 Minutes II report about George W. Bush's military record that was based on documents CBS News was unable to authenticate.
On a lighter note, the live broadcast is also scheduled to include an American Idol-like competition featuring celebrity duos singing TV theme songs throughout the evening. The teams: Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Donald Trump (The Apprentice) singing the theme from Green Acres, (CBS 1965-'71), Gary Dourdan (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and R&B; performer Macy Gray performing the title song from The Jeffersons (CBS 1975-'85) and William Shatner (Boston Public) and opera star Frederica von Stade singing the theme from Star Trek (NBC 1966-'69).
One can only hope the balance tonight tips in favor of memories like the ones promised by Dutton - and a strong performance from DeGeneres. | 2019-04-24T08:52:04 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2005-09-18-0509170209-story.html |
0.999994 | "We are cutting the red meat."
Can you explain why czerwonego is used in other sentences?
Czerwone mięso is in Accusative form here. Czerwonego mięsa is Genetive and would be used in negative sentence, like Nie kroimy czerwonego mięsa. | 2019-04-20T02:16:02 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16971478/We-are-cutting-the-red-meat |
0.998188 | So answer will be option A.
Don't you think The reagent on the right (NaNo2,HCL )should form a diazonium salt .but then product doesn't match.
There no amino group to form diazonium salt. | 2019-04-26T05:46:35 | https://goiit.com/t/doubt-from-phenol-and-aryl-halides/41255 |
0.999999 | Left three homes due to illness suspected related to premises - only identified electrosensitivity once moved to fourth location, began improving, and determined only material difference between fourth location and three previous was much less exposure there to wireless transmitter masts. Main health complaint: mild seizures since childhood now significantly aggravated in proximity to mast locations; better when not in proximity.
Nearly a year on and I've noticed a continued correlation between microwave exposure and seizures, and also, quite markedly, a seasonal variation in the ambient signal levels (and my symptoms) which seems consistently to have them elevated in the cold months and at their lowest in mid-summer. I wasn't sure about this at first but it's three cold seasons I've been paying attention now and there seems to be a clear pattern along those lines. Is it due to increased foliage absorbing or blocking microwave emissions in the summer months, increased reflection in the winter months off snow and ice, seasonal geomagnetic variations affecting signal propagation, or simply increased use of those frequencies in the winter? Considering the rumours I hear of trees being the scourge of radio engineers' propagation efforts, perhaps the first is the more likely, or the predominant, explanation.
In any event, I moved away from the city at the end of February this year and live in a farmhouse more than two kilometres from the nearest mast. My employer continues to permit me to work from home on a provisional basis, although I've now had two medical doctors assess me and recommend to them that I be allowed to work from home and am awaiting a decision from the employers on whether my work-at-home arrangement will be formalised. Neither of these doctors specifically admitted to me any acceptance of my claims of electrohypersensitivity nor any causal connection between microwaves and my seizures. One simply recommended that I be permitted to work from home because I apparently do better there, for whatever reason (explicitly stating in his letter that there was no scientific basis for a connection between seizures and microwaves). The other, having been hired by my employers to evaluate me, did not share his reasoning with me, but also recommended I be allowed to continue working from home.
At the property I try to restrict myself most of the time to areas where the ambient microwave signal level is one microwatt per square meter or lower, and I seldom leave the property. My tonic clonic seizures, so long as this is maintained, have been absent. Only on the few occasions when I'm careless and rack up some higher exposure do I seem to suffer the tonic clonic seizures (on average about one every four months over the last year or so, although decidedly not with an even distribution over the year).
The house I'm in is of wooden construction primarily, which doesn't seem to provide as good protection as stone or brick, and areas where I spend the most time (office and bed) are partially shielded against the direction of the nearest mast with stainless steel insect screen with spaces between the wire just slightly larger than a square millimeter each. The screen is significantly cheaper than most of the specialised fabrics I've found on the market and seems to do a pretty good job of blocking microwave transmissions if it's deployed carefully. It's just a bit stubborn to work with.
I've also applied Graham Stetzer filters to electrical outlets throughout the house to reduce 'harmonics' from 'dirty electricity' on the house's wiring, although I don't know if this has had any effect on my health. I am pretty sure, however, that two steps I've taken to reduce radiofrequency emissions in my work space have been particularly helpful at making me feel better. One is replacing my USB computer mouse with a PS/2 mouse. The latter (at least the one I have) has far lower RF and 50/60 Hz readings and doesn't give rise to the same EHS symptoms. The other is replacing my fluorescently lit computer monitor with an LED-lit monitor. Both have LCD screens, but the latter, like the PS/2 mouse, seems to have much weaker emissions. Although I don't think I've ever tried one, I'm guessing USB keyboards should also be avoided in favour of the ones with the traditional purple plug, whatever it's called.
Living as I do, isolated from mast signal (and obviously using no wireless internet, mobile phone, microwave oven or other microwave-emitting device that I'm aware of), I notice my other EHS symptoms also seem quite well controlled. Sleep, mood, nerves, digestion, all seem consistently in good form so long as I keep away from signal, although I find I need to do so fairly religiously and not let the discipline slip, or the problems start coming back. Memory may be the slowest to have shown good improvement, but it too seems now to have made some pleasing gains. This may also be attributable to my internal application of the herbal remedy uncaria rhynchophylla, at a concentrated daily dose of half a gram (derived from ten grams of fresh herb) for the last twenty or so months.
Now I have to worry about the expanding network of 'Smart Meters' and try to keep one off my property, as well as to stay vigilant against the possible erection of new towers in my area. I've cultivated contacts in municipal planning departments in my area in order to keep abreast of any applications for new mast erections, so that I can be aware in advance of the need to fight (or flee further into the bush). I'm hoping neither will be necessary.
Several months on and feeling much better. I have avoided masts religiously and my improvement is marked. No generalised seizures, and even the throat spasms are reduced. I have very few symptoms to complain of, though I feel certain cognitive and motor faculties are not quite what they once were - memory is much improved but fatigue can bring back some of the barriers to recall. Also noticing more verbal slips - subtle things like minor word mispronunciation and letter reversal, which I normally catch immediately and correct. These occur in speech, typing and handwriting. But I don't wish to complain of these things too much - it is such a relief to be experiencing my overwhelming improvements generally and I'm grateful for them.
Last week I went out into the world of masts for the first time in several months and note here, in case it is of clinical interest to anyone, how the exposure seems to have affected me. When I went out I was doing well - feeling for the most part in better health than perhaps I had in years. We were going out to view a property for lease - away from masts - and had intended, my wife and I, to drive as quickly as safely possible through urban traffic to minimise my exposure to high-strength signal. We were caught, however, in an unexpected traffic queue from which we couldn't escape, where there had been a road accident and emergency crews were responding. This was at the foot of an extremely powerful mast - less than 50 m away - I had with me an 'Electrosmog Detector' and the audio report from it was deafening. There was little we could do there but wait, and I was under this heavy exposure for perhaps five minutes. Again, I had not been thus exposed for months.
At the time of exposure I felt mild prickling and heat in my arms. My head was wrapped in highly conductive copper-tin Zelt fabric - a safety precaution to reduce head exposure to mast signal considering my more serious neurological symptoms - and my detector reported very little signal inside the wrapping. Thus the brunt of the exposure was on the rest of my body, particularly my arms and torso, which were really bathed in the radiation.
My symptoms began mostly the next day. I felt very heavy-headed and drowsy, with occasional difficulty keeping awake - this lasted about three days, improving slightly each day. I had frequent muscle spasms in my arms and legs lasting five of six days - mainly my arms (note they were far more exposed than my legs, which had the benefit of being better shielded by the car body), also improving slightly each day. I had vertigo - faint-headedness upon standing, which felt like it was the result of low blood pressure - gradually improving over the course of the week; and I had digestive disturbance - muscles deep in my abdomen felt as though they were involuntarily clenched tight, and this resulted in pain, gas and a sick feeling, which also has taken about a week to resolve (my diet was unchanged). Not one of these symptoms was present in the weeks or even months before my recent exposure. My sleep, although mildly more disturbed after the exposure for about five days, was not really badly affected, and I wonder whether this had to do with the head protection I used.
Now, just over a week on, I'm feeling back on track. It seems even a five-minute dose of high-enough intensity signal is enough for me to feel somewhat battered for about a week.
One further note: I've noticed Canadian wintertime is having the effect of greatly increasing ambient signal in the city. I have taken signal readings fairly extensively and believe this change is due entirely to the reduction in leaf cover. Toronto is a very green city in summer and I realise now all those trees afford significant protection. With the leaves all fallen and some signal penetrating into the upper levels of the house (which it was not in the summer) I am now living in the basement and emerge only briefly for daily exercise, sunlight and food. But I'm feeling well!
I am in my late twenties and since the age of seven have had localised seizures or spasms of the throat on account of an underlying nervous condition which I do not associate with microwave transmissions. This problem in itself did not in any of its instances or manifestations result in prolonged loss of consciousness, nor has it ever seemed to present a serious impediment to normal living.
A couple of years ago I had, for the first time, a single generalised tonic clonic seizure which did result in loss of consciousness and brief hospitalisation. From what I understand from the doctors and medical literature, it is unusual for this to occur for the first time in a person's late twenties absent some external factor like head injury or drug use. In my case neither was present. MRI, EEG, ECG and blood analyses by doctors ruled out any of the usual causes for a sudden and unexpected seizure.
Granting the fact, given my history of small, localised seizures or spasms, that I am probably predisposed to occasional excess or irregular neuronal activity, in retrospect I can nonetheless connect the first generalised seizure with a host of electrosensitivity symptoms which had been building up beforehand (mainly emotional and digestive problems, and limb numbness), as well as to the fact that a few hours before experiencing it I had been working within 100 m of a wireless transmission mast without interruption for about 15 hours (this was not my normal work location).
At the time of this first seizure I was not aware of the possibility of electrosensitivity and did not consider it as a possible reason for the seizure, although I had been living for a number of months in an area of very high wireless signal propagation, both from transmission masts and wireless internet networking, in the Toronto city centre. I speculate as to the mechanism by which the shift from the lesser to the more severe condition occurred - and here I lack the scientific knowledge to support the speculation and would welcome any input, corroborating or otherwise - that prolonged exposure to these transmissions weakened the blood-brain barrier enough in me, or excited my neuronal activity sufficiently (or that those two effects combined) for my mild nervous disorder to become a more serious neurological condition involving generalised seizures, loss of consciousness and energetic somnambulism resulting in injury to myself.
About six months later I had another generalised seizure, was again hospitalised and discharged with no cause determined, and still did not identify wireless transmissions as related. Shortly afterwards I moved from Toronto to Ottawa for work, where I lived in an apartment building with a couple of transmission masts on top. A few months into my stay there the sleep and emotional difficulties I had experienced at moderate levels for years began becoming worse, with hair loss, heart palpitations and unusual irritability thrown into the mix (I'm normally quite calm, even-tempered and diplomatic, and I really wasn't behaving completely like my usual self) despite regular exercise, a reasonably balanced diet and a job that does not involve an unusually high level of stress.
Then these generalised (night-time) seizures began happening with greater frequency and more injuries, to the point where doctors advised it was not safe for me to spend nights alone, which prompted my return to Toronto so I could sleep under the supervision of my family. Back in Toronto I moved into a suburban house where the large bedroom window was directly in the path of a mast mounted on an apartment building (you could see it from the window - it was less than 500 m away and the path of the signal to my bedroom was not interrupted by any physical barrier except air and the glass window). My sleep problems worsened drastically, and the seizures became even more frequent. Electrosensitivity problems I had been experiencing for years - notably limb numbness, memory and concentration difficulties, emotional complaints and muscle stiffness - also worsened.
Then on a visit to my parents for a week (during which time I was also not at work) I noticed that the symptoms - all of them - began improving, some rapidly, some gradually. I had visited my parents regularly in past years but not for a week, not overnight, and not at a time when I was away from work (my work locations in Ottawa and Toronto were also in proximity to cellphone masts and wireless internet networks). Greatly relieved at the respite from my ailments and with newfound hope I immediately set about to try and identify a materially distinguishing factor about my parents' house or my living habits there, and could not pin anything down as decisive.
The connection between mobile telephony and health problems had been mentioned to me previously, although I had never given the possibility sufficiently serious consideration before. I was keen to follow up every possible lead (I was even sending air samples to labs for analysis), and purchased a low-end microwave signal detector from a local mail-order vendor, made the rounds of former residences with it and compared the signal strength at each to that at my parents' home. All three residences, including the Ottawa location, had extremely high signal strength according to the detector, whereas my parents' location showed up virtually none.
My parents also live in Toronto, a large city permeated with wireless transmissions, but by fortunate circumstance their house is at roughly the farthest point possible from each of the five or six masts in their neighbourhood and is shielded by rows of houses and buildings in each direction. Their front garden is not shielded and is in direct line of sight of a mast approximately 800 metres away, but the house itself, and the back garden, is well blocked. Of course mobile phones still have good reception at my parents' house and so it is obviously well within the area of signal propagation (probably within several overlapping areas), but by the readings on the detector it is not in a location of overwhelming signal strength, as in the direct shadow of a mast, and being here seems to have alleviated most of my symptoms. I now believe, given my experience, that it is completely reasonable to link wireless transmissions to many of my health complaints, although I have not experimented sufficiently to determine what level of signal strength I can tolerate, if there is indeed a simple fixed threshold which is independent of other factors, and whether certain frequencies are worse for me.
To begin what modest experimentation I have done I moved to my parents' house - fortunately I have been able to work from home and have fairly mobile office equipment - and have now been here nearly three months with symptoms vastly reduced and no seizures (other than the older, milder type), with only one exception: near the start of my stay here I ventured out near a mast for a few hours, visiting friends, and had a seizure the next night. Since then I have not left the premises other than for walks and jogs in the neighbourhood (of course avoiding streets with high signal strength) and for one visit to the hospital for a test, and problems I've had for years have cleared up. Sleep and emotions are greatly improved, tingling and numbness in the limbs is now rare, hair loss has decreased and even my old neck stiffness is gone. I had always put that down to sitting in front of a computer all day, but now I think it had more to do with wireless transmissions.
I cannot say I feel fully recovered. I seem to need more sleep now than in the past in order to maintain wellbeing; my happiness and mental clarity, while very well improved (and continually improving), something for which I'm hugely thankful, still seem precarious. If I eat or sleep poorly or am exposed to too much stress old symptoms begin threatening, but having identified one of the primary causes, if not the primary cause, of my ailments I believe I am much better equipped to try and take measures to keep myself well.
Avoiding masts in a large city is challenging, and I have not yet found a safe way to venture about in the city (I do not know if there is one). I'm testing various conductive fabrics in the hope of putting together an outerwear garment which protects the body from radio transmissions, although I fear there may not be a fabric conductive enough to eliminate the signal penetration to the body around a mast. If anyone has had any success in this I would much like to hear about it. I have not been a cellphone user for years and now of course avoid cellphones religiously. My family do not use cellphones around me, there is no wireless computer network in my parents' home and we request of all visitors that they shut off their phones while here.
The one time I tried using a cellphone in recent months I felt tingling all over my head, and experienced an unfamiliar sense of excitement, nervousness and agitation all wrapped up together, which then became a feeling of having been lightly burned on the surface of my skin, which then faded away after a few hours. I understand there is research linking mobile phone usage to increased neuronal activity (particularly a dangerous thing for epileptics, I would think), and suspect this is at least part of what was going on when I tried the phone, although there are no doubt those who would suggest, insultingly, that I was imagining the sensations.
I don't have much hope of convincing my neurologist or anyone in the medical establishment anytime soon that my symptoms, including the generalised seizures I began experiencing, are attributable to microwave transmissions. There seems to be an entrenched culture of suspicion in the medical community here towards ideas which do not originate in the body of medical doctrine taught within the profession, and a tendency among practitioners not to take particularly seriously the hypotheses brought forward by patients themselves about their own conditions. The subjectivity of patient reports reduce their diagnostic value in the eyes of doctors to, some might say, an absurd degree (considering no one is better placed to observe patient symptoms over a long period of time, with acute attention to every detail, than patients themselves). There is also perhaps too much readiness among doctors here to attribute complaints of physical symptoms where mood and sleep disorders are also present to depression or anxiety and not to seek causality beyond that.
But every profession has its limitations, and the values and practices of the medical community are perhaps only a reflection of our own always-changing cultural attitudes. With sufficient social agitation, litigation, activism and, probably - unfortunately, pain and suffering among the general public from wireless transmissions our cultural climate may eventually come round to acceptance of the link between the transmissions and the suffering, and of the notion that the horrific trade-offs which attend our freedom to roam and speak, to communicate without the burden of wires, may sometimes (often) outweigh the benefits. Then the scientific findings supporting the existence of electrosensitivity and its potential for serious health effects may be permitted to inform the corpus of medical knowledge and practice generally accepted in the profession in North America.
For now I hope and pray that I am able to maintain and continue to improve my health, that I can find a suitable, affordable, longer-term, low-signal location to live in, that my employer continues to permit me to work from home without medical documentation explicitly linking my health complaints to wireless exposure (or that I can come by such documentation from a sympathetic doctor), that others with similar problems are as fortunate as I both in identifying wireless transmissions as a contributing factor and being able to avoid them, that protective government regulation on this comes soon, and that awareness of the problem continues to be spread by the concerned public until scientific, medical, legal and regulatory authorities cannot but act to address it.
I am interested in reading existing scientific research papers on the biological effects of wireless transmissions and welcome comments from anyone possessing same. I don't mind if they're old or in other languages. If you have one I would be happy to pay your reasonable copying and mailing costs for sending me a copy - subject to my prior agreement that the article is of interest to me. Please let me know if you do, or if you know where I can find one, by leaving a comment here. Any information of a sympathetic or open-minded doctor in Ontario willing to entertain the possibility of electrosensitivity would also be very welcome. | 2019-04-22T16:09:56 | https://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=journal&action=view&type=journal&id=197 |
0.998419 | Q: My son has been diagnosed with juvenile arthritis. I thought arthritis occurred only in adults. What do I need to know in order to understand this puzzling, rare diagnosis?
A: Many people think arthritis affects only the older generations. However, arthritis can affect people at any age. In fact, thousands of children under the age of 16 are affected by arthritis.
The most common form of juvenile arthritis is juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), an autoimmune disease causing chronicinflammation of the joints and eyes that can lead to joint pain, joint swelling, stiffness, vision loss and disability. JIA can be tricky to spot because the symptoms may begin very slowly. If your child is diagnosed with JIA,treatment is available to help reduce pain and improve joint function.
Myth: Arthritis is caused by cracking your knuckles.
Fact: There is no evidence of an association between knuckle cracking and arthritis. The exact cause of juvenile arthritis is unknown, but certain factors such as genetics and environmental influences may play a role in the disease's development.
Fact: Complaints of mild joint pain are often considered benign. However, if pain significantly inhibits activity, such as running or playing sports, or causes a limp, parents should seek medical attention. Other signs of arthritis include joint swelling or stiffness that is worse in the mornings.
For more pediatric health news parents can use, visit our blog:700childrens.nationwidechildrens.org.
Laura Ballenger, M.D., is a fellow in rheumatology at Nationwide Children's Hospital. | 2019-04-20T16:55:25 | https://www.columbusparent.com/lifestyle/20180717/pediatric-healthsource-juvenile-arthritis |
0.999255 | A versatile black overskirt with a side tie for adjustable ruching.
A versatile black overskirt with a side tie for adjustable ruching. Can be let down to wear as a short skirt, or worn over almost any harem pants, yoga pants, or skirts for a layered look, modesty or fashion. Made of soft, stretchy rayon blend jersey fabric. Elastic encased waistband.
XS/S/M U.S. Women's Standard Size 2 - 12. Waistband / High hip: 30 - 38 inches; Low Hip: 34 - 44 inches; Length (non-ruched side): 22 inches; Length (ruched side, unruched): 8.5 inches; Ties (each): 24 - 42 inches.
M/L U.S. Women's Standard Size 10 - 16. Waistband / High hip: 32 - 42 inches; Low Hip: 36 - 46 inches; Length (non-ruched side): 23 inches; Length (ruched side, unruched): 8.5 inches; Ties (each): 24 - 42 inches.
L/XL/2X U.S. Women's Standard Size 14 - 22. Waistband / High hip: 36 - 46 inches; Low Hip: 38 - 52 inches; Length (non-ruched side): 23 inches; Length (ruched side, unruched): 8.5 inches; Ties (each): 24 - 42 inches.
Q: What is the fabric blend for this overskirt? I see it has rayon, what other materials are in the blend.
A: Hi Chelli, this comfortable and cute overskirt is 95% viscose (rayon) and 5% spandex. | 2019-04-20T06:25:30 | https://www.bellydance.com/Tribal-Fusion-Ruched-Overskirt-Ruffled-Hem-Black |
0.999992 | Can AMD, ARM, or IBM Dent Intel's Server Dominance?
What will it take to dislodge Intel from its dominant position in servers? The short answer seems to be that it would be very difficult.
Last week's announcement of AMD's plans for creating ARM-based servers has made me think about what it would take to dislodge Intel from its dominant position in servers. The short answer seems to be that it would be very difficult.
For years, AMD has been trying to compete directly with Intel's x86 standard. AMD had some success about a decade ago, as it introduced the Opteron family in 2003, initially based on the "Hammer" architecture, which enabled 64-bit x86 processing a couple of years before Intel's own 64-bit chips provided that capability.
Since then, of course, 64-bit became the standard for server processors, and Intel's market share has steadily grown. As the server market matured, it moved from single-core processors to multi-core processors. AMD had some early multi-core chips, but made a big bet on the "Bulldozer" architecture, originally introduced in 2010 and shipped in 2011, which paired up two integer cores with one floating-point core and other shared components as a way of increasing the number of integer cores. It was an interesting strategy. But Intel was able to quickly come up with more full cores (with both integer and floating point capabilities) and was able to increase the core counts significantly. As a result, Intel's chips notably its current Xeon E5 line have simply outperformed it.
As a result, Intel's market share has grown notably. According to Gartner, in 2013, Intel sold 92 percent of all the server processors, accounting for 75 percent of the revenue. (The difference is that while only about 1 percent of the market is very high-end chips, such as the IBM Power and Oracle and Fujitsu Sparc chips, those have a much higher price, accounting for about 20 percent of the revenue.) Over the past few years, Intel has been able to move to even more high-end chips, raising its average selling prices. Since then, AMD's server chips have mostly been incremental changes, and nothing has made much of a difference in the market. AMD now accounts for about 7 percent of the units and 5 percent of the revenue.
While last week's announcement from AMD included the indication that the company was working on a new x86 core design, it still seems a long way off after the K12 ARM-based core AMD is now promising for 2016. It seems clear that AMD has decided that its best bet isn't to try to beat Intel at x86, but rather to change the discussion toward ARM chips.
The idea is that ARM cores, with their heritage in low-power devices, should enable at least more power-efficient server chips. After all, ARM cores pretty much dominate phones and tablets the way Intel's dominate servers.
This isn't actually a new idea, of course. Companies like Marvell and Calxeda (originally Smooth-Stone, and recently closed) started talking about the concept of ARM-based servers about four years ago. But those first server parts were 32-bit, and while we did see some systems a couple of years ago, they haven't made any real impact on the market.
Now we're seeing the 64-bit generation of ARM server chips. Applied Micro may actually be first to market, having announced that its 64-bit X-Gene 2 chip will be shipping this spring. This chip is based on a dual-core processor module with a total of eight custom ARM v8 cores, and the company has planned a followup called X-Gene 3 with up to 16 cores.
Other companies such as Marvell, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Qualcomm all showed 64-bit ARM processors aimed at the mobile market, with Nvidia and Qualcomm announcing plans to work on custom ARM cores. These could possibly be adapted for the ARM server processor space as well. And there are rumors of Web-scale companies working on their own 64-bit ARM designs as well, though no announcements as of yet.
Indeed, the first applications of such ARM servers is likely to come from one of the Web-scale companies, as they write their own applications and could theoretically tune them to work best with the processors, specifically in applications where the CPU performance needs are less than the goal to be power-efficient.
Earlier this year, AMD's Andrew Feldman predicted that by 2019, ARM chips will command a quarter of the server market, with custom ARM processors becoming the norm for data centers.
Meanwhile, there are other alternatives. IBM has created the OpenPower Consortium, designed to take its Power architecture (which it uses in its high-end servers) and extend that to a wider variety of different server designs. In part, this seems defensive, in that proprietary Unix systems seem to be losing market share, and it doesn't make sense to design new cores unless you can make enough chips.
IBM recently announced its first servers based on the new Power 8 design claiming the designs can analyze data 50 times faster than x86 servers. That, of course, remains to be seen, but it has historically been a more powerful line. (The Power architecture competes with the Sparc chips as well as Intel's Itanium, although all of those have lost ground to x86 systems in recent years.) Such chips have long been positioned as being more powerful than x86 designs, and the question is can they be power-efficient as well.
That's one reason I was interested to see Nvidia and Google among the companies that joined the OpenPower Consortium. In particular, Google recently showed off a Power8 server motherboard, and said it was working on porting its software stack to Power.
Again, it's the Web-scale companies Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. that are best positioned to use a new architecture. So far, what we've seen has been mostly indications of support and a few minor tests, and the key first step will be if any one of these companies actually deploys a significant number of Power or ARM chips to run a large part of its infrastructure.
Even then, whether any such chip can gain the critical mass it would take to make it worthwhile to port enterprise software to a new architecture is an open but very critical question.
It would seem that the ARM ecosystem, which will likely be selling hundreds of millions of 64-bit chips into the mobile market over the next couple of years, has a better shot than Power, but you can't count IBM out, especially if Google takes a real interest.
Meanwhile, Intel has taken a lot of steps towards diversifying its server line. The mainstream category is now called the Xeon E5, aimed at single and dual-socket servers, now available with up to 12 cores. The company has a line called the Xeon E7, aimed at multi-socket servers. This was recently refreshed to include modes with up to 15 cores and 30 threads, with an 8-socket version now able to handle up to 12TB of memory. For single-socket servers, Intel now has the Xeon E3 family, with up to four cores. And in the microserver category where most of the ARM servers have been targeting, the company now has the 64-bit Atom C2000 line known as Avoton, which is now available with up to eight cores.
While Intel has said it thinks microservers will be a relatively small part of the market, it clearly doesn't want to leave an opening for AMD or any of the ARM-based vendors.
One big question is just how much of a market there is for low-power servers. Gartner believes that microservers could potentially account for up to 15 percent of the market, but as Gartner analyst Sergis Mushell points out, even there Avoton is a real competitor, and other companies would have to undercut it on price. And he notes that Intel has enormous economies of scale advantages, particularly in the Xeon family, as that is used not only in compute servers, but also in storage arrays and some networking products.
It's very rare when any one vendor can completely dominate a major product category in technology for this long. Even companies that more or less create a category usually find themselves with some competition. So it will be interesting to see how Intel reacts if it actually gets some more competition in the server space.
Still, my guess is any real movement toward new architectures is still at least a couple of years away, as first companies need to get their software stacks working on new architectures (which is why I would expect the Web-scale folks to go first, as they control their own software). Then they need to test and see how it actually works at scale in the real world on the most promising applications. Only later would I expect to see larger-scale deployments and perhaps more enterprise-grade software migration. It's a process that in the best case will take a couple of years, but it's certainly worth watching.
Editor's Note: This story was updated on 5/15. An earlier version referred to an AMD code name as Barcelona rather than Bulldozer. | 2019-04-24T16:57:18 | http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/none/323603-can-amd-arm-or-ibm-dent-intel-s-server-dominance |
0.997968 | Rapid human-induced changes in the environment at local, regional and global scales appear to be contributing to population declines and extinctions, resulting in an unprecedented biodiversity crisis. Although in the short term populations can respond ecologically to environmental alterations, in the face of persistent change populations must evolve or become extinct. Existing models of evolution and extinction in changing environments focus only on single species, even though the dynamics of extinction almost certainly depend upon the nature of species interactions.
Here, I use a model of quantitative trait evolution in a two-species community to show that negative ecological interactions, such as predation and competition, can produce unexpected results regarding time to extinction. Under some circumstances, negative interactions can be expected to hasten the extinction of species declining in numbers. However, under other circumstances, negative interactions can actually increase times to extinction. This effect occurs across a wide range of parameter values and can be substantial, in some cases allowing a population to persist for 40 percent longer than it would in the absence of the species interaction.
This theoretical study indicates that negative species interactions can have unexpected positive effects on times to extinction. Consequently, detailed studies of selection and demographics will be necessary to predict the consequences of species interactions in changing environments for any particular ecological community.
The growing human-induced extinction crisis [1–3] has added additional urgency to the development of theory related to extinction dynamics in natural populations. In the short term, some organisms can resist the effects of environmental change by behavioural changes, physiological acclimation, or migration . However, in response to major, long-term environmental change, populations must evolve to avoid extinction [5–7]. Recent research showing that rapid evolution is common [8, 9] and that it can affect the dynamics of species interactions underscores the need to consider evolutionary responses to changing environments.
Theory concerned with the effects of evolutionary processes on community dynamics dates back several decades , but interest in eco-evolutionary dynamics has intensified dramatically over the last several years . The results of these studies show that community dynamics certainly depend upon the details of evolutionary change in the interacting species. However, firm general results are difficult to obtain , as they depend upon a number of evolutionary parameters, such as details of inheritance and mutation, patterns of migration, and the nature of selection [12–14]. Thus, there is a need for more theoretical and especially empirical work. Furthermore, the implications of these models, which have focused mainly on static environments, with respect to extinction dynamics are not always transparent. For example, coevolution is expected to produce a geographic mosaic of maladaptation , and anthropogenic insults might be expected to disrupt coevolved ecological interactions . Intuitively, these scenarios suggest that coevolution is a key factor in species persistence. However, it is not entirely clear under what circumstances coevolutionary dynamics increase or decrease probabilities of extinction. Because most studies of coevolution in ecological communities have focused on static environments , the study of coevolution in changing environments promises to produce interesting, complementary insights.
Several quantitative genetic studies of species persistence in changing environments have been conducted, but they did not consider species interactions. These single-species models of quantitative trait evolution and extinction show that a species' persistence time depends mainly upon the level of additive genetic variance for the ecologically relevant trait, the rate at which the environment changes, and the strength of selection [5, 6]. The single-species models have been enlightening, but the dynamics of extinction in natural systems almost certainly depend on the nature of species interactions [15, 16]. The single-species models cannot simply be extrapolated to predict how multi-species communities will respond to environmental change. This question calls for formal coevolutionary models. Thus, my goal was to extend single-species models of population persistence to communities consisting of two interacting species. Here I focus on negative ecological interactions, because a priori such interactions seem to have the most serious conservation implications [17, 18]. In this brief report, I address one major question: What are the effects of negative ecological interactions on expected times to extinction in two-species communities evolving in response to a changing environment?
The results of the quantitative genetic model of species interactions and environmental change provide some insights into how negative ecological interactions might impact extinction dynamics. The most interesting result of this study is the counterintuitive observation that under a very wide range of conditions the presence of a negative ecological interaction actually increases the expected time to extinction for one or both species involved in the interaction. This effect is most pronounced in the predator-prey model. Figure 1 shows the mean persistence times of the predator and prey under different rates of environmental change and strengths of selection. When stabilizing selection is relatively weak (ω2 = 49), a situation that is probably common in nature , the prey species always persists longer when it is preyed upon (Figure 1, upper panel). The time to extinction for the predator is also usually higher when it is interacting with the prey than when it is simply evolving in response to the moving optimum (Figure 1, upper panel). Only when the optimum is moving very quickly does the benefit of the interaction to the predator evaporate. Similarly, across a wide range of strengths of selection, both the predator and the prey benefit from their interaction (Figure 1, lower panel).
The effects of a predator-prey interaction on mean extinction times of the two interacting species. The top panel shows the effect under different rates of environmental change, whereas the bottom panel shows the effect for different strengths of selection. In both panels, extinction times of the prey are shown by the red symbols and lines, and those of the predator are shown by the blue symbols and lines. The solid symbols joined by solid lines represent results from experimental runs of the model with the predator-prey interaction intact, whereas the open symbols joined by broken lines show the control runs (in which the predator-prey interaction is removed). Over a wide range of rates of environmental change and strengths of selection, both the predator and prey persist longer when the two species interact than when they do not. Each point represents the mean of 40 runs of the simulation. In the top panel ω2 is 49, and in the bottom panel k is 0.20. The values of k are in units of environmental standard deviations, which are slightly smaller than phenotypic standard deviations in this study. See methods for other parameters used to generate these data.
Figure 2 shows a more extensive exploration of the effects of rates of environmental change and the strength of selection on mean extinction times in the predator-prey model. The prey almost always benefits from the predator-prey interaction, with benefits usually greater than 10 percent and sometimes as large as 40 percent or more (Figure 2, lower left panel). The rare exception to this pattern occurs when quadratic selection is very strong and the optimum is moving slowly. Interestingly, the predator also benefits from the interaction under a wide, but less extensive, combination of parameters (Figure 2, right panels). With an optimum moving at a slow or moderate pace, the predator's extinction time increases due to the predator-prey interaction (versus the control case in which all predator individuals survive without being required to catch prey). However, when the optimum moves at an extremely rapid pace (or the strength of selection is extremely strong), the expected time to extinction for the predator is shorter due to the predator-prey interaction. In these cases, the evolution of the prey outpaces the evolution of the predator, resulting in an insufficient number of susceptible prey individuals to sustain the predator population.
An extensive exploration of the average extinction times in the predator-prey model under different rates of environmental change and strengths of selection. The top panels show the average extinction times of the control populations (i.e., no interaction between predator and prey). The prey is on the left and the predator is on the right. The bottom panels show the percentage change in persistence times for the prey (left) and predator (right) when the predator-prey interaction is included in the model. Blue colors indicate combinations of parameters under which the population persisted longer due to the predator-prey interaction. See methods for the parameter values. I used values of ω2 ranging from 5 to 95, in increments of 10, and values of k ranging from 0.15 to 0.35 in increments of 0.025. The values of k are units of environmental standard deviations for the traits, which are slightly smaller than phenotypic standard deviations in this study. For each combination of parameters, I averaged across 200 runs of the simulation to generate the means depicted in this figure.
Figure 3 shows the results of the competition model. Under all parameter values under consideration in this study, one of the species is at a greater risk of extinction due to the competitive interaction (Figure 3, lower left panel). Under a stationary optimum, competition results in character displacement, so when the optimum starts to move due to environmental change, one species starts out with a greater lag than the other. The species lagging farthest from the optimum always experiences a decrease in time to extinction due to competition, because the competitive interaction produces selection away from the optimum (i.e., maladaptation), which increases the lag relative to the case without competition. The species that starts closest to the optimum, however, often benefits from competition, because the selection induced by the moving optimum is augmented by selection in the same direction caused by competition, the net effect of which is a reduced lag and an increase in time to extinction. The positive effect in the competition model is more modest than the effect in the predator-prey model, but it occurs over a very wide range of parameter values (Figure 3, lower right). The only situation under which the species closest to the optimum experiences a major negative effect of competition occurs when selection on the trait responding to the moving optimum is very strong and the optimum is moving slowly.
Results of the competition model under different strengths of selection and rates of environmental change. The top panels show average extinction times for the first species to go extinct (left) versus the last species to go extinct (right) with no interaction between the species. The bottom panels show the percentage change in expected extinction times due to the competitive interaction. Note that the first species to go extinct (which lags the greatest distance from the optimum) always goes extinct more rapidly when competition is present than when it is absent (bottom left). However, under most combinations of parameters, the species closest to the moving optimum persists for longer periods of time when competition is present than when it is absent (bottom right). See Methods and Figure 1 for parameter values.
The cause of the increase in expected times to extinction can be seen by examining some of the mechanistic details of the model. Figure 4 shows the dynamics of lag of the phenotypic mean relative to the optimum in control (Figure 4a) and experimental (Figure 4b) runs of the predator-prey model. The most striking result is that the lag increases much more rapidly in the control run (with no species interaction) than in the experimental run (with a predator-prey interaction). The reason that the presence of a predator-prey interaction decreases the lag is that the predator culls the individuals in the population that are least well adapted to the new phenotypic optimum, because they are closest in phenotype to the individuals that the predator evolved to prey upon. Effectively, predation increases the strength of selection on the phenotype and pushes the phenotypic mean of the prey to keep up with the moving optimum. The predator similarly benefits, because (assuming that the predator's optimum is also moving) the predators that are closest to the moving optimum will also be the most effective predators on the evolving prey. The predators far from the moving optimum will be poor predators and will fail to catch enough prey to reproduce. Thus, the presence of an evolving prey population also increases the intensity of selection on the predator in the direction of the moving optimum. A similar explanation applies for the competition model. The competitor lagging least far behind the optimum is pushed to keep up with the optimum by its competitor, because competition tends to kill off the individuals that are least well adapted to the new optimum each generation. This phenomenon obviously decreases the lag, which increases the time to extinction.
Mechanistic details of the predator-prey model for a sample set of parameter values. The top two panels show the lag and additive genetic variance over time in the predator-prey model for the two species in typical control (a) and experimental (b) runs of the simulation. When the predator-prey interaction is absent, the lag for both species increases rapidly (a). However, when the predator-prey interaction is present, the rate of increase of the lag is reduced for both species, permitting both species to persist for longer periods of time before extinction (b). Under these parameter combinations, the reduced lag occurs for both the predator (solid blue lines) and the prey (solid red lines). The additive genetic variances of the predator (broken blue lines) and prey (broken red lines) do not differ dramatically between the experimental and control runs, except that there is a slightly more rapid loss of genetic variance in the prey during the experimental runs. The bottom panel (c) shows the tendency for the predator to eat the most maladapted individuals as the optimum moves. When the optimum does not move (black lines), the difference between mean predator gape size and mean prey body size reaches a steady-state expected value. A similar situation occurs for the difference between the mean size of prey in the population and the mean size of prey that are actually eaten. As the optimum moves (red lines), however, the gape size of the predator decreases relative to the mean prey size, and the difference in size between mean prey size and predated individuals becomes even greater than it is in the population experiencing a stationary optimum. The results depicted in this figure used the standard set of parameter values (see methods), and k and ω2 were set to 0.15 and 50, respectively. Each point on each graph is a mean from 50 replicate runs of the simulation.
Figure 4 also shows that the positive effects of species interactions on extinction times occur mainly as a consequence of the culling of maladapted individuals, rather than as an outcome of any major effects on the standing genetic variance for the evolving trait. The prey in the predator-prey model experiences a gradual decline in additive genetic variance as a consequence of the moving optimum, and the decline is slightly more rapid in experimental runs (Figure 4b) than it is in control runs (Figure 4a), but otherwise the control runs look very similar to the experimental runs with respect to the dynamics of the additive genetic variance.
The final mechanistic detail of interest, illustrated by Figure 4c, is that the tendency for the predators to eat the least well-adapted individuals is an intrinsic evolutionary outcome of a predator-prey system responding to a moving optimum. This model uses a gape-limited predator, so predator gape size evolves to be larger than the mean prey body size in the absence of a moving optimum. As the optimum begins to move (in a positive direction) the mean predator gape size lags behind the mean prey body size, and consequently the predators prey more heavily on the smaller, maladapted individuals. Regardless of the exact details of the predator-prey interaction (i.e., gape-limited or otherwise), predators generally should evolve to prey upon individuals near the phenotypic mean of the prey species in an unchanging environment . Hence, a move of the prey optimum, coupled with the lag of the predator's phenotype relative the prey's phenotype, should typically result in a situation in which predators prey upon maladapted individuals in changing environments.
Parameters other than the strength of selection and the rate of environmental change also affect mean extinction times. For example, the mutation rate, the distribution of allelic effects, the carrying capacity, and the birth rate can affect times to extinction in this model. However, the effects of these parameters have been examined in detail in the single-species model , and the conclusions of the single-species model also apply to the two-species models that I investigated. For instance, larger carrying capacities and birth rates increase expected times to extinction in the multi-species model as they do in the single-species model. Regardless of the exact values of these parameters, however, predation and competition still produce a positive effect on extinction times for one or both species involved in the species interaction under many rates of environmental change and strengths of selection. Thus, the result that negative ecological interactions often increase times to extinction appears to be robust to changes in most of the parameters of the model.
While additional work on the phenomena documented here is warranted, this study does carry potential management implications. For example, one possible reaction to a predator preying upon a species at risk of extinction might be to somehow protect the prey from the predator. Whether or not this move would benefit the species of interest depends upon the consequences of the species interaction. In a changing environment, if the predator removes individuals closer to the moving optimum relative to the mean phenotype, then the predator is harming the species of concern. However, if the predator is removing maladapted individuals, then predation may actually be delaying extinction of the declining species. Similar arguments apply for competitive species interactions. Thus, a complete management strategy should attempt to model the demographic and evolutionary effects of species interactions with models parameterized for the species of interest.
Both competition and predation of the type considered in this study appear to occur with high enough frequency in natural populations to be important. In addition, the generality of the phenomenon observed in this model implies that other types of negative ecological interactions will likely produce the same positive results on species persistence times. Several important studies have found evidence for reciprocal selection in predator-prey systems. For example, red crossbills exert a directional selective pressure on lodgepole pine, while lodgepole pine cone shape causes stabilizing selection on bill size . In addition, the classic example of toxic newts and their garter snake predators represents another system that appears to have the necessary elements for predator-prey coevolution . In either of these cases, evolution of the prey (due to environmental change) would result in selection on the predator and could produce the type of situation that occurs in the present model. Similar examples of competition appear in the literature. For example, competition for seeds in Darwin's finches is analogous to the type of competition that I model here. Coexisting species exhibit ecological character displacement for beak characteristics , and changes in the distribution of seeds in the environment results in strong directional selection on the finches . The prediction of the present model would be that adaptation of the species with beak characteristics best matched to the changing food supply would be facilitated by the presence of a less well adapted competitor.
My analysis is an initial attempt to address the effects of species interactions on extinction times in changing environments, but it raises a number of questions that would be worthy of additional research. The most limiting assumption of the current study is that the same trait that mediates the species interaction also changes in response to the environment. Future work should address cases in which the trait involved in the species interaction is distinct, but possibly genetically correlated, with the trait responding to environmental change. The present study would then be a special case in which the genetic correlation is unity. Thus, with high genetic correlations among traits, results would be similar to those reported here. However, the dynamics of systems with weak or negative correlations among traits would certainly be of interest.
Another possible limitation of the current analysis concerns the assumption that the optimum moves unidirectionally at a constant rate. This limitation could be partially corrected by including stochasticity in the movement of the optimum, a situation that would almost certainly decrease mean species persistence times . However, the effects of the species interaction would likely still be present in such a model. Future work should consider species interactions in multivariate models in which the optima of suites of traits move in response to environmental change. The challenge in such models will be to relate theoretical models of the movement of the multivariate optimum to realistic expectations for actual organisms. This latter point brings up another limitation of the present study, which is that it is entirely theoretical. Future work should apply similar models to real negative species interactions that have been studied sufficiently to produce empirical estimates of parameter values for the model. Before generalities regarding management practices can be drawn, some real case studies should be investigated in detail.
If the generality of this model can be confirmed with additional research and empirical examples, then the phenomena documented here may be important from a conservation standpoint. One important result is that it should be possible to determine empirically which negative species interactions should be retained and which should be halted in particular managed ecological communities. If the predator or competitor is causing the deaths of individuals that are poorly adapted to the changing environment, then the species interaction probably will facilitate adaptation. On the other hand, if the species interaction is causing the demise of the individuals that are best adapted to the new environment, then the species interaction will hinder adaptation and should be dealt with from a management standpoint. Even though this model only applies to changing environments, it is important to keep in mind that the major conservation concern of our generation, anthropogenic extirpation of species, is by definition caused by human-induced environmental change, so the findings of this model are likely to be relevant for a broad spectrum of conservation crises. The bottom line is that this preliminary analysis clearly shows that even so-called "negative" species interactions need to be carefully examined from a management and evolutionary standpoint.
The model is an elaboration of the one used by Bürger and Lynch to study the response of a single species to environmental change. The major change is that the new model is coevolutionary, because it simultaneously follows the evolution of two populations of organisms that interact via predation or competition. The model is a Monte Carlo simulation of all individuals in two distinct populations reproductively isolated from one another but coexisting. Consequently, a response to selection in one species changes the selection regime in the other species, resulting in reciprocal evolutionary change. I assume additive genetic effects and explicitly model all genetic loci within all individuals in each species. The life cycle consists of (1) production of offspring, including free recombination and mutation, (2) directional and stabilizing selection specified by the curvature of the individual selection surface, the position of the optimum, and the details of the ecological interaction, and (3) random choice of K adults from the survivors of selection to make up the next generation, where K is the carrying capacity. If fewer than K individuals survive selection, then all of the survivors are allowed to contribute to the next generation of progeny.
where θ t is the position of the optimum at time t and k is the per generation rate at which the optimum moves. In the single-species case, selection causes the mean phenotype to track this moving optimum but lag behind it [5, 6].
Each run of the simulation began with 5,000 generations of evolution according to stabilizing selection, during which an initially genetically uniform population reached a mutation-drift-selection equilibrium. These generations were followed by 1,000 generations during which the species interacted (see below for details of species interactions) in the absence of environmental change (i.e., k = 0) to allow the interacting species to reach a quasi-equilibrium. I only investigated parameter combinations that allowed the two species to coexist under a stationary optimum. The 1,000 initial generations of interaction were followed by up to 100,000 experimental generations during which the optimum for one or both species was allowed to move, while all other parameters governing the ecological interaction remained unchanged. The main response variable of interest was the time to extinction, so the experimental generations ended when both species went extinct.
Control runs were exactly the same as experimental runs, except that the ecological interaction was removed at the beginning of the experimental generations. Thus, the control runs began with the same expected phenotypic distributions and levels of genetic variance as the experimental runs. This control is the most appropriate for this study, because it allows a rigorous test of the effects of the ecological interactions per se on extinction times, while controlling for the effects that the ecological interaction has on the phenotypic and genetic characteristics of the population at the beginning of the experimental generations. The choice of parameter combinations was guided by the single-species results of .
The easiest way to envision the predator-prey model is as a potentially gape-limited predator and its prey, although this model (or slight variations of it) can apply to other types of predator-prey interactions. Thus, the trait in the predator is gape size and the trait in the prey is body size. The survivors of viability selection (see above) were allowed to encounter N ENC prey per predator at random, with a probability P C of catching each prey item encountered that was smaller than its gape and a probability of zero of capturing prey items larger than its gape. A predator was required to capture at least N MIN prey to survive. This predator-prey model is similar to other models that have been developed to study the evolution of quantitative traits in predator-prey interactions (reviewed by ). Alternative versions of the model, including density dependent prey encounter rates and a positive relationship between number of prey captured and predator survival, produced nearly identical results to those of the simpler model presented here.
For the simulations presented here, I set N ENC to 4, P C to 0.5, and N MIN to 1. The exact values of these parameters seemed not to matter much as long as they permitted the predator-prey system to persist under a stationary optimum. I also assumed that the predator population size was smaller than that of the prey. Hence, I set K and B to 256 and 4, respectively, for the prey, and to 128 and 2 for the predator. For control runs, I set N MIN to 0 during the experimental generations, so predators in the control replicates did not need to catch the focal prey species to survive. The results presented here assume that the traits of both predator and prey are subject to stabilizing selection of the same strength, and that their optima move at the same rate. Additional analyses indicate that these assumptions can be relaxed without changing the major conclusions of the paper. For example, if the predator's optimum does not move, then the positive effect of the predator on the extinction time of the prey still occurs but is less pronounced for prey populations that persist for long periods of time, because the predator quickly goes extinct when all of the prey evolve to be larger than the maximum gape size that can evolve under the static selection regime.
where N j is the number of individuals of species j surviving viability selection, z i is the phenotypic value of the individual of species i under consideration, z ¯ j MathType@MTEF@5@5@+=feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfKttLearuWrP9MDH5MBPbIqV92AaeXatLxBI9gBaebbnrfifHhDYfgasaacPC6xNi=xH8viVGI8Gi=hEeeu0xXdbba9frFj0xb9qqpG0dXdb9aspeI8k8fiI+fsY=rqGqVepae9pg0db9vqaiVgFr0xfr=xfr=xc9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaaeqabiWaaaGcbaqcfaOafmOEaONbaebadaWgaaqaaiabdQgaQbqabaaaaa@2F76@ is the phenotypic mean of species j, and σ p j 2 MathType@MTEF@5@5@+=feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfKttLearuWrP9MDH5MBPbIqV92AaeXatLxBI9gBaebbnrfifHhDYfgasaacPC6xNi=xH8viVGI8Gi=hEeeu0xXdbba9frFj0xb9qqpG0dXdb9aspeI8k8fiI+fsY=rqGqVepae9pg0db9vqaiVgFr0xfr=xfr=xc9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaaeqabiWaaaGcbaqcfaOaeq4Wdm3aa0baaeaacqWGWbaCcqWGQbGAaeaacqaIYaGmaaaaaa@3200@ is the phenotypic variance of species j. The results presented here are based on a competition model that includes both intraspecific and interspecific competition, such that species 1 competes with species 1 and with species 2 according to the above equation. Elimination of the intraspecific competition has only minor quantitative effects on the results. All parameters for both competing species were set at the same values as those of the prey in the predator-prey model, except that B was set at 2 to increase computational speed and C was set to 0.25.
I am grateful to Michael Goodisman, Chris Klausmeier, and Michael Pfrender for insightful discussion of this topic. This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. | 2019-04-20T13:10:45 | https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-8-119 |
0.999999 | In my most recent article, Enhance your facilitation effectiveness, I put forward the view that the effectiveness of the facilitator can be increased if they do not write anything during a session – transferring, instead, all the generation and recording of contributions to the participants.
This practice means that the participants own the content and, especially, the output. My experience is, if the participants contribute fully throughout the process, they are more likely to be committed to the actions they have proposed.
How do I manage without using a pen?
A facilitated session that has been well designed has specific objectives – each objective is a separate agenda item.
For example, if you are conducting a project review, the first objective is most likely to be to define what was successful in the project. This objective can be achieved by asking a simple question: What went well.
To start off, the participants arrange themselves in small groups to consider this question. Every person has a pen and cards – this means that every single person has the opportunity to contribute.
The purpose of this activity in small groups is not to gain agreement but to generate ideas. This gets the participants familiar with a crucial concept: If I want my ideas heard, I must respect the right of the others to have their ideas heard.
They also experience two other positive concepts.
First, this is a dynamic activity which engages all. And second you, the participants, not a facilitator, are responsible for its success.
Having discussed the question, generated ideas and written their answers, the participants give me their cards.
We are all eager to see what others have written. Indeed, excited.
This first plenary session is usually powerful. On most occasions, the introduction of the first contributions is met with nervous laughter. Then, there is recognition that what someone has written is what we have all been thinking but have not dared to say.
Participants then realise that we are talking about what actually happened – and that many others think the same. Phew!
I post the cards on the boards, the participants telling me how to arrange them – cards with similar ideas are placed together to form clusters.
At the same time, subsequent cards can be added but only by agreement with the whole group. These new cards are written by one of the participants.
To write these new cards, I choose the first person to my right to write the first cards; then the next person becomes secretary to write further cards, and so on round the group.
– what words summarise the contents?
They agree the wording for a heading for each cluster and the secretary writes the heading cards which I post on the board.
As a participant, you write your own contributions to share with the group and then you see them on the boards. Your cards are in your handwriting. This is a powerful experience.
You see that your card has significance and you recognise that the cards from the other people have significance just like yours. You see how each card complements the other contributions.
If you are a participant, you are fully engaged in this process through your contributions and then by directing the organisation of the cards on the boards. You see how the discussion builds from many disparate ideas into a logical and coherent structure.
The boards are a physical focus of attention. In a facilitated event, you experience far greater concentration levels. The focus is on the content – not behaviour, not seniority, nor whose idea it is.
All contributions are equal and not dependent on the loudness of your voice nor the speed of your car. Everyone is focused on the same thing at the same time and directly related to the issues that they wish to resolve.
So, that is the process – what are the benefits?
I will mention what I believe to be the two most significant benefits.
First, this process uncovers what is actually happening, not what we are supposed to think or are expected to say. Everyone can plainly see what is going on. When action is proposed, those actions are made on facts, not supposition nor wishful thinking.
Second, engagement in the process leads to ownership. This, in turn, leads to commitment; actions proposed will be executed. | 2019-04-18T21:10:25 | http://www.mikewestwood.eu/facilitation/facilitating-a-session-without-using-a-pen |
0.999997 | WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has struck a deal to be interviewed by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team rather than appearing before a grand jury, CNN reported on Wednesday (Jan 17), citing sources close to Bannon.
Bannon had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Mueller's probe of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election and any ties with President Donald Trump's campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.
A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment on the CNN report.
A lawyer who represented Bannon in an appearance before the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Tuesday could not be immediately reached.
An interview with prosecutors would allow Bannon to have an attorney present during his appearance, as lawyers are not permitted in grand jury rooms.
Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly told Fox News on Wednesday the White House did not tell Bannon to invoke executive privilege in closed testimony before Congress.
Bannon, in his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, refused to answer questions about his time in Trump's administration or during the transition after his lawyer had conferred with the White House, according to Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee.
Bannon was a close adviser during Trump's campaign and in his first months in office, but he was fired from his White House job in August as the president sought to bring more order to his staff operations.
Earlier this month, Trump attacked Bannon for comments he made to Michael Wolff, the author of a book highly critical of the president and his family.
They included scathing remarks about Donald Trump Jr, the president's eldest son, for meeting during the campaign with a Russian lawyer who was said to have damaging information on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Mueller is investigating allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 campaign to try to tip the vote in Trump's favour, as well as any potential collusion by Trump's campaign with Moscow.
Russia denies any attempt to interfere and Trump has denied any collusion.
According to a person familiar with the arrangement, the attorney who represented Bannon for Tuesday's House appearance, William Burck, is not representing him in connection with Mueller's investigation.
The person did not believe Bannon had hired a counsel for that yet.
Two other Trump associates, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rick Dearborn, and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, were due to appear before the House panel behind closed doors on Wednesday, congressional sources said.
Committee aides were not immediately available to comment.
As Fire and Fury is published, Europe openly debates: Is Trump still sane? | 2019-04-23T08:36:45 | https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/donald-trumps-ex-aide-steve-bannon-strikes-deal-to-avoid-grand-jury-testimony |
0.999999 | Question: I have a question regarding the text Faza'il - e - A'maal by Shaikhul Hadith Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya Kaandhlawi.
Question: I have a question regarding the text Faza'il - e - A'maal by Shaikhul Hadith Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya Kaandhlawi. From many I've heard that this text contains many weak hadiths and should not be read for thehadiths all are not saheeh. Is this correct? If so, please explain if this text would be appropriate to read and are the hadiths with strong chains? Jazakallahu Khayir.
Along with many sahih hadiths, Fada'il A'mal is also known to contain a number of weak hadiths. In fact many of the great hadith collections contain weak hadiths. This is the case with Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Maja, al-Bayhaqi, al-Mustadrak of Imam Hakim, Mishkat al-Masabih, al-Tarqhib wa al-tarhib, etc. Besides these, popular works such as the Ihya 'ulum al-din of Imam Ghazali is one in which Allama 'Iraqi has judged many hadiths to be weak. However, these works have been overwhelmingly accepted by the majority of traditional scholars of Islam throughout the centuries. Furthermore, despite the rigorous authentication of the Sahih of Imam Bukhari, his other works such as al-Adab al-Mufrad and Juz' al-qira'a khalf al-imam contains many weak narrations.
What we understand from this is that it is not a crime to relate weak hadiths, as some like to advocate. Individuals have risen in the last century who have attempted to "purify" the books of the pious predecessors by sifting the weak hadiths from the authentic (many a time with great injustice) and have published the classical collection under new titles such as Sahih Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Sahih Sunan Ibn Maja, etc.
The approach of the classical scholars was not such. It was accepted among them that works on the subject of virtues and fada'il did not have to meet the same levels of authenticity as was needed in discussions on the belief system of Islam or the laws and rulings of the lawful and unlawful.
Great hadith experts such as Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ibn al-Mahdi, 'Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak said, "When we narrate in regards to the lawful [halal] and unlawful [haram]we exercise extreme strictness and when we narrate in regards to virtuous and the like (stories and narratives) then we are more lenient. (See Suyuti's Tadrib al-rawi).
We learn from this statement that the scholars were more relaxed in the case of using weak hadith in virtues, but were very strict when it came to aspects of belief or fiqhi rulings. There were also other conditions for accepting weak hadith. For instance, the weakness should not be extreme that it is bordering on fabrication or the hadith should not be a spurious one. Likewise the weak hadith should not contradict an established principle of Shari'a or go against the spirit of the teachings of Islam (See Tadrib al-rawi).
If one takes the approach of shunning every book that contains weak hadiths would be left with very few books to benefit from. This would create great difficulty in regard to the din. Imam Tirmidhi has demonstrated in his Sunan as to how so many fiqhi rulings have been based on not-so-strong narrations.
The Fada'il A'mal is not a book of juristic laws. it is a book of virtues and as such there is no doubt that one can read it and practice on the virtues mentioned therein, even if they are from weak hadiths. Allah has granted this book such a widespread popularity that it is difficult in many countries to find a masjid without a copy. Many have benefited and softened their hearts for the remembrance of Allah and other such virtuous acts by reading it and the Fada'il Sadaqat by the same author.
The author Shaykh Zakariya Khandelwi taught the Sahih al-Bukhari for numerous years and spent his entire life in the service of the hadith of the Messenger (upon him be peace). His works include the editing of the Badhl al-Majhud (Arabic commentary of Sunan Abi Dawud), al-Hall al-Mufhim (Arabic commentary of Sahih Muslim), and al-La'ali al-Dirari (Arabic commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari); then the Awjaz al-Masalik is his Arabic commentary of the Muwatta of Imam Malik (Dar al-Fikr, Syria edition over twenty volumes), and the Khasa'il al-Nabawi, his Urdu commentary of the al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiya of Imam Tirmidhi. Besides these he has authored numerous other works in Urdu. He passed away in Madina Munawwara on Monday the 1st of Sha'ban 1402 corresponding to 24th May 1982. | 2019-04-20T23:24:08 | https://tauheed-sunnat.com/content/weak-hadiths-and-fadail-al-amal |
0.999074 | NoSQL database- What is it?
These are following some of very famous NoSQL database.
Dynamo: Dynamo is created by Amazon and is the most prominent Key-Value NoSQL database. Amazon developed dynamo when they were in need of a highly scalable distributed platform for their e-commerce businesses.
Cassandra: Cassandra is open sourced developed by Facebook and is a columnar NoSQL database.
BigTable: BigTable is Google's proprietary columnar oriented database.
SimpleDB: SimpleDB is another database developed by Amazon.
CouchDB: CouchDB along is open source document oriented NoSQL databases.
Neo4J: Neo4j is an open source graph database.
One method to define NoSQL is to consider what its not. It's not SQL and it's not relational. Like the name suggests, it's not a substitute for a RDBMS but compliments it. NoSQL is designed for scattered data stores for very huge scale data needs. Think about Facebook with its 500,000,000 users or Twitter which accumulates Terabits of data every single day.
In a NoSQL database, there is no joins and no fixed schema . A RDBMS "scales up" by getting faster and quicker hardware and adding memory. NoSQL, on the other hand, can take advantage of "scaling out". Scaling out refers to scattering the load over many commodity systems. This is the component of NoSQL that makes it an reasonably priced solution for bulky datasets.
We are company which is trusted for remote database work. We undertake on site database work as well. The work which is taken are IBM DB2,Oracle,MySQL and SQL Server. | 2019-04-22T22:50:45 | http://dbaworkaic.blogspot.com/2011/ |
0.999434 | The column is chock full of lies. (Sorry, with this crew there is no point in trying to be polite. They are liars, let's not pretend anything else.) It starts by trying to generically discredit CBO's analysis of health care plans.
"When Obamacare passed in 2010, the CBO projected a healthy individual market with 23 million people enrolled in exchange plans by this year. The CBO predicted that by 2017, exchange plans would be profitable and annual premium increases low."
"But this never happened. Today, there are only 10 million people enrolled in exchange plans — about 60 percent fewer than expected. (Contrary to some claims, this is not because more people have maintained employer plans than the CBO expected; the reduction in employer coverage has been greater than the CBO projected, and overall about 9 million more people are uninsured now than projected.) Absent the projected bounty of young, healthy consumers, health insurers are abandoning the exchanges, leaving a third of American counties with only one insurer to choose from. As insurers continue to flee the exchanges, consumers will face even fewer options next year."
"Actually, CBO was overly pessimistic about Obamacare. If we look to CBO's last report on the Affordable Care Act, before the exchanges began operation in 2014, it projected that there would be 29 million people uninsured as of 2017 (Table 3). In its most recent analysis, it puts the number of uninsured in 2017 at 26 million (Table 4). In other words, the number of people who are uninsured under the ACA is 3 million fewer than CBO had predicted back in 2012.
"In what world is overestimating the number of uninsured 'overly optimistic?' It is true that fewer people are in the exchanges than CBO expected. This is due to the fact that more people have qualified for Medicaid and also more people are receiving employer-provided insurance, as fewer companies than expected dropped coverage."
The premiums have risen more in the last few years than projected because they were originally lower than projected. Premiums for 2017 are pretty much right where CBO had projected. And in states run by Democratic governors who are trying to make the Affordable Care Act work, the exchanges are doing just fine.
In short CBO gets an A- for its record on forecasting Obamacare, the White House crew gets a big fat "L" for lying.
"Second, the CBO estimates that the Obamacare exchanges will average 18 million enrollees next year assuming the law remains in place. Yet only about 10 million Americans had exchange plans in 2015, 2016 and 2017 — and the CBO ignores Obamacare’s collapse. Simply put, the CBO predicts coverage under Obamacare that will never materialize."
Nope, CBO does not project a big jump in coverage in 2018. The document cited does show a rise in the number of people enrolled in the exchanges in 2018, but it is mostly at the expense of the number of people getting insurance through their employer. It projects no change in the number of the uninsured in 2018 compared with 2017.
Clearly Short and Blase knew they were fundamentally misrepresenting CBO projections in this effort to discredit its projections on the Republican plan. The Washington Post is not obligated to print anything the White House gives them. This is a column, not a news story, but I have had columns fact-checked, sometimes in great detail, by opinion page editors.
There is no justification for printing a hack piece from White House staff that includes deliberate misrepresentations with the explicit purpose of discrediting CBO. This is some serious darkness here. | 2019-04-21T12:54:32 | http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/trump-vs-cbo-lies-from-the-white-house |
0.999915 | This is a mining game, not a Star Trek game. While the initial experience is enjoyable, you (very quickly) get confronted with the obligation to land your ship on mining spots and leave them there for hours while they sloooowly mine the resources you need to continue playing. You need these resources to improve your ships and station, but so many mining spots are defective (or there simplyThis is a mining game, not a Star Trek game. While the initial experience is enjoyable, you (very quickly) get confronted with the obligation to land your ship on mining spots and leave them there for hours while they sloooowly mine the resources you need to continue playing. You need these resources to improve your ships and station, but so many mining spots are defective (or there simply aren't enough of them) that your ships get destroyed by stronger players. You return hours later, only to find out that your ship has mined 50 Tritanium out of the 25,000 you need.
In the end, this is little more than a bully game where might makes right, and there's very little of the spirit of Star Trek. The graphics and characters are nice enough, but the essence of Trek is skin deep here. This should have been called "War of the Space Miners."
2009-ben a ma már filmes legendának számító J.J. Abrams kitalált valami egyészen egyedi és eredeti módszert arra vajon hogyan lehetne nyomni egy resetet a Star Trek történeten mindeközben mégis hűnek maradni az eredetihez. Mi mással oldhatta volna ezt meg, mint már a Lostban is bevált jó öreg időutazással, hatalmas csavarok, remek karakterek, sok-sokRégóta vártunk már valami hasonlóra.
I've long been a fan of 4X strategy games and couldn't resist the chance to try one that runs entirely on my phone and has some decent reviews.
To summarise my opinion of it: it does the 4X pretty well, but there's hardly any strategy! You get to explore a very impressive-looking universe with your spaceships, expand your production facilities and follow a research tree; exploitI've long been a fan of 4X strategy games and couldn't resist the chance to try one that runs entirely on my phone and has some decent reviews.
To summarise my opinion of it: it does the 4X pretty well, but there's hardly any strategy! You get to explore a very impressive-looking universe with your spaceships, expand your production facilities and follow a research tree; exploit resources by mining them; and exterminate NPCs or other players. All of that works well, with a very good user interface and almost no program glitches.
However, when it comes to making strategic decisions, there are very few. Your starships can basically do three things: shoot other ships, mine resources, or carry out missions that reward you with resources. The missions are the same for every player though the order in which they happen depends on which planets you visit. And with very few exceptions, the missions require you to do one of three things: shoot ships; visit a location; or give away resources.
The makers of the game have done their best to cover up the lack of strategic decisions with some tweaks. One is that your ships are crewed by characters from the various Star Trek series; a ship's abilities will differ slightly depending on its combination of crew. (Everyone has access to the same characters but the rate at which they appear is a bit of a lottery). Another is the idea that you can eventually join one of the Federation, Romulans or Klingons and settle in their parts of the universe. A third is that occasionally you are called on to make "moral decisions" -- for example, having captured a fugitive, do you hand him over to the guy seeking his head? Finally there's the standard MMORPG alliance system - being in an alliance grants you benefits when your allies get benefits, and also gives you access to a special shop where you can get stuff you can't get elsewhere.
Ah, yes. The shop. Like most commercial MMORPG games, you are given the opportunity to spend real money to improve your chances. Rather than complain about this as exploitation, these days I just try to figure out how long the game can be played for free before non-payment becomes a real disadvantage. In this case, I'd estimate it at two weeks, because by that time you should have reached the point where you can attack other players;' base stations and vice versa, and so you will be severely handicapped if your resource production, defences or research fall behind. The game offers options in the research tree to give major boosts to several such abilities by spending real money. You can probably afford one of these boosts using freely collected in-game currency, which extends playability by a few days, but not the whole lot.
A typical "collect resources and Player vrs Player" game based on Star Trek. When it's working, it can be a fun game to play but it's often plagued with bugs such as options that turn off, an inability to handle a momentary loss of internet connection in that it forces a full reboot of the game instead of picking up from its last state, and resource mines that show up on display but can'tA typical "collect resources and Player vrs Player" game based on Star Trek. When it's working, it can be a fun game to play but it's often plagued with bugs such as options that turn off, an inability to handle a momentary loss of internet connection in that it forces a full reboot of the game instead of picking up from its last state, and resource mines that show up on display but can't be 'found', Some of the features make for difficult play such as the need for uncommon resources for advancement that are obtained by random luck, the inability to protect certain resources, (vaults don't protect nearly enough) and the player vrs player limitations are based on level and not by strength, allowing players with considerably more powerful ships to attack weaker players who have no hope of defending themselves.
Star Trek Fleet Command is a bad game.
It's not Star Trek-y. It's not fleet-y. It's not even command-y!
Star Trek is about exploring strange new worlds and boldly going where no man has gone before. Star Trek Fleet Command is about going to uniformed places where most players and all NPCs currently reside. The only differences are the name of the star, the level of NPCs, the color ofStar Trek Fleet Command is a bad game.
Star Trek is about exploring strange new worlds and boldly going where no man has gone before.
Star Trek Fleet Command is about going to uniformed places where most players and all NPCs currently reside.
The only differences are the name of the star, the level of NPCs, the color of the nebula in the background, and maybe there'll be different resources to mine and die.
Star Trek Fleet Command has two connections to Star Trek.
It has "Star Trek" in the name, and the characters have the same name and similar appearances to the movie counterparts. Other than those three things, the game is not Star Trek-y.
But whatever, so it's not Star Trek-y. What matters in a game is the gameplay.
Unfortunately, Star Trek Fleet Command fails there, too.
All progress in the game take a long time, so it's not a good game to take out while you're waiting for a bus or for food. You can start upgrading a building, and then put your phone down for 26 hours and then check on your game again for 15 seconds, and you will have missed nothing.
My most successful strategy has been to check in every 6 hours to collect resources. And if a research or building project finished, then I'll start another. So I could do well by spending two minutes in 24 hours.
I call it "successful" because if I venture outside, I will get killed.
If you go mining, a player will kill you.
If you send a ship to go fulfill a mission or kill some NPCs, then your ship may need 5 minutes to get there. So you turn your game off for 5 minutes.
When you try to load the game up again after 5 minutes, the game takes time to register that your ship arrived.
But the game will take less time for other players to see and kill you.
I am not exaggerating. My game said my ship was still warping and had an ETA of 00 seconds.
And then a player would kill me in that time. It's happened multiple times.
You could spend time fighting NPCs and players. This would require you to watch your phone for more than a minute.
But it is a lot of watching and less action.
You click on the ship you want to move, you click on the ship you want to attack.
You wait 20 seconds, then watch a combat animation. And that's it.
Fighting is shallow, too. If you attack a player with a lower power level than you, you win.
If you attack someone with a higher power level, you lose.
There is no strategy or tactics. There are no skilled players in this game. Only dedicated players.
Your ships and crew level up. But instead of destroying a ship and getting 50XP, XP comes like loot or treasure.
If you destroy another ship, there's maybe a 33% chance that you'll get loot.
There's maybe a 25% chance that the loot will contain 300 XP.
You'll need 5,000 XP to level up one crew member.
Or, there's a 33% chance that the loot you get is 3 interceptor parts.
You'll need 210 interceptor parts to upgrade part of your ship.
And it is so unbalanced. Because there's no skill or strategy to the game, you are at the mercy of people in a higher level.
If you're at Level 20, there is nothing you can do to defeat, avoid, or deter a Level 26. They can just walk into your space station and attack you 17 times in 3 minutes.
They don't just attack you one time and then it's over. No, they attack you 17 times.
First, their 65k shield and 118k hull ship attacks your 26k shield and 29k hull starbase.
Then, they bring in a fresh cargo ship with 60k shield and 70k hull to attack your 27k shield and 6 hull. Shocker, they win against your 6 hull.
But then, they use the ship again and attack you. Maybe you have 3 hull this time.
It's because each attack only takes some of your resources. They should just have it take as much resources as an attacker can hold, because otherwise, why subject a player from having 17 defeats?
Now, if there were some skill or tactic or something that the defender could do, then there might be a reason for multiple attacks. But there isn't.
And there's no penalty for attacking players. No bounty for players or NPC ships to hunt you. No exclusion from any of the game's factions (not that that would hurt).
In fact, the logical thing to do is to attack other players. You get resources and maybe XP or ship parts, and there's absolutely no penalty.
This game not only enables griefing, it encourages it.
Maybe is more enjoyable on a PC than on a smartphone, but Star Trek: Fleet Command is anyway, and finally, a good game based on the beloved franchise also on mobile platforms.
Between these two interlocking gameplay hemispheres, Star Trek: Fleet Command has a huge amount to offer. Fans of the series should enjoy the game’s sense of exploration and its idiosyncratic cast of characters, while fans of strategy-MMORPGs in general should appreciate this novel take on the genre. If you choose to boldly go, you won’t be disappointed.
How well this will scale over the coming weeks and months is hard to predict, of course. But in its initial incarnation, Fleet Command that most rare of games: a deep mobile MMOG that combines its licence, metagame and gameplay in a thoroughly enjoyable and engaging manner. | 2019-04-19T12:44:16 | https://secure.metacritic.com/game/ios/star-trek-fleet-command/user-reviews |
0.999174 | What is the Readit Keypad?
It is a custom made, tactile keypad that works together with the Readit software, (from version 3.1). It is lightweight, (just 185 grams or 0.4 lbs) and has custom sized and shaped buttons for all the main Readit software features.
Who is the Readit Keypad for?
It is for anyone with the Readit software who may wish to enhance the ease of use and increase productivity.
Due to its design, it enables full control of the Readit software even if the application is minimised or out of focus. This means advanced background capturing and reading tasks are possible. For example, you can capture and begin listening to and seeing a document whilst you're writing notes on it in Microsoft Word, all without leaving Microsoft Word!
Although Readit's keyboard controls are very straightforward, some users may not wish to learn additional keyboard shortcuts. Having the dedicated keypad provides direct access to all of the most commonly used features.
Compact footprint: Occupying just 76 mm x 171mm, (3.0 x 6.7 inches) the Readit Keypad will fit on the busiest of desks without difficulty.
Lightweight: Readit Keypad weighs just 185 grams (0.4 lbs) making it easy to take with you wherever you go. | 2019-04-23T02:36:45 | http://www.visionaid.com/phpincludes/en/products/visionaid_keypad/visionaid_keypad_desc.php |
0.997779 | What a great way to start a day with hot coffee and Peanut Butter cookies, right! This cookie is a good standing snack you can keep in your cookie jar for a quick sugar kick anytime of the day.You only need a few ingredients and requires very easy steps.
1. Sift flour, baking powder and baking soda together. Set aside.
4. Add 1 egg and mix. Add other egg and mix again.
5. Add the flour mixture and mix it very well.
6. Add the peanut butter and cream it well.
7. Flour your surface area for rolling dough.
8. Roll the dough into a log.
9. Cut into 1-inch pieces.
10. Roll each piece into floured surface.
11. Press each roll on your palm using a measuring cup.
12. Lay it on the baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes @ 400 0F.
Enjoy your cookies with hot coffee or cold drinks anytime of the day. Thank you for reading, happy cooking! | 2019-04-25T11:48:49 | https://sixtasteskitchen.com/2016/06/07/peanut-butter-sandies-cookies/ |
0.999659 | As part of my year-end reflection and 2010 road map, I have been thinking deeply about how exactly I invest. How do I pick the companies and sectors on which to focus? I quickly realized that the principles I applied in the math of derivatives are the same ones I use as a venture investor. In short, I look at everything as a limit: "What does this (company/sector) look like at infinity?" I see most progress as being asymptotic, e.g., there is a period of accelerated development and rapid growth, beyond which gains are much harder and more costly to achieve. The goal is to find businesses at the early part of the rapid growth phase, but where they are close enough to rapid growth that they don't require decades of funding to get there. For instance, if you had invested in machine learning in the 1960s (or natural language processing in the 1980s) back when it held so much promise, you'd have gone bust many times over waiting for commercial success. Does it mean that machine learning and NLP are unattractive fields? No. But if you were 20-40 years early then I'm sure it seemed that way. My goal as an investor is to avoid such delayed gratification.
While other investors invariably have their own language to describe this exercise, I find calculus to be a helpful tool for testing one's assumptions around a particular investment and for providing valuable discipline to avoid "style drift." Though I make the occasional investment to learn about an interesting business or to work with a particular group of investors, my investing is largely characterized by the discipline noted above.
From a process perspective, this generally means that I have a vision of the future "at infinity" and work backwards to identify potential investment candidates. The key for me is once a candidate is identified, are they close enough to the rapid growth phase and is the market sufficiently ready for this growth to take place? How many times have you heard an entrepreneur say "We were just too early." The road is littered with great ideas whose time had not yet come from a commercial perspective. It is this timing issue where I spend a tremendous amount of time on due diligence, reaching out to industry contacts and testing their receptivity (and willingness to buy) the product/technology in question. Does this approach mean I'll miss some huge ideas that were simply on nobody's radar screen? Sure. But is it a more risk controlled way of reaching for big gains? I think so.
So given this approach, what are some of my "visions for the future?"
1. Machine-driven trading will continue to proliferate, and represent a sustained source of alpha.
Alternative data. The key question is whether it is more valuable as a distributed vendor product or as a closely-held proprietary product that is traded.
Modeling platforms. Most platforms today have the ability to ingest structured, quantitative data. Future platforms will be able to consume and model both structured and unstructured data, and to mash up disparate data sources with a limitless number of systematic trading models. They will also provide for straight-through processing, generating trading instructions and executing trades directly from the modeling platform.
Database architecture. The relational database of today will be inadequate to process the massive amounts of unstructured data - in real time - that tomorrow's (and, in fact, some of today's) trading models require. This also encompasses distributed and high-performance computing.
Predictive analytics. Extracting insight from large bodies of textual data will challenge current analytical frameworks. New methodologies will arise to meet this challenge. This also includes event notification and anomaly detection, which has relevance for anti-terrorism and anti-fraud applications as well.
2. Tomorrow's ad exchanges will resemble the stock and options markets for equities.
Aggregated buy- and sell-side ad demand. Fragmented exchanges will be be stitched together, leading to a consolidated view of sell-side inventory and buy-side interest. Price efficiency will skyrocket. Buyers will be able to hedge and speculators will be able to take a view on the direction and volatility of context-specific impressions.
Consolidated buy-side optimization platforms. Agencies and brands will have access to platforms that integrate disparate forms of data and metadata, exchange prices and enable ad campaigns to be optimized and ROIs to be calculated. They will control the structuring, buying and monitoring of online ad programs.
3. Social media will simply be called "media," and viewed as a fully-integrated part of the overall media buy.
Apps that aggregate fragmented audiences across Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets.
Platforms that facilitate monetization of these fragmented audiences, and deliver a powerful suite of tools for agencies, brands and content owners to use for advertising, promotion and ROI measurement.
Tools that enable agencies, brands and content owners to carefully control which ads and promotions are displayed to which audiences, placing reputation protection and control in the hands of those with the brand and relationship equity.
These are but three of the themes I am actively pursuing today. Success is by no means assured: I am banking on a vision of the future which may or may not come to pass. But if the focus is on true seed stage investing, then not to take a bold forward-looking approach is dooming one to derivative and "me too" ideas. This is simply not the way I choose to invest. It isn't fun, and in my opinion won't ultimately yield the greatest profits, either.
Roger Ehrenberg is a Wall Street veteran who now runs IA Capital Partners, his personal investment vehicle. IA Capital's investments include The Business Insider. He blogs at Information Arbitrage, where this post was originally published. | 2019-04-25T20:57:09 | https://www.businessinsider.com/how-i-invest-and-what-im-looking-for-2009-12 |
0.998565 | The Chicago Police Department is now under investigation in relation to the Jussie Smollett attack.
She maintains that she never accessed the actor's chart directly, but did innocently scroll past his name while looking for another patient's name. The influx of information that leaked to the media relating to Jussie Smollett's case has prompted officials to look into where their "vulnerabilities" lie.
Smollett was arrested on February 21 after being charged with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report in which he claimed he was the victim of a crime. That same nurse believes others, like her, were fired for the same reason.
Smollett told police that he was assaulted while out walking at 2 a.m. on January 29.
Smollett continues to claim that he did not make up the attack.
At the second junction, the Palestinian opened fire and wounded another soldier, who was in serious condition, the army said . The Palestinian then reportedly shot another man, stole his auto , and fled the scene.
She said that it all happened at the end of her shift last Tuesday, when she was called in and fired without being given a chance to say anything. They allegedly punched and poured bleach on him while one of the suspects put a rope around his neck.
Smollett, who is accused of filing a false police report, was charged last month with felony disorderly conduct.
He said the attack "was staged, the brothers had on gloves during the (air quotes) "staged attack" where they punched him a little, but as far as we can tell, the scratching and bruising that you saw on [Smollett's] face was most likely self-inflicted". TMZ reports they "obtained documents that on the surface back his claim the $3,500 check he wrote to Abel was for training".
Meanwhile, Chicago police said the attack was a "publicity stunt" because Smollett was upset with his "Empire" salary. And, a text on January 25 reads, 'This is the meal plan and the breakdown of macronutrients.
After his arrest, Smollett's legal team fiercely proclaimed his innocence, writing in a statement: "Today we witnessed an organized law enforcement spectacle that has no place in the American legal system".
Members of Netanyahu's ruling Likud party were quick to praise the prime minister for the shift in United States policy. Netanyahu raised the possibility of U.S. recognition in his first White House meeting with Trump in February 2017.
Ambassador to Israel David Friedman also invoked Omar, telling the crowd it would always do what is needed to defend Israel. Omar's remarks loomed over the Washington gathering of pro-Israel advocates, as most speakers mentioned her in some way.
That's in addition to the original programming that we know Apple has been working hard to develop for their subscribers. The company declined to comment on Hastings's comments.
You'll be able to tun in via on Twitch , YouTube , Twitter and Facebook , or simply catch up on the video after the fact. Indeed, Sony's Sid Shuman has already confirmed that additional State of Play broadcasts will air throughout the year.
He has also led all of baseball in on-base percentage in three straight seasons and is a plus defender in center field. Trout, 27, is a two-time American League Most Valuable Player and was scheduled to become a free agent in 2020.
Boeing chairman and chief executive Dennis Muilenburg later reaffirmed that the company was supporting the investigation. Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges told journalists that a preliminary report would be released within 30 days.
Critics have questioned the FAA's practice of using employees of aircraft manufacturers to handle some safety inspections. But they did not pass on all of the information about the problems they encountered to the next crew, the report said.
Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller atomizers are displayed for sale at a garden shop near Brussels, Belgium November 27, 2017. Bayer has argued that decades of studies and regulatory assessments have shown the weed killer to be safe for human use.
A number of protests have also been staged in Switzerland against the Algerian president since he arrived in the country. Nearby, other young Algerians made V-for-victory signs. | 2019-04-26T00:05:48 | http://fresnocitycollegerampage.com/2019/03/28/chicago-police-open-internal-investigation-into-alleged.html |
0.999735 | It was inevitable that I would see Elizabeth: The Golden Age (AKA Elizabeth I II) given that a) it stars Clive Owen, b) I saw the parts of it being filmed in my college, c) it involves Tudor history (with hindsight - ha!) and d) it stars Clive Owen. In fact, I've been looking forward to the film's release ever since the filming took place during my finals (revision...Clive...revision...Clive...) and I have to say that I was sorely disappointed.
Elizabeth (part I) was great: it was enjoyable, it involved Joseph Fiennes and it was even reasonably historically accurate (enough for us to watch in my A-level history class on the Tudors without tearing it apart too much). Perhaps I prefer the part of Elizabeth's reign covered in the first film: from Mary's dying days where Elizabeth was locked up in the Tower unsure whether she would live, let alone whether she would be queen, until the fall of Robert Fiennes - I mean, Robert Dudley. Most historical films have a love story element and so, of course, Elizabeth focuses on that between Dudley and Elizabeth.
Dudley is actually one of my favourite historical characters - not just because he was especially handsome when Joseph Fiennes played him. I suppose he was a bit of a cad, really. They are childhood sweethearts but when Dudley's treacherous family falls out of favour (after the whole Lady Jane Grey palaver) and Elizabeth is imprisoned, he marries up to a Norfolk gal named Amy Robsart. At the time, this wasn't a bad match for him, as his land and title were confiscated after his father and brother were executed. Amy was pretty enough but pretty boring and locally-minded, as well as being about 10 years older than him. Then Elizabeth becomes queen and everything changes. Robert is her favourite but being queen she cannot just marry him. Instead, she must execute her oh-so-complicated foreign policy, which was centred primarily around flirting with as many European princes as possible, in order to keep France and Spain from invading. Besides, Robert was married so it wouldn't do for him to leave wifey, even for the queen (after all, look what happened when her father, Henry VIII had wanted a divorce...). Nonetheless, poor old Amy was rather neglected by her husband as his star rose at court. Many historians have speculated about what went on between Elizabeth and Robert - David Starkey thinks she bestowed sexual favours upon him along with his title.
It was conceivable that Elizabeth might have granted the divorce and married Robert herself but then Amy had the ill grace to fall down the stairs at her Oxfordshire home and break her neck. This created a massive scandal: some thought she had killed herself, others thought that Dudley or one of his men had pushed her so that he could marry Elizabeth. Later evidence showed that Amy may have been suffering from breast cancer, which could have weakened her bones and meant that a simple fall could have broken her neck. Nonetheless, marriage was out and Robert eventually went off and married one of Elizabeth's ladies in waiting.
Twenty years later. England, 1585. Elizabeth is getting on a bit and is increasingly worried about Philip I's Spain and his desire to save Protestant England from itself. She is still playing the, "I'll marry you if you don't declare war on us" game (which would have been my strategy in Civ II if it had been an option), even though she was 50-odd and many of her suitors were in their 20s. Her friends are growing scarcer (Dudley had to leave court after the death of his wife) but at least she has three loyal friends: Francis Walsingham (her spymaster general), Bess Throckmorton (her favourite lady in waiting) and Walter Raleigh, newly returned from pirating Spanish ships. Who could possibly resist such a rugged, handsome sailor, freshly back from his adventures in the New World and even naming the first English colony Virginia in her honour? Certainly not Elizabeth and not Bess Throckmorton either. Raleigh is, after all, played by a certain Mr Owen.
Of course, given the choice between the pretty 20-year-old Bess and the ageing queen (who wouldn't be permitted to marry him anyway), there wasn't really much competition, although Raleigh is too keen for the queen's approval to tell her so to her face. It all goes horribly wrong when Bess gets pregnant and has to leave the court. Elizabeth is now truly alone - betrayed by her friends and with the Spanish set to attack at any moment and plots on her life coming left, right and centre, not to mention that annoying cousin of hers locked up in some cold, northern castle.
Part of me wonders whether this film is Republican propaganda: don't elect Hilary Clinton! Look at what happened to Elizabeth when she fell in love. She wasn't thinking, she was emoting! She knighted Walter Raleigh because she wanted to give him one but couldn't give him one so gave him something else. She was wild with jealousy of this younger woman (which probably only reminded her of the affaire du coeur with Robert Dudley) and terrified that she would die in a Spanish prison leaving England conquered and was too damn irrational. Heck! She signed her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots', death warrant and then tried to change her mind when she knew it would be too damn late so that she could wipe the blame from her hands! Gosh, we really do need a man in charge of things. Perhaps this is giving the film makers too much credit but I'm sure the real Elizabeth would have been horrified to see herself immortalised as such.
Luckily, with the help of a good wind (or "God's breath") and Cap'n Clive's excellent sailing (and cannon-dodging and skin diving) technique, the Spanish are destroyed in (as the end notes declare), "Spain's most humiliating naval defeat" (pop quiz: name any other humiliating Spanish naval defeats). I thought this should have read, "Spain were never ridiculed as much again until Monty Python." Philip I, meanwhile, was played as a god-fearing, blue-eyed psycho, who carried round a voodoo doll of Elizabeth and muttered to himself in a Gollum-like voice. All of the Spaniards were comedy characters - real party poopers who were just too busy praying to have a good time. They didn't exactly do themselves any favours with the audience.
The factual inaccuracies are too extensive to list here but particularly grating was this: Mary Queen of Scots spent the first 20 years of her life in France so what's with the Scottish accent? Did they think that would confuse an American audience? This was a shame because Samantha Morton was probably the best actor in the film.
The director did get points for not using the clichéd "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman..." Armada inspiration speech, though she was dressed up as Elizabot atop her horse on the south coast. Maybe he got so much stick for using the famous, "This is God's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes" line in Elizabeth, which were, reportedly, Elizabeth's first words on hearing of the death of her sister, that he decided to steer well clear second time around.
That said, there wasn't really much in the way of dialogue at all: it was mainly moody silences, dramatic music, Elizabeth's rotating wardrobe of beautiful, rich-coloured gowns, fire, and St John's College, Cambridge looking gorgeous (ah, the cloisters! Ah, the Bridge of Sighs! Ah, the cloak/puddle scene! So much more fun when you've seen them being filmed). Clive wasn't on top form although he did make an incredibly hot Walter Raleigh. Then again, with lines like, "Here. This is a potato," and "I have loved you as a queen but your mate Bess is fit as so I screwed her instead" he didn't have a lot with which to work.
It's never a good idea to see a historical film with a historian (especially as the Tudors were my father's specialist period) and I was the only member of our party who even vaguely enjoyed the film and that was only because of Clive and John's. The Craig Armstrong score was good too.
Ah well. Anticipation... holds true again. | 2019-04-23T12:03:34 | https://www.doubleskinnymacchiato.com/2007/10/golden-balls.html |
0.997583 | One of the most interesting women in the Bible is Hagar, Abraham's second wife, and the mother of Ishmael. The Arab and Bedouin tribes claim to be descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar.
According to the Midrash, Hagar was the daughter of King Pharaoh of Egypt. When she saw the miracle which G‑d performed for the sake of Sarah, to save her from the hands of the Egyptian king during Abraham's visit there, she said: "It is better to be a slave in Sarah's house than a princess in my own."
Her name "Hagar," according to the Midrash, stems from this beginning of her association with Abraham's house. It comes from "Ha-Agar," meaning this is the reward.
Hagar became Sarah's Maid, but when Sarah was not blessed with children, she persuaded Abraham to take Hagar as his second wife. Sarah hoped that she could bring up Hagar's children and merit G‑d's blessing that way, so that she, too, perhaps might be blessed with a child.
Abraham took Sarah's advice and married Hagar.
When Sarah's hopes began to be fulfilled, it brought her unexpected suffering. For, as soon as Hagar realized she was to have a child, she began to look down upon her mistress who apparently could not have one.
Sarah reminded Hagar that she, Sarah, was the mistress, and Hagar was but her maid, and she made Hagar work harder than ever. Hagar then ran away into the wilderness. There, an angel of G‑d appeared to her and ordered her to return to Sarah and treat her with the respect due to a mistress. He told her that for this she 'would merit giving birth to a son whose voice G‑d would hear (Yishma-El), who would be strong fierce, a man of the wilds and respected among her people.
Our Sages give Hagar much credit for not being frightened at having seen the divine angel, while even Manoah, as the T'nach tells us, feared that he would die because he had seen an angel of G‑d. This, say our Sages, shows how pious Hagar was, and how she had become adjusted to the saintly life of Abraham's house, where angels came and went as constant guests.
Later on, after Hagar's return and Ishmael's birth, things went well for all concerned. Sarah, too, was blessed with a son, Isaac. Ishmael was then already thirteen years old and he seemed to have inherited a wild nature through his mother's ancestors, for he was a bad influence on Isaac. According to one view of our Sages, Hagar was a true believer in the G‑d of Abraham. The Torah tells us that Ishmael mocked Isaac and often tried to frighten him. Again Sarah insisted that Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away if Isaac were to be prevented from following Ishmael's evil ways.
Abraham was very reluctant to send Hagar away, and especially his son. But G‑d told him to do as Sarah wished and Ishmael would yet become the father of a great nation.
Hagar and Ishmael lost their way in the wilderness near Beer-Sheba and ran out of water. A terrible death from thirst threatened them, but they were saved by a Divine miracle. Hagar had put her son in the shade of a bush and moved away some distance, not bearing to watch him suffer, when an angel appeared again to her, assuring her that G‑d had seen her son's suffering and would save him. He would live, and become the father of a mighty nation. As the angel spoke, Hagar immediately noticed a well nearby.
Our Sages say that Hagar showed then her faith in G‑d was not genuine. For when her son suffered she doubted G‑d's promise.
Many of our ancient Sages speak favorably of Hagar who never remarried. She lived together with her son who had built his home on the edge of the wilderness and became a famous hunter. The Sages say that he possessed Adam's coat which he had taken from King Nimrod. (This coat gave the wearer power over animals).
Despite living with Ishmael so far from Abraham's influence, Hagar remained faithful to him. Therefore, after Sarah's death, Isaac himself went to her and took her back to his father to be again his father's wife. The Torah now calls her "Keturah," meaning "tied" to Abraham, for she had kept her faithful bond to Abraham; and it also means an adornment," for her good deeds. As the Torah tells us, she bore more children to Abraham. None, however, was as important as Ishmael.
The Midrash tells us that not only was Hagar reunited with Abraham, but her son, too, became a penitent and returned to the G‑d whom he had served in his father's house, and whom he had forsaken during his wild life as a hunter and ruler of nations. Abraham thus lived to see Ishmael become his true son.
Later on in the Bible, we find Hagar indirectly mentioned once more as the mother of several tribes of Hagarites, neighbors of the tribes of Israel. They lived in Trans-Jordan ("Ever HaYarden") and were driven away by the Israelites.
Interesting are also the legends which the Mohammedans tell about Hagar and which, in general, agree with the reports of our own tradition. To them Hagar was the ancestor of their prophet Mohammed, and naturally they attribute all kinds of miracles to her, of which neither the Torah nor the Midrashim tell us.
Hagar, as our Sages picture her, was a woman of humility and piety. Indeed, few others were privileged to have an angel of G‑d speak to them twice, and produce miracles for them.
What happened to Abraham's other descendants?
Was Sarah wrong to give Hagar to Abraham?
Apparently the Semitic root "HJR" means "to leave one's tribe". Seems to be a strong connection.
Was Hagar "ha Ger"? I'm wondering if there is any credibility to the contention that Hagar's name was derived from 'ha ger', which accurately reflects her subordinate to Sarah, outlander status in Avraham's household. Then, after Sarah's death when she receives the name Keturah, it reflects her true status as a princess and a noble soul, no longer a 'stranger' or convert. Do chazal make any comment in this regard? Thanks for your response.
More education is needed among faiths Wouldn't these accounts of history be a perfect reason for peace among Jews and Arabs~?
My inquisitive mind led me to your site. How wonderful to compare and be informed. The information is as accurate as can be.
Wow...the reason it is written G_d is out of respect, because He is so holy that the hebrew people dare not even speak His name.
It's more out of reverence rather than a fear thing. It's because they know in their humanness they are capable of human err sometimes when we don't even realize it. On Yom Kippur the day of atonement when all sins are to be brought before YHWH it is even pleaded that He forgives us of sin we hadn't even known was sin. Like say for instance something we said in a certain fashion had actually hurt someone's feelings.. that person never said anything to us, we thought nothing of it and carried on. | 2019-04-22T18:09:16 | https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112053/jewish/Hagar.htm |
0.997071 | GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 1.908 %.
GDP (Current Prices, US Dollars) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ 24,586.01 Billion.
GDP Deflator for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 96.088 (Index, Base Year as per country's accounts = 100).
Output Gap, Percent of Potential GDP for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is -0.333 %.
GDP (PPP), US Dollars for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ 24,036.21 Billion.
GDP Per Capita (PPP), US Dollars for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ 33,887.93 .
GDP Share of World Total (PPP) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 41.774 %.
Investment (% of GDP) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 21.229 %.
Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 19.882 %.
Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 1.767 %.
Inflation (End of Year Change %) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 1.52 %.
Import Volume of All Items Including Goods and Services (Percent Change) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 3.786 %.
Import Volumes of Goods Only (Percent Change) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 4.289 %.
Export Volume of All Items Including Goods and Services (Percent Change) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 2.012 %.
Export Volumes of Goods Only (Percent Change) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 1.811 %.
Terms of Trade of All Items Including Services and Goods (Percent Change) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 1.109 %.
Terms of Trade of Goods (Percent Change) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 1.815 %.
Unemployment Rate (% of Labour Force) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 6.614 %.
Employment for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 98.189 Million .
General government revenue (% of GDP) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 33.814 %.
General government total expenditure (% of GDP) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is 38.594 %.
Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (% of GDP) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is -4.779 %.
General Government Structural Balance (% Potential GDP) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is -4.671 %.
Current Account Balance (US Dollars) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ -350.563 Billion.
Current Account Balance (% GDP) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is -1.426 %.
Imports of Goods and Services (US Dollars) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ 4,357.19 Billions.
Exports of Goods and Services (US Dollars) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ 4,055.82 Billions.
Financial account balance for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ -407.883 Billions.
Direct Investment, Net (US Dollars) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ 131.253 Billions.
Other Private Portfolio Flows, Net (US Dollars) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ -548.25 Billions.
Financial derivatives, net for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ 21.047 Billions.
Private Financial Flows, Net (US Dollars) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ -207.947 Billions.
Change in National Reserves (US Dollars) for Major advanced economies (G7) in year 2003 is US$ 184.099 Billions. | 2019-04-19T02:56:23 | http://www.economywatch.com/economic-statistics/country/Major-advanced-economies-(G7)/year-2003/ |
0.999999 | Moved: G4 / Bus Speed?
OK, this is for the ultra informed of you out there. How likely is it that Moto has tweaked/modified the bus intereface on the 7470 (or whatever the new G4 we will be getting soon is) to run at 333MHz? I know the current chips won't benefit much cause the MPX/133 bus they use can't talk to the memory any faster.
Is this something that Moto could have overcome for the 7470, thus allowing it to talk to memory faster, or are we still looking at a fast chip, that can't fully tap into fast memory bus speed, aka DDR 266 or 333?
I'm not ultra informed but I wouldn't consider it highly likely. A FSB at 166 MHz seems quite probable but otherwise to get full benefit from DDR memory I expect they'd have to take the memory controller on-chip, which I doubt has been done yet.
Ok, we know that the G4 now runs on a 166MHz bus.
A 333MHz MPX bus would probably force a packaging redesign (ceramic -> organic?), and even then I doubt more than 1% of chips could reach 333MHz.
If you are talking about DDR, then it would mean a whole new bus. You can't just "tweak" something into DDR. Apple uses Discovery northbridges, so until a DDR Discovery is made, you wouldn't even be able to use it.
If you are talking about 128-bit (for the equivalent of 333MHz at 64-bit), then you would see costs run up with Apple forced to produce more expensive motherboards, to accomodate for more "tracers" running away from the chip. Say goodbuy to sawtooth also, as you would need the socket to double in size.
The only plausible way out for Motorola is to get rid of MPX, and replace it with more serialized, higher MHz busses like Rapid-I/O or HyperTransport, and/or an on-chip memory controller. Motorola seems to have little time left as an Apple customer, and for embedded uses the G5 HAS Rapid-I/O and DDR333, and is far more suited to tasks the G4 was used in (eg routers).
I don't see Motorola doing anything more with the G4. It's in its death throws.
Discovery chipsets? I was under the impression Apple designed their own. All of the block diagrams show either a "Pangea" single chip and a UniNorth/KeyLargo chipset.
Uninorth = Apple's name for discovery.
I think (guess) the original UniNorths were Apple designs, and switched to Discovery with the Gigabit PowerMacs (onboard gigabit ethernet is part of the Discovery's specifications, but the earlier powermacs had intel 10/100 controllers).
If you pry off the northbridge heatsink off a new Power Mac, a Discovery part number is visible.
Motrola have said that they don't have any plans for DDR on the MPX, but they might do a little speed bump. We know that this is done considering last weeks deicovery of G4-processors @ 1167 MHz.
166/333 DDR-RAM is up and running in the 8560 embedded processor so we know that Motorola is capable of implementing it.. but as far as the G4 design goes, faster than regular 166 MHz is highly unlikely. If they do make a CPU with DDR on die, then that processor will surely be dubbed G5.
[QB]Ok, we know that the G4 now runs on a 166MHz bus.
Do you mean no double-pumped 166MHz in new PowerMacs?
<strong>Uninorth = Apple's name for discovery.
Interesting, I went to marvell's website and none of the Discovery northbridges had any mention of the AGP controller.
I would be extremely surprised if Motorola introduced ANY new bus for the G4.
The 166MHz MPX has been announced, maybe we will see a 200MHz in another 18 months, at the end of the G4's life (assuming it survives another 18 months).
I know. I read somewhere that Apple uses PCI -> AGP conversion. Judging by the fact that the Discovery has no AGP bus, yet Apple uses a chip that looks, walks and talks like a Discovery, I must assume this to be true.
This is possible as the Discovery has DMA PCI, and primarily AGP is PCI + DMA. 33MHz 64-bit is converted to 66MHz 32-bit AGP 4X.
66MHz 64-bit will (presumably) be converted to 133MHz 32-bit AGP 8X for the next Power Macs.
<strong>I would be extremely surprised if Motorola introduced ANY new bus for the G4.
This is the first time I've heard about 166MHz MPX. If so that's a major indication of what we're getting this month. This is nothing great, but I'm kind of surprised Motorola would give us any bus improvements whatsoever.
Now With Bitching? As Standard.
"The accelerated graphics port (AGP) bus is a 128-MHz, 32-bit bus connecting the AGP graphics card to the Uni-N IC. The AGP bus provides faster access to main memory than previous designs using the PCI bus. The bus is an AGP-4x bus with twice the performance of the AGP-2x bus, supporting peak transfers of 512 MB/s.
The AGP bus is a superset of the PCI bus, with the addition of separate address lines so it does not multiplex address and data when running in AGP mode. Having a separate address bus allows the AGP bus to pipeline addresses, thereby improving performance."
Also, UniNorth includes the FireWire controller , unlike the Discovery. And the Discovery chipset supports up to 4GB of SDRAM, while UniNorth supports up to 1.5GB. Those seem like pretty major differences, don't you think?
"The accelerated graphics port (AGP) bus is a 128-MHz, 32-bit bus connecting the AGP graphics card to the Uni-N IC. The AGP bus provides faster access to main memory than previous designs using the PCI bus. The bus is an AGP-4x bus with twice the performance of the AGP-2x bus, supporting peak transfers of 512 MB/s."
That doesn't say that there is no bridge chip. In I/O Reg Explorer, it shows that my system has 3 PCI channels. A PCI bridge (part of Discovery, going to the 3 PCI slots), a channel with a Gigabit Ethernet controller (part of Discovery), and (gasp!) a channel with 2 devices. One called "[email protected]", and the graphics card. Smells like an AGP converter to me.
"Also, UniNorth includes the FireWire controller , unlike the Discovery."
Sort of. It provides a connection for a FireWire controller, and even that may be non-specific.
"And the Discovery chipset supports up to 4GB of SDRAM"
4 GBs of SDRAM, using 512MB SDRAM sticks. If a G4 has 4 slots (like mine), 2GB is acheivable. If a G4 has 3 slots (2001 onwards), only 1.5GB is acheivable. This does not rule out the Discovery. Presumably if the G4 had 8 slots, 4GB would be achievable.
It is very confusing, and I, like you, would like to know for sure what is going on.
The fact that the chip has a Discovery part number printed on it though... Anyone here have photos of the northbridge with the heatsink pryed off?
The <a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/PowerMacG4/2Architecture/Block_Diagram_and_Buses.html"; target="_blank">block diagram</a> doesn't show any bridge chip . And that applies to all AGP-equipped PowerMacs, 'cause I've seen them all(the block diagrams).
[quote]<strong>It is very confusing, and I, like you, would like to know for sure what is going on.
Maybe this is some sort of custom-designed Discovery northbridge just for Apple? Kinda like the iPod processor? I'm telling you, there's no way the UniNorth is the same as any of the Discovery northbridges listed on Marvell's website.
AGP 2x (533 MByte/s) is 32 bit 66 MHz DDR which would be equivalent to 66 MHz 64 bit (533 Mbyte/s) PCI bus.
AGP 4x is 32 bit 66 MHz QDR (with some sort of low voltage differential on 2 DDR signals I believe, note sure). 1066 MByte/s. This is twice as much as a PCI 2.x bus can deliver. There is pretty much no way a PCI 2.x bus can be converted to AGP 4x without making it feel like it is AGP 2x because PCI 2.x can only deliver 533 MByte/s.
AGP 8x is 32 bit 66 MHz "octo" data rate. It's supposed to deliver 2066 MByte/s bandwidth while the latest and greatest PCI-X spec 64 bit 133 MHz only delivers 1066 MByte/s. Same sort of problem with AGP 4x and a PCI bus. The bandwidths don't make sense.
So either Apple is doing some magic to one of those Discovery PCI buses to get it devliver 2x bandwidth than the PCI spec is designed for, Apple is lying about the specs, or Apple designed their own core logic. Perhaps they had Marvell heavily modify their core logic, but it simply isn't a plane jane Discovery core logic chipset.
AGP always appears to the system software as a second PCI bus bridged to the primary one. It's exactly the same for x86 machines, or any other architecture. That's because AGP was designed to be backwards-compatible (software-wise!) with PCI, so developers wouldn't have to start from scratch when writing drivers for their devices. | 2019-04-26T04:21:38 | https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/2272/moved-g4-bus-speed |
0.999385 | How to Avoid Getting Banned in SEO from Google?
Redirecting to another domain is not a 100% guarantee that you'll be banned from search engines. But it is a very common spammer trick used in conjunction with doorway pages and cloaking. If you set up a redirect that goes to a new domain, you need to write it as a 301 HTTP redirect, not a 302 or meta refresh. This tells the search engine that this redirect is permanent, and they should change to the new domain in their directory.
Since this trick is commonly used by spammers, it's a very good idea to avoid doing it. Search engines can be very hard to get back into if your site is banned by mistake.
Invisible images are images that are 1x1 pixels in size and cannot be seen by the naked eye on a Web page. Since links are given some priority in ranking a Web page, linking images that cannot be seen by your customers appears to be aimed only at search engine spiders.
This is similar to hiding text or displaying different content to search engines than to your customers. And don't assume that search engines can't read CSS or HTML tags that resize full-sized images. If you do this to optimize your pages, your site will be banned.
Hiding text by making it the same color as the background color may fool your customers, but it won't fool search engines. Another variation of this is where you make the font size so small that it's unreadable by the naked eye.
Search engines understand CSS and font and background colors. They also recognize that a font-size of 1px is not going to be readable. Text that is hidden from your readers but visible to search engines is considered spam and will get your site banned.
Doorway pages are very simple HTML pages that are written to optimize heavily on one or two keywords or keyword phrases. And they are programmed so that search engines spiders see them, but regular readers are taken to the real site.
Doorway pages are designed to trick search engines into thinking that the site has a specific keyword relevance that it may or may not have and they are pages meant to be seen only by the search engine. So, most search engines will ban sites from their directory when they discover you use them.
This is often called cloaking because it is an effort to cloak what your site delivers in something that might be seen as more palatable to search engines. It can be very tempting to use cloaking, but while it might give you better results at first, search engines don't like it.
Search engines want to provide a resource of information that is real, not something that has been doctored to give artificial results. When they discover that your site is cloaking, it will be removed from the search directory.
Alway read Google policies and updates. And there is the best Practice to Avoid Getting Banned in SEO. | 2019-04-23T02:56:25 | https://www.learnseo.pro/2014/09/how-to-avoid-getting-banned-in-seo.html |
0.999797 | How much is Buster Douglas Worth?
Buster Douglas Net Worth: Buster Douglas is an American former world heavyweight professional boxing champion who has a net worth of $15 million. (James) Buster Douglas was born April 7, 1960 in Columbus, Ohio. He is the son of professional boxer William "Dynamite" Douglas. Buster Douglas is best known as the fighter who scored a stunning upset when he knocked out the undefeated Mike Tyson on February 11, 1990 in Tokyo, Japan. Tyson was considered to be the best boxer in the world at the time and one of the most feared heavyweight champions in history. The Mirage Casino in Las Vegas, the only Las Vegas casino to make odds on the fight (all others declining to do so as they considered the fight already decided), had Douglas as a 42 to 1 underdog for the fight, making his victory, in commentator Reg Gutteridge's words, "…the biggest upset in boxing history, bar none." Douglas held the title for eight months and two weeks, losing on October 25, 1990 to 28-year-old, 6-foot-2-inch, 208-pound Evander Holyfield via a third-round KO (knock out) in Buster Douglas' only title defense. For a brief period during his early twenties, Douglas was known as the "Desert Fox" within the Columbus, Ohio boxing community, attached to Douglas because of a misinterpreted encyclopedia entry regarding Douglas MacArthur and Erwin Rommel. Several friends of Buster Douglas mistakenly believed that Douglas MacArthur was known as the "Desert Fox" and subsequently addressed the future heavyweight champion as such. Buster Douglas later distanced himself from that label. Douglas made his feature film debut in the Artie Knapp science fiction comedy Pluto's Plight. Douglas was the star of the video game James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing for the Sega Master System and Sega Genesis, a game that is considered a response to Nintendo's Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! In 1995, HBO aired Tyson, a television movie based upon the life of Mike Tyson. Douglas was portrayed by actor Duane Davis.
Buster earned earned approximately $3 million when he defeated Tyson. He then earned $24.1 million, the largest purse ever up to that point, to fight Evander Holyfield. $24.1 million is equal to $43.5 million today after adjusting for inflation. Holyfield, who earned $8 million, defeated an overweight and out-of-shape Buster in the third of twelve rounds. | 2019-04-24T13:48:52 | https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/richest-boxers/buster-douglas-net-worth/ |
0.998316 | "To what extent does it look like Barr is trying to protect Trump and Trump's family, such as Donald Trump Jr.? Despite his expected redactions, has Barr made it possible to evaluate Mueller's reasoning or the evidence collected?
This is a key question. Already Barr has given Trump a great gift by releasing a summary that has allowed Trump to claim his "exoneration" for weeks without anyone being able to raise a counterargument based on the actual evidence collected and analyzed by Mueller. We all are waiting to see if the redaction leaves a credible report, or more reason to be suspicious of Barr and a longer list of questions. We should at least know the answer to this question in a matter of days. " | 2019-04-20T22:35:30 | https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Reading-the-redacted-Muell-in-General_News-Evidence_Mueller-Investigation-190416-478.html |
0.998401 | Explains what to do if you are named as the other party in a child support administrative review.
An administrative review is a free service managed by Child Support which looks at a child support formula assessment to see if it can be altered to fit a particular situation.
Both paying parents and custodians can apply to Child Support for an administrative review.
Child Support organises the review process, but the actual review is done by an independent person contracted to Inland Revenue. This person is called the review officer. Review officers are experienced in law and follow precedents set by past court cases.
What are the grounds for a review?
The child support laws set out the criteria allowing a formula assessment to be reviewed and possibly altered. These criteria are called "grounds for review".
An applicant can only apply for an administrative review if their circumstances fit one of the following grounds. Each ground has a number, which is used when applying for a review. | 2019-04-18T13:00:45 | http://addons.pas2008.co.nz/irforms/ir_FormDetails.aspx?f=207&w=TitlePage: |
0.999991 | Preheat the oven according to the instructions on the packet. Put a baking tray in the oven to heat up for 5 minutes. Tip the frozen potatoes onto the tray and roast for 30-40 minutes until golden or according to the timings on the packet.
Mix the mushrooms, tomatoes, parsley and cheese together in a bowl and season well. Put the chicken breasts on a board and slice about two-thirds through the middle horizontally. Open each out and spoon half of the mushroom mixture onto each. Flip the chicken over onto the top and drizzle over the oil and season well. Transfer to the tray and roast for 20-25 minutes.
Bring a small pan of cold salted water to the boil and add the green beans. Cover and cook for 3-4 minutes until tender. Drain well, return to the pan and add the butter. Season well.
Crush the potatoes lightly, then divide between the two plates, along with the green beans then place a stuffed chicken breast onto each, too, and serve. | 2019-04-25T08:09:04 | https://lovepotatoes.co.uk/recipes/roasted-potatoes-stuffed-chicken/ |
0.999998 | This article is about the jazz double-bassist. For other uses, see Ron Carter (disambiguation).
Ronald Levin "Ron" Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. Carter is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument. Some of his studio albums as a leader include: Blues Farm (1973); All Blues (1973); Spanish Blue (1974); Anything Goes (1975); Yellow & Green (1976); Pastels (1976); Piccolo (1977); Third Plane (1977); Peg Leg (1978); and A Song for You (1978).
Carter was born in Ferndale, Michigan. He started to play cello at the age of 10, but when his family moved to Detroit, he ran into difficulties performing on cello due to the racial stereotyping of classical musicians, the vast majority of whom were white at that time. Carter switched to playing double bass. He attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, and, later, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he played in its Philharmonic Orchestra. He finished his bachelor's degree at Eastman in 1959, and in 1961 a master's degree in double bass performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
His first jobs as a jazz musician were playing bass with Jaki Byard and Chico Hamilton. His first records were made with Eric Dolphy (another former member of Hamilton's group) and Don Ellis, in 1960. His own first date as leader, Where?, with Eric Dolphy, Charlie Persip, Mal Waldron, George Duvivier, and a date also with Dolphy called Out There with George Duvivier and Roy Haynes and Carter on cello; its advanced harmonies and concepts were in step with the third stream movement.
Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis Quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and drummer Tony Williams. Carter joined Davis's group in 1963, appearing on the album Seven Steps to Heaven and the follow-up E.S.P., the latter being the first album to feature only the full quintet. It also featured three of Carter's compositions (the only time he contributed compositions to Davis's group). He stayed with Davis until 1968 (when he was replaced by Dave Holland), and participated in a couple of studio sessions with Davis in 1969 and 1970. Although he played electric bass occasionally during this era of early jazz-rock fusion, he has subsequently stopped playing that instrument, and in the 2000s plays only double bass.
Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the sixties for Blue Note Records. He was a sideman on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Pearson, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Horace Silver and many others.
After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years a mainstay of CTI Records, making albums under his own name and also appearing on many of the label's records with a diverse range of other musicians. Notable musical partnerships in the 1970s and 1980s included Joe Henderson, Houston Person, Hank Jones and Cedar Walton. During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet. In 1986, Carter played double bass on "Big Man on Mulberry Street" on Billy Joel's album The Bridge.
In 1993, he won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group and another Grammy in 1998 for "an instrumental composition for the film" Round Midnight. He appears on the alternative hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest's influential album The Low End Theory on a track called "Verses from the Abstract". He also appears as a member of the jazz combo the Classical Jazz Quartet. In 1994, Carter appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African-American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by TIME. In 2001, Carter collaborated with Black Star and John Patton to record "Money Jungle" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington.
Carter is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Music Department of The City College of New York, having taught there for 20 years, and received an honorary Doctorate from the Berklee College of Music in Spring 2005. He joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the school's Jazz Studies program. Carter made an appearance in Robert Altman's 1996 film, Kansas City. The end credits feature him and fellow bassist Christian McBride duetting on "Solitude".
Carter sits on the Advisory Committee of the Board of Directors of The Jazz Foundation of America and on the Honorary Founder's Committee. Carter has worked with the Jazz Foundation since its inception to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians including musicians that survived Hurricane Katrina.
Carter appeared as himself in an episode of the HBO series Treme entitled "What Is New Orleans." Carter's authorized biography, Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes, by Dan Ouellette, was published by ArtistShare in 2008. In 2013, Carter was one of four judges at Jazz at Lincoln Center's 18th Annual Essentially Ellington competition and festival.
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0.998109 | Where in the Bible did Brother Branham read along with the congregation?
"The church age and all that will happen during the Gentile reign is recorded from Revelation _____ to Revelation _____, inclusive."
Jesus redeemed Israel at Calvary.
Jesus had four titles in the Gospel. The last of the four titles is "Son of God," which means _______.
There are five sevens: Seven Seals, Seven _______, seven angels, Seven _______, and seven church ages.
Which chapter in the book of Daniel does Brother Branham start in?
What did Daniel call Gabriel in the Scripture reading?
Which of the Scriptures below did Brother Branham say is connected with the seventy of weeks; "therefore we must stop and explain before we go further?"
How long had Daniel been in Babylon when the vision came to him?
How did Daniel understand that his people were to be in Babylon for seventy years?
Who did the Lord tell "Take the wine cup of the fury of my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I will send thee, to drink of it."?
Daniel read the same words out of the Bible that Brother Branham read the morning of this message.
What did Daniel do when he saw that the seventy years would be accomplished and they were nearing the end?
When Gabriel appeared to Daniel, he told what was determined for the Jewish race all the way to the _______.
In what Scripture does Jesus speak of the abomination that maketh desolations?
When does God deal only with the Jews?
Before the Gentile dispensation, the Jews will return back into Jerusalem to re-establish the temple and temple worship.
"The very hour, by the Pan American chart, that Israel was declared a nation for the first time for two thousand years since they'd been scattered, not a people, it was that very same hour, exactly to the hour, that the Angel of the Lord met me up yonder and sent me to the--with the Gospel--the very same thing:" When did this happen?
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that Brother Branham believed he would have a part in getting Israel back to the Lord?
When Brother Branham was on his road to Palestine, the Lord told him "This is not yet the hour. Stay out of Palestine."
Here are the current quiz results for Gabriels Instructions To Daniel. Anyone taking the quiz after Thursday, November 7, 2013 will not have their score posted. | 2019-04-19T05:19:37 | https://youngfoundations.org/en/thefoundation/quiz_610730M |
0.998479 | Folly Brewpub is on College, near Dovercourt. I was disappointed looking at the menu and asked the waitress if they had any stouts or porters, or if they'd be doing any in the near future? She said they specialize in "German-style beer," and that apparently meant "no." They've bought into the "sours" thing with three on the menu ("Managing Expectations: Guava," "Managing Expectations: Apricot," and "Rasperries & Provocations"). They had quite a few other of their own brews on tap: an IPA, a Wheat Beer, a couple saisons, a "kviek," and a couple Pale Ales (plus the sours). Since they did flights, I immediately ordered one - at Folly, what you get in the flight is pre-ordained. You get "Field Day" (wheat beer), "Rhizome" (farmhouse ale), "Imposter Syndrome" (IPA), and "Dovercourt" (Pale Ale). I didn't hate the wheat beer - which is actually surprising and probably doesn't bode well for fans of wheat beers because I usually don't get past the first sip. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm didn't increase much for the other beers: they're not bad, but none inspired me.
The space is nice: reasonably large, despite the glassed off stainless steel vats at the back. The selection of whiskies is genuinely awe-inspiring: they must have about 100. Surprisingly weak on the Japanese stuff - my recent trip there made me aware of just how good Japanese whisky is these days, and they only have two or three available. Nevertheless, it's an impressive selection.
The food menu isn't particularly deep, but everything we had was quite good. I had a Chorizo sausage that came out in a flaming porcelain pig (the flame was powered by alcohol). The sausage was very good (very spicy, which I enjoyed), and accompanied by an excellent mustard. Friends had fries and poutine, also good.
As mentioned, I'm not much of a fan of the styles of beer they do, but my coworker who is a fan of sours was over the moon about their Guava. And the food was very good. | 2019-04-19T14:46:34 | http://gilesorr.com/blog/folly-brew-pub.html |
0.999938 | Simulations have been performed to investigate the impact of radial variation of neutral atoms (neutral puff) on the edge plasma of small size divertor tokamak. It was demonstrated that, the variation of neutral atoms (neutral puff) in edge plasma of small size divertor tokamak generates additional large radial electric field and large radial electric field shear near separatrix which can significantly influence global confinement by affecting the transition from low (L) to high (H) confinement. This simulation was performed by using B2SOLPS0.5.2D fluid transport code based on a reduced form of the transport form of transport equations. These transport equations are implemented in B2SOLPS0.5.2D fluid transport code and solved for the parameters of Small Size Divertor tokamak. The results of simulation by fluid transport B2SOLPS0.5.2D code can be summarized as follow: 1) The Plasma Parameters are significantly effect by neutral atoms puffing in the edge plasma of small size divertor tokamak; 2) Contrary to previous expectation of the predominant role of neutral viscosity on toroidal flux, anomalous transport was found to be mainly effect on toroidal flux; 3) Puffing of gas (neutral) in the edge plasma of small size divertor tokamak produce strong ITB; 4) Puffing of gas (neutral) in the edge plasma of small size divertor increase plasma density especially in SOL through charge exchange and ionization processes; 5) Puffing of gas (neutral) in the edge plasma of small size divertor has significant effect on the distribution of plasma heat flux; 6) The radial electric field is affected by gas (neutral) puffing in the edge plasma of small size divertor; 7) Puffing of neutral (atoms) in the edge plasma of small size divertor tokamak produce large radial electric field shear which contribute to L-H transition; 8) The centrifugal effect has no influence on distribution of the radial profile of parallel (toroidal) velocity of edge plasma of small size divertor tokamak during gas (neutral) puffing; 9) The bootstrap current in edge plasma of small size divertor tokamak is significantly affected by gas (neutral) puffing. | 2019-04-20T03:27:53 | http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/74613974/simulation-radial-variation-neutral-atoms-edge-plasma-small-size-divertor-tokamak |
0.998604 | How to edit captions on Instagram?
If you need to fix a typo or error in your Instagram caption, then you must ensure that you have Instagram's latest version. The updated version of Instagram allows you to go back and edit your old captions. This is great if you've made a typo or need to correct an error.
In order to edit captions, you will need to have the latest version of Instagram. You can update Instagram from your device's app store.
Open the photo or video you want to edit the caption for. It must be a photo or video that you uploaded yourself.
Tap the "Edit" button that appears.
Edit the caption to your liking.
Add a location to the image by tapping "Add location". You can change the existing location by tapping the location name.
Tap "Done" to save your changes. The word "Edited" will appear above the caption whenever someone taps the Comment button. | 2019-04-25T09:51:25 | https://www.picbackman.com/tips-tricks/how-to-edit-captions-on-instagram/ |
0.999995 | Can I put a refrigerator on the balcony or better find another place?
The average price is 13,490 rubles. The model from the Russian manufacturer received 70% of fives according to reviews in the Yandex-Market. The capacity of the battery is 5 000 mAh. That's what they write in the reviews: "The main plus is the battery, I use it all day( Internet, Skype, mail, many calls to both SIM cards, navigator), not letting go of your hands." Suffices 3-5 days without charging. "
Other specifications: 5-inch screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, Android 5.0 operating system, 16 GB permanent and 2 GB RAM, with two SIM cards. The main camera is 8 mp, the front camera is 5 mp.
The average price in Russia is 11,000 rubles. Buy ZenFone Max ZC550KL on AliExpress can be for 8,5 thousand rubles( shipping to Russia is free).The model from the Taiwanese manufacturer received 49% of fives according to reviews in the Yandex-Market. The capacity of the battery is 5 000 mAh. That's what they write in the reviews: "BATTERY! !!! For the whole day, it's almost impossible to unload, as I have not tried, it remains like 35-40 percent of the min and it's from 8 am to 12 noon with active use."
Other technical specifications: the screen is 5.5 inches with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, the operating system is Android 5.0, 16 GB of permanent and 2 GB of RAM, with two SIM cards. The main camera is 13 mp, the front camera is 5 mp.
The average price in Russia is 30,000 rubles. Buy Runbo F1 32Gb on AliExpress can be for 12.1 thousand rubles( shipping to Russia is free).The model from the Chinese manufacturer received 74% of fives according to reviews in the Yandex-Market. The battery capacity is 5 300 mAh.
The manufacturer specified the following battery life: in talk mode - 15 hours, in standby mode - 450 hours( 19 days).In one of the reviews, they write: "A person who broke and drowned more than one smartphone, pestering about" is charging enough? "With this phone will get" Zen. "
Other specifications: 6-inch screen with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, an operating theatersystem Android 6.0, 32 GB permanent( available to the user 23.40 GB) and 4 GB of RAM, with two SIM cards. The main camera is 16 mp, the front camera is 8 mp.
From the responses: "The phone is just super, it's easy to replace 5 iPhones, taking the phone to a new level." Shusting the phone, the camera in the PRO mode photographs better 6 iPhones( checked with a friend, he can confirm), excellent.battery, confidently holds 2 days with active use( hour of conversations, constant hangover, streaming video, navigator). If used as a dialer, then 4 days or more( depends on the intensity of conversations). "
The average price of in Russia is 9,000 rubles. Buy OUKITEL K6000 Pro on AliExpress can be for 8,3 thousand rubles( shipping to Russia is free). The model from the Chinese brand received 61% of fives according to reviews in the Yandex-Market. Battery capacity - 6 000 mAh. The manufacturer specified the following battery life: talk time - 46 hours, standby time - 360 hours( 15 days), music listening mode - 45 hours. That's what they write in the reviews: "The battery draws in moderate use for up to 3 days, you just need to disable unnecessary programs hanging in the background." Practically, pure Android 6 on the phone allows you to do it in a couple of clicks. "From Moscow to Gelendzhik used as a navigator, for 22hours on the car without recharging because I do not like cords. The main charge is through WI-FI, the manufacturer is aware of this bug and in the update promises to fix it. "
Other technical specifications: screen 5.5 inches with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, an operating system Android 6.0, 32 GB permanent and 3 GB of RAM.There is a slot for an external memory card( combined with a slot for the second SIM card).The main camera is 13 mp, the front camera is 5 mp. 8-core processor MediaTek MT6753.Video processor Mali-T720. There is a fingerprint scanner. The metal case.
This model takes the first place in the ranking of the best smartphones up to 10 thousand rubles.
Average price in Russia - 30 000 rubles. Buy Conquest S8 on AliExpress can be for 22.7 thousand rubles( shipping to Russia is free). The model from the Chinese manufacturer received 85% of fives according to reviews in the Yandex-Market. The battery capacity is 6 000 mAh. The manufacturer specified the following battery life: in talk mode - 22 hours, in standby mode - 950 hours( 39.5 days).
Other technical specifications: 5-inch screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, operating system Android 5.1, 16 GB of permanent and 2 GB of RAM, with two SIM cards, there is a slot for a memory card up to 128 GB.The main camera is 13 mp, the front camera is 5 mp. Processor MediaTek MT6735.The smartphone is shockproof. There is a radio.
The average price in Russia is 8,000 rubles. The model from the Chinese manufacturer appeared on sale in December 2016 and received today 63% of fives according to reviews in the Yandex-Market. The capacity of the battery is 5 000 mAh. The manufacturer specified the following battery life in standby mode - 1200 hours( 50 days).
From the responses: "But, guys, the battery! It's just a holiday, I torment all day with the Internet, messengers, navigation, conversations." The battery is just a bomb! "Never in the last month of use did a vile desire to save a charge arise.15 percent does not eat battery packs-holds a charge steadily, and can save 2 days in economy mode. "
Other specifications: 5 inch screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, Android 6.0 operating system, 8 GB permanent and 1 GB RAM, with one SIM card, there is a memory card slot up to 32 GB.The main camera is 8 mp, the front camera is 2 mp. Processor MediaTek MT6580.
The average price in Russia is 9,000 rubles. Buy Ulefone Power on AliExpress can be for 8,3 thousand rubles( shipping to Russia is free).The model from the Chinese brand received 48% of fives on reviews in the Yandex Market( see reviews about Ulefone Power).The capacity of the battery is 6 050 mAh. The manufacturer specified the following battery life: talk time - 63 hours, in standby mode - 1 800 hours( 75 days).That's what they write in the reviews: "Autonomy! With included geodata, mobile Internet, screen flip and bluetooth, the phone lives from 1.5 to 3 days in the event that the phone is not let go! In the same case, when the phone is used, asphone and SMS with rarely switched on the Internet, then it will last up to 5 days! "
Other specifications: the screen is 5.5 inches with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, the operating system is Android 5.1, 16 GB of permanent and 3 GB of RAM, with two SIM cards. The main camera is 13 mp, the front camera is 5 mp.
The average price of in Russia is 9,000 rubles. Buy OUKITEL K10000 on AliExpress can be for 8,1 thousand rubles( shipping to Russia is free). The model from the Chinese manufacturer received 55% of fives on reviews in the Yandex-Market( see reviews about OUKITEL K10000).The battery of this model is the most powerful in our rating - 10 000 mAh. That's what they write in the reviews: "The battery is smart, 4 days with a very heavy load, almost with the screen on and WiFi - it's easy, still 10-12% remains." It's fast charging. "Another tip: "The phone is super, I'm trying to defuse the phone for 3 days, the first day did not release it from my hands for 14 hours of reading, games, the Internet and application settings was discharged to 60 percent in the next 2 days,.
Other technical specifications: the screen is 5.5 inches with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, the operating system is Android 5.1, 16 GB of permanent and 2 GB of RAM, with two SIM cards. The main camera is 13 mp, the front camera is 5 mp.
The capacity of the battery( the same battery) is an important characteristic of the smartphone, which determines how much it can work without recharging. Active users of smartphones, as well as those who often travels, where it is not always possible to recharge the smartphone in time, it is necessary to pay close attention to this indicator before buying a new model. Unit of measurement of the battery capacity - milliampere-hour( abbreviated mA * h).It's not a fact that with the same battery capacity, two smartphones will work the same time without recharging;The model with a large screen and a powerful processor will be discharged faster than a model with a small screen and an average or weak processor.
Much more about the time without recharging can say the indicator "standby time", which shows how long it can work with a fully charged battery in the absence of calls. But many manufacturers do not specify it, tk. In practice, this indicator can be much smaller than measured in laboratory conditions, becauseEven in the absence of conversations and with the screen off, the smartphone can spend energy on connecting to Wi-Fi, 3G, etc. networks. Also very power-intensive backlit screen. Some manufacturers indicate the battery life of the smartphone for different uses: conversations, work on the Internet, listening to music, playing video. If such data is available on a particular model, it greatly simplifies understanding how long you can actively use smartphones without having to immediately look for where to charge it.
To understand which numbers to focus on, we present data on two flagship models from the two leading manufacturers of smartphones in the world - Samsung and Apple. Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge 32Gb, has a battery capacity of 3 600 mAh, battery life when listening to music is 45 hours, talk time is 22 hours, video playback time is 15 hours. The Apple iPhone 6s 64GB has a battery capacity that is half as much - 1,715 mAh, while the listening time for music is even slightly longer - 50 hours, the talk time is noticeably shorter - 14 hours, the video playback time is also shorter - 11hours. In this case, it should be borne in mind that the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge 32Gb is a more powerful model with a larger screen, so it needs more resources to work, so doubling the battery capacity gives the advantage of working in a talk mode not in two, but only in half.
Next rating, which includes the best smartphones with the most powerful battery for 2016( from 4,600 to 10,000 mAh), as well as possessing another important parameter for most users - two SIM cards. The rating is made not only by the capacity of the battery, but also takes into account the reviews in the Yandex market( in the top 10, only those smartphone models that scored at least 40% of the fives).Other technical characteristics of smartphones and price-quality ratio were also taken into account.
The average price of in Russia is 16,000 rubles. This tablet from one of the leading Chinese manufacturers, which appeared in May 2016, scored 75% of fives on reviews in the Yandex-Market. Battery capacity 4850 mAh. From the reviews: "I charge every three days, while chasing - a new appart, installation, re-initialization, synchronization, settings - it's a shock."
Specification: 6.44 inch screen with 1920x1080 resolution, Android 6.0 operating system, 64 GB built-in and 3 GB RAM, there is a slot for a memory card up to 128 GB( combined with a slot for the second SIM card), the main camera is 16 mp, front 5 mp. 6-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 processor MSM8956. There is a fingerprint scanner.
This model ranks first in the ranking of the best smartphones with a large screen. | 2019-04-19T17:20:05 | https://serviceyards.com/en/stories/4490 |
0.999587 | Manchester United have benefited from SIX offside goals in the under two months, so why is Jose Mourinho still whining?
MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho took another swipe at referees everywhere, claiming his side are hard done by when it comes to penalties.
Following the game against Liverpool - where James Milner netted a first-half spot-kick in a 1-1 draw - the Special One claimed his side don't get the penalties they deserve, but see more than their fare share given up the other end.
Mourinho said: "I don't know. I don't know. I didn't watch but the referee was very close so probably it's a penalty.
"The problem with the penalty is not just the criteria, sometimes you give, sometimes you don't and it's amazing that 19, 21, 21 Premier League matches, plus the three in the League Cup are 24, and one in the FA Cup is 25, in 25 matches we have had one penalty, but today was in our box.
"I didn't watch but I have to believe it was a penalty, I am happy for the referee if it was a penalty because his record against us is three matches and three penalties against us."
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored Man United's equaliser, but should it have been ruled out?
In fact, United have scored no fewer than SIX goals in the past two months from offside positions - Zlatan Ibrahimovic's late leveller against Liverpool just the latest in a long line.
THE run of six offside goals in under eight weeks started back in November when Rooney netted in the 4-0 drubbing of Dutch side Feyenoord.
It was tight, but still, rules are rules.
A FEW weeks later, this time at Selhurst Park, United were once again on the receiving end of a lucky break.
Paul Pogba slotted the ball through for Ibra, who rifled home a late, late winner.
But the Eagles were left incredulous at the decision, with ref Craig Pawson refusing to budge.
ARGUABLY the most famous of them all, perhaps this goal was allowed to stand just because of its sheer audacity, not to mention brilliance.
Armenian forward Mkhitaryan netted the his scorpion goal days before Arsenal's Olivier Giroud to stun Sunderland.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic netted crucial goal against West Ham, but was he offside?
A GAME also remembered for the controversial sending-off of West Ham's Soufiane Feghouli, Mike Dean also allowed a questionable goal to stand.
In fact, Ibrahimovic was one of THREE players standing in an offside position for the clinching goal of the game.
That second goal killed off the game and whatever minor hopes the Hammers had left... but clearly should have been ruled out.
WITH the EFL Cup semi-final tie level at 0-0 with nearly an hour gone, Mata took things into his own hands to net the first goal in a 2-0 win.
However, the Spanish attacking midfielder was clearly offside when he tapped home a Mkhitaryan knock-down.
The controversial goal all but sealed United's place in the final.
BACK to the present day and Liverpool were battling hard - thanks to some Simon Mignolet heroics - to clinch a much-needed win.
But then up popped Ibrahimovic to nod home the equaliser with minutes to go.
Replays showed that Antonio Valencia was miles offside when he pounced first to square the ball to Zlatan.
Still feel hard done by Jose? The Special One... More like The Lucky One. | 2019-04-23T18:45:17 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/2625340/manchester-united-six-offside-goals-jose-mourinho-whining/ |
0.998202 | 1. American Christianity is like a massive lake that's miles wide and an inch deep.
2. A tell-tale sign of this condition is when someone loses their faith after they encounter suffering, a response which is also the shadow-side of the prosperity gospel.
3. Persistence of faith through suffering and furthermore, the desire for justice, are some signs of Christian maturity.
4. "Justice" however is a frightening thing that most people approach too glibly. If we really knew what it was we probably wouldn't want it. It does not mean merely getting our piece of the pie.
5. Immanuel Kant's Three Critiques are an echo of Medieval Scriptural interpretation methods, which, simply put, sought to ask three questions of each passage: What should I believe (allegorical method/Critique of Pure Reason)?; What should I do (tropological method/Critique of Practical Reason)?; and What can I hope for? (anagogical method/Critique of Judgment)? Kant however, didn't quite realize this.
It all reminds me of a fine Lenten book. | 2019-04-18T18:22:01 | http://www.millinerd.com/2007/02/lent-launch.html |
0.99949 | It is a mechanical type tachometer. It uses mechanical movements for the measurement speed. A rotary shaft whose speed is to be measured is connected to indicator shaft with the help of slipping clutch. Friction material is used to avoid metal contact. During the engagement of clutch, the shaft, speed is transferred to indicator shaft and spring attached to it. The torque on the spring is calibrated in terms of speed which is indicated by ,.pointer calibrated scale.
1) It is simple in construction.
2) It is easy to operate.
1) High speed measurements are not possible.
2) Accurate is totally depending on spring.
1) The electrical tachometers are preferred over mechanical tachometers for all applications.
2) This tachometers offers all the advantages associated with electrical transducer.
3) It converts rotational speed into an electrical signal coupled to an indicator. The electrical signal can be either in the analog form or in the form of pulses.
1) The arrangement of this type of tachometer is shown in Fig:_ 5.5.3. A non-magnetic cup generally made of aluminium is provided very close to magnet, which is connected to pointer through spring.
2) A magnet and a steel cup rotate at the end of machine shaft.
3) Due to inducting of eddy currents in aluminium cup, it rotates (deflects) proportional to the induced emf (proportional to speed) which is indicated by a pointer on a dial scale.
Fig. Drag Cup or Eddy current tachometer.
1) The arrangement is similar as shown in Fig. 5.5.3.
2) A permanent magnet is mechanically coupled at the end of the driving shaft.
3) These are very commonly used in automobiles where linear distance is computed by assuming some average diameter of the wheel.
1) In this arrangement the permanent magnet is kept stationary and soft iron rotor produces a revolving magnetic field.
2) This type is very rugged and is used to measure the locomotive speed.
3) Following are few advantages and disadvantages of drag type tachometer.
4) Linear characteristics of output voltage and speed of shaft.
1) At very high speed it gives non linear characteristics of output voltage and speed of shaft.
2) To calibrate input voltage, it must be maintained absolutely constant.
Magnetic and photoelectric pulse counting.
1) It consists of a toothed rotor mounted on the shaft ,those speed is to be measured.
2) It measures the rpm of a rotating body. It is also a proximity type of instrument. Toothed wheel is mounted on the shaft, whose speed is to be measured.
3) A permanent magnet is placed near the toothed wheel which is made of Ferro magnetic material (mild steel).This material causes variation of flux in the magnetic circuit due to changes in air gap.
4) The variations of flux produce an emf in the pickup coil. Consequently a voltage is induced in the toil. This is in the form of pulses.
5) The output of the instrument is fed to a pulse counter (electronic counter). The number of counts per second is. Then displayed in the form of a digital readout.
6) A permanent magnet is placed near the toothed rotor. The toothed rotor is made ferromagnetic material which causes variation of flux in the magnetic circuit due to changes in air-gap.
7) The variations of flux, produce an induced e.m.f. in the pick-up coil. This is in the form of pulses. | 2019-04-23T06:51:05 | https://noledgeable.com/tachometer-slipping-clutch-tachometer-drag-cup-or-eddy-current-tachometer-variable-reluctance-tachometer/ |
0.999643 | In what ways are expository essays similar to business communication?
❶You can repeat this exercise many times to continue to refine and develop your ideas.
This topic would be an explaining essay that would give the details of how this would happen. If your assignment is to make an argumentative essay, then you could ask the question, "What is the best procedure for having elementary students go to lunch? Writing Jobs for Stay at Home Moms: How to Get Cheap Life Insurance: How to Find Lego Assembly Instructions: The process of expository writing is the same as writing an argument essay.
However, don't be confused by the word "argument" because, in this context, it doesn't mean you are trying to "argue" your point with someone. What it means is that you are trying to explain your point of view about a claim, which can be a statement of:. How to write an argument essay: How to write an explaining essay: How to write cause and effect: How to write problem solution: Will this topic work for an expository essay: Why is it required? How to be so? What happens when you below the mark?
Usually, it is best to have a single question as the basis of your expository. It can be an explaining question, "What is integrity? One thing you need to know is that "expository" is really another name for a persuasive or argumentative essay. So you can look at any of my articles which explain how to write argument or position essays. Additionally,I have a number of articles explaining the steps in writing and the best one to start with is "How to Write a Great Thesis Sentence" http: After you have a thesis, you will need to fill out an outline, so you might want to see how to do that in "Writing Good Topic Sentences" http: Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account.
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How do you do it? How does it work? What is the history of it? What are the effects? What is the meaning of it? How can I do it well? What caused it to happen? Why should it matter? Follow these three easy steps: Choose a great topic: Scan the list of topics below, or pick something you either know a lot about or would like to learn about. Writing is always easier if you are interested in the topic.
It may take 30 minutes or more if you do research , but when you are done you should be ready to write. Use your computer's spell and grammar check program, and use Grammarly, which is a free check for errors. Have at least one other person read your paper and give you advice. Finally, read your paper out loud so that you slow down as you read and notice your errors.
College Experience Paper Ideas One of the easiest topics is to write something that explains a person, place, event or organization at your University. Interview other students, staff, or faculty.
You can use their quotes or stories as evidence for your paper. Observe the place you are writing about. Sit down with a notepad or your phone and write down your sensory experiences what you smell, hear, see, taste, and touch. You can even listen to conversations and observe people. Vividly-written details and personal experience make your expository paper stand out. Research by looking at past issues of your college paper or on the college website. You might also find information posted on buildings around campus, the library, or in pamphlets at the visitor's center.
What is the history of your college? Who are the students at your college? What is the background of most students? How are students different? What do they have in common? Pick a professor at your college to interview. What is their background and how did they get interested in their subject? What is the history of your college mascot? Describe in detail a statue or memorial marker on campus. Research the history of the marker and the person or event it commemorates.
How does one join a sorority or fraternity? How can you stay healthy while dining on campus food? What's the best way to choose which college activities to be involved in as a freshman? How has your college has changed over the years? What do you need to do to get ready for a college football game or other sport at your school?
Why should people attend games of a less popular sport? Pick one you like. What's the worst way to study for finals? How can a student survive the first few weeks of college? How can you be a great roommate? What are ways to use the local coffee house to avoid studying? What causes college freshmen to be depressed?
How can you help a suicidal friend? What do you have to do to win a campus election? What should you leave at home when you go to college? How best to decide which college to go to? How to get scholarships for college.
How can one pay for college without getting into too much debt? What are the best scandals or memorable events in your college's history? Pick a building on your campus: Describe its history and describe how the building got its name especially if it is named after someone. How can a person best separate from their parents in college? How can someone avoid dating the wrong people in college? How long does your expository paper need to be? Social Problem Essay Topics What happens to juveniles who break the law?
What causes people to be homeless? What is the Salvation Army? How do they help the needy? Or choose another non-profit charity that helps the poor. What are the effects on a family when a parent becomes a meth addict? What causes teenagers to run away? How does having a single parent affect children in the areas of education, hygiene, and nutrition? How do people without health insurance get medical treatment? Keep in mind that your introduction should identify the main idea of your expository essay and act as a preview to your essay.
You could start with an anecdote, an informative and attention-grabbing quote, a bold opinion statement, or anything that will make your readers want to continue with your essay.
Provide enough background information or context to guide your readers through your essay. Think about what your readers will need to know to understand the rest of your essay. Provide this information in your first paragraph. If you are writing about a specific day in history, summarize the day's events.
Then, explain how it fits into a broader historical scope. If you are writing about a person, name the person and provide a brief biography. Keep in mind that your context should lead up to your thesis statement. Explain everything your reader needs to know to understand what your topic is about. Then narrow it down until you reach the topic itself. Provide your thesis statement. Your thesis statement should be sentences that express your main argument.
If your essay is purely informative, it should address your methods for presenting your information to your readers. Determine how many paragraphs to include. The most common length for an expository essay is five-paragraphs, but an expository essay can be longer than that.
Refer to your assignment guidelines or ask your instructor if you are unsure about the required length of your paper. A five-paragraph essay should include three body paragraphs. Each body paragraph should discuss a piece of supporting evidence that supports your thesis.
Each paragraph should discuss a piece of supporting evidence. Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence. The topic sentence introduces the main idea of the paragraph. It should introduce one piece of supporting evidence that supports your thesis. If you're working with a specific text, you may start with a direct quote or a properly cited paraphrase of the argument you're referencing.
For example, if you are writing an expository essay about the use of dogs in the US Marine Corps during WWII, your main ideas and topic sentences could be something like: Elaborate on your supporting evidence.
After you have stated your topic sentence, provide specific evidence from your research to support it. Offer a new piece of evidence for every body paragraph in your essay.
Your evidence could also come from interviews, anecdotes, or personal experience. Try to provide at least two to three pieces of evidence to support each of your claims.
For example, if a paragraph starts with, "War dogs were even eligible to receive military awards for their service," the supporting evidence might be a list of dogs who got awards and the awards they were given. Analyze the significance of each piece of evidence. Explain how the evidence you have provided in that paragraph connects to your thesis. Write a sentence or two for each piece of evidence. Consider what your readers will need to know as you explain these connections.
Conclude and transition into your next paragraph. Each paragraph should transition into the next. The conclusion of each body paragraph should sum up your main point while showing how it works with your next point. You could write, "Even though Dobermans were the most common breed used in WWII, they were not the only breed, and were not the only dogs recognized for their help.
Restate and rephrase your thesis. The first sentence of your concluding paragraph should restate your thesis. But you should not just restate your thesis. You should also say what the evidence you have provided has added to your thesis.
It just says it in a new way while also hinting at the information you included in the body of the essay. Summarize and review your main ideas. Take one sentence to summarize each main piece of supporting evidence, as presented in your essay's body.
Once the thesis works, the rest of the essay falls into place more easily. While your essay should be clear and concise, it can also be lively and engaging.
Having a friend read the essay helps writers edit with a fresh perspective. The important thing is to learn from the experience and use the feedback to make the next essay better. Essay writing is a huge part of a education today.
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0.999995 | Could a sumo wrestler work as an NHL goalie? It's a theory every hockey fan has pondered at least once in their life. It was even brought up by Rob Lowe during an episode of The West Wing. With goalies now wearing so much padding that they cover almost the entirety of airspace in front of the net that the puck could go through, it seems to compute that if you took a truly massive human being, like, for instance, a 400-pound sumo wrestler and put him in those pads, it might -- in theory -- be impossible for the opposing team to score on him.
In most other sports, rulebooks have closed the loopholes that could allow something like this from occurring, though there have been the occasional exceptions. The Oakland A's once signed an Olympic runner specifically to steal bases; Bill Veeck used a little person in a baseball game, who thanks to his miniscule strikezone, actually managed a walk. And given the fact that hockey has no restrictions -- as of yet -- on the size of goalies, a couple of existential questions about the idea come to mind: Where did the idea come from? Has a team ever tried it or even considered it? Would it even work?
It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of the sumo-goalie hypothesis, since for all we know there was a guy living in Sri Lanka in the 70s who once said, “You know honey, I think a morbidly-obese man would make a great NHL goalkeeper.” But from all appearances, it looks like the idea didn’t enter the public consciousness until the 1990s. By then goalies had gotten large enough, and the padding they were wearing had become thick enough, that the idea of simply filling space in front of the net -- as opposed to having an agile man with almost unfathomable hand-eye coordination trying to stop the puck -- entered the public consciousness.
Meanwhile, the events taking place during breaks of hockey games were getting more and more outlandish, and even included fans dressed as sumo wrestlers competing in mock hockey games. All that, coupled with sumo wrestling’s increased notoriety thanks to regular coverage on ESPN 2, probably melded the idea into something even a non-sports-fan could grasp.
That it’s entirely possible for an NHL GM to fly to Japan, come back with a sumo wrestler, hand him a contract and have him in ice skates today seems less within logical reach for the non-sports fan. That might be why no hockey team in either the minors or the majors has had the gall to give it a try. Another speed bump: the idea of blocking every inch of the goal with human fat, to give opponent a zero percent chance at scoring seems tantalizing (and maybe a little disgusting) but it isn't all that practical. The length of a hockey net is six feet wide, so in order to get a human being to completely cover the net, 400 pounds wouldn't even come close. We'd be talking about a man physically incapable of getting through most doors, well into the 1,000-pound territory.
Thankfully for the inquisitive, that scenario was tested by the sports’ Mythbusters, John Brenkus’s Sports Science -- way back when it was a 30-minute show on Fox Sports Net and not just a segment on SportsCenter. The show pitted NHL player George Parros against a 500-pound sumo wrestler, and Parros had no trouble scoring at will against him. With a sumo who was a complete neophyte to hockey, it showed rather clearly that even an abnormally-large wrestler would be useless in an NHL game. Hockey players are so good at locating creases that unless every inch is covered using proper technique, the concept falls apart.
A more fascinating experiment was conducted by Todd Gallagher, who wrote about the theory in his book Andy Roddick Beat Me With a Frying Pan. Gallagher hired George A. Romero of Night of the Living Dead fame to create a prosthetic fat suit roughly the size of Robert Earl Hughes, an American who was considered the fattest man in the world when he died in 1958. Hughes weighed just over 1,000 pounds. Gallagher convinced a few Washington Capitals players to attempt to score on someone in the fat suit. The guy in the fat suit, who wasn't even able to lift the prosthetic arms, blocked most of their shots by default. But even he couldn't cover all 24 feet of scoring space, and the Caps players were able to score on him in breakaways and up close.
Still, there is potential. Add a few more hundred pounds to that fat suit or maybe even lay him on his side, and it is possible -- if completely impractical -- for a goalie to blanket the net.
Impracticality doesn’t stop at the crease, either. The logistics of hauling a 1,200-pound man onto the ice, getting him onto planes, covering his expenses, etc., would turn anyone off on the idea, not to mention the undependability of a man who could literally drop dead at any moment. Then there's there the limit on padding to NHL goalies, which would force the goalie to take 100-mile per hour slapshots against his flesh on a nightly basis. There’s also a rule limiting the size of a jersey that a goalie can wear, and while that rule doesn’t explicitly forbid a fat man from taking the ice, it would make things unbelievably uncomfortable for him.
That didn’t seem to bother Islanders owner Charles B. Wang, however. As recently as 2006 -- when GM Garth Snow took the job -- Wang had made it clear that not only did he want to try to use sumo wrestlers, but was sure it would be successful. Thankfully for Islanders fans, Snow nipped this in the bud before it had a chance to develop.
And, ultimately, that’s the biggest reason it'll never happen. No GM wants to make a mockery of the game, or more likely, be known as the guy who made a mockery of the game. While some fans might pack the arena to see the spectacle, purist hockey fans would be repulsed. The media would go crazy. Players would be incensed. It wouldn't even matter though; even if some team managed to get a half-ton man to pass a physical (which is almost impossible, of course), and said man was able to block every single shot, a rule would no doubt pop up preventing such a tactic from recurring. It would be an exercise in futility.
All the same, it makes me wonder if there's still some potential to having a sumo wrestler on ice. If the choice is between a regularly-proportioned, skilled hockey goalie and a sumo wrestler who's never played the game before, the choice is simple. But what if there could be the best of both worlds? What if you could train a sumo wrestler to be a goalie? In 2012, the heaviest goalie in the NHL was Jason Labarbera at 230 pounds. Imagine if you took a player exactly as good as him, but doubled him in size; maybe a 460-pound Labarbera would be the best goalie in the world.
It's food for thought if nothing else.
Illustration courtesy of Matt Dupuis.
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Talk about someone doing something with fanfaronade, with much fanfaronade, with unrelenting fanfaronade, etc., as in "He announced his bid for the presidency with all the expected fanfaronade."
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I tend to skim past Facebook updates that start with "I'd just like to thank..." because whatever follows is usually fanfaronade, not gratitude.
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0.998916 | The cheering has died down and the long, divisive, emotionally exhausting campaign is over. Now, attention turns to President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.
American voters across the political spectrum, along with wary observers around the world, are asking: What will the new Trump administration set at the top of its list? And what will it accomplish?
The president-elect's first task will be to try to find a wider base of support for the "movement" that he credits with sweeping him into the White House.
"To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people," he told a cheering crowd in New York early Wednesday morning. "It is time. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all of Americans, and this is so important to me."
Unifying a deeply divided electorate will be a tall order, but it won't be a prerequisite for the new president to begin the political revolution he promised his supporters.
Appoint judges "who will uphold the Constitution" and "defend the Second Amendment."
Build a wall on the southern border and restrict immigration "to give unemployed Americans an opportunity to fill good-paying jobs."
"Stand up to countries that cheat on trade, of which there are many" and crack down on companies "that send jobs overseas."
"Repeal and replace job-killing Obamacare — it is a disaster."
Lift federal restrictions on energy production.
"There is one common theme in all of these reforms," Trump has said repeatedly. "It's going to be America first."
For many of his critics, the list seemed wildly, improbably ambitious. But the Democratic Party's failure to win back control of either chamber of Congress means the Republican Party will control the legislative process. That will likely end at least some of the partisan gridlock that stymied much the Obama administration's agenda.
Still, the Trump White House will face a divided GOP on Capitol Hill, to say nothing of the deep divisions among Americans.
What the president-elect didn't address in his victory speech on Wednesday was immigration.
Trump's signature proposal, building a wall along the southern border, will be problematic. But having won his historic victory on such a singular promise, his supporters will demand that the pledge be more than symbolic.
The obstacles, though, are as large as the barrier he has promised to create for immigrants. Despite his pledge to send the bill to the Mexican government, he will need budget authorization to pay for the project.
More broadly, Trump's anti-immigrant stance will also face pushback from members of his own party's congressional caucus, especially those in states and districts who have been alarmed by the GOP's losses among a growing bloc of Hispanic voters.
Beyond the opposition he'll face from Democrats, Trump will have to contend with the large contingent from his own party who either withheld their support or called on him to step down as a candidate. The list includes some 15 Republican senators, along with dozens of current GOP House members and governors.
It remains to be seen whether Trump can convince enough of those Republicans to adopt his stance on closing the nation's borders to immigrants. Immigration reform could prove to become either a template for the remainder of Trump's agenda or a preview of the impact of divisions in the GOP.
But while Republicans may have split over Trump's candidacy, they remain unified on some of the key issues he campaign on.
The GOP-controlled House has voted more than 60 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration's signature health-care law. Now, that effort becomes much more likely to succeed.
The unity or division of the Republican Party will prove critical even before Trump takes office in January, in one of the most contentious and important issues of the campaign: the nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat left unfilled by the death in February of Antonin Scalia.
Senate Republicans have refused to consider President Barack Obama's nominee, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, saying the nomination should wait until after the election. Late last month, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake told reporters that he would press for Garland's nomination hearings in the lame-duck session before Trump is sworn in.
Democrats have failed to win the 60 votes needed for a cloture vote to block a filibuster and clear the way for Garland's nomination to move forward. To do so, they had hoped to win support from among the Republican senators like Flake who opposed Trump's candidacy.
But Republican hardliners including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have vowed to block Garland, or any other nominee from a Democrat in the White House, indefinitely. Now, Trump's victory will only stiffen opposition to the lame-duck nomination.
With a free hand to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat and potential future high court vacancies during this term, along with lower federal court appointments, Trump will have the chance to reshape the high court and federal judiciary. That may turn out to be one of the most powerful forces for advancing his agenda and the most lasting impact of his presidency.
Some of Trump's campaign pledges will find wider consensus. After years of political gridlock, both parties faced voter backlash for failure to address some of the country's most pressing problems.
So long as the spending is widely distributed among congressional districts, an infrastructure bill would likely enjoy bipartisan support. The program would also produce thousands of relatively well-paid jobs, another major pledge through the campaign from both parties.
Regardless of his reception on Capitol Hill, much of Trump's agenda, including areas of regulatory enforcement and foreign policy, won't require congressional approval. The Obama administration's orders on immigration and the EPA regulation of carbon emissions, for example, could be easily reversed.
Trump's promise to roll back Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms wouldn't necessarily require a full-blown repeal of the law; the Trump administration's Treasury and Justice Department's will have broad discretion over how vigorously to enforce it.
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/ caption = "Given that this information is of interest to many individuals, you have the option of seeing the results of the analysis. You may also skip seeing the results."
<page> elements aren't <surveypage> elements. <page> elements are for instructions only, and you can only display them via a <block>'s or <expt>'s /pre- and /postinstructions.
You will want to use a normal <surveypage> for your feedback here.
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0.999999 | It’s been a while since I've done a book review, but the topic of webcomics has been popping up more and more frequently lately in the facebook Artist Alley group I’m a part of. While I’m still a “fledgling” webcomic author, I've done a ton of reading up, following and researching on how to best perfect my craft. I will admit, it did bog me down for a while, but I've decided to just… PLUG ON AHEAD regardless of pages and what not and know that it will all improve over time.
TL;DR - Just go buy this now.
But enough about me, what’s this book I’m talking about?? The book-du-jour of today is How to Make Webcomics, written by four popular and successful webcomic artists. I found this book completely by accident while wandering through a Barnes and Noble – I had been feeling kind of down, and I checked out the digital tutorial area (you know, the one that’s got all the photoshop books ‘n’ stuff), and randomly came across this book. I only remember this because I was in an entirely DIFFERENT area of the store than I usually am, and coming across a webcomic guide of all things caught my eye.
While I don’t read any of the comics drawn by the authors (I know, how popular ARE they really then, right?), I instantly recognized the names and upon opening the book I found I had seen their comics, and knew of them, I just hadn't read them in my travels on the web (for any one of various reasons, mainly things like genre).
all delightfully illustrated by the authors!
For example, they have an entire chapter devoted to “Image Preparation”. They have all sorts of fun semi-techno babble to help you understand a JPG versus a PNG, and how to clean up linework, and what tones or colors can do for you. They’re clear in knowing everybody’s webcomic is done their own way, but they’ve got GREAT tips for creating your files so you can compile them in books later or make prints. The fact that they make you think about this FIRST is a good sign – many webcomic artists start out making very low resolution, small comics (even if it’s big on the internet 72dpi still doesn’t print well), and when they go to compile them, it just gets disastrous. This book makes you think to the future without disillusioning you.
They won’t pull a punch. They’ll tell you it’s difficult, problems you’ll have to face, and how to attempt to persevere through it (they’re not gonna leave you high and dry!). Honestly, it’s one of the more inspirational How To books I’ve come across and I always feel super motivated after reading it.
I can't tell you how happy I was to see this chapter! IN AN ACTUAL BOOK NO LESS!
Overall, I could gush for hours on this book, so instead of reading my blather, GO BUY IT ALREADY.
Moderate. I say moderate because they already assume you've got the inspiration to start whether you’re the artist or the writer (though the book leans more towards artists). They don’t want to spend a lot of time on “here’s how you draw x” instead they are going to take the knowledge you (most likely) have and tell you how to apply it and make it more effective. Example: the book takes a whole chapter to talk about “formatting” which condenses as much comic page/panel/strip theory into one section (and does a great job), but it’s much more useful if you’ve already got some knowledge about comics (or have at least read some!). They are great about introducing complex topics and describing them, but the book is 10x more effective with a little bit of forward understanding of comics. SO GO OUT AND READ SOME OKAY?
Set Up of Chapters. I felt like the book really meshed with the current state of the web and its comics. The writers were not only knowledgeable on how comics are made and drawn, but they’re very savvy about dealing with readers, publishing, all the way to comic conventions. There’s an ENTIRE chapter devoted to comic conventions (and it’s where I learned the term “booth barnacle” and have been using it ever since). The writers WANT you to be as successful as you can, and that’s why they took all their info they had and squished it into a book.
The chapters themselves progress in a logical manner as well – it starts out with a “what is webcomics” inspirational chapter, leading to characters, writing, formatting, then BAM! Right into things like image formatting, readers, website design – all that OTHER stuff nobody talks about. It then finishes with the culmination of things like printing, monetizing your comics, and convention promotion.
I wanted more! Honestly, I would sit and read a 600 page book written by these folks. Their love for the craft is very apparent, but I suppose I’m glad it’s short and sweet (at 195 pages), because it’s much more portable for me.
All the behind-the-scenes of making a webcomic. They want to teach you all the really-important-but-never-talked-about parts of comics. They want to teach you technical terms so you can create a better product. They want to warn you about things like buffers and devoted readers who are over-enthusiastically obsessed. They want you to be as successful as they are. They will provide you all the tools and information they can (and most likely had to learn all on their own).
How to draw a web comic. Honestly. They’re not here to show you how to draw people. They’re not here to give you plot generators. They’re not going to talk about how to pitch to find an artist, or how to deal with distant writers. This isn’t a bad thing though – because the amount of information they’ve provided is INVALUABLE.
I love this book. So much. I recommend it to every fledgling and experienced webcomic creator out there.
Thank you for your very kind words about our book!
I couldn't find a place to e-mail you this message directly, and I don't want to look like I'm jumping into your blog with shameless self-promotion, so please feel free to delete this comment after you read it.
Regarding your sole criticism — wanting more — I couldn't resist sharing with you the sequel to the "How To Make Webcomics" book, called "The Webcomics Handbook," that I published earlier this year. All updated, heavily expanded with topics that simply weren't around when the book was first written in 2007 (Twitter, Facebook, Kickstarter, etc.)... this book is 150% bigger than the original.
And it's also currently available for pre-orders on Amazon.com!
Oh my goodness! Ahh! I am so delighted that you were able to see my review. :) I love this book to pieces, and I simply tell everybody who's contemplated comics to check it out.
In that regard, I'm definitely going to leave the comment up here so if other people want to reserve the next book they totally can. I know it's going on MY list. :) I'm so excited to hear you're making another! | 2019-04-18T21:02:22 | http://blog.karmadaarts.com/2014/08/how-to-draw-book-review-how-to-make.html |
0.999998 | "Associations Between Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Nonresponsive Fe" by Ana Cristina Lindsay, Tatiana Mesa et al.
Background: Childhood obesity is a significant global public health problem due to increasing rates worldwide. Growing evidence suggests that nonresponsive parental feeding styles and practices are important influences on children’s eating behaviors and weight status, especially during early childhood. Therefore, understanding parental factors that may influence nonresponsive parental feeding styles and practices is significant for the development of interventions to prevent childhood obesity.
Objective: The objectives of this systematic review were to (1) identify and review existing research examining the associations between maternal depressive symptoms and use of nonresponsive feeding styles and practices among mothers of young children (2-8 years of age), (2) highlight the limitations of reviewed studies, and (3) generate suggestions for future research.
Methods: Using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols) guidelines, six electronic academic databases were searched for peer-reviewed, full-text papers published in English between January 2000 and June 2016. Only studies with mothers 18+ years old of normally developing children between 2 and 8 years of age were included. Of the 297 citations identified, 35 full-text papers were retrieved and 8 were reviewed.
Results: The reviewed studies provided mixed evidence for associations between maternal depressive symptoms and nonresponsive feeding styles and practices. Two out of three studies reported positive associations with nonresponsive feeding styles, in that mothers with elevated depressive symptoms were more likely than mothers without those symptoms to exhibit uninvolved and permissive or indulgent feeding styles. Furthermore, results of reviewed studies provide good evidence for association between maternal depressive symptoms and instrumental feeding (3 of 3 reviewed studies) and nonresponsive family mealtime practices (3/3), but mixed evidence for pressuring children to eat (3/6) and emotional feeding (1/3). In addition, evidence for the association between maternal depressive symptoms and restricting child food intake was mixed: one study (1/6) found a positive association; two studies (2/6) found a negative association; whereas one study (1/6) found no association.
Conclusions: This review indicates that the results of studies examining the associations between maternal depressive symptoms and parental feeding styles and practices are mixed. Limitations of studies included in this review should be noted: (1) the use of a diverse set of self-report questionnaires to assess parental feeding practices is problematic due to potential misclassification and makes it difficult to compare these outcomes across studies, thus caution must be taken in drawing conclusions; and (2) the majority of included studies (6/8) were cross-sectional. There is a need for additional longitudinal studies to disentangle the influence of depression on parental feeding styles and practices. Nevertheless, given that depressive symptoms and feeding styles and practices are potentially modifiable, it is important to understand their relationship to inform obesity prevention interventions and programs. | 2019-04-22T10:30:32 | https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/kinesiology_facpubs/16/ |
0.999999 | When it comes to violent film - I'm divided. I don't go out of my way to watch movies about actual, historical battles, because I know that real people died (or were physically or mentally crippled); sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers . . . even children. The prospect of of reliving those tragic (even if heroic) deaths is too painful for me. And yet, give me an alien invasion and I'm "all up in that". I find the fantasy of war exciting, and yet I have to be aware of how such films glorify violence; glorify war. I'm conflicted, enjoying this guilty pleasure. I'm a little surprised by the low rating. Have there been too many movies of this sort? a burnout by the viewing public? A burnout - when it comes to war? Another sign that we might be a war-weary nation / world? As for me, I don't watch a lot of flicks, so I'm not "burnt out" when it comes to military action films. So, this was not "same-o, same-o" for me. I thought the script was impressively tight. That applies to character development as well; quick snap-shot profiles; a glance, a nod and you had pretty much all you needed to know about this or that character. I'm not a fan of the "shaky-cam", but I thought it was well employed in some of the battle scenes. I've never been in such a situation, but I think the camera gave us that sense of heart-pounding, out of control terror that being shot at and bombed can produce; often no knowing even where the fire is coming from as you hunker down and question your very soul. Yes, this is a familiar theme - seasoned tough old lifer in charge of a bunch of kids - typical of many such films (Heartbreak Ridge comes to mind; many more). I wonder, also, if there is more of a connection with military vets; something the civilian population can never really get (no offense; just fact; I served but never got shot at)? From my experience, I thought the military portrayal was pretty spot on (military gear, tactics, fallibility, rank, age differences, rancor, "I got your 6", sense of duty and dedication to mission; never give up, never surrender). Predictable formula script? sure, in some ways, but I found plenty of surprises as well. Maybe if I watched this sort of film all the time, I'd be as cynical as many here. I really enjoyed this film (gave it 8/10; probably would have given it 7 1/2, but it deserves better than what I see others giving it). Recent revelations from sources such Bigelow and Elizondo, have all but confirmed that we are being visited by aliens. And, who knows, maybe they will decide to harvest our water before we contaminate it any further, as we creep and crawl closer and closer to our own nuclear annihilation. | 2019-04-22T13:20:37 | http://vivaberlin.net/movie/44943/battle-los-angeles-2011-blueray-720p-1080p-full-movie |
0.999992 | What is it that makes women put up with abusive relationships and not walk out on the men?. Women tend to go to any length to save the relationship even if it means they have to bear the brunt year after year. There are many theories that are put forth by psychologists. The way a woman chooses to react to an abusive relationship has largely to do with her own personality and perception of self. A self respecting woman who is economically and emotionally independent may not choose to suffer such a relationship. On the other hand a woman who is weak may choose to go to any length to put up with the relationship. Psychologists trace such behavior patterns to their childhood and their relationship with their father who may have been dominating. There are also cases where women confuse violence with love and believe that abusive nature of the man is representative of the man in him. Then there are other women who are more worried about what the society will think of them and fearing adverse reaction from family and friends choose to remain married and put up with whatever treatment they get.
Men on the other hand may not put up with a bad marriage and abusive wife as easily as the women do. Though women may not be abusive physically, they can be argumentative, verbally abusive, insulting and nagging wives. Women are known to be insulting enough to infuriate any male. Men are very sensitive about themselves. In fact men derive their sense of identity and self esteem from their physical prowess and libido. Any personal problems and short comings in terms of male incompetence can drive them up the wall. Male incompetence is one issue that robs men of their identity and their inner strength. Unable to face their problems and perceived failure they often turn aggressive and abusive. If you take the case of men who turn alcoholics who turn to drinking to drown their miseries, you will find in them a perceived sense of injustice, failure and low self esteem. Under no circumstances will a man like to admit that he is unable to engage in a physically satisfying relationship with his spouse. This could sound the death knell of marriage. Perhaps this could be the reason why many marriages fall apart when the couples are nearing their fifties. | 2019-04-19T02:31:15 | http://www.asses.cc/men-are-made-different/ |
0.999954 | Is the Home Ground Advantage Disappearing?
Home teams, as a whole, have not fared particularly well this season, which is one of the reasons that most of the MAFL Funds - all but one of which bet exclusively on home teams - have been testing Investors' patience.
Teams playing at home - truly or notionally - have won only 54.7% of contests so far this season, which puts them on track for the worst aggregate home team performance since 2001 when only 49.4% of home teams were successful. In the 25 seasons preceding this one, home teams have won at a rate lower than 55% on just two occasions: in 2001 as just mentioned, and way back in 1985.
To put this result in an ever broader historical context, here's a chart of home team winning percentages spanning the entire history of the competition.
Given that chart I think it's fair to say that Home teams have underperformed this year and that this is true no matter what historical perspective you choose to adopt.
Home ground advantage can, of course, be measured in terms other than whether the home team wins or loses. We can also look at the average points differential between the home and away teams.
From this we can see that teams playing at home have, on average, scored about 8 points more than their opponents (the actual average is 7.9 points per game), though this differential has fluctuated quite widely from season to season without ever dropping below zero for an entire season.
In this chart we see a similar trend in recent seasons to that which we saw in the previous chart. Indeed the pattern of the differential across the entire history of the VFL/AFL is quite similar to the pattern of home team win percentage, a fact borne out by the correlation of +0.69 that exists between the two sets of figures.
So far this season, home teams have averaged just 7.1 points more than their opponents, which, if continued for the rest of the season would produce the fifth lowest average of the past 25 seasons.
Closer inspection of the two charts above reveals that this season's poor showing by home teams is a continuation of a trend that started in 2006. The four full seasons and one partial season since then have produced five of the ten lowest home team percentage victories, and five of the ten lowest home team points differentials of the past 25 seasons.
Can we attribute this decline to a particular subset of teams?
Yes we can - collectively, the non-Melbourne based teams are to blame for the decline, as the following chart demonstrates.
Were it not for the astonishingly good home team records of the interstate teams in the early part of the decade, the aggregate performance of home teams would have slumped far earlier, dragged down by the diminishing success of Melbourne-based teams when playing at home.
Conversely, in more recent times, the overall decline in home team performance that we've witnessed would have been even worse had there not been something of a recovery in the rate of success of Melbourne teams playing at home.
The magnitude of these reversals in the fortunes of Melbourne and interstate teams at home is even more dramatic when we look instead at the home team points differential.
For the seasons 2002 through 2005, interstate teams playing at home scored about 4 goals more than their opponents. This year the difference has been less than 3 points.
In comparison, Melbourne-based teams playing at home in seasons 2002 through 2005 scored just 2 to 5 points more than their opponents - and actually almost 3.5 points less than their opponents across season 2003. This year they've averaged almost 10 points more than their opponents.
On balance I'd conclude that the advantage of playing at home is diminishing, which, if nothing else, will cause me to rethink the MAFL Funds for 2011 and beyond. | 2019-04-20T20:16:55 | http://www.matterofstats.com/mafl-stats-journal/2010/5/17/is-the-home-ground-advantage-disappearing.html |
0.999993 | The Field List has a field section where you’ll pick the fields you want to show in your PivotTable, and an areas section where you can drag fields between areas to arrange them the way you want. To add fields to your PivotTable, check the box next to a field name to place that field in an area of the areas section of the Field List .... I am using listview to display a list of items and a nested listview to show list of features to each item. Both parent and child listview need to able Insert,Edit and delete operation.
How to use list elements A simple list with bullets in list-item-label • here is text in the list item body • here is text in the list item body... The above method will set the property name as a column name for the DataTable and for each object in the list; it will create a new row in the DataTable and insert values. Step 4 : Now create an instance of the above class and call the method with the list object from the Main method.
The above method will set the property name as a column name for the DataTable and for each object in the list; it will create a new row in the DataTable and insert values. Step 4 : Now create an instance of the above class and call the method with the list object from the Main method.... 15/04/2014 · Hi, I'm working in WinRT application, I have list of folders with nested child folders. I need to show it like Windows 8.1 Mail application folders.
One of the easiest ways to build a menu on Winforms is by simply dragging and dropping a MenuStrip control from the toolbox on your form and then go to town filling in menu text and attaching events.
Flatten a list You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
It will shift the list over to show the child line items, with a breadcrumb at the top of the list to show you are "inside" of the parent line item: Then you can tap one of the child line items and it will shift to show the information about that line item, or you can tap the back arrow to go back to the parent line item list.
An ordered list can contain a nested ordered list. But an unordered list items are converted to numbered list items if they are at the same indentation level as another numbered item. But an unordered list items are converted to numbered list items if they are at the same indentation level as another numbered item. | 2019-04-24T00:04:15 | http://quietman.net/alberta/how-to-show-items-in-a-nested-list-c.php |
0.999722 | I left State A (a state with a very high state income tax) to move to Europe three years ago. I will return to the United States, and probably to State A, at some point in the next decade or so, but I have no current intent to return at any specific time. I have not voted, nor have I paid state income tax, since I moved to Europe three years ago, but I do want to vote in the Presidential election.
A friend of mine told me that if I vote by absentee ballot in State A in the Presidential election, State A will then be able to impose on me its state income tax, not just for this election, but for the whole time since I left State A to move to Europe. How does this work? Does my voting by absentee ballot have any effect on my liability for state income tax?
UOCAVA gives absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters the right to vote in primary, general, special, and runoff elections for Federal office (President and Vice-President, United States Senator, and United States Representative). UOCAVA's final section defines eight terms used in this law, including those two terms.
Because you are not a member of one of the United States uniformed services or Merchant Marine, and you are not a family member of a uniformed services or Merchant Marine member, you do not qualify as an absent uniformed services voter. You do, however, qualify as an overseas voter as defined by 42 U.S.C. 1973ff-6(5). UOCAVA entitles you to vote by absentee ballot for Federal offices in the last place where you were domiciled within the United States, even if you have been away from the United States for many years and have no present intent to return (assuming, of course, that you have retained your United States citizenship).
UOCAVA provides as follows on the question of the effect of voting on tax liability: The exercise of any right under this title shall not affect, for purposes of any Federal, State or local tax, the residence or domicile of a person exercising such right. 42 U.S.C. 1973ff-5. Under Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution (commonly called the Supremacy Clause), a Federal statute (like UOCAVA) supersedes and overrides a conflicting state statute or state constitution.
I suggest that when you apply for an absentee ballot, you should make clear that you are only eligible to vote and only wish to vote for Federal offices, and request that the election official send you a ballot that is limited to Federal offices. If the official nonetheless sends you a full ballot, you should only mark it for Federal offices. Then, you should send the official a separate letter, in a separate envelope, and point out that you had requested a ballot that was limited to Federal offices and that you only marked your ballot for Federal offices. (Do not include this letter in the same envelope with your marked absentee ballot, because notes accompanying absentee ballots are generally neither read nor preserved.) Keep a copy of the absentee ballot request and the letter, just in case. | 2019-04-21T08:54:20 | https://vhd.overseasvotefoundation.org/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1289/10/what-does-uocava-say-about-taxes-and-voting-from-overseas |
0.999999 | "It was the biggest stress in my life."
Translation:To był największy stres w moim życiu.
Is 'to' required in this sentence?
Yes, it serves as the subject of the sentence here, exactly like "It" in the English sentence.
I thought subjects were more optional in Polish, like in many other languages (Spanish, for instance). I also thought it was already implied by the inflection of był.
Yes, but third person pronouns are omitted less often. If you omitted "to", this sentence wouldn't describe anything. It would mean that "There was the biggest stress in my life".
Ah, I see the difference now. I'd forgotten forms of być can also mean there is/was/etc. That makes complete sense. Thanks!
If the subject here was on/ona/ono, it probably could be omitted. But this sentence could be also translated as "This was the biggest stress in my life", and it's hard to imagine losing "this" because there really won't be any subject, not even the implied one. | 2019-04-23T20:55:21 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/15580860/It-was-the-biggest-stress-in-my-life |
0.997381 | Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia researchers are part of an international team that has published the first sunflower genome sequence. This new resource will assist future research programs using genetic tools to improve crop resilience and oil production.
They published their findings today in the journal Nature.
Known for its beauty and also as an important source of food, the sunflower is a global oil crop that shows promise for climate change adaptation because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of environmental conditions, including drought. However, assembling the sunflower genome has until recently been difficult, because it mostly consists of highly similar, related sequences.
The research team in North America and Europe sequenced the genome of the domesticated sunflower Helianthus annuus L. They also performed comparative and genome-wide analyses, which provide insights into the evolutionary history of Asterids, a subgroup of flowering plants that includes potatoes, tomatoes and coffee.
They identified new candidate genes and reconstructed genetic networks that control flowering time and oil metabolism, two major sunflower breeding traits, and found that the flowering time networks have been shaped by the past duplication of the entire genome. Their findings suggest that ancient copies of genes can retain their functionality and still influence traits of interest after tens of millions of years.
"As the first reference sequence of the sunflower genome, it's quite the accomplishment," said paper co-author John M. Burke, professor of plant biology and member of the UGA Plant Center. "The sunflower genome is over 40 percent larger than the maize [corn] genome, and roughly 20 percent larger than the human genome, and its highly repetitive nature made it a unique challenge for assembly."
Burke, whose lab studies the genomic basis of evolutionary divergence within the sunflower family, was involved in the genetic mapping upon which the genome assembly was based and oversaw the whole genome re-sequencing of the 80 sunflower lines described in the paper.
The international collaboration was led by Nicolas Langlade at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research in Toulouse, France, and included Loren Rieseberg of the University of British Columbia.
"Like many plant genomes, the sunflower genome is highly repetitive, though in this case the situation is a bit worse," Burke said. "The repetitive elements within the genome arose relatively recently, meaning that they haven't had time to differentiate. It's therefore like putting together a massive puzzle wherein many pieces look exactly the same, or nearly so."
The authors concluded that this research reinforces the sunflower as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies and climate change adaptation, and will accelerate breeding programs.
"It will greatly facilitate our work to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying key traits related to abiotic stress resistance--things like drought, salinity and low nutrient resistance," Burke said. "This genome sequence will essentially serve as a genetic road map to pinpoint the genes underlying these sorts of traits." | 2019-04-21T05:12:09 | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uog-sgs052217.php |
0.99982 | Nato’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made an unprecedented pitch to Congress for unity amid transatlantic tensions on Wednesday, as he marked 70 years since its founding charter was signed in Washington. Mr Stoltenberg gave a ringing defense of "the most successful alliance in history," which has often been derided by Donald Trump, the US president. He used the speech to underscore America’s "enduring support" for the historic alliance and downplayed disagreements with Mr Trump, saying: "Nato has been good for Europe, but Nato has also been good for the United States." He added: "We have to be frank. Questions are being asked on both sides of the Atlantic about the strength of our partnership. And, yes, there are differences. "The strength of Nato is that despite our differences, we have always been able to unite around our core task: to defend each other, protect each other, and to keep our people safe". Jens Stoltenberg addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill Credit: Reuters Members of Congress, who greeted Mr Stoltenberg with repeated cheers and standing ovations, said they viewed his address as a chance to reaffirm the American commitment to the Nato alliance. His address to a joint session of Congress – a rare honour usually reserved for heads of state – is the first by a Nato chief. The invitation from Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House Speaker, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the Senate, has been seen as a rebuke of Mr Trump and his repeated bashing of the alliance. An invitation to meet with Mr Trump at the White House was later extended to Mr Stoltenberg. The Trump administration’s relationship with Nato has been fractious, with the president publicly pressuring other partners to pay their "fair share" in defence spending. During an on-camera meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Mr Stoltenberg appeared at times stony faced as Mr Trump criticised German defence spending and predicted the US would get along with Russia. However he acknowledged that Mr Trump’s demand appeared to be paying off, telling the president: "As you just mentioned, after years of cutting defense budgets, Nato allies have now started to invest more. And by the end of next year, they will have added $ 100 billion more into their defense budgets since you took office." Mr Trump has continued to criticise other allies' spending commitments Credit: Rex Mr Stoltenberg also used his speech Wednesday to warn of the threat "a more assertive Russia" posed to the alliance, including its violations of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. "Nato has no intention of deploying land-based nuclear missiles in Europe," Mr Stoltenberg said. "But Nato will always take the necessary steps to provide credible and effective deterrence." Mr Stoltenberg’s address is part of a two-day meeting in the US capital for foreign ministers from the 29-member alliance to mark its 70th anniversary. The celebrations are also intended to show a tough, united front on a resurgent Russia but Mr Trump’s rhetoric is not the only chord of disunity among the allies. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu insisted Wednesday that his country would push ahead with buying Russia’s S-400 missile defense system. "The S-400 deal is a done deal and we will not step back from this," he told a think-tank forum in Washington. Mr Cavusoglu went on to say that Turkey still backed Nato on core concerns with Russia and would never recognise Moscow’s 2014 takeover of Crimea from Ukraine. But he said Turkey turned to Russia as it could not buy US Patriot missiles and claimed Mr Trump had said in a phone call that his predecessor Barack Obama had made a "mistake" not to sell the system to Ankara. It was also announced this week that Nato is to fund a $ 260 million weapons store at an airbase in central Poland to ward off Kremlin aggression. Mr Stoltenberg said the weapons store, along with improved infrastructure will "underpin the increased US presence in Poland". Sign up for your essential, twice-daily briefing from The Telegraph with our free Front Page newsletter.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade went after Mr Trump on Thursday for the jabs, saying that the president diverted attention away from his accomplishments in order to unearth his feud with a dead man. “The problem is he swapped his own message by going after George Conway and in that speech inexplicably segueing to go after John McCain,” Mr Kilmeade said Thursday morning, reviewing a speech Mr Trump made in Ohio where he attacked the late senator and the husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway.
Kurdish-led fighters advanced in the Islamic State group’s last bastion in eastern Syria, confining holdout jihadists to a tiny pocket on the edge of Baghouz village, the force said Tuesday. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said those IS fighters who had not yet surrendered had been forced out of their main encampment and cornered into a very small area on the banks of the Euphrates River. “SDF is in control of the Daesh encampment area in Baghouz,” spokesman Mustefa Bali said on Twitter in English, using the Arabic acronym for the jihadist group. | 2019-04-24T08:55:38 | http://health.pharmacy-bg.com/tag/makes/ |
0.998952 | Recently, veterinarians discovered that grapes, raisins and currants (fruits from Vitis species) can cause kidney failure in dogs.
What types of grapes and raisins are toxic to dogs?
Poisoning has occurred in dogs following ingestion of seedless or seeded grape varieties, commercial or homegrown fruits, red or green grapes/raisins, organic or non-organic fruits, and grape pressings from wineries. Foods containing grapes, raisins, and currants (such as raisin bran cereal, trail mix, granola mix, baked goods) are all potential sources of poison.
What is the toxic dose?
Unfortunately, there is no well-established toxic dose for any of these fruits but two principles seem to prevail: 1) Dogs are more likely to become poisoned if they ingest large amounts of fruit and, 2) there is significant individual sensitivity amongst dogs. Some dogs appear to tolerate small doses of the fruit without consequence while other dogs may develop poisoning after the ingestion of just a few grapes or raisins. There is no way to predict which dogs may be more sensitive.
Why are raisins, grapes, and currants toxic?
Some researchers suspect that a mycotoxin (a toxic substance produced by a fungus or mold) may be the cause. Some suspect a salicylate (aspirin-like) drug may be naturally found in the grape, resulting in decreased blood flow to the kidneys. However, so far no toxic agent has been identified.
What are the symptoms of grape or raisin toxicity?
How is this poisoning treated?
The best treatment is to decontaminate a patient right away via the induction of vomiting and administration of activated charcoal. Following decontamination, more treatment might be necessary including aggressive intravenous fluids to flush any absorbed toxins out of the body as quickly as possible and to help maintain kidney function. Dogs need to be hospitalized on intravenous fluids for 24 to 48 hours following ingestion.
What is the prognosis following poisoning from grapes or raisins?
If a dog only ate a few grapes or raisins (depending on the size of the patient) and received immediate treatment, the prognosis is excellent.
Onions, garlic, alcohol, chocolate, cocoa, macadamia nuts, fattening foods, and foods containing the sweetener xylitol can also be fatal. | 2019-04-21T04:16:51 | https://jeffersonanimalhospitals.com/louisville-pet-emergency/grape-raisin-currant-poisoning-dogs.php |
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